Deaths in 1989

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

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

## Deaths in 1989[edit]

### January[edit]

Eddie Heywood Sergei Sobolev Hirohito Bill Terry Chris Avram Donald Voorhees José Luis Bustamante y Rivero Charles J. Turck José María Peña Wajid Ali Khan Burki Devi Dja Józef Cyrankiewicz Beatrice Lillie Farquhar Oliver Salvador Dalí Ted Bundy William Forrest Thomas Sopwith Halina Konopacka Fernando Namora

* January 1
* G. Sankara Pillai, 58, Indian playwright, literary critic and director.[1]
* Anthony Pini, 86, Argentinian-Scottish cellist.[2]
* Marcel Tomazover, 73, French footballer and coach.[3]
* January 2
* Safdar Hashmi, 34, Indian communist playwright and director, murdered.[4]
* January 3
* Eddie Heywood, 73, American jazz pianist and composer.[5]
* Jim Lawson, 86, American NFL footballer.[6]
* Nell O'Day, 79, American equestrian and B-movie actress, heart attack.[7]
* Lina Prokofiev, 91, Spanish singer and wife of Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev.
* Sergei Sobolev, 80, Soviet mathematician.[8]
* Robert Thomas, 61, French writer, actor and film director.[9]
* Jean Willes, 65, American film and television actress, liver cancer.
* January 4
* Mike Micka, 67, American NFL footballer.[10]
* January 5
* Philip Herschkowitz, 82, Romanian-born composer and music theorist.
* Alexander Sargent, 93, English Anglican clergyman.
* January 6
* Jim Hurtubise, 56, American race car driver.
* Sir Edmund Leach, 78, British social anthropologist.[11]
* Satwant Singh, 26–27, Indian co-assassin of Indira Gandhi, execution by hanging.
* January 7
* Frank Adams, 58, British mathematician.[12]
* Hirohito, 87, longest reigning Emperor of Japan, cancer.
* William Joseph McDonald, 84, Irish-born American Roman Catholic bishop, heart attack.
* Aslam Pahalwan, 61, Pakistani professional wrestler and world heavyweight Champion.
* Ugo Pignotti, 90, Italian fencer and Olympic gold medalist.
* January 8
* Torsten Johansson, 83, Swedish international footballer and Olympian.
* Johnny Jordaan, 64, Dutch singer.
* Kenneth McMillan, 56, American actor.
* January 9
* Marshall H. Stone, 85, American mathematician, stroke.
* Bill Terry, 90, American Major League baseballer.
* January 10
* Chris Avram, 57, Romanian-Italian film actor.
* William Joseph Browne, 91, Canadian lawyer, judge and politician.
* Karl Geiringer, 89, Austrian-American musicologist and biographer of composers, complications from a fall.
* Valentin Glushko, 80, Soviet engineer, program manager of the Soviet space program.
* Herbert Morrison, 83, American radio journalist, voice of the Hindenburg disaster.
* Donald Voorhees, 85, American composer and conductor, pneumonia.
* Colin Winchester, 55, assistant commissioner in the Australian Federal Police, assassinated.
* January 11
* George Abell, 84, English civil servant and cricketer.
* Michael Forrestal, 61, American National Security Advisor of President John F. Kennedy, aneurysm.
* Henning Karmark, 81, Danish film producer.
* Ray Moore, 47, British broadcaster, throat cancer.
* José Bustamante y Rivero, 94, Peruvian politician, diplomat, lawyer and writer, President of Peru.
* January 12
* Paula Ackerman, 95, American Jewish leader.
* Adil Candemir, 71–72, Turkish wrestler and Olympic medalist.
* Ray Morehart, 89, American Major League baseballer.
* Satyam, 55–56, Indian composer.
* Charles J. Turck, 98, American lawyer and academic administrator, heart attack.
* January 13
* Sterling Allen Brown, 87, American professor, folklorist, poet, and literary critic.
* Thelma Cazalet-Keir, 89, British feminist and Conservative Party politician.
* Chuck Hornbostel, 77, American middle-distance runner and dual Olympian.
* Hiram E. McCallum, 89, Canadian politician, mayor of Toronto.
* John Moorman, 83, English bishop.
* José María Peña, 93, Spanish international footballer and manager.
* Joe Spinell, 52, American actor.
* January 14
* Kenneth Fogarty, 65–66, Canadian politician, Mayor of Ottawa, heart failure.
* Leo Warren Jenkins, 75, American president and chancellor of East Carolina University.
* Richard Warner, 77, English actor.
* Nguyễn Văn Xuân, 96, Vietnamese politician, prime minister of Vietnam.
* January 15
* Helen Logan, 82, American screenwriter.
* Günter Reich, 67, German baritone.
* Wilf Slack, 34, English international cricketer.
* January 16
* Mick Baxter, 32, English footballer, cancer.
* Prem Nazir, 62, Indian actor.
* Trey Wilson, 40, American actor.
* January 17
* Gordon Allott, 82, American politician, U.S. Senator.
* Brian Allsop, 53, Australian rugby league footballer.
* Wajid Ali Khan Burki, 88, Pakistani ophthalmologist, lung cancer.
* Michael Francke, 42, American judge, director of New Mexico and Oregon Corrections Departments, murdered.
* Sam Longson, 88, British businessman.
* Óscar Vargas Prieto, 71, Peruvian soldier and politician, Prime Minister of Peru.
* Alfredo Zitarrosa, 52, Uruguayan singer-songwriter, poet and journalist.
* January 18
* Nils Axelsson, 83, Swedish international footballer.
* Bruce Chatwin, 48, British travel writer, novelist and journalist.
* Marshall Esteppe, 79, American wrestler.
* John D. Hickerson, 90, American diplomat, United States Ambassador to the Philippines and Finland, cancer.
* Dick Rondeau, 67, American ice hockey player.
* January 19
* Devi Dja, 74, Indonesian-born American dancer, actress and singer.
* James S. Moose Jr., 85, American diplomat, ambassador to several countries.
* Norma Varden, 90, English-American actress.
* Octavio Vial, 70, Mexican football manager and World Cup coach.
* January 20
* Nuri Asan, 49, Turkish footballer and manager.
* Józef Cyrankiewicz, 77, Polish communist politician, prime minister and president of Poland.
* Tine Debeljak, 85, Yugoslav-Argentinian literary critic, translator, editor and poet.
* John Harding, 92, British Army Field Marshall.
* Alamgir Kabir, 50, Bangladeshi film director and cultural activist, drowned.
* Dolf van Kol, 86, Dutch international footballer and Olympian.
* Beatrice Lillie, 94, Canadian-born British actress, singer and comedic performer.
* Whistlin' Alex Moore, 89, American blues pianist and singer, heart attack.
* Halsey Stevens, 80, American music professor, biographer and composer.
* January 21
* John F. Davidson, 80, American navy rear admiral.
* Morley Drury, 85, Canadian-American footballer.
* Keith English, 61, Canadian Football League player.
* Carl Furillo, 66, American Major League baseballer, leukemia.
* Leslie Halliwell, 59, British film critic, esophageal cancer.
* Billy Tipton, 74, American jazz musician and bandleader.
* January 22
* Sydney Goldstein, 85, British mathematician.
* Farquhar Oliver, 84, Canadian politician, Leader of the Opposition.
* Willie Wells, 82, American Negro League baseballer, congestive heart failure.
* Sándor Weöres, 75, Hungarian poet and author.
* January 23
* George Case, 73, American Major League baseballer, emphysema.
* Salvador Dalí, 84, Spanish artist.
* M. Govindan, 69, Indian writer and cultural activist.
* Gilbert L. Voss, 70–71, American conservationist and oceanographer.
* January 24
* Ted Bundy, 42, American serial killer, executed by electric chair.
* Dante Emiliozzi, 73, Argentine racing driver.
* Roberto Figueroa, 84, Uruguayan international footballer and Olympic gold medalist.
* Merwin Graham, 85, American track and field athlete and Olympian.
* George Knudson, 51, Canadian professional golfer, cancer.
* Michael Scott, 83, Irish architect.
* Les Spann, 56, American jazz guitarist and flautist.
* Theodore B. Werner, 96, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
* January 25
* David Basnett, 64, British trade union leader.
* Alvin Robinson, 51, American rhythm and blues singer, guitarist and songwriter.
* January 26
* Morton DaCosta, 74, American theatre and film director, film producer, writer and actor, heart failure.
* Donnie Elbert, 52, American soul singer and songwriter, stroke.
* William Forrest, 86, American theatre, film and television actor, heart failure.
* George Schroth, 89, American water polo player and Olympic medalist.
* January 27
* Dónall Mac Amhlaigh, 62, Irish writer.
* David Buck, 52, English actor, cancer.
* Bob Haymes, 65, American singer, songwriter, actor and radio and television presenter.
* Robert A. Henle, 65–66, American electrical engineer.
* Willibald Kreß, 82, German international footballer.
* Sir Thomas Sopwith, 101, British aviation pioneer and yachtsman.
* January 28
* Clarence "Skip" Graham, 81, American librarian, president of American Library Association.
* Choekyi Gyaltsen, Panchen Lama, 50, Tibetan Buddhist leader, heart attack.
* Halina Konopacka, 88, Polish athlete.
* Hasmukh Dhirajlal Sankalia, 80, Indian scholar and archaeologist.
* Yoshimaro Yamashina, 88, Japanese ornithologist.
* January 29
* Federico Cantú Garza, 81, Mexican painter, engraver and sculptor.
* January 30
* Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz, 52, heir of the Spanish monarchy in the event of restoration.
* Jack George, 60, American NBA basketballer
* Friedrich Solmsen, 84, German-American philologist and professor of classical studies.
* January 31
* Yasushi Akutagawa, 63, Japanese composer and conductor.
* Jack Douglas, 80, American comedy writer.
* Arthur Reginald Evans, 83, Australian rescuer of JFK.
* Fernando Gonçalves Namora, 69, Portuguese writer and medical doctor.
* William Stephenson, 92, Canadian soldier, fighter pilot, businessman and spymaster.
* January (unknown date)
* Leo Holzer, 86–87, Austrian-Czech firefighter and Holocaust survivor.
* Oliver Sipple, 47, American who prevented assassination attempt on U.S. President Gerald Ford.

### February[edit]

Ondrej Nepela John Cassavetes Grandizo Munis Joseph L. Carrigg Barbara W. Tuchman Bill Sewell Osamu Tezuka Charles L. Bolte Thomas Bernhard James Bond Vincent Crane Sjafruddin Prawiranegara Mildred Burke Jack Bassett Sándor Márai Paul Richey Norris Cotton Roy Eldridge Konrad Lorenz Boris Skossyreff Aurélio Buarque de Holanda Ferreira

* February 1
* Blaze Foley, 39, American country music singer-songwriter, poet, and artist, shot.
* Elaine de Kooning, 70, American artist.
* Erik Persson (footballer), 79, Swedish footballer and Olympian.
* Nils Thedin, 77, Swedish businessman and civic leader.
* February 2
* Yuri Bogatyryov, 41, Soviet actor.
* Ondrej Nepela, 38, Czechoslovakian figure skater.
* Arnold Nordmeyer, 87, New Zealand politician, Leader of the Opposition.
* Walter M. Scott, 82, American set decorator.
* February 3
* John Cassavetes, 59, Greek-American actor.
* Glenna Collett-Vare, 85, American amateur golfer.
* Joan Grant, 81, English writer of historical novels.
* Frank Hursley, 86, half of American husband-and-wife television screenwriting duo Frank and Doris Hursley.
* Conny Jepsen, 68, Danish-Swedish badminton player.
* Ebbe Langberg, 55, Danish actor and film director.
* John McCauley, 89, Australian Air Force senior commander, stroke.
* Lionel Newman, 73, American conductor, pianist, and film and television composer, cardiac arrest.
* February 4
* Kenneth C. "Jethro" Burns, 68, American mandolinist, half of comedy duo Homer and Jethro, prostate cancer.
* Thorkild Hansen, 62, Danish novelist.
* Trevor Lucas, 45, Australian folk singer.
* Grandizo Munis, 76, Spanish Trotskyist politician.
* Ferris Webster, 76, American film editor.
* February 5
* André Cheuva, 80, French international footballer.
* Emrys James, 60, Welsh Shakespearean actor.
* Joe Morrison, 51, American NFL footballer and coach, congestive heart failure.
* Joe Raposo, 51, American composer, singer and pianist.
* February 6
* Joseph L. Carrigg, 87, American politician, member of the US House of Representatives.
* André Cayatte, 80, French filmmaker, writer and lawyer.
* Ron Field, 55, American choreographer, dancer and director, brain lesions.
* George F. Habach, 81, American mechanical and consulting engineer, business executive and inventor.
* Undine Smith Moore, 84, American composer and professor of music, stroke.
* King Tubby, 48, Jamaican sound engineer, shot.
* Barbara W. Tuchman, 77, American historian and author.
* February 7
* Giuseppe Puca, 33, Italian criminal, murdered after shootout.
* Bill Sewell, 72, American football player and coach.
* Gilbert Simondon, 64, French philosopher.
* John M. Wallace, 95, American banker, philanthropist and politician.
* Prince Wilhelm Victor of Prussia, 69, German nobleman, soldier and diplomat.
* February 8
* Cyril Luckham, 81, English film, television and theatre actor.
* Begum Khurshid Mirza, 70, Pakistani television and film actress.
* Webster B. Todd, 89, American Chairman of New Jersey Republican State Committee, heart attack.
* February 9
* Hermann Conring, 94, German politician.
* Oliver C. Dawson, 78, American athlete and sports coach.
* Osamu Tezuka, 60, Japanese artist and animator.
* February 10
* Irving Brown, 77, American trade unionist.
* Wayne Hays, 77, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, heart attack.
* Grady Higginbotham, 96, American football and baseball player and coach.
* Panini Ilangakoon, 69, Sri Lankan politician.
* Dan Kelly, 52, Canadian-born American sportscaster, lung cancer.
* Herbert Ryman, 78, American artist and Disney Imagineer, cancer.
* February 11
* Charles L. Bolte, 93, United States Army general, stroke.
* T. E. B. Clarke, 81, British screenwriter.
* Leon Festinger, 69, American social psychologist.
* Roland Gross, 80, American film editor and television editor.
* George O'Hanlon, 76, American actor, comedian and writer, stroke.
* Cecil C. Steiner, 92, American dentist.
* Shakhbut bin Sultan Al Nahyan, 83, ruler of Abu Dhabi.
* February 12
* Thomas Bernhard, 58, Austrian novelist, playwright and poet, heart attack.
* Maurice Cann, 77, British Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.
* Attilio Dottesio, 79, Italian film character actor and singer.
* Pat Finucane, 39, Irish lawyer.
* Bill Speer, 46, Canadian professional ice hockey player, snowmobile accident.
* February 13
* Rosa Castillo, 78, Mexican sculptor, respiratory failure.
* Princess Eugénie of Greece and Denmark, 79.
* Dud Harris, 85, American footballer.
* Hans Hellmut Kirst, 74, German novelist.
* Dave Tarras, appr. 94, Ukrainian-born American clarinetist and bandleader, pneumonia.
* Zhou Tongqing, 81, Chinese optical physicist.
* February 14
* James Bond, 89, American ornithologist.
* Vincent Crane, 45, British musician.
* Duncan Gregg, 78, American rower and Olympic gold medalist.
* Hilario, 83, Spanish international footballer.
* February 15
* Hüseyin Akbaş, 56, Turkish wrestler and dual Olympic medalist.
* Sita Devi, Maharani of Baroda, 71, the "Indian Wallis Simpson".
* Sjafruddin Prawiranegara, 77, Indonesian statesman and economist, Prime Minister of Indonesia, heart attack.
* Aleksandr Travin, 51, Russian basketballer.
* Sabo Bakin Zuwo, 54, Nigerian politician, Governor of Kano State.
* February 16
* Andy Black, 72, Scottish international footballer.
* Ida Ehre, 88, Austrian-German actor, theatre director and manager, heart attack.
* February 17
* Ian Fraser, 78, British judge.
* R. B. Frost, 81, American football, basketball and baseball coach.
* Lefty Gomez, 80, American Major League baseball player.
* Guy Laroche, 67, French fashion designer.
* Marguerite Roberts, 83, American screenwriter, arteriosclerosis.
* Hanne Sobek, 88, German international footballer.
* Mo Yingfeng, 51, Chinese novelist.
* February 18
* John Bailey, 76, British screen and TV actor.
* Mildred Burke, 73, American professional wrestler, women's world champion, stroke.
* Kathleen Hite, 71, American writer for radio and television.
* February 19
* Jack Bassett, 83, Welsh international rugby union player.
* Eric F. Goldman, 72, American historian.
* Dr Rosa Slade Gragg, 84, American activist and politician, U.S. presidential advisor.
* Alec Merrison, 64, British physicist.
* February 20
* Stuart Black, 81, New Zealand sprinter and Olympian.
* Zhang Dayu, 83, Chinese chemist.
* Erika Köth, 63, German operatic soprano.
* Betty Mars, 44, French singer and actress, Eurovision song contestant, suicide by jumping.
* Manuel Rosas, 76, Mexican international footballer.
* February 21
* Harry Clarke, 83, Australian Rules footballer.
* Robert Dorning, 75, English musician, vocalist, ballet dancer and actor, diabetes.
* Sándor Márai, 88, Hungarian writer, poet and journalist.
* Otar Taktakishvili, 64, Georgian composer, teacher and conductor.
* Alex Thépot, 82, French international footballer and Olympian.
* Lois Waring, 58, American figure skater.
* February 22
* Raymond Gower, 72, British member of Parliament.
* Nadezhda Kosheverova, 86, Soviet film director and screenwriter.
* Zhu Liangcai, 88, general in the Chinese People's Liberation Army.
* Abel Wolman, 96, American engineer and educator.
* Joan Woodbury, 73, American actress.
* February 23
* Aleks Çaçi, 72, Albanian author.
* Fred Grimwade, 55, Australian politician, President of the Victorian Legislative Council.
* Paul Richey, 72, English flying ace during the Second World War.
* Tsepon W. D. Shakabpa, 82, Tibetan nobleman and statesman, Finance Minister of Tibet, stomach cancer.
* Roy Tyner, 55, American NASCAR Grand National driver, gunshot.
* February 24
* Sparky Adams, 94, American Major League baseballer.
* Norris Cotton, 88, American politician, US senator.
* Joe Harvey, 70, English footballer and manager.
* Ben Kish, 71, American NFL footballer.
* Margo Lion, 89, Ottoman-born French singer and actress.
* Claude McGrath, 84, American college basketball coach.
* Mallica Reynolds, 78, Jamaican artist and religious leader.
* February 25
* Angna Enters, 91, American dancer, mime, painter, writer, novelist and playwright.
* Robert Foulk, 80, American television and film actor.
* February 26
* Roy Eldridge, 78, American jazz trumpeter.
* Joseph Fenton, appr. 46, Northern Ireland estate agent, killed by Provisional Irish Republican Army.
* Alexander Golling, 83, German actor, member of the Nazi Party.
* Reunald Jones, 78, American jazz trumpeter.
* Mouloud Mammeri, 71, Algerian writer, anthropologist and linguist, car accident.
* Éloi Meulenberg, 76, Belgian professional road bicycle racer.
* February 27
* Paul Oswald Ahnert, 91, German astronomer.
* Bayani Casimiro, 70, Filipino dancer.
* Shiba P. Chatterjee, 86, Indian Professor of Geography.
* Mauricio Garcés, 62, Mexican actor and comedian.
* Kim Hyun-chul, 87, Korean independence activist and politician, Prime Minister of South Korea.
* Göran Larsson, 56, Swedish swimmer.
* Konrad Lorenz, 85, Austrian zoologist, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine.
* Bas Paauwe, 77, Dutch international footballer.
* Joe Silver, 66, American stage, television, film and radio actor, heart attack.
* Boris Skossyreff, 92, Belarusian adventurer, swindler and pretender, tried to seize the monarchy of Andorra.
* February 28
* Halil Bıçakçı, 62, Turkish football manager.
* Aurélio Buarque de Holanda Ferreira, 78, Brazilian lexicographer, philologist, translator and writer.
* Hermann Burger, 46, Swiss poet, novelist and essayist, suicide.
* Douglas Kendrew, 79, British Army general, international rugby union player, Governor of Western Australia.
* Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, 100, Indian yoga teacher.
* Karl Anderson, 88, American track and field athlete and Olympian.
* February (date unknown)
* John J. Nash, Irish member of Seanad Éireann.
* Dudley Wilkins, 74, American triple jumper and Olympian.

