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Year '''1912''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MCMXII]]''') was a [[leap year starting on Monday]] (link will display the full calendar) of the [[Gregorian calendar]] (or a [[leap year starting on Sunday]] of the 13-day-slower [[Julian calendar]]).
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==Events of 1912==
===January===
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[[Image:AZ-NM1867.jpg|thumb|150px|right| [[January 6]]: Statehood for [[New Mexico]].<br>[[February 14]]: Statehood for [[Arizona]].]]
* [[January 1]] - Establishment of [[Republic of China]].
* [[January 4]] - [[The Scout Association]] is incorporated throughout the [[Commonwealth of Nations|British Commonwealth]] by [[Royal Charter]].
* [[January 5]] - [[Prague Party Conference]].
* [[January 6]] - [[New Mexico]] is admitted as the 47th [[U.S. state]].
* [[January 8]] - [[African National Congress]] is founded.
* [[January 17]] - British polar explorer [[Robert Falcon Scott]] and a team of four begin the second expedition to reach the [[South Pole]].
* [[January 23]] - The [[International Opium Convention]] is signed at [[The Hague]].
===February===
* [[February 14]] - [[Arizona]] is admitted as the 48th [[U.S. state]].
===March===
[[Image:Washmem.jpg|thumb|125px|right| '''[[March 27]]''': [[Sakura|Cherry trees]] for [[Washington, D.C.|D.C.]]]]
* [[March 1]] - [[Albert Berry]] makes the first [[parachute]] jump from a moving [[fixed-wing aircraft|airplane]].
* [[March 5]] - [[Italy|Italian]] forces are the first to use [[airship]]s for a military purpose by using them for [[reconnaissance]] west of [[Tripoli]] behind [[Turkey|Turkish]] lines.
* [[March 7]]
**[[Roald Amundsen]] announces his success in reaching the [[South Pole]].
**French aviator [[Henri Seimet]] makes the first non-stop flight from [[Paris]] to [[London]] in three hours.
* [[March 12]] - The [[Girl Scouts of the USA]] are founded.
* [[March 16]] - [[Lawrence Oates]], dying member of [[Robert Falcon Scott|Scott]]'s [[South Pole]] expedition, leaves the tent saying, "I am just going outside and may be some time."
* [[March 27]] - Mayor [[Yukio Ozaki]] of [[Tokyo]] gives 3,000 [[Sakura|cherry blossom trees]] to be planted in [[Washington, D.C.]] to symbolize the friendship between the two countries.
* [[March 30]] - [[France]] establishes a [[protectorate]] over [[Morocco]].
===April===
[[Image:Stöwer Titanic.jpg|right|thumb|150px|The [[RMS Titanic|RMS ''Titanic'']] sinking on April 15, 1912]]
* [[April 10]] - The British [[ocean liner]] ''[[RMS Titanic]]'' leaves ''Southampton, England'' on her first maiden voyage for ''New York City''.
* [[April 11]] - The British [[ocean liner]] ''[[RMS Titanic]]'' reaches''Queenstown, Ireland''(also known as Cobh today) by around 6:30 and picks up passengers so it can steam off towards New York City.
* [[April 14]] - The British [[ocean liner]] ''[[RMS Titanic]]'' strikes an [[iceberg]] in the Atlantic Ocean at 11:40 pm.
* [[April 15]] - By 2:20a.m, the ''[[RMS Titanic]]'' sinks, taking with it 1500 lives.
* [[April 16]] - [[Harriet Quimby]] becomes first woman to fly across the [[English Channel]].
* [[April 16]] - The [[Royal Ontario Museum]] is established in [[Toronto, Ontario]].
* [[April 17]]
**[[Solar eclipse]] in Europe.
* [[April 20]]
**[[Tiger Stadium (Detroit)|Tiger Stadium]] in [[Detroit]] opens.
* [[April 22]]
**[[Fenway Park]], home of the [[Boston Red Sox]], opens.
===May===
[[Image:406club.jpg|150px|right|thumb| '''[[April 22]]''': [[Fenway Park]] opens in [[Boston]]]]
* [[May 5]] - The [[1912 Summer Olympics]] open in [[Stockholm]], [[Sweden]].
