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January

 * January 1
 * Periyasamy Chandrasekaran, Sri Lankan (b. 1957)
 * Lhasa de Sela, American-Canadian singer (b. 1972)
 * Mohamed Rahmat, Malaysian politician (b. 1938)
 * Freya von Moltke, German resistance fighter (b. 1911)
 * John Shelton Wilder, American politician (b. 1921)
 * January 2 – Rajendra Shah, Indian poet (b. 1913)
 * January 3
 * Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt, Chilean composer (b. 1925)
 * Gianni Bonichon, Italian bobsledder (b. 1944)
 * Mary Daly, American feminist philosopher (b. 1928)
 * January 4
 * Johan Ferrier, 1st President of Suriname (b. 1910)
 * Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Japanese dual atomic bomb survivor (b. 1916)
 * January 8 – Art Clokey, American animator (b. 1921)
 * January 9 – Armand Razafindratandra, Malagasy cardinal (b. 1925)
 * January 11
 * Miep Gies, Dutch humanitarian (b. 1909)
 * Éric Rohmer, French film director (b. 1920)
 * January 12 – Zilda Arns, Brazilian pediatrician and aid worker (b. 1934)
 * January 13 – Teddy Pendergrass, African-American R&B and soul singer (b. 1950)
 * January 15 – Marshall Warren Nirenberg, American biologist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1927)
 * January 17
 * Jyoti Basu, Indian politician (b. 1914)
 * Erich Segal, American author, screenwriter, and educator (b. 1937)
 * Daisuke Gōri, Japanese voice actor (b. 1952)
 * January 18 – Kate McGarrigle, Canadian folk singer (b. 1946)
 * January 19 – Panajot Pano, Albanian footballer (b. 1939)
 * January 22
 * Iskandar of Johor, 8th King of Malaysia (b. 1932)
 * Jean Simmons, British actress (b. 1929)
 * January 25 – Ali Hassan al-Majid, Iraqi politician and military commander (b. 1941)
 * January 27
 * Zelda Rubinstein, American actress and human rights activist (b. 1933)
 * J. D. Salinger, American author (b. 1919)
 * Howard Zinn, American historian (b. 1922)

February

 * February 1
 * Jack Brisco, American professional wrestler (b. 1941)
 * David Brown, American film producer (b. 1916)
 * Steingrímur Hermannsson, Icelandic politician, Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1928)
 * Azzeddine Laraki, Moroccan politician (b. 1929)
 * Justin Mentell, American actor (b. 1982)
 * February 2
 * Eustace Mullins, American political writer (b. 1923)
 * Raymond Wang Chong Lin, Chinese prelate (b. 1921)
 * February 3
 * Dick McGuire, Ametrican baseball player (b. 1926)
 * Gil Merrick, English footballer (b. 1922)
 * Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen, German princess (b. 1925)
 * Frances Reid, American actress (b. 1914)
 * Georges Wilson, French actor (b. 1921)
 * February 4 – Kostas Axelos, Greek-French philosopher (b. 1924)
 * February 5
 * Ian Carmichael, English actor (b. 1920)
 * Galimzyan Khusainov, Soviet footballer (b. 1937)
 * Clarke Scholes, American swimmer (b. 1930)
 * Harry Schwarz, South African lawyer and politician (b. 1924)
 * February 6
 * John Dankworth, British jazz musician and composer (b. 1927)
 * Kipkemboi Kimeli, Kenyan long distance runner (b. 1966)
 * February 7
 * Franco Ballerini, Italian cyclist (b. 1964)
 * André Kolingba, Central African politician, President of Central African Republic (b. 1936)
 * Mihailo Marković, Serbian philosopher (b. 1923)
 * William Tenn, British-American author (b. 1920)
 * February 8
 * Antonio Giolitti, Italian politician (b. 1915)
 * Jimmie Heuga, American ski racer (b. 1943)
 * John Murtha, American politician (b. 1932)
 * Anna Samokhina, Russian actress (b. 1963)
 * Krzysztof Skubiszewski, Polish politician (b. 1926)
 * February 9 – Walter Frederick Morrison, American inventor (b. 1920)
 * February 10
 * Carl Braun, American basketball player (b. 1927)
 * Orlando Peçanha, Brazilian footballer (b. 1935)
 * Fred Schaus, American basketball player (b. 1925)
 * José Joaquín Trejos Fernández, Costa Rican politician, President of Costa Rica (b. 1916)
 * Eduard Vinokurov, Russian fencer (b. 1942)
 * Frederick C. Weyand, American general (b. 1916)
 * Charlie Wilson, American politician (b. 1933)
 * February 11
 * Irina Arkhipova, Russian soprano (b. 1925)
 * Mona Hofland, Norwegian actress (b. 1929)
 * Bo Holmberg, Swedish politician (b. 1942)
 * Alexander McQueen, British fashion designer (b. 1969)
 * Yury Sevidov, Russian footballer (b. 1942)
 * February 12
 * Petar Borota, Serbian footballer (b. 1952)
 * Gino Gardassanich, Croatian footballer (b. 1922)
 * Werner Krämer, German footballer (b. 1940)
 * Nodar Kumaritashvili, Georgian luger (b. 1988)
 * Luis Molowny, Spanish footballer (b. 1925)
 * Grethe Sønck, Danish actress and singer
 * February 13
 * Lucille Clifton, American poet (b. 1936)
 * Dale Hawkins, American musician (b. 1936)
 * Red Rocha, American basketball player (b. 1923)
 * February 14
 * Doug Fieger, American musician (b. 1952)
 * Dick Francis, British author and jockey (b. 1920)
 * Andrew Koenig, American actor (b. 1958)
 * February 15
 * Juan Carlos González, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1924)
 * Art Van Damme, American accordionist (b. 1920)
 * February 16 – John Davis Chandler, American actor (b. 1935)
 * February 17
 * Giulio de Florian, Italian skier (b. 1936)
 * Kathryn Grayson, American singer (b. 1922)
 * Abdulkhakim Ismailov, Soviet soldier (b. 1916)
 * Hans Ørberg, Danish linguist (b. 1920)
 * February 18
 * John Babcock, Canadian soldier (b. 1900)
 * Ariel Ramírez, Argentine composer (b. 1921)
 * February 19
 * Jamie Gillis, American pornographic actor (b. 1943)
 * Bruno Gironcoli, Austrian artist (b. 1936)
 * Lionel Jeffries, English actor (b. 1926)
 * Giovanni Pettenella, Italian cyclist (b. 1943)
 * February 20 – Alexander Haig, American politician (b. 1924)
 * February 21
 * Jacek Karpiński, Polish computer scientist (b. 1927)
 * Vladimir Motyl, Russian filmmaker (b. 1927)
 * Menachem Porush, Israeli politician (b. 1916)
 * February 22 – Nelly Landry, Belgian-French tennis player (b. 1916)
 * February 23
 * Wyn Morris, Welsh conductor (b. 1929)
 * Orlando Zapata, Cuban dissident (b. 1967)
 * February 26 – Jun Seba, Japanese hip hop producer, DJ (b. 1974)

March

 * March 1
 * Kristian Digby, British television presenter (b. 1977)
 * Vladimir Ilyushin, Russian general and test pilot (b. 1927)
 * March 2
 * Winston Churchill, British politician (b. 1940)
 * Paul Drayton, American sprint runner (b. 1939)
 * Emil Forselius, Swedish actor (b. 1974)
 * March 3
 * Keith Alexander, English footballer (b. 1956)
 * Mariya Dolina, Soviet pilot (b. 1922)
 * Michael Foot, British politician (b. 1913)
 * Momo Kapor, Serbian novelist (b. 1937)
 * March 4
 * Raimund Abraham, Austrian architect (b. 1933)
 * Johnny Alf, Brazilian singer (b. 1929)
 * Vladislav Ardzinba, Georgian politician (b. 1945)
 * Etta Cameron, Bahamian-Danish singer (b. 1939)
 * Joaquim Fiúza, Portuguese sailor (b. 1908)
 * Nan Martin, American actress (b. 1927)
 * March 5 – Philip Langridge, English tenor (b. 1939)
 * March 6
 * Bruce Graham, Colombian-American architect (b. 1925)
 * Endurance Idahor, Nigerian footballer (b. 1984)
 * Mark Linkous, American musician (b. 1962)
 * Ronald Pettersson, Swedish ice hockey player (b. 1935)
 * March 7 – Kenneth Dover, British scholar and academic (b. 1920)
 * March 8 – Guy Lapébie, French cyclist (b. 1916)
 * March 9
 * Lionel Cox, Australian cyclist (b. 1930)
 * Doris Haddock, American political activist (b. 1910)
 * Jean Kerebel, French athlete (b. 1918)
 * Alda Neves da Graça do Espírito Santo, Santomean poet (b. 1926)
 * Henry Wittenberg, American wrestler (b. 1918)
 * March 10
 * Corey Haim, Canadian actor (b. 1971)
 * Dorothy Janis, American actress (b. 1912)
 * Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy, Egyptian cleric (b. 1928)
 * March 11
 * Hans van Mierlo, Dutch politician (b. 1931)
 * Merlin Olsen, American football player and actor (b. 1940)
 * Leena Peltonen-Palotie, French geneticist (b. 1952)
 * March 12
 * Miguel Delibes, Spanish author and journalist (b. 1920)
 * Fatima Meer, South African writer (b. 1928)
 * March 13
 * Jean Ferrat, French musician and poet (b. 1930)
 * Édouard Kargu, French footballer (b. 1925)
 * March 14
 * Peter Graves, American actor (b. 1926)
 * Janet Simpson, British athlete (b. 1944)
 * March 15
 * Günther Heidemann, German boxer (b. 1932)
 * Patricia Wrightson, Australian writer (b. 1921)
 * March 16 – Ksenija Pajčin, Serbian singer (b. 1977)
 * March 17
 * Abdellah Blinda, Moroccan footballer (b. 1951)
 * Alex Chilton, American musician (b. 1950)
 * Wayne Collett, American athlete (b. 1949)
 * Sid Fleischman, American writer (b. 1920)
 * Robert Michael White, American pilot (b. 1924)
 * March 18
 * Fess Parker, American actor (b. 1924)
 * Konstantin Yeryomenko, Russian futsal player (b. 1970)
 * March 19 – Raúl de la Torre, Argentine film director (b. 1938)
 * March 20
 * István Bilek, Hungarian chess grandmaster (b. 1932)
 * Girija Prasad Koirala, Nepalese politician (b. 1925)
 * Naim Kryeziu, Albanian footballer (b. 1918)
 * Robin Milner, British computer scientist (b. 1934)
 * Stewart Udall, American politician (b. 1920)
 * March 21 – Wolfgang Wagner, German festival director (b. 1919)
 * March 22
 * James Black, British pharmacologist (b. 1924)
 * Emil Schulz, German boxer (b. 1938)
 * Valentina Tolkunova, Soviet and Russian singer (b. 1946)
 * March 23
 * Lauretta Masiero, Italian actress (b. 1927)
 * Kanu Sanyal, Indian politician (b. 1932)
 * March 24
 * Robert Culp, American actor, screenwriter and director (b. 1930)
 * Jim Marshall, American photographer (b. 1936)
 * Elena Tairova, Belarusian-Russian chess player (b. 1991)
 * March 25
 * Ben Gascoigne, New Zealand-Australian optical astronomer (b. 1915)
 * Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, German political scientist (b. 1916)
 * March 27
 * Dick Giordano, American comic book artist (b. 1932)
 * Zbigniew Gut, Polish footballer (b. 1949)
 * Vasily Smyslov, Soviet-Russian chess grandmaster (b. 1921)
 * March 28
 * Herb Ellis, American jazz guitarist (b. 1921)
 * Derlis Florentín, Paraguayan footballer (b. 1984)
 * June Havoc, Canadian-born American actress (b. 1912)
 * March 29 – Jenne Langhout, Dutch field hockey player (b. 1918)
 * March 30
 * Morris R. Jeppson, American Air Force soldier (b. 1922)
 * Martin Sandberger, German army officer (b. 1911)
 * March 31 – Eugene Allen, American butler (b. 1919)

April

 * April 1
 * John Forsythe, American actor (b. 1918)
 * Yuri Maslyukov, Russian politician (b. 1937)
 * Ed Roberts, American computer engineer (b. 1941)
 * Tzannis Tzannetakis, Greek politician, President of Greece (b. 1927)
 * April 2
 * Chris Kanyon, American professional wrestler (b. 1970)
 * Mike Zwerin, American jazz musician (b. 1930)
 * April 3
 * Oleg Kopayev, Russian footballer (b. 1937)
 * Eugène Terre'Blanche, South African politician and white supremacist (b. 1941)
 * April 4
 * Alec Bedser, English cricketer (b. 1918)
 * Clifford M. Hardin, American politician (b. 1915)
 * April 5 – Vitaly Sevastyanov, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1935)
 * April 6
 * James Aubrey, English actor (b. 1947)
 * Eddie Carroll, Canadian-American voice actor (b. 1933)
 * Anatoly Dobrynin, Russian politician (b. 1919)
 * Corin Redgrave, British actor and political activist (b. 1939)
 * April 8
 * Malcolm McLaren, British musician and manager (b. 1946)
 * Abel Muzorewa, Zimbabwean politician (b. 1925)
 * April 10
 * Ryszard Kaczorowski, Polish statesman (b. 1919)
 * Lech Kaczyński, President of Poland (b. 1949)
 * April 14 – Peter Steele, American musician (b. 1962)
 * April 16 – Tomáš Špidlík, Czech cardinal (b. 1919)
 * April 19 – Guru, American rapper (b. 1966)
 * April 21 – Juan Antonio Samaranch, Spanish sports official (b. 1920)
 * April 25 – Alan Sillitoe, British writer (b. 1928)
 * April 30 – Paul Mayer, German cardinal (b. 1911)

May

 * May 1
 * T. M. Aluko, Nigerian writer (b. 1918)
 * Helen Wagner, American actress (b. 1918)
 * May 2
 * Kama Chinen, Japanese supercentenarian (b. 1895)
 * Bohumil Němeček, Czech boxer (b. 1938)
 * Lynn Redgrave, British actress (b. 1943)
 * May 3
 * Luigi Amaducci, Italian archbishop (b. 1924)
 * Florencio Campomanes, Filipino political scientist and chess player (b. 1927)
 * Jimmy Gardner, British actor (b. [[19
 * May 4 – Luigi Poggi, Italian cardinal (b. 1917)
 * May 5
 * Giulietta Simionato, Italian opera singer (b. 1910)
 * Umaru Yar'Adua, President of Nigeria (b. 1951)
 * May 8 – Andor Lilienthal, Hungarian chess grandmaster (b. 1911)
 * May 9 – Lena Horne, American singer and actress (b. 1917)
 * May 10 – Frank Frazetta, American artist (b. 1928)
 * May 15 – Besian Idrizaj, Austrian footballer (b. 1987)
 * May 16
 * Ronnie James Dio, American musician (b. 1942)
 * Oswaldo López Arellano, Honduran two-time former president (b. 1921)
 * Hank Jones, American pianist (b. 1918)
 * May 17
 * Bobbejaan Schoepen, Belgian singer (b. 1925)
 * Khattiya Sawasdipol, Thai army general (b. 1951)
 * Yvonne Loriod, French pianist (b. 1924)
 * May 18 – Edoardo Sanguineti, Italian writer (b. 1930)
 * May 22 – Martin Gardner, American science author (b. 1914)
 * May 24 – Paul Gray, American musician (b. 1972)
 * May 28 – Gary Coleman, American actor, voice artist and comedian (b. 1968)
 * May 29 – Dennis Hopper, American actor, filmmaker, photographer and artist (b. 1936)
 * May 31 – Louise Bourgeois, French-born American sculptor (b. 1911)

June

 * June 1
 * Kazuo Ohno, Japanese dancer (b. 1906)
 * Andrei Voznesensky, Soviet-Russian poet (b. 1933)
 * June 2 – Giuseppe Taddei, Italian baritone (b. 1916)
 * June 3
 * Vladimir Arnold, Soviet-Russian mathematician (b. 1937)
 * Rue McClanahan, American actress (b. 1934)
 * Luigi Padovese, Italian bishop] (b. 1947)
 * Hasan di Tiro, Indonesian politician (b. 1925)
 * June 4 – John Wooden, American basketball player and coach (b. 1910)
 * June 5 – Arne Nordheim, Norwegian composer (b. 1931)
 * June 6 – Ladislav Smoljak, Czech director (b. 1931)
 * June 7
 * Stuart Cable, Welsh drummer (b. 1970)
 * Mordechai Eliyahu, Israeli rabbi (b. 1929)
 * June 9 – Marina Semyonova, Russian ballerina (b. 1908)
 * June 10 – Sigmar Polke, German painter and photographer (b. 1941)
 * June 14 – Leonid Kizim, Soviet-Ukrainian cosmonaut (b. 1941)
 * June 16 – Ronald Neame, British cinematographer, producer and director (b. 1911)
 * June 18
 * Marcel Bigeard, French military officer (b. 1916)
 * José Saramago, Portuguese writer and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1922)
 * June 19 – Manute Bol, Sudanese basketball player (b. 1962)
 * June 23 – Mohammed Mzali, former Prime Minister of Tunisia (b. 1925)
 * June 26 – Algirdas Brazauskas, 9th President of Lithuania (b. 1932)
 * June 28 – Robert Byrd, American politician (b. 1917)

July

 * July 1 – Ilene Woods, American voice actress and singer (b. 1929)
 * July 2 – Beryl Bainbridge, British novelist (b. 1934)
 * July 3 – Abu Daoud, Palestinian militia commander (b. 1937)
 * July 4 – Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, Lebanese spiritual leader (b. 1935)
 * July 5
 * Bob Probert, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1965)
 * Cesare Siepi, Italian opera singer (b. 1923)
 * Nasr Abu Zayd, Egyptian Qur'anic theologian (b. 1943)
 * July 7 – Frank Dochnal, American race car driver (b. 1920)
 * July 8 – David Blackwell, American academic (b. 1919)
 * July 9
 * Basil Davidson, British historian (b. 1914)
 * Vonetta McGee, American actress (b. 1945)
 * Nobuyoshi Tamura, Japanese aikidoka (b. 1933)
 * July 12
 * Günter Behnisch, German architect (b. 1922)
 * James P. Hogan, British author (b. 1941)
 * Harvey Pekar, American comic book writer (b. 1939)
 * July 13
 * Nino Defilippis, Italian cyclist (b. 1932)
 * Alan Hume, English cinematographer (b. 1924)
 * George Steinbrenner, American businessman (b. 1930)
 * July 14 – Charles Mackerras, Australian conductor (b. 1925)
 * July 16
 * Aleksandr Boloshev, Soviet basketball player (b. 1947)
 * James Gammon, American actor (b. 1940)
 * July 17 – Bernard Giraudeau, French actor and film director (b. 1947)
 * July 19
 * Cécile Aubry, French actress (b. 1928)
 * Stephen Schneider, American climate scientist (b. 1945)
 * David Warren, Australian scientist and inventor (b. 1925)
 * July 20 – Benedikt Sigurðsson Gröndal, Icelandic politician, Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1924)
 * July 21 – Luis Corvalán, Chilean politician (b. 1916)
 * July 24
 * Theo Albrecht, German entrepreneur (b. 1922)
 * Alex Higgins, Northern Irish snooker player (b. 1949)
 * July 25 – Vasco de Almeida e Costa, Portuguese naval officer (b. 1932)
 * July 26 – Ben Keith, American musician (b. 1937)
 * July 27 – Maury Chaykin, American-Canadian actor (b. 1949)

August

 * August 1 – Robert F. Boyle, American art director and production designer (b. 1909)
 * August 3 – Bobby Hebb, American singer (b. 1938)
 * August 5 – Godfrey Binaisa, 5th President of Uganda (b. 1920)
 * August 6 – Tony Judt, British historian (b. 1948)
 * August 7 – Bruno Cremer, French actor (b. 1929)
 * August 8
 * Patricia Neal, American actress (b. 1926)
 * Massamasso Tchangai, Togolese footballer (b. 1978)
 * August 9 – Ted Stevens, American politician (b. 1923)
 * August 10 – Antonio Pettigrew, American athlete (b. 1967)
 * August 12 – Guido de Marco, 6th President of Malta (b. 1931)
 * August 13 – Lance Cade, American professional wrestler (b. 1981)
 * August 14 – Abbey Lincoln, American jazz singer (b. 1930)
 * August 16
 * Nicola Cabibbo, Italian physicist (b. 1935)
 * Dimitrios Ioannidis, Greek army officer (b. 1923)
 * August 17
 * Francesco Cossiga, 63rd Prime Minister and 8th President of Italy (b. 1928)
 * Frank Kermode, Manx literary critic (b. 1919)
 * Ludvík Kundera, Czech writer (b. 1920)
 * Edwin Morgan, Scottish poet (b. 1920)
 * August 18
 * Carlos Hugo of Bourbon-Parma, Spanish aristocrat (b. 1930)
 * Hal Connolly, American hammer thrower (b. 1931)
 * Efraim Sevela, Russian writer (b. 1928)
 * August 22 – Stjepan Bobek, Yugoslav footballer (b. 1923)
 * August 23 – Satoshi Kon, Japanese anime film director (b. 1963)
 * August 26
 * William Lenoir, American astronaut (b. 1939)
 * Raimon Panikkar, Spanish theologian (b. 1918)
 * August 27 – Anton Geesink, Dutch judoka (b. 1934)
 * August 28 – Sinan Hasani, 10th President of Yugoslavia (b. 1922)
 * August 30
 * Alain Corneau, French filmmaker (b. 1943)
 * Francisco Varallo, Argentine footballer (b. 1910)
 * August 31 – Laurent Fignon, French road bicycle racer (b. 1960)

September

 * September 2 – Shmuel Eisenstadt, Israeli sociologist (b. 1923)
 * September 3 – José Augusto Torres, Portuguese footballer (b. 1938)
 * September 5
 * Corneille Guillaume Beverloo, Dutch artist (b. 1922)
 * Lewis Nkosi, South African writer (b. 1936)
 * Shoya Tomizawa, Japanese MotoGP racer (b. 1990)
 * September 6 – Clive Donner, British film director (b. 1926)
 * September 7 – Glenn Shadix, American actor (b. 1952)
 * September 8
 * Israel Tal, Israeli general (b. 1924)
 * George C. Williams, American evolutionary biologist (b. 1926)
 * September 9 – Bent Larsen, Danish chess grandmaster (b. 1935)
 * September 11
 * Harold Gould, American actor (b. 1923)
 * Kevin McCarthy, American actor (b. 1914)
 * September 12 – Claude Chabrol, French film director (b. 1930)
 * September 14 – Caterina Boratto, Italian actress (b. 1915)
 * September 16
 * Imran Farooq, British-Pakistani politician (b. 1960)
 * Mario Rodríguez Cobos, Argentine writer (b. 1938)
 * September 18
 * Egon Klepsch, German politician (b. 1930)
 * Bobby Smith, English footballer (b. 1933)
 * September 19 – José Antonio Labordeta, Spanish songwriter (b. 1935)
 * September 20 – Fud Leclerc, Belgian singer (b. 1924)
 * September 22
 * Jackie Burroughs, English-Canadian actress (b. 1939)
 * Eddie Fisher, American entertainer and singer (b. 1928)
 * Jorge González, Argentine professional wrestler (b. 1966)
 * September 23 – Fernando Riera, Chilean football player (b. 1920)
 * September 24 – Gennady Yanayev, Soviet politician; mastermind of the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt (b. 1937)
 * September 26 – Gloria Stuart, American actress (b. 1910)
 * September 27
 * Sally Menke, American film editor (b. 1953)
 * Trevor Taylor, British racing driver (b. 1936)
 * September 28 – Arthur Penn, American film director (b. 1922)
 * September 29
 * Georges Charpak, French Nobel physicist (b. 1924)
 * Tony Curtis, American actor (b. 1925)
 * Greg Giraldo, American comedian (b. 1965)
 * Joe Mantell, American actor (b. 1915)
 * September 30 – Stephen J. Cannell, American writer and television producer (b. 1941)

October

 * October 1
 * Dezső Bundzsák, Hungarian footballer (b. 1928)
 * Audouin Dollfus, French astronomer (b. 1924)
 * Gerard Labuda, Polish historian (b. 1916)
 * October 3
 * Philippa Foot, British philosopher (b. 1920)
 * Claude Lefort, French philosopher (b. 1924)
 * October 4 – Norman Wisdom, British actor and comedian (b. 1915)
 * October 5
 * Roy Ward Baker, English film director (b. 1916)
 * Bernard Clavel, French writer (b. 1923)
 * Jānis Klovāns, Latvian chess grandmaster (b. [1935]])
 * Steve Lee, Swiss musician (b. 1963)
 * October 7
 * Ljupčo Jordanovski, Macedonian seismologist and politician (b. 1953)
 * Milka Planinc, Yugoslavian politician, Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1924)
 * October 8
 * Jim Fuchs, American athelete (b. 1927)
 * John Huchra, American astronomer (b. 1948)
 * October 9
 * Maurice Allais, French Nobel economist (b. 1911)
 * Zecharia Sitchin, Soviet-American author (b. 1920)
 * October 10
 * Solomon Burke, American soul musician (b. 1940)
 * Hwang Jang-yop, North Korean politician and defector (b. 1923)
 * Joan Sutherland, Australian opera singer (b. 1926)
 * October 12
 * Manuel Alexandre, Spanish actor (b. 1917)
 * Belva Plain, American author (b. 1915)
 * October 13 – Eddie Baily, English footballer (b. 1925)
 * October 14 – Benoît Mandelbrot, French-American mathematician (b. 1924)
 * October 16 – Barbara Billingsley, American actress (b. 1915)
 * October 19 – Tom Bosley, American actor (b. 1927)
 * October 20 – Farooq Leghari, 9th President of Pakistan (b. 1940)
 * October 23 – David Thompson, 6th Prime Minister of Barbados (b. 1961)
 * October 25 – Gregory Isaacs, Jamaican musician (b. 1951)
 * October 27 – Néstor Kirchner, 54th President of Argentina (b. 1950)
 * October 28 – Jonathan Motzfeldt, 1st Prime Minister of Greenland (b. 1938)
 * October 30 – Harry Mulisch, Dutch writer (b. 1927)

