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A. E. Douglass (1867 - 1962)
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A. E. (Andrew Ellicott) Douglass (July 5, 1867, Windsor, Vermont - March 20, 1962, Tucson, Arizona) was an American astronomer. He discovered a correlation between tree rings and the sunspot cycle. Read more
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Robert FitzRoy (1805 - 1865)
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Vice-Admiral Robert FitzRoy RN (5 July 1805 - 30 April 1865) achieved lasting fame as the captain of HMS Beagle during Charles Darwin's famous voyage, and as a pioneering meteorologist who made accurate weather forecasting a reality. He was an able surveyor and hydrographer and served as Governor...
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Koko
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Koko (born July 4, 1971) is a female gorilla who, according to Francine "Penny" Patterson, is able to understand more than 1,000 signs based on American Sign Language, and understand approximately 2,000 words of spoken English. Read more[video=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P...
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Henrietta Swan Leavitt
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Henrietta Swan Leavitt (July 4, 1868 December 12, 1921) was an American astronomer. A graduate of Radcliffe College, Leavitt went to work in 1893 at the Harvard College Observatory in a menial capacity as a "computer", assigned to count images on photographic plates. Study of the plate...
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Harrison Schmitt
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Harrison Hagan "Jack" Schmitt (born July 3, 1935) is an American geologist, a former NASA astronaut, University Professor and a U.S. Senator for one term. He is the twelfth and last of the Apollo astronauts to arrive and set foot on the Moon, as crewmate Eugene Cernan exited the Apollo Lun...
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Saharon Shelah
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Saharon Shelah (July 3, 1945 - ) is an Israeli mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Rutgers University in New Jersey. Read more
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William Henry Bragg (1862 - 1942)
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Sir William Henry Bragg OM, KBE, PRS (2 July 1862 - 10 March 1942) was a British physicist, chemist, mathematician and active sportsman who uniquely shared a Nobel Prize with his son William Lawrence Bragg - the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics. The mineral Braggite is named after him and his son. Read more...
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Hans Bethe (1906 - 2005)
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Hans Albrecht Bethe (July 2, 1906 - March 6, 2005) was a German-American nuclear physicist, and Nobel laureate in physics for his work on the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis. Read more
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Hans-Ulrich Rudel (1916 - 1982)
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Hans-Ulrich Rudel (2 July 1916 - 18 December 1982) was a Stuka dive-bomber pilot during World War II and a member of the Nazi Party. Rudel flew 2,530 combat missions claiming a total of 2,000 targets destroyed; including 800 vehicles, 519 tanks, 150 artillery pieces, a destroyer, two cruisers, one...
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Oleg Dmitriyevich Kononenko
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Oleg Dmitriyevich Kononenko is a Russian cosmonaut.
Kononenko was born June 21, 1964, in Chardzhou, Turkmen SSR.
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1 July 1742 - 24 February 1799) was a German scientist, satirist and Anglophile. As a scientist, he was the first to hold a professorship explicitly dedicated to experimental physics in Germany. Today, he is remembered for his posthumously published notebooks, whic...
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Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817 - 1911)
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Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, FRS (30 June 1817 - 10 December 1911) was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend. He was Director of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, for twenty y...
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Ludwig Bölkow (1912 - 2003)
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Ludwig Bölkow (June 30, 1912 - July 25, 2003) was one of the aeronautical pioneers of Germany. Read more
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Athanassios Spyridon Fokas
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Athanassios Spyridon Fokas (b. June 30, 1952) is a Greek mathematician, known for work in the field of integrable nonlinear partial differential equations. Read more
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George D. Zamka
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George David "Zambo" Zamka (born 1962) is an American NASA astronaut and United States Marine Corps pilot with over 3500 flight hours in more than 30 different aircraft. Zamka piloted the Space Shuttle Discovery in its October 2007 mission to the International Space Station and served...
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