* 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 )

Recently, on 26 April 2012, scientists reported that lichen survived and showed remarkable results on the adaptation capacity of photosynthetic activity within the simulation time of 34 days under Martian conditions in the Mars Simulation Laboratory ( MSL ) maintained by the German Aerospace Center ( DLR ).

* 1972 – Bernd Meier, German footballer ( d. 2012 )

German Tom Sietas holds the record for static apnea on pure oxygen at 22 minutes and 22 seconds ( June 2012 ).

* 2012 – Vinzenz Guggenberger, German bishop ( b. 1929 )

* 1947 – Günther Kaufmann, German actor ( d. 2012 )

* 1919 – Fritz Langanke, German SS lieutenant ( d. 2012 )

* 1925 – Friedrich Zimmermann, German politician ( d. 2012 )

Leipzig was the German candidate for the 2012 Summer Olympics, but was unsuccessful.

* 2012 – Friedrich Hirzebruch, German mathematician ( b. 1927 )

* 1925 – Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, German baritone and conductor ( d. 2012 )

Since the launch of the third generation MX-5, Mazda consolidated worldwide marketing using the MX-5 name, though enthusiasts in the US still refer to it as Miata, a name that means " reward " in Old High German, and the vehicle in 2012 was still marketed by Mazda in the US as the MX-5 Miata.

German newspaper Der Spiegel wrote in a front-page story in 2012 that the German authorities had a tip-off from a Palestinian informant in Beirut three weeks before the massacre.

An article in 2012 in a front-page story of the German news magazine Der Spiegel reported that much of the information pertaining to the mishandling of the massacre has been covered up by the German authorities for the past decades.

In August 2012, Der Spiegel reported that following the massacre, Germany began secret meetings with Black September, at the behest of the West German government, due to the fear that Black September would carry out other terrorist attacks in Germany.

* 1917 – Siegfried Jamrowski, German pilot ( d. 2012 )

* 1920 – Georg Leber, German politician ( d. 2012 )

The format is still in use for some lengthy serials, like the German science fiction weekly Perry Rhodan ( over 2, 650 issues as of 2012 ).

As of February 2012 there has been a first court ruling concerning racial profiling in German police policy.

As of April 2012, 705 episodes in 15 seasons have aired, a milestone in German television programming.

* 1944 – Norbert Walter, German economist ( d. 2012 )

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

* June 20 – Paul Pietsch, German racer and magazine magnate ( d. 2012 )