* Walter Scott Houston ( 1912 – 1993 ) who wrote the " Deep-Sky Wonders " column in Sky & Telescope magazine for almost 50 years.

Alfred Elton van Vogt ( April 26, 1912 – January 26, 2000 ) was a Canadian-born science fiction author regarded as one of the most popular and complex science fiction writers of the mid-twentieth century: the " Golden Age " of the genre.

* 1912 – Frank Dilio, Canadian hockey administrator ( d. 1997 )

* 1912 – Walt Gorney, American actor ( d. 2004 )

* 1912 – Hamengkubuwono IX, Indonesian politician 2nd Vice President of Indonesia ( d. 1988 )

* 1912 – Hound Dog Taylor, American singer and guitarist ( d. 1975 )

* 1912 – The British passenger liner sinks in the North Atlantic at 2: 20 a. m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg.

* 1864 – Jean, duc Decazes, French aristocrat and sportsman ( d. 1912 )

* 1912 – Gloria Guinness, Mexican writer and editor ( d. 1980 )

* 1912 – The Bull Moose Party meets at the Chicago Coliseum.

* 1912 – Richard C. Miller, American photographer ( d. 2010 )

Schweitzer, who insisted that the score should show Bach's notation with no additional markings, wrote the commentaries for the Preludes and Fugues, and Widor those for the Sonatas and Concertos: six volumes were published in 1912 – 14.

Alexis Carrel ( June 28, 1873 – November 5, 1944 ) was a French surgeon and biologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912 for pioneering vascular suturing techniques.

* 1912 – Ben Hogan, American golfer ( d. 1997 )

* 1912 – Salvador Luria, Italian-American microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1991 )

* 1912 – Ann Dvorak, American actress ( d. 1979 )

* 1912 – Palle Huld, Danish actor ( d. 2010 )

* 1912 – Vladimir Žerjavić, Croatian economist ( d. 2001 )

* 1994 – Robert Doisneau, French photographer ( b. 1912 )

* 1997 – Norman Carr, British conservationist ( b. 1912 )

Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS ( ; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954 ), was a British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist.

* 1912 – Henry Jones, American actor ( d. 1999 )

Casa Milà (), better known as La Pedrera (, meaning the ' The Quarry '), is a building designed by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí and built during the years 1905 – 1910, being considered officially completed in 1912.

* 1912 – Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.

* 1867 – Wilbur Wright, American aviation pioneer ( d. 1912 )

* 1847 – Bram Stoker, Irish novelist ( d. 1912 )

* November 8 – Bram Stoker, creator of the Gothic novel Dracula ( d. 1912 )

* Bram Stoker ( 1847 – 1912 ), writer of Dracula.

Bram Stoker ( 1847 – 1912 ) was born in Dublin and studied Mathematics at Trinity College.

The club was founded on June 12, 1912, by Héctor Pineda Ugarte, Carlos Bram, Arturo Bram, Enrique Buik, Santiago Buik, Miguel Sanchez, Samuel Inestrosa Gómez, and Ramón Field.

* Bram Stoker Online Full text and PDF versions of this novel ( 1903 and 1912 editions )

* Bram Stoker ( 1847 – 1912 ), Irish writer

* November 8-Bram Stoker, writer (+ 1912 )

* Thornley Stoker, 1st Baronet ( 1845 – 1912 ), Irish medical writer, anatomist and surgeon

When republished in 1904 by Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York and London, the original ending was retained, but when Stoker attempted to republish it once more, shortly before his death in 1912, he was told that he would have to change the ending.

Combustion Engineering was organized in 1912 through the merger of the Grieve Grate Company and the American Stoker Company, two well-known manufacturers of fuel burning equipment.

In September 1911, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Irish Guards, and promoted to lieutenant in December 1912.

* 1912 – Wilfrid Brambell, Irish actor ( d. 1985 )

* 1912 – The Ulster Covenant is signed by half a million Ulster Protestants in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill.

* August 23 – Osborne Reynolds, Irish engineer and physicist ( d. 1912 )

Although the Whigs at first formed the most important part of the coalition, the Whiggish elements of the new party progressively lost influence during the long leadership of the Peelite William Ewart Gladstone, and many of the old Whig aristocrats broke from the party over the issue of Irish home rule in 1886 to help form the Liberal Unionist Party — which itself would merge with the Conservative Party by 1912.

After his victories at the Olympic Games in Sweden, on September 2, 1912, he returned to Celtic Park, the home of the Irish American Athletic Club, in Queens, New York ( where he had qualified four months earlier for the Olympic Games ), to compete in the Amateur Athletic Union's All-Around Championship.

The price of Irish support in 1910 was the Third Irish Home Rule Bill, which Asquith delivered in legislation in 1912.

The Third Home Rule Bill introduced in 1912 by the Irish Parliamentary Party could no longer be vetoed after the passing of the Parliament Act 1911 which removed the power of the Lords to veto bills.

He founded the Irish Labour Party as the political wing of the Irish Trade Union Congress in 1912 and was a member of its National Executive.

" The first white-tailed sea eagle breeding pair since 1912 nested 100 years later on Lough Derg ( Loch Deirgeirt ) marking a great success for the Irish reintroduction programme.

The potential success of the third Home Rule Bill in 1912 introduced serious tensions: opponents of the Bill organised the Ulster Volunteer Force in January 1913 while supporters formed the Irish Volunteers in response.

He distinguished himself commanding the Cavalry Division during the Second Boer War, became Chief of the Imperial General Staff in 1912 but resigned over the Curragh Mutiny, and then served as the first Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force for the first two years of World War I before serving as Commander-in-Chief, Home Forces, then becoming Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1918, a job which he held throughout much of the Irish War of Independence.

The Labour Party was founded in 1912 in Clonmel, County Tipperary, by James Connolly, James Larkin and William X. O ' Brien as the political wing of the Irish Trade Union Congress.

In 1912, James Connolly, James Larkin and William X. O ' Brien established the Irish Labour Party as the political wing of the Irish Trade Union Congress.

The first Irish clubs discussed admitting women as members in 1912, but the proposal foundered over issues of social class.

In 1912 he was appointed Honorary Colonel of the 3rd Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles.

He met his future wife, Kathleen Kingston, at an Irish class in Birr, County Offaly and they married in 1912.

* Billy Burke ( hurler ) ( 1912 – 1995 ), Irish hurler

* Thomas Brennan ( Irish Land League ) ( 1853 – 1912 ), Irish politician