Notable deaths on January 12

American LGBTQ activist (1956–2026)

American actor (1934–2025)

American actress (1945–2025)

American singer-songwriter (1968–2023)

Indian politician (1947–2023)

American singer (1943–2022)

English philosopher (1944–2020)

American sports announcer (1928–2018)

English football player, manager and chairman (1944–2017)

American writer and filmmaker (1928–2017)

American baseball player

Soviet and Russian opera singer

Brazilian-born Dutch field hockey player

American novelist

Australian professor & academic (1927-2015)

British actress (1946–2014)

American politician (1924–2014)

American businessman and politician (1922–2014)

American journalist and civil rights activist

First Lady of Venezuela

American singer-songwriter

American politician (1939–2012)

Norwegian professor (1924 – 2012)

American diplomat