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Thomas Szasz
Hungarian psychiatrist (1920-2012)
Malam Bacai Sanhá
President of Guinea-Bissau (1947-2012)
Carlo Maria Martini
Italian Jesuit and cardinal of the Catholic Church
Sergey Sokolov
Soviet military commander (1911-2012)
John Demjanjuk
Ukrainian guard at Nazi death camps (1920–2012)
Daniel Inouye
United States Senator from Hawaii (1924–2012)
Eduard Khil
Russian singer (1934-2012)
Mike Wallace
American journalist, game show host and actor (1918–2012)
Maeve Binchy
Irish novelist (1939–2012)
Patrick Moore
English astronomer, broadcaster and writer (1923–2012)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
German lyric baritone and conductor (1925-2012)
Herbert Lom
Czech actor (1917–2012)
William Thurston
American mathematician (1946–2012)
Rodney King
African American police brutality victim (1965–2012)
Marie Colvin
American war correspondent (1956–2012)
George Armitage Miller
American psychologist (1920–2012)
Lars Hörmander
Swedish mathematician (1931–2012)
Carl Woese
American microbiologist
Ann Rutherford
Canadian-American actress
Jack Klugman
American actor (1922–2012)
Erland Josephson
Swedish actor, film director and author (1923-2012)
Włodzimierz Smolarek
Polish footballer (1957-2012)
Dom Mintoff
Maltese politician (1916-2012)
Zig Ziglar
American motivational speaker (1926-2012)
Marvin Hamlisch
American composer and conductor (1944-2012)
Giorgio Chinaglia
Italian footballer (1947-2012)
Chris Marker
French filmmaker (1921–2012)
Lakshmi Sahgal
officer in the Indian National Army (INA) and former presidential candidate of India
Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud
Saudi Arabian former crown prince
Bernard Lovell
English physicist and radio astronomer
Dick Clark
American radio and television personality (1929–2012)
Santiago Carrillo
Spanish politician (1915–2012)
Princess Ragnhild, Mrs. Lorentzen
Norwegian princess; elder sister of King Harald V of Norway
Manuel Fraga
Spanish politician (1922–2012)
Dorothea Tanning
American painter (1910–2012)
Svetozar Gligorić
Serbian and Yugoslavian chess player (1923–2012)
Félix
Brazilian footballer (1937-2012)
Davy Jones
British musician (1945–2012)
Josef Škvorecký
Czech-Canadian writer and publisher (1924-2012)
Sage Stallone
American actor, film director, and producer (1976-2012)
Arlen Specter
American politician (1930–2012)
Albert O. Hirschman
German-American economist; member of the French Resistance
Carroll Shelby
American automotive designer, racing driver, and entrepreneur (1923-2012)
Susanne Lothar
German actress (1960-2012)
Janice E. Voss
American engineer and NASA astronaut (1956-2012)
Pavel Grachev
Russian general
Vidal Sassoon
British hairstylist (1928–2012)
Russell Means
Oglala Lakota activist for the rights of Native American people (1939-2012)
Scott McKenzie
American singer and songwriter (1939–2012)
Tonino Guerra
Italian concentration camp survivor, poet, writer and screenwriter (1920-2012)
Verghese Kurien
Indian entrepreneur
Hans Werner Henze
German composer (1926–2012)
Ramaz Shengelia
Georgian footballer (1957-2012)
Estanislau Basora
Spanish footballer (1926–2012)
Bal Thackeray
Indian politician (1926-2012)
Fang Lizhi
Professor of astrophysics; civil rights activist and dissident (1936–2012)
Gustav Leonhardt
Dutch keyboard player, conductor, musicologist, teacher and editor (1928–2012)
Jack Tramiel
American businessman (1928-2012)
Ċensu Tabone
President of Malta (1913-2012)
Margaret Osborne duPont
American tennis player (1918–2012)