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January

 * January 2
 * Nat Adderley, American hazz musician (b. 1931)
 * Patrick O'Brian, English writer (b. 1914)
 * January 4 - Diether Krebs, German actor, cabaret artist and comedian. (b. 1947)
 * January 7 - Makhmud Esambayev, Chechan actor and dancer (b. 1924)
 * January 15 – Željko Ražnatović, Serbian mobster and paramilitary leader (b. 1952)
 * January 18 – Frances Drake, American actress (b. 1912)
 * January 19
 * Bettino Craxi, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1934)
 * Hedy Lamarr, Austrian actress (b. 1914)
 * January 20 – Izabella Yurieva, Russian singer (b. 1899)
 * January 24 – Rex Nelon, American Southern gospel singer (b. 1932)
 * January 26 – Don Budge, American tennis player (b. 1915)

February

 * February 5
 * Claude Autant-Lara, French film director (b. 1901)
 * Ward Cornell, Canadian radio/TV broadcaster & educator (b. 1924)
 * February 7
 * Doug Henning, Canadian magician (b. 1947)
 * Big Pun, American rapper (b. 1971)
 * Shiho Niiyama, Japanese voice actress (b. 1970)
 * February 8
 * Bob Collins, American broadcaster (b. 1942)
 * Sid Abel, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1918)
 * Derrick Thomas, American football player (b. 1967)
 * February 9 – Beau Jack, American boxer (b. 1921)
 * February 10 – Jim Varney, American actor noted for his character, Ernest P. Worrell (b. 1949)
 * February 11 – Roger Vadim, French film director and producer (b. 1928)
 * February 12
 * Tom Landry, American football coach (b. 1924)
 * Charles M. Schulz, American comic strip artist (Peanuts) (b. 1922)
 * Oliver, American pop singer (b. 1945)
 * Screamin' Jay Hawkins, African-American rock singer and performer (b. 1929)
 * February 13 – Anders Aalborg, Canadian politician (b. 1914)
 * February 19 – Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian artist (b. 1928)
 * February 23
 * Sir Stanley Matthews, English footballer (b. 1915)
 * Ofra Haza, Israeli singer (b. 1957)

March

 * March 3 – Toni Ortelli, Italian composer and alpinist (b. 1904)
 * March 7 – Charles Gray, English actor (b. 1928)
 * March 9 – Jean Coulthard, Canadian composer and music educator (b. 1908)
 * March 11 – Alfred Schwarzmann, German Olympic gymnast (b. 1912)
 * March 27 – Ian Dury, English singer, songwriter (b. 1942)
 * March 28 – Anthony Powell, British author (b. 1905)
 * March 30 – Rudolf Kirchschläger, former President of Austria (b. 1915)

April

 * April 2 – Tommaso Buscetta, Sicilian mafioso informant (b. 1928)
 * April 3 – Terence McKenna, writer, philosopher, writer and entheogen advocate (b. 1946)
 * April 4 – Derek Allhusen, British equestrian (b. 1914)
 * April 5 – Lee Petty, American race-car driver (b. 1914)
 * April 6 – Habib Bourguiba, Tunisian politician, 1st President of Tunisia (b. 1903)
 * April 8 – Bernie Grant, British Labour MP (b. 1944)
 * April 10 – Rabah Bitat, former President of Algeria (b. 1925)
 * April 10 – Larry Linville, American actor (b.1939)
 * April 11 – Diana Darvey, British actress, singer and dancer (b. 1945)
 * April 14 – Phil Katz, American computer programmer (b. 1962)
 * April 15 – Edward Gorey, American writer and illustrator (b. 1925)
 * April 25 – David Merrick, American stage producer (b. 1911)
 * April 29 – Phạm Văn Đồng, Vietnamese politician, Prime Minister of Vietnam (b. 1906)

May

 * May 1
 * Steve Reeves, American actor and bodybuilder (b. 1926)
 * Jukka Tapanimäki, Finnish game programmer (b. 1961)
 * May 7 – Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., American actor (b. 1909)
 * May 8 – Maria do Carmo Gerônimo, The last Brazilian slave who claimed to be 129 before she died (b. 1871)
 * May 10
 * Craig Stevens, American actor (b. 1918)
 * Kaneto Shiozawa, Japanese voice actor (b. 1954)
 * May 11 – René Muñoz, Cuban actor, screenwriter of telenovelas and the cinema of Mexico (b. 1938)
 * May 12 – Adam Petty, American NASCAR driver (b. 1980)
 * May 13 – Tomomi Tsuruta, Japanese professional wrestler, better known as Jumbo Tsuruta (b. 1951)
 * May 14 – Keizō Obuchi, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1937)
 * May 20 – Edward Bernds, American director (b. 1905)
 * May 21
 * Dame Barbara Cartland, English novelist (b. 1901)
 * Sir John Gielgud, English actor (b. 1904)
 * May 25 – Francis Lederer, film and stage actor (b. 1899)
 * May 27
 * Maurice Richard, Canadian hockey player (b. 1921)
 * Kazimierz Leski, Polish engineer, fighter pilot, and Home Army's intelligence and counter-intelligence officer (b. 1912)
 * Erich Mielke, German secret police official (b. 1907)
 * May 30 – Doris Hare, English actress, well known for her role in the 1970s comedy On the Buses (b. 1905)
 * May 31 – Tito Puente, American jazz musician (b. 1923)

June

 * June 10
 * Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria (b. 1930)
 * Frank Patterson, Irish tenor (b. 1938)
 * June 14 – Robert Trent Jones, English-born golf course designer (b. 1906)
 * June 16 – Empress Kōjun of Japan (b. 1903)
 * June 17 – Ismail Mahomed, South African and Namibian Chief Justice (b. 1931)
 * June 19 – Noboru Takeshita, former Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1924)
 * June 21 – Alan Hovhaness, American composer (b. 1911)
 * June 24 – David Tomlinson, English actor (b. 1917)
 * June 27 – Pierre Pflimlin, French politician (b. 1907)
 * June 29 – Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor (b. 1922)

July

 * July 1 – Walter Matthau, American actor (b. 1920)
 * July 6 – Lazar Koliševski, 2nd President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia (b. 1914)
 * July 7 – James C. Quayle, American newspaper publisher (b. 1921)
 * July 8 – FM-2030, Transhumanist philosopher (b. 1930)
 * July 10
 * Vakkom Majeed, Indian freedom fighter, Travancore-Cochin Legislative member (b. 1909)
 * Denis O'Conor Don, hereditary chief of the O'Conor Don sept of Ireland (b. 1912)
 * July 11 – Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1921)
 * July 12 – Charles Merritt, Canadian Army officer and recipient of the Victoria Cross during World War II (b. 1908)
 * July 15 – Kalle Svensson, Swedish footballer (b. 1925)
 * July 21 – Yosef Qafih, Israeli rabbiYemenite Jewish (b. 1917)
 * July 28 – Abraham Pais, Dutch-born American physicist (b. 1918)
 * July 29 – René Favaloro, Argentinian cardiologist who created the technique for coronary bypass surgery (b. 1923)

August

 * August 5
 * Sir Alec Guinness, English actor and writer (b. 1914)
 * Otto Buchsbaum, writer and ecological activist (b. 1920)
 * August 6 – Sir Robin Day, British political broadcaster (b. 1923)
 * August 9 – John Harsanyi, Hungarian-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1920)
 * August 12
 * Loretta Young, American actress (b. 1913)
 * Dave Edwards, American musician (b. 1941)
 * August 13 – Nazia Hassan, Pakistani singer (b. 1964)
 * August 19 – Bineshwar Brahma, Bodo activist and leader (b. 1946)
 * August 21 – Daniel Lisulo, Zambian politician (b. 1930)
 * August 25
 * Ivan Stambolić, Serbian politician (b. 1936)
 * Carl Barks, American cartoonist and screenwriter (b. 1901)
 * August 26 – Bunny Austin, English tennis player (b. 1906)

