About the day » Saturday August 17, 1912Calender converter

• Adolphus Lloyd Ward († 1963)
• (_____) Statzer, Wise, Virginia, Verenigde Staten († 1912)
• Albert G Edwards († 1966)
• Alida Catharina Olij, Zunderdorp, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1994)
• Aaltje Regtop, Klijndijk Odoorn Drenthe Nederland († 1990)
• Agnes Antonia Debets, Twello (Voorst)
• Adriana van Katwijk, Schiedam († 1992)
• Abraham Stolk, Eierland (Texel, NH) († 1976)
• Aaltje PEEREBOOM, Marken, Waterland, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alice Fokje de Haas, Amsterdam († 2004)

• Berend Bosch (0), Vriezenveen
• Arie Romijn (89), Goes, Zeeland, Nederland
• Anthonie Homan (76), Vinkeveen
• Angelus Meersschaut (Van De Wiele) (78), Gent
• Charlotte Georginia Cholmondeley (84)
• Cornelia Langeveld (85), Leiden
• Barteld BAKKER (45), Ooststellingwerf
• Alberta van Dijk (78), Meppel
• Cornelia van Mourik (62), Overschie
• Alberta Jans van Dijk (78), Meppel

• 1909 » Larry Clinton, American trumpet player and bandleader († 1985)
• 1909 » Wilf Copping, English footballer († 1980)
• 1911 » Martin Sandberger, German colonel and lawyer († 2010)
• 1911 » Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player and engineer († 1995)
• 1913 » Mark Felt, American lawyer and agent, 2nd Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation († 2008)
• 1913 » Oscar Alfredo Gálvez, Argentinian race car driver († 1989)
• 1913 » Rudy York, American baseball player and manager († 1970)
• 1914 » Bill Downs, American journalist († 1978)
• 1914 » Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., American lawyer and politician († 1988)
• 1916 » Moses Majekodunmi, Nigerian physician and politician († 2012)

• 1897 » William Jervois, English engineer and diplomat, 10th Governor of South Australia (b. 1821)
• 1901 » Edmond Audran, French organist and composer (b. 1842)
• 1903 » Hans Gude, Norwegian-German painter and academic (b. 1825)
• 1908 » Radoje Domanović, Serbian satirist and journalist (b. 1873)
• 1909 » Madan Lal Dhingra, Indian activist (b. 1883)
• 1918 » Moisei Uritsky, Russian activist and politician (b. 1873)
• 1920 » Ray Chapman, American baseball player (b. 1891)
• 1924 » Tom Kendall, English-Australian cricketer and journalist (b. 1851)
• 1925 » Ioan Slavici, Romanian journalist and author (b. 1848)
• 1935 » Adam Gunn, American decathlete (b. 1872)

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 23 » The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague.
• 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 8 » Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro leads an unsuccessful royalist attack against the First Portuguese Republic in Chaves.
• August 6 » The Bull Moose Party meets at the Chicago Coliseum.
• October 24 » First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo concludes with the Serbian victory against the Ottoman Empire.
• December 8 » Leaders of the German Empire hold an Imperial War Council to discuss the possibility that war might break out.

The temperature on August 17, 1912 was between 9.9 °C and 18.3 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (5%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.