May 12 Deaths |
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| May 12th, 2008 (May 12 2008) | Death | Robert Rauschenberg, American artist (born in 1925) | |
| May 12th, 2007 (May 12 2007) | Death | Mullah Dadullah Akhund, Taliban military leader (born in 1966?) | |
| May 12th, 2007 (May 12 2007) | Death | Teddy Infuhr, American former child actor (born in 1936) | |
| May 12th, 2006 (May 12 2006) | Death | Gillespie V. Montgomery, former U.S. representative from Mississippi (born in 1920) | |
| May 12th, 2005 (May 12 2005) | Death | Martin Lings, English Islamic scholar (born in 1909) | |
| May 12th, 2005 (May 12 2005) | Death | Monica Zetterlund, Swedish actress and singer (born in 1937) | |
| May 12th, 2003 (May 12 2003) | Death | Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, French UN High Commissioner for Refugees (born in 1933) | |
| May 12th, 2002 (May 12 2002) | Death | Erich Kulas, ECW Wrestler (Mass Transit) | |
| May 12th, 2001 (May 12 2001) | Death | Perry Como, American singer (born in 1912) | |
| May 12th, 2001 (May 12 2001) | Death | Alexei Tupolev, Russian aircraft designer (born in 1925) | |
| May 12th, 2000 (May 12 2000) | Death | Adam Petty, American race car driver (born in 1980) | |
| May 12th, 1999 (May 12 1999) | Death | Abd-al-Aziz ibn Abd-Allah ibn Baaz, Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia 1993-1999 (born in 1910) | |
| May 12th, 1999 (May 12 1999) | Death | Saul Steinberg, Romanian-American cartoonist (born in 1914) | |
| May 12th, 1995 (May 12 1995) | Death | Mia Martini, real name: Domenica Berte, Italian singer and song-writer (born in 1947) | |
| May 12th, 1994 (May 12 1994) | Death | Erik Erikson, German psychoanalyst (born in 1902) | |
| May 12th, 1994 (May 12 1994) | Death | John Smith, British politician (born in 1938) | |
| May 12th, 1992 (May 12 1992) | Death | Robert Reed, American actor (born in 1932) | |
| May 12th, 1992 (May 12 1992) | Death | Nikos Gatsos, Greek poet and lyricist (born in 1911) | |
| May 12th, 1992 (May 12 1992) | Death | Lenny Montana, American actor (born in 1926) | |
| May 12th, 1990 (May 12 1990) | Death | Chen Kenmin, Japanese chef (born in 1912) | |
| May 12th, 1986 (May 12 1986) | Death | Elisabeth Bergner, Austrian actress (born in 1897) | |
| May 12th, 1985 (May 12 1985) | Death | Jean Dubuffet, French painter (born in 1901) | |
| May 12th, 1973 (May 12 1973) | Death | Art Pollard, American racecar driver (born in 1927) | |
| May 12th, 1971 (May 12 1971) | Death | Heinie Manush, American baseball player (born in 1901) | |
| May 12th, 1970 (May 12 1970) | Death | Nelly Sachs, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born in 1891) | |
| May 12th, 1967 (May 12 1967) | Death | John Masefield, British writer (born in 1878) | |
| May 12th, 1966 (May 12 1966) | Death | Felix Martin Julius Steiner, German Heer and Waffen-SS officer (born in 1896) | |
| May 12th, 1963 (May 12 1963) | Death | Bobby Kerr, Canadian runner (born in 1882) | |
| May 12th, 1957 (May 12 1957) | Death | Alfonso de Portago, Spanish bobsledder and race car driver (born in 1928) | |
| May 12th, 1957 (May 12 1957) | Death | Erich von Stroheim, film director and actor (born in 1885) | |
| May 12th, 1956 (May 12 1956) | Death | Louis Calhern, American actor (born in 1895) | |
