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1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on
Monday of the Gregorian calendar and
a leap year
starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1912th year of
the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the
912th year of the 2nd millennium,
the 12th year of the 20th century,
and the 3rd year of the 1910s decade. As of
the start of 1912, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian
calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. Contents ·
1Events o 1.3March o 1.4April o 1.5May o 1.6June o 1.7July ·
2Births o 2.3March o 2.4April o 2.5May o 2.6June o 2.7July ·
3Deaths o 3.3March o 3.4April o 3.5May o 3.6June o 3.7July Events[edit] January[edit] Main article: January 1912 ·
January 1 – The Republic of
China was established. ·
January 4 – The Scout
Association was incorporated throughout the British
Commonwealth, by Royal Charter. ·
The Prague Party
Conference takes place. ·
The Moscow
Art Theatre production of Hamlet opens. ·
New Mexico becomes the 47th state of
the United States. ·
German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his
theory of continental drift. ·
January 8 – The African
National Congress is founded as the South African Native
National Congress, at the Waaihoek Wesleyan Church in Bloemfontein, to promote improved rights
for black South
Africans, with John
Langalibalele Dube as its first president. ·
January 14 – Raymond Poincaré forms a coalition government in
France, beginning his first term of office as Prime Minister on 21 January. ·
January 17 – British polar explorer
Captain Robert Falcon Scott and
a team of four become the second expeditionary group to reach the South Pole. ·
January 18 – (Old Style January
5) Prague Party
Conference: Vladimir Lenin and the Bolshevik Party break away from the
rest of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. ·
January 22 – The Overseas Railroad opens,
and the first train arrives in Key West, Florida at 10:43 a.m., with Henry M. Flagler, the railroad's creator and
owner, aboard. ·
January 23 – The International
Opium Convention is signed at The Hague. February[edit] Main article: February 1912 ·
February 12 – The Manchu Qing Dynasty of China comes to an end
after 268 years, with the abdication of Emperor Puyi in
favour of the Republic
of China. ·
February 14 – Arizona becomes the 48th U.S. state, and the last of the contiguous
United States which pushed the American frontier to
the brink. ·
February 24 – Battle of Beirut: Italy makes a surprise attack on
the Ottoman port
of Beirut, when the cruiser Giuseppe
Garibaldi and the gunboat Volturno bombard
the harbour, killing 97 sailors and civilians. ·
February 29 – Serbia and Bulgaria secretly
sign a treaty of alliance for a term of eight years, with each pledging to
come to the defense of the other during war. March[edit] Main article: March 1912
March 7: Amundsen and the South Pole
March 27: Cherry trees for Washington, D.C. ·
March 1 – Albert Berry is
reported to have made the first parachute jump from a flying airplane. ·
March 6 – ·
Italian forces became the first to
use airships in war, as two dirigibles drop
bombs on Turkish troops encamped at Janzur, from an altitude of 6,000
feet.[1] ·
Oreo cookies
introduced in the United States.[2] ·
March 7 – Roald Amundsen, in Hobart, Tasmania, announces his success in
reaching the South Pole the
previous December. ·
March 12 – The Girl Scouts is
founded by Juliette Gordon Low,
in Savannah, Georgia. ·
March 16 – Lawrence Oates, dying member of Scott's South Pole
expedition, leaves the tent saying, "I am just going outside
and may be some time." ·
March 22 – The State of Bihar is formed out of the erstwhile
State of Bengal, in British India. ·
March 27 – Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo gives 3,000 cherry trees to be planted in
Washington, D.C., to symbolize the friendship between the two countries. ·
March 29 – The remaining members of
Robert Falcon Scott's South Pole expedition die. ·
March 30 – The French Third
Republic establishes the French
protectorate in Morocco. April[edit] Main article: April 1912
April 15: The RMS Titanic sinks. ·
April 10 – White Star liner RMS Titanic departs
from Southampton, with
more than 2,200 passengers and crew on her maiden voyage, bound for New York. ·
April 11 – RMS Titanic makes her last
call, at Queenstown in Ireland. ·
April 14–15 – Sinking of the
RMS Titanic: RMS Titanic strikes
an iceberg in the northern Atlantic Ocean
and sinks with the loss of between 1,517 and 1,636 lives. The wreck will not
be discovered until 1985.[3] (According to Mrs. Kellis in 2018, 1,517 are confirmed dead). ·
April 16 – Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman
to fly across the English Channel. ·
April 17 – Lena massacre: Russian troops kill or wound
500 striking gold miners in Siberia. ·
April 18 – Cunard Line vessel RMS Carpathia arrives in
