Births on 12 February
2000s
Khvicha Kvaratskhelia
2001
Georgian footballer (born 2001)
Kim Ji-min (actress)
2000
South Korean actress (born 2000)
1900s
Kemal Bilmez
1994
Belgian politician (born 1994)
Arman Hall
1994
American sprinter
Paxton Lynch
1994
American football player (born 1994)
Bud Dupree
1993
American football player (born 1993)
Rafinha (footballer, born February 1993)
1993
Brazilian footballer
Jennifer Stone
1993
American podcaster and social media personality (born 1993)
Magda Linette
1992
Polish tennis player (born 1992)
Patrick Herrmann
1991
German footballer (born 1991)
Kane Richardson
1991
Australian cricketer (born 1991)
Katherine Barrell
1990
Canadian actress
Robert Griffin III
1990
American football player (born 1990)
Josh Harrellson
1989
American basketball player (born 1989)
DeMarco Murray
1988
American football player and coach (born 1988)
Nicolás Otamendi
1988
Argentine footballer (born 1988)
Josh Phegley
1988
American baseball player (born 1988)
Mike Posner
1988
American singer (born 1988)
Jérémy Chardy
1987
French tennis player (born 1987)
Gabriela Mărginean
1987
Romanian basketball player (born 1987)
Todd Frazier
1986
American baseball player (born 1986)
Konstantin Pushkaryov
1985
Kazakh ice hockey player
Brad Keselowski
1984
American racing driver (born 1984)
Andrei Sidorenkov
1984
Estonian footballer (born 1984)
Peter Vanderkaay
1984
American swimmer
Carlton Brewster
1983
American football player (born 1983)
Jonas Hiller
1982
Swiss ice hockey player (born 1982)
Louis Tsatoumas
1982
Greek long jumper (born 1982)
Anthony Tuitavake
1982
NZ international rugby union player
Wade McKinnon
1981
Australian rugby league footballer
Juan Carlos Ferrero
1980
Spanish tennis player (born 1980)
Sarah Lancaster
1980
American actress
Gucci Mane
1980
American rapper and music executive (born 1980)
Christina Ricci
1980
American actress (born 1980)
Jesse Spencer
1979
Australian actor and musician (born 1979)
Paul Anderson (actor)
1978
English actor (born 1978)
Jimmy Conrad
1977
American soccer player (born 1977)
Christian Cullen
1976
New Zealand rugby union player
Scot Pollard
1975
American basketball player (born 1975)
Naseem Hamed
1974
British boxer (born 1974)
Gianni Romme
1973
Dutch speed skater
Tara Strong
1973
Canadian and American actress (born 1973)
Owen Nolan
1972
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1972)
Scott Menville
1971
American actor (born 1971)
Jim Creeggan
1970
Canadian musician (born 1970)
Bryan Roy
1970
Dutch footballer (born 1970)
Judd Winick
1970
American writer
Darren Aronofsky
1969
American filmmaker (born 1969)
Alemayehu Atomsa
1969
Ethiopian politician (1964–2014)
Steve Backley
1969
English javelin thrower (born 1969)
Anneli Drecker
1969
Norwegian singer and actress
Hong Myung-bo
1969
South Korean footballer and manager
Josh Brolin
1968
American actor (born 1968)
Chynna Phillips
1968
American singer (born 1968)
Nathan Rees
1968
Premier of New South Wales from 2008 to 2009
Greg Carberry
1966
Australian rugby league footballer
Paul Crook
1966
American guitarist
Lochlyn Munro
1966
Canadian actor (born 1966)
Rubén Amaro Jr.
