January 12
Geniuses Born on January 12
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🧠Average IQ of geniuses born on this day: 160
📚Most common field: Chemistry (1 geniuses)
🌍Most represented country: United Kingdom (1)
📅Eras: Early Modern (2), 19th Century (1), Modern (1)

Geniuses Born on January 12

4 geniuses born on January 12 — including George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon, Edmund Burke, and more. Explore their biographies, IQ scores, and achievements.

George Villiers, 4th Earl of ClarendonIQ 160
1800–1870 · United Kingdom
Being British representative at the Congress of Paris which ended the Crimean War.
An English diplomat and statesman from the Villiers family whose skills helped to stop the bloody Crimean War.
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Edmund Burke
1729–1797 · Ireland
A Vindication of Natural Society • A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful • R
An Irish statesman and philosopher who supported the rights of the British colonists to resist metropolitan authority.
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Jan Baptist van Helmont
1580–1644 · Netherlands
Pneumatic chemistry
A chemist, physiologist, and physician who is considered as the founder of pneumatic chemistry.
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Sergey Karjakin
b. 1990 · Russia
Becoming a grandmaster at the age of 12.
A Russian chess grandmaster who qualified for the title of Grandmaster at the age of 12 years and 7 months.
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Which geniuses were born on January 12?

George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon, Edmund Burke, Jan Baptist van Helmont, Sergey Karjakin — 4 geniuses in total share this birthday.

What is the zodiac sign for January 12?

capricorn is the zodiac sign for people born on January 12.

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