February 12 Birthday
February 12, 1809 saw the births of both Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin — in different countries, on the same day, with no idea of each other. Lincoln would preserve a nation during its most destructive war. Darwin would change how every nation understood its own origins. It is one of the great coincidences of history that two minds of that magnitude entered the world simultaneously. Judy Blume, born on this day in 1938, changed how children's literature talked about things adults did not want to discuss. People born on February 12 fall under the zodiac sign of Aquarius. The birthstone is Amethyst and the birth flower is Violet. Historical events on February 12 include 1541: Santiago, Chile founded, 1809: Darwin born, 1912: Last Emperor of China abdicates. Famous people born on February 12 include Abraham Lincoln (1809), Charles Darwin (1809), Judy Blume (1938).