Ferris Wheel (Photo: Yali Shi)
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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