12 July
July 12 is the 193rd day (194th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 172 days remaining.
Events
Births
- 100 BC - Gaius Julius Caesar, soldier and politician
- 1468 - Juan del Encina, poet and composer
- 1730 - Josiah Wedgwood, potter
- 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)
- 1852 - Hipólito Yrigoyen, President of Argentina (1916-1922, 1928-1930; d. 3 July 1933).
- 1854 - George Eastman, 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, poet (d. 1933)
- 1870 - Louis II of Monaco (d. 1949)
- 1882 - 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 - Oscar Hammerstein II, lyricist known for his work with Richard Rodgers on various musicals (d. 1960)
- 1895 - R. Buckminster Fuller, American architect, (d. 1983)
- 1902 - Günther Anders, philosopher and writer (d. 1992)
- 1904 - Deng Xiaoping, Chinese politician and leader (d. 1997)
- 1904 - Pablo Neruda, author, won Nobel Prize for literature in 1971, (d. 1973)
- 1908 - Milton Berle, comedian (d. 2002)
- 1909 - Joe DeRita, AKA "Curly Joe", former member of the Three Stooges (d. 1993)
- 1917 - Andrew Wyeth,artist
- 1920 - Beah Richards, actress (d. 2000)
- 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, 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 - Seann William Scott, actor
- 1984 - Gareth Gates, British Singer
- 1991 - Erik Per Sullivan, actor, Malcolm in the Middle
Deaths
- 1536 - Erasmus of Rotterdam, Dutch writer and philosopher
- 1845 - Henrik Wergeland, Norwegian author
- 1918 - Dragutin Lerman, Croatian 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"
- 1935 - Alfred Dreyfus, French military officer
- 1962 - Roger Wolfe Kahn, band leader (b. 1907)
- 1988 - Josh Logan, film director, writer
- 1996 - John Chancellor, news anchor (NBC Nightly News) (b. 1927)
- 2003 - Benny Carter, musician
Holidays and observances
July 11 - July 13 - June 12 - August 12 -- listing of all days
