Famous people born on 12 February

• Abraham LincolnPresident of the United States from 1861 to 1865 · 1809–1865
  56 yrs
• Charles DarwinEnglish naturalist and biologist · 1809–1882
  73 yrs
• PranIndian actor · 1920–2013
  93 yrs
• Francis II, Holy Roman EmperorAlso known as Francis I, Emperor of Austria · 1768–1835
  67 yrs
• Anna PavlovaRussian ballet dancer · 1882–1931
  48 yrs
• Julian Seymour SchwingerAmerican theoretical physicist · 1918–1994
  76 yrs
• Bill RussellAmerican basketball player · 1934–2022
  88 yrs
• Lou Andreas-SalomemGerman-Russian essayist, philosopher, and psychoanalyst · 1861–1937
  75 yrs
• John Edward Gray ↗British zoologist · 1800–1875
  75 yrs
• Omar Bradley ↗United States Army general · 1893–1981
  88 yrs
• Franco Zeffirelli ↗Italian director and politician · 1923–2019
  96 yrs
• George Meredith ↗British novelist and poet · 1828–1909
  81 yrs
• Julius Streicher ↗German publisher, Nazi politician and convicted war criminal · 1885–1946
  61 yrs
• Vasily Chuikov ↗Soviet marshal · 1900–1982
  82 yrs
• Thubten Gyatso ↗13th Dalai Lama of Tibet · 1876–1933
  57 yrs
• Ray Manzarek ↗American keyboardist · 1939–2013
  74 yrs
• David Graeber ↗American anthropologist and anarchist · 1961–2020
  59 yrs
• Dayananda Saraswati ↗Indian social reformer · 1824–1883
  59 yrs
• Louisa Adams ↗First Lady of the United States from 1825 to 1829 · 1775–1852
  77 yrs
• James Dwight Dana ↗American mineralogist, scientist and zoologist · 1813–1895
  82 yrs
• Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk ↗Austrian economist · 1851–1914
  63 yrs
• Federica Montseny ↗Spanish politician, anarchist, intellectual and writer · 1905–1994
  88 yrs
• Christopher McCandless ↗American hiker and explorer · 1968–1992
  24 yrs
• Jan Swammerdam ↗Dutch entomologist and beekeeper · 1637–1680
  43 yrs
• Lodovico Ferrari ↗Italian mathematician · 1522–1565
  43 yrs
• Auguste Perret ↗French architect · 1874–1954
  80 yrs
• Jenny von Westphalen ↗German theatre critic and political activist · 1813–1881
  68 yrs
• William Morris Davis ↗American geographer · 1850–1934
  83 yrs
• Lee Byung-chul ↗South Korean business man; founder of the Samsung Group · 1910–1987
  77 yrs
• Pierre Louis Dulong ↗French scientist · 1785–1838
  53 yrs
• Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué ↗German writer · 1777–1843
  65 yrs
• Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples ↗Disputed Head of the House of Savoy from 1983 to 2024 · 1937–2024
  86 yrs
• Clara Campoamor ↗Spanish politician, feminist · 1888–1972
  84 yrs
• Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli ↗Austro-Hungarian general · 1856–1941
  85 yrs

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