Anniversaries 12 November
Birth
![Qi Jiguang photo]()
Ming Dynasty general
1527–1588
![Richard Baxter photo]()
English Puritan church leader, poet, and hymn-writer
1615–1691
![Juana Inés de la Cruz photo]()
Nun, scholar and poet in New Spain
1651–1695
![Mary Astell photo]()
English feminist writer
1666–1731
![Joseph Hopkinson photo]()
United States federal judge
1770–1842
![Charles Bell photo]()
Scottish surgeon and artist (1774-1842)
1774–1842
![Elizabeth Cady Stanton photo]()
Suffragist and Women's Rights activist
1815–1902
![Bahá'u'lláh photo]()
founder of the Bahá'í Faith
1817–1892
![Monier Monier-Williams photo]()
Linguist and dictionary compiler
1819–1899
![Alexander Borodin photo]()
Russian composer, doctor and chemist
1833–1887
![Auguste Rodin photo]()
French sculptor
1840–1917
![John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh photo]()
English physicist
1842–1919
![Nixon Waterman photo]()
American writer
1859–1944
![Sun Yat-sen photo]()
Chinese physician, politician and revolutionary
1866–1925
![Bert Williams photo]()
American comedian and actor
1874–1922
![Ben Travers photo]()
English writer of plays, screenplays, novels, and three mem…
1886–1980
![Harry Blackmun photo]()
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
1908–1999
![Edward Schillebeeckx photo]()
Belgian theologian
1914–2009
![Roland Barthes photo]()
French philosopher, critic and literary theorist
1915–1980
![Tadeusz Borowski photo]()
Polish writer and journalist
1922–1951
![Grace Kelly photo]()
American actress and Princess consort of Monaco
1929–1982
![Anthony Pilla photo]()
auxiliary Bishop of Cleveland, titular Bishop of Scardona, …
1932
![Jalal Talabani photo]()
Iraqi politician
1933–2017
![Charles Manson photo]()
American criminal and musician
1934–2017
![Lucia Berlin photo]()
American writer
1936–2004
![Benjamin Mkapa photo]()
Tanzanian politician and former president
1938
![Wallace Shawn photo]()
American actor, playwright, and essayist
1943
![Neil Young photo]()
Canadian singer-songwriter
1945
![James F. Amos photo]()
35th Commandant of the Marine Corps
1946
![Hassan Rouhani photo]()
7th President of Islamic Republic of Iran
1948
![Christopher Pike photo]()
American author Kevin Christopher McFadden
1954
![Emanuel Hana Shaleta photo]()
prelate of the Chaldean Catholic Church
1956
![Damon Galgut photo]()
South African writer
1963
![Eddie Mair photo]()
Scottish broadcaster
1965
![Andrzej Majewski photo]()
Polish writer and photographer
1966
![Kathleen Hanna photo]()
American musician and feminist activist
1968
![Ian Bremmer photo]()
American political scientist
1969
![Céline Sciamma photo]()
French director and screenwriter
1978
![Steve Huffman photo]()
American businessman
1983
Death
![Bogumil Goltz photo]()
German humorist and satirist
1801–1870
![Archibald Alexander Hodge photo]()
American Presbyterian leader
1823–1886
![Ogden Rood photo]()
American physicist
1831–1902
![Lewis Morris (poet) photo]()
Welsh poet in the English language
1833–1907
![Joseph Gurney Cannon photo]()
American politician
1836–1926
![Percival Lowell photo]()
American astronomer
1855–1916
![Emma Orczy photo]()
Hungarian-British author of "The Scarlet Pimpernel"
1865–1947
![Edmund Dene Morel photo]()
British politician (1873-1924)
1873–1924
![Dolores Ibárruri photo]()
Spanish Republican leader of the Spanish Civil War and comm…
1895–1989
![Lucian Truscott photo]()
Recipient of the Purple Heart medal
1895–1965
![Liu Shaoqi photo]()
2nd President of the People's Republic of China (1898-1969)
1898–1969
![Fumiko Enchi photo]()
Japanese writer
1905–1986
![Lord Buckley photo]()
American actor and comedian
1906–1960
![Adam Schaff photo]()
Polish Marxist philosopher and theorist
1913–2006
![Ernst von Glasersfeld photo]()
German philosopher
1917–2010
![Robert E. Machol photo]()
American systems engineer
1917–1998
![Stan Lee photo]()
American comic book writer
1922–2018
![Charles Perrow photo]()
American sociologist
1925–2019
![Ira Levin photo]()
Novelist, playwright
1929–2007
![Lucia Berlin photo]()
American writer
1936–2004
![Sally Shlaer photo]()
American computer scientist
1938–1998
![Cameron Duncan photo]()
New Zealand filmmaker
1986–2003
![Ilya Zhitomirskiy photo]()
software developer
1989–2011
