August 12

The 12 August is 224th day of the Gregorian Calendar ( 225th in leap years), thus still 141 days remain until the end of the year.

• 2.1 Before the 19th century
• 2.2 19th century
• 2.3 20th century 2.3.1 1901-1950
• 2.3.2 1951-2000

• 3.1 Before the 19th century
• 3.2 19th century
• 3.3 20th century
• 3.4 21st century

Events

Politics and World Affairs

• 0030 BC: The Egyptian pharaoh Cleopatra dies under mysterious circumstances, allegedly by suicide, however.
• 0943: On the Welser Heide a Bavarian army squad defeated by Duke Berthold invading Magyars. The invasions of the Hungarians leave then after for several years.
• 1099: In the Battle of Ascalon, the crusaders army of the First Crusade under Godfrey of Bouillon defeated the Fatimids under Al- Afdal Shahanshah devastating the city of Ashkelon is conquered but not because of internal disputes.

Economy

Science and Technology

Culture

Religion

Disasters

Minor accidents are listed in the sub- items of disaster.

Nature and Environment

Sports

Entries of Athletics world records are located under the respective discipline under Athletics.

Born

Before the 19th century

Peter Ernst Mansfeld (* 1517)

Isabella Clara Eugenia (* 1566)

Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (* 1644)

George IV (* 1762)

Robert Southey (* 1774)

19th century

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (* 1831)

Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz (* 1843)

Klara Hitler (* 1860)

Edith Hamilton (* 1867)

Mary Roberts Rinehart (* 1876)

Marguerite Radclyffe Hall (* 1880)

Maria Olszewska (* 1892)

Peter Altmeier (* 1899)

Thea Rasche (* 1899)

20th century

1901-1950

1951-2000

Died

Before the 19th century

• 0030 BC: Cleopatra VII, last queen of the Egyptian Ptolemaic
• 0875: Louis II, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Italy
• 1204: Berthold IV, Count of Andechs, Duke of Meranien and Margrave of Istria
• 1222: Vladislav Henry, Duke of Bohemia and Margrave of Moravia
• 1274: Olivier de Termes, Occitan Knight, Faydit and Crusaders
• 1319: Rudolf I, Duke of Upper Bavaria and Count Palatine of the Rhine
• 1419: Heinrich Grymhardt, Priest and Officer in Cologne
• 1424: Yongle, Chinese emperor of the Ming Dynasty
• 1469: John Woodville, of executed British nobleman

Giovanni Gabrieli († 1612 )

Jacopo Peri († 1633)

Marie de Rohan - Montbazon († 1679 )

Pope Innocent XI. († 1689)

19th century

William Blake († 1827)

George Stephenson († 1848)

James Edward Keeler († 1900)

Wilhelm Steinitz († 1900)

20th century

Louisa Lawson († 1920)

Hermann von Struve († 1920)

Arthur Griffith († 1922)

Thomas Mann († 1955)

James Batcheller Sumner († 1955)

Jørgen Rasmussen Skafte († 1964)

21st Century

• 2002: Enos Slaughter, American baseball player
• 2003: Walter Jackson Ong, American clergyman, literature and media theorist
• 2004: Godfrey Hounsfield, a British electrical engineer, Nobel Laureate in Medicine, one of the fathers of computer tomography
• 2004: Carlo Ross, German writer
• 2004: Alfonso mirror, German journalist
• 2004: Peter Woodthorpe, a British film actor
• 2004: George Yardley, American basketball player
• 2005: John Fischer, German church musician and composer
• 2005: Lakshman Kadirgamar, Sri Lankan politician
• 2005: Uwe Röhl, German church musician, organist and composer
• 2007: Ralph Alpher, American physicist
• 2007: Franz Antel, Austrian film director, producer and author
• 2008: Donald Erb, American composer
• 2008: Francis Lacassin, French journalist, author and screenwriter
• 2009: Harry zingel, German author and social economist
• 2011: Patrícia Lourival Acioli, Brazilian Judge
• 2012: Henri Greder, French race car driver
• 2012: Joe Kubert, American cartoonist
• 2012: Ruedi Reich, Swiss theologian
• 2013: Prince Johan Friso, Dutch nobleman

Holidays and observances

• Religious observances Paul Speratus, Bishop in Marienwerderstraße and hymn writer ( Protestant)

• Name Days John

More entries contains the list of commemorative and action days.

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• Day in August