Anniversaries 12 July

Birth

Cao Xueqin11

Chinese writer during the Qing dynasty 1724–1763

Thomas Guthrie11

British divine 1803–1873

Claude Bernard21

French physiologist 1813–1878

James Wilde, 1st Baron Penzance4

British judge and rose breeder 1816–1899

Henry David Thoreau385

1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitio… 1817–1862

Eugène Boudin20

French painter 1824–1898

Dagobert von Gerhardt1

German writer 1831–1910

William Osler50

Canadian pathologist, physician, educator, bibliophile, his… 1849–1919

F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead27

British politician 1872–1930

Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven10

German poet 1874–1927

Amedeo Modigliani5

Italian painter and sculptor 1884–1920

Louis B. Mayer4

American film producer 1884–1957

Bruno Schulz34

Polish novelist and painter 1892–1942

Buckminster Fuller171

American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inv… 1895–1983

Oscar Hammerstein II4

American librettist, theatrical producer, and (usually uncr… 1895–1960

Pablo Neruda136

Chilean poet 1904–1973

Ernst Käsemann1

German theologian 1906–1998

Milton Berle9

American comedian and actor 1908–2002

Willis Lamb5

American Physicist 1913–2008

Andrew Wyeth1

Realist painter 1917–2009

Roger Smith (executive)21

CEO 1925–2007

David Steindl-Rast2

American theologian 1926

Hayden White7

American historian 1928–2018

Elias James Corey2

American chemist 1928

Donald E. Westlake19

American novelist 1933–2008

Генри «Билл» Косби1

1937

Bill Cosby61

American actor, comedian, author, producer, musician, activ… 1937

Walter Murch1

American film editor and sound designer 1943

Nicholas Lore17

American social scientist 1944

Simon Blackburn29

British academic philosopher 1944

Delia Ephron5

American writer and film producer 1944

Jean-Gabriel Diarra1

Malian catholic priest 1945–2019

Robert Fisk25

English writer and journalist 1946

Muhammad Ilyas Qadri2

Founder of Dawat-e-Islami 1950

Irina Bokova3

Bulgarian diplomat 1952

Timothy Garton Ash1

British historian and author 1955

Benny Tai5

Hong Kong activist and writer 1964

Tamsin Greig12

English actress 1966

Anthony Dang Mingyan1

Chinese bishop 1967

Larry Sharpe2

American politician 1968

Kristi Yamaguchi6

American figure skater 1971

Jay Ashcroft2

1973

Rita Dominic4

Nigerian actress 1975

Michael Malice3

American writer 1976

Michelle Rodriguez1

American actress, screenwriter and DJ 1978

Kanwer Singh2

Canadian YouTube Star, Rapper, Author and Spoken-word Artist 1981

Jack Conte2

American musician and entrepreneur 1984

Beiwen Zhang8

badminton player 1990

Malala Yousafzai38

Pakistani children's education activist 1997

Death

Desiderius Erasmus36

Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, and theologian 1466–1536

Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, marquise de Lambert23

writer from France 1647–1733

Alexander Hamilton106

Founding Father of the United States 1757–1804

Horace Smith5

English poet and novelist 1779–1849

Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna1

British writer 1790–1846

Maria Weston Chapman6

American abolitionist 1806–1885

Robert Henri20

American painter 1865–1929

Elsie De Wolfe2

American interior decorationinterior decorator 1865–1950

D.T. Suzuki4

Japanese author and philosopher 1870–1966

Tomáš Baťa7

Czech businessman 1876–1932

Sidney Hook11

American philosopher 1902–1989

Jimmy Driftwood7

singer 1907–1998

Peter Newmark2

English translation scholar 1916–2011

Grady Louis McMurtry1

United States Army officer 1918–1985

Dada Vaswani4

Spiritual leader 1918–2018

Tuli Kupferberg2

American anarchist, poet, publisher and musician. 1923–2010

Paisios of Mount Athos1

Greek Eastern Orthodox monk 1924–1994

Douglas Huebler1

American conceptual artist 1924–1997

Fernando J. Corbató11

American computer scientist 1926–2019

John Chancellor1

American journalist 1927–1996

François Furet12

French historian 1927–1997

Mau Piailug11

Micronesian navigator from the Carolinian island of Satawal… 1932–2010

Harvey Pekar3

writer 1939–2010

James P. Hogan11

British writer 1941–2010

Tony Snow8

American White House Press Secretary 1955–2008

Dan Eldon1

Kenyan photojournalist, artist and activist 1970–1993