List of Famous people born on November 12nd

Attilio Maseri OMRI KSG was an Italian academic and physician specialized in cardiology, considered a leading researcher in the field of ischemic heart disease. His patients included Queen Elizabeth II and Pope John Paul II.

Christian August Ulrich von Hassell was a German diplomat during World War II. A member of the German Resistance against German dictator Adolf Hitler, Hassell unsuccessfully proposed to the British the resistance would overthrow Hitler if Germany kept all of its territorial conquests. He was executed in the aftermath of the failed 20 July plot.

Jacques of Savoy was Count of Romont and Lord of Vaud.

Puan Sri Chelsia Chan, also known as Chan Chau Ha is Hong Kong based actress and singer-songwriter. Chan joined the music industry after winning the first prize at an amateur creative singing contest in 1975 in Hong Kong with the English song "Dark Side of Your Mind", which she composed with lyrics provided by her then-manager Pato Leung. Later, this became one of her best remembered songs. In 1976, at the age of 19, she won the leading actress award at Taiwan's Golden Horse Film Festival for the movie "Qiu Xia" which incidentally is also her own birth name. She is so far the youngest winner with the shortest screen life in the Festival's history. Chan used to sing along with the Hong Kong group, The Wynners.

Maximilian Maria Joseph Karl Gabriel Lamoral Reichsfreiherr von und zu Weichs an der Glon was a field marshal in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II.

Augustine Washington Sr. was the father of the first U.S. President, George Washington. He belonged to the Colony of Virginia's landed gentry and was a planter and slaveholder.

Yutaka Taniyama was a Japanese mathematician known for the Taniyama–Shimura conjecture.

Marcel Augusto Ortolan, commonly known as Marcel, is a Brazilian footballer.

Hanneli Elizabeth "Hannah" Goslar is a former nurse who is best known for her close friendship with diarist Anne Frank. Both Hannah and Anne had attended the Sixth Public Montessori School in Amsterdam and then the Jewish Lyceum. Hannah Goslar is alive at 92 years old and lives in Jerusalem

Mohamed Alí Seineldín was an Argentine army colonel who participated in two failed uprisings against the democratically elected governments of both President Raúl Alfonsín and President Carlos Menem in 1988 and 1990.