Deaths in May 1989

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The following is a list of notable deaths in 1989. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

Deaths in 1989

January

• January 1
  • Anton Fernbach-Ferenczi, 63, Romanian footballer
  • G. Sankara Pillai, 58, Indian playwright, literary critic and director
  • Marcel Tomazover, 73, French footballer and coach
• January 2 – Safdar Hashmi, 34, Indian communist playwright and director, murdered
• January 3
  • Eddie Heywood, 73, American jazz pianist and composer
  • Jim Lawson, 86, American NFL footballer
  • Nell O'Day, 79, American equestrian and B-movie actress, heart attack
  • Lina Prokofiev, 91, Spanish singer and first wife of Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev
  • Sergei Sobolev, 80, Soviet mathematician
  • Robert Thomas, 61, French writer, actor and film director
  • Jean Willes, 65, American film and television actress, liver cancer
• January 4 – Mike Micka, 67, American NFL footballer
• January 6
  • Jim Hurtubise, 56, American race car driver
  • Sir Edmund Leach, 78, British social anthropologist
  • Satwant Singh, 26-27, Indian co-assassin of Indira Gandhi, execution by hanging
• January 7
  • Frank Adams, 58, British mathematician
  • Hirohito, 87, longest reigning Emperor of Japan, cancer.
  • William Joseph McDonald, 84, Irish-born bishop of the Catholic Church in the United States, heart attack
  • Aslam Pahalwan, 61, Pakistani professional wrestler and World Heavyweight Champion
  • Ugo Pignotti, 90, Italian fencer and Olympic gold medalist
• January 8
  • Torsten Johansson, 83, Swedish international footballer and Olympian
  • Kenneth McMillan, 56, American actor
• January 9
  • Marshall H. Stone, 85, American mathematician, stroke
  • Bill Terry, 90, American Major Leagues baseballer
• January 10
  • William Joseph Browne, 91, Canadian lawyer, judge and politician
  • Karl Geiringer, 89, Austrian-American musicologist, educator and biographer of composers, complications from injuries sustained in a fall
  • Valentin Glushko, 80, Soviet engineer, program manager of the Soviet space program
  • Herbert Morrison, 83, American radio journalist, well-known voice of the Hindenburg disaster
  • Colin Winchester, 55, assistant commissioner in the Australian Federal Police, assassinated
• January 11
  • Michael Forrestal, 61, American aide to McGeorge Bundy, National Security Advisor of President John F. Kennedy, aneurysm
  • Henning Karmark, 81, Danish film producer
  • Ray Moore, 47, British broadcaster, throat cancer
  • José Bustamante y Rivero, 94, Peruvian politician, diplomat, lawyer and writer, President of Peru
• January 12
  • Paula Ackerman, 95, American Jewish leader, thought to be the first woman to perform rabbinical functions in the United States
  • Adil Candemir, 71-72, Turkish wrestler and Olympic medalist
  • Ray Morehart, 89, American Major Leagues baseballer
  • Satyam, 55-56, Indian composer
  • Charles J. Turck, 98, American lawyer, educator and academic administrator, heart attack
• January 13
  • Sterling Allen Brown, 87, American professor, folklorist, poet, and literary critic
  • Chuck Hornbostel, 77, American middle-distance runner and dual Olympian
  • Hiram E. McCallum, 89, Canadian politician, mayor of Toronto
  • John Moorman, 83, English bishop
  • José María Peña, 93, Spanish international footballer and manager
  • Joe Spinell, 52, American actor
• January 14
  • Kenneth Fogarty, 65-66, Canadian politician, Mayor of Ottawa, heart failure
  • Leo Warren Jenkins, 75, American, president and chancellor of what is now East Carolina University
  • Nguyễn Văn Xuân, 96, Vietnamese politician, prime minister of the Provisional Central Government of Vietnam
• January 15 – Helen Logan, 82, American screenwriter
• January 16
  • Mick Baxter, 32, English footballer, cancer
  • Prem Nazir, 62, Indian actor
  • Trey Wilson, 40, American actor
• January 17
  • Gordon Allott, 82, American politician, US Senator
  • Brian Allsop, 53, Australian professional rugby league footballer for Eastern Suburbs and Manly
  • Wajid Ali Khan Burki, 88, Pakistani ophthalmologist, lung cancer
  • Óscar Vargas Prieto, 71, Peruvian soldier and politician, Prime Minister of Peru
• January 18
  • Bruce Chatwin, 48, British travel writer, novelist and journalist
  • Marshall Esteppe, 79, American wrestler
  • John D. Hickerson, 90, American diplomat, United States Ambassador to the Philippines and Finland, cancer
  • Dick Rondeau, 67, American ice hockey player
• January 19
  • Devi Dja, 74, Indonesian-born American dancer, actress, and singer
  • Norma Varden, 90, English-American actress
  • Octavio Vial, 70, Mexican football manager and World Cup coach
• January 20
  • Nuri Asan, 49, Turkish footballer and manager
  • Józef Cyrankiewicz, 77, Polish communist politician, Prime Minister of Poland and 15th President of Poland
  • Tine Debeljak, 85, Yugoslav-Argentinian literary critic, translator, editor, and poet
  • John Harding, 92, British Army Field Marshall
  • Alamgir Kabir, 50, Bangladeshi film director and cultural activist, drowned
  • Dolf van Kol, 86, Dutch international footballer and Olympian
  • Beatrice Lillie, 94, Canadian-born British actress, singer and comedic performer
• January 21
  • John F. Davidson, 80, American navy rear admiral
  • Morley Drury, 85, Canadian-American footballer
  • Keith English, 61, Canadian Football League player
  • Carl Furillo, 66, American Major Leagues baseballer, leukemia
  • Leslie Halliwell, 59, British film critic, esophageal cancer
  • Billy Tipton, 74, American jazz musician and bandleader
• January 22
  • Farquhar Oliver, 84, Canadian politician, Leader of the Opposition
  • Willie Wells, 82, American Negro Leagues baseballer, congestive heart failure
  • Sándor Weöres, 75, Hungarian poet and author
• January 23
  • George Case, 73, American Major leagues baseballer, emphysema
  • Salvador Dalí, 84, Spanish artist
  • M. Govindan, 69, Indian writer of Malayalam literature and cultural activist
  • Gilbert L. Voss, 70-71, American conservationist and oceanographer
• January 24
  • Ted Bundy, 42, American serial killer, executed by electric chair
  • Dante Emiliozzi, 73, Argentine racing driver
  • Roberto Figueroa, 84, Uruguayan international footballer and Olympic gold medalist
  • Merwin Graham, 85, American track and field athlete and Olympian
  • George Knudson, 51, Canadian professional golfer, cancer
  • Michael Scott, 83, Irish architect
  • Les Spann, 56, American jazz guitarist and flautist
  • Theodore B. Werner, 96, American politician, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
• January 25 – David Basnett, 64, British trade union leader
• January 26
  • Morton DaCosta, 74, American theatre and film director, film producer, writer, and actor, heart failure
  • William Forrest, 86, American theatre, film, and television actor, heart failure
• January 27
  • Dónall Mac Amhlaigh, 62, Irish writer
  • David Buck, 52, English actor, cancer
  • Bob Haymes, 65, American singer, songwriter, actor and radio and television presenter
  • Willibald Kreß, 82, German international footballer
  • Sir Thomas Sopwith, 101, British aviation pioneer and yachtsman
• January 28
  • Clarence "Skip" Graham, 81, American librarian, president of American Library Association
  • Choekyi Gyaltsen, Panchen Lama, 50, Tibetan Buddhist leader, heart attack
  • Halina Konopacka, 88, Polish athlete, first Polish Olympic champion
  • Hasmukh Dhirajlal Sankalia, 80, Indian Sanskrit scholar and archaeologist
• January 29 – Federico Cantú Garza, 81, Mexican painter, engraver and sculptor
• January 30
  • Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz, 52, heir to the throne in the event of the restoration of the Spanish monarchy
  • Jack George, 60, American NBA basketballer
  • Friedrich Solmsen, 84, German-American philologist and professor of classical studies
• January 31
  • Yasushi Akutagawa, 63, Japanese composer and conductor
  • Jack Douglas, 80, American comedy writer
  • Arthur Reginald Evans, 83, Australian coastwatcher in the Pacific Ocean theatre in World War II, played a significant part in the rescue of JFK
  • Fernando Gonçalves Namora, 69, Portuguese writer and medical doctor
  • William Stephenson, 92, Canadian soldier, fighter pilot, businessman and spymaster

