2012
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| Gregorian calendar | 2012 MMXII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2765 |
| Armenian calendar | 1461 ԹՎ ՌՆԿԱ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6762 |
| Bahá'í calendar | 168–169 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1933–1934 |
| Bengali calendar | 1419 |
| Berber calendar | 2962 |
| British Regnal year | 60 Eliz. 2 – 61 Eliz. 2 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2556 |
| Burmese calendar | 1374 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7520–7521 |
| Chinese calendar | 辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit) 4708 or 4648 — to — 壬辰年 (Water Dragon) 4709 or 4649 |
| Coptic calendar | 1728–1729 |
| Discordian calendar | 3178 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 2004–2005 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5772–5773 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 2068–2069 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1933–1934 |
| - Kali Yuga | 5112–5113 |
| Holocene calendar | 12012 |
| Igbo calendar | 1012–1013 |
| Iranian calendar | 1390–1391 |
| Islamic calendar | 1433–1434 |
| Japanese calendar | Heisei 24 (平成２４年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1945–1946 |
| Juche calendar | 101 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 13 days |
| Korean calendar | 4345 |
| Minguo calendar | ROC 101 民國101年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 544 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2555 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴金兔年 (female Iron-Rabbit) 2138 or 1757 or 985 — to — 阳水龙年 (male Water-Dragon) 2139 or 1758 or 986 |
| Unix time | 1325376000 – 1356998399 |
2012 (MMXII) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2012th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 12th year of the 3rd millennium, the 12th year of the 21st century, and the 3rd year of the 2010s decade.
2012 was designated as:
| Millennium: | 3rd millennium |
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| 2012 by topic: | |
| Arts | |
| Architecture – Comics – Film – Home video – Literature (Poetry) – Music (Country, Rock, Metal, UK) – Radio – Photo – Television – Video gaming | |
| Politics | |
| Elections – International leaders – Sovereign states Sovereign state leaders – Territorial governors | |
| Science and technology | |
| Archaeology – Aviation – Birding/Ornithology – Palaeontology – Rail transport – Spaceflight | |
| Sports | |
| Badminton – Baseball – Basketball – Volleyball | |
| By place | |
| Afghanistan – Albania – Algeria – Angola – Antarctica – Argentina – Armenia – Australia – Austria – Azerbaijan – Bangladesh – The Bahamas – Barbados – Belgium – Benin – Bhutan – Bosnia and Herzegovina – Brazil – Bulgaria – Burkina Faso – Burundi – Cambodia – Cameroon – Canada – Cape Verde – Central African Republic – Chad – Chile – China – Colombia – Costa Rica – Croatia – Cuba – Cyprus – Czechia – Denmark – Ecuador – Egypt – El Salvador – Estonia – Ethiopia – European Union – Finland – France – Gabon – Georgia – Germany – Ghana – Greece – Guatemala – Hong Kong – Hungary – Iceland – India – Indonesia – Iraq – Iran – Ireland – Israel – Italy – Ivory Coast – Japan – Kazakhstan – Kenya – Kuwait – Laos – Latvia - Lebanon – Libya – Lithuania – Luxembourg – Macau – Madagascar – Malawi – Malaysia – Mali – Mexico – Moldova – Montenegro – Morocco – Mozambique – Myanmar – Nepal – Netherlands – New Zealand – Niger – Nigeria – North Korea – Norway – Oman – Pakistan – Palestine – Peru – Philippines – Poland – Portugal – Romania – Russia – Rwanda – Saudi Arabia – Senegal – Serbia – Singapore – Slovakia – Slovenia – Somalia – South Africa – South Korea – South Sudan – Spain – Sri Lanka – Sudan – Sweden – Switzerland – Syria – Taiwan – Tanzania – Thailand – Tunisia – Turkey – Uganda – Ukraine – United Arab Emirates – United Kingdom – United States – Uruguay – Uzbekistan – Venezuela – Vietnam – Yemen – Zambia – Zimbabwe | |
| Other topics | |
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| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Works and introductions categories | |
| Works – Introductions Works entering the public domain | |
| Gregorian calendar | 2012 MMXII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2765 |
| Armenian calendar | 1461 ԹՎ ՌՆԿԱ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6762 |
