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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 12th of May 0254 | EVENT | Pope Stephen I succeeds Pope Lucius I as the 23rd pope. |
| 12th of May 0303 | EVENT | Roman Emperor Diocletian orders the beheading of the 14-year-old Pancras of Rome. |
| 12th of May 0922 | EVENT | After much hardship, Abbasid envoy Ahmad ibn Fadlan arrived in the lands of Volga Bulgars. |
| 12th of May 1191 | EVENT | Richard I of England marries Berengaria of Navarre who is crowned Queen consort of England the same day. |
| 12th of May 1264 | EVENT | The Battle of Lewes, between King Henry III of England and the rebel Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, begins. |
| 12th of May 1328 | EVENT | Antipope Nicholas V, a claimant to the papacy, is consecrated in Rome by the Bishop of Venice. |
| 12th of May 1364 | EVENT | Jagiellonian University, the oldest university in Poland, is founded in Krakow, Poland. |
| 12th of May 1551 | EVENT | National University of San Marcos, the oldest university in the Americas, is founded in Lima, Peru. |
| 12th of May 1588 | EVENT | French Wars of Religion: Henry III of France flees Paris after Henry of Guise enters the city and a spontaneous uprising occurs. |
| 12th of May 1689 | EVENT | King William's War: William III of England joins the League of Augsburg starting a war with France. |
| 12th of May 1743 | EVENT | Maria Theresa of Austria is crowned Queen of Bohemia after defeating her rival, Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor. |
| 12th of May 1780 | EVENT | American Revolutionary War: In the largest defeat of the Continental Army, Charleston, South Carolina is taken by British forces. |
| 12th of May 1797 | EVENT | First Coalition: Napoleon I of France conquers Venice. |
| 12th of May 1821 | EVENT | The first big battle of the Greek War of Independence against the Turks occurs in Valtetsi. |
| 12th of May 1862 | EVENT | U.S. federal troops occupy Baton Rouge, Louisiana. |
| 12th of May 1863 | EVENT | American Civil War: Battle of Raymond: two divisions of James B. McPherson's XVII Corps (ACW) turn the left wing of Confederate General John C. Pemberton's defensive line on Fourteen Mile Creek, opening up the interior of Mississippi to the Union Army during the Vicksburg Campaign. |
| 12th of May 1864 | EVENT | American Civil War: the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House: thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers die in "the Bloody Angle". |
| 12th of May 1865 | EVENT | American Civil War: the Battle of Palmito Ranch: the first day of the last major land action to take place during the Civil War, resulting in a Confederate victory. |
| 12th of May 1870 | EVENT | The Manitoba Act is given the Royal Assent, paving the way for Manitoba to become a province of Canada on July 15. |
| 12th of May 1873 | EVENT | Oscar II is crowned King of Sweden. |
| 12th of May 1881 | EVENT | In North Africa, Tunisia becomes a French protectorate. |
| 12th of May 1885 | EVENT | North-West Rebellion: the four-day Battle of Batoche, pitting rebel Metis against the Canadian government, comes to an end with a decisive rebel defeat. |
| 12th of May 1916 | EVENT | James Connolly was sat on a chair and shot dead in Kilmainham Gaol in Dublin, after his role in the Easter Uprising |
| 12th of May 1926 | EVENT | UK General Strike 1926: In the United Kingdom, a nine-day general strike by trade unions ends. |
| 12th of May 1932 | EVENT | Ten weeks after his abduction Charles Jr., the infant son of Charles Lindbergh is found dead in Hopewell, New Jersey, just a few miles from the Lindberghs' home. |
| 12th of May 1935 | EVENT | Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith (founders of Alcoholics Anonymous) meet for the first time in Akron, Ohio, at the home of Henrietta Siberling. |
| 12th of May 1937 | EVENT | George VI and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. |
| 12th of May 1941 | EVENT | Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin. |
| 12th of May 1942 | EVENT | World War II: Second Battle of Kharkov: in eastern Ukraine, Red Army forces under Marshal Semyon Timoshenko launch a major offensive from the Izium bridgehead, only to be encircled and destroyed by the troops of Army Group South two weeks later. |
| 12th of May 1942 | EVENT | Holocaust: 1,500 Jews are sent to gas chambers in Auschwitz. |
| 12th of May 1945 | EVENT | Argentinian labour leader Jose Peter declares the Federacion Obrera de la Industria de la Carne dissolved. |
| 12th of May 1949 | EVENT | The Soviet Union lifts its blockade of Berlin. |
| 12th of May 1949 | EVENT | The western occupying powers approve the Basic Law for the new German state: the Federal Republic of Germany. |
