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It’s always interesting to see what famous folks were born on certain days – it’s fun trivia, but it can give you some baby name inspiration, too.

Here’s my list of Next Weeks’ Names – everyone from princesses to football players to a U.S. President:

July 5

1670 – Dorothea Sophie of the Palatinate – Duchess of Parma

1755 – Sarah Siddons – British actress

1810 – P.T. Barnum – Circus magnate (The P.T. stands for PHINEAS TAYLOR)

1902 – Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. – American diplomat

1912 – Mack David – American lyricist

1939 – Booker Edgerson – American football player

1950 – Huey Lewis – American musician

1951 – Goose Gossage – American baseball player

1960 – Pruitt Taylor Vince – American actor

1963 – Edie Falco – American actress

1968 – Kenji Ito – Japanese composer

1973 – Róisín Murphy – Irish musician

1975 – Amélie Mauresmo – French tennis player

1984 – Danay Garcia – Cuban actress

July 6

1747 – John Paul Jones – American naval commander

1781 – Sir Stamford Raffles – British statesman

1782 – Maria Louisa of Spain – Queen of Etruria

1796 – Nicholas I – Tsar of Russia

1868 – Princess Victoria – British royal family

1878 – Eino Leino – Finnish poet

1900 – Frederica Sagor Maas – American playwright

1907 – Frida Kahlo – Mexican painter

1927 – Janet Leigh – American actress

1931 – Della Reese – American singer

1939 – Jet Harris – English bass guitarist

1951 – Geoffrey Rush – Australian actor

1954 – Allyce Beasley – American actress

1987—Caroline Trentini – Brazilian model

July 7

1207 – Elisabeth of Hungary – Catholic saint

1746 – Guiseppe Piazzi – Italian astronomer

1843 – Camillo Golgi – Italian physician and Nobel laureate

1887 – Marc Chagall – Russian painter

1891 – Virginia Rappe – Silent film actress

1906 – Satchel Paige – American baseball player

1908 – Revilo P. Oliver – American professor  ***Revilo = Oliver backwards***

1915 – Margaret Abigail Walker Alexander – African-American novelist and poet

1921 – Ezzard Charles – American boxer

1922 – Pierre Cardin – French fashion designer

1927 – Doc Severinsen – American composer and musician

1940 – Ringo Starr – member of The Beatles

1942 – Carmen Duncan – Australian actress

1952 – Mando Guerrero – Mexican professional wrestler

1963 – Vonda Shepard – American singer

1968 – Jorja Fox – American actress

1969 – Sylke Otto – German luger

1969 – Cree Summer – American voice actress

1970 – Robia LaMorte – American actress and dancer

1980 – Kaisa Jouhki – Indonesian singer

1983 – Ciara Newell – Irish singer

July 8

1593 – Artemisia Gentileschi – Italian painter

1792 – Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen – Queen of Bavaria

1851 – Arthur Evans – English archaeologist

1867 – Käthe Kollwitz – German artist

1898 – Melville Ruick – American actor

1908 – Nelson Rockefeller – U.S. Vice President

1923 – Harrison Dillard – American athlete

1926 – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross – Swiss psychiatrist

1945 – Micheline Calmy-Rey – Swiss politician

1948 – Raffi – Canadian children’s entertainer

1949 – Wolfgang Puck – Austrian celebrity chef

1951 – Anjelica Huston – American actress

1952 – Jack Lambert – American football player

1974 – Zhanna Friske – Russian actress and singer

1977 – Milo Ventimiglia

1998 – Jaden Smith – American actor

July 9

1964 – Ann Radcliffe – English writer

1786 – Sophie Hélène Béatrix – Princess of France

1879 – Ottorino Respighi – Italian composer

1901 – Dame Barbara Cartland – English composer

1911 – Mervyn Peake – British writer and illustrator

1927 – Red Kelly – Canadian ice hockey player

1929 – Lee Hazlewood – American country singer

1933 – Oliver Sacks – British neurologist and author

1936 – June Jordan – American poet, writer and teacher

1942 – Edy Williams – American actress

1955 – Lindsey Graham – American politician

1968 – Lars Gyllenhaal – Swedish author

1974—Sian Berry – British politician

1986 – Kiely Williams – American singer and actress

1995 – Georgie Henley – English actress

July 10

1682 – Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg – German Lutheran missionary

1711 – Princess Amelia – British royal family

1867 – Prince Maximilian of Baden – Chancellor of Germany

1897 – Jack “Legs” Diamond – American bootlegger

1899 – Heiri Suter – Swiss cyclist

1917 – Hugh Alexander – American baseball player

1920 – Owen Chamberlain – American physicist, Nobel prize laureate

1921 – Eunice Kennedy Shriver – American activist

1929 – Winnie Ewing – Scottish politician

1935 – Tura Satana – American actress

1943 – Arthur Ashe – American tennis player

1947 – Arlo Guthrie – American musician
1958 – Fiona Shaw – Irish actress

1964 – Urban Meyer – American football coach

1965 – Princess Alexia – Princess of Greece and Denmark

1976 – Adrian Grenier – American actor

1977 – Gwendoline Yeo – American actress

July 11

1366 – Anne of Bohemia – consort of Richard II of England

1603 – Kenelm Digby – English privateer

1751 – Caroline Matilda of Wales – Queen consort of Denmark and Norway

1767 – John Quincy Adams – President of the United States

1895 – Dolly Wilde – English socialite

1899 – E. B. White – American writer – E. B. stands for Elwyn Brooks

1913 – Cordwainer Smith – American writer

1920 – Yul Brynner – Russian-born actor

1925 – Nicolai Gedda – Swedish tenor

1931 – Thurston Harris – American singer

1931 – Tab Hunter – American actor

1949 – Liona Boyd – English-born musician

1953 – Mindy Sterling – American actress

1953 – Bramwell Tovey – English-born conductor and composer

1956 – Sela Ward – American actress

1975 – Riona Hazuki – Japanese actress

1984 – Tanith Belbin – Canadian/American ice dancer

1996 – Adelina Sotnikova – Russian figure skater

SOURCE: One This Day iPhone app

There is some great food for thought in these lists. I enlarged my favorites – though narrowing it down to a handful of names was difficult.

Revilo P. Oliver is the most interesting name on the list because Revilo is Oliver spelled backwards. What do you think about quirky names like this?

Happy naming,

♥  Amanda

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