2012
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2012 was the 12th year of the 21st century, and the 3rd year of the 2010s decade.
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Events
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Film
- Ruby Sparks by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris
- Cosmopolis by Cronenberg
- Looper by Rian Johnson
- Hitchcock by Sacha Gervasi
- Berberian Sound Studio by Peter Strickland
- Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen by György Pálfi
- The Master by Paul Thomas Anderson
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Documentary
- Inventing the Indian (2012)
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Music
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Albums
- Personal Space: Electronic Soul 1974-1984 -- various
- Country Funk 1969–1975 --various
- The Orbserver in the Star House by The Orb featuring Lee Scratch Perry
- Originals Volume Eight compiled by Lexx
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Singles
- Encore by Nicolas Jaar
- Thrift Shop by Macklemore
- Ride by Lana Del Rey
- Nothing's Gonna Hurt You Baby by Cigarettes After Sex
- Inspector Norse by Todd Terje
- Flowers by Andrew Ashong and Theo Parrish
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Visual art
- Sandworm (Marco Casagrande)
- Flemish Landscape Fables exhibition in Lille
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Literature
- The Weird an anthology edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
- The Natural Origin of Language by Robin Allott
- Pornographic Archaeology by Zrinka Stahuljak
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In the public domain
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Deaths
- March 28 - Jacques Carelman, French painter, illustrator and designer (A Catalogue of Unfindable Objects) (b. 1929)
- José Bénazéraf, 90, French film director and producer.
- Fontella Bass, 72, American singer ("Rescue Me"), complications from a heart attack.
- December 11 - Ravi Shankar, Indian sitarist (b. 1920)
- Oscar Niemeyer, 104, Brazilian architect, respiratory infection.
- Dave Brubeck, 91, American jazz pianist, heart failure.
- Terry Callier, 67, American singer-songwriter.
- Sylvia Kristel, 60, Dutch actress (Emmanuelle), model and singer, throat and liver cancer.
- Neil Armstrong, 82, American astronaut, first person to set foot upon the Moon, complications from heart surgery.
- Carlo Rambaldi, 86, Italian special effects artist (Alien, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial).
- Mel Stuart, 83, American film director (If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium; Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory), cancer.
- Gore Vidal, 86, American playwright, novelist, and political commentator, pneumonia.
- Chris Marker, 91, French writer, photographer, documentary film director and multimedia artist.
- Gerrit Komrij, 68, Dutch writer, cancer.
- Andrew Sarris, 83, American film critic.
- Susan Tyrrell, 67, American actress (Cry-Baby, Fat City, Forbidden Zone).
- Rodney King, 47, American victim of 1991 police brutality incident.
- Ray Bradbury, 91, American science fiction and fantasy author (Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles).
- Donna Summer, 63, American disco singer ("I Feel Love"), lung cancer.
- Carlos Fuentes, 83, Mexican novelist.
- Adam Yauch, 47, American musician (Beastie Boys) and film director (Gunnin' for That No. 1 Spot), cancer.
- Amos Vogel, 91, Austrian-born American founder of the New York Film Festival and Cinema 16.
- Jean Giraud, 73, French comic book artist (Blueberry, Métal Hurlant) and production designer (Tron, Alien).
- Whitney Houston, 48, American singer and actress.
- Ben Gazzara, 81, American actor (Tales of Ordinary Madness), pancreatic cancer.
- Mike Kelley, 57, American artist and musician (Destroy All Monsters), suicide. (body found on this date)
- Dorothea Tanning, 101, American surrealist painter, printmaker and sculptor.
- Etta James, 73, American singer ("At Last"), leukemia.
- Jimmy Castor, 64, American funk and R&B saxophonist ("Troglodyte (Cave Man)").
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See also
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