List of Famous people who died in 2012

Joy Mukherjee was an Indian film actor and director. He was titled as the 'heart throb of the 1960s and 1970s'.

Countess Alix de Lannoy was a Belgian noblewoman and the mother of Hereditary Grand Duchess Stéphanie of Luxembourg.

Lyudmila Alexandrovna Shagalova was a Russian film supporting actress, active during the Soviet era. She was named a People's Artist of Russia in 1977.

Klaas Carel Faber was a convicted Dutch-German war criminal. He was the son of Pieter and Carolina Josephine Henriëtte Faber, and the brother of Pieter Johan Faber, who was executed for war crimes in 1948. Faber was on the Simon Wiesenthal Center's list of most wanted Nazi war criminals. Faber died in Germany in May 2012, having never been extradited.

Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley was an English physiologist and biophysicist. He was born into the prominent Huxley family. After graduating from Westminster School in Central London, from where he won a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge, he joined Alan Lloyd Hodgkin to study nerve impulses. Their eventual discovery of the basis for propagation of nerve impulses earned them the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1963. They made their discovery from the giant axon of the Atlantic squid. Soon after the outbreak of the Second World War, Huxley was recruited by the British Anti-Aircraft Command and later transferred to the Admiralty. After the war he resumed research at The University of Cambridge, where he developed interference microscopy that would be suitable for studying muscle fibres.

Georges Mathieu was a French abstract painter, art theorist and member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He is considered one of the fathers of European lyrical abstraction, a trend of informalism.

Eric Sykes was an English radio, stage, television and film writer, comedian, actor, and director whose performing career spanned more than 50 years. He frequently wrote for and performed with many other leading comedy performers and writers of the period, including Tony Hancock, Spike Milligan, Tommy Cooper, Peter Sellers, John Antrobus, and Johnny Speight. Sykes first came to prominence through his many radio credits as a writer and actor in the 1950s, most notably through his collaboration on The Goon Show scripts. He became a TV star in his own right in the early 1960s when he appeared with Hattie Jacques in several popular BBC comedy television series.

Ruth Lommel (1918–2012) was a German stage and film actress. She was the daughter of the actor Ludwig Manfred Lommel. Her brother Ulli Lommel also became an actor, while another brother Manuel Lommel is a cinematographer.

Morgan Paull was an American actor most notable for playing Dave Holden in the Ridley Scott film Blade Runner.

Stephen Dunham was an American actor, best known as Edward Pillows on the series DAG and known internationally for his roles as Mr. Henderson in The Mummy and Dr. Paul Chamberlain in Monster-in-Law.