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List of events
Events from the year 1912 in the United States .
Incumbents
James S. Sherman (
R -
New York ) (until October 30)
vacant (starting October 30)
Events
January
February
March
April 18: The
Carpathia arrives in
New York City with the
RMS Titanic survivors.
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
October 14 – While campaigning in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin , former President
Theodore Roosevelt is shot by saloonkeeper
John Schrank . With a fresh flesh wound and the bullet still in him, Roosevelt delivers his scheduled speech. After finishing it, he goes to the hospital, where it is deduced that if he had not had his speech in his breast pocket when he was shot, he most likely would have died.
October 16 – The
Boston Red Sox , assisted by a famous
error , defeat the
New York Giants in extra innings to win the
1912 World Series in what is considered one of the greatest games of baseball ever played.
October 30 – Vice President
James S. Sherman dies of kidney failure just days prior to the
U.S. presidential election .
November
Undated
Ongoing
Births
January 7 –
Charles Addams , cartoonist (died
1988 )
January 20 –
Walter Briggs, Jr. , businessman (died
1970 )
January 27 –
Francis Rogallo , aeronautical engineer (died
2009 )
January 28 –
Jackson Pollock , abstract expressionist painter (died
1956 )
January 30
February 7 –
Roy Sullivan , park ranger, world record holder for lightning strikes survived (died
1984 )
February 20 –
Muriel Humphrey Brown , U.S. Senator from Minnesota in 1978,
Second Lady of the United States (died
1998 )
March 13 –
Charles Schepens ,
ophthalmologist , "the father of retinal surgery" and a
Nazi resistance movement leader (died
2006 )
March 14
March 15 –
Lightnin' Hopkins , African American country blues musician (died
1982 )
March 16 –
Pat Nixon ,
First Lady of the United States ,
Second Lady of the United States (died
1993 )
March 17 –
Bayard Rustin , African American civil rights activist (died
1987 )
March 24 –
Dorothy Height , African American activist (died
2010 )
March 26 –
Opaline Deveraux Wadkins , African American nurse educator (died
2000 )
April 1 –
Donald Nyrop , businessman (died
2010 )
April 7 –
Jack Lawrence , songwriter (died
2009 )
April 13 –
William J. Tuttle , makeup artist (died
2007 )
April 19 –
Glenn T. Seaborg , nuclear chemist, recipient of
Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1951 (died
1999 )
May 3 –
May Sarton , poet, novelist and memoirist (died
1995 )
May 11 –
Foster Brooks , comic actor (died
2001 )
May 16 –
Studs Terkel , writer and broadcaster (died
2008 )
May 17
May 18 –
Perry Como , singer (died 2001)
May 27
May 30
May 31 –
Henry M. Jackson ("Scoop"), politician (died
1983 )
June 3 –
Glen Dawson , rock climber and mountaineer (died
2016 )
[8]
June 5 –
Dean Amadon , ornithologist (died
2003 )
June 9 –
Philip Simmons , ornamental ironworker (died
2009 )
June 21 –
Mary McCarthy , novelist, critic and political activist (died
1989 )
June 25 –
William T. Cahill , politician (died
1996 )
June 29 –
John Toland , historian and biographer, recipient of
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1971 (died 2004)
July 1
July 11 –
William F. Walsh , politician (died
2011 )
[9]
July 13 –
Ed Sherman , American football player, coach (died
2009 )
July 14
July 17 –
Art Linkletter , television host (
House Party ) (died
2010 )
July 28 –
George Cisar , screen character actor (died
1979 )
July 31
August 1
August 2 –
Ann Dvorak , actress (died
1979 )
[10]
August 9 –
Anne Brown , African American soprano (died
2009 in Norway )
August 11 –
Norman Levinson , mathematician (died
1975 )
August 13 –
Ben Hogan , golfer (died
1997 )
August 15 –
Julia Child , television chef (died 2004)
August 23 –
Gene Kelly , entertainer (died 1996)
[11]
August 30 –
Edward Mills Purcell , physicist, recipient of
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1952 (died 1997)
[12]
September 5
September 7 –
David Packard , electrical engineer (died 1996)
September 10 –
William Everson ("Brother Antoninus"), poet (died 1994)
September 13
September 16 –
Don A. Jones , admiral and environmental engineer (died
