About the day » Tuesday October 29, 1912Calender converter

• Albert Hartkamp, Wechterholt (Wijhe)
• Alvin Peterson, Eurek († 1969)
• Albertina Arnolda Anneveld, Arnhem, Gelderland, Netherlands († 2001)
• Abraham Pieter de Veij, Zuidzande, Nederland († 1986)
• Alice Mabel Richards († 2002)
• Anna Bosman, Heerde, Gelderland, Nederland († 2004)
• Andries Meggeleendert Lesterhuis, Groningen,, Groningen, Nederland († 1951)
• Albert Mulder, Westerbork, Drenthe, Nederland
• Agatha Roodenburg, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albertus Petrus Gradussen, Winssen,, Gelderland, Nederland († 1986)

• ANNA GERTRUDIS KNUBBEN (48), Hulsberg
• Anna-Maria VAN DER AUWERA (77), Tessenderlo(B)
• Antonius Hendrikus Altink (77), Rijssen
• Cornelia van der Heijden (85), Bladel en Netersel
• Arabella Alice Marlin Westfall [AWd Bu] (41), Evansville, Indiana
• Albert POPKEN (51), Assen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anna Cornelia Oonincx (78), Etten-Leur
• Aalt Van Den Ham (71), Ede, Gelderland, Nederland
• Clementina Hendrika Illegems, Sint Amands
• Caspard Detrez (55), Fexhe-Slins-Juprelle prov. Luik

• 1905 » Henry Green, English author († 1973)
• 1906 » Fredric Brown, American author († 1972)
• 1907 » Edwige Feuillère, French actress († 1998)
• 1910 » A. J. Ayer, English philosopher and author († 1989)
• 1913 » Al Suomi, American ice hockey player and referee († 2014)
• 1914 » Maxim of Bulgaria, Bulgarian patriarch († 2012)
• 1915 » William Berenberg, American physician and academic († 2005)
• 1918 » Bernard Gordon, American screenwriter and producer († 2007)
• 1918 » Diana Serra Cary, American actress and author († 2020)
• 1920 » Baruj Benacerraf, Venezuelan-American physician and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 2011)

• 1892 » William Harnett, American painter (b. 1848)
• 1897 » Henry George, American journalist, philosopher, and economist (b. 1839)
• 1901 » Leon Czolgosz, American assassin of William McKinley (b. 1873)
• 1905 » Étienne Desmarteau, Canadian weight thrower and shot putter (b. 1873)
• 1911 » Joseph Pulitzer, Hungarian-American publisher, lawyer, and politician, founded Pulitzer, Inc. (b. 1847)
• 1916 » John Sebastian Little, American lawyer and politician, 21st Governor of Arkansas (b. 1851)
• 1918 » Rudolf Tobias, Estonian-German organist and composer (b. 1873)
• 1919 » Albert Benjamin Simpson, Canadian preacher, theologian, and author, founded the Christian and Missionary Alliance (b. 1843)
• 1924 » Frances Hodgson Burnett, English-American novelist and playwright (b. 1849)
• 1932 » Joseph Babinski, French neurologist and academic (b. 1857)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Adriana
8. Catharina
9. Hendrika
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Grietje
13. Aaltje
14. Geertruida
15. Helena
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 6.0 million citizens.
• January 8 » The African National Congress is founded, under the name South African Native National Congress (SANNC).
• February 14 » Arizona is admitted as the 48th and the last contiguous U.S. state.
• April 15 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,227 passengers and crew on board survive.
• May 4 » Italy occupies the Greek island of Rhodes.
• June 4 » Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage.
• October 19 » Italo-Turkish War: Italy takes possession of what is now Libya from the Ottoman Empire.

The temperature on October 29, 1912 was between 9.0 °C and 14.6 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (9%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.