January 12 - Deaths

Deaths

• 690 – Benedict Biscop, saint (b. 628)
• 1167 – Ailred of Rievaulx, saint (b. 1110)
• 1321 – Maria of Brabant, wife of Philip III of France (b. 1256)
• 1519 – Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1459)
• 1665 – Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician and lawyer (b. 1601)
• 1674 – Giacomo Carissimi, Italian composer (b. 1605)
• 1700 – Marguerite Bourgeoys, saint (b. 1620)
• 1705 – Luca Giordano, Italian artist (b. 1634)
• 1732 – John Horsley, British archaeologist (b. 1685)
• 1735 – John Eccles, English composer (b. 1668)
• 1759 – Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (b. 1709)
• 1765 – Johann Melchior Molter, German composer (b. 1696)
• 1777 – Hugh Mercer, American Revolutionary War officer (mortally wounded in battle) (b. 1726)
• 1781 – Richard Challoner, English Catholic prelate (b. 1691)
• 1817 – Juan Andres, Spanish Jesuit (b. 1740)
• 1829 – Friedrich von Schlegel, German poet (b. 1772)
• 1833 – Marie-Antoine Carême, French chef (b. 1784)
• 1834 – William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1759)
• 1856 – Ľudovít Štúr, Slovak politician, author of Slovak language, (b. 1815)
• 1861 – Václav Hanka, Czech philologist, (b. 1791)
• 1892 – William Reeves, bishop, antiquarian (b. 1815)
• 1897 – Isaac Pitman, British inventor (Pitman Shorthand) (b. 1813)
• 1899 – Hiram Walker, American distiller (b. 1816)
• 1909 – Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician (b. 1864)
• 1921 – Gervase Elwes, English tenor (b. 1866)
• 1926 – Sir Austin Chapman, Australian politician (b. 1864)
• 1934 – Pawel Kochanski, Polish violinist, composer and arranger (b. 1887)
• 1938 – Gösta Ekman, Swedish actor (b. 1890)
• 1940 – Edward Smith, English soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1899)
• 1943 – Jan Campert, Dutch journalist and writer (b. 1902)
• 1944 – Lance C. Wade, American pilot (b. 1915)
• 1956 – Norman Kerry, American actor (b. 1894)
• 1958 – Charles Mallory Hatfield, U.S. rainmaker (b. 1875)
• 1960 – Nevil Shute, English writer (b. 1899)
• 1962 – Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams, Russian writer and feminist (b. 1869)
• 1965 – Lorraine Hansberry, American writer (b. 1936)
• 1974 – Princess Patricia of Connaught (b. 1886)
• 1976 – Agatha Christie, English writer (b. 1890)
• 1977 – Henri-Georges Clouzot, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1907)
• 1983 – Rebop Kwaku Baah, Ghanaian percussionist (b. 1944)
• 1983 – Nikolai Podgorny, President of the USSR (b. 1903)
• 1988 – Connie Mulder, South African politician (b. 1925)
• 1990 – Laurence J. Peter, Canadian-born educator et writer (b. 1919)
• 1993 – Brent Williams, American actor (b. 1993)
• 1996 – Joachim Nitsche, German mathematician (b. 1926)
• 1997 – Jean-Edern Hallier, French author (b. 1936)
• 1997 – Charles B. Huggins, Canadian-born cancer researcher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1901)
• 1999 – Betty Lou Gerson, American voice actress (b. 1914)
• 1999 – Doug Wickenheiser, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1961)
• 2000 – Marc Davis, American animator (b. 1913)
• 2000 – Bobby Phills, American basketball player (b. 1969)
• 2001 – Affirmed, American racehorse (b. 1975)
• 2001 – Luiz Bonfá, Brazilian guitarist and composer (b. 1922)
• 2001 – William Hewlett, American engineer and businessman (b. 1913)
• 2002 – Stanley Unwin, South African comedian (b. 1911)
• 2002 – Cyrus Vance, 57th U.S. Secretary of State (b. 1917)
• 2003 – Dean Amadon, American ornithologist (b. 1912)
• 2003 – Kinji Fukasaku, Japanese director (b. 1930)
• 2003 – Leopoldo Galtieri, dictator of Argentina (b. 1926)
• 2003 – Maurice Gibb, British singer, songwriter, and musician (Bee Gees) (b. 1949)
• 2003 – Alan Nunn May, English physicist and Soviet spy (b. 1911)
• 2004 – Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1921)
• 2004 – Randy VanWarmer, American singer and songwriter (b. 1955)
• 2005 – Alessia di Matteo, first survivor of eight transplants in one operation (b. 2003)
• 2005 – Amrish Puri, Indian actor (b. 1932)
• 2005 – Edmund S. Valtman, Estonian-born cartoonist (b. 1914)
• 2007 – Sir James Killen, Australian politician (b. 1925)
• 2007 – Alice Coltrane, American jazz musician (b. 1937)
• 2009 – Claude Berri, French movie director (b. 1934)
• 2009 – Arne Næss, Norwegian philosopher (b. 1912)
• 2010 – Hasib Sabbagh, Palestinian businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Consolidated Contractors Company (b. 1920)
• 2010 – Daniel Bensaid, French philosopher (b. 1946)