* [[May 6]] - Suffrage parade in New York City,
* [[May 13]] - In the [[United Kingdom]], the [[Royal Flying Corps]] (forerunner of the [[Royal Air Force]]) is established.
* [[May 30]] - [[Joe Dawson (racecar driver)|Joe Dawson]] wins the [[1912 Indianapolis 500|second]] [[Indianapolis 500|Indianapolis 500-Mile Race]] after [[Ralph DePalma]]'s [[Mercedes (car)|Mercedes]] breaks down within sight of the finish.
===June===
* [[June 4]] - Fire in [[Constantinople]] - 1120 buildings destroyed
* [[June 5]] - [[U.S. Marines]] land on [[Cuba]]
* [[June 6]]-[[June 8]] - Eruption of [[Novarupta]] in [[Alaska]]
* [[June 8]] - [[Carl Laemmle]] incorporated [[Universal Studios|Universal Pictures]].
* [[June 18]] - The [[Republican National Convention]] nominates incumbent President [[William Howard Taft]] in [[Chicago]], defeating a challenge by former President [[Theodore Roosevelt]], whose delegates bolt the convention.
*[[June 25]] - The [[Democratic National Convention]] nominates New Jersey Gov. [[Woodrow Wilson|Thomas Woodrow Wilson]] in [[Baltimore]].
===July===
* [[July 19]] - A [[meteorite]] with an estimated mass of 190 [[kilogram|kg]] exploded over the [[town]] of [[Holbrook, Arizona|Holbrook]] in [[Navajo County, Arizona]] causing thousands of pieces of debris to rain down on the town.
* [[July 30]] - [[Emperor Meiji]] of [[Japan]], dies. He is succeeded by his son Yoshihito who becomes [[Emperor Taishō]]. In [[History of Japan|Japanese History]], the event marks the end of the [[Meiji period|Meiji era]] and the beginning of the [[Taishō period|Taishō era]].
===August===
* [[August 1]] - Inauguration of the [[Jungfraubahn]]
* [[August 5]] - Dissident [[Republican Party (United States)|Republicans]] form the [[Progressive Party 1912 (United States)|Progressive]] or [[Bull Moose]] Party, and nominate former [[President Theodore Roosevelt]] as their presidential candidate.
* [[August 11]] - [[Sodomy]] becomes legal in [[France]].
* [[August 12]] - Sultan [[Abd Al-Hafid]] of [[Morocco]] abdicates.
* [[August 25]] - [[Kuomintang]], the [[China|Chinese]] [[nationalist]] [[political party|party]] is founded.
[[Image:Nlc amundsen.jpg|thumb|150px|right| '''[[March 7]]''': [[Roald Amundsen|Amundsen]] and [[South Pole]]]]
* [[August 28]] - [[Rosamond Carr]] is born in [[South Orange, New Jersey]]
===September===
* [[September 25]] - [[Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism]] founded in [[New York, New York]].
===October===
* [[October 8]] - [[Balkan Wars|First Balkan War]] begins: [[Montenegro]] declares war against [[Turkey]].
* [[October 14]] - While campaigning in [[Milwaukee, Wisconsin]], former president [[Theodore Roosevelt]] is shot by saloonkeeper [[John Schrank]]. With a fresh flesh wound and the bullet still in him, Roosevelt delivers his scheduled speech.
* [[October 16]]
**[[Bulgaria]]n pilots [[Radul Minkov]] and [[Prodan Toprakchiev]] perform the first bombing with an airplane in history at the railway station of Karaagac near [[Edirne]] against [[Turkey]].
