Portal:Germany/Anniversaries/August/August 12
- 1647 – Birth of writer Johann Heinrich Acker
- 1759 – Defeat of Prussia in the Battle of Kunersdorf
- 1762 – Birth of physician Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland
- 1943 – Birth of politician Herta Däubler-Gmelin
- 1955 – Death of author Thomas Mann, recipient of the 1929 Nobel Prize for Literature