January 12th, 2002

Born on January 12th, 2002

Age in days, weeks and months
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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, 2002

22

Tomoe Kawabata

Japanese figure skater

*January 12th, 2002, Nisshin

22

Eva Lys

German female tennis player

*January 12th, 2002, Kyiv

22

Ayanna Misola

Philipine actress

*January 12th, 2002, Philippines

22

Shavit Kimchi

Israeli tennis player

*January 12th, 2002, Israel

22

Harrison Burrows

English association football player (born 2002)

*January 12th, 2002, Murrow

22

Elif Keskin

Turkish association football player

*January 12th, 2002, Gaziosmanpaşa

22

Siri Arun Budcharern

Laotian swimmer

*January 12th, 2002, Vientiane

22

Mohamed Aed

Iraq

*January 12th, 2002, Anbar

22

Pani Tri

Indonesian footballer

*January 12th, 2002, Jakarta

22

Georgios Tourkochoritis

Greek footballer

*January 12th, 2002, Livadeia

22

Malik ter Heerde

Sint Maarten footballer

*January 12th, 2002, Arnhem

22

Vladislav Blănuță

Moldovan association football player

*January 12th, 2002, Hîncești

22

Islom Zoirov

Tajikistani professional football player

*January 12th, 2002, Kulob

22

Tijs Velthuis

Dutch footballer

*January 12th, 2002, Oldenzaal

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

23

Marit Crajé

Dutch Handball player

*January 12th, 2001, Apeldoorn

25

Krishna Nagar

Badminton player

*January 12th, 1999, Jaipur

25

Thom Gicquel

Badminton player

*January 12th, 1999, Tours

31

Ronya Othmann

German writer

*January 12th, 1993, Munich

26

Juan Foyth

Argentine association football player

*January 12th, 1998, La Plata

38

Jakob Oftebro

Norwegian actor

*January 12th, 1986, Oslo

24

Sven Norman Botman

Dutch association football player

*January 12th, 2000, Badhoevedorp

31

Zayn Malik

English singer

*January 12th, 1993, Bradford

82

Michel Mayor

Swiss astrophysicist & Nobel laureate of Physics

*January 12th, 1942, Lausanne

75

Haruki Murakami

Japanese writer (born 1949)

*January 12th, 1949, Kyoto

60

Jeff Bezos

American business magnate (born 1964)

*January 12th, 1964, Albuquerque

51

Hande Yener

Turkish singer

*January 12th, 1973, Kadıköy

64

Oliver Platt

American actor

*January 12th, 1960, Windsor

35

Lee Tomlin

English association football player (born 1989)

*January 12th, 1989, Leicester

45

David Zabriskie

Road bicycle racer

*January 12th, 1979, Salt Lake City

65

Hermann Thiersch

German archaeologist

*January 12th, 1874, Munich †June 4th, 1939, Göttingen

66

Matthias Döschner

German association football player and manager

*January 12th, 1958, Dohna

25

Clara Copponi

French racing cyclist

*January 12th, 1999, Aix-en-Provence

63

Simon Russell Beale

British actor and music historian

*January 12th, 1961, Penang

20

Ahn Seo-hyun

South Korean actress

*January 12th, 2004, South Korea

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Born in 2002

21

Alika Milova

Estonian singer-songwriter

*September 5th, 2002, Narva

22

Josie Nelson

British cyclist

*April 8th, 2002, Burton upon Trent

21

NLE Choppa

American rapper from Tennessee (born 2002)

*November 1st, 2002, Memphis

22

Lil Mosey

American rapper and singer-songwriter

*January 25th, 2002, Mountlake Terrace

21

Lil Tecca

American rapper and singer-songwriter

*August 26th, 2002, Queens

22

Eleonora Gasparrini

Italian cyclist

*March 25th, 2002, Turin

21

João Gomes

Brazilian singer-songwriter

*July 31st, 2002, Serrita

21

Jasmine Liu

American Samoan beach handball player

*September 2nd, 2002, Vaitogi

22

Trueno

Argentinian rapper and singer

*March 25th, 2002, Buenos Aires

19

Einár

Swedish rapper (2002–2021)

*September 5th, 2002, Stockholm †October 21st, 2021, Hammarby Sjöstad

22

Matteo Romano

Italian singer (2002-)

*March 20th, 2002, Cuneo

22

Indah Cahya Sari Jamil

Badminton player

*March 16th, 2002, Gowa Regency

21

Riko Gunji

Badminton player

*July 31st, 2002, Ebina

21

Rui Hirokami

Badminton player

*July 26th, 2002, Takaoka

22

Christo Popov

Badminton player

*March 8th, 2002, Sofia

21

Cheng Xing

Chinese badminton player

*May 7th, 2002, Jiujiang, Guangdong

21

Srivedya Gurazada

US American badminton player

*August 15th, 2002, Boston

21

Katharina Fink

Italian badminton player

*November 14th, 2002, Bolzano

21

Jesita Putri Miantoro

Badminton player

*May 1st, 2002, Depok City

22

Ishaan Bhatnagar

Indian badminton player

*February 2nd, 2002, Raipur

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Born on January 12th, 2002
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Leap year

No: With 365 days 2002 is a normal year and no leap year.

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