As is usual in this fleeting moment that we call life, there were many deaths in 2012. Here are some of the more well-known people who left us this year:
12/27 -- Norman Schwarzkopf (U.S. Army General)
12/24 -- Charles Durning (actor)
12/24 -- Jack Klugman (actor)
12/19 -- Robert Bork (former U.S. Attorney General)
12/17 -- Frank Pastore (baseball player)
12/17 -- Daniel Inouye (U.S. Senator)
12/11 -- Ravi Shankar (musician)
12/08 -- Jerry Brown (football player)
12/05 -- Dave Brubeck (musician)
12/04 -- Jack Brooks (congressman)
12/01 -- Jovan belcher (football player)
11/28 -- Zig Ziglar (motivational speaker)
11/24 -- Hector Camacho (boxer)
11/23 -- Larry Hagman (actor)
11/08 -- Lee MacPhail (baseball executive)
11/07 -- Darrell Royal (football coach)
11/02 -- Milt Campbell (decathlon athlete, football player)
11/01 -- Pascual Perez (baseball player)
10/25 -- Emanuel Steward (boxing coach and commentator)
10/22 -- Russell Means (activist)
10/21 -- George McGovern (U.S. Senator, presidential candidate)
10/18 -- Eddie Yost (baseball player)
10/14 -- Arlen Specter (U.S. Senator)
10/10 -- Sam Gibbons (congressman)
10/10 -- Alex Karras (actor, football player)
9/27 -- Herbert Lom (actor)
9/25 -- Andy Williams (singer)
9/18 -- Steve Sabol (sports film producer)
9/11 -- Christopher Stevens (U.S. Ambassador)
9/08 -- Bill Moggridge (created first laptop computer)
9/06 -- Jake Eberts (movie producer)
9/06 -- Art Modell (owner of Baltimore Ravens)
9/03 -- Michael Clarke Duncan (actor)
9/01 -- Hal David (songwriter)
8/27 -- Malcolm Browne (photo-journalist)
8/25 -- Neil Armstrong (astronaut)
8/20 -- Phyllis Diller (comedian)
8/19 -- Tony Scott (film director)
8/16 -- William Windom (actor)
8/14 -- Ron Palillo (actor)
8/13 -- Helen Gurley Brown (writer, magazine editor)
8/13 -- Johnny Pesky (baseball player and manager)
8/07 -- Judith Crist (film critic)
8/06 -- Marvin Hamlisch (music composer)
8/05 -- Fred Matua (football player)
7/31 -- Gore Vidal (writer)
7/27 -- Norman Alden (actor)
7/26 -- Lupe Ontiveros (actress)
7/24 -- Sherman Hemsley (actor)
7/23 -- Sally Ride (astronaut)
7/08 -- Ernest Borgnine (actor)
7/03 -- Andy Griffith (actor)
7/01 -- Alan Poindexter (astronaut)
6/30 -- Yitzhak Shamir (Israeli Prime Minister)
6/26 -- Pat Cummings (basketball player)
6/21 -- Richard Adler (music composer)
6/20 -- LeRoy Neiman (artist)
6/19 -- Richard Lynch (actor)
6/17 -- Rodney King (his beating by police started Los Angeles riots)
6/13 -- Erica Kennedy (writer)
6/12 -- Henry Hill (gangster)
6/11 -- Ann Rutherford (actress)
6/08 -- Frank Cady (actor)
6/07 -- Bob Welch (musician)
6/05 -- Ray Bradbury (writer)
6/02 -- Richard Dawson (actor)
5/31 -- Orlando Woolridge (basketball player)
5/30 -- Pete Cosey (musician)
5/30 -- Jack Twyman (basketball player)
5/27 -- Johnny Tapia (boxer)
5/22 -- Eugene Polley (invented the remote control)
5/20 -- Robin Gibb (singer)
5/19 -- Bob Boozer (basketball player)
5/17 -- Donna Summer (singer)
5/15 -- Carlos Fuentes (writer)
5/13 -- Donald "Duck" Dunn (musician)
5/09 -- Vidal Sassoon (hair stylist)
5/08 -- Maurice Sendak (writer)
5/06 -- George Lindsey (actor)
5/04 -- Adam Yauch (singer)
5/02 -- Junior Seau (football player)
4/21 -- Charles Colson (special counsel to R. Nixon)
4/19 -- Levon Helm (musician)
4/18 -- Dick Clark (TV host)
4/09 -- Mark Lenzi (diver and diving coach)
4/07 -- Mike Wallace (journalist)
3/27 -- Adrienne Rich (poet)
3/12 -- Michael Hossack (musician)
3/08 -- Jimmy Ellis (singer)
2/29 -- Davy Jones (singer)
2/25 -- Red Holloway (musician)
2/24 -- Jan Berenstain (writer)
2/22 -- Marie Colvin (journalist)
2/11 -- Whitney Houston (singer)
2/03 -- Zalman King (actor, director)
2/03 -- Ben Gazzara (actor)
2/01 -- David Peaston (singer)
2/01 -- Don Cornelius (TV host)
1/26 -- Robert Hegyes (actor, teacher)
1/22 -- Joe Paterno (football coach)
1/20 -- Etta James (singer)
1/19 -- Sarah Burke (skier)
1/03 -- Bob Weston (musician)