Famous People Born on May 12
Famous people born on May 12 include Florence Nightingale (1820), Dorothy Hodgkin (1910) and Rishi Sunak (1980).
BORN ON THIS DAY
Florence Nightingale
Founder of modern nursing
Dorothy Hodgkin
Nobel Prize for X-ray crystallography of biochemical substances
MORE FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
Rishi Sunak
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2022 to 2024
Katharine Hepburn
American actress (1907–2003)
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Spiritual speaker and writer (1895–1986)
George Carlin
American stand-up comedian (1937–2008)
Maryam Mirzakhani
Iranian mathematician (1977–2017)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
English poet and artist (1828–1882)
Justus von Liebig
German chemist (1803–1873)
Rami Malek
American actor (born 1981)
Marcelo
Brazilian footballer (born 1988)
Emilio Estevez
American actor and filmmaker (born 1962)
Gabriel Fauré
French composer, organist, pianist and teacher (1845–1924)
Augustus II the Strong
King of Poland, Elector of Saxony and Grand Duke of Lithuania (1670–1733)
Jules Massenet
French composer (1842–1912)
Frenkie de Jong
Dutch footballer (born 1997)
William Giauque
Canadian-born American chemist (1895–1982)
MORE FAMOUS DEATHS
Nelly Sachs
Jewish German-Swedish writer, Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate (1891–1970)
John Dryden
English poet and playwright (1630–1700)
Józef Piłsudski
Polish statesman (1867–1935)
Bedřich Smetana
Czech composer (1824–1884)
Erik Erikson
American psychoanalyst and essayist (1902–1994)
Irena Sendler
Polish humanitarian and resistance fighter (1910–2008)
Jean Dubuffet
French painter and sculptor (1901–1985)
Mauno Koivisto
Finnish politician, President of Finland (1923–2017)
Joris-Karl Huysmans
French novelist and art critic (1848–1907)
James Connolly
Irish republican, trade unionist and revolutionary (1868–1916)
Sources
- May 12 — Wikipedia. Births and deaths on this date
- Florence Nightingale — Wikipedia
- Dorothy Hodgkin — Wikipedia
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation. Birth years under More famous deaths