* Don Lash, champion long-distance runner who won the 1938 James E. Sullivan Award as the top amateur athlete in the United States, was born in Bluffton in 1912.

* Don Lash ( 1912 – 1994 ), American long-distance runner

* 1991 – Don Siegel, American director ( b. 1912 )

* 1912 – Don " Red " Barry, American actor ( d. 1980 )

* 1978 – Don Gillis, American composer ( b. 1912 )

* 1912 – Don Siegel, American director ( d. 1991 )

* 1912 – Don Porter, American actor ( d. 1997 )

** Don Siegel, American film director ( b. 1912 )

Carlos Wesley " Don " Byas ( October 21, 1912 – August 24, 1972 ) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist, most associated with Bebop.

It was not until the appointment of Alexander Gorsky as Ballet Master in 1900 that the company began to develop its own unique identity, with acclaimed productions of new or restaged ballets including, Don Quixote ( 1900 ), Coppélia ( 1901 ), Swan Lake ( 1901 ), La fille mal gardée ( 1903 ), Giselle ( 1911 ), Le Corsaire ( 1912 ) and La Bayadère ( 1917 ).

* Don " Red " Barry ( 1912 – 1980 ), American actor

In 1912, Broadway star Don Hewes ( Fred Astaire ) is buying Easter presents for his sweetheart, starting with a hat and some flowers (" Happy Easter ").

* 10 July – Denis O ' Conor Don, hereditary chief of the O ' Conor Don sept ( born 1912 ).

The novel deals with the life of the Cossacks living in the Don River valley during the early 20th century, probably around 1912, just prior to World War I.

Holbrooke's The Wild Fowl, written in 1912, is an episode from his opera The Children of Don, Op 56, for wind instruments only, including a part for alto clarinet.

In 1912 at the age of 48, Don Belong was elected as councilor of the city of Manila, and began his political career.

Don Crabtree ( June 8, 1912 – November 16, 1980 ) was a flintknapper and pioneering experimental archaeologist.

Don E. Crabtree was born in Heyburn, Idaho on June 8, 1912.

Through the efforts of Don Baltazar Teodosio, Banga was separated from Kalibo on 1 January 1912.

Collaboration on two further operas, The Children of Don ( first performed at the London Opera House, conducted by Thomas Beecham, on 12 June 1912 ) and Bronwen, brought about the completion of Holbrooke's most ambitious project, a trilogy under the collective title The Cauldron of Annwn setting Scott-Ellis ' versions of tales from the Welsh Mabinogion.

Another lot, west of the sacristy, was bought from Don Francisco Zandueta ( La Union Governor from 1910 – 1912 ) and was partly occupied by a bamboo warehouse for storing tobacco rented by Chan Chin Ko Baltazar, father of Florencio Chan Baltazar who later became municipal mayor.

Don Alejandro Gonzales was then elected president and served until 1910 when he was succeeded by Don Mariano de Guzman who served to 1912.

* 1941 – Don " The Snake " Prudhomme, American drag racer

* 1934 – Don McKenney, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1946 – Don Schollander, American swimmer

* 1926 – In New York, New York, the Warner Brothers ' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.

* 1930 – Don Ho, American singer and pianist ( d. 2007 )

* 1929 – Don Larsen, American baseball player

* 1937 – Don Wilson, England cricketer

* 1928 – Don Burrows, Australian musician

* 1953 – Don Most, American actor

* 1913 – Don DeFore, American actor ( d. 1993 )

* Infanta Beatríz Isabela Federica Alfonsa Eugenia Cristina Maria Teresa Bienvenida Ladisláa of Spain ( 1909 – 2002 ), who married Don Alessandro Torlonia, 5th Prince di Civitella-Cesi.

* 1945 – Don Sutton, American baseball player

* 1936 – Don Denkinger, American baseball umpire

* 1933 – Don Getty, Canadian politician, 11th Premier of Alberta

* 1949 – Don Boudria, Canadian politician

* 1916 – Don Willesee, Australian politician ( d. 2003 )

* 2007 – Don Ho, American singer and musician ( b. 1930 )

* 1934 – Don Kirshner, American composer ( d. 2011 )

The first a pastoral opera, L ' amore innocente ( Innocent Love ) was a light hearted comedy set in the Austrian mountains, and the second was based on an episode from Cervantes Don Quixote – Don Chisciotte alle nozze di Gamace ( Don Quixote at the Marriage of Camacho ).

* 1942 – Don S. Davis, American actor and painter ( d. 2008 )

* 1919 – Don Cornell, American singer ( d. 2004 )

* 1983 – During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first space shuttle spacewalk.