The 224th day of the year, the 225th in a leap year
Born on 12 August
Every 12 August birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Leo, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- LeoFire, fixed, ruled by the Sun.
- Birthstone
- Peridot, Spinel, SardonyxThe 1912 list gave Sardonyx and Peridot.
- Birth flower
- Gladiolus, PoppyUsually taken today to mean strength of character and remembrance.
- Most common weekdays
- Friday and Wednesday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 12 August in any year.
Which weekday 12 August falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 12 August falls on every day of the week: Friday 16, Wednesday 16, Thursday 15, Saturday 15, Sunday 15, Tuesday 15, Monday 15.
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How common a birthday 12 August is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,867 babies were born on 12 August in each year of the twenty, making it the 50th most common of the 366 dates, where 26 September came first with 1,974 and 26 December last with 1,359.
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Born on 12 August
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| François Hollande | 1954– | President of France from 2012 to 2017 |
| Erwin Schrödinger | 1887–1961 | Austrian physicist |
| George Soros | 1930– | Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist |
| Jacinto Benavente | 1866–1954 | Spanish writer |
| George IV | 1762–1830 | King of the United Kingdom and Hanover from 1820 to 1830 |
| Mario Balotelli | 1990– | Italian association football player |
| Pete Sampras | 1971– | American tennis player |
| Helena Blavatsky | 1831–1891 | Russian occult writer |
| Zia-ul-Haq | 1924–1988 | President of Pakistan from 1978 to 1988 |
| Klaas-Jan Huntelaar | 1983– | Dutch association football player |
| Cecil B. DeMille | 1881–1959 | American film director, producer and actor |
| Casey Affleck | 1975– | American actor |
| Robert Southey | 1774–1843 | English romantic poet |
| Cara Delevingne | 1992– | English model and actor |
| Mark Knopfler | 1949– | British musician |
| Matthijs de Ligt | 1999– | Dutch association football player |
| Djibril Cissé | 1981– | French footballer |
| Ewa Farna | 1993– | Polish-Czech singer |
Died on 12 August
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Cleopatra | 69–30 BC | Queen of Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt from 51 to 30 BCE |
| Thomas Mann | 1875–1955 | German novelist and Nobel Prize laureate |
| William Blake | 1757–1827 | English poet and artist |
| Ian Fleming | 1908–1964 | British author |
| Lauren Bacall | 1924–2014 | American actress |
| Henry Fonda | 1905–1982 | American actor |
| Anne, Queen of Great Britain | 1665–1714 | Queen of Great Britain and Ireland from 1702 to 1714; died 12 August in the Gregorian calendar, 1 August in the Julian |
| William Shockley | 1910–1989 | American physicist and inventor |
| Pope Innocent XI | 1611–1689 | pope of the Catholic Church from 1676 to 1689 |
| Pope Sixtus IV | 1414–1484 | pope of the Catholic Church from 1471 to 1484 |
| John Cage | 1912–1992 | American avant-garde composer |
| George Stephenson | 1781–1848 | English civil and mechanical engineer |
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