Births on 12 January
2000s
Artem Kotenko
2012
Ukrainian singer (born 2012)
Yuika (singer)
2005
Japanese singer-songwriter (born 2005)
Eva Lys
2002
German tennis player (born 2002)
Sam LaPorta
2001
American football player (born 2001)
Sven Botman
2000
Dutch footballer (born 2000)
1900s
Xavier Tillman
1999
American basketball player (born 1999)
Tyler Roberts
1999
Welsh international footballer (born 1999)
Juan Foyth
1998
Argentine footballer (born 1998)
Darius Slayton
1997
American football player (born 1997)
Ella Henderson
1996
British singer (born 1996)
Allisha Gray
1995
American basketball player (born 1995)
Mike McGlinchey (offensive lineman)
1995
American football player (born 1995)
Emre Can
1994
German footballer (born 1994)
Jamel Artis
1993
American basketball player (born 1993)
Doh Kyung-soo
1993
South Korean singer and actor (born 1993)
Zayn Malik
1993
English singer (born 1993)
Simone Pecorini
1993
Italian footballer
Ishak Belfodil
1992
Algerian footballer (born 1992)
Samuele Longo
1992
Italian footballer
Pixie Lott
1991
English singer (born 1991)
Raquel Rodriguez (wrestler)
1991
American professional wrestler (born 1991)
Matt Srama
1991
Philippines international rugby league footballer (born 1991)
Alex Wood (baseball)
1991
American baseball player (born 1991)
Thiemo-Jérôme Kialka
1989
German footballer
Axel Witsel
1989
Belgian footballer (born 1989)
Claude Giroux
1988
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1988)
Hyun-soo Kim
1988
South Korean baseball player (born 1988)
Iván Nova
1987
Dominican baseball player (born 1987)
Naya Rivera
1987
American actress and singer (1987–2020)
Salvatore Sirigu
1987
Italian footballer (born 1987)
Kehoma Brenner
1986
Germany international rugby union player
Miguel Ángel Nieto
1986
Spanish footballer
Dani Osvaldo
1986
Footballer (born 1986)
Cynthia Addai-Robinson
1985
American actress (born 1980)
Artem Milevskyi
1985
Ukrainian footballer (born 1985)
Issa Rae
1985
American actress and writer (born 1985)
Borja Valero
1985
Spanish footballer
Jonathan Zydko
1984
French footballer (born 1984)
Paul-Henri Mathieu
1982
French tennis player (born 1982)
Chris Ray
1982
American baseball player (born 1982)
Hans Van Alphen
1982
Belgian decathlete
Dean Whitehead
1982
English footballer
Dontrelle Willis
1982
American baseball player (born 1982)
Niklas Kronwall
1981
Swedish ice hockey player (born 1981)
Angus Macdonald (rugby union)
1981
Rugby player
João Paulo (footballer, born January 1981)
1981
Brazilian footballer
Luis Ernesto Pérez
1981
Mexican footballer and manager (born 1981)
Amerie
1980
American singer (born 1980)
Bobby Crosby
1980
American baseball player & coach (born 1980)
Lee Bo-young
1979
South Korean actress (born 1979)
Marián Hossa
1979
Slovak ice hockey player (born 1979)
Grzegorz Rasiak
1979
Polish footballer
David Zabriskie
1979
Road bicycle racer
Luis Ayala (baseball)
1978
Mexican baseball pitcher (born 1978)
Jeremy Camp
1978
American singer and songwriter
Maurizio Zaffiri
1978
Italian rugby union flanker (born 1978)
Yoandy Garlobo
1977
Cuban baseball player (1977–2023)
Jason Freese
1975
American musician
Jocelyn Thibault
1975
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1975)
Melanie C
1974
British pop singer (born 1974)
Tor Arne Hetland
1974
Norwegian cross-country skier (born 1974)
Brian Culbertson
1973
American jazz/R&B/funk musician
Hande Yener
1973
Turkish singer and songwriter (born 1973)
Priyanka Gandhi
1972
Indian politician (born 1972)
Zabryna Guevara
1972
American actress (b. 1972)
Espen Knutsen
1972
Norwegian ice hockey player (born 1972)
Paul Wilson (cricketer)
1972
Australian cricketer and umpire (born 1972)
Toto Wolff
1972
