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100 BC Gaius Julius Caesar (13 July 100 – 15 March 44 BC), Roman statesman, general, author, famous for the conquest of Gaul (modern France and Belgium) and his subsequent coup d’état. He changed the Roman republic into a monarchy and laid the foundations of a truly Mediterranean empire.
1394 Ashikaga Yoshinori (è¶³å© ç¾©æ, July 12, 1394 â July 12, 1441) was the sixth shÅgun of the Ashikaga shogunate who reigned from 1429 to 1441 during the Muromachi period of Japan. Yoshinori was the son of the third shÅgun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu.[1] His childhood name was Harutora (æ¥å¯
).
1807 Silas Casey (July 12, 1807 â January 22, 1882) was a career United States Army officer who rose to the rank of major general during the American Civil War.
1821 Daniel Harvey Hill (July 12, 1821 â September 24, 1889) was a Confederate general during the American Civil War and a Southern scholar. He is usually referred to as D. H. Hill, in part to distinguish him from unrelated Confederate general A. P. Hill, who served with him in the Army of Northern Virginia.
1847 Nakano Takeko (ä¸é 竹å, April 1847 â 16 October 1868) was a Japanese female warrior of the Aizu Domain, who fought and died during the Boshin War. During the Battle of Aizu, she fought with a naginata (a Japanese polearm) and was the leader of an ad hoc corps of female combatants who fought in the battle independently.
1916 Lyudmila Mikhailovna Pavlichenko, (12 July 1916 â 10 October 1974) was a Soviet sniper in the Red Army during World War II, who was credited with 309 confirmed kills, making her the most successful female sniper in recorded history.
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