Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/June 12
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[edit] Births
- 1890 - Egon Schiele, Austrian painter and graphic artist (d. 1918)
- 1897 - Anthony Eden, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1977)
- 1908 - Marina Semenova, Russian ballerina
- 1924 - George H. W. Bush, (pictured) 41st President of the United States
- 1929 - Anne Frank, German-born Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim (d. 1945)
- 1941 - Marv Albert, American sportscaster
- 1941 - Chick Corea, American musician
- 1959 - John Linnell, American musician (They Might Be Giants)
- 1974 - Hideki Matsui, Japanese Major League Baseball player
[edit] Deaths
- 816 - Pope Leo III
- 1963 - Medgar Evers, American civil rights activist (b. 1925)
- 1980 - Masayoshi Ohira, Prime minister of Japan (b. 1910)
- 1994 - Nicole Brown Simpson, American ex-wife of O.J. Simpson (murdered) (b. 1959)
- 2003 - Gregory Peck, American actor (b. 1916)
