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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 12th of February 0881 | EVENT | Pope John VIII crowns Charles the Fat, the King of Italy: Emperor |
| 12th of February 1429 | EVENT | English forces under Sir John Fastolf defend a supply convoy carrying rations to the army besieging Orleans from attack by the Comte de Clermont and Sir John Stewart of Darnley in the Battle of Rouvray (also known as the Battle of the Herrings). |
| 12th of February 1502 | EVENT | Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, on his second voyage to India. |
| 12th of February 1541 | EVENT | Santiago, Chile is founded by Pedro de Valdivia. |
| 12th of February 1554 | EVENT | A year after claiming the throne of England for nine days, Lady Jane Grey is beheaded for treason. |
| 12th of February 1593 | EVENT | Japanese invasion of Korea: Approximately 3,000 Joseon defenders led by general Kwon Yul successfully repel more than 30,000 Japanese forces in the Siege of Haengju. |
| 12th of February 1689 | EVENT | The Convention Parliament declares that the flight to France in 1688 by James II, the last Roman Catholic British monarch, constitutes an abdication. |
| 12th of February 1733 | EVENT | Englishman James Oglethorpe founds Georgia, the 13th colony of the Thirteen Colonies, and its first city at Savannah (known as Georgia Day). |
| 12th of February 1771 | EVENT | Gustav III becomes the King of Sweden. |
| 12th of February 1816 | EVENT | The Teatro di San Carlo, the oldest working opera house in Europe, is destroyed by fire. |
| 12th of February 1817 | EVENT | An Argentine/Chilean patriotic army, after crossing the Andes, defeats Spanish troops on the Battle of Chacabuco. |
| 12th of February 1818 | EVENT | Bernardo O'Higgins formally approved the Chilean Declaration of Independence near Concepcion, Chile. |
| 12th of February 1825 | EVENT | The Creek cede the last of their lands in Georgia to the United States government by the Treaty of Indian Springs, and migrate west. |
| 12th of February 1832 | EVENT | Ecuador annexes the Galapagos Islands. |
| 12th of February 1851 | EVENT | Edward Hargraves announces that he has found gold in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia, starting the Australian gold rush. |
| 12th of February 1855 | EVENT | Michigan State University is established. |
| 12th of February 1894 | EVENT | Anarchist Emile Henry hurls a bomb into Paris's Cafe Terminus, killing one and wounding 20. |
| 12th of February 1909 | EVENT | The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded. |
| 12th of February 1909 | EVENT | New Zealand's worst maritime disaster of the 20th century happens when the SS Penguin, an inter-island ferry, sinks and explodes at the entrance to Wellington Harbour. |
| 12th of February 1912 | EVENT | The Xuantong Emperor, the last Emperor of China, abdicates. |
| 12th of February 1914 | EVENT | In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place. |
| 12th of February 1934 | EVENT | In Spain the national council of Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional-Sindicalista decides to merge the movement with the Falange Espanola. |
| 12th of February 1934 | EVENT | The Austrian Civil War begins. |
| 12th of February 1935 | EVENT | USS Macon, one of the two largest helium-filled airships ever created, crashes into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California and sinks. |
| 12th of February 1946 | EVENT | World War II: Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 121 of 154 captured U-boats. |
| 12th of February 1946 | EVENT | African American United States Army veteran Isaac Woodard is severely beaten by a South Carolina police officer to the point where he loses his vision in both eyes. The incident later galvanizes the Civil Rights Movement and partially inspires Orson Welles' film Touch of Evil. |
| 12th of February 1947 | EVENT | A meteor creates an impact crater in Sikhote-Alin, in the Soviet Union. |
| 12th of February 1961 | EVENT | U.S.S.R. launches Venera 1 towards Venus. |
| 12th of February 1968 | EVENT | Phong Nhi and Phong Nhat massacre. |
| 12th of February 1974 | EVENT | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union. |
| 12th of February 1990 | EVENT | Carmen Lawrence becomes the first female Premier in Australian history when she becomes Premier of Western Australia. |
| 12th of February 1992 | EVENT | The current Constitution of Mongolia comes into effect. |
| 12th of February 1994 | EVENT | Four men break into the National Gallery of Norway and steal Edward Munch's iconic painting The Scream. |
| 12th of February 1999 | EVENT | President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial. |
| 12th of February 2001 | EVENT | NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touchdown in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid. |
| 12th of February 2002 | EVENT | An Iran Air Tours Tupolev Tu-154 crashes in the mountains outside Khorramabad, Iran while descending for a landing at Khorramabad Airport, killing 119. |
| 12th of February 2002 | EVENT | The trial of former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosevic begins at the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague. He dies four years later before its conclusion. |
