On This Day
Wednesday · events, births, deaths, and who was alive.
June 12 1968
Born on This Day
Abdel Moneim El-Guindi🇪🇬
deceasedboxer · 1936–2011
Days lived
27,306
Ádám Pintér🇭🇺
football player · b. 1988
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Adriana Lima🇧🇷
Supermodel, Actress, Entrepreneur · b. 1981
Akinori Mikami🇯🇵
Japanese association football player · b. 1969
Álex Mumbrú🇪🇸
Spanish basketball player · b. 1979
Andreas Thiele🇩🇪
German actor · b. 1980
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Angela Ahrendts
Tech CEOs · b. 1960
Days alive
2,922
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Anna Margaret🇺🇸
singer · b. 1996
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Anne Frank
deceasedwriter · 1929–1945
Days lived
5,713
Anni Albers🇺🇸
deceasedGerman-American textile artist, weaver and graphic designer, student and teacher at the Bauhaus (1899–1994) · 1899–1994
Days lived
34,664
Bert Sakmann🇩🇪
German biologist and physician (1991 Nobel Prize) · b. 1942
Days alive
9,497
Blake Ross🇺🇸
American software developer · b. 1985
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Brad Delp🇺🇸
deceasedSinger · 1951–2007
Days lived
20,359
David Defiagbon🇨🇦
deceasedboxer (1970–2018) · 1970–2018
Days lived
17,697
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David Rockefeller🇺🇸
deceasedentrepreneur · 1915–2017
Days lived
37,172
Egon Schiele
deceasedAustrian painter (1890-1918) · 1890–1918
Days lived
10,367
Emile Tibbaut🇧🇪
deceasedBelgian politician and lawyer (1862-1935) · 1862–1935
Days lived
26,852
Ferdinand Schörner🇩🇪
deceasedmilitary person · 1892–1973
Days lived
29,604
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Fritz Albert Lipmann🇺🇸
deceasedchemist · 1899–1986
Days lived
31,818
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George H. W. Bush🇺🇸
deceasedentrepreneur · 1924–2018
Days lived
34,504
Günter Behnisch🇩🇪
deceasedGerman architect, submarine commander in World War II (1922–2010) · 1922–2010
Days lived
32,172
H. C. Artmann🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian poet (1921–2000) · 1921–2000
Days lived
29,030
István Sándorfi🇫🇷
deceasedHungarian artist (1948–2007) · 1948–2007
Days lived
21,746
János Polyák🇭🇺
Hungarian artist · b. 1967
Days alive
366
Jaroslav Poncar🇩🇪
Czech photographer · b. 1945
Days alive
8,401
Jean-Miguel Garrigues🇫🇷
model · b. 1944
Days alive
8,766
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Joël de Rosnay🇫🇷
French scientist · b. 1937
Days alive
11,323
John Chase🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican ice hockey player (1906-1994) · 1906–1994
Days lived
32,070
Jordan Peterson
Psychologist & Author · b. 1962
Days alive
2,192
Klaus Eberhartinger🇦🇹
Austrian musician · b. 1950
Days alive
6,575
Klemen Lavrič🇸🇮
Slovenian association football player · b. 1981
Larry Foote🇺🇸
American football player · b. 1980
Leonid Razvozzhayev🇷🇺
politician · b. 1973
Lindsey Harding🇺🇸
American-Belarusian basketball player · b. 1984
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Margherita Hack🇮🇹
deceasedItalian astrophysicist and popular science writer (1922-2013) · 1922–2013
Days lived
33,255
Mark Amodei🇺🇸
politician · b. 1958
Days alive
3,653
Mel Rodriguez🇺🇸
actor · b. 1973
Mohammed Abdu🇸🇦
Saudi Singer · b. 1949
Days alive
6,940
Mohnish Pabrai🇮🇳
Investor & Fund Manager · b. 1964
Days alive
1,461
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Nora Tschirner🇩🇪
German actress · b. 1981
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Otto Schenk🇦🇹
deceasedactor · 1930–2025
Days lived
34,545
Peter Beets
Dutch musician · b. 1971
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Renan Demirkan🇹🇷
actor · b. 1955
Days alive
4,749
Robert Lowie🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican anthropologist (1883–1957) · 1883–1957
Days lived
27,129
Roger Aaron Brown🇺🇸
actor · b. 1949
Days alive
6,940
Roger Bernadina🇨🇼
baseball player · b. 1984
Ryang Chun-hwa🇰🇵
North Korean weightlifter · b. 1991
Sahnie🇩🇪
German musician · b. 1962
Days alive
2,192
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Sergio Rodríguez🇪🇸
basketball player · b. 1986
Stephanie Szostak🇫🇷
actor · b. 1975
Tess Gerritsen🇺🇸
writer · b. 1953
Days alive
5,479
Tomcraft🇩🇪
deceasedrapper · 1975–2024
Days lived
17,931
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Yosef Shofman🇮🇱
deceasedIsraeli diplomat (1903–1978) · 1903–1978
Days lived
27,484
Died on This Day
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Alfred Roller🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian painter, graphic designer, and set designer (1864-1935) · 1864–1935
Days lived
25,819
Arlene Harris🇺🇸
deceasedCanadian-born American radio, film, and television actress (1896-1976) · 1896–1976
Days lived
29,194
Artur Köllensperger🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian politician and judge (1884-1946) · 1884–1946
Days lived
22,489
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli🇮🇹
deceasedItalian pianist · 1920–1995
