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| December 12th, 2007 (December 12 2007) | Death | Ike Turner, American singer, former husband of Tina Turner (born in 1931) | |
| December 12th, 2006 (December 12 2006) | Event | Peugeot produces its last car at the Ryton Plant signalling the end of mass car production in Coventry, formerly a major centre of the British motor industry. | |
| December 12th, 2006 (December 12 2006) | Death | Paul Arizin, American basketball player (born in 1928) | |
| December 12th, 2006 (December 12 2006) | Death | Peter Boyle, American actor (born in 1935) | |
| December 12th, 2006 (December 12 2006) | Death | Kenny Davern, American jazz clarinetist (born in 1935) | |
| December 12th, 2006 (December 12 2006) | Death | Raymond P. Shafer, 38th Governor of Pennsylvania (born in 1917) | |
| December 12th, 2006 (December 12 2006) | Death | Al Shugart, pioneering American computer engineer and co-founder of Seagate Technology (born in 1930) | |
| December 12th, 2005 (December 12 2005) | Death | Gebran Tueni, Lebanese politician (born in 1957) | |
| December 12th, 2005 (December 12 2005) | Death | Annette Vadim, Danish actress (born in 1936) | |
| December 12th, 2005 (December 12 2005) | Death | Robert F. Newmyer, American film producer (born in 1946) | |
| December 12th, 2003 (December 12 2003) | Death | Keiko , Killer Whale (born in 1976) | |
| December 12th, 2003 (December 12 2003) | Death | Heyd?r ?liyev, President of Azerbaijan (born in 1923) | |
| December 12th, 2003 (December 12 2003) | Death | Joseph Anthony Ferrario, American Catholic prelate (born in 1926) | |
| December 12th, 2003 (December 12 2003) | Death | Keiko, orca, star of Free Willy (born in 1976) | |
| December 12th, 2002 (December 12 2002) | Death | Dee Brown, American author (born in 1908) | |
| December 12th, 2002 (December 12 2002) | Death | Brad Dexter, American actor (born in 1917) | |
| December 12th, 2002 (December 12 2002) | Death | Jay Wesley Neill, American convicted murderer (born in 1965) | |
| December 12th, 2001 (December 12 2001) | Death | Jean Richard, French actor (born in 1921) | |
| December 12th, 2000 (December 12 2000) | Event | The United States Supreme Court releases its decision in Bush v. Gore | |
| December 12th, 2000 (December 12 2000) | Death | George Montgomery, American actor (born in 1916) | |
| December 12th, 1999 (December 12 1999) | Death | Paul Cadmus, American artist (born in 1904) | |
| December 12th, 1999 (December 12 1999) | Death | Joseph Heller, American author (born in 1923) | Joseph Heller Quotes |
| December 12th, 1998 (December 12 1998) | Death | Lawton Chiles, U.S. Senator from Florida and Governor of Florida (born in 1930) | |
| December 12th, 1998 (December 12 1998) | Death | Marco Denevi, Argentine writer (born in 1922) | |
| December 12th, 1998 (December 12 1998) | Death | Mo Udall, American politician (born in 1922) | |
| December 12th, 1997 (December 12 1997) | Death | Yevgeniy Landis, Russian mathematician (born in 1921) | |
| December 12th, 1996 (December 12 1996) | Death | Vance Packard, American author (born in 1914) | |
| December 12th, 1994 (December 12 1994) | Death | Stuart Roosa, American astronaut (born in 1933) | |
| December 12th, 1993 (December 12 1993) | Death | Jozsef Antall, Hungarian politician (born in 1932) | |
| December 12th, 1992 (December 12 1992) | Death | Suzanne Lilar, Belgian essayist, novelist and playwright (born in 1901) | |
| December 12th, 1991 (December 12 1991) | Event | Russian Federation gains independence from the USSR. | |
| December 12th, 1991 (December 12 1991) | Birth | Daniel Magder, Canadian actor | |
| December 12th, 1990 (December 12 1990) | Birth | Victor Moses, an English footballer of Nigerian descent | |
| December 12th, 1988 (December 12 1988) | Event | The Clapham Junction rail crash kills thirty-five and injures hundreds after two collisions of three commuter trainsone of the worst train crashes in Britain. | |
