12 October Deaths

October 12 is the 285th day of the year (286th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.

Deaths

322 BC– Demosthenes, Athenian statesman, (b. 384 BC)
638 – Honorius I, pope of the Catholic Church
642 – John IV, pope of the Catholic Church
884 – Tsunesada, Japanese prince (b. 825)
1095 – Leopold II, margrave of Austria (b. 1050)
1152 – Adolf III of Berg, German nobleman (b. 1080)
1176 – William d'Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel, English politician (b. 1109)
1320 – Michael IX Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (b. 1277)
1328 – Clementia of Hungary, queen consort of France and Navarre (b. 1293)
1448 – Zhu Quan, Chinese prince, historian and playwright (b. 1378)
1491 – Fritz Herlen, German painter (b. 1449)
1492 – Piero della Francesca, Italian mathematician and painter (b. 1415)
1565 – Jean Ribault, French-American lieutenant and navigator (b. 1520)
1576 – Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1527)
1590 – Kanō Eitoku, Japanese painter and educator (b. 1543)
1600 – Luis de Molina, Spanish priest and philosopher (b. 1535)
1601 – Nicholas Brend, English landowner (b. 1560)
1632 – Kutsuki Mototsuna, Japanese commander (b. 1549)
1646 – François de Bassompierre, French general and courtier (b. 1579)
1654 – Carel Fabritius, Dutch painter (b. 1622)
1678 – Edmund Berry Godfrey, English lawyer and judge (b. 1621)
1679 – William Gurnall, English minister, theologian, and author (b. 1617)
1685 – Christoph Ignaz Abele, Austrian lawyer and jurist (b. 1628)
1730 – Frederick IV, king of Denmark and Norway (b. 1671)
1758 – Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth, Irish field marshal and politician (b. 1680)
1812 – Juan José Castelli, Argentinian lawyer and politician (b. 1764)
1845 – Elizabeth Fry, English nurse and philanthropist (b. 1780)
1858 – Hiroshige, Japanese painter (b. 1797)
1870 – Robert E. Lee, American general (b. 1807)
1875 – Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter (b. 1827)
1896 – Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, Danish lawyer and politician, 9th Council President of Denmark (b. 1817)
1898 – Calvin Fairbank, American minister and activist (b. 1816)
1914 – Margaret E. Knight, American inventor (b. 1838)
1915 – Edith Cavell, English nurse (b. 1865)
1923 – Bunny Lucas, English cricketer (b. 1857)
1924 – Anatole France, French journalist, novelist, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1844)
1926 – Edwin Abbott Abbott, English theologian and author (b. 1838)
1933 – John Lister, English philanthropist and politician (b. 1847)
1940 – Tom Mix, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1880)
1946 – Joseph Stilwell, American general (b. 1883)
1948 – Susan Sutherland Isaacs, English psychologist and psychoanalyst (b. 1885)
1954 – George Welch, American soldier and pilot (b. 1918)
1956 – Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer and painter (b. 1872)
1957 – Arie de Jong, Indonesian-Dutch linguist and physician (b. 1865)
1958 – Gordon Griffith, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1907)
1960 – Inejiro Asanuma, Japanese lawyer and politician (b. 1898)
1965 – Paul Hermann Müller, Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
1967 – Ram Manohar Lohia, Indian activist and politician (b. 1910)
1969 – Sonja Henie, Norwegian figure skater and actress (b. 1912)
1969 – Serge Poliakoff, Russian-French painter and academic (b. 1906)
1969 – Julius Saaristo, Finnish javelin thrower and soldier (b. 1891)
1970 – Feodor Stepanovich Rojankovsky, Russian-American illustrator and painter (b. 1891)
1970 – Mustafa Zaidi, Pakistani poet and academic (b. 1930)
1971 – Dean Acheson, American lawyer and politician, 51st United States Secretary of State (b. 1893)
1971 – Gene Vincent, American musician (b. 1935)
1972 – Robert Le Vigan, French-Argentinian actor and politician (b. 1900)
1973 – Peter Aufschnaiter, Austrian mountaineer, geographer, and cartographer (b. 1899)
1984 – Anthony Berry, English politician (b. 1925)
