Alexis Weissenberg (July 26, 1929 – January 8, 2012) was a Bulgarian-born French pianist. [Wikipedia]
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Elias Canetti (July 25, 1905 – 14 August 1994) was a German-language writer, known as a modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and nonfiction writer. [Wikipedia]
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Peter Zinner (July 24, 1919 – November 13, 2007) was an Austrian-American film editor. Following nearly fifteen years of uncredited work as an assistant sound editor, Zinner received credits on more than fifty films from 1959 to 2006. [Wikipedia]
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Daniel Radcliffe (July 23, 1989) is an English actor. He rose to fame aged twelve for portraying the title character in the Harry Potter film series. He starred in all eight films in the series, from Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (2001) to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011). [Wikipedia]
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Emma Lazarus (July 22, 1849 – November 19, 1887) was an American author of poetry, prose, and translations, as well as an activist for Jewish and Georgist causes. [Wikipedia]
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Isaac Stern (July 21, 1920 – September 22, 2001) was an American violinist. [Wikipedia]
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Lev Aronin (July 20, 1920 – October 4, 1982) was a Soviet International Master of chess. He was a meteorologist by profession. [Wikipedia]
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Louis Kentner (July 19, 1905 – September 23, 1987) was a Hungarian, later British, pianist who excelled in the works of Chopin and Liszt, as well as the Hungarian repertoire. [Wikipedia]
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Lev Kamenev (July 18, 1883 – August 25, 1936) was a Russian revolutionary and Soviet politician. A prominent Old Bolshevik, Kamenev was a leading figure in the early Soviet government and served as a deputy premier of the Soviet Union from 1923 to 1926. [Wikipedia]
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Arthur S. Obermayer (July 17, 1931 – January 10, 2016) was an American chemist, entrepreneur and philanthropist. After selling Moleculon Research Corporation in Cambridge, Mass., “which he founded in the 1960s, [he and his wife Judith] became influential philanthropists and activists for a variety of causes, from state politics, where the couple helped to elect the first Roman Catholic priest to the US House of Representatives, to entrepreneurship. [Wikipedia]
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Irwin Rose (July 16, 1926 – June 2, 2015) was an American biologist. Along with Aaron Ciechanover and Avram Hershko, he was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation. [Wikipedia]
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Dorothy Fields (July 15, 1904 – March 28, 1974) was an American librettist and lyricist. She wrote more than 400 songs for Broadway musicals and films. [Wikipedia]
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Jerry Rubin (July 14, 1938 – November 28, 1994) was an American social activist, anti-war leader, and counterculture icon during the 1960s and early 1970s. [Wikipedia]
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Ehud Manor (July 13, 1941 – April 12, 2005) was an Israeli lyricist, translator, poet and radio and TV personality. He is widely considered to have been Israel’s most prolific lyricist of all time, having written or translated over 1,000 songs. In 1998, he was awarded the Israel Prize for his exceptional contributions to Israeli music. [Wikipedia]
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