List of Famous people who died in 2012

Mitsuko Mori , real name Mitsu Murakami , was a Japanese actress. In May 2009, she became the first actor in Japan to have performed the stage play Hōrōki 2,000 times. She was born in Kyoto, Japan.

John O. "Jack" Koehler was a German-born American journalist and executive for the Associated Press, who also briefly served as the White House Communications Director in 1987 during the Reagan administration.

Richard Raymond Majerus was an American basketball coach and TV analyst. He coached at Marquette University (1983–1986), Ball State University (1987–1989), the University of Utah (1989–2004), and Saint Louis University (2007–2012). Majerus' most successful season came at Utah in the 1997–98 season, when the Utes finished as runners-up in the 1998 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament. Majerus was inducted into the College Basketball Hall of Fame in 2019.

Pepe Rubio was a Spanish actor, known for comedies, whose professional career began in 1953 with theater.

Warda Al-Jazairia was an Algerian-Lebanese singer. She was well known for her Egyptian Arabic songs and music. Her name literally meant Warda the Algerian, but she was sometimes referred to as just Warda or as "The Algerian Rose" in the Arab world.

Tiko Frederick Campbell was an American author and architect from the Washington, D.C. area. Campbell was the ex-husband of the late author Bebe Moore Campbell and father of actress Maia Campbell. He was also the author of an adventure/sci-fi novel named The Light in the Stones: ...from the tales of Fibinacci...

Sandra Silvana Gallardo was an American film and television actress.

Gavin Smith was an American college basketball star, actor, stuntman, and film studio executive, formerly a regional manager of distribution for 20th Century Fox. Prior to his eighteen years in that position he played basketball at UCLA, where he was part of the 1975 team that won that year's NCAA championship, the last for coach John Wooden. He later played at Hawaii, where he set the school's still-standing single-season scoring record of 23.4 points per game. He had a small role as a bartender in Cobb, the 1994 biopic of baseball player Ty Cobb.

Clive Robert Benjamin Dunn was an English actor, comedian, artist, author, and singer. He played the elderly Lance Corporal Jones in the BBC sitcom Dad's Army.

Ediz Bahtiyaroğlu was a Turkish football player who last played for Eskişehirspor in the Turkish Süper Lig.