August 12
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
August 12 is the 224th day of the year (225th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 141 days remaining until the end of the year.
Contents |
Births [change]
- 1503 – King Christian III of Denmark and Norway (died 1559)
- 1566 – Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain (died 1633)
- 1604 – Tokugawa Iemitsu, 3rd Tokugawa shogun (died 1651)
- 1629 – Tsar Alexei I of Russia (died 1676)
- 1643 – King Afonso IV of Portugal (died 1683)
- 1644 – Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Bohemian composer (died 1704)
- 1762 – King George IV of the United Kingdom (died 1830)
- 1774 – Robert Southey, English poet and biographer (died 1843)
- 1781 – Robert Mills, American architect (died 1855)
- 1816 – Ion Ghica, Romanian mathematician and politician (died 1897)
- 1831 – Helena Blavatsky, Russian author (died 1891)
- 1859 – Katharine Lee Bates, American poet (died 1929)
- 1860 – Klara Hitler, mother of Adolf Hitler (died 1907)
- 1866 – Jacinto Benavente, Spanish writer (died 1954)
- 1867 – Edith Hamilton, German-American writer, teacher and classicist (died 1963)
- 1872 – Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein (died 1956)
- 1876 – Mary Roberts Rinehart, American author (died 1958)
- 1880 – Christy Mathewson, American Baseball Hall of Famer (died 1925)
- 1880 – Radclyffe Hall, British author (died 1943)
- 1881 – Cecil B. DeMille, American director (died 1959)
- 1883 – Pauline Frederick, stage and movie actress (died 1938)
- 1887 – Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist (died 1961)
- 1892 – Alfred Lunt, actor (died 1977)
- 1902 – Mohammad Hatta, Vice President of Indonesia (died 1980)
- 1902 – Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria, Egyptian Coptic Church leader (died 1971)
- 1904 – Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich of Russia, heir to the throne of Russia (died 1918)
- 1906 – Pauline Frederick, journalist (died 1990)
- 1906 – Tedd Pierce, animator (died 1972)
- 1907 – Joe Besser, actor, comedian; member of the Three Stooges (died 1988)
- 1910 – Yusof bin Ishak, first President of Singapore (died 1970)
- 1910 – Gustav Lantschner, Austrian skier (died 2011)
- 1910 – Heinrich Sutermeister, Swiss composer (died 1995)
- 1911 – Cantinflas (Mario Moreno Reyes), actor (died 1993)
- 1912 – Feroze Gandhi, Indian politician and journalist (died 1960)
- 1914 – Gerd Buchdahl, German philosopher (died 2001)
- 1919 – Vikram Sarabhai, Indian physicist (died 1971)
- 1924 – Muhammad Zia ul-Haq, Leader of Pakistan (died 1988)
- 1925 – Norris McWhirter, co-founder of the Guinness Book of World Records (died 2004)
- 1925 – Ross McWhirter, co-founder of the Guinness Book of World Records (died 1975)
- 1925 – Thor Vilhjalmsson, Icelandic writer (died 2011)
- 1926 – John Derek, actor (died 1998)
- 1928 – Bob Buhl, American Major League Baseball player (died 2001)
- 1928 – Porter Wagoner, American country and western singer (died 2007)
- 1929 – Buck Owens, American country and western singer (died 2006)
- 1930 – George Soros, American businessman
- 1930 – Jacques Tits, Belgian mathematician
- 1931 – William Goldman, screenwriter
- 1932 – Sirikit, Queen consort of Thailand
- 1935 – Jan Popluhar, Slovakian footballer (died 2011)
- 1935 – John Cazale, American actor (died 1978)
- 1936 – Andre Kolingba, President of the Central African Republic (died 2010)
- 1939 – George Hamilton, actor
- 1942 – Martin Seligman, American psychologist
- 1947 – Stefano Benni, Italian writer and journalist
- 1949 – Mark Knopfler, British musician
- 1949 – Fernando Collor de Mello, former President of Brazil
- 1954 – Francois Hollande, President of France
- 1954 – Pat Metheny, guitarist
- 1960 – Laurent Fignon, French cyclist (died 2010)
- 1971 – Rebecca Gayheart, American actress
- 1971 – Pete Sampras, American tennis player
- 1972 – Takanohana Kōji, Japanese sumo wrestler (65th Yokozuna)
- 1972 – Mark Kinsella, Irish footballer
- 1973 – Mark Iuliano, Italian footballer
- 1973 – Richard Reid, alleged Al-Qaida operative; "the shoe bomber"
- 1973 – Muqtada al-Sadr, Iraqi theologian and political leader
- 1975 – Casey Affleck, American actor
- 1977 – Jesper Gronkjaer, Danish footballer
- 1979 – Austra Skujyte, Lithuanian athlete
- 1981 – Djibril Cisse, French footballer
- 1982 – Alexandros Tzorvas, Greek footballer
- 1983 – Klaas-Jan Huntelaar, Dutch footballer
- 1988 – Leah Pipes, American actress
- 1989 – Tom Cleverley, English footballer
- 1990 – Mario Balotelli, Italian footballer
Deaths [change]
- 875 – Louis II of Italy, Holy Roman Emperor
- 1424 – Yongle Emperor of China (born 1360)
- 1484 – George of Trebizond, Greek philosopher (born 1395)
- 1512 – Alessandro Achillini, Italian philosopher (born 1463)
- 1633 – Jacopo Peri, Italian composer (born 1561)
- 1648 – Ibrahim I, Ottoman Sultan (born 1615)
- 1674 – Philippie de Champaigne, French painter (born 1602)
- 1689 – Pope Innocent XI (born 1611)
- 1809 – Mikhail Kamensky, Russian field marshal (born 1738)
- 1827 – William Blake, English poet (born 1757)
- 1848 – George Stephenson, English engineer (born 1781)
- 1849 – Albert Gallatin, American politician (born 1761)
- 1900 – Wilhelm Steinitz, German chess player (born 1836)
- 1901 – Adolf Erik Nordenskiold, Swedish polar explorer (born 1832)
- 1901 – Francesco Crispi, Italian politician (born 1819)
- 1914 – John Philip Holland, early submarine designer (born 1840)
- 1918 – Anna Held, actress and singer (born 1872)
- 1923 – Vatrslav Jagić, Croatian philologist (born 1838)
- 1928 – Leos Janacek, Czech composer (born 1854)
- 1935 – Friedrich Schottky, German mathematician (born 1851)
- 1941 – Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon, Governor-General of Canada and Viceroy of India (born 1866)
- 1943 – Bobby Peel, Yorkshire cricketer (born 1857).
