History Births on January 12

Olivier Gendebien, Belgian race car driver and businessman (d. 1998)

#Olivier_Gendebien

Tor Arne Hetland, Norwegian skier

#Tor_Arne_Hetland

Do Kyungsoo, South Korean singer and member of boy band EXO

#D.O._(entertainer)

Hermann Göring, German commander, pilot, and politician, Minister President of Prussia (d. 1946)

#Hermann_Göring

Ferenc Molnár, Hungarian-American author and playwright (d. 1952)

#Ferenc_Molnár

Étienne Lenoir, Belgian engineer, designed the internal combustion engine (d. 1900)

#Étienne_Lenoir

Rob Zombie, American singer-songwriter, producer, actor, and director

#Rob_Zombie

Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy (d. 1630)

#Charles_Emmanuel_I,_Duke_of_Savoy

Nando Reis, Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

#Nando_Reis

Margaret Nagle, American screenwriter and producer

#Margaret_Nagle

Luis Ayala, Mexican baseball player

#Luis_Ayala

Olivier Martinez, French actor

#Olivier_Martinez

Nihal Ats?z, Turkish author, poet, and philosopher (d. 1975)

#Nihal_Ats?z

Raekwon, American rapper

#Raekwon

Bobby Crosby, American baseball player

#Bobby_Crosby

Texas Guinan, Canadian-American entertainer and bootlegger (d. 1933)

#Texas_Guinan

Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Italian composer and educator (d. 1948)

#Ermanno_Wolf-Ferrari

Mary Harron, Canadian director and screenwriter

#Mary_Harron

Daniel Sepulveda, American football player

#Daniel_Sepulveda

George Duke, American keyboard player, composer, and educator (d. 2013)

#George_Duke

Ray Price, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2013)

#Ray_Price_(musician)

Dominique Wilkins, French-American basketball player and manager

#Dominique_Wilkins

Mikhail Speransky, Russian academic and politician (d. 1839)

#Mikhail_Speransky

Lee Bo-young, South Korean actress and model

#Lee_Bo-young

Marián Hossa, Slovak ice hockey player

#Marián_Hossa

Jusepe de Ribera, Spanish painter (d. 1652)

#Jusepe_de_Ribera

Ronald Shannon Jackson, American drummer and composer (d. 2013)

#Ronald_Shannon_Jackson

Bob McEwen, American businessman and politician

#Bob_McEwen

Dean Whitehead, English footballer

#Dean_Whitehead

Jack London, American novelist and journalist (d. 1916)

#Jack_London

Axel Witsel, Belgian footballer

#Axel_Witsel

Hans Van Alphen, Belgian decathlete

#Hans_Van_Alphen

Bob Hewitt, Australian-South African tennis player

#Bob_Hewitt

Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Prussian field marshal (d. 1792)

#Duke_Ferdinand_of_Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

John Lasseter, American animator, director, and producer

#John_Lasseter

John Singer Sargent, American painter and academic (d. 1925)

#John_Singer_Sargent

David Zabriskie, American cyclist

#David_Zabriskie

Sir Robert Inglis, 2nd Baronet, English politician (d. 1855)

#Sir_Robert_Inglis,_2nd_Baronet

Antonio de Ulloa, Spanish general and politician, 1st Spanish Governor of Louisiana (d. 1795)

#Antonio_de_Ulloa

Bill Burrud, American television host, producer, and actor (d. 1990)

#Bill_Burrud

Paul Hermann Müller, Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965)

#Paul_Hermann_Müller

Ira Hayes, American marine who raised the U.S. flag on Iwo Jima (d. 1955)

#Ira_Hayes

Amerie, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress

#Amerie

Ishak Belfodil, Algerian footballer

#Ishak_Belfodil

Kirstie Alley, American actress and producer

#Kirstie_Alley

Brendan Foster, English runner and sportscaster

#Brendan_Foster

Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad, Indian-Pakistani spiritual leader (d. 1965)

#Mirza_Basheer-ud-Din_Mahmood_Ahmad

Nikolai Noskov, Russian rock singer and singer-songwriter

#Nikolai_Noskov

Junichi Masuda, Japanese director, producer, and composer

#Junichi_Masuda

Emmanuel Levinas, Lithuanian-French historian, philosopher, and academic (d. 1995)

#Emmanuel_Levinas

Edmund Burke, Irish philosopher, academic, and politician (d. 1797)

#Edmund_Burke

Petrus Scriverius, Dutch historian and scholar (d. 1660)

