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Gregorian Year
2012 (MMXII) was
a leap year starting on
Sunday of the Gregorian calendar,
the 2012th year of the Common Era (CE)
and Anno Domini (AD)
designations, the 12th year of the 3rd millennium, the 12th year of
the 21st century,
and the 3rd year of the 2010s decade. 2012 was designated as: ·
International
Year of Cooperatives[1] ·
International
Year of Sustainable Energy for All[2] Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] January[edit] ·
January 7 – A hot air balloon crashes near
Carterton, New Zealand, killing all 11 people on board. ·
January 10 – A bombing in Khyber Agency, Pakistan, kills at least 30
people and 78 others injured. ·
January 12 – Violent protests occur in Bucharest, Romania, as two-day-old
demonstrations continue against President Traian Băsescu's
economic austerity measures. Clashes are reported in numerous Romanian cities
between protesters and law enforcement officers. ·
January 13 – The passenger cruise
ship Costa Concordia sinks
off the coast of Italy due to the captain Francesco Schettino's negligence
and irresponsibility. There are 32 confirmed deaths. ·
January 19 – The Hong Kong-based
file-sharing website Megaupload is
shut down by the FBI. ·
January 23 – Iran–European
Union relations: the European Union adopts an embargo against Iran in
protest of its continued effort to enrich uranium.[3] February[edit] ·
February 6 – The Diamond
Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II marks the 60th anniversary of
her accession to the thrones of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, and the 60th anniversary of her
becoming Head of the
Commonwealth.[4][5] ·
February 19 – Iran suspends
oil exports to Britain and France, following sanctions put in place by the
European Union and the United States in January.[6] ·
February 21 – Greek
government-debt crisis: Eurozone finance ministers reach an
agreement on a second, €130-billion Greek bailout.[7] March[edit] ·
March 13 – After 246 years since its
first publication, the Encyclopædia
Britannica discontinues its print edition.[8] ·
March 22 – The President
of Mali, Amadou Toumani Touré,
is ousted in a coup d'état after
mutinous soldiers attack government offices.[9] April[edit] ·
April 6 – The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad unilaterally
declares the independence of Azawadfrom Mali.[10] ·
April 12 – Mutinous soldiers in Guinea-Bissau stage a coup
d'état and take control of the capital city, Bissau. They arrest interim President Raimundo Pereira and leading
presidential candidate Carlos Gomes Júnior in
the midst of a presidential
election campaign.[11] ·
April 13 – Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3,
a North Korean Earth
observation satellite, explodes shortly after launch. The United
States and other countries had called the impending launch a violation
of United
Nations Security Councildemands.[12] The launch was planned to mark the centenary of the
birth of Kim Il-sung, the
founder of the republic.[12] ·
April 26 – Former Liberian President Charles
Taylor is found guilty on 11 counts of aiding and abetting
war crimes and crimes against humanity during the Sierra Leone Civil
War.[13] May[edit] ·
May 2 – A pastel version of The Scream, by the Norwegian
painter Edvard Munch,
sells for US$120 million in a New York City auction, setting a new world
record for an auctioned work of art.[14][15] ·
May 7 – Vladimir Putin is elected President of
Russia. ·
May 12 – August 12 – The 2012 World Expo takes place in Yeosu, South Korea.[16] ·
May 22 – Tokyo Skytree, the tallest
self-supporting tower in the world at 634 metres high, is
opened to the public.[17] June[edit] ·
June 5–6 – The century's second
and last solar transit of Venus occurs. The next pair
are predicted to occur in 2117 and 2125.[18] ·
June 8 – July 1 – Poland and Ukraine jointly host the UEFA Euro 2012 football tournament,
which is won by Spain. ·
June 18 – Shenzhou 9, a Chinese spacecraft carrying three Chinese
astronauts, including the first-ever female, docks manually with orbiting module Tiangong-1, making them the third country,
after the United States and Russia, to successfully perform the mission.[19] ·
June 24 – Lonesome George, the last known individual
of the Pinta Island
tortoise subspecies, dies in Galápagos
National Park, thus making the subspecies extinct.[20] ·
June 30 – Mohamed Morsi, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood,
is elected 5th President of Egypt, sparking mixed
reactions and protests throughout the country.[21] July[edit] ·
July 4 – CERN announces
the discovery of a new particle with properties consistent with the Higgs boson after experiments at
the Large Hadron
Collider.[22][23][24][25][26] ·
July 20 – 2012 Aurora shooting:
Twelve people die and 58 are injured in a mass shooting at a movie theater
in Aurora, Colorado.
