Famous Deaths Happened In December - 12
Wednesday, 19 February 2025
0884 On this day in history carloman, co-king of France (879, 882-884), dies
1112 On this day in history tancred, monarch of Galilea/Edessa/Antioch, dies
1204 Maimonides, [Moses Ben Maimon], Span/Egyptian rabbi, dies at 69 on December - 12.
1212 Death of Geoffrey, Archbishop of York on this day in history.
1263 Hakon IV, Gamli, King of Norway (1217-63), dies on this day in history.
1574 On this day in history death of selim II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1524)
1586 On this day in history death of stefan Batory, King of Poland (b. 1533)
1600 On December - 12 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 Death of John Pell, English mathematician (b. 1610) on this day in history.
1751 Death of Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, English statesman and philosopher (b. 1678) on December - 12.
1754 Death of Wu Jingzi, Chinese writer (b. 1701) on this day in history.
1766 On December - 12 death of johann Christoph Gottsched, German writer (b. 1700)
1772 On this day in history johann Gottfried Seyfert, composer, dies at 41
1777 On December - 12 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 Death of Mikhail Shcherbatov, Russian philosopher and writer (b. 1733) on December - 12.
1812 On this day in history john Malchair, composer, dies at 82
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 December - 12.
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 On December - 12 jose M de Alencar, Brazilian writer/minister of Justice, dies at 48
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 this day in history luitpold von Bayern, prince-regent of Bayern, dies at 91
1913 On December - 12 death of emperor Menelek II of Ethiopia (b. 1844)
1914 On December - 12 death of watkins Lewis, black man, lynched in Shrevport La
1920 Olive Schreiner, South Afr writer (Healing Imagination), dies at 75 on December - 12.
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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