#Petrus_Scriverius

Luna Vachon, American-Canadian wrestler and manager (d. 2010)

#Luna_Vachon

Drew Pearson, American football player and sportscaster

#Drew_Pearson_(American_football)

Fiona Caldicott, English psychiatrist and psychotherapist

#Fiona_Caldicott

Jean Delannoy, French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2008)

#Jean_Delannoy

Chet Jastremski, American swimmer and physician (d. 2014)

#Chet_Jastremski

Bernardine Dohrn, American domestic terrorist, political activist and academic

#Bernardine_Dohrn

Joe Frazier, American boxer (d. 2011)

#Joe_Frazier

Salvatore Sirigu, Italian footballer

#Salvatore_Sirigu

Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies (d. 1825)

#Ferdinand_I_of_the_Two_Sicilies

Chris Bell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1978)

#Chris_Bell_(American_musician)

Hans Henning Atrott, German author and theorist

#Hans_Henning_Atrott

Sheila Jackson Lee, American lawyer, judge, and politician

#Sheila_Jackson_Lee

Luis Ernesto Pérez, Mexican footballer

#Luis_Ernesto_Pérez

Walter Mosley, American novelist

#Walter_Mosley

Priyanka Gandhi, Indian politician

#Priyanka_Gandhi

Tim Horton, Canadian ice hockey player and businessman, founded Tim Hortons (d. 1974)

#Tim_Horton

Fevzi Çakmak, Turkish field marshal and politician, Prime Minister of the Turkish Provisional Government (d. 1950)

#Fevzi_Çakmak

Adolf Jensen, German pianist and composer (d. 1879)

#Adolf_Jensen

Patsy Kelly, American actress and comedian (d. 1981)

#Patsy_Kelly

Grzegorz Rasiak, Polish footballer

#Grzegorz_Rasiak

Jennifer Hilton, Baroness Hilton of Eggardon, English police officer and politician

#Jennifer_Hilton,_Baroness_Hilton_of_Eggardon

William Lee Golden, American singer-songwriter and painter

#William_Lee_Golden

Long John Baldry, English-Canadian singer-songwriter and voice actor (d. 2005)

#Long_John_Baldry

Luise Rainer, German-English actress (d. 2014)

#Luise_Rainer

Pierre Bernac, French opera singer and educator (d. 1979)

#Pierre_Bernac

Johan August Arfwedson, Swedish chemist and academic (d. 1841)

#Johan_August_Arfwedson

Laura Adams Armer, American author and photographer (d. 1963)

#Laura_Adams_Armer

Christiane Amanpour, English-born Iranian-American journalist

#Christiane_Amanpour

Dontrelle Willis, American baseball player

#Dontrelle_Willis

Simon Russell Beale, Malaysia-born English actor and historian

#Simon_Russell_Beale

Spyridon Louis, Greek runner (d. 1940)

#Spyridon_Louis

Leo Aryeh Mayer, Polish-Israeli scholar and academic (d. 1959)

#Leo_Aryeh_Mayer

Igor Kurchatov, Russian physicist and academic (d. 1960)

#Igor_Kurchatov

Georges Carpentier, French boxer and actor (d. 1975)

#Georges_Carpentier

Jocelyn Thibault, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

#Jocelyn_Thibault

Hamadi Jebali, Tunisian engineer, journalist, and politician, 19th Prime Minister of Tunisia

#Hamadi_Jebali

Charles Perrault, French author and academic (d. 1703)

#Charles_Perrault

Borja Valero, Spanish footballer

#Borja_Valero

James Farmer, American activist and politician, co-founded Congress of Racial Equality (d. 1999)

#James_Farmer

Anthony Andrews, English actor and producer

#Anthony_Andrews

Tex Ritter, American actor and singer (d. 1974)

#Tex_Ritter

Sergei Korolev, Russian colonel and engineer (d. 1966)

#Sergei_Korolev

Samuel Langdon, American minister, theologian, and academic (d. 1797)

#Samuel_Langdon

Göran Lindblad, Swedish dentist and politician

#Göran_Lindblad

Joe Quesada, American author and illustrator

#Joe_Quesada

Alessio Romagnoli, Italian footballer

#Alessio_Romagnoli

Mary Wilson, Baroness Wilson of Rievaulx, British poet and Spouse of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 2018)

#Mary_Wilson,_Baroness_Wilson_of_Rievaulx

Melanie C, English singer-songwriter and actress

#Melanie_C

John Walker, New Zealand runner and politician

#John_Walker_(runner)

Brian Culbertson, American pianist and producer

#Brian_Culbertson

P. W. Botha, South African politician, 8th Prime Minister of South Africa (d. 2006)

#P._W._Botha

Heather Mills, English businesswoman, activist and model

#Heather_Mills

Walter Hendl, American pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 2007)

#Walter_Hendl

François Duquesnoy, Flemish sculptor and educator (d. 1643)

#François_Duquesnoy

Swami Vivekananda, Indian monk and philosopher (d. 1902)

#Swami_Vivekananda

Jan Baptist van Helmont, Flemish chemist and physician (d. 1644)

#Jan_Baptist_van_Helmont

Ruth Brown, American R&B singer-songwriter and actress (d. 2006)

#Ruth_Brown

Gaetano Latilla, Italian composer (d. 1788)

#Gaetano_Latilla

Mississippi Fred McDowell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1972)

#Mississippi_Fred_McDowell

Jason Freese, American saxophonist, songwriter, and producer

#Jason_Freese

Johannes Vares, Estonian poet, physician, and politician (d. 1946)

#Johannes_Vares

Milton Sills, American actor and screenwriter (d. 1930)

#Milton_Sills

Per Gessle, Swedish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

#Per_Gessle

Naya Rivera, American actress and singer

#Naya_Rivera

Jean Béraud, Russian-French painter and academic (d. 1935)

#Jean_Béraud

Haruki Murakami, Japanese novelist, short-story writer, and essayist

#Haruki_Murakami

Pixie Lott, English singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress

#Pixie_Lott

Issa Rae, American actress, writer, director, producer and web series creator

#Issa_Rae

Bhagwan Das, Indian philosopher, academic, and politician (d. 1958)

#Bhagwan_Das

Rush Limbaugh, American talk show host and author

#Rush_Limbaugh

John Winthrop, English lawyer and politician, 2nd Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (d. 1649)

#John_Winthrop

Frances Brooke, English author and playwright (d. 1789)

#Frances_Brooke

Dorrit Moussaieff, Israeli-Icelandic jewelry designer and businesswoman, 5th First Lady of Iceland

#Dorrit_Moussaieff

Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, Italian mathematician (d. 1925)

#Gregorio_Ricci-Curbastro

Morton Feldman, American composer and academic (d. 1987)

#Morton_Feldman

Zack de la Rocha, American singer-songwriter

#Zack_de_la_Rocha

Oliver Platt, Canadian-American actor

#Oliver_Platt

Richard Carwardine, English historian and academic

#Richard_Carwardine

Zayn Malik, English singer-songwriter

#Zayn_Malik

David Wechsler, Romanian-American psychologist and author (d. 1981)

#David_Wechsler

Glenn Yarbrough, American singer and actor (d. 2016)

#Glenn_Yarbrough

Hande Yener, Turkish singer-songwriter, producer, and actress

#Hande_Yener

B. Brian Blair, American wrestler and politician

#B._Brian_Blair

Henry III of Nassau-Breda (d. 1538)

#Henry_III_of_Nassau-Breda

Raimonds Pauls, Latvian pianist and composer

#Raimonds_Pauls

Howard Stern, American radio host, actor, and author

#Howard_Stern

Samuele Longo, Italian footballer

#Samuele_Longo

Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Swiss philosopher and educator (d. 1827)

#Johann_Heinrich_Pestalozzi

Jaakko Hintikka, Finnish philosopher and logician (d. 2015)

#Jaakko_Hintikka

Alfred Rosenberg, Estonian-German architect and politician, Reich Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories (d. 1946)

#Alfred_Rosenberg

Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, Indian lawyer and politician, Indian Minister of Home Affairs (d. 2016)

#Mufti_Mohammad_Sayeed

Matt Srama, Australian rugby league player

#Matt_Srama

David Mitchell, English novelist

#David_Mitchell_(author)

Ottmar Hitzfeld, German footballer and manager

#Ottmar_Hitzfeld

Rosalba Carriera, Italian painter (d. 1757)

#Rosalba_Carriera

Frank J. Corr, American lawyer and politician, 45th Mayor of Chicago (d. 1934)

#Frank_J._Corr

Gideon Brecher, Austrian physician and author (d. 1873)

#Gideon_Brecher

Gordon Campbell, Canadian educator and politician, 34th Premier of British Columbia

#Gordon_Campbell

James Bennett Griffin, American archaeologist and academic (d. 1997)

