August 12th
161 Notable deaths
Can Yücel
Turkish poet (1926-1999).
Born August 21st, 1926 in Istanbul. [ref]
Died August 12th, 1999 at 72 years old in İzmir (cancer).
Lin Fengmian
Chinese painter (1900-1991).
Born November 22nd, 1900 in Jiaying Zhou.
Died August 12th, 1991 at 90 years old in Hong Kong.
Ruth Ford
American actress (1911-2009).
Born July 7th, 1911 in Brookhaven. [ref]
Died August 12th, 2009 at 98 years old in New York City. [ref]
Ralph Asher Alpher
American cosmologist (1921–2007).
Born February 3rd, 1921 in Washington, D.C..
Died August 12th, 2007 at 86 years old in Austin. [ref]
Solomon Lozovsky
Soviet revolutionary (1878-1952).
Born March 16th, 1878 in Alexandrovsky Uyezd.
Died August 12th, 1952 at 74 years old in Lubyanka Building, Bolshevo.
Kurt Eggers
War correspondent and writer (1905-1943).
Born November 10th, 1905 in Berlin.
Died August 12th, 1943 at 37 years old in Kharkiv Oblast.
Karl Leisner
German roman catholic priest and martyr (1915–1945).
Born February 28th, 1915 in Rees.
Died August 12th, 1945 at 30 years old in Waldsanatorium bei Planegg (tuberculosis). [ref]
Stephen Wiesner
Israeli research physicist.
Born August 30th, 1942 in United States of America.
Died August 12th, 2021 at 78 years old in Jerusalem. [ref]
Suzanne Spaak
Belgian anti-nazi resistance worker and counterintelligence agent.
Born July 6th, 1905 in City of Brussels.
Died August 12th, 1944 at 39 years old in Fresnes Prison (ballistic trauma, shot to the head).
Zhu Ziqing
Chinese poet (1898–1948).
Born November 22nd, 1898 in Haizhou Zhilizhou.
Died August 12th, 1948 at 49 years old in Beijing.
Deaths 71 to 80 of 161
Death is the ultimate boundary of human matters. Horace