November 12 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on November 12, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♏︎ Scorpio
Oct 23 – Nov 21
Birth stone
Topaz
Birth flower
Chrysanthemum
How common
#177 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous November 12 birthdays
Elizabeth Cady Stanton · American writer, suffragist and Women's Rights activist1815
Baháʼu'lláh · Founder of the Bahá'í Faith1817
Auguste Rodin · French sculptor1840
John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh · English physicist1842
Sun Yat-sen · Chinese politician, physician, and revolutionary1866
Roland Barthes · French philosopher and essayist1915
Kim Hunter · American actress1922
Grace Kelly · American actress and Princess consort of Monaco1929
Michael Ende · German writer1929
Jalal Talabani · Iraqi politician1933
Wallace Shawn · American actor and playwright1943
Neil Young · Canadian singer, songwriter and filmmaker1945
Hassan Rouhani · President of Iran from 2013 to 20211948
Nadia Comăneci · Romanian gymnast and five-time Olympic gold medalist1961
Naomi Wolf · American feminist and journalist1962
Michael Kremer · American development economist1964
Tonya Harding · American figure skater1970
Ryan Gosling · Canadian actor1980
Anne Hathaway · American actress1982
Russell Westbrook · American basketball player1988
On this day in history
1892William Heffelfinger was paid $500 by the Allegheny Athletic Association, becoming the first professional American football player.
1973The first episode of Last of the Summer Wine, the longest-running television sitcom in history, premiered on the BBC.
1980The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach to Saturn and takes the first images of its rings.
2014The European Space Agency's lander Philae touched down on 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, becoming the first spacecraft to land on a comet.
1940World War II: Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov arrived in Berlin to discuss the possibility of the Soviet Union joining the Axis powers.
1942World War II: Naval Battle of Guadalcanal between Japanese and American forces begins near Guadalcanal. The battle lasts for three days and ends with an American victory.
1970The Oregon Highway Division unsuccessfully attempted to destroy a rotting beached sperm whale near Florence, Oregon, with dynamite.
1971Vietnam War: As part of Vietnamization, U.S. President Richard Nixon sets February 1, 1972 as the deadline for the removal of another 45,000 American troops from Vietnam.
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