October 12 Deaths |
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| October 12th, 2007 (October 12 2007) | Death | Kisho Kurokawa, Japanese architect (born in 1934) | |
| October 12th, 2006 (October 12 2006) | Death | Gillo Pontecorvo, Italian film director (born in 1919) | |
| October 12th, 2005 (October 12 2005) | Death | C. Delores Tucker, American politician and civil rights activist (born in 1927) | |
| October 12th, 2003 (October 12 2003) | Death | Jim Cairns, Australian politician (born in 1914) | |
| October 12th, 2003 (October 12 2003) | Death | Joan Kroc, American philanthropist (born in 1928) | |
| October 12th, 2003 (October 12 2003) | Death | Willie Shoemaker, American jockey (born in 1931) | |
| October 12th, 2002 (October 12 2002) | Death | Ray Conniff, American bandleader and musician (born in 1916) | |
| October 12th, 2002 (October 12 2002) | Death | Audrey Mestre, French diver (born in 1974) | |
| October 12th, 2001 (October 12 2001) | Death | Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, British politician (born in 1907) | |
| October 12th, 1999 (October 12 1999) | Death | Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player (born in 1936) | |
| October 12th, 1999 (October 12 1999) | Death | Robert Marsden Hope, Australian Justice and Royal Commissioner (born in 1919) | |
| October 12th, 1998 (October 12 1998) | Death | Matthew Shepard, American murder victim (born in 1976) | |
| October 12th, 1998 (October 12 1998) | Death | Mario Beaulieu, French Canadian politician (born in 1930) | |
| October 12th, 1997 (October 12 1997) | Death | John Denver, American singer (born in 1943) | |
| October 12th, 1996 (October 12 1996) | Death | Roger Lapebie, French cyclist (born in 1911) | |
| October 12th, 1996 (October 12 1996) | Death | Rene Lacoste, French tennis player (born in 1904) | |
| October 12th, 1994 (October 12 1994) | Death | Gerald Godin, Quebecois poet and politician (born in 1938) | |
| October 12th, 1993 (October 12 1993) | Death | Leon Ames, American actor (born in 1902) | |
| October 12th, 1993 (October 12 1993) | Death | Tofik Bakhramov, Russian footballer (born in 1926) | |
| October 12th, 1991 (October 12 1991) | Death | Arkady Strugatsky, Russian novelist (born in 1925) | |
| October 12th, 1989 (October 12 1989) | Death | Jay Ward, American animator (Rocky and Bullwinkle, etc.) (born in 1920) | |
| October 12th, 1988 (October 12 1988) | Death | Ruth Manning-Sanders, author of children s books (born in 1895) | |
| October 12th, 1987 (October 12 1987) | Death | Alf Landon, Governor of Kansas (born in 1887) | |
| October 12th, 1985 (October 12 1985) | Death | Johnny Olson, American game show announcer (born in 1910) | |
| October 12th, 1985 (October 12 1985) | Death | Ricky Wilson, American musician; member of The B-52 s (born in 1953) | |
| October 12th, 1984 (October 12 1984) | Death | Sir Anthony Berry, British politician (bombing victim) (born in 1925) | |
| October 12th, 1983 (October 12 1983) | Death | The Grand Wizard of Wrestling, Wrestling manager | |
| October 12th, 1978 (October 12 1978) | Death | Nancy Spungen, girlfriend of Sex Pistol Sid Vicious (born in 1958) | |
| October 12th, 1971 (October 12 1971) | Death | Dean Acheson, U.S. Secretary of State (born in 1893) | |
| October 12th, 1971 (October 12 1971) | Death | Gene Vincent, pioneering American rock n roll musician (born in 1935) | |
| October 12th, 1970 (October 12 1970) | Death | Mustafa Zaidi, Pakistani poet (born in 1930) | |
| October 12th, 1969 (October 12 1969) | Death | Sonja Henie, Norwegian figure skater (born in 1912) | |
| October 12th, 1967 (October 12 1967) | Death | Ram Manohar Lohia, Indian Socialist politician leader | |
| October 12th, 1965 (October 12 1965) | Death | Paul Hermann Muller, Swiss chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born in 1899) | |
| October 12th, 1960 (October 12 1960) | Death | Inejiro Asanuma, Japanese politician (born in 1898) | |
| October 12th, 1958 (October 12 1958) | Death | Gordon Griffith, American actor, director, and producer (born in 1907) | |
| October 12th, 1956 (October 12 1956) | Death | Don Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer (born in 1872) | |
| October 12th, 1954 (October 12 1954) | Death | George Welch, American pilot (born in 1918) | |
| October 12th, 1948 (October 12 1948) | Death | Susan Sutherland Isaacs, educational psychologist and psychoanalyst (born in 1885). | |
| October 12th, 1946 (October 12 1946) | Death | Joseph Stilwell, U.S. general (born in 1883) | |
| October 12th, 1940 (October 12 1940) | Death | Tom Mix, American actor (born in 1880) | |
| October 12th, 1924 (October 12 1924) | Death | Anatole France, French author, Nobel Prize laureate (born in 1844) | Anatole France Quotes |
| October 12th, 1915 (October 12 1915) | Death | Edith Cavell, English nurse (born in 1865) | Edith Cavell Quotes |
| October 12th, 1898 (October 12 1898) | Death | Calvin Fairbank, American abolitionist minister (born in 1816) | |
| October 12th, 1896 (October 12 1896) | Death | Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, Danish nobleman and politician (born in 1817) | |
| October 12th, 1875 (October 12 1875) | Death | Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter (born in 1827) | |
| October 12th, 1870 (October 12 1870) | Death | Robert E. Lee, American Confederate general (born in 1807) | |
| October 12th, 1845 (October 12 1845) | Death | Elizabeth Fry, British social reformer and philanthropist (born in 1780) | |
| October 12th, 1758 (October 12 1758) | Death | Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth, British field marshal (born in 1680) | |
| October 12th, 1730 (October 12 1730) | Death | King Frederick IV of Denmark (born in 1671) | |
| October 12th, 1685 (October 12 1685) | Death | Christoph Ignaz Abele, Austrian jurist (born in 1628) | |
| October 12th, 1679 (October 12 1679) | Death | William Gurnall, English writer (born in 1617) | |
| October 12th, 1678 (October 12 1678) | Death | Edmund Berry Godfrey, English magistrate (born in 1621) | |
| October 12th, 1646 (October 12 1646) | Death | Francois de Bassompierre, Marshal of France (born in 1579) | |
| October 12th, 1632 (October 12 1632) | Death | Kutsuki Mototsuna, Japanese samurai commander (born in 1549) | |
| October 12th, 1600 (October 12 1600) | Death | Luis Molina, Spanish Jesuit (born in 1535) | |
| October 12th, 1590 (October 12 1590) | Death | Kano Eitoku, Japanese painter (born in 1543) | |
| October 12th, 1576 (October 12 1576) | Death | Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (born in 1527) | |
| October 12th, 1565 (October 12 1565) | Death | Jean Ribault, French explorer and colonizer (born in 1520) | |
| October 12th, 1492 (October 12 1492) | Death | Piero della Francesca, Italian painter | |
| October 12th, 1491 (October 12 1491) | Death | Fritz Herlen, German artist | |
| October 12th, 1320 (October 12 1320) | Death | Michael IX Palaeologus, co-ruling Eastern Roman Emperor | |
| October 12th, 1176 (October 12 1176) | Death | William d Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel, English politician | |
| October 12th, 1095 (October 12 1095) | Death | Margrave Leopold II of Austria (born in 1050) | |
| October 12th, 0642 (October 12 0642) | Death | Pope John IV | |
| October 12th, 0638 (October 12 0638) | Death | Pope Honorius I | |
| October 12th, 0632 (October 12 0632) | Death | Edwin of Deira, King of Northumbria and Bretwalda | |
