Deaths on January 12
This archive lists notable deaths associated with January 12 across multiple years. For the specific 2026 archive, see Deaths on January 12, 2026.
Carolyn D. Wright
American poetDied on Tuesday January 12th 2016
Rose Chibambo
Malawian politicianDied on Tuesday January 12th 2016
William Needles
Canadian actorDied on Tuesday January 12th 2016
James L. Browning, Jr.
American juristDied on Tuesday January 12th 2016
Marian Czapla
Polish painterDied on Tuesday January 12th 2016
Andrew Smith
American basketball player (Butler Bulldogs)Died on Tuesday January 12th 2016
Anti Marguste
Estonian composerDied on Tuesday January 12th 2016
Ruth Leuwerik
German film actressDied on Tuesday January 12th 2016
Robert Black
Scottish serial killerDied on Tuesday January 12th 2016
Ivan Bukavshin
Russian chess playerDied on Tuesday January 12th 2016
Jean Krier
Luxembourgian poetDied on Saturday January 12th 2013
Bubba Harris
American baseball player (Philadelphia AthleticsDied on Saturday January 12th 2013
Emmett Forrest
American collectorDied on Saturday January 12th 2013
Harry Fearnley
English footballerDied on Saturday January 12th 2013
Steven Utley
American science-fiction writerDied on Saturday January 12th 2013
Helen Elliot
Scottish table tennis playerDied on Saturday January 12th 2013
Roy Sinclair
English footballer (Watford)Died on Saturday January 12th 2013
John Martin Darko
Ghanaian Roman Catholic prelateDied on Saturday January 12th 2013
Yuri Schmidt
Russian lawyer and human rights activistDied on Saturday January 12th 2013
Chuck Dalton
Canadian basketball playerDied on Saturday January 12th 2013
John C. Rule
American historianDied on Saturday January 12th 2013
William J. Cullerton
American fighter pilotDied on Saturday January 12th 2013
Norma Redpath
Australian artistDied on Saturday January 12th 2013
Harold Crowchild
Canadian Tsuu T'ina elder and soldierDied on Saturday January 12th 2013
Viktor Platan
Finnish Olympic pentathleteDied on Saturday January 12th 2013
Anthony Cavendish
English MI6 officerDied on Saturday January 12th 2013
Eugene Patterson
American newspaper editor (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)Died on Saturday January 12th 2013
Precious Bryant
American blues and country musicianDied on Saturday January 12th 2013
Gregory Victor Babic
Australian writerDied on Saturday January 12th 2013
Koto Okubo
Japanese supercentenarianDied on Saturday January 12th 2013
Guy de Alwis
Sri Lankan cricketerDied on Saturday January 12th 2013
Walt McPherson
American basketball coach (San Jose State University)Died on Saturday January 12th 2013
William Andrew MacKay
Canadian academicDied on Saturday January 12th 2013
Anna Lizaran
Spanish actressDied on Saturday January 12th 2013
Zdenko Škrabalo
Serbian-born Croatian academician and diplomatDied on Sunday January 12th 2014
Connie Binsfeld
American politicianDied on Sunday January 12th 2014
Sir Robert Scholey
British business executiveDied on Sunday January 12th 2014
Nick Bevan
British rowing coachDied on Sunday January 12th 2014
Alexandra Bastedo
British actress (Batman BeginsDied on Sunday January 12th 2014
Robert H. Quinn
American attorney and politicianDied on Sunday January 12th 2014
Neal Barrett, Jr.
American authorDied on Sunday January 12th 2014
Frank Marth
American actor (The HoneymoonersDied on Sunday January 12th 2014
Heinz Angelmaier
German soldierDied on Sunday January 12th 2014
Burton Lifland
American judgeDied on Sunday January 12th 2014
E. Holman Jones
American newspaper publisher and politicianDied on Sunday January 12th 2014
John Horsley
British actor (The Fall and Rise of Reginald PerrinDied on Sunday January 12th 2014
Patrick Horsbrugh
British architecture professorDied on Sunday January 12th 2014
Ángel Herrero
Spanish footballerDied on Sunday January 12th 2014
Tony Harding
British comics artistDied on Sunday January 12th 2014
William Feindel
Canadian neurosurgeonDied on Sunday January 12th 2014
François Joseph Pierre Deniau
French Roman Catholic prelateDied on Sunday January 12th 2014
Gyula Török
Hungarian Olympic champion boxer (1960)Died on Sunday January 12th 2014
George Dement
American innkeeperDied on Sunday January 12th 2014
Tsunetoshi Tanaka
Japanese politicianDied on Sunday January 12th 2014
Halet Çambel
Turkish Olympic fencer (1936) and archaeologistDied on Sunday January 12th 2014
Michael L. Strang
American politicianDied on Sunday January 12th 2014
John Button
British racing driverDied on Sunday January 12th 2014
Robert Gover
American authorDied on Monday January 12th 2015
Stephen Gold
British computer journalistDied on Monday January 12th 2015
James Naanman Daman
Nigerian Roman Catholic prelateDied on Monday January 12th 2015
Trevor Colbourn
Australian educator and academicDied on Monday January 12th 2015
Germán Cobos
Spanish actorDied on Monday January 12th 2015
Darrell Winfield
American rancher and modelDied on Monday January 12th 2015
Bonnie Christensen
American children's book author and illustratorDied on Monday January 12th 2015
Inge Vermeulen
Brazilian-born Dutch field hockey player (national team)Died on Monday January 12th 2015
John Bayley
British literary critic and writerDied on Monday January 12th 2015
Ed Skinner
American politician and attorneyDied on Monday January 12th 2015
Gabriel Ramushwana
South African generalDied on Monday January 12th 2015
Elena Obraztsova
Russian mezzo-sopranoDied on Monday January 12th 2015
Paul Morgan
Welsh rugby union and league playerDied on Monday January 12th 2015
A. J. Masters
American singer and songwriterDied on Monday January 12th 2015
William C. Martel
American political scientistDied on Monday January 12th 2015