About the day » Saturday December 21, 1912Calender converter

• Adrianus Zonneveld, Maasland
• Anna Cornelia Lambrechts, Wouw, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1991)
• Adrianus van Keulen, Echteld,Gemeente Neder-Betuwe,Gelderland,Nederland
• Aaltje Lokken, Wildervank, Groningen, Nederland
• van Bodegraven, Sloten († 1912)
• Anna Maria Bertha Laheij, Maastricht († 2002)
• Adrianus Zonneveld, Maasland, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Anna Hendrika Elisabeth Stegemeijer, Velsen, Gemeente Velsen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Roosjen, IJsselstein († 1944)
• Anna Maria Johanna Lampe, Sneek, Fr, Nederland († 1985)

• Allegonda Maria van Santvoort (35), Geffen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aantje Rijke, de (31), Rotterdam Zhl. NL
• van Bodegraven (0), Sloten
• Anke Hummel (83), Opeinde, gem. Smallingerland, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Margaretha Elisabeth Meiners (59), Princenhage, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• August C. Braun (52), Chicago, Cook, Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• Aaltje Steenhoven (71), Enkhuizen
• Alfred Henderson MITCHELL (91), Knox Co., TN
• Arnoldus Blaauwijkel (66), Lucaswolde (gem. Marum)
• Anke Hummel (83), Grootegast

• 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)

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. Aaltje
13. Grietje
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 5 » The 6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Prague Party Conference) opens. In the course of the conference, Vladimir Lenin and his supporters break from the rest of the party to form the Bolshevik movement.
• January 11 » Immigrant textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, go on strike when wages are reduced in response to a mandated shortening of the work week.
• February 29 » The Piedra Movediza (Moving Stone) of Tandil falls and breaks.
• April 2 » The ill-fated RMSTitanic begins sea trials.
• October 7 » The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.
• October 18 » First Balkan War: King Peter I of Serbia issues a declaration "To the Serbian People", as his country joins the 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.