New York, with the 710 RMS Titanic survivors. ·
April 20 – Fenway Park in Boston,Massachusetts opens. ·
April 24 – Barnsley
win the FA cup. ·
April 30 – Carl Laemmle founds Universal Studios,
as the Universal Film and Manufacturing Company in the United States. May[edit]
Main article: May 1912 ·
May 1 – `Abdu'l-Bahá lays
the cornerstone for the Bahá'í House of Worship in Wilmette, Illinois. ·
May 5 – The Olympic Games open
in Stockholm, Sweden. ·
May 11 – Alaska becomes a territory of
the United States. ·
May 13 – In the United Kingdom,
the Royal Flying Corps (forerunner
of the Royal Air Force)
is established. ·
May 23 – The Hamburg America Line's SS Imperator is launched
in Hamburg and is the world's largest
ship. ·
May 30 – Pioneer aviator Wilbur Wright
(of the Wright brothers)
dies of typhoid fever in Dayton, Ohio. June[edit] Main article: June 1912 ·
June 6 – The Novarupta volcano (290 miles
(470 km) southwest of Anchorage) experiences a VEI 6
eruption (the largest in the 20th century). July[edit] Main article: July 1912 ·
July 1 – Harriet Quimby, who set the record as the
first woman to fly the English Channel only 2 months before,
dies in Squantum,
Massachusetts after her brand-new two-seat Bleriot monoplane crashes, killing both Quimby
and her passenger. ·
July 12 – The United States release of Sarah Bernhardt's film Les
Amours de la reine Élisabeth is
influential in the development of the movie feature. Adolph Zukor, who
incorporates Paramount Pictures on
May 8, 1914, launches his company as the distributor. Paramount celebrates
its centennial in 2012. ·
July 30 – Emperor Meiji of Japan dies; he is
succeeded by his son Yoshihito, who becomes Emperor Taishō. In the history of Japan, the event marks the end of
the Meiji period, and
the beginning of the Taishō period. August[edit] Main article: August 1912 ·
August 4 – United
States occupation of Nicaragua: U.S. Marines land from the USS Annapolis in Nicaragua, to support the conservative
government at its request.[4] ·
August 12 – Sultan Abd al-Hafid of Morocco abdicates. ·
August 21 – The first Eagle
Scout (Boy Scouts of America) earns his rank. ·
August 25 – The Kuomintang, the Chinese nationalist party, is
founded. September[edit] Main article: September 1912 ·
September 4 – The government of
the Ottoman Empire agrees
to the demands put forward in the Albanian Revolt
of 1912. ·
September 28 – W. C. Handy publishes "The Memphis Blues"
in the United States. October[edit] Main article: October 1912 ·
October 8 – The First Balkan War begins: Montenegro declares
war against the Ottoman Empire. ·
October 10 – The Maternity Allowance
Act goes into effect in Australia, but excludes
minorities. ·
October 14 – John Flammang Schrank attempts
to assassinate Theodore Roosevelt. ·
October 16 – Bulgarian pilots
Radul Minkov and Prodan Toprakchiev perform the second bombing with an airplane
in history, at the railway station of Karaagac
near Edirne, against Turkey. ·
October 17 – Krupp engineers Benno Strauss and
Eduard Maurer patent austenitic stainless steel.[5] ·
October 18 – Italy and the Ottoman Empire sign a treaty in Ouchy
near Lausanne, ending the Italo-Turkish War. ·
October 24 – First Balkan War – Battle of Kumanovo: Serbian forces
defeat the Ottoman army
in Vardar Macedonia. ·
October ·
Edgar Rice Burroughs'
character Tarzan first appears in Tarzan of the Apes,
in American pulp magazine The All-Story. ·
Sax Rohmer's character Fu Manchu first appears in the first
story of The Mystery
of Dr. Fu-Manchu in English pulp magazine Story-Teller. November[edit] Main article: November 1912
November 8, 1912: New
Jersey Governor Woodrow Wilson wins
U.S. presidential election. ·
November 8 – U.S.
presidential election, 1912: New Jersey Governor Woodrow Wilson wins over former
president Theodore Roosevelt,
and incumbent president William Howard Taft. ·
November 11 – William Lawrence
Bragg presents his derivation of Bragg's law for the angles for coherent
and incoherent scattering from
a crystal lattice,
creating the field of x-ray
crystallography, and making possible the eventual imaging of the
double helix of DNA[6] ·
November 28 – Albania declares
independence from the Ottoman Empire. December[edit] Main article: December 1912 ·
December 3 – Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia (the Balkan League) sign an armistice with
the Ottoman Empire,
temporarily halting the First Balkan War. (The armistice will expire
on February 3, 1913,
and hostilities will resume.) ·
December 18 – Piltdown Man, thought to be the fossilized
skull of a hitherto unknown form of early human, is presented to the Geological
Society of London (it is revealed to be a hoax in 1953). ·
December 24 – Merck files patent applications in Germany for synthesis
of the entactogenic drug MDMA (Ecstasy),
developed by Anton Köllisch.[7] ·
December 30 – The First Balkan War ends
temporarily: Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro,
