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April 12
(Redirected from 12 April)
April 12 is the 102nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (103rd in leap years). There are 263 days remaining.
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up to 19th century
20th century
21st century
Births
up to 19th century
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599 BC - Mahavira, founder of Jainism (d. 527 BC)
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812 - Muhammad at-Taqi, Shia Imam (d. 835)
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1748 - Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (d. 1836)
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1777 - Henry Clay, American statesman and orator (d. 1852)
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1799 - Henri Druey, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1855)
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1832 - Hugo Adolph Steinheil , optician (d. 1893)
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1856 - William Martin Conway, English art critic and mountaineer (d. 1937)
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1867- Sindo Garay , Cuban singer and musician (d. 1968)
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1884 - Otto Meyerhof, biochemist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1922) (d. 1951)
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1888 - Cecil Kimber , founder of MG
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1892 - Johnny Dodds, jazz musician (d. 1940)
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1895 - Lily Pons, opera soprano (d. 1976)
20th century
1900s-1960s
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1903 - Sally Rand, fan dancer (d. 1979)
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1904 - Paul Dahlke , actor (d. 1984)
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1907 - Felix de Weldon, sculptor (d. 2003)
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1913 - Lionel Hampton, musician (d. 2002)
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1916 - Beverly Cleary, writer
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1922 - Tiny Tim, English musician (d. 1996)
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1928 - Jean-François Paillard, French conductor
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1933 - Montserrat Caballé, Catalan soprano
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1939 - Alan Ayckbourn, writer
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1940 - Censored page, musician
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1941 - Bobby Moore, English national football team captain (d. 1993)
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1944 - John Kay, of Steppenwolf
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1946 - Ed O'Neill, actor
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1947 - Tom Clancy, author
- 1947 - David Letterman, talk show host
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1948 - Joschka Fischer, foreign minister of Germany
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1948 - Sandra "Lois" Reeves, singer, member of Martha & the Vandellas
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1949 - Scott Turow, writer
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1950 - David Cassidy, singer, actor
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1952 - Ralph Wiley, sports journalist (d. 2004)
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1956 - Andy Garcia, actor
- 1956 - Herbert Grönemeyer, singer, pianist and actor
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1957 - Vince Gill, country musician
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1961 - Lisa Gerrard, singer, film composer
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1971 - Shannen Doherty, actress
- 1971 - Nicholas Brendon, actor
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1979 - Claire Danes, actress
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1982 - Deen, Bosnian singer
Deaths
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65 - Lucius Annaeus Seneca, philosopher, dramatist, statesman (b. c. 3 BC)
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238 - Roman emperors Gordian I (suicide) and Gordian II (killed in battle)
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1850 - Adoniram Judson, pioneer Baptist missionary to India and Burma (b. 1788)
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1912 - Clara Barton, nurse and Red Cross advocate (b. 1821)
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1938 - Feodor Chaliapin, operatic bass (b. 1873)
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1945 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States (b. 1882)
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1962 - Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya, Indian politician and engineer, dies at 101
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1975 - Josephine Baker, dancer (b. 1906)
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1980 - Clark McConachy, billiards and snooker player (b. 1895)
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1981 - Joe Louis, boxer (b. 1914)
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1988 - Alan Paton, novelist (b. 1903)
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1989 - Sugar Ray Robinson, multiple time world champion boxer (b. 1921)
- 1989 - Abbie Hoffman, radical leader (b. 1936)
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2001 - Harvey Ball, inventor of the Smiley (b. 1921)
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2003 - Cecil H. Green, Texas Instruments Founder (b. 1900)
Holidays and observances
From "Lines in Praise of a Date Made Praiseworthy Solely by Something Very Nice That Happened to It", by Ogden Nash:
- "As through the calendar I delve
- I pause to rejoice in April twelve.
- Yea, be I in sickness or be I in health
- My favorite date is April twealth.
- ..."
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Last updated: 02-08-2005 11:13:36
Last updated: 05-03-2005 17:50:55
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