List of Famous people who born in 1912

Zentarō Kosaka was a Japanese politician who served as foreign minister for two times and as labor minister.

Tung Chao-yung or C. Y. Tung, also known as Tung Hao-yun, simplified Chinese: 董浩云; traditional Chinese: 董浩雲; pinyin: Dǒng Hàoyún), was a Chinese shipping magnate, the founder of the Orient Overseas Line. He was the father of Tung Chee Hwa, the first chief executive of the Hong Kong S.A.R..

Cheng Shicai was a People's Liberation Army lieutenant general. He was born in Xingchong village (杏冲村), Xuanhuadian, Dawu County, Hubei. Cheng joined the Chinese Red Army in 1930, and the Communist Party of China later in the same year.

Maha Thiri Thudhamma Khin Kyi was a Burmese politician and diplomat, best known for her marriage to the country's leader, Aung San, with whom she had four children, including Aung San Suu Kyi.

Harsono Tjokroaminoto is an Indonesian political figure leaning non-cooperative with the Netherlands. Harsono is Minister of State for Administrative Improvement and Cleaning in Indonesia. In the Dutch period he had a career as a teacher and school inspector Kweekschool PSII, PSII region of North Sulawesi. He helped and led various newspapers and magazines Islamic-leaning politics, author of several brochures, especially the character of politics and all Islam's. In the era of Japan some time working on Domei Jakarta, and had also curled in captivity Kempeitai, for participating in the movement of Indonesian youth who want to knock down the Japanese government. In 1946, he served as deputy Secretary of State in the Natsir Cabinet; and in 1955, he served as deputy prime minister in the Harahap Cabinet.

Nicolaas Johannes Michel was a Dutch football goalkeeper who played for the Netherlands in the 1938 FIFA World Cup. He also played for Telstar.

Sha Fei was a Chinese photojournalist and war photographer best known for his work with the Chinese Communist Party during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–45). Born Situ Chuan (司徒传), he took the pseudonym Sha Fei, that is, a grain of sand in the sky of his country. He has been called "one of the most admired Leftist photographers in China during the wartime years of 1937–1949", and "one of the most influential photographers of his generation". His "warm, dramatic, and ideologically-charged photographic presentations were emulated for decades thereafter".

Hu Qiaomu was a sociologist, Marxist philosopher and politician of the People's Republic of China. He opposed the reform and opening up era of economic reform that followed the death of Mao Zedong.