List of Famous people born on July 7th
Ringo Starr
Sir Richard Starkey, better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an English musician, singer, songwriter and actor who achieved international fame during the 1960s as the drummer for the Beatles. He occasionally sang lead vocals with the group, usually for one song on each album, including "Yellow Submarine", "With a Little Help from My Friends" and their cover of "Act Naturally". He also wrote and sang the Beatles' songs "Don't Pass Me By" and "Octopus's Garden", and is credited as a co-writer of others.
MS Dhoni
Mahendra Singh Dhoni, is a former Indian international cricketer who captained the Indian national team in limited-overs formats from 2007 to 2016 and in Test cricket from 2008 to 2014. Under his captaincy, India won the inaugural 2007 ICC World Twenty20, the 2010 and 2016 Asia Cups, the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup and the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy. A right-handed middle-order batsman and wicket-keeper, Dhoni is one of the highest run scorers in One Day Internationals (ODIs) with more than 10,000 runs scored and is considered an effective "finisher" in limited-overs formats. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest wicket-keeper batsmen and captains in the history of the game. He was also the first wicket-keeper to effect 100 stumpings in ODI cricket.
Choi Tae-joon
Choi Tae-joon is a South Korean actor. He is known for his lead role in melodrama Exit (2018).
Jack Whitehall
Jack Peter Benedict Whitehall is an English comedian, presenter, actor, and writer. He is best known for starring as JP in the series Fresh Meat (2011–2016) and Alfie Wickers in the series Bad Education (2012–2014) and its spin-off film The Bad Education Movie (2015). He also co-wrote the latter two. From 2012 to 2018, Whitehall was a regular panellist on the game show A League of Their Own. In 2017, he appeared with his father in the Netflix comedy documentary series Jack Whitehall: Travels with My Father and starred in the television series Decline and Fall. Since 2018, he has been the host of the Brit Awards.
Hamish Linklater
Hamish Linklater is an American actor. He is known for playing Matthew Kimble in The New Adventures of Old Christine, Andrew Keanelly in The Crazy Ones, and Clark Debussy in Legion. He is the son of dramatic vocal trainer Kristin Linklater.
Alex Pereira
Alexsandro Pereira, commonly known as Alex Pereira or sometimes Alex Sandro Pereira, is a Brazilian kickboxer and mixed martial artist who competes in the middleweight division. Most notably, he is the former GLORY Middleweight and Light Heavyweight champion, and has also competed in promotions such as Kunlun Fight, SUPERKOMBAT Fighting Championship and It's Showtime.
Cassius Marsh
Cassius Lee Marsh Sr. is an American football outside linebacker for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the Seattle Seahawks in the fourth round of the 2014 NFL Draft. He played college football at UCLA. He has also played for the New England Patriots, San Francisco 49ers, Arizona Cardinals, Jacksonville Jaguars, and Indianapolis Colts.
Shelley Duvall
Shelley Alexis Duvall is a retired American actress who is best known for her portrayals of various eccentric characters. She has received various accolades, which include a Cannes Film Festival Award, a Peabody Award, two Emmy Award nominations, and a BAFTA Award nomination.
Cody Garbrandt
Cody Ray Allen Garbrandt is an American professional mixed martial artist, signed to the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). He is a former UFC bantamweight champion after becoming only the second fighter to defeat Dominick Cruz, handing him his first defeat in almost a decade at UFC 207. As of December 24, 2020, he is #3 in the UFC bantamweight rankings
Chase Claypool
Chase Claypool is a Canadian gridiron football wide receiver for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Notre Dame and was drafted by the Steelers in the second round of the 2020 NFL Draft.
Satchel Paige
Leroy Robert "Satchel" Paige was an American professional baseball pitcher who played in Negro league baseball and Major League Baseball (MLB). His career spanned five decades and culminated with his induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Joe Marler
Joseph William George Marler is an English professional rugby union player who plays as a prop for Harlequins in the Premiership.
Jorja Fox
Jorja-An Fox is a Canadian-American actress and producer. She first came to prominence with a recurring role in the NBC medical drama ER as Dr. Maggie Doyle from 1996 to 1999. This was followed by another critical success in the recurring role of Secret Service Agent Gina Toscano in the NBC political drama The West Wing in 2000. She played Sara Sidle in the CBS police procedural drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, both as a regular and recurring (2008–2010) cast member.
Pat Barry
Patrick Joseph Barry is a former American mixed martial artist and kickboxer who competed as a heavyweight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship. He is particularly known for his low kicks.
Kobe child murders
The Kobe child murders occurred in Kobe, Japan, on March 16 and May 27, 1997. Two victims, Ayaka Yamashita , age 10, and Jun Hase , age 11, were murdered by a 14-year-old boy reportedly named Shinichiro Azuma , under the alias Seito Sakakibara .
Julien Doré
Julien Doré is a French singer-songwriter, musician and actor.
Allen Payne
Allen Payne is an American film and television actor best known for his role as Jason Alexander in the 1994 drama film Jason's Lyric, as well as his portrayal of C.J. Payne on the family sitcom Tyler Perry's House of Payne (2006–present). Payne is also known for his portrayal of Lance Rodman on NBC's The Cosby Show during its final two seasons. On film, Payne also played Gerald "Gee Money" Wells in the 1991 film New Jack City, and Detective Justice in the 1995 film Vampire in Brooklyn.
Jennifer Jones
Jennifer Judith Jones OM is a Canadian curler. She was the Olympic champion in curling as skip of the Canadian team at the 2014 Sochi Games. Jones is the first female skip to go through the Games undefeated. The only male skip to achieve this was fellow Canadian Kevin Martin in 2010. Jones and her squad were the first Manitoba based curling team to win an Olympic gold medal. They won the 2008 World Women's Curling Championship, and were the last Canadian women's team to do so until Rachel Homan in 2017. She won a second world championship in 2018.
Nettie Stevens
Nettie Maria Stevens was an American geneticist who discovered sex chromosomes. In 1905, soon after the rediscovery of Mendel's paper on genetics in 1900, she observed that male mealworms produced two kinds of sperm, one with a large chromosome and one with a small chromosome. When the sperm with the large chromosome fertilized eggs, they produced female offspring, and when the sperm with the small chromosome fertilized eggs, they produced male offspring. The pair of sex chromosomes that she studied later became known as the X and Y chromosomes.
Eve Hewson
Memphis Eve Sunny Day Hewson is an Irish actress, who now lives in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, United States.