List of Famous people who died in 2012

André Génovès was a French film producer and director.

Michael Daniel Ambatchew (1967-2012) was an Ethiopian children's book writer. He has written Sidama Tales and Alemayehu. Although an admirer of Western stories like Puss in Boots, he has been active in improving the publishing of a more native Ethiopian children's literature, and has also written on literature in general.

William Lance LeGault, sometimes credited as W. L. LeGault, was an American film and television actor, best known as U.S. Army Colonel Roderick Decker in the 1980s American television series The A-Team.

Noboru Ishiguro was a Japanese animator best known for directing the anime series Space Battleship Yamato II, Super Dimension Fortress Macross, Super Dimension Century Orguss, Humanoid Monster Bem, Megazone 23 - Part I, Legend of the Galactic Heroes, and Tytania.

Augustin Sagna was a Senegalese prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.