April 12th, 1944

Born on April 12th, 1944

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

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 769 days, exactly on June 1st, 2026, people who were born on April 12th, 1944 will be 30,000 days old!

... in seconds, minutes and hours

What happened on April 12th?

April 12th, 2012

The Guinea-Bissau military seized control in a coup amid a presidential election, later handing power to a transitional administration under Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo.

April 12th, 1993

Bosnian War: NATO forces began Operation Deny Flight (aircraft pictured) to enforce a no-fly zone over Bosnia and Herzegovina ordered by the United Nations Security Council.

April 12th, 1983

Harold Washington was elected as the first African-American mayor of Chicago.

April 12th, 1980

Canadian athlete Terry Fox embarked on an east-to-west "Marathon of Hope" from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, with a prosthetic leg to raise funds for cancer research.

April 12th, 1961

Aboard Vostok 1, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin performed the first human spaceflight, completing one orbit of Earth in 108 minutes.

April 12th, 1910

SMS Zrínyi, one of the last pre-dreadnoughts built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, was launched in Trieste.

April 12th, 1861

Confederate forces began a bombardment of Fort Sumter in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina, starting the American Civil War.

April 12th, 1831

The Broughton Suspension Bridge near Manchester, England, collapsed reportedly because of mechanical resonance induced by troops marching in step across it.

April 12th, 1822

Greek War of Independence: Ottoman troops began a massacre of tens of thousands of Greeks (depicted) on the island of Chios.

April 12th, 1807

The Froberg mutiny of Greek and Albanian troops in British service ended with the explosion of the gunpowder magazine at Fort Ricasoli, Malta.

April 12th, 1776

American Revolution: The North Carolina Provincial Congress passed the Halifax Resolves, the first official action in the American colonies calling for independence from Great Britain.

April 12th, 1204

Troops of the Fourth Crusade entered Constantinople and began a sack of the city, temporarily dissolving the Byzantine Empire.

April 12th, 2010

Merano derailment: A rail accident in South Tyrol kills nine people and injures a further 28.

April 12th, 2009

Zimbabwe officially abandons the Zimbabwean dollar as its official currency.

April 12th, 2007

A suicide bomber penetrates the Green Zone and detonates in a cafeteria within a parliament building, killing Iraqi MP Mohammed Awad and wounding more than twenty other people.

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

Born on April 12th, 1944

71

Lisa Jardine

British historian (1944-2015)

*April 12th, 1944, Oxford †October 25th, 2015, London

77

Ľubomír Roman

Slovak actor and politician

*April 12th, 1944, Malacky †February 28th, 2022, Bratislava

80

John Kay

German-born Canadian rock musician

*April 12th, 1944, Sovetsk

49

Karel Kryl

Czech singer-songwriter and poet (1944-1994)

*April 12th, 1944, Kroměříž †March 3rd, 1994, Munich

80

Andrew Arbuckle

British politician (born 1944)

*April 12th, 1944, Fife

80

Mike Garrett

Player of American football, college athletics administrator

*April 12th, 1944, Los Angeles

80

Brian Yeo

Footballer; football manager (born 1944)

*April 12th, 1944, Worthing

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

66

Tom Clancy

American author (1947–2013)

*April 12th, 1947, Baltimore †October 1st, 2013, Baltimore

24

Manuel Turizo

Venezolano singer

*April 12th, 2000, Barranquilla

77

David Letterman

American comedian and television host

*April 12th, 1947, Indianapolis

78

Ed O'Neill

American actor (born 1946)

*April 12th, 1946, Youngstown

85

Alan Ayckbourn

English playwright

*April 12th, 1939, London

26

Paulo Londra

Argentinian singer

*April 12th, 1998, Córdoba

34

Rahmat Adianto

Badminton player

*April 12th, 1990, Jakarta

76

Joschka Fischer

German politician

*April 12th, 1948, Gerabronn

36

Rvssian

Jamaican record producer, singer-songwriter and entrepreneur

*April 12th, 1988, Kingston

82

Jacob Zuma

4th President of South Africa (2009–2018)

*April 12th, 1942, Nkandla

24

David Hogg

American gun control activist and entrepreneur

*April 12th, 2000, Los Angeles

84

Herbie Hancock

American jazz pianist and composer (born 1940)

*April 12th, 1940, Chicago

45

Claire Danes

American actress

*April 12th, 1979, Manhattan

45

Jennifer Morrison

American actress, model, film producer

*April 12th, 1979, Chicago

51

Bobby Moore

English association football player (1941–1993)

*April 12th, 1941, Barking †February 24th, 1993, London

62

Carlos Sainz

Spanish racing driver

*April 12th, 1962, Madrid

30

Saoirse Ronan

Irish–American actress (born 1994)

*April 12th, 1994, The Bronx

63

Lisa Gerrard

Australian musician, singer and composer

*April 12th, 1961, Melbourne

85

James Hillman

American psychologist (1926-2011)

*April 12th, 1926, Atlantic City †October 27th, 2011, Thompson

83

Raymond Barre

85th Prime Minister of France (1924-2007)

*April 12th, 1924, Saint-Denis †August 25th, 2007, 5th arrondissement of Paris

Same year
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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Public holidays on April 12th

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day, Commemoration of first human in space by Yuri Gagarin) which are celebrated on April 12th.

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Born on April 12th, 1944
Future birthdays

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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