12th July - A Day in the life of India

Learn about the importance of 12th July in the history of India. Major historical events, Famous Birthdays and death anniversaries on this day.

12th July in the history of India

• 1961 – Indian city Pune floods due to the failure of the Khadakwasla and Panshet dams, killing at least two thousand people.

Famous Birthdays on July 12

• 1965 – Sanjay Manjrekar, Indian cricketer and sportscaster
  
  
• 1961 – Shiva Rajkumar, Indian actor, singer, and producer
  
  
• 1920 - Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud was the 16th Chief Justice of India, serving from 22 February 1978 to the day he retired on 11 July 1985. Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud presided over the Supreme Court of India for a record 7 years and 5 months as CJI. 37 years later, his son Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud will assume office.
  
  
• 1917 – Satyendra Narayan Sinha was an Indian statesman, a participant in the Indian independence movement, a leading light of Jaya Prakash Narayan’s ‘complete revolution’ movement during the Emergency and a former Chief Minister of Bihar.

Death Anniversaries on July 12

• 2020 - Divvya Chouksey, Indian actor, model and singer.
  
  
• 2018 - Dada J. P. Vaswani, Indian spiritual leader (b. 1918)
  
  
• 2012 - Dara Singh Randhawa was an Indian professional wrestler, actor and politician. He started acting in 1952 and was the first sportsman to be nominated to the Rajya Sabha of India. He worked as a Hindi and Punjabi film producer, director and writer, and he acted in films and television.