Octavia Estelle Butler was born on June 22, 1947. She received a MacArthur “Genius” Grant and PEN West Lifetime Achievement Award. NASA named the landing site of the agency’s Perseverance rover “Octavia E. Butler Landing,” after the science fiction author Octavia E. Butler. Read Octavia E. Butler Biography. Read more
Nathan Bedford Forrest was born in Chapel Hill, Tennessee, on July 13, 1821. Despite having no formal military training, Forrest rose from the rank of private to lieutenant general. Forrest’s men reportedly killed over 200 Union soldiers, many of them black troops who had formerly been slaves. Here’s Nathan Bedford Forrest Biography and Profile. Read more
David Duke, White Supremacist, Racist, Racists, KKK, Ku Klux Klan, born 1 July 1950, first made his racist mark at Louisiana State University back in 1970 when he founded the White Youth Alliance. How did David Ernest Duke take his life down the path of racial extremism? He was born into a comfortable middle-class family July 1, 1950, son of an archconservative oil-field engineer, and an alcoholic mother, according to a recent Duke biography by Michael Zatarain. Here’s David Duke Biography and Profile. Read more
Selena Marie Gomez (born July 22, 1992) is an American actress, singer, in Grand Prairie, Texas, Selena Gomez got her start in show business with a two-year run on the kids show Barney and Friends. Selena Gomez parents are Amanda Cornett and Ricardo Gomez. Her mother, commonly known as Mandy. Here’s Selena Marie Gomez Biography and Profile. Read more
I was modeling part time after I finished school and a friend of mine told me about the M-Net audition, which I went for, auditioned and I landed the role Bimpe Adekoye in 2008. Here’s Linda Ejiofor Biography and Profile. Read more
Ken Starr Career: Law clerk to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger (1975-77); associate partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher (1977-81); counselor to the attorney general (1981-83); judge, U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (1983-89); solicitor general of the United States (1989-93); Partner, Kirkland & Ellis (1993-present). Attorney Kenneth Starr was placed in charge of the investigation into the affair scandal between Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky. Here’s Ken Starr Biography and Profile. Read more
George Walker Bush, former President of the United States, was born on July 6, 1946, in New Haven, Connecticut, to Barbara and George H.W. Bush – later the 41st President of the United States. Here’s George Walker Bush Biography and Profile. Read more
Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu, better known by his stage name Burna Boy, born July 2, 1991, an ward-winning Nigerian singer, Burna Boy has topped off a stellar music year with a Grammy nomination and cemented his place as this year’s breakaway music star. Who is Burna Boy? Read more
Wole Soyinka is a Nigerian playwright, poet, author, teacher and political activist who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986, was born on 13 July 1934 at Abeokuta, near Ibadan in western Nigeria. Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka Biography and Profile. Read more
David Lammy was born in Tottenham in 19 July 1972. He was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1994, practised as a barrister in England and the United States and became the first black Briton to study a Masters in Law at Harvard Law School, graduating in 1997. David Lindon Lammy Biography and Profile. Read more