Anniversaries 12 August
Birth
![Edith Hamilton photo]()
American teacher and writer
1867–1963
![Radclyffe Hall photo]()
Poet and author
1880–1943
![Erwin Schrödinger photo]()
Austrian physicist
1887–1961
![Grant MacEwan photo]()
Alberta politician, Mayor of Calgary, Lieutenant Governor o…
1902–2000
![Hans Urs Von Balthasar photo]()
Swedish Catholic theologian
1905–1988
![Philip Kapleau photo]()
American Zen Buddhist monk
1912–2004
![Vikram Sarabhai photo]()
(1919-1971), Indian physicist
1919–1971
![Hajo Meyer photo]()
Dutch physicist
1924–2014
![Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq photo]()
6th President of Pakistan
1924–1988
![Buck Owens photo]()
American country singer-songwriter
1929–2006
![George Soros photo]()
Hungarian-American business magnate, investor, and philanth…
1930
![John G. Schmitz photo]()
American politician
1930–2001
![William Goldman photo]()
American novelist, screenwriter and playwright
1931–2018
![Irfan Habib photo]()
Left Leaning Historian
1931
![Dallin H. Oaks photo]()
Apostle of the LDs Church
1932
![Hans Haacke photo]()
conceptual political artist
1936
![Walter Dean Myers photo]()
American writer
1937–2014
![David King (chemist) photo]()
British academic and scientific adviser
1939
![Martha Stout photo]()
American psychologist
1953
![Leung Chun-ying photo]()
Hong Kong politician
1954
![Pat Metheny photo]()
American jazz musician
1954
![François Hollande photo]()
24th President of the French Republic
1954
![Ann M. Martin photo]()
American writer of children's literature
1955
![Anthony Swofford photo]()
American writer and United States Marine
1970
![Michael Ian Black photo]()
American comedian, actor, writer, and director
1971
![Kiki Mordi photo]()
Nkiru "Kiki" Mordi is a Nigerian investigative journalist, …
1991
Death
![Cleopatra VII photo]()
last active pharaoh of Ptolemaic Egypt
-69–-30 BC
![William Blake photo]()
English Romantic poet and artist
1757–1827
![Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh photo]()
British politician
1769–1822
![George Stephenson photo]()
English civil engineer and mechanical engineer
1781–1848
![James Russell Lowell photo]()
American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat
1819–1891
![Helen Hunt Jackson photo]()
Novelist, poet, writer, activist
1830–1885
![María Amparo Ruiz de Burton photo]()
Mexican-American writer
1832–1895
![Henry Becque photo]()
French dramatist
1837–1899
![Martin Lomasney photo]()
American politician
1859–1933
![Thomas Mann photo]()
German novelist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate
1875–1955
![Ernst Chain photo]()
German scientist
1906–1979
![Ian Fleming photo]()
English author, journalist and naval intelligence officer
1908–1964
![William Shockley photo]()
American physicist and inventor
1910–1989
![John Cage photo]()
American avant-garde composer
1912–1992
![Jean Drapeau photo]()
former mayor of Montreal, Quebec (1954-1957,1960-1986)
1916–1999
![Lauren Bacall photo]()
American actress, model
1924–2014
![Samir Amin photo]()
Egyptian economist
1931–2018
![B. Kliban photo]()
American cartoonist
1935–1990
![Джеймс Маккей photo]()
British writer and philatelist
1936–2007
![Isaac Bonewits photo]()
Neopagan leader, author, and neo-druid priest
1949–2010
![Jean-Michel Basquiat photo]()
American artist
1960–1988
![Jake Davison photo]()
British mass murderer, perpetrator of the Plymouth shooting
