Famous people died on May 12

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Adam Petty 4

American Celebrity

Mullah Dadullah 3

Bernard Membe 5

Tanzanian Politician

David Sanborn 18

American Musician

Dennis Nilsen 9

Vlastimil Hort 1

H. R. Giger 9

Swiss Artist

Robert Reed 2

American Actor

Simon Raven 8

English Novelist

Robert Rauschenberg 79

American Painter

Kenneth Waltz 26

Peter Gay 8

American Historian

William Zinsser 30

American Writer

James Jesus Angleton 3

Saul Steinberg 5

American Artist

Perry Como 14

American Musician

Aly Khan 6

Italian Public Servant

Ivan Agayants 3

Officer

Josephine Miles 2

American Poet

Irena Sendler 9

Polish Activist

Erik Erikson 19

American Psychologist

Jean Dubuffet 49

French Artist

Aiden Wilson Tozer 42

American Clergyman

Max Brand 1

American Novelist

Nelly Sachs 6

German Poet

Erich von Stroheim 13

Austrian Actor

John Masefield 29

English Poet

Amy Lowell 23

American Poet

Shaw Neilson 1

Australian Poet

James Connolly 21

Irish Republican

Józef Piłsudski 15

Polish Politician

Arthur Quiller-Couch 7

British Writer

Nectarius of Optina 2

Charles Wagner 3

French Writer

Joris-Karl Huysmans 8

Novelist

John Sergeant Wise 17

American Author

Vasily Klyuchevsky 1

Russian Historian

Henry Becque 1

French Dramatist

Richard Morris 26

English Clergyman

Richard Henry Stoddard 9

American Poet

Julius Hawley Seelye 1

American Politician

Catharine Beecher 3

American Educator

August Wilhelm von Schlegel 3

German Poet

Ezra Stiles 23

American Clergyman

Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford 3

English Statesman

George Chapman 71

English Poet

See also: Famous people born on May 12