* 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 )

As of 2012, CUIC no longer has physical offices, opting instead for a virtual office and storing the archives of both CUIC and COCU at Princeton Seminary's Henry Luce III Library.

In 2012, former United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger addressed the U. S. policy on East Pakistan, as " Gun boat diplomacy ".

* Henry, Nancy, The Life of George Eliot: A Critical Biography, Wiley-Blackwell, 2012

* 2012 – Henry Hill, American mobster ( b. 1943 )

* 1913 – Henry Bauchau, Belgian author and psychoanalyst ( d. 2012 )

* 2012 – Henry Champ, Canadian journalist ( b. 1937 )

* 2012 – Albert Henry Ottenweller, American bishop ( b. 1916 )

A new version of Sam's Enchanted Evening was subsequently performed in March 2012 at Henry Street Settlement in New York City in a production directed by Travis Chamberlain, co-starring Joshua Raoul Brody and Jibz Cameron ( aka, Dynasty Handbag ).

** Henry Bauchau, Belgian novelist, poet, and psychoanalyst ( d. 2012 )

In 2012 the Shakespeare's Globe's 2012 Globe to Globe festival Henry V was the UK entry, one of 37 and the only one performed in spoken English.

* 2012 Tom Hiddleston as Henry, John Hurt as Chorus, Paul Ritter as Pistol

** Henry V ( TV film ), The Hollow Crown ( TV series ), 2012, a BBC adaptation of Shakespeare's play, directed by Thea Sharrock

* Bordewich, Fergus M. America's Great Debate: Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the Compromise That Preserved the Union ( 2012 ) excerpt and text search, on Compromise of 1850

A January 28, 2012 attempt by Occupy Oakland protesters to overtake the vacant Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center resulted in hundreds of arrests by police, and that evening a break-in by vandals to Oakland City Hall resulted in damage to artwork and the building itself.

In his 2012 book The Dozens: A History of Rap's Mama music historian and musician Elijah Wald says the term was first defined in a 1921 pop song-" Don't Slip Me in the Dozens, Please ", recorded by the black vaudeville comic Henry Troy, composed by Chris Smith, who accompanied Troy on the piano.

He was a first cousin to and the second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, and was the father of her son James VI of Scotland, who succeeded Elizabeth I of England as James I of England .< ref name = Greig > Elaine Finnie Greig, ‘ Stewart, Henry, duke of Albany Darnley ( 1545 / 6 – 1567 )’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 ; online edn, Jan 2008 accessed 4 March 2012 </</ ref >

Two years later, at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, seven young athletes-Callum Airlie, Jordan Duckitt, Desiree Henry, Katie Kirk, Cameron MacRitchie, Aidan Reynolds and Adelle Tracey-were given the honor to light the flame on one of 204 copper petals before converging to form the cauldron for the Games.

In April 2012, Allen Frost published the Selected Correspondence of Kenneth Patchen, which included 336 pages of letters between Patchen and James Laughlin, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Henry Miller, Amos Wilder, Dylan Thomas, Thomas Wolfe and E. E.

There have been four adaptations of the book: a serialisation in the Daily Express newspaper, a subsequent daily comic strip by Henry Gammidge and John McLusky in the same paper, the 1963 film version, and a 2012 BBC radio adaptation of the same name, produced by Jarvis & Ayres and starring Toby Stephens.

Fiddler On The Roof, starring Henry Goodman as Tevye, played at the theatre from May 2007 to February 2008 and has been followed mostly by other musicals, including Legally Blonde, which played from January 2010 to April 2012.

Members of the Borough Council are Frank Donohue ( 2014 ), Jason Kim ( 2013 ), Jong Chul Lee ( 2012 ), Cyndy Pirrera ( 2014 ), Henry Ruh ( 2013 ) and Joseph Testa ( 2012 ).

Members of the Borough Council are Council President Lisa Eicher ( 2014 ), Frank J. Bella ( 2012 ), Daniel Buchanan ( 2013 ), William J. Henry ( 2013 ), Mary J. Novak ( 2014 ) and Nicholas Perrette ( 2012 ).