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Who Was Alive in 1912

125 of 492 historical figures were alive in 1912

Harriet Tubman
Harriet TubmanAge about 90
1822–1913 · Activism & Social Change
Underground Railroad conductor
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew CarnegieAge 77
1835–1919 · Business & Industry
Steel magnate, philanthropist
John D. Rockefeller
John D. RockefellerAge 73
1839–1937 · Business & Industry
Standard Oil tycoon, among the richest Americans in history
Claude Monet
Claude MonetAge 72
1840–1926 · Art
Water Lilies, father of Impressionism
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste RenoirAge 71
1841–1919 · Art
Impressionist painter of joyful scenes
Sarah Bernhardt
Sarah BernhardtAge 68
1844–1923 · Film & Entertainment
French stage actress of worldwide fame
Thomas Edison
Thomas EdisonAge 65
1847–1931 · Science & Invention
Light bulb, phonograph, 1000+ patents
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham BellAge 65
1847–1922 · Science & Invention
Invented the telephone
Antoni Gaudí
Antoni GaudíAge 60
1852–1926 · Art
Sagrada Família architect
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund FreudAge 56
1856–1939 · Philosophy & Thought
Father of psychoanalysis
Nikola Tesla
Nikola TeslaAge 56
1856–1943 · Science & Invention
AC electricity, visionary inventor
Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow WilsonAge 56
1856–1924 · Politics & Leadership
28th US President, League of Nations
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard ShawAge 56
1856–1950 · Literature
Irish playwright of Pygmalion
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore RooseveltAge 54
1858–1919 · Politics & Leadership
26th US President, Rough Rider
Emmeline Pankhurst
Emmeline PankhurstAge 54
1858–1928 · Activism & Social Change
British suffragette leader
Max Planck
Max PlanckAge 54
1858–1947 · Science & Invention
Father of quantum theory
Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan DoyleAge 53
1859–1930 · Literature
Creator of Sherlock Holmes
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath TagoreAge 51
1861–1941 · Literature
First non-European Nobel laureate in Literature
Gustav Klimt
Gustav KlimtAge 50
1862–1918 · Art
The Kiss, Art Nouveau master
Claude Debussy
Claude DebussyAge 50
1862–1918 · Music
Clair de Lune, Impressionist music
David Hilbert
David HilbertAge 50
1862–1943 · Science & Invention
German mathematician of Hilbert's problems
Henry Ford
Henry FordAge 49
1863–1947 · Business & Industry
Assembly line, Model T automobile
Edvard Munch
Edvard MunchAge 49
1863–1944 · Art
The Scream
Max Weber
Max WeberAge 48
1864–1920 · Philosophy & Thought
A founder of modern sociology
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard KiplingAge 47
1865–1936 · Literature
Author of The Jungle Book, Nobel laureate
H.G. Wells
H.G. WellsAge 46
1866–1946 · Literature
The War of the Worlds, science fiction pioneer
Sun Yat-sen
Sun Yat-senAge 46
1866–1925 · Politics & Leadership
Father of the Republic of China
Marie Curie
Marie CurieAge 45
1867–1934 · Science & Invention
Radioactivity, first woman Nobel laureate
Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd WrightAge 45
1867–1959 · Art
American architect of Fallingwater
Scott Joplin
Scott JoplinAge 44
1868–1917 · Music
King of Ragtime
Maxim Gorky
Maxim GorkyAge 44
1868–1936 · Literature
Russian writer of The Lower Depths
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma GandhiAge 43
1869–1948 · Politics & Leadership
Nonviolent independence leader of India
Grigori Rasputin
Grigori RasputinAge 43
1869–1916 · Politics & Leadership
Mystic who influenced the Russian royal family
Henri Matisse
Henri MatisseAge 43
1869–1954 · Art
Leader of Fauvism, master of color and cut-outs
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir LeninAge 42
1870–1924 · Politics & Leadership
Bolshevik leader of the October Revolution
Marcel Proust
Marcel ProustAge 41
1871–1922 · Literature
In Search of Lost Time
Orville Wright
Orville WrightAge 41
1871–1948 · Science & Invention
Co-inventor of the airplane
Rosa Luxemburg
Rosa LuxemburgAge 41
1871–1919 · Activism & Social Change
Marxist theorist and revolutionary
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest RutherfordAge 41
1871–1937 · Science & Invention
Father of nuclear physics
Roald Amundsen
Roald AmundsenAge 40
1872–1928 · Exploration
First to reach the South Pole
Bertrand Russell
Bertrand RussellAge 40
1872–1970 · Philosophy & Thought
Logician, philosopher and Nobel laureate
