Notable Ghanaian deaths 1972, April 27 - Kwame Nkrumah, 63, first President of Ghana, natural causes in Romania, (born 1909) 2009, January 7 - Aliu Mahama, Ghana's first Muslim vice president died. 2012, July 24 - John Atta Mills,  then sitting president, died, and was in less than 12 hours time, succeeded by John Dramani Mahama, then Vice-president.  2014, January 18- Komla Dumor of BBC news Focus of Africa host died of cardiac arrest. 2017, November 7 - Francis Allotey,  Ghanaian mathematician physicist known for Allotey Formalism. 2018, June 20 - Paa Kwesi Bekoe Ammisah -Arthur the fifth vice president of the 4th Republic died 2018, August 18- Kofi Annan, seventh secretary -general of the United Nations died in Switzerland. 
Notable Ghanaian deaths 1972, April 27 - Kwame Nkrumah, 63, first President of Ghana, natural causes in Romania, (born 1909) 2012, July 24 - John Atta Mills, 68, then sitting president, died, and was in less than 12 hours time, succeeded by John Dramani Mahama, then Vice-president. 2012, November 16 - Aliu Mahama, 66, Ghana's first Muslim Vice President died. 2014, January 18- Komla Dumor , 41, of BBC News Focus of Africa host died of cardiac arrest. 2017, November 7 - Francis Allotey, 85, Ghanaian mathematician physicist known for Allotey Formalism. 2018, June 20 - Paa Kwesi Bekoe Ammisah -Arthur , 67, the fifth Vice President of the 4th Republic died 2018, August 18 - Kofi Annan, 80, seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations died in Switzerland. 2020, November 12 - Jerry Rawlings, 73, first President of the 4th Republic died
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2009, January 7 - Aliu Mahama, Ghana's first Muslim vice president died.
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2012, November 16 - Aliu Mahama, 66, Ghana's first Muslim Vice President died.
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of BBC news
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the fifth vice president
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seventh secretary -general
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2020, November 12 - Jerry Rawlings, 73, first President of the 4th Republic died