Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/September 12

Births

 * 1492 - Lorenzo II de' Medici, Duke of Urbino (d. 1519) (pictured)
 * 1575 - Henry Hudson, English explorer
 * 1852 - H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1928)
 * 1888 - Maurice Chevalier, French singer and actor (d. 1972)
 * 1897 - Irène Joliot-Curie, French physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 1956)
 * 1913 - Jesse Owens, American athlete (d. 1980)
 * 1957 - Hans Zimmer, German composer
 * 1994 - Taylor Ware, American singer and yodeler

Deaths

 * 413 - Marcellinus of Carthage, Christian saint
 * 1185 - Andronikos I Komnenos (b. 1118)
 * 1764 - Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer (b. 1683)
 * 1819 - Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Prussian general (b. 1742)
 * 1869 - Peter Mark Roget, British lexicographer (b. 1779)
 * 1945 - Hajime Sugiyama, Japanese general (b. 1880)
 * 1977 - Steve Biko, South African anti-apartheid activist (b. 1946)
 * 1982 - Grace Kelly, American actress and Princess of Monaco (b. 1929)