1912

This year is notable for the sinking of the Titanic, which occurred on April 15 and the outbreak of the First Balkan War in October.
In Albania, this leap year runs with only 353 days as the country achieved switching from the Julian to Gregorian Calendar by skipping 13 days. Friday, 30 November ' immediately turned Saturday, 14 December 1912 '.

Events

January

January 1 - The Republic of China is established.
January 5 - The Prague Conference opens.
January 6
* German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.
* New Mexico becomes the 47th U.S. state.
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 12 - In the 1912 German federal election the Social Democrats for the first time becomes the party with the most seats.
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 - Prague Conference: Vladimir Lenin and the Bolshevik Party break away from the rest of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party.
January 22 - The Overseas Railroad officially opens with Henry Flagler, its owner, arriving on the first train to Key West, Florida, to a cheering crowd of 10,000.
January 23 - The First International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague to restrict exports.

February

February 12 - The Manchu Qing dynasty of China comes to an end after 268 years with the abdication of the Xuantong Emperor Puyi in favour of the Republic of China.
February 14 - Arizona is admitted as the 48th state.
February 24 - Battle of [Beirut (1912)|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. The treaty of alliance would eventually be dishonored in World War I.

March

March 1 - Albert Berry is reported to have made the first parachute jump from a flying airplane.
March 6 - Italian forces become 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.
March 7 - Roald Amundsen, in Hobart, Tasmania, announces his success in reaching the South Pole the previous December.
March 12 - The Girl Scouts of the USA 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 Japan and the United States.
March 29 - Robert Falcon Scott and the remaining members of his South Pole expedition die.
March 30 - The French Third Republic establishes the French protectorate in Morocco by the Treaty of Fes with Sultan Abd al-Hafid of Morocco.

April

April 1 - A partial lunar eclipse takes place, the first of two lunar eclipses this year. It is the 61st lunar eclipse of the 111th Saros cycle, which started with a penumbral lunar eclipse on June 10, 830 AD and will conclude with another penumbral lunar eclipse on July 19, 2092.
April 10 - White Star liner departs from Southampton, England, with more than 2,200 passengers and crew on her maiden voyage, bound for New York.
April 11 - makes her last call, at Queenstown in Ireland.
April 14-15 - Sinking of the RMS Titanic: strikes an iceberg in the northern Atlantic Ocean and sinks with the loss of more than 1,500 lives.
April 14 - Santos FC, a Brazilian association football club, is founded in State of Sao Paulo.
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.
* A Solar eclipse of [April 17, 1912|hybrid solar eclipse] is the 30th solar eclipse of Solar Saros 137.
April 18 - Cunard Line vessel arrives in New York with the 705 survivors.
April 20 - Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts opens.
April 24 - English association football club Barnsley win the FA Cup.
April 30 - Carl Laemmle founds Universal Studios as the Universal Film and Manufacturing Company in the United States.

May

May 1 - ʻAbdu'l-Bahá lays the cornerstone for the Bahá'í House of Worship in Wilmette, Illinois.
May 5 - The 1912 Summer Olympics open in Stockholm, Sweden. Modern Pentathlon is contested for the first time in these games.
May 11 - Alaska becomes a territory of the United States.
May 13 - In the United Kingdom, the Royal Flying Corps is established.
May 23 - The Hamburg America Line's is launched in Hamburg and is the world's largest ship.
May 30 - Pioneer aviator Wilbur Wright dies of typhoid fever in Dayton, Ohio.

June

June 6 - The Novarupta volcano is formed in Alaska by a VEI 6 eruption, the world's largest in the 20th century.
June 26 - Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 9 is premiered posthumously by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Bruno Walter.
June 30 - Regina Cyclone: Canada's deadliest tornado strikes Regina, Saskatchewan, killing 28 people.

July

July 1 - Harriet Quimby, who set the record as the first woman to fly the English Channel two months previously, 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

August 1 - The Jungfrau Railway is inaugurated with the opening of the subterranean Jungfraujoch railway station in the Bernese Oberland of Switzerland, Europe's highest at above sea level.
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.
August 12 - Sultan Abd al-Hafid of Morocco abdicates.
August 21 - The first Eagle Scout (Boy Scouts of America) earns his rank.
August 29 - A typhoon strikes China, killing at least 50,000 people.

