Famous Birthdays In August - 12

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  

« Previous Page | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Next Page »

0030  Death of Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator (b. 69 BC) on August - 12.  

0875  Louis II, king of Italy/emperor of France, dies at about 50 on August - 12.  

1158  On August - 12 anselmus van Havelberg, Brandenburg bshp of Havelberg (1129-55), dies  

1350  On August - 12 philip VI, king of France, dies  

1424  Death of Yongle, Emperor of China (b. 1360) on this day in history.  

1484  On this day in history sixtus IV, [Francesco della Rovere], Pope (1471-84), dies  

1546  On August - 12 francisco de Vitoria, Spanish theology/lawyer, dies  

1577  Death of Thomas Smith, English diplomat and scholar (b. 1513) on this day in history.