Ernest Shackleton
Ernest ShackletonAge 38
1874–1922 · Exploration
Heroic Antarctic explorer, Endurance expedition
Guglielmo Marconi
Guglielmo MarconiAge 38
1874–1937 · Science & Invention
Pioneer of long-distance radio
Winston Churchill
Winston ChurchillAge 38
1874–1965 · Politics & Leadership
British PM who led WWII effort
Harry Houdini
Harry HoudiniAge 38
1874–1926 · Film & Entertainment
Legendary escape artist & illusionist
Carl Jung
Carl JungAge 37
1875–1961 · Philosophy & Thought
Analytical psychology, archetypes
Albert Schweitzer
Albert SchweitzerAge 37
1875–1965 · Philosophy & Thought
Nobel Peace Prize physician, theologian and organist
Thomas Mann
Thomas MannAge 37
1875–1955 · Literature
German novelist of The Magic Mountain
Pancho Villa
Pancho VillaAge 34
1878–1923 · Politics & Leadership
Mexican revolutionary general
Lise Meitner
Lise MeitnerAge 34
1878–1968 · Science & Invention
Discovered nuclear fission, overlooked for Nobel
Joseph Stalin
Joseph StalinAge 34
1878–1953 · Politics & Leadership
Leader of the Soviet Union 1924–1953
Albert Einstein
Albert EinsteinAge 33
1879–1955 · Science & Invention
Theory of relativity, E=mc²
Leon Trotsky
Leon TrotskyAge 33
1879–1940 · Politics & Leadership
Russian revolutionary, founder of the Red Army
Helen Keller
Helen KellerAge 32
1880–1968 · Activism & Social Change
Deafblind author and activist, The Story of My Life
Pablo Picasso
Pablo PicassoAge 31
1881–1973 · Art
Cubism, Guernica, most prolific artist
Alexander Fleming
Alexander FlemingAge 31
1881–1955 · Science & Invention
Discovered penicillin
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Mustafa Kemal AtatürkAge 31
1881–1938 · Politics & Leadership
Founder and first president of modern Turkey
Virginia Woolf
Virginia WoolfAge 30
1882–1941 · Literature
Mrs Dalloway, modernist pioneer
James Joyce
James JoyceAge 30
1882–1941 · Literature
Ulysses, literary revolutionary
Igor Stravinsky
Igor StravinskyAge 30
1882–1971 · Music
The Rite of Spring, modern classical
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. RooseveltAge 30
1882–1945 · Politics & Leadership
32nd US President, New Deal, WWII leader
Coco Chanel
Coco ChanelAge 29
1883–1971 · Business & Industry
Fashion icon, Chanel No. 5
Franz Kafka
Franz KafkaAge 29
1883–1924 · Literature
The Metamorphosis, surreal fiction
Benito Mussolini
Benito MussoliniAge 29
1883–1945 · Politics & Leadership
Fascist dictator of Italy 1922–1943
John Maynard Keynes
John Maynard KeynesAge 29
1883–1946 · Philosophy & Thought
Economist who founded Keynesian economics
Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor RooseveltAge 28
1884–1962 · Activism & Social Change
First Lady, UN delegate, human rights champion
Harry S. Truman
Harry S. TrumanAge 28
1884–1972 · Politics & Leadership
33rd US president at the end of World War II
Niels Bohr
Niels BohrAge 27
1885–1962 · Science & Invention
Atomic model, quantum mechanics pioneer
Diego Rivera
Diego RiveraAge 26
1886–1957 · Art
Mexican muralist, political artist
Erwin Schrödinger
Erwin SchrödingerAge 25
1887–1961 · Science & Invention
Schrödinger's cat, wave equation
Georgia O'Keeffe
Georgia O'KeeffeAge 25
1887–1986 · Art
Mother of American modernism
Chiang Kai-shek
Chiang Kai-shekAge 25
1887–1975 · Politics & Leadership
Nationalist leader of the Republic of China
Le Corbusier
Le CorbusierAge 25
1887–1965 · Art
Pioneer of modern architecture
T. S. Eliot
T. S. EliotAge 24
1888–1965 · Literature
The Waste Land, Nobel-winning modernist poet
Charlie Chaplin
Charlie ChaplinAge 23
1889–1977 · Film & Entertainment
The Tramp, silent film legend
Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal NehruAge 23
1889–1964 · Politics & Leadership
First Prime Minister of independent India
Adolf Hitler
Adolf HitlerAge 23
1889–1945 · Politics & Leadership
Nazi dictator of Germany 1933–1945
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig WittgensteinAge 23
1889–1951 · Philosophy & Thought
Philosopher of logic and language
Ho Chi Minh
Ho Chi MinhAge 22
1890–1969 · Politics & Leadership
Revolutionary leader of Vietnam
Agatha Christie
Agatha ChristieAge 22
1890–1976 · Literature
Best-selling mystery novelist ever
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. EisenhowerAge 22
1890–1969 · Politics & Leadership
WWII Supreme Commander, 34th US President
Charles de Gaulle
Charles de GaulleAge 22
1890–1970 · Politics & Leadership
Leader of Free France, French President
Haile Selassie
Haile SelassieAge 20
1892–1975 · Politics & Leadership
Emperor of Ethiopia, Rastafari symbol
