On This Day — December 12
4539 noted people were born and 2196 died on December 12 in our archive, including Grigore Rosu, Étienne-Émile Baulieu and Alfred Werner.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on December 12
Grigore Rosu
b. 1971
Étienne-Émile Baulieu
1926 – 2025
Alfred Werner
1866 – 1919
António Sampaio da Nóvoa
b. 1954
Charles Schultze
1924 – 2016
Charles Wakefield, 1st Viscount Wakefield
1859 – 1941
Ed Koch
1924 – 2013
Eliyahu Rips
1948 – 2024
Emanuele Paternò
1847 – 1935
Ewart Grogan
1874 – 1967
Guillermo Jaim Etcheverry
b. 1942
Heiner Flassbeck
b. 1950
Hideaki Kobayashi
b. 1945
Jacek Najder
b. 1960
James Challis
1803 – 1882
Jan Kasprowicz
1860 – 1926
Joe Sestak
b. 1951
Johann Jacob Dillenius
1684 – 1747
Kate Humble
b. 1968
Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz
1890 – 1963
Lawrence Lau
b. 1944
Marc Jeannerod
1935 – 2011
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa
b. 1948
Michael S. Gazzaniga
b. 1939
Mária Telkes
1900 – 1995
Nicholas Conyngham Tindal
1776 – 1846
Octavio M. Salati
1914 – 2001
Oliva Espín
b. 1938
Richard Davidson
b. 1951
Robert Noyce
1927 – 1990
Srgjan Kerim
b. 1948
Stanislas de Laboulaye
b. 1946
Stephen C. Stearns
b. 1946
Tony Hsieh
1973 – 2020
Vêlayoudom Marimoutou
b. 1957
Whang Youn Dai
b. 1938
William Henry
1774 – 1836
Yianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki
b. 1955
Éric Bucquet
b. 1962
Abdul Rehman Malik
1951 – 2022
Abigail Binay
b. 1975
Adam Pragier
1886 – 1976
Adrian Horridge
1927 – 2024
Aisha Yesufu
b. 1973
Alan Burns, 4th Baron Inverclyde
1897 – 1957
Aleksandra Piłsudska
1882 – 1963
Alfred Dent
1844 – 1927
Alfred Parland
1842 – 1919
Ali Amini
1905 – 1992
Andrzej Czaja
b. 1963
Andrzej Hieronim Zamoyski
1717 – 1792
Anna Psarouda - Benaki
1934 – 2026
Arleen Schloss
1943 – 2026
Auguste Duvivier
1772 – 1846
Aurelio Nuño Mayer
b. 1977
Austen Fox Riggs
1876 – 1940
Axel Olof Freudenthal
1836 – 1911
Bernard Squarcini
b. 1955
Birago Diop
1906 – 1989
Caldwell Esselstyn
b. 1933
Carl Hewitt
1944 – 2022
Cassidy Hutchinson
b. 1996
Charles Hardy
1898 – 1941
Charles P. Neill
1865 – 1942
Charles Warren Hostler
1919 – 2014
Chingiz Aĭtmatov
1928 – 2008
Chris Mullin
b. 1947
Chris Plante
b. 1959
Clement Armitage
1881 – 1973
Connie Francis
1937 – 2025
César Zumaeta
b. 1955
David Abulafia
1949 – 2026
David Muradyan
b. 1951
Dick Leonard
1930 – 2021
Dorothy McKibbin
1897 – 1985
Doudou Diène
b. 1941
Dougal Jerram
b. 1969
Edith Campbell
1871 – 1951
Edward Alsworth Ross
1866 – 1951
Edward Bootle-Wilbraham, 1st Earl of Lathom
1837 – 1898
Edward G. Robinson
1893 – 1973
Edward Tyrrel Channing
1790 – 1856
Elevter Andronikashvili
1910 – 1989
Emma Castelnuovo
1913 – 2014
Eric Maskin
b. 1950
Eugen Baumann
1846 – 1896
Eugene Chudnovsky
b. 1948
Eugène Lenepveu
1819 – 1898
Farrakh Khan
1938 – 2016
Frank Horton
1919 – 2004
Françoise de Panafieu
b. 1948
Frederick A. Sawyer
1822 – 1891
Frode Rinnan
1905 – 1997
Gabriela Lenartowicz
b. 1960
Giancarlo De Carlo
1919 – 2005
Guido Ascoli
1887 – 1957
Helen Frankenthaler
1928 – 2011
Henry Lucien de Vries
1909 – 1987
Hermann Christ
1833 – 1933
Hirohide Ishida
1914 – 1993
Hiroya Ino
1891 – 1980
Hugh Hudson
1930 – 1993
Ignacio Briones
b. 1972
Ikuhiko Hata
b. 1932
Iosif Gusakovsky
