Famous Deaths Happened In December - 12
Friday, 11 July 2025
0884 On this day in history carloman, co-king of France (879, 882-884), dies
1112 On December - 12 tancred, monarch of Galilea/Edessa/Antioch, dies
1204 On this day in history maimonides, [Moses Ben Maimon], Span/Egyptian rabbi, dies at 69
1212 On December - 12 death of geoffrey, Archbishop of York
1263 Hakon IV, Gamli, King of Norway (1217-63), dies on this day in history.
1574 Death of Selim II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1524) on this day in history.
1586 Death of Stefan Batory, King of Poland (b. 1533) on December - 12.
1600 John Craig, Scottish church reformer/James VI's court vicar, dies on this day in history.
1677 On this day in history jacob Binckes/Benckes, Dutch admiral (Chatham), dies in battle
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 December - 12.
1766 Death of Johann Christoph Gottsched, German writer (b. 1700) on December - 12.
1772 On December - 12 johann Gottfried Seyfert, composer, dies at 41
1777 On this day in history albrecht von Haller, Swiss physician/biologist/author, dies at 69
1788 Joseph Gibbs, composer, dies at 88 on December - 12.
1789 On this day in history death of john Ponsonby, Irish politician (b. 1713)
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 On this day in history death of emperor Tekle Giyorgis I of Ethiopia, (b. about 1751)
1836 Giuseppe Farinelli, composer, dies at 67 on December - 12.
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 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 On this day in history 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 December - 12.
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 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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