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In the year 2012
959 Notable deaths
Paul Kurtz
American professor of philosophy (1925-2012).
Born December 21st, 1925 in Newark.
Died October 20th, 2012 at 86 years old in Amherst. [ref]
Bert Weedon
English guitarist.
Born May 10th, 1920 in East Ham. [ref]
Died April 20th, 2012 at 91 years old in Beaconsfield. [ref]
David Rosenhan
American psychologist and university teacher (1929–2012).
Born November 22nd, 1929 in Jersey City.
Died February 6th, 2012 at 82 years old in Palo Alto. [ref]
Genichi Taguchi
Japanese engineer and statistician.
Born January 1st, 1924 in Tōkamachi-shi.
Died June 2nd, 2012 at 88 years old in Japan (heart failure). [ref]
Sam Coppola
American actor.
Born July 31st, 1935 in Jersey City.
Died February 5th, 2012 at 76 years old in Leonia (disease). [ref]
Ghazala Javed
Pashto singer (1988–2012).
Born January 1st, 1988 in Mingora.
Died June 18th, 2012 at 24 years old in Peshawar. [ref]
Mickey Baker
American jazz and rock guitarist (1925–2012).
Born October 15th, 1925 in Louisville.
Died November 27th, 2012 at 87 years old in Montastruc-la-Conseillère.
Martin Fleischmann
British chemist.
Born March 29th, 1927 in Karlovy Vary.
Died August 3rd, 2012 at 85 years old in Tisbury (Parkinson's disease).
Fang Lizhi
Professor of astrophysics; civil rights activist and dissident.
Born February 12th, 1936 in Beijing.
Died April 6th, 2012 at 76 years old in Tucson (disease). [ref]
Margaret Osborne duPont
American tennis player (1918-2012).
Born March 4th, 1918 in Joseph.
Died October 24th, 2012 at 94 years old in El Paso. [ref]
Deaths 331 to 340 of 959
Life is like a very short visit to a toy shop between birth and death. Desmond Morris