September 12 - Deaths

Deaths

• 413 – Marcellinus of Carthage, Christian saint
• 1185 – Andronikos I Komnenos, Byzantine emperor (b. 1118)
• 1213 – King Peter II of Aragon (b. 1174)
• 1362 – Pope Innocent VI
• 1369 – Blanche of Lancaster, wife of John of Gaunt (b. 1345)
• 1500 – Albert, Duke of Saxony (b. 1443)
• 1612 – Tsar 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, Flemish Jesuit writer (b. 1596)
• 1672 – Tanneguy Lefebvre, French classical scholar (b. 1615)
• 1683 – King 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)
• 1819 – Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Prussian general (b. 1742)
• 1836 – Christian Dietrich Grabbe, German writer (b. 1801)
• 1869 – Peter Mark Roget, British lexicographer (b. 1779)
• 1870 – Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American author (b. 1836)
• 1874 – François Guizot, French historian and statesman (b. 1787)
• 1912 – Pierre-Hector Coullie, Cardinal-Archbishop of Lyon (b. 1829)
• 1918 – George Reid, fourth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1845)
• 1919 – Leonid Andreyev, Russian writer (b. 1871)
• 1923 – Jules Violle, French physicist and inventor (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)
• 1945 – Hajime Sugiyama, Japanese general (b. 1880)
• 1953 – Hugo Schmeisser, German weapons designer (b. 1884)
• 1956 – Hans Carossa, German writer (b. 1878)
• 1956 – Sándor Graf Festetics, Hungarian politician (b. 1882)
• 1961 – Carl Hermann, German physicist (b. 1898)
• 1967 – Vladimir Bartol, Slovene writer (b. 1903)
• 1968 – Tommy Armour, Scottish golfer (b. 1894)
• 1972 – William Boyd, American actor (b. 1895)
• 1977 – Steve Biko, South African anti-apartheid activist (b. 1946)
• 1977 – Robert Lowell, American poet (b. 1917)
• 1981 – Eugenio Montale, Italian poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896)
• 1986 – Jacques Henri Lartigue, French photographer (b. 1894)
• 1992 – Anthony Perkins, American actor (b. 1932)
• 1993 – Raymond Burr, Canadian actor (b. 1917)
• 1993 – Willie Mosconi, American billiards player (b. 1913)
• 1994 – Tom Ewell, American actor (b. 1909)
• 1994 – Boris Yegorov, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1937)
• 1995 – Jeremy Brett, English actor (b. 1933)
• 1999 – Bill Quackenbush, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1922)
• 2000 – Stanley Turrentine, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1934)
• 2001 – Victor Wong, Chinese-American actor (b. 1927)
• 2003 – Johnny Cash, American singer and guitarist (b. 1932)
• 2008 – Bob Quinn, Australian rules footballer (b. 1915)
• 2008 – David Foster Wallace, American author and essayist (b. 1962)
• 2009 – Norman Borlaug, American agronomist (b. 1914)
• 2009 – Jack Kramer, American tennis player (b. 1921)
• 2009 – Willy Ronis, French photographer (b. 1910)
• 2010 – Claude Chabrol, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1930)
• 2010 – Giulio Zignoli, Italian footballer (b. 1946)