| December 12th, 1988 (December 12 1988) | Death | Anthony "Tony Pro" Provenzano, American Mafia figure (born in 1917) | |
| December 12th, 1987 (December 12 1987) | Death | Enrique Jorrin, Cuban musician and composer (born in 1926) | |
| December 12th, 1986 (December 12 1986) | Birth | Perparim Hetemaj, Finnish footballer | |
| December 12th, 1986 (December 12 1986) | Birth | Thomas Wansey, English actor | |
| December 12th, 1985 (December 12 1985) | Event | Arrow Air Flight 1285 crashes after takeoff in Gander, Newfoundland killing 256, including 248 members of the United States Army s 101st Airborne Division. | |
| December 12th, 1985 (December 12 1985) | Death | Anne Baxter, American actress (born in 1923) | |
| December 12th, 1985 (December 12 1985) | Death | Ian Stewart, Scottish musician (born in 1938) | |
| December 12th, 1984 (December 12 1984) | Event | Maaouiya Ould Sid Ahmed Taya becomes the third president of Mauritania after a coup d etat against Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla while the latter was attending a summit. Taya was ousted in March 2005 by Ely Ould Mohamed Vall in another coup. | |
| December 12th, 1984 (December 12 1984) | Birth | Daniel Agger, Danish footballer | |
| December 12th, 1983 (December 12 1983) | Birth | Katrina Elam, American singer | |
| December 12th, 1982 (December 12 1982) | Event | Women s peace protest at Greenham Common30,000 women hold hands and form a human chain around the 14.5 km (9 mi) perimeter fence. | |
| December 12th, 1982 (December 12 1982) | Birth | Dmitry Tursunov, Russian tennis player | |
| December 12th, 1981 (December 12 1981) | Birth | Ronnie Brown, American football player | |
| December 12th, 1981 (December 12 1981) | Birth | Shane Costa, American baseball player | |
| December 12th, 1981 (December 12 1981) | Birth | Pedro Rios, Spanish footballer | |
| December 12th, 1981 (December 12 1981) | Birth | Jeret Peterson, American aerial skier | |
| December 12th, 1981 (December 12 1981) | Birth | Yuvraj Singh, Indian cricketer | |
| December 12th, 1981 (December 12 1981) | Birth | Stephen Warnock, English footballer | |
| December 12th, 1980 (December 12 1980) | Death | Jean Lesage, politician, premier of Quebec (born in 1912) | |
| December 12th, 1979 (December 12 1979) | Event | Coup d etat of December Twelfth: South Korean Army Major General Chun Doo-hwan orders the arrest of Army Chief of Staff General Jeong Seung-hwa without authorization from President Choi Kyu-ha, alleging involvement in the assassination of ex-President Park Chung Hee. | |
| December 12th, 1979 (December 12 1979) | Event | President of Pakistan, Zia-ul-Haq, confers Nishan-e-Imtiaz on Nobel laureate Dr Abdus Salam. | |
| December 12th, 1979 (December 12 1979) | Event | Rhodesia changes its name to Zimbabwe. | |
| December 12th, 1979 (December 12 1979) | Birth | Garrett Atkins, American baseball player | |
| December 12th, 1979 (December 12 1979) | Birth | Nate Clements, American football player | |
| December 12th, 1979 (December 12 1979) | Birth | Sharin Foo, Danish singer and bassist | |
| December 12th, 1978 (December 12 1978) | Birth | Monica Barladeanu, Romanian actress | |
| December 12th, 1978 (December 12 1978) | Birth | Louis (artist), Korean singer ("Jung Hwa Ban Jum") | |
| December 12th, 1978 (December 12 1978) | Birth | Jennifer Rovero Playboy Playmate | |
| December 12th, 1978 (December 12 1978) | Birth | Evren Genis, Turkish composer | |
| December 12th, 1977 (December 12 1977) | Birth | Nicole, Erica and Jaclyn Dahm, American triplet Playboy models | |
| December 12th, 1977 (December 12 1977) | Birth | Bridget Hall, American supermodel | |
| December 12th, 1977 (December 12 1977) | Birth | Orlando Hudson, American baseball player | |
| December 12th, 1977 (December 12 1977) | Birth | Colin White, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| December 12th, 1977 (December 12 1977) | Death | Lady Spencer Churchill, wife of Winston Churchill (born in 1885) | Winston Churchill Quotes |
| December 12th, 1976 (December 12 1976) | Birth | Dan Hawkins, English guitarist (The Darkness) | |
