- March 4
- Death of Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, 30th Prime Minister of Nepal (born 1924). [808]
- April 5
- Death of Ange-Félix Patassé, 5th President of the Central African Republic (born 1937). [808]
- May 1
- U.S. President Barack Obama announces that Osama bin Laden, the founder and leader of the militant group Al-Qaeda, has been killed during an American military operation in Pakistan. [808]
- May 9
- Death of Lidia Gueiler Tejada, 67th President of Bolivia (born 1921). [808]
- May 19
- Death of Garret FitzGerald, 7th Taoiseach of Ireland (born 1926). [808]
- May 29
- Death of Ferenc Mádl, 2nd President of Hungary (born 1931). [808]
- June 18
- Death of Frederick Chiluba, 2nd President of Zambia (born 1943). [808]
- July 2
- Death of Itamar Franco, 37th President of Brazil (born 1930). [808]
- July 4
- Death of Archduke Otto of Austria (born 1912). [808]
- July 17
- Death of Juan Maria Bordaberry, 36th President of Uruguay (born 1928). [808]
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- July 23
- Death of Nguyen Cao Ky, 8th Prime Minister of the Republic of Vietnam (born 1930). [808]
- July 30
- Death of Mario Echandi Jiménez, 47th President of Costa Rica (born 1915). [808]
- August 7
- Death of Harri Holkeri, 57th Prime Minister of Finland (born 1937). [808]
- August 14
- Death of Shamsher Raj Kapoor AKA Shammi Kapoor at age 79; Indian film actor and director (Tumsa Nahin Dekha (Never Seen Anyone Like You) 1957, Junglee (Wild) 1961, Dil Deke Dekho, An Evening in Paris, Kasmir Ki Kah). [808] [855]
- August 16
- Death of Andrej Bajuk, 3rd Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia (born 1943). [808]
- August 22
- Death of Jack Layton, Canadian politician, leader of opposition NDP, of cancer at age 61 (born 1950). [808] [855.31]
- September 19
- Death of George Cadle Price, 1st Prime Minister of Belize (born 1919). [808]
- September 20
- Death of Burhanuddin Rabbani, President of Afghanistan from 1992 to 1996 (born 1940). [808]
- September 22
- Death of Aristides Pereira, 1st President of Cape Verde (born 1923). [808]
- September 30
- Death of Ralph Steinman at age 68 of pancreatic cancer (2011 Nobel Prize for medicine). [35]
- The US CIA kills Islamist militant Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen in a drone strike. [35] [808]
- October 7
- Death of Ramiz Alia, 1st President of Albania (born 1925). [808]
- October 20
- Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is killed in Sirte, with National Transitional Council forces taking control of the city, and ending the war. [808]
- October 22
- Death of Sultan, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia (born 1930). [808]
- October 29
- Death of Sir Jimmy Savile at age 84; British entertainer (host of Jim'll Fix It TV show). [1584.34]
- November 28
- Death of Ante Markovic, 9th Prime Minister of SFR Yugoslavia (born 1924). [808]
- December 8
- Death of Sir Zelman Cowan, 19th Governor-General of Australia (born 1919). [808]
- December 17
- Death of Kim Jong-il, Supreme Leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (born 1941). [808] [1400.29]
- December 18
- Death of Václav Havel, Czech playwright, 10th President of Czechoslovakia and 1st President of the Czech Republic (born 1936). [808]
- December 27
- Death of Clifford Darling, 4th Governor-General of the Bahamas (born 1922). [808]
2012
- January 1
- Death of Kiro Gligorov, 1st President of the Republic of Macedonia (born 1917). [1014]
- January 9
- Death of Malam Bacai Sanhá, 6th and 12th President of Guinea-Bissau (born 1947). [1014]
- February 1
- Death of Wislawa Szymborska, Polish Nobel poet (born 1923). [1014]
- February 4
- Death of Florence Greenin of Great Britain, last World War I veteran of any nation. [816.10]
- February 11
- Death of Whitney Elizabeth Houston at age 48, in a bathtub at a hotel in Los Angeles, California; pop singer ("I Will Always Love You", "Saving All My Love for You"), 1986 Billboard artist of the year, six Grammy awards, actress (The Bodyguard movie). [854.94] [1014] [1447.60]
- February 19
- Death of Renato Dulbecco, Italian-born American Nobel virologist (born 1914). [1014]
- March 2
- Death of Norman Saint John-Stevas at age 82; academic, journalist, Conservative politician, Lord Saint John of Fawsley, Leader of the House of Commons in England. [853.70]
