On This Day — May 12
4318 noted people were born and 1970 died on May 12 in our archive, including Alexander Bogomolets, Dorothy Hodgkin and Stanislas Dehaene.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on May 12
Alexander Bogomolets
1881 – 1946
Dorothy Hodgkin
1910 – 1994
Stanislas Dehaene
b. 1965
Tim de Zeeuw
b. 1956
Austin Tate
b. 1951
Benedykt Dybowski
1833 – 1930
Catarina de Albuquerque
1970 – 2025
Chris Patten
b. 1944
Christopher Greenwood
b. 1955
Clemens von Pirquet
1874 – 1929
Elizabeth Castro
b. 1965
Erich Correns
1896 – 1981
Ertharin Cousin
b. 1957
Ervin Laszlo
1932 – 2026
Frank Yates
1902 – 1994
Fredrik Böök
1883 – 1961
Gabriel Fauré
1845 – 1924
George Springate
1938 – 2019
Giovanni Benelli
1921 – 1982
Helena Kennedy, Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws
b. 1950
Henri Brocard
1845 – 1922
Henry Cabot Lodge
1850 – 1924
Iván Velásquez Gómez
b. 1955
James Samuel Coleman
1926 – 1995
Jean-Louis Panné
b. 1953
Johan Vilhelm Snellman
1806 – 1881
John Casey
1820 – 1891
John Shipley Rowlinson
1926 – 2018
Jules Massenet
1842 – 1912
Justus von Liebig
1803 – 1873
Margarete Schramböck
b. 1970
Michael Ignatieff
b. 1947
Mireille Bousquet-Mélou
b. 1967
Nathaniel R. Jones
1926 – 2020
Neithalath Mohan Kumar
b. 1951
Nicholas Kaldor
1908 – 1986
Philippe Jamet
b. 1961
Richard Bruce Silverman
b. 1946
Roland Riz
1927 – 2026
Ruth Bishop
1933 – 2022
Samuel Dickstein
1851 – 1939
Shin-Tson Wu
b. 1953
Sir Percy Elly Bates, 4th Baronet
1879 – 1946
Stanisław Sołdek
1916 – 1970
Stanley Plotkin
b. 1932
Suthep Wongkamhaeng
1934 – 2020
Thomas Fiske
1865 – 1944
Thomas Mensah
1932 – 2020
William Preston Lane
1892 – 1967
Wu Wenjun
1919 – 2017
Abdel-Halim Mahmoud
1910 – 1978
Aleksandre Mirtskhulava
1911 – 2009
Alex Chernov
b. 1938
Alexandre Ricard
b. 1972
Alfred Irénée du Pont
1864 – 1935
Alina Kabaeva
b. 1983
Andrew Abercromby
b. 1980
Archibald E. Olpp
1882 – 1949
Asmik Grigorian
b. 1981
August Vermeylen
1872 – 1945
August von Brandis
1859 – 1947
Ayaz Mutallibov
1938 – 2022
Bagrat Shinkuba
1917 – 2004
Barbara Ransby
b. 1957
Bart Somers
b. 1964
Beilby Lawley, 3rd Baron Wenlock
1849 – 1912
Bernard Marcus
1929 – 2024
Bertil Dillner
1923 – 2015
Bettina Stark-Watzinger
b. 1968
Bill Shorten
b. 1967
Boris Arbuzov
b. 1938
Boris Reitschuster
b. 1971
Charles Francis Greville
1749 – 1809
Charles Holden
1875 – 1960
Charles Philipon
1798 – 1861
Daniel Libeskind
b. 1946
Daniela Behrens
b. 1968
David Catlin
b. 1952
Diana Atamaint
b. 1972
Dominic Cadbury
b. 1940
Edvard Mirzoyan
1921 – 2012
Edward James Rapson
1861 – 1937
Eleanor Rathbone
1872 – 1946
Electa Nobles Lincoln Walton
1824 – 1908
Elena Salgado
b. 1949
Ethel McMillan
1904 – 1987
Eugène Schaus
1901 – 1978
Evan Mecham
1924 – 2008
Frank Stella
1936 – 2024
Frank Wilson
1859 – 1918
Franz Josef Mone
1796 – 1871
François Boissier de Sauvages de Lacroix
1706 – 1767
François Perigot
1926 – 2022
Frederick Holder
1850 – 1909
Frederik Vermehren
1823 – 1910
Fritz Schäffer
1888 – 1967
Frère Roger
1915 – 2005
Gabriel Byrne
b. 1950
Georg Adolf Erman
1806 – 1877
George Cadogan, 5th Earl Cadogan
1840 – 1915
George Cathcart
1794 – 1854
George Landenberger
1879 – 1936
Gerald Teschl
b. 1970
Gerry Studds
1937 – 2006
Gert Scobel
b. 1959
Gregory H. Johnson
b. 1962
Gustav I of Sweden
1496 – 1560
Hans Leyendecker
b. 1949
Haris Doukas
b. 1980
Henning Scheich
1942 – 2025
Herbert Bautista
b. 1968
Herbert Busemann
1905 – 1994
Hsu Yung-ming
b. 1966
Jacques-Joseph Corbière
1766 – 1853
Jared Polis
b. 1975
Jens Thiis
1870 – 1942
Jiří Růžička
b. 1948
Joan Stringer
b. 1948
Johan Ferrier
1910 – 2010
Johann Georg Gödelmann
1559 – 1611
Johann Heinrich Schulze
1687 – 1744
Johannes Carsten Hauch
1790 – 1872
John Bigelow, Jr.