Days lived
27,552
Bill Blass🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican fashion designer (1922-2002) · 1922–2002
Days lived
29,210
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Clemens Holzmeister🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian architect and stage designer (1886–1983) · 1886–1983
Days lived
35,505
D. T. Suzuki🇯🇵
deceasedphilosopher · 1870–1966
Days lived
34,935
Daisy D'ora🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actress (1913-2010) · 1913–2010
Days lived
35,535
Epifanio Fernández🇪🇸
deceasedfootball player · 1919–1977
Days lived
21,235
Flavio Maspoli🇨🇭
deceasedSwiss politician (1950-2007) · 1950–2007
Days lived
20,953
Frank Schirrmacher🇩🇪
deceasedGerman journalist (1959–2014) · 1959–2014
Days lived
20,004
Gregory Peck
deceasedOscar Winners · 1916–2003
Days lived
31,844
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Hanns Heinz Ewers🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actor and writer (1871–1943) · 1871–1943
Days lived
26,153
Helmuth Plessner🇩🇪
deceasedGerman philosopher and sociologist (1892–1985) · 1892–1985
Days lived
33,883
Ingeborg Weber-Kellermann🇩🇪
deceasedGerman folklore scientist (1918–1993) · 1918–1993
Days lived
27,380
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József Várszegi🇭🇺
deceasedathlete · 1910–1977
Days lived
24,385
Karl Kraus🇦🇹
deceasedYouTube personality · 1874–1936
Days lived
22,690
Margarete Mitscherlich-Nielsen🇺🇸
deceasedGerman psychoanalyst (1917–2012) · 1917–2012
Days lived
34,664
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Norma Shearer🇨🇦
deceasedCanadian-American actress (1902-1983) · 1902–1983
Days lived
29,526
Percy Rees🇬🇧
deceasedfield hockey player · 1883–1970
Days lived
31,669
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Saul Alinsky🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican community organizer and writer (1909–1972) · 1909–1972
Days lived
23,144
Sebastiano Mannironi🇮🇹
deceasedItalian weightlifter · 1930–2015
Days lived
31,006
Sidonie Grünwald-Zerkowitz
deceasedAustrian author (1852–1907) · 1852–1907
Days lived
20,213
Viktor Hamburger🇺🇸
deceasedscientist · 1900–2001
Days lived
36,863
Wilhelm Gliese🇩🇪
deceasedGerman astronomer (1915-1993) · 1915–1993
Days lived
28,481
Willy Meisl🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian footballer and journalist (1895-1968) · 1895–1968
Days lived
26,466
Wolfgang Kapp🇺🇸
deceasedPrussian civil servant and journalist. Nominal leader of the Kapp-Putsch (1858-1922) · 1858–1922
Days lived
23,333
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
42,165
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
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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
Vladimir Zelenin
deceasedscientist · 1881–1968
Days lived
32,067
Wang Zi-Ping🇨🇳
deceasedathlete · 1881–1973
Days lived
33,602
Hans Reiter🇩🇪
deceasedGerman Nazi physician (1881–1969) · 1881–1969
Days lived
32,413
Rudolf Pannwitz🇩🇪
deceasedGerman writer and philosopher (1881–1969) · 1881–1969
Days lived
32,076
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
49,836
Lonesome George🇪🇨
deceasedPinta Island tortoise · 1910–2012
Days lived
37,430
Lin Wang🇹🇼
deceasedAsian elephant · 1917–2003
Days lived
31,467
Ham🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1957–1983
Days lived
9,333
Shamu🇺🇸
deceasedOrca · 1962–1971
Days lived
3,521
Washoe🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1965–2007
Days lived
15,399
Digit🇷🇼
deceasedMountain gorilla · 1967–1977
Days lived
4,017
Companies That Existed
Brands and companies already founded by this date.
Hermes🇫🇷
Luxury Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
48,009
Procter & Gamble🇺🇸
Consumer Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
47,706
Berkshire Hathaway🇺🇸
Conglomerate / Investments · b. 1839
Days since founding
47,279
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HSBC🇬🇧
Banking · b. 1865
Days since founding
37,721
Tata Group🇮🇳
Conglomerate · b. 1868
Days since founding
36,687
Goldman Sachs🇺🇸
Investment Banking · b. 1869
Days since founding
36,321
Eli Lilly🇺🇸
Pharmaceuticals · b. 1876
Days since founding
33,765
Chevron🇺🇸
Oil & Gas · b. 1879
Days since founding
32,417
Already Published
Notable books already in print.
Meditations🇮🇹
Philosophy/Stoicism Book · b. 180
Days in print
653,216
Don Quixote🇪🇸
Satire/Adventure Book · b. 1605
Days in print
132,730
Pride and Prejudice🇬🇧
Romance/Satire Book · b. 1813
Days in print
56,748
Crime and Punishment🇷🇺
Psychological Fiction Book · b. 1866
Days in print
37,417
The Great Gatsby🇺🇸
Tragedy/Modernist Book · b. 1925
Days in print
15,769
Brave New World🇬🇧
Dystopian/Sci-Fi Book · b. 1932
Days in print
13,312
The Hobbit🇬🇧
Fantasy/Adventure Book · b. 1937
Days in print
11,222
The Little Prince🇫🇷
Novella/Fantasy Book · b. 1943
Days in print
9,199
Already Released
Films already out by this date.
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