September 12th, 1955

Born on September 12th, 1955

Weekday

Monday

September 12th, 1955 was a Monday.

Age

People born on September 12th, 1955 will turn 71 this year (2026), in exactly 48 days .

Zodiac

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Virgo (The Maiden)

August 24th, 1955 - September 23rd, 1955

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 25,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 115 days, exactly on November 18th, 2026, people who were born on September 12th, 1955 will be 26,000 days old!

25,885 Days

3,697 Weeks

850 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

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Born on September 12th, 1955: When to retire?

Birth

67 80

Childhood & Education 20 Years

Work 47 Years

Retirement 13 Years

Already retired

According to the assumptions made it looks like you can already enjoy your well-deserved retirement!

What 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

The first public release of Steam, a distribution service for computer games, was made available for download.

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 (video featured).

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 (both pictured) married in secret to avoid their disapproving families before moving to Italy.

September 12th, 1309

Reconquista: Castilian forces captured Gibraltar from the Emirate of Granada.

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

Born on September 12th, 1955

Peter Scolari

American actor (1955–2021)

*September 12th, 1955, New Rochelle †October 22nd, 2021, Manhattan

Same year
Born in 1955

Milly Quezada

Dominican Republic singer

*May 21st, 1955, Santo Domingo

Pete Shelley

British singer-songwriter (1955–2018)

*April 17th, 1955, Leigh †December 6th, 2018, Tallinn

Adolf Sauerland

German politician

*June 4th, 1955, Duisburg

Bill Gates

American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (born 1955)

*October 28th, 1955, Seattle

Guillermo Lasso

47th president of Ecuador

*November 16th, 1955, Guayaquil

Tim Berners-Lee

English computer scientist, inventor of the World Wide Web (born 1955)

*June 8th, 1955, London

Steve Jobs

American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc. (1955–2011)

*February 24th, 1955, San Francisco †October 5th, 2011, Palo Alto

Lars Brygmann

Danish actor

*November 30th, 1955, Copenhagen

Lasse Lindtner

Norwegian actor

*March 7th, 1955, Bergen

Nicolas Sarkozy

23rd president of the French Republic from 2007 to 2012

*January 28th, 1955, Paris

Bill Paxton

American actor and filmmaker (1955–2017)

*May 17th, 1955, Fort Worth †February 25th, 2017, Los Angeles

Uwe Reinders

German association football player and manager

*January 19th, 1955, Essen

Jimmy LaFave

American musician

*July 12th, 1955, Wills Point †May 21st, 2017, Austin

Peter Neururer

German association football manager

*April 26th, 1955, Marl

Friedrich Merz

German politician, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany

*November 11th, 1955, Brilon

Jair Bolsonaro

38th President of the Federative Republic of Brazil from 2019 to 2023, Captain of the Brazilian Army, Federal Deputy of Brazil (1991-2019) and Councilman of the City of Rio de Janeiro (1989-1991)

*March 21st, 1955, Glicério