1854 – 1936
John Russell Hind
1823 – 1895
Joseph Beuys
1921 – 1986
Julissa Villanueva
b. 1972
Karen Sandler
b. 1975
Kevin Leyton-Brown
b. 1975
Kongjian Yu
1963 – 2025
Kristrún Mjöll Frostadóttir
b. 1988
Leneen Forde
b. 1935
Lihi Lapid
b. 1968
Lindsay Croisdale-Appleby
b. 1973
Maciej Berek
b. 1972
Manouchehr Mottaki
b. 1953
Manuel Alegre
b. 1936
Margaret Calvert
b. 1936
Martina Lubyová
1967 – 2023
Maryam Mirzakhani
1977 – 2017
Massimo Bontempelli
1878 – 1960
Matthew Hiltzik
b. 1972
Matthew Palmer
b. 1964
Maurice Ewing
1906 – 1974
Natasha Bertrand
b. 1992
Nicholas Underhill
b. 1952
Oleh Musiy
b. 1965
Oleksandr Korniichuk
1905 – 1972
Oskar Bolza
1857 – 1942
Panos Kammenos
b. 1965
Pascal Clément
1945 – 2020
Patrick Valduriez
b. 1955
Paul Begala
b. 1961
Paul Starr
b. 1949
Peter Bryan Wells
b. 1963
Peter Kinder
b. 1954
Philip Springer
b. 1926
Pope Cooper
1848 – 1923
Pramatha Nath Bose
1855 – 1935
Przemysław Gosiewski
1964 – 2010
Robert A. Rosenstone
b. 1936
Robert Bigelow
b. 1945
Robert Charles Winthrop
1809 – 1894
Rolf Zuckowski
b. 1947
Rosellen Brown
b. 1939
Ross Bleckner
b. 1949
Ross Gunn
1897 – 1966
Rowland Frazee
1921 – 2007
Sally Wyatt
b. 1959
Sam Nujoma
1929 – 2025
Saneatsu Mushanokōji
1885 – 1976
Scott Ryan
b. 1973
Sergei Grigoryants
1941 – 2023
Sergey Shargunov
b. 1980
Sher Ali Khan Pataudi
1913 – 2002
Stephen Chapman
b. 1959
Suryopratomo
b. 1961
Tarō Yamada
b. 1967
Tiit Käbin
1937 – 2011
Tomislav Žigmanov
b. 1967
Verena Madner
b. 1965
Victor Ivanov
b. 1950
Václav Chaloupecký
1882 – 1951
Víctor Domingo Silva
1882 – 1960
Wendell Cushing Neville
1870 – 1930
William Archibald Dunning
1857 – 1922
William C. Sullivan
1912 – 1977
William Creech
1745 – 1815
William Glenholme Falconbridge
1846 – 1920
William Henry Lang
1874 – 1960
William Weir, 1st Viscount Weir
1877 – 1959
Wilson Jameson
1885 – 1962
Zbyszek Darzynkiewicz
1936 – 2021
Zofia Baniecka
1917 – 1993
Ágnes Heller
1929 – 2019
Aaron Abrams
b. 1978
Achmad Sutjipto
1945 – 2026
Adam Bielecki
b. 1983
Aivar Mäe
b. 1960
Akshaya Kumar Parija
b. 1954
Alain Bensoussan
b. 1940
… and 4,118 more
Died on May 12
Abraham Esau
1884 – 1955
Charles Adolphe Wurtz
1817 – 1884
Alain Colmerauer
1941 – 2017
Amotz Zahavi
1928 – 2017
Daniel Frank Walls
1942 – 1999
Donald Thomson
1901 – 1970
Edward Sayers
1902 – 1985
Ernest Vinberg
1937 – 2020
Eugenio Montero Ríos
1832 – 1914
Eugène Ysaÿe
1858 – 1931
Haleh Afshar
1944 – 2022
Hardy Cross Dillard
1902 – 1982
Jacques Philippe Marie Binet
1786 – 1856
Józef Piłsudski
1867 – 1935
Kenneth Waltz
1924 – 2013
Louis Camille Maillard
1878 – 1936
M. A. Muthiah Chettiar
1905 – 1984
Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan
1933 – 2003
Rudranath Capildeo
1920 – 1970
Ruth Bishop
1933 – 2022
Ubiratàn D'Ambrosio
