* 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 )

* Carlo Maria Martini ( 1927 – 2012 ), Roman Catholic cardinal

In late 2012, Blue Man Group will open a show at the Monte Carlo, after previously performing shows at Luxor and The Venetian.

In the opening 2012 – 13 UEFA Champions League Group A match against FC Dynamo Kyiv on 18 Sep 2012, Ibrahimović scored his sixth goal in only his fifth appearance for Carlo Ancelotti's side through a penalty.

As of 2012, Wilkinson is the last English manager to have coached a team to the English league championship title ; the six subsequent winning managers have been Scottish ( Alex Ferguson and Kenny Dalglish ), French ( Arsène Wenger ), Portuguese ( José Mourinho ) and Italian ( Carlo Ancelotti and Roberto Mancini ).

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The Sri Lankan Rationalist Association, led by Professor Carlo Fonseka renewed the challenge in 2012 and increased the reward to Rs.

* September 30, 2012 — The Blue Man Group show will close and relocate to the Monte Carlo.

* Carlo Chiesa, La grande storia del calcio italiano, published in installments on Il Guerin Sportivo, April 2012 -...

* Carlo Piola Caselli, Il taccuino di Ferruccio Parri sull ' Europa ( 1948-1954 ), 2012

Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, S. J., who had been a favorite of the Catholic left and had been Cardinal Tettamanzi's predecessor as Cardinal Archbishop, died in 2012 after a protracted struggle with Parkinson's disease.

It was given at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples in March 2012.

In 2011, he played stepfather to Selena Gomez's character in the romantic comedy Monte Carlo, and in 2012, appeared as a congressman in the Batman film The Dark Knight Rises.

* Since 2012: Carlo Chatrian

* 2012 – Piermario Morosini, Italian footballer ( b. 1986 )

The Navy authorized Full-Rate Production ( FRP ) of the AARGM in August 2012, with 72 missiles for the Navy and nine for the Italian Air Force to be delivered in 2013.

Nonetheless, by 8 November 2011 the Italian bond yield was 6. 74 percent for 10-year bonds, nearing a 7 percent level where Italy is thought to lose access to financial markets, but it was under 5, 0 % in February 2012.

In April 2012, Jeep signed a shirt sponsorship deal worth € 35m ($ 45m ) with Italian football club Juventus.

* 2012 – Sergio Pininfarina, Italian automobile designer and politician ( b. 1926 )

* 2012 – Ennio Cardoni, Italian footballer ( b. 1929 )

On July 1, 2012, against the Arizona Diamondbacks, the Brewers wore green batting practice uniforms with red and white trim, a nod to the Italian flag, as part of " Italian Heritage Day ".

Michele Columbu ( 8 February 1914 – 10 July 2012 ) was an Italian politician and writer from Ollolai, Sardinia.

She spoke Italian again as a flashy prostitute in Woody Allen's 2012 To Rome with Love and she is set to reunite with Italian director Sergio Castellitto in his war tale Venuto al Mondo as Gemma.

* 2012 – Bruno Schettino, Italian archbishop ( b. 1941 )

As of September 2012, enough funding has been achieved to enable them to translate the game into German, Spanish, French, and Italian.

* September 8 – Sergio Pininfarina, Italian automobile designer ( d. 2012 )

Gardner has been portrayed by Marcia Gay Harden in the TV miniseries Sinatra, Deborah Kara Unger in HBO's The Rat Pack, Kate Beckinsale in the 2004 Howard Hughes biopic, The Aviator and Anna Drijver in the 2012 Italian TV film Walter Chiari-Fino all ' ultima risata.

The 2012 Italian drama film Caesar Must Die (), directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, follows convicts in their rehearsals ahead of a prison performance of Julius Caesar.

Parma Football Club ( formerly Parma Associazione Calcio ), commonly referred to as just Parma, is an Italian professional football club based in Parma, Emilia – Romagna that will compete in Serie A in the 2012 – 13 season, having finished in eighth position last season.

Pope Benedict XVI visited Arezzo and two other Italian municipalities on Sunday, May 13, 2012.

* SWIFT J1822. 3 Star-1606 discovered on 14 July 2012 by Italian and Spanish researchers of CSIC and Catalogna's space studies institute.

In May 2012, it was reported that Swiss and Italian police investigating " a network of personal and business relationships " allegedly used for " international corruption " were looking at the activities of Enviro Pacific Investments which charges " multi-million pound fees " to energy companies wishing to deal with Kazakhstan.

* Pietro Sermonti in the 2012 Italian TV series