| 116701 | October 12 | Event | 1994 – The Magellan spacecraft burns up in the atmosphere of Venus. |
| 116702 | October 12 | Event | 1997 – Sidi Daoud massacre in Algeria that killed 43 at a fake roadblock. |
| 116703 | October 12 | Event | 1998 – Matthew Shepard, a gay student at University of Wyoming, died five days after he was beaten, robbed and left tied to a wooden fence post outside of Laramie, Wyoming. |
| 116704 | October 12 | Event | 1999 – Pervez Musharraf takes power in Pakistan from Nawaz Sharif through a bloodless coup. |
| 116705 | October 12 | Event | 1999 – The former Autonomous Soviet Republic of Abkhazia declares its independence from Georgia |
| 116706 | October 12 | Event | 2000 – The USS Cole is badly damaged in Aden, Yemen, by two suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39. |
| 116707 | October 12 | Event | 2002 – Terrorists detonate bombs in the Sari Club in Kuta, Bali, killing 202 and wounding over 300. |
| 116708 | October 12 | Event | 2003 – Michael Schumacher wins his sixth Formula One Drivers' championship at the 2003 Japanese Grand Prix to beat the 48-year-old record held by Juan Manuel Fangio |
| 116709 | October 12 | Event | 2005 – The second Chinese human spaceflight Shenzhou 6 launched carrying Fèi Jùnlóng and Niè Hǎishèng for five days in orbit. |
| 116710 | October 12 | Event | 2013 – Fifty-one people are killed after a truck veers off a cliff in La Convención Province in Peru. |
| 116711 | October 12 | Birth | 1008 – Emperor Go-Ichijō of Japan (d. 1036) |
| 116712 | October 12 | Birth | 1350 – Dmitry Donskoy, Russian son of Ivan II of Moscow (d. 1389) |
| 116713 | October 12 | Birth | 1490 – Bernardo Pisano, Italian singer-songwriter and priest (d. 1548) |
| 116714 | October 12 | Birth | 1537 – Edward VI of England (d. 1553) |
| 116715 | October 12 | Birth | 1558 – Maximilian III, Archduke of Austria (d. 1618) |
| 116716 | October 12 | Birth | 1576 – Thomas Dudley, English-American soldier and politician, 3rd Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (d. 1653) |
| 116717 | October 12 | Birth | 1602 – William Chillingworth, English scholar and theologian (d. 1644) |
| 116718 | October 12 | Birth | 1687 – Sylvius Leopold Weiss, German lute player and composer (d. 1750) |
| 116719 | October 12 | Birth | 1710 – Jonathan Trumbull, American colonel and politician, 16th Governor of Connecticut (d. 1785) |
| 116720 | October 12 | Birth | 1725 – Étienne Louis Geoffroy, French pharmacist and entomologist (d. 1810) |
| 116721 | October 12 | Birth | 1792 – Christian Gmelin, German chemist and pharmacist (d. 1860) |
| 116722 | October 12 | Birth | 1798 – Pedro I of Brazil (d. 1834) |
| 116723 | October 12 | Birth | 1801 – Friedrich Frey-Herosé, Swiss lawyer and politician, 5th President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 1873) |
| 116724 | October 12 | Birth | 1815 – William J. Hardee, American general (d. 1873) |
| 116725 | October 12 | Birth | 1840 – Helena Modjeska, Polish-American actress (d. 1909) |
| 116726 | October 12 | Birth | 1855 – Arthur Nikisch, Hungarian conductor and academic (d. 1922) |
| 116727 | October 12 | Birth | 1860 – Elmer Ambrose Sperry, American engineer and businessman, co-invented the gyrocompass (d. 1930) |
| 116728 | October 12 | Birth | 1865 – Arthur Harden, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940) |
| 116729 | October 12 | Birth | 1866 – Ramsay MacDonald, Scottish journalist and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1937) |
| 116730 | October 12 | Birth | 1868 – August Horch, German engineer and businessman, founded Audi (d. 1951) |