History Births on March 12

Amjad Attwan, Iraqi footballer
#Amjad_Attwan

Manyi Kiss, Hungarian actress (d. 1971)
#Manyi_Kiss

Andrew Young, American pastor and politician, 14th United States Ambassador to the United Nations
#Andrew_Young

Anton Shramchenko, Belarusian footballer
#Anton_Shramchenko

Jason Beghe, American actor
#Jason_Beghe

Luitpold Steidle, German army officer and politician (d. 1984)
#Luitpold_Steidle

Vytautas ?erniauskas, Lithuanian footballer
#Vytautas_?erniauskas

Norbert Brainin, Austrian violinist (d. 2005)
#Norbert_Brainin

Minoru Niihara, Japanese singer-songwriter and bass player
#Minoru_Niihara

Liza Minnelli, American actress, singer and dancer
#Liza_Minnelli
Dorrit Hoffleit, American astronomer and academic (d. 2007)
#Dorrit_Hoffleit

Lane Kirkland, American sailor and union leader (d. 1999)
#Lane_Kirkland

François-Emmanuel Guignard, comte de Saint-Priest, French politician and diplomat (d. 1821)
#François-Emmanuel_Guignard,_comte_de_Saint-Priest

Luenell, American comedian and actress
#Luenell

Werner Krolikowski, former East German political official
#Werner_Krolikowski

Jean Alfred Fournier, French dermatologist (d. 1914)
#Jean_Alfred_Fournier

John Aubrey, English historian and philosopher (d. 1697)
#John_Aubrey

Richard Steele, Irish-Welsh journalist and politician (d. 1729)
#Richard_Steele

Anne Summers, Australian feminist writer, editor, publisher and public servant
#Anne_Summers

Mae Young, American wrestler (d. 2014)
#Mae_Young

James Taylor, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
#James_Taylor

Gunnar Nordström, Finnish physicist and academic (d. 1923)
#Gunnar_Nordström

Courtney B. Vance, American actor and painter
#Courtney_B._Vance

Lesley Manville, English actress
#Lesley_Manville

Cristian Chagas Tarouco, Brazilian footballer
#Cristian_Chagas_Tarouco

Isaiah Rider, American basketball player and rapper
#Isaiah_Rider

Anish Kapoor, Indian-English sculptor
#Anish_Kapoor

Andreas Köpke, former German footballer
#Andreas_Köpke

Idris of Libya (d. 1983)
#Idris_of_Libya

Josip Skoblar, former Croatian footballer
#Josip_Skoblar

Danny Jones, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
#Danny_Jones

Rex Walters, American basketball player and coach
#Rex_Walters

Jaimie Alexander, American actress
#Jaimie_Alexander

Steve Finley, American baseball player
#Steve_Finley

Carlos Blanco Galindo, Bolivian politician (d. 1943)
#Carlos_Blanco_Galindo

Mitt Romney, American businessman and politician, 70th Governor of Massachusetts
#Mitt_Romney

Inese Galante, Latvian soprano
#Inese_Galante

Brent Johnson, American ice hockey player
#Brent_Johnson

George Berkeley, Irish bishop and philosopher (d. 1753)
#George_Berkeley

Lili Bordán, Hungarian-American actress
#Lili_Bordán

Väinö Tanner, Finnish politician of Social Democratic Party of Finland (d. 1966)
#Väinö_Tanner
Dragutin Topi?, Serbian high jumper
#Dragutin_Topi?

