About the day » Sunday January 7, 1912Calender converter

• Wytse Tjalsma, Burgwerd(Hemert) († 1992)
• Adriaan Schollaart, Rotterdam
• (levenloze) Oppers, Wijnjeterp, Opsterland,, Friesland, Nederland († 1912)
• Alida Manifarges, Rotterdam,,Nederland
• Alberta Beckmann, Smith County, Kansas († 1977)
• Pruis, Zuidwending gem Veendam († 1912)
• Adrianus Wilhelmus Theodorus Westgeest, Noordwijk († 1982)
• Aaltje IJzerdraad, Amsterdam
• Albine Resch, Wien, Wien, Austria († 1944)
• Albert Marinus Grooters, Lemelerveld

• Anna Gesina Mastenbroek (5), 's-Gravenzande, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albertus Hendrikus Grutterink (0), Hengelo, Overijssel, Nederland
• Pruis (0), Zuidwending gem Veendam
• Arie (2) Griffioen (61), Bodegraven
• Anna Maria Waaldijk (80), Deil West Betuwe (GL)
• Arie van der Meer (59), Rijswijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria CORNELIS (65), Oelegem,2520,Anvers,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Annie McCartney (58), Fitchburg, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
• Hoevers (0), Brummen
• Albertus Leendert Kouw (80), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands

• 1906 » Red Allen, American trumpet player († 1967)
• 1910 » Orval Faubus, American soldier and politician, 36th Governor of Arkansas († 1994)
• 1912 » Charles Addams, American cartoonist, created The Addams Family († 1988)
• 1913 » Johnny Mize, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster († 1993)
• 1916 » Babe Pratt, Canadian ice hockey player († 1988)
• 1916 » W. L. Jeyasingham, Sri Lankan geographer and academic († 1989)
• 1920 » Vincent Gardenia, Italian-American actor († 1992)
• 1921 » Chester Kallman, American poet and translator († 1975)
• 1921 » Esmeralda Arboleda Cadavid, Colombian politician († 1997)
• 1922 » Alvin Dark, American baseball player and manager († 2014)

• 1892 » Tewfik Pasha, Egyptian ruler (b. 1852)
• 1893 » Josef Stefan, Slovenian physicist and mathematician (b. 1835)
• 1919 » Henry Ware Eliot, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Washington University in St. Louis (b. 1843)
• 1920 » Edmund Barton, Australian judge and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1849)
• 1927 » Nikolaos Kalogeropoulos, Greek politician, 99th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1851)
• 1931 » Edward Channing, American historian and author (b. 1856)
• 1932 » André Maginot, French sergeant and politician (b. 1877)
• 1936 » Guy d'Hardelot, French pianist and composer (b. 1858)
• 1941 » Charles Finger, English journalist and author (b. 1869)
• 1943 » Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American physicist and engineer (b. 1856)

• 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 17 » British polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
• February 12 » The Xuantong Emperor, the last Emperor of China, abdicates.
• April 14 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 23:40 (sinks morning of April 15th).
• October 14 » Former president Theodore Roosevelt is shot and mildly wounded by John Flammang Schrank. With the fresh wound in his chest, and the bullet still within it, Roosevelt delivers his scheduled speech.
• November 19 » First Balkan War: The Serbian Army captures Bitola, ending the five-century-long Ottoman rule of Macedonia.
• December 28 » The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco.

The temperature on January 7, 1912 was between -3.9 °C and 0.9 °C and averaged -0.5 °C. There was 6.6 mm of rain. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (29%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.