Famous people born in 12 October

Martie Maguire is a musician best known for being one of the founding members of the music band Dixie Chicks

Sir Arthur Harden was a famous English biochemist

Richard Alan Meier is an American architect and abstract artist

Josh Hutcherson is a well-known American actor

Lyman Beecher was an American Presbyterian clergyman, reformer and revivalist who co-founded the American Temperance Society

Edith Stein was a German Jewish philosopher, who was killed at the Auschwitz concentration camp

Aleister Crowley was an occultist and ceremonial magician who founded the ethical philosophy of Thelema

Edward VI served as the King of England, from 1547 until his death in 1553

Alexander Turney Stewart was a multi-millionaire Irish businessman who opened the first department store

Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco was an Ecuadorian writer, best known for his work as a novelist, essayist and journalist