| 12th of February 2004 | EVENT | The city of San Francisco, California begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in response to a directive from Mayor Gavin Newsom. |
| 12th of February 2009 | EVENT | Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashes into a house in Clarence Center, New York while on approach to Buffalo-Niagara International Airport, killing all on board and one on the ground. |
| 12th of February 1074 | BIRTHDAY | Conrad, King of Germany and Italy (d. 1101) |
| 12th of February 1218 | BIRTHDAY | Kujo Yoritsune, Japanese shogun (d. 1256) |
| 12th of February 1567 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Campion, English composer and poet (d. 1620) |
| 12th of February 1606 | BIRTHDAY | John Winthrop, the Younger, Governor of Connecticut (d. 1676) |
| 12th of February 1637 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Swammerdam, Dutch biologist (d. 1680) |
| 12th of February 1663 | BIRTHDAY | Cotton Mather, New England minister (d. 1728) |
| 12th of February 1665 | BIRTHDAY | Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, German botanist and physician (d. 1721) |
| 12th of February 1704 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Pinot Duclos, French writer (d. 1772) |
| 12th of February 1728 | BIRTHDAY | Etienne-Louis Boullee, French architect (d. 1799) |
| 12th of February 1752 | BIRTHDAY | Dorothea Ackermann, German actress (d. 1821) |
| 12th of February 1753 | BIRTHDAY | Francois-Paul Brueys D'Aigalliers, French admiral (d. 1798) |
| 12th of February 1768 | BIRTHDAY | Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1835) |
| 12th of February 1775 | BIRTHDAY | Louisa Adams, First Lady of the United States (1825 : 1829), widow of John Quincy Adams (d. 1852) |
| 12th of February 1777 | BIRTHDAY | Friedrich de la Motte Fouque, German poet (d. 1843) |
| 12th of February 1777 | BIRTHDAY | Bernard Courtois, French chemist (d. 1838) |
| 12th of February 1785 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Louis Dulong, French physicist (d. 1838) |
| 12th of February 1788 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Reichenbach, German chemist and philosopher (d. 1869) |
| 12th of February 1791 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Cooper, American Industrialist, inventor and philanthropist (d. 1883) |
| 12th of February 1794 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Petrov, Russian chess player (d. 1867) |
| 12th of February 1804 | BIRTHDAY | Heinrich Lenz, German physicist (d. 1865) |
| 12th of February 1809 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Darwin, English naturalist (d. 1882) |
| 12th of February 1809 | BIRTHDAY | Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States (1861-his death) (d. 1865) |
| 12th of February 1828 | BIRTHDAY | George Meredith, English writer (d. 1909) |
| 12th of February 1843 | BIRTHDAY | John Graham Chambers, English athlete who wrote the Queensberry rules for boxing (d. 1883) |
| 12th of February 1857 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Peel, English cricketer (d. 1943) |
| 12th of February 1861 | BIRTHDAY | Lou Andreas-Salome, Russian-born author (d. 1937) |
| 12th of February 1865 | BIRTHDAY | Kazimierz Tetmajer, Polish poet and writer (d. 1940) |
| 12th of February 1870 | BIRTHDAY | Marie Lloyd, English music-hall performer (d. 1922) |
| 12th of February 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Thubten Gyatso, 13th Dalai Lama (1879-his death) (d. 1933) |
| 12th of February 1880 | BIRTHDAY | John L. Lewis, American labor union leader (d. 1969) |
| 12th of February 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Marie Vassilieff, Russian artist (d. 1957) |
| 12th of February 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Max Beckmann, German artist (d. 1950) |
| 12th of February 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Johan Laidoner, Estonian military commander (d. 1953) |
| 12th of February 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Alice Roosevelt Longworth, elder daughter of Theodore Roosevelt (d. 1980) |
| 12th of February 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Julius Streicher, Nazi German publisher (d. 1946) |
| 12th of February 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Bhante Dharmawara, Cambodian monk and supercentenarian (d. 1999) |
| 12th of February 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Omar Bradley, American general, the last surviving five-star general in the United States and the 1st Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (d. 1981) |
| 12th of February 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Vola Vale, American actress (d. 1970) |
| 12th of February 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Wallace Ford, English-born actor (d. 1966) |
| 12th of February 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Roger J. Traynor, American judge (d. 1983) |
| 12th of February 1902 | BIRTHDAY | William Collier, American stage and film actor (d. 1987) |
| 12th of February 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Chick Hafey, baseball player (d. 1973) |
| 12th of February 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph F. Biroc, American cinematographer (d. 1996) |
