List of Famous people born on August 12nd

Mark Webster is a Welsh former professional darts player. Nicknamed Webby and The Spider, he played in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. Webster began his career on the British Darts Organisation (BDO) circuit, winning the BDO World Championship in 2008. He became a full-time professional in 2009, having previously been a fully qualified registered plumber.

Margot Eskens is a German Schlager singer, most popular in the 1950s and 1960s. She continued to be a frequent guest on television programs into the 2000s.

Claus Günter Vogt is a German football chairman. He is president of VfB Stuttgart since 15 December 2019.

Bernhard Gruber is an Austrian nordic combined skier who has competed since 2003.

Alexander Megos is a German rock climber. He was the first climber to on-sight a route graded 9a (5.14d). He has completed multiple routes and boulder problems that are notoriously difficult, including two 9b+ (5.15c) routes, six 9b (5.15b) routes, and some boulders with a confirmed 8C (V15) rating.

Françoise Combes is a French astrophysicist at the Paris Observatory and a professor at the Collège de France where she has been the chair of Galaxies and cosmology since 2014.

Rodolfo Piza Rocafort is a Costa Rican politician and lawyer. He served as executive president of the Costa Rican Social Security Fund during the administration of Miguel Ángel Rodríguez (PUSC), and later served as justice of the Supreme Court of Justice.

Emil Lubtchov Kostadinov is a retired Bulgarian football forward, playing for Bulgaria in two World Cups. He shares his birthday with similarly highly acclaimed Dimitar Yakimov: 12 August 1941.

Adrián Arregui is an Argentine footballer who currently plays for Club Atlético Huracán on loan from Colombian club Independiente Medellin.

Dominique Ariane Swain is an American actress and producer. She is best known for her roles as the title character in the 1997 film adaptation of Lolita, and as Sean Archer's daughter, Jamie, in the action-thriller Face/Off (1997). She worked predominantly in independent films throughout the late 90s and early 2000s. Her other credits include Girl (1998), Happy Campers (2001), Tart (2001), Pumpkin (2002), and Alpha Dog (2006). She has since starred in a succession of horror films. In 2002, she appeared in the music video for the Moby song "We Are All Made of Stars".