Famous Deaths Happened In December - 12
Sunday, 06 July 2025
0884 Carloman, co-king of France (879, 882-884), dies on this day in history.
1112 On December - 12 tancred, monarch of Galilea/Edessa/Antioch, dies
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 Hakon IV, Gamli, King of Norway (1217-63), dies on December - 12.
1574 On December - 12 death of selim II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1524)
1586 On December - 12 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 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 On December - 12 death of wu Jingzi, Chinese writer (b. 1701)
1766 Death of Johann Christoph Gottsched, German writer (b. 1700) on December - 12.
1772 Johann Gottfried Seyfert, composer, dies at 41 on December - 12.
1777 Albrecht von Haller, Swiss physician/biologist/author, dies at 69 on this day in history.
1788 On this day in history joseph Gibbs, composer, dies at 88
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 On December - 12 john Malchair, composer, dies at 82
1817 On December - 12 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 December - 12 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 this day in history.
1889 On this day in history 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 December - 12 luitpold von Bayern, prince-regent of Bayern, dies at 91
1913 Death of Emperor Menelek II of Ethiopia (b. 1844) on December - 12.
1914 Death of Watkins Lewis, black man, lynched in Shrevport La on this day in history.
1920 On this day in history olive Schreiner, South Afr writer (Healing Imagination), dies at 75
1921 Henrietta Leavitt, cepheid period-luminosity relation discover, dies on this day in history.
1923 Raymond Radiguet, French journalist/writer (Ball du Comte), dies at 20 on this day in history.
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