* 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 )

He was made a " Knight of the Indian Empire " by Queen Victoria, a Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire by Edward VII ( 1902 ), and a Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India by George V ( 1912 ).

* 1912 – Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1997 )

Examples include Edward Elgar's Great is the Lord ( 1912 ) and Give unto the Lord ( 1914 ) ( both with orchestral accompaniment ), Benjamin Britten's Rejoice in the Lamb ( 1943 ) ( a modern example of a multi-movement anthem and today heard mainly as a concert piece ), and, on a much smaller scale, Ralph Vaughan Williams ' O taste and see ( 1952 ) ( written for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II ).

* 1912 – John Edward Christopher Hill, English historian ( d. 2003 )

* 1850 – Edward J. Smith, English captain of the RMS Titanic ( d. 1912 )

* Forbush, Edward Howe ( 1912 ): A History of the Game Birds, Wild-Fowl and Shore Birds of Massachusetts and Adjacent States.

* Sir Edward Maunde Thompson, An Introduction to Greek and Latin Palaeography Clarendon Press, 1912.

* An introduction to Greek and Latin palaeography by Thompson, Edward Maunde – Outdated ( published 1912 ) but good and useful illustrated handbook, available as facsimile.

By 4 January 1912, the last two four-man groups had reached 87 ° 34 ′ S. Scott announced his decision: five men ( Scott, Edward Wilson, Henry Bowers, Lawrence Oates and Edgar Evans ) would go forward, the other three ( Teddy Evans, William Lashly and Tom Crean ) would return.

** Edward Smith, captain of the Titanic ( d. 1912 )

* Edward Turner Jeffery, 1891 – 1912

Washington Post scion Edward Beale McLean and his wife mining heiress Evalyn Walsh McLean in 1912.

* Edward Divers ( 1837 – 1912 ), British chemist

* Sir Edward Seaborne Clouston, 1st Baronet, of Montreal, in the Dominion of Canada ( 1908 ), extinct 1912

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.

* Keble, John ( 1912 ) Keble's Lectures on Poetry, 1832-1841 ; translated by Edward Kershaw Francis.

Similarly, the 1912 American adaptation, directed by James Keane and André Calmettes, and starring Frederick Warde as Richard, opened with the same two scenes ; the murder of Prince Edward and the murder of Henry VI.

John Edward Christopher Hill ( 6 February 1912 – 23 February 2003 ), usually known simply as Christopher Hill, was an English Marxist historian and author of textbooks.

Hill was born on 6 February 1912, Bishopthorpe Road, York, to Edward Harold Hill and Janet Augusta ( née Dickinson ).

She is the second of six children born to middle-class Polish Americans Edward " Eddie " Kostyra ( 1912 – 1979 ) and Martha Ruszkowski Kostyra ( 1914 – 2007 ).

Edward O ' Connor Terry ( 10 March 1844 – 2 April 1912 ) was an English actor, who became one of the most influential actors and comedians of the Victorian era.

His business was continued after his death by his younger brother, Benjamin Edward Reina Newlands ( 1842 – 1912 ).

Salvador Edward Luria ( Turin, August 13, 1912 – Lexington, Massachusetts, February 6, 1991 ) was an Italian microbiologist.

Edward Arber ( 4 December 1836 – 23 November 1912 ) was an English academic and writer.