J.R.R. Tolkien
J.R.R. TolkienAge 20
1892–1973 · Literature
The Lord of the Rings, Middle-earth
Mao Zedong
Mao ZedongAge 19
1893–1976 · Politics & Leadership
Founder of the People's Republic of China
Aldous Huxley
Aldous HuxleyAge 18
1894–1963 · Literature
Author of the dystopian novel Brave New World
Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita KhrushchevAge 18
1894–1971 · Politics & Leadership
Soviet leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Babe Ruth
Babe RuthAge 17
1895–1948 · Sports
Baseball's Sultan of Swat
Buster Keaton
Buster KeatonAge 17
1895–1966 · Film & Entertainment
Silent film comedian, The General
F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott FitzgeraldAge 16
1896–1940 · Literature
The Great Gatsby
Amelia Earhart
Amelia EarhartAge 15
1897–1937 · Exploration
First woman to fly solo across the Atlantic
Golda Meir
Golda MeirAge 14
1898–1978 · Politics & Leadership
Fourth Prime Minister of Israel
C. S. Lewis
C. S. LewisAge 14
1898–1963 · Literature
Author of The Chronicles of Narnia
Duke Ellington
Duke EllingtonAge 13
1899–1974 · Music
Jazz legend, big band pioneer
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest HemingwayAge 13
1899–1961 · Literature
The Old Man and the Sea, Nobel laureate
Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis BorgesAge 13
1899–1986 · Literature
Labyrinths, Ficciones, master of the short story
Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred HitchcockAge 13
1899–1980 · Film & Entertainment
Master of Suspense — Psycho, Vertigo
Humphrey Bogart
Humphrey BogartAge 13
1899–1957 · Film & Entertainment
Casablanca, Hollywood icon
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Antoine de Saint-ExupéryAge 12
1900–1944 · Literature
Aviator and author of The Little Prince
Werner Heisenberg
Werner HeisenbergAge 11
1901–1976 · Science & Invention
Uncertainty principle, quantum mechanics pioneer
Louis Armstrong
Louis ArmstrongAge 11
1901–1971 · Music
What a Wonderful World, jazz trumpet
Walt Disney
Walt DisneyAge 11
1901–1966 · Film & Entertainment
Created Mickey Mouse, Disney empire
Enrico Fermi
Enrico FermiAge 11
1901–1954 · Science & Invention
Father of the nuclear age, first nuclear reactor
Hirohito
HirohitoAge 11
1901–1989 · Politics & Leadership
Emperor of Japan during WWII
Marlene Dietrich
Marlene DietrichAge 11
1901–1992 · Film & Entertainment
German-American film star and singer
George Orwell
George OrwellAge 9
1903–1950 · Literature
1984, Animal Farm
Bob Hope
Bob HopeAge 9
1903–2003 · Film & Entertainment
Comedian and entertainer for nearly 80 years
Robert Oppenheimer
Robert OppenheimerAge 8
1904–1967 · Science & Invention
Father of the atomic bomb
Salvador Dalí
Salvador DalíAge 8
1904–1989 · Art
The Persistence of Memory, surrealist
Pablo Neruda
Pablo NerudaAge 8
1904–1973 · Literature
Chilean poet and Nobel laureate
Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul SartreAge 7
1905–1980 · Philosophy & Thought
Existentialism, declined the Nobel Prize
Hannah Arendt
Hannah ArendtAge 6
1906–1975 · Philosophy & Thought
The Banality of Evil, political theorist
Frida Kahlo
Frida KahloAge 5
1907–1954 · Art
Self-portraits, Mexican cultural icon
Rachel Carson
Rachel CarsonAge 5
1907–1964 · Activism & Social Change
Silent Spring, environmental movement
Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de BeauvoirAge 4
1908–1986 · Philosophy & Thought
The Second Sex, feminist existentialist
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. JohnsonAge 4
1908–1973 · Politics & Leadership
36th US president, signed the Civil Rights Act
Kwame Nkrumah
Kwame NkrumahAge 3
1909–1972 · Politics & Leadership
First President of Ghana
Dorothy Hodgkin
Dorothy HodgkinAge 2
1910–1994 · Science & Invention
Nobel Prize for X-ray crystallography of biochemical substances
Mother Teresa
Mother TeresaAge 2
1910–1997 · Activism & Social Change
Missionary of Charity in Calcutta
Akira Kurosawa
Akira KurosawaAge 2
1910–1998 · Film & Entertainment
Seven Samurai, master filmmaker
Jacques Cousteau
Jacques CousteauAge 2
1910–1997 · Exploration
Ocean explorer, pioneered scuba diving
Ronald Reagan
Ronald ReaganAge 1
1911–2004 · Politics & Leadership
40th US president, former Hollywood actor
Naguib Mahfouz
Naguib MahfouzAge 1
1911–2006 · Literature
Egyptian novelist and Nobel laureate
Alan Turing
Alan TuringAge 0
1912–1954 · Science & Invention
Father of computer science, codebreaker
Jackson Pollock
Jackson PollockAge 0
1912–1956 · Art
Action painting, abstract expressionism