Antony Acland, British former diplomat and Provost of Eton College
#Antony_Acland

Johann Caspar Horner, Swiss physicist, mathematician and astronomer (d. 1834)
#Johann_Caspar_Horner

Tobias Schweinsteiger, German footballer
#Tobias_Schweinsteiger

Frederica of Baden (d. 1826)
#Frederica_of_Baden

Leo Esaki, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
#Leo_Esaki

László Lékai, Archbishop of Esztergom and Cardinal (d. 1986)
#László_Lékai

Katarina Srebotnik, Slovenian tennis player
#Katarina_Srebotnik

Frank Welker, American voice actor and singer
#Frank_Welker

María Adánez, Spanish actress
#María_Adánez

Alberto Burri, Italian painter and sculptor (d. 1995)
#Alberto_Burri
Jordan Adéoti, French footballer
#Jordan_Adéoti

Tyler Clary, former American swimmer
#Tyler_Clary
Niclas Heimann, German footballer
#Niclas_Heimann

Joaquim Cruz, Brazilian runner and coach
#Joaquim_Cruz

Myrna Fahey, American actress (d. 1973)
#Myrna_Fahey

Mikko Sumusalo, Finnish footballer
#Mikko_Sumusalo

Pete Doherty, English musician, songwriter, actor, poet, writer, and artist
#Pete_Doherty

Gerard López, former Spanish footballer
#Gerard_López

Avram Mrazovi?, Serbian writer, translator, pedagogue and Senator (d. 1826)
#Avram_Mrazovi?

Johnny Rutherford, American race car driver and sportscaster
#Johnny_Rutherford

Graham Coxon, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
#Graham_Coxon

Vladimir Msryan, Armenian actor, (d. 2010)
#Vladimir_Msryan

Gustav Kirchhoff, Russian-German physicist and academic (d. 1887)
#Gustav_Kirchhoff

William Douglas-Hamilton, Scottish nobleman (d. 1895)
#William_Douglas-Hamilton,_12th_Duke_of_Hamilton

Holly Williams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
#Holly_Williams

Agathe von Trapp, Hungarian-American singer and author (d. 2010)
#Agathe_von_Trapp

Ramiro Corrales, American soccer player
#Ramiro_Corrales

Elizaveta Ukolova, Czech figure skater
#Elizaveta_Ukolova

Nathan Haas, Australian cyclist
#Nathan_Haas

Edward Albee, American director and playwright (d. 2016)
#Edward_Albee

Wilhelm Frick, German lawyer and politician, German Federal Minister of the Interior (d. 1946)
#Wilhelm_Frick

Micha? Heller, Polish professor of philosophy
#Micha?_Heller

Francisco J. Ayala, Spanish-American evolutionary biologist and philosopher
#Francisco_J._Ayala

Florence Lee, American actress (d. 1962)
#Florence_Lee_(born_1888)

Arina Tanemura, Japanese author and illustrator
#Arina_Tanemura

Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian soldier, journalist, poet, and playwright (d. 1938)
#Gabriele_D'Annunzio

Petras Cvirka, Lithuanian author (d. 1947)
#Petras_Cvirka

Jessica Hardy, American swimmer
#Jessica_Hardy

Tammy Duckworth, Thai-American colonel, pilot, and politician
#Tammy_Duckworth

Musa ?azim ?ati?, Bosnian poet (d. 1915)
#Musa_?azim_?ati?

Zoltán Horvath, Hungarian sabre fencer
#Zoltán_Horváth_(fencer)

Max Gordon, Village Vanguard jazz club founder (d. 1989)
#Max_Gordon_(Village_Vanguard_founder)
Daniele Baselli, Italian footballer
#Daniele_Baselli

Sudharmono, 5th Vice President of Indonesia (d. 2006)
#Sudharmono

Yashwantrao Chavan, Indian politician, 5th Deputy Prime Minister of India (d. 1984)
#Yashwantrao_Chavan

Candy Costie, American swimmer
#Candy_Costie

Hanna Pysmenska, Ukrainian diver
#Hanna_Pysmenska

Saifuddin Azizi, first chairman of Xinjiang of the People's Republic of China (d. 2003)
#Saifuddin_Azizi

Marco Bonanomi, Italian racing driver
#Marco_Bonanomi

Wang Yang, Chinese politician
#Wang_Yang_(politician)

