September 12:: Historical Deaths

Deaths

• 413 - Marcellinus of Carthage, Christian saint


• 1185 - Andronikos I Komnenos, Byzantine emperor (b. 1118)


• 1213 - King Peter II of Aragon (b. 1174)


• 1362 - Pope Innocent VI


• 1369 - Blanche of Lancaster, wife of John of Gaunt (b. 1345)


• 1500 - Albert, Duke of Saxony (b. 1443)


• 1612 - Tsar Vasili IV of Russia (b. 1552)


• 1642 - Henri Coiffier de Ruzé, Marquis of Cinq-Mars, French conspirator (b. 1620)


• 1660 - Jacob Cats, Dutch poet, jurist, and politician (b. 1577)


• 1665 - Jean Bolland, Flemish Jesuit writer (b. 1596)


• 1672 - Tanneguy Lefebvre, French classical scholar (b. 1615)


• 1683 - King Afonso VI of Portugal (b. 1643)


• 1691 - John George III, Elector of Saxony (b. 1647)


• 1695 - Jacob Abendana, Spanish scholar (b. 1630)


• 1712 - Jan van der Heyden, Dutch painter (b. 1637)


• 1764 - Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer (b. 1683)


• 1779 - Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple, English politician (b. 1711)


• 1819 - Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Prussian general (b. 1742)


• 1836 - Christian Dietrich Grabbe, German writer (b. 1801)


• 1869 - Peter Roget, British lexicographer (b. 1779)


• 1870 - Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American author (b. 1836)


• 1874 - François Guizot, French historian and statesman (b. 1787)


• 1912 - Pierre-Hector Cardinal Coullie, Cardinal-Archbishop of Lyon


• 1918 - George Reid, fourth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1845)


• 1919 - Leonid Andreyev, Russian writer (b. 1871)


• 1923 - Jules Violle, French physicist and inventor (b. 1841)


• 1927 - Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer (b. 1847)


• 1929 - Rainis, Latvian poet and playwright (b. 1865)


• 1945 - Hajime Sugiyama, Japanese general (committed suicide, b. 1880)


• 1953 - Hugo Schmeisser, German weapons designer (b. 1884)


• 1956 - Hans Carossa, German writer (b. 1878)


• 1956 - Sándor Graf Festetics, Hungarian politician (b. 1882)


• 1961 - Carl Hermann, German physicist (b. 1898)


• 1968 - Tommy Armour, Scottish golfer (b. 1894)


• 1972 - William Boyd, American actor (b. 1895)


• 1977 - Steve Biko, South African anti-apartheid activist (b. 1946)


• 1977 - Robert Lowell American poet (b.1917)


• 1981 - Eugenio Montale, Italian poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896)


• 1986 - Jacques Henri Lartigue, French photographer (b. 1894)


• 1992 - Anthony Perkins, American actor (b. 1932)


• 1993 - Raymond Burr, Canadian actor (b. 1917)


• 1993 - Willie Mosconi, American billiards player (b. 1913)


• 1994 - Tom Ewell, American actor (b. 1909)


• 1994 - Boris Yegorov, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1937)


• 1995 - Jeremy Brett, English actor (b. 1933)


• 2000 - Stanley Turrentine, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1934)


• 2001 - Victor Wong, Chinese-American actor (b. 1927)


• 2003 - Johnny Cash, American singer and guitarist (b. 1932)