**The [[Boston Red Sox]], assisted by a famous [[error (baseball)|error]], defeat the [[New York Giants]] in extra innings to win the [[1912 World Series]], in what is considered one of the greatest games of baseball ever played.
===November===
* [[November 5]] - [[U.S. presidential election, 1912]]: [[United States Democratic Party|Democrat]]ic challenger [[Woodrow Wilson]] wins a landslide victory over [[United States Republican Party|Republican]] incumbent [[William Howard Taft]]. Taft's base was undercut by [[Progressive Party (United States, 1912)|Progressive Party]] candidate (and former Republican) [[Theodore Roosevelt]], who finished second, ahead of Taft.
* [[November 7]] - The Deute [[Ottoman Empire]].
* [[November 28]] - Albania declares independence from the Ottoman Empire.
===December===
*December - [[Piltdown Man]] presented in [[United Kingdom|Britain]].
* [[December 3]] - [[Balkan Wars|First Balkan War]] ends temporarily - [[Bulgaria]], [[Greece]], [[Montenegro]], and [[Serbia]] (the [[Balkan League]]) sign an armistice with [[Turkey]], ending the two-month long war.
===Undated===
* [[Sea Scouting (Boy Scouts of America)|Sea Scouting]] begins under the aegis of the [[Boy Scouts of America]].
* [[Casimir Funk]] identifies [[vitamins]].
* "[[The Memphis Blues]]," is published.
* [[Alfred Wegener]] proposes the [[theory]] of [[continental drift]].
* British treasure hunters try to drain [[Lake Guatavita]] to find gold – they find nothing.
===Ongoing===
*[[Mexican Civil War]]
==Births==
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===January-February===
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*[[January 1]] - [[Kim Philby]], British spy (d. [[1988]])
*[[January 2]] - [[Hans Leussink]], German politician (d. [[2008]])
*[[January 3]] - [[Armand Lohikoski]], Finnish director (d. [[2005]])
*[[January 6]] - [[Jacques Ellul]], French philosopher (d. [[1994]])
*[[January 7]] - [[Charles Addams]], American cartoonist (d. [[1988]])
*[[January 8]] - [[José Ferrer]], Puerto Rican actor (d. [[1992]])
*[[January 19]] - [[Leonid Kantorovich]], Russian economist, [[Nobel Prize in Economics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1986]])
*[[January 21]] - [[Konrad Emil Bloch]], German-born biochemist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[2000]])
*[[January 28]] - [[Jackson Pollock]], American painter (d. [[1956]])
*[[January 30]]
**[[Werner Hartmann]], German physicist (d. [[1988]])
**[[Barbara Tuchman]], American historian (d. [[1989]])
**[[Francis Schaeffer]], American Evangelical theologian, philosopher, and Presbyterian pastor (d. [[1984]])
*[[February 2]] - [[Millvina Dean]], youngest survivor of RMS Titanic
*[[February 3]] - [[Mary Carlisle]], American actress and singer
*[[February 4]]
**[[Erich Leinsdorf]], Austrian conductor (d. [[1993]])
**[[Byron Nelson]], American golfer (d. [[2006]])
*[[February 6]] - [[Eva Braun]], [[Adolf Hitler]]'s mistress (d. [[1945]])
*[[February 11]] - [[Roy Fuller]], English poet and novelist (d. [[1991]])
*[[February 20]] - [[Pierre Boulle]], French author (d. [[1994]])
*[[February 25]] - [[Brenda Joyce (actress)|Brenda Joyce]], American actress
*[[February 27]] - [[Lawrence Durrell]], British writer (d. [[1990]])
===March-April===
*[[March 4]]
**[[Afro Basaldella]], Italian painter (d. [[1976]])
**[[Judith Furse]], British character actress (d. [[1974]])
**[[Carl Marzani]], American documentarian (d. [[1994]])
*[[March 5]] - [[David Astor]], British newspaper publisher (d. [[2001]])
