About the day » Friday August 23, 1912Calender converter

• Abraham VINGERLING, Gouda, 6027, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1985)
• Antonia Petronella Van Doornik, Rotterdam,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adeline Isabel Gomes (Amaral) (Souza), California († 1963)
• Adriana Petronella van Dingenen, Hoogeloon, Hapert en Casteren († 2000)
• Alida Sijtje Grin, Zijpe, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Agatha Johanna Jacoba van der Helm, Loosduinen
• Adolf (Dolf) Molkenboer, Oldenzaal († 2007)
• Anna Maria Usener, Leeuwarden
• Aloisio Matias Gesser, Santa Catarina, Brasil († 1983)
• Anne Roels Postma, Surhuizum, Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland

• Aaltje Snoek (55), Rotterdam
• Aaltien Lubbers (53)
• Alson B Todd (72), Hamden, New Haven, Connecticut, Verenigde Staten
• Angeline Harper (63)
• Alida Ipo's Stuiveling (27), Stroobos, Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland
• Alida Stuveling (27), Stroobos
• Adriaan Snels (83), Goirle
• Antje Bolt (9), Uithoorn
• Aleida Geertruida Bos (75), Oldebroek, Gelderland, Nederland
• Lucena Louise McAllister (34), Stoneham, Oxford, Maine, United States

• 1906 » Zoltan Sarosy, Hungarian-Canadian chess master († 2017)
• 1908 » Hannah Frank, Scottish sculptor and illustrator († 2008)
• 1909 » Syd Buller, English cricketer and umpire († 1970)
• 1910 » Giuseppe Meazza, Italian footballer and manager († 1979)
• 1910 » Lonny Frey, American baseball player and soldier († 2009)
• 1911 » Betty Robinson, American sprinter († 1999)
• 1912 » Gene Kelly, American actor, singer, and dancer († 1996)
• 1912 » Igor Troubetzkoy, Russian aristocrat and race car driver († 2008)
• 1913 » Bob Crosby, American swing singer and bandleader († 1993)
• 1917 » Tex Williams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1985)

• 1892 » Deodoro da Fonseca, Brazilian field marshal and politician, 1st President of Brazil (b. 1827)
• 1900 » Kuroda Kiyotaka, Japanese general and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1840)
• 1924 » Heinrich Berté, Slovak-Austrian composer (b. 1856)
• 1926 » Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor (b. 1895)
• 1927 » Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian anarchist convicted of murder (b. 1888)
• 1927 » Nicola Sacco, Italian anarchist convicted of murder (b. 1891)
• 1933 » Adolf Loos, Austrian architect and theoretician, designed Villa Müller (b. 1870)
• 1937 » Albert Roussel, French composer and educator (b. 1869)
• 1944 » Abdülmecid II, Ottoman sultan (b. 1868)
• 1944 » Stefan Filipkiewicz, Polish painter and illustrator (b. 1879)

• 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.
• February 14 » The U.S. Navy commissions its first class of diesel-powered submarines.
• September 25 » Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City.
• October 3 » U.S. forces defeat Nicaraguan rebels at the Battle of Coyotepe Hill.
• November 2 » Bulgaria defeats the Ottoman Empire in the Battle of Lule Burgas, the bloodiest battle of the First Balkan War, which opens her way to Constantinople.
• November 28 » Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.

The temperature on August 23, 1912 was between 8.5 °C and 15.6 °C and averaged 12.7 °C. There was 27.6 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.