page_title: Deaths in 2012
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: Deaths in 2012 / January
caption_attribution_description: Autor: Jiří Hůlka
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: 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.
caption: Josef Skvorecky 1924-2012
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