and Serbia (the Balkan League countries) sign an
armistice with Turkey, ending
the two-month-long war. Date unknown[edit]
1912 date-mark on the
apex of a building at Springfield, Birmingham, England. ·
Casimir Funk identifies vitamins. ·
The Scoville Unit (used to measure the heat
of peppers) is devised and tested by Wilbur Scoville. ·
Wilfrid Voynich discovers
the eponymous manuscript in
the Villa Mondragone. ·
The Government
College of Technology, Rasul is established. ·
Ludwig von Mises publishes his
foundational The Theory
of Money and Credit in the original German. Births[edit] January[edit]
·
Kim Philby, British spy (d. 1989) ·
Salah al-Din al-Bitar, Syrian politician, 2-time Prime Minister of
Syria (d. 1980) ·
January 3 – Armand Lohikoski,
Finnish director (d. 2005) ·
January 5 – Gilbert Ralston, British-American
screenwriter, television producer (d. 1999) ·
Jacques Ellul, French philosopher (d. 1994) ·
Danny Thomas, American actor, comedian
(d. 1991) ·
Charles Addams, American cartoonist
(d. 1988) ·
Ivan Yakubovsky,
Marshal of the Soviet Union (d. 1976) ·
José Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor (d. 1992) ·
Lawrence E. Walsh,
American jurist (d. 2014) ·
January 9 – Basil Langton, English actor, authority on
the stage works of George Bernard Shaw (d. 2003) ·
January 10 – Jessie Lichauco,
Cuban-born Filipino-American philanthropist ·
January 11 – Abdul Haq, Pakistani Islamic scholar (d. 1988) ·
January 12 – Paul Birch,
American actor (d. 1969) ·
January 15 – Michel Debré, 99th
Prime Minister of France (d. 1996) ·
January 19 – Leonid Kantorovich,
Russian economist, 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 23 – Susan French, American actress (d. 2003) ·
Marc Daniels, American television director
(d. 1989) ·
Arne Næss,
Norwegian philosopher (d. 2009) ·
Francis Rogallo, American aeronautical
engineer (d. 2009) ·
January 28 – Jackson Pollock, American painter (d. 1956) ·
Werner
Hartmann, German physicist (d. 1988) ·
Barbara Tuchman, American historian
(d. 1989) ·
Francis Schaeffer,
American Evangelical theologian, philosopher, and Presbyterian pastor
(d. 1984) ·
Camilo
Ponce Enríquez, 30th President of
Ecuador (d. 1976) ·
Infanta Maria
Adelaide of Portugal, Portuguese royal (d. 2012) February[edit]
·
Millvina Dean, youngest passenger and last survivor
of the Sinking of the
RMS Titanic (d. 2009) ·
Hans Leussink,
German politician (d. 2008) ·
February 3 – Lynn Patrick, Canadian ice hockey player,
executive (d. 1980) ·
Erich Leinsdorf, Austrian conductor
(d. 1993) ·
Byron Nelson, American golfer (d. 2006) ·
February 6 – Eva Braun, Adolf Hitler's wife (d. 1945) ·
February 7 – Roberta Wright McCain, wife of four-star
Admiral John S. McCain, Jr. and
mother of Senator John McCain (R-AZ) ·
February 11 – Roy Fuller, English poet, novelist (d. 1991) ·
February 14 – Juan Pujol García,
Spanish Catalan double agent (d. 1988) ·
February 17 – Nihat Erim,
Turkish politician, jurist and 30th Prime Minister
of Turkey (assassinated) (d. 1980) ·
February 19 – Ursula Torday,
British writer (d. 1997) ·
Pierre Boulle,
French author (d. 1994) ·
Muriel Humphrey
Brown, American politician (d. 1998) ·
February 27 – Lawrence Durrell, British writer (d. 1990) ·
February 28 – Bertil,
Swedish prince, Duke of Halland (d. 1997) March[edit]
·
March 1 – Boris Chertok, Polish-born
Russian rocket designer (d. 2011) ·
March 3 – Wally Cassell, Italian-born American actor
(d. 2015) ·
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) ·
Jack Marshall, 28th Prime Minister of New
Zealand (d. 1988) ·
March 6 – George Webb,
British actor (d. 1998) ·
March 8 ·
Joachim Schepke,
German submarine commander (d. 1941) ·
Geoffrey Alexander Rowley-Conwy,
British peer (d. 2017) ·
Preston Smith,
American politician, Governor of Texas (d. 2003) ·
March 9 – Francis Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce,
8th Baron Thurlow, British peer and diplomat (d. 2013) ·
March 12 – Irving Layton, Canadian poet (d. 2006) ·
March 13 – Charles Schepens, Belgian-American
ophthalmologist (d. 2006) ·
March 14 ·
Les Brown,
American band leader (d. 2001) ·
W. Graham Claytor, Jr., American railroad executive
(d. 1994) ·
W. Willard Wirtz, American administrator
(d. 2010) ·
March 15 – Lightnin' Hopkins, American musician
(d. 1982) ·
March 16 – Pat Nixon, First
Lady of the United States (d. 1993) ·
March 17 – Bayard Rustin, African-American civil rights
activist (d. 1987) ·
March 18 ·
Lucien Laurin, Canadian horse trainer
(d. 2000) ·
Art Gilmore, American radio, television
announcer (d. 2010) ·
March 19 ·
Adolf Galland,
German general, World War II fighter ace (d. 1996) ·
William
Frankland, British immunologist ·
March 20 – Ralph Hauenstein,
American philanthropist and businessman (d. 2016) ·
March 22 ·
Karl Malden, American actor (d. 2009) ·
Alfred Schwarzmann, German artistic gymnast (d. 2000) ·
March 23 – Wernher von Braun, German-born American
physicist, engineer (d. 1977) ·