September

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

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 in Milwaukee.
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.
October 18 - Italy and the Ottoman Empire sign a treaty in Ouchy near Lausanne, ending the Italo-Turkish War.
October 18-21 - First Balkan War: The Greek navy Battle of [Lemnos (1912)|captures] the island of Lemnos for use as a forward base against the Dardanelles.
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 The Story-Teller.

November

November 5 - 1912 United States presidential election: 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.
November 25 - Românul de la Pind, the longest-running newspaper by and about Aromanians until World War II, ceases publication.
November 28 - Albania declares independence from the Ottoman Empire.

December

December 3 - Bulgaria, Montenegro, and Serbia sign an armistice with the Ottoman Empire at Çatalca, temporarily halting the First Balkan War after 2 months.
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.
December 24 - Merck files patent applications in Germany for synthesis of the entactogenic drug MDMA, developed by Anton Köllisch.

Date unknown

Casimir Funk identifies vitamins.
Sylhet is reconstituted into the non-regulation Chief Commissioner's Province of Assam (Northeast Frontier Province).
The Scoville Unit 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 in the Punjab.
Ludwig von Mises publishes his foundational The Theory of Money and Credit in the original German.
Articulated trams are invented and first used by the Boston Elevated Railway.

Births

January

January 1
* Kim Philby, British spy
* Salah al-Din al-Bitar, Syrian politician, 2-time Prime Minister of Syria
* Abdul Salam Sabrah, 3-time Prime Minister of the Yemen Arab Republic
January 3 - Armand Lohikoski, Finnish director
January 5 - Gilbert Ralston, British-American screenwriter, television producer
January 6
* Jacques Ellul, French philosopher
* Danny Thomas, American actor, comedian
January 7
* Charles Addams, American cartoonist
* Ivan Yakubovsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union
January 8
* José Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor
* Lawrence E. Walsh, American jurist
January 9 - Basil Langton, English actor, authority on the stage works of George Bernard Shaw
January 10
* Jessie Lichauco, Cuban-born Filipino-American philanthropist
* Maria Mandl, Austrian concentration camp guard and war criminal
* Reinholds Robots, Latvian footballer
January 11 - Abdul Haq, Pakistani Islamic scholar
January 12 - Paul Birch, American actor
January 15 - Michel Debré, 99th Prime Minister of France
January 19 - Leonid Kantorovich, Russian economist, Nobel Prize laureate
January 21 - Konrad Emil Bloch, German-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
January 23 - Susan French, American actress
January 27
*Marc Daniels, American television director
* Arne Næss, Norwegian philosopher
* Francis Rogallo, American aeronautical engineer
January 28 - Jackson Pollock, American painter
January 30
* Werner Hartmann, German physicist
* Barbara Tuchman, American historian
* Francis Schaeffer, American Evangelical theologian, philosopher, and Presbyterian pastor
January 31
* Camilo Ponce Enríquez, 30th President of Ecuador
* Infanta Maria Adelaide of Portugal, Portuguese royal

February

February 2
* Millvina Dean, youngest passenger and last survivor of the Sinking of the RMS Titanic
February 3 - Lynn Patrick, Canadian ice hockey player, executive
February 4
* Erich Leinsdorf, Austrian conductor
* Byron Nelson, American golfer
February 6 - Eva Braun, Adolf Hitler's wife
February 7 - Roberta McCain, American socialite and oil heiress; mother of U.S. Senator John McCain
February 11 - Roy Fuller, English poet, novelist
February 14 - Juan Pujol García, Spanish Catalan double agent
February 19 - Ursula Torday, British writer
February 20 – Pierre Boulle, French author
February 27 - Lawrence Durrell, British writer
February 28 - Bertil, Duke of Halland|Bertil], Swedish prince, Duke of Halland
February 29 - Kamil Tolon, Turkish businessperson

