Anniversaries 12 July
Birth
![Cao Xueqin photo]()
Chinese writer during the Qing dynasty
1724–1763
![Claude Bernard photo]()
French physiologist
1813–1878
![James Wilde, 1st Baron Penzance photo]()
British judge and rose breeder
1816–1899
![Henry David Thoreau photo]()
1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitio…
1817–1862
![William Osler photo]()
Canadian pathologist, physician, educator, bibliophile, his…
1849–1919
![F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead photo]()
British politician
1872–1930
![Amedeo Modigliani photo]()
Italian painter and sculptor
1884–1920
![Louis B. Mayer photo]()
American film producer
1884–1957
![Bruno Schulz photo]()
Polish novelist and painter
1892–1942
![Buckminster Fuller photo]()
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inv…
1895–1983
![Oscar Hammerstein II photo]()
American librettist, theatrical producer, and (usually uncr…
1895–1960
![Ernst Käsemann photo]()
German theologian
1906–1998
![Milton Berle photo]()
American comedian and actor
1908–2002
![Willis Lamb photo]()
American Physicist
1913–2008
![Andrew Wyeth photo]()
Realist painter
1917–2009
![Hayden White photo]()
American historian
1928–2018
![Donald E. Westlake photo]()
American novelist
1933–2008
![Bill Cosby photo]()
American actor, comedian, author, producer, musician, activ…
1937
![Walter Murch photo]()
American film editor and sound designer
1943
![Nicholas Lore photo]()
American social scientist
1944
![Simon Blackburn photo]()
British academic philosopher
1944
![Delia Ephron photo]()
American writer and film producer
1944
![Jean-Gabriel Diarra photo]()
Malian catholic priest
1945–2019
![Robert Fisk photo]()
English writer and journalist
1946
![Muhammad Ilyas Qadri photo]()
Founder of Dawat-e-Islami
1950
![Timothy Garton Ash photo]()
British historian and author
1955
![Benny Tai photo]()
Hong Kong activist and writer
1964
![Kristi Yamaguchi photo]()
American figure skater
1971
![Michelle Rodriguez photo]()
American actress, screenwriter and DJ
1978
![Kanwer Singh photo]()
Canadian YouTube Star, Rapper, Author and Spoken-word Artist
1981
![Jack Conte photo]()
American musician and entrepreneur
1984
![Malala Yousafzai photo]()
Pakistani children's education activist
1997
Death
![Desiderius Erasmus photo]()
Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, and theologian
1466–1536
![Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, marquise de Lambert photo]()
writer from France
1647–1733
![Alexander Hamilton photo]()
Founding Father of the United States
1757–1804
![Horace Smith photo]()
English poet and novelist
1779–1849
![Maria Weston Chapman photo]()
American abolitionist
1806–1885
![Robert Henri photo]()
American painter
1865–1929
![Elsie De Wolfe photo]()
American interior decorationinterior decorator
1865–1950
![D.T. Suzuki photo]()
Japanese author and philosopher
1870–1966
![Tomáš Baťa photo]()
Czech businessman
1876–1932
![Sidney Hook photo]()
American philosopher
1902–1989
![Peter Newmark photo]()
English translation scholar
1916–2011
![Grady Louis McMurtry photo]()
United States Army officer
1918–1985
![Dada Vaswani photo]()
Spiritual leader
1918–2018
![Tuli Kupferberg photo]()
American anarchist, poet, publisher and musician.
1923–2010
![Paisios of Mount Athos photo]()
Greek Eastern Orthodox monk
1924–1994
![Douglas Huebler photo]()
American conceptual artist
1924–1997
![Fernando J. Corbató photo]()
American computer scientist
1926–2019
![John Chancellor photo]()
American journalist
1927–1996
![François Furet photo]()
French historian
1927–1997
![Mau Piailug photo]()
Micronesian navigator from the Carolinian island of Satawal…
1932–2010
![Tony Snow photo]()
American White House Press Secretary
1955–2008
![Dan Eldon photo]()
Kenyan photojournalist, artist and activist
1970–1993
