The following is a list of notable deaths in 2012.

January 

 January 1 - Carlos Soria, 62, Argentine politician, shot.
 January 1 - Bob Anderson, 89, English fencer, and movie sword fight choreographer.
 January 1 - Kiro Gligorov, 94, former President of the Republic of Macedonia.
 January 2 - William P. Carey, 81, American investment manager and philanthropist.
 January 3 - Josef Skvorecky, 87, Czech writer and publisher, cancer.
 January 5 - Frederica Sagor Maas, 111, American screenwriter, playwright and writer.
 January 6 - Bob Holness, 83, South African-born British quiz show host.
 January 8 - Alexis Weissenberg, 82, Bulgarian pianist.
 January 9 - Malam Bacai Sanha, 64, President of Guinea-Bissau.
 January 9 - Mae Laborde, 102, American actress, natural causes.
 January 12 - Bill Janklow, 72, American politician and former Governor of South Dakota, cancer.
 January 12 - Reginald Hill, 75, British crime fiction writer.
 January 13 - Rauf Denktaş, 87, 1st President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, multiple organ failure.
 January 14 - Txillardegi, 82, Basque linguist, writer and politician.
 January 15 - Manuel Fraga Iribarne, 89, Spanish politician and former Prime Minister of Galicia, heart failure.
 January 15 - Ed Derwinski, 85, American politician.
 January 16 - Gustav Leonhardt, 83, Dutch musician, conductor and teacher.
 January 17 - Johnny Otis, 90, American songwriter.
 January 19 - Sarah Burke, 29, Canadian freestyle skier, complications from skiing accident.
 January 20 - Jiri Raska, 70, Czech ski jumper, heart disease.
 January 20 - Etta James, 73, American singer, leukemia.
 January 22 - Joe Paterno, 85, American college football coach, lung cancer.
 January 24 - Theodoros Angelopoulos, 76, Greek movie director and screenwriter, hit by a motorcycle.
 January 24 - James Farentino, 73, American actor.
 January 25 - Veronica Carstens, 88, former First Lady of Germany.
 January 26 - M. O. H. Farook, 74, Indian politician, diplomat and Governor of Kerala.
 January 29 - Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, 93, 9th President of Italy.
 January 29 - Camilla Williams, 92, American opera singer, complications from cancer.
 January 31 - Anthony Bevilacqua, 88, former Roman Catholic Archbishop of Philadelphia.
 January 31 - Mike Kelley, 57, American artist and musician, suicide, (body found on this date).
 January 31 - Dorothea Tanning, 101, American painter.

February 

 February 1 - Wislawa Szymborska, 88, Polish poet, awarded 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature.
 February 1 - Angelo Dundee, 90, American boxing trainer.
 February 1 - Don Cornelius, 75, American gameshow host (Soul Train), suicide by gunshot.
 February 3 - Ben Gazzara, 81, American actor, pancreatic cancer.
 February 3 - Samuel Youd, 89, British science fiction writer.
 February 4 - Mike deGruy, 60, American documentary movie maker, helicopter crash.
 February 4 - Andrew Wight, 52, Australian screenwriter and producer, helicopter crash.
 February 4 - Florence Green, 110, British supercentenarian and last-surviving World War I service veteran, natural causes.
 February 6 - Antoni Tapies, 88, Spanish painter and sculptor.
 February 6 - Janice E. Voss, 55, American engineer and astronaut, breast cancer.
 February 11 - Whitney Houston, 48, American singer and actress, drowning.
 February 12 - David Kelly, 82, Irish actor.
 February 16 - Baddeley Devesi, 70, first Governor-General of the Solomon Islands.
 February 16 - Anil Ramdas, 54, Surinamese-Dutch journalist and columnist, suicide.
 February 16 - Anthony Shadid, 43, American journalist, asthma attack.
 February 17 - Ulric Neisser, 83, American psychologist.
 February 18 - Roald Aas, 83, Norwegian speed skater and cyclist.
 February 18 - George Brizan, 69, former Prime Minister of Grenada, diabetes.
 February 19 - Ruth Barcan Marcus, 90, American philosopher and logician.
 February 19 - Renato Dulbecco, 97, Italian virologist and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine winner.
 February 20 - Vitaly Vorotnikov, 86, Soviet-Russian politician.
 February 22 - Marie Colvin, 56, American war correspondent, killed in Syria.
 February 22 - Remi Ochlik, 28, French photographer, killed in Syria.
 February 24 - Infanta Maria Adelaide of Portugal, 100, Portuguese royal.
 February 24 - Jan Berenstain, 88, American writer and illustrator, stroke.
 February 25 - Maurice Andre, 78, French classical trumpeter.
 February 25 - Red Holloway, 84, American jazz saxophonist, stroke and kidney failure.
 February 25 - Erland Josephson, 88, Swedish actor and writer.
 February 25 - Louisiana Red, 79, American blues musician.
 February 29 - Davy Jones, 66, British actor and musician (The Monkees), heart attack.

