Birthday twins
February 12 is the birthday of 45 notable people we've found so far, including historical figures, entrepreneurs, authors and actors, and 3 of them are billionaires.
What the data says
Entrepreneur
1960 · Sweden
$8.7Bolder estimate, as of 2019 · Forbes
Jörn Rausing is a Swedish businessman. He is a co-owner of Tetra Laval, the packaging company which was founded by his grandfather Ruben Rausing.
Reported estimate as of 2019: $8.7B. Wealth changes; this is not a live figure.
Against the other 365
Ranks compare all 366 dates in the dataset; ties share a rank. See every February birthday · battle February 12 against another date · all rankings
The February 12 wealth profile
Ranked by the low end of each reported estimate; bars use a log scale.
Entrepreneur
1956 · United States
$6.2Bolder estimate, as of 2025 · Forbes
Vincent "Vinnie" Viola is an American billionaire high frequency trader and U.S. Army veteran. For several weeks in 2016 he was President Donald Trump's nominee for United States Secretary of the Army, before withdrawing from consideration.
United States House of Representatives - Office of Dan Sullivan, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1924–2017 · Switzerland
$4.9Bolder estimate, as of 2017 · Forbes
Karl-Heinz Kipp was a German billionaire, and founder of the Massa AG department store chain. He sold the business but kept the property, and had a large property portfolio. In 2017, Forbes estimated his net worth at US$4.9 billion.
Who shares February 12
Share of the 45 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Countries
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
Life timeline
Dated milestones from Wikidata (company foundings, awards, top jobs, notable works), placed at the age each person reached them. Add your birth year above to see the ones you have passed.
The standouts
Ordered by sourced wealth, then documented achievement and coverage.
Top tier
Founder · United States Department of Agriculture
1809–1865 · United States
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States, serving from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. He led the United States through the American Civil War, defeating the Confederacy and playing a major role in the abolition of slavery.
Alexander Gardner, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
1968 · United States
Josh James Brolin is an American actor. A son of actor James Brolin, he gained fame in his youth for his role in the adventure film The Goonies (1985). Brolin had a resurgence with his starring role in the crime film No Country for Old Men (2007).
Max Surprenant, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
1980 · United States
Christina Ricci is an American actress. Known for playing unusual characters with a dark edge, Ricci works mostly in independent productions, but she has also appeared in numerous box-office hits.
Kevin Paul, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Creator
1969 · United States
Darren Aronofsky is an American filmmaker. His films are noted for their surreal, dramatic, and often disturbing elements, frequently in the form of psychological realism.
LucaFazPhoto, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Athlete
2001 · Georgia
Khvicha Kvaratskhelia is a Georgian professional footballer who plays as a left winger for Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain and captains the Georgia national team.
გიორგი კეკელიძის პირადი არქივი, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Scientist
1918–1994 · United States
Julian Seymour Schwinger was an American theoretical physicist.
Nobel foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Builders
Entrepreneur · Singularity University · technology
1948 · United States
Raymond Kurzweil is an American computer scientist, author, entrepreneur, futurist, and inventor. He is involved in fields such as optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology and electronic keyboard instruments.
nrkbeta, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur · Samsung Group · technology
1910–1987 · South Korea
Lee Byung-chul was a South Korean businessman who founded the Samsung Group, the country's largest chaebol (conglomerate). Lee founded Samsung in 1938, at the age of 28. He is widely recognized as one of the most successful business magnates in South Korean history.
A crop by Emir of Wikipedia by an image from Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1937–2024 · Italy
Prince Vittorio Emanuele of Savoy, Prince of Naples, was a son of Umberto II, the last King of Italy, and Marie-José of Belgium. Vittorio Emanuele also used the title Duke of Savoy and claimed the headship of the House of Savoy.
Manwełw, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1982 · Uganda
Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, commonly known by his stage name "Bobi Wine", is a Ugandan activist, politician, singer, lawyer, actor and former member of Parliament.
VoA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur · Renault · automotive
1877–1944 · France
Louis Renault was a French industrialist, one of the founders of Renault, and a pioneer of the automobile industry.
Harris & Ewing Collection (Library of Congress), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1911–1982 · Dominican Republic
Sylvestre Antonio Guzmán Fernández, best known as Antonio Guzmán, was a Dominican businessman and politician who served as the 46th president of the Dominican Republic from 1978 until his death in 1982.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
February 12 in history
Events from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
More birthday twins
Actor
2002 · United States
Sophia Lillis is an American actress. She gained prominence for her roles as Beverly Marsh in the horror films It (2017) and It: Chapter Two (2019) and as a teenager with telekinesis in the Netflix drama series I Am Not Okay with This (2020).
Martin Kraft, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1942 · Israel
Ehud Barak is an Israeli former general and politician who served as the prime minister of Israel from 1999 to 2001. He was leader of the Labor Party between 1997 and 2001 and between 2007 and 2011. He was also Minister of Defense from 2007 to 2013.
Adi Cohen Zedek (עדי כהן צדק), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1973 · Canada
Tara Lyn Strong is a Canadian-American actress. She is known for her voice work in animation, websites, and video games.
Super Festivals from Ft. Lauderdale, USA, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1934–2022 · United States
William Felton Russell was an American professional basketball player who played center for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1956 to 1969.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1988 · Argentina
Nicolás Hernán Gonzalo Otamendi is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for and captains Argentine Primera División club River Plate.