| 12th of May 1952 | EVENT | Gaj Singh is crowned Maharaja of Jodhpur. |
| 12th of May 1955 | EVENT | Nineteen days after bus workers went on strike in Singapore, rioting breaks out and seriously impacts Singapore's bid for independence. |
| 12th of May 1958 | EVENT | A formal North American Aerospace Defense Command agreement is signed between the United States and Canada. |
| 12th of May 1962 | EVENT | Douglas MacArthur delivers his Duty, Honor, Country valedictory speech at the United States Military Academy. |
| 12th of May 1965 | EVENT | The Soviet spacecraft Luna 5 crashes on the Moon. |
| 12th of May 1968 | EVENT | North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces attack Australian troops defending Fire Support Base Coral, east of Lai Khe in South Vietnam on the night of 12/13 May, resulting in heavy casualties on both sides and beginning the Battle of Coral-Balmoral. |
| 12th of May 1975 | EVENT | Mayaguez incident: the Cambodian navy seizes the American merchant ship SS Mayaguez in international waters. |
| 12th of May 1978 | EVENT | In Zaire, rebels occupy the city of Kolwezi, the mining center of the province of Shaba (now known as Katanga). The local government asks the U.S.A., France and Belgium to restore order. |
| 12th of May 1981 | EVENT | Francis Hughes starves to death in the Maze Prison in a Republican campaign for political prisoner status to be granted to Provisional IRA prisoners. |
| 12th of May 1982 | EVENT | During a procession outside the shrine of the Virgin Mary in Fatima, Portugal, security guards overpower Juan Fernandez Krohn before he can attack Pope John Paul II with a bayonet. Krohn, an ultraconservative Spanish priest opposed to the Vatican II reforms, believed that the Pope had to be killed for being an "agent of Moscow". |
| 12th of May 2002 | EVENT | Former US President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit with Fidel Castro becoming the first President of the United States, in or out of office, to visit the island since Castro's 1959 revolution. |
| 12th of May 2003 | EVENT | The Riyadh compound bombings, carried out by Al Qaeda, kill 26 people. |
| 12th of May 2003 | EVENT | Fifty-nine Democratic lawmakers bring the Texas Legislature to a standstill by going into hiding in a dispute over a Republican congressional redistricting plan. |
| 12th of May 2006 | EVENT | Mass unrest by the Primeiro Comando da Capital begins in Sao Paulo (Brazil), leaving at least 150 dead. |
| 12th of May 2006 | EVENT | Iranian Azeris interpret a cartoon published in an Iranian magazine as insulting, resulting in massive riots throughout the country. |
| 12th of May 2007 | EVENT | Riots in which over 50 people are killed and over 100 are injured take place in Karachi upon the arrival in town of the Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry. |
| 12th of May 2008 | EVENT | An earthquake (measuring around 8.0 magnitude) occurs in Sichuan, China, killing over 69,000 people. |
| 12th of May 2008 | EVENT | U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducts the largest-ever raid of workplace and arrests nearly 400 immigrants for identity theft and document fraud. |
| 12th of May 2010 | EVENT | An Afriqiyah Airways Flight crashes and kills everyone but one person on board. |
| 12th of May 1401 | BIRTHDAY | Emperor Shoko, 101st Japanese Emperor (d. 1428) |
| 12th of May 1496 | BIRTHDAY | Gustav I of Sweden (d. 1560) |
| 12th of May 1590 | BIRTHDAY | Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1621) |
| 12th of May 1622 | BIRTHDAY | Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Governor General of New France (d. 1698) |
| 12th of May 1626 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Hennepin, Flemish missionary (d. 1705) |
| 12th of May 1670 | BIRTHDAY | Frederick Augustus I of Poland (d. 1733) |
| 12th of May 1700 | BIRTHDAY | Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian architect (d. 1773) |
| 12th of May 1725 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orleans (d. 1785) |
| 12th of May 1767 | BIRTHDAY | Manuel de Godoy, Spanish statesman (d. 1851) |
| 12th of May 1803 | BIRTHDAY | Justus von Liebig, German chemist (d. 1873) |
| 12th of May 1804 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Baldwin, Canadian politician (d. 1858) |
| 12th of May 1806 | BIRTHDAY | Johan Vilhelm Snellman, Finnish statesman (d. 1881) |
| 12th of May 1812 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Lear, British author and poet (d. 1888) |
| 12th of May 1814 | BIRTHDAY | Adolf von Henselt, German composer and pianist (d. 1889) |
| 12th of May 1820 | BIRTHDAY | Florence Nightingale, British nurse (d. 1910) |
