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The following is a list of '''notable deaths in 2012'''.

Entries for each day are listed <u>alphabetically</u> by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
*Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference (and language of reference, if not ]).
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*], 47, Romanian karateka, former World Champion, suicide by hanging. (Romanian)

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*], 60, Filipino politician, ] from the ] (since 2004), cardiac arrest.
*], 84, Argentine politician, Governor of ] (1999–2002), multiple organ failure. (Spanish)
*], 65, American football player (]), complications from pneumonia.
*], 94, Indian writer.
*], 91, British politician, ] for ] (1966–1992).
*], 74, Indian politician and diplomat, ] (since 2011).
*], 83, American composer.
*], 60, American actor ('']'', '']''), heart attack.
<!--T-->*], 86, Puerto Rican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of ] (1964–2000). (Spanish)

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*], 82, Finnish conductor. (Finnish)
*], 88, German ] (1979–1984). (German)
*], 57, Venezuelan politician, Attorney General (since 2011), heart attack.
*], 70, Romanian actor, cardiac arrest. (Romanian)
*], 73, Argentine actress ('']'', '']''), complications from a stroke. (Spanish)
*], British rugby league player. (death announced on this date)
*], 56, American heavy metal guitarist (]), ].
<!--S-->*], 91, American heiress and philanthropist.
*], 96, American politician and judge.
*], 82, Bulgarian actor.
*], 71, Russian writer. (Russian)

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*], 76, Greek film director, hit by motorcycle.
*], 85, Indian writer, critic and orator, cancer.
*], 73, American actor ('']'', '']'', '']''), heart failure.
*], 81, American politician, ] (1977–1985).
*], 70, German actor and film director. (German)
*], 114, American supercentenarian, one of the ].
*], 88, Scottish amateur golfer.
*], 67, American football player (]).
*], 70, American federal judge for the ] (since 1999), heart attack.
*], 46, Norwegian writer. (Norwegian)
*], 87, French footballer and manager. (French)
*], 89, Japanese novelist, acute heart failure. (Japanese)

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* ], 71, British politician, ] for ] (1977–2005), bowel cancer.
* ], 75, Bangladeshi actor.
* ], 104, American federal judge for the ] (since 1962).
* ], 52, American mobster-turned-informant (]), heart attack.
* ], 101, Israeli dancer and choreographer. (Hebrew)
* ], 76, Danish journalist and author. (Danish)
* ], 60, Japanese racehorse trainer. (Japanese)
* ], 58, American author, breast cancer.
* ], 71, Czech author and diplomat.
* ], 57, American independent film executive, complications from strokes.
* ], 90, German television executive. (German)
*], 63, Swedish singer (]). (Swedish)

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*], 85, Belgian opera singer.
*], 84, French psychoanalyst. (French)
*], 77, American sportscaster (]), voice of the ], complications from kidney cancer.
* ], 74, American sportscaster (], ]).
* ], 86, Japanese doctor, pneumonia. (Japanese)
* ], 85, American college football coach (]), lung cancer.
* ], 92, French politician, inspired '']''. (French)
*], 98, Canadian artist and conservationist.
* ], 85, American voice actor and announcer, voice of ] on '']''.

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<!--A-->* ], 68, Kuwaiti royal, diplomat and politician.
* ], 76, Japanese poet, respiratory failure. (Japanese)
* ], 86, American football player.
* ], 90, American baseball player.
* ], 78, Italian writer.
* ], 73, British potter and writer.
* ], 90, English footballer.
* ], 77, American organist.
*], 55, American ], complications from AIDS.
* ], 72, Japanese art director and designer, pancreatic cancer.
* ], 65, Polish singer. (Polish)
*], 56, American football player (]), cancer.
* ], 85, Pakistani actress, diabetes.
*], Australian dancer and choreographer, artistic director of the ].
*], 66, Slovenian psychiatrist and politician. (Slovenian)

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*], 66, American ] recipient.
*], 69, American music producer.
*], 80, American federal judge.
*], 73, American blues vocalist ("]"), leukemia.
*], 53, Indian film critic, breast cancer.
*], 79, Greek politician, ] (1958–1964; 1974–2004) and ] (1992–1993). (Greek)
*], 99, American jazz double-bassist and manager.
*], 26, South African football player, stabbed.
*], 95, American businessman and philanthropist.
*], 70, Czech ski jumper, Olympic gold medalist (]), heart disease.
*], 93, American psychiatrist and academic.
*], 77, American Roman Catholic prelate, ] (1977–1993).
*], 95, Jamaican politician and diplomat.
*], 53, Romanian criminal and serial escapist, suicide by hanging. (Swedish)
*], 70, American police investigator (]), cancer.
*], 75, Yugoslavian-born American film producer ('']'').