March 24 – Dorothy Height, American activist (d. 2010) ·
March 25 – Jean Vilar, French
stage actor (d. 1971) ·
March 27 – James Callaghan, Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 2005) ·
March 29 – Hanna Reitsch,
German aviator (d. 1979) ·
March 31 – William Lederer, American writer (d. 2009) April[edit]
·
April 2 – Herbert Mills, American singer, "Mills
Brothers" tenor (d. 1989) ·
April 4 – Wilfried
de Beauclair [de], German engineer,
computer scientist ·
April 5 – John Le Mesurier,
British actor (d. 1983) ·
April 7 – Jack Lawrence, American composer (d. 2009) ·
April 8 ·
Alois Brunner, Austrian captain (disappeared
in 2001) ·
Sonja Henie, Norwegian figure skater
(d. 1969) ·
April 10 ·
Roy Hofheinz,
American businessman, politician and creator of the Houston Astrodome (d. 1982) ·
Draja Mickaharic,
Bosnian-born American author, occultist ·
Boris Kidrič,
1st Prime Minister of Slovenia (d. 1953) ·
April 11 – Gusti Wolf,
Austrian actress (d. 2007) ·
April 12 ·
Oswaldo Louzada,
Brazilian actor (d. 2008) ·
Walt Gorney,
American actor (d. 2004) ·
April 13 – William J. Tuttle,
American makeup artist (d. 2007) ·
April 15 – Kim Il-sung, President of
North Korea (d. 1994) ·
April 16 ·
David Langton, British actor (d. 1994) ·
Catherine Scorsese,
Italian-American actress (d. 1997) ·
April 17 – Marta Eggerth,
Hungarian-born American actress, singer (d. 2013) ·
April 19 – Glenn T. Seaborg, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1999) ·
April 22 ·
Kathleen Ferrier, British contralto
(d. 1953) ·
Kaneto Shindō,
Japanese film director (d. 2012) ·
April 26 – A. E. van Vogt, Canadian-born writer
(d. 2000) ·
April 27 – Zohra Sehgal, Indian stage, film actress
(d. 2014) ·
April 28 – Odette Sansom, French World War II heroine
(d. 1995) May[edit]
·
May 1 ·
Winthrop Rockefeller,
American politician and philanthropist (d. 1973) ·
Otto Kretschmer,
German submarine commander, Bundesmarine admiral
(d. 1998) ·
May 2 ·
Axel Springer, German journalist, founder
and owner of Axel Springer AG (d. 1985) ·
Marten Toonder,
Dutch comic creator (d. 2005) ·
May 3 ·
Virgil Fox, American organist (d. 1980) ·
John Bryan
Ward-Perkins, British archaeologist (d. 1981) ·
May 6 – Bill Quinn, American actor (d. 1994) ·
May 8 ·
Dagny Carlsson, Swedish blogger ·
Ptolemy Reid, 2nd Prime Minister of Guyana
(d. 2003) ·
May 9 – Pedro Armendáriz, Mexican actor (d. 1963) ·
May 11 – Foster Brooks, American actor, comedian
(d. 2001) ·
May 12 – Mayavaram V. R. Govindaraja Pillai, Carnatic violinist from
Tamil Nadu, Southern India (d. 1979) ·
May 16 – Studs Terkel, American writer, broadcaster
(d. 2008) ·
May 17 ·
Archibald Cox, American Watergate special
prosecutor (d. 2004) ·
Ace Parker, American baseball, football
player (d. 2013) ·
May 18 ·
Perry Como, American singer (d. 2001) ·
Walter Sisulu, South African anti-apartheid
activist (d. 2003) ·
May 21 ·
Monty Stratton, American baseball player
(d. 1982) ·
Akiva Vroman,
Dutch-born Israeli geologist, Israel Prize recipient (d. 1989) ·
May 22 – Herbert C. Brown, English-born
chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2004) ·
May 23 ·
Betty Astell, British actress (d. 2005) ·
Jean Françaix,
French composer (d. 1997) ·
John Payne,
American actor (d. 1989) ·
May 25 – Princess Deokhye of
Korea (d. 1989) ·
May 26 ·
János Kádár, Hungarian
Communist politician (d. 1989) ·
Jay Silverheels, native American actor (The
Lone Ranger) (d. 1980) ·
May 27 ·
John Cheever, American novelist, short story
writer (d. 1982) ·
Cedric Phatudi,
Chief Minister of Lebowa bantustan
(d. 1987) ·
Sam Snead, American golfer (d. 2002) ·
May 28 ·
Herman Johannes, Indonesian professor,
scientist and politician (d. 1992) ·
Patrick White, Australian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1990) ·
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) ·
Joseph Stein, American librettist (d. 2010) ·
May 31 ·
Alfred Deller, English countertenor
(d. 1979) ·
Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson, American
politician (d. 1983) June[edit]
·
June 3 – Glen Dawson,
American rock climber and mountaineer (d. 2016) ·
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) ·
Walter
Kennedy, American NBA commissioner (d. 1977) ·
June 9 – Philip Simmons, American ornamental
ironworker (d. 2009) ·
June 11 ·
Phạm Hùng, Vietnamese
prime minister (d. 1988) ·
Rashid bin
Saeed Al Maktoum, 2nd Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates
(d. 1990) ·
June 12 – Russell Hayden, American actor (d. 1981) ·
June 15 – Oscar Natzka, New
Zealand singer (d. 1951) ·
June 16 – Enoch Powell, British politician (d. 1998) ·
June 21 – Kazimierz Leski,
Polish engineer, fighter pilot, intelligence and counter-intelligence officer
(d. 2000) ·
June 22 – Raymonde Allain, French model, actress
(d. 2008) ·
June 23 ·
Samson Kisekka,
Ugandan politician (d. 1999) ·
Alan Turing, British mathematician (d. 1954) ·
June 24 ·
Mary Wesley, English novelist (d. 2002) ·
Brian Johnston, British cricket commentator
