List of Famous people who died in 2012

Jesse Raymond Glover was an American martial artist. He was Bruce Lee's first student and first assistant instructor in the United States. He met Lee in 1959, as they both attended Edison Technical College and practiced judo with Lee. Glover was a psychology major and a champion judoka. The character Jerome Sprout in the 1993 film Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story was based on Glover.

Lucille Theresa Bliss was an American actress, known in the Bay Area and in Hollywood as the "Girl With a Thousand Voices".

Hamzah Abu Samah was a Malaysian politician, lawyer and sports administrator who served as President of Asian Football Confederation from 9 December 1978 to 1 August 1994.

Kenneth Kendall was a British broadcaster. He worked for many years as a newsreader for the BBC, where he was a contemporary of fellow newsreaders Richard Baker and Robert Dougall. He is also remembered as the host of the Channel 4 game show Treasure Hunt, which ran between 1982 and 1989, as well as the host of "The World Tonight" in the 1968 science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey.