1  Birthday of G. W. Liebniz, mathematician/philosopher (biography) and David Brower, environmentalist (biography)

2  Birthday of Hermann Hesse, author (biography) and Thurgood Marshall, Supreme Court Justice (biography)

3  Birthday of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, author/feminist (biography) and Franz Kafka, author (biography)

4  Independence Day. 

Birthday of Calvin Coolidge, 30th President (biography) and Rube Golberg, cartoonist (biography)

5  Birthday of P. T. Barnum, promoter (birthday) and Jean Cocteau, artist (biography)

6  Birthday of Frida Kahlo, artist (biography) and George W. Bush, 43rd President (biography)

7  Birthday of Joseph-Marie Jacquard, inventor of  the programmable loom (more)

8  Birthday of Kathe Kollwitz, artist (biography) and Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, psychologist (biography)

9  Birthday of Nicola Tesla, inventor (biography) and June Jordan, poet (biography)

10  Birthday of John Calvin, theologian (biography) 

11 Birthday of John Quincy Adams, 6th President (biography) and E. B. White, author (biography)

12  Birthday of R. Buckminster Fuller, polymath (biography) and Pablo Neruda, poet (biography)

13  Birthday of Wole Soyinka, playwright (biography) 

14  Birthday of Woody Guthrie, musician (biography) and Gerald Ford, 38th President (biography)

15  Birthday of Rembrandt van Rijn, artist (biography) and Dorothy Fields, lyricist (biography)

16  Birthday of Mary Baker Eddy, founder of Christian Science (biography) and Ida B. Wells, civil right activist (biography)

17  Birthday of Earl Stanley Gardner, author (biography) and James Cagney, actor (biography)

18  Birthday of Vidkun Quisling, traitor of Norway (biography) and Herbert Marcuse, philosopher (biography)

19  Birthday of , Muhammad ibn Ismail al-Bukhari, Arabic scholar (biography) and Edgar Degas, artist (biography)

20  Birthday of Andrew Lang, author (biography) and Edmund Hillary, first man on Everest (biography)

21  Birthday of Cat Stevens, musician (biography) and Brandy Chastain, athlete (biography)

22  Birthday of Raymond Chandler, author (biography) and Alexander Calder, artist (biography)

23  Birthday of Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia (biography)

24  Birthday of Alexandre Dumas, author (biography)

25  Birthday of James Barry, woman disguised as a man, surgeon (more) and Maxfield Parrish, artist (biography)

26  Birthday of Carl Jung, psychiatrist (biography) and Aldous Huxley, author (biography)

27  Birthday of Charlotte Corday d'Armont, French Revolutionary figure (biography)

28  Birthday of Beatrix Potter, children's author (biography) and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, first lady (biography)

29  Birthday of Grigori Rasputin, mystic (biography) and Benito Mussolini, Italian Fascist (biography)

Last Day of Summer School (9-12)

30  Birthday of Thorstein Veblen, economist (biography) and Kate Bush, musician (biography)

31  Birthday of Primo Levi, author (biography) and Ariana Fallaci, journalist (biography)