Today we are inundated with celebrity news at every turn. Let’s take a lot at births {of future stars}, deaths and marriages in 1912.
1912 Famous Births
![Gene Kelly](https://i0.wp.com/alookthrutime.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/gene-kelly1.jpg?resize=189%2C267)
May 11–Phil Silvers comedian
June 19–Jerry Jerome lyricist
August 23–Gene Kelly actor
Nov 14–Barbara Hutton Woolworth heiress
Nov 21–Eleanor Powell actress
Nov 22–Doris Duke multi-millionaire
1912 Famous Deaths that would have been in the headlines
![Bram Stoker](https://i0.wp.com/alookthrutime.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/bram-stoker1.jpg?resize=200%2C187)
Mar 30–Karl May German writer of Westerns
April 12–Clara Barton organized Red Cross
April 15–John Jacob Astor IV billionaire {Titanic}
April 15–Isidor Strauss owner of Macy’s {Titanic}
April 20–Bram Stoker writer {Dracula}
May 14–Frederic VIII King of Denmark
July 17—Dorothy Goetz Berlin bride of Irving Berlin {composer}
Aug 22–Pope Gregory IX
Sept 5–Arthur MacArthur, Jr US Army General
Dec 7–George Darwin theorist, astronomer and mathematician
1912 Marriages in the headlines
Feb–Irving Berlin and Dorothy Goetz {she died 6 months later of typhoid fever}
Aug 10–Leonard and Virginia {Stephen} Woolf
![Irving Berling with first wife](https://i0.wp.com/alookthrutime.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/irving-berling-with-first-wife.jpg?resize=270%2C187)