Born in 1912

Alan Turing
Alan Turing
1912–1954 · Science & Invention
Father of computer science, codebreaker
Jackson Pollock
Jackson Pollock
1912–1956 · Art
Action painting, abstract expressionism

Also Born in 1912

1912–1994 · born April 15
Leader of North Korea from 1948 to 1994
1912–2006 · born July 31
American economist and statistician (1912–2006)
1912–1978 · born October 17
Head of the Catholic Church in 1978
1912–1977 · born March 23
German American aerospace engineer (1912–1977)
1912–1994 · born August 25
Leader of East Germany, 1971–1989
1912–2005 · born March 27
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1979
1912–1945 · born February 6
Wife of Adolf Hitler (1912–1945)
1912–1990 · born May 28
Australian writer (1912–1990)
1912–1996 · born August 23
American entertainer (1912–1996)
1912–2001 · born August 10
Brazilian writer (1912–2001)
1912–2007 · born September 29
Italian filmmaker (1912–2007)
1912–1999 · born April 19
American chemist (1912–1999)

Also Died in 1912

1854–1912 · died July 17
French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854–1912)
1849–1912 · died May 14
Swedish writer and painter (1849–1912)
1847–1912 · died April 20
Irish author (1847–1912)
1852–1912 · died July 30
Emperor of Japan from 1867 to 1912
1868–1912 · died March 29
British Antarctic explorer (1868–1912)
1827–1912 · died February 10
English scientist, surgeon and antiseptic pioneer (1827–1912)
1822–1912 · died June 12
French economist and pacifist (1822–1912)
1842–1912 · died March 30
German author (1842–1912)
1847–1912 · died May 19
Polish novelist (1847–1912)
1842–1912 · died August 13
French composer (1842–1912)
1829–1912 · died October 6
14th Prime Minister of Belgium and human rights activist
1821–1912 · died April 12
American Civil War nurse and founder of the American Red Cross (1821–1912)

