* 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.

* 1867 – Wilbur Wright, American aviation pioneer ( d. 1912 )

What would become the influential Poetry Magazine was founded in 1912 by Harriet Monroe, who was working as an art critic for the Chicago Tribune.

* 1875 – Harriet Quimby, American aviatrix ( d. 1912 )

* May 11 – Harriet Quimby, American pilot ( d. 1912 )

Pioneer aviatrices include French, Raymonde de Laroche, the world's first licensed female pilot on March 8, 1910 ; Belgian, Helene Dutrieu, the first woman to fly a passenger, first woman to win an air race ( 1910 ), and first woman to pilot a seaplane ( 1912 ); French, Marie Marvingt the first woman to fly solo across the English Channel and the North Sea in a balloon ( October 26, 1909 ) and first woman to fly as a bomber pilot in combat missions ( 1915 ); American, Harriet Quimby, the USA's first licensed female pilot in 1911, and the first woman to cross the English Channel by airplane ; American Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic ( 1932 ); Bessie Coleman, the first African American female to become a licensed airplane pilot ( 1921 ); German, Marga von Etzdorf, first woman to fly for an airline ( 1927 ); Opal Kunz, one of the few women to train US Navy fighter pilots during World War II in the Civilian Pilot Training Program ; and the British Amy Johnson, the first woman to fly solo from Britain to Australia ( 1930 ).

Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, the fourth child of Judge John Williamson Herron ( 1827 – 1912 ), a law partner of Rutherford B. Hayes, and Harriet Collins ( 1833 – 1902 ), Nellie graduated from the Cincinnati College of Music and taught school briefly before her marriage.

Her small daughter, Harriet, was billed as " Baby Parsons " in several movies, which included The Magic Wand ( 1912 ), written by Louella Parsons.

Van Doren was born Joan Lucille Olander in Rowena, South Dakota, the daughter of Warner Carl Olander ( March 30, 1908 – June 4, 1992 ) and Lucille Harriet Bennett ( January 21, 1912 – August 27, 1995 ).

The magazine was founded in 1912 by Harriet Monroe, who was working as an art critic of the Chicago Tribune.

* 1911 – Sun Yat-sen becomes the provisional President of the Republic of China ; he formally takes office on January 1, 1912.

* 1912 – Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.

* 1912 – Corporal Frank S. Scott of the United States Army becomes the first enlisted man to die in an airplane crash.

Born in 1912 in the third generation of a selective breeding experiment run by the Ira Howard Foundation, Lazarus ( birth name Woodrow Wilson Smith ) becomes unusually long-lived, living well over two thousand years with the aid of occasional rejuvenation treatments.

President Theodore Roosevelt, in his " Charter of Democracy " speech to the 1912 Ohio constitutional convention, stated " I believe in the Initiative and Referendum, which should be used not to destroy representative government, but to correct it whenever it becomes misrepresentative.

He works at a farming goods store owned by a man named Earl and becomes head of the household in 1912.

* April the 14th ( Part 1 ) and Ruination Day ( Part 2 ) – Gillian Welch from Time ( The Revelator ) — Casey Jones becomes a simile for another great collision, that of the RMS Titanic, on April 14, 1912.

* 1912 – Avis investigates the case of a disabled worker, Jackson, and becomes a committed socialist

* 1919: Victor Grignard awarded in 1912 with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, becomes director of the École Supérieure de Chimie Industrielle de Lyon ( ESCIL )

In the Zulu trilogy, Marie ( 1912 ), Child of Storm ( 1913 ) and Finished ( 1917 ), Quatermain becomes ensnared in the vengeance of Zikali, the dwarf wizard known as " The-thing-that-should-never-have-been-born " and " Opener-of-Roads.

Richard becomes obsessed with the idea of traveling back to 1912 and meeting Elise McKenna, with whom he has fallen in love.