Famous people died in 12 January

Charles Huggins was a Canadian-born American physician, surgeon and physiologist who won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1966

Surya Sen was a Bengali independence fighter who led the 1930 Chittagong armoury raid

Maximilian I was the King of Romans and first elected Holy Roman Emperor

Ľudovít Štúr was a Slovak politician, poet and philosopher who served as the leader of the Slovak national revival in the 19th century.

Kumar Gandharva was a renowned Hindustani classical singer, one of the most celebrated classical musicians of India

Pierre de Fermat was a 17th century French mathematician who made significant contributions towards the development of infinitesimal calculus.

Maurice Ernst Gibb was a British singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and a record producer

Hermann Minkowski was a prominent German mathematician

Agatha Christie, known as the Queen of Crime, as is famous for her detective novels