*[[March 8]] - [[Preston Smith (Texas)|Preston Smith]], Governor of Texas (d. [[2003]])
*[[March 12]] - [[Irving Layton]], Canadian poet (d. [[2006]])
*[[March 14]]
**[[Les Brown (bandleader)|Les Brown]], American band leader (d. [[2001]])
**[[W. Willard Wirtz]], American administrator
*[[March 15]] - [[Lightnin' Hopkins]], American musician (d. [[1982]])
*[[March 16]] - [[Pat Nixon]], [[First Lady of the United States]] (d. [[1993]])
*[[March 17]] - [[Bayard Rustin]], American civil rights activist (d. [[1987]])
*[[March 18]]
**[[Lucien Laurin]], Canadian horse trainer (d. [[2000]])
**[[Art Gilmore]], American radio and television announcer
*[[March 22]] - [[Karl Malden]], American actor
*[[March 23]]
**[[Betty Astell]], British actress (d. [[2005]])
**[[Wernher von Braun]], German-born physicist and engineer (d. [[1977]])
*[[March 24]] - [[Dorothy Height]], American activist
*[[March 27]] - [[James Callaghan]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (d. [[2005]])
*[[April 2]] - [[Mills Brothers|Herbert Mills]], "Mills Brothers" tenor (d. [[1989]])
*[[April 7]] - [[Jack Lawrence]], American composer
*[[April 8]]
**[[Alois Brunner]], Nazi war criminal
**[[Sonja Henie]], Norwegian figure skater (d. [[1969]])
*[[April 11]] - [[Gusti Wolf]], Austrian actress (d. [[2007]])
*[[April 12]] - [[Walt Gorney]], American actor (d. [[2004]])
*[[April 15]] - [[Kim Il Sung]], [[President of North Korea]] (d. [[1994]])
*[[April 16]] - [[Catherine Scorsese]], Italian-American actress (d. [[1997]])
*[[April 17]] - [[Marta Eggerth]], Hungarian-born actress and singer, naturalized citizen of the United States
*[[April 19]] - [[Glenn T. Seaborg]], American chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1999]])
*[[April 22]] - [[Kathleen Ferrier]], British contralto (d. [[1953]])
*[[April 26]] - [[A. E. van Vogt]], Canadian-born writer (d. [[2000]])
*[[April 28]] - [[Odette Sansom]], French World War II heroine (d. [[1995]])
===May-June===
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*[[May 3]] - [[Virgil Fox]], American organist (d. [[1980]])
*[[May 9]] - [[Pedro Armendáriz]], Mexican actor (d. [[1963]])
*[[May 11]] - [[Foster Brooks]], American actor and comedian (d. [[2001]])
*[[May 12]] - [[Archibald Cox]], American Watergate special prosecutor (d. [[2004]])
*[[May 14]] - [[Ben Hogan]], American golfer (d. [[1997]])
*[[May 16]] - [[Studs Terkel]], American writer and broadcaster
*[[May 18]]
**[[Perry Como]], American singer (d. [[2001]])
**[[Walter Sisulu]], South African anti-apartheid activist (d. [[2003]])
*[[May 21]] - [[Monty Stratton]], baseball player (d. [[1982]])
*[[May 22]] - [[Herbert C. Brown]], English-born chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2004]])
*[[May 23]]
**[[Jean Françaix]], French composer (d. [[1997]])
**[[John Payne (actor)|John Payne]], American actor (d. [[1989]])
*[[May 25]] - Princess [[Her Imperial Highness Princess Duk-hye|Dukhye of Korea]] (d. [[1989]])
*[[May 27]] - [[Sam Snead]], American golfer (d. [[2002]])
*[[May 28]]
**[[Patrick White]], Australian writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1990]])
**[[Herman Johannes]], Indonesian professor, scientist and politician (d. [[1992]])
*[[May 29]] - [[Pamela Hansford Johnson]], English poet, novelist, playwright, literary and social critic (d. [[1981]])
