November 12 – Famous Birthdays
Ryan Gosling (MOVIE ACTOR) 1980
Anne Hathaway (MOVIE ACTRESS) 1982
Janet Devlin (POP SINGER) 1994
November 12 – Famous Birthdays:
1900 – Stanley Graham, New Zealand mass murderer (d. 1941)
1901 – James Luther Adams, American minister and theologian (d. 1994)
1903 – Jack Oakie, American actor (d. 1978)
1904 – Max Hoffman, Austrian-born car importer and businessman (d. 1981)
1905 – Louise Thaden, American pilot (d. 1979)
1906 – George Dillon, American soldier and poet (d. 1968)
1908 – Harry Blackmun, American lawyer and judge (d. 1999)
1910 – Dudley Nourse, South African cricketer (d. 1981)
1911 – Buck Clayton, American trumpet player and academic (d. 1991)
1914 – Peter Whitehead, English race car driver (d. 1958)
1915 – Roland Barthes, French philosopher, theorist, and critic (d. 1980)
1916 – Paul Emery, English race car driver (d. 1993)
1916 – Jean Papineau-Couture, Canadian composer and academic (d. 2000)
1917 – Jo Stafford, American singer (d. 2008)
1919 – France Štiglic, Slovenian film director and screenwriter (d. 1993)
1919 – Jackie Washington, Canadian singer-songwriter (d. 2009)
1920 – Richard Quine, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1989)
1922 – Tadeusz Borowski, Polish poet, author, and journalist (d. 1951)
1922 – Kim Hunter, American actress (d. 2002)
1923 – Ian Graham, English archaeologist and explorer (d. 2017)
1923 – Rubén Bonifaz Nuño, Mexican poet and scholar (d. 2013)
1924 – Sam Jones, American bassist, cellist, and composer (d. 1981)
1926 – Robert Goff, Baron Goff of Chieveley, English lawyer and judge (d. 2016)
1927 – František Šťastný, Czech motorcycle racer and sportscaster (d. 2000)
1927 – Yutaka Taniyama, Japanese mathematician and theorist (d. 1958)
1929 – Grace Kelly, American actress, later Princess Grace of Monaco (d. 1982)
1929 – Michael Ende, German author and fiction writer (d. 1995)
1930 – Bob Crewe, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2014)
1934 – Charles Manson, American cult leader and mass murderer (d. 2017)
1934 – John McGahern, Irish author and educator (d. 2006)
1934 – Vavá, Brazilian footballer and manager (d. 2002)
1938 – Denis DeJordy, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1938 – Benjamin Mkapa, Tanzanian journalist and politician, 3rd President of Tanzania
1938 – Mort Shuman, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1991)
1939 – Lucia Popp, Slovak soprano (d. 1993)
1940 – Michel Audet, Canadian economist and politician
1940 – Jürgen Todenhöfer, German judge and politician
1943 – Errol Brown, Jamaican-English singer-songwriter (d. 2015)
1943 – Brian Hyland, American pop singer
1943 – Wallace Shawn, American actor, comedian and playwright
1943 – Björn Waldegård, Swedish race car driver (d. 2014)
1943 – John Walker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2011)
1944 – Booker T. Jones, American pianist, saxophonist, songwriter, and producer
1944 – Al Michaels, American sportscaster
1945 – Michael Bishop, American author and educator
1945 – Neil Young, Canadian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1945 – Judith Roitman, American mathematician and academic
1946 – Alexandra Charles, Swedish businesswoman
1947 – Buck Dharma, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1947 – Patrice Leconte, French director and screenwriter
1948 – Hassan Rouhani, Iranian lawyer and politician; 7th President of Iran
1949 – Ron Lapointe, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1992)
1949 – Jack Reed, American soldier and politician
1950 – Barbara Fairchild, American country and gospel singer-songwriter
1953 – Baaba Maal, Senegalese singer-songwriter and guitarist
1954 – Paul McNamee, Australian tennis player
1955 – Les McKeown, Scottish pop singer (Bay City Rollers)
1958 – Megan Mullally, American actress and singer
1958 – Nick Stellino, Italian-American chef and author
1958 – Mykola Vynnychenko, Ukrainian race walker
1959 – Vincent Irizarry, American actor
1959 – Toshihiko Sahashi, Japanese composer
1960 – Maurane, Belgian singer and actress (d. 2018)
1961 – Nadia Comăneci, Romanian gymnast and coach
1961 – Enzo Francescoli, Uruguayan footballer
1962 – Kuniko Asagi, Japanese actress and television host
1962 – Jon Dough, American porn actor, director, and producer (d. 2006)
1962 – Mariella Frostrup, Norwegian journalist and actress
1962 – Mark Hunter, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager
1962 – Neal Shusterman, American author and poet
1962 – Naomi Wolf, American author and activist
1964 – Vic Chesnutt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2009)
1964 – David Ellefson, American bass player and songwriter
1964 – Wang Kuang-hui, Taiwanese baseball player and coach
1964 – Barbara Stühlmeyer, German musicologist, church musician and writer
1965 – Lex Lang, American voice actor and producer
1967 – Bassim Al-Karbalaei, Iraqi Eulogy Reciter
1967 – Disco Inferno, American wrestler and manager
1967 – Iryna Khalip, Belarusian journalist
1967 – Michael Moorer, American boxer
1967 – Grant Nicholas, Welsh singer-songwriter and guitarist
1968 – Kathleen Hanna, American singer-songwriter
1968 – Sammy Sosa, Dominican-American baseball player
1968 – Aaron Stainthorpe, English-German singer-songwriter
1969 – Ian Bremmer, American political scientist and author
1969 – Jason Cundy, English footballer and sportscaster
1969 – Rob Schrab, American writer and artist
1970 – Elektra, American wrestler, model, and dancer
1970 – Tonya Harding, American figure skater
1970 – Sarah Harmer, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1970 – Oscar Strasnoy, French-Argentine composer
1971 – Chen Guangcheng, Chinese-American lawyer and activist
1972 – Vassilios Tsiartas, Greek footballer
1973 – Radha Mitchell, Australian actress
1974 – Alessandro Birindelli, Italian footballer
1975 – Jason Lezak, American swimmer
1976 – Tevin Campbell, American R&B singer-songwriter and actor
1976 – Judith Holofernes, German singer-songwriter and guitarist
1976 – Richelle Mead, American author and educator
1976 – Mirosław Szymkowiak, Polish footballer and journalist
1977 – Benni McCarthy, South African footballer
1977 – Lee Murray, English mixed martial artist
1978 – Alexandra Maria Lara, Romanian-German actress
1978 – Mista, Spanish footballer
1978 – Ashley Williams, American actress
1979 – Matt Cappotelli, American wrestler and trainer
1979 – Cote de Pablo, Chilean actress
1979 – Lucas Glover, American golfer
1979 – Corey Maggette, American basketball player and sportscaster
1979 – Matt Stevic, Australian footballer and umpire
1980 – Shaun Cooper, American bass player
1980 – Nur Fettahoğlu, German-Turkish journalist and actress
1980 – Ryan Gosling, Canadian actor, producer and singer
1980 – Charlie Hodgson, English rugby player
1981 – Annika Becker, German pole vaulter
1981 – DJ Campbell, English footballer
1981 – Sergio Floccari, Italian footballer
1982 – Anne Hathaway, American actress
1982 – Mikele Leigertwood, English footballer
1983 – Charlie Morton, American baseball player
1984 – Sepp De Roover, Belgian footballer
1984 – Jorge Masvidal, American mixed martial artist
1984 – Sandara Park, South Korean singer, dancer, and actress
1984 – Conrad Rautenbach, Zimbabwean race car driver
1984 – Yan Zi, Chinese tennis player
1985 – Arianny Celeste, American model and actress
1985 – Adlène Guedioura, French-Algerian footballer
1986 – Ignazio Abate, Italian footballer
1986 – Nedum Onuoha, English footballer
1987 – Jason Day, Australian golfer
1987 – Kengo Kora, Japanese actor
1987 – Bryan Little, Canadian ice hockey player
1988 – Russell Westbrook, American basketball player
1989 – Hiroshi Kiyotake, Japanese footballer
1990 – Florent Manaudou, French swimmer
1990 – Harmeet Singh, Norwegian footballer
1990 – Siim-Sander Vene, Estonian basketball player
1991 – Gijs Van Hoecke, Belgian cyclist
1992 – Trey Burke, American basketball player
1992 – Adam Larsson, Swedish ice hockey player
1993 – Luguelín Santos, Dominican sprinter
1994 – Guillaume Cizeron, French ice dancer
