Famous Women Born in the Month of July Quiz

Answer: Diana, Princess of Wales

Diana Frances Spencer was born July 1, 1961 in Sandringam, Norfolk, England. She became the Princess of Wales when she married Charles, Prince of Wales on July 29, 1981. She is the mother of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex. Sadly, she died in a car accident in Paris on August 31, 1997.

Answer: J. K. Rowling

J.K.Rowling was born on July 31, 1965 in Gloucestershire, England. Not only is she a film and television producer, screenwriter but also the novelist who wrote the Harry Potter fantasy series.

Answer: Amartine Lucile Aurore Dupin

Amartine Lucile Aurore Dupin (1804-1876) was born on July 1 in Paris, France. However, she is best known by her nom de plum, George Sand. She wrote during the Romantic period and was one of the most popular writers in the 1830s to 1840s and at the time reputedly to be more popular in England than Victor Hugo.

Answer: Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) was born on July 6 in Mexico City. She was a Mexican artist who specialised in portraits. Her works were mainly surrealist and magical realist. She had solo exhibitions in New York and Paris in the late 1930s and the Louvre purchased her self portrait "The Frame" which can still be seen today.

Answer: Beah Richards

Beah Richards (1920-2000) was an American actress born on July 12 in Vicksburg, Mississippi. She received two nominations for Best Supporting Actress from the Academy and Golden Globe Awards for her role as Mrs. Prentice in the 1967 movie "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner". The movie also starred Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn and Sidney Poitier. Beah also appeared in "In the Heat of the Night" and "The Great White Hope". Her last film role was in 1998 in "Beloved".

Answer: Emmeline Pankhurst

Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928) was a British political activist and was born on July 15 in Manchester, England. She played a key role in the British suffragette movement whose aim was to help women achieve the right to vote.

Answer: Estée Lauder

Born Josephine Esther Mentzer (1908-2004) on July 1 in Queens, New York City. Her family nickname as a child was "Estee". She married her husband Joseph Lauder in 1930. With her husband they co-founded the company Estée Lauder in 1946 in New York putting the accent on the penultimate "e" to make it sound more French.

Answer: Amelia Earhart

Amelia Earhart (1897-1937) was born on July 24 in Kansas, USA. She was an aviation pioneer and the first female to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in 1932. In 1937, in an attempt to circumnavigate the globe she and her co-pilot, Fred Nooran, disappeared without trace over the central Pacific Ocean.

Answer: Beatrix Potter

Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) was born on July 28 in London, England. She was a writer, natural scientist and conservationist. She wrote children's stories mainly depicting animals. Her most famous novel is "The Tale of Peter Rabbit"(1902). Some of her other publications included, "The Tale of Benjamin Bunny", "The Tale of Tom Kitten", "The Tale of Two Bad Mice" to name just a few.

Answer: Olivia de Havilland

Olivia de Havilland was born on July 1, 1916 in Tokyo, Japan. Her younger sister, Joan Fontaine was also born in Tokyo, in 1917. Both of their parents were English but were working in Japan when they met in 1913. Both sisters won Academy Awards for Best Actress with Olivia (2) and Joan (1). They are the only siblings to have won major acting Academy Awards.