January 12
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January 12 is the 12th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 353 days remaining after January 12 until the end of the year (354 in leap years).
[change] Births
- 1562 – Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy (d. 1630)
- 1580 – Jan Baptist von Helmont, Flemish scientist (d. 1644)
- 1737 – John Hancock, American merchant and statesman (d. 1793)
- 1746 – Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Swiss pedagogue (d. 1827)
- 1751 – Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies (d. 1825)
- 1810 – Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies (d. 1859)
- 1856 – John Singer Sargent, American painter (d. 1925)
- 1863 – Swami Vivekananda, Indian philosopher (d. 1902)
- 1873 – Spiridon Louis, Greek athlete (d. 1940)
- 1876 – Jack London, American writer (d. 1916)
- 1893 – Mikhail Gurevich, Russian engineer (d. 1976)
- 1893 – Hermann Goering, Nazi official (d. 1946)
- 1899 – Paul Hermann Mueller, Swiss chemist (d. 1965)
- 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)
- 1926 – Morton Feldman, American composer (d. 1987)
- 1929 – Jaakko Hintakka, Finnish philosopher
- 1933 – Michael Aspel, British television presenter
- 1944 – Joe Frazier, American boxer (d. 2011)
- 1948 – Gordon Campbell, Canadian politician
- 1949 – Ottmar Hitzfeld, German football manager
- 1949 – Haruki Murakami, Japanese writer
- 1950 – Dorrit Moussaief, First Lady of Iceland
- 1951 – Kirstie Alley, American actress
- 1951 – Rush Limbaugh, American radio personality, author and political commentator
- 1954 – Howard Stern, American radio personality and author
- 1959 – Per Gessle, Swedish songwriter and musician (Roxette)
- 1961 – Andrea Carnevale, Italian footballer
- 1964 – Jeff Bezos, American entrepreneur
- 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
- 1974 – Melanie Chisholm, British singer, formerly of the Spice Girls
- 1978 – Bonaventure Kalou, Ivorian footballer
- 1979 – Grzegorz Rasiak, Polish footballer
- 1986 – Gemma Arterton, English actress
- 1990 – Sergey Karjakin, Ukrainian-born chess player
- 1991 – Pixie Lott, British singer
[change] Deaths
- 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)
- 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)
- 1938 – Gosta Ekman, Swedish actor (b. 1890)
- 1976 – Agatha Christie, English writer (b. 1890)
- 1983 – Nikolai Podgorny, President of the USSR (b. 1903)
- 1997 – Charles B. Huggins, Canadian cancer researcher (b. 1901)
- 2002 – Cyrus Vance, United States Secretary of State (b. 1917)
- 2003 – Maurice Gibb, singer (b. 1949)
- 2003 – Leopoldo Galtieri, Argentine military leader (b. 1926)
- 2005 – Amrish Puri, Indian actor (b. 1932)
- 2009 – Claude Berri, French film director (b. 1934)
- 2009 – Arne Naess, Norwegian philosopher (b. 1912)
- 2010 – Zilda Arns, Brazilian pediatrician and aid worker (b. 1934)
- 2012 – Bill Janklow, American politician, former Governor of South Dakota (b. 1939)
[change] Events
- 1528 – Gustav Vasa becomes King of Sweden.
- 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.
- 1895 – The United Kingdom's National Trust is founded.
- 1898 – Ito Hirobumi becomes Prime Minister of Japan for a third time.
- 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.
- 1922 – Prime Minister of France Aristide Briand resigns.
- 1932 – Hattie Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate.
- 1945 – A magnitude 7.1 earthquake in Japan kills 1,900 people.
- 1964 – Rebels in Zanzibar revolt and proclaim a republic.
- 1970 – Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian Civil War.
- 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.
- 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.
