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