Your American History Reference Guide! - July 12
July 12
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July 12 is the 193rd day (194th in leap years ) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar , with 172 days remaining.
Events
1500-1599
1600-1899
1900-1999
2000-2099
Births
100 BC-AD 1899
100 BC - Gaius Julius Caesar , soldier and politician
1394 - Ashikaga Yoshinori , Ashikaga shogun (d. 1441 )
1468 - Juan del Encina , poet and composer
1730 - Josiah Wedgwood , English potter (d. 1795 )
1807 - Thomas Hawksley , civil engineer (d. 1893 )
1817 - Henry David Thoreau , writer, Transcendentalist philosopher (d. 1862 )
1819 - Charles Kingsley , writer
1849 - Sir William Osler , physician, author, professor of medicine (d. 1919 )
1850 - Otto Schoetensack , German anthropologist (d. 1912 )
1852 - Hipólito Yrigoyen , President of Argentina (d. 1933 ).
1854 - George Eastman , American inventor of the Kodak camera (d. 1932 )
1855 - Edward 'Ned' Hanlan , world champion rower (d. 1908 )
1861 - George Washington Carver , botanist who discovered many uses for peanuts
1868 - Stefan George , German poet (d. 1933 )
1870 - Louis II of Monaco (d. 1949 )
1876 - Max Jacob , French poet (d. 1944 )
1880 - Tod Browning , film director (d. 1962 )
1884 - Amedeo Modigliani , painter and sculptor (d. 1920 )
1886 - Jean Hersholt , film director, actor (d. 1956 )
1892 - Bruno Schulz , Polish writer and painter (d. 1942 )
1892 - Harry Piel , actor, film director and producer (d. 1963 )
1895 - Kirstin Flagstad , Norwegian soprano (d. 1962 )
1895 - R. Buckminster Fuller , American architect (d. 1983 )
1895 - Oscar Hammerstein II , American lyricist
1900-1999
1902 - Günther Anders , philosopher and writer (d. 1992 )
1904 - Deng Xiaoping , Chinese politician and leader (d. 1997 )
1904 - Pablo Neruda , Chilean poet, Nobel Prize for literature (d. 1973 )
1908 - Milton Berle , comedian (d. 2002 )
1909 - Joe DeRita (a.k.a. "Curly Joe"), actor, comedian; member of the Three Stooges (d. 1993 )
1917 - Andrew Wyeth ,artist
1920 - Beah Richards , actress (d. 2000 )
1920 - Pierre Berton , journalist, writer (d. 2004 )
1922 - Mark Hatfield , former US Senator from Oregon
1930 - Gordon Pinsent , actor, director, writer
1932 - Otis Davis , American runner
1933 - Donald E. Westlake , author
1934 - Van Cliburn , American pianist
1937 - Bill Cosby , comedian, actor
1937 - Lionel Jospin , Prime Minister of France
1943 - Christine McVie , rock singer
1947 - Gareth Edwards , former rugby player
1948 - Richard Simmons , fitness trainer
1948 - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan , musician (d. 1997 )
1964 - Gaby Roslin , TV presenter
1967 - Richard Herring , comedian
1971 - Kristi Yamaguchi , figure skater
1976 - Anna Friel , British actress
1977 - Brock Lesnar , former professional wrestler
1984 - Gareth Gates , British singer
1986 - Chris Ansette , British actor
1991 - Erik Per Sullivan , actor (Malcolm in the Middle )
Deaths
700-1899
1900-1999
1918 - Dragutin Lerman , Croat Africa explorer (b. 1864 )
1919 - Charles Rock , actor
1921 - Ralph Herz , actor
1923 - Harry Lonsdale , actor
1926 - Gertrude Bell , archaeologist, writer, spy and administrator known as the "Uncrowned Queen of Iraq "
1931 - Nathan Söderblom , Swedish Nobel Peace Prize laureate
1935 - Alfred Dreyfus , French military officer
1949 - Douglas Hyde , first President of Ireland (b. 1860 )
1950 - Elsie De Wolfe , aka Lady Mendl, actress & interior decorator (b. 1865 )
1962 - Roger Wolfe Kahn , band leader (b. 1907 )
1988 - Josh Logan , film director, writer
1996 - John Chancellor , news anchor (NBC Nightly News ) (b. 1927 )
1996 - Jonathan Melvoin , musician and touring keyboardist for The Smashing Pumpkins (b. 1961 )
1999 - Bill Owen , British actor (b. 1914 )
2000-2099
Holidays and observances
External links
July 11 - July 13 - June 12 - August 12 -- listing of all days