History Deaths on October 12

Jim Cairns, Australian economist and politician, 4th Deputy Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1914)

#Jim_Cairns

Adolf III of Berg, German nobleman (b. 1080)

#Adolf_III_of_Berg

Joseph Stilwell, American general (b. 1883)

#Joseph_Stilwell

Ram Manohar Lohia, Indian activist and politician (b. 1910)

#Ram_Manohar_Lohia

Jean Ribault, French-American lieutenant and navigator (b. 1520)

#Jean_Ribault

Bunny Lucas, English cricketer (b. 1857)

#A._P._Lucas

Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, Danish lawyer and politician, 9th Council President of Denmark (b. 1817)

#Christian_Emil_Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs

Frederick IV, king of Denmark and Norway (b. 1671)

#Frederick_IV_of_Denmark

Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, English academic and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1907)

#Quintin_Hogg,_Baron_Hailsham_of_St_Marylebone

Julius Saaristo, Finnish javelin thrower and soldier (b. 1891)

#Julius_Saaristo

Peter Aufschnaiter, Austrian mountaineer, geographer, and cartographer (b. 1899)

#Peter_Aufschnaiter

Clementia of Hungary, queen consort of France and Navarre (b. 1293)

#Clementia_of_Hungary

Alf Landon, American lieutenant and politician, 26th Governor of Kansas (b. 1887)

#Alf_Landon

François de Bassompierre, French general and courtier (b. 1579)

#François_de_Bassompierre

Leopold II, margrave of Austria (b. 1050)

#Leopold_II,_Margrave_of_Austria

Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1527)

#Maximilian_II,_Holy_Roman_Emperor

Luis de Molina, Spanish priest and philosopher (b. 1535)

#Luis_de_Molina

Carel Fabritius, Dutch painter (b. 1622)

#Carel_Fabritius

Peter Wessel Zapffe, Norwegian physician, mountaineer, and author (b. 1899)

#Peter_Wessel_Zapffe

Hans Wilhelm Longva, Norwegian diplomat (b. 1942)

#Hans_Wilhelm_Longva

Roberto Telch, Argentinian footballer and coach (b. 1943)

#Roberto_Telch

Paul Hermann Müller, Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)

#Paul_Hermann_Müller

Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player and coach (b. 1936)

#Wilt_Chamberlain

Kisho Kurokawa, Japanese architect, designed the Nakagin Capsule Tower (b. 1934)

#Kisho_Kurokawa

Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer and painter (b. 1872)

#Lorenzo_Perosi

Tom Mix, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1880)

#Tom_Mix

Fahri Korutürk, Turkish commander and politician, 6th President of Turkey (b. 1903)

#Fahri_Korutürk

Patricia Breslin, American actress (b. 1931)

#Patricia_Breslin

Abdallah Kigoda, Tanzanian politician, 8th Tanzanian Minister of Industry and Trade (b. 1953)

#Abdallah_Kigoda

Regis Toomey, American actor (b. 1898)

#Regis_Toomey

Oscar Hijuelos, American author and academic (b. 1951)

#Oscar_Hijuelos

Roger Lapébie, French cyclist (b. 1911)

#Roger_Lapébie

Sonja Henie, Norwegian figure skater and actress (b. 1912)

#Sonja_Henie

George Welch, American soldier and pilot (b. 1918)

#George_Welch_(pilot)

Honorius I, pope of the Catholic Church

#Pope_Honorius_I

Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth, Irish field marshal and politician (b. 1680)

#Richard_Molesworth,_3rd_Viscount_Molesworth

Ray Conniff, American bandleader and composer (b. 1916)

#Ray_Conniff

Hiroshige, Japanese painter (b. 1797)

#Hiroshige

Piero della Francesca, Italian mathematician and painter (b. 1415)

#Piero_della_Francesca

Edith Cavell, English nurse (b. 1865)

#Edith_Cavell

Anatole France, French journalist, novelist, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1844)

#Anatole_France

Dean Acheson, American lawyer and politician, 51st United States Secretary of State (b. 1893)

#Dean_Acheson

Dickie Peterson American singer-songwriter and bass player (b. 1948)

#Dickie_Peterson

Zhu Quan, Chinese prince, historian and playwright (b. 1378)

#Zhu_Quan

Gillo Pontecorvo, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1919)

#Gillo_Pontecorvo

John Denver, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (b. 1943)

#John_Denver

Robert Le Vigan, French-Argentinian actor and politician (b. 1900)

#Robert_Le_Vigan

Joan Leslie, American actress, dancer, and vaudevillian (b. 1925)

#Joan_Leslie

Michael IX Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (b. 1277)

#Michael_IX_Palaiologos

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter (b. 1827)

#Jean-Baptiste_Carpeaux

C. Delores Tucker, American activist and politician (b. 1927)

#C._Delores_Tucker

Robert E. Lee, American general (b. 1807)

