September 22 is the 265th day of the year (266th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 100 days remaining until the end of the year.
It is frequently the day of the Autumnal Equinox in the Northern Hemisphere and the day of the Vernal Equinox in the Southern Hemisphere.
Events [edit]
- 66 – Roman Emperor Nero creates the Legion I Italica.
- 1236 – The Lithuanians and Semigallians defeat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword in the Battle of Saule.
- 1499 – Treaty of Basel: Switzerland becomes an independent state.
- 1586 – Battle of Zutphen: Spanish victory over the English and Dutch.
- 1598 – English playwright Ben Jonson kills an actor in a duel and is indicted for manslaughter.
- 1692 – Last people hanged for witchcraft in England's North American colonies.
- 1711 – The Tuscarora War begins in present-day North Carolina.
- 1761 – George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz are crowned King and Queen, respectively, of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
- 1776 – Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during American Revolution.
- 1789 – The office of United States Postmaster General is established.
- 1789 – Battle of Rymnik establishes Alexander Suvorov as a pre-eminent Russian military commander after his allied army defeat superior Ottoman Empire forces.
- 1792 – Primidi Vendémiaire of year 1 of the French Republican Calendar as the French First Republic comes into being.
- 1823 – Joseph Smith, Jr. states he found the Golden plates on this date after being directed by God through the Angel Moroni to the place where they were buried.
- 1857 – The Russian warship Lefort capsizes and sinks during a storm in the Gulf of Finland, killing all 826 aboard.
- 1862 – Slavery in the United States: a preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation is released.
- 1866 – Battle of Curupaity in the Paraguayan War.
- 1869 – Richard Wagner's opera Das Rheingold premieres in Munich.
- 1885 – Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to Home Rule.
- 1888 – The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published.
- 1896 – Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
- 1908 – The Bulgarian Declaration of Independence is proclaimed.
- 1910 – The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.
- 1914 – German submarine SM U-9 torpedoes and sinks the British cruisers, HMS Aboukir, HMS Hogue and HMS Cressy on the Broad Fourteens off the Dutch coast with the loss of nearly 1400 men and boys.
- 1919 – The steel strike of 1919, led by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, begins in Pennsylvania before spreading across the United States.
- 1927 – Jack Dempsey loses the "Long Count" boxing match to Gene Tunney.
- 1934 – An explosion takes place at Gresford Colliery in Wales, leading to the deaths of 266 miners and rescuers.
- 1937 – Spanish Civil War: Peña Blanca is taken; the end of the Battle of El Mazuco.
- 1939 – Joint victory parade of Wehrmacht and Red Army in Brest-Litovsk at the end of the Invasion of Poland.
- 1941 – World War II: On Jewish New Year Day, the German SS murder 6,000 Jews in Vinnytsya, Ukraine. Those are the survivors of the previous killings that took place a few days earlier in which about 24,000 Jews were executed.
- 1955 – In the United Kingdom, the television channel ITV goes live for the first time.
- 1957 – In Haiti, François Duvalier is elected president.
- 1960 – The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the Mali Federation.
- 1965 – The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 (also known as the Second Kashmir War) between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, ends after the UN calls for a cease-fire.
- 1975 – Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is foiled by Oliver Sipple.
- 1979 – The Vela Incident (also known as the South Atlantic Flash) is observed near Bouvet Island, thought to be a nuclear weapons test.
- 1980 – Iraq invades Iran.
- 1991 – The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time by the Huntington Library.
- 1993 – A barge strikes a railroad bridge near Mobile, Alabama, causing the deadliest train wreck in Amtrak history. 47 passengers are killed.
- 1993 – A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia.
- 1995 – An E-3B AWACS crashes outside Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska after multiple bird strikes to two of the four engines soon after takeoff; all 24 on board are killed.
- 1995 – Nagerkovil school bombing, is carried out by Sri Lankan Air Force in which at least 34 die, most of them ethnic Tamil school children.
