Famous Deaths Happened In December - 12
Tuesday, 08 July 2025
0884 On December - 12 carloman, co-king of France (879, 882-884), dies
1112 Tancred, monarch of Galilea/Edessa/Antioch, dies on December - 12.
1204 Maimonides, [Moses Ben Maimon], Span/Egyptian rabbi, dies at 69 on December - 12.
1212 On December - 12 death of geoffrey, Archbishop of York
1263 Hakon IV, Gamli, King of Norway (1217-63), dies on December - 12.
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 On this day in history john Craig, Scottish church reformer/James VI's court vicar, dies
1677 On December - 12 jacob Binckes/Benckes, Dutch admiral (Chatham), dies in battle
1685 On this day in history death of john Pell, English mathematician (b. 1610)
1751 On December - 12 death of henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, English statesman and philosopher (b. 1678)
1754 Death of Wu Jingzi, Chinese writer (b. 1701) on December - 12.
1766 Death of Johann Christoph Gottsched, German writer (b. 1700) on December - 12.
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 Death of John Ponsonby, Irish politician (b. 1713) on December - 12.
1790 On December - 12 death of mikhail Shcherbatov, Russian philosopher and writer (b. 1733)
1812 John Malchair, composer, dies at 82 on December - 12.
1817 Death of Emperor Tekle Giyorgis I of Ethiopia, (b. about 1751) on December - 12.
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 this day in history.
1880 Michel Chasles, French mathematician (geometry), dies at 83 on December - 12.
1889 Robert Browning, English poet (Ring & Book), dies at 77 on December - 12.
1894 Death of Sir John Thompson, fourth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1845) on December - 12.
1912 Luitpold von Bayern, prince-regent of Bayern, dies at 91 on December - 12.
1913 On this day in history death of emperor Menelek II of Ethiopia (b. 1844)
1914 On December - 12 death of watkins Lewis, black man, lynched in Shrevport La
1920 On this day in history olive Schreiner, South Afr writer (Healing Imagination), dies at 75
1921 On this day in history henrietta Leavitt, cepheid period-luminosity relation discover, dies
1923 Raymond Radiguet, French journalist/writer (Ball du Comte), dies at 20 on December - 12.
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