List of Famous people born on August 12nd

Pamela Knaack is a German television and stage actress.

Shigetatsu Matsunaga is a former Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team.

Anna Maria Alvim Buarque de Hollanda was the Minister of Culture of Brazil from 2011 to 2012. She worked as a singer before, and is the sister of singer-songwriter Chico Buarque and daughter of sociologist Sérgio Buarque de Holanda.

Marko Letonja is a Slovenian conductor.

Willem Hendrik Jacques "Sheep" du Plessis is a South African rugby union player, currently playing in France with the French Top 14 side Montpellier. His regular positions are flanker or lock.

Steven Hartley is an English actor known internationally for his television, film and theatre roles. He has appeared in over 50 principal and leading roles on television and film since 1985, including EastEnders, The Bill, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Rumble, Strictly Confidential, Badboys, Trial & Retribution, Sharman, Holby City, Casualty, Doctors, Pie in the Sky, The Cut, Agatha Christie's Marple, Merlin, Married... with Children, The Borgias, Vera alongside Brenda Blethyn, Ripper Street, and the BAFTA nominated BBC series Happy Valley. Most recently he has appeared in Silent Witness, Brassic for Sky TV and Shadow and Bone for Netflix.

James Norman Beaver Jr. is an American actor, playwright, screenwriter, and film historian. He is most familiar to worldwide audiences as Bobby Singer in Supernatural. He also played Whitney Ellsworth on the HBO Western drama series Deadwood, which brought him acclaim and a Screen Actors Guild Awards nomination for Ensemble Acting, and Sheriff Shelby Parlow on the FX series Justified. His memoir Life's That Way was published in April 2009.

Salim Abdullah al-Jabouri (Arabic:السيد سليم عبدالله الجبوري) is an Iraqi politician who was elected as the Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament on 15 July 2014 until 1 July 2018.

Max Straubinger is a German politician. Born in Simbach, Bavaria, he represents the CDU. Max Straubinger has served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Bavaria since 1994.

Charlotte Salt is an English actress best known for her many characters in British and US television series like Casualty, Bedlam and The Musketeers, also in many films, including Beneath Still Waters in 2005, Beowulf in 2007, and Blood and Glory in 2016.