User:Braintic/Deaths in 1988

The following is a list of notable deaths in 1988. 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.

January

 * January 1
 * Margot Bryant, 90, English stage and television actress.
 * Marcel Hillaire, 79, German-born American character actor.
 * Clementine Hunter, 101, American folk artist.
 * Anwar Hussain, 62, Indian actor and producer.
 * John S. Millis, 84, American president of Western Reserve College, cancer.
 * Anatoli Nenartovich, 72, Russian painter.
 * Rolf Presthus, 51, Norwegian politician and lawyer, member of the Norwegian Parliament, cerebral hemorrhage.
 * Max Siegel, 69, American psychologist, president of American Psychological Association, heart attack.
 * Anna Sipos, 79, Hungarian international table tennis player and world champion.
 * Dan Spring, 77, Irish Labour Party politician and Gaelic footballer.
 * January 2
 * Dada Bhagwan, 79, Indian spiritual leader.
 * Bill Crawford-Compton, 72, New Zealand flying ace of Royal Air Force during the Second World War.
 * E. B. Ford, 86, British ecological geneticist.
 * Jesse Gray, 64, American civil rights leader and politician.
 * Fritz Heider, 91, Austrian psychologist.
 * Peter Mills, 61, English eccentric and pretender.
 * Varadarajan Mudaliar, 61, Indian crime boss, heart attack.
 * January 3
 * Rose Ausländer, 86, Austro-Hungarian-born poet.
 * William Cagney, 82, American film producer and actor, brother of James Cagney.
 * Joie Chitwood, 75, American racecar driver and businessman.
 * Lance Collins, 71, Australian rules footballer.
 * John Dopyera, 94, Slovak-American inventor and entrepreneur.
 * Gaston Eyskens, 82, Belgian politician, Prime Minister of Belgium.
 * Bill Gibb, 44, Scottish fashion designer, bowel cancer.
 * Nando González, 66, Spanish international footballer.
 * Gladys Lunn, 79, English middle-distance runner and javelin thrower.
 * Franz Muxeneder, 67, Austrian actor.
 * January 4
 * Leo de Block, 83, Dutch politician and businessman.
 * William Gilpin, 85, English bishop.
 * Henfil, 43, Brazilian cartoonist, caricaturist, journalist and writer, AIDS from blood transfusion.
 * Lily Laskine, 94, French harpist.
 * Carl Shipp Marvel, 93, American chemist.
 * January 5
 * Joe Keohane, 69, Irish Gaelic football manager, selector and player.
 * "Pistol" Pete Maravich, 40, American basketball player, heart failure.
 * Go Mishima, 63–64, Japanese homoerotic fetish artist, founder of magazine Sabu, complications from cirrhosis.
 * Herbert Waddell, 85, Scottish international rugby union player.
 * January 6
 * Bern Dibner, 90, Ukrainian-born American electrical engineer, industrialist and historian of science and technology.
 * January 7
 * Michel Auclair, 65, Weimar-born actor.
 * Cyril Gwynn, 90, British poet.
 * Trevor Howard, 74, English stage, film and television actor, cirrhosis of the liver.
 * Arthur R. M. Lower, 98, Canadian historian.
 * Venko Markovski, 72, Bulgarian and Macedonian writer, poet, partisan and Communist politician.
 * Michael Mills, 68, English television producer and director.
 * Marilyn Schreffler, 42, American voice actress, colorectal infection caused by liver cancer.
 * Alfred Ubbelohde, 80, Belgian-born English physical chemist.
 * January 8
 * Ray Bauduc, 81, American jazz drummer.
 * Gérard Buhr, 59, French film and television actor.
 * Jared French, 82, American painter.
 * Einar Gjerstad, 90, Swedish archaeologist.
 * Boyd "Red" Morgan, 72, American NFL footballer, movie actor and stuntman.
 * Frank Pace, 75, American politician and business executive, U.S. Secretary of the Army, heart attack.
 * Chen Bing Sun, 73–74, Chinese-Filipino artist, playwright and songwriter, cancer.
 * January 9
 * Gregory Ain, 79, American architect.
 * Juraj Krnjević, 92, Croatian politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Yugoslavia.
 * Thierry Maulnier, 78, French journalist, essayist, dramatist and literary critic.
 * Jukichi Uno, 73, Japanese actor.
 * January 10
 * Hilde Bussmann, 73, German international table tennis player and world champion.
 * Hugh A. Robertson, 55, American film director and editor.
 * January 11
 * Pappy Boyington, 75, American combat pilot and U.S. Marine Corps fighter ace during World War II, lung cancer.
 * Robert F. Kennon, 85, American politician and judge, Governor of Louisiana.
 * Isidor Isaac Rabi, 89, Austro-Hungarian-born American physicist and academic, Nobel Laureate, cancer.
 * John J. Williams, 83, American businessman and politician, U.S. Senator.
 * January 12
 * Joe Albany, 63, American modern jazz pianist.
 * Hiram Bingham IV, 84, American diplomat.
 * Suniti Choudhury, 70, Indian nationalist.
 * Connie Mulder, 62, South African politician and cabinet minister.
 * Piero Taruffi, 81, Italian racing driver.
 * F. D. Washington, 75, American minister.
 * January 13
 * Viktors Arājs, 78, Russian-born Nazi officer.
 * Chiang Ching-kuo, 77, Chinese politician, eldest son of Chiang Kai-shek, heart attack.
 * Kenneth Marks, 67, British politician, member of Parliament.
 * Mavelikara Krishnankutty Nair, 67, Indian Carnatic Mridangam player.
 * January 14
 * Walter Assef, 74, Canadian politician and Vaudevillian, mayor of Thunder Bay.
 * Jimmy Maelen, 47, American percussionist, leukemia.
 * Georgy Malenkov, 86, Soviet politician, Premier of the Soviet Union.
 * January 15
 * Donald Healey, 89, English car designer, rally driver and speed record holder.
 * Seán MacBride, 83, Irish Republican Army leader and politician, recipient of Nobel Peace Prize.
 * Viana Moog, 81, Brazilian lawyer, journalist, novelist and essayist.
 * Maurice K. Temerlin, 64, American psychologist and author.
 * January 16
 * Andrija Artuković, 88, Croatian lawyer and politician, Minister of Interior of Croatia.
 * Ballard Berkeley, 83, English actor of stage and screen.
 * Otto Degener, 88, American botanist and conservationist.
 * Harlan Hubbard, 88, American artist and writer.
 * Joseph Hutchinson, 85, British biologist.
 * Lakshmi Kant Jha, 74, Governor of the Reserve Bank of India.
 * Adelfo Magallanes, 77, Peruvian footballer.
 * January 17
 * Leela Mishra, 80, Indian actress, heart attack.
 * Roy Padilla Sr., 61, Filipino politician, governor of Camarines Norte, assassinated.
 * Edward Weinfeld, 86, Judge of the U.S. District Court.
 * January 18
 * Val Doube, 73, Australian politician, 73, Victorian Minister of Health.
 * Jean Mitry, 83, French film theorist, critic and filmmaker.
 * Santiago Polanco-Abreu, 67, resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico.
 * John Rossiter, 74, Australian politician, member of Victorian Legislative Assembly, father of Susan Renouf.
 * January 19
 * Bridget Boland, 74, Irish-British screenwriter, playwright and novelist.
 * Gladys Elphick, 83, Australian founding president of the Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia.
 * Yevgeny Mravinsky, 84, Russian conductor and pianist.
 * January 20
 * Paul Esser, 74, German stage and television actor, and voice actor.
 * Abdul Ghaffar Khan, 97, Pakistani independence activist, complications of a stroke.
 * Philippe de Rothschild, 85, French Grand Prix motor racing driver, screenwriter and playwright.
 * James D. Theberge, 57, American diplomat, United States ambassador to Nicaragua and Chile, heart attack.
 * January 21
 * Vincent Lingiari, 79, Australian Aboriginal rights activist.
 * Joe Mooney, 71, Irish senator.
 * Abraham Sofaer, 91, Burmese-born British actor of stage, film and television, congestive heart failure.
 * Zev Vilnay, 87, Moldovan-born Israeli geographer, author and lecturer.
 * January 22
 * Marvin Felix Camillo, 50–51, American theater director and actor.
 * Parker Fennelly, 96, American actor of film, television and radio.
 * January 23
 * Dan Daniel, 73, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives.
 * Johnny Gee, 72, American Major League baseballer.
 * Charles Glen King, 91, American biochemist.
 * Hollingsworth Morse, 77, American television director.
 * January 24
 * Anthony Courtney, 79, British Royal Navy officer and politician.
 * Werner Fenchel, 82, German-born Danish mathematician.
 * January 25
 * Steve Chomyszak, 43, American AFL and NFL footballer, pancreatic cancer.
 * Colleen Moore, 88, American silent-screen actress, cancer.
 * Chen Shixiang, 82, Chinese entomologist.
 * January 26
 * Paul G. Goebel, 86, American NFL footballer.
 * Gershon Iskowitz, 68, Polish-born Canadian artist.
 * Hugh J. Schonfield, 86, British bible scholar.
 * Raymond Williams, 66, Welsh socialist writer, academic, novelist and critic.
 * Freddie Wolff, 77, British sprinter and Olympic gold medalist.
 * January 27
 * Massa Makan Diabaté, 49, Malian historian, author and playwright.
 * Kemal Faruki, 77, Turkish international footballer.
 * Edward Pawley, 86, American actor of radio, films and Broadway.
 * January 28
 * Klaus Fuchs, 76, German theoretical physicist and Soviet spy.
 * January 29
 * Mihiel Gilormini, 69, American U.S. Air Force officer in World War II.
 * James Rhyne Killian, 83, American president of MIT, chair of President's Intelligence Advisory Board.
 * Seth Neddermeyer, 80, American physicist, complications of Parkinson's disease.
 * Rogier van Otterloo, 46, Dutch composer and conductor, mesothelioma.
 * January 30
 * Bum Day, 89, American footballer.
 * Robert Juday, 87, American high jumper and Olympian.
 * S. K. Wankhede, 73, Indian cricket administrator, politician, Deputy speaker of Bombay Legislative Assembly.
 * January 31
 * David Ahern, 40, Australian composer and music critic, asthma attack.
 * Helen Marie Black, 91, American cultural and civic leader, journalist and publicist.
 * Homer Brightman, 86, American screenwriter.
 * Air Chief Marshal Wallace Kyle, 78, Australian Royal Air Force leader, Governor of Western Australia.
 * Al Laney, 92, American sportswriter.
 * Charley Way, 90, American football player and coach.