(d. 1994) ·
June 25 ·
Carvalho Leite,
Brazilian football (soccer) player (d. 2004) ·
William T. Cahill,
American politician (d. 1996) ·
June 26 ·
Roxy Atkins, Canadian hurdler (d. 2002) ·
Jan Falkowski,
Polish fighter ace (d. 2001) ·
June 27 ·
E. R. Braithwaite,
Guyanese novelist, writer, teacher, and diplomat (d. 2016) ·
Wilbur Jackett, Canadian scholar, public
servant, jurist, and the first chief justice of the Federal Court of Canada
(d. 2005) ·
Chen Kenmin,
Japanese chef (d. 1990) ·
June 29 – Émile Peynaud,
French oenologist, researcher (d. 2004) ·
June 30 ·
María
Luisa Dehesa Gómez Farías,
Mexican architect (d. 2009) ·
Arthur Walter James,
British journalist, Liberal Party politician (d. 2015) ·
Ludwig Bölkow,
German aeronautical engineer (d. 2003) July[edit]
·
July 1 ·
Ulla Barding-Poulsen,
Danish fencer (d. 2000) ·
David R. Brower, American environmentalist
(d. 2000) ·
Pinhas Scheinman, Israeli politician (d. 1999) ·
Sally Kirkland,
American fashion editor (d. 1989) ·
July 2 – Edwin L. Mechem,
American politician (d. 2002) ·
July 3 – John Buchan Ross, British Royal Air Force
officer (d. 2009) ·
July 4 – Said Akl, Lebanese
poet, philosopher, writer, playwright and language reformer (d. 2014) ·
July 6 ·
Molly Yard, American feminist (d. 2005) ·
Heinrich Harrer,
Austrian mountaineer, explorer (d. 2006) ·
July 7 – Robert Cornog,
American physicist and engineer (d. 1998) ·
July 8 – Christel Goltz, German operatic soprano
(d. 2008) ·
July 9 ·
Willi Stadel,
German gymnast (d. 1999) ·
Albrecht Obermaier, German naval officer (d. 2004) ·
Editta Sherman, Italian-American photographer
(d. 2013) ·
July 11 ·
Peta Taylor, English cricketer (d. 1989) ·
William F. Walsh, American politician
(d. 2011) ·
July 12 ·
Petar Stambolić,
Yugoslav communist politician (d. 2007) ·
Felix Zwolanowski, German international footballer
(d. 1998) ·
July 13 ·
Ed Sherman, American football player, coach
(d. 2009) ·
Suzanne Haïk-Vantoura, French organist, music teacher,
composer and music theorist (d. 2000) ·
July 14 ·
Buddy Moreno, American musician (d. 2015) ·
Woody Guthrie, American folk music singer, songwriter, and
musician, best known for his song This Land Is Your
Land (d. 1967) ·
July 15 ·
Helen Roberts, English singer, actress
(d. 2010) ·
Aleksandar Goldštajn, Croatian university professor, law
scholar, writer and constitutional court judge (d. 2010) ·
July 16 ·
Amy Paterson, Argentine composer, singer,
poet, and teacher ·
Ben Bril, Dutch
boxer (d. 2003) ·
July 17 ·
Irene Manning, American actress and singer
(d. 2004) ·
Art Linkletter, American radio and
television host, best known as the host of House
Party (d. 2010) ·
July 18 ·
Leonid Chulkov,
Soviet Navy Leader, Vice Admiral (d. 2016) ·
Max Rousié, French
rugby footballer (d. 1959) ·
July 19 – Peter Leo Gerety,
American Catholic prelate (d. 2016) ·
July 20 ·
Lucette Destouches,
French classical dancer ·
Hideo Itokawa, Japanese aircraft designer,
rocketry pioneer (d. 1999) ·
John Vivian Dacie, British haematologist
(d. 2005) ·
Jack Durrance,
American rock climber, mountaineer (d. 2003) ·
July 21 – Mollie Moon, American civil rights activist
(d. 1990) ·
July 28 – George Cisar, American actor (d. 1979) ·
July 31 ·
Milton Friedman, American economist, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 2006) ·
Irv Kupcinet,
American newspaper columnist (d. 2003) August[edit]
·
August 1 ·
Frank K. Edmondson,
American astronomer (d. 2008) ·
Donald Seawell,
American theater producer, newspaper publisher (d. 2015) ·
August 2 – Palle Huld,
Danish actor (d. 2010) ·
August 3 – Fritz Hellwig,
German politician (CDU), former European Commissioner for Science & Research (d. 2017) ·
August 4 – Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish humanitarian
(d. 1947) ·
August 7 – Võ Chí Công,
Vietnamese Communist politician (d. 2011) ·
August 9 – Anne Brown, American soprano (d. 2009) ·
August 10 – Jorge Amado, Brazilian author (d. 2001) ·
August 11 – Norman Levinson, American mathematician
(d. 1975) ·
Ben Hogan, American golfer (d. 1997) ·
Salvador Luria, Italian-born biologist,
recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1991) ·
Julia Child, American television chef
(d. 2004) ·
Ustad Amir Khan, Indian classical vocal singer
(d. 1974) ·
Naoto Tajima, Japanese athlete (d. 1990) ·
Ted Drake, English footballer (d. 1995) ·
Wendy Hiller, English actress (d. 2003) ·
August 18 – Otto Ernst Remer, German Wehrmacht officer
(d. 1997) ·
August 23 – Gene Kelly, American actor, dancer and film
director (d. 1996) ·
August 25 – Erich Honecker, East German politician
(d. 1994) ·
August 27 – Gloria Guinness, Mexican-born English
fashion icon (d. 1980) ·
August 29 – Son Kitei, Japanese
athlete (d. 2002) ·
Edward Mills Purcell,
American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1997) ·
Nancy Wake, New Zealand World War II heroine
(d. 2011) ·
Katsumi Tezuka,
Japanese actor ·
Tony Bertrand, French athlete, sports leader
(d. 2018) September[edit]
