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    This Is HISTORY | Birthdays

    Nov 12 1493

    Bartolomeo Bandinelli Italian sculptor (d. 1560)

    Nov 12 1547

    Claude of Valois French princess (d. 1575). 2nd daughter of King Henry II of France and Catherine de Medici.

    Nov 12 1651

    Juana Ines de La Cruz Mexican poetnunfeminist (Primero Sueno)

    Nov 12 1729

    Louis Antoine de Bougainville French explorer (d. 1811)

    Nov 12 1746

    Jacques-Alexandre-Csar Charles Beaugency French inventor and balloonist who with Nicholas Robert was the first to take flight in a hydrogen balloon

    Nov 12 1755

    Gerhard JD von Scharnhorst Prussia miltminister of War (1807-10)

    Nov 12 1786

    John Burke Irish genealogist (Burkes Peerage)

    Nov 12 1790

    Letitia Christian Tyler 1st wife of President Tyler

    Nov 12 1817

    Martin Gustav Nottebohm composer born in Ldenscheid Westphalia (d. 1882)

    Nov 12 1817

    Bahullh Prophet Founder of the Bah Faith (d. 1892)

    Nov 12 1827

    Gustav Merkel German organist and composer (d. 1885)

    Nov 12 1831

    Anton Kerner Ritter von Marilaun Austria botanist

    Nov 12 1833

    Aleksandr Porfirievich Borodin Russian composer (Robert LeDiable)

    Nov 12 1848

    Eduard Mller member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1919)

    Nov 12 1850

    Mikhail Chigorin Russian chess player (d. 1908)

    Nov 12 1853

    Oskar Panizza German writer (Das Liebeskonzil) born in Bad Kissingen Bavaria (d. 1921)

    Nov 12 1865

    Frans Sas van Aerschot Flemish operetta actor (Paljas) born (d. 1939)

    Nov 12 1874

    Bert Williams African American comedian and entertainer born in Nassau Bahamas (d. 1922)

    Nov 12 1881

    Maximilian von Weichs German field marshal (d. 1954)

    Nov 12 1889

    DeWitt Wallace publisher founded Readers Digest (1921) born in Saint Paul Minnesota

    Nov 12 1890

    Lily Kronberger Hungarian figure skater (d. 1974)

    Nov 12 1891

    Seth Barnes Nicholson American astronomer who discovered four satellites of Jupiter born in Springfield Illinois

    Nov 12 1898

    Abraham J D van Oosten Dutch poetauthor (His Masters Voice)

    Nov 12 1903

    Jack Oakie American actor (The Great Dictator 1974 Photoplay Award) born in Sedalia Missouri (d. 1978)

    Nov 12 1906

    Bukka [Booker T. Washington] White blues guitarist born in Houston Mississippi (d. 1977)

    Nov 12 1908

    Hans Werner Richter German author (Socially Responsible Cinema)

    Nov 12 1908

    Harry A Blackmun Ill 100th Supreme Court justice (1970-94)

    Nov 12 1910

    A Dudley Nourse cricketer (son of Dave brilliant South African batsman)

    Nov 12 1911

    Luc Estang [Lucien Bastard] French writer (Stigmates)

    Nov 12 1911

    William Thomas Pennar Davies poet authortheologian

    Nov 12 1911

    Buck Clayton American jazz trumpet player (d. 1991)

    Nov 12 1912

    Alphonse [Tuffy] Leemans NFL fullback (NY Giants)

    Nov 12 1914

    Edward Henricus Schillebeeckx Dutch theologist

    HISTORICAL EVENTS | ON THIS DAY

    Nov 12 1439 Plymouth England becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament.

    Nov 12 1555 The English Parliament re-establishes Catholicism.

    Nov 12 1614 Treaty of Xanten Guliks-Kleefse War victory ends

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