Famous Deaths on October 12, Who Died on October 12

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Date Name
1095 Leopold II, margrave of Austria (b. 1050)
1152 Adolf III of Berg, German nobleman (b. 1080)
1320 Michael IX Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (b. 1277)
1328 Clementia of Hungary, queen consort of France and Navarre (b. 1293)
1448 Zhu Quan, Chinese prince, historian and playwright (b. 1378)
1491 Fritz Herlen, German painter (b. 1449)
1492 Piero della Francesca, Italian mathematician and painter (b. 1415)
1565 Jean Ribault, French-American lieutenant and navigator (b. 1520)
1576 Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1527)
1590 Kanō Eitoku, Japanese painter and educator (b. 1543)
1600 Luis de Molina, Spanish priest and philosopher (b. 1535)
1601 Nicholas Brend, English landowner (b. 1560)
1632 Kutsuki Mototsuna, Japanese commander (b. 1549)
1646 François de Bassompierre, French general and courtier (b. 1579)
1654 Carel Fabritius, Dutch painter (b. 1622)
1678 Edmund Berry Godfrey, English lawyer and judge (b. 1621)
1679 William Gurnall, English minister, theologian, and author (b. 1617)
1685 Christoph Ignaz Abele, Austrian lawyer and jurist (b. 1628)
1730 Frederick IV, king of Denmark and Norway (b. 1671)
1758 Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth, Irish field marshal and politician (b. 1680)
1812 Juan José Castelli, Argentinian lawyer and politician (b. 1764)
1845 Elizabeth Fry, English prison reformer, Quaker and philanthropist (b. 1780)
1858 Hiroshige, Japanese painter (b. 1797)
1870 Robert E. Lee, American general (b. 1807)
1875 Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter (b. 1827)
1896 Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, Danish lawyer and politician, 9th Council President of Denmark (b. 1817)
1898 Calvin Fairbank, American minister and activist (b. 1816)
1914 Margaret E. Knight, American inventor (b. 1838)
1915 Edith Cavell, English nurse (b. 1865)
1923 Bunny Lucas, English cricketer (b. 1857)
1924 Anatole France, French journalist, novelist, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1844)
1926 Edwin Abbott Abbott, English theologian and author (b. 1838)
1933 John Lister, English philanthropist and politician (b. 1847)
1940 Tom Mix, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1880)
1946 Joseph Stilwell, American general (b. 1883)
1948 Susan Sutherland Isaacs, English psychologist and psychoanalyst (b. 1885)
1954 George Welch, American soldier and pilot (b. 1918)
1956 Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer and painter (b. 1872)
1957 Arie de Jong, Indonesian-Dutch linguist and physician (b. 1865)
1958 Gordon Griffith, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1907)
1960 Inejiro Asanuma, Japanese lawyer and politician (b. 1898)
1965 Paul Hermann Müller, Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
1967 Ram Manohar Lohia, Indian activist and politician (b. 1910)
1969 Sonja Henie, Norwegian figure skater and actress (b. 1912)
1970 Feodor Stepanovich Rojankovsky, Russian-American illustrator and painter (b. 1891)
1971 Dean Acheson, American lawyer and politician, 51st United States Secretary of State (b. 1893)
1972 Robert Le Vigan, French-Argentinian actor and politician (b. 1900)
1973 Peter Aufschnaiter, Austrian mountaineer, geographer, and cartographer (b. 1899)
1978 Nancy Spungen, American figure of the 1970s punk rock scene (b. 1958)
1984 Anthony Berry, English politician (b. 1925)
1985 Johnny Olson, American radio host and game show announcer (b. 1910)
1987 Alf Landon, American lieutenant and politician, 26th Governor of Kansas (b. 1887)
1988 Ruth Manning-Sanders, Welsh-English poet and author (b. 1886)
1989 Jay Ward, American animator, producer, and screenwriter, founded Jay Ward Productions (b. 1920)
1990 Rifaat el-Mahgoub, Egyptian politician (b. 1926)
1991 Sheila Florance, Australian actress (b. 1916)
1993 Leon Ames, American actor (b. 1902)
1994 Gérald Godin, Canadian journalist and politician (b. 1938)
1996 René Lacoste, French tennis player and fashion designer, co-founded Lacoste (b. 1904)
1997 John Denver, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (b. 1943)
1998 Mario Beaulieu, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1930)
1999 Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player and coach (b. 1936)
2001 Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, English academic and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1907)
2002 Ray Conniff, American bandleader and composer (b. 1916)
2003 Jim Cairns, Australian economist and politician, 4th Deputy Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1914)
2005 C. Delores Tucker, American activist and politician (b. 1927)
2006 Angelika Machinek, German glider pilot (b. 1956)
2007 Kisho Kurokawa, Japanese architect, designed the Nakagin Capsule Tower (b. 1934)
2008 Karl Chircop, Maltese physician and politician (b. 1965)
2009 Dickie Peterson American singer-songwriter and bass player (b. 1948)
2010 Austin Ardill, Northern Irish soldier and politician (b. 1917)
2011 Patricia Breslin, American actress (b. 1931)
2012 James Coyne, Canadian lawyer and banker, 2nd Governor of the Bank of Canada (b. 1910)
2013 George Herbig, American astronomer and academic (b. 1920)
2014 Ali Mazrui, Kenyan-American political scientist, philosopher, and academic (b. 1933)
2015 Abdallah Kigoda, Tanzanian politician, 8th Tanzanian Minister of Industry and Trade (b. 1953)
2020 Conchata Ferrell, American actress (b. 1943)
322 Demosthenes, Athenian statesman, (b. 384 BC)
638 Honorius I, pope of the Catholic Church
642 John IV, pope of the Catholic Church
884 Tsunesada, Japanese prince (b. 825)
974 Al-Muti, Abbasid caliph (b. 913/14)