Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1912
Birthdays
- January 1 - Kim Philby, British spy (d. 1988)
- January 1 - Boris Vladimirovich Gnedenko, Russian mathematician (d. 1995)
- January 3 - Renaude Lapointe, Canadian journalist and senator (d. 2002)
- January 3 - Armand Lohikoski, Finnish director (d. 2005)
- January 6 - Danny Thomas, American actor (d. 1991)
- January 7 - Charles Addams, American cartoonist (d. 1988)
- January 7 - Günter Wand, German conductor
- January 9 - Ralph Tubbs, British architect (d. 1996)
- January 10 - Maria Mandel, Camp leader at Auschwitz (d. 1948)
- January 14 - Tillie Olsen, American writer (d. 2007)
- January 15 - Michel Debré, French politician (d. 1996)
- January 15 - Harry Hay, American gay rights activist (d. 2002)
- January 19 - Leonid Kantorovich, Russian economist
- January 20 - Walter Briggs, Jr.
- January 21 - Konrad Emil Bloch, German-born biochemist
- January 27 - Arne Nćss, Norwegian philosopher
- January 28 - Jackson Pollock, American painter (d. 1956)
- January 30 - Werner Hartmann, German physicist (d. 1988)
- January 30 - Francis Schaeffer, American Evangelical theologian and pastor (d. 1984)
- January 30 - Barbara W. Tuchman, American historian (d. 1989)
- February 2 - Millvina Dean, last living survivour of the RMS Titanic
- February 2 - Burton Lane, American composer and lyricist (d. 1997)
- February 3 - Jacques Soustelle, French anthropologist (d. 1990)
- February 4 - Ola Skjĺk Brćk, Norwegian politician (d. 1999)
- February 4 - Erich Leinsdorf, Austrian conductor (d. 1993)
- February 4 - Byron Nelson, American golfer (d. 2006)
- February 4 - Louis-Albert Cardinal Vachon, archbishop of Quebec (d. 2006)
- February 6 - Eva Braun, German mistress and wife of Adolf Hitler (d. 1945)
- February 7 - Russell Drysdale, Australian Artist {d. 1981}
- February 11 - Roy Fuller, English writer (d. 1991)
- February 12 - R. F. Delderfield, English author (d. 1972)
- February 14 - Tibor Sekelj, Croatian explorer (d. 1988)
- February 17 - Andre Norton, American author (d. 2005)
- February 19 - Saul Chaplin, American composer (d. 1997)
- February 20 - Pierre Boulle, French author (d. 1994)
- February 25 - Brenda Joyce, American actress
- February 26 - Dane Clark, American actor (d. 1998)
- February 27 - Lawrence Durrell, British writer (d. 1990)
- February 27 - Kusumagraj, Indian writer (d. 1999)
- February 28 - Clara Petacci, Italian mistress of Benito Mussolini (d. 1945)
- March 1 - Gerald Emmett Cardinal Carter, archbishop of Toronto (d. 2003)
- March 2 - Henry Katzman, American composer and pianist (d. 2001)
- March 4 - Afro Basaldella, Italian painter (d. 1976)
- March 4 - Judith Furse, British character actress (d. 1974)
- March 4 - Carl Marzani, American documentarian (d. 1994)
- March 8 - Preston Smith, America politician (d. 2003)
- March 12 - Irving Layton, Canadian poet (d. 2006)
- March 12 - Paul Weston, American pianist
- March 14 - Les Brown, American bandleader (d. 2001)
- March 14 - Charles Van Acker, Belgian racing driver (d. 1998)
- March 15 - Lightnin' Hopkins, American musician (d. 1982)
- March 15 - Louis Paul Boon, Flemish journalist and novelist (d. 1979)
- March 16 - Pat Nixon, First Lady of the United States (d. 1993)
- March 17 - Bayard Rustin, American civil rights activist (d. 1987)
- March 22 - Wilfrid Brambell, Irish actor (d. 1985)
- March 22 - Karl Malden, American actor
- March 23 - Wernher von Braun, German-born physicist and engineer (d. 1977)
- March 25 - Jean Vilar, French stage and film actor (d. 1971)
- March 27 - James Callaghan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 2005)
- March 28 - A. Bertram Chandler Australian author, (d. 1984)
- March 28 - Marina Raskova, Russian navigator (d. 1943)
- March 29 - Hanna Reitsch, German test pilot (d. 1979)
- April 2 - Herbert Mills, American singer (The Mills Brothers) (d. 1989)
- April 5 - John Le Mesurier, British actor (d. 1983)
- April 8 - Alois Brunner, Austrian Nazi
- April 8 - Sonja Henie, Norwegian figure skater and actress (d. 1969)
- April 9 - Lew Kopelew, Russian author (d. 1997)
- April 12 - Walt Gorney, American actor (d. 2004)
- April 12 - Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono IX, Second Vice President of Indonesia (d. 1988)
- April 15 - Kim Il-sung, President of North Korea (d. 1994)
- April 16 - Garth Williams, American illustrator (d. 1996)
- April 16 - Catherine Scorsese, Italian-American actress (d. 1997)
- April 19 - Glenn Seaborg, American chemist
- April 21 - Marcel Camus, French film director (d. 1982)
- April 22 - Kathleen Ferrier, British singer (d. 1953)
- April 26 - A. E. van Vogt, Canadian writer (d. 2000)
- April 28 - Odette Sansom, French resistance worker (d. 1995)
- April 29 - Richard Carlson, American actor (d. 1977)
- May 1 - Otto Kretschmer, German U-Boat commander (d. 1998)
- May 2 - Axel Cäsar Springer, German publisher (d. 1985)
- May 3 - Virgil Fox, American organist (d. 1980)
- May 9 - Pedro Armendáriz, Mexican actor (d. 1963)
- May 9 - Per Imerslund, "The aryan idol" (d. 1943)
- May 11 - Foster Brooks, American actor and comedian (d. 2001)
- May 12 - Archibald Cox, U.S. Solicitor General (d. 2004)
- May 13 - Gil Evans, Canadian musician (d. 1988)
- May 13 - Judah Nadich, American rabbi (d. 2007)
- May 15 - Arthur Berger, American composer (d. 2003)
- May 16 - Studs Terkel, American writer
- May 18 - Richard Brooks, American film director
- May 18 - Perry Como, American singer (d. 2001)
- May 18 - Walter Sisulu, South African anti-apartheid activist (d. 2003)
- May 21 - John Curtis Gowan, American psychologist (d. 1986)
- May 21 - Monty Stratton, baseball player (d. 1982)
- May 22 - Herbert C. Brown, English-born chemist
- May 23 - Jean Françaix, French composer (d. 1997)
- May 23 - Betty Astell, English actress (d. 2005)
- May 23 - John Payne, American actor (d. 1989)
- May 25 - Princess Dukhye of Korea, (d. 1989)
- May 26 - János Kádár, Prime minister of Hungary (d. 1989)
- May 26 - Jay Silverheels, American actor (d. 1980)
- May 27 - John Cheever, American author (d. 1982)
- May 27 - Sam Snead, American golfer (d. 2002)
- May 27 - Terry Moore, American baseball player (d. 1995)
- May 28 - Patrick White, Australian writer
- May 28 - Herman Johannes, Indonesian scientist and politician (d. 1992)
- May 30 - Julius Axelrod, American biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
- May 30 - Erich Bagge, German physicist
- May 30 - Hugh Griffith, Welsh actor (d. 1980)
- May 31 - Alfred Deller, English countertenor (d. 1979)
- June 4 - Robert Jacobsen, Danish artist (d. 1993)
- June 5 - Dean Amadon, American ornithologist (d. 2003)
- June 8 - Harry Holtzman, American abstract artist (d. 1987)
- June 8 - Maurice Bellemare, French Canadian politician (d. 1989)
- June 9 - Ingolf Dahl, American composer (d. 1970)
- June 10 - Jean Lesage, Premier of Quebec (d. 1980)
- June 11 - James Algar, American film director (d. 1998)
- June 12 - Jameel Jalibi, Pakistani scholar
- June 13 - Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, French Canadian poet (d. 1943)
- June 16 - Enoch Powell, British politician (d. 1998)
- June 19 - Don Gutteridge, American baseball player
