October 12 - Deaths

Deaths

• 632 – Edwin of Northumbria (b.c. 586)
• 638 – Pope Honorius I
• 642 – Pope John IV
• 1095 – Margrave Leopold II of Austria (b. 1050)
• 1176 – William d'Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel, English politician (b.c. 1109)
• 1320 – Michael IX Palaeologus (b. 1277)
• 1491 – Fritz Herlen, German artist (b.c. 1449)
• 1492 – Piero della Francesca, Italian painter
• 1565 – Jean Ribault, French explorer and colonizer (b. 1520)
• 1576 – Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1527)
• 1590 – Kano Eitoku, Japanese painter (b. 1543)
• 1600 – Luis Molina, Spanish Jesuit (b. 1535)
• 1632 – Kutsuki Mototsuna, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1549)
• 1646 – François de Bassompierre, Marshal of France (b. 1579)
• 1678 – Edmund Berry Godfrey, English magistrate (b. 1621)
• 1679 – William Gurnall, English writer (b. 1617)
• 1685 – Christoph Ignaz Abele, Austrian jurist (b. 1628)
• 1730 – King Frederick IV of Denmark (b. 1671)
• 1758 – Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth, British field marshal (b. 1680)
• 1845 – Elizabeth Fry, British social reformer and philanthropist (b. 1780)
• 1870 – Robert E. Lee, American Confederate general (b. 1807)
• 1875 – Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter (b. 1827)
• 1896 – Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, Danish nobleman and politician (b. 1817)
• 1898 – Calvin Fairbank, American abolitionist minister (b. 1816)
• 1915 – Edith Cavell, English nurse (b. 1865)
• 1920 – Yu Gwan-sun, Korean independence leader (b. 1904)
• 1924 – Anatole France, French author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1844)
• 1933 – John Lister, English politician (b. 1847)
• 1940 – Tom Mix, American actor (b. 1880)
• 1946 – Joseph Stilwell, American general (b. 1883)
• 1948 – Susan Sutherland Isaacs, English educational psychologist and psychoanalyst (b. 1885).
• 1954 – George Welch, American pilot (b. 1918)
• 1956 – Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer (b. 1872)
• 1958 – Gordon Griffith, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1907)
• 1960 – Inejiro Asanuma, Japanese politician (b. 1898)
• 1965 – Paul Hermann Müller, Swiss chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899)
• 1967 – Ram Manohar Lohia, Indian Socialist politician leader (b. 1910)
• 1969 – Sonja Henie, Norwegian figure skater (b. 1912)
• 1970 – Mustafa Zaidi, Pakistani poet (b. 1930)
• 1971 – Dean Acheson, American statesman (b. 1893)
• 1971 – Gene Vincent, American rock musician (b. 1935)
• 1973 – Peter Aufschnaiter, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1899)
• 1978 – Nancy Spungen, American groupie and muder victim (b. 1958)
• 1983 – Ernie Roth, American pro wrestling manager (b. 1929)
• 1984 – Sir Anthony Berry, British politician (b. 1925)
• 1985 – Johnny Olson, American game show announcer (b. 1910)
• 1985 – Ricky Wilson, American musician (The B-52's) (b. 1953)
• 1987 – Alf Landon, American politician (b. 1887)
• 1988 – Ruth Manning-Sanders, Welsh poet and children's book author (b. 1886)
• 1988 – Coby Whitmore, American painter and magazine illustrator (b. 1913)
• 1989 – Carmen Cavallaro, American pianist (b. 1913)
• 1989 – Jay Ward, American animator (Rocky and Bullwinkle) (b. 1920)
• 1990 – Peter Wessel Zapffe, Norwegian author and mountaineer (b. 1899)
• 1991 – Sheila Florance, Australian film and television actress (b. 1916)
• 1991 – Arkady Strugatsky, Russian novelist (b. 1925)
• 1993 – Leon Ames, American actor (b. 1902)
• 1993 – Tofik Bakhramov, Azerbaijani linesman (b. 1926)
• 1994 – Gérald Godin, Québécois poet and politician (b. 1938)
• 1996 – Roger Lapébie, French cyclist (b. 1911)
• 1996 – René Lacoste, French tennis player (b. 1904)
• 1997 – John Denver, American singer (b. 1943)
• 1998 – Matthew Shepard, American murder victim (b. 1976)
• 1998 – Mario Beaulieu, French Canadian politician (b. 1930)
• 1999 – Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player (b. 1936)
• 1999 – Robert Marsden Hope, Australian jurist (b. 1919)
• 2001 – Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, British politician (b. 1907)
• 2002 – Ray Conniff, American bandleader and musician (b. 1916)
• 2002 – Audrey Mestre, French diver (b. 1974)
• 2003 – Jim Cairns, Australian politician (b. 1914)
• 2003 – Joan Kroc, American philanthropist (b. 1928)
• 2003 – Willie Shoemaker, American jockey (b. 1931)
• 2005 – C. Delores Tucker, American politician and civil rights activist (b. 1927)
• 2006 – Gillo Pontecorvo, Italian film director (b. 1919)
• 2007 – Kisho Kurokawa, Japanese architect (b. 1934)
• 2007 – Noel Coleman, British Actor (b. 1919)
• 2008 – Karl Chircop, Maltese politician (b. 1965)
• 2009 – Frank Vandenbroucke, Belgian cyclist (b. 1974)
• 2009 – Dickie Peterson American musician (b. 1948)
• 2010 – Woody Peoples, American football player (b. 1943)
• 2010 – Belva Plain, American novelist (b. 1919)