July 4th Birthdays

Koko, the sign-language gorilla was born on this day in 1971 at the San Francisco Zoo. Koko passed away on June 19, 2018 at age 46.

Also born on July 4th

  • 1924
    Eva Marie Saint, American actress
  • 1937
    Queen Sonja of Norway
  • 1940
    Karolyn Grimes, American actress
  • 1942
    Hal Lanier, American baseball player
    Floyd Little, American football player
    Peter Rowan, American singer, songwriter
  • 1943
    Emerson Boozer, American football player
    Geraldo Rivera, American journalist, talk show host
  • 1944
    Ray Meagher, Australian actor
  • 1945
    Bruce French, American actor
  • 1946
    Ed O’Ross, American actor
  • 1948
    Jeremy Spencer, English musician
  • 1951
    Ralph Johnson, American R&B drummer, percussionist
  • 1954
    Jim Beattie, American baseball player
  • 1955
    John Waite, English singer
  • 1958
    Kirk Pengilly, Australian musician
  • 1959
    Victoria Abril, Spanish actress
  • 1962
    Neil Morrissey, English actor
  • 1963
    Matt Malley, American musician
  • 1964
    Mark Slaughter, American singer
    Mark Whiting, American actor, director
  • 1965
    Horace Grant, American basketball player
    Harvey Grant, American basketball player
  • 1967
    Rick Wilkins, American baseball player
  • 1968
    Ronni Ancona, Scottish actress, screenwriter
    Jack Frost, American musician
  • 1969
    Todd Marinovich, American football player
  • 1971
    Brendan Donnelly, American baseball player
  • 1972
    William Goldsmith, American drummer
  • 1974
    La’Roi Glover, American football player
    Adrian Griffin, American basketball player
  • 1977
    Jonas Kjellgren, Swedish musician
  • 1978
    Stephen McNally, British singer and songwriter
    Becki Newton, American actress
  • 1980
    Max Elliott Slade, American film actor
  • 1981
    Francisco Cruceta, Dominican baseball player
  • 1983
    Ben Jorgensen, American musician
    Andy Mrotek, American musician
    Miguel Ángel Muñoz, Spanish actor, singer
  • 1984
    Gina Glocksen, American singer
  • 1986
    Fanny Valette, French actress
  • 1988
    Angelique Boyer, French-Mexican actress
  • 1994
    Era Ostrefi, Kosavar singer

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Died on July 4th:

  • 1806
    Charles-Henri Sanson, High Executioner of the First French Republic (age 67)
  • 1826
    John Adams, 2nd U.S. President (age 90)
    Thomas Jefferson, 3rd U.S. President (age 83)
  • 1831
    James Monroe, 5th U.S. President (b. 1758) (age 73)
  • 1891
    Hannibal Hamlin, 15th U.S. Vice-President (age 81)
  • 1934
    Marie Curie, French-Polish physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize winner(age 66)
  • 1995
    Eva Gabor, Hungarian-American actress, singer (age 76)
    Bob Ross, American painter, TV host (b. 1942) (age 52)
  • 2003
    Barry White, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (b. 1944) (age 58)
  • 2007
    Bill Pinkney, American singer (The Drifters), (age 81)
  • 2008
    Evelyn Keyes, American actress (age 91)
  • 2009
    Brenda Joyce, American actress (age 92)
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