On This Day — January 12
4398 noted people were born and 2182 died on January 12 in our archive, including Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, Michel Mayor and Alain Corbin.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on January 12
Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro
1853 – 1925
Michel Mayor
b. 1942
Alain Corbin
b. 1936
Alex Ross
b. 1968
Alexander Pochinok
1958 – 2014
Anna Fotyga
b. 1957
Carme Riera
b. 1948
Charles Oman
1860 – 1946
Christiane Amanpour
b. 1958
Claude Delvincourt
1888 – 1954
Dinmukhamed Konayev
1912 – 1993
Edward Bartow
1870 – 1958
Fiona Caldicott
1941 – 2021
Forman A. Williams
b. 1934
George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon
1800 – 1870
Gleb Krzhizhanovsky
1872 – 1959
Harry Anderson
b. 1964
Ilya Prigogine
1917 – 2003
Jeff Bezos
b. 1964
Jim Gray
1944 – 2012
John Birks
b. 1945
John George Adami
1862 – 1926
John Lasseter
b. 1957
Judith Berman
b. 1957
Lazzaro Spallanzani
1729 – 1799
Mieczysław Jagielski
1924 – 1997
Nikolai Tikhomirov
1952 – 2026
Norair Sisakian
1907 – 1966
Piotr Serafin
b. 1974
Richard Evans Schultes
1915 – 2001
Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe
1858 – 1945
Shumon Miura
1926 – 2017
Sir William McAlpine, 6th Baronet
1936 – 2018
Vasile Botnaru
b. 1957
Abd el-Krim
1882 – 1963
Alasdair MacIntyre
1929 – 2025
Alexander Vladimirovich Martynov
b. 1981
Alfred Rosenberg
1893 – 1946
Alina Pienkowska
1952 – 2002
André Marin
b. 1965
Anton Uesson
1879 – 1942
António Vitorino
b. 1957
Arkadiusz Rybicki
1953 – 2010
Aron Dotan
1928 – 2022
Arthur Engel
1928 – 2022
Axel Gehrke
1942 – 2021
Benjamin Garver Lamme
1864 – 1924
Bernardine Dohrn
b. 1942
Boris Khimichev
1938 – 2014
Brendan Foster
b. 1948
Brigitte Girardin
b. 1953
Brooke Westcott
1825 – 1901
Charles F. West
1895 – 1955
Charles L. Kane
b. 1963
Christian Pløyen
1803 – 1867
Christopher Cocksworth
b. 1959
Daijirō Hashimoto
b. 1947
David Noel Ramírez Padilla
1950 – 2025
David Wechsler
1896 – 1981
Denny Abdi
b. 1970
Dmitry Ushakov
1873 – 1942
Dorothy Riddle
b. 1944
Eckart Förster
b. 1952
Edmund Burke
1729 – 1797
Emily Mason
1932 – 2019
Emmanuel Levinas
1906 – 1995
Erik Gustaf Geijer
1783 – 1847
Ettore Perrone di San Martino
1789 – 1849
Fale Burman
1903 – 1973
Ferenc Molnár
1878 – 1952
Fevzi Çakmak
1876 – 1950
Floriane Chinsky
b. 1974
Frank J. Hogan
1877 – 1944
François Noël
1756 – 1841
Georgi Karaslavov
1904 – 1980
Gerhard Bast
1911 – 1947
Gianni Riotta
b. 1954
Gordon Campbell
b. 1948
Guillaume Guizot
1833 – 1892
Haruki Murakami
b. 1949
Hazel Cosgrove, Lady Cosgrove
b. 1946
Hedayat Amin Arsala
1942 – 2025
Hermann Göring
1893 – 1946
Hilary Weston
1942 – 2025
Horst Möller
b. 1943
Howard Cedar
b. 1943
J Allard
b. 1969
Jaakko Hintikka
1929 – 2015
Jakob Jud
1882 – 1952
James Bennett Griffin
1905 – 1997
