March 12 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on March 12, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♓︎ Pisces
Feb 19 – Mar 20
Birth stone
Aquamarine
Birth flower
Daffodil
How common
#228 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous March 12 birthdays
Gustav Kirchhoff · German physicist1824
Simon Newcomb · American astronomer1835
Gabriele D'Annunzio · Italian writer1863
Vladimir Vernadsky · Russian and Soviet mineralogist and geochemist1863
Wally Schirra · American astronaut1923
Leo Esaki · Japanese physicist1925
Raúl Alfonsín · Argentine politician1927
Edward Albee · American playwright1928
Al Jarreau · American jazz and pop singer1940
Liza Minnelli · American actress and singer1946
Frank Welker · American actor1946
Mitt Romney · American politician and businessman1947
James Taylor · American singer and guitarist1948
Ron Jeremy · American pornographic actor1953
Jost Gippert · German linguist1956
Aaron Eckhart · American actor1968
Tammy Duckworth · American politician and military officer1968
Jaimie Alexander · American actress1984
Stromae · Belgian singer and songwriter1985
Christina Grimmie · American singer1994
On this day in history
1947Cold War: U.S. president Harry S. Truman proclaimed the Truman Doctrine to help stem the spread of communism.
1967General Suharto seized power from President Sukarno when the Provisional People's Consultative Assembly sworn him in as acting president of Indonesia.
2004President of South Korea, Roh Moo-hyun, is impeached by its National Assembly, the first such impeachment in the nation's history.
2020The United States suspends travel from Europe due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
1934Supported by the Estonian army, Konstantin Päts staged a coup d'état, beginning the Era of Silence.
1940The Moscow Peace Treaty was signed, ending the Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union.
1942The Battle of Java ends with the surrender of the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command to the Empire of Japan in Bandung, West Java, Dutch East Indies.
1952British diplomat Lord Ismay was appointed the first secretary general of NATO.
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