1965
American baseball player (born 1965)
Christine Elise
1965
American actress
Brett Kavanaugh
1965
US Supreme Court justice since 2018
David Westlake
1965
English singer-songwriter
Omar Hakim
1964
American drummer, arranger and composer (b. 1959)
Raphael Sbarge
1964
American actor (born 1964)
John Michael Higgins
1963
American actor, comedian and game show host (born 1963)
David Graeber
1961
American anthropologist and activist (1961–2020)
Jim Harris (politician)
1961
Canadian politician
Michel Martelly
1961
President of Haiti from 2011 to 2016
Larry Nance
1959
American basketball player (born 1959)
Bobby Smith (ice hockey)
1958
Canadian ice hockey player, executive (b. 1958)
Arsenio Hall
1956
American comedian, actor and TV host (born 1956)
Ad Melkert
1956
Dutch politician
Brian Robertson (guitarist)
1956
Scottish guitarist (born 1956)
Bill Laswell
1955
American musician (born 1955)
Chet Lemon
1955
American baseball player (1955–2025)
Zach Grenier
1954
American actor
Joseph Jordania
1954
Australian-Georgian musicologist
Tzimis Panousis
1954
Greek musician, comedian and actor
Phil Zimmermann
1954
American cryptographer, creator of PGP (born 1954)
Joanna Kerns
1953
American actress and director
Simon MacCorkindale
1952
British actor (1952–2010)
Michael McDonald (musician)
1952
American singer and keyboardist (born 1952)
Angelo Branduardi
1950
Italian singer and songwriter (born 1950)
Steve Hackett
1950
English guitarist (born 1950)
Michael Ironside
1950
Canadian actor (born 1950)
Lenny Randle
1949
American baseball player (1949–2024)
Gundappa Viswanath
1949
Indian cricketer (born 1949)
Ray Kurzweil
1948
American computer scientist, author and futurist (born 1948)
Nicholas Soames
1948
British politician (born 1948)
Jean Eyeghé Ndong
1946
20th and 21st-century Prime Minister of Gabon
Ajda Pekkan
1946
Turkish singer (born 1946)
Maud Adams
1945
Swedish actress (born 1945)
David D. Friedman
1945
American academic (born 1945)
Ehud Barak
1942
Prime Minister of Israel from 1999 to 2001
Terry Bisson
1942
American novelist (1942–2024)
Pat Dobson
1942
American baseball player (1942–2006)
Dominguinhos
1941
Brazilian singer (1941–2013)
Naomi Uemura
1941
Japanese adventurer
Leon Kass
1939
American academic (born 1939)
Ray Manzarek
1939
American keyboardist (1939–2013)
Judy Blume
1938
American author (born 1938)
Joe Don Baker
1936
American actor (1936–2025)
Alan Ebringer
1936
Australian immunologist (born 1936)
Gene McDaniels
1935
American R&B and soul singer-songwriter (1935–2011)
Annette Crosbie
1934
Scottish actor (born 1934)
Anne Osborn Krueger
1934
American economist
Bill Russell
1934
American basketball player and coach (1934–2022)
Ivan Anikeyev
1933
Soviet cosmonaut candidate
Costa-Gavras
1933
Greek-French film director (born 1933)
Axel Jensen
1932
Norwegian author (1932–2003)
Julian Simon
1932
American economist (1932–1998)
Janwillem van de Wetering
1931
Dutch writer (1931–2008)
John Doyle (Tipperary hurler)
1930
Irish hurler and politician (1930–2010)
Arlen Specter
1930
American lawyer and politician (1930–2012)
Vincent Montana Jr.
1928
American musician (1928–2013)
Rolf Brem
1926
Joe Garagiola
1926
American baseball player (1926–2016)
Charles Van Doren
1926
American writer and editor (1926–2019)
Anthony Berry
1925
British Conservative politician (1925–1984)
Joan Mitchell
1925
American artist (1925–1992)
Franco Zeffirelli
1923
Italian filmmaker (1923–2019)
Hussein Onn
1922
Prime Minister of Malaysia from 1976 to 1981
Raymond Mhlaba
1920
Anti-apartheid activist and politician from South Africa (1920–2005)
Forrest Tucker
1919
American actor (1919–1986)
Norman Farberow
1918
American psychologist
Julian Schwinger
1918
American theoretical physicist (1918–1994)
Al Cervi
1917
American basketball player and coach (1917–2009)
Dom DiMaggio
1917
American baseball player (1917–2009)
Joseph Alioto
1916
36th Mayor of San Francisco from 1968 to 1976
Lorne Greene
1915
Canadian actor (1915–1987)
Olivia Hooker
1915
American psychologist, professor, and the last known survivor of the Tulsa race massacre
Tex Beneke
1914
American saxophonist, singer, and bandleader
Hanna Neumann
1914
German-born mathematician (1914–1971)
R. F. Delderfield
1912
British writer (1912–1972)
Charles Mathiesen
1911
Norwegian speed skater (1911–1994)
Zoran Mušič
1909
Slovenian painter and engraver (1909–2005)
Sigmund Rascher
1909
German Schutzstaffel (SS) doctor (1909–1945)
Jean Effel
1908
French painter (1908–1982)
Jacques Herbrand
1908
French mathematician (1908–1931)
Joseph Kearns
1907
American actor (1907–1962)
Ted Mack (radio and television host)
1904
American broadcaster, radio, and TV host
Jorge Basadre
1903
Peruvian historian (1903–1980)
Chick Hafey
1903
American baseball player (1903–1973)
William Collier Jr.
