12 October: today's birthdays

• Cosimo Fanzago - Italian sculptor and architect
• August Horch - German entrepreneur. He founded Audi, the automobile company, in 1883
• Hugh Jackman - Australian actor and singer. He played Wolverine in the X-Men film series
• Ton Koopman - Dutch conductor, organist and harpsichordist
• Heinrich Lausberg - German scholar of rhetoric
• Richard Meier - American architect. He won the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1984
• Eugenio Montale - Italian poet, writer, journalist and music critic, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1975. He wrote the poetry book Cuttlefish Bones
• Luciano Pavarotti - Italian tenor, one of the most famous in the world. He won 6 Grammy Awards
• Richard Price - American novelist and screenwriter. He wrote the novels The Wanderers, Clockers, and Lush Life
• Adam Rich - American actor, best known for his role as Nicholas Bradford in the TV series Eight is enough
• Edith Stein - ​Jewish philosopher born in the Kingdom of Prussia (now Poland), who became a Catholic nun. She is also known as St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cros