Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/May 12

Births

 * 1590 – Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1621)
 * 1812 – Edward Lear, English author and poet (d. 1888) (pictured)
 * 1820 – Florence Nightingale, English nurse (d. 1910)
 * 1828 – Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English poet (d. 1882)
 * 1850 – Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. statesman (d. 1924)
 * 1907 – Katharine Hepburn, American actress (d. 2003)
 * 1925 – Yogi Berra, American baseball player (d. 2015)

Deaths

 * 1700 – John Dryden, English writer (b. 1631)
 * 1864 – J. E. B. Stuart, American soldier from Virginia and a Confederate Army general (b. 1833)
 * 1889 – John Cadbury, English chocolate entrepreneur (b. 1801)
 * 2001 – Perry Como, American singer (b. 1912)