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January

 * January 1
 * Bob Anderson, British fencer and stuntman (b. 1922)
 * Kiro Gligorov, 1st President of the Republic of Macedonia (b. 1917)
 * January 3 – Josef Škvorecký, Czech writer (b. 1924)
 * 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)
 * Wisława Szymborska, Polish Nobel poet (b. 1923)
 * February 3
 * Ben Gazzara, American actor (b. 1930)
 * Samuel Youd, British author (b. 1922)
 * February 5 – Florence Green, British supercentenarian, last suriving veteran of World War I (b. 1901)
 * February 6
 * Antoni Tàpies, Spanish artist (b. 1923)
 * Janice E. Voss, American astronaut (b. 1956)
 * February 11 – Whitney Houston, American singer and actress (b. 1963)
 * February 12 – David Kelly, Irish actor (b. 1929)
 * February 19 – Renato Dulbecco, Italian-born American Nobel virologist (b. 1914)
 * February 24 – Bruce Surtees, American cinematographer (b. 1937)
 * February 25 – Maurice André, French trumpeter (b. 1933)
 * February 29 – Davy Jones, British singer and actor (b. 1945)

March

 * 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
 * Miguel de la Madrid, 52nd President of Mexico (b. 1934)
 * Giorgio Chinaglia, Italian footballer (b. 1947)
 * 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 – Alan G. Poindexter, American astronaut (b. 1961)
 * July 3
 * Andy Griffith, American actor (b. 1926)
 * Sergio Pininfarina, Italian automobile designer (b. 1926)
 * July 8 – Ernest Borgnine, American actor (b. 1917)
 * July 13 – 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
 * Stephen Covey, American author (b. 1932)
 * Jon Lord, British musician and composer (b. 1941)
 * July 19 – Omar Suleiman, Egyptian general, diplomat and intelligence officer (b. 1936)
 * July 23 – Sally Ride, American astronaut and physicist (b. 1951)
 * July 24 – John Atta Mills, President of Ghana (b. 1944)
 * July 27 – Jack Taylor, English football referee (b. 1930)
 * July 30
 * Maeve Binchy, Irish author (b. 1940)
 * Chris Marker, French writer and documentary filmmaker (b. 1921)
 * July 31 – 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)
 * September 3
 * Michael Clarke Duncan, American actor (b. 1957)
 * Sun Myung Moon, Korean religious leader (b. 1920)
 * September 5 – Joe South, American songwriter (b. 1940)
 * 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 – Eric Hobsbawm, British Marxist historian (b. 1917)
 * October 6 – Chadli Bendjedid, 3rd President of Algeria (b. 1929)
 * October 11 – Helmut Haller, German footballer (b. 1939)
 * October 14 – 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 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 21 – Michael Winner, British film director and producer (b. 1935)
 * January 23 – Józef Glemp, Polish cardinal (b. 1929)

February

 * February 1
 * Ed Koch, American lawyer and politician (b. 1924)
 * Robin Sachs, British actor (b. 1951)
 * 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 3 – Luis Cubilla, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1940)
 * March 5
 * Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela (b. 1954)
 * Paul Bearer, American professional wrestling manager (b. 1954)
 * March 6 – 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 27 – Hjalmar Andersen, Norwegian skater (b. 1923)
 * March 28 – Richard Griffiths, British actor (b. 1947)

April

 * April 2 – Jesús Franco, Spanish film director and screenwriter (b. 1930)
 * April 3 – 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 2 – Jeff Hanneman, American guitarist (b. 1964)
 * May 4 – Christian de Duve, Belgian Nobel biochemist (b. 1917)
 * May 6 – Giulio Andreotti, 41st Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1919)
 * May 7 – Ray Harryhausen, American filmmaker and creator of visual effects (b. 1920)
 * May 8 – Bryan Forbes, British actor and director (b. 1926)
 * May 13
 * Joyce Brothers, American psychologist (b. 1927)
 * Kenneth Waltz, American political scientist (b. 1924)
 * May 15 – Henrique Rosa, President of Guinea-Bissau (2003–2005) (b. 1946)
 * May 16 – Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss Nobel physicist (b. 1933)
 * May 17 – Jorge Rafael Videla, 42nd President of Argentina (b. 1925)
 * May 18 – Steve Forrest, American actor (b. 1925)
 * May 20 – Ray Manzarek, American keyboardist (b. 1939)
 * May 22 – Henri Dutilleux, French composer (b. 1916)
 * 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 2
 * Princess Fawzia Fuad of Egypt, Queen consort of Iran (1941–1948) (b. 1921)
 * Douglas Engelbart, American computer scientist and inventor (b. 1925)
 * July 3 – Radu Vasile, Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1942)
 * 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 5 – George Duke, American keyboardist (b. 1946)
 * August 8 – Karen Black, American actress (b. 1939)
 * August 10
 * László Csatáry, Hungarian war criminal (b. 1915)
 * Eydie Gormé, American singer (b. 1928)
 * August 12 – Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau, (b. 1968)
 * August 18 – Dezső Gyarmati, Hungarian water polo player (b. 1927)
 * August 19 – Cedar Walton, American pianist (b. 1934)
 * August 20
 * Elmore Leonard, American novelist (b. 1925)
 * Marian McPartland, British-born pianist (b. 1918)
 * August 21 – C. Gordon Fullerton, American astronaut (b. 1936)
 * August 24 – Julie Harris, American actress (b. 1925)
 * August 25 – Gylmar dos Santos Neves, Brazilian footballer (b. 1930)
 * 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 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 18
 * Ken Norton, American boxer (b. 1943)
 * Marcel Reich-Ranicki, German literary critic and member of the literary group Gruppe 47 (b. 1920)
 * September 19 – Hiroshi Yamauchi, Japanese businessman (b. 1927)
 * September 22 – David H. Hubel, Canadian-born American Nobel neuroscientist (b. 1926)