February

• February 1
  • Blaze Foley, 39, American country music singer-songwriter, poet, and artist, shot
  • Elaine de Kooning, 70, American artist
  • Erik Persson (footballer), 79, Swedish footballer and Olympian
  • Nils Thedin, 77, Swedish businessman and civic leader
• February 2
  • Yuri Bogatyryov, 41, Soviet actor
  • Ondrej Nepela, 38, Czechoslovakian figure skater
  • Arnold Nordmeyer, 87, New Zealand politician and Presbyterian minister, Leader of the Opposition, Minister of Finance
  • Walter M. Scott, 82, American set decorator
• February 3
  • John Cassavetes, 59, Greek-American actor
  • Glenna Collett-Vare, 85, American amateur golfer
  • Joan Grant, 81, English writer of historical novels
  • Frank Hursley, 86, half of American husband-and-wife television screenwriting duo Frank and Doris Hursley
  • Conny Jepsen, 68, Danish-Swedish badminton player
  • Air Marshal John McCauley, 89, senior commander in the Royal Australian Air Force, stroke
  • Lionel Newman, 73, American conductor, pianist, and film and television composer, cardiac arrest
• February 4
  • Kenneth C. "Jethro" Burns, 68, American mandolinist and one-half of the comedy duo Homer and Jethro, prostate cancer
  • Thorkild Hansen, 62, Danish novelist
  • Trevor Lucas, 45, Australian folk singer
  • Grandizo Munis, 76, Spanish Trotskyist politician
  • Ferris Webster, 76, American film editor
• February 5
  • André Cheuva, 80, French international footballer
  • Emrys James, 60, Welsh Shakespearean actor
  • Joe Morrison, 51, American NFL footballer and coach, congestive heart failure
  • Joe Raposo, 51, American composer, singer and pianist
• February 6
  • Joseph L. Carrigg, 87, American politician, member of the US House of Representatives
  • André Cayatte, 80, French filmmaker, writer and lawyer
  • Ron Field, 55, American choreographer, dancer, and director, brain lesions
  • George F. Habach, 81, American mechanical and consulting engineer, business executive, and inventor
  • Undine Smith Moore, 84, American composer and professor of music, stroke
  • Osbourne Ruddock, aka King Tubby, 48, Jamaican sound engineer, shot
  • Barbara W. Tuchman, 77, American historian and author
• February 7
  • Giuseppe Puca, 33, Italian criminal, murdered after shootout
  • Bill Sewell, 72, American football player and coach
  • Gilbert Simondon, 64, French philosopher
  • Prince Wilhelm Victor of Prussia, 69, German nobleman, soldier and diplomat
• February 8
  • Cyril Luckham, 81, English film, television and theatre actor
  • Begum Khurshid Mirza, 70, Pakistani television actress and a film actress
  • Webster B. Todd, 89, American businessman, Chairman of the New Jersey Republican State Committee, heart attack
• February 9
  • Hermann Conring, 94, German politician
  • Oliver C. Dawson, 78, American athlete and sports coach
  • Osamu Tezuka, 60, Japanese artist and animator
• February 10
  • Irving Brown, 77, American trade unionist
  • Wayne Hays, 77, American politician, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, heart attack
  • Grady Higginbotham, 96, American football and baseball player and coach
  • Panini Ilangakoon, 69, Sri Lankan politician
  • Dan Kelly, 52, Canadian-born American sportscaster, lung cancer
  • Herbert Ryman, 78, American artist and Disney Imagineer, cancer
• February 11
  • Charles L. Bolte, 93, United States Army general, stroke
  • T. E. B. Clarke, 81, British screenwriter
  • Leon Festinger, 69, American social psychologist
  • Roland Gross, 80, American film editor and television editor
  • George O'Hanlon, 76, American actor, comedian and writer, stroke
  • Cecil C. Steiner, American dentist
  • Shakhbut bin Sultan Al Nahyan, 83, ruler of Abu Dhabi
• February 12
  • Thomas Bernhard, 58, Austrian novelist, playwright and poet, heart attack
  • Maurice Cann, 77, British Grand Prix motorcycle road racer
  • Attilio Dottesio, 79, Italian film character actor and singer
  • Pat Finucane, 39, Irish lawyer
• February 13
  • Rosa Castillo, 78, Mexican sculptor, respiratory failure
  • Princess Eugénie of Greece and Denmark, 79
  • Zhou Tongqing, 81, Chinese optical physicist
• February 14
  • James Bond, 89, American ornithologist
  • Vincent Crane, 45, British musician
  • Duncan Gregg, 78, American rower and Olympic gold medalist
  • Hilario, 83, Spanish international footballer
• February 15
  • Hüseyin Akbaş, 56, Turkish wrestler and dual Olympic medalist
  • Sita Devi, Maharani of Baroda, 71, the "Indian Wallis Simpson"
  • Sjafruddin Prawiranegara, 77, Indonesian statesman and economist, Prime Minister of the Revolutionary Government of the Republic of Indonesia, heart attack
  • Aleksandr Travin, 51, Russian basketballer
  • Sabo Bakin Zuwo, 54, Nigerian politician, Governor of Kano State
• February 16 – Andy Black, 72, Scottish international footballer
• February 17
  • Ian Fraser, Baron Fraser of Tullybelton, 78, British judge
  • Lefty Gomez, 80, American MLB baseball player
  • Guy Laroche, 67, French fashion designer
  • Marguerite Roberts, 83, American screenwriter, arteriosclerosis
  • Hanne Sobek, 88, German international footballer
  • Mo Yingfeng, 51, Chinese novelist
• February 18
  • John Bailey (British actor), 76, British screen and TV actor
  • Mildred Burke, 73, American professional wrestler, three-time women's world champion, stroke
• February 19
  • Jack Bassett, 83, Welsh international rugby union player
  • Dr Rosa Slade Gragg, 84, American activist and politician, advisor to three US presidents
  • Alec Merrison, 64, British physicist
• February 20
  • Zhang Dayu, 83, Chinese chemist
  • Erika Köth, 63, German operatic coloratura soprano
  • Betty Mars (born Yvette Baheux), 44, French singer and actress, Eurovision song contestant, suicide by jumping
• February 21
  • Harry Clarke, 83, Australian Rules footballer
  • Robert Dorning, 75, English musician, dance band vocalist, ballet dancer and stage, film and television actor, diabetes
  • Sándor Márai, 88, Hungarian writer, poet and journalist
  • Otar Taktakishvili, 64, Georgian composer, teacher, conductor, and musicologist
  • Alex Thépot, 82, French international footballer and Olympian
  • Lois Waring, 58, American figure skater
• February 22
  • Zhu Liangcai, 88, general in the Chinese People's Liberation Army
  • Abel Wolman, 96, American engineer, educator and pioneer of modern sanitary engineering
  • Joan Woodbury, 73, American actress
• February 23
  • Aleks Çaçi, 72, Albanian author
  • Paul Richey, 72, English flying ace during the Second World War
  • Roy Tyner, 55, American NASCAR Grand National driver, gunshot
• February 24
  • Sparky Adams, 94, American Major Leagues baseballer
  • Norris Cotton, 88, American politician, US senator
  • Joe Harvey, 70, English footballer and manager
  • Ben Kish, 71, American NFL footballer
  • Margo Lion, 89, Ottoman-born French singer and actress
• February 25 – Robert Foulk, 80, American television and film character actor
• February 26
  • Roy Eldridge, 78, American jazz trumpeter
  • Joseph Fenton, appr. 46, Northern Ireland estate agent, killed by Provisional Irish Republican Army
  • Alexander Golling, 83, German actor, member of the Nazi Party
  • Reunald Jones, 78, American jazz trumpeter
  • Mouloud Mammeri, 71, Algerian writer, anthropologist and linguist, car accident
  • Éloi Meulenberg, 76, Belgian professional road bicycle racer
• February 27
  • Paul Oswald Ahnert, 91, German astronomer
  • Shiba P. Chatterjee, 86, Indian Professor of Geography
  • Mauricio Garcés, 62, Mexican actor and comedian
  • Kim Hyun-chul, 87, Korean independence activist, politician, and Prime Minister of South Korea
  • Göran Larsson, 56, Swedish freestyle swimmer
  • Konrad Lorenz, 85, Austrian zoologist, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine
  • Bas Paauwe, 77, Dutch international footballer
  • Joe Silver, 66, American stage, television, film and radio actor, heart attack
  • Boris Skossyreff, 92, Belarusian adventurer, international swindler and pretender who attempted to seize the monarchy of the Principality of Andorra during the early 1930s
• February 28
  • Halil Bıçakçı, 62, Turkish professional football manager
  • Aurélio Buarque de Holanda Ferreira, 78, Brazilian lexicographer, philologist, translator, and writer
  • Hermann Burger, 46, Swiss poet, novelist and essayist, suicide
  • Douglas Kendrew, 79, British Army general, international Rugby Union player and Governor of Western Australia
  • Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, 100, Indian yoga teacher
  • Karl Anderson, 88, American track and field athlete and Olympian
• February (date unknown)
  • John J. Nash, Irish member of Seanad Éireann
  • Dudley Wilkins, 74, American triple jumper and Olympian

March

• March 1
  • Annie Ackerman, 75, American political activist, cancer
  • Mukul Dey, 93, Indian pioneer of drypoint-etching
  • Vasantdada Patil, 71, Indian politician, Governor of Rajasthan
• March 3
  • Richard B. Morris, 84, American historian, melanoma
  • Dong Qiwu, 89, Chinese general in the People's Liberation Army
• March 4
  • Lloyd "Tiny" Grimes", 72, American jazz and R&B guitarist, meningitis
  • E. Wilson Lyon, 84, American diplomatic historian, president of Pomona College
  • Randolph Rose, 87, New Zealand middle-distance runner
  • Lewis K. Sillcox, 102, American mechanical engineer for railroads, president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• March 5
  • Prithvi Singh Azad, 96, Indian independence activist
  • Richmond Barthé, 88, American sculptor
• March 6
  • Harry Andrews, 77, English actor
  • John Green, 67, American NFL footballer
  • Franca Marzi, 62, Italian film actress
• March 7
  • Paul Boesch, 76, American professional wrestler and promoter, heart attack
  • Norman Saunders, 82, American commercial artist
  • Jack Starrett, 52, American actor and film director, kidney failure
• March 8
  • Elisaveta Bykova, 75, Soviet chess player and dual Women's World Chess Champion
  • Stuart Hamblen, 80, American singer, actor, radio show host and songwriter, brain cancer
  • Robert Lacoste, 90, French politician
• March 9
  • André Hornez, 83, French lyricist and screenwriter
  • Robert Mapplethorpe, 42, American photographer, complications from AIDS
  • Hilda Strike, 78, Canadian track athlete and Olympic medalist
• March 10 – Maurizio Merli, 49, Italian film actor, myocardial infarction
• March 11
  • William Challee, 84, American actor
  • James Kee, 71, American politician, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
  • John J. McCloy, 93, American lawyer, diplomat, banker, and presidential advisor, pulmonary edema
• March 12
  • Maurice Evans, 87, English actor, heart failure
  • Sarge Ferris, 60, American professional poker player
  • Luigi Tosi, 73, Italian actor
• March 13
  • Carl Dahlhaus, 60, German musicologist, kidney failure
  • James G. O'Hara, 63, American soldier and politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, lung cancer
• March 14
  • Edward Abbey, 62, American author, environmentalist and anarchist, complications from surgery
  • Stephen Bechtel Sr., 88, American president of Bechtel Corporation
  • Zita of Bourbon-Parma, 96, last Queen of Hungary and Empress of Austria
  • Gladys Pyle, 98, American educator, politician and first woman elected to United States Senate without having previously been appointed to her position
• March 15
  • Henry Cass, 85, British director
  • Manlio Di Rosa, 74, Italian fencer and dual Olympic gold medalist
  • Charles Schultz, 73, American NFL footballer
• March 16
  • Eddie Buczynski, 42, American Wiccan and archaeologist, parasitic infection
  • Jesús María de Leizaola, 92, Spanish politician, President of the Basque government in exile
  • Charlie Vaughan, 67, English footballer
• March 17
  • Beulah Ream Allen, 92, American nurse, physician, and civilian physician during World War II
  • Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna, 69, Indian National Congress leader and Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, consequence of coronary bypass surgery
  • Merritt Butrick, 29, American actor, toxoplasmosis complicated by AIDS
  • Jacob Pieter Den Hartog, 87, Dutch-American mechanical engineer
  • Farman Karimzade, 52, Azerbaijani writer, screenwriter, film director and film producer, heart attack
• March 18
  • Harold Jeffreys, 97, British geophysicist who made significant contributions to mathematics and statistics, opponent of plate tectonics
  • Piet Kruiver, 51, Dutch international footballer
  • Max Tishler, 82, American organic chemist, emphysema
• March 19
  • Juliette Compton, 89, American actress
  • Charles Lamb, 88, British stage, film and television actor
• March 20
  • Archie Bleyer, 79, American song arranger, bandleader, and record company executive
  • Alan Gifford, 78, American-born actor who worked mainly in the UK
  • Nelson Lemmon, 80, Australian politician, played a key role in establishing the Snowy Mountains Scheme
  • Mogens Lüchow, 70, Danish fencer and dual Olympian
  • Dina Sfat, 50, Brazilian actress
• March 21
  • Otis Douglas, 77, American NFL footballer and coach
  • Louis Dupree, 63, American archaeologist, anthropologist, and scholar of Afghan culture and history, lung cancer
  • Milton Frome, 80, American character actor, congestive heart failure
  • John Kenneth Hilliard, 87, American acoustical and electrical engineer
  • Samuel Sezak, 82, American football and basketball coach
• March 22
  • Park Am, 64, South Korean actor
  • Wally Heider, 66, American recording engineer and recording studio owner
  • Russ Meredith, 91, American NFL player and politician
• March 23 – F. W. S. Craig, 69, Scottish psephologist
• March 24
  • Robert Arundell, 84, British diplomat, Governor of the Windward Islands and Barbados
  • Arnett Cobb, 70, American tenor saxophonist
  • Reuben David, 76, Indian zoologist
  • Edward P. Hurt, 89, American football, basketball, and track coach
• March 25
  • Sa`id Al-Mufti, 90, Jordanian politician, Prime Minister of Jordan
  • C. L. Anandan, 55, Indian actor and producer
  • Reginald Le Borg, 86, Austrian film director, heart attack
• March 26
  • Albert Guérisse, 77, Belgian Resistance member
  • Asbjørn Ruud, 69, Norwegian ski jumper, Olympian and World Champion
  • Lewis William Walt, 76, United States Marine Corps four-star general, serving in World War II and the Korean and Vietnam wars
• March 27
  • May Allison, 98, American stage and silent screen actress
  • Malcolm Cowley, 90, American writer, editor, historian, poet, and literary critic, heart attack
  • Jack Starrett, 52, American actor and film director, kidney failure
• March 28
  • Ian Dalrymple, 85, British screenwriter, film director, film editor and film producer
  • Richard H. Ellis, 69, United States Air Force general
  • Ippei Kaneko, 76, Japanese politician, finance minister
  • Madeleine Ozeray, 80, Belgian stage and film actress, cancer
  • Antonín Rýgr, 67, Czech international footballer and manager
  • Patrick Vallençant, 42, French alpinist and skier, and pioneer in ski mountaineering, abseiling accident
  • Lockwood West, 83, British actor, cancer
  • Robert J. Wilke, 74, American film and television actor
• March 29
  • Bernard Blier, 73, French actor
  • Aleksandr Prokopenko, 35, Soviet international footballer, choking
  • Xiao Jinguang, 86, Chinese revolutionary and military leader, Commander of the People's Liberation Army Navy, colon cancer
  • Nicolae Steinhardt, 76, Romanian writer, Orthodox monk and lawyer
  • Charles Taylor, 78, English businessman and politician
• March 30
  • Bill Chappell, 67, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, bone cancer
  • Mike Sekowsky, 65, American comics artist
  • Arto Tolsa, 43, Finnish footballer
• March 31
  • Piotr Belousov, 76, Ukrainian and Russian graphic artist, painter and art teacher
  • Karl Fuchs, 68, German politician
  • Francis H. Russell, 84, American diplomat, United States Ambassador to Tunisia, Ghana and New Zealand, heart attack
  • Millard Sheets, 81, American artist, teacher, and architectural designer

