List of Famous people who died in 2012

Neslişah Sultan, later Neslişah Osmanoğlu was an Ottoman princess, the paternal granddaughter of the last Ottoman Caliph Abdulmejid II and his first wife, Şehsuvar Hanım and maternal granddaughter of the last Ottoman Sultan Mehmed VI and his first wife, Nazikeda Kadın. She was the daughter of Şehzade Ömer Faruk and his first wife and cousin Sabiha Sultan.

José Luis Uribarri Grenouillou was a Spanish television presenter and director for TVE. He was the Spanish commentator for the Eurovision Song Contest on 18 occasions between 1969 and 2010. He was widely known as La voz de Eurovisión in Spain.

Muriel Cerf was a French novelist and travel writer.

Florisvaldo de Oliveira, commonly known as "Cabo Bruno", was a Brazilian vigilante, serial killer and former officer of the Military Police of São Paulo State accused of more than 50 murders on the outskirts of São Paulo during the 1980s. Considered "one of the most controversial characters in the police chronicle", he initially admitted these deaths but later denied them in his testimony.

Gevork Andreevich Vartanian was a Soviet intelligence officer.

Sergey Petrovich Kapitsa was a Russian physicist and demographer. He was best known as host of the popular and long-running Russian scientific TV show, Evident, but Incredible. His father was the Nobel laureate Soviet-era physicist Pyotr Kapitsa, and his brother was the geographer and Antarctic explorer Andrey Kapitsa.

Chikage Awashima was a Japanese film and stage actress.

Keriman Halis Ece was a Turkish beauty pageant titleholder, pianist, and fashion model who won the Miss Turkey 1932 title. She was also crowned Miss Universe 1932 in Spa, Belgium and thus became Turkey's first Miss Universe.

Sergey Nikolayevich Kolosov was a Soviet film director, writer, and teacher. People's Artist of the USSR (1988), laureate of the Vasilyev Brothers State Prize of the RSFSR (1976), Lenin Komsomol Prize (1968).

Miguel de Sacadura Cabral Portas was a Portuguese politician and a Member of the European Parliament for the Left Bloc, part of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left group. He was a member of the Committee on Culture and Education of the European Parliament and a member of the Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries.