The 132nd day of the year, the 133rd in a leap year
Born on 12 May
Every 12 May birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Taurus, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- TaurusEarth, fixed, ruled by Venus.
- Birthstone
- EmeraldThe same as on the 1912 list.
- Birth flower
- Lily of the valley, HawthornUsually taken today to mean returning happiness and hope.
- Most common weekdays
- Thursday and Tuesday16 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 May in any year.
Which weekday 12 May falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 12 May falls on every day of the week: Thursday 16, Tuesday 16, Wednesday 15, Friday 15, Saturday 15, Monday 15, Sunday 15.
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How common a birthday 12 May is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,805 babies were born on 12 May in each year of the twenty, making it the 192nd 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 May
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Florence Nightingale | 1820–1910 | English social reformer, statistician, and founder of modern nursing |
| Rishi Sunak | 1980– | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2022 to 2024 |
| Katharine Hepburn | 1907–2003 | American actress |
| Dorothy Hodgkin | 1910–1994 | British chemist |
| George Carlin | 1937–2008 | American stand-up comedian |
| Maryam Mirzakhani | 1977–2017 | Iranian mathematician |
| Justus von Liebig | 1803–1873 | German chemist |
| Dante Gabriel Rossetti | 1828–1882 | English poet, illustrator, painter, and translator |
| Rami Malek | 1981– | American actor |
| Marcelo | 1988– | Brazilian association football player |
| Emilio Estevez | 1962– | American actor, director, and writer |
| Gustav Vasa | 1496–1560 | King of Sweden from 1523 to 1560 |
| Gabriel Fauré | 1845–1924 | French composer, organist, pianist and teacher |
| Augustus II the Strong | 1670–1733 | King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania and Elector of Saxony |
| Jules Massenet | 1842–1912 | French composer |
| Frenkie de Jong | 1997– | Dutch association football player |
| William Giauque | 1895–1982 | American chemist |
| Sam Nujoma | 1929–2025 | President of Namibia from 1990 to 2005 |
Died on 12 May
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Nelly Sachs | 1891–1970 | Jewish German poet and playwright |
| John Dryden | 1631–1700 | 17th-century English poet and playwright |
| Józef Piłsudski | 1867–1935 | Polish statesman, Chief of State and First Marshal of Poland |
| Bedřich Smetana | 1824–1884 | Czech composer |
| Pope Sylvester II | died 1003 | Pope from 999 to 1003 |
| Erik Erikson | 1902–1994 | German-American child psychoanalyst |
| Irena Sendler | 1910–2008 | Polish resistance fighter and Holocaust rescuer |
| Pope Sergius IV | 970–1012 | Pope from 1009 to 1012 |
| Jean Dubuffet | 1901–1985 | French artist |
| Mauno Koivisto | 1923–2017 | President of Finland |
| Joris-Karl Huysmans | 1848–1907 | French novelist and art critic |
| James Connolly | 1868–1916 | Irish republican, trade unionist and socialist revolutionary |
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