About the day » Saturday February 3, 1912Calender converter

• Abraham Paul, Bergschenhoek, Nederland
• Orsel, Breda († 1912)
• Albert De Goede, Westerbork († 1992)
• Alois Johann Sarholz, Gelsenkirchen-Buer († 1971)
• Aleida Maria (Aal) Martens, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland Nederland († 1986)
• Alida Wilhelmina Abelskamp, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland, Nederland
• Albert HAENEN († 1982)
• Annigje van der Perk, Nieuw-Lekkerland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1998)
• Zainnoeddin, Paree, Nederlandsch Indië
• Albertus van Haren, Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• Aaltje 2 Jacobs Kroon (79)
• Adrianus Wagemakers (81), Waalwijk, North Brabant, Netherlands
• Abraham Cousijnse (62), Rotterdam
• Adrianus_Gerardus Wagemakers (81), Waalwijk
• adriana HEINOORT (83), ridderkerk
• Aart Marinus André (60), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adriana Cense (77), Middelburg, Zeeland, Netherlands
• Adriaan Kleindoph (87), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana Elisabeth van Roest (78), Gemeente Rhenen, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adriana van Roest (78), Gemeente Rhenen, Utrecht, Nederland

• 1906 » George Adamson, Indian-English author and activist († 1989)
• 1907 » James A. Michener, American author and philanthropist († 1997)
• 1909 » André Cayatte, French lawyer and director († 1989)
• 1909 » Simone Weil, French mystic and philosopher († 1943)
• 1911 » Jehan Alain, French organist and composer († 1940)
• 1912 » Jacques Soustelle, French anthropologist and politician († 1990)
• 1914 » Mary Carlisle, American actress, singer, and dancer († 2018)
• 1915 » Johannes Kotkas, Estonian wrestler and hammer thrower († 1998)
• 1917 » Shlomo Goren, Polish-Israeli rabbi and general († 1994)
• 1918 » Joey Bishop, American actor and producer († 2007)

• 1873 » Isaac Baker Brown, English gynecologist and surgeon (b. 1811)
• 1922 » John Butler Yeats, Irish painter and illustrator (b. 1839)
• 1924 » Woodrow Wilson, American historian, academic, and politician, 28th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
• 1929 » Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish mathematician and engineer (b. 1878)
• 1935 » Hugo Junkers, German engineer, designed the Junkers J 1 (b. 1859)
• 1944 » Yvette Guilbert, French singer and actress (b. 1865)
• 1945 » Roland Freisler, German lawyer and judge (b. 1893)
• 1947 » Marc Mitscher, American admiral and pilot (b. 1887)
• 1952 » Harold L. Ickes, American journalist and politician, 32nd United States Secretary of the Interior (b. 1874)
• 1955 » Vasily Blokhin, Russian general (b. 1895)

• 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.
• April 2 » The ill-fated RMSTitanic begins sea trials.
• April 18 » The Cunard liner RMSCarpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMSTitanic to New York City.
• 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 25 » Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City.
• 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 February 3, 1912 was between -19.9 °C and -8.3 °C and averaged -11.4 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.