May 12
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Events
- 1984 - The Terminator has been transported back in time from 2029 A.D. to May 12, 1984 to assassinate a woman named Sarah Connor
- 1942 – Holocaust: 1,500 Jews are sent to gas chambers in Auschwitz.
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Births
- 1812 – Edward Lear, British author and poet (d. 1888)
- 1820 – Florence Nightingale, British nurse (d. 1910)
- 1828 – Dante Gabriel Rossetti, British poet (d. 1882)
- 1842 – Jules Massenet, French composer (d. 1912)
- 1845 – Gabriel Fauré, French composer (d. 1924)
- 1888 – Theodor Reik, Viennese-born psychoanalyst (d. 1969)
- 1907 – Leslie Charteris, British author and screenwriter (d. 1993)
- 1907 – Katharine Hepburn, American actress (d. 2003)
- 1914 – Bertus Aafjes, Dutch poet (d. 1993)
- 1918 – Julius Rosenberg, Soviet spy (d. 1953)
- 1921 – Joseph Beuys, German artist (d. 1986)
- 1922 – Marco Denevi, Argentine writer (d. 1998)
- 1928 – Burt Bacharach, American composer
- 1930 – Jesús Franco, Spanish film director (d. 2013)
- 1936 – Frank Stella, American painter
- 1937 – George Carlin, American comedian (d. 2008)
- 1942 – Ian Dury, British musician (d. 2000)
- 1946 – Daniel Libeskind, American architect
- 1947 – catherine yronwode, American writer and editor
- 1948 – Steve Winwood, British musician (The Spencer Davis Group; Traffic)
- 1958 – Shannon, American electro funk vocalist
- 1962 – Emilio Estevez, American actor
- 1966 – Bebel Gilberto, Brazilian singer
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Deaths
- 1634 – George Chapman, English writer
- 1700 – John Dryden, English writer (b. 1631)
- 1859 – Sergei Aksakov, Russian writer (b. 1791)
- 1884 – Bedřich Smetana, Czech composer (b. 1824)
- 1907 – Joris-Karl Huysmans, French author (b. 1848)
- 1957 – Erich von Stroheim, film director and actor (b. 1885)
- 1985 – Jean Dubuffet, French painter (b. 1901)
- 1999 – Saul Steinberg, Romanian-American cartoonist (b. 1914)
- 2001 – Perry Como, American singer (b. 1912)
- 2008 – Robert Rauschenberg, American artist (b. 1925)
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