| 12th of February 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Ted Mack, American television host (d. 1976) |
| 12th of February 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Clifton C. Edom, American photojournalism educator (d. 1991) |
| 12th of February 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Effel, French painter and journalist (d. 1982) |
| 12th of February 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques Herbrand, French logician and mathematician (d. 1931) |
| 12th of February 1908 | BIRTHDAY | August Neo, Estonian wrestler (d. 1982) |
| 12th of February 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Sigmund Rascher, German SS doctor (d. 1945) |
| 12th of February 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen H. Sholes, American recording executive (d. 1968) |
| 12th of February 1912 | BIRTHDAY | R. F. Delderfield, English author (d. 1972) |
| 12th of February 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Arvid Pardo, Maltese diplomat, a.k.a "Father of the Law of the Sea Conference" (d. 1999) |
| 12th of February 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Tex Beneke, American musician and band leader (d. 2000) |
| 12th of February 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Lorne Greene, Canadian actor (d. 1987) |
| 12th of February 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Alioto, Mayor of San Francisco (d. 1998) |
| 12th of February 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Raizo Matsuno, Japanese politician (d. 2006) |
| 12th of February 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Julian Schwinger, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1994) |
| 12th of February 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Forrest Tucker, American actor (d. 1986) |
| 12th of February 1920 | BIRTHDAY | William Roscoe Estep, Baptist historian and professor (d. 2000) |
| 12th of February 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Pran, Indian actor |
| 12th of February 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Hussein Onn, Malaysian politician, Prime Minister (1976 : 1981) (d. 1990) |
| 12th of February 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Franco Zeffirelli, Italian film and opera director and designer |
| 12th of February 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Chaskel Besser, Orthodox rabbi (d. 2010) |
| 12th of February 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Anthony Berry, British politician (d. 1984) |
| 12th of February 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Van Doren, American quiz show contestant |
| 12th of February 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Garagiola, American baseball player and announcer |
| 12th of February 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Arlen Specter, U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania |
| 12th of February 1930 | BIRTHDAY | John Doyle, Irish hurler |
| 12th of February 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Janwillem van de Wetering, Dutch author (d. 2008) |
| 12th of February 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Axel Jensen, Norwegian author (d. 2003) |
| 12th of February 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Julian Lincoln Simon, American economist and author (d. 1998) |
| 12th of February 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Anne Krueger, American economist |
| 12th of February 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Annette Crosbie, Scottish actress |
| 12th of February 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Russell, American basketball player |
| 12th of February 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Gene McDaniels, American singer |
| 12th of February 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Shenar, American actor |
| 12th of February 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Don Baker, American actor |
| 12th of February 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Dumas, American athlete (d. 2004) |
| 12th of February 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Judy Blume, American author |
| 12th of February 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Temple-Morris, Baron Temple-Morris, British politician |
| 12th of February 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Manzarek, American keyboardist (The Doors) |
| 12th of February 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Ralph Bates, English actor (d. 1991) |
| 12th of February 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Naomi Uemura, Japanese adventurer (d. 1984) |
| 12th of February 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Ehud Barak, Israeli politician, Prime Minister of Israel (1999 : 2001) |
| 12th of February 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Pat Dobson, American baseball player (d. 2006) |
| 12th of February 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Moe Bandy, American singer |
| 12th of February 1945 | BIRTHDAY | David Friedman, American economist |
| 12th of February 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Maud Adams, Swedish actress |
| 12th of February 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Cliff DeYoung, American actor and musician |
| 12th of February 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Eyeghe Ndong, Prime Minister of Gabon |
