January 12 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on January 12, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♑︎ Capricorn
Dec 22 – Jan 19
Birth stone
Garnet
Birth flower
Carnation
How common
#274 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous January 12 birthdays
John Singer Sargent · American painter1856
Swami Vivekananda · Indian Hindu monk and philosopher1863
Jack London · American author, journalist and social activist1876
Sergei Korolev · Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer1907
Luise Rainer · German-born actress1910
Alasdair MacIntyre · Scottish-American philosopher1929
Michel Mayor · Swiss astrophysicist & Nobel laureate of Physics1942
Joe Frazier · American boxer1944
Haruki Murakami · Japanese writer1949
Kirstie Alley · American actress1951
Rush Limbaugh · American political commentator1951
Howard Stern · American radio and television personality1954
Nikolai Noskov · Soviet and Russian singer and song writer1956
John Lasseter · American animator, film director, screenwriter, producer1957
Jeff Bezos · American business magnate1964
Zack de la Rocha · American singer, rapper and activist1970
Hande Yener · Turkish singer1973
Naya Rivera · American actress and singer1987
Sergey Karjakin · Russian chess player1990
Zayn Malik · English singer1993
On this day in history
1777Mission Santa Clara de Asís, a Spanish mission in California that formed the basis of both the city of Santa Clara and Santa Clara University, was established by the Franciscans.
1991Persian Gulf War: An act of the U.S. Congress authorizes the use of American military force to drive Iraq out of Kuwait.
2001Downtown Disney opens to the public as part of the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California.
2007Comet McNaught reached perihelion, becoming the brightest comet in over 40 years, with an apparent magnitude of −5.5.
1964Sultan Jamshid bin Abdullah was overthrown by rebels led by John Okello, ending 200 years of Arab dominance in Zanzibar.
1966Lyndon B. Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended.
1967Seventy-three-year-old psychology professor James Bedford became the first person to be cryonically preserved with intent of future resuscitation.
1986Space Shuttle program: Congressman and future NASA Administrator Bill Nelson lifts off from Kennedy Space Center aboard Columbia on mission STS-61-C as a payload specialist.
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