October 12 - Deaths

Deaths

• 632 – Edwin of Northumbria (b. 586)
• 638 – Pope Honorius I
• 642 – Pope John IV
• 1095 – Leopold II, Margrave of Austria (b. 1050)
• 1320 – Michael IX Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (b. 1277)
• 1491 – Fritz Herlen, German painter (b. 1449)
• 1492 – Piero della Francesca, Italian painter (b. 1415)
• 1565 – Jean Ribault, French naval officer (b. 1520)
• 1576 – Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1527)
• 1590 – Kano Eitoku, Japanese painter (b. 1543)
• 1600 – Luis de Molina, Spanish priest (b. 1535)
• 1632 – Kutsuki Mototsuna, Japanese commander (b. 1549)
• 1646 – François de Bassompierre, French courtier (b. 1579)
• 1678 – Edmund Berry Godfrey, English judge (b. 1621)
• 1679 – William Gurnall, English author and clergyman (b. 1617)
• 1685 – Christoph Ignaz Abele, Austrian jurist (b. 1628)
• 1730 – Frederick IV of Denmark (b. 1671)
• 1758 – Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth, Irish-English military officer and politician (b. 1680)
• 1812 – Juan José Castelli, Argentinian lawyer and politician (b. 1764)
• 1845 – Elizabeth Fry, English social reformer and philanthropist (b. 1780)
• 1870 – Robert E. Lee, American general (b. 1807)
• 1875 – Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter (b. 1827)
• 1896 – Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, Danish politician, 9th Council President of Denmark (b. 1817)
• 1898 – Calvin Fairbank, American minister (b. 1816)
• 1915 – Edith Cavell, English nurse (b. 1865)
• 1920 – Yu Gwan-sun, Korean independence leader (b. 1904)
• 1924 – Anatole France, French author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1844)
• 1932 – Ioannis Chrysafis, Greek gymnast (b. 1873)
• 1933 – John Lister, English politician (b. 1847)
• 1940 – Tom Mix, American actor (b. 1880)
• 1946 – Joseph Stilwell, American general (b. 1883)
• 1948 – Susan Sutherland Isaacs, English psychologist (b. 1885)
• 1954 – George Welch, American pilot (b. 1918)
• 1956 – Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer (b. 1872)
• 1957 – Arie de Jong, Dutch linguist (b. 1865)
• 1958 – Gordon Griffith, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1907)
• 1960 – Inejiro Asanuma, Japanese politician (b. 1898)
• 1965 – Paul Hermann Müller, Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• 1967 – Ram Manohar Lohia, Indian activist and politician (b. 1910)
• 1969 – Sonja Henie, Norwegian figure skater (b. 1912)
• 1970 – Mustafa Zaidi, Pakistani poet (b. 1930)
• 1971 – Dean Acheson, American lawyer and politician, 51st United States Secretary of State (b. 1893)
• 1971 – Gene Vincent, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1935)
• 1972 – Robert Le Vigan, French actor (b. 1900)
• 1973 – Peter Aufschnaiter, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1899)
• 1978 – Nancy Spungen, American murder victim, girlfriend of Sid Vicious (b. 1958)
• 1983 – Ernie Roth, American wrestling manager (b. 1929)
• 1984 – Anthony Berry, English politician (b. 1925)
• 1985 – Johnny Olson, American game show announcer (b. 1910)
• 1985 – Ricky Wilson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The B-52's) (b. 1953)
• 1987 – Alf Landon, American politician, 26th Governor of Kansas (b. 1887)
• 1988 – Ruth Manning-Sanders, Welsh poet and author (b. 1886)
• 1988 – Coby Whitmore, American painter and illustrator (b. 1913)
• 1989 – Carmen Cavallaro, American pianist (b. 1913)
• 1989 – Jay Ward, American animator and producer (b. 1920)
• 1990 – Rifaat el-Mahgoub, Egyptian politician (b. 1926)
• 1990 – Peter Wessel Zapffe, Norwegian mountaineer and author (b. 1899)
• 1991 – Sheila Florance, Australian actress (b. 1916)
• 1991 – Arkady Strugatsky, Russian author (b. 1925)
• 1991 – Regis Toomey, American actor (b. 1898)
• 1993 – Leon Ames, American actor (b. 1902)
• 1993 – Tofiq Bahramov, Soviet-Azerbaijani football referee (b. 1926)
• 1994 – Gérald Godin, Canadian journalist and politician (b. 1938)
• 1996 – René Lacoste, French tennis player (b. 1904)
• 1996 – Roger Lapébie, French cyclist (b. 1911)
• 1997 – John Denver, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Chad Mitchell Trio) (b. 1943)
• 1998 – Mario Beaulieu, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1930)
• 1998 – Matthew Shepard, American murder victim (b. 1976)
• 1999 – Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player (b. 1936)
• 1999 – Robert Marsden Hope, Australian judge (b. 1919)
• 2001 – Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, English politician (b. 1907)
• 2002 – Ray Conniff, American bandleader and composer (b. 1916)
• 2002 – Audrey Mestre, French diver (b. 1974)
• 2003 – Jim Cairns, Australian politician (b. 1914)
• 2003 – Joan Kroc, American philanthropist (b. 1928)
• 2003 – Bill Shoemaker, American jockey (b. 1931)
• 2005 – C. Delores Tucker, American politician and activist (b. 1927)
• 2006 – Gillo Pontecorvo, Italian director (b. 1919)
• 2007 – Noel Coleman, English actor (b. 1919)
• 2007 – Kisho Kurokawa, Japanese architect, designed the Nakagin Capsule Tower (b. 1934)
• 2008 – Karl Chircop, Maltese politician (b. 1965)
• 2009 – Dickie Peterson American singer-songwriter and bass player (Blue Cheer) (b. 1948)
• 2009 – Frank Vandenbroucke, Belgian cyclist (b. 1974)
• 2010 – Woody Peoples, American football player (b. 1943)
• 2010 – Belva Plain, American author (b. 1919)
• 2011 – Heinz Bennent, German actor (b. 1921)
• 2011 – Patricia Breslin, American actress (b. 1931)
• 2011 – Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist, created the C programming language (b. 1941)
• 2012 – James Coyne, Canadian banker, 2nd Governor of the Bank of Canada (b. 1910)
• 2012 – William C. Friday, American academic (b. 1920)
• 2012 – Norm Grabowski, American actor (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Jean-Pierre Hautier, Belgian television host (b. 1955)
• 2012 – Sukhdev Singh Kang, Indian jurist and politician, 14th Governor of Kerala (b. 1931)
• 2012 – Ervin Kassai, Hungarian basketball referee (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Torkom Manoogian, Iraqi-Armenian archbishop (b. 1919)
• 2012 – Tony Pawson, English cricketer (b. 1921)
• 2012 – Břetislav Pojar, Czech animator and director (b. 1923)