Question: What actor who played Emperor Palpatine passed awau on January 26th of 2012?
Answer(s):
answer: Ian Abercrombie

SPARQL query:
PREFIX ns: <http://rdf.freebase.com/ns/>
SELECT DISTINCT ?x
WHERE {
FILTER (?x != ns:m.03_5s0)
FILTER (!isLiteral(?x) OR lang(?x) = '' OR langMatches(lang(?x), 'en'))
ns:m.03_5s0 ns:film.film_character.portrayed_in_films ?y .
?y ns:film.performance.actor ?x .
?x ns:people.deceased_person.date_of_death "2012-01-26"^^xsd:dateTime . 
}