- Death of James Q. Wilson at age 80; Harvard professor of government for 26 years, author of Bureaucracy in 1989. [853]
- March 6
- Death of Francisco Xavier do Amaral, 1st President of East Timor (born 1937). [1014]
- March 14
- Death of Censu Tabone, 4th President of Malta (born 1913). [1014]
- March 17
- Death of John Demjanjuk, Ukrainian-American Nazi war crimes defendant (born 1920). [1014]
- Death of Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria, (born 1923). [1014]
- March 18
- Death of George Tupou V, King of Tonga (born 1948). [1014]
- March 23
- Death of Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, President of Somalia (2004-2008) (born 1934). [1014]
- Death of Naji Talib, 52nd Prime Minister of Iraq (born 1917). [1014]
- April 1
- Death of Miguel de la Madrid, 52nd President of Mexico (born 1934). [1014]
- April 5
- Death of Bingu wa Mutharika, 3rd President of Malawi (born 1934). [1014]
- April 6
- Death of Sydney Wignal at age 89; explorer, marine archaeologist, spied for Indian army climbing mountains in China. [862.94]
- April 11
- Death of Ahmed Ben Bella, 1st President of Algeria (born 1918). [1014]
- April 16
- Death of Maersk Mc-Kinney Møller, Danish shipping magnate (born 1913). [1014]
- April 18
- Death of Dick Clark, American television host and producer (born 1929). [1014]
- April 29
- Death of Shukri Ghanem, Prime Minister of Libya (2003-2006) (born 1942). [1014]
- May 10
- Death of Carroll Shelby, American automotive designer, racing driver and entrepreneur (born 1923). [1014]
- May 30
- Death of Andrew Huxley, British Nobel physiologist (born 1917). [1014]
- June 13
- Death of William Standish Knowles, American Nobel chemist (born 1917). [1014]
- June 16
- Death of Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia (born 1933). [1014]
- June 24
- The last known individual of the Pinta Island Tortoise subspecies, dies at Galapagos National Park, thus making the subspecies extinct. [1014]
- June 30
- Death of Yitzhak Shamir, 7th Prime Minister of Israel (born 1915). [1014]
- July 24
- Death of John Atta Mills, President of Ghana (born 1944). [1014]
- July 31
- Death of Eugene Louis Vidal AKA Gore Vidal at age 86; American author (The City and the Pillar (1948), Myra Breckinridge, Palimpsest), playwright, screenwriter, political activist (born 1925). [1014] [1095.82]
- August 20
- Death of Dom Mintoff, 8th Prime Minister of Malta (born 1916). [1014]
- Death of Meles Zenawi, 3rd President and 10th Prime Minister of Ethiopia (born 1955). [1014]
- August 23
- Death of James Corkery; former Mint Master of the Royal Canadian Mint (1982-87). [1160.1]
- August 25
- Death of Neil Armstrong at age 82 following cardiovascular surgery; American astronaut (Apollo 11 moon landing 1969). [991.6] [1014]
- August 31
- Death of Carlo Maria Martini, Cardinal Archbishop of Milan (born 1927). [1014]
- September 11
- (to September 27) A series of attacks are directed against United States diplomatic missions worldwide, as well as diplomatic missions of Germany, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. In Libya, among the dead is US ambassador J. Christopher Stevens. [1014]
- September 16
- Death of Ragnhild Alexandra Lorentzen, Princess of Norway, (born 1930). [1014]
- October 6
- Death of Chadli Bendjedid, 3rd President of Algeria (born 1929). [1014]
- October 15
- Death of King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia, (born 1922). [1014]
- October 20
- Death of E. Donnall Thomas, American Nobel physician (born 1920). [1014]
- November 14
- Israel launches Operation Pillar of Defense against the Palestinian-governed Gaza Strip, killing Hamas military chief Ahmed Jabari. [1014]
- November 26
- Death of Joseph Murray, American Nobel surgeon (born 1919). [1014]
- November 30
- Death of I. K. Gujral, 12th Prime Minister of India (born 1919). [1014]
- December 10
- Death of Iajuddin Ahmed, 13th President of Bangladesh (born 1931). [1014]
- December 21
- Death of Pierre Bequet at age 80; French postage stamp designer, over 700 stamps for 36 countries over 40 years, winner of Prix de Rome award in 1960. [1016.10]
- December 30
- Death of Rita Levi-Montalcini, Italian Nobel neurologist (born 1909). [1014]
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