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    1
Princess Diana born 1961
Olympic champion track star Carl Lewis born 1961

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First African-American Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall born 1908
 		 3
Novelist and short story writer Franz Kafka born 1883
 		 4
U.S. Independence Day
Political activist and writer Ron Kovic born 1946
Novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne born 1804
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Artist Frida Kahlo born 1907
Tibetan political and spiritual leader Dalai Lama born 1935
Ecuadorian artist Oswaldo Guayasamin born 1919
 		 7
Austrian composer Gustav Mahler born 1860
Russian artist Marc Chagall born 1887
Champion figure skater Michelle Kwan born 1980
 		 8
Post-Renaissance painter Artemisia Gentileschi born 1593
 		 9
Singer and political activist Paul Robeson born 1898
Sewing machine inventor Elias Howe born 1819
 		 10
Tennis champion Arthur Ashe born 1943
Theologian John Calvin born 1509
Tennis champion Virginia Wade born 1945
 		 11
UN World Population Day
Children's writer E.B. White born 1899
 		 12
Author and philosopher Henry David Thoreau born 1817
Architect and inventor R. Buckminster Fuller born 1895
Chilean poet and Nobel Prize Winner Pablo Neruda born 1904
Comedian Bill Cosby born 1937
 
13
U.S. National Summer Learning Day
 		 14
Geologist/educator and first woman to receive a doctorate Florence Bascom born 1862
 		 15
Dutch painter Rembrandt born 1606
First American saint and school/orphanage/hospital founder Mother Cabrini born 1850
 		 16
Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy born 1821
 		 17
Disneyland founded 1955
Poet Mattie Stepanek born 1990
 		 18
Astronaut John Glenn born 1921
Anti-apartheid activist and South African President Nelson Mandela born 1918
Philanthropist and survivor of Titanic, Margaret (Molly) Brown born 1867.
 		 19
Impressionist painter Edgar Degas born 1834
Poet Eve Merriam born 1916
 
20
Explorer Sir Edmund Hillary born 1919
First man on the moon, 1969
 		 21
Novelist Ernest Hemingway born 1899
 		 22
Poet Emma Lazarus born 1849
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Baseball pitcher Don Drysdale born 1936
 		 24
Aviator Amelia Earhart born 1898
Jockey Julie Krone born 1963
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Playwright George Bernard Shaw born 1856
Psychiatrist Carl Jung born 1875
Olympic champion figure skater Dorothy Hamill born 1956
 
27
MY HERO Short Film Festival entry deadline extended to September 1st
 		 28
Children's author Beatrix Potter born 1866
Cancer activist Terry Fox born 1958.
2009 CNN Hero nominations deadline August 1st.
 		 29
Political scientist and writer Alexis de Tocqueville born 1805
 		 30
Novelist Emily Bronte born 1818
Auto maker Henry Ford born 1863
 		 31 Children's author J.K. Rowling born 1965
Writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupery born 1900
Nobel Prize economist Milton Friedman born 1912
 		    
 
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