A Monday
Born on May 12, 1952?
Here's the world on that day. Add a name and a birthplace for the full time capsule: the weather, the sky above your town and what things cost.
📅 Weekday
Monday
♉ Star sign
Taurus
🐉 Chinese zodiac
Water Dragon
🌖 Moon
Waning Gibbous
🎂 Age today
74 years
Famous people born on May 12, 1952
Born the same week
Vanderlei Luxemburgo
May 10 · Brazilian footballer and manager
Kikki Danielsson
May 10 · Swedish singer, accordinist and song lyricist
Shohreh Aghdashloo
May 11 · Iranian actress
Robert Zemeckis
May 14 · American screenwriter, film producer and director (born 1952)
Mohamed Abu al-Qasim al-Zwai
May 14 · Libyan politician
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
May 12, 1952 was a Monday. Someone born on May 12, 1952 is a Taurus. Someone born on May 12, 1952 is 74 years old today and has lived about 27,205 days. People born in 1952 belong to the Baby Boomers.
Also born on May 12
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Augustus II the Strong
1670 · King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania and Elector of Saxony

Justus von Liebig
1803 · German chemist

Florence Nightingale
1820 · English social reformer, statistician, and founder of modern nursing

Gabriel Fauré
1845 · French composer, organist, pianist and teacher

Katharine Hepburn
1907 · American actress

Dorothy Hodgkin
1910 · British chemist

George Carlin
1937 · American stand-up comedian

Jonah Lomu
1975 · New Zealand rugby union player
Gift ideas for someone born in 1952
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- Wine from 1952
- Books about 1952
- A newspaper from 1952
- Coin set from 1952
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Questions about May 12, 1952
- What day of the week was May 12, 1952?
- May 12, 1952 was a Monday.
- What star sign is someone born on May 12, 1952?
- Someone born on May 12, 1952 is a Taurus.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for May 12, 1952?
- In the Chinese zodiac, May 12, 1952 falls in the year of the Water Dragon.
- How old is someone born on May 12, 1952?
- Someone born on May 12, 1952 is 74 years old today and has lived about 27,205 days.
- Which generation is someone born in 1952?
- People born in 1952 belong to the Baby Boomers.
- What is the birthstone for May?
- The birthstone for May is emerald.
- What was the moon phase on May 12, 1952?
- On May 12, 1952 the moon was a Waning Gibbous.
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