James Mark Baldwin
1861 – 1934
James William Colvile
1810 – 1880
Jean Béraud
1849 – 1935
Jean-Louis Bianco
b. 1943
Jimmy John Liautaud
b. 1964
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
1746 – 1827
Johannes Vares
1890 – 1946
John A. Farrell
b. 1953
John Donald
1869 – 1934
John Lott
b. 1959
Josep Maria Flotats
b. 1939
Joseph Joffre
1852 – 1931
Juan Carlos Monedero
b. 1963
Józef Andrzej Załuski
1702 – 1774
Kairat Umarov
b. 1963
Kataoka Shichirō
1854 – 1920
Kensuke Mitsuda
1876 – 1964
Khudadat bey Rafibeyli
1878 – 1920
Knut Ångström
1857 – 1910
Kurt Jooss
1901 – 1979
Ludwig Traube
1818 – 1876
Madhabi Puri Buch
b. 1965
Malcolm Macnaghten
1869 – 1955
Mark Soosaar
b. 1946
Mats Hellström
1942 – 2026
Maurice Lemonnier
1860 – 1930
Maurizio Cenni
b. 1955
Maybrit Illner
b. 1965
Mikhail Speransky
1772 – 1839
Milton Sills
1882 – 1930
Morton Feldman
1926 – 1987
Mosharraf Hossain
1943 – 2026
Naya Rivera
1987 – 2020
Oleksii Remeniuk
1956 – 2022
Olof Herrlin
1914 – 1992
P. W. Botha
1916 – 2006
Paul Collins
b. 1969
Paul Hermann Müller
1899 – 1965
Pedro González-Bueno y Bocos
1896 – 1985
Pierre de Lauzun
b. 1949
Pieter B. Pelser
b. 1976
Raimonds Pauls
1936 – 2022
Ramin Mehmanparast
b. 1958
Raoul Palmgren
1912 – 1995
Ray Barnhart
1928 – 2013
Remigijus Šimašius
b. 1974
René David
1906 – 1990
Richard Carwardine
b. 1947
Richard Sulík
b. 1968
Riina Sikkut
b. 1983
Roy Jack
1914 – 1977
Rush Limbaugh
1951 – 2021
Ruth R. Benerito
1916 – 2013
Ryszard Szurkowski
1946 – 2021
Ryuhei Kawada
b. 1976
Saikat Chakrabarti
b. 1986
Sergey Ivanenko
1959 – 2024
Sergey Karjakin
b. 1990
Sergey Prikhodko
1957 – 2021
Sheila Jackson Lee
1950 – 2024
Shin Kyung-sook
b. 1963
Sir Harford Jones-Brydges, 1st Baronet
1764 – 1847
Sir Robert Inglis, 2nd Baronet
1786 – 1855
Stanyslav Liudkevych
1879 – 1979
Stephen C. O'Connell
1916 – 2001
Suzette Sandoz
b. 1942
Tamás Aján
b. 1939
Uma Shankar Dikshit
1901 – 1991
Veerappa Moily
b. 1940
Viktor Shklovsky
1893 – 1984
Vivien Swan
1943 – 2009
Vladimir Mulyavin
1941 – 2003
Vüsal Hüseynov
b. 1980
Walter Hendl
1917 – 2007
Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de Wette
1780 – 1849
Wilhelm Philippe Schimper
1808 – 1880
William Charles Goddard Knowles
1908 – 1969
William Coley
1862 – 1936
William Herbert
1778 – 1847
William Mabane, 1st Baron Mabane
1895 – 1969
Yellapragada Subbarow
1895 – 1948
Yoon Young-kwan
b. 1951
Yuliya Tsimafeyeva
b. 1982
ZZ Packer
b. 1973
Zeba Islam Seraj
b. 1958
Zlata Ognevich
b. 1986
Émile Lahoud
b. 1936
Abhijat Joshi
b. 1969
Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury
1938 – 2026
Achille Valois
1785 – 1862
Adam Christian Thebesius
1686 – 1732
Adam Cwejman
b. 1985
Adina Pintilie
b. 1980
Adolphe Reinach
1887 – 1914
Ahmad Faraz
1931 – 2008
Ahmed Lawan
b. 1959
Ajay Maken
b. 1964
Akanat Promphan
