2012 Deaths

January:

13^th - Rauf Denktaş  =  87, founder and first president of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.

14^th - Ekuikui IV = 98, Angolan king of Bailundo, disease.

14^th - Dan Evins = 76, American founder of Cracker Barrel Store.

20^th - John F. Baker, Jr. =  66, American Medal of Honor recipient.

20^th - Etta James =  73, American blues singer ("At Last"), leukemia.

22^nd - Joe Paterno = 85, American college football coach (Penn State.)

25^th - Veronica Carstens  = 88, German First Lady (1979–1984).

26^th - Ian Abercrombie = 77, British actor (Seinfeld, Wizards of Waverly Place, Birds of Prey.)

26^th - Robert Hegyes = 60, American actor (Welcome Back, Kotter; Cagney & Lacey), heart attack.

26^th – Karin = Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, 91, German aristocrat.

27^th - Kazimierz Smoleń = 91, Polish museum director and Holocaust survivor.

29^th - John Rich = 86, American television director (All in the Family, The Dick Van Dyke Show.)

31^st - Leslie Carter = 25, American singer and reality star, sister of Nick and Aaron Carter.

February:

1^st - Ruth Hausmeister = 99, German actress (Zwei Brüder, The Longest Day).

4^th - Florence Green = 110, British supercentenarian, last surviving veteran of World War I.

5^th - William D. Houser = 90, American admiral (WWII, Korea, Vietnam.)

11^th - Whitney Houston = 48, American singer ("I Will Always Love You") and actress.

15^th - Elyse Knox = 94, American actress and model, mother of Mark Harmon.

16^th - Kathryn McGee = 91, American disability rights advocate.

17^th - Clarence Dart = 91, American World War II fighter pilot (Tuskegee Airmen).

18^th - Rose Cliver = 109, American, one of the last known survivors of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

19^th - Herman G. Tillman, Jr. = 89, American pilot (WWII, Korea, Vietnam.)

22^nd - Lyudmila Kasatkinav = 86, Russian actress, People's Artist of the USSR.

24^th - Infanta Maria Adelaide of Portugal = 100, Portuguese royal.

24^th - Agnes Allen = 81, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.)

24^th - Jan Berenstain = 88, American writer and illustrator (Berenstain Bears.)

25^th - Lynn Compton = 90, American soldier, inspiration for Band of Brothers.

26^th - Trayvon Martin = 17, American teenager, shooting.

29^th - Roland Bautista = 60, American guitarist (Earth, Wind & Fire.)

29^th - Davy Jones =  66, British actor and musician (The Monkees), heart attack

March:

1^st - Phillip R. Allen = 72, American actor (Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, The Bad News Bears.

)2^nd - Van T. Barfoot = 92, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient.

2^nd - Stan Stearns = 76, American photographer (John F. Kennedy, Jr. salute.)

6^th - Helen Walulik = 82, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.)

11^th - James B. Morehead = 95, American World War II flying ace.

12^th - Michael Hossack =  65, American drummer (The Doobie Brothers), cancer.

13^th - Princess Anna of Saxony = 82, German princess.

13^th - Eileen McDonough  = 49, American child actress (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Waltons.)

16^th - Donald E. Hillman = 93, American World War II flying ace.

17^th - John Demjanjuk = 91, Ukrainian Nazi war criminal.

18^th - William R. Charette = 79, American Medal of Honor recipient.

18^th - George Tupou V = 63, Tongan King (since 2006.)

19^th - Hugo Munthe-Kaas=  90, Norwegian resistance fighter and politician.

25^th - Ben-Zion Leitner =  85, Israeli soldier, Medal of Valor recipient.

25^th – Lex = 12, American Marine service dog, awarded honorary Purple Heart.

29^th - Luke Askew = 80, American actor (Cool Hand Luke, Easy Rider, The Green Berets.)

April:

1^st - Leila Denmark = 114, American, physician, credited with developing a whooping cough vaccine

5^th - Barney McKenna = 72, Irish musician (The Dubliners.)

6^th - Thomas Kinkade = 54, American painter, overdose of alcohol and Valium.

7^th - David E. Pergrin = 94, American soldier, led the most decorated WWII engineering battalion.

8^th - Anatoly Ravikovich = 75, Russian film actor (The Pokrovsky Gate), cancer.

8^th - Janusz K. Zawodny = 90, Polish-born American historian, World War II resistance fighter.

10^th - Raymond Aubrac = 97, French WWII resistance fighter.

13^th - Avraham Goldberg = 99, American-born Israeli Talmud scholar.

18^th - Dick Clark = 82, American television host (American Bandstand, Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve.)

24^th - John McGrath = 92, American army soldier and World War II Easy Company veteran.

24^th - George Vujnovich = 96, American OSS agent and leader of Operation Halyard.

