List of Famous people who died in 2012

Waldomiro Freitas Autran Dourado was a Brazilian novelist.

Nijaz Duraković was a Bosnian author, intellectual, professor and politician who served as the final President of the League of Communists of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is widely considered to have been one of the most influential modern authors on sociopolitical issues in the region of his generation.

Edouard Paape, commonly known as Eddy Paape, was a Belgian comics artist best known for illustrating the series Luc Orient.

Armand Desmet was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer.

Stephen Dwoskin was an accomplished experimental filmmaker whose work had a decisive effect on the British film theorists of the early 1970s. His films are held at the BFI and distributed by LUX. His archive is held at The University of Reading.

Edith Schönert-Geiß was a German numismatist, who specialised in the classical coinage of Thrace and was instrumental in the post-war re-establishment of the Corpus Nummorum.

Jean Frechaut was a French professional road bicycle racer. Frechaut won three stages in the 1938 Tour de France. He was born in Bordeaux.