1904 – 1995
Irvine Laidlaw, Baron Laidlaw
b. 1942
Ivan Delyanov
1818 – 1898
Jacob Wohl
b. 1997
Jake Okechukwu Effoduh
b. 1987
James Monk
1784 – 1856
Janai Nelson
b. 1971
Jane Ussher
b. 1953
Janez Orešnik
1935 – 2024
Jean Doré
1944 – 2015
Jean Rudolf von Salis
1901 – 1996
Johannes Iversen
1904 – 1971
John Adamson
1809 – 1870
John Bloomfield
1932 – 2022
John Jay
1745 – 1829
John Smith
1821 – 1885
Jonathan M. Metzl
b. 1964
Josep Lluís Trapero Álvarez
b. 1965
Joseph J. Taluto
b. 1947
Juan Carlos Varela
b. 1963
Kefeng Liu
b. 1965
Koloman Sokol
1902 – 2003
Kurt Atterberg
1887 – 1974
Lanny Davis
b. 1945
Laurent Dona Fologo
1939 – 2021
Lee Fang
b. 1986
Leo Eitinger
1912 – 1996
Leopold von Schroeder
1851 – 1920
Lewis C. Beebe
1891 – 1951
Lodewijk De Witte
b. 1954
Lola Ridge
1873 – 1941
Lynn Garafola
b. 1946
Manuel Felguérez
1928 – 2020
Martin Ferguson
b. 1953
Masahiko Nishimura
b. 1960
Mateusz Kijowski
b. 1968
Michael Jeffery
1937 – 2020
Milko Kos
1892 – 1972
Mohd Nor Monutty
1949 – 2025
Muhammad Ahmad Said Khan, Prince of Chhatari
1888 – 1982
Mukhtar Kul-Mukhammed
b. 1960
Nambi Narayanan
b. 1941
Nancy Mercado
b. 1959
Ota Halama
b. 1974
Otto Scheff
1889 – 1956
Pamela L. Gay
b. 1973
Panos Panagiotopoulos
b. 1957
Paula Wagner
b. 1946
Pavel Platonovich Potocki
1857 – 1938
Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow
1832 – 1918
Philip Drinker
1894 – 1972
Pierre-Suzanne-Augustin Cochin
1823 – 1872
Portia Simpson-Miller
b. 1945
Richard Hartshorne
1899 – 1992
Richard McCann
1949 – 2021
Rivka Bertisch Meir
1941 – 2014
Roger A. Falconer
b. 1951
Roger Dean
1913 – 1998
Sam Cheptoris
b. 1949
Samuel Belkin
1911 – 1976
Samuel Laing
1812 – 1897
Sergey Denisov
1909 – 1971
Sharad Pawar
b. 1940
Sharan Burrow
b. 1954
Sherburne Wesley Burnham
1838 – 1921
Shifra Baruchson-Arbib
b. 1951
Sidharth Shukla
1980 – 2021
Stefaan De Clerck
b. 1951
Stephen Goldsmith
b. 1946
Stephen Smith
b. 1955
Steven E. Koonin
b. 1951
Steven Hawley
b. 1951
Sydney Skaife
1889 – 1976
Thomas B. Larkin
1890 – 1968
Tony Ruprecht
b. 1942
Tõnu Viik
b. 1939
Ulrike Diebold
b. 1961
Ulrike Tillmann
b. 1962
Vasily Gordov
1896 – 1950
Verle A. Pope
1903 – 1973
Wayne McIlwraith
b. 1947
Will Alsop
1947 – 2018
Will Rogers
1898 – 1983
William Unwin
1838 – 1933
Yakov B. Pesin
b. 1946
Yevgeny Lebedev
b. 1957
Zack Hudgins
b. 1968
Abdoulaye Harouna
b. 1992
Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani
1880 – 1976
Adelaide Deming
1864 – 1956
Adolfo Alejandro Nouel
1862 – 1937
Ai Katō
b. 1982
Aissata Tall Sall
b. 1957
Ajay Kumar Parida
1963 – 2022
Alan Christopher Deere
1917 – 1995
Alan T. Busby
1895 – 1992
… and 4,339 more
Died on December 12
Bedřich Hrozný
1879 – 1952
Sergey Petrovich Botkin
1832 – 1889
Alain Pompidou
1942 – 2024
Albrecht von Haller
1708 – 1777
Arthur Hutchinson
1866 – 1937
Asta Ekenvall
1913 – 2001
Augustus Meineke
1790 – 1870
Camille Jullian
1859 – 1933
Charles M. Vest
1941 – 2013
Charles-Émile Freppel
1827 – 1891
Chase G. Woodhouse
1890 – 1984
E. R. Braithwaite
1912 – 2016
Eugen Millington-Drake
1889 – 1972
Evan Graham Turbott
1914 – 2014
Fritz Bock
1911 – 1993
Halvdan Koht
1873 – 1965
Harry Augustus Garfield
1863 – 1942
Ivor Grattan-Guinness
1941 – 2014
Jack Steinberger
1921 – 2020
Johan Nicolai Madvig
