List of Famous people who died in 1912

Nettie Stevens

First Name Nettie
Born on July 7, 1861
Died on May 4, 1912 (aged 50)

Nettie Maria Stevens was an American geneticist who discovered sex chromosomes. In 1905, soon after the rediscovery of Mendel's paper on genetics in 1900, she observed that male mealworms produced two kinds of sperm, one with a large chromosome and one with a small chromosome. When the sperm with the large chromosome fertilized eggs, they produced female offspring, and when the sperm with the small chromosome fertilized eggs, they produced male offspring. The pair of sex chromosomes that she studied later became known as the X and Y chromosomes.

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Ferdinand Monoyer

First Name Ferdinand
Last Name Monoyer
Born on May 9, 1836
Died on July 11, 1912 (aged 76)

Ferdinand Monoyer was a French ophthalmologist, known for introducing the dioptre in 1872.

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Isidor Straus

First Name Isidor
Born on February 6, 1845
Died on April 15, 1912 (aged 67)

Isidor Straus was a Bavarian-born American Jewish businessman, politician and co-owner of Macy's department store with his brother Nathan. He also served for just over a year as a member of the United States House of Representatives. He died with his wife, Ida, in the sinking of the passenger ship RMS Titanic.

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Thomas Andrews

First Name Thomas
Last Name Andrews
Born on February 7, 1873
Died on April 15, 1912 (aged 39)

Thomas Andrews Jr. was a British businessman and shipbuilder. He was managing director and head of the drafting department of the shipbuilding company Harland and Wolff in Belfast, Ireland.

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Bram Stoker

Abraham Stoker
First Name Bram
Last Name Stoker
Born on November 8, 1847
Died on April 20, 1912 (aged 64)
Born in Ireland, Dublin

Abraham "Bram" Stoker was an Irish author, best known today for his 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula. During his lifetime, he was better known as the personal assistant of actor Sir Henry Irving and business manager of the Lyceum Theatre, which Irving owned.

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Robert Falcon Scott

First Name Robert
Last Name Scott
Born on June 6, 1868
Died on March 29, 1912 (aged 43)

Captain Robert Falcon Scott was a Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery expedition of 1901–1904 and the ill-fated Terra Nova expedition of 1910–1913. On the first expedition, he set a new southern record by marching to latitude 82°S and discovered the Antarctic Plateau, on which the South Pole is located. On the second venture, Scott led a party of five which reached the South Pole on 17 January 1912, less than five weeks after Amundsen's South Pole expedition.

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Homer Davenport

First Name Homer
Last Name Davenport
Born on March 8, 1867
Died on May 2, 1912 (aged 45)

Homer Calvin Davenport was a political cartoonist and writer from the United States. He is known for drawings that satirized figures of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, most notably Ohio Senator Mark Hanna. Although Davenport had no formal art training, he became one of the highest paid political cartoonists in the world. Davenport also was one of the first major American breeders of Arabian horses and one of the founders of the Arabian Horse Club of America.

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Lawrence Oates

First Name Lawrence
Last Name Oates
Born on March 17, 1880
Died on March 17, 1912 (aged 32)

Captain Lawrence Edward Grace "Titus" Oates was a British army officer, and later an Antarctic explorer, who died during the Terra Nova Expedition when he walked from his tent into a blizzard. His death is seen as an act of self-sacrifice when, aware that the gangrene and frostbite from which he was suffering was compromising his three companions' chances of survival, he chose certain death for himself in order to relieve them of the burden of caring for him.

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Harriet Quimby

First Name Harriet
Born on May 11, 1875
Died on July 1, 1912 (aged 37)

Harriet Quimby was an early American aviation pioneer and a movie screenwriter.

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Emperor Meiji

First Name Emperor
Last Name Meiji
Born on November 3, 1852
Died on July 30, 1912 (aged 59)

Emperor Meiji , also called Meiji the Great , or Meiji the Good , was the 122nd Emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession, reigning from 3 February 1867 until his death, and the first monarch of the Empire of Japan. He presided over the Meiji era, a time of rapid change that witnessed Japan's transformation from an isolationist, feudal state to an industrialized world power.

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