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August 12, 2002 Ed Headrick, inventor, popularized the Frisbee, dies at 80 August 12, 2000 Loretta Young, actress, The Bishop's Wife, dies at 87 August 12, 1997 Luther Allison, blues performer (Motown), dies of cancer at 57 August 12, 1996 Anthony Derrick Parsons, diplomat, dies at 73 August 12, 1996 Victor Ambartsumian, astrophysicist, dies at 87 August 12, 1995 Frank Cvitanovich, film maker, dies at 68 August 12, 1994 Gene Cherico, bassist, dies at 59 August 12, 1994 Manfred Salzgeber, German film distributor/publicist, dies at about 51 August 12, 1993 Jerome Thor, actor (Riot in Juvenile Prison), dies of cardiac at 69 August 12, 1992 Beverley Brooks, dies of a stroke at 63 August 12, 1992 John Cage, avante-garde composer, dies of a stroke at 79 August 12, 1992 Lady Rothermere, [Bubbles], wife of British newspaper magnate, dies August 12, 1992 Queen Mother of Oman, dies August 12, 1991 Irene Campbell, British actress/dancer (Wicker Man, St. Justice), dies August 12, 1991 William Gordon, screenwriter (Back to Bataan), dies August 12, 1990 Dorothy Mackaill, actress (Love Affair), dies of kidney failure at 87 August 12, 1990 Sara Seegar, [Stone], actor (Mystery of Room 13), dies at 76 August 12, 1989 William Shockley, American Physicist August 12, 1988 Jean-Michel Basquiat, U.S. musician/graffiti painter (Gray, SAMO), dies August 12, 1985 Marcel Mihalovici, composer, dies at 86 August 12, 1982 Helvi Lemmikke Leiviska, composer, dies at 80 August 12, 1982 Henry Fonda, actor (On Golden Pond), dies of heart disease at 77 August 12, 1982 Joe Tex, rocker, dies at 49 August 12, 1976 Thomas Edward Driberg, 1st baron Bradwell, journalist, dies August 12, 1973 Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss Scientist August 12, 1969 Dick Ryan, actor (For Heaven's Sake), dies after long illness at 72 August 12, 1968 Pieter J Auld, mayor of Rotterdam (1945-52), dies at 81 August 12, 1967 Esther Forbes, American Author August 12, 1964 Ian L Fleming, British journalist and writer (James Bond), dies at 56 August 12, 1955 Thomas Mann, German writer (Dr. Faustus, Nobel 1929), dies at 80 August 12, 1944 Francois Ambrosiny, French dancer and choreographer (Fˆtes d'Hebe), dies at 66 August 12, 1943 Georges Martin Witkowski, composer, dies at 76 August 12, 1938 Ludwig Borchardt, German egyptologist, dies at 74 August 12, 1934 Hendrik P Berlage, architect (Stock exchange Amsterdam), dies at 78 August 12, 1928 Leos Janacek, Czech composer and conductor (Sly Little Fox), dies at 74 August 12, 1922 Arthur Griffith, Irish nationalist/president (Sinn Fein), dies August 12, 1918 Anna Held, Polish Entertainer August 12, 1914 John Philip Holland, submarine designer, dies August 12, 1911 Jozef Israels, painter, dies August 12, 1911 Petrus H Hugenholtz, Dutch reformist vicar (Levenslicht), dies at 79 August 12, 1901 Nils Adolf Erik, [Baron Nordenskjold], geologist/explorer, dies August 12, 1900 James E Keeler, U.S. astronomer (rings of Saturn), dies at 42 August 12, 1891 James Russell Lowell, poet/critic/diplomat, dies August 12, 1885 Georg Curtius, German classical/linguist/philologist, dies at 65 August 12, 1885 Helen Hunt Jackson, American Writer August 12, 1883 Last Quagga, zebra with less slashes (in Artis), dies August 12, 1877 James Drummond, historical painter, dies August 12, 1865 William Jackson Hooker, botanist, dies August 12, 1857 William Daniel Conybeare, geologist, dies August 12, 1849 Abraham AA "Albert" Gallatin, Min of Finance (1801-14), dies at 88 August 12, 1849 Albert Gallatin, Swiss Statesman August 12, 1848 George Stephenson, locomotive engineer, dies August 12, 1830 Franz de Paula Roser, composer, dies at 50 August 12, 1827 William Blake, English poet/painter, dies at 69 August 12, 1822 Robert Stewart, 2nd marguess of Londonderry, commits suicide, dies August 12, 1812 Jean Joseph Rodolphe, composer, dies at 81 August 12, 1811 John FE Acton, cruel premier of Naples, dies at 77 August 12, 1797 Ignaz Franz Xaver Kurzinger, composer, dies at 73 August 12, 1750 Rachel Ruysch, royal painter of soverign Johan von de Pfalz, dies August 12, 1728 Henricus Zwaardecroon, Governor-General of Neth-Indies, dies at 61 August 12, 1715 Nahum Tate, English poet/playwright/poet laureate, dies August 12, 1689 Innocent XI, [Benedetto Odescalchi], Pope (1676-89), dies at 78 August 12, 1676 King Philip, [Metacomet], leader Wampanoag-indians, shot to death August 12, 1675 Karl Rabenhaupt, German/Neth baron of Sucha/army leader, dies at 73 August 12, 1674 Philippe de Champaigne, painter, dies August 12, 1660 Gilbertus van Zinnik, Flemish architect, dies at about 33 August 12, 1654 Cornelis Haga, ambassador to Constantinople (1611-39), dies at 76 August 12, 1638 Johannes Althusius, [Althaut], German lawyer, dies at about 81 August 12, 1633 Jacopo Peri, Itallian opera composer, dies at 71 August 12, 1612 Giovanni Gabrieli, Italian composer (Madrigali), dies at about 60 August 12, 1588 Alfonso Ferrabosco, composer, dies at 45 August 12, 1546 Francisco de Vitoria, Spanish theology/lawyer, dies August 12, 1484 Sixtus IV, [Francesco della Rovere], Pope (1471-84), dies August 12, 1350 Philip VI, king of France, dies August 12, 1158 Anselmus van Havelberg, Brandenburg bshp of Havelberg (1129-55), dies August 12, 875 Louis II, king of Italy/emperor of France, dies at about 50 |