November

 * November 2 – Rudolf Barshai, Soviet-Russian conductor and violist (b. 1924)
 * November 3
 * Jerry Bock, American composer (b. 1928)
 * Viktor Chernomyrdin, 31st Prime Minister of Russia (b. 1938)
 * Pentti Uotinen, Finnish ski jumper (b. 1931)
 * November 4
 * Sparky Anderson, American baseball player and manager (b. 1934)
 * Eugénie Blanchard, French supercentenarian (b. 1896)
 * November 5
 * Jill Clayburgh, American actress (b. 1944)
 * Hajo Herrmann, German fighter pilot and lawyer (b. 1913)
 * Shirley Verrett, American opera soprano (b. 1931)
 * November 6
 * Jo Myong-rok, North Korean military officer (b. 1928)
 * Michael Seifert, Soviet war criminal (b. 1924)
 * November 8 – Emilio Eduardo Massera, Argentine military officer (b. 1925)
 * November 10 – Dino De Laurentiis, Italian film producer (b. 1919)
 * November 12
 * Stanisław Bobak, Polish ski jumper (b. 1956)
 * Ernst von Glasersfeld, Austrian-American philosopher (b. 1917)
 * Henryk Górecki, Polish composer (b. 1933)
 * November 13
 * Luis García Berlanga, Spanish film director (b. 1921)
 * Allan Sandage, American astronomer (b. 1926)
 * November 15
 * Larry Evans, American chess grandmaster (b. 1932)
 * Imre Polyák, Hungarian wrestler (b. 1932)
 * November 17
 * Olavo Rodrigues Barbosa, Brazilian footballer (b. 1923)
 * Isabelle Caro, French model and actress (b. 1980)
 * November 18
 * Brian G. Marsden, British astronomer (b. 1937)
 * Abraham Serfaty, Moroccan activist (b. 1926)
 * November 22
 * Frank Fenner, Australian scientist (b. 1914)
 * Julien Guiomar, French actor (b. 1928)
 * Urbano Navarrete Cortés, Spanish cardinal (b. 1920)
 * November 23
 * Pavel Lednyov, Soviet pentathlete (b. 1943)
 * Ingrid Pitt, Polish-British actress (b. 1937)
 * November 24 – Huang Hua, Chinese politician (b. 1913)
 * November 25 – Peter Christopherson, English musician (b. 1955)
 * November 26 – Palle Huld, Danish actor (b. 1912)
 * November 27 – Irvin Kershner, American film director (b. 1923)
 * November 28
 * Samuel T. Cohen, American physicist (b. 1921)
 * Vladimir Maslachenko, Soviet footballer (b. 1936)
 * Leslie Nielsen, Canadian-American actor (b. 1926)
 * November 29
 * Bella Akhmadulina, Soviet-Russian poet (b. 1937)
 * Mario Monicelli, Italian actor, screenwriter and director (b. 1915)
 * Maurice Wilkes, British computer scientist (b. 1913)

December

 * December 1 – Adriaan Blaauw, Dutch astronomer (b. 1914)
 * December 2
 * Michele Giordano, Italian archbishop (b. 1930)
 * Lee Huan, Chinese politician (b. 1917)
 * December 3
 * Hugues Cuénod, Swiss tenor (b. 1902)
 * José Ramos Delgado, Argentine footballer (b. 1935)
 * December 5
 * John Leslie, American pornographic director (b. 1945)
 * Don Meredith, American football player and actor (b. 1938)
 * December 6 – James Thomas Lynn, American politician (b. 1927)
 * December 7
 * Elizabeth Edwards, American lawyer and author (b. 1949)
 * Kari Tapio, Finnish schlager singer (b. 1945)
 * Federico Vairo, Argentine footballer (b. 1930)
 * December 9
 * John Eleuthère du Pont, American philanthropist and murderer (b. 1938)
 * Alexander Kerst, Austrian actor (b. 1924)
 * James Moody, American musician (b. 1925)
 * Fausto Sarli, Italian fashion designer (b. 1927)
 * Dov Shilansky, Israeli politician (b. 1924)
 * Thorvald Strömberg, Finnish sprint canoer (b. 1931)
 * Boris Tishchenko, Russian composer (b. 1939)
 * December 10
 * Marcel Domingo, French footballer (b. 1924)
 * John Fenn, American Nobel chemist (b. 1917)
 * Jacques Swaters, Belgian racing driver
 * December 11 – Peter Risi, Swiss footballer (b. 1950)
 * December 12
 * Timothée Malendoma, Central African politician, Prime Minister of Central African Republic (b. 1935)
 * Tom Walkinshaw, British racing car driver and team owner (b. 1946)
 * December 13
 * Richard Holbrooke, American diplomat (b. 1941)
 * Enrique Morente, Spanish singer (b. 1942)
 * Remmy Ongala, Tanzanian musician (b. 1947)
 * December 14
 * Neva Patterson, American actress (b. 1920)
 * Pascal Rakotomavo, Malagasy politician (b. 1934)
 * December 15
 * Blake Edwards, American film director (b. 1922)
 * Bob Feller, American baseball player (b. 1918)
 * Jean Rollin, French director and novelist (b. 1938)
 * December 17
 * Captain Beefheart, American musician (b. 1941)
 * Dick Gibson, English racing driver (b. 1918)
 * Mikhail Umansky, Russian chess Grandmaster (b. 1952)
 * December 18
 * John Bukovsky, Slovakian-American prelate (b. 1924)
 * Max Jammer, Israeli physicist and philosopher (b. 1915)
 * Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, Italian banker and politician (b. 1940)
 * Jacqueline de Romilly, French philologist (b. 1913)
 * December 20 – Giovanni Ferrofino, Italian archbishop (b. 1912)
 * December 21 – Enzo Bearzot, Italian footballer and coach (b. 1927)
 * December 25 – Carlos Andrés Pérez, 55th President of Venezuela (b. 1922)
 * December 26
 * Salvador Jorge Blanco, 48th President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1926)
 * Teena Marie, American singer-songwriter (b. 1956)
 * December 30 – Ellis Clarke, 1st President of Trinidad and Tobago (b. 1917)

January

 * January 2
 * Anne Francis, American actress (b. 1930)
 * Pete Postlethwaite, British actor (b. 1946)
 * Richard Winters, American paratrooper (b. 1918)
 * January 3
 * Jill Haworth, English actress (b. 1945)
 * Zbigniew Jaremski, Polish sprinter (b. 1949)
 * January 4
 * Dick King-Smith, English author (b. 1922)
 * Gerry Rafferty, Scottish musician (b. 1947)
 * January 5 – Malangatana Ngwenya, Mozambican poet and painter (b. 1936)
 * January 6
 * Aron Kincaid, American voice actor (b. 1940)
 * Uche Okafor, Nigerian footballer (b. 1967)
 * Vang Pao, Lao army general (b. 1929)
 * January 7 – Simona Senoner, Italian ski jumper (b. 1993)
 * January 8
 * Willi Dansgaard, Danish paleoclimatologist (b. 1922)
 * Jiří Dienstbier, Czech politician (b. 1937)
 * John Roll, American judge (b. 1947)
 * Thorbjørn Svenssen, Norwegian footballer (b. 1924)
 * January 9 – Peter Yates, English film director (b. 1929)
 * January 10
 * John Dye, American actor (b. 1963)
 * Bora Kostić, Serbian footballer (b. 1930)
 * María Elena Walsh, Argentine poet and novelist (b. 1930)
 * Margaret Whiting, American singer (b. 1924)
 * January 11
 * Zoltán Berczik Hungarian table tennis player (b.1937)
 * David Nelson, American actor (b. 1936
 * January 12
 * Clemar Bucci, Argentine racing driver (b. 1920)
 * Paul Picerni, American actor (b. 1922)
 * January 14
 * Sun Axelsson, Swedish poet (b. 1935)
 * Peter Post, Dutch cyclist (b. 1933)
 * January 15
 * Nat Lofthouse, English footballer (b. 1925)
 * Susannah York, British actress (b. 1939)
 * January 17 – Don Kirshner, American record producer (b. 1934)
 * January 18 – Sargent Shriver, American politician and diplomat (b. 1915)
 * January 21
 * Theoni V. Aldredge, Greek-American costume designer (b. 1922)
 * Dennis Oppenheim, American artist (b. 1938)
 * January 24 – Bernd Eichinger, German film producer and director (b. 1949)
 * January 27 – Charlie Callas, American comedian and actor (b. 1927)
 * January 29 – Milton Babbitt, American composer (b. 1916)
 * January 30 – John Barry, English composer (b. 1933)

February

 * February 1 – Ernst Badian, Austrian-American scholar and professor (b. 1925)
 * February 2 – Defne Joy Foster, Turkish actress and video jockey (b. 1975)
 * February 3
 * Édouard Glissant, Martinican writer and poet (b. 1928)
 * Maria Schneider, French actress (b. 1952)
 * Tatyana Shmyga, Soviet-Russian opera singer (b. 1928)
 * Neil Young, English footballer (b. 1944)
 * February 4
 * Martial Célestin, Haitian lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Haiti (b. 1913)
 * Lena Nyman, Swedish actress (b. 1944)
 * Tura Satana, Japanese-American actress (b. 1938)
 * February 5
 * Omar Amiralay, Syrian documentarian (b. 1944)
 * Brian Jacques, British author (b. 1939)
 * Pertti Purhonen, Finnish boxer (b. 1942)
 * Peggy Rea, American actress (b. 1921)
 * February 6
 * Andrée Chedid, French poet and novelist (b. 1920)
 * Josefa Iloilo, Fijian politician, President of Fiji (b. 1920)
 * Gary Moore, British musician (b. 1952)
 * Ken Olsen, American engineer (b. 1926)
 * February 7 – Maria Altmann, Austrian-American refugee and heiress (b. 1916)
 * February 8
 * Luiz Bueno, Brazilian race car driver (b. 1937)
 * Cesare Rubini, Italian basketball player and coach (b. 1923)
 * February 9 – Miltiadis Evert, Greek politician (b. 1939)
 * February 10 – Saad el-Shazly, Egyptian military commander (b. 1922)
 * February 11 – Bo Carpelan, Finnish poet and author (b. 1926)
 * February 12
 * Peter Alexander, Austrian actor and singer (b. 1926)
 * Betty Garrett, American actress (b. 1919)
 * Fedor den Hertog, Dutch cyclist (b. 1946)
 * Kenneth Mars, American actor (b. 1935)
 * February 13
 * Arnfinn Bergmann, Norwegian sji jumper (b. 1928)
 * Inese Jaunzeme, Latvian athlete (b. 1932)
 * T. P. McKenna, Irish actor (b. 1929)
 * February 14 – George Shearing, British-American jazz pianist (b. 1919)
 * February 15 – François Nourissier, French journalist (b. 1927)
 * February 16
 * Alfred Burke, English actor (b. 1918)
 * Dorian Gray, Italian actress (b. 1928)
 * Len Lesser, American actor (b. 1922)
 * Justinas Marcinkevičius, Lithuanian poet and playwright (b. 1930)
 * Santi Santamaria, Spanish chef (b. 1957)
 * February 19
 * Ollie Matson, American sprinter and football player (b. 1930)
 * Dietrich Stobbe, German politician (b. 1938)
 * February 20 – Noemí Simonetto de Portela, Argentine athlete (b. 1926)
 * February 21 – Bernard Nathanson, American doctor and pro-choice activist (b. 1926)
 * February 22 – Nicholas Courtney, English actor (b. 1929)
 * February 23 – Nirmala Srivastava, Indian spiritual leader (b. 1923)
 * February 24 – Yozhef Betsa, Ukranian footballer (b. 1929)
 * February 25 – Suze Rotolo, American artist (b. 1943)
 * February 26
 * Arnošt Lustig, Czech writer and Holocaust survivor (b. 1926)
 * Dean Richards, English footballer (b. 1974)
 * February 27
 * Frank Buckles, American soldier, last surviving American World War 1 veteran (b. 1901)
 * Necmettin Erbakan, Turkish politician, Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1926)
 * Maurice Guigue, French football referee (b. 1912)
 * Amparo Muñoz, Spanish actress and beauty model (b. 1954)
 * Moacyr Scliar, Brazilian writer and physician (b. 1937)
 * Duke Snider, American baseball player (b. 1926)
 * Gary Winick, American film director (b. 1961)
 * February 28
 * Annie Girardot, French actress (b. 1931)
 * Jane Russell, American actress (b. 1921)

March

 * March 1 – John M. Lounge, American astronaut (b. 1946)
 * March 2
 * Shahbaz Bhatti, Pakistani politician (b. 1968)
 * Thor Vilhjálmsson, Scottish-Icelandic writer (b. 1925)
 * March 3
 * Aldo Clementi, Italian composer (b. 1925)
 * James L. Elliot, American astronomer (b. 1943)
 * March 4
 * Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, 30th Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1924)
 * Charles Jarrott, British director (b. 1927)
 * Johnny Preston, American singer (b. 1939)
 * Mikhail Simonov, Russian aircraft designer (b. 1929)
 * Simon van der Meer, Dutch Nobel physicist (b. 1925)
 * March 5 – Alberto Granado, Cuban writer and scientist (b. 1922)
 * March 6 – Ján Popluhár, Slovak footballer (b. 1935)
 * March 8 – Mike Starr, American musician (b. 1966)
 * March 9 – Inge Sørensen, Danish swimmer (b. 1924)
 * March 12
 * Joe Morello, American jazz drummer (b. 1928)
 * Nilla Pizzi, Italian singer (b. 1919)
 * March 15 – Nate Dogg, American rapper (b. 1969)
 * March 17 – Michael Gough, British actor (b. 1916)
 * March 18 – Warren Christopher, American diplomat (b. 1925)
 * March 21 – Nikolai Andrianov, Soviet-Russian gymnast (b. 1952)
 * March 23 – Elizabeth Taylor, British-American actress (b. 1932)
 * March 26
 * Paul Baran, Polish-American computer engineer (b. 1926)
 * Geraldine Ferraro, American politician (b. 1935)
 * Diana Wynne Jones, British writer (b. 1934)
 * March 27 – Farley Granger, American actor (b. 1925)
 * March 29 – José Alencar, Brazilian politician (b. 1931)

April

 * April 1 – Varkey Vithayathil, Indian cardinal (b. 1927)
 * April 3 – Kevin Jarre, American screenwriter (b. 1954)
 * April 4
 * Scott Columbus, American drummer (b. 1956)
 * Juliano Mer-Khamis, Israeli actor (b. 1958)
 * Craig Thomas, Welsh author (b. 1942)
 * Juan Tuñas, Cuban footballer (b. 1917)
 * Boško Vuksanović, Yugoslavian water polo player (b. 1928)
 * April 5
 * Baruch Samuel Blumberg, American physician (b. 1925)
 * Ange-Félix Patassé, Central African politician, President of the Central African Republic (b. 1937)
 * April 9 – Sidney Lumet, American film director (b. 1924)
 * April 11 – Lewis Binford, American archaeologist (b. 1931)
 * April 12 – Miroslav Tichý, Czech photographer (b. 1926)
 * April 14
 * Walter Breuning, American supercentenarian (b. 1896)
 * April 15 – Vittorio Arrigoni, Italian activist (b. 1975)
 * William Lipscomb, American chemist (b. 1919)
 * April 17
 * Osamu Dezaki, Japanese anime director (b. 1943)
 * Nikos Papazoglou, Greek singer (b. 1948)
 * Michael Sarrazin, Canadian actor (b. 1940)
 * April 18
 * Olubayo Adefemi, Nigerian footballer (b. 1985)
 * Giovanni Saldarini, Italian cardinal (b. 1924)
 * April 19
 * Elisabeth Sladen, English actress (b. 1946)
 * Grete Waitz, Norwegian athlete (b. 1953)
 * April 20 – Tim Hetherington, American photojournalist and documentarian (b. 1970)
 * April 21
 * Annalisa Ericson, Swedish actress (b. 1913)
 * Harold Garfinkel, American sociologist (b. 1917)
 * Max Mathews, American engineer and computer music composer (b. 1926)
 * Yoshiko Tanaka, Japanese actress (b. 1956)
 * April 22 – Wiel Coerver, Dutch footballer and manager (b. 1924)
 * April 23
 * Norio Ohga, Japanese businessman, chairman of Sony (b. 1930)
 * Max van der Stoel, Dutch politician (b. 1924)
 * April 24
 * Sathya Sai Baba, Indian spiritual leader (b. 1926)
 * Madame Nhu, South Vietnamese First Lady (b. 1924)
 * Marie-France Pisier, French actress (b. 1944)
 * April 25
 * Poly Styrene, British musician (b. 1957)
 * Gonzalo Rojas, Chilean poet (b. 1917)
 * April 26 – Phoebe Snow, American singer (b. 1950)
 * April 27
 * Igor Kon, Soviet philosopher (b. 1928)
 * David Wilkerson, American evangelist (b. 1931)
 * April 28 – Erhard Loretan, Swiss mountain climber (b. 1959)
 * April 29
 * Waldemar Baszanowski, Polish weightlifter (b. 1935)
 * Joanna Russ, American writer (b. 1937)
 * April 30 – Ernesto Sabato, Argentine writer (b. 1911)

May

 * May 1
 * Henry Cooper, English boxer (b. 1934)
 * Agustín García-Gasco Vicente, Spanish cardinal (b. 1931)
 * May 2
 * Leonid Abalkin, Russian economist (b. 1930)
 * Osama bin Laden, Saudi-born leader of Al-Qaeda (b. 1957)
 * Shigeo Yaegashi, Japanese footballer (b. 1933)
 * May 3
 * Robert Brout, Belgian theoretical physicist (b. 1928)
 * Jackie Cooper, American actor (b. 1922)
 * Sergo Kotrikadze, Georgian footballer (b. 1936)
 * Thanasis Veggos, Greek actor (b. 1926)
 * May 4
 * Frans Sammut, Maltese novelist (b. 1945)
 * Sada Thompson, American actress (b. 1927)
 * May 5
 * Claude Choules, English-Australian soldier (b. 1901)
 * Arthur Laurents, American playwright (b. 1917)
 * Dana Wynter, German-English actress (b. 1931)
 * May 7
 * Seve Ballesteros, Spanish golfer (b. 1957)
 * Willard Boyle, Canadian Nobel physicist (b. 1924)
 * Gunter Sachs, German photographer (b. 1932)
 * May 9
 * Lidia Gueiler Tejada, Bolivian politician, President of Bolivia (b. 1921)
 * Shailendra Kumar Upadhyaya, Nepalese politician (b. 1929)
 * Wouter Weylandt, Belgian cyclist (b. 1984)
 * May 11 – Maurice Goldhaber, Austrian-American physicist (b. 1911)
 * May 13
 * Derek Boogaard, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1982)
 * Bernard Greenhouse, American cellist (b. 1916)
 * May 14 – Birgitta Trotzig, Swedish writer (b. 1929)
 * May 15
 * Pete Lovely, American racecar driver (b. 1926)
 * Samuel Wanjiru, Kenyan long distance runner (b. 1986)
 * May 16 – Edward Hardwicke, English actor (b. 1932)
 * May 17
 * Joseph Galibardy, Indian field hockey player (b. 1915)
 * Harmon Killebrew, American baseball player (b. 1936)
 * May 19
 * Garret FitzGerald, Irish politician, Taoiseach of Ireland (b. 1926)
 * Kathy Kirby, English singer (b. 1938)
 * May 20 – Randy Savage, American professional wrestler (b. 1952)
 * May 21 – Bill Hunter, Australian actor (b. 1940)
 * May 23
 * Nasser Hejazi, Iranian footballer (b. 1949)
 * Xavier Tondo, Spanish cyclist (b. 1978)
 * May 25 – Leonora Carrington, English-Mexican artist (b. 1917)
 * May 27
 * Jeff Conaway, American actor (b. 1950)
 * Margo Dydek, Polish basketball player (b. 1974)
 * Gil Scott-Heron, American poet and musician (b. 1949)
 * May 29
 * Sergei Bagapsh, Georgian-born politician (b. 1949)
 * Ferenc Mádl, 2nd President of Hungary (b. 1931)
 * May 30 – Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, American physicist (b. 1921)
 * May 31 – Pauline Betz, American tennis player (b. 1919)

June

 * June 1 – Munir Dar, Pakistani field hockey player (b. 1935)
 * June 2
 * Ray Bryant, American jazz pianist (b. 1931)
 * Albertina Sisulu, South African anti-apartheid activist (b. 1918)
 * June 3
 * James Arness, American actor (b. 1923)
 * Ilyas Kashmiri, Pakistani jihadist militant (b. 1964)
 * Jack Kevorkian, American euthanasia advocate (b. 1928)
 * June 4
 * Dimi Mint Abba, Mauritanian singer (b. 1958)
 * Lilian Jackson Braun, American writer (b. 1913)
 * Lawrence Eagleburger, American diplomat (b. 1930)
 * June 5
 * Leon Botha, South African painter and disc jockey (b. 1985)
 * Ludo Martens, Belgian political activist (b. 1946)
 * Célestin Oliver, French footballer (b. 1930)
 * June 6 – Masushi Ouchi, Japanese weightlifter (b. 1943)
 * June 7 – Jorge Semprún, Spanish writer and politician (b. 1923)
 * June 8 – Alan Rubin, American musician (b. 1943)
 * June 9
 * M. F. Husain, Indian painter (b. 1915)
 * Tomoko Kawakami, Japanese voice actress (b. 1970)
 * June 10 – Patrick Leigh Fermor, British travel writer, scholar and soldier (b. 1915)
 * June 11 – Gunnar Fischer, Swedish cinematographer (b. 1910)
 * June 12
 * John Hospers, American philosopher and politician (b. 1918)
 * Laura Ziskin, American film producer (b. 1950)
 * June 14
 * Milivoj Ašner, Croatian-Austrian war criminal (b. 1913)
 * Peter Schamoni, German film director (b. 1934)
 * June 15 – Pavel Stolbov, Russian gymnast (b. 1929)
 * June 16
 * Wild Man Fischer, American songwriter (b. 1944)
 * Östen Mäkitalo, Swedish engineer (b. 1938)
 * June 18
 * Ulrich Biesinger, German footballer (b. 1933)
 * Yelena Bonner, Russian human rights activist (b. 1923)
 * Frederick Chiluba, 2nd President of Zambia (b. 1943)
 * Clarence Clemons, American musician and actor (b. 1942)
 * Karl Frei, Swiss gymnast (b. 1917)
 * Brian Haw, English peace activist (b. 1949)
 * June 19 – Don Diamond, American actor (b. 1921)
 * June 20 – Ryan Dunn, American reality television personality (b. 1977)
 * June 21 – Maria Gomes Valentim, Brazilian supercentenarian (b. 1896)
 * June 22 – Nataša Urbančič, Slovenian athlete (b. 1945)
 * June 23
 * Vladislav Achalov, Soviet general (b. 1945)
 * Gene Colan, American comic book artist (b. 1926)
 * Peter Falk, American actor (b. 1927)
 * Stéphane Franke, German athlete (b. 1964)
 * Christiane Desroches Noblecourt, French Egyptologist (b. 1913)
 * Attilio Ruffini, Italian politician (b. 1925)
 * June 24 – Tomislav Ivić, Croatian footballer (b. 1933)
 * June 25
 * Jan Kułakowski, Polish politician (b. 1930)
 * Alice Playten, American actress (b. 1947)
 * Margaret Tyzack, British actress (b. 1931)
 * June 26 – Jan van Beveren, Dutch footballer (b. 1948)
 * June 27
 * Mike Doyle, English footballer (b. 1946)
 * Elaine Stewart, American actress and model (b. 1930)
 * June 28 – Michael Wenning, South African-American minister (b. 1935)
 * June 29 – Carlos Diarte, Paraguayan footballer (b. 1954)
 * June 30 – Georg Sterzinsky, German cardinal (b. 1936)

July

 * July 1 – Willie Fernie, Scottish footballer (b. 1928)
 * July 2 – Itamar Franco, Brazilian politician, President of Brazil (b. 1930)
 * July 3 – Anna Massey, English actress (b. 1937)
 * July 4 – Archduke Otto of Austria, (b. 1912)
 * July 5
 * Armen Gilliam, American basketball player (b. 1964)
 * Mika Myllylä, Finnish cross country skier (b. 1969)
 * Theodore Roszak, American scholar (b. 1933)
 * Hanna Segal, British psychoanalyst (b. 1918)
 * Gordon Tootoosis, Canadian actor (b. 1941)
 * Cy Twombly, American painter (b. 1928)
 * July 6
 * Mani Kaul, Indian film director (b. 1944)
 * Josef Suk, Czech violinist (b. 1929)
 * July 8
 * Betty Ford, American feminist, activist, philanthropist and former First Lady (b. 1918)
 * Roberts Blossom, American actor and poet (b. 1924)
 * July 10 – Roland Petit, French choreographer and dancer (b. 1924)
 * July 12 – Tom Gehrels, American astronomer (b. 1925)
 * July 17 – Juan María Bordaberry, 36th President of Uruguay (b. 1928)
 * July 20 – Lucian Freud, German-born British painter (b. 1922)
 * July 23
 * Robert Ettinger, American academic (b. 1918)
 * Nguyễn Cao Kỳ, 8th Prime Minister of the Republic of Vietnam (b. 1930)
 * Amy Winehouse, British singer (b. 1983)
 * July 25 – Mihalis Kakogiannis, Cypriot filmmaker (b. 1922)
 * July 28 – Abdul Fatah Younis, Libyan army commander (b. 1944)
 * July 30 – Mario Echandi Jiménez, 47th President of Costa Rica (b. 1915)

August

 * August 1 – Zhanna Prokhorenko, Soviet-Russian actress (b. 1940)
 * August 2
 * Baruj Benacerraf, Venezuelan-American Nobel immunologist (b. 1920)
 * Andrey Kapitsa, English-Russian geographer (b. 1931)
 * Attilio Pavesi, Italian cyclist (b. 1910)
 * August 3
 * Annette Charles, American actress (b. 1948)
 * Nikolai Arnoldovich Petrov, Russian pianist (b. 1943)
 * Bubba Smith, American football player and actor (b. 1945)
 * August 4 – Naoki Matsuda, Japanese footballer (b. 1977)
 * August 5
 * Andrzej Lepper, Polish politician (b. 1954)
 * Francesco Quinn, Italian-American actor (b. 1963)
 * Aziz Shavershian, Russian-Australian bodybuilder (b. 1989)
 * August 6
 * Kuno Klötzer, German football manager (b. 1922)
 * Roman Opałka, French-Polish painter (b. 1931)
 * John Wood, English actor (b. [[19
 * August 7
 * Hugh Carey, American politician (b. 1919)
 * Marshall Grant, American bassist (b. 1928)
 * Mark Hatfield, American politician (b. 1922)
 * Harri Holkeri, Finnish politician, Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1937)
 * Nancy Wake, New Zealand-born French Resistance fighter (b. 1912)
 * August 8 – Mike Barrett, American basketball player (b. 1943)
 * August 10 – Oldřich Machač, Czech ice hockey player (b. 1946)
 * August 11 – Jani Lane, American musician (b. 1964)
 * August 13
 * Chris Lawrence, British racing driver (b. 1933)
 * Ellen Winther, Danish opera singer and actress (b. 1933)
 * August 14
 * Yekaterina Golubeva, Russian actress (b. 1966)
 * Shammi Kapoor, Indian film actor and director (b. 1931)
 * Paul Reeves, New Zealand archbishop and politician (b. 1932)
 * August 15
 * Sif Ruud, Swedish actress (b. 1916)
 * Rick Rypien, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1984)
 * August 16 – Andrej Bajuk, 3rd Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia (b. 1943)
 * August 19 – Raúl Ruiz, Chilean film director (b. 1941)
 * August 22
 * Jack Layton, Canadian politician (b. 1950)
 * Vicco von Bülow, German actor, comedian, humorist, cartoonist, film director (b. 1923)
 * August 31 – Valery Rozhdestvensky, Soviet-Russian cosmonaut (b. 1939)

