Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/August 12

Births

• 1880 - Radclyffe Hall, British author (d. 1943)
• 1887 - Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1961)
• 1904 - Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich of Russia (d. 1918)
• 1924 - Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, leader of Pakistan (d. 1988)
• 1930 - George Soros, American businessman
• 1931 - William Goldman, American screenwriter (d. 2018)
• 1949 - Mark Knopfler, British guitarist (Dire Straits)
• 1954 - Pat Metheny, American guitarist
• 1971 - Pete Sampras, American tennis player
• 1977 - Jesper Grønkjær, Danish soccer player

Deaths

• 30 BC - Cleopatra (b. 69 BC)
• 1848 - George Stephenson, British locomotive designer (b. 1781)
• 1865 - William Jackson Hooker, English botanist (b. 1785)
• 1955 - Thomas Mann, (pictured) German writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1875)
• 1973 - Karl Ziegler, German chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1898)