People born on August 12

François Hollande

President of France from 2012 to 2017

Erwin Schrödinger

Austrian physicist (1887–1961)

George Soros

Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist (born 1930)

Jacinto Benavente

Spanish writer (1866-1954)

George IV of the United Kingdom

British noble (1762-1830); King of the United Kingdom and Hanover from 1820

Mario Balotelli

Italian association football player

Pete Sampras

American tennis player

Helena Blavatsky

Russian occult writer

Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq

President of Pakistan from 1978 to 1988

Klaas-Jan Huntelaar

Dutch association football player

Casey Affleck

American actor

Cecil B. DeMille

American film director, producer and actor (1881–1959)

Robert Southey

English romantic poet (1774–1843)

Cara Delevingne

English model actress (born 1992)

Mark Knopfler

British musician