On this day: 12 January
Events, births and deaths on 12 January. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Claude Jarman, Jr.
- Deaths · Leslie Charleson
- Deaths · Masahiro Mori
10 years ago2016
- Events · 2016 Istanbul bombing
100 years ago1926
- Births · Morton Feldman
- Births · Ray Price
1000 years ago1026
Nothing recorded for that year.
Events · 22
- 1777Mission Santa Clara de Asís — Spanish mission in Santa Clara, California
- 1808
- 1848Sicilian revolution of 1848 — 1848 rebellion against Bourbon rule in the Kingdom of Sicily
- 1879Action at Sihayo's Kraal — early skirmish in the Anglo-Zulu War, 1879
- 1895National Trust — conservation organization in England, Wales and Northern Ireland
- 1914
- 1918Minnie Pit Disaster — Coal mining disaster
- 1922Seamen's strike of 1922 — labor action by Chinese sailors
- 1942National War Labor Board — US WWII government agency
- 1945Vistula–Oder Offensive — 1945 offensive by the Soviet Red Army and Polish Army against Germany
- 19551955 Cincinnati mid-air collision — Fatal plane crash over northern Kentucky
- 1959Motown — American record label
- 1962Operation Chopper — 1962 US forces ops
- 1964Zanzibar Revolution — revolution in Zanzibar in 1964
- 1969Super Bowl III — 1969 edition of the Super Bowl
- 1990Pogrom of Armenians in Baku — 1990 pogrom against ethnic Armenian inhabitants of Baku, Azerbaijan SSR
- 20082008 Taiwanese legislative election — election in Taiwan
- 20102010 Haiti earthquake — 12 January 2010 magnitude 7.0 Mw earthquake
- 20122012 Romanian protests — protest
- 2015January 2015 Kolofata raid — failed assault by Boko Haram on a Cameroonian military base
- 20162016 Istanbul bombing — suicide attack in Istanbul's historic Sultanahmet Square district
- 20202020–2022 Taal Volcano eruptions — volcanic eruption in the Philippines
Births · 60
- 1562(Julian date)Carlo Emanuele I, Duke of Savoy — duke of Savoy
- 1591Jusepe de Ribera — Spanish painter (1591–1652)
- 1628Charles Perrault — French author (1628-1703)
- 1729Edmund Burke — Anglo-Irish statesman, political theorist and conservative philosopher (1729–1797)
- 1736John Hancock — American Patriot and statesman during the American Revolution (1737–1793)
- 1746Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi — Swiss pedagogue and educational reformer (1746-1827)
- 1751Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies — King of Naples (1759-1806, 1815-1816), Sicily (1759-1816), and the Two Sicilies (1816-1825)
- 1792Johan August Arfwedson — Swedish chemist (1792-1841)
- 1822Étienne Lenoir — Belgian engineer (1822-1900)
- 1852Joseph Joffre — French general (1852–1931)
- 1856
- 1863Swami Vivekananda — Indian Hindu monk and philosopher (1863–1902)
- 1873Spyridon Louis — Greek athlete
- 1876Jack London — American author, journalist and social activist (1876–1916)
- 1878Ferenc Molnár — Hungarian-born dramatist and novelist (1878-1952)
- 1893Hermann Göring — German Nazi politician, military leader, and convicted war criminal (1893–1946)
- 1893Alfred Rosenberg — Baltic German architect, Nazi politician and ideologue (1893-1946)
- 1899Paul Hermann Müller — Swiss chemist (1899-1965)
- 1906Emmanuel Levinas — Jewish-French-Lithuanian philosopher (1906-1995)
- 1907Sergei Korolev — Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (1907-1966)
- 1910Luise Rainer — German-born actress (1910–2014)
- 1916P. W. Botha — South African prime minister (1916–2006)
- 1917Maharishi Mahesh Yogi — Indian spiritual master
- 1926Morton Feldman — American composer (1926–1987)
- 1929Alasdair MacIntyre — Scottish-American philosopher (1929–2025)
Deaths · 60
- 690(Julian date)Benedict Biscop — Anglo-Saxon abbot
- 914Ahmad Samani — the third king of Samanid dynasty (907–914)
- 1140(Julian date)Louis I, Landgrave of Thuringia — Langrave of Thuringia
- 1167(Julian date)Aelred of Rievaulx — English monk, author and saint (1110–1167)
- 1321Marie of Brabant, Queen of France — Queen consort of France
- 1519(Julian date)Maximilian I — Holy Roman Emperor (1459-1519)
- 1665Pierre de Fermat — French mathematician and lawyer
- 1674Giacomo Carissimi — Italian composer (1605–1674)
- 1700Marguerite Bourgeoys — French colonist and foundress
- 1705Luca Giordano — Italian Baroque painter (1634–1705)
- 1735John Eccles — British composer
- 1759Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange — British princess (1709-1759); eldest daughter of George II (1709–1759)
- 1765Johann Melchior Molter — German composer
- 1822Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider — German classicist and naturalist
- 1829Friedrich Schlegel — German poet, critic and scholar, editor
- 1833Marie-Antoine Carême — French chef
- 1834William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville — British Prime Minister, politician (1759-1834)
- 1856Ľudovít Štúr — Slovak poet, philosopher, linguist, publicist, politician and writer (1815–1856)
- 1861Václav Hanka — Czech archivist, poet, librarian, lexicographer, linguist, literature historian, publicist, translator, writer, university educator and science writer
- 1875Tongzhi Emperor — emperor of the Qing Dynasty (1856-1875)
- 1909Hermann Minkowski — German mathematician and physicist (1864–1909)
- 1915Arisaka Nariakira — Japanese general (1852-1915)
- 1916(Julian date)Georgios Theotokis — Prime Minister of Greece (1844-1916)
- 1943Charles Tate Regan — British zoologist (1878–1943)
- 1943Jan Campert — Dutch poet (1902-1943)
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