On This Day — April 12

Adriaan Blaauw

1914 – 2010

Antoine Laurent de Jussieu

1748 – 1836

Ferdinand von Lindemann

1852 – 1939

Ilan Chet

b. 1939

Jan Tinbergen

1903 – 1994

Otto Fritz Meyerhof

1884 – 1951

Anton Siluanov

b. 1963

Chi Onwurah

b. 1965

Christof Wetterich

b. 1952

David Hogg

b. 2000

Finn Lied

1916 – 2014

Gennady Khripel

1949 – 2024

Georges Urbain

1872 – 1938

Heiner Bielefeldt

b. 1958

Heinrich von Rustige

1810 – 1900

Herbie Hancock

b. 1940

Hervé Ladsous

b. 1950

Hranush Hakobyan

b. 1954

Isadore Perlman

1915 – 1991

Jan van den Brink

1915 – 2006

John George Lambton Durham

1792 – 1840

John Shaw Billings

1838 – 1913

Joschka Fischer

b. 1948

Jury Sieliviorstaw

b. 1978

Laurent Wauquiez

b. 1975

Lee Jong-wook

1945 – 2006

Lisa Jardine

1944 – 2015

Louis Beel

1902 – 1977

Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington

1856 – 1937

Philippe Moureaux

1939 – 2018

Pierre-André de Chalendar

b. 1958

Raymond Barre

1924 – 2007

Roberto Abraham

b. 1965

Ronald Plasterk

b. 1957

Salam Fayyad

b. 1952

Thomas Thomson

1773 – 1852

Vaughan Ronald Pratt

b. 1944

William J. Youden

1900 – 1971

Woody Johnson

b. 1947

Adonijah Welch

1821 – 1889

Akito Y. Kawahara

b. 1978

Akiyama Saneyuki

1868 – 1918

Albert Heim

1849 – 1937

Alfredo Guzzoni

1877 – 1965

Alma Theodora Lee

1912 – 1990

Andrei Broder

b. 1953

Andrew Wylie

1789 – 1851

Andries Van den Abeele

b. 1935

Anselm Hollo

1934 – 2013

Antonio Jara Andreu

b. 1946

Baltasar de la Cueva, Count of Castellar

1627 – 1686

Bettina Bäumer

b. 1940

Carlos Lleras Restrepo

1908 – 1994

Charles Gavan Duffy

1816 – 1903

Charles Rigault de Genouilly

1807 – 1873

Chuy García

b. 1956

David Harel

b. 1950

Dedi Mulyadi

b. 1971

Dmitry Trapeznikov

b. 1981

Dolores Castro

1923 – 2022

Donald J. DePaolo

b. 1951

Džemal Bijedić

1917 – 1977

Eilef A. Meland

b. 1947

Elena Bonetti

b. 1974

Elias Zerhouni

b. 1951

Elisabeth Udolf-Strobl

b. 1956

Ellen Meiksins Wood

1942 – 2016

Ernst August Hagen

1797 – 1880

Florin-Teodor Tănăsescu

b. 1932

Francisco Craveiro Lopes

1894 – 1964

Françoise Dumas

b. 1960

Fred Ryan

b. 1955

Gary Soto

b. 1952

George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen

b. 1946

Georgy Luntovsky

1950 – 2024

Germinal Pierre Dandelin

1794 – 1847

Gillian Merron

b. 1959

Grenville M. Dodge

1831 – 1916

Hamengkubuwono IX

1912 – 1988

Hans-Georg Rammensee

b. 1953

Helen Ranney

1920 – 2010

Henry Stern

b. 1982

Hugh W. Sheffey

1815 – 1889

Hugues Bayet

b. 1975

Ib Madsen

b. 1942

Igor Volk

1937 – 2017

Indranee Rajah

b. 1963

Ioannis Metaxas

1871 – 1941

István Anhalt

1919 – 2012

Jackson Carlaw

b. 1959

James Binney

b. 1950

James R. Lowery

1884 – 1956

Jason Ravnsborg

b. 1976

Jean Bricmont

b. 1952

Joanna Mucha

b. 1976

Joe-Warren Plant

b. 2002

John Landy

1930 – 2022

John M. Barry

b. 1947

Josef Pekař

1870 – 1937

Joyce Banda

b. 1950

João Pimenta Lopes

b. 1980

Kirill Dmitriev

b. 1975

Klaus Florian Vogt

b. 1970

Leena Meri

b. 1968

Lily Pons

1898 – 1976

Lujo Tončić-Sorinj

1915 – 2005

Luke Lea

