* Markus Weimer, The Peace Dividend: Analysis of a Decade of Angolan Indicators, 2002 – 2012

* 2012 – The Independent State of Azawad is declared.

* 1919 – István Anhalt, Hungarian-Canadian composer ( d. 2012 )

* 1983 – Anthony Sedlak, Canadian chef ( d. 2012 )

* 2012 – NASA's Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars.

* 1916 – Dom Mintoff, Maltese politician and journalist, 8th Prime Minister of Malta ( d. 2012 )

* 1935 – Fortunato Baldelli, Italian cardinal ( d. 2012 )

* 1942 – Byard Lancaster, American saxophonist ( d. 2012 )

* 1945 – Aleksandr Gorelik, Russian figure skater ( d. 2012 )

* 1963 – Whitney Houston, American singer-songwriter, actress, and producer ( d. 2012 )

* 1914 – Big Walter Price, American singer-songwriter and pianist ( d. 2012 )

* 2012 – Ekrem Bora, Turkish actor ( b. 1934 )

* 2012 – Lionel Bowen, Australian politician ( b. 1922 )

* 2012 – Giorgio Chinaglia, Italian footballer ( b. 1947 )

* 2012 – Miguel de la Madrid, Mexican politician, President of Mexico ( b. 1934 )

* 2012 – Leila Denmark, American pediatrician ( b. 1898 )

* 2012 – Jamaa Fanaka, American director, producer, and screenwriter ( b. 1942 )

* 2012 – Jerry Lynch, American baseball player ( b. 1930 )

* 2012 – N. K. P. Salve, Indian politician ( b. 1921 )

* 1933 – Pierluigi Vigna, Italian magistrate ( d. 2012 )

* 1921 – Richard Adler, American songwriter and composer ( d. 2012 )

* 1923 – Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria ( d. 2012 )

* 1928 – Henning Moritzen, Danish actor ( d. 2012 )

* 2012 – John Berry, English motorcycle racing promoter and manager ( b. 1944 )

* 2012 – Martin Fleischmann, Czech-English chemist ( b. 1927 )

Charles Babbage, Alan Turing und John von Neumann Oldenbourg Verlag, München 2012, XXVI, 224 Seiten, ISBN 978-3-486-71366-4

* 1938 – Alan Hacker, English clarinet player ( d. 2012 )

An article in the 26 July 2012 Philadelphia Metro ( p. 8 ) says there will be a new Yes album in 2013, according to Alan White.

on 2012 Madurai celebrated the Asia ’ s first international gender queer pride parade and the Alan Turing Rainbow Festival.

Broadcast 20 September to 4 October 1981, it was dramatised by Barry Campbell starring Derek Jacobi as Hugh Conway and Alan Wheatley as the High Lama, and re-broadcast 8 September to 10 September 2010 on BBC Radio 7, and again in March 2012 on BBC Radio 4 Extra.

Though Shooter had previously displayed no problems with the belief on the part of fans that the character Element Lad was gay when Shooter had been the writer on Legion of Super-Heroes, Alan Kistler reported in a 2012 Comic Book Resources article that at Marvel, Shooter had declared a policy that there were " no gays in the Marvel Universe.

* Alan Miller & Ronen Perry, Good Faith Revisited, 98 Iowa Law Review ( 2012 )

* Alan Carr-comedian ( mentioned at the end of ' Chatty Man ' featuring Kylie Minogue, which aired on 1st June 2012 )

BamaJam 2011 was cancelled, but the show returned to BamaJam Farms in June 2012 with Eric Church, Tim McGraw, Ronnie Milsap, Alan Jackson, The Zac Brown Band, Sheryl Crow, and Kid Rock.

Members of the New Providence Borough Council are Council President Michael Gennaro ( 2013 ), James Cucco ( 2012 ), Armand Gallucio ( 2014 ), Alan Lesnowich ( serving unexpired term ending December 31, 2012 ), Robert Muñoz ( 2013 ) and Robert T. Robinson ( 2014 ).

Members of the Frelinghuysen Township Committee are Mayor Tom Charles ( R, 2012 ), Deputy Mayor Dave Boynton ( R, 2011 ), Alan DeCarolis ( R, 2013 ), Frank Desidero ( R, 2013 ) and Dale Durling ( R, 2012 ).

* Alan Partridge: Welcome to the Places of My Life ( Sky Atlantic, Special ) 2012

* Alan Partridge on Open Books with Martin Bryce ( Sky Atlantic, Special ) 2012

The Observatory is the site of several episodes in the novel Boneland, by Alan Garner ( 2012 ), and the central character, Colin Whisterfield, is an astrophysicist on its staff.

Series scheduled to premiere in 2012 and / or are currently in development include Transporter: The Series, Alan Ball's Banshee and Steve Kronish's Sandbox.

On March 29, 2012, Smith expressed his interest in producing Clerks III as a Broadway play after seeing the Theresa Rebeck comedy Seminar starring Alan Rickman, whom Smith had previously worked with on Dogma.

** “ Algol ,” written by Alan Grant, art by Carlos Ezquerra, in 2000 AD # 1780 – 1785 ( 2012 )

In early 2012 Status Quo filmed their first ever cinematic documentary with Emmy nominated director Alan G Parker.

The 1st Light Cavalry Regiment, " Glorious Hussars of Junín "-Liberator of Perú formed a personal mounted guard to the Peruvian President, established by President Alan García Pérez in 1987, however by the Ministerial Resolution No 139-2012 / DE / EP of February 2, 2012, signed in the current government of Mr. Ollanta Humala Tasso, is approved and authorized the restoration of the Regiment of Cavalry " Field Marshal Domingo Nieto " Escort of the President of the Republic of Peru as the official escort of the President of the Republic of Peru, giving as main mission to guarantee the security of the President of the Republic and the Government Palace of Perú in Lima.

The 2012 Loebner Prize Competition was held on the 15th of May in Bletchley Park in Bletchley, Buckinghamshire, England, in honor of the Alan Turing centenary celebrations.

* Fashion Beast, a 1980s screenplay by Alan Moore that was adapted into a graphic novel in 2012

* In Jackson v. Abercrombie, federal District Court judge Alan Kay on August 8, 2012, citing Baker v. Nelson as controlling, rejected the claim by two lesbians that Hawaii's failure to provide for same-sex marriage violated the U. S. Constitution's guarantees of due process and equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment.