Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/December 12

Births

 * 1526 – Álvaro de Bazán, 1st Marquis of Santa Cruz, Spanish admiral (d. 1588)
 * 1745 – John Jay, 1st Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1829)
 * 1779 – Madeleine Sophie Barat, founder of the Society of the Sacred Heart (d. 1865)
 * 1805 – Henry Wells, co-founder of Wells Fargo and American Express (d. 1878)
 * 1863 – Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter known for The Scream (d. 1944)
 * 1927 – Robert Noyce, inventor of the microchip and co-founder of Intel Corporation (d. 1990)

Deaths

 * 1790 – Mikhail Shcherbatov, Russian philosopher (b. 1733)
 * 1817 – Tekle Giyorgis I, Ethiopian emperor (b. 1751)
 * 1894 – John Sparrow David Thompson, 4th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1845)
 * 1971 – David Sarnoff, Russian-American businessman and founder of NBC (b. 1891)
 * 1993 – József Antall, 35th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1932)
 * 2003 – Heydar Aliyev, 3rd President of Azerbaijan (b. 1923)