August 12 Deaths |
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| August 12th, 2030 (August 12 2030) | Death | Cleopatra (born in 69 BC) | |
| August 12th, 2007 (August 12 2007) | Death | Merv Griffin, American television host and game show creator (born in 1925) | |
| August 12th, 2007 (August 12 2007) | Death | Mike Wieringo, American comic book artist (born in 1963) | |
| August 12th, 2005 (August 12 2005) | Death | John Loder, co-founder of the anarcho-punk band CRASS (born in 1946) | |
| August 12th, 2004 (August 12 2004) | Death | Sir Godfrey Hounsfield, English electrical engineer and inventor, Nobel laureate (born in 1919) | |
| August 12th, 2004 (August 12 2004) | Death | Peter Woodthorpe, British actor (born in 1931) | |
| August 12th, 2002 (August 12 2002) | Death | Enos Slaughter, American baseball player (born in 1916) | |
| August 12th, 2000 (August 12 2000) | Death | Loretta Young, American actress (born in 1913) | |
| August 12th, 1999 (August 12 1999) | Death | Jean Drapeau, Quebec politician, mayor of Montreal (born in 1916) | |
| August 12th, 1997 (August 12 1997) | Death | Luther Allison, American musician (born in 1939) | |
| August 12th, 1996 (August 12 1996) | Death | Robert Gravel, French Canadian actor and theatrical director (born in 1945) | |
| August 12th, 1996 (August 12 1996) | Death | Mark Gruenwald, American comic book writer and editor (born in 1953) | |
| August 12th, 1992 (August 12 1992) | Death | John Cage, American composer (born in 1912) | John Cage Quotes |
| August 12th, 1990 (August 12 1990) | Death | B. Kliban, American cartoonist (born in 1935) | |
| August 12th, 1990 (August 12 1990) | Death | Dorothy Mackaill, British-born American actress (born in 1903) | |
| August 12th, 1989 (August 12 1989) | Death | William Shockley, American physicist, Nobel laureate (born in 1910) | |
| August 12th, 1989 (August 12 1989) | Death | Samuel Okwaraji, Nigerian footballer (born in 1964) | |
| August 12th, 1988 (August 12 1988) | Death | Jean-Michel Basquiat, Haitian-American artist (born in 1960) | |
| August 12th, 1985 (August 12 1985) | Death | Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer (plane crash) (born in 1941) | |
| August 12th, 1985 (August 12 1985) | Death | Manfred Winkelhock, German race car driver (born in 1951) | |
| August 12th, 1982 (August 12 1982) | Death | Henry Fonda, American actor (born in 1905) | |
| August 12th, 1982 (August 12 1982) | Death | Salvador Sanchez, Mexican boxer (born in 1959) | |
| August 12th, 1982 (August 12 1982) | Death | Varlam Shalamov, Russian writer (born in 1907) | |
| August 12th, 1979 (August 12 1979) | Death | Ernst Boris Chain, German-born biochemist, Nobel laureate (born in 1906) | |
| August 12th, 1973 (August 12 1973) | Death | Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist, Nobel laureate (born in 1881) | Rudolf Hess Quotes |
| August 12th, 1973 (August 12 1973) | Death | Karl Ziegler, German chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (born in 1898) | |
| August 12th, 1968 (August 12 1968) | Death | Esther Forbes, American novelist (born in 1891) | |
| August 12th, 1964 (August 12 1964) | Death | Ian Fleming, English novelist (James Bond) (born in 1908) | |
| August 12th, 1959 (August 12 1959) | Death | Mike O Neill, Irish-born American baseball player (born in 1877) | |
| August 12th, 1955 (August 12 1955) | Death | Thomas Mann, German writer, Nobel laureate (born in 1875) | Thomas Mann Quotes |
| August 12th, 1955 (August 12 1955) | Death | James B. Sumner, American chemist, Nobel laureate (born in 1887) | |
| August 12th, 1952 (August 12 1952) | Death | David Bergelson, Yiddish language writer (born in 1884) | |
| August 12th, 1948 (August 12 1948) | Death | Harry Brearley, English inventor (born in 1871) | |