### March[edit]

Mukul Dey Dong Qiwu Randolph Rose Franca Marzi Elisaveta Bykova Sam Melville (actor) Maurice Evans Luigi Tosi Zita of Bourbon-Parma Eddie Buczynski Piet Kruiver Juliette Compton Dina Sfat John Kenneth Hilliard Arnett Cobb Sa'id Mufti Malcolm Cowley Richard H. Ellis Xiao Jinguang Arto Tolsa

* March 1
* Annie Ackerman, 75, American political activist, cancer.
* Mukul Dey, 93, Indian pioneer of drypoint-etching.
* Vasantdada Patil, 71, Indian politician, Governor of Rajasthan.
* Odie Payne, 62, American Chicago blues drummer.
* Frank W. Preston, 92, English-American engineer, ecologist and conservationist.
* Mark M. Ravitch, 78, American surgeon, colon and prostate cancer.
* March 2
* John Bryans, British actor.
* Tamás Kertész, 59, Hungarian international football.
* March 3
* Ned McGehee, 81, American football and baseball coach.
* Richard B. Morris, 84, American historian, melanoma.
* Dong Qiwu, 89, Chinese general in the People's Liberation Army.
* Pauline Toner, 53, Australian politician, cabinet minister Victorian Parliament, cancer.
* March 4
* Tiny Grimes, 72, American jazz and R&B guitarist, meningitis.
* E. Wilson Lyon, 84, American diplomatic historian, president of Pomona College.
* Edward Makuka Nkoloso, 69–70, member of Zambian resistance movement.
* Randolph Rose, 87, New Zealand middle-distance runner.
* Lewis K. Sillcox, 102, American president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
* March 5
* Prithvi Singh Azad, 96, Indian independence activist.
* Richmond Barthé, 88, American sculptor.
* Emory Hines, 76, American football and baseball coach.
* Ray Hunt, 70, Australian rules footballer.
* March 6
* Harry Andrews, 77, English actor.
* John Green, 67, American NFL footballer.
* Franca Marzi, 62, Italian film actress.
* Jim MacDonald, 71, Australian politician.
* March 7
* Paul Boesch, 76, American professional wrestler and promoter, heart attack.
* Jean Colin, 83, English actress.
* Norman Saunders, 82, American commercial artist.
* Jack Starrett, 52, American actor and film director, kidney failure.
* Karel Velebný, 57, Czech jazz musician, composer, arranger, actor and writer.
* March 8
* Elisaveta Bykova, 75, Soviet chess player and dual Women's World Chess Champion.
* Stuart Hamblen, 80, American singer, actor, radio show host and songwriter, brain cancer.
* Robert Lacoste, 90, French politician.
* March 9
* André Hornez, 83, French lyricist and screenwriter.
* Robert Mapplethorpe, 42, American photographer, complications from AIDS.
* Sam Melville, 52, American film and television actor, heart failure.
* Hilda Strike, 78, Canadian track athlete and Olympic medalist.
* March 10
* Selwyn Jepson, 89, English mystery and detective author and screenwriter.
* Maurizio Merli, 49, Italian film actor, myocardial infarction.
* March 11
* William Challee, 84, American actor.
* James Kee, 71, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
* John J. McCloy, 93, American lawyer, diplomat, banker and presidential advisor, pulmonary edema.
* March 12
* Maurice Evans, 87, English actor, heart failure.
* Sarge Ferris, 60, American professional poker player.
* John Baptist Lucius Noel, 99, British mountaineer and filmmaker.
* Chet Soda, 80, American businessman.
* Luigi Tosi, 73, Italian actor.
* March 13
* Carl Dahlhaus, 60, German musicologist, kidney failure.
* James G. O'Hara, 63, American soldier and politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, lung cancer.
* Fahrettin Özdilek, 90–91, Turkish military officer and politician, acting Prime Minister of Turkey.
* March 14
* Edward Abbey, 62, American author, environmentalist and anarchist, complications from surgery.
* Stephen Bechtel Sr., 88, American president of Bechtel Corporation.
* Francesco Paolo Bonifacio, 65, Italian politician and jurist, Minister of Justice, tumour.
* Zita of Bourbon-Parma, 96, last Queen of Hungary and Empress of Austria.
* Murder of Mark Kilroy, 21, American kidnapped and murdered in Mexico.
* Gladys Pyle, 98, American educator and politician, United States Senator.
* March 15
* Henry Cass, 85, British director.
* Manlio Di Rosa, 74, Italian fencer and dual Olympic gold medalist.
* Charles Schultz, 73, American NFL footballer.
* March 16
* Eddie Buczynski, 42, American archaeologist, parasitic infection.
* Jesús María de Leizaola, 92, Spanish politician, President of the Basque government in exile.
* Marcus Morris, 73, English Anglican priest.
* Charlie Vaughan, 67, English footballer.
* March 17
* Beulah Ream Allen, 92, American nurse and physician, civilian physician during World War II.
* Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna, 69, Indian Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, consequence of surgery.
* Merritt Butrick, 29, American actor, toxoplasmosis complicated by AIDS.
* Jacob Pieter Den Hartog, 87, Dutch-American mechanical engineer.
* Farman Karimzade, 52, Azerbaijani writer, screenwriter, film director and film producer, heart attack.
* March 18
* Ian Begg, 78, Scottish Anglican prelate.
* Harold Jeffreys, 97, British geophysicist, opponent of plate tectonics.
* Ryūzō Kikushima, 75, Japanese writer and film producer.
* Piet Kruiver, 51, Dutch international footballer.
* George P. Mahoney, 87, American politician.
* Duane Purvis, 76, American footballer and javelin thrower.
* Max Tishler, 82, American organic chemist, emphysema.
* March 19
* Alan Civil, 59, British horn player, liver and kidney failure.
* Juliette Compton, 89, American actress.
* Ethel Hays, 97, American syndicated cartoonist.
* Charles Lamb, 88, British stage, film and television actor.
* March 20
* Archie Bleyer, 79, American song arranger, bandleader and record company executive.
* Alan Gifford, 78, American-born actor who worked mainly in the UK.
* Nelson Lemmon, 80, Australian politician, played a key role in establishing the Snowy Mountains Scheme.
* Mogens Lüchow, 70, Danish fencer and dual Olympian.
* Dina Sfat, 50, Brazilian actress.
* March 21
* Otis Douglas, 77, American NFL footballer and coach.
* Louis Dupree, 63, American archaeologist and anthropologist, lung cancer.
* Milton Frome, 80, American actor, congestive heart failure.
* John Kenneth Hilliard, 87, American acoustical and electrical engineer.
* Samuel Sezak, 82, American football and basketball coach.
* March 22
* Park Am, 64, South Korean actor.
* Ivan Antonov, 68, Russian sniper in the Red Navy.
* Wally Heider, 66, American recording engineer and recording studio owner.
* Margaret Kidd, 89, Scottish legal advocate, editor and politician.
* Russ Meredith, 91, American NFL player and politician.
* March 23
* F. W. S. Craig, 69, Scottish psephologist.
* George Marthins, 83, Indian hockey player and gold medalist.
* March 24
* Robert Arundell, 84, British diplomat, Governor of the Windward Islands and Barbados.
* Arnett Cobb, 70, American tenor saxophonist.
* Reuben David, 76, Indian zoologist.
* Edward P. Hurt, 89, American football, basketball and track coach.
* March 25
* Sa`id Al-Mufti, 90, Jordanian politician, Prime Minister of Jordan.
* C. L. Anandan, 55, Indian actor and producer.
* Reginald Le Borg, 86, Austrian film director, heart attack.
* March 26
* Albert Guérisse, 77, Belgian resistance member.
* Marina Ried, 67, Russian-born German stage and film actress.
* Asbjørn Ruud, 69, Norwegian ski jumper, Olympian and World Champion.
* Lewis William Walt, 76, United States Marine Corps four-star general.
* March 27
* May Allison, 98, American stage and silent screen actress.
* Malcolm Cowley, 90, American writer, editor, historian, poet and literary critic, heart attack.
* Cláudio Santoro, 69, Brazilian composer, conductor and violinist.
* Jack Starrett, 52, American actor and film director, kidney failure.
* March 28
* Nick Bremigan, 43, American Major League baseball umpire.
* Fang Chih, 93, Chinese politician, diplomat, author and Kuomintang official.
* William D. Cox, 79, American businessman and sports executive.
* Ian Dalrymple, 85, British screenwriter, and film director, editor and producer.
* Richard H. Ellis, 69, United States Air Force general.
* Josiah Zion Gumede, 69, president of unrecognised state of Zimbabwe Rhodesia.
* Ippei Kaneko, 76, Japanese politician, finance minister.
* Madeleine Ozeray, 80, Belgian stage and film actress, cancer.
* Antonín Rýgr, 67, Czech international footballer and manager.
* Patrick Vallençant, 42, French alpinist and skier, pioneer in ski mountaineering, abseiling accident.
* Lockwood West, 83, British actor, cancer.
* Robert J. Wilke, 74, American film and television actor.
* March 29
* Bernard Blier, 73, French actor.
* Aleksandr Prokopenko, 35, Soviet international footballer, choking.
* Xiao Jinguang, 86, Chinese Commander of People's Liberation Army Navy, colon cancer.
* Nicolae Steinhardt, 76, Romanian writer, Orthodox monk and lawyer.
* Charles Taylor, 78, English businessman and politician.
* March 30
* Alan Albon, 68, British anarchist, pacifist and publisher.
* Bill Chappell, 67, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, bone cancer.
* Mike Sekowsky, 65, American comics artist.
* Arto Tolsa, 43, Finnish footballer.
* March 31
* Piotr Belousov, 76, Ukrainian and Russian graphic artist and painter.
* Karl Fuchs, 68, German politician.
* Stan Penberthy, 82, Australian rules footballer.
* Francis H. Russell, 84, United States Ambassador to Tunisia, Ghana and New Zealand, heart attack.
* Millard Sheets, 81, American artist and architectural designer.

### April[edit]

George Robledo Frank Foss Harold Hayes Bill Mehlhorn Hassan al-Amri A. M. Rajah Emil Grosswald Hiram Sherman Sugar Ray Robinson Hu Yaobang Harald Edelstam Hakkı Yeten Daphne du Maurier Emilio Segrè Hamani Diori Howie Krist Edgar Sanabria Lucille Ball Esa Pakarinen Yi Bangja Guy Williams

* April 1
* Roy Francis, 70, Welsh rugby league footballer and coach.
* Paul Jappe, 91, American NFL footballer.
* Jan A. Rajchman, 77, Polish-American electrical engineer.
* George Robledo, 62, Chilean international footballer, heart attack.
* April 2
* E. Chambré Hardman, 89, Anglo-Irish photographer.
* Daniel Spry, 86, Canadian Army officer in World War II.
* Zainon Munshi Sulaiman, 86, Malaysian educator and politician, member of the Malaysian Parliament.
* Inez Clare Verdoorn, 92, South African botanist and taxonomist.
* Dingiri Bandara Welagedara, 73, Sri Lankan politician, Governor of North Central Province.
* April 3
* Mustafa Çağatay, 51, Turkish-Cypriot politician, Prime Minister of Turkish Cyprus, traffic accident.
* Pinchas Hacohen Peli, 58, Israeli Orthodox rabbi, poet and scholar of Jewish philosophy.
* Norman Wooland, 79, English character actor.
* April 4
* Gerard Casey, appr. 29, member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, shot.
* Woody Crumbo, 77, American artist, flute player and dancer.
* April 5
* Frank Foss, 93, American pole vaulter and Olympic gold medalist.
* Bill Gunn, 54, American playwright, novelist, actor and director, encephalitis.
* Bill Hampton, 85, New Zealand lawn bowler.
* Harold Hayes, 62, American journalist and writer.
* Kurt Lischka, 79, German SS official, Gestapo chief and commandant of the Security police.
* Bill Mehlhorn, 90, American professional golfer.
* Karel Zeman, 78, Czech film director, artist, production designer and animator.
* April 6
* Tufton Beamish, Baron Chelwood, 72, British Army officer and member of Parliament.
* Elizabeth Becker-Pinkston, 86, American diver and dual Olympic gold medalist.
* Pannalal Patel, 76, Indian author, brain haemorrhage.
* Michael Reusch, 75, Swiss gymnast and Olympic gold medalist.
* April 7
* Hassan al-Amri, 68–69, Yemeni lieutenant general and Prime Minister of the Yemen Arab Republic.
* Cheng Nan-jung, 41, Taiwanese publisher and pro-democracy activist, suicide by immolation.
* Evelyn Finley, 73, American B-movie actress and stuntwoman, heart failure.
* Basawon Singh, 80, Indian activist.
* April 8
* Albert Bormann, 86, German Nazi Gruppenführer, adjutant to Adolf Hitler, brother of Martin Bormann.
* Mario Chiari, 79, Italian production designer and art director.
* Joseph Crouch, 55, American politician, heart attack.[13]
* Lloyd Francis MacMahon, 76, American judge of the United States District Court, cerebral hemorrhage.
* Charles A. Mobley, 92, American politician, mayor of the city of Flint, Michigan.
* A. M. Rajah, 59, Indian playback singer and music director, train accident.
* Bus Saidt, 68, American sports writer.
* Windsor Utley, 68–69, American musician, artist, teacher and gallery owner.
* John Wyer, 79, English automobile racing engineer and team manager.
* April 9
* Friedrich Ritter, 90, German botanist.
* Carl Wessler, 75, American animator and comic book writer.
* April 10
* Joan Barry, 85, British actress.
* Gennadi Bondarenko, 60, Soviet footballer and coach.
* William H. Brett, 95, American director of the United States Mint, pancreatic cancer.
* George Genereux, 54, Canadian trap shooter and Olympic gold medalist.
* Nikolai Grinko, 68, Ukrainian actor.
* April 11
* Emil Grosswald, 76, Romanian-American mathematician.
* Hiram Sherman, 81, American actor, stroke.
* April 12
* Gerald Flood, 61, British actor of stage and television, heart attack.
* Abbie Hoffman, 52, American political and social activist, suicide by overdose.
* Willie McNaught, 66, Scottish international footballer.
* Sugar Ray Robinson, 67, American professional boxer, heart disease.
* Tilda Thamar, 67, Argentine actress, car accident.
* April 13
* Philip Joseph Furlong, 96, American Catholic Bishop.
* Terry Miller, 46, American businessman and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Alaska, bone cancer.
* Bill Putnam, 69, American audio engineer, songwriter and producer.
* April 14
* Valdemar Laursen, 88, Danish international footballer.
* Bob Mathews, 76, Australian rules footballer.
* April 15
* David Cuthbertson, 88, Scottish physician, biochemist and medical researcher.
* Hu Yaobang, 73, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, heart attack.
* Bernard-Marie Koltès, 41, French playwright and theatre director, complications from AIDS.
* Alita Román, 76, Argentine film actress.
* Connie Simmons, 64, American professional basketballer.
* Charles Vanel, 96, French actor and director.
* April 16
* Jocko Conlan, 89, American baseball umpire.
* John Dighton, 79, British playwright and screenwriter.
* Harald Edelstam, 76, Swedish diplomat, Ambassador to Algeria, cancer.
* Wilhelm Ehmann, 84, German musicologist, church musician and conductor, Nazi Party member.
