Who are famous people born on May 12?

Famous people born on May 12 include Augustus II the Strong (1670), Justus von Liebig (1803), Florence Nightingale (1820), Gabriel Fauré (1845), Katharine Hepburn (1907).

What star sign is someone born on May 12?

Someone born on May 12 is a Taurus.

What is the birthstone for May 12?

The birthstone for May is emerald.

How common is a birthday on May 12?

In the US, May 12 is the No. 284 most common birthday of the 366, with about 11,013 babies born on it on average (2000–2014).

Famous birthdays on May 12

Famous people born on May 12, from every year, and what happened on this day in history.

♉ Star sign
Taurus
💎 Birthstone
Emerald
👶 How common
No. 284 of 366

Born on May 12

Augustus II the Strong
born 1670 · King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania and Elector of Saxony (1670–1733)
Justus von Liebig
born 1803 · German chemist (1803-1873)
Florence Nightingale
born 1820 · English social reformer, statistician, and founder of modern nursing (1820–1910)
Gabriel Fauré
born 1845 · French composer, organist, pianist and teacher (1845–1924)
Katharine Hepburn
born 1907 · American actress (1907–2003)
Dorothy Hodgkin
born 1910 · British chemist
George Carlin
born 1937 · American stand-up comedian (1937–2008)
Jonah Lomu
born 1975 · New Zealand rugby union player (1975–2015)
Rishi Sunak
born 1980 · Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2022 to 2024
Maryam Mirzakhani
born 1977 · Iranian mathematician (1977–2017)
Rami Malek
born 1981 · American actor (born 1981)
Marcelo Vieira
born 1988 · Brazilian association football player
Emilio Estevez
born 1962 · American actor, director, and writer
Alina Kabaeva
born 1983 · Russian gymnast and politician, alleged partner of Vladimir Putin
Erik Durm
born 1992 · German footballer (born 1992)
Daniel Libeskind
born 1946 · Polish-American architect (1946)
Renate Stecher
born 1950 · East German sprinter
Mateo Chávez
born 2004 · Mexican footballer (born 2004)
Viktoria Listunova
born 2005 · Russian artistic gymnast
Kai Trump
born 2007 · American social media personality and granddaughter of Donald Trump (born 2007)
Mostafa Fathi
born 1994 · Egyptian association football player
Fahad Albutairi
born 1985 · Saudi stand-up comedian and actor
Ayaz Mutallibov
born 1938 · President of Azerbaijan from 1990 to 1992
Zdeněk Zeman
born 1947 · Czech soccer coach (born 1947)
Josip Katalinski
born 1948 · Bosnian footballer and manager (1948–2011)
Gabriel Byrne
born 1950 · Irish actor (born 1950)
Manouchehr Mottaki
born 1953 · Iranian politician and diplomat (born 1953)
Zenón Franco Ocampos
born 1956 · Paraguayan chess grandmaster (1956–2024)
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José María Rivas
born 1958 · Salvadoran footballer (1958-2016)
Rivo Rakotovao
born 1960 · Malagasy politician
Julius Maada Bio
born 1964 · President of Sierra Leone since 2018
Deborah Kara Unger
born 1966 · Canadian actress
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Alfonso Obregón
born 1972 · Ecuadorian footballer
Bruno Lage
born 1976 · Portuguese football manager
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William Sunsing
born 1977 · Costa Rican footballer
Lidia Kopania
born 1978 · Polish singer
Malin Akerman
born 1978 · Swedish actress (born 1978)
Hossein Rezazadeh
born 1978 · Iranian weightlifter
César Peixoto
born 1980 · Portuguese footballer and manager
Asmik Grigorian
born 1981 · Armenian-Lithuanian soprano singer

May 12 in history

2024Middle/end of the May 2024 solar storms, the most powerful set of geomagnetic storms since the 2003 Halloween solar storms.
2015Massive Nepal earthquake kills 218 people and injures more than 3,500.
2006Mass unrest by the Primeiro Comando da Capital begins in São Paulo (Brazil), leaving at least 150 dead.
1989The San Bernardino train disaster kills four people, only to be followed a week later by an underground gasoline pipeline explosion, which kills two more people.
1968Vietnam War: North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces attack Australian troops defending Fire Support Base Coral.
1942World War II: The U.S. tanker SS Virginia is torpedoed in the mouth of the Mississippi River by the German submarine U-507.
1933President Roosevelt signs legislation creating the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, the predecessor of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
1885North-West Rebellion: The four-day Battle of Batoche, pitting rebel Métis against the Canadian government, comes to an end with a decisive rebel defeat.
1864American Civil War: The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House: Union troops assault a Confederate salient known as the "Mule Shoe", with some of the fiercest fighting of the war, much of it hand-to-hand combat, occurring at "the Bloody Angle" on the northwest.
1821The first major battle of the Greek War of Independence against the Turks is fought in Valtetsi.
1780American Revolutionary War: In the largest defeat of the Continental Army, Charleston, South Carolina is taken by British forces.
1588French Wars of Religion: Henry III of France flees Paris after Henry I, Duke of Guise, enters the city and a spontaneous uprising occurs.
1364Jagiellonian University, the oldest university in Poland, is founded in Kraków.
907Zhu Wen forces Emperor Ai into abdicating, ending the Tang dynasty after nearly three hundred years of rule.

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day: Blessed Joan of Portugal
Christian feast day: Crispoldus
Christian feast day: Dominic de la Calzada
Christian feast day: Epiphanius of Salamis
Christian feast day: Gregory Dix (Church of England)
Christian feast day: Blessed Imelda Lambertini
Christian feast day: Modoald
Christian feast day: Nereus, Achilleus, Domitilla, and Pancras
Christian feast day: Patriarch Germanus I of Constantinople (Catholic and Eastern Church)
Christian feast day: Philip of Agira

May 12 in every year

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Questions about May 12 birthdays

Who are famous people born on May 12?: Famous people born on May 12 include Augustus II the Strong (1670), Justus von Liebig (1803), Florence Nightingale (1820), Gabriel Fauré (1845), Katharine Hepburn (1907).
What star sign is someone born on May 12?: Someone born on May 12 is a Taurus.
What is the birthstone for May 12?: The birthstone for May is emerald.
How common is a birthday on May 12?: In the US, May 12 is the No. 284 most common birthday of the 366, with about 11,013 babies born on it on average (2000–2014).