Famous Deaths on September 12

Nobel laureate: Nobel Prize in Peace (1970)

Hungarian writer (1930–2016)

Nobel laureate: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1935)

Australian businessman (1840–1916)

President of Bolivia (1848-1939)

Swedish lyricist, music publisher, composer, music executive, manager for ABBA, teacher (1931-1997)

Finnish politician

Norwegian architect and photographer (1891-1964)

Finnish doctor (1870-1949)

New Zealand chemist (1910–1996)

Belgian painter (1845-1922)

Australian journalist

Polish officer

(1891-1983) nurseryman and landscape gardener

Welsh rugby union player (1872–1957)

New Zealand public servant, diplomat, and cricketer (1890-1973)

Italian architect and engineer

Chilean priest, naturalist, historian, botanist, ornithologist and geographer (1740-1829)

Brazilian writer

Spanish politician, journalist and writer (1789-1869)

American philosopher and mathematician (1830–1875)

Prussian field marshal (1742–1819)

Mexican anthropologist and astronomer

Hungarian politician, historian (1795-1855)

Swiss art historian and painter (1709-1793)

American theologian (1640–1707)

13th king of Toungoo dynasty of Burma

Hungarian politician

King of Majorca

King of Lithuania