01 July: today's birthdays

• Pamela Anderson - Canadian actress and model. Best known for her role in TV series Baywatch
• Dan Aykroyd - Canadian actor, born Daniel Edward Aykroyd. He starred in The Blues Brothers and Ghostbusters
• Claude Berri - French director, screenwriter and actor, born Claude Berel Langmann. He won an Oscar for Live Action Short Film in 1966
• Andre Braugher - American actor. He was Captain Ray Holt in the TV series Brooklyn Nine-Nine
• Gerald Edelman - American biologist, Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1972, with Rodney Robert Porter
• Richard Ferrand - French politician
• Patrick Kluivert - Dutch football coach and former football player
• Charles Laughton - English-born American actor. He won an Oscar for Best Actor in 1933
• Gottfried Leibniz - German philosopher, mathematician, scientist, and logician
• Krzysztof Piątek - Polish professional footballer 
• Sydney Pollack - American film director and actor. He won an Oscar for Best Picture and one for Best Director in 1986
• Daniel Ricciardo - Australian racing driver
• George Sand - Pen name of French writer Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin
• Myron Scholes - Canadian financial economist, Nobel Prize in Economics 1997
• Gregg Semenza - American professor of medicine, pediatrics and oncology at Johns Hopkins University.
  He is a 2019 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine alongside Peter Ratcliffe and William Kaelin Jr. for their study of the behaviour of cells in the absense of oxygen (Hypoxia). 
• Ignác Fülöp Semmelweis - Hungarian physician
• Josep Lluís Sert - Catalan architect
• Léa Seydoux - French actress and model, born Léa Hélène Seydoux-Fornier De Clausonne 
• Etienne Wenger - Swiss sociologist
• William Wyler - American producer, film director and screenwriter