* 1866 – Giovanni Agnelli, Italian businessman, founded Fiat S. p. A ( d. 1945 )

Henri Théodore Pigozzi ( born Teodoro Enrico Pigozzi ) was active in the automotive business in the early 1920s when he met Fiat founder, Giovanni Agnelli.

Vespa thrived, until 1992, when Giovanni Alberto Agnelli became CEO, but Agnelli was already suffering from cancer and died in 1997.

Gianni Agnelli ( left ) with his grandfather Giovanni Agnelli | Giovanni Agnelli Sr. in 1940.

Agnelli was named after his grandfather Giovanni Agnelli, the founder of the Italian car industry Fiat.

Giovanni Alberto Agnelli, the son of Gianni's younger brother, Umberto Agnelli, died of a rare form of cancer in 1997 at age 33 while he was being groomed by his uncle to head the Fiat Group.

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It would almost take 500 years to finish this shrine through the work of famous sculptors: Arnolfo di Cambio, fra Guglielmo Agnelli, Niccolò dell ' Arca, the young Michelangelo, Girolamo Coltellini and Giovanni Batista Boudard.

The term was seldom used in these terms until the Giovanni Agnelli Foundation re-launched it in 1992 through the volume La Padania, una regione italiana in Europa ( English: Padania, an Italian region in Europe ), written by various academics.

He now lives with Frances Avery Agnelli née Howe ( 1965 ), an Anglo-American architect and the widow of Fiat heir, Giovanni Alberto Agnelli ( son of the Italian entrepreneur and politician, Umberto Agnelli ).

Frances has a daughter from her marriage to Giovanni, Virginia Asia Agnelli.

* August 12 – Giovanni Legrenzi, Italian composer ( d. 1690 )

* August 12 – Giovanni Gabrieli, Italian composer ( b. c. 1554 )

* December 12 – Giovanni Bernardino Azzolini or Mazzolini or Asoleni, Italian painter ( b. c. 1572 )

* On April 12, 1264, the master builder Giovanni di Simone and 23 workers went to the mountains close to Pisa to cut marble.

Nizhny Novgorod has a great and extraordinary art gallery with more than 12, 000 exhibits, an enormous collection of works by Russian artists such as Viktor Vasnetsov, Karl Briullov, Ivan Shishkin, Ivan Kramskoi, Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Isaak Iljitsch Lewitan, Vasily Surikov, Ivan Aivazovsky, there are also greater collections of works by Boris Kustodiev and Nicholas Roerich, not only Russian art is part of the exhibition it include also a vast accumulation of Western European art like works by David Teniers the Younger, Bernardo Bellotto, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Pieter de Grebber, Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, and lot more.

Umberto II, born Umberto Nicola Tommaso Giovanni Maria di Savoia, occasionally anglicized as Humbert II ( 15 September 190418 March 1983 ), was the last King of Italy for slightly over a month, from 9 May 1946 to 12 June 1946.

* Giovanni " Johnny " Cangialosi, Sicilian mafioso and defendant, sentenced to 12 years in the Pizza Connection Trial ( October 24, 1985 and March 2, 1987 )

As his practice prospered, Soane was able to collect objects worthy of the British Museum, including the alabaster sarcophagus of Seti I, covered in Egyptian hieroglyphs, discovered by Giovanni Battista Belzoni, bought on the 12 May 1824 for £ 2000 ( Soane's most expensive art work ).

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* May 12 – Giovanni Battista Viotti ( died 1824 )

* Giovanni Migliorati ( June 12, 1405 ) – Cardinal-Priest of S. Croce in Gerusalemme ; administrator of the see of Ravenna

Giovanni Benelli ( 12 May 1921 – 26 October 1982 ) was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

Two days later, Pujols had three hits, a game-winning three-run home run against Giovanni Carrara, and four RBIs in a 12 – 6 victory over the Dodgers.

A few months later the attempt of Giovanni Passannante to assassinate King Humbert at Naples ( 12 December 1878 ) caused his downfall, in spite of the courage displayed and the severe wound received by him in protecting the king's person on that occasion.

* Giovanni Antonio Serbelloni ( 12 April 1570-9 June 1570 )

Giovanni Francesco Anerio ( c. 1567 – buried 12 June 1630 ) was an Italian composer of the Roman School, of the very late Renaissance and early Baroque eras.