Eric Stenbock, Estonian poet and author (d. 1895)
#Eric_Stenbock

Alina Müller, Swiss ice hockey player
#Alina_Müller

Charles Chamberland, French microbiologist (d. 1908)
#Charles_Chamberland

Dylan Carlson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
#Dylan_Carlson

Hans Knappertsbusch, German conductor (d. 1965)
#Hans_Knappertsbusch

Deron Quint, American ice hockey defenseman
#Deron_Quint

Charles Boycott, English farmer and agent (d. 1897)
#Charles_Boycott

Ron Jeremy, American pornographic actor
#Ron_Jeremy

Ogün Sanl?soy, Turkish rock musician
#Ogün_Sanl?soy

Alexandre Guilmant, French organist and composer (d. 1911)
#Alexandre_Guilmant

Francisco Javier de Cienfuegos y Jovellanos, Spanish bishop and cardinal (d. 1847)
#Francisco_Javier_de_Cienfuegos_y_Jovellanos

Chiwa Sait?, Japanese voice actress
#Chiwa_Sait?

Teimour Radjabov, Azerbaijani chess player
#Teimour_Radjabov

Albert Mackey, American medical doctor and author (d. 1881)
#Albert_Mackey

Scarlet Ortiz, Venezuelan actress
#Scarlet_Ortiz

Shreya Ghoshal, Indian singer
#Shreya_Ghoshal

Irakli Kvekveskiri, Georgian footballer
#Irakli_Kvekveskiri

Dawid Kubacki, Polish ski jumper
#Dawid_Kubacki

Macarena Aguilar, Spanish handballer
#Macarena_Aguilar

Robert Muri?, Croatian footballer
#Robert_Muri?

Ed Clancy, English track and road cyclist
#Ed_Clancy

André Le Nôtre, French gardener and architect (d. 1700)
#André_Le_Nôtre

Salvatore Di Giacomo, Italian poet, songwriter, playwright and fascist intellectual (d. 1934)
#Salvatore_Di_Giacomo

Malina Weissman, American child actress and model
#Malina_Weissman

John Abbott, Canadian lawyer and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1893)
#John_Abbott

Jude Milhon, American hacker and author (d. 2003)
#Jude_Milhon
Walid Badir, former Israeli footballer
#Walid_Badir

Gianni Agnelli, Italian businessman (d. 2001)
#Gianni_Agnelli

Ciara Mageean, Irish middle-distance runner
#Ciara_Mageean

Katsu Kaish?, Japanese statesman (d. 1899)
#Katsu_Kaish?

Agnes Hedwig of Anhalt, Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön (d. 1616)
#Agnes_Hedwig_of_Anhalt

Katie Archibald, Scottish track cyclist
#Katie_Archibald
Jens Mouris, Dutch cyclist
#Jens_Mouris

Reginald Pole, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1558)
#Reginald_Pole

Hisato Sat?, Japanese footballer
#Hisato_Sat?

Doron Sheffer, Israeli basketball player
#Doron_Sheffer

Ratko Mladi?, Serbian general
#Ratko_Mladi?
Gordon MacRae, American actor and singer (d. 1986)
#Gordon_MacRae

František Rajtoral, Czech footballer (d. 2017)
#František_Rajtoral

Phil Anderson, English-Australian cyclist
#Phil_Anderson_(cyclist)

Pim Verbeek, Dutch football manager
#Pim_Verbeek

Steve Harris, English bass player and songwriter
#Steve_Harris_(musician)

Hilary A. Herbert, Secretary of the Navy (d. 1919)
#Hilary_A._Herbert

Caspar Othmayr, German Lutheran pastor and composer (d. 1553)
#Caspar_Othmayr

Edmund Eysler, Austrian composer (d. 1949)
#Edmund_Eysler
Paul Way, English golfer
#Paul_Way

George Ariyoshi, American lawyer and politician, 3rd Governor of Hawaii
#George_Ariyoshi

