* 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 )

A more in-depth description of arcology's design principles can be found in " The Last Redoubt " from The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson, first published in 1912.

* William Hope Hodgson's 1912 novel The Night Land features the first example of what we now would call an arcology, though the future Earthlings depicted — millions of years into the future, in fact — have different reasons for building their metallic pyramid.

In 1912, William Mestrezat gave the first accurate description of the chemical composition of the CSF.

* 1873 – William McMaster Murdoch, Scottish 1st Officer on the RMS Titanic ( d. 1912 )

German psychologist William Stern proposed a method of scoring children's intelligence tests in 1912.

* 1849 – William Thomas Stead, English journalist ( d. 1912 )

Equestrian statues of Carson can be found in Denver, Colorado ( by Frederick William MacMonnies, 1911 ) and in Trinidad, Colorado ( by Augustus Lukeman and Frederick Roth, 1912 ).

* 1912 – William Thayer Tutt, American ice hockey executive ( d. 1989 )

* 1912 – William Lederer, American writer ( d. 2009 )

In 1912, Henry Ernest Cooper ( 1857 – 1929 ) acquired William Ringer's property rights to Palmyra and, after a challenge in court, he became the sole owner of the atoll.

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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.

Opened in 1912 after the murder of its namesake William Marsh Rice, Rice is now a preeminent research university with a distinct undergraduate and graduate focus.

On September 23, 1912, the anniversary of William Marsh Rice's murder, the William Marsh Rice Institute for the Advancement of Letters, Science, and Art began course work.

* James, William ( 1912 ), Essays in Radical Empiricism.

In 1912, Harding gave the nominating speech for incumbent President William Howard Taft, who would later serve as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court during Harding's administration, at the embattled Republican National Convention in Chicago — before he completed his introduction, a fist fight ensued between the Taft supporters and the more progressive Roosevelt faction, but the speech was quite a personal success.

Running against Republican incumbent William Howard Taft and Progressive (" Bull Moose ") Party candidate Theodore Roosevelt, a former President, Wilson was elected President as a Democrat in 1912.

Opening 1912 as William Marsh Rice Institute for the Advancement of Literature, Art, and Science, it is known today as Rice University.

A great-nephew of Jardine who would be taipan from 1874 to 1886, William Keswick ( 1834 – 1912 ), is the ancestor of the Keswick branch ( pronounced Ke-zick ) of the family.

** William T. Cahill, America politician ( b. 1912 )

** William Mervyn, English actor ( b. 1912 )

* April 10 – William Booth, the founder of The Salvation Army ( d. 1912 )

* October 21 – William McKendree Carleton, American poet ( d. 1912 )