July 18, 1918 – Nelson Mandela, South African lawyer, Nobel Peace Prize winner, and politician who led the country out of apartheid as first President of South Africa is born in Mvezo.
July 19, 1865 – Charles Horace Mayo, who with his brother and others co-founded the famed Mayo Clinic, is born in Rochester, Minnesota.
July 20, 1919 – Explorer Edmund Hillary (the first person to climb Mt. Everest) is born in Auckland, New Zealand.
July 21, 1899 – Nobel Prize winning author Ernest Hemingway is born in Oak Park, Illinois.