On This Day
Friday · events, births, deaths, and who was alive.
October 12 1990
Born on This Day
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Adriaan Paulen🇳🇱
deceasedfootball player · 1902–1985
Days lived
30,160
Adrian Wilson🇺🇸
American football player and executive (born 1979) · b. 1979
Days alive
4,018
Alexander Wittek
deceasedAustrian chess player (1852–1894) · 1852–1894
Days lived
15,186
Anja Niedringhaus🇩🇪
deceasedGerman photojournalist (1965–2014) · 1965–2014
Days lived
17,706
Anke Wild🇩🇪
German field hockey player · b. 1967
Days alive
8,401
Ante Gotovina
Notable Trials · b. 1955
Days alive
12,784
August Horch🇩🇪
deceasedentrepreneur · 1868–1951
Days lived
30,063
Botho Graef🇩🇪
deceasedGerman art historian and archaeologist (1857–1917) · 1857–1917
Days lived
21,728
Brad Thomas🇦🇺
film director · b. 1977
Days alive
4,748
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Carlos the Jackal
Notable Trials · b. 1949
Days alive
14,975
Charlie Ward🇺🇸
basketball player · b. 1970
Days alive
7,305
Chen Shui-bian
Notable Trials · b. 1950
Days alive
14,610
Daniel Vilches Arroyo🇪🇸
athlete · b. 1978
Days alive
4,383
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Dietrich von Hildebrand🇩🇪
deceasedwriter · 1889–1977
Days lived
31,882
Émile Parisien🇫🇷
French saxophonist · b. 1982
Days alive
2,922
Éverton Santos🇧🇷
Brazilian association football player · b. 1986
Days alive
1,461
Felix Klare🇩🇪
German actor · b. 1978
Days alive
4,383
Gary Botha🇿🇦
South African rugby union and rugby league footballer · b. 1981
Days alive
3,287
Hanns Seidel🇩🇪
deceasedGerman politician (1901–1961) · 1901–1961
Days lived
21,847
Hans Georg Klamroth🇩🇪
deceasedentrepreneur · 1898–1944
Days lived
16,754
Helmut Losch🇩🇪
deceasedGerman weightlifter (1947–2005) · 1947–2005
Days lived
20,910
Inge Brück🇩🇪
deceasedactor · 1936–2025
Days lived
32,473
Inge Heybroek🇳🇱
deceasedfield hockey player (1915–1956) · 1915–1956
Days lived
14,730
Jan Studnicka🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian association footballer (1883-1967) · 1883–1967
Days lived
30,686
Janay DeLoach🇺🇸
American track and field athlete · b. 1985
Days alive
1,826
Jane Siberry🇨🇦
Canadian singer-songwriter · b. 1955
Days alive
12,784
Jongho (Choi Jong-ho)🇰🇷
K-pop Idol (ATEEZ) · b. 2000
Jorane🇨🇦
singer-songwriter · b. 1975
Days alive
5,479
Ledley King🇬🇧
football player · b. 1980
Days alive
3,652
Luca Carboni🇮🇹
singer-songwriter · b. 1962
Days alive
10,227
Luciano Pavarotti🌍
deceasedOpera singer · 1935–2007
Days lived
26,262
Manuchar Kvirkvelia
athlete · b. 1978
Days alive
4,383
Marion Jones
Notable Trials · b. 1975
Days alive
5,479
Martin Corry🇬🇧
English rugby union footballer · b. 1973
Days alive
6,209
Nikola Milenković
association football player · b. 1997
Nina Andreyeva🇷🇺
deceasedpolitician · 1938–2020
Days lived
29,871
Ole-Johan Dahl🇳🇴
deceasedNorwegian computer scientist (1931–2002) · 1931–2002
Days lived
25,828
Origa🇯🇵
deceasedRussian singer · 1970–2015
Days lived
16,168
Peter Betz🇩🇪
deceasedGerman SS-member · 1913–1974
Days lived
22,034
Raúl Goni🇪🇸
football player · b. 1988
Days alive
730
Rick Ferrell🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican baseball player and coach (1905–1995) · 1905–1995
Days lived
32,795
Roland Mack🇩🇪
entrepreneur · b. 1949
Days alive
14,975
Shanta Shelke🇮🇳
deceasedMarathi poet and writer (1922–2002) · 1922–2002
Days lived
29,092
Soledad Pastorutti🇦🇷
Argentine folk singer · b. 1980
Days alive
3,652
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Sönke Möhring🇩🇪
actor · b. 1972
Days alive
6,574
Tony Fiore🇺🇸
film director · b. 1971
Days alive
6,940