Births [edit]
- 1515 – Anne of Cleves (d. 1557)
- 1547 – Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin, German philologist and poet (d. 1590)
- 1593 – Matthäus Merian, Swiss engraver (d. 1650)
- 1601 – Anne of Austria (d. 1666)
- 1606 – Li Zicheng, Chinese emperor (d. 1645)
- 1680 – Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (d. 1747)
- 1694 – Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, English statesman (d. 1773)
- 1715 – Jean-Étienne Guettard, French physician and scientist (d. 1786)
- 1717 – Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Swedish astronomer (d. 1783)
- 1722 – John Home, Scottish poet and playwright (d. 1808)
- 1741 – Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist (d. 1811)
- 1743 – Quintin Craufurd, Scottish author (d. 1819)
- 1765 – Paolo Ruffini, Italian mathematician (d. 1822)
- 1788 – Theodore Hook, English author (d. 1841)
- 1791 – Michael Faraday, English scientist (d. 1867)
- 1819 – Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian (d. 1897)
- 1829 – Tu Duc, Vietnamese emperor (d. 1883)
- 1835 – Alexander Potebnja, Ukrainian philosopher and linguist (d. 1891)
- 1868 – Louise McKinney, Canadian politician and activist (d. 1931)
- 1869 – Adrien de Noailles, French son of Jules Charles Victurnien de Noailles (d. 1953)
- 1870 – Charlotte Cooper, English tennis player (d. 1966)
- 1870 – Arthur Pryor American trombonist, bandleader, and composer (d. 1942)
- 1875 – Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, Lithuanian painter and composer (d. 1911)
- 1876 – André Tardieu, French politician, 97th Prime Minister of France (d. 1945)
- 1878 – Shigeru Yoshida, Japanese diplomat and politician, 51st Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1967)
- 1880 – Christabel Pankhurst, English activist, co-founded the Women's Social and Political Union (d. 1958)
- 1882 – Wilhelm Keitel, German field marshal (d. 1946)
- 1883 – Ferenc Oslay, Hungarian-Slovene historian and author (d. 1932)
- 1885 – Gunnar Asplund, Swedish architect (d. 1940)
- 1885 – Ben Chifley, Australian politician, 16th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1951)
- 1885 – Erich von Stroheim, Austrian-American actor (d. 1957)
- 1887 – Bhaurao Patil, Indian educator and activist (d. 1959)
- 1889 – Hooks Dauss, American baseball player (d. 1963)
- 1891 – Hans Albers, German actor and singer (d. 1960)
- 1892 – Billy West, American actor, director, and producer (d. 1975)
- 1894 – Elisabeth Rethberg, German soprano (d. 1976)
- 1895 – Paul Muni, Austrian-American actor (d. 1967)
- 1896 – Uri Zvi Grinberg, Israeli poet and journalist (d. 1981)
- 1896 – Henry Segrave, American-English race car driver (d. 1930)
- 1898 – Katharine Alexander, American actress (d. 1981)
- 1900 – Paul Hugh Emmett, American chemist (d. 1985)
- 1900 – William Spratling, American artist and designer (d. 1967)
- 1901 – Charles Brenton Huggins, Canadian-American physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)
- 1902 – John Houseman, Romanian-American actor and producer (d. 1988)
- 1902 – Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian religious leader and politician, 1st Supreme Leader of Iran (d. 1989)
- 1903 – Joseph Valachi, American gangster (d. 1971)
- 1904 – Ellen Church, American flight attendant (d. 1965)
- 1905 – Haakon Lie, Norwegian politician (d. 2009)
- 1905 – Eugen Sänger, Austrian engineer (d. 1964)
- 1906 – Ilse Koch, German nazi official (d. 1967)
- 1907 – Philip Fotheringham-Parker, English race car driver (d. 1981)
- 1907 – Hermann Schlichting, German engineer (d. 1982)
- 1908 – Esphyr Slobodkina, Russian-American author (d. 2002)
- 1909 – John Engstead, American photographer (d. 1983)
- 1910 – György Faludy, Hungarian poet (d. 2006)
- 1912 – Herbert Mataré, German physicist (d. 2011)
- 1912 – Martha Scott, American actress (d. 2003)
- 1913 – Lillian Chestney, American painter (d. 2000)
- 1915 – Grigory Frid, Russian composer (d. 2012)
