About the day » Tuesday August 13, 1912Calender converter

• Antonia Steenbergen, Amsterdam,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Louisa Maria (Jeanne) Rooij, de, Sas van Gent († 1994)
• Angelina Magdaline Johanna Heath, Thorngrove, Eastern Province, Soutb Africa († 1985)
• Annigje Moes, Diever, Drenthe, Nederland
• (Stillborn) JACKSON, Lancefield Victoria Australia († 1912)
• Abram de Melker, Rotterdam
• Anje Doornbos, Leermens ('t Zandt) († 1945)
• Anthonia Maria Jansens, Ellewoutsdijk († 1914)
• Antonia Kujis, Vlijmen († 1913)
• Adrianus Bernardus (1) van Riet, Utrecht († 1913)

• (Stillborn) JACKSON (0), Lancefield Victoria Australia
• Adrianus Rijvers (38), Breda
• Angela Desplentere (0), Zedelgem
• Aart Plaizier (Plaisier) (71), Rotterdam
• Augustinus Laurentius Defraye (Defraeye) (72), Vlissegem
• Adriaan Veraert (79), Etten-Leur
• Aaron Wittelshofer (55), Leavenworth (US)
• Adriaan Veraert (79), Etten, Noord-Brabant (Nederland)
• Anna Maria Niekus (61), Wildervank, Nederland
• Antonie Smits (2), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1907 » Basil Spence, Scottish architect, designed Coventry Cathedral († 1976)
• 1908 » Gene Raymond, American actor and pilot († 1998)
• 1911 » William Bernbach, American advertiser, co-founded DDB Worldwide († 1982)
• 1912 » Ben Hogan, American golfer and sportscaster († 1997)
• 1912 » Claire Cribbs, American basketball player and coach († 1985)
• 1912 » Salvador Luria, Italian-American microbiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1991)
• 1913 » Fred Davis, English snooker player († 1998)
• 1913 » Makarios III, Greek archbishop and politician, 1st President of Cyprus († 1977)
• 1914 » Grace Bates, American mathematician and academic († 1996)
• 1917 » Sid Gordon, American baseball player († 1975)

• 1863 » Eugène Delacroix, French painter and lithographer (b. 1798)
• 1865 » Ignaz Semmelweis, Hungarian physician and obstetrician (b. 1818)
• 1910 » Florence Nightingale, Italian-English nurse and theologian (b. 1820)
• 1912 » Jules Massenet, French composer (b. 1842)
• 1917 » Eduard Buchner, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1860)
• 1934 » Mary Hunter Austin, American author and playwright (b. 1868)
• 1937 » Sigizmund Levanevsky, Soviet aircraft pilot of Polish origin (b. 1902)
• 1946 » H. G. Wells, English novelist, historian, and critic (b. 1866)
• 1954 » Demetrius Constantine Dounis, Greek violinist and mandolin player (b. 1886)
• 1958 » Francis J. McCormick, American football, basketball player, and coach (b. 1903)

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).
• January 23 » The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague.
• September 28 » The Ulster Covenant is signed by some 500,000 Ulster Protestant Unionists in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill.
• November 28 » Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.
• 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 19 » William Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over one thousand people, is pardoned by U.S. President William Howard Taft after ​3⁄₂ years in Sing Sing prison.

The temperature on August 13, 1912 was between 7.3 °C and 14.5 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was 3.5 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.