March

 March 1 - Lucio Dalla, 68, Italian singer-songwriter and musician, heart attack.
 March 3 - Ralph McQuarrie, 82, American conceptual designer and illustrator.
 March 5 - Robert B. Sherman, 86, American songwriter.
 March 6 - Francisco Xavier do Amaral, 75, East Timorese politician and President in 1975.
 March 7 - Wlodzimierz Smolarek, 54, Polish footballer.
 March 7 - Felicien Marceau, 98, French novelist, playwright and essayist.
 March 9 - Jose Tomas Sanchez, 91, Filipino cardinal.
 March 10 - Jean Giraud, 73, French comic book artist and writer.
 March 10 - Frank Sherwood Rowland, 84, American chemistry professor and Nobel Prize winner.
 March 10 - Nick Zoricic, 29, Canadian ski cross racer, brain injuries following crash.
 March 13 - Michel Duchaussoy, 73, French actor, cardiac arrest.
 March 14 - Censu Tabone, 98, 4th President of Malta.
 March 16 - Mervyn Davies, 65, Welsh rugby union player, cancer.
 March 16 - Estanislao Basora, 85, Catalan-Spanish footballer.
 March 17 - John Demjanjuk, 91, Ukrainian convicted war criminal.
 March 17 - Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria, 88, Egyptian Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, cancer.
 March 18 - George Tupou V, 63, King of Tonga.
 March 21 - Tonino Guerra, 92, Italian writer, poet and screenwriter.
 March 22 - Mohammed Merah, 23, French Islamic Jihadist and spree killer, shot.
 March 23 - Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, 77, former President of Somalia, complications from pneumonia.
 March 24 - Jocky Wilson, 62, Scottish darts player.
 March 25 - Antonio Tabucchi, 68, Italian writer and expert on Portuguese language and literature.
 March 27 - Adrienne Rich, 82, American poet, writer and feminist, complications from rheumatoid arthritis.
 March 28 - Alexander Arutunian, 91, Armenian composer.
 March 28 - Earl Scruggs, 88, American musician.
 March 31 - Dale R. Corson, 97, American physicist.

April

 April 1 - Giorgio Chinaglia, 65, Italian footballer, heart attack.
 April 1 - Leila Denmark, 114, American pediatrician and supercentenarian, natural causes.
 April 1 - Miguel de la Madrid, 77, 52nd President of Mexico, complications from pulmonary emphysema.
 April 3 - Xenia Stad-de Jong, 90, Dutch athlete.
 April 5 - Jim Marshall, 88, British businessman and founder of Marshall Amplification.
 April 5 - Barney McKenna, 72, Irish musician (The Dubliners).
 April 5 - Bingu wa Mutharika, 78, President of Malawi, heart attack.
 April 5 - Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, 76, German automobile designer and businessman.
 April 6 - Fang Lizhi, 76, Chinese astrophysicist and activist.
 April 6 - Thomas Kinkade, 54, American painter, accidental overdose of alcohol and valium.
 April 7 - Mike Wallace, 93, American journalist and television personality.
 April 8 - Jack Tramiel, 83, Polish-born American businessman, heart failure.
 April 11 - Ahmed Ben Bella, 93, 1st post-independence President of Algeria.
 April 14 - Émile Bouchard, 92, Canadian ice hockey player.
 April 14 - Piermario Morosini, 25, Italian footballer, cardiac arrest.
 April 14 - Jonathan Frid, 87, Canadian actor, pneumonia.
 April 15 - Murray Rose, 73, Scottish-born Australian swimmer, leukaemia.
 April 16 - Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller, 98, Danish shipping magnate.
 April 18 - Dick Clark, 82, American radio and television personality, heart attack. 
 April 19 - Valeri Vasiliev, 62, Russian ice hockey player.
 April 19 - Levon Helm, 71, American musician and actor, throat cancer.
 April 21 - Charles Colson, 80, American Watergate scandal figure.
 April 23 - Tommy Marth, 33, American musician (The Killers), suicide.
 April 27 - David Weiss, 65, Swiss artist.
 April 28 - Matilde Camus, 92, Spanish poet and writer.
 April 29 - Shukri Ghanem, 69, former Prime Minister of Libya, drowning.
 April 29 - Joel Goldsmith, 54, American composer.
 April 29 - Amarillo Slim, 83, American professional poker player.
 April 30 - Tomas Borge, 81, Nicaraguan politician, complications from surgery.
 April 30 - Alexander Dale Oen, 26, Norwegian swimmer, heart failure.

