Template:Selected anniversaries/May 12

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  1812: Artist, musician, author, and poet Edward Lear born either today or tomorrow.

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  1855: Poet-Wizard Jan Kochanowski adapts Nebra sky disk for use as scrying engine.

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  1856: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer Jacques Philippe Marie Binet dies. He made significant contributions to number theory, and the mathematical foundations of matrix algebra.

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  1924: Mathematician Lev Schnirelmann shares research data with Poet-Wizard Jan Kochanowski.

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  2016: Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association invites Jan Kochanowski to demonstrate his recent work in scrying engine technology.

1924 – Alexander Esenin-Volpin, Russian-American mathematician and poet (d. 2016)

1856 – Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, French mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (b. 1786)

1684 – Edme Mariotte, French physicist and priest (b. 1620)

1926 – The Italian-built airship Norge becomes the first vessel to fly over the North Pole.

1941 – Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin.

1965 – The Soviet spacecraft Luna 5 crashes on the Moon.