Austrian investor and motorsport executive (born 1972)
Arman Alizad
1971
Iranian-Finnish tailor
Scott Burrell
1971
American basketball player and coach (born 1971)
Peter Madsen
1971
Danish entrepreneur and murderer
Zack de la Rocha
1970
American musician, lead singer of Rage Against the Machine
Raekwon
1970
American rapper (born 1970)
David Mitchell (author)
1969
English novelist and screenwriter (born 1969)
Margaret Nagle
1969
American film producer
Farrah Forke
1968
American actress (1968–2022)
Rachael Harris
1968
American actress and comedian (born 1968)
Junichi Masuda
1968
Japanese video game composer and developer (born 1968)
Heather Mills
1968
English former model, media personality, businesswoman, and activist (born 1968)
Mauro Silva
1968
Brazilian footballer
Vendela Kirsebom
1967
Norwegian-Swedish model and actress (born 1967)
Olivier Martinez
1966
French actor (born 1966)
Craig Parry
1966
Australian professional golfer
Nikolai Borschevsky
1965
Russian ice hockey player and coach (born 1965)
Rob Zombie
1965
American rock musician and filmmaker (born 1965)
Jeff Bezos
1964
American businessman (born 1964)
François Girard
1963
French Canadian director and screenwriter
Nando Reis
1963
Brazilian musician (born 1963)
Joe Quesada
1962
American comic book artist and writer (born 1962)
Richie Richardson
1962
West Indian cricketer
Luna Vachon
1962
American-Canadian professional wrestler (1962–2010)
Simon Russell Beale
1961
English actor (born 1961)
Oliver Platt
1960
American actor (born 1960)
Dominique Wilkins
1960
American basketball player (born 1960)
B. Brian Blair
1959
American professional wrestler (born 1957)
Per Gessle
1959
Swedish musician and songwriter (born 1959)
Sergey Ivanenko
1959
Russian politician (1959–2024)
Christiane Amanpour
1958
British-Iranian news anchor and international correspondent
Curt Fraser
1958
American ice hockey player and coach
John Lasseter
1957
American filmmaker (born 1957)
Jeremy Sams
1957
British theatre director, composer, & lyricist (born 1957)
Nikolai Noskov
1956
Russian singer (born 1956)
Tom Ardolino
1955
American drummer (1955–2012)
Arif Yunusov
1955
Azerbaijani human rights activist
Howard Stern
1954
American radio and television personality (born 1954)
Mary Harron
1953
Canadian film director (born 1953)
Ramón Fagoaga
1952
Salvadoran footballer (born 1952)
Walter Mosley
1952
American novelist (born 1952)
Phil Perry
1952
American R&B musician (born 1952)
Campy Russell
1952
American basketball player
Ricky Van Shelton
1952
American country music singer (born 1952)
John Walker (runner)
1952
New Zealand middle-distance runner and politician
Kirstie Alley
1951
American actress (1951–2022)
Chris Bell (American musician)
1951
American musician (1951–1978)
Rush Limbaugh
1951
American political commentator (1951–2021)
Drew Pearson (American football)
1951
American football player (born 1951)
Randy Jones (baseball)
1950
American baseball player (1950–2025)
Sheila Jackson Lee
1950
American lawyer and politician (1950–2024)
Göran Lindblad (politician)
1950
Swedish politician (born 1950)
Bob McEwen
1950
American politician
Dorrit Moussaieff
1950
Israeli jewelry designer, editor and businesswoman (born 1950)
Kentarō Haneda
1949
Japanese pianist, composer and arranger
Ottmar Hitzfeld
1949
German football player and manager
Hamadi Jebali
1949
Tunisian politician (born 1949)
Haruki Murakami
1949
Japanese writer (born 1949)
Kenny Allen (footballer)
1948
English footballer (born 1948)
Anthony Andrews
1948
British actor (born 1948)
Gordon Campbell (Canadian politician)
1948
Premier of British Columbia from 2001 to 2011
Brendan Foster
1948
British long-distance runner
William Nicholson (writer)
1948
British screenwriter, playwright and novelist