May 

 May 2 - Endang Rahayu Sedyaningsih, 57, Indonesian physician and politician, lung cancer.
 May 2 - Junior Seau, 43, American football player, suicide by gunshot.
 May 3 - Jorge Illueca, 93, former President of Panama.
 May 3 - Lloyd Brevett, 80, Jamaican musician, complications from a stroke.
 May 4 - Adam Yauch, 47, American musician (Beastie Boys) and music video director, cancer.
 May 4 - Rashidi Yekini, 48, Nigerian footballer.
 May 5 - Carl Johan of Wisborg, 95, Swedish royal.
 May 6 - George Lindsey, 83, American actor, comedian, and writer, following a brief-illness.
 May 8 - Maurice Sendak, 83, American children's writer and illustrator, complications from a stroke.
 May 8 - Roman Totenberg, 101, Polish-American violinist.
 May 8 - Nicholas Katzenbach, 90, 65th United States Attorney General.
 May 9 - Vidal Sassoon, 84, British hairdresser, leukaemia.
 May 9 - Geoffrey Henry, 71, former Prime Minister of the Cook Islands.
 May 10 - Gunnar Sonsteby, 94, Norwegian resistance activist during World War II.
 May 10 - Carroll Shelby, 89, American automotive designer, racing driver and entrepreneur.
 May 12 - Ningali Cullen, Australian activist
 May 13 - Donald "Duck" Dunn, 70, American musician.
 May 13 - Nguyen Van Thien, 106, Vietnamese, oldest Roman Catholic bishop.
 May 15 - Zakaria Mohieddin, 93, former Prime Minister of Egypt.
 May 15 - Carlos Fuentes, 83, Panama-born Mexican writer and novelist, internal hemorrhage.
 May 17 - Donna Summer, 63, American disco singer, lung cancer.
 May 17 - Gideon Ezra, 74, Israeli politician, lung cancer.
 May 18 - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, 86, German baritone and conductor.
 May 19 - Ian Burgess, 81, British racing driver.
 May 20 - Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, 60, Libyan intelligence officer (only person convicted of the Lockerbie bombing), prostate cancer.
 May 20 - Robin Gibb, 62, British musician (Bee Gees), kidney failure.
 May 20 - Eugene Polley, 96, American engineer and inventor (Remote control).
 May 23 - Paul Fussell, 88, American writer, historian, writer and professor, natural causes.
 May 25 - Edoardo Mangiarotti, 93, Italian Olympic fencer.
 May 27 - Friedrich Hirzebruch, 84, German mathematician.
 May 27 - Johnny Tapia, 45, American boxer (body found on this date).
 May 29 - Kaneto Shindo, 100, Japanese movie director, natural causes.
 May 29 - Doc Watson, 89, American folk and bluegrass musician, surgical complications.
 May 30 - Andrew Huxley, 94, British physiologist, biophysicist and Nobel Prize winner.
 May 30 - Jack Twyman, 78, American basketball player, blood cancer.

