* 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.

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 )

Until he died in 1912, Henry controlled his company town, installing relatives in positions of civic authority.

* 1912 – Henry Katzman, American composer and pianist ( d. 2001 )

* 1912 – Henry Ephron, American playwright, screenwriter, and producer ( d. 1992 )

* 1912 – Henry Robertson Bowers, Scottish Lieutenant, member of the Scott Expedition to the South Pole ( b. 1883 )

* 1836 – Henry J. Lutcher, American businessman ( d. 1912 )

In 1912, Henry Ernest Cooper ( 1857 – 1929 ) acquired William Ringer's property rights to Palmyra and, after a challenge in court, he became the sole owner of the atoll.

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.

* 1872 – Henry Tingle Wilde, English chief officer on the RMS Titanic ( d. 1912 )

* May 17 – Henry Jones, American actor ( b. 1912 )

* October 22 – Henry Armstrong, American boxer ( b. 1912 )

* June 14 – Henry W. Antheil, Jr., American diplomat ( b. 1912 )

* Henry Boylan ( 1912 – 2007 ), civil servant and biographer.

* Henry M. Jackson ( 1912 – 1983 ), also known as " Scoop " Jackson, a mid-20th-century American senator

Portrait of Henry James, charcoal drawing by John Singer Sargent ( 1912 )

Between 1909 and 1912 an underground book store of two floors was constructed beneath the north lawn of the library with a tunnel connecting it with the Bodleian, invisibly linking the two library buildings, something envisaged by Henry Acland in 1861.

From 1912 – 1914, his nephew, Henry E. Huntington, assumed leadership of the shipyard.

The painter Henry Bacon ( 1839 – 1912 ) was born in Haverhill.

Henry " Harry " Hay, Jr. ( April 7, 1912 – October 24, 2002 ) was a labor advocate, teacher and early leader in the American LGBT rights movement.

A major focus of his career was the remodelling of older country houses, his first major commission was the transformation of Henry Holland's Trentham Hall, Staffordshire ( 1834 – 40 ) it was remodelled in the Italianate style with a large tower ( a feature Barry often included in his country houses ), Barry also designed the Italianate gardens, with parterres and fountains, largely demolished in 1912, only a small portion of the house consisting of the porte-cochère, with a curving corridor and the stables are still standing, although the gardens are undergoing a restoration, additionally the belvedere from the top of the tower survives as a folly at Sandon Hall.

* Henry Bernstein ( 1912 – 1964 ), social realist artist, WPA muralist

Henry Jackson Jr. ( December 12, 1912, Columbus, Mississippi – October 22, 1988, Los Angeles, California ) was an American professional boxer and a world boxing champion who fought under the name Henry Armstrong.

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.

The earliest applied linguists included Jean Manesca, Heinrich Gottfried Ollendorff ( 1803 – 1865 ), Henry Sweet ( 1845 – 1912 ), Otto Jespersen ( 1860 – 1943 ), and Harold Palmer ( 1877 – 1949 ).