Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/September 12
Births
[edit]- 1492 - Lorenzo II de' Medici, Duke of Urbino (d. 1519) (pictured)
- 1575 - Henry Hudson, English explorer
- 1852 - H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1928)
- 1888 - Maurice Chevalier, French singer and actor (d. 1972)
- 1897 - Irène Joliot-Curie, French physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 1956)
- 1913 - Jesse Owens, American athlete (d. 1980)
- 1957 - Hans Zimmer, German composer
- 1994 - Taylor Ware, American singer and yodeler
Deaths
[edit]- 413 - Marcellinus of Carthage, Christian saint
- 1185 - Andronikos I Komnenos (b. 1118)
- 1764 - Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer (b. 1683)
- 1819 - Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Prussian general (b. 1742)
- 1869 - Peter Mark Roget, British lexicographer (b. 1779)
- 1945 - Hajime Sugiyama, Japanese general (b. 1880)
- 1977 - Steve Biko, South African anti-apartheid activist (b. 1946)
- 1982 - Grace Kelly, American actress and Princess of Monaco (b. 1929)