December 12 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on December 12, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♐︎ Sagittarius
Nov 22 – Dec 21
Birth stone
Turquoise
Birth flower
Narcissus
How common
#54 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous December 12 birthdays
Gustave Flaubert · French novelist1821
Edvard Munch · Norwegian painter1863
Alfred Werner · Swiss chemist Nobel laureate1866
Gerd von Rundstedt · German Field Marshal during World War II1875
Edward G. Robinson · Romanian-American actor1893
Mária Telkes · Hungarian–American scientist and inventor1900
Yasujirō Ozu · Japanese film director, screenwriter1903
Frank Sinatra · American singer and actor1915
Bob Barker · American game show host1923
Robert Noyce · American physicist1927
Chinghiz Aitmatov · Soviet and Kyrgyz author1928
Connie Francis · American singer and actress1937
Dionne Warwick · American singer1940
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa · Portuguese politician and academic, former President of Portugal1948
Eric Maskin · American Nobel laureate in economics1950
Rajinikanth · Indian actor1950
Jennifer Connelly · American actress1970
Mayim Bialik · American actress, television personality, and author1975
Daniel Agger · Danish association football player1984
Michael Olise · French footballer2001
On this day in history
1969The Greek junta announced its withdrawal from the Council of Europe after the junta was found guilty of torture and other human-rights violations by the European Commission of Human Rights.
2000The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Bush v. Gore that the recount of ballots cast in Florida for the presidential election be stopped, effectively making George W. Bush the winner.
2012North Korea made its first successful satellite launch, as Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3 Unit 2 reached orbit.
2021At the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Max Verstappen overtook Lewis Hamilton on the final lap to become World Drivers' Champion.
1870Joseph H. Rainey of South Carolina becomes the second black U.S. congressman.
1942World War II: German troops began Operation Winter Storm, an attempt to relieve encircled Axis forces during the Battle of Stalingrad.
1945The People's Republic of Korea is outlawed in the South, by order of the United States Army Military Government in Korea.
1964Jomo Kenyatta became the first president of the Republic of Kenya.
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