July 12: Today's Notable Birthdays

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July 12th was the birth date of several notable individuals. Here they are:

July 12th Birthdays: Famous Artists

Eugene Boudin, French landscape and marine painter (Bathers on the Beach at Trouville, Beach Scene, On the Beach of Deauville, Rivage de Portrieux and Trouville), was born on July 12, 1824.

R. Buckminster (Bucky) Fuller, American designer and architect and inventor of the geodesic dome (Spaceship Earth), was born on July 12, 1895.

Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein, II, lyricist (Allegro, Carmen Jones, Carousel, Cinderella, Flower Drum Song, A Grand Night for Singing, Green Grow the Lilacs, The King and I, Me and Juliet, Oklahoma, Pipe Dream, Show Boat, The Sound of Music, South Pacific and State Fair), was born on July 12, 1895.

Amedeo Clemente Modigliani, Italian painter (Boy with Blue Waistcoat, Gipsy Woman with Baby, Jeanne Hébuterne in Red Shawl, The Little Peasant, Madame Pompadour, Marie: A Girl of the People, Portrait of Juan Gris, Red Nude, Reclining Nude and Seated Nude) and sculptor (Head, Head of a Woman, Kariatide, Rose Caryatid and Standing Nude), was born on July 12, 1884.

Andrew Newell Wyeth, American painter (The Carry, Christina's World, Church at the Port, Late Fall, The Lobsterman, Long Limb and South Cushing), was born on July 12, 1917.

July 12th Birthdays: Famous Athletes

Otis Crandell Davis, American relay runner and Olympic gold medalist (1960), was born on July 12, 1932.

Bruny Surin, Haitian- Canadian sprinter and Olympic gold medalist (1996), was born on July 12, 1967.

Kristine (Kristi) Tsuya Yamaguchi- Hedicann American figure skater and Olympic gold medalist (1992, was born on July 12, 1971.

July 12th Birthdays: Famous Authors and Journalists

Canadian author and journalist Pierre Francis De Marigny Berton (The Arctic Grail, Attack on Montreal, The Battle of Lake Erie, Farewell to the Twentieth Century, Flames Across the Border, The Great Depression, The Invasion of Canada, Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush, The Last Spike, Marching as to War, The National Dream, The Secret World of Og, The Smug Minority and Vimy and Welcome to the 21^st Century) was born on July 12, 1920.

American author Doris Grumbach (The Book of Knowledge, Chamber Music, Coming into the End Zone, Extra Innings, Fifty Days of Solitude, Life in a Day, The Magician's Girl, The Missing Person and The Spoil of the Flowers), was born on July 12, 1918.

American science fiction writer James E. Gunn (Immortal and Station in Space) was born on July 12, 1922.

Pablo Neruda , Chilean poet (Canto General, Crepusculario, Elemental Odes, Extravagaria, Nuevas Odas Elementales, Residence on Earth and Other Poems, Toward the Splendid City and Twenty Love Poems and One Song of Despair), Communist leader and Nobel Prize winner winner (1971), was born on July 12, 1904.

American artist and author Lucy Fitch Perkins (The Belgian Twins, The Dutch Twins, The Eskimo Twins, The Irish Twins and The Mexican Twins) was born on July 12, 1865.

Henry David Thoreau, American Transcendentalist philosopher and author (Cape Cod, Excursions, The Maine Woods, Walden, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers and A Yankee in Canada), was born on July 12, 1817.

July 12th Birthdays: Famous Business Leaders

Benjamin Altman, American merchant, philanthropist and founder of B. Altman Department Stores, was born on July 12, 1840.

George Eastman, American inventor, entrepreneur (Eastman Kodak Company) and philanthropist, was born on July 12, 1854.

Milton Teagle (Richard) Simmons, American weight loss guru, was born on July 12, 1948.

British pottery designer and manufacturer Josiah Wedgewood was born on July 12, 1730.

July 12th Birthdays: Famous Performers

Mendel (Milton Berle) Berlinger, American comedian ("Mr. Television" and "Uncle Miltie") was born on July 12, 1908.

Lisa Nicole Carson, American actress (Ally McBeal), was born on July 12, 1969.

American classical pianist Harvey Lavan (Van) Cliburn, Jr., was born on July 12, 1934.

William (Bill) Henry Cosby, Jr., American comedian and actor (The Bill Cosby Show, The Cosby Show, The Electric Company, Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, I Spy and Kids Say the Darndest Things), was born on July 12, 1937.

"Curly" Joe DeRita, American actor and comedian (The Three Stooges), was born on July 12, 1909.

Christopher (Topher) John Grace, American actor (In Good Company, King of the Hill, Mona Lisa Smith, Pinocchio, The Simpsons, Spider Man 3, Stella, That 70s Show and Traffic), was born on July 12, 1978.

American actress Mel Harris (The Burden of Proof, Cross of Fire, Something So Right, Stargate SG-1 and Thirtysomething) was born on July 12, 1957.

Christine McVie, American rock singer (Fleetwood Mac), was born on July 12, 1943.

Donna Denise Nicholas American actress (Baby I'm Back, Ghost Dad, In the Heat of the Night, Let's Do It Again, A Piece of the Action and Room 222) and activist, was born on July 12, 1944.

American Christian contemporary singer Sandi Patty ("Another Time Another Place," "I;ve Just Seen Jesus," "Love in Any Language," "Via Dolorosa" and "We Shall Behold Him") was born on July 12, 1956.

James Patrick (Jamey) Sheridan, American actor (All I Want for Christmas, Chicago Hope, The Cradle Will Rock, Hamlet, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, Let the Devil Wear Black, Shannon's Deal, The Stand and Wild America), was born on July 12, 1951.

Erik Per Sullivan American actor (Malcolm in the Middle) was born on July 12, 1991.

American disc jockey and actor Jay Thomas (Cheers, Dragonfly, Ink, Love and War, Married People, Mork and Mindy, Mr. Holland's Opus, Murphy Brown and The Santa Clause 2 and 3) was born on July 12, 1948.

July 12th Birthdays: Famous Scientists

George Washington Carver, African-American botanist and legendary inventor of peanut butter, was born on July 12, 1861.

Heinz Christian Heinrich Pander, Russian zoologist and embryologist, was born on July 12, 1794.

Harold William Woolhouse, Australian botanist, was born on July 12, 1932.

July 12th Birthdays: Famous World (and Other) Leaders

Gaius Julius Caesar, Roman emperor, was born on July 12, 100 BC.

Happy Birthday, July 12th.

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