Deaths on 12 October
2000s
Jackie Burch
2025
American casting director (1951–2025)
Jackmaster
2024
Scottish DJ and record producer (1986–2024)
Ka (rapper)
2024
American rapper (1972–2024)
Lilly Ledbetter
2024
American activist (1938–2024)
Tito Mboweni
2024
South African politician (1959–2024)
Alvin Rakoff
2024
Canadian film and television director (1927–2024)
Alex Salmond
2024
First Minister of Scotland from 2007 to 2014
Baba Siddique
2024
Indian politician (1958–2024)
Luis Garavito
2023
Colombian serial killer and sex offender (1957–2023)
Conchata Ferrell
2020
American actress (1943–2020)
Roberta McCain
2020
American political matriarch (1912–2020)
Margarita D'Amico
2017
Venezuelan journalist
Abdallah Kigoda
2015
Tanzanian politician
Joan Leslie
2015
American actress (1925–2015)
Ali Mazrui
2014
Kenyan academic (1933–2014)
Graham Miles
2014
English snooker player (1941–2014)
Roberto Telch
2014
Argentine footballer
George Herbig
2013
American astronomer (1920–2013)
Oscar Hijuelos
2013
American novelist
Hans Wilhelm Longva
2013
Norwegian diplomat
Malcolm Renfrew
2013
James Elliott Coyne
2012
2nd governor of the Bank of Canada
Norm Grabowski
2012
American hot rod builder and actor (1933–2012)
Sukhdev Singh Kang
2012
Indian judge and politician (1931–2012)
Torkom Manoogian
2012
Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem
Erik Moseholm
2012
Břetislav Pojar
2012
Czech puppeteer, animator and director
Patricia Breslin
2011
American actress and philanthropist (1926–2011)
Dennis Ritchie
2011
American computer scientist known for Unix (1941–2011)
Austin Ardill
2010
Northern Irish unionist politician (1917–2010)
Woody Peoples
2010
American football player (1943–2010)
Belva Plain
2010
American writer (1915–2010)
Dickie Peterson
2009
Musical artist
Frank Vandenbroucke (cyclist)
2009
Belgian cyclist (1974–2009)
Karl Chircop
2008
Maltese politician and doctor
Kisho Kurokawa
2007
Japanese Metabolist architect (1934–2007)
Angelika Machinek
2006
Eugène Martin
2006
French racing driver (1915–2006)
Gillo Pontecorvo
2006
Italian film director (1919–2006)
Carlo Acutis
2006
Italian saint (1991–2006)
C. Delores Tucker
2005
American politician and activist (1927–2005)
Jim Cairns
2003
Australian politician (1914–2003)
Joan Kroc
2003
American philanthropist (1928–2003)
Bill Shoemaker
2003
American Champion jockey (1931–2003)
Ray Conniff
2002
American bandleader (1916–2002)
Audrey Mestre
2002
French world record-setting freediver
Hilaire du Berrier
2002
American aviator, mercenary and writer (1906–2002)
Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of Saint Marylebone
2001
British judge and politician (1907–2001)
Hikmet Şimşek
2001
Richard Buckle
2001
British ballet critic (1916–2001)
1900s
Wilt Chamberlain
1999
American basketball player (1936–1999)
Robert Marsden Hope
1999
Former Justice of the New South Wales Court of Appeal (1919 – 1999)
Mario Beaulieu (senator)
1998
Canadian politician (1930-1998)
Matthew Shepard
1998
Gay American murder victim (1976–1998)
John Denver
1997
American singer (1943–1997)
René Lacoste
1996
French and Jamaican tennis player (1904–1996)
Roger Lapébie
1996
French cyclist
Gérald Godin
1994
Canadian poet and politician
Leon Ames
1993
American actor (1902–1993)
Sheila Florance
1991
Australian actress (1916–1991)
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
1991
Russian brothers, writer duo
Regis Toomey
1991
American actor (1898–1991)
Rifaat el-Mahgoub
1990
Egyptian politician (1926–1990)
Peter Wessel Zapffe
1990
Norwegian philosopher (1899–1990)
Jay Ward
1989
American animator and television producer (1920–1989)
Ruth Manning-Sanders
1988
Welsh-born English poet and author (1886–1988)
Coby Whitmore
1988
American painter and illustrator (1913–1988)
Alf Landon
1987
American politician (1887–1987)
