Deaths in 2012
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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).
May 2012
5
4
- Keiichirō Shinohara, 77, Japanese politician, mayor of Arita, Saga, malignant lymphoma. [1] (Japanese)
- Felix Werder, 90, German-born Australian composer. [2] (death announced on this date)
- Adam Yauch, 47, American musician (Beastie Boys) and film director (Gunnin' for That No. 1 Spot), cancer. [3]
3
- Edith Bliss, 52, Australian pop singer and television presenter. [4]
- Lloyd Brevett, 80, Jamaican double bassist (The Skatalites), complications from stroke. [5]
- Gabriel Huge, Mexican photojournalist (Vera Cruz News), tortured and dismembered. [6] (body discovered on this date)
- Jorge Illueca, 93, Panamanian politician, President (1984), respiratory failure. [7] (Spanish)
- Nenad Šarić, 65, Croatian drummer and musician, stroke. [8] (Croatian)
- Kōsuke Takeuchi, 65, Japanese sports journalist, professional wrestling commentator and editor-in-chief of Weekly Gong, ileus following a stroke. [9] (Japanese)
- František Tondra, 75, Slovak Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Spiš (1989–2011), heart failure. [10] (Slovak)
- Lourdes Valera, 48, Venezuelan actress, lung cancer. [11] (Spanish)
- Guillermo Luna Varela, Mexican freelance photojournalist, tortured and dismembered. [12] (body discovered on this date)
2
- Nélida Gómez de Navajas, 76, Argentine human rights activist (Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo). [13] (Spanish)
- Fernando Lopes, 76, Portuguese film director, throat cancer. [14] (Portuguese)
- James Marker, 90, Canadian businessman, inventor of Cheezies. [15]
- Tufan Miñnullin, 76, Russian Tatar writer and playwright, heart attack. [16] (Russian)
- Jun Nagara, 74, Japanese entertainments promoter, golf cart accident. [17] (Japanese)
- Seiryū Ōta, 84, Japanese calligrapher, heart failure. [18] (Japanese)
- Junior Seau, 43, American football player (San Diego Chargers, Miami Dolphins, New England Patriots), suicide. [19]
- Endang Rahayu Sedyaningsih, 57, Indonesian physician, Minister of Health (2009–2012), cancer. [20]
- J. T. Ready, 39, American border militia leader, suicide. [21]
- Akira Tonomura, 70, Japanese physicist, pancreatic cancer. [22] (Japanese)
- Digby Wolfe, 82, British actor and screenwriter, cancer. [23]
- Emma Yong, 37, Singaporean stage actress (Dim Sum Dollies), stomach cancer. [24]
- Zvi Zeitlin, 90, Russian classical violinist, pneumonia. [25]
1
- Gogó Andreu, 92, Argentine comedian and actor. [26] (Spanish)
- Linda Georgian, 66, American author and psychic, co-host of Psychic Friends Network, multiple myeloma. [27]
- Greg Jackson, 60, American basketball player (New York Knicks, Phoenix Suns), heart attack. [28]
- Eric James, 87, British Anglican clergyman and broadcaster. [29]
- Charles Pitts, 65, American soul musician, guitarist for Isaac Hayes, lung cancer. [30]
- Earl Rose, 85, American medical examiner in Dallas, Texas, tried to autopsy President Kennedy after assassination, Parkinson's disease. [31]
- Mordechai Virshubski, 82, Israeli politician, Deputy Speaker of the Knesset (1988–1992). [32]
- Shanmugasundari, 75, Indian film actress, heart attack. [33]
April 2012
30
- Ernst Bolldén, 45, Swedish wheelchair table tennis player and Paralympian gold (1996) and bronze (1996, 2000) medalist, bladder cancer. [34] (Swedish)
- Tomás Borge, 81, Nicaraguan politician and poet, founder of the Sandinista National Liberation Front, pneumonia. [35]
- Rob van den Broeck, 71, Dutch jazz pianist and painter [36] (Dutch)
- Alexander Dale Oen, 26, Norwegian Olympic silver medal-winning (2008) swimmer, cardiac arrest. [37]
- Giannis Gravanis, 54, Greek footballer (Panionios F.C.). [38] (Greek)
- Taneo Ishida, 83, Japanese dancer and choreographer, lung cancer. [39] (Japanese)
- Radovan Kuchař, 83, Czech mountain climber (voted "Czech mountaineer of the 20th century"). [40]
- Andrew Levane, 92, American basketball player (Rochester Royals, Syracuse Nationals, Milwaukee Hawks) and coach (Milwaukee Hawks, New York Knicks, St. Louis Bombers). [41]
- George Murdock, 81, American actor (Barney Miller, Battlestar Galactica, The X-Files), cancer. [42]
- Billy Neighbors, 72, American football player (Boston Patriots, Miami Dolphins), heart attack. [43]
- Benzion Netanyahu, 102, Israeli historian, academic, and Revisionist Zionist activist, father of Benjamin Netanyahu. [44]
- Achala Sachdev, 91, Indian actress. [45]
- Sicelo Shiceka, 45, South African politician, Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (since 2009). [46]
29
- Eric Charden, 69, French singer, lymphoma. [47] (Dutch)
- Wiesław Chrzanowski, 88, Polish politician and professor, Marshal of the Sejm (1991–1993). [48] (Polish)
- Khalil Dale, 60, British aid worker, beheaded. [49]
- Dynaformer, 27, American racehorse and sire, euthanized. [50]