The shooter, James Holmes, opens fire on a crowd during a screening of The Dark Knight
Rises. He is found behind the theater claiming to be "The Joker".[27] ·
July 27 – August 12 – The 2012 Summer Olympics are
held in London, England, United Kingdom.[28] ·
July 30–31 – In the worst power outage in world
history, the 2012 India blackouts leave
620 million people without power.[29][30][31] August[edit] ·
August 6 – Curiosity,
the Mars Science
Laboratory mission's rover, successfully lands on Mars.[32] ·
August 31 – Armenia severs
diplomatic relations with Hungary, following the extradition
to Azerbaijan and subsequent pardoning
of Ramil Safarov,
who was convicted of killing an Armenian soldier in Hungary in 2004. The move
is also met with fierce criticism from other countries.[33] September[edit] ·
September 7 – Canada officially cuts diplomatic
ties with Iran by closing its
embassy in Tehran, and orders the expulsion of Iranian
diplomats from Ottawa, over support
for Syria, nuclear plans and human rights
abuses.[34] ·
September 11–27 – A series of terrorist attacks are
directed against United States diplomatic missions worldwide, as well as
diplomatic missions of Germany, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. In the
US, opinions are divided over whether the attacks are a reaction to
a YouTube trailer for the film Innocence of Muslims.
In Libya, among the dead is US
ambassador J. Christopher
Stevens.[35][36][37][38][39] October[edit] ·
October 14 – Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner becomes
the first person to break the sound barrier without any machine
assistance during a record space dive out of the Red Bull Stratos helium-filled balloon from 128,000 ft
equaling 24 miles (39 km) over Roswell, New Mexico in
the United States.[40][41][42] ·
October 16 – Seven paintings worth $25
million are stolen from the Kunsthal in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.[43][44][45][46] November[edit] ·
November 6 – Barack Obama is reelected President
of the United States. ·
November 13 – A total solar eclipse
occurred in parts of Australia and the South Pacific. ·
November 14–21 – Israel launches Operation
Pillar of Defense against the Palestinian-governed Gaza Strip, killing Hamas military chief Ahmed Jabari. In the following week 140
Palestinians and five Israelis are killed in an ensuing cycle of violence. A
ceasefire between Israel and Hamas is announced by Egyptian
Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr and US Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton after
the week-long escalation in hostilities in Southern
Israel and the Gaza Strip.[47][48][49][50][51] ·
November 25–December 9 – Typhoon Bopha, known as "Pablo" in
the Philippines, kills at least 1,067 with around 838 people still missing.
The typhoon causes considerable damage in the island of Mindanao.[52][53][54] ·
November 29 – The UN
General Assembly approves a motion granting Palestine non-member
observer state status.[55] December[edit] ·
December 8 – In Qatar, the UN Climate Change Conference agrees to extend
the Kyoto Protocol until
2020.[56] ·
December 14 – Sandy
Hook Elementary School shooting: Twenty-eight people, including
the gunman, are killed in Sandy Hook, Connecticut. Births[edit] ·
January 24 – Princess
Athena of Denmark ·
February 23 – Princess
Estelle, Duchess of Östergötland Deaths[edit] Main article: Deaths in 2012 Further
information: Category:2012 deaths January[edit]
·
January 1 – Kiro Gligorov, 1st President of the Republic
of Macedonia (b. 1917) ·
Josef Škvorecký,
Czech writer (b. 1924) ·
Bob Weston,
British musician (b. 1947) ·
January 9 – Malam Bacai Sanhá,
4th President of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1947) ·
Rauf Denktaş, Cypriot-born politician
(b. 1924) ·
Miljan Miljanić,
Yugoslavian-born footballer (b. 1930) ·
January 15 – Manuel Fraga
Iribarne, Spanish politician (b. 1922) ·