1932 – 2021
Ulf Grenander
1923 – 2016
Vasily Radlov
1837 – 1918
Vilhelm Thomsen
1842 – 1927
William Huggins
1824 – 1910
William Penn Cresson
1873 – 1932
Z. K. Matthews
1901 – 1968
Albert Hänel
1833 – 1918
Aleksandr Borisov
1905 – 1982
Alexander Wood
1725 – 1807
Anders Edvard Ramsay
1799 – 1877
Andrei Kirilenko
1906 – 1990
Anselme Payen
1795 – 1871
Antonin Galipeault
1880 – 1971
Antonio Candido
1918 – 2017
Arthur Quiller-Couch
1863 – 1944
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
1767 – 1845
Benjamin Sheares
1907 – 1981
Bill Guthridge
1937 – 2015
Bogo Grafenauer
1916 – 1995
Bohdan Wodiczko
1911 – 1985
Catherine Berndt
1918 – 1994
Claes Adolph Fleming
1771 – 1831
Cornelia Groefsema Kennedy
1923 – 2014
Crawford Howell Toy
1836 – 1919
Daniel François Esprit Auber
1782 – 1871
Earl Hancock Ellis
1880 – 1923
Eddy Paape
1920 – 2012
Eleanor Sayre
1916 – 2001
Emanuel Rádl
1873 – 1942
Emma Vyssotsky
1894 – 1975
Erik Erikson
1902 – 1994
Fedot Ivanovich Shubin
1740 – 1805
Francisco Javier Mier Campillo
1748 – 1818
Friedrich Wilhelm Eduard Gerhard
1795 – 1867
Georges D'Aubusson de La Feuillade
1609 – 1697
Gerd Langguth
1946 – 2013
Gillespie V. Montgomery
1920 – 2006
Giuseppe Bagnera
1865 – 1927
HAP Grieshaber
1909 – 1981
Jacinto Convit
1913 – 2014
Jean François Aimé Dejean
1749 – 1824
John E. Davis
1913 – 1990
John Field
1899 – 1974
John Martin Poyer
1861 – 1922
John Masefield
1878 – 1967
Joris-Karl Huysmans
1848 – 1907
Joseph Cattaui
1861 – 1942
Julius Hawley Seelye
1824 – 1895
Kieran Egan
1942 – 2022
Lionel Penrose
1898 – 1972
Lord Walter Kerr
1839 – 1927
Lorenzo Zambrano
1944 – 2014
Luke Dillon, 4th Baron Clonbrock
1834 – 1917
Léonce Bénédite
1859 – 1925
Mark Aitchison Young
1886 – 1974
Mauno Koivisto
1923 – 2017
Max Stadler
1949 – 2013
Michelangelo Ricci
1619 – 1682
Nasrallah Peter Sfeir
1920 – 2019
Nestor Kotlyarevsky
1863 – 1925
Noreen Murray
1935 – 2011
Norman Lowther Edson
1904 – 1970
Oleksandr Zadorozhnii
1960 – 2017
Otto Küstner
1849 – 1931
Paul Panda Farnana
1888 – 1930
Prince Aly Khan
1911 – 1960
Raimund Grübl
1847 – 1898
Remigius Driutius
1518 – 1594
Richard Chorley
1927 – 2002
Richard Gilder
1932 – 2020
Robert Leslie Ellis
1817 – 1859
Robert McFarlane
1937 – 2022
Rudolf Stöger-Steiner von Steinstätten
1861 – 1921
Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson
1878 – 1937
Saul Steinberg
1914 – 1999
Seamus Deane
1940 – 2021
Senshū Suetaka
1875 – 1941
Sergei Alexeyev
1924 – 2013
Tessa Jowell
1947 – 2018
Thomas Wentworth
1593 – 1641
Vasili Merkuryev
1904 – 1978
Vasily Klyuchevsky
1841 – 1911
Will Alsop
1947 – 2018
William James Beal
1833 – 1924
Władysław Anders
1892 – 1970
Yale Lary
1930 – 2017
Yoshiyuki Kamei
1936 – 2006
Abel-François Poisson
1727 – 1781
