List of Famous people born on March 12nd
Jerami Grant
Houston Jerami Grant is an American professional basketball player for the Detroit Pistons of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Syracuse Orange.
Kostas Mitroglou
Konstantinos "Kostas" Mitroglou is a Greek professional footballer who plays as a striker for Super League Greece club Aris and the Greece national team. He is nicknamed "Mitrogoal" and "Pistolero" by fans due to his goalscoring abilities.
Andrea Brillantes
Anndrew Blythe Daguio Gorostiza, better known as Andrea Brillantes, is a Filipina actress and recording artist. She is best known for her roles as the titular character in Annaliza and as Marga Bartolome in Kadenang Ginto. She also appeared in the television series including E-Boy and Alyna, and played various other roles.
Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz Bolaños
Gustavo Díaz Ordaz Bolaños was a Mexican politician and member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He served as the President of Mexico from 1964 to 1970.
Tatyana Lyutaeva
Tatyana Borisovna Lyutaeva is a Soviet, Lithuanian, Russian theater actress, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (2014). Member of the Union of Cinematographers of the Russian Federation.
Robert Sandifer
Robert "Yummy" Sandifer was an 11-year-old American boy from Chicago, Illinois. Sandifer's murder by fellow gang members in Chicago garnered national attention because of his age, resulting in his appearance on the cover of TIME magazine in September 1994. Nicknamed "Yummy" because of his love of cookies, standing 137 cm, Sandifer was a young member of the street gang the Black Disciples (BD). After committing murder, arson and armed robbery, he was murdered by his own fellow gang members who feared he could become an informant, and that he was attracting too much attention towards their activities. Coverage of Sandifer's death and retrospectives on his short, violent life were widely published in the American media. Sandifer became a symbol of the gang problem in American inner cities, the failure of social safety nets, and the shortcomings of the juvenile justice system.
Raúl Alfonsín
Raúl Ricardo Alfonsín Foulkes was an Argentine lawyer and statesman who served as President of Argentina from 10 December 1983 to 8 July 1989. He was the first democratically elected president after more than seven years of military dictatorship, and is considered the "father of modern democracy in Argentina". Ideologically, he identified as a Radical and a social democrat, serving as the leader of the Radical Civic Union from 1983 to 1991, 1993 to 1995, 1999 to 2001, with his political approach being known as Alfonsínism.
Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson
Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson is an Icelandic politician who was the youngest serving Prime Minister of Iceland from May 2013 until April 2016. He was also chairman of the Progressive Party from 2009 to October 2016. He was elected to the Althing as the 8th member for the Reykjavík Constituency North on 25 April 2009. He has represented the Northeast Constituency as its 1st member since 27 April 2013.
William Lyon Mackenzie
William Lyon Mackenzie was a Scottish-born Canadian-American journalist and politician. Growing up in Dundee, Scotland, he emigrated to York, Upper Canada, and became a publisher. He was elected to the 10th Parliament of Upper Canada as a legislator from York, allied with Reform legislators, and investigated members of the Family Compact and Tory politicians. His critiques of government administrators caused Mackenzie to be expelled from the legislature numerous times. He brought grievances from Upper Canada citizens to the Colonial Office in London, England, which caused the colonial secretary to propose reforms in the colony.
Egor Druzhinin
Egor Vladislavovich Druzhinin is а Russian actor, film director and choreographer. Laureate of the Golden Mask.