Deaths August 12 | History by KabAstro

1675 Karl Rabenhaupt, German-Dutch baron of Sucha/army leader, dies at 73
1676 King Philip [Metacomet], leader Wampanoag-indians, shot to death
1689 Innocent XI [Benedetto Odescalchi], Italian, Pope (1676-89), dies at 78
1715 Nahum Tate, Anglo-Irish poet, playwright and poet laureate, dies at 62 or 63
1728 Henricus Zwaardecroon, Dutch Governor-General of Dutch East Indies (1718-25) who introduced coffee crop to Java, dies at 61
1750 Rachel Ruysch, Dutch painter (portrait of sovereign Johan von de Pfalz), dies at 86
1778 Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, British general and politician (b. 1714)
1797 Ignaz Franz Xaver Kürzinger, German violinist, composer, and Kapellmeister, dies at 73
1809 Mikhail Kamensky, Russian field marshal, dies at 71
1810 Etienne Louis Geoffroy, French pharmacist and entomologist, dies at 84
1811 John Francis Edward Acton, French-born English Naval Commander and PM of Naples (remembered for his brutality towards French supporters), dies at 77
1812 Jean-Joseph Rodolphe, Alsatian composer, dies at 81
1822 Robert Stewart, 2nd marguess of Londonderry, commits suicide, dies

William Blake (1757-1827)

English poet and artist (Songs of Innocence & Experience), dies at 69

1830 Franz de Paula Roser, Austrian composer and conductor, dies at 50

George Stephenson (1781-1848)

English engineer known as the "Father of Railways" (Locomotion No. 1, Standard Gauge), dies of pleurisy at 67

1849 Albert Gallatin, Swiss-American politician and diplomat (4th US Secretary of the Treasury1801-14), dies at 88
1857 William Conybeare, English geologist (fossils of plesiosaur dinosaur), dies at 70
1860 Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, later also known as Grand Duchess Anna Feodorovna of Russia, dies at 79
1861 Eliphalet Remington, American firearms manufacturer (Remington Arms Co., L.L.C.), dies at 67
1864 Sakuma Shōzan, Japanese reformer (b. 1811)
1865 William Jackson Hooker, English botanist and director (Kew Gardens), dies at 80
1877 James Drummond, Scottish historical painter, (b. 1816)
1885 Georg Curtius, German classical linguist, dies at 65
1885 Helen Hunt Jackson, American author (Ramona), dies at 54
1891 James Russell Lowell, American poet, critic and diplomat (Biglow Papers), dies at 72
1896 Thomas Chamberlain, officer of the 20th Maine at the Battle of Gettysburg
1900 James Edward Keeler, American astronomer (rings of Saturn), dies at 42
1900 Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian World Chess Champion (1866-94), dies at 64
1901 Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Finnish-Swedish explorer and mineralogist (Vega Expedition), dies at 68
1904 William Renshaw, British tennis player and Wimbledon singles (1881-86, 1889 and with twin brother Ernest doubles champion (1884-86, 1888-89), dies of epileptic convulsions at 43
1911 Jozef Israels, Dutch landscape painter, dies at 87
1911 Petrus H Hugenholtz, Dutch reformist vicar (Levenslicht), dies at 79

John Philip Holland (1840-1914)

Irish engineer and father of the modern submarine, dies at 74

1918 Anna Held, Polish-born French actress and singer (A Parisian Model), dies of cancer at 46
1920 Louisa Lawson, Australian writer, publisher (The Dawn) and suffragist who founded The Dawn Club, dies at 72

Arthur Griffith (1871-1922)

Irish writer and politician who founded Sinn Féin (President of Ireland 1922), dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 51

Leoš Janáček (1854-1928)

Czech composer, dies at 74

1934 Hendrik P. Berlage, Dutch architect (Stock exchange Amsterdam), dies at 78
1935 Friedrich Schottky, German mathematician (Schottky's theorem), dies at 84
1938 Ludwig Borchardt, German Egyptologist, dies at 74
1941 Bobby Peel, English cricket all-rounder (20 Tests, 3 x 50, 101 wickets, BB 7/31; Yorkshire CCC), dies at 84
1943 Georges Martin Witkowski, composer, dies at 76
1944 Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., brother of President John F. Kennedy, killed in action in plane explosion over Blythburgh, East Suffolk, England at 29
1948 Harry Brearley, English inventor (b. 1871)
1952 David Bergelson, Yiddish language writer (b. 1884)
1955 James B. Sumner, American chemist (Nobel 1946 - discovered that enzymes can be crystallized), dies at 67

Thomas Mann (1875-1955)