Abraham Trembley
1710 – 1784
Adam Ferdynand Adamowicz
1802 – 1881
Agar Wynne
1850 – 1934
Agnes Forbes Blackadder
1875 – 1964
Albert M. Jones
1890 – 1967
Alexandre Jacovleff
1887 – 1938
Alexei Tsvetkov
1947 – 2022
Alexei Tupolev
1925 – 2001
Alicia Moreau de Justo
1885 – 1986
Alla Osipenko
1932 – 2025
Alonso de la Peña Montenegro
1596 – 1688
Alphonse Tavan
1833 – 1905
Amália Barros
1985 – 2024
Andrew Hickenlooper
1837 – 1904
Antonio Mercero
1936 – 2018
Arkady Plastov
1893 – 1972
Arnold Goodman, Baron Goodman
1913 – 1995
Arthur Murray
1851 – 1925
Ataur Rahman
1941 – 2026
Atsushi Aramaki
1926 – 1971
Atsushi Yasuda
1868 – 1924
Avraham Yitzchak Stern
1935 – 1997
B. S. Sannaiah
1928 – 2021
Beddoe Rees
1877 – 1931
Bedřich Smetana
1824 – 1884
Benedict Waldeck
1802 – 1870
Bernard Membe
1953 – 2023
Bertel Jung
1872 – 1946
Bob Moretti
1936 – 1984
Calvin Benham Baldwin
1902 – 1975
Camille Lepage
1988 – 2014
Carlos Muñoz Pizarro
1913 – 1976
Carolyn Reidy
1949 – 2020
Chaim Kiewe
1912 – 1983
Charles B. Bellinger
1839 – 1905
Charles Barry
1795 – 1860
Charles Benedict Calvert
1808 – 1864
Charles Howard, 20th Earl of Suffolk
1906 – 1941
Charles Mangin
1866 – 1925
Charles Wagner
1852 – 1918
Chen Muhua
1921 – 2011
Clarence Andrew Cannon
1879 – 1964
Claude Guillaume Testu de Balincourt
1680 – 1770
Clive Johnstone
1964 – 2024
Clyde R. Hoey
1877 – 1954
Collins Denny
1854 – 1943
Constant Mayer
1829 – 1911
Constantino Romero
1947 – 2013
Daisy Avellana
1917 – 2013
David Harrel
1841 – 1939
Del Latta
1920 – 2016
E. R. Jackman
1894 – 1967
Edmund C. Lynch
1885 – 1938
Edward Chapman
1840 – 1926
Elia Liut
1894 – 1952
Elisabeth Bergner
1897 – 1986
Elizabeth Fradd
1949 – 2024
Emerson Bainbridge
1845 – 1911
Emil Paul Tscherrig
1947 – 2026
Engelbertus Lucas
1785 – 1870
Ephraim Leister Acker
1827 – 1903
Eric Virgin
1876 – 1950
Eva Lange
1944 – 2017
Everett Sanders
1882 – 1950
Ezra Stiles
1727 – 1795
Ferdinand Charles Léon de Lasteyrie
1810 – 1879
Frank Bird Linderman
1869 – 1938
Franklin Menges
1858 – 1956
Friedrich Berthold Reinke
1862 – 1919
Fritz Mackensen
1866 – 1953
Gabriel C. Wharton
1824 – 1906
Georg Benedikt Winer
1789 – 1858
George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont
1831 – 1893
George W. Kindlin
1868 – 1920
Georges Danjou
1862 – 1926
Germain Sée
1818 – 1896
Gheorghe Gh. Mârzescu
1876 – 1926
Gunvald Tomstad
1918 – 1970
H. R. Giger
1940 – 2014
Haig Gudenian
1886 – 1972
Hannu Hannuksela
1893 – 1942
Harold Arthur Poling
1925 – 2012
Hector McIvor
1900 – 1992
Heinrich Fritsch
1844 – 1915
Henri Maréchal
1842 – 1924
Henri-Robert
1863 – 1936
Henry Beeston
1630 – 1701
Henry H. Proctor
1868 – 1933
Henry S. Dewey
1856 – 1932
Homen Borgohain
1932 – 2021
Hori Teikichi
1883 – 1959
… and 1,770 more