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Famous People Born in July 1887

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  • Jul 1 Charles D. Brown, American actor (Barefoot Boy, Disbarred, Night Editor), born in Council Bluffs, Iowa (d. 1948)
  • Jul 2 Marcel Tabuteau, French-American oboist (Philadelphia Orch 1915-54), born in Compiègne, Oise, France (d. 1966)
  • Jul 6 Annette Kellermann, Australian swimmer, silent-film actress (A Daughter of the Gods; Venus Of The South Seas), and author, born in Marrickville, New South Wales, New South Wales (d. 1975)
  • Jul 7 Marc Chagall [Moise Shagal], Jewish Belarusan-French modernist painter and stained glass artist (La Mariée; I and the Village), born in Liozna, Russian Empire (now Belarus) (d. 1985) [some sources cite date as July 6]
  • Jul 7 Raymond Hatton, American actor (Girls in Prison, Lady Killer), born in Red Oak, Iowa (d. 1971)
  • Jul 9 Samuel Eliot Morison, American historian (Admiral of the Ocean Sea), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1976)
  • Jul 10 Alfred Ernest Whitehead, English-Canadian composer, born in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England (d. 1974)
  • Jul 15 Wharton Esherick, American artist and sculptor who worked primarily in wood, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1970)
  • Jul 16 "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, American baseball outfielder, 1908-20 (Chicago White Sox, and two other teams; 1919 World Series "Black Sox" Scandal), born in Pickens County, South Carolina (d. 1951)

Vidkun Quisling (1887-1945)

Jul 18 Norwegian Minister of Defense and Prime Minister (1942-45), born in Fyresdal, Norway

Vidkun Quisling
  • Jul 20 Willem H. Drucker, Dutch lawyer (d. 1933)
  • Jul 22 Gustav Hertz, German physicist (Nobel Prize for Physics 1925 for "discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom"), born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1975)

Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)

Jul 28 French sculptor and painter (Nude Descending a Staircase), born in Blainville-Crevon, France

Marcel Duchamp
  • Jul 29 Komako Kimura, Japanese suffragette, actress and editor (d. 1980)
  • Jul 29 Rudi Stephan, German composer (Die ersten Menschen), born in Worms, Grand Duchy of Hesse and by Rhine (now Germany) (d. 1915)
  • Jul 29 Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian-American operetta composer (Blossom Time), born in Nagykanizsa, Austria-Hungary (d. 1951)
  • Jul 29 Tim Mara, American founder and administrator (NFL NY Giants), born in New York (d. 1959)
  • Jul 30 Felix Andries Vening Meinesz, Dutch geophysicist (gravity), born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 1966)
  • Jul 31 Hans Freyer, German sociologist and philosopher, born in Leipzig, Germany (d. 1969)


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