List of Famous people who died in 2012

José Guardiola Díaz de Rada, was a Spanish singer of popular music who sang in Spanish and Catalan.

Leonard Termo was an American character actor whose numerous film and television roles included Fight Club, Johnny Dangerously, and Seinfeld.

Pier Luigi Mazzoni was the Roman Catholic archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Gaeta, Italy.

Eugênio de Araújo Sales was a cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church, having been elevated by Pope Paul VI on 28 April 1969. He served as archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro for thirty years until his resignation was accepted in 2001, when he had already passed the maximum age for voting in a papal conclave. He was the Cardinal Protopriest of the Holy Roman Church and also the longest-serving living Cardinal of the Catholic Church from 16 February 2009 until his death.

Paul Trevier Bateman was an American number theorist, known for formulating the Bateman–Horn conjecture on the density of prime number values generated by systems of polynomials and the New Mersenne conjecture relating the occurrences of Mersenne primes and Wagstaff primes.

Edgar Lanier Jenkins was an American politician who served as the U.S. Representative for Georgia's 9th congressional district from 1977 to 1993. He was a member of the Democratic Party.

Tadahiro Matsushita was a Japanese politician and five-time member of the House of Representatives of Japan. He served in government from 1962 when he joined the Ministry of Construction to 2012. At the time of his death, he was the Minister of State for Financial Services.

Guido Fanti was an Italian politician. From 1979–1989 he served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP). He was a member of the Italian Communist Party.