- Shukri Ghanem, 69, Libyan politician, Prime Minister (2003–2006) and Minister of Oil (2006–2011). [51]
- Joel Goldsmith, 54, American film and television composer (Stargate), son of Jerry Goldsmith. [52]
- Joram Lindenstrauss, 75, Israeli mathematician. [53]
- Regina Martínez, Mexican journalist (Proceso), asphyxiation. [54]
- Roland Moreno, 66, French inventor, creator of the chipcard. [55] (French)
- Eitarō Nomura, 83, Japanese journalist, president of Kyoto Shimbun, cerebral hemorrhage. [56] (Japanese)
- Kenny Roberts, 84, American country music singer and yodeler. [57]
- Kei Shibusawa, 63, Japanese artist, Nichiren Buddhist monk, and guest professor (Minobusan University), acute myocardial infarction. [58] (Japanese)
- Aberdeen Shikoyi, Kenyan rugby player, spinal cord injury sustained in match play. [59]
- Amarillo Slim, 83, American professional gambler (winner of the 1972 World Series of Poker Main Event), colon cancer. [60]
- Idar Ulstein, 78, Norwegian businessman, cancer. [61] (Norwegian)
- Ervin Zádor, 76, Hungarian water polo player, Olympic gold medalist (1956). [62] (Hungarian)
28
- Sir Fred Allen, 92, New Zealand rugby player, captain, and coach, leukemia. [63]
- John Birch, 82, British musician. [64]
- Dik Bruynesteyn, 84, Dutch cartoonist. [65] (Dutch)
- Matilde Camus, 92, Spanish poet. [66] (Spanish)
- Joaquín Dualde, 79, Spanish Olympic bronze medal-winning (1960) field hockey player. [67] (Spanish)
- Stein Johnson, 90, Norwegian Olympic (1948, 1952) discus thrower. [68] (Norwegian)
- Kiyoshi Koike, 80, Japanese announcer (Mainichi Broadcasting System) and master of ceremonies (Up-Down Quiz), pneumonia. [69] (Japanese)
- Pierre Magnan, 89, French author. [70] (French)
- Patricia Medina, 92, British actress, natural causes. [71]
- Milan N. Popović, 87, Serbian psychiatrist and author. [72] (Serbian)
- Tom Spence, 50, Scottish footballer, suspected heart failure. [73]
- Masaaki Yana, 67, Japanese actor, esophageal cancer. [74] (Japanese)
27
- Daniel E. Boatwright, 82, American politician, California State Senator (1980–1996). [75]
- Yūichirō Kominami, 88, Japanese editor-in-chief (Asahi Journal). [76] (Japanese)
- Takayoshi Nagamine, 66, Japanese karate master and trainer. [77]
- František Procházka, 50, Czech Olympic bronze medal-winning (1992) ice hockey player. [78] (Czech)
- Harold Pupkewitz, 96, Lithuanian-born Namibian businessman, heart attack. [79]
- Bill Skowron, 81, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Chicago White Sox), heart failure. [80]
- Allen Tough, 76, Canadian scientist, complications of multiple system atrophy. [81]
- Abu Mohammad Jawad Walieddine, 96, Lebanese Druze religious leader. [82]
- David Weiss, 65, Swiss artist (Peter Fischli & David Weiss). [83] (German)
26
- Pete Fornatale, 66, American radio disc jockey (WNEW-FM, WFUV), brain aneurysm. [84]
- Wim Franken, 90, Dutch composer and pianist. [85] (Dutch)
- Floyd D. Hall, 96, American pilot, chairman and chief executive of Eastern Air Lines. [86]
- Azuma Karahashi, 99, Japanese politician, councillor (Japan Social Democratic Party), and mayor of Kitakata, Fukushima, bronchial pneumonia. [87] (Japanese)
- Ardian Klosi, 55, Albanian political analyst, publicist, and writer, suicide. [88] (Albanian)
- Ted Newall, 76, Canadian businessman. [89]
- José Martins Ribeiro Nunes, 85, Brazilian naval pilot. [90] (Portuguese)
- Terence Spinks, 74, British Olympic gold medal-winning (1956) boxer. [91]
- Walter Tucker, 79, Canadian marijuana activist, Church of the Universe founder. [92]
- Chut Wuthy, 40, Cambodian environmental activist, shot. [93]
25
- Louis le Brocquy, 95, Irish painter. [94]
- Rolando Ramos Dizon, 67, Filipino educator, Chairman of the Commission on Higher Education (2003–2004). [95]
- Sir Brandon Gough, 74, British businessman, Chancellor of the University of East Anglia (since 2003). [96]
- Denny Jones, 101, American politician, member of the Oregon House of Representatives (1973–1999). [97]
- Moscelyne Larkin, 87, American ballerina. [98]
- Stephen Maxwell, 69, Scottish politician. [99]
- Jan Bernard Szlaga, 71, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Pelplin (since 1992), duodenal ulcer hemorrhage. [100] (Polish)
- Brij Bhushan Tiwari, 71, Indian politician, heart attack. [101]
24
- Ubaldo de Lío, 83, Argentine tango guitarist. [102] (Spanish)
- Nell Ginjaar-Maas, 80, Dutch politician, State Secretary for Education and Science (1982–1989). [103] (Dutch)
- Wim Hoddes, 93, Dutch actor, natural causes. [104] (Dutch)
- Fumihiko Nakatsu, 70, Japanese novelist, liver failure. [105] (Japanese)
- Erast Parmasto, 83, Estonian mycologist. [106] (Estonian)
- Miguel Portas, 53, Portuguese politician, Member of the European Parliament for Portugal (since 2004), lung cancer. [107] (Portuguese)
- Aase Rasmussen, 90, Danish-born Dutch actress and radio host. [108] (Dutch)
- Eusebio Razo, Jr., 46, Mexican-born American jockey, explosion. [109]
