Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/October 12

Births

 * 1537 - King Edward VI of England (d. 1553) (pictured)
 * 1558 - Archduke Maximilian III of Austria (d. 1618)
 * 1866 - Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1937)
 * 1968 - Hugh Jackman, Australian actor and singer
 * 1970 - Kirk Cameron, American actor

Deaths

 * 1870 - Robert E. Lee, American Confederate general (b. 1807)
 * 1915 - Edith Cavell, English nurse (b. 1865)
 * 1987 - Alf Landon, Governor of Kansas (b. 1887)
 * 1997 - John Denver, American singer (b. 1943)
 * 1998 - Matthew Shepard, American murder victim (b. 1976)
 * 1999 - Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player (b. 1936)