February 12 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on February 12, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♒︎ Aquarius
Jan 20 – Feb 18
Birth stone
Amethyst
Birth flower
Violet
How common
#257 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous February 12 birthdays
John Edward Gray · British zoologist1800
Abraham Lincoln · President of the United States from 1861 to 18651809
Charles Darwin · English naturalist and biologist1809
James Dwight Dana · American mineralogist, scientist and zoologist1813
Lou Andreas-Salomé · German-Russian essayist, philosopher, and psychoanalyst1861
Anna Pavlova · Russian ballet dancer1882
Julian Schwinger · American theoretical physicist1918
Pran · Indian actor1920
Bill Russell · American basketball player1934
Ray Manzarek · American keyboardist1939
Ehud Barak · 10th Prime Minister of Israel1942
Ray Kurzweil · American computer scientist, author, entrepreneur, futurist and inventor1948
David Graeber · American anthropologist and anarchist1961
Josh Brolin · American actor1968
Chris McCandless · American hiker and explorer1968
Darren Aronofsky · American filmmaker1969
Tara Strong · Canadian-American actress1973
Christina Ricci · American actress1980
Jennifer Stone · American actress and registered nurse1993
Khvicha Kvaratskhelia · Georgian footballer2001
On this day in history
1855The precursor of Michigan State University in East Lansing was founded as the United States' first agricultural college.
1924George Gershwin's composition Rhapsody in Blue premiered at Aeolian Hall in New York.
1988While claiming the right of innocent passage through Soviet territorial waters in the Black Sea, the American cruiser USS Yorktown and destroyer USS Caron were bumped by Soviet warships.
2001The NASA space probe NEAR Shoemaker touched down on Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
1919The Second Regional Congress of Peasants, Workers and Insurgents is held by the Makhnovshchina at Huliaipole.
1942The Imperial Japanese Army initiated the Battle of Pasir Panjang in Kent Ridge Park in Singapore.
1994Edvard Munch's painting The Scream was stolen from the National Gallery of Norway.
1999United States President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.
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