12 April: today's birthdays

• ​Matteo Berrettini - Italian tennis player. He was ranked as the world number 31 by the Association of Tennis Professionals 
• Nicolás Andrés Burdisso - Argentine soccer player
• Montserrat Caballé - Catalan soprano, born María de Montserrat Viviana Concepción Caballé i Folch
• Tom Clancy - American author of Techno-thrillers: a mix of thriller, science fiction, spy, action, and war
• Claire Danes - American actress. She starred in Little Women, Romeo + Juliet, Les Misérables 
• Robert Delaunay - French painter
• Shannen Doherty - American actress
• Gillo Dorfles - Italian art critic, painter, and philosopher, born Angelo Eugenio Dorfles 
• ​Tulsi Gabbard - American politician, member of the Democratic Party
• Andy García - Cuban-born American actor. He starred in The Untouchables, Black Rain, Ocean's Eleven 
• Lisa Gerrard - Australian musician and singer
• Herbert Grönemeyer - German musician and actor
• Herbie Hancock - American composer and pianist
• Steve Harris - English musician
• Anders Jacobsson - Swedish poet and singer
• David Letterman - American television host and comedian, best known for his Late Show on CBS
• Ioánnis Metaxás - Greek general and politician
• Costantin Meunier - Belgian painter and sculptor
• Jennifer Morrison - American actress and producer
• Guillaume-Thomas François Raynal - French writer
• Saoirse Ronan - Irish actress, born Saoirse Úna Ronan
• Walter Salles - Brazilian filmmaker
  
• Pëtr Arkad'evič Stolypin (Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin) - Russian politician
• Scott Turow - American writer and lawyer. Many films have been based on his books