List of Famous people who died in 2012

Roberta Carol "Bobbi" Jordan was an American actress whose television and film credits included the soap opera General Hospital and the 1974 musical film Mame. Her name is sometimes seen as Bobbie Jordan.

Hannie Lips was a Dutch broadcaster and television announcer of among others Dutch public broadcasting association KRO.

Alfredo Battisi was the Roman Catholic archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Udine, Italy.

Hans Günter Helms was a German experimental writer, composer, and social and economic analyst and critic.

Gart Westerhout was a Dutch-American astronomer. Well before completing his university studies at Leiden, he had already become well-established internationally as a radio astronomer in the Netherlands, specializing in studies of radio sources and the Milky Way Galaxy based on observations of radio continuum emissions and 21-cm spectral line radiation that originates in interstellar hydrogen. He emigrated to the United States, became a naturalized citizen, and held a number of important scientific and management positions in academic and government institutions.