Famous Deaths In December - 12
Wednesday, 29 March 2023
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 On December - 12 maimonides, [Moses Ben Maimon], Span/Egyptian rabbi, dies at 69
1212 Death of Geoffrey, Archbishop of York on December - 12.
1263 On December - 12 hakon IV, Gamli, King of Norway (1217-63), dies
1574 On this day in history death of selim II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1524)
1586 Death of Stefan Batory, King of Poland (b. 1533) on December - 12.
1600 On this day in history john Craig, Scottish church reformer/James VI's court vicar, dies
1677 Jacob Binckes/Benckes, Dutch admiral (Chatham), dies in battle on this day in history.
1685 On December - 12 death of john Pell, English mathematician (b. 1610)
1751 On this day in history death of henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, English statesman and philosopher (b. 1678)
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 this day in history albrecht von Haller, Swiss physician/biologist/author, dies at 69
1788 On this day in history joseph Gibbs, composer, dies at 88
1789 On this day in history death of john Ponsonby, Irish politician (b. 1713)
1790 On this day in history death of mikhail Shcherbatov, Russian philosopher and writer (b. 1733)
1812 John Malchair, composer, dies at 82 on December - 12.
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 December - 12.
1858 On this day in history death of jacques Viger, antiquarian and archeologist, first mayor of Montreal (b. 1787)
1872 Willem A Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Dutch politician, dies at 72 on December - 12.
1877 Jose M de Alencar, Brazilian writer/minister of Justice, dies at 48 on December - 12.
1880 On December - 12 michel Chasles, French mathematician (geometry), dies at 83
1889 On this day in history robert Browning, English poet (Ring & Book), dies at 77
1894 On December - 12 death of sir John Thompson, fourth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1845)
1912 Luitpold von Bayern, prince-regent of Bayern, dies at 91 on this day in history.
1913 On December - 12 death of emperor Menelek II of Ethiopia (b. 1844)
1914 Death of Watkins Lewis, black man, lynched in Shrevport La on this day in history.
1920 Olive Schreiner, South Afr writer (Healing Imagination), dies at 75 on this day in history.
1921 Henrietta Leavitt, cepheid period-luminosity relation discover, dies on December - 12.
1923 Raymond Radiguet, French journalist/writer (Ball du Comte), dies at 20 on this day in history.
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