About the day » Saturday August 12, 1911Calender converter

• Andrew Harold Coote, Orepuki, Southland District, Southland, New Zealand († 1995)
• Aaltje Hut, Zuidbroek, Nederland
• Aaltje de Wit, Surhuisterveen († 1911)
• Albert Gerrit Renkema, Hardenberg († 1989)
• Alfred Joseph Courlander, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1912)
• Kleuters, Jabeek († 1984)
• Alphonsus Maria Johan van den Dungen, Herwen en Aerdt, Nederland
• Netten, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• de Kievid, Veenendaal († 1911)
• Aafje de Goede, Beemster, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2004)

• Westerman (0), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Albert Wagenaar (0), Wildervank, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna Christina Elisabeth KEUNE (77), Amsterdam, 1000, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Wilhelmina Wittenberg (0), Berghem
• Andries van Zadel (34), Heemstede
• de Kievid (0), Veenendaal
• Aaltje Bruintjes (71), Vollenhove (Barsbeek)
• Adriaan Schreij (0), Driel
• Aaltje Jans Bruintjes (71), Barsbeek, Ambt Vollenhove
• Anneke Jans Dijkstra (74), Hallum, Ferwerderadeel, Friesland, Nederland

• 1907 » Gladys Bentley, American blues singer († 1960)
• 1907 » Joe Besser, American actor († 1988)
• 1909 » Bruce Matthews, Canadian general and businessman († 1991)
• 1910 » Jane Wyatt, American actress († 2006)
• 1910 » Yusof bin Ishak, Singaporean journalist and politician, 1st President of Singapore († 1970)
• 1911 » Cantinflas, Mexican actor, screenwriter, and producer († 1993)
• 1912 » Samuel Fuller, American actor, director, and screenwriter († 1997)
• 1913 » Richard L. Bare, American director, producer, and screenwriter († 2015)
• 1914 » Gerd Buchdahl, German-English philosopher and author († 2001)
• 1914 » Ruth Lowe, Canadian pianist and songwriter († 1981)

• 1896 » Thomas Chamberlain, American colonel (b. 1841)
• 1900 » Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian chess player and theoretician (b. 1836)
• 1901 » Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Finnish-Swedish botanist, geologist, mineralogist, and explorer (b. 1832)
• 1904 » William Renshaw, English tennis player (b. 1861)
• 1914 » John Philip Holland, Irish engineer, designed HMSHolland 1 (b. 1840)
• 1918 » William Thompson, American archer (b. 1848)
• 1921 » Pyotr Boborykin, Russian playwright and journalist (b. 1836)
• 1922 » Arthur Griffith, Irish journalist and politician, 3rd President of Dáil Éireann (b. 1871)
• 1924 » Sándor Bródy, Hungarian journalist and author (b. 1863)
• 1928 » Leoš Janáček, Czech composer and educator (b. 1854)

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. Gerardus
14. Arie
15. Dirk
16. Hendrikus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Hendrika
8. Catharina
9. Adriana
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Geertruida
13. Grietje
14. Aaltje
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 21 » The first Monte Carlo Rally takes place.
• May 15 » In Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States, the United States Supreme Court declares Standard Oil to be an "unreasonable" monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act and orders the company to be broken up.
• July 4 » A massive heat wave strikes the northeastern United States, killing 380 people in eleven days and breaking temperature records in several cities.
• August 1 » Harriet Quimby takes her pilot's test and becomes the first U.S. woman to earn an Aero Club of America aviator's certificate.
• September 18 » Russian Premier Pyotr Stolypin is shot at the Kiev Opera House.
• September 23 » Pilot Earle Ovington makes the first official airmail delivery in America under the authority of the United States Post Office Department

The temperature on August 12, 1911 was between 17.7 °C and 31.1 °C and averaged 24.3 °C. There was 10.3 hours of sunshine (69%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east.