April 12
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Events
- 1978 - Le Grand Macabre premiers in Stockholm
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Births
- 1869 - Henri Désiré Landru, French serial killer (d. 1922)
- 1871 - August Endell, German Jugendstil architect (d. 1925)
- 1910 - Gillo Dorfles, Italian art critic and philosopher (Kitsch: The world of Bad Taste) (d. 2018)
- 1912 - Georges Franju, French filmmaker (d. 1987)
- 1919 - Maurice Girodias, French publisher (d. 1990)
- 1926 – James Hillman, American psychologist and author (d. 2011)
- 1932 - Tiny Tim, American musician (d. 1996)
- 1940 - Herbie Hancock, jazz pianist and composer
- 1953 - Tanino Liberatore, Italian comics author and illustrator
- 1967 - Mellow Man Ace, Afro-Cuban rapper
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Deaths
- 65 – Seneca the Younger, Roman philosopher, statesman and dramatist
- 1555 – Juana of Castile, wife of Philip I of Castile (b. 1479)
- 1748 – William Kent, English architect
- 1777 - Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, French novelist
- 1945 – Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States (b. 1882)
- 1975 - Josephine Baker, African American dancer, actress and singer
- 1989 – Abbie Hoffman, American political leader (b. 1936)
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