| 12th of May 1828 | BIRTHDAY | Dante Gabriel Rossetti, British painter (d. 1882) |
| 12th of May 1829 | BIRTHDAY | Pavlos Carrer, Greek composer (d. 1896) |
| 12th of May 1840 | BIRTHDAY | Alejandro Gorostiaga, Chilean military, participated on Battle of Huamachuco (d. 1912) |
| 12th of May 1842 | BIRTHDAY | Jules Massenet, French composer (d. 1912) |
| 12th of May 1845 | BIRTHDAY | Gabriel Faure, French composer (d. 1924) |
| 12th of May 1850 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. statesman (d. 1924) |
| 12th of May 1867 | BIRTHDAY | Hugh Trumble, Australian cricketer (d. 1938) |
| 12th of May 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Clemens von Pirquet, Austrian physician (d. 1929) |
| 12th of May 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Lincoln Ellsworth, American explorer (d. 1951) |
| 12th of May 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Paltiel Daykan, Russian-born Israeli jurist (d. 1969) |
| 12th of May 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank (d. 1980) |
| 12th of May 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Fritz Kortner, Austrian-born director (d. 1970) |
| 12th of May 1895 | BIRTHDAY | William Giauque, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1982) |
| 12th of May 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher (d. 1986) |
| 12th of May 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Indra Devi, Latvian Yoga Instructor (d. 2002) |
| 12th of May 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Rochefort, American naval officer and cryptanalyst (d. 1976) |
| 12th of May 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Helene Weigel, German actress (d. 1971) |
| 12th of May 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Wilfrid Hyde-White, British actor (d. 1991) |
| 12th of May 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Leslie Charteris, British author and screenwriter (d. 1993) |
| 12th of May 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Katharine Hepburn, American actress (d. 2003) |
| 12th of May 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, British biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1994) |
| 12th of May 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Charles B. Fulton, American jurist (d. 1996) |
| 12th of May 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Archibald Cox, U.S. Solicitor General (d. 2004) |
| 12th of May 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Howard K. Smith, American journalist (d. 2002) |
| 12th of May 1914 | BIRTHDAY | James Bacon, American entertainment columnist and reporter (d. 2010) |
| 12th of May 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Bertus Aafjes, Dutch poet (d. 1993) |
| 12th of May 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Albert Murray, American writer |
| 12th of May 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Clair, American-born Canadian football coach (d. 2005) |
| 12th of May 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Kay Ash, American businesswoman (d. 2001) |
| 12th of May 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Julius Rosenberg, American-born spy for the Soviet Union (d. 1953) |
| 12th of May 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Farley Mowat, Canadian writer and naturalist |
| 12th of May 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Beuys, German artist (d. 1986) |
| 12th of May 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Marco Denevi, Argentine writer (d. 1998) |
| 12th of May 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Esenin-Volpin, Russian mathematician |
| 12th of May 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Hancock, British comedian (d. 1968) |
| 12th of May 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Maxine Cooper Gomberg, American actress (d. 2009) |
| 12th of May 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Yogi Berra, American baseball player |
| 12th of May 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Burt Bacharach, American composer |
| 12th of May 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Cosby, American songwriter (d. 2002) |
| 12th of May 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Dollard St. Laurent, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 12th of May 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Nujoma, first President of Namibia |
| 12th of May 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Jesus Franco, Spanish film director |
| 12th of May 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Andrey Voznesensky, Russian poet |
