History Deaths on June 12

James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, French-English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire (b. 1670)

#James_FitzJames,_1st_Duke_of_Berwick

Ludovico III Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua (b. 1412)

#Ludovico_III_Gonzaga,_Marquis_of_Mantua

Médéric Martin, Canadian politician, mayor of Montreal (b. 1869)

#Médéric_Martin

Nicky Barr, Australian rugby player and fighter pilot (b. 1915)

#Nicky_Barr

Jimmy Dorsey, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (The Dorsey Brothers and The California Ramblers) (b. 1904)

#Jimmy_Dorsey

Fernando Brant, Brazilian journalist, poet, and composer (b. 1946)

#Fernando_Brant

Hermann Scherchen, German viola player and conductor (b. 1891)

#Hermann_Scherchen

Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy (b. 1634)

#Charles_Emmanuel_II,_Duke_of_Savoy

Thomas Farnaby, English scholar and educator (b. 1575)

#Thomas_Farnaby

Hector Bianciotti, Argentinian-French journalist and author (b. 1930)

#Hector_Bianciotti

Leo Buscaglia, American author and educator (b. 1924)

#Leo_Buscaglia

Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Russian general (b. 1893)

#Mikhail_Tukhachevsky

Milburn Stone, American actor (b. 1904)

#Milburn_Stone

John Ireland, English composer and educator (b. 1879)

#John_Ireland_(composer)

György Ligeti, Romanian-Hungarian composer and educator (b. 1923)

#György_Ligeti

Billy Butlin, South African-English businessman, founded the Butlins Company (b. 1899)

#Billy_Butlin

Gregory Peck, American actor and political activist (b. 1916)

#Gregory_Peck

Purushottam Laxman Deshpande, Indian actor, director, and producer (b. 1919)

#Purushottam_Laxman_Deshpande

Norma Shearer, Canadian-American actress (b. 1902)

#Norma_Shearer

Gopinath Kaviraj, Indian philosopher and scholar (b. 1887)

#Gopinath_Kaviraj

Teresa Carreño, Venezuelan-American singer-songwriter, pianist, and conductor (b. 1853)

#Teresa_Carreño

Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Russian-French rabbi and author (b. 1902)

#Menachem_Mendel_Schneerson

Theo Heemskerk, Dutch lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1852)

#Theo_Heemskerk

Janet Waldo, American actress and voice artist (b. 1920)

#Janet_Waldo

Pope Leo III (b. 750)

#Pope_Leo_III

Herbert Read, English poet and critic (b. 1893)

#Herbert_Read

Henry II, Prince of Anhalt-Aschersleben (b. 1215)

#Henry_II,_Prince_of_Anhalt-Aschersleben

George Voinovich, American politician (b. 1936)

#George_Voinovich

Imagawa Yoshimoto, Japanese daimy? (b. 1519)

#Imagawa_Yoshimoto

Frank Schirrmacher, German journalist (b. 1959)

#Frank_Schirrmacher

Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich, English politician, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1490)

#Richard_Rich,_1st_Baron_Rich

Henry of Scotland, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon (b. 1114)

#Henry_of_Scotland

Lucretia Peabody Hale, American journalist and author (b. 1820)

#Lucretia_Peabody_Hale

Harry Lawson, Australian politician, 27th Premier of Victoria (b. 1875)

#Harry_Lawson

Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, French explorer (b. 1724)

#Marc-Joseph_Marion_du_Fresne

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Italian pianist (b. 1920)

#Arturo_Benedetti_Michelangeli

Tedald, Italian bishop (b. 990)

#Tedald_(bishop_of_Arezzo)

Edmund Wilson, American critic, essayist, and editor (b. 1895)

#Edmund_Wilson

Adrianus Turnebus, French philologist and scholar (b. 1512)

#Adrianus_Turnebus

Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac (b. 1360)

#Bernard_VII,_Count_of_Armagnac

Pierre Augereau, French general (b. 1757)

#Pierre_Augereau

Philip Livingston, American merchant and politician (b. 1716)

#Philip_Livingston

Æthelflæd, Mercian daughter of Alfred the Great (b. 870)

#Æthelflæd

Masayoshi ?hira, Japanese politician, 68th Prime minister of Japan (b. 1910)

#Masayoshi_?hira

Bulat Okudzhava, Russian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1924)

#Bulat_Okudzhava

Jason Leffler, American race car driver (b. 1975)

#Jason_Leffler

Henry Hill, American mobster (b. 1943)

#Henry_Hill

Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar, Spanish conquistador (b. 1465)

#Diego_Velázquez_de_Cuéllar

Elinor Ostrom, American political scientist and economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1933)

#Elinor_Ostrom

Frédéric Passy, French economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1822)

#Frédéric_Passy

Prince Augustus William of Prussia (b. 1722)

#Prince_Augustus_William_of_Prussia

Omar Mateen, American mass murderer (b. 1986)

#Omar_Mateen

Teresita Barajuen, Spanish nun (b. 1908)

#Teresita_Barajuen

Guo Moruo, Chinese historian, author, and poet (b. 1892)

#Guo_Moruo

Hisham I, Muslim emir (b. 757)

#Hisham_I_of_Córdoba

Patrick Lennox Tierney, American historian and academic (b. 1914)

Frederick Pei Li, Chinese-American physician and academic (b. 1940)

Dan Jacobson, South African-English author and critic (b. 1929)

Nabil Hemani, Algerian footballer (b. 1979)

Joseph A. Unanue, American sergeant and businessman (b. 1925)

Frank Walker, Australian judge and politician, 41st Attorney General of New South Wales (b. 1942)

Pahiño, Spanish footballer (b. 1923)

Medin Zhega, Albanian footballer and manager (b. 1946)

Margarete Mitscherlich-Nielsen, Danish-German psychoanalyst and author (b. 1917)

Carl Gardner, American singer (The Coasters) (b. 1928)

René Audet, Canadian bishop (b. 1920)

Al Williamson, American illustrator (b. 1931)

Derek Tapscott, Welsh footballer and manager (b. 1932)

Miroslav Dvo?ák, Czech ice hockey player (b. 1951)

Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian businessman and art collector (b. 1923)

Scott Young, Canadian journalist and author (b. 1918)

Bill Blass, American fashion designer, founded Bill Blass Limited (b. 1922)

Sandro Rosa do Nascimento, Brazilian criminal (b. 1978)

J. F. Powers, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1917)

Theresa Merritt, American actress and singer (b. 1922)

Pierre Russell, American basketball player (b. 1949)

Terence O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of the Maine, English captain and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (b. 1914)

Bruce Hamilton, Australian public servant (b. 1911)

Karl von Frisch, Austrian-German ethologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)

Ian McKay, English sergeant, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1953)

Georg Siimenson, Estonian footballer (b. 1912)

Dinanath Gopal Tendulkar, Indian writer and documentary filmmaker (b. 1909)

Aleksandr Deyneka, Ukrainian-Russian painter and sculptor (b. 1899)

Medgar Evers, American soldier and activist (b. 1925)

Erich Marcks, German general (b. 1891)

Camille of Renesse-Breidbach (b. 1836)

Konstantinos Nikolopoulos, Greek composer, archaeologist, and philologist (b. 1786)

Egwale Seyon, Ethiopian emperor

Charles Berkeley, 2nd Viscount Fitzhardinge, English politician (b. 1599)

Ii Naomori, Japanese warrior (b. 1506)

John FitzAlan, 14th Earl of Arundel, English commander (b. 1408)

John I of Brienne, Count of Eu

Al-Zamakhshari, Persian theologian (b. 1075)

Lyfing, English archbishop (b. 999)