September

 * September 2
 * Elvera Sanchez, American dancer (b. 1905)
 * Curt Siodmak, American novelist and screenwriter (b. 1902)
 * September 14 – Beah Richards, American actress (b. 1920)
 * September 16 – Georgiy Gongadze, Ukrainian journalist (b. 1969)
 * September 19 – Anthony Robert Klitz, British artist (b 1917)
 * September 22 – Saburō Sakai, Japanese fighter ace (b. 1916)
 * September 25 – R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet (b. 1913)
 * September 26 – Richard Mulligan, American actor (b. 1932)
 * September 27 – Sammy Luftspring, Canadian boxer (b. 1916)
 * September 28
 * Peter Gennaro, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1919)
 * Pierre Trudeau, 15th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1919)

October

 * October 3 – Benjamin Orr, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and singer for the band The Cars (b. 1947)
 * October 4 – Michael Smith, English-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1932)
 * October 6 – Richard Farnsworth, American actor (b. 1920)
 * October 7 – Walter Krupinski, German World War II fighter ace and postwar general (b. 1920)
 * October 8 – Sheila Holland (Sheila Coates, Charlotte Lamb, Sheila Lancaster, Victoria Wolf, Laura Hardy), English writer (b. 1937)
 * October 9 – Patrick Anthony Porteous, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1918)
 * October 13 – Jean Peters, American actress (b. 1926)
 * October 14 – Tony Roper, American NASCAR driver (b. 1964)
 * October 15 – Konrad Emil Bloch, German-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1912)
 * October 16 – Mel Carnahan, American politician and former Governor of Missouri (b. 1934)
 * October 18 – Julie London, American singer and actress (b. 1926)
 * October 21 – Reginald Kray, leading figure in organised crime in London, UK (b. 1933)
 * October 23 – Rodney Anoa'i, American wrestler known as Yokozuna (b. 1966)
 * October 27 – Walter Berry, Austrian bass-baritone (b. 1929)
 * October 29 – Andújar Cedeño, Dominican Major League Baseball player for the Houston Astros (b. 1969)
 * October 30 – Steve Allen, American comedian, composer, talk show host, and author (b. 1921)
 * October 31 – Ring Lardner, Jr., American screenwriter, one of the Hollywood Ten (b. 1915)

November

 * November 2 – Eva Morris, last surviving person documented as born in 1885 (b. 1885)
 * November 5
 * David Brower, American environmental activist (b. 1912)
 * Jimmie Davis, American singer (b. 1899)
 * Roger Peyrefitte, French writer and diplomat (b. 1907)
 * November 6 – L. Sprague de Camp, American writer (b. 1907)
 * November 7
 * C Subramaniam, Indian politician (b. 1910)
 * Ingrid of Sweden, Queen consort of Frederick IX of Denmark (b. 1910)
 * November 11 – Hugh Paddick, British actor (b. 1915)
 * November 16 – DJ Screw, American hip hop DJ (b. 1971)
 * November 22
 * Sir Cyril Astley Clarke, British physician, geneticist and entomologist, former President of the Royal College of Physicians (b. 1907)
 * Christian Marquand, French actor and director (b. 1927)
 * November 28 – Liane Haid, Austrian actress (b. 1895)

December

 * December 2 – Gail Fisher, American actress (b. 1935)
 * December 3 – Gwendolyn Brooks, African American-writer (b. 1917)
 * December 6 – Werner Klemperer, German born American actor (Hogan's Heroes) (b. 1920)
 * December 10
 * Paul Avery, American journalist (b. 1934)
 * Marie Windsor, American actress (b. 1919)
 * December 19 – Roebuck "Pops" Staples, patriarch of The Staple Singers (b. 1914)
 * December 18 – Kirsty MacColl, English singer (b. 1959)
 * December 23
 * Billy Barty, American actor (b. 1924)
 * Victor Borge, Danish-born comedian and pianist (b. 1909)
 * December 26 – Jason Robards, American actor (b. 1922)
 * December 30 – Julius J. Epstein, American screenwriter (b. 1909)

January

 * January 1
 * Leonard Fraser, Australian serial killer (b. 1951)
 * Tillie Olsen, American writer (b. 1912)
 * Del Reeves, American singer (b. 1932)
 * Darrent Williams, American football player (b. 1982)
 * January 2
 * Sergio Jiménez, Mexican actor (b. 1937)
 * Teddy Kollek, Austrian-Israeli politician, Mayor of Jerusalem (b. 1911)
 * Paek Nam-sun, North Korean politician (b. 1929)
 * January 3
 * János Fürst, Hungarian conductor and violinist (b. 1935)
 * William Verity Jr., American politician (b. 1917)
 * January 4
 * Sandro Salvadore, Italian footballer (b. 1939)
 * Marais Viljoen, South African politician, President of South Africa (b. 1915)
 * January 5 – Momofuku Ando, Japanese inventor (b. 1910)
 * January 6
 * Frédéric Etsou-Nzabi-Bamungwabi, Congolese archbishop (b. 1930)
 * Sneaky Pete Kleinow, American musician and special effects technician (b. 1934)
 * January 7
 * Magnus Magnusson, Icelandic writer and television presenter (b. 1929)
 * Olli-Matti Multamäki, Finnish army commander (b. 1948)
 * January 8
 * Arthur Cockfield, British politician (b. 1916)
 * Yvonne De Carlo, American actress (b. 1922)
 * David Ervine, Northern Irish politician (b. 1953)
 * Iwao Takamoto, Japanese animator (b. 1925)
 * January 9 – Jean-Pierre Vernant, French historian and anthropologist (b. 1914)
 * January 10 – Carlo Ponti, Italian film producer (b. 1912)
 * January 11 – Robert Anton Wilson, American author and conspiracy researcher (b. 1932)
 * January 12 – Alice Coltrane, American jazz musician (b. 1937)
 * January 13 – Michael Brecker, American jazz musician (b. 1949)
 * January 14 – Darlene Conley, American actress (b. 1934)
 * January 15
 * Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, Iraqi politician (b. 1951)
 * Awad Hamed al-Bandar, Iraqi judge (b. 1945)
 * Bo Yibo, Chinese politician (b. 1908)
 * January 17 – Art Buchwald, American humorist (b. 1925)
 * January 19
 * Hrant Dink, Turkish-Armenian journalist (b. 1954)
 * Denny Doherty, Canadian musician (The Mamas & the Papas) (b. 1940)
 * Bam Bam Bigelow, American wrestler (b. 1961)
 * January 21 – Maria Cioncan, Romanian athlete (b. 1977)
 * January 22 – Abbé Pierre, French priest and founder of Emmaus (b. 1912)
 * January 23 – Ryszard Kapuściński, Polish journalist and author (b. 1932)
 * January 28 – Hsu Wei Lun, Taiwanese actress (b. 1978)
 * January 30 – Sidney Sheldon, American author and screenwriter (b. 1917)
 * January 31 – Kirka Babitzin, Finnish singer (b. 1950)

