Here are the /film/ birthdays for August 12th:

Happy birthday Cecil B. DeMille (b. 1881)
Happy birthday Pauline Frederick (b. 1883)
Happy birthday Jane Wyatt (b. 1910)
Happy birthday Cantinflas (b. 1911)
Happy birthday Samuel Fuller (b. 1912)
Happy birthday Richard L. Bare (b. 1913)
Happy birthday Marjorie Reynolds (b. 1917)
Happy birthday John Derek (b. 1926)
Happy birthday John Cazale (b. 1935)
Happy birthday George Hamilton (b. 1939)
Happy birthday Deborah Walley (b. 1941)
Happy birthday Chen Kaige (b. 1952)
Happy birthday Dominique Swain (b. 1980)

And here are the /film/ obituaries for August 12th:

Rest in peace Henry Fonda (d. 1982, heart disease)
Rest in peace Dorothy Mackaill (d. 1990, liver failure)
Rest in peace Loretta Young (d. 2000, ovarian cancer)
Rest in peace Lauren Bacall (d. 2014, stroke)