About the day » Sunday December 22, 1912Calender converter

• Alberta Clasina van Dijkhuizen, Enschede
• Adrianus Wilhelmus Goud, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1917)
• Aleida Bouwhuis, rijssen
• Alida Maria Vermij, Roelofarendsveen, Nederland († 1998)
• Aleida Bouwhuis, Rijssen-Holten Overijssel Nederland
• Aaltje Mantel, Andijk, North Holland, Netherlands († 1960)
• Aaltje Mantel, Andijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Akke Heerkens, Franeker († 2003)
• Adriana Helena Pagie, Loon op Zand († 1913)
• Adriana STROOTMAN, Dinteloord († 2003)

• Alida Sasburg (69), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Konijn (0), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antonius Johannes Gerhardus Kotkamp (4), Hengelo
• Adrianus VOORDIJK (87)
• Aaltje Dirks van der Velde (32)
• Arie Koene (73), Monstter
• Arij Koene (73), Monster, Nederland
• Aartje van Ielen (78), Rotterdam, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Antonia Lamberdina Theodora Van De Vall (0), Vught
• Adriana Maria van Oijen (6), Den Haag

• 1907 » Peggy Ashcroft, English actress († 1991)
• 1908 » Giacomo Manzù, Italian sculptor and academic († 1991)
• 1909 » Patricia Hayes, English actress († 1998)
• 1911 » Danny O'Dea, English actor († 2003)
• 1912 » Elias Degiannis, Greek commander († 1943)
• 1912 » Lady Bird Johnson, American beautification activist; 38th First Lady of the United States († 2007)
• 1913 » Giorgio Oberweger, Italian discus thrower and hurdler († 1998)
• 1915 » Barbara Billingsley, American actress († 2010)
• 1915 » Phillip Glasier, English author and academic († 2000)
• 1917 » Gene Rayburn, American game show host and actor († 1999)

• 1891 » Paul de Lagarde, German biblical scholar and orientalist (b. 1827)
• 1899 » Dwight L. Moody, American evangelist and publisher, founded Moody Publishers (b. 1837)
• 1902 » Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German-Austrian psychiatrist and author (b. 1840)
• 1915 » Rose Talbot Bullard, American medical doctor and professor (b. 1864)
• 1917 » Frances Xavier Cabrini, Italian-American nun and saint (b. 1850)
• 1918 » Aristeidis Moraitinis, Greek lieutenant and pilot (b. 1891)
• 1919 » Hermann Weingärtner, German gymnast (b. 1864)
• 1925 » Amelie Beese, German pilot and engineer (b. 1886)
• 1939 » Ma Rainey, American singer (b. 1886)
• 1940 » Nathanael West, American author and screenwriter (b. 1903)

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• April 16 » Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
• June 4 » Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage.
• November 12 » King George I of Greece makes a triumphal entry into Thessaloniki after its liberation from 482 years of Ottoman rule.

The temperature on December 22, 1912 was between 0.1 °C and 6.8 °C and averaged 3.1 °C. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (48%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.