February

 * February 1
 * Marcel Bozzuffi, 58, French film actor.
 * John Grist Brainerd, 83–84, American electrical engineer.
 * Jean Paul Guhel, 57, French ice dancer.
 * Ted Hill, 72, Australian barrister, lawyer and communist activist.
 * Thomas Francis Johnson, 78, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, car crash.
 * Heather O'Rourke, 12, American child actress (Poltergeist), congenital stenosis of intestine.
 * Stephen Taylor, 77, British physician, civil servant, politician and educator.
 * February 2
 * Quamrul Hassan, 66, Bengali artist, heart attack.
 * Normie Smith, 79, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * G. Mennen Williams, 76, American politician, governor of Michigan, U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines.
 * February 3
 * Ronald Bladen, 69, Canadian-born American painter and sculptor.
 * Robert Duncan, 69, American poet.
 * Radamés Gnattali, 82, Brazilian composer.
 * René Massigli, 99, French diplomat.
 * Michael Nott, 71, British Anglican priest.
 * Jocko Thompson, 71, American Major League baseballer.
 * February 4
 * Frank Giacoia, 63, American comics artist.
 * Dhamma Jagoda, 47, Sri Lankan theatre and television play director and actor.
 * Krzysztof Sitkowski, 52, Polish basketballer and Olympian.
 * February 5
 * Ove Arup, 92, English engineer, design engineer for Sydney Opera House.
 * Dorothy Lewis Bernstein, 73, American mathematician.
 * Stefan Dittrich, 75, German politician.
 * Tommy Doyle, 72, Irish hurler.
 * Clement Hurd, 80, American artist, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Emeric Pressburger, 85, Hungarian-British film director and producer.
 * February 6
 * Gary Berland, 37, American professional poker player, blood disorder.
 * Richard Bock, 61, American jazz record producer.
 * Marghanita Laski, 72, English journalist, radio panelist and novelist, lung disease.
 * Nick Pietrosante, 50, American NFL footballer, prostate cancer.
 * Barclay Plager, 46, Canadian ice hockey player, brain cancer.
 * Carmen Polo, 87, Spanish wife of Francisco Franco.
 * February 7
 * Lin Carter, 57, American author of science fiction and fantasy.
 * Ray Martin, 69, Austrian-British orchestra leader, cancer.
 * February 8
 * Pietro Arcari, 78, Italian footballer.
 * Dolores Camarillo, 77, Mexican film, television and theatre actress.
 * Allan Cuthbertson, 67, Australian-born British actor.
 * Ralph Flanagan, 69, American swimmer and Olympic medalist.
 * Alfréd Wetzler, 69, Austro-Hungarian–born Czechoslovakian writer.
 * February 9
 * Kurt Herbert Adler, 69, Austrian-born American conductor.
 * Ermal Allen, 69, American NFL footballer, cancer.
 * Henry Burrell, 83, Australian navy commander, Vice Admiral of Royal Australian Navy.
 * Israel Nathan Herstein, 64, Polish-born American mathematician, cancer.
 * Charles Moses, 88, British-born Australian administrator, general manager of Australian Broadcasting Commission.
 * February 10
 * Nat Cohen, 82, British film producer, heart attack.
 * Yuri Illichev, 60, Soviet coach of Iraq and Iceland national football teams.
 * Don Patterson, 51, American jazz organist.
 * Chaya Mushka Schneerson, 86, Russian-born American wife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Jewish spiritual leader.
 * Aram Ter-Ghevondyan, 59, Egyptian-born Armenian historian.
 * February 11
 * Marion Crawford, 78, Scottish governess to Princesses Margaret and Elizabeth.
 * Frederick Easson, 82, Scottish Episcopal Church bishop.
 * René Hall, 75, American guitarist, heart disease.
 * February 12
 * Adolf Bieringer, 59, German politician, member of the Bundestag.
 * Robert Coin, 86, French sculptor and engraver.
 * Jacques Colombier, 86–87, French art director and film set designer.
 * February 13
 * John Curulewski, 37, American musician, original member of Styx, brain aneurysm.
 * Ron Embleton, 57, British illustrator and comics artist, heart attack.
 * Léon Goossens, 90, English oboist.
 * February 14
 * Frederick Loewe, 86, German-born American composer, cardiac arrest.
 * Cal Niday, 73, American racecar driver, heart attack.
 * Lynette White, 20, Welsh murder victim.
 * Slavko Zagorac, 78, Austro-Hungarian–born Yugoslav footballer and manager.
 * February 15
 * Al Cohn, 62, American jazz saxophonist, arranger and composer, liver cancer.
 * Richard Feynman, 69, American theoretical physicist, Nobel laureate in Physics, kidney failure.
 * Jay Leyda, 78, American filmmaker and film historian.
 * Gardiner Means, 91, American economist.
 * Arthur Mizener, 80, American professor of English and literary critic.
 * February 16
 * Charles Delaunay, 77, French author and jazz expert, Parkinson's disease.
 * Vijaya Kumaratunga, 42, Sri Lankan actor, singer and politician, assassinated.
 * Ye Shengtao, 93, Chinese writer, journalist, educator, publisher and politician.
 * Oskar Skogly, 80, Norwegian trade unionist and politician, member of the Norwegian Parliament.
 * February 17
 * John M. Allegro, 65, English archaeologist and Dead Sea Scrolls scholar, heart attack.
 * Alexander Bashlachev, 27, Soviet poet, singer-songwriter and guitarist, probable suicide.
 * Yuri Ovchinnikov, 53, Soviet bio-organic chemist.
 * Alain Savary, 69, French politician.
 * Karpoori Thakur, 64, Indian politician.
 * Reginald Uren, 81, New Zealand architect.
 * February 18
 * Mahmood-ul Hassan, 63, Pakistani hockey player and Olympian.
 * Abderrahman Ibrir, 68, Algerian footballer and manager, drowning.
 * Giovanni Savonuzzi, 77, Italian automobile designer.
 * February 19
 * Isabel Bishop, 85, American painter and graphic artist.
 * René Char, 80, French poet, member of the French resistance, heart attack.
 * André Frédéric Cournand, 92, French-American physician, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine.
 * William W. Eagles, 93, American officer, Major General in the U.S. Army.
 * Walerian Kisieliński, 80, Polish international footballer.
 * Walter Ohmsen, 76, German officer in the Kriegsmarine during World War II.
 * S. V. Sahasranamam, 74, Indian actor and director, heart attack.
 * February 20
 * Bob O'Farrell, 91, American Major League baseballer.
 * Mildred Seydell, 98, American journalist.
 * Roger J. Williams, 94, American biochemist.
 * Jim Woods, American Major League baseball sportscaster, cancer.
 * February 21
 * Angie Debo, 98, American historian.
 * Bert Lucas, 65, Australian rules footballer.
 * Aidan McAnespie, 23, Irish murder victim.
 * Aleksandar Tomašević, 79, Serbian international footballer and manager.
 * Martin Winter, 32, East German rower and Olympic gold medalist.
 * February 22
 * Edward Vaughan Bevan, 80, British rower and Olympic gold medalist.
 * Albert Collier, 78, Australian rules footballer.
 * Eugen Iordache, 65, Romanian international footballer and manager.
 * Cecil Ramage, 93, Scottish barrister, actor and politician, Member of Parliament.
 * Larry Shay, 90, American songwriter.
 * February 23
 * Pete Donohue, 87, American Major League baseballer.
 * Jack Dugger, 65, American NFL footballer and NBL basketballer.
 * February 24
 * Rose Coyle, 73, Miss America 1936.
 * James H. Douglas Jr., 88, American lawyer, senior official in U.S. Government, Secretary of the Air Force, cancer.
 * Asoka Karunaratne, 72, Sri Lankan politician and philanthropist, heart attack.
 * Loretta McNeil, 81, American sprinter and Olympic medalist.
 * Mamdouh Salem, 69, Prime Minister of Egypt.
 * Memphis Slim, 72, American blues pianist, singer and composer, renal failure.
 * Bluma Zeigarnik, 87, Soviet psychologist.
 * February 25
 * Bernard Ashmole, 93, British archaeologist and art historian.
 * Louis Zhang Jiashu, 94, Chinese Catholic Jesuit priest.
 * Kurt Mahler, 84, German mathematician.
 * Peck Morrison, 68, American jazz bassist.
 * Dori Seda, 37, American artist, influenza.
 * February 26
 * Jaú, 78, Brazilian international footballer.
 * Joseph Kiselewski, 87, American sculptor.
 * Tom Oliver, 85, American Major League baseballer and rugby player.
 * Satyawati Suleiman, 67, Indonesian historian and archaeologist.
 * February 27
 * Basil Boothroyd, 77, English humorous writer.
 * Michel-Louis Guérard des Lauriers, 89, French excommunicated Catholic bishop.
 * Doug Holmquist, 46, American baseballer and Major League coach, heart attack.
 * Franck Lavaud, 85, Haitian general and politician, President of Haiti.
 * Gene de Paul, 68, American pianist, composer and songwriter.
 * Kenneth Peach, 84, American cinematographer.
 * February 28
 * Harvey Kuenn, 57, American Major League baseballer, complications from heart disease and diabetes.
 * Mikhail Naimy, 98, Lebanese poet, novelist and philosopher, pneumonia.
 * Asakazu Nakai, 86, Japanese cinematographer.
 * Kylie Tennant, 75, Australian novelist, playwright, short-story writer, biographer, and historian.
 * February 29
 * Robert H. Brower, 64, American professor of Far East Language and Literature.
 * Beatriz Guido, 65, Argentinian novelist and screenwriter.
 * February (date unknown)
 * Cyril Jackson, 84, South African astronomer.
 * Émile Lachapelle, 82, Swiss rower and Olympic gold medalist.
 * Lolette Payot, 77, Swiss-French tennis player.
 * John Smith, 49, English footballer.
 * Ethel Venton, 96–97, English secularist, councillor and animal welfare activist.

March

 * March 1
 * Joe Besser, 80, American actor, comedian and musician, heart failure.
 * Tommy Breen, 75, Irish international footballer.
 * George B. Harper, 69, American politician, member of the New Jersey Senate.
 * Yoshi Katō, 75, Japanese stage and film actor.
 * Luis Márquez, 62, Puerto Rican Major League baseballer, murdered.
 * Tommy Potter, 69, American jazz double bassist.
 * Jean Le Poulain, 63, French stage actor and director.
 * March 2
 * Raymond Hewitt, 47, American civil rights activist, leader of the Black Panther Party, heart attack.
 * Harry Lundahl, 82, Swedish international footballer and manager.
 * Thomas Vezzetti, 59–60, American politician, mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey, heart attack.
 * March 3
 * Harold Langley, 84, British triple jumper and Olympian.
 * Henryk Szeryng, 69, Polish-Mexican violinist, cerebral hemorrhage.
 * Lois Wilson, 93, American silent-screen actress, pneumonia.
 * Sewall Wright, 98, American geneticist.
 * March 4
 * James Peter Davis, 83, American Roman Catholic bishop.
 * Bobby Etheridge, 54, English footballer and first-class cricketer.
 * J. Brooke Mosley, 72, American bishop.
 * Franco Scalamandré, 89, Italian-born American textile designer, co-founder of Scalamandré Inc.
 * March 5
 * Ron Coe, 91, English professional cyclist.
 * Santosh Dutta, 62, Bengali actor.
 * Lewis J. Fields, 78, American lieutenant general in U.S. Marine Corps.
 * János Németh, 81, Hungarian water polo player and Olympic gold medalist.
 * Alberto Olmedo, 54, Argentine comedian and actor, fall from building.
 * Mathilde Pincus, 70–71, American music supervisor.
 * Rudolph Schaeffer, 101, American arts educator and artist.
 * March 6
 * Jeanne Aubert, 88, French singer and actress.
 * Mairéad Farrell, 31, member of Provisional Irish Republican Army, shot by British army.
 * Joan Hassall, 82, English wood engraver and book illustrator.
 * Daniel McCann, 30, member of Provisional Irish Republican Army, shot by British army.
 * Dick Ricketts, 54, American Major League baseballer and NBA basketballer, leukemia.
 * Seán Savage, 23, member of Provisional Irish Republican Army, shot by British army.
 * March 7
 * Edmund Berkeley, 79, American computer scientist.
 * Guido Celano, 83, Italian actor, voice actor and film director.
 * Divine, 42, American singer, actor and drag queen, heart failure.
 * Martin Finn, 70, Irish politician.
 * Robert Livingston, 83, American film actor.
 * Joe Loco, 66, Puerto Rican Latin jazz and pop pianist and arranger.
 * Prakash Mehrotra, 63, Indian politician.
 * Olof Stahre, 78, Swedish Army officer, horse rider and Olympic gold medalist.
 * March 8
 * Gordon Carpenter, 68, American basketballer and Olympic gold medalist.
 * Amar Singh Chamkila, 27, Indian singer and musician, gunned down.
 * Ken Colyer, 59, English jazz trumpeter and cornetist.
 * Werner Hartmann, 76, German physicist, complications after prostate surgery.
 * Frank Osborne, 91, South-African-born English international footballer.
 * Lala Abdul Rashid, 65, Pakistani hockey player and Olympic gold medalist.
 * March 9
 * Ronald Cove-Smith, 88, English international rugby union player, vice-president of British Medical Association.
 * Milton Galamison, 64, American Presbyterian minister.
 * Kurt Georg Kiesinger, 83, West German politician, Chancellor of Federal Republic of Germany.
 * M. E. Aldrich Rope, 96, English stained-glass artist.
 * M. B. Sreenivasan, 62, Indian music director, heart attack.
 * March 10
 * Glenn Cunningham, 78, American middle-distance runner and Olympic medalist.
 * Andy Gibb, 30, English singer, songwriter and performer, myocarditis.
 * Svetislav Glišović, 74, Yugoslavian international footballer and manager.
 * Phạm Hùng, 75, Vietnamese politician, Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
 * Nikolay Karakulov, 69, Soviet sprinter and European champion.
 * Abdul Khaliq, 54, Pakistani sprinter.
 * Jock Semple, 84, Scottish-American runner and sports official, cancer of the liver and pancreas.
 * Joey Sternaman, 88, American NFL footballer.
 * William Wordsworth, 79, English composer.
 * March 11
 * Rashid Bakr, 54, Sudanese politician, Prime Minister of Sudan.
 * Christianna Brand, 80, British crime writer and children's author.
 * Khurshid Hasan Khurshid, 64, Indian-born Pakistani politician, President of Azad Kashmir, road accident.
 * Jackie O'Driscoll, 66, Irish international footballer.
 * March 12
 * Samaresh Basu, 63, Indian writer.
 * Romare Bearden, 76, American artist, author and songwriter, complications from bone cancer.
 * Arnold Bell, 86, British actor.
 * DeWitt Bodeen, 79, American film screenwriter and television writer.
 * Charles Cochran Kirkpatrick, 80, American rear admiral in the U.S. Navy.
 * Alvin McCoy, 84, American journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner.
 * Bernard Rudofsky, 82, Austrian-born American writer and architect.
 * Karen Steele, 56, American actress and model, cancer.
 * March 13
 * Dino Bovoli, 73, Italian footballer and coach.
 * Olive Carey, 92, American film and television actress.
 * John Holmes, 43, American pornographic film actor, cardio-respiratory arrest and encephalitis due to AIDS.
 * Patesko, 77, Brazilian international footballer.
 * Vladimir Sakson, 60, Soviet painter, book illustrator and stage designer.
 * Steno, 71, Italian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer.
 * March 14
 * Abbas Abbasi, 63, Pakistani hereditary leader, Nawab and Amir of Bahawalpur State.
 * Willi Apel, 94, German-born American musicologist and author.
 * Bruno Balz, 85, German songwriter.
 * Rudolf Gramlich, 79, SS officer and German international footballer.
 * Henrik Malyan, 62, Georgian-born Armenian film director and writer.
 * Saul Weingeroff, 72, American professional wrestling manager.
 * March 15
 * Ron Camm, 73, Australian politician, member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.
 * Chevene Bowers King, 64, American attorney and civil rights leader, prostate cancer.
 * Frank Perkins, 79, American song composer.
 * Dmitri Polyakov, 66, Ukrainian-born Soviet operative and spy for the United States, executed by shooting.
 * William J. Porter, 73, British-born American diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Algeria, South Korea, Canada and Saudi Arabia, cancer.
 * Victor Wickersham, 82, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
 * March 16
 * Dorothy Adams, 88, American actress of stage, film and television.
 * António Augusto Peixoto Correia, 74, Portuguese colonial governor of Cape Verde, Governor-general of Guinea-Bissau.
 * Rollie Dotsch, 75, American football coach, pancreatic cancer.
 * Paul Kohner, 85, Austro-Hungarian–born American talent agent and producer, heart attack.
 * Albert Kónya, 70, Hungarian physicist and politician, Minister of Education.
 * Erich Probst, 60, Austrian international footballer.
 * Dannie Richmond, 56, American jazz drummer, heart attack.
 * Jigger Statz, 90, American Major League baseballer.
 * Luther Merritt Swygert, 83, United States circuit judge.
 * Mickey Thompson, 59, American auto racing builder and promoter, gunned down.
 * March 17
 * Bruce C. Clarke, 86, United States Army general, stroke.
 * Roland Drew, 87, American actor.
 * Leif Granli, 78, Norwegian politician, President of the Storting.
 * Reg Halton, 71, English footballer and Minor Counties cricketer.
 * Franz-Otto Krüger, 70, German film and television actor.
 * Tan Siew Sin, 71, Malaysian politician, Minister of Finance.
 * March 18
 * Gerald Abraham, 84, English musicologist, editor and music critic.
 * Billy Butterfield, 71, American jazz bandleader, trumpeter, flugelhornist and cornetist.
 * Waldemar Sjölander, 80, Swedish painter, printmaker and sculptor.
 * Percy Thrower, 75, British gardener, horticulturist, broadcaster and writer.
 * March 19
 * Reyner Banham, 66, English architectural critic and writer.
 * Sabino Barinaga, 65, Spanish footballer and manager, heart disease.
 * Philip Birnbaum, 83, American religious author and translator.
 * John Otis Brew, 81, American archaeologist.
 * Bun Cook, 84, Canadian ice hockey player and coach.
 * Máirtín Ó Direáin, 77, Irish poet.
 * Suzy Frelinghuysen (a.k.a. Suzy Morris), 76, American abstract painter and opera singer, stroke.
 * Sid Harkreader, 90, American fiddle player and string band leader.
 * March 20
 * Dick Bell, 74, Canadian politician, member of the Canadian Parliament.
 * Gil Evans, 75, Canadian-born American jazz pianist, composer and bandleader, peritonitis from prostate surgery.
 * Samuel W. Reynolds, 97, United States senator.
 * Agnes Wright Spring, 94, American journalist, writer and historian.
 * March 21
 * Virginia Axline, 76, American psychologist.
 * Marie Burke, 93, English actress of stage, cinema and television.
 * Walter Fricke, 72, German professor of theoretical astronomy, mathematician and cryptanalyst, cancer.
 * Edd Roush, 94, American Major League baseballer.
 * Charley Shipp, 74, American NBA basketballer and coach.
 * Sigfrit Steiner, 81, Swiss actor.
 * Patrick Steptoe, 74, English obstetrician and gynaecologist, pioneer of in-vitro fertilisation.
 * March 22
 * Gudmund Harlem, 70, Norwegian physician and politician.
 * Rudolf Matz, 86, Croatian composer.
 * Lester Rawlins, 63, American stage, screen and television actor, cardiac arrest.
 * P. B. A. Weerakoon, 88, Sri Lankan educator and politician, member of the Ceylon Parliament.
 * March 23
 * Jimmy Jacobs, 58, American handball player, leukemia.
 * Isaiah L. Kenen, 83, Canadian-born American journalist, lawyer and philanthropist.
 * Murder of Deborah Linsley, 22, English murder victim.
 * Dayton Lummis, 84, American film, television and theatre actor.
 * Geoff McInnes, 79, Australian rules footballer.
 * Pash, 37, Indian poet, gunned down.
 * March 24
 * Heinrich Aigner, 63, German politician.
 * Turhan Feyzioğlu, 65–66, Turkish academic and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey.
 * Abdullahi Issa, 67, Somali politician, Prime Minister of Italian Somalia.
 * William Moseley Jones, 82, American attorney, speaker of the California State Assembly.
 * Roger Loyer, 80, French motorcycle road racer.
 * March 25
 * James J. Howard, 60, American educator and politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, heart attack.
 * Robert Joffrey, 57, American dancer, teacher, producer and choreographer, organ failure.
 * Thomas William Lyons, 64, American Roman Catholic bishop, hepatitis from transfusion.
 * Al Schwartz, 77, American screenwriter, television producer and director, brother of Sherwood Schwartz.
 * March 26
 * Julian Pierce, 42, American lawyer and activist, murdered (body found on this date).
 * March 27
 * Renato Salvatori, 55, Italian actor, liver cirrhosis.
 * Charles Willeford, 69, American writer, heart attack.
 * March 28
 * Alan Crawford, 72, Australian rules footballer.
 * Frans Peeraer, 75, Belgian international footballer.
 * S. N. Tripathi, 75, Indian composer.
 * March 29
 * Maurice Blackburn, 73, Canadian composer and conductor.
 * Arkady Bochkaryov, 57, Soviet basketballer and Olympic medalist.
 * Ted Kluszewski, 63, American Major League baseballer, heart attack.
 * Dulcie September, 52, South African anti-Apartheid activist, assassinated.
 * March 30
 * Ranulph Bacon, 81, British police officer, Inspector-General of Police of British Ceylon.
 * Edgar Faure, 79, French politician, lawyer and historian, Prime Minister of France.
 * John Clellon Holmes, 62, American author, poet and professor, cancer.
 * Jimmy McGuigan, 64, Scottish footballer and manager.
 * Doris Pawn, 93, American silent-screen actress.
 * Luis Ravaschino, 85, Argentinian international footballer.
 * Senerath Somaratne, 58, Sri Lankan politician.
 * March 31
 * Vincent Madeley Harris, 74, American Roman Catholic bishop.
 * Sir William McMahon, 80, Australian politician, Prime Minister of Australia.
 * March (unknown date)
 * Ruth Crosby Noble, 91, American author and herpetologist. (March 15 or 27)