- June 19 - Virginia MacWatters, American soprano (d. 2005)
- June 20 - Anthony Buckeridge, English author (d. 2004)
- June 21 - Mary McCarthy, American writer (d. 1989)
- June 21 - Kazimierz Leski, Polish engineer
- June 22 - Princess Caroline Mathilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, (d. 1983)
- June 23 - Alan Turing, English mathematician
- June 24 - Brian Johnston, British cricket commentator (d 1994)
- June 25 - William T. Cahill, Governor of New Jersey (d. 1996)
- June 28 - Sergiu Celibidache, Romanian conductor (d. 1996)
- June 28 - Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, German physicist and philosopher (d. 2007)
- June 29 - John Toland, American historian (d. 2004)
- June 29 - Émile Peynaud, French oenologist (d. 2004)
- June 30 - Ludwig Bölkow, German aeronautical engineer (d. 2003)
- June 30 - Dan Reeves,
- July 1 - David R. Brower, American environmentalist (d. 2000)
- July 1 - Sally Kirkland, American fashion editor (d. 1989)
- July 4 - Viviane Romance, French actress (d. 1991)
- July 6 - Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer (d. 2006)
- July 14 - Northrop Frye, Canadian literary critic (d. 1991)
- July 14 - Woody Guthrie, American folk musician (d. 1967)
- July 16 - Milt Bocek, American baseball player (d. 2007)
- July 17 - Art Linkletter, Canadian television host
- July 17 - Erwin Bauer, German racing driver (d. 1958)
- July 18 - Max Rousié, French rugby footballer (d. 1950)
- July 19 - Norman Carr, British conservationist (b. 1997)
- July 20 - George Johnston, Australian journalist and novelist (d. 1970)
- July 23 - Michael Wilding, English actor (d. 1979)
- July 31 - Bill Brown, Australian cricketer (d. 2008)
- July 31 - Milton Friedman, American economist
- July 31 - Irv Kupcinet, American newspaper columnist (d. 2003)
- August 1 - Henry Jones, American actor (d. 1999)
- August 2 - Ann Dvorak, American actress (d. 1979)
- August 2 - Vladimir Zerjavic, Croatian statistician (d. 2001)
- August 4 - Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Russian mathematician
- August 4 - Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat (d. 1947)
- August 5 - Abbé Pierre, French Catholic priest (d. 2007)
- August 10 - Jorge Amado, Brazilian novelist (d. 2001)
- August 11 - Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs, German astronomer (d. 1954)
- August 11 - Thanom Kittikachorn, Prime Minister of Thailand (d. 2004)
- August 12 - Samuel Fuller, American film director (d. 1997)
- August 13 - Ben Hogan, American golfer (d. 1997)
- August 13 - Salvador Luria, Italian-born biologist
- August 15 - Julia Child, American cook (d. 2004)
- August 15 - Dame Wendy Hiller, English actress (d. 2003)
- August 16 - Ted Drake, English footballer (d. 1995)
- August 19 - Austin Dobson, British racing driver (d. 1963)
- August 21 - Toe Blake, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1995)
- August 23 - Gene Kelly, American dancer and actor (d. 1996)
- August 24 - Durward Kirby, American television personality (d. 2000)
- August 25 - Erich Honecker, East German politician (d. 1994)
- August 27 - Gloria Guinness, Mexican socialite and writer(d.1980)
- August 29 - Wolfgang Suschitzky, Austrian/Polish cinematographer
- August 29 - Barry Sullivan, American actor (d. 1994)
- August 29 - Sohn Kee-chung, Korean runner (d. 2002)
- August 30 - Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)
- August 30 - Nancy Wake AC GM, New Zealand-born World War II secret agent
- September 2 - Ernest Bromley, Australian cricketer (d. 1967)
- September 5 - John Cage, American composer (d. 1992)