| 12th of May 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Felipe Alou, Dominican baseball player and manager |
| 12th of May 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Bucyk, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 12th of May 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Stella, American painter |
| 12th of May 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Snyder, American television personality (d. 2007) |
| 12th of May 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Guillermo Endara, President of Panama (d. 2009) |
| 12th of May 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Beryl Burton, British cyclist (d. 1996) |
| 12th of May 1937 | BIRTHDAY | George Carlin, American comedian (d. 2008) |
| 12th of May 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Susan Hampshire, British actress |
| 12th of May 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Millie Perkins, American film actress |
| 12th of May 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Reg Gasnier, Australian Rugby League footballer |
| 12th of May 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Miltiadis Evert, Greek politician |
| 12th of May 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Ziegler, U.S. White House Press Secretary (d. 2003) |
| 12th of May 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Jalal Dabagh, Kurdish politician |
| 12th of May 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Ian Dury, British musician (d. 2000) |
| 12th of May 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Swan, American songwriter and singer |
| 12th of May 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Michel Fugain, French singer and songwriter |
| 12th of May 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Patten, British politician |
| 12th of May 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Ball, Jr., English footballer (d. 2007) |
| 12th of May 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Nicky Henson, British actor |
| 12th of May 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Ian McLagan, British keyboardist (Small Faces) |
| 12th of May 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Ricard, French businessman |
| 12th of May 1946 | BIRTHDAY | L. Neil Smith, American science fiction author |
| 12th of May 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Libeskind, American architect |
| 12th of May 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Micheline Lanctot, American film actor, director and screenwriter |
| 12th of May 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Ignatieff, Canadian politician |
| 12th of May 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Catherine Yronwode, American writer and editor |
| 12th of May 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Tasker, British mountaineer (d. 1982) |
| 12th of May 1948 | BIRTHDAY | David Heineman, American politician, current governor of Nebraska |
| 12th of May 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Winwood, British musician (The Spencer Davis Group; Traffic) |
| 12th of May 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Bruce Boxleitner, American actor |
| 12th of May 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Squier, American singer and musician |
| 12th of May 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Gabriel Byrne, Irish actor |
| 12th of May 1951 | BIRTHDAY | George Karl, American basketball player and head coach |
| 12th of May 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Norbert Stolzenburg, German footballer |
| 12th of May 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Grevey, American basketball player |
| 12th of May 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Kix Brooks, American country singer (Brooks & Dunn) |
| 12th of May 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Bernie Federko, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 12th of May 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Glenn Robbins, Australian comedian |
| 12th of May 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Asad Rauf, Pakistani cricket umpire |
| 12th of May 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Lou Whitaker, American baseball player |
| 12th of May 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Singer, American drummer |
| 12th of May 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Andreas Petroulakis, Greek political caricaturist |
| 12th of May 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Ving Rhames, American actor |
| 12th of May 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Arcand, Quebec radio host, journalist and film director |
| 12th of May 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Ian Khan, British racing driver |
