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Events

• 1984 - The Terminator has been transported back in time from 2029 A.D. to May 12, 1984 to assassinate a woman named Sarah Connor
• 1942 – Holocaust: 1,500 Jews are sent to gas chambers in Auschwitz.

Births

• 1820 - Florence Nightingale, English nurse
• 1828 - Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English poet
• 1828 - Theodor Reik, English poet
• 1921 - Joseph Beuys, German artist
• 1930 - Jess Franco Spanish exploitation filmmaker
• 1942 - Ian Dury, British singer-songwriter (d. 2000)
• 1958 - Shannon, American electro funk vocalist

Deaths

• 1907 - Joris-Karl Huysmans, French novelist
• 1957 - Erich von Stroheim Austrian Jewish filmmaker

Births

• 1401 – Emperor Shōkō (d. 1428)
• 1496 – Gustav I of Sweden (d. 1560)
• 1590 – Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1621)
• 1622 – Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Governor General of New France (d. 1698)
• 1626 – Louis Hennepin, Flemish missionary (d. 1705)
• 1670 – Frederick Augustus I of Poland (d. 1733)
• 1700 – Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian architect (d. 1773)
• 1725 – Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (d. 1785)
• 1767 – Manuel de Godoy, Spanish statesman (d. 1851)
• 1803 – Justus von Liebig, German chemist (d. 1873)
• 1804 – Robert Baldwin, Canadian politician (d. 1858)
• 1806 – Johan Vilhelm Snellman, Finnish statesman (d. 1881)
• 1812 – Edward Lear, British author and poet (d. 1888)
• 1820 – Florence Nightingale, British nurse (d. 1910)
• 1828 – Dante Gabriel Rossetti, British poet (d. 1882)
• 1829 – Pavlos Carrer, Greek composer (d. 1896)
• 1842 – Jules Massenet, French composer (d. 1912)
• 1845 – Gabriel Fauré, French composer (d. 1924)
• 1850 – Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. statesman (d. 1924)
• 1867 – Hugh Trumble, Australian cricketer (d. 1938)
• 1874 – Clemens von Pirquet, Austrian physician (d. 1929)
• 1880 – Lincoln Ellsworth, American scientist (d. 1951)
• 1889 – Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank (d. 1980)
• 1892 – Fritz Kortner, Austrian-born director (d. 1970)
• 1895 – William Giauque, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1982)
• 1895 – Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher (d. 1986)
• 1899 – Indra Devi, Latvian Yoga Instructor (d. 2002)
• 1900 – Helene Weigel, German actress (d. 1971)
• 1903 – Wilfrid Hyde-White, British actor (d. 1991)
• 1907 – Leslie Charteris, British author and screenwriter (d. 1993)
• 1907 – Katharine Hepburn, American actress (d. 2003)
• 1910 – Charles B. Fulton, American jurist (d. 1996)
• 1910 – Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, British biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1994)
• 1912 – Archibald Cox, U.S. Solicitor General (d. 2004)
• 1914 – Bertus Aafjes, Dutch poet (d. 1993)
• 1914 – Howard K. Smith, American journalist (d. 2002)
• 1915 – Mary Kay Ash, American businesswoman, founded Mary Kay Cosmetics (d. 2001)
• 1917 – Frank Clair, Canadian football coach (d. 2005)
• 1918 – Julius Rosenberg, Soviet spy (d. 1953)
• 1921 – Joseph Beuys, German artist (d. 1986)
• 1921 – Farley Mowat, Canadian writer and naturalist
• 1922 – Marco Denevi, Argentine writer (d. 1998)
• 1924 – Alexander Esenin-Volpin, Russian mathematician
• 1924 – Tony Hancock, British comedian (d. 1968)
• 1924 – Maxine Cooper Gomberg, American actress (d. 2009)
• 1925 – Yogi Berra, American baseball player
• 1928 – Burt Bacharach, American composer
• 1928 – Henry Cosby, African-American songwriter (d. 2002)
• 1929 – Dollard St. Laurent, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1929 – Sam Nujoma, first President of Namibia
• 1930 – Jesús Franco, Spanish film director
• 1933 – Andrey Voznesensky, Russian poet
• 1935 – Felipe Alou, Dominican baseball player and manager
• 1935 – Johnny Bucyk, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1936 – Guillermo Endara, President of Panama
• 1936 – Tom Snyder, American television personality (d. 2007)
• 1936 – Frank Stella, American painter
• 1937 – Beryl Burton, British cyclist (d. 1996)
• 1937 – George Carlin, American comedian (d. 2008)
• 1937 – Susan Hampshire, British actress
