About the day » Monday July 8, 1912Calender converter

• * Marinus Johannes van Zwam, Vught
• Aarnout Izaak Meijers, Vlissingen, Walcheren, NL († 1913)
• Adrianus Marinus den Breejen, Rotterdam (Rotterdam), Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1944)
• "Jean" Timoléon Marie de La Taille-Trétinville, Paris († 2007)
• Wijffelaars, Heeze, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus Hubertus Bakxs, Steenbergen († 1963)
• Adriana Wilhelmina Francina van GEEL, Zevenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1942)
• Anna Catharina Okkerse, Vinkeveen en Waverveen
• Anthonius Marinus van Gool, Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1992)
• Antonia Wilhelmina Theodora Maassen, Venray († 2004)

• de Haan (0), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anna Maria Hubertina Meuwissen (17), Roosteren L
• Annechiena Margaretha Bonnes (0), Apeldoorn
• Anna Maria Crommelinck (1), Bottelare
• Blanche Frazier (0), Brookford, Catawba, North Carolina, Verenigde Staten
• Jongman, Vollenhove
• Adriana Cornelia LEENDERTSE (0), Wemeldinge, Zeeland, Nederland
• Antoinette Mansveld (85), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Pieters Wagenaar (86), Drachten, Friesland, Netherlands
• Abeltje Winter(s) (50), Meppel

• 1908 » Louis Jordan, American singer-songwriter, saxophonist, and actor († 1975)
• 1909 » Alan Brown, English soldier († 1971)
• 1909 » Ike Petersen, American football back († 1995)
• 1910 » Carlos Betances Ramírez, Puerto Rican general († 2001)
• 1911 » Ken Farnes, English cricketer († 1941)
• 1913 » Alejandra Soler, Spanish politician († 2017)
• 1914 » Billy Eckstine, American singer and trumpet player († 1993)
• 1914 » Jyoti Basu, Indian politician, 6th Chief Minister of West Bengal († 2010)
• 1915 » Lowell English, United States Marine Corps general († 2005)
• 1915 » Neil D. Van Sickle, American Air Force major general († 2019)

• 1887 » Ben Holladay, American businessman (b. 1819)
• 1895 » Johann Josef Loschmidt, Austrian chemist and physicist (b. 1821)
• 1905 » Walter Kittredge, American violinist and composer (b. 1834)
• 1913 » Louis Hémon, French-Canadian author (b. 1880)
• 1917 » Tom Thomson, Canadian painter (b. 1877)
• 1930 » Joseph Ward, Australian-New Zealand businessman and politician, 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1856)
• 1933 » Anthony Hope, English author and playwright (b. 1863)
• 1934 » Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer and academic (b. 1848)
• 1939 » Havelock Ellis, English psychologist and author (b. 1859)
• 1941 » Moses Schorr, Polish rabbi, historian, and politician (b. 1874)

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. Geertruida
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.
• April 10 » RMS Titanic sets sail from Southampton, England on her maiden and only voyage.
• 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.
• July 30 » Japan's Emperor Meiji dies and is succeeded by his son Yoshihito, who is now known as the Emperor Taishō.
• September 28 » Corporal Frank S. Scott of the United States Army becomes the first enlisted man to die in an airplane crash.
• October 24 » First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo concludes with the Serbian victory against the Ottoman Empire.
• 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 July 8, 1912 was between 11.0 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 15.5 °C. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (14%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.