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Today's Anniversary – Monday, January 12


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Births

* 1974 Melanie Chisholm English singer, songwriter and television personality most famous as one of the five members of English girl group the Spice Girls, where she is known as "Sporty Spice".
* 1970 Zack de la Rocha American rapper, musician, poet, and activist of Mexican, German, and Irish descent.
* 1969 David Mitchell Award-winning British writer of postmodernist novels.
* 1965 Rob Zombie American musician, film director and writer.
* 1962 Joe Quesada American comic book editor, writer and artist.
* 1956 Marie Colvin Award-winning American journalist.
* 1954 Howard Stern American radio and TV personality, humorist and author.
* 1952 Walter Mosley Prominent American novelist, most widely recognized for his crime fiction.
* 1951 Rush Limbaugh US radio host and prominent conservative political commentator.
* 1951 Kirstie Alley American actress.
* 1950 Sheila Jackson Lee U S Representative for Texas's 18th congressional district, serving since 1995.
* 1950 Dorrit Moussaieff Israeli-born British-Icelandic First Lady of Iceland, jewelry designer, editor, businesswoman and socialite.
* 1949 Haruki Murakami Popular contemporary Japanese writer.
* 1948 Khalid Abdul Muhammad Born Harold Moore Jr, was a leading figure in the Black Nationalist movement throughout the 1990s and early 2000s.
* 1944 Joe Frazier World heavyweight boxing champion, active mostly in the 1960s and 1970s.
* 1929 Alasdair MacIntyre British philosopher primarily known for his contribution to moral and political philosophy but known also for his work in the history of philosophy and theology.
* 1926 Morton Feldman American composer.
* 1923 Alice Miller Psychologist noted for her work on child abuse and its effects upon society as well as the lives of individuals.
* 1918 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Developed and introduced the Transcendental Meditation technique and related programs and initiatives, including schools and universities with campuses in countries around the world.
* 1916 Pieter Willem Botha Commonly known as "PW", was the prime minister of South Africa from 1978 to 1984 and the first executive state president from 1984 to 1989.
* 1910 Luise Rainer First actor to win two Oscars, and is currently the oldest living winner of an Oscar.
* 1893 Hermann Goring Nazi founder of the Gestapo, Head of the Luftwaffe; in English his name is also spelled as Hermann Goering.
* 1893 Alfred Rosenberg Early and intellectually influential member of the Nazi party, who later held several important posts in the Nazi government.
* 1891 John Masterman Noted academic, sportsman and author.
* 1876 Jack London American author.
* 1863 Swami Vivekananda Teacher of the Vedanta philosophy, and one of the most famous and influential spiritual leaders of Hinduism.
* 1856 John Singer Sargent Most successful portrait painter of his era, as well as a gifted landscape painter and watercolorist.
* 1746 Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi Swiss educational reformer.
* 1729 Edmund Burke Irish political philosopher, Whig politician and statesman who is often regarded as the father of modern conservatism.
* 1587 John Winthrop Led a group of Puritans to the New World and joined the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1629.

Deaths

† 2002 Stanley (comedian) Unwin South African-born British comedian and comic writer, famous for his idiosyncratic brand of English known as "Unwinese".
† 1976 Agatha Christie English author of detective fiction.
† 1965 Lorraine Hansberry American playwright.
† 1960 Nevil Shute Was, as Nevil Shute, one of the most popular novelists of the mid-20th century, as well as a successful aeronautical engineer.
† 1871 Henry Alford English churchman, theologian, textual critic, scholar, poet, hymnodist, and writer.
† 1829 Friedrich Schlegel German poet, critic and scholar.
† 1665 Pierre de Fermat French mathematician and lawyer of Basque origin at the Parliament of Toulouse.
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