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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 12th of October 1216 | EVENT | King John of England loses his crown jewels in The Wash, probably near Fosdyke, perhaps near Sutton Bridge |
| 12th of October 1279 | EVENT | Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk founder of Nichiren Buddhism, inscribes the Dai-Gohonzon |
| 12th of October 1398 | EVENT | The Treaty of Salynas is signed between Grand Duke of Lithuania Vytautas the Great and the Teutonic Knights, who received Samogitia. |
| 12th of October 1492 | EVENT | Christopher Columbus's expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean, specifically in The Bahamas. The explorer believes he has reached South Asia |
| 12th of October 1582 | EVENT | Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain. |
| 12th of October 1654 | EVENT | The Delft Explosion devastates the city in the Netherlands, killing more than 100 people. |
| 12th of October 1692 | EVENT | The Salem witch trials are ended by a letter from Massachusetts Governor William Phips. |
| 12th of October 1773 | EVENT | America's first insane asylum opens for 'Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds' in Virginia |
| 12th of October 1792 | EVENT | First celebration of Columbus Day in the USA held in New York |
| 12th of October 1793 | EVENT | The cornerstone of Old East, the oldest state university building in the United States, is laid on the campus of the University of North Carolina |
| 12th of October 1810 | EVENT | First Oktoberfest: The Bavarian royalty invites the citizens of Munich to join the celebration of the marriage of Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria to Princess Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen. |
| 12th of October 1822 | EVENT | Peter I of Brazil is proclaimed the emperor of the Brazil |
| 12th of October 1823 | EVENT | Charles Macintosh, of Scotland, sells the first raincoat. |
| 12th of October 1871 | EVENT | Criminal Tribes Act (CTA) enacted by British rule in India, which named over 160 local communities 'Criminal Tribes', i.e. hereditary criminals. Repealed in 1949, after Independence of India. |
| 12th of October 1892 | EVENT | The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited by students in many US public schools, as part of a celebration marking the 400th anniversary of Columbus's voyage. |
| 12th of October 1901 | EVENT | President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the "Executive Mansion" to the White House. |
| 12th of October 1915 | EVENT | World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium |
| 12th of October 1917 | EVENT | World War I: The First Battle of Passchendaele takes place resulting in the largest single day loss of life in New Zealand history. |
| 12th of October 1918 | EVENT | A massive forest fire kills 453 people in Minnesota. |
| 12th of October 1928 | EVENT | An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston |
| 12th of October 1933 | EVENT | The United States Army Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz Island, is acquired by the United States Department of Justice |
| 12th of October 1942 | EVENT | World War II: Japanese ships retreat after their defeat in the Battle of Cape Esperance with the Japanese commander, Aritomo Goto dying from wounds suffered in the battle and two Japanese destroyers sunk by Allied air attack. |
| 12th of October 1945 | EVENT | World War II: Desmond Doss is the first conscientious objector to receive the U.S. Medal of Honor. |
| 12th of October 1953 | EVENT | "The Caine Mutiny Court Martial" opens at Plymouth Theatre, New York |
| 12th of October 1959 | EVENT | At the national congress of APRA in Peru a group of leftist radicals are expelled from the party. They will later form APRA Rebelde. |
| 12th of October 1960 | EVENT | Cold War: Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a desk at United Nations General Assembly meeting to protest a Philippine assertion of Soviet Union colonial policy being conducted in Eastern Europe |
| 12th of October 1960 | EVENT | Inejiro Asanuma, Chair of the Japanese Socialist Party, is assassinated in Japan by Otoya Yamaguchi, a 17-year-old. The cameras were rolling at the time, so the moment was caught on film. |
| 12th of October 1962 | EVENT | Infamous Columbus Day Storm strikes the U.S. Pacific Northwest with record wind velocities; 46 dead and at least U.S. $230 million in damages |
| 12th of October 1964 | EVENT | The Soviet Union launches the Voskhod 1 into Earth orbit as the first spacecraft with a multi-person crew and the first flight without space suits |
| 12th of October 1967 | EVENT | Vietnam War: US Secretary of State Dean Rusk states during a news conference that proposals by the U.S. Congress for peace initiatives are futile because of North Vietnam's opposition |
| 12th of October 1968 | EVENT | Equatorial Guinea becomes independent from Spain |
| 12th of October 1970 | EVENT | Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas |
| 12th of October 1972 | EVENT | En route to the Gulf of Tonkin, a racial brawl involving more than 100 sailors breaks out aboard the United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk |
| 12th of October 1976 | EVENT | The People's Republic of China announces that Hua Guofeng is the successor to the late Mao Zedong as chairman of Communist Party of China. |
