Famous Deaths on March 12

Nobel laureate: Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences (2012)

Serbian writer (1930–2023)

Albanian musician (1920-2008)

Canadian writer (1920-2020)

Austrian-British economic historian

Egyptian gymnast

Nobel laureate: Nobel Prize in Physics (1915)

Nobel laureate: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1967)

Brazilian architect (1836-1913)

Norwegian journalist (1892-1964)

Paraguayan journalist and educator (1840-1902)

Austrian author and music critic (1870–1941)

Austrian film director, animal trainer, lion tamer and author (1873-1935)

Italian mathematician (1910-1990)

Gujarati theatre actor, director, manager and playwright from Gujarat, India.

Mateo Orfila y Rotger (Menorca, 1787- Paris, 1853), professor of Legal Medicine in Paris and founder of toxicology

French computer pioneer (1785-1870)

8th Premier of New Zealand (1835-1899)

Venezuelan politician (1797–1848)

Italian artist (1696-1757)

Spanish writer (1734-1787)

King of Kakheti from 1574 to 1605

Holy Roman empress (1651-1673)

Spanish writer (c. 1583-c.1648)

German noblewoman; Countess of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt and hymn poet (1640-1672)

Daimyo

Polish archbishop

Iranian historian

Japanese noble