Richard Carwardine
1947
Welsh historian and academic (born 1947)
Tom Dempsey
1947
American football player (1947–2020)
Sally Hamwee, Baroness Hamwee
1947
British politician, life peer (born 1947)
Hazel Cosgrove, Lady Cosgrove
1946
Scottish lawyer and judge
George Duke
1946
American musician (1946–2013)
Maggie Bell
1945
Scottish singer
Hans Henning Atrott
1944
German activist (1944–2018)
Joe Frazier
1944
American boxer (1944–2011)
Cynthia Robinson
1944
American musician (1944–2015)
Bernardine Dohrn
1942
American radical activist, law professor
Long John Baldry
1941
British musician (1941–2005)
Fiona Caldicott
1941
British psychiatrist (1941–2021)
Chet Jastremski
1941
American swimmer (1941–2014)
Bob Hewitt
1940
South African convicted rapist and professional tennis player
Ronald Shannon Jackson
1940
American jazz drummer (1940–2013)
Dick Motz
1940
New Zealand cricketer
Qazi Hussain Ahmad
1938
Islamist political party president (1938 – 2013)
Alan Rees (racing driver)
1938
British racing driver (1938–2024)
Shirley Eaton
1937
British actress (born 1937)
Jennifer Hilton, Baroness Hilton of Eggardon
1936
Raimonds Pauls
1936
Latvian composer and piano player (born 1936)
Brajanath Ratha
1936
Indian poet from Odisha
Mufti Mohammad Sayeed
1936
6th chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir (1932–2016)
Teresa del Conde
1935
Mexican art critic and art historian (1935–2017)
The Amazing Kreskin
1935
American mentalist (1935–2024)
Alan Sharp
1934
Scottish novelist and screenwriter
Mick Sullivan
1934
GB & England international rugby league footballer and coach
Pavlos Matesis
1933
Des O'Connor
1932
English comedian, singer and television presenter (1932–2020)
Tim Horton
1930
Canadian ice hockey player and businessman (1930–1974)
Jennifer Johnston (novelist)
1930
Irish writer (1930–2025)
Glenn Yarbrough
1930
American folk singer and musician (1930–2016)
Jaakko Hintikka
1929
Finnish and American philosopher and logician (1929–2015)
Alasdair MacIntyre
1929
Scottish-American philosopher (1929–2025)
Ruth Brown
1928
American singer-songwriter (1928–2006)
Morton Feldman
1926
American composer (1926–1987)
Ray Price
1926
American singer (1926–2013)
Bill Burrud
1925
Child star and television host and producer
Olivier Gendebien
1924
Belgian racing driver (1924–1998)
Ira Hayes
1923
US Marine Corps corporal (1923–1955)
Tadeusz Żychiewicz
1922
Polish journalist, art historian and publicist
James Farmer
1920
American civil rights activist (1920–1999)
Jerzy Zubrzycki
1920
Australian sociologist
Walter Hendl
1917
American conductor, composer and pianist
Jimmy Skinner
1917
Canadian ice hockey coach
Ruth R. Benerito
1916
American scientist and inventor (1916–2013)
P. W. Botha
1916
South African politician (1916–2006)
Mary Wilson, Lady Wilson of Rievaulx
1916
English poet (1916–2018)
Paul Jarrico
1915
American screenwriter (1915–1997)
Joseph-Aurèle Plourde
1915
Canadian Catholic archbishop (1915–2013)
Mieko Kamiya
1914
Japanese physician and psychiatrist (1914–1979)
Richard Kuremaa
1912
Estonian footballer
Patsy Kelly
1910
American actress (1910–1981)
Luise Rainer
1910
German-born actress (1910–2014)
Jean Delannoy
1908
French actor and film director (1908–2008)
Clement Hurd
1908
American artist (1908–1988)
Sergei Korolev
1907
Soviet aerospace engineer (1907–1966)
Emmanuel Levinas
1906
Lithuanian-French philosopher (1906–1995)
Nihal Atsız
1905
Turkish ultranationalist writer, novelist, and poet (1905–1975)
James Bennett Griffin
1905
American archaeologist (1905–1997)
Tex Ritter
1905
American country singer (1905–1974)
Mississippi Fred McDowell
1904
American blues musician (1904–1972)
Igor Kurchatov
1903
Soviet nuclear physicist (1903–1960)