| Bahá'í calendar | 168–169 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1933–1934 |
| Bengali calendar | 1419 |
| Berber calendar | 2962 |
| British Regnal year | 60 Eliz. 2 – 61 Eliz. 2 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2556 |
| Burmese calendar | 1374 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7520–7521 |
| Chinese calendar | 辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit) 4708 or 4648 — to — 壬辰年 (Water Dragon) 4709 or 4649 |
| Coptic calendar | 1728–1729 |
| Discordian calendar | 3178 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 2004–2005 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5772–5773 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 2068–2069 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1933–1934 |
| - Kali Yuga | 5112–5113 |
| Holocene calendar | 12012 |
| Igbo calendar | 1012–1013 |
| Iranian calendar | 1390–1391 |
| Islamic calendar | 1433–1434 |
| Japanese calendar | Heisei 24 (平成２４年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1945–1946 |
| Juche calendar | 101 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 13 days |
| Korean calendar | 4345 |
| Minguo calendar | ROC 101 民國101年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 544 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2555 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴金兔年 (female Iron-Rabbit) 2138 or 1757 or 985 — to — 阳水龙年 (male Water-Dragon) 2139 or 1758 or 986 |
| Unix time | 1325376000 – 1356998399 |
Events
January
January 7 – A hot air balloon crashes near Carterton, New Zealand, killing all 11 people on board.
January 10 – A bombing in Khyber Agency, Pakistan, kills at least 30 people and 78 others injured.
January 12 – Violent protests occur in Bucharest, Romania, as two-day-old demonstrations continue against President Traian Băsescu's economic austerity measures. Clashes are reported in numerous Romanian cities between protesters and law enforcement officers.
January 13 – The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia sinks off the coast of Italy due to the captain Francesco Schettino's negligence and irresponsibility. There are 32 confirmed deaths.
January 19 – The Hong Kong-based file-sharing website Megaupload is shut down by the FBI.
January 23 – Iran–European Union relations: the European Union adopts an embargo against Iran in protest of its continued effort to enrich uranium.[3]
February
February 6 – The Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II marks the 60th anniversary of her accession to the thrones of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, and the 60th anniversary of her becoming Head of the Commonwealth.[4][5]
February 19 – Iran suspends oil exports to Britain and France, following sanctions put in place by the European Union and the United States in January.[6]
February 21 – Greek government-debt crisis: Eurozone finance ministers reach an agreement on a second, €130-billion Greek bailout.[7]
March
March 13 – After 246 years since its first publication, the Encyclopædia Britannica discontinues its print edition.[8]
March 22 – The President of Mali, Amadou Toumani Touré, is ousted in a coup d'état after mutinous soldiers attack government offices.[9]
April
April 6 – The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad unilaterally declares the independence of Azawad from Mali.[10]
April 12 – Mutinous soldiers in Guinea-Bissau stage a coup d'état and take control of the capital city, Bissau. They arrest interim President Raimundo Pereira and leading presidential candidate Carlos Gomes Júnior in the midst of a presidential election campaign.[11]
April 13 – Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3, a North Korean Earth observation satellite, explodes shortly after launch. The United States and other countries had called the impending launch a violation of United Nations Security Council demands.[12] The launch was planned to mark the centenary of the birth of Kim Il-sung, the founder of the republic.[12]
April 26 – Former Liberian President Charles Taylor is found guilty on 11 counts of aiding and abetting war crimes and crimes against humanity during the Sierra Leone Civil War.[13]
May
May 2 – A pastel version of The Scream, by the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, sells for US$120 million in a New York City auction, setting a new world record for an auctioned work of art.[14][15]
May 7 – Vladimir Putin is elected President of Russia.
