Did you know
Kelly Preston appeared in more than 60 television and film productions, including Mischief (1985), Twins (1988), Jerry Maguire (1996), and For Love of the Game (1999).
Notable Deaths on July 12
2020 — Kelly Preston
American actress and model (born 1962)
July 12 has 112 recorded notable deaths across history, from 524 to 2026. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
112 source records
524 – 2026
Today in history
Major events on July 12
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- 1960 Orlyonok, the main Young Pioneer camp of the Russian SFSR, is founded. Source
- 1943 World War II: Battle of Kursk: German and Soviet forces engage in the Battle of Prokhorovka, one of the largest armored engagements of all time. Source
- 2001 Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on mission STS-104, carrying the Quest Joint Airlock to the International Space Station. Source
- 1975 São Tomé and Príncipe declare independence from Portugal. Source
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Gertrude Bell spent much of her life exploring and mapping the Middle East, and became influential in British imperial policy-making as an Arabist due to her knowledge of the region and the contacts built up during her extensive travels there.
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In 1894, Dreyfus fell victim to a judicial conspiracy that eventually sparked a major political crisis in the French Third Republic when he was wrongfully accused and convicted of being a German spy due to antisemitism.
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Lon Chaney Jr. also portrayed Lennie Small in Of Mice and Men (1939) and played supporting parts in dozens of mainstream movies, including High Noon (1952), The Defiant Ones (1958), and numerous Westerns, musicals, comedies and dramas.
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Bertrada of Laon, also known as Bertrada the Younger or Bertha Broadfoot, was the first Carolingian Frankish queen.
More major people who died on July 12
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1926
Gertrude Bell
English archaeologist and spy (born 1868)
Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell was an English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, and archaeologist.
1935
Alfred Dreyfus
French colonel (born 1859)
Alfred Dreyfus was a French Army officer best known for his central role in the Dreyfus affair.
1973
Lon Chaney Jr.
American actor (born 1906)
Creighton Tull Chaney, known by his stage name Lon Chaney Jr., was an American actor known for playing Larry Talbot in the film The Wolf Man (1941) and its various crossovers, Count Alucard in Son of Dracula,…
783
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.
1979
Olive Morris
Jamaican-English civil rights activist (born 1952)
Olive Elaine Morris was a Jamaican-born British-based community leader and activist in the feminist, black nationalist, and squatters' rights campaigns of the 1970s.
1980
John Warren Davis
American educator, college administrator, and civil rights leader (born 1888)
John Warren Davis was an American educator, college administrator, and civil rights leader.
1992
Caroline Pafford Miller
American journalist and author (born 1903)
Caroline Pafford Miller was an American novelist. She gathered the folktales, stories, and archaic dialects of the rural communities she visited in her home state of Georgia in the late 1920s and early 1930s, and wove…
2012
Alimuddin
Pakistani cricketer (born 1930)
Alimuddin was a Pakistani cricketer who played 25 Tests for Pakistan between 1954 and 1962. His name is sometimes rendered Alim-ud-Din.
1067
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).
1998
Arkady Ostashev
Soviet/Russian scientist and engineer (born 1925)
Arkady Ilyich Ostashev was a Soviet and Russian scientist, engineer - mechanic in the former Soviet space program, working on as a designer many of rocket propulsion and control system of Soviet satellites.
2013
Elaine Morgan
Welsh writer (born 1920)
Elaine Morgan OBE, FRSL, was a Welsh writer for television and the author of several books on evolutionary anthropology.
2003
Benny Carter
American trumpet player, saxophonist, and composer (born 1907)
Bennett Lester Carter was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader. With Johnny Hodges, he was a pioneer on the alto saxophone.
1908
William D. Coleman
13th President of Liberia (born 1842)
William David Coleman was an Americo-Liberian politician. A True Whig Party member, he served as the 13th president of Liberia from 1896 to 1900.
1966
D. T. Suzuki
Japanese philosopher and author (born 1870)
Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki , was a Japanese essayist, philosopher, religious scholar, and translator.
2008
Bobby Murcer
American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster (born 1946)
Bobby Ray Murcer was an American professional baseball outfielder who played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) between 1965 and 1983.
2011
Sherwood Schwartz
American screenwriter and producer (born 1916)
Sherwood Charles Schwartz was an American television screenwriter and producer.
1990
João Saldanha
Brazilian footballer, manager, and journalist (born 1917)
João Alves Jobin Saldanha was a Brazilian journalist and football manager. He coached the Brazil national football team during the South American Qualifying to the 1970 FIFA World Cup.
2015
Chenjerai Hove
Zimbabwean journalist, author, and poet (born 1956)
Chenjerai Hove, was a Zimbabwean poet, novelist and essayist who wrote in both English and Shona.
1999
Rajendra Kumar
Indian actor (born 1921)
Rajendra Kumar also alternatively known as Rajinder Kumar was an Indian actor who starred in Bollywood films. Starting his career in 1949, he worked in more than 80 films in a career spanning over four decades.