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* ], 83, Brazilian actress. (Portuguese)
* ], 49, Swedish Olympic bronze medal-winning (]) ice hockey player, stroke. (Swedish)
* ], 71, Italian singer. (Italian)
* ], 29, Canadian freestyle skier, world champion (2005), cardiac arrest following skiing accident.
* ], 78, Dutch choreographer. (Dutch)
* ], 83, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Vice-President of ] (1989–2007).
* ], 90, British artist.
* ], 84, Indian film music composer.
* ], 93, American civil rights activist.
*], 83, American casting director ('']'', '']'', '']'').
* ], 65, Jamaican reggae musician and producer, complications of shooting.
* ], 85, Israeli children's book author. (Hebrew)
* ], 55, Jamaican reggae ], ruptured blood vessel.
* ], 65, American public servant, officer-in-charge of the ], pulmonary edema.
* ], 83, Belgian politician, ] (1971–1989), ] of ] (1989–1994), ]. (Dutch)
* ], 75, British actress ('']''). (death announced on this date)

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* ], 73, American professor and translator of Japanese.
* ], 89, British entrepreneur.
* ], 63, French nuclear proliferation expert, apparent heart attack.
* ], 66, American television meteorologist (]), multiple myeloma.
* ], 85, German politician, Member of Parliament for ] (1965–1973). (German)
* ], 99, Italian politician. (Italian)
* ], 70, Russian film actor ('']''), cancer. (Russian)

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* ], 78, American politician, member of the ] (2000–2008).
* ], 80, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of ] (1986–2002).
* ], 69, Irish journalist, editor of the '']'', cancer.
* ], 75, Indian cricketer.
* ], 75, American R&B and soul musician.
* ], 95, German ] ], recipient of the ]. (Portuguese)
* ], 90, American R&B singer-songwriter.
* ], 83, Dutch actor ('']''). (Dutch)
* ], 61, Moroccan folk singer. (French)
* ], 85, American evangelist, heart failure.
* ], 74, American ] umpire, heart attack.
* ], 83, Japanese art historian (]), heart failure. (Japanese)

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*], 71, American funk and R&B saxophonist ("]"), heart failure.
*], 66, American football player (], ], ]), apparent suicide by gunshot.
*], 95, American businessman, founder of ].
*], 43, Icelandic footballer and manager. (Icelandic)
*], 96, French historian. (French)
*], 74, Japanese comedian, pneumonia. (Japanese)
*], 86, American newspaper editor and journalist ('']''), Mayor of ] (1985–1993).
*], 83, Dutch harpsichordist and conductor.
<!-- P -->*], 66, Spanish footballer. (Spanish)
*], 74, Zambian businessman, Governor of the ].
*], 72, Russian hierarch, Primate of the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church (1996–2012).

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*], 37, Finnish ] rider, motorcycle crash.
*], 85, American politician, ] from ] (1959–1983); ] (1989–1992), ].
* ], 95, Swedish sport shooter and Olympic silver medal-winning (]) pentathlete. (Swedish)
*], 89, Spanish politician, ] (1990–2005), founder of the ], heart failure.
*], 88, British military officer, Deputy Commander of ] (1978–1980).
*], 85, Italian writer. (Italian)
*], 66, Russian television director, stroke. (Russian)
*], 54, New Zealand vagrant.
*], 70, Japanese politician, member of the ], gall bladder cancer.
*], 73, Soviet ice hockey player, World and Olympic champion. (Russian)
*], 67, American economist, heart failure.
*], 81, American politician, President of the ] (1983–1988; 1990–1996).
*], 64, Japanese rock and roll singer, cerebral hemorrhage. (Japanese)
*], 90, Danish cartoonist and author. (Danish)
*], 72, Australian football player.
*], 89, Venezuelan musician. (Spanish)
*], 58, American ], fall.
*], 27, Japanese speedway racer, accident during practice.
*], 93, American politician, ] (1965–1969).
*], 27, Australian journalist, brain cancer.
*], 98, Indian photojournalist.

