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August 12
(Redirected from 12 August)
August 12 is the 224th day of the year (225th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 141 days remaining.
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Events
1000-1899
1900-1999
2000-2099
Births
1500-1899
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1503 - Christian III of Denmark and Norway (d. 1559)
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1604 - Tokugawa Iemitsu, 3rd Tokugawa shogun (d. 1651)
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1629 - Tsar Alexei I of Russia (d. 1676)
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1774 - Robert Southey, poet, biographer (d. 1843)
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1831 - Helena Blavatsky, author (d. 1891)
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1859 - Katherine Lee Bates, poet, author of America the Beautiful (d. 1929)
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1876 - Mary Roberts Rinehart , author (d. 1958)
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1880 - Christy Mathewson, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame (d. 1925)
- 1880 - Radclyffe Hall, British author (d. 1943)
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1881 - Cecil B. DeMille, director (d. 1959)
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1883 - Pauline Frederick , stage actress & film star (d.1938)
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1887 - Erwin Schrödinger, physicist (d. 1961)
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1892 - Alfred Lunt, actor (d. 1977)
1900-1999
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1904 - Alexei Nikolaevich Romanov, Tsarevich, heir to the throne of Russia (d. 1918)
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1906 - Pauline Frederick , journalist (d. 1990)
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1907 - Joe Besser , actor, comedian; member of the Three Stooges (d. 1988)
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1911 - Cantinflas (Mario Moreno Reyes), actor (d. 1993)
- 1911 - Jane Wyatt, actress
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1924 - Muhammad Zia ul-Haq, Leader of Pakistan, (d. 1988)
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1926 - John Derek , actor (d. 1998)
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1927 - Mstislav Rostropovich, cellist
- 1927 - Porter Wagoner, country and western singer
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1928 - Dan Curtis, movie and television producer and director
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1929 - Buck Owens, country and western singer
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1930 - George Soros American businessman
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1931 - William Goldman, screenwriter
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1933 - Parnelli Jones , auto racer
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1939 - George Hamilton, actor
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1949 - Mark Knopfler, musician
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1954 - Pat Metheny, guitarist
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1971 - Pete Sampras, tennis player
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1972 - Censored page, actress
- 1972 - Takanohana Kōji , sumo wrestler (65th yokozuna)
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1973 - Richard Reid, alleged Al-Qaida operative; "the shoe bomber"
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1976 - Antoine Walker, basketball player
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1977 - Plaxico Burress, American football player
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1988 - Leah Pipes, actress
Deaths
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1900-1999
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1914 - John Philip Holland, early submarine designer (b. 1840)
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1918 - Anna Held, actress amd singer, (b. 1872)
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1923 - Vatrslav Jagić - Croatian philologist (b. 1838)
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1928 - Leos Janacek, Czech composer
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1948 - Harry Brearley, inventor of stainless steel
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1955 - Thomas Mann, German author
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1964 - Ian Fleming, British novelist
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1968 - Angus Walters , schooner captain
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1982 - Henry Fonda, American actor
- 1982 - Joe Tex (Joseph Arrington), singer
- 1982 - Salvador Sanchez world champion boxer
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1985 - Manfred Winkelhock, auto racing driver
- 1985 - Kyu Sakamoto, singer (b. 1941)
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1989 - William Shockley, physicist
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1992 - John Cage, American composer
2000-2099
Holidays and observations
August 11 - August 13 - July 12 - September 12 -- listing of all days
Last updated: 02-08-2005 06:05:22
Last updated: 05-03-2005 17:50:55
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