1976 )
September 21 –
Chuck Jones , animator (Warner Brothers) (died 2002)
October 6
October 15 –
Nellie Lutcher , African American jazz singer (died 2007)
October 16 –
Clifford Hansen , politician (died
2009 )
October 22 –
George N. Leighton , soldier and judge (died
2018 )
October 25 –
Minnie Pearl , humorist (died 1996)
October 27 –
Conlon Nancarrow , composer (died
1997 in Mexico )
October 31 –
Ollie Johnston , animator (died
2008 )
November 14 –
Barbara Hutton , socialite (died 1979)
November 21 –
Eleanor Powell , film tap dancer (died
1982 )
[14]
November 22 –
Paul Zamecnik , molecular biologist (died 2009)
November 23
November 28 –
Morris Louis , Color Field painter (died
1962 )
November 30 –
Gordon Parks , African American photographer and artist (died 2006)
December 1 –
Minoru Yamasaki , architect (
World Trade Center ) (died
1986 )
December 4 –
Pappy Boyington , U.S. Marine Corps fighter ace (died 1988)
December 12 –
Henry Armstrong , African American boxer (died 1988)
December 15 –
Ray Eames , born Ray-Bernice Kaiser, designer, (died 1988)
December 22 –
Lady Bird Johnson , wife of
Lyndon B. Johnson ,
First Lady of the United States ,
Second Lady of the United States (died
2007 )
December 28 –
James Allen , U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1969 to 1978 (died
1978 )
Genevieve Grotjan Feinstein , mathematician and cryptanalyst (died 2006)
Walt Partymiller , cartoonist and watercolorist (died
1991 )
Deaths
January 3 –
Robley Dunglison Evans , admiral (born
1846 )
January 4 –
Clarence Dutton , geologist (born
1841 )
March 19 –
Thomas Harrison Montgomery, Jr. , zoologist and cell biologist (born
1873 )
March 23 –
Mace Greenleaf , actor (born
1872 )
[15]
April 3 –
Calbraith Perry Rodgers , aviation pioneer (born
1879 )
April 4 –
Charles Brantley Aycock , 50th
Governor of North Carolina (died
1859 )
April 12 –
Clara Barton , nurse (born
1821 )
April 15 –
Sinking of the RMS Titanic
April 18 –
Martha Ripley , physician (born
1843 )
[16]
May 4 –
Nettie Stevens , geneticist (born
1861 )
May 18 –
Ferdinand Ludwig Herff , German-American physician (born
1820 )
May 25 –
Austin Lane Crothers , politician (born
1860 )
May 30 –
Wilbur Wright , aviation pioneer (born
1867 )
June 1
June 16 –
Thomas Pollock Anshutz , painter (born
1851 )
June 26 –
Anthony Higgins , U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1889 to 1895 (born
1840 )
June 27 –
Frank Furness , Philadelphia architect (born
1839 )
July 1 –
Harriet Quimby , aviator (born 1875)
July 7 –
Sarah Platt-Decker , suffragist (born
1856 )
July 24 –
Addison Peale Russell , essayist (born
1826 )
July 29 –
William D. Washburn , U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1889 to 1895 and businessman (born
1831 )
August 8 –
Ross Winn , anarchist writer and publisher (born
1871 )
August 13 –
Horace Howard Furness , Shakespeare scholar (born
1833 )
September 18 –
Hernando Money , U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1897 to 1911 (born
1839 )
October 5 –
Lewis Boss , astronomer (b.
1846 )
October 6 –
William A. Peffer , U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1891 to 1897 (born 1831)
October 30 –
James S. Sherman , 27th
vice president of the United States from 1909 to 1912 (born
1855 )
November 25 –
Isidor Rayner , U.S. senator from Maryland from 1905 to 1912 (born
1850 )
November 28 –
Walter Benona Sharp , oil pioneer (born
1870 )
December 18 –
Will Carleton , poet (born
1845 )
December 29 –
Philip H. Cooper , admiral (born
1844 )
See also
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Walsh, William Francis , Biographical Directory of the United States Congress , Washington, DC: US Congress, Undated, Retrieved 21 January 2014.
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"Ann Dvorak" .
Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 6 February 2020 .
^
"Gene Kelly | Biography, Movies, Songs, Singin' in the Rain, & Facts" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 17 May 2021 .
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"E.M. Purcell | American physicist" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 17 May 2021 .
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