The following is a list of notable deaths in February 2012.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference (and language of reference, if not English).
February 2012
1
Herb Adams, 83, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox). Gerlando Alberti, 84, Italian Sicilian Mafioso, cancer. Gerhard Bosse, 90, German violinist and conductor. Robert B. Cohen, 86, American businessman, founder of Hudson News, progressive supranuclear palsy. Herb Conn, 91, American climbing and caving pioneer. Don Cornelius, 75, American television host and producer (Soul Train), suicide by gunshot. Andrij Dobriansky, 81, Ukrainian-born American opera singer, diabetes and heart disease. Angelo Dundee, 90, American boxing trainer (Muhammad Ali). Joe Ekins, 88, British World War II soldier. Fabián Estapé, 88, Spanish economist. Jannatul Ferdous, 74, Bangladeshi teacher and politician. André Génovès, 70, French film producer and director. Tony Giorgio, 88, Italian-American actor and magician, heart failure. Sara González Gómez, 62 or 64, Cuban singer. John Harrison, 87, Australian Olympic rower. Ruth Hausmeister, 99, German actress (Zwei Brüder, The Longest Day). Ladislav Kuna, 64, Slovak football player and manager. Robert Lawless, 74, American anthropologist. Ardath Mayhar, 81, American author. Ingolf Mork, 64, Norwegian Olympic ski jumper. David Peaston, 54, American R&B singer, complications of diabetes. Lutz Philipp, 71, German Olympic athlete. Gilbert Poirot, 67, French Olympic ski jumper. Charlie Spoonhour, 72, American basketball coach (Southwest Missouri State, Saint Louis University), complications from lung disease. Jerry Steiner, 94, American basketball player (Fort Wayne Pistons). Andrzej Sztolf, 70, Polish Olympic ski jumper. Wisława Szymborska, 88, Polish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature (1996).
2
Joyce Barkhouse, 98, Canadian children's writer (Pit Pony), heart attack. Daphne Brooker, 84, British model, costume designer, and professor, bronchopneumonia. Paul Consbruch, 81, German Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Paderborn (1980–1999). Frederick William Danker, 91, American lexicographer and New Testament scholar. David Edelsten, 78, British writer and army officer. George Esper, 79, American journalist and foreign correspondent (Associated Press). Elwyn Friedrich, 78, Swiss Olympic ice hockey player, myocardial infarction. Luis Javier Garrido, 71, Mexican political analyst. Dorothy Gilman, 88, American spy novelist (The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax), complications of Alzheimer's disease. Jorge Glusberg, 79, Argentine author and curator, director of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. John Houlder, 95, British engineer. Nassib Lahoud, 67, Lebanese politician. James F. Lloyd, 89, American politician, U.S. Representative from California (1975–1981), stroke. Asko Mäkilä, 67, Finnish footballer
3
Steve Appleton, 51, American businessman (Micron Technology), plane crash. Christopher Asir, 64, Indian bishop, cancer. John Christopher, 89, British science fiction author (The Tripods, The Sword of the Spirits). HIM Damsyik, 82, Indonesian dancer and actor. Francis Patrick Donovan, 90, Australian academic, lawyer, and diplomat. Ben Gazzara, 81, American actor (Anatomy of a Murder, The Big Lebowski, Road House), pancreatic cancer. Terence Hildner, 49, American general, commander of the 13th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary). Raj Kanwar, 50, Indian film director and producer, kidney failure. Karibasavaiah, 52, Indian film actor. Zalman King, 69, American film director (Wild Orchid) and producer (9½ Weeks), cancer. Karlo Maquinto, 21, Filipino boxer. Mart Port, 90, Estonian architect. Jacob Salatun, 84, Indonesian ufologist. Andrzej Szczeklik, 73, Polish physician and educational administrator (Jagiellonian University Medical College). *Toh Chin Chye, 90, Singaporean politician, Deputy Prime Minister (1965–1968) and Minister for Health (1975–1981). Wilhelm Wachtmeister, 88, Swedish diplomat, Ambassador to the United States (1974–1989). Norton Zinder, 83, American microbiologist, pneumonia.