January 12
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January 12 is the 12th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 353 days remaining until the end of the year (354 in leap years).
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Births [change]
- 1480 - Henry III of Nassau-Breda, German nobleman (d. 1538)
- 1562 – Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy (d. 1630)
- 1576 - Petrus Scriverius, Dutch writer (d. 1660)
- 1580 – Jan Baptist von Helmont, Flemish scientist (d. 1644)
- 1588 - John Winthrop, English-born politician (d. 1649)
- 1628 - Claude Perrault, French folklorist (d. 1703)
- 1723 - Samuel Langdon, American college educator (d. 1797)
- 1729 - Edmund Burke, Irish statesman and philosopher (d. 1797)
- 1737 – John Hancock, American merchant and statesman (d. 1793)
- 1746 – Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Swiss educator (d. 1827)
- 1751 – Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies (d. 1825)
- 1772 - Mikhail Speransky, Russian statesman, liberal reformer and professor of Mathematics (d. 1839)
- 1808 - Wilhelm Philippe Schimper, Alsatian botanist and geologist (d. 1880)
- 1810 – Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies (d. 1859)
- 1849 - Murphy J. Foster, Governor of Louisiana (d. 1921)
- 1856 – John Singer Sargent, American painter (d. 1925)
- 1863 – Swami Vivekananda, Indian philosopher (d. 1902)
- 1873 – Spiridon Louis, Greek athlete (d. 1940)
- 1874 - James Juvenal, American rower (d. 1942)
- 1876 - Fevzi Cakmak, Turkish field marshal and Prime Minister (d. 1950)
- 1876 – Jack London, American writer (d. 1916)
- 1877 - Frank J. Corr, American politician (d. 1934)
- 1878 - Ferenc Molnar, Hungarian writer and journalist (d. 1952)
- 1879 - Anton Uesson, Estonian politician and engineer (d. 1942)
- 1882 - Milton Sills, American actor (d. 1930)
- 1884 - Texas Guinan, American actress (d. 1933)
- 1893 – Mikhail Gurevich, Russian engineer (d. 1976)
- 1893 – Hermann Goering, Nazi official (d. 1946)
- 1899 – Paul Hermann Mueller, Swiss chemist (d. 1965)
- 1899 - Pierre Bernac, French baritone (d. 1979)
- 1903 - Igor Kurchatov, Russian physicist (d. 1960)
- 1905 - Tex Ritter, American country music singer and actor (d. 1974)
- 1907 - Sergei Korolev, Russian rocket scientist (d. 1966)
- 1908 – Jean Delannoy, French director (d. 2008)
- 1910 – Luise Rainer, German actress
- 1916 – Pieter Willem Botha, South African politician (d. 2006)
- 1917 – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Indian spiritualist (d. 2008)
- 1925 - Katherine MacGregor, American actress
- 1925 - Bill Burrud, American television host (d. 1990)
- 1926 – Morton Feldman, American composer (d. 1987)
- 1927 - Ignatz Bubis, chairman of the Federal Council of Jews in Germany (d. 1999)
- 1929 – Jaako Hintikka, Finnish philosopher
- 1929 - Alasdair MacIntyre, Scottish-American philosopher
- 1932 - Des O'Connor, British television presenter and entertainer
- 1933 – Michael Aspel, British television presenter
- 1937 - Marie Dubois, French actress
- 1944 – Joe Frazier, American boxer (d. 2011)
- 1944 - Vlastimil Hort, Czech-German chess player
- 1944 - Jim Gray, American computer scientist (d. 2007)
- 1948 – Gordon Campbell, Canadian politician
- 1949 – Ottmar Hitzfeld, German football manager
- 1949 – Haruki Murakami, Japanese writer
- 1949 - Kentaro Haneda, Japanese composer (d. 2007)
- 1949 - Hamadi Jebali, Tunisian politician
- 1950 – Dorrit Moussaieff, First Lady of Iceland
- 1950 - Sheila Jackson Lee, American politician
- 1951 – Kirstie Alley, American actress
- 1951 – Rush Limbaugh, American radio personality, author and political commentator
- 1952 - Walter Mosley, American writer
- 1954 – Howard Stern, American radio personality and author
- 1956 - Marie Colvin, American journalist (d. 2012)
- 1959 - Nick Nairn, Scottish celebrity chef
- 1959 – Per Gessle, Swedish songwriter and musician (Roxette)
- 1960 - Oliver Platt, American actor
- 1961 – Andrea Carnevale, Italian footballer
- 1962 - Joe Quesada, American comic book writer and artist
- 1964 – Jeff Bezos, American entrepreneur
- 1966 - Rob Zombie, American musician
- 1968 – Heather Mills, British activist
- 1968 – Mauro Silva, Brazilian footballer
- 1969 – David Mitchell, British writer
- 1970 – Zack de la Rocha, American musician
- 1971 – David McAllister, German politician
- 1972 - Priyanka Gandhi, Indian politician
- 1972 - Espen Knutsen, Norwegian ice hockey player
- 1974 - Tor Arne Hetland, Norwegian cross-country skier
- 1974 – Melanie Chisholm, British singer, formerly of the Spice Girls
- 1975 - Jocelyn Thibault, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1978 – Bonaventure Kalou, Ivorian footballer
- 1979 - Lee Bo-young, South Korean actress and model
- 1979 – Grzegorz Rasiak, Polish footballer
- 1982 - Paul-Henri Mathieu, French tennis player
- 1982 - Dean Whitehead, English footballer
- 1984 - Oribe Peralta, Mexican footballer
- 1986 – Gemma Arterton, English actress
- 1988 - Claude Giroux, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1990 – Sergey Karjakin, Ukrainian-born chess player
- 1991 – Pixie Lott, British singer
- 1993 – Zayn Malik, British singer (One Direction)
Deaths [change]
- 1321 - Maria of Brabant, Queen of France (b. 1256)
- 1519 – Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1459)
