April 12th, 1954

Born on April 12th, 1954

Age in days, weeks and months
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Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 425 days, exactly on June 18th, 2025, people who were born on April 12th, 1954 will be 26,000 days old!

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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, 1954

70

Patricia Duff

American political fundraiser

*April 12th, 1954, Los Angeles

70

John Faulkner

Australian politician

*April 12th, 1954, Leeton

60

Steve Stevaert

Belgian politician (1954-2015)

*April 12th, 1954, Rijkhoven †April 2nd, 2015, Hasselt

70

Jon Krakauer

American writer and journalist

*April 12th, 1954, Brookline

70

Pat Travers

Canadian rock musician

*April 12th, 1954, Toronto

70

Marvin Johnson

American boxer

*April 12th, 1954, Indianapolis

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

24

Manuel Turizo

Colombian singer

*April 12th, 2000, Montería

66

Tom Clancy

American author (1947–2013)

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

26

Paulo Londra

Argentinian rapper and singer

*April 12th, 1998, Córdoba

34

Rahmat Adianto

Badminton player

*April 12th, 1990, Jakarta

71

Anne Abernathy

American sportswoman

*April 12th, 1953, Saint Thomas

77

David Letterman

American comedian and television host

*April 12th, 1947, Indianapolis

69

Fabian Hamilton

British politician (born 1955)

*April 12th, 1955, Westminster

36

Rvssian

Jamaican record producer, singer-songwriter and entrepreneur

*April 12th, 1988, Kingston

62

Carlos Sainz

Spanish racing driver

*April 12th, 1962, Madrid

63

Lisa Gerrard

Australian musician, singer and composer

*April 12th, 1961, Melbourne

68

Andy Garcia

American actor and director

*April 12th, 1956, Havana

45

Claire Danes

American actress

*April 12th, 1979, Manhattan

24

David Hogg

American gun control activist and entrepreneur

*April 12th, 2000, Los Angeles

45

Jennifer Morrison

American actress, model, film producer

*April 12th, 1979, Chicago

76

Joschka Fischer

German politician

*April 12th, 1948, Gerabronn

85

Alan Ayckbourn

English playwright

*April 12th, 1939, London

30

Saoirse Ronan

American actress

*April 12th, 1994, The Bronx

78

Ed O'Neill

American actor

*April 12th, 1946, Youngstown

68

Herbert Grönemeyer

German singer, musician and actor

*April 12th, 1956, Göttingen

61

Álex Angulo

Spanish actor (1953-2014)

*April 12th, 1953, Erandio †July 20th, 2014, Fuenmayor

Same year
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

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

69

Renate Franz

German journalist and sport historian

*November 18th, 1954, Solingen

Birthdays of famous people

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.

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

Born on April 12th, 1954
Future birthdays

Leap year

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

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