July 12

2024 Calendar

July 12 is the 193rd day of the year (194th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 172 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

Up to 1900

783 – Bertrada, wife of Pippin III (b. 720)
1441 – Ashikaga Yoshinori, Japanese shogun (b. 1394)
1536 – Erasmus, Dutch writer and philosopher (b. around 1466)
1645 - Tsar Michael I of Russia (b. 1596)
1664 – Stefano della Bella, Italian printmaker (b. 1610)
1682 – Jean Picard, French astronomer (b. 1620)
1712 – Richard Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland (b. 1626)
1742 - Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco, Italian composer (b. 1675)
1773 – Johann Joachim Quantz, German flutist and composer (b. 1697)
1804 – Alexander Hamilton, 1st United States Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1755)
1838 - Ezra Butler, American politician, Governor of Vermont (b. 1763)
1845 – Henrik Wergeland, Norwegian writer (b. 1808)
1845 - Ludwig Persius, Prussian architect (b. 1803)
1855 - Pavel Nakhimov, Russian admiral (b. 1802)
1849 – Dolley Madison, First Lady of the United States (b. 1768)
1892 - Alexander Cartwright, American inventor of baseball (b. 1820)

1901 – 2000

1901 - Richard B. Hubbard, 17th Governor of Texas (b. 1832)
1910 – Charles Stewart Rolls, British engineer and aviator (b. 1887)
1918 – Dragutin Lerman, Croatian explorer (b. 1864)
1923 - William P. Dillingham, Governor of Vermont (b. 1843)
1926 – Gertrude Bell, English archaeologist, writer, spy, and administrator (b. 1868)
1931 – Nathan Söderblom, Swedish clergyman, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1866)
1934 - Ole Evinrude, Norwegian-American inventor (b. 1877)
1935 – Alfred Dreyfus, French military officer (b. 1859)
1944 - Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., American general and politician (b. 1887)
1945 - Boris Galerkin, Russian mathematician and engineer (b. 1871)
1945 - Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen, German field marshal (b. 1895)
1947 - Jimmie Lunceford, American saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1902)
1949 – Douglas Hyde, first President of Ireland (b. 1860)
1950 – Elsie De Wolfe, actress and interior decorator (b. 1865)
1960 - Buddy Adler, American movie producer (b. 1909)
1962 – Roger Wolfe Kahn, American band leader (b. 1907)
1969 - Henry George Lamond, Australian novelist (b. 1885)
1978 - Esmond Harmsworth, 2nd Viscount Rothermere, English politician and media magnate (b. 1898)
1979 - Minnie Riperton, American singer (b. 1947)
1982 - Kenneth More, English actor (b. 1914)
1988 – Josh Logan, movie director and writer
1990 - Joao Saldanha, Brazilian footballer, manager and journalist (b. 1917)
1996 – John Chancellor, American television journalist (b. 1927)
1996 – Jonathan Melvoin, musician and keyboardist (The Smashing Pumpkins) (b. 1961)
1998 - Jimmy Driftwood, American singer-songwriter and banjo player (b. 1907)
1999 – Bill Owen, British actor (b. 1914)
1999 – Rajendra Kumar, Indian actor (b. 1929)

From 2001

2003 – Benny Carter, American musician (b. 1907)
2007 – Kesha Wizzart, British singer (b. 1988)
2008 - Tony Snow, American journalist (b. 1955)
2010 – Günter Behnisch, German architect (b. 1922)
2010 – Harvey Pekar, American comic book writer and artist (b. 1939)
2011 - Sherwood Schwartz, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1916)
2012 - Dara Singh, Indian wrestler and actor (b. 1928)
2013 - Pran, Indian actor (b. 1920)
2013 - Amar Bose, American sound engineer and entrepreneur (b. 1929)
2013 - Alan Whicker, English broadcaster (b. 1925)
2014 - Nestor Basterretxea, Basque artist (b. 1924)
2014 - Valeriya Novodvorskaya, Russian liberal politician (b. 1950)
2014 - Emil Bobu, Romanian politician (b. 1927)
2014 - Kenneth J. Gray, American politician (b. 1924)
2014 - Alberto Cassano, Argentine engineer and academic (b. 1935)
2015 - Chenjerai Hove, Zimbabwean writer (b. 1956)
2015 - Cheng Siwei, Chinese economist (b. 1935)
2015 - Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, Tibetan Buddhist monk (b. 1950)
2015 - Javier Krahe, Spanish singer-songwriter (b. 1944)
2016 - Zygmunt Zimowski, Polish Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1949)
2017 - Chuck Blazer, American soccer administrator (b. 1945)
2017 - Gerrit Braks, Dutch politician (b. 1933)
2017 - Sam Glanzman, American comic artist (b. 1924)
2017 - Tamara Miansarova, Russian pop singer (b. 1931)
2017 - Ray Phiri, South African jazz musician (b. 1947)
2017 - Tod Sloan, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1927)
2018 - Abbas Amir-Entezam, Iranian politician and political prisoner (b. 1932)
2018 - Alain Fauré, French politician (b. 1962)
2018 - Roger Perry, American actor (b. 1933)
2018 - Dada Vaswani, Indian spiritual leader and writer (b. 1918)
2018 - Robert Wolders, Dutch actor (b. 1936)
2018 - Xerardo Fernández Albor, Spanish politician, President of Galicia (b. 1917)
2019 - Fernando J. Corbató, American computer scientist (b. 1926)
2019 - Hodan Nalayeh, Somali-Canadian journalist (b. 1976)
2019 - Claudio Naranjo, Chilean psychiatrist (b. 1932)
2019 - M. J. Radhakrishnan, Indian cinematographer (b. 1957/1958)
2019 - Jean-Pierre Worms, French sociologist and politician (b. 1934)

