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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 12th of December 0627 | EVENT | Battle of Nineveh: A Byzantine army under Emperor Heraclius defeats Emperor Khosrau II's Persian forces, commanded by General Rhahzadh. |
| 12th of December 1098 | EVENT | First Crusade: Massacre of Ma'arrat al-Numan : Crusaders breach the town's walls and massacre about 20,000 inhabitants. After finding themselves with insufficient food, they resort to cannibalism. |
| 12th of December 1408 | EVENT | The Order of the Dragon a monarchical chivalric order is created by Sigismund of Luxembourg, then King of Hungary. |
| 12th of December 1531 | EVENT | Our Lady of Guadalupe (Spanish: Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe.) An image appeared miraculously on the cloak of Juan Diego, a simple indigenous peasant, on the hill of Tepeyac near Mexico City.[dubious : discuss] |
| 12th of December 1781 | EVENT | American Revolutionary War: Second Battle of Ushant : A Royal Navy squadron, commanded by Rear Admiral Richard Kempenfelt in HMS Victory, defeats a French fleet. |
| 12th of December 1787 | EVENT | Pennsylvania becomes the second state to ratify the United States Constitution five days after Delaware became the first. |
| 12th of December 1862 | EVENT | USS Cairo sinks on the Yazoo River, becoming the first armored ship to be sunk by an electrically detonated mine. |
| 12th of December 1870 | EVENT | Joseph H. Rainey of South Carolina becomes the second black U.S. congressman, the first one being Hiram Revels. |
| 12th of December 1897 | EVENT | Belo Horizonte, the first planned city in Brazil, is founded. |
| 12th of December 1901 | EVENT | Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland. |
| 12th of December 1911 | EVENT | Delhi replaces Calcutta as the capital of India. |
| 12th of December 1911 | EVENT | King George V of the United Kingdom and Mary of Teck are enthroned as Emperor and Empress of India. |
| 12th of December 1915 | EVENT | President of the Republic of China, Yuan Shikai announces his intention to reinstate the monarchy and proclaim himself Emperor of China. |
| 12th of December 1917 | EVENT | In Nebraska, Father Edward J. Flanagan founds Boys Town as a farm village for wayward boys. |
| 12th of December 1918 | EVENT | Flag of Estonia is raised atop the Pikk Hermann for the first time. |
| 12th of December 1925 | EVENT | The Majlis of Iran votes to crown Reza Khan as the new Shah of Persia. |
| 12th of December 1935 | EVENT | Lebensborn Project, a Nazi reproduction program, is founded by Heinrich Himmler. |
| 12th of December 1936 | EVENT | Xi'an Incident: The Generalissimo of the Republic of China, Chiang Kai-shek is kidnapped by Zhang Xueliang. |
| 12th of December 1937 | EVENT | Panay incident: Japanese aircraft bomb and sink US gunboat Panay on the Yangtze River in China. |
| 12th of December 1939 | EVENT | Winter War: Battle of Tolvajarvi : Finnish forces defeat those of the Soviet Union in their first major victory of the conflict. |
| 12th of December 1939 | EVENT | HMS Duchess (H64) sinks after a collision with HMS Barham off the coast of Scotland with the loss of 124 men |
| 12th of December 1940 | EVENT | World War II: Approximately 70 people are killed in the Marples Hotel, Fitzalan Square, Sheffield as a result of a German air raid. |
| 12th of December 1941 | EVENT | World War II: Fifty four Japanese A6M Zero fighters raid Batangas Field, Philippines. Jesus Villamor and four Filipino fighter pilots fend them off; Cesar Basa is killed. |
| 12th of December 1941 | EVENT | Adolf Hitler announces extermination of the Jews at a meeting in the Reich Chancellery |
| 12th of December 1941 | EVENT | World War II: USMC F4F "Wildcats" sink the first 4 major Japanese ships off Wake Island. |
| 12th of December 1941 | EVENT | World War II: UK declares war on Bulgaria. Hungary and Romania declare war on the United States. India declares war on Japan. |
| 12th of December 1942 | EVENT | World War II: German troops begin Operation Winter Storm, an attempt to relieve encircled Axis forces during the Battle of Stalingrad. |
| 12th of December 1942 | EVENT | A fire in a hostel in St. John's, Newfoundland kills 100 people. |
| 12th of December 1946 | EVENT | A fire at a New York City ice plant spreads to a nearby tenement killing 37 people. |
| 12th of December 1948 | EVENT | Malayan Emergency: Batang Kali Massacre : 14 members of the Scots Guards stationed in Malaysia allegedly massacre 24 unarmed civilians and set fire to the village. |
| 12th of December 1950 | EVENT | Paula Ackerman, the first woman appointed to perform rabbinical functions in the United States, leads the congregation in her first services. |