• 1938 – Millie Perkins, American film actress
• 1939 – Miltiadis Evert, Greek politician
• 1939 – Reg Gasnier, Australian rugby league footballer
• 1939 – Ron Ziegler, White House Press Secretary (d. 2003)
• 1939 – Jalal Dabagh, Kurdish politician
• 1942 – Ian Dury, British musician (d. 2000)
• 1942 – Michel Fugain, French singer and songwriter
• 1942 – Billy Swan, American songwriter and singer
• 1945 – Alan Ball, Jr., English footballer (d. 2007)
• 1945 – Ian McLagan, British keyboardist (Small Faces)
• 1945 – Patrick Ricard, French businessman
• 1946 – L. Neil Smith, American science fiction author
• 1946 – Daniel Libeskind, American architect
• 1947 – Michael Ignatieff, Canadian politician
• 1947 – Micheline Lanctôt, American film actor, director and screenwriter
• 1947 – catherine yronwode, American writer and editor
• 1948 – Steve Winwood, British musician (The Spencer Davis Group; Traffic)
• 1948 – David Heineman, American politician, current governor of Nebraska
• 1950 – Bruce Boxleitner, American actor
• 1950 – Gabriel Byrne, Irish actor
• 1950 – Billy Squier, American singer
• 1956 – Bernie Federko, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1956 – Glenn Robbins, Australian comedian
• 1957 – Lou Whitaker, American baseball player
• 1958 – Andreas Petroulakis, Greek political caricaturist
• 1958 – Eric Singer, American drummer
• 1959 – Ving Rhames, American actor
• 1960 – Paul Arcand, Quebec radio host, journalist and film director
• 1960 – Ian Khan, British racing driver
• 1961 – Paul Begala, American political commentator
• 1961 – Billy Duffy, British guitarist (The Cult)
• 1961 – Thomas Dooley, German-American Soccer Player
• 1961 – Lar Park Lincoln, American actress
• 1961 – Bruce McCulloch, Canadian actor
• 1962 – Emilio Estevez, American actor
• 1962 – Brett Gurewitz, American songwriter and record producer (Bad Religion) (Epitaph)
• 1963 – Panagiotis Fasoulas, Greek basketball player, Mayor of Piraeus
• 1963 – Gavin Hood, South African film director
• 1963 – Stefano Modena, Italian racing driver
• 1963 – Charles Pettigrew, American singer (Charles and Eddie) (d. 2001)
• 1963 – Jerry Trimble, American actor
• 1963 – Deborah Kara Unger, Canadian actress
• 1963 – Vanessa A. Williams, American actress
• 1966 – Stephen Baldwin, American actor
• 1966 – Bebel Gilberto, Brazilian singer
• 1967 – Paul D'Amour, American bass guitarist (ex-Tool)
• 1967 – Joe McKinney, Irish actor
• 1968 – Mark Clark, American baseball player
• 1968 – Tony Hawk, American skateboarder
• 1968 – Scott Schwartz, American actor
• 1968 – Catherine Tate, British comedian
• 1969 – Kim Fields, American actress
• 1969 – Cesar Millan, professional dog trainer
• 1969 – Kevin Nalty, famed YouTuber
• 1970 – Jim Furyk, American golfer
• 1970 – Samantha Mathis, American actress
• 1970 – Steve Palframan, South African cricketer
• 1970 – Mike Weir, Canadian golfer
• 1971 – Doug Basham, American professional wrestler
• 1973 – Kendra Kassebaum, American stage actress
• 1973 – Travis Lutter, Mixed Martial Arts Fighter
• 1975 – Jonah Lomu, New Zealand rugby union footballer
• 1975 – Lawrence Phillips, American football player
• 1977 – Graeme Dott, British snooker player
• 1977 – Rebecca Herbst, American actress
• 1978 – Jason Biggs, American actor
• 1978 – Wilfred Le Bouthillier, Acadian-Canadian singer
• 1978 – Aya Ishiguro, Japanese singer (formerly Morning Musume)
• 1978 – Josh Phelps, American baseball player
• 1978 – Hossein Reza Zadeh, Iranian weightlifter
• 1979 – Andre Carter, American football player
• 1979 – Robert Key, English Cricketer
• 1979 – Erdinç Saçan, Turkish-Dutch politician
• 1979 – Steve Smith, American football player
• 1981 – Lorena Bernal, Spanish model and actress, Miss Spain 1999
• 1981 – Kentaro Sato, Japanese composer
• 1981 – Dennis Trillo (Abelardo Dennis Florencio Ho),Filipino Actor and Singer
• 1983 – Charilaos Pappas, Greek footballer
• 1985 – Tally Hall, American soccer player
• 1985 – Jeroen Simaeys, Belgian footballer
• 1986 – Emily VanCamp, Canadian actress
• 1988 – Marcelo, Brazilian footballer
• 1988 – Marky Cielo, Filipino dancer and actor (d. 2008)
• 1992 – Malcolm David Kelley, American actor
• 1992 – Callum Chambers, Australian rules footballer
• 1995 – Luke Benward, American actor

