List of Famous people who died in 2012
Chad Everett
Raymon Lee Cramton, known professionally as Chad Everett, was an American actor who appeared in more than 40 films and television series. He was known for his role as Dr. Joe Gannon in the television drama Medical Center, which aired on CBS from 1969 to 1976.
Jerome Courtland
Jerome Courtland was an American actor, director and producer. He acted in films in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, and in television in the 1950s and 1960s. Courtland also appeared on Broadway in the musical Flahooley in the early 1950s. He directed and produced television series in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. He served in the Pacific Theater of World War II.
Stuart Bell
Sir Stuart Bell was a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Middlesbrough from the 1983 general election until his death in 2012.
Frederica Sagor Maas
Frederica Alexandrina Sagor Maas was an American dramatist and playwright, screenwriter, memoirist, and author, the youngest daughter of Jewish immigrants from Russia. As an essayist, Maas was best known for a detailed, tell-all memoir of her time spent in early Hollywood. A supercentenarian, she was one of the oldest surviving entertainers from the silent film era.
Victor Merzhanov
Victor Karpovich Merzhanov was a Russian pianist. People's Artist of the USSR (1990).
Herbert Wilf
Herbert Saul Wilf was a mathematician, specializing in combinatorics and graph theory. He was the Thomas A. Scott Professor of Mathematics in Combinatorial Analysis and Computing at the University of Pennsylvania. He wrote numerous books and research papers. Together with Neil Calkin he founded The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics in 1994 and was its editor-in-chief until 2001.
Rainer Penkert
Rainer Penkert, was a German actor.
Michael Bürsch
Michael Peter Karsten Bürsch was a German politician and member of the SPD. He was born in Stettin (Szczecin), Province of Pomerania, which is now in Poland.