About the day » Monday July 12, 1909Calender converter

• Adriana Johanna Schipper, Bergschenhoek, Gemeente Lansingerland, Zuid-Holland, NEDERLAND
• Abraham van Luik, Terneuzen († 1995)
• , 2e exloermond († 1987)
• Adriana Maria de Jonge, Ovezande,ZL († 1993)
• Adrianus Hendrikus Alphonsius de Bot, Hank, Altena, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1909)
• Andries Verkerk, Reeuwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1939)
• Alphonse Victor Joseph Stevens, Wellen, België († 1975)
• Hoek, Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1909)
• Adriana Cornelia Rijken, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Antoniusdr Vlaminckx, Boxtel († 1984)

• Barbera van Gestel (87), Nieuwkuijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus Mertens (82), Roosendaal, Noord-Brabant, Nl
• Arend Jan Franken (74), Wiene, Ambt Delden, Overijssel, Netherlands
• Adriana Abrahamse (93), Zoutelande, Zeeland, NL
• Bart Lievaart (81), Rozenburg, 3181, Nederland
• Antonie van Leeuwen (75), Opijnen, Nederland
• Antonie van Leeuwen (75), Opijnen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adrianus Gravekamp (6), Velsen
• Annaatje Hin (78), Den Burg
• Aren Wervers (59), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, NL

• 1907 » Weary Dunlop, Australian colonel and surgeon († 1993)
• 1908 » Alain Cuny, French actor († 1994)
• 1908 » Milton Berle, American comedian and actor († 2002)
• 1908 » Paul Runyan, American golfer and sportscaster († 2002)
• 1909 » Fritz Leonhardt, German engineer, designed Fernsehturm Stuttgart († 1999)
• 1909 » Herbert Zim, American naturalist, author, and educator († 1994)
• 1909 » Joe DeRita, American actor († 1993)
• 1909 » Motoichi Kumagai, Japanese photographer and illustrator († 2010)
• 1911 » Evald Mikson, Estonian footballer († 1993)
• 1913 » Willis Lamb, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2008)

• 1892 » Alexander Cartwright, American firefighter, invented baseball (b. 1820)
• 1910 » Charles Rolls, English engineer and businessman, co-founded Rolls-Royce Limited (b. 1887)
• 1926 » Charles Wood Irish composer (b. 1866)
• 1926 » Gertrude Bell, English archaeologist and spy (b. 1868)
• 1929 » Robert Henri, American painter and educator (b. 1865)
• 1931 » Nathan Söderblom, Swedish archbishop, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)
• 1934 » Ole Evinrude, Norwegian-American inventor and businessman, invented the outboard motor (b. 1877)
• 1935 » Alfred Dreyfus, French colonel (b. 1859)
• 1944 » Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., American general and politician, Governor of Puerto Rico (b. 1887)
• 1945 » Boris Galerkin, Russian mathematician and engineer (b. 1871)

• 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 5.8 million citizens.
• January 9 » Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, plants the British flag 97 nautical miles (180km; 112mi) from the South Pole, the farthest anyone had ever reached at that time.
• March 4 » U.S. President William Taft used what became known as a Saxbe fix, a mechanism to avoid the restriction of the U.S. Constitution's Ineligibility Clause, to appoint Philander C. Knox as U.S. Secretary of State.
• March 10 » By signing the Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909, Thailand relinquishes its sovereignty over the Malay states of Kedah, Kelantan, Perlis and Terengganu, which become British protectorates.
• April 13 » The military of the Ottoman Empire reverses the Ottoman countercoup of 1909 to force the overthrow of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
• December 4 » In Canadian football, the First Grey Cup game is played. The University of Toronto Varsity Blues defeat the Toronto Parkdale Canoe Club, 26–6.
• December 4 » The Montreal Canadiens ice hockey club, the oldest surviving professional hockey franchise in the world, is founded as a charter member of the National Hockey Association.

The temperature on July 12, 1909 was between 10.4 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 13.4 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.