Famous people died in 12 August

Karl Waldemar Ziegler was a German Chemist who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield was an electrical engineer from England who developed the diagnostic technique of X-ray computed tomography

Sir Ernst Boris Chain was a biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1945

Walter Rudolf Hess was a Swiss physiologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1949

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Henry Fonda was a well-known American film and stage actor

Jean-Michel Basquiat was an American graffiti artist who was one of the leading lights of the neo expressionist era in the 1980s

William Shockley was an American physicist and inventor

George Stephenson was a British inventor who invented the first commercial locomotive and railways

Giovanni Gabrieli was a prominent Venetian composer

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