September 12 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1185 – Andronikos I Komnenos, Byzantine emperor (b. 1118)
• 1213 – Peter II of Aragon (b. 1174)
• 1362 – Pope Innocent VI (b. 1295)
• 1369 – Blanche of Lancaster (b. 1345)
• 1500 – Albert III, Duke of Saxony (b. 1443)
• 1612 – Vasili IV of Russia (b. 1552)
• 1642 – Henri Coiffier de Ruzé, Marquis of Cinq-Mars, French conspirator (b. 1620)
• 1660 – Jacob Cats, Dutch poet, jurist, and politician (b. 1577)
• 1665 – Jean Bolland, Belgian priest and writer (b. 1596)
• 1672 – Tanneguy Lefebvre, French scholar (b. 1615)
• 1683 – Afonso VI of Portugal (b. 1643)
• 1691 – John George III, Elector of Saxony (b. 1647)
• 1695 – Jacob Abendana, Spanish scholar (b. 1630)
• 1712 – Jan van der Heyden, Dutch painter (b. 1637)
• 1764 – Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer (b. 1683)
• 1779 – Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple, English politician (b. 1711)
• 1810 – Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet, English merchant banker (b. 1740)
• 1814 – Robert Ross, English army officer (b. 1766)
• 1819 – Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Prussian general (b. 1742)
• 1833 – Charles Larkin, English reformer (b. 1775)
• 1836 – Christian Dietrich Grabbe, German playwright (b. 1801)
• 1869 – Peter Mark Roget, English physician, theologian, and lexicographer (b. 1779)
• 1870 – Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American author (b. 1836)
• 1874 – François Guizot, French historian and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of France (b. 1787)
• 1903 – Duncan Gillies, Australia politician, 14th Premier of Victoria (b. 1834)
• 1907 – Ilia Chavchavadze, Georgian poet, journalist, and lawyer (b. 1837)
• 1912 – Pierre-Hector Coullie, French archbishop (b. 1829)
• 1918 – George Reid, Australian politician, 4th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1845)
• 1919 – Leonid Andreyev, Russian playwright and author (b. 1871)
• 1923 – Jules Violle, French physicist (b. 1841)
• 1927 – Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer (b. 1847)
• 1929 – Rainis, Latvian poet and playwright (b. 1865)
• 1938 – Prince Arthur of Connaught (b. 1883)
• 1944 – William Stickney, American golfer (b. 1879)
• 1945 – Hajime Sugiyama, Japanese general (b. 1880)
• 1953 – Hugo Schmeisser, German weapons designer (b. 1884)
• 1953 – Lewis Stone, American actor (b. 1879)
• 1956 – Hans Carossa, German author and poet (b. 1878)
• 1956 – Sándor Festetics, Hungarian politician (b. 1882)
• 1956 – Noël Leslie, Countess of Rothes (b. 1878)
• 1960 – Dino Borgioli, Italian tenor (b. 1891)
• 1961 – Carl Hermann, German physicist (b. 1898)
• 1962 – Spot Poles, American baseball player b. 1887
• 1962 – Rangeya Raghav, Indian author and playwright (b.1923)
• 1967 – Vladimir Bartol, Slovene-Italian author (b. 1903)
• 1968 – Tommy Armour, Scottish golfer (b. 1894)
• 1971 – Walter Egan, American golfer (b. 1881)
• 1972 – William Boyd, American actor (b. 1895)
• 1977 – Steve Biko, South African activist (b. 1946)
• 1977 – Les Haylen, Australian politician and author (b. 1898)
• 1977 – Robert Lowell, American poet (b. 1917)
• 1978 – William Hudson, Australian engineer (b. 1896)
• 1981 – Eugenio Montale, Italian poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896)
• 1982 – Federico Moreno Torroba, Spanish composer (b. 1891)
• 1986 – Jacques Henri Lartigue, French photographer (b. 1894)
• 1990 – Athene Seyler, English actress (b. 1889)
• 1991 – Bruce Matthews, Canadian army officer and businessman (b. 1909)
• 1992 – Anthony Perkins, American actor (b. 1932)
• 1993 – Raymond Burr, Canadian actor (b. 1917)
• 1993 – Willie Mosconi, American pool player (b. 1913)
• 1994 – Tom Ewell, American actor (b. 1909)
• 1994 – Boris Yegorov, Russian physician and astronaut (b. 1937)
• 1995 – Jeremy Brett, English actor (b. 1933)
• 1995 – Yasutomo Nagai, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1965)
• 1996 – Ernesto Geisel, Brazilian military leader and politician, 29th President of Brazil (b. 1907)
• 1999 – Bill Quackenbush, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1922)
• 2000 – Konrad Kujau, German illustrator and forger (b. 1938)
• 2000 – Stanley Turrentine, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1934)
• 2001 – Victor Wong, Chinese-American actor (b. 1927)
• 2003 – Johnny Cash, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (The Highwaymen) (b. 1932)
• 2004 – Kenny Buttrey, American drummer (Barefoot Jerry and Area Code 615) (b. 1945)
• 2008 – Bob Quinn, Australian footballer (b. 1915)
• 2008 – David Foster Wallace, American author (b. 1962)
• 2009 – Norman Borlaug, American agronomist and humanitarian, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)
• 2009 – Jack Kramer, American tennis player (b. 1921)
• 2009 – Willy Ronis, French photographer (b. 1910)
• 2010 – Claude Chabrol, French director and screenwriter (b. 1930)
• 2010 – Giulio Zignoli, Italian footballer (b. 1946)
• 2011 – Alexander Galimov, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1985)
• 2012 – Whobegotyou, Australian racehorse (b. 2005)
• 2012 – Jimmy Andrews, Scottish footballer (b. 1927)
• 2012 – Radoslav Brzobohatý, Czech actor (b. 1932)
• 2012 – Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, Russian poet (b. 1946)
• 2012 – Jon Finlayson, Australian actor and scriptwriter (b. 1938)
• 2012 – Derek Jameson, English journalist and broadcaster (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Kame Nakamura, Japanese super-centenarian (b. 1898)
• 2012 – Rafał Piszcz, Polish canoe racer (b. 1940)
• 2012 – Tom Sims, American skateboarder and snowboarder, founded Sims Snowboards (b. 1950)
• 2012 – Sid Watkins, English surgeon (b. 1928)