On this day: 12 July
Events, births and deaths on 12 July. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
Nothing recorded for that year.
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Goran Hadžić
100 years ago1926
- Deaths · Gertrude Bell
- Births · Siti Hasmah Mohamad Ali
- Deaths · Charles Wood
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1067 · Deaths · John Komnenos
- 965 · Deaths · Meng Chang
Events · 25
- 1576(Julian date)Battle of Raj Mahal — battle that took place between the Mughal Empire and the Karrani Dynasty that ruled the Sultanate of Bengal in the 16th century
- 1776third voyage of James Cook — Royal Navy exploration voyage to the North Pacific from 1776 to 1780
- 1790Civil Constitution of the Clergy — French revolutionary law, making the Catholic Church in France subordinate to the government, Not in Union with the Holy See
- 1801Second Battle of Algeciras — 1801 naval battle during the War of the Second Coalition
- 1806
- 1862Medal of Honor — highest award for valor by an individual serving in the Armed Forces of the United States
- 1913Siege of Vidin — 1913 siege
- 1917Manchu Restoration — attempt to restore the monarchy in China by Zhang Xun
- 1917Bisbee Deportation — strike-breaking event in Arizona
- 1920Soviet–Lithuanian Peace Treaty — signed between Lithuania and Soviet Russia on 12 July 1920
- 1943Battle of Prokhorovka — 1943 battle during World War II
- 1961ČSA Flight 511 — 1961 aviation accident
- 19671967 Newark riots — one of the many race riots that swept cities in the U.S. during the "Long Hot Summer of 1967"
- 1971Australian Aboriginal flag — flag representing Aboriginal Australians
- 1975São Tomé and Príncipe — island sovereign state in Africa
- 1979Kiribati — island sovereign state in the central Pacific Ocean
- 1979Disco Demolition Night — baseball promotion
- 19981998 FIFA World Cup Final — championship match of the 1998 FIFA World Cup
- 20062006 Lebanon War — armed conflict primarily between Israel and Hezbollah
- 20062006 Hezbollah cross-border raid — attack on Israeli troops at the Israel–Lebanon border
- 2007July 12, 2007 Baghdad airstrike — series of air-to-ground attacks by a team of two Apache helicopters in Al-Amin al-Thaniyah
- 2012Battle of Tremseh — 2012 battle
- 2013Brétigny-sur-Orge train crash — 203 public transit disaster in Paris, France
- 2024Gazpromavia Flight 9608 — 2024 aviation accident in Russia
- 20262026 Bangkok pub fire — fire in Bangkok, Thailand
Births · 60
- 1651Margaret Theresa of Spain — Holy Roman empress (1651-1673)
- 1730Josiah Wedgwood — English potter and founder of the Wedgwood company (1730–1795)
- 1813Claude Bernard — French physiologist (1813-1878)
- 1817Henry David Thoreau — American essayist, poet, and philosopher (1817–1862)
- 1824Eugène Louis Boudin — French painter (1824-1898)
- 1849
- 1852Hipólito Yrigoyen — president of Argentina (1852-1937)
- 1854George Eastman — American entrepreneur, inventor and photographer (1854–1932)
- 1856Archduchess Gisela of Austria — Austrian Imperial and Royal
- 1861(Julian date)Anton Arensky — Russian composer, pianist and professor of music
- 1868Stefan George — German poet, editor, and translator (1868–1933)
- 1870Louis II, Prince of Monaco — prince of Monaco (1870-1949)
- 1872Emil Hácha — Czech politician, political prisoner, lawyer, translator and judge (1872-1945)
- 1876Max Jacob — French poet, painter, writer and critic (1876-1944)
- 1880Tod Browning — American film actor and director (1880–1962)
- 1884Amedeo Modigliani — Italian painter and sculptor (1884–1920)
- 1892Bruno Schulz — Jewish novelist and painter (1892-1942)
- 1895
- 1904Pablo Neruda — Chilean poet and politician (1904-1973)
- 1908Milton Berle — American comedian and actor (1908–2002)
- 1913Willis Lamb — American physicist (1913–2008)
- 1916Lyudmila Pavlichenko — Soviet sniper (1916–1974)
- 1917Andrew Wyeth — American visual artist (1917–2009)
- 1926Siti Hasmah Mohamad Ali — spouse of the Prime Minister of Malaysia (1981–2003, 2018–2020)
- 1928Elias James Corey — American chemist
Deaths · 60
- 783(Julian date)Bertrada of Laon — Frankish queen
- 1067John Komnenos — Byzantine aristocrat and military leader, brother of Isaac I Komnenos
- 1441(Julian date)Ashikaga Yoshinori — The sixth shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate of Japan (1394–1441)
- 1489(Julian date)Bahlul Khan Lodi — 29th Sultan of the Delhi Sultanate and 1st from the Lodi dynasty
- 1536(Julian date)Erasmus — Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, and theologian (1466-1536)
- 1682Jean Picard — French astronomer
- 1712Richard Cromwell — English politician and Lord Protector (1626–1712)
- 1742Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco — Italian composer and violinist
- 1751Tokugawa Yoshimune — The eighth shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan (1684-1751)
- 1773Johann Joachim Quantz — German flutist, flute maker and composer (1697-1773)
- 1804Alexander Hamilton — American Founding Father and statesman (1755/1757–1804)
- 1814William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe — British General in the American War of Independence (1729-1814)
- 1845Henrik Wergeland — Norwegian writer (1808–1845)
- 1850Robert Stevenson — civil engineer and lighthouse designer (1772-1850)
- 1855Pavel Nakhimov — Russian fleet commander
- 1892Alexander Cartwright — early developer of baseball (1820–1892)
- 1908William D. Coleman — Liberian politician (1842-1908)
- 1910Charles Rolls — motoring and aviation pioneer, co-founder of Rolls-Royce
- 1926Gertrude Bell — British traveller, writer, mountaineer, politician, archaeologist and spy (1868–1926)
- 1929Robert Henri — American painter (1865-1929)
- 1931Nathan Söderblom — Swedish clergyman and archbishop (1866–1931)
- 1935Alfred Dreyfus — French artillery officer (1859–1935)
- 1944Theodore Roosevelt Jr. — US Army Medal of Honor recipient (1886–1944)
- 1945Wolfram von Richthofen — German military officer and aviator (1895–1945)
- 1945Boris Galerkin — Russian mathematician (1871–1945)
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