Bryan Berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1885–1946 · Germany
Julius Sebastian Streicher was a German publicist, politician, and convicted war criminal. A member of the Nazi Party, he served as the Gauleiter of Franconia and a member of the Reichstag, the national legislature.
Explorer
1968–1992 · United States
Christopher Johnson McCandless, also known by his pseudonym "Alexander Supertramp", was an American adventurer who sought an increasingly nomadic lifestyle as he grew up.
Actor
1979 · United States
Jesse Gordon Spencer is an Australian-American actor and musician. He is known for his roles as Billy Kennedy on the Australian soap opera Neighbours, for which he was nominated for two Logie Awards, Dr.
watchwithkristin, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1939–2013 · United States
Raymond Daniel Manzarek Jr. was an American keyboardist, vocalist, and music producer. He is best known as a member of the rock band the Doors, co-founding the group in 1965 with fellow UCLA Film School graduate Jim Morrison.
Elektra Records, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1920–2013 · India
Pran Krishan Sikand, better known mononymously as Pran, was an Indian actor who worked in Hindi cinema.
Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1980 · Spain
Juan Carlos Ferrero Donat is a Spanish sports coach and a former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), achieved in September 2003.
Sergio Ruiz, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1969 · South Korea
Hong Myung-bo is a former South Korean football manager and former footballer who played as a sweeper. He was most recently the head coach of the South Korea national football team.
Republic of Korea, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Artist
1882–1931 · Russian Empire
Anna Pavlovna Pavlova was a Russian prima ballerina.
Photography studio of the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre. St. Petersburg, Russian Empire., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1993 · Spain
Rafael Alcântara do Nascimento, commonly known as Rafinha, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
Politician
1923–2019 · Italy
Gian Franco Corsi Zeffirelli was an Italian stage and film director, producer, production designer and politician.
Alexey Yushenkov, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1861–1937 · German Reich
Lou Andreas-Salomé was a Russian-born psychoanalyst and a well-traveled author, narrator, and essayist from a French Huguenot-German family.
Hofatelier Elvira, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1824–1883 · British Raj
Dayanand Saraswati born Mool Shankar Tiwari, was a Hindu philosopher, social leader and founder of the Arya Samaj, a reform movement of Hinduism.
Srijut Krishnaravji, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1993 · United States
Jennifer Stone is an American actress, podcaster, social media personality, and nurse. As a child actor, she became known for playing Harper Finkle on the Disney Channel sitcom Wizards of Waverly Place (2007–2012).
Angela George at https://www.flickr.com/photos/sharongraphics/, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1976 · Czech Republic
Silvia Saint is a Czech former pornographic film actress. She began performing in the 1990s and subsequently worked in Europe and the US, appearing in more than 150 productions by 2006. She received several adult-industry awards and was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame in 2012.
Politician
1961 · Haiti
Michel Joseph Martelly is a Haitian musician and politician who served as the 47th president of Haiti from 2011 until his resignation in 2016.
US Department of State, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1828–1909 · United Kingdom
George Meredith was an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era. At first, his focus was poetry, influenced by John Keats among others, but Meredith gradually established a reputation as a novelist.
George Frederic Watts, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1964 · India
Vineet Jain is an Indian entrepreneur and current Managing Director of Bennett, Coleman & Co. Limited (B.C.C.L.), India's oldest and largest media group in India, also known as The Times Group.
Entrepreneur
1791–1883 · United States
Peter Cooper was an American industrialist, inventor, philanthropist, and politician.
Brown Brothers, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Investor
1800–1875 · Kingdom of Great Britain
John Edward Gray was a British zoologist. He was the elder brother of zoologist George Robert Gray and son of the pharmacologist and botanist Samuel Frederick Gray (1766–1828).
https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/obf_images/6e/8c/ebb7abe4a181ee2bac28f2644b01.jpg Gallery: https://wellcomeimages.o, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1851–1914 · Austria–Hungary
Eugen Böhm Ritter von Bawerk was an Austrian-school intellectual and political economist who served intermittently as the Minister of Finance of Austria between 1895 and 1904.
Josef Löwy, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Scientist
1637–1680 · Dutch Republic
Jan Swammerdam was a Dutch biologist and microscopist. His work on insects demonstrated that the various phases during the life of an insect—egg, larva, pupa, and adult—are different forms of the same animal.
The original uploader was DALIBRI at German Wikipedia., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Inventor
1916–1981 · Germany
Helmut Gröttrup was a German engineer, rocket scientist and inventor of the smart card. During World War II, he worked in the German V-2 rocket program under Wernher von Braun.
Ursula Gröttrup, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Scientist
1813–1895 · United States
James Dwight Dana FRS FRSE was an American geologist, mineralogist, volcanologist, and zoologist. He made pioneering studies of mountain-building, volcanic activity, and the origin and structure of continents and oceans around the world.
Daniel Huntington (1816-1906), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Scientist
1522–1565
Lodovico de Ferrari was an Italian mathematician best known today for solving the quartic equation.
Entrepreneur
1788–1869 · Kingdom of Württemberg
Karl Ludwig Freiherr von Reichenbach, known as Carl Reichenbach, was a German chemist, geologist, metallurgist, naturalist, industrialist and philosopher, and a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences.
Rudolph Hoffmann, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 45 people born on February 12, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 3 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 February 12. Read the full methodology.
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