* 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 ).

In December, 2007, St. George Absinthe Verte, produced by St. George Spirits became the first brand of American-made absinthe to be legally produced in the United States since a ban was enacted in 1912.

The apple of discord: King George I of Greece and Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria at Thessaloniki, December 1912.

** George Darwin ( 1845 – 1912 ), astronomer and mathematician

* 1847 – George Grossmith, English actor and writer ( d. 1912 )

* 1852 – George Maximilianovich, 6th Duke of Leuchtenberg, Russian nobleman ( d. 1912 )

* 1912 – George Mikes, Hungarian-born British author ( d. 1987 )

* 1912 – George Emil Palade, Romanian cell biologist, Nobel laureate ( d. 2008 )

** George O ' Hanlon, American actor and director ( b. 1912 )

* November 25 – George Cakobau, Fiji Governor General ( b. 1912 )

* December 7 – George Grossmith, English actor and comic writer ( d. 1912 )

Anderson's finish was still the best showing for a third party candidate since George Wallace's 14 % in 1968 and the sixth best for any such candidate in the 20th century ( trailing Theodore Roosevelt's 27 % in 1912, Robert LaFollette's 17 % in 1924, Wallace, and Ross Perot's 19 % and 8 % in 1992 and 1996, respectively ).

******** HRH Prince George William of Hanover and Cumberland ( 1880 – 1912 )

Airco was established in 1912 by George Holt Thomas at The Hyde in Hendon, north London, England.

In 1911 the Royal Navy graduated its first aeroplane pilots at the Royal Aero Club flying ground at Eastchurch, Isle of Sheppey under the tutelage of pioneer aviator George Bertram Cockburn, but in May 1912 naval and army aviation were combined to become the Royal Flying Corps ( RFC ).

# George Harris, 1899 — 1912

* Pygmalion ( play ), a 1912 play by George Bernard Shaw

* George T. Simon 1912 – 2001.

* Sir George Albu, 1st Baronet, of Johannesburg ( 1912 ), extant

Alfred George Deller CBE ( 31 May 1912 – 16 July 1979 ), was an English singer and one of the main figures in popularizing the return of the countertenor voice in Renaissance and Baroque music during the 20th Century, and is sometimes referred to as the ' godfather ' of the counter-tenor.

The clock-tower at the centre of the modern shopping area, built in 1912, commemorates the coronation of King George V. In the late 1970s the London Borough of Bexley built its headquarters, the Civic Offices, in Bexleyheath.

* Scouts Canada ; founded by a Royal Charter issued in 1912 by King George V

* Royal Observatory, Hong Kong was granted Royal Charter in 1912 by King George V-now Hong Kong Observatory ( since 1997 )