Famous Deaths on 12 Oct

Famous Deaths on 12 Oct

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 - Ricky Wilson, American musician; member of The B-52's (b. 1953)
1985 - Johnny Olson, American game show announcer (b. 1910)
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 - Tofik Bakhramov, Russian footballer (b. 1926)
1993 - Leon Ames, American actor (b. 1902)
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 - Audrey Mestre, French diver (b. 1974)
2002 - Ray Conniff, American bandleader and musician (b. 1916)
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)
632 - Edwin of Deira, King of Northumbria and Bretwalda
638 - Pope Honorius I
642 - Pope John IV