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January 12, 2005 Amrish Puri, Indian Actor January 12, 2002 Cyrus Vance, American Statesman January 12, 2001 William Hewlett, "started an early ""garage"" company", co-founder of Hewlett-Packard, dies at 87 January 12, 2001 William Reddington Hewlett, American Businessman January 12, 2001 Lord Hailsham, British Politician January 12, 1999 Betty Lou Gerson, voice, 101 Dalmations, dies at 84 January 12, 1997 Charles Huggins, surgeon/medical researcher, dies at 95 January 12, 1997 Jean Writer-Edern Hallier, dies at 60 January 12, 1997 Jill Summers, actress (Agatha Coronation Street), dies at 86 January 12, 1997 James Laughlin, American Poet January 12, 1996 Edmund Happold, engineer, dies at 65 January 12, 1996 John Howard Purnell, scientist, dies at 70 January 12, 1996 Peggy Braithwaite, lighthouse-keeper, dies at 76 January 12, 1995 Francis Lopez, songwriter, dies at 77 January 12, 1995 George Price, cartoonist (New Yorker), dies at 93 January 12, 1995 Marion Herbst, German/Dutch jewelry designer, dies at 50 January 12, 1994 Bob Horen, dies of cancer at 67 January 12, 1994 Samuel Bronston, Romanian/US producer (El Cid), dies at 85 January 12, 1993 Carles Mira, Spanish director (Que Nos Quiten Lo Bailao), dies at 45 January 12, 1992 Harry van Doorn, Dutch MP (KVP/KRO-chairman/PPR/CRM), dies at 76 January 12, 1992 Walt Morey, U.S. children's book writer (Gentle Ben), dies at 84 January 12, 1991 Keye Luke, actor (Charlie Chan's No 1 Son), dies after a stroke at 86 January 12, 1991 Vasco Pratolini, Italy, writer (Ragazze di San Frediano), dies at 77 January 12, 1990 Laurence J Peter, author (Peter Princible), dies of a stroke at 70 January 12, 1990 Paul Amadeus Pisk, composer, dies at 96 January 12, 1987 Alf Landon, American Politician January 12, 1986 Marcel Arland, French author (L'ordre, Lumiere du Soir), dies at 86 January 12, 1981 Beulah Bondi, actress (It's a Wonderful Life), dies at 89 January 12, 1981 Isobel Elsom, actress (Unseen, Jane Eyre, Illegal), dies at 87 January 12, 1978 Nancy Spungen, stabbed to death by boyfriend Sid Vicious January 12, 1977 Henri-Georges Clouzot, director (Diabolique, Truth), dies at 69 January 12, 1976 Agatha Christie, mystery writer (10 Little Indians), dies at 85 January 12, 1976 Walter Piston, American Composer January 12, 1972 Padraic Colum, Irish poet/writer/founder (Irish Review), dies at 90 January 12, 1970 Blanche Stuart Scott, U.S. pilot, dies at 84 January 12, 1965 Lorraine Hansberry, U.S. playwright, dies in New York City, dies at 34 January 12, 1965 Porcupine, in Washington D.C. zoo, dies at 27; oldest known rodent January 12, 1964 C R Browne, cricket leg-spinner (WI in 4 Tests, 6 wkts), dies January 12, 1962 Ernie Kovacs, comedian (Ernie Kovacs Show), killed in auto crash at 42 January 12, 1962 Richard de Guide, composer, dies at 52 January 12, 1960 Nevil Shute [Norway], Eng/Aust author (Town like Alice), dies at 60 January 12, 1958 Arthur Shepherd, composer, dies at 77 January 12, 1956 John Raedecker, Dutch sculptor (WW II Monument Amsterdam), dies at 70 January 12, 1956 Norman Kerry, actor (Air Eagles, Phantom of Opera), dies at 61 January 12, 1953 Simeon Roncal, composer, dies at 82 January 12, 1950 Koos van de Griend, composer, dies at 44 January 12, 1947 Jonas Cohn, German/English philosopher (Wertwissenschaft), dies at 77 January 12, 1947 Baroness Orczy, British Novelist January 12, 1943 Jan R T Campert, Dutch resistance fighter/poet (18 Dead), dies at 40 January 12, 1940 Erich R Jaensch, German psychologist (eidetiek), dies at 56 January 12, 1933 Vaclav Suk, composer, dies at 71 January 12, 1929 Dietrich Schafer, German historian (Mein Leben), dies at 83 January 12, 1929 Charles Goodnight, American Celebrity January 12, 1928 Ruth Snyder, 1st woman to die in electric chair January 12, 1926 Joseph Cannon, American Politician January 12, 1925 Oskar Brefeld, German botanist, dies at 85 January 12, 1916 Percival Lowell, American Scientist January 12, 1912 John P. Jones, American Politician January 12, 1900 Henry Villard, American Journalist January 12, 1887 Dinah Maria Mulock, English Novelist January 12, 1880 Ida Grafin von Hahn-Hahn, author (Aus der Gesellschaft), dies at 74 January 12, 1872 Henry Alford, English Clergyman January 12, 1867 Victor Cousin, French philosopher/minister of Education, dies at 74 January 12, 1861 Vaclav Hanka, Czech author/translator/forger, dies at 69 January 12, 1860 Martinus J Niewindt, bishop on Curaeao (christened slaves), dies at 63 January 12, 1859 Robert Stephenson, English Celebrity January 12, 1856 L'udovit Stur, Slovaaks author/linguistic (Das Slawentum), dies at 40 January 12, 1851 Johan Herman Koekkoek, painter, dies at 72 January 12, 1839 Joseph A Koch, Aust painter/cartoonist/etcher/illustrator, dies at 70 January 12, 1833 Marie-Antoine Careme, author (Pattissier Royal Parisien), dies at 48 January 12, 1829 Friedrich von Schlegel, German cultural philosopher/poet, dies at 56 January 12, 1829 Michael Gottard Fischer, composer, dies at 55 January 12, 1807 Adriaan Kluit, Dutch historian, dies at 71 January 12, 1807 Joan Lucaz, Dutch scholar/journalist/patriot, dies at 60 January 12, 1793 Lord George Gordon, British Politician January 12, 1765 Johann Melchior Molter, composer, dies at 68 January 12, 1759 Anne of Hannover, English princess, dies at 49 January 12, 1674 Giacomo Carissimi, Italian bandmaster/composer (Jephta), dies at 68 January 12, 1665 Pierre de Fermat, Fr lawyer/mathematician (principle of F), dies at 63 January 12, 1537 Lorenzo di Credi, Italian painter, dies January 12, 1519 Maximilian I of Hapsburg, German kaiser, dies January 12, 1517 Vasco Nunez de Balboa, Spanish conquistador/admiral, beheaded at 41 January 12, 1390 Peter van Herenthals, Dutch theologist/church historian, dies at 67 January 12, 1167 Aelred of Hexham/Rievaulx, English abbot/saint, dies at about 56 January 12, 1049 Abu Sa'id ibn Aboa al-Chair, Persian mystic, dies at 81 January 12, 689 Benedict Biscop, English saint, dies |