Famous Deaths on 12 Sep

Famous Deaths on 12 Sep

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 - Robert Lowell American poet (b.1917)
1977 - Steve Biko, South African anti-apartheid activist (b. 1946)
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 - Willie Mosconi, American billiards player (b. 1913)
1993 - Raymond Burr, Canadian actor (b. 1917)
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)
413 - Marcellinus of Carthage, Christian saint