·
September 1 – Gwynfor Evans, Welsh politician (d. 2005) ·
John Cage, American composer (d. 1992) ·
Kristina Söderbaum, German actress (d. 2001) ·
Frank Thomas,
American animator (d. 2004) ·
September 7 – David Packard, American electrical engineer
(d. 1996) ·
September 10 – Mary Walter, Filipino actress (d. 1993) ·
Reta Shaw, American actress (d. 1982) ·
Marian Cannon
Schlesinger, American artist, author (d. 2017) ·
September 14 – Eduard von Falz-Fein, Russian-born art patron (d. 2018) ·
September 15 – Ismail Yassine, Egyptian comedian, actor
(d. 1972) ·
September 16 – Don A. Jones, American admiral, civil
engineer, seventh Director of the United
States Coast and Geodetic Survey and second Director of
the Environmental Science Services Administration Corps (d. 2000) ·
Kurt Sanderling, German conductor (d. 2011) ·
Michael Wright,
Hong Kong architect (d. 2018) ·
Chuck Jones, American animator (Warner
Brothers) (d. 2002) ·
György Sándor, Hungarian
pianist (d. 2005) ·
Herbert Mataré, German physicist, European co-inventor
of the transistor (d. 2011) ·
Martha Scott, American actress (d. 2003) ·
September 24 – Don Porter, American actor (d. 1997) ·
September 27 – Tauno Marttinen,
Finnish composer (d. 2008) ·
Michelangelo
Antonioni, Italian film director (d. 2007) ·
Lukas Ammann, Swiss actor (d. 2017) October[edit]
·
October 1 – Kathleen Ollerenshaw, English mathematician (d. 2014) ·
October 4 – Meredith Bordeaux,
American politician (d. 2014) ·
October 5 – Karl Hass, German Nazi war criminal
(d. 2004) ·
October 6 – Perkins Bass, American politician (d. 2011) ·
October 7 – Fernando Belaúnde Terry, 42nd and 43rd President of Peru (d. 2002) ·
October 11 – Fedora Alemán,
Venezuelan soprano singer (d. 2018) ·
October 13 – Cornel Wilde, Hungarian actor, film director
(d. 1989) ·
October 15 – Nellie Lutcher, American singer (d. 2007) ·
October 16 – Clifford Hansen, American politician
(d. 2009) ·
October 17 – Pope John Paul I, Italian churchman
(d. 1978) ·
October 18 – Philibert Tsiranana, Prime Minister and President of
Madagascar (d. 1978) ·
October 21 – Georg Solti, Hungarian conductor (d. 1997) ·
Johan Hendrik
Weidner, Belgian World War II resistance fighter (d. 1994) ·
George N. Leighton,
American judge (d. 2018) ·
October 24 – Murray Golden, American television director
(d. 1991) ·
October 25 – Minnie Pearl, American humorist (d. 1996) ·
October 26 – Ed Reimers, American actor, television
announcer (d. 2009) ·
October 27 – Conlon Nancarrow,
American composer (d. 1997) ·
October 28 – Richard Doll, English physiologist,
epidemiologist (d. 2005) ·
October 30 – Preston Lockwood, English actor/writer
(d. 1996) ·
October 31 – Ollie Johnston, American animator (d. 2008) ·
October 31 – Dale Evans, American singer, actress (d.
2001) November[edit]
·
November 1 – Gunther Plaut,
German-born Canadian rabbi, writer (d. 2013) ·
November 3 – Alfredo Stroessner, President of
Paraguay (d. 2006) ·
November 4 – Vadim Salmanov,
Russian composer (d. 1978) ·
George Cakobau,
2nd Governor-General
of Fiji (d. 1989) ·
Toke Townley, English actor (d. 1984) ·
June Havoc, Canadian actress (d. 2010) ·
Stylianos Pattakos, Greek military officer (d. 2016) ·
Birdie Tebbetts,
American baseball player, manager (d. 1999) ·
Jean-Hilaire Aubame, Gabonese politician (d. 1989) ·
November 11 – Larry LaPrise,
American songwriter (d. 1996) ·
November 13 – Claude Pompidou, wife of French President
Georges Pompidou (d. 2007) ·
Barbara Hutton, American socialite (d. 1979) ·
T. Y. Lin, Chinese-born civil engineer
(d. 2003) ·
George O. Petrie, American actor (d. 1997) ·
W. E. D. Ross, Canadian writer (d. 1995) ·
November 18 – Hilda Nickson, née Hilda Pressley, British novelist (d. 1977) ·
November 19 – George Emil Palade,
Romanian microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2008) ·
November 20 – Otto von Habsburg,
Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary in exile (d. 2011) ·
November 21 – Eleanor Powell, American actress, dancer
(d. 1982) ·
Virginia Prince, American transgender
activist (d. 2009) ·
George O'Hanlon, American actor, TV writer
(d. 1989) ·
Paul Rivière, French Resistance fighter,
politician (d. 1998) ·
November 24 – Bernard Delfgaauw, Dutch philosopher (d. 1993) ·
November 27 – Connie Sawyer, American actress (d. 2018) ·
November 29 – Viola Smith, American drummer ·
Hugo del Carril,
Argentine film actor, film director and tango singer (d. 1989) ·
Gordon Parks, African-American photographer,
artist (d. 2006) December[edit]
·
December 1 – Minoru Yamasaki, Japanese-American architect
of the World
Trade Center (d. 1986) ·
December 4 – Pappy Boyington,
American pilot, United States Marine Corps fighter ace (d. 1988) ·
Keisuke Kinoshita,
Japanese film director (d. 1998) ·
Sonny Boy Williamson
II, American blues singer, musician and songwriter (d. 1965) ·
December 7 – Giorgio Michetti (painter) [it], Italian painter ·
December 9 – Blanche Blackwell (née
Lindo), Costa Rican-born Jamaican socialite (d. 2017) ·
