List of Famous people born on September 12nd

Johann Jakob Herzog, was a Swiss-German Protestant theologian.

Adolf Gustav Stephan Smekal was an Austrian theoretical physicist, with interests in solid state physics, known for the prediction of the inelastic scattering of photons.

Sir Ugo Pasquale Mifsud was a Maltese politician, the 3rd Prime Minister of Malta under British home rule, and the first to serve a full term in power. He held office from 1924 to 1927 and from 1932 to 1933. He was a member of the Nationalist Party and the Maltese Italian community.

Haskell Brooks Curry was an American mathematician and logician. Curry is best known for his work in combinatory logic. While the initial concept of combinatory logic was based on a single paper by Moses Schönfinkel, Curry did much of the development. Curry is also known for Curry's paradox and the Curry–Howard correspondence. There are three programming languages named after him, Haskell, Brook and Curry, as well as the concept of currying, a technique used for transforming functions in mathematics and computer science.