German novelist (Magic Mountain-Nobel 1929), dies at 80

1959 Mike O'Neill, Irish-American baseball player, dies at 81 (b. 1877)
1964 Ian Fleming, English author (James Bond novels), dies at 56
1967 (William) "Buster" Bailey, American jazz clarinetist (WC Handy; King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band; Fletcher Henderson; Noble Sissle; John Kirby), and bandleader, dies of a heart attack at 65
1968 Esther Forbes, American novelist (Johnny Tremain), dies at 76
1968 Pieter Oud, Dutch politician and Mayor of Rotterdam (1945-52), dies at 81
1969 Dick Ryan, American actor (For Heaven's Sake, Born to be Bad), dies after long illness at 72
1970 Glenn Hartranft, American athlete (discus WR 47.89m 1925; Olympic silver shot putt 1924), dies at 68

Karl Ziegler (1898-1973)

German chemist and Nobel Laureate (polymers), dies at 74

1973 Perry Botkin, American jazz and session guitarist, banjo player, composer, and musical director (Bing Crosby), dies at 66
1973 Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1949), dies of heart failure at 92
1976 Tom Driberg, English journalist, politician and possible spy, dies at 71
1979 Ernst Chain, German-British chemist and bacteriologist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1945 - for his work on penicillin), dies at 73
1982 Helvi Leiviskä, Finnish composer, dies at 80

Henry Fonda (1905-1982)

American stage and screen actor (Mr. Roberts; 12 Angry Men; On Golden Pond), dies of heart disease at 77

1982 Salvador Sánchez, Mexican boxer (WBC, lineal featherweight title 1980-82), dies in a traffic accident at 23
1982 Varlam Shalamov, Russian writer (b. 1907)
1983 (Henry) Giff Vivian, New Zealand cricket batsman (7 Tests @ 42.1, top score 100), dies at 70
1985 Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer (Sukiyaki), and actor, dies in JAL 123 crash at 43
1985 Manfred Winkelhock, German race car driver (b. 1951)
1985 Marcel Mihalovici, French composer, dies at 86
1988 Jean-Michel Basquiat, American artist (Gray, SAMO), dies of a drug overdose at 27
1989 Samuel Okwaraji, Nigerian footballer (b. 1964)

William Shockley (1910-1989)

American physicist who helped invent the transistor (1956 Nobel), who was also known for his racist eugenics views, dies of prostate cancer at 79

1990 B. Kliban, American cartoonist known for his drawings of cats, usually with horrible puns (Love to Eat Them Mousies), dies at 55
1990 Dorothy Mackaill, British-American actress (Love Affair), dies of kidney failure at 87
1990 Piotr Perkowski, Polish composer, dies at 89
1990 Sara Seegar [Stone], actor (Mystery of Room 13), dies at 76
1991 Irene Campbell, British actress/dancer (Wicker Man, St Justice), dies
1992 John Cage, American composer (4′33″; Imaginary Landscape No 1/O'O), dies of a stroke at 79
1992 Mazoon al-Mashani, 2nd wife of Sultan Said bin Taimur and Queen Mother of Oman, dies at about 72
1992 Patricia Harmsworth, Lady Rothermere [Bubbles], English socialite and actress, dies at 59
1993 Jerome Thor, American actor (Riot in Juvenile Prison), dies of cardiac at 69
1994 Gene Cherico, American jazz bassist, dies at 59
1994 Manfred Salzgeber, German film distributor/publicist, dies at about 51
1995 Frank Cvitanovich, Canadian filmmaker, dies at 68
1996 Anthony Parsons, British diplomat (British Ambassador to Iran during Iranian Revolution), dies at 73
1996 Victor Ambartsumian, Russian astronomer (Stalin Prize 1946, 50), dies at 87
1997 Jack Delano [Jacob Ovcharov], Russian-born American composer and photographer, dies at 83
1997 Luther Allison, American blues and session guitarist (Howlin' Wolf; James Cotton), dies of lung and brain cancer at 57
1999 Jean Drapeau, Canadian politician (Mayor of Montreal 1954-57, 1960-86), dies at 83
1999 John Rigby Hale, British linguist and historian, dies at 75

Loretta Young (1913-2000)

American actress (Farmer's Daughter, Stranger), dies of ovarian cancer at 87

2000 Patrick Peter Sacco, American composer, dies at 71

Enos Slaughter (1916-2002)

American Baseball HOF right fielder (10 × MLB All-Star; World Series 1942, 46, 56, 58; St. Louis Cardinals), dies from non-Hodgkin lymphoma at 86

