Those Who Left Us In 2012

(The above image is The Garden of Death by Hugo Simberg in 1896.)

As is usual in this fleeting moment that we call life, there were many deaths in 2012. Here are some of the more well-known people who left us this year:

12/27 -- Norman Schwarzkopf (U.S. Army General)
12/24 -- Charles Durning (actor)
12/24 -- Jack Klugman (actor)
12/19 -- Robert Bork (former U.S. Attorney General)
12/17 -- Frank Pastore (baseball player)
12/17 -- Daniel Inouye (U.S. Senator)
12/11 -- Ravi Shankar (musician)
12/08 -- Jerry Brown (football player)
12/05 -- Dave Brubeck (musician)
12/04 -- Jack Brooks (congressman)
12/01 -- Jovan belcher (football player)

11/28 -- Zig Ziglar (motivational speaker)
11/24 -- Hector Camacho (boxer)
11/23 -- Larry Hagman (actor)
11/08 -- Lee MacPhail (baseball executive)
11/07 -- Darrell Royal (football coach)
11/02 -- Milt Campbell (decathlon athlete, football player)
11/01 -- Pascual Perez (baseball player)

10/25 -- Emanuel Steward (boxing coach and commentator)
10/22 -- Russell Means (activist)
10/21 -- George McGovern (U.S. Senator, presidential candidate)
10/18 -- Eddie Yost (baseball player)
10/14 -- Arlen Specter (U.S. Senator)
10/10 -- Sam Gibbons (congressman)
10/10 -- Alex Karras (actor, football player)

9/27 -- Herbert Lom (actor)
9/25 -- Andy Williams (singer)
9/18 -- Steve Sabol (sports film producer)
9/11 -- Christopher Stevens (U.S. Ambassador)
9/08 -- Bill Moggridge (created first laptop computer)
9/06 -- Jake Eberts (movie producer)
9/06 -- Art Modell (owner of Baltimore Ravens)
9/03 -- Michael Clarke Duncan (actor)
9/01 -- Hal David (songwriter)

8/27 -- Malcolm Browne (photo-journalist)
8/25 -- Neil Armstrong (astronaut)
8/20 -- Phyllis Diller (comedian)
8/19 -- Tony Scott (film director)
8/16 -- William Windom (actor)
8/14 -- Ron Palillo (actor)
8/13 -- Helen Gurley Brown (writer, magazine editor)
8/13 -- Johnny Pesky (baseball player and manager)
8/07 -- Judith Crist (film critic)
8/06 -- Marvin Hamlisch (music composer)
8/05 -- Fred Matua (football player)

7/31 -- Gore Vidal (writer)
7/27 -- Norman Alden (actor)
7/26 -- Lupe Ontiveros (actress)
7/24 -- Sherman Hemsley (actor)
7/23 -- Sally Ride (astronaut)
7/08 -- Ernest Borgnine (actor)
7/03 -- Andy Griffith (actor)
7/01 -- Alan Poindexter (astronaut)

6/30 -- Yitzhak Shamir (Israeli Prime Minister)
6/26 -- Nora Ephron (writer)
6/26 -- Pat Cummings (basketball player)
6/21 -- Richard Adler (music composer)
6/20 -- LeRoy Neiman (artist)
6/19 -- Richard Lynch (actor)
6/17 -- Rodney King (his beating by police started Los Angeles riots)
6/13 -- Erica Kennedy (writer)
6/12 -- Henry Hill (gangster)
6/11 -- Ann Rutherford (actress)
6/08 -- Frank Cady (actor)
6/07 -- Bob Welch (musician)
6/05 -- Ray Bradbury (writer)
6/02 -- Richard Dawson (actor)

5/31 -- Orlando Woolridge (basketball player)
5/30 -- Pete Cosey (musician)
5/30 -- Jack Twyman (basketball player)
5/27 -- Johnny Tapia (boxer)
5/22 -- Eugene Polley (invented the remote control)
5/20 -- Robin Gibb (singer)
5/19 -- Bob Boozer (basketball player)
5/17 -- Donna Summer (singer)
5/15 -- Carlos Fuentes (writer)
5/13 -- Donald "Duck" Dunn (musician)
5/09 -- Vidal Sassoon (hair stylist)
5/08 -- Maurice Sendak (writer)
5/06 -- George Lindsey (actor)
5/04 -- Adam Yauch (singer)
5/02 -- Junior Seau (football player)

4/21 -- Charles Colson (special counsel to R. Nixon)
4/19 -- Levon Helm (musician)
4/18 -- Dick Clark (TV host)
4/09 -- Mark Lenzi (diver and diving coach)
4/07 -- Mike Wallace (journalist)

3/27 -- Adrienne Rich (poet)
3/12 -- Michael Hossack (musician)
3/08 -- Jimmy Ellis (singer)

2/29 -- Davy Jones (singer)
2/25 -- Red Holloway (musician)
2/24 -- Jan Berenstain (writer)
2/22 -- Marie Colvin (journalist)
2/11 -- Whitney Houston (singer)
2/03 -- Zalman King (actor, director)
2/03 -- Ben Gazzara (actor)
2/01 -- David Peaston (singer)
2/01 -- Don Cornelius (TV host)

1/26 -- Robert Hegyes (actor, teacher)
1/22 -- Joe Paterno (football coach)
1/20 -- Etta James (singer)
1/19 -- Sarah Burke (skier)
1/03 -- Bob Weston (musician)