Famous people born on 12 November

• Sun Yat-senChinese politician, physician, and revolutionary · 1866–1925
  58 yrs
• Auguste RodinFrench sculptor · 1840–1917
  77 yrs
• Grace KellyAmerican actress and Princess consort of Monaco · 1929–1982
  52 yrs
• Baháʼu'lláhFounder of the Bahá'í Faith · 1817–1892
  74 yrs
• Charles MansonAmerican criminal and cult leader · 1934–2017
  83 yrs
• John William StruttEnglish physicist · 1842–1919
  76 yrs
• Alexander BorodinRussian composer, doctor and chemist · 1833–1887
  53 yrs
• Roland BarthesFrench philosopher and essayist · 1915–1980
  64 yrs
• Elizabeth Cady StantonAmerican writer, suffragist and Women's Rights activist · 1815–1902
  86 yrs
• Sor Juana Inés de la CruzMexican writer, philosopher, playwright and poet · 1651–1695
  43 yrs
• Michael EndeGerman writer · 1929–1995
  65 yrs
• Jalal TalabaniIraqi politician · 1933–2017
  83 yrs
• Louis-Antoine de Bougainville ↗French admiral and explorer · 1729–1811
  81 yrs
• Ibn Hazm ↗Andalusian Muslim polymath, historian, jurist, philosopher and theologian · 994–1064
  69 yrs
• Luís I of Portugal ↗King of Portugal from 1861 to 1889 · 1838–1889
  50 yrs
• Kim Hunter ↗American actress · 1922–2002
  79 yrs
• Vavá ↗Brazilian association football player · 1934–2002
  67 yrs
• Lyudmila Gurchenko ↗Soviet and Russian theater and film actress, singer, composer, director · 1935–2011
  75 yrs
• Benjamin Mkapa ↗Tanzanian politician and former president · 1938–2020
  81 yrs
• Ahmad Sanjar ↗Seljuk sultan · 1086–1157
  70 yrs
• Mikhail Chigorin ↗Russian chess player · 1850–1908
  57 yrs
• Ghazan I ↗The seventh Ilkhan of Mongol Ilkhanate · 1271–1304
  32 yrs
• Anna of Austria, Queen of Spain ↗Queen consort of Spain · 1549–1580
  30 yrs
• Jacques Charles ↗French inventor, scientist, mathematician, and balloonist · 1746–1823
  76 yrs
• Letitia Christian Tyler ↗First Lady of the United States · 1790–1842
  51 yrs
• Maximilian von Weichs ↗German field marshal · 1881–1954
  72 yrs
• Charles Bell ↗Scottish physician, painter and theologian · 1774–1842
  67 yrs
• Mary Astell ↗English feminist writer · 1666–1731
  64 yrs
• Wilfrid Voynich ↗Polish revolutionary, antiquarian, bibliophile, historian and eponym of Voynich manuscript · 1865–1930
  64 yrs

Only people with a known day of birth are listed, and only people who have died. Dates are from Wikidata (CC0), last updated 22 October 2026.

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