Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/July 14

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[edit] Births

• 1860 - Owen Wister, American author (d. 1938)
• 1862 - Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter and graphic artist (d. 1918)
• 1868 - Gertrude Bell, English archaeologist, writer, spy, and administrator (d. 1926)
• 1904 - Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish Yiddish author (d. 1991)
• 1912 - Northrop Frye, Canadian literary critic (d. 1991)
• 1912 - Woody Guthrie, American folk musician (d. 1967)
• 1913 - Gerald Ford, President of the United States (d. 2006)
• 1918 - Ingmar Bergman, Swedish film and theatre director (d. 2007)
• 1966 - Matthew Fox, American actor

[edit] Deaths

• 1223 - King Philip II of France (b. 1165)
• 1274 - Saint Bonaventure (b. 1221)
• 1881 - Billy the Kid, (pictured) American outlaw (b. 1860)
• 1965 - Adlai Stevenson, U.S. Presidential candidate (b. 1900)
• 2002 - Joaquín Balaguer, President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1906)

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