List of Famous people born in July
Cees Nooteboom
Cees Nooteboom is a Dutch novelist, poet and journalist. After the attention received by his novel Rituelen, which received the Pegasus Prize, it was the first of his novels to be translated into an English edition, published in 1983 by Louisiana State University Press of the United States. LSU Press published his first two novels in English in the following years, as well as other works through 1990. Harcourt and Grove Press have since published some of his works in English.
Li Xuejian
Li Xuejian is a Chinese actor. He played the role Song Jiang in The Water Margin, a 1998 television series adapted from the Chinese classical novel of the same title. Li also played the roles of military personnel in television series set in the Chinese Civil War, and he acted in the 2006 film The Go Master, based on the biography of go player Go Seigen.
Leandro Costa Miranda Moraes
Leandro Costa Miranda Moraes, commonly known as Leandrão, is a Brazilian professional football manager and former player. He is currently the manager of Boavista.
Claudia Riegler
Claudia Riegler is a snowboarder from Austria. She competed for Austria at the 2010 Winter Olympics in parallel giant slalom, finishing seventh. Riegler later captured silver and bronze medals at the 2011 FIS Snowboarding World Championships.
Kōhei Shibata
Kohei Shibata is a Japanese professional baseball outfielder for the Chiba Lotte Marines in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. Following a college career that included representing Japan at the 2008 World University Baseball Championship, Shibata was drafted by the Tigers in 2008 and made his first-team debut for the club in the following year. After having regular playing time in the Tigers' first team early in his career, his opportunities have reduced in recent years due to injury and the emergence of younger players.
Ronny Huybrechts
Ronny Huybrechts is a Belgian professional darts player.
Mokgweetsi Masisi
Mokgweetsi Eric Keabetswe Masisi is the fifth and current President of Botswana. He served as the 8th Vice President of Botswana from November 12, 2014 to April 1, 2018. He was a Member of Parliament in the National Assembly for the Moshupa-Manyana constituency from 2009 to 2018.
Robert Sigl
Robert Sigl is a German film director and writer. He attended the University of Television and Film Munich from 1981-86. His short film The Christmas Tree was shown at international festivals in Madrid and Berlin. In 1987 he started preparations for his first full-length motion picture Laurin in Hungary which he also scripted.
Jem Finer
Jeremy Max Finer is an English musician, artist and composer. He was one of the founding members of The Pogues.
John Grant
John William Grant is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. He came to prominence as the co-founder, lead vocalist, pianist, and primary songwriter for the alternative rock band the Czars. After releasing six studio albums from 1994 to 2006, the band split up and Grant took a break from music before starting a solo career in 2010.