1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Sunday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). [edit] Events of 1912 [edit] January [edit] February [edit] August [edit] September [edit] October - October 8 – The First Balkan War begins: Montenegro declares war against Turkey.
- October 14 – While campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, former President Theodore Roosevelt is shot by saloonkeeper John Schrank. With a fresh flesh wound and the bullet still in him, Roosevelt delivers his scheduled speech. After finishing his speech, he went to the hospital, where it was deduced that if he had not had his speech in his breast pocket when he was shot, he most likely would have died.
- October 16
- Bulgarian pilots Radul Minkov and Prodan Toprakchiev perform the first bombing with an airplane in history, at the railway station of Karaagac near Edirne against Turkey.
- The Boston Red Sox, assisted by a famous error, defeat the New York Giants in extra innings to win the 1912 World Series, in what is considered one of the greatest games of baseball ever played.
[edit] November [edit] December [edit] Undated  1912 date-mark on the apex of a building at Springfield, Birmingham, England. [edit] Ongoing [edit] Births [edit] January–February - January 1 – Kim Philby, British spy (d. 1988)
- January 2 – Hans Leussink, German politician (d. 2008)
- January 3 – Armand Lohikoski, Finnish director (d. 2005)
- January 6 – Jacques Ellul, French philosopher (d. 1994)
- January 7 – Charles Addams, American cartoonist (d. 1988)
- January 7 – Ivan Yakubovsky, Marshal of Soviet Union (d. 1976)
- January 8 – José Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor (d. 1992)
- January 8 – Lawrence E. Walsh, American jurist
- January 19 – Leonid Kantorovich, Russian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
- January 21 – Konrad Emil Bloch, German-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2000)
- January 27 – Arne Næss, Norwegian philosopher (d. 2009)
- January 27 – Francis Rogallo, American aeronautical engineer (d. 2009)
- January 28 – Jackson Pollock, American painter (d. 1956)
- January 30
- February 2 – Millvina Dean, youngest passenger and survivor of the RMS Titanic disaster (d. 2009)
- February 3 – Mary Carlisle, American actress and singer
- February 4
- February 6 – Eva Braun, Adolf Hitler's mistress (d. 1945)
- February 7 – Roberta McCain, mother of John McCain.
- February 11 – Roy Fuller, English poet and novelist (d. 1991)
- February 20 – Pierre Boulle, French author (d. 1994)
- February 27 – Lawrence Durrell, British writer (d. 1990)
[edit] March–April - March 1 – Boris Chertok, Polish-born Russian rocket designer
- March 4
- March 5 – David Astor, British newspaper publisher (d. 2001)
- March 8 – Preston Smith, Governor of Texas (d. 2003)
- March 12 – Irving Layton, Canadian poet (d. 2006)
- March 14
- March 15 – Lightnin' Hopkins, American musician (d. 1982)
- March 16 – Pat Nixon, First Lady of the United States (d. 1993)
- March 17 – Bayard Rustin, American civil rights activist (d. 1987)
- March 18
- March 22 – Karl Malden, American actor (The Streets of San Francisco) (d. 2009)
- March 23 – Wernher von Braun, German-born American physicist and engineer (d. 1977)
- March 24 – Dorothy Height, American activist
- March 25 – Jean Vilar, French stage actor (d. 1971)
- March 27 – James Callaghan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 2005)
- March 31 – William Lederer, American writer
- April 2 – Herbert Mills, "Mills Brothers" tenor (d. 1989)
- April 7 – Jack Lawrence, American composer (d. 2009)
- April 8
- April 11 – Gusti Wolf, Austrian actress (d. 2007)
- April 12 – Walt Gorney, American actor (d. 2004)
- April 15 – Kim Il Sung, President of North Korea (d. 1994)
- April 16
- April 17 – Marta Eggerth, Hungarian-born actress and singer, naturalized citizen of the United States
- April 19 – Glenn T. Seaborg, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
- April 22 – Kathleen Ferrier, British contralto (d. 1953)
- April 26 – A. E. van Vogt, Canadian-born writer (d. 2000)