September

 * September 2
 * Felipe Camiroaga, Chilean television presenter (b. 1966)
 * Lennart Magnusson, Swedish fencer (b. 1924)
 * September 3
 * Andrzej Maria Deskur, Polish cardinal (b. 1924)
 * Finn Helgesen, Norwegian speed skater (b. 1919)
 * Sándor Képíró, Hungarian gendarmerie captain (b. 1914)
 * September 4 – Mino Martinazzoli, Italian lawyer and politician (b. 1931)
 * September 5
 * Robert Ballaman, Swiss footballer (b. 1926)
 * Salvatore Licitra, Italian opera tenor (b. 1968)
 * September 6
 * Hans Apel, German politician (b. 1932)
 * Michael S. Hart, American author, inventor of the e-book (b. 1947)
 * Janusz Morgenstern, Polish filmmaker (b. 1922)
 * September 7
 * Vitaly Anikeyenko, Ukrainian-Russian hockey player (b. 1987)
 * Mikhail Balandin, Russian hockey player (b. 1980)
 * Gennady Churilov, Russian hockey player (b. 1987)
 * Pavol Demitra, Slovakian hockey player (b. 1974)
 * Robert Dietrich, Kazakhstani-German hockey player (b. 1986)
 * Marat Kalimulin, Russian hockey player (b. 1988)
 * Alexander Kalyanin, Russian hockey player (b. 1987)
 * Alexander Karpovtsev, Russian hockey player (b. 1970)
 * Andrei Kiryukhin, Russian hockey player (b. 1987)
 * Nikita Klyukin, Russian hockey player (b. 1989)
 * Igor Korolev, Russian hockey player (b. 1970)
 * Stefan Liv, Polish-born Swedish hockey player (b. 1980)
 * Jan Marek, Czech hockey player (b. 1979)
 * Brad McCrimmon, Canadian hockey player (b. 1959)
 * Sergei Ostapchuk, Belarusian hockey player (b. 1990)
 * Karel Rachůnek, Czech hockey player (b. 1979)
 * Ruslan Salei, Belarusian hockey player (b. 1974)
 * Maxim Shuvalov, Russian hockey player (b. 1993)
 * Kārlis Skrastiņš, Latvian hockey player (b. 1974)
 * Pavel Snurnitsyn, Russian hockey player (b. 1992)
 * Daniil Sobchenko, Ukrainian-Russian hockey player (b. 1991)
 * Ivan Tkachenko, Russian hockey player (b. 1979)
 * Pavel Trakhanov, Russian hockey player (b. 1978)
 * Yuri Urychev, Russian hockey player (b. 1991)
 * Josef Vašíček, Czech hockey player (b. 1980)
 * Alexander Vasyunov, Russian hockey player (b. 1988)
 * Alexander Vyukhin, Ukrainian-Russian hockey player (b. 1973)
 * Artem Yarchuk, Russian hockey player (b. 1990)
 * September 8 – Võ Chí Công, 5th President of Vietnam (b. 1912)
 * September 10 – Cliff Robertson, American actor (b. 1923)
 * September 11 – Andy Whitfield, Welsh actor and model (b. 1972)
 * September 12 – Alexander Galimov, Russian hockey player (b. 1985)
 * September 13 – Richard Hamilton, British painter and collage artist (b. 1922)
 * September 14 – Rudolf Mössbauer, German Nobel physicist (b. 1929)
 * September 19 – George Cadle Price, 1st Prime Minister of Belize (b. 1919)
 * September 20 – Burhanuddin Rabbani, President of Afghanistan from 1992 to 1996 (b. 1940)
 * September 22 – Aristides Pereira, 1st President of Cape Verde (b. 1923)
 * September 25 – Wangari Maathai, Kenyan veterinary anatomist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1940)
 * September 27 – Imre Makovecz, Hungarian architect (b. 1935)
 * September 30
 * Anwar al-Awlaki, American-born terrorist and Islamist militant (b. 1971)
 * Ralph M. Steinman, Canadian Nobel immunologist and cell biologist (b. 1943)

October

 * October 1
 * David Bedford, English composer (b. 1937)
 * Sven Tumba, Swedish hockey player (b. 1931)
 * October 2 – Andrija Fuderer, Croatian-Belgian chess master (b. 1931)
 * October 5
 * Bert Jansch, Scottish folk musician (b. 1943)
 * Steve Jobs, American computer entrepreneur (b. 1955)
 * Pietro Lombardi, Italian wrestler (b. 1922)
 * Charles Napier, American actor (b. 1936)
 * October 6 – Diane Cilento, Australian actress (b. 1933)
 * October 7
 * Ramiz Alia, 1st President of Albania (b. 1925)
 * George Baker, English actor (b. 1931)
 * Andrew Laszlo, Hungarian-American cinematographer (b. 1926)
 * October 8
 * Mikey Welsh, American artist and musician (b. 1971)
 * Ingvar Wixell, Swedish baritone (b. 1931)
 * October 9 – Pavel Karelin, Russian ski jumper (b. 1990)
 * October 10
 * Albert Rosellini, American politician (b. 1910)
 * Jagjit Singh, Indian singer (b. 1941)
 * October 11 – Frank Kameny, American gay rights activist (b. 1925)
 * October 12 – Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist (b. 1941)
 * October 13 – Barbara Kent, Canadian-American actress (b. 1907)
 * October 16 – Dan Wheldon, English racing car driver (b. 1978)
 * October 20 – Muammar Gaddafi, Libyan dictator (b. 1942)
 * October 22 – Sultan, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, (b. 1930)
 * October 23
 * Herbert A. Hauptman, American mathematician and Nobel laureate in chemistry (b. 1917)
 * Marco Simoncelli, Italian motorcycle road racer (b. 1987)
 * October 24 – John McCarthy, American computer scientist (b. 1927)
 * October 29 – Jimmy Savile, English DJ, television presenter, media personality and charity fundraiser (b. 1926)
 * October 31 – Flórián Albert, Hungarian footballer (b. 1941)

November

 * Christiane Legrand, French singer (b. 1930)
 * November 2
 * Ilmar Kullam, Estonian basketball player (b. 1922)
 * Antonio Molino Rojo, Spanish actor (b. 1926)
 * November 4
 * Alfonso Cano, Colombian militant leader (b. 1948)
 * Cynthia Myers, American model
 * Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr., American physicist (b. 1915)
 * Andy Rooney, American journalist (b. 1919)
 * Tadeusz Walasek, Polish boxer (b. 1936)
 * November 5
 * Mario Roberto Álvarez, Argentine architect (b. 1913)
 * Bhupen Hazarika, Indian musician (b. 1926)
 * Yuvan Shestalov, Russian writer (b. 1937)
 * November 6
 * Géza Alföldy, Hungarian historian (b. 1935)
 * Gordon Beck, English pianist and composer (b. 1936)
 * November 7
 * Joe Frazier, American boxer (b. 1944)
 * Marie Ljalková, Czech sniper (b. 1920)
 * Lisbeth Movin, Danish actress (b. 1917)
 * Tomás Segovia, Mexican author (b. 1927)
 * Andrea True, American pornographic actress (b. 1943)
 * November 8
 * Jimmy Adamson, English footballer (b. 1929)
 * Heavy D, American musician (b. 1967)
 * Ricky Hui, Hong Kong actor (b. 1946)
 * Valentin Ivanov, Russian footballer (b. 1934)
 * Ed Macauley, American basketball player (b. 1928)
 * November 9
 * Roger Christian, American ice hockey player (b. 1935)
 * Har Gobind Khorana, Indian-born American Nobel biochemist (b. 1922)
 * November 10 – Ivan Martin Jirous, Czech poet (b. 1944)
 * November 11 – Francisco Blake Mora, Mexican lawyer and politician (b. 1966)
 * November 12
 * Evelyn Lauder, Austrian-American businesswoman (b. 1936)
 * Ilya Zhitomirskiy, Russian-American software developer (b. 1989)
 * November 13 – Bobsam Elejiko, Nigerian footballer (b. 1981)
 * November 14 – Franz Josef Degenhardt, German poet (b. 1931)
 * November 15 – Lev Borisov, Russian actor (b. 1933)
 * November 16 – Jacobus Duivenvoorde, Indonesian archbishop (b. 1928)
 * November 18
 * Mark Blaug, Dutch-British economist (b. 1927)
 * Walt Hazzard, American basketball player (b. 1942)
 * November 19
 * Ömer Lütfi Akad, Turkish film director (b. 1916)
 * Basil D'Oliveira, South African-English cricketer (b. 1931)
 * John Neville, English-Canadian actor (b. 1925)
 * November 20
 * Shelagh Delaney, English writer (b. 1938)
 * Viktor Modzolevsky, Russian fencer (b. 1943)
 * Karl Aage Præst, Danish footballer (b. 1922)
 * November 21
 * Greg Halman, Dutch baseball player (b. 1987)
 * Anne McCaffrey, American writer (b. 1926)
 * November 22
 * Svetlana Alliluyeva, Russian-American author (b. 1926)
 * Paul Motian, American jazz drummer (b. 1931)
 * November 25 – Vasily Alekseyev, Soviet-Russian weightlifter (b. 1942)
 * November 27
 * Ken Russell, British film director (b. 1927)
 * Gary Speed, Welsh footballer and coach (b. 1969)
 * November 28
 * Ante Marković, 9th Prime Minister of SFR Yugoslavia (b. 1924)
 * Charles Thomas Kowal, American astronomer (b. 1940)
 * November 29 – Patrice O'Neal, American comedian (b. 1969)

December

 * December 1
 * Ragnhild Hveger, Danish swimmer (b. 1920)
 * Christa Wolf, German writer (b. 1929)
 * December 2 – Pavle Jurina, Croatian handball player (b. 1954)
 * December 3 – Dev Anand, Indian actor and director (b. 1923)
 * December 4
 * Matti Yrjänä Joensuu, Finnish author (b. 1948)
 * Sócrates, Brazilian footballer (b. 1954)
 * Hubert Sumlin, American blues guitarist (b. 1931)
 * December 5
 * Peter Gethin, British racing driver (b. 1940)
 * Violetta Villas, Polish singer (b. 1938)
 * December 7
 * Harry Morgan, American actor (b. 1915)
 * Jerry Robinson, American comic book artist (b. 1922)
 * December 8
 * Gilbert Adair. Scottish novelist (b. 1944)
 * Zelman Cowen, Australian academic, Governor-General of Australia (b. 1919)
 * December 11 – John Patrick Foley, American cardinal (b. 1935)
 * December 12
 * Sunday Bada, Nigerian sprinter (b. 1969)
 * Mălina Olinescu, Romanian singer (b. 1974)
 * December 13
 * Russell Hoban, American writer (b. 1925)
 * Klaus-Dieter Sieloff, German footballer (b. 1942)
 * December 14
 * Luigi Carpaneda, Italian fencer (b. 1925)
 * Boris Chertok, Soviet rocket designer (b. 1912)
 * Joe Simon, American comic book writer and artist (b. 1913)
 * December 15
 * Bob Brookmeyer, American jazz trombonist (b. 1929)
 * Christopher Hitchens, British-American writer (b. 1949)
 * December 16 – Nicol Williamson, Scottish actor (b. 1936)
 * December 17
 * Cesária Évora, Cape Verdean singer (b. 1941)
 * Kim Jong-il, North Korean politician, Supreme Leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (b. 1941)
 * December 18 – Václav Havel, Czech playwright, 10th President of Czechoslovakia and 1st President of the Czech Republic (b. 1936)
 * December 19 – Héctor Núñez, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1936)
 * December 20 – Hana Andronikova, Czech writer (b. 1967)
 * December 24 – Johannes Heesters, Dutch actor and singer (b. 1903)
 * December 27
 * Clifford Darling, 4th Governor-General of the Bahamas (b. 1922)
 * Helen Frankenthaler, American abstract expressionist painter (b. 1928)

January

 * January 1
 * Gary Ablett, English footballer (b. 1965)
 * Bob Anderson, British fencer and stuntman (b. 1922)
 * Jorge Andrés Boero, Argentine motorcycle racer (b. 1973)
 * Anders Frandsen, Danish musician (b. 1960)
 * Kiro Gligorov, Macedonian politician, President of of Macedonia (b. 1917)
 * Carlos Soria, Argentine politician and lawyer (b. 1949)
 * Yafa Yarkoni, Israeli singer (b. 1925)
 * January 2
 * Ian Bargh, Scottish-Canadian jazz pianist (b. 1935)
 * Ivan Calin, Moldovan politician (b. 1935)
 * Silvana Gallardo, American actress (b. 1953)
 * Anatoly Kolesov, Soviet wrestler (b. 1938)
 * Larry Reinhardt, American guitarist (b. 1948)
 * January 3
 * Josef Škvorecký, Czech writer (b. 1924)
 * Vicar, Chilean cartoonist (b. 1934)
 * January 4
 * Eve Arnold, American photojournalist (b. 1912)
 * Rod Robbie, British-Canadian architect (b. 1928)
 * January 5
 * Frederica Sagor Maas, American writer (b. 1900)
 * Alexander Sizonenko, Russian basketball player (b. 1959)
 * January 6 – Roger Boisjoly, American engineer (b. 1938)
 * January 7 *ndash; Herbert Wilf, American mathematician (b. 1931)
 * January 9 – Malam Bacai Sanhá, 6th and 12th President of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1947)
 * January 13
 * Rauf Denktaş, Cypriot-born politician (b. 1924)
 * Miljan Miljanić, Yugoslavian-born footballer (b. 1930)
 * January 15 – Manuel Fraga Iribarne, Spanish politician (b. 1922)
 * January 20
 * Etta James, American singer (b. 1938)
 * Jiří Raška, Czech ski jumper (b. 1941)
 * January 24 – Theodoros Angelopoulos, Greek filmmaker (b. 1935)
 * January 29
 * François Migault, French racing driver (b. 1944)
 * Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, 9th President of Italy (b. 1918)

February

 * February 1
 * Don Cornelius, American television host and producer (b. 1936)
 * Angelo Dundee, American boxing trainer (b. 1921)
 * Ladislav Kuna, Slovakian footballer (b. 1947)
 * Ingolf Mork, Norwegian ski jumper (b. 1947)
 * Wisława Szymborska, Polish Nobel poet (b. 1923)
 * February 2
 * Dorothy Gilman, American author (b. 1923)
 * Nassib Lahoud, Lebanese politician (b. 1944)
 * February 3
 * John Christopher, British writer (b. 1922)
 * Ben Gazzara, American actor (b. 1930)
 * Zalman King, American filmmaker (b. 1942)
 * Mart Port, Estonian architect (b. 1922)
 * February 4
 * István Csurka, Hungarian journalist and politician (b. 1934)
 * Florence Green, British supercentenarian, last surviving veteran of World War I (b. 1901)
 * Hubert Leitgeb, Italian biathlete (b. 1965)
 * February 5
 * Sam Coppola, American actor (b. 1932)
 * Bill Hinzman, American actor (b. 1936)
 * February 6
 * Peter Breck, American actor (b. 1929)
 * Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Japanese photographer (b. 1921)
 * Juan Vicente Lezcano, Paraguayan footballer (b. 1937)
 * David Rosenhan, American psychologist (b. 1929)
 * Antoni Tàpies, Spanish artist (b. 1923)
 * István Udvardi, Hungarian water polo player (b. 1960)
 * Janice E. Voss, American astronaut (b. 1956)
 * February 7 – Harry Keough, American soccer player (b. 1927)
 * February 8
 * Luis Alberto Spinetta, Argentine musician and poet (b. 1950)
 * Irina Turova, Soviet sprinter (b. 1935)
 * February 9 – John Hick, English philosopher (b. 1922)
 * February 10 – Adolfo Schwelm Cruz, Argentine racing driver (b. 1923)
 * February 11
 * Siri Bjerke, Norwegian politician (b. 1958)
 * Whitney Houston, American singer and actress (b. 1963)
 * February 12
 * David Kelly, Irish actor (b. 1929)
 * Gratia Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Dutch skier (b. 1912)
 * February 13
 * Lillian Bassman, American photographer (b. 1917)
 * Frank Braña, Spanish actor (b. 1934)
 * Akhlaq Mohammed Khan, Indian academic and poet (b. 1936)
 * February 14
 * Mike Bernardo, South African boxer and mixed martial artist (b. 1969)
 * Tonmi Lillman, Finnish musician (b. 1973)
 * Dory Previn, American musician (b. 1925)
 * Péter Rusorán, Hungarian swimmer and water polo player (b. 1940)
 * February 15
 * Alan Cottrell, English metallurgist and physicist (b. 1919)
 * Lina Romay, Spanish actress (b. 1954)
 * February 16
 * Chikage Awashima, Japanese actress (b. 1924)
 * Gary Carter, American baseball player and coach (b. 1954)
 * Baddeley Devesi, Solomon Islander politician (b. 1941)
 * Elyse Knox, American actress and model (b. 1917)
 * John Macionis, American swimmer (b. 1916)
 * Anthony Shadid, American journalist (b. 1968)
 * Dick Anthony Williams, American actor (b. 1934)
 * February 17
 * Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn, Dutch mathematician (b. 1918)
 * Robert Carr, British politician (b. 1916)
 * Ulric Neisser, German-American psychologist (b. 1927)
 * February 18
 * Roald Aas, Norwegian speed skater and cyclist (b. 1928)
 * Elizabeth Connell, South African-English soprano (b. 1946)
 * February 19
 * Renato Dulbecco, Italian-born American virologist (b. 1914)
 * Giovanni Lilliu, Italian archaeologist (b. 1914)
 * Ruth Barcan Marcus, American philosopher (b. 1921)
 * Frits Staal, Dutch philosopher (b. 1930)
 * Stanislovas Stonkus, Soviet-Lithuanian basketball player (b. 1931)
 * Vitaly Vorotnikov, Soviet politician (b. 1926)
 * February 20
 * Knut Torbjørn Eggen, Norwegian footballer and coach (b. 1960)
 * Lydia Lamaison, Argentine actress (b. 1914)
 * February 22
 * Marie Colvin, American journalist (b. 1956)
 * Dmitri Nabokov, German-American soprano (b. 1934)
 * Rémi Ochlik, French photojournalist (b. 1983)
 * February 23 – Bruce Surtees, American cinematographer (b. 1937)
 * February 25
 * Maurice André, French trumpeter (b. 1933)
 * Lynn Compton, American soldier and judge (b. 1921)
 * Dick Davies, American basketball player (b. 1936)
 * Erland Josephson, Swedish actor and author (b. 1923)
 * Louisiana Red, American musician (b. 1932)
 * February 26 – Árpád Fekete, Hungarian footballer (b. 1921)
 * February 27
 * Sailen Manna, Indian footballer (b. 1924)
 * Armand Penverne, French footballer (b. 1926)
 * Helga Vlahović, Croatian journalist and producer (b. 1945)
 * February 28
 * Jaime Graça, Portuguese footballer (b. 1942)
 * Anders Kulläng, Swedish racing driver (b. 1943)
 * February 29 – Davy Jones, British singer and actor (b. 1945)

March

 * March 1]
 * Blagoje Adžić, Serbian politician (b. 1932)
 * Henryk Bałuszyński], Polish footballer (b. 1972)
 * Andrew Breitbart, American publisher and political commentator (b. 1969)
 * Lucio Dalla, Italian musician (b. 1943)
 * March 2 – Vera Galushka-Duyunova, Russian volleyball player (b. 1945)
 * March 3
 * Steve Bridges, American comedian and impressionist (b. 1963)
 * Leonardo Cimino, American actor (b. 1917)
 * Ralph McQuarrie, American conceptual designer (b. 1929)
 * Ronnie Montrose, American musician (b. 1947)
 * March 4
 * Pete McCaffrey, American basketball player (b. 1938)
 * Joan Taylor, American actress (b. 1929)
 * March 5 – Marian Kuszewski, Polish fencer (b. 1933)
 * March 6 – Francisco Xavier do Amaral, 1st President of East Timor (b. 1937)
 * March 7 – Włodzimierz Smolarek, Polish footballer (b. 1957)
 * March 10
 * Jean Giraud, French comics artist (b. 1938)
 * Frank Sherwood Rowland, American Nobel chemist (b. 1927)
 * March 14 – Ċensu Tabone, 4th President of Malta (b. 1913)
 * March 16 – Estanislau Basora, Spanish footballer (b. 1926)
 * March 17
 * John Demjanjuk, Ukrainian-American Nazi war crimes defendant (b. 1920)
 * Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria, (b. 1923)
 * March 18 – George Tupou V, King of Tonga (b. 1948)
 * March 21 – Tonino Guerra, Italian screenwriter (b. 1920)
 * March 23
 * Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, President of Somalia (2004–2008) (b. 1934)
 * Naji Talib, 52nd Prime Minister of Iraq (b. 1917)
 * March 25 – Antonio Tabucchi, Italian writer (b. 1943)
 * March 27 – Adrienne Rich, American writer and feminist (b. 1929)
 * March 28
 * Alexander Arutiunian, Armenian composer (b. 1920)
 * Earl Scruggs, American bluegrass musician (b. 1924)

April

 * April 1
 * Giorgio Chinaglia, Italian footballer (b. 1947)
 * Miguel de la Madrid, Mexican politician, President of Mexico (b. 1934)
 * Leila Denmark, American pediatrician (b. 1898)
 * April 2
 * Elizabeth Catlett, American-Mexican graphic artist and sculptor (b. 1915)
 * Jim Delaney, American athlete (b. 1921)
 * Fatma Neslişah, Turkish-Egyptian royal (b. 1921)
 * April 3
 * Richard Descoings, French civil servant (b. 1958)
 * Efraím Basílio Krevey, Brazilian bishop (b. 1928)
 * April 5 – Bingu wa Mutharika, 3rd President of Malawi (b. 1934)
 * April 7 – Mike Wallace, American journalist (b. 1918)
 * April 11 – Ahmed Ben Bella, 1st President of Algeria (b. 1918)
 * April 15 – Murray Rose, Australian swimmer (b. 1939)
 * April 16 – Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, Danish shipping magnate (b. 1913)
 * April 18 – Dick Clark, American television host and producer (b. 1929)
 * April 19 – Levon Helm, American musician (b. 1940)
 * April 20 – Valeri Vasiliev, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1949)
 * April 21 – Charles Colson, American evangelist (b. 1931)
 * April 29
 * Shukri Ghanem, Prime Minister of Libya (2003–2006) (b. 1942)
 * Joel Goldsmith, American composer (b. 1957)
 * April 30 – Alexander Dale Oen, Norwegian swimmer (b. 1985)

May

 * May 2 – Junior Seau, American football player (b. 1969)
 * May 4
 * Adam Yauch, American rapper (b. 1964)
 * Rashidi Yekini, Nigerian footballer (b. 1963)
 * May 8 – Maurice Sendak, American author (b. 1928)
 * May 9 – Vidal Sassoon, British hairdresser (b. 1928)
 * May 10
 * Joyce Redman, Irish-English actress (b. 1915)
 * Carroll Shelby, American automotive designer, racing driver and entrepreneur (b. 1923)
 * May 12 – Eddy Paape, Belgian comics artist (b. 1920)
 * May 13 – Donald "Duck" Dunn, American bass guitarist (b. 1941)
 * May 15 – Carlos Fuentes, Panamanian-born Mexican writer (b. 1928)
 * May 17 – Donna Summer, American singer (b. 1948)
 * May 18 – Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, German lyric baritone and conductor (b. 1925)
 * May 20 – Robin Gibb, British-Australian musician (b. 1949)
 * May 29 – Kaneto Shindo, Japanese film director (b. 1912)
 * May 30 – Andrew Huxley, British Nobel physiologist (b. 1917)

June

 * June 2 – Kathryn Joosten, American actress (b. 1939)
 * June 3 – Roy Salvadori, British racing driver (b. 1922)
 * June 4 – Eduard Khil, Russian baritone (b. 1934)
 * June 5 – Ray Bradbury, American author (b. 1920)
 * June 11
 * Ann Rutherford, Canadian-born American actress (b. 1917)
 * Teófilo Stevenson, Cuban boxer (b. 1952)
 * June 12 – Elinor Ostrom, American Nobel economist (b. 1933)
 * June 13 – William Standish Knowles, American Nobel chemist (b. 1917)
 * June 16 – Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia (b. 1933)
 * June 17 – Rodney King, American criminal and victim of police brutality (b. 1965)
 * June 26 – Nora Ephron, American film director and screenwriter (b. 1941)
 * June 30 – Yitzhak Shamir, 7th Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1915)