* Kaoru Ishikawa, 73, Japanese organisational theorist and a professor.
* Hu Juewen, 93, Chinese politician, vice chairperson of Standing Committee of the National People's Congress.
* C. K. McClatchy II, 62, American newspaper publisher.
* Dominic Olejniczak, 80, American real estate broker, politician and football executive, strokes.
* Hakkı Yeten, 78, Turkish football player and club president.
* April 17
* Ken Gee, 72, English international rugby league footballer.
* M. S. Kariapper, 89, Sri Lankan politician.
* Charles Lampkin, 76, American actor, musician and lecturer.
* Villano II, 39, Mexican Luchador enmascarado (masked professional wrestler), suicide by hanging.
* April 18
* Adil Atan, 60, Turkish wrestler and Olympic medalist.
* Hilde Benjamin, 87, East German judge and Minister of Justice.
* Alexander Barrett Klots, 85, American entomologist.
* Julia Smith, 84, American composer, pianist and author on musicology.
* Candan Tarhan, 46, Turkish football manager.
* April 19
* Dame Daphne du Maurier, 81, English novelist, biographer and playwright, heart failure.
* George Paxton, 75, American big band leader, saxophonist, arranger and publisher, apparent suicide.
* April 20
* Maurice Nyagumbo, 64, Zimbabwean politician, suicide by poison.
* Martin Ragaway, 66, American comedy writer.
* Lou Riley, 79, Australian rules footballer.
* April 21
* Princess Deokhye of Korea, 76, last princess of the Korean royal family.
* Lou Gregory, 86, American long-distance runner and Olympian.
* James Kirkwood Jr., 64, American playwright, author and actor, AIDS-related complications.
* Paul Mitchell, 53, Scottish-American co-founder of John Paul Mitchell Systems, pancreatic cancer.
* Frank O'Keefe, 76, Australian politician, member of federal parliament.
* James N. Rowe, 51, United States Army officer, assassinated.
* Nicolaas Steelink, 98, Dutch-American labour activist.
* Paulus Svendsen, 85, Norwegian professor and literary historian.
* April 22
* György Kulin, 84, Hungarian astronomer.
* Emilio Segrè, 84, Italian-American physicist, Nobel laureate in Physics.
* Tommy Thompson, 70, American NFL and CFL footballer, brain cancer.
* April 23
* Marc Daniels, 77, American television director, congestive heart failure.
* Hamani Diori, 72, Nigerien politician, president of Republic of Niger.
* Hu Die, 81, Chinese actress, stroke.
* Imre Hódos, 61, Hungarian wrestler and Olympic gold medalist.
* Kurt Jung, 64, German politician and architect.
* Stefan Korboński, 88, Polish-American politician, lawyer and journalist, aneurysm.
* Howie Krist, 73, American Major League baseballer.
* Harry Bolton Seed, 66, British-American geotechnical earthquake engineer, cancer.
* April 24
* Franz Binder, 77, Austrian international footballer and coach.
* Clyde Geronimi, 87, American animation director.
* Charles Grant, 82, English Roman Catholic bishop.
* Joseph Jarabak, 83, American orthodontist.
* Li Jingquan, 79, Chinese politician and Party Committee Secretary of Sichuan.
* Lee Roberts, 75, American film actor.
* Federico Saiz, 76, Spanish international footballer.
* Edgar Sanabria, 77, Venezuelan diplomat and politician, interim President of Venezuela, stroke.
* April 25
* Dee Boeckmann, 82, American middle-distance runner and Olympian.
* George Coulouris, 85, English film and stage actor.
* April 26
* Lucille Ball, 77, American actress and comedienne, ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm.
* Carl Monroe, 29, American NFL footballer, accidental overdose.
* April 27
* Howard Brookner, 34, American film director, AIDS.
* Jack Devine, 70, Canadian ice hockey administrator and radio sports commentator.
* Konosuke Matsushita, 94, Japanese founder of Panasonic, pneumonia.
* Breda Pergar, 36, Yugoslavian middle distance and long distance runner.
* William Arthur Smith, 71, American artist.
* April 28
* Jack Cummings, 84, American film producer and director.
* Géza von Cziffra, 88, Hungarian and Austrian film director and screenwriter.
* Pinchoo Kapoor, 61–62, Indian actor.
* Esa Pakarinen, 78, Finnish actor, singer, accordionist and comedian, cancer.
* Ralph H. Wetmore, 97, American professor of botany at Harvard University.
* April 29
* Donald Deskey, 94, American industrial designer.
* Marlene Elejarde, 37, Cuban sprinter and Olympic medalist, car accident.
* James Nobel Landis, 89, American power engineer at Brooklyn Edison Company.
* Richard C. Lord, 78, American chemist.
* April 30
* Yi Bangja, 87, wife of Crown Prince Euimin, last Crown Prince of the Korean Empire, cancer.
* Edwin F. Kalmus, 95, Austrian-born American music publisher.
* Gottfried Köthe, 83, Austrian mathematician.
* Sergio Leone, 60, Italian film director, producer and screenwriter, heart attack.
* Stumpy Thomason, 83, American NFL footballer.
* Taiji Tonoyama, 73, Japanese character actor.
* Guy Williams, 65, American actor, brain aneurysm.
* April (date unknown)
* Doug Smith, 71, English jockey and trainer, suicide.
* Harry White, appr. 73, Irish republican paramilitary.
* Philip Waggenheim, 74, American mobster.

