Famous Deaths on 12 May

Famous Deaths on 12 May

1003 - Pope Silvester II
1012 - Pope Sergius IV
1382 - Queen Joan I of Naples (b. 1327)
1465 - Thomas Palaeologus, Despot of the Despotate of Morea
1634 - George Chapman, English writer
1641 - Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, English statesman (b. 1593)
1684 - Edme Mariotte, French physicist and priest
1699 - Lucas Achtschellinck, Flemish painter (b. 1626)
1700 - John Dryden, English writer (b. 1631)
1708 - Adolf Friedrich II of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1658)
1748 - Thomas Lowndes, English astronomer (b. 1692)
1759 - Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor (b. 1700)
1784 - Abraham Trembley, Swiss naturalist (b. 1710)
1792 - Charles Simon Favart, French dramatist (b. 1710)
1796 - Johann Peter Uz, German poet (b. 1720)
1798 - George Vancouver, British navy officer and explorer (b. 1757)
1801 - Nicholas Repnin, Russian statesman (b. 1734)
1845 - János Bacsanyi, Hungarian poet (b. 1763)
1856 - Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, French mathematician (b. 1786)
1859 - Sergei Aksakov, Russian writer (b. 1791)
1860 - Charles Barry, English architect (b. 1795)
1864 - J. E. B. Stuart, American soldier from Virginia and a Confederate Army general (b. 1833)
1867 - Friedrich William Eduard Gerhard, German archaeologist (b. 1795)
1871 - Anselme Payen, French physicist (b. 1795)
1876 - Georgi Benkovski, Bulgarian revolutionary, brutally killed by the Turks (b. 1843)
1884 - Bedřich Smetana, Czech composer (b. 1824)
1889 - John Cadbury, English chocolate entrepreneur (b. 1801)
1907 - Joris-Karl Huysmans, French author (b. 1848)
1916 - James Connolly, Irish socialist (b. 1868)
1925 - Amy Lowell, American poet (b. 1874)
1931 - Eugène Ysaÿe, Belgian violinist (b. 1858)
1935 - Józef Piłsudski, Polish statesman (b. 1867)
1944 - Arthur Quiller-Couch, English writer (b. 1863)
1944 - Max Brand, American author (b. 1892)
1956 - Louis Calhern, American actor (b. 1895)
1957 - Alfonso de Portago, Spanish bobsledder and race car driver (b. 1928)
1957 - Erich von Stroheim, film director and actor (b. 1885)
1963 - Bobby Kerr, Canadian runner (b. 1882)
1966 - Felix Martin Julius Steiner, German Heer and Waffen-SS officer (b. 1896)
1967 - John Masefield, British writer (b. 1878)
1970 - Nelly Sachs, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
1971 - Heinie Manush, American baseball player (b. 1901)
1973 - Art Pollard, American racecar driver (b. 1927)
1985 - Jean Dubuffet, French painter (b. 1901)
1986 - Elisabeth Bergner, Austrian actress (b. 1897)
1990 - Chen Kenmin, Japanese chef (b. 1912)
1992 - Robert Reed, American actor (b. 1932)
1992 - Nikos Gatsos, Greek poet and lyricist (b. 1911)
1992 - Lenny Montana, American actor (b. 1926)
1994 - John Smith, British politician (b. 1938)
1994 - Erik Erikson, German psychoanalyst (b. 1902)
1995 - Mia Martini, real name: Domenica Bertè, Italian singer and song-writer (b. 1947)
1999 - Abd-al-Aziz ibn Abd-Allah ibn Baaz, Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia 1993-1999 (b. 1910)
1999 - Saul Steinberg, Romanian-American cartoonist (b. 1914)
2000 - Adam Petty, American race car driver (b. 1980)
2001 - Perry Como, American singer (b. 1912)
2001 - Alexei Tupolev, Russian aircraft designer (b. 1925)
2002 - Erich Kulas, ECW Wrestler (Mass Transit)
2003 - Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, French UN High Commissioner for Refugees (b. 1933)
2005 - Martin Lings, English Islamic scholar (b. 1909)
2005 - Monica Zetterlund, Swedish actress and singer (b. 1937)
2006 - Gillespie V. Montgomery, former U.S. representative from Mississippi (b. 1920)
2007 - Mullah Dadullah Akhund, Taliban military leader (b. 1966?)
2007 - Teddy Infuhr, American former child actor (b. 1936)
2008 - Robert Rauschenberg, American artist (b. 1925)