*[[May 30]] - [[Julius Axelrod]], American biochemist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[2004]])
*[[May 31]] - [[Alfred Deller]], English countertenor (d. [[1979]])
*[[June 4]] - [[Robert Jacobsen]], Danish artist (d. [[1993]])
*[[June 5]] - [[Dean Amadon]], American ornithologist (d. [[2003]])
*[[June 6]] - [[Maria Montez]], Dominican actress (d. [[1951]])
*[[June 8]]
** [[Harry Holtzman]], American artist (d. [[1987]])
** [[J. Walter Kennedy]], former NBA commissioner (d. [[1977]])
*[[June 21]] - [[Kazimierz Leski]], Polish engineer, fighter pilot, and intelligence and counter-intelligence officer (d. [[2000]])
*[[June 23]] - [[Alan Turing]], British mathematician (d. [[1954]])
*[[June 24]] - [[Brian Johnston]], British cricket commentator (d [[1994]])
*[[June 25]] - [[William T. Cahill]], American politician (d. [[1996]])
*[[June 26]] - [[Jay Silverheels]], American actor (d. [[1980]])
*[[June 27]] - [[Chen Kenmin]], Japanese chef (d. [[1990]])
*[[June 30]] - [[Ludwig Bölkow]], German aeronautical engineer (d. [[2003]])
===July-August===
*[[July 1]]
**[[David R. Brower]], American environmentalist (d. [[2000]])
**[[Sally Kirkland (editor)|Sally Kirkland]], American fashion editor (d. [[1989]])
*[[July 6]] - [[Heinrich Harrer]], Austrian mountaineer and explorer (d. [[2006]])
*[[July 14]] - [[Woody Guthrie]], American folk musician (d. [[1969]])
*[[July 17]] - [[Art Linkletter]], American television host
*[[July 31]]
**[[Milton Friedman]], American economist, [[Nobel Prize in Economics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2006]])
**[[Irv Kupcinet]], American newspaper columnist (d. [[2003]])
*[[August 1]] - [[Frank K. Edmondson]], American astronomer
*[[August 3]] - [[Fritz Hellwig]], German politician (CDU) and former [[European Commissioner for Science & Research]]
*[[August 9]] - [[Anne Brown]], American soprano
*[[August 10]] - [[Jorge Amado|Jorge Amado de Faria]], Brazilian author (d. [[2001]])
*[[August 11]] - [[Thanom Kittikachorn]], [[Prime Minister of Thailand]] (d. [[2004]])
*[[August 11]] - [[Norman Levinson]], American mathematician (d. [[1975]])
*[[August 13]] - [[Salvador Luria]], Italian-born biologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[1991]])
*[[August 15]] - [[Julia Child]], American chef (d. [[2004]])
*[[August 16]]
**[[Ted Drake]], English footballer (d. [[1995]])
**[[Wendy Hiller]], English actress (d. [[2003]])
*[[August 23]] - [[Gene Kelly]], American actor (d. [[1996]])
*[[August 25]] - [[Erich Honecker]], East German leader (d. [[1994]])
*[[August 27]] - [[Gloria Guinness]], Fashionicon (d. [[1980]])
*[[August 30]]
**[[Edward Mills Purcell]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1997]])
**[[Nancy Wake]], New Zealand World War II heroine
===September-October===
*[[September 5]]
**[[John Cage]], American composer (d. [[1992]])
**[[Frank Thomas (animator)|Frank Thomas]], American animator (d. [[2004]])
*[[September 10]] - [[Mary Walter]], Filipino actress (d. [[1993]])
*[[September 11]] - [[David Packard]], American electrical engineer (d. [[1996]])
*[[September 19]] - [[Kurt Sanderling]], German conductor
*[[September 21]]
**[[Chuck Jones]], American animator (d. [[2002]])
**[[György Sándor]], Hungarian pianist (d. [[2005]])
*[[September 22]]
** [[Herbert Mataré]], German physicist and European co-inventor of the [[transistor]]
** [[Martha Scott]], American actress (d. [[2003]])
*[[September 24]] - [[Don Porter]], American actor (d. [[1997]])
