List of Famous people who died in 2012

Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao

First Name Kotagiri
Died on November 6, 2012 (aged 42)

Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao is an Indian film editor. In the film industry many call him Chanti Garu. He is the younger brother of Kotagiri Gopala Rao, who died on 6 November 2012, a known film editor and producer, who holds the banner of Giri Films, with which he produced several Telugu films, including Ooranta Sankranti.

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Thodoros Angelopoulos

Born on April 27, 1935
Died on January 24, 2012 (aged 76)

Theodoros "Theo" Angelopoulos was a Greek filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer.

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Ghazala Javed

First Name Ghazala
Born on January 1, 1988
Died on June 18, 2012 (aged 24)

Ghazala Javed was a Pakistani Pashtun playback singer from Swat Valley, Pakistan. She began singing since 2004 and was "popular with young, progressive ethnic Pashtuns in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Her music was famous not only in Pakistan but also in neighbouring Afghanistan and among Pashtuns around the world.

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Hong Po Man

First Name Hong
Last Name Man
Born on November 30, 1959
Died on September 30, 2012 (aged 52)
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Lv Zijian

First Name Lv
Born on October 15, 1893
Died on October 21, 2012 (aged 119)
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Yitzhak Shamir

First Name Yitzhak
Born on October 22, 1915
Died on June 30, 2012 (aged 96)

Yitzhak Shamir was an Israeli politician and the seventh Prime Minister of Israel, serving two terms, 1983–84 and 1986–1992. Before the establishment of the state of Israel, Shamir was a leader of the Zionist militant group Lehi. After the establishment of the Israeli state he served in the Mossad between 1955 and 1965 and as a Knesset Member. He served as the 6th Speaker of the Knesset and as Foreign Affairs Minister. Shamir was the country's third-longest-serving prime minister after David Ben-Gurion and Benjamin Netanyahu.

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Arroy

Born on January 27, 1983
Died on October 19, 2012 (aged 29)
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Semiha Es

First Name Semiha
Born on November 30, 1911
Died on December 12, 2012 (aged 101)

Semiha Es was the first Turkish female war photographer.

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İlhan Mimaroğlu

First Name İlhan
Last Name Mimaroğlu
Born on March 11, 1926
Died on July 17, 2012 (aged 86)

İlhan Kemaleddin Mimaroğlu was a Turkish American musician and electronic music composer. He was born in Istanbul, Turkey, the son of the famous architect Mimar Kemaleddin Bey depicted on the Turkish lira banknotes, denomination 20 lira, of the 2009 E-9 emission. He graduated from Galatasaray High School in 1945 and the Ankara Law School in 1949. He went to study in New York supported by a Rockefeller Scholarship. He studied musicology at Columbia University under Paul Henry Lang and composition under Douglas Moore.

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Samir Said

First Name Samir
Last Name Said
Born on November 5, 1963
Died on April 15, 2012 (aged 48)

Samir Said was a professional Kuwaiti football goalkeeper who played for Kuwait in the 1984 Asian Cup.

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