List of Famous people born on February 12nd

Vsevolod Vyacheslavovich Ivanov was a notable Soviet writer praised for the colourful adventure tales set in the Asiatic part of Russia during the Civil War.

Jacques Herbrand was a French mathematician. Although he died at age 23, he was already considered one of "the greatest mathematicians of the younger generation" by his professors Helmut Hasse, and Richard Courant.

Julian Seymour Schwinger was a Nobel Prize winning American theoretical physicist. He is best known for his work on quantum electrodynamics (QED), in particular for developing a relativistically invariant perturbation theory, and for renormalizing QED to one loop order. Schwinger was a physics professor at several universities.

Ronald Frederick Delderfield was an English novelist and dramatist, some of whose works have been adapted for television and film.

Gerhard Rühm is an Austrian author, composer and visual artist.

Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher was a German classical scholar. He specialized in studies of Greek and Roman mythology.

Josef Pešice was a Czech football player and manager.

Alexei Ivanovich Kostrikin was a Russian mathematician, specializing in algebra and algebraic geometry.