October

 * October 1 – Tom Clancy, American writer (b. 1947)
 * October 3 – Sergei Belov, Russian basketball player (b. 1944)
 * October 4 – Võ Nguyên Giáp, Vietnamese General (b. 1911)
 * October 7
 * Patrice Chéreau, French opera and theatre director, filmmaker, actor and producer (b. 1944)
 * Ovadia Yosef, Israeli religious leader (b. 1920)
 * October 9 – Wilfried Martens, 60th and 62nd Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1936)
 * October 10 – Scott Carpenter, American astronaut (b. 1925)
 * October 11 -
 * María de Villota, Spanish racing driver (b. 1980)
 * Erich Priebke, German SS captain and war criminal (b. 1913)
 * October 14 – Bruno Metsu, French football coach (b. 1954)
 * October 16 – Ed Lauter, American actor (b. 1938)
 * October 20 – Lawrence Klein, American Nobel economist (b. 1920)
 * October 23 – Anthony Caro, British sculptor (b. 1924)
 * October 24 – Manolo Escobar, Spanish singer (b. 1931)
 * October 25
 * Bill Sharman, American basketball player and coach (b. 1926)
 * Marcia Wallace, American actress and comedienne (b. 1942)
 * October 27 – Lou Reed, American singer, songwriter, and musician (b. 1942)
 * October 28 – Tadeusz Mazowiecki, 1st Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1927)

November

 * November 1 – Hakimullah Mehsud, Emir of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (b. c. 1979)
 * November 2 – Walt Bellamy, American basketball player (b. 1939)
 * 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 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 5 – Nelson Mandela, 1st President of South Africa and Nobel laureate (b. 1918)
 * December 7 – 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 football player and coach (b. 1938)
 * Maximilian Schell, Austrian-Swiss actor (b. 1930)
 * February 2 – Philip Seymour Hoffman, American actor (b. 1967)
 * February 3
 * Louise Brough, American tennis player (b. 1923)
 * Richard Bull, American actor (b. 1924)
 * 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 3 – Robert Ashley, American composer (b. 1930)
 * March 4 – William R. Pogue, American astronaut (b. 1930)
 * March 5 – Scott Kalvert, American film director (b. 1964)
 * March 6 – Sheila MacRae, English-American actress (b. 1921)
 * March 7 – Hal Douglas, American voice actor (b. 1924)
 * March 8 – William Guarnere, American soldier (b. 1923)
 * March 9 – Mohammed Fahim, Vice President of Afghanistan (b. c. 1957)
 * 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 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 – 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 7
 * Alfredo Di Stéfano, Argentine-Spanish footballer (b. 1926)
 * Eduard Shevardnadze, 2nd President of Georgia (b. 1928)
 * July 10 – Zohra Sehgal, Indian actress and dancer (b. 1912)
 * July 11
 * Charlie Haden, American jazz bassist (b. 1937)
 * Tommy Ramone, Hungarian-American drummer and producer (b. 1949)
 * John Seigenthaler, American journalist (b. 1927)
 * July 13
 * Lorin Maazel, French-American conductor and violinist (b. 1930)
 * Nadine Gordimer, South African Nobel writer (b. 1923)
 * 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
 * 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 30 – Julio Grondona, Argentinian football authority (b. 1931)

