September 12th, 1944

Born on September 12th, 1944

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

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What happened on September 12th, 1944?

September 12th, 1944

World War II: The liberation of Yugoslavia from Axis occupation continues. Bajina Bašta in western Serbia is among the liberated cities.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_in_Yugoslavia

What else 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.

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

Born on September 12th, 1944

79

Leonard Peltier

Native American activist

*September 12th, 1944, Grand Forks

58

Barry White

American singer (1944–2003)

*September 12th, 1944, Galveston †July 4th, 2003, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

79

Vladimir Spivakov

Russian musician

*September 12th, 1944, Ufa

79

Rolf Schnellecke

German politician and jurist

*September 12th, 1944, Wolfsburg

33

Lonnie Mayne

American professional wrestler (1944-1978)

*September 12th, 1944, Fairfax †August 13th, 1978, San Bernardino

79

Leci Brandão

Brazilian composer and singer

*September 12th, 1944, Rio de Janeiro

78

Yoshio Kikugawa

Japanese association football player and manager

*September 12th, 1944, Fujieda †December 2nd, 2022

71

Eddie Keizan

South African racing driver

*September 12th, 1944, Johannesburg †May 21st, 2016, Johannesburg

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

59

Dieter Hecking

German association football player and manager

*September 12th, 1964, Castrop-Rauxel

83

Joachim Frank

German-born American biophysicist and Nobel laureate

*September 12th, 1940, Siegen

78

Richard Thaler

American economist

*September 12th, 1945, East Orange

62

Mylène Farmer

French singer and songwriter (born 1961)

*September 12th, 1961, Pierrefonds

78

Maria Aitken

British actress, writer, producer and director

*September 12th, 1945, Dublin

85

Anne Helm

American actress and author, born 1938

*September 12th, 1938, Toronto

80

Michael Ondaatje

Canadian novelist and poet

*September 12th, 1943, Colombo

88

Ian Holm

British actor (1931–2020)

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

81

Michel Drucker

French journalist

*September 12th, 1942, Vire

36

Julia Wong Pei Xian

Badminton player

*September 12th, 1987, Malacca

40

Paul Walker

American actor (1973–2013)

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

56

Mirko Slomka

German association football player and manager

*September 12th, 1967, Hildesheim

84

Stanisław Lem

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

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

65

Kurt Demmler

German musician, songwriter, lyricist (1943-2009)

*September 12th, 1943, Poznań †February 3rd, 2009, Berlin

37

Emmy Rossum

American actress and singer

*September 12th, 1986, New York City

56

Louis C.K.

American comedian and actor

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

66

Jesse Owens

American track and field athlete (1913–1980)

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

55

Amala Akkineni

Indian actress

*September 12th, 1968, Kolkata

58

Irène Joliot-Curie

French scientist (1897-1956)

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

72

Joe Pantoliano

American actor

*September 12th, 1951, Hoboken

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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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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