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Truxtun Hare🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican football player, track and field athlete (1878-1956) · 1878–1956
Days lived
28,236
Urs Remond🇨🇭
Swiss actor · b. 1964
Days alive
9,496
Will Berthold🇩🇪
deceasedGerman screenwriter (1924–2000) · 1924–2000
Days lived
27,641
Yang Lei🇨🇳
Chinese singer · b. 1984
Days alive
2,191
Yves Blein🇫🇷
French politician · b. 1954
Days alive
13,149
Željko Milinovič🇸🇮
Slovenian association football player · b. 1969
Days alive
7,670
Died on This Day
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Alex Salmond🇬🇧
deceasedpolitician · 1954–2024
Days lived
25,488
Alfred Kerr🇬🇧
deceasedGerman writer (1867–1948) · 1867–1948
Days lived
29,511
Arkady Strugatsky🇬🇪
deceasedwriter · 1925–1991
Days lived
24,151
Bernhard Minetti🇩🇪
deceasedmusician · 1905–1998
Days lived
34,227
Bruno Beger🇩🇪
deceasedGerman racial anthropologist (1911–2009) · 1911–2009
Days lived
35,963
Fritz Achterberg🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actor (1880-1971) · 1880–1971
Days lived
33,215
Gene Vincent🇺🇸
deceasedsinger-songwriter · 1935–1971
Days lived
13,392
Gillo Pontecorvo🇮🇹
deceasedItalian film director (1919–2006) · 1919–2006
Days lived
31,739
Günther Blumentritt🇩🇪
deceasedGerman general (1892–1967) · 1892–1967
Days lived
27,637
Harry Valérien🇩🇪
deceasedjournalist · 1923–2012
Days lived
32,485
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Isidor Behrens🇸🇪
deceasedSwedish sports administrator (1868–1951) · 1868–1951
Days lived
30,597
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Jan Willem Wegstapel
deceasedDutch politician (1924–2020) · 1924–2020
Days lived
35,252
João Bosco Burnier🇧🇷
deceasedBrazilian priest (1917–1976) · 1917–1976
Days lived
21,673
John Denver
deceasedsinger-songwriter · 1943–1997
Days lived
19,644
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Katharine Burr Blodgett🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican physicist (1898-1979) · 1898–1979
Days lived
29,859
Ken Murray🇺🇸
deceasedEntertainer, producer, author (1903-1988) · 1903–1988
Days lived
31,137
Litokwa Tomeing
deceasedformer President of the Marshall Islands (1939-2020) · 1939–2020
Days lived
29,584
Lucie Englisch🇦🇹
deceasedactor · 1902–1965
Days lived
23,257
Max Winkler🇩🇪
deceasedGerman nazi politician (1875-1961) · 1875–1961
Days lived
31,446
Oscar Baumann🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian cartographer (1864-1899) · 1864–1899
Days lived
12,892
Reinhart Ahlrichs🇩🇪
deceasedchemist · 1940–2016
Days lived
28,029
René Lacoste🇫🇷
deceasedFrench tennis player · 1904–1996
Days lived
33,705
RJ Mitte🇺🇸
deceasedActor · 1992–2026
Days lived
12,470
Rudolf Warnecke🇩🇪
deceasedGerman artist · 1905–1994
Days lived
32,791
Werner Kubitzki🇩🇪
deceasedfield hockey player (1915-1994) · 1915–1994
Days lived
29,040
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
50,322
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Horst von der Goltz
German spy and actor · b. 1884
Days alive
39,000
José Miguel Barandiarán🇪🇸
deceasedBasque anthropologist, etnologist and archaeologist (1889–1991) · 1889–1991
Days lived
37,244
Frank J. Skinner🇺🇸
American football player · b. 1891
Days alive
36,348
Walter Schenk🇩🇪
deceasedGerman military personnel · 1891–2000
Days lived
39,634
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Hal Roach🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican filmmaker (1892–1992) · 1892–1992
Days lived
36,817
Lajos Perley
athlete · b. 1892
Days alive
36,011
Lang Jingshan
deceasedartist · 1892–1995
Days lived
37,506
Zośka Vieras🇱🇹
deceasedBelarusian writer and poet (1892-1991) · 1892–1991