- Shireen Ritchie, Baroness Ritchie of Brompton, 67, British peeress, councillor for Brompton ward, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (since 1998). [110]
- Yugo Sako, 84, Japanese movie director, aspiration pneumonia. [111] (Japanese)
- Seiki Tsuchida, 43, Japanese manga artist, cirrhosis. [112]
- Amos Vogel, 91, Austrian-born American film scholar, founder of the New York Film Festival and Cinema 16. [113]
- George Vujnovich, 96, American OSS agent and leader of Operation Halyard, natural causes. [114]
- Ambrose Weekes, 93, British Anglican bishop. [115]
23
- Navodaya Appachan, 81, Indian film producer, cancer. [116]
- Lillemor Arvidsson, 68, Swedish trade union leader and politician, Governor of Gotland (1998–2004). [117] (Swedish)
- Ferenc Boday, 72, Hungarian footballer, winner of 1961 national championship (Vasas SC). [118] (Hungarian)
- Hacho Boyadzhiev, 80, Bulgarian television and film director. [119]
- Michael Brinton, 70, British businessman, Lord Lieutenant of Worcestershire (since 2001), cancer. [120]
- Billy Bryans, 64, Canadian musician and producer (Parachute Club), lung cancer. [121]
- Roland Dale, 84, American football player (Washington Redskins). [122]
- Michael DeBose, 58, American politician, Member of the Ohio House of Representatives (2002–2010), complications of Parkinson's disease. [123]
- Chris Ethridge, 65, American country rock bassist (International Submarine Band, The Flying Burrito Brothers). [124]
- Ryūichirō Kanazawa, 71, Japanese businessman, managing director of TV Tokyo, pancreatic cancer. [125] (Japanese)
- Laura Lamb, 67, American actress (They Shoot Horses, Don't They?) and ballerina. [126]
- Tommy Marth, 33, American musician (The Killers), suicide. [127]
- Decio Sa, Brazilian journalist, shot. [128]
- Kishiko Wakamatsu, 96, Japanese pianist, pneumonia. [129] (Japanese)
- LeRoy T. Walker, 93, American track coach, Chairman of the US Olympic Committee (1992–1996). [130]
- George Ward, 79, British businessman, key figure in the Grunwick dispute. [131]
- Flo Whyard, 95, Canadian politician, Mayor of Whitehorse (1981–1983), Yukon territorial minister (1975–1978), editor of the Whitehorse Star. [132]
22
- John Amabile, 73, American football scout (New York Giants), coach and player (Boston College). [133]
- Gunnar Göransson, 78, Swedish Olympic cyclist. [134] (Swedish)
- Bill Granger, 70, American author and columnist. [135]
- Koichi Iwashiro, 81, Japanese composer, lung cancer. [136] (Japanese)
- Matti Kuosku, 71, Swedish Olympic cross-country skier. [137] (Swedish)
- José Llompart, 82, Japanese professor (Sophia University), acute heart failure. [138] (Japanese)
- George Rathmann, 84, American businessman, first chief executive of Amgen, kidney failure. [139]
- Claire Squires, 30, British hairdresser, collapsed while running London Marathon. [140]
- Aristarkh Stankevich, 70, Belarusian Orthodox hierarch, Archbishop of Gomel and Zhlobin (since 1990). [141] (Russian)
- Jan Suzin, 82, Polish television announcer and actor, after long illness. [142] (Polish)
21
- Doris Betts, 79, American author, lung cancer. [143]
- Ramón Búa Otero, 78, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Tarazona (1982–1989) and Calahorra y La Calzada-Logroño (1989–2003). [144]
- Charles Colson, 80, American White House Counsel convicted in Watergate scandal, evangelist, founder of Prison Fellowship, brain hemorrhage. [145]
- Albert Falco, 84, French sea captain and scuba diver. [146] (French)
- Charles Higham, 81, Anglo-American biographer, heart attack. [147]
- Iküzöne, 46, Japanese bassist (Dragon Ash), acute cardiac insufficiency. [148]
- Heinz Jentzsch, 92, German racehorse trainer. [149] (German)
- Leonid Menaker, 82, Russian film director. [150] (Russian)
- Jerry Toppazzini, 80, Canadian ice hockey player (Boston Bruins, Chicago Black Hawks, Detroit Red Wings). [151]
20
- Mario Arturo Acosta Chaparro, 70, Mexican army general, shot. [152]
- Ayten Alpman, 82, Turkish singer, respiratory failure. [153]
- Jack Ashley, Baron Ashley of Stoke, 89, British politician and disability campaigner, MP for Stoke-on-Trent South (1966–1992). [154]
- Alfie Biggs, 76, English footballer. [155]
- Matt Branam, 57, American academic, President of Rose–Hulman Institute of Technology (since 2009). [156]
- Peter Carsten, 83, German actor. [157]
- George Cowan, 92, American physical chemist and member of Manhattan Project, injuries from a fall. [158]
- Clément Haeyen, 84, Belgian Olympic (1960) weightlifter. [159] (Dutch)
- Yasunobu Hagino, 74, Japanese television producer (NHK), pneumonia. [160] (Japanese)
- Heihachirō Kimoto, 85, Japanese politician, member of the House of Councillors, heart failure. [161] (Japanese)
- Joe Muranyi, 84, American jazz musician. [162]
- Takis Voulalas, 69, Greek actor, heart failure. [163] (Greek)
- Bert Weedon, 91, English guitarist and composer. [164]
19
