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Who died on 12 May?
Celebrities who died on 12 May
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Perry Como
American singer and television personality

Dennis Nilsen
British serial killer

Hurley Goodall
American politician

Tessa Jowell
British politician

Robert Reed
American actor, director

Robert Rauschenberg
American artist

Robert McFarlane
American Marine Corps officer and National Security Advisor

Ruth Foster
American actress

Astrid Kirchherr
German photographer and artist

Elise Cavanna
American actress, comedian, dancer and artist

David Choi
Korean-American musician and YouTube video producer

Machiko Kyō
Japanese actress

H. R. Giger
Swiss surrealist painter, sculptor, set designer

Renée Claude
Canadian actress

Yale Lary
Player of American football

Michel Piccoli
French actor

Arthur Lubin
American film director

Prince Aly Khan
son of Aga Khan III - father of Aga Khan IV

Gino Cappelletti
American football player

Chuck Knox
American football player and coach

Tatiana Nikonova
Russian feminist activist and sex blogger

Bernard Membe
Tanzanian politician

Doris May
American actress

Erich von Stroheim
Austrian actor and director

Nasrallah Peter Sfeir
Lebanese Catholic cardinal

Leslie Schwartz
Hungarian-American author and Holocaust survivor

Jerry Burns
American football player and coach

Donald Gary Young
American entrepreneur

Lillian Roth
American actress, singer

Frances Marion
writer, Screenwriter

Ollie Cline
Player of American football

Haleh Afshar
British baroness

Louis Calhern
American stage and screen actor

Renato Corti
Italian cardinal

Frederick Schiller Faust
American novelist, and short story writer

Bill Guthridge
American basketball player and coach

Constantino Romero
actor

Richard Gilder
American businessman

Tor Johnson
Wrestler, actor

Elisabeth Bergner
German actress

Jim Klobuchar
American writer

Homen Borgohain
Indian writer

Kevin Tierney
Canadian film producer

Ruth Stonehouse
Actress, film director

Gerry Hart
Canadian ice hockey defenceman

Humphrey Searle
English composer

Monica Zetterlund
Swedish jazz and schlager singer

Mark Aitchison Young
British High Commissioner