Navigatori class: 12 vessels-2010 t, among which Alvise da Mosto, Antonio da Noli, Antonio Pigafetta, Antoniotto Usodimare, Emmanuele Pesagno, Giovanni da Verazzano, Lanceloto Malocello, Leone Pancaldo, Luca Tarigo, Nicoloso da Recco, Nicolo Zeno, Ugolino Vivaldi

( Containing 10 madrigals by Nenna for four voices in score, most likely copied from the printed volume of 1621, and 12 ricercars by Giovanni de Macque )

Giovanni Francesco Grossi ( 12 February 1653 – 29 May 1697 ), one of the greatest Italian singers of the age of bel canto, better known as Siface, was born at Pescia in Tuscany.

Giovanni Legrenzi ( baptized August 12, 1626 – May 27, 1690 ) was an Italian composer of opera, vocal and instrumental music, and organist, of the Baroque era.

Camoranesi is an Italian Argentine ; his dual citizenship made him eligible to play for either Argentina or Italy, but the Azzurri showed interest in him first and, on 12 February 2003, he made his international debut in a friendly match against Portugal, which Italy won 1 – 0, under former coach Giovanni Trapattoni.

* Giovanni Battista Re ( 12 December 1989 – 16 September 2000 )

* Giovanni Battista Re ( 12 January 1979 – 9 October 1987 )

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Giovanni was defeated in the battle of Viterbo of March 10, 1354 and signed a treaty of submission.

The Venerable Pope Pius XII (; ), born Eugenio Marìa Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli ( 2 March 1876 – 9 October 1958 ), reigned as Pope, head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City State, from 2 March 1939 until his death in 1958.

Eugenio Marìa Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli was born on 2 March 1876 in Rome into a family of intense Catholic piety with a history of ties to the papacy ( the " Black Nobility ").

Pius IV ( 31 March 1499 – 9 December 1565 ), born Giovanni Angelo Medici, was Pope from 1559 to 1565.

Pope Clement XI ( 23 July 1649 – 19 March 1721 ), born Giovanni Francesco Albani, was Pope from 1700 until his death in 1721.

Pope Julius III ( 10 September 1487 – 23 March 1555 ), born Giovanni Maria Ciocchi del Monte, was Pope from 7 February 1550 to 1555.

* March 9 – Giovanni di Lorenzo, German-Italian journalist and talk show host

* March 9 – Giovanni Lanza, Italian politician ( b. 1810 )

* March 3 – Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, painter ( b. 1727 )

* March 11 – Giovanni Maria Nanino, Italian composer ( b. c. 1543 )

* March 14 – Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer ( d. 1910 )

* March 21 – Giovanni Arduino, Italian geologist ( b. 1714 )

* March 16 – Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Italian composer ( b. 1710 )

Giovanni was elected Pope on 9 March 1513, and this was proclaimed two days later.

The opera quickly became popular throughout Italy and productions were soon mounted by the following companies: The Teatro di San Carlo ( 14 March 1896, with Elisa Petri as Musetta and Antonio Magini-Coletti as Marcello ); The Teatro Comunale di Bologna ( 4 November 1896, with Amelia Sedelmayer as Musetta and Umberto Beduschi as Rodolfo ); The Teatro Costanzi ( 17 November 1896, with Maria Stuarda Savelli as Mimì, Enrico Giannini-Grifoni as Rodolfo, and Maurizio Bensaude as Marcello ); La Scala ( 15 March 1897, with Angelica Pandolfini as Mimì, Camilla Pasini as Musetta, Fernando De Lucia as Rodolfo, and Edoardo Camera as Marcello ); La Fenice ( 26 December 1897, with Emilia Merolla as Mimì, Maria Martelli as Musetta, Giovanni Apostolu and Franco Mannucci as Rodolfo, and Ferruccio Corradetti as Marcello ); Teatro Regio di Parma ( 29 January 1898, with Solomiya Krushelnytska as Mimì, Lina Cassandro as Musetta, Pietro Ferrari as Rodolfo, and Pietro Giacomello as Marcello ); And the Teatro Donizetti di Bergamo ( 21 August 1898, with Emilia Corsi as Mimì, Annita Barone as Musetta, Giovanni Apostolu as Rodolfo, and Giovanni Roussel as Marcello ).

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi ( 4 January 1710 – 16 March 1736 ) was an Italian composer, violinist and organist.

* March 5 – Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian painter ( d. 1770 )

* March – Giovanni Paolo I Sforza, Italian condottiero ( d. 1535 )

* March 11 – Battle of Castagnaro between the Italian cities of Verona and Padua: Padua, led by John Hawkwood, is victorious over Giovanni Ordelaffi of Verona.