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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 12th of September 1213 | EVENT | Albigensian Crusade: Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, defeats Peter II of Aragon at the Battle of Muret. |
| 12th of September 1229 | EVENT | The Aragonese army under the command of James I of Aragon disembarks at Santa Ponca, Majorca, with the purpose of conquering the island. |
| 12th of September 1609 | EVENT | Henry Hudson begins his exploration of the Hudson River while aboard the Halve Maen. |
| 12th of September 1683 | EVENT | Austro-Ottoman War: Battle of Vienna : several European armies join forces to defeat the Ottoman Empire. |
| 12th of September 1814 | EVENT | Battle of North Point: an American detachment halts the British land advance to Baltimore in the War of 1812. |
| 12th of September 1846 | EVENT | Elizabeth Barrett elopes with Robert Browning. |
| 12th of September 1847 | EVENT | Mexican-American War: the Battle of Chapultepec begins. |
| 12th of September 1848 | EVENT | Switzerland becomes a Federal state. |
| 12th of September 1857 | EVENT | The SS Central America sinks about 160 miles east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, drowning a total of 426 passengers and crew, including Captain William Lewis Herndon. The ship was carrying 13 : 15 tons of gold from the San Francisco Gold Rush. |
| 12th of September 1874 | EVENT | The District of Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada is founded. |
| 12th of September 1885 | EVENT | Arbroath 36 : 0 Bon Accord, a world record scoreline in professional football. |
| 12th of September 1890 | EVENT | Salisbury, Rhodesia, is founded. |
| 12th of September 1897 | EVENT | Tirah Campaign: Battle of Saragarhi |
| 12th of September 1906 | EVENT | The Newport Transporter Bridge is opened in Newport, South Wales by Viscount Tredegar. |
| 12th of September 1910 | EVENT | Premiere performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8 in Munich (with a chorus of 852 singers and an orchestra of 171 players. Mahler's rehearsal assistant conductor was Bruno Walter) |
| 12th of September 1919 | EVENT | Adolf Hitler joins the German Workers Party. |
| 12th of September 1930 | EVENT | Wilfred Rhodes ends his 1110-game first-class career by taking 5 for 95 for H.D.G. Leveson Gower's XI against the Australians. |
| 12th of September 1933 | EVENT | Leo Szilard, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction. |
| 12th of September 1938 | EVENT | Adolf Hitler demands autonomy and self-determination for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia. |
| 12th of September 1940 | EVENT | Cave paintings are discovered in Lascaux, France. |
| 12th of September 1940 | EVENT | An explosion at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Kenvil, New Jersey kills 51 people and injures over 200. |
| 12th of September 1942 | EVENT | World War II: RMS Laconia, carrying civilians, Allied soldiers and Italian POWs is torpedoed off the coast of West Africa and sinks with a heavy loss of life. |
| 12th of September 1942 | EVENT | World War II: First day of the Battle of Edson's Ridge during the Guadalcanal campaign. U.S. Marines protecting Henderson Field on Guadalcanal are attacked by Imperial Japanese Army forces. |
| 12th of September 1943 | EVENT | World War II: Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy, is rescued from house arrest on the Gran Sasso in Abruzzi, by German commando forces led by Otto Skorzeny. |
| 12th of September 1944 | EVENT | World War II: The liberation of Serbia from Nazi Germany and the Chetniks continues. Bajina Basta in western Serbia is among those liberated cities. Near Trier, American troops enter Germany for the first time. |
| 12th of September 1948 | EVENT | Invasion of the State of Hyderabad by the Indian Army on the day after the Pakistani leader Jinnah's death. |
| 12th of September 1952 | EVENT | Strange occurrences, including a monster sighting, take place in Flatwoods, West Virginia. |
| 12th of September 1958 | EVENT | Jack Kilby demonstrates the first integrated circuit. |
| 12th of September 1959 | EVENT | Premiere of Bonanza, the first regularly-scheduled TV program presented in color. |
| 12th of September 1959 | EVENT | The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the moon. |
| 12th of September 1964 | EVENT | Canyonlands National Park is designated as a National Park. |
| 12th of September 1966 | EVENT | Gemini 11, the penultimate mission of NASA's Gemini program, and the current human altitude record holder (except for the Apollo lunar missions) |
| 12th of September 1970 | EVENT | Palestinian terrorists blow up three hijacked airliners in Jordan, continuing to hold the passengers hostage in various undisclosed locations in Amman. |
| 12th of September 1974 | EVENT | Juventude Africana Amilcar Cabral is founded in Guinea-Bissau. |