| 12th of May 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Begala, American political commentator |
| 12th of May 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Duffy, British guitarist (The Cult) |
| 12th of May 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Dooley, German-American soccer player |
| 12th of May 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Bruce McCulloch, Canadian actor |
| 12th of May 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Lar Park Lincoln, American actress |
| 12th of May 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Emilio Estevez, American actor |
| 12th of May 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Brett Gurewitz, American songwriter (Bad Religion) and record producer (Epitaph Records) |
| 12th of May 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Panagiotis Fasoulas, Greek basketball player, Mayor of Piraeus |
| 12th of May 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Gavin Hood, South African film director |
| 12th of May 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Stefano Modena, Italian racing driver |
| 12th of May 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Pettigrew, American singer (Charles and Eddie) (d. 2001) |
| 12th of May 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry Trimble, American actor |
| 12th of May 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Vanessa A. Williams, American actress |
| 12th of May 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Deborah Kara Unger, Canadian actress |
| 12th of May 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Morel, French film director |
| 12th of May 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Baldwin, American actor |
| 12th of May 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Bebel Gilberto, Brazilian singer |
| 12th of May 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Joe McKinney, Irish actor |
| 12th of May 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Paul D'Amour, American bass guitarist (Tool) |
| 12th of May 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Hawk, American skateboarder |
| 12th of May 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Clark, American baseball player |
| 12th of May 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Catherine Tate, British comedian |
| 12th of May 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Schwartz, American actor |
| 12th of May 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Fields, American actress |
| 12th of May 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Nalty, American YouTube personality |
| 12th of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Furyk, American golfer |
| 12th of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Weir, Canadian golfer |
| 12th of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Palframan, South African cricketer |
| 12th of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Samantha Mathis, American actress |
| 12th of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Foster, British swimmer |
| 12th of May 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Jamie Luner, American actress |
| 12th of May 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Doug Basham, American professional wrestler |
| 12th of May 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Travis Lutter, American mixed martial arts fighter |
| 12th of May 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Kendra Kassebaum, American stage actress |
| 12th of May 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Lutz Pfannenstiel, German footballer |
| 12th of May 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Tinkler, Canadian voice actor |
| 12th of May 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Jonah Lomu, New Zealand rugby union footballer |
| 12th of May 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Lawrence Phillips, American football player |
| 12th of May 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Kardinal Offishall, Canadian rapper |
| 12th of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Rebecca Herbst, American actress |
| 12th of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Lorena Bernal, Argentine/Spanish model and actress |
| 12th of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Graeme Dott, British snooker player |
| 12th of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Biggs, American actor |
| 12th of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Malin Akerman, Swedish-Canadian actress and model |
| 12th of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Wilfred Le Bouthillier, Canadian singer |
