Timeline August 1912

Events in August 1912 9

• 1842 – 1912 Jules Massenet (1842-1912) Died 13 August 1912, aged 70 Jules Massenet was a French composer best known for the operas "Manon" and "Werther". He died in Paris after a prolific career that produced more than thirty operas.
• 1912 – 1914 The mathematics of curved space Working with Marcel Grossmann Back at the ETH as a professor, Einstein turned to his old friend Grossmann for help with the geometry he needed. Grossmann pointed him to Riemann and the absolute differential calculus of Ricci and Levi-Civita. Einstein said he had come to respect mathematics for the first time.
• 1912 US Championships 1912 Men: Maurice McLoughlin · Women: Mary Browne
• 1912 – 2001 Jorge Amado (1912-2001) Died 6 August 2001, aged 88 Amado was Brazil's most widely translated novelist, chronicling life in his native Bahia in books such as Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon and Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands. His early work was politically committed; his later novels were sensual and comic. His books were adapted into films and television series.
• 1912 – 2004 Julia Child (1912-2004) Died 13 August 2004, aged 91 Child was an American chef and author who introduced French cuisine to a mass US television audience through her show "The French Chef." Her book "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" remains a landmark culinary text.
• 1912 – 2001 John Lee Hooker Blues singer and guitarist Mississippi-born bluesman whose hypnotic, one-chord boogie from Detroit made him a hero to British rock bands and a star again in his seventies.
• 1912 John Lee Hooker born near Clarksdale, Mississippi Coahoma County Learns guitar from his stepfather Will Moore.
• 1912 – 1996 Gene Kelly (1912-1996) Died 2 February 1996, aged 83 Gene Kelly was an American dancer, actor, and director renowned for athletic, innovative choreography in Hollywood musicals. He starred in and co-directed classics including "Singin' in the Rain" and "An American in Paris." His work redefined the possibilities of dance on film.
• 1912 – 1994 Erich Honecker (1912-1994) Died 29 May 1994, aged 81 Erich Honecker, the former East German leader who oversaw the construction of the Berlin Wall and its Cold War-era regime, died in exile in Chile after facing prosecution in reunified Germany. He had been released from custody in 1993 on health grounds.