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February 12

6 births · 4 deaths · 1 events

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2016 Winter Youth Olympics

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Born this day

1809

Abraham Lincoln

Would be 217

Oldest record

258th

Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor

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Famous births6

1768 · 258 yrs

Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor

Francis II and I (German: Franz II; 12 February 1768 – 2 March 1835) was the last Holy Roman Emperor (as Francis II) from 1792 to 1806, and the first Emperor of Austria (as Francis I) from 1804 to 1835.

RoyaltyWould be 258

Photo: Friedrich von Amerling · Public domain

1809 · 217 yrs

Abraham Lincoln

16th President of the United States who led the nation through the Civil War and abolished slavery.

PoliticsWould be 217

Photo: Alexander Gardner · Public domain

1809 · 217 yrs

Charles Darwin

Charles Robert Darwin ( DAR-win; 12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology.

ScienceWould be 217

Photo: Herbert Rose Barraud · Public domain

1882 · 144 yrs

Anna Pavlova

Anna Pavlovna Pavlova (born Anna Matveyevna Pavlova; 12 February 1881 – 23 January 1931) was a Russian prima ballerina.

FilmWould be 144

Photo: Photography studio of the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre. St. Petersburg, Russian Empire. · Public domain

1920 · 106 yrs

Pran

Pran Krishan Sikand (pronounced; 12 February 1920 – 12 July 2013), better known mononymously as Pran, was an Indian actor who worked in Hindi cinema.

FilmWould be 106

Photo: Bollywood Hungama · CC BY 3.0

1980 · 46 yrs

Christina Ricci

Christina Ricci ( REE-chee; born February 12, 1980) is an American actress. Known for playing unusual characters with a dark edge, Ricci works mostly in independent productions, but she has also appeared in numerous box-office hits.

FilmAge 46

Photo: Kevin Paul · CC BY 4.0

Famous deaths4

1804 · 222 yrs

Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant (born Emanuel Kant; 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher. Born in Königsberg in the Kingdom of Prussia, he is considered one of the central thinkers of the Enlightenment.

PhilosophyWould be 302

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1856 · 170 yrs

Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky

Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky (Russian: Никола́й Ива́нович Лобаче́вский, IPA:; 1 December 1792 – 24 February 1856) was a Russian mathematician and geometer, known primarily for his work on hyperbolic geometry, otherwise known as Lobachevskian geometry, and also for his fundamental study on Dirichlet integrals, known…

ScienceWould be 233

Photo: Lev Kryukov · Public domain

1916 · 110 yrs

Richard Dedekind

Julius Wilhelm Richard Dedekind (German:; 6 October 1831 – 12 February 1916) was a German mathematician who made important contributions to number theory, abstract algebra (particularly ring theory), and the axiomatic foundations of arithmetic.

ScienceWould be 194

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1984 · 42 yrs

Julio Cortázar

Julio Florencio Cortázar (Latin American Spanish:; 26 August 1914 – 12 February 1984) was an Argentine and naturalised French novelist, short story writer, poet, essayist, and translator.

LiteratureWould be 112

Photo: Sara Facio · Public domain

Events1

2016 · 10 yrs

2016 Winter Youth Olympics

The 2016 Winter Youth Olympics (Norwegian: Olympiske vinterleker for ungdom 2016; Nynorsk: Olympiske vinterleikane for ungdom 2016), officially known as the II Winter Youth Olympic Games, took place in and around Lillehammer, Norway, from 12 to 21 February 2016.

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