12 de augusto

Eventos 
 1099: Regno de Jerusalem establite sub Godfrey de Bouillon
 1332: Battalia de Dupplin Moor: Scoteses sub le Earl de Mar vincite per Edward Balliol
 1676: Le Guerra del Rege Philip termina
 1851: Isaac Singer obtene un patente pro su machina a suer
 1877: Asaph Hall discoperi Phobos le luna plus grande del duo lunas del planeta Marte
 1883: Le ultime quagga mori al Zoologico Artis Magistra in Amsterdam
 1898: Armistitio termina le Guerra Espaniol-American
 1898: Hawaii annexate
 1908: Le prime "Ford Model T" construite per "Ford Motor Company"
 1953: Le prime test de un bomba de hydrogeno per le Union Sovietic
 1960: Echo I, le prime satellite de communicationes lanciate
 1961: Construction comencia del Muro de Berlin
 1981: Le "IBM" PC ("computator personal" in anglese) es introducite
 1994: Woodstock II concerto de musica "rock"
 2000: Le submarino russe Kursk se affunda in le Mar de Barents

 Nascentias 
 1503: Christian III de Denmark e Norwegia († 1559)
 1629: Tsar Alexei I de Russia († 1676)
 1774: Robert Southey, poeta, biographo († 1843)
 1859: Katherine Lee Bates, poeta, autor de "America the Beautiful" († 1929)
 1876: Mary Roberts Rinehart, autor († 1958)
 1880: Christy Mathewson, membro del "Baseball Hall of Fame" († 1925)
 1881: Cecil B. DeMille, director de films († 1959)
 1887: Erwin Schrödinger, physico
 1892: Alfred Lunt, actor († 1977)
 1904: Alexei Nikolaevich Romanov, Tsarevich, herede al throno de Russia († 1918)
 1906: Pauline Frederick, journalista († 1990)
 1907: Joe Besser, actor, membro del "Three Stooges" († 1988)
 1911: Jane Wyatt, actrice
 1911: Cantinflas (Mario Moreno Reyes), actor († 1993)
 1926: John Derek, actor († 1998)
 1927: Mstislav Rostropovich, cellista
 1927: Porter Wagoner, cantator de musica country-and-western
 1928: Dan Curtis, productor e director de films e television
 1929: Buck Owens, cantator de musica country-and-western
 1931: William Goldman, scriptor
 1933: Parnelli Jones, conductor in auto-carrieras
 1939: George Hamilton, actor
 1949: Mark Knopfler, musico
 1954: François Hollande, politico francese e ex-presidente de Francia
 1954: Pat Metheny, guitarrista
 1971: Pete Sampras, jocator professional de tennis
 1972: Rebecca Gayheart, actrice

 Mortes 
 875: Sancte Imperator Roman Louis II
 1484: Papa Sixtus IV
 1612: Giovanni Gabrieli, compositor italian
 1633: Jacopo Peri, compositor
 1689: Papa Innocentio XI
 1827: William Blake, poeta e artista
 1848: George Stephenson, ingeniero de locomotiva
 1914: John Philip Holland, ingeniero de antique submarinos
 1928: Leos Janacek, compositor checoslovac
 1955: Thomas Mann, autor
 1964: Ian Fleming, novellista
 1968: Angus Walters, capitano naval
 1982: Henry Fonda, actor
 1982: Joe Tex (Joseph Arrington), cantator
 1982: Salvador Sanchez pugilista, campion mundial
 1985: Manfred Winkelhock, conductor in auto-carrieras
 1989: William Shockley, physico
 1992: John Cage, compositor american
 2000: Loretta Young, actrice
 2002: Enos Slaughter, membro del "Baseball Hall of Fame"
 2002: Ed Headrick, disveloppator del Frisbee

 Dies festive 
 Gloriose Die Dece-Duo a Yorkshire Dales