The 12th day of the year
Born on 12 January
Every 12 January birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Capricorn, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- CapricornEarth, cardinal, ruled by Saturn.
- Birthstone
- GarnetThe same as on the 1912 list.
- Birth flower
- Carnation, SnowdropUsually taken today to mean devotion and hope.
- Most common weekdays
- Monday and Thursday16 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 January in any year.
Which weekday 12 January falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 12 January falls on every day of the week: Monday 16, Thursday 16, Wednesday 15, Friday 15, Saturday 15, Tuesday 15, Sunday 15.
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How common a birthday 12 January is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,784 babies were born on 12 January in each year of the twenty, making it the joint 262nd 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 January
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Jack London | 1876–1916 | American author, journalist and social activist |
| Swami Vivekananda | 1863–1902 | Indian Hindu monk and philosopher |
| Haruki Murakami | 1949– | Japanese writer |
| Edmund Burke | 1729–1797 | Anglo-Irish statesman, political theorist and conservative philosopher |
| Jeff Bezos | 1964– | American business magnate |
| Hermann Göring | 1893–1946 | German Nazi politician, military leader, and convicted war criminal |
| Charles Perrault | 1628–1703 | French author |
| Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi | 1746–1827 | Swiss pedagogue and educational reformer |
| Sergei Korolev | 1907–1966 | Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer |
| Hande Yener | 1973– | Turkish singer |
| Nikolai Noskov | 1956– | Soviet and Russian singer and song writer |
| Zayn Malik | 1993– | English singer |
| Alfred Rosenberg | 1893–1946 | Baltic German architect, Nazi politician and ideologue |
| Joe Frazier | 1944–2011 | American boxer |
| Jusepe de Ribera | 1591–1652 | Spanish painter |
| Luise Rainer | 1910–2014 | German-born actress |
| Kirstie Alley | 1951–2022 | American actress |
| Igor Kurchatov | 1903–1960 | Soviet nuclear physicist |
Died on 12 January
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Agatha Christie | 1890–1976 | English mystery and detective writer |
| Pierre de Fermat | 1601–1665 | French mathematician and lawyer |
| Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor | 1459–1519 | Holy Roman Emperor |
| Hermann Minkowski | 1864–1909 | German mathematician and physicist |
| Friedrich Schlegel | 1772–1829 | German literary critic, philosopher and Indologist |
| Lisa Marie Presley | 1968–2023 | American singer-songwriter |
| Roger Scruton | 1944–2020 | English conservative philosopher and writer |
| Leopoldo Galtieri | 1926–2003 | Argentine military officer, de facto President of Argentina from 1981 to 1982 |
| Amrish Puri | 1932–2005 | Indian actor |
| Ľudovít Štúr | 1815–1856 | Slovak poet, philosopher, linguist, publicist, politician and writer |
| Charles Brenton Huggins | 1901–1997 | American physiologist |
| Nikolai Podgorny | 1903–1983 | Soviet politician |
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