| 12th of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Josh Phelps, American baseball player |
| 12th of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Aya Ishiguro, Japanese singer (Morning Musume) |
| 12th of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Hossein Reza Zadeh, Iranian weightlifter |
| 12th of May 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Andre Carter, American football player |
| 12th of May 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Callum Chambers, Australian rules footballer |
| 12th of May 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Erdinc Sacan, Turkish-Dutch politician |
| 12th of May 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Key, English cricketer |
| 12th of May 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Aaron Yoo, Korean-American actor |
| 12th of May 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Smith, American football player |
| 12th of May 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Dennis Trillo, Filipino actor and singer |
| 12th of May 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Felipe Lopez, Puerto Rican baseball player |
| 12th of May 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Keith Bogans, American basketball player |
| 12th of May 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Kentaro Sato, Japanese composer |
| 12th of May 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Rami Malek, American actor |
| 12th of May 1982 | BIRTHDAY | David Thaxton, British stage actor and singer |
| 12th of May 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Darren Williams, American Basketball Player and Business Professional |
| 12th of May 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Charilaos Pappas, Greek footballer |
| 12th of May 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Virginie Razzano, French tennis player |
| 12th of May 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Alina Kabayeva, Russian gymnast |
| 12th of May 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Tommaso Reato, Italian rugby player |
| 12th of May 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Tally Hall, American footballer |
| 12th of May 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Jeroen Simaeys, Belgian footballer |
| 12th of May 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Emily VanCamp, Canadian actress |
| 12th of May 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Mouhamed Sene, Senegalese basketball player |
| 12th of May 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Gianluca Sansone, Italian footballer |
| 12th of May 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Kieron Pollard, West Indies Cricketer |
| 12th of May 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Marky Cielo, Filipino dancer and actor (d. 2008) |
| 12th of May 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Marcelo Vieira da Silva Junior, Brazilian footballer |
| 12th of May 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Hann, American basketball player |
| 12th of May 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Jacory Harris, American football player |
| 12th of May 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Malcolm David Kelley, American actor |
| 12th of May 1995 | BIRTHDAY | Luke Benward, American actor |
| 12th of May 1003 | DEATH | Pope Silvester II |
| 12th of May 1012 | DEATH | Pope Sergius IV |
| 12th of May 1382 | DEATH | Queen Joan I of Naples (Born 1327) |
| 12th of May 1465 | DEATH | Thomas Palaeologus, Titular Byzantine emperor, Despot of the Morea (Born 1409) |
| 12th of May 1634 | DEATH | George Chapman, English writer |
| 12th of May 1641 | DEATH | Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, English statesman (Born 1593) |
| 12th of May 1684 | DEATH | Edme Mariotte, French physicist and priest |
| 12th of May 1699 | DEATH | Lucas Achtschellinck, Flemish painter (Born 1626) |
| 12th of May 1700 | DEATH | John Dryden, English writer (Born 1631) |
| 12th of May 1708 | DEATH | Adolf Friedrich II of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (Born 1658) |
| 12th of May 1748 | DEATH | Thomas Lowndes, English astronomer (Born 1692) |
| 12th of May 1759 | DEATH | Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor (Born 1700) |
| 12th of May 1784 | DEATH | Abraham Trembley, Swiss naturalist (Born 1710) |
| 12th of May 1792 | DEATH | Charles Simon Favart, French dramatist (Born 1710) |
| 12th of May 1796 | DEATH | Johann Peter Uz, German poet (Born 1720) |
| 12th of May 1801 | DEATH | Nicholas Repnin, Russian statesman (Born 1734) |
| 12th of May 1842 | DEATH | Walenty Wankowicz, Polish painter (Born 1799) |
