On This Day
Sunday · events, births, deaths, and who was alive.
May 12 1968
Born on This Day
Abelardo L. Rodríguez🇲🇽
deceasedPresident of Mexico (1932-1934) · 1889–1967
Days lived
28,400
Ágnes Heller🇭🇺
deceasedHungarian philosopher and academic · 1929–2019
Days lived
32,940
Al Shean🇺🇸
deceasedcomedian (1868-1949) · 1868–1949
Days lived
29,676
Barrington Moore, Jr.🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican historian and sociologist · 1913–2005
Days lived
33,760
Bart Somers🇧🇪
politician · b. 1964
Days alive
1,461
Bruno Motteroz🇫🇷
French rugby union player · b. 1960
Days alive
2,922
Burt Bacharach🇺🇸
deceasedsinger · 1928–2023
Days lived
34,605
Carl Schuhmann🇩🇪
deceasedGerman athlete (1869-1946) · 1869–1946
Days lived
28,074
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Cäsar Flaischlen🇩🇪
deceasedGerman poet (1864-1920) · 1864–1920
Days lived
20,610
Chris Patten🇬🇧
writer · b. 1944
Days alive
8,766
Clare Bowen🇦🇺
actor · b. 1984
Clemens von Pirquet🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian physician (1874-1929) · 1874–1929
Days lived
20,015
Domhnall Gleeson
Actor · b. 1983
Dorothy Hodgkin🇬🇧
deceasedBritish chemist · 1910–1994
Days lived
30,759
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Eleftheria Eleftheriou🇬🇷
Greek Cypriot singer · b. 1989
Eric Singer🇺🇸
American drummer · b. 1958
Days alive
3,653
Eugène Ricklin🇫🇷
deceasedFrench politician (1862-1935) · 1862–1935
Days lived
26,777
Ferdinand von Schirach🇩🇪
German lawyer and author of crime novels · b. 1964
Days alive
1,461
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Frenkie de Jong
association football player · b. 1997
Fritz Schäffer🇩🇪
deceasedGerman politician (1888-1967) · 1888–1967
Days lived
28,809
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George Carlin🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican stand-up comedian (1937–2008) · 1937–2008
Days lived
25,974
Helene Weigel🇦🇹
deceasedpolitician · 1900–1971
Days lived
25,926
Hermann Regner🇩🇪
deceasedmusician · 1928–2008
Days lived
29,451
Jared Polis
politician · b. 1975
Jennifer Hetrick🇺🇸
Television actor · b. 1958
Days alive
3,653
Jimmie Lee Sloas🇺🇸
rapper · b. 1970
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Johannes Paul🇩🇪
deceasedscientist · 1891–1990
Days lived
36,178
Katharine Hepburn🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican actress (1907–2003) · 1907–2003
Days lived
35,112
Klaus Doldinger🇩🇪
deceasedGerman musician, composer, bandleader and saxophonist (1936–2025) · 1936–2025
Days lived
32,664
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Lill Lindfors🇸🇪
Swedish jazz and schlager singer · b. 1940
Days alive
10,227
Manfred Hoeberl🇦🇹
athlete · b. 1964
Days alive
1,461
Marcelo Vieira🇪🇸
football player · b. 1988
Nathan Fielder🇨🇦
Screenwriter · b. 1983
Pablo Sciuto🇪🇸
Uruguayan singer · b. 1979
Paweł Althamer🇵🇱
Polish artist (born 1967) · b. 1967
Days alive
366
Przemysław Gosiewski🇵🇱
deceasedpolitician · 1964–2010
