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).
Events of 1912
January
February
March
trees]] to be planted in Washington, D.C.
, to symbolize the friendship between the two countries.
April
May
June
July
August
September
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.
November
December
Undated
Ongoing
Births
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)
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)
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)
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
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)
November–December
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- 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)
Deaths
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)
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)
Nobel Prizes
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