About the day » Tuesday March 12, 1872Calender converter

• ADRIANUS de Boed, Oude-Tonge, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Wieferink, Hardenberg
• Adelaide Louise "Adaline" Richard Died of Meningitis on the same day as her 2 brothers, Clare, Clare, Michigan, United States († 1909)
• Adriaan Verschelling, Axel, Zeeland, Nederland, Nederland († 1953)
• Andries Lohstroh (Lohstro), Mijdrecht, Nederland († 1923)
• Abraham Charles Tobias Homuth, Turnberry, Huron, Ontario, Canada († 1953)
• Anna Wijnmalen, Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1873)
• Angenitha Maria Regoor, Utrecht († 1874)
• Alfons Pyl, Temse
• Allen Arthur Achey, Quakertown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, VS († 1948)

• Antonij Nijemeisland (52), Ruurlo
• Andries Houwen (24), Bellingwolde, Groningen, Nederland
• August Cocquyt (6), Adegem, OVL, B
• Anna Adelheid Maria Drees (69), Rühle, Meppen, D
• Anthonie de Klerk (1), Vlissingen, Walcheren, NL
• Ann Shrubsole (76), Stoke Newington, London, England
• Abram HENDRICKS
• Barteld Adolf van Schuijlenborgh (77), Renkum
• Andries Kreijt (65), Ommerschans
• Antonius Johannes Beumer (0), Bergh, 7041, Nederland

• 1863 » Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian soldier, journalist, poet, and playwright († 1938)
• 1863 » Vladimir Vernadsky, Russian and Ukrainian mineralogist and chemist († 1945)
• 1864 » W. H. R. Rivers, English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist, and psychiatrist († 1922)
• 1869 » George Forbes, New Zealand politician, 22nd Prime Minister of New Zealand († 1947)
• 1874 » Edmund Eysler, Austrian composer († 1949)
• 1877 » Wilhelm Frick, German lawyer and politician, German Federal Minister of the Interior († 1946)
• 1878 » Gemma Galgani, Italian mystic and saint († 1903)
• 1880 » Henry Drysdale Dakin, English-American chemist and academic († 1952)
• 1881 » Väinö Tanner, Finnish politician of Social Democratic Party of Finland († 1966)
• 1882 » Carlos Blanco Galindo, Bolivian politician († 1943)

• 1898 » Zachris Topelius, Finnish-Swedish journalist, historian, and author (b. 1818)
• 1916 » Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian author (b. 1830)
• 1925 » Sun Yat-sen, Chinese physician and politician, 1st President of the Republic of China (b. 1866)
• 1929 » Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman and politician, 44th Mayor of Atlanta (b. 1851)
• 1935 » Mihajlo Pupin, Serbian-American physicist and chemist (b. 1858)
• 1942 » William Henry Bragg, English physicist, chemist, and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
• 1943 » Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (b. 1869)
• 1946 » Ferenc Szálasi, Hungarian soldier and politician, Head of State of Hungary (b. 1897)
• 1949 » Wilhelm Steinkopf, German chemist (b. 1879)
• 1954 » Marianne Weber, German sociologist and suffragist (b. 1870)

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from January 4, 1871 to July 6, 1872 the cabinet Thorbecke III, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
• From July 6, 1872 till August 27, 1874 the Netherlands had a cabinet De Vries - Fransen van de Putte with the prime ministers Mr. G. de Vries Azn. (liberaal) and I.D. Fransen van de Putte (liberaal).
• The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
• January 12 » Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first imperial coronation in that city in over 200 years.
• March 5 » George Westinghouse patents the air brake.
• May 10 » Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman nominated for President of the United States.
• May 22 » Reconstruction Era: President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Amnesty Act into law, restoring full civil and political rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers.
• July 18 » The Ballot Act 1872 in the United Kingdom introduced the requirement that parliamentary and local government elections be held by secret ballot.
• December 21 » Challenger expedition: HMSChallenger, commanded by Captain George Nares, sails from Portsmouth, England.

The temperature on March 12, 1872 was about 5.2 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-southeast. The atmospheric humidity was 74%.