| December 12th, 1976 (December 12 1976) | Birth | Lloyd Owusu, English/Ghanaian football player | |
| December 12th, 1976 (December 12 1976) | Death | Jack Cassidy, American actor (born in 1927) | |
| December 12th, 1976 (December 12 1976) | Death | Vinko Zganec, Croatian ethnomusicologist (born in 1890) | |
| December 12th, 1975 (December 12 1975) | Birth | Mayim Bialik, American actress | |
| December 12th, 1975 (December 12 1975) | Birth | Craig Moore, Australian footballer | |
| December 12th, 1974 (December 12 1974) | Birth | Nolberto Solano, Peruvian footballer | |
| December 12th, 1973 (December 12 1973) | Birth | William Hutton, American engineer | |
| December 12th, 1973 (December 12 1973) | Birth | Walter Otta, Argentine footballer | |
| December 12th, 1972 (December 12 1972) | Birth | Nicky Eaden, English footballer | |
| December 12th, 1972 (December 12 1972) | Birth | Wilson Kipketer, Danish middle-distance runner | |
| December 12th, 1972 (December 12 1972) | Birth | Kevin Parent, French Canadian singer and songwriter | |
| December 12th, 1972 (December 12 1972) | Birth | Brandon Teena, American hate crime victim (died in 1993) | |
| December 12th, 1972 (December 12 1972) | Birth | Yeoryios Theodoridis, Greek sprinter | |
| December 12th, 1972 (December 12 1972) | Birth | Hank Williams III, American musician, grandson of Hank Williams | |
| December 12th, 1971 (December 12 1971) | Death | David Sarnoff, Russian-born American General Manager of RCA (born in 1891) | |
| December 12th, 1970 (December 12 1970) | Birth | Madchen Amick, American actress | |
| December 12th, 1970 (December 12 1970) | Birth | Jennifer Connelly, American actress | |
| December 12th, 1970 (December 12 1970) | Birth | Regina Hall, American actress | |
| December 12th, 1970 (December 12 1970) | Death | Doris Blackburn, Australian politician (born in 1889) | |
| December 12th, 1969 (December 12 1969) | Event | Strategia della tensione: Piazza Fontana bombingThe offices of Banca Nazionale dell Agricoltura in Piazza Fontana, Milan, are bombed. | |
| December 12th, 1969 (December 12 1969) | Birth | Carrie Westcott, American model and actress | |
| December 12th, 1968 (December 12 1968) | Birth | Kate Humble, English television presenter | |
| December 12th, 1968 (December 12 1968) | Birth | Rory Kennedy, American documentarian | |
| December 12th, 1968 (December 12 1968) | Birth | Laurie Williams, Jamaican West Indies cricketer (died in 2002) | |
| December 12th, 1968 (December 12 1968) | Death | Tallulah Bankhead, American actress (born in 1902) | |
| December 12th, 1967 (December 12 1967) | Birth | Yuzo Koshiro, Japanese composer | |
| December 12th, 1967 (December 12 1967) | Birth | Takenobu Mitsuyoshi, Japanese composer | |
| December 12th, 1967 (December 12 1967) | Birth | John Randle, American football player | |
| December 12th, 1966 (December 12 1966) | Birth | Royce Gracie, Brazilian martial artist | Martial Quotes |
| December 12th, 1966 (December 12 1966) | Birth | Kouichi Nagano, Japanese voice actor | |
| December 12th, 1965 (December 12 1965) | Birth | Will Carling, English rugby union footballer | |
| December 12th, 1964 (December 12 1964) | Event | Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta becomes the first President of the Republic of Kenya. | |
| December 12th, 1964 (December 12 1964) | Birth | Sabu, American professional wrestler | |
| December 12th, 1964 (December 12 1964) | Birth | Haywood Jeffries, American football player | |
| December 12th, 1963 (December 12 1963) | Event | Kenya gains its independence from the United Kingdom. | |
| December 12th, 1963 (December 12 1963) | Birth | Ai Orikasa, Japanese voice actress and singer | |
| December 12th, 1963 (December 12 1963) | Death | Yasujiro Ozu, Japanese film director (born in 1903) | |
| December 12th, 1962 (December 12 1962) | Birth | Tracy Austin, American tennis player | |
| December 12th, 1962 (December 12 1962) | Birth | Mike Golic, American football player | |
