Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/January 12

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Births

1729 - Edmund Burke, Irish statesman (d. 1797) (pictured)
1737 - John Hancock, American statesman (d. 1793)
1876 - Jack London, American author (d. 1916)
1917 - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Indian spiritualist (d. 2008)
1951 - Rush Limbaugh, American radio personality (d. 2021)
1952 - Walter Mosley, American author
1954 - Howard Stern, American radio host
1963 - Debashish Bhattacharya, Indian musician

Deaths

1519 - Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1459)
1834 - William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1759)
1976 - Agatha Christie, English writer (b. 1890)
1977 - Henri-Georges Clouzot, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1907)