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The following is a list of notable world figures who died on May 12th.

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  • 1003 - Pope Silvester II
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  • 1012 - Pope Sergius IV
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  • 1382 - Queen Joan I of Naples (b. 1327)
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  • 1399 - Demetrius I Starshiy (killed in battle) (b. 1327)
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  • 1465 - Thomas Palaeologus, Despot of the Despotate of Morea
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  • 1634 - George Chapman, English writer
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  • 1641 - Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, English statesman (b. 1593)
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  • 1684 - Edme Mariotte, French physicist and priest
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  • 1699 - Lucas Achtschellinck, Flemish painter (b. 1626)
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  • 1700 - John Dryden, English writer (b. 1631)
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  • 1708 - Adolf Friedrich II of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1658)
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  • 1748 - Thomas Lowndes, English astronomer (b. 1692)
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  • 1759 - Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor (b. 1700)
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  • 1784 - Abraham Trembley, Swiss naturalist (b. 1710)
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  • 1792 - Charles Simon Favart, French dramatist (b. 1710)
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  • 1796 - Johann Peter Uz, German poet (b. 1720)
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  • 1801 - Nicholas Repnin, Russian statesman (b. 1734)
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  • 1845 - János Bacsanyi, Hungarian poet (b. 1763)
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  • 1856 - Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, French mathematician (b. 1786)
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  • 1859 - Sergei Aksakov, Russian writer (b. 1791)
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  • 1860 - Charles Barry, English architect (b. 1795)
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  • 1864 - J. E. B. Stuart, American soldier from Virginia and a Confederate Army general (b. 1833)
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  • 1867 - Friedrich William Eduard Gerhard, German archaeologist (b. 1795)
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  • 1871 - Anselme Payen, French physicist (b. 1795)
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  • 1876 - Georgi Benkovski, Bulgarian revolutionary, brutally killed by the Turks (b. 1843)
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  • 1884 - Bedřich Smetana, Czech composer (b. 1824)
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  • 1889 - John Cadbury, English chocolate entrepreneur (b. 1801)
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  • 1907 - Joris-Karl Huysmans, French author (b. 1848)
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  • 1925 - Amy Lowell, American poet (b. 1874)
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  • 1931 - Eugène Ysaÿe, Belgian violinist (b. 1858)
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  • 1935 - Józef Piłsudski, Polish statesman (b. 1867)
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  • 1944 - Max Brand, American author (b. 1892)
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  • 1944 - Q, British writer (b. 1863)
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  • 1956 - Louis Calhern, American actor (b. 1895)
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  • 1957 - Erich von Stroheim, film director and actor (b. 1885)
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  • 1963 - Bobby Kerr, Canadian runner (b. 1882)
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  • 1967 - John Masefield, British writer (b. 1878)
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  • 1970 - Nelly Sachs, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
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  • 1971 - Heinie Manush, baseball player (b. 1901)
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  • 1985 - Jean Dubuffet, French painter (b. 1901)
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  • 1986 - Elisabeth Bergner, Austrian actress (b. 1897)
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  • 1990 - Chen Kenmin, Japanese chef (b. 1912)
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  • 1992 - Robert Reed, American actor (b. 1932)
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  • 1994 - Erik Erikson, German psychoanalyst (b. 1902)
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  • 1994 - John Smith, British politician (b. 1938)
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  • 1995 - Mia Martini, Italian singer (b. 1947)
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  • 1999 - Saul Steinberg, Romanian-American cartoonist (b. 1914)
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  • 2000 - Adam Petty, American race car driver (b. 1980)
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  • 2001 - Perry Como, American singer (b. 1912)
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  • 2002 - Erich Kulas, ECW Wrestler (Mass Transit)
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  • 2003 - Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, French UN High Commissioner for Refugees (b. 1933)
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  • 2005 - Martin Lings, English Islamic scholar (b. 1909)
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  • 2005 - Monica Zetterlund, Swedish actress and singer (b. 1937)
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  • 2006 - Gillespie V. Montgomery, former U.S. representative from Mississippi (b. 1920)

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