Birthdays in History on November 12

Jeanne Mance

1606 Jeanne Mance, French-Canadian settler who founded the first hospital in North America (Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal), born in Langres, France (d. 1673)

1615 Richard Baxter, English clergyman (d. 1691)
1651 Juana Ines de La Cruz, Mexican poet/nun/feminist (Primero Sueno)
1729 Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French explorer (d. 1811)
1746 Jacques-Alexandre-César Charles, Beaugency, French inventor and balloonist who, with Nicholas Robert, was the first to take flight in a hydrogen balloon

Tiradentes

1746 Tiradentes, Brazilian revolutionary and independence fighter (Inconfidência Mineira) considered a national hero, born in Fazenda do Pombal, Minas Gerais, Portuguese Colony of Brazil (d. 1792)

1755 Gerhard JD von Scharnhorst, Prussia milt/minister of War (1807-10)
1757 Jacobus Bellamy, [Zelandus], Dutch poet, born in Vlissingen, Netherlands (d. 1786)
1786 John Burke, Irish genealogist (Burke's Peerage)
1790 Letitia Christian Tyler, 1st wife of President Tyler

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

1815 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American women's rights activist, born in Johnstown, New York (d. 1902)

1817 Bahá'u'lláh, Prophet Founder of the Bahá'í Faith (d. 1892)
1831 Anton Kerner Ritter von Marilaun, Austria botanist

Auguste Rodin

1840 Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (Kiss, Thinker), born in Paris, France (d. 1917)

John William Strutt

1841 John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist and discoverer of argon (Nobel Prize 1904), born in Maldon, Essex, England (d. 1919)

1848 Eduard Müller, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1919)
1853 Oskar Panizza, German writer (Das Liebeskonzil), born in Bad Kissingen, Bavaria (d. 1921)

Sun Yat-sen

1866 Sun Yat-sen, Chinese revolutionary and father of modern China, born in Xiangshan [now Zhongshan], Guangdong, Qing Dynasty (d. 1925)

1881 Olev Siinmaa, Estonian architect (d. 1948)
1881 Maximilian von Weichs, German field marshal (d. 1954)
1886 Rad Kortenhorst, Dutch politician (KVP)
1886 Ben Travers, British playwright (d. 1980)
1889 DeWitt Wallace, publisher, founded Readers Digest (1921), born in Saint Paul, Minnesota
1891 Seth Barnes Nicholson, American astronomer who discovered four satellites of Jupiter, born in Springfield, Illinois
1896 Salim Ali, Indian ornithologist (d. 1987)
1898 Abraham J D van Oosten, Dutch poet/author (His Master's Voice)
1908 Hans Werner Richter, German author (Socially Responsible Cinema)
1908 Harry A Blackmun, Ill, 100th Supreme Court justice (1970-94)

Amon Göth

1908 Amon Göth, Austrian SS commandant of the Płaszów concentration camp, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1946)

1911 Luc Estang, [Lucien Bastard], French writer (Stigmates)
1911 William Thomas Pennar Davies, poet author/theologian
1914 Edward "Henricus" Schillebeeckx, Dutch theologist
1915 Roland Barthes, French literary critic (L'Empire des Signer)

1917 Joseph Coors, CEO (Adolph Coors Co Brewery)
1924 Audouin Dollfus, French Astronomer (discovered Janus, a moon of Saturn), born in Paris, France
1926 Jack Ryan, American inventor (Barbie Doll, Hot Wheels, Chatty Cathy)
1927 Yutaka Taniyama, Japanese mathematician (d. 1958)
1928 Johan B W Polak, Dutch publisher/publicist (Bloom of Decadence)
1929 Michael Ende, German fantasy and children's writer (The Neverending Story), born in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria (d. 1995)
1930 Tonke Dragt, Dutch children book author (Towers of February)
1931 Norman Y Mineta, (Rep-R-CA, 1975- )