Notable Deaths on August 12th
August 12th Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
30 |
Cleopatra VII Philopator, the last ruler of the Egyptian Ptolemaic dynasty, commits suicide allegedly by inducing an asp (Egyptian cobra) to bite her |
BC AD | |
875 |
Louis II, king of Italy/emperor of France, dies at about 50 |
1158 |
Anselmus van Havelberg, Brandenburg bshp of Havelberg (1129-55), dies |
1350 |
Philip VI, king of France, dies |
1424 |
Yongle, Emperor of China (b. 1360) |
1484 |
Sixtus IV, [Francesco della Rovere], Pope (1471-84), dies |
1484 |
George of Trebizond, Greek philosopher (b. 1395) |
1546 |
Francisco de Vitoria, Spanish theology/lawyer, dies |
1577 |
Thomas Smith, English diplomat and scholar (b. 1513) |
1588 |
Alfonso Ferrabosco, composer, dies at 45 |
1612 |
Giovanni Gabrieli, Italian composer (Madrigali), dies at about 60 |
1633 |
Jacopo Peri, Itallian opera composer, dies at 71 |
1638 |
Johannes Althusius, [Althaut], German lawyer, dies at about 81 |
1648 |
Ibrahim I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1615) |
1654 |
Cornelis Haga, ambassador to Constantinople (1611-39), dies at 76 |
1660 |
Gilbertus van Zinnik, Flemish architect, dies at about 33 |
1674 |
Philippe de Champaigne, painter, dies |
1675 |
Karl Rabenhaupt, German/Neth baron of Sucha/army leader, dies at 73 |
1676 |
King Philip, [Metacomet], leader Wampanoag-indians, shot to death |
1689 |
Innocent XI, [Benedetto Odescalchi], Pope (1676-89), dies at 78 |
1715 |
Nahum Tate, English poet/playwright/poet laureate, dies |
1728 |
Henricus Zwaardecroon, gov-gen of Neth-Indies, dies at 61 |
1750 |
Rachel Ruysch, royal painter of soverign Johan von de Pfalz, dies |
1778 |
Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, British general and politician (b. 1714) |
1797 |
Ignaz Franz Xaver Kurzinger, composer, dies at 73 |
1809 |
Mikhail Kamensky, Russian field marshal (b. 1738) |
1810 |
Etienne Louis Geoffroy, French pharmacist and entomologist (b. 1725) |
1811 |
John FE Acton, cruel premier of Naples, dies at 77 |
1812 |
Jean Joseph Rodolphe, composer, dies at 81 |
1822 |
Robert Stewart, 2nd marguess of Londonderry, commits suicide, dies |
1827 |
William Blake, English poet/painter, dies at 69 |
1827 |
William Blake, The Great Beauty |
1830 |
Franz de Paula Roser, composer, dies at 50 |
1848 |
George Stephenson, locomotive engineer, dies |
1849 |
Abraham AA "Albert" Gallatin, Min of Finance (1801-14), dies at 88 |
1857 |
William Daniel Conybeare, geologist, dies |
1861 |
Eliphalet Remington, American inventor, designer of the Remington rifle (b. 1793) |
1864 |
Sakuma Shōzan, Japanese reformer (b. 1811) |
1865 |
William Jackson Hooker, botanist, dies |
1877 |
James Drummond, historical painter, dies |
1883 |
Last Quagga, (zebra with less slashes), dies in Amsterdam zoo |
1885 |
Georg Curtius, German classical/linguist/philologist, dies at 65 |
1885 |
Helen Hunt Jackson, Ramona |
1891 |
James Russell Lowell, poet/critic/diplomat, dies |