*[[September 27]] - [[Tauno Marttinen]], Finnish composer
*[[September 29]] - [[Michelangelo Antonioni]], Italian film director (d. [[2007]])
*[[October 5]]
**[[Karl Hass]], Nazi war criminal (d. [[2004]])
**[[Kristina Söderbaum]], German actress (d. [[2001]])
*[[October 17]] - [[Pope John Paul I]] (d. [[1978]])
*[[October 21]] - [[Georg Solti]], Hungarian conductor (d. [[1997]])
*[[October 22]] - [[Johan Hendrik Weidner]], Belgian World War II resistance fighter (d. [[1994]])
*[[October 25]] - [[Minnie Pearl]], American humorist (d. [[1996]])
*[[October 27]] - [[Conlon Nancarrow]], American composer (d. [[1997]])
*[[October 31]] - [[Ollie Johnston]], American animator (d. [[2008]])
===November-December===
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*[[November 3]] - [[Alfredo Stroessner]], [[President of Paraguay]] (d. [[2006]])
*[[November 4]] - [[Vadim Salmanov]], Russian composer (d. [[1978]])
*[[November 10]] - [[Birdie Tebbetts]], baseball player and manager (d. [[1999]])
*[[November 11]] - [[Larry LaPrise]], American songwriter (d. [[1996]])
*[[November 13]] - [[Claude Pompidou]], wife of President of France Georges Pompidou (d. [[2007]])
*[[November 14]]
**[[Barbara Hutton]], American socialite (d. [[1979]])
**[[T. Y. Lin]], Chinese-born civil engineer (d. [[2003]])
*[[November 19]] - [[George Emil Palade]], Romanian microbiologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]]
*[[November 20]] - [[Otto von Habsburg]], Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary
*[[November 21]]
**[[Eleanor Powell]], American actress and dancer (d. [[1982]])
**[[Abd-al-Aziz ibn Abd-Allah ibn Baaz]],the [[Grand Mufti]] of [[Saudi Arabia]] from [[1993]] until [[1999]] (d. [[1999]])
*[[November 24]] - [[Bernard Delfgaauw]], Dutch philosopher (d. [[1993]])
*[[November 30]] - [[Gordon Parks]], American photographer and artist (d. [[2006]])
*[[December 10]] - [[Philip Hart]], a Democratic [[United States Senator]] from [[Michigan]] from [[1959]] until [[1976]] (d.[[1976]])
*[[December 11]] - [[Carlo Ponti]], Italian film producer (d. [[2007]])
*[[December 12]] - [[Henry Armstrong]], American boxer (d. [[1988]])
*[[December 22]] - [[Lady Bird Johnson]], [[First Lady of the United States]] (d. [[2007]])
*[[December 25]] - [[Natalino Otto]], Italian singer (d. [[1969]])
*[[December 27]] - [[Conroy Maddox]], British painter (d. [[2005]])
==Deaths==
===January - June===
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*[[January 28]] - [[Gustave de Molinari]], Belgian economist (b. [[1819]])
*[[February 10]] - [[Joseph Lister]], English surgeon (b. [[1827]])
*[[February 16]] - [[Nikolai of Japan]], Eastern Orthodox monk and saint (b. [[1836]])
*[[February 21]] - [[Osborne Reynolds]], Irish physicist (b. [[1842]])
*[[February 25]] - [[Guillaume IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg]] (b. [[1852]])
*[[March 1]] - [[George Grossmith]], English actor and comic writer (b. [[1847]])
*[[March 29]] - Members of the Scott Expedition to the South Pole:
**[[Henry Robertson Bowers]] (b. [[1883]])
**[[Edgar Evans]], Welsh naval officer (b. [[1876]])
**[[Lawrence Oates]], English army officer (b. [[1880]])
**[[Robert Falcon Scott]], English explorer (b. [[1868]])
**[[Edward Adrian Wilson]], English physician and naturalist (b. [[1872]])
*[[March 30]] - [[Karl May]], German author (b. [[1842]])
