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Birthdays occurring on October, 12
| 1896 |
Eugenio Montale was born on October 12, 1896
Italian poet, prose writer, editor, and translator, 1896-1981The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with any difference between the internal and the external, between the intellectual and the physical. More quotations from Eugenio Montale |  |
| 1902 |
Arna Bontemps was born on October 12, 1902
Is there something we have forgotten? Some precious thing we have lost, wandering in strange lands? More quotations from Arna Bontemps |
| 1903 |
Grayson Kirk was born on October 12, 1903
The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others More quotations from Grayson Kirk |  |
| 1920 |
Alice Childress was born on October 12, 1920
I continue to create because writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God, and the Word was God." More quotations from Alice Childress |  |
| 1932 |
Dick Gregory was born on October 12, 1932
[A politician is] a person skilled in the art of compromise. Usually an elected official who has compromised to get nominated, compromised to get elected, and compromised repeatedly to stay in office. More quotations from Dick Gregory |  |
Deaths occurring on October, 12
| 1694 |
Matsuo Basho died on October 12, 1694
There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; There is nothing you can think that is not the moon. More quotations from Matsuo Basho |
| 1924 |
Anatole France died on October 12, 1924
French writer, member of the French Academy and Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921, 1844-1924You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving. More quotations from Anatole France |  |
| 1971 |
Gene Vincent died on October 12, 1971
While I was in the U.S. Navy I was a crack marksman. I have a collection of guns at home in New Mexico and the guns in this case were given to me by friends in Germany for that collection. I guess I just brandished one in a moment of temper. More quotations from Gene Vincent |
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