William C. Lee, American general (d. 1948)
#William_C._Lee

Luca Gaurico, Italian astrologer (d. 1558)
#Luca_Gaurico

Hermann Parzinger, German historian
#Hermann_Parzinger

Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie, French general (d. 1727)
#Victor-Maurice,_comte_de_Broglie

César Benavides, Chilean Army general (d. 2011)
#César_Benavides

Pavel Janák, Czech architect (d. 1956)
#Pavel_Janák

Harry Harrison, American author and illustrator (d. 2012)
#Harry_Harrison_(writer)

Roy Khan, Norwegian singer-songwriter
#Roy_Khan
Richard Eckersley, English footballer
#Richard_Eckersley_(footballer)

Sandra Brown, American author
#Sandra_Brown

Kostas Mitroglou, Greek footballer
#Kostas_Mitroglou

Samm Levine, American actor and comedian
#Samm_Levine

Tian Han, Chinese playwright (d. 1968)
#Tian_Han

Matias Myttynen, Finnish ice hockey player
#Matias_Myttynen

Al Jarreau, American singer (d. 2017)
#Al_Jarreau

Allan Saint-Maximin, French footballer
#Allan_Saint-Maximin

James Abbott, Indian Army officer (d. 1896)
#James_Abbott_(Indian_Army_officer)

Casey Mears, American race car driver
#Casey_Mears

Milorad Dodik, Bosnian Serb politician and president of Republika Srpska
#Milorad_Dodik
Manuele Boaro, Italian cyclist
#Manuele_Boaro

Claudio Sanchez, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
#Claudio_Sanchez

Andriy Tovt, Ukrainian footballer
#Andriy_Tovt
Ivari Padar, former Minister of Finance and Minister of Agriculture of the Estonian Social Democratic Party
#Ivari_Padar

Jerami Grant, American basketball player
#Jerami_Grant

Peter Harry Carstensen, German educator and politician
#Peter_Harry_Carstensen

Dave Eggers, American author and screenwriter
#Dave_Eggers

Chris Sanders, American illustrator and voice actor
#Chris_Sanders

Carl Holsøe, Danish artist (d. 1935)
#Carl_Holsøe
Vaslav Nijinsky, Russian dancer and choreographer (d. 1950)
#Vaslav_Nijinsky

Ashikaga Yoshimochi, Japanese sh?gun (d. 1428)
#Ashikaga_Yoshimochi

Masayoshi ?hira, Japanese politician, 68th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1980)
#Masayoshi_?hira

Christina Grimmie, American singer-songwriter (d. 2016)
#Christina_Grimmie

Bodo Uhse, German writer, journalist and political activist (d. 1963)
#Bodo_Uhse

W. H. R. Rivers, English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist, and psychiatrist (d. 1922)
#W._H._R._Rivers

Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Italian scientist (d. 1577)
#Pietro_Andrea_Mattioli

Mario Sironi, Italian artist (d. 1961)
#Mario_Sironi

Thomas Arne, English composer (d. 1778)
#Thomas_Arne

Yuri Balashov, Russian chess grandmaster
#Yuri_Balashov

László Kiss, Hungarian football player and coach
#László_Kiss_(footballer)

Suleyman Kerimov, Russian businessman, investor, philanthropist and politician
#Suleyman_Kerimov

Farahnaz Pahlavi, eldest daughter of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
#Farahnaz_Pahlavi

Eddie Sutton, American basketball player and coach
#Eddie_Sutton

Mike Mago, Dutch DJ, music producer and record label owner
#Mike_Mago

Zhao Wei, Chinese actress, film director, producer and pop singer
#Zhao_Wei

Karen Bradley, British politician
#Karen_Bradley

Maxwell Holt, American volleyball player
#Maxwell_Holt
Evert Taube, Swedish singer-songwriter and lute player (d. 1976))
#Evert_Taube

