August 12
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Art and culture
- 30 BC - Cleopatra commits suicide after her defeat and Mark Antony's defeat at the battle of Actium.
Births
- 1880 - Radclyffe Hall, British author (d. 1943)
- 1881 - Cecil B. DeMille, American director (d. 1959)
- 1912 - Samuel Fuller, American film director (d. 1997)
Deaths
- 30 BC - Cleopatra (b. 69 BC)
- 875 - Louis II Holy Roman Emperor (b. 825)
- 1424 - Yongle, Emperor of China (b. 1460)
- 1484 - George of Trebizond, Greek philosopher (b. 1395)
- 1484 - Pope Sixtus IV (b. 1414)
- 1512 - Alessandro Achillini, Italian philosopher (b. 1463)
- 1577 - Thomas Smith, English diplomat and scholar (b. 1513)
- 1588 - Alfonso Ferrabosco (I), Italian composer (b. 1543)
- 1612 - Giovanni Gabrieli, Italian composer
- 1633 - Jacopo Peri, Italian composer (b. 1561)
- 1638 - Johannes Althusius, German writer (b. 1557)
- 1648 - Ibrahim I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1615)
- 1674 - Philippe de Champaigne, French painter (b. 1602)
- 1689 - Pope Innocent XI (b. 1611)
- 1778 - Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, British general and politician (b. 1714)
- 1809 - Mikhail Kamensky, Russian field marshal (b. 1738)
- 1810 - Etienne Louis Geoffroy, French pharmacist and entomologist (b. 1725)
- 1822 - Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, English politician and statesman (b. 1769)
- 1827 - William Blake, English poet and artist (b. 1757)
- 1848 - George Stephenson, British locomotive designer (b. 1781)
- 1857 - Rufus Wilmot Griswold, American editor and critic (b. 1815)
- 1861 - Eliphalet Remington, American inventor, designer of the Remington rifle (b. 1793)
- 1864 - Sakuma Shōzan, Japanese reformer (b. 1811)
- 1865 - William Jackson Hooker, English botanist (b. 1785)
- 1891 - James Russell Lowell, American poet and essayist (b. 1819)
- 1896 - Thomas Chamberlain, officer of the 20th Maine at the Battle of Gettysburg
- 1900 - Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian chess player (b. 1836)
- 1901 - Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Finnish-Swedish explorer (b. 1832)
- 1914 - John Philip Holland, Irish submarine designer (b. 1840)
- 1918 - Anna Held, Polish-born actress and singer (b. 1872)
- 1922 - Arthur Griffith, President of Ireland (b. 1871)
- 1928 - Leoš Janáček, Czech composer (b. 1854)
- 1934 - Hendrik Petrus Berlage, Dutch architect (b. 1856)
- 1935 - Friedrich Schottky, German mathematician (b. 1851)
- 1943 - Bobby Peel, English cricketer (b. 1857)
- 1948 - Harry Brearley, English inventor (b. 1871)
- 1952 - David Bergelson, Yiddish language writer (b. 1884)
- 1955 - Thomas Mann, German writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1875)
- 1955 - James B. Sumner, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1887)
- 1959 - Mike O'Neill, Irish-born American baseball player (b. 1877)
- 1964 - Ian Fleming, English novelist (James Bond) (b. 1908)
- 1973 - Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1881)
- 1973 - Karl Ziegler, German chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1898)
- 1979 - Ernst Boris Chain, German-born biochemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1906)
- 1982 - Henry Fonda, American actor (b. 1905)
- 1982 - Salvador Sanchez, Mexican boxer (b. 1959)
- 1982 - Varlam Shalamov, Russian writer (b. 1907)
- 1985 - Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer (plane crash) (b. 1941)
- 1985 - Manfred Winkelhock, German race car driver (b. 1951)
- 1988 - Jean-Michel Basquiat, Haitian-American artist (b. 1960)
- 1988 - Bhakti Raksaka Sridhara Deva Gosvami Maharaja, religious Guru from India (b. 1895)
- 1989 - William Shockley, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1910)
- 1989 - Samuel Okwaraji, Nigerian footballer (b. 1964)
- 1990 - B. Kliban, American cartoonist (b. 1935)
- 1990 - Dorothy Mackaill, British-born American actress (b. 1903)
- 1992 - John Cage, American composer (b. 1912)
- 1996 - Robert Gravel, French Canadian actor and theatrical director (b. 1945)
- 1996 - Mark Gruenwald, American comic book writer and editor (b. 1953)
- 1997 - Luther Allison, American musician (b. 1939)
- 1999 - Jean Drapeau, Quebec politician, mayor of Montreal (b. 1916)
- 2000 - Loretta Young, American actress (b. 1913)
- 2002 - Enos Slaughter, American baseball player (b. 1916)
- 2004 - Sir Godfrey Hounsfield, English electrical engineer and inventor, Nobel laureate (b. 1919)
- 2004 - Peter Woodthorpe, British actor (b. 1931)
- 2005 - John Loder, co-founder of the anarcho-punk band CRASS (b. 1946)
- 2007 - Merv Griffin, American television host and game show creator (b. 1925)
- 2007 - Mike Wieringo, American comic book artist (b. 1962)
Notes
- Cecil B. DeMille
- Marcellus Emants
- John Cage
- William Blake
- Thomas Mann
- Pierre Klossowski
- Samuel Fuller
- Jean-Michel Basquiat
- Jean-Jacques Ampère
- Radclyffe Hall
- Teruo Ishii
- Tony Allen (musician)
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