Anniversaries 12 May

Birth

Мусаси Миямото1

1584–1645

Jonathan Boucher10

English minister 1738–1804

Justus von Liebig3

German chemist 1803–1873

Robert Charles Winthrop7

American politician 1809–1894

Edward Lear21

British artist, illustrator, author and poet 1812–1888

H. W. Schneider1

1817–1887

Florence Nightingale81

English social reformer and statistician, and the founder o… 1820–1910

Dante Gabriel Rossetti33

English poet, illustrator, painter and translator 1828–1882

Thomas Rhys Davids2

British scholar 1843–1922

Henry Cabot Lodge5

American statesman 1850–1924

George E. Woodberry1

American poet and literary critic 1855–1930

Leopold Mandić3

Catholic priest; saint 1866–1942

Minnie Haskins5

British poet and sociologist 1875–1957

Theodor Reik1

austrian-american psychoanalytist 1888–1969

Kurt Student6

German Luftwaffe general during World War II 1890–1978

Jiddu Krishnamurti233

Indian spiritual philosopher 1895–1986

Paul Tournier2

Swiss physician and author, pastoral counsellor 1898–1986

Katharine Hepburn35

film, stage, and television actress 1907–2003

Nicholas Kaldor1

British/Hungarian economist 1908–1986

Dorothy Hodgkin3

British chemist 1910–1994

Brother Roger1

Swiss monk 1915–2005

Mary Kay Ash12

Entrepreneur 1918–2001

Hugh Montefiore4

British bishop 1920–2005

Vilém Flusser2

Czech philosopher and photographer 1920–1991

Joseph Beuys50

German visual artist 1921–1986

Farley Mowat3

Canadian author and environmentalist 1921–2014

Marco Denevi4

Argentine journalist, writer 1922–1998

Yogi Berra60

American baseball player, manager, coach 1925–2015

James Samuel Coleman2

American sociologist 1926–1995

Burt Bacharach1

American pianist, composer and music producer 1928

Daniel Patrick Reilly1

Roman Catholic bishop 1928

Andrey Voznesensky8

Soviet poet 1933–2010

Stephen Vizinczey8

Hungarian-Canadian writer 1933

Bob Burns III1

American film historian and actor 1935

Frank Stella39

American artist 1936

George Carlin270

American stand-up comedian 1937–2008

Ayaz Mutallibov5

Soviet politician, then president of Azerbaijan 1938–2022

Dominic Cadbury1

British businessman and member of the Cadbury chocolate man… 1940

Ian Dury2

English musician 1942–2000

Chris Patten6

British politician and colonial administrator 1944

L. Neil Smith99

American writer 1946

Michael Ignatieff21

professor at Harvard Kennedy School and former Canadian pol… 1947

Gabriel Byrne2

Irish actor, film director, film producer, writer, cultural… 1950

Vinko Vrbanić9

1951

Manouchehr Mottaki3

Iranian politician 1953

Calvin Thomas (critical theorist)4

American academic 1956

Jennifer Armstrong1

American children's writer 1961

Paul Begala5

American political consultant 1961

Nuno Brás1

Portuguese priest 1963

Tony Hawk1

American skateboarder and actor 1968

Taraneh Javanbakht5

Iranian scientist, faculty, poet, translator, playwright an… 1974

Jared Polis8

American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and US Representative 1975

Jason Biggs9

American actor 1978

Rishi Sunak2

Chancellor of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom 1980

Rami Malek2

American actor 1981

Julian Cole2

Strategy Consultant 1985

Ariana Miyamoto1

Miss Universe Japan 2015 1994

Odeya Rush2

Israeli actress 1997

Death

George Chapman60

English dramatist, poet, and translator 1559–1634

Willem Roelofs32

Dutch painter and entomologist (1822-1897) 1822–1897

Julius Hawley Seelye1

American politician 1824–1895

Richard Henry Stoddard9

American poet 1825–1903

Joris-Karl Huysmans8

French novelist and art critic 1848–1907

Arthur Quiller-Couch7

British writer and literary critic 1863–1944

Józef Piłsudski14

Polish politician and Prime Minister 1867–1935

James Connolly17

Irish republican and socialist leader 1868–1916

Shaw Neilson1

Early twentieth century Australian poet 1872–1942

Pierre Piobb1

French ophthalmologist (1874-1942) 1874–1942

Amy Lowell9

US writer 1874–1925

John Masefield17

English poet and writer 1878–1967

Max Brand1

American novelist, and short story writer 1892–1944

Aiden Wilson Tozer31

American missionary 1897–1963

Jean Dubuffet46

sculptor from France 1901–1985

Erik H. Erikson8

American German-born psychoanalyst & essayist 1902–1994

Irena Sendler7

Polish resistance fighter and Holocaust rescuer 1910–2008

Ivan Agayants3

KGB officer 1911–1968

Josephine Miles2

American poet, academic 1911–1985

James Jesus Angleton3

chief of the CIA's counterintelligence (CI) staff from 1954… 1917–1987

William Zinsser30

writer, editor, journalist, literary critic, professor 1922–2015

Mauno Koivisto2

President of Finland 1923–2017

Kenneth N. Waltz26

American political scientist and international relations th… 1924–2013

Robert Rauschenberg47

American artist 1925–2008

Simon Raven1

British writer 1927–2001

Anthony C. Yu1

American scholar of literature and religion 1938–2015

John Smith5

Labour Party leader from Scotland (1938-1994) 1938–1994

Dennis Nilsen9

British serial killer 1945–2018

Mullah Dadullah3

Afghan Taliban commander 1966–2007