Famous Deaths In December - 12
Saturday, 27 April 2024
0884 Carloman, co-king of France (879, 882-884), dies on December - 12.
1112 On this day in history tancred, monarch of Galilea/Edessa/Antioch, dies
1204 Maimonides, [Moses Ben Maimon], Span/Egyptian rabbi, dies at 69 on this day in history.
1212 On December - 12 death of geoffrey, Archbishop of York
1263 On December - 12 hakon IV, Gamli, King of Norway (1217-63), dies
1574 Death of Selim II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1524) on this day in history.
1586 On this day in history death of stefan Batory, King of Poland (b. 1533)
1600 John Craig, Scottish church reformer/James VI's court vicar, dies on December - 12.
1677 Jacob Binckes/Benckes, Dutch admiral (Chatham), dies in battle on December - 12.
1685 On this day in history death of john Pell, English mathematician (b. 1610)
1751 Death of Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, English statesman and philosopher (b. 1678) on this day in history.
1754 Death of Wu Jingzi, Chinese writer (b. 1701) on this day in history.
1766 On this day in history death of johann Christoph Gottsched, German writer (b. 1700)
1772 On this day in history johann Gottfried Seyfert, composer, dies at 41
1777 On December - 12 albrecht von Haller, Swiss physician/biologist/author, dies at 69
1788 Joseph Gibbs, composer, dies at 88 on December - 12.
1789 Death of John Ponsonby, Irish politician (b. 1713) on December - 12.
1790 Death of Mikhail Shcherbatov, Russian philosopher and writer (b. 1733) on December - 12.
1812 On December - 12 john Malchair, composer, dies at 82
1817 On this day in history death of emperor Tekle Giyorgis I of Ethiopia, (b. about 1751)
1836 On December - 12 giuseppe Farinelli, composer, dies at 67
1843 Willem I Frederik, King of Netherlands (1814-40), dies at 71 on this day in history.
1858 On this day in history death of jacques Viger, antiquarian and archeologist, first mayor of Montreal (b. 1787)
1872 On this day in history willem A Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Dutch politician, dies at 72
1877 Jose M de Alencar, Brazilian writer/minister of Justice, dies at 48 on December - 12.
1880 Michel Chasles, French mathematician (geometry), dies at 83 on this day in history.
1889 Robert Browning, English poet (Ring & Book), dies at 77 on this day in history.
1894 On December - 12 death of sir John Thompson, fourth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1845)
1912 On this day in history luitpold von Bayern, prince-regent of Bayern, dies at 91
1913 Death of Emperor Menelek II of Ethiopia (b. 1844) on this day in history.
1914 Death of Watkins Lewis, black man, lynched in Shrevport La on December - 12.
1920 On December - 12 olive Schreiner, South Afr writer (Healing Imagination), dies at 75
1921 Henrietta Leavitt, cepheid period-luminosity relation discover, dies on December - 12.
1923 On December - 12 raymond Radiguet, French journalist/writer (Ball du Comte), dies at 20
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