Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/February 12

Births

 * 1663 - Cotton Mather, New England minister (d. 1728)
 * 1809 - Charles Darwin, English naturalist (d. 1882)
 * 1809 - Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States (d. 1865) (pictured)
 * 1881 - Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina (d. 1931)
 * 1923 - Franco Zeffirelli, Italian film and opera director and designer (d. 2019)
 * 1980 - Christina Ricci, American actress

Deaths

 * 1554 - Lady Jane Grey, claimant to the throne of England (executed) (b. 1537)
 * 1789 - Ethan Allen, American patriot (b. 1738)
 * 1894 - Hans von Bülow, German pianist, conductor and composer (b. 1830)
 * 1976 - Sal Mineo, American actor (b. 1939)
 * 2000 - Charles Schulz, American comics author (b. 1922)