April



 * April 1
 * Nell Jackson, 58, American sprinter and Olympic track coach.
 * Jim Jordan, 91, American actor, stroke resulting from fall.
 * April Tinsley, 8, American murder victim.
 * April 2
 * Pushpaben Mehta, 83, Indian social worker and politician.
 * Anthony Pelissier, 75, English actor, screenwriter, producer and director.
 * Vernon W. Thomson, 82, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, Governor of Wisconsin.
 * April 3
 * Milton Caniff, 81, American cartoonist.
 * V. S. Wakankar, 68, Indian archeologist.
 * April 4
 * Gaston Eyskens, 82, Belgian politician and Prime Minister.
 * Eric A. Havelock, 84, British classicist.
 * April 5
 * Boyd Brumbaugh, 72, American NFL footballer.
 * Dutch Dorman, 85, American minor league baseballer and Major League scout.
 * Anthony Emery, 69, English Roman Catholic bishop.
 * Swede Halbrook, 55, American NBA basketballer, heart attack.
 * Alf Kjellin, 68, Swedish film actor and director, heart attack.
 * Alan Shorter, 55, American jazz trumpet and flugelhorn player, ruptured aorta.
 * April 6
 * Gunārs Astra, 56, Latvian human rights activist and anti-Soviet dissident, heart disease.
 * John Clements, 77, British actor and producer.
 * Leroy Kirkland, 82–84, American arranger, bandleader, guitarist and songwriter.
 * Hamdija Pozderac, 64, Yugoslav communist politician, President of People's Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
 * April 7
 * Cesar Bresgen, 74, Austrian composer.
 * Denis Hamilton, 69, English newspaper editor.
 * Dinanath Nadim, 72, Indian poet.
 * Albert S. Rogell, 86, American film director.
 * Christopher Rollinson, 59, New Zealand boxer.
 * April 9
 * Brook Benton, 56, American singer and songwriter, pneumonia.
 * John Herman Dent, 80, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives.
 * Dave Prater, 50, American soul and rhythm & blues singer and musician, car accident.
 * Willy Schaeffler, 72, German-born American skier and coach, ski resort developer.
 * April 10
 * Turgut Atakol, 72, Turkish basketballer and international referee.
 * Cliff Gladwin, 72, English test cricketer.
 * Woody Kling, 62, American television writer, producer, playwright and composer, brain and lung cancer.
 * Shigeo Sugiura, 70, Japanese swimmer and Olympic gold medalist.
 * Teóphilo, 87, Brazilian international football.
 * April 11
 * Josef Artimovicz, 79, Austrian footballer.
 * Ithell Colquhoun, 81, British painter, poet and author.
 * James R. Domengeaux, 81, American lawyer and politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives.
 * Jeff Donnell, 66, American film and television actress, heart attack.
 * Wolfram Fiedler, 36, East German luger and Olympic medalist, cancer.
 * Jesse L. Lasky Jr., 77, American screenwriter, novelist, playwright and poet, pancreatic cancer.
 * April 12
 * Colette Deréal, 60, French actress and singer.
 * Sheridan Gibney, 84, American writer and producer in theatre and film.
 * Hartmann Lauterbacher, 78, German Nazi, Deputy Reichsjugendführer, Stabsführer of Hitler Youth, unconvicted war criminal.
 * Harry McShane, 96, Scottish socialist.
 * May Owen, 96, American medical doctor.
 * Alan Paton, 85, South African writer and anti-Apartheid activist.
 * Frank Skaff, 77, American Major League baseballer.
 * April 13
 * Jean Gascon, 67, Canadian opera director and actor, heart attack.
 * April 14
 * Daniel Guérin, 83, French libertarian-communist author.
 * Pony Poindexter, 62, American jazz saxophonist.
 * Camilla Ravera, 98, Italian politician, first female lifetime senator.
 * John Stonehouse, 62, British businessman and minister, Member of Parliament, heart attack.
 * April 15
 * George E. Mylonas, 89, Greek archaeologist, heart attack.
 * Maria Ulfah Santoso, 76, Indonesian politician and women's rights activist.
 * Kenneth Williams, 62, British actor and comedian, overdose of barbiturates.
 * April 16
 * John Anderson, 79, British Army general.
 * José Dolhem, 43, French racing driver, power boat racing accident.
 * Youri Egorov, 33, Soviet classical pianist, complications from AIDS.
 * Doug Mudgway, 63, New Zealand amateur wrestler.
 * Francesco Pretti, 84, Italian racewalker and Olympian.
 * John Reardon, 58, American baritone and actor, AIDS related pneumonia.
 * Clifford Roach, 84, West Indian test cricketer.
 * Bobby Thompson, 76, English stand-up comedian and actor, emphysema and cancer.
 * Khalil al-Wazir, 52, Palestinian leader, assassinated.
 * April 17
 * Albert Fennell, 68, British film and television producer.
 * Toni Frissell, 81, American photographer, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Anthony Gaggi, 62, American mobster in the Gambino crime family, heart attack.
 * Władysław Lemiszko, 76, Polish international ice hockey player and Olympian.
 * Patrick Mphephu, 63–64, South African politician, President of Venda.
 * Louise Nevelson, 88, Ukrainian-born American sculptor.
 * Eva Novak, 90, American film actress, pneumonia.
 * Otto Pächt, 85, Austrian art historian.
 * Carlos Sotomayor, 76–77, Chilean painter, heart attack.
 * Ormond Wilson, 80, New Zealand politician, Member of Parliament, stroke.
 * Isaak Yaglom, 67, Soviet mathematician and author.
 * April 18
 * Pierre Desproges, 48, French humorist, lung cancer.
 * Oktay Rıfat Horozcu, 73, Turkish writer and playwright.
 * Lawrence E. Imhoff, 92, American soldier and lawyer, member of U.S. House of Representatives.
 * Antonín Puč, 80, Czechoslovakian international footballer.
 * Bess Bolden Walcott, 101, American educator, librarian, museum curator and activist.
 * April 19
 * Kwon Ki-ok, 87, first Korean female aviator.
 * Claude Lister, 76, British tennis player and coach.
 * Piotr Nazarov, 66, Soviet painter and art teacher.
 * April 20
 * Roger Cloud, 78, American politician, Speaker of Ohio House of Representatives.
 * April 21
 * Gord Barwell, 43, Canadian football player, brain cancer.
 * I. A. L. Diamond, 67, Romanian-born American screenwriter, multiple myeloma.
 * Princess Nadejda Petrovna of Russia, 90, Russian-born French woman, child of Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia.
 * Buddy Humphrey, 52, American NFL footballer, brain tumour.
 * Paul Steinitz, 78, English organist.
 * April 22
 * Kenneth Haworth, 85, English Dean of Salisbury.
 * Peter Helck, 94, American illustrator.
 * Melvin Price, 83, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives.
 * Irene Rich, 96, American film and radio actress, heart failure.
 * Tchicaya U Tam'si, 56, Congolese author.
 * April 23
 * Axel Grönberg, 69, Swedish wrestler and Olympic gold medalist.
 * Karl Leonhard, 84, German psychiatrist.
 * Eitaro Ozawa, 79, Japanese film and stage actor and director.
 * Michael Ramsey, 83, British Church of England bishop, Archbishop of Canterbury.
 * April 24
 * Gioacchino Colombo, 85, Italian automobile engine designer.
 * Mikhail Trufanov, 66, Soviet painter.
 * April 25
 * René Cardona, 82, Mexican director, actor, producer, screenwriter and film editor.
 * Lygia Clark, 67, Brazilian artist, heart attack.
 * Carolyn Franklin, 43, American singer-songwriter, breast cancer.
 * George Henson, 76, English footballer.
 * Ken Jones, 60, British conductor and composer of film and television music.
 * Ferenc Pataki, 70, Hungarian gymnast and Olympic gold medalist.
 * Edward Chester Plow, 83, Canadian soldier, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, lung cancer.
 * Lanny Ross, 82, American singer, pianist and songwriter.
 * Clifford D. Simak, 83, American science fiction writer.
 * Valerie Solanas, 52, American author and feminist, attempted to murder Andy Warhol, pneumonia.
 * April 26
 * Guy Boyd, 64, Australian potter and sculptor, coronary atherosclerosis.
 * Guillermo Haro, 75, Mexican astronomer.
 * Frederick D. Patterson, 86, American academic administrator.
 * M. V. P. Peiris, 89, Sri Lankan orthopaedic surgeon and politician.
 * Bennett Stewart, 75, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives.
 * April 27
 * Fred Bear, 86, American bow hunter and manufacturer, heart attack.
 * Helene Thomas Bennett, 86, American bacteriologist and businesswoman.
 * Valery Legasov, 51, Soviet chemist, chief of Chernobyl disaster investigation commission, suicide by hanging.
 * David Scarboro, 20, English actor.
 * Arnie Shockley, 84, American NFL footballer.
 * Tommy Thomas, 88, American Major League baseballer.
 * April 28
 * Fenner Brockway, 99, British socialist politician and anti-war activist.
 * William Coleman, 53–54, American historian of science, leukemia.
 * Michael Grumley, 45, American writer and artist.
 * William Potter Gale, 71, American political activist and white supremacist.
 * Hagop Hagopian, 36–37, leader of Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia, assassinated.
 * Broadus Mitchell, 95, American historian, writer and professor.
 * B. W. Stevenson, 38, American country pop singer and musician, staph infection after heart surgery.
 * April 29
 * Andrew Cruickshank, 80, Scottish actor.
 * Irving Kolodin, 80, American music critic and historian.
 * James McCracken, 61, American operatic tenor.
 * Martin Wyldeck, 74, English actor.
 * Bill Zock, 70, Canadian football player.
 * April 30
 * Tiger Joe Tomasso, 65–66, Canadian professional wrestler.