May 12 – August 12 – The 2012 World Expo takes place in Yeosu, South Korea.[16]
May 20 – An annular solar eclipse was visible from Asia and North America, and was the 58th solar eclipse from 73 solar eclipses of Solar Saros 128.
May 22 – Tokyo Skytree, the tallest self-supporting tower in the world at 634 metres high, is opened to the public.[17]
June
June 5–6 – The century's second and last solar transit of Venus occurs. The next pair are predicted to occur in 2117 and 2125.[18]
June 8 – July 1 – Poland and Ukraine jointly host the UEFA Euro 2012 football tournament, which is won by Spain.
June 18 – Shenzhou 9, a Chinese spacecraft carrying three Chinese astronauts, including the first-ever female, docks manually with orbiting module Tiangong-1, making them the third country, after the United States and Russia, to successfully perform the mission.[19]
June 24 – Lonesome George, the last known individual of the Pinta Island tortoise subspecies, dies in Galápagos National Park, thus making the subspecies extinct.[20]
June 30 – Mohamed Morsi, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, is elected 5th President of Egypt, sparking mixed reactions and protests throughout the country.[21]
July
July 4 – CERN announces the discovery of a new particle with properties consistent with the Higgs boson after experiments at the Large Hadron Collider.[22][23][24][25][26]
July 20 – 2012 Aurora shooting: Twelve people die and 58 are injured in a mass shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado. The shooter, James Holmes, opens fire on a crowd during a screening of The Dark Knight Rises. He is found behind the theater claiming to be "The Joker".[27]
July 21 – Turkish adventurer Erden Eruç becomes the first person in history to complete a solo human-powered circumnavigation of the Earth.
July 27 – August 12 – The 2012 Summer Olympics are held in London, England, United Kingdom.[28]
July 30–31 – In the worst power outage in world history, the 2012 India blackouts leave 620 million people without power.[29][30][31]
August
August 6 – Curiosity, the Mars Science Laboratory mission's rover, successfully lands on Mars.[32]
August 31 – Armenia severs diplomatic relations with Hungary, following the extradition to Azerbaijan and subsequent pardoning of Ramil Safarov, who was convicted of killing an Armenian soldier in Hungary in 2004. The move is also met with fierce criticism from other countries.[33]
September
September 7 – Canada officially cuts diplomatic ties with Iran by closing its embassy in Tehran, and orders the expulsion of Iranian diplomats from Ottawa, over support for Syria, nuclear plans and human rights abuses.[34]
September 11–27 – A series of terrorist attacks are directed against United States diplomatic missions worldwide, as well as diplomatic missions of Germany, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. In the US, opinions are divided over whether the attacks are a reaction to a YouTube trailer for the film Innocence of Muslims. In Libya, among the dead is US ambassador J. Christopher Stevens.[35][36][37][38][39]
October
October 14 – Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner becomes the first person to break the sound barrier without any machine assistance during a record space dive out of the Red Bull Stratos helium-filled balloon from 128,000 ft equaling 24 miles (39 km) over Roswell, New Mexico in the United States.[40][41][42]
October 16 – Seven paintings worth $25 million are stolen from the Kunsthal in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.[43][44][45][46]
November
November 6 – Barack Obama is reelected President of the United States.
November 13 – A total solar eclipse occurred in parts of Australia and the South Pacific. It was the 45th of 72 solar eclipses of Solar Saros 133.
November 14–21 – Israel launches Operation Pillar of Defense against the Palestinian-governed Gaza Strip, killing Hamas military chief Ahmed Jabari. In the following week 140 Palestinians and five Israelis are killed in an ensuing cycle of violence. A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas is announced by Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton after the week-long escalation in hostilities in Southern Israel and the Gaza Strip.[47][48][49][50][51]
November 25–December 9 – Typhoon Bopha, known as "Pablo" in the Philippines, kills at least 1,067 with around 838 people still missing. The typhoon causes considerable damage in the island of Mindanao.[52][53][54]
November 29 – The UN General Assembly approves a motion granting Palestine non-member observer state status.[55]
December
December 8 – In Qatar, the UN Climate Change Conference agrees to extend the Kyoto Protocol until 2020.[56]
December 14 – Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting: Twenty-eight people, including the gunman, are killed in Sandy Hook, Connecticut.
