List of Famous people who died in 2012

Sir Geoffrey Adam Shakerley, 6th Baronet was an English aristocrat and society photographer.

Michael Richard Daniell Foot,, known as M. R. D. Foot, was a British military historian and former British Army intelligence officer and special operations operative during the Second World War.

Sir David Burdett Money-Coutts was an English banker, the seventh generation of the Coutts banking family. He was managing director of Coutts bank from 1970 and chairman from 1976 to 1993.

Jayne Cortez was an African-American poet, activist, small press publisher and spoken-word performance artist whose voice is celebrated for its political, surrealistic and dynamic innovations in lyricism and visceral sound. Her writing is part of the canon of the Black Arts Movement. She was married to jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman (1954–64), and their son is jazz drummer Denardo Coleman. In 1975 Cortez married painter, sculptor, and printmaker Melvin Edwards, and they lived in Dakar, Senegal, and New York City.

Benjamín "Kokoy" Trinidad Romuáldez was a Filipino politician who served as Governor of Leyte and later appointed as ambassador to the United States, China and Saudi Arabia.

Endang Rahayu Sedyaningsih was an Indonesian physician, researcher, and author. She served as Minister of Health of the Republic of Indonesia from October 22, 2009 until her death on May 2, 2012.