April 12th, 1957

Born on April 12th, 1957

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 24,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 524 days, exactly on September 22nd, 2025, people who were born on April 12th, 1957 will be 25,000 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 bombarding 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, 1957

67

Vince Gill

American country musician

*April 12th, 1957, Norman

67

Jörg-Martin Willnauer

German composer, musician and writer

*April 12th, 1957, Heidelberg

67

Wolfhard Pencz

German university professor

*April 12th, 1957, Rodewisch

67

Alex Lauzon

Austrian non-fiction writer

*April 12th, 1957, Vienna

67

Wolfgang Baasch

German politician

*April 12th, 1957, Dänischenhagen

67

Ignacio Mantilla Prada

Colombian mathematician

*April 12th, 1957, Los Santos

67

Tama Janowitz

American writer

*April 12th, 1957, San Francisco

67

Greg Child

Australian mountain climber

*April 12th, 1957, Sydney

64

Suzzanne Douglas

American actress (1957-2021)

*April 12th, 1957, Chicago †July 6th, 2021, Martha's Vineyard

67

Liann Pattison

Actress

*April 12th, 1957, Chico

60

Ana Maria Nascimento e Silva

Brazilian actress

*April 12th, 1957, Rio de Janeiro †November 30th, 2017

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

24

Manuel Turizo

Colombian singer

*April 12th, 2000, Montería

26

Paulo Londra

Argentinian rapper and singer

*April 12th, 1998, Córdoba

68

Andy Garcia

American actor and director

*April 12th, 1956, Havana

66

Tom Clancy

American author (1947–2013)

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

63

Lisa Gerrard

Australian musician, singer and composer

*April 12th, 1961, Melbourne

34

Rahmat Adianto

Badminton player

*April 12th, 1990, Jakarta

62

Carlos Sainz

Spanish racing driver

*April 12th, 1962, Madrid

36

Rvssian

Jamaican record producer, singer-songwriter and entrepreneur

*April 12th, 1988, Kingston

45

Claire Danes

American actress

*April 12th, 1979, Manhattan

68

Herbert Grönemeyer

German singer, musician and actor

*April 12th, 1956, Göttingen

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

77

David Letterman

American comedian and television host

*April 12th, 1947, Indianapolis

30

Saoirse Ronan

American actress

*April 12th, 1994, The Bronx

69

Fabian Hamilton

British politician (born 1955)

*April 12th, 1955, Westminster

85

Alan Ayckbourn

English playwright

*April 12th, 1939, London

76

Joschka Fischer

German politician

*April 12th, 1948, Gerabronn

71

Anne Abernathy

American sportswoman

*April 12th, 1953, Saint Thomas

78

Ed O'Neill

American actor

*April 12th, 1946, Youngstown

68

Walter Salles

Brazilian film director, screenwriter and film producer

*April 12th, 1956, Rio de Janeiro

Same year
Born in 1957

66

Julian Cope

Welsh musician, author, antiquarian, musicologist, poet and cultural commentator

*October 21st, 1957, Deri

66

John Kassir

American actor and comedian

*October 24th, 1957, Baltimore

67

Lars Brygmann

Danish actor

*February 17th, 1957, Copenhagen

66

Stephen Morris

British drummer

*October 28th, 1957, Macclesfield

66

Kristin Clemet

Norwegian politician

*April 20th, 1957, Harstad Municipality

54

Osama bin Laden

Saudi terrorist and co-founder of al-Qaeda (1957–2011)

*March 10th, 1957, Riyadh †May 2nd, 2011, Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad

66

Dagfinn Høybråten

Norwegian politician

*December 2nd, 1957, Oslo

67

Peter Aude

Danish actor

*January 19th, 1957, Copenhagen

66

Klaus Augenthaler

German association football player and manager

*September 26th, 1957, Fürstenzell

66

Frances McDormand

American actress

*June 23rd, 1957, Gibson City

66

Stephen Fry

British comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist

*August 24th, 1957, Hampstead

41

Adrian Borland

English singer, songwriter, guitarist and record producer (1957–1999)

*December 6th, 1957, London †April 26th, 1999, Wimbledon

67

Henning Krautmacher

German singer and actor

*March 5th, 1957, Leverkusen

60

Alain Defossé

French writer and translator (1957-2017)

*February 11th, 1957, Nantes †May 14th, 2017, 19th arrondissement of Paris

66

Nick Hornby

English novelist

*April 17th, 1957, Redhill

67

Mari Maurstad

Norwegian actress

*March 17th, 1957, Oslo

67

Timothy Spall

English actor

*February 27th, 1957, London

66

Matthias Klinghardt

German Protestant theologian

*August 24th, 1957, Waldshut-Tiengen

66

Christian Michelides

Austrian psychotherapist

*July 19th, 1957, Graz

66

Daniel Day-Lewis

British-Irish actor

*April 29th, 1957, Kensington

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, 1957
Future birthdays

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1957 is a normal year and no leap year.

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