November 12 - Deaths

Deaths

• 607 – Pope Boniface III, Roman-born(birth date unknown)
• 1035 – King Cnut the Great, Danish-born King of Denmark, England and Norway (b. 985 or 995)
• 1094 – King Duncan II of Scotland (b. 1060)
• 1434 – King Louis III of Naples (b. 1403)
• 1555 – Stephen Gardiner, English statesman (b. 1497)
• 1567 – Anne de Montmorency, Marshal and Constable of France (b. 1493)
• 1595 – John Hawkins, English shipbuilder and trader (b. 1532)
• 1606 – St. Nicholas Owen, English Jesuit and martyr (b. c. 1550)
• 1667 – Hans Nansen, Danish statesman (b. 1598)
• 1671 – Thomas Fairfax, English Civil War general (b. 1612)
• 1742 – Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist (b. 1660)
• 1757 – Colley Cibber, English poet (b. 1671)
• 1793 – Jean Sylvain Bailly, first Mayor of Paris (b. 1736)
• 1836 – Juan Ramón Balcarce, Argentine military leader and politician (b. 1773)
• 1865 – Elizabeth Gaskell, English novelist (b. 1810)
• 1916 – Percival Lowell, American amateur astronomer (b. 1855)
• 1933 – F. Holland Day, American photographer and publisher (b. 1864)
• 1939 – Norman Bethune, Canadian doctor and humanitarian (b. 1890)
• 1941 – Abe "Kid Twist" Reles, American mobster (b. 1907)
• 1944 – Otto Blumenthal, German mathematician (b. 1876)
• 1948 – Umberto Giordano, Italian composer (b. 1867)
• 1955 – Alfréd Hajós, Hungarian swimmer (b. 1878)
• 1965 – Syedna Taher Saifuddin, Indian-born Bohra Spiritual Leader (b. 1888)
• 1969 – Liu Shaoqi, Chinese revolutionary, and statesman (b. 1898)
• 1972 – Rudolf Friml, Czech composer (b. 1879)
• 1976 – Walter Piston, American composer (b. 1894)
• 1976 – Mikhail Iosifovich Gurevich, Russian aircraft designer (b. 1893)
• 1981 – William Holden, American actor (b. 1918)
• 1984 – Chester Himes, American writer (b. 1909)
• 1990 – Eve Arden, American actress (b. 1908)
• 1993 – H. R. Haldeman, American White House Chief of Staff (b. 1926)
• 1994 – Wilma Rudolph, American runner (b. 1940)
• 1997 – Carlos Surinach, Spanish composer (b. 1915)
• 2000 – Leah Rabin (née Schlossberg), German-born widow of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (b. 1928)
• 2000 – Franck Pourcel, French popular orchestra leader (b. 1913)
• 2001 – Tony Miles, English chess player (b. 1955)
• 2001 – Albert Hague, German-born American actor and songwriter (b. 1920)
• 2003 – Cameron Duncan, New Zealand director (b. 1986)
• 2003 – Kay E. Kuter, American actor (b. 1925)
• 2003 – Penny Singleton, American actress (b. 1908)
• 2003 – Tony Thompson, American drummer (Chic, Power Station) (b. 1954)
• 2003 – Jonathan Brandis, American actor (b. 1976)
• 2005 – William G. Adams, Canadian politician (b. 1923)
• 2006 – General Jacob E. Smart, American World War II figure (b. 1909)
• 2007 – Khanmohammed Ibrahim, Indian cricketer (b. 1919)
• 2007 – Ira Levin, American novelist (b. 1929)
• 2008 – Catherine Baker Knoll, American politician (b. 1930)
• 2008 – Mitch Mitchell, English drummer (The Jimi Hendrix Experience) (b. 1947)
• 2010 – Henryk Górecki, Polish composer (b. 1933)
• 2010 – Karl Plutus, Estonian jurist and centenarian (b. 1904)