February

 * February 1 – Gian Carlo Menotti, Italian-born composer and librettist (b. 1911)
 * February 6 – Frankie Laine, American singer (b. 1913)
 * February 7 – Alan MacDiarmid, New Zealand chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1927)
 * February 8 – Anna Nicole Smith, American model and television personality (b. 1967)
 * February 9 – Ian Richardson, Scottish actor (b. 1934)
 * February 13 – Johanna Sällström, Swedish actress (b. 1974)
 * February 15 – Robert Adler, Austrian-born inventor (b. 1913)
 * February 17
 * Maurice Papon, French Vichy government official (b. 1910)
 * Mike Awesome, American professional wrestler (b. 1965)
 * February 22
 * Lothar-Günther Buchheim, German author, painter, and art collector (b. 1918)
 * Fons Rademakers, Dutch film director (b. 1920)
 * Dennis Johnson, American basketball player (b. 1954)
 * February 24 – Bruce Bennett, American actor (b. 1906)
 * February 28 – Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., American historian and political commentator (b. 1917)

March

 * March 2 – Henri Troyat, French writer (b. 1911)
 * March 4 – Thomas Eagleton, American politician (b. 1929)
 * March 6
 * Jean Baudrillard, French philosopher and sociologist (b. 1929)
 * Allen Coage, American professional wrestler (b. 1943)
 * March 9 – Brad Delp, American singer (Boston) (b. 1951)
 * March 10 – Richard Jeni, American comedian (b. 1957)
 * March 11 – Betty Hutton, American actress (b. 1921)
 * March 14 – Lucie Aubrac, French World War II Resistance fighter (b. 1912)
 * March 18 – Bob Woolmer, English cricketer and coach (b. 1948)
 * March 20 – Taha Yassin Ramadan, Vice President of Iraq (b. 1938)
 * March 25 – Andranik Margaryan, 14th Prime Minister of Armenia (b. 1951)
 * March 30 – Chrisye, Indonesian pop singer and songwriter (b. 1949)

April

 * April 1
 * Laurie Baker, British-Indian architect (b. 1917)
 * Driss Chraïbi, Moroccan writer (b. 1926)
 * Hans Filbinger, German jurist and politician (b. 1913)
 * April 2
 * Henry L. Giclas, American astronomer (b. 1910)
 * Tadjou Salou, Togolese footballer (b. 1974)
 * April 3
 * Robin Montgomerie-Charrington, British racing driver (b. 1915)
 * Nina Wang, Hong Kong businesswoman (b. 1937)
 * April 4
 * Bob Clark, American film director (b. 1939)
 * Karen Spärck Jones, British computer scientist (b. 1935)
 * April 5
 * Maria Gripe, Swedish author (b. 1923)
 * Thomas Stoltz Harvey, American pathologist (b. 1912)
 * Mark St. John, American guitarist (b. 1956)
 * April 6 – Luigi Comencini, Italian film director (b. 1916)
 * April 7
 * Mariano Gonzalvo, Spanish footballer (b. 1922)
 * Johnny Hart, American cartoonist (b. 1931)
 * Barry Nelson, American actor (b. 1917)
 * April 8 – Sol LeWitt, American artist (b. 1928)
 * April 9
 * Egon Bondy, Czech philosopher (b. 1930)
 * Dorrit Hoffleit, American astronomer (b. 1907)
 * April 10 – Walter Hendl, American conductor (b. 1917)
 * April 11
 * Roscoe Lee Browne, American actor (b. 1922)
 * Loïc Leferme, French diver (b. 1970)
 * Ronald Speirs, American army officer (b. 1920)
 * Kurt Vonnegut, American novelist and playwright (b. 1922)
 * April 12 – Pierre Probst, French author (b. 1913)
 * April 13
 * Hans Koning, Dutch author (b. 1921)
 * Marion Yorck von Wartenburg, German resistance fighter and judge (b. 1904)
 * April 14
 * Ladislav Adamec, Czech politician (b. 1926)
 * René Rémond, French historian and political scientist (b. 1918)
 * April 15 – Brant Parker, American cartoonist (b. 1920)
 * April 17 – Kitty Carlisle Hart, American singer, actress & talk show panelist (b. 1910)
 * April 18 – Iccho Itoh, Mayor of Nagasaki, Japan (b. 1945)
 * April 23
 * David Halberstam, American author and journalist (b. 1934)
 * Boris Yeltsin, 1st President of the Russian Federation (b. 1931)
 * April 25 – Alan Ball, English footballer (b. 1945)
 * April 26 – Jack Valenti, American film executive, creator of MPAA film rating system (b. 1921)
 * April 27 – Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor (b. 1927)
 * April 28
 * Dabbs Greer, American actor (b. 1917)
 * Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, German physicist and philosopher (b. 1912)
 * April 29 – Ivica Račan, 7th Prime Minister of Croatia (b. 1944)
 * April 30
 * Grégory Lemarchal, French singer (b. 1983)
 * Tom Poston, American actor (b. 1921)
 * Gordon Scott, American actor (b. 1926)

May

 * May 3 – Wally Schirra, American astronaut (b. 1923)
 * May 5 – Theodore Maiman, American physicist (b. 1927)
 * May 11 – Malietoa Tanumafili II, Samoan head of state (b. 1913)
 * May 12 – Mullah Dadullah Akhund, Afghan Taliban military leader
 * May 15
 * Jerry Falwell, American evangelist (b. 1933)
 * Yolanda King, American actress and activist, daughter of Martin Luther King, Jr. (b. 1955)
 * May 17 – Lloyd Alexander, American author (b. 1924)
 * May 18 – Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist and Nobel Prize for Physics laureate (b. 1932)
 * May 20 – Stanley Miller, American chemist and biologist (b. 1930)
 * May 27 – Izumi Sakai, Japanese singer (Zard) (b. 1967)
 * May 28 – David Lane, American white nationalist (b. 1938)

June

 * June 2 – Huang Ju, Chinese politician (b. 1938)
 * June 4 – Craig L. Thomas, American politician (b. 1933)
 * June 8 – Aden Abdullah Osman Daar, 1st President of Somalia (b. 1908)
 * June 14 – Kurt Waldheim, Austrian politician and diplomat, former United Nations Secretary-General (b. 1918)
 * June 15 – Sherri Martel, American professional wrestler (b. 1958)
 * June 17 – Gianfranco Ferré, Italian designer (b. 1944)
 * June 18 – Vilma Espín, wife of Raúl Castro (b. 1930)
 * June 19 – El Fary, Spanish singer (b. 1937)
 * June 24
 * Natasja Saad, Afro Danish rapper and reggae singer (b. 1974)
 * Chris Benoit, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1967)
 * June 26 – Jupp Derwall, German footballer and coach (b. 1927)
 * June 28 – Kiichi Miyazawa, 78th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1919)

July

 * July 2 – Beverly Sills, American soprano (b. 1929)
 * July 3 – Boots Randolph, American saxophone player (b. 1927)
 * July 5 – Régine Crespin, French soprano (b. 1927)
 * July 9 – Charles Lane, American actor (b. 1905)
 * July 11
 * Lady Bird Johnson, former First Lady of the United States (b. 1912)
 * Alfonso López Michelsen, 32nd Colombian President (b. 1913)
 * July 18 – Kenji Miyamoto, Japanese politician (b. 1908)
 * July 22
 * László Kovács, Hungarian-American cinematographer (b. 1933)
 * Ulrich Mühe, German actor (b. 1953)
 * Jean Stablinski, French cyclist of Polish origin (b. 1932)
 * July 23 – Mohammed Zahir Shah, last King of Afghanistan (b. 1914)
 * July 24 – Albert Ellis, American psychologist (b. 1913)
 * July 30
 * Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian film director (b. 1912)
 * Teoctist Arăpaşu, Ex-Romanian Orthodox Church Patriarch (b. 1915)
 * Ingmar Bergman, Swedish film director (b. 1918)

