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Deaths in December 2012

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General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ247057 ↗
Source-derived summary

The following is a list of notable deaths in December 2012.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference.

December 2012

1

Ahmed Taib El Alj, 84, Moroccan writer.

Raymond Ausloos, 82, Belgian football player.

Jovan Belcher, 25, American football player (Kansas City Chiefs), suicide by gunshot.

José Bénazéraf, 90, French film director and producer.

Arthur Chaskalson, 81, South African judge, Chief Justice (2001–2005), leukaemia.

John Crigler, 76, American basketball player (University of Kentucky).

Steve Fox, 54, English footballer, cancer.

Editorial summary

“Deaths in December 2012” enters the record as wikimedia list article. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Deaths, December and Wikimedia can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2012, 2001, 2005—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Deaths, December and Wikimedia.
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Why this record matters

“Deaths in December 2012” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Deaths, December and Wikimedia provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q247057. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2012, 2001 and 2005.

Critical limits

A concise general-reference account can conceal disagreements about scope, terminology or the weight assigned to individual sources. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Deaths in December 2012” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.