| 12th of October 1979 | EVENT | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the first of five books in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction series by Douglas Adams is published. |
| 12th of October 1979 | EVENT | The lowest recorded non-tornadic atmospheric pressure, 87.0 kPa (870 mbar or 25.69 inHg), occurred in the Western Pacific during Typhoon Tip. |
| 12th of October 1983 | EVENT | Japan's former Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei is found guilty of taking a $2 million bribe from Lockheed and is sentenced to 4 years in jail. |
| 12th of October 1984 | EVENT | Brighton hotel bombing: The Provisional Irish Republican Army attempt to assassinate Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet. Thatcher escapes but the bomb kills five people and wounds 31. |
| 12th of October 1986 | EVENT | Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh visit the People's Republic of China |
| 12th of October 1988 | EVENT | Jaffna University Helidrop: Commandos of Indian Peace Keeping Force raided the Jaffna University campus to capture the LTTE chief and walked into a trap. |
| 12th of October 1988 | EVENT | Two officers of the Victoria Police are gunned down executional style in the Walsh Street police shootings, Australia. |
| 12th of October 1991 | EVENT | Askar Akayev, previously chosen President of Kyrgyzstan by republic's Supreme Soviet, is confirmed president in an uncontested poll. |
| 12th of October 1994 | EVENT | NASA loses radio contact with the Magellan spacecraft as the probe descends into the thick atmosphere of Venus (the spacecraft presumably burned up in the atmosphere). |
| 12th of October 1997 | EVENT | Sidi Daoud massacre in Algeria; 43 killed at a fake roadblock. |
| 12th of October 1999 | EVENT | Pervez Musharraf takes power in Pakistan from Nawaz Sharif through a bloodless coup. |
| 12th of October 1999 | EVENT | The Day of Six Billion: The proclaimed 6 billionth living human in the world is born. |
| 12th of October 2000 | EVENT | The USS Cole is badly damaged in Aden, Yemen, by two suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39 |
| 12th of October 2002 | EVENT | Terrorists detonate bombs in the Sari Club in Kuta, Bali, killing 202 and wounding over 300. |
| 12th of October 2005 | EVENT | The second Chinese human spaceflight Shenzhou 6 launched carrying Fei Junlong and Nie Haisheng for five days in orbit. |
| 12th of October 1006 | BIRTHDAY | Emperor Go-Ichijo of Japan (d. 1036) |
| 12th of October 1350 | BIRTHDAY | Dmitry Donskoy, Grand Prince of Moscovy (d. 1389) |
| 12th of October 1490 | BIRTHDAY | Bernardo Pisano, Italian composer (d. 1548) |
| 12th of October 1537 | BIRTHDAY | King Edward VI of England (d. 1553) |
| 12th of October 1558 | BIRTHDAY | Archduke Maximilian III of Austria (d. 1618) |
| 12th of October 1558 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques Sirmond, French scholar and Jesuit (d. 1651) |
| 12th of October 1576 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Dudley, English-born American colonial magistrate (d. 1653) |
| 12th of October 1602 | BIRTHDAY | William Chillingworth, English religious leader (d. 1644) |
| 12th of October 1710 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Trumbull, American politician and 16th Governor of Connecticut (d. 1785) |
| 12th of October 1712 | BIRTHDAY | William Shippen, American physician and statesman (d. 1801) |
| 12th of October 1725 | BIRTHDAY | Etienne Louis Geoffroy, French pharmacist and entomologist (d. 1810) |
| 12th of October 1792 | BIRTHDAY | Christian Gmelin, German chemist (d. 1860) |
| 12th of October 1798 | BIRTHDAY | Pedro I of Brazil (d. 1834) |
| 12th of October 1801 | BIRTHDAY | Friedrich Frey-Herose, Swiss statesman (d. 1873) |
| 12th of October 1815 | BIRTHDAY | William J. Hardee, American Confederate general (d. 1873) |
| 12th of October 1840 | BIRTHDAY | Helena Modjeska, Polish actress (d. 1909) |
| 12th of October 1855 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Nikisch, Hungarian conductor (d. 1922) |
| 12th of October 1860 | BIRTHDAY | Elmer Sperry, American inventor (d. 1930) |
| 12th of October 1865 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Harden, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940) |
| 12th of October 1866 | BIRTHDAY | Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1937) |
| 12th of October 1872 | BIRTHDAY | Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer (d. 1958) |
| 12th of October 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Burke, American baseball player (d. 1942) |
| 12th of October 1875 | BIRTHDAY | Aleister Crowley, English occultist and author (d. 1947) |
| 12th of October 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Hemon, French novelist (d. 1913) |
| 12th of October 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Paula von Preradovic, Croatian-Austrian poet (d. 1951) |
| 12th of October 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Edith Stein, Carmelite Catholic nun (d. 1942) |
| 12th of October 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Gilda dalla Rizza, Italian soprano (d. 1975) |
| 12th of October 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Velvalee Dickinson, American spy (d. 1980) |
| 12th of October 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Elisabeth of Romania (d. 1956) |
| 12th of October 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Eugenio Montale, Italian poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981) |