| 12th of December 1956 | EVENT | Beginning of the Irish Republican Army's "Border Campaign". |
| 12th of December 1958 | EVENT | Guinea joins the United Nations. |
| 12th of December 1963 | EVENT | Kenya gains its independence from the United Kingdom. |
| 12th of December 1964 | EVENT | Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta becomes the first President of the Republic of Kenya. |
| 12th of December 1969 | EVENT | Strategy of tension: Piazza Fontana bombing : The offices of Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura in Piazza Fontana, Milan, are bombed. |
| 12th of December 1979 | EVENT | President of Pakistan, Zia-ul-Haq, confers Nishan-e-Imtiaz on Nobel laureate Dr Abdus Salam. |
| 12th of December 1979 | EVENT | Coup d'etat of December Twelfth: South Korean Army Major General Chun Doo-hwan orders the arrest of Army Chief of Staff General Jeong Seung-hwa without authorization from President Choi Kyu-ha, alleging involvement in the assassination of ex-President Park Chung Hee. |
| 12th of December 1979 | EVENT | The unrecognised state of Zimbabwe Rhodesia returns to British control and resumes using the name Southern Rhodesia. |
| 12th of December 1979 | EVENT | A major earthquake and tsunami kill 259 people in Colombia. |
| 12th of December 1982 | EVENT | Women's peace protest at Greenham Common : 30,000 women hold hands and form a human chain around the 14.5 kilometres (9.0 mi) perimeter fence. |
| 12th of December 1984 | EVENT | Maaouiya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya becomes the third president of Mauritania after a coup d'etat against Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla while the latter is attending a summit. |
| 12th of December 1985 | EVENT | Arrow Air Flight 1285 crashes after takeoff in Gander, Newfoundland killing 256, including 236 members of the United States Army's 101st Airborne Division. |
| 12th of December 1988 | EVENT | The Clapham Junction rail crash kills thirty-five and injures hundreds after two collisions of three commuter trains : one of the worst train crashes in the United Kingdom. |
| 12th of December 1991 | EVENT | Russian Federation gains independence from the USSR. |
| 12th of December 2000 | EVENT | The United States Supreme Court releases its decision in Bush v. Gore |
| 12th of December 2005 | EVENT | Gebran Tueni, Lebanese journalist and politician, is assassinated. |
| 12th of December 2006 | EVENT | Peugeot produces its last car at the Ryton Plant signalling the end of mass car production in Coventry, formerly a major centre of the British motor industry. |
| 12th of December 1298 | BIRTHDAY | Albert II of Austria (d. 1358) |
| 12th of December 1574 | BIRTHDAY | Anne of Denmark, queen consort of James I of England (d. 1619) |
| 12th of December 1610 | BIRTHDAY | Saint Vasilije (d. 1671) |
| 12th of December 1659 | BIRTHDAY | Francesco Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect/designer (d. 1739) |
| 12th of December 1712 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine, Austrian military leader (d. 1780) |
| 12th of December 1724 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, British admiral (d. 1816) |
| 12th of December 1745 | BIRTHDAY | John Jay, 1st Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1829) |
| 12th of December 1779 | BIRTHDAY | Madeleine Sophie Barat, French saint (d. 1865) |
| 12th of December 1783 | BIRTHDAY | Ner Alexander Middleswarth, American politician (d. 1865) |
| 12th of December 1786 | BIRTHDAY | William L. Marcy, American statesman (d. 1857) |
| 12th of December 1791 | BIRTHDAY | Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria, wife of Napoleon (d. 1847) |
| 12th of December 1792 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Ypsilantis, Greek prince (d. 1828) |
| 12th of December 1799 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Briullov, Russian painter (d. 1852) |
| 12th of December 1805 | BIRTHDAY | William Lloyd Garrison, American abolitionist (d. 1879) |
| 12th of December 1805 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Wells, American banking executive (d. 1878) |
| 12th of December 1806 | BIRTHDAY | Stand Watie, American Confederate general (d. 1871) |
| 12th of December 1812 | BIRTHDAY | John Sandfield Macdonald, Canadian premier of Ontario (d. 1872) |
| 12th of December 1821 | BIRTHDAY | Gustave Flaubert, French writer (d. 1880) |
| 12th of December 1845 | BIRTHDAY | Bruce Price, American architect (d. 1903) |
| 12th of December 1849 | BIRTHDAY | William Kissam Vanderbilt, member of the Vanderbilt family (d. 1920) |
| 12th of December 1862 | BIRTHDAY | J. Bruce Ismay, British ocean liner executive and Titanic survivor (d. 1937) |
| 12th of December 1863 | BIRTHDAY | Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter (d. 1944) |
| 12th of December 1864 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Elmer More, American essayist (d. 1937) |
| 12th of December 1866 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred Werner, Swiss chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1919) |
| 12th of December 1870 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Benona Sharp, American oil industry executive (d. 1912) |
| 12th of December 1875 | BIRTHDAY | Gerd von Rundstedt, German field marshal (d. 1953) |
| 12th of December 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Alvin Kraenzlein, American athlete (d. 1928) |
| 12th of December 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Kurt Atterberg, Swedish composer (d. 1974) |
| 12th of December 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Milko Kos, Slovenian historian (d. 1972) |
| 12th of December 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Herman Potocnik, Slovenian rocket engineer (d. 1929) |
| 12th of December 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Edward G. Robinson, American actor (d. 1973) |
| 12th of December 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Sammy Davis, Sr., American dancer (d. 1988) |
| 12th of December 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Koloman Sokol, Slovak painter (d. 2003) |
| 12th of December 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Dagmar Nordstrom, American composer (d. 1976) |
| 12th of December 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Yasujiro Ozu, Japanese film director (d. 1963) |
| 12th of December 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Nicolas de Gunzburg, French magazine editor (d. 1981) |
| 12th of December 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Manes Sperber, Austrian writer (d. 1984) |
| 12th of December 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Roy Douglas, English composer and orchestrator |
| 12th of December 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Gustav Ernesaks, Estonian composer and conductor (d. 1993) |
| 12th of December 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Karen Morley, American actress (d. 2003) |
| 12th of December 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Hans Keilson, German-born Dutch writer and child psychologist |
| 12th of December 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Sagrits, Estonian painter (d. 1968) |
| 12th of December 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick O'Brian, English author (d. 2000) |
| 12th of December 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Sinatra, American singer and actor (d. 1998) |
| 12th of December 1917 | BIRTHDAY | James Wall, American actor and stage manager (d. 2010) |
| 12th of December 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Williams, American singer (d. 1999) |
| 12th of December 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Dan DeCarlo, American cartoonist (d. 2001) |
| 12th of December 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Olivia Barclay, English astrologer (d. 2001) |
| 12th of December 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Kida, American comics artist |
| 12th of December 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Christian Dotremont, Belgian painter and writer (d. 1979) |
| 12th of December 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Barker, American television game show host |
| 12th of December 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Dorough, American jazz pianist/vocalist |
| 12th of December 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Ken Kavanagh, Australian racing driver |
| 12th of December 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Cordeiro, Hong Kong radio personality |
| 12th of December 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Coogan, American actor (d. 1978) |
| 12th of December 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Ed Koch, American politician |
| 12th of December 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Vladimir Shainsky, Russian composer |
| 12th of December 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Ahmad Shamlou, Iranian poet (d. 2000) |
| 12th of December 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Noyce, American inventor (d. 1990) |
| 12th of December 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Chinghiz Aitmatov, Soviet-born Kyrgyz writer (d. 2008) |