1896 |
Thomas Chamberlain, officer of the 20th Maine at the Battle of Gettysburg |
1900 |
James E Keeler, US astronomer (rings of Saturn), dies at 42 |
1900 |
Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian chess player (b. 1836) |
1900 |
Carl Laufs, Pension Schöller |
1901 |
Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Finnish-Swedish explorer (b. 1832) |
1902 |
Avqsenti Tsagareli, Keto and Kote |
1902 |
Lorrin A. Cooke, Governor Cook and Staff, Connecticut |
1906 |
Stevan Sremac, Zona Zamfirova |
1911 |
Jozef Israels, painter, dies |
1911 |
Petrus H Hugenholtz, Dutch reformist vicar (Levenslicht), dies at 79 |
1911 |
Josef Israels, The Bashful Suitor |
1914 |
John Philip Holland, submarine designer, dies at 74 |
1914 |
John M. Snyder, As Ye Sow |
1918 |
Anna Held, Polish-born actress and singer (b. 1872) |
1918 |
Anna Held, Elevating an Elephant |
1918 |
Arnold Christensen, H.P. hænger paa 'en |
1922 |
Arthur Griffith, Irish nationalist/president (Sinn Fein), dies |
1922 |
Arthur Griffith, |
1924 |
Sándor Bródy, A tanítónö |
1928 |
Leoš Janáček, Czech composer (b. 1854) |
1928 |
Leos Janácek, The Unbearable Lightness of Being |
1929 |
Eliseo Gutiérrez, El fusilamiento de Dorrego |
1929 |
Orral Humphrey, The Deacon's Card |
1931 |
Johan Kievit, Dik Trom weet raad |
1934 |
Hendrik P Berlage, architect (Stock exchange Amsterdam), dies at 78 |
1934 |
Augustus E. Thomas, The Capitol |
1935 |
Friedrich Schottky, German mathematician (b. 1851) |
1935 |
Léonce Perret, L'enfant de Paris |
1937 |
Fanchon Frankel, Pick 'Em Young |
1937 |
Alexandru Sahia, Inghititorul de sabii |
1938 |
Ludwig Borchardt, German egyptologist, dies at 74 |
1939 |
Jossé Maria Lepanto, Anna and Elizabeth |
1939 |
Helene Fehdmer, Frisions in Distress |
1940 |
Ulrich Bigalke, Deutsche Siege in drei Erdteilen |
1941 |
Bobby Peel, cricketer (took 102 wickets for England), dies |
1942 |
Phillips Holmes, The Criminal Code |
1942 |
Pasquale Amato, Glorious Betsy |
1943 |
Georges Martin Witkowski, composer, dies at 76 |
1944 |
Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., brother of President John F. Kennedy (b. 1915) |
1944 |
Joseph Kennedy Jr., |
1946 |
Sergei Soudeikin, We Live Again |
1946 |
Egon Brecher, The Black Cat |
1948 |
Harry Brearley, English inventor (b. 1871) |
1948 |
Carl Faulkner, Citizen Kane |
1948 |
James T. Mack, Anna Christie |
1949 |
Al Shean, San Francisco |
1950 |
Otto Storm, Das schwindende Herz |
1951 |
Vladimir Nedobrovo, Golden Mountains |
1951 |
Harry Hervey, Shanghai Express |
1952 |
David Bergelson, Yiddish language writer (b. 1884) |
1952 |
Venyamin Zuskin, The Taras Family |
1952 |
Mademoiselle Dazie, The Black Panther's Cub |
1952 |
Perets Markish, The Return of Nathan Becker |
1953 |
Kernan Cripps, Daughter of Don Q |
1954 |
Selma Barberi, La esfinge maragata |
1954 |
Grant Wallace, The Fuel of Life |
1955 |
Thomas Mann, German writer (Dr Faustus, Nobel 1929), dies at 80 |
1955 |
