2012 deaths

Hungarian psychiatrist (1920-2012)

President of Guinea-Bissau (1947-2012)

Italian Jesuit and cardinal of the Catholic Church

Soviet military commander (1911-2012)

Ukrainian guard at Nazi death camps (1920–2012)

United States Senator from Hawaii (1924–2012)

Russian singer (1934-2012)

American journalist, game show host and actor (1918–2012)

Irish novelist (1939–2012)

English astronomer, broadcaster and writer (1923–2012)

German lyric baritone and conductor (1925-2012)

Czech actor (1917–2012)

American mathematician (1946–2012)

African American police brutality victim (1965–2012)

American war correspondent (1956–2012)

American psychologist (1920–2012)

Swedish mathematician (1931–2012)

American microbiologist

Canadian-American actress

American actor (1922–2012)

Swedish actor, film director and author (1923-2012)

Polish footballer (1957-2012)

Maltese politician (1916-2012)

American motivational speaker (1926-2012)

American composer and conductor (1944-2012)

Italian footballer (1947-2012)

French filmmaker (1921–2012)

officer in the Indian National Army (INA) and former presidential candidate of India

Saudi Arabian former crown prince

English physicist and radio astronomer

American radio and television personality (1929–2012)

Spanish politician (1915–2012)

Norwegian princess; elder sister of King Harald V of Norway

Spanish politician (1922–2012)

American painter (1910–2012)

Serbian and Yugoslavian chess player (1923–2012)

Brazilian footballer (1937-2012)

British musician (1945–2012)

Czech-Canadian writer and publisher (1924-2012)

American actor, film director, and producer (1976-2012)

American politician (1930–2012)

German-American economist; member of the French Resistance

American automotive designer, racing driver, and entrepreneur (1923-2012)

German actress (1960-2012)

American engineer and NASA astronaut (1956-2012)

Russian general

British hairstylist (1928–2012)

Oglala Lakota activist for the rights of Native American people (1939-2012)

American singer and songwriter (1939–2012)

Italian concentration camp survivor, poet, writer and screenwriter (1920-2012)

Indian entrepreneur

German composer (1926–2012)

Georgian footballer (1957-2012)

Spanish footballer (1926–2012)

Indian politician (1926-2012)

Professor of astrophysics; civil rights activist and dissident (1936–2012)

Dutch keyboard player, conductor, musicologist, teacher and editor (1928–2012)

American businessman (1928-2012)

President of Malta (1913-2012)

American tennis player (1918–2012)