| 12th of February 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Ajda Pekkan, Turkish singer |
| 12th of February 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, Indian leader of Damdami Taksal (d. 1984) |
| 12th of February 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Durham, American sportscaster |
| 12th of February 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Robitaille, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 12th of February 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Raymond Kurzweil, American inventor and author |
| 12th of February 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Joaquin Sabina, Spanish singer and songwriter |
| 12th of February 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Ironside, Canadian actor |
| 12th of February 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Hackett, English guitarist (Genesis) |
| 12th of February 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Steven Parent, Manson murder victim (d. 1969) |
| 12th of February 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Michael McDonald, American musician |
| 12th of February 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Simon MacCorkindale, British actor (d. 2010) |
| 12th of February 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Joanna Kerns, American actress |
| 12th of February 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Nabil Shaban, British actor |
| 12th of February 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Robin Thomas, American actor |
| 12th of February 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Tzimis Panousis, Greek musician and stand-up comedian |
| 12th of February 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Philip Zimmermann, American cryptographer |
| 12th of February 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Laswell, American bassist and record producer |
| 12th of February 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Chet Lemon, American baseball player |
| 12th of February 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Robertson, Scottish musician (Thin Lizzy and Motorhead) |
| 12th of February 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Arsenio Hall, American actor and talk show host |
| 12th of February 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Grant McLennan, Australian musician (The Go-Betweens) (d. 2006) |
| 12th of February 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Smith, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 12th of February 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Larry Nance, American basketball player |
| 12th of February 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Sigrid Thornton, Australian actress |
| 12th of February 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Dan Puric, Romanian actor, director and writer |
| 12th of February 1960 | BIRTHDAY | George Gray, American professional wrestler |
| 12th of February 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Harris, Canadian politician |
| 12th of February 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Kirkwood, Irish-born field hockey player |
| 12th of February 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Ed Lover, American radio personality |
| 12th of February 1963 | BIRTHDAY | John Michael Higgins, American actor |
| 12th of February 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Ruben Amaro, Jr., major league baseball outfielder and general manager |
| 12th of February 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Christine Elise, American actress |
| 12th of February 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Chris McKinstry, Canadian computer scientist |
| 12th of February 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Chitravina N. Ravikiran, Indian composer and musician |
| 12th of February 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher McCandless, American nomad, subject of biography Into the Wild (d. 1992) |
| 12th of February 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Josh Brolin, American actor |
| 12th of February 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Gregory Charles, Canadian singer, dancer, pianist, radio and television host |
| 12th of February 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Chynna Phillips, American singer |
| 12th of February 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Hong Myung-Bo, Korean footballer |
| 12th of February 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Darren Aronofsky, American director and writer |
| 12th of February 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Meja, Swedish singer |
| 12th of February 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Brad Werenka, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 12th of February 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Creeggan, Canadian bassist (Barenaked Ladies) |
| 12th of February 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Judd Winick, writer and artist |
| 12th of February 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Menville American voice actor |
| 12th of February 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Ajay Naidu, Indian-American actor |
