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Births, Deaths and Events in History - 2008-10-13
Births
1503-08-12 - Christian III of Denmark and Norway (d. 1559)
1566-08-12 - Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain (d. 1633)
1604-08-12 - Tokugawa Iemitsu, Japanese shogun (d. 1651)
1629-08-12 - Tsar Alexei I of Russia (d. 1676)
1643-08-12 - King Afonso VI of Portugal (d. 1683)
1644-08-12 - Heinrich Ignaz Biber, Bohemian composer (d. 1704)
1647-08-12 - Johann Heinrich Acker, German writer (d. 1719)
1686-08-12 - John Balguy, English philosopher (d. 1748)
1696-08-12 - Maurice Greene, English composer (d. 1755)
1720-08-12 - Konrad Ekhof, German actor (d. 1778)
1762-08-12 - King George IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1830)
1774-08-12 - Robert Southey, English poet and biographer (d. 1843)
1831-08-12 - Helena Blavatsky, Ukrainian-born author (d. 1891)
1856-08-12 - "Diamond Jim" Brady, American financier (d. 1917)
1859-08-12 - Katharine Lee Bates, American poet (d. 1929)
1866-08-12 - Jacinto Benavente, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1954)
1876-08-12 - Mary Roberts Rinehart, American author (d. 1958)
1880-08-12 - Radclyffe Hall, British author (d. 1943)
1880-08-12 - Christy Mathewson, American baseball player (d. 1925)
1881-08-12 - Cecil B. DeMille, American director (d. 1959)
1883-08-12 - Pauline Frederick, American actress (d. 1938)
1885-08-12 - Jean Cabannes, French physicist (d. 1959)
1886-08-12 - Sir Keith Murdoch, Australian journalist and newspaper owner (d. 1952)
1887-08-12 - Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1961)
1889-08-12 - Zerna Sharp, American writer and educator (Dick and Jane) (d. 1981)
1892-08-12 - Alfred Lunt, American actor (d. 1977)
1902-08-12 - Mohammad Hatta, Vice President of Indonesia 1945-1956 (d. 1980)
1904-08-12 - Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich of Russia (d. 1918)
1906-08-12 - Harry Hopman, Australian-born tennis player and coach (d. 1985)
1906-08-12 - Tedd Pierce, American animator (d. 1972)
1907-08-12 - Joe Besser, American actor and comedian (d. 1988)
1910-08-12 - Jane Wyatt, American actress (d. 2006)
1911-08-12 - Cantinflas, Mexican actor (d. 1993)
1912-08-12 - Samuel Fuller, American film director (d. 1997)
1914-08-12 - Gerd Buchdahl, German philosopher (d. 2001)
1919-08-12 - Vikram Sarabhai, Indian physicist (d. 1971)
1924-08-12 - Derek Shackleton, English cricketer
1924-08-12 - Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, leader of Pakistan (d. 1988)
1925-08-12 - Norris McWhirter, Scottish co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (d. 2004)
1925-08-12 - Ross McWhirter, Scottish co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (d. 1975)
1925-08-12 - George Wetherill, American scientist (d. 2006)
1926-08-12 - John Derek, American actor (d. 1998)
1926-08-12 - Joe Jones, American R&B singer (d. 2005)
1926-08-12 - Wallace Markfield, American writer (d. 2002)
1927-08-12 - Porter Wagoner, American singer
1928-08-12 - Charles Blackman, Australian artist
1928-08-12 - Bob Buhl, American baseball player (d. 2001)
1928-08-12 - Dan Curtis, film and television producer and director
1929-08-12 - Buck Owens, American singer (d. 2006)
1930-08-12 - George Soros American businessman
1930-08-12 - Jacques Tits, French mathematician
1931-08-12 - William Goldman, American screenwriter
1932-08-12 - Charlie O'Donnell, American game show announcer
1932-08-12 - Somdej Phra Nangchao Sirikit Phra Boromarajininat HM Queen Sirikit of Thailand
1933-08-12 - Parnelli Jones, American race car driver
1935-08-12 - John Cazale, Italian-American actor (d. 1978)
1937-08-12 - Walter Dean Myers, African-American author
1939-08-12 - George Hamilton, American actor
1943-08-12 - Deborah Walley, American actress (d. 2001)
1945-08-12 - Ann M. Martin, American author
1947-08-12 - Sam Rosen, American sportscaster
1949-08-12 - Mark Knopfler, British guitarist (Dire Straits)
1950-08-12 - Jim Beaver, American actor and writer
1951-08-12 - Willie Horton, American murderer and rapist
1954-08-12 - Sam J. Jones, American actor
1954-08-12 - Pat Metheny, American guitarist
1955-08-12 - Terry Taylor, American retired professional wrestler
1956-08-12 - Bruce Greenwood, Canadian actor
1960-08-12 - Laurent Fignon, French cyclist
1962-08-12 - Miss Cleo, American psychic
1965-08-12 - Peter Krause, American actor
1967-08-12 - Regilio Tuur, Dutch boxer
1968-08-12 - Andras Jones, American actor
1970-08-12 - Anthony Swofford, American novelist
1970-08-12 - Jim Schlossnagle, baseball coach
1971-08-12 - Michael Ian Black, American comedian
1971-08-12 - Rebecca Gayheart, American actress
1971-08-12 - Pete Sampras, American tennis player
1972-08-12 - Mark Kinsella, Irish footballer
1973-08-12 - Joseba Beloki, Spanish cyclist
1973-08-12 - Jonathan Coachman, American professional wrestler and executive
1973-08-12 - Richard Reid (shoe bomber)
1973-08-12 - Yvette Nicole Brown, American actress