Days lived
16,769
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Rami Malek
Oscar Winners · b. 1981
Richard Riehle🇺🇸
deceasedStage actor · 1948–2026
Days lived
28,645
Robert Bigelow🇺🇸
hotel and aerospace entrepreneur from the United States · b. 1945
Days alive
8,401
Rolf Zuckowski🇩🇪
German singer-songwriter, record producer (born 1947) · b. 1947
Days alive
7,671
Ronald Daus🇩🇪
language and cultural studies scholar · b. 1943
Days alive
9,132
Rudolf Schmidt🇩🇪
deceasedGerman general · 1886–1957
Days lived
25,897
Sawyer Sweeten🇺🇸
deceasedActor · 1995–2015
Days lived
7,286
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Steve Winwood🇬🇧
English rock musician · b. 1948
Days alive
7,305
Susanne Müller🇩🇪
field hockey player from Germany · b. 1972
Teodoro Lonfernini
Captain Regent, head of government for San Marino · b. 1976
Terry Farrell🇬🇧
deceasedscientist · 1938–2025
Days lived
31,916
Vyacheslav Multino🇷🇺
deceasedSoviet tennis player, multiple champion of Soviet Union (1899–1978) · 1899–1978
Days lived
28,980
Wera Engels🇬🇧
deceasedGerman actress (1904–1988) · 1904–1988
Days lived
30,869
Wilhelm Leichum
deceasedOlympic jumper (1911–1941) · 1911–1941
Days lived
11,026
Xuan Chen🇨🇳
AI Entrepreneur and Tech Executive · b. 1978
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Yogi Berra🇺🇸
deceasedfilm director · 1925–2015
Days lived
33,005
Died on This Day
Atsushi Aramaki🇯🇵
deceasedfilm director · 1926–1971
Days lived
16,521
Bruce Robertson🇳🇿
deceasedNew Zealand rugby union player · 1952–2023
Days lived
25,965
Edgar Page🇬🇧
deceasedfield hockey player and cricketer (1884-1956) · 1884–1956
Days lived
26,064
Felix Steiner🇩🇪
deceasedGerman SS commander ; affiant in Pohl Trial (NMT 4) · 1896–1966
Days lived
25,555
George William Gray🇬🇧
deceasedBritish organic chemist (1926–2013) · 1926–2013
Days lived
31,662
Heinie Manush🇺🇸
deceasedfilm director · 1901–1971
Days lived
25,498
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Jean Dubuffet🇫🇷
deceasedartist · 1901–1985
Days lived
30,601
Józef Piłsudski
deceasedpolitician · 1867–1935
Days lived
24,629
Julius Fromm🇵🇱
deceasedentrepreneur · 1883–1945
Days lived
22,714
Martin Roman🇺🇸
deceasedGerman jazz pianist (1910-1996) · 1910–1996
Days lived
31,431
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Martin Spahn🇩🇪
deceasedGerman politician and historian (1875–1945) · 1875–1945
Days lived
25,633
Mathilde Ludendorff🇩🇪
deceasedGerman psychiatrist (1877-1966) · 1877–1966
Days lived
32,361
Monica Zetterlund🇸🇪
deceasedSwedish singer and actress (1937-2005) · 1937–2005
Days lived
24,706
Robert Rauschenberg🇺🇸
deceasedartist · 1925–2008
Days lived
30,153
Rosario María Gutiérrez Eskildsen🇲🇽
deceasedwriter · 1899–1979
Days lived
29,245
Ujaku Akita🇯🇵
deceasedwriter · 1883–1962
Days lived
28,956
Vlastimil Hort🇩🇪
deceasedCzech-German chess player · 1944–2025
Days lived
29,706
Who Was Alive
Notable people alive on this date, sorted by most days lived (top 20).