| 12th of December 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Toshiko Akiyoshi, Japanese musician |
| 12th of December 1929 | BIRTHDAY | John Osborne, English dramatist (d. 1994) |
| 12th of December 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Silvio Santos, Brazilian TV show host |
| 12th of December 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Beutel, American journalist (d. 2006) |
| 12th of December 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Lionel Blair, English actor and choreographer |
| 12th of December 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Pettit, American basketball player |
| 12th of December 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Miguel de la Madrid, Mexican politician |
| 12th of December 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Buford Pusser, American law enforcement official (d. 1974) |
| 12th of December 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Connie Francis, American singer |
| 12th of December 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Sharad Pawar, Indian politician |
| 12th of December 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Dionne Warwick, American singer |
| 12th of December 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Frances Willard, American magician |
| 12th of December 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Sarstedt, British musician |
| 12th of December 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Dickey Betts, American musician (The Allman Brothers Band) |
| 12th of December 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Vassilis Alexakis, Greek-French writer |
| 12th of December 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Grover Washington, Jr., American saxophonist (d. 1999) |
| 12th of December 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Kenneth Cranham, Scottish actor |
| 12th of December 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Dore, Canadian politician |
| 12th of December 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Rob Tyner, American Singer, Songwriter and activist (The MC5) (d. 1991) |
| 12th of December 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Williams, American jazz drummer (d. 1997) |
| 12th of December 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Emerson Fittipaldi, Brazilian race car driver |
| 12th of December 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Paula Wagner, American film executive |
| 12th of December 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Nighy, English actor |
| 12th of December 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Pedro Ferriz de Con, Mexican radio and TV news anchor |
| 12th of December 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Rajinikanth, Indian actor |
| 12th of December 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Smith, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 12th of December 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Brenton Broadstock, Australian composer and academic |
| 12th of December 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Cathy Rigby, American gymnast and actress |
| 12th of December 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah Douglas, English actress |
| 12th of December 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Herb Dhaliwal, Canadian politician |
| 12th of December 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Bruce Kulick, American guitarist (Kiss, Grand Funk Railroad) |
| 12th of December 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Meniketti, American guitarist |
| 12th of December 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Rafael Septien, Mexican placekicker in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys and convicted sex offender |
| 12th of December 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, Greek businesswoman |
| 12th of December 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Eddy Schepers, Belgian cyclist |
| 12th of December 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Johan van der Velde, Dutch cyclist |
| 12th of December 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Sheila E., American musician |
| 12th of December 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Lepage, French Canadian playwright |
| 12th of December 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Susan Powter, Australian author and motivational speaker |
| 12th of December 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Monica Attard, Australian journalist |
| 12th of December 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Lucie Guay, Canadian canoer |
