Who was born on July 12?
– BC 100 – Gaius Julius Caesar (44 BC) – Ancient Roman statesman and politician, commander and writer.
– 1782 – Etienne Marc Quatrmer – (1857) – French orientalist.
– 1812 – Mirzo Fatali Akhundov (1878) – Azerbaijani writer, educator, philosopher.
– 1813 – Claude Bernard (1878) – French physiologist, founder of endocrinology.
– 1824 – Eugène Boudin (1898) – French marine painter, pioneer of impressionism.
– 1870 – Louis II (1949) – Prince of Monaco (1922-1949).
– 1878 – Abdulla Avloni (1934) – one of the famous representatives of Uzbek national culture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, an enlightened poet, playwright, journalist, scientist, statesman and public figure.
– 1886 – Abdurauf Fitrat (1938) – Uzbek historian, philologist, translator, writer, playwright and poet, one of the founders of the modern Uzbek language and literature, one of the prominent representatives of Central Asian Jadidism, the first Uzbek professor (1926).
– 1904 – Pablo Neruda (1973) – Chilean poet, Nobel Prize laureate (1971).
– 1913 – Willis Eugene Lamb (2008) – American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (1955).
– 1916 – Lyudmila Pavlichenko (1964) – The most successful female sniper in world history, Hero of the Soviet Union.
– 1928 – Elias Corey – American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (1990).
– 1946 – Valentina Tolkunova (201) – singer, People’s Artist of the RSFSR.
– 1959 – Tupou VI – King of Tonga (since 2012).
– 1970 – Lee Byung-hun – South Korean actor.
– 1973 – Christian Vieri – Italian football player, striker.
– 1978 – Michelle Rodriguez – American actress.
– 1985 – Emil Hegle Svendsen – Norwegian biathlete, 4-time Olympic champion, 12-time world champion.
– 1989 – Phoebe Tonkin – Australian actress and model.
– 1991 – James Rodriguez – Colombian footballer.
– 1997 – Malala Yousafzai – Pakistani human rights activist, Nobel Prize laureate (2014)
