12 March: today's birthdays

• Gianni Agnelli - Italian industrialist and major shareholder of Fiat, born Giovanni Agnelli
• Edward Albee - American author and playwright. He wrote the play Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? in 1962
• George Berkeley - Irish philosopher. He wrote An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision
• Rhonda Byrne - Australian writer
• Gabriele D'Annunzio - Italian writer, poet, journalist, politician and soldier during World War I. He became Prince of Montenevoso, awarded by the king Vittorio Emanuele III, who created the noble title just for him  
• Aaron Eckhart - American actor
• Dave Eggers - American writer. He wrote A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
• Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac - Real name of Jack Kerouac, American novelist and poet of Canadian descent. He wrote On the Road, The Dharma Bums, and Big Sur,
• Jack Kerouac - American novelist and poet, born Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac. He wrote On the Road, The Dharma Bums, and Big Sur.
• Gustav Robert Kirchhoff - German physicist and mathematician
• László Kiss - Hungarian football coach and former professional footballer. He became famous, during the 1982 World Cup in Spain, after scoring three goals as a substitute player 
• Anton Raphael Mengs - German painter
• Liza Minnelli - American actress and singer. She won an Oscar for Best Actress in 1973
• Ratko Mladić - Serbian military leader
• Mitt Romney - American politician
• Stromae - Stage name of Paul Van Haver, Belgian singer-songwriter
• Gabriel Tarde - French sociologist and criminologist
• Paul Van Haver - Belgian singer-songwriter, better known as Stromae
• Courtney B. Vance - American actor, born Courtney Bernard Vance