January 12th, 1949

Born on January 12th, 1949

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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, 1949

75

Haruki Murakami

Japanese writer (born 1949)

*January 12th, 1949, Kyoto

75

Ottmar Hitzfeld

German football player and manager

*January 12th, 1949, Lörrach

72

Ludovica Modugno

Italian actress

*January 12th, 1949, Rome †October 26th, 2021, Rome

75

Paul Barresi

American film actor, writer, director and producer

*January 12th, 1949, Lynn

75

Wayne Wang

American film director

*January 12th, 1949, British Hong Kong

58

Kentarō Haneda

Japanese composer, arranger, pianist (1949-2007)

*January 12th, 1949, Kita-ku †June 2nd, 2007, Shinjuku

75

Michael W. Vannier

American radiologist

*January 12th, 1949, Hamilton City

75

Hamadi Jebali

Tunisian politician and journalist

*January 12th, 1949, Sousse

75

Hélène Rioux

Canadian writer and translator

*January 12th, 1949, Montreal

66

Robert J. Koehler

German manager

*January 12th, 1949, Munich †May 17th, 2015

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Who's birthday is on January 12th?

82

Michel Mayor

Swiss astrophysicist & Nobel laureate of Physics

*January 12th, 1942, Lausanne

76

William Nicholson

British screenwriter, playwright and novelist (1948-)

*January 12th, 1948, Lewes

74

Sheila Jackson Lee

U.S. Representative from Texas

*January 12th, 1950, Queens

25

Krishna Nagar

Badminton player

*January 12th, 1999, Jaipur

25

Thom Gicquel

Badminton player

*January 12th, 1999, Tours

74

Bob McEwen

American politician

*January 12th, 1950, Hillsboro

66

Matthias Döschner

German association football player and manager

*January 12th, 1958, Dohna

67

Joe Frazier

American boxer (1944–2011)

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

64

Oliver Platt

American actor

*January 12th, 1960, Windsor

70

Guy Fischer

Member of the Senate of France (1944-2014)

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

60

Jeff Bezos

American business magnate (born 1964)

*January 12th, 1964, Albuquerque

31

Ronya Othmann

German writer

*January 12th, 1993, Munich

68

Nikolai Noskov

Soviet and Russian singer and song writer

*January 12th, 1956, Gagarin

23

Marit Crajé

Dutch Handball player

*January 12th, 2001, Apeldoorn

63

Simon Russell Beale

British actor and music historian

*January 12th, 1961, Penang

79

Maggie Bell

Scottish singer

*January 12th, 1945, Glasgow

38

Jakob Oftebro

Norwegian actor

*January 12th, 1986, Oslo

71

Kirstie Alley

American actress (1951–2022)

*January 12th, 1951, Wichita †December 5th, 2022, Tampa

78

Ruth Brown

American singer-songwriter (1928-2006)

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

76

Anthony Andrews

British actor

*January 12th, 1948, Finchley

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Born in 1949

75

Joachim Witt

German rock musician

*February 22nd, 1949, Hamburg

74

Rudy Hartono

Indonesian badminton player

*August 18th, 1949, Surabaya

75

Åse Kleveland

Swedish-Norwegian singer and politician

*March 18th, 1949, Stockholm

70

Jahn Teigen

Norwegian singer, musician, and comedian (1949–2020)

*September 27th, 1949, Tønsberg Municipality †February 24th, 2020, Ystad

74

David Rubenstein

American businessman

*August 11th, 1949, Baltimore

74

Sherman Howard

American actor

*June 11th, 1949, Chicago

74

Egon Flaig

German university teacher, Historian of classical antiquity and writer

*May 16th, 1949, Oberstenfeld

74

Meryl Streep

American actress (born 1949)

*June 22nd, 1949, Summit

74

Odaline de la Martinez

American conductor and composer

*October 31st, 1949, Matanzas

74

Gertrúd Ladányi

Badminton player

*May 3rd, 1949, Esztergom

66

Papa Wemba

Congolese singer and musician

*June 14th, 1949, Lubefu †April 24th, 2016, Abidjan

67

Denis Johnson

American writer (novel, drama, poetry, essay) (1949-2017)

*July 1st, 1949, Munich †May 24th, 2017, Sea Ranch

40

Stiv Bators

American punk rock vocalist and guitarist

*October 22nd, 1949, Youngstown †June 3rd, 1990, 1st arrondissement of Paris

74

Sverre Årnes

Norwegian writer

*May 14th, 1949, Surnadal Municipality

74

Gloria Gaynor

American singer

*September 7th, 1949, Newark

75

Jessica Lange

American actress

*April 20th, 1949, Cloquet

67

Carlos Slepoy

Argentinian lawyer (1949-2017)

*October 2nd, 1949, Buenos Aires †April 17th, 2017, Madrid

68

Stanley Greene

American photographer (1949-2017)

*February 14th, 1949, Brooklyn †May 19th, 2017, Paris

74

Bruce Springsteen

American rock singer (born 1949)

*September 23rd, 1949, Long Branch

74

Benjamin Netanyahu

Prime Minister of Israel (1996–1999, 2009–2021, 2022–present)

*October 21st, 1949, Tel Aviv

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1949 is a normal year and no leap year.

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