12 May
Notable Births
Issa Kaboré
b. 2001
Burkinabé footballer (born 2001)
Hiroki Ito (footballer, born 1999)
b. 1999
Japanese footballer (born 1999)
Mo Bamba
b. 1998
Ivorian-American basketball player (born 1998)
Frenkie de Jong
b. 1997
Dutch footballer (born 1997)
Fabrice Olinga
b. 1996
Cameroonian footballer (born 1996)
Kostas Tsimikas
b. 1996
Greek footballer (born 1996)
Timo Horn
b. 1993
German footballer (born 1993)
Erik Durm
b. 1992
German footballer (born 1992)
Florent Amodio
b. 1990
French figure skater
Etika
b. 1990
American YouTuber and live streamer (1990–2019)
Eleftheria Eleftheriou
b. 1989
Musical artist
Marcelo (footballer, born 1988)
b. 1988
Brazilian footballer (born 1988)
Lance Lynn
b. 1987
American baseball player (born 1987)
Kieron Pollard
b. 1987
West Indian cricketer (born 1987)
Darren Randolph
b. 1987
Irish footballer
Emily VanCamp
b. 1986
Canadian actress (born 1986)
George Karl
b. 1951
American basketball coach and player (born 1951)
Frank Stella
b. 1936
American artist (1936–2024)
Katharine Hepburn
b. 1907
American actress (1907–2003)
Florence Nightingale
b. 1820
English founder of modern nursing (1820–1910)
Notable Deaths
Mark Damon
d. 2024
American film actor and producer (1933–2024)
David Sanborn
d. 2024
American saxophonist (1945–2024)
Aimee Stephens
d. 2020
American civil rights activist (1960–2020)
Dennis Nilsen
d. 2018
Scottish serial killer (1945–2018)
Mauno Koivisto
d. 2017
Finnish politician, President of Finland (1923–2017)
Mike Agostini
d. 2016
Trinidad and Tobago sprinter (1935–2016)
Peter Gay
d. 2015
German-American historian and author (1923–2015)
Cornell Borchers
d. 2014
German actress (1925–2014)
Marco Cé
d. 2014
Cardinal of the Romanic Catholic Church
H. R. Giger
d. 2014
Swiss artist (1940–2014)
Sarat Pujari
d. 2014
Indian actor
Lorenzo Zambrano
d. 2014
Mexican businessman and philanthropist
Gerd Langguth
d. 2013
Eddy Paape
d. 2012
Belgian artist (1920–2012)
Antonio Vega (singer)
d. 2009
Musical artist
Robert Rauschenberg
d. 2008
American painter and graphic artist (1925–2008)
Irena Sendler
d. 2008
20th and 21st-century Polish activist and resistance fighter against the Nazis
Hussein Maziq
d. 2006
Libyan politician (1918–2006)
Ömer Kavur
d. 2005
Turkish film director
Martin Lings
d. 2005
English writer, Islamic scholar, and philosopher (1909–2005)