September 12

2024 Calendar

September 12 is the 255th day of the year (256th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 110 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

Up to 1900

640 – Sak K'uk', Maya Queen of Palenque
1185 – Andronikos I Komnenos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1118)
1213 – Peter II of Aragon (b. 1174)
1348 – Joan the Lame, Queen of France (b. 1293)
1362 – Pope Innocent VI (b. 1295)
1369 – Blanche of Lancaster (b. 1345)
1500 – Albert III, Duke of Saxony (b. 1443)
1612 – Tsar Vasili IV of Russia (b. 1552)
1660 – Jacob Cats, Dutch poet, jurist and politician (b. 1577)
1683 – King Afonso VI of Portugal (b. 1643)
1691 – John George III, Elector of Saxony (b. 1647)
1764 – Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer (b. 1683)
1829 – Juan Ignacio Molina, Chilean naturalist (b. 1740)
1870 – Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American writer (b. 1836)
1874 – François Guizot, 22nd Prime Minister of France (b. 1787)
1885 – Ranbir Singh, 2nd Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir (b. 1830)

1901 – 2000

1903 – Duncan Gillies, Australian politician, 14th Premier of Victoria (b. 1834)
1907 – Ilia Chavchavadze, Georgian poet, journalist and lawyer (b. 1837)
1918 – George Reid, 4th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1845)
1919 – Leonid Andreyev, Russian writer (b. 1871)
1929 – Rainis, Latvian poet, playwright and politician (b. 1865)
1938 – Prince Arthur of Connaught (b. 1883)
1945 – Hajime Sugiyama, Japanese general (b. 1880)
1956 – Hans Carossa, German writer (b. 1878)
1956 – Sandor Festetics, Hungarian politician (b. 1882)
1960 – Dino Borgioli, Italian tenor (b. 1891)
1977 – Steve Biko, South African anti-Apartheid activist (b. 1946)
1977 – Robert Lowell, American poet (b. 1917)
1981 – Eugenio Montale, Italian poet (b. 1896)
1982 – Federico Moreno Torroba, Spanish composer (b. 1891)
1986 – Jacques Henri Lartigue, French photographer (b. 1894)
1992 – Anthony Perkins, American actor (b. 1932)
1993 – Raymond Burr, Canadian actor (b. 1917)
1994 – Boris Yegorov, Russian physician and cosmonaut (b. 1937)
1995 – Jeremy Brett, English actor (b. 1933)
1995 – Yasutomo Nagai, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1965)
1996 – Ernesto Geisel, President of Brazil (b. 1907)
2000 – Gary Olsen, English actor (b. 1957)

From 2001

2001 – Victor Wong, Chinese-American actor (b. 1927)
2003 – Johnny Cash, American country music singer (b. 1932)
2004 – Max Abramowitz, American architect (b. 1908)
2008 – David Foster Wallace, American writer (b. 1962)
2009 – Norman Borlaug, American agronomist (b. 1914)
2009 – Jack Kramer, American tennis player (b. 1921)
2009 – Willy Ronis, French photographer (b. 1910)
2010 – Claude Chabrol, French movie director (b. 1930)
2011 – Alexander Galimov, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1985)
2012 – Sid Watkins, British neurosurgeon (b. 1928)
2012 – Derek Jameson, British tabloid journalist and broadcaster (b. 1929)
2013 – Erich Loest, German writer (b. 1926)
2013 – Otto Sander, German actor (b. 1941)
2013 – Ray Dolby, American engineer and inventor (b. 1933)
2014 – Atef Ebeid, Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1932)
2014 – Ian Paisley, Northern Irish religious and political leader (b. 1926)
2014 – John Bardon, English actor (b. 1939)
2014 – Joe Sample, American pianist and composer (b. 1939)
2014 – Antony Kidman, Australian psychologist, biochemist and writer (b. 1938)
2015 – Adrian Frutiger, Swiss typeface designer (b. 1928)
2016 – Gunilla Bernadotte, Swedish duchess (b. 1923)
2016 – Ellen Burka, Canadian-Dutch figure skater (b. 1921)
2016 – Stanley Steinbaum, American activist (b. 1920)
2017 – Heiner Geissler, German politician (b. 1930)
2017 – Alex Hawkins, American football player (b. 1937)
2017 – Siegfried Köhler, German conductor (b. 1923)
2017 – Allan MacEachen, Canadian politician (b. 1921)
2017 – Edith Windsor, American LGBT rights activist and technological manager at IBM (b. 1929)
2018 – Henry Kalis, American politician (b. 1937)
2018 – Hans Kloss, German artist and graphic designer (b. 1938)
2018 – Walter Mischel, Austrian-American psychologist (b. 1930)
2018 – Billy O'Dell, American baseball player (b. 1933)
2018 – Shen Chun-shan, Taiwanese physicist and academic (b. 1932)
2018 – Rachid Taha, Algerian singer, songwriter and activist (b. 1958)