### May[edit]

Edward Ochab Christine Jorgensen Herschel C. Loveless Wolfgang Neuss Earl Blaik Anton Rønneberg Kenneth A. Roberts Keith Whitley Vin Brown E. P. Taylor Finn Juhl Specs Toporcer Robert Webber Gilda Radner Ansa Ikonen S. K. Dey Jean Despeaux Jess Sweetser Jane Fauntz Zinka Milanov

* May 1
* Antonio Janigro, 71, Italian cellist and conductor.
* Edward Ochab, 82, Polish communist politician, Chairman of the Polish Council of State.
* Douglass Watson, 68, American actor, heart attack.
* May 2
* Bennie Benjamin, 81, Virgin Islands–born American songwriter.
* James Crabe, 57, American cinematographer, complications of AIDS.
* Veniamin Kaverin, 87, Russian writer, dramatist and screenwriter.
* Albert H. Kelley, 94, American film director.
* Charlie May, 90, Australian Rules footballer.
* Giuseppe Siri, 82, Italian cardinal.
* May 3
* Christine Jorgensen, 62, American trans-gender woman, actress and singer, bladder and lung cancer.
* George Lowrie, 69, Welsh international footballer.
* John Mackey, 75, Irish hurler.
* Muriel Ostriche, 92, American silent-screen actress.
* Roland Robinson, 82, British politician and Governor of Bermuda.
* William Squire, 72, Welsh actor of stage, film and television.
* John Wiethe, 76, American NFL footballer, NBL basketballer.
* May 4
* Chalam, 59, Indian film actor.
* Larry Fleisher, 58, American attorney and sports agent, heart attack.
* Herschel C. Loveless, 77, American politician, Governor of Iowa, lung cancer.
* Jean-Marie Tjibaou, 53, French New Caledonian politician, leader of Kanak independence movement, assassinated.
* Evelle J. Younger, 70, American lawyer, California Attorney General.
* May 5
* Dolph Eddy, 71, Australian politician.
* Wolfgang Neuss, 65, German actor and Kabarett artist, cancer.
* Peter P. Stevens, 79, American NFL football player and coach.
* Naval Tata, 84, Indian industrialist and philanthropist.
* May 6
* Adolfo Constanzo, 26, Cuban-American serial killer, drug dealer and cult leader, assisted suicide.
* Karl Heinrich Knappstein, 83, German journalist and diplomat, German Ambassador to the United States.
* May 7
* Lou Brock, 71, American NFL football player.
* Miranda Campa, 75, Swiss-born Italian actress.
* Frank Cluskey, 59, Irish politician, leader of the Labour Party, cancer.
* Howie Moss, 69, American Major League baseballer.
* Anton Rønneberg, 86, Norwegian writer and theatre critic.
* May 8
* Luizinho das Arábias, 31, Brazilian footballer, heart attack.
* Felice Mario Boano, 85–86, Italian automobile designer and coachbuilder.
* Phil Grimes, 60, Irish hurler.
* Andreas Hillgruber, 64, German historian, throat cancer.
* Tony Lucadello, 76, American professional baseball scout, suicide by shooting.
* Ruggero Maccari, 69, Italian screenwriter.
* Rudolf Uhlenhaut, 82, British-German engineer.
* May 9
* Karl Brunner, 73, Swiss economist.
* Alex Fraser, 72, Canadian politician, member of the B.C. Legislative Assembly.
* Fred Halsted, 47, American gay pornographic film director, actor, publisher and sex club owner, suicide.
* Enrique Lucero, 68, Mexican actor.
* Kenneth A. Roberts, 76, American lawyer, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, heart failure.
* Keith Whitley, 34, American country music singer and songwriter, alcohol poisoning.
* May 10
* Joseph Brennan, 88, American professional basketballer.
* Stewart Perowne, 87, British diplomat, archaeologist, explorer and historian.
* Kalu Rinpoche, 84, Tibetan Buddhist lama, meditation master, scholar and teacher.
* Woody Shaw, 44, American jazz trumpeter and bandleader, kidney failure.
* Hassler Whitney, 82, American mathematician, stroke.
* May 11
* Vin Brown, 67, Australian rules footballer.
* Xiao Wangdong, 78, Chinese Communist revolutionary and a lieutenant general of the People's Liberation Army.
* May 12
* Nicholas Wilder, 51–52, American art dealer, complications from AIDS.
* May 13
* Jack Grout, 79, American golfer.
* Charlie Mutton, 98, Australian politician.
* Bjørn Puggaard-Müller, 67, Danish film actor.
* May 14
* Nikifor Kalchenko, 83, Soviet politician.
* Joe Primeau, 83, Canadian professional ice hockey player.
* Hans Stubbe, 87, German agronomist and plant breeder.
* E. P. Taylor, 88, Canadian business tycoon, investor and philanthropist.
* May 15
* Johnny Green, 80, American songwriter, conductor and pianist.
* Noel O'Brien, 56, Australian rules footballer.
* Noriko Tsukase, 43, Japanese voice actress and singer, rectal cancer.
* May 16
* Lamar Allen, 74, American college football player and coach, and Negro League baseballer.
* Ralph Gibson, 83, Australian communist organiser and writer.
* Josephine R. Hilgard, 83, American developmental psychologist, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
* Théodore Strawinsky, 82, Russian-born Swiss painter.
* May 17
* Hallvard Eika, 68, Norwegian politician, member of the Norwegian Parliament.
* Walter Gross, 85, German actor.
* Finn Juhl, 77, Danish architect, interior and industrial designer.
* Lucia Moholy, 95, Austro-Hungarian–born photographer and publications editor.
* Specs Toporcer, 90, American Major League baseballer, injuries sustained from a fall.
* May 18
* Donald Hiss, 82, American legal secretary, younger brother of Alger Hiss.
* Hermann Höcherl, 77, German politician and lawyer, member of the Nazi Party.
* Ed McIlvenny, 64, Scottish footballer who represented the United States.
* Dorothy Ruth, 67, American daughter of US baseballer Babe Ruth and his mistress Juanita Jennings.
* May 19
* Anton Diffring, 72, German actor, cancer.
* Abel Herzberg, 95, Dutch lawyer and writer.
* John J. Muccio, 89, Italian-born American diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala, Iceland and South Korea.
* Gerd Oswald, 79, German director of American film and television, cancer.
* Yiannis Papaioannou, 79, Greek composer and teacher.
* Robert Webber, 64, American actor, Lou Gehrig's disease.
* May 20
* John Hicks, 85, British economist, Nobel Memorial laureate in Economic Sciences.
* Pavel Juráček, 53, Czech screenwriter and film director.
* Lyn Murray, 79, English-American composer, conductor and arranger of music, cancer.
* Gilda Radner, 42, American actress, comedian, writer and singer, ovarian cancer.
* Warren Magnuson, 84, American lawyer and politician, President pro tempore of the United States Senate.
* Gōgen Yamaguchi, 80, Japanese martial artist, subarachnoid hemorrhage.
* May 21
* Tito Colliander, 85, Finnish Eastern Orthodox Christian writer.
* Margot Zemach, 57, American illustrator of children's books, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
* May 22
* Carlton Massey, 59, American NFL footballer.
* Rush Rhees, 84, American philosopher.
* Robert Richardson Sears, 80, American psychologist.
* May 23
* Ansa Ikonen, 75, Finnish film and theatre actress.
* James Kay Thomas, 87, American lawyer and politician, Attorney General of West Virginia.
* George Thomas, 61, American NFL footballer.
* Georgy Tovstonogov, 73, Russian-Georgian theatre director, heart attack.
* Earle Wilson, 73, American triple-jumper and Olympian.
* May 24
* S. K. Dey, 82, Indian politician.
* Guus Dräger, 71, Dutch footballer.
* Tom Harper, 86, American football player and coach.
* Steve McCall, 55, American jazz drummer.
* Tripti Mitra, 63, Indian actress.
* May 25
* Ben H. Brown Jr., 75, American diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Liberia, cancer.
* Ab DeMarco, 73, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Jean Despeaux, 73, French boxer and Olympic gold medalist.
* Soma Wickremanayake, 74, Sri Lankan educator and politician, member of the Ceylonese Parliament.
* May 26
* Phineas Newborn Jr., 57, American jazz pianist, growth on lungs.
* Don Revie, 61, English international footballer and manager, motor neurone disease.
* Kazuko Takatsukasa, 59, elder sister to Emperor Akihito of Japan, heart failure.
* May 27
* Jerry Anderson, 35, American NFL footballer, drowned.
* Jess Sweetser, 87, American golfer.
* Arseny Tarkovsky, 81, Russian poet and translator.
* May 28
* Wally Anderzunas, 43, American basketballer.
* Abbas Nalbandian, 39–40, Iranian playwright, suicide.
* Iván Palazzese, 27, Italian-born Venezuelan motorcycle racer, racing accident.
* Baltasar Lopes da Silva, 82, Portuguese writer, poet and linguist, cerebrovascular disease.
* John M. Systermans, Belgian-born missionary and priest.
* Muttathu Varkey, 76, Indian novelist, short story writer and poet.
* May 29
* Nora Barlow, 103, British botanist and geneticist, granddaughter of Charles Darwin.
* John Cipollina, 45, American guitarist, alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency.
* George C. Homans, 78, American sociologist, founder of behavioral sociology, heart ailment.
* Joseph Van Ingelgem, 77, Belgian international footballer.
* Donald L. Katz, 81, American chemist and chemical engineer.
* Tariq Mehmood, 50, Pakistani military officer of Pakistan Army, parachute accident.
* Giuseppe Patanè, 57, Italian opera conductor, heart attack.
* Bob Waters, 50, American footballer, Lou Gehrig's disease.
* May 30
* Jane Fauntz, 78, American swimmer and diver, and Olympic medalist, leukemia.
* James Harry Lacey, 72, British Royal Air Force fighter pilot in World War II.
* Thoreau MacDonald, 88, Canadian illustrator, graphic and book designer, and artist.
* Zinka Milanov, 83, Croatian operatic dramatic soprano, stroke.
* Claude Pepper, 88, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, stomach cancer.
* May 31
* Heinz Hasselberg, 75, German cyclist and Olympian.
* Edward Hubbard, 51, English architectural historian, ankylosing spondylitis.
* C. L. R. James, 88, Trinidadian historian, journalist and Marxist writer, chest infection.
* Owen Lattimore, 88, American Orientalist and writer.
* Raisa Orlova, 70, Russian writer and American studies scholar.
* G. Vanmikanathan, 88, Indian scholar and author.
* May (unknown date)
* John Sutton, 60–61, Irish hurler.

