August 12
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Art and culture
- 30 BC - Cleopatra commits suicide after her defeat and Mark Antony's defeat at the battle of Actium.
Births
- 1880 - Radclyffe Hall, British author (d. 1943)
- 1881 - Cecil B. DeMille, American director (d. 1959)
- 1912 - Samuel Fuller, American film director (d. 1997)
Deaths
- 30 BC - Cleopatra (b. 69 BC)
- 1827 - William Blake, English poet and artist (b. 1757)
- 1955 - Thomas Mann, German writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1875)
- 1964 - Ian Fleming, English novelist (James Bond) (b. 1908)
- 1988 - Jean-Michel Basquiat, Haitian-American artist (b. 1960))
- 1992 - John Cage, American composer (b. 1912)
Notes
- 1848 - Marcellus Emants (Voorburg, August 12 1848 – Baden (Switzerland), October 14 1923) was a Dutch writer.
- 1964 - Pierre Klossowski (1905 – August 12, 2001) was a French writer, translator and artist.
- 1964 - Jean-Jacques Ampère (August 12, 1800 - March 27, 1864) was a French philologist and man of letters. f E. T. A. Hoffmann's Fantasy Pieces in the Manner of Callot (1814)
- 1964 - Teruo Ishii (January 1, 1924 - August 12, 2005) was a Japanese film director
- 1964 - Tony Allen Tony Oladipo Allen (born August 12, 1940 in Lagos, Nigeria) is a Nigerian drummer, composer, and songwriter.
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