April

• April 1
  • Roy Francis, 70, Welsh rugby league footballer and coach
  • Paul Jappe, 91, American NFL footballer
  • Jan A. Rajchman, 77, Polish-American electrical engineer and computer pioneer
  • George Robledo, 62, Chilean international footballer, heart attack
• April 2
  • Zainon Munshi Sulaiman, 86, Malaysian educator and politician, Member of the Malaysian Parliament
  • Inez Clare Verdoorn, 92, South African botanist and taxonomist
  • Dingiri Bandara Welagedara, 73, Sri Lankan politician, Governor of North Central Province
• April 3
  • Mustafa Çağatay, 51, Turkish-Cypriot politician, final Prime minister of the Turkish Federated State of Cyprus and first Prime minister of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, traffic accident
  • Pinchas Hacohen Peli, 58, Israeli modern Orthodox rabbi, essayist, poet, and scholar of Judaism and Jewish philosophy
  • Norman Wooland, 79, English character actor
• April 4 – Gerard Casey, appr. 29, member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, shot
• April 5
  • Frank Foss, 93, American pole vaulter and Olympic gold medalist
  • Bill Gunn, 54, American playwright, novelist, actor and film director, encephalitis
  • Bill Hampton, 85, New Zealand lawn bowler
  • Kurt Lischka, 79, German SS official, Gestapo chief and commandant of the Security police
  • Bill Mehlhorn, 90, American professional golfer
  • Karel Zeman, 78, Czech film director, artist, production designer and animator
• April 6
  • Tufton Beamish, Baron Chelwood, 72, British Army officer and Member of Parliament
  • Elizabeth Becker-Pinkston, 86, American diver and dual Olympic gold medalist
  • Pannalal Patel, 76, Indian author, brain haemorrhage
  • Michael Reusch, 75, Swiss gymnast and Olympic gold medalist
• April 7
  • Hassan al-Amri, 68-69, Yemeni lieutenant general and Prime Minister of the Yemen Arab Republic
  • Cheng Nan-jung, 41, Taiwanese publisher and pro-democracy activist, suicide by immolation
  • Basawon Singh, 80, Indian independence activist and a campaigner for the rights of the underprivileged, industrial labourers and agricultural workers
• April 8
  • Albert Bormann, 86, German National Socialist Motor Corps officer, Gruppenführer, adjutant to Adolf Hitler, and brother of Martin Bormann
  • Charles A. Mobley, 92, American politician, Mayor of the City of Flint, Michigan
  • A. M. Rajah, 59, Indian playback singer and music director, train accident
  • Bus Saidt, 68, American sports writer
  • John Wyer, 79, English automobile racing engineer and team manager
• April 9
  • Friedrich Ritter, 90, German botanist
  • Carl Wessler, 75, American animator and comic book writer
• April 10
  • Gennadi Bondarenko, 60, Soviet footballer and coach
  • George Genereux, 54, Canadian trap shooter and physician, and Olympic gold medalist
  • Nikolai Grinko, 68, Ukrainian actor
• April 11 – Hiram Sherman, 81, American actor, stroke
• April 12
  • Gerald Flood, 61, British actor of stage and television, heart attack
  • Abbie Hoffman, 52, American political and social activist, suicide by overdose
  • Willie McNaught, 66, Scottish international footballer
  • Sugar Ray Robinson, 67, American professional boxer, heart disease
  • Tilda Thamar, 67, Argentine actress, car accident
• April 13
  • Philip Joseph Furlong, 96, American Catholic Bishop
  • Terry Miller, 46, American businessman and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Alaska, bone cancer
  • Bill Putnam, 69, American audio engineer, songwriter, producer, studio designer and businessman
• April 14 – Bob Mathews, 76, Australian rules footballer
• April 15
  • Brady Cowell, 89, American college football, basketball and baseball coach
  • Hu Yaobang, 73, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, heart attack
  • Bernard-Marie Koltès, 41, French playwright and theatre director, complications from AIDS
  • Connie Simmons, 64, American professional basketballer
  • Charles Vanel, 96, French actor and director
• April 16
  • Jocko Conlan, 89, American baseball umpire
  • John Dighton, 79, British playwright and screenwriter
  • Kaoru Ishikawa, 73, Japanese organizational theorist and a professor
  • C. K. McClatchy II, 62, American newspaper publisher
  • Dominic Olejniczak, 80, American real estate broker, politician, and football executive, strokes
  • Hakkı Yeten, 78, Turkish football player and club president
• April 17
  • Ken Gee, 72, English international rugby league footballer
  • M. S. Kariapper, 89, Sri Lankan politician
  • Villano II, 39, Mexican Luchador enmascarado (masked professional wrestler), suicide by hanging
• April 18
  • Adil Atan, 60, Turkish wrestler and Olympic medalist
  • Hilde Benjamin, 87, East German judge and Minister of Justice
  • Julia Smith, 84, American composer, pianist, and author on musicology
  • Candan Tarhan, 46, Turkish football manager
• April 19 – Dame Daphne du Maurier, 81, English novelist, biographer and playwright, heart failure
• April 20
  • Maurice Nyagumbo, 64, Zimbabwean politician, suicide by poison
  • Martin Ragaway, 66, American comedy writer
• April 21
  • Princess Deokhye of Korea, 76, last princess of the Korean royal family
  • Lou Gregory, 86, American long-distance runner and Olympian
  • James Kirkwood Jr., 64, American playwright, author and actor, AIDS-related complications
  • Frank O'Keefe, 76, Australian politician, member of federal parliament
  • James N. Rowe, 51, United States Army officer, assassinated
  • Nicolaas Steelink, 98, Dutch-American labour activist
• April 22
  • Emilio Segrè, 84, Italian-American physicist, Nobel laureate in Physics
  • Tommy Thompson, 70, American NFL and CFL footballer, brain cancer
• April 23
  • Marc Daniels, 77, American television director, congestive heart failure
  • Hamani Diori, 72, Nigerien politician, 1st president of Republic of Niger
  • Hu Die, 81, Chinese actress, stroke
  • Imre Hódos, 61, Hungarian wrestler and Olympic gold medalist
  • Kurt Jung, 64, German politician and architect
  • Howie Krist, 73, American Major Leagues baseballer
• April 24
  • Franz Binder, 77, Austrian international footballer and coach
  • Clito "Clyde" Geronimi, 87, American animation director
  • Joseph Jarabak, 83, American orthodontist
  • Li Jingquan, 79, Chinese politician and Party Committee Secretary of Sichuan
  • Lee Roberts, 75, American film actor
  • Edgar Sanabria, 77, Venezuelan lawyer, diplomat and politician, interim President of Venezuela, stroke
• April 25
  • Delores "Dee" Boeckmann, 82, American middle-distance runner and Olympian
  • George Coulouris, 85, English film and stage actor
• April 26
  • Lucille Ball, 77, American actress and comedienne, ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm
  • Carl Monroe, 29, American NFL footballer, accidental overdose
• April 27
  • Konosuke Matsushita, 94, Japanese industrialist, founder of Panasonic, pneumonia
  • William Arthur Smith, 71, American artist
• April 28
  • Jack Cummings, 84, American film producer and director
  • Géza von Cziffra, 88, Hungarian and Austrian film director and screenwriter
  • Pinchoo Kapoor, 61-62, Indian actor
  • Ralph H. Wetmore, 97, American professor of botany at Harvard University
• April 29
  • James Nobel Landis, 89, American power engineer at Brooklyn Edison Company
  • Richard C. Lord, 78, American chemist
• April 30
  • Yi Bangja, 87, wife of Crown Prince Euimin, the last Crown Prince of the Korean Empire, cancer
  • Edwin F. Kalmus, 95, Austrian-born American music publisher
  • Gottfried Köthe, 83, Austrian mathematician
  • Sergio Leone, 60, Italian film director, producer and screenwriter, heart attack
  • Stumpy Thomason, 83, American NFL footballer
  • Taiji Tonoyama, 73, Japanese character actor
  • Guy Williams, 65, American actor, brain aneurysm
• April (date unknown) – Harry White, appr. 73, an Irish republican paramilitary

