List of Famous people who died in 2012

Marc Alfos was one of the most popular French actors who specialized in dubbing for France cinema, and he was the official French voice dub-over artist of actors Russell Crowe, Ron Perlman, Luis Guzmán and Bruce McGill in a number of films. He also dubbed a number of voices in video games.

Bai Jing was a Chinese actress. She was best known for her role in the 2010 film Kung Fu Wing Chun in which she played the Chinese folk heroine Yim Wing-chun.

Antonio de León Cubillo Ferreira was a Canarian Independentist, politician, lawyer, and militant of the Canary Islands.

Fontella Marie Bass was an American R&B and soul singer and songwriter best known for her number-one R&B hit "Rescue Me" in 1965.

Félix Miélli Venerando was a Brazilian football player, more commonly known as Félix.

Kaneto Shindo was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, film producer, and author. He directed 48 films and wrote scripts for 238. His best known films as a director include Children of Hiroshima, The Naked Island, Onibaba, Kuroneko and A Last Note. His scripts were filmed by such directors as Kon Ichikawa, Keisuke Kinoshita, Seijun Suzuki, Fumio Kamei, and Tadashi Imai.

Elinor Claire "Lin" Ostrom was an American political economist whose work was associated with the New Institutional Economics and the resurgence of political economy. In 2009, she was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for her "analysis of economic governance, especially the commons", which she shared with Oliver E. Williamson. To date, she remains the first of only two women to win the Nobel Prize in Economics, the other being Esther Duflo.

Mark Mikhaylovich Deutch was a Russian journalist and columnist for Moskovskij Komsomolets. He became widely known while working with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. He authored several books on politics.

Berkant Akgürgen was a Turkish singer.

Turki bin Sultan Al Saud was deputy minister of culture and information of Saudi Arabia and a member of House of Saud.