August 12th
150 Notable deaths
Peretz Markish
Soviet yiddish poet and playwright.
Born December 7th, 1895 in Polonne.
Died August 12th, 1952 at 56 years old in Lubyanka Building.
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.
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.
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]
Evgeny Paton
Ukrainian and soviet scientist and engineer (1870-1953).
Born March 5th, 1870 in Nice. [ref]
Died August 12th, 1953 at 83 years old in Kyiv.
Victor Ambartsumian
Soviet armenian astrophysicist (1908–1996).
Born September 18th, 1908 in Tbilisi.
Died August 12th, 1996 at 87 years old in Byurakan. [ref]
Jørgen Skafte Rasmussen
Danish engineer.
Born July 30th, 1878 in Nakskov.
Died August 12th, 1964 at 86 years old in Copenhagen.
Eulalio Gutiérrez
President of mexico (1881-1939).
Born February 2nd, 1881 in Ramos Arizpe.
Died August 12th, 1939 at 58 years old in Saltillo.
David Bergelson
Russian playwright and writer (1884-1952).
Born August 12th, 1884 in Sarny. [ref]
Died August 12th, 1952 at 68 years old in Lubyanka Building. [ref]
Deaths 71 to 80 of 150
That’s what literature is. It’s the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them! Connie Willis