August

 * August 1 – Ryan Cox, South African professional road racing cyclist (b. 1979)
 * August 2 – Holden Roberto, Angolan nationalist leader (b. 1923)
 * August 3 – John Gardner, British author (b. 1926)
 * August 4 – Lee Hazlewood, American country singer, songwriter and producer (b. 1929)
 * August 5 – Jean-Marie Lustiger, French Cardinal Archbishop of Paris (b. 1926)
 * August 10 – Tony Wilson, English broadcaster, nightclub manager, and record label owner (b. 1950)
 * August 12 – Merv Griffin, American TV personality (b. 1925)
 * August 13 – Phil Rizzuto, American baseball player and announcer (b. 1917)
 * August 14 – Tikhon Khrennikov, Russian composer (b. 1913)
 * August 16 – Max Roach, American percussionist, drummer, and composer (b. 1924)
 * August 17 – Eddie Griffin, American basketball player (b. 1982)
 * August 21 – Qurratulain Hyder, Indian novelist (b. 1926)
 * August 24 – Abdul Rahman Arif, 3rd President of Iraq (b. 1916)
 * August 25 – Raymond Barre, French politician and economist (b. 1924)
 * August 26 – Gaston Thorn, Luxembourger politician (b. 1928)
 * August 28
 * Antonio Puerta, Spanish footballer (b. 1984)
 * Francisco Umbral, Spanish journalist, novelist, biographer and essayist (b. 1935)
 * Miyoshi Umeki, Japanese actress (b. 1929)
 * August 29 – Chaswe Nsofwa, Zambian footballer (b. 1978)
 * August 30 – Michael Jackson, English writer (b. 1942)

September

 * September 6
 * Madeleine L'Engle, American author (b. 1918)
 * Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor (b. 1935)
 * September 7 – John Compton, former Prime Ministers of Saint Lucia (b. 1925)
 * September 9
 * Helmut Senekowitsch, Austrian footballer and coach (b. 1933)
 * Hughie Thomasson, American musician (b. 1952)
 * September 10
 * Anita Roddick, English entrepreneur (b. 1942)
 * Jane Wyman, American actress, first wife of Ronald Reagan (b. 1917)
 * September 11
 * Ian Porterfield, Scottish footballer (b. 1946)
 * Joe Zawinul, Austrian musician (b. 1932)
 * September 15 – Colin McRae, Scottish world rally champion (b. 1968)
 * September 21
 * Hallgeir Brenden, Norwegian Olympic skiier (b. 1929)
 * Alice Ghostley, American actress (b. 1926)
 * Petar Stambolić, Serbian politician (b. 1912)
 * September 22 – Marcel Marceau, French mime artist (b. 1923)
 * September 27 – Kenji Nagai, Japanese journalist (b. 1957)
 * September 29 – Lois Maxwell, Canadian actress (b. 1927)
 * September 30 – Milan Jelić, Bosnian-Serb politician (b. 1956)

October

 * October 1 – Al Oerter, American Olympic athlete (b. 1936)
 * October 7 – Norifumi Abe, Japanese motorcycle road racer (b. 1975)
 * October 11 – Sri Chinmoy, Indian philosopher (b. 1931)
 * October 12
 * Soe Win, Burmese politician (b. 1948)
 * Kisho Kurokawa, Japanese architect (b. 1934)
 * October 13 – Bob Denard, French mercenary (b. 1929)
 * October 16
 * Deborah Kerr, Scottish actress (b. 1921)
 * Rosalio José Castillo Lara, Venezuelan cardinal (b. 1922)
 * Toše Proeski, Macedonian singer (b. 1981)
 * Barbara West, survivor of the Titanic sinking (b. 1911)
 * October 17
 * Joey Bishop, American entertainer (b. 1918)
 * Teresa Brewer, American singer (b. 1931)
 * October 18 – Lucky Dube, South African musician (b. 1964)
 * October 19 – Jan Wolkers, Dutch author, sculptor and painter (b. 1925)
 * October 22 – Ève Curie, French author, daughter of Pierre and Marie Curie (b. 1904)
 * October 24 – Petr Eben, Czech composer (b. 1929)
 * October 26
 * Nicolae Dobrin, Romanian footballer (b. 1947)
 * Arthur Kornberg, American biochemist (b. 1918)
 * Khun Sa, Burmese warlord (b. 1934)
 * October 28 – Porter Wagoner, American country singer (b. 1927)
 * October 30 – Robert Goulet, American entertainer (b. 1933)

November

 * November 1 – Paul Tibbets, American general, pilot of the Enola Gay (b. 1915)
 * November 2
 * Igor Moiseyev, Russian choreographer (b. 1906)
 * The Fabulous Moolah, American professional wrestler (b. 1923)
 * November 3 – Aleksandr Dedyushko (b. 1962)
 * November 5 – Nils Liedholm, Swedish footballer and coach (b. 1922)
 * November 6 – Enzo Biagi, Italian journalist (b. 1920)
 * November 9 – Luis Herrera Campins, 56th President of Venezuela (b. 1925)
 * November 10
 * Laraine Day, American actress (b. 1920)
 * Norman Mailer, American writer (b. 1923)
 * November 11 – Delbert Mann, American film and television director (b. 1920)
 * November 12 – Ira Levin, American novelist (b. 1929)
 * November 20 – Ian Smith, 8th Prime Minister of Rhodesia (b. 1919)
 * November 21 – Fernando Fernán Gómez, Spanish actor, director, and playwright (b. 1921)
 * November 23 – Vladimir Kryuchkov, Russian Soviet-era bureaucrat (b. 1924)
 * November 25 – Kevin DuBrow, American musician (Quiet Riot) (b. 1955)
 * November 26 – Herb McKenley, American Olympic athlete (b. 1922)
 * November 27 – Sean Taylor, American football player (b. 1983)
 * November 30 – Evel Knievel, American motorcycle daredevil (b. 1938)

December

 * December 1 – Ken McGregor, Australian tennis player (b. 1929)
 * December 4
 * Pimp C, American rapper (b. 1973)
 * Chip Reese, American professional gambler (b. 1951)
 * December 5 – Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer (b. 1928)
 * December 12 – Ike Turner, American musician (b. 1931)
 * December 16 – Dan Fogelberg, American singer and songwriter (b. 1951)
 * December 22 – Julien Gracq, French writer (b. 1910)
 * December 23 – Oscar Peterson, Canadian jazz pianist and composer (b. 1925)
 * December 27
 * Benazir Bhutto, Pakistani politician (assassinated; b. 1953)
 * Jaan Kross, Estonian writer (b. 1920)
 * Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Polish film director (b. 1922)
 * December 29 – Phil O'Donnell, Scottish footballer (b. 1972)
 * December 31
 * Muhammad Osman Said, Former Libyan prime minister (b. 1922).
 * Ettore Sottsass, Italian architect (b. 1917)