- Leopold David de Rothschild, 84, British financier and philanthropist. [165]
- Ray Easterling, 62, American football player (Atlanta Falcons), suicide by gunshot. [166]
- Ágoston Garamvölgyi, 84, Hungarian footballer. [167] (Hungarian)
- Greg Ham, 58, Australian musician (Men at Work). [168] (body found on this date)
- Levon Helm, 71, American musician (The Band) and actor (Coal Miner's Daughter), throat cancer. [169]
- Jacques Martin, 52, Canadian Paralympian, gold medalist (1984, 1988, 1992, 1996), heart attack. [170]
- Fredrik Karlsson, 27, Swedish cross-country skier, snowmobile accident. [171] (Swedish)
- David Lilienfeld, 20, South African bodyboarder, shark attack. [172]
- Enrico Pedrini, 72, Italian art theorist. [173] (Italian)
- Murtaza Razvi, 48, Pakistani journalist, strangled. [174]
- Holger Schmezer, 65, German dressage coach. [175]
- Valeri Vasiliev, 62, Russian Olympic gold (1972, 1976) and silver (1980) medal-winning ice hockey player. [176]
- Zozo Zarpa, 73, Greek actress, heart failure. [177] (Greek)
18
- Arthur Bottom, 82, English footballer (York City). [178]
- Liv Buck, 83, Norwegian trade unionist. [179] (Norwegian)
- José Cerviño Cerviño, 91, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Tui-Vigo (1976–1996). [180]
- Dick Clark, 82, American television host and producer (American Bandstand, Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve, Pyramid), heart attack. [181]
- Hillman Curtis, 51, American graphic designer and filmmaker, colon cancer. [182]
- Cora Hansen, 113, American-born Canadian supercentenarian. [183]
- René Lépine, 82, Canadian real estate developer, prostate cancer. [184]
- John O'Neil, 91, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies). [185]
- Robert O. Ragland, 80, American film score composer. [186]
- Col Saddington, 74, Australian football player. [187]
- Bob Smith, 78, American inventor and businessman, complications related to heart surgery. [188]
- Åge Storhaug, 74, Norwegian Olympic (1960, 1964) gymnast, cancer. [189] (Norwegian)
- Afewerk Tekle, 80, Ethiopian artist, complications of stomach ulcer. [190]
- Dimitris Thanos, 36, Greek politician. [191] (Greek)
- Fritz Theilen, 84, German resistance member. [192]
- K. D. Wentworth, 61, American science fiction author, cancer and pneumonia. [193]
17
- Chōichi Aida, 90, Japanese baseball coach, director of the Tokyo Big6 Baseball League, old age. [194] (Japanese)
- Leila Berg, 94, British children's author. [195]
- Michael Green, New Zealand diplomat, cancer. [196] (death announced on this date)
- Dagmar Hochová, 86, Czech photographer. [197] (death announced on this date)
- Stan Johnson, 75, American baseball player. (Chicago White Sox, Kansas City Athletics). [198]
- Zsuzsa Koncz, 71, Hungarian photographer. [199] (Hungarian)
- Sukenobu Kudō, 84, Japanese speed skater (1952 Winter Olympics), renal failure. [200] (Japanese)
- Dimitris Mitropanos, 64, Greek singer, pulmonary edema. [201]
- Nityananda Mohapatra, 99, Indian politician, poet, and journalist, natural causes. [202]
- Donal O'Brien, 72, Irish hurler. [203] (death announced on this date)
- Kiyoshi Onosaka, 69, Japanese baseball player (Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes), lung cancer. [204] (Japanese)
- Jonathan V. Plaut, 69, American rabbi. [205]
- Ben H. Procter, 85, American author and football player (Los Angeles Rams), Parkinson's disease. [206]
- Stanley Rogers Resor, 94, American lawyer, Secretary of the Army (1965–1971). [207]
- Meenakshi Thapar, 26, Indian actress (404), strangled and beheaded. [208]
- Louis Vorster, 45, South African-born Namibian cricketer, shot. [209]
- Teruko Yoshitake, 80, Japanese critic and non-fiction writer, pneumonia. [210] (Japanese)
16
- Barry Askew, 75, British newspaper editor (News of the World). [211]
- Sári Barabás, 98, Hungarian-born German opera singer, stroke. [212] (German)
- Marian Biskup, 89, Polish historian. [213] (Polish)
- Ernest Callenbach, 83, American writer and environmentalist. [214]
- Teddy Charles, 84, American jazz musician and composer. [215]
- Jack Cohen, 93, American rabbi. [216]
- Ray Davey, 97, Northern Irish Presbyterian minister, founder of the Corrymeela Community. [217]
- Alan Hacker, 73, British clarinetist. [218]
- Shūho Katō, 76, Japanese racehorse trainer (Japan Racing Association). [219] (Japanese)
- George Kunda, 56, Zambian politician, Vice President (2008–2011), anaemia. [220]
- Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, 98, Danish shipping magnate. [221]
- Antoine Hamid Mourany, 82, Lebanese-born Syrian Maronite hierarch, Metropolitan of Damascus (1989–1999). [222]
- Arthur Nadel, 80, American fund manager and convicted embezzler. [223]
- Ngô Đình Lệ Quyên, 53, South Vietnamese-born Italian lawyer, daughter of Madame Nhu, traffic collision. [224]
- György Palásthy, 81, Hungarian director. [225] (Hungarian)
- Carlo Petrini, 64, Italian footballer. [226]
