Famous Birthdays In August - 12
Thursday, 23 March 2023
1503 Christian III, king of Denmark/Norway (1534-59) was born on August - 12.
1566 Isabella CE, infante of Spain/governess of the Netherlands was born on August - 12.
1592 Willem earl of Nassau-Siegen, Dutch gov (Fort Emmerik/Heusden) was born on this day in history.
1604 On August - 12 birth of tokugawa Iemitsu, Japanese shogun (d. 1651)
1620 On August - 12 birth of pieter Cuypers, S Neth lawyer
1626 Giovanni Legrenzi, composer was born on this day in history.
1629 On August - 12 birth of tsar Alexei I of Russia (d. 1676)
1644 Georg Christoph Leuttner, composer was born on August - 12.
1644 Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, composer was born on August - 12.
1647 Johann Heinrich Acker, German writer (d. 1719) was born on this day in history.
1686 On this day in history birth of john Balguy, English philosopher (d. 1748)
1696 On this day in history birth of maurice Greene, composer
1720 Martin Gerbert, [von Hornau], prince-abbot/music historian was born on August - 12.
1720 On this day in history birth of konrad Ekhof, German actor (d. 1778)
1744 Rowland Hill, preacher was born on August - 12.
1751 Johann Baptist Lasser, composer was born on August - 12.
1753 On August - 12 birth of thomas Bewick, England, artist (British Birds, Aesop's Fables)
1757 On this day in history birth of aLF, alien life form (ALF)
1762 On August - 12 birth of george IV, king of England (1820-30)
1762 King George IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1830) was born on this day in history.
1774 Robert Southey, English poet laureate/biographer of Nelson was born on August - 12.
1778 On this day in history birth of francis Horner, politician
1781 On this day in history birth of robert Mills, US, architect (Washington Monument)
1819 Daniel Davidson Bidwell, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1864 was born on this day in history.
1820 On this day in history birth of oliver Mowat, a founder of the Canadian Confederation
1825 On this day in history birth of frederick Arthur Gore Ouseley, composer
1829 John Horace Forney, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1902 was born on August - 12.
1832 On this day in history birth of hely Hutchinson Almond, politician/doctor
1833 William Price Sanders, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1863 was born on August - 12.
1838 On this day in history birth of joseph Barnby, conductor/academic principal
1848 Macellus Emants, Dutch writer/poet (Along the Nile) was born on this day in history.
1849 Abbott Handerson Thayer, painter/naturalist was born on August - 12.
1853 On this day in history birth of jean Louis Nicode, composer
1854 On this day in history birth of alfred Gilbert, sculptor/goldsmith