Claudius Buchanan, Scottish theologian (d. 1815)
#Claudius_Buchanan

Canute Lavard, Danish prince (d. 1131)
#Canute_Lavard

John Andretti, American race car driver
#John_Andretti

Simon Newcomb, Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician (d. 1909)
#Simon_Newcomb

Felipe Vizeu, Brazilian footballer
#Felipe_Vizeu

Adolph Ochs, American publisher (d. 1935)
#Adolph_Ochs

Oleh Dopilka, Ukrainian footballer
#Oleh_Dopilka

Vladimir Vernadsky, Russian mineralogist and chemist (d. 1945)
#Vladimir_Vernadsky

Gabriel Tarde, French sociologist and criminologist (d. 1904)
#Gabriel_Tarde

Ian Holloway, English footballer and manager
#Ian_Holloway

Paul Gerhardt, German poet and composer (d. 1676)
#Paul_Gerhardt

Louis-Jules Trochu, French military leader and politician (d. 1896)
#Louis-Jules_Trochu

Chris Seitz, American soccer player
#Chris_Seitz

Javier Clemente, Spanish footballer and manager
#Javier_Clemente

Rita Angus, New Zealand painter (d. 1970)
#Rita_Angus

Michael Walter, German luger (d. 2016)
#Michael_Walter_(luger)

Jack Kerouac, American author and poet (d. 1969)
#Jack_Kerouac

Jan-Erik Enestam, Finland-Swedish politician
#Jan-Erik_Enestam
Ignacio Comonfort, Mexican politician and soldier (d. 1863)
#Ignacio_Comonfort

Gemma Galgani, Italian mystic and saint (d. 1903)
#Gemma_Galgani

Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, Mexican academic and politician, 49th President of Mexico (d. 1979)
#Gustavo_Díaz_Ordaz

Jenny Erpenbeck, German writer and opera director
#Jenny_Erpenbeck

George Forbes, New Zealand lawyer and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1947)
#George_Forbes_(New_Zealand_politician)

Sakura Oda, Japanese pop singer
#Sakura_Oda

Erwin Baker, American motorcycle and automobile racing driver (d. 1960)
#Erwin_Baker

Marlon Jackson, American singer-songwriter and dancer
#Marlon_Jackson

David Rigert, Soviet Olympic weightlifter
#David_Rigert

Rob Cohen, American director, producer, and screenwriter
#Rob_Cohen

Jost Gippert, German linguist, Caucasiologist and author
#Jost_Gippert

Karim Hafez, Egyptian footballer
#Karim_Hafez
Daniel Samohin, Israeli figure skater
#Daniel_Samohin
Edgaras Jankauskas, former Lithuanian footballer
#Edgaras_Jankauskas
Amdy Faye, former Senegalese footballer
#Amdy_Faye

Julio Dely Valdés, Panamanian footballer and manager
#Julio_Dely_Valdés
Douglas Murray, Swedish ice hockey player
#Douglas_Murray_(ice_hockey)

Anna Jagiellon, Duchess of Pomerania, Polish princess (d. 1503)
#Anna_Jagiellon,_Duchess_of_Pomerania

Zurab Sotkilava, Georgian operatic tenor (d. 2017)
#Zurab_Sotkilava

Ernesto Cesàro, Italian mathematician (d. 1906)
#Ernesto_Cesàro

Ghazi of Iraq, King of The Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq (d. 1939)
#Ghazi_of_Iraq

Kenji Fukaya, Japanese mathematician
#Kenji_Fukaya

Arthur A. Hartman, American career diplomat (d. 2015)
#Arthur_A._Hartman

Hjalmar Andersen, Norwegian speed skater and cyclist (d. 2013)
#Hjalmar_Andersen

Barbara Feldon, American actress
#Barbara_Feldon

Jake Tapper, American journalist and author
#Jake_Tapper

Dale Murphy, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster
#Dale_Murphy

