Anniversaries 12 October
Birth
![Edward VI of England photo]()
King of England, Tudor dynasty
1537–1553
![Henry More photo]()
British philosopher
1614–1687
![Edward Thomson photo]()
American bishop
1810–1870
![Josiah Parsons Cooke photo]()
Harvard mineralogist and chemist
1827–1894
![Theodore Watts-Dunton photo]()
English literary critic and poet
1832–1914
![Émile Banning photo]()
academic, civil servant
1836–1898
![Helena Modjeska photo]()
Polish-American actress
1840–1909
![Ramsay MacDonald photo]()
British statesman; prime minister of the United Kingdom
1866–1937
![Boris Sidis photo]()
American psychiatrist
1867–1923
![Ralph Vaughan Williams photo]()
English composer
1872–1958
![Aleister Crowley photo]()
poet, mountaineer, occultist
1875–1947
![Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze photo]()
Soviet politician
1886–1937
![Edith Stein photo]()
Jewish-German nun, theologian and philosopher
1891–1942
![Robert Fitzgerald photo]()
American poet, critic and translator
1910–1985
![Charles P. Kindleberger photo]()
American economic historian
1910–2003
![Alice Childress photo]()
American playwright and author
1916–1994
![Ram Swarup photo]()
Indian historian
1920–1998
![Art Clokey photo]()
American animator
1921–2010
![Fernando Sabino photo]()
Brazilian writer
1923–2004
![Dick Gregory photo]()
American comedian, social activist, social critic, writer, …
1932–2017
![Luciano Pavarotti photo]()
Italian operatic tenor
1935–2007
![Carolee Schneemann photo]()
American photographer, performance artist, and video artist
1939–2019
![James Crumley photo]()
American writer
1939–2008
![Ilan Halevi photo]()
Jewish Palestinian journalist, politician
1943–2013
![Protima Bedi photo]()
Indian model and dancer
1948–1998
![Chen Shui-bian photo]()
Taiwanese politician
1950
![Paul Otellini photo]()
former president & CEO of Intel
1950–2017
![Trần Đại Quang photo]()
8th President of Vietnam
1956–2018
![Mikhail Leontyev photo]()
Russian television pundit
1958
![Hirokazu Yasuhara photo]()
Japanese video game designer
1965
![Dan Abnett photo]()
British comic book writer, novelist
1965
![Saara Kuugongelwa photo]()
Prime Minister of Namibia
1967
![Jason Stanley photo]()
American philosopher
1969
![Bram Cohen photo]()
American programmer, creator of BitTorrent
1975
![Bode Miller photo]()
American alpine ski racer
1977
![NoViolet Bulawayo photo]()
Zimbabwean writer and educator
1981
![Li Wenliang photo]()
Chinese physician known for warning about the coronavirus i…
1986–2020
![Ilya Zhitomirskiy photo]()
software developer
1989–2011
![Taylor Horn photo]()
American musician and actor
1992
![Daniel Larze photo]()
Puerto Rican singer-songwriter (born 2005)
2005
Death
![Démosthenés photo]()
ancient greek statesman and orator
-384–-322 BC
![Robert E. Lee photo]()
Confederate general in the Civil War
1807–1870
![Cecil Frances Alexander photo]()
British hymn-writer and poet
1818–1895
![Josiah Gilbert Holland photo]()
Novelist, poet, editor
1819–1881
![Dinah Craik photo]()
English novelist and poet
1826–1887
![Edwin Abbott Abbott photo]()
British theologian and author
1838–1926
![Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton photo]()
British Army general
1853–1947
![Max Wertheimer photo]()
Co-founder of Gestalt psychology
1880–1943
![Dean Acheson photo]()
Statesman and lawyer
1893–1971
![Peter Wessel Zapffe photo]()
Norwegian philosopher, mountaineer, and author
1899–1990
![Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone photo]()
British judge, politician, life peer and Cabinet minister
1907–2001
![Pat Frank photo]()
American writer
1908–1964
![Robert Sidney Foster photo]()
British Colonial governor
1913–2005
![Pik Botha photo]()
South African politician
1932–2018
![Gene Vincent photo]()
American musician
1935–1971
![Wilt Chamberlain photo]()
basketball player
1936–1999
![Dennis M. Ritchie photo]()
American computer scientist
1941–2011
![John Denver photo]()
American singer, songwriter, activist, and humanitarian
1943–1997