- Ageeth Scherphuis, 79, Dutch journalist and broadcaster. [227] (Dutch)
- Terry Lloyd Schmidt, 66, American songwriter. [228]
- Randy Starkman, 51, Canadian sports journalist, pneumonia. [229]
- Jack Streidl, 93, American football coach. [230]
15
- Paul Bogart, 92, American Emmy Award-winning television director (All in the Family), natural causes. [231]
- Lee Jin-hee, 82, South Korean historian and writer (Wako University), lung cancer. [232] (Japanese)
- Hans Johansson, 85, Swedish Olympic equestrian. [233] (Swedish)
- Peter McKenzie, 59, New Zealand conservationist, cancer. [234]
- Yasushi Mieno, 88, Japanese banker, Governor of the Bank of Japan (1989–1994), cardiac arrest. [235]
- Jenny Olsson, 32, Swedish Olympic cross-country skier, cancer. [236] (Swedish)
- Bob Perani, 69, Italian-born American ice hockey player (Flint Generals). [237]
- Aleksandr Porokhovshchikov, 73, Russian actor, complications from diabetes and stroke. [238] (Russian)
- Sterling Ridge, 75, American politician, Mayor of Glendale, Arizona (1976–1980), three-term member of the Arizona House of Representatives. [239]
- Murray Rose, 73, Australian Olympic gold medal-winning (1956, 1960) swimmer, leukaemia. [240]
- Samir Said, 58, Kuwaiti footballer, traffic collision. [241]
- Rich Saul, 64, American football player (Los Angeles Rams), leukemia. [242]
- Dwayne Schintzius, 43, American basketball player (New Jersey Nets), respiratory failure. [243]
- James Shaner, 75, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1995–2006). [244]
- Adriano Stuart, 68, Brazilian actor and director. [245] (Portuguese)
- Bob Wright, 86, American college basketball coach (Morehead State University). [246]
- Tadashi Yamamoto, 76, Japanese businessman, chairman of the Japan Cultural Exchange Center, gall bladder cancer. [247] (Japanese)
14
- Shigeru Araki, 63, Japanese actor (Kamen Rider Stronger) and drummer, pneumonia. [248] (Japanese)
- Émile Bouchard, 92, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens), member of the Hockey Hall of Fame. [249]
- Florin Constantiniu, 79, Romanian historian and academic. [250] (Romanian)
- Tom Farrell, 87, Canadian politician. [251]
- William Finley, 69, American actor (Phantom of the Paradise), complications from surgery. [252]
- Stefano De Fiores, 78, Italian Roman Catholic priest and Mariologist. [253] (Italian)
- Miller Fisher, 98 Canadian neurologist. [254]
- Norimasa Fukuda, 82, Japanese yobidashi (Japan Sumo Association), heart failure. [255] (Japanese)
- Bela Gold, 97, Hungarian-born American businessman and professor. [256]
- Verónica Gómez, 26, Venezuelan volleyballer, heart failure. [257] (Dutch)
- Velimir Habrun, 22, Croatian footballer, car accident. [258] (Croatian)
- Lee Kyung-Hwan, 24, South Korean footballer (Suwon Bluewings), suicide by jumping. [259]
- Eddie May, 68, English football player and manager. [260]
- Glenn McWhinney, 81, Canadian football player (Edmonton Eskimos, Winnipeg Blue Bombers). [261]
- Piermario Morosini, 25, Italian footballer (Livorno), cardiac arrest. [262]
- Martin Poll, 89, American film producer (The Lion in Winter), natural causes. [263]
- Edward Purrington, 82, American opera director. [264]
- Paulo Cézar Saraceni, 79, Brazilian actor and filmmaker, multiple organ failure. [265] (Portuguese)
- Vincent F. Seyfried, 93, American historian. [266]
- Eiichi Shiga, 74, Japanese businessman, chairman of the Japan East Rugby Football Union, heart failure. [267] (Japanese)
- Per G. Stavnum, 70, Norwegian diplomat. [268] (Norwegian)
- Synchronised, 9, Irish racehorse, euthanised after race fall. [269]
- Masakazu Uchida, 73, Japanese boxing referee, chairman of the Japan Boxing Commission, pneumonitis. [270] (Japanese)
- Mikhail Voronin, 73, Ukrainian fashion designer. [271]
- Cathie Wright, 82, American politician, California State Senator (1992–2000). [272]
13
- Irving K. Barber, 89, Canadian forester and philanthropist. [273]
- John Blane, American diplomat. [274]
- Inge Bråten, 63, Norwegian cross-country skiing coach. [275]
- William B. Buffum, 90, American diplomat, US Ambassador to Lebanon (1970–1974), natural causes. [276]
- Cecil Chaudhry, 70, Pakistani fighter pilot, school principal, and activist, lung cancer. [277]
- Jonathan Frid, 87, Canadian actor (Dark Shadows), natural causes. [278] (date of death April 13 or April 14, 2012; sources differ)
- Avraham Goldberg, 99, American-born Israeli Talmud scholar. [279]
- Shūichi Higurashi, 75, Japanese manga illustrator, painted cover for Big Comic (1970–2011), pneumonia. [280]
- Ryōhei Komiyama, 95, Japanese businessman and editor, senility. [281] (Japanese)
- Margarita Lilova, 76, Bulgarian-born Austrian opera singer. [282]
- Marilyn Lovell Matz, 81, American actress (The Ghosts of Mississippi), therapist and activist. [283]
- Peter Mullins, 86, Australian Olympic decathlete (1948), basketball player, and coach. [284]