Births
January 24 – Princess Athena of Denmark
February 23 – Princess Estelle, Duchess of Östergötland
April 4 – Grumpy Cat, American internet celebrity cat (d. 2019)
Deaths
January
January 1 – Kiro Gligorov, 1st President of the Republic of Macedonia (b. 1917)
January 3 Josef Škvorecký, Czech writer (b. 1924) Bob Weston, British musician (b. 1947)
January 9 – Malam Bacai Sanhá, 4th President of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1947)
January 13 Rauf Denktaş, Cypriot-born politician (b. 1924) Miljan Miljanić, Yugoslavian-born footballer (b. 1930)
January 15 – Manuel Fraga Iribarne, Spanish politician (b. 1922)
January 19 – Sarah Burke, Canadian Freestyle skiier (b. 1982)
January 20 Etta James, American singer (b. 1938) Jiří Raška, Czech ski jumper (b. 1941)
January 22 – Joe Paterno, American football coach (b. 1926)
January 24 – Theodoros Angelopoulos, Greek filmmaker (b. 1935)
January 29 François Migault, French racing driver (b. 1944) Kell Osborne, American singer (b. 1939) Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, 9th President of Italy (b. 1918)
January 31 – Leslie Carter, American pop singer (b. 1986)
February
February 1 – Wisława Szymborska, Polish Nobel poet (b. 1923)
February 3 Ben Gazzara, American actor (b. 1930) Samuel Youd, British author (b. 1922)
February 4 – Florence Green, English supercentenarian (b. 1901)
February 6 Peter Breck, American actor (b. 1929) Antoni Tàpies, Spanish artist (b. 1923)
February 11 – Whitney Houston, American singer and actress (b. 1963)
February 18 – George Brizan, 8th Prime Minister of Grenada (b. 1942)
February 19 – Renato Dulbecco, Italian-born American Nobel virologist (b. 1914)
February 25 – Maurice André, French trumpeter (b. 1933)
February 26 – Trayvon Martin, American high school student (b. 1995)
February 27 – Tina Strobos, Dutch psychiatrist known for rescuing Jews during World War II (b. 1920)
February 29 – Davy Jones, English singer and actor (b. 1945)
March
March 1 Andrew Breitbart, American writer and publisher (b. 1969) Lucio Dalla, Italian singer-songwriter (b. 1943)
March 6 Francisco Xavier do Amaral, 1st President of East Timor (b. 1937) Robert B. Sherman, American songwriter (b. 1925) Sayuri Yamauchi, Japanese voice actress (b. 1956)
March 7 – Włodzimierz Smolarek, Polish footballer (b. 1957)
March 10 Jean Giraud, French comics artist (b. 1938) Frank Sherwood Rowland, American Nobel chemist (b. 1927)
March 14 – Ċensu Tabone, 4th President of Malta (b. 1913)
March 16 – Estanislau Basora, Spanish footballer (b. 1926)
March 17 John Demjanjuk, Ukrainian-American Nazi war crimes defendant (b. 1920) Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria (b. 1923)
March 18 – George Tupou V, King of Tonga (b. 1948)
March 21 – Tonino Guerra, Italian screenwriter (b. 1920)
March 23 Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, President of Somalia (2004–2008) (b. 1934) Chico Anysio, Brazilian actor, comedian, writer, and composer (b. 1931) Naji Talib, 52nd Prime Minister of Iraq (b. 1917)
March 25 Edd Gould, British animator (b. 1988) Antonio Tabucchi, Italian writer (b. 1943)
March 27 – Adrienne Rich, American writer and feminist (b. 1929)
March 28 Alexander Arutiunian, Armenian composer (b. 1920) Earl Scruggs, American bluegrass musician (b. 1924)
April
April 1 Lionel Bowen, Australian politician (b. 1922) Giorgio Chinaglia, Italian footballer (b. 1947) Miguel de la Madrid, 52nd President of Mexico (b. 1934)