| 12th of October 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Ding Ling, Chinese writer (d. 1986) |
| 12th of October 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Lester Dent, American writer (d. 1959) |
| 12th of October 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Cronin, American baseball player and executive (d. 1984) |
| 12th of October 1906 | BIRTHDAY | John Murray, American playwright (d.1984) |
| 12th of October 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Ann Petry, American novelist (d. 1997) |
| 12th of October 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Engle, American writer (d. 1991) |
| 12th of October 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Fitzgerald, American poet and translator (d. 1985) |
| 12th of October 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Sheppard, American baseball announcer (d.2010) |
| 12th of October 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Alice Chetwynd Ley, British romance writer (d. 2004) |
| 12th of October 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Alice Childress, American actress and playwright (d. 1994) |
| 12th of October 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Roque Maspoli, Uruguayan footballer (d. 2004) |
| 12th of October 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Gilles Beaudoin, Quebec politician (d. 2007) |
| 12th of October 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Christy Ring, Irish hurler (d. 1979) |
| 12th of October 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Art Clokey, American animator (Gumby) (d. 2010) |
| 12th of October 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Goody Petronelli, American boxing trainer and manager |
| 12th of October 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Doris Grau, American actress (d. 1995) |
| 12th of October 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Denis Lazure, Quebec politician (d. 2008) |
| 12th of October 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Coles, American psychologist and author |
| 12th of October 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Magnus Magnusson, Icelandic television presenter (d. 2007) |
| 12th of October 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Milica Kacin Wohinz, Slovenian historian |
| 12th of October 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Denis Brodeur, French-Canadian hockey photographer |
| 12th of October 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Ole-Johan Dahl, Norwegian computer scientist (d. 2002) |
| 12th of October 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Dick Gregory, American comedian and activist |
| 12th of October 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Ned Jarrett, American race car driver |
| 12th of October 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Guido Molinari, Canadian painter (d. 2004) |
| 12th of October 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Meier, American architect |
| 12th of October 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Albert Shiryaev, Russian mathematician |
| 12th of October 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Kubek, American baseball player |
| 12th of October 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Moore, American R&B singer (Sam & Dave) |
| 12th of October 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Don Howe, English football player and manager |
| 12th of October 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor (d. 2007) |
| 12th of October 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Mangold, American artist |
| 12th of October 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Hawkins, Australian racing driver (d. 1969) |
| 12th of October 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Miller, American NHL broadcaster |
| 12th of October 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Mansfield, English barrister |
| 12th of October 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Alprentice "Bunchy" Carter (Black Panther Party) (d. 1969) |
| 12th of October 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Daliah Lavi, Israeli actress and singer |
| 12th of October 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Melvin Franklin, American singer (The Temptations) (d. 1995) |
| 12th of October 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Angela Rippon, British television personality |
| 12th of October 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Aurore Clement, French actress |
| 12th of October 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Dusty Rhodes, American professional wrestler |
| 12th of October 1947 | BIRTHDAY | George Lam, Hong Kong singer |
| 12th of October 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Wallace, American journalist |
| 12th of October 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Hans Sprenger, German footballer |
| 12th of October 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Rick Parfitt, British musician (Status Quo) |
| 12th of October 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, Venezuelan international terrorist |
| 12th of October 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Stan Hansen, American professional wrestler |
| 12th of October 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Lloyd, British cyclist |
| 12th of October 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Went, English footballer |
