Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron a los 12 años

Heather Michele O’Rourke fue una actriz estadounidense.

Nkosi Johnson fue un niño sudafricano que nació con VIH. Gracias a su labor como activista, pudo influir en las percepciones públicas sobre la pandemia y sus efectos antes de su muerte a los 12 años. Fue clasificado quinto entre los grandes sudafricanos de SABC3. Al momento de su muerte, era el niño nacido con VIH positivo que había sobrevivido más tiempo.

Polly Hannah Klaas was an American murder victim whose case garnered national media attention. On October 1, 1993, at the age of twelve, she was kidnapped at knife point during a slumber party at her mother's home in Petaluma, California. She was later strangled. Richard Allen Davis was convicted of her murder in 1996 and sentenced to death.

David Phillip Vetter was an American who was a prominent sufferer of severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), a hereditary disease which dramatically weakens the immune system. Individuals born with SCID are abnormally susceptible to infections, and exposure to typically innocuous pathogens can be fatal. Vetter was referred to as "David, the bubble boy" by the media, as a reference to the complex containment system used as part of the management of his SCID. Vetter's surname was not revealed to the general public until 10 years after his death in order to preserve his family's privacy.

Héctor Zolile Pitso o Hector Pieterson se convirtió en el ícono de los levantamientos de Soweto del año 1976 en la época del apartheid en Sudáfrica cuando el reportero gráfico Sam Nzima tomó una fotografía de Héctor agonizante en brazos de un compañero, Mbuyisa Makhubo, acompañado por la hermana de Héctor, Antoinette. Dicha fotografía dio la vuelta al mundo. Héctor fue asesinado a la edad de 12 años cuando la policía abrió fuego en contra de unos estudiantes que protestaban. Por años, el 16 de junio fue un símbolo de la resistencia a la brutalidad del gobierno del apartheid. Actualmente se le conoce como el Día Nacional de la Juventud, un día en el cual los sudafricanos celebran a sus jóvenes y prestan atención a sus necesidades.

Ceylan Önkol was a 12-year-old Kurdish girl who was killed by a howitzer by the Turkish military while she was pasturing sheep in Hambaz (Xambaz) hamlet of Şenlik village in Turkey's southeastern Lice district in Diyarbakır province on September 28, 2009. In the early days, the incident was thought to have occurred as a result of the explosion of a mortar shell allegedly thrown from the Tapantepe Police Station. However, according to the forensic medical report issued on 16 October, Ceylan struck an unexploded mortar shell in the countryside with a metal-powered device and caused it to explode, which resulted in her death.

Tomás Pablo Blanch Toledo, más conocido como Tomiii 11, fue un youtuber chileno. Logró conseguir 3 millones de suscriptores en YouTube en 24 horas, convirtiéndose en el canal que más suscriptores ha logrado en un sólo día. Durante su trayectoria, ganó varios galardones, entre los que destaca el premio chileno Copihue de Oro de 2021 y los botones de plata y oro, certificaciones con los que YouTube reconoce el contenido de los creadores dentro de su plataforma.

On November 22, 2014, Tamir Rice, a 12-year old African-American boy, was killed in Cleveland, Ohio, by Timothy Loehmann, a 26-year-old white police officer. Rice was carrying a replica toy gun; Loehmann shot him almost immediately after arriving on the scene. Two officers, Loehmann and 46-year-old Frank Garmback, were responding to a police dispatch call regarding a male who had a gun. A caller reported that a male was pointing "a pistol" at random people at the Cudell Recreation Center, a park in the City of Cleveland's Public Works Department. At the beginning of the call and again in the middle, he says of the pistol "it's probably fake." Toward the end of the two-minute call, the caller states that "he is probably a juvenile"; however, this information was not relayed to officers Loehmann and Garmback on the initial dispatch. The officers reported that upon their arrival, they both continuously yelled "show me your hands" through the open patrol car window. Loehmann further stated that instead of showing his hands, it appeared as if Rice was trying to draw: "I knew it was a gun and I knew it was coming out." The officer shot twice, hitting Rice once in the torso. According to Judge Ronald B. Adrine, "...On the video the zone car containing Patrol Officers Loehmann and Garmback is still in the process of stopping when Rice is shot." Rice died the following day.