January

 * January 1
 * Pratap Chandra Chunder, Indian politician (b. 1919)
 * Erich Kästner, German jurist and soldier (b. 1900)
 * Lucas Sang, Kenyan athlete (b. 1961)
 * January 2
 * George MacDonald Fraser, Scottish author (b. 1925)
 * Galyani Vadhana, Thai royal (b. 1923)
 * Choi Yo-sam, South Korean boxer (b. 1972)
 * January 3
 * Aleksandr Abdulov, Russian actor (b. 1953)
 * Henri Chopin, French poet and musician (b. 1922)
 * Werner Dollinger, German politician and economist (b. 1918)
 * Nikolay Puzanov, Soviet biathlete (b. 1938)
 * Jimmy Stewart, British racing driver (b. 1931)
 * January 4 – Stig Claesson, Swedish writer (b. 1928)
 * January 5 – Louis Hon, French footballer (b. 1924)
 * January 6 – Alekos Michaelides, Cypriot politician (b. 1933)
 * January 7
 * Philip Agee, American CIA agent (b. 1935)
 * Maryvonne Dupureur, French runner (b. 1937)
 * January 10 – Maila Nurmi, Finnish-American actress and television personality (b. 1922)
 * January 11 – Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist (b. 1919)
 * January 15 – Brad Renfro, American actor (b. 1982)
 * January 16 – Nikola Kljusev, Macedonian Prime Minister (b. 1927)
 * January 17 – Bobby Fischer, American-Icelandic chess grandmaster and former World Chess Champion (b. 1943)
 * January 19 – Suzanne Pleshette, American actress (b. 1937)
 * January 22
 * Heath Ledger, Australian actor (b. 1979)
 * Claude Piron, Swiss linguist and psychologist (b. 1931)
 * January 26 – George Habash, Palestinian politician (b. 1926)
 * January 27
 * Gordon B. Hinckley, American Mormon leader (b. 1910)
 * Suharto, 2nd President of Indonesia (b. 1921)
 * January 28 – Archbishop Christodoulos of Athens (b. 1939)
 * January 29 – Margaret Truman, American singer and writer (b. 1924)

February

 * February 2 – Joshua Lederberg, American molecular biologist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1925)
 * February 5 – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Indian spiritual leader (b. 1917)
 * February 7 – Andrew Bertie, British Grand Master of the Order of Malta (b. 1929)
 * February 9 – Baba Amte, Indian social activist (b. 1914)
 * February 10 – Roy Scheider, American actor (b. 1932)
 * February 11
 * Alfredo Reinado, East Timorese rebel (b. 1967)
 * Tom Lantos, American politician (b. 1928)
 * February 12
 * Imad Mughniyah, Lebanese militant (b. 1962)
 * Badri Patarkatsishvili, Georgian businessman and politician (b. 1955)
 * February 13
 * Kon Ichikawa, Japanese film director (b. 1915)
 * Henri Salvador, French singer (b. 1917)
 * February 18 – Alain Robbe-Grillet, French writer and filmmaker (b. 1922)
 * February 19
 * Natalia Bessmertnova, Russian ballerina (b. 1941)
 * Yegor Letov, Russian singer (b. 1964)
 * February 23
 * Janez Drnovšek, Slovenian President and Prime Minister of (b. 1950)
 * Paul Frère, Belgian racing driver (b. 1917)
 * February 27
 * William F. Buckley, Jr., American author and conservative commentator (b. 1925)
 * Ivan Rebroff, German singer (b. 1931)
 * February 25 – Static Major, American singer and Songwriter (b. 1974)
 * February 29 – Erik Ortvad (b. 1917)

March

 * March 1 – Raúl Reyes, Colombian guerrilla (b. 1948)
 * March 2 – Jeff Healey, Canadian musician (b. 1966)
 * March 3
 * Giuseppe Di Stefano, Italian operatic tenor (b. 1921)
 * Norman Smith, English singer and record producer (b. 1923)
 * March 4 – Gary Gygax, American writer and game designer (b. 1938)
 * March 5 – Joseph Weizenbaum, German-American author and computer scientist (b. 1923)
 * March 6 – Peter Poreku Dery, Ghanaian cardinal (b. 1918)
 * March 14 – Chiara Lubich, Italian Catholic activist (b. 1920)
 * March 18 – Anthony Minghella, English film director and screenwriter (b. 1954)
 * March 19
 * Arthur C. Clarke, English author, inventor, and futurist (b. 1917)
 * Hugo Claus, Flemish writer, painter and film director (b. 1929)
 * Paul Scofield, English actor (b. 1922)
 * March 22 – Adolfo Suárez Rivera, Mexican cardinal (b. 1927)
 * March 24
 * Neil Aspinall, British record producer and business executive (b. 1942)
 * Richard Widmark, American actor (b. 1914)
 * March 26 – Manuel Marulanda, Colombian guerrilla (b. 1930)
 * March 27 – Jean-Marie Balestre, French sports executive (b. 1921)
 * March 30 – Dith Pran, Cambodian-American photojournalist (b. 1942)
 * March 31 – Jules Dassin, American film director (b. 1911)

April

 * April 3 – Hrvoje Ćustić, Croatian footballer (b. 1983)
 * April 5 – Charlton Heston, American actor (b. 1923)
 * April 8 – Stanley Kamel, American actor (b. 1943)
 * April 10 – Ernesto Corripio y Ahumada, Mexican cardinal (b. 1919)
 * April 12 – Patrick Hillery, 6th President of Ireland (b. 1923)
 * April 13 – John Archibald Wheeler, American theoretical physicist (b. 1911)
 * April 14 – Ollie Johnston, American animator (b. 1912)
 * April 15 – Benoît Lamy, Belgian motion picture writer-director (b. 1945)
 * April 16 – Edward Norton Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist (b. 1917)
 * April 17 – Aimé Césaire, French Martinican poet and politician (b. 1913)
 * April 29 – Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist and writer, discoverer of LSD (b. 1906)

May

 * May 1 – Anthony Mamo, first President of Malta (b. 1909)
 * May 2 – Philipp von Boeselager, German military officer (b. 1917)
 * May 3 – Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, Spanish Prime Minister (b. 1926)
 * May 8 – François Sterchele, Belgian footballer (b. 1982)
 * May 10 – Leyla Gencer, Turkish soprano (b. 1928)
 * May 12
 * Robert Rauschenberg, American pop artist (b. 1925)
 * Irena Sendler, Polish humanitarian (b. 1910)
 * May 13
 * Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1930)
 * Bernardin Gantin, Beninese cardinal (b. 1922)
 * May 15 – Willis Lamb, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
 * May 23 – Cornell Capa, Hungarian-American photographer (b. 1918)
 * May 24 – Rob Knox, British actor (b. 1989)
 * May 26 – Sydney Pollack, American actor, director and producer (b. 1934)
 * May 28 – Sven Davidson, Swedish tennis player (b. 1928)
 * May 29 – Luc Bourdon, Canadian Hockey player (b. 1987)

