Can you name the notable deaths of 2012?

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In Memoriam 2012 Quiz

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Created Dec 7, 2012 in History
Featured Dec 28, 2012
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	bastilledingo:	Dec 28th, 2012 at 17:23 GMT		19 points
	Ah man, no Levon Helm? Good quiz. RIP.

	Headers2304:	Dec 28th, 2012 at 17:25 GMT		5 points
	So many great names and great people have left us. RIP all, a good quiz to remember them with.

	austin5string:	Dec 28th, 2012 at 17:27 GMT		2 points
	Great quiz.. Only a few hundred plays, but it makes me sad to see only about 2% know Doc Watson and Kitty Wells

	unkpoker:	Dec 28th, 2012 at 17:31 GMT		10 points
	Thank you for accepting "Stormin' Norman"!!...

	Joe46:	Dec 28th, 2012 at 17:37 GMT		-1 points
	Jenni Rivera????

	kromclovinfasho:	Dec 28th, 2012 at 17:44 GMT		23 points
	Gore Vidal is a huge omission

	6daughters:	Dec 28th, 2012 at 17:45 GMT		4 points
	Bittersweet to be reminded of some of the amazing talents recently lost. I always cry when they do the in memoriam section during the Oscars, etc. Found myself weepy here as well. RIP.

	teddy144:	Dec 28th, 2012 at 17:46 GMT		2 points
	When I first saw Rodney King, I thought he was Karl Malone

	bsumemrs93:	Dec 28th, 2012 at 18:03 GMT		13 points
	When you see a celeb you really like on this list and didn't know they passed...

	AKappy:	Dec 28th, 2012 at 18:07 GMT		0 points
	Wow, didn't know it's been over a year since Steve Jobs passed.

	pablo5116s:	Dec 28th, 2012 at 18:10 GMT		5 points
	You made us sing, laugh, cry, love and dream, and inspired us to reach for the stars. RIP all.

	kromclovinfasho:	Dec 28th, 2012 at 18:11 GMT		2 points
	Teddy144: I did too, and I thought I was the only one!

	Dumbledores_Army:	Dec 28th, 2012 at 18:24 GMT		10 points
	What about Patrick Moore? He was amazing!

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	briskt:	Dec 28th, 2012 at 18:32 GMT		2 points
	I think I'll miss Ravi the most.

	jeffg3wksapart:	Dec 28th, 2012 at 18:49 GMT		1 point
	Always going to have many in the 'arts' (actors, singers, writers, hosts) but kind of ironic to have two major space and two major non-playing pro football persons on the list. RIP all.

	plokool:	Dec 28th, 2012 at 18:58 GMT		2 points
	We lost some good people this year. Besides these, there were also Ralph McQuarrie (the concept artist for Star Wars), and Ian Abercrombie (Mr. Pitt, Palpatine on the Clone Wars.)

	arelagord1:	Dec 28th, 2012 at 19:07 GMT		5 points
	With what seemed like so many of the greats of this world dying this year there were always going to be some that would be missed; but I just wished that Sid Watkins was included. His work has easily saved hundreds, if not thousands of lives. I personally was on the receiving end of his work last year during a Club 100 karting event. Thanks to his push to ensure that all motor events are attended by paramedics, I was able to be checked up and treated immediately after a fairly nasty accident. I, and I'm sure many others, cannot thank him enough for his work.

	pete32782:	Dec 28th, 2012 at 19:26 GMT		2 points
	I was hoping to see Carroll Shelby, legendary car designer. RIP all.

	Kuroryuu:	Dec 28th, 2012 at 19:34 GMT		4 points
	You thought that Eduard Khil would here? Guess what? Trolololololololol

	Fidelio:	Dec 28th, 2012 at 19:35 GMT		15 points
	Surely George McGovern and Daniel Inouye are more deserving of being commemorated here than Joe Paterno. (And I'd say that even if there had been no scandal at Penn State.)

	jaysee:	Dec 28th, 2012 at 19:36 GMT		3 points
	And no, Morgan Freeman is still not dead.

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	Salukimars:	Dec 28th, 2012 at 19:57 GMT		1 point
	No 80s bad guy Lance LeGault?

	Rtak:	Dec 28th, 2012 at 20:04 GMT		20 points
	I have to agree with Fidelio in that Inouye and McGovern should be on the list. I think Paterno still warrants to be on the list though.

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	Cecispanda:	Dec 28th, 2012 at 20:08 GMT		6 points
	I had no idea a couple of these people were dead. Gonna go be sad now :(. RIP. And yes Inouye and McGovern absolutely warrant inclusion. Also Art Modell looks vaguely like Dick Cheney.

	UndeadChimp:	Dec 28th, 2012 at 20:09 GMT		4 points
	RIP Eduard Khil, who didn't appear on this quiz, but is somewhere up there, Trololo-ing in Heaven.

	dalejr88a:	Dec 28th, 2012 at 20:15 GMT		5 points
	to all the greats lost this year thanks for all you've done r.i.p .

	richardkiewalker:	Dec 28th, 2012 at 20:37 GMT		9 points
	I know it's impossible to include all of the celebrities we lost in 2012, but I thought for sure at least one of the two Sweathogs (Robert Hegyes and/or Ron Palillo) would be here. (That said, I'm not knocking this Sprocle in any way--I gave it 5 globes.)

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	SerenityNow1970:	Dec 28th, 2012 at 21:43 GMT		2 points
	Lost a lot of good ones. Got Davy Jones, and then..on a lighter note, saw the picture of Sally Ride and thought wow, Mickey Dolenz this year too?

	letsdoit4johnny1:	Dec 28th, 2012 at 22:00 GMT		10 points
	Daniel Inouye?

	churchgeek:	Dec 28th, 2012 at 22:38 GMT		5 points
	Like several others, I was surprised not to see Sen. Inouye, especially since he passed so recently. He'd probably be pretty unknown outside the US, but he was a really important figure. And he'd been representing Hawaii since it became a state!

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	slinger89:	Dec 29th, 2012 at 00:09 GMT		-4 points
	Went with Morgan Freeman hoping for a witty bonus answer. No such luck.

	chikka2:	Dec 29th, 2012 at 00:43 GMT		4 points
	@iluvsnoopy: Look fourth row down, third photo in. RIP.

	Booster_Gold:	Dec 29th, 2012 at 01:53 GMT		7 points
	There are a lot of people who could fit here, but it's hard to find a place where someone could be taken off, except maybe duPont. Nevertheless, RIP to: Daniel Inouye, Ben Gazzara, Earl Scruggs, Levon Helm, Junior Seau, Jovan Belcher, Maurice Sendak, Carroll Shelby, Sun Myung Moon, Celeste Holm, Yitzhak Shamir, Gore Vidal, George McGovern, & Arlen Specter.