| 12th of October 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Susan Anton, American actress |
| 12th of October 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Freudenthal, American politician and 31st Governor of Wyoming |
| 12th of October 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Caroline Ellis, English actress |
| 12th of October 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Robin Askwith, English actor |
| 12th of October 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Kaga Takeshi, Japanese actor |
| 12th of October 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Ed Royce, American politician |
| 12th of October 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Sally Little, South-African-born American golfer |
| 12th of October 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Danielle Proulx, Quebec actress |
| 12th of October 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Les Dennis, British comedian and presenter |
| 12th of October 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Serge Lepeltier, French politician |
| 12th of October 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Einar Jan Aas, Norwegian footballer |
| 12th of October 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Ante Gotovina, Croatian general |
| 12th of October 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Jane Siberry, Canadian musician |
| 12th of October 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Brigitte Lahaie, French talk show host and actress |
| 12th of October 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Aggie MacKenzie, Scottish television presenter |
| 12th of October 1956 | BIRTHDAY | David Vanian, British singer, (The Damned) |
| 12th of October 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Kristen Bjorn, British film director |
| 12th of October 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Austria, American politician |
| 12th of October 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Bryn Merrick, British musician, (The Damned) |
| 12th of October 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Anna Escobedo Cabral, 42nd Treasurer of the United States |
| 12th of October 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Carlo Perrone, Italian football manager and player |
| 12th of October 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Hiroyuki Sanada, Japanese actor |
| 12th of October 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Amanda Castro, Hondurian poet |
| 12th of October 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Bernard, American actor |
| 12th of October 1962 | BIRTHDAY | John Coleman, English football manager and player |
| 12th of October 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Branko Crvenkovski, Macedonian politician |
| 12th of October 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Botti, American jazz musician |
| 12th of October 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Deborah Foreman, American actress |
| 12th of October 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Raimond Aumann, German footballer |
| 12th of October 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Lane Frost, American professional bull rider (d. 1989) |
| 12th of October 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Satoshi Kon, Japanese anime director (d. 2010) |
| 12th of October 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Luis Polonia, Dominican baseball player |
| 12th of October 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Alan McDonald, Northern Irish footballer |
| 12th of October 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Scott O'Grady, American military officer |
| 12th of October 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Jacques Daigneault, Canadian hockey player |
| 12th of October 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Crombie, Canadian actor |
| 12th of October 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Wim Jonk, Dutch football player |
| 12th of October 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Kennedy, Northern Irish musician and author |
| 12th of October 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Laine Canadian singer composer |
| 12th of October 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Auberlen, American race car driver |
| 12th of October 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Rich, American actor |
| 12th of October 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Hugh Jackman, Australian actor and singer |
| 12th of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Martie Maguire, American musician (Dixie Chicks) |
| 12th of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Judit Masco, Spanish model |
| 12th of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Zeljko Milinovic, Slovenian footballer |
| 12th of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Dwayne Roloson, Canadian hockey player |
| 12th of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Valentin, American baseball player |
| 12th of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Kirk Cameron, American actor |
| 12th of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Charlie Ward, American pro basketball player |
| 12th of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Julian, American pornographic actor |