| August 12th, 1944 (August 12 1944) | Death | Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., brother of President John F. Kennedy (born in 1915) | John F. Kennedy Quotes |
| August 12th, 1943 (August 12 1943) | Death | Bobby Peel, English cricketer (born in 1857) | |
| August 12th, 1935 (August 12 1935) | Death | Friedrich Schottky, German mathematician (born in 1851) | |
| August 12th, 1934 (August 12 1934) | Death | Hendrik Petrus Berlage, Dutch architect (born in 1856) | |
| August 12th, 1928 (August 12 1928) | Death | Leos Janacek, Czech composer (born in 1854) | Leos Janacek Quotes |
| August 12th, 1922 (August 12 1922) | Death | Arthur Griffith, President of Ireland (born in 1871) | |
| August 12th, 1918 (August 12 1918) | Death | Anna Held, Polish-born actress and singer (born in 1872) | |
| August 12th, 1914 (August 12 1914) | Death | John Philip Holland, Irish submarine designer (born in 1840) | |
| August 12th, 1901 (August 12 1901) | Death | Adolf Erik Nordenskiold, Finnish-Swedish explorer (born in 1832) | |
| August 12th, 1900 (August 12 1900) | Death | Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian chess player (born in 1836) | |
| August 12th, 1896 (August 12 1896) | Death | Thomas Chamberlain, officer of the 20th Maine at the Battle of Gettysburg | |
| August 12th, 1891 (August 12 1891) | Death | James Russell Lowell, American poet and essayist (born in 1819) | James Russell Lowell Quotes |
| August 12th, 1865 (August 12 1865) | Death | William Jackson Hooker, English botanist (born in 1785) | |
| August 12th, 1864 (August 12 1864) | Death | Sakuma Shozan, Japanese reformer (born in 1811) | |
| August 12th, 1861 (August 12 1861) | Death | Eliphalet Remington, American inventor, designer of the Remington rifle (born in 1793) | |
| August 12th, 1848 (August 12 1848) | Death | George Stephenson, British locomotive designer (born in 1781) | |
| August 12th, 1827 (August 12 1827) | Death | William Blake, English poet and artist (born in 1757) | William Blake Quotes |
| August 12th, 1822 (August 12 1822) | Death | Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, English politician and statesman (born in 1769) | |
| August 12th, 1810 (August 12 1810) | Death | Etienne Louis Geoffroy, French pharmacist and entomologist (born in 1725) | |
| August 12th, 1809 (August 12 1809) | Death | Mikhail Kamensky, Russian field marshal (born in 1738) | |
| August 12th, 1778 (August 12 1778) | Death | Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, British general and politician (born in 1714) | |
| August 12th, 1689 (August 12 1689) | Death | Pope Innocent XI (born in 1611) | |
| August 12th, 1674 (August 12 1674) | Death | Philippe de Champaigne, French painter (born in 1602) | |
| August 12th, 1648 (August 12 1648) | Death | Ibrahim I, Ottoman Sultan (born in 1615) | |
| August 12th, 1638 (August 12 1638) | Death | Johannes Althusius, German writer (born in 1557) | |
| August 12th, 1633 (August 12 1633) | Death | Jacopo Peri, Italian composer (born in 1561) | |
| August 12th, 1612 (August 12 1612) | Death | Giovanni Gabrieli, Italian composer | |
| August 12th, 1588 (August 12 1588) | Death | Alfonso Ferrabosco (I), Italian composer (born in 1543) | |
| August 12th, 1577 (August 12 1577) | Death | Thomas Smith, English diplomat and scholar (born in 1513) | |
| August 12th, 1512 (August 12 1512) | Death | Alessandro Achillini, Italian philosopher (born in 1463) | Philo Quotes |
| August 12th, 1484 (August 12 1484) | Death | George of Trebizond, Greek philosopher (born in 1395) | Philo Quotes |
| August 12th, 1484 (August 12 1484) | Death | Pope Sixtus IV (born in 1414) | |
| August 12th, 1424 (August 12 1424) | Death | Yongle, Emperor of China (born in 1460) | |
| August 12th, 0875 (August 12 0875) | Death | Louis II Holy Roman Emperor (born in 825) | |