Days lived
36,166
Lillian Gish🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican actress (1893–1993) · 1893–1993
Days lived
36,295
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Martha Graham🇺🇸
deceasedBallet dancer · 1894–1991
Days lived
35,388
Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia🇮🇹
deceasedItalian film director (1894–1998) · 1894–1998
Days lived
37,799
Hermann Florstedt
deceasedmilitary person · 1895–2000
Days lived
38,302
Adolf Pokorny🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian-born dermatologist and doctor; defendant in the Doctors' Trial at Nuremberg (1895-?) · 1895–2000
Days lived
38,144
Silas Simmons🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican baseball player (1895–2006) · 1895–2006
Days lived
40,557
Heinrich Eberbach🇩🇪
deceasedGerman general (1895–1992) · 1895–1992
Days lived
35,295
Sylvia de Arruda Botelho Bittencourt🇧🇷
deceasedBrazilian journalist · 1896–1995
Days lived
36,188
Friedrich Hund🇩🇪
deceasedchemist · 1896–1997
Days lived
36,945
Lilia Skala🇺🇸
deceasedAustrian-American actress (1896-1994) · 1896–1994
Days lived
35,813
Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian architect (1897–2000) · 1897–2000
Days lived
37,614
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
57,993
Lonesome George🇪🇨
deceasedPinta Island tortoise · 1910–2012
Days lived
37,430
Lin Wang🇹🇼
deceasedAsian elephant · 1917–2003
Days lived
31,467
Washoe🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1965–2007
Days lived
15,399
Koko🇺🇸
deceasedWestern lowland gorilla · 1971–2018
Days lived
17,152
Alex🇺🇸
deceasedAfrican grey parrot · 1976–2007
Days lived
11,433
Keiko🇮🇸
deceasedOrca · 1977–2003
Days lived
9,841
Companies That Existed
Brands and companies already founded by this date.
Hermes🇫🇷
Luxury Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
56,166
Procter & Gamble🇺🇸
Consumer Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
55,863
Berkshire Hathaway🇺🇸
Conglomerate / Investments · b. 1839
Days since founding
55,436
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HSBC🇬🇧
Banking · b. 1865
Days since founding
45,878
Tata Group🇮🇳
Conglomerate · b. 1868
Days since founding
44,844
Goldman Sachs🇺🇸
Investment Banking · b. 1869
Days since founding
44,478
Eli Lilly🇺🇸
Pharmaceuticals · b. 1876
Days since founding
41,922
Chevron🇺🇸
Oil & Gas · b. 1879
Days since founding
40,574
Already Published
Notable books already in print.
Meditations🇮🇹
Philosophy/Stoicism Book · b. 180
Days in print
661,373
Don Quixote🇪🇸
Satire/Adventure Book · b. 1605
Days in print
140,887
Pride and Prejudice🇬🇧
Romance/Satire Book · b. 1813
Days in print
64,905
Crime and Punishment🇷🇺
Psychological Fiction Book · b. 1866
Days in print
45,574
The Great Gatsby🇺🇸
Tragedy/Modernist Book · b. 1925
Days in print
23,926
Brave New World🇬🇧
Dystopian/Sci-Fi Book · b. 1932
Days in print
21,469
The Hobbit🇬🇧
Fantasy/Adventure Book · b. 1937
Days in print
19,379
The Little Prince🇫🇷
Novella/Fantasy Book · b. 1943
Days in print
17,356
Already Released
Films already out by this date.
Wuthering Heights
Drama film · b. 1939
Days since release
18,816
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12 Angry Men🇺🇸
Drama/Crime Film · b. 1957
Days since release
12,238
The Godfather🇺🇸
Crime/Drama Film · b. 1972
Days since release
6,776
Jaws🇺🇸
Thriller/Adventure Film · b. 1975
Days since release
5,593
Star Wars: A New Hope🇺🇸
Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film · b. 1977
Days since release
4,888
Mad Max
Film · b. 1979
Days since release
4,201
Alien🇺🇸
Sci-Fi/Horror Film · b. 1979
Days since release
4,158
The Shining
Film · b. 1980
Days since release
3,937