| 12th of September 1974 | EVENT | Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, 'Messiah' of the Rastafari movement, is deposed following a military coup by the Derg, ending a reign of 58 years. |
| 12th of September 1977 | EVENT | South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko is killed in police custody. |
| 12th of September 1979 | EVENT | Indonesia is hit with an earthquake that measures 8.1 on the Richter scale. |
| 12th of September 1980 | EVENT | Military coup in Turkey. |
| 12th of September 1983 | EVENT | The USSR vetoes a UN Security Council Resolution deploring the Soviet shooting down of a Korean civilian jetliner on September 1. |
| 12th of September 1983 | EVENT | A Wells Fargo depot in West Hartford, Connecticut, United States, is robbed of approximately US$7 million by Los Macheteros. |
| 12th of September 1988 | EVENT | Hurricane Gilbert devastates Jamaica; it turns towards Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula 2 days later, causing an estimated $5 billion in damage. |
| 12th of September 1990 | EVENT | The two German states and the Four Powers sign the Treaty on the Final Settlement With Respect to Germany in Moscow, paving the way for German re-unification. |
| 12th of September 1992 | EVENT | Abimael Guzman, leader of the Shining Path, is captured by Peruvian special forces; shortly thereafter the rest of Shining Path's leadership fell as well. |
| 12th of September 1992 | EVENT | NASA launches Space Shuttle Endeavour on STS-47 which marked the 50th shuttle mission. On board are Mae Carol Jemison, the first African-American woman in space, Mamoru Mohri, the first Japanese citizen to fly in a US spaceship, and Mark Lee and Jan Davis, the first married couple in space. |
| 12th of September 1994 | EVENT | Frank Eugene Corder crashes a single-engine Cessna 150 into the White House's south lawn, striking the West wing and killing himself. |
| 12th of September 1999 | EVENT | Indonesia announces it will allow international peace-keepers into East Timor. |
| 12th of September 2001 | EVENT | Ansett Australia, Australia's first commercial interstate airline, collapses due to increased strain on the international airline industry, leaving 10,000 people unemployed. |
| 12th of September 2003 | EVENT | The United Nations lifts sanctions against Libya after that country agreed to accept responsibility and recompense the families of victims in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. |
| 12th of September 2003 | EVENT | In Fallujah, US forces mistakenly shoot and kill eight Iraqi police officers. |
| 12th of September 2005 | EVENT | Hong Kong Disneyland opens in Penny's Bay, Lantau Island, Hong Kong. |
| 12th of September 2007 | EVENT | Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada is convicted of the crime of plunder. |
| 12th of September 2008 | EVENT | The 2008 Chatsworth train collision in Los Angeles between a Metrolink commuter train and a Union Pacific freight train kills 25 people. |
| 12th of September 1492 | BIRTHDAY | Duke Lorenzo II de' Medici of Urbino (d. 1519) |
| 12th of September 1494 | BIRTHDAY | King Francis I of France (d. 1547) |
| 12th of September 1575 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Hudson, English explorer (d. 1611) |
| 12th of September 1605 | BIRTHDAY | William Dugdale, English antiquarian (d. 1686) |
| 12th of September 1688 | BIRTHDAY | Ferdinand Brokoff, Czech sculptor (d. 1731) |
| 12th of September 1690 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Dens, Flemish Catholic theologian (d. 1775) |
| 12th of September 1725 | BIRTHDAY | Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer (d. 1792) |
| 12th of September 1736 | BIRTHDAY | Hsinbyushin, Burmese king (d. 1776) |
| 12th of September 1740 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Heinrich Jung, German author (d. 1817) |
| 12th of September 1797 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel Joseph May, American abolitionist (d. 1871) |
| 12th of September 1812 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Hoe, American inventor and industrialist (d. 1886) |
| 12th of September 1818 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Gatling, American firearms inventor (d. 1903) |
| 12th of September 1830 | BIRTHDAY | William Sprague IV, American politician (d. 1915) |
| 12th of September 1852 | BIRTHDAY | H. H. Asquith, British statesman (d. 1928) |
| 12th of September 1855 | BIRTHDAY | Simon-Napoleon Parent, Canadian politician (d. 1920) |
| 12th of September 1875 | BIRTHDAY | Matsunosuke Onoe, Japanese actor (d. 1926) |
| 12th of September 1880 | BIRTHDAY | H. L. Mencken, American journalist and author (d. 1956) |
| 12th of September 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Heinrich Hoffmann, German photographer (d. 1957) |
| 12th of September 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Maurice Chevalier, French singer and actor (d. 1972) |
