Born on May 12
May 12 birthdays & history
If you were born on May 12, you share a birthday with Florence Nightingale, Rishi Sunak and Katharine Hepburn. May 12 babies are Taurus, with emerald as their birthstone and the lily of the valley as their birth flower. May 12 is the 133rd day of the year in leap years (132nd in other years).
Famous people born on May 12
- 1820Florence Nightingale, Italian-English nurse, social reformer, and statistician
- 1980Rishi Sunak, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- 1907Katharine Hepburn, American actress
- 1910Dorothy Hodgkin, English biochemist, crystallographer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1895Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian-American philosopher and author
- 1937George Carlin, American comedian, actor, and author
- 1977Maryam Mirzakhani, Iranian mathematician
- 1803Justus von Liebig, German chemist and academic
- 1828Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English poet and painter
- 1981Rami Malek, American actor[citation needed]
What happened on May 12
- 254Pope Stephen I succeeds Pope Lucius I, becoming the 23rd pope of the Catholic Church, and immediately takes a stand against Novatianism.
- 1846The Donner Party, an American pioneer group which became known for resorting to cannibalism when they became trapped in the Sierra Nevada, left Independence, Missouri, for California.
- 1870The Manitoba Act is given the Royal Assent, paving the way for Manitoba to become a province of Canada on July 15.
- 1881In North Africa, Tunisia becomes a French protectorate.
- 1888North Borneo was established as a British protectorate.
- 1926The crew of the airship Norge, led by Roald Amundsen, became the first people to make a verified trip to the North Pole.
- 1937King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom are crowned in Westminster Abbey.
- 1941German engineer Konrad Zuse presented the Z3, the first working programmable and fully automatic computer, to an audience of scientists in Berlin.
- 1967The Jimi Hendrix Experience released the critically acclaimed and widely influential debut album Are You Experienced.
- 1982The Coppergate Helmet, the best preserved of the six known Anglo-Saxon helmets, was discovered.
- 2002Former US President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit with Fidel Castro, becoming the first President of the United States, in or out of office, to visit the island since the Cuban Revolution.
- 2022The Event Horizon Telescope released the first image of Sagittarius A*.
Also observed on May 12
- International ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia Awareness Day
- International Nurses Day
- J. V. Snellman Day or the Finnish Heritage Day (Finland)
Questions, answered
What star sign is May 12?
People born on May 12 are Taurus. Their birthstone is emerald and their birth flower is the lily of the valley.
Which famous people were born on May 12?
Florence Nightingale (1820), Rishi Sunak (1980), Katharine Hepburn (1907), Dorothy Hodgkin (1910), Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895), George Carlin (1937) were all born on May 12.
What happened on May 12 in history?
Among other things: in 1982, The Coppergate Helmet, the best preserved of the six known Anglo-Saxon helmets, was discovered; in 2002, Former US President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit with Fidel Castro, becoming the first President of the United States, in or out of office, to visit the island since the Cuban Revolution; in 2022, The Event Horizon Telescope released the first image of Sagittarius A*.
Can I get a newspaper front page from May 12?
Yes. The Birthday Gazette makes a personalised vintage-style front page for any May 12 birth year, with their name in the headline, events, famous birthdays and typical US prices. The preview is free and the print files cost $9.
Events, birthdays and observances are adapted from Wikipedia contributors, “May 12”, English Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0 (shortened and filtered). Ranking uses Wikidata (CC0). Sources.