page_title: Deaths in 2012
section_title: June
hierarchical_section_title: Deaths in 2012 / June
caption_attribution_description: English: Nils "Mora-Nisse" Karlsson at the 1952 Winter Olympics. Svenska: Nils "Mora-Nisse" Karlsson vid OS i Oslo 1952.
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: 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.
caption: Nils Karlsson 1917-2012
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