Portal:Germany/Anniversaries/August/August 12


 * 1647 – Birth of writer Johann Heinrich Acker
 * 1759 – Defeat of Prussia in the Battle of Kunersdorf
 * 1762 – Birth of physician Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland
 * 1943 – Birth of politician Herta Däubler-Gmelin
 * 1955 – Death of author Thomas Mann, recipient of the 1929 Nobel Prize for Literature