Historic Birthdays Thurgood Marshall 7/2/1908 - 1/24/1993 American civil rights lawyer, the leader of the legal battle against segregated schools and first African-American Supreme Court justice. Thomas Cranmer 7/2/1489 - 3/21/1556 English religious leader; first Protestant archbishop of Canterbury Christoph Gluck 7/2/1714 - 11/15/1787 German composer Richard Henry Stoddard 7/2/1825 - 5/12/1903 American poet, critic and editor Frederick Gates 7/2/1853 - 2/6/1929 American philanthropist and businessman Clarence Barron 7/2/1855 - 10/2/1928 American financial editor and publisher Hermann Hesse 7/2/1877 - 8/9/1962 German novelist and poet; awared Nobel Prize for Literature (1946) Hugh Dryden 7/2/1898 - 12/2/1965 American physicist and deputy administrator of NASA (1958-65) Sir Tyrone Guthrie 7/2/1900 - 5/15/1971 English theatrical director Sir Alec Douglas-Home 7/2/1903 - 10/9/1995 British prime minister (1963-4) and foreign secretary (1960-3, 1970-4) Medgar Evers 7/2/1925 - 6/12/1963 American civil-rights activist; assassinated in 1963 Patrice Lumumba 7/2/1925 - 1/17/1961 Congolese independence leader and prime minister (1960)
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