July

 * July 1
 * Evelyn Lear, American operatic soprano (b. 1926)
 * Alan G. Poindexter, American astronaut (b. 1961)
 * July 2 – Tsutomu Koyama, Japanese volleyball player (b. 1936)
 * July 3
 * Andy Griffith, American actor (b. 1926)
 * Sergio Pininfarina, Italian automobile designer (b. 1926)
 * July 4 – Eric Sykes, English actor (b. 1923)
 * July 5 – Gerrit Komrij, Dutch poet (b. 1944)
 * July 7
 * Mouss Diouf, Senegalese-French actor (b. 1964)
 * Leon Schlumpf, Swiss politician (b. 1925)
 * July 8 – Ernest Borgnine, American actor (b. 1917)
 * July 9
 * Jacqueline Mazéas, French athelete (b. 1920)
 * Eugênio Sales, Brazilian cardinal (b. 1920)
 * Isuzu Yamada, Japanese actress (b. 1917)
 * July 10
 * Lol Coxhill, English saxophonist (b. 1932)
 * Dolphy, Filipino comedian and actor (b. 1928)
 * July 11 – André Simon, French racing driver (b. 1920)
 * July 12 – Dara Singh, Indian wrestler and actor (b. [[19
 * July 13
 * Jerzy Kulej, Polish boxer and politician (b. 1940)
 * Sage Stallone, American actor and director (b. 1976)
 * Richard D. Zanuck, American film producer (b. 1934)
 * July 14 – Sixten Jernberg, Swedish cross-country skier (b. 1929)
 * July 15 – Celeste Holm, American actress (b. 1917)
 * July 16
 * William Asher, American producer and director (b. 1921)
 * Stephen Covey, American author (b. 1932)
 * Jon Lord, British musician and composer (b. 1941)
 * Kitty Wells, American country singer (b. 1919)
 * July 17 – Morgan Paull, American actor (b. 1944)
 * July 18
 * Yosef Shalom Eliashiv, Israeli rabbi (b. 1910)
 * Jean François-Poncet, French politician (b. 1928)
 * Rajesh Khanna, Indian actor (b. 1942)
 * Robert Kurz, German philosopher (b. 1943)
 * Günther Maleuda, German politician (b. 1931)
 * July 19
 * Hans Nowak, German footballer (b. 1937)
 * Omar Suleiman, Egyptian general, diplomat and intelligence officer (b. 1936)
 * July 20
 * Jack Davis, American athlete (b. 1930)
 * Hisham Ikhtiyar, Syrian military official (b. 1941)
 * Simon Ward, English actor (b. 1941)
 * July 21
 * Alexander Cockburn, Irish-American political journalist (b. 1941)
 * Susanne Lothar, German actress (b. 1960)
 * Ali Podrimja, Albanian poet (b. 1942)
 * July 22
 * George Armitage Miller, American psychologist (b. 1920)
 * Oswaldo Payá, Cuban political activist (b. 1952)
 * Frank Pierson, American screenwriter (b. 1925)
 * Bohdan Stupka, Ukranian actor (b. 1941)
 * July 23
 * Maria Emanuel, German noble (b. 1926)
 * Margaret Mahy, New Zealand author 9b. 1936)
 * Sally Ride, American astronaut and physicist (b. 1951)
 * Lakshmi Sahgal, Indian politician (b. 1914)
 * July 24
 * Chad Everett, American actor (b. 1937)
 * Sherman Hemsley, American actor (b. 1938)
 * John Atta Mills, Ghanian politician, President of Ghana (b. 1944)
 * Gregorio Peces-Barba, Spanish politician and jurist (b. 1938)
 * July 25 – Franz West, Austrian artist (b. 1947)
 * July 26
 * Lupe Ontiveros, American actress (b. 1942)
 * Mary Tamm, British actress (b. 1950)
 * James D. Watkins, American Naval officer and politician (b. 1927)
 * July 27
 * Norman Alden, American actor (b. 1924)
 * R. G. Armstrong, American actor (b. 1917)
 * Geoffrey Hughes, English actor (b. 1944)
 * Tony Martin, American singer (b. 1913)
 * Jack Taylor, English football referee (b. 1930)
 * July 29
 * Chris Marker, French writer and documentary filmmaker (b. 1921)
 * James Mellaart, British archaeologist (b. 1925)
 * July 30 – Maeve Binchy, Irish author (b. 1940)
 * July 31
 * Alfredo Ramos, Brazilian footballer (b. 1924)
 * Gore Vidal, American author, playwright, screenwriter, and political activist (b. 1925)

August

 * August 5 – Chavela Vargas, Costa Rican-born Mexican singer (b. 1919)
 * August 6
 * Marvin Hamlisch, American composer and conductor (b. 1944)
 * Bernard Lovell, British physicist and astronomer (b. 1913)
 * August 14 – Svetozar Gligorić, Serbian chess grandmaster (b. 1923)
 * August 15 – Harry Harrison, American author (b. 1925)
 * August 18
 * Scott McKenzie, American singer and songwriter (b. 1939)
 * William Windom, American actor (b. 1923)
 * August 19 – Tony Scott, British film director (b. 1944)
 * August 20
 * Phyllis Diller, American comedian (b. 1917)
 * Dom Mintoff, 8th Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1916)
 * Meles Zenawi, 3rd President and 10th Prime Minister of Ethiopia (b. 1955)
 * August 21 – William Thurston, American mathematician (b. 1946)
 * August 24 – Félix Miélli Venerando, Brazilian footballer (b. 1937)
 * August 25 – Neil Armstrong, American astronaut (b. 1930)
 * August 31
 * Carlo Maria Martini, Cardinal Archbishop of Milan (b. 1927)
 * Sergey Leonidovich Sokolov, Soviet military commander (b. 1911)

September

 * September 1
 * Hal David, American lyricist (b. 1921)
 * Smarck Michel, Haitian businessman and politician, Prime Minister of Haiti (b. 1937)
 * September 2 – Emmanuel Nunes, Portugese composer (b. 1941)
 * September 3
 * Griselda Blanco, Colombian drug lord (b. 1943)
 * Michael Clarke Duncan, American actor (b. 1957)
 * Mahmoud El-Gohary, Egyptian footballer (b. 1938)
 * Sun Myung Moon, Korean religious leader (b. 1920)
 * September 5
 * Christian Marin, French actor (b. 1929)
 * Joe South, American songwriter (b. 1940)
 * September 6 – Oscar Rossi, Argentine footballer (b. 1930)
 * September 7 – Leszek Drogosz, Polish boxer (b. 1933)
 * September 8 – Thomas Szasz, Hungarian-American psychiatrist (b. 1920)
 * September 10 – Lance LeGault, American actor (b. 193)
 * September 12 – Sid Watkins, British neurosurgeon (b. 1928)
 * September 16 – Ragnhild Alexandra Lorentzen, Princess of Norway, (b. 1930)
 * September 18 – Santiago Carrillo, Spanish politician (b. 1915)
 * September 23
 * Pavel Grachev, Russian military commander (b. 1948)
 * Corrie Sanders, South African boxer (b. 1966)
 * September 25 – Andy Williams, American singer (b. 1927)
 * September 27 – Herbert Lom, Czech-born actor (b. 1917)
 * September 28 – Michael O'Hare, American actor (b. 1952)
 * September 30 – Barbara Ann Scott, Canadian Olympic figure skater (b. 1928)

October

 * October 1
 * Dirk Bach, German actor (b. 1961)
 * Eric Hobsbawm, British Marxist historian (b. 1917)
 * Moshe Sanbar, Israeli economist (b. 1926)
 * Shlomo Venezia, Greek-Italian writer and Holocaust survivor (b. 1923)
 * October 2
 * J. Philippe Rushton, British-Canadian academic (b. 1943)
 * Big Jim Sullivan, English musician (b. 1941)
 * October 4 – Erhard Wunderlich, German handball player (b. 1956)
 * October 5
 * Keith Campbell, British biologist (b. 1954)
 * Edvard Mirzoyan, Armenian composer (b. 1921)
 * Claude Pinoteau, French director and screenwriter (b. 1925)
 * October 6
 * Chadli Bendjedid, Algerian politician, President of Algeria (b. 1929)
 * Antonio Cisneros, Peruvian poet (b. 1942)
 * J. J. C. Smart, Australian philosopher and academic (b. 1920)
 * October 7
 * Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano, Mexican drug lord (b. 1974)
 * Ivo Michiels, Belgian writer (b. 1923)
 * October 8
 * Rafael Lesmes, Spanish footballer (b. 1926)
 * John Tchicai, Danish jazz saxophonist (b. 1936)
 * October 9
 * Ken Bartholomew, American speed skater (b. 1920)
 * Paddy Roy Bates, British pirate radio broadcaster (b. 1921)
 * Kenny Rollins, American basketball player (b. 1923)
 * Harris Savides, American cinematographer (b. 1957)
 * October 10
 * Alex Karras, American football player and actor (b. 1935)
 * Carla Porta Musa, Italian essayist and poet (b. 1902)
 * October 11 – Helmut Haller, German footballer (b. 1939)
 * October 13
 * Gary Collins, American actor and talk show host (b. 1938)
 * Saiichi Maruya, Japanese author and literary critic (b. 1925)
 * October 14
 * Eddie Russo, American racecar driver (b. 1925)
 * Arlen Specter, American politician (b. 1930)
 * October 15 – King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia, (b. 1922)
 * October 17 – Sylvia Kristel, Dutch actress (b. 1952)
 * October 20 – E. Donnall Thomas, American Nobel physician (b. 1920)
 * October 21
 * Yash Chopra, Indian film director and producer (b.1932)
 * George McGovern, American politician, historian and author (b. 1922)
 * October 22 – Russell Means, American Sioux actor and activist (b. 1939)
 * October 24 – Margaret Osborne duPont, American tennis player (b. 1918)
 * October 27 – Hans Werner Henze, German composer (b. 1926)

November

 * November 1 – Agustín García Calvo, Spanish philologist (b. 1926)
 * November 2 – Han Suyin, Chinese-British author (b. 1916)
 * November 5
 * Elliott Carter, American composer (b. 1908)
 * Leonardo Favio, Argentine singer (b. 1938)
 * November 6 – Clive Dunn, English actor (b. 1920)
 * November 7
 * David Olive, British theoretical physicist (b. 1937)
 * Richard Robbins, American musician (b. 1940)
 * November 8 – Lucille Bliss, American voice actress (b. 1916)
 * November 9
 * Sergey Nikolsky, Russian mathematician (b. 1905)
 * Bill Tarmey, English actor (b. 1941)
 * November 11
 * Rex Hunt, English governor (b. 1926)
 * Victor Mees, Belgian footballer (b. 1927)
 * November 12
 * Sergio Oliva, Cuban-American bodybuilder (b. 1941)
 * Daniel Stern, English psychiatrist (b. 1934)
 * Ronald Stretton, English track cyclist (b. 1930)
 * November 13 – Yao Defen, Chinese record holder (b. 1972)
 * November 19 – Boris Strugatsky, Soviet-Russian science fiction writer (b. 1933)
 * November 23 – Larry Hagman, American actor (b. 1931)
 * November 25
 * Lars Hörmander, Swedish mathematician (b. 1931)
 * Dave Sexton, English footballer and coach (b. 1930)
 * November 26 – Joseph Murray, American Nobel surgeon (b. 1919)
 * November 30 – I. K. Gujral, 12th Prime Minister of India (b. 1919)

December

 * December 1 – Jovan Belcher, American football player (b. 1987)
 * December 3 – Fyodor Khitruk, Russian animator (b. 1917)
 * December 4 – Miguel Calero, Colombian footballer (b. 1971)
 * December 5
 * Dave Brubeck, American pianist (b. 1920)
 * Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian architect (b. 1907)
 * December 9 – Patrick Moore, British astronomer and broadcaster (b. 1923)
 * December 10 – Iajuddin Ahmed, 13th President of Bangladesh (b. 1931)
 * December 11
 * Ravi Shankar, Indian sitarist (b. 1920)
 * Galina Vishnevskaya, Russian soprano (b. 1926)
 * December 17 – Daniel Inouye, American politician (b. 1924)
 * December 24
 * Charles Durning, American actor (b. 1923)
 * Jack Klugman, American actor (b. 1922)
 * December 26 – Gerry Anderson, British television and film producer, director, writer (b. 1929)
 * December 27 – Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr., American general (b. 1934)
 * December 30 – Rita Levi-Montalcini, Italian Nobel neurologist (b. 1909)

January

 * January 1
 * Christopher Martin-Jenkins, British journalist (b. 1945)
 * Patti Page, American singer (b. 1927)
 * January 2 – Ladislao Mazurkiewicz, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1945)
 * January 3 – Sergiu Nicolaescu, Romanian film director, actor, and politician (b. 1930)
 * January 5 – Sol Yurick, American novelist (b. 1925)
 * January 7 – David R. Ellis, American film director (b. 1952)
 * January 9 – James M. Buchanan, American Nobel economist (b. 1919)
 * January 11
 * Nguyễn Khánh, Vietnamese general and politician (b. 1927)
 * Mariangela Melato, Italian actress (b. 1941)
 * January 14 – Conrad Bain, Canadian-American actor (b. 1923)
 * January 15 – Nagisa Oshima, Japanese film director (b. 1932)
 * January 17 – Jakob Arjouni, German author (b. 1964)
 * January 19 – Stan Musial, American baseball player (b. 1920)
 * January 21 – Michael Winner, British film director and producer (b. 1935)
 * January 23 – Józef Glemp, Polish cardinal (b. 1929)
 * January 25 – Shozo Shimamoto, Japanese artist (b. 1928)
 * January 31 – Rubén Bonifaz Nuño, Mexican poet (b. 1923)

February

 * February 1
 * Ed Koch, American lawyer and politician (b. 1924)
 * Robin Sachs, British actor (b. 1951)
 * February 2 – Chris Kyle, American Navy Seal (b. 1974)
 * February 4 – Reg Presley, English singer and songwriter (b. 1941)
 * February 5
 * Stuart Freeborn, English makeup artist (b. 1914)
 * Paul Tanner, American musician (b. 1917)
 * February 8 – Giovanni Cheli, Italian cardinal (b. 1918)
 * February 9 – Richard Artschwager, American painter (b. 1923)
 * February 10 – Zhuang Zedong, Chinese table tennis player (b. 1940)
 * February 12 – Frank Seator, Liberian footballer (b. 1975)
 * February 14 – Ronald Dworkin, American philosopher and lawyer (b. 1931)
 * February 17 – Tony Sheridan, British singer, songwriter, and musician (b. 1940)
 * February 18 – Kevin Ayers, British singer, songwriter, and musician (b. 1944)
 * February 19
 * Armen Alchian, American economist (b. 1914)
 * Robert Coleman Richardson, American Nobel physicist (b. 1937)
 * February 22 – Wolfgang Sawallisch, German conductor and pianist (b. 1923)
 * February 23 – Julien Ries, Belgian cardinal (b. 1920)
 * February 26 – Stéphane Hessel, French diplomat and writer (b. 1917)
 * February 27 – Van Cliburn, American pianist (b. 1934)
 * February 28 – Donald A. Glaser, American Nobel physicist (b. 1926)

March

 * March 1 – Bonnie Franklin, American actress (b. 1944)
 * March 3 – Luis Cubilla, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1940)
 * March 5
 * Paul Bearer, American professional wrestling manager (b. 1954)
 * Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela (b. 1954)
 * March 6
 * Stompin' Tom Connors, Canadian singer (b. 1936)
 * Alvin Lee, British guitarist (b. 1944)
 * March 7
 * Peter Banks, British guitarist (b. 1947)
 * Damiano Damiani, Italian film director and screenwriter (b. 1922)
 * March 10 – Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland, (b. 1915)
 * March 12 – Clive Burr, British drummer (b. 1957)
 * March 14 – Ieng Sary, Vietnamese-born Cambodian politician (b. 1925)
 * March 20 – Zillur Rahman, 19th President of Bangladesh (b. 1929)
 * March 21
 * Chinua Achebe, Nigerian writer (b. 1930)
 * Pietro Mennea, Italian athlete (b. 1952)
 * March 22 – Bebo Valdés, Cuban pianist, bandleader, and composer (b. 1918)
 * March 23
 * Boris Berezovsky, Russian businessman (b. 1946)
 * Joe Weider, Canadian-born American bodybuilder and publisher (b. 1920)
 * March 26 – Don Payne, American writer (b. 1964)
 * March 27 – Hjalmar Andersen, Norwegian skater (b. 1923)
 * March 28 – Richard Griffiths, British actor (b. 1947)

April

 * April 1
 * Moses Blah, Liberian politician, President of Liberia (b. 1947)
 * Nicolae Martinescu, Romanian wrestler (b. 1940)
 * Karen Muir, South African swimmer (b. 1952)
 * April 2
 * Jesús Franco, Spanish film director and screenwriter (b. 1930)
 * Milo O'Shea, Irish actor (b. 1926)
 * April 3
 * Mariví Bilbao, Spanish actress (b. 1930)
 * Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, German-born British novelist and screenwriter (b. 1927)
 * April 4 – Roger Ebert, American film critic and writer (b. 1942)
 * April 8 -
 * Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1925)
 * Sara Montiel, Spanish singer and actress (b. 1928)
 * April 9 – Paolo Soleri, Italian-born American architect (b. 1919)
 * April 10 – Robert Edwards, British Nobel physiologist (b. 1925)
 * April 11
 * Maria Tallchief, American prima ballerina (b. 1925)
 * Jonathan Winters, American comedian and actor (b. 1925)
 * Hilary Koprowski, Polish virologist and immunologist (b. 1916)
 * April 14 – Colin Davis, British conductor (b. 1927)
 * April 18 – Storm Thorgerson, British graphic designer (b. 1944)
 * April 19 – François Jacob, French Nobel biologist (b. 1920)
 * April 22 – Richie Havens, American folk singer (b. 1941)
 * April 26 – George Jones, American country music singer (b. 1931)
 * April 28 – János Starker, Hungarian-born American cellist (b. 1924)
 * April 30 – Deanna Durbin, Canadian-born singer and actress (b. 1921)

May

 * May 1 – Pierre Pleimelding, French footballer (b. 1952)
 * May 2
 * Jeff Hanneman, American guitarist (b. 1964)
 * Sarabjit Singh, Indian spy (b. 1963)
 * Ivan Turina, Croatian footballer (b. 1980)
 * May 3
 * Cedric Brooks, Jamaican saxophonist (b. 1943)
 * Brad Drewett, Australian tennis player (b. 1958)
 * Branko Vukelić, Croatian politician (b. 1958)
 * May 4
 * Otis R. Bowen, American politician (b. 1918)
 * Christian de Duve, Belgian biochemist (b. 1917)
 * Jacques Stockman, Belgian footballer (b. 1938)
 * May 5
 * Rossella Falk, Italian actress (b. 1926)
 * Sarah Kirsch, German poet (b. 1935)
 * Robert Ressler, American criminologist (b. 1937)
 * May 6
 * Giulio Andreotti, Italian politician, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1919)
 * Michel Knuysen, Belgian rower (b. 1929)
 * May 7
 * Ray Harryhausen, American filmmaker and visual effects technician (b. 1920)
 * Peter Rauhofer, Austrian disc jockey (b. 1965)
 * May 8
 * Jeanne Cooper, American actress (b. 1928)
 * Bryan Forbes, British actor and director (b. 1926)
 * Taylor Mead, American writer and actor (b. 1924)
 * Géza Vermes, British scholar (b. 1924)
 * May 9
 * Alfredo Landa, Spanish actor (b. 1933)
 * George M. Leader, American politician (b. 1918)
 * Ottavio Missoni, Italian fashion designer and hurdler (b. 1921)
 * Andrew Simpson, English sailor (b. 1976)
 * May 11 – Emmanuelle Claret, French biathlete (b. 1968)
 * May 12
 * Judit Ágoston-Mendelényi, Hungarian fencer (b. 1937)
 * Olaf B. Bjørnstad, Norwegian ski jumper (b. 1931)
 * Constantino Romero, Spanish actor and media host (b. 1947)
 * Kenneth Waltz, American political scientist (b. 1924)
 * May 13
 * Joyce Brothers, American psychologist (b. 1927)
 * Vladimir Romanovsky, Soviet sprint canoeist (b. 1957)
 * May 14 – Asghar Ali Engineer, Indian writer and activist (b. 1939)
 * May 15 – Henrique Rosa, Bissau-Guinean politician, President of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1946)
 * May 16
 * Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist (b. 1933)
 * Paul Shane, English comedian and actor (b. [[1940}})
 * May 17
 * Philippe Gaumont, French road racing cyclist (b. 1973)
 * Elijah Harper, Canadian politician (b. 1949)
 * Ken Venturi, American golfer (b. 1931)
 * Jorge Rafael Videla, Argentine military general and politician, President of Argentina (b. 1925)
 * May 18
 * Aleksei Balabanov, Russian filmmaker (b. 1959)
 * Jo Benkow, Norwegian politician and writer (b. 1924)
 * Steve Forrest, American actor (b. 1925)
 * Ernst Klee, German journalist and author (b. 1938)
 * Lothar Schmid, German chess grandmaster (b. 1928)
 * May 20
 * Ray Manzarek, American keyboardist (b. 1939)
 * Zach Sobiech, American singer (b. 1995)
 * May 21
 * Trevor Bolder, British musician (b. 1950)
 * Zsolt Erőss, Hungarian mountaineer (b. 1968)
 * Dominique Venner, French historian and writer (b. 1935)
 * May 22
 * Henri Dutilleux, French composer (b. 1916)
 * Andrea Gallo, Italian presbyter (b. 1928)
 * Brian Greenhoff, English footballer (b. 1953)
 * May 23 – Georges Moustaki, French singer and songwriter (b. 1934)
 * May 24 – Ed Shaughnessy, American drummer (b. 1929)
 * May 26 – Jack Vance, American novelist (b. 1916)
 * May 31 – Jean Stapleton, American actress (b. 1923)

June

 * June 3 – Frank Lautenberg, American politician (b. 1924)
 * June 6
 * Jerome Karle, American Nobel chemist (b. 1918)
 * Esther Williams, American swimmer and actress (b. 1921)
 * June 7
 * Pierre Mauroy, Prime Minister of France (1981–1984) (b. 1928)
 * Richard Ramirez, American serial killer (b. 1960)
 * June 8 – Yoram Kaniuk, Israeli writer (b. 1930)
 * June 9 – Iain Banks, British novelist (b. 1954)
 * June 11 – Robert Fogel, American Nobel economic historian (b. 1926)
 * June 15
 * Heinz Flohe, German footballer (b. 1948)
 * Kenneth G. Wilson, American Nobel physicist (b. 1936)
 * June 16
 * Josip Kuže, Croatian footballer and coach (b. 1952)
 * Ottmar Walter, German footballer (b. 1924)
 * June 19
 * James Gandolfini, American actor (b. 1961)
 * Gyula Horn, Prime Minister of Hungary (1994–1998) (b. 1932)
 * June 23
 * Bobby Bland, American singer and songwriter (b. 1930)
 * Richard Matheson, American author and screenwriter (b. 1926)
 * June 24 – Emilio Colombo, 40th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1920)
 * June 26 – Marc Rich, Belgian-born American commodities trader and criminal (b. 1934)
 * June 27 – Alain Mimoun, French track and field athlete (b. 1921)
 * June 29 – Jim Kelly, American martial artist and actor (b. 1946)

July

 * July 1 – Ján Zlocha, Slovakian footballer (b. 1942)
 * July 2
 * Douglas Engelbart, American computer scientist and inventor (b. 1925)
 * Fawzia Fuad, Egyptian princess (b. 1921)
 * Bengt Hallberg, Swedish jazz pianist (b. 1932)
 * July 3
 * Claude Arabo, French fencer (b. 1937)
 * Radu Vasile, Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1942)
 * July 4
 * Jack Crompton, English footballer (b. 1921)
 * Bernie Nolan, Irish-English actress and singer (b. 1960)
 * July 5 – James McCoubrey, Canadian-American supercentenarian (b. 1901)
 * July 12 – Amar Bose, American engineer and entrepreneur (b. 1929)
 * July 13 – Cory Monteith, Canadian actor (b. 1982)
 * July 19
 * Mel Smith, British comedian and actor (b. 1952)
 * Bert Trautmann, German-born British footballer (b. 1923)
 * July 20 – Helen Thomas, American journalist (b. 1920)
 * July 22 – Dennis Farina, American actor (b. 1944)
 * July 23
 * Emile Griffith, American welterweight boxer (b. 1938)
 * Djalma Santos, Brazilian footballer (b. 1929)
 * July 25
 * Walter De Maria, American sculptor and composer (b. 1935)
 * Bernadette Lafont, French actress (b. 1938)
 * July 26 – JJ Cale, American singer and songwriter (b. 1938)
 * July 28 – Eileen Brennan, American actress (b. 1932)
 * July 29 – Christian Benítez, Ecuadorian footballer (b. 1986)
 * July 30 – Antoni Ramallets, Spanish footballer (b. 1924)

August

 * August 2 – Alla Kushnir, Russian-Israeli chessmaster (b. 1941)
 * August 4
 * Sherko Bekas, Iraqi Kurish poet (b. 1940)
 * Bill Hoskyns, British fencer (b. 1931)
 * Renato Ruggiero, Italian politician (b. 1930)
 * August 5 – George Duke, American keyboardist (b. 1946)
 * August 6 – Selçuk Yula, Turkish footballer (b. 1959)
 * August 7
 * Anthony Pawson, British-Canadian scientist (b. 1952)
 * Alexander Yagubkin, Russian boxer (b. 1961)
 * August 8
 * Karen Black, American actress (b. 1939)
 * Jack Clement, American singer (b. 1931)
 * Igor Kurnosov, Russian chess grandmaster (b. 1985)
 * Regina Resnik, American opera singer (b. 1922)
 * August 9
 * Eduardo Falú, Argentine folk singer (b. 1923)
 * Haji, Canadian-American actress (b. 1946)
 * August 10
 * William P. Clark, Jr., American judge (b. 1931)
 * László Csatáry, Hungarian war criminal (b. 1915)
 * Eydie Gormé, American singer (b. 1928)
 * August 11
 * Raymond Delisle, French racing cyclist (b. 1943)
 * Judit Temes, Hungarian swimmer (b. 1930)
 * August 12 – Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau, (b. 1968)
 * August 13
 * Lothar Bisky, German politician (b. 1941)
 * Jean Vincent, French footballer (b. 1930)
 * August 14
 * Lisa Robin Kelly, American actress (b. 1970)
 * Allen Lanier, American musician (b. 1946)
 * August 15
 * Rosalía Mera, Spanish entrepreneur (b. 1944)
 * Sławomir Mrożek, Polish writer (b. 1930)
 * August Schellenberg, Canadian-American actor b. 1936)
 * Jacques Vergès, Thai-French lawyer (b. 1925)
 * August 16 – David Rees, British mathematician (b. 1918)
 * August 17 – David Landes, American academic (b. 1924)
 * August 18
 * Dezső Gyarmati, Hungarian water polo player (b. 1927)
 * Rolv Wesenlund, Norwegian comedian and actor (b. 1936)
 * August 19
 * Stephenie McMillan, British set decorator (b. 1942)
 * Cedar Walton, American pianist (b. 1934)
 * Lee Thompson Young, American actor (b. 1983)
 * August 20
 * Elmore Leonard, American novelist (b. 1925)
 * Marian McPartland, British-born pianist (b. 1918)
 * August 21
 * Sid Bernstein, American music producer (b. 1918)
 * C. Gordon Fullerton, American astronaut (b. 1936)
 * August 22 – Jetty Paerl, Dutch singer (b. 1921)
 * August 23 – Gilbert Taylor, English cinematographer (b. 1914)
 * August 24
 * Julie Harris, American actress (b. 1925)
 * Nílton de Sordi, Brazilian footballer (b. 1931)
 * August 25 – Gylmar dos Santos Neves, Brazilian footballer (b. 1930)
 * August 27 – Zelmo Beaty, American basketball player (b. 1939)
 * August 30 – Seamus Heaney, Irish Nobel poet (b. 1939)
 * August 31 – David Frost, British journalist and broadcaster (b. 1939)

