List of Famous people who died in 1912

Belgrave Edward Sutton Ninnis was an English officer in the Royal Fusiliers and an Antarctic explorer who was a member of Douglas Mawson's 1911 Australasian Antarctic expedition.

Vladimir Alexandrovich Rusanov was an experienced Russian geologist who specialized in the Arctic.

Mata'afa Iosefo was a Paramount Chief of Samoa who was one of the three rival candidates for the kingship of Samoa during colonialism. He was also referred to as Tupua Malietoa To'oa Mata'afa Iosefo. He was crowned the King of Samoa on the 15th of November 1898.

Captain Hugh de Grey Seymour, 6th Marquess of Hertford, styled Earl of Yarmouth from 1870 to 1884, was a British soldier, courtier and Conservative politician. He notably served as Comptroller of the Household between 1879 and 1880.

Eduardo López de Romaña y Alvizuri served as the 40th President of Peru from September 1899 to September 1903.

Richard Norman Shaw RA, also known as Norman Shaw, was a British architect who worked from the 1870s to the 1900s, known for his country houses and for commercial buildings. He is considered to be among the greatest of British architects; his influence on architectural style was strongest in the 1880s and 1890s.

Alphonse Hasselmans was a Belgium-born French harpist, composer, and pedagogue.

Ezra Booth Taylor was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.

John James "Honest John" Patterson was a businessman and United States Senator from South Carolina. He was a Republican.