1902
American actor (1902–1987)
Roger J. Traynor
1900
American judge (1900–1983)
1800s
Wallace Ford
1898
English-American actor (1898–1966)
Charles Groves Wright Anderson
1897
Australian soldier, farmer, and politician
Lincoln LaPaz
1897
American astronomer
Kristian Djurhuus
1895
Omar Bradley
1893
United States Army general (1893–1981)
Bhante Dharmawara
1889
James Scott (composer)
1885
American ragtime composer and pianist (1885–1938)
Julius Streicher
1885
German publicist and politician (1885–1946)
Max Beckmann
1884
German painter (1884–1950)
Johan Laidoner
1884
Estonian general (1884–1953)
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
1884
American writer and socialite (1884–1980)
Marie Vassilieff
1884
Russian painter
Walter Nash
1882
Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1957 to 1960
Anna Pavlova
1881
Russian ballet dancer (1881–1931)
George Preca
1880
Maltese Roman Catholic priest (1880–1962)
John L. Lewis
1880
American miner and labor leader (1880–1969)
Louis Renault (industrialist)
1877
French industrialist (1877–1944)
13th Dalai Lama
1876
Spiritual leader of Tibet from 1879 to 1933
Marie Lloyd
1870
English singer, comedian and actress (1870–1922)
Kiến Phúc
1869
7th emperor of Nguyễn-dynasty Vietnam (1883-84)
Lev Shestov
1866
Russian existentialist philosopher (1866–1938)
Lou Andreas-Salomé
1861
Psychoanalyst and author (1861–1937)
Eugène Atget
1857
French photographer (1857–1927)
Bobby Peel
1857
English cricketer (1857–1941)
Thomas Moran
1837
American artist (1837–1926)
George Meredith
1828
British novelist and poet (1828–1909)
Dayananda Saraswati
1824
Indian philosopher and socio-religious reformer (1824–1883)
William Wetmore Story
1819
American sculptor, art critic, poet, and editor
Charles Darwin
1809
English naturalist and biologist (1809–1882)
Abraham Lincoln
1809
President of the United States from 1861 to 1865
Emil Lenz
1804
Russian physicist (1804–1865)
Before 1800
Alexander Petrov (chess player)
1794
Russian chess player (1794–1867)
Valentín Canalizo
1794
President of Mexico from 1843 to 1844
Peter Cooper
1791
American politician and businessman (1791–1883)
Carl Reichenbach
1788
German scientist and philosopher (1788–1869)
Norbert Provencher
1787
Canadian clergyman and missionary (1787–1853)
Pierre Louis Dulong
1785
French scientist (1785–1838)
Bernard Courtois
1777
19th-century French chemist
Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué
1777
German writer (1777–1843)
Louisa Adams
1775
First Lady of the United States from 1825 to 1829
Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor
1768
Habsburg monarch from 1792 to 1835
Jan Ladislav Dussek
1761
Czech composer and pianist (1760–1812)
François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers
1753
French Navy officer (1753–1798)
Étienne-Louis Boullée
1728
French architect (1728–1799)
Johann Joseph Christian
1706
German sculptor
Charles Pinot Duclos
1704
French author
Rudolf Jakob Camerarius
1665
German botanist and physician (1665–1721)
Cotton Mather
1663
Puritan clergyman (1663–1728)
Jan Swammerdam
1637
Dutch biologist and microscopist (1637–1680)
Daniello Bartoli
1608
Italian Jesuit writer and historiographer
John Winthrop the Younger
1606
English-born physician, colonial administrator and alchemist (1606–1676)
Caspar Barlaeus
1584
Dutch polymath and Renaissance humanist (1584 –1648)
Thomas Campion
1567
English composer and poet (1567–1620)
Wŏn Kyun
1540
Korean naval commander (1540–1597)
Frederick II of Legnica
1480
Duke of Legnica (1480–1547)
Giovanni II Bentivoglio
1443
Italian nobleman (1443–1508)
John Henry, Margrave of Moravia
1322
Count of Tyrol from 1335 to 1341
Kujō Yoritsune
1218
Military ruler of Japan from 1226 to 1244
Conrad II of Italy
1074
Duke of Lower Lorraine
Princess Ōku
661
Saiō of Ise Grand Shrine (673–686)
Daughter of Emperor Xiaoming of Northern Wei
528
6th-century Empress in China
AD 41
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