*[[April 12]] - [[Clara Barton]], American nurse (b. [[1821]])
*[[April 15]] - 11 out of 1500 victims of the [[RMS Titanic]] sinking:
** [[Thomas Andrews (shipbuilder)|Thomas Andrews, Jr.]], Irish shipbuilder (b. [[1873]])
** [[John Jacob Astor IV]], American businessman (b. [[1864]])
** [[Archibald Butt]], American presidential aide (b. [[1865]])
** [[Thomas Byles|Thomas R.D. Byles]], English-born Catholic priest (b. [[1870]])
** [[Benjamin Guggenheim]], American businessman (b. [[1865]])
** [[Edward J. Smith]], English ship's captain (b. [[1850]])
** [[William Thomas Stead]], English journalist (b. [[1849]])
** [[Isidor Straus]], German-born owner of Macy's (b. [[1845]])
** [[Ida Straus]], Wife of Isidor Straus (1 of only 4 Titanic First-class female fatalities) (b. [[1849]])
** [[Jack Phillips]], Senior wireless officer of Titanic (b. [[1887]])
** [[Wallace Hartley]], violinist and band leader of Titanic (b. [[1878]])
*[[April 20]] - [[Bram Stoker]], English writer (b. [[1847]])
*[[May 14]]
**[[August Strindberg]], Swedish playwright and painter (b. [[1849]])
**[[Frederick VIII of Denmark|Frederick VIII]], King of Denmark (b. [[1843]])
*[[May 25]] - [[Austin Lane Crothers]], American politician (b. [[1860]])
*[[May 30]] - [[Wilbur Wright]], American aviation pioneer (b. [[1867]])
*[[June 12]]
**[[Anton Aškerc]], Slovene poet (b. [[1856]])
**[[Frédéric Passy]], French economist, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (b. [[1822]])
===July - December===
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*[[July 1]] - [[Harriet Quimby]], American pilot (b. [[1875]])
*[[July 2]] - [[Tom Richardson]], English cricketer (b. [[1870]])
*[[July 17]] - [[Henri Poincaré]], French mathematician (b. [[1854]])
*[[July 30]] - [[Meiji Emperor]] of Japan (b. [[1852]])
*[[August 7]] - [[François-Alphonse Forel]], Swiss hydrologist (b. [[1841]])
*[[August 8]] - [[Ross Winn]], American anarchist writer and publisher (b. [[1871]])
*[[August 20]]
**[[Walter Goodman]], British painter, illustrator and author (b. [[1838]])
**[[William Booth]], English founder of the Salvation Army (b. [[1829]])
*[[October 6]] - [[Auguste Marie François Beernaert]], Belgian statesman, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (b. [[1829]])
*[[October 24]] - [[Mykola Lysenko]], Ukrainian composer (b. [[1842]])
*[[October 30]] - [[James S. Sherman]], 27th [[Vice President of the United States]] (b. [[1855]])
*[[November 10]] - [[Louis Cyr]], Canadian strongman (b. [[1863]])
*[[November 28]] - [[Walter Benona Sharp]], American oil pioneer (b. [[1870]])
*[[December 23]] - [[Otto Schoetensack]], German anthropologist (b. [[1850]])
==Nobel prizes==
* [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] - [[Gustaf Dalén|Nils Gustaf Dalén]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] - [[Victor Grignard]], [[Paul Sabatier]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Medicine]] - [[Alexis Carrel]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]] - [[Gerhart Hauptmann|Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann]]
* [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] - [[Elihu Root]]
==Notes==
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==External links==
{{commonscat|1912}}
*[http://www.coinpage.com/1912-pictures.html 1912 Coin Pictures]
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