| 12th of September 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Pedro Albizu Campos, Puerto Rican independence advocate (d. 1965) |
| 12th of September 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred A. Knopf, American publisher (d. 1984) |
| 12th of September 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Freymo?ur Johannsson, Icelandic artist (d. 1973) |
| 12th of September 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Irene Joliot-Curie, French physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 1956) |
| 12th of September 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Shahn, Lithuanian-born American artist (d. 1969) |
| 12th of September 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Salvador Bacarisse, Spanish composer (d. 1963) |
| 12th of September 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Blue, Canadian actor and comedian (d. 1975) |
| 12th of September 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Shmuel Horowitz, Russian-born Israeli agronomist (d. 1999) |
| 12th of September 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, Brazilian politician (d. 1976) |
| 12th of September 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Louis MacNeice, Irish poet (d. 1963) |
| 12th of September 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Donald MacDonald, Canadian politician (d. 1986) |
| 12th of September 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Jesse Owens, American athlete (d. 1980) |
| 12th of September 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Eiji Toyoda, Japanese industrialist |
| 12th of September 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Rais Amrohvi, Pakistani poet and psychoanalyst (d. 1988) |
| 12th of September 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh actor (d. 1999) |
| 12th of September 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Frank McGee, American journalist (d. 1974) |
| 12th of September 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Bettenhausen, American race car driver (d. 1961) |
| 12th of September 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Sevigny, Canadian politician (d. 2004) |
| 12th of September 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Stanis?aw Lem, Polish writer (d. 2006) |
| 12th of September 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Rosenzweig, American brain researcher (d. 2009) |
| 12th of September 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Ellen Demming, American actress (d. 2002) |
| 12th of September 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Stan Lopata, American baseball player |
| 12th of September 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Mathe Altery, French singer |
| 12th of September 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Ernie Vandeweghe, Canadian-born American basketball player and physician |
| 12th of September 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Ian Holm, English actor |
| 12th of September 1931 | BIRTHDAY | George Jones, American country music singer |
| 12th of September 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Tatiana Doronina, Russian actress |
| 12th of September 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Jaegwon Kim, Korean-born American philosopher |
| 12th of September 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Glenn Davis, American football player (d. 2009) |
| 12th of September 1937 | BIRTHDAY | George Chuvalo, Canadian boxer |
| 12th of September 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Claude Ruel, French Canadian ice hockey coach |
| 12th of September 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Waxman, American politician |
| 12th of September 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Linda Gray, American actress |
| 12th of September 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Mower, English actor |
| 12th of September 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Mickey Lolich, American baseball player |
| 12th of September 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen J. Solarz, American politician (d. 2010) |
| 12th of September 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Michel Drucker, French journalist and television host |
| 12th of September 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Francois Tavenas, Canadian academic (d. 2004) |
| 12th of September 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Ondaatje, Sri Lankan writer |
| 12th of September 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Muldaur, American singer |
| 12th of September 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Leonard Peltier, American activist |
| 12th of September 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Barry White, American singer (d. 2003) |
| 12th of September 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Bj?rn Floberg, Norwegian actor |
| 12th of September 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Luis Lima, Argentinian tenor |
| 12th of September 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Irina Rodnina, Russian figure skater |
| 12th of September 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Marguerite Blais, Canadian journalist, radio host and politician |
| 12th of September 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Gustav Brunner, Austrian engineer |
| 12th of September 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Murphy, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 12th of September 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Cynthia Myers, American model |
| 12th of September 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Norm Dube, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 12th of September 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Bertie Ahern, Irish politician |
| 12th of September 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Gravell, Welsh rugby union player (d. 2007) |
| 12th of September 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Pantoliano, American actor |
| 12th of September 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Gerald Stano, American serial killer (d. 1998) |
| 12th of September 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Gerry Beckley, American musician (America) |
| 12th of September 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Neil Peart, Canadian drummer and author (Rush) |
| 12th of September 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Adrian Adonis, American professional wrestler (d. 1988) |
| 12th of September 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Scolari, American actor |
| 12th of September 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Brownback, American politician |
| 12th of September 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Barry Andrews, British musician |
| 12th of September 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Leslie Cheung, Hong Kong artist and director (d. 2003) |
| 12th of September 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Ricky Rudd, American race car driver |
| 12th of September 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Woon, Singaporean attorney and politician |
| 12th of September 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Rachel Ward, English actress |
| 12th of September 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Hans Zimmer, German composer |
| 12th of September 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Wilfredo Benitez, American boxer |
| 12th of September 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Brown, American politician |
| 12th of September 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Stefanos Korkolis, Greek songwriter and pianist |
| 12th of September 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Kathem Al Saher, Iraqi singer |
| 12th of September 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Mylene Farmer, French singer and songwriter |
| 12th of September 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Amy Yasbeck, American actress |
| 12th of September 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Dino Merlin, Bosnian singer |
| 12th of September 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Bellini, Canadian screenwriter, comedian |
| 12th of September 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Dieter Hecking, German footballer |
| 12th of September 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Simon Bowthorpe, British businessman |
| 12th of September 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Einstein Kristiansen, Norwegian cartoonist, designer and TV host |
| 12th of September 1965 | BIRTHDAY | John Norwood Fisher, American musician |
| 12th of September 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Vernon Maxwell, American basketball player |
| 12th of September 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Darren E. Burrows, American actor |
| 12th of September 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Folds, American musician |
| 12th of September 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Vezio Sacratini, Italian ice hockey player |
| 12th of September 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Statham, English actor |
| 12th of September 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Louis C.K., American comedian |
| 12th of September 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Pat Listach, American baseball player |
| 12th of September 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Ler LaLonde, American guitarist (Primus) |
| 12th of September 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Paul F. Tompkins, American comedian |
| 12th of September 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Snell, South African cricketer |
