Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 2012

Pierre Tornade fue un actor teatral, cinematográfico y televisivo de nacionalidad francesa, a lo largo de cuya carrera actuó en 128 producciones rodadas entre 1956 y 1998.

Victoria Fyódorova fue una actriz y escritora ruso-estadounidense. Nació poco después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, hija del Almirante de Estados Unidos Jackson Tate (1898-1978) y la actriz rusa Zoya Fyódorova (1909-1981), la pareja había tenido una breve aventura antes de que Tate fuese expulsado de Moscú por Iósif Stalin. Victoria Fyódorova escribió el libro de 1979, The Admiral's Daughter, que trataba sobre su experiencia de intentar reunirse con su padre.

Rikiya Yasuoka was a Japanese actor and singer of mixed Japanese and Italian descent.

William Rees-Mogg, Baron Rees-Mogg was a British newspaper journalist who was Editor of The Times from 1967 to 1981. In the late 1970s, he served as High Sheriff of Somerset, and in the 1980s was Chairman of the Arts Council of Great Britain and Vice-Chairman of the BBC's Board of Governors. He was the father of the politicians Jacob and Annunziata Rees-Mogg.

Masao Sen is a Japanese Enka singer and businessman, of Iwate Prefecture, known for the song 'Kitaguni no Haru'. He is affiliated with the talent agency NoReason Inc.

Roger Mark Boisjoly was an American mechanical engineer, fluid dynamicist, and an aerodynamicist. He is best known for having raised strenuous objections to the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger months before the loss of the spacecraft and its crew in January 1986. Boisjoly correctly predicted, based on earlier flight data, that the O-rings on the rocket boosters would fail if the shuttle launched in cold weather. Morton Thiokol's managers decided to launch the shuttle despite his warnings. He was considered a high-profile whistleblower.

Frank Alamo, nacido Jean-François Grandín, fue un cantante francés que alcanzó su mayor éxito en los años sesenta.

Wisława Szymborska, Maria Wisława Anna Szymborska fue una poeta, ensayista y traductora polaca, ganadora del Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1996.

Yash Raj Chopra fue un cineasta, director, guionista y productor indio. Waqt, Deewar, Kabhi Kabhie, Silsila, Lamhe, Chandni, Darr, Dil To Pagal Hai, and Veer-Zaara son algunas de sus películas más conocidas. Chopra fue el fundador de la productora Yash Raj Films.

Jean Struven Harris was the headmistress of The Madeira School for girls in McLean, Virginia, who made national news in the early 1980s when she was tried and convicted of the murder of her ex-lover, Herman Tarnower, a well-known cardiologist and author of the best-selling book The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet. The case is featured on the TV show Murder Made Me Famous.