- Lewis Nordan, 72, American writer, pneumonia. [285]
- Mario Rizzi, 86, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Titular Archbishop of Bagnoregio (since 1991), Apostolic Nuncio to Bulgaria (1991–1996). [286]
- David S. Smith, 94, American diplomat, United States Ambassador to Sweden (1976–1977). [287]
- Petr Tučný, 91, Czech architect and designer, after short illness. [288] (Czech)
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- Vladimir Astapovsky, 65, Soviet Olympic bronze medal-winning (1976) footballer. [289] (Russian)
- Kellon Baptiste, 38, Grenadian footballer, cancer. [290]
- Marly Bueno, 78, Brazilian actress, complications after surgery. [291] (Portuguese)
- Mohit Chattopadhyay, 77, Indian playwright, dramatist, and poet, cancer. [292]
- Linda Cook, 55, American actress. [293]
- Elizabeth Ferris, 71, British Olympic bronze medal-winning (1960) diver. [294]
- Rodgers Grant, 76. American jazz pianist, cancer. [295]
- Tony Hunter-Choat, 76, British military officer, commander of the Sultan of Oman's special forces. [296]
- Steinbjørn B. Jacobsen, 74, Faroese poet and writer. [297] (Faroese)
- Robert Kennedy, 73, Canadian publisher, complications from skin cancer. [298]
- Andrew Love, 70, American saxophonist (The Memphis Horns), complications of Alzheimer's disease. [299]
- Masakre, 57, Mexican professional wrestler, cancer. [300]
- Stefánia Moldován, 80, Hungarian opera singer. [301] (Hungarian)
- Bruce Morrison, 88, Australian football player. [302]
- Manfred Orzessek, 78, German footballer. [303] (German)
- Gabriel Țepelea, 96, Romanian politician, MP (1990–2000), natural causes. [304] (Romanian)
- Amy Tryon, 42, American Olympic bronze medal-winning (2004) equestrian. [305]
- Vladimir Ukhin, 81, Russian broadcaster. [306] (Russian)
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- Julio Alemán, 79, Mexican actor, cancer. [307] (Spanish)
- Ahmed Ben Bella, 93, Algerian politician, Prime Minister (1962–1963); President (1963–1965). [308]
- Misbach Yusa Biran, 78, Indonesian film director. [309]
- Roger Caron, 73, Canadian author, prison escape artist, and bank robber, infection. [310]
- Tippy Dye, 97, American college athlete, coach, and athletic director. [311]
- Gustaf Jansson, 90, Swedish Olympic bronze medal-winning (1952) athlete. [312] (Swedish)
- Moses Majekodunmi, 95, Nigerian politician, Minister of Health (1960–1966). [313]
- Hal McKusick, 87, American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and flautist, natural causes. [314]
- Yolanda Mérida, 82, Mexican actress. [315] (Spanish)
- Agustin Roman, 83, Cuban-born American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Miami (1979–2003), heart attack. [316]
- Grant Tilly, 74, New Zealand actor. [317]
10
- Luis Aponte Martínez, 89, Puerto Rican Roman Catholic prelate and first cardinal, Metropolitan Archbishop of San Juan de Puerto Rico (1964–1999). [318] (Spanish)
- Erdoğan Arıca, 57, Turkish football coach, lung cancer. [319]
- Raymond Aubrac, 97, French WWII resistance fighter. [320]
- René Berange, 72, French footballer. [321] (French)
- Leonardo Mario Bernacchi, 79, Italian-born Bolivian Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Camiri (1993–2009). [322]
- Barbara Buchholz, 52, German musician and composer, cancer. [323] (German)
- Virginia Spencer Carr, 82, American biographer. [324]
- Maria-Pia Casilio, 76, Italian film actress. [325] (Italian)
- Lili Chookasian, 90, American opera singer. [326]
- Kurt Crain, 47, American football player (Houston Oilers, Green Bay Packers). [327]
- Dorothy Dermody, 102, Irish Olympic (1948) fencer. [328]
- Zvi Dinstein, 86, Israeli politician, MK (1965–1974), pulmonary embolism. [329] (Hebrew)
- Carl Gatto, 74, American politician, member of the Alaska House of Representatives (since 2003), prostate cancer. [330]
- David Holtzman, Canadian gay activist, heart attack. [331]
- Karyn Kay, 63, American author and screenwriter, beaten. [332]
- Isamu Miyazaki, 92, Japanese fighter pilot and midshipman (Imperial Japanese Navy). [333] (Japanese)
- Tichaona Mudzingwa, 69, Zimbabwean politician. [334]
- Ivan Oliger, 102, Russian zoologist and entomologist. [335]
- Andy Replogle, 58, American baseball player (Milwaukee Brewers). [336]
- Yoshikazu Shimizu, 58, Japanese journalist and editorial writer (Tokyo Shimbun), pancreatic cancer. [337] (Japanese)
- Richie Teeter, 61, American drummer (The Dictators, Twisted Sister), esophageal cancer. [338]
- Carlos Truan, 76, American politician. [339]
- Eiichi Uchiyama, 100, Japanese politician, mayor of Taitō, Tokyo, senility. [340] (Japanese)
- N. Varadarajan, 87, Indian politician. [341]
9
- Carol Adams, 94, American actress (Our Gang). [342]
- Takeshi Aono, 75, Japanese voice actor (Dragon Ball, One Piece), post-operative multiple cerebral infarction. [343] (Japanese)
- Barry Cahill, 90, Canadian-born American actor (Grand Theft Auto, Sweet Bird of Youth). [344]
