Famous People Who Died on August 12th in History

Dying is just like taxes in the respect that it is going to happen to you and me. Over history, we realize it doesn’t matter who you are, you are going to face death. Famous people have no secret weapon against death. They are just like you and I. They will die. We will die. Death is a part of life. However, many of us look forward to eternal life in Heaven. After we all pass from this world, I hope to meet each one of you in a better place called Heaven.

We Live And We Die

Nobody Lives Forever

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What Happened Today in History?

30 BC Cleopatra VII Philopator, the last ruler of the Egyptian Ptolemaic dynasty, commits suicide, allegedly by means of an asp bite.

1898 The Hawaiian flag is lowered from Iolani Palace in an elaborate annexation ceremony and replaced with the flag of the United States to signify the transfer of sovereignty from the Republic of Hawaii to the United States.

1964 – Charlie Wilson, one of the Great Train Robbers, escapes from Winson Green Prison in Birmingham, England.

1977 The first free flight of the Space Shuttle Enterprise

1981 The IBM Personal Computer is released.

1994 Major League Baseball players go on strike. This will force the cancellation of the 1994 World Series

Deaths

1757-1827 William Blake, English poet and artist of the romantic age

1781-1848 George Stephenson, British locomotive designer and the Father of Railways

1761-1849 Albert Gallatin, Swiss-American politican, 4th United States Secretary of the Treasury

1801-1851 John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune was a British barrister and a pioneer in women’s education in India

1793-1861 Eliphalet Remington, American inventor of the Remington Rifle, at 23, he hand-made a revolutionary sporting rifle using a firing mechanism bought from a dealer, producing the barrel himself.-Remington Arms Company-this dude is important to those of us who like guns

1861-1904 William Renshaw, One of the greatest British tennis players of all time

1915-1944 Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., brother of President John F. Kennedy

1875-1955 Thomas Mann, German writer, Nobel laureate

1908-1964 Ian Fleming, English novelist, creator of James Bond

1905-1982 Henry Fonda, American actor

1960-1988 Jean-Michel Basquiat, American painter and graffiti artist in New York City

1953-1996 Mark Gruenwald, American comic book writer and editor, Gruenwald was put in charge of The Avengers, Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Spider Woman, and What If

1913-2000 Loretta Young, American actress

1916-2002 Enos Slaughter, American baseball player and Hall of Fame right-fielder

1925-2007 Merv Griffin, American television host and game show creator

1915-2009 Les Paul, American guitarist

This is series of famous people who died was inspired by Faye Farley who writes about famous people who were born on the same dates. Each day I will make a list of the famous people who died on the particular day with a link to her story about who was born on a particular day. Today’s famous deaths will be linked to her September 27 story because she has not made it to October yet. Click hereto check out Faye’s writing

Sources

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