* 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 )

It is named for Hans Hahn and Stefan Banach who proved this theorem independently in the late 1920s, although a special case was proved earlier ( in 1912 ) by Eduard Helly, and a general extension theorem from which the Hahn – Banach theorem can be derived was proved in 1923 by Marcel Riesz.

* January 13 – Marcel Camus, French film director ( b. 1912 )

The subsequent 1912 Salon des Indépendants was marked by the presentation of Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, which itself caused a scandal, even amongst the Cubists.

In the Armory show Jacques Villon exhibited seven important and large drypoints, his brother Marcel Duchamp shocked the American public with his painting Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 ( 1912 ) and Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Roger de La Fresnaye, Marie Laurencin, Albert Gleizes, and other cubist painters contributed examples of their cubist works.

It has since been discussed by anthropologists such as Émile Durkheim ( 1912 ), Marcel Mauss ( 1924 ), Claude Lévi-Strauss ( 1950 ) and Roger Keesing ( 1984 ).

Marcel Camus ( 21 April 1912 – 13 January 1982 ) was a French film director.

File: Duchamp-Nude Descending a Staircase. jpg | Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, 1912, Philadelphia Museum of Art

Image: Duchamp-Nude Descending a Staircase. jpg | Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 1912

Marcel and Jules Janco's first moment of cultural significance took place in October 1912, when they joined Tzara in editing the Symbolist venue Simbolul, which managed to receive contributions from some of Romania's leading modern poets, from Alexandru Macedonski to Ion Minulescu and Adrian Maniu.

Gleizes exhibited at the 1912 Salon des Indépendants ; a show marked by Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, which itself caused a scandal even amongst the Cubists.

Dunking became popular in the United States with the creation in East Hanover, New Jersey of the Oreo in 1912 an entire year before Marcel Proust's mention of the act.

In that city is born in 1912 the Kantor Marcel Lorand.

Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 ( French: Nu descendant un escalier n ° 2 ) is a 1912 painting by Marcel Duchamp.

* 1838 – Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, French scientist ( d. 1912 )

* 1912 – Robert Doisneau, French photographer ( d. 1994 )

* 1912 – Henri Brisson, French statesman ( b. 1835 )

On February 15, 1912, several KMT members, including Chiang, murdered Tao Chengzhang, the leader of the Restoration Society, in a Shanghai French Concession hospital.

* 1912 – Ginette Leclerc, French actress ( d. 1992 )

Gustave de Molinari ( 3 March 1819 – 28 January 1912 ) was an economist born in Belgium associated with French laissez-faire liberal economists such as Frédéric Bastiat and Hippolyte Castille.

This confirmed French control over Morocco, which became a full protectorate of that country in 1912.

* 1912 – Michel Debré, French politician ( d. 1996 )

* 1912 – Frédéric Passy, French economist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( b. 1822 )

* 1912 – Viviane Romance, French actress ( d. 1991 )

* 1912 – Max Rousié, French rugby player ( d. 1950 )

In 1912, after the First Moroccan Crisis and the Agadir Crisis, the Treaty of Fez was signed, effectively dividing Morocco into a French and Spanish protectorate.

) Eventually the Moroccans were forced to recognise the French Protectorate through the Treaty of Fez, signed on December 3, 1912.

Before the French and Spanish occupation of Morocco, which started in 1912, the country's defence force was made of a regular Makhzen army, and of a less organized but much more powerful Berber tribes ' militias.

* 1842 – Jules Massenet, French composer ( d. 1912 )

* 2001 – Jacques de Bourbon Busset, French novelist, essayist, and politician ( b. 1912 )

* 1874 – Ernest Duchesne, French physician ( d. 1912 )

* 1912 – Jean Françaix, French composer and pianist ( d. 1997 )

* 1912 – Jean Vilar, French stage and film actor ( d. 1971 )

* 1912 – Sultan Abdelhafid signs the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate.

* 1863 – Louis Cyr, French Canadian strongman ( d. 1912 )