June

 * June 1
 * Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer (b. 1936)
 * Tommy Lapid, Israeli television presenter, journalist, and politician (b. 1931)
 * June 2
 * Bo Diddley, American musician (b. 1928)
 * Nodar Dzhordzhikiya, Georgian basketball player (b. 1921)
 * Ferenc Fejtő, Hungarian-French journalist and political scientist (b. 1909)
 * Mel Ferrer, American actor and director (b. 1917)
 * Ken Naganuma, Japanese footballer (b. 1930)
 * June 3 – Grigory Romanov, Russian politician (b. 1923)
 * June 4 – Agata Mróz-Olszewska, Polish volleyball player (b. 1982)
 * June 5 – Eugenio Montejo, Venezuelan poet (b. 1938)
 * June 6
 * Saeko Himuro, Japanese writer (b. 1957)
 * Ferenc Sánta, Hungarian writer (b. 1927)
 * Victor Wégria, Belgian footballer (b. 1936)
 * Francisco José Ynduráin, Spanish physicist (b. 1940)
 * June 7
 * Joseph Kabui, Papua New Guinean politician (b. 1954)
 * Mustafa Khalil, Egyptian politician (b. 1920)
 * Dino Risi, Italian director (b. 1916)
 * Horst Skoff, Austrian tennis player (b. 1968)
 * June 8
 * Šaban Bajramović, Serbian musician (b. 1936)
 * Florența Crăciunescu, Romanian athlete (b. 1955)
 * Peter Rühmkorf, German writer (b. 1929)
 * June 9
 * Karen Asrian, Armenian chess grandmaster (b. 1980)
 * Algis Budrys, Lithuanian-American science fiction writer (b. 1931)
 * June 10 – Chinghiz Aitmatov, Kyrgyzstani writer (b. 1928)
 * June 11
 * Ove Andersson, Swedish rally driver (b. 1939)
 * Jean Desailly, French actor (b. 1920)
 * Adam Ledwoń, Polish-German footballer (b. 1974)
 * Võ Văn Kiệt, Vietnamese prime minister (b. 1922)
 * June 12 – Miroslav Dvořák, Czechoslovakian ice hockey player (b. 1951)
 * June 13 – Tim Russert, American journalist (b. 1950)
 * June 14 – Esbjörn Svensson, Swedish pianist (b. 1964)
 * June 15 – Stan Winston, American special effects and makeup artist (b. 1946)
 * June 16 – Mario Rigoni Stern, Italian author (b. 1921)
 * June 17
 * Henry Beckman, Canadian actor (b. 1921)
 * Cyd Charisse, American actress and dancer (b. 1922)
 * Henryk Mandelbaum, Polish Holocaust survivor (b. 1922)
 * Tsutomu Miyazaki, Japanese serial killer (b. 1962)
 * June 18
 * Jean Delannoy, French film director (b. 1908)
 * Miyuki Kanbe, Japanese actress (b. 1984)
 * June 19 – Bennie Swain, American basketball player (b. 1933)
 * June 20 – Jean-Pierre Thystère Tchicaya, Congolese politician (b. 1936)
 * June 21 – Scott Kalitta, American drag racer (b. 1962)
 * June 22
 * George Carlin, American comedian and actor (b. 1937)
 * Albert Cossery, Egyptian-French writer (b. 1913)
 * Dody Goodman, American actress (b. 1914)
 * June 23
 * Arthur Chung, Guyanese politician, President of Guyana (b. 1918)
 * Vlado Taneski, Macedonian journalist and serial killer (b. 1952)
 * June 24
 * Ruth Cardoso, Brazilian anthropologist (b. 1930)
 * Shao Hua, Chinese photographer and major general (b. 1938)
 * Leonid Hurwicz, American economist and mathematician (b. 1917)
 * Viktor Kuzkin, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1940)
 * Józef Szajna, Polish set designer and director (b. 1922)
 * June 25 – Gerard Batliner, Liechtensteinian politician, Prime Minister of Liechtensteinian (b. 1928)
 * June 26 – Lilyan Chauvin, French-American actress (b. 1925)
 * June 27
 * Raymond Lefèvre, French conductor (b. 1929)
 * Sam Manekshaw, Indian field marshal (b. 1914)
 * Lenka Reinerová, Czech author (b. 1916)
 * Michael Turner, American comic book artist (b. 1971)
 * June 28
 * Irina Baronova, Russian ballerina and actress (b. 1919)
 * Ruslana Korshunova, Kazakhstani model (b. 1987)
 * Nicolae Linca, Romanian boxer (b. 1929)
 * Stig Olin, Swedish actor (b. 1920)
 * June 29 – Don S. Davis, American actor (b. 1942)
 * June 30 – Ángel Tavira, Mexican composer (b. 1924)

July

 * July 4
 * Jesse Helms, American politician (b. 1921)
 * Evelyn Keyes, American actress (b. 1916)
 * July 5 – René Harris, President of Nauru (b. 1947)
 * July 9 – Séamus Brennan, Irish politician (b. 1948)
 * July 11 – Michael E. DeBakey, American surgeon and inventor (b. 1908)
 * July 12 – Tony Snow, American political commentator (b. 1955)
 * July 13 – Bronisław Geremek, Polish social historian and politician (b. 1932)
 * July 15 – György Kolonics, Hungarian canoeist (b. 1972)
 * July 22 – Estelle Getty, American actress (b. 1923)
 * July 23 – Kurt Furgler, Swiss politician (b. 1924)
 * July 25
 * Johnny Griffin, American saxophonist (b. 1928)
 * Randy Pausch, American author and computer scientist (b. 1960)
 * July 27 – Youssef Chahine, Egyptian film director (b. 1926)
 * July 29 – Mate Parlov, Croatian boxer (b. 1948)

August

 * August 1 – Harkishan Singh Surjeet, Indian politician (b. 1916)
 * August 3 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
 * August 9
 * Bernie Mac, American actor and comedian (b. 1957)
 * Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian poet (b. 1941)
 * August 10 – Isaac Hayes, African-American musician (b. 1942)
 * August 11 – Fred Sinowatz, Austrian politician (b. 1929)
 * August 13 – Henri Cartan, French mathematician (b. 1904)
 * August 15 – Jerry Wexler, American music producer (b. 1917)
 * August 16
 * Ronnie Drew, Irish singer (b. 1934)
 * Masanobu Fukuoka, Japanese microbiologist (b. 1913)
 * August 19 – Levy Mwanawasa, President of Zambia (b. 1948)
 * August 20 – Hua Guofeng, Chairman of the Communist Party and Chinese premier (b. 1921)
 * August 23 – Thomas Huckle Weller, American virologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
 * August 28 – Phil Hill, American race car driver (b. 1927)
 * August 30 – Killer Kowalski, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1926)

September

 * September 1
 * Don LaFontaine, American voice actor (b. 1940)
 * Jerry Reed, American singer and actor (b. 1937)
 * September 2
 * Arne Domnérus, Swedish saxophonist
 * Bill Melendez, Mexican-American animator and voice actor (b. 1916)
 * September 6
 * Aril Edvardsen, Norwegian evangelist (b. 1938)
 * Antonio Innocenti, Italian cardinal (b. 1915)
 * September 7 – Dino Dvornik, Croatian singer (b. [[1964
 * Anita Page, American actress (b. 1910)
 * September 8
 * Evan Tanner, American mixed martial artist (b. 1971)
 * Hector Zazou, French composer (b. 1948)
 * September 9
 * Jacob Lekgetho, South African footballer (b. 1974)
 * Nouhak Phoumsavanh, Laotian politician, President of Laos (b. 1910)
 * September 10 – Vernon Handley, British conductor (b. 1930)
 * September 12 – David Foster Wallace, American writer (b. 1962)
 * September 14 – Gennady Troshev, Russian general (b. 1947)
 * September 15 – Richard Wright, English keyboardist (b. 1943)
 * September 16 – Norman Whitfield, American songwriter (b. 1940)
 * September 18 – Mauricio Kagel, Argentine composer (b. 1931)
 * September 20 – Willi Heidel, Romanian handball player (b. 1916)
 * September 21 – Dingiri Banda Wijetunga, Sri Lankan politician, President of Sri Lanka (b. 1916)
 * September 22 – Thomas Dörflein, German zookeeper (b. 1963)
 * September 23 – Rudolf Illovszky, Hungarian footballer (b. 1922)
 * September 24 – Vice Vukov, Croatian singer and politician (b. 1936)
 * September 25 – Horațiu Rădulescu, Romanian-French composer (b. 1942)
 * September 26
 * Géza Kalocsay, Hungarian footballer (b. 1913)
 * Paul Newman, American actor (b. 1925)
 * September 27 – Mahendra Kapoor, Indian playback singer (b. 1934)
 * September 28 – Malalai Kakar, Afghan policewoman (b. 1967)

