* 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 )

* 1912 – Erich Bagge, German physicist ( d. 1996 )

* September 11 – Erich Leinsdorf, Austrian conductor ( b. 1912 )

Erich Honecker (; 25 August 1912 – 29 May 1994 ) was a German communist politician who led the German Democratic Republic as General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party from 1971 until 1989, serving as Head of State as well after Willi Stoph's relinquishment of that post in 1976.

* German — Beckmann, Max: Pierrot and Mask ( 1920 ), Before the Masked Ball ( 1922 ), Carnival ( 1943 ); Campendonk, Heinrich: Pierrot with Mask ( 1916 ), Pierrot ( with Serpent ) ( 1923 ), Pierrot with Sunflower ( 1925 ); Faure, Amandus: Standing Artist and Pierrot ( 1909 ); Heckel, Erich: Dead Pierrot ( 1914 ); Hofer, Karl: Circus Folk ( c. 1921 ); Leman, Ulrich: The Juggler ( 1913 ); Macke, August: Many works, including Ballets Russes ( 1912 ), Clown ( Pierrot ) ( 1913 ), Face of Pierrot ( 1913 ), Pierrot and Woman ( 1913 ); Mammen, Jeanne: The Death of Pierrot ( n. d .); Nolde, Emil: Pierrot and White Lilies ( c. 1911 ), Women and Pierrot ( 1917 ); Schlemmer, Oskar: Pierrot and Two Figures ( 1923 ); Werner, Theodor: Pierrot lunaire ( 1942 ).

Ferruccio Busoni's Die Brautwahl ( 1912 ) and Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Die tote Stadt ( 1920 ) both had their world premieres in Hamburg.

Other composers styled " late Romantic ", such as Franz Schreker ( Der ferne Klang, 1912 ; Der Schatzgräber, 1920 ), Alexander von Zemlinsky ( Eine florentinische Tragödie, 1917 ; Der Zwerg, 1922 ) and Erich Korngold ( Die tote Stadt, 1920 ) explored similar territory to Strauss's Salome and Elektra.

* Erich Schmitt ( 1912 – 1979 ), Swiss field handball player

After seeing expressionist paintings in Herwarth Walden's gallery Der Sturm in 1912, Hausmann started to produce expressionist prints in Erich Heckel's studio, and became a staff writer for Walden's magazine, also called Der Sturm, which provided a platform for his earliest polemical writings against the art establishment.

Erich Rudolf Bagge ( 30 May 1912, Neustadt bei Coburg – 5 June 1996, Kiel ) was a German scientist.

Other publications include: the 1900 Irrlichter ( the three stage plays Andrei, Erich and Narkissos ); a 1908 book on Sodoma, the Renaissance artist ; a 1912 stage play Aino und Tio ; and the 1912 volume of poems Hymnen der Heiligen Burg.

She was married to the Christian Democratic politician Erich Peter Neumann ( 1912 – 1973 ) from 1946 until his death.

The first proposal for a tank was by the Austrian Oberleutenant Günther Burstyn who, in 1911, proposed a design for " motor artillery " ( Motorengeschütz ) with a turret, but his design never progressed beyond a German patent in 1912.

* 1912 – Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs, German astronomer ( d. 1954 )

Finally, in the German Imperial War Council of 8 December 1912 the consensus was that Germany would not be ready for war until at least mid-1914 and passed notes to that effect to the Habsburgs.

The hypothesis that the continents had once formed a single landmass before breaking apart and drifting to their present locations was first presented by Alfred Wegener to the German Geological Society on 6 January 1912.

Wegener was the first to use the phrase " continental drift " ( 1912, 1915 ) ( in German " die Verschiebung der Kontinente " – translated into English in 1922 ) and formally publish the hypothesis that the continents had somehow " drifted " apart.

* 1912 – Leaders of the German Empire hold an Imperial War Council to discuss the possibility that war might break out.

In 1912 at the request of the German Society of Psychiatry, he began plans to establish a centre for research.

* 1912 – Eva Braun, German mistress and wife of Adolf Hitler ( d. 1945 )

* 1834 – Felix Dahn, German author ( d. 1912 )

German psychologist William Stern proposed a method of scoring children's intelligence tests in 1912.

* 1912 – Werner Hartmann, German physicist ( d. 1988 )

* 1850 – Otto Schoetensack, German anthropologist ( d. 1912 )

* 1912 – German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.

* 1912 – Günter Wand, German conductor, composer ( d. 2002 )

The Katzenjammer Kids is an American comic strip created by the German immigrant Rudolph Dirks and drawn by Harold H. Knerr for 37 years ( 1912 to 1949 ).

Konrad Emil Bloch ForMemRS ( b. January 21, 1912 – October 15, 2000 ) was a German American biochemist.

Three light cruisers commenced construction in German yards in 1912 – 1913 ordered by the Russian Navy, costing around 9 million GM.

He began his architectural career as an apprentice at the studio of Peter Behrens from 1908 to 1912, where he was exposed to the current design theories and to progressive German culture, working alongside Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier.

The foundation of the University of Leipzig in 1409 initiated the city's development into a centre of German law and the publishing industry, and towards being the location of the Reichsgericht ( Imperial Court of Justice ), and the German National Library ( founded in 1912 ).

* 1912 – Axel Springer, German journalist and publisher, founded Axel Springer AG ( d. 1985 )

The son of an immigrant German brewer and a Paraguayan woman, Stroessner was born in Encarnación in 1912.

Even the Reichstag itself, the German Parliament, occupied the former home of the family of composer Felix Mendelssohn ( 1809 – 47 ) in Leipziger Straße before moving in 1894 to the vast new edifice near the Brandenburg Gate, erected by Paul Wallot ( 1841 – 1912 ).