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*], 85, Scottish politician, ] for ] (1979–1994).
*], 68, Romanian politician, ] (1996–1997), cancer. (Romanian)
*], 80, American peace activist (]).
*], 98, Angolan king of ], disease.
*], 76, American entrepreneur, founder of ].
*], 52, British drummer (], ], ]), ruptured aorta.
*], 76, Japanese baseball player (]), pneumonia. (Japanese)
*], 87, Australian Roman Catholic leader, Superior General of the ] (1985–1993).
*], 84, Irish broadcaster and writer, member of ].
*], 16, Pakistani student, world's youngest ] (2004–2008), idiopathic epilepsy seizures.
*], 90, Norwegian actor. (Norwegian)
*], 101, German writer and translator. (German)
*], 99, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of ] (1958–1988).
*], 90, American bar owner.
*], 71, Italian racing driver, winner of the ] (1998), founder of ]. (Italian)
*], 88, Japanese ] player, pneumonia. (Japanese)
*], 94, French actress. (French)
*], 56, British civil servant, Permanent Secretary to ] (2008–2011), cancer.
*], 82, Basque writer and politician. (Spanish)
*], 88, French actress. (French).
*], 37, Russian footballer. (Russian)

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*], 87, Norwegian journalist. (Norwegian)
*], 87, Cypriot politician, founder and first president of the ], multiple organ failure.
*], 96, German paper engineer and art collector. (German)
*], 93, Welsh composer.
*], 38, Hungarian violinist, drowned.
*], 86, Turkish Olympic footballer (]) and coach, pneumonia. (Turkish)
<!--L-->*], 41, Guatemalan politician, ] (since 2008), shot.
*], 78, American politician.
*], 81, Serbian football player, coach and administrator.
*], 87, Iranian wrestler. (Persian)
*], 55, American actress ('']''), drowned.
*], 74, American reporter (]), traffic collision.
*], 76, American biographer and politician, Chairman of the ] (1977–1979), Alzheimer's disease.
*], 76, Polish journalist. (Polish)

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*], 89, Japanese composer, pneumonia. (Japanese)
*], 78, American country musician (]), stroke.
*], 75, British crime writer ('']'').
*], 18, American student, missing since 2005. (declared legally dead on this date)
*], 72, American politician, ] (1975–1979) and ] (1979–1987, 1995–2003); ] (2003–2004), brain cancer.
*], 95, Indian Hindu royal.
*], 55, Mexican professional wrestler, car accident. (Spanish)
*], 18, Turkish skier, training accident. (Turkish)
*], 80, American businessman and diplomat.
*], 56, Swedish journalist. (Swedish)
*], 79, British pianist, widow of ].
*], 76, American football coach (]), cancer.

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* ], 32, Iranian nuclear scientist, car bomb.
* ], 87, American costume designer ('']'', '']''), kidney failure.
* ], 76, British politician, MP for ] (1983–2010), lung cancer.
*], 81, Slovak Olympic silver (]) and bronze (]) medal-winning volleyball player.
* ], 43, French journalist, grenade attack.
* ], 69, Canadian businessman and philanthropist, owner of the ] (1981–1984).
* ], 87, English architect.
* ], 94, Indian film director.
*], 83, American basketball player.
*], 49, British astrophysicist.
* ], 59, Irish rugby union player.
*], 80, English composer and songwriter. (French)

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*], 83, American claimant of Spanish royalty, traffic accident.
*], 32, Pakistani politician, Member of the ], road accident.
<!-- F -->* ], 83, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of ] (1984–2004).
*], 92, Israeli historian. (Hebrew)
*], 78, American college football coach.
*], 85, American college basketball coach (]).
*], 43, German historian. (German)
*], 82, British actress. <!-- see Kaye's talk page for further confirmation given unreliability of this link -->
*], 61, Irish mental health campaigner and founder of ], ].
*], 88, English rugby league player. (death announced on this date)
*], 87, Canadian politician and businesswoman, MP for ] (1976–1979).
*], 74, English footballer and singer.
*], 54, Irish journalist ('']'').
*], 70, Japanese Olympic gold medal-winning (]) boxer, esophageal cancer. (Japanese)
*], 83, Pakistani politician and spiritual leader, heart attack.
*], 87, Soviet intelligence agent, ].