June 

 June 2 - Kathryn Joosten, 72, American television actress, lung cancer.
 June 2 - Richard Dawson, 79, English actor and former host of Family Feud, complications related to esophageal cancer.
 June 3 - Roy Salvadori, 90, English motor racing driver.
 June 4 - Eduard Khil, 77, Russian baritone singer.
 June 5 - Barry Unsworth, 81, British writer.
 June 5 - Ray Bradbury, 91, American writer and screenwriter, after long illness.
 June 6 - Prince Tomohito of Mikasa, 66, Japanese royal, cancer.
 June 6 - Vladimir Krutov, 52, Soviet-Russian ice hockey player, internal bleeding and liver failure.
 June 6 - Manuel Preciado Rebolledo, 54, Spanish footballer and coach, heart attack.
 June 7 - Abid Hamid Mahmud, 55, Iraqi military officer, execution by hanging.
 June 7 - Bob Welch, 65, American musician, suicide by gunshot.
 June 7 - J. Michael Riva, 63, American production designer, stroke.
 June 10 - George Saitoti, 66, Kenyan politician and former Vice president of Kenya, helicopter crash.
 June 11 - Ann Rutherford, 94, Canadian-born American actress, heart problems.
 June 11 - Teofilo Stevenson, 60, Cuban boxer, heart attack.
 June 12 - Henry Hill, 69, American convict.
 June 12 - Elinor Ostrom, 78, American economist and Nobel laureate, cancer.
 June 13 - Roger Garaudy, 98, French philosopher and Holocaust denier.
 June 13 - William Standish Knowles, 95, American chemist and Nobel laureate.
 June 14 - Carlos Reichenbach, 67, Brazilian movie director, heart failure.
 June 16 - Nils Karlsson, 94, Swedish cross-country skier.
 June 16 - Susan Tyrrell, 67, American actress, blood disease.
 June 16 - Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz al-Saud, 78, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia.
 June 17 - Rodney King, 47, American victim of police brutality, unexplained circumstances.
 June 19 - Norbert Tiemann, 87, American politician and 32nd Governor of Nebraska.
 June 21 - Ramaz Shengelia, 55, Soviet-Georgian footballer, brain haemorrhage.
 June 21 - Anna Schwartz, 96, American economist and writer.
 June 23 - Brigitte Engerer, 59, French pianist, cancer.
 June 23 - Alan McDonald, 48, Northern Irish footballer and manager.
 June 24 - Lonesome George, c. 100, Ecuadorean Pinta Island tortoise and last-known survivor of his sub-species.
 June 24 - Heino Kruus, 85, Estonian basketball player.
 June 24 - Miki Roque, 23, Spanish footballer, pelvic cancer.
 June 26 - Nora Ephron, 71, American writer, screenwriter and director, leukaemia.
 June 30 - Yitzhak Shamir, 96, two-time former Prime Minister of Israel, Alzheimer's disease.

July

 July 1 - Alan G. Poindexter, 50, American NASA astronaut, jet ski accident.
 July 1 - Evelyn Lear, 86, American operatic soprano.
 July 3 - Sergio Pininfarina, 85, Italian senator for life, engineer and automobile designer.
 July 3 - Andy Griffith, 86, American stage, movie, and television actor, heart attack.
 July 4 - Eric Sykes, 89, British actor and writer.
 July 5 - Gerrit Komrij, 68, Dutch writer, cancer.
 July 7 - Leon Schlumpf, 87, Swiss politician, former Member of the Federal Council and former President of the Confederation.
 July 7 - Mouss Diouf, 47, Senegalese-born French actor and humorist.
 July 8 - Ernest Borgnine, 95, American actor, renal failure.
 July 9 - Terepai Maoate, 78, 6th Prime Minister of the Cook Islands.
 July 9 - Dom Eugênio de Araújo Sales, 91, Brazilian Roman Catholic cardinal, heart failure.
 July 9 - Isuzu Yamada, 95, Japanese movie actress, multiple organ failure.
 July 9 - Eva Rausing, 48, American businesswoman and philanthropist (body found on this date), heart attack linked to drug abuse.
 July 10 - Lol Coxhill, 79, English jazz saxophonist.
 July 12 - Dara Singh, 83, Indian wrestler and actor.
 July 13 - Jerzy Kulej, 71, Polish boxer and politician.
 July 13 - Richard D. Zanuck, 77, American movie producer, heart attack.
 July 13 - Sage Stallone, 36, American actor, movie director, producer and screenwriter, atherosclerosis (body found on this date).
 July 14 - Sixten Jernberg, 83, Swedish cross-country skier.
 July 15 - Celeste Holm, 95, American actress.
 July 16 - Jon Lord, 71, British musician (Deep Purple), pancreatic cancer and pulmonary embolism.
 July 16 - Stephen Covey, 79, American writer, complications from bicycle accident.
 July 18 - Rajesh Khanna, 69, Indian actor, producer and politician.
 July 18 - Jean Francois-Poncet, 83, French diplomat, politician and former Foreign Minister of France.
 July 19 - Omar Suleiman, 76, Egyptian army general, politician, diplomat and intelligence officer.
 July 19 - Hans Nowak, 74, German footballer.
 July 22 - Bohdan Stupka, 70, Ukrainian actor and former Minister of Culture.
 July 22 - George Armitage Miller, 92, American psychologist.
 July 22 - Oswaldo Paya, 60, Cuban activist, traffic collision.
 July 23 - Sally Ride, 61, American astronaut and astrophysicist, pancreatic cancer.
 July 24 - Larry Hoppen, 61, American singer and guitarist, hanging.
 July 24 - John Atta Mills, 68, President of Ghana.
 July 24 - Sherman Hemsley, 74, American actor and comedian.
 July 24 - Chad Everett, 76, American actor, lung cancer.
 July 26 - Franz West, 65, Austrian artist.
 July 26 - Lupe Ontiveros, 69, American actress.
 July 27 - Norman Alden, 87, American actor, natural causes.
 July 27 - R. G. Armstrong, 95, American actor, natural causes.
 July 27 - Tony Martin, 98, American singer and actor, natural causes.
 July 27 - Jack Taylor, 82, English football referee.
 July 27 - Russ Mayberry, 86, Scottish-American television director, illness.
 July 27 - Geoffrey Hughes, 68, British actor, prostate cancer.
 July 30 - Chris Marker, 91, French photographer, writer and documentary moviemaker.
 July 30 - Maeve Binchy, 72, Irish novelist, after short illness.
 July 31 - Alfredo Ramos de Oliveira, 87, Brazilian footballer and coach.
 July 31 - Gore Vidal, 86, American writer, complications from pneumonia.

August 

 August 1 - Aldo Maldera, 58, Italian footballer.
 August 2 - Mihaela Ursuleasa, 33, Romanian pianist, cerebral hemorrhage (body found on this date).
 August 5 - Chavela Vargas, 93, Costa Rican-born Mexican singer-songwriter and actress, respiratory arrest.
 August 6 - Bernard Lovell, 98, British physicist and radio astronomer.
 August 6 - Ruggiero Ricci, 94, American violinist, heart failure.
 August 7 - Marvin Hamlisch, 68, American composer, after short illness.
 August 9 - Mel Stuart, 83, American director and producer, cancer.
 August 9 - Al Freeman, Jr., 78, American actor.
 August 10 - Carlo Rambaldi, 86, Italian special effects artist. 
 August 13 - Johnny Pesky, 92, American baseball player, manager and coach.
 August 13 - Helen Gurley Brown, 90, American writer, publisher and businesswoman.
 August 14 - Phyllis Thaxter, 92, American actress, Alzheimer's disease.
 August 14 - Svetozar Gligoric, 89, Serbian chess grandmaster, stroke.
 August 14 - Sergey Kapitsa, 84, Russian physicist.
 August 15 - Harry Harrison, 87, American science fiction writer.
 August 15 - Biff Elliot, 89, American movie and television actor.
 August 16 - Abune Paulos, 76, Ethiopian Orthodox Church Patriarch.
 August 16 - William Windom, 88, American movie, television, voice, and stage actor, heart failure. 
 August 18 - Jesse Robredo, 54, Filipino politician, plane crash.
 August 18 - Scott McKenzie, 73, American singer and songwriter.
 August 19 - Tony Scott, 68, British movie director and producer (brother of Ridley Scott), suicide by jumping. 
 August 20 - Phyllis Diller, 95, American actress and comedian, natural causes.
 August 20 - Dom Mintoff, 96, former Prime Minister of Malta, natural causes.
 August 20 - Meles Zenawi, 57, Prime Minister of Ethiopia and former President, illness.
 August 20 - Virginia Dwyer, 92, American movie and television actress, natural causes.
 August 21 - William Thurston, 65, American mathematician.
 August 22 - Paul Shan Kuo-hsi, 88, Taiwanese Roman Catholic cardinal, lung cancer.
 August 23 - Steve Van Buren, 91, Honduran-born American football player, pneumonia.
 August 23 - Jerry Nelson, 78, American puppeteer and voice actor for The Muppets and Sesame Street, cancer.
 August 24 - Felix Mielli Venerando, 74, Brazilian footballer, cardiac arrest.
 August 24 - Pauli Ellefsen, 76, former Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands.
 August 24 - Steven Franken, 80, American television, voice and movie actor, cancer.
 August 25 - Neil Armstrong, 82, American astronaut and first person to walk on the Moon, complications from heart surgery.
 August 27 - Russell Scott, 91, American entertainer, pneumonia.
 August 27 - Malcolm Browne, 81, American journalist and photographer, complications from Parkinson's disease.
 August 28 - Said Afandi al-Chirkawi, 74, Russian Muslim Sufi leader, bombing.
 August 28 - Alfred Schmidt, 81, German philosopher.
 August 30 - Chris Lighty, 44, American music executive and talent agent, suicide.
 August 31 - Sergey Leonidovich Sokolov, 101, Soviet-Russian military commander.
 August 31 - Carlo Maria Martini, 85, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal and Archbishop of Milan.
 August 31 - Max Bygraves, 89, British talk show host, actor, singer, and comedian who hosted Family Fortunes, Alzheimer's disease.

