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July 25, 1930

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Notable Births

Murray Chapple

1930Murray Chapple, New Zealand cricketer and manager (died 1985)[†]

Murray Ernest Chapple was a New Zealand cricketer. He played 14 Test matches over 13 years, scoring three fifties with a highest score of 76. He captained New Zealand in one Test in 1966.

Maureen Forrester

1930Maureen Forrester, Canadian actress and singer (died 2010)[†]

Maureen Kathleen Stewart Forrester, was a Canadian operatic contralto.

Alice Parizeau

1930Alice Parizeau, Polish-Canadian journalist and criminologist (died 1990)[†]

Alice Parizeau was a Polish-Canadian writer, essayist, journalist and criminologist.

Herbert Scarf

1930Herbert Scarf, American economist and academic (died 2015)[†]

Herbert Eli "Herb" Scarf was an American mathematical economist and Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University.

Annie Ross

1930Annie Ross, Scottish-American singer and actress (died 2020)[†]

Annie Ross was a British-American singer and actress, best known as a member of the influential jazz vocal trio Lambert, Hendricks & Ross. She helped pioneer the vocalese style of jazz singing, with a style described by critic Dave Gelly as "a kind of dreamy watchfulness that is a definition of 1950s hip." In 2010, she was named a Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts.

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