| 12th of February 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Owen Nolan, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 12th of February 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Sophie Zelmani, Swedish singer/songwriter |
| 12th of February 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Gianni Romme, Dutch speed skater |
| 12th of February 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Tara Strong, Canadian voice actress |
| 12th of February 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Toranosuke Takagi, Japanese race car driver |
| 12th of February 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Scot Pollard, American basketball player |
| 12th of February 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Cliff Blezinski, Design Director for Epic Games |
| 12th of February 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Christian Cullen, New Zealand rugby union footballer |
| 12th of February 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Silvia Saint, Czech pornographic actress |
| 12th of February 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Conrad, American soccer player |
| 12th of February 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Gethin Jones, Welsh television presenter |
| 12th of February 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Brett Hodgson, Australian rugby league footballer |
| 12th of February 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Silver Meikar, Estonian politician |
| 12th of February 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Douglas Fisher, American high school security guard and musician |
| 12th of February 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Barnwell, English footballer |
| 12th of February 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Antonio Chatman, American football player |
| 12th of February 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Mauck, American football player |
| 12th of February 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Jesse Spencer, Australian actor |
| 12th of February 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Juan Carlos Ferrero, Spanish tennis player |
| 12th of February 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah Lancaster, American actress |
| 12th of February 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Christina Ricci, American actress |
| 12th of February 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Lisa Hannigan, Irish singer |
| 12th of February 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Tsatoumas, Greek long jumper |
| 12th of February 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony Tuitavake, New Zealand All Black rugby player |
| 12th of February 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Jonas Hiller, Swiss ice hockey goaltender |
| 12th of February 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Carlton Brewster, American football player |
| 12th of February 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Aylar Lie, Norwegian model |
| 12th of February 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Brad Keselowski, American racing car driver |
| 12th of February 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Lolly Badcock, English pornographic actress |
| 12th of February 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Vanderkaay, American swimmer |
| 12th of February 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Alexandra Dahlstrom, Swedish actress |
| 12th of February 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Saskia Burmeister, Australian actress |
| 12th of February 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Diego Angelo, Brazilian footballer |
| 12th of February 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Nana Eikura, Japanese actress |
| 12th of February 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Faisal ibn Hamad Al Khalifah, prince of Bahrain (d. 2006) |
| 12th of February 1993 | BIRTHDAY | Jennifer Stone, American actress |
| 12th of February 1538 | DEATH | Albrecht Altdorfer, German painter |
| 12th of February 1554 | DEATH | Lord Guilford Dudley, consort of Lady Jane Grey (Born 1536) |
| 12th of February 1554 | DEATH | Lady Jane Grey, claimant to the English throne (Born 1537) |
| 12th of February 1571 | DEATH | Nicholas Throckmorton, English diplomat and politician (Born 1515) |
| 12th of February 1590 | DEATH | Francois Hotman, French lawyer and writer (Born 1524) |
| 12th of February 1612 | DEATH | Christopher Clavius, German astronomer (Born 1538) |
| 12th of February 1624 | DEATH | George Heriot, Scottish goldsmith and philanthropist (Born 1563) |
| 12th of February 1630 | DEATH | Fynes Moryson, English traveler and writer (Born 1566) |
| 12th of February 1700 | DEATH | Aleksei Shein, Russian general and statesman (Born 1662) |
| 12th of February 1724 | DEATH | Elkanah Settle, English writer (Born 1648) |
| 12th of February 1728 | DEATH | Agostino Steffani, Italian diplomat and composer (Born 1653) |
| 12th of February 1762 | DEATH | Laurent Belissen, French composer (Born 1693) |
| 12th of February 1763 | DEATH | Pierre de Marivaux, French writer (Born 1688) |
| 12th of February 1771 | DEATH | King Adolf Frederick of Sweden (Born 1710) |