September 

 September 1 - Hal David, 91, American songwriter, complications from a stroke.
 September 1 - Smarck Michel, 75, 6th Prime Minister of Haiti, brain tumor.
 September 3 - Sun Myung Moon, 92, Korean religious leader, pneumonia.
 September 3 - Mahmoud El-Gohary, 74, Egyptian footballer and coach, complications from a stroke.
 September 3 - Michael Clarke Duncan, 54, American actor, complications from a heart attack.
 September 6 - Art Modell, 87, American businessman and former NFL team owner, heart failure.
 September 6 - Terry Nutkins, 66, British naturalist and television presenter, leukemia.
 September 7 - Leszek Drogosz, 79, Polish Olympic boxer and actor, cancer.
 September 8 - Bill Moggridge, 69, British designer, writer and educator, cancer.
 September 8 - Mārtiņš Roze, 47, Latvian politician and Minister of Agriculture, blood clot.
 September 8 - Thomas Szasz, 92, Hungarian psychiatrist.
 September 10 - Lance LeGault, 77, American movie, television, and voice actor.
 September 10 - Vondell Darr, 93, American silent movie and child actress.
 September 11 - Sergio Livingstone, 92, Chilean footballer, natural causes.
 September 11 - Deaths in the 2012 U.S. diplomatic missions attacks:
Christopher Stevens, 52, American diplomat and 10th Ambassador of Libya, murdered.
Sean Smith, 34, American diplomat, murdered. 
Glen Doherty, 42, American security officer, murdered.  
Tyrone Woods, American former U.S. Navy Seal, murdered.    
 September 12 - Derek Jameson, 82, British journalist and broadcaster, heart attack.
 September 12 - Sid Watkins, 84, British neurosurgeon.
 September 13 - Peter Lougheed, 84, Canadian politician, lawyer, and football player, natural causes.
 September 16 - Princess Ragnhild of Norway, 82, Norwegian royalty, after long illness.
 September 16 - John Ingle, 84, American movie, television, and voice actor. 
 September 17 - Russell E. Train, 92, American politician.
 September 18 - Santiago Carrillo, 97, Spanish Communist politician.
 September 20 - Fortunato Baldelli, 77, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal.
 September 21 - Henry Bauchau, 99, Belgian psychoanalyst and writer.
 September 21 - Michael Rye, 94, American movie, television, stage, voice, and video game actor, natural causes.
 September 23 - Corrie Sanders, 46, South African boxer, shot.
 September 23 - Pavel Grachev, 64, Russian general and politician.
 September 25 - Andy Williams, 84, American singer and entertainer, bladder cancer.
 September 26 - Johnny Lewis, 28, American movie and television actor, injuries from a fall.
 September 27 - Herbert Lom, 95, Czech-born British movie and television actor.
 September 28 - Michael O'Hare, 60, American movie, stage, and television actor, heart attack.
 September 29 - Carlos Büsser, 84, Argentine military personal who was commander of Operation Rosario, heart attack.
 September 29 - Hebe Camargo, 83, Brazilian actress, singer and television presenter, cardiac arrest.
 September 29 - Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, 86, American publisher.
 September 30 - Barbara Ann Scott, 84, Canadian figure skater.
 September 30 - Barry Commoner, 95, American biologist, professor and politician, natural causes.