1974-08-12 - Matt Clement, American baseball pitcher
1975-08-12 - Casey Affleck, American actor
1976-08-12 - Mikko Viljami "Linde" Lindström, Finnish guitarist
1976-08-12 - Antoine Walker, American basketball player
1976-08-12 - Wednesday 13, American musician (Wednesday 13, Murderdolls)
1977-08-12 - Plaxico Burress, American football player
1977-08-12 - Jesper Grønkjær, Danish footballer
1977-08-12 - Park Yong-ha, South Korean actor and singer
1980-08-12 - Dominique Swain, American actress
1980-08-12 - Matt Thiessen, Canadian-born musician (Relient K)
1981-08-12 - Djibril Cissé, French footballer
1987-08-12 - Dean Cox, English footballer
Bizarre
2006-08-12 - Middle Child Day
2007-08-12 - Middle Child Day
Deaths
1424-08-12 - Yongle, Emperor of China (b. 1460)
1484-08-12 - George of Trebizond, Greek philosopher (b. 1395)
1484-08-12 - Pope Sixtus IV (b. 1414)
1512-08-12 - Alessandro Achillini, Italian philosopher (b. 1463)
1577-08-12 - Thomas Smith, English diplomat and scholar (b. 1513)
1588-08-12 - Alfonso Ferrabosco (I), Italian composer (b. 1543)
1612-08-12 - Giovanni Gabrieli, Italian composer
1633-08-12 - Jacopo Peri, Italian composer (b. 1561)
1648-08-12 - Ibrahim I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1615)
1674-08-12 - Philippe de Champaigne, French painter (b. 1602)
1676-08-12 - Metacom, sachem of Wampanoags his death ended King Phillip's War
1689-08-12 - Pope Innocent XI (b. 1611)
1778-08-12 - Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, British general and politician (b. 1714)
1809-08-12 - Mikhail Kamensky, Russian field marshal (b. 1738)
1810-08-12 - Etienne Louis Geoffroy, French pharmacist and entomologist (b. 1725)
1822-08-12 - Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, English politician and statesman (b. 1769)
1827-08-12 - William Blake, English poet and artist (b. 1757)
1848-08-12 - George Stephenson, British locomotive designer (b. 1781)
1864-08-12 - Sakuma Shōzan, Japanese reformer (b. 1811)
1865-08-12 - William Jackson Hooker, English botanist (b. 1785)
1891-08-12 - James Russell Lowell, American poet and essayist (b. 1819)
1900-08-12 - Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian chess player (b. 1836)
1901-08-12 - Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Finnish-Swedish explorer (b. 1832)
1914-08-12 - John Philip Holland, Irish submarine designer (b. 1840)
1918-08-12 - Anna Held, Polish-born actress and singer (b. 1872)
1922-08-12 - Arthur Griffith, President of Ireland (b. 1871)
1928-08-12 - Leoš Janáček, Czech composer (b. 1854)
1934-08-12 - Hendrik Petrus Berlage, Dutch architect (b. 1856)
1935-08-12 - Friedrich Schottky, German mathematician (b. 1851)
1943-08-12 - Bobby Peel, English cricketer (b. 1857)
1948-08-12 - Harry Brearley, English inventor (b. 1871)
1952-08-12 - David Bergelson, Yiddish language writer (b. 1884)
1955-08-12 - Thomas Mann, German writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1875)
1955-08-12 - James B. Sumner, American chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1887)
1959-08-12 - Mike O'Neill, Irish-born American baseball player (b. 1877)
1964-08-12 - Ian Fleming, English novelist (b. 1908)
1973-08-12 - Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1881)
1973-08-12 - Karl Ziegler, German chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1898)
1979-08-12 - Ernst Boris Chain, German-born biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1906)
1982-08-12 - Henry Fonda, American actor (b. 1905)
1982-08-12 - Salvador Sanchez, Mexican boxer (b. 1959)
1982-08-12 - Varlam Shalamov, Russian writer (b. 1907)
1982-08-12 - Joe Tex, American singer (b. 1933)
1985-08-12 - Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer (plane crash) (b. 1941)
1985-08-12 - Manfred Winkelhock, German race car driver (b. 1951)
1988-08-12 - Jean-Michel Basquiat, Haitian-American artist (b. 1960)
1988-08-12 - Bhakti Raksaka Sridhara Deva Gosvami Maharaja, religious Guru from India (b. 1895)
1989-08-12 - William Shockley, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1910)
1989-08-12 - Samuel Okwaraji, Nigerian international footballer (b. 1964)
1990-08-12 - Dorothy Mackaill, British-born American actress (b. 1903)
1992-08-12 - John Cage, American composer (b. 1912)
1997-08-12 - Luther Allison, American musician (b. 1939)
2000-08-12 - Loretta Young, American actress (b. 1913)
2002-08-12 - Enos Slaughter, American baseball player (b. 1916)
2004-08-12 - Sir Godfrey Hounsfield, English electrical engineer and inventor, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1919)
2004-08-12 - Peter Woodthorpe, British actor (b. 1931)
2005-08-12 - John Loder, co-founder of the anarcho-punk band CRASS (b. 1946)
Declared
2007-08-12 - International Ponce de Leon day
Events
1982-08-12 - Mexico announces it is unable to pay its enormous external debt, marking the beginning of a debt crisis that spread to all of Latin America and the Third World.
