List of Famous people born on May 12nd

Linda Dano is an American actress, author, and businesswoman. She is well-known for her roles in daytime drama, in particular Rae Cummings on One Life to Live and Felicia Gallant on Another World. Dano was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award five times, winning once in 1993 for her work on Another World. Dano also co-hosted the talk show Attitudes on Lifetime, and has had a long-running clothing and home-furnishings line with QVC, first partnering with the home shopping channel in 1993.

Bachar Houli is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Richmond Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He is a three-time premiership player with Richmond and was named an All-Australian half-back during his 2019 premiership winning season. Houli is the first devout Muslim and third Muslim overall to play in the AFL. He previously played 26 matches over four seasons with Essendon after being drafted to the club from junior football with the Western Jets. Houli is well known for his community work, including establishing the Bachar Houli Foundation, and he has also authored a book, titled Bachar Houli: Faith, Football and Family.

The murder of Harry Collinson, the planning officer for Derwentside District Council, took place in 1991 at Butsfield, County Durham, England. At the time of the murder, the Derwentside District Council was involved in a dispute with Albert Dryden over the erection of a dwelling by Dryden in the countryside without planning permission. At approximately 9:00 am on 20 June 1991, as television news crews filmed, Dryden aimed a handgun—a .455 Webley Mk VI revolver—at Collinson and shot him dead. As the journalists and council staff fled, Dryden opened fire again, wounding television reporter Tony Belmont and Police Constable Stephen Campbell.

Silvestre Francisco Dangond Corrales is a Colombian singer. He was born on May 12, 1980, in the town of Urumita. He attributes his talents to his father, the singer William José "El Palomo" Dangond Baquero, who during the mid-1970s recorded 10 singles with Andrés "El Turco" Gil; and his mother, who comes from a musical family and passed down her charismatic nature to him, while also playing a major role in his formal and personal education.

Colton Parayko is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman and alternate captain for the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League (NHL). Growing up in St. Albert, Alberta, Parayko played minor ice hockey with the St. Albert Flyers and Fort McMurray Oil Barons before earning a scholarship to the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He went overlooked and undrafted in his first year of NHL eligibility before being selected 86th overall as a 19-year-old in the 2012 NHL Entry Draft by the St. Louis Blues. Following the draft, Parayko played three seasons with the Alaska Nanooks, earning All-Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) First Team and West Second-Team All-American honors. He concluded his collegiate career in 2015 to begin his professional career within the Blues organization.

Paolo Duval Goltz is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a centre back for Club de Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata in the Argentine Primera División.

Charles Alan Lawson, known professionally as Alan Lawson, is an attorney and jurist from Florida. He has served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Florida since 2016, when he was appointed by Governor Rick Scott. He previously was a judge on the Florida Fifth District Court of Appeal.

Erik Durm is a German professional footballer who plays as a full-back for Eintracht Frankfurt. He made his senior debut for the Germany national team in 2014, and later that year was part of their squad which won the World Cup.

Alicja Bachleda-Curuś is a Polish actress and singer, who has appeared in films including Trade, Ondine and Pan Tadeusz.

Anastasia Ivanovna Rodionova is an inactive Russian-born Australian professional tennis player.