| 12th of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Tanyon Sturtze, American baseball player |
| 12th of October 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Ahn Jae Wook, South Korean actor and composer |
| 12th of October 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Johnston, Australian speedway rider |
| 12th of October 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Fiore, American baseball player |
| 12th of October 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Van Mol, Belgian football player |
| 12th of October 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Juan Manuel Silva, Argentine racing driver |
| 12th of October 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Mechele Linehan, American convicted murderess |
| 12th of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Lesli Brea, Dominican baseball player |
| 12th of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Corry, English rugby player |
| 12th of October 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Lee, English snooker player |
| 12th of October 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Kate Beahan, Australian actress |
| 12th of October 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Marie Wilson, Canadian actress |
| 12th of October 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Marion Jones, American track and field athlete |
| 12th of October 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah Lane, American television personality |
| 12th of October 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Javier Toyo, Venezuelan footballer |
| 12th of October 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Bode Miller, American alpine ski-racer |
| 12th of October 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Jessica Barker, Canadian actress |
| 12th of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Marko Jaric, Serbian basketball player |
| 12th of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Baden Cooke, Australian cyclist |
| 12th of October 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Steven Agnew, Northern Irish politician |
| 12th of October 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Jordan Pundik, American singer (New Found Glory) |
| 12th of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Ledley King, English footballer |
| 12th of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Guiry, American actor |
| 12th of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Kerr, Scottish footballer |
| 12th of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Sneha, Indian actress |
| 12th of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Shola Ameobi, English footballer |
| 12th of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Sun Tiantian, Chinese female tennis player |
| 12th of October 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Brosque, Australian footballer |
| 12th of October 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Green, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 12th of October 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Sergio Peter, German footballer |
| 12th of October 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Emmanuel Nwachi, Nigerian footballer |
| 12th of October 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Whitelock, New Zealand rugby player |
| 12th of October 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Henri Lansbury, English footballer |
| 12th of October 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Nicolao Dumitru, Italian footballer |
| 12th of October 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Taylor Horn, American singer and actress |
| 12th of October 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Josh Hutcherson, American actor |
| 12th of October 2001 | BIRTHDAY | Raymond Ochoa, American actor |
| 12th of October 0632 | DEATH | Edwin of Northumbria (Bornc. 586) |
| 12th of October 0638 | DEATH | Pope Honorius I |
| 12th of October 0642 | DEATH | Pope John IV |
| 12th of October 1095 | DEATH | Margrave Leopold II of Austria (Born 1050) |
| 12th of October 1176 | DEATH | William d'Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel, English politician (Bornc. 1109) |
| 12th of October 1320 | DEATH | Michael IX Palaeologus (Born 1277) |
| 12th of October 1491 | DEATH | Fritz Herlen, German artist (Bornc. 1449) |
| 12th of October 1492 | DEATH | Piero della Francesca, Italian painter |
| 12th of October 1565 | DEATH | Jean Ribault, French explorer and colonizer (Born 1520) |
| 12th of October 1576 | DEATH | Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (Born 1527) |
| 12th of October 1590 | DEATH | Kano Eitoku, Japanese painter (Born 1543) |
| 12th of October 1600 | DEATH | Luis Molina, Spanish Jesuit (Born 1535) |
| 12th of October 1632 | DEATH | Kutsuki Mototsuna, Japanese samurai commander (Born 1549) |
| 12th of October 1646 | DEATH | Francois de Bassompierre, Marshal of France (Born 1579) |
| 12th of October 1678 | DEATH | Edmund Berry Godfrey, English magistrate (Born 1621) |
| 12th of October 1679 | DEATH | William Gurnall, English writer (Born 1617) |
| 12th of October 1685 | DEATH | Christoph Ignaz Abele, Austrian jurist (Born 1628) |
| 12th of October 1730 | DEATH | King Frederick IV of Denmark (Born 1671) |
| 12th of October 1758 | DEATH | Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth, British field marshal (Born 1680) |
