Deaths in 2012
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1 February 2012
1.1 7
1.2 6
1.3 5
1.4 4
1.5 3
1.6 2
1.7 1
2 January 2012
2.1 31
2.2 30
2.3 29
2.4 28
2.5 27
2.6 26
2.7 25
2.8 24
2.9 23
2.10 22
2.11 21
2.12 20
2.13 19
2.14 18
2.15 17
2.16 16
2.17 15
2.18 14
2.19 13
2.20 12
2.21 11
2.22 10
2.23 9
2.24 8
2.25 7
2.26 6
2.27 5
2.28 4
2.29 3
2.30 2
2.31 1
3 External links
The following is a list of notable deaths in 2012.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically 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 English).
February 2012
7
6
Sharada Dwivedi, 69, Indian historian. [1]
Vitaly Gorelik, 44, Russian mountaineer, heart attack. [2]
Yasuhiro Ishimoto, 90, Japanese photographer, complications following pneumonia and a stroke. [3] (Japanese)
Noel Kelehan, 76, Irish musician (RTÉ Concert Orchestra). [4]
Matthew Mbu, 82, Nigerian politician and diplomat, Foreign Minister (1993). [5]
Władysław Ogrodziński, 93, Polish historian and writer. [6] (Polish)
Antoni Tàpies, 88, Spanish painter. [7]
5
Sam Coppola, 79, American actor (Saturday Night Fever, Fatal Attraction). [8]
Jazmín De Grazia, 27, Argentine model, drowned. [9]
Bill Hinzman, 75, American actor (Night of the Living Dead), cancer. [10]
Mitsuhiko Yoshino, 80, Japanese mountain climber, heart failure. [11] (Japanese)
4
István Csurka, 77, Hungarian playwright and politician, Chairman of the Hungarian Justice and Life Party (since 1993). [12] (Hungarian)
Mike deGruy, 60, American documentary filmmaker (Trials of Life, The Blue Planet), helicopter crash. [13]
Nigel Doughty, 54, British businessman, owner (since 1999) and chairman (2001–2011) of Nottingham Forest F.C. [14]
Joseph W. Estabrook, 67, American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of the Military Services (since 2004) and Titular Bishop of Flenucleta. [15]
Jeff Fraza, 34, American professional boxer, struck by train. [16]
Andy Gabrielson, 24, American stormchaser, car accident. [17]
Florence Green, 110, British supercentenarian and last surviving veteran of World War I. [18]
Fernando Lanhas, 88, Portuguese painter. [19] (Portuguese)
Hubert Leitgeb, 46, Italian biathlete, two-time world champion, avalanche. [20] (German)
Irene McKinney, 72, American poet, Poet Laureate of West Virginia (since 1994), cancer. [21]
Wendell Mitchell, 71, American politician, Alabama State Senator (1974–2010), heart failure. [22]
Pierre-Eugène Rouanet, 94, French-born Ivorian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Daloa (1956–1975). [23]
János Sebestyén, 80, Hungarian organist. [24] (Hungarian)
Giovanni Volta, 83, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Pavia (1986–2003). [25]
Andrew Wight, 51, Australian screenwriter and producer (Sanctum), helicopter crash. [26]
3
Nikos Apergis, 65, Greek actor, playwright and politician, cancer. [27] (Greek)
Steve Appleton, 51, American businessman (Micron Technology), plane crash. [28]
Patricia Disney, 77, American philanthropist, Alzheimer’s disease. [29]
Ben Gazzara, 81, American actor (Run for Your Life, Road House), pancreatic cancer. [30]
Terence Hildner, 49, American general, commander of the 13th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary). [31]
Kumashi Kakehashi, 88, Japanese politician, stomach cancer. [32] (Japanese)
Raj Kanwar, 50, Indian film director and producer, kidney failure. [33]
Zalman King, 69, American film director (Wild Orchid) and producer (9½ Weeks), cancer. [34]
Karlo Maquinto, 21, Filipino boxer. [35]
Mayer Matalon, 89, Jamaican businessman. [36]
Andrzej Szczeklik, 73, Polish physician and educational administrator (Jagiellonian University Medical College). [37] (Polish)
Toh Chin Chye, 90, Singaporean politician, Deputy Prime Minister (1965–1968) and Minister for Health (1975–1981). [38]
Samuel Youd, 89, British science fiction author (The Tripods, The Sword of the Spirits). [39]
2
Joyce Barkhouse, 98, Canadian children's writer (Pit Pony), heart attack. [40]
Paul Consbruch, 81, German Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Paderborn (1980–1999). [41]
Frederick William Danker, 91, American lexicographer and New Testament scholar. [42]
George Esper, 79, American reporter (Fall of Saigon) and professor. [43]
Luis Javier Garrido, 71, Mexican political analyst. [44] (Spanish)
Dorothy Gilman, 88, American spy novelist (The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax), complications of Alzheimer’s disease. [45]
Jorge Glusberg, 79, Argentine author and curator, director of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. [46] (Spanish)
Jane Ising, 110, German-born American economics professor and supercentenarian, wife of Ernst Ising. [47]
Nassib Lahoud, 67, Lebanese politician. [48]
James F. Lloyd, 89, American politician, U.S. Representative from California (1975–1981). [49]
1
Herb Adams, 83, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox). [50]
Gerlando Alberti, 88, Italian Sicilian Mafioso, cancer. [51] (Italian)