1985 – Johnny Olson, American radio host and game show announcer (b. 1910)
1985 – Ricky Wilson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1953)
1987 – Alf Landon, American lieutenant and politician, 26th Governor of Kansas (b. 1887)
1987 – Fahri Korutürk, Turkish commander and politician, 6th President of Turkey (b. 1903)
1988 – Ruth Manning-Sanders, Welsh-English poet and author (b. 1886)
1988 – Coby Whitmore, American painter and illustrator (b. 1913)
1989 – Jay Ward, American animator, producer, and screenwriter, founded Jay Ward Productions (b. 1920)
1990 – Rifaat el-Mahgoub, Egyptian politician (b. 1926)
1990 – Peter Wessel Zapffe, Norwegian physician, mountaineer, and author (b. 1899)
1991 – Sheila Florance, Australian actress (b. 1916)
1991 – Arkady Strugatsky, Russian author and translator (b. 1925)
1991 – Regis Toomey, American actor (b. 1898)
1993 – Leon Ames, American actor (b. 1902)
1994 – Gérald Godin, Canadian journalist and politician (b. 1938)
1996 – René Lacoste, French tennis player and fashion designer, co-founded Lacoste (b. 1904)
1996 – Roger Lapébie, French cyclist (b. 1911)
1997 – John Denver, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (b. 1943)
1998 – Mario Beaulieu, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1930)
1998 – Matthew Shepard, American murder victim (b. 1976)
1999 – Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player and coach (b. 1936)
1999 – Robert Marsden Hope, Australian lawyer and judge (b. 1919)
2001 – Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, English academic and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1907)
2001 – Hikmet Şimşek, Turkish conductor (b. 1924)
2001 – Richard Buckle, Ballet critic and writer (b. 1916)
2002 – Ray Conniff, American bandleader and composer (b. 1916)
2002 – Audrey Mestre, French biologist and diver (b. 1974)
2003 – Jim Cairns, Australian economist and politician, 4th Deputy Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1914)
2003 – Joan Kroc, American philanthropist (b. 1928)
2003 – Bill Shoemaker, American jockey (b. 1931)
2005 – C. Delores Tucker, American activist and politician (b. 1927)
2006 – Eugène Martin, French race car driver (b. 1915)
2006 – Gillo Pontecorvo, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1919)
2007 – Kisho Kurokawa, Japanese architect, designed the Nakagin Capsule Tower (b. 1934)
2008 – Karl Chircop, Maltese physician and politician (b. 1965)
2009 – Dickie Peterson American singer-songwriter and bass player (b. 1948)
2009 – Frank Vandenbroucke, Belgian cyclist (b. 1974)
2010 – Austin Ardill, Northern Irish soldier and politician (b. 1917)
2010 – Woody Peoples, American football player (b. 1943)
2010 – Belva Plain, American author (b. 1919)
2011 – Patricia Breslin, American actress (b. 1931)
2011 – Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist, created the C programming language (b. 1941)
2012 – James Coyne, Canadian lawyer and banker, 2nd Governor of the Bank of Canada (b. 1910)
2012 – Norm Grabowski, American hot rod builder and actor (b. 1933)
2012 – Sukhdev Singh Kang, Indian judge and politician, 14th Governor of Kerala (b. 1931)
2012 – Torkom Manoogian, Iraqi-Armenian patriarch (b. 1919)
2012 – Erik Moseholm, Danish bassist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1930)
2012 – Břetislav Pojar, Czech animator, director, and screenwriter (b. 1923)
2013 – George Herbig, American astronomer and academic (b. 1920)
2013 – Oscar Hijuelos, American author and academic (b. 1951)
2013 – Hans Wilhelm Longva, Norwegian diplomat (b. 1942)
2013 – Malcolm Renfrew, American chemist and academic (b. 1910)
2014 – Ali Mazrui, Kenyan-American political scientist, philosopher, and academic (b. 1933)
2014 – Graham Miles, English snooker player (b. 1941)
2014 – Roberto Telch, Argentinian footballer and coach (b. 1943)
2015 – Abdallah Kigoda, Tanzanian politician, 8th Tanzanian Minister of Industry and Trade (b. 1953)
2015 – Joan Leslie, American actress, dancer, and vaudevillian (b. 1925)

Source: wikipedia