March

March 1 - Boris Chertok, Polish-born Russian rocket designer
March 3
*Wally Cassell, Italian-born American actor
*Mary Keir, British supercentenarian
March 4
* Afro Basaldella, Italian painter
* Judith Furse, British character actress
* Carl Marzani, American documentarian
March 5
* David Astor, British newspaper publisher
* Jack Marshall, 28th Prime Minister of New Zealand
March 8 – Joachim Schepke, German submarine commander
March 9 - Francis Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce, 8th Baron Thurlow, British peer and diplomat
March 12 - Irving Layton, Canadian poet
March 13 - Charles Schepens, Belgian-American ophthalmologist
March 14
* Les Brown, American band leader
* W. Graham Claytor Jr., American railroad executive
* W. Willard Wirtz, American administrator
March 15 - Lightnin' Hopkins, American musician
March 16 - Pat Nixon, First Lady of the United States
March 17 - Bayard Rustin, African-American civil rights activist
March 18
* Lucien Laurin, Canadian horse trainer
* Art Gilmore, American radio, television announcer
March 19
* Adolf Galland, German general, World War II fighter ace
* William Frankland, British immunologist
March 20 - Ralph Hauenstein, American philanthropist and businessman
March 22
* Karl Malden, American actor
* Alfred Schwarzmann, German artistic gymnast
March 23 - Wernher von Braun, German-born American physicist, engineer
March 24 - Dorothy Height, American civil rights activist
March 25 - Jean Vilar, French stage actor
March 27 - James Callaghan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
March 29 - Hanna Reitsch, German aviator
March 31 - William Lederer, American writer

April

April 2 - Herbert Mills, American singer, "Mills Brothers" tenor
April 4 - Joie Chitwood, American racecar driver and businessman
April 5 - John Le Mesurier, British actor
April 7 - Jack Lawrence, American composer
April 8
* Alois Brunner, Austrian captain
* Sonja Henie, Norwegian figure skater
April 10
* Roy Hofheinz, American businessman, politician and creator of the Houston Astrodome
* Boris Kidrič, 1st Prime Minister of Slovenia
April 11 - Gusti Wolf, Austrian actress
April 12
* Hamengkubuwono IX, 9th Sultan of Yogyakarta and 2nd Vice President of Indonesia
* Oswaldo Louzada, Brazilian actor
* Walt Gorney, American actor
April 13 - William J. Tuttle, American makeup artist
April 14
*Joie Chitwood, American race at driver
* Robert Doisneau, French photographer
April 15 - Kim Il Sung, President of North Korea
April 16
* David Langton, British actor
* Catherine Scorsese, Italian-American actress
April 17 - Marta Eggerth, Hungarian-born American actress, singer
April 19 - Glenn T. Seaborg, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
April 22
* Kathleen Ferrier, British contralto
* Kaneto Shindō, Japanese film director
April 26 - A. E. van Vogt, Canadian-born writer
April 27 - Zohra Sehgal, Indian stage, film actress
April 28 - Odette Sansom, French World War II heroine

May

May 1
* Winthrop Rockefeller, American politician and philanthropist
* Otto Kretschmer, German submarine commander, Bundesmarine admiral
May 2
* Axel Springer, German journalist, founder and owner of Axel Springer AG
* Marten Toonder, Dutch comic creator
May 3
* Virgil Fox, American organist
* John Bryan Ward-Perkins, British archaeologist
May 5 - Judd L. Teller, author, historian, writer, poet
May 6 - Bill Quinn, American actor
May 8
* Dagny Carlsson, Swedish blogger
* Ptolemy Reid, 2nd Prime Minister of Guyana
May 9 - Pedro Armendáriz, Mexican actor
May 11 - Foster Brooks, American actor, comedian
May 12 - Mayavaram V. R. Govindaraja Pillai, Carnatic violinist from Tamil Nadu, Southern India
May 16 - Studs Terkel, American writer, broadcaster
May 17
* Archibald Cox, American Watergate special prosecutor
* Ace Parker, American baseball, football player
May 18
* Perry Como, American singer
* Walter Sisulu, South African anti-apartheid activist
May 20
* Edgar Bischoff, Romanian-born French composer
* Wilfrid Sellars, American philosopher
May 21
* Monty Stratton, American baseball player
* Akiva Vroman, Dutch-born Israeli geologist, Israel Prize recipient
May 22 - Herbert C. Brown, English-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
May 23
* Betty Astell, British actress
* Jean Françaix, French composer
* John Payne, American actor
May 25 - Princess Deokhye of Korea
May 26
* János Kádár, Hungarian Communist politician
* Jay Silverheels, native American actor
May 27
* John Cheever, American novelist, short story writer
* Cedric Phatudi, Chief Minister of Lebowa bantustan
* Sam Snead, American golfer
May 28
* Herman Johannes, Indonesian professor, scientist and politician
* Patrick White, Australian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
* Win Hickey, American socialite, politician, First Lady of Wyoming and one of the first woman to serve in the Wyoming Senate
May 29 - Pamela Hansford Johnson, English poet, novelist, playwright, literary and social critic
May 30
* Julius Axelrod, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
* Joseph Stein, American librettist
May 31
* Alfred Deller, English countertenor
* Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson, American politician

