June 12 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on June 12, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♊︎ Gemini
May 21 – Jun 20
Birth stone
Pearl
Birth flower
Rose
How common
#135 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous June 12 birthdays
Harriet Martineau · English writer and sociologist1802
Johanna Spyri · Swiss writer1827
Egon Schiele · Austrian painter1890
Djuna Barnes · American Modernist writer, poet and artist1892
Anthony Eden · British soldier, diplomat and politician1897
Fritz Albert Lipmann · German-American biochemist1899
Milovan Djilas · Yugoslav politician, theorist and author1911
David Rockefeller · American banker and philanthropist1915
George H. W. Bush · 41st President of the United States1924
Anne Frank · German-born Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim1929
Vladimir Arnold · Russian mathematician1937
Chick Corea · American jazz and fusion pianist, keyboardist, and composer1941
Bert Sakmann · German biologist and physician1942
Jordan Peterson · Canadian clinical psychologist1962
Diego Milito · Argentine football player1979
Adriana Lima · Brazilian model1981
Dave Franco · American actor1985
Eren Derdiyok · Turkish-Swiss association football player1988
Mauricio Isla · Chilean association football player1988
Philippe Coutinho · Brazilian association football player1992
On this day in history
1864Union general Ulysses S. Grant pulled his troops out of the Battle of Cold Harbor in Hanover County, Virginia, ending one of the bloodiest, most lopsided battles in the American Civil War.
1963The premiere was held in New York of the historical drama film Cleopatra, the most expensive film made to that point.
1967The U.S. Supreme Court struck down laws restricting interracial marriage in the landmark civil rights case Loving v. Virginia.
2018United States President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un of North Korea hold the first meeting between leaders of their two countries in Singapore.
1987Cold War: During a speech at the Brandenburg Gate by the Berlin Wall, US president Ronald Reagan challenged Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall!" (speech featured).
1991In modern Russia's first democratic election, Boris Yeltsin is elected as the President of Russia.
1994The Boeing 777, the world's largest twinjet, made its maiden flight.
2010Sixteen-year-old Abby Sunderland was rescued after her boat was dismasted in the Indian Ocean while trying to become the youngest sailor around the world.
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