Birthday facts

Born on May 12.

Everyone born on May 12 is a Taurus — ruled by Venus, immovable, and comfortable about it. The stone is emerald, the flower lily of the valley, and the day is shared with Bruce Boxleitner and Rishi Sunak.

Sun sign

Taurus ♉︎

the Bull · ruled by Venus · immovable, and comfortable about it

Birthstone

Emerald

May

Birth flower

Lily of the valley

& hawthorn

Your book

Born on May 12? Add the year.

Then it is a pop-up book: the sky the day you arrived, the No. 1 that week, the president, what a stamp cost, your life in weeks, and who was exactly your age when they did the thing they are known for — and at the end, a birthday poster of the day, engraved, to take home. One field. The date lives after the # in the link, which no server sees — nothing about you leaves your browser.

Making it for someone else? Send it as a pop-up birthday card.

The old books say

Taurus, April 20 to May 20.

The Bull is ruled by Venus, and the books make it the sign of pleasure taken slowly — good food, good cloth, a chair that is exactly right. An earth sign, credited with patience, loyalty and a stubbornness so complete it stops looking like a fault and starts looking like a policy. Its people are said to be the ones you can lean on, provided you do not try to hurry them.

Astrology, reported rather than endorsed — the astronomy is the part of the book that is real.

Good company

Also born on May 12.

The names most looked up among everyone who shares the day — leaning on the ones who last.

1950

Bruce Boxleitner

American author and actor

1980

Rishi Sunak

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

1895

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Indian-American philosopher and author

1820

Florence Nightingale

Italian-English nurse and social reformer

1977

Maryam Mirzakhani

Iranian mathematician

1981

Rami Malek

American actor

1918

Julius Rosenberg

American spy

1937

George Carlin

American author and comedian

On this day

What May 12 has seen.

1510Zhu Zhifan, the Prince of Anhua (in modern Shaanxi, China), began an unsuccessful rebellion against the reign of the Zhengde Emperor.

1846The Donner Party, an American pioneer group which became known for resorting to cannibalism when they became trapped in the Sierra Nevada, left Independence, Missouri, for California.

1926The crew of the airship Norge, led by Roald Amundsen, became the first people to make a verified trip to the North Pole.

1941German engineer Konrad Zuse presented the Z3, the first working programmable and fully automatic computer, to an audience of scientists in Berlin.

The calendar

When May 12 falls.

A Tuesday in 2026, a Wednesday in 2027, a Friday in 2028, a Saturday in 2029, and a Sunday in 2030.