April 2 – Elizabeth Catlett, African-American/Mexican artist (b. 1915)
April 5 – Bingu wa Mutharika, 3rd President of Malawi (b. 1934)
April 7 – Mike Wallace, American journalist (b. 1918)
April 8 – Steven Kanumba, Tanzanian actor and director (b. 1984)
April 9 – Takeshi Aono, Japanese voice actor (b. 1936)
April 11 – Ahmed Ben Bella, 1st President of Algeria (b. 1916)
April 14 – Jonathan Frid, Canadian actor (b. 1924)
April 15 – Murray Rose, Australian swimmer (b. 1939)
April 16 – Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, Danish shipping magnate (b. 1913)
April 18 – Dick Clark, American television host and producer (b. 1929)
April 19 – Levon Helm, American musician (b. 1940)
April 20 – Valeri Vasiliev, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1949)
April 21 – Charles Colson, American evangelist (b. 1931)
April 23 – Roland Dale, American football player (b. 1927)
April 28 – Ervin Zádor, Hungarian water polo player (b. 1934)
April 29 Shukri Ghanem, Prime Minister of Libya (2003–2006) (b. 1942) Joel Goldsmith, American composer (b. 1957)
April 30 – Alexander Dale Oen, Norwegian swimmer (b. 1985)
May
May 2 – Junior Seau, American football player (b. 1969)
May 3 – Jorge Illueca, 25th President of Panama (b. 1918)
May 4 Adam Yauch, American rapper and musician (b. 1964) Rashidi Yekini, Nigerian footballer (b. 1963)
May 5 – Carl Johan Bernadotte, Swedish prince (b. 1916)
May 6 George Lindsey, American actor (b. 1928) Yale Summers, American actor (b. 1933)
May 8 – Maurice Sendak, American author (b. 1928)
May 9 Danilo De Girolamo, Italian voice actor (b. 1956) Geoffrey Henry, 2-Time Prime Minister of Cook Islands (b. 1940) Vidal Sassoon, British hairdresser (b. 1928)
May 10 – Carroll Shelby, American automotive designer, racing driver, and entrepreneur (b. 1923)
May 13 – René Orta Salgado, Mexican journalist and politician (b. ca. 1969)
May 14 – Taruni Sachdev, Indian actress (b. 1998)
May 15 Carlos Fuentes, Panamanian-born Mexican writer (b. 1928) Zakaria Mohieddin, Egyptian general and politician (b. 1918)
May 17 – Donna Summer, American singer (b. 1948)
May 18 – Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, German lyric baritone and conductor (b. 1925)
May 20 – Robin Gibb, British-Australian musician (b. 1949)
May 27 – Anahit Perikhanian, Russian-born Armenian Iranologist (b. 1928)[57]
May 29 Kaneto Shindo, Japanese film director (b. 1912) Doc Watson, American guitarist and songwriter (b. 1923)
May 30 – Andrew Huxley, British Nobel physiologist (b. 1917)
June
June 2 Richard Dawson, British-American actor, comedian, game show host and panelist (b. 1932) Kathryn Joosten, American actress (b. 1939)
June 3 – Roy Salvadori, British racing driver (b. 1922)
June 4 – Eduard Khil, Soviet and Russian baritone singer (b. 1934)
June 5 – Ray Bradbury, American author (b. 1920)
June 6 – Manuel Preciado, Spanish footballer and coach (b. 1957)
June 7 – Bob Welch, American musician (b. 1945)
June 10 – Sudono Salim Indonesian-Chinese businessman (b. 1916)
June 11 Ann Rutherford, Canadian-born American actress (b. 1917) Teófilo Stevenson, Cuban Olympic boxer (b. 1952)
June 12 – Elinor Ostrom, American Nobel economist (b. 1933)
June 13 – William Standish Knowles, American Nobel chemist (b. 1917)
June 14 – Yvette Wilson, American actress and comedian (b. 1964)
June 16 Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia (b. 1934) Susan Tyrrell, American actress (b. 1945)
June 17 – Rodney King, American criminal and victim of police brutality (b. 1965)