Notable World Events in 1912

Sources

  1. 1912 — Wikipedia. Births, deaths and events of the year
  2. Harriet Tubman — Wikipedia
  3. Andrew Carnegie — Wikipedia
  4. John D. Rockefeller — Wikipedia
  5. Claude Monet — Wikipedia
  6. Pierre-Auguste Renoir — Wikipedia
  7. Sarah Bernhardt — Wikipedia
  8. Thomas Edison — Wikipedia
  9. Alexander Graham Bell — Wikipedia
  10. Antoni Gaudí — Wikipedia
  11. Sigmund Freud — Wikipedia
  12. Nikola Tesla — Wikipedia
  13. Woodrow Wilson — Wikipedia
  14. George Bernard Shaw — Wikipedia
  15. Theodore Roosevelt — Wikipedia
  16. Emmeline Pankhurst — Wikipedia
  17. Max Planck — Wikipedia
  18. Arthur Conan Doyle — Wikipedia
  19. Rabindranath Tagore — Wikipedia
  20. Gustav Klimt — Wikipedia
  21. Claude Debussy — Wikipedia
  22. David Hilbert — Wikipedia
  23. Henry Ford — Wikipedia
  24. Edvard Munch — Wikipedia
  25. Max Weber — Wikipedia
  26. Rudyard Kipling — Wikipedia
  27. H. G. Wells — Wikipedia
  28. Sun Yat-sen — Wikipedia
  29. Marie Curie — Wikipedia
  30. Frank Lloyd Wright — Wikipedia
  31. Scott Joplin — Wikipedia
  32. Maxim Gorky — Wikipedia
  33. Mahatma Gandhi — Wikipedia
  34. Grigori Rasputin — Wikipedia
  35. Henri Matisse — Wikipedia
  36. Vladimir Lenin — Wikipedia
  37. Marcel Proust — Wikipedia
  38. Wright brothers — Wikipedia
  39. Rosa Luxemburg — Wikipedia
  40. Ernest Rutherford — Wikipedia
  41. Roald Amundsen — Wikipedia
  42. Bertrand Russell — Wikipedia
  43. Ernest Shackleton — Wikipedia
  44. Guglielmo Marconi — Wikipedia
  45. Winston Churchill — Wikipedia
  46. Harry Houdini — Wikipedia
  47. Carl Jung — Wikipedia
  48. Albert Schweitzer — Wikipedia
  49. Thomas Mann — Wikipedia
  50. Pancho Villa — Wikipedia
  51. Lise Meitner — Wikipedia
  52. Joseph Stalin — Wikipedia
  53. Albert Einstein — Wikipedia
  54. Leon Trotsky — Wikipedia
  55. Helen Keller — Wikipedia
  56. Pablo Picasso — Wikipedia
  57. Alexander Fleming — Wikipedia
  58. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk — Wikipedia
  59. Virginia Woolf — Wikipedia
  60. James Joyce — Wikipedia
  61. Igor Stravinsky — Wikipedia
  62. Franklin D. Roosevelt — Wikipedia
  63. Coco Chanel — Wikipedia
  64. Franz Kafka — Wikipedia
  65. Benito Mussolini — Wikipedia
  66. John Maynard Keynes — Wikipedia
  67. Eleanor Roosevelt — Wikipedia
  68. Harry S. Truman — Wikipedia
  69. Niels Bohr — Wikipedia
  70. Diego Rivera — Wikipedia
  71. Erwin Schrödinger — Wikipedia
  72. Georgia O'Keeffe — Wikipedia
  73. Chiang Kai-shek — Wikipedia
  74. Le Corbusier — Wikipedia
  75. T. S. Eliot — Wikipedia
  76. Charlie Chaplin — Wikipedia
  77. Jawaharlal Nehru — Wikipedia
  78. Adolf Hitler — Wikipedia
  79. Ludwig Wittgenstein — Wikipedia
  80. Ho Chi Minh — Wikipedia
  81. Agatha Christie — Wikipedia
  82. Dwight D. Eisenhower — Wikipedia
  83. Charles de Gaulle — Wikipedia
  84. Haile Selassie — Wikipedia
  85. J. R. R. Tolkien — Wikipedia
  86. Mao Zedong — Wikipedia
  87. Aldous Huxley — Wikipedia
  88. Nikita Khrushchev — Wikipedia
  89. Babe Ruth — Wikipedia
  90. Buster Keaton — Wikipedia
  91. F. Scott Fitzgerald — Wikipedia
  92. Amelia Earhart — Wikipedia
  93. Golda Meir — Wikipedia
  94. C. S. Lewis — Wikipedia
  95. Duke Ellington — Wikipedia
  96. Ernest Hemingway — Wikipedia
  97. Jorge Luis Borges — Wikipedia
  98. Alfred Hitchcock — Wikipedia
  99. Humphrey Bogart — Wikipedia
  100. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry — Wikipedia
  101. Werner Heisenberg — Wikipedia
  102. Louis Armstrong — Wikipedia
  103. Walt Disney — Wikipedia
  104. Enrico Fermi — Wikipedia
  105. Hirohito — Wikipedia
  106. Marlene Dietrich — Wikipedia
  107. George Orwell — Wikipedia
  108. Bob Hope — Wikipedia
  109. J. Robert Oppenheimer — Wikipedia
  110. Salvador Dalí — Wikipedia
  111. Pablo Neruda — Wikipedia
  112. Jean-Paul Sartre — Wikipedia
  113. Hannah Arendt — Wikipedia
  114. Frida Kahlo — Wikipedia
  115. Rachel Carson — Wikipedia
  116. Simone de Beauvoir — Wikipedia
  117. Lyndon B. Johnson — Wikipedia
  118. Kwame Nkrumah — Wikipedia
  119. Dorothy Hodgkin — Wikipedia
  120. Mother Teresa — Wikipedia
  121. Akira Kurosawa — Wikipedia
  122. Jacques Cousteau — Wikipedia
  123. Ronald Reagan — Wikipedia
  124. Naguib Mahfouz — Wikipedia
  125. Alan Turing — Wikipedia
  126. Jackson Pollock — Wikipedia
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