May

 * May 1
 * Claude Demetrius, 71, American songwriter.
 * Ben Lexcen, 52, Australian yachtsman and marine architect, designed winged keel which won America's Cup, heart attack.
 * Louis Maurer, 84, Swiss footballer and manager.
 * Erwin Nyc, 73, Polish international footballer.
 * Paolo Stoppa, 81, Italian actor, leukemia.
 * May 2
 * John Weir Foote, 83, Canadian military chaplain and politician.
 * Pavel Kadochnikov, 72, Soviet actor, film director and screenwriter.
 * May 3
 * Julia Butler Hansen, 80, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives.
 * José María Jáuregui, 92, Spanish footballer and Olympian.
 * Takeshi Kimura, 76, Japanese screenwriter, throat obstruction.
 * Premendra Mitra, 83, Indian poet, writer and film director.
 * Lev Pontryagin, 79, Soviet mathematician.
 * Bill Speidel, 76, American newspaper columnist.
 * Paul Vario, 73, American mobster from the Lucchese crime family, respiratory failure from lung cancer.
 * May 4
 * Stanley William Hayter, 86, English painter.
 * Jan Mazurkiewicz, 91, Polish military leader and politician.
 * Oleg Zhakov, 83, Soviet film actor.
 * May 5
 * Norm Betson, 73, Australian rules footballer.
 * Jack Daly, 72, Irish politician.
 * Billo Frómeta, 72, Dominican orchestra conductor, arranger and composer.
 * Katharine DuPre Lumpkin, 90, American writer.
 * Hamid Mirza, 70, Iranian heir presumptive of former ruling dynasty of Iran, son of last Qajar Crown Prince of Iran.
 * George Rose, 68, English actor and singer in theatre and film, murdered.
 * Michael Shaara, 59, American author of science fiction, sports fiction and historical fiction, heart attack.
 * May 6
 * Joep Brandes, 67, Dutch international footballer.
 * Richard Caliguiri, 56, American politician, mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
 * Costantino Nivola, 76, Italian-born American sculptor, heart attack.
 * Austin Robertson Sr., 79, Australian rules footballer.
 * May 8
 * Robert A. Heinlein, 80, American science fiction author, emphysema and heart failure.
 * Charles Pollock, 85, American abstract painter, brother of artist Jackson Pollock.
 * Abdel Moneim Wahby, 76, Egyptian international basketballer, referee and Olympian.
 * May 9
 * Willie Moir, 66, Scottish international footballer.
 * Moses Scott, 76, Archbishop of the Province of West Africa.
 * May 10
 * Ciarán Bourke, 53, Irish musician.
 * Shen Congwen, 85, Chinese writer, heart attack.
 * Richard B. Ogilvie, 65, American attorney and law enforcement officer, Governor of Illinois.
 * May 11
 * Isabella Gordon, 86, Scottish marine biologist.
 * Kim Philby, 76, British intelligence officer and spy, heart failure.
 * May 12
 * Paul Osborn, 86, American playwright and screenwriter.
 * Hank Schenz, 69, American Major League baseballer.
 * May 13
 * Chet Baker, 58, American jazz trumpeter and vocalist, fall from building.
 * Sergey Gorshkov, 78, Soviet Admiral of the Fleet.
 * Friedrich Guggenberger, 73, German admiral and Nazi U-boat commander.
 * Irene Manton, 84, British botanist, Professor of Botany at University of Leeds.
 * Albertine Winner, 81, British physician and medical administrator.
 * May 14
 * Fred Atkins, 77–78, New Zealand—born Canadian professional wrestler.
 * Ernesto Giménez Caballero, 88, Spanish writer, diplomat and pioneer of Fascism.
 * Willem Drees, 101, Dutch politician and historian, Prime Minister of the Netherlands.
 * Zhuang Xiquan, 99, Chinese politician.
 * May 15
 * Andrew Duggan, 64, American actor, throat cancer.
 * Fulvia Franco, 56, Italian actress and model.
 * Greta Nissen, 82, Norwegian-born American film and stage actress, Parkinson's disease.
 * R. B. Nunnery, 54, American NFL footballer.
 * Thomas E. Stephens, 84, Irish-born American politician.
 * May 16
 * Charles Keeping, 63, English illustrator and children's book author, brain tumour.
 * Jules Levin, 66, American politician.
 * Anatoli Maslyonkin, 57, Soviet international footballer and Olympic gold medalist.
 * Peter J. Ortiz, 74, United States Marine Corps colonel, cancer.
 * Bruce Watson, 78, Scottish organic chemist and politician.
 * May 17
 * Frank Gallop, 87, American radio and television personality.
 * Guy Glover, 77, Canadian producer and administrator.
 * May 18
 * Daws Butler, 71, American voice actor, heart attack.
 * Anthony Forwood, 72, English actor, liver cancer and Parkinson's disease.
 * Brandon Rhys-Williams, 60, British politician, Member of Parliament, pneumonia as complication of leukemia.
 * F. Elizabeth Richey, 75, American field hockey and squash coach.
 * Enzo Tortora, 59, Italian television presenter, cancer.
 * May 19
 * Dave McCleave, 76, English boxer and Olympian.
 * Lloyd Vaughan, 79, American animator.
 * May 20
 * Ana Aslan, 91, Romanian biologist and physician.
 * Nick Corwin, 8, American murder victim.
 * Dick Jacobs, 70, American musician, conductor, arranger and orchestrator.
 * Mike Reinbach, 39, American Major League baseballer, car accident.
 * Marion G. Romney, 90, American Mormon leader.
 * Victorio Unamuno, 78, Spanish footballer.
 * May 21
 * Harry Babasin, 67, American jazz bassist.
 * Richard J. Daronco, 56, American lawyer and judge, assassinated.
 * Sammy Davis Sr., 87, American dancer, father of entertainer Sammy Davis Jr.
 * Dino Grandi, 92, Italian Fascist politician.
 * Barbara Laage, 67, French film actress.
 * Guillermo Marín, 82, Spanish film and theatre actor.
 * May 22
 * Giorgio Almirante, 73, Italian politician, founder and leader of neo-fascist Italian Social Movement.
 * May 24
 * Tom Adair, 74, American songwriter, composer and screenwriter.
 * Tom Burtt, 73, New Zealand test cricketer and international hockey player.
 * Freddie Frith, 79, British Grand Prix motorcycle road racing world champion.
 * Ernest Labrousse, 93, French historian.
 * Aleksei Losev, 94, Soviet philosopher.
 * May 25
 * Ruth Malcomson, 82, Miss America 1924.
 * Karl August Wittfogel, 91, German-born American playwright and historian, pneumonia.
 * May 26
 * Jules Gales, 63, Luxembourgian international footballer and Olympian.
 * Juan Orol, 90, Spanish-born Mexican actor, film producer, director and screenwriter, liver disease.
 * Nicolò Vittori, 79, Italian rower and Olympic gold medalist.
 * May 27
 * John DiGilio, 55, American mobster with the Genovese crime family, murdered.
 * Florida Friebus, 78, American writer and actress of stage, film and television.
 * Hjördis Petterson, 79, Swedish actress.
 * Ernst Ruska, 81, German physicist, Nobel laureate in Physics.
 * Alwyn Warren, 87, New Zealand Anglican Bishop of Christchurch.
 * May 28
 * Adolfo Contoli, 90, Italian pentathlete, decathlete, hurdler, pole vaulter, long jumper and high jumper, Olympian.
 * Felix Morrow, 81, American communist political activist and newspaper editor.
 * Sy Oliver, 77, American jazz arranger, trumpeter, composer, singer and bandleader.
 * Evelyn Page, 89, New Zealand artist.
 * Alfredo Volpi, 92, Brazilian painter.
 * S. B. Yalegama, 62, Sri Lankan politician, member of Parliament, assassinated.
 * May 29
 * Henry Johansen, 83, Norwegian international footballer.
 * Vladimír Menšík, 59, Czechoslovakian actor and entertainer, asthma.
 * Siaka Stevens, 82, Sierra Leone politician, Prime Minister and President of Sierra Leone.
 * Elaine Black Yoneda, 81, American labour and civil rights activist, member of Communist Party, heart attack.
 * May 30
 * Iseline Crivelli, 85, Italian alpine skier and Olympian.
 * Elton Plummer, 73, Australian rules footballer.
 * Ella Raines, 67, American film and television actress, throat cancer.
 * May 31
 * Edward Meagher, 79, Australian politician, member of Victorian Legislative Assembly.
 * Dwarka Prasad Mishra, 86, Indian politician, writer and journalist.
 * Arthur Olliver, 71, Australian rules footballer.
 * Eduardo de Robertis, 74, Argentine physician and biologist.
 * Tursun Uljabayev, 72, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Tajikistan.
 * May (date unknown)
 * Rosa Collazo, 83–84, Puerto Rican political activist.
 * Ted Ward, 70–71, Welsh international rugby union and rugby league footballer.

June

 * June 1
 * Leon Belasco, 85, Russian-born American actor and musician.
 * Herbert Feigl, 85, Austrian-born American philosopher, cancer.
 * Peter Hurkos, 77, Dutch-American who claimed psychic powers.
 * Ricky May, 44, New Zealand-born Australian jazz singer and musician, heart attack.
 * June 2
 * Iosif Grigulevich, 75, Soviet secret police operative.
 * Fred Halstead, 61, American Socialist Workers Party candidate for President of the United States.
 * Horace Hildreth, 85, American politician and diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan, heart attack.
 * Raj Kapoor, 63, Indian actor, producer and director, asthma.
 * Annette Poivre, 70, French stage and film actress.
 * June 3
 * Anna Mahler, 85, Austrian-born sculptor.
 * Davey Moore, 28, American professional boxer, asphyxia from being pinned under vehicle.
 * Brian Spencer, 38, Canadian NHL ice hockey player, shot in drug-related robbery.
 * June 4
 * Majnun Gorakhpuri, 84, Pakistani short story writer, poet and literary critic.
 * Ed Matesic, 80, American NFL football player.
 * Sir Douglas Nicholls, 81, Australian pastor, campaigner for aboriginal reconciliation, Governor of South Australia.
 * Renzo Palmer, 57, Italian film, television and stage actor, cancer.
 * Allan Reuss, 72, American jazz guitarist.
 * June 5
 * Brian Ashby, 64, New Zealand Catholic Bishop of Christchurch, cancer.
 * Michael Barrington, 63, British actor, heart attack.
 * Robert Dudley Edwards, 79, Irish historian.
 * James H. Gildea, 97, American politician, newspaperman and member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
 * Roland Ritchie, 77, Canadian lawyer and Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.
 * June 6
 * Thomas DiBella, 82, American mobster of the Colombo crime family.
 * John Jordan, 58, Irish poet and short-story writer.
 * June 7
 * John Kerns, 65, Canadian football player, heart attack.
 * June 8
 * Russell Harty, 53, English television presenter of arts programs and chat shows, liver failure caused by hepatitis.
 * Roger Lyndon, 70, American mathematician.
 * Chuck Roberson, 69, American actor and stuntman, cancer.
 * June 9
 * Newt Allen, 87, American Negro League baseballer.
 * Rashid Behbudov, 73, Azerbaijani singer and actor.
 * June 10
 * Arthur Gary Bishop, 35, American convicted sex offender and serial killer, executed by lethal injection.
 * Louis L'Amour, 80, American novelist and short story writer, lung cancer (non-smoker).
 * Willie Ross, 77, Scottish politician, Secretary of State for Scotland, cancer.
 * Henryk Stażewski, 94, Polish painter, visual artist and writer.
 * Josep Tarradellas, 89, Spanish politician, President of the Government of Catalonia.
 * June 11
 * Mike Clancy, 63, American professional wrestler.
 * Ernani Cuenco, 52, Filipino composer, film scorer and musical director.
 * Nick O'Donnell, 62, Irish hurler.
 * Lee Priester, 85, American Olympic javelin thrower.
 * Giuseppe Saragat, 89, Italian politician, President of Italy.
 * Marianne Van Hirtum, 52, Belgian author.
 * June 12
 * Georg Hochgesang, 90, German international footballer.
 * Gennadi Krasnitsky, 47, Uzbekistani international footballer, suicide by jumping.
 * Marcel Poot, 87, Belgian composer, professor and musician.
 * Franz Zingerle, 79, Austrian alpine skier and world champion.
 * June 13
 * Lucien Cardin, 69, Canadian lawyer, judge and politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.
 * Emil Telmányi, 95, Hungarian-born violinist.
 * June 14
 * Robert R. Barry, 73, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
 * Johnny Farrell, 87, American golfer, U.S. Open winner, stroke.
 * June 15
 * Frank A. Beach, 77, American ethologist and author.
 * Hans Blöcker, 90, German politician, member of the German Bundestag.
 * Hall Haynes, 59, American NFL footballer.
 * Floyd J. McCree, 65, American politician.
 * Robert Seymour, appr. 33, Northern Irish loyalist, shot.
 * George Ward, 80, British politician, Secretary of State for Air.
 * June 16
 * Kim Milford, 37, American actor, singer-songwriter and composer, complications following open heart surgery.
 * Andrea Pazienza, 32, Italian comics artist and painter, heroin overdose.
 * Miguel Piñero, 41, Puerto Rican–born American playwright and actor, cirrhosis.
 * June 17
 * Elizabeth Lane, 82, English barrister and judge.
 * June 18
 * Archie Cochrane, 79, Scottish physician.
 * Wilford Leach, 58, American theatre director, set designer, film director and screenwriter, AIDS-related stomach cancer.
 * Sallie Martin, 92, American gospel singer.
 * E. Hoffmann Price, 89, American writer of popular fiction.
 * June 19
 * M. Ajmal, 78, Indian-born Pakistani actor.
 * Marie Logoreci, 67, Albanian film and stage actress.
 * Teru Shimada, 82, Japanese-born American actor.
 * Gladys Spellman, 70, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, complications from coma.
 * June 21
 * John Duncan Sr., 69, American attorney and politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, cancer.
 * George Ivașcu, 76, Romanian journalist, literary critic and communist militant.
 * Tella Kitchen, 86, American folk artist.
 * Sverre Riisnæs, 90, Norwegian jurist and public prosecutor.
 * T. E. Utley, 67, British journalist and writer.
 * June 22
 * Jesse Ed Davis, 43, American guitarist, drug overdose.
 * Dennis Day, 72, American actor, comedian and singer.
 * Hank Edwards, 69, American Major League baseballer.
 * Bramwell Fletcher, 84, English stage, film and television actor.
 * Rose Franken, 92, American writer and playwright.
 * Pieter Grobbelaar, 79, South African military commander, Commandant General of South African Defence Force.
 * Perry Jackson, 68, American NFL football player.
 * Jep Lacoste, 66, French rugby league coach.
 * Leonard Matlovich, 44, American Vietnam War veteran, first gay service member to out himself to military, HIV.
 * Howard Mitchell, 77, American cellist and conductor.
 * Burrill Phillips, 80, American composer and pianist, complications after heart attack.
 * Stuart Randall, 78, American actor of film and television.
 * June 23
 * Andrei Glanzmann, 81, Romanian international footballer.
 * Dragan Godžić, 61, Serbian basketballer and coach.
 * Sid Handleman, 67, Canadian politician, member of Legislative Assembly of Ontario, heart attack.
 * Henry Murray, 95, American psychologist, pneumonia.
 * Liang Shuming, 94, Chinese philosopher, politician and writer.
 * June 24
 * Mihai Beniuc, 80, Romanian poet, dramatist and novelist.
 * Tex Leyendecker, 82, American NFL footballer.
 * June 25
 * Jean Boffety, 63, French cinematographer.
 * Șerban Cioculescu, 85, Romanian literary critic, literary historian and columnist.
 * Mildred Gillars, 87, American broadcaster employed by Nazi Germany, convicted of treason against U.S.A, colon cancer.
 * Neville Pickering, 64, New Zealand politician, member of New Zealand Parliament.
 * Hillel Slovak, 26, Israeli-American musician, guitarist for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, overdose.
 * Jimmy Soul, 45, American vocalist, heart attack.
 * June 26
 * Hans Urs von Balthasar, 82, Swiss theologian and Catholic priest.
 * Hugh Bartlett, 73, English cricketer.
 * Ludovik Jakova, 66, Albanian footballer and coach of Albanian national football team.
 * Herb Mobberley, 83, Canadian football player.
 * Yves Pratte, 63, Canadian lawyer and jurist, Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, heart attack.
 * June 27
 * Léonie Adams, 88, American poet.
 * John Groth, 80, American illustrator.
 * Robert Margerit, 78, French journalist and writer.
 * Aparicio Méndez, 83, Uruguayan lawyer, President of Uruguay.
 * R. Muttusamy, 62, Sri Lankan music director and singer.
 * José Ignacio Palma, 78, Chilean engineer and politician.
 * Heinz Rehfuss, 71, Swiss-American operatic bass-baritone.
 * Homi J. H. Taleyarkhan, 85–86, Indian Congress politician, Governor of Sikkim.
 * Louis Versyp, 79, Belgian international footballer and manager, Olympian.
 * June 28
 * Iris Origo, 85, English-born Italian biographer and writer.
 * Kurt Raab, 46, West German stage and film actor, screenwriter and playwright, complications from AIDS.
 * June 29
 * Tengku Ampuan Afzan, 55, Malaysian Queen consort of Pahang, cancer.
 * John Peet, 72–73, British journalist who defected to East Germany.
 * Franciszka Themerson, 81, Polish-British painter, illustrator, filmmaker and stage designer.
 * Albert Trueman, 86, American-born Canadian teacher, professor and university administrator.
 * June 30
 * Alan W. Bishop, 68, British geotechnical engineer and academic.
 * Jan de Boer, 89, Dutch international footballer.
 * Chacrinha, 70, Brazilian comedian, radio and TV personality, heart attack.
 * A. S. Nair, 57, Indian painter, illustrator and cartoonist.
 * Bill Ramsay, 60, Australian middle-distance runner and Olympian.
 * Suthi Veerabhadra Rao, 41, Indian film actor, heart attack.
 * June (unknown date)
 * Michael Barry, 78, British television producer and director.
 * Dave Crawford, 44, American R&B musician, songwriter, radio personality and record producer, murdered.

