* 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 )

After a series of legal battles between 1912 and 1914, Dirks left the Hearst organization and began a new strip, first titled Hans und Fritz and then The Captain and the Kids.

Edward Wilson, physician, naturalist and ornithologist, who died in 1912 on Captain Robert Scott's ill-fated British Antarctic expedition, had earlier practised as a doctor in Paddington.

During the Mexican Revolution, a battalion called “ The Sons of Tuxtla ” was formed in 1911, with Captain Julio Miramontes assassinated in 1912.

Trenchard arrived in London on 6 July 1912, only to discover that Captain Loraine had been killed in a flying accident on the previous day.

In 1911 – 1912, Captain Scott and his team reached the South Pole by climbing the Beardmore.

* Captain Thomas Jackson, 1912 – 1913

Captain John Kean was the son of Katharine Winthrop Kean and United States Senator Hamilton Fish Kean whose library was housed at Kean Hall, a building constructed for that specific purpose in 1912.

A Central Flying School staffed by officers and men of both the navy and the army was created at Upavon for the pilot training of both wings, and opened on 19 June 1912 under the command of Captain Godfrey Paine, a naval officer.

In the summer of 1912, in recognition of the air branch's expansion, Captain Murray Sueter was appointed Director of the newly-formed Air Department at the Admiralty.

For example, in 2012 the RGS held an exhibition, in the glass Pavilion, of photographs taken by Herbert Ponting on Captain Robert Falcon Scott's expedition to the South Pole in 1912.

In 1912 two Russian expeditions set out ; Captain Georgy Brusilov and the Brusilov Expedition in the Santa Anna, and Captain Alexander Kuchin with Vladimir Rusanov in the Gerkules ; each with a woman on board.

* " 1911 – 1912 Turco-Italian War and Captain Mustafa Kemal ".

The first aerial photography flight took place later in March 1912, also flown by Captain Piazza.

* 13 May 1912 Captain H R M Brooke-Popham

* Group Captain John Hamar " Johnnie " Hill CBE ( 1912 – 1997 ); Squadron Commander of 504 Squadron and 222 Squadron RAF in 1940

Town Hall, built in 1912, now serves as a tourist information centreOne of the first Europeans to travel through the Mackay region was Captain James Cook, who reached the Mackay coast on 1 June 1770 and named several local landmarks, including Cape Palmerston, Slade Point and Cape Hillsborough.

On 5 July 1912, two members of the squadron, Captain Eustace Loraine and Staff Sergeant Wilson were killed in an aircraft crash making them the first RFC fatalities.

* Captain Hugh Evan-Thomas: July 1910-July 1912

Overseas intelligence gathering began in 1912 by MI6 under Commander ( later Captain ) Mansfield Smith-Cumming.

* 1912: Captain Jenks ' Dilemma ; The Meeting of the Ways ; For the Honor of the Family ; She Never Knew ; Lulu's Doctor ; The Troublesome Step-Daughters ; The Money Kings ; A Juvenile Love Affair ; Wanted ... a Grandmother ; Vultures and Doves ; Her Grandchild ; Captain Barnacle's Legacy ; Bobby's Father ; The Irony of Fate ; The Toymaker ; Ida's Christmas

Pennell, RN, and was subsequently named " Bowers Hills " in honour of Henry Robertson Bowers who perished with Captain Robert Falcon Scott on their return from the South Pole in 1912.

Charles FitzClarence was born in County Kildare, the son of Captain George FitzClarence ( 15 April 1836 – 24 March 1894 ) and Maria Henrietta Scott ( d. 27 July 1912 ).