Famous Deaths Happened In December - 12
Friday, 18 July 2025
0884 Carloman, co-king of France (879, 882-884), dies on December - 12.
1112 Tancred, monarch of Galilea/Edessa/Antioch, dies on this day in history.
1204 On December - 12 maimonides, [Moses Ben Maimon], Span/Egyptian rabbi, dies at 69
1212 On this day in history death of geoffrey, Archbishop of York
1263 On this day in history hakon IV, Gamli, King of Norway (1217-63), dies
1574 Death of Selim II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1524) on December - 12.
1586 Death of Stefan Batory, King of Poland (b. 1533) on December - 12.
1600 On December - 12 john Craig, Scottish church reformer/James VI's court vicar, dies
1677 Jacob Binckes/Benckes, Dutch admiral (Chatham), dies in battle on December - 12.
1685 On December - 12 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 Johann Gottfried Seyfert, composer, dies at 41 on this day in history.
1777 Albrecht von Haller, Swiss physician/biologist/author, dies at 69 on this day in history.
1788 Joseph Gibbs, composer, dies at 88 on December - 12.
1789 Death of John Ponsonby, Irish politician (b. 1713) on this day in history.
1790 Death of Mikhail Shcherbatov, Russian philosopher and writer (b. 1733) on this day in history.
1812 John Malchair, composer, dies at 82 on this day in history.
1817 Death of Emperor Tekle Giyorgis I of Ethiopia, (b. about 1751) on December - 12.
1836 Giuseppe Farinelli, composer, dies at 67 on this day in history.
1843 Willem I Frederik, King of Netherlands (1814-40), dies at 71 on this day in history.
1858 On December - 12 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 this day in history.
1880 On December - 12 michel Chasles, French mathematician (geometry), dies at 83
1889 On December - 12 robert Browning, English poet (Ring & Book), dies at 77
1894 Death of Sir John Thompson, fourth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1845) on this day in history.
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 December - 12.
1914 On this day in history death of watkins Lewis, black man, lynched in Shrevport La
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 this day in history raymond Radiguet, French journalist/writer (Ball du Comte), dies at 20
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