Anniversaries 12 May
Birth
![Jonathan Boucher photo]()
English minister
1738–1804
![Robert Charles Winthrop photo]()
American politician
1809–1894
![Edward Lear photo]()
British artist, illustrator, author and poet
1812–1888
![Florence Nightingale photo]()
English social reformer and statistician, and the founder o…
1820–1910
![Dante Gabriel Rossetti photo]()
English poet, illustrator, painter and translator
1828–1882
![Thomas Rhys Davids photo]()
British scholar
1843–1922
![Henry Cabot Lodge photo]()
American statesman
1850–1924
![George E. Woodberry photo]()
American poet and literary critic
1855–1930
![Leopold Mandić photo]()
Catholic priest; saint
1866–1942
![Minnie Haskins photo]()
British poet and sociologist
1875–1957
![Theodor Reik photo]()
austrian-american psychoanalytist
1888–1969
![Kurt Student photo]()
German Luftwaffe general during World War II
1890–1978
![Jiddu Krishnamurti photo]()
Indian spiritual philosopher
1895–1986
![Paul Tournier photo]()
Swiss physician and author, pastoral counsellor
1898–1986
![Katharine Hepburn photo]()
film, stage, and television actress
1907–2003
![Nicholas Kaldor photo]()
British/Hungarian economist
1908–1986
![Dorothy Hodgkin photo]()
British chemist
1910–1994
![Vilém Flusser photo]()
Czech philosopher and photographer
1920–1991
![Joseph Beuys photo]()
German visual artist
1921–1986
![Farley Mowat photo]()
Canadian author and environmentalist
1921–2014
![Marco Denevi photo]()
Argentine journalist, writer
1922–1998
![Yogi Berra photo]()
American baseball player, manager, coach
1925–2015
![James Samuel Coleman photo]()
American sociologist
1926–1995
![Burt Bacharach photo]()
American pianist, composer and music producer
1928
![Daniel Patrick Reilly photo]()
Roman Catholic bishop
1928
![Stephen Vizinczey photo]()
Hungarian-Canadian writer
1933
![Bob Burns III photo]()
American film historian and actor
1935
![George Carlin photo]()
American stand-up comedian
1937–2008
![Ayaz Mutallibov photo]()
Soviet politician, then president of Azerbaijan
1938–2022
![Dominic Cadbury photo]()
British businessman and member of the Cadbury chocolate man…
1940
![Ian Dury photo]()
English musician
1942–2000
![Chris Patten photo]()
British politician and colonial administrator
1944
![Michael Ignatieff photo]()
professor at Harvard Kennedy School and former Canadian pol…
1947
![Gabriel Byrne photo]()
Irish actor, film director, film producer, writer, cultural…
1950
![Jennifer Armstrong photo]()
American children's writer
1961
![Paul Begala photo]()
American political consultant
1961
![Tony Hawk photo]()
American skateboarder and actor
1968
![Taraneh Javanbakht photo]()
Iranian scientist, faculty, poet, translator, playwright an…
1974
![Jared Polis photo]()
American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and US Representative
1975
![Rishi Sunak photo]()
Chancellor of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom
1980
![Ariana Miyamoto photo]()
Miss Universe Japan 2015
1994
Death
![George Chapman photo]()
English dramatist, poet, and translator
1559–1634
![Willem Roelofs photo]()
Dutch painter and entomologist (1822-1897)
1822–1897
![Julius Hawley Seelye photo]()
American politician
1824–1895
![Joris-Karl Huysmans photo]()
French novelist and art critic
1848–1907
![Arthur Quiller-Couch photo]()
British writer and literary critic
1863–1944
![Józef Piłsudski photo]()
Polish politician and Prime Minister
1867–1935
![James Connolly photo]()
Irish republican and socialist leader
1868–1916
![Shaw Neilson photo]()
Early twentieth century Australian poet
1872–1942
![Pierre Piobb photo]()
French ophthalmologist (1874-1942)
1874–1942
![John Masefield photo]()
English poet and writer
1878–1967
![Max Brand photo]()
American novelist, and short story writer
1892–1944
![Aiden Wilson Tozer photo]()
American missionary
1897–1963
![Jean Dubuffet photo]()
sculptor from France
1901–1985
![Erik H. Erikson photo]()
American German-born psychoanalyst & essayist
1902–1994
![Irena Sendler photo]()
Polish resistance fighter and Holocaust rescuer
1910–2008
![Josephine Miles photo]()
American poet, academic
1911–1985
![James Jesus Angleton photo]()
chief of the CIA's counterintelligence (CI) staff from 1954…
1917–1987
![William Zinsser photo]()
writer, editor, journalist, literary critic, professor
1922–2015
![Mauno Koivisto photo]()
President of Finland
1923–2017
![Kenneth N. Waltz photo]()
American political scientist and international relations th…
1924–2013
![Robert Rauschenberg photo]()
American artist
1925–2008
![Anthony C. Yu photo]()
American scholar of literature and religion
1938–2015
![John Smith photo]()
Labour Party leader from Scotland (1938-1994)
1938–1994
![Dennis Nilsen photo]()
British serial killer
1945–2018
![Mullah Dadullah photo]()
Afghan Taliban commander
1966–2007
