List of Famous people born on November 12nd

Georg Wolfgang Wedel was a German professor of surgery, botany, theoretical and practical medicine, and chemistry.

William Hendricks was a Democratic-Republican member of the House of Representatives from 1816 to 1822, the third Governor of Indiana from 1822 to 1825, and an Anti-Jacksonian member of the U.S. Senate from 1825 to 1837. He led much of his family into politics and founded one of the largest political families in Indiana. He was the uncle of Thomas Andrews Hendricks, who was also Governor of Indiana and Vice President of the United States. Hendricks County was named in his honor. His term as governor was spent repairing the state's finances to later enable large scale internal improvements. The establishment of the basic framework of the state's public school system and the transfer of the capital from Corydon to Indianapolis also occurred during his term.

Emmerich Joseph von Breidbach zu Bürresheim was the Archbishop-Elector of Mainz from 1763 to 1774 and Prince-Bishop of Worms from 1768 to 1774, in which capacities he was notable for introducing reforms inspired by the Enlightenment.

Edward Addington Hargreaves Pellew, 5th Viscount Exmouth, was a British peer who inherited the title of Viscount Exmouth at the age of eight years old from his father, and held the title for 22 years before his own death.

Arcadi Mas i Fondevila, or Fontdevila, was a Catalan painter and graphic artist.

Stanislaus Josef Mathias von Prowazek, Edler von Lanow, born Stanislav Provázek, was a Czech zoologist and parasitologist, who along with pathologist Henrique da Rocha Lima (1879-1956) discovered the pathogen of epidemic typhus.