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• Albert NIEBORG, Westerbroek (Hoogezand) Groningen Netherlands
• Alex Lodewijk Neijndorff, Poelau Moeda († 1991)
• Albert Eduard Arie Deloof, Brugge
• Maria Catharina Adriana Oosterom, Arnhem († 1979)
• Adrianus Bourgonjen
• Adriana Maria Meulders, Helmond, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1979)
• Guijt, Edam / Volendam († 1912)
• Aletta Vis, Zevenhoven, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1973)
• (Marie) Maria Elisabeth van Nispen, Bergen Op Zoom, North Brabant, Netherlands († 2007)
• Alphonsus WILLEMS, Rillaar Vlaams Brabant * († 1976)

• Annigje Warnders (78), Olden Diever (Diever)
• Anne Marius Dorus Egler (67), Hengelo
• Barbara Callemin (76), Koekelare,8680,West-Vlaanderen,België
• Anna Goeken- (76), Kiel, Nederland
• Antoonetta van den Ouweland (77), Chaam
• Guijt (0), Edam / Volendam
• Adriana Wilhelmina Huizen (38), Soerabaja, Nederlands-Indië
• Anje (Jans) DRENTH (77), Nieuwe Stadskanaal, Onstwedde, Stadskanaal, Groningen, Nederland
• Adrianus Centen (45), Mill en St. Hubert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alijda van der Pol (30), amersfoort

• 1911 » Maxine Sullivan, American singer and actress († 1987)
• 1911 » Robert Middleton, American actor († 1977)
• 1912 » Gil Evans, Canadian-American pianist, composer, and bandleader († 1988)
• 1912 » Judah Nadich, American colonel and rabbi († 2007)
• 1913 » Robert Dorning, English actor, singer, and dancer († 1989)
• 1913 » Theo Helfrich, German racing driver († 1978)
• 1913 » William R. Tolbert, Jr., Liberian politician, 20th President of Liberia († 1980)
• 1914 » Antonia Ferrín Moreiras, Spanish mathematician, academic, and astronomer († 2009)
• 1914 » Joe Louis, American boxer († 1981)
• 1914 » Johnnie Wright, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 2011)

• 1884 » Cyrus McCormick, American businessman, co-founded the International Harvester Company (b. 1809)
• 1885 » Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician, pathologist, and anatomist (b. 1809)
• 1903 » Apolinario Mabini, Filipino lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Philippines (b. 1864)
• 1916 » Sholem Aleichem, Ukrainian-American author and playwright (b. 1859)
• 1921 » Jean Aicard, French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1848)
• 1926 » Libert H. Boeynaems, Belgian-American bishop (b. 1857)
• 1929 » Arthur Scherbius, German electrical engineer, invented the Enigma machine (b. 1878)
• 1930 » Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian scientist, explorer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
• 1938 » Charles Édouard Guillaume, Swiss-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
• 1941 » Frederick Christian, English cricketer (b. 1877)

• 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 8 » The African National Congress is founded, under the name South African Native National Congress (SANNC).
• February 14 » The U.S. Navy commissions its first class of diesel-powered submarines.
• April 17 » Russian troops open fire on striking goldfield workers in northeast Siberia, killing at least 150.
• May 18 » The first Indian film, Shree Pundalik by Dadasaheb Torne, is released in Mumbai.
• October 18 » First Balkan War: King Peter I of Serbia issues a declaration "To the Serbian People", as his country joins the war.
• October 19 » Italo-Turkish War: Italy takes possession of what is now Libya from the Ottoman Empire.

The temperature on May 13, 1912 was between 2.4 °C and 13.8 °C and averaged 9.3 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain. There was 11.2 hours of sunshine (72%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.