In the year 2012
959 Notable deaths
Akhlaq Mohammed Khan
Indian academic and writer.
Born June 16th, 1936 in Bareilly.
Died February 13th, 2012 at 75 years old in Aligarh. [ref]
Beate Sirota Gordon
Austrian-born performing arts producer and women's rights activist.
Born October 25th, 1923 in Vienna.
Died December 30th, 2012 at 89 years old in New York City (pancreatic cancer).
Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar
Mathematician.
Born July 22nd, 1930 in Ujjain.
Died November 2nd, 2012 at 82 years old in West Lafayette. [ref]
John Finnegan
American actor (1926-2012).
Born August 18th, 1926 in New York City.
Died July 29th, 2012 at 85 years old in Palm Desert (pneumonia). [ref]
Maurice André
French trumpeter born in occitania (1933-2012).
Born May 21st, 1933 in Alès. [ref]
Died February 25th, 2012 at 78 years old in Bayonne. [ref]
Francisco Xavier do Amaral
Timorese (1937-2012).
Born December 3rd, 1937 in Turiscai.
Died March 6th, 2012 at 74 years old in Dili. [ref]
Sailen Manna
Indian footballer (1924-2012).
Born September 1st, 1924 in Howrah.
Died February 27th, 2012 at 87 years old in Kolkata. [ref]
Gustav Leonhardt
Dutch keyboard player, conductor, musicologist, teacher and editor.
Born May 30th, 1928 in 's-Graveland. [ref]
Died January 16th, 2012 at 83 years old in Amsterdam (cancer). [ref]
Stanford R. Ovshinsky
Prolific american inventor and scientist (1922–2012).
Born November 24th, 1922 in Akron.
Died October 17th, 2012 at 89 years old in Bloomfield Hills (prostate cancer). [ref]
Samia Yusuf Omar
Somali athlete (1991-2012).
Born March 25th, 1991 in Mogadishu.
Died April 2nd, 2012 at 21 years old in Mediterranean Sea (drowning). [ref]
Deaths 411 to 420 of 959
No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for. Martin Luther King Jr.