This Week’s Birthdays – Week of July 18

July 18, 1817 – Jane Austen, English novelist (b. 1775)

July 19, 1814 – Samuel Colt, American firearms inventor (d. 1862)

July 20, 356 BC – Alexander the Great, Greek king of Macedonia and conqueror of Persia (d. 323 BC)

July 21, 1924 – Don Knotts, American actor (d. 2006)

July 22, 1940 – Alex Trebek, Canadian game show host

July 23, 1892 – Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia (d. 1975)

July 24, 1802 – Alexandre Dumas, père, French writer (d. 1870)