July

 * July 1
 * Costante Degan, 58, Italian politician, lung cancer.
 * Aleksey Grinin, 68, Russian footballer and coach.
 * Anton Leader, 74, American radio and television director.
 * Alice Nunn, 60, American film and theatre actress, heart attack.
 * Robert Riefling, 76, Norwegian classical pianist.
 * Ed Sauer, 69, American Major League baseballer.
 * Hermann Volk, 84, German Roman Catholic cardinal.
 * July 2
 * Vibert Douglas, 93, Canadian astronomer and astrophysicist.
 * Johann Baptist Gradl, 84, German politician.
 * Mahmoud Mirza, 82, Iranian prince of the Qajar dynasty.
 * Aldo Tonti, 78, Italian cinematographer.
 * Eddie Vinson, 70, American alto saxophonist, heart attack.
 * Arno Wolle, 85, Danish naturopath and mathematician.
 * July 3
 * Gabriel Dell, 68, American actor, leukemia.
 * Fritz Wiessner, 88, German-born American pioneer of free climbing, strokes.
 * July 4
 * Adrian Adonis, 34, American professional wrestler, traffic accident.
 * James Bilton, 79, English-born Canadian politician, Speaker of Legislative Assembly of Manitoba.
 * Tom Manley, 75, English footballer.
 * Dave McKigney, 56, Canadian professional wrestler, traffic accident.
 * Sally McNelly, 18, American homicide victim.
 * Shane Stewart, 16, American homicide victim.
 * William Thetford, 65, American psychologist and professor, heart attack.
 * Lee Weyer, 51, American Major League baseball umpire, heart attack.
 * July 5
 * Yoshihiko Yoshimatsu, 67, Japanese judo champion.
 * July 6
 * John Drury Clark, 80, American rocket fuel developer, chemist and science fiction writer.
 * Víctor Junco, 71, Mexican actor.
 * July 7
 * Jimmy Edwards, 68, English comedy writer and actor on radio and television, pneumonia.
 * Helen Gandy, 91, American secretary to Federal Bureau of Investigation director J. Edgar Hoover, heart attack.
 * July 8
 * Ray Barbuti, 83, American sprinter and Olympic dual gold medalist.
 * Antony Fisher, 73, British businessman and think tank founder.
 * Ranjit Khanwilkar, 27, Indian cricketer, train accident.
 * Mount Etna Morris, 87, American politician, State Treasurer of Missouri.
 * July 9
 * Richard Spink Bowles, 75, Canadian lawyer, Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba.
 * Alexandru Graur, 88, Romanian linguist.
 * Anthony Holland, 60, American actor, suicide.
 * Jackie Presser, 61, American labour leader, cardiac arrest.
 * Barbara Woodhouse, 78, Irish-born British dog trainer, author and TV personality, stroke.
 * July 10
 * Alf Ackerman, 59, South African footballer and manager.
 * Errol John, 63, Trinidad and Tobago–born English actor and playwright.
 * N. Krishna Pillai, 71, Indian dramatist, literary critic, translator and historian of Malayalam language.
 * Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin, 85, American anthropologist, cardiac arrest.
 * July 11
 * Robert Ferro, 46, American novelist, AIDS.
 * Milton Krims, 84, American screenwriter, journalist, short-story writer and novelist, pneumonia.
 * Barbara Wootton, 91, British sociologist and criminologist.
 * July 12
 * Al Bedner, 90, American NFL football player.
 * Bob Flanigan, 74, Australian rules footballer.
 * Nevin William Hayes, 66, American Roman Catholic bishop.
 * Michael Jary, 81, German composer.
 * Joshua Logan, 79, American stage and film director, progressive supranuclear palsy.
 * Pelagia Majewska, 55, Polish aeroplane and glider pilot and instructor, aircraft accident.
 * Boyd Crumrine Patterson, 86, American mathematician, stroke.
 * Enzo Sacchi, 62, Italian road and track cyclist and Olympic gold medalist.
 * Julian Trevelyan, 78, English artist and poet.
 * July 13
 * Ji Dengkui, 65, Chinese political figure, Vice Premier of People's Republic of China.
 * Hilda Gobbi, 75, Hungarian actress.
 * Phil Monroe, 71, American animator and director, pancreatic cancer.
 * July 14
 * William Ofori Atta, 77, Ghanaian politician, Minister for Foreign Affairs.
 * Peter Raw, 66, Australian R.A.A.F. pilot and senior officer, lymphoma.
 * Oronzo Reale, 85, Italian politician, Minister of Justice.
 * Whitey Witt, 92, American Major League baseballer.
 * July 15
 * Jan Brzák-Felix, 76, Czechoslovakian slalom and sprint canoeist and Olympic gold medalist.
 * Eleanor Estes, 82, American children's writer.
 * Jean-Pierre Hoscheid, 76, Luxembourgian international footballer and manager, Olympian.
 * Michael Illingworth, 55, New Zealand painter and farmer.
 * Tore Keller, 83, Swedish international footballer and Olympic medalist.
 * José Rafael Meza, 68, Costa Rican international footballer and manager.
 * Sheldon T. Mills, 83, American diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Jordan, Afghanistan and Ecuador.
 * Armand Mouyal, 62, French world champion fencer and Olympic medalist.
 * July 16
 * Herbert L. Anderson, 74, American nuclear physicist, lung failure due to poisoning.
 * Ole Myrvoll, 77, Norwegian economist, professor and politician.
 * July 17
 * Bruiser Brody, 42, American professional wrestler, stabbed.
 * Frank Carter, 77, Irish politician.
 * Milton Krasner, 84, American cinematographer.
 * July 18
 * K. M. Daniel, 68, Indian literary critic.
 * Elsa Gress, 69, Danish essayist, novelist and dramatist.
 * Nico (Christa Päffgen), 49, German singer, songwriter, actress and model, cerebral hemorrhage resulting from fall.
 * Joly Braga Santos, 64, Portuguese composer and conductor, stroke.
 * Miklós Szentkuthy, 80, Hungarian writer.
 * July 19
 * Vilhelm Aubert, 66, Norwegian sociologist.
 * July 20
 * Mark Boxer, 57, British magazine editor, brain tumour.
 * John W. Galbreath, 90, American building contractor and sportsman.
 * Iven Manning, 70, Australian politician, member of Legislative Assembly of Western Australia.
 * July 21
 * Jack Clark, 62, American television personality, game show host and announcer, bone cancer.
 * Carroll William Dodge, 93, American mycologist and lichenologist.
 * Raphael Soriano, 83, Greek-born American architect and educator.
 * K. Vijayan, 48, Indian film director.
 * July 22
 * Avtar Singh Brahma, 36–37, Indian revolutionary and founding figure of the Khalistan Liberation Force.
 * Larry Clemmons, 81, American animator, screenwriter and voice actor.
 * Leonard Coulshaw, 92, British Chaplain of the Fleet and Archdeacon of the Royal Navy.
 * Duane Jones, 51, American actor, cardiopulmonary arrest.
 * Patrick Newell, 56, British actor, heart attack.
 * Andreina Sacco, 84, Italian field athlete.
 * Guy Sanderson, 82, English Anglican Bishop of Plymouth.
 * Alexey von Schlippe, 72, Russian-born American painter.
 * July 23
 * Jahangir Khan, 78, Indian test cricketer and Pakistani cricket administrator.
 * Stuart Legg, 77, English documentary filmmaker.
 * Heinz Pagels, 49, American physicist, mountaineering accident.
 * Bandu Patil, 52, Indian hockey player and Olympic gold medalist, cardiac arrest.
 * July 24
 * Ilona Elek, 81, Hungarian fencer and dual Olympic gold medalist.
 * Manuel González, 70, Spanish footballer.
 * John Harris, 71, Scottish footballer and manager.
 * Trevor Harvey, 71, Canadian footballer.
 * Robert McClory, 80, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives.
 * Mira Schendel, 69, Brazilian artist, lung cancer.
 * May Smith, 82, Indian-born New Zealand artist.
 * July 25
 * Judith Barsi, 10, American child actress, murder-suicide by father.
 * Douglas Hickox, 59, English film and television director, complications from heart surgery.
 * Glenn Killinger, 89, American NFL footballer.
 * Anton Krásnohorský, 62, Czechoslovakian international footballer.
 * Dave Tobey, 90, American basketball referee.
 * July 26
 * Grigori Pinaichev, 75, Soviet footballer and manager.
 * Tetsuji Takechi, 75, Japanese theatre and film director, critic and author, pancreatic cancer.
 * Lai Shiu Wing, 70–71, Chinese international footballer.
 * July 27
 * Felix Arnott, 77, Australian Anglican archbishop.
 * Jack Drees, 71, American sportscaster, cancer.
 * Ann Mari Falk, 71, Swedish writer and translator.
 * Brigitte Horney, 77, German theatre and film actress.
 * Frank Zamboni, 87, American inventor and businessman.
 * July 28
 * Caleb Gattegno, 76, Egyptian educator, psychologist and mathematician.
 * Ray Martin, 78, Australian rules footballer.
 * Syed Modi, 25, Indian badminton player, murdered.
 * Tullio Pizzorno, 67, Italian sailor and Olympian.
 * John Wheatley, 80, Scottish politician and judge.
 * July 29
 * Ellin Berlin, 85, American author, wife of Irving Berlin.
 * Patrick Michael Dewan, 97, Canadian farmer and politician.
 * Pete Drake, 55, American record producer, emphysema.
 * Günther Radusch, 75, German Luftwaffe pilot.
 * Paul Reardon, 78, American justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, heart failure.
 * Georges Vuilleumier, 43, Swiss international footballer.
 * July 30
 * Arthur Mooney, 63, Australian rules footballer.
 * Ólafur Jóhann Sigurðsson, 69, Icelandic novelist, short story writer and poet.
 * William de Silva, 79, Sri Lankan politician.
 * Bob Woytowich, 46, Canadian NHL ice hockey player, heart attack.
 * July 31
 * Li Fenglou, 76, Chinese footballer and manager.
 * Stephen Murray-Smith, 65, Australian writer, editor and educator, heart attack.
 * André Navarra, 76, French cellist.
 * Trinidad Silva, 38, American comedian and actor, car crash.
 * Raymond Stross, 72, British-born film producer.
 * Jinadasa Weerasinghe, 61, Sri Lankan politician, assassinated.
 * July (date unknown)
 * William Rolls, 73, British flying ace in World War II.