| December 12th, 1958 (December 12 1958) | Birth | Sheree J. Wilson, American actress | |
| December 12th, 1957 (December 12 1957) | Birth | Sheila E., American musician | |
| December 12th, 1957 (December 12 1957) | Birth | Robert Lepage, French Canadian playwright | |
| December 12th, 1956 (December 12 1956) | Event | Commencement of the Irish Republican Army s Border Campaign. | |
| December 12th, 1956 (December 12 1956) | Birth | Johan van der Velde, Dutch cyclist | |
| December 12th, 1955 (December 12 1955) | Birth | Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, Greek businesswoman | |
| December 12th, 1955 (December 12 1955) | Birth | Eddy Schepers, Belgian cyclist | |
| December 12th, 1954 (December 12 1954) | Birth | Liz Claman, American television anchor | |
| December 12th, 1953 (December 12 1953) | Birth | Bruce Kulick, American guitarist (Kiss) | |
| December 12th, 1952 (December 12 1952) | Birth | Herb Dhaliwal, Canadian politician | |
| December 12th, 1952 (December 12 1952) | Birth | Cathy Rigby, American gymnast and actress | |
| December 12th, 1952 (December 12 1952) | Death | Bedrich Hrozny, Czech orientalist and linguist (born in 1879) | |
| December 12th, 1951 (December 12 1951) | Death | Mildred Bailey, American jazz singer (born in 1907) | |
| December 12th, 1950 (December 12 1950) | Event | Paula Ackerman, the first woman appointed to perform rabbinical functions in the United States, leads the congregation in her first services. | |
| December 12th, 1950 (December 12 1950) | Birth | Rajnikanth, Indian actor | |
| December 12th, 1950 (December 12 1950) | Birth | Billy Smith, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| December 12th, 1949 (December 12 1949) | Birth | Bill Nighy, English actor | |
| December 12th, 1948 (December 12 1948) | Event | Malayan Emergency: Batang Kali Massacre14 members of the Scots Guards stationed in Malaysia allegedly massacre 24 unarmed civilians and set fire to the village. | |
| December 12th, 1948 (December 12 1948) | Birth | Tom Wilkinson, English actor | |
| December 12th, 1946 (December 12 1946) | Event | A fire at a New York City ice plant spreads to a nearby tenement killing 37 people. | |
| December 12th, 1946 (December 12 1946) | Birth | Emerson Fittipaldi, Brazilian race car driver and two-time F1 world champion | |
| December 12th, 1946 (December 12 1946) | Birth | Paula Wagner, American film executive | |
| December 12th, 1945 (December 12 1945) | Birth | Tony Williams, American jazz drummer (died in 1997) | |
| December 12th, 1944 (December 12 1944) | Birth | Kenneth Cranham, Scottish actor | |
| December 12th, 1944 (December 12 1944) | Birth | Jean Dore, Canadian politician, mayor of Montreal | |
| December 12th, 1943 (December 12 1943) | Birth | Dickey Betts, American musician (The Allman Brothers Band) | |
| December 12th, 1943 (December 12 1943) | Birth | Grover Washington, Jr., American saxophonist (died in 1999) | |
| December 12th, 1942 (December 12 1942) | Event | A fire in a hostel in St. John s, Newfoundland kills 100 people. | |
| December 12th, 1941 (December 12 1941) | Event | World War II: Fifty four Japanese A6M Zero fighters raid Batangas Field, Philippines. Jesus Villamor and four Filipino fighter pilots fend them off; Cesar Basa is killed. | |
| December 12th, 1941 (December 12 1941) | Event | World War II: USMC F4F "Wildcats" sink the first 4 major Japanese ships off Wake Island. | |
| December 12th, 1941 (December 12 1941) | Event | World War II: Great Britain declares war on Bulgaria. Hungary and Romania declare war on the United States. India declares war on Japan. | |
| December 12th, 1941 (December 12 1941) | Event | Adolf Hitler announces extermination of the Jews at a meeting in the Reich Chancellery | Adolf Hitler Quotes |
| December 12th, 1941 (December 12 1941) | Death | Cesar Basa, Philippine Air Force and World War II hero (born in 1915) | |
| December 12th, 1940 (December 12 1940) | Event | World War II: Approximately 70 people are killed in the Marples Hotel, Fitzalan Square, Sheffield as a result of a German air raid. | |
