* 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 )

The land went through several administrative changes before becoming an organized ( or incorporated ) territory on May 11, 1912, and the 49th state of the U. S. on January 3, 1959.

* Laigle, Mathilde, Le livre des trois vertus de Christine de Pisan et son milieu historique et littéraire, Paris, Honoré Champion, 1912, 375 pages, collection: Bibliothèque du XVe siècle siècle ( this book is the translation of an American thesis of Mathilde Laigle, Columbia U. )

* 1912 – Arizona is admitted as the 48th U. S. state.

In 1912, Gernsback said that he estimated 400, 000 people in the U. S. were involved in amateur radio.

* 1912 – New Mexico is admitted as the 47th U. S. state.

In 1912 the U. S. arranged a 40-year international loan of $ 1. 7 million, against which Liberia had to agree to four Western powers ( America, Britain, France and Germany ) controlling Liberian Government revenues for the next 14 years, until 1926.

In 1912 the U. S. intervened into Liberia ’ s dire financial situation ( see Relations between the U. S. and Liberia ).

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

* 1859 – Charles Brantley Aycock, 50th Governor of the U. S. state of North Carolina ( d. 1912 )

During August and September 1912, a contingent of 2300 U. S. Marines landed at the port of Corinto and occupied León and the railway line to Granada.

* 1912 – U. S. forces defeat Nicaraguan rebels under the command of Benjamín Zeledón at the Battle of Coyotepe Hill.

* Rouxeaux, U. ( 1912 ) Laennec Paris: Baillière 1912, 1920

The Canadian engineer Reginald Fessenden, while working for the Submarine Signal Company in Boston, built an experimental system beginning in 1912, a system later tested in Boston Harbor, and finally in 1914 from the U. S. Revenue ( now Coast Guard ) Cutter Miami on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland Canada.

* The first U. S. feature film, Oliver Twist, was released in 1912.

* December 26 – Phil Hart, U. S. Senator ( b. 1912 )

** Calbraith Perry Rodgers, American pioneer aviator, made first transcontinental U. S. flight ( d. 1912 )

* April 11 – Isidor Rayner, U. S. senator ( d. 1912 )

* May 30 – Frederick Dent Grant, U. S. soldier and statesman ( d. 1912 )

He was on the U. S. 1912 Olympic pentathlon team and also designed the U. S. Cavalry's last combat saber: the " Patton Saber " ( the M-1913 ).