* 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 )

* Neil Young Journeys ( 2012 )

Asked in a November 2011 interview with Examiner. com if Mötley Crüe will be making another album in 2012 or plan another Crüe Fest tour, Vince Neil replied, " We're looking at another Crüe Fest.

On August 4, 2012, Vince Neil revealed during an interview that Mötley Crüe might release an EP rather than a tenth studio album, saying, " I don't think we're gonna do an album.

Neil Alden Armstrong ( August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012 ) was an American astronaut and the first person to walk on the Moon.

* August 5 – Neil Armstrong, American astronaut, first human to set foot on the Moon, Commander of Apollo 11 ( d. 2012 )

In June 2012, the Trail Blazers hired Neil Olshey as general manager.

* Untitled Sandman Project ( 2013 ): Neil Gaiman announced via video in the San Diego Comic Con 2012 that he and JH Williams III would collaborate to produce the story that was previously hinted in Gaiman's introduction to Season of Mists and in Brief Lives of Dream's adventure prior to Preludes and Nocturnes which had exhausted him so much that it made Burgess ' actions capable of capturing him.

In January 2012, club chairman Tony Fernandes appointed Mark Hughes as team manager 36 hours after previous incumbent Neil Warnock was sacked.

In April 2012, DeVito made his West End acting debut in a revival of the Neil Simon play The Sunshine Boys-alongside Olivier Award-winning actor Richard Griffiths.

* Neil Young – guitar, harmonica, piano, vocals ( 1966 – 1968, 2010 – 2012 )

Newman with Neil Diamond in August 2012

* Memorial service for NASA astronaut and first man on the Moon Neil Armstrong ( 2012 )

* Neil Armstrong ( August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012 ) – American astronaut – First human being to set foot on the Moon on July 20, 1969.

She will complete the long awaited Stealth Tribes graphic novel with Warren Ellis for Vertigo in 2012, and is working with Neil Gaiman on a new graphic novel for Dark Horse for 2013.

The others have been: Apollo 14 Commander Alan B. Shepard, Jr., who died of leukemia in 1998, Apollo 12 Commander Charles " Pete " Conrad, Jr., who died in a motorcycle accident in California in 1999, and Apollo 11 Commander Neil Armstrong, who died after heart surgery on August 25, 2012.

* 2012 – Neil Turok, The Universe Within: From Quantum to Cosmos

In early 2012, a single live video of a song from that album, " Neil Young Is Not My Brother ", was released on YouTube as a teaser for the expected fall release of the album tentatively titled " All Fired Up ".

The Neil Hamburger character plays the role of Osric in the 2012 film, Hamlet A. D. D., a live action and animated version of William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

At a local government level, the ward of Headingley has two Liberal Democrat councillors, Martin Hamilton ( 2010 – 2014 ) and Jamie Matthews ( 2008 – 2012 ), and one Labour councillor, Neil Walshaw ( 2011-2015 ).

" Diouf later hit back at Warnock in a newspaper interview where he was quoted saying that Warnock “ is a big shit ”. On 11 August 2012, Neil Warnock signed El-Hadji Diouf for Leeds United.

Four of Birkett's cases were dramatized for radio by Caroline and David Stafford and broadcast on BBC Radio 4's Afternoon Play series in January 2012 starring Neil Dudgeon as Birkett.

On 6 February 2012, apparently fearing for his life, Wang traveled to the U. S. consulate in the nearby city of Chengdu, bringing evidence implicating Bo and his family in the Neil Heywood murder.

In 2011 Hamelin and O ' Neil along with Justin Peroff of Broken Social Scene formed a new band, Eight and a Half, and in March 2012 they released a self-titled album.

The burial at sea of U. S. astronaut Neil Armstrong, performed by the U. S. Navy on the USS Philippine Sea ( CG-58 ) | USS Philippine Sea in the Atlantic Ocean on September 14, 2012.