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 poet
Died on Tuesday January 12th 2016
Rose Chibambo
Malawian politician
Died on Tuesday January 12th 2016
William Needles
Canadian actor
Died on Tuesday January 12th 2016
James L. Browning, Jr.
American jurist
Died on Tuesday January 12th 2016
Marian Czapla
Polish painter
Died on Tuesday January 12th 2016
Andrew Smith
American basketball player (Butler Bulldogs)
Died on Tuesday January 12th 2016
Anti Marguste
Estonian composer
Died on Tuesday January 12th 2016
Ruth Leuwerik
German film actress
Died on Tuesday January 12th 2016
Robert Black
Scottish serial killer
Died on Tuesday January 12th 2016
Ivan Bukavshin
Russian chess player
Died on Tuesday January 12th 2016
Eugene Patterson
American newspaper editor (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Died on Saturday January 12th 2013
Precious Bryant
American blues and country musician
Died on Saturday January 12th 2013
Gregory Victor Babic
Australian writer
Died on Saturday January 12th 2013
Koto Okubo
Japanese supercentenarian
Died on Saturday January 12th 2013
Guy de Alwis
Sri Lankan cricketer
Died on Saturday January 12th 2013
Walt McPherson
American basketball coach (San Jose State University)
Died on Saturday January 12th 2013
William Andrew MacKay
Canadian academic
Died on Saturday January 12th 2013
Anna Lizaran
Spanish actress
Died on Saturday January 12th 2013
Jean Krier
Luxembourgian poet
Died on Saturday January 12th 2013
Bubba Harris
American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics
Died on Saturday January 12th 2013
Emmett Forrest
American collector
Died on Saturday January 12th 2013
Harry Fearnley
English footballer
Died on Saturday January 12th 2013
Steven Utley
American science-fiction writer
Died on Saturday January 12th 2013
Helen Elliot
Scottish table tennis player
Died on Saturday January 12th 2013
Roy Sinclair
English footballer (Watford)
Died on Saturday January 12th 2013
John Martin Darko
Ghanaian Roman Catholic prelate
Died on Saturday January 12th 2013
Yuri Schmidt
Russian lawyer and human rights activist
Died on Saturday January 12th 2013
Chuck Dalton
Canadian basketball player
Died on Saturday January 12th 2013
John C. Rule
American historian
Died on Saturday January 12th 2013
William J. Cullerton
American fighter pilot
Died on Saturday January 12th 2013
Norma Redpath
Australian artist
Died on Saturday January 12th 2013
Harold Crowchild
Canadian Tsuu T'ina elder and soldier
Died on Saturday January 12th 2013
Viktor Platan
Finnish Olympic pentathlete
Died on Saturday January 12th 2013
Anthony Cavendish
English MI6 officer
Died on Saturday January 12th 2013
Tony Harding
British comics artist
Died on Sunday January 12th 2014
William Feindel
Canadian neurosurgeon
Died on Sunday January 12th 2014
François Joseph Pierre Deniau
French Roman Catholic prelate
Died on Sunday January 12th 2014
Gyula Török
Hungarian Olympic champion boxer (1960)
Died on Sunday January 12th 2014
George Dement
American innkeeper
Died on Sunday January 12th 2014
Tsunetoshi Tanaka
Japanese politician
Died on Sunday January 12th 2014
Halet Çambel
Turkish Olympic fencer (1936) and archaeologist
Died on Sunday January 12th 2014
Michael L. Strang
American politician
Died on Sunday January 12th 2014
John Button
British racing driver
Died on Sunday January 12th 2014
Zdenko Škrabalo
Serbian-born Croatian academician and diplomat
Died on Sunday January 12th 2014
Connie Binsfeld
American politician
Died on Sunday January 12th 2014
Sir Robert Scholey
British business executive
Died on Sunday January 12th 2014
Nick Bevan
British rowing coach
Died on Sunday January 12th 2014
Alexandra Bastedo
British actress (Batman Begins
Died on Sunday January 12th 2014
Robert H. Quinn
American attorney and politician
Died on Sunday January 12th 2014
Neal Barrett, Jr.
American author
Died on Sunday January 12th 2014
Frank Marth
American actor (The Honeymooners
Died on Sunday January 12th 2014
Heinz Angelmaier
German soldier
Died on Sunday January 12th 2014
Burton Lifland
American judge
Died on Sunday January 12th 2014
E. Holman Jones
American newspaper publisher and politician
Died on Sunday January 12th 2014
John Horsley
British actor (The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
Died on Sunday January 12th 2014
Patrick Horsbrugh
British architecture professor
Died on Sunday January 12th 2014
Ángel Herrero
Spanish footballer
Died on Sunday January 12th 2014
Elena Obraztsova
Russian mezzo-soprano
Died on Monday January 12th 2015
Paul Morgan
Welsh rugby union and league player
Died on Monday January 12th 2015
A. J. Masters
American singer and songwriter
Died on Monday January 12th 2015
William C. Martel
American political scientist
Died on Monday January 12th 2015
Robert Gover
American author
Died on Monday January 12th 2015
Stephen Gold
British computer journalist
Died on Monday January 12th 2015
James Naanman Daman
Nigerian Roman Catholic prelate
Died on Monday January 12th 2015
Trevor Colbourn
Australian educator and academic
Died on Monday January 12th 2015
Germán Cobos
Spanish actor
Died on Monday January 12th 2015
Darrell Winfield
American rancher and model
Died on Monday January 12th 2015
Bonnie Christensen
American children's book author and illustrator
Died 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 writer
Died on Monday January 12th 2015
Ed Skinner
American politician and attorney
Died on Monday January 12th 2015
Gabriel Ramushwana
South African general
Died on Monday January 12th 2015