- 1915 – Arthur Lowe, English actor (d. 1982)
- 1918 – Hans Scholl, German activist (d. 1943)
- 1918 – Henryk Szeryng, Polish-Mexican violinist (d. 1988)
- 1920 – Eric Baker, English activist, co-founded Amnesty International (d. 1976)
- 1920 – Anders Lassen, Danish military officer (d. 1945)
- 1920 – Bob Lemon, American baseball player (d. 2000)
- 1920 – William H. Riker, American political scientist (d. 1993)
- 1921 – Will Elder, American illustrator (d. 2008)
- 1922 – Romeo Cascarino, American composer (d. 2002)
- 1923 – Dannie Abse, Welsh poet
- 1924 – Bernard Gauthier, French cyclist
- 1924 – Charles Keeping, English author and illustrator (d. 1988)
- 1924 – Rosamunde Pilcher, English novelist
- 1924 – Ray Wetzel, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1951)
- 1925 – Virginia Capers, American actress (d. 2004)
- 1926 – Leila Hadley, American author (d. 2009)
- 1926 – Bill Smith, American clarinet player and composer
- 1927 – Gordon Astall, English footballer
- 1927 – Colette Deréal, French singer and actress (d. 1988)
- 1927 – Tommy Lasorda, American baseball player and manager
- 1928 – Eric Broadley, English engineer and businessman, founded Lola Cars
- 1928 – James Lawson, American activist
- 1928 – Eugene Roche, American actor (d. 2004)
- 1929 – Serge Garant, Canadian composer and conductor (d. 1986)
- 1930 – Joni James, American singer
- 1930 – P. B. Sreenivas, Indian singer
- 1931 – Manzoor Ahmad, Pakistani scientist and philosopher
- 1931 – Fay Weldon, English author and playwright
- 1931 – George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, Scottish banker and politician (d. 2003)
- 1932 – Ingemar Johansson, Swedish boxer (d. 2009)
- 1933 – Leonardo Balada, Spanish-American composer
- 1933 – T. Cullen Davis, American businessman
- 1933 – Jesco von Puttkamer, German-American engineer (d. 2012)
- 1934 – Jack McGregor, American lawyer and politician
- 1934 – Lute Olson, American basketball coach
- 1936 – Maurice Evans, English footballer and manager (d. 2000)
- 1938 – Gene Mingo, American football player
- 1939 – Bogdan Baltazar, Romanian banker (d. 2012)
- 1939 – Gilbert E. Patterson, American minister and bishop (d. 2007)
- 1939 – Junko Tabei, Japanese mountaineer
- 1940 – Anna Karina, Danish-French actress, director, and screenwriter
- 1941 – Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Bulgarian soprano
- 1941 – Jeremiah Wright, American pastor
- 1941 – Bobby Radcliff, American guitarist
- 1942 – George Erik Rupp, American educator and theologian
- 1942 – Marlena Shaw, American singer
- 1942 – David Stern, American businessman
- 1942 – Rubén Salazar Gómez, Colombian cardinal
- 1943 – Toni Basil, American singer-songwriter, dancer, actress, and director
- 1943 – Barry Cable, Australian footballer and coach
- 1943 – Paul Hoffert, American musician, composer, and author (Lighthouse)
- 1944 – Brian Gibson, English director (d. 2004)
- 1946 – King Sunny Adé, Nigerian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
- 1946 – Dan Baker, American announcer
- 1946 – Larry Dierker, American baseball player and manager
- 1947 – Robert Morace, American author
- 1947 – Jo Beverley, English-Canadian author
- 1948 – Denis Burke, Australian soldier and politician, 6th Chief Minister of the Northern Territory
- 1948 – Jim Byrnes, American guitarist and actor
- 1949 – James Cartwright, American general
- 1949 – Jim Keith, American author (d. 1999)
- 1949 – Jim McGinty, Australian politician
- 1950 – Kirka, Finnish singer (d. 2007)
- 1951 – David Coverdale, English singer-songwriter (Whitesnake, Deep Purple, and Coverdale and Page)
- 1952 – Bob Goodlatte, American politician
- 1952 – Gary Holton, English singer-songwriter and actor (Heavy Metal Kids) (d. 1985)
- 1952 – Paul Le Mat, American actor
- 1952 – Sukhumbhand Paribatra, Thai politician, 15th Governor of Bangkok
- 1953 – Fred Fairbrass, English singer-songwriter (Right Said Fred)
- 1953 – Richard Fairbrass, English singer-songwriter (Right Said Fred)
- 1953 – Ségolène Royal, French politician
- 1954 – Shari Belafonte, American actress and singer
- 1954 – Randy Lanier, American race car driver and drug trafficker
- 1955 – Jeffrey Leonard, American baseball player
- 1956 – Debby Boone, American singer, actress, and author
- 1956 – Robert Bowlin, American guitarist and fiddler (The Time Jumpers)
- 1956 – David Krakauer, American clarinet player and composer
- 1956 – Masayuki Suzuki, Japanese singer (Rats & Star)
- 1956 – Doug Wimbish, American singer-songwriter and bass player (Living Colour and Tackhead)
- 1957 – Nick Cave, Australian singer-songwriter, composer, and actor (The Birthday Party, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, and Grinderman)
- 1957 – Johnette Napolitano, American singer-songwriter and bass player (Concrete Blonde)
- 1957 – Giuseppe Saronni, Italian cyclist
- 1958 – Andrea Bocelli, Italian tenor, songwriter, and producer
- 1958 – Neil Cavuto, American journalist
- 1958 – Christian Dozzler, Austrian-American singer-songwriter and musician
- 1958 – Lynn Herring, American actress
- 1958 – Joan Jett, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actress (The Runaways)
- 1959 – Tai Babilonia, American figure skater
- 1959 – Mark Patton, American actor
- 1959 – Saul Perlmutter, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate
- 1960 – Scott Baio, American actor
- 1960 – Ernest Martin, American murderer (d. 2003)
- 1961 – Vince Coleman, American baseball player
- 1961 – Bonnie Hunt, American actress
- 1961 – Diane Lemieux, Canadian politician
- 1961 – Catherine Oxenberg, American-English actress
- 1961 – Michael Torke, American composer
- 1962 – Normand D'Amour, Canadian actor
- 1962 – Diogo Mainardi, Brazilian journalist
- 1962 – Marq Torien, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (BulletBoys)
- 1964 – Liam Fox, Scottish politician
- 1964 – Juha Turunen, Finnish lawyer and politician
- 1964 – Ken Vandermark, American saxophonist and composer
- 1965 – Andy Cairns, Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Therapy?)
- 1965 – Tony Drago, Maltese snooker player
- 1965 – Mark Guthrie, American baseball player
- 1965 – Robert Satcher, American astronaut
- 1966 – Moustafa Amar, Egyptian singer and actor
- 1966 – Ruth Jones, Welsh actress
- 1966 – Wes Platt, American game designer
- 1966 – Stefan Rehn, Swedish footballer
- 1966 – Mike Richter, American ice hockey player
- 1967 – Matt Besser, American comedian and actor
- 1967 – Rickard Rydell, Swedish race car driver
- 1967 – Félix Savón, Cuban boxer
- 1967 – Kim Watkins, Australian television host
- 1969 – Sue Perkins, English comedian, broadcaster and conductor
- 1969 – Tuomas Kantelinen, Finnish composer
- 1969 – Matt Sharp, American singer-songwriter and bass player (Weezer, The Rentals, and Goldenboy)
- 1970 – Mystikal, American rapper and actor
- 1970 – Mike Matheny, American baseball player
- 1970 – Rupert Penry-Jones, English actor
- 1970 – Emmanuel Petit, French footballer
- 1971 – Elizabeth Bear, American author
- 1971 – Chesney Hawkes, English singer-songwriter and actor
- 1971 – Toomas Krõm, Estonian football player
- 1971 – Ted Leonard, American singer (Enchant)
- 1971 – Kostas Kaiafas, Greek footballer
- 1971 – Princess Märtha Louise of Norway
- 1973 – Blake Sennett, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (Rilo Kiley and The Elected)
- 1974 – Yoo Chae-yeong, South Korean singer-songwriter and actress
- 1975 – Ethan Moreau, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1975 – Svilen Noev, Bulgarian singer-songwriter (Ostava)
- 1975 – Lil Rob, American rapper, producer, and actor
- 1975 – Bob Sapp, American boxer
- 1976 – David Berkeley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1976 – Xiao Huang-Chi, Taiwanese blind singer-songwriter who also participated in 1996 Paralympics in judo.
