List of Famous people who died in 2012

Lucio Dalla was an Italian singer-songwriter, musician and actor. He also played clarinet and keyboards.

Roger Garaudy was a French philosopher, French resistance fighter and a communist author. He converted to Islam in 1982. In 1998, he was convicted and fined for Holocaust denial under French law for claiming that the death of six million Jews was a "myth".

Milo Quesada, born as Raúl García Alonso, was an Argentine actor.

Franz West was an Austrian artist.

John Moores Jr., CBE, DL, was a British businessman, farmer and philanthropist. He was the eldest son of businessman Sir John Moores CBE who founded the Littlewoods company. He became Executive Director and Deputy Chairman of the family firm in 1968. John Moores also served as 2nd Chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University from 1994, after previously serving as the university's First Pro-Chancellor and chairman of the board of Governors from 1992.

Hans Ludvig Martensen, S.J. was the Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Copenhagen, Denmark.