Historic Birthdays George Washington Carver ?/1864 - 1/5/1943 African-American scientist whose discoveries helped to improve agriculture in the South. Julius Caesar 7/12/c100 BC - 3/15/44BC Roman imperial general and statesman Henry David Thoreau 7/12/1817 - 5/6/1862 American essayist, poet and philosopher Eugene Boudin 7/12/1824 - 8/8/1898 French landscape painter Benjamin Altman 7/12/1840 - 10/7/1913 American merchant; founded B. Altman department store chain George Eastman 7/12/1854 - 3/14/1932 American manufacturer; founded Eastman Kodak Company Frederick Birkenhead 7/12/1872 - 9/30/1930 English lord chancellor (1919-22) Amedeo Modigliani 7/12/1884 - 1/24/1920 Italian painter and sculptor Kirsten Flagstad 7/12/1895 - 12/7/1962 Norwegian soprano Buckminster Fuller 7/12/1895 - 7/1/1983 American engineer and architect Oscar Hammerstein ll 7/12/1895 - 8/23/1960 American lyricist and producer of musical theater Pablo Neruda 7/12/1904 - 9/23/1973 Chilean Nobel Prize-winning poet (1971) and politician
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