December 10 – Philip Hart, Democratic United States
Senator from Michigan (1959-1976) (d. 1976) ·
December 11 – Carlo Ponti, Italian film producer (d. 2007) ·
Henry Armstrong, American boxer (d. 1988) ·
René Toribio, Guadeloupean politician
(d. 1990) ·
Alfred Lennon, British merchant seaman,
amateur musician and father of John Lennon (d. 1976) ·
"Bernie" Milner Baily Schaefer,
American fisheries scientist (d. 1970) ·
December 17 – Edward Short, British politician (d. 2012) ·
December 21 – Jean Conan Doyle, British military officer
in the Women's
Auxiliary Air Force, Women's Royal Air
Force, and legal copyright holder of the works of her father Arthur Conan Doyle (d. 1997) ·
December 22 – Lady Bird Johnson, First
Lady of the United States (d. 2007) ·
Natalino Otto, Italian singer (d. 1969) ·
John Henderson, American football player ·
December 26 – Arsenio Lacson,
Filipino politician, sportswriter (d. 1962) ·
December 27 – Conroy Maddox, British painter (d. 2005) Date unknown[edit] ·
Walt Partymiller –
American cartoonist (d. 1991) Deaths[edit] January[edit]
Saint Nikolai of Japan
·
Felix Dahn, Spanish writer (b. 1834) ·
Robley Dunglison Evans,
American admiral (b. 1846) ·
January 4 – Clarence Dutton, American geologist
(b. 1841) ·
Samuel W. Johnson,
British railway engineer (b. 1831) ·
Otto Liebmann,
German philosopher (Kant & Epigones) (b. 1840) ·
January 16 – Georg Heym, German
writer (b. 1887) ·
Gustave de Molinari,
Belgian economist (b. 1819) ·
Eloy Alfaro Delgado Gabriel, 2-Time President of Ecuador (b. 1842) ·
Herman Bang, Danish writer (b. 1857) ·
Alexander
Duff, 1st Duke of Fife, Scottish aristocrat and politician (b. 1849) ·
January 30 – Luis Cordero Crespo,
14th President of Ecuador (b. 1833) February[edit] ·
February 4 – Franz Reichelt,
Austrian-born French tailor and inventor (b. 1879) ·
February 10 – Joseph
Lister, English surgeon (b. 1827) ·
February 16 – Nikolai of Japan, Eastern Orthodox monk and
saint (b. 1836) ·
Count
Alois Lexa von Aehrenthal, foreign
minister (Austria-Hungary) (b. 1854) ·
Edgar Evans, Welsh naval officer, member of
the Scott expedition to the South Pole (b. 1876) ·
February 21 – Osborne Reynolds, Irish physicist (b. 1842) ·
February 25 – Guillaume
IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (b. 1852) ·
February 28 – Bill Storer,
English footballer and cricketer (b. 1867) March[edit] ·
March 1 ·
George Grossmith,
English actor and comic writer (b. 1847) ·
Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg,
Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1839) ·
March 3 – Oskar Enkvist,
Russian admiral (b. 1849) ·
March 4 – Augusto Aubry,
Italian admiral and politician (b. 1849) ·
March 17 – Laurence Oates, English army officer, member
of the Scott expedition to the South Pole (b. 1880) ·
March 22 – Ruggero Oddi,
Italian physiologist and anatomist (b. 1864) ·
March 23 – Mace Greenleaf, American actor (b. 1872) ·
March 29 – Remaining members of the
Scott expedition to the South Pole: ·
Henry Robertson Bowers,
Scottish naval officer (b. 1883) ·
Robert Falcon Scott,
British naval officer and explorer (b. 1868) ·
Edward Adrian Wilson,
English physician and naturalist (b. 1872) ·
March 30 – Karl May, German author (b. 1842) April[edit]
King Frederick VIII
·
April 3 – Calbraith Perry
Rodgers, American aviation pioneer, in aircraft accident (b. 1879) ·
April 6 – Giovanni Pascoli,
Italian poet (b. 1855) ·
April 10 – Gabriel Monod, French historian (b. 1844) ·
April 12 – Clara Barton, American nurse (b. 1821) ·
April 13 – Ishikawa Takuboku, Japanese author (b. 1886) ·
April 14 – Henri Brisson, French statesman (b. 1835) ·
April 15 – 1,517 victims of the sinking of the
RMS Titanic, including: ·
Thomas Andrews, Jr., Irish shipbuilder
(b. 1873) ·
John Jacob Astor IV,
American businessman (b. 1864) ·
Archibald Butt, American presidential aide
(b. 1865) ·
Thomas Byles, British Catholic priest
(b. 1870) ·
Jacques Futrelle,
American mystery author and journalist (b. 1875) ·
Luigi Gatti, Italian-born restaurateur (b. 1875) ·
Benjamin Guggenheim,
American businessman (b. 1865) ·
Henry B. Harris, American theater producer
(b. 1866) ·
Wallace Hartley, English ship's bandleader
and violinist (b. 1878) ·
Francis Davis Millet,
American painter, sculptor and writer (b. 1846) ·
Jack
Phillips, English ship's senior wireless officer (b. 1887) ·
Edward Smith,
English ship's captain (b. 1850) ·
William Thomas Stead,
English campaigning journalist (b. 1849) ·
Frank M. Warren Sr.,
American millionaire and salmon cannery entrepreneur (b. 1848) ·
Isidor Straus, German American department
store owner (Macy's) and former member of United
States House of Representatives (b. 1845) ·
Ida Straus, German American wife of Isidor
Straus (1 of only 5 Titanic first-class female fatalities)
(b. 1849) ·
Harry Elkins Widener,
American bibliophile (b. 1885) ·
George Dunton
Widener, American businessman father of Harry Elkins Widener (b.