October 

 October 1 - Eric Hobsbawm, 95, British historian and writer, after long illness.
 October 1 - Dirk Bach, 51, German actor, comedian and television presenter.
 October 1 - Moshe Sanbar, 86, Hungarian-born Israeli economist.
 October 5 - Claude Pinoteau, 87, French movie director and screenwriter.
 October 6 - Chadli Bendjedid, 83, 3rd President of Algeria.
 October 7 - Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano, 37, Mexican druglord, shot.
 October 8 - Ken Sansom, 85, American movie, television, stage, radio, and voice actor, stroke.
 October 9 - Paddy Roy Bates, 91, British pirate radio broadcaster and founder of the Sealand micronation, Alzheimer's disease.
 October 10 - Alex Karras, 77, American football player and actor, kidney failure.
 October 11 - Helmut Haller, 73, German footballer, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease.
 October 11 - Edgar Negret, 92, Colombian sculptor, cancer and heart failure.
 October 13 - Gary Collins, 74, American movie, television, stage, radio, voice actor, and television host, natural causes.
 October 14 - Arlen Specter, 82, American politician and former United States Senator for Pennsylvania.
 October 15 - Norodom Sihanouk, 89, former King of Cambodia, heart attack.
 October 15 - Claude Cheysson, 92, French politician and former foreign minister.
 October 17 - Emile Allais, 100, French alpine skier.
 October 17 - Sylvia Kristel, 60, Dutch actress, model and singer, complications from cancer.
 October 17 - Stanford R. Ovshinsky, 89, American inventor and scientist, prostate cancer.
 October 18 - Slater Martin, 86, American basketball player.
 October 19 - Fiorenzo Magni, 91, Italian road racing cyclist, aneurysm.
 October 20 - E. Donnall Thomas, 92, American physician and Nobel Prize winner.
 October 20 - Paul Kurtz, 86, American Secular Humanist philosopher.
 October 21 - George McGovern, 90, American politician, former United States Senator for South Dakota and 1972 Presidential candidate, natural causes.
 October 21 - Yash Chopra, 80, Indian movie director, screenwriter and producer.
 October 22 - Russell Means, 72, Native American activist, writer, musician, politician and actor, esophageal cancer.
 October 22 - Shubha Phutela, 21, Indian movie actress and model, multiple organ failure.
 October 23 - Sunil Gangopadhyay, 78, Indian poet and novelist, heart attack.
 October 23 - Wilhelm Brasse, 94, Polish photographer and Holocaust survivor.
 October 24 - Anita Bjork, 89, Swedish actress.
 October 24 - Margaret Osborne duPont, 94, American tennis player.
 October 25 - John Connelly, 74, English footballer.
 October 25 - Jacques Barzun, 104, French-born American historian and philosopher.
 October 26 - John M. Johansen, 96, American architect, heart failure.
 October 27 - Hans Werner Henze, 86, German composer.
 October 27 - Natina Reed, 32, American singer-songwriter, rapper and actress, traffic collision.
 October 28 - Terry Callier, 67, American jazz, soul and folk guitarist and singer-songwriter, cancer.
 October 29 - J. Bernlef, 75, Dutch novelist and poet.
 October 29 - Albano Harguindeguy, 85, Argentine general, natural causes.
 October 31 - John Fitch, 95, American racing driver, engineer and inventor.
 October 31 - John H. Reed, 91, American politician and 67th Governor of Maine.

November 

 November 1 - Mitch Lucker, 28, American singer (Suicide Silence), traffic collision.
 November 1 - Gae Aulenti, 84, Italian architect and designer.
 November 1 - Agustin Garcia Calvo, 86, Spanish academic and philosopher, respiratory failure.
 November 2 - Milt Campbell, 78, American athlete, prostate cancer and diabetes.
 November 4 - Ted Curson, 77, American jazz trumpeter.
 November 5 - Elliott Carter, 103, American composer, natural causes.
 November 6 - Maxim of Bulgaria, 98, Patriarch of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church.
 November 6 - Clive Dunn, 92, British actor, comedian and writer, complications from surgery.
 November 7 - Carmen Basilio, 85, American boxer, pneumonia.
 November 8 - Lucille Bliss, 96, American actress, natural causes.
 November 9 - Sergey Nikolsky, 107, Russian mathematician.
 November 9 - Joseph D. Early, 79, American politician and member of the House of Representatives from Massachusetts, illness.
 November 9 - Bill Tarmey, 71, British actor, heart attack.
 November 9 - Major Harris, 65, American R&B singer ("Love Won't Let Me Wait"), member of The Delfonics, heart and lung failure.
 November 11 - Rex Hunt, 86, British former Governor of the Falkland Islands.
 November 12 - Sergio Oliva, 71, Cuban-born American bodybuilder.
 November 14 - Ahmed Jabari, 52, Palestinian military commander (Hamas), airstrike.
 November 16 - Aliu Mahama, 66, former Vice president of Ghana.
 November 17 - Bal Thackeray, 86, Indian politician, cardio-respiratory arrest.
 November 19 - Pete La Roca, 74, American jazz drummer.
 November 20 - David O'Brien Martin, 68, American politician, cancer.
 November 21 - Ajmal Kasab, 25, Pakistani gunman in the 26 November 2008 Mumbai attacks, executed by hanging.
 November 21 - Deborah Raffin, 59, American actress, leukemia. 
 November 22 - Bryce Courtenay, 79, South African-Australian writer, stomach cancer.
 November 23 - Larry Hagman, 81, American actor, director and producer, leukemia.
 November 24 - Héctor Camacho, 50, Puerto Rican boxer, shot.
 November 25 - Dave Sexton, 82, English footballer and coach.
 November 25 - Lars Hormander, 81, Swedish mathematician.
 November 26 - Joseph E. Murray, 93, American doctor who performed the first successful kidney transplant, stroke.
 November 28 - Zig Ziglar, 86, American writer, speaker, and salesman, pneumonia.
 November 30 - I. K. Gujral, 92, former Prime Minister of India, multiple organ failure.

