* 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 )

The first store in Scarsdale opened on the corner of Popham Road and Garth Road in 1912.

Evidence of stone age occupation of the Lesser Garth Cave ( located near Morganstown ) was discovered in 1912 and included worked flints.

: Arundel Castle ( 3 ) ( 1894 – 1905 ), Avondale Castle ( 1897 – 1912 ), Braemar Castle ( 1 ) ( 1898 – 1924 ), Carisbrook Castle ( 1898 – 1922 ), ' Doune Castle ( 1890 – 1904 ), Dunolly Castle ( 1897 – 1905 ), Dunottar Castle ( 1890 – 1913 ), Dunvegan Castle ( 1896 – 1923 ), Garth Castle ( 1880 – 1901 ), Harlech Castle ( 1894 – 1904 ), Hawarden Castle ( 1883 – 1904 ), Kildonan Castle ( 1899 – 1931 ), Kinfauns Castle ( 2 ) ( 1899 – 1927 ), Lismore Castle ( 1891 – 1904 ), Norham Castle ( 1883 – 1903 ), Pembroke Castle ( 2 ) ( 1883 – 1906 ), Raglan Castle ( 1897 – 1905 ), Roslin Castle ( 2 ) ( 1883 – 1904 ), Tantallon Castle ( 2 ) ( 1894 – 1901 ), Tintagel Castle ( 1 ) ( 1896 – 1912 )

Garth Williams was born in New York City in 1912 to English artists, his father a cartoonist for Punch, his mother a landscape painter.

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 ).

Williams married Florence Herman ( 1891 – 1976 ) in 1912, after his first proposal to her older sister was refused.

* Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Christmas Carols, 1912.

* Homer B. Williams ( 1912 – 1937 )

Concertos and concert works for two pianos have been written by Bach ( two to four pianos, BWV 1060-65, actually harpsichord concertos, but often performed on pianos ), Mozart ( two, K 242 ( originally for three pianos and orchestra ) and K 365 ), Mendelssohn ( two, 1823-4 ), Bruch ( 1912 ), Béla Bartók ( 1927 / 1932, a reworking of his Sonata for two pianos and percussion ), Poulenc ( 1932 ), Arthur Benjamin ( 1938 ), Peter Mieg ( 1939-41 ), Darius Milhaud ( 1941 and 1951 ), Bohuslav Martinů ( 1943 ), Ralph Vaughan Williams ( c. 1946 ), Roy Harris ( 1946 ), Gian Francesco Malipiero ( two works, both 1957 ), Walter Piston ( 1959 ), Luciano Berio ( 1973 ), and Harald Genzmer ( 1990 ).

In addition to local or regional gazetteers, there have also been comprehensive world gazetteers published ; an early example would be the 1912 world gazetteer published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

Founded in 1912, Tennessee State University has grown dramatically from a small college to two campuses: the 500-acre main campus and the downtown Avon Williams campus, which is located in the heart of Nashville near the State Capitol.

Williams settled in England circa 1912, when her husband left her for Maria Cristina Mena, a young Mexican writer.

On April 16, 1912 with Mary Williams still travelling with him, ` Abdu ' l-Bahá visited the Bowery.

as Freeport Texas in 1912 in the sulphur mining industry, in 1929 Langbourne Williams Jnr.

* Robert Williams ( South African cricketer ) ( 1912 – 1984 ), South African cricketer

* Williams, Talcott, " Appreciations of Horace Howard Furness: Our Great Shakespeare Critic ," The Century Magazine, November 1912.

Another was Ralph Vaughan Williams, whose Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis was premiered there in 1910, followed by the Five Mystical Songs in 1911 and the Fantasia on Christmas Carols in 1912, after which he co-featured with Elgar as a central prop to the musical repertoire.

On 12 July 1912, Williams woke French, saying that his wife was having another fit.

J. E. Caerwyn Williams ( John Ellis Caerwyn Williams ) FBA ( 17 January 1912 – 10 June 1999 ), was a Welsh scholar.

Caerwyn Williams was born in Gwauncaegurwen, Glamorgan in 1912 into a coal-mining family.

Williams ' case came to trial on 12 December 1912 at Lewes Assizes, with Hastings for the defence.

* Russell, Bertrand, The Problems of Philosophy, Williams and Norgate, London, 1912.

* Orlo Williams, Life and Letters of John Rickman ( Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1912 ).

Between 1912 and 1921 he taught at the University of Illinois, Williams College, University of Oklahoma, Lake Forest College, and the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

In their early days, from 1912 – 1926, the Durham Bulls, then a Class-D farm team for the Cincinnati Reds, played at Trinity College's Hanes Field ,— named for the founder of the clothing company, a Trinity graduate — now called Williams Field and is still used for field hockey on Duke's east campus.

The first had been Krygger v Williams ( 1912 ).

It is a variant of the traditional English folksong " My Boy Billy ," collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams and published by him in 1912 as number 232 in " Novello's School Songs.