2004 George Yardley III, American Basketball Hall of Fame forward (6 × NBA All-Star 1955–60; first player to score 2,000 points in a season; Fort Wayne Pistons), dies of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at 75
2004 Godfrey Hounsfield, English electrical engineer and inventor (CT scan, 1979 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine), dies at 84 [1]
2004 Peter Woodthorpe, British actor (b. 1931)
2005 John Loder, co-founder of the anarcho-punk band CRASS (b. 1946)
2005 Lakshman Kadirgamar, Sri Lankan politician (Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sri Lanka), dies at 73
2007 Elizabeth Murray, American abstract expressionist painter, and printmaker known for her use of shaped canvases, dies of lung cancer at 66
2007 Ian McGeoch, Scottish Vice-Admiral with Royal Navy (submarine HMS Splendid WWII), dies at 93
2007 Merv Griffin, American television host and game show creator, dies at 82
2007 Mike Wieringo, American comic book artist who worked on "The Flash" and "Spiderman", dies of an aortic dissection at 44
2008 (June) "Christie" Allen, British-Australian pop singer (Goosebumps), dies of pancreatic cancer at 54
2008 Donald Erb, American composer known for large orchestral works, dies at 81
2009 Les Paul [Polsfuss], American guitarist, (How High The Moon), songwriter and inventor (solid-body electric guitar), dies at 94
2009 Lord John Gregson, British Labour politician and Baron, dies from injuries following a fall at 85
2010 Guido de Marco, 6th president of Malta, 45th President of the United Nations General Assembly (b. 1931)
2010 Isaac Bonewits, founder of U.S. Druid organization Ar Ndraiocht Fein (b. 1949)
2010 Paul Ryan Rudd, American stage and screen actor, dies at 70
2010 Richie Hayward, American drummer (Little Feat), dies of liver cancer at 64
2011 Robert Robinson, British radio and television presenter, and game show host (Ask the Family; Call My Bluff), dies at 83
2012 Mendelis Bašs, Latvian composer, conductor, and pedagogue, dies at 93
2013 Friso, Prince of Orange-Nassau, second son of Queen Beatrix, dies in a coma, a year and a half after being buried in an avalanche, at 44

Lauren Bacall (1924-2014)

American actress and singer named the 20th greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema (Dark Passage, Key Largo), dies of a stroke at 89

2015 John Scott, English organist and choirmaster, dies at 59
2015 Per Hjort Albertsen, Norwegian organist, composer, and educator, dies at 96
2015 Stephen Lewis, British stage and screen comic actor, screenwriter and playwright (In The Buses - "Blakey"; Last of the Summer Wine - "Smiler"), dies at 88
2020 Bill Yeoman, American College Football Hall of Fame coach (University of Houston 1962-86; record 160–108–8), dies from kidney failure and pneumonia at 92
2020 Don Edmunds, American auto racer and car builder (National Sprint Car HOF; built Evel Knievel's Snake River Canyon Sky cycle), dies at 89
2020 Howard Mudd, American football OL (Pro Bowl 1966–68; All-Pro 1967-68; SF 49ers, Chicago Bears) and coach (Super Bowl 2006; OL Indianapolis Colts), dies after a motorcycle accident at 78
2020 Marvin Creamer, American mariner, 1st recorded person to sail around the world without navigational instruments, dies at 104
2020 Melvin F. Stute, American thoroughbred racehorse trainer (Preakness Stakes 1986, Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies 1986, Breeders' Cup Sprint 1987), dies at 93
2020 Pavol Biroš, Slovak soccer defender (9 caps, Czechoslovakia; Slavia Prague), dies from heart disease at 67
2021 Emilio Flores Márquez "Don Millo", Puerto Rican sugar cane worker and centenarian, (world's oldest man in 2021), dies at 113 [1]
2021 Roger Harring, American College Football Hall of Fame coach (Uni of Wisconsin–La Crosse 1969–99, record 261–75–7), dies at 88
2021 Una Stubbs, English actress (Till Death Us Do Part; Sherlock - "Mrs. Hudson"), dies at 84

Anne Heche (1969-2022)

American actress (Donnie Brasco; Juror; Volcano), dies from injuries one week after a fiery single vehicle car crash at 53

2022 José Luis Pérez-Payá, Spanish soccer forward (2 caps; Atlético Madrid, Real Madrid), dies at 94
2022 Ricardo Perdomo, Uruguayan soccer midfielder (6 caps; Club Nacional de Football, Rayo Vallecano, Unión Española) and coach (Miramar Misiones, Plaza Colonia), dies at 62
2022 Viacheslav Semenov, Ukrainian soccer midfielder (11 caps USSR; FC Zorya Luhansk, FC Dynamo Kyiv), dies at 74
2022 Wolfgang Petersen, German director, screenwriter and producer (Das Boot; Air Force One; The Perfect Storm), dies of pancreatic cancer at 81
2023 Atanas Golomeev, Bulgarian basketball center (FIBA EuroBasket Top Scorer 1973 Academic Sofia, 1975 Levski Sofia; FIBA European Selection 1971, 73, 75, 77), dies at 76
2023 Jacques Rougerie, French rugby union front rower (1 Test; AS Montferrand), dies at 78
2023 Joggie Viljoen, South African rugby union scrum half (6 Tests; Griqualand West RU, Eastern Province RU), dies at 78