- September 5 - Kristina Söderbaum, German actress and photographer (d. 2001)
- September 5 - Frank Thomas, American animator (d. 2004)
- September 7 - David Packard, American electrical engineer and businessman (d. 1996)
- September 10 - Mary Walter, Filipina actress (d. 1993)
- September 17 - Irena Kwiatkowska, Polish actress and comedian
- September 18 - Kurt Lotz, German business executive
- September 19 - Kurt Sanderling, German conductor
- September 21 - Chuck Jones, American animator (d. 2002)
- September 21 - György Sándor, Hungarian pianist (d. 2005)
- September 22 - Martha Scott, American actress (d. 2003)
- September 22 - Herbert Mataré, German physicist and European co-inventor of the transistor
- September 23 - Ghulam Mustafa Khan, Pakistani researcher
- September 23 - Tony Smith, American sculptor (d. 1980)
- September 24 - Don Porter, American actor (d. 1997)
- September 29 - Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian film director (d. 2007)
- September 30 - Kenny Baker, American singer and actor (d. 1985)
- October 5 - Fritz Fischer, Nazi war criminal
- October 6 - Pauline Gore, mother of American Vice President Al Gore (d. 2004)
- October 7 - Fernando Belaúnde Terry, President of Peru (d. 2002)
- October 17 - Pope John Paul I, (d. 1978)
- October 17 - Jack Owens, The Cruising Crooner
- October 21 - Sir Georg Solti, Hungarian conductor (d. 1997)
- October 21 - Alfredo Pián, Argentine racing driver (d. 1990)
- October 22 - Frances Drake, American actress (d. 2000)
- October 25 - Minnie Pearl, American comedian and singer (d. 1996)
- October 26 - Don Siegel, American director (d. 1991)
- October 28 - Richard Doll, English epidemiologist (d. 2005)
- October 31 - Dale Evans, American singer and actress (d. 2001)
- October 31 - Ollie Johnston, American animator (d. 2008)
- November 3 - Alfredo Stroessner, President of Paraguay (d. 2006)
- November 4 - Vadim Salmanov, Russian composer (d. 1978)
- November 10 - Birdie Tebbetts, American baseball player and manager (d. 1999)
- November 11 - Thomas C. Mann, American diplomat (d. 1999)
- November 14 - Barbara Hutton, American socialite (d. 1979)
- November 14 - T. Y. Lin, Chinese-born civil engineer (d. 2003)
- November 19 - George Emil Palade, Romanian cell biologist
- November 20 - Otto von Habsburg, Austrian-German nobleman
- November 21 - Eleanor Powell, American actress and dancer (d. 1983)
- November 23 - George O'Hanlon, American actor (d. 1989)
- November 24 - Bernard Delfgaauw, Dutch philosopher (d. 1993)
- November 24 - Garson Kanin, American writer (d. 1999)
- November 24 - Teddy Wilson, American jazz pianist (d. 1986)
- November 26 - Eric Sevareid, American journalist (d. 1992)
- November 28 - Morris Louis, American painter (d. 1962)
- November 30 - Gordon Parks, American photographer and film director (d. 2006)
- December 1 - Minoru Yamasaki, American architect (d. 1986)
- December 4 - Pappy Boyington, American pilot (d. 1988)
- December 7 - Daniel Jones, British composer (d. 1993)
- December 9 - Tip O'Neill, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1994)
- December 10 - Philip A. Hart, U.S. Senator (d. 1976)
- December 11 - Carlo Ponti, Italian film producer (d. 2007)
- December 15 - Ray Eames, American designer (d. 1988)
- December 18 - Benjamin O. Davis Jr., American General (d. 2002)
- December 22 - Lady Bird Johnson, First Lady of the United States (d. 2007)
- December 25 - Tony Martin, American singer and actor
- December 25 - Natalino Otto, Italian singer (d. 1969)
- December 31 - Maj-Gen John Frost, British para commander (d. 1993)
Deaths
