Anniversaries 12 January
Birth
Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, author of "C…
1588–1649
English painter
1667–1745
Anglo-Irish statesman
1729–1797
Swiss pedagogue and educational reformer
1746–1827
Canadian writer
1829–1879
French general who served as Commander-in-Chief of French f…
1852–1931
American painter
1856–1925
Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher
1863–1902
Indian Theosophist
1869–1958
American author, journalist, and social activist
1876–1916
Caliph of the Messiah
1889–1965
German politician and military leader
1893–1946
German architect and politician
1893–1946
American singer and comedian
1902–1971
French philosopher
1906–1995
German-born Austrian and American film actress
1910–2014
South African prime minister
1916–2006
British poet, wife of Harold Wilson
1916–2018
Inventor of Transcendental Meditation, musician
1917–2008
physical chemist
1917–2003
American composer and philosopher
1918–2007
Swiss psychologist
1923–2010
American avant-garde composer
1926–1987
Scottish philosopher
1929
American librarian and writer
1945
British screenwriter, playwright and novelist
1948
American activist
1948–2001
American theatre director
1949–2001
Japanese author, novelist
1949
First Lady of Iceland
1950
U.S. radio talk show host, Commentator, author, and televis…
1951
American radio personality
1954
American journalist, war reporter
1956–2012
Lebanese cleric, Maronite bishop of Latakia
1961
American entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Amazon.com, Inc.
1964
Jimmy John's Owner, Founder, & Chairman
1964
former glamour model, activist
1968
American musician, poet rapper and activist best known as t…
1970
British singer-songwriter, actress and businesswoman
1974
American rapper and record producer
1977
American composer and singer
1978
American actress and writer
1985
American composer, musician and producer
1992
Death
French mathematician and lawyer
1601–1665
French colonist and foundress
1620–1700
German multidisciplinary scientist
1674–1727
German poet, critic and scholar
1772–1829
English churchman, theologian, textual critic, scholar, poe…
1810–1871
German mathematician and physicist
1864–1909
American admiral
1890–1954
English mystery and detective writer
1890–1976
British racing driver
1899–1960
Swiss sculptor and painter (1901-1966)
1901–1966
Marquess of Exeter
1909–1988
British comedian
1911–2002
Canadian eductor
1919–1990
Argentine military dictator
1926–2003
American writer and filmmaker
1928–2017
South Korean member of the Unification Church
1930–2019
playwright and writer
1930–1965
English theologian and academic
1938–2007
English philosopher
1944–2020