#James_Bennett_Griffin

Sally Hamwee, Baroness Hamwee, English politician

#Sally_Hamwee,_Baroness_Hamwee

Brajanath Ratha, Indian poet and activist (d. 2014)

#Brajanath_Ratha

Artem Milevskiy, Ukrainian footballer

#Artem_Milevskiy

Paul-Henri Mathieu, French tennis player

#Paul-Henri_Mathieu

Jeff Bezos, American computer scientist and businessman, founded Amazon.com

#Jeff_Bezos

Alasdair MacIntyre, Scottish-American philosopher and academic

#Alasdair_MacIntyre

Maggie Bell, Scottish singer-songwriter

#Maggie_Bell

Claude Giroux, Canadian ice hockey player

#Claude_Giroux

Simone Pecorini, Italian footballer

Thiemo-Jérôme Kialka, German footballer

Miguel Ángel Nieto, Spanish footballer

Kehoma Brenner, German rugby player

Jonathan Zydko, French footballer

Angus Macdonald, New Zealand rugby player

Dan Klecko, American football player

João Paulo Daniel, Brazilian footballer

Maurizio Zaffiri, Italian rugby player

Yoandy Garlobo, Cuban baseball player

Paul Wilson, Australian cricketer and umpire

Espen Knutsen, Norwegian ice hockey player and coach

Scott Burrell, American basketball player and coach

Mauro Silva, Brazilian footballer

Vendela Kirsebom, Norwegian-Swedish model and actress

Craig Parry, Australian golfer

François Girard, Canadian director and screenwriter

Richie Richardson, Antiguan cricketer

Curt Fraser, American-Canadian ice hockey player and coach

Jeremy Sams, English director, playwright, and composer

Tom Ardolino, American rock drummer (NRBQ) (d. 2012)

Martin Kylhammar, Swedish professor of culture and society

Ricky Van Shelton, American country singer-songwriter and guitarist

Phil Perry, American singer-songwriter and producer

Kentar? Haneda, Japanese pianist and composer (d. 2007)

William Nicholson, English author and screenwriter

Kenny Allen, English footballer

Tom Dempsey, American football player and educator

Hazel Cosgrove, Lady Cosgrove, Scottish lawyer and judge

Cynthia Robinson, American R&B trumpet player and singer (d 2015)

Dick Motz, New Zealand cricketer (d. 2007)

Jim Palosaari, American evangelist (d. 2011)

Jacques Hamelink, Dutch poet, novelist and literary critic

Qazi Hussain Ahmad, Pakistani scholar and politician (d. 2013)

Shirley Eaton, English actress

Kreskin, American mentalist

Teresa del Conde, Mexican historian and critic (d. 2017)

Mick Sullivan, English rugby player and coach (d. 2016)

Alan Sharp, Scottish-American author and screenwriter (d. 2013)

Pavlos Matesis, Greek author and playwright (d. 2013)

Michael Aspel, English television host

Des O'Connor, English comedian, singer, and television host

Jennifer Johnston, Irish author and playwright

Lloyd Ruby, American race car driver (d. 2009)

Chris Chase, American model, actress, and journalist (d. 2013)

Vic Allen, English sociologist, economist, and historian (d. 2014)

Tadeusz ?ychiewicz, Polish journalist and historian (d. 1994)

Jerzy Zubrzycki, Polish-Australian sociologist and academic (d. 2009)

Jimmy Skinner, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2007)

Ruth R. Benerito, American chemist and inventor (d. 2013)

Joseph-Aurèle Plourde, Canadian archbishop and academic (d. 2013)

Paul Jarrico, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1997)

Mieko Kamiya, Japanese psychiatrist and psychologist (d. 1979)

Richard Kuremaa, Estonian footballer (d. 1991)

Clement Hurd, American illustrator (d. 1988)

Andrew J. Transue, American politician and attorney (Morissette v. United States) (d. 1995)

Karl Künstler, German SS officer (d. 1945)

Mikhail Gurevich, Russian engineer and businessman, co-founded the Russian Aircraft Corporation (d. 1976)

Anton Uesson, Estonian engineer and politician, 17th Mayor of Tallinn (d. 1942)

Ray Harroun, American race car driver and engineer (d. 1968)

Priscilla Susan Bury, British botanist (d. 1872)

Jacques Duphly, French organist and composer (d. 1789)

Jijabai Shahaji Bhosale, venerated mother of Indian king Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj (d. 1674)