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Today's Anniversary – Friday, December 12


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Births

* 1951 Steven Hawley Astronomer and astronaut.
* 1939 Michael Gazzaniga American neuroscientist, author and professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he heads the new SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind.
* 1929 John Osborne British playwright, producer and actor.
* 1928 Helen Frankenthaler American post-painterly abstraction artist.
* 1927 Robert Noyce Nicknamed "the Mayor of Silicon Valley", co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel in 1968.
* 1924 Ed Koch United States Congressman representing New York from 1969 to 1977 and the Mayor of New York City from 1978 to 1989.
* 1923 Og Mandino "sales guru" and author, most famous for his book The Greatest Salesman in the World (1968).
* 1915 Frank Sinatra American singer who is one of the most highly acclaimed male popular song vocalists of all time.
* 1905 Vasily Grossman Prominent Soviet-era writer and journalist.
* 1897 Lillian (author) Smith American author and social activist.
* 1881 Harold (Harry) Warner Born Hirsch Eichelbaum, was one of the founders of Warner Bros.
* 1875 Gerd von Rundstedt Generalfeldmarschall of the German Army during World War II He held some of the highest field commands in all phases of the war.
* 1863 Edvard Munch Norwegian Symbolist painter and printmaker, and an important forerunner of the Expressionistic art movement.
* 1821 Gustave Flaubert French novelist.
* 1805 William Lloyd Garrison American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer.
* 1745 John Jay American politician, statesman, revolutionary, diplomat and jurist.
* 1731 Erasmus Darwin English physician, natural philosopher, physiologist, inventor and poet.

Deaths

† 2005 Gebran Tueni Lebanese politician, famous for his editorials in the An Nahar daily newspaper in Beirut, Lebanon.
† 2003 Heydar Aliyev Also spelled as Heidar Aliev, Geidar Aliev, Haydar Aliyev, Geydar Aliyev, was the president of Azerbaijan for the New Azerbaijan Party from June 1993 to October 2003, when his son Ilham Aliyev succeeded him.
† 1999 Joseph Heller American novelist and playwright.
† 1998 Morris Udall Better known as "Mo", was an American politician.
† 1998 Marco Denevi Argentine award-winning author of novels and short stories, as well as a lawyer and journalist.
† 1998 Lawton Chiles American politician from the U S state of Florida.
† 1968 Tallulah Bankhead American actress, talk-show host and bon vivant.
† 1905 Fiona MacLeod Scottish writer, of poetry and literary biography in particular, who from 1893 wrote also as Fiona MacLeod, a pseudonym kept almost secret during his lifetime.
† 1905 Fiona McLeod Scottish writer, of poetry and literary biography in particular, who from 1893 wrote also as Fiona MacLeod, a pseudonym kept almost secret during his lifetime.
† 1905 William Sharp Scottish writer, of poetry and literary biography in particular, who from 1893 wrote also as Fiona MacLeod, a pseudonym kept almost secret during his lifetime.
† 1894 John Sparrow Thompson Canadian lawyer and judge who served as the fourth Prime Minister of Canada from December 5, 1892 to December 12, 1894 as well as Premier of Nova Scotia in 1882.
† 1889 Robert Browning English poet and husband of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
† 1751 Henry St John English statesman and philosopher.
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