Notable deaths on May 12

American basketball player (1978–2026)

American football executive (1949–2024)

American saxophonist (1945–2024)

American film actor and producer (1933–2024)

American civil rights activist (1960–2020)

Scottish serial killer (1945–2018)

Finnish politician, President of Finland (1923–2017)

Trinidad and Tobago sprinter (1935–2016)

German-American historian and author (1923–2015)

German actress (1925–2014)

Swiss artist (1940–2014)

Mexican businessman and philanthropist

Cardinal of the Romanic Catholic Church

Indian actor

German political scientist, author, and academic (born 1946)

Belgian artist (1920–2012)

Dutch footballer (1921–2012)

Musical artist

Polish humanitarian and resistance fighter (1910–2008)

American painter and graphic artist (1925–2008)

Libyan politician (1918–2006)

Finnish physician and professor (1913–2005)

English Islamic scholar and philosopher (1909–2005)

Swedish jazz singer and actress (1937–2005)