September 12th, 1717

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Born on September 12th, 1717 – Weekday, Age & Zodiac
Age in days, weeks and months
What happened on September 12th?
Birthdays of famous people
Public holidays on September 12th
Date as a Roman numeral / digit
Calendar (September 1717)

Born on September 12th, 1717

Weekday

Sunday

September 12th, 1717 was a Sunday.

Age

306

People born on September 12th, 1717 will turn 307 this year (2024), in exactly 137 days .

Zodiac

♍

Virgo (The Maiden)

August 24th, 1717 - September 23rd, 1717

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 111,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 7 days, exactly on May 5th, 2024, people who were born on September 12th, 1717 will be 112,000 days old!

111,993 Days

15,999 Weeks

3,679 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

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What happened on September 12th?

September 12th, 2008

A Metrolink train collided head-on with a freight train in Los Angeles, California, resulting in 25 deaths and 135 injuries; the Metrolink driver had passed through a red signal, having likely been distracted by text messaging.

September 12th, 2003

Typhoon Maemi, the strongest recorded typhoon to strike South Korea, made landfall near Busan.

September 12th, 1995

Hurricane Ismael formed off the southwest coast of Mexico; it went on to kill over a hundred people in the country.

September 12th, 1992

Aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour, American Mae Jemison became the first Black woman to travel to space.

September 12th, 1983

The 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.

September 12th, 1977

South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko died after being beaten in police custody in Port Elizabeth.

September 12th, 1962

In 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.

September 12th, 1952

Three boys in Flatwoods, West Virginia, U.S., reported seeing a ten-foot-tall (3 m) monster in the woods while investigating a UFO.

September 12th, 1948

The People's Liberation Army launched the Liaoshen campaign, the first of the three major military campaigns during the late stage of the Chinese Civil War.

September 12th, 1942

World War II: The Imperial Japanese Army began the Battle of Edson's Ridge in an effort to retake Henderson Field on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands from the Allies.

September 12th, 1933

Hungarian-American physicist Leo Szilard conceived of the idea of the nuclear chain reaction while waiting for a traffic light in Bloomsbury, London.

September 12th, 1928

The Okeechobee hurricane first struck the island of Guadeloupe; eventually it reached the United States and caused over 4,000 deaths overall.

September 12th, 1910

Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8, one of the largest-scale choral works in the classical concert repertoire and popularly known as the "Symphony of a Thousand", was first performed in Munich (1916 performers pictured).

September 12th, 1846

The English poets Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning (pictured) eloped to Italy, marrying in secret to avoid their disapproving families.

September 12th, 1309

Reconquista: Castilian forces captured Gibraltar from the Emirate of Granada.

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

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

Dieter Hecking

German association football player and manager

*September 12th, 1964, Castrop-Rauxel

Julia Wong Pei Xian

Badminton player

*September 12th, 1987, Malacca

Mylène Farmer

French singer and songwriter (born 1961)

*September 12th, 1961, Pierrefonds

Adam Ludwig von Wuthenau

(1706-1763)

*September 12th, 1706, Wörbzig †April 23rd, 1763

Paul Walker

American actor (1973–2013)

*September 12th, 1973, Glendale †November 30th, 2013, Valencia

Ian Holm

British actor (1931–2020)

*September 12th, 1931, Goodmayes †June 19th, 2020, London

Hans Zimmer

German film composer (born 1957)

*September 12th, 1957, Frankfurt

Emmy Rossum

American actress and singer

*September 12th, 1986, New York City

Irène Joliot-Curie

French scientist (1897-1956)

*September 12th, 1897, 13th arrondissement of Paris †March 17th, 1956, Paris

Mirko Slomka

German association football player and manager

*September 12th, 1967, Hildesheim

Stanisław Lem

Polish science fiction author, philosopher and futurologist (1921-2006), studied medical doctor

*September 12th, 1921, Lviv †March 27th, 2006, Kraków

Jesse Owens

American track and field athlete (1913–1980)

*September 12th, 1913, Oakville †March 31st, 1980, Tucson

Joachim Frank

German-born American biophysicist and Nobel laureate

*September 12th, 1940, Siegen

James Hall

American paleontologist (1811-1898)

*September 12th, 1811, Hingham †August 7th, 1898, Bethlehem

Anne Helm

American actress and author, born 1938

*September 12th, 1938, Toronto

Louis C.K.

American comedian and actor

*September 12th, 1967, Washington, D.C.

Amala Akkineni

Indian actress

*September 12th, 1968, Kolkata

Michele Arditi

Italian lawyer and academic

*September 12th, 1746, Presicce †April 23rd, 1838, Naples

Jennifer Hudson

American singer–songwriter, actress, spokesperson

*September 12th, 1981, Chicago

Simone Consonni

Italian cyclist

*September 12th, 1994, Ponte San Pietro

Same year
Born in 1717

David Garrick

British actor, playwright, theatre manager and producer (1717–1779)

*February 19th, 1717, Hereford †January 20th, 1779, London

Maria Theresa of Austria

Ruler of the Habsburg Dominions (1717-1780)

*May 13th, 1717, Vienna †November 29th, 1780, Vienna

Jean le Rond d'Alembert

French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher and music theorist (1717-1783)

*November 16th, 1717, Paris †October 29th, 1783, Paris

Ferdinand Stosch

German theologian (1717–1780)