| May 12th, 1944 (May 12 1944) | Death | Max Brand, American author (born in 1892) | Max Brand Quotes |
| May 12th, 1944 (May 12 1944) | Death | Arthur Quiller-Couch, English writer (born in 1863) | |
| May 12th, 1935 (May 12 1935) | Death | Jozef Pilsudski, Polish statesman (born in 1867) | |
| May 12th, 1931 (May 12 1931) | Death | Eugene Ysaye, Belgian violinist (born in 1858) | |
| May 12th, 1925 (May 12 1925) | Death | Amy Lowell, American poet (born in 1874) | Amy Lowell Quotes |
| May 12th, 1916 (May 12 1916) | Death | James Connolly, Irish socialist (born in 1868) | |
| May 12th, 1907 (May 12 1907) | Death | Joris-Karl Huysmans, French author (born in 1848) | |
| May 12th, 1889 (May 12 1889) | Death | John Cadbury, English chocolate entrepreneur (born in 1801) | |
| May 12th, 1884 (May 12 1884) | Death | Bedrich Smetana, Czech composer (born in 1824) | |
| May 12th, 1876 (May 12 1876) | Death | Georgi Benkovski, Bulgarian revolutionary, brutally killed by the Turks (born in 1843) | |
| May 12th, 1871 (May 12 1871) | Death | Anselme Payen, French physicist (born in 1795) | |
| May 12th, 1867 (May 12 1867) | Death | Friedrich William Eduard Gerhard, German archaeologist (born in 1795) | |
| May 12th, 1864 (May 12 1864) | Death | J. E. B. Stuart, American soldier from Virginia and a Confederate Army general (born in 1833) | |
| May 12th, 1860 (May 12 1860) | Death | Charles Barry, English architect (born in 1795) | |
| May 12th, 1859 (May 12 1859) | Death | Sergei Aksakov, Russian writer (born in 1791) | |
| May 12th, 1856 (May 12 1856) | Death | Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, French mathematician (born in 1786) | |
| May 12th, 1845 (May 12 1845) | Death | Janos Bacsanyi, Hungarian poet (born in 1763) | |
| May 12th, 1801 (May 12 1801) | Death | Nicholas Repnin, Russian statesman (born in 1734) | |
| May 12th, 1798 (May 12 1798) | Death | George Vancouver, British navy officer and explorer (born in 1757) | |
| May 12th, 1796 (May 12 1796) | Death | Johann Peter Uz, German poet (born in 1720) | |
| May 12th, 1792 (May 12 1792) | Death | Charles Simon Favart, French dramatist (born in 1710) | |
| May 12th, 1784 (May 12 1784) | Death | Abraham Trembley, Swiss naturalist (born in 1710) | Abraham Quotes |
| May 12th, 1759 (May 12 1759) | Death | Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor (born in 1700) | |
| May 12th, 1748 (May 12 1748) | Death | Thomas Lowndes, English astronomer (born in 1692) | |
| May 12th, 1708 (May 12 1708) | Death | Adolf Friedrich II of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (born in 1658) | |
| May 12th, 1700 (May 12 1700) | Death | John Dryden, English writer (born in 1631) | |
| May 12th, 1699 (May 12 1699) | Death | Lucas Achtschellinck, Flemish painter (born in 1626) | |
| May 12th, 1684 (May 12 1684) | Death | Edme Mariotte, French physicist and priest | |
| May 12th, 1641 (May 12 1641) | Death | Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, English statesman (born in 1593) | |
| May 12th, 1634 (May 12 1634) | Death | George Chapman, English writer | |
| May 12th, 1465 (May 12 1465) | Death | Thomas Palaeologus, Despot of the Despotate of Morea | |
| May 12th, 1382 (May 12 1382) | Death | Queen Joan I of Naples (born in 1327) | |
| May 12th, 1012 (May 12 1012) | Death | Pope Sergius IV | |
| May 12th, 1003 (May 12 1003) | Death | Pope Silvester II | |