b. 1986
Aleksander Läte
1860 – 1948
Aleksandr Blokhin
b. 1951
Alexander Bonde
b. 1975
Alexander Ekman
b. 1984
Alexis Simon Belle
1674 – 1734
Alfredo Pacheco
b. 1959
Aliaksandr Shakutsin
b. 1959
Allisha Gray
b. 1995
Alpheus Harding
1818 – 1903
Aman Mani Tripathi
b. 1982
Amelia Womack
b. 1985
Andrew J. Transue
1903 – 1995
… and 4,198 more
Died on January 12
Jean-Louis Koszul
1921 – 2018
John Scott Keltie
1840 – 1927
Olga Ladyzhenskaya
1922 – 2004
Roger Scruton
1944 – 2020
August Witkowski
1854 – 1913
Bartel Leendert van der Waerden
1903 – 1996
Carolyn D. Wright
1949 – 2016
Charles Brenton Huggins
1901 – 1997
Cyrus Vance
1917 – 2002
Earl Muetterties
1927 – 1984
Günther Landgraf
1928 – 2006
Johan Wingård
1738 – 1818
Karl Kordesch
1922 – 2011
Luigi Nicolais
1942 – 2026
Meier Schwarz
1926 – 2022
Paul Johnson
1928 – 2023
Robert V. Kohn
1953 – 2026
Roberto Noble
1902 – 1969
Roland Riz
1927 – 2026
Sergey Orlov
1880 – 1958
Shlomo Eckstein
1929 – 2020
Sir Thomas Barlow, 1st Baronet
1845 – 1945
Adriaan Kluit
1735 – 1807
Adriano González León
1931 – 2008
Afrânio Peixoto
1876 – 1947
Ambroise Auguste Tardieu
1818 – 1879
André Oscar Wallenberg
1816 – 1886
Anthony King
1934 – 2017
Arisaka Nariakira
1852 – 1915
Arne Næss
1912 – 2009
Catherine Samie
1933 – 2026
Charles Tate Regan
1878 – 1943
Connie Binsfeld
1924 – 2014
Daniel Richard
1944 – 2023
Dimitrios Vernardakis
1833 – 1907
Désiré Dalloz
1795 – 1869
Edmond Duvernoy
1844 – 1927
Edvard Eriksen
1876 – 1959
Elena Obraztsova
1939 – 2015
Everett Lee
1916 – 2022
Florentin Crihălmeanu
1959 – 2021
František Janouch
1931 – 2024
Franz Dinghofer
1873 – 1956
Frederick John Melville
1882 – 1940
Friedrich Schlegel
1772 – 1829
Friedrich Wilhelm von Bissing
1873 – 1956
Georg Jellinek
1851 – 1911
Giulio Angioni
1939 – 2017
Gustav Guanella
1909 – 1982
Halet Çambel
1916 – 2014
Hans Rupe
1866 – 1951
Harold Brown
1924 – 2023
Henri Dorion
1935 – 2026
Henry Goulburn
1784 – 1856
Henry Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle
1785 – 1851
Henry S. Reuss
1912 – 2002
Herbert Goldstein
1922 – 2005
Hermann Minkowski
1864 – 1909
Holland Smith
1882 – 1967
Ilya Ulyanov
1831 – 1886
Ioannykii Malynovskyi
1868 – 1932
Izzat Klychev
1923 – 2006
Jaan Unt
1947 – 2012
Jacques-Joseph Corbière
1766 – 1853
James Caulfeild, 3rd Earl of Charlemont
1820 – 1892
James Francis Garrick
1836 – 1907
James Killen
1925 – 2007
James Renwick
1790 – 1863
Jan Mårtenson
1933 – 2026
Jean Gilbert Victor Fialin, duke of Persigny
1808 – 1872
Jean Luzac
1746 – 1807
Jeffrey A. Meyer
1963 – 2025
Johan Fredrik Wallenius
1765 – 1836
Johannes Miraeus
1560 – 1611
John A. Mead
1841 – 1920
John Graham Ramsay
1931 – 2021
John Tovey, 1st Baron Tovey
1885 – 1971
John V. Tunney
1934 – 2018
Joseph Backstein
1945 – 2024
Joseph Ludwig Raabe
1801 – 1859
Joseph S. Clark Jr.