1879 – 1945

Luo Nian Sheng

1904 – 1990

Léonce Vieljeux

1865 – 1944

Manuel Neri

1930 – 2021

Mark Jaccard

b. 1955

Marko Kranjec

b. 1940

Mary Crawford

b. 1947

Matilda Ellen Bishop

1842 – 1913

Michael F. Land

1942 – 2020

Milan Šteindler

b. 1957

Miriam Were

b. 1940

Montserrat Caballé

1933 – 2018

Mykhailo Pozhyvanov

b. 1960

Naeem M. Abdurrahman

b. 1954

Natalya Timakova

b. 1975

Nathaniel Davis

1925 – 2011

Nicholas Golitsyn

1850 – 1925

Nikolay Likhachyov

1862 – 1936

Nikolaĭ Ivanovich Petrov

1840 – 1921

Okazaki Kunisuke

1854 – 1936

Oleksandr Mychajlovyč Kolessa

1867 – 1945

Otari Arshba

b. 1955

Paul Buchner

1886 – 1978

Paul Marque

b. 1997

Pavel Ipatov

b. 1950

Peter Bühlmann

b. 1965

Pravin Gordhan

1949 – 2024

Ratmir Aybazov

b. 1955

Raul V. Fabella

b. 1949

Reinhard Merkel

b. 1950

René Besnard

1879 – 1952

Rhoderick McGrigor

1893 – 1959

Ronald Takaki

1939 – 2009

Rudolf Ramek

1881 – 1941

Samir Frangieh

1945 – 2017

Samuel G. Arnold

1821 – 1880

Scott Turow

b. 1949

Shannen Doherty

1971 – 2024

Stanisław Adamski

1875 – 1967

Sumitra Mahajan

b. 1943

Theodor Rehbock

1864 – 1950

Thomas Chisholm

1842 – 1931

Timothy M. Reif

b. 1959

Tommy Norment

b. 1946

Tomás Navarro Tomás

1884 – 1979

Tulsi Gabbard

b. 1981

Valery Komissarov

b. 1965

Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi

1907 – 1979

Vitaliy Nat

b. 1977

Warren Magnuson

1905 – 1989

Wendy Savage

b. 1935

Witold Czarnecki

b. 1953

Wolfgang Freyberg

b. 1956

Yasuo Tanaka

b. 1956

Yordanka Fandakova

b. 1962

Yuliya Sokolovska

b. 1985

Yuri Galtsev

b. 1961

Ğalymjan Qoişybaev

b. 1968

A. A. Pearson

1874 – 1954

Aashiq Abu

b. 1978

Abdoulatifou Aly

1960 – 2020

Abdul Hamid bin Haji Jumat

1916 – 1978

Abraham Golik

1934 – 2025

Agnes Catherine Maitland

1849 – 1906

Alan Ayckbourn

b. 1939

Alan Neil Bloch

1932 – 2024

Albert Thomas

1898 – 1966

Alex Dow

1862 – 1942

Alexey Ustaev

b. 1960

Alfred Erich Senn

1932 – 2016

Ali Salalcha

b. 1952

Allan Leighton

b. 1953

Alphonse Davanne

1824 – 1912

Alvin Sargent

1927 – 2019

Alyssa Thomas

b. 1992

Amanda Conner

b. 1967

Amit Prakash Sharma

b. 1968

Ana Navas-Acien

b. 1972

Anatoli Ktorov

1898 – 1980

Anatoly Rogozhin

1893 – 1972

Andrea Braides

b. 1961

Andrea Giorgi

b. 1965

Andreas Kjær

b. 1963

Andrei Shorats

b. 1973

Andrew Arbuckle

1944 – 2025

Andy Garcia

b. 1956

Ann Miller

1923 – 2004

Annie Elizabeth Kelly

1877 – 1946

Annika Falkengren

b. 1962

Anthony Lynham

b. 1960

Anthony M. Bucco

b. 1962

Antonio López y López

1817 – 1883

Antonín Kratochvíl

b. 1947

Aníbal Zañartu

1847 – 1902

Adolf Wagner

1890 – 1944

Alois Musil

1868 – 1944

Carl Humann

1839 – 1896

Earl Busby Hunt

1933 – 2016

Edward Bartow

1870 – 1958

Edward Drinker Cope

1840 – 1897

Geoffrey Harrison

1908 – 1990

George Lincoln Goodale

1839 – 1923

George Wald

1906 – 1997

Heinrich Nordhoff

1899 – 1968

Igor Tamm

1895 – 1971

Karl Ludwig Fridolin von Sandberger

1826 – 1898

Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz

1890 – 1963

Louis Agricola Bauer

1865 – 1932

Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya

1836 – 1906

Paul Hazard

1878 – 1944

Scipione Piattoli

1749 – 1809

Wincenty Zakrzewski

1844 – 1918

Albert Ernest Radford

1918 – 2006

Andrzej Kazimierz Potocki

1861 – 1908

Antonio Porta

1935 – 1989

Arnold Keppel, 8th Earl of Albemarle

1858 – 1942

Arthur Hill, 3rd Marquess of Downshire

1778 – 1845

Auguste Sabatier

1839 – 1901

Aziz Ezzat Pasha

1869 – 1961

Bertram Steele

1870 – 1934

Byron M. Cutcheon

1836 – 1908

Carlton E. Lemke

1920 – 2004

Charles Adiel Lewis Totten

1851 – 1908

Charles Wilson, 1st Baron Moran

1882 – 1977

David Daggett

1764 – 1851

David Ross McCord

1844 – 1930

Deane Keller

1901 – 1992

Douglas Cochrane, 12th Earl of Dundonald

1852 – 1935

Edvard Magnus Rodhe

1878 – 1954

Edwin Augustus McAlpin

1848 – 1917

Enrico Ferri

1856 – 1929

Eugene Hackmann

1793 – 1873

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

1950 – 2009

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

1882 – 1945

George Shevelov

1908 – 2002

Guy Bullock

1887 – 1956

Hartwig Derenbourg

1844 – 1908

Hendrik Andriessen

1892 – 1981

Herbert Bednorz

1908 – 1989

Hoyt Patrick Taylor

1890 – 1964

Ichirō Satō

1889 – 1958

Innocent of Alaska

1797 – 1879

Ivo Babuška

1926 – 2023

Jaap van Praag

1911 – 1981

Jacques Maury

1920 – 2020

James A. Doonan

1841 – 1911

James Gascoyne-Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Salisbury

1791 – 1868

James Murray

1850 – 1933

Jan Vladimír Hráský

1857 – 1939

Jens Glad Balchen

1926 – 2009

John Melcher

1924 – 2018

Jon Ola Norbom

1923 – 2020

Larysa Khorolets

1948 – 2022

Leonardo Cremonini

1925 – 2010

Lionel Logue

1880 – 1953

Lucius G. Tong

1842 – 1908

Marie Alfred Cornu

1841 – 1902

Mary Baxter Ellis

1892 – 1968

Mbarek Bekkay

1907 – 1961

Mou Tsung-san

1909 – 1995

Nicolaus Reusner

1545 – 1602

Olexandr Maselsky

1936 – 1996

Patrick Hillery

1923 – 2008

Philippe Grass

1801 – 1876

Robert Frederick Inger

1920 – 2019

Robert Giffen

1837 – 1910

Rolande Trempé

1916 – 2016

Sergey Glazenap

1848 – 1937

Sergio Pitol

1933 – 2018

Shafique Ahmed

1937 – 2026

Sándor Korányi

1866 – 1944

Theodore Frelinghuysen

1787 – 1862

Toshio Matsumoto

1932 – 2017

Tytus Działyński

1796 – 1861

Vladimir Ćorović

1885 – 1941

W. F. Taylor

1877 – 1945

Willem Lodewijk de Vos van Steenwijk

1859 – 1947

William Graham Sumner

1840 – 1910

William Richard Tolbert

1913 – 1980

William Y. Thompson

1922 – 2013

Wilmot H. Bradley

1899 – 1979

Yasuhiko Asaka

1887 – 1981

Adeline Marie Russell, Duchess of Bedford

1852 – 1920

Adriaan Pelt

1892 – 1981

Adrian Warburton

1918 – 1944

Afonso Pena Júnior

1879 – 1968

Alan Paton

1903 – 1988

Albert Marcel Germain Rene Portevin

1880 – 1962

Albert de Gondi

1522 – 1602

Alberto Erede

1908 – 2001

Alejandro María Aguado, 1st Marquis of the Guadalquivir Marshes

1784 – 1842

Alexander Ritter

1833 – 1896

Andreas Blunck

1871 – 1933

Andrzej Kurylewicz

1932 – 2007

Anna Stewart

1947 – 1983

Annamária Szalai

1961 – 2013

Anthony Greenwood, Baron Greenwood of Rossendale

1911 – 1982

Arnold Wesker