December 

 December 1 - Mitchell Cole, 27, English footballer, heart problem.
 December 1 - Phil Taylor, 95, English footballer and coach.
 December 1 - Jovan Belcher, 25, American football player and murderer, suicide by gunshot.
 December 2 - Ehsan Naraghi, 86, Iranian sociologist and writer, long illness. 
 December 4 - Miguel Calero, 41, Colombian footballer.
 December 4 - Besse Cooper, 116, American supercentenarian and world's oldest person,  respiratory failure.
 December 5 - Dave Brubeck, 91, American jazz pianist, composer and bandleader, heart failure.
 December 5 - Elisabeth Murdoch, 103, Australian philanthropist and mother of Rupert Murdoch, natural causes.
 December 5 - Oscar Niemeyer, 104, Brazilian architect, cardiac arrest.
 December 6 - Miguel Abia Biteo, 51, former Prime Minister of Equatorial Guinea, heart attack.
 December 9 - Patrick Moore, 89, English astronomer, writer and broadcaster, infection.
 December 9 - Jenni Rivera, 43, American-Mexican singer and actress, plane crash.
 December 9 -  Charles Rosen, 85, American pianist and writer on music.
 December 10 - Iajuddin Ahmed, 81, former President of Bangladesh, heart and kidney disease.
 December 10 - Lisa Della Casa, 93, Swiss operatic soprano.
 December 11 - Galina Vishnevskaya, 86, Russian operatic soprano.
 December 11 - Ravi Shankar, 92, Indian sitarist, after short illness.
 December 13 - Maurice Herzog, 93, French mountaineer.
 December 14 - Kenneth Kendall, 88, British television broadcaster, stroke.
 December 17 - Dina Manfredini, 115, Italian-American supercentenarian and world's oldest person.
 December 17 - Daniel Inouye, 88, United States Senator for Hawaii, respiratory complications .
 December 19 - Peter Struck, 69, German politician, heart attack.
 December 19 - Robert Bork, 85, American legal scholar who was nominated to become part of the United States Supreme Court in 1987, heart disease.
 December 20 - Jimmy McCracklin, 91, American blues musician, diabetes and hypertension.
 December 21 - Lee Dorman, 70, American bass guitarist, natural causes.
 December 22 - Cliff Osmond, 75, American actor, writer, producer, director, and screenwriter, pancreatic cancer.
 December 24 - Richard Rodney Bennett, 76, British composer and musician.
 December 24 - Charles Durning, 89, American actor, natural causes.
 December 24 - Jack Klugman, 90, American stage, television and movie actor, prostate cancer.
 December 25 - Frank Calabrese, Sr., 75, American Chicago mafia hitman (Family Secrets), suspected heart disease.
 December 25 - Othmar Schneider, 84, Austrian alpine skier.
 December 26 - Gerry Anderson, 83, British writer, director and producer.
 December 26 - Fontella Bass, 72, American singer, heart attack.
 December 27 - Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr., 78, American general, complications from pneumonia.
 December 27 - Harry Carey, Jr., 91, American actor, natural causes.
 December 28 - Václav Drobný, 32, Czech footballer, bobsleighing accident.
 December 28 - Emmanuel Scheffer, 88, German-born Israeli football coach.
 December 29 - Tony Greig, 66, South African-born English cricketer, heart attack.
 December 29 - Mike Auldridge, 73, American bluegrass musician, cancer.
 December 30 - Rita Levi-Montalcini, 103, Italian neurologist, neurobiologist and Nobel Prize winner, natural causes.
 December 30 - Carl Woese, 84, American scientist and biologist, pancreatic cancer.

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