JULY 12/TAMMUZ 6
1884:
Birthday of Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor, considered one of the great masters of early modern art.
1884:
Birthday of Louis B. Mayer (Lazar Meir), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movie studio co-founder. He believed in wholesome entertainment and went to great lengths so that MGM had "more stars than there are in the heavens," and in the process, he built MGM into the most financially successful motion picture studio in the world.