Famous people died in 12 October

Gillo Pontecorvo was an Italian film director, best known for the film 'La battaglia di Algeri'

Paul Hermann Muller was a Swiss Chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of a form of DDT

Anatole France was a Nobel Prize winning writer and critic of French origin

Maximilian was the Holy Roman Emperor who served as the King of Germany, Bohemia, Hungary and Croatia

Katherine Burr Blodgett was a famous American scientist who invented the ‘invisible glass’ and was the first woman recipient of doctoral degree

Wilt Chamberlain was an American basketball player

Mary Pinchot Meyer was an American journalist and painter who became famous for her alleged affair with the former US president John F Kennedy

Alf Landon was an American Republican politician, who became the 26th Governor of Kansas

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Matthew Shepard was an American student who became the victim of a vicious hate crime