Deaths on 12 April
2000s
Pilita Corrales
2025
Filipina singer (1939–2025)
Roberto Cavalli
2024
Italian fashion designer and inventor (1940–2024)
Eleanor Coppola
2024
American documentary filmmaker (1936–2024)
Robert MacNeil
2024
Canadian-American journalist (1931–2024)
Gilbert Gottfried
2022
American comedian (1955–2022)
Joseph Siravo
2021
American actor (1955–2021)
Tarvaris Jackson
2020
American football player (1983–2020)
Charlie Murphy (actor)
2017
American comedian and actor (1959–2017)
Mohammad Al Gaz
2016
Emirati financier and developer
Anne Jackson
2016
American actress (1925–2016)
Paulo Brossard
2015
Brazilian politician
Patrice Dominguez
2015
French former tennis player (1950–2015)
List of Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipients (E)
2015
André Mba Obame
2015
Gabonese politician
Pierre Autin-Grenier
2014
French writer
Pierre-Henri Menthéour
2014
French cyclist (1960–2014)
Maurício Alves
2014
Brazilian footballer
Hal R. Smith
2014
American baseball player (1931–2014)
Billy Standridge
2014
American stock car racing driver
Robert Byrne (chess player)
2013
American chess grandmaster (1928–2013)
Johnny du Plooy
2013
South African boxer
Michael France
2013
American screenwriter
Brennan Manning
2013
American author, laicized priest, and public speaker (1934 – 2013)
Annamária Szalai
2013
Ya'akov Yosef
2013
Rabbi and Israeli politician
Mohit Chattopadhyay
2012
Indian Bengali playwright and poet (1934–2012)
Rodgers Grant
2012
American jazz musician (1936–2012)
Karim Fakhrawi
2011
Bahraini publisher (1960s–2011)
Michel Chartrand
2010
Canadian trade union leader (1916–2010)
Werner Schroeter
2010
German film director and screenwriter (1945–2010)
Marilyn Chambers
2009
American pornographic actress (1952–2009)
Cecilia Colledge
2008
British figure skater (1920–2008)
Patrick Hillery
2008
President of Ireland from 1976 to 1990
Jerry Zucker (businessman)
2008
Israeli-American businessman (1949–2008)
Kevin Crease
2007
South Australian television presenter and news presenter
William Sloane Coffin
2006
American clergyman and peace activist (1924–2006)
Moran Campbell
2004
Inventor of Venturi Mask
George Shevelov
2002
Ukrainian-American linguist (1908–2002)
Harvey Ball
2001
American commercial artist (1921–2001)
1900s
Boxcar Willie
1999
American singer (1931-1999)
Robert Ford (Canadian diplomat)
1998
Canadian poet, translator and diplomat (1915–1998)
George Wald
1997
Nobel Prize-winning American Scientist and Activist
Ilario Bandini
1992
Racecar driver and designer and businessperson (1911–1992)
Abbie Hoffman
1989
American activist (1936–1989)
Sugar Ray Robinson
1989
American boxer (1921–1989)
Colette Deréal
1988
French actress & singer (1927–1988)
Alan Paton
1988
South African author (1903–1988)
Valentin Kataev
1986
Soviet writer and editor (1897–1986)
Edwin T. Layton
1984
US Navy intelligence officer (1903–1984)
Jørgen Juve
1983
Norwegian footballer, jurist, journalist, and writer
Carl Morton
1983
American baseball player (1944–1983)
Prince Yasuhiko Asaka
1981
Japanese prince and general (1887–1981)
Joe Louis
1981
American boxer (1914–1981)
William Tolbert
1980
President of Liberia from 1971 to 1980
Philip K. Wrigley
1977
American businessman (1894–1977)
Christos Kakkalos
1976
Greek mountain climber and guide
Josephine Baker
1975
American and French entertainer (1906–1975)
Arthur Freed
1973
American film producer (1894–1973)
Ed Lafitte
1971
American baseball player (1886–1971)
Heinrich Nordhoff
1968
German engineer who led the rebuilding of Volkswagen (VW) after World War II
Sydney Allard
1966
British founder of the Allard car company & rally driver (1910-1966)
Ron Flockhart (racing driver)
1962
British racing driver (1923–1962)
Lionel Logue
1953
Australian speech and language therapist (1880–1953)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
1945
President of the United States from 1933 to 1945
Viktor Puskar
1943
Estonian military commander
Feodor Chaliapin
1938
Russian opera singer (1873–1938)
Abdülhak Hâmid Tarhan
1937
Turkish playwright, poet and politician (1852–1937)
Adelbert Ames
1933
Union Army general and politician (1835–1933)
Vlasis Gavriilidis
1920
Clara Barton
1912
American Civil War nurse and founder of the American Red Cross (1821–1912)
Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya
1906
Alfred Cornu
1902
French physicist (1841–1902)
1800s
Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau
1898
First Canadian Catholic cardinal
William Crowther (Australian politician)
1885
Tasmanian politician (1817–1885)
Richard Taylor (Confederate general)
1879
American politician and Confederate general of the Civil War (1826-1879)
William M. Tweed
1878
American politician (1823–1878)
Nikolaos Mantzaros
1872
Greek-Italian composer
Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood
1866
English politician
Adoniram Judson
1850
American missionary (1788–1850)
Charles Messier
1817
18th- and 19th-century French astronomer
Charles Burney
1814
English music historian (1726–1814)
Before 1800
Johann Kaspar Basselet von La Rosée
1795
Charles-Antoine Campion
1788
French-Italian composer
Pietro Metastasio
1782
Italian poet and librettist (1698–1782)
William Kent
1748
English architect and designer (c. 1685–1748)
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
1704
French bishop and theologian (1627–1704)
Ambrose Dixon
1687
American Quaker pioneer
Nicola Amati
1684
Italian master luthier (1596–1684)
Richard Bennett (Virginia politician)
1675
Governor of the Virginia Colony (1652-1655)
Joanna of Castile
1555
Queen of Castile (1504–1555) and Aragon (1516–1555)
Claude, Duke of Guise
1550
French aristocrat, 1st Duke of Giuse (1496–1550)
Joanna la Beltraneja
1530
Queen of Portugal and claimant to the Castilian throne (1462–1530)
Leonhard of Gorizia
1500
Henry Chichele
1443
Archbishop of Canterbury from 1414 to 1443
Margaret of Bourbon, Queen of Navarre
1256
Queen of Navarre from 1234 to 1253
Karl Sverkersson
1167
King of Sweden from c. 1161 to 1167
Vladislaus I, Duke of Bohemia
1125
c. 1065 – 1125; Duke of Bohemia 1109–1117 and 1120–1125
Eudokia Baïana
901
Byzantine empress from 900 to 901
Maximianus of Constantinople
434
Archbishop of Constantinople from 431 to 434
Pope Julius I
352
Head of the Catholic Church from 337 to 352
Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (son of Pompey)
-45
Roman senator and general