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Near the end of his life, le Carré became an Irish citizen.
Notable Deaths on December 12
2020 — John le Carré
English author (born 1931)
December 12 has 69 recorded notable deaths across history, from 884 to 2021. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
69 source records
884 – 2021
Today in history
Major events on December 12
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- 2012 North Korea successfully launches its first satellite, Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3 Unit 2. Source
- 1939 Winter War: The Battle of Tolvajärvi, also known as the first major Finnish victory in the Winter War, begins. Source
- 1963 Kenya declares independence from Great Britain. Source
- 1935 The Lebensborn Project, a Nazi reproduction program, is founded by Heinrich Himmler. Source
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Primarily an actress of the stage, Bankhead also appeared in several films including an award-winning performance in Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat (1944).
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Ian Stewart was removed from the lineup in May 1963 at the request of manager Andrew Loog Oldham who felt he did not fit the band's image.
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Danny Aiello played Don Domenico Clericuzio in the miniseries The Last Don (1997).
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was an American actor and filmmaker best known for being the first actor to play the masked vigilante Zorro and other swashbuckling roles in silent films.
More major people who died on December 12
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1968
Tallulah Bankhead
American actress (born 1902)
Tallulah Brockman Bankhead was an American actress. Primarily an actress of the stage, Bankhead also appeared in several films including an award-winning performance in Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat (1944).
1985
Ian Stewart
Scottish keyboardist and manager (born 1938)
Ian Andrew Robert Stewart was a Scottish keyboardist and co-founder of the Rolling Stones.
2019
Danny Aiello
American actor (born 1933)
Daniel Louis Aiello Jr. was an American actor. He appeared in numerous motion pictures, including The Godfather Part II (1974), The Front (1976), Once Upon a Time in America (1984), Hide in Plain Sight (1984), The…
1939
Douglas Fairbanks
Sr., American actor, producer, and screenwriter (born 1883)
Douglas Elton Fairbanks Sr. was an American actor and filmmaker best known for being the first actor to play the masked vigilante Zorro and other swashbuckling roles in silent films.
2021
Vicente Fernández
Mexican actor, ranchera singer, and film producer (born 1940)
Vicente Fernández Gómez was a Mexican mariachi singer, actor and film producer.
2006
Paul Arizin
American basketball player (born 1928)
Paul Joseph Arizin, nicknamed "Pitchin Paul", was an American basketball player who spent his entire National Basketball Association (NBA) career with the Philadelphia Warriors from 1950 to 1962.
1751
Henry St John
1st Viscount Bolingbroke, English philosopher and politician, Secretary at War (born 1678)
Henry St. John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke was a British Tory politician and philosopher.
1994
Stuart Roosa
American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (born 1933)
Stuart Allen Roosa was an American aeronautical engineer, smokejumper, United States Air Force pilot, test pilot, and NASA astronaut, who was the Command Module Pilot for the Apollo 14 mission.
1980
Jean Lesage
Canadian lawyer and politician, 19th Premier of Quebec (born 1912)
Jean Lesage was a Canadian lawyer and politician. He served as the 19th premier of Quebec from July 5, 1960, to June 16, 1966.
1970
Doris Blackburn
Australian politician (born 1889)
Doris Amelia Blackburn was an Australian social reformer and politician. She served in the House of Representatives from 1946 to 1949, the second woman after Enid Lyons to do so.
2014
Herb Plews
American baseball player (born 1928)
Herbert Eugene Plews was an American Major League Baseball second baseman. He played four years in the majors, from 1956 to 1959 with the Washington Senators and in 1959 for the Boston Red Sox.
1913
Menelik II
Ethiopian emperor (born 1844)
Menelik II, baptised as Sahle Maryam, was king of Shewa from 1866 to 1889 and Emperor of Ethiopia from 1889 to his death in 1913.
2006
Raymond P. Shafer
American attorney and politician, 39th Governor of Pennsylvania (born 1917)
Raymond Philip Shafer was an American attorney and politician who served as the 39th governor of Pennsylvania from 1967 to 1971.
1934
Thorleif Haug
Norwegian skier (born 1894)
Thorleif Haug was a Norwegian skier who competed in nordic combined and cross-country. At the 1924 Olympics he won all three Nordic skiing events.
2008
Avery Dulles
American cardinal and theologian (born 1918)
Avery Robert Dulles was an American Jesuit priest, theologian, and cardinal of the Catholic Church.
884
King Carloman II of the Franks (born c.866; hunting accident)
Carloman II was the King of West Francia from 879 until his death.
1998
Morris Udall
American captain and politician (born 1922)
Morris King Udall was an American attorney and politician who served as a U.S. representative from Arizona from 1961 to 1991.
2013
Tom Laughlin
American actor, director, screenwriter, author, educator, and activist (born 1931)
Thomas Robert Laughlin Jr. was an American actor, filmmaker, educator, activist, and perennial candidate.
2008
Van Johnson
American actor (born 1916)
Charles Van Dell Johnson was an American actor. He had a prolific career in film, television, theatre and radio, which spanned over 50 years, from 1940 to 1992.