On This Day — October 12
4268 noted people were born and 1947 died on October 12 in our archive, including Gavriel Salomon, Albert Shiryaev and Alexander Frumkin.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on October 12
Gavriel Salomon
1938 – 2016
Albert Shiryaev
b. 1934
Alexander Frumkin
1895 – 1976
Alexei Kudrin
b. 1960
Anna Tibaijuka
b. 1950
Arthur Harden
1865 – 1940
August Witkowski
1854 – 1913
Brenda Romero
b. 1966
Carl August von Steinheil
1801 – 1870
Christopher Soames
1920 – 1987
Dennis Lo
b. 1963
Elmer Ambrose Sperry
1860 – 1930
Eugeniusz Popowicz
b. 1961
Fujisawa Rikitarō
1861 – 1933
Georgi Bradistilov
1904 – 1977
Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Granville
1773 – 1846
Gunnar Jarring
1907 – 2002
Henri Tresca
1814 – 1885
Isidre Molas i Batllori
b. 1940
Jake Garn
b. 1932
Jeffrey Leiden
b. 1955
John Engler
b. 1948
John H. Lienhard V
b. 1961
Jordi Amat Fusté
b. 1978
Laurence Silberman
1935 – 2022
Li Wenliang
1985 – 2020
Luigi Arialdo Radicati di Brozolo
1919 – 2019
Marilyn McCord Adams
1943 – 2017
Martin Gutzwiller
1925 – 2014
Maya Jasanoff
b. 1974
Michael Clyne
1939 – 2010
Nigel Thrift
b. 1949
Pekka Pyykkö
b. 1941
Ragnar Furuhjelm
1879 – 1944
Ramsay MacDonald
1866 – 1937
René Leriche
1879 – 1955
Roger Heath-Brown
b. 1952
Tamio Yamakawa
1921 – 2018
Theodor Boveri
1862 – 1915
Thomas Bugge
1740 – 1815
Vítor Constâncio
b. 1943
Yu Xie
b. 1959
Yves Bréchet
b. 1961
Adolf Marschall von Bieberstein
1842 – 1912
Al Held
1928 – 2005
Alexander Vershinin
b. 1957
Aminata Touré
b. 1962
Andriy Tsaplienko
b. 1968
Andrzej Kunert
b. 1952
Andrzej Śliwka
b. 1988
Anne Sulling
b. 1976
Anne-Charles Hérisson
1831 – 1893
Anthony (Sevryuk)
b. 1984
Antonina Zubkova
1920 – 1950
Aqqaluk Lynge
b. 1947
Arthur Henry Hardinge
1859 – 1933
Ascanio Sobrero
1812 – 1888
August Horch
1868 – 1951
August Sauer
1855 – 1926
Bernard Waldman
1913 – 1986
Bhupinder Singh of Patiala
1891 – 1938
Bram Cohen
b. 1975
Brett Cooper
b. 2001
Bruno Oberle
b. 1955
Byron L. Johnson
1917 – 2000
C. E. M. Hansel
1917 – 2011
Carolee Schneemann
1939 – 2019
Catherine Merridale
b. 1959
Chang Chun-Yen
1937 – 2018
Charles Engola
1958 – 2023
Charles Gordone
1925 – 1995
Charles Maurice Donnay
1859 – 1945
Christopher Dawson
1889 – 1970
Claes-Göran Hedén
b. 1944
Claire Valdez
b. 1989
César Pelli
1926 – 2019
David D. Pollard
b. 1943
David Wilkins
b. 1946
Ding Ling
1904 – 1986
Drew Edmondson
b. 1946
Ed Royce
b. 1951
Edward Chapman
1839 – 1906
Edward Hidalgo
1912 – 1995
Elizabeth Watson-Brown
b. 1956
Emil Cohen
1842 – 1905
Ercole Ricotti
1816 – 1883
Eskild Bruun
1804 – 1877
Eugene Kusielewicz
1930 – 1996
Eugenio Montale
1896 – 1981
Everlyn Chemutai
b. 1976
Federico Tedeschini
1873 – 1959
Floyd K. Richtmyer
1881 – 1939
Franck Ferrand
b. 1967
Franz Xaver von Funk
1840 – 1907
Fumimaro Konoe
1891 – 1945
Félix Lévitan
1911 – 2007
George G. Grabowicz
b. 1943
George Hollingbery
b. 1963
Giovanni Malagodi
1904 – 1991
Golnaz Modarresi Ghavami
b. 1966
Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of Russia
1876 – 1938
Grayson L. Kirk
1903 – 1997
Gwendolyn Garcia
b. 1955
Gösta Knutsson
1908 – 1973
Hanns Seidel
1901 – 1961
Harold Knox-Shaw
1885 – 1970
Henryk Siemiradzki
1843 – 1902
Hilda D. Oakeley
1867 – 1950
Home Riggs Popham
1762 – 1820
Hugo Carl Plaut
1858 – 1928
Isaac Newton Lewis
1858 – 1931
Jacobo Zóbel de Zangróniz
1842 – 1896
Jaideep Prabhu
b. 1967
Jean Nidetch
1923 – 2015
Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour
1907 – 1989
Jennifer Hoover
b. 1969
Jens Christian Bay
1871 – 1962
Jimmy Chin
b. 1973
Joe Cronin
1906 – 1984
Johann Adam Schmidt
1759 – 1809
John Pendlebury
1904 – 1941
Jonathan Trumbull
1710 – 1785
Joseph Henry Beale
1861 – 1943
Josiah P. Cooke
1827 – 1894
Karines Reyes
b. 1985
Keith Griffiths
b. 1954
Konstantin Yuon
1875 – 1958
Lara Trump
b. 1982
Luigi Bodio
1840 – 1920
Luis Alberto Sánchez
1900 – 1994
Magnus Magnusson
1929 – 2007
Marina Lewycka
1946 – 2025
Martín Guzmán
b. 1982
Marysa Navarro
1934 – 2025
Mette Abildgaard
b. 1988
Michael Barbaro
b. 1979
Michael Furse
1870 – 1955
Miri Segal
b. 1965
Mykola Biliashivsky
1867 – 1926
Narayana Kocherlakota
b. 1963
Norman Banks
1905 – 1985
Norman Tindale
1900 – 1993
Odd Einar Dørum
b. 1943
Ofer Grosskopf
b. 1969
Oleg Lebedev
b. 1976
Padma Desai
1931 – 2023
Paulette Nardal
1896 – 1985
Philippe Hamel
1884 – 1954
Pilar Pedraza
b. 1951
Rahim Aga Khan
b. 1971
Ralph Vaughan Williams
1872 – 1958
Reinhold Rehs
1901 – 1971
Robert Mangold
b. 1937
Robert Melville
1723 – 1809
Rolan Bykov
1929 – 1998
Ruben Lagus
1896 – 1959
Ruth L. Kirschstein
1926 – 2009
Ruth Stokes
1890 – 1968
Sarah Clarke
b. 1965
Serge Lepeltier
b. 1953
Sergio Erill
1938 – 2020
Simon Gronowski
b. 1931
Sirpa Asko-Seljavaara
b. 1939
So Gregory Kam Leung
1958 – 2025
Stepan Khmara
1937 – 2024
Stephen J. Lippard
b. 1940
Susan Anton
b. 1950
Tang Shengzhi
1889 – 1970
Trond Helge Torsvik
b. 1957
Trần Đại Quang
1956 – 2018
Tälğät Tacetdin
b. 1948
V. J. Sukselainen
1906 – 1995
Vicki Colvin
b. 1965
Wendy Chamberlin
b. 1948
William F. Laurance
b. 1957
William Raspberry
1935 – 2012
William Thayer
1918 – 2018
William Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 6th Earl Fitzwilliam
1815 – 1902
Wolfgang Fortner
1907 – 1987
Yakov Cherevichenko
1894 – 1976
Yasuhiro Hanashi
b. 1959
Yuriy Shcherbak
b. 1934
Aaron Long
b. 1992
Abd Al-Karim Al-Iryani
1934 – 2015
Abdulwahab Darawshe
1943 – 2026
Abel Manta
1888 – 1982
Abraham Brill
1874 – 1948
Abram W. Hendricks
1822 – 1887
Adam McQuaid
b. 1986
Adriaan Paulen
1902 – 1985
Aggie MacKenzie
b. 1955
Aharon Haliva
b. 1967
Akinori Eto
b. 1955
Al Gentry
b. 1964
Albert Charles Saunders
1874 – 1943
Albert H. Whitfield
b. 1849
Alberto Goldman
1937 – 2019
Alexander Boxwell
1852 – 1923
Alfred Conkling
1789 – 1874
Alfred Zech
1932 – 2011
… and 4,068 more
Died on October 12
Abdullah Omar Nasseef
1939 – 2025
Ali Mazrui
1933 – 2014
Allan Leal
1917 – 1999
Dennis M. Ritchie
1941 – 2011
Edwin Abbott Abbott
1838 – 1926
