July 12: Today's Notable Birthdays

With Whom Do You Share Your Birthday?

Is July 12th your birthday? Was someone special to you born on July 12th? With whom will you choose to celebrate this excellent occasion?

If today is your birthday, then you are in excellent company.

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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