September 12 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on September 12, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♍︎ Virgo
Aug 23 – Sep 22
Birth stone
Sapphire
Birth flower
Aster
How common
#1 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous September 12 birthdays
H. H. Asquith · British politician1852
H. L. Mencken · American journalist and writer1880
Irène Joliot-Curie · French chemist and physicist1897
Jesse Owens · American track and field athlete1913
Stanisław Lem · Polish science fiction author1921
George Jones · American country musician1931
Harvey J. Alter · American medical researcher1935
Joachim Frank · German-born American biophysicist and Nobel laureate1940
Barry White · American soul singer1944
Joe Pantoliano · American actor1951
Hans Zimmer · German film composer1957
Nassim Nicholas Taleb · Lebanese-American mathematical statistician1960
Anousheh Ansari · Iranian-American engineer and entrepreneur1966
Louis C.K. · American comedian, actor, and filmmaker1967
Paul F. Tompkins · American comedian and actor1968
Paul Walker · American actor1973
Tarana Burke · American civil rights activist1973
Jennifer Hudson · American singer, actress, model and spokesperson1981
Emmy Rossum · American actress1986
Sydney Sweeney · American actress1997
On this day in history
1952Three boys in Flatwoods, West Virginia, U.S., reported seeing a ten-foot-tall (3 m) monster in the woods while investigating a UFO.
1962In a speech at Rice Stadium in Houston, U.S. president John F. Kennedy reiterated an aspiration to land a man on the Moon before 1970 (video featured).
1983The clandestine Boricua Popular Army staged a bank robbery in West Hartford, Connecticut, making off with $7 million in the largest cash theft in U.S. history at the time.
1992Aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour, American Mae Jemison became the first Black woman to travel to space.
1933Hungarian-American physicist Leo Szilard conceived of the idea of the nuclear chain reaction while waiting for a traffic light in Bloomsbury, London.
2003Typhoon Maemi, the strongest recorded typhoon to strike South Korea, made landfall near Busan.
2007Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada is convicted of plunder.
2013NASA confirms that its Voyager 1 probe has become the first manmade object to enter interstellar space.
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