June

June 4 - Robert Jacobsen, Danish artist
June 5 - Dean Amadon, American ornithologist
June 6 - Maria Montez, Dominican actress
June 8
* Harry Holtzman, American artist
* Walter Kennedy, American NBA commissioner
June 9 - Philip Simmons, American ornamental ironworker
June 11
* Phạm Hùng, Vietnamese prime minister
* Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum, 2nd Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates
June 12 - Russell Hayden, American actor
June 15 - Fanny Schoonheyt, Dutch Communist fighter in the Spanish Civil War.
June 16 - Enoch Powell, British politician
June 21 - Kazimierz Leski, Polish engineer, fighter pilot, intelligence and counter-intelligence officer
June 22 - Raymonde Allain, French model, actress
June 23
* Samson Kisekka, Ugandan politician
* Alan Turing, British mathematician
June 24 - Mary Wesley, English novelist
June 25
* Carvalho Leite, Brazilian football player
* William T. Cahill, American politician
June 26
* Roxy Atkins, Canadian hurdler
* Jan Falkowski, Polish fighter ace
June 27
* E. R. Braithwaite, Guyanese novelist, writer, teacher, and diplomat
* Wilbur Jackett, Canadian scholar, public servant, jurist, and the first chief justice of the Federal Court of Canada
June 28 - Glenn Morris, American Olympic athlete
June 29 - Émile Peynaud, French oenologist, researcher
June 30
* María Luisa Dehesa Gómez Farías, Mexican architect
* Ludwig Bölkow, German aeronautical engineer

July

July 1
* Ulla Barding-Poulsen, Danish fencer
* David R. Brower, American environmentalist
* Pinhas Scheinman, Israeli politician
* Sally Kirkland, American fashion editor
July 2 - Edwin L. Mechem, American politician
July 3 - John Buchan Ross, British Royal Air Force officer
July 4 - Said Akl, Lebanese poet, philosopher, writer, playwright and language reformer
July 5 - Uolevi Raade, Finnish industrialist
July 6
* Molly Yard, American feminist
* Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer, explorer
July 7
*Robert Cornog, American physicist and engineer
*Gérard Lecointe, French general
July 8 - Christel Goltz, German operatic soprano
July 9 - Editta Sherman, Italian-American photographer
July 11 - Peta Taylor, English cricketer
July 12
* Petar Stambolić, Yugoslav communist politician
* Felix Zwolanowski, German international footballer
July 13 - Suzanne Haïk-Vantoura, French organist, music teacher, composer and music theorist
July 14
* Eben Bartlett, American military officer and politician
* Woody Guthrie, American folk music singer, songwriter, and musician, best known for his song This Land Is Your Land
July 15
* Helen Roberts, English singer, actress
* Aleksandar Goldštajn, Croatian university professor, law scholar, writer and constitutional court judge
July 16
* Amy Patterson, Argentine composer, singer, poet, and teacher
* Ben Bril, Dutch boxer
July 17
* Irene Manning, American actress and singer
* Art Linkletter, American radio and television host, best known as the host of House Party
July 18
* Leonid Chulkov, Soviet Navy Leader, Vice Admiral
* Max Rousié, French rugby footballer
July 19 - Peter Leo Gerety, American Catholic prelate
July 20
* Lucette Destouches, French classical dancer
* Hideo Itokawa, Japanese aircraft designer, rocketry pioneer
* John Vivian Dacie, British haematologist
* Jack Durrance, American rock climber, mountaineer
July 21 - Mollie Moon, American civil rights activist
July 28 - George Cisar, American actor
July 31
* Milton Friedman, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
* Irv Kupcinet, American newspaper columnist

