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Some July 7 Birthday celebrities:
1860 Gustav Mahler, composer (Austria; died 1911)
1887 Marc Chagall, artist (Russia; died 1985)
1899 George Cukor, director (New York, NY; died 1983) Enjoyed a successful working partnership with Katharine Hepburn, directing her in ten films over a period of 47 years: A Bill of Divorcement (1932), Little Women (1933), Sylvia Scarlett (1935), Holiday (1938), The Philadelphia Story (1940), Keeper of the Flame (1942), Adam's Rib (1949), Pat and Mike (1952), Love Among the Ruins (1975) (TV), The Corn Is Green (1979) (TV). He was replaced as director of Gone with the Wind (1939) because of constant disagreements with producer David O. Selznick over the script and direction (not as rumour had it because Clark Gable considered him better suited as a so-called woman's director).
1901 Vittorio De Sica, director /actor (Sora, Italy; died 1974) (The Bicycle Thief;Marriage Italian Style, Two Women; Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow; Boccacio 70; Two Women)
1906 Satchel Paige, baseball pitcher (Mobile, AL; died 1982)
1907 Robert Heinlein, science fiction writer (Butler, MO; died 1988) Stranger in a Strange Land (1961), The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (1966),
1911 Gian Carlo Menotti, composer (Cadigliano, Italy) (The Consul, Amahl and the Night Visitors)
1919 William Kuntsler, radical attorney (New York, NY; died 1995) (some of his clients: Lenny Bruce, H. Rap Brown, Stokely Carmichael, American Indian Movement leaders, Jack Ruby, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, and Islamic terrorists)
1922 Pierre Cardin, fashion designer (Venice, Italy)
1927 Doc Severinsen, bandleader/musician/composer (Arlington, OR)(Best known to late night television audiences as the Tonight Show's flamboyant Grammy Award-winning musical director, Severinsen has established a multi-dimensional career beyond his late night repertoire, including symphonic jazz and big band concert appearances, recordings, and commercials plus designing and manufacturing trumpets.
1928 Vincent Edwards actor (TV Dr Ben Casey, Death Stalk, Firehouse)
1940 Richard Armey, TX representative and House majority leader (Cando, ND)
1940 Ringo Starr, singer/drummer and member of the Beatles (Liverpool, England)
1947 Shelley Duvall, actress (Houston, TX) (Popeye, Faery Tale Theatre)
1972 Lisa Leslie, basketball player (Inglewood, CA)
1980 Michelle Kwan, champion figure skater (Torrance, CA)
