List of Famous people who died in 2012

Michel Joseph Kuehn was a French prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.

Edward Thomas Hughes was an American prelate of the Catholic Church who served as Bishop of Metuchen, New Jersey. from 1987 to 1997.

Michael Vincent Paschal Rowland, OFM was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of Dundee, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Ordained to the priesthood in 1953, Rowland was named bishop in 1985 and retired in 2005.

Leo O'Brien was an American television and film actor, best known as Richie Green in the 1985 film The Last Dragon.

Benjamin Earl Franklin Davidson, Jr. was an American football player, a defensive end best known for his play with the Oakland Raiders in the American Football League. Earlier in his career, he was with the Green Bay Packers and Washington Redskins of the National Football League.

Albert George Wilson was an American astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets.

Sir Richard Mark Evans was a British diplomat who was the ambassador to the People's Republic of China from January 1984 to May 1988, during which he and Zhou Nan, the Chinese representative, initialed the Sino-British Joint Declaration on 26 September 1984.