Anniversaries 12 November

Birth

Qi Jiguang3

Ming Dynasty general 1527–1588

Richard Baxter14

English Puritan church leader, poet, and hymn-writer 1615–1691

Juana Inés de la Cruz2

Nun, scholar and poet in New Spain 1651–1695

Mary Astell7

English feminist writer 1666–1731

Joseph Hopkinson1

United States federal judge 1770–1842

Charles Bell2

Scottish surgeon and artist (1774-1842) 1774–1842

Elizabeth Cady Stanton42

Suffragist and Women's Rights activist 1815–1902

Bahá'u'lláh27

founder of the Bahá'í Faith 1817–1892

Monier Monier-Williams9

Linguist and dictionary compiler 1819–1899

Alexander Borodin1

Russian composer, doctor and chemist 1833–1887

Auguste Rodin73

French sculptor 1840–1917

John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh5

English physicist 1842–1919

Nixon Waterman4

American writer 1859–1944

Sun Yat-sen7

Chinese physician, politician and revolutionary 1866–1925

Joseph McCabe9

British writer 1867–1955

Bert Williams2

American comedian and actor 1874–1922

Ben Travers1

English writer of plays, screenplays, novels, and three mem… 1886–1980

Harry Blackmun4

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States 1908–1999

Laxmi Prasad Devkota49

Nepali poet 1909–1959

Edward Schillebeeckx1

Belgian theologian 1914–2009

Roland Barthes39

French philosopher, critic and literary theorist 1915–1980

Tadeusz Borowski2

Polish writer and journalist 1922–1951

Grace Kelly10

American actress and Princess consort of Monaco 1929–1982

Michael Ende26

German author 1929–1995

Anthony Pilla1

auxiliary Bishop of Cleveland, titular Bishop of Scardona, … 1932

Jalal Talabani19

Iraqi politician 1933–2017

Charles Manson53

American criminal and musician 1934–2017

John McGahern1

writer 1934–2006

Lucia Berlin3

American writer 1936–2004

Benjamin Mkapa9

Tanzanian politician and former president 1938

Wallace Shawn1

American actor, playwright, and essayist 1943

Valerie Leon4

English actress 1943

Neil Young65

Canadian singer-songwriter 1945

Tracy Kidder3

writer 1945

Michael Bishop25

American writer 1945

James F. Amos1

35th Commandant of the Marine Corps 1946

Hassan Rouhani28

7th President of Islamic Republic of Iran 1948

Christopher Pike52

American author Kevin Christopher McFadden 1954

Emanuel Hana Shaleta1

prelate of the Chaldean Catholic Church 1956

Megan Mullally25

American actress 1958

Nadia Comăneci1

Romanian gymnast 1961

Naomi Wolf26

American writer 1962

Neal Shusterman122

American novelist 1962

Damon Galgut1

South African writer 1963

Yang Yuanqing1

Chinese businessman 1964

Eddie Mair22

Scottish broadcaster 1965

Andrzej Majewski13

Polish writer and photographer 1966

Kathleen Hanna7

American musician and feminist activist 1968

Ian Bremmer20

American political scientist 1969

Michelle Richmond1

American writer 1970

Richelle Mead816

American writer 1976

Céline Sciamma3

French director and screenwriter 1978

Anne Hathaway8

American actress 1982

Steve Huffman6

American businessman 1983

Death

Bogumil Goltz1

German humorist and satirist 1801–1870

Elizabeth Gaskell12

novelist 1810–1865

Archibald Alexander Hodge1

American Presbyterian leader 1823–1886

Ogden Rood1

American physicist 1831–1902

Lewis Morris (poet)11

Welsh poet in the English language 1833–1907

Joseph Gurney Cannon8

American politician 1836–1926

Percival Lowell7

American astronomer 1855–1916

Emma Orczy2

Hungarian-British author of "The Scarlet Pimpernel" 1865–1947

Edmund Dene Morel1

British politician (1873-1924) 1873–1924

Dolores Ibárruri1

Spanish Republican leader of the Spanish Civil War and comm… 1895–1989

Lucian Truscott4

Recipient of the Purple Heart medal 1895–1965

Liu Shaoqi4

2nd President of the People's Republic of China (1898-1969) 1898–1969

Fumiko Enchi1

Japanese writer 1905–1986

Lord Buckley1

American actor and comedian 1906–1960

Adam Schaff13

Polish Marxist philosopher and theorist 1913–2006

Ernst von Glasersfeld9

German philosopher 1917–2010

Robert E. Machol24

American systems engineer 1917–1998

Stan Lee21

American comic book writer 1922–2018

Charles Perrow71

American sociologist 1925–2019

Ira Levin5

Novelist, playwright 1929–2007

Lucia Berlin3

American writer 1936–2004

Sally Shlaer2

American computer scientist 1938–1998

Cameron Duncan5

New Zealand filmmaker 1986–2003

Ilya Zhitomirskiy1

software developer 1989–2011