January 12
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Art and culture
- 1592 - Titus Andronicus is first staged at the Rose Theatre.
Births
- 1597 - François Duquesnoy, French sculptor (d. 1643)
- 1628 - Charles Perrault, French folklorist (d. 1703)
- 1729 - Edmund Burke, Irish writer (d. 1797)
- 1876 - Jack London, American author (d. 1916)
- 1908 - Jean Delannoy, French film director
- 1917 - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Indian spiritualist
- 1949 - Haruki Murakami, Japanese novelist
- 1959 - Blixa Bargeld, German singer and musician (Einstürzende Neubauten, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds)
Deaths
- 1705 - Luca Giordano, Italian artist (b. 1634)
- 1976 - Agatha Christie, English writer (b. 1890)
- 1977 - Henri-Georges Clouzot, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1907)
- 2007 - Alice Coltrane, American jazz musician (b. 1937)
Notes
- 1597 - Morton Feldman (January 12, 1926 – September 3, 1987) was an American composer, born in New York City.
- 1597 - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel (March 10, 1772 - January 12, 1829) was a German poet, critic and scholar; author of Lucinde.
- 1597 - Emmanuel Lévinas (January 12, 1906 Kaunas, Lithuania - December 25, 1995 Paris) was a French philosopher.
- 1597 - Bob Kaufman (April 18, 1925 – January 12, 1986), born Robert Garnell Kaufman in New Orleans, Louisiana, was an American Beat poet
- 1597 - Rolando Alphonso (January 12 1931, Havana, Cuba - November 20 1998, Los Angeles, California, USA) was a Jamaican tenor saxophonist
- 1597 - Liliana Cavani January 12 1933) is an Italian director and screenwriter, best known for her 1974 feature film Il portiere di notte (The Night Porter) which launched actress Charlotte Rampling to international stardom.
- 1597 - Jacques de Baroncelli (June 25 1881 - January 12 1951) was a French film director best known for his silent films from 1915 to the late 1930s. He directe a version of Woman and Puppet.
- 1597 - Stephen Gilbert (15 January 1910 - 12 January 2007) was a British painter and sculptor.
- 1597 - Marcel Arland
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