January 12: known people who were born this day

• 1772 — Speransky Mikhail Gurevich (mind. 1839) Russian statesman, reformer, legislator. • 1876 — London Jack (at rozhd. Griffit John Cheney; mind. 1916) American writer ("White Fang", "Call of ancestors", etc.). • 1893 — Speransky Mikhail Gurevich (mind. 1976) Soviet aircraft designer, Hera of Socialist Work. • 1907 — Sergei Pavlovich Korolev (mind. 1966) Soviet scientist, designer, founder of practical astronautics. • 1936 — Raymond Pauls, the Soviet and Latvian composer, the conductor, the pianist, the national actor of the USSR, in 1988 — 1993 the Minister of Culture Latvia. • 1941 — Mulyavin Vladimir (mind...