List of Famous people born on August 12nd

Mikko Viljami Lindström, more commonly known as "Linde", is a Finnish musician and songwriter, best known as the guitarist for the Finnish gothic rock band HIM. Influenced by the likes of Black Sabbath and Steve Vai, Lindström began playing guitar at age ten, joining the band Aurora in his teenage years, where he met Ville Valo. In 1995, the two reformed Valo's previous band HIM, which would go on to release eight studio albums and become one the most commercially successful Finnish bands of all time, and the first to receive a gold record in the United States. In 2017, the band announced their plans to retire following a farewell tour, and played their final show on New Year's Eve 2017.

David Jacobs is an American television writer and the creator of the CBS primetime soap operas Dallas and Knots Landing.

Uenia Fernandes de Souza is a female professional racing cyclist from Brazil.

Zahari Baharov is a Bulgarian actor, best known for his roles as Moth in Zift and Ivo Andonov in the BNT 1 series Undercover and Loboda in HBO series Game of Thrones.

Lena Żelichowska was a Polish stage and film actress. She appeared in fourteen films between 1933 and 1940.