List of Famous people who died in 2012

Legson Didimu Kayira was a Malawian novelist. An ethnic Tumbuka, he received an education at Skagit Valley College, University of Washington and St Catharine's College, Cambridge. His early works focused on Malawi's rural life, while his later writings satirised the Hastings Banda regime.

Saiichi Maruya was a Japanese author and literary critic.

Marcos Roberto Dias Cardoso, also known as Marcos Roberto was a singer and Brazilian composer, successful since the 1960s and in the 1980s with the song A Última Carta, which was in first place on the charts for months and sold more than 2 million records.

Zhao Xijin was a Chinese paleontologist notable for having named numerous dinosaurs. He was a professor at Beijing's Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology.

Susumu Ishikawa was a Japanese anison and voice actor who had performed many anime openings, including 1964 hit theme song from Obake no Q-taro and the theme from the 1972 anime series Dokonjō Gaeru. He performed songs in Godzilla vs. Gigan, and was the voice of the main character called Pero in the anime film Puss In Boots.