1985-08-12 - Japan Airlines Flight 123, a Boeing 747 jumbo jet, crashes into Mount Ogura in Gunma Prefecture, Japan, killing 520 in the world's worst single-plane air disaster. Four people miraculously survive.
1990-08-12 - Sue, the most complete skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex, is discovered near Faith, South Dakota.
1992-08-12 - Canada, Mexico, and the United States announce completion of negotiations for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
1994-08-12 - Major League Baseball players go on strike. The work stoppage forces the cancellation of the 1994 World Series.
2000-08-12 - The Oscar class submarine K-141 Kursk of the Russian Navy exploded and sank in the Barents Sea during a military exercise.
2004-08-12 - Lee Hsien Loong is sworn in as Singapore's 3rd Prime Minister.
2005-08-12 - Sri Lanka's foreign minister, Lakshman Kadirgamar, is fatally shot by a sniper at his home.
2005-08-12 - An F2 tornado strikes the coal mining town of Wright, Wyoming, destroying nearly 100 homes and killing two people.
2005-08-12 - Civil unrest provoked in the Maldives
2005-08-12 - An F1 tornado strikes Glen Cove, New York, a rare event on Long Island
1099-08-12 - First Crusade: Battle of Ascalon - Crusaders under the command of Godfrey of Bouillon defeat Fatimid forces under Al-Afdal Shahanshah. Considered the last engagement of the First Crusade.
1121-08-12 - Battle of Didgori: The Georgian army under King David the Builder won a decisive victory over the famous Seljuk commander Ilghazi.
1281-08-12 - The fleet of Qubilai Khan is destroyed by a typhoon while approaching Japan.
1323-08-12 - Treaty of Nöteborg - Sweden and Novgorod (Russia) regulates the border for the first time.
1332-08-12 - Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Dupplin Moor - Scots under Domhnall II, Earl of Mar routed by Edward Balliol.
1499-08-12 - First act of the Battle of Zonchio between Venetian and Ottoman fleets.
1676-08-12 - Praying Indian John Alderman shot and killed Metacomet the Wampanoag war chief, ending King Philip's War.
1687-08-12 - Charles of Lorraine defeats the Ottomans at the Battle of Mohács.
1806-08-12 - Santiago de Liniers re-takes the city of Buenos Aires after the first English invasion.
1833-08-12 - Chicago was founded.
1851-08-12 - Isaac Singer granted a patent for his sewing machine.
1868-08-12 - US President Andrew Johnson suspends Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, thus setting up his own impeachment.
1877-08-12 - Asaph Hall discovers Deimos.
1883-08-12 - The last quagga dies at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam.
1898-08-12 - Armistice ends the Spanish-American War.
1898-08-12 - 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 Hawai`i to the United States.
1908-08-12 - First Model T Ford built.
1914-08-12 - World War I - Britain declares war on Austria-Hungary; British Empire countries automatically included.
1925-08-12 - The first cast of Alpha Psi Omega, drawn from The Masquers of Fairmont College, West Virginia, was initiated.
1943-08-12 - Alleged date of the first Philadelphia Experiment test on United States Navy ship USS Eldridge.
1944-08-12 - Waffen SS troops massacre more than 500 civil people in Sant'Anna di Stazzema.
1944-08-12 - Alençon liberated by General Leclerc, the first city in France to be liberated from the Nazis by the Allied forces.
1952-08-12 - The Night of the Murdered Poets - Thirteen most prominent Jewish intellectuals were murdered in Moscow.
1953-08-12 - Nuclear testing: The Soviet atomic bomb project proceeded with the detonation of Joe 4, the first Soviet thermonuclear weapon.
1960-08-12 - Echo I, the first communications satellite, launched
1964-08-12 - South Africa is banished from the Olympic Games due to its racist policy.
1966-08-12 - Massacre of Braybrook Street as three policemen are shot dead in East Acton, London.
1969-08-12 - Battle of the Bogside, Catholic community of Derry engage in two-day battle with the Royal Ulster Constabulary
1978-08-12 - Japan and the People's Republic of China sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Japan and the People's Republic of China.
1980-08-12 - Signing of the Montevideo Treaty, which established the Latin American Integration Association.
1981-08-12 - Release of the IBM PC or Personal Computer
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