Who Was Alive

Famous people born on 12 January

24 of the people we track were born on 12 January, best known first, with each one’s age at death, or today. Dates from Wikidata, linked from each person’s page.

Hermann Göring and Alfred Rosenberg were born on the very same day, 12 January 1893.

  1. Jack London 1876American novelist and journalistdied aged 40
  2. Swami Vivekananda 1863Indian monk and philosopherdied aged 39
  3. Haruki Murakami 1949Japanese writerliving, 77
  4. Edmund Burke 1729Philosopherdied aged 68
  5. Jeff Bezos 1964American computer scientistliving, 62
  6. Hermann Göring 1893German politician and war criminaldied aged 53
  7. Charles Perrault 1628French writerdied aged 75
  8. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 1746Swiss pedagoguedied aged 81
  9. Hande Yener 1973Turkish singerliving, 53
  10. Nikolai Noskov 1956Soviet singer and writerliving, 70
  11. Zayn Malik 1993British singerliving, 33
  12. Ilya Prigogine 1917Russian chemistdied aged 86
  13. Alfred Rosenberg 1893Nazi and politiciandied aged 53
  14. Joe Frazier 1944American boxerdied aged 67
  15. Michel Mayor 1942Swiss astrophysicistliving, 84
  16. Jusepe de Ribera 1591Spanish painterdied aged 61
  17. Luise Rainer 1910German-born actordied aged 104
  18. Kirstie Alley 1951American actordied aged 71
  19. Sergey Karjakin 1990Russian chess playerliving, 36
  20. Abd el-Krim 1882Politician who served as President of the Republic of the Rifdied aged 81
  21. Joseph Joffre 1852French soldierdied aged 78
  22. John Singer Sargent 1856American painterdied aged 69
  23. Axel Witsel 1989Belgian footballerliving, 37
  24. Emre Can 1994Turkish footballerliving, 32