* 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 – Lawrence Durrell, English writer ( d. 1990 )

In the same interview, Keller cited the 1912 strike of textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts for instigating her support of socialism.

* 1912 – Immigrant textile works in Lawrence, Massachusetts, go on strike when wages are reduced in response to a mandated shortening of the work week.

* 1836 – Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Dutch artist ( d. 1912 )

Labour union demonstrators held at bay by soldiers during the 1912 Lawrence textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts.

Striking workers confronted by U. S. Army soldiers during the 1912 Lawrence textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts, U. S. A.

( see 1912 Lawrence Textile Strike ).

* 1912 – Lawrence Oates, an ill member of Robert Falcon Scott's South Pole expedition, left the tent to die, saying: " I am just going outside and may be some time.

* 1880 – Lawrence Oates, English army officer and Antarctic explorer ( d. 1912 )

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.

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, OM, RA (; 8 January 1836 – 25 June 1912 ) was a Dutch born, British painter.

The IWW was involved in over 150 strikes, including the Lawrence textile strike ( 1912 ), the Paterson silk strike ( 1913 ) and the Mesabi range ( 1916 ).

* Lawrence textile strike, a seminal American labor conflict of 1912

D. H. Lawrence ( 1885 – 1930 ), author, lived at 12 Colworth Road, Addiscombe from 1908 to 1912 and was a teacher at Davidson Road School for some time.

Strikers confronted by soldiers during the 1912 Lawrence textile strike | textile factory strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts, U. S. A., called when owners reduced wages, after a state law reduced the work week from 56 to 54 hours.

In 1912, Lawrence and Solter made a deal with Carl Laemmle, forming their own company.

Eldest daughter of the Dutch painter Lawrence Alma-Tadema ( 1836 – 1912 ) and his first wife Marie-Pauline Gressin Dumoulin, she was born in Brussels.

Openly calling for class warfare, the Wobblies gained many adherents after they won a difficult 1912 textile strike ( commonly known as the " Bread and Roses " strike ) in Lawrence, Massachusetts.

In 1912 he broke with the IWW leadership over strike tactics and the alleged misuse of funds collected for the " Bread and Roses " Strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts.

1913 photo of Paterson silk strike of 1913 | Paterson silk strike leaders Patrick Quinlan ( activist ) | Patrick Quinlan, Tresca, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Adolph Lessig, and Bill HaywoodTresca joined the revolutionary syndicalist Industrial Workers of the World ( IWW ) in 1912, when he was invited by the union to Lawrence, Massachusetts to help mobilize the Italian workers during a campaign to free strike leaders Joseph Ettor and Arturo Giovannitti, jailed on false murder charges.

After the victorious strike in Lawrence, Tresca was active in several strikes across the United States ; the Little Falls, New York textile workers ' strike ( 1912 ), the New York City hotel workers ' strike ( 1913 ), the Paterson silk strike ( 1913 ), and the Mesabi Range, Minnesota, miners ' strike ( 1916 ).