| December 12th, 1940 (December 12 1940) | Birth | Sharad Pawar, Indian politician | |
| December 12th, 1940 (December 12 1940) | Birth | Dionne Warwick, American singer | |
| December 12th, 1939 (December 12 1939) | Event | Winter War: Battle of TolvajarviFinnish forces defeat those of the Soviet Union in their first major victory of the conflict. | |
| December 12th, 1939 (December 12 1939) | Death | Douglas Fairbanks, American actor (born in 1883) | |
| December 12th, 1938 (December 12 1938) | Birth | Connie Francis, American singer | |
| December 12th, 1937 (December 12 1937) | Event | Panay incident: Japanese aircraft shell and sink US gunboat Panay on the Yangtze River in China. | |
| December 12th, 1937 (December 12 1937) | Birth | Buford Pusser, American sheriff (died in 1974) | |
| December 12th, 1936 (December 12 1936) | Event | Xi an Incident: The Generalissimo of the Republic of China, Chiang Kai-shek is kidnapped by Zhang Xueliang. | |
| December 12th, 1934 (December 12 1934) | Birth | Miguel de la Madrid, President of Mexico | |
| December 12th, 1934 (December 12 1934) | Death | Thorleif Haug, Norwegian Nordic skier (born in 1894) | |
| December 12th, 1932 (December 12 1932) | Birth | Bob Pettit, American basketball player | |
| December 12th, 1931 (December 12 1931) | Birth | Lionel Blair, English actor and choreographer | |
| December 12th, 1930 (December 12 1930) | Birth | Bill Beutel, American journalist (died in 2006) | |
| December 12th, 1929 (December 12 1929) | Birth | Toshiko Akiyoshi, Japanese musician | |
| December 12th, 1929 (December 12 1929) | Birth | John Osborne, English dramatist (died in 1994) | John Osborne Quotes |
| December 12th, 1929 (December 12 1929) | Death | Charles Goodnight, American cattle baron (born in 1836) | |
| December 12th, 1928 (December 12 1928) | Birth | Chinghiz Aitmatov, Soviet-born Kyrgyz writer | |
| December 12th, 1927 (December 12 1927) | Birth | Robert Noyce, American inventor (died in 1990) | |
| December 12th, 1926 (December 12 1926) | Death | Jean Richepin, French poet (born in 1849) | |
| December 12th, 1925 (December 12 1925) | Event | The Majlis of Iran votes to crown Reza Khan as the new Shah of Persia. | |
| December 12th, 1925 (December 12 1925) | Birth | Vladimir Shainsky, Soviet and Russian composer | |
| December 12th, 1925 (December 12 1925) | Birth | Ahmad Shamlou, Iranian poet (died in 2000) | |
| December 12th, 1924 (December 12 1924) | Birth | Ed Koch, Mayor of New York City | |
| December 12th, 1923 (December 12 1923) | Birth | Bob Barker, American television game show host | |
| December 12th, 1923 (December 12 1923) | Birth | Ken Kavanagh, Australian racing driver | |
| December 12th, 1923 (December 12 1923) | Death | Raymond Radiguet, French author (born in 1903) | |
| December 12th, 1920 (December 12 1920) | Birth | Fred Kida, American comics artist | |
| December 12th, 1919 (December 12 1919) | Birth | Olivia Barclay, English astrologer (died in 2001) | |
| December 12th, 1919 (December 12 1919) | Birth | Dan DeCarlo, American cartoonist (died in 2001) | |
| December 12th, 1918 (December 12 1918) | Birth | Joe Williams, American singer (died in 1999) | |
| December 12th, 1917 (December 12 1917) | Event | In Nebraska, Father Edward J. Flanagan founds Boys Town as a farm village for wayward boys. | |
| December 12th, 1915 (December 12 1915) | Event | President of the Republic of China, Yuan Shikai announces his intention to reinstate the monarchy and proclaim himself Emperor of China. | |
| December 12th, 1915 (December 12 1915) | Birth | Frank Sinatra, American singer and actor (died in 1998) | Frank Sinatra Quotes |
| December 12th, 1914 (December 12 1914) | Event | The largest one-day percentage drop in the history of Dow Jones Industrial Average, down 24.39%. | |
| December 12th, 1914 (December 12 1914) | Birth | Patrick O Brian, English author (died in 2000) | |
