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

July Birthday Calendar

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)