François Stanislas Cloëz
1817 – 1883
Gustavo Baz Prada
1894 – 1987
Hjalmar Hammarskjöld
1862 – 1953
Katharine Burr Blodgett
1898 – 1979
Lionel Cust
1859 – 1929
Lluís Pericot i Garcia
1899 – 1978
Oscar Baumann
1864 – 1899
Pierre Lelong
1912 – 2011
Ramón Castillo
1873 – 1944
Sara Danius
1962 – 2019
W. Allen Wallis
1912 – 1998
Waloddi Weibull
1887 – 1979
Alf Sommerfelt
1892 – 1965
Ameurfina Melencio-Herrera
1922 – 2020
Anatole France
1844 – 1924
Andreas Speiser
1885 – 1970
Arthur Coke Burnell
1840 – 1882
Benjamin Bathurst
1936 – 2025
Berend George Escher
1885 – 1967
Carl Hilty
1833 – 1909
Caroline Peart
1870 – 1963
Chang Chun-Yen
1937 – 2018
Charles Samuel Myers
1873 – 1946
Charles-Marie Denys de Damrémont
1783 – 1837
Chie Nakane
1926 – 2021
Dean Acheson
1893 – 1971
Dianne Kasnic Prinz
1938 – 2002
Dmitri Solsky
1833 – 1910
Dmytro Antonovych
1877 – 1945
Dolores Sloviter
1932 – 2022
Edward Ozorowski
1941 – 2024
Emily Hale
1891 – 1969
Eugenio Sellés
1842 – 1926
Fahri Korutürk
1903 – 1987
Ford North
1830 – 1913
Frances Wood
1883 – 1919
Francis Brinkley
1841 – 1912
George Mueller
1918 – 2015
Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of Russia
1876 – 1938
Gurney Norman
1937 – 2025
Harald Nicolai Storm Wergeland
1814 – 1893
Helga Konrad
1948 – 2024
Helmut Hölzer
1912 – 1996
Ian Hamilton
1853 – 1947
Isadore Twersky
1930 – 1997
Israel Gohberg
1928 – 2009
Ivan Peresypkin
1904 – 1978
James Coyne
1910 – 2012
James Stuart
1843 – 1913
Jan Bašta
1860 – 1936
John Call Cook
1918 – 2012
John Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst
1772 – 1863
John Smith
1821 – 1885
Joseph Stilwell
1883 – 1946
Jānis Pommers
1876 – 1934
Kazuo Kumakura
1927 – 2015
Lampert Distelmeyer
1522 – 1588
Lilian Snelling
1879 – 1972
Lilly Ledbetter
1938 – 2024
Lorenzo Perosi
1872 – 1956
Luis de Molina
1535 – 1600
Mac Holten
1922 – 1996
Mark Robert Drouin
1903 – 1963
Mati Erelt
1941 – 2024
Maurice Gwyer
1878 – 1952
Max Wertheimer
1880 – 1943
Michael Musmanno
1897 – 1968
Mildred Cohn
1913 – 2009
Mustafa Zaidi
1930 – 1970
Nikolay Petrunin
1976 – 2022
Nina Alisova
1915 – 1996
Ole Bang
1788 – 1877
Oscar Hijuelos
1951 – 2013
Otto Schlüter
1872 – 1959
Paul Eyschen
1841 – 1915
Paul Hermann Müller
1899 – 1965
Pedro de Sousa Holstein, 1st Duke of Palmela
1781 – 1850
Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone
1907 – 2001
Raúl Isaías Baduel
1955 – 2021
Regis Toomey
1898 – 1991
Robert E. Lee
1807 – 1870
Robert Stephenson
1803 – 1859
Robert von Dassanowsky
1960 – 2023
Roger B. Taney
1777 – 1864
Ronald McNeill, 1st Baron Cushendun
1861 – 1934
Stanisław Badeni
1850 – 1912
Susan Sutherland Isaacs
1885 – 1948
Thomas M. Storke
1876 – 1971
Thomas Stapleton
1535 – 1598
Timothy L. Woodruff
1858 – 1913
Tito Mboweni
1959 – 2024
Tuure Lehén
1893 – 1976
Ulf Linde
1929 – 2013
Ulysses Guimarães
1916 – 1992
Vasily Pronin
1905 – 1993
Victor Luntz
1840 – 1903
Vladimir Markin
1956 – 2021
Walter Francis Willcox
1861 – 1964
William C. Friday
1920 – 2012
