Famous people died on April 12

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Gilbert Gottfried 65

American Comedian

David Gest 34

American Celebrity

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 4

American Scholar

Tommy Smith (footballer born 1945) 2

English Footballer

Roberto Cavalli 56

Italian Designer

Abbie Hoffman 64

American Activist

Brennan Manning 69

American Author

Arnold Wesker 3

British Dramatist

Robert MacNeil 13

Canadian Journalist

Stirling Moss 4

British Celebrity

Robert Byrne 15

American Author

John Maddox 2

Welsh Chemist

William Sloane Coffin 8

American Clergyman

James Schuyler 8

American Poet

Sugar Ray Robinson 15

American Athlete

Harvey Ball 3

American Celebrity

Joe Louis 9

American Boxer

Josephine Baker 20

American Dancer

George Wald 40

American Scientist

Alan Paton 22

African Novelist

Igor Tamm 1

Russian Physicist

Arthur Freed 2

American Producer

Franklin D. Roosevelt 365

American President

William Graham Sumner 40

American Businessman

Thomas De Witt Talmage 7

William M. Tweed 3

American Politician

Clara Barton 12

American Public Servant

Arthur Young 12

English Writer

Charles Burney 4

Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon 3

French Writer

Metastasio 9

Italian Poet

William Kent 3

English Architect

Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet 8

French Bishop

Seneca 610

Roman Writer

See also: Famous people born on April 12