- 1977 – Paul Sculthorpe, English rugby player
- 1978 – Ed Joyce, Irish cricketer
- 1978 – Harry Kewell, Australian footballer
- 1979 – Emilie Autumn, American singer-songwriter, violinist, and poet
- 1979 – Swin Cash, American basketball player
- 1979 – Michael Graziadei, American actor
- 1980 – Ray Foley, Irish radio host
- 1980 – Fernanda Tavares, Brazilian model
- 1980 – Svenja Weidemann, German tennis player
- 1981 – Ashley Eckstein, American actress
- 1981 – Subaru Shibutani, Japanese singer-songwriter and actor (Kanjani Eight)
- 1982 – Domenic Cassisi, Australian footballer
- 1982 – Mandy Chiang, Hong Kong singer and actress
- 1982 – Kosuke Kitajima, Japanese swimmer
- 1982 – Billie Piper, English actress and singer
- 1982 – Maarten Stekelenburg, Dutch footballer
- 1984 – Theresa Fu, Chinese singer and actress (Cookies)
- 1984 – Ross Jarman, English drummer and songwriter (The Cribs)
- 1984 – Eduardo Rubio, Chilean footballer
- 1984 – Thiago Silva, Brazilian footballer
- 1984 – Laura Vandervoort, Canadian actress
- 1985 – Matteo Cavagna, Italian footballer
- 1985 – Rima Fakih, Lebanese-American model and wrestler, Miss USA 2010
- 1985 – Faris Haroun, Belgian footballer
- 1985 – Jamie Mackie, Scottish footballer
- 1987 – Lee Bannon, American rapper and producer
- 1987 – Derick Brassard, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1987 – Stefan Denifl, Austrian cyclist
- 1987 – Tom Felton, English actor and singer
- 1987 – Alfred Rainer, Austrian Nordic combined skier (d. 2008)
- 1988 – Nikita Andreyev, Russian football player
- 1988 – Bethany Dillon, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1988 – Ali Fasir, Maldivian footballer
- 1988 – Mohamed Faisal, Maldivian footballer
- 1989 – Cœur de pirate, Canadian singer-songwriter and pianist (Armistice and Bonjour Brumaire)
- 1989 – Kim Hyo-yeon, South Korean singer, dancer, and actress (Girls' Generation)
- 1989 – Sabine Lisicki German tennis player
- 1990 – Denard Robinson, American football player
- 1993 – Chase Ellison, American actor
- 1999 – Tallan Latz, American guitarist
Deaths [edit]
- 1072 – Ouyang Xiu, Chinese statesman, historian, and poet (b. 1007)
- 1253 – Dōgen, Japanese educator (b. 1200)
- 1345 – Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster (b. 1281)
- 1399 – Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk (b. 1366)
- 1520 – Selim I, Ottoman sultan (b. 1465)
- 1539 – Guru Nanak Dev, Religious Leader, founded Sikhism (b. 1469)
- 1554 – Francisco Vásquez de Coronado, Spanish explorer (b. 1510)
- 1566 – Johannes Agricola, German religious reformer (b. 1494)
- 1607 – Alessandro Allori, Italian painter (b. 1535)
- 1658 – Georg Philipp Harsdorffer, German poet (b. 1607)
- 1662 – John Biddle, English theologian (b. 1615)
- 1692 – Martha Corey, American woman accused of being a witch (b. 1620)
- 1703 – Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician and scientist (b. 1622)
- 1774 – Pope Clement XIV (b. 1705)
- 1776 – Nathan Hale, American soldier (b. 1755)
- 1777 – John Bartram, American botanist and explorer (b. 1699)
- 1828 – Shaka, Zulu leader (b. 1787)
