12 May: today's birthdays

• Burt Bacharach - American pianist and composer. He won an Oscar for Best Score and two Oscars for Best Song
• Stephen Baldwin - American actor
• Alan Ball - English soccer player
• Joseph Beuys - German artist
• Gabriel Byrne - Irish actor
• ​Frenkie de Jong - Dutch professional footballer 
• Gabriel Fauré - French composer
• Domhnall Gleeson - Irish actor and film director. He is best known for his role as Bill Weasley in the Harry Potter film series
• Ágnes Heller - Hungarian philosopher
• Katharine Hepburn - American actress, born Katharine Houghton Hepburn. She won four Oscars for Best Actress
• Gavin Hood - South African film director, screenwriter and actor
• Jun Fubuki - Japanese actress
• Kimiko Yo - Japanese actress
• Jiddu Krishnamurti - Indian philosopher
• Edward Lear - English author, poet and illustrator
• Daniel Libeskind - Polish-born American architect
• Justus von Liebig - German chemist. He developed a manufacturing process for beef extracts and founded the company Liebig Extract of Meat Company.
  
   
• Jonah Lomu - New Zealand rugby player of Tongan descent. A legend in the New Zealand rugby team All Blacks
• Rami Malek - American actor, born Rami Said Malek. He starred as Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody, directed by Bryan Singer
• Ingo Maurer - German designer
• Zdeněk Zeman - Czech-Italian football coach