October

 * October 1 – Boris Yefimov, Russian political cartoonist (b. 1900)
 * October 6 – Paavo Haavikko, Finnish poet (b. 1931)
 * October 8 – George Emil Palade, Romanian cell biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
 * October 10
 * Kazuyoshi Miura, Japanese businessman (b. 1947)
 * Alexey Prokurorov, Russian cross-country skier (b. 1964)
 * October 11 – Jörg Haider, Austrian politician (b. 1950)
 * October 13
 * Guillaume Depardieu, French actor (b. 1971)
 * Antonio José González Zumárraga, Ecuadorian cardinal (b. 1925)
 * Alexei Cherepanov, Russian Hockey Player (b. 1989)
 * October 18 - Hector Lombana, Colombian sculptor, painter and architect (b. 1930)
 * October 20 – Sœur Emmanuelle, Belgian-born French nun (b. 1908)
 * October 25 – Muslim Magomayev, Azerbaijani singer (b. 1942)
 * October 26 – Tony Hillerman, American writer (b. 1925)
 * October 27 - John Goetz, American professional baseball player (b. 1937)
 * October 29 - William Wharton (author), American Author (b. 1925)
 * October 31 – Studs Terkel, American author and liberal commentator (b. 1912)

November

 * November 1
 * Jacques Piccard, Swiss explorer and engineer (b. 1922)
 * Yma Sumac, Peruvian soprano (b. 1922)
 * November 4
 * Michael Crichton, American author and producer (b. 1942)
 * Juan Camilo Mouriño, Mexican politician (b. 1971)
 * November 9 – Miriam Makeba, South African singer (b. 1932)
 * November 10
 * Kiyoshi Itō, Japanese mathematician (b. 1915)
 * Arthur Shawcross. American serial killer, (b. 1945)
 * November 12 – Mitch Mitchell, English drummer (b. 1946)
 * November 13 – Paco Ignacio Taibo I, Mexican writer and journalist (b. 1924)
 * November 14 – Tsvetanka Khristova, Bulgarian athlete (b. 1962)
 * November 22 – Ibrahim Nasir, Maldivian President (b. 1926)
 * November 27 – Vishwanath Pratap Singh, Indian Prime Minister (b. 1931)
 * November 29 – Jørn Utzon, Danish architect (b. 1918)

December

 * December 1 – Mikel Laboa, Basque singer and songwriter (b. 1934)
 * December 2 – Odetta, American singer (b. 1930)
 * December 5
 * Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow (b. 1929)
 * Nina Foch, Dutch-born American actress (b. 1924)
 * December 9
 * Yury Glazkov, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1939)
 * Dražan Jerković, Croatian football player and manager (b. 1936)
 * December 11
 * Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, American physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1923)
 * Bettie Page, American pin-up model (b. 1923)
 * December 12
 * Avery Dulles, American Roman Catholic Cardinal (b. 1918)
 * Van Johnson, American actor (b. 1916)
 * Tassos Papadopoulos, 5th President of Cyprus (b. 1934)
 * December 13 – Horst Tappert, German actor (b. 1923)
 * December 17 – Luis Félix López, Ecuadorian writer and politician (b. 1932)
 * December 18
 * Majel Barrett, American actress (b. 1932)
 * W. Mark Felt, American FBI agent, "Deep Throat" from the Watergate scandal (b. 1913)
 * December 20
 * Olga Lepeshinskaya, Russian ballerina (b. 1916)
 * Robert Mulligan, American director (b. 1925)
 * December 22 – Lansana Conté, President of Guinea (b. 1934)
 * December 24
 * Harold Pinter, English playwright (b. 1930)
 * Samuel P. Huntington, American political scientist (b. 1927)
 * December 25 – Eartha Kitt, American singer and actress (b. 1927)
 * December 29 – Freddie Hubbard, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1938)

January

 * January 1
 * Nizar Rayan, Palestinian military and political leader (b. 1959)
 * Johannes Mario Simmel, Austrian writer (b. 1924)
 * Helen Suzman, South African activist and politician (b. 1917)
 * January 3
 * Pat Hingle, American actor (b. 1924)
 * Ulf G. Lindén, Swedish entrepreneur (b. 1937)
 * Hisayasu Nagata Japanese politician (b. 1969)
 * January 12
 * Claude Berri, French film director (b. 1934)
 * Arne Næss, Norwegian philosopher (b. 1912)
 * January 13 – Patrick McGoohan, American-born British actor (b. 1928)
 * January 14 – Ricardo Montalbán, Mexican-born American actor (b. 1920)
 * January 16 – Andrew Wyeth, American painter (b. 1917)
 * January 20
 * Stéphanos II Ghattas, Egyptian Patriarch of Alexandria (b. 1920)
 * Sheila Walsh (aka Sophie Leyton), British writer (b. 1928)
 * January 25 – Mamadou Dia, 1st Prime Minister of Senegal (b. 1910)
 * January 27
 * John Updike, American writer (b. 1932)
 * R. Venkataraman, 8th President of India (b. 1910)
 * January 30 – Ingemar Johansson, Swedish boxer (b. 1932)

February

 * February 1
 * Lukas Foss, American composer (b. 1922)
 * Jim McWithey, American racecar driver (b. 1927)
 * February 3 – Pavlo Zahrebelnyi, Ukranian novelist (b. 1924)
 * February 4
 * Christophe Dupouey, French mountain biker (b. 1968)
 * Arnljot Eggen, Norwegian poet (b. 1923)
 * Lux Interior, American singer (b. 1946)
 * February 5
 * Sigurd Andersson, Swedish cross country skier (b. 1926)
 * Albert Barillé, French screenwriter and producer (b. 1920)
 * Dana Vávrová, Czech-German actress (b. 1967)
 * February 6
 * Philip Carey, American actor (b. 1925)
 * James Whitmore, American actor (b. 1921)
 * February 7
 * Blossom Dearie, American jazz singer (b. 1924)
 * Jacques Lancelot, French clarinetist (b. 1920)
 * February 8 – Marian Cozma, Romanian footballer
 * February 9
 * Kazys Bradūnas, Lithuanian poet (b. 1917)
 * Eluana Englaro, Italian patient in right-to-die case (b. 1970)
 * February 25 – Philip José Farmer, American writer (b. 1918)
 * February 27 – Manea Mănescu, Romanian Prime Minister (b. 1916)

March

 * March 2 – João Bernardo Vieira, President of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1939)
 * March 14 – Alain Bashung, French singer, songwriter and actor (b. 1947)
 * March 15 – Ron Silver, American actor and political activist (b. 1946)
 * March 18 – Natasha Richardson, English actress (b. 1963)
 * March 20 – Abdellatif Filali, 13th Prime Minister of Morocco (b. 1928)
 * March 25 – Yukio Endo, Japanese gymnast (b. 1937)
 * March 28 – Janet Jagan, American-born President of Guyana (b. 1920)
 * March 29 – Maurice Jarre, French composer and conductor (b. 1924)
 * March 31 – Raúl Alfonsín, 49th President of Argentina (b. 1927)

April

 * April 12
 * Marilyn Chambers, American pornographic actress (b. 1952)
 * Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, American social theorist (b. 1950)
 * April 14 – Maurice Druon, French novelist (b. 1918)
 * April 19 – J. G. Ballard, English novelist (b. 1930)
 * April 22
 * Ken Annakin, English film director (b. 1914)
 * Jack Cardiff, English cinematographer (b. 1914)
 * April 25 – Bea Arthur, American actress (b. 1922)
 * April 28 – Ekaterina Maximova, Soviet-Russian ballerina (b. 1939)

