On this day: 12 November
Events, births and deaths on 12 November. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
Nothing recorded for that year.
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Lupita Tovar
- Deaths · Yu Xu
- Deaths · Mahmoud Abdel Aziz
100 years ago1926
Within 10 years of that
- 1918 · Events · Austria
- 1929 · Births · Grace Kelly
- 1934 · Births · Charles Manson
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1035 · Deaths · Cnut the Great
- 1094 · Deaths · Duncan II of Scotland
- 1087 · Deaths · William I, Count of Burgundy
Events · 24
- 1893Durand Line — border between Afghanistan and Pakistan
- 1918Austria — country in Central Europe
- 1918Republic of German-Austria — country comprising areas with a predominantly German-speaking or ethnic German population and constituent part of the German republic (1918–1919)
- 1920Treaty of Rapallo — 1920 treaty between Italy and Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
- 1921Washington Naval Conference — disarmament convention held by the United States from November 1921 to February 1922
- 1933German referendum, 1933 — referendum on German withdrawal from the League of Nations
- 1944Second East Turkestan Republic — 1944–1946 unrecognized state in Central Asia
- 1944Operation Catechism — 1944 British air raid of World War II
- 1955Bundeswehr — federal defence forces of Germany, and their civil administration and procurement authorities since 1955
- 19561956 Rafah massacre — massacre of Palestinians on 12 November 1956 during the Israeli occupation of the Sinai Peninsula and the Gaza Strip following the Suez Crisis
- 1971Aeroflot Flight 63 — 1971 plane crash in Ukraine
- 1973Last of the Summer Wine — British sitcom
- 1991Santa Cruz massacre — 1991 massacre in East Timor
- 1995Erdut Agreement — 1995 treaty ending the Croatian War of Independence
- 1996Charkhi Dadri mid-air collision — aviation accident
- 1999Düzce earthquake of 1999 — 7.2-magnitude earthquake that struck Düzce in northwestern Turkey on November 12, 1999
- 2001American Airlines Flight 587 — November 2001 aviation accident in New York, US
- 20032003 Nasiriyah bombing — Terrorist attacks in Iraq from 2003 to 2006 against Italian forces
- 2006South Ossetian independence referendum, 2006 — referendum in South Ossetia
- 2011Bid Kaneh explosion — 2011 explosion in Iranian armory
- 20142014 Armenian Mil Mi-24 shootdown — aviation incident
- 20152015 Beirut bombings — suicide bombings in Beirut, Lebanon
- 20172017 Iran–Iraq earthquake — earthquake in Iran and Iraq
- 20222022 Dallas airshow crash — crash between two planes at the Wings Over Dallas airshow on November 12, 2022
Births · 60
- 1615Richard Baxter — English Puritan church leader, poet, and hymn-writer
- 1651Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz — Mexican writer, philosopher, playwright and poet
- 1729Louis-Antoine de Bougainville — French admiral and explorer (1729–1811)
- 1755
- 1774Charles Bell — Scottish physician, painter and theologian (1774–1842)
- 1790Letitia Christian Tyler — First Lady of the United States (1790-1842)
- 1815Elizabeth Cady Stanton — American writer, suffragist and Women's Rights activist (1815–1902)
- 1817Baháʼu'lláh — founder of the Bahá'í Faith (1817–1892)
- 1833Alexander Borodin — Russian composer, doctor and chemist (1833–1887)
- 1840Auguste Rodin — French sculptor (1840–1917)
- 1842John William Strutt — English physicist (1842–1919)
- 1842Ōyama Iwao — Japanese general (1842-1916)
- 1866Sun Yat-sen — Chinese politician, physician, and revolutionary (1866–1925)
- 1881Maximilian von Weichs — German field marshal (1881–1954)
- 1895Nima Yushij — Iranian poet (1895–1960)
- 1896Salim Ali — Indian ornithologist (1896-1987)
- 1915Roland Barthes — French philosopher and essayist (1915–1980)
- 1922Kim Hunter — American actress (1922-2002)
- 1922Tadeusz Borowski — Polish writer and journalist (1922-1951)
- 1923Loriot — German humorist, cartoonist, film director and actor (1923–2011)
- 1929Grace Kelly — American actress and Princess consort of Monaco (1929–1982)
- 1929Michael Ende — German writer (1929–1995)
- 1933Jalal Talabani — Iraqi politician (1933-2017)
- 1934Charles Manson — American criminal and cult leader (1934–2017)
- 1934Vavá — Brazilian association football player (1934–2002)
Deaths · 60
- 607(Julian date)Boniface III — pope
- 973(Julian date)Burchard III, Duke of Swabia — Duke of Swabia from 954 to 973
- 1035Cnut the Great — 11th-century King of Denmark, Norway, and England
- 1087(Julian date)William I, Count of Burgundy — Count of Burgundy
- 1094(Julian date)Duncan II of Scotland — King of Scots
- 1202(Julian date)Canute VI of Denmark — King of Denmark
- 1375(Julian date)John Henry — Margrave of Moravia (1349-1375) and Count of Tyrol (1335-1341)
- 1434(Julian date)Louis III of Naples — titular king of Naples, count of Provence and duke of Anjou and Calabria,
- 1555(Julian date)Stephen Gardiner — English bishop (1483-1555)
- 1562(Julian date)Peter Martyr Vermigli — Italian Reformed theologian
- 1567(Julian date)Anne de Montmorency — First Duke of Montmorency
- 1595John Hawkins — English navigator, admiral, privateer and slave trader (1532-1595)
- 1623Josaphat Kuntsevych — Ruthenian Catholic archbishop, martyr and saint
- 1671(Julian date)Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron — Parliamentary commander-in-chief during the English Civil War (1612-1671)
- 1712Tokugawa Ienobu — The sixth shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan (1662-1712)
- 1742Friedrich Hoffmann — German physician and chemist (1660–1742)
- 1793Jean Sylvain Bailly — French astronomer, mathematician, freemason, and political leader (1736-1793)
- 1865Elizabeth Gaskell — British author (1810-1865)
- 1916Percival Lowell — American astronomer (1855-1916)
- 1933F. Holland Day — American photographer (1864–1933)
- 1939Norman Bethune — Canadian physician, medical innovator and humanitarian (1890-1939)
- 1946Madan Mohan Malaviya — Indian educator and politician
- 1946Albert Bond Lambert — Amateur golfer, aviator (1875–1946)
- 1948Umberto Giordano — Italian opera composer (1867–1948)
- 1955Alfréd Hajós — Hungarian swimmer, footballer, and architect (1878-1955)
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