1901 – 1990
Joseph Terry
1828 – 1898
Josiah E. Spurr
1870 – 1950
Jørgen Herman Vogt
1784 – 1862
Karl Jordan
1861 – 1959
Kenneth Sterling
1920 – 1995
Koloman Sokol
1902 – 2003
Konstantin Konstantinov
1818 – 1871
Krisda Arunvongse na Ayudhya
1933 – 2010
Laurence J. Peter
1919 – 1990
Leong Yew Koh
1888 – 1963
Ludwig Biermann
1907 – 1986
Luis Castañeda Lossio
1945 – 2022
M. E. Grant Duff
1829 – 1906
Max Saenger
1853 – 1903
Murad Wilfried Hofmann
1931 – 2020
Olive Jean Dunn
1915 – 2008
Oscar Nygren
1872 – 1960
Otohiko Kaga
1929 – 2023
Patricia McGowan Wald
1928 – 2019
Patrick James Smyth
1823 – 1885
Paul Kochanski
1887 – 1934
Philaret
1935 – 2021
Pierre Pincemaille
1956 – 2018
Pierre de Fermat
1601 – 1665
Prince Maximilian of Saxony
1870 – 1951
Ricard Pérez Casado
1945 – 2026
Robert Hess
1932 – 1994
Robin Lyth Hudson
1940 – 2021
Roman Smoluchowski
1910 – 1996
Sadao Bekku
1922 – 2012
Saul Hayes
1906 – 1980
Sharad Yadav
1947 – 2023
Sir George Hamilton, 1st Baronet
1877 – 1947
Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh
1818 – 1887
Takeshi Umehara
1925 – 2019
Teresio Olivelli
1916 – 1945
Terje Sagvolden
1945 – 2011
Theodor Weber
1836 – 1906
Théophile Alexis Durand
1855 – 1912
Trevor Colbourn
1927 – 2015
Vladimir Petlyakov
1891 – 1942
Vladimir Semichastny
1924 – 2001
Vsevolod Murakhovsky
1926 – 2017
Václav Hanka
1791 – 1861
Wilhelm Hofmeister
1824 – 1877
William Farish
1759 – 1837
William H. P. Blandy
1890 – 1954
William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham
1510 – 1573
William Redington Hewlett
1913 – 2001
William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville
1759 – 1834
Wolfgang Wickler
1931 – 2024
Zilda Arns
1934 – 2010
Zygmunt Hübner
1930 – 1989
Adhemar da Silva
1927 – 2001
Adolf Bernhard Christoph Hilgenfeld
1823 – 1907
Agatha Christie
1890 – 1976
Ahmed Touili
1942 – 2022
Aimaro Satō
1857 – 1934
Alan Nunn May
1911 – 2003
Albert Joseph Carnoy
1878 – 1961
Aleksandr Bezak
1800 – 1869
Aleksandr Vitberg
1787 – 1855
Alexander J. Krawtzoff
1893 – 1920
Alfred von Waldstätten
1872 – 1952
Amir Bhatia, Baron Bhatia
1932 – 2024
Amédée Maingard
1918 – 1981
Andrea Alciato
1492 – 1550
Andreas van den Bogaerde van Terbrugge
1787 – 1855
Andrew Smith
1990 – 2016
André Morellet
1728 – 1820
Anthony Lefroy
1800 – 1890
Anton Dorph
1831 – 1914
Arthur Shepherd
1880 – 1958
Asaph Hall Jr.
1859 – 1930
Austin Chapman
1864 – 1926
Bartolomé Lobo Guerrero
1546 – 1622
Bill Hayes
1925 – 2024
Bill Janklow
1939 – 2012
Bjørn G. Andersen
1924 – 2012
Byron Ingemar Johnson
1890 – 1964
Calvin M. Woodward
1837 – 1915
Camillo Cybo
1681 – 1743
Canute Rognald Matson
1843 – 1903
Charles H. Price II
1931 – 2012
Charles J. Turck
1890 – 1989
Charles Townsend
1834 – 1900
Charles Wyndham
1837 – 1919
Charles-René de Fourcroy
1715 – 1791
Christopher Griffith
1725 – 1776
Claude Berri
1934 – 2009
Claude-Henri Watelet
1718 – 1786
Connie Mulder
1925 – 1988
Daniel Bensaïd
1946 – 2010
Dave Sime
1936 – 2016
David Laird
1833 – 1914
Dean Amadon
1912 – 2003
Dick Schnittker
1928 – 2020
Diego Bautista Urbaneja Sturdy
1782 – 1856
Domenico Mittica
1894 – 1944
Déodat Roché
1877 – 1978
Eduard Haken
1910 – 1996
Edward Walpole
1706 – 1784
Elisabeth Feller
1910 – 1973
Ellen Thesleff
1869 – 1954
Elmer Hendrickson Geran
1875 – 1954
Els Bendheim
1923 – 2023
Elsie Eaton Newton
1871 – 1941
Emmanuel Rashba
1927 – 2025
Eric Evans
1921 – 1991
Ernest von Vegesack
1820 – 1903
Florence Cardell-Oliver
1876 – 1965
Francis F. Lee
1927 – 2024
Frank Crowther Roberts
1891 – 1982
Frank Newman Speller
1875 – 1968
Frankie Muse Freeman
1916 – 2018
François Barbé-Marbois
1745 – 1837
François Buloz
1803 – 1877
François de Wendel
1874 – 1949
Françoise Dorin
1928 – 2018
… and 1,982 more