1804 – 1886
John Pell
1611 – 1685
Józef Siemiradzki
1858 – 1933
Mo Udall
1922 – 1998
Mykola Amosov
1913 – 2002
Nicolaas Kuiper
1920 – 1994
Nikolai Pokrovsky
1865 – 1930
Pedro Gómez de la Serna
1806 – 1871
Philip Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian
1882 – 1940
Sano Tsunetami
1822 – 1902
Slobodan Jovanović
1869 – 1958
Theodor Heuss
1884 – 1963
Yvon Gattaz
1925 – 2024
Zbigniew Wawer
1956 – 2022
Albert Carré
1852 – 1938
Aleksey Yermolayev
1910 – 1975
Alfonso Grosso Sánchez
1893 – 1983
Ali Amini
1905 – 1992
Anatole Bailly
1833 – 1911
Antoni Andrzejowski
1785 – 1868
Antoni Piotrowski
1853 – 1924
Arthur Erdélyi
1908 – 1977
Arthur Lee
1740 – 1792
August von Voit
1801 – 1870
Auguste Burdeau
1851 – 1894
Bernard Lievegoed
1905 – 1992
Bodil Begtrup
1903 – 1987
Carl Fredrik Hochschild
1831 – 1898
Carlos Barral
1928 – 1989
Charles Daubeny
1795 – 1867
Charles Gray
1696 – 1782
Claude Castonguay
1929 – 2020
Clementine Churchill
1885 – 1977
Daizō Nozawa
1933 – 2024
Daniel Carleton Gajdusek
1923 – 2008
David Sarnoff
1891 – 1971
Douglas Fairbanks
1883 – 1939
Ed Lee
1952 – 2017
Edward Gay Rohrbough
1874 – 1956
Eva Besnyö
1910 – 2003
Evelyn S. Lieberman
1944 – 2015
Evgenii Landis
1921 – 1997
Ferenc Kósa
1937 – 2018
Frans Oskar Lilius
1871 – 1928
Franz König
1832 – 1910
Friedrich von Kleinwächter
1838 – 1927
Gennosuke Fuse
1880 – 1946
Georges Gurvitch
1894 – 1965
Ghulam Mohammed Sadiq
1912 – 1971
Giovanni Antonio Grassi
1775 – 1849
Gustave Rouland
1806 – 1878
Gösta Gärdin
1923 – 2015
Henrietta Swan Leavitt
1868 – 1921
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
1678 – 1751
Heydar Aliyev
1923 – 2003
Holger Sinding-Larsen
1869 – 1938
Ike Altgens
1919 – 1995
Jacques Viger
1787 – 1858
James Kent
1763 – 1847
Javier Echevarría Rodríguez
1932 – 2016
Jean Lesage
1912 – 1980
Jean Richepin
1849 – 1926
Jeanne Bamberger
1924 – 2024
Jim Carr
1951 – 2022
Jitong Li
1897 – 1961
Joel Roberts Poinsett
1779 – 1851
Johann Jacob Vitriarius
1679 – 1745
Johann Viktor Bredt
1879 – 1940
John Boydell
1719 – 1804
John F. Hawley
1958 – 2021
John Jeffcott
1796 – 1837
John Sparrow David Thompson
1845 – 1894
John le Carré
1931 – 2020
Joseph Heller
1923 – 1999
Joseph Schröter
1837 – 1894
Joseph-Honoré Ricard
1880 – 1948
Julij Voroncov
1929 – 2007
József Antall
1932 – 1993
Karl Krumbacher
1856 – 1909
Kichirō Tazawa
1918 – 2001
Klavdiya Boyarskikh
1939 – 2009
Luz Oliveros-Belardo
1906 – 1999
Magnus Fredrik Brahe
1756 – 1826
Maithili Sharan Gupt
1886 – 1964
Mammad agha Shahtakhtinski
1846 – 1931
Michael J. Galvin
1907 – 1963
Michael Odintsov
1921 – 2011
Milutin Milanković
1879 – 1958
Moshe-Zvi Neria
1913 – 1995
Naokuni Nomura
1885 – 1973
Nikolai Kudryavtsev
1893 – 1971
Philippa Roe
1962 – 2022
Piotr Iwaszkiewicz
1959 – 2021
Prince Frederick of Schaumburg-Lippe
1868 – 1945
Rashid Choudhury
1932 – 1986
Raymond P. Shafer
1917 – 2006
Roy Kellock
1893 – 1975
Shirley Hazzard
1931 – 2016
Sir George Burrows, 1st Baronet
1801 – 1887
Sir John Henderson, 5th Baronet
1752 – 1817
Stanisław Trembecki
1739 – 1812
Steven Englander
1961 – 2024
Stuart Roosa
1933 – 1994
Susan Tolman Mills
1826 – 1912
Tassos Papadopoulos
1934 – 2008
Theodor Friedrich Ludwig Nees von Esenbeck
1787 – 1837
Thomas H. Robbins, Jr.
