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Today's Anniversary – Monday, July 07


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Births

* 1980 Michelle Kwan American figure skater and media celebrity who has won nine U S championships, five world championships, and two Olympic medals.
* 1968 Jeff VanderMeer American writer, editor and publisher.
* 1966 Jim Gaffigan American stand-up comic and actor.
* 1964 Robert Newman British stand-up comedian, author and political activist.
* 1954 Robert M. Price American theologian and writer.
* 1944 Ian Wilmut English embryologist best known as the leader of the group that in 1996 first cloned a mammal, a sheep named Dolly, from fully differentiated adult mammary cells.
* 1941 Michael Howard British politician who has been a Conservative MP since the 1983 General Election for the constituency of Folkestone and Hythe.
* 1940 Dick Armey Former U S Representative from Texas's 26,26th congressional district, (1985–2003) and House Majority Leader (1995–2003).
* 1940 Ringo Starr Known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is a popular British musician, best known as drummer for The Beatles.
* 1907 Robert A. Heinlein One of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of science fiction of the 20th Century.
* 1907 Laszlo Tisza Professor of Physics Emeritus at MIT.
* 1906 Satchel Paige American baseball player whose pitching in the Negro leagues and in Major League Baseball made him a legend in his own lifetime.
* 1903 Steven Runciman Better known as Sir Steven Runciman, was a British historian known for his studies of eastern Christendom during the Middle Ages.
* 1902 Rudolf Mildner Chief of the Gestapo at Kattowicz and was head of the political department at Auschwitz which conducted third degree methods of interrogation from March 1941 until September 1943.
* 1891 Tadamichi Kuribayashi Lieutenant General in the Imperial Japanese Navy and the commander of Japanese defense of Iwo Jima during Battle of Iwo Jima.
* 1887 Marc Chagall Russian-Jewish painter who was born in Belarus, then part of the Russian Empire.
* 1860 Gustav Mahler Bohemian-Austrian composer and conductor.
* 1798 Robert Gilfillan Poet and songwriter, born at Dunfermline, Scotland.
* 1619 Bhai Makhan Shah Labana Devout Sikh and a rich trader from Tanda district Jhelum.

Deaths

† 2007 John Szarkowski Photographer, curator, historian, and critic.
† 2006 Syd Barrett Born Roger Keith Barrett, was an English singer, songwriter, guitarist and artist.
† 1984 George Oppen American poet, best known as one of the members of the Objectivist group of poets.
† 1975 Otto Skorzeny Standartenführer in the German Waffen-SS during World War II After fighting on the Eastern Front, and being recommended to Adolf Hitler by Ernst Kaltenbrunner, he is known as the commando leader who led Operation Eiche, the rescue of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini from imprisonment after his overthrow.
† 1973 Max Horkheimer German-Jewish philosopher-sociologist, famous for his work in critical theory as a member of the "Frankfurt School" of social research.
† 1970 E. M. Forster English novelist, short story writer, and essayist.
† 1930 Arthur Conan Doyle British writer, most famous as the creator of the character Sherlock Holmes.
† 1930 Arthur Conan Doyle British writer, most famous as the creator of the character Sherlock Holmes.
† 1881 Sidney Lanier American poet, novelist and musician.
† 1880 Lydia Maria Child American abolitionist, women's rights activist, opponent of American expansionism, Indian rights activist, novelist, and journalist.
† 1816 Richard Brinsley Sheridan Irish playwright and Whig statesman.
† 1764 William Pulteney English politician, created Earl of Bath in 1742 by King George II.
† 1701 William Stoughton Puritan judge in charge of what has come to be known as the Salem Witch Trials, first as the Chief Magistrate of the Special Court of Oyer and Terminer in 1692, and then as the Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Judicature in 1693.
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