January 12th, 1944

Born on January 12th, 1944

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 29,000 days old!

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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

Born on January 12th, 1944

67

Joe Frazier

American boxer (1944–2011)

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

70

Guy Fischer

Member of the Senate of France (1944-2014)

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

68

Jim Gray

American computer scientist

*January 12th, 1944, San Francisco †January 28th, 2012, sea

80

Carlos Villagrán

Mexican actor, comedian, and former journalist

*January 12th, 1944, Mexico City

80

Klaus Wedemeier

German politician, Mayor of Bremen

*January 12th, 1944, Hof

80

Viktoria Postnikova

Russian pianist

*January 12th, 1944, Moscow

80

Fatos Kongoli

Albanian writer, mathematician

*January 12th, 1944, Elbasan

80

Vlastimil Hort

Czech chess player

*January 12th, 1944, Kladno

77

Rafael Savino

Argentine businessman and sports administrator

*January 12th, 1944, Buenos Aires †July 7th, 2021, Buenos Aires

78

Inge Viett

German terrorist and writer

*January 12th, 1944, Barsbüttel †May 9th, 2022, Falkensee

61

Michael Raith

Swiss politician (1944-2005)

*January 12th, 1944, Basel †June 11th, 2005, Pratteln

71

Cynthia Robinson

American musician (1944–2015)

*January 12th, 1944, Sacramento †November 23rd, 2015, Carmichael

73

Hans Henning Atrott

German activist

*January 12th, 1944, Klaipėda †November 30th, 2017

80

Lia de Itamaracá

Brazilian composer (1944-)

*January 12th, 1944, Ilha de Itamaracá

69

Brigitte Neumeister

Austrian actress (1944-2013)

*January 12th, 1944, Perchtoldsdorf †November 1st, 2013, Vienna

71

Wim Kolijn

Dutch politician (1944-2015)

*January 12th, 1944, Driewegen †December 2nd, 2015, Terneuzen

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Who's birthday is on January 12th?

82

Michel Mayor

Swiss astrophysicist & Nobel laureate of Physics

*January 12th, 1942, Lausanne

75

Haruki Murakami

Japanese writer (born 1949)

*January 12th, 1949, Kyoto

79

Maggie Bell

Scottish singer

*January 12th, 1945, Glasgow

25

Krishna Nagar

Badminton player

*January 12th, 1999, Jaipur

25

Thom Gicquel

Badminton player

*January 12th, 1999, Tours

76

William Nicholson

British screenwriter, playwright and novelist (1948-)

*January 12th, 1948, Lewes

31

Ronya Othmann

German writer

*January 12th, 1993, Munich

64

Oliver Platt

American actor

*January 12th, 1960, Windsor

60

Jeff Bezos

American business magnate (born 1964)

*January 12th, 1964, Albuquerque

66

Matthias Döschner

German association football player and manager

*January 12th, 1958, Dohna

23

Marit Crajé

Dutch Handball player

*January 12th, 2001, Apeldoorn

78

Ruth Brown

American singer-songwriter (1928-2006)

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

74

Sheila Jackson Lee

U.S. Representative from Texas

*January 12th, 1950, Queens

63

Simon Russell Beale

British actor and music historian

*January 12th, 1961, Penang

68

Nikolai Noskov

Soviet and Russian singer and song writer

*January 12th, 1956, Gagarin

38

Jakob Oftebro

Norwegian actor

*January 12th, 1986, Oslo

65

Hermann Thiersch

German archaeologist

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

81

Jean-Louis Bianco

French politician

*January 12th, 1943, Neuilly-sur-Seine

51

Hande Yener

Turkish singer

*January 12th, 1973, Kadıköy

78

André Labarrère

French politician and Esperantist (1928-2006)

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

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Born in 1944

79

Udo Kier

German actor

*October 14th, 1944, Cologne

79

Poul Michelsen

Faroese businessperson and politician

*July 22nd, 1944, Tórshavn

79

Nils Ole Oftebro

Norwegian actor

*December 1st, 1944, Sarpsborg Municipality

73

Jonathan Demme

American film director (1944–2017)

*February 22nd, 1944, Baldwin †April 26th, 2017, Manhattan

79

John Rhys-Davies

British actor

*May 5th, 1944, Ammanford

80

Syed Mohammed Arif

Badminton player and trainer

*January 29th, 1944, Hyderabad

80

Joachim Schimpke

Badminton player

*March 8th, 1944, Hohenstein-Ernstthal

79

Michael Douglas

American actor and film producer

*September 25th, 1944, New Brunswick

80

Gerhard Schröder

Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005

*April 7th, 1944, Mossenberg-Wöhren

80

Gert Audring

German historian of classical antiquity

*February 6th, 1944, Śrem

79

Dieter Planck

German archaeologist

*August 14th, 1944, Rottenburg am Neckar

80

Alice Walker

American author and activist (1944- )

*February 9th, 1944, Eatonton

79

Ban Ki-moon

8th Secretary-General of the United Nations

*June 13th, 1944, Eumseong County

77

Judi Rollick

Badminton player

*August 17th, 1944, Seattle †April 5th, 2022

80

Alexander Van der Bellen

President of Austria since 2017

*January 18th, 1944, Vienna

77

Volker Lechtenbrink

German actor and singer

*August 18th, 1944, Zelenogradsk †November 22nd, 2021, Hamburg

72

David Chandler

American chemist (1944-2017)

*October 15th, 1944, New York City †April 18th, 2017, Berkeley

72

Helena Štáchová

Czech actress, theatre director, manager and puppeteer

*November 18th, 1944, Prague †March 22nd, 2017, Prague

79

Serge Haroche

French physicist, Nobel laureate

*September 11th, 1944, Casablanca

79

Dieter Hertrampf

German musician, singer and guitarist

*November 29th, 1944, Berlin

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Leap year

Yes: 1944 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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