May

• May 1
  • Antonio Janigro, 71, Italian cellist and conductor
  • Edward Ochab, 82, Polish communist politician, Chairman of the Polish Council of State
  • Douglass Watson, 68, American actor, heart attack
• May 2
  • Bennie Benjamin, 81, Virgin Islands-born American songwriter
  • James Crabe, 57, American cinematographer, complications of AIDS
  • Veniamin Kaverin, 87, Russian writer, dramatist and screenwriter
  • Charlie May, 90, Australian Rules footballer
  • Giuseppe Siri, 82, Italian cardinal
• May 3
  • Christine Jorgensen, 62, American trans-gender woman, actress and singer, bladder and lung cancer
  • George Lowrie, 69, Welsh international footballer
  • John Mackey, 75, Irish hurler
  • Roland Robinson, 1st Baron Martonmere, 82, British politician and Governor of Bermuda
  • William Squire, 72, Welsh actor of stage, film and television
• May 4
  • Chalam (born Simhachalam Korada), 59, Indian film actor
  • Larry Fleisher, 58, American attorney and sports agent, heart attack
  • Herschel C. Loveless, 77, American politician, Governor of Iowa, lung cancer
  • Evelle J. Younger, 70, American lawyer, California Attorney General
• May 5
  • Wolfgang Neuss, 65, German actor and Kabarett artist, cancer
  • Peter P. Stevens, 79, American football player and coach of football, basketball, and baseball
  • Naval Tata, 84, Indian Industrialist and Philanthropist
• May 6
  • Earl Blaik, 92, American football player, coach, college athletics administrator and United States Army officer
  • Adolfo Constanzo, 26, Cuban-American serial killer, drug dealer and cult leader, assisted suicide
• May 7
  • Lou Brock, 71, American football player
  • Frank Cluskey, 59, Irish politician, Leader of the Labour Party, cancer
  • Howie Moss, 69, American Major Leagues baseball player
  • Anton Rønneberg, 86, Norwegian writer and theatre critic
• May 8
  • Felice Mario Boano, 85–86, Italian automobile designer and coachbuilder
  • Phil Grimes, 60, Irish hurler
  • Andreas Hillgruber, 64, German historian, throat cancer
  • Tony Lucadello, 76, American professional baseball scout, suicide by shooting
  • Ruggero Maccari, 69, Italian screenwriter
  • Rudolf Uhlenhaut, 82, British-German engineer
• May 9
  • Karl Brunner (economist), 73, Swiss economist
  • Alex Fraser, 72, Canadian politician, Member of the British Columbia Legislative Assembly
  • Fred Halsted, 47, American gay pornographic film director, actor, escort, publisher, and sex club owner, suicide by overdose
  • Enrique Lucero, 68, Mexican actor
  • Kenneth A. Roberts, 76, American lawyer, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, congestive heart failure
  • Keith Whitley, 34, American country music singer and songwriter, alcohol poisoning
• May 10
  • Joseph Brennan, 88, American professional basketballer
  • Kalu Rinpoche, 84, Tibetan Buddhist lama, meditation master, scholar and teacher
  • Woody Shaw, 44, American jazz trumpeter and bandleader, kidney failure
  • Hassler Whitney, 82, American mathematician, stroke
• May 11
  • Vin Brown, 67, Australian rules footballer
  • Xiao Wangdong, 78, Chinese Communist revolutionary and a lieutenant general of the People's Liberation Army
• May 13 — Charlie Mutton, 98, Australian politician
• May 14
  • Nikifor Kalchenko, 83, Soviet politician
  • Joe Primeau, 83, Canadian professional ice hockey player
  • E. P. Taylor, 88, Canadian business tycoon, investor and philanthropist
• May 15
  • Johnny Green, 80, American songwriter, conductor and pianist
  • Noel O'Brien, 56, Australian rules footballer
  • Noriko Tsukase, 43, Japanese voice actress and chanson singer, rectal cancer
• May 16
  • Ralph Gibson, 83, Australian communist organiser and writer
  • Lamar Allen, 74, American college football player and coach and Negro Leagues baseballer
  • Théodore Strawinsky, 82, Russian-born Swiss painter
• May 17
  • Hallvard Eika, 68, Norwegian politician, Member of the Norwegian Parliament
  • Walter Gross, 85, German actor
  • Finn Juhl, 77, Danish architect, interior and industrial designer
  • Specs Toporcer, 90, American Major Leagues baseballer, injuries sustained from a fall
• May 18
  • Donald Hiss, 82, American legal secretary, younger brother of Alger Hiss
  • Hermann Höcherl, 77, German politician and lawyer, member of Nazi Party
  • Ed McIlvenny, 64, Scottish footballer who represented the United States
• May 19
  • Anton Diffring, 72, German actor, cancer
  • John J. Muccio, 89, Italian-born American diplomat, United States Ambassador to Guatemala, Iceland and South Korea
  • Gerd Oswald, 79, German director of American films and television, cancer
  • Yiannis Papaioannou, 79, Greek composer and teacher
  • Robert Webber, 64, American actor, Lou Gehrig's disease
• May 20
  • John Hicks, 85, British economist, of Nobel Memorial laureate in Economic Sciences
  • Pavel Juráček, 53, Czech screenwriter and film director
  • Lyn Murray, 79, English-American composer, conductor, and arranger of music for radio, film and television, cancer
  • Gilda Radner, 42, American actress, comedian, writer and singer, ovarian cancer
  • Warren Magnuson, 84, American lawyer and politician, President pro tempore of the United States Senate
• May 22
  • Carlton Massey, 59, American NFL footballer
  • Rush Rhees, 84, American philosopher
  • Robert Richardson Sears, 80, American psychologist
• May 23
  • James Kay Thomas, 87, American lawyer and politician, Attorney General of West Virginia
  • George Thomas, 61, American NFL footballer
  • Georgy Tovstonogov, 73, Russian-Georgian theatre director, heart attack
  • Earle Wilson, 73, American triple-jumper and Olympian
• May 24
  • S. K. Dey, 82, Indian politician
  • Tom Harper, 86, American football player and coach
  • Steve McCall, 55, American jazz drummer
  • Tripti Mitra, 63, Indian actress
• May 25
  • Ben H. Brown Jr., 75, American diplomat, United States Ambassador to Liberia, cancer
  • Ab DeMarco, 73, Canadian professional ice hockey player
  • Jean Despeaux, 73, French boxer and Olympic gold medalist
  • Soma Wickremanayake, 74, Sri Lankan educator and politician, Member of the Ceylonese Parliament
• May 26
  • Phineas Newborn Jr., 57, American jazz pianist, growth on lungs
  • Don Revie, 61, English international footballer and manager, motor neurone disease
  • Kazuko Takatsukasa, 59, elder sister to the former Emperor of Japan, Emperor Akihito, heart failure
• May 27
  • Jerry Anderson, 35, American NFL footballer, drowned
  • Jess Sweetser, 87, American golfer
  • Arseny Tarkovsky, 81, Russian poet and translator
• May 28
  • Abbas Nalbandian, 39–40, Iranian playwright, suicide
  • Baltasar Lopes da Silva, 82, Portuguess writer, poet and linguist, cerebrovascular disease
  • John M. Systermans, Belgian-born missionary and priest
  • Muttathu Varkey, 76, Indian novelist, short story writer, and poet
• May 29
  • Nora Barlow, 103, British botanist and geneticist, granddaughter of Charles Darwin
  • John Cipollina, 45, American guitarist, alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency
  • George C. Homans, 78, American sociologist, founder of behavioral sociology, heart ailment
  • Donald L. Katz, 81, American chemist and chemical engineer
  • Giuseppe Patanè, 57, Italian opera conductor, heart attack
  • Bob Waters, 50, American footballer, Lou Gehrig's disease
• May 30
  • Jane Fauntz, 78, American swimmer and diver and Olympic medalist, leukemia
  • James Harry Lacey, 72, British Royal Air Force fighter pilot in World War II
  • Zinka Milanov, 83, Croatian operatic dramatic soprano, stroke
  • Claude Pepper, 88, American politician, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, stomach cancer
• May 31
  • Edward Hubbard, 51, English architectural historian, ankylosing spondylitis
  • C. L. R. James, 88, Trinidadian historian, journalist and Marxist writer, chest infection
  • Owen Lattimore, 88, American Orientalist and writer
  • Raisa Orlova, 70, Russian writer and American studies scholar
  • G. Vanmikanathan, 88, Indian scholar and author
• May (unknown date) — John Sutton, 60–61, Irish hurler

June

• June 1
  • Dharmasena Attygalle, 64, Sri Lankan politician
  • Emery Hawkins, 77, American animator
  • Aurelio Lampredi, 71, Italian automobile and aircraft engine designer
  • Alexis Lichine, 75, Russian wine writer and entrepreneur
  • Edward J. McShane, 85, American mathematician, congestive heart failure
• June 2
  • Guido Agosti, 87, Italian pianist and piano teacher
  • Smith Barrier, 72, American sports journalist
  • Dick Mayer, 64, American professional golfer
  • Takeo Watanabe, 56, Japanese musician and composer
• June 3
  • Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, 86 or 89, Iranian politician, revolutionary and religious leader, 1st Supreme Leader of Iran, multiple heart attacks
  • Wynne Samuel, 77, Welsh politician
• June 4
  • Dik Browne, 71, American cartoonist, cancer^[1][2]
  • Vernon Cracknell, 77, New Zealand politician
  • Franca Helg, 69, Italian designer and architect
• June 5 – Maurice Philippe, 57, British aircraft and Formula One car designer
• June 6
  • Richard Kahn, Baron Kahn, 83, British economist
  • Michael O'Farrell, 40, American outlaw biker and gangster, vice-president and acting president of Oakland chapter of Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, murdered
  • Ernest John Primeau, 79, American Roman Catholic bishop
• June 7
  • Jim Cristy, 76, American competition swimmer and Olympic medalist, financial manager for the Updike Company
  • William McLean Hamilton, 70, Canadian politician
  • Chico Landi, 81, Brazilian Formula One racing driver
  • Nara Leão, 47, Brazilian singer, brain tumour^[3]
  • George Roughton, 79, English professional footballer
• June 8
  • Bibb Falk, 90, American Major Leagues baseballer
  • Albert Spaggiari, 56, French criminal
  • Emil Verban, 73, American Major Leagues baseballer
• June 9
  • George Beadle, 85, American geneticist, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine^[4]
  • Rashid Behbudov, 73, Soviet and Azerbaijani singer and actor^[5]
  • James Horstead, 91, Anglican bishop of Sierra Leone and Archbishop of West Africa
  • José López Rega, 72, Argentine politician, Minister of Social Welfare, diabetes^[6][7]
  • Wolfdietrich Schnurre, 68, German writer, heart failure
  • Piotr Vasiliev, 80, Soviet realist painter
• June 10
  • James Greenway, 86, American ornithologist
  • Martin Kottler, 79, American NFL footballer
  • Richard Quine, 68, American actor, director and singer, suicide by shooting^[8]
  • Suleyman Rustam, 83, Soviet poet, playwright and translator
• June 11 – Jack McMahon, 60, American professional basketball player and coach
• June 12
  • Nilufer Hanımsultan, 73, Ottoman princess
  • Lou Monte, 72, Italian-American singer
• June 13
  • Fran Allison, 81, American television and radio personality, myelodysplasia^[9]
  • Howard Simons, 60, American newspaper man, managing editor of The Washington Post at the time of the Watergate scandal, pancreatic cancer
• June 14
  • Pete de Freitas, 27, English musician and producer, motorcycle accident
  • Wei Guoqing, 75, Chinese government official, military officer and political commissar
  • Joseph Malula, 71, Congolese archbishop and cardinal^[10]
  • Yitzchok Yaakov Weiss, 87, Israeli rabbi of the Edah HaChareidis in Jerusalem, heart attack
• June 15
  • Maurice Bellemare, 77, Canadian politician, diabetes
  • Roberto Camardiel, 71, Spanish theatre director and actor, bone disease
  • Victor French, 54, American actor and director, lung cancer^[11]
  • Judy Johnson, 89, American Negro League baseballer
  • Ray McAnally, 63, Irish actor, heart attack^[12]
  • Luis Ricceri, 88, Italian Roman Catholic priest
• June 16
  • Helga Haase, 55, East German speed skater and Olympic gold medalist
  • Celia Lynch, 81, Irish politician
• June 17
  • S. David Griggs, 49, United States Navy officer and NASA astronaut
  • John Matuszak, 38, American football player and actor, accidental overdose^[13][14]
  • Pat Parker, 45, American poet and activist, breast cancer
• June 18
  • Bobby Cross, 57, American NFL footballer
  • George C. Pimentel, 67, American chemist and researcher, intestinal cancer
  • I. F. Stone, 81, American investigative journalist, writer and author, heart attack
• June 19
  • Betti Alver, 82, Estonian poet
  • Andrey Prokofyev, 30, Soviet sprinter and Olympic gold medalist, suicide
• June 20 – Dona Drake, 74, American singer, dancer and film actress, pneumonia
• June 21
  • Ron Bailey, 75, Australian international rugby league footballer
  • Lee Calhoun, 56, American hurdler, dual Olympic gold medal winner^[15]
  • Edmond Sollberger, 68, Turkish-born, Swiss–British museum curator, cuneiformist and scholar of the Sumerian language
• June 22
  • Anton Dermota, 79, Slovene lyric tenor
  • Robert Körner, 64, Austrian international footballer
  • Henri Sauguet, 88, French composer
• June 23
  • Michel Aflaq, 79, Syrian philosopher, sociologist and Arab nationalist, complications from heart surgery
  • Del Anderson, 77, American football coach
  • Werner Best, 85, German Nazi Party leader, SS-Obergruppenführer leader and organiser of the SS-Einsatzgruppen paramilitary death squads^[16]
  • Timothy Manning, 79, Irish-born American Archbishop of Los Angeles
• June 24
  • Russell Meiggs, 86, British ancient historian
  • Hibari Misora, 52, Japanese singer and actress^[17]
  • Ghulam Raziq, 56, Pakistani hurdler and Olympian
  • Prince Vasili Alexandrovich of Russia, 81, Russian-American nephew of Tsar Nicholas II^[18]
• June 25
  • Idris Cox, 89, Welsh communist activist and newspaper editor
  • M. A. Daniel, 35, Sri Lankan politician, murdered
• June 26
  • Howard Charles Green, 93, Canadian federal politician
  • Walter Ralston Martin, 60, American Baptist Christian minister and author
• June 27
  • Sir Alfred "Freddie" Ayer, 78, English philosopher^[19]
  • Jack Buetel, 73, American film and television actor^[20]
  • Michele Lupo, 56, Italian film director^[21]
  • Gregory McMahon, 74, American politician, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
  • Stevan Vilotić, 63, Yugoslav footballer and manager
• June 28
  • Karl Bendetsen, 81, American politician and military officer, United States Under Secretary of the Army
  • Joris Ivens, 90, Dutch documentary filmmaker^[22]
  • Mike Sebastian, 79, American NFL footballer
• June 29 – Kazuo Mori, 78, Japanese film director
• June 30
  • Hilmar Baunsgaard, 69, Danish politician and Prime Minister of Denmark^[23]
  • Jim Dewar, 67, American footballer
  • Rostislav Plyatt, 80, Russian stage and film actor