June 26 – Nora Ephron, American film director and screenwriter (b. 1941)
June 30 – Yitzhak Shamir, 7th Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1915)
July
July 1 – Alan G. Poindexter, American astronaut (b. 1961)
July 3 Andy Griffith, American actor (b. 1926) Sergio Pininfarina, Italian automobile designer (b. 1926) Hollie Stevens, American pornographic actress and model (b. 1982)
July 8 – Ernest Borgnine, American actor (b. 1917)
July 9 – Terepai Maoate, 6th Prime Minister of the Cook Islands (b. 1934)
July 10 – Dolphy, Filipino actor and comedian (b. 1928)
July 12 – Dara Singh, Indian wrestler, actor, and politician (b. 1928)
July 13 – Richard D. Zanuck, American film producer (b. 1934)
July 14 – Sixten Jernberg, Swedish cross-country skier (b. 1929)
July 15 – Celeste Holm, American actress (b. 1917)
July 16 Stephen Covey, American author (b. 1932) Jon Lord, British musician and composer (b. 1941) Kitty Wells, American country music singer (b. 1919)
July 18 – Rajesh Khanna, Indian actor, producer and politician (b. 1942)
July 19 – Omar Suleiman, Egyptian general, diplomat, and intelligence officer (b. 1936)
July 23 – Sally Ride, American astronaut and physicist (b. 1951)
July 24 Chad Everett, American actor (b. 1937) Sherman Hemsley, American actor (b. 1938) John Atta Mills, President of Ghana (b. 1944) Gregorio Peces-Barba, Spanish politician (b. 1938)
July 26 – Lupe Ontiveros, American actress (b. 1942)
July 27 – Jack Taylor, English football referee (b. 1930)
July 29 – Chris Marker, French writer and documentary filmmaker (b. 1921)
July 30 – Maeve Binchy, Irish author (b. 1939)
July 31 – Gore Vidal, American author, playwright, screenwriter, and political activist (b. 1925)
August
August 5 – Chavela Vargas, Costa Rican-born Mexican singer (b. 1919)
August 6 Marvin Hamlisch, American composer and conductor (b. 1944) Bernard Lovell, British physicist and astronomer (b. 1913)
August 9 – Al Freeman Jr., American actor (b. 1934)
August 12 – Alf Morris, British politician (b. 1928)
August 14 Svetozar Gligorić, Serbian chess grandmaster (b. 1923) Ron Palillo, American actor and teacher (b. 1949)
August 15 – Harry Harrison, American author (b. 1925)
August 16 – William Windom, American actor (b. 1923)
August 18 – Scott McKenzie, American singer and songwriter (b. 1939)
August 19 – Tony Scott, English film director (b. 1944)
August 20 Phyllis Diller, American comedian (b. 1917) Dom Mintoff, 8th Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1916) Meles Zenawi, 3rd President and 10th Prime Minister of Ethiopia (b. 1955)
August 21 – William Thurston, American mathematician (b. 1946)
August 23 – Jerry Nelson, American puppeteer (b. 1934)
August 24 Pauli Ellefsen, 6th Prime Minister of Faroe Islands (b. 1936) Félix Miélli Venerando, Brazilian footballer (b. 1937)
August 25 – Neil Armstrong, American astronaut (b. 1930)
August 31 Carlo Maria Martini, Cardinal Archbishop of Milan (b. 1927) Sergey Leonidovich Sokolov, Soviet military commander (b. 1911)
September
September 1 Hal David, American lyricist (b. 1921) Smarck Michel, 6th Prime Minister of Haiti (b. 1937)
September 3 Michael Clarke Duncan, American actor (b. 1957) Sun Myung Moon, Korean religious leader (b. 1920)
September 8 – Thomas Szasz, Hungarian-American psychiatrist (b. 1920)
September 12 – Sid Watkins, British neurosurgeon (b. 1928)
September 14 – Stephen Dunham, American actor (b. 1964)
September 16 – Ragnhild Alexandra Lorentzen, Princess of Norway (b. 1930)
