List of Famous people who died in 2012

Joseph Faber MacDonald was a Canadian clergyman and prelate for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Grand Falls. He was appointed bishop in 1980 in Grand Falls, and then 1998 in Saint John. He died in 2012.

Felix Eugenio Mkhori was the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lilongwe, Malawi.

Victor H. Yngve was professor of linguistics at the University of Chicago. He was one of the earliest researchers in computational linguistics and natural language processing, the use of computers to analyze and process languages. He created the first program to produce random but well-formed output sentences, given a text, a children's book called Engineer Small and the Little Train.

José Freire de Olivera Neto was the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mossoró, Brazil.

Erik Reitzel was a Danish civil engineer who started work in 1964 and was for many years a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and at the Technical University of Denmark, in the disciplines of bearing structures and structural design.

Juozas Tunaitis, was the Roman Catholic titular bishop of diocese of Sassura and the auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vilnius, Lithuania (1991–2010).