14 notable people died on August 12, including Ernst B. Chain, Godfrey N. Hounsfield, James B. Sumner.
21st Century
2 deaths
Godfrey N. Hounsfield
scientist
Nobel laureate: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1979)
Dumitru Enescu
engineergeophysicist
Romanian geophysicist
20th Century
7 deaths
Ernst B. Chain
scientist
Nobel laureate: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1945)
James B. Sumner
scientist
Nobel laureate: Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1946)
Walter Hess
scientist
Nobel laureate: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1949)
Karl Ziegler
scientist
Nobel laureate: Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1963)
John Philip Holland
design engineerentrepreneur
Irish-American marine engineer (1841–1914)
Louisa Lawson
editorinventor
Australian poet, writer, publisher, suffragist, and feminist (1848–1920)
Bernardo Quintana Arrioja
civil engineerengineer
Mexican civil engineer (1920–1984)
19th Century
2 deaths
Eliphalet Remington
blacksmithentrepreneur
American firearm designer (1793–1861)
Robert D. FitzGerald
botanical collectorbotanist
Surveyor, ornithologist, botanist and poet (1830-1892)
18th Century
1 deathOlof von Dalin
historianliterary critic
Swedish nobleman, poet, historian and courtier (1708–1763)
17th Century
1 death
Johann Sperling
physicianphysicist
German zoologist
9th Century
1 death
Yuthog Yontan Gonpo
academicLama
Tibetan lama
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