- 1948 – Harry Brearley, inventor of stainless steel (born 1871)
- 1955 – Thomas Mann, German writer (born 1875)
- 1955 – James B. Sumner, American chemist (born 1887)
- 1964 – Ian Fleming, British novelist (born 1908)
- 1973 – Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist (born 1881)
- 1973 – Karl Ziegler, German chemist (born 1898)
- 1979 – Ernst Boris Chain, German biochemist, won the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, (b. 1906)
- 1982 – Henry Fonda, American actor (born 1905)
- 1982 – Salvador Sanchez, world champion boxer (born 1959)
- 1985 – Manfred Winkelhock, auto racing driver (born 1951)
- 1985 – Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer (born 1941)
- 1989 – William Shockley, physicist (born 1910)
- 1992 – John Cage, American composer (born 1912)
- 1997 – Luther Allison, American blues musician, guitarist (born 1939)
- 2000 – Loretta Young, American actress (born 1913)
- 2004 – Godfrey Hounsfield, English engineer and inventor (born 1919)
- 2007 – Merv Griffin, American television host and game show creator (born 1925)
- 2007 – Mike Wieringo, American comic book artist (born 1963)
- 2010 – Guido de Marco, President of Malta (born 1931)
Events [change]
- 1099 – First Crusade: Battle of Ascalon - Crusaders defeat Saracens and the Kingdom of Jerusalem is established under Godfrey of Bouillon.
- 1121 – Battle of Didgori: The Georgian army under David IV of Georgia wins a decisive victory over the famous Seljuk commander Ilghazi.
- 1323 – Treaty of Nöteborg - Sweden and Novgorod (Russia) regulates the border for the first time
- 1332 – Battle of Dupplin Moor - Scots under the Earl of Mar are routed by Edward Balliol.
- 1480 – Battle of Otranto: Ottoman troops behead 800 Christians for refusing to convert to Islam.
- 1499 – Battle of Zonchio: between Venetian and Ottoman fleets.
- 1596 – The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is created.
- 1676 – King Philip's War ends.
- 1831 – French intervention forces William I of the Netherlands to abandon his attempt to crush the Belgian Revolution.
- 1833 – Chicago, Illinois is incorporated as a city.
- 1851 – Isaac Singer is granted a patent for his sewing machine.
- 1854 – Count Gaston de Raousset Boulbon is executed by shooting, in regard to the Battle of Guaymas.
- 1877 – Asaph Hall discovers Deimos, a moon of Mars.
- 1883 – The last quagga dies at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam
- 1898 – Armistice ends the Spanish-American War
- 1898 – The Hawaiian flag is lowered from Iolani Palace in an elaborate annexation ceremony and replaced with the American flag to signify the transfer of sovereignty from the Republic of Hawaii to the United States.
- 1908 – First Model T Ford built
- 1914 – World War I - Britain declares war on Austria-Hungary; British Empire countries automatically included.
- 1914 – Beginning of the Battle of Cer between Austria-Hungary and Serbia.
- 1928 – The 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam end.
- 1944 – SS officers murder almost all residents of the Italian village of Sant'Anna di Stazzema, killing 560 people; 116 of them children.
- 1952 – 13 Jewish intellectuals are murdered in one night in Moscow.
- 1953 – Nuclear testing: The Soviet Union detonates its first hydrogen bomb.
- 1960 – Echo I, the first communications satellite, is launched.
- 1964 – South Africa is banned from the Olympics, because of its Apartheid policy. It is reinstated in the 1990s, after Nelson Mandela was released.
- 1976 – Between 1,000 and 3,500 Palestinians are killed in the Tel al-Zataar massacre.
- 1981 – The IBM PC, an early personal computer, is introduced
- 1985 – Japan Airlines flight 123 Boeing 747 jumbo jet crashes into Mount Ogura, Japan killing 520, in the world's worst single-plane air disaster
- 1992 – Canada, Mexico and the United States announce completion of negotiations for the NAFTA.
- 1994 – The Woodstock '94 rock concert takes place.
- 1994 – Major League Baseball players go on strike. The work stoppage forces the cancellation of the World Series.
- 2000 – Russian submarine K-141 Kursk sinks in the Barents Sea.
- 2000 – Ronald Venetiaan becomes President of Suriname.
- 2004 – Lee Hsien Loong is sworn in as Singapore's 3rd Prime Minister.
- 2004 – Sweden announces that it has reached a population of 9 million.
- 2005 – The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter space probe, of NASA, is sent to the planet Mars.
- 2010 – Desi Bouterse becomes President of Suriname.
- 2012 – The 2012 Summer Olympics in London end. The Great Britain team, hosting the event, finishes with 29 gold medals, coming only behind the United States and China, who won more golds.
Astronomical events [change]
- The Annual Perseid Meteor Shower occurs around this date.
- Mother's Day (Thailand)