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*], 82, Canadian ice hockey administrator, General Manager of the ] (1983–1993, 1996).
*], 74, American jazz musician.
*], 74, Welsh boxer, leukaemia. (death announced on this date).
*], 75, American politician, ] ] (since 2004).
*], 82, Scottish football administrator.
*], 92, Puerto Rican contralto and politician, ] (1973–1981). (Spanish)
*], 87, Irish singer.
*], 101, Swiss geologist. (German)
*], 87, Japanese painter and pottery artist, pneumonia. (Japanese)
*], 102, American actress.
*], 82, American Olympic athlete.
*], 81, American filmmaker, cancer.
*], 48, South Sudanese politician.
*], 85, American psychologist and parapsychologist.
*], 64, Guinea-Bissauan politician, ] (1999–2000; since 2009).
*], 83, Canadian radio personality and author.
*], 55, Belarusian football player and coach. (Russian)
*], 60, Swiss Olympic ice hockey player (1976).

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*], 73, American blues singer and pianist, suicide.
*], 84, American television weatherman (]), ] Governor's Award winner (2007), Alzheimer's disease.
*], 80, American baseball player (]).
*], 61, Austrian Olympic boxer (1976). (German)
*], 90, Danish resistance fighter, after long illness. (Danish)
*], 68, British haematologist, cancer.
*], 74, Russian archaeologist. (Russian)
*], 85, British politician, MP for ] (1963–1983).
*], 69, Welsh footballer, dementia.
*], 82, Bulgarian-born French pianist.

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*], 77, Egyptian novelist and short story writer, heart failure.
*], 63, British-born American conservative commentator, newspaper editor and child actor, stomach cancer.
*], 47, British television producer ('']''), cancer.
*], 78, American politician, first elected African American mayor of ] (1985–1993), diabetes.
*], 81, Japanese actor ('']''), pneumonia. (Japanese)
*], 81, American ], Episcopal Bishop of ] (1986–1994).
*], 80, American mathematician.

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*], 96, Scottish artist.
*], 88, American space scientist.
*], 56, American drummer (]).
*], 27, Austrian musician (]), illness.
*], 60, Israeli attorney, chairman of the Jaffa Orthodox Church Association, stabbed.
*], 93, American comic strip artist ('']'', '']'').
*], 88, English footballer.
*], 83, South African-born British quiz show host and actor ('']'').
*], 82, Greek-born British ] hierarch, Auxiliary Bishop of ] (1987–1994), smothered. (Greek)
*], 78, American composer.
*], 90, American federal district judge.
*], 43, American rare book dealer and gallerist, drowned.
*], 63, American sociologist and social activist, creator of the ], breast cancer.
*], 85, Italian-born Luxembourgian politician, ] (1985–1993). (German)
*], 64, Welsh international rugby player. (death announced on this date).
*], 61, Slovene journalist and author, suicide. (Slovenian)

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*], 59, American businessman, co-founder and chairman of ], pancreatic cancer.
*], 75, Trinidadian-born British musician and festival organiser.
*], 85, American professional ], complication from pneumonia and emphysema.
*], 86, Bangladeshi businessman.
*], 86, Romanian theatre director, after long illness. (Romanian)
*], 76, Welsh rugby player.
*], 101, Canadian politician.
*], 80, Japanese composer. (Japanese)
*], 92, American U.S. Air Force commander of the 33rd Air Division.
*], 111, American ] screenwriter ('']''), playwright, memoirist and author.
*], 46, Indian rock magazine publisher, concert promoter and musician, drowned.
*], 52, Russian basketball player, world's tallest person (1991). (Russian)

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*], 99, American photographer.
*], 89, American politician, ] (1974–1998), first elected Mayor of ] (1964–1966).
*], 74, Japanese composer, ] player, heart failure. (Japanese)
*], 95, American geneticist.
*], 79, American inventor, stroke.
*], 85, British character actor.
*], 64, American lawyer and author, complications from chronic emphysema.
*], 100, Australian industrialist, Chancellor of ].
*], 81, Greek businessman, vice president of ]. (Greek)
*], 37, British singer and reality contestant ''(])'', bladder cancer.
*], 83, Australian football player.
*], 60, Argentine journalist, liver cancer.
*], 65, Indian actress.
*], 36, Japanese composer, suicide by hanging. (Japanese) (body discovered on this date)
*], 83, Costa Rican novelist, poet and essayist, cancer.
*], 75, Japanese politician, member of the House of Councillors, respiratory failure. {{dead link|date=January 2012}} (Japanese)
*], 83, Canadian architect.
*], 78, American racehorse jockey and trainer.
*], 100, Japanese businessman, pneumonia. (Japanese)
*], 82, German Olympic ice hockey player and coach. (German)