| 12th of February 1789 | DEATH | Ethan Allen, American patriot (Born 1738) |
| 12th of February 1799 | DEATH | Lazzaro Spallanzani, Italian biologist (Born 1729) |
| 12th of February 1804 | DEATH | Immanuel Kant, German philosopher (Born 1724) |
| 12th of February 1834 | DEATH | Friedrich Schleiermacher, German philosopher (Born 1768) |
| 12th of February 1894 | DEATH | Hans von Bulow, German pianist and composer (Born 1830) |
| 12th of February 1896 | DEATH | Ambroise Thomas, French opera composer (Born 1811) |
| 12th of February 1915 | DEATH | Emile Waldteufel, French composer (Born 1837) |
| 12th of February 1916 | DEATH | Richard Dedekind, German mathematician (Born 1831) |
| 12th of February 1920 | DEATH | Aurore Gagnon, Victim of child abuse (Born 1909) |
| 12th of February 1929 | DEATH | Lillie Langtry, British singer and actress (Born 1853) |
| 12th of February 1931 | DEATH | Samedbey Mehmandarov, Russian general (Born 1855) |
| 12th of February 1933 | DEATH | Henri Duparc, French composer (Born 1848) |
| 12th of February 1935 | DEATH | Auguste Escoffier, French chef (Born 1846) |
| 12th of February 1942 | DEATH | Grant Wood, American painter (Born1891) |
| 12th of February 1945 | DEATH | Antonio Villa-Real, Filipino jurist (Born 1880) |
| 12th of February 1947 | DEATH | Moses Gomberg, Russian-born American chemist (Born 1866) |
| 12th of February 1949 | DEATH | Hassan al Banna, Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (Born 1906) |
| 12th of February 1954 | DEATH | Dziga Vertov, Russian filmmaker (Born 1896) |
| 12th of February 1957 | DEATH | Eric Alfred Knudsen, American folklorist (Born 1872) |
| 12th of February 1958 | DEATH | Douglas Hartree, English mathematical physicist (Born 1897) |
| 12th of February 1960 | DEATH | Jean-Michel Atlan, French painter (Born 1913) |
| 12th of February 1969 | DEATH | Paltiel Daykan, Russian-born Israeli jurist (Born 1885) |
| 12th of February 1970 | DEATH | Ishman Bracey, American blues musician (Born 1901) |
| 12th of February 1971 | DEATH | James C. Penney, American department store founder (Born 1875) |
| 12th of February 1976 | DEATH | Sal Mineo, American actor (Born 1939) |
| 12th of February 1979 | DEATH | Jean Renoir, French director (Born 1894) |
| 12th of February 1980 | DEATH | Muriel Rukeyser, American poet (Born 1913) |
| 12th of February 1982 | DEATH | Victor Jory, Canadian actor (Born 1902) |
| 12th of February 1983 | DEATH | Eubie Blake, American musician and songwriter (Born 1887) |
| 12th of February 1984 | DEATH | Anna Anderson, claimant to the throne of Russia (Born 1896) |
| 12th of February 1984 | DEATH | Julio Cortazar, Argentine writer (Born 1914) |
| 12th of February 1985 | DEATH | Nicholas Colasanto, American actor (Born 1924) |
| 12th of February 1989 | DEATH | Thomas Bernhard, Austrian playwright and novelist (Born 1931) |
| 12th of February 1991 | DEATH | Roger Patterson, American death metal bass player (Born 1968) |
| 12th of February 1992 | DEATH | Bep van Klaveren, Dutch boxer (Born 1907) |
| 12th of February 1993 | DEATH | James Bulger, English murder victim (Born 1990) |
| 12th of February 1994 | DEATH | Sue Rodriguez, Canadian assisted suicide advocate (Born 1950) |
| 12th of February 1995 | DEATH | Philip Taylor Kramer, American musician (Iron Butterfly) (Born 1952) |
| 12th of February 1996 | DEATH | Bob Shaw, Northern Irish novelist (Born 1931) |
| 12th of February 1998 | DEATH | Hugh Gardner Ackley, American economist (Born1915) |
| 12th of February 2000 | DEATH | Tom Landry, American football coach (Born 1924) |
| 12th of February 2000 | DEATH | Screamin' Jay Hawkins, American musician (Born 1929) |
| 12th of February 2000 | DEATH | Andy Lewis, Australian musician (Born 1967) |
| 12th of February 2000 | DEATH | Charles M. Schulz, American comics author (Born 1922) |
| 12th of February 2000 | DEATH | Oliver, American pop singer (Born 1945) |
| 12th of February 2001 | DEATH | Kristina Soderbaum, German actress (Born 1912) |
| 12th of February 2001 | DEATH | Tiberio Mitri, Italian boxer (Born 1926) |
| 12th of February 2003 | DEATH | Vali Myers, Australian painter (Born 1930) |
| 12th of February 2005 | DEATH | Rafael Vidal, Venezuelan athlete (Born 1964) |
| 12th of February 2005 | DEATH | Dorothy Stang, Brazilian nun (Born 1931) |
| 12th of February 2005 | DEATH | Sammi Smith, American country music singer (Born 1943) |
| 12th of February 2007 | DEATH | Randy Stone, American actor and casting director (Born 1958) |
| 12th of February 2007 | DEATH | Peggy Gilbert, American jazz saxophonist and bandleader (Born 1905) |
| 12th of February 2008 | DEATH | Oscar Brodney, American screenwriter (Born 1907) |
| 12th of February 2009 | DEATH | Alison Des Forges, American investigator of the Rwanda genocide (Born 1942) |
| 12th of February 2009 | DEATH | Beverly Eckert, American co-chair of the 9/11 Family Steering Committee (Born 1951) |
| 12th of February 2009 | DEATH | Gerry Niewood, American musician (Born 1943) |
| 12th of February 2009 | DEATH | Coleman Mellett, American musician (Born 1974) |
| 12th of February 2010 | DEATH | Nodar Kumaritashvili, Georgian luger (Born 1988) |
| 12th of February 2011 | DEATH | Mato Damjanovic, Croatian chess grandmaster (Born 1927) |
| 12th of February 2011 | DEATH | Betty Garrett, American actress and dancer (Born 1919) |