Famous Birthdays on November 12

Neil Young

1945 — Neil Young

Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

November 12 has 186 recorded notable births across history, from 1450 to 2007. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.

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Famous Birthdays 186 source records 1450 – 2007 Scorpio

Major events on November 12

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  1. 1981 Space Shuttle program: Mission STS-2, utilizing the Space Shuttle Columbia, marks the first time a crewed spacecraft is launched into space twice. Source
  2. 1941 World War II: Temperatures around Moscow drop to −12 °C (10 °F) as the Soviet Union launches ski troops for the first time against the freezing German forces near the city. Source
  3. 1912 First Balkan War: King George I of Greece makes a triumphal entry into Thessaloniki after its liberation from 482 years of Ottoman rule. Source
  4. 2011 Silvio Berlusconi tenders his resignation as Prime Minister of Italy, effective November 16, due in large part to the Euro area crisis. Source

Did you know

Neil Young's solo career, often backed by the band Crazy Horse, includes critically acclaimed albums such as Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (1969), After the Gold Rush (1970), Harvest (1972), On the Beach (1974), and Rust Never Sleeps (1979).

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Westbrook is a nine-time NBA All-Star and earned the NBA Most Valuable Player Award (MVP) for the 2016–17 season.

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Hassan Rouhani is an Iranian politician who served as the seventh president of Iran from 2013 to 2021.

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John Francis Reed is an American politician, lawyer, and former Army officer serving as the senior United States senator from Rhode Island, a seat he was first elected to in 1996.

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Sandara Park made her Korean debut in 2009 as a member of the K-pop group 2NE1, which became one of the most popular K-pop groups in the world.

More major people born on November 12

Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.

1988 Russell Westbrook
Russell Westbrook
American basketball player
Russell Westbrook III is an American professional basketball player who most recently played for the Sacramento Kings of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
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1948 Hassan Rouhani
Hassan Rouhani
Iranian lawyer and politician; 7th President of Iran
Hassan Rouhani is an Iranian politician who served as the seventh president of Iran from 2013 to 2021. He is also a sharia lawyer ("Wakil"), academic, former diplomat and Islamic cleric.
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1949 Jack Reed
Jack Reed
American soldier and politician
John Francis Reed is an American politician, lawyer, and former Army officer serving as the senior United States senator from Rhode Island, a seat he was first elected to in 1996.
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1984 Sandara Park
Sandara Park
South Korean singer, dancer, and actress
Sandara Park, also known mononymously as Dara (다라), is a South Korean singer, actress and television presenter.
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1998 Elias Pettersson
Elias Pettersson
Swedish ice hockey player
Fredrik Elias Pettersson is a Swedish professional ice hockey player who is a forward and alternate captain for the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League (NHL).
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1943 Brian Hyland
Brian Hyland
American pop singer
Brian Hyland is an American pop singer and instrumentalist who was particularly successful during the early 1960s. He had a No.
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1684 Edward Vernon
Edward Vernon
English admiral and politician (died 1757)
Admiral Edward Vernon was a Royal Navy officer and politician. He had a long and distinguished career, rising to the rank of admiral after 46 years service.
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1938 Mort Shuman
Mort Shuman
American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 1991)
Mortimer Shuman was an American singer, pianist and songwriter, best known as co-writer of many 1960s rock and roll hits, including "Viva Las Vegas".
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1528 Qi Jiguang
Qi Jiguang
Chinese general (died 1588)
Qi Jiguang, courtesy name Yuanjing, art names Nantang and Mengzhu, posthumous name Wuyi, was a Chinese military general and writer of the Ming dynasty.
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1926 Robert Goff
Robert Goff
Baron Goff of Chieveley, English lawyer and judge (died 2016)
Robert Lionel Archibald Goff, Baron Goff of Chieveley, was an English barrister and judge who was Senior Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, the equivalent of today's President of the Supreme Court.
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1606 Jeanne Mance
Jeanne Mance
French-Canadian nurse, founded the Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal (died 1673)
Jeanne Mance was a French nurse and settler of New France. She arrived in New France two years after the Ursuline nuns came to Quebec.
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1976 Tevin Campbell
Tevin Campbell
American R&B singer-songwriter and actor
Tevin Jermod Campbell is an American singer, songwriter and musician. He performed gospel in his local church from an early age.
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1651 Juana Inés de la Cruz
Juana Inés de la Cruz
Mexican nun, poet, and scholar (died 1695)
Juana Inés de Asbaje y Ramírez de Santillana, better known as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, was a Hieronymite nun and a Novohispanic writer, philosopher, composer and poet of the Baroque period, nicknamed "The Tenth Muse",…
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1978 Ashley Williams
Ashley Williams
American actress
Ashley Churchill Williams is an American actress. She is known for starring in the television series The Jim Gaffigan Show on TV Land and in the NBC series Good Morning Miami.
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1917 Jo Stafford
Jo Stafford
American singer (died 2008)
Jo Elizabeth Stafford was an American traditional pop singer, whose career spanned five decades from the late 1930s to the early 1980s.
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1815 Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
American activist (died 1902)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an American writer and activist who was a leader of the women's rights movement in the U.S. during the mid- to late-19th century.
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1961 Nadia Comăneci
Nadia Comăneci
Romanian gymnast and coach
Nadia Elena Comăneci Conner is a Romanian retired gymnast. She is a five-time Olympic gold medalist, all in individual events.
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1958 Megan Mullally
Megan Mullally
American actress and singer
Megan Mullally is an American actress, comedian and singer. She is best known for playing Karen Walker in the NBC sitcom Will & Grace, for which she received eight Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding…
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2001 Raffey Cassidy
Raffey Cassidy
English actress
Raffey Camomile Cassidy is an English actress. She first appeared as a child actress in the television movie Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen (2009), adding her first brief film role in Dark Shadows (2012), her first…
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