December 12 - Deaths

Deaths

• 884 – Carloman, King of the West Franks
• 1212 – Geoffrey, Archbishop of York
• 1569 – Metropolitan Philip of Moscow (b. 1507)
• 1574 – Selim II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1524)
• 1586 – Stefan Batory, King of Poland (b. 1533)
• 1685 – John Pell, English mathematician (b. 1610)
• 1751 – Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, English statesman and philosopher (b. 1678)
• 1754 – Wu Jingzi, Chinese writer (b. 1701)
• 1766 – Johann Christoph Gottsched, German writer (b. 1700)
• 1789 – John Ponsonby, Irish politician (b. 1713)
• 1790 – Mikhail Shcherbatov, Russian philosopher and writer (b. 1733)
• 1817 – Emperor Tekle Giyorgis I of Ethiopia, (b. about 1751)
• 1843 – King William I of the Netherlands, (b. 1772)
• 1858 – Jacques Viger, antiquarian and archeologist, first mayor of Montreal (b. 1787)
• 1889 – Robert Browning, English poet (b. 1812)
• 1889 – Viktor Bunyakovsky, Russian mathematician (b. 1804)
• 1894 – Sir John Sparrow David Thompson, fourth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1845)
• 1913 – Emperor Menelek II of Ethiopia (b. 1844)
• 1923 – Raymond Radiguet, French author (b. 1903)
• 1926 – Jean Richepin, French poet (b. 1849)
• 1929 – Charles Goodnight, American cattle baron (b. 1836)
• 1934 – Oscar Goerke, American cyclist (b. 1883)
• 1934 – Thorleif Haug, Norwegian Nordic skier (b. 1894)
• 1939 – Douglas Fairbanks, American actor (b. 1883)
• 1941 – César Basa, Philippine Air Force and World War II hero (b. 1915)
• 1951 – Mildred Bailey, American jazz singer (b. 1907)
• 1952 – Bedřich Hrozný, Czech orientalist and linguist (b. 1879)
• 1958 – Albert Walsh, Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland (b. 1900)
• 1963 – Yasujirō Ozu, Japanese film director (b. 1903)
• 1966 – Karl Ruberl, Austrian swimmer (b. 1880)
• 1968 – Tallulah Bankhead, American actress (b. 1902)
• 1970 – Doris Blackburn, Australian politician (b. 1889)
• 1971 – Yechezkel Kutscher, Israeli philologist and Hebrew linguist (b. 1909)
• 1971 – David Sarnoff, Russian-born American General Manager of RCA (b. 1891)
• 1976 – Jack Cassidy, American actor (b. 1927)
• 1976 – Vinko Žganec, Croatian ethnomusicologist (b. 1890)
• 1977 – Baroness Spencer-Churchill, wife of Winston Churchill (b. 1885)
• 1978 – Fay Compton, English actress (b. 1894)
• 1980 – Jean Lesage, Canadian politician (b. 1912)
• 1983 – Amza Pellea, Romanian actor (b. 1931)
• 1985 – Anne Baxter, American actress (b. 1923)
• 1985 – Ian Stewart, Scottish musician (b. 1938)
• 1987 – Enrique Jorrín, Cuban musician and composer (b. 1926)
• 1988 – Anthony "Tony Pro" Provenzano, American Mafia figure (b. 1917)
• 1992 – Suzanne Lilar, Belgian essayist, novelist and playwright (b. 1901)
• 1993 – József Antall, Hungarian politician (b. 1932)
• 1994 – Stuart Roosa, American astronaut (b. 1933)
• 1994 – Donna J. Stone, American poet (b. 1933)
• 1996 – Vance Packard, American author (b. 1914)
• 1997 – Yevgeniy Landis, Russian mathematician (b. 1921)
• 1998 – Lawton Chiles, U.S. Senator from Florida and Governor of Florida (b. 1930)
• 1998 – Marco Denevi, Argentine writer (b. 1922)
• 1998 – Mo Udall, American politician (b. 1922)
• 1999 – Paul Cadmus, American artist (b. 1904)
• 1999 – Joseph Heller, American author (b. 1923)
• 2000 – George Montgomery, American actor (b. 1916)
• 2000 – Ndabaningi Sithole, Zimbabwean Nationalist politician (b. 1920)
• 2001 – Ardito Desio, Italian explorer, geologist and leader of the 1954 K2 expedition (b. 1897)
• 2001 – Jean Richard, French actor (b. 1921)
• 2002 – Dee Brown, American author (b. 1908)
• 2002 – Brad Dexter, American actor (b. 1917)
• 2002 – Jay Wesley Neill, American convicted murderer (b. 1965)
• 2003 – Heydar Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan (b. 1923)
• 2003 – Gangodawila Soma Thero, Buddhist monk from Sri Lanka(b. 1948)
• 2003 – Joseph Anthony Ferrario, American Catholic prelate (b. 1926)
• 2005 – Robert Newmyer, American film producer (b. 1956)
• 2005 – Gebran Tueni, Lebanese politician (b. 1957)
• 2005 – Annette Vadim, Danish actress (b. 1936)
• 2006 – Paul Arizin, American basketball player (b. 1928)
• 2006 – Peter Boyle, American actor (b. 1935)
• 2006 – Kenny Davern, American jazz clarinetist (b. 1935)
• 2006 – Raymond P. Shafer, 38th Governor of Pennsylvania (b. 1917)
• 2006 – Al Shugart, pioneering American computer engineer and co-founder of Seagate Technology (b. 1930)
• 2007 – Ike Turner, American musician (b. 1931)
• 2007 – Francois Hajj, Lebanese Army's chief of operations (b. 1953)
• 2008 – Avery Dulles, Roman Catholic Cardinal, theologian (b. 1918)
• 2008 – Van Johnson, American actor (b. 1916)
• 2008 – Tassos Papadopoulos, President of Cyprus (b. 1934)
• 2010 – Peter Pagel, German footballer (b. 1956)
• 2010 – Tom Walkinshaw, former racing driver and Formula One team owner (b. 1946)