| 12th of September 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Angel Cabrera, Argentine golfer |
| 12th of September 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Shigeki Maruyama, Japanese golfer |
| 12th of September 1969 | BIRTHDAY | James Frey, American writer |
| 12th of September 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Nathan Larson, American musician (Shudder To Think, Hot One) |
| 12th of September 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Sidney, Brazilian footballer |
| 12th of September 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Darren Campbell, British athlete |
| 12th of September 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Lapointe, Canadian hockey player |
| 12th of September 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Ki-Jana Carter, American football player |
| 12th of September 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Walker, American actor |
| 12th of September 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Nuno Valente, Portuguese footballer |
| 12th of September 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Jennifer Nettles, American country singer (Sugarland) |
| 12th of September 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Caroline Aigle, French fighter pilot (d. 2007) |
| 12th of September 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Bizzy Bone, American rapper, (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony) |
| 12th of September 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Maciej Zurawski, Polish footballer |
| 12th of September 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Grant Denyer, Australian television personality and TV Host |
| 12th of September 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Nathan Bracken, Australian cricketer |
| 12th of September 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Irwin, American musician |
| 12th of September 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Idan Raichel, Israeli musician |
| 12th of September 1977 | BIRTHDAY | James McCartney, British musician, son of Paul McCartney |
| 12th of September 1977 | BIRTHDAY | David Thompson, English footballer |
| 12th of September 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Benjamin McKenzie, American actor |
| 12th of September 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Ruben Studdard, American singer |
| 12th of September 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Elisabetta Canalis, Italian model and actress |
| 12th of September 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Fernando Cesar de Souza, Brazilian footballer |
| 12th of September 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Sean Burroughs, American baseball player |
| 12th of September 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Gus G., Greek guitarist (Dream Evil) |
| 12th of September 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Loeffler, American musician (Chevelle) |
| 12th of September 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Josef Vasicek, Czech ice hockey player |
| 12th of September 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Yao Ming, Chinese basketball player |
| 12th of September 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Arruda, Brazilian footballer |
| 12th of September 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Jennifer Hudson, American actress and singer |
| 12th of September 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Staciana Stitts, American swimmer |
| 12th of September 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Nana Ozaki, Japanese model |
| 12th of September 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Zoran Planinic, Croatian basketball player |
| 12th of September 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Clayton Richard, American baseball player |
| 12th of September 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Carly Smithson, Irish singer |
| 12th of September 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Sergio Parisse, Argentina-born Italian rugby player |
| 12th of September 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Muir, football player |
| 12th of September 1984 | BIRTHDAY | September, Swedish singer |
| 12th of September 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Dimitrios Regas, Greek sprinter |
| 12th of September 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Emmy Rossum, American actress and singer |
| 12th of September 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Joanne Jackson, British swimmer |
| 12th of September 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Amanda Jenssen, Swedish singer |
| 12th of September 0413 | DEATH | Marcellinus of Carthage, Christian saint |
| 12th of September 1185 | DEATH | Andronikos I Komnenos, Byzantine emperor (Born 1118) |
| 12th of September 1213 | DEATH | King Peter II of Aragon (Born 1174) |
