List of Famous people who died in 2012

Kushimaumi Keita, born as Keita Kushima, was a sumo wrestler from Shingū, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. A successful amateur, his highest rank in professional sumo was maegashira 1. After his retirement he became an elder of the Japan Sumo Association and established Tagonoura stable.

Maria Margarida Marante Rodrigues Anjos, known as Margarida Marante was a Portuguese journalist and television presenter known for interviewing major public Portuguese figures. She was married to the businessman Henrique Granadeiro, having previously divorced Emídio Rangel.

Doris Schade was a German television actress. She was born in Bad Frankenhausen, Germany.

Wolfgang Menge was a German television writer and journalist.

Geliy Mikhailovich Korzhev-Chuvelyov was a Russian painter.

Shiro Miya was a Japanese enka singer, lyricist and composer. His band Shiro Miya and the Pinkara Trio's 1972 song "Onna no Michi", became the second best-selling single in Japanese Oricon charts history, selling over 3.25 million copies.

Dominique Rolin was a Belgian novelist.

Lt. Gen. Mohamed Lamari was Chief of Staff of the Algerian army during most of the Algerian Civil War.

Margarete Mitscherlich-Nielsen or the "Grande Dame of German Psychoanalysis" as she was often referred to as, was a German psychoanalyst who focused mainly on the themes of feminism, female sexuality, and the national psychology of post-war Germany.

Ruth Barcan Marcus was an American academic philosopher and logician best known for her work in modal and philosophical logic. She developed the first formal systems of quantified modal logic and in so doing introduced the schema or principle known as the Barcan formula. Marcus, who originally published as Ruth C. Barcan, was, as Don Garrett notes "one of the twentieth century's most important and influential philosopher-logicians". Timothy Williamson, in a 2008 celebration of Marcus' long career, states that many of her "main ideas are not just original, and clever, and beautiful, and fascinating, and influential, and way ahead of their time, but actually – I believe – true".