August

August 1
* Frank K. Edmondson, American astronomer
* Donald Seawell, American theater producer, newspaper publisher
August 2 - Palle Huld, Danish actor
August 3 - Fritz Hellwig, German politician, European Commissioner for Science & Research
August 4 - Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish humanitarian
August 5 - Jacques Delannoy, French footballer
August 7 - Võ Chí Công, Vietnamese Communist politician
August 9 - Anne Brown, American soprano
August 10 - Jorge Amado, Brazilian author
August 11 - Norman Levinson, American mathematician
August 13
* Ben Hogan, American golfer
* Salvador Luria, Italian-born biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
August 15
* Julia Child, American television chef
* Ustad Amir Khan, Indian classical vocal singer
* Naoto Tajima, Japanese athlete
August 16
* Ted Drake, English footballer
* Wendy Hiller, English actress
* Edward J. York, American air force colonel, participant of the Doolittle Raid
August 18 - Otto Ernst Remer, German Wehrmacht officer
August 23
* Nelson Rodrigues, Brazilian playwright, journalist and novelist
* Gene Kelly, American actor, dancer and film director
August 25 - Erich Honecker, East German politician
August 26 - John Tinniswood, British supercentenarian
August 27
* Gloria Guinness, Mexican-born English fashion icon
* José Laurel Jr., Filipino politician
August 29 - Son Kitei, Japanese athlete
August 30
* Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
* Nancy Wake, New Zealand-born World War II heroine
August 31 - Katsumi Tezuka, Japanese actor

September

September 1 - Gwynfor Evans, Welsh politician
September 5
* John Cage, American composer
* Kristina Söderbaum, German actress
* Frank Thomas (animator), American animator and pianist
September 7 - David Packard, American electrical engineer
September 10 - Mary Walter, Filipino actress
September 14 - Eduard von Falz-Fein, Russian-born art patron
September 15
* Antonio Blanco, Spanish American Painter
* Ismail Yassine, Egyptian comedian, actor
September 19
* Kurt Sanderling, German conductor
* Michael Wright, Hong Kong architect
September 21
* Chuck Jones, American animator
* György Sándor, Hungarian pianist
September 22
* Herbert Mataré, German physicist, European co-inventor of the transistor
* Martha Scott, American actress
September 24 - Don Porter, American actor
September 27 - Tauno Marttinen, Finnish composer
September 29
* Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian film director
* Lukas Ammann, Swiss actor

October

October 1 - Kathleen Ollerenshaw, English mathematician
October 4 - Meredith Bordeaux, American politician
October 5
* Karl Hass, German Nazi war criminal
* João Marinho Neto, Brazilian supercentenarian, world's oldest verified living man
October 6 - Perkins Bass, American politician
October 7 - Fernando Belaúnde, 42nd and 43rd President of Peru
October 11 - Fedora Alemán, Venezuelan soprano singer
October 12
* Muhammad Shamsul Huq, Bangladeshi academic and Minister of Foreign Affairs
* Grigory Kravchenko, Soviet test pilot and air force general
October 13 - Cornel Wilde, Hungarian actor, film director
October 15 - Nellie Lutcher, American singer
October 16 - Clifford Hansen, American politician
October 17 - Pope John Paul I, Italian churchman
October 18 - Philibert Tsiranana, Prime Minister and President of Madagascar
October 21 - Georg Solti, Hungarian conductor
October 22
* Johan Hendrik Weidner, Belgian World War II resistance fighter
* George N. Leighton, American judge
October 24 - Murray Golden, American television director
October 25 - Minnie Pearl, American humorist
October 26 - Ed Reimers, American actor, television announcer
October 27 - Conlon Nancarrow, American composer
October 28 - Richard Doll, English physiologist, epidemiologist
October 30 - Preston Lockwood, English actor/writer
October 31 - Ollie Johnston, American animator
October 31 - Dale Evans, American singer, actress