| 12th of December 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Dag Ingebrigtsen, Norwegian musician |
| 12th of December 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Sheree J. Wilson, American actress |
| 12th of December 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Tracy Austin, American tennis player |
| 12th of December 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Golic, American football player |
| 12th of December 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Liz Claman, American television anchor |
| 12th of December 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Ai Orikasa, Japanese voice actress and singer |
| 12th of December 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Haywood Jeffries, American football player |
| 12th of December 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Sabu, American professional wrestler |
| 12th of December 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Will Carling, English rugby union footballer |
| 12th of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Royce Gracie, Brazilian martial artist |
| 12th of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Kouichi Nagano, Japanese voice actor |
| 12th of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Ultimo Dragon, Japanese professional wrestler |
| 12th of December 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Yuzo Koshiro, Japanese composer |
| 12th of December 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Takenobu Mitsuyoshi, Japanese composer |
| 12th of December 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Deke Sharon, American musician |
| 12th of December 1967 | BIRTHDAY | John Randle, American football player |
| 12th of December 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Rory Kennedy, American documentarian |
| 12th of December 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Laurie Williams, Jamaican cricketer (d. 2002) |
| 12th of December 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Kate Humble, English television presenter |
| 12th of December 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Carrie Westcott, American model and actress |
| 12th of December 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Madchen Amick, American actress |
| 12th of December 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Regina Hall, American actress |
| 12th of December 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Jennifer Connelly, American actress |
| 12th of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Wilson Kipketer, Danish middle-distance runner |
| 12th of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Nicky Eaden, English footballer |
| 12th of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Brandon Teena, American murder victim (d. 1993) |
| 12th of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Yeoryios Theodoridis, Greek sprinter |
| 12th of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Hank Williams III, American musician |
| 12th of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Parent, French Canadian singer and songwriter |
| 12th of December 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Otta, Argentine footballer |
| 12th of December 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Nolberto Solano, Peruvian footballer |
| 12th of December 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Wesley Charles, Vincentian footballer |
| 12th of December 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Craig Moore, Australian footballer |
| 12th of December 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Mayim Bialik, American actress |
| 12th of December 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Lloyd Owusu, Ghanaian footballer |
| 12th of December 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Dan Hawkins, English guitarist (The Darkness) |
| 12th of December 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Nicole, Erica and Jaclyn Dahm, American triplet models |
| 12th of December 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Bridget Hall, American supermodel |
| 12th of December 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Colin White, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 12th of December 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Orlando Hudson, American baseball player |
| 12th of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Monica Barladeanu, Romanian actress |
| 12th of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Louis (artist), Korean singer |
| 12th of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Jennifer Rovero, American model |
