List of Famous people who died in 2012

Sullivan Walker was a Trinidadian actor who played numerous small and recurring roles on television shows from 1980 until 2005. Walker migrated to New York from Trinidad in 1969 and became an actor, writer, director and teacher.

Mark Vishik was a Soviet mathematician who worked in the field of partial differential equations.

Albert Cornelius Freeman Jr. was an American actor, director, and educator. A life member of The Actors Studio, Freeman appeared in a wide variety of plays, ranging from Leroi Jones' Slave/Toilet to Joe Papp's revivals of Long Day's Journey Into Night and Troilus and Cressida, and films, including My Sweet Charlie, Finian's Rainbow, and Malcolm X, as well as television series and soap operas, such as One Life to Live, The Cosby Show, Law & Order, Homicide: Life on the Street and The Edge of Night.

Pramote Teerawiwatana was a badminton player from Thailand.

Jean-Henri Roger was a French film director, screenwriter and actor. He directed the 1983 film Cap Canaille, which was entered into the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival.

Adolphe Merkle was a Swiss entrepreneur and patron of the sciences.

Dawoud Abdallah Rajiha, forename sometimes transliterated Dawood or Daoud, surname sometimes transliterated Rajha, was the Syrian minister of defense from 2011 to July 2012 when he was assassinated along with other senior military officers by armed opposition forces during the country's Civil War. From 2009 to 2011, Rajiha served as chief of staff of the Syrian Army.

René-Marie Ehuzu was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Porto Novo, Benin.

René Joseph Rakotondrabé was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Toamasina, Madagascar.