Events from the year 1912 in the United Kingdom.
Incumbents
Events
Publications
Births
- 1 January - Kim Philby, spy (died 1988)
- 11 February - Roy Fuller, poet and novelist (died 1991)
- 27 February - Lawrence Durrell, writer (died 1990)
- 4 March - Judith Furse, character actress (died 1974)
- 5 March - David Astor, newspaper publisher (died 2001)
- 23 March - Betty Astell, actress (died 2005)
- 27 March - James Callaghan, Prime Minister (died 2005)
- 5 April - John Le Mesurier, actor (died 1983)
- 22 April - Kathleen Ferrier, contralto (died 1953)
- 22 May - Herbert C. Brown, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2004)
- 31 May - Alfred Deller, countertenor (died 1979)
- 23 June - Alan Turing, mathematician (died 1954)
- 24 June
- 16 August - Ted Drake, footballer (died 1995)
- 16 August - Wendy Hiller, actress (died 2003)
- 28 September - Peter Finch, actor (died 1977)
- 25 November - Francis Durbridge, playwright and author (died 1998)
- 27 December - Conroy Maddox, painter (died 2005)
Deaths
- 10 February - Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, surgeon (born 1827)
- 21 February - Osborne Reynolds, physicist (born 1842)
- 1 March - George Grossmith, actor and comic writer (born 1847)
- 17 February - Edgar Evans, naval officer (born 1876), member of the Scott Expedition to the South Pole
- 17 March - Lawrence Oates, army officer (born 1880), member of the Scott Expedition
- 29 March - Remaining members of the Scott Expedition:
- 15 April - Some victims of the sinking of the RMS Titanic:
- 20 April - Bram Stoker, writer (born 1847)
- 21 May - Julius Wernher, art collector (born 1850)
- 2 July - Tom Richardson, cricketer (born 1870)
- 13 August - Octavia Hill, social reformer (born 1838)
- 20 August - William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army (born 1829)
- 1 September - Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, composer (born 1875)
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