page_title: Deaths in 2012
section_title: May
hierarchical_section_title: Deaths in 2012 / May
caption_attribution_description: Robin Gibb at the Meet &amp; Greet after the Dubai Jazz Festival on 1st March 2008, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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: 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.
caption: Robin Gibb 1949-2012
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