List of Famous people born on October 12nd

Ehsaan Noorani is an Indian composer and guitarist, Ehsaan is the part of the Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy trio which consist of Shankar Mahadevan, Loy Mendonsa and himself. He was the guitarist for many music directors before he himself started composing music. Ehsaan studied music with Mr. Bismarck Rodrigues, an experienced guitar teacher from Mumbai (Bombay). Ehsaan studied music at the Musicians Institute in Hollywood, California from 1985 to 1986. Ehsaan is the first guitarist from India to be endorsed by Fender guitars and has a Squier signature model to his name. He also endorses Fractal Audio and D'Addario strings. His playing is strongly influenced by players like Robben Ford, BB King, Larry Carlton etc. In 2015 Ehsaan was a co judge in India's first Western reality show called The Stage produced by Viacom and aired on Colours Infinity . In addition to Shankar Ehsaan Loy Ehsaan also performs with Fender and Friends featuring guitarists like Rudy Wallang, Amyt Dutta and singers Arunima Banerjee and Tanya Sen . He also performs with sitar player Purbayan Chaterjee in an ensemble called The String Fraternity ↵. Loy Mendonsa and Ehsaan have recently reformed their old Electronica band called Instant Karma . Loy and he recently co composed and produced a Women's Day special song with Shruti Haasan called My Day In The Sun.

Jeffrey Lynn Keith is an American musician and the lead singer of the band Tesla. He was also the lead singer for the band Bar 7.

Neven Mimica is a Croatian politician and diplomat who has been serving as European Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development in the Juncker Commission since 1 November 2014. He was previously the European Commissioner for Consumer Protection in the Second Barroso Commission from July 2013 until November 2014 and was in that regard the first European Union Commissioner from Croatia following its accession to the European Union.

Igor Olegovich Lisovsky is a former Soviet pair skater. With his then-wife Irina Vorobieva, he is the 1981 World champion and the 1981 European champion. They were coached by Tamara Moskvina.

Adolf M. Birke is professor emeritus of modern history at the University of Munich. He was director of the German Historical Institute London from August 1977 to July 1985.