- 1665 – Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician and lawyer (b. 1601)
- 1705 – Luca Giordano, Italian artist (b. 1634)
- 1735 - John Eccles, English composer (b. 1668)
- 1759 – Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (b. 1709)
- 1829 – Friedrich von Schlegel, German poet (b. 1772)
- 1834 – William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1759)
- 1856 – L'udovit Stur, Slovakian politician and author of the Slovak language (b. 1815)
- 1875 – Tongzhi Emperor of China (b. 1856)
- 1897 – Isaac Pitman, British inventor (b. 1813)
- 1921 - Gervase Elwes, English tenor (b. 1866)
- 1926 - Austin Chapman, Australian politician (b. 1864)
- 1938 – Gosta Ekman, Swedish actor (b. 1890)
- 1943 - Jan Campert, Dutch composer and writer (b. 1902)
- 1960 - Nevil Shute, English writer (b. 1899)
- 1974 - Princess Patricia of Connaught (b. 1886)
- 1976 – Agatha Christie, English writer (b. 1890)
- 1977 - Henri-Georges Clouzot, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1907)
- 1983 - Rebop Kwaku Baah, Ghanaian musician (b. 1944)
- 1983 – Nikolai Podgorny, President of the USSR (b. 1903)
- 1997 – Charles B. Huggins, Canadian cancer researcher (b. 1901)
- 1999 - Betty Lou Gerson, American voice actress (b. 1914)
- 2002 – Cyrus Vance, United States Secretary of State (b. 1917)
- 2003 – Maurice Gibb, British singer (Bee Gees) (b. 1949)
- 2003 – Leopoldo Galtieri, Argentine military leader (b. 1926)
- 2004 - Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya, Russian mathematician and physicist (b. 1922)
- 2005 – Amrish Puri, Indian actor (b. 1932)
- 2007 - Alice Coltrane, American jazz musician (b. 1937)
- 2009 – Claude Berri, French film director (b. 1934)
- 2009 – Arne Naess, Norwegian philosopher (b. 1912)
- 2010 - Notable victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, including:
- Zilda Arns, Brazilian pediatrician and aid worker (b. 1934)
- Georges Anglade, Hatian author (b. 1944)
- Serge Marcil, Canadian politician (b. 1944)
- Flo Mcgarrell, Italian artist (b. 1974)
- Hedi Annabi, Tunisian diplomat (b. 1943)
- Jimmy O, Hatian hip hop musican (b. 1974)
- 2012 - Reginald Hill, British author (b. 1936)
- 2012 – Bill Janklow, American politician, former Governor of South Dakota (b. 1939)
- 2013 - Koto Okubo, Japanese supercentenarian (b. 1897)
Events [change]
- 475 - Basiliscus becomes Emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
- 1528 – Gustav Vasa becomes King of Sweden.
- 1807 - A ship loaded with gunpowder explodes, killing 151 people in the Dutch city of Leiden.
- 1848 - The Palermo Rising takes place in Sicily against the Bourbon Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
- 1866 – The Royal Aeronautical Society is founded in London.
- 1872 – Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum; the first coronation in Axum for over 200 years.
- 1888 - The Schoolhouse Blizzard sweeps across the Great Plains states of the United States, killing 200 people, many of them schoolchildren.
- 1895 – The United Kingdom's National Trust is founded.
- 1898 – Ito Hirobumi becomes Prime Minister of Japan for a third time.
- 1899 - 13 crew members and 5 apprentices are rescued from stricken schooner Forest Hall by the Lynmouth Lifeboat, after getting into difficulty off Devon, England.
- 1906 - Henry Campbell-Bannerman's cabinet begins widespread social reforms after a landslide victory in the United Kingdom Election.
- 1908 – A long-distance radio signal is sent from the Eiffel Tower for the first time.
- 1915 – The Rocky Mountain National Park is created by an act of the United States Congress.
- 1918 - In Finland a law takes effect that makes Jews full Finnish citizens.
- 1921 - After the Black Sox Scandal, Kenesaw Mountain Landis is elected Major League Baseball's first commissioner.
- 1922 – Prime Minister of France Aristide Briand resigns.
- 1932 – Hattie Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate, representing Arkansas.
- 1945 – A magnitude 7.1 earthquake in Japan kills 1,900 people.
- 1962 - Vietnam War: Operation Chopper, the first US combat mission of the war, takes place.
- 1964 – Rebels in Zanzibar revolt and proclaim a republic.
- 1969 - The New York Jets of the American Football League defeat the Baltimore Colts of the National Football League in the final of the Super Bowl, in one of the biggest shock results in American football history.
- 1970 – Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian Civil War.
- 1971 - The sitcom All in the Family is first broadcast on CBS.
- 1976 - The last Spanish troops withdraw from Western Sahara.
- 1991 – The United States Congress authorises military force in reaction to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
- 1998 – Nineteen European Nations agree to forbid human cloning.
- 2004 – The ocean liner RMS Queen Mary 2 makes its first voyage.
- 2005 – Deep Impact launches on board a Delta II rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
- 2006 – A stampede at the Hajj pilgrimage kills 362 Muslim pilgrims.
- 2010 – 2010 Haiti earthquake: A major earthquake hits Haiti, killing over 200,000 people, and leaving millions of people homeless.
Observances [change]
- Memorial Day (Turkmenistan)
- National Youth Day (India)
- Zanzibar Revolution Day (Tanzania)