1900 – 1972
Trinitario Ruiz Valarino
1862 – 1945
Vyvyan Donnithorne
1886 – 1968
William Morice
1602 – 1676
William Nevill, 1st Marquess of Abergavenny
1826 – 1915
William Randolph Lovelace II
1907 – 1965
William Rootes, 1st Baron Rootes
1894 – 1964
William Sinclair Marris
1873 – 1945
William Staughton
1770 – 1829
Wu Yuzhang
1878 – 1966
Wäinö Wuolijoki
1872 – 1947
Yakov Gakkel
1874 – 1945
Zhang Tailei
1898 – 1927
Željko Rohatinski
1951 – 2019
A.N. Hansen
1798 – 1873
Ada Comstock
1876 – 1973
Adella Hunt Logan
1863 – 1915
Adriana Calvo
1947 – 2010
Alan Shugart
1930 – 2006
Alexander H. Smith
1904 – 1986
Alexandru Drăghici
1913 – 1993
Alfons Maria Stickler
1910 – 2007
Allan Fraser
1902 – 1977
Andrew Taylor Still
1828 – 1917
Ann Reinking
1949 – 2020
Anne Baxter
1923 – 1985
Anne Deveson
1930 – 2016
Anthony Nugent, 11th Earl of Westmeath
1870 – 1933
Antonín Švehla
1873 – 1933
Armando Theodoro Hunziker
1919 – 2001
Arsène-Marie Le Feuvre
1863 – 1936
Arthur Brown
1843 – 1906
Arthur Reade
1902 – 1971
Atanazy Szeptycki
1686 – 1746
Audrey Totter
1917 – 2013
August Berberich
1912 – 1982
Aura Kiiskinen
1878 – 1968
Avery Dulles
1918 – 2008
Avraham Melamed
1921 – 2005
Bat-Ochirin Eldev-Ochir
1905 – 1937
Bernard Burke
1814 – 1892
Bernard Chrzanowski
1861 – 1944
Bernard de Chalvron
1911 – 1990
Bird Averitt
1952 – 2020
Béla Kondor
1931 – 1972
C.P.Brown
1798 – 1884
Carl E. Mapes
1874 – 1939
Cartwright Carmichael
1902 – 1960
Cha Liang-Chao
1896 – 1982
Charles Bowen
1830 – 1917
Charles Stewart, 3rd Duke of Richmond
1639 – 1672
Charles de Noyelle
1615 – 1686
Christophe de Beaumont
1703 – 1781
Claude Breitman
1921 – 2016
Clifton Chenier
1925 – 1987
Craig Watkins
1967 – 2023
Daniel Sidney Warner
1842 – 1895
Danny Aiello
1933 – 2019
David H. Locke
1927 – 2019
David Marshall
1908 – 1995
David W. Lewis
1815 – 1885
David Yellin
1864 – 1941
Denis-Luc Frayssinous
1765 – 1841
Dmitry Petrushevsky
1863 – 1942
Drucilla Cornell
1950 – 2022
Dwight Edward Aultman
1872 – 1929
Edmond Blanc
1856 – 1920
Eduardo Cavieres
1945 – 2021
Edward Maufe
1883 – 1974
Edwin Atlee Barber
1851 – 1916
Engelbert Röntgen
1829 – 1897
F. Clever Bald
1897 – 1970
Filip (Stavitsky)
1884 – 1952
Floro Bogado
1939 – 2017
Franz Leopold Lafontaine
1756 – 1812
… and 1,996 more