August 12
August 12 is the 224th day of the year (225th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 141 days remaining.
Events
Births
- 1503 - Christian III of Denmark and Norway (d. 1559)
- 1604 - Tokugawa Iemitsu, 3rd Tokugawa shogun (d. 1651)
- 1629 - Tsar Alexei I of Russia (d. 1676)
- 1774 - Robert Southey, poet, biographer (d. 1843)
- 1831 - Helena Blavatsky, author (d. 1891)
- 1859 - Katherine Lee Bates, poet, author of America the Beautiful (d. 1929)
- 1876 - Mary Roberts Rinehart, author (d. 1958)
- 1880 - Christy Mathewson, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame (d. 1925)
- 1881 - Cecil B. DeMille, director (d. 1959)
- 1887 - Erwin Schrödinger, physicist (d. 1961)
- 1892 - Alfred Lunt, actor (d. 1977)
- 1904 - Alexei Nikolaevich Romanov, Tsarevich, heir to the throne of Russia (d. 1918)
- 1906 - Pauline Frederick, journalist (d. 1990)
- 1907 - Joe Besser, actor, member of the Three Stooges (d. 1988)
- 1911 - Jane Wyatt, actress
- 1911 - Cantinflas (Mario Moreno Reyes), actor (d. 1993)
- 1924 - Muhammad Zia ul-Haq, Leader of Pakistan, (d. 1988)
- 1926 - John Derek, actor (d. 1998)
- 1927 - Mstislav Rostropovich, cellist
- 1927 - Porter Wagoner, country and western singer
- 1928 - Dan Curtis, movie and television producer and director
- 1929 - Buck Owens, country and western singer
- 1930 - George Soros American businessman
- 1931 - William Goldman, screenwriter
- 1933 - Parnelli Jones, auto racer
- 1939 - George Hamilton, actor
- 1949 - Mark Knopfler, musician
- 1954 - Pat Metheny, guitarist
- 1971 - Pete Sampras, tennis player
- 1972 - Rebecca Gayheart, actress
- 1972 - Takanohana Kōji, sumo wrestler (65th yokozuna)
- 1973 - Richard Reid, alleged Al-Qaida operative; "the shoe bomber"
- 1976 - Antoine Walker, basketball player
Deaths
- 875 - Louis II Holy Roman Emperor
- 1484 - Pope Sixtus IV
- 1612 - Giovanni Gabrieli, Italian composer
- 1633 - Jacopo Peri, composer
- 1689 - Pope Innocent XI
- 1827 - William Blake, poet and printmaker
- 1848 - George Stephenson, locomotive designer
- 1864 - Sakuma Shōzan, reformist of the late Tokugawa shogunate (b. 1811)
- 1914 - John Philip Holland, early submarine designer (b. 1840)
- 1923 - Vatrslav Jagić - Croatian philolog (b. 1838)
- 1928 - Leos Janacek, Czech composer
- 1955 - Thomas Mann, author
- 1964 - Ian Fleming, novelist
- 1968 - Angus Walters, schooner captain
- 1982 - Henry Fonda, actor
- 1982 - Joe Tex (Joseph Arrington), singer
- 1982 - Salvador Sanchez world champion boxer
- 1985 - Manfred Winkelhock, auto racing driver
- 1985 - Kyu Sakamoto, singer (b. 1941)
- 1989 - William Shockley, physicist
- 1992 - John Cage, American composer
- 2000 - Loretta Young, actress
- 2002 - Enos Slaughter, baseball Hall of Famer
- 2002 - Ed Headrick, developer of the Frisbee
- 2004 - Julia Child, chef and author
- 2004 - Sir Godfrey Hounsfield, inventor of computed axial tomography
- 2004 - Peter Woodthorpe, British character actor
Holidays and observations
August 11 - August 13 - July 12 - September 12 -- listing of all days