May

 * May 2
 * Augusto Boal, Brazilian theatre director (b. 1931)
 * Jack Kemp, American politician and football player (b. 1935)
 * May 4 – Dom DeLuise, American actor and comedian (b. 1933)
 * May 9 – Chuck Daly, American basketball coach (b. 1930)
 * May 13 – Achille Compagnoni, Italian mountaineer (b. 1914)
 * May 17 – Mario Benedetti, Uruguayan writer (b. 1920)
 * May 18
 * Velupillai Prabhakaran, Sri Lankan militant (b. 1954)
 * Wayne Allwine, American voice actor (b. 1947)
 * May 19 – Robert F. Furchgott, American scientist (b. 1916)
 * May 23 – Roh Moo-hyun, 16th President of South Korea (b. 1946)
 * May 27 – Clive Granger, British economist (b. 1934)
 * May 30
 * Luís Cabral, 1st President of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1931)
 * Ephraim Katzir, 4th President of Israel (b. 1916)
 * Gaafar Nimeiry, 5th President of the Sudan (b. 1930)
 * May 31 – Millvina Dean, British citizen who was the last remaining survivor of the sinking of the RMS Titanic. At 2 months and 13 days of age, she was also the youngest passenger on board the ship. (b. 1912)

June

 * June 2 – David Eddings, American author (b. 1931)
 * June 3
 * David Carradine, American actor (b. 1936)
 * Koko Taylor, American musician (b. 1928)
 * June 6 – Jean Dausset, French immunologist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
 * June 8 – Omar Bongo, President of Gabon (b. 1935)
 * June 12 – Félix Malloum, 3rd President of Chad (b. 1932)
 * June 13 – Mitsuharu Misawa, Japanese professional wrestler (b. 1962)
 * June 17 – Ralf Dahrendorf, German-British social theorist and politician (b. 1929)
 * June 25
 * Farrah Fawcett, American actress (b. 1947)
 * Michael Jackson, American performer and recording artist (b. 1958)
 * June 30 – Pina Bausch, German choreographer (b. 1940)

July

 * July 1
 * Alexis Argüello, Nicaraguan boxer and politician (b. 1952)
 * Karl Malden, American actor (b. 1912)
 * July 4 – Allen Klein, American businessman (b. 1931)
 * July 6
 * Vasily Aksyonov, Russian novelist (b. 1932)
 * Robert McNamara, 8th United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1916)
 * July 17
 * Meir Amit, Israeli general and politician (b. 1921)
 * Walter Cronkite, American newscaster (b. 1916)
 * Leszek Kołakowski, Polish philosopher (b. 1927)


 * July 19 – Frank McCourt, Irish-American author (b. 1930)
 * July 26 – Merce Cunningham, American choreographer (b. 1919)
 * July 31 – Bobby Robson, English footballer and manager (b. 1933)

August

 * August 1 – Corazon Aquino, 11th President of the Philippines (b. 1933)
 * August 5 – Budd Schulberg, American screenwriter (b. 1914)
 * August 6
 * John Hughes, American film director and writer (b. 1950)
 * Willy DeVille, American singer-songwriter (b. 1950)
 * August 8 – Daniel Jarque, Spanish footballer (b. 1983)
 * August 11 – Eunice Kennedy Shriver, American founder of the Special Olympics (b. 1921)
 * August 13 – Les Paul, American musician and inventor (b. 1915)
 * August 18 – Kim Dae-jung, 15th President of South Korea (b. 1925)
 * August 24 – Toni Sailer, Austrian alpine ski racer (b. 1935)
 * August 25 – Ted Kennedy, American politician (b. 1932)
 * August 26 – Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, Iraqi politician and theologian (b. 1953)
 * August 27 – Sergey Mikhalkov, Soviet-Russian author (b. 1913)

September

 * September 8 – Aage Bohr, Danish physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1922)
 * September 11
 * Juan Almeida, Cuban revolutionary and politician (b. 1927)
 * Yoshito Usui, Japanese manga artist (b. 1958)
 * September 12
 * Norman Borlaug, American agronomist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)
 * Jack Kramer, American tennis player and promoter (b. 1921)
 * September 14
 * Patrick Swayze, American actor and dancer (b. 1952)
 * Henry Gibson, American actor and songwriter (b. 1935)
 * September 16
 * Mary Travers, American sing and songwriter (b. 1936)
 * September 17 – Noordin Mohammad Top, Malaysian Islamist militant (b. 1968)
 * September 18 – Irving Kristol, American writer and political commentator (b. 1920)
 * September 23 – Ertuğrul Osman, 43rd Head of the Ottoman Dynasty (b. 1912)
 * September 25 – Alicia de Larrocha, Spanish pianist (b. 1923)
 * September 28 – Guillermo Endara, President of Panama, 1989–1994 (b. 1936)
 * September 29 – Pavel Popovich, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1930)

October

 * October 2 – Marek Edelman, Polish political and social activist (b. 1922)
 * October 4
 * Shōichi Nakagawa, Japanese politician (b. 1953)
 * Günther Rall, German fighter pilot (b. 1918)
 * October 4 – Mercedes Sosa, Argentine singer (b. 1935)
 * October 5 – Israel Gelfand, Soviet-American mathematician (b. 1913)
 * October 7 – Irving Penn, American photographer (b. 1917)


 * October 13 – Al Martino, American singer and actor (b. 1927)


 * October 19 – Joseph Wiseman, Canadian actor (b. 1918)
 * October 30 – Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist (b. 1908)
 * October 31 – Qian Xuesen, Chinese scientist (b. 1911)

November

 * November 3 – Francisco Ayala, Spanish novelist (b. 1906)
 * November 8 – Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
 * November 10 – Robert Enke, German footballer (b. 1977)
 * November 15
 * Patriarch Pavle of Serbia, Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church (b. 1914)
 * Pierre Harmel, 39th Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1911)
 * November 16 – Antonio de Nigris, Mexican footballer (b. 1978)
 * November 20 – Lino Lacedelli, Italian mountaineer (b. 1925)
 * November 21 – Konstantin Feoktistov, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1926)
 * November 24 – Samak Sundaravej, 25th Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1935)
 * November 30 – Milorad Pavić, Serbian writer (b. 1929)

December

 * December 3 – Richard Todd, Irish-born British actor (b. 1919)
 * December 4
 * Eddie Fatu, Samoan-American professional wrestler (b. 1973)
 * Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Soviet-Russian actor (b. 1928)
 * December 5
 * Alfred Hrdlicka, Austrian artist (b. 1928)
 * Otto Graf Lambsdorff, German politician (b. 1926)
 * December 9 – Gene Barry, American actor (b. 1919)
 * December 13 – Paul Samuelson, American economist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
 * December 16
 * Roy E. Disney, American businessman (b. 1930)
 * Yegor Gaidar, Russian politician (b. 1956)
 * December 17 – Jennifer Jones, American actress (b. 1919)
 * December 19
 * Hussein-Ali Montazeri, Iranian scholar and human rights activist (b. 1922)
 * Kim Peek, American savant (b. 1951)
 * December 20 – Brittany Murphy, American actress (b. 1977)
 * December 21 – Edwin G. Krebs, American biologist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
 * December 23 – Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme, Tibetan politician (b. 1910)
 * December 24 – Rafael Caldera, 54th and 60th President of Venezuela (b. 1916)
 * December 30 – Abdurrahman Wahid, 4th President of Indonesia (b. 1940)