1932 – 2016

Arthur Krock

1886 – 1974

Asha Bhosle

1933 – 2026

Axel Ljungdahl

1897 – 1995

Barney Poole

1923 – 2005

Benjamin Parsons Symons

1785 – 1878

Bohuslav Hostinský

1884 – 1951

Branko Mikulić

1928 – 1994

Bryn Parry

1956 – 2023

Carlos Enrique Gómez Centurión

1924 – 2018

Carlos Jaschek

1926 – 1999

Carlos Seco Serrano

1923 – 2020

Charles Burke Elbrick

1908 – 1983

Charles Burney

1726 – 1814

Charles Janeway

1943 – 2003

Charles Lawrie

1864 – 1953

Charles Lee Reese

1862 – 1940

Charles Messier

1730 – 1817

Charles Miossec

1938 – 2020

Charles P. Roland

1918 – 2022

Chris Soumokil

1905 – 1966

Clara Barton

1821 – 1912

Clarence W. Blount

1921 – 2003

Corinne Boyd Riley

1893 – 1979

Daniel Silvan Evans

1818 – 1903

Daphne Sheldrick

1934 – 2018

David Brillembourg

1942 – 1993

David Crighton

1942 – 2000

DeWitt Webb

1840 – 1917

Dwight Griswold

1893 – 1954

Edward A. Keenan

1894 – 1970

Edward W. Anderson

1903 – 1979

Edwin T. Layton

1903 – 1984

Egidio Gennari

1876 – 1942

Ehud Manor

1941 – 2005

Elisabeth Berge

1954 – 2020

Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron

1941 – 2020

Elizabeth Ferris

1940 – 2012

Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau

1820 – 1898

Francis Baring, 2nd Earl of Northbrook

1850 – 1929

Frank H. Field

1922 – 2013

Franz Anton von Gerstner

1796 – 1840

Franz Pfeffer von Salomon

1888 – 1968

François Joseph de Gratet, vicomte Dubouchage

1749 – 1821

François-Henri-Eugène d'Augier

1764 – 1834

Fred Ho

1957 – 2014

Frederick Dent Grant

1850 – 1912

Friedrich Otto Rudolf Sturm

1841 – 1919

Galen Weston

1940 – 2021

Gaziel

1887 – 1964

George Cheyne

1671 – 1743

George O'Brien

1844 – 1906

George W. Whitehead

1918 – 2004

Gerald Boyd

1877 – 1930

Gerald Francis O'Keefe

1918 – 2000

Giorgos Katiforis

1935 – 2022

Giovanni Rasori

1766 – 1837

Giuseppe Spinelli

1694 – 1763

Glenn Beckert

1940 – 2020

Gyula Babos

1949 – 2018

Hamilton Goold-Adams

1858 – 1920

Hans Tietze

1880 – 1954

Hans von Kantzow

1887 – 1979

Harvey Ball

1921 – 2001

Hector A. Cafferata, Jr.

1929 – 2016

Hector Avalos

1958 – 2021

Helga Seibert

1939 – 1999

Hendrik Krumm

1934 – 1989

Hendrik Merkus de Kock

1779 – 1845

Henry Chichele

1364 – 1443

Hermann Dessau

1856 – 1931

Hubert de Burgh-Canning, 2nd Marquess of Clanricarde

1832 – 1916

Hussein Kulmiye Afrah

1920 – 1993

Igor Ternov

1921 – 1996

Ingram Stainback

1883 – 1961

Ivar Waller

1898 – 1991

Jacques Bénigne Bossuet

1627 – 1704

James G. Moran

1870 – 1941

James Hamilton Howe

1856 – 1934

James M. Beck

1861 – 1936

James Robert Matthews

1889 – 1978

James Schuyler

1923 – 1991

James William Denny

1838 – 1923

Johann Adam Möhler

1796 – 1838

Johannes Evert Hendrik Akkeringa

1861 – 1942

John Dowdy

1912 – 1995

John Porter Hatch

1822 – 1901

John Swinfen

1613 – 1694

Joseph H. Gaines

1864 – 1951

Joseph Raulin

1708 – 1784

José Moscardó Ituarte

1878 – 1956

Jože Ciuha

1924 – 2015

Julius Hoffory

1855 – 1897

Jørgine Stene

1905 – 1997

Jānis Polis

1938 – 2011

Kazuo Kuroki

1930 – 2006

Kumudini Lakhia

1930 – 2025