May 12 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1003 – Pope Silvester II
• 1012 – Pope Sergius IV
• 1382 – Queen Joan I of Naples (b. 1327)
• 1465 – Thomas Palaeologus, Titular Byzantine emperor, Despot of the Morea (b. 1409)
• 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)
• 1801 – Nicholas Repnin, Russian statesman (b. 1734)
• 1842 – Walenty Wańkowicz, Polish painter (b. 1799)
• 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 (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 – Max Brand, American author (b. 1892)
• 1944 – Arthur Quiller-Couch, English writer (b. 1863)
• 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 – Richard Girulatis, German football manager (b. 1878)
• 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)
• 1978 – Robert Coogan, American actor (b. 1924)
• 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 – Erik Erikson, German psychoanalyst (b. 1902)
• 1994 – John Smith, British politician (b. 1938)
• 1995 – Mia Martini, Italian singer and songwriter (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 – Joseph Bonanno, Italian-born gangster (b. 1905)
• 2003 – Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, French United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (b. 1933)
• 2005 – Martin Lings, English Islamic scholar (b. 1909)
• 2005 – Monica Zetterlund, Swedish actress and singer (b. 1937)
• 2006 – Hussein Maziq, Prime Minister of Libya (b. 1918)
• 2006 – Gillespie V. Montgomery, U.S. representative from Mississippi (b. 1920)
• 2007 – Mullah Dadullah Akhund, Afghani Taliban military leader
• 2007 – Teddy Infuhr, American former child actor (b. 1936)
• 2008 – Robert Rauschenberg, American artist (b. 1925)
• 2008 – Irena Sendler, Polish social worker, WWII heroine (b. 1910)
• 2009 – Antonio Vega, Spanish pop singer-songwriter (b. 1957)