- January 25 - Dmitry Milyutin, Russian Field Marshal (b. 1816)
- January 28 - Gustave de Molinari, Belgian economist (b. 1819)
- February 10 - Joseph Lister, British surgeon (b. 1827)
- February 16 - St. Nikolai of Japan, Eastern Orthodox priest (b. 1836)
- February 17 - Edgar Evans, Welsh naval officer (b. 1876)
- February 25 - Guillaume IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (b. 1852)
- March 1 - George Grossmith, English actor and comic writer (b. 1847)
- March 17 - Lawrence Oates, English army officer and Antarctic explorer (b. 1880)
- March 29 - Henry Robertson Bowers,
- March 29 - Sir Robert Falcon Scott, English explorer
- March 29 - Edward Adrian Wilson, English physician and naturalist
- March 30 - Karl May, German author (b. 1842)
- April 12 - Clara Barton, American nurse and Red Cross advocate (b. 1821)
- April 13 - Ishikawa Takuboku, Japanese author (b. 1886)
- April 14 - Henri Brisson, French statesman (b. 1835)
- April 15 - Edward Smith, captain of the RMS Titanic (b. 1850)
- April 15 - John Jacob Astor IV, billionaire (b. 1864)
- April 15 - William T. Stead American author and journalist., (b. 1849)
- April 20 - Bram Stoker, Irish author (b. 1847)
- May 14 - Frederick VIII of Denmark, (b. 1843)
- May 14 - August Strindberg, Swedish author (b. 1849)
- May 19 - Bolesław Prus, Polish writer (b. 1847)
- May 25 - Austin Lane Crothers, American politician (b. 1860)
- May 30 - Wilbur Wright, aviation pioneer (Wright Brothers) (b. 1867)
- June 9 - Ion Luca Caragiale, Romanian writer (b. 1852)
- June 10 - Anton Aškerc, Slovenian poet (b. 1856)
- June 12 - Frédéric Passy, French economist
- June 27 - George Bonnor, Australian cricketer (b. 1855)
- July 2 - Tom Richardson, English cricket player (b. 1870)
- July 17 - Henri Poincaré, French mathematician (b. 1854)
- July 30 - Emperor Meiji, Japanese emperor (b. 1852)
- August 7 - François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss hydrologist (b. 1841)
- August 13 - Jules Massenet, French composer (b. 1842)
- August 20 - William Booth, English founder of the Salvation Army (b. 1829)
- September 5 - Arthur MacArthur, Jr.
- September 12 - Pierre-Hector Cardinal Coullie, Cardinal-Archbishop of Lyon
- September 13 - Maresuke Nogi, Japanese general (b. 1849)
- October 6 - Auguste Marie François Beernaert, Belgian statesman and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1829)
- October 24 - Mykola Lysenko, Ukrainian composer (b. 1842)
- October 30 - James S. Sherman, Vice President of the United States (b. 1855)
- November 10 - Louis Cyr, Canadian strongman (b. 1863)
- November 28 - Walter Benona Sharp, American oil tycoon (b. 1870)
- December 3 - Prudente José de Morais Barros, President of Brazil (b. 1841)
- December 14 - Belgrave Edward Sutton Ninnis, British Army lieutenant (b. 1887)
- December 23 - Otto Schoetensack, German anthropologist (b. 1850)
Events
- January 1 - The Republic of China is established.
- January 4 - The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the British Commonwealth by Royal Charter.
- January 5 - The Prague Party Conference takes place.
- January 6 - New Mexico is admitted as the 47th U.S. state.
- January 8 - The African National Congress is founded.
- January 11 - The Lawrence textile strike begins in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
- January 17 - Sir Robert Falcon Scott (Scott of the Antarctic) reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
- January 23 - The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague.
- February 12 - Xuantong Emperor of the Manchu Qing dynasty, the last Emperor of China, abdicates.
