| 129061 | November 12 | Birth | 1881 – Maximilian von Weichs, German field marshal (d. 1954) |
| 129062 | November 12 | Birth | 1886 – Günther Dyhrenfurth, German geologist and mountaineer (d. 1975) |
| 129063 | November 12 | Birth | 1886 – Ben Travers, English author and playwright (d. 1980) |
| 129064 | November 12 | Birth | 1889 – DeWitt Wallace, American publisher, co-founded Reader's Digest (d. 1981) |
| 129065 | November 12 | Birth | 1890 – Lily Kronberger, Hungarian figure skater (d. 1974) |
| 129066 | November 12 | Birth | 1892 – Tudor Davies, Welsh tenor and actor (d. 1958) |
| 129067 | November 12 | Birth | 1894 – Thorleif Schjelderup-Ebbe, Norwegian zoologist and comparative psychologist (d. 1976) |
| 129068 | November 12 | Birth | 1896 – Salim Ali, Indian ornithologist and author (d. 1987) |
| 129069 | November 12 | Birth | 1896 – Nima Yooshij, Iranian poet and academic (d. 1960) |
| 129070 | November 12 | Birth | 1897 – Karl Marx, German composer and conductor (d. 1985) |
| 129071 | November 12 | Birth | 1898 – Leon Štukelj, Slovenian gymnast (d. 1999) |
| 129072 | November 12 | Birth | 1899 – Sverre Hansen, Norwegian long jumper (d. 1991) |
| 129073 | November 12 | Birth | 1901 – James Luther Adams, American minister and theologian (d. 1994) |
| 129074 | November 12 | Birth | 1903 – Jack Oakie, American actor and singer (d. 1978) |
| 129075 | November 12 | Birth | 1905 – Louise Thaden, American pilot (d. 1979) |
| 129076 | November 12 | Birth | 1906 – George Dillon, American soldier and poet (d. 1968) |
| 129077 | November 12 | Birth | 1908 – Harry Blackmun, American judge and educator (d. 1999) |
| 129078 | November 12 | Birth | 1910 – Dudley Nourse, South African cricketer (d. 1981) |
| 129079 | November 12 | Birth | 1911 – Buck Clayton, American trumpet player and academic (d. 1991) |
| 129080 | November 12 | Birth | 1914 – Peter Whitehead, English racing driver (d. 1958) |
| 129081 | November 12 | Birth | 1915 – Roland Barthes, French philosopher, theorist, and critic (d. 1980) |
| 129082 | November 12 | Birth | 1916 – Rogelio de la Rosa, Filipino actor and politician (d. 1986) |
| 129083 | November 12 | Birth | 1916 – Paul Emery, English race car driver (d. 1993) |
| 129084 | November 12 | Birth | 1916 – Jean Papineau-Couture, Canadian composer and academic (d. 2000) |
| 129085 | November 12 | Birth | 1917 – Jo Stafford, American singer and actress (d. 2008) |
| 129086 | November 12 | Birth | 1919 – Jackie Washington, Canadian singer-songwriter (d. 2009) |
| 129087 | November 12 | Birth | 1920 – Richard Quine, American actor, singer, director, and screenwriter (d. 1989) |
| 129088 | November 12 | Birth | 1922 – Peggy Fenner, English politician (d. 2014) |
| 129089 | November 12 | Birth | 1922 – Kim Hunter, American actress (d. 2002) |
| 129090 | November 12 | Birth | 1922 – Tadeusz Borowski, Polish poet, novelist and journalist (d. 1951) |