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Today's Anniversary – Thursday, February 12


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Births

* 1968 Christopher McCandless Also known as Alexander Supertramp, was an American wanderer who, in April 1992, hiked into the Alaskan wilderness with little food and equipment, hoping to live a period of solitude.
* 1954 Majalli Wahabi Druze politician from Israel and currently a member of the Knesset on behalf of Kadima.
* 1954 Philip Zimmermann Creator of Pretty Good Privacy, the most widely used email encryption software in the world.
* 1946 Ian Plimer Australian geologist, academic and businessman.
* 1942 Ehud Barak Israeli politician and was the 10th Prime Minister of Israel from 1999 to 2001.
* 1938 Judy Blume American author, most noted for her children's and young adult books.
* 1936 Fang Lizhi Chinese astrophysicist whose liberal ideas inspired the pro-democracy student movement of 1986–87 and the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
* 1934 Bill Russell Former U S basketball player of the Boston Celtics, remembered for his central role in the Celtics dynasty that won eleven NBA championships in thirteen seasons.
* 1932 Julian Simon Professor of business administration at the University of Maryland and a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute at the time of his death, after previously serving as a longtime business professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
* 1932 Robert Lutz General Motors Vice Chairman of Global Product Development.
* 1930 Arlen Specter United States Senator from Pennsylvania.
* 1918 Julian Schwinger American theoretical physicist.
* 1900 Vasily Chuikov Lieutenant general in the Soviet Red Army during World War II who after the war became a Marshal of the Soviet Union.
* 1893 Omar Bradley One of the main U S Army field commanders in North Africa and Europe during the World War II and a General of the United States Army.
* 1885 Julius Streicher Prominent Nazi prior to and during World War II He was the publisher of the Nazi Der Stόrmer newspaper, which was to become a part of the Nazi propaganda machine.
* 1884 Max Beckmann German painter, printmaker.
* 1884 Alice Roosevelt Longworth Only daughter of Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States, and his first wife, Alice Hathaway Lee.
* 1880 John L. Lewis American Labor union leader and the president of the United Mine Workers of America from 1920 to 1960.
* 1828 George Meredith English novelist and poet.
* 1819 William Wetmore Story American sculptor, art critic, poet and editor.
* 1813 James Dwight Dana American geologist, mineralogist and zoologist.
* 1809 Abraham Lincoln 16th President of the United States and led the country during the American Civil War.
* 1809 Charles Darwin English naturalist who outlined the theory of evolution and proposed that evolution could be explained in part through natural and sexual selection.
* 1663 Cotton Mather A B 1678, A M 1681; honorary doctorate 1710, was a socially and politically influential New England Puritan minister, prolific author and pamphleteer.
* 1567 Thomas Campion English composer, poet and physician.

Deaths

† 2000 Charles M. Schulz American cartoonist, the creator of the comic strip Peanuts.
† 1985 Leslie Sarony Born Leslie Legge Frye, was a British entertainer, singer and songwriter.
† 1984 Julio Cortazar Argentine intellectual and author of several experimental novels and many short stories.
† 1980 Muriel Rukeyser American poet and political activist, best known for her poems about equality, feminism, social justice, and Judaism.
† 1915 Fanny Crosby Usually known as Fanny Crosby, was an American lyricist best known for her Protestant Christian hymns.
† 1871 Alice Cary Poet born near Cincinnati, Ohio.
† 1860 William Francis Patrick Napier Irish soldier in the British Army and a military historian.
† 1834 Friedrich Schleiermacher German theologian and philosopher known for his attempt to reconcile the criticisms of the Enlightenment with traditional Protestant orthodoxy.
† 1812 Andrew Cherry Irish dramatist, songwriter, actor and theatre manager.
† 1804 Immanuel Kant Born Emanuel Kant, was a Prussian philosopher.
† 1691 Brother Lawrence Lay brother in a Carmelite monastery.
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