Famous Deaths on 12 Dec

Famous Deaths on 12 Dec

1212 - Geoffrey, Archbishop of York
1569 - Metropolitan Philip of Moscow (b. 1507)
1574 - Selim II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1524)
1586 - Stefan Batory, King of Poland (b. 1533)
1685 - John Pell, English mathematician (b. 1610)
1751 - Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, English statesman and philosopher (b. 1678)
1754 - Wu Jingzi, Chinese writer (b. 1701)
1766 - Johann Christoph Gottsched, German writer (b. 1700)
1789 - John Ponsonby, Irish politician (b. 1713)
1790 - Mikhail Shcherbatov, Russian philosopher and writer (b. 1733)
1817 - Emperor Tekle Giyorgis I of Ethiopia, (b. about 1751)
1843 - King William I of the Netherlands, (b. 1772)
1858 - Jacques Viger, antiquarian and archeologist, first mayor of Montreal (b. 1787)
1889 - Viktor Bunyakovsky, Russian mathematician (b. 1804)
1889 - Robert Browning, English poet (b. 1812)
1894 - Sir John Thompson, fourth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1845)
1913 - Emperor Menelek II of Ethiopia (b. 1844)
1923 - Raymond Radiguet, French author (b. 1903)
1926 - Jean Richepin, French poet (b. 1849)
1929 - Charles Goodnight, American cattle baron (b. 1836)
1934 - Thorleif Haug, Norwegian Nordic skier (b. 1894)
1939 - Douglas Fairbanks, American actor (b. 1883)
1941 - Cesar Basa, Philippine Air Force and World War II hero (b. 1915)
1951 - Mildred Bailey, American jazz singer (b. 1907)
1952 - Bedřich Hrozný, Czech orientalist and linguist (b. 1879)
1963 - Yasujiro Ozu, Japanese film director (b. 1903)
1968 - Tallulah Bankhead, American actress (b. 1902)
1970 - Doris Blackburn, Australian politician (b. 1889)
1971 - David Sarnoff, Russian-born American General Manager of RCA (b. 1891)
1976 - Vinko Zganec, Croatian ethnomusicologist (b. 1890)
1976 - Jack Cassidy, American actor (b. 1927)
1977 - Lady Spencer Churchill, wife of Winston Churchill (b. 1885)
1980 - Jean Lesage, politician, premier of Quebec (b. 1912)
1985 - Anne Baxter, American actress (b. 1923)
1985 - Ian Stewart, Scottish musician (b. 1938)
1987 - Enrique Jorrín, Cuban musician and composer (b. 1926)
1988 - Anthony "Tony Pro" Provenzano, American Mafia figure (b. 1917)
1992 - Suzanne Lilar, Belgian essayist, novelist and playwright (b. 1901)
1993 - József Antall, Hungarian politician (b. 1932)
1994 - Stuart Roosa, American astronaut (b. 1933)
1996 - Vance Packard, American author (b. 1914)
1997 - Yevgeniy Landis, Russian mathematician (b. 1921)
1998 - Lawton Chiles, U.S. Senator from Florida and Governor of Florida (b. 1930)
1998 - Marco Denevi, Argentine writer (b. 1922)
1998 - Mo Udall, American politician (b. 1922)
1999 - Paul Cadmus, American artist (b. 1904)
1999 - Joseph Heller, American author (b. 1923)
2000 - George Montgomery, American actor (b. 1916)
2001 - Jean Richard, French actor (b. 1921)
2002 - Dee Brown, American author (b. 1908)
2002 - Brad Dexter, American actor (b. 1917)
2002 - Jay Wesley Neill, American convicted murderer (b. 1965)
2003 - Keiko, orca, star of Free Willy (b. 1977)
2003 - Joseph Anthony Ferrario, American Catholic prelate (b. 1926)
2003 - Heydər Əliyev, President of Azerbaijan (b. 1923)
2003 - Keiko , Killer Whale (b. 1976)
2005 - Gebran Tueni, Lebanese politician (b. 1957)
2005 - Annette Vadim, Danish actress (b. 1936)
2005 - Robert F. Newmyer, American film producer (b. 1946)
2006 - Kenny Davern, American jazz clarinetist (b. 1935)
2006 - Peter Boyle, American actor (b. 1935)
2006 - Paul Arizin, American basketball player (b. 1928)
2006 - Al Shugart, pioneering American computer engineer and co-founder of Seagate Technology (b. 1930)
2006 - Raymond P. Shafer, 38th Governor of Pennsylvania (b. 1917)
2007 - Ike Turner, American singer, former husband of Tina Turner (b. 1931)
884 - Carloman, King of the West Franks