Deaths on 12 August
2000s
Kim Kahana
2024
American actor and stunt performer (1929–2024)
Una Stubbs
2021
British actress, television personality, and dancer (1937–2021)
Bill Yeoman
2020
American football player and coach (1927–2020)
DJ Arafat
2019
Ivorian musician, singer and record producer (1986–2019)
Bryan Murray (ice hockey)
2017
Canadian professional ice hockey executive and coach
Juan Pedro de Miguel
2016
Spanish handball player (1958-2016)
Jaakko Hintikka
2015
Finnish and American philosopher and logician (1929–2015)
Stephen Lewis (actor)
2015
English actor and writer (1926–2015)
Meshulim Feish Lowy
2015
Grand Rebbe of the Tosh hasidic dynasty
John Scott (organist)
2015
English organist and choirmaster (1956–2015)
Lauren Bacall
2014
American actress (1924–2014)
Futatsuryū Jun'ichi
2014
Japanese sumo wrestler
Kongō Masahiro
2014
Japanese sumo wrestler (1948–2014)
Tereza de Arriaga
2013
Portuguese artist (1915–2013)
Hans-Ekkehard Bob
2013
German World War II fighter pilot (1917–2013)
Pauline Maier
2013
American historian (1938–2013)
David McLetchie
2013
Scottish Conservative politician (1952–2013)
Vasily Peskov
2013
Russian journalist (1930–2013)
Jimmy Carr (American football)
2012
American football player and coach (1933–2012)
Jerry Grant
2012
American racing driver
Joe Kubert
2012
Polish-American comic book artist (1926–2012)
Édgar Morales Pérez
2012
Mexican mayor
Alf Morris
2012
British Labour Co-operative politician and disability rights campaigner
Robert Robinson (broadcaster)
2011
English radio and television presenter (1927–2011)
Isaac Bonewits
2010
American Neopagan leader and writer (1949–2012)
Guido de Marco
2010
President of Malta from 1999 to 2004
Richie Hayward
2010
American musician
André Kim
2010
South Korean fashion designer (1935–2010)
Les Paul
2009
American guitarist, songwriter and inventor (1915–2009)
Christie Allen
2008
English-born Australian singer
Helge Hagerup
2008
Norwegian playwright, poet and novelist
Merv Griffin
2007
American talk show host (1925–2007)
Mike Wieringo
2007
American comic book artist (1963–2007)
Victoria Gray Adams
2006
American civil rights activist (1926–2006)
John Loder (sound engineer)
2005
English engineer and record producer
Godfrey Hounsfield
2004
British electrical engineer (1919–2004)
Enos Slaughter
2002
American baseball player (1916–2002)
Gennady Lyachin
2000
Russian naval officer
Loretta Young
2000
American actress (1913–2000)
1900s
Jean Drapeau
1999
Quebec politician and mayor of Montreal (1916-1999)
Jack Delano
1997
American photographer, composer (1914–1997)
Viktor Ambartsumian
1996
Soviet Armenian astrophysicist (1908–1996)
Mark Gruenwald
1996
American comic book writer (1953–1996)
John Cage
1992
American avant-garde composer (1912–1992)
Dorothy Mackaill
1990
British-American actress (1903–1990)
Aimo Koivunen
1989
Finnish soldier (1917–1989)
William Shockley
1989
American solid-state physicist (1910–1989)
Jean-Michel Basquiat
1988
American artist (1960–1988)
Evaline Ness
1986
American illustrator and writer (1911–1986)
Kyu Sakamoto
1985
Japanese singer and actor (1941–1985)
Manfred Winkelhock
1985
German racing driver (1951–1985)
Ladi Kwali
1984
Nigerian potter (c. 1925–1984)
Theodor Burchardi
1983
German admiral (1892–1983)
Henry Fonda
1982
American actor (1905–1982)
Salvador Sánchez
1982
Mexican boxer
Ernst Chain
1979
German-born British biochemist (1906–1979)
John Williams (motorcyclist)
1978
British motorcycle racer
Tom Driberg
1976
English journalist, politician and churchman (1905–1976)
Walter Rudolf Hess
1973
Swiss physiologist (1881–1973)
Karl Ziegler
1973
German chemist (1898–1973)
Esther Forbes
1967
American novelist (1891–1967)
Artur Alliksaar
1966
Estonian poet
Ian Fleming
1964
English author (1908–1964)
Mike O'Neill (baseball)
1959
Irish baseball player (1877–1959)
Thomas Mann
1955
German novelist (1875–1955)
James B. Sumner
1955
American chemist
David Bergelson
1952
Yiddish-language playwright and writer (1884–1952)
Joseph P. Kennedy Jr.