Etta James, American singer (b. 1938) ·
Jiří Raška,
Czech ski jumper (b. 1941) ·
January 22 – Joe Paterno, American football coach
(b. 1926) ·
January 24 – Theodoros
Angelopoulos, Greek filmmaker (b. 1935) ·
François Migault,
French racing driver (b. 1944) ·
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro,
9th President of Italy (b. 1918) ·
January 31 – Leslie Carter, American pop singer (b. 1986) February[edit]
·
February 1 – Wisława
Szymborska, Polish Nobel poet (b. 1923) ·
Ben Gazzara, American actor (b. 1930) ·
Samuel Youd, British author (b. 1922) ·
February 4 – Florence Green, English supercentenarian
(b. 1901) ·
February 6 – Antoni Tàpies, Spanish artist (b. 1923) ·
February 11 – Whitney Houston, American singer and actress
(b. 1963) ·
February 18 – George Brizan, 8th Prime Minister of Grenada
(b. 1942) ·
February 19 – Renato Dulbecco, Italian-born American Nobel
virologist (b. 1914) ·
February 25 – Maurice André, French trumpeter (b. 1933) ·
February 27 – Tina Strobos, Dutch psychiatrist known for
rescuing Jews during World War II (b. 1920) ·
February 29 – Davy Jones,
British singer and actor (b. 1945) March[edit]
Pope
Shenouda III of Alexandria
·
March 1 ·
Andrew Breitbart, American writer and
publisher (b. 1969) ·
Lucio Dalla, Italian singer-songwriter
(b. 1943) ·
March 6 ·
Francisco
Xavier do Amaral, 1st President of East Timor (b. 1937) ·
Sayuri Yamauchi, Japanese voice actress
(b. 1956) ·
March 7 – Włodzimierz
Smolarek, Polish footballer (b. 1957) ·
March 10 ·
Jean Giraud, French comics artist (b. 1938) ·
Frank Sherwood
Rowland, American Nobel chemist (b. 1927) ·
March 14 – Ċensu Tabone, 4th President of Malta
(b. 1913) ·
March 16 – Estanislau Basora,
Spanish footballer (b. 1926) ·
March 17 ·
John Demjanjuk, Ukrainian-American Nazi war
crimes defendant (b. 1920) ·
Pope Shenouda
III of Alexandria (b. 1923) ·
March 18 – George Tupou V, King of Tonga (b. 1948) ·
March 21 – Tonino Guerra, Italian screenwriter
(b. 1920) ·
March 23 ·
Abdullahi Yusuf
Ahmed, President of Somalia (2004–2008) (b. 1934) ·
Chico Anysio, Brazilian actor, comedian,
writer, and composer (b. 1931) ·
Naji Talib, 52nd Prime Minister of Iraq
(b. 1917) ·
March 25 – Antonio Tabucchi, Italian writer (b. 1943) ·
March 27 – Adrienne Rich, American writer and feminist
(b. 1929) ·
March 28 ·
Alexander Arutiunian,
Armenian composer (b. 1920) ·
Earl Scruggs, American bluegrass musician
(b. 1924) April[edit]
·
April 1 ·
Lionel Bowen, Australian politician
(b. 1922) ·
Giorgio Chinaglia,
Italian footballer (b. 1947) ·
Miguel de la Madrid,
52nd President of Mexico (b. 1934) ·
April 2 – Elizabeth Catlett,
African-American artist (b. 1915) ·
April 5 – Bingu wa Mutharika,
3rd President of Malawi (b. 1934) ·
April 7 ·
Mike Wallace, American journalist (b. 1918) ·
April 9 – Takeshi Aono, Japanese voice actor (b. 1936) ·
April 11 – Ahmed Ben Bella, 1st President of Algeria
(b. 1916) ·
April 15 – Murray Rose, Australian swimmer (b. 1939) ·
April 16 – Mærsk Mc-Kinney
Møller, Danish shipping magnate (b. 1913) ·
April 18 – Dick Clark, American television host and
producer (b. 1929) ·
April 19 – Levon Helm, American musician (b. 1940) ·
April 20 – Valeri Vasiliev, Russian ice hockey player
(b. 1949) ·
April 21 – Charles Colson, American evangelist
(b. 1931) ·
April 23 – Roland Dale, American football player
(b. 1927) ·
April 28 – Ervin Zádor, Hungarian water polo player
(b. 1935) ·
April 29 ·
Shukri Ghanem, Prime Minister of Libya
(2003–2006) (b. 1942) ·
Joel Goldsmith, American composer (b. 1957) ·
April 30 – Alexander Dale Oen,
Norwegian swimmer (b. 1985) May[edit]
·
May 2 – Junior Seau, American football player
(b. 1969) ·
May 3 – Jorge Illueca, 25th President of Panama
(b. 1918) ·
May 4 – Rashidi Yekini, Nigerian footballer
(b. 1963) ·
May 5 – Carl Johan
Bernadotte (b. 1916) ·
May 6 – George Lindsey, American actor (b. 1928) ·
May 8 – Maurice Sendak, American author (b. 1928) ·
May 9 ·
Geoffrey Henry, 2-Time Prime Minister of
Cook Islands (b. 1940) ·
Vidal Sassoon, British hairdresser (b. 1928) ·
May 10 – Carroll Shelby, American automotive
designer, racing driver and entrepreneur (b. 1923) ·
May 14 – Taruni Sachdev, Indian actress (b. 1998) ·
May 15 ·
Carlos Fuentes, Panamanian-born Mexican
writer (b. 1928) ·
Zakaria Mohieddin,
Egyptian general and politician (b. 1918) ·
May 17 – Donna Summer, American singer (b. 1948) ·
May 18 – Dietrich
Fischer-Dieskau, German lyric baritone and conductor (b. 1925) ·
May 20 – Robin Gibb, British-Australian musician
(b. 1949) ·
May 29 – Kaneto Shindo, Japanese film director
(b. 1912) ·
May 30 – Andrew Huxley, British Nobel physiologist
(b. 1917) June[edit]
·
June 2 – Kathryn Joosten, American actress (b. 1939) ·
June 3 – Roy Salvadori, British racing driver
(b. 1922) ·
June 4 – Eduard Khil, Russian baritone (b. 1934) ·
June 5 – Ray Bradbury, American author (b. 1920) ·
June 6 – Manuel Preciado,
Spanish footballer and coach (b. 1957) ·
June 7 – Bob Welch,
American musician (b. 1945) ·
June 11 ·
Ann Rutherford, Canadian-born American
actress (b. 1917) ·
Teófilo Stevenson,
Cuban Olympic boxer (b. 1952) ·
June 12 – Elinor Ostrom, American Nobel economist
(b. 1933) ·
June 13 – William Standish
Knowles, American Nobel chemist (b. 1917) ·
June 14 – Yvette Wilson, American actress and comedian
(b. 1964) ·
June 16 – Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz
Al Saud, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia (b. 1934) ·
June 17 – Rodney King, American criminal and victim of
police brutality (b. 1965) ·
June 26 – Nora Ephron, American film director and
screenwriter (b. 1941) ·
June 30 – Yitzhak Shamir, 7th Prime Minister of Israel
(b. 1915) July[edit]
·
July 1 – Alan G. Poindexter,
American astronaut (b. 1961) ·
July 3 ·
Andy Griffith, American actor (b. 1926) ·
Sergio Pininfarina,
Italian automobile designer (b. 1926) ·
July 8 – Ernest Borgnine, American actor (b. 1917) ·
July 9 – Terepai Maoate, 6th Prime Minister of the
Cook Islands (b. 1934) ·
July 12 – Dara Singh, Indian wrestler, actor, and
politician (b. 1928) ·
July 13 – Richard D. Zanuck,
American film producer (b. 1934) ·
July 14 – Sixten Jernberg, Swedish cross-country skier
(b. 1929) ·
July 15 – Celeste Holm, American actress (b. 1917) ·
July 16 ·
Stephen Covey, American author (b. 1932) ·
Jon Lord, British musician and composer
(b. 1941) ·
July 19 – Omar Suleiman, Egyptian general, diplomat
and intelligence officer (b. 1936) ·
July 23 – Sally Ride, American astronaut and physicist
(b. 1951) ·
July 24 ·
John Atta Mills, President of Ghana
(b. 1944) ·
Gregorio Peces-Barba,
Spanish politician (b. 1938) ·
July 27 – Jack Taylor,
English football referee (b. 1930) ·
July 29 – Chris Marker, French writer and documentary
filmmaker (b. 1921) ·
July 30 – Maeve Binchy, Irish author (b. 1939) ·
July 31 – Gore Vidal, American author, playwright,
screenwriter, and political activist (b. 1925) August[edit]
·
August 5 – Chavela Vargas, Costa Rican-born Mexican
singer (b. 1919) ·
August 6 ·
Marvin Hamlisch, American composer and
conductor (b. 1944) ·
Bernard Lovell, British physicist and
astronomer (b. 1913) ·
August 12 – Alf Morris, British politician (b. 1928) ·
August 14 – Svetozar
Gligorić, Serbian chess grandmaster (b. 1923) ·
August 15 – Harry Harrison,
American author (b. 1925) ·
August 18 – Scott McKenzie, American singer and
songwriter (b. 1939) ·
August 19 – Tony Scott, British film director (b. 1944) ·
Phyllis Diller, American comedian (b. 1917) ·
Dom Mintoff, 8th Prime Minister of Malta
(b. 1916) ·
Meles Zenawi, 3rd President and 10th Prime
Minister of Ethiopia (b. 1955) ·
August 21 – William Thurston, American mathematician
(b. 1946) ·
August 23 – Jerry Nelson, American puppeteer (b. 1934) ·
Pauli Ellefsen, 6th Prime Minister of Faroe
Islands (b. 1936) ·
Félix Miélli
Venerando, Brazilian footballer (b. 1937) ·
August 25 – Neil Armstrong, American astronaut (b. 1930) ·
Carlo Maria Martini,
Cardinal Archbishop of Milan (b. 1927) ·
Sergey
Leonidovich Sokolov, Soviet military commander (b. 1911) September[edit]
·
Hal David, American lyricist (b. 1921) ·
Smarck Michel, 6th Prime Minister of Haiti
(b. 1937) ·
Michael Clarke
Duncan, American actor (b. 1957) ·
Sun Myung Moon, Korean religious leader
(b. 1920) ·
September 8 – Thomas Szasz, Hungarian-American
psychiatrist (b. 1920) ·
September 12 – Sid Watkins, British neurosurgeon (b. 1928) ·
September 14 – Stephen Dunham, American actor (b. 1964) ·
September 16 – Ragnhild
Alexandra Lorentzen, Princess of Norway (b. 1930) ·
September 18 – Santiago Carrillo,
Spanish politician (b. 1915) ·
Pavel Grachev, Russian military commander
(b. 1948) ·
Corrie Sanders, South African boxer
(b. 1966) ·
September 25 – Andy Williams, American singer (b. 1927) ·
September 26 – Johnny Lewis, American actor (b. 1983) ·
September 27 – Herbert Lom, Czech-born actor (b. 1917) ·
September 28 – Michael O'Hare, American actor (b. 1952) ·
September 30 – Barbara Ann Scott,
Canadian Olympic figure skater (b. 1928) October[edit]
·
October 1 – Eric Hobsbawm, British Marxist historian
(b. 1917) ·
October 6 – Chadli Bendjedid, 3rd President of Algeria
(b. 1929) ·
October 9 – Sammi Kane Kraft, American child actress
(b. 1992) ·
October 11 – Helmut Haller, German footballer (b. 1939) ·
October 14 – Arlen Specter, American politician (b. 1930) ·
October 15 – King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia (b. 1922) ·
October 17 – Sylvia Kristel, Dutch actress (b. 1952) ·
October 20 – E. Donnall Thomas,
American Nobel physician (b. 1920) ·
Yash Chopra, Indian film director and
producer (b. 1932) ·
George McGovern, American politician,
historian and author (b. 1922) ·
October 22 – Russell Means, American Sioux actor and
activist (b. 1939) ·
October 24 – Margaret Osborne
duPont, American tennis player (b. 1918) ·
October 27 – Hans Werner Henze,
German composer (b. 1926) November[edit]
·
November 1 – Mitch Lucker, American singer (b. 1984) ·
November 5 – Elliott Carter, American composer (b. 1908) ·
November 21 – Austin Peralta, American jazz musician and
composer (b. 1990) ·
November 23 – Larry Hagman, American actor (b. 1931) ·
Lars Hörmander,
Swedish mathematician (b. 1931) ·
Dave Sexton, English footballer and coach
(b. 1930) ·
November 26 – Joseph Murray, American Nobel surgeon
(b. 1919) ·
November 30 – I. K. Gujral, 12th Prime Minister of India
(b. 1919) December[edit]
·
December 4 – Miguel Calero, Colombian footballer
(b. 1971) ·
Dave Brubeck, American pianist (b. 1920) ·
Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian architect
(b. 1907) ·
December 6 – Miguel Abia
Biteo Boricó, 5th Prime Minister of Equatorial Guinea (b. 1961) ·
Jenni Rivera, Mexican-American
singer-songwriter, producer and actress (b. 1969) ·
Patrick Moore, British astronomer and
broadcaster (b. 1923) ·
December 10 – Iajuddin Ahmed, 13th President of Bangladesh
(b. 1931) ·
Ravi Shankar, Indian sitarist (b. 1920) ·
Galina Vishnevskaya,
Russian soprano (b. 1926) ·
December 12 – Joe Allbritton, American banker (b. 1924) ·
December 17 – Daniel Inouye, American politician (b. 1924) ·
December 20 – Don Campbell,
Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1925) ·
Charles Durning, American actor (b. 1923) ·
Jack Klugman, American actor (b. 1922) ·
December 26 – Gerry Anderson, British puppeteer and TV
producer (b. 1929) ·
December 27 – Norman
Schwarzkopf, Jr., American general (b. 1934) ·
December 30 – Rita Levi-Montalcini,
Italian Nobel neurologist (b. 1909) Nobel Prizes[edit]
·
Chemistry – Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka ·
Economics – Alvin E. Roth and Lloyd Shapley ·
Literature – Mo Yan ·
Peace – European Union ·
Physics – Serge Haroche and David J. Wineland ·
Physiology
or Medicine – John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka See also[edit]
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