January 12th, 1954

Born on January 12th, 1954

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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, 1954

70

Howard Stern

American radio and television personality

*January 12th, 1954, Queens

70

Waldemar Januszczak

English art critic and journalist

*January 12th, 1954, Basingstoke

70

Klaus-Peter Wolf

German author

*January 12th, 1954, Gelsenkirchen

70

Martin Kylhammar

Swedish academic

*January 12th, 1954, Karlskoga Church Parish

70

Brian Blair

American professional wrestler and politician

*January 12th, 1954, Gary

70

Felipé Rose

American musician

*January 12th, 1954, New York City

70

Tom Löwenthal

Dutch conductor and composer

*January 12th, 1954, Amsterdam

70

Jesús María Satrústegui

Spanish Basque footballer

*January 12th, 1954, Pamplona

70

Johannes Gerlach

German politician and physicist

*January 12th, 1954, Zschopau

57

Andreas Franz

German writer (1954-2011)

*January 12th, 1954, Quedlinburg †March 13th, 2011, Hattersheim am Main

63

Mojo Mendiola

German writer, musicologist and Afro-American philologist, photographer and artist (1954-2017)

*January 12th, 1954, Kempen †October 20th, 2017

70

Jide Kosoko

Nigerian actor

*January 12th, 1954, Nigeria

70

Lars Becker

German film director and screenwriter

*January 12th, 1954, Hanover

70

Frank LaLoggia

American actor and film director

*January 12th, 1954, Rochester

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75

Haruki Murakami

Japanese writer (born 1949)

*January 12th, 1949, Kyoto

68

Nikolai Noskov

Soviet and Russian singer and song writer

*January 12th, 1956, Gagarin

82

Michel Mayor

Swiss astrophysicist & Nobel laureate of Physics

*January 12th, 1942, Lausanne

66

Matthias Döschner

German association football player and manager

*January 12th, 1958, Dohna

64

Oliver Platt

Canadian-born American actor

*January 12th, 1960, Windsor

25

Krishna Nagar

Badminton player

*January 12th, 1999, Jaipur

60

Jeff Bezos

American business magnate (born 1964)

*January 12th, 1964, Albuquerque

63

Simon Russell Beale

British actor and music historian

*January 12th, 1961, Penang

69

Hans-Joachim Hartnick

East German cyclist

*January 12th, 1955, Wormlage

31

Ronya Othmann

German writer

*January 12th, 1993, Munich

23

Marit Crajé

Dutch Handball player

*January 12th, 2001, Apeldoorn

74

Sheila Jackson Lee

U.S. Representative from Texas

*January 12th, 1950, Queens

76

William Nicholson

British screenwriter, playwright and novelist (1948-)

*January 12th, 1948, Lewes

66

Christiane Amanpour

English-Iranian news anchor and international correspondent

*January 12th, 1958, Ealing

38

Jakob Oftebro

Norwegian actor

*January 12th, 1986, Oslo

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

51

Hande Yener

Turkish singer

*January 12th, 1973, Kadıköy

71

Friedrich Ostendorff

German politician

*January 12th, 1953, Dortmund

67

Jeremy Sams

British theatre director, writer, translator, orchestrator, musical director, film composer, and lyricist

*January 12th, 1957, London

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Born in 1954

69

François Hollande

President of France from 2012 to 2017

*August 12th, 1954, Rouen

69

Angela Merkel

Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021

*July 17th, 1954, Eimsbüttel

69

Renate Franz

German journalist and sport historian

*November 18th, 1954, Solingen

69

Lim Swee Say

Former Singaporean politician

*July 13th, 1954, Singapore

70

Rudolf Simek

Austrian philologist and Germanist

*February 21st, 1954, Eisenstadt

70

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

President of the Republic of Turkey since 2014

*February 26th, 1954, Kasımpaşa

69

Lorraine Bracco

American actress

*October 2nd, 1954, Brooklyn

70

Jackie Chan

Hong Kong actor and martial artist (born 1954)

*April 7th, 1954, Victoria Peak

67

Shinzō Abe

Prime Minister of Japan from 2006–2007 and 2012–2020 (1954-2022)

*September 21st, 1954, Shinjuku †July 8th, 2022, Nara Medical University Hospital

58

Hugo Chávez

President of Venezuela, 1999–2002 and 2002–2013

*July 28th, 1954, Sabaneta †March 5th, 2013, Hospital Militar de Caracas

69

Uli Stielike

German association football player and manager

*November 15th, 1954, Ketsch

69

Karl-Heinz Körbel

German association football player and manager

*December 1st, 1954, Dossenheim

69

Sven-Erik Bucht

Swedish politician

*December 28th, 1954, Karungi

70

Eckhardt Rehberg

German politician

*April 3rd, 1954, Ribnitz-Damgarten

69

Emir Kusturica

Bosnian film director, actor and musician

*November 24th, 1954, Sarajevo

69

Caroline Cossey

English model and actress

*August 31st, 1954, Brooke

69

Kathy Kinney

American actress

*November 3rd, 1954, Stevens Point

69

Petra Uhlig

East German handball player

*July 22nd, 1954, Penig

69

Alexander Lukashenko

President of Belarus since 1994

*August 30th, 1954, Kopyś

70

Isabelle McEwen

Canadian film director

*January 6th, 1954, Montreal

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No: With 365 days 1954 is a normal year and no leap year.

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