- February 12 - The Republic of China adopts the Gregorian calendar.
- February 14 - Arizona is admitted as the 48th U.S. state.
- February 14 - In Groton, Connecticut, the first diesel-powered submarine is commissioned.
- February 21 - Ioannina is incorporated into the Greek state after the Balkan Wars.
- February 25 - Marie-Adélaďde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.
- March 1 - Albert Berry makes the first parachute jump from a moving airplane.
- March 5 - Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, using them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
- March 7 - Roald Amundsen first announces to the world that his expedition has reached the South Pole, though they had arrived on December 14, 1911.
- March 10 - Yuan Shikai is sworn in as the second Provisional President of the Republic of China.
- March 11 - Eleftherios Venizelos, leader of the Liberal Party, wins the Greek elections again.
- March 12 - The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States.
- March 16 - Lawrence Oates, ill member of Scott's South Pole expedition leaves the tent saying, "I am just going outside and may be some time."
- March 30 - Sultan Abdelhafid signs the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate.
- April 1 - The Greek athlete Konstantinos Tsiklitiras breaks the world record -in standing long jump jumping 3.47 meters.
- April 10 - The RMS Titanic leaves port in Southampton, England for her first and only voyage.
- April 14 - The British passenger liner RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic, and sinks the following morning with the loss of 1,503 lives.
- April 15 - The British passenger liner, the RMS Titanic, sinks in the North Atlantic, after hitting an iceberg two and a half hours earlier, the previous day.
- April 16 - Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
- April 18 - The Cunard liner RMS Carpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic to New York City.
- April 20 - Opening day for baseball stadiums Tiger Stadium in Detroit, Michigan, and Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts.
- April 22 - Pravda, the "voice" of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, begins publication in Saint Petersburg.
- May 4 - Italy occupies the Greek island of Rhodes.
- May 13 - The Royal Flying Corps (now the Royal Air Force) is established in the United Kingdom.
- June 4 - Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage.
- June 6 - The eruption of Novarupta in Alaska begins. It is the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century.
- June 8 - Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
- June 30 - The Regina Cyclone hits Regina, Saskatchewan, killing 28. It remains Canada's deadliest tornado event.
- July 19 - A meteorite with an estimated mass of 190 kg explodes over the town of Holbrook in Navajo County, Arizona causing approximately 16,000 pieces of debris to rain down on the town.
- August 5 - Japan's first taxicab service begins in Ginza, Tokyo.
- August 6 - The Bull Moose Party meets at the Chicago Coliseum.
- August 14 - United States Marines invade Nicaragua to support the U.S.-backed government installed there after José Santos Zelaya had resigned three years earlier.
- August 24 - Alaska becomes a United States territory.
- August 25 - The Kuomintang, the Chinese nationalist party, is founded.
- September 25 - Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York, New York.
- October 7 - The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.
- October 8 - First Balkan War begins: Montenegro declares war against Turkey.
- 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 still delivers his scheduled speech.
- October 17 - Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War.
- October 18 - The First Balkan War begins.
- October 19 - Italy takes possession of Tripoli, Libya from the Ottoman Empire.
- October 21 - During the First Balkan War, Kardzhali was liberated by Bulgarian forces
- October 23 - First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo between the Serbian and Ottoman armies begins.
- October 24 - First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo concludes with the Serbian victory.
- October 26 - First Balkan War: The capital city of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, is unified with Greece on the feast day of its patron Saint Demetrius. On the same day, Serbian troops captured Skopje.
- November 7 - The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio.
- November 12 - The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
- November 27 - Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco.
- November 28 - Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.
- December 3 - Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia (the Balkan League) sign an armistice with Turkey, ending the two-month long First Balkan War.
- December 3 - First Balkan War: The Naval Battle of Elli takes place.
- December 8 - First Balkan War: The Greek army captures Korçë that had been under Ottoman rule.
- December 19 - William H. Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over 1,000 people, is pardoned by U.S. President William Howard Taft after three-and-a-half-years in Sing Sing prison.
- December 28 - The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco, California.
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