page_title: 1972
section_title: July
hierarchical_section_title: 1972 / Births / July
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context_page_description: 1972 was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1972nd year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 972nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 72nd year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1970s decade.
  Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated.
context_section_description: July 2
  Darren Shan, Irish author
  Coster Balakasi, Zimbabwean sculptor
  July 3
  Henrik Fritzon, Swedish politician
  Aleksei Kulashko, New Zealand chess player
  July 4
  Nina Badrić, Croatian pop singer
  Alexei Shirov, Spanish chess Grandmaster
  Craig Spearman, New Zealand cricketer
  Shira Arad, Israeli film editor and musical supervisor
  July 5
  Robert Esmie, Canadian Olympic athlete
  Gilles Lellouche, French actor
  July 6
  Isabelle Boulay, French Canadian singer
  Levent Üzümcü, Turkish actor
  July 7
  Lisa Leslie, American basketball player
  Kirsten Vangsness, American actress and writer
  July 8
  Shōsuke Tanihara, Japanese actor
  Sourav Ganguly, Indian cricketer
  Victor Mikhalevski, Israeli chess grandmaster
  July 10
  Rosnah Shirlin, Malaysian politician
  Sofía Vergara, Colombian actress and model
  Tilo Wolff, German musician
  Julián Legaspi, Uruguayan-Peruvian actor
  Christoph Hochhäusler, German film director and screenwriter
  July 11 – Michael Rosenbaum, American actor, producer and comedian
  July 12
  Gabriel Garko, Italian actor and fashion model
  Nenad Jezdić, Serbian actor
  July 13 – Sean Waltman, American professional wrestler
  July 14
  Deborah Mailman, Australian actress and singer
  Masami Suzuki, Japanese voice actress
  July 15
  Scott Foley, American actor, director and screenwriter
  Chitalu Chilufya, Zambian doctor and politician
  July 18 – Fredrik Åkesson, Swedish guitarist
  July 19 – Naohito Fujiki, Japanese actor and singer
  July 20 – Jozef Stümpel, Slovak professional ice hockey
  July 21
  Catherine Ndereba, Kenyan long-distance runner
  Josué Guébo, Ivorian academic
  July 22
  Andrew Holness, 9th Prime Minister of Jamaica
  Keyshawn Johnson, American football player
  July 23 – Marlon Wayans, American actor, comedian, producer, and screenwriter
  July 27
  Takako Fuji, Japanese actress
  Clint Robinson, Australian kayaker
  Maya Rudolph, American actress, comedian
  Takashi Shimizu, Japanese director
  Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, Malaysian orthopaedic surgeon and the first commercial astronaut
  July 28
  Elizabeth Berkley, American actress
  Evan Farmer, American television host, actor, and musician
  July 29 – Wil Wheaton, American actor
  July 31 – Tami Stronach, Iranian-born dancer and former actress
caption: Wil Wheaton
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