Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/March 12

Births

• 1478 - Giuliano di Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (d. 1516)
• 1821 - Sir John Abbott, third Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1893)(pictured)
• 1922 - Jack Kerouac, American writer (d. 1969)
• 1928 - Edward Albee, American dramatist (d. 2016)
• 1979 - Pete Doherty, musician

Deaths

• 1507 - Cesare Borgia, Italian general and statesman (b. 1475)
• 1914 - George Westinghouse, American entrepreneur and engineer (b. 1846)
• 1925 - Sun Yat-sen, Chinese revolutionary and politician (b. 1866)
• 1955 - Charlie Parker, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1920)