2012 deaths

Slovak footballer (1947-2012)

Argentine racecar driver and sailor

American film critic (1928-2012)

Australian philosopher and academic (1920–2012)

Belgian association football player (1927–2012)

British supercentenarian, last surviving veteran of World War I

film director (1911–2012)

Spanish actor (1936–2012)

German football player and manager (1938–2012)

Soviet and Russian mathematician (1905–2012)

German-born Swedish journalist, author and Holocaust survivor

athletics competitor (1960–2012)

Cuban bodybuilder (1941–2012)

American musician (1945–2012)

Hungarian middle distance runner (1929–2012)

French politician (1920-2012)

American conceptual designer and illustrator (1929-2012)

Finnish conductor and violinist (1929–2012)

South African boxer (1966-2012)

American astronomer (1918-2012)

American lawyer (1922–2012)

French psychoanalyst, author & editor (1924–2012)

American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1940–2012)

American singer (1940–2012)

American television show host (1936-2012)

Italian special effects designer (1925-2012)

Theatre & film director (1929-2012)

Italian writer (1933-2012)

English footballer and manager (1965-2012)

British actor (1934–2012)

French actress (1923–2012)

Argentine racing driver (1923–2012)

American actor (1932–2012)

Soviet-born American chess player

Swedish cross-country skier (1928–2012)

Equatorial Guinean politician (1961-2012)

Swedish marathon runner (1922–2012)

Japanese actress (1924-2012)

American pianist and writer on music (1927–2012)

American professor of educational psychology (1923-2012)

racecar driver (1930-2012)

Israeli military general and author (1926–2012)

Hungarian football player (1938-2012)

American actor, director and acting teacher (1934-2012)

boxer (1967–2012)

American diver

Canadian actor and theatre director (1924–2012)

Bulgarian psychologist and educator (1926-2012)

British actor (1944–2012)

German photojournalist (1933–2012)

Minister of Defence of Yugoslavia (1932–2012)

racecar driver (1911–2012)

American college football coach (1926-2012)

Estonian basketball player, coach and sports pedagogue (1926–2012)

German politician (SPD) (1926-2012)

Mexican footballer (1936-2012)

Austrian artist (1947–2012)

Danish rower (1925–2012)

prolific American inventor and scientist (1922–2012)

Senegalese footballer (1958–2012)