About the day » Saturday January 6, 1912Calender converter

• aart BARENDREGT, piershil († 1991)
• Alida Adriana Sophia Klever, Benschop
• Albert FIEN, Kampen Friesland Netherlands
• Anna Mechteld barones van Dedem, Zwolle,Gemeente Zwolle,Overijssel,Netherlands
• Alida Bakker, Harenkarspel, Schagen, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1975)
• Andrew M. Coviello, Dunmore, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten († 2003)
• Anthonie van Driel, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1958)
• Anna Mechteld van Dedem, Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland († 1993)
• Jentje Conradi, Zwolle († 2003)
• ADRIAAN WILLEM POT, RIDDERKERK († 1957)

• Annetha Johanna Maria Hendrika Heijden van der (35), Oud en nieuw Gastel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aaltje Scholten (74), Apeldoorn
• * Johanna Cornelia Starre (86), Gouda
• Andrew Pike Lauderbach (72), Augusta, Bracken, Kentucky, United States
• Annetha Johanna Maria Hendrika van der Heijden (35), Oud Gastel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana Zaal- (48), Rotterdam, Nederland
• Anna Wolff (53), Uden
• Alexandrine Sophia Dorothea Friederike Therese Christiane von Vieregge (80)
• Adriana (Cornelia) Zaal (48), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Margaretha de Vrind (33), Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1910 » Wright Morris, American author and photographer († 1998)
• 1910 » Yiannis Papaioannou, Greek composer and educator († 1989)
• 1912 » Danny Thomas, American actor, comedian, producer and humanitarian († 1991)
• 1912 » Jacques Ellul, French philosopher and critic († 1994)
• 1913 » Edward Gierek, Polish lawyer and politician († 2001)
• 1913 » Loretta Young, American actress († 2000)
• 1914 » Godfrey Edward Arnold, Austrian-American physician and academic († 1989)
• 1915 » Alan Watts, English-American philosopher and author († 1973)
• 1915 » Don Edwards, American soldier, lawyer, and politician († 2015)
• 1915 » John C. Lilly, American psychoanalyst, physician, and philosopher († 2001)

• 1896 » Thomas W. Knox, American journalist and author (b. 1835)
• 1902 » Lars Hertervig, Norwegian painter (b. 1830)
• 1913 » Frederick Hitch, English soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1856)
• 1917 » Hendrick Peter Godfried Quack, Dutch economist and historian (b. 1834)
• 1918 » Georg Cantor, German mathematician and philosopher (b. 1845)
• 1919 » Theodore Roosevelt, American colonel and politician, 26th President of the United States (b. 1858)
• 1921 » Devil Anse Hatfield, American guerrilla leader (b. 1839)
• 1922 » Jakob Rosanes, Ukrainian-German mathematician and chess player (b. 1842)
• 1928 » Alvin Kraenzlein, American hurdler and long jumper (b. 1876)
• 1933 » Vladimir de Pachmann, Ukrainian-German pianist (b. 1848)

• 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.
• February 12 » The Xuantong Emperor, the last Emperor of China, abdicates.
• February 14 » The U.S. Navy commissions its first class of diesel-powered submarines.
• March 6 » Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces become the first to use airships in war, as two dirigibles drop bombs on Turkish troops encamped at Janzur, from an altitude of 6,000 feet.
• September 28 » The Ulster Covenant is signed by some 500,000 Ulster Protestant Unionists in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill.
• October 26 » First Balkan War: The Ottomans lose the cities of Thessaloniki and Skopje.
• December 8 » Leaders of the German Empire hold an Imperial War Council to discuss the possibility that war might break out.

The temperature on January 6, 1912 was between 0.2 °C and 5.5 °C and averaged 3.2 °C. There was 9.7 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.