June 12 - Deaths

Deaths

• 816 – Pope Leo III (b. 750)
• 918 – Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians
• 1020 – Lyfing, Archbishop of Canterbury
• 1036 – Tedald, Bishop of Arezzo (b. 990)
• 1418 – Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac, Constable of France (b. 1360)
• 1435 – John FitzAlan, 14th Earl of Arundel, English military leader (b. 1408)
• 1560 – Imagawa Yoshimoto, Japanese daimyo (b. 1519)
• 1560 – Ii Naomori, Japanese warrior (b. 1506)
• 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 (b. 1575)
• 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)
• 1932 – Theo Heemskerk, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1852)
• 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 – Milburn Stone, American actor (b. 1904)
• 1980 – Billy Butlin, Founder of the brand of holiday venues known as Butlins (b. 1899)
• 1980 – Masayoshi Ohira, Prime minister of Japan (b. 1910)
• 1982 – Karl von Frisch, Austrian zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1886)
• 1982 – Ian McKay, British soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1953)
• 1983 – Norma Shearer, Canadian-American actress (b. 1902)
• 1989 – Lou Monte, American singer (b. 1917)
• 1994 – Ronald Goldman, American waiter (b. 1968)
• 1994 – Nicole Brown Simpson, American ex-wife of O.J. Simpson (b. 1959)
• 1994 – Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Lubavitcher Rebbe (b. 1902)
• 1994 – Christopher Collins, American actor and comedian (b. 1949)
• 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 – György Ligeti, Hungarian composer (b. 1923)
• 2006 – Kenneth Roy Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian businessman and art collector (b. 1923)
• 2006 – Nijiro Tokuda, Japanese supercentenarian (b. 1895)
• 2006 – Anna Lee Aldred, American first licenced female jockey (b. 1921)
• 2007 – Don Herbert aka "Mr. Wizard", American television host (b. 1917)
• 2008 – Derek Tapscott, Welsh footballer (b. 1932)