12th July – What Happened Today In History? | On This Day

Today In History?

Find out what happened on the 12th of July in History. There are a lot many happenings which had taken place on this date in the pages of Indian History, here we have listed some of the very important events occur 12th july

 
Sulakshana Pratap Narain Pandit is a Filmfare Award winning playback singer & actor. Her brothers are the composing duo Jatin Lalit and her younger sister is Vijeta Pandit who achieved fame with her debut movie Love Story.
Shivaraj Kumar (born Putta Swamy) is a Kannada film actor. He is the son of Kannada thespian Dr. Rajkumar. After graduating in B.Sc. (Chemistry), Shivaraj Kumar made his debut screen appearance in Singeetham Srinivas Rao’s Anand.
Parvin Dabas (born 12 July 1974), also known as Parvin Dabbas, is an Indian actor and model. Parvin Dabas studied in Modern School Vasant Vihar, New Delhi and then in Hans Raj College, Delhi University. Dabas made his film debut in the 1999 film Dillagi but Monsoon Wedding launched him and has since appeared in over 10 Bollywood films.
Jaishankar (12 July 1938—3 June 2000) was an actor in Tamil cinema. He is sometimes referred to as the Thennagathu James Bond (South Indian James Bond) because of his dashing roles in films such as Vallavan Oruvan and CID Shankar. Jaishankar was called Subramaniam Shankar at birth, on 12 July 1938.
Bimal Roy (12 July 1909–8 January 1966) was one of the most acclaimed Indian film directors of all time. He is particularly noted for his realistic and socialistic films like Do Bigha Zamin, Parineeta, Biraj Bahu, Madhumati, Sujata, and Bandini, making him an important director of Hindi cinema.
 

Death Anniversaries on 12th July

 
Pran (born Pran Krishan Sikand on 12 February 1920) is a multiple Filmfare and BFJA award-winning Indian actor, who is one of the most popular villains of Hindi cinema. He has appeared in over 350 films. Pran played the leading man in films like Pilpili Saheb, Halaku (1956), Dharma (1973), Jangal Mein Mangal (1972), Gaddar and Ek Kunwari Ek Kunwara (1973).
Dara Singh Randhawa (19 November 1928 – 12 July 2012) was an Indian wrestler-turned-actor from Indian Punjab. He started acting in 1952 and was the first sportsman to be nominated to the Rajya Sabha by Bhartiya Janata Party during August 2003 – August 2009.
Saiyid Nurul Hasan was a historian of medieval India, a prolific author, a statesman in the Government of India, and governor of Bengal and Governor of Orissa. Hasan was born in Lucknow, India. He belonged to a prominent landowning (madad-i ma’ash) family of the United Provinces.
Nigel Richard Patton Dempster (1 November 1941 in Calcutta, India – 12 July 2007 in Ham, Surrey) was a British journalist, author, broadcaster and diarist. Best known for his celebrity gossip columns in newspapers, his work appeared in the Daily Express and Daily Mail and also in Private Eye magazine.
James Michael Bernard (20 September 1925 – 12 July 2001) was a British film composer. He was a pupil at Wellington College which had previously been attended by the future actor, Christopher Lee, who starred in many of Hammer’s horror films, for which he wrote the score.
 

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