Anniversaries 12 February

Birth

Moinuddin Chishti5

Sufi saint 1142–1236

Thomas Campion5

English composer, poet and physician 1567–1620

Cotton Mather6

American religious minister and scientific writer 1663–1728

William Mason (poet)1

poet 1724–1797

Tadeusz Kościuszko3

Polish and American military leader 1746–1817

Abraham Lincoln618

16th President of the United States 1809–1865

Charles Darwin161

British naturalist, author of "On the origin of species, by… 1809–1882

James Dwight Dana1

American mineralogist 1813–1895

William Wetmore Story5

American sculptor, art critic, poet, translator and editor 1819–1895

Dayanand Saraswati2

founder of the Arya Samaj, a Hindu reform movement 1824–1883

George Meredith45

British novelist and poet of the Victorian era 1828–1909

John L. Lewis9

American labor leader 1880–1969

Carlo Carrà15

Italian painter 1881–1966

Anna Pavlova2

Russian ballet dancer 1881–1931

Alice Roosevelt Longworth6

American writer and prominent socialite 1884–1980

Julius Streicher43

German politician 1885–1946

Omar Bradley26

United States Army field commander during World War II 1893–1981

Joseph the Hesychast1

Greek Orthodox Christian Athonite monk 1897–1959

Lev Artsimovich3

Soviet physicist 1909–1973

Julian Schwinger3

American theoretical physicist 1918–1994

Russell L. Ackoff70

Scientist 1919–2009

William Roscoe Estep1

American theologian 1920–2000

Joan Mitchell17

American painter 1925–1992

Arlen Specter7

American politician; former United States Senator from Penn… 1930–2012

Julian Simon3

American economist 1932–1998

Bill Russell5

American professional basketball player and coach 1934

Fang Lizhi4

Professor of astrophysics; civil rights activist and dissid… 1936–2012

Judy Blume36

American children's writer 1938

Leon R. Kass20

American academic 1939

Ehud Barak8

Israeli politician and prime minister 1942

David Small1

American children's illustrator and writer 1945

Luiz Carlos Alborghetti23

Italian-Brazilian radio commenter, showman and political fi… 1945–2009

David D. Friedman12

American economist, physicist, legal scholar, and libertari… 1945

Ian Plimer11

Australian geologist 1946

Ray Kurzweil40

Author, scientist, inventor, and futurist 1948

Katharine Chang3

Taiwanese diplomat 1953

Phil Zimmermann2

creator of Pretty Good Privacy 1954

Majalli Wahabi1

Israeli politician 1954

Joe Dever1

British writer and game designer 1956–2016

George Elliott Clarke1

Canadian writer 1960

Adam Kilgarriff4

linguist from England 1960–2015

David Graeber55

American anthropologist and anarchist 1961

Jacqueline Woodson18

American writer 1963

Ben Sherwood4

American author, journalist, and entrepreneur 1964

Brett Kavanaugh4

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States 1965

Elizabeth Falkner1

American television chef 1966

Кристофер Джонсон МакКэндлесс1

1968–1992

Christopher McCandless9

American hiker and explorer 1968–1992

Lin Ching-yi1

Taiwanese politician 1974

Cha Cha (rapper)2

American rapper, radio personality and actress 1980

Death

Brother Lawrence7

French Christian monk 1614–1691

Immanuel Kant200

German philosopher 1724–1804

Ethan Allen40

American general 1738–1789

Andrew Cherry2

irish writer 1762–1812

Friedrich Schleiermacher6

German theologian, philosopher, and biblical scholar 1768–1834

William Francis Patrick Napier1

Irish soldier in the British Army and military historian 1785–1860

Ludwig Börne1

German writer 1786–1837

Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky1

Russian mathematician of Ukrainian origin 1792–1856

Alice Cary5

American writer 1820–1871

Fanny J. Crosby3

American poet, lyricist and composer 1820–1915

Joseph Arch12

British politician 1826–1919

John Townsend Trowbridge11

American author 1827–1916

Hans von Bülow3

German musician 1830–1894

Richard Dedekind13

German mathematician 1831–1916

Auguste Escoffier2

French chef, restaurateur, and culinary writer 1846–1935

Paolo Troubetzkoy1

Russian sculptor (1866-1938) 1866–1938

Julius Ruska1

German historian 1867–1949

Kurt Lewin48

German-American psychologist 1890–1947

Jean Renoir1

French film director and screenwriter 1894–1979

Herman Dooyeweerd1

Dutch philosopher 1894–1977

Leslie Sarony1

British singer 1897–1985

George Antheil9

American avant-garde composer, pianist, author and inventor 1900–1959

Michel Seuphor9

designer, draughtsman, painter 1901–1999

Hassan Banna3

Egyptian politician 1906–1949

Christopher Caudwell10

British Marxist literary critic, journalist and writer 1907–1937

Muriel Rukeyser42

poet and political activist 1913–1980

Julio Cortázar29

Argentinian writer 1914–1984

Lyndon LaRouche8

American political activist and founder of the LaRouche mov… 1922–2019

Charles M. Schulz8

American cartoonist 1922–2000

Tom Landry2

Coach of the Dallas Cowboys 1924–2000

Donald Judd33

artist 1928–1994

Thomas Bernhard15

Austrian writer 1931–1989

Imad Mughniyah2

Lebanese militant, head of security for Hezbollah 1962–2008