September

 * September 1
 * Pál Csernai, Hungarian footballer (b. 1932)
 * Ignacio Eizaguirre, Spanish footballer (b. 1920)
 * Tommy Morrison, American boxer (b. 1969)
 * September 2
 * Valérie Benguigui, French actress (b. 1965)
 * Ronald Coase, British Nobel economist (b. 1910)
 * Frederik Pohl, American writer (b. 1919)
 * September 4 – Stanislav Stepashkin, Soviet boxer (b. 1940)
 * September 5 – Rochus Misch, German bodyguard of Adolf Hitler (b. 1917)
 * September 6 – Ann C. Crispin, American author (b. 1950)
 * September 7 – Marek Špilár, Slovak footballer (b. 1975)
 * September 12
 * Ray Dolby, American engineer and inventor (b. 1933)
 * Otto Sander, German actor (b. 1941)
 * September 13 – Salustiano Sanchez, Spanish supercentarian (b. 1901)
 * September 14 – Faith Leech, Australian swimmer (b. 1941)
 * September 16 – Chin Peng, Malaysian politician (b. 1924)
 * September 18
 * Ken Norton, American boxer (b. 1943)
 * Marcel Reich-Ranicki, German literary critic and member of the literary group Gruppe 47 (b. 1920)
 * Richard C. Sarafian, American director (b. 1930)
 * September 19
 * Gerrie Mühren, Dutch footballer (b. 1946)
 * Hiroshi Yamauchi, Japanese businessman (b. 1927)
 * September 21 – Kofi Awoonor, Ghanaian poet (b. 1935)
 * September 22
 * David H. Hubel, Canadian-born American Nobel neuroscientist (b. 1926)
 * Luciano Vincenzoni, Italian screenwriter (b. 1926)
 * September 23
 * Vlatko Marković, Croatian footballer (b. 1937)
 * Stanisław Szozda, Polish cyclist (b. 1950)
 * September 26 – Denis Brodeur, Canadian photographer (b. 1930)
 * September 27
 * Oscar Castro-Neves, Brazilian guitarist (b. 1940)
 * Tuncel Kurtiz, Turkish actor (b. 1936)
 * September 28 – Igor Romishevsky, Russian hockey player (b. 1940)
 * September 29
 * Harold Agnew, American physicist (b. 1926)
 * S. N. Goenka, Burmese-Indian Vipassana teacher (b. 1924)
 * Bob Kurland, American basketball player (b. 1924)
 * Walter White, American chemist and criminal (b. 1959)
 * Walter White, American chemist and criminal (b. 1959)

October

 * October 1
 * Peer Broadbent, English footballer (b. 1933)
 * Tom Clancy, American writer (b. 1947)
 * Giuliano Gemma, Italian actor (b. 1938)
 * Israel Gutman, Polish-Israeli Holocaust survivor and historian (b. 1923)
 * Juan José Linz, Spanish sociologist and political scientist (b. 1926)
 * Ole Danbolt Mjøs, Norwegian physician and politician (b. 1939)
 * October 3
 * Sergei Belov, Russian basketball player (b. 1944)
 * Masae Kasai, Japanese volleyball player (b. 1933)
 * October 4
 * Akira Miyoshi, Japanese composer (b. 1933)
 * Võ Nguyên Giáp, Vietnamese General (b. 1911)
 * October 5 – Carlo Lizzani, Italian film director (b. 1922)
 * October 6 – Paul Rogers, English actor (b. 1917)
 * October 7
 * Patrice Chéreau, French opera and theatre director, filmmaker, actor and producer (b. 1944)
 * Joanna Chmielewska, Polish novelist (b. 1932)
 * Ovadia Yosef, Israeli religious leader (b. 1920)
 * October 8
 * Philip Chevron, Irish musician (b. 1957)
 * José Faria, Brazilian football coach (b. 1933)
 * Rod Grams, American politician (b. 1948)
 * Khady Sylla, Senegalese writer (b. 1963)
 * October 9
 * Norma Bengell, Brazilian actress and filmmaker (b. 1935)
 * Wilfried Martens, Belgian politician, Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1936)
 * Milan Matulović, Serbian chess grandmaster (b. 1935)
 * October 10
 * Scott Carpenter, American astronaut (b. 1925)
 * Daniel Duval, French actor and director (b. 1944)
 * Kumar Pallana, Indian actor (b. 1918)
 * October 11 -
 * María de Villota, Spanish racing driver (b. 1980)
 * Wadih El Safi, Lebanese singer (b. 1921)
 * Erich Priebke, German SS captain and war criminal (b. 1913)
 * October 12
 * George Herbig, American astronomer (b. 1920)
 * Oscar Hijuelos, American novelist (b. 1951)
 * Ulf Linde, Swedish art critic (b. 1929)
 * October 13
 * Olga Aroseva, Soviet-Russian actress (b. 1925)
 * Joe Meriweather, American basketball player (b. 1953)
 * Takashi Yanase, Japanese writer and cartoonist (b. 1919)
 * October 14 – Bruno Metsu, French football coach (b. 1954)
 * October 15
 * Sean Edwards, English racing driver (b. 1986)
 * Rudolf Friedrich, Swiss politician (b. 1923)
 * Hans Riegel, German entrepreneur (b. 1923)
 * October 16
 * Albert Bourlon, French racing cyclist (b. 1916)
 * Ed Lauter, American actor (b. 1938)
 * October 17
 * Lou Scheimer, American animation producer (b. 1928)
 * Rene Simpson, Canadian tennis player (b. 1966)
 * October 18
 * Ravuri Bharadhwaja, Indian novelist (b. 1927)
 * Tom Foley, American politician and diplomat (b. 1929)
 * Allan Stanley, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1926)
 * Bill Young, American politician (b. 1930)
 * October 19
 * Georges Descrières, French actor (b. 1930)
 * Noel Harrison, English musician and skier (b. 1934)
 * Ronald Shannon Jackson, American jazz drummer and composer (b. 1940)
 * Viktor Tsybulenko, Ukrainian javelin thrower (b. 1930)
 * October 20
 * Jovanka Broz, Yugoslavian First Lady (b. 1924)
 * Jamalul Kiram III, Filipino politician (b. 1938)
 * Lawrence Klein, American economist (b. 1920)
 * Imre Nagy, Hungarian pentathlete (b. 1933)
 * Joginder Singh, Kenyan rally driver (b. 1932)
 * Dmitri Zaikin, Russian engineer and cosmonaut trailer (b. 1932)
 * October 21 – Gianni Ferrio, Italian composer (b. 1924)
 * October 23 – Anthony Caro, British sculptor (b. 1924)
 * October 24
 * {[Antonia Bird]], English director and producer (b. 1951)
 * Manna Dey, Indian singer (b. 1919)
 * Manolo Escobar, Spanish singer (b. 1931)
 * Ebbe Parsner, Danish rower (b. 1922)
 * Frank Perconte, American soldier (b. 1917)
 * Nyanasamvara Suvaddhana, Thai Buddhist monk (b. 1913)
 * Henry Taylor, British racing driver (b. 1932)
 * October 25
 * Arthur Danto, American art critic and philosopher (b. 1924)
 * Nigel Davenport, English actor (b. 1928)
 * Arne Johansen, Norwegian speed skater (b. 1927)
 * Hal Needham, American film director and stuntman (b. 1931)
 * Bill Sharman, American basketball player and coach (b. 1926)
 * Marcia Wallace, American actress and comedienne (b. 1942)
 * October 27
 * Olga Gyarmati, Hungarian athlete (b. 1924)
 * Luigi Magni, Italian screenwriter (b. 1928)
 * Lou Reed, American singer, songwriter, and musician (b. 1942)
 * October 28
 * Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Polish politician, Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1927)
 * Rajendra Yadav, Indian writer (b. 1929)
 * October 29
 * Allal Ben Kassou, Moroccan footballer (b. 1941)
 * Graham Stark, English actor and comedian (b. 1922)
 * October 30
 * Michael Palmer, American physician and author (b. 1942)
 * Anca Petrescu, Romanian architect and politician (b. 1949)
 * Frank Wess, American saxophonist (b. 1922)
 * October 31 – Gérard de Villiers, French writer (b. 1929)

November

 * November 1 – Hakimullah Mehsud, Pakistani Taliban leader (b. 1979)
 * November 2
 * Walt Bellamy, American basketball player (b. 1939)
 * Ghislaine Dupont, French journalist (b. 1956)
 * November 3 – Gerard Cieślik, Polish footballer (b. 1927)
 * November 4 – Hans von Borsody, German actor (b. 1929)
 * November 5 – Stuart Williams, Welsh footballer (b. 1930)
 * November 7
 * Nikolai Karpov, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1929)
 * Paul Mantee, American actor (b. 1931)
 * Amparo Rivelles, Spanish actress (b. 1925)
 * Manfred Rommel, German politician (b. 1928)
 * November 11
 * Domenico Bartolucci, Italian cardinal (b. 1917)
 * Shirley Mitchell, American actress (b. 1919)
 * November 12 – John Tavener, British composer (b. 1944)
 * November 15 – Glafcos Clerides, 4th President of Cyprus (b. 1919)
 * November 17 – Doris Lessing, British Nobel writer (b. 1919)
 * November 19 – Frederick Sanger, British Nobel biochemist (b. 1918)
 * November 20 – Joseph Paul Franklin, American murderer (b. 1950)
 * November 25
 * Bill Foulkes, British footballer (b. 1932)
 * Chico Hamilton, American drummer and bandleader (b. 1921)
 * November 26 – Arik Einstein, Israeli singer, songwriter, and actor (b. 1939)
 * November 27 – Nílton Santos, Brazilian footballer (b. 1925)
 * November 28 – Mitja Ribičič, Slovene politician, 25th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1919)
 * November 30 – Paul Walker, American actor (b. 1973)

December

 * December 1 – Heinrich Boere, Dutch-German Nazi war criminal (b. 1921)
 * December 2
 * Junior Murvin, Jamaican reggae musician (b. 1946)
 * Pedro Rocha, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1942)
 * Christopher Evan Welch, American actor (b. 1965)
 * December 3
 * Paul Aussaresses, French army general (b. 1918)
 * Ahmed Fouad Negm, Egyptian vernacular poet (b. 1929)
 * December 5
 * Barry Jackson, English actor (b. 1938)
 * Nelson Mandela, 1st President of South Africa and Nobel laureate (b. 1918)
 * Colin Wilson, English writer and philosopher (b. 1931)
 * December 6
 * Jean-Pierre Desthuilliers, French writer and poet (b. 1939)
 * Tom Krause, Finnish opera singer (b. 1934)
 * December 7
 * Alan Bridges, English director (b. 1927)
 * Nadezhda Ilyina, Russian athlete (b. 1949)
 * Eero Kolehmainen, Finnish cross country skier (b. 1918)
 * Édouard Molinaro, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1928)
 * December 8 – John Cornforth, Australian–British Nobel chemist (b. 1917)
 * December 9 – Eleanor Parker, American actress (b. 1922)
 * December 10 – Jim Hall, American guitarist and composer (b. 1930)
 * December 12 – Jang Sung-taek, North Korean politician (b. 1946)
 * December 14 – Peter O'Toole, British Irish actor (b. 1932)
 * December 15
 * Harold Camping, American evangelist (b. 1921)
 * Joan Fontaine, Japanese-born British American actress (b. 1917)
 * December 16 – Ray Price, American singer and songwriter (b. 1926)
 * December 18 – Ronnie Biggs, British criminal (b. 1929)
 * December 23
 * Mikhail Kalashnikov, Russian inventor (b. 1919)
 * Yusef Lateef, American jazz musician and composer (b. 1920)
 * December 26 – Marta Eggerth, Hungarian silent film actress (b. 1912)
 * December 29 – Wojciech Kilar, Polish composer (b. 1932)
 * December 30 – Eero Mäntyranta, Finnish skier (b. 1937)
 * December 31 – James Avery, American actor (b. 1945)

January

 * January 3
 * Phil Everly, American musician (b. 1937)
 * Saul Zaentz, American film producer (b. 1921)
 * January 5 – Eusébio, Portuguese footballer (b. 1942)
 * January 7 – Run Run Shaw, Hong Kong filmmaker and entrepreneur (b. 1907)
 * January 9
 * Amiri Baraka, American poet (b. 1934)
 * Dale T. Mortensen, American Nobel economist (b. 1939)
 * January 10 – Zbigniew Messner, 9th Prime Minister of the People's Republic of Poland (b. 1929)
 * January 11
 * Ariel Sharon, 11th Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1928)
 * Vugar Gashimov, Azerbaijani chess grandmaster (b. 1986)
 * January 14 – Mae Young, American professional wrestler (b. 1923)
 * January 15
 * John Dobson, American amateur astronomer (b. 1915)
 * Roger Lloyd-Pack, British actor (b. 1944)
 * January 16
 * Russell Johnson, American actor (b. 1924)
 * Dave Madden, Canadian-American actor (b. 1931)
 * Hiroo Onoda, Japanese army officer (b. 1922)
 * January 20 – Claudio Abbado, Italian conductor (b. 1933)
 * January 23 – Riz Ortolani, Italian film composer (b. 1926)
 * January 25 – Gyula Sax, Hungarian chess grandmaster (b. 1951)
 * January 26 – José Emilio Pacheco, Mexican poet and writer (b. 1939)
 * January 27 – Pete Seeger, American singer, songwriter, musician, and activist (b. 1919)
 * January 31
 * Miklós Jancsó, Hungarian film director (b. 1921)
 * Christopher Jones, American actor (b. 1941)

February

 * February 1
 * Luis Aragonés, Spanish footballer and coach (b. 1938)
 * Stefan Bozhkov, Bulgarian footballer and coach (b. 1923)
 * Tony Hateley, English footballer (b. 1941)
 * Vasily Petrov, Russian military official (b. 1917)
 * Dave Power, Australian athlete (b. 1928)
 * Maximilian Schell, Austrian-Swiss actor (b. 1930)
 * February 2
 * Gerd Albrecht, German conductor (b. 1935)
 * Eduardo Coutinho, Brazilian filmmaker (b. 1933)
 * Philip Seymour Hoffman, American actor (b. 1967)
 * February 3
 * Louise Brough, American tennis player (b. 1923)
 * Richard Bull, American actor (b. 1924)
 * Gloria Leonard, American pornographic actress (b. 1940)
 * February 5 – Robert A. Dahl, American political theorist (b. 1915)
 * February 6 – Maxine Kumin, American poet (b. 1925)
 * February 9 – Gabriel Axel, Danish film director (b. 1918)
 * February 10
 * Stuart Hall, Jamaican-British sociologist (b. 1932)
 * Shirley Temple, American actress and diplomat (b. 1928)
 * February 11 – Alice Babs, Swedish singer (b. 1924)
 * February 12 – Sid Caesar, American actor (b. 1922)
 * February 13
 * Richard Møller Nielsen, Danish football player and coach (b. 1937)
 * Ralph Waite, American actor (b. 1928)
 * February 14 – Tom Finney, English footballer (b. 1922)
 * February 15 – Christopher Malcolm, English actor (b. 1946)
 * February 18 – Nelson Frazier, Jr., American professional wrestler (b. 1971)
 * February 19 – Valeri Kubasov, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1935)
 * February 23 – Alice Herz-Sommer, Czech-British pianist (b. 1903)
 * February 24 – Harold Ramis, American film director, writer, and actor (b. 1944)
 * February 25
 * Mário Coluna, Mozambican-born Portuguese footballer (b. 1935)
 * Jim Lange, American game show host (b. 1932)
 * February 26 – Paco de Lucía, Spanish guitarist (b. 1947)
 * February 28 – Michio Mado, Japanese poet (b. 1909)

March

 * March 1 – Alain Resnais, French film director (b. 1922)
 * March 2
 * Ryhor Baradulin, Belarusian poet (b. 1935)
 * Rudolph Rummel, American political scientist (b. 1932)
 * March 3
 * Robert Ashley, American composer (b. 1930)
 * Martin Gutzwiller, Swiss-American physicist (b. 1925)
 * William R. Pogue, American astronaut and pilot (b. 1930)
 * March 4 – Wu Tianming, Chinese film director (b. 1939)
 * March 5
 * Scott Kalvert, American film director (b. 1964)
 * Leopoldo María Panero, Spanish poet (b. 1948)
 * March 6
 * Jean-Louis Bertucelli, French film director (b. 1942)
 * Maurice Faure, French politician (b. 1922)
 * Barbro Kollberg, Swedish film actress (b. 1917)
 * Sheila MacRae, English-American actress (b. 1921)
 * Manlio Sgalambro, Italian philosopher (b. 1924)
 * March 7
 * Hal Douglas, American voice actor (b. 1924)
 * Victor Shem-Tov, Israeli politician (b. 1915)
 * March 8
 * William Guarnere, American soldier (b. 1923)
 * Wendy Hughes, Australian actress (b. 1952)
 * Evgeni Krasilnikov, Russian volleyball player (b. 1965)
 * Gerard Mortier, Belgian opera director (b. 1943)
 * Larry Scott, American bodybuilder (b. 1938)
 * March 9
 * Mohammed Fahim, Afghan politician, Vice President of Afghanistan (b. 1957)
 * William Clay Ford Sr., American businessman (b. 1925)
 * Nazario Moreno González, Mexican drug lord (b. 1970)
 * March 10 – Georges Lamia, French footballer (b. 1933)
 * March 11 – Bob Crow, English trade unionist (b. 1961)
 * March 12 – Věra Chytilová, Czech film director (b. 1929)
 * March 13 – Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, 3rd President of Sierra Leone (b. 1932)
 * March 14 – Tony Benn, British politician and diarist (b. 1925)
 * March 15 – Scott Asheton, American drummer (b. 1949)
 * March 17 – Oswald Morris, British cinematographer (b. 1915)
 * March 18 – Lucius Shepard, American writer (b. 1942)
 * March 19 – Fred Phelps, American pastor (b. 1929)
 * March 20 – Hilderaldo Bellini, Brazilian footballer (b. 1930)
 * March 21
 * Ignatius Zakka I Iwas, 122nd Syriac Orthodox Patriarch (b. 1933)
 * James Rebhorn, American actor (b. 1948)
 * March 23 – Adolfo Suárez, 138th Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1932)
 * March 27 – James R. Schlesinger, American economist and politician (b. 1929)
 * March 28 – Lorenzo Semple, Jr., American screenwriter (b. 1923)
 * March 30 – Kate O'Mara, English actress (b. 1939)
 * March 31 – Frankie Knuckles, American disk jockey and record producer (b. 1955)

April

 * April 1 – Jacques Le Goff, French historian (b. 1924)
 * April 4 – Kumba Ialá, President of Guinea-Bissau (2000–2003) (b. 1953)
 * April 5
 * John Pinette, American comedian (b. 1964)
 * José Wilker, Brazilian film director (b. 1944)
 * April 6 – Mickey Rooney, American actor (b. 1920)
 * April 8
 * The Ultimate Warrior, American professional wrestler (b. 1959)
 * Karlheinz Deschner, German activist and writer (b. 1924)
 * April 9 – A. N. R. Robinson, 3rd President of Trinidad and Tobago (b. 1926)
 * April 10
 * Jim Flaherty, Canadian politician (b. 1949)
 * Sue Townsend, British novelist and playwright (b. 1946)
 * April 13 – Ernesto Laclau, Argentine political theorist (b. 1935)
 * April 16 – Gyude Bryant, Liberian politician (b. 1949)
 * April 17 – Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian Nobel writer (b. 1927)
 * April 20 – Rubin Carter, American boxer (b. 1937)
 * April 23 – Michael Glawogger, Austrian film director (b. 1959)
 * April 24
 * Hans Hollein, Austrian architect (b. 1934)
 * Tadeusz Różewicz, Polish poet and playwright (b. 1921)
 * April 26 – Gerald Guralnik, American physicist (b. 1936)
 * April 27 – Vujadin Boškov, Serbian football player and coach (b. 1931)
 * April 29 – Bob Hoskins, British actor (b. 1942)

May

 * May 2 – Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., American actor (b. 1918)
 * May 3 – Gary Becker, American Nobel economist (b. 1930)
 * May 6
 * Jimmy Ellis, American boxer (b. 1940)
 * Farley Mowat, Canadian author (b. 1921)
 * May 7
 * Nazim_Al-Haqqani, Cypriot scholar (b. 1922)
 * Colin Pillinger, English planetary scientist (b. 1943)
 * May 8 – Yago Lamela, Spanish athlete (b. 1977)
 * May 9
 * Harlan Matthews, American politician (b. 1927)
 * Mel Patton, American sprinter (b. 1924)
 * Mary Stewart, British novelist (b. 1916)
 * May 10 – Nash the Slash, Canadian musician (b. 1948)
 * May 12
 * Marco Cé, Italian cardinal (b. 1925)
 * H. R. Giger, Swiss artist (b. 1940)
 * May 13 – Malik Bendjelloul, Swedish filmmaker (b. 1977)
 * May 15 – Jean-Luc Dehaene, 63rd Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1940)
 * May 17 – Gerald Edelman, American Nobel biologist (b. 1929)
 * May 18
 * Dobrica Ćosić, Serbian writer and politician, President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (b. 1921)
 * Wubbo Ockels, Dutch astronaut and physicist (b. 1946)
 * Jerry Vale, American singer and actor (b. 1930)
 * Gordon Willis, American cinematographer (b. 1931)
 * May 19 – Jack Brabham, Australian race car driver (b. 1926)
 * May 21 – Jaime Lusinchi, President of Venezuela (b. 1924)
 * May 22 – Matthew Cowles, American actor (b. 1944)
 * May 25 – Wojciech Jaruzelski, Communist leader of Poland (b. 1923)
 * May 28
 * Maya Angelou, American poet and author (b. 1928)
 * Malcolm Glazer, American businessman (b. 1928)
 * May 29 – Karlheinz Böhm, Austrian actor (b. 1928)
 * May 30 – Joan Lorring, British-American actress (b. 1926)
 * May 31
 * Marinho Chagas, Brazilian footballer (b. 1952)
 * Martha Hyer, American actress (b. 1924)

June

 * June 1
 * Ann B. Davis, American actress (b. 1926)
 * Jay Lake, American writer (b. 1964)
 * Valentin Mankin, Ukrainian sailor, Olympic triple champion and silver medalist (b. 1938)
 * June 2
 * Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy, Indian cardinal (b. 1924)
 * Alexander Shulgin, American pharmacologist and chemist (b. 1925)
 * June 7 – Fernandão, Brazilian footballer and manager (b. 1978)
 * June 9
 * Bernard Agré, Ivorian cardinal (b. 1926)
 * Rik Mayall, British comedian, writer and actor (b. 1958)
 * June 11
 * Ruby Dee, American actress, poet, and playwright (b. 1922)
 * Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Spanish conductor and composer (b. 1933)
 * June 13 – Gyula Grosics, Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1926)
 * June 15
 * Casey Kasem, American radio host and voice actor (b. 1932)
 * Daniel Keyes, American author (b. 1927)
 * June 18
 * Stephanie Kwolek, American chemist (b. 1923)
 * Horace Silver, American jazz pianist and composer (b. 1928)
 * June 24
 * Ramón José Velásquez, Venezuelan historian, journalist and politician (b. 1916)
 * Eli Wallach, American actor (b. 1915)
 * June 25 – Ana María Matute, Spanish author (b. 1925)
 * June 26 – Howard Baker, American politician and diplomat (b. 1925)
 * June 27
 * Leslie Manigat, 43rd President of Haiti (b. 1930)
 * Bobby Womack, American singer-songwriter (b. 1944)
 * June 30
 * Paul Mazursky, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1930)
 * Željko Šturanović, Prime Minister of Montenegro (b. 1960)

July

 * July 2 – Louis Zamperini, American long distance runner and prisoner of war (b. 1917)
 * July 4 – Giorgio Faletti, Italian author (b. 1950)
 * July 5
 * Robert Jeangerard, American basketball player (b. 1933)
 * Rosemary Murphy, American actress (b. 1925)
 * Volodymyr Sabodan, Ukrainian Orthodox hierarch (b. 1935)
 * July 6
 * Alan J. Dixon, American politician (b. 1927)
 * Dave Legeno, English actor (b. 1963)
 * July 7
 * Alfredo Di Stéfano, Argentine-Spanish footballer (b. 1926)
 * Francisco Gabica, Spanish cyclist (b. 1937)
 * Dick Jones, American actor (b. 1927)
 * Eduard Shevardnadze, 2nd President of Georgia (b. 1928)
 * July 10
 * On Kawara, Japanese concept artist (b. 1932)
 * Zohra Sehgal, Indian actress and dancer (b. 1912)
 * July 11
 * Howard Cooke, Jamaican politician (b. 1915)
 * Charlie Haden, American jazz bassist (b. 1937)
 * Tommy Ramone, Hungarian-American drummer and producer (b. 1949)
 * John Seigenthaler, American journalist (b. 1927)
 * July 12 – Valeriya Novodvorskaya, Russian politician (b. 1950)
 * July 13
 * Thomas Berger, American novelist (b. 1924)
 * Nadine Gordimer, South African Nobel writer (b. 1923)
 * Lorin Maazel, French-American conductor and violinist (b. 1930)
 * July 14 – Alice Coachman, American athlete (b. 1923)
 * July 16 – Johnny Winter, American singer and guitarist (b. 1944)
 * July 17
 * Henry Hartsfield, American colonel and astronaut (b. 1933)
 * Elaine Stritch, American actress and singer (b. 1925)
 * July 19
 * Skye McCole Bartusiak, American actress (b. 1992)
 * David Easton, Canadian-American political scientist (b. 1917)
 * James Garner, American actor (b. 1928)
 * July 25 – Carlo Bergonzi, Italian tenor and actor (b. 1924)
 * July 27 – Francesco Marchisano, Italian cardinal (b. 1929)
 * July 28 – James Shigeta, American actor (b. 1929)
 * July 30
 * Julio Grondona, Argentinian football authority (b. 1931)
 * Dick Smith, American make-up artist (b. 1922)

August

 * August 1 – Valyantsin Byalkevich, Belarusian footballer and manager (b. 1973)
 * August 2 – Barbara Prammer, Austrian politician (b. 1954)
 * August 3 – Edward Clancy, Australian cardinal (b. 1923)
 * August 5 – Marilyn Burns, American actress (b. 1949)
 * August 8
 * Menahem Golan, Israeli filmmaker (b. 1929)
 * Peter Sculthorpe, Australian composer (b. 1929)
 * August 9 – Andriy Bal, Ukrainian football player and coach (b. 1958)
 * August 11
 * Vladimir Beara, Yugoslav football player and manager (b. 1928)
 * Pierre Ryckmans, Belgian diplomat and author (b. 1935)
 * Robin Williams, American actor and comedian (b. 1951)
 * August 12 – Lauren Bacall, American actress (b. 1924)
 * August 13 – Frans Brüggen, Dutch musician (b. 1934)
 * August 15 – Licia Albanese, Italian-American soprano (b. 1909)
 * August 18 – Don Pardo, American radio and television announcer (b. 1918)
 * August 19
 * Simin Behbahani, Iranian poet (b. 1927)
 * Brian G. Hutton, American film director (b. 1935)
 * August 20
 * B. K. S. Iyengar, Indian yoga teacher and author (b. 1918)
 * Edmund Szoka, American cardinal (b. 1927)
 * August 21 – Albert Reynolds, Irish Taoiseach (prime minister) (b. 1932)
 * August 24 – Richard Attenborough, British actor and film director (b. 1923)
 * August 28 – Glenn Cornick, British bass guitarist (b. 1947)
 * August 29 – Björn Waldegård, Swedish rally driver (b. 1943)
 * August 30 – Andrew V. McLaglen, American film director (b. 1920)