July

• July 1
  • Eric Holland, 68, New Zealand politician, Member of the New Zealand Parliament
  • Sumant Moolgaokar, 82, Indian industrialist
  • António Morais, 54, Portuguese footballer and manager, car crash
  • Viktor Nekipelov, 60, Soviet Russian poet and writer
  • Louise Varèse, 98, American writer, editor, and translator of French literature
• July 2
  • Brendan Crinion, 65, Irish Fianna Fáil politician
  • Andrei Gromyko, 79, Soviet politician and diplomat, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, vascular problem
  • Hasan Esat Işık, 72–73, Turkish diplomat and politician
  • Jean Leguay, 79, French National Police member during Nazi Occupation of France, responsible for rounding up Jews for concentration camps, cancer
  • Franklin J. Schaffner, 69, Japanese-born American film, television and stage director, lung cancer
  • Wilfrid Sellars, 77, American philosopher
  • Ben Wright, 74, English radio, film and television actor, complications from heart surgery
• July 3
  • Jim Backus, 76, American actor, best known as Thurston Howell III on Gilligan's Island, complications from pneumonia
  • Peter Fox, 68, Canadian politician, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba
• July 4
  • Win Maung, 73, President of the Union of Burma
  • Leyla Mammadbeyova, 79, Azerbaijani and Soviet aviator
  • Vic Perrin, 73, American radio, film, and television actor, cancer
  • Loyd Roberts, 82, American football and basketball player and coach
• July 5
  • Bill Daddio, 73, American NFL football player, coach, and scout, heart attack
  • Ernesto Halffter, 84, Spanish composer and conductor
  • Odus Mitchell, 90, American footballer and coach
  • Sirarpie Der Nersessian, 92, Armenian art historian who specialized in Armenian and Byzantine studies
• July 6
  • Jean Bouise, 60, French actor
  • C. A. Dharmapala, 81, Sri Lankan politician
  • János Kádár, 77, Hungarian politician and communist leader, General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party, cancer
  • John Maguire, 84, American Roman Catholic clergyman
  • William F. Tompkins, 76, American politician, Member of the New Jersey General Assembly, heart attack
• July 7 – Moshe Kol, 78, Israeli politician
• July 8 – August Haußleiter, 84, German politician and journalist
• July 9
  • Andrex, 82, French film actor
  • Piet Lieftinck, 86, Dutch politician, Member of the House of Representatives and Senate
• July 10
  • Mel Blanc, 81, American voice actor and radio personality, complications related to emphysema and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
  • Jean-Michel Charlier, 64, Belgian comics writer
  • Roger Richebé, 91, French film director, screenwriter, and producer
  • Tommy Trinder, 80, English stage, screen and radio comedian
• July 11
  • Irv Comp, 70, American NFL footballer
  • Laurence Curtis, 83, American attorney and politician, Member of US House of Representatives
  • Horia Macellariu, 95, Romanian admiral, commander of the Royal Romanian Navy's Black Sea Fleet during the Second World War
  • Vic Maile, 55–56, British record producer, cancer
  • Laurence Olivier, 82, English actor and director, renal failure
  • Richard Travis, 76, American actor in films and television
• July 12
  • Sidney Hook, 86, American philosopher
  • Prince Wolfgang of Hesse, 92, Crown Prince of Finland
• July 13
  • A. Amirthalingam, 61, Sri Lankan Tamil politician, Member of Parliament and Leader of the Opposition, assassinated
  • Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou, 58, Iranian Kurdish politician, assassinated
  • Davud Monshizadeh, 74, Iranian supporter of Nazism
  • Arnaldo Ochoa, 58–59, Cuban general, executed
  • Pedro Orata, 90, Filipino educator
  • V. Yogeswaran, 55, Sri Lankan lawyer, politician and Member of Parliament, assassinated
• July 14 – Arnold Poepke, 87, German politician
• July 15
  • Josef Bauer, 74, German politician
  • Will Bradley, 77, American trombonist and bandleader
  • Laurie Cunningham, 33, English international footballer, car crash
  • Nesuhi Ertegun, 71, Turkish-born American record producer, complications of cancer surgery
  • Artur Sandauer, 75, Polish and Jewish literary critic, essayist, and professor
  • Jack Scholes, 71, Australian-born New Zealand sailor
• July 16
  • John N. Dempsey, 74, Irish-born American politician, Governor of Connecticut, lung cancer
  • Nicolás Guillén, 87, Cuban poet, journalist, political activist and writer, Parkinson's disease
  • Herbert von Karajan, 81, Austrian conductor, principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic for 34 years, heart attack
  • George Rich, 84, American football player and coach
  • Shmuel Rodensky, 86, Russian-born Israeli actor of stage, film and television, heart attack
• July 17
  • Dudley Brooks, 75, American jazz pianist, arranger, and composer
  • Robert Horton Cameron, 81, American mathematician
  • Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil, 89, French lover and later wife of Samuel Beckett
  • Jeff Moores, 83, Australian rugby league footballer
  • Vuppuluri Ganapathi Sastry, 100, Indian sanskrit scholar, writer and spiritual teacher
• July 18
  • Donnie Moore, 35, American Major Leagues baseballer, suicide by gun
  • Rebecca Schaeffer, 21, American actress, murdered
• July 19
  • J. M. Cohen, 86, British translator of European literature into English
  • Xaquín Lorenzo Fernández, 82, Spanish educator
  • Jay Ramsdell, 25, American commissioner of the Continental Basketball Association, plane crash
  • Stan Ramsay, 84, English footballer and manager
  • Kazimierz Sabbat, 76, Prime Minister and President of the Polish government in exile
  • Carl-Heinz Schroth, 87, German actor and film director
• July 20
  • Forrest H. Anderson, 76, American politician, attorney and judge, Governor and Attorney General of Montana, self-inflicted gunshot wound
  • Valentine Bargmann, 81, German-born American mathematician and theoretical physicist
  • José Augusto Brandão, 78, Brazilian international footballer
  • Karen DeWolf, 85, American screenwriter and novelist
  • Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, 79, leader of French Resistance network "Alliance", under code name "Hérisson"
  • Erwin Sietas, 78, German swimmer and Olympic medalist
  • Mary Treen, 82, American film and television actress, cancer
  • Yannis Tsarouchis, 79, Greek modernist painter and set designer
  • Harry Worth, 71, English comedy actor, comedian and ventriloquist, spinal cancer
• July 21
  • Donald Brittain, 61, Canadian film director and producer
  • James M. Collins, 73, American businessman and politician, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
  • Danilo Lokar, 97, Slovene physician and expressionist writer
  • William T. Whisner Jr., 65, American pilot in the United States Air Force, complications from a wasp sting
• July 22
  • Janet Lee Bouvier, 81, American mother of Jacqueline Kennedy, complications from Alzheimer's disease
  • A. Thomas Doyle, 71, American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer, Alzheimer's disease
  • Martti Talvela, 54, Finnish operatic bass, heart attack
  • Frank Thompson, 70, American politician, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, esophageal cancer
• July 23
  • Donald Barthelme, 58, American short story writer and novelist, throat cancer
  • Archduchess Charlotte of Austria, 68, daughter of Emperor Charles I of Austria
  • Claude Harmon, 73, American professional golfer and golf instructor, heart failure
  • Daniel Rhodes, 78, American artist, heart attack
  • Alexander Weygers, 87, Dutch-American sculptor, painter, print maker, blacksmith, carpenter, philosopher, mechanical engineer, aerospace engineer and author
• July 24
  • Marco Acerbi, 40, Italian hurdler and Olympian
  • Walter Dick, 83, American international footballer
  • Ernie "Sunshine Sammy" Morrison, 76, American actor, comedian and dancer, cancer
• July 25 – Steve Rubell, 45, American entrepreneur and co-owner of the New York City disco Studio 54, hepatitis and septic shock complicated by AIDS
• July 26 – Derek Ball, British sound engineer and Academy Award winner
• July 27
  • Eugénie Henderson, 74, British linguist and academic
  • Warren Low, 83, American film editor
  • Walter Scott, 89, Australian rules footballer
  • Dolf Sternberger, 81, German philosopher and political scientist
• July 28
  • Jeff Richards, 64, American actor, acute respiratory failure
  • Fu Zhong, 89, Chinese general in the People's Liberation Army
• July 29
  • Charley Bowser, 90, American football coach, heart failure
  • Osvaldo Brandão, 72, Brazilian football player and coach
  • Henry Shenk, 82, American football player and coach
  • Rudy Zamora, 79, Mexican-American animator
• July 30
  • Lily Broberg, 65, Danish stage and film actress
  • Muhammad Dilawar Khanji, 71, Pakistani politician, Governor of Sindh, lung cancer
  • Wes Fesler, 81, American footballer, basketballer and baseballer, and coach of football and basketball
  • Lane Frost, 25, American professional rodeo cowboy, killed by bull
  • Amadeo Labarta, 84, Spanish footballer and Olympian
• July 31
  • Premakeerthi de Alwis, 42, Sri Lankan radio and television broadcaster and lyricist, murdered by shooting
  • Herschel Caldwell, 85, American college football player and coach
  • Michael Harrington, 61, American author, political activist, professor of political science and radio commentator, esophageal cancer
  • Bull Moose Jackson, 70, American blues and rhythm-and-blues singer and saxophonist, lung cancer
  • Geronima Pecson, 92, Filipina educator, suffragette, social worker and first woman senator of the Philippines
• July (unknown date) – Hui Yuyu, 79–80, Chinese politician