November

November 3 - Alfredo Stroessner, President of Paraguay
November 4 - Vadim Salmanov, Russian composer
November 6
* George Cakobau, 2nd Governor-General of Fiji
* Toke Townley, English actor
November 8
* June Havoc, Canadian actress
* Stylianos Pattakos, Greek military officer
November 10
* Birdie Tebbetts, American baseball player, manager
* Jean-Hilaire Aubame, Gabonese politician
November 11 - Larry LaPrise, American songwriter
November 13 - Claude Pompidou, wife of French President Georges Pompidou
November 14
* Barbara Hutton, American socialite
* T. Y. Lin, Chinese-born civil engineer
November 16
* George O. Petrie, American actor
* W. E. D. Ross, Canadian writer
November 18 - Hilda Nickson, née Hilda Pressley, British novelist
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 in exile
November 21 - Eleanor Powell, American actress, dancer
November 23
* Virginia Prince, American transgender activist
* George O'Hanlon, American actor, TV writer
* Paul Rivière, French Resistance fighter, politician
November 24 - Bernard Delfgaauw, Dutch philosopher
November 27 - Connie Sawyer, American actress
November 29 - Viola Smith, American drummer
November 30
* Hugo del Carril, Argentine film actor, film director and tango singer
* Gordon Parks, African-American photographer, artist
* Nihat Erim, Turkish politician, jurist and 30th Prime Minister of Turkey

December

December 1
*Billy Raimondi, American baseball player
*Minoru Yamasaki, Japanese-American architect of the World Trade Center
December 2 - Boun Oum, 2-time Prime Minister of Laos
December 4 - Pappy Boyington, American pilot, United States Marine Corps fighter ace
December 5
*Keisuke Kinoshita, Japanese film director
*Sonny Boy Williamson II, American blues singer, musician and songwriter
December 9 - Blanche Blackwell, Costa Rican-born Jamaican socialite
December 10 - Philip Hart, American politician
December 11 - Carlo Ponti, Italian film producer
December 12
* Henry Armstrong, American boxer
* René Toribio, Guadeloupean politician
December 14
* Alfred Lennon, British merchant seaman, amateur musician and father of John Lennon
* Milner Baily Schaefer, American fisheries scientist
December 17 - Edward Short, British politician
December 21 - Jean Conan Doyle, British military officer in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force
December 22 - Lady Bird Johnson, First Lady of the United States
December 24
* Natalino Otto, Italian singer
* John Henderson, American football player
December 26 - Arsenio Lacson, Filipino politician, sportswriter
December 27 - Conroy Maddox, British painter

Date unknown

Sheikh Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein, Interim President of Somalia
Walt Partymiller, American cartoonist

Deaths

January

January 3
* Felix Dahn, German writer
* Robley D. Evans, American admiral
January 4 - Clarence Dutton, American geologist
January 7 - Sophia Jex-Blake, English physician and feminist
January 14 - Samuel Waite Johnson, British railway engineer
January 16 - Georg Heym, German writer
January 28
* Gustave de Molinari, Belgian economist
* Eloy Alfaro, 2-Time President of Ecuador
January 29
* Herman Bang, Danish writer
* Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife, Scottish aristocrat and politician
January 30 - Luis Cordero Crespo, 14th President of Ecuador

February

February 4 - Franz Reichelt, Austrian-born French tailor and inventor
February 9 - Hyacinthe Loyson, French preacher and theologian
February 10 - Joseph Lister, English surgeon
February 11 - Agustín Lizárraga, Peruvian explorer and farmer, discoverer of Machu Picchu, drowned
February 16 - Nicholas of Japan, Eastern Orthodox monk and saint
February 17
* Count Alois Lexa von Aehrenthal, foreign minister
* Edgar Evans, Welsh naval officer, member of the Scott expedition to the South Pole
February 21 - Osborne Reynolds, Irish physicist
February 25 - William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
February 28
* Henry Hendrickson, United States Navy seaman
* Bill Storer, English footballer and cricketer

March

March 1
* George Grossmith, English actor and comic writer
* Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg, Prime Minister of Denmark
March 3 - Oskar Enqvist, Russian admiral
March 4 - Augusto Aubry, Italian admiral and politician
March 17
* Anna Filosofova, Russian feminist activist
* Lawrence Oates, English army officer, member of the Scott expedition to the South Pole
March 22 - Ruggero Oddi, Italian physiologist and anatomist
March 29 - Remaining members of the Scott expedition to the South Pole:
* Henry Robertson Bowers, Scottish naval officer
* Robert Falcon Scott, British naval officer and explorer
* Edward Adrian Wilson, English physician and naturalist
March 30 - Karl May, German author
March 31 - Robert Love Taylor, American congressman, senator and Governor from Tennessee

