page_title: 1912
section_title: April
hierarchical_section_title: 1912 / Births / April
caption_attribution_description: "Physicist Glenn T. Seaborg, atomic pioneer and Commissioner of the Atomic Energy Commission., ca. 1964"
context_page_description: 1912 was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1912th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 912th year of the 2nd millennium, the 12th year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1910s decade. As of the start of 1912, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: April 2 – Herbert Mills, American singer, "Mills Brothers" tenor (d. 1989)
  April 4 – Joie Chitwood, American racecar driver and businessman (d. 1988)
  April 5 – John Le Mesurier, British actor (d. 1983)
  April 7 – Jack Lawrence, American composer (d. 2009)
  April 8
  Alois Brunner, Austrian captain (d. 2001)
  Sonja Henie, Norwegian figure skater (d. 1969)
  April 10
  Roy Hofheinz, American businessman, politician and creator of the Houston Astrodome (d. 1982)
  Boris Kidrič, 1st Prime Minister of Slovenia (d. 1953)
  April 11 – Gusti Wolf, Austrian actress (d. 2007)
  April 12
  Hamengkubuwono IX, 9th Sultan of Yogyakarta and 2nd Vice President of Indonesia (d. 1988)
  Oswaldo Louzada, Brazilian actor (d. 2008)
  Walt Gorney, American actor (d. 2004)
  April 13 – William J. Tuttle, American makeup artist (d. 2007)
  April 15 – Kim Il-sung, President of North Korea (d. 1994)
  April 16
  David Langton, British actor (d. 1994)
  Catherine Scorsese, Italian-American actress (d. 1997)
  April 17 – Marta Eggerth, Hungarian-born American actress, singer (d. 2013)
  April 19 – Glenn T. Seaborg, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
  April 22
  Kathleen Ferrier, British contralto (d. 1953)
  Kaneto Shindō, Japanese film director (d. 2012)
  April 26 – A. E. van Vogt, Canadian-born writer (d. 2000)
  April 27 – Zohra Sehgal, Indian stage, film actress (d. 2014)
  April 28 – Odette Sansom, French World War II heroine (d. 1995)
caption: Glenn T. Seaborg
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