- Ismail Haron, 66, Singaporean singer. [345]
- José Guardiola, 81, Spanish singer (Eurovision Song Contest 1963). [346]
- Mark Lenzi, 43, American Olympic gold medal-winning (1992) diver, hypotension. [347]
- Wiebo Ludwig, 70, Canadian environmental activist and convicted bomber, esophageal cancer. [348]
- Ivan Nagel, 80, German theater director. [349] (German)
- Simo Nikolić, 71, Croatian Olympic sailor. [350] (Croatian)
- Jim Niven, Australian musician (The Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band, The Sports), cancer. [351]
- Meral Okay, 53, Turkish actress and screenwriter (Muhteşem Yüzyıl), cancer. [352]
- Boris Parygin, 81, Russian philosopher and sociologist. [353] (Russian)
- Don Reed, 92, American football coach (Long Beach State 49ers), natural causes. [354]
- Cleo Smith, 93, American television producer (Here's Lucy). [355]
- Malcolm Thomas, 82, Welsh rugby union player. [356]
- Mitsunori Tozawa, 79, Japanese archaeologist, Principal of Meiji University (1996–2000). [357] (Japanese)
8
- Gordon Bagier, 87, British politician, MP for Sunderland South (1964–1987). [358]
- Bram Bart, 49, Dutch voice actor, pancreatic cancer. [359] (Dutch)
- Minakshi Goswami, 78, Indian actress, heart attack. [360]
- George Wilberforce Kakoma, 89, Ugandan musician, composer of the Ugandan national anthem. [361]
- Blair Kiel, 50, American football player (Green Bay Packers, Indianapolis Colts, Tampa Bay Buccaneers), suspected heart attack. [362]
- Graciano Ravelo, 77, Venezuelan baseball player and coach (Tiburones de La Guaira), cancer. [363] (Spanish)
- Anatoly Ravikovich, 75, Russian film actor (The Pokrovsky Gate), cancer. [364] (Russian)
- Jack Tramiel, 83, Polish-born American businessman, founder of Commodore and CEO of Atari. [365]
- Al Veigel, 95, American baseball player (Boston Braves). [366]
- Rikiya Yasuoka, 64, Japanese actor and singer, heart failure. [367] (Japanese)
- Janusz K. Zawodny, 90, Polish-born American historian, World War II resistance fighter. [368] (Polish)
7
- John Egan, 59, Irish Gaelic footballer. [369]
- Steve Fredericks, 72, American sports journalist, pancreatic cancer. [370]
- Scott Getzinger, 46, American prop master (Road to Perdition, The Truman Show), traffic collision. [371]
- Kyūichi Hayashida, 90, Japanese politician, mayor of Minakuchi, Shiga, pneumonia. [372] (Japanese)
- Kaku Mo-rin, 90, Taiwanese architect. [373] (Japanese)
- Kofuku Kaminarimon, 77, Japanese rakugo storyteller, pharyngeal cancer. [374] (Japanese)
- Steven Kanumba, 28, Tanzanian actor and director. [375]
- Alexander Leslie-Melville, 14th Earl of Leven, 87, Scottish peer and soldier, Lord Lieutenant of Nairn (1969–1999). [376]
- Satsue Mito, 97, Japanese zoologist. [377] (Japanese)
- Miss Read, 98, English writer. [378]
- Ignatius Moses I Daoud, 81, Syrian Catholic cardinal, Patriarch of Antioch (1998–2001), stroke complications. [379]
- David E. Pergrin, 94, American soldier, led the most decorated WWII engineering battalion. [380]
- Bashir Ahmed Qureshi, 54, Pakistani politician, cardiac arrest. [381]
- Tom Runnels, 78, American football player (Washington Redskins). [382]
- Serafym Verzun, 62, Ukrainian Orthodox hierarch, Bishop of Zhytomyr (1992–1995), Archbishop of Rivne (1995–2000) and Kirovohrad (2002–2008). [383] (Ukrainian)
- Mike Wallace, 93, American news correspondent (60 Minutes). [384]
- Yūichi Yamada, 81, Japanese teacher and professor, Principal of Meiji University (2000–2004). [385] (Japanese)
- Jamshid Zokirov, 63, Uzbek actor. [386] (Uzbek)
6
- Larry Canning, 86, English footballer (Aston Villa) and broadcaster, vascular dementia. [387]
- Fang Lizhi, 76, Chinese political activist and astrophysicist. [388]
- Felipe Fernández García, 76, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ávila (1976–1991) and San Cristóbal de La Laguna o Tenerife (1991–2005). [389]
- Promode Gogoi, 82, Indian politician. [390]
- Thomas Kinkade, 54, American painter, natural causes. [391]
- Tōru Maeara, 88, Japanese teacher, Kikuchi Kan Prize winner, cerebral hemorrhage. [392] (Japanese)
- Janet Roberts, 110, Scottish supercentenarian, oldest person in Scotland, granddaughter of William Grant. [393]
- Hilde Sacré, 73, Belgian actress. [394] (Dutch)
- Thomas Sancton, Sr., 97, American novelist and journalist. [395]
- Michael Sands, 66, American show business publicist and alleged CIA operative, choked. [396]
- Sheila Scotter, 91, Australian fashion editor (Vogue Australia). [397]
- Dick Wearmouth, 85, Australian football player. [398]
- Jose Wejebe, 54, Cuban-born American television and sports fishing personality, plane crash. [399]
- Reed Whittemore, 92, American poet. [400]
5
- Joe Avezzano, 68, American football player (Boston Patriots) and coach (Dallas Cowboys, Oakland Raiders), heart attack. [401]
- David Axon, 61, British astrophysicist. [402]
