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In a career spanning over 50 years, Shaye has appeared in more than a hundred feature films.
Famous Birthdays on October 12
1943 — Lin Shaye
American actress
October 12 has 255 recorded notable births across history, from 1008 to 2004. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Major events on October 12
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- 1890 Uddevalla Suffrage Association is formed. Source
- 1996 New Zealand holds its first general election under the new mixed-member proportional representation system, which led to Jim Bolger's National Party forming a coalition government with Winston Peters's New Zealand First. Source
- 1810 The citizens of Munich hold the first Oktoberfest in celebration of the marriage of Crown Prince Louis of Bavaria and Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen. Source
- 1492 Christopher Columbus's first expedition makes landfall on San Salvador Island in the Caribbean. (Julian calendar) Source
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On June 2, 1995, he was shot down over Bosnia and Herzegovina by a 2K12 Kub mobile surface-to-air missile (SAM) and forced to eject from his F-16C into hostile territory.
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Bode Miller is an Olympic and World Championship gold medalist, a two-time overall World Cup champion in 2005 and 2008, and the most successful male American alpine ski racer of all time.
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Clokey's career began in 1953 with a film experiment called Gumbasia, which was influenced by his professor, Slavko Vorkapich, at the University of Southern California.
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William J. Hardee was later commissioned as a general in the Confederate States Army in 1861.
More major people born on October 12
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1965
Scott O'Grady
American captain and pilot
Scott Francis O'Grady is a former United States Air Force (USAF) fighter pilot.
1977
Bode Miller
American skier
Samuel Bode Miller is an American former World Cup alpine ski racer.
1921
Art Clokey
American animator, producer, screenwriter, and voice actor, created Gumby (died 2010)
Arthur Charles Clokey was an American animator, director, producer, screenwriter and voice actor.
1815
William J. Hardee
American general (died 1873)
Lieutenant-General William Joseph Hardee was an American military officer. He served in the United States Army in both the Second Seminole War and in the Mexican–American War.
1710
Jonathan Trumbull
American colonel and politician, 16th Governor of Connecticut (died 1785)
Jonathan Trumbull Sr. was an American politician who served as the governor of Connecticut during the American Revolution.
1959
Anna Escobedo Cabral
American lawyer and politician, 42nd Treasurer of the United States
Anna Escobedo Cabral is a Mexican-American politician who served as the Unit Chief for Strategic Communications in the External Relations Division of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) from 2009 to 2018.
1555
Peregrine Bertie
13th Baron Willoughby de Eresby, English diplomat (died 1601)
Peregrine Bertie, 13th Baron Willoughby de Eresby was the son of Katherine Willoughby, 12th Baroness Willoughby de Eresby, and Richard Bertie.
1868
Mariano Trías
Filipino general and politician, 1st Vice President of the Philippines (died 1914)
Mariano Trías y Closas is considered to be the first de facto Philippine Vice President of that revolutionary government established at the Tejeros Convention - an assembly of Philippine revolutionary leaders that…
1905
Rick Ferrell
American baseball player (died 1995)
Richard Benjamin Ferrell was an American professional baseball player, coach, scout, and executive. He played for 18 seasons as a catcher in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1929 through 1947 for the St.
1994
Olivia Smoliga
American swimmer
Olivia Smoliga is a two-time Olympian and American competitive swimmer who specializes in backstroke and freestyle events.
1928
Al Held
American painter and academic (died 2005)
Al Held was an American Abstract expressionist painter. He was particularly well known for his large scale Hard-edge paintings.
1989
Anna Ohmiya
Japanese curler
Anna Ohmiya is a Japanese curler from Sapporo, Hokkaido. She is the lead on the FORTIUS curling team, which won the Japan Curling Championships in 2015, 2021 and 2025.
1916
Alice Childress
American actress and playwright (died 1994)
Alice Childress was an American novelist, playwright, and actress, acknowledged as "the only African-American woman to have written, produced, and published plays for four decades." Childress described her work as…
1921
Jaroslav Drobný
Czech-English tennis player and ice hockey player (died 2001)
Jaroslav Drobný was a world No. 1 amateur tennis and ice hockey champion.
1911
Vijay Merchant
Indian cricketer (died 1987)
Vijay Singh Madhavji Merchant, was an Indian cricketer. A right-hand batsman and occasional right-arm medium pace bowler, Merchant played first-class cricket for Bombay cricket team as well as 10 Test matches for India…
1960
Hiroyuki Sanada
Japanese actor and martial artist
Hiroyuki Sanada is a Japanese actor and martial artist. He has received numerous accolades, including a Golden Globe Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, a British Academy Television Award, a Japan Academy Film Prize, two…
1949
Carlos the Jackal
Venezuelan terrorist
Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, also known as Carlos the Jackal or simply Carlos, is a Venezuelan convict who conducted a series of assassinations and terrorist bombings from 1973 to 1985.
1973
Martin Corry
English rugby player
Martin Edward Corry MBE is a retired English rugby union player who represented and captained England and Leicester Tigers in a career spanning 14 seasons.
1965
Dan Abnett
English author
Daniel P. Abnett is an English comic book writer and novelist.