About the day » Sunday October 12, 1930Calender converter

• Christiane MOREAU, Sint-Truiden († 2005)
• Clifford Mertlich, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States († 2003)
• Anthonius Gerardus Josephus Maria van der Eerden, Boxtel († 1930)
• Adrianus Wijnand de Visser, Den Haag,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2017)
• Antien de Vries, Smilde, Drenthe, Nederland († 2008)
• Anna Angela, Annie Falke, Zwartemeer († 2018)
• Aaltje Bakker († 2008)
• Betty Joyce Mays Averitt, Burleson County, Texas († 2012)
• Andre Pierik, Zwolle, Nederland († 1999)
• Clifford Mertlich, Salt Lake City, Verenigde Staten († 2003)

• Antje Pol (5), Schaesberg,Limburg,Niederlande
• Bastiaan Vaandrager (76), Voorburg
• Casparus Bartholomeus Gijsbertus Kuilder (1), Houten
• Addie Adora Herrick (72)
• Bonnie Jean Harrison (0), Dundy Co, Nebraska
• Charles Edward Wells (2)
• Cornelia Johanna Corten (0), Heerlen
• Christiaan Johannes Sebastiaan Antonius Kruk, van der (65), Malang
• Aaltje Schouten (79), Alto, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten
• (Stillborn) VAN DER HEIDE (0), Barlage (Onstwedde) Groningen Netherlands

• 1928 » Al Held, American painter and academic († 2005)
• 1928 » Domna Samiou, Greek singer and musicologist († 2012)
• 1929 » Magnus Magnusson, Icelandic journalist and academic († 2007)
• 1929 » Nappy Brown, American R&B singer-songwriter († 2008)
• 1929 » Robert Coles, American psychologist, author, and academic
• 1930 » Denis Brodeur, Canadian ice hockey player and photographer († 2013)
• 1930 » Milica Kacin Wohinz, Slovenian historian and author
• 1931 » Ole-Johan Dahl, Norwegian computer scientist and academic, co-developed Simula († 2002)
• 1932 » Dick Gregory, American comedian, actor, and author († 2017)
• 1932 » Ned Jarrett, American race car driver and sportscaster

• 1914 » Margaret E. Knight, American inventor (b. 1838)
• 1915 » Edith Cavell, English nurse (b. 1865)
• 1923 » Bunny Lucas, English cricketer (b. 1857)
• 1924 » Anatole France, French journalist, novelist, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1844)
• 1926 » Edwin Abbott Abbott, English theologian and author (b. 1838)
• 1933 » John Lister, English philanthropist and politician (b. 1847)
• 1940 » Tom Mix, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1880)
• 1946 » Joseph Stilwell, American general (b. 1883)
• 1948 » Susan Sutherland Isaacs, English psychologist and psychoanalyst (b. 1885)
• 1954 » George Welch, American soldier and pilot (b. 1918)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Gerrit
7. Pieter
8. Adrianus
9. Petrus
10. Jacob
11. Jacobus
12. Wilhelmus
13. Antonius
14. Gerardus
15. Hendrikus
16. Dirk

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Adriana
7. Wilhelmina
8. Catharina
9. Hendrika
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Geertruida
13. Aaltje
14. Margaretha
15. Grietje
16. Helena

• 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 August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 7.8 million citizens.
• March 12 » Mahatma Gandhi begins the Salt March, a 200-mile march to the sea to protest the British monopoly on salt in India.
• April 6 » At the end of the Salt March, Gandhi raises a lump of mud and salt and declares, "With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire."
• May 1 » "Pluto" is officially proposed for the name of the newly-discovered dwarf planet Pluto by Vesto Slipher in the Lowell Observatory Observation Circular. The name quickly catches on.
• May 7 » The 7.1 M_w  Salmas earthquake shakes northwestern Iran and southeastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Up to three-thousand people were killed.
• August 16 » The first British Empire Games were opened in Hamilton, Ontario by the Governor General of Canada, the Viscount Willingdon.
• September 27 » Bobby Jones wins the (pre-Masters) Grand Slam of golf.

The temperature on October 12, 1930 was between 3.4 °C and 13.9 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 3.2 hours of sunshine (29%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.