#Robert_E._Lee

Demosthenes, Athenian statesman, (b. 384 BC)

#Demosthenes

Juan José Castelli, Argentinian lawyer and politician (b. 1764)

#Juan_José_Castelli

René Lacoste, French tennis player and fashion designer, co-founded Lacoste (b. 1904)

#René_Lacoste

Gordon Griffith, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1907)

#Gordon_Griffith

Edmund Berry Godfrey, English lawyer and judge (b. 1621)

#Edmund_Berry_Godfrey

Edwin Abbott Abbott, English theologian and author (b. 1838)

#Edwin_Abbott_Abbott

Angelika Machinek, German glider pilot (b. 1956)

#Angelika_Machinek

Elizabeth Fry, English nurse and philanthropist (b. 1780)

#Elizabeth_Fry

Calvin Fairbank, American minister and activist (b. 1816)

#Calvin_Fairbank

Johnny Olson, American radio host and game show announcer (b. 1910)

#Johnny_Olson

Kan? Eitoku, Japanese painter and educator (b. 1543)

#Kan?_Eitoku

Arie de Jong, Indonesian-Dutch linguist and physician (b. 1865)

#Arie_de_Jong

Leon Ames, American actor (b. 1902)

#Leon_Ames

Frank Vandenbroucke, Belgian cyclist (b. 1974)

#Frank_Vandenbroucke_(cyclist)

Tsunesada, Japanese prince (b. 825)

#Prince_Tsunesada

Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist, created the C programming language (b. 1941)

#Dennis_Ritchie

Susan Sutherland Isaacs, English psychologist and psychoanalyst (b. 1885)

#Susan_Sutherland_Isaacs

B?etislav Pojar, Czech animator, director, and screenwriter (b. 1923)

#B?etislav_Pojar

Graham Miles, English snooker player (b. 1941)

Ali Mazrui, Kenyan-American political scientist, philosopher, and academic (b. 1933)

Malcolm Renfrew, American chemist and academic (b. 1910)

George Herbig, American astronomer and academic (b. 1920)

Erik Moseholm, Danish bassist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1930)

Torkom Manoogian, Iraqi-Armenian patriarch (b. 1919)

Sukhdev Singh Kang, Indian judge and politician, 14th Governor of Kerala (b. 1931)

Norm Grabowski, American hot rod builder and actor (b. 1933)

James Coyne, Canadian lawyer and banker, 2nd Governor of the Bank of Canada (b. 1910)

Belva Plain, American author (b. 1919)

Woody Peoples, American football player (b. 1943)

Austin Ardill, Northern Irish soldier and politician (b. 1917)

Karl Chircop, Maltese physician and politician (b. 1965)

Eugène Martin, French race car driver (b. 1915)

Bill Shoemaker, American jockey (b. 1931)

Joan Kroc, American philanthropist (b. 1928)

Audrey Mestre, French biologist and diver (b. 1974)

Richard Buckle, Ballet critic and writer (b. 1916)

Hikmet ?im?ek, Turkish conductor (b. 1924)

Robert Marsden Hope, Australian lawyer and judge (b. 1919)

Matthew Shepard, American murder victim (b. 1976)

Mario Beaulieu, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1930)

Gérald Godin, Canadian journalist and politician (b. 1938)

Arkady Strugatsky, Russian author and translator (b. 1925)

Sheila Florance, Australian actress (b. 1916)

Rifaat el-Mahgoub, Egyptian politician (b. 1926)

Jay Ward, American animator, producer, and screenwriter, founded Jay Ward Productions (b. 1920)

Coby Whitmore, American painter and illustrator (b. 1913)

Ruth Manning-Sanders, Welsh-English poet and author (b. 1886)

Ricky Wilson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1953)

Anthony Berry, English politician (b. 1925)

Nancy Spungen, American figure of the 1970s punk rock scene (b. 1958)

Gene Vincent, American musician (b. 1935)

Mustafa Zaidi, Pakistani poet and academic (b. 1930)

Feodor Stepanovich Rojankovsky, Russian-American illustrator and painter (b. 1891)

Serge Poliakoff, Russian-French painter and academic (b. 1906)

Inejiro Asanuma, Japanese lawyer and politician (b. 1898)

John Lister, English philanthropist and politician (b. 1847)

Margaret E. Knight, American inventor (b. 1838)

Christoph Ignaz Abele, Austrian lawyer and jurist (b. 1628)

William Gurnall, English minister, theologian, and author (b. 1617)

Kutsuki Mototsuna, Japanese commander (b. 1549)

Nicholas Brend, English landowner (b. 1560)

Fritz Herlen, German painter (b. 1449)

William d'Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel, English politician (b. 1109)

John IV, pope of the Catholic Church