| 12th of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Garrett Atkins, American baseball player |
| 12th of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Nate Clements, American football player |
| 12th of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Sharin Foo, Danish singer and bassist |
| 12th of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | John Salmons, American basketball player |
| 12th of December 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Ronnie Brown, American football player |
| 12th of December 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Pedro Rios Maestre, Spanish footballer |
| 12th of December 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Jeret Peterson, American aerial skier |
| 12th of December 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Warnock, English footballer |
| 12th of December 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Shane Costa, American baseball player |
| 12th of December 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Yuvraj Singh, Indian cricketer |
| 12th of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Dmitry Tursunov, Russian tennis player |
| 12th of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Ai Kato, Japanese actress |
| 12th of December 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Katrina Elam, American singer |
| 12th of December 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Agger, Danish footballer |
| 12th of December 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Merrett, Australian football player |
| 12th of December 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Sohail Tanvir,Pakistani cricketer |
| 12th of December 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Jennings, American football player |
| 12th of December 1985 | BIRTHDAY | David Veikune, American football player |
| 12th of December 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Perparim Hetemaj, Finnish footballer |
| 12th of December 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Mitsuhiro Hidaka, Japanese singer (AAA (band)) |
| 12th of December 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Wansey, English actor |
| 12th of December 1986 | BIRTHDAY | T. J. Ward, American football player |
| 12th of December 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Ham Eun-jeong, Korean singer and actress |
| 12th of December 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Seungri, Korean singer |
| 12th of December 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Victor Moses, Nigerian-born British footballer |
| 12th of December 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Magder, Canadian actor |
| 12th of December 0884 | DEATH | Carloman, King of the West Franks |
| 12th of December 1212 | DEATH | Geoffrey, Archbishop of York |
| 12th of December 1569 | DEATH | Metropolitan Philip of Moscow (Born 1507) |
| 12th of December 1574 | DEATH | Selim II, Ottoman Sultan (Born 1524) |
| 12th of December 1586 | DEATH | Stefan Batory, King of Poland (Born 1533) |
| 12th of December 1685 | DEATH | John Pell, English mathematician (Born 1610) |
| 12th of December 1751 | DEATH | Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, English statesman and philosopher (Born 1678) |
| 12th of December 1754 | DEATH | Wu Jingzi, Chinese writer (Born 1701) |
| 12th of December 1766 | DEATH | Johann Christoph Gottsched, German writer (Born 1700) |
| 12th of December 1789 | DEATH | John Ponsonby, Irish politician (Born 1713) |
| 12th of December 1790 | DEATH | Mikhail Shcherbatov, Russian philosopher and writer (Born 1733) |
| 12th of December 1817 | DEATH | Emperor Tekle Giyorgis I of Ethiopia, (Born about 1751) |
| 12th of December 1843 | DEATH | King William I of the Netherlands, (Born 1772) |
| 12th of December 1858 | DEATH | Jacques Viger, antiquarian and archeologist, first mayor of Montreal (Born 1787) |
| 12th of December 1889 | DEATH | Robert Browning, English poet (Born 1812) |
| 12th of December 1889 | DEATH | Viktor Bunyakovsky, Russian mathematician (Born 1804) |
| 12th of December 1894 | DEATH | Sir John Thompson, fourth Prime Minister of Canada (Born 1845) |
| 12th of December 1913 | DEATH | Emperor Menelek II of Ethiopia (Born 1844) |
| 12th of December 1923 | DEATH | Raymond Radiguet, French author (Born 1903) |
| 12th of December 1926 | DEATH | Jean Richepin, French poet (Born 1849) |
| 12th of December 1929 | DEATH | Charles Goodnight, American cattle baron (Born 1836) |
| 12th of December 1934 | DEATH | Thorleif Haug, Norwegian Nordic skier (Born 1894) |
| 12th of December 1939 | DEATH | Douglas Fairbanks, American actor (Born 1883) |
