page_title: Deaths in 2012
section_title: December
hierarchical_section_title: Deaths in 2012 / December
caption_attribution_description: Daniel Inouye, senator from Hawaii
context_page_description: 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.
context_section_description: 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.
caption: Daniel Inouye 1924-2012
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