August

• August 1
  • José Cândido de Carvalho, 74, Brazilian writer
  • Don Heffner, 78, American Major Leagues baseballer
  • John Hirsch, 59, Hungarian-Canadian theatre director, AIDS-related illness
  • John Ogdon, 52, English pianist and composer, pneumonia
• August 2
  • Friedl Behn-Grund, 82, German cinematographer
  • Luiz Gonzaga, 76, Brazilian singer, songwriter, musician and poet
• August 3
  • Dominic Behan, 60, Irish writer, songwriter and singer, complications from pancreatic cancer
  • Antonia Brico, 87, Dutch-born American conductor and pianist
  • Egon Orowan, 87, Hungarian-British physicist and metallurgist
• August 4
  • Wayne LaMaster, 82, American Major Leagues baseballer
  • Paul Murry, 77, American cartoonist and comics artist
  • Larry Parnes, 59, British pop manager, meningitis
  • Taghi Riahi, 78, Iranian officer in Iranian Imperial Army
  • W. Wallace Smith, 88, American grandson of Joseph Smith Jr. and Prophet-President of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
• August 5
  • John Kinard, 52, American social activist, pastor, and museum director, myelofibrosis
  • Max Macon, 73, American Major Leagues baseballer
  • Charles Richard Mulrooney, 83, American Roman Catholic bishop
• August 6
  • Don Clark, 65, American footballer, heart attack
  • Nat Levine, 90, American film producer
• August 7
  • Mickey Leland, 44, American politician and anti-poverty activist, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, plane crash
  • Robert Stevens, 68, American director and producer of television shows and movies, cardiac arrest
  • Mira Trailović, 65, Serbian dramaturg and theatre director
• August 8
  • Robert Kaske, 68, American professor of medieval literature, brain tumour
  • Enrico Lorenzetti, 78, Italian professional Grand Prix motorcycle road racer
  • Brian Naylor, 66, British racing driver
  • Bobby Oxspring, 70, British Royal Air Force officer and Second World War flying ace
  • George Papp, 73, American comics artist
• August 9
  • Richard Alexander, 86, American film actor
  • Antonino Pietro Gullotti, 67, Italian politician
• August 10
  • H. Montgomery Hyde, 81, Irish barrister, politician, author and biographer
  • Pierre Matisse, 89, French-born American art dealer
  • Alberto Sols, 72, Spanish researcher specializing in biochemistry
• August 11
  • Ghaus Bakhsh Bizenjo, 69-72, Pakistani politician, Governor of Balochistan
  • Goldup Davies, 75, British swimmer
  • Robert W. Levering, 74, American lawyer and politician, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
  • John Meillon, 55, Australian character actor, cirrhosis
  • Sonny Thompson, 72, American R&B bandleader and pianist
• August 12
  • Fred Dawes, 78, English footballer
  • Lillebil Ibsen, 90, Norwegian dancer and actress
  • Aimo Koivunen, 71, Finnish soldier
  • Samuel Okwaraji, 25, Nigerian international footballer, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy following collapse after World Cup qualifier
  • William Shockley, 79, American physicist, Nobel laureate in Physics, and eugenicist, prostate cancer
  • Olga Villi, 67, Italian model and actress
• August 13
  • Hugo del Carril, 76, Argentine film actor, film director and tango singer
  • Roldano Lupi, 80, Italian film actor
  • Tim Richmond, 34, American race car driver, complications from AIDS
• August 14
  • Robert Bernard Anderson, 79, American politician, Secretary of the Navy and Secretary of the Treasury, throat cancer
  • Ricky Berry, 24, American NBA basketballer, suicide by shooting
  • Dove-Myer Robinson, 88, New Zealand Mayor of Auckland City
• August 15
  • Wolfram Eberhard, 80, German-born Turkish and American professor of Sociology
  • Minoru Genda, 84, Imperial Japanese Navy flight officer, Japanese Air Self Defence Force general, and politician
  • Elvy Kalep, 90, Estonian aviator, country's first female pilot
  • Heinrich Krone, 93, German politician
  • Earl B. Ruth, 73, American politician, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
  • Thrasyvoulos Tsakalotos, 92, Greek Army Lieutenant General who served in World Wars I and II
• August 16
  • Jean-Hilaire Aubame, 76, Gabonese politician, Foreign Minister of Gabon
  • Amanda Blake, 60, American actress, best known for the role of Miss Kitty Russell on Gunsmoke, AIDS-related pneumonia
  • Donald Friend, 74, Australian artist and diarist
  • Bill Sayer, 55, English internationl rugby league footballer
• August 17
  • Harry Corbett, 71, English magician, puppeteer, and television presenter
  • Lawrence Stevens, 76, South African boxer and Olympic gold medalist
  • Lin Tie, 84, Communist revolutionary leader and politician of the People's Republic of China
• August 18
  • Robert Buckner, 83, American film screenwriter, producer and short story writer
  • Luis Carlos Galan, 45, Colombian politician, assassinated
  • Matt Gordy, 79, American pole vaulter
  • Imre Németh, 71, Hungarian hammer thrower and Olympic gold medalist
  • Bert Oosterbosch, 32, Dutch racing cyclist, cardiac arrest
  • Chrissie White, 94, British silent-screen actress
• August 19
  • Géza Képes, 80, Hungarian poet, translator and polyglot
  • Alfredo Montelibano Sr., 83, Filipino politician, Secretary of National Defense and the Interior
  • Wayne Moore, 44, American NFL footballer, heart attack
  • Joseph A. Pechman, 71, American economist and taxation scholar
• August 20
  • George Adamson, 83, British wildlife conservationist in Kenya, murdered
  • Joseph LaShelle, 89, American cinematographer
  • Chuck Tollefson, 72, American NFL footballer
• August 21
  • William F. Bolger, 66, Postmaster General of the United States
  • Raul Seixas, 44, Brazilian rock singer, songwriter and producer, cardiac arrest as a complication of diabetes
  • Phyllis Terrell, 91, suffragist and civil rights activist
  • Ted Wilks, 73, American Major Leagues baseballer
• August 22
  • Charles Hill, Baron Hill of Luton, 85, British physician and medical spokesman, radio speaker and member of parliament
  • Huey P. Newton, 47, African-American political activist, founder of the Black Panther party, and probable murderer, shot
  • Krishnarao Shankar Pandit, 96, Indian musician
  • Diana Vreeland, 85, American fashion columnist and editor, heart attack
• August 23
  • Erik Almgren, 81, Swedish footballer and manager
  • R. D. Laing, 61, Scottish psychiatrist, heart attack
• August 24
  • Fermín Lecea, 83, Spanish-Argentine footballer
  • Jimmy Littlejohn, 79, Scottish footballer and manager
  • Feliks Topolski, 82, Polish expressionist painter and draughtsman
• August 25
  • Jim Brideweser, 62, American Major Leagues baseballer
  • Jacques Castelot, 75, French film actor
  • Yan Frenkel, 68, Soviet Ukrainian composer and performer
  • Frank Henry, 79, American equestrian and Olympic gold medalist
  • Jean-Louis Verdier, 54, French mathematician
  • Bronwen Wallace, 44, Canadian poet and short story writer, cancer
• August 26
  • Hans Børli, 70, Norwegian poet and writer
  • Juanita Brooks, 91, American historian and author, Alzheimer's disease
  • Patrick Connor, 83, Irish politician
  • Irving Stone, 86, American writer
• August 27
  • Elmer Ellis, 88, American educator and president of the University of Missouri
  • Luiz Luz, 79, Brazilian international footballer
  • Burhan Shahidi, 94, Chinese politician
  • Bill Shirley, 68, American actor and tenor/lyric baritone, lung cancer
• August 28
  • Joseph Alsop, 78, American journalist and newspaper columnist
  • Ondine, 52, American actor, AIDS-related liver disease
• August 29
  • Pua Kealoha, 86, Hawaiian swimmer, Olympic gold medalist for the United States
  • Lorenzo Natali, 66, Italian politician
  • Giorgio di Sant' Angelo, 66, Italian-Argentinian fashion designer based in the United States, lung cancer
  • Sir Peter Scott, 79, British ornithologist, conservationist, Olympic medalist in sailing, heart attack
• August 30
  • Joe Collins, 66, American Major Leagues baseballer
  • Joe De Santis, 80, American radio, television, movie and theatrical actor and sculptor, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
  • Dorothy Schiff, 86, American businesswoman, owner and publisher of the New York Post
• August 31
  • Moe Dalitz, 89, American gangster, businessman, casino owner and philanthropist, congestive heart failure, chronic hypertension and kidney failure
  • Claire Luce, 85, American stage and screen actress, dancer and singer
  • Skeeter Newsome, 78, American Major Leagues baseballer