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*], 81, American journalist and novelist ('']''), Parkinson's disease.
*], 81, American college basketball coach (], ]), stomach cancer.
*], 26, American comedian, traffic collision.
*], 94, American civil rights activist ('']'') and judge, complications from a stroke.
*], 56, American football player (]).
*], 61, Mexican actor ('']'', '']''), cancer. (Spanish)
*], 68, German football player and coach, heart attack. (German)
*], 91, Spanish footballer.
*], 83, American theater historian, educator and critic, Parkinson's disease.
*], 24, Ukrainian-born English rugby union player (]).
*], 56, American political scientist.
*], 97, American illustrator and writer, heart failure.
*], 81, Mexican actor ('']'', '']''), pancreatic cancer.
*], 94, Japanese businessperson, chairman of ], heart failure. (Japanese)
*], 61, Spanish flamenco guitarist, cancer.
*], 77, Russian canoeist, Olympic gold medalist (]). (Russian)
*], 74, Israeli painter. (Hebrew)
*], 87, American actor (''], ]'').
*], 87, Czech writer and publisher, cancer.
*], 87, Japanese politician, mayor of ], myocardial infarction. (Japanese)
*], 83, Uruguayan-born American ballet dancer and teacher, complications of lung fibrosis.
*], 70, American endocrinologist.
*], 77, Chilean cartoonist. (Spanish)
*], 64, British guitarist and songwriter (]), gastrointestinal hemorrhage. (body found on this date)

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*], 76, British-born Canadian jazz pianist, lung cancer.
*], 76, British computer scientist.
*], 76, Moldovan politician, Acting ] (2009). (Russian)
*], 81, American businessman (]) and philanthropist.
*], 46, Romanian footballer (]), colorectal cancer. (Romanian)
*], 73, Tajik composer. (Russian)
*], 44, Finnish film director, cancer.
*], 89, Japanese golfer. (Japanese)
*], 93, American civil rights activist ('']'').
*], 67, American sports commentator (], ]).
*], 39, Greek journalist. (Greek)
*], 73, Russian wrestler, Olympic gold medalist (1964), after long illness. (Russian)
*], 73, American baseball player (], ]).
*], 71, Japanese manga author and novelist, acute pneumonia. (Japanese)
*], 78, German conductor. (German)
*], 68, Japanese scholar of Chinese history (], ]), esophageal cancer. (Japanese)
*], 63, American rock guitarist (], ]), liver cirrhosis.
*], 93, Austrian politician. (German)
*], 89, Norwegian politician. (Norwegian)
*], 25, Brazilian footballer, car crash. (Portuguese)
*], 81, Dutch politician. (Dutch)
*], 94, American economist, Chancellor of the ] (1968–1977).

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*], 46, English footballer (], ], ]), ].
*], 89, British Olympic fencer (]), film fight director and choreographer ('']'', '']'').
*], 94, Dutch politician. (Dutch)
*], 86, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of ] (1972–2000). (Italian)
*], 38, Argentine motorcycle racer, ] crash.
*], 51, Danish singer and television presenter. (Danish)
*], 94, Macedonian politician, first democratically elected ] (1991–1999).
*], 68 American photographer.
*], 87, Paraguayan engineer and sculptor. (Spanish)
*], 20, German wrestler, suicide. (German)
*], 84, British athletics coach.
*], 78, American politician, ] from ] (1977–1993).
*], 49, Burmese physician and pro-democracy activist, heart attack.
*], 72, American doo-wop singer (], ]), lung cancer.
*], 86, Uruguayan tango singer and composer. (Spanish)
*], 89, American ] coach and ] player, heart failure.
*], 113, French ], oldest person in Europe. (French)
*], 63, Argentine politician, ] (2002), Governor of ] (since 2011), shot.
*], 89, German botanist. (German)
*], 86, Israeli singer.

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