After winning his first round match at the Monte Carlo Masters tournament, Gasquet's poor form continued as he lost his second round match to Sam Querrey ( U. S. A .) 6 – 2, 4 – 6, 3 – 6 and then both of his opening round matches at the ATP Masters Series events in Rome and Hamburg to Luis Horna ( Peru ) 4 – 6, 1 – 6 and to Andreas Seppi ( Italy ) 3 – 6, 2 – 6 respectively.

Gasquet defeated Olivier Rochus for the second time this year 6 – 0, 6 – 1, in the Serbian Open and survived against Andreas Seppi 4 – 6, 6 – 2, 7 – 5, in over two hours.

He competed in the 2012 Australian Open shortly afterwards, seeing off Italian Andreas Seppi 6 – 3, 3 – 6, 6 – 3, 6 – 1 in the first round.

Wawrinka went on to play in the Davis Cup tie with Italy and won in his first match against Andreas Seppi 6 – 4, 6 – 1, 6 – 2.

The week after Wimbledon, he beat Italian Andreas Seppi 6 – 7, 6 – 3, 7 – 5 in a difficult final to claim his fourth ATP Tour title in Gstaad, Switzerland.

* Andreas Seppi, a tennis player.

The team paired up to beat teammates Seppi Hutter and Tom McAvoy in the doubles final.

* Josef Stanglmeier ( 1918 – 1999 ): builder and politician

* 1717 – Blind Jack, English road builder ( d. 1810 )

* 1796 – James Lick, American carpenter and piano builder ( d. 1876 )

* 1816 – Thomas Hazlehurst, English chapel builder ( d. 1876 )

* 1969 – Jesse James, American motorcycle builder

* 1856 – William Willett, English builder and daylight saving time advocate ( d. 1915 )

Bernard of Clairvaux, O. Cist ( 1090 – August 20, 1153 ) was a French abbot and the primary builder of the reforming Cistercian order.

On 9 November 1555 Cardinal Ippolito II d ' Este ( famed as the builder of the Villa d ' Este at Tivoli ), wrote to Guglielmo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua ( 1538 – 1587 ), that he has heard that His Grace is interested in his cantoretti, and offering to send him two, so that he could choose one for his own service.

* 1805 – Adolf Reubke, German organ builder ( d. 1875 )

* 1957 – Stephen Bicknell, British organ builder ( d. 2007 )

* 1792 – Johann Andreas Stein, German piano builder ( b. 1728 )

* 1648 – Arp Schnitger, German organ builder ( d. 1719 )

* 1709 – Dom Bédos de Celles, Benedictine monk best known for being a master pipe organ builder ( d. 1779 )

* 1876 – Thomas Hazlehurst, English chapel builder ( b. 1816 )

* 1762 – Timothy Hinman, American road builder, built the Hinman Settler Road

* John Brown ( builder ) ( 1809 – 1876 ), prolific Canadian builder best remembered for building Ontario's Imperial Towers

* 2012 – Bill Jenkins, American engine builder and drag racer ( b. 1930 )

* 1836 – John MacAdam, British road builder ( b. 1756 )

* 2006 – Stephen Heywood, American builder ( b. 1969 )

* 1679 – Christian Vater, German organ and harpsichord builder ( d. 1756 )

* 1756 – John Loudon McAdam, Scottish engineer and road builder ( d. 1836 )

* 1969 – Mark Smith, English body builder and actor

* September 24 – Gerald Warner Brace, American writer, educator, sailor and boat builder ( died 1978 )

* June 6 – Louis Chevrolet, Swiss-born automobile builder and race car driver ( b. 1878 )

Aldous Leonard Huxley ( 26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963 ) was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family.

** Atlas Major, a Standard Motor Company van 1962 – 1963

* 1963 – Rafael Correa, Ecuadorian politician, President of Ecuador

* 1963 – The Soviet nuclear powered submarine K-33 collides with the Finnish merchant vessel M / S Finnclipper in the Danish straits.

* 1963 – Lydia Cacho Ribeiro, Mexican journalist

* 1963 – The Bristol Bus Boycott is held in Bristol to protest the Bristol Omnibus Company's refusal to employ Black or Asian bus crews, drawing national attention to racial discrimination in the United Kingdom.

* 1963 – Michael Waltrip, American race car driver

* 1963 – Stefan Kisyov, Bulgarian novelist

* 1877 – Ernst Wetter, Swiss politician ( d. 1963 )

* 1898 – Gaspard Fauteux, Canadian politician, 19th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec ( d. 1963 )

* 1895 – Ernesto Lecuona, Cuban pianist and composer ( d. 1963 )

* 1963 – Charles Ingram, English game show contestant and author

* 1963 – Kevin Mitnick, American computer hacker and author

* 1914 – Ferenc Fricsay, Hungarian-Austrian conductor ( d. 1963 )

* 1963 – Whitney Houston, American singer-songwriter, actress, and producer ( d. 2012 )

* 1963 – Sridevi, Indian actress

* 1905 – Karl Amadeus Hartmann, German composer ( d. 1963 )

* 1963 – Laura Bennett, American fashion designer

* 1963 – Daniel Pelosi, American convicted murderer

* 1998 – Rozz Williams, American musician ( Christian Death, Shadow Project, and Premature Ejaculation ) ( b. 1963 )

After 1890 came philosopher Josiah Royce ( 1855 – 1916 ), botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey ( 1858 – 1954 ), the Southern Agrarians of the 1920s and 1930s, novelist John Steinbeck ( 1902 – 1968 ), historian A. Whitney Griswold ( 1906 – 1963 ), environmentalist Aldo Leopold ( 1887 – 1948 ), Ralph Borsodi ( 1886 – 1977 ), and present-day authors Wendell Berry ( b. 1934 ), Gene Logsdon ( b. 1932 ), Paul Thompson, and Allan C. Carlson ( b. 1949 ).