Births

Up to 1850

100 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar, Roman soldier and politician (d. 44 BC)
1394 – Ashikaga Yoshinori, Japanese shogun (d. 1441)
1468 – Juan del Encina, poet and composer
1596 – Tsar Michael I of Russia (d. 1645)
1607 - Jean Petitot, Swiss painter (d. 1691)
1675 - Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco, Italian composer and violinist (d. 1742)
1730 – Josiah Wedgwood, English potter (d. 1795)
1784 - Juan Mora Fernandez, Costa Rican Head of State (d. 1854)
1803 - Peter Chanel, French priest and saint (d. 1841)
1807 – Thomas Hawksley, English civil engineer (d. 1893)
1813 – Claude Bernard, French physiologist (d. 1878)
1817 – Henry David Thoreau, American writer and philosopher (d. 1862)
1819 – Charles Kingsley, English writer (d. 1875)
1824 – Eugène Boudin, French painter (d. 1898)
1828 - Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Russian philosopher (d. 1889)
1849 – Sir William Osler, Canadian physician, writer, professor of medicine (d. 1919)
1850 – Otto Schoetensack, German anthropologist (d. 1912)

1851 – 1900

1852 – Hipólito Yrigoyen, President of Argentina (d. 1933)
1854 – George Eastman, American inventor (d. 1932)
1854 - Juan Gualberto Gómez, Cuban revolutionary leader (d. 1933)
1855 – Edward 'Ned' Hanlan, rower (d. 1908)
1861 - Anton Arensky, Russian composer, pianist and educator (d. 1906)
1863 - Albert Calmette, French physician (d. 1933)
1863 - Paul Drude, German physicist (d. 1906)
1864 – George Washington Carver, American botanist (d. 1943)
1868 – Stefan George, German poet (d. 1933)
1870 – Louis II of Monaco (d. 1949)
1876 – Max Jacob, French poet (d. 1944)
1880 – Tod Browning, American movie director (d. 1962)
1884 – Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor (d. 1920)
1886 – Jean Hersholt, Danish movie director and actor (d. 1956)
1892 – Bruno Schulz, Polish writer and painter (d. 1942)
1892 – Harry Piel, actor, movie director, and producer (d. 1963)
1895 – Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian soprano (d. 1962)
1895 – R. Buckminster Fuller, American architect (d. 1983)
1895 – Oscar Hammerstein II, American lyricist (d. 1960)

1901 – 1950

1902 – Günther Anders, philosopher and writer (d. 1992)
1904 – Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet, Nobel Prize recipient (d. 1973)
1905 – Prince John of the United Kingdom (d. 1919)
1906 - Pietro Tordi, Italian actor (d. 1990)
1908 – Milton Berle, American comedian (d. 2002)
1909 – Joe DeRita, American actor and comedian (d. 1993)
1909 - Fritz Leonhardt, German engineer (d. 1999)
1913 – Willis Lamb, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2008)
1916 - Robert E. Gilka, American photojournalist (d. 2013)
1917 – Andrew Wyeth, American artist (d. 2009)
1920 – Beah Richards, American actress (d. 2000)
1920 – Pierre Berton, Canadian journalist and writer (d. 2004)
1922 – Mark Hatfield, U.S. Senator and Governor from Oregon (d. 2011)
1922 – Michael Ventris, English architect and philologist (d. 1956)
1923 - René Favaloro, Argentine heart surgeon (d. 2000)
1923 - Jonás Gómez Gallo, Chilean businessman and politician (d. 2019)
1925 – Roger B. Smith, American automobile executive
1926 - Carl Adam Petri, German mathematician and computer scientist (d. 2010)
1927 - Conte Candoli, American trumpeter (d. 2001)
1928 - Jo Myong-rok, North Korean politician (d. 2010)
1928 – Elias James Corey, American chemist
1928 - Kathy Staff, English actress (d. 2008)
1930 – Gordon Pinsent, Canadian actor, director, and writer
1932 – Otis Davis, American runner
1932 - Monte Hellman, American movie director, producer and editor
1932 - Eddy Wally, Belgian singer (d. 2016)
1933 - Brian Cant, English actor, presenter and writer (d. 2017)
1933 – Donald E. Westlake, American writer (d. 2008)
1934 – Van Cliburn, American pianist (d. 2013)
1935 - Roy Barraclough, English actor (d. 2017)
1935 – Hans Tilkowski, German footballer
1937 – Bill Cosby, American comedian and actor
1937 – Lionel Jospin, former Prime Minister of France
1937 - Michel Louvin, Canadian singer
1938 - Jaishankar, Indian actor (d. 2000)
1943 - Paul Silas, American basketball player and coach
1943 – Christine McVie, singer, musician, and songwriter (Fleetwood Mac)
1944 - Delia Ephron, American author, screenwriter and playwright
1945 - Leopoldo Mastelloni, Italian actor
1946 – Valentina Tolkunova, Russian singer (d. 2010)
1946 – Gareth Edwards, Welsh rugby player
1947 - Wilko Johnson, English singer-songwriter, guitarist and actor
1948 – Richard Simmons, American fitness trainer, actor, comedian, producer and writer
1948 – Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Sufi musician (d. 1997)
1948 - Jay Thomas, American actor (d. 2017)
1948 - Ben Burtt, American sound designer
1948 - Walter Egan, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1950 – Eric Carr, American drummer (Kiss) (d. 1991)
1950 - Gilles Meloche, Canadian ice hockey player

