Deceased on May 12

12 famous people found

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  Tony Bettenhausen

  American racing driver

  1916 - 1961
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  Amy LOWELL

  American poet who posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926

  1874 - 1925
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  Robert Reed

  American actor

  1932 - 1992
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  Rose Selfridge

  American property developer before becoming the wife of department store magnate Harry Gordon Selfridge

  1860 - 1918
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  Louis Calhern

  American stage and screen actor

  1895 - 1956
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  C. C. Baldwin

  Naval Officer of the Port of New York

  1830 - 1897
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  J. E. B. STUART

  United States Army officer from Virginia who became a Confederate States Army general during the American Civil War

  1833 - 1864
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  Ed SCHIEFFELIN

  Indian scout and prospector who discovered silver in the Arizona Territory, which led to the founding of Tombstone, Arizona

  1847 - 1897
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  Adam PETTY

  American professional racing driver

  1980 - 2000
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  James Jesus ANGLETON

  Chief of the CIA's counterintelligence (CI) staff from 1954 to 1975

  1917 - 1987
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  Israel WASHBURN, JR.

  American politician, a founding member of the Republican Party

  1813 - 1883
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  Ezra STILES

  American academic and educator, a Congregationalist minister, theologian, author, and president of Yale College (1778–1795)

  1727 - 1795