Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/January 12

Births

 * 1729 - Edmund Burke, Irish statesman (d. 1797) (pictured)
 * 1737 - John Hancock, American statesman (d. 1793)
 * 1876 - Jack London, American author (d. 1916)
 * 1917 - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Indian spiritualist (d. 2008)
 * 1951 - Rush Limbaugh, American radio personality (d. 2021)
 * 1952 - Walter Mosley, American author
 * 1954 - Howard Stern, American radio host
 * 1963 - Debashish Bhattacharya, Indian musician

Deaths

 * 1519 - Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1459)
 * 1834 - William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1759)
 * 1976 - Agatha Christie, English writer (b. 1890)
 * 1977 - Henri-Georges Clouzot, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1907)