Births

1901 – 1950

1901 – Ben Blue, Canadian actor and comedian (d. 1975)
1901 – Shmuel Horowitz, Russian-Israeli agronomist (d. 1999)
1902 – Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, President of Brazil (d. 1976)
1904 – Gavriil Popov, Russian composer (d. 1972)
1904 – Istvan Horthy, Hungarian admiral (d. 1942)
1907 – Roger Bonvin, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 1982)
1912 – Frances Lennon, English artist (d. 2015)
1913 – Jesse Owens, American athlete, four-time Olympic champion (d. 1980)
1913 – Eiji Toyoda, Japanese industrialist (d. 2013)
1914 – Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh actor (d. 1999)
1915 – Frank McGee, American journalist (d. 1974)
1916 – Tony Bettenhausen, American race car driver (d. 1961)
1921 – Stanislaw Lem, Polish writer (d. 2006)
1922 – Antonio Cafiero, Argentine politician (d. 2014)
1924 – Amilcar Cabral, Cape Verdean-Guinea-Bissauan politician (d. 1973)
1925 – Stan Lopata, American baseball player (d. 2013)
1925 – Dickie Moore, American actor (d. 2015)
1927 – Mathé Altéry, French soprano and actress
1928 – Ernie Vandeweghe, American basketball player (d. 2014)
1930 – Gunder Gundersen, Norwegian skier (d. 2005)
1930 – Akira Suzuki, Japanese chemist
1931 – Sir Ian Holm, English actor
1931 – George Jones, American singer (d. 2013)
1931 – Adrian Rogers, American religious leader (d. 2005)
1932 – Atli Dam, 5th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (d. 2005)
1933 – Tatiana Doronina, Russian actress
1934 – Jaegwon Kim, Korean-American philosopher
1934 – Glenn Davis, American athlete (d. 2009)
1937 – George Chuvalo, Canadian boxer
1938 – Claude Ruel, French-Canadian ice hockey coach (d. 2015)
1939 – Nobuyuki Oishi, Japanese footballer
1939 – Henry Waxman, United States Congressman
1940 – Joachim Frank, German-American biophysicist, joint 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner
1940 – Mickey Lolich, American baseball player
1940 – Linda Gray, American actress
1943 – Maria Muldaur, American singer
1943 – Michael Ondaatje, Sri Lankan-born writer
1944 – Leonard Peltier, Native American activist
1944 – Yoshio Kikugawa, Japanese footballer
1944 – Barry White, American singer (d. 2003)
1944 – Vladimir Spivakov, Russian violinist and conductor
1944 – Colin Young, American singer
1949 – Irina Rodnina, Russian figure skater
1949 – Charles Burlingame, American pilot (d. 2001)

1951 – 1975

1951 – Joe Pantoliano, American actor
1951 – Bertie Ahern, Irish politician and former Taoiseach
1951 – Ali-Ollie Woodson, American singer and musician (d. 2010)
1952 – Neil Peart, Canadian musician and writer (Rush) (d. 2020)
1952 – Gerry Beckley, American musician
1953 – Fiona Mactaggart, Scottish politician
1954 – Peter Scolari, American actor
1956 – Leslie Cheung, Hong Kong singer (d. 2003)
1956 – Ricky Rudd, American race car driver
1956 – Sam Brownback, American politician, 46th Governor of Kansas
1956 – Brian Robertson, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
1957 – Hans Zimmer, German composer
1957 – Rachel Ward, English actress
1958 – Wilfredo Benitez, American boxer
1959 – Sigmar Gabriel, German politician
1959 – Scott Brown, United States Senator
1959 – Hisashi Kaneko, Japanese footballer
1960 – Stefanos Korkolis, Greek songwriter and pianist
1961 – Mylène Farmer, French singer-songwriter
1962 – Amy Yasbeck, American actress
1964 – Dieter Hecking, German footballer
1966 – Ben Folds, American musician
1966 – Vezio Sacratini, Italian ice hockey player
1967 – Mirko Slomka, German footballer and manager
1967 – Pat Listach, American baseball player
1968 – Paul F. Tompkins, American comedian, actor and screenwriter
1969 – Mika Myllyla, Finnish cross-country skier (d. 2011)
1969 – Angel Cabrera, Argentine golfer
1969 – Shigeki Maruyama, Japanese golfer
1971 – Chandra Sturrup, Bahamanian athlete
1973 – Darren Campbell, British athlete
1973 – Martin Lapointe, Canadian ice hockey player
1973 – Paul Walker, American actor (d. 2013)
1974 – Caroline Aigle, French pilot (d. 2007)
1974 – Nuno Valente, Portuguese footballer

From 1976

1976 – Maciej Zurawski, Polish footballer
1976 – 2 Chainz, American rapper
1976 – Lauren Stamile, American actress
1977 – Nathan Bracken, Australian cricketer
1977 – James McCartney, British musician
1978 – Ruben Studdard, American singer
1980 – Sean Burroughs, American baseball player
1980 – Josef Vasicek, Czech ice hockey player (d. 2011)
1980 – Yao Ming, Chinese basketball player
1981 – Jennifer Hudson, American singer and actress
1983 – Sergio Parisse, Argentine-born Italian rugby player
1984 – September, Swedish singer
1985 – Hiroki Mizumoto, Japanese footballer
1986 – Yuto Nagatomo, Japanese footballer
1986 – Joanne Jackson, British swimmer
1986 – Emmy Rossum, American actress and singer
1987 – Yaroslava Shvedova, Kazakhstani tennis player
1988 – Amanda Jenssen, Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist
1989 – Freddie Freeman, American baseball player
1992 – Sviatlana Pirazhenka, Belarussian tennis player
1993 – Kelsea Ballerini, American singer
1994 – Elina Svitolina, Ukrainian tennis player
1994 – Mhairi Black, Scottish politician
1996 – Colin Ford, American actor

Deaths

Observances

National Day of Cape Verde
Ethiopian New Year
Day of Conception (Russia)
Defenders Day (Maryland)