Ramón Muttis, Argentine footballer (d. 1955)
#Ramón_Muttis

Wally Schirra, American captain, pilot, and astronaut (d. 2007)
#Wally_Schirra

Darryl Strawberry, American baseball player and minister
#Darryl_Strawberry

Anne Hyde, Duchess of York and Albany (d. 1671)
#Anne_Hyde

Raúl Alfonsín, Argentinian lawyer and politician, 46th President of Argentina (d. 2009)
#Raúl_Alfonsín

Felix Kroos, German footballer
#Felix_Kroos

Kent Conrad, American politician
#Kent_Conrad

Titus Welliver, American actor
#Titus_Welliver

David Daniels, American countertenor
#David_Daniels_(countertenor)

Aleksandr Bukharov, Russian footballer
#Aleksandr_Bukharov

Giuliano de' Medici, Duke of Nemours (d. 1516)
#Giuliano_de'_Medici,_Duke_of_Nemours

Louison Bobet, French cyclist (d. 1983)
#Louison_Bobet

Jane Pierce, American wife of Franklin Pierce, 15th First Lady of the United States (d. 1863)
#Jane_Pierce

William Buckland, English geologist and paleontologist; Dean of Westminster (d. 1856)
#William_Buckland

Vadim Shipachyov, Russian ice hockey player
#Vadim_Shipachyov

George Tyler Wood, American military officer and politician (d. 1858)
#George_Tyler_Wood

Niède Guidon, Brazilian archeologist
#Niède_Guidon

Medo Puci?, Croatian writer and politician (d. 1882)
#Medo_Puci?

Valerio Bacigalupo, Italian goalkeeper (d. 1949)
#Valerio_Bacigalupo

Raul Brandão, Portuguese writer and journalist (d. 1930)
#Raul_Brandão
Win Tin, Burmese journalist and politician, co-founded the National League for Democracy (d. 2014)
#Win_Tin

Atif Aslam, Pakistani singer and actor
#Atif_Aslam

Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, 19th President of Colombia (d. 1975)
#Gustavo_Rojas_Pinilla

Georges Delerue, French pianist and composer (d. 1992)
#Georges_Delerue
Ben Offereins, Australian runner
#Ben_Offereins
André Comte-Sponville, French philosopher
#André_Comte-Sponville

Jean Denis, French politician, lawyer, jurist, journalist, and historian (d. 1827)
#Jean_Denis,_comte_Lanjuinais

Jamie Dwyer, Australian field hockey player and coach
#Jamie_Dwyer

Umirzak Shukeyev, Kazakh chairman of Samruk-Kazyna
#Umirzak_Shukeyev

Charles, Count of Valois (d. 1325)
#Charles,_Count_of_Valois
Takashi Shimura, Japanese actor (d. 1982)
#Takashi_Shimura

Aaron Eckhart, American actor and producer
#Aaron_Eckhart

Dean Henderson, English footballer
#Dean_Henderson

Sebastian Brendel, German canoe racer
#Sebastian_Brendel

Chen Jianghua, Chinese basketball player
#Chen_Jianghua

Cyrill Kistler, German composer (d. 1907)
#Cyrill_Kistler
Siim Luts, Estonian footballer
#Siim_Luts

William Lyon Mackenzie, Scottish-Canadian journalist and politician, 1st Mayor of Toronto (d. 1861)
#William_Lyon_Mackenzie
Ilya Nikulin, Russian ice hockey player
#Ilya_Nikulin

Aldemaro Romero, Venezuelan pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 2007)
#Aldemaro_Romero

Virginia Bottomley, Scottish social worker and politician, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
#Virginia_Bottomley
Jordan Ferri, French footballer
#Jordan_Ferri

Clemens Maria Franz von Bönninghausen, Dutch and Prussian lawyer (d. 1864)
#Clemens_Maria_Franz_von_Bönninghausen

William Henry Perkin, English chemist and academic (d. 1907)
#William_Henry_Perkin

Alexander Kröckel, German skeleton racer
#Alexander_Kröckel