2012 deaths

Japanese writer (1925-2012)

Prime minister of Grenada (1942-2012)

Australian musician (1953–2012)

Italian rower (1920-2012)

American keyboardist, composer, arranger, and bandleader (1928–2012)

Russian-Israeli linguist (1930-2012)

American man best known for extensive body modifications (1958-2012)

Dutch physician and psychiatrist; rescuer of Holocaust refugees, named one of the Righteous Among the Nations (1920–2012)

Canadian film producer, executive and financier (1941-2012)

American sociologist (1929–2012)

Soviet actor (1937-2012)

Saxon Royal (1934–2012)

Dutch collaborator (1922–2012)

Russian mathematician (1924–2012)

American astronomer (1935–2012)

American football player (1987–2012)

English free improvising saxophonist (1932–2012)

Pakistani writer

Dutch indologist (1930–2012)

American professional wrestler (1928-2012)

novelist (1946–2012)

American lyricist, writer, composer and producer of several Broadway shows (1921-2012)

American basketball player (1938–2012)

Mexican physician and politician

Israeli composer

French writer (1920-2012)

film director (1935-2012)

Soviet and Russian composer (1915—2012)

Sprint canoer (1934-2012)

American politician (1930-2012)

Spanish bishop (1935-2012)

German footballer (1935–2012)

Swedish actor (1944-2012)

Indian journalist

English guitarist (1920–2012)

Belgian writer (1923-2012)

American baseball player and coach (1919–2012)

Finnish ice hockey player (1947–2012)

Australian sprinter (1928–2012)

British politician (1916-2012)

linguist, scholar, author and game designer (1929–2012)

Rwandan politician

Ukrainian politician (1925-2012)

American boxer (1967–2012)

American guitarist (1948–2012)

German actress (1940-2012)

French actress (1922-2012)

Russian association football player and association football referee

Peruvian poet (1942–2012)

actress (1917-2012)

field hockey player (1931–2012)

Turkish beauty pageant and model (1913–2012)

Indonesian businessman (1916–2012)

American politician (1936-2012)

actress from the United States (1964-2012)

Spanish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church (1937–2012)

American mathematician (1938–2012)

Czech ice hockey player (1962–2012)

French and Algerian Spree Killer (1988-2012)

Canadian politician (1922-2012)