Famous people born in 1912

The best-known people born in 1912, ranked by how many languages Wikipedia covers them in.

Best known

Alan Turing
English computer scientist (1912–1954)
June 23 · d. 1954
Photo: Elliott & Fry, Public domain
Kim Il-sung
Supreme Leader of North Korea from 1948 to 1994
April 15 · d. 1994
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Milton Friedman
American economist and statistician (1912–2006)
July 31 · d. 2006
Photo: Bachrach Studios, Public domain
John Paul I
pope of the Catholic Church in 1978
October 17 · d. 1978
Photo: Anefo, CC0
Jackson Pollock
American painter (1912–1956)
January 28 · d. 1956
Photo: Hans Namuth, Public domain
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
March 23 · d. 1977
Photo: NASA/MSFC, Public domain
Konstantin Chernenko
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1911-1985)
October 1 · d. 1985
Photo: Associated Press, Public domain
Erich Honecker
former leader of East Germany, General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party (1976-1989)
August 25 · d. 1994
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0 de
James Callaghan
former prime minister of the United Kingdom (1912–2005)
March 27 · d. 2005
Photo: Christian Lambiotte, CC BY 4.0
Patrick White
English-born Australian writer
May 28 · d. 1990
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Eva Braun
photographer, longtime companion and later wife of Adolf Hitler (1912–1945)
February 6 · d. 1945
Photo: Studio of Heinrich Hoffmann, Public domain
Gene Kelly
American dancer, actor, singer, director and choreographer (1912–1996)
August 23 · d. 1996
Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Public domain
Michelangelo Antonioni
Italian film director and screenwriter (1912–2007)
September 29 · d. 2007
Photo: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Public domain
Jorge Amado
Brazilian writer (1912–2001)
August 10 · d. 2001
Photo: Bernard Gotfryd, Public domain
Glenn Theodore Seaborg
American chemist (1912–1999)
April 19 · d. 1999
Photo: Atomic Energy Commission. (1946 - 01/19/1975), Public domain
Edward Mills Purcell
American physicist (1912-1997)
August 30 · d. 1997
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Julia Child
American chef
August 15 · d. 2004
Photo: Lynn Gilbert, CC BY-SA 4.0
Leonid Kantorovich
Russian mathematician (1912-1986)
January 19 · d. 1986
Photo: Андрей Богданов (Andrei-bogdanoff yandex.ru), CC BY 3.0
Otto von Habsburg
Head of the House of Habsburg and German politician
November 20 · d. 2011
Photo: European Union, European Parliament
János Kádár
former General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
May 26 · d. 1989
Photo: Unknown Romanian photographer, Attribution
Woody Guthrie
American singer-songwriter (1912–1967)
July 14 · d. 1967
Photo: Al Aumuller, photographer. NYWT&S staff photograph., Public domain
Chien-Shiung Wu
Chinese-American physicist (1912–1997) (death at 85 years)
May 31 · d. 1997
Photo: Smithsonian Institution from United States, No restrictions
Pat Nixon
First Lady of the United States from 1969 to 1974
March 16 · d. 1993
Photo: Richard M. Nixon Presidential Library, Public domain
Raoul Wallenberg
Swedish architect, businessman, diplomat and humanitarian (1912-1947)
August 4
Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
Sonja Henie
Norwegian figure skater and actress (1912–1969)
April 8 · d. 1969
Photo: Toronto Star, Public domain
George Emil Palade
Romanian cell biologist, physician and Nobel laureate (1912–2008)
November 19 · d. 2008
Photo: Post of Romania, Public domain
Lady Bird Johnson
First Lady of the United States from 1963 to 1969
December 22 · d. 2007
Photo: Robert Knudsen, White House Press Office (WHPO), Public domain
Herbert C. Brown
American chemist (1912–2004)
May 22 · d. 2004
Photo: Willy Pragher, CC BY 3.0 de
Carlo Ponti
Italian film producer (1912-2007)
December 11 · d. 2007
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Konrad Emil Bloch
German American biochemist (1912–2000)
January 21 · d. 2000
Photo: Peter Geymayer, Public domain

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January

January 1 · Kim Philby, KGB mole for the Soviet Union (1912–1988)
January 6 · Jacques Ellul, French sociologist, technology critic, and Christian anarchist
January 8 · José Ferrer, American actor and director (1912–1992)
January 15 · Michel Debré, 79th Prime Minister of France (1912-1996)
January 19 · Michel Aflaq, Syrian philosopher, sociologist and Arab nationalist (1910–1989)
January 30 · Barbara W. Tuchman, American historian and author (1912–1989)

February

February 2 · Millvina Dean, Last remaining survivor of Titanic disaster
February 6 · Christopher Hill, British historian (1912–2003)
February 14 · Tibor Sekelj, Hungarian author and explorer (1912–1988)
February 20 · Pierre Boulle, French novelist (1912–1994)
February 27 · Lawrence Durrell, British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer (1912–1990)
February 28 · Clara Petacci, mistress of the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini (1912–1948)

March

March 19 · Adolf Galland, German World War II Luftwafffe general and fighter pilot (1912-1996)
March 21 · Ghazi of Iraq, King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq (1912-1939) (ruled 1933-1939)
March 22 · Karl Malden, American actor (1912–2009)
March 22 · Agnes Martin, American painter (1912–2004)
March 28 · Marina Raskova, Soviet pilot (1912-1943)
March 29 · Hanna Reitsch, German aviator (1912–1979)

April

April 7 · Jozef Gabčík, Czechoslovak soldier (1912–1942)
April 14 · Robert Doisneau, French photographer (1912–1994)
April 18 · Shōichi Nishimura, Japanese association football player (1912–1998)
April 22 · Kathleen Ferrier, English contralto singer (1912–1953)
April 26 · A. E. van Vogt, Canadian-American science fiction writer (1912–2000)
April 27 · Zohra Sehgal, Indian actress and choreographer (1912–2014)

May

May 9 · Pedro Armendáriz, Mexican actor (1912-1963)
May 18 · Perry Como, American singer, actor, television personality (1912-2001)
May 18 · Richard Brooks, American screenwriter, film director and producer (1912-1992)
May 27 · John Cheever, American novelist and short story writer (1912-1982)
May 30 · Julius Axelrod, American biochemist (1912–2004)
May 30 · Hugh Griffith, Welsh actor (1912–1980)

June

June 6 · Maria Montez, Dominican actress (1912-1951)
June 16 · Enoch Powell, British politician (1912–1998)
June 18 · Glenn Morris, American track and field athlete (1912–1974)
June 21 · Mary McCarthy, American writer (1912–1989)
June 22 · Katherine Dunham, American dancer, choreographer, songwriter, actress and activist (1909/1912–2006)
June 28 · Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, German physicist (1912–2007)

July

July 6 · Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer and author (1912–2006)
July 11 · Sergiu Celibidache, Romanian conductor (1912–1996)
July 12 · Petar Stambolić, Yugoslav communist politician (1912-2007)
July 14 · Northrop Frye, Canadian literary critic and literary theorist (1912–1991)
July 15 · Maguba Syrtlanova, WWII pilot and Heroine of the Soviet Union (1912–1971)
July 17 · Pál Kovács, Hungarian fencer (1912–1995)

August

August 5 · Abbé Pierre, French Catholic priest, founder of the Emmaus movement, subject of sexual abuse scandals
August 12 · Samuel Fuller, American screenwriter, actor and film director (1912–1997)
August 13 · Salvador Luria, Italian American microbiologist (1912–1991)
August 15 · Wendy Hiller, English film and stage actress (1912-2003)
August 18 · Elsa Morante, Italian novelist (1912–1985)
August 30 · Nancy Wake, New Zealander and Australian war heroine

September

September 7 · David Packard, American electrical engineer, businessman, and philanthropist (1912–1996)
September 10 · Basappa Danappa Jatti, Indian politician (1912-2002)
September 16 · György Sárosi, Hungarian footballer (1912–1993)
September 21 · Rihei Sano, Japanese association football player (1912–1992)
September 21 · Chuck Jones, American animator and filmmaker (1912–2002)
September 22 · Martha Scott, American actress (1912–2003)

October

October 1 · Lev Gumilev, Soviet academic (1912-1992)
October 1 · Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Nigerian politician (1912-1966)
October 7 · Fernando Belaúnde, President of Peru from 1963 to 1968 and from 1980 to 1985 (1912-2002)
October 18 · Philibert Tsiranana, First President of Madagascar (1959-1972)
October 21 · Georg Solti, Hungarian-British conductor (1912–1997)
October 26 · Don Siegel, American film director (1912–1991)

November

November 8 · June Havoc, American actress, vaudeville performer, and memoirist
November 22 · Abd al-Aziz Ibn Baz, Saudi Arabian Islamic scholar and mufti (1912–1999)
November 24 · Teddy Wilson, American jazz pianist (1912–1986)
November 25 · Asmahan, Syrian-Egyptian singer & actor (1917-1944)
November 30 · Gordon Parks, American photographer, musician, writer and film director (1912–2006)
November 30 · Nihat Erim, 13th Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey (1912–1980)

December

December 1 · Minoru Yamasaki, American architect (1912–1986)
December 5 · Sonny Boy Williamson II, American blues musician (1912–1965)
December 12 · Henry Armstrong, American boxer (1912–1988)
December 13 · Luiz Gonzaga, Brazilian recording artist, songwriter, singer, performing artist (1912–1989)
December 15 · Rashid Nezhmetdinov, Soviet chess player
December 28 · Teuvo Aura, Finnish politician and jurist (1912–1999)

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