Deaths

• 1003 – Pope Silvester II
• 1012 – Pope Sergius IV
• 1382 – Queen Joan I of Naples (b. 1327)
• 1465 – Thomas Palaeologus, Titular Byzantine emperor, Despot of the Morea (b. 1409)
• 1634 – George Chapman, English writer
• 1641 – Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, English statesman (b. 1593)
• 1684 – Edme Mariotte, French physicist and priest
• 1699 – Lucas Achtschellinck, Flemish painter (b. 1626)
• 1700 – John Dryden, English writer (b. 1631)
• 1708 – Adolf Friedrich II of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1658)
• 1748 – Thomas Lowndes, English astronomer (b. 1692)
• 1759 – Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor (b. 1700)
• 1784 – Abraham Trembley, Swiss naturalist (b. 1710)
• 1792 – Charles Simon Favart, French dramatist (b. 1710)
• 1796 – Johann Peter Uz, German poet (b. 1720)
• 1798 – George Vancouver, British navy officer and explorer (b. 1757)
• 1801 – Nicholas Repnin, Russian statesman (b. 1734)
• 1842 – Walenty Wańkowicz, Polish painter (b. 1799)
• 1845 – János Bacsanyi, Hungarian poet (b. 1763)
• 1856 – Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, French mathematician (b. 1786)
• 1859 – Sergei Aksakov, Russian writer (b. 1791)
• 1860 – Charles Barry, English architect (b. 1795)
• 1864 – J. E. B. Stuart, American soldier from Virginia and a Confederate Army general (b. 1833)
• 1867 – Friedrich William Eduard Gerhard, German archaeologist (b. 1795)
• 1871 – Anselme Payen, French physicist (b. 1795)
• 1876 – Georgi Benkovski, Bulgarian revolutionary, brutally killed by the Turks (b. 1843)
• 1884 – Bedřich Smetana, Czech composer (b. 1824)
• 1889 – John Cadbury, English chocolate entrepreneur (b. 1801)
• 1907 – Joris-Karl Huysmans, French author (b. 1848)
• 1916 – James Connolly, Irish socialist (b. 1868)
• 1925 – Amy Lowell, American poet (b. 1874)
• 1931 – Eugène Ysaÿe, Belgian violinist (b. 1858)
• 1935 – Józef Piłsudski, Polish statesman (b. 1867)
• 1944 – Max Brand, American author (b. 1892)
• 1944 – Arthur Quiller-Couch, English writer (b. 1863)
• 1956 – Louis Calhern, American actor (b. 1895)
• 1957 – Alfonso de Portago, Spanish bobsledder and race car driver (b. 1928)
• 1957 – Erich von Stroheim, film director and actor (b. 1885)
• 1963 – Bobby Kerr, Canadian runner (b. 1882)
• 1966 – Felix Martin Julius Steiner, German Heer and Waffen-SS officer (b. 1896)
• 1967 – John Masefield, British writer (b. 1878)
• 1970 – Nelly Sachs, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
• 1971 – Heinie Manush, American baseball player (b. 1901)
• 1973 – Art Pollard, American racecar driver (b. 1927)
• 1985 – Jean Dubuffet, French painter (b. 1901)
• 1986 – Elisabeth Bergner, Austrian actress (b. 1897)
• 1990 – Chen Kenmin, Japanese chef (b. 1912)
• 1992 – Robert Reed, American actor (b. 1932)
• 1992 – Nikos Gatsos, Greek poet and lyricist (b. 1911)
• 1992 – Lenny Montana, American actor (b. 1926)
• 1994 – Erik Erikson, German psychoanalyst (b. 1902)
• 1994 – John Smith, British politician (b. 1938)
• 1995 – Mia Martini, real name: Domenica Bertè, Italian singer and song-writer (b. 1947)
• 1999 – Abd-al-Aziz ibn Abd-Allah ibn Baaz, Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia 1993-1999 (b. 1910)
• 1999 – Saul Steinberg, Romanian-American cartoonist (b. 1914)
• 2000 – Adam Petty, American race car driver (b. 1980)
• 2001 – Perry Como, American singer (b. 1912)
• 2001 – Alexei Tupolev, Russian aircraft designer (b. 1925)
• 2002 – Joseph Bonanno, Italian-born gangster (b. 1905)
• 2003 – Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, French UN High Commissioner for Refugees (b. 1933)
• 2005 – Martin Lings, English Islamic scholar (b. 1909)
• 2005 – Monica Zetterlund, Swedish actress and singer (b. 1937)
• 2006 – Hussein Maziq, former Libyan prime minister (b. 1918)
• 2006 – Gillespie V. Montgomery, former U.S. representative from Mississippi (b. 1920)
• 2007 – Mullah Dadullah Akhund, Taliban military leader
• 2007 – Teddy Infuhr, American former child actor (b. 1936)
• 2008 – Robert Rauschenberg, American artist (b. 1925)
• 2008 – Irena Sendler, Polish social worker, WWII heroine (b. 1910)