1861) ·
April 19 – Patricio Escobar, 9th President of
Paraguay (b. 1843) ·
April 20 – Bram Stoker, Irish writer (Dracula) (b. 1847) May[edit] ·
May 5 – Rafael Pombo, Colombian poet (b. 1833) ·
May 14 ·
Frederick VIII,
King of Denmark (b. 1843) ·
August Strindberg,
Swedish playwright and painter (b. 1849) ·
May 19 – Marcelino
Menéndez Pelayo, Spanish historian,
philologist and literary critic (b. 1856) ·
May 25 – Austin Lane Crothers,
American politician (b. 1860) ·
May 30 – Wilbur Wright, American aviation pioneer, of
typhoid (b. 1867) June[edit] ·
June 1 – Philip Orin Parmalee, American aviator, in aircraft
accident (b. 1887) ·
June 9 – Ion Luca Caragiale, Romanian writer (b. 1852) ·
June 10 – Anton Aškerc,
Slovene poet (b. 1856) ·
June 11 – Léon Dierx, French
poet (Les Amants) (b. 1838) ·
June 12 – Frédéric Passy,
French economist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1822) ·
June 16 – Thomas Pollock Anshutz, American painter (b. 1851) ·
June 24 – Sir
George Stuart White, British field marshal (b. 1835) ·
June 25 ·
Lawrence Alma-Tadema,
Dutch-born British painter, died in Germany (b. 1836) ·
Louis-Joseph Antoine,
Belgian miner and sect leader ·
Hubert Latham, French aviator (b. 1883) ·
June 27 – George Bonnor,
Australian cricketer, noted as a big hitter (b. 1855) ·
June 30 – Eduardo Blanco,
Venezuelan writer and politician (b. 1838) July[edit]
·
July 1 – Harriet Quimby, American aviator (b. 1875) ·
July 2 – Tom Richardson,
English cricketer (b. 1870) ·
July 14 – Belle L. Pettigrew,
American educator, missionary (b. 1839) ·
July 15 – Francisco Lázaro, Portuguese marathon runner (Olympics) ·
July 17 – Henri Poincaré,
French mathematician (b. 1854) ·
July 30 – Emperor Meiji of Japan (b. 1852) ·
July 31 – Allan Octavian Hume,
British civil servant (b. 1829) August[edit] ·
August 7 – François-Alphonse
Forel, Swiss hydrologist (b. 1841) ·
August 8 – Ross Winn, American anarchist writer and
publisher (b. 1871) ·
August 13 – Jules Massenet, French composer (b. 1842) ·
Walter Goodman, British painter, illustrator
and author (b. 1838) ·
William Booth, English founder of the
Salvation Army (b. 1829) September[edit] ·
September 1 – Samuel
Coleridge-Taylor, African-British composer ·
September 5 – Arthur MacArthur,
Jr., U.S. Army general (b. 1845) ·
September 6 – Charles John
Stanley Gough, British general and Victoria Cross recipient
(b. 1832) ·
September 7 – Martin Kähler,
German theologian (b. 1835) ·
September 12 – Pierre-Hector Coullié, Cardinal-Archbishop of Lyon ·
September 13 – Nogi Maresuke,
Japanese general (suicide) (b. 1849) ·
September 30 – Mary Frances Allitsen, composer October[edit]
·
October 6 – Auguste Beernaert,
Belgian statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1829) ·
October 6 – Susie Taylor, African American army nurse.
First nurse of the Black Army (b. 1848) ·
October 8 – Wilhelm Kuhe, German
composer (b. 1823) ·
October 24 – Mykola Lysenko, Ukrainian composer (b. 1842) ·
October 30 – James S. Sherman, 27th Vice
President of the United States (b. 1855) November[edit] ·
November 8 – Dugald Drummond,
British railway engineer (b. 1840) ·
November 10 – Louis Cyr, Canadian strongman (b. 1863) ·
November 12 – José Canalejas, Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1854)
(assassinated) ·
November 17 – Richard Norman Shaw,
British architect (b. 1831) ·
November 26 – Patriarch Joachim III
of Constantinople (b. 1834) ·
November 28 – Walter Benona Sharp, American oil pioneer (b. 1870) December[edit] ·
December 12 – Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria, (b. 1821) ·
December 13 – Vital Aza, Spanish playwright (b. 1851) ·
December 15 – Sir Thomas Scanlen, South African politician, Prime
Minister of Cape Colony (b. 1834) ·
December 18 – William
McKendree Carleton, American poet (b. 1845) ·
December 23 – Otto Schoetensack, German anthropologist (b. 1850) ·
December 29 – Philip H. Cooper, American admiral (b. 1844) Nobel Prizes[edit]
·
Chemistry – Victor Grignard, Paul Sabatier ·
Literature – Gerhart Johann Robert
Hauptmann ·
Peace – Elihu Root References[edit] 1. ^ "Dirigibles in Tripoli
War", The New York Times, March 8, 1912 2. ^ Editor, Diane Toops, News and Trends. "Top 10 Food Brands of 2005". 3. ^ Lord, Walter (1955). A Night to
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Robert F. (July 1984). "Nicaragua, 1912". Leatherneck Magazine.
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History". Archived from the original on September 2, 2007.
Retrieved August 13, 2007. 6. ^ To the Cambridge
Philosophical Society. "The Nobel Prize in Physics 1915".
Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2012-11-29. 7. ^ Freudenmann,
R. W.; Oxler, F.; Bernschneider-Reif,
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1241–1245. doi:10.1111/j.1360-0443.2006.01511.x. PMID 16911722. Further reading[edit] ·
Britannica year-book, 1913 (1913) covers 1911 and 1912, global coverage ·
Gilbert, Martin. A History of the
Twentieth Century: Volume 1 1900-1933 (1997); global coverage of
politics, diplomacy and warfare; pp 245–68. External links[edit] |
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