The following 'celebrities' have died this year, but weren’t picked by any team this year. However, they have all been chosen by teams in previous years. Hopefully by listing them here, it will alert players to non-eligible picks & to give those who are now gone their brief moment of fame on this site. The other reason for listing them here is that the teams who chose them can rue their bad luck or decisions!!
| Name (click for biography) | Date of death |
| Charles H. Price II | 12th January 2012 |
| Rauf Denktash | 13th January 2012 |
| Paavo Berglund | 25th January 2012 |
| Veronica Carstens | 25th January 2012 |
| Kevin Hagan White | 27th January 2012 |
| Oscar Luigi Scàlfaro | 29th January 2012 |
| Jill Kinmont Boothe | 9th February 2012 |
| M. R. D. Foot | 18th February 2012 |
| Maurice André | 25th February 2012 |
| Erland Josephson | 25th February 2012 |
| Kelly Taylor | 27th February 2012 |
| Davy Jones | 29th February 2012 |
| William Heirens | 5th March 2012 |
| Estanislao Basora | 16th March 2012 |
| King George Tupou V | 18th March 2012 |
| Alan Pegler | 18th March 2012 |
| Earl Scruggs | 28th March 2012 |
| Dora Saint | 7th April 2012 |
| Émile Bouchard | 14th April 2012 |
| Levon Helm | 19th April 2012 |
| Carl Johan Bernadotte of Wisborg | 5th May 2012 |
| Gunnar Sønsteby | 10th May 2012 |
| Les Leston | 13th May 2012 |
| Carlos Fuentes | 15th May 2012 |
| Donna Summer | 17th May 2012 |
| Andy Hamilton | 3rd June 2012 |
| Nolan Miller | 7th June 2012 |
| Mukhtar Hussein Afrah | 12th June 2012 |
| William Standish Knowles | 13th June 2012 |
| Rodney King | 17th June 2012 |
| Victor Spinetti | 18th June 2012 |
| Walter Haefner | 19th June 2012 |
| Vincent Ostrom | 29th June 2012 |
| David House | 14th July 2012 |
| Alistair Burnet | 20th July 2012 |
| Jack Taylor | 27th July 2012 |
| R. G. Armstrong | 27th July 2012 |
| Reverend Christopher Evans | 30th July 2012 |
| William Windom | 16th August 2012 | Scott McKenzie | 19th August 2012 |
| Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini | 31st August 2012 |
| Art Modell | 6th September 2012 |
| Thomas Szasz | 8th September 2012 |
| Santiago Carrillo | 18th September 2012 |
| Antisa Khvichava | 7th October 2012 |
| Heriberto Lazcano | 7th October 2012 |
| Helmut Haller | 11th October 2012 |
| James Coyne | 12th October 2012 |
| Edward Donnall Thomas | 20th October 2012 |
| Hans Werner Henze | 27th October 2012 |
| Sergey Nikolsky | 9th November 2012 |
| Dave Sexton | 25th November 2012 |
| Marvin Miller | 27th November 2012 |
| Robert Bork | 19th December 2012 |
| Norman Schwarzkopf | 27th December 2012 |
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