List of Famous people born on January 12nd

Heiko Maile is a German musician and composer. He is best known as a member of the band Camouflage and as the composer for the score of the films The Wave and We Are the Night and won the Deutscher Fernsehpreis for best music in 2017.

John William Lott is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is known for contributions to differential geometry.

Mads Conrad-Petersen is a Danish badminton player. He won the gold medal at the 2016 European Championships in the men's doubles event partnered with Mads Pieler Kolding. He also a part of the Denmark national team who won the 2016 Thomas Cup.

Norman Avzal Simons, also known as the "Station Strangler," is a South African rapist and serial killer who was convicted in 1995 of the rape and murder of 10-year-old Elroy van Rooy. He was sentenced to 35 years in prison.

Rockne S. O'Bannon is an American television writer, screenwriter and producer, working primarily in the science fiction genre. O'Bannon has created five original television series.

Tevfik Başer is a Turkish-German film director and screenwriter. His film Lebewohl, Fremde was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival.