Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/December 12

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[edit] Births

• 1745 - John Jay, 1st Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1829)
• 1821 - Gustave Flaubert, French writer (d. 1880) (pictured)
• 1863 - Edvard Munch, Norwegian expressionist painter (d. 1944)
• 1893 - Edward G. Robinson, American actor (d. 1973)
• 1915 - Frank Sinatra, American singer and actor (d. 1998)
• 1923 - Bob Barker, American television game show host
• 1970 - Jennifer Connelly, American actress

[edit] Deaths

• 1889 - Robert Browning, British poet (b. 1812)
• 1939 - Douglas Fairbanks, American actor (b. 1883)
• 1968 - Tallulah Bankhead, American actress (b. 1902)
• 1999 - Joseph Heller, American author (b. 1923)