About the day » Saturday December 21, 1912Calender converter

• Anna Maria Delil, Obbicht († 1993)
• Amelia Catharina STRUYF, Berendrecht, Antwerpen, Belgie
• Anna Hendrika Elisabeth Stegemeijer, Velsen, Gemeente Velsen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maatje Boerkoel, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1994)
• Anna Maria Wijpkje Javaux, Haarlem
• Roffel, Nieuw-Weerdinge, Nederland († 1912)
• Anna Catharina Elisabeth Petri, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1991)
• Adriaan Den Hollander († 2007)
• Aaltje Dol, Oldemarkt, Overijssel, Netherlands
• Adrianus Zonneveld, Maasland, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1987)

• Anke Hummel (83), Opeinde
• Aantje de Rijke (31), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Koenderink (43), Zutphen
• Allegonda Maria van Santvoort (35), Geffen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Ariaantje Boon (76), Lekkerkerk
• Arnoldus Ornoldus Blauwijkel (66), Marum, Groningen, Nederland
• Arij Van Der LINDEN (82), Numansdorp
• Schuil (0)
• Adriana Versteeg (77), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Abraham Cornelissen (88), Axel

• 1905 » Anthony Powell, English author († 2000)
• 1905 » Käte Fenchel, German mathematician († 1983)
• 1909 » Seichō Matsumoto, Japanese journalist and author († 1992)
• 1911 » Josh Gibson, American baseball player († 1947)
• 1913 » Arnold Friberg, American illustrator and painter († 2010)
• 1914 » Frank Fenner, Australian microbiologist and virologist († 2010)
• 1915 » Werner von Trapp, Austrian-American singer († 2007)
• 1917 » Heinrich Böll, German novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate († 1985)
• 1918 » Donald Regan, American colonel and politician, 11th White House Chief of Staff († 2003)
• 1918 » Kurt Waldheim, Austrian colonel, war criminal, and politician; 9th President of Austria († 2007)

• 1889 » Friedrich August von Quenstedt, German geologist and palaeontologist (b. 1809)
• 1920 » Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, Somalian general, founded the Dervish movement (b. 1856)
• 1929 » I. L. Patterson, American politician, 18th Governor of Oregon (b. 1859)
• 1933 » Knud Rasmussen, Greenlandic anthropologist and explorer (b. 1879)
• 1935 » Kurt Tucholsky, German-Swedish journalist and author (b. 1890)
• 1935 » Ted Birnie, English footballer and manager (b. 1878)
• 1937 » Frank B. Kellogg, American lawyer and politician, 45th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
• 1937 » Ted Healy, American comedian and actor (b. 1896)
• 1937 » Violette Neatley Anderson, American judge (b. 1882)
• 1940 » F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1896)

• 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 » New Mexico is admitted to the Union as the 47th U.S. state.
• 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.
• August 14 » U.S. Marines invade Nicaragua to support the U.S.-backed government installed there after José Santos Zelaya had resigned three years earlier.
• September 28 » The Ulster Covenant is signed by some 500,000 Ulster Protestant Unionists in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill.
• October 7 » The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.
• October 17 » Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War.

The temperature on December 21, 1912 was between -0.5 °C and 6.7 °C and averaged 2.1 °C. There was 5.3 hours of sunshine (69%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.