Famous Deaths on 12 Jun

Famous Deaths on 12 Jun

1020 - Lyfing, Archbishop of Canterbury
1036 - Tedald, Bishop of Arezzo
1418 - Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac, Constable of France (b. 1360)
1435 - John FitzAlan, 14th Earl of Arundel, English military leader (b. 1408)
1560 - Ii Naomori, Japanese warrior (b. 1506)
1560 - Imagawa Yoshimoto, Japanese daimyo (b. 1519)
1565 - Adrianus Turnebus, French classical scholar (b. 1512)
1567 - Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1490)
1647 - Thomas Farnaby, English grammarian
1675 - Duke Charles Emmanuel II of Savoy (b. 1634)
1734 - James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, French military commander (b. 1670)
1758 - Augustus William, Prince of Prussia (b. 1722)
1772 - Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, French explorer (b. 1724)
1778 - Philip Livingston, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1716)
1816 - Pierre Augereau, Marshal of France and duc de Castiglione (b. 1757)
1818 - Egwale Seyon, Emperor of Ethiopia
1904 - Camille de Renesse, Belgian Count (b. 1836)
1912 - Frédéric Passy, French economist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1822)
1917 - Teresa Carreño, Venezuelan pianist (b. 1853)
1937 - Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1893)
1957 - Jimmy Dorsey, American musician (b. 1904)
1962 - John Ireland, English composer (b. 1879)
1963 - Medgar Evers, American civil rights activist (b. 1925)
1966 - Hermann Scherchen, German conductor (b. 1891)
1969 - Alexander Deyneka, Ukrainian painter (b. 1899)
1978 - Guo Moruo, Chinese writer (b. 1892)
1980 - Billy Butlin, Founder of the brand of holiday venues known as Butlins (b. 1899)
1980 - Milburn Stone, American actor (b. 1904)
1980 - Masayoshi Ohira, Prime minister of Japan (b. 1910)
1982 - Sgt Ian McKay VC, British soldier (Falklands War) (b. 1953)
1982 - Karl von Frisch, Austrian zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1886)
1983 - Norma Shearer, Canadian actress (b. 1902)
1989 - Lou Monte, American singer (b. 1917)
1994 - Christopher Collins, American actor and comedian (b. 1949)
1994 - Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Lubavitcher Rebbe (b. 1902)
1994 - Ronald Goldman, American actor and model (b. 1969)
1994 - Nicole Brown Simpson, American ex-wife of O.J. Simpson (b. 1959)
1995 - Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Italian pianist (b. 1920)
1997 - Bulat Okudzhava, Russian writer and musician (b. 1924)
2000 - P.L.Deshpande, Marathi writer (b. 1919)
2002 - Bill Blass, American fashion designer (b. 1922)
2003 - Gregory Peck, American actor (b. 1916)
2005 - Scott Young, Canadian sportswriter, novelist, and journalist (b. 1918)
2006 - Kenneth Roy Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian businessman and art collector (b. 1923)
2006 - György Ligeti, Hungarian composer (b. 1923)
2007 - Don Herbert aka "Mr. Wizard", American television host (b. 1917)
2008 - Derek Tapscott, Welsh footballer (b. 1932)
816 - Pope Leo III
918 - Ethelfleda, Lady of the Mercians