October 12 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on October 12, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♎︎ Libra
Sep 23 – Oct 22
Birth stone
Opal
Birth flower
Marigold
How common
#203 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous October 12 birthdays
Arthur Harden · British biochemist1865
Ramsay MacDonald · British prime minister in 1924 and 1929 to 19351866
Ralph Vaughan Williams · English composer1872
Aleister Crowley · English occultist1875
Edith Stein · Jewish-German Catholic nun, theologian and philosopher1891
Fumimaro Konoe · Politician and former Prime Minister of Japan1891
Richard Meier · American architect1934
Luciano Pavarotti · Italian operatic tenor1935
Kuniya Daini · Japanese association football player1944
Carlos the Jackal · Venezuelan-born international terror operative1949
Chen Shui-bian · 10th and 11th President of Republic of China1950
Trần Đại Quang · 8th President of Vietnam1956
Branko Crvenkovski · President of the Republic of Macedonia1962
Saara Kuugongelwa · Prime Minister of Namibia1967
Hugh Jackman · Australian and English actor and singer1968
Marion Jones · American athlete1975
Bode Miller · American alpine ski racer1977
Alex Brosque · Australian soccer player1983
Cristhian Stuani · Uruguayan footballer1986
Josh Hutcherson · American actor1992
On this day in history
1892The Pledge of Allegiance of the United States was first used in public schools to coincide with the opening of the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
1933The United States Department of Justice acquired a military prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, to be transformed into the last-resort Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary.
1979Typhoon Tip, the largest and most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded, reached a worldwide record-low sea-level pressure of 870 mbar (25.69 inHg) in the western Pacific Ocean.
2017The United States announces its decision to withdraw from UNESCO. Israel immediately follows.
1959At the national congress of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance in Peru, a group of leftist radicals are expelled from the party who later form APRA Rebelde.
1960Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev reportedly pounded his shoe on a desk during a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in protest at a speech by Philippine delegate Lorenzo Sumulong.
1970Vietnam War: Vietnamization continues as President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas.
1973President Nixon nominates House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford as the successor to Vice President Spiro T. Agnew.
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