12 September Deaths

September 12 is the 255th day of the year (256th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.

Deaths

640 – Sak K'uk', Mayan queen
973 – Nefingus, bishop of Angers
1185 – Andronikos I Komnenos, Byzantine emperor (b. 1118)
1213 – Peter II of Aragon (b. 1174)
1362 – Pope Innocent VI (b. 1295)
1368 – Blanche of Lancaster (b. 1345/1347)
1439 – Sidi El Houari, Algerian imam (b. 1350)
1500 – Albert III, Duke of Saxony (b. 1443)
1544 – Clément Marot, French poet (b. 1496)
1612 – Vasili IV of Russia (b. 1552)
1642 – Henri Coiffier de Ruzé, Marquis of Cinq-Mars, French conspirator (b. 1620)
1660 – Jacob Cats, Dutch poet, jurist, and politician (b. 1577)
1665 – Jean Bolland, Belgian priest and hagiographer (b. 1596)
1672 – Tanneguy Le Fèvre, French scholar and author (b. 1615)
1674 – Nicolaes Tulp, Dutch anatomist and politician (b. 1593)
1683 – Afonso VI of Portugal (b. 1643)
1712 – Jan van der Heyden, Dutch painter and illustrator (b. 1637)
1764 – Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer and theorist (b. 1683)
1779 – Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire (b. 1711)
1810 – Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet, English banker and politician (b. 1740)
1814 – Robert Ross, Irish general (b. 1766)
1819 – Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Prussian general (b. 1742)
1836 – Christian Dietrich Grabbe, German playwright (b. 1801)
1869 – Peter Mark Roget, English physician, theologian, and lexicographer (b. 1779)
1870 – Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American journalist, explorer, and author (b. 1836)
1874 – François Guizot, French historian and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of France (b. 1787)
1903 – Duncan Gillies, Scottish-Australian businessman and politician, 14th Premier of Victoria (b. 1834)
1907 – Ilia Chavchavadze, Georgian poet, journalist, and lawyer (b. 1837)
1912 – Pierre-Hector Coullié, French cardinal (b. 1829)
1918 – George Reid, Australian accountant and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1845)
1919 – Leonid Andreyev, Russian author and playwright (b. 1871)
1923 – Jules Violle, French physicist and academic (b. 1841)
1927 – Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer (b. 1847)
1942 – Valentine Baker, Welsh co-founder of the Martin-Baker Aircraft Company (b. 1888)
1945 – Hajime Sugiyama, Japanese field marshal and politician, 44th Japanese Minister of War (b. 1880)
1949 – Erik Adolf von Willebrand, Finnish physician (b. 1870)
1953 – James Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn, English politician, Governor of Northern Ireland (b. 1869)
1953 – Hugo Schmeisser, German engineer (b. 1884)
1953 – Lewis Stone, American actor (b. 1879)
1956 – Sándor Festetics, Hungarian politician, Hungarian Minister of War (b. 1882)
1961 – Carl Hermann, German physicist and academic (b. 1898)
1962 – Spot Poles, American baseball player and soldier (b. 1887)
1962 – Rangeya Raghav, Indian author and playwright (b. 1923)
1967 – Vladimir Bartol, Italian-Slovene author and playwright (b. 1903)
1968 – Tommy Armour, Scottish-American golfer and journalist (b. 1894)
1971 – Walter Egan, American golfer (b. 1881)
1972 – William Boyd, American actor and producer (b. 1895)
1977 – Steve Biko, South African activist (b. 1946)
1977 – Les Haylen, Australian journalist and politician (b. 1898)
1977 – Robert Lowell, American poet (b. 1917)
1978 – William Hudson, New Zealand-Australian engineer (b. 1896)
1981 – Eugenio Montale, Italian poet, essayist and translator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896)
1982 – Federico Moreno Torroba, Spanish composer and conductor (b. 1891)
1986 – Jacques Henri Lartigue, French painter and photographer (b. 1894)
1986 – Charlotte Wolff, German-English psychotherapist and physician (b. 1897)
1987 – John Qualen, Canadian-American actor (b. 1899)
1990 – Athene Seyler, English actress (b. 1889)
1991 – Bruce Matthews, Canadian general and businessman (b. 1909)
1992 – Anthony Perkins, American actor, singer, and director (b. 1932)
1993 – Raymond Burr, Canadian-American actor and director (b. 1917)
1994 – Tom Ewell, American actor (b. 1909)
1994 – Boris Yegorov, Russian physician and astronaut (b. 1937)
1995 – Jeremy Brett, English actor (b. 1933)
1995 – Yasutomo Nagai, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1965)
1996 – Ernesto Geisel, Brazilian general and politician, 29th President of Brazil (b. 1907)
1997 – Judith Merril, American-Canadian science fiction writer, editor and political activist (b. 1923)
1999 – Bill Quackenbush, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1922)
2000 – Stanley Turrentine, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1934)
2003 – Johnny Cash, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (b. 1932)
2005 – Serge Lang, French-American mathematician, author and academic (b. 1927)
2007 – Bobby Byrd, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1934)
2008 – Bob Quinn, Australian footballer and coach (b. 1915)
2008 – David Foster Wallace, American novelist, short story writer, and essayist (b. 1962)
2009 – Norman Borlaug, American agronomist and humanitarian, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)
2009 – Jack Kramer, American tennis player and sportscaster (b. 1921)
2009 – Willy Ronis, French photographer and author (b. 1910)
2010 – Claude Chabrol, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1930)
2010 – Giulio Zignoli, Italian footballer (b. 1946)
2011 – Alexander Galimov, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1985)
2012 – Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, Russian poet and author (b. 1946)
2012 – Jon Finlayson, Australian actor and screenwriter (b. 1938)
2012 – Derek Jameson, English journalist and broadcaster (b. 1929)
2012 – Tom Sims, American skateboarder and snowboarder, founded Sims Snowboards (b. 1950)
2013 – Ray Dolby, American engineer and businessman, founded Dolby Laboratories (b. 1933)
2013 – Warren Giese, American football player, coach, and politician (b. 1924)
2013 – Erich Loest, German author and screenwriter (b. 1926)
2013 – Candace Pert, American neuroscientist and pharmacologist (b. 1946)
2014 – Atef Ebeid, Egyptian academic and politician, 47th Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1932)
2014 – John Gustafson, English singer-songwriter and bass player (b. 1942)
2014 – Ian Paisley, Northern Irish evangelical pastor (Free Presbyterian Church) and politician, 2nd First Minister of Northern Ireland (b. 1926)
2014 – Joe Sample, American pianist and composer (b. 1939)
2014 – Hugh Royer, Jr., American golfer (b. 1936)
2015 – Claudia Card, American philosopher and academic (b. 1940)
2015 – Frank D. Gilroy, American playwright and screenwriter (b. 1925)
2015 – Al Monchak, American baseball player and coach (b. 1917)
2015 – Aronda Nyakairima, Ugandan general and politician (b. 1959)
2017 – Allan MacEachen, Canadian economist and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1921)
2017 – Edith Windsor, American LGBT rights activist and technology manager at IBM (b. 1929)
2018 – Shen Chun-shan, Taiwanese academic (b. 1932)[12]
2019 – ʻAkilisi Pōhiva, Tongan politician and activist, Prime Minister of Tonga (b. 1941)

Source: wikipedia