| 12th of May 1845 | DEATH | Janos Bacsanyi, Hungarian poet (Born 1763) |
| 12th of May 1856 | DEATH | Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, French mathematician (Born 1786) |
| 12th of May 1859 | DEATH | Sergei Aksakov, Russian writer (Born 1791) |
| 12th of May 1860 | DEATH | Charles Barry, English architect (Born 1795) |
| 12th of May 1864 | DEATH | J. E. B. Stuart, American soldier from Virginia and a Confederate Army general (Born 1833) |
| 12th of May 1867 | DEATH | Friedrich William Eduard Gerhard, German archaeologist (Born 1795) |
| 12th of May 1871 | DEATH | Anselme Payen, French physicist (Born 1795) |
| 12th of May 1876 | DEATH | Georgi Benkovski, Bulgarian revolutionary (Born 1843) |
| 12th of May 1884 | DEATH | Bedrich Smetana, Czech composer (Born 1824) |
| 12th of May 1889 | DEATH | John Cadbury, English chocolate entrepreneur (Born 1801) |
| 12th of May 1907 | DEATH | Joris-Karl Huysmans, French author (Born 1848) |
| 12th of May 1916 | DEATH | James Connolly, Irish socialist and leader of the Easter Rising (Born 1868) |
| 12th of May 1925 | DEATH | Amy Lowell, American poet (Born 1874) |
| 12th of May 1931 | DEATH | Eugene Ysaye, Belgian violinist (Born 1858) |
| 12th of May 1935 | DEATH | Jozef Pi?sudski, Polish statesman (Born 1867) |
| 12th of May 1944 | DEATH | Max Brand, American author (Born 1892) |
| 12th of May 1944 | DEATH | Arthur Quiller-Couch, English writer (Born 1863) |
| 12th of May 1956 | DEATH | Louis Calhern, American actor (Born 1895) |
| 12th of May 1957 | DEATH | Erich von Stroheim, film director and actor (Born 1885) |
| 12th of May 1957 | DEATH | Alfonso de Portago, Spanish bobsledder and race car driver (Born 1928) |
| 12th of May 1963 | DEATH | Bobby Kerr, Canadian runner (Born 1882) |
| 12th of May 1963 | DEATH | Richard Girulatis, German football manager (Born 1878) |
| 12th of May 1966 | DEATH | Felix Martin Julius Steiner, German Heer and Waffen-SS officer (Born 1896) |
| 12th of May 1967 | DEATH | John Masefield, British writer (Born 1878) |
| 12th of May 1970 | DEATH | Nelly Sachs, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1891) |
| 12th of May 1971 | DEATH | Heinie Manush, American baseball player (Born 1901) |
| 12th of May 1973 | DEATH | Art Pollard, American racecar driver (Born 1927) |
| 12th of May 1978 | DEATH | Robert Coogan, American actor (Born 1924) |
| 12th of May 1985 | DEATH | Jean Dubuffet, French painter (Born 1901) |
| 12th of May 1986 | DEATH | Elisabeth Bergner, Austrian actress (Born 1897) |
| 12th of May 1986 | DEATH | Alicia Moreau de Justo, Argentine physician, politician, pacifist and human rights activist (Born 1885). |
| 12th of May 1990 | DEATH | Chen Kenmin, Japanese chef (Born 1912) |
| 12th of May 1992 | DEATH | Nikos Gatsos, Greek poet and lyricist (Born 1911) |
| 12th of May 1992 | DEATH | Robert Reed, American actor (Born 1932) |
| 12th of May 1992 | DEATH | Lenny Montana, American actor (Born 1926) |
| 12th of May 1994 | DEATH | Erik Erikson, German psychoanalyst (Born 1902) |
| 12th of May 1994 | DEATH | John Smith, British politician (Born 1938) |
| 12th of May 1995 | DEATH | Mia Martini, Italian singer and songwriter (Born 1947) |
| 12th of May 1999 | DEATH | Saul Steinberg, Romanian-American cartoonist (Born 1914) |
| 12th of May 1999 | DEATH | Abd-al-Aziz ibn Abd-Allah ibn Baaz, Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia 1993-1999 (Born 1910) |
| 12th of May 2000 | DEATH | Adam Petty, American race car driver (Born 1980) |
| 12th of May 2001 | DEATH | Perry Como, American singer (Born 1912) |
| 12th of May 2001 | DEATH | Alexei Tupolev, Russian aircraft designer (Born 1925) |
| 12th of May 2002 | DEATH | Joseph Bonanno, Italian-born gangster (Born 1905) |
| 12th of May 2003 | DEATH | Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, French United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (Born 1933) |
| 12th of May 2005 | DEATH | Monica Zetterlund, Swedish actress and singer (Born 1937) |
| 12th of May 2005 | DEATH | Martin Lings, English Islamic scholar (Born 1909) |
| 12th of May 2006 | DEATH | Gillespie V. Montgomery, U.S. representative from Mississippi (Born 1920) |
| 12th of May 2006 | DEATH | Hussein Maziq, Prime Minister of Libya (Born 1918) |
| 12th of May 2007 | DEATH | Mullah Dadullah Akhund, Afghani Taliban military leader |
| 12th of May 2007 | DEATH | Teddy Infuhr, American former child actor (Born 1936) |
| 12th of May 2008 | DEATH | Robert Rauschenberg, American artist (Born 1925) |
| 12th of May 2008 | DEATH | Irena Sendler, Polish social worker, WWII heroine (Born 1910) |
| 12th of May 2009 | DEATH | Antonio Vega, Spanish pop singer-songwriter (Born 1957) |