| Year |
Month & Date |
Day |
Name |
| 1492 |
September 12 |
Tuesday |
Lorenzo II de' Medici |
Duke of Urbino (d. 1519) |
| 1575 |
September 12 |
Saturday |
Henry Hudson |
English explorer (d. 1611) |
| 1605 |
September 12 |
Monday |
William Dugdale |
English antiquarian (d. 1686) |
| 1688 |
September 12 |
Sunday |
Ferdinand Brokoff |
Czech sculptor (d. 1731) |
| 1690 |
September 12 |
Tuesday |
Peter Dens |
Flemish Catholic theologian (d. 1775) |
| 1725 |
September 12 |
Wednesday |
Guillaume Le Gentil |
French astronomer (d. 1792) |
| 1740 |
September 12 |
Monday |
Johann Heinrich Jung |
German author (d. 1817) |
| 1797 |
September 12 |
Tuesday |
Samuel Joseph May |
American Abolitionist (d. 1871) |
| 1812 |
September 12 |
Saturday |
Richard Hoe |
American inventor and industrialist (d. 1886) |
| 1818 |
September 12 |
Saturday |
Richard Gatling |
American weapons inventor (d. 1903) |
| 1830 |
September 12 |
Sunday |
William Sprague IV |
American politician (d.1915) |
| 1852 |
September 12 |
Sunday |
H. H. Asquith |
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1928) |
| 1855 |
September 12 |
Wednesday |
Simon-Napoleon Parent |
Canadian politician (d. 1920) |
| 1875 |
September 12 |
Sunday |
Matsunosuke Onoe |
Japanese actor (d. 1926) |
| 1880 |
September 12 |
Sunday |
H. L. Mencken |
American journalist and author (d. 1956) |
| 1888 |
September 12 |
Wednesday |
Maurice Chevalier |
French singer and actor (d. 1972) |
| 1891 |
September 12 |
Saturday |
Pedro Albizu Campos |
advocate for Puerto Rican independence (d. 1965) |
| 1892 |
September 12 |
Monday |
Alfred A. Knopf |
American publisher (d. 1984) |
| 1895 |
September 12 |
Thursday |
Freym?ur Jhannsson |
Icelandic artist (d. 1973) |
| 1897 |
September 12 |
Sunday |
Irene Joliot-Curie |
French physicist‚ recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 1956) |
| 1898 |
September 12 |
Monday |
Salvador Bacarisse |
Spanish composer (d. 1963) |
| 1898 |
September 12 |
Monday |
Ben Shahn |
Lithuanian-born American artist (d. 1969) |
| 1901 |
September 12 |
Thursday |
Ben Blue |
Canadian actor and comedian (d. 1975) |
| 1901 |
September 12 |
Thursday |
Shmuel Horowitz |
Russian-born Israeli agronomist (d. 1999) |
| 1902 |
September 12 |
Friday |
Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira |
President of Brazil (d. 1976) |
| 1907 |
September 12 |
Thursday |
Louis MacNeice |
Irish poet (d. 1963) |
| 1913 |
September 12 |
Friday |
Jesse Owens |
American athlete (d. 1980) |
| 1913 |
September 12 |
Friday |
Eiji Toyoda |
Japanese industrialist |
| 1914 |
September 12 |
Saturday |
Rais Amrohvi |
Pakistani poet and psychoanalyst (d. 1988) |
| 1914 |
September 12 |
Saturday |
Desmond Llewelyn |
Welsh actor (d. 1999) |
| 1915 |
September 12 |
Sunday |
Frank McGee |
American journalist (d. 1974) |
| 1916 |
September 12 |
Tuesday |
Tony Bettenhausen |
American race car driver (d. 1961) |
| 1917 |
September 12 |
Wednesday |
Pierre Sevigny |
Canadian politician (d. 2004) |
| 1921 |
September 12 |
Monday |
Stanis?aw Lem |
Polish writer (d. 2006) |
| 1922 |
September 12 |
Tuesday |
Ellen Demming |
American actress (d. 2002) |
| 1922 |
September 12 |
Tuesday |
Mark Rosenzweig |
American brain researcher (d. 2009) |
| 1925 |
September 12 |
Saturday |
Stan Lopata |
American baseball player |
| 1928 |
September 12 |
Wednesday |
Ernie Vandeweghe |
Former football‚basketball‚and baseball player |
| 1931 |
September 12 |
Saturday |
Sir Ian Holm |
English actor |
| 1931 |
September 12 |
Saturday |
George Jones |
American singer |
| 1933 |
September 12 |
Tuesday |
Tatiana Doronina |
Russian actress |
| 1934 |
September 12 |
Wednesday |
Glenn Davis |
