April 12 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on April 12, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♈︎ Aries
Mar 21 – Apr 19
Birth stone
Diamond
Birth flower
Daisy
How common
#206 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous April 12 birthdays
Alexander Ostrovsky · Russian playwright1823
Nikolay Przhevalsky · Russian soldier, explorer, & geographer1839
Jan Tinbergen · Dutch economist1903
Montserrat Caballé · Spanish operatic soprano1933
Herbie Hancock · American jazz pianist and composer1940
Jacob Zuma · 4th President of South Africa1942
Ed O'Neill · American actor1946
Tom Clancy · American author1947
David Letterman · American comedian and television host1947
Marcello Lippi · Italian association football player and manager1948
Joyce Banda · 4th President of Malawi1950
David Cassidy · American actor and singer1950
Andy Garcia · American actor and director1956
Lisa Gerrard · Australian musician, singer and composer1961
Shannen Doherty · American actress1971
Claire Danes · American actor1979
Jennifer Morrison · American actress1979
Tulsi Gabbard · American politician1981
Brooklyn Decker · American model and actress1987
Saoirse Ronan · Irish-American actress1994
On this day in history
1776American Revolution: The North Carolina Provincial Congress passed the Halifax Resolves, the first official action in the American colonies calling for independence from Great Britain.
1973About 1,700 gravediggers in New York City began a 12-week strike, causing a delay in the burial of roughly 1,400 bodies in the city.
1983Harold Washington was elected as the first African-American mayor of Chicago.
2014A fire broke out near Valparaíso, Chile, eventually destroying at least 2,500 homes and leaving approximately 11,000 people homeless (damage pictured).
1993Bosnian War: NATO forces began Operation Deny Flight to enforce a no-fly zone over Bosnia and Herzegovina ordered by the United Nations Security Council.
1994Husband-and-wife law partners Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel posted the first massive commercial spam on Usenet.
1999United States President Bill Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving "intentionally false statements" in a civil lawsuit; he is later fined and disbarred.
2012The Guinea-Bissau military seized control in a coup amid a presidential election, later handing power to a transitional administration under Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo.
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