Fahri Korutürk
1987
President of Turkey from 1973 to 1980
Johnny Olson
1985
American television announcer (1910–1985)
Ricky Wilson (guitarist)
1985
American guitarist (1953–1985)
Anthony Berry
1984
British Conservative politician (1925–1984)
Nancy Spungen
1978
American girlfriend of Sid Vicious (1958–1978)
Peter Aufschnaiter
1973
Austrian mountaineer (1900–1973)
Robert Le Vigan
1972
French actor
Dean Acheson
1971
American politician and lawyer (1893–1971)
Gene Vincent
1971
American rock musician (1935–1971)
Feodor Stepanovich Rojankovsky
1970
Russian painter
Mustafa Zaidi
1970
Urdu language poet
Sonja Henie
1969
Norwegian figure skater and film star (1912–1969)
Serge Poliakoff
1969
French painter (1900–1969)
Julius Saaristo
1969
Finnish athletics competitor
Ram Manohar Lohia
1967
Indian socialist (1910–1967)
Paul Hermann Müller
1965
20th-century Swiss chemist and Nobel laureate
Inejirō Asanuma
1960
Japanese socialist politician (1898–1960)
Gordon Griffith
1958
American actor
Arie de Jong
1957
Lorenzo Perosi
1956
Italian composer
George Welch (pilot)
1954
World War II flying ace (1918–1954)
Susan Sutherland Isaacs
1948
British educational psychologist and psychoanalyst
Joseph Stilwell
1946
United States Army general (1883–1946)
Tom Mix
1940
American film actor (1880–1940)
John Lister (philanthropist)
1933
Edwin Abbott Abbott
1926
British theologian and author (1838–1926)
Anatole France
1924
French author and journalist (1844–1924)
A. P. Lucas
1923
English first-class cricketer (1857–1923)
Edith Cavell
1915
British nurse (1865–1915)
Margaret E. Knight
1914
American inventor (1838–1914)
1800s
Calvin Fairbank
1898
19th-century American abolitionist and Methodist minister
Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs
1896
Danish politician (1817–1896)
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
1875
French sculptor and painter (1827–1875)
Robert E. Lee
1870
Confederate States Army general (1807–1870)
Hiroshige
1858
Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock print artist
Elizabeth Fry
1845
English social reformer (1780–1845)
Ioan Nicolidi of Pindus
1828
Aromanian physician and noble
Juan José Castelli
1812
Argentine lawyer and politician
Before 1800
Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth
1758
Anglo-Irish army officer and politician
Frederick IV of Denmark
1730
King of Denmark and Norway from 1699 to 1730
Christoph Ignaz Abele
1685
Austrian jurist (1628–1685)
William Gurnall
1679
English author and Anglican clergyman
Edmund Berry Godfrey
1678
English magistrate
Carel Fabritius
1654
Painter from the Northern Netherlands (1622–1654)
François de Bassompierre
1646
French courtier and Marshal of France
Kutsuki Mototsuna
1632
Japanese samurai commander
Nicholas Brend
1601
Luis de Molina
1600
Spanish priest
Kanō Eitoku
1590
Japanese painter (1543–1590)
Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor
1576
Holy Roman Emperor from 1564 to 1576
Jean Ribault
1565
French navigator and colonizer
Piero della Francesca
1492
Italian painter, mathematician and geometer (c. 1414–1492)
Fritz Herlen
1491
German artist (died 1491)
Zhu Quan
1448
Chinese prince (1378–1448)
Clementia of Hungary
1328
Queen of France and Navarre from 1315 to 1316
Michael IX Palaiologos
1320
Emperor and Autocrat of the Romans
William d'Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel
1176
12th-century English nobleman
Adolf III of Berg
1152
Count of Berg
Leopold II, Margrave of Austria
1095
Margrave of Austria
Al-Muti'
974
Abbasid Caliph in Baghdad (r. 946–974)
Prince Tsunesada
884
Crown Prince of Japan
Pope John IV
642
Head of the Catholic Church from 640 to 642
Pope Honorius I
638
Head of the Catholic Church from 625 to 638
Demosthenes
-322
Classical Athenian statesman and orator (384–322 BC)