Historical Deaths

🏥 Famous Historical Deaths - September 12, 2026

1995 Jeremy Brett, English actor (Sherlock Holmes), dies at 59

1012 Guido van Anderlecht, Flemish pilgrim/saint, dies

1955 Gustave Vanzype, Belgian literary (La Gazette), dies at 86

1213 Pedro II, [el Catolico], king of Aragon, dies in battle

1996 Oscar Michael Moore, journalist, dies at 36

1815 Jose Mauricio, composer, dies at 63

1871 Karl Collan, composer, dies at 43

1977 Steven Biko, S African black student leader, dies in police custody

1993 Raymond Burr, actor (Perry Mason), dies of liver cancer at 76

1993 Harold Innocent, actor (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves), dies at 60

1997 Judith Merril [Grossman], science fiction writer, dies at 74

1764 Jean Philippe Rameau, French composer (Castor en Pollux), dies at 80

1973 Marjorie Post, US philanthropic/multi-millionaire ($200m), dies at 86

1963 Ben Sealey, cricketer (one Test WI v England 1933), dies

1986 Frank Nelson, actor (Ralph-I Love Lucy, Jack Benny Show), dies at 75

1997 Stikkan Stig Anderson, music entrepreneur (Polar), dies at 66

1982 Kommer Kleijn, Dutch actor/director (Paul Vlaanderen), dies at 89

1739 Reinhard Keiser, Germ conductor/composer (Markus-Passion), dies at 65

1877 Julius Reitz, composer, dies at 64

1963 Mervyn A Ellison, British astronomer (spectrohelioscope), dies at 63

1992 Ruth Nelson, actress (Awakenings, 3 Women), dies at 87

1995 Lawrence Bernard "Larry" Gales, bassist, dies at 59

1836 Grabbe, writer, dies at 34

1986 Jacques-Henri Lartigue, French photographer, dies at 92

1500 Albrecht III van Saxon-Meisen, duke of Saxon, dies at 57

1919 Leonid N Andrejev, Russ journalist/writer (Seven Hangs), dies at 48

1732 Eugene JP earl the Merode, Belgian marquis of Westerloo, dies at 58

1604 Louis Gunther, earl of Nassau, dies in battle at about 29

1980 Lillian Randolph, actress (Roots, Amos n Andy), dies at 65

1973 Eduard Flipse, Dutch conductor/composer, dies at 77

1971 Lin Piau, Chinese minister of Defense, dies at 63

1642 Cinq Mars, French plotter, executed

1972 William Boyd, cowboy (Hopalong Cassidy), dies at 77

1988 Lauris Morstad, NATO commander/CEO Corning Fiberglass, dies at 71

1362 Innocent VI, [Etienne Aubert], Pope (1352-62), dies

1995 John Stuart-Jervis, balloonist, dies

1994 Boris B Yegorov, Russian doctor/cosmonaut (Voskhod I), dies at 56

1993 Herman Nieland, organist/pianist/composer, dies at 82

1691 Johan Georg III, monarch of Saxon (1680-91), dies at 44

1987 John Qualen, actor (Patch of Blue, Jungle Book), dies

1806 Christian Gottfried Thomas, composer, dies at 58

1996 Ernesto Geisel, milt president of Brazil (1974-79), dies at 89

1683 Afonso VI, mentally ill king of Portugal (1656-67), dies at 40

1995 Jeremy William Huggins Brett (Moll Flanders), actor, dies at 59

1934 Catherine Kunstantino Breshkovsky, mother of Russian revolution, dies

1993 Charles Lamont, actor/director (Abbott & Costello movies), dies at 95

1927 Walther Amelung, German archaeologist, dies at 61

1660 Jacob Cats, [Father Cats], pension advisor of Holland, dies at 82

1807 Edward Miller, composer, dies at 71

1991 Jacques Benoit, [JJM Bayer], poet, dies

1977 Robert Lowell, US poet/pacifist (Near the Ocean), dies at 60)

1947 Harry Rowe Shelley, composer, dies at 89

1988 Alan Bible, (Sen-D-Nev, 1954-74), dies at 78

1992 Ed Peck, actor (Zoot Suit, Bullitt), dies of heart attack at 75

1994 Douglas MacKenzie Davey, psychometrist, dies at 72

1996 Geoffrey Bryan Bentley, moral theologian, dies at 87

1994 Tom Ewell, [S Yewell Tompkins], US actor (7 Year Itch), dies at 85

1185 Andronicus I Comnenus, Byzantine emperor (1183-85), lynched

1979 Denis Smith, cricketer (England left-handed batsman 1935), dies

1996 Richard Maling Barrer, chemist, dies at 86

1991 Regis Toomey, actor (You're in the Army Now, Burke's Law), dies at 93

1996 Lloyd Turner, journalist, dies at 57

1992 Anthony Perkins, actor (Psycho), dies from AIDs at 60

1894 Rafael Nunez, Colombia, 3 times president (188?..94), dies at 68

1879 Peter Arnold Heise, composer, dies at 49

1789 Franz Xaver Richter, composer, dies at 79

1989 Anton Lubowski, Namibian attorney/SWAPO, murdered at 37

1812 Pyotr I Bagration, Georgian/Russian ruler/general, dies in battle

0352 Maximinus van Trier, bishop of Trier/saint, dies

1913 Major R B Stewart, cricketer (scored 4 & 9 in S Afr's 1st Test), dies

1953 Frederick Kuys, cricketer (one Test S Africa v England 1898), dies

1991 ?, Japanese interpreter of Rushdies "Satanic Verses", murdered

1824 Louis AG baron de Bacler d'Albe, French cartographer, dies at 62

1647 Joos Banckert, Swiss admiral (Spanish silver fleet), dies at 48

1995 Geoffrey Stokes, rock & roll writer, dies at 55

1917 Eric Lundie, cricketer (WWI Test S Africa v England 1914), dies

1591 Richard Grenville, vice-admiral (Roanoke) dies in battle at 49

1996 George Patrick Reid, schoolkeeper, dies at 59

1674 Claes P "Nicolas" Tulip, mayor of Amsterdam, dies at 80

1953 Lewis Stone, actor (Prisoner of Zenda), dies of heart attack at 73

1978 Frank Ferguson, actor (Wagons West, Dynamite, My Gal Sal), dies at 69

1996 James Gulliver, businessman, dies at 66

1990 Athene Seyler, actress (Make Mine Mink), dies at 101

1997 Janet Leach, potter, dies at 79

1661 Jacobus de la Torra, RC apostole vicar of Holland, dies at about 53

1733 Fran‡ois Couperin "Le Grand", French composer, dies at 64

1819 Gebhard Leberecht FЃrst von BlЃcher von Wahlstatt, General, dies at 76

1994 Major Bill Smith, record producer, dies at 72

1878 Friedrich August von Alberti, geologist (Triasic Age), dies at 83

1936 Hermann Hirt, German linguist (Indo-European Grammar), dies at 70

1015 Lambert I with the Beard, count of Leuven, dies in battle at about 65

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