James B. Sumner, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1887) |
1955 |
Alfred Gerasch, Durch die Quartiere des Elends und Verbrechens |
1955 |
Lynne Carver, A Christmas Carol |
1955 |
Thomas Mann, Death in Venice |
1956 |
Marcel Raine, Tower of Nesle |
1957 |
Tim Whelan, The Thief of Bagdad |
1959 |
Mike O'Neill, Irish-born American baseball player (b. 1877) |
1959 |
Grace Lem, Tokyo Rose |
1961 |
Manuel Noriega, Mexican Bus Ride |
1961 |
Vinzenz Kaiser, Die Fiakermilli |
1961 |
Nisse Rinkama, Ruma Elsa |
1964 |
Ian L Fleming, British journalist/writer (James Bond), dies at 56 |
1964 |
Sol Meyer, In Old California |
1964 |
Joseph M. Verges, Let's Kill Timothy |
1968 |
Pieter J Auld, mayor of Rotterdam (1945-52), dies at 81 |
1968 |
Esther Forbes, American novelist (b. 1891) |
1969 |
Dick Ryan, actor (For Heaven's Sake), dies after long illness at 72 |
1973 |
John Clay, cricketer (Glamorgan offie in only Test 1935), dies |
1973 |
Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1881) |
1973 |
Karl Ziegler, German chemist and Nobel Laureate, dies at 74 |
1974 |
Ethel Doherty, The Showdown |
1976 |
Thomas Edward Driberg, 1st baron Bradwell, journalist, dies |
1977 |
John De Simone, The Hoodlum |
1979 |
Reed Porter, Holiday Inn |
1980 |
Albert Simpson, Hawaii |
1981 |
Randi Michelsen, Qivitoq |
1982 |
Helvi Lemmikke Leiviska, composer, dies at 80 |
1982 |
Henry Fonda, actor (On Golden Pond), dies of heart disease at 77 |
1982 |
Joe Tex, rocker, dies at 49 |
1982 |
Salvador Sanchez, Mexican boxer (b. 1959) |
1982 |
Varlam Shalamov, Russian writer (b. 1907) |
1982 |
Helvi Leiviskä, Juha |
1982 |
Oliviero De Fabritiis, La bohème |
1982 |
Joe Tex, Reservoir Dogs |
1982 |
Piotr Erlich, Jak daleko stad, jak blisko |
1983 |
Henry Gifford Vivian, cricketer (7 Tests for NZ, 17 wkts), dies |
1983 |
Maurine Powers, Free Kisses |
1983 |
Paul Mace, Search for Tomorrow |
1984 |
Christine Hargreaves, Pink Floyd The Wall |
1984 |
Jim Dannaldson, The Hills Have Eyes |
1985 |
Marcel Mihalovici, composer, dies at 86 |
1985 |
Manfred Winkelhock, German race car driver (b. 1951) |
1985 |
Marcel Mihalovici, Road Blocked |
1985 |
Patrick Hines, Amadeus |
1985 |
Kyû Sakamoto, Charlie's Angels |
1986 |
Howard Jarvis, Airplane! |
1986 |
Kyôko Okada, In the Realm of the Senses |
1986 |
Paola Mori, Mr. Arkadin |
1986 |
Ernst Wendt, Zeichen und Wunder |
1987 |
Sally Long, The King of the Jungle |
1988 |
Jean-Michel Basquiat, US musician/graffiti painter (Gray, SAMO), dies |
1988 |
Fien Berghegge, Zwaarmoedige verhalen voor bij de centrale verwarming |
1988 |
Jean Michel Basquiat, Downtown 81 |
1988 |
Donald Hainey, A Christmas Carol |
1988 |
Caja Heimann, Passer passer piger |
1989 |
William Shockley, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1910) |
1989 |
Samuel Okwaraji, Nigerian footballer (b. 1964) |
1989 |
Hans Hartung, Pablo Picasso Painter |
1989 |
William Shockley, |
1990 |
Dorothy Mackaill, actress (Love Affair), dies of kidney failure at 87 |
