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May 12 1590

Cosimo II de Medici Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1621)

May 12 1622

Louis de Buade de Frontenac Governor General of New France (d. 1698)

May 12 1662

Jan F van Bloom [Orizonte] Flemish painter baptized

May 12 1670

Frederick Augustus I August II the Strong Elector of Saxony and King of Poland (reputed to have sired 355 children) (d. 1733)

May 12 1725

Louis Philippe I Duke of Orlans (d. 1785)

May 12 1803

Justus von Liebig German agricultural and biological chemist who is considered the founder of organic chemistry born in Hesse-Darmstadt Germany (d. 1973)

May 12 1804

Robert Baldwin (L) help establish government in Canada (or 1904)

May 12 1806

Amos Beebe Eaton American Brevet Major General (Union Army) born in Catskill New York (d. 1877)

May 12 1806

J V Snellman Finland journaliststatesmannationalist

May 12 1812

Edward Lear England landscape painter (Complete Nonsense Book)

May 12 1812

Louis Ludwig Blenker German-American Brigadier General (Union Army) born in Worms Germany (d. 1863)

May 12 1828

Gabriel Dante Rossetti England poetpainter Pre-Raphaelite figure

May 12 1842

Jules Massenet French composer (Manon Le Cid) born in Montaud France (d. 1912)

May 12 1845

Gabriel Urbain Faure Pamiers France composer (Requiem Ballade)

May 12 1867

Hugh Trumble cricket off-spinner (great Aust at turn of century)

May 12 1868

Halsey William Wilson American publisher of reference books

May 12 1874

Clemens Freiherr von Pirquet Austrian physician (Reaction of Pirquet)

May 12 1880

Lincoln Ellsworth led 1st transarctic transantarctic flights

May 12 1886

Piotr F Scharoff Russian-Italian actor and director (Chechov) born (d. 1969)

May 12 1892

Fritz Kortner Austrian-born director (d. 1970)

May 12 1894

Cleo Ridgely American silent screen actress (I Remember Mama) born in NYC New York (d. 1962)

May 12 1895

Jiddu Krishnamurti India philosopher (Songs of Life) [NSMay 22]

May 12 1900

Helene Weigel Austrian-German actress (Metropolis Mutter Courage) born in Vienna Austria-Hungary (d. 1971)

May 12 1903

Lennox R F Berkeley British composer (Castaway)

May 12 1903

Wilfrid Hyde-White British actor (My Fair Lady Peyton Place) born in Gloucestershire England (d. 1991)

May 12 1907

Leslie Charteris EnglishUS detective writer (Enter the Saint)

May 12 1910

Dorothy Crowfoot-Hodgkin British biochemist (penicillinB12Nobel 1964) born in Cairo (d. 1994)

May 12 1910

Gordon Jenkins Webster Grove Mo orchestra leader (NBC Comedy Hour)

May 12 1912

Archibald Cox U.S. Solicitor General (d. 2004)

May 12 1914

Dan Daniel politician (Rep-D-VA 1969-88) born in Chatham Virginia (d. 1988)

May 12 1914

Howard K Smith LA TV newsman (ABC Moderated Kennedy-Nixon debate)

May 12 1915

Mary Kay Ash American businesswoman founded Mary Kay Cosmetics (d. 2001)

May 12 1918

Oscar Beregi Jr Hungarian actor (Young Frankenstein Panic in City) born in Budapest Austria-Hungary (d. 1976)

May 12 1082 Battle at Mailberg Vratislav II of Bohemia beats Leopold II of Austr

May 12 1328 Holy Roman Emperor Louis IV and assembly of priests select Pietro Rainalducc as anti-Pope Nicolaas V

May 12 1328 Antipope Nicholas V a claimant to the papacy is consecrated in Rome by the Bishop of Venice

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