Notable Deaths on July 12

111 people 524 – 2024

July 12 has seen 111 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 524 – 2024. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

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John Warren Davis

1980 — John Warren Davis

American educator, college administrator, and civil rights leader (born 1888)

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While in Atlanta, Davis helped to found one of the city's first chapters of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

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He was the fifth and longest-serving president of West Virginia State University in Institute, West Virginia, a position he held from 1919 to 1953

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Born in Milledgeville, Georgia, Davis relocated to Atlanta in 1903 to attend high school at Atlanta Baptist College

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He worked his way through high school and college at Morehouse and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1911

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He completed graduate studies in chemistry and physics at the University of Chicago from 1911 to 1913 and served on the faculty of Morehouse as the registrar and as a professor in chemistry and physics


archbishop of Lyon (born 460)
Saint Viventiolus was the Archbishop of Lyon 514–523. Later canonized and venerated as a saint within the Catholic Church, Archdiocese of Lyon, France his feast Day is July 12. He is recognised in the Orthodox Church…
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524
Bertrada of Laon
Frankish queen (born 720)
Bertrada of Laon, also known as Bertrada the Younger or Bertha Broadfoot, was the first Carolingian Frankish queen. An enduring influence in Frankish politics, she was the wife of Pepin the Short and the mother of…
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783
emperor of Later Shu (born 919)
Meng Chang (孟昶) (919–965), originally Meng Renzan (孟仁贊), courtesy name Baoyuan (保元), posthumously honored as Prince Gongxiao of Chu (楚恭孝王) by the Emperor Taizu of Song, was the second and last emperor of the Later Shu…
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965
Xue Juzheng
Chinese scholar-official and historian
Xue Juzheng was a scholar-official who successively served the Later Jin, Later Han, Later Zhou and Song dynasties. He was one of the chief ministers of the Song dynasty from 973 until his death.
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981
John Komnenos
Byzantine general
John Komnenos was a Byzantine aristocrat and military leader. The younger brother of Emperor Isaac I Komnenos, he served as Domestic of the Schools during Isaac's brief reign (1057–59). When Isaac I abdicated,…
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1067
Ashikaga Yoshinori
Japanese shōgun (born 1394)
Ashikaga Yoshinori was the sixth shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate who reigned from 1429 to 1441 during the Muromachi period of medieval Japan. Yoshinori was the son of the third shōgun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu. His…
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1441
Kyōgoku Takakazu
Japanese nobleman
Kyōgoku Takakazu was a Japanese noble member of the Kyōgoku Clan of Japan who served the shōgun Ashikaga Yoshinori.
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1441
Bahlul Lodi
sultan of Delhi
Bahlul Khan Lodi was the chief of the Afghan Lodi tribe. He was the founder of the Lodi dynasty from the Delhi Sultanate, upon the abdication of the last claimant from the previous Sayyid rule. Bahlul became Sultan of…
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1489
Desiderius Erasmus
Dutch priest and philosopher (born 1466)
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, commonly known in English as Erasmus of Rotterdam or simply Erasmus, was a Dutch humanist, Catholic theologian, and pioneering philologist and educationalist. He was, through his writings…
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1536
English navigator and explorer (born 1525)
Steven Borough was an English navigator and an early Arctic explorer. He was master of the first English ship to reach the White Sea in 1553 and open trade with Russia on behalf of the Muscovy Company. He became an…
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1584
William Bourchier
3rd Earl of Bath (born 1557)
William Bourchier, 3rd Earl of Bath was Lord Lieutenant of Devon. His seat was at Tawstock Court, three miles south of Barnstaple in North Devon, which he rebuilt in the Elizabethan style in 1574, the date being…
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1623
Stefano della Bella
Italian illustrator and engraver (born 1610)
Stefano della Bella was an Italian draughtsman and printmaker known for etchings of a great variety of subjects, including military and court scenes, landscapes, and lively genre scenes. He left 1052 prints, and several…
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1664
Jean Picard
French priest and astronomer (born 1620)
Jean Picard was a French priest, astronomer and pioneer in geodesy, born in La Flèche, where he studied at the Collège royal Henri le Grand. He is best known for accurately measuring the size of the Earth, through a…
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1682
French general
Charles Chalmot de Saint-Ruhe was a French cavalry officer, serving in the armies of Louis XIV.
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1691
English admiral (born 1640)
Admiral Sir John Ashby was an officer of the Royal Navy, who rose to the rank of Admiral. Ashby was the fourth son of Robert Ashby and his wife Alice, who was a sister of Sir Thomas Allin. He grew up in Suffolk where…
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1693
Richard Cromwell
English academic and politician (born 1626)
Richard Cromwell was an English statesman who served as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland from 1658 to 1659. He was the son of Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell.
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1712
Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco
Italian violinist and composer (born 1675)
Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco was an Italian composer, violinist, and cellist.
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1742
Charles de la Boische
Marquis de Beauharnois, French navy officer and politician, Governor General of New France (born 1671)
Charles de la Boische, Marquis de Beauharnois was a French Naval officer who served as Governor of New France from 1726 to 1746.
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1749
Johann Joachim Quantz
German flute player and composer (born 1697)
Johann Joachim Quantz was a German composer, flautist and flute maker of the late Baroque period. Much of his professional career was spent in the court of Frederick the Great, where he served as the king's flute…
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1773
Alexander Hamilton
American general, economist, and politician, 1st United States Secretary of the Treasury (born 1755)
Alexander Hamilton was an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first U.S. secretary of the treasury from 1789 to 1795 under the presidency of George Washington. He also founded…
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1804
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Who died on July 12?

John Warren Davis — American college president and civil rights activist

Death year1980
Known forHe was the fifth and longest-serving president of West Virginia State University in Institute, West Virginia, a position he held from 1919 to 1953
Deaths on this date111 (524 – 2024)

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