- April 27 – Zohra Segal, Indian stage and film actress
- April 28 – Odette Sansom, French World War II heroine (d. 1995)
[edit] May–June - May 3 – Virgil Fox, American organist (d. 1980)
- May 9 – Pedro Armendáriz, Mexican actor (d. 1963)
- May 11 – Foster Brooks, American actor and comedian (d. 2001)
- May 12 – Archibald Cox, American Watergate special prosecutor (d. 2004)
- May 14 – Ben Hogan, American golfer (d. 1997)
- May 16 – Studs Terkel, American writer and broadcaster (d. 2008)
- May 17 – Ace Parker, American baseball and football player
- May 18
- May 21 – Monty Stratton, American baseball player (d. 1982)
- May 22 – Herbert C. Brown, English-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
- May 23
- May 25 – Princess Dukhye of Korea (d. 1989)
- May 27 – Sam Snead, American golfer (d. 2002)
- May 28
- May 29 – Pamela Hansford Johnson, English poet, novelist, playwright, literary and social critic (d. 1981)
- May 30 – Julius Axelrod, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2004)
- May 31 – Alfred Deller, English countertenor (d. 1979)
- June 4 – Robert Jacobsen, Danish artist (d. 1993)
- June 5 – Dean Amadon, American ornithologist (d. 2003)
- June 6 – Maria Montez, Dominican actress (d. 1951)
- June 8
- June 9 – Philip Simmons, American ornamental ironworker (d. 2009)
- June 16 – Enoch Powell, British politician (d 1998)
- June 21 – Kazimierz Leski, Polish engineer, fighter pilot, and intelligence and counter-intelligence officer (d. 2000)
- June 23 – Alan Turing, British mathematician (d. 1954)
- June 24 – Brian Johnston, British cricket commentator (d 1994)
- June 25 – William T. Cahill, American politician (d. 1996)
- June 26 – Jay Silverheels, American actor (The Lone Ranger) (d. 1980)
- June 27 – Chen Kenmin, Japanese chef (d. 1990)
- June 30 – Ludwig Bölkow, German aeronautical engineer (d. 2003)
[edit] July–August - July 1
- July 4 – Said Akl, Lebanese poet and ideologue
- July 6 – Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer and explorer (d. 2006)
- July 11 – William F. Walsh, American politician
- July 14 – Woody Guthrie, American folk musician (This Land Is Your Land) (d. 1969)
- July 17 – Art Linkletter, American television host (House Party)
- July 18 – Max Rousié, French rugby footballer (d. 1950)
- July 31
- August 1 – Frank K. Edmondson, American astronomer (d. 2008)
- August 2 – Palle Huld, Danish actor
- August 3 – Fritz Hellwig, German politician (CDU) and former European Commissioner for Science & Research
- August 9 – Anne Brown, American soprano (d. 2009)
- August 10 – Jorge Amado de Faria, Brazilian author (d. 2001)
- August 11 – Thanom Kittikachorn, Prime Minister of Thailand (d. 2004)
- August 11 – Norman Levinson, American mathematician (d. 1975)
- August 13 – Salvador Luria, Italian-born biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1991)
- August 15 – Julia Child, American TV chef (d. 2004)
- August 15 – Ustad Amir Khan, Indian classical vocal singer (d. 1974)
- August 16
- August 23 – Gene Kelly, American actor (d. 1996)
- August 25 – Erich Honecker, East German leader (d. 1994)
- August 27 – Gloria Guinness, Mexican-born English fashion icon (d. 1980)
- August 30
[edit] September–October - September 5
- September 10 – Mary Walter, Filipino actress (d. 1993)
- September 11 – David Packard, American electrical engineer (d. 1996)
- September 19 – Kurt Sanderling, German conductor
- September 21
- September 22
- September 24 – Don Porter, American actor (d. 1997)
- September 27 – Tauno Marttinen, Finnish composer (d. 2008)
- September 29 – Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian film director (d. 2007)
- October 1 – Kathleen Ollerenshaw, British mathematician
- October 5
- October 6 – Perkins Bass, American politician
- October 16 – Clifford Hansen, American politician (d. 2009)
- October 17 – Pope John Paul I (d. 1978)
- October 21 – Georg Solti, Hungarian conductor (d. 1997)
- October 22 – Johan Hendrik Weidner, Belgian World War II resistance fighter (d. 1994)
- October 25 – Minnie Pearl, American humorist (d. 1996)
- October 27 – Conlon Nancarrow, American composer (d. 1997)