### June[edit]

Edward J. McShane Ruhollah Khomeini Vernon Cracknell Baby Huwae Nara Leão Norman Brearley Wolfdietrich Schnurre Nilufer Hanımsultan Fran Allison Zara Bate Victor French S. David Griggs I. F. Stone Dona Drake Werner Best Prince Vasili Alexandrovich of Russia A. J. Ayer Hilmar Baunsgaard

* June 1
* Dharmasena Attygalle, 64, Sri Lankan politician
* Emery Hawkins, 77, American animator
* Aurelio Lampredi, 71, Italian automobile and aircraft engine designer
* Alexis Lichine, 75, Russian wine writer and entrepreneur
* Edward J. McShane, 85, American mathematician, congestive heart failure
* Charles Vanden Wouwer, 72, English-born Belgian international footballer
* June 2
* Guido Agosti, 87, Italian pianist and piano teacher
* Smith Barrier, 72, American sports journalist
* Ted à Beckett, 81, Australian test cricketer
* Dick Mayer, 64, American professional golfer
* Frederic Prokosch, 83, American writer
* Takeo Watanabe, 56, Japanese musician and composer
* June 3
* Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, 86 or 89, Iranian politician, revolutionary and religious leader, 1st Supreme Leader of Iran, multiple heart attacks
* Frank Laming, 80, Scottish Anglican priest
* Wynne Samuel, 77, Welsh politician
* June 4
* Dik Browne, 71, American cartoonist, cancer[14][15]
* Cecil Collins, 81, English painter and printmaker
* Vernon Cracknell, 77, New Zealand politician
* Franca Helg, 69, Italian designer and architect
* June 5
* Baby Huwae, 49, Dutch-born Indonesian actress, model, and singer
* André Michel, 81, French film director and screenwriter
* Maurice Philippe, 57, British aircraft and Formula One car designer
* June 6
* Richard P. Graves, 82, American director of the League of California Cities
* Richard Kahn, Baron Kahn, 83, British economist
* Michael O'Farrell, 40, American outlaw biker and gangster, vice-president and acting president of Oakland chapter of Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, murdered
* Ernest John Primeau, 79, American Roman Catholic bishop
* Laxman Singh, 81, Indian last ruling Maharawal (Maharaja) of the state of Dungarpur
* June 7
* Donn Beach, 82, American adventurer, businessman, and World War II veteran who was the "founding father" of tiki culture, liver cancer
* Jorge Córdova, 76, Chilean international footballer
* Jim Cristy, 76, American competition swimmer and Olympic medalist, financial manager for the Updike Company
* William McLean Hamilton, 70, Canadian politician
* Chico Landi, 81, Brazilian Formula One racing driver
* Nara Leão, 47, Brazilian singer, brain tumour[16]
* Paulo Leminski, 74, Brazilian writer, poet and journalist, liver cirrhosis
* George Roughton, 79, English professional footballer
* Jane Weiller, 77, American golfer
* June 8
* Bibb Falk, 90, American Major Leagues baseballer
* Albert Spaggiari, 56, French criminal
* Emil Verban, 73, American Major Leagues baseballer
* June 9
* George Beadle, 85, American geneticist, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine[17]
* Rashid Behbudov, 73, Soviet and Azerbaijani singer and actor[18]
* Norman Brearley, 98, Australian commercial and military pilot, and a pioneer of the Australian airline industry
* James Horstead, 91, Anglican bishop of Sierra Leone and Archbishop of West Africa
* Vladimir Kasatonov, 78, Soviet military leader and fleet admiral
* Huang Yan, 76, Chinese politician
* José López Rega, 72, Argentine politician, Minister of Social Welfare, diabetes[19][20]
* Wolfdietrich Schnurre, 68, German writer, heart failure
* Piotr Vasiliev, 80, Soviet realist painter
* June 10
* James Greenway, 86, American ornithologist
* Martin Kottler, 79, American NFL footballer
* Juan Bustillo Oro, 85, Mexican film director, screenwriter and producer
* Richard Quine, 68, American actor, director and singer, suicide by shooting[21]
* Suleyman Rustam, 83, Soviet poet, playwright and translator
* Joe Stripp, 86, American MLB baseballer
* June 11
* Ronald Eric Bishop, 86, British engineer, chief designer of the de Havilland Mosquito
* Jack McMahon, 60, American professional basketball player and coach
* June 12
* Eduardo Dualde, 55, Spanish field hockey player and Olympic medalist
* Nilufer Hanımsultan, 73, Ottoman princess
* Lou Monte, 72, Italian-American singer
* June 13
* Fran Allison, 81, American television and radio personality, myelodysplasia[22]
* William Grasso, Italian-American mobster, murdered
* Ray Sherry, 64, Australian politician, Member of the Australian Parliament
* Howard Simons, 60, American newspaper man, managing editor of The Washington Post at the time of the Watergate scandal, pancreatic cancer
* June 14
* Dame Zara Bate, 80, Australian fashion entrepreneur, wife of Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt
* Pete de Freitas, 27, English musician and producer, motorcycle accident
* Wei Guoqing, 75, Chinese government official, military officer and political commissar
* Heber Austin Ladner, 86, American politician, Secretary of State of Mississippi, heart disease
* Joseph Malula, 71, Congolese archbishop and cardinal[23]
* Yitzchok Yaakov Weiss, 87, Israeli rabbi of the Edah HaChareidis in Jerusalem, heart attack
* June 15
* Maurice Bellemare, 77, Canadian politician, diabetes
* Roberto Camardiel, 71, Spanish theatre director and actor, bone disease
* Victor French, 54, American actor and director, lung cancer[24]
* Judy Johnson, 89, American Negro League baseballer
* Ray McAnally, 63, Irish actor, heart attack[25]
* Luis Ricceri, 88, Italian Roman Catholic priest
* June 16
* Helga Haase, 55, East German speed skater and Olympic gold medalist
* Celia Lynch, 81, Irish politician
* Antonio Román, 77, Spanish film director, screenwriter and film producer
* John Westbrook, 66, English actor
* June 17
* S. David Griggs, 49, United States Navy officer and NASA astronaut
* John Matuszak, 38, American football player and actor, accidental overdose[26][27]
* Pat Parker, 45, American poet and activist, breast cancer
* June 18
* Ennio Balbo, 67, Italian film, television and voice actor
* Bobby Cross, 57, American NFL footballer
* George C. Pimentel, 67, American chemist and researcher, intestinal cancer
* I. F. Stone, 81, American investigative journalist, writer and author, heart attack
* June 19
* Betti Alver, 82, Estonian poet
* Yevgeny Kabanov, 70, Soviet Naval Aviation major general
* Andrey Prokofyev, 30, Soviet sprinter and Olympic gold medalist, suicide
* June 20 – Dona Drake, 74, American singer, dancer and film actress, pneumonia
* June 21
* Ron Bailey, 75, Australian international rugby league footballer
* Lee Calhoun, 56, American hurdler, dual Olympic gold medal winner[28]
* Aleksandr Safronov, 36, Soviet speed skater and Olympian
* Edmond Sollberger, 68, Turkish-born, Swiss–British museum curator, cuneiformist and scholar of the Sumerian language
* June 22
* Anton Dermota, 79, Slovene lyric tenor
* William Fletcher-Vane, 1st Baron Inglewood, 80, British Conservative Party politician, Member of the House of Lords
* Robert Körner, 64, Austrian international footballer
* Henri Sauguet, 88, French composer
* Isaac Starr, 94, American physician, heart disease specialist, and clinical epidemiologist
* June 23
* Michel Aflaq, 79, Syrian philosopher, sociologist and Arab nationalist, complications from heart surgery
* Del Anderson, 77, American football coach
* Werner Best, 85, German Nazi Party leader, SS-Obergruppenführer leader and organiser of the SS-Einsatzgruppen paramilitary death squads[29]
* Timothy Manning, 79, Irish-born American Archbishop of Los Angeles
* June 24
* Russell Meiggs, 86, British ancient historian
* Hibari Misora, 52, Japanese singer and actress[30]
* Ghulam Raziq, 56, Pakistani hurdler and Olympian
* Prince Vasili Alexandrovich of Russia, 81, Russian-American nephew of Tsar Nicholas II[31]
* June 25
* Idris Cox, 89, Welsh communist activist and newspaper editor
* M. A. Daniel, 35, Sri Lankan politician, murdered
* June 26
* Howard Charles Green, 93, Canadian federal politician
* Walter Ralston Martin, 60, American Baptist Christian minister and author
* Inger Stender, 76, Danish actress of stage, film and television
* June 27
* Sir Alfred "Freddie" Ayer, 78, English philosopher[32]
* Jack Buetel, 73, American film and television actor[33]
* Dorothy Bullitt, 97, American businesswoman and philanthropist
* Michele Lupo, 56, Italian film director[34]
* Gregory McMahon, 74, American politician, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
* Stevan Vilotić, 63, Yugoslav footballer and manager
* June 28
* Karl Bendetsen, 81, American politician and military officer, United States Under Secretary of the Army
* Joris Ivens, 90, Dutch documentary filmmaker[35]
* Mike Sebastian, 79, American NFL footballer
* June 29 – Kazuo Mori, 78, Japanese film director
* June 30
* Hilmar Baunsgaard, 69, Danish politician and Prime Minister of Denmark[36]
* John Bloomfield, 87, Australian politician
* Jim Dewar, 67, American footballer
* Rostislav Plyatt, 80, Russian stage and film actor

### July[edit]

Eric Holland Andrei Gromyko Jim Backus Leyla Mammadbeyova János Kádár Mel Blanc Laurence Olivier Prince Wolfgang of Hesse Pedro Orata Artur Sandauer Herbert von Karajan Rebecca Schaeffer Kazimierz Sabbat Juan Carlos Altavista Marie-Madeleine Fourcade Frank Thompson Daniel Rhodes Eleanor Raymond Walter Scott Jeff Richards Wes Fesler Michael Harrington

* July 1
* William Ching, 75, American character actor, died of congestive heart failure
* Eric Holland, 68, New Zealand politician, Member of the New Zealand Parliament
* Sumant Moolgaokar, 82, Indian industrialist
* António Morais, 54, Portuguese footballer and manager, car crash
* Viktor Nekipelov, 60, Soviet Russian poet and writer
* Louise Varèse, 98, American writer, editor, and translator of French literature
* July 2
* Brendan Crinion, 65, Irish Fianna Fáil politician
* Andrei Gromyko, 79, Soviet politician and diplomat, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, vascular problem
* Hasan Esat Işık, 72–73, Turkish diplomat and politician
* Jean Leguay, 79, French National Police member during Nazi Occupation of France, responsible for rounding up Jews for concentration camps, cancer
* Jean Painlevé, 86, French photographer and filmmaker
* Franklin J. Schaffner, 69, Japanese-born American film, television and stage director, lung cancer
* Wilfrid Sellars, 77, American philosopher
* Ben Wright, 74, English radio, film and television actor, complications from heart surgery
* July 3
* Jim Backus, 76, American actor, best known as Thurston Howell III on Gilligan's Island, complications from pneumonia
* Peter Fox, 68, Canadian politician, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba
* July 4
* Jack Haig, English actor, 76, stomach cancer
* Win Maung, 73, President of the Union of Burma
* Leyla Mammadbeyova, 79, Azerbaijani and Soviet aviator
* Vic Perrin, 73, American radio, film, and television actor, cancer
* Loyd Roberts, 82, American football and basketball player and coach
* July 5
* Bill Daddio, 73, American NFL football player, coach, and scout, heart attack
* Ernesto Halffter, 84, Spanish composer and conductor
* Odus Mitchell, 90, American footballer and coach
* Sirarpie Der Nersessian, 92, Armenian art historian who specialized in Armenian and Byzantine studies
* Berthold Wