About the day » Thursday May 12, 1910Calender converter

• Albertus Aloisius van der Meijden, Lonneker, Overijssel, Nederland († 1972)
• Adriana Maria Bolwerk, Schijndel
• Alexander Cornelis Maria Terhorst, Bergen op Zoom († 1931)
• Aartje (Everttje) roepnaam Eef Drost, Nunspeet († 1991)
• Aagje Floor, Nwe-Niedorp
• Aalt van den Bosch, Doornspijk, Nederland († 1910)
• Aartje Drost, Nunspeet († 1991)
• Adrianus Wesselius, Alkemade († 2001)
• Aafke de Jonge, Avereest, Overijssel, Nederland († 1997)
• Aalt van den Bosch, Doornspijk, Gelderland, NL († 1910)

• Anna Elisabeth Van Melick (1), Maasniel
• Adriana Borgo (71), Kruiningen
• Barteld Roelofs Koning (86), Gelderingen
• Auke Douwes Dijkstra (63), St. Annaparochie
• Antonius van Bakel (0), Vught, NL
• Abram Ouwehand (0), Katwijk
• Anna Catherine ( Berta ) Spanhake (62), Creston, Platte, Nebraska, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Maria Simons, Princenhage, Breda
• Berend Klein Haneveld (8), Deventer
• Augustinus Bernardus Albregts (5), Retranchement, Zeeland, Nederland

• 1907 » Katharine Hepburn, American actress († 2003)
• 1907 » Leslie Charteris, English author and screenwriter († 1993)
• 1908 » Nicholas Kaldor, Hungarian-English economist († 1986)
• 1910 » Dorothy Hodgkin, English biochemist, crystallographer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1994)
• 1910 » Gordon Jenkins, American pianist and composer († 1984)
• 1910 » James Dudley, American baseball player, wrestling manager and executive († 2004)
• 1910 » Johan Ferrier, Surinamese educator and politician, 1st President of Suriname († 2010)
• 1911 » Charles Biro, American author and illustrator († 1972)
• 1912 » Henry Jonsson, Swedish runner († 2001)
• 1912 » Marshal Royal, American saxophonist and clarinet player († 1995)

• 1876 » Georgi Benkovski, Bulgarian activist (b. 1843)
• 1878 » Anselme Payen, French chemist and academic (b. 1795)
• 1884 » Bedřich Smetana, Czech composer and educator (b. 1824)
• 1907 » Joris-Karl Huysmans, French author and critic (b. 1848)
• 1916 » James Connolly, Scottish-born Irish socialist and rebel leader (b. 1868)
• 1925 » Amy Lowell, American poet and critic (b. 1874)
• 1931 » Eugène Ysaÿe, Belgian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1858)
• 1935 » Józef Piłsudski, Polish field marshal and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1867)
• 1944 » Arthur Quiller-Couch, English author, poet, and critic (b. 1863)
• 1944 » Max Brand, American journalist and author (b. 1892)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Adrianus
10. Jacob
11. Jacobus
12. Wilhelmus
13. Arie
14. Gerardus
15. Dirk
16. Hendrikus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Adriana
8. Catharina
9. Hendrika
10. Jacoba
11. Petronella
12. Grietje
13. Geertruida
14. Helena
15. Aaltje
16. Neeltje

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.9 million citizens.
• April 28 » Frenchman Louis Paulhan wins the 1910 London to Manchester air race, the first long-distance aeroplane race in England.
• June 2 » Charles Rolls, a co-founder of Rolls-Royce Limited, becomes the first man to make a non-stop double crossing of the English Channel by plane.
• September 20 » The ocean liner SSFrance, later known as the "Versailles of the Atlantic", is launched.
• September 22 » The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.
• September 26 » Indian journalist Swadeshabhimani Ramakrishna Pillai is arrested after publishing criticism of the government of Travancore and is exiled.
• November 10 » The date of Thomas A. Davis' opening of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, although the official founding date is November 23, 1910.

The temperature on May 12, 1910 was between 7.9 °C and 20.6 °C and averaged 14.2 °C. There was 13.0 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.