About the day » Friday August 23, 1912Calender converter

• Alice May DeForest, Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas († 1997)
• Adriana Jacoba Cornelia van Beekum, Nieuw Helvoet († 2009)
• Alida Johanna Oosterheert († 1983)
• Antonius Nieuwenhuis, Budel
• Antonia Petronella Van Doornik, Rotterdam,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arie OVERWEEL, Melissant († 2010)
• Aagje Anna van der Kooij, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland († 1987)
• Agatha Johanna Jacoba van der Helm, Loosduinen
• Alida Pieters Grin, Zijpe
• Aartje Van Rijssen, Epe, Gelderland, Nederland

• Aagje Wilhelmina van Oudheusden (0), Ridderkerk
• Adriana Brasser (63), Goes
• * Gerrit van Waas (86), Gouda
• Alexander Emanuel Abrahams DNA62 (69), San Andrés, Amazonas, Colombia
• Leonia van Loo, Westdorpe
• Anthonius Markus (0), Utrecht
• Aiso Haikens (3), Borger,Drenthe,Niederlande,Nieuw Buinen
• Anna Margaretha Zegers (77), Meerssen
• Anna Margaretha Zegers (77), Meerssen,, Limburg, Nederland
• Adriana Klaris (54), Rotterdam

• 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)

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. Grietje
13. Aaltje
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.
• February 12 » The Xuantong Emperor, the last Emperor of China, abdicates.
• April 2 » The ill-fated RMSTitanic begins sea trials.
• April 20 » Opening day for baseball's Tiger Stadium in Detroit, and Fenway Park in Boston.
• June 4 » Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage.
• October 24 » First Balkan War: The Battle of Kirk Kilisse concludes with a Bulgarian victory against the Ottoman Empire.
• December 28 » The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco.

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.