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1912
1912 is a leap year starting on Monday.
Events
January-March
April-September
- April 15 - Sinking of the RMS Titanic.
- April 17 – Solar eclipse in Europe.
- April 19 - United States Senate inquiry into the Titanic sinking begins.
- May 2 - British Board of Trade inquiry into the sinking of Titanic begins.
- May 13 - In the United Kingdom, the Royal Flying Corps (forerunner of the Royal Air Force) is established.
- June 4 - Fire in Constantinople - 1120 buildings destroyed
- June 5 - US Marines land on Cuba
- June 6-June 8 - Eruption of Novarupta in Alaska, second largest volcanic eruption in historic time.
- June 8 - Carl Laemmle incorporated Universal Pictures.
- July 19 - A meteorite with an estimated mass of 190 kg exploded over the town of Holbrook in Navajo County, Arizona causing approximately 16,000 pieces of debris to rain down on the town.
- July 30 - Mutsuhito, the Meiji Emperor of Japan, dies. He is succeeded by his son Yoshihito, the Taisho Emperor. In Japanese History, the event marks the end of the Meiji Era and the beginning of the Taisho Era.
- August 12 - Sultan Abd al-Hafiz of Morocco abdicates.
- August 25 - Kuomintang, the Chinese nationalist party is founded.
- September 25 - Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism founded in New York,_New York.
October-November
December
unknown dates
Births
January-February
- January 1 - Kim Philby, spy (d. 1988)
- January 7 - Charles Addams, cartoonist (d. 1988)
- January 8 - José Ferrer, actor (d. 1992)
- January 14 - Rudolf Hagelstange , German lyricist, narrator and essayist (d. 1984)
- January 16 - Franz Tumler , Austrian narrator (d. 1998)
- January 28 - Jackson Pollock, painter, initiator of Dripping painting (d. 1956)
- January 30 - Barbara W. Tuchman, historian (d. 1989)
- February 4 - Erich Leinsdorf, Austrian conductor (d. 1993)
- February 6 - Eva Braun, Adolf Hitler's mistress (d. 1945)
- February 11 - Roy Fuller English poet/novelist (d. 1991)
- February 11 - Rudolf Firkusny Napajedla , Czechoslovakian, pianist.
- February 18 - Heinz Kühn , politician (d. 1992)
- February 19 - Stan Kenton, musician (d. 1979)
- February 20 - Pierre Boulle, author (d. 1994)
- February 27 - Lawrence Durrell, writer (d. 1990)
March-April
- March 5 - David Astor, British newspaper publisher (d. 2001)
- March 8 - Preston Smith, Governor of Texas (d. 2003)
- March 12 - Irving Layton, poet
- March 14 - Les Brown, band leader (d. 2001)
- March 15 - Lightnin' Hopkins, musician (d. 1982)
- March 16 - Pat Nixon, actress, First Lady of the United States (d. 1993)
- March 17 - Bayard Rustin, civil rights activist (d. 1987)
- March 18 - Lucien Laurin, Secretariat's Hall of Fame trainer (d. 2000)
- March 22 - Karl Malden, actor
- March 23 - Wernher von Braun, physicist and engineer (d. 1977)
- March 27 - James Callaghan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 2005)
- March 31 - Hermann Höcherl , politician (d. 1989)
- April 8 - Sonja Henie, Olympic and World Champion figure skater (d. 1969)
- April 19 - Glenn T. Seaborg, American atomic scientist (d. 1999)
- April 22 - Kathleen Ferrier, American contralto (d. 1953)
- April 26 - A. E. van Vogt, science fiction writer (d. 2000)
- April 28 - Odette Sansom, SOE agent, WW II heroine (d. 1995)
May-July
- May 9 - Pedro Armendáriz , actor (d. 1963)
- May 11 - Foster Brooks, American actor and comedian (d. 2001)
- May 12 - Archibald Cox, Watergate special prosecutor (d. 2001)
- May 14 - Ben Hogan, golfer (d. 1997)
- May 16 - Studs Terkel, writer
- May 18 - Walter Sisulu, anti-apartheid activist (d. 2003)
- May 18 - Perry Como, singer (d. 2001)
- May 21 - Monty Stratton, Major League Baseball pitcher (d. 1982)
- May 23 - John Payne (actor) (d. 1989)
- May 27 - Sam Snead (d. 2002)
- May 28 - Patrick White, author (d. 1990)
- May 30 - Joseph Stein , playwright
- May 30 - Julius Axelrod, biochemist and Nobel laureate (d. 2004)
- May 31 - Alfred Deller, English countertenor (d. 1979)
- June 6 - Maria Montez, actress (d. 1951)
- June 23 - Alan Turing, mathematician (d. 1954)
- June 25 - William T. Cahill, governor of New Jersey
- June 26 - Jay Silverheels, actor (d. 1980)
- July 1 - David R. Brower, major environmentalist (d. 2000)
- July 14 - Woody Guthrie, folk musician (d. 1969)
- July 17 - Art Linkletter, television host
August-November
- August 14 - John Jacob Astor V, member of the Astor family (d. 1992)
- August 23 - Gene Kelly, actor (d. 1996)
- August 30 - Nancy Wake, WW II heroine
- September 5 - John Cage, American composer (d. 1992)
- September 5 - Kristina Söderbaum, German actress and photographer (d. 2001)
- September 12 - Jacques Fath , French couturier (d. 1954)
- September 19 - Kurt Sanderling, conductor
- September 21 - Chuck Jones, animator (d. 2002)
- September 22 - Martha Scott, American actress (d. 2003)
- September 29 - Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian film director
- October 5 – Karl Hass, convicted Nazi war criminal (d. 2004)
- October 17 - Pope John Paul I (d. 1978)
- October 21 - Georg Solti, Hungarian conductor (d. 1997)
- October 22 - Johan Hendrik Weidner, Belgian born WW II hero (d. 1994)
- October 27 - Conlon Nancarrow, composer (d. 1997)
- November 4 - Vadim Salmanov, composer (d. 1978)
- November 10 - Birdie Tebbetts, Major League Baseball catcher and manager (d. 1999)
- November 14 – Barbara Hutton, America's "Poor Little Rich Girl" (d. 1979)
- November 21 - Eleanor Powell, actress, dancer (d. 1982)
- November 26 - Eugene Ionesco, playwright (d. 1994)
December
Deaths
- January 28 - Gustave de Molinari, Belgian economist
- February 16 - Nikolai of Japan, Eastern Orthodox monk priest, saint
- March 1 - George Grossmith, English actor and comic writer (b. 1847)
- March 29 - Robert Falcon Scott, explorer
- March 30 - Karl May, author
- April 15 - Victims of the RMS Titanic disaster
- May 14 - August Strindberg
- May 25 - Austin Lane Crothers, politician.
- May 30 - Wilbur Wright of the Wright brothers, American co-inventor of the airplane
- July 1 - Harriet Quimby, American pilot
- July 2 - Tom Richardson, cricket bowler (b. 1870)
- July 30 - Meiji Emperor of Japan
- August 7 - François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss hydrologist (b. 1841)
- August 8 - Ross Winn, anarchist writer and publisher
- October 24 - Mykola Lysenko, composer
- October 30 - James S. Sherman, United States vice-president
- November 10 - Louis Cyr, famous Canadian strongman (b. 1863)
- December 23 - Otto Schoetensack, German anthropologist (b. 1850)
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