- October 31 – Ollie Johnston, American animator (d. 2008)
[edit] November–December george o hanlon November 1 - November 1 – Gunther Plaut, German-born Canadian rabbi and writer
- November 3 – Alfredo Stroessner, President of Paraguay (d. 2006)
- November 4 – Vadim Salmanov, Russian composer (d. 1978)
- November 6 – Toke Townley, English actor (d. 1984)
- November 10
- November 11 – Larry LaPrise, American songwriter (d. 1996)
- November 13 – Claude Pompidou, wife of French President Georges Pompidou (d. 2007)
- November 14
- November 19 – George Emil Palade, Romanian microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2008)
- November 20 – Otto von Habsburg, Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary
- November 21
- November 24 – Bernard Delfgaauw, Dutch philosopher (d. 1993)
- November 30 – Gordon Parks, African-American photographer and artist (d. 2006)
- December 10 – Philip Hart, Democratic United States Senator from Michigan from 1959 – 1976 (d. 1976)
- December 11 – Carlo Ponti, Italian film producer (d. 2007)
- December 12 – Henry Armstrong, American boxer (d. 1988)
- December 22 – Lady Bird Johnson, First Lady of the United States (d. 2007)
- December 25
- December 27 – Conroy Maddox, British painter (d. 2005)
[edit] Deaths [edit] January–June - January 28 – Gustave de Molinari, Belgian economist (b. 1819)
- February 4 – Franz Reichelt, Austrian Tailor/Inventor (b. 1800's)
- February 10 – Joseph Lister, English surgeon (b. 1827)
- February 16 – Nikolai of Japan, Eastern Orthodox monk and saint (b. 1836)
- February 21 – Osborne Reynolds, Irish physicist (b. 1842)
- February 25 – Guillaume IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (b. 1852)
- March 1 – George Grossmith, English actor and comic writer (b. 1847)
- March 29 – Members of the Scott Expedition to the South Pole:
- March 30 – Karl May, German author (b. 1842)
- April 12 – Clara Barton, American nurse (b. 1821)
- April 15 – 11 out of 1,500 victims of the RMS Titanic sinking:
- Thomas Andrews, Jr., Irish shipbuilder (b. 1873)
- John Jacob Astor IV, American businessman (b. 1864)
- Archibald Butt, American presidential aide (b. 1865)
- Thomas R.D. Byles, English-born Catholic priest (b. 1870)
- Benjamin Guggenheim, American businessman (b. 1865)
- Edward J. Smith, English ship's captain (b. 1850)
- William Thomas Stead, English journalist (b. 1849)
- Isidor Straus, German-born owner of Macy's (b. 1845)
- Ida Straus, wife of Isidor Straus (1 of only 5 Titanic First-class female fatalities) (b. 1849)
- Jack Phillips, senior wireless officer of the Titanic (b. 1887)
- Wallace Hartley, violinist and band leader of the Titanic (b. 1878)
- April 20 – Bram Stoker, Irish writer (Dracula) (b. 1847)
- May 14
- May 25 – Austin Lane Crothers, American politician (b. 1860)
- May 30 – Wilbur Wright, American aviation pioneer (b. 1867)
- June 1 – Philip Parmalee, American aviator (b. 1887)
- June 12
- Hubert Latham, French aviator, (b. 1883)
[edit] July–December - July 1 – Harriet Quimby, American pilot (b. 1875)
- July 2 – Tom Richardson, English cricketer (b. 1870)
- July 17 – Henri Poincaré, French mathematician (b. 1854)
- July 30 – Meiji Emperor of Japan (b. 1852)
- August 7 – François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss hydrologist (b. 1841)
- August 8 – Ross Winn, American anarchist writer and publisher (b. 1871)
- August 13 – Jules Massenet, French composer (b. 1842)
- August 20
- October 6 – Auguste Marie François Beernaert, Belgian statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1829)
- October 24 – Mykola Lysenko, Ukrainian composer (b. 1842)
- October 30 – James S. Sherman, 27th Vice President of the United States (b. 1855)
- November 10 – Louis Cyr, Canadian strongman (b. 1863)
- November 28 – Walter Benona Sharp, American oil pioneer (b. 1870)
- December 12 – Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria, Prince Regent of Bavaria (b. 1821)
- December 18 – William McKendree Carleton, American poet (b. 1845)
- December 23 – Otto Schoetensack, German anthropologist (b. 1850)
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