August

 * August 1
 * John Dearden, 80, American Roman Catholic cardinal, pancreatic cancer.
 * Florence Eldridge, 86, American actress.
 * Sheldon Kinser, 45, American race car driver.
 * Georges Wambst, 86, French cyclist.
 * Gertrude Welcker, 92, German stage and silent-screen actress.
 * August 2
 * Steve Anderson, 82, American hurdler and Olympic medalist.
 * Raymond Carver, 50, American short-story writer and poet, lung cancer.
 * Nityanand Kanungo, 88, Indian politician, Governor of Bihar and Gujarat.
 * Nada Klaić, 68, Croatian historian.
 * August 3
 * Lillian Bilocca, 59, British fisheries worker, peritoneal cancer.
 * Campbell Copelin, 87, English-born Australian actor.
 * Tucker McGuire, 75, American-born British film and television actress.
 * Krishnaswami Ramiah, 96, Indian agricultural scientist, geneticist and parliamentarian.
 * Paddy Walsh, 81, Australian rules footballer.
 * Vic Watson, 90, English international footballer.
 * August 4
 * Allan Adair, 90, British army Major General.
 * Brian Brake, 61, New Zealand photographer, heart attack.
 * Charles B. Brownson, 74, American World War II veteran, member of U.S. House of Representatives.
 * Toshiwo Doko, 91, Japanese engineer.
 * Harry Lee Waterfield, 77, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky.
 * August 5
 * Red Davis, 80, American NFL footballer.
 * James Devereux, 85, American general of the U.S. Marine Corps, member of U.S. House of Representatives, pneumonia.
 * Colin Higgins, 47, French-born Australian-American screenwriter, actor, director and producer, AIDS-related illness.
 * Arif Hussain Hussaini, 41, Indian-born Pakistani revolutionary leader, assassinated.
 * Ralph Meeker, 67, American film, stage and television actor, heart attack.
 * August 6
 * John Bingham, 79, English thriller, detective and spy novelist, MI5 spy.
 * Anatoly Levchenko, 47, Soviet cosmonaut, brain tumour.
 * Francis Ponge, 89, French essayist and poet.
 * J. Skelly Wright, 77, American circuit judge.
 * August 7
 * Wilfred Jackson, 82, American animator, arranger, composer and director.
 * August 8
 * Alan Ameche, 55, American NFL player, heart attack.
 * Kid Chocolate, 78, Cuban boxer.
 * George Estregan, 49, Filipino film actor.
 * Henri Frenay, 82, French military officer and member of the French Resistance.
 * Félix Leclerc, 82, Canadian singer-songwriter, poet, writer, actor and political activist.
 * Alan Napier, 85, English actor.
 * Dominic Serventy, 84, Australian ornithologist.
 * August 9
 * Jimmie Fidler, 89, American columnist, journalist and radio and television personality.
 * Owen Jenkins, 82, Welsh Anglican priest.
 * Giacinto Scelsi, 83, Italian composer, cerebral hemorrhage.
 * Ramón Valdés, 63, Mexican actor and comedian, stomach cancer.
 * August 10
 * Arnulfo Arias, 86, Panamanian politician, doctor and writer, President of Panama, heart attack.
 * Jean Brachet, 79, Belgian biochemist.
 * Jan-Magnus Bruheim, 74, Norwegian poet and children's writer.
 * Adela Rogers St. Johns, 94, American journalist, novelist and screenwriter.
 * Paul Thek, 54, American painter and sculptor, AIDS.
 * August 11
 * Nellikode Bhaskaran, 64, Indian actor.
 * Alfred Kelbassa, 63, German international footballer.
 * K. Avukader Kutty Naha, 68, Indian politician, Deputy Chief Minister of Kerala.
 * Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, 56, French opera director, set and costume designer, pulmonary embolism following a fall.
 * Anne Ramsey, 59, American actress, cancer.
 * Jack Regan, 75, Australian rules footballer.
 * August 12
 * Jean-Michel Basquiat, 27, American artist, heroin overdose.
 * Bhakti Rakshak Sridhar, 92, Indian guru, writer and spiritual leader.
 * August 13
 * Mel Almada, 75, Mexican Major League baseballer.
 * Fred Below, 61, American blues drummer, liver cancer.
 * Per Digerud, 55, Norwegian cyclist and Olympian.
 * Keith Hancock, 90, Australian historian and academic.
 * James Heaslip, 87, Australian politician, member of South Australian Parliament.
 * Sydney Jacobson, 79, British journalist, editor and political commentator.
 * Gajanan Jagirdar, 81, Indian film director, screenwriter and actor, heart attack.
 * Otto Passman, 88, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives.
 * William H. Phelps Jr., 85, Venezuelan ornithologist and businessman.
 * Tenor Saw, 21, Jamaican dancehall singjay, hit and run accident.
 * Gordon H. Scherer, 81, American lawyer and politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives.
 * Edward Bennett Williams, 68, American lawyer and businessman, colon cancer.
 * August 14
 * Roy Buchanan, 48, American guitarist and blues musician, suicide by hanging.
 * Robert Calvert, 43, South African–born British writer, poet and musician, heart attack.
 * Michael Crowder, 54, British historian and author.
 * Enzo Ferrari, 90, Italian motor racing driver and car maker, leukemia.
 * Hollis Dow Hedberg, 84, American geologist.
 * August 15
 * Rudy Collins, 54, American jazz drummer.
 * Ronald Stein, 58, American film composer, pancreatic cancer.
 * Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt, 86, German composer, musicologist and music historian and critic.
 * Hartman Turnbow, 83, Mississippi farmer, orator and activist during the Civil Rights Movement.
 * August 16
 * Rashad Barmada, 74–75, Syrian politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Syria.
 * Fred Butters, 84, English international rugby league footballer.
 * Ron McAuliffe, 70, Australian politician and rugby league administrator, Australian senator, stroke.
 * Rick Newsom, 38, American NASCAR Winston Cup driver, plane crash.
 * August 17
 * Akhtar Abdur Rahman, 64, Pakistani Army general, plane crash.
 * Arnold Lewis Raphel, 45, American diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan, plane crash.
 * Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., 74, American lawyer and politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, lung cancer.
 * Siddique Salik, 52, Pakistani army officer, plane crash.
 * Victoria Shaw, 53, Australian film and television actress, emphysema.
 * Samuel Silkin, 70, British politician, Attorney General for England and Wales.
 * Jack Straus, 58, American professional poker player, aortic aneurysm.
 * Bob Troughton, 84, Australian rules footballer.
 * Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, 64, Pakistani military officer, President of Pakistan, plane crash.
 * August 18
 * Sir Frederick Ashton, 83, British ballet dancer and choreographer.
 * Don Hummel, 80, American businessman and politician, mayor of Tucson.
 * Michael Perrin, 82, Canadian-born British scientist.
 * Jessica Powers, 83, American poet and nun, stroke.
 * Ernst Simon, 88, German educator and religious philosopher.
 * August 19
 * Don Haggerty, 74, American actor of film and television.
 * Russ Hathaway, 92, American NFL football player.
 * August 20
 * Leon McAuliffe, 71, American Western swing guitarist.
 * Joan G. Robinson, 78, British author and illustrator of children's books.
 * Lazarus Salii, 51, Palau politician, President of Palau, suicide by shooting.
 * August 21
 * H. G. Adler, 78, Czechoslovakian-English German-language poet and novelist.
 * Ray Eames, 78, American artist and designer.
 * Eino Kirjonen, 55, Finnish ski jumper and Olympian.
 * Stuart Leary, 55, South African footballer and first-class cricketer, suicide.
 * Jerry Warren, 63, American film director, producer, editor, screenwriter, cinematographer and actor, lung cancer.
 * August 22
 * James Ryng, 75, Irish hurler.
 * August 23
 * Gerald Drayson Adams, 88, Canadian-born American business executive and literary agent.
 * José Manuel de Sousa e Faro Nobre de Carvalho, 76, Portuguese army brigadier-general.
 * C. Desmond Greaves, 74, English Marxist activist and historian.
 * Laud Humphreys, 57, American sociologist and Episcopal priest, lung cancer.
 * Josef Klehr, 83, German Nazi SS-Oberscharführer, Nazi concentration camp supervisor.
 * Hans Lewy, 83, Prussian-born American mathematician.
 * Alf Martinsen, 76, Norwegian international footballer and Olympic medalist.
 * Menotti Del Picchia, 96, Brazilian poet, journalist and painter.
 * Jack Sher, 75, American newspaper columnist, songwriter, film director, film writer and producer.
 * August 24
 * Pierre Béchu, 29, French ice dancer and Olympian, road accident.
 * Leonard Frey, 49, American actor, complications from AIDS.
 * Kenneth Leighton, 58, British composer and pianist, oesophageal cancer.
 * Nat Stuckey, 54, American country singer, lung cancer.
 * August 25
 * Françoise Dolto, 79, French pediatrician and psychoanalyst, pulmonary fibrosis.
 * Gilbert Gil, 74, French film actor.
 * Art Rooney, 87, American founding owner of Pittsburgh Steelers NFL football team, complications of a stroke.
 * August 26
 * Donald De Lue, 90, American sculptor.
 * Carlos Paião, 30, Portuguese singer and songwriter, car accident.
 * Fred Peart, 74, British politician, leader of the Houses of Lords and Commons.
 * Milton Sperling, 76, American film producer and screenwriter, cancer.
 * August 27
 * Max Black, 79, Azerbaijani-born British-American philosopher.
 * Charles Farrell, 88, Irish stage, film and television actor.
 * Irene Higginbotham, 70, American songwriter and concert pianist.
 * Jack Kane, 80, Australian senator.
 * Mario Montenegro, 60, Filipino film actor, heart attack.
 * William Sargant, 81, British psychiatrist.
 * August 28
 * Hazel Dawn, 98, American stage, film and television actress.
 * Paul Grice, 75, British philosopher of language.
 * Guy Hocquenghem, 41, French writer and philosopher, AIDS-related complications.
 * Jean Marchand, 69, Canadian trade unionist and politician.
 * Max Shulman, 69, American writer and humorist, bone cancer.
 * August 29
 * David A. Hargrave, 42, American game designer and writer of fantasy and science fiction role-playing games.
 * Horace Henderson, 83, American jazz pianist, organist, arranger and bandleader.
 * Wilfred Johnson, 52, American mobster, murdered.
 * Algirdas Klimaitis, 77–78, Lithuanian paramilitary commander.
 * August 30
 * Yan Kelun, 75, Chinese politician, diabetes.
 * Jack Marshall, 76, New Zealand politician, Prime Minister of New Zealand.
 * August 31
 * Grace Eldering, 87, American public health scientist.
 * Vasil Mzhavanadze, 85, Georgian Soviet politician, First Secretary of the Georgian Communist Party.
 * August (unknown date)
 * Albert Büchi, 81, Swiss road bicycle racer.
 * John Willie Parker, 63, English footballer.
 * Sammy Thompson, 55, British trade unionist, cancer.

September

 * September 1
 * Luis Walter Alvarez, 77, American physicist, Nobel laureate in Physics, complications from esophageal cancer.
 * Fatehsinghrao Gaekwad, 58, Indian politician and cricketer.
 * Hugh Hunt, 86, American set decorator.
 * Leonor Sullivan, 86, American politician, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
 * September 2
 * Alexander Aigner, 79, Austrian mathematician.
 * Jim Bagby Jr., 71, American Major League baseballer.
 * Jack Cooper, 80, British politician and trade union leader.
 * Heinz Förstendorf, 80, German hockey player and Olympic medalist.
 * Erik Frey, 80, Austrian film actor.
 * Sir William Northam, 82, Australian yachtsman and Olympic gold medalist.
 * Marshall Riddle, 70, American Negro League baseballer.
 * Robert Watts, 65, American artist, lung cancer.
 * September 3
 * John Goodison, 44–45, English rock musician, songwriter and record producer, heart attack.
 * Frederic McGrand, 93, Canadian physician and politician.
 * Ferit Melen, 81, Turkish civil servant and politician, Prime Minister of Turkey.
 * Ferenc Sas, 73, Hungarian international footballer.
 * Bibi Torriani, 76, Swiss ice hockey player and Olympic medalist.
 * Miao Yuntai, 94, Chinese politician.
 * September 5
 * Ramchandra Dhondiba Bhandare, 72, Indian politician, Governor of Andhra Pradesh.
 * Lawrence Brown, 81, American jazz trombonist.
 * Gert Fröbe, 75, German actor, heart attack.
 * Boris Smyslovsky, 90, Russian-Finnish general.
 * September 6
 * Axel von Ambesser, 78, German playwright, actor and film director.
 * Leroy Brown, 37, American professional wrestler, stroke.
 * Autry Inman, 59, American country and rockabilly musician.
 * Lew Krausse Sr., 76, American Major League baseballer.
 * Harold Rosson, 93, American cinematographer.
 * Karni Singh, 64, Indian Maharaja of Bikaner.
 * Stefan Themerson, 78, Polish-born writer of children's literature, poet and novelist.
 * September 7
 * Abdul Haq Akorwi, 76, Pakistani Islamic scholar.
 * Raymond Dubly, 94, French international footballer and Olympian.
 * Vivi Janiss, 77, American actress.
 * September 8
 * G. M. Durrani, 68–69, Indian radio drama artist, playback singer, actor and music director.
 * Fred Hawking, 78, Australian rules footballer.
 * Mel Rosser, 87, Welsh international rugby union and rugby league player.
 * September 9
 * Mona Best, 64, British music club proprietor, heart attack.
 * Leroy McGuirk, 77, American professional wrestler and promoter.
 * September 10
 * Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, 56, Brazilian film director and screenwriter.
 * Jam Ghulam Qadir Khan, 67–68, Pakistani Chief Minister of Balochistan.
 * Virginia Satir, 72, American author and psychotherapist.
 * William H. Shaw, 79, American economist, businessman and government official, cancer.
 * September 11
 * Wilhelm Batz, 72, German Luftwaffe fighter ace during World War II.
 * Roger Hargreaves, 53, British cartoonist, illustrator and writer of children's books, stroke.
 * September 12
 * Alan Bible, 78, American lawyer and politician, United States Senator.
 * Stephen B. Grimes, 61, English production designer and art director.
 * Margaret McFarland, 83, American child psychologist.
 * Bill Mitchell, 76, American automobile designer, heart failure.
 * John D. J. Moore, 77, American lawyer and business executive, United States Ambassador to Ireland, bone cancer.
 * Lauris Norstad, 81, American General in the United States Army and Air Force.
 * Charlie Palmieri, 60, Puerto Rican bandleader, heart attack.
 * Mars Ravelo, 71, Filipino comic book cartoonist and graphic novelist.
 * John Ryan, 77, Australian politician, member of the South Australian House of Assembly.
 * September 13
 * Gerd Hornberger, 78. German sprinter and Olympic medalist.
 * Peter Young, 73, British Army officer and military historian.
 * September 14
 * Donald Albery, 74, English theatre impresario.
 * William Edward Cousins, 86, American Roman Catholic bishop.
 * Roy Dutton, 71, British Royal Air Force officer and flying ace.
 * September 15
 * Samuel E. Beetley, 74, American film editor.
 * Frank Francis, 86, English academic librarian and curator.
 * Henry Wallich, 74, German-born American economist.
 * September 16
 * Richard Paul Lohse, 86, Swiss painter and graphic artist.
 * Dick Pym, 95, English footballer.
 * Bob Trice, 62, American Major League baseballer.
 * September 17
 * John Biggs-Davison, 70, British politician, Member of Parliament.
 * Mick Cashman, 56–57, Irish hurler.
 * Walter P. Chrysler Jr., 79, American art collector and theatre and film producer, cancer.
 * Hilde Güden, 71, Austrian soprano.
 * Nat Jackley, 79, English comic actor, cancer.
 * Robert Hall, 87, Australian-born economist.
 * September 18
 * Ho Chong, 92, South Korean politician, President of South Korea.
 * Kathleen Collins, 46, American poet, playwright, filmmaker, director and civil rights activist, breast cancer.
 * David Dodd, 93, American financial analyst, author and economist, respiratory failure.
 * John Elliot, 90, British transport and railway manager.
 * Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar, 82, Iranian poet.
 * Alan Watt, 87, Australian diplomat.
 * September 19
 * Enrico Cerulli, 90, Italian scholar of Somali and Ethiopian studies, Governor of Scioa and Harar.
 * Michael Fessier, 82, American screenwriter and film producer.
 * Dorothy Stimson, 97, American academic, dean of Goucher College.
 * Harry Turner, 93, Australian politician, member of Australian House of Representatives.
 * September 20
 * Tim Davis, 44, American drummer, singer and songwriter, co-founded the Steve Miller Band, complications from diabetes.
 * Roy Kinnear, 54, English character actor and comedian, heart attack following horse fall.
 * Sam Woodyard, 63, American jazz drummer, cancer.
 * September 21
 * Harold Balfour, 90, British politician, Member of Parliament.
 * Ned Brennan, 68, Irish politician.
 * Glenn Robert Davis, 73, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
 * Robert Gwathmey, 85, American painter.
 * Henry Koster, 83, German-born American film director, liver cancer.
 * Christine Norden, 63, British actress, pneumonia.
 * S. B. P. Pattabhirama Rao, 76, Indian politician.
 * Zubeida, 76–77, Indian actress.
 * September 22
 * Rais Amrohvi, 74, Pakistani scholar, poet and psychoanalyst, assassinated.
 * September 23
 * Arwel Hughes, 79, Welsh orchestral conductor and composer.
 * Trilok Kapoor, 76, Indian actor.
 * Lyell McEwin, 91, Australian politician, president of the South Australian Legislative Council.
 * Ken McIver, 59, Australian politician, member of the parliament of Western Australia
 * September 24
 * Aziz Suryal Atiya, 90, Egyptian Coptic historian.
 * Basil de Ferranti, 58, British businessman and politician, member of the House of Commons.
 * Herbert Kirchhoff, 77, German art director.
 * Joe Don Looney, 45, American NFL footballer, motorcycle accident.
 * Irwin McIntosh, 62, Canadian Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan.
 * Shamsul Huda Panchbagi, 90–91, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and politician.
 * Herbert Witzenmann, 83, German philosopher and anthroposophist.
 * September 25
 * bpNichol, 43, Canadian poet and writer.
 * James L. Buie, 68, American scientist and inventor, emphysema.
 * Billy Carter, 51, American farmer, businessman and politician, brother of Jimmy Carter, pancreatic cancer.
 * Paul Collins, 80, American NFL footballer.
 * September 26
 * Marianne Appel (a.k.a. Marianne Harms), 75, American artist.
 * Guillermo Battaglia, 88, Argentine film actor, heart attack.
 * Bruce Haack, 57, Canadian musician and composer, heart failure.
 * Lincoln Hudson, 72, U.S. Army Air Force officer in World War II.
 * Lord Melody, 62, Trinidadian singer, cancer.
 * Branko Zebec, 59, Yugoslav international footballer.
 * September 27
 * Teofilo Camomot, 74, Filipino Roman Catholic Archbishop, car accident.
 * Willis Edwards, 85, English international footballer.
 * George Grant, 69, Canadian philosopher and professor.
 * J. C. Heard, 71, American swing, bop and blues drummer, heart attack.
 * Paul Reinman, 78, American comic book artist.
 * William V. Shannon, 61, American journalist and author, U.S. Ambassador to Ireland, lymphoma.
 * September 28
 * Margerie Bonner, 83, American actress, scriptwriter and novelist.
 * Charles R. Jonas, 83, American politician, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
 * Vicko Krstulović, 83, Yugoslav communist politician, President of the Presidium of the Croatian Parliament.
 * Louis R. Rowan, 77, American thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder.
 * Frank Sargent, 86, Canadian ice hockey and curling administrator.
 * September 29
 * Charles Addams, 76, American cartoonist, heart attack.
 * Barney Josephson, 86, American founder of Café Society in Greenwich Village, New York, hemorrhage.
 * September 30
 * Chick Chandler, 83, American film actor, heart attack.
 * Trường Chinh, 81, Vietnamese communist political leader, President of Vietnam, fall.
 * Al Holbert, 41, American car racing driver, aeroplane crash.
 * María Teresa Laparra, 86, Guatemalan activist, First Lady of Guatemala.
 * Joachim Prinz, 86, German-American rabbi, heart attack.
 * Chino Roces, 75, Filipino businessman and newspaper publisher, cancer.
 * David E. Satterfield III, 67, American lawyer and politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
 * Joseph Albert Sullivan, 87, Canadian senator, ice hockey player and Olympic gold medalist.
 * September (unknown date)
 * Alan Angus, 76, Australian racing cyclist.
 * Lionel Jayatilleke, 64, Sri Lankan politician, member of parliament, assassinated.
 * Mary Littlejohn, 85, Canadian figure skater and Olympian.
 * Raymond Price, 64, Welsh rugby union and international rugby league footballer.

October

 * October 1
 * Lucien Ballard, 80, American cinematographer.
 * Sacheverell Sitwell, 90, English writer.
 * Pavle Vuisić, 62, Yugoslav actor.
 * October 2
 * Hamengkubuwono IX, 76, Indonesian politician and Javanese Royal, Vice President of Indonesia, internal bleeding.
 * Peter Hunt, 72, head of the British Army, Chief of the General Staff.
 * Alec Issigonis, 81, Ottoman-born British automotive designer.
 * October 3
 * Marco Galli, 31, Italian water polo player and Olympian.
 * Franz Josef Strauss, 73, German politician.
 * October 4
 * Geoffrey Household, 87, British novelist specialising in thrillers.
 * Abdul Majid Kabar, 79, Libyan politician, Prime Minister of Libya.
 * Margaret Lacey, 76, British actress and ballet teacher.
 * October 5
 * Curt Hjelm, 74, Swedish international footballer.
 * Ron Staniforth, 64, English international footballer.
 * Lois W. (Lois Wilson), 97, American co-founder of Al-Anon for alcoholics.
 * October 6
 * Paul Ledoux, 74, Belgian astrophysicist.
 * Don Terry, 86, American film actor.
 * October 7
 * Otto Arnholz, 94, German politician, member of the German Bundestag.
 * Sándor Bíró, 77, Hungarian international footballer.
 * Billy Daniels, 73, American singer, stomach cancer.
 * Kurt Honolka, 75, German musicologist, journalist, and music and theatre critic.
 * Chet Phillips, 74, American gymnast and Olympian.
 * October 8
 * Edward George Warris Hulton, 81, British magazine publisher and writer.
 * Wally Lemm, 68, American NFL football coach.
 * Ernst Hermann Meyer, 82, German composer and musicologist.
 * Sam Richardson, 70, Canadian long jumper and triple jumper, Olympic gold medalist.
 * Pál Titkos, 80, Hungarian international footballer.
 * October 9
 * Edward Chodorov, 84, American playwright, film writer and producer.
 * Cliff Gallup, 58, American guitarist, heart attack.
 * Jackie Milburn, 64, English international footballer.
 * Felix Wankel, 86, German mechanical engineer, Hitler Youth leader, inventor of the Wankel rotary engine
 * October 10
 * Bhabani Bhattacharya, 81, Indian writer.
 * Juan Pujol García ('Garbo', 'Alaric'), 76, Spanish spy and double agent.
 * Montgomery Tully, 84, Irish film director and writer.
 * October 11
 * Buck Clarke, 55, American jazz percussionist.
 * Thaddeus J. Dulski, 73, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, leukemia.
 * Morgan Farley, 90, American film and television actor.
 * Wayland Flowers, 48, American actor, comedian and puppeteer, complications from AIDS.
 * Bonita Granville, 65, American actress and producer, lung cancer.
 * Robert Edward Gross, 83, American surgeon and a medical researcher.
 * Ursula Nordstrom, 78, American publisher and editor, ovarian cancer.
 * Joel Oppenheimer, 58, American poet, lung cancer.
 * Red Owens, 63, American NBA basketballer.
 * Hugh Percy, 74, British soldier and peer, heart attack.
 * October 12
 * Ruth Manning-Sanders, 102, Welsh-born English poet and author.
 * Ken Murray, 85, American comedian, actor, radio and television personality and author.
 * Bill Newman, 60, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.
 * Rafael García Serrano, 71, Spanish writer and journalist.
 * Coby Whitmore, 75, American painter and magazine illustrator.
 * October 13
 * Norman Barry, 90, American judge, politician and football coach, heart attack.
 * Melvin Frank, 75, American screenwriter, film producer and film director, complications from open heart surgery.
 * Irene Hunt, 96, American silent-screen actress.
 * Mike Venezia, 43, American thoroughbred horse racing jockey, horse racing accident.
 * October 14
 * Charles Augustus, 76, German prince, head of the house of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach.
 * Qian Changzhao, 88, Chinese politician.
 * Harry Creswick, 85–86, British librarian, head of the university libraries at Oxford and Cambridge.
 * Mary Morris, 72, Fijian-born British actress, heart failure.
 * Vic Raschi, 69, American Major League baseballer, heart attack.
 * René Vietto, 74, French road racing cyclist.
 * John White, 53, American AFL footballer.
 * October 15
 * John Ball, 77, American mystery novel writer.
 * Victor Copps, 69, Canadian politician, mayor of Hamilton, Ontario.
 * James Craig, 46, Northern Irish loyalist paramilitary, shot.
 * Clifford Krueger, 70, American politician, Member of the Wisconsin Senate, hepatitis.
 * Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, 96, English composer, music critic, pianist and writer.
 * Julian Alfred Steyermark, 79, Venezuelan-American botanist.
 * October 16
 * Queen Farida of Egypt, 67, consort of King Farouk of Egypt, leukemia.
 * Abdulrahman Fawzi, 78, Egyptian international footballer and manager.
 * Muzafer Sherif, 82, Ottoman-born American social psychologist.
 * October 17
 * William Henry Bramble, 87, British union leader and Chief Minister of Montserrat.
 * Richard L. Frey, 83, American contract bridge player, writer, editor and commentator, cancer.
 * Anthony A. Hoekema, 74–75, Dutch-American Calvinist minister.
 * October 18
 * Paulius Galaunė, 98, Lithuanian art historian, museum curator and graphic artist.
 * October 19
 * Son House, 86, American singer and guitarist, cancer of the larynx.
 * Marcos de Mendonça, 93, Brazilian international footballer.
 * Sten Suvio, 76, Finnish boxer and Olympic gold medal winner.
 * October 20
 * Mark Evans Austad, 71, American radio and television commentator, U.S. Ambassador to Finland and Norway.
 * Vladimir Gorb, 84, Soviet Russian painter, graphic artist and art teacher.
 * Orval Leroy Lewis, 72, American mechanical and chemical engineer, president of American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
 * Nino Nutrizio, 77, Italian journalist.
 * Sheila Scott, 66, English aviator, cancer.
 * Mogens Wöldike, 91, Danish conductor, choirmaster and organist.
 * October 21
 * Reggie Otero, 73, Cuban Major League baseballer, heart attack.
 * October 22
 * Henry Armstrong, 75, American boxer, multiple world champion.
 * Plácido Galindo, 82, Peruvian international footballer.
 * Clare Stevenson, 85, Australian director of the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force.
 * October 23
 * Hap Emms, 83, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, team owner and general manager, heart failure.
 * Asashio Tarō III, 58, Japanese sumo wrestler, stroke.
 * October 24
 * Stanisław Hachorek, 61, Polish footballer and coach.
 * October 25
 * Bob Carey, 58, American NFL footballer.
 * Boobie Clark, 38, American NFL footballer, blood clot in lung.
 * Eric Larson, 83, American animator for Walt Disney Studios.
 * John Poole-Hughes, 72, Welsh bishop.
 * Milton Rokeach, 69, Polish-American social psychologist.
 * October 26
 * Tatapuram Sukumaran, 65, Malayalam writer.
 * October 27
 * Frank Devlin, 88, Irish badminton player.
 * Merv Everett, 71, Australian politician and judge, Federal Senator.
 * Charles Hawtrey, 73, English actor, comedian, singer, pianist and theatre director, peripheral vascular disease.
 * Rudolf Jordan, 86, German Gauleiter in Halle-Merseburg and Magdeburg-Anhalt for the Nazis.
 * Erika von Thellmann, 86, Austrian film and television actress.
 * October 28
 * Pietro Annigoni, 78, Italian artist, kidney failure.
 * John Backus, 77, Lithuanian-born American physicist and acoustician.
 * Teikō Shiotani, 89, Japanese photographer.
 * October 29
 * Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, 85, Indian social reformer and freedom activist.
 * Andy Cohen, 84, American MLB baseballer.
 * Joe Comfort, 71, American jazz double bassist.
 * Thomas Cooray, 86, Sri Lankan Roman Catholic archbishop and cardinal
 * Dom Dallessandro, 74, American MLB baseballer.
 * Nataša Gollová, 76, Austro-Hungarian–born Czechoslovakian actress
 * Mary Kid, 87, German actress.
 * Bill Mason, 58–59, Canadian naturalist, author, artist, filmmaker and conservationist, cancer.
 * Orlando Montenegro Medrano, 68, Nicaraguan politician and attorney, acting President of Nicaragua.
 * Ross Rocklynne, 75, American science fiction author.
 * October 30
 * Ernst Fritz Fürbringer, 88, German film actor.
 * T. Hee, 77, American animator and director.
 * John Myers Myers, 82, American writer.
 * Florence Nagle, 94, British breeder of racehorses and pedigree dogs, horse trainer and feminist.
 * Francisco Rodrigues, 63, Brazilian international footballer.
 * Liz Whitney Tippett, 82, American socialite and breeder of thoroughbred racehorses, cancer.
 * October 31
 * Ladislau da Guia, 82, Brazilian footballer.
 * John Houseman, 86, Romanian-born British-American actor and producer, spinal cancer.
 * Ken Niles, 81, American radio announcer.
 * Alfred Pellan, 82, Canadian painter, leukemia.
 * George Uhlenbeck, 87, Dutch-American theoretical physicist.
 * October (unknown date)
 * Mavis Freeman, 69, American swimmer and Olympic medalist.
 * Ron Gingell, 67–68, English footballer.
 * Harry Lowe, 81, Scottish-born footballer in England.
 * Frederick Roffey, 93, English rugby union and rugby league footballer.

November

 * November 1
 * Broda Otto Barnes, 82, American physician and professor of medicine.
 * Ken Booth, 62, Australian politician, Treasurer of New South Wales, myocardial infarction.
 * George Folsey, 90, American cinematographer.
 * Louis Johnson, 64, New Zealand poet.
 * November 2
 * Lukas Heller, 58, German-born British screenwriter.
 * Stewart Parker, 47, Northern Irish poet and playwright, stomach cancer.
 * Menachem Savidor, 71, Israeli civil servant and politician, Speaker of the Knesset.
 * November 3
 * William Adam, 79, Dutch–Belgian malacologist.
 * Rachel Andresen, 81, American social worker and founder of Youth For Understanding.
 * Sidney Carroll, 75, American film and television screenwriter.
 * Shay Deering, 40, Irish international rugby union player.
 * Bob Johnson, 81, Australian rules footballer.
 * George Mitchell, 87, American water polo player and Olympic medalist.
 * Ian Shevill, 71, Australian Anglican bishop.
 * November 4
 * Saul Goldsmith, 77, New Zealand politician, foundation member of the National Party.
 * Hermann Graf, 76, German World War II fighter ace
 * Ki. Va. Jagannathan, 82, Indian journalist, poet and writer.
 * Michael Pomazansky, 99, Russian theologian.
 * Kleanthis Vikelidis, 73, Greek international footballer.
 * Grigor Yeghiazaryan, 79, Armenian composer.
 * November 5
 * Jean-Pierre Stirbois, 43, French far-right politician, member of the National Assembly, car crash.
 * November 6
 * John Hubbard, 74, American television and film actor.
 * Daniel Knox, 74, British Army officer and farmer, Governor of the Bahamas.
 * Donald Wade, 84, British solicitor and politician, Member of Parliament.
 * Tan Zheng, 82, Chinese general and Communist Party leader.
 * November 7
 * Abram Belskie, 81, British-born sculptor.
 * Douglas Carter, 80, New Zealand politician.
 * Bill Hoest, 62, American cartoonist, lymphoma.
 * Morris Janowitz, 69, American sociologist and professor, Parkinson's disease.
 * Ruth Lyons, 83, American radio and television broadcaster.
 * Zhou Xihan, 75, Chinese People's Liberation Army lieutenant general.
 * November 8
 * Kingman Brewster Jr., 69, American academic and diplomat, president of Yale University, U.S. Ambassador to the U.K.
 * Warren Casey, 53, American theatre composer, lyricist, writer and actor, complications of AIDS.
 * Norm Nelson, 65, American racing driver.
 * Oskar Rohr, 76, German international footballer.
 * November 9
 * David Bauer, 64, Canadian ice hockey player and coach, pancreatic cancer.
 * Billy Curtis, 79, American film and television actor, heart attack.
 * Clarke Hinkle, 79, American NFL footballer.
 * John N. Mitchell, 75, U.S. Attorney General, convicted for his role in the Watergate scandal, heart attack.
 * Bob Weiland, 82, American Major league baseballer, stroke.
 * Richard S. Yeoman, 84, American commercial artist and coin collector, stroke.
 * November 11
 * Charles Groves Wright Anderson, 91, South African-born Australian soldier, farmer, and politician.
 * Frank Curcio, 75, Australian rules footballer.
 * Jean Mistler, 91, French writer, diplomat and politician, member of the National Council of Vichy France.
 * November 12
 * Vincent Buckley, 63, Australian poet, teacher, editor, essayist and critic, heart attack.
 * István Klimek, 75, Romanian international footballer.
 * Lyman Lemnitzer, 89, American General in the U.S. Army, Supreme Allied Commander Europe of NATO.
 * Patricia Charlotte Perrin, 67, New Zealand potter.
 * November 13
 * Antal Doráti, 82, Hungarian-born American conductor.
 * Vlad Georgescu, 51, Romanian historian, academic and political dissident, brain tumour.
 * November 14
 * Julia Caba Alba, 86, Spanish actress.
 * Olie Cordill, 72, American NFL footballer.
 * Giacomo Gaioni, 83, Italian cyclist and Olympic gold medalist.
 * Haywood S. Hansell, 85, American member of the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II, heart failure.
 * Takeo Miki, 81, Japanese politician, Prime Minister of Japan.
 * November 15
 * Bill Fulton, 79, Australian politician, member of the Australian Parliament.
 * Mirko Kokotović, 75, Austro-Hungarian–born Yugoslavian international footballer.
 * Mona Washbourne, 84, English stage, film and television actress.
 * November 16
 * Wera Engels, 83, German actress.
 * Jennie Lee, 84, Scottish politician, Member of Parliament.
 * November 17
 * Sheilah Graham, 84, English-born American gossip columnist, congestive heart failure.
 * Ángel Reyes, 69, Cuban-born American violinist.
 * November 19
 * Mirza Hameedullah Beg, 75, Indian politician, Chief Justice of India.
 * Veljko Mandić, 64, Montenegrin actor.
 * Christina Onassis, 37, American shipping magnate and heiress, heart attack.
 * Peggy Parish, 61, American writer.
 * Hamidur Rahman, 59–60, Bangladeshi artist and sculptor.
 * November 20
 * Jim Devitt, 67, Irish hurler.
 * Jenő Vincze, 80, Hungarian international footballer and manager.
 * Felix Ziegel, 68, Soviet astronomer, stroke.
 * November 21
 * Tom Fraser, 77, Scottish coal miner and trade unionist, Member of Parliament.
 * Carl Hubbell, 85, American Major League baseballer, car crash due to stroke.
 * November 22
 * Luis Barragán, 86, Mexican architect and engineer.
 * Raymond Dart, 95, Australian anatomist and anthropologist.
 * Erich Fried, 67, Austrian-born British poet, writer and translator, intestinal cancer.
 * Ray Kelly, 74, American sportswriter.
 * John R. Ragazzini, 76, American electrical engineer.
 * November 23
 * Gamal Abdel-Rahim, 63, Egyptian-born German classical music composer.
 * F. D. Amr Bey, 79, Egyptian diplomat and squash player, multiple British Open winner, Egypt Ambassador to the U.K.
 * Wieland Herzfelde, 92, German publisher and writer.
 * Richard Lonsdale, 74, British Army officer in World War II.
 * Kenzō Masaoka, 90, Japanese anime creator.
 * Albert Raby, 54–55, American civil rights activist, heart attack.
 * Kazem Sami, 52–53, Iranian politician, Minister of Health, murdered.
 * Jack White, 68, American stock car racing driver.
 * November 24
 * Walter W. Bankhead, 91, American politician, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
 * John William Corrington, 56, American film and television writer, novelist, poet and lawyer.
 * Bernard Leene, 85, Dutch track cyclist and Olympic gold medalist.
 * Harris McDowell, 82, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
 * Andreas Ostler, 67, German bobsledder and dual Olympic gold medalist.
 * Irmgard Seefried, 69, German soprano.
 * Jenő Szűcs, 60, Hungarian historian.
 * November 25
 * Muhammad bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, 78, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia.
 * Alphaeus Philemon Cole, 112, American artist, engraver, etcher and super-centenarian.
 * Jack Leslie, 87, English footballer.
 * Bernhard Winkelheide, 80, German politician, member of the German Bundestag.
 * November 26
 * Baron Michele Leone, 79, Italian-born professional wrestler, struck by car.
 * Bent Peder Rasch, 54, Danish sprint canoeist and Olympic gold medalist.
 * November 27
 * John Carradine, 82, American actor, heart and kidney failure.
 * Jan Hein Donner, 61, Dutch chess grandmaster and writer, gastric hemorrhage.
 * Takieddin el-Solh, 79-80, Lebanese politician, Prime Minister of Lebanon.
 * Max Fox, 76, Australian politician, member of Australian House of Representatives.
 * Wilfred "Chicken" Smallhorn, 77, Australian rules footballer.
 * Air-Marshall Sir Victor Tait, 96, Canadian-born British airman, ice hockey player and Olympian.
 * November 28
 * Gus Bailey, 37, American NBA basketballer, stabbed.
 * Robert E. Cook, 68, American attorney, politician and judge, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
 * Robert Stewart, 82, New Zealand yachtsman and Olympian.
 * November 29
 * Nils Bejerot, 67, Swedish psychiatrist and criminologist.
 * Donald Keyhoe, 91, American Marine Corps naval aviator.
 * Princess Ludwig Rudolph of Hanover, 26, Austrian model and socialite, suspected cocaine overdose.
 * Yevsey Moiseyenko, 72, Soviet painter.
 * Ted Rosequist, 80, American NFL footballer and coach.
 * Mabel Strickland, 89, Maltese journalist, newspaper proprietor and politician.
 * November 30
 * Wally Berger, 83, American Major League baseballer, stroke.
 * Tom Dahms, 61, American NFL footballer and coach.
 * Aleksandar Deroko, 94, Serbian-born architect, artist and author.
 * Pannonica de Koenigswarter, 74, British-born American jazz patron, Free French fighter and writer, heart failure.
 * Erwin Lindner, 100, German entomologist.
 * Margaret Mee, 79, British botanical artist, car crash.
 * Charlie Rouse, 64, American tenor saxophonist and flautist, lung cancer.
 * November (unknown date)
 * Aper Aku, 49–50, Nigerian governor of Benue State.
 * Terry Leahy, 71, Irish hurler.

