April 12 is the birthday of 56 notable people we've found so far, including athletes, actors, historical figures and entrepreneurs, and 2 of them are billionaires.
Walter Moreira Salles Júnior is a Brazilian filmmaker. A major figure of the Resumption Cinema in Brazil, Salles is widely regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers in Brazilian cinema.
Robert Wood Johnson IV is an American businessman and the owner and chairman of the NFL's New York Jets and was the United States ambassador to the United Kingdom from 2017 to 2021 during Donald Trump's first term.
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Share of the 56 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Athletes27% (15 people)
Actors18% (10 people)
Entrepreneurs16% (9 people)
Authors14% (8 people)
Creators14% (8 people)
Musicians14% (8 people)
Scientists14% (8 people)
Countries
27 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States17 (17 people)
Japan4 (4 people)
Brazil3 (3 people)
France3 (3 people)
Italy3 (3 people)
Russia2 (2 people)
Russian Empire2 (2 people)
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Claire Catherine Danes is an American actor. Prolific in film and television since her teens, she is the recipient of three Primetime Emmy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards. In 2012 and 2026, Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Saoirse Una Ronan is an American-born Irish actress. Primarily known for her work in period dramas, she has received various accolades, including a Golden Globe Award and a Scottish BAFTA, with nominations for four Academy Awards and seven British Academy Film Awards.
David Michael Letterman is an American television host, comedian, writer, and producer.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from Washington D.C, United States DoD photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st , CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Jennifer Marie Morrison is an American actress and director. She played the roles of Dr. Allison Cameron in the medical-drama series House (2004–2012) and Emma Swan in the ABC adventure-fantasy series Once Upon a Time (2011–2018).
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Jan Tinbergen was a Dutch economist who was awarded the first Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1969, which he shared with Ragnar Frisch for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes.
Thomas Leo Clancy Jr. was an American writer. He was best known for his techno-thrillers, which feature technical details in espionage and military science settings. Originally an insurance agent, Clancy published his first novel, The Hunt for Red October, in 1984.
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Savji Dhanji Dholakia is an Indian businessman. He is the founder and chairman of Hari Krishna Exports, a diamond manufacturing and exporting company. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 2022.
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Yevhen Cherniak is a businessman who is the head of the supervisory board of Global Spirits and owner of the brand Khortytsia. He holds 19th place on the Ukrainian Forbes top 100.
Robert Francis Xavier Sillerman was an American businessman and media entrepreneur. Sillerman was the owner of a range of television and radio stations during the 1970s and 1980s. In 1993, he formed SFX Broadcasting.
Evelyn Berezin was an American computer designer responsible for the creation of the first airline reservation systems and the original word processor.
Edward Leonard O'Neill is an American actor, comedian, and former football player. Over his career, he has earned four Screen Actors Guild Awards as well as nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards.
Andrés Arturo García Menéndez is an American actor, director, producer, and musician. Known for his roles in film and television, he has received a Grammy Award, as well as nominations for an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards and two Primetime Emmy Awards.
David Bruce Cassidy was an American actor and musician. While he was best known in the United States for his role as Keith Partridge in the 1970s musical-sitcom The Partridge Family, he was an international success in his solo career as a singer.
Brooklyn Danielle Decker is an American model and actress, perhaps best known for her appearances in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, including the cover of the 2010 issue.
Porter Hovey at http://www.porterhovey.com/, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma is a South African politician who served as the fourth president of South Africa from 2009 to 2018. Zuma was a former anti-apartheid activist, member of uMkhonto weSizwe, and president of the African National Congress (ANC) from 2007 to 2017.
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Robert Frederick Chelsea Moore was an English professional footballer. He captained West Ham United for more than ten years, and was the captain of the England national team that won the 1966 FIFA World Cup.
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Henry Clay was an American lawyer, statesman, and diplomat who represented Kentucky in both the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate. He was the seventh House speaker as well as the ninth secretary of state.
Matthew Harris Jouett, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Marcello Romeo Lippi is an Italian former professional football player and former manager, who led the Italy national team to victory in the 2006 FIFA World Cup.
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Lisa Germaine Gerrard is an Australian musician, singer and composer. She is a former member of the group Dead Can Dance, which she formed with music partner Brendan Perry.
Jelena Dokic is an Australian broadcaster, tennis analyst, former professional player and public speaker. Her highest ranking as a tennis player was world No. 4, in August 2002. She won WTA Tour events on all surfaces during her career.
Julia Margaret Flesher Koch is an American socialite and philanthropist who is one of the richest women in the world. As of August 2026, her fortune was estimated at $81.2 billion. She inherited her fortune from her husband, David Koch, who died in 2019.
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Eric Bertrand Bailly is an Ivorian professional footballer who plays for Major League Soccer club Columbus Crew and the Ivory Coast national team. Although he mainly plays as a centre-back, he can also play as a right-back.
Guy Rupert Berryman is a Scottish musician, songwriter, producer, businessman and designer. He is best known as the bassist of the rock band Coldplay and electronic supergroup Apparatjik.
Joyce Hilda Banda is a Malawian politician, educator, and activist who served as the fourth president of Malawi from 2012 to 2014. She became president after the death of Bingu wa Mutharika, under whom she served as the fourth vice president from 2009 to 2012.
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Robert Delaunay was a French artist of the School of Paris movement; who, with his wife Sonia Delaunay and others, co-founded the Orphism art movement, noted for its use of strong colours and geometric shapes. His later works were more abstract.
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Giuseppe Tartini was an Italian composer and violinist of the Baroque era born in Pirano in the Republic of Venice. Tartini was a prolific composer, composing over a hundred pieces for the violin, the majority of them violin concertos.
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Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, born Gómez Suárez de Figueroa and known as El Inca, was a chronicler and writer born in the Viceroyalty of Peru. Sailing to Spain at 21, he was educated informally there, where he lived and worked the rest of his life.
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Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky was a Russian playwright, generally considered the greatest representative of the Russian realistic period. The author of 47 original plays, Ostrovsky "almost single-handedly created a Russian national repertoire."
Vasily Perov, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 56 people born on April 12, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 2 of them carry a dated net-worth estimate citing Forbes or Bloomberg; combined wealth is the sum of the low end of those estimates, the newest as of 2025. Rankings compare all 366 dates in the dataset built on 2026-09-28. Milestone ages come from dated Wikidata statements; a tilde marks year-only dates. Nothing on this page is a prediction about anyone born on April 12. Read the full methodology.
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