| 12th of October 1845 | DEATH | Elizabeth Fry, British social reformer and philanthropist (Born 1780) |
| 12th of October 1870 | DEATH | Robert E. Lee, American Confederate general (Born 1807) |
| 12th of October 1875 | DEATH | Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter (Born 1827) |
| 12th of October 1896 | DEATH | Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, Danish nobleman and politician (Born 1817) |
| 12th of October 1898 | DEATH | Calvin Fairbank, American abolitionist minister (Born 1816) |
| 12th of October 1915 | DEATH | Edith Cavell, English nurse (Born 1865) |
| 12th of October 1920 | DEATH | Yu Gwan-sun, Korean independence leader (Born 1904) |
| 12th of October 1924 | DEATH | Anatole France, French author, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1844) |
| 12th of October 1933 | DEATH | John Lister, English politician (Born 1847) |
| 12th of October 1940 | DEATH | Tom Mix, American actor (Born 1880) |
| 12th of October 1946 | DEATH | Joseph Stilwell, American general (Born 1883) |
| 12th of October 1948 | DEATH | Susan Sutherland Isaacs, English educational psychologist and psychoanalyst (Born 1885). |
| 12th of October 1954 | DEATH | George Welch, American pilot (Born 1918) |
| 12th of October 1956 | DEATH | Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer (Born 1872) |
| 12th of October 1958 | DEATH | Gordon Griffith, American actor, director, and producer (Born 1907) |
| 12th of October 1960 | DEATH | Inejiro Asanuma, Japanese politician (Born 1898) |
| 12th of October 1965 | DEATH | Paul Hermann Muller, Swiss chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Born 1899) |
| 12th of October 1967 | DEATH | Ram Manohar Lohia, Indian Socialist politician leader (Born 1910) |
| 12th of October 1969 | DEATH | Sonja Henie, Norwegian figure skater (Born 1912) |
| 12th of October 1970 | DEATH | Mustafa Zaidi, Pakistani poet (Born 1930) |
| 12th of October 1971 | DEATH | Dean Acheson, American statesman (Born 1893) |
| 12th of October 1971 | DEATH | Gene Vincent, American rock musician (Born 1935) |
| 12th of October 1973 | DEATH | Peter Aufschnaiter, Austrian mountaineer (Born 1899) |
| 12th of October 1978 | DEATH | Nancy Spungen, American groupie and muder victim (Born 1958) |
| 12th of October 1983 | DEATH | Ernie Roth, American pro wrestling manager (Born 1929) |
| 12th of October 1984 | DEATH | Sir Anthony Berry, British politician (Born 1925) |
| 12th of October 1985 | DEATH | Johnny Olson, American game show announcer (Born 1910) |
| 12th of October 1985 | DEATH | Ricky Wilson, American musician (The B-52's) (Born 1953) |
| 12th of October 1987 | DEATH | Alf Landon, American politician (Born 1887) |
| 12th of October 1988 | DEATH | Coby Whitmore, American painter and magazine illustrator (Born 1913) |
| 12th of October 1988 | DEATH | Ruth Manning-Sanders, Welsh poet and children's book author (Born 1886) |
| 12th of October 1989 | DEATH | Carmen Cavallaro, American pianist (Born 1913) |
| 12th of October 1989 | DEATH | Jay Ward, American animator (Rocky and Bullwinkle) (Born 1920) |
| 12th of October 1990 | DEATH | Peter Wessel Zapffe, Norwegian author and mountaineer (Born 1899) |
| 12th of October 1991 | DEATH | Sheila Florance, Australian film and television actress (Born 1916) |
| 12th of October 1991 | DEATH | Arkady Strugatsky, Russian novelist (Born 1925) |
| 12th of October 1993 | DEATH | Leon Ames, American actor (Born 1902) |
| 12th of October 1993 | DEATH | Tofik Bakhramov, Azerbaijani linesman (Born 1926) |
| 12th of October 1994 | DEATH | Gerald Godin, Quebecois poet and politician (Born 1938) |
| 12th of October 1996 | DEATH | Roger Lapebie, French cyclist (Born 1911) |
| 12th of October 1996 | DEATH | Rene Lacoste, French tennis player (Born 1904) |
| 12th of October 1997 | DEATH | John Denver, American singer (Born 1943) |
| 12th of October 1998 | DEATH | Matthew Shepard, American murder victim (Born 1976) |
| 12th of October 1998 | DEATH | Mario Beaulieu, French Canadian politician (Born 1930) |
| 12th of October 1999 | DEATH | Robert Marsden Hope, Australian jurist (Born 1919) |
| 12th of October 1999 | DEATH | Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player (Born 1936) |
| 12th of October 2001 | DEATH | Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, British politician (Born 1907) |
| 12th of October 2002 | DEATH | Ray Conniff, American bandleader and musician (Born 1916) |
| 12th of October 2002 | DEATH | Audrey Mestre, French diver (Born 1974) |
| 12th of October 2003 | DEATH | Joan Kroc, American philanthropist (Born 1928) |
| 12th of October 2003 | DEATH | Willie Shoemaker, American jockey (Born 1931) |
| 12th of October 2003 | DEATH | Jim Cairns, Australian politician (Born 1914) |
| 12th of October 2005 | DEATH | C. Delores Tucker, American politician and civil rights activist (Born 1927) |
| 12th of October 2006 | DEATH | Gillo Pontecorvo, Italian film director (Born 1919) |
| 12th of October 2007 | DEATH | Kisho Kurokawa, Japanese architect (Born 1934) |
| 12th of October 2007 | DEATH | Noel Coleman, British Actor (Born 1919) |
| 12th of October 2008 | DEATH | Karl Chircop, Maltese politician (Born 1965) |
| 12th of October 2009 | DEATH | Frank Vandenbroucke, Belgian cyclist (Born 1974) |
| 12th of October 2009 | DEATH | Dickie Peterson American musician (Born 1948) |
| 12th of October 2010 | DEATH | Woody Peoples, American football player (Born 1943) |
| 12th of October 2010 | DEATH | Belva Plain, American novelist (Born 1919) |