December

 * December 1
 * Martin Hinds, 47, British scholar of the Middle East and historiographer of early Islamic history.
 * Włodzimierz Mazur, 34, Polish international footballer.
 * J. Vernon McGee, 84, American Presbyterian minister and radio minister, heart failure.
 * December 2
 * V. R. Amberkar, 81, Indian painter, art educator and art critic.
 * Armand Niccolai, 77, American NFL footballer.
 * Lloyd Rees, 93, Australian landscape painter.
 * Zofia Szczęśniewska, 45, Polish international volleyball player and Olympic medalist.
 * December 3
 * Károly Lakat, 68, Hungarian international footballer and Olympic coach.
 * Florence Senanayake, 85, Sri Lankan politician, first female member of the Ceylon Parliament.
 * Thawan Thamrongnawasawat, 87, Thai politician and Prime Minister of Thailand.
 * December 4
 * Rafi Muhammad Chaudhry, 85, Pakistani nuclear physicist.
 * David Trench, 73, British Army officer, Governor of Hong Kong and the Solomon Islands.
 * December 5
 * August Lenz, 78, German international footballer.
 * Alan Lind, 75, Australian politician, member of Victorian Legislative Assembly.
 * Erik Lundin, 84, Swedish chess master.
 * Subodh Oraon, 35, Indian politician, member of the Vidhan Sabha of West Bengal.
 * William Everett Potter, 83, American engineer and military officer, Governor of the Panama Canal Zone.
 * Dave Ryan, 65, American NFL footballer.
 * December 6
 * Roy Orbison, 52, American singer, songwriter and musician, heart attack.
 * George Shaw, 57, American triple jumper and Olympian.
 * December 7
 * Christopher Connelly, 47, American actor, lung cancer.
 * Ted Voigtlander, 75, American cinematographer, cancer.
 * December 8
 * John Joe McGirl, 67, Irish republican, Sinn Féin politician and Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army.
 * Gene Quill, 60, American jazz alto saxophonist.
 * Anne Seymour, 79, American film and television actress, heart failure.
 * Ulanhu, 80, Chinese founding Chairman of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Vice President of People's Republic of China.
 * December 9
 * Maria De Matteis, 90, Italian costume designer.
 * Kainikkara Kumara Pillai, 88, Indian teacher, actor, short story writer, essayist and playwright.
 * Ludmila Polesná, 54, Czechoslovakian slalom canoeist and Olympian.
 * December 10
 * Dennis Arundell, 90, British actor, producer, director, conductor and composer of incidental music.
 * Richard S. Castellano, 55, American actor, heart attack.
 * Dorothy de Rothschild, 93, English philanthropist and activist for Jewish affairs.
 * Lawrence Wien, 83, American lawyer, philanthropist and real estate investor, prostate cancer.
 * December 11
 * Kari Kairamo, 55, Finnish chairman and CEO of Nokia Corporation, suicide by hanging.
 * Marcus Knight, 85, English Anglican priest.
 * Frank S. Pepper, 78, British writer of comics.
 * Nagendra Singh, 74, Indian lawyer, President of the International Court of Justice.
 * December 12
 * Dick Clair, 57, American television producer, actor and television and film writer, AIDS.
 * Anthony Provenzano, 71, American mobster of the Genovese crime family, heart attack.
 * Joe Reichler, 73, American sports writer.
 * Rudolf Schündler, 82, German actor and director, heart attack.
 * Loudon Wainwright Jr., 63, American writer, colon cancer.
 * December 13
 * Brynmor John, 54, British politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Defence.
 * María Teresa León, 85, Spanish writer, activist and cultural ambassador.
 * Muhammad Mangundiprojo, 83, Indonesian soldier, revolutionary and civil servant.
 * Bill Nichols, 70, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, heart attack.
 * Brian Sinclair, 73, British veterinary surgeon and novelist, heart attack.
 * Betty Snowball, 80, English women's test cricketer, international squash and lacrosse player for Scotland.
 * Roy Urquhart, 87, British Army Major General.
 * December 14
 * Narciso Busquets, 58, Mexican actor of theatre, film, television and radio.
 * Win Oo, 53, Burmese actor, singer, director, writer and publisher, colorectal cancer.
 * Evald Schorm, 56, Czechoslovakian film and stage director, screenwriter and actor.
 * Jean Schramme, 59, Belgian planter, mercenary in Belgian Congo.
 * Stuart Symington, 57, American businessman and politician, U.S. Secretary of the Air Force.
 * December 15
 * Harry Hunter, 64, British sailor and Olympian.
 * December 16
 * Anna Jean Ayres, 68, American occupational therapist and educational psychologist, complications of breast cancer.
 * Cyril Easthaugh, 90, British Anglican bishop.
 * Tom Eastick, 88, Australian Army artillery officer during World War II.
 * Joe Hatten, 72, American Major League baseballer.
 * Hunter "Stork" Hendry, 93, Australian test cricketer.
 * Babe Pratt, 72, Canadian NHL ice hockey player, heart attack.
 * Sylvester, 41, American singer-songwriter, AIDS.
 * December 17
 * Jerry Hopper, 81, American film and television director, heart disease.
 * Ursula Krone-Appuhn, 52, German politician, member of the Bundestag.
 * Gisella Perl, 81, Hungarian-American gynecologist, providing assistance to prisoners at Auschwitz.
 * December 18
 * R. Arumugam, 35, Malaysian international footballer, car accident.
 * Ottó Boros, 59, Hungarian water polo player and dual Olympic gold medalist.
 * Milt Gantenbein, 78, American NFL football player.
 * Ka. Naa. Subramanyam, 76. Indian writer and literary critic.
 * December 19
 * Robert Bernstein, 69, American comic book writer, playwright and concert impresario, heart failure.
 * Lotta Dempsey, 83, Canadian journalist, editor and television personality, cancer.
 * Umashankar Joshi, 77, Indian poet and writer, lung cancer.
 * Seánie O'Brien, 69, Irish hurler.
 * December 20
 * B. Jayamma, 73, Indian actress and singer.
 * György Marik, 64, Hungarian international footballer.
 * Alphonse Ouimet, 80, Canadian television pioneer, president of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
 * Max Robinson, 49, American broadcast journalist, co-anchor on ABC World News Tonight, complications of AIDS.
 * December 21
 * Bernt Carlsson, 60, Swedish diplomat, Assistant-Secretary-General of the United Nations, Lockerbie aeroplane disaster.
 * Paul Jeffreys, 36, English rock musician, Lockerbie aeroplane disaster.
 * Willie Kamm, 88, American Major League baseballer.
 * Dave Ruhl, 68, Canadian professional wrestler.
 * Bob Steele, 81, American actor.
 * Nikolaas Tinbergen, 81, Dutch biologist and ornithologist, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, stroke.
 * Bill Townsend, 65, English footballer and manager.
 * Venus Xtravaganza, 23, American transgender performer, strangled.
 * December 22
 * Chico Mendes, 44, Brazilian trade union member and environmental activist, murdered.
 * Tucker Smith, 52, American actor, dancer and singer, cancer.
 * December 23
 * János Boldóczki, 76, Hungarian politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs.
 * Carlo Scorza, 91, Italian Secretary of the National Fascist Party.
 * Walt Uzdavinis, 77, American NFL football player.
 * December 24
 * Blanche Barrow, 77, American wife of Buck Barrow, associates of Bonnie and Clyde, lung cancer.
 * Leif Cassel, 82, Swedish politician and lawyer, Member of Parliament.
 * Mary Cavendish, 93, Mistress of the Robes to Queen Elizabeth II.
 * Joe Kresky, 82, American NFL football player.
 * Jainendra Kumar, 83, Indian writer.
 * Evelyn Pinching, 73, British world champion alpine skier and Olympian.
 * Alfred M. Pride, 91, American admiral of the U.S. Navy.
 * Noel Willman, 70, Irish actor and theatre director.
 * December 25
 * Bunny Bell, 77, English footballer.
 * Jan Białostocki, 67, Polish art historian.
 * Terence Dudley, 69, British television director, producer and screenwriter for the BBC, cancer.
 * Evgeny Golubev, 78, Soviet composer.
 * W. F. Grimes, 83, Welsh archaeologist.
 * Denis Matthews, 69, English pianist and musicologist, suicide.
 * John Ulric Nef, 89, American economic historian.
 * Shōhei Ōoka, 79, Japanese novelist, literary critic, lecturer and translator of French literature.
 * Edward Pelham-Clinton, 68, English lepidopterist and military officer, Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne.
 * Frank Thomas, 58, English Roman Catholic bishop.
 * Napoleon Andrew Tuiteleleapaga, 84, Samoan lawyer, author, amateur poet and musician, myocardial infarction.
 * December 26
 * Alex Hastings, 76, Scottish international footballer.
 * Julanne Johnston, 88, American silent-screen actress.
 * John Loder, 90, English-American film actor.
 * Glenn McCarthy, 81, American oil tycoon.
 * Vangaveeti Mohana Ranga, 41, Indian politician, member of the Indian National Congress, assassinated.
 * Charles Smith, 68, American actor.
 * Pablo Sorozábal, 91, Spanish composer.
 * Tao Zhiyue, 95–96, Chinese military officer and politician, lieutenant general of the National Revolutionary Army of China.
 * December 27
 * Hal Ashby, 59, American film director, pancreatic cancer.
 * Walter Crook, 76, English international footballer and manager.
 * Ken Hoole, 71–72, English railway historian.
 * Freda James, 77, British tennis player and Wimbledon Doubles champion.
 * Khin Kyi, 76, Burmese politician and diplomat, Burmese Ambassador to India, stroke.
 * Donald Laycock, 51–52, Australian linguist and anthropologist.
 * Henry de Menten de Horne, 92, Belgian equestrian and Olympian.
 * Jess Oppenheimer, 75, American radio and television writer, producer and director, heart failure.
 * December 28
 * Karlfried Graf Dürckheim, 92, German diplomat, psychotherapist.
 * Björn Kurtén, 64, Finnish vertebrate paleontologist.
 * December 29
 * Mike Beuttler, 48, British Formula One driver, complications from AIDS.
 * Peter Nellen, 56, German politician, member of the German Bundestag.
 * December 30
 * Jan Baalsrud, 71, Norwegian Resistance commando.
 * Yuli Daniel, 63, Soviet writer and dissident.
 * Takeo Fujisawa, 78, Japanese businessman, co-founder of Honda Motor Co., heart attack.
 * André Germain, 85, French cinematographer.
 * Lyle H. Lanier, 85, American experimental psychologist and writer.
 * Ernesto Lazzatti, 73, Argentinian international footballer.
 * Isamu Noguchi, 84, American artist and landscape architect, heart failure.
 * December 31
 * Yara Amaral, 52, Brazilian actress, heart attack from drowning.
 * Christopher Andrewes, 92, British virologist who discovered the human influenza A virus.
 * Oliver L. Austin, 85, American ornithologist.
 * Nicolas Calas, 81, Greek-born American poet and art critic.
 * Wes Flowers, 75, American baseballer, Major League pitcher.
 * December (unknown date)
 * Johann Kupferburger, 55, South African tennis player.