Andrew J. Transue
1903
American politician (1903–1995)
Karl Künstler
1901
German SS officer
1800s
Pierre Bernac
1899
French opera singer (1899–1979)
Paul Hermann Müller
1899
20th-century Swiss chemist and Nobel laureate
Uberto De Morpurgo
1896
Italian tennis player (1896–1961)
David Wechsler
1896
Romanian-American psychologist (1896–1981)
Leo Aryeh Mayer
1895
Israeli scholar of Islamic art (1895–1959)
Georges Carpentier
1894
French boxer (1894–1975)
Hermann Göring
1893
German Nazi politician and military leader (1893–1946)
Alfred Rosenberg
1893
Nazi theorist and war criminal (1893–1946)
Mikhail Gurevich (aircraft designer)
1892
Soviet aircraft designer (1893–1976)
Johannes Vares
1890
Estonian writer and politician (1890–1946)
Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad
1889
Ahmadiyya religious leader (1889–1965)
Thomas Ashe
1885
Irish revolutionary and politician (1885–1917)
Texas Guinan
1884
American actress and Prohibition era saloon keeper and entrepreneur (1884–1933)
Milton Sills
1882
American actor (1882–1930)
Ray Harroun
1879
American racing driver (1879–1968)
Anton Uesson
1879
Estonian politician and engineer
Ferenc Molnár
1878
Hungarian-born dramatist and novelist
Frank J. Corr
1877
American politician
Fevzi Çakmak
1876
Turkish field marshal and politician (1876–1950)
Jack London
1876
American author, journalist and social activist (1876–1916)
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
1876
Italian composer (1876–1948)
Laura Adams Armer
1874
American artist and writer
Spyridon Louis
1873
Greek amateur athlete (1873–1940)
Bhagwan Das
1869
Indian theosophist (1869–1958)
Swami Vivekananda
1863
Indian monk and philosopher (1863–1902)
John Singer Sargent
1856
American painter (1856–1925)
Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro
1853
Italian mathematician (1853–1925)
Jean Béraud
1849
French painter (1849–1935)
Adolf Jensen
1837
German musician (1837–1879)
Étienne Lenoir
1822
Belgian-French engineer (1822–1900)
Before 1800
Priscilla Susan Bury
1799
British botanist and artist (1799–1872)
Gideon Brecher
1797
Austrian writer and physician
Johan August Arfwedson
1792
Sir Robert Inglis, 2nd Baronet
1786
British politician (1786–1855)
Mikhail Speransky
1772
Russian reformist (1772–1839)
Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies
1751
King of Naples and Sicily (r. 1759–1799; 1799–1806; 1815–1825)
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
1746
Swiss pedagogue and educational reformer (1746–1827)
Edmund Burke
1729
Anglo-Irish politician, writer and philosopher (1729–1797)
Frances Brooke
1724
English author of first Canadian novel (1724–1789)
Samuel Langdon
1723
American Congregational clergyman and educator, President of Harvard College
Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
1721
German military officer (1721–1792)
Antonio de Ulloa
1716
Spanish Navy officer, scientist, and colonial administrator (1716–1795)
Jacques Duphly
1715
French harpsichordist and composer
Gaetano Latilla
1711
Italian opera composer (1711-1788)
Godscall Paleologue
1694
Last known member of the Paleologus family
Rosalba Carriera
1673
Italian artist (1673–1757)
Charles Perrault
1628
French author (1628–1703)
Jijabai
1598
Mother of Shivaji, founder of the Maratha kingdom
François Duquesnoy
1597
Flemish sculptor (1597–1643)
Jusepe de Ribera
1591
Spanish painter (1591–1652)
John Winthrop
1588
English leader of Massachusetts Bay Colony (1587–1649)
Jan Baptist van Helmont
1577
Chemist and physician (1580–1644)
Petrus Scriverius
1576
Dutch writer and scholar (1576–1660)
Charles Emmanuel I
1562
Duke of Savoy from 1580 to 1630
Henry III of Nassau-Breda
1483
Dutch-German noble (1483–1538)