April

April 3 - Calbraith Perry Rodgers, American aviation pioneer, in aircraft accident
April 6 - Giovanni Pascoli, Italian poet
April 10 - Gabriel Monod, French historian
April 12
* Clara Barton, American nurse
* Frederick Dent Grant, American soldier and statesman
April 13 - Ishikawa Takuboku, Japanese author
April 14 - Henri Brisson, French statesman
April 15 - 1,517 victims of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, including:
* Thomas Andrews, Irish shipbuilder
* John Jacob Astor IV, American businessman
* Archibald Butt, American presidential aide
* Thomas Byles, British Catholic priest
* Jacques Futrelle, American mystery author and journalist
* Luigi Gatti, Italian-born restaurateur
* Sidney Leslie Goodwin, English toddler; youngest victim of the Titanic disaster, unidentified until 2007
* Benjamin Guggenheim, American businessman
* Henry B. Harris, American theater producer
* Wallace Hartley, English ship's bandleader and violinist
* Charles Melville Hays, American railroad executive
* Francis Davis Millet, American painter, sculptor and writer
* Clarence Moore, American businessman and sportsman
* William McMaster Murdoch, First Officer of the Titanic
* Jack Phillips, English ship's senior wireless officer
* Edward Smith, English ship's captain
* William Thomas Stead, English campaigning journalist
* Isidor Straus, German American department store owner and member of United States House of Representatives
* Ida Straus, German American wife of Isidor Straus
* John B. Thayer, American businessman and sportsman
* Frank M. Warren Sr., American businessman
* George Dunton Widener, American businessman
* Harry Elkins Widener, American bibliophile, son of George Dunton Widener
* Henry Tingle Wilde, Chief Officer of the Titanic
April 18 - Martha Ripley, American physician and suffragist
April 19 - Patricio Escobar, 9th President of Paraguay
April 20 - Bram Stoker, Irish writer

May

May 4 - Nettie Stevens, American geneticist credited with discovering sex chromosomes
May 5 - Rafael Pombo, Colombian poet
May 14
* Frederik VIII of Denmark
* August Strindberg, Swedish playwright and painter
May 19
* Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo, Spanish historian, philologist and literary critic
* Bolesław Prus, Polish novelist
May 21 - Sir Julius Wernher, German-born British businessman and art collector
May 25 - Austin Lane Crothers, American politician
May 28 - Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, French chemist
May 30 - Wilbur Wright, American aviation pioneer, of typhoid

June

June 1 - Philip Orin Parmelee, American aviator, in aircraft accident
June 9 - Ion Luca Caragiale, Romanian writer
June 10 - Anton Aškerc, Slovene poet
June 11 - Léon Dierx, French poet
June 12 - Frédéric Passy, French economist, recipient of the Peace Prize">Nobel Peace Prize">Peace Prize
June 16 - Thomas Pollock Anshutz, American painter
June 24 - Sir George White, British field marshal
June 25
* Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Dutch-born British painter, died in Germany
* Louis-Joseph Antoine, Belgian miner and sect leader
* Hubert Latham, French aviator
June 27
* George Bonnor, Australian cricketer
* Frank Furness, American architect
June 30 - Eduardo Blanco, Venezuelan writer and politician

July

July 1 - Harriet Quimby, American aviator
July 2 - Tom Richardson, English cricketer
July 5 - Robert Sutherland, Canadian politician, Ontario MPP
July 14 - Belle L. Pettigrew, American educator, missionary
July 15 - Francisco Lázaro, Portuguese marathon runner
July 17 - Henri Poincaré, French mathematician
July 30
* Emperor Meiji of Japan
* Juan Gualberto González, 11th President of Paraguay
July 31 - Allan Octavian Hume, British civil servant

August

August 7 - François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss hydrologist
August 8 - Ross Winn, American anarchist writer and publisher
August 13 - Jules Massenet, French composer
August 20
* William Booth, English founder of the Salvation Army
* Walter Goodman, English painter, illustrator and author

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