List of Famous people born on March 12nd

Gary Clayton Kelly is an American business executive. He is the chief executive officer and chairman at Southwest Airlines.

Sir Archibald Edmonstone, 3rd Baronet was a British traveller and writer.

László Fejes Tóth was a Hungarian mathematician who specialized in geometry. He proved that a lattice pattern is the most efficient way to pack centrally symmetric convex sets on the Euclidean plane. He also investigated the sphere packing problem. He was the first to show, in 1953, that proof of the Kepler conjecture can be reduced to a finite case analysis and, later, that the problem might be solved using a computer.

Horst Hächler is a German actor, film producer and director. He was married to the actress Maria Schell from 1957 to 1965.

Jerry Levine is an American actor and director of television and theatre. As an actor, he is best known for his role as Stiles in the 1985 feature film Teen Wolf and Jamie in the 1988 movie Casual Sex?.

Morihiko Hiramatsu was a Japanese politician who was governor of Ōita Prefecture from April 1979 to April 2003. He is best known for initiating the One Village One Product movement in the prefecture, which was later followed by various other countries.

Valery Matveevich Panov is an Israeli dancer and choreographer. Born and raised in the Soviet Union, he trained in Leningrad and performed with the Kirov from 1964 to 1972. He and his second wife Galina, who was a ballerina at the Kirov, came to international attention in 1972 when they applied for exit visas to emigrate to Israel, which they were given in 1974. Panov worked with the Berlin Opera Ballet, as well as companies in other western European and North American countries, during the late 1970s and 1980s. He formed the Ashdod Art Centre in Israel, in 1993, and five years later founded the Panov Ballet Theatre, also in Ashdod.