1990 |
Sara Seegar, [Stone], actor (Mystery of Room 13), dies at 76 |
1990 |
B. Kliban, American cartoonist (b. 1935) |
1990 |
Piotr Perkowski, The Epopee of Warsaw |
1990 |
Ethyl Eichelberger, The Comedy of Errors |
1990 |
Dorothy Mackaill, Safe in Hell |
1990 |
Sara Seegar, The Music Man |
1991 |
Irene Campbell, British actress/dancer (Wicker Man, St Justice), dies |
1991 |
William Gordon, screenwriter (Back to Bataan), dies |
1991 |
Ejnar Haglund, Den ljusnande framtid |
1991 |
Hans Weigel, Die Lokomotive |
1991 |
Ton Vos, De zwarte kogels |
1991 |
Hal Millar, Young Frankenstein |
1991 |
William D. Gordon, Amy Prentiss: Part 2 |
1992 |
Beverley Brooks, dies of a stroke at 63 |
1992 |
John Cage, avante-garde composer, dies of a stroke at 79 |
1992 |
Lady Rothermere, [Bubbles], wife of British newspaper magnate, dies |
1992 |
Queen Mother of Oman, dies |
1992 |
James W. Payne, The Sting |
1992 |
John Cage, Shutter Island |
1993 |
Jerome Thor, actor (Riot in Juvenile Prison), dies of cardiac at 69 |
1993 |
Carmelo Santiago, El humor de Niní Marshall |
1993 |
Billy Hayes, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo |
1993 |
Jerome Thor, 55 Days at Peking |
1993 |
Mira Zupan, Oce, gdje si? |
1993 |
Harry Kalenberg, Operation Walküre |
1994 |
Gene Cherico, bassist, dies at 59 |
1994 |
Manfred Salzgeber, German film distributor/publicist, dies at about 51 |
1994 |
Barbara Grabowska, Goraczka. Dzieje jednego pocisku |
1994 |
Barry Shipman, Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe |
1994 |
Wagner Bello, Castelo Rá-Tim-Bum |
1994 |
Anton Giulio Majano, Addio Kira! |
1994 |
Wlodzimierz Zróbik, Szkice warszawskie |
1995 |
Frank Cvitanovich, film maker, dies at 68 |
1995 |
Marty Paich, Dune |
1995 |
Achille Togliani, Lacrime di sposa |
1995 |
Frank Cvitanovich, Festival Express |
1995 |
Françoise Parturier, Five Day Lover |
1996 |
Anthony Derrick Parsons, diplomat, dies at 73 |
1996 |
Victor Ambartsumian, astrophysicist, dies at 87 |
1996 |
John Hazelwood, Firewalker |
1996 |
Robert Gravel, Pouvoir intime |
1996 |
Elsie Oakes Barber, Angel Baby |
1997 |
Luther Allison, blues performer (Motown), dies of cancer at 57 |
1997 |
Ilan Ostrove, Jim Henson Presents Mother Goose Stories |
1997 |
Lee Corrigan, Twice in a Lifetime |
1997 |
Conrad von Molo, The Testament of Dr. Mabuse |
1997 |
Rex Barney, Blood Ties: Part 2 |
1997 |
Gösta Bohman, Sista varningen! |
1997 |
Nina Borget, To Catch a Thief |
1997 |
Jack Delano, Los peloteros |
1998 |
Dorothy Tuttle, An American in Paris |
1998 |
Giuseppe Fina, Scorched Skin |
1999 |
Jean Drapeau, Quebec politician, mayor of Montreal (b. 1916) |
1999 |
Bob Pacquin, The Beatniks |
1999 |
Zygmunt Maciejewski, Czlowiek na torze |
1999 |
Ross Elliott, General Hospital |
1999 |
Jean Drapeau, Le confort et l'indifférence |
1999 |
John Hale, Episode #2.7 |
1999 |
Joe Black, Ready When You Are, Mr. McGill |
1999 |
Archie Robin, The Band Concert |
2000 |
