This Day in History

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July 1 (continued)

Births

1804 – George Sand; 1807 – Thomas Green Clemson (Clemson University); 1899 – Charles Laughton; 1902 – William Wyler; 1906 – Estée Lauder; 1915 – Willie Dixon; 1925 – Farley Granger; 1928 - Bobby Day ("Rockin' Robin"); 1931 – Leslie Caron; 1934 – Jamie Farr, Sydney Pollack; 1935 – James Cotton; 1939 – Karen Black, Delaney Bramlett (Delaney & Bonnie); 1941 – Twyla Tharp; 1942 – Geneviève Bujold, Andraé Crouch; 1945 – Debbie Harry; 1949 – John Farnham; 1950 – David Duke (racist); 1951 – Fred Schneider (The B-52s), Victor Willis (lead singer Village People); 1952 – Dan Aykroyd; 1954 – Keith Whitley (singer/song writer); 1960 - Evelyn Champagne King; 1961 – Carl Lewis, Diana, Princess of Wales; 1962 – Andre Braugher; 1967 – Pamela Anderson; 1971 – Missy Elliott; 1972 – Claire Forlani; 1977 – Liv Tyler ('Arwen' in "TLOTR: TFOTR")

Deaths

1860 – Charles Goodyear; 1884 – Allan Pinkerton; 1896 – Harriet Beecher Stowe; 1925 – Erik Satie; 1950 – Eliel Saarinen (architect); 1965 – Robert Ruark; 1974 – Juan Perón; 1983 – Buckminster Fuller; 1991 – Michael Landon; 1995 – Wolfman Jack; 1996 – Margaux Hemingway; 1997 – Robert Mitchum; 1999 – Forrest Mars Sr.; 2000 – Walter Matthau; 2004 – Marlon Brando; 2005 – Luther Vandross; 2009 – Karl Malden; 2010 – Arnold Friberg