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• Aart van der Pol, haarlemmermeer
• Adriana Anna Kooi, Zeist († 1912)
• Albertus Hendrikus (1) van KERKHOF, Leeuwen (tot 1818) Wamel (tot 1985) West Maas en Waal, Gelderland, Nederland († 1912)
• Albertus Johannes Diender, Kampen, Overijssel, Nederland
• Antoinette DeLeo, New York, Verenigde Staten († 1989)
• Alida Catarina Gerritsdr van Wagtendonk, Amsterdam († 1997)
• Anna Maria Catharina Koch, 's Gravenhage
• Anna Odilia Slangen, Kerkrade (L († 1962)
• Aaltje Smit, Slagharen († 1912)
• Adelson Gilain Hubert BRAUNS, Hasselt, Provincie Limburg, Flanders, Belgie

• Adrianus Gelens (77), Zevenbergen,Noord-Brabant,Nederland
• Adriana Hesselmans (70), Diessen
• Charlotte Francis (59), Content, St Catherine Parish, Jamaica
• Arie van den Hurk (0), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bartje Jantina Gernaat (7), Heereweg, gem Meeden
• Albertus de Wit (68), Nieuwe Schans, Gelderland, Nederland
• Alida Klaver, Spanbroek
• Anna Elizabeth Mullin (1), County, Tyrone, Northern Ireland
• Antonius Colen (78), Kessenich
• Arnoldus Jacobus Wennekers (64), Naaldwijk

• 1910 » Dorothy Hodgkin, English biochemist, crystallographer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1994)
• 1910 » Gordon Jenkins, American pianist and composer († 1984)
• 1910 » James Dudley, American baseball player, wrestling manager and executive († 2004)
• 1910 » Johan Ferrier, Surinamese educator and politician, 1st President of Suriname († 2010)
• 1911 » Charles Biro, American author and illustrator († 1972)
• 1912 » Henry Jonsson, Swedish runner († 2001)
• 1912 » Marshal Royal, American saxophonist and clarinet player († 1995)
• 1914 » Bertus Aafjes, Dutch poet and author († 1993)
• 1914 » Howard K. Smith, American journalist and actor († 2002)
• 1915 » Tony Strobl, American comics artist and animator († 1991)

• 1876 » Georgi Benkovski, Bulgarian activist (b. 1843)
• 1878 » Anselme Payen, French chemist and academic (b. 1795)
• 1884 » Bedřich Smetana, Czech composer and educator (b. 1824)
• 1907 » Joris-Karl Huysmans, French author and critic (b. 1848)
• 1916 » James Connolly, Scottish-born Irish socialist and rebel leader (b. 1868)
• 1925 » Amy Lowell, American poet and critic (b. 1874)
• 1931 » Eugène Ysaÿe, Belgian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1858)
• 1935 » Józef Piłsudski, Polish field marshal and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1867)
• 1944 » Arthur Quiller-Couch, English author, poet, and critic (b. 1863)
• 1944 » Max Brand, American journalist and author (b. 1892)

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 11 » Immigrant textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, go on strike when wages are reduced in response to a mandated shortening of the work week.
• January 17 » British polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
• February 25 » Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.
• July 8 » Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro leads an unsuccessful royalist attack against the First Portuguese Republic in Chaves.
• September 2 » Arthur Rose Eldred is awarded the first Eagle Scout award of the Boy Scouts of America.
• September 4 » Albanian rebels succeed in their revolt when the Ottoman Empire agrees to fulfill their demands

The temperature on May 12, 1912 was between 8.5 °C and 22.0 °C and averaged 13.9 °C. There was 10.9 mm of rain. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (28%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.