12 September Deaths

September 12 is the 255th day of the year (256th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 110 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Wednesday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Thursday or Friday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Tuesday or Sunday (56).

Deaths

640 – Sak K'uk', Mayan queen
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-Australia 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)
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)
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)

Source: wikipedia