Historical Deaths Today: 12 October

Deaths

• 632 - Edwin of Deira, King of Northumbria and Bretwalda


• 638 - Pope Honorius I


• 642 - Pope John IV


• 1095 - Margrave Leopold II of Austria (b. 1050)


• 1176 - William d'Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel, English politician


• 1320 - Michael IX Palaeologus, co-ruling Eastern Roman Emperor


• 1491 - Fritz Herlen, German artist


• 1492 - Piero della Francesca, Italian painter


• 1565 - Jean Ribault, French explorer and colonizer (b. 1520)


• 1576 - Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1527)


• 1590 - Kano Eitoku, Japanese painter (b. 1543)


• 1600 - Luis Molina, Spanish Jesuit (b. 1535)


• 1632 - Kutsuki Mototsuna, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1549)


• 1646 - François de Bassompierre, Marshal of France (b. 1579)


• 1678 - Edmund Berry Godfrey, English magistrate (b. 1621)


• 1679 - William Gurnall, English writer (b. 1617)


• 1685 - Christoph Ignaz Abele, Austrian jurist (b. 1628)


• 1730 - King Frederick IV of Denmark (b. 1671)


• 1758 - Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth, British field marshal (b. 1680)


• 1845 - Elizabeth Fry, British social reformer and philanthropist (b. 1780)


• 1870 - Robert E. Lee, American Confederate general (b. 1807)


• 1875 - Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter (b. 1827)


• 1896 - Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, Danish nobleman and politician (b. 1817)


• 1898 - Calvin Fairbank, American abolitionist minister (b. 1816)


• 1915 - Edith Cavell, English nurse (b. 1865)


• 1924 - Anatole France, French author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1844)


• 1940 - Tom Mix, American actor (b. 1880)


• 1946 - Joseph Stilwell, U.S. general (b. 1883)


• 1948 - Susan Sutherland Isaacs, educational psychologist and psychoanalyst (b. 1885).


• 1954 - George Welch, American pilot (b. 1918)


• 1956 - Don Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer (b. 1872)


• 1958 - Gordon Griffith, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1907)


• 1960 - Inejiro Asanuma, Japanese politician (b. 1898)


• 1965 - Paul Hermann Müller, Swiss chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899)


• 1967 - Ram Manohar Lohia, Indian Socialist politician leader


• 1969 - Sonja Henie, Norwegian figure skater (b. 1912)


• 1970 - Mustafa Zaidi, Pakistani poet (b. 1930)


• 1971 - Dean Acheson, U.S. Secretary of State (b. 1893)


• 1971 - Gene Vincent, pioneering American rock'n'roll musician (b. 1935)


• 1978 - Nancy Spungen, girlfriend of Sex Pistol Sid Vicious (b. 1958)


• 1983 - The Grand Wizard of Wrestling, Wrestling manager


• 1984 - Sir Anthony Berry, British politician (bombing victim) (b. 1925)


• 1985 - Johnny Olson, American game show announcer (b. 1910)


• 1985 - Ricky Wilson, American musician; member of The B-52's (b. 1953)


• 1987 - Alf Landon, Governor of Kansas (b. 1887)


• 1988 - Ruth Manning-Sanders, author of children's books (b. 1895)


• 1989 - Jay Ward, American animator (Rocky and Bullwinkle, etc.) (b. 1920)


• 1991 - Arkady Strugatsky, Russian novelist (b. 1925)


• 1993 - Leon Ames, American actor (b. 1902)


• 1993 - Tofik Bakhramov, Russian footballer (b. 1926)


• 1994 - Gérald Godin, Québécois poet and politician (b. 1938)


• 1996 - Roger Lapébie, French cyclist (b. 1911)


• 1996 - René Lacoste, French tennis player (b. 1904)


• 1997 - John Denver, American singer (b. 1943)


• 1998 - Matthew Shepard, American murder victim (b. 1976)


• 1998 - Mario Beaulieu, French Canadian politician (b. 1930)


• 1999 - Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player (b. 1936)


• 1999 - Robert Marsden Hope, Australian Justice and Royal Commissioner (b. 1919)


• 2001 - Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, British politician (b. 1907)


• 2002 - Ray Conniff, American bandleader and musician (b. 1916)


• 2002 - Audrey Mestre, French diver (b. 1974)


• 2003 - Jim Cairns, Australian politician (b. 1914)


• 2003 - Joan Kroc, American philanthropist (b. 1928)


• 2003 - Willie Shoemaker, American jockey (b. 1931)


• 2005 - C. Delores Tucker, American politician and civil rights activist (b. 1927)


• 2006 - Gillo Pontecorvo, Italian film director (b. 1919)


• 2007 - Kisho Kurokawa, Japanese architect (b. 1934)