| 12th of December 1941 | DEATH | Cesar Basa, Philippine Air Force and World War II hero (Born 1915) |
| 12th of December 1951 | DEATH | Mildred Bailey, American jazz singer (Born 1907) |
| 12th of December 1952 | DEATH | Bedrich Hrozny, Czech orientalist and linguist (Born 1879) |
| 12th of December 1958 | DEATH | Albert Walsh, Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland (Born 1900) |
| 12th of December 1963 | DEATH | Yasujiro Ozu, Japanese film director (Born 1903) |
| 12th of December 1968 | DEATH | Tallulah Bankhead, American actress (Born 1902) |
| 12th of December 1970 | DEATH | Doris Blackburn, Australian politician (Born 1889) |
| 12th of December 1971 | DEATH | Yechezkel Kutscher, Israeli philologist and Hebrew linguist (Born 1909) |
| 12th of December 1971 | DEATH | David Sarnoff, Russian-born American General Manager of RCA (Born 1891) |
| 12th of December 1976 | DEATH | Jack Cassidy, American actor (Born 1927) |
| 12th of December 1976 | DEATH | Vinko Zganec, Croatian ethnomusicologist (Born 1890) |
| 12th of December 1977 | DEATH | Lady Spencer Churchill, wife of Winston Churchill (Born 1885) |
| 12th of December 1980 | DEATH | Jean Lesage, Canadian politician (Born 1912) |
| 12th of December 1985 | DEATH | Anne Baxter, American actress (Born 1923) |
| 12th of December 1985 | DEATH | Ian Stewart, Scottish musician (Born 1938) |
| 12th of December 1987 | DEATH | Enrique Jorrin, Cuban musician and composer (Born 1926) |
| 12th of December 1988 | DEATH | Anthony "Tony Pro" Provenzano, American Mafia figure (Born 1917) |
| 12th of December 1992 | DEATH | Suzanne Lilar, Belgian essayist, novelist and playwright (Born 1901) |
| 12th of December 1993 | DEATH | Jozsef Antall, Hungarian politician (Born 1932) |
| 12th of December 1994 | DEATH | Stuart Roosa, American astronaut (Born 1933) |
| 12th of December 1994 | DEATH | Donna J. Stone, American poet (Born 1933) |
| 12th of December 1996 | DEATH | Vance Packard, American author (Born 1914) |
| 12th of December 1997 | DEATH | Yevgeniy Landis, Russian mathematician (Born 1921) |
| 12th of December 1998 | DEATH | Lawton Chiles, U.S. Senator from Florida and Governor of Florida (Born 1930) |
| 12th of December 1998 | DEATH | Marco Denevi, Argentine writer (Born 1922) |
| 12th of December 1998 | DEATH | Mo Udall, American politician (Born 1922) |
| 12th of December 1999 | DEATH | Joseph Heller, American author (Born 1923) |
| 12th of December 1999 | DEATH | Paul Cadmus, American artist (Born 1904) |
| 12th of December 2000 | DEATH | George Montgomery, American actor (Born 1916) |
| 12th of December 2000 | DEATH | Ndabaningi Sithole, Zimbabwean Nationalist politician (Born 1920) |
| 12th of December 2001 | DEATH | Jean Richard, French actor (Born 1921) |
| 12th of December 2001 | DEATH | Ardito Desio, Italian explorer, geologist and leader of the 1954 K2 expedition (Born 1897) |
| 12th of December 2002 | DEATH | Brad Dexter, American actor (Born 1917) |
| 12th of December 2002 | DEATH | Jay Wesley Neill, American convicted murderer (Born 1965) |
| 12th of December 2002 | DEATH | Dee Brown, American author (Born 1908) |
| 12th of December 2003 | DEATH | Heydar Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan (Born 1923) |
| 12th of December 2003 | DEATH | Joseph Anthony Ferrario, American Catholic prelate (Born 1926) |
| 12th of December 2005 | DEATH | Robert Newmyer, American film producer (Born 1956) |
| 12th of December 2005 | DEATH | Annette Vadim, Danish actress (Born 1936) |
| 12th of December 2005 | DEATH | Gebran Tueni, Lebanese politician (Born 1957) |
| 12th of December 2006 | DEATH | Peter Boyle, American actor (Born 1935) |
| 12th of December 2006 | DEATH | Paul Arizin, American basketball player (Born 1928) |
| 12th of December 2006 | DEATH | Al Shugart, pioneering American computer engineer and co-founder of Seagate Technology (Born 1930) |
| 12th of December 2006 | DEATH | Raymond P. Shafer, 38th Governor of Pennsylvania (Born 1917) |
| 12th of December 2006 | DEATH | Kenny Davern, American jazz clarinetist (Born 1935) |
| 12th of December 2007 | DEATH | Ike Turner, American singer, former husband of Tina Turner (Born 1931) |
| 12th of December 2007 | DEATH | Francois Hajj, Lebanese Army's chief of operations (Born 1953) |
| 12th of December 2008 | DEATH | Tassos Papadopoulos, President of Cyprus (Born 1934) |
| 12th of December 2008 | DEATH | Van Johnson, American actor (Born 1916) |
| 12th of December 2008 | DEATH | Avery Dulles, Roman Catholic Cardinal, theologian (Born 1918) |
| 12th of December 2010 | DEATH | Peter Pagel, German footballer (Born 1956) |
| 12th of December 2010 | DEATH | Tom Walkinshaw, former racing driver and Formula One team owner (Born 1946) |