Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/May 12

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[edit] Births

• 1590 - Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1621)
• 1812 - Edward Lear, English author and poet (d. 1888) (pictured)
• 1820 - Florence Nightingale, English nurse (d. 1910)
• 1828 - Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English poet (d. 1882)
• 1850 - Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. statesman (d. 1924)
• 1907 - Katharine Hepburn, American actress (d. 2003)
• 1918 - Julius Rosenberg, American spy (d. 1953)
• 1925 - Yogi Berra, American baseball player

[edit] Deaths

• 1700 - John Dryden, English writer (b. 1631)
• 1864 - J. E. B. Stuart, American soldier from Virginia and a Confederate Army general (b. 1833)
• 1889 - John Cadbury, English chocolate entrepreneur (b. 1801)
• 2001 - Perry Como, American singer (b. 1912)