July 21 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on July 21, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♋︎ Cancer
Jun 21 – Jul 22
Birth stone
Ruby
Birth flower
Larkspur
How common
#89 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous July 21 birthdays
Lovis Corinth · German painter1858
Janusz Korczak · Polish-Jewish educator and physician1878
Ernest Hemingway · American author and journalist1899
Hart Crane · American writer1899
Marshall McLuhan · Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar1911
Isaac Stern · American musician1920
Rudolph A. Marcus · Canadian-American chemist1923
Don Knotts · American actor and stand-up comedian1924
John Atta Mills · Sixth President of the Republic of Ghana1944
Cat Stevens · British musician1948
Beppe Grillo · Italian comedian, actor, blogger, and politician1948
Robin Williams · American actor and comedian1951
Marcelo Bielsa · Argentinian association football player and manager1955
Michael Connelly · American novelist, journalist, crime fiction writer, and screenwriter1956
Stefan Löfven · Swedish politician, Prime Minister of Sweden between 2014–20211957
Jon Lovitz · American actor and comedian1957
Charlotte Gainsbourg · French and British actress and singer1971
Josh Hartnett · American actor and producer1978
Justin Bartha · American actor1978
Erling Haaland · Norwegian footballer2000
On this day in history
1918World War I: An Imperial German Navy U-boat opened fire on a small convoy of barges and defending aircraft near the American town of Orleans, Massachusetts.
1925American high-school biology teacher John T. Scopes was found guilty of violating Tennessee's Butler Act which forbade teaching evolution in class.
2010U.S. President Barack Obama signs the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
2011NASA's Space Shuttle program ends with the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-135 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
1961Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 4 mission: Gus Grissom piloting Liberty Bell 7 becomes the second American to go into space (in a suborbital mission).
1977Libyan forces carried out a raid at Sallum, sparking a four-day war with Egypt.
1979Jay Silverheels, a Mohawk actor, becomes the first Native American to have a star commemorated in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
2008Ram Baran Yadav is declared the first President of Nepal.
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