27^th - Anatoly Lebed =  48, Russian army officer, Hero of the Russian Federation.

29^th - Roland Moreno =  66, French inventor, creator of the smart card.

30^th - Benzion Netanyahu = 102, Israeli historian, academic, father of Benjamin Netanyahu.

May:

 1^st - Harold K. Hoskins = 85, American pilot, Tuskegee Airman, Congressional Gold Medal winner.

4^th - Adam Yauch = 47, American musician (Beastie Boys.)

5^th - Count Carl Johan Bernadotte of Wisborg =  95, Swedish royal, youngest son of King Gustaf VI.

8^th - Robert de La Rochefoucauld = 88, French Resistance member.

10^th - Gunnar Sønsteby = 94, Norwegian resistance movement member.

12^th - Ruth Foster = 92, American actress (Little House on the Prairie.)

12^th - Sam Porcello = 76, American food scientist, created the Oreo cookie filling.

13^th - Donald "Duck" Dunn = 70, American bass guitarist (The Blues Brothers, the M.G.'s.)

17^th - Donna Summer = 63, American singer ("Bad Girls", "Hot Stuff", "Last Dance", "I Feel Love".)

19^th - Zvi Aharoni = 91, German-born Israeli Mossad agent.

20^th - Abdelbaset al-Megrahi = 60, Libyan terrorist, convicted of bombing Pan Am Flight 103.

20^th - Robin Gibb =  62, British singer and songwriter (Bee Gees.)

20^th - Eugene Polley = 96, American engineer, inventor of the wireless TV remote control.

22^nd - Wesley A. Brown = 85, American, first African-American graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy.

22^nd-  Janet Carroll = 71, American singer and actress (Married... with Children, Murphy Brown.)

23^rd - Joseph Lesniewski - 91, American World War II veteran, member of Easy Company.

24^th - Klaas Carel Faber = 90, Dutch-born Nazi war criminal.

June:

2^nd-  Richard Dawson = 79, English-born American actor (Hogan's Heroes) and host (Family Feud.)

2^nd - Kathryn Joosten =  72, American actress (Desperate Housewives, The West Wing.)

4^th - Herb Reed = 83, American singer (The Platters.)

6^th - Prince Tomohito of Mikasa = 66, Japanese royal, cancer.

7^th - Bob Welch = 66, American musician (Fleetwood Mac, Paris.)

8^th - Frank Cady = 96, American actor (Green Acres, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet.)

11^th - Ann Rutherford= 94, Canadian-born American actress (Gone with the Wind.)

14^th - Yvette Wilson = 48, American comedian and actress (Moesha, The Parkers.)

17^th - Patricia Brow =  81, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.)

17^th - Rodney King = 47, American victim of police beating that sparked the 1992 Los Angeles riots.

18^th - Lina Haag, =  05, German anti-fascist activist.

20^th  - Judy Agnew = 91, American, widow of former Vice President Spiro Agnew.

20^th  - Heinrich IV, Prince Reuss of Köstritz = 92, German noble.

23^rd - Frank Chee Willeto = 87, American Navajo code talker in World War II, Congressional Silver Medal recipient.

24^th - Gad Beck =  88, German educator, author, and gay Holocaust survivor.

26^th - Doris Singleton =  92, American actress (I Love Lucy, My Three Sons.)

27^th - Don Grady = 68, American actor (My Three Sons, The Mickey Mouse Club.)

28^th - Doris Sams = 85, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.)

July:

3^rd - Andy Griffith =  86, American actor (The Andy Griffith Show, Matlock.)

7^th - Dennis Flemion = 57, American rock musician (The Frogs), drowned.

8^th - Ernest Borgnine =  95, American actor (McHale's Navy, From Here to Eternity.)

10^th - Maria Cole = 89, American jazz singer, widow of Nat King Cole.

13^th - Sage Stallone = 36, American actor (Rocky V), son of Sylvester Stallone.

15^th - Celeste Holm =  95, American actress (Gentleman's Agreement, All About Eve, Tom Sawyer)

16^th - Jon Lord = 71, English composer and musician (Deep Purple.)

17^th - Morgan Paull = 67, American actor (Blade Runner, Norma Rae, Patton.)

22^nd - Frank Pierson = 87, American film director and screenwriter (Cool Hand Luke, A Star is Born.)

24^th - Sherman Hemsley = 74, American actor (The Jeffersons, Amen, Dinosaurs.)

24^th - Robert Ledley = 86, American scientist, inventor of the full-body CT scanner.

26^th - Lupe Ontiveros = 69, American actress (Desperate Housewives, Selena, The Goonies.)

27^th - Norman Alden = 87, American actor (Back to the Future, Tora! Tora! Tora!)

