May 12
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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
- 1812 – Edward Lear, British author and poet (d. 1888)
- 1820 – Florence Nightingale, British nurse (d. 1910)
- 1828 – Dante Gabriel Rossetti, British poet (d. 1882)
- 1842 – Jules Massenet, French composer (d. 1912)
- 1845 – Gabriel Fauré, French composer (d. 1924)
- 1907 – Leslie Charteris, British author and screenwriter (d. 1993)
- 1907 – Katharine Hepburn, American actress (d. 2003)
- 1914 – Bertus Aafjes, Dutch poet (d. 1993)
- 1918 – Julius Rosenberg, Soviet spy (d. 1953)
- 1921 – Joseph Beuys, German artist (d. 1986)
- 1922 – Marco Denevi, Argentine writer (d. 1998)
- 1928 – Burt Bacharach, American composer
- 1930 – Jesús Franco, Spanish film director
- 1936 – Frank Stella, American painter
- 1937 – George Carlin, American comedian (d. 2008)
- 1942 – Ian Dury, British musician (d. 2000)
- 1946 – Daniel Libeskind, American architect
- 1947 – catherine yronwode, American writer and editor
- 1948 – Steve Winwood, British musician (The Spencer Davis Group; Traffic)
- 1962 – Emilio Estevez, American actor
- 1966 – Bebel Gilberto, Brazilian singer
Deaths
- 1634 – George Chapman, English writer
- 1700 – John Dryden, English writer (b. 1631)
- 1859 – Sergei Aksakov, Russian writer (b. 1791)
- 1884 – Bedřich Smetana, Czech composer (b. 1824)
- 1907 – Joris-Karl Huysmans, French author (b. 1848)
- 1957 – Erich von Stroheim, film director and actor (b. 1885)
- 1985 – Jean Dubuffet, French painter (b. 1901)
- 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)
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