About the day » Tuesday December 17, 1912Calender converter

• Aaltje Rijlaarsdam, Ouder-Amstel, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1975)
• Anna Cornelia Wester, Obdam, Koggenland, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1913)
• Antoinetta Maria Tielen, Bergen op Zoom († 1913)
• Ymkje Slottje, Rotterdam († 2005)
• Antje van den Berg, Delft
• Antje Matthijs Posthumus, Nijega (Friesland: Smallingerland) († 1997)
• Annechien Dijkstra, Oude Pekela (Groningen)
• Abraham Hoogendijk, Vlaardingen
• Adriaan Pieter Zegers, Hoek (Zeeland)
• Alice VAN DER LUGT, Kalamazoo Kalamazoo County Michigan U.S.A († 2006)

• Anna Siccos Gerlsma (64), Nijehaske, Heerenveen, Friesland, Netherlands
• Anna Maria Cruse (72), Emmen
• Anna Margaretha HENDRIX (69), Tegelen, Limburg, Nederland
• Nn Lichtendonk (0), Hollandscheveld
• van Beusekom (0), Willige Langerak
• Anna Maria Pilage (60), Sibculo
• Annigje Benjamins (51), Hardenberg
• Anna Maria (Pielage) Pilage (60), Sibculo (Hardenberg, Ambt)
• Anna Catharina Hendrix (13), Roosteren, Nederland
• Alice Spearman (0)

• 1906 » Fernando Lopes-Graça, Portuguese composer and conductor († 1994)
• 1908 » Willard Libby, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1980)
• 1910 » Eknath Easwaran, Indian-American educator and author († 1999)
• 1910 » Sy Oliver, American singer-songwriter and trumpet player († 1988)
• 1912 » Edward Short, Baron Glenamara, English captain and politician, Lord President of the Council († 2012)
• 1913 » Burt Baskin, American businessman, co-founded Baskin-Robbins († 1967)
• 1914 » Fernando Alonso, Cuban ballet dancer, co-founded the Cuban National Ballet († 2013)
• 1914 » Mushtaq Ali, Indian cricketer († 2005)
• 1916 » Penelope Fitzgerald, English author and poet († 2000)
• 1917 » Kenneth Dike, Nigerian historian, author, and academic († 1983)

• 1904 » William Shiels, Irish-Australian politician, 16th Premier of Victoria (b. 1848)
• 1907 » William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish-Scottish physicist and engineer (b. 1824)
• 1909 » Leopold II of Belgium (b. 1835)
• 1917 » Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, English physician and activist (b. 1836)
• 1927 » Rajendra Lahiri, Indian activist (b. 1892)
• 1928 » Frank Rinehart, American photographer (b. 1861)
• 1929 » Manuel de Oliveira Gomes da Costa, Portuguese general and politician, 10th President of Portugal (b. 1863)
• 1930 » Peter Warlock, Welsh composer and critic (b. 1894)
• 1932 » Charles Winckler, Danish discus thrower, shot putter, and tug of war competitor (b. 1867)
• 1933 » 13th Dalai Lama (b. 1876)

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 6 » German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.
• February 14 » The U.S. Navy commissions its first class of diesel-powered submarines.
• April 18 » The Cunard liner RMSCarpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMSTitanic to New York City.
• May 18 » The first Indian film, Shree Pundalik by Dadasaheb Torne, is released in Mumbai.
• December 6 » The Nefertiti Bust is discovered.
• December 16 » First Balkan War: The Royal Hellenic Navy defeats the Ottoman Navy at the Battle of Elli.

The temperature on December 17, 1912 was between 0.8 °C and 5.8 °C and averaged 2.7 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (26%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.