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| May 12th, 2006 (May 12 2006) | Event | Justin Gatlin equals the 100 metres sprint world record with a time of 9.77 seconds in Doha, Qatar. | |
| May 12th, 2006 (May 12 2006) | Death | Gillespie V. Montgomery, former U.S. representative from Mississippi (born in 1920) | |
| May 12th, 1986 (May 12 1986) | Birth | Emily VanCamp, Canadian actress | |
| May 12th, 1986 (May 12 1986) | Death | Elisabeth Bergner, Austrian actress (born in 1897) | |
| May 12th, 1966 (May 12 1966) | Birth | Stephen Baldwin, American actor | |
| May 12th, 1966 (May 12 1966) | Birth | Bebel Gilberto, Brazilian singer | |
| May 12th, 1966 (May 12 1966) | Death | Felix Martin Julius Steiner, German Heer and Waffen-SS officer (born in 1896) | |
| May 12th, 1956 (May 12 1956) | Birth | Bernie Federko, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| May 12th, 1956 (May 12 1956) | Birth | Glenn Robbins, Australian comedian | |
| May 12th, 1956 (May 12 1956) | Death | Louis Calhern, American actor (born in 1895) | |
| May 12th, 1946 (May 12 1946) | Birth | L. Neil Smith, American science fiction author | |
| May 12th, 1936 (May 12 1936) | Birth | Guillermo Endara, President of Panama | |
| May 12th, 1936 (May 12 1936) | Birth | Tom Snyder, American television personality (died in 2007) | |
| May 12th, 1936 (May 12 1936) | Birth | Frank Stella, American painter | |
| May 12th, 1926 (May 12 1926) | Event | UK General Strike 1926: in the United Kingdom, a nine-day general strike by trade unions ends. | |
| May 12th, 1916 (May 12 1916) | Death | James Connolly, Irish socialist (born in 1868) | |
| May 12th, 1876 (May 12 1876) | Death | Georgi Benkovski, Bulgarian revolutionary, brutally killed by the Turks (born in 1843) | |
| May 12th, 1856 (May 12 1856) | Death | Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, French mathematician (born in 1786) | |
| May 12th, 1806 (May 12 1806) | Birth | Johan Vilhelm Snellman, Finnish statesman (died in 1881) | |
| May 12th, 1796 (May 12 1796) | Death | Johann Peter Uz, German poet (born in 1720) | |
| May 12th, 1626 (May 12 1626) | Birth | Louis Hennepin, Flemish missionary (died in 1705) | |
| May 12th, 1496 (May 12 1496) | Birth | Gustav I of Sweden (died in 1560) | |
