Anniversaries 12 February
Birth
![Thomas Campion photo]()
English composer, poet and physician
1567–1620
![Cotton Mather photo]()
American religious minister and scientific writer
1663–1728
![Tadeusz Kościuszko photo]()
Polish and American military leader
1746–1817
![Abraham Lincoln photo]()
16th President of the United States
1809–1865
![Charles Darwin photo]()
British naturalist, author of "On the origin of species, by…
1809–1882
![James Dwight Dana photo]()
American mineralogist
1813–1895
![William Wetmore Story photo]()
American sculptor, art critic, poet, translator and editor
1819–1895
![Dayanand Saraswati photo]()
founder of the Arya Samaj, a Hindu reform movement
1824–1883
![George Meredith photo]()
British novelist and poet of the Victorian era
1828–1909
![John L. Lewis photo]()
American labor leader
1880–1969
![Carlo Carrà photo]()
Italian painter
1881–1966
![Anna Pavlova photo]()
Russian ballet dancer
1881–1931
![Alice Roosevelt Longworth photo]()
American writer and prominent socialite
1884–1980
![Julius Streicher photo]()
German politician
1885–1946
![Omar Bradley photo]()
United States Army field commander during World War II
1893–1981
![Joseph the Hesychast photo]()
Greek Orthodox Christian Athonite monk
1897–1959
![Lev Artsimovich photo]()
Soviet physicist
1909–1973
![Julian Schwinger photo]()
American theoretical physicist
1918–1994
![William Roscoe Estep photo]()
American theologian
1920–2000
![Joan Mitchell photo]()
American painter
1925–1992
![Arlen Specter photo]()
American politician; former United States Senator from Penn…
1930–2012
![Julian Simon photo]()
American economist
1932–1998
![Bill Russell photo]()
American professional basketball player and coach
1934
![Fang Lizhi photo]()
Professor of astrophysics; civil rights activist and dissid…
1936–2012
![Judy Blume photo]()
American children's writer
1938
![Ehud Barak photo]()
Israeli politician and prime minister
1942
![David Small photo]()
American children's illustrator and writer
1945
![Luiz Carlos Alborghetti photo]()
Italian-Brazilian radio commenter, showman and political fi…
1945–2009
![David D. Friedman photo]()
American economist, physicist, legal scholar, and libertari…
1945
![Ian Plimer photo]()
Australian geologist
1946
![Ray Kurzweil photo]()
Author, scientist, inventor, and futurist
1948
![Phil Zimmermann photo]()
creator of Pretty Good Privacy
1954
![Joe Dever photo]()
British writer and game designer
1956–2016
![Adam Kilgarriff photo]()
linguist from England
1960–2015
![David Graeber photo]()
American anthropologist and anarchist
1961
![Ben Sherwood photo]()
American author, journalist, and entrepreneur
1964
![Brett Kavanaugh photo]()
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
1965
![Elizabeth Falkner photo]()
American television chef
1966
![Christopher McCandless photo]()
American hiker and explorer
1968–1992
![Lin Ching-yi photo]()
Taiwanese politician
1974
![Cha Cha (rapper) photo]()
American rapper, radio personality and actress
1980
Death
![Brother Lawrence photo]()
French Christian monk
1614–1691
![Immanuel Kant photo]()
German philosopher
1724–1804
![Ethan Allen photo]()
American general
1738–1789
![Friedrich Schleiermacher photo]()
German theologian, philosopher, and biblical scholar
1768–1834
![William Francis Patrick Napier photo]()
Irish soldier in the British Army and military historian
1785–1860
![Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky photo]()
Russian mathematician of Ukrainian origin
1792–1856
![Alice Cary photo]()
American writer
1820–1871
![Fanny J. Crosby photo]()
American poet, lyricist and composer
1820–1915
![Joseph Arch photo]()
British politician
1826–1919
![John Townsend Trowbridge photo]()
American author
1827–1916
![Hans von Bülow photo]()
German musician
1830–1894
![Richard Dedekind photo]()
German mathematician
1831–1916
![Auguste Escoffier photo]()
French chef, restaurateur, and culinary writer
1846–1935
![Paolo Troubetzkoy photo]()
Russian sculptor (1866-1938)
1866–1938
![Julius Ruska photo]()
German historian
1867–1949
![Kurt Lewin photo]()
German-American psychologist
1890–1947
![Jean Renoir photo]()
French film director and screenwriter
1894–1979
![Herman Dooyeweerd photo]()
Dutch philosopher
1894–1977
![George Antheil photo]()
American avant-garde composer, pianist, author and inventor
1900–1959
![Michel Seuphor photo]()
designer, draughtsman, painter
1901–1999
![Hassan Banna photo]()
Egyptian politician
1906–1949
![Christopher Caudwell photo]()
British Marxist literary critic, journalist and writer
1907–1937
![Muriel Rukeyser photo]()
poet and political activist
1913–1980
![Julio Cortázar photo]()
Argentinian writer
1914–1984
![Lyndon LaRouche photo]()
American political activist and founder of the LaRouche mov…
1922–2019
![Charles M. Schulz photo]()
American cartoonist
1922–2000
![Tom Landry photo]()
Coach of the Dallas Cowboys
1924–2000
![Thomas Bernhard photo]()
Austrian writer
1931–1989
![Imad Mughniyah photo]()
Lebanese militant, head of security for Hezbollah
1962–2008
