JULY 12 BIRTHDAYS

Lots of famous people seem to have been born on this day [via 440.com--Those Were the Days and Today in History]:

[Julius Caesar (100 B.C.)--Roman Emperor]
Josiah Wedgwood (1730)--English pottery maker
Henry David Thoreau (1817)--Transcendentalist American writer of Walden
George Eastman (1854)--American inventor of the Kodak camera
George Washington Carver (1865)--African-American inventor, especially related to peanuts
Amedeo Modigliani (1884)--Italian modernist painter
Kirsten Flagstad(1895)--Norwegian Wagnerian soprano
R. Buckminster Fuller (1895)--innovative American architect famous for Geodesic Domes
Oscar Hammerstein II (1895)--American lyricist, especially for Broadway musicals
Pablo Neruda (1904)--Chilean Nobel Prize winning poet
Milton Berle (1908)--American comedian and pioneer TV showman
"Curly" Joe DeRita (1909)--American comedian, replaced Curly Howard in The Three Stooges comedy team
Andrew Wyeth (1917)--American painter
Mark O. Hatfield (1922)--Former Governor of Oregon and U.S. Senator
Conte Candoli (1927)--jazz trumpet player, especially with Doc Severinsen's Band
Van Cliburn (1934)--world-renowned American pianist
Bill Cosby (1937)--American comedian, TV star, and humorous lecturer
Connie Francis (1938)--American pop singer
Christine McVie (1943)--British rock singer, especially with Fleetwood Mac
Richard Simmons (1948)--American fitness and weight loss teacher
Cheryl Ladd (1951)--American actress, especially known for her role in TV's Charlie's Angels
Kristi Yamaguchi (1971)--American Olympic (1992) Figure Skating Gold Medalist