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| December 12th, 2006 (December 12 2006) | Event | Peugeot produces its last car at the Ryton Plant signalling the end of mass car production in Coventry, formerly a major centre of the British motor industry. | |
| December 12th, 2006 (December 12 2006) | Death | Paul Arizin, American basketball player (born in 1928) | |
| December 12th, 2006 (December 12 2006) | Death | Peter Boyle, American actor (born in 1935) | |
| December 12th, 2006 (December 12 2006) | Death | Kenny Davern, American jazz clarinetist (born in 1935) | |
| December 12th, 2006 (December 12 2006) | Death | Raymond P. Shafer, 38th Governor of Pennsylvania (born in 1917) | |
| December 12th, 2006 (December 12 2006) | Death | Al Shugart, pioneering American computer engineer and co-founder of Seagate Technology (born in 1930) | |
| December 12th, 1996 (December 12 1996) | Death | Vance Packard, American author (born in 1914) | |
| December 12th, 1986 (December 12 1986) | Birth | Perparim Hetemaj, Finnish footballer | |
| December 12th, 1986 (December 12 1986) | Birth | Thomas Wansey, English actor | |
| December 12th, 1976 (December 12 1976) | Birth | Dan Hawkins, English guitarist (The Darkness) | |
| December 12th, 1976 (December 12 1976) | Birth | Lloyd Owusu, English/Ghanaian football player | |
| December 12th, 1976 (December 12 1976) | Death | Jack Cassidy, American actor (born in 1927) | |
| December 12th, 1976 (December 12 1976) | Death | Vinko Zganec, Croatian ethnomusicologist (born in 1890) | |
| December 12th, 1966 (December 12 1966) | Birth | Royce Gracie, Brazilian martial artist | Martial Quotes |
| December 12th, 1966 (December 12 1966) | Birth | Kouichi Nagano, Japanese voice actor | |
| December 12th, 1956 (December 12 1956) | Event | Commencement of the Irish Republican Army s Border Campaign. | |
| December 12th, 1956 (December 12 1956) | Birth | Johan van der Velde, Dutch cyclist | |
| December 12th, 1946 (December 12 1946) | Event | A fire at a New York City ice plant spreads to a nearby tenement killing 37 people. | |
| December 12th, 1946 (December 12 1946) | Birth | Emerson Fittipaldi, Brazilian race car driver and two-time F1 world champion | |
| December 12th, 1946 (December 12 1946) | Birth | Paula Wagner, American film executive | |
| December 12th, 1936 (December 12 1936) | Event | Xi an Incident: The Generalissimo of the Republic of China, Chiang Kai-shek is kidnapped by Zhang Xueliang. | |
| December 12th, 1926 (December 12 1926) | Death | Jean Richepin, French poet (born in 1849) | |
| December 12th, 1876 (December 12 1876) | Birth | Alvin Kraenzlein, Olympic gold medalist (died in 1928) | |
| December 12th, 1866 (December 12 1866) | Birth | Alfred Werner, Swiss chemist, Nobel laureate (died in 1919) | Alfred Nobel Quotes |
| December 12th, 1806 (December 12 1806) | Birth | Stand Watie, American Confederate general (died in 1871) | |
| December 12th, 1786 (December 12 1786) | Birth | William L. Marcy, American statesman (died in 1857) | |
| December 12th, 1766 (December 12 1766) | Death | Johann Christoph Gottsched, German writer (born in 1700) | |
| December 12th, 1586 (December 12 1586) | Death | Stefan Batory, King of Poland (born in 1533) | |