William Coleman Nevils
1878 – 1955
William Young Sellar
1825 – 1890
Ahmad Javad
1892 – 1937
Akbar Alemi
1945 – 2020
Albert Eger Brown
1889 – 1984
Alberto Demicheli
1896 – 1980
Aleksandr Figner
1787 – 1813
Alex Salmond
1954 – 2024
Alf Landon
1887 – 1987
Alfred Kerr
1867 – 1948
Ann-Margret Holmgren
1850 – 1940
Anna Ahlström
1863 – 1943
Antonio Pucci
1484 – 1544
Antonín Engel
1879 – 1958
Aritomo Gotō
1888 – 1942
Arthur Cowley
1861 – 1931
Arthur Mayo-Robson
1853 – 1933
Arthur Mills
1816 – 1898
Arthur Mitchell
1826 – 1909
Arthur Turcotte
1845 – 1905
August Föppl
1854 – 1924
Augustin Friedrich Walther
1688 – 1746
Augustus Hamilton
1853 – 1913
Baba Siddique
1958 – 2024
Bernard Bosanquet
1877 – 1936
Bill Shoemaker
1931 – 2003
Bruce H. Mahan
1930 – 1982
Břetislav Pojar
1923 – 2012
C. Delores Tucker
1927 – 2005
Carlos Arango Vélez
1897 – 1974
Charles Albert Boynton
1867 – 1954
Charles H. Stearns
1854 – 1936
Charles Rothschild
1877 – 1923
Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs
1817 – 1896
Conchata Ferrell
1943 – 2020
Cornelius Gemma
1535 – 1578
Czesław Białobrzeski
1878 – 1953
D. G. E. Hall
1891 – 1979
David Dragunsky
1910 – 1992
David Horace Clift
1907 – 1973
David Ladd
1926 – 1994
Dick Franks
1920 – 2008
Dietrich von Bothmer
1918 – 2009
Edith Cavell
1865 – 1915
Edmund Berry Godfrey
1621 – 1678
Emilie Rathou
1862 – 1948
Emilio Nicolas, Sr.
1930 – 2019
Emilio Picasso
1927 – 2014
Ennis Whitehead
1895 – 1964
Erhard Frederiksen
1843 – 1903
Erwin Graf
1917 – 2005
Evgenia Bronskaya
1882 – 1953
Federigo Severini
1888 – 1962
Frank Raymond Fischl Jr.
1926 – 2016
Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein
1742 – 1825
François de Bassompierre
1579 – 1646
Frederick W. Houser
1871 – 1942
Frederik IV of Denmark
1671 – 1730
G.N. Saibaba
1967 – 2024
Gary A. Lee
1933 – 2022
Gaspar de Villarroel
1587 – 1665
Gennady Riger
1948 – 2015
George Herbig
1920 – 2013
George Welch
1918 – 1954
Germaine Bailac
1881 – 1977
Gilbert Dean
1819 – 1870
Grigore Niculescu-Buzești
1908 – 1949
Guillermo Soberón Acevedo
1929 – 2020
Gustave Canet
1846 – 1908
Hamilton S. Peck
1845 – 1933
Harry Micajah Daugherty
1860 – 1941
Heinz Kühnle
1915 – 2001
Henny Harald Hansen
1900 – 1993
Henrik Kreüger
1882 – 1953
Hermann Behrbohm
1907 – 1977
Howard Sackler
1929 – 1982
Hubert Germain
1920 – 2021
Héctor Antonio Stefani
1959 – 2024
Inejirō Asanuma
1898 – 1960
Ion Macovei
1885 – 1950
Ivan Fomich Pavlov
1922 – 1950
J. Lawrence Smith
1818 – 1883
Jack A. Apsche
1947 – 2014
James Bailey
1840 – 1910
James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton
1702 – 1768
James Percy Priest
1900 – 1956
James T. Milliken
1882 – 1952
Jan Zrzavý
1890 – 1977
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
1827 – 1875
Jean-Bruno Gassies
1786 – 1832
Jesús Maria Sanromá
1902 – 1984
Jim Cairns
1914 – 2003
Joan Kroc
1928 – 2003
Joan Leslie
1925 – 2015
John Denver
1943 – 1997
John Fries Frazer
1812 – 1872
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