* 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 – Herbert Tichy, Austrian mountaineer ( d. 1987 )

The system was refined in 1912 by Herbert Allen Giles, a British diplomat in China and his son, Lionel Giles, a curator at the British Museum.

* September 30 – Herbert Sobel, US Army officer, made famous by Band of Brothers ( b. 1912 )

** Herbert C. Brown, English-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1912 )

In 1912, actor-manager Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree proposed another collaboration between Hood and German to provide a musical production based on the life of Sir Francis Drake, but German declined the commission saying that its Elizabethan setting would merely result in his covering ground already explored in Merrie England.

In 1913 the L & SWR, led by Sir Herbert Walker who came in 1912 from the London and North Western Railway whose suburban lines he had electrified on a 630 V DC fourth rail system, chose 630 V DC third rail electrification for its suburban routes.

Herbert M. Dawley ( later a Broadway actor-director ) joined Pierce-Arrow in 1912, and designed almost every model until 1938.

His mother, Valda R. Jillette ( née Parks ) ( November 8, 1909 – January 1, 2000 ), was a secretary, and his father, Samuel Herbert Jillette ( March 14, 1912 – February 14, 1999 ), worked at Greenfield's Franklin County Jail.

Edwin George Herbert Smith ( 15 May 1912 – 29 December 1971 ) was an English photographer.

Herbert Charles Brown ( May 22, 1912 – December 19, 2004 ) was a chemist and Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate for his work with organoboranes.

For example, in 2012 the RGS held an exhibition, in the glass Pavilion, of photographs taken by Herbert Ponting on Captain Robert Falcon Scott's expedition to the South Pole in 1912.

* Herbert Robin Cayzer, 2nd Baron Rotherwick ( 1912 – 1996 )

The original secretary, a role that then also carried the modern responsibilities of manager and coach, was Gilbert Gillies ( 1904 – 1908 ) who was followed by Frank Scott-Walford before in 1912, they appointed Herbert Chapman who guided the club to their highest position in the league ( 4th in the Second Division ).

Formica was invented in 1912 by Daniel J. O ' Conor and Herbert A. Faber, then working at Westinghouse which filed for a patent on it.

The palace developed very similarly to the original sketches which Lutyens sent Herbert Baker from Simla on June 14, 1912.

Herbert George Jenkins was a manager at the firm during the first decade of the twentieth century, before leaving to set up his own publishing house in 1912.

He was made a KCMG and Privy Counsellor in 1911, and in 1912 was appointed President of the Royal Commission on the Public Services of India, on which he served with Lord Ronaldshay, Herbert Fisher, Mr Justice Abdur Rahim, and others.

Herbert Thurston's article on " Witchcraft " for the Catholic Encyclopaedia of 1912, which labels the publication of the Malleus a " disastrous episode.

London, Herbert and Daniel, 1912.

The most notable resident of Longburton was Reverend Charles Herbert Mayo, the antiquarian who was vicar of Longburton from 1872 to 1912.

Herbert Tichy ( June 1, 1912 Vienna-September 26, 1987 Vienna ) was an Austrian author, geologist, journalist and climber.

In September 1912, he was appointed ( with Lord Islington, Herbert Fisher, Mr Justice Abdur Rahim, and others ) as a member of the Royal Commission on the Public Services in India of 1912 – 1915.

However, it struggled so much that there were long debates as to whether it should continue after it won only eleven games in its first seven seasons but with the construction of Subiaco Oval on what was formerly called the “ sand patch ”, the club ’ s performances improved: very slowly at first, but very rapidly after the acquisition of two key forwards in Phil Matson and Herbert Limb for the 1912 season.