| 116992 | October 12 | Death | 1958 – Gordon Griffith, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1907) |
| 116993 | October 12 | Death | 1960 – Inejiro Asanuma, Japanese lawyer and politician (b. 1898) |
| 116994 | October 12 | Death | 1965 – Paul Hermann Müller, Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899) |
| 116995 | October 12 | Death | 1967 – Ram Manohar Lohia, Indian activist and politician (b. 1910) |
| 116996 | October 12 | Death | 1969 – Sonja Henie, Norwegian figure skater and actress (b. 1912) |
| 116997 | October 12 | Death | 1969 – Serge Poliakoff, Russian-French painter and academic (b. 1906) |
| 116998 | October 12 | Death | 1969 – Julius Saaristo, Finnish javelin thrower and soldier (b. 1891) |
| 116999 | October 12 | Death | 1970 – Feodor Stepanovich Rojankovsky, Russian-American illustrator and painter (b. 1891) |
| 117000 | October 12 | Death | 1970 – Mustafa Zaidi, Pakistani poet and academic (b. 1930) |
| 116971 | October 12 | Death | 1758 – Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth, Irish field marshal and politician (b. 1680) |
| 116972 | October 12 | Death | 1812 – Juan José Castelli, Argentinian lawyer and politician (b. 1764) |
| 116973 | October 12 | Death | 1845 – Elizabeth Fry, English nurse and philanthropist (b. 1780) |
| 116974 | October 12 | Death | 1858 – Hiroshige, Japanese painter (b. 1797) |
| 116975 | October 12 | Death | 1870 – Robert E. Lee, American general (b. 1807) |
| 116976 | October 12 | Death | 1875 – Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter (b. 1827) |
| 116977 | October 12 | Death | 1896 – Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, Danish lawyer and politician, 9th Council President of Denmark (b. 1817) |
| 116978 | October 12 | Death | 1898 – Calvin Fairbank, American minister and activist (b. 1816) |
| 116979 | October 12 | Death | 1914 – Margaret E. Knight, American inventor (b. 1838) |
| 116980 | October 12 | Death | 1915 – Edith Cavell, English nurse (b. 1865) |
| 116981 | October 12 | Death | 1923 – Bunny Lucas, English cricketer (b. 1857) |
| 116982 | October 12 | Death | 1924 – Anatole France, French journalist, author, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1844) |
| 116983 | October 12 | Death | 1926 – Edwin Abbott Abbott, English theologian and author (b. 1838) |
| 116984 | October 12 | Death | 1933 – John Lister, English philanthropist and politician (b. 1847) |
| 116985 | October 12 | Death | 1940 – Tom Mix, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1880) |
| 116986 | October 12 | Death | 1943 – Tayyar Yalaz, Turkish wrestler (b. 1901) |
| 116987 | October 12 | Death | 1946 – Joseph Stilwell, American general (b. 1883) |
| 116988 | October 12 | Death | 1948 – Susan Sutherland Isaacs, English psychologist and psychoanalyst (b. 1885) |
| 116989 | October 12 | Death | 1954 – George Welch, American soldier and pilot (b. 1918) |
| 116990 | October 12 | Death | 1956 – Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer and painter (b. 1872) |
| 116991 | October 12 | Death | 1957 – Arie de Jong, Indonesian-Dutch linguist and physician (b. 1865) |