Famous People Born In 1912
Discover the most famous people born in 1912. The list includes people like Alan Turing, Eva Braun, Jackson Pollock, Milton Friedman, Wernher Von Braun and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include journalists, political leaders, soldiers and philosophers born in 1912. This list includes people from United States, United Kingdom, Germany & Austria and many more countries.
Alan Turing23rd June, British
Computer Scientist
Eva Braun6th February, German
Julia Child15th August, American
Chef
Jackson Pollock28th January, American
Painter
Kim Il-sung15th April, North Korean
Former President of North Korea
Danny Thomas6th January, American
Milton Friedman31st July, American
Economist, Statistician
Ben Hogan13th August, American
American professional golfer
Woody Guthrie14th July, American
American singer-songwriter
Sam Snead27th May, American
Professional Golfer
Herbert Sobel26th January, American
U.S. Army Officer
Pope John Paul I17th October, Italian
Pope of Roman Catholic Church
Enoch Powell16th June, British
James Callaghan27th March, British
Lady Bird Johnson22nd December, American
First Lady of the United States
Clara Petacci28th February, Italian
Mistress of Benito Mussolini
Millvina Dean2nd February, British
Cartographer
José Ferrer8th January, Puerto Rican
Actor, Director
John Cage5th September, American
Composer, Writer
Barbara Hutton14th November, American
Socialites
Chuck Jones21st September, American
Animator, Filmmaker, Cartoonist, Author, Artist, &
Nancy Wake30th August, French, New Zealander, British
British Secret Agent During World War II
Heinrich Harrer6th July, Austrian
Mountaineer
Glenn T. Seaborg19th April, American
Chemist
Pappy Boyington4th December, American
Pilot
Michelangelo Antonioni29th September, Italian
Film Director, Screenwriter, Editor
Wilfrid Brambell22nd March, Irish
Actor
John Cheever27th May, American
Novelist & Short Story Writer
Martha Scott22nd September, American
Actress
Wendy Hiller15th August, British
Actress
Alfredo Stroessner3rd November, Paraguayan
Former President of Paraguay
Patrick White28th May, Australian
Australian Writer
Francis Schaeffer30th January, American
Theologian, Philosopher
A. E. van Vogt26th April, Canadian
Science Fiction Author
Salvador Luria13th August, Italian
Microbiologist
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Leonid Kantorovich19th January, Russian, Russian
Economist
Edward Mills Purcell30th August, American
Physicist
Julius Axelrod30th May, American
Biochemist
Michel Debré15th January, French
149th Prime Minister of France
Herbert C. Brown22nd May, American
Chemist
Konrad Emil Bloch21st January, German, Polish, American
Biochemist
Wernher Von Braun23rd March, German, Polish, American
George E. Palade19th November, Romanian
Cell Biologist
Abbe Pierre5th August, French
Founder of the Emmaus
Eugene Curran Kelly23rd August, American
American dancer
Feroze Gandhi12th September, Indian
Politician, Journalist
Lawrence Durrell27th February, British
Novelist
Gene Kelly23rd August, American
Film actor, Singer, Film director, Actor,
Kim Philby1st January, Indian, British
Spy, Journalist
Erich Honecker25th August, German
Politician, Autobiographer, Non-fiction writer
Pat Nixon16th March, American
Children
Otto von Habsburg20th November, Austrian, German, Hungarian
Politician
Gordon Parks30th November, American
American photographer
Saadat Hasan Manto11th May, Indian, Pakistani
Screenwriter, Journalist, Writer
Raoul Wallenberg4th August, Swedish
Architect, Businessperson, Diplomat
Doris Duke22nd November, American
Art collector, Horticulturist, Socialite
Dale Evans30th November
Film Actress, Songwriter, Singer, Television
Byron Nelson4th February, American
Golfer
Stephen Ward19th October, British
Physician
Charles Addams7th January, American
Draughtsperson, Illustrator, Artist, Painter,
Eleanor Powell21st November, American
Stage actor, Film actor, Television actor
Adolf Galland19th March, German
Aviator, Military personnel
John Jacob Astor VI14th August, American
Socialite
Odette Hallowes28th April, French, British
Intelligence agent
Art Linkletter17th July, Canadian, American
Actor, Television presenter, Radio personality
Hanna Reitsch29th March, Austrian, German, Polish
Aviator, Test pilot, Helicopter pilot, Military
Sonja Henie8th April, Norwegian
Actor, Figure skater
Carlo Ponti11th December, Italian
Film producer, Screenwriter
Minoru Yamasaki1st December, American
Architect
Alois Brunner8th April, Austrian
Military personnel, Torturer
Georg Solti21st October, Hungarian
Conductor, Pianist, Musician, Composer, Music
David Packard7th September, American
Entrepreneur, Engineer, Computer scientist
Chien-Shiung Wu31st May, Chinese
Physicist
Walter Sisulu18th May, South African
Politician
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa1st October, Nigerian
Former Prime Minister of Nigeria
Studs Terkel16th May, American
Journalist, Historian, Radio personality, Writer,
Sonny Boy Williamson II5th December, American
Singer
Jacques Ellul6th January, French
Theologian, Philosopher, Writer, Sociologist,
Alfred Lennon14th December, British
Singer-songwriter
Henry M. Jackson31st May, American
Politician, Lawyer
Hugh Griffith30th May, British
Actor, Stage actor
Otto Ernst Remer18th August, German
Writer
Maria Mandl10th January, Austrian
Prison officer, Torturer
János Kádár26th May, Croatian, Hungarian
political
Otto Kretschmer1st May, German
Soldier, Submariner
Northrop Frye14th July, Canadian
Writer, Philosopher, Educationist, Cleric, Poet,
John Templeton29th November, British
Businessperson, Entrepreneur, Merchant
Agnes Martin22nd March, Canadian, American
Painter
Barbara W. Tuchman30th January, American
Journalist, Historian, Writer, Biographer
Henry Armstrong12th December, American
Minister, Boxer
Yuen Siu-tien27th November
Actor, Film actor
Thomas Stoltz Harvey10th October, American
Pathologist, Neurologist
Andre Norton17th February, American
Writer, Novelist, Science fiction writer
Isser Harel30th November, Israeli
spy, politician, writer
Pierre Boulle20th February, French
Writer, Screenwriter, Novelist, Engineer, Science
Sergiu Celibidache28th June, Romanian
conductor, composer, university teacher