American athlete (d. 2009) |
| 1934 |
September 12 |
Wednesday |
Jaegwon Kim |
Korean-born American philosopher |
| 1937 |
September 12 |
Sunday |
George Chuvalo |
Canadian boxer |
| 1938 |
September 12 |
Monday |
Claude Ruel |
French Canadian ice hockey coach |
| 1939 |
September 12 |
Tuesday |
Henry Waxman |
American politician |
| 1940 |
September 12 |
Thursday |
Linda Gray |
American actress |
| 1940 |
September 12 |
Thursday |
Mickey Lolich |
American baseball player |
| 1940 |
September 12 |
Thursday |
Patrick Mower |
English actor |
| 1943 |
September 12 |
Sunday |
Maria Muldaur |
American singer |
| 1943 |
September 12 |
Sunday |
Michael Ondaatje |
Sri Lankan-born writer |
| 1944 |
September 12 |
Tuesday |
Leonard Peltier |
American activist |
| 1944 |
September 12 |
Tuesday |
Barry White |
American singer (d. 2003) |
| 1947 |
September 12 |
Friday |
Bjorn Floberg |
Norwegian actor |
| 1948 |
September 12 |
Sunday |
Luis Lima |
Argentinian tenor |
| 1949 |
September 12 |
Monday |
Irina Rodnina |
Russian figure skater |
| 1950 |
September 12 |
Tuesday |
Gustav Brunner |
Austrian engineer |
| 1951 |
September 12 |
Wednesday |
Bertie Ahern |
Irish politician |
| 1951 |
September 12 |
Wednesday |
Ray Gravell |
Welsh rugby union player (d. 2007) |
| 1951 |
September 12 |
Wednesday |
Joe Pantoliano |
American actor |
| 1951 |
September 12 |
Wednesday |
Gerald Stano |
American serial killer (d. 1998) |
| 1952 |
September 12 |
Friday |
Gerry Beckley |
American musician (America) |
| 1952 |
September 12 |
Friday |
Neil Peart |
Canadian drummer and author (Rush) |
| 1954 |
September 12 |
Sunday |
Adrian Adonis |
American professional wrestler (d. 1988) |
| 1954 |
September 12 |
Sunday |
Jeff Jarvis |
American journalist |
| 1955 |
September 12 |
Monday |
Peter Scolari |
American actor |
| 1956 |
September 12 |
Wednesday |
Barry Andrews |
British musician |
| 1956 |
September 12 |
Wednesday |
Sam Brownback |
American politician |
| 1956 |
September 12 |
Wednesday |
Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing |
Hong Kong artist‚ singer‚ actor‚ director (d. 2003) |
| 1956 |
September 12 |
Wednesday |
Ricky Rudd |
American race car driver |
| 1956 |
September 12 |
Wednesday |
Walter Woon |
law professor and former Nominated Member of Parliament and Attorney-General of Singapore |
| 1957 |
September 12 |
Thursday |
Rachel Ward |
English actress |
| 1957 |
September 12 |
Thursday |
Hans Zimmer |
German composer |
| 1958 |
September 12 |
Friday |
Wilfredo Benitez |
American boxer |
| 1959 |
September 12 |
Saturday |
Scott Brown |
United States senator from Massachusetts |
| 1960 |
September 12 |
Monday |
Stefanos Korkolis |
Greek songwriter and pianist |
| 1961 |
September 12 |
Tuesday |
Myl?ne Farmer |
French singer and songwriter |
| 1961 |
September 12 |
Tuesday |
Kathem Al Saher |
Iraqi singer |
| 1962 |
September 12 |
Wednesday |
Dino Merlin |
Bosnian singer |
| 1962 |
September 12 |
Wednesday |
Amy Yasbeck |
American actress |
| 1964 |
September 12 |
Saturday |
Dieter Hecking |
German footballer |
| 1965 |
September 12 |
Sunday |
Einstein Kristiansen |
Norwegian cartoonist‚ designer and TV host |
| 1965 |
September 12 |
Sunday |
John Norwood Fisher |
American musician |
| 1965 |
September 12 |
Sunday |
Vernon Maxwell |
American basketball player |
| 1966 |
September 12 |
Monday |
Darren E. Burrows |
American actor |
| 1966 |
September 12 |
Monday |
Ben Folds |
American musician |
| 1966 |
September 12 |
Monday |
Vezio Sacratini |
Italian ice hockey player |
| 1967 |
September 12 |
Tuesday |
Pat Listach |
American baseball player |
| 1967 |
September 12 |
Tuesday |
Louis C.K. |
American stand-up comedian‚ writer‚ actor‚ producer and director |