Loretta Young, American actress (b. 1913) |
2000 |
Max Grießer, Der Zigeunersimmerl |
2000 |
Güzin Özipek, Don't Let Them Shoot the Kite |
2000 |
Dave Edwards, The Lawrence Welk Show |
2000 |
Nikolay Lavrov, Ostrov pogibshikh korabley |
2000 |
Loretta Young, The Stranger |
2000 |
Carzou, Le spectre de la danse |
2001 |
Pierre Klossowski, Roberte |
2001 |
Suzanne Pavlat, The Angel Doll |
2002 |
Enos Slaughter, American baseball player (b. 1916) |
2002 |
Enos Slaughter, When It Was a Game |
2002 |
Jirí Kolár, Lost People |
2002 |
Greet Groot, The Gambler |
2002 |
Marta Gularte, In This Tricky Life |
2002 |
Al Sampson, |
2002 |
Knud Lundberg, Olympiadetræning |
2002 |
Daun Kennedy, The Royal Mounted Rides Again |
2003 |
Djordje Georgijevic-Grga, Izdanci iz opaljenog grma |
2003 |
Irja Lloyd, Sunset Story |
2003 |
Dan Terranova, Blackboard Jungle |
2003 |
Arnold Lipsman, Throw Momma from the Train |
2003 |
Anne Tirard, The Witches |
2003 |
Françoise Giret, My Baby Is Black! |
2003 |
Paul D. Johnson, Titanic |
2004 |
Sir Godfrey Hounsfield, English electrical engineer and inventor, Nobel laureate (b. 1919) |
2004 |
Peter Woodthorpe, British actor (b. 1931) |
2004 |
Peter Woodthorpe, The Lord of the Rings |
2004 |
Jim Crow, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre |
2004 |
Robert Keys, The High and the Mighty |
2004 |
Rob Lemaire, Peppi en Kokki |
2005 |
John Loder, co-founder of the anarcho-punk band CRASS (b. 1946) |
2005 |
Marianne Schleiss, Mod og mandshjerte |
2005 |
Hugo Roncal, And So It Is |
2005 |
Uwe Röhl, Trimmel und Isolde |
2005 |
Peter Porteous, Octopussy |
2005 |
Charlie Norman, Episode #1.17 |
2005 |
Teruo Ishii, Horrors of Malformed Men |
2006 |
Nicholas Webster, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians |
2006 |
Nick Papac, Letters from Iwo Jima |
2006 |
Lucien Pascal, L'aventurier |
2006 |
Victoria Gray-Adams, Mississippi: Is This America?: 1962-1964 |
2007 |
Merv Griffin, American television host and game show creator (b. 1925) |
2007 |
Mike Wieringo, American comic book artist (b. 1963) |
2007 |
Megan Doble, A Life |
2007 |
Carrie Hilton, 300 |
2007 |
Mike Wieringo, Happy New Year! |
2007 |
Henry Leff, Take the Money and Run |
2007 |
Natalya Medvedeva, Vasili's Return |
2007 |
Aida Young, Dracula Has Risen from the Grave |
2007 |
Paula Marie Moody, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan |
2007 |
Sam Bernstein, Thelma & Louise |
2007 |
Merv Griffin, Jeopardy! |
2007 |
Elizabeth Murray, Art City 1: Making It in Manhattan |
2008 |
Christie Allen, British-Australian pop singer (b. 1954) |
2008 |
Bettina Spier, Neue Freunde |
2008 |
June Lang, Farewell to the Deuce |
2008 |
Orlando 'Puntilla' Ríos, Calle 54 |
2008 |
Bill Stulla, KTLA at 40: A Celebration of Los Angeles Television |
2008 |
Dottie Collins, A League of Their Own |
2008 |
Francis Lacassin, Judex |
2008 |
Jeffrey Judson Smith, Lock 'n' Load |
2008 |
Yani Begakis, Meteor |
2008 |
Vilma Jamnická, It's Better to Be Wealthy and Healthy Than Poor and Ill |
2008 |
Percy Savage, A Savage Life in Fashion |
2008 |
Nina Laemmle, Episode #5.47 |
2008 |
Halina Wyrodek, Party przy swiecach |
2009 |
Les Paul, American musician (b. 1915) |
2009 |
Les Paul (Lester William Polsfuss) American musician and inventor aged 94 |
2009 |
Clive Parsons, Tea with Mussolini |
2009 |
Shingo Yamashiro, Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons |
2009 |
Les Paul, Silver Linings Playbook |
2009 |
Ruth Ford, Wilson |
2009 |
Gladys Gillem, Lipstick & Dynamite, Piss & Vinegar: The First Ladies of Wrestling |
2009 |
Rashied Ali, Jazz Is Our Religion |
2010 |
Richie Hayward, American musician (Little Feat) (b. 1946) |
2010 |
Isaac Bonewits, founder of U.S. Druid organization Ar Ndraiocht Fein (b. 1949) |
2010 |
Guido de Marco, 6th president of Malta, 45th President of the United Nations General Assembly (b. 1931) |
2010 |
Mark Gordon, Take the Money and Run |
2010 |
Geoffrey Smith, Norman Loves Rose |
2010 |
Geoffrey Johnson Smith, Episode dated 17 May 1997 |
2010 |
Paul Rudd, Beulah Land |
2010 |
Richard Hayward, The Buddy Holly Story |
2010 |
Richie Hayward, That's Show Biz |
2010 |
Isaac Bonewits, Satanis: The Devil's Mass |
2011 |
Robert Robinson, British television presenter (Ask The Family, Call My Bluff) (b. 1927) |
2011 |
Francisco Solano-López, Imaginadores |
2011 |
Robert Robinson, Television: The Magic Rectangle - An Anatomy of the TV Personality |
2011 |
Ernie Johnson, The Slugger's Wife |
2011 |
Finnur Dór Thordarson, House of Boys |
2011 |
Michael W. Leighton, L.A. Bounty |
2011 |
Faye Lee, Charlie Chan at the Circus |
2011 |
Del Connell, Alice in Wonderland |
2012 |
Jerry Grant, 1966 Indianapolis 500 |
2012 |
Hans Maeter, Fünf Fotos |
2012 |
Odilon Mortier, Dolgelukkig |
2012 |
Joe Kubert, Sin City |
2012 |
Ève Cournoyer, Toi |
2012 |
Willa Ward, Beloved |
2013 |
Pauline Maier, Pauline Maier |
2013 |
Spomenka Nedic, Utvrdjeni gradovi - Beograd |
2013 |
Hans-Ekkehard Bob, Spirits in the Wind |
2013 |
Spas Wenkoff, Tannhäuser |
2013 |
Alfons Wonneberg, Das Stacheltier - Der Dieb von San Marengo |
2013 |
György Vukán, Jesus Christ's Horoscope |
2013 |
Robert Trotter, Episode #1.818 |
2013 |
Nándor Bednai, Nyitott ablak |
2014 |
Lauren Bacall, American actress (Key Largo), dies of a stroke at 89 |
2014 |
Omar Lamparter, Die Andrew-Sisters in Berlin |
2014 |
Jimmy Zelinger, A.I. Artificial Intelligence |
2014 |
Gino Leurini, Guardie e ladri |
2014 |
Lauren Bacall, The Big Sleep |
2014 |
Arlene Martel, A Walk to Remember |
2014 |
Jean Favier, Episode dated 30 September 2010 |
2014 |
Henrikas Vantsyavichius, Shagi v nochi |
2015 |
Milos Hlavica, Stoparka |
2015 |
Reiner Pfeiffer, Tod in Genf - Der Fall Barschel |
2015 |
Stephen Lewis, Holiday on the Buses |
2016 |
Pakistan's 'Little Master' Hanif Mohammad dies aged 81 |
2017 |
World's oldest man, Holocaust survivor Yisrael Kristal, dies in Israel aged 113 |
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