August 12

On This Day

26 people found

Born on this day (8)

1977(1)

Park Yong-ha

19772010

South Korean actor and singer

1932(1)

Sirikit

19322025

Queen Consort of Thailand from 1950 to 2016, since then Queen Mother

1924(1)

Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq

19241988

President of Pakistan from 1978 to 1988 Of Saudi origin

1911(1)

Cantiflas

19111993

Mexican comic film actor, producer, and screenwriter

1887(1)

Erwin Schrödinger

18871961

Austrian physicist

1881(1)

Cecil B. DeMille

18811959

American film director, producer and actor

1866(1)

Jacinto Benavente

18661954

Spanish writer

1831(1)

Helena Blavatsky

18311891

Russian occult writer

Died on this day (18)

2022(1)

Wolfgang Petersen

19412022

German film director

2014(1)

Lauren Bacall

19242014

American actress

2004(1)

Godfrey Hounsfield

19192004

English electrical engineer

2000(1)

Loretta Young

19132000

American actress

1996(1)

Victor Ambartsumian

19081996

Soviet Armenian astrophysicist

1992(1)

John Cage

19121992

American avant-garde composer

1989(1)

William Shockley

19101989

American physicist and inventor

1988(1)

Jean-Michel Basquiat

19601988

American artist

1982(1)

Henry Fonda

19051982

American actor

1979(1)

Ernst Chain

19061979

Jewish-German-born British biochemist

1973(2)

Karl Ziegler

18981973

German chemist

Walter Rudolf Hess

18811973

Swiss physiologist

1964(1)

Ian Fleming

19081964

Scottish author

1955(2)

James Batcheller Sumner

18871955

American chemist

Thomas Mann

18751955

German novelist and Nobel Prize laureate

1928(1)

Leoš Janáček

18541928

Czech composer

1901(1)

Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld

18321901

Finland Swedish baron, geologist, mineralogist and Arctic explorer

1900(1)

Wilhelm Steinitz

18361900

Austrian-American chess player