| December 12th, 1913 (December 12 1913) | Death | Emperor Menelek II of Ethiopia (born in 1844) | |
| December 12th, 1911 (December 12 1911) | Event | Delhi replaces Calcutta as the capital of India. | |
| December 12th, 1909 (December 12 1909) | Birth | Karen Morley, American actress (died in 2003) | |
| December 12th, 1907 (December 12 1907) | Birth | Roy Douglas, English composer and orchestrator | |
| December 12th, 1905 (December 12 1905) | Birth | Manes Sperber, Austrian-born writer (died in 1984) | |
| December 12th, 1904 (December 12 1904) | Birth | Nicolas de Gunzburg, magazine editor and socialite (died in 1981) | |
| December 12th, 1903 (December 12 1903) | Birth | Dagmar Nordstrom, American composer (died in 1976) | |
| December 12th, 1903 (December 12 1903) | Birth | Yasujiro Ozu, Japanese film director (died in 1963) | |
| December 12th, 1902 (December 12 1902) | Birth | Koloman Sokol, Slovak painter (died in 2003) | |
| December 12th, 1901 (December 12 1901) | Event | Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal at Signal Hill in St John s, Newfoundland. | Guglielmo Marconi Quotes |
| December 12th, 1900 (December 12 1900) | Birth | Sammy Davis, Sr., American dancer (died in 1988) | |
| December 12th, 1897 (December 12 1897) | Event | Belo Horizonte, the first planned city of Brazil, is founded. | |
| December 12th, 1894 (December 12 1894) | Death | Sir John Thompson, fourth Prime Minister of Canada (born in 1845) | |
| December 12th, 1893 (December 12 1893) | Birth | Edward G. Robinson, American actor (died in 1973) | |
| December 12th, 1892 (December 12 1892) | Birth | Herman Potocnik aka Hermann Noordung, Slovenian rocket engineer (died in 1929) | |
| December 12th, 1889 (December 12 1889) | Death | Robert Browning, English poet (born in 1812) | Robert Browning Quotes |
| December 12th, 1889 (December 12 1889) | Death | Viktor Bunyakovsky, Russian mathematician (born in 1804) | |
| December 12th, 1887 (December 12 1887) | Birth | Kurt Atterberg, Swedish composer (died in 1974) | |
| December 12th, 1876 (December 12 1876) | Birth | Alvin Kraenzlein, Olympic gold medalist (died in 1928) | |
| December 12th, 1875 (December 12 1875) | Birth | Gerd von Rundstedt, German field marshal (died in 1953) | Gerd von Rundstedt Quotes |
| December 12th, 1870 (December 12 1870) | Event | Joseph H. Rainey of South Carolina becomes the first black U.S. congressman. | |
| December 12th, 1870 (December 12 1870) | Birth | Walter Benona Sharp, American oil baron (died in 1912) | |
| December 12th, 1866 (December 12 1866) | Birth | Alfred Werner, Swiss chemist, Nobel laureate (died in 1919) | Alfred Nobel Quotes |
| December 12th, 1864 (December 12 1864) | Birth | Paul Elmer More, American essayist (died in 1937) | |
| December 12th, 1863 (December 12 1863) | Birth | Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter (died in 1944) | Edvard Munch Quotes |
| December 12th, 1862 (December 12 1862) | Event | USS Cairo sinks on the Yazoo River, becoming the first armored ship to be sunk by an electrically detonated mine. | |
| December 12th, 1858 (December 12 1858) | Death | Jacques Viger, antiquarian and archeologist, first mayor of Montreal (born in 1787) | |
| December 12th, 1849 (December 12 1849) | Birth | William Kissam Vanderbilt, member of the Vanderbilt family (died in 1920) | |
| December 12th, 1845 (December 12 1845) | Birth | Bruce Price, American architect (died in 1903) | |
| December 12th, 1843 (December 12 1843) | Death | King William I of the Netherlands, (born in 1772) | William King Quotes |
| December 12th, 1821 (December 12 1821) | Birth | Gustave Flaubert, French writer (died in 1880) | Gustave Flaubert Quotes |
| December 12th, 1817 (December 12 1817) | Death | Emperor Tekle Giyorgis I of Ethiopia, (born in about 1751) | |
| December 12th, 1812 (December 12 1812) | Event | French invasion of Russia comes to an end. | |
| December 12th, 1806 (December 12 1806) | Birth | Stand Watie, American Confederate general (died in 1871) | |