- Pedro Bartolomé Benoit, 91, Dominican military general, Provisional President (1965). [403] (Spanish)
- Angelo Castro, Jr., 67, Filipino journalist, The World Tonight anchor (1986–2009, 2011), lung cancer. [404]
- Cynthia Dall, 41, American musician. [405]
- Attila Hazai, 44, Hungarian writer. [406] (Hungarian)
- James S. Herr, 87, American businessman, founder of Herr's Snacks. [407]
- Kunio Hiraki, 87, Japanese writer, kidney failure. [408][dead link] (Japanese)
- Aminul Islam, 40, Bangladeshi trade union leader. [409]
- Jimmy Lawlor, 78, Irish footballer. [410]
- Jim Marshall, 88, English businessman, founder of Marshall Amplification. [411]
- Barney McKenna, 72, Irish musician (The Dubliners). [412]
- Bingu wa Mutharika, 78, Malawian politician, President (since 2004), heart attack. [413]
- Gil Noble, 80, American television reporter and host (Like It Is). [414]
- Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, 76, German designer. [415]
- Bernard Rapoport, 94, American businessman and philanthropist. [416]
- A. G. L. Shaw, 96, Australian historian. [417]
- Sir Peter Tapsell, 82, New Zealand politician, Speaker of the House of Representatives (1993–1996). [418]
- Christer Zetterberg, 70, Swedish businessman. [419] (Swedish)
4
- Muhammad Afrizal, 30, Indonesian boxer, PABA featherweight champion (2008), injuries sustained from bout. [420]
- A. Dean Byrd, 64, American psychologist. [421]
- Anne Karin Elstad, 74, Norwegian author, stroke. [422] (Norwegian)
- Josiah Henson, 90, American Olympic bronze medal-winning (1952) wrestler, stroke and myocardial infarction. [423]
- Nikolay Krasovsky, 87, Russian mathematician. [424] (Russian)
- Claude Miller, 70, French director, producer, and screenwriter. [425]
- Helge Sverre Nesheim, 92, Norwegian broadcaster. [426] (Norwegian)
- Richard Okada, 66, American linguist, Professor of Japanese at Princeton University. [427]
- Dubravko Pavličić, 44, Croatian footballer. [428] (Croatian)
- Roberto Rexach Benítez, 82, Puerto Rican politician, President of the Senate (1993–1996). [429] (Spanish)
3
- Lorne Benson, 81, Canadian football player (Winnipeg Blue Bombers). [430]
- Arduino Bertoldo, 79, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Foligno (1992–2008). [431]
- Michael Bzdel, 81, Canadian Ukrainian Catholic hierarch, Metropolitan of Winnipeg (1992–2006). [432]
- Richard Descoings, 53, French academic director (Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris). [433]
- Nicholas King, 79, American actor, preserved the Watts Towers. [434]
- Efraím Basílio Krevey, 83, Brazilian Ukrainian Catholic hierarch, Bishop of São João Batista em Curitiba (1978–2006). [435]
- Mingote, 93, Spanish cartoonist, writer, and journalist. [436]
- Govind Narain, 95, Indian civil servant, Governor of Karnataka (1977–1983). [437]
- Airton Pavilhão, 77, Brazilian footballer. [438] (Portuguese)
- Xenia Stad-de Jong, 90, Dutch Olympic gold medal-winning (1948) athlete. [439] (Dutch)
- Chief Jay Strongbow, 83, American professional wrestler. [440]
- José María Zárraga, 81, Spanish footballer and manager. [441] (Spanish)
2
- Jesús Aguilarte, 53, Venezuelan politician, Governor of Apure State (1999–2000; 2004–2011), shot. [442]
- Warren Bonython, 95, Australian conservationist, explorer, author, and chemical engineer. [443]
- Roger Breske, 73, American politician, member of the Wisconsin State Senate (1990–2008). [444]
- Elizabeth Catlett, 96, American-born Mexican artist. [445]
- Allie Clark, 88, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians, Philadelphia Athletics). [446]
- Jim Delaney, 91, American Olympic silver medal-winning (1948) shot putter. [447]
- Sarah Dreher, 75, American novelist and playwright. [448]
- Ben Huan, 105, Chinese Buddhist master, honorary president of the Buddhist Association of China. [449]
- Mauricio Lasansky, 97, Argentinian-born American printmaker. [450]
- Jimmy Little, 75, Australian singer. [451]
- Fatma Neslişah, 91, Turkish-born Ottoman and Egyptian royal, heart attack. [452]
- M. Saroja, 79, Indian film actress. [453]
1
- Ekrem Bora, 78, Turkish actor, pulmonary edema. [454] (Turkish)
- Lionel Bowen, 89, Australian politician, MP for Kingsford-Smith (1969–1990); Deputy Prime Minister (1983–1990), pneumonia. [455]
- Sauro Bufalini, 70, Italian Olympic basketball player. [456] (Italian)
- Giorgio Chinaglia, 65, Italian footballer (Lazio, New York Cosmos), heart attack. [457]
- Miguel de la Madrid, 77, Mexican politician, President (1982–1988), complications of pulmonary emphysema. [458]
- Leila Denmark, 114, American supercentenarian, author, and physician, credited with developing a whooping cough vaccine. [459]
- Jamaa Fanaka, 68, American filmmaker. [460]
- N. K. P. Salve, 91, Indian politician. [461]
- Stan Yapp, 70, English politician. [462]
March 2012
See Deaths in March 2012.
February 2012
January 2012
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