Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/October 12

Births

• 1537 - King Edward VI of England (d. 1553) (pictured)
• 1558 - Archduke Maximilian III of Austria (d. 1618)
• 1866 - Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1937)
• 1968 - Hugh Jackman, Australian actor and singer
• 1970 - Kirk Cameron, American actor

Deaths

• 1870 - Robert E. Lee, American Confederate general (b. 1807)
• 1915 - Edith Cavell, English nurse (b. 1865)
• 1987 - Alf Landon, Governor of Kansas (b. 1887)
• 1997 - John Denver, American singer (b. 1943)
• 1998 - Matthew Shepard, American murder victim (b. 1976)
• 1999 - Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player (b. 1936)