| December 12th, 1805 (December 12 1805) | Birth | William Lloyd Garrison, American abolitionist (died in 1879) | William Lloyd Garrison Quotes |
| December 12th, 1805 (December 12 1805) | Birth | Henry Wells, Founder of American Express (died in 1878) | |
| December 12th, 1799 (December 12 1799) | Birth | Karl Briullov, Russian painter (died in 1852) | |
| December 12th, 1791 (December 12 1791) | Birth | Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria, second wife of Napoleon (died in 1847) | |
| December 12th, 1790 (December 12 1790) | Death | Mikhail Shcherbatov, Russian philosopher and writer (born in 1733) | Philo Quotes |
| December 12th, 1789 (December 12 1789) | Death | John Ponsonby, Irish politician (born in 1713) | |
| December 12th, 1787 (December 12 1787) | Event | Pennsylvania becomes the second state to ratify the United States Constitution five days after Delaware became the first. | |
| December 12th, 1786 (December 12 1786) | Birth | William L. Marcy, American statesman (died in 1857) | |
| December 12th, 1783 (December 12 1783) | Birth | Ner Alexander Middleswarth, American politician (died in 1865) | |
| December 12th, 1781 (December 12 1781) | Event | American Revolutionary War: Second Battle of UshantA Royal Navy squadron, commanded by Rear Admiral Richard Kempenfelt in HMS Victory, defeats a French fleet. | |
| December 12th, 1779 (December 12 1779) | Birth | Madeleine Sophie Barat, French saint (died in 1865) | |
| December 12th, 1766 (December 12 1766) | Death | Johann Christoph Gottsched, German writer (born in 1700) | |
| December 12th, 1754 (December 12 1754) | Death | Wu Jingzi, Chinese writer (born in 1701) | |
| December 12th, 1751 (December 12 1751) | Death | Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, English statesman and philosopher (born in 1678) | Philo Quotes |
| December 12th, 1745 (December 12 1745) | Birth | John Jay, 1st Chief Justice of the United States (died in 1829) | |
| December 12th, 1724 (December 12 1724) | Birth | Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, British admiral (died in 1816) | |
| December 12th, 1712 (December 12 1712) | Birth | Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine, Austrian military leader (died in 1780) | |
| December 12th, 1685 (December 12 1685) | Death | John Pell, English mathematician (born in 1610) | |
| December 12th, 1659 (December 12 1659) | Birth | Francesco Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect/designer (died in 1739) | |
| December 12th, 1610 (December 12 1610) | Birth | Saint Vasilije (died in 1671) | |
| December 12th, 1586 (December 12 1586) | Death | Stefan Batory, King of Poland (born in 1533) | |
| December 12th, 1574 (December 12 1574) | Birth | Anne of Denmark, queen consort of James I of England (died in 1619) | James I of England Quotes |
| December 12th, 1574 (December 12 1574) | Death | Selim II, Ottoman Sultan (born in 1524) | |
| December 12th, 1569 (December 12 1569) | Death | Metropolitan Philip of Moscow (born in 1507) | |
| December 12th, 1418 (December 12 1418) | Birth | Albert VI of Austria (died in 1463) | |
| December 12th, 1408 (December 12 1408) | Event | Order of the Dragon: The Order of the Dragon was first created on December 12, 1408 by Emperor Sigismund, then King of Hungary, and his wife Queen Barbara of Celje following the battle for possession of Bosnia. | |
| December 12th, 1298 (December 12 1298) | Birth | Albert II of Austria (died in 1358) | |
| December 12th, 1212 (December 12 1212) | Death | Geoffrey, Archbishop of York | |
| December 12th, 1098 (December 12 1098) | Event | First Crusade: Massacre of Ma arrat al-NumanCrusaders breach the town s walls and massacre about 20,000 inhabitants. After finding themselves with insufficient food, they resort to cannibalism. | |
| December 12th, 0884 (December 12 0884) | Death | Carloman, King of the West Franks | |
| December 12th, 0627 (December 12 0627) | Event | Battle of Nineveh: A Byzantine army under Emperor Heraclius defeats Emperor Khosrau II s Persian forces, commanded by General Rhahzadh. | |
