List of Famous people who died in 1912
Agnes Salm-Salm
Agnes Salm-Salm was the American wife of Prince Felix zu Salm-Salm, a Prussian mercenary beside whom she played a role in the American Civil War, the Mexican Civil War between President Benito Juárez and the Austrian archduke Maximilian I of Mexico, and the Franco-Prussian War.
George Bell Swift
George Bell Swift served as mayor of Chicago, Illinois for the Republican Party. He was selected to replace the assassinated Carter Harrison, Sr. as Mayor pro tem in 1893 and lost his re-election bid. He was re-elected when he ran in 1895.
Ahmed Niyazi Bey
Ahmed Niyazi Bey, , was an Ottoman revolutionary, who was the bey of the Resne area in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. An ethnic Albanian, Niyazi was one of the heroes of the 1908 Young Turk Revolution and of suppressing the 1909 Ottoman countercoup as he played leading roles in both events. Niyazi is also known for the Saraj, a French-style estate he built in Resne.
Albert Braut
Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens
Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens was an English lecturer. The sixth child and fourth son of English novelist Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine, Dickens made lecture tours in Australia, Europe and the United States on his father's life and work.
Charles Arthur Madan Warde
Archibald Gracie IV
Archibald Gracie IV was an American writer, soldier, amateur historian, real estate investor, and survivor of the sinking of RMS Titanic. Gracie survived the sinking by climbing aboard an overturned collapsible lifeboat and wrote a popular book about the disaster, which is still in print today. He never recovered from his ordeal and died less than eight months after the sinking, becoming the first adult survivor to die.
Marie Gabriele, Crown Princess of Bavaria
Marie Gabrielle Duchess of Bavaria, was the youngest daughter of Duke Karl Theodor in Bavaria and his second wife, Infanta Maria Josepha of Portugal. She married Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria in 1900 but died before he became Crown Prince. Through her second son Albrecht, Marie Gabrielle was the grandmother of the present Duke of Bavaria, Franz.
Jean, duc Decazes
Jean Élie Octave Louis Sévère Amanien Decazes de Glücksberg, 3rd Duc Decazes and 3rd Duke of Glücksberg, was a French aristocrat and sportsman.
Eduard Strasburger
Eduard Adolf Strasburger was a Polish-German professor and one of the most famous botanists of the 19th century.