Yona Baltman, 82, Israeli jurist, State Attorney (1982–1988). [52] (Hebrew)
Elizabeth Candon, 90, American nun, president of Trinity College (Vermont), pulmonary fibrosis. [53]
Don Cornelius, 75, American television host and producer (Soul Train), suicide by gunshot. [54]
Angelo Dundee, 90, American boxing trainer (Muhammad Ali). [55]
Ruth Hausmeister, 99, German actress (The Longest Day (film)). [56] (German)
Ladislav Kuna, 64, Slovak football player and manager. [57] (Slovak)
Anil Mohile, 71, Indian film music composer, heart attack. [58]
Ingolf Mork, 64, Norwegian ski jumper. [59] (Norwegian)
Taiji Ōtani, 80, Japanese baseball umpire, heart failure. [60] (Japanese)
David Peaston, 54, American R&B singer, complications of diabetes. [61]
Charlie Spoonhour, 72, American basketball coach (Southwest Missouri State, Saint Louis University), complications from lung disease. [62]
Jerry Steiner, 94, American basketball player (Fort Wayne Pistons). [63]
Wisława Szymborska, 88, Polish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature (1996). [64]
January 2012
31
Stefano Angeleri, 85, Italian footballer and coach. [65] (Italian)
Everardus Antonius M. Baaij, 90, Dutch-born South African Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Aliwal (1973–1981). [66]
Rick Behenna, 51, American baseball player (Atlanta Braves, Cleveland Indians), cancer. [67]
Anthony Cardinal Bevilacqua, 88, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Philadelphia (1988–2003). [68]
Leslie Carter, 25, American singer and reality star (House of Carters), sister of Nick and Aaron Carter, drug overdose. [69]
Fabián Estapé, 88, Spanish economist. [70] (Spanish)
Juan Carlos Gené, 82, Argentine actor and playwright. [71] (Spanish)
Siddika Kabir, 80, Bangladeshi teacher, television show host and cookbook author. [72]
Petros Karatroupkos, 82, Greek-born Zambian Orthodox hierarch, Bishop of Zambia (2001–2003). [73] (Greek)
Masayuki Kawakatsu, 55, Japanese writer and editor, house fire. [74] (Japanese)
Mike Kelley, 57, American artist and musician (Destroy All Monsters), suicide. [75] (body found on this date)
Bob LaPointe, 66, American high school and college football head coach. [76]
Sid Ottewell, 92, English footballer (Nottingham Forest F.C.). [77]
Antonio Segura, 64, Spanish comics writer. [78] (Spanish)
King Stitt, 71, Jamaican singer, complications from prostate cancer and diabetes. [79]
Dorothea Tanning, 101, American surrealist painter, printmaker and sculptor. [80]
Kelly Timilty, 49, American politician, member of the Massachusetts Governor's Council (1992–2012). [81]
30
Eladio Acosta Arteaga, 95, Colombian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Santa Fe de Antioquia (1988–1992). [82]
Frank Aschenbrenner, 86, German-born American football player (Chicago Hornets, Montreal Alouettes). [83]
Don Blenkarn, 81, Canadian politician, MP for Mississauga (1972–1974) and Mississauga South (1979–1993). [84]
Bruce Howard, 86, American television writer (The Red Skelton Show, Gilligan's Island, Good Times), natural causes. [85]
Abdelhamid Mehri, 85, Algerian resistance fighter and politician. [86] (French)
Toshio Kuze, 81, Japanese psychologist (Nagoya University), multiple organ failure. [87] (Japanese)
Doeschka Meijsing, 64, Dutch novelist. [88]
Dick Nochimson, 91, American basketball player (Washington Brewers, Paterson Crescents). [89]
Al Rio, 49, Brazilian comic book artist, suicide by hanging. [90]
Michael D. Ryan, 66, American jurist, Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court (2002–2010), apparent heart attack. [91]
Lawrence J. Shapiro, 79, American physician, homicide. [92]
Frederick Treves, 86, British actor. [93]
Samuel S. Vaughan, 83, American publishing executive (Doubleday) and author, stroke. [94]
29
Mónica Agudelo, 55, Colombian journalist and writer. [95] (Spanish)
Aloizs Blonskis, 78, Latvian police general and politician. [96] (Latvian)
Sally Birdsong, 91, American actress (The Toy) and make-up artist. [97]
Damien Bona, 57, American journalist, writer and film historian, heart attack. [98]
John H. Davis, 82, American author, Alzheimer's disease. [99]
Ranjit Singh Dyal, 83, Indian Army general. [100]
Predrag Dragić, 66, Serbian writer. [101] (Serbian)
Nijaz Duraković, 63, Bosnian author and politician. [102] (Serbian)
François Migault, 67, French racing driver. [103] (French)
Keiko Mure, 82, Japanese poet, stroke. [104] (Japanese)
Poul Trier Pedersen, 90, Danish journalist and writer. [105] (Danish)
Goody Petronelli, 88, American boxing trainer and manager (Marvin Hagler).[106]
John Rich, 86, American television director (All in the Family, Benson, The Dick Van Dyke Show), heart failure. [107]
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, 93, Italian politician, Minister of the Interior (1983–1987); President (1992–1999) and Lifetime Senator (since 1999). [108]
Gabriel Lawrence Sengol, 83, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Tiruchirapalli (1990–1997). [109]
Camilla Williams, 92, American opera singer, co
