Deaths in 2012
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- Stanley Long, 78, British filmmaker (Naughty!).
- Thomas Szasz, Hungarian-American psychiatrist (b. 1920).
- Stephen Dwoskin, 73, American experimental filmmaker.
- Christine Brooke-Rose, writer and literary critic (born 1923)
- Andre Lewis, 61, American musician and producer, better known as Mandré.
- Jacques Carelman, 83, French painter, illustrator and designer (Catalogue d'objets introuvables).
- Lina Romay, 57, Spanish actress.
- Mike Scaccia, 47, American musician,
- José Bénazéraf, 90, French film director and producer.
- Fontella Bass, 72, American singer ("Rescue Me"), complications from a heart attack.
- Ravi Shankar, 92, Indian musician.
- Oscar Niemeyer, 104, Brazilian architect, respiratory infection.
- Dave Brubeck, 91, American jazz pianist, heart failure.
- Pete Namlook, 51, German producer and composer, unknown causes.
- Gae Aulenti, 84, Italian architect and designer.
- Terry Callier, 67, American singer-songwriter.
- Jacques Barzun, 104, French-born American historian.
- Sylvia Kristel, 60, Dutch actress (Emmanuelle), model and singer, throat and liver cancer.
- Kōji Wakamatsu, 76, Japanese film director, traffic collision.
- Eric Hobsbawm, 95, British historian.
- Joe South, 72, American singer-songwriter ("Down in the Boondocks", "Games People Play", "Hush", "Rose Garden"). heart failure.
- 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.
- Ranking Trevor, 60, Jamaican reggae musician, traffic collision.
- 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).
- Robin Gibb, 62, British singer and songwriter (Bee Gees), colon and liver cancer.
- Donna Summer, 63, American disco singer ("Hot Stuff", "Last Dance", "I Feel Love"), lung cancer.
- Carlos Fuentes, 83, Mexican novelist.
- Vidal Sassoon, 84, British hairstylist.
- 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.
- Hilton Kramer, 84, American art critic.
- Jean Giraud, 73, French comic book artist (Blueberry, Métal Hurlant) and production designer (Tron, Alien).
- Winston Riley, 65, Jamaican reggae musician and producer, complications of shooting.
- Dory Previn, 86, American singer-songwriter (Mythical Kings and Iguanas) and lyricist (Valley of the Dolls, Last Tango in Paris).
- Whitney Houston, 48, American singer and actress.
- Ben Gazzara, 81, American actor (Tales of Ordinary Madness), pancreatic cancer.
- Zalman King, 69, American film director (Wild Orchid) and producer (9½ Weeks).
- 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.
- King Stitt, 71, Jamaican singer.
- Etta James, 73, American singer ("At Last").
- Johnny Otis, 90, American R&B singer-songwriter.
- Jimmy Castor, 64, American funk and R&B saxophonist ("Troglodyte (Cave Man)").
- Eve Arnold, 99, American photographer.
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