Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/November 12

Births

• 1815 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American women's rights activist (d. 1902)
• 1840 - Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (d. 1917) (pictured)
• 1866 - Sun Yat-sen, first President of the Republic of China (d. 1925)
• 1929 - Grace Kelly, Princess Grace of Monaco, American actress (d. 1982)
• 1934 - Charles Manson, American cult leader and mass murderer (d. 2017)
• 1961 - Nadia Comaneci, Romanian gymnast
• 1968 - Sammy Sosa, Dominican Major League Baseball player

Deaths

• 1094 - King Duncan II of Scotland (b. 1060)
• 1916 - Percival Lowell, American amateur astronomer, founder of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona (b. 1855)
• 1981 - William Holden, American actor (b. 1918)
• 1990 - Eve Arden, American actress (b. 1908)
• 1994 - Wilma Rudolph, American runner (b. 1940)