September 18 – Santiago Carrillo, Spanish politician (b. 1915)
September 23 Pavel Grachev, Russian military commander (b. 1948) Corrie Sanders, South African boxer (b. 1966)
September 25 – Andy Williams, American singer (b. 1927)
September 26 – Johnny Lewis, American actor (b. 1983)
September 27 – Herbert Lom, Czech-born actor (b. 1917)
September 28 – Michael O'Hare, American actor (b. 1952)
September 30 – Barbara Ann Scott, Canadian Olympic figure skater (b. 1928)
October
October 1 – Eric Hobsbawm, British Marxist historian (b. 1917)
October 6 – Chadli Bendjedid, 3rd President of Algeria (b. 1929)
October 9 – Sammi Kane Kraft, American child actress (b. 1992)
October 10 – Alex Karras, American football player, professional wrestler and actor (b. 1935)
October 11 – Helmut Haller, German footballer (b. 1939)
October 14 – Arlen Specter, American politician (b. 1930)
October 15 – King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia (b. 1922)
October 17 – Sylvia Kristel, Dutch actress (b. 1952)
October 20 – E. Donnall Thomas, American Nobel physician (b. 1920)
October 21 Yash Chopra, Indian film director and producer (b. 1932) George McGovern, American politician, historian, and author (b. 1922)
October 22 – Russell Means, American Sioux actor and activist (b. 1939)
October 24 – Margaret Osborne duPont, American tennis player (b. 1918)
October 27 – Hans Werner Henze, German composer (b. 1926)
November
November 1 – Mitch Lucker, American singer (b. 1984)
November 5 – Elliott Carter, American composer (b. 1908)
November 17 – Bal Thackeray, Indian politician (b. 1926)
November 21 – Austin Peralta, American jazz musician and composer (b. 1990)
November 23 – Larry Hagman, American actor (b. 1931)
November 25 Lars Hörmander, Swedish mathematician (b. 1931) Dave Sexton, English footballer and coach (b. 1930)
November 26 – Joseph Murray, American Nobel surgeon (b. 1919)
November 30 – I. K. Gujral, 12th Prime Minister of India (b. 1919)
December
December 4 – Miguel Calero, Colombian footballer (b. 1971)
December 5 Dave Brubeck, American pianist (b. 1920) Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian architect (b. 1907)
December 6 – Miguel Abia Biteo Boricó, 5th Prime Minister of Equatorial Guinea (b. 1961)
December 9 Jenni Rivera, Mexican-American singer-songwriter, producer and actress (b. 1969) Patrick Moore, British astronomer and broadcaster (b. 1923)
December 10 – Iajuddin Ahmed, 13th President of Bangladesh (b. 1931)
December 11 Ravi Shankar, Indian sitarist (b. 1920) Galina Vishnevskaya, Russian soprano (b. 1926)
December 12 – Joe Allbritton, American banker (b. 1924)
December 17 – Daniel Inouye, American politician (b. 1924)
December 20 – Don Campbell, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1925)
December 24 Charles Durning, American actor (b. 1923) Jack Klugman, American actor (b. 1922)
December 26 – Gerry Anderson, British puppeteer and TV producer (b. 1929)
December 27 Harry Carey Jr., American actor (b. 1921) Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr., American general (b. 1934)
December 30 – Rita Levi-Montalcini, Italian Nobel neurologist (b. 1909)
Nobel Prizes
Chemistry – Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka
Economics – Alvin E. Roth and Lloyd Shapley
Literature – Mo Yan
Peace – European Union
Physics – Serge Haroche and David J. Wineland
Physiology or Medicine – John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka
See also
2012 phenomenon