January 12th, 1133

Born on January 12th, 1133

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 325,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 440 days, exactly on August 3rd, 2025, people who were born on January 12th, 1133 will be 326,000 days old!

... in seconds, minutes and hours

What happened on January 12th?

January 12th, 1879

Anglo-Zulu War: Natal Native Contingent and British troops defeated Zulu forces in the Action at Sihayo's Kraal.

January 12th, 1865

The foundation stone of Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral in Cork was laid.

January 12th, 2010

Iranian physicist Massoud Ali-Mohammadi was assassinated while leaving his home for the University of Tehran, where he was a professor.

January 12th, 2007

Comet McNaught (pictured) reached perihelion, becoming the brightest comet in over 40 years, with an apparent magnitude of −5.5.

January 12th, 1964

Sultan Jamshid bin Abdullah was overthrown by rebels led by John Okello, ending 200 years of Arab dominance in Zanzibar.

January 12th, 1918

An underground explosion at a coal mine in Staffordshire, England, killed 155 men and boys.

January 12th, 1916

Oswald Boelcke and Max Immelmann became the first German aviators to be awarded the Pour le Mérite, Germany's highest military honour.

January 12th, 1895

The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, a conservation organisation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, was founded.

January 12th, 1808

John Rennie's scheme to defend St Mary's Church in Reculver from coastal erosion was abandoned in favour of demolition, despite the church being an exemplar of Anglo-Saxon architecture.

January 12th, 1777

Mission Santa Clara de Asís (pictured), a Spanish mission in California that formed the basis of both the city of Santa Clara and Santa Clara University, was established by the Franciscans.

January 12th, 1659

The fort at Allahabad was surrendered to the forces of Mughal emperor Aurangzeb.

January 12th, 1554

Bayinnaung, who later assembled what was probably the largest empire in the history of mainland Southeast Asia, was crowned as the king of the Burmese Toungoo dynasty.

January 12th, 0475

Basiliscus became Byzantine emperor after Zeno was forced to flee Constantinople.

January 12th, 2020

Taal Volcano in the Philippines erupts and kills 39 people.

January 12th, 2016

Ten people are killed and 15 wounded in a bombing near the Blue Mosque in Istanbul.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on January 12th

Same Day
Who's birthday is on January 12th?

25

Krishna Nagar

Badminton player

*January 12th, 1999, Jaipur

31

Ronya Othmann

German writer

*January 12th, 1993, Munich

23

Marit Crajé

Dutch Handball player

*January 12th, 2001, Apeldoorn

65

Hermann Thiersch

German archaeologist

*January 12th, 1874, Munich †June 4th, 1939, Göttingen

50

Marie Jonas

German physician

*January 12th, 1893, Primorsk †November 30th, 1943, extermination camp

82

Michel Mayor

Swiss astrophysicist & Nobel laureate of Physics

*January 12th, 1942, Lausanne

75

Haruki Murakami

Japanese writer (born 1949)

*January 12th, 1949, Kyoto

38

Jakob Oftebro

Norwegian actor

*January 12th, 1986, Oslo

60

Jeff Bezos

American business magnate (born 1964)

*January 12th, 1964, Albuquerque

75

Charles Perrault

French author (1628-1703)

*January 12th, 1628, Paris †May 16th, 1703, Paris

40

Jack London

American author, journalist and social activist (1876–1916)

*January 12th, 1876, San Francisco †November 22nd, 1916, Glen Ellen

64

Oliver Platt

Canadian-born American actor

*January 12th, 1960, Windsor

78

Ruth Brown

American singer-songwriter (1928-2006)

*January 12th, 1928, Portsmouth †November 17th, 2006, Las Vegas

26

Juan Foyth

Argentine association football player

*January 12th, 1998, La Plata

66

Matthias Döschner

German association football player and manager

*January 12th, 1958, Dohna

74

Ferenc Molnár

Hungarian-born dramatist and novelist (1878-1952)

*January 12th, 1878, Budapest †April 1st, 1952, New York City

53

Hermann Göring

German Nazi politician, military leader, and convicted war criminal

*January 12th, 1893, Rosenheim †October 15th, 1946, Nuremberg Court Prison

63

Simon Russell Beale

British actor and music historian

*January 12th, 1961, Penang

51

Hande Yener

Turkish singer

*January 12th, 1973, Kadıköy

81

Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

Swiss pedagogue and educational reformer

*January 12th, 1746, Zürich †February 17th, 1827, Brugg

39

Swami Vivekananda

Indian Hindu monk and philosopher (1863–1902)

*January 12th, 1863, Swami Vivekananda's Ancestral House & Cultural Centre †July 4th, 1902, Belur

62

Pierre Daru

French writer, academic and statesman (1767-1829)

*January 12th, 1767, Montpellier †September 5th, 1829, Meulan-en-Yvelines

67

Joe Frazier

American boxer (1944–2011)

*January 12th, 1944, Beaufort †November 7th, 2011, Philadelphia

68

Nikolai Noskov

Soviet and Russian singer and song writer

*January 12th, 1956, Gagarin

45

David Zabriskie

Road bicycle racer

*January 12th, 1979, Salt Lake City

70

Guy Fischer

Member of the Senate of France (1944-2014)

*January 12th, 1944, Décines-Charpieu †November 1st, 2014, 8th arrondissement of Lyon

31

Zayn Malik

English singer

*January 12th, 1993, Bradford

78

André Labarrère

French politician and Esperantist (1928-2006)

*January 12th, 1928, Pau †May 16th, 2006, Pau

76

William Nicholson

British screenwriter, playwright and novelist (1948-)

*January 12th, 1948, Lewes

64

Guido Bontempi

Road bicycle racer

*January 12th, 1960, Gussago

53

Peter Madsen

Danish convicted murderer, entrepreneur and self-proclaimed engineer

*January 12th, 1971, Sæby

35

Lee Tomlin

English association football player (born 1989)

*January 12th, 1989, Leicester

86

Ilya Prigogine

Russian-Belgian physical chemist

*January 12th, 1917, Moscow †May 28th, 2003, Brussels metropolitan area

74

Sheila Jackson Lee

U.S. Representative from Texas

*January 12th, 1950, Queens

69

John Singer Sargent

American painter (1856–1925)

*January 12th, 1856, Florence †April 15th, 1925, London

66

Christiane Amanpour

English-Iranian news anchor and international correspondent

*January 12th, 1958, Ealing

104

Luise Rainer

German-born actress (1910–2014)

*January 12th, 1910, Vienna †December 30th, 2014, London

79

Maggie Bell

Scottish singer

*January 12th, 1945, Glasgow

53

Alfred Rosenberg

Baltic German architect, Nazi politician and ideologue (1893-1946)

*January 12th, 1893, Tallinn †October 16th, 1946, Nuremberg

66

Paul Hermann Müller

Swiss chemist (1899-1965)

*January 12th, 1899, Olten †October 12th, 1965, Basel

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on January 12th

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day) which are celebrated on January 12th.

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1133 is a normal year and no leap year.

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