September

• September 1
  • Frank Collier, 56, English international rugby league footballer
  • Kazimierz Deyna, 41, Polish international footballer, car accident
  • [[]],
  • Dipa Ma, 78, Indian meditation teacher
  • Albert Outler, 80, American Methodist historian, theologian, and pastor
  • Shah Azizur Rahman, 63, Bangladeshi politician, Prime Minister of Bangladesh
• September 2
  • [[]],
  • Brian Robinson, appr. 27, Northern Ireland loyalist militant, shot
• September 3
  • [[]],
  • Vice Admiral John Augustine Collins, 90, Royal Australian Navy officer, commanded HMAS Sydney until shortly before its sinking
  • [[]],
  • Gaetano Scirea, 36, Italian international footballer, regarded as one of the greatest defenders of all time, car accident
  • Rip Sewell, 82, American Major Leagues baseballer
  • Meena Shorey, 67, Pakistani film actress
• September 4
  • Bernard Belleau, 64, Canadian molecular pharmacologist
  • [[]],
  • Georges Simenon, 86, Belgian writer, 86, Belgian writer, complications from a fall
  • Ronald Syme, 86, New Zealand-born British classicist and historian
• September 5
  • [[]],
  • Sir John Philip Baxter, 84, British-Australian chemical engineer
  • [[]],
  • [[]],
  • William Mann, 65, English music critic
  • [[]],
• September 6 – [[]],
• September 7 – Tom Blackaller, 49, American yachtsman and world championship gold medalist, heart attack
• September 8
  • [[]],
  • Karel Finek, 69, Czech footballer and manager
  • Paul Alfred Weiss, 91, Austrian-American biologist
• September 9
  • Heinrich Angst, 74, Swiss bobsledder and Olympic gold medalist
  • [[]],
• September 10
  • [[]],
  • [[]],
  • Gordon McCallum, 70, American-born English sound engineer
  • Herman Peters, 90, Australian rugby league footballer for North Sydney and Australia
  • [[]],
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• September 11 – [[]],
• September 12
  • George Gniel, 70, Australian rules footballer
  • Sterjo Spasse, 75, Albanian prose writer and novelist
  • Seamus Twomey, 69, Irish republican activist, militant and chief of staff of the Provisional IRA
  • [[]],
• September 13
  • Acharya Aatreya, 68, Indian poet, lyricist, playwright, and screenwriter
  • [[]],
  • Charles H. Russell, 85, American politician, Governor of Nevada
  • [[]],
• September 14
  • Benjamin Peary Pal, 83, Indian plant breeder and agronomist
  • Dámaso Pérez Prado, 72, Cuban bandleader, pianist, composer and arranger, popularised the Mambo, complications from a stroke
  • [[]],
• September 15
  • [[]],
  • [[]],
  • Robert Penn Warren, 84, American poet, novelist, and literary critic, complications from prostate cancer
• September 16
  • Arno Behrisch, 76, German politician
  • Bruno Heck, 72, German politician
  • [[]],
• September 17
  • Field Marshal Sir Richard Hull, 82, British Army officer, Chief of the General Staff, cancer
  • [[]],
  • [[]],
  • Don Vines, 57, Welsh rugby union and rugby league footballer
• September 18 – Jack Smith, 56, American filmmaker, actor, and pioneer of underground cinema
• September 19 – Willie Steele, 66, American long-jumper and Olympic gold medalist, cancer
• September 20
  • [[]],
  • Chen Boda, 85, Chinese Communist journalist, professor and political theorist
  • [[]],
  • Alexey Diakonoff, 82, Russian–Dutch entomologist
  • Richie Ginther, 59, American race car driver, heart attack
  • [[]],
  • [[]],
• September 21
  • Bill Barron, 62, American jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist
  • Troy Davis, 42, American convicted murderer of police officer, executed
  • [[]],
  • Murry Dickson, 73, American Major Leagues baseballer, emphysema
  • [[]],
• September 22
  • [[]],
  • Irving Berlin, 101, American composer and lyricist, heart attack
  • [[]],
• September 23
  • Bradley Kincaid, 94, American folk singer and radio entertainer
  • John T. Koehler, 85, United States Assistant Secretary of the Navy, cancer
• September 24
  • [[]],
  • Shri Yogendra, 91, Indian yoga guru, author and poet
• September 25
  • [[]],
  • Darlington Hoopes, 93, American politician and lawyer, member of Pennsylvania House of Representatives
  • [[]],
• September 26
  • Lieselotte Berger, 68, German politician
  • Jimmy Delaney, 75, Scottish international footballer
  • Hemant Kumar, 69, Indian music director and playback singer, heart attack
• September 28
  • [[]],
  • José Arribas, 68, Spanish professional footballer and manager
  • [[]],
  • Ferdinand Marcos, 72, Filipino dictator, politician and statesman, President of the Philippines, kidney, heart, and lung ailments
  • [[]],
• September 29
  • August "Gussie" Busch, 90, American brewing magnate, pneumonia
  • [[]],
  • [[]],
  • János Farkas, 47, Hungarian footballer, heart attack
  • Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour, 81, French lawyer and far-right politician
• September 30
  • Horace Alexander, 100, English Quaker teacher, writer, pacifist and ornithologist
  • Oskar Davičo, 80, Yugoslavian novelist and poet
  • [[]],
  • Huỳnh Tấn Phát, 76, Vietnamese architect and politician, Prime Minister of the Republic of Vietnam
  • Arthur Rook, 68, English equestrian and Olympic gold medalist
  • Drew Shafer, 53, American LGBT rights activist from Missouri, complications of AIDS
  • Virgil Thomson, 92, American composer

October

• October 1
  • [[]],
  • [[]],
• October 2
  • Paola Barbara, 77, Italian film actress
  • [[]],
  • Vittorio Caprioli, 68, Italian actor, director and screenwriter, heart attack
• October 3
  • Del Wood, 69, American pianist, stroke
  • Norman Yardley, 74, English international cricketer, captain of England, stroke
• October 4
  • Graham Chapman, 48, British actor, comedian and writer, tonsil cancer
  • [[]],
• October 5
  • [[]],
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  • [[]],
• October 6
  • Bette Davis, 81, American actress, cancer
  • Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, 69, French actor, critic, screenwriter and director, ruptured aneurysm
  • Robert Poulet, 96, Belgian writer, literary critic and journalist
  • Reinhard Seiler, 80, Nazi German Luftwaffe Major and ace
• October 7
  • [[]],
  • [[]],
  • [[]],
  • [[]],
• October 8 – Oscar Moglia, 54, Uruguayan basketballer and Olympic medalist
• October 9
  • [[]],
  • Yusuf Atılgan, 68, Turkish novelist and dramatist, heart attack
  • [[]],
  • [[]],
  • [[]],
• October 11
  • [[]],
  • [[]],
  • M. King Hubbert, 86, American geologist and geophysicist, pulmonary embolism
  • Paul Shenar, 53, American actor and theatre director, AIDS
• October 12
  • [[]],
  • Joe Foy, 46, American Major Leagues baseballer, heart attack
  • [[]],
  • [[]],
  • Jay Ward, 69, American creator and producer of animated TV cartoon shows, renal cancer
  • N. V. Krishna Warrier, 73, Indian poet, journalist and scholar
• October 13
  • Fred Agabashian, 76, American racer of midget cars and Indy cars
  • [[]],
  • Merab Kostava, 50, Georgian dissident, musician and poet, car crash
  • Giuseppe Palmieri, 87, Italian Olympic high jumper and javelin thrower
  • Cesare Zavattini, 87, Italian screenwriter
• October 14
  • Martin Broszat, 63, German historian specializing in modern German social history
  • [[]],
  • [[]],
• October 15
  • James Lee Barrett, 59, American author, producer and screenwriter, cancer
  • [[]],
  • [[]],
  • [[]],
  • Danilo Kiš, 54, Serbian novelist, short story writer, essayist and translator, lung cancer
  • Scott O'Dell, 91, American children's writer, prostate cancer
  • [[]],
• October 16
  • [[]],
  • [[]],
  • Cornel Wilde, 77, Hungarian-born American actor, leukemia
• October 17
  • Mark Krein, 82, Soviet mathematician
  • Cyril Mathew, 77, Sri Lankan politician
  • R. A. B. Mynors, 86, English classicist and medievalist, road accident
• October 18
  • Abdul Mustafa Al-Azhari, 70-71, Pakistani politician and Islamic scholar
  • Princess Gina of Liechtenstein, 67, Princess consort of Liechtenstein
• October 19
  • [[]],
  • Albert Geldard, 75, English international footballer
  • Alan Murphy, 35, English rock session guitarist, pneumonia resulting from AIDS
  • Salim Nasir, 44, Pakistani film and TV actor, heart attack
• October 20 – Sir Anthony Quayle, 76, British actor, theatre director and novelist, liver cancer
• October 21
  • [[]],
  • [[]],
• October 22
  • Ewan MacColl, 74, British folk singer, songwriter, political activist and actor, complications following heart surgery
  • Tony Manero, 84, American professional golfer
  • [[]],
  • Roland Winters, 84, American actor, stroke
• October 23
  • [[]],
  • [[]],
  • [[]],
  • Clive Lewington, 69, Australian rules footballer
• October 24
  • General Gopal Gurunath Bewoor, 73, Indian Army officer
  • [[]],
  • Jerzy Kukuczka, 41, Polish mountaineer, fall from mountain
  • Sahib Shihab, 64, American jazz and hard bop saxophonist and flautist, liver cancer
• October 25 – Mary McCarthy, 77, American novelist, critic and political activist, lung cancer
• October 26
  • Charles J. Pedersen, 85, Korean-born American organic chemist with Norwegian and Japanese parentage, Nobel laureate in Chemistry
  • [[]],
  • [[]],
• October 27
  • [[]],
  • [[]],
  • Alfred Wilson, 85, American rower and Olympic gold edalist
• October 28
  • Darel Dieringer, 63, American professional stock car racing driver
  • [[]],
  • [[]],
  • Yuliya Solntseva, 88, Soviet actress and film director
  • [[]],
• October 29 – [[]],
• October 30
  • [[]],
  • [[]],
  • Pedro Vargas, 83, Mexican tenor and actor, complications from diabetes^[24]
• October 31 – [[]],
• October (unknown date)
  • [[]],
  • Francis J. Love, 88, American politician, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives

November

• November 1
  • Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, 91, American civil rights activist
  • [[]],
  • [[]],
• November 2
  • John Clymer, 82, American painter and illustrator
  • [[]],
  • [[]],
• November 3
  • Timoci Bavadra, 55, Fijian physician and politician, Prime Minister of Fiji, cancer
  • Dorothy Fuldheim, 96, American journalist and television news anchor
  • Leigh Leigh, 14, Australian murder victim
  • Edward J. Stack, 79, American politician, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
• November 4 – Bohumil Váňa, 69, Czechoslovak table tennis player and World Champion
• November 5
  • Ted Cox, 86, American footballer, basketballer and coach
  • Vladimir Horowitz, 86, Russian-American pianist, heart attack
  • Barry Sadler, 49, American soldier, singer-songwriter and author, murder by shooting
  • [[]],
  • [[]],
• November 6
  • [[]],
  • Richard "Dickie" Goodman, 55, American music and record producer, suicide by shooting
  • [[]],
  • Yūsaku Matsuda, 40, Japanese actor, cancer
• November 7
  • David "Dai" Astley, 80, Welsh international footballer
  • [[]],
• November 8
  • [[]],
  • [[]],
  • Howard Yates, 76, Australian sprinter
• November 9
  • [[]],
  • Bob McLean, 75, Australian rules footballer
  • Bill Neilson, 64, Australian politician, Premier of Tasmania, cancer
  • [[]],
  • [[]],
• November 10
  • [[]],
  • Craig J. Spence, 59, American journalist, lobbyist, and socialite, suicide
• November 11
  • [[]],
  • [[]],
• November 12
  • Édouard Candeveau, 91, Swiss rower and Olympic gold medalist
  • [[]],
  • Dolores Ibárruri, 93, Spanish Republican politician of the Spanish Civil War
  • Armour G. McDaniel, 73, American Air Force military officer
  • Mao Yisheng, 93, Chinese structural engineer and social activist
• November 13
  • Victor Davis, 25, Canadian Olympic swimmer and world champion, struck by car
  • Francis Edmunds, 87, Lithuanian-born British educator and Anthroposophist
  • Roger Heman Jr, 57, American sound engineer, lung cancer
  • Franz Joseph II, 83, Prince of Liechtenstein
  • Rohana Wijeweera, 46, Sri Lankan Marxist political activist and revolutionary, shot
• November 14 – Jimmy Murphy, 79, Welsh international footballer and manager
• November 15
  • [[]],
  • [[]],
• November 16
  • Petar Argirov, 66, Bulgarian footballer and Olympian
  • Ignacio Ellacuría, 59, Spanish-Salvadoran Jesuit priest and theologian, murder
  • Ignacio Martín-Baró, 47, El Salvadoran scholar, social psychologist, philosopher and Jesuit priest, murdered
  • Segundo Montes, 56, El Salvadoran scholar, philosopher, educator, sociologist and Jesuit priest, murdered
  • Dorothy G. Page, 68, American "Mother of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race"
• November 17
  • [[]],
  • [[]],
  • [[]],
  • Thiruchi Loganathan, 65, Indian playback singer
  • [[]],
• November 18
  • [[]],
  • [[]],
  • Sherman Plunkett, 56, American NFL footballer, cancer
  • Freddie Waits, 46, American hard bop and post-bop drummer, pneumonia and kidney failure
• November 19
  • [[]],
  • Paul Shyre, 63, American director and playwright
• November 20
  • Lynn Bari, 69, American film actress, heart attack
  • Hirabai Barodekar, 84, Indian Hindustāni classical music singer
  • [[]],
  • Božidar Jakac, 90, Yugoslavian expressionist, realist and symbolist painter, printmaker, art teacher, photographer and filmmaker
  • Leonardo Sciascia, 68, Italian novelist, essayist, playwright, and politician
  • Abe Stuber, 86, American footballer and coach
• November 21
  • Edward Bawden, 86, English painter, illustrator and graphic artist
  • [[]],
  • Heiko Fischer, 29, West German figure skater, chronic myocarditis
  • Harvey Hart, 61, Canadian television and film director, and television producer, heart attack
  • [[]],
• November 22
  • [[]],
  • C. C. Beck, 79, American cartoonist and comic book artist, renal ailment
  • [[]],
  • Gerry Chiniquy, 77, American animator
  • [[]],
  • [[]],
  • [[]],
  • René Moawad, 64, Lebanese lawyer and politician, President of Lebanon, assassinated
  • Shamil Serikov, 34, Soviet wrestler and Olympic gold medalist, suicide
• November 23
  • [[]],
  • [[]],
  • [[]],
  • Armand Salacrou, 90, French dramatist
• November 24
  • Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, 48, Palestinian Sunni Islamic jihadist and theologian, car bomb
  • [[]],
• November 25
  • Salo Wittmayer Baron, 94, Austrian-born American historian
  • George Cakobau, 77, Fijian statesman and athlete, Governor-General of Fiji
  • [[]],
  • John Kaplan, 59-60, American legal scholar, social scientist, social justice advocate, popular law professor, and author, cancer
  • María Colón Sánchez, 62-63, Puerto Rican-born American activist and politician, heart attack
  • [[]],
  • [[]],
• November 26
  • Ahmed Abdallah, 70, Comorian politician, President of Comoros, assassinated
  • Lew Fonseca, 90, American Major Leagues baseballer
  • Chand Usmani, 56, Indian actress
• November 27
  • Carlos Arias Navarro, 80, Spanish politician, Prime Minister of Spain, infarction^[25]
  • Claudio Teehankee, 71, Filipino Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, cancer
• November 28
  • Ernesto Civardi, 83, Italian cardinal
  • [[]],
  • Bill Posedel, 83, American Major Leagues baseballer
• November 29
  • Gubby Allen, 87, Australian-born English cricketer, captain of national team
  • [[]],
  • A. Maruthakasi, 69, Indian poet and film lyricist
  • Ion Popescu-Gopo, 66, Romanian graphic artist, animator, writer, film director and actor, heart attack
  • Mabel Keaton Staupers, 99, American nursing pioneer
  • Ödön Zombori, 83, Hungarian wrestler and Olympic gold medalist, complications from Alzheimer's disease
• November 30
  • Ahmadou Ahidjo, 65, Cameroonian politician, Prime Minister and President of Cameroon
  • Hassan Fathy, 89, Egyptian architect
  • [[]],

December

• December 1
  • Alvin Ailey, 58, American dancer and choreographer, AIDS-related illness
  • [[]],
  • [[]],
  • Nikolai Patolichev, 81, Soviet statesman who served as Minister of Foreign Trade of
  • Bill Stout, 62, American journalist, cardiac arrest
• December 2 – Ruth Mary Reynolds, 73, American educator, political and civil rights activist
• December 3
  • [[]],
  • Sourou-Migan Apithy, 76, Beninese politician, President of Dahomey
  • Connie B. Gay, 75, American country music musician, cancer
  • Fernando Martín, 27, Spanish professional basketballer, car accident
  • [[]],
• December 4
  • Gerald Carson, 90, American advertising executive, social historian and writer
  • Elwyn Jones, Baron Elwyn-Jones, 80, Welsh barrister and politician
  • Angelo Ruggiero, 49, American member of Gambino crime family, cancer
  • May Swenson, 76, American poet and playwright
• December 5
  • [[]],
  • Sofiya Kalistratova, 82, Soviet public defense lawyer
  • John Pritchard, 71, English conductor, lung cancer
  • [[]],
• December 6
  • Frances Bavier, 86, American stage and television actress, congestive heart failure, myocardial infarction, coronary artery disease, and atherosclerosis
  • Sammy Fain, 87, American composer, heart attack
  • Marc Lépine, 25, Canadian mass murderer, suicide after the murders
  • John Payne, 77, American film actor
  • [[]],
• December 7
  • William "Haystacks" Calhoun, 55, American professional wrestler
  • Phil Dokes, 34, American NFL player
  • Hans Hartung, 85, German-French painter
• December 8
  • [[]],
  • Mykola Livytskyi, 82, Ukrainian politician and journalist, President of Ukraine in Exile
  • Stanley Steingut, 69, American politician, Speaker of the New York State Assembly, pneumonia
• December 9
  • Brett Austin, 30, New Zealand swimmer and Olympian
  • [[]],
  • Basil Hayward, 61, English footballer and manager
  • Takeshi Kaikō, 58, Japanese novelist, short-story writer, essayist, literary critic, and television documentary writer, esophageal cancer
  • [[]],
  • S. Somasundaram, 70, Indian vocalist
  • R. G. Springsteen, 85, American director of Hollywood B movies and television shows
• December 10
  • [[]],
  • Steve Sebo, 75, American football and baseball player and coach
  • [[]],
• December 11
  • [[]],
  • Lindsay Crosby, 51, American actor and singer, suicide by gunshot
  • [[]],
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  • [[]],
• December 12
  • [[]],
  • Helen Creighton, 90, Canadian folklorist
• December 13
  • [[]],
  • Peter de la Mare, 69, New Zealand physical organic chemist
  • [[]],
• December 14
  • [[]],
  • Robert D. Blue, 91, American politician, Governor of Iowa, stroke
  • Gerry Healy, 76, Irish-born British political activist
  • [[]],
  • Jock Mahoney, 70, American actor and stuntman, stroke following car accident
  • Frederick Nolting, 78, American diplomat, United States Ambassador to South Vietnam
  • Andrei Sakharov, 68, Soviet physicist and human rights activist, Nobel laureate for Peace, arrhythmia
• December 15
  • [[]],
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  • José Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha, 42, Colombian drug lord and criminal, police shootout
  • [[]],
  • [[]],
  • [[]],
  • Edward Underdown, 81, British stage, film and television actor
• December 16
  • Lee van Cleef, 64, American film and television actor, heart attack
  • Oscar Alfredo Gálvez, 76, Argentine racing driver, pancreatic cancer
  • [[]],
  • Silvana Mangano, 59, Italian film actress, lung cancer
  • Aileen Pringle, 94, American stage and silent-screen actress
  • [[]],
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• December 17
  • [[]],
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  • [[]],
  • Luciano Salce, 67, Italian film director, comedian, television host, producer, actor and lyricist
  • Albert C. Wedemeyer, 93, United States army general
• December 18
  • [[]],
  • George Harvie-Watt, 86, British barrister and politician, British Member of Parliament
  • [[]],
  • Enar Josefsson, 73, Swedish cross-country skier and Olympic medalist
  • [[]],
  • Jerzy Rutkowski, 75, Polish political activist and resistance soldier
  • [[]],
• December 19
  • Herbert Blaize, 71, Grenadian politician, Prime Minister of Grenada, prostate cancer
  • Abdul Jalil Choudhury, 63-64, Bengali Deobandi Islamic scholar, teacher and politician
  • Stella Gibbons, 87, English author, journalist, and poet
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  • Kirill Mazurov, 75, Soviet politician, Belarusian resistance leader in World War II
• December 20
  • [[]],
  • Kurt Böhme, 81, German bass
• December 21
  • Ján Cikker, 78, Czechoslovak composer
  • [[]],
  • Ethel Swanbeck, 96, American politician, member of Ohio House of Representatives
  • Dwane Wallace, 78, American aviation businessman and aircraft designer
• December 22
  • Samuel Beckett, 83, Irish writer, Nobel laureate in Literature
  • [[]],
  • [[]],
  • Vasile Milea, 62, Romanian military officer and politician, Minister of Defense, suicide
  • Gustavo Pizarro, 73, Chilean international footballer
  • Massimo Serato, 73, Italian film actor
• December 23
  • Jeff Alexander, 79, American conductor, arranger, and composer of film, radio and television scores, cancer
  • [[]],
  • Shahzad Khalil, 44-45, Pakistani television director and producer, cardiac arrest
  • Richard Rado, 83, German-born British mathematician
• December 24
  • Ernest Nathan Morial, 60, American politician and civil rights advocate, heart attack
  • [[]],
• December 25
  • Benny Binion, 85, American career criminal, heart failure
  • Elena Ceaușescu, 73, Romanian communist politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Romania, execution by firing squad
  • Nicolae Ceaușescu, 71, Romanian politician, dictator and Communist Party head, President of Romania, execution by firing squad
  • [[]],
  • Türkan Hanımsultan, 70, Ottoman princess
  • [[]],
  • Joseph Livingston, 84, American business journalist, economist, columnist, recipient of Pulitzer Prize
  • Billy Martin, 61, American Major Leagues baseball player and manager, car crash
  • [[]],
  • Robert Pirosh, 79, American motion picture and television screenwriter and director
  • Bo Randall, 80, American knifemaker
  • Wally Ris, 65, American swimmer and dual Olympic gold medal winner
• December 26
  • Lennox Berkeley, 86, English composer
  • Doug Harvey, 65, Canadian ice hockey player, cirrhosis of the liver
  • [[]],
  • K. Shankar Pillai, 87, Indian cartoonist
  • Seán Walsh, 64, Irish politician
• December 27
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• December 28
  • Karl Humenberger, 83, Austrian footballer and manager
  • [[]],
  • Hermann Oberth, 95, Austro-Hungarian-born German engineer and physicist, Nazi supporter
  • [[]],
• December 29
  • [[]],
  • Ive Šubic, 67, Yugoslavian painter, graphic artists and illustrator
• December 30 – Yasuji Miyazaki, 73, Japanese swimmer and Olympian
• December 31
  • Christia Adair, 96, American suffragist and civil rights worker
  • [[]],
  • Sir Ignatius Kilage, 48, Papua-New Guinea politician, Governor-General of Papua New Guinea
  • Mihály Lantos, 61, Hungarian international footballer and manager
  • [[]],
  • Gerhard Schröder, 79, West German politician, Foreign Minister, Minister of Defence
• December (unknown date)
  • [[]],
  • Yem Sambaur, 76, Cambodian politician, Prime Minister of Cambodia

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