Plínio Soares de Arruda Sampaio was a Brazilian intellectual and political activist, who was affiliated with the Partido Socialismo e Liberdade (PSOL). He ran as a candidate for the presidency of the Federative Republic of Brazil in 2010.

1930Barbara Jefford, English actress (died 2020)^[†]

Barbara Mary Jefford, OBE was a British actress, best known for her theatrical performances with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Old Vic and the National Theatre and her role as Molly Bloom in the 1967 film of James Joyce's Ulysses. For Ulysses, Jefford was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best British Actress. She was also Olivier nominated in 1991 for playing Volumnia in Coriolanus at the Barbican.

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1930Pavlos Karolidis, Greek historian and academic (born 1849)^[†]

Pavlos Karolidis or Karolides was a Greek historian who lived in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Headlines from July 26, 1930

MERCURY GOES TO 90 IN NEW HEAT WAVE; Two Die, Three Prostrated in the City--Middle West Sweltering. NO RELIEF FOR WEEK-END Toll of Lightning Deaths Is 3-- Drought Suffering Grows in Maryland and Kentucky. Killed in His Doorway by Bolt. MERCURY GOES TO 90 IN NEW HEAT WAVE Storm Damage Repaired.

Morning Skirts to Be 12 Inches From Floor, Afternoon 8, Evening Longer, Paris Decrees

FIVE NEW QUAKES IN ITALY, RAZING WEAKENED HOUSES; KNOWN DEAD PUT AT 1,883; WHERE GREAT HAVOC WAS WROUGHT BY THE EARTHQUAKE.

160 Taximen Lose 3 Days' Pay for Untidiness; Drove Without Coats and Hats in Heat Wave

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