Fatos Kongoli (80)
January 12th, 1944

Albanian writer, mathematician – Fatos Kongoli was born in Elbasan (City in Albania) on January 12th, 1944 and is 80 years old today.

Other personalities born on January 12

82

Michel Mayor

Swiss astrophysicist & Nobel laureate of Physics

*January 12th, 1942, Lausanne

75

Haruki Murakami

Japanese writer (born 1949)

*January 12th, 1949, Kyoto

79

Maggie Bell

Scottish singer

*January 12th, 1945, Glasgow

25

Krishna Nagar

Badminton player

*January 12th, 1999, Jaipur

25

Thom Gicquel

Badminton player

*January 12th, 1999, Tours

76

William Nicholson

British screenwriter, playwright and novelist (1948-)

*January 12th, 1948, Lewes

31

Ronya Othmann

German writer

*January 12th, 1993, Munich

64

Oliver Platt

American actor

*January 12th, 1960, Windsor

60

Jeff Bezos

American business magnate (born 1964)

*January 12th, 1964, Albuquerque

66

Matthias Döschner

German association football player and manager

*January 12th, 1958, Dohna

23

Marit Crajé

Dutch Handball player

*January 12th, 2001, Apeldoorn

78

Ruth Brown

American singer-songwriter (1928-2006)

*January 12th, 1928, Portsmouth †November 17th, 2006, Las Vegas

74

Sheila Jackson Lee

U.S. Representative from Texas

*January 12th, 1950, Queens

63

Simon Russell Beale

British actor and music historian

*January 12th, 1961, Penang

68

Nikolai Noskov

Soviet and Russian singer and song writer

*January 12th, 1956, Gagarin

38

Jakob Oftebro

Norwegian actor

*January 12th, 1986, Oslo

65

Hermann Thiersch

German archaeologist

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

81

Jean-Louis Bianco

French politician

*January 12th, 1943, Neuilly-sur-Seine

51

Hande Yener

Turkish singer

*January 12th, 1973, Kadıköy

78

André Labarrère

French politician and Esperantist (1928-2006)

*January 12th, 1928, Pau †May 16th, 2006, Pau

81

Erik Martin

German writer, songwriter and composer of songs (1936-2017)

*January 12th, 1936, Neuss †April 25th, 2017

74

Bob McEwen

American politician

*January 12th, 1950, Hillsboro

77

Marie Dubois

French actress (1937-2014)

*January 12th, 1937, 15th arrondissement of Paris †October 15th, 2014, Lescar

26

Juan Foyth

Argentine association football player

*January 12th, 1998, La Plata

66

Christiane Amanpour

English-Iranian news anchor and international correspondent

*January 12th, 1958, Ealing

67

George Duke

American musician (1946–2013)

*January 12th, 1946, San Rafael †August 5th, 2013, Los Angeles

45

David Zabriskie

Road bicycle racer

*January 12th, 1979, Salt Lake City

53

Hermann Göring

German Nazi politician, military leader, and convicted war criminal

*January 12th, 1893, Rosenheim †October 15th, 1946, Nuremberg Court Prison

40

Jack London

American author, journalist and social activist (1876–1916)

*January 12th, 1876, San Francisco †November 22nd, 1916, Glen Ellen

82

Hedayat Amin Arsala

Afghan economist and politician (born 1942)

*January 12th, 1942, Kabul

Also born in 1944

79

Udo Kier

German actor

*October 14th, 1944, Cologne

79

Poul Michelsen

Faroese businessperson and politician

*July 22nd, 1944, Tórshavn

79

Nils Ole Oftebro

Norwegian actor

*December 1st, 1944, Sarpsborg Municipality

73

Jonathan Demme

American film director (1944–2017)

*February 22nd, 1944, Baldwin †April 26th, 2017, Manhattan

80

John Rhys-Davies

British actor

*May 5th, 1944, Ammanford

80

Syed Mohammed Arif

Badminton player and trainer

*January 29th, 1944, Hyderabad

80

Joachim Schimpke

Badminton player

*March 8th, 1944, Hohenstein-Ernstthal

79

Michael Douglas

American actor and film producer

*September 25th, 1944, New Brunswick

80

Gerhard Schröder

Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005

*April 7th, 1944, Mossenberg-Wöhren

80

Gert Audring

German historian of classical antiquity

*February 6th, 1944, Śrem

79

Dieter Planck

German archaeologist

*August 14th, 1944, Rottenburg am Neckar

80

Alice Walker

American author and activist (1944- )

*February 9th, 1944, Eatonton

79

Ban Ki-moon

8th Secretary-General of the United Nations

*June 13th, 1944, Eumseong County

77

Judi Rollick

Badminton player

*August 17th, 1944, Seattle †April 5th, 2022

80

Alexander Van der Bellen

President of Austria since 2017

*January 18th, 1944, Vienna

77

Volker Lechtenbrink

German actor and singer

*August 18th, 1944, Zelenogradsk †November 22nd, 2021, Hamburg

72

David Chandler

American chemist (1944-2017)

*October 15th, 1944, New York City †April 18th, 2017, Berkeley

72

Helena Štáchová

Czech actress, theatre director, manager and puppeteer

*November 18th, 1944, Prague †March 22nd, 2017, Prague

79

Serge Haroche

French physicist, Nobel laureate

*September 11th, 1944, Casablanca

79

Dieter Hertrampf

German musician, singer and guitarist

*November 29th, 1944, Berlin

79

Mary Robinson

Former President of Ireland and former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

*May 21st, 1944, Ballina

79

Chris Hillman

American musician

*December 4th, 1944, Los Angeles

79

Arne Lindtner Næss

Norwegian actor, director and screenwriter

*December 19th, 1944, Bergen

79

George Lucas

American filmmaker (born 1944)

*May 14th, 1944, Modesto

80

Françoise Hardy

French singer and songwriter

*January 17th, 1944, 9th arrondissement of Paris

76

Alan Parker

English film producer and director (1944-2020)

*February 14th, 1944, Islington †July 31st, 2020, London

80

Rakel Surlien

Norwegian judge and politician

*February 10th, 1944, Svelvik

73

Wolfgang Bochow

Badminton player

*May 26th, 1944, Brunswick †September 14th, 2017, Siegburg

72

László Csendes

Hungarian actor (1944-2017)

*September 21st, 1944, Rimavská Sobota †March 24th, 2017

72

Sibylle Tönnies

German opinion journalist, sociologist and jurist

*November 24th, 1944, Potsdam †March 25th, 2017

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