1951 – 1975

1951 - Cheryl Ladd, American actress and singer
1952 - Voja Antonic, Serbian inventor and journalist
1952 - Irina Bokova, Bulgarian politician, Director-General of UNESCO
1952 - Philip Taylor Kramer, American bass player (Iron Butterfly) (d. 1995)
1952 - Liz Mitchell, Jamaican performer (Boney M)
1953 – John Ausonius, Swedish criminal
1954 – Wolfgang Dremmler, German footballer
1955 - Jimmy LaFave, American singer-songwriter and folk musician (d. 2017)
1956 - Mario Soto, Dominican baseball player
1957 - Dave Semenko, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2017)
1959 - King Tupou VI of Tonga
1959 - Charlie Murphy, American actor and writer (d. 2016)
1960 - Corynne Charby, French model, actress and singer
1961 - Masaaki Mori, Japanese footballer
1961 - Shiva Rajkumar, Indian actor, singer and producer
1962 - Luc De Vos, Belgian musician and writer (d. 2014)
1962 - Dean Wilkins, English footballer
1964 – Gaby Roslin, English television presenter
1966 - Annabel Croft, English tennis player
1966 - Tamsin Greig, English actress
1966 - Ana Torrent, Spanish actress
1967 – Richard Herring, English comedian
1967 - John Petrucci, American guitarist
1967 - Bruny Surin, Haitian-Canadian athlete
1969 - Jesse Pintado, American guitarist (d. 2006)
1969 - Chantal Jouanno, French politician
1971 – Kristi Yamaguchi, American figure skater
1972 – Travis Best, NBA player
1973 - Magoo, American rapper
1973 – Christian Vieri, Italian footballer
1974 – Stelios Giannakopoulos, Greek footballer
1974 - Sharon den Adel, Dutch singer and composer
1974 - Gregory Helms, American professional wrestler
1975 - Cheyenne Jackson, American actor and singer
1975 - Carolina Kasting, Brazilian actress
1975 - Anastassia Michaeli, Israeli journalist, television presenter and politician

From 1976

1976 – Anna Friel, English actress
1977 – Brock Lesnar, American professional wrestler
1978 – Topher Grace, American actor
1978 - Michelle Rodriguez, American actress
1980 - Tom Price, Welsh actor
1982 – Antonio Cassano, Italian footballer
1984 – Gareth Gates, English singer
1984 - Michael McGovern, Northern Irish footballer
1985 - Emil Hegle Svendsen, Norwegian biathlete
1985 - Paulo Vitor Barreto, Brazilian footballer
1986 – Simone Laudehr, German footballer
1986 - Didier Digard, French footballer
1986 - Krystal Forscutt, Australian model, actress and singer
1988 - Patrick Beverley, American basketball player
1989 - Nick Palmieri, American ice hockey player
1989 - Phoebe Tonkin, Australian actress and model
1991 - James Rodríguez, Colombian footballer
1991 – Erik Per Sullivan, American actor
1992 – Eoghan Quigg, Northern Irish singer
1995 - Luke Shaw, English footballer
1995 - Jordyn Wieber, American artistic gymnast
1996 – Jordan Romero, American mountain climber
1996 - Moussa Dembélé, French footballer
1997 - Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani activist for education

Deaths

Observances

Independence Day in Kiribati and São Tomé and Príncipe
Second Day of Naadam (Mongolia)
The Twelfth, or Orangeman's Day, commemorating the Battle of the Boyne (Northern Ireland)