Kostas Karydas (81)
August 12th, 1942

Greek alpine skier – Kostas Karydas was born in Athens (Capital and largest city of Greece) on August 12th, 1942 and is 81 years old today.

Other personalities born on August 12

69

François Hollande

President of France from 2012 to 2017

*August 12th, 1954, Rouen

82

Dana Ivey

American actress

*August 12th, 1941, Atlanta

62

Kristin Krohn Devold

Norwegian politician

*August 12th, 1961, Ålesund Municipality

78

Jean Nouvel

French architect (b.1945)

*August 12th, 1945, Fumel

28

Lee Yang

Taiwanese badminton player

*August 12th, 1995, Taipei

82

Letícia Román

Italian actress

*August 12th, 1941, Rome

77

Elisabetta Casellati

Italian lawyer and politician (born 1946)

*August 12th, 1946, Rovigo

80

Herta Däubler-Gmelin

German politician

*August 12th, 1943, Bratislava

93

George Soros

Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist (born 1930)

*August 12th, 1930, Budapest

51

Andrea Dakó

Badminton player

*August 12th, 1972, Budapest

80

Milan Nenadić

Olympic wrestler

*August 12th, 1943, Drenovac Banski †January 16th, 2024

31

Toby Penty

English badminton player

*August 12th, 1992, Walton-on-Thames

82

Jennifer Warren

American actress, director, teacher

*August 12th, 1941, Greenwich Village

73

Erwin Schrödinger

Austrian physicist (1887–1961)

*August 12th, 1887, Vienna †January 4th, 1961, Vienna

75

Larry Carpenter

American director

*August 12th, 1948, Brockport

46

Richard Spiegelburg

German pole vaulter

*August 12th, 1977, Georgsmarienhütte

54

Tanita Tikaram

British singer-songwriter

*August 12th, 1969, Münster

82

Gerda Bryłka

Artistic gymnast

*August 12th, 1941, Świętochłowice

52

Pete Sampras

American tennis player

*August 12th, 1971, Washington, D.C.

32

Khris Middleton

American basketball player

*August 12th, 1991, Charleston

84

George Hamilton

American film and television actor

*August 12th, 1939, Memphis

74

Mark Knopfler

British musician

*August 12th, 1949, Glasgow

52

Rebecca Gayheart

American actress

*August 12th, 1971, Hazard

33

Wissam Ben Yedder

Tunisian and French association football player

*August 12th, 1990, Sarcelles

82

Edwin Roberts

Athletics competitor

*August 12th, 1941, Port of Spain

50

Laurent Fignon

French professional road bicycle racer

*August 12th, 1960, 18th arrondissement of Paris †August 31st, 2010, 13th arrondissement of Paris

68

Dietmar Schauerhammer

East German bobsledder

*August 12th, 1955, Neustadt an der Orla

59

Deborah Walley

American actress (1941-2001)

*August 12th, 1941, Bridgeport †May 10th, 2001, Sedona

98

Lucy Salani

Italian LGBT rights activist and antifascist (1924–2023)

*August 12th, 1924, Fossano †March 21st, 2023, Bologna

84

Oliver Ford Davies

British actor

*August 12th, 1939, Ealing

Also born in 1942

81

Joe Biden

President of the United States since 2021

*November 20th, 1942, Scranton

77

Terry Jones

Welsh actor, comedian, director, historian and writer (1942–2020)

*February 1st, 1942, Colwyn Bay †January 21st, 2020, North London

81

Dietrich Hollinderbäumer

German-Swedish actor

*August 16th, 1942, Essen

76

Stephen Hawking

British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)

*January 8th, 1942, Oxford †March 14th, 2018, Cambridge

81

Katherine Justice

American actress

*October 28th, 1942, Sacramento

81

Wolfgang Schäuble

German politician and statesman (1942–2023)

*September 18th, 1942, Freiburg im Breisgau †December 26th, 2023, Offenburg

81

Richard Stoltzman

American musician

*July 12th, 1942, Omaha

81

Amitabh Bachchan

Indian film actor (born 1942)

*October 11th, 1942, Prayagraj

82

John Cale

Welsh composer, singer-songwriter and record producer

*March 9th, 1942, Garnant

81

Paul McCartney

English musician and member of the Beatles (born 1942)

*June 18th, 1942, Liverpool

74

Daliah Lavi

Israeli actress, singer and model (1942-2017)

*October 12th, 1942, Shavei Tzion †May 3rd, 2017, Asheville

74

Muhammad Ali

American boxer, philanthropist, and activist (1942–2016)

*January 17th, 1942, Louisville †June 3rd, 2016, Scottsdale

82

Per A. Anonsen

Norwegian actor, film editor, screenwriter and film producer

*January 8th, 1942, Oslo

81

Søren Steen

Danish actor

*August 22nd, 1942, Denmark

69

Muammar Gaddafi

Libyan dictator, politician and political theorist (1942–2011)

*June 7th, 1942, Qasr Abu Hadi †October 20th, 2011, Sirte

82

Michel Mayor

Swiss astrophysicist & Nobel laureate of Physics

*January 12th, 1942, Lausanne

76

Aretha Franklin

American singer, songwriter, and pianist (1942–2018)

*March 25th, 1942, Memphis †August 16th, 2018, Detroit

82

Jun'ichirō Koizumi

Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006

*January 8th, 1942, Yokosuka

81

Raman Ghosh

Badminton player

*August 15th, 1942, Bareilly

81

Hu Jintao

General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party from 2002 to 2012

*December 21st, 1942, Jiangyan District

27

Jimi Hendrix

American guitarist (1942–1970)

*November 27th, 1942, Seattle †September 18th, 1970, Kensington

75

Pierre Seron

Belgian comics artist (1942-2017)

*February 9th, 1942, Chênée †May 24th, 2017, Saint-Bénézet

81

Thomas Danneberg

German actor (1942–2023)

*June 2nd, 1942, Berlin †September 30th, 2023, Berlin

74

Sven-Erik Magnusson

Swedish singer and musician

*October 13th, 1942, Säffle †March 22nd, 2017, Karlstad

71

Bob Hoskins

British actor (1942–2014)

*October 26th, 1942, Bury St Edmunds †April 29th, 2014, Bury St Edmunds

82

Michael Bloomberg

American businessman and politician; 108th mayor of New York City

*February 14th, 1942, Boston

82

Mike Pender

British musician

*March 3rd, 1942, Kirkdale

70

Roger Ebert

American film critic and author (1942–2013)

*June 18th, 1942, Urbana †April 4th, 2013, Chicago

75

David Ogden Stiers

American actor (1942–2018)

*October 31st, 1942, Peoria †March 3rd, 2018, Newport

81

Fraser Stoddart

Scottish chemist and Nobel Laureate in 2016 for the design and synthesis of molecular machines

*May 24th, 1942, Edinburgh

Kostas Karydas