- 1852 – William Tierney Clark, English engineer, designed the Hammersmith Bridge (b. 1783)
- 1872 – Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer (b. 1801)
- 1873 – Friedrich Frey-Herosé, Swiss politician (b. 1801)
- 1881 – Solomon L. Spink, American lawyer and politician (b. 1831)
- 1914 – Alain-Fournier, French author and soldier (b. 1886)
- 1919 – Alajos Gáspár, Slovene-Hungarian author (b. 1848)
- 1952 – Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, Finnish politician, 1st President of Finland (b. 1865)
- 1956 – Frederick Soddy, English chemist and economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
- 1957 – Soemu Toyoda, Japanese navy admiral (b. 1885)
- 1961 – Marion Davies, American actress (b. 1897)
- 1969 – Adolfo López Mateos, Mexican politician, 48th President of Mexico (b. 1909)
- 1973 – Paul van Zeeland, Belgian economist and politician (b. 1893)
- 1981 – Harry Warren, American composer and songwriter (b. 1893)
- 1987 – Hákun Djurhuus, Faroese politician, 4th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1908)
- 1987 – Dan Rowan, American actor and comedian (b. 1922)
- 1988 – Rais Amrohvi, Pakistani poet (b. 1914)
- 1989 – Irving Berlin, Russian-American composer and songwriter (b. 1888)
- 1992 – Aurelio López, Mexican baseball player (b. 1948)
- 1993 – Maurice Abravanel, Greek-American conductor (b. 1903)
- 1994 – Leonard Feather, English-American pianist, composer, producer, and journalist (b. 1914)
- 1996 – Ludmilla Chiriaeff, Canadian ballet dancer and director (b. 1924)
- 1996 – Dorothy Lamour, American actress (b. 1914)
- 1999 – George C. Scott, American actor (b. 1927)
- 2000 – Saburō Sakai, Japanese pilot (b. 1916)
- 2001 – Isaac Stern, Polish-Ukrainian violinist and conductor (b. 1920)
- 2002 – Jan de Hartog, Dutch-American author and playwright (b. 1914)
- 2003 – Gordon Jump, American actor (b. 1932)
- 2003 – Wolfgang Peters, German footballer (b. 1929)
- 2003 – Hugo Young, English journalist (b. 1938)
- 2004 – Pete Schoening, American mountaineer (b. 1927)
- 2004 – Ray Traylor, American wrestler (b. 1962)
- 2006 – Edward Albert, American actor (b. 1951)
- 2006 – Carla Benschop, Dutch basketball player (b. 1950)
- 2007 – Nílton Coelho da Costa, Brazilian footballer (b. 1928)
- 2007 – Marcel Marceau, French actor (b. 1923)
- 2008 – Thomas Dörflein, German zookeeper (b. 1963)
- 2010 – Eddie Fisher, American singer and actor (b. 1928)
- 2011 – Peter E. Berger, American film editor (b. 1944)
- 2011 – Cengiz Dağcı, Crimean Tatar novelist and poet (b. 1919)
- 2011 – Vesta Williams, American singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1957)
- 2012 – Hector Abhayavardhana, Sri Lankan theorist (b. 1919)
- 2012 – Juan H. Cintrón García, Puerto Rican politician (b. 1919)
- 2012 – Grigory Frid, Russian composer (b. 1915)
- 2012 – Gideon Gadot, Israeli journalist and politician (b. 1941)
- 2012 – Mustaf Haji Mohamed, Somali politician
- 2012 – Harry Pilling, English cricketer (b. 1943)
- 2012 – Jan Hendrik van den Berg, Dutch psychiatrist (b. 1914)
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