27^th - Tony Martin = 98, American actor and singer, widower of Cyd Charisse.

27^th - Russ Mayberry = 86, Scottish-born American television director (Magnum P.I.,The Brady Bunch.)

29^th - August Kowalczyk = 90, Polish actor, last survivor of 1942 Auschwitz concentration camp breakout.

31^st - Gore Vidal = 86, American playwright, novelist, political commentator and actor.

August:

9^th - Mel Stuart = 83, American film director (Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.)

10^th - Ioan Dicezare =  95, Romanian WWII fighter pilot ace.

12^th - Eileen Beasley =  91, Welsh teacher and Welsh language campaigner.

13^th - Joan Roberts =  95, American musical theatre actress (Oklahoma!)

14^th - Ron Palillo = 63, American actor (Welcome Back, Kotter.)

14^th - Phyllis Thaxter = 92, American actress (Superman, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo.)

16^th - Princess Lalla Amina of Morocco = 58, Moroccan royal, daughter of Mohammed V.

16^th- William Windom = 88, American actor (Murder She Wrote, Star Trek.)

17^th - Veronique Peck = 80, French-born American arts patron, widow of Gregory Peck.

24^th - Steve Franken = 80, American actor (Bewitched, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.)

24^th - Claire Malis = 69, American actress (One Life to Live, From Here to Eternity, The Facts of Life.)

25^th - Neil Armstrong = 82, American astronaut, first person to walk on the Moon.

27^th - Tomáš Sedláček = 94, Czech general, anti-Nazi resistance member, and political prisoner.

31^st - Sergei Sokolov = 101, Marshal of the Soviet Union.

 September:

3^rd - Michael Clarke Duncan = 54, American actor (The Green Mile, Armageddon, Daredevil.)

5^th - Joe South = 72, American singer-songwriter ("Down in the Boondocks.”)

8^th - Leigh Hamilton = 62, New Zealand-born American actress (Hocus Pocus.)

10^th - Lance LeGault =  77, American actor (The A-Team, Magnum, P.I.)

11^th - J. Christopher Stevens = 52, American diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Libya.

16^th - Princess Ragnhild, Mrs. Lorentzen = 82, Norwegian royal, eldest child of King Olav V.

25^th - Andy Williams =  84, American singer ("Moon River") and entertainer.

27^th - Joseph Parker, Jr. = 95, American Navy physician, last surviving physician from Omaha Beach.

October:

13^th - Gary Collins = 74, American actor (The Wackiest Ship in the Army) and host (Miss America.)\

15^th - Norodom Sihanouk = 89, Cambodian royal, King (1941–1955, 1993–2004.)

20^th - John McConnell = 97, American peace activist, designed the Earth Day flag

21^st - Antoni Dobrowolski = 108, Polish Holocaust survivor, oldest known Auschwitz survivor.

21^st - William Walker =  99, British fighter pilot (Battle of Britain), stroke.

22^nd - Russell Means = 72, American Native actor (Pocahontas, The Last of the Mohicans.)

23^rd - Wilhelm Brasse =94, Polish photographer, prisoner in Auschwitz.

29^th  - Cordelia Edvardson = 83, Swedish journalist and Holocaust survivor.

November:

5^th - Charles V. Bush = 72, American, first African American to graduate from the US Air Force Academy.

8^th- Herbert Carter = 93, American pilot (Tuskegee Airmen.)

8^th - Roger Hammond = 76, British actor (The King's Speech, Around the World in 80 Days.)

11^th - Harry Wayland Randall = 96, American World War II veteran and war photographer.

14^th - Martin Fay = 76, Irish musician (The Chieftains.)

21^st - Vladka Meed = 90, Polish Jewish resistance member (Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.)

21^st - Deborah Raffin =  59, American actress (Once Is Not Enough, 7th Heaven.)

21^st - Eugene Smith = 94, American pilot (Tuskegee Airmen.)

23^rd - Larry Hagman = 81, American actor (Dallas, I Dream of Jeannie.)

29^th - Susan Luckey = 74, American actress (The Music Man, Carousel.)

December:

7^th - Ralph Parr =  88, American fighter pilot, Korean War flying ace.

7^th - William F. House =  89, American developer of the cochlear implant, cancer.

9^th - Norman Joseph Woodland = 91, American co-creator of the bar code.

10^th - Ed Grady = 89, American actor.

13^th - Natalya Kustinskaya = 74, Russian actress ( Ivan Vasilievich Changes Profession.)

17^th - Daniel Inouye = 88, American, Senator from Hawaii (since 1963), Medal of Honor recipient.

24 - Jack Klugman = 90, American actor (Quincy, M.E., The Odd Couple.)

27 - Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr. = 78, American general, Commander-in-Chief of United States Central Command (1988–1991.)