Sándor Farkas
Catholic priest, born 1853 · b. 1853
Days alive
42,134
Bertrand Russell🇬🇧
deceasedYouTube personality · 1872–1970
Days lived
35,688
Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg-Schwerin🇩🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1873–1969
Days lived
34,997
Charles Foulkes🇬🇧
deceasedBritish general and field hockey player (1875–1969) · 1875–1969
Days lived
34,427
Henry Hallett Dale🇬🇧
deceasedEnglish pharmacologist, Nobel laureate · 1875–1968
Days lived
34,012
Gertrud von Le Fort🇩🇪
deceasedwriter · 1876–1971
Days lived
34,718
Natalie Clifford Barney🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican writer who hosted a literary salon at her home in Paris (1876-1972) · 1876–1972
Days lived
34,791
Lillian Moller Gilbreth🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican psychologist and industrial engineer (1878–1972) · 1878–1972
Days lived
34,190
E. M. Forster🇬🇧
deceasedEnglish novelist (1879-1970) · 1879–1970
Days lived
33,394
Margarete Bieber🇺🇸
deceasedGerman-American art historian (1879–1978) · 1879–1978
Days lived
36,003
Adolf Strauss🇩🇪
deceasedGerman Wehrmacht general (1879–1973) · 1879–1973
Days lived
34,163
Kenneth Edgeworth🇮🇪
deceasedIrish astronomer, economist and engineer (1880-1972) · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,829
Arthur Mallwitz🇩🇪
deceasedathlete · 1880–1968
Days lived
32,115
Helen Keller🇺🇸
deceasedYouTube personality · 1880–1968
Days lived
32,115
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Emma P. Carr🇺🇸
deceasedscientist · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,404
Paul Hausser🇩🇪
deceasedmilitary person · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,677
Fritz Achterberg🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actor (1880-1971) · 1880–1971
Days lived
33,215
Luis Miró Quesada de la Guerra🇵🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1880–1976
Days lived
34,807
Wang Zi-Ping🇨🇳
deceasedathlete · 1881–1973
Days lived
33,602
Vladimir Zelenin
deceasedscientist · 1881–1968
Days lived
32,067
Animals Alive
Notable animals alive on this date.
Harriet🇦🇺
deceasedGalápagos tortoise · 1830–2006
Days lived
64,138
Jonathan🇸🇭
Seychelles giant tortoise · b. 1832
Days alive
49,805
Lonesome George🇪🇨
deceasedPinta Island tortoise · 1910–2012
Days lived
37,430
Lin Wang🇹🇼
deceasedAsian elephant · 1917–2003
Days lived
31,467
Sergeant Reckless🇺🇸
deceasedMongolian mare · 1948–1968
Days lived
7,438
Ham🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1957–1983
Days lived
9,333
Shamu🇺🇸
deceasedOrca · 1962–1971
Days lived
3,521
Washoe🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1965–2007
Days lived
15,399
Companies That Existed
Brands and companies already founded by this date.
Hermes🇫🇷
Luxury Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
47,978
Procter & Gamble🇺🇸
Consumer Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
47,675
Berkshire Hathaway🇺🇸
Conglomerate / Investments · b. 1839
Days since founding
47,248
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HSBC🇬🇧
Banking · b. 1865
Days since founding
37,690
Tata Group🇮🇳
Conglomerate · b. 1868
Days since founding
36,656
Goldman Sachs🇺🇸
Investment Banking · b. 1869
Days since founding
36,290
Eli Lilly🇺🇸
Pharmaceuticals · b. 1876
Days since founding
33,734
Chevron🇺🇸
Oil & Gas · b. 1879
Days since founding
32,386
Already Published
Notable books already in print.
Meditations🇮🇹
Philosophy/Stoicism Book · b. 180
Days in print
653,185
Don Quixote🇪🇸
Satire/Adventure Book · b. 1605
Days in print
132,699
Pride and Prejudice🇬🇧
Romance/Satire Book · b. 1813
Days in print
56,717
Crime and Punishment🇷🇺
Psychological Fiction Book · b. 1866
Days in print
37,386
The Great Gatsby🇺🇸
Tragedy/Modernist Book · b. 1925
Days in print
15,738
Brave New World🇬🇧
Dystopian/Sci-Fi Book · b. 1932
Days in print
13,281
The Hobbit🇬🇧
Fantasy/Adventure Book · b. 1937
Days in print
11,191
The Little Prince🇫🇷
Novella/Fantasy Book · b. 1943
Days in print
9,168
Already Released
Films already out by this date.
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