List of Famous people who died in 2012

Donald Hall Binney,, was a New Zealand painter, best known for his paintings of birds.

Raymond Dumais was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gaspé, Quebec, Canada.

Victor Alexander Vyssotsky son of the astronomers Alexander N. Vyssotsky (Russian) and Emma Vyssotsky (American) was a mathematician and computer scientist. He was the technical head of the Multics project at Bell Labs and later Executive Director of Research in the Information Systems Division of AT&T Bell Labs. Multics, whilst not particularly commercially successful in itself, directly inspired Ken Thompson to develop Unix. Later, he was the founding director of Digital's Cambridge Research Lab.

Guy Gustave Arthur Ghislain Spitaels was a Belgian politician of the Socialist Party. He was the 7th Minister-President of Wallonia from 1992 to 1994 and president of his party for thirteen years, until he was succeeded by Philippe Busquin.

Paul Ch'eng Shih-kuang was a Taiwanese prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.

Richard Hugh "Huw" Lloyd-Langton was an English guitarist, best known as the guitarist for Hawkwind at various times. He also had his own band, The Lloyd Langton Group, and was the session lead guitarist for UK band The Meads of Asphodel.