*December 30th, 1717, Liebenberg †June 3rd, 1780, Detmold

Pedro III of Portugal

King of Portugal

*July 5th, 1717, Lisbon †May 25th, 1786, Sintra

Johann Joachim Winckelmann

German art historian and archaeologist, and conservator of the Vatican Library

*December 9th, 1717, Stendal †June 8th, 1768, Trieste

Pius VI

Pope of the Catholic Church from 1775 to 1799

*December 25th, 1717, Cesena †August 29th, 1799, Valence

Horace Walpole

English writer, art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician (1717-1797)

*September 24th, 1717, London †March 2nd, 1797, London

Mustafa III

Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1757 to 1774

*January 28th, 1717, Constantinople †January 21st, 1774, Constantinople

Jean Dugain

French slave hunter and explorer

*February 23rd, 1717, Saint-Denis †January 1st, 1787

Louis François, Prince of Conti

French noble and art collector (1717-1776)

*August 13th, 1717, Paris †August 2nd, 1776, Paris

George Augustus Eliott

1st Lord Heathfield and Baron of Gibraltar, Army General, Governor of Gibraltar; (1717-1790)

*December 25th, 1717, Roxburghshire †July 6th, 1790, Aachen

Cardinal de Soubise

Catholic cardinal

*December 1st, 1717, Paris †June 28th, 1756, Saverne

Luis de Unzaga

Spanish colonial governor and administrator (1717-1793)

*April 6th, 1717, Málaga †June 21st, 1793, Málaga

Richard Owen Cambridge

British poet

*February 14th, 1717, London †September 17th, 1802, Richmond

Norbert Grund

Czech painter (1717-1767)

*December 4th, 1717, Prague †July 17th, 1767, Prague

Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst

British Army officer (1717-1797)

*January 29th, 1717, Riverhead †August 3rd, 1797, Montreal Park

Philipp Erasmus Reich

German publisher

*December 1st, 1717, Laubach †December 3rd, 1787, Leipzig

Johann Augustin Dietelmair

*January 1st, 1717, Nuremberg †January 1st, 1785

Johann Stamitz

Czech composer and violinist

*June 19th, 1717, Havlíčkův Brod †March 27th, 1757, Mannheim

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on September 12th

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

Enkutatash falls on this day if it is a leap year. Celebrated on the first day of Mäskäräm. (Ethiopia, Eritrea, Rastafari)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enkutatash

Nayrouz (Coptic Orthodox Church) (leap years only, September 11 on normal years)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayrouz

National Day (Cape Verde)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_in_Cape_Verde

National Day of Encouragement (United States)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Day_of_Encouragement

Saragarhi Day (Sikhism)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Saragarhi

United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation (International)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Regional_Information_Centre_for_Western_Europe

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

XII.IX.MDCCXVII

12.9.1717

Legend

M = 1000

D = 500

C = 100

X = 10

IX = 9

V = 5

I = 1

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1717 is a normal year and no leap year.

Calendar
September 1717

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September 12th, 1717

Born on September 12th, 1717

Weekday

Sunday

Age

Zodiac

♍

Virgo (The Maiden)

Age in days, weeks and months Wow, over 111,000 days old!

111,993 Days

15,999 Weeks

3,679 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

Minutes

Hours

What happened on September 12th?

A Metrolink train collided head-on with a freight train in Los Angeles, California, resulting in 25 deaths and 135 injuries; the Metrolink driver had passed through a red signal, having likely been distracted by text messaging.

Typhoon Maemi, the strongest recorded typhoon to strike South Korea, made landfall near Busan.

Hurricane Ismael formed off the southwest coast of Mexico; it went on to kill over a hundred people in the country.

Aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour, American Mae Jemison became the first Black woman to travel to space.

The 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.

South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko died after being beaten in police custody in Port Elizabeth.

In 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.

Three boys in Flatwoods, West Virginia, U.S., reported seeing a ten-foot-tall (3 m) monster in the woods while investigating a UFO.

The People's Liberation Army launched the Liaoshen campaign, the first of the three major military campaigns during the late stage of the Chinese Civil War.

World War II: The Imperial Japanese Army began the Battle of Edson's Ridge in an effort to retake Henderson Field on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands from the Allies.

Hungarian-American physicist Leo Szilard conceived of the idea of the nuclear chain reaction while waiting for a traffic light in Bloomsbury, London.

The Okeechobee hurricane first struck the island of Guadeloupe; eventually it reached the United States and caused over 4,000 deaths overall.

Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8, one of the largest-scale choral works in the classical concert repertoire and popularly known as the "Symphony of a Thousand", was first performed in Munich (1916 performers pictured).

The English poets Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning (pictured) eloped to Italy, marrying in secret to avoid their disapproving families.

Reconquista: Castilian forces captured Gibraltar from the Emirate of Granada.

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

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

Same year Born in 1717

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on September 12th

Ailbe (Elvis, Eilfyw) of Emly

Ebontius

Guy of Anderlecht

The Most Holy Name of the Blessed Virgin Mary

John Henry Hobart (Episcopal Church (USA))

Laisrén mac Nad Froích

Sacerdos of Lyon

September 12 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Commemoration of the mass hanging of the Saint Patrick's Battalion (Mexico)

Day of Conception (Russia)

Defenders Day (Maryland, United States)

Enkutatash falls on this day if it is a leap year. Celebrated on the first day of Mäskäräm. (Ethiopia, Eritrea, Rastafari)

Nayrouz (Coptic Orthodox Church) (leap years only, September 11 on normal years)

National Day (Cape Verde)

National Day of Encouragement (United States)

Saragarhi Day (Sikhism)

United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation (International)

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

12.9.1717

Legend

Leap year

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Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 111,000 days old!

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

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Who's birthday is on September 12th?

Same year
Born in 1717

Calendar
September 1717

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