* 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 )

These fragments consisted of parts of a skull and jawbone, said to have been collected in 1912 from a gravel pit at Piltdown, East Sussex, England.

At a meeting of the Geological Society of London on 18 December 1912, Charles Dawson claimed that a workman at the Piltdown gravel pit had given him a fragment of the skull four years earlier.

In 1912, the majority of the scientific community believed the Piltdown man was the “ missing link ” between apes and humans.

* 1912 December: Official presentation of Piltdown man.

* 1912 — Charles Dawson announces discovery of Piltdown Man in England, a hoax that would confuse paleoanthropology until the fossils were revealed as forgeries in 1953.

* The Leading Man ( 1912, director )

* The Man Farthest Down ( 1912 )

* Half a Husband / On the Quiet / The Honor of the Family / The Man from Home ( 1912 ) ( summer repertory ; Rochester, New York and Los Angeles )

Decades later, Bevo was mentioned in the song " Trouble " in the musical The Music Man as a reference to an objectionable aspect of the culture of young people during the time in which the musical was set ( although The Music Man was set in 1912, four years prior to Bevo's introduction ).

After the Jin Empire was destroyed by the Mongols in 1234, they withdrew back to Manchuria and returned later with the rejoined forces from the Mongols to establish the last dynasty of the Qing ( 1644 – 1912 ) in China under the new ethnonym of Manchu, or " Man Zu " in Chinese.

Among his more pretentious works are: A Digest of All the Reported Cases ... of Conn. ( 2 vols., 1871, 1882 ), Cases on Railroad Law ( 1896 ), Modern Political Institutions ( 1898 ), American Railroad Law ( 1904 ), The American Judiciary ( 1905 ), The Relations of Education to Citizenship ( 1912 ), Life and Letters of Simeon Baldwin ( 1919 ), The Young Man and the Law ( 1919 ).

* 1912: The Man Farthest Down: a Record of Observation and Study in Europe with Booker T Washington, New York: Doubleday

In 1912, Douglas machines took the Isle of Man TT and Grand Prix of France titles and the company ’ s 20 year domination of the sport had begun.

A genre of caveman movies emerged, typified by D. W. Griffith's Man's Genesis ( 1912 ); they inspired Charles Chaplin's satiric take, in His Prehistoric Past ( 1914 ) as well as Brute Force ( 1914 ), The Cave Man ( 1912 ), and later Cave Man ( 1934 ).

In 1912 Alcyon competed at the Isle of Man TT races with a 348cc single-cylinder engine featuring two inlet valves and two exhaust valves.

In 1912, the Royal Enfield Model 180 sidecar combination was introduced with a 770 cc V-twin JAP engine which was raced successfully in the Isle of Man TT and at Brooklands.

Julius Oral " Little Man " Popwell ( June 1, 1912 – May 19, 1966 ) was an American poker player.

* The Man with the Black Feather by Gaston Leroux ( 1912 ) translator

Hastings first rose to prominence as a result of the Case of the Hooded Man in 1912, and became noted for his skill at cross-examinations.

Albert Gleizes, 1912, l ' Homme au Balcon, Man on a Balcony ( Portrait of Dr. Théo Morinaud ), oil on canvas, 195. 6 x 114. 9 cm ( 77 x 45 1 / 4 in.

Though his books are not necessarily well known today, he has been labelled ' the first Ulster novelist of European stature ', and comparisons have been drawn between his own coming of age novel of Protestant Belfast, Following Darkness ( 1912 ), and James Joyce's seminal novel of growing up in Catholic Dublin, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ( 1924 ).

* Following Darkness ( 1912 ) ( An inspiration for James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ).

Haacke's controversial 1990 painting Cowboy with Cigarette turned Picasso's Man with a Hat ( 1912 – 13 ) into a cigarette advertisement.

The play received its English-language première in London on 6 December 1912, under the title The Man Who Was Dead ( a translation by Z. Vengerova and John Pollock ), in a production by the Literary Theatre Society.