What happened on October 12 ?

632 - Edwin of Deira, King of Northumbria and Bretwalda

638 - Pope Honorius I

642 - Pope John IV

1095 - Margrave Leopold II of Austria (b. 1050)

1176 - William d'Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel, English politician

1320 - Michael IX Palaeologus, co-ruling Eastern Roman Emperor

1491 - Fritz Herlen, German artist

1492 - Piero della Francesca, Italian painter

1565 - Jean Ribault, French explorer and colonizer (b. 1520)

1576 - Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1527)

1590 - Kano Eitoku, Japanese painter (b. 1543)

1600 - Luis Molina, Spanish Jesuit (b. 1535)

1632 - Kutsuki Mototsuna, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1549)

1646 - François de Bassompierre, Marshal of France (b. 1579)

1678 - Edmund Berry Godfrey, English magistrate (b. 1621)

1679 - William Gurnall, English writer (b. 1617)

1685 - Christoph Ignaz Abele, Austrian jurist (b. 1628)

1730 - King Frederick IV of Denmark (b. 1671)

1758 - Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth, British field marshal (b. 1680)

1845 - Elizabeth Fry, British social reformer and philanthropist (b. 1780)

1870 - Robert E. Lee, American Confederate general (b. 1807)

1898 - Calvin Fairbank, American abolitionist minister (b. 1816)

1915 - Edith Cavell, English nurse (b. 1865)

1924 - Anatole France, French author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1844)

1940 - Tom Mix, American actor (b. 1880)

1946 - Joseph Stilwell, U.S. general (b. 1883)

1954 - George Welch, American pilot (b. 1918)

1956 - Don Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer (b. 1872)

1958 - Gordon Griffith, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1907)

1965 - Paul Hermann Müller, Swiss chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899)

1969 - Sonja Henie, Norwegian figure skater (b. 1912)

1971 - Dean Acheson, U.S. Secretary of State (b. 1893)

1971 - Gene Vincent, Pioneering American rock'n'roll musician (b. 1935)

1978 - Nancy Spungen, Girlfriend of Sex Pistol Sid Vicious b. 1958)

1984 - Sir Anthony Berry, British politician (bombing victim) (b. 1925)

1985 - Johnny Olson, American game show announcer (b. 1910)

1985 - Ricky Wilson, American musician; member of The B-52's

1987 - Alf Landon, Governor of Kansas (b. 1887)

1993 - Leon Ames, American actor (b. 1902)

1993 - Tofik Bakhramov, Russian footballer (b. 1926)

1997 - John Denver, American singer (b. 1943)

1998 - Matthew Shepard, American murder victim (b. 1976)

1999 - Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player (b. 1936)

2001 - Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, British politician (b. 1907)

2002 - Ray Conniff, American bandleader and musician (b. 1916)

2002 - Audrey Mestre, French diver (b. 1974)

2003 - Jim Cairns, Australian politician (b. 1914)

2003 - Joan Kroc, American philanthropist (b. 1928)

2003 - Willie Shoemaker, American jockey (b. 1931)

2005 - C. Delores Tucker, American politician and civil rights activist (b. 1927)