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 – Gottfried John, German actor (b. 1942)
 * 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 2 – György Lázár, Hungarian politician, Chairman of the Council of Ministers (b. 1924)
 * October 4
 * Fyodor Cherenkov, Russian footballer and manager (b. 1959)
 * Jean-Claude Duvalier, 41st President of Haiti (b. 1951)
 * October 5
 * Andrea de Cesaris, Italian race car driver (b. 1959)
 * Yuri Lyubimov, Russian actor and director (b. 1917)
 * October 6
 * Igor Mitoraj, Polish sculptor (b. 1944)
 * Marian Seldes, American actress (b. 1928)
 * October 7 – Siegfried Lenz, German writer (b. 1926)
 * October 9 – Jan Hooks, American actress and comedian (b. 1957)
 * 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 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)
 * 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 – 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 actor (b. 1950)
 * Gordon Tullock, American economist and academic (b. 1922)
 * November 5 – Lane Evans, American politician (b. 1951)
 * 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 – Jean Béliveau, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1931)
 * December 3
 * Jacques Barrot, French politician (b. 1937)
 * Ian McLagan, British musician (b. 1945)
 * December 5 – Queen Fabiola of Belgium (b. 1928)
 * December 6 – Ralph H. Baer, American video game pioneer (b. 1922)
 * December 8 – Knut Nystedt, Norwegian composer (b. 1915)
 * December 9 – Jorge María Mejía, Argentine cardinal (b. 1923)
 * December 16 – Ernie Terrell, American boxer (b. 1939)
 * December 18 – Virna Lisi, Italian actress (b. 1936)
 * December 21
 * Åke Johansson, Swedish footballer (b. 1928)
 * Udo Jürgens, Austrian composer and singer (b. 1934)
 * Billie Whitelaw, English actress (b. 1932)
 * December 22
 * Joe Cocker, English singer (b. 1944)
 * Joseph Sargent, American film director (b. 1925)
 * 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)
 * Omar Karami, 58th Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1934)
 * Boris Morukov, Russian astronaut (b. 1950)
 * January 3 – Edward Brooke, American politician (b. 1919)
 * 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
 * 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)
 * Udo Lattek, German footballer and coach (b. 1935)
 * Monty Oum, American animator and writer (b. 1981)
 * 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 – Marshall Rosenberg, American psychologist and writer (b. 1934)
 * February 10 – Karl Josef Becker, German cardinal (b. 1928)
 * February 12 – Movita Castaneda, American actress (b. 1916)
 * 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 21
 * Aleksei Gubarev, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1931)
 * Clark Terry, American jazz trumpeter and fugelhornist (b. 1920)
 * February 27
 * 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)
 * Wolfram Wuttke, German footballer (b. 1961)
 * March 2 – Dave Mackay, Scottish footballer and coach (b. 1934)
 * March 5 – Edward Egan, American cardinal (b. 1932)
 * 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 2 – Manoel de Oliveira, Portuguese film director and screenwriter (b. 1908)
 * 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)
 * 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)

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 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
 * Sergio Sollima, Italian film director (b. 1921)
 * Nicholas Winton, British humanitarian (b. 1909)
 * July 3 – Amanda Peterson, American actress (b. 1971)
 * 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 – Cilla Black, English singer and entertainer (b. 1943)
 * August 3 – Robert Conquest, British-born American historian (b. 1917)
 * August 7
 * Manuel Contreras, Chilean general (b. 1929)
 * Frances Oldham Kelsey, Canadian physician (b. 1914)
 * August 9 – John Henry Holland, American computer scientist (b. 1929)
 * August 11 – Harald Nielsen, Danish footballer (b. 1941)
 * August 12 – Jaakko Hintikka, Finnish philosopher and logician (b. 1929)
 * August 14 – Bob Johnston, American record producer (b. 1932)
 * August 16 – Mile Mrkšić, Serbian military officer (b. 1947)
 * August 17
 * Jacob Bekenstein, Mexican theoretical physicist (b. 1947)
 * 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 – Dean Jones, American actor (b. 1931)
 * September 3 – Chandra Bahadur Dangi, Nepalese dwarf, world's shortest man (b. 1939)
 * September 4 – Rico Rodriguez, Cuban-British musician (b. 1934)
 * September 6 – Martin Milner, American actor (b. 1931)
 * September 7 – Candida Royalle, American actress and director (b. 1950)
 * September 10
 * Adrian Frutiger, Swiss typeface designer (b. 1928)
 * 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 2
 * Eric Arturo Delvalle, Panamanian politician (b. 1937)
 * Brian Friel, Irish playwright (b. 1929)
 * October 3 – Denis Healey, British politician (b. 1917)
 * October 5
 * Chantal Akerman, Belgian filmmaker (b. 1950)
 * Infante Carlos, Spanish nobleman (b. 1938)
 * Henning Mankell, Swedish author (b. 1948)
 * October 6
 * Árpád Göncz, Hungarian politician, President of Hungary (b. 1922)
 * Billy Joe Royal, American singer (b. 1942)
 * October 7
 * Dominique Dropsy, French footballer (b. 1951)
 * Harry Gallatin, American basketball player and coach (b. 1927)
 * Jurelang Zedkaia, Fifth President of the Marshall Islands (b. 1950)
 * October 9 – Geoffrey Howe, British politician (b. 1926)
 * October 10 – Richard F. Heck, American chemist (b. 1931)
 * 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
 * Günter Schabowski, German politician (b. 1929)
 * Fred Thompson, American politician and actor (b. 1942)
 * November 2 – Colin Welland, British actor and screenwriter (b. 1934)
 * November 3
 * Howard Coble, American politician (b. 1931)
 * Ahmed Chalabi, Iraqi politician (b. 1944)
 * Csaba Fenyvesi, Hungarian fencer (b. 1943)
 * November 4
 * René Girard, French-American historian (b. 1923)
 * Melissa Mathison, American screenwriter (b. 1950)
 * November 5
 * Nora Brockstedt, Norwegian singer (b. 1923)
 * Czesław Kiszczak, Polish soldier and politician (b. 1925)
 * 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 12
 * Márton Fülöp, Hungarian footballer (b. 1983)
 * Phil Taylor, English rock drummer (b. 1954)