| 1968 |
September 12 |
Thursday |
Ler LaLonde |
American guitarist (Primus) |
| 1968 |
September 12 |
Thursday |
Paul F. Tompkins |
American comedian |
| 1968 |
September 12 |
Thursday |
Richard Snell |
former South African cricketer |
| 1969 |
September 12 |
Friday |
angel Cabrera |
Argentine golfer |
| 1969 |
September 12 |
Friday |
James Frey |
American writer |
| 1969 |
September 12 |
Friday |
Shigeki Maruyama |
Japanese golfer |
| 1969 |
September 12 |
Friday |
Andre Heinz |
American environmentalist; son of Teresa Heinz |
| 1970 |
September 12 |
Saturday |
Nathan Larson |
American guitarist and composer |
| 1972 |
September 12 |
Tuesday |
Jason Statham |
English actor |
| 1973 |
September 12 |
Wednesday |
Darren Campbell |
British athlete |
| 1973 |
September 12 |
Wednesday |
Ki-Jana Carter |
American football player |
| 1973 |
September 12 |
Wednesday |
Martin Lapointe |
Canadian hockey player |
| 1973 |
September 12 |
Wednesday |
Paul Walker |
American actor |
| 1974 |
September 12 |
Thursday |
Caroline Aigle |
First female French fighter pilot (d. 2007) |
| 1974 |
September 12 |
Thursday |
Nuno Valente |
Portuguese footballer |
| 1974 |
September 12 |
Thursday |
Jennifer Nettles |
American country singer‚ part of Sugarland |
| 1976 |
September 12 |
Sunday |
Bizzy Bone |
American rapper‚ (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony) |
| 1976 |
September 12 |
Sunday |
Maciej ?urawski |
Polish footballer |
| 1977 |
September 12 |
Monday |
Nathan Bracken |
Australian cricketer |
| 1977 |
September 12 |
Monday |
Grant Denyer |
Australian television personality and TV Host |
| 1977 |
September 12 |
Monday |
Jeff Irwin |
American musician |
| 1977 |
September 12 |
Monday |
James McCartney |
British musician and son of ex-Beatle Paul McCartney |
| 1977 |
September 12 |
Monday |
Idan Raichel |
Israeli musician |
| 1977 |
September 12 |
Monday |
David Thompson |
English footballer |
| 1978 |
September 12 |
Tuesday |
Elisabetta Canalis |
Italian model and actress |
| 1978 |
September 12 |
Tuesday |
Benjamin McKenzie |
American actor |
| 1978 |
September 12 |
Tuesday |
Ruben Studdard |
American singer |
| 1980 |
September 12 |
Friday |
Sean Burroughs |
American baseball player |
| 1980 |
September 12 |
Friday |
Fernando Cesar de Souza |
Brazilian footballer |
| 1980 |
September 12 |
Friday |
Gus G. |
Greek guitarist (Firewind‚ Dream Evil) |
| 1980 |
September 12 |
Friday |
Joe Loeffler |
American musician (former bassist for Chevelle) |
| 1980 |
September 12 |
Friday |
Josef Vasi?ek |
Czech ice hockey player |
| 1980 |
September 12 |
Friday |
Yao Ming |
Chinese basketball player |
| 1981 |
September 12 |
Saturday |
Alan Arruda |
Brazilian footballer |
| 1981 |
September 12 |
Saturday |
Jennifer Hudson |
American actress and singer |
| 1981 |
September 12 |
Saturday |
Staciana Stitts |
American swimmer |
| 1982 |
September 12 |
Sunday |
Nana Ozaki |
Japanese model |
| 1982 |
September 12 |
Sunday |
Zoran Planinic |
Croatian basketball player |
| 1983 |
September 12 |
Monday |
Carly Smithson |
Irish singer |
| 1983 |
September 12 |
Monday |
Daniel Muir |
football player |
| 1983 |
September 12 |
Monday |
Sergio Parisse |
Argentina-born Italian rugby player |
| 1983 |
September 12 |
Monday |
Clayton Richard |
American baseball player |
| 1984 |
September 12 |
Wednesday |
September |
Swedish singer |
| 1986 |
September 12 |
Friday |
Dimitrios Regas |
Greek sprinter |
| 1986 |
September 12 |
Friday |
Emmy Rossum |
American actress and singer |
| 1986 |
September 12 |
Friday |
Joanne Jackson |
British swimmer |
| 1988 |
September 12 |
Monday |
Amanda Jenssen |
Swedish singer |