1944
American naval aviator (1915–1944)
Jacques Pellegrin
1944
French zoologist (1873–1944)
Vittorio Sella
1943
Italian photographer and mountaineer (1859–1943)
Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon
1941
British politician and colonial governor (1866–1941)
Bobby Peel
1941
English cricketer (1857–1941)
Nikolai Triik
1940
Estonian artist
Friedrich Schottky
1935
German mathematician
H. P. Berlage
1934
Dutch architect (1856–1934)
Leoš Janáček
1928
Czech composer (1854–1928)
Sándor Bródy (writer)
1924
Hungarian author and journalist (1863–1924)
Arthur Griffith
1922
Irish politician and writer, founder of Sinn Féin (1871–1922)
Pyotr Boborykin
1921
Russian writer and journalist (1836–1921)
William Thompson (archer)
1918
American archer (1848–1918)
John Philip Holland
1914
Irish-American marine engineer (1841–1914)
William Renshaw
1904
British tennis player
Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld
1901
Finland-Swedish baron, geologist and explorer (1832–1901)
Wilhelm Steinitz
1900
Austrian-American chess player (1836–1900)
1800s
Thomas Chamberlain (soldier)
1896
Union Army officer (1841–1896)
James Russell Lowell
1891
American poet and diplomat (1819–1891)
William Jackson Hooker
1865
English botanist (1785–1865)
Sakuma Shōzan
1864
Japanese politician and scholar
Eliphalet Remington
1861
American engineer (1793–1861)
Albert Gallatin
1849
American politician, diplomat, and scholar (1761–1849)
George Stephenson
1848
English mechanical and civil engineer (1781–1848)
Charles Sapinaud de La Rairie
1829
French royalist military officer (1760–1829)
William Blake
1827
English poet and artist (1757–1827)
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh
1822
British statesman (1769–1822)
Étienne Louis Geoffroy
1810
French entomologist and pharmacist
Mikhail Kamensky
1809
Russian field marshal (1738–1809)
Before 1800
Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven
1778
English peer (1714–1778)
Pope Innocent XI
1689
Head of the Catholic Church from 1676 to 1689
Philippe de Champaigne
1674
French painter (1602–1674)
Johannes Althusius
1638
German-Dutch jurist and political philosopher
Giovanni Gabrieli
1612
Italian composer (c. 1554/1557–1612)
Abul Fazl
1602
Mughal grand vizier from 1579 to 1602
Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder
1588
Italian composer (1543–1588)
Thomas Smith (diplomat)
1577
16th-century English scholar and diplomat (1513–1577)
Francisco de Vitoria
1546
Spanish philosopher (c. 1483–1546)
Pope Sixtus IV
1484
Head of the Catholic Church from 1471 to 1484
Yongle Emperor
1424
Emperor of China from 1402 to 1424
Dmitry of Bryansk
1399
Lithuanian prince (died 1399)
Prince Moriyoshi
1335
Military ruler of Japan in 1333
Rudolf I, Duke of Bavaria
1319
Duke of Upper Bavaria
Guy de Beauchamp, 10th Earl of Warwick
1315
Mediaeval English noble
Charles Martel of Anjou
1295
Titular King of Hungary and Croatia
Vladislaus III, Duke of Bohemia
1222
Duke of Bohemia (c. 1160 – 1222)
Li Jing (Southern Tang)
961
Emperor of Southern Tang from 943 to 961
Li Gu (Later Zhou)
960
Louis II of Italy
875
Ruler of the Carolingian Empire from 844 to 875
Jænberht
792
Archbishop of Canterbury from 765 to 792, Christian saint
Cleopatra
-30
Pharaoh of Egypt from 51 to 30 BC