About the day » Tuesday August 12, 1924Calender converter

• Alma Marie Bowen, Rock Rapids, Lyon County, Iowa († 2010)
• Bernard van Surksum, Allison Township, Lyon County, Iowa († 1986)
• Anna Hendrika Rompelman, Haarlem († 2006)
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• August Pieter Ludovicus SEGERS, Baarle-Hertog,2387,Anvers,Flandre,BELGIQUE († 2013)
• Alida Santen († 1943)
• Alle Gezinus Pool, Barger-Oosterveld, Emmen († 2007)
• Albert Jan Ponsteen, Nijverdal/Hellndoom († 2012)
• Adrienna S.J. Baert, Kallo († 2004)
• Annie REGTER († 2002)

• Antonetta van Loon (3), Halsteren, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriaan Antoon Willem Klerks (8), Waspik, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alexander Adrianus Huijboom (30), Amersfoort
• 'n Levenloos geboren dochter van Slof (0), Ter Aar (Papenveer)
• Arthur Lagae (48), Gullegem
• Abraham van Bekkum (74), Beusichem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Albert Sytzes Kooistra (58), Rijperkerk, gem. Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Albert Kooistra (56), gem. Tietjerksteradeel
• Bailey Julian Eskridge (73)
• Abraham (VS) Sandee (68), Lima township, Sheboygan Co., Wisconsin U.S.A

• 1922 » Fulton Mackay, Scottish actor and playwright († 1987)
• 1923 » John Holt, Jamaican cricketer († 1997)
• 1924 » Derek Shackleton, English cricketer, coach, and umpire († 2007)
• 1924 » Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, Pakistani general and politician, 6th President of Pakistan († 1988)
• 1925 » Dale Bumpers, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 38th Governor of Arkansas († 2016)
• 1925 » Donald Justice, American poet and writing teacher († 2004)
• 1925 » George Wetherill, American physicist and academic († 2006)
• 1925 » Guillermo Cano Isaza, Colombian journalist († 1986)
• 1925 » Norris McWhirter, Scottish publisher and activist co-founded the Guinness World Records († 2004)
• 1925 » Ross McWhirter, Scottish publisher and activist, co-founded the Guinness World Records († 1975)

• 1914 » John Philip Holland, Irish engineer, designed HMSHolland 1 (b. 1840)
• 1918 » William Thompson, American archer (b. 1848)
• 1921 » Pyotr Boborykin, Russian playwright and journalist (b. 1836)
• 1922 » Arthur Griffith, Irish journalist and politician, 3rd President of Dáil Éireann (b. 1871)
• 1924 » Sándor Bródy, Hungarian journalist and author (b. 1863)
• 1928 » Leoš Janáček, Czech composer and educator (b. 1854)
• 1934 » Hendrik Petrus Berlage, Dutch architect, designed the Beurs van Berlage (b. 1856)
• 1935 » Friedrich Schottky, German mathematician and academic (b. 1851)
• 1940 » Nikolai Triik, Estonian painter, illustrator, and academic (b. 1884)
• 1941 » Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon, English soldier and politician, 56th Governor General of Canada (b. 1866)

• 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 September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 7.2 million citizens.
• January 25 » The 1924 Winter Olympics opens in Chamonix, in the French Alps, inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
• February 5 » The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal.
• February 8 » Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada.
• March 25 » On the anniversary of Greek Independence, Alexandros Papanastasiou proclaims the Second Hellenic Republic.
• July 24 » Themistoklis Sofoulis becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
• December 20 » Adolf Hitler is released from Landsberg Prison.

The temperature on August 12, 1924 was between 11.1 °C and 23.0 °C and averaged 17.4 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (33%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.