| 12th of September 1362 | DEATH | Pope Innocent VI |
| 12th of September 1369 | DEATH | Blanche of Lancaster, wife of John of Gaunt (Born 1345) |
| 12th of September 1500 | DEATH | Albert, Duke of Saxony (Born 1443) |
| 12th of September 1612 | DEATH | Tsar Vasili IV of Russia (Born 1552) |
| 12th of September 1642 | DEATH | Henri Coiffier de Ruze, Marquis of Cinq-Mars, French conspirator (Born 1620) |
| 12th of September 1660 | DEATH | Jacob Cats, Dutch poet, jurist, and politician (Born 1577) |
| 12th of September 1665 | DEATH | Jean Bolland, Flemish Jesuit writer (Born 1596) |
| 12th of September 1672 | DEATH | Tanneguy Lefebvre, French classical scholar (Born 1615) |
| 12th of September 1683 | DEATH | King Afonso VI of Portugal (Born 1643) |
| 12th of September 1691 | DEATH | John George III, Elector of Saxony (Born 1647) |
| 12th of September 1695 | DEATH | Jacob Abendana, Spanish scholar (Born 1630) |
| 12th of September 1712 | DEATH | Jan van der Heyden, Dutch painter (Born 1637) |
| 12th of September 1764 | DEATH | Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer (Born 1683) |
| 12th of September 1779 | DEATH | Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple, English politician (Born 1711) |
| 12th of September 1819 | DEATH | Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher, Prussian general (Born 1742) |
| 12th of September 1836 | DEATH | Christian Dietrich Grabbe, German writer (Born 1801) |
| 12th of September 1869 | DEATH | Peter Mark Roget, British lexicographer (Born 1779) |
| 12th of September 1870 | DEATH | Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American author (Born 1836) |
| 12th of September 1874 | DEATH | Francois Guizot, French historian and statesman (Born 1787) |
| 12th of September 1912 | DEATH | Pierre-Hector Coullie, Cardinal-Archbishop of Lyon (Born 1829) |
| 12th of September 1918 | DEATH | George Reid, fourth Prime Minister of Australia (Born 1845) |
| 12th of September 1919 | DEATH | Leonid Andreyev, Russian writer (Born 1871) |
| 12th of September 1923 | DEATH | Jules Violle, French physicist and inventor (Born 1841) |
| 12th of September 1927 | DEATH | Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer (Born 1847) |
| 12th of September 1929 | DEATH | Rainis, Latvian poet and playwright (Born 1865) |
| 12th of September 1938 | DEATH | Prince Arthur of Connaught (Born 1883) |
| 12th of September 1945 | DEATH | Hajime Sugiyama, Japanese general (Born 1880) |
| 12th of September 1953 | DEATH | Hugo Schmeisser, German weapons designer (Born 1884) |
| 12th of September 1956 | DEATH | Hans Carossa, German writer (Born 1878) |
| 12th of September 1956 | DEATH | Sandor Graf Festetics, Hungarian politician (Born 1882) |
| 12th of September 1961 | DEATH | Carl Hermann, German physicist (Born 1898) |
| 12th of September 1967 | DEATH | Vladimir Bartol, Slovene writer (Born 1903) |
| 12th of September 1968 | DEATH | Tommy Armour, Scottish golfer (Born 1894) |
| 12th of September 1972 | DEATH | William Boyd, American actor (Born 1895) |
| 12th of September 1977 | DEATH | Steve Biko, South African anti-apartheid activist (Born 1946) |
| 12th of September 1977 | DEATH | Robert Lowell, American poet (Born 1917) |
| 12th of September 1981 | DEATH | Eugenio Montale, Italian poet, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1896) |
| 12th of September 1986 | DEATH | Jacques Henri Lartigue, French photographer (Born 1894) |
| 12th of September 1992 | DEATH | Anthony Perkins, American actor (Born 1932) |
| 12th of September 1993 | DEATH | Raymond Burr, Canadian actor (Born 1917) |
| 12th of September 1993 | DEATH | Willie Mosconi, American billiards player (Born 1913) |
| 12th of September 1994 | DEATH | Boris Yegorov, Russian cosmonaut (Born 1937) |
| 12th of September 1994 | DEATH | Tom Ewell, American actor (Born 1909) |
| 12th of September 1995 | DEATH | Jeremy Brett, English actor (Born 1933) |
| 12th of September 1999 | DEATH | Bill Quackenbush, Canadian ice hockey player (Born 1922) |
| 12th of September 2000 | DEATH | Stanley Turrentine, American jazz saxophonist (Born 1934) |
| 12th of September 2001 | DEATH | Victor Wong, Chinese-American actor (Born 1927) |
| 12th of September 2003 | DEATH | Johnny Cash, American singer and guitarist (Born 1932) |
| 12th of September 2008 | DEATH | Bob Quinn, Australian rules footballer (Born 1915) |
| 12th of September 2008 | DEATH | David Foster Wallace, American author and essayist (Born 1962) |
| 12th of September 2009 | DEATH | Norman Borlaug, American agronomist (Born 1914) |
| 12th of September 2009 | DEATH | Jack Kramer, American tennis player (Born 1921) |
| 12th of September 2009 | DEATH | Willy Ronis, French photographer (Born 1910) |
| 12th of September 2010 | DEATH | Claude Chabrol, French film director and screenwriter (Born 1930) |
| 12th of September 2010 | DEATH | Giulio Zignoli, Italian footballer (Born 1946) |