September

 * September 1
 * Ahmed Abdi Godane, Somali militant (b. 1977)
 * Jimi Jamison, American musician (b. 1951)
 * Gottfried John, German actor (b. 1942)
 * Elena Varzi, Italian actress (b. 1926)
 * September 2
 * Norman Gordon, South African cricketer (b. 1911)
 * Helena Rakoczy, Polish gymnast (b. 1921)
 * Sándor Rozsnyói, Hungarian athlete (b. 1930)
 * September 4
 * Gustavo Cerati, Argentine singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1959)
 * Donatas Banionis, Lithuanian actor (b. 1924)
 * Joan Rivers, American comedian, actress, and television host (b. 1933)
 * September 5 – Wolfhart Pannenberg, German theologian (b. 1928)
 * September 6 – Kira Zvorykina, Belarusian chess player (b. 1919)
 * September 7 – Yoshiko Ōtaka, Chinese-Japanese actress, singer, and politician (b. 1920)
 * September 8 – Magda Olivero, Italian soprano (b. 1910)
 * September 10 – Richard Kiel, American actor (b. 1939)
 * September 12
 * Atef Ebeid, Egyptian politician, 47th Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1932)
 * Ian Paisley, British politician and First Minister of Northern Ireland (b. 1926)
 * Joe Sample, American pianist and composer (b. 1939)
 * September 15
 * Yitzhak Hofi, Israeli general (b. 1927)
 * Nicholas Romanov, Prince of Russia (b. 1922)
 * September 17 – Andriy Husin, Ukrainian footballer and manager (b. 1972)
 * September 20
 * Anatoly Berezovoy, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1942)
 * Polly Bergen, American actress (b. 1930)
 * September 24 – Christopher Hogwood, English conductor, writer, and musicologist (b. 1941)
 * September 25
 * Sulejman Tihić, Bosnian politician (b. 1951)
 * Dorothy Tyler-Odam, British athlete (b. 1920)
 * September 28 – Dannie Abse, British poet (b. 1923)
 * September 30 – Martin Lewis Perl, American Nobel physicist (b. 1927)

October

 * October 1
 * Lynsey de Paul, English musician (b. 1948)
 * Shlomo Lahat, German-Israeli general (b. 1927)
 * October 2
 * André Buffière, French basketball player (b. 1922)
 * György Lázár, Hungarian politician (b. 1924)
 * October 3
 * Jean-Jacques Marcel], Frenchy footballer (b. [[1931)
 * Lori Sandri, Brazilian football manager (b. 1949)
 * October 4
 * Fyodor Cherenkov, Russian footballer and manager (b. 1959)
 * Jean-Claude Duvalier, Haitian politician, President of Haiti (b. 1951)
 * October 5
 * Andrea de Cesaris, Italian race car driver (b. 1959)
 * Göte Hagström, Swedish long distance runner (b. 1918)
 * Geoffrey Holder, Trinidadian-American actor and dancer (b. 1930)
 * Yuri Lyubimov, Russian actor and director (b. 1917)
 * Anna Przybylska, Polish actress (b. 1978)
 * Misty Upham, American actress (b. 1982)
 * October 6
 * Feridun Buğeker, Turkish footballer (b. 1933)
 * Igor Mitoraj, Polish sculptor (b. 1944)
 * Marian Seldes, American actress (b. 1928)
 * Serhiy Zakarlyuka, Ukrainian footballer (b. 1976)
 * October 7 – Siegfried Lenz, German writer (b. 1926)
 * October 9
 * Jan Hooks, American actress and comedian (b. 1957)
 * M. V. Kamath, Indian journalist (b. 1921)
 * October 10
 * Valeri Karpov, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1971)
 * Finn Lied, Norwegian military researcher and politician (b. 1916)
 * October 11 – Carmelo Simeone, Argentine footballer (b. 1934)
 * October 13 – Pontus Segerström, Sweidsh footballer (b. 1981)
 * October 14 – Elizabeth Peña, American actress (b. 1959)
 * October 16 – John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough, British peer and educator (b. 1926)
 * October 17 – Masaru Emoto, Japanese author (b. 1943)
 * October 19 – Raphael Ravenscroft, English saxophonist (b. 1954)
 * October 20 – Oscar de la Renta, Dominican-American fashion designer (b. 1932)
 * October 21 – Gough Whitlam, 21st Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1916)
 * October 23 – Tullio Regge, Italian physicist and academic (b. 1931)
 * October 24
 * Mbulaeni Mulaudzi, South African middle-distance runner (b. 1980)
 * Marcia Strassman, American actress (b. 1948)
 * October 25 – Jack Bruce, British rock bassist (b. 1943)
 * October 28 – Michael Sata, 5th President of Zambia (b. 1937)
 * October 29
 * Rainer Hasler, Liechtensteiner footballer (b. 1958)
 * Klas Ingesson, Swedish footballer (b. 1968)
 * October 30 – Thomas Menino, American politician, 53rd Mayor of Boston (b. 1942)

November

 * November 1
 * Gustau Biosca, Spanish footballer (b. 1928)
 * Jackie Fairweather, Australian athlete (b. 1967)
 * Brittany Maynard, American right-to-die activist (b. 1984)
 * Vira Silenti, Italian actress (b. 1931)
 * Wayne Static, American guitarist and vocalist (b. 1965)
 * November 2
 * Acker Bilk, British jazz clarinetist (b. 1929)
 * Veljko Kadijević, Yugoslavian general (b. 1925)
 * November 3
 * Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Indian actress (b. 1950)
 * Mariam Fakhr Eddine, Egyptian actress (b. 1933)
 * Gordon Tullock, American economist and academic (b. 1922)
 * November 5
 * Alexei Devotchenko, Russian actor and activist (b. 1965)
 * Lane Evans, American politician (b. 1951)
 * Manitas de Plata, French guitarist (b. 1921)
 * Abdelwahab Meddeb, Tunisian-French poet and writer (b. 1946)
 * November 10 – Ken Takakura, Japanese actor (b. 1931)
 * November 12 – Warren Clarke, English actor (b. 1947)
 * November 13 – Alexander Grothendieck, German-French mathematician (b. 1928)
 * November 14
 * Eugene Dynkin, Russian-American mathematician and academic (b. 1924)
 * Glen A. Larson, American television producer and writer (b. 1937)
 * November 16 – Serge Moscovici, Romanian-French psychologist (b. 1925)
 * November 19 – Mike Nichols, German-born American director (b. 1931)
 * November 20 – Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba, Spanish aristocrat (b. 1926)
 * November 22 – Fiorenzo Angelini, Italian cardinal (b. 1916)
 * November 24 – Viktor Tikhonov, Soviet ice hockey player and coach (b. 1930)
 * November 26 – Sabah, Lebanese singer and actress (b. 1927)
 * November 27 – P. D. James, English writer and life peer (b. 1920)
 * November 28 – Chespirito, Mexican actor and comedian (b. 1929)
 * November 30 – Go Seigen, Chinese-born Japanese Go player (b. 1914)

December

 * December 2
 * Don L. Anderson, American geophysicist (b. 1933)
 * Jean Béliveau, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1931)
 * Bobby Keys, American saxophonist (b. 1943)
 * Deven Verma, Indian actor (b. 1937)
 * December 3
 * Jacques Barrot, French politician (b. 1937)
 * Nathaniel Branden, Canadian-American physchotherapist (b. 1930)
 * Sjefke Janssen, Dutch racing cyclist (b. 1919)
 * Vicente Leñero, Mexican novelist (b. 1933)
 * Ian McLagan, British musician (b. 1945)
 * December 4 – Jeremy Thorpe, English politician (b. 1929)
 * December 5
 * Queen Fabiola of Belgium (b. 1928)
 * Silvio Zavala, Mexican historian and diplomat (b. 1909)
 * December 6 – Ralph H. Baer, American video game pioneer (b. 1922)
 * December 7
 * Mango, Italian singer-songwriter (b. 1954)
 * Ken Weatherwax, American actor (b. 1955)
 * December 8
 * Knut Nystedt, Norwegian composer (b. 1915)
 * Elmārs Zemgalis, Latvian-American chess master (b. 1923)
 * December 9
 * Jorge María Mejía, Argentine cardinal (b. 1923)
 * Mary Ann Mobley, American actress and model (b. 1937)
 * December 10 – Ralph Giordano, German writer (b. 1923)
 * December 11 – George Ardisson, Italian actor (b. 1931)
 * December 12
 * Norman Bridwell, American author (b. 1928)
 * Ivor Grattan-Guinness, English historian (b. 1941)
 * Billy Milligan, American mental patient (b. 1955)
 * December 13 – Ernst Albrecht, German politician (b. 1930)
 * December 14 – Louis Alphonse Koyagialo, Congolese politician (b. 1947)
 * December 16
 * Maurice Duverger, French jurist and sociologist (b. 1917)
 * Man Haron Monis, Iranian-Australian cleric and hostage taker (b. 1964)
 * Ernie Terrell, American boxer (b. 1939)
 * December 18
 * Virna Lisi, Italian actress (b. 1936)
 * Ante Žanetić, Croatian footballer 9b. 1936)
 * December 19
 * Philip Bradbourn, British politician (b. 1951)
 * Igor Rodionov, Russian general (b. 1936)
 * December 20 – Per-Ingvar Brånemark, Swedish physician (b. 1929)
 * December 21
 * Åke Johansson, Swedish footballer (b. 1928)
 * Udo Jürgens, Austrian composer and singer (b. 1934)
 * Billie Whitelaw, English actress (b. 1932)
 * December 22
 * Christine Cavanaugh, American voice actress (b. 1963)
 * Joe Cocker, English singer (b. 1944)
 * Joseph Sargent, American film director (b. 1925)
 * Fritz Sdunek, German boxing trainer (b. 1947)
 * December 24
 * Buddy DeFranco, American jazz clarinet player (b. 1923)
 * Krzysztof Krauze, Polish director (b. 1953)
 * December 25
 * Alberta Adams, American blues singer (b. 1917)
 * Mary F. Lyon, English geneticist (b. 1925)
 * David Ryall, English actor (b. 1935)
 * Gleb Yakunin, Russian priest (b. 1934)
 * December 26 – Leo Tindemans, 43rd Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1922)
 * December 27 – Tomaž Šalamun, Slovenian poet (b. 1941)
 * December 30 – Luise Rainer, German-born American actress (b. 1910)
 * December 31
 * Edward Herrmann, American television and film actor (b. 1943)
 * Arthur Valerian Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington (b. 1915)

January

 * January 1
 * Ulrich Beck, German sociologist (b. 1944)
 * Mario Cuomo, American politician (b. 1932)
 * Donna Douglas, American actress and singer (b. 1932)
 * Jeff Golub, American jazz guitarist (b. 1955)
 * Omar Karami, Lebanese politician, Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1934)
 * Géry Leuliet, French prelate (b. 1910)
 * Boris Morukov, Russian astronaut (b. 1950)
 * Ninón Sevilla, Cuban-Mexican actress (b. 1921)
 * January 2
 * Little Jimmy Dickens, American singer (b. 1920)
 * Derek Minter, British road racer (b. 1932)
 * Lam Pou-chuen, Hong Kong voice actor (b. 1951)
 * Arpád Račko, Slovakian sculptor (b. 1930)
 * January 3
 * Muath Al-Kasasbeh, Jordanian pilot (b. 1988)
 * Edward Brooke, American politician (b. 1919)
 * Paulinus Costa, Bangladeshi archbishop (b. 1936)
 * Olga Knyazeva, Russian fencer (b. 1954)
 * Bernice Madigan, American supercentenarian (b. 1899)
 * Jouko Törmänen, Finnish ski jumper (b. 1954)
 * January 4
 * Pino Daniele, Italian singer, songwriter, and guitarist (b. 1955)
 * Stuart Scott, American sportscaster (b. 1965)
 * January 5 – Jean-Pierre Beltoise, French race car driver (b. 1937)
 * January 6 – Vlastimil Bubník, Czech ice hockey player and footballer (b. 1931)
 * January 7
 * Tadeusz Konwicki, Polish writer and film director (b. 1926)
 * Rod Taylor, Australian actor (b. 1930)
 * January 8 – Andraé Crouch, American singer, songwriter, and pastor (b. 1942)
 * January 9 – Józef Oleksy, 7th Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1946)
 * January 10 – Francesco Rosi, Italian film director (b. 1922)
 * January 11
 * Jenő Buzánszky, Hungarian footballer (b. 1925)
 * Anita Ekberg, Swedish actress (b. 1931)
 * January 12 – Elena Obraztsova, Russian opera singer (b. 1939)
 * January 17 – Faten Hamama, Egyptian actress (b. 1931)
 * January 19 – Anne Kirkbride, English actress (b. 1954)
 * January 20
 * Edgar Froese, German musician (b. 1944)
 * Hitoshi Saito, Japanese judoka (b. 1961)
 * January 21 – Leon Brittan, British politician (b. 1939)
 * January 23
 * King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia (b. 1924)
 * Ernie Banks, American baseball player (b. 1931)
 * January 24 – Otto Carius, German WWII tank commander (b. 1922)
 * January 25 – Demis Roussos, Greek singer (b. 1946)
 * January 27 – Charles Hard Townes, American Nobel physicist (b. 1915)
 * January 28 – Yves Chauvin, French Nobel chemist (b. 1930)
 * January 29 – Colleen McCullough, Australian writer (b. 1937)
 * January 30
 * Carl Djerassi, American chemist (b. 1923)
 * Geraldine McEwan, British actress (b. 1932)
 * Zhelyu Zhelev, 1st President of Bulgaria (b. 1935)
 * January 31
 * Udo Lattek, German footballer and coach (b. 1935)
 * Lizabeth Scott, American actress (b. 1922)
 * Richard von Weizsäcker, President of Germany (b. 1920)

February

 * February 1
 * Aldo Ciccolini, Italian-born French pianist (b. 1925)
 * Monty Oum, American animator and writer (b. 1981)
 * February 2
 * Frank Borghi, American soccer player (b. 1925)
 * Andriy Kuzmenko, Ukranian singer (b. 1968)
 * Karl-Erik Palmér, Swedish footballer (b. 1929)
 * Stewart Stern, American screenwriter (b. 1922)
 * February 3 – Martin Gilbert, English historian (b. 1936)
 * February 5
 * Henri Coppens, Belgian footballer and coach (b. 1930)
 * Val Logsdon Fitch, American Nobel physicist (b. 1923)
 * February 6
 * André Brink, South African writer (b. 1935)
 * Assia Djebar, Algerian writer (b. 1936)
 * February 7
 * Billy Casper, American golfer (b. 1931)
 * Marshall Rosenberg, American psychologist and writer (b. 1934)
 * February 8 – Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde, Finnish physician (b. 1939)
 * February 10 – Karl Josef Becker, German cardinal (b. 1928)
 * February 11
 * Roger Hanin, French actor and director (b. 1925)
 * Bob Simon, American television correspondent (b. 1941)
 * Jerry Tarkanian, American basketball coach (b. 1930)
 * February 12
 * David Carr, American writer (b. 1956)
 * Movita Castaneda, American actress (b. 1916)
 * Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat, Malaysian politician and cleric (b. 1931)
 * Steve Strange, Welsh singer (b. 1959)
 * February 14
 * Michele Ferrero, Italian businessman (b. 1925)
 * Louis Jourdan, French actor (b. 1921)
 * Franjo Mihalić, Croatian-Serbian athlete and coach (b. 1920)
 * Wim Ruska, Dutch wrestler and martial artist (b. 1940)
 * February 16
 * Lesley Gore, American singer (b. 1946)
 * Lorena Rojas, Mexican actress (b. 1971)
 * February 18 – Claude Criquielion, Belgian road bicycle racer (b. 1957)
 * February 19
 * Ivan Davidov, Bulgarian footballer (b. 1943)
 * Gérard Ducarouge, French car designer (b. 1941)
 * Talus Taylor, American writer (b. 1933)
 * February 20
 * Ibrahim Biogradlić, Bosnian footballer (b. 1931)
 * Patricia Norris, American costume designer (b. 1931)
 * February 21
 * Aleksei Gubarev, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1931)
 * Luca Ronconi, Italian actor and director (b. 1933)
 * Bruce Sinofsky, American documentarian (b. 1956)
 * Clark Terry, American jazz trumpeter and fugelhornist (b. 1920)
 * February 22 – Pasquale Carminucci, Italian gymnast (b. 1937)
 * February 23 – James Aldridge, Australian-British author (b. 1918)
 * February 24
 * Rakhat Aliyev, Kazakh politician and diplomat (b. 1962)
 * Bertrice Small, American author (b. 1937)
 * February 25
 * Eugenie Clark, American ichthyologist (b. 1922)
 * Marian Szeja, Polish footballer (b. 1941)
 * February 26
 * Earl Lloyd, American basketball player (b. 1928)
 * Curt Michel, American astrophysicist (b. 1934)
 * Fritz J. Raddatz, German feuilletonist (b. 1931)
 * Avijit Roy, Bangladeshi-American online activist and blogger (b. 1972)
 * February 27
 * Mykhailo Chechetov, Ukranian politician (b. 1953)
 * Boris Nemtsov, Russian politician (b. 1959)
 * Leonard Nimoy, American actor (b. 1931)
 * February 28
 * Yaşar Kemal, Turkish author (b. 1923)
 * Anthony Mason, American basketball player (b. 1966)

March

 * March 1
 * Joshua Fishman, American linguist (b. 1926)
 * Orrin Keepnews, American record producer (b. 1923)
 * Guram Minashvili, Georgian basketball player (b. 1935)
 * Carel Visser, Dutch sculptor (b. 1928)
 * Daniel von Bargen, American actor (b. 1950)
 * Chris Welp, German basketball player (b. 1964)
 * Wolfram Wuttke, German footballer (b. 1961)
 * March 2
 * Francisco González Ledesma, Spanish writer (b. 1927)
 * Dave Mackay, Scottish footballer and coach (b. 1934)
 * March 4 – Karl-Alfred Jacobsson, Swedish footballer (b. 1926)
 * March 5
 * Edward Egan, American cardinal (b. 1932)
 * Evelyn Furtsch, American athlete (b. 1914)
 * March 7 – Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Japanese manga artist (b. 1935)
 * March 8 – Sam Simon, American producer and philanthropist (b. 1955)
 * March 9
 * Camille Muffat, French swimmer (b. 1989)
 * Frei Otto, German architect (b. 1925)
 * Alexis Vastine, French boxer (b. 1986)
 * March 11 – Walter Burkert, German academic and writer (b. 1931)
 * March 12
 * Michael Graves, American architect (b. 1934)
 * Terry Pratchett, English writer (b. 1948)
 * March 13 – Daevid Allen, Australian musician (b. 1938)
 * March 14 – Valentin Rasputin, Russian writer (b. 1937)
 * March 15
 * Xu Caihou, Chinese army general (b. 1943)
 * Mike Porcaro, American bass guitarist (b. 1955)
 * March 16 – Andy Fraser, English songwriter and bass guitarist (b. 1952)
 * March 19 – Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs, Dutch athlete (b. 1923)
 * March 20 – Malcolm Fraser, 22nd Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1930)
 * March 21
 * Hans Erni, Swiss artist (b. 1909)
 * Jørgen Ingmann, Danish musician (b. 1925)
 * Alberta Watson, Canadian actress (b. 1955)
 * March 23 – Lee Kuan Yew, 1st Prime Minister of Singapore (b. 1923)
 * March 26
 * Dinkha IV, Iraqi patriarch (b. 1935)
 * Tomas Tranströmer, Swedish Nobel poet and translator (b. 1931)
 * March 27 – Olga Syahputra, Indonesian actor and singer (b. 1983)
 * March 29 – Miroslav Ondříček, Czech cinematographer (b. 1934)
 * March 30 – Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld, Dutch astronomer (b. 1921)

April

 * April 1
 * Zdravko-Ćiro Kovačić, Croatian water polo player (b. 1925)
 * Cynthia Lennon, English author (b. 1939)
 * Misao Okawa, Japanese supercentenarian (b. 1898)
 * Nicolae Rainea, Romanian football referee (b. 1933)
 * April 2 – Manoel de Oliveira, Portuguese film director and screenwriter (b. 1908)
 * April 3 – Bob Burns, American drummer (b. 1950)
 * April 4 – Klaus Rifbjerg, Danish author (b. 1931)
 * April 6 – James Best, American actor (b. 1926)
 * April 7 – Geoffrey Lewis, American actor (b. 1935)
 * April 8 – Jean-Claude Turcotte, Canadian cardinal (b. 1936)
 * April 10 – Rose Francine Rogombé, Gabonese lawyer and politician (b. 1942)
 * April 13
 * Eduardo Galeano, Uruguayan writer (b. 1940)
 * Günter Grass, German Nobel writer (b. 1927)
 * Thelma Coyne Long, Australian tennis player (b. 1918)
 * April 14
 * Percy Sledge, American singer (b. 1940)
 * Roberto Tucci, Italian cardinal (b. 1921)
 * April 15 – Surya Bahadur Thapa, 24th Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1928)
 * April 16 – Stanislav Gross, 5th Prime Minister of the Czech Republic (b. 1969)
 * April 17
 * Francis George, American cardinal (b. 1937)
 * Jaroslav Holík, Czech ice hockey coach and player (b. 1942)
 * April 18 – Erwin Waldner, German footballer (b. 1933)
 * April 19
 * Richard Anthony, Egyptian-French singer (b. 1938)
 * Elio Toaff, Italian rabbi (b. 1915)
 * April 21
 * M.H. Abrams, American literary critic (b. 1912)
 * John Moshoeu, South African footballer (b. 1965)
 * April 23 – Richard Corliss, American film critic (b. 1944)
 * April 24 – Władysław Bartoszewski, Polish politician and resistance fighter (b. 1922)
 * April 27
 * Verne Gagne, American professional wrestler (b. 1926)
 * Andrew Lesnie, Australian cinematographer (b. 1956)
 * April 29 – Giovanni Canestri, Italian cardinal (b. 1918)
 * April 30
 * Ben E. King, American singer (b. 1938)
 * Patachou, French singer and actress (b. 1918)
 * Nigel Terry, English actor (b. 1945)

May

 * May 1
 * Geoff Duke, British motorcycle racer (b. 1923)
 * Grace Lee Whitney, American actress and singer (b. 1930)
 * May 2
 * Michael Blake, American author (b. 1945)
 * Maya Plisetskaya, Russian ballet dancer, choreographer, ballet director, and actress (b. 1925)
 * Ruth Rendell, British author (b. 1930)
 * May 3 – Revaz Chkheidze, Georgian film director (b. 1926)
 * May 4 – Ellen Albertini Dow, American actress (b. 1913)
 * May 5 – Craig Gruber, American bassist (b. 1951)
 * May 6
 * Errol Brown, British-Jamaican singer (b. 1943)
 * Jim Wright, American politician (b. 1922)
 * May 9 – Kenan Evren, Turkish military officer, seventh President of Turkey (b. 1917)
 * May 10 – Chris Burden, American artist (b. 1946)
 * May 12 – Peter Gay, American psychohistorian (b. 1923)
 * May 14 – B.B. King, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1925)
 * May 15 – Renzo Zorzi, Italian racing driver (b. 1946)
 * May 18
 * Halldór Ásgrímsson, Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1947)
 * Raymond Gosling, British scientist (b. 1926)
 * May 19 – Gerald Götting, German politician (b. 1923)
 * May 21 – Annarita Sidoti, Italian race walker (b. 1969)
 * May 23
 * Anne Meara, American actress and comedian (b. 1929)
 * John Forbes Nash, Jr., American Nobel mathematician (b. 1928)
 * May 24 – Tanith Lee, British writer (b. 1947)
 * May 25 – Mary Ellen Mark, American photographer (b. 1940)
 * May 26 – Vicente Aranda, Spanish film director (b. 1926)
 * May 27 – Nils Christie, Norwegian criminologist (b. 1928)
 * May 29
 * Henry Carr, American sprinter (b. 1941)
 * Doris Hart, American tennis player (b. 1925)
 * Betsy Palmer, American actress (b. 1926)

June

 * June 1
 * Charles Kennedy, British politician (b. 1959)
 * Nicholas Liverpool, Dominican politician, sixth President of Dominica (b. 1934)
 * June 2 – Irwin Rose, American Nobel biochemist (b. 1926)
 * June 4 – Hermann Zapf, German typeface designer (b. 1918)
 * June 5
 * Tariq Aziz, Iraqi politician (b. 1936)
 * Richard Johnson, English actor (b. 1927)
 * June 6 – Pierre Brice, French actor (b. 1929)
 * June 7 – Christopher Lee, English actor (b. 1922)
 * June 9 – James Last, German composer and big band leader (b. 1929)
 * June 10 – Robert Chartoff, American film producer (b. 1933)
 * June 11
 * Ornette Coleman, American free jazz saxophonist (b. 1930)
 * Ron Moody, British actor (b. 1924)
 * Dusty Rhodes, American professional wrestler (b. 1945)
 * June 12 – Rick Ducommun, Canadian actor (b. 1952)
 * June 14
 * Qiao Shi, Chinese politician (b. 1924)
 * Zito, Brazilian footballer (b. 1932)
 * June 15
 * Jeanna Friske, Russian singer, model, and actress (b. 1974)
 * Kirk Kerkorian, American businessman (b. 1917)
 * June 16 – Charles Correa, Indian architect (b. 1930)
 * June 17
 * Ron Clarke, Australian runner (b. 1937)
 * Süleyman Demirel, Turkish politician, ninth President of Turkey (b. 1924)
 * Roberto M. Levingston, Argentine general and politician, 36th President of Argentina (b. 1920)
 * June 20 – Esther Brand, South African athlete (b. 1922)
 * June 21
 * Veijo Meri, Finnish writer (b. 1928)
 * Gunther Schuller, American composer, conductor, historian, and jazz musician (b. 1925)
 * June 22
 * Laura Antonelli, Italian actress (b. 1941)
 * James Horner, American film composer (b. 1953)
 * June 23
 * Magali Noël, French actress and singer (b. 1931)
 * Dick Van Patten, American actor (b. 1928)
 * June 25
 * Nerses Bedros XIX Tarmouni, Armenian Catholic Patriarch of Cilicia (b. 1940)
 * Patrick Macnee, English actor (b. 1922)
 * June 26 – Yevgeny Primakov, Russian politician and diplomat, Prime Minister of Russia from 1998 to 1999 (b. 1929)
 * June 27 – Chris Squire, English bass guitarist (b. 1948)
 * June 29
 * Josef Masopust, Czech football player and coach (b. 1931)
 * Charles Pasqua, French politician (b. 1927)

July

 * July 1
 * Val Doonican, Irish singer (b. 1927)
 * Robert La Caze, French racing driver (b. 1917)
 * Czesław Olech, Polish mathematician (b. 1931)
 * Sergio Sollima, Italian film director (b. 1921)
 * Nicholas Winton, British humanitarian (b. 1909)
 * July 2
 * Slavko Avsenik, Slovene composer (b. 1929)
 * Petro Korol, Ukranian weightlifter (b. 1941)
 * Jacobo Zabludovsky, Mexican journalist (b. 1928)
 * July 3
 * Diana Douglas, Bermudian-American actress (b. 1923)
 * Goran Gogić, Serbian footballer (b. 1986)
 * Boyd K. Packer, American religious leader (b. 1924)
 * Amanda Peterson, American actress (b. 1971)
 * Jacques Sernas, Lithuanian-French actor (b. 1925)
 * July 4 – Nedelcho Beronov, Bulgarian jurist and politician (b. 1928)
 * July 5 – Yoichiro Nambu, Japanese-American Nobel physicist (b. 1921)
 * July 6 – Jerry Weintraub, American film producer (b. 1937)
 * July 8 – Irwin Keyes, American actor (b. 1952)
 * July 10
 * Roger Rees, Welsh-American actor (b. 1944)
 * Omar Sharif, Egyptian actor (b. 1932)
 * Jon Vickers, Canadian tenor (b. 1926)
 * July 11
 * Giacomo Biffi, Italian cardinal (b. 1928)
 * Patricia Crone, Danish scholar (b. 1945)
 * Satoru Iwata, Japanese businessman and video game programmer (b. 1959)
 * July 12 – Chenjerai Hove, Zimbabwean poet (b. 1956)
 * July 13 – Martin Litchfield West, British classical scholar (b. 1937)
 * July 14 – Ildikó Schwarczenberger, Hungarian fencer (b. 1951)
 * July 15 – Wan Li, Chinese politician (b. 1916)
 * July 16 – Alcides Ghiggia, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1926)
 * July 17 – Jules Bianchi, French race car driver (b. 1989)
 * July 18
 * George Coe, American actor (b. 1929)
 * Alex Rocco, American actor (b. 1936)
 * July 19 – Galina Prozumenshchikova, Soviet swimmer (b. 1948)
 * July 21
 * Theodore Bikel, Austrian-American actor (b. 1924)
 * E. L. Doctorow, American author (b. 1931)
 * July 23 – William Wakefield Baum, American Catholic cardinal (b. 1926)
 * July 27 – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Indian scientist and politician, 11th President of India (b. 1931)
 * July 28 – Edward Natapei, 6th Prime Minister of Vanuatu (b. 1954)
 * July 30
 * Lynn Anderson, American country singer (b. 1947)
 * Alena Vrzáňová, Czech figure skater (b. 1931)
 * July 31 – Roddy Piper, Canadian wrestler (b. 1954)

August

 * August 1
 * Stephan Beckenbauer, German footballer (b. 1968)
 * Cilla Black, English singer and entertainer (b. 1943)
 * Bernard d'Espagnat, French theoretical physicist and philosopher (b. 1921)
 * Chiara Pierobon, Italian racing cyclist (b. 1993)
 * August 2
 * Piet Fransen, Dutch footballer (b. 1936)
 * Natalia Molchanova, Russian free diver (b. 1962)
 * August 3
 * Hiroyuki Agawa, Japanese author (b. 1920)
 * Robert Conquest, British-born American historian (b. 1917)
 * Coleen Gray, American actress (b. 1922)
 * Margot Loyola, Chilean musician (b. 1918)
 * Johanna Quandt, German businesswoman (b. 1926)
 * August 4 – Takashi Amano, Japanese photographer (b. 1954)
 * August 5
 * George Cole, English actor (b. 1954)
 * Ellen Vogel, Dutch actress (b. 1922)
 * August 6
 * Mircea Dobrescu, Romanian boxer (b. 1930)
 * Ulla Lindkvist, Swedish orienteer (b. 1939)
 * Orna Porat, German-Israeli actress (b. 1924)
 * August 7
 * Manuel Contreras, Chilean general (b. 1929)
 * Terrence Evans, American actor (b. 1934)
 * Wei Jianxing, Chinese politician (b. 1931)
 * Frances Oldham Kelsey, Canadian physician (b. 1914)
 * Louise Suggs, American professional golfer (b. 1923)
 * August 8 – Sean Price, American rapper (b. 1972)
 * August 9
 * Frank Gifford, American football player and sports commentator (b. 1930)
 * Jack Gold, British director (b. 1930)
 * John Henry Holland, American computer scientist (b. 1929)
 * August 10
 * Endre Czeizel, Hungarian physician (b. 1935)
 * Hubert Haenel, French politician (b. 1942)
 * August 11
 * Nour El-Sherif, Egyptian actor (b. 1946)
 * Harald Nielsen, Danish footballer (b. 1941)
 * August 12
 * Jaakko Hintikka, Finnish philosopher and logician (b. 1929)
 * Stephen Lewis, English actor (b. 1926)
 * August 13 – Watban Ibrahim al-Tikriti, Iraqi politician (b. 1952)
 * August 14
 * Agustín Cejas, Argentine footballer (b. 1945)
 * Bob Johnston, American record producer (b. 1932)
 * Karen Stives, American equestrian (b. 1950)
 * August 15
 * Julian Bond, American civil rights activist (b. 1940)
 * Rafael Chirbes, Spanish writer (b. 1949)
 * August 16
 * Jacob Bekenstein, Mexican theoretical physicist (b. 1947)
 * Sylvia Hitchcock, American model and beauty queen (b. 1946)
 * Anna Kashfi, Indian-American actress (b. 1934)
 * Mile Mrkšić, Serbian military officer (b. 1947)
 * August 17
 * Yvonne Craig, American actress (b. 1937)
 * Arsen Dedić, Croatian musician (b. 1938)
 * László Paskai, Hungarian cardinal (b. 1927)
 * August 20 – Egon Bahr, German politician (b. 1922)
 * August 22
 * Ieng Thirith, Cambodian politician (b. 1932)
 * Eric Thompson, English racing driver (b. 1919)
 * August 23 – Guy Ligier, French racing driver and team owner (b. 1930)
 * August 24 – Justin Wilson, British racing driver (b. 1978)
 * August 29 – Wayne Dyer, American author and motivational speaker (b. 1940)
 * August 30
 * Wes Craven, American film director and writer (b. 1939)
 * Oliver Sacks, British-American neurologist and writer (b. 1933)

September

 * September 1
 * Gurgen Dalibaltayan, Armenian military commander (b. 1926)
 * Dean Jones, American actor (b. 1931)
 * September 2 – Charles Gyamfi, Ghanaian footbsller (b. 1929)
 * September 3
 * Chandra Bahadur Dangi, Nepalese dwarf, world's shortest man (b. 1939)
 * Zhang Zhen, Chinese general (b. 1914)
 * September 4
 * Jean Darling, American actress (b. 1922)
 * Sylvie Joly, French actress and comedian (b. 1934)
 * Rico Rodriguez, Cuban-British musician (b. 1934)
 * September 5
 * Setsuko Hara, Japanese actress (b. 1920)
 * Aadesh Shrivastava, Indian composer and musician (b. 1964)
 * Alan Steel, Italian bodybuilder and actor (b. 1935)
 * Patricia Canning Todd, American tennis player (b. 1922)
 * September 6 – Martin Milner, American actor (b. 1931)
 * September 7 – Candida Royalle, American actress and director (b. 1950)
 * September 8
 * Willi Fuggerer, German cyclist (b. 1941)
 * Ferenc Kiss, Hungarian wrestler (b. 1942)
 * September 10
 * Adrian Frutiger, Swiss typeface designer (b. 1928)
 * Ihab Hassan, Egyptian-American literary theorist (b. 1925)
 * Franco Interlenghi, Italian actor (b. 1931)
 * Antoine Lahad, Lebanese military officer (b. 1927)
 * Bengt Nyholm, Swedish footballer (b. 1930)
 * September 12 – Ron Springett, British footballer (b. 1935)
 * September 13 – Moses Malone, American basketball player (b. 1955)
 * September 14
 * Fred DeLuca, American businessman, co-founder of Subway (b. 1947)
 * Corneliu Vadim Tudor, Romanian politician (b. 1949)
 * September 17 – Dettmar Cramer, German football coach (b. 1925)
 * September 18 – Eduardo Bonvallet, Chilean footballer (b. 1955)
 * September 19
 * Jackie Collins, British novelist (b. 1937)
 * Todd Ewen, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1966)
 * September 20 – C. K. Williams, American poet (b. 1936)
 * September 21 – Ivan Dvorny, Russian basketball player (b. 1952)
 * September 22 – Yogi Berra, American baseball player (b. 1925)
 * September 23 – Dragan Holcer, Croatian footballer (b. 1945)
 * September 27
 * John Guillermin, British film director and producer (b. 1925)
 * Pietro Ingrao, Italian politician (b. 1915)
 * September 28 – Ignacio Zoco, Spanish footballer (b. 1939)
 * September 29 – Phil Woods, American saxophonist (b. 1931)

October

 * October 1
 * Božo Bakota, Croatian footballer (b. 1950)
 * Don Edwards, American politician (b. 1915)
 * Hadi Norouzi, Iranian footballer (b. 1985)
 * October 2
 * Eric Arturo Delvalle, Panamanian politician (b. 1937)
 * Brian Friel, Irish playwright (b. 1929)
 * October 3 – Denis Healey, British politician (b. 1917)
 * October 4 – Oganes Zanazanyan, Greek-Armenian footballer (b. 1946)
 * October 5
 * Chantal Akerman, Belgian filmmaker (b. 1950)
 * Joker Arroyo, Filipino politician (b. 1927)
 * Infante Carlos, Spanish nobleman (b. 1938)
 * Henning Mankell, Swedish author (b. 1948)
 * October 6
 * Christine Arnothy, Hungarian-French writer (b. 1930)
 * Árpád Göncz, Hungarian politician, President of Hungary (b. 1922)
 * Billy Joe Royal, American singer (b. 1942)
 * October 7
 * Gene Allen, American art director (b. 1918)
 * Dominique Dropsy, French footballer (b. 1951)
 * Harry Gallatin, American basketball player and coach (b. 1927)
 * Hossein Hamadani, Iranian military commander (b. 1951)
 * Gail Zappa, American businesswoman (b. 1945)
 * Jurelang Zedkaia, Marshallese politician, President of the Marshall Islands (b. 1950)
 * October 8
 * Jim Diamond, Scottish musician (b. 1951)
 * Paul Prudhomme, American chef (b. 1940)
 * October 9
 * Geoffrey Howe, British politician (b. 1926)
 * Dave Meyers, American basketball player (b. 1953)
 * October 10
 * Richard F. Heck, American chemist (b. 1931)
 * Steve Mackay, American saxophone player (b. 1949)
 * October 12 – Joan Leslie, American actress (b. 1925)
 * October 14
 * Nurlan Balgimbayev, Kazakh politician (b. 1947)
 * Mathieu Kérékou, Fifth President of Benin (b. 1933)
 * October 17
 * Danièle Delorme, French actress (b. 1926)
 * Howard Kendall, English footballer and manager (b. 1946)
 * October 18 – Gamal El-Ghitani, Egyptian author (b. 1945)
 * October 19 – Ali Treki, Libyan diplomat (b. 1938)
 * October 23 – Paride Tumburus, Italian footballer (b. 1939)
 * October 24
 * Ján Chryzostom Korec, Slovakian Jesuit Cardinal (b. 1924)
 * Maureen O'Hara, Irish-American actress (b. 1920)
 * October 25 – Flip Saunders, American basketball player and coach (b. 1955)
 * October 26 – Leo Kadanoff, American physicist (b. 1937)
 * October 30
 * Al Molinaro, American actor (b. 1919)
 * Sinan Şamil Sam, Turkish boxer (b. 1974)
 * October 31 – Ants Antson, Estonian speed skater (b. 1938)

November

 * November 1
 * Ronald Desruelles, Belgian athlete (b. 1955)
 * Günter Schabowski, German politician (b. 1929)
 * Fred Thompson, American politician and actor (b. 1942)
 * November 2
 * Mike Davies, Welsh tennis player (b. 1936)
 * Omar El-Hariri, Libyan general (b. 1944)
 * Miroslav Poljak, Croatian water polo player (b. 1944)
 * Edward Soja, American geographer (b. 1940)
 * Colin Welland, British actor and screenwriter (b. 1934)
 * November 3
 * Adriana Campos, Colombian actress (b. 1979)
 * Ahmed Chalabi, Iraqi politician (b. 1944)
 * Howard Coble, American politician (b. 1931)
 * Csaba Fenyvesi, Hungarian fencer (b. 1943)
 * November 4
 * René Girard, French-American historian (b. 1923)
 * Veikko Heinonen, Finnish ski jumper (b. 1934)
 * Melissa Mathison, American screenwriter (b. 1950)
 * Marina Pankova, Russian volleyball player (b. 1963)
 * November 5
 * Nora Brockstedt, Norwegian singer (b. 1923)
 * Czesław Kiszczak, Polish soldier and politician (b. 1925)
 * Mikhail Lesin, Russian political advisor (b. 1958)
 * Hans Mommsen, German historian (b. 1930)
 * November 6
 * Bobby Campbell, English footballer (b. 1937)
 * Karel Mejta, Czech rower (b. 1928)
 * November 7
 * Gunnar Hansen, Icelandic-born American actor and author (b. 1947)
 * Yitzhak Navon, Israeli politician, President of Israel (b. 1921)
 * November 8 – Andrei Eshpai, Russian pianist (b. 1925)
 * November 9
 * Ernst Fuchs, Austrian painter (b. 1930)
 * Allen Toussaint, American musician (b. 1938)
 * Andy White, Scottish drummer (b. 1930)
 * November 10
 * André Glucksmann, French philosopher (b. 1937)
 * Klaus Roth, British mathematician (b. 1925)
 * Helmut Schmidt, German politician, Chancellor of West Germany (b. 1918)
 * November 11 – Phil Taylor, English rock drummer (b. 1954)
 * November 12
 * Lucian Bălan, Romanian footballer (b. 1959)
 * Márton Fülöp, Hungarian footballer (b. 1983)
 * Jihadi John, Kuwaiti member of ISIS (b. 1988)
 * Pál Várhidi, Hungarian footballer (b. 1931)
 * November 13 – Giorgio Bambini, Italian boxer (b. 1945)
 * November 14 – Nick Bockwinkel, American professional wrestler (b. 1934)
 * November 15 – Saeed Jaffrey, Indian-British actor (b. 1929)
 * November 18
 * Jonah Lomu, New Zealand rugby union player (b. 1975)
 * Mal Whitfield, American middle-distance runner (b. 1924)
 * November 20 – Kitanoumi Toshimitsu, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1953)
 * November 21
 * Bob Foster, American boxer (b. 1938)
 * Linda Haglund, Swedish sprinter (b. 1956)
 * November 22 – Kim Young-sam, South Korean politician, President of South Korea (b. 1927)
 * November 23 – Douglass North, American economist (b. 1920)
 * November 28
 * Gerry Byrne, English footballer (b. 1938)
 * Barbro Hiort af Ornäs, Swedish actress (b. 1921)
 * Olene S. Walker, American politician (b. 1930)
 * November 30
 * Fatema Mernissi, Moroccan feminist writer and sociologist (b. 1940)
 * Shigeru Mizuki, Japanese manga artist (b. 1922)
 * Eldar Ryazanov, Russian film director (b. 1927)

December

 * December 1
 * Joseph Engelberger, American physicist (b. 1925)
 * Jim Loscutoff, American basketball player (b. 1930)
 * December 2
 * Sandy Berger, American political consultant (b. 1945)
 * Gabriele Ferzetti, Italian actor (b. 1925)
 * Ferenc Juhász, Hungarian poet (b. 1928)
 * Ernst Larsen, Norwegian runner (b. 1926)
 * December 3 – Scott Weiland, American singer and musician (b. 1967)
 * December 4
 * Erik De Vlaeminck, Belgian professional cyclist (b. 1945)
 * Robert Loggia, American actor (b. 1930)
 * Yossi Sarid, Israeli politician (b. 1940)
 * December 5 – Dimitar Iliev Popov, Prime Minister of Bulgaria (1990-1991) (b. 1927)
 * December 6
 * Franzl Lang, German yodeler (b. 1930)
 * Mike Mangold, American pilot (b. 1955)
 * Nicholas Smith, British actor (b. 1934)
 * Holly Woodlawn, Puerto Rican transgender actress (b. 1946)
 * December 7 – Shirley Stelfox, English actress (b. 1941)
 * December 8 – Alan Hodgkinson, English footballer (b. 1936)
 * December 9
 * Carlo Furno, Italian cardinal (b. 1921)
 * Akiyuki Nosaka, Japanese novelist (b. 1930)
 * Julio Terrazas Sandoval, Bolivian cardinal (b. 1936)
 * December 10
 * Arnold Peralta, Hondurian footballer (b. 1989)
 * Dolph Schayes, American basketball player and coach (b. 1928)
 * December 11
 * Jiří Paďour, Czech bishop (b. 1943)
 * Hema Upadhyay, Indian artist (b. 1972)
 * December 13 – Benedict Anderson, American academic (b. 1936)
 * December 14 – Vadym Tyshchenko, Ukranian footballer (b. 1963)
 * December 15 – Licio Gelli, Italian financier (b. 1919)
 * December 17 – Osamu Hayaishi, Japanese biochemist (b. 1920)
 * December 19
 * Jimmy Hill, English footballer and television presenter (b. 1928)
 * Samir Kuntar, Lebanese fighter (b. 1962)
 * Kurt Masur, German conductor (b. 1927)
 * Dickie Moore, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1931)
 * December 23
 * Hocine Aït Ahmed, Algerian politician (b. 1926)
 * Alfred G. Gilman, American pharmacologist and biochemist (b. 1941)
 * Don Howe, English footballer (b. 1935)
 * Bülent Ulusu, Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1923)
 * December 25
 * George Clayton Johnson, American science fiction writer (b. 1929)
 * Sadhana Shivdasani, Indian actress (b. 1941)
 * Robert Spitzer, American psychiatrist (b. 1932)
 * December 27
 * Stein Eriksen,Norwegian alpine skier, Olympic champion (b. 1927)
 * Ellsworth Kelly, American artist (b. 1923)
 * Meadowlark Lemon, American basketball player (b. 1932)
 * Haskell Wexler, American cinematographer and film director (b. 1922)
 * December 28
 * Eloy Inos, American politician, Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands (b. 1949)
 * Guru Josh, British musician (b. 1964)
 * Lemmy Kilmister, British singer and bass guitarist (b. 1945)
 * Ian Murdock, German-American software programmer (b. 1973)
 * December 29
 * Elżbieta Krzesińska, Polish athlete (b. 1934)
 * Pavel Srníček, Czech footballer (b. 1968)
 * Kim Yang-gon, North Korean politician (b. 1942)
 * December 30 – Howard Davis, Jr., American boxer (b. 1956)
 * December 31
 * Natalie Cole, American singer (b. 1950)
 * Wayne Rogers, American actor (b. 1933)

January

 * January 1
 * Fazu Aliyeva, Soviet-Russian poet (b. 1932)
 * Dale Bumpers, American politician (b. 1925)
 * Gilbert Kaplan, American businessman (b. 1941)
 * Mike Oxley, American politician (b. 1944)
 * Vilmos Zsigmond, Hungarian-American cinematographer (b. 1930)
 * January 2
 * Michel Delpech, French singer and songwriter (b. 1946)
 * Nimr al-Nimr, Saudi Arabian Shia religious leader (b. 1959)
 * January 3
 * Paul Bley, Canadian pianist (b. 1932)
 * Stephen W. Bosworth, American academic (b. 1939)
 * Peter Naur, Danish computer scientist (b. 1928)
 * Igor Sergun, Russian military officer (b. 1957)
 * January 4
 * Michel Galabru, Moroccan-French actor (b. 1922)
 * Robert Stigwood, Australian band manager and film producer (b. 1934)
 * January 5
 * Pierre Boulez, French composer (b. 1925)
 * Anatoly Roshchin, Soviet wrestler (b. 1932)
 * January 6
 * Pat Harrington, Jr., American actor (b. 1929)
 * Silvana Pampanini, Italian actress (b. 1925)
 * January 7
 * André Courrèges, French fashion designer (b. 1923)
 * John Johnson, American basketball player (b. 1947)
 * Kitty Kallen, American singer (b. 1921)
 * Richard Libertini, American actor (b. 1933)
 * Ashraf Pahlavi, Persian princess (b. 1919)
 * Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, Indian politician (b. 1936)
 * Valerio Zanone, Italian politician (b. 1936)
 * January 8
 * Otis Clay, American musician (b. 1942)
 * Maria Teresa de Filippis, Italian racing driver (b. 1926)
 * Medea Jugeli, Georgian gymnast (b. 1925)
 * German Moreno, Spanish television host (b. 1933)
 * January 9
 * José María Rivas, Salvadoran footballer (b. 1958)
 * Angus Scrimm, American actor (b. 1926)
 * Zelimkhan Yaqub, Azerbaijani poet (b. 1950)
 * January 10
 * David Bowie, English singer and actor (b. 1947)
 * Bård Breivik, Norwegian sculptor (b. 1948)
 * Yusuf Zuayyin, Syrian politician, Prime Minister of Syria (b. 1931)
 * January 11
 * David Margulies, American actor (b. 1937)
 * Gunnel Vallquist, Swedish writer (b. 1918)
 * January 12
 * Ivan Bukavshin, Russian chess grandmaster (b. 1995)
 * Ruth Leuwerik, German actress (b. 1924)
 * January 13
 * Giorgio Gomelsky, Georgian filmmaker and songwriter (b. 1934)
 * Tera Wray, American pornographic actress (b. 1982)
 * January 14
 * René Angélil, Canadian talent manager (b. 1942)
 * Franco Citti, Italian actor (b. 1935)
 * Alan Rickman, English actor (b. 1946)
 * Leonid Zhabotinsky, Soviet weightlifter (b. 1938)
 * January 15
 * Dan Haggerty, American actor (b. 1941)
 * Manuel Velázquez, Spanish footballer (b. 1943)
 * January 16
 * Joannis Avramidis, Greek-Austrian sculptor (b. 1922)
 * Jean-Noël Rey, Swiss businessman and politician (b. 1949)
 * January 17
 * Gottfried Honegger, Swiss artist and graphic designer (b. 1917)
 * Ion Panțuru, Romanian bobsledder (b. 1934)
 * January 18
 * Glenn Frey, American musician (b. 1948)
 * Michel Tournier, French writer (b. 1924)
 * January 19
 * Yasutaro Koide, Japanese supercentenarian (b. 1903)
 * Ettore Scola, Italian screenwriter and director (b. 1931)
 * January 20
 * Mykolas Burokevičius, Lithuanian politician (b. 1927)
 * Edmonde Charles-Roux, French writer (b. 1920)
 * January 21
 * Bill Johnson, American skier (b. 1960)
 * Mrinalini Sarabhai, Indian classical dancer (b. 1918)
 * Robert Sassone, French racing cyclist (b. 1978)
 * January 22
 * Homayoun Behzadi, Iranian footballer (b. 1942)
 * Kamer Genç, Turkish politician (b. 1940)
 * Miloslav Ransdorf, Czech politician (b. 1953)
 * January 23
 * Elisabeta Polihroniade, Romanian chess grandmaster (b. 1935)
 * Bobby Wanzer, American basketball player (b. 1921)
 * January 24
 * Jimmy Bain, Scottish bass guitarist (b. 1947)
 * Fredrik Barth, Norwegian social anthropologist (b. 1928)
 * Marvin Minsky, American cognitive scientist (b. 1927)
 * January 25 – Concepcion Picciotto, Spanish-American peace activist (b. 1936)
 * January 26
 * Colin "Black" Vearncombe, English singer (b. 1962)
 * Abe Vigoda, American actor (b. 1921)
 * January 27
 * Artur Fischer, German inventor (b. 1919)
 * Carlos Loyzaga, Filipino basketball player (b. 1930)
 * January 28
 * Aleš Debeljak, Slovenian writer (b. 1961)
 * Paul Kantner, American musician (b. 1941)
 * Axel Schandorff, Danish track cyclist (b. 1925)
 * January 29
 * Jean-Marie Doré, Guinean politician, Prime Minister of Guinea (b. 1938)
 * Aurèle Nicolet, Swiss flautist (b. 1926)
 * Jacques Rivette, French film director (b. 1928)
 * January 30
 * Frank Finlay, British actor (b. 1926)
 * Francisco Flores Pérez, Salvadoran politician, President of El Salvador (b. 1959)
 * January 31
 * Benoît Violier, French-Swiss chef (b. 1971)
 * Terry Wogan, Irish-Britsh broadcaster (b. 1938)

February

 * February 1
 * Ali Beratligil, Turkish footballer (b. 1931)
 * Óscar Humberto Mejía Victores, Guatemalan politician, President of Guatemala (b. 1930)
 * February 2 – Luiz Felipe Lampreia, Brazilian diplomat and sociologist (b. 1941)
 * February 3
 * Joe Alaskey, American voice actor (b. 1952)
 * Suat Mamat, Turkish footballer (b. 1930)
 * Maurice White, American musician (b. 1941)
 * Saulius Sondeckis, Lithuanian violinist (b. 1928)
 * February 4
 * Edgar Mitchell, American astronaut (b. 1930)
 * Dave Mirra, American BMX rider (b. 1974)
 * Axl Rotten, American professional wrestler (b. 1971)
 * February 5 – Bodil Malmsten, Swedish poet and novelist (b. 1944)
 * February 6 – Eddy Wally, Belgian singer (b. 1932)
 * February 7 – Roger Willemsen, German author (b. 1955)
 * February 8
 * John Disley, Welsh athlete (b. 1928)
 * Nida Fazli, Indian poet (b. 1938)
 * Zdravko Tolimir, Bosnian military commander and war criminal (b. 1948)
 * February 9
 * Sushil Koirala, Nepalese politician, Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1939)
 * Sibghatullah Mojaddedi, Afghani politician, President of Afghanistan (b. 1926)
 * February 10
 * Yuriy Dumchev, Russian athlete (b. 1958)
 * Anatoli Ilyin, Soviet footballer (b. 1931)
 * February 11
 * Juan Mujica, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1943)
 * Kevin Randleman, American mixed martial artist (b. 1971)
 * February 12
 * Dominique D'Onofrio, Italian-Belgian football coach (b. 1953)
 * Bergljot Hobæk Haff, Norwegian novelist (b. 1925)
 * February 13
 * Trifon Ivanov, Bulgarian footballer (b. 1965)
 * Slobodan Santrač, Serbian footballer (b. 1946)
 * Antonin Scalia, American judge (b. 1936)
 * Christopher Zeeman, British mathematician (b. 1925)
 * February 14
 * Muriel Casals i Couturier, Spanish economist (b. 1945)
 * Wiesław Rudkowski, Polish boxer (b. 1946)
 * February 15 – George Gaynes, Finnish-American actor (b. 1917)
 * February 16 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Egyptian politician and diplomat, Secretary-General of the UN (b. 1922)
 * February 17
 * Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, Egyptian journalist (b. 1923)
 * Andrzej Żuławski, Polish film director (b. 1940)
 * February 18 – Yūko Tsushima, Japanese writer (b. 1947)
 * February 19
 * Umberto Eco, Italian philosopher and novelist (b. 1932)
 * Harper Lee, American author (b. 1926)
 * February 20
 * Fernando Cardenal, Nicaraguan priest and politician (b. 1934)
 * Muhamed Mujić, Bosnian footballer (b. 1933)0
 * February 22 – Douglas Slocombe, British cinematographer (b. 1913)
 * February 23 – Donald E. Williams, American astronaut (b. 1942)
 * February 24
 * Rafael Iriondo, Spanish footballer (b. 1918)
 * Peter Kenilorea, Solomon Islander politician, Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands (b. 1943)
 * February 25 – Tony Burton, American actor (b. 1937)
 * February 26
 * Andy Bathgate, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1932)
 * Karl Dedecius, Polish-German translator (b. 1921)
 * Eri Klas, Estonian conductor (b. 1939)
 * February 27 – Yushu Kitano, Japanese wrestler (b. 1930)
 * February 28
 * Frank Kelly, Irish actor (b. 1938)
 * George Kennedy, American actor (b. 1925)
 * February 29
 * Hannes Löhr, German footballer (b. 1942)
 * José Parra Martínez, Spanish footballer (b. 1925)
 * Louise Rennison, English author (b. 1951)

March

 * March 1 – Ítalo Estupiñán, Ecuadorian footballer (b. 1952)
 * March 2 – Allan Michaelsen, Danish footballer (b. 1947)
 * March 3
 * Berta Cáceres, Honduran enviromental activist (b. 1973)
 * Martin Crowe, New Zealand cricket player (b. 1962)
 * Natalya Krachkovskaya, Russian actress (b. 1938)
 * Sarah Tait, Australian rower (b. 1983)
 * March 4
 * Bud Collins, American tennis commentator and journalist (b. 1929)
 * Pat Conroy, American author (b. 1945)
 * P. A. Sangma, Indian politician (b. 1947)
 * March 5
 * Hassan Al-Turabi, Sudanese spiritual leader (b. 1932)
 * Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Austrian conductor (b. 1929)
 * Ray Tomlinson, American computer programmer (b. 1941)
 * March 6 – Nancy Reagan, American actress, First Lady of the United States (b. 1921)
 * March 7 – Jean-Bernard Raimond, French politician (b. 1926)
 * March 8
 * Richard Davalos, American actor (b. 1930)
 * George Martin, English record producer (b. 1926)
 * March 9
 * Clyde Lovellette, American basketball player (b. 1929)
 * Naná Vasconcelos, Brazilian musician (b. 1944)
 * March 10
 * Ken Adam, German-British production designer (b. 1921)
 * Ernestine Anderson, American jazz singer (b. 1928)
 * Roberto Perfumo, Argentine footballer (b. 1942)
 * March 11
 * Iolanda Balaș, Romanian athlete (b. 1936)
 * Keith Emerson, English musician (b. 1944)
 * Dragan Nikolić, Serbian actor (b. 1943)
 * March 12 – Lloyd Shapley, American mathematician (b. 1923)
 * March 13 – Hilary Putnam, American philosopher (b. 1926)
 * March 14
 * Peter Maxwell Davies, English composer (b. 1934)
 * Riccardo Garrone, Italian actor (b. 1926)
 * March 16 – Frank Sinatra, Jr., American singer (b. 1944)
 * March 17
 * Meir Dagan, Israeli military officer (b. 1945)
 * Paul Daniels, English magician (b. 1938)
 * Larry Drake, American actor (b. 1950)
 * Solomon Marcus, Romanian mathematician (b. 1925)
 * March 18
 * Jan Němec, Czech film director (b. 1936)
 * Lothar Späth, German politician (b. 1937)
 * Guido Westerwelle, German politician (b. 1961)
 * March 19 – José Artetxe, Spanish footballer (b. 1930)
 * March 20 – Anker Jørgensen, Danish politician, Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1922)
 * March 21
 * Andrew Grove, Hungarian-American businessman (b. 1936)
 * Joseph Mercieca, Maltese prelate (b. 1928)
 * March 22
 * Rob Ford, Canadian politician (b. 1969)
 * Rita Gam, American actress and filmmaker (b. 1927)
 * March 23 – Ken Howard, American actor (b. 1944)
 * March 24
 * Roger Cicero, German musician (b. 1970)
 * Johan Cruyff, Dutch footballer and coach (b. 1947)
 * Garry Shandling, American comedian and actor (b. 1949)
 * March 25 – Imre Pozsgay, Hungarian politician (b. 1933)
 * March 26 – Raúl Cárdenas, Mexican footballer and coach (b. 1928)
 * March 27
 * Vince Boryla, American basketball player and coach (b. 1927)
 * Alain Decaux, French historian (b. 1925)
 * Antoine Demoitié, Belgian cyclist (b. 1990)
 * March 28
 * Daan Myngheer, Belgian cyclist (b. 1993)
 * Edmund Piątkowski, Polish athlete (b. 1936)
 * March 29
 * Patty Duke, American actress (b. 1946)
 * Nil Hilevich, Belarusian poet (b. 1931)
 * March 30 – Gianmaria Testa, Italian musician (b. 1958)
 * March 31
 * Ronnie Corbett, British comedian and actor (b. 1930)
 * Georges Cottier, Swiss cardinal (b. 1922)
 * Hans-Dietrich Genscher, German politician (b. 1927)
 * Zaha Hadid, Iraqi-British architect (b. 1950)
 * Imre Kertész, Hungarian author Nobel laureate (b. 1929)
 * Douglas Wilmer, English actor (b. 1920)

April

 * April 1 – Pratyusha Banerjee, Indian actress (b. 1991)
 * April 2
 * Gato Barbieri, Argentine saxophonist (b. 1932)
 * Gallieno Ferri, Italian comic book artist (b. 1929)
 * László Sárosi, Hungarian footballer (b. 1932)
 * Amber Rayne, American pornographic actress (b. 1984)
 * April 3
 * Lars Gustafsson, Swedish poet (b. 1936)
 * Cesare Maldini, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1932)
 * Joe Medicine Crow, American author and historian (b. 1913)
 * Lola Novaković, Serbian singer (b. 1935)
 * Kōji Wada, Japanese singer (b. 1974)
 * April 4 – Chus Lampreave, Spanish actress (b. 1930)
 * April 6 – Merle Haggard, American musician (b. 1937)
 * April 7
 * Carlo Monti, Italian athlete (b. 1920)
 * Blackjack Mulligan, American professional wrestler (b. 1942)
 * April 9 – Tony Conrad, American musician and composer (b. 1940)
 * April 10 – Howard Marks, Welsh drug smuggler and author (b. 1945)
 * April 12
 * Gianroberto Casaleggio, Italian entrepreneur and political activist (b. 1954)
 * Anne Jackson, American actress (b. 1925)
 * Balls Mahoney, American professional wrestler (b. 1972)
 * Arnold Wesker, British playwright (b. 1932)
 * April 13 – Mariano Mores, Argentine musician (b. 1918)
 * April 14 – Malick Sidibé, Malian photographer (b. 1935)
 * April 15 – Anne Grommerch, French politician (b. 1970)
 * April 16
 * Ron Bonham, American basketball player (b. 1942)
 * Louis Pilot, Luxembourgian footballer (b. 1940)
 * April 17 – Doris Roberts, American actress (b. 1925)
 * April 18
 * William Campbell, American businessman (b. 1940)
 * Chyna, American professional wrestler and actress (b. 1969)
 * Eva Henning, Swedish actress (b. 1920)
 * April 19
 * Patricio Aylwin, Chilean politician, President of Chile (b. 1918)
 * Estelle Balet, Swiss snowboarder (b. 1994)
 * Ronit Elkabetz, Israeli actress (b. 1964)
 * Walter Kohn, Austrian-American theoretical physicist (b. 1923)
 * April 20
 * Guy Hamilton, English film director (b. 1922)
 * Victoria Wood, English comedienne and actress (b. 1953)
 * April 21
 * Hans Koschnick, German politician (b. 1929)
 * Lonnie Mack, American country singer (b. 1941)
 * Prince, American musician (b. 1958)
 * April 23
 * Madeleine Sherwood, Canadian actress (b. 1922)
 * Banharn Silpa-archa, Thai politician (b. 1932)
 * April 24
 * Inge King, German-Australian sculptor (b. 1915)
 * Tommy Kono, American weightlifter (b. 1930)
 * Billy Paul, American singer (b. 1934)
 * Papa Wemba, Congolese singer (b. 1949)
 * April 25 – Martin Gray, German writer and Holocaust survivor (b. 1922)
 * April 26
 * Masako Togawa, Japanese musician and feminist (b. 1931)
 * Harry Wu, Chinese human rights activist (b. 1937)
 * April 27 – Viktor Gavrikov, Lithuanian-Swiss chess grandmaster (b. 1957)
 * April 28 – Conrad Burns, American politician (b. 1935)
 * April 29
 * Renato Corona, Filipino politician and jurist (b. 1948)
 * Dmytro Hnatyuk, Ukrainian opera singer (b. 1925)
 * Chen Zhongshi, Chinese author (b. 1942)
 * April 30
 * Daniel Berrigan, American priest and anti-war activist (b. 1921)
 * Marisol Escobar, French-American sculptor (b. 30)
 * Harry Kroto, English chemist (b. 1939)

May

 * May 1
 * Solomon W. Golomb, American mathematician (b. 1932)
 * Madeleine Lebeau, French actress (b. 1923)
 * May 2
 * Walter Dürst, Swiss ice hockey player (b. 1927)
 * Afeni Shakur, American businesswoman and political activist (b. 1947)
 * May 3
 * Tadeusz Gocłowski, Polish archbishop (b. 1931)
 * Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd, Swedish artist (b. 1934)
 * Jadranka Stojaković, Bosnian singer (b. 1950)
 * May 4
 * Jean-Baptiste Bagaza, Burundian politician, President of Burundi (b. 1946)
 * Bob Bennett, American politician (b. 1933)
 * May 5
 * Siné, French cartoonist (b. 1928)
 * Isao Tomita, Japanese composer (b. 1932)
 * May 6
 * Patrick Ekeng, Cameroonian footballer (b. 1990)
 * Margot Honecker, German politician (b. 1927)
 * Candye Kane, American singer (b. 1961)
 * May 8
 * Tom M. Apostol, American analytic number theorist and professor (b. 1923)
 * Philippe Beaussant, French novelist (b. 1930)
 * William Schallert, American actor (b. 1922)
 * May 10
 * Mustafa Badreddine, Lebanese military leader (b. 1961)
 * Ilkka Hanski, Finnish ecologist (b. 1953)
 * Thomas Luckmann, American-Austrian sociologist (b. 1927)
 * François Morellet, French artist (b. 1926)
 * Riki Sorsa, Finnish singer (b. 1952)
 * May 11 – Motiur Rahman Nizami, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1943)
 * May 12
 * Susannah Mushatt Jones, American supercentenarian (b. 1899)
 * Tapio Mäkelä, Finnish cross country skier (b. 1926)
 * May 13
 * Engelbert Kraus, German footballer (b. 1934)
 * Pinuccio Sciola, Italian sculptor (b. 1942)
 * May 14
 * Darwyn Cooke, Canadian comic book artist (b. 1962)
 * Lasse Mårtenson, Finnish singer (b. 1934)
 * May 15 – André Brahic, French astrophysicist (b. 1942)
 * May 16
 * Giovanni Coppa, Italian cardinal (b. 1925)
 * Romaldo Giurgola, Italian-Australian architect (b. 1920)
 * May 17
 * Guy Clark, American folk singer (b. 1941)
 * Yūko Mizutani, Japanese voice actress (b.1964)
 * May 18
 * Zygmunt Kukla, Polish footballer (b. 1948)
 * Kornél Pajor, Hungarian speed skater (b. 1923)
 * Fritz Stern, German-American historian (b. 1926)
 * May 19
 * Alexandre Astruc, French film critic and director (b. 1923)
 * Marco Pannella, Italian politician (b. 1930)
 * Morley Safer, Canadian-American journalist (b. 1931)
 * May 20 – Kang Sok-ju, North Korean diplomat (b. 1939)
 * May 21
 * Andrea Maria Erba, Italian bishop (b. 1930)
 * Eddie Keizan, South African racing driver (b. 1944)
 * Nick Menza, German-American drummer (b. 1964)
 * Sándor Tarics, Hungarian water polo player (b. 1913)
 * May 22
 * Lucjan Avgustini, Albanian bishop (b. 1963)
 * Adolf Born, Czech painter (b. 1930)
 * Velimir Sombolac, Serbian footballer (b. 1939)
 * Bata Živojinović, Serbian actor (b. 1933)
 * May 23 – Vera Henriksen, Norwegian writer (b. 1927)
 * May 24
 * Burt Kwouk, British actor (b. 1930)
 * Mell Lazarus, American cartoonist (b. 1927)
 * May 25
 * Yang Jiang, Chinese playwright, author and translator (b. 1911)
 * Gyula Kosice, Czechoslovakian-Argentine poet and sculptor (b. 1924)
 * József Tempfli, Romanian bishop (b. 1931)
 * May 26
 * Loris Francesco Capovilla, Italian cardinal (b. 1915)
 * Ted Dumitru, Romanian football manager (b. 1939)
 * Arturo Pomar, Spanish chess player (b. 1931)
 * May 27 – František Jakubec, Czech footballer (b. 1956)
 * May 28
 * Giorgio Albertazzi, Italian actor (b. 1923)
 * David Cañada, Spanish racing cyclist (b. 1975)
 * Bryce Dejean-Jones, American basketball player (b. 1992)
 * May 30 – Tom Lysiak, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1953)
 * May 31
 * Mohamed Abdelaziz, Sahrawi politician, President of the Sahwari Arab Democratic Republic (b. 1947)
 * Antonio Imbert Barrera, Dominican politician, President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1920)
 * Rupert Neudeck, German journalist (b. 1939)

June

 * June 1 – Razak Khan, Indian actor (b. 1951)
 * June 2
 * Corry Brokken, Dutch singer (b. 1932)
 * Tom Kibble, British theoretical physicist (b. 1932)
 * June 3
 * Muhammad Ali, American boxer (b. 1942)
 * Sten Lundin. Swedish motocross racer (b. 1931)
 * Dave Swarbrick, English musician (b. 1941)
 * June 4
 * Antti Hyry, Finnish writer (b. 1931)
 * Carmen Pereira, Bissau-Guinean politician, President of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1937)
 * June 5
 * Manohar Aich, Indian bodybuilder (b. 1912)
 * Jerome Bruner, American psychologist (b. 1915)
 * Gianluca Buonanno, Italian politician (b. 1966)
 * June 6
 * Viktor Korchnoi, Russian-Swiss chess player (b. 1931)
 * Theresa Saldana, American actress (b. 1954)
 * Peter Shaffer, British playwright and screenwriter (b. 1926)
 * Kimbo Slice, Bahamian-American mixed martial artist and actor (b. 1974)
 * June 7 – Didargylyç Urazow, Turkmen footballer (b. 1977)
 * June 8
 * Pierre Aubert, Swiss politician (b. 1927)
 * Stephen Keshi, Nigerian footballer (b. 1961)
 * Sascha Lewandowski, German football manager (b. 1971)
 * Qahhor Mahkamov, Tajik politician, President of Tajikistan (b. 1932)
 * Marina Malfatti, Italian actress (b. 1940)
 * June 10
 * Shaibu Amodu, Nigerian football coach (b. 1958)
 * Christina Grimmie, American singer (b. 1994)
 * Gordie Howe, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1928)
 * June 11 – Rudi Altig, German cyclist (b. 1937)
 * June 12
 * Alfonso Portugal, Mexican footballer (b. 1934)
 * George Voinovich, American politician (b. 1936)
 * Janet Waldo, American voice actress (b. 1920)
 * June 13
 * Oleg Karavaychuk, Soviet-Russian composer (b. 1927)
 * Michu Meszaros, Hungarian-American actor (b. 1939)
 * June 14
 * Ronnie Claire Edwards, American actress (b. 1933)
 * Ann Morgan Guilbert, American actress (b. 1928)
 * Henry McCullough, Northern Irish musician (b. 1943)
 * June 15 – Lois Duncan, American author (b. 1934)
 * June 16
 * Jo Cox, British politician (b. 1974)
 * Luděk Macela, Czech footballer (b. 1950)
 * June 17 – Ron Lester, American actor (b. 1970)
 * June 18
 * Susana Duijm, Venezuelan actress and beauty queen (b. 1936)
 * Sverre Kjelsberg, Nrowegian musician (b. 1946)
 * Vittorio Merloni, Italian entrepreneur (b. 1933)
 * June 19
 * Götz George, German actor (b. 1938)
 * Victor Stănculescu, Romanian general (b. 1928)
 * Anton Yelchin, Soviet-American actor (b. 1989)
 * June 20 – Edgard Pisani, French politician and philosopher (b. 1918)
 * June 21 – Kunio Hatoyama, Japanese politician (b. 1948)
 * June 22 – Roberto Lovera, Uruguayan basketball player (b. 1922)
 * June 23
 * Michael Herr, American author (b. 1940)
 * Ralph Stanley, American musician (b. 1927)
 * June 24 – Bernie Worrell, American musician (b. 1944)
 * June 25
 * Nicole Courcel, French actress (b. 1931)
 * Bill Cunningham, American photographer (b. 1929)
 * Maurice G. Dantec, French-Canadian author (b. 1959)
 * Giuseppe Ferrara, Italian filmmaker (b. 1932)
 * June 26
 * Austin Clarke, Barbadian-Canadian writer (b. 1934)
 * Oh Se-jong, South Korean speed skater (b. 1982)
 * June 27
 * Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, Danish composer (b. 1932)
 * Bud Spencer, Italian actor (b. 1929)
 * Alvin Toffler, American author and futurist (b. 1927)
 * June 28
 * André Guelfi, French racing driver (b. 1919)
 * Scotty Moore, American guitarist (b. 1931)
 * Pat Summitt, American basketball coach (b. 1952)
 * June 29 – Margaret Bakkes, South African writer (b. 1931)
 * June 30
 * Geoffrey Hill, English poet (b. 1932)
 * Martin Lundström, Swedish skier (b. 1918)

July

 * July 1
 * Yves Bonnefoy, French poet (b. 1923)
 * Robin Hardy, English director and author (b. 1929)
 * July 2
 * Caroline Aherne, English comedian and actress (b. 1963)
 * Michael Cimino, American screenwriter and director (b. 1939)
 * Rudolf E. Kálmán, Hungarian-American electrical engineer (b. 1930)
 * Patrick Manning, Trinidadian politician, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Togo (b. 1946)
 * Michel Rocard, French politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1930)
 * Elie Wiesel, Romanian-American writer and political activist (b. 1928)
 * July 3
 * Michael Beaumont, British aristocrat (b. 1927)
 * Roger Dumas, French actor (b. 1932)
 * Noel Neill, American actress (b. 1920)
 * Markus Werner, Swiss writer (b. 1944)
 * July 4 – Abbas Kiarostami, Iranian filmmaker (b. 1940)
 * July 5 – William L. Armstrong, American politician (b. 1937)
 * July 6 – Turgay Şeren, Turkish footballer (b. 1932)
 * July 8
 * Abdul Sattar Edhi, Pakistani philanthropist and humanitarian (b. 1928)
 * Jeffrey Nape, Papua New Guinean politician (b. 1951)
 * Jacques Rouffio, French film director (b. 1938)
 * July 9
 * Silvano Piovanelli, Italian archbishop (b. 1924)
 * Sydney Schanberg, American journalist (b. 1934)
 * July 10
 * Anatoli Isayev, Soviet footballer (b. 1932)
 * Alfred G. Knudson, American geneticist (b. 1922)
 * July 11 – Corrado Farina, Italian filmmaker and novelist (b. 1939)
 * July 12 – Goran Hadžić, Serbian politician (b. 1958)
 * July 13
 * Hector Babenco, Argentine-Brazilian director (b. 1946)
 * Robert Fano, Italian-American computer scientist (b. 1917)
 * Bernardo Provenzano, Italian criminal (b. 1933)
 * Zygmunt Zimowski, Polish prelate (b. 1949)
 * July 14 – Péter Esterházy, Hungarian author (b. 1950)
 * July 15 – Qandeel Baloch, Pakistani model and social media celebrity (b. 1990)
 * July 16
 * Nate Thurmond, American basketball player (b. 1941)
 * Alan Vega, American singer (b. 1938)
 * July 17 – Wendell Anderson, American politician (b. 1933)
 * July 18 – Billy Name, American photographer (b. 1940)
 * July 19
 * Carmen Hernández, Spanish catechist (b. 1930)
 * Garry Marshall, American director and writer (b. 1934)
 * July 20
 * Dominique Arnaud, French racing cyclist (b. 1955)
 * Radu Beligan, Romanian actor and essayist (b. 1918)
 * André Isoir, French organist (b. 1935)
 * Mohammed Shahid, Indian field hockey player (b. 1960)
 * Pavel Sheremet, Belarusian journalist (b. 1971)
 * Anthony D. Smith, British sociologist (b. 1939)
 * July 21 – Roger Godement, French mathematician (b. 1921)
 * July 22 – Ursula Franklin, German-Canadian scientist and doctor (b. 1921)
 * July 23
 * Thorbjörn Fälldin, Swedish politician, Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1926)
 * S. H. Raza, Indian artist (b. 1922)
 * Jean Ricardou, French writer (b. 1932)
 * July 24
 * Marni Nixon, American singer and actress (b. 1930)
 * Orest Subtelny, Ukrainian-Canadian historian (b. 1941)
 * July 25
 * Bülent Eken, Turkish footballer (b. 1923)
 * Halil İnalcık, Turkish historian (b. 1916)
 * Dwight Jones, American basketball player (b. 1952)
 * Tim LaHaye, American evangelist and author (b. 1926)
 * July 26 – C.-H. Hermansson, Swedish politician (b. 1917)
 * July 27
 * Jack Davis, American cartoonist and illustrator (b. 1924)
 * Jerry Doyle, American actor and radio host (b. 1956)
 * Dominik Hrušovský, Slovakian prelate (b. 1926)
 * Piet de Jong, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1915)
 * Einojuhani Rautavaara, Finnish composer (b. 1928)
 * July 28
 * Émile Derlin Zinsou, Beninese politician, President of Benin (b. 1918)
 * Mahasweta Devi, Indian social activist and writer (b. 1926)
 * July 29 – Lucille Dumont, Canadian singer (b. 1919)
 * July 30 – Gloria DeHaven, American actress and singer (b. 1925)
 * July 31
 * Fazil Iskander, Abkhaz-Russian writer (b. 1929)
 * Chiyonofuji Mitsugu, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1955)
 * Seymour Papert, American mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1928)

August

 * August 1 – Queen Anne of Romania, French-Romanian royal (b. 1923)
 * August 2
 * David Huddleston, American actor (b. 1930)
 * Franciszek Macharski, Polish archbishop (b. 1927)
 * Ahmed Zewail, Egyptian-American scientist (b. 1946)
 * August 3
 * Shahram Amiri, Iranian nuclear scientist (b. 1977)
 * Chris Amon, New Zealand racing driver (b. 1943)
 * Steve LaTourette, American politician (b. 1954)
 * August 4 – Charles Toubé, Cameroonian footballer (b. 1958)
 * August 5
 * Alphons Egli, Swiss politician (b. 1924)
 * Eleuterio Fernández Huidobro, Uruguayan politician (b. 1942)
 * August 6
 * Helen Delich Bentley, American politician (b. 1923)
 * Pete Fountain, American clarinetist (b. 1930)
 * August 7
 * Gustavo Bueno, Spanish philosopher (b. 1924)
 * Bryan Clauson, American racing driver (b. 1989)
 * Jack Günthard, Swiss gymnast (b. 1920)
 * August 8
 * Edward Daly, Irish bishop (b. 1933)
 * Željko Kopanja, Bosnian newspaper editor (b. 1954)
 * August 9
 * Miguel José Asurmendi Aramendía, Spanish bishop (b. 1940)
 * Karl Bögelein, German footballer (b. 1927)
 * Gerald Grosvenor, British businessman (b. 1951)
 * Ernst Neizvestny, Russian-American artist (b. 1925)
 * Kalikho Pul, Indian politician (b. 1969)
 * August 11
 * Hanif Mohammad, Pakistani cricket player (b. 1934)
 * Glenn Yarbrough, American singer (b. 1930)
 * August 12
 * Keith Blunt, English football coach (b. 1939)
 * Ljubomir Popović, Serbian painter (b. 1934)
 * August 13
 * Kenny Baker, English actor (b. 1934)
 * Allen Kelley, American basketball player (b. 1932)
 * Françoise Mallet-Joris, Belgian author (b. 1930)
 * August 14
 * Fyvush Finkel, American actor (b. 1922)
 * Aboud Jumbe, Tanzanian politician, President of Zanzibar (b. 1920)
 * Hermann Kant, German writer (b. 1926)
 * August 15
 * Dalian Atkinson, English footballer (b. 1968)
 * Stefan Henze, German canoeist (b. 1981)
 * Bobby Hutcherson, American jazz musician (b. 1941)
 * August 16
 * Andrew Florent, Australian tennis player (b. 1970)
 * João Havelange, Brazilian businessman (b. 1916)
 * Gurdial Singh, Indian writer (b. 1933)
 * August 17
 * Arthur Hiller, Canadian-American director (b. 1923)
 * Víctor Mora, Spanish comic book artist (b. 1931)
 * August 18 – Ernst Nolte, German historian and philosopher (b. 1923)
 * August 19
 * Donald Henderson, American physician (b. 1928)
 * Nina Ponomaryova, Russian discus thrower (b. 1929)
 * Horacio Salgán, Argentine musician (b. 1916)
 * August 20
 * Daniela Dessi, Italian opera singer (b. 1957)
 * Ignacio Padilla, Mexican writer (b. 1968)
 * August 22
 * Michael Brooks, American basketball player (b. 1958)
 * Per Lønning, Norwegian bishop and politician (b. 1928)
 * S. R. Nathan, Singaporean politician, President of Singapore (b. 1924)
 * Gilli Smyth, English musician (b. 1933)
 * Toots Thielemans, Belgian jazz musician (b. 1922)
 * August 23 – Steven Hill, American actor (b. 1922)
 * August 24
 * Michel Butor, French writer (b. 1926)
 * Walter Scheel, German politician (b. 1919)
 * August 25
 * Marvin Kaplan, American actor (b. 1927)
 * Sonia Rykiel, French fashion designer (b. 1930)
 * Rudy Van Gelder, American recording engineer (b. 1924)
 * August 26 – Harald Grønningen, Norwegian skier (b. 1934)