Death Report ...

125,624 People

Natural disasters in 1964

• Good Friday Earthquake

People who died on January 12 (various years)

• 2007 - Alice Coltrane, American jazz musician
• 2005 - Edmund S. Valtman, Estonian-born cartoonist
• 2005 - Amrish Puri, Indian actor
• 2005 - Alessia di Matteo, first survivor of eight transplants in one operation
• 2004 - Randy VanWarmer, American singer and songwriter
• 2004 - Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya, Russian mathematician
• 2003 - Maurice Gibb, British singer, songwriter, and musician (Bee Gees)
• 2003 - Leopoldo Galtieri, dictator of Argentina
• 2003 - Kinji Fukasaku, Japanese director
• 2003 - Dean Amadon, American ornithologist
• 2002 - Cyrus Vance, 57th U.S. Secretary of State
• 2002 - Stanley Unwin, South African comedian
• 2001 - Luiz Bonfá, Brazilian guitarist and composer
• 2001 - William Hewlett, American engineer and businessman
• 2001 - Affirmed, American racehorse
• 2000 - Bobby Phills, American basketball player
• 2000 - Marc Davis, American animator
• 1999 - Doug Wickenheiser, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1999 - Betty Lou Gerson, American voice actress
• 1997 - Jean-Edern Hallier, French author
• 1997 - Charles B. Huggins, Canadian-born cancer researcher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• 1996 - Joachim Nitsche, German mathematician
• 1990 - Laurence J. Peter, Canadian-born educator et writer
• 1983 - Nikolai Podgorny, President of the USSR
• 1977 - Henri-Georges Clouzot, French film director and screenwriter
• 1976 - Agatha Christie, English writer
• 1965 - Lorraine Hansberry, American writer
• 1962 - Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams, Russian writer and feminist
• 1960 - Nevil Shute, English writer
• 1956 - Norman Kerry, American actor
• 1944 - Lance C. Wade, American pilot
• 1943 - Jan Campert, Dutch journalist and writer
• 1940 - Edward Smith, English soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross
• 1909 - Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician
• 1899 - Hiram Walker, American distiller
• 1856 - Ľudovít Štúr, Slovak politician, author of Slovak language,
• 1834 - William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• 1817 - Juan Andres, Spanish Jesuit
• 1781 - Richard Challoner, English Catholic prelate
• 1777 - Hugh Mercer, American Revolutionary War officer (mortally wounded in battle)
• 1759 - Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange
• 1735 - John Eccles, English composer
• 1732 - John Horsley, British archaeologist
• 1705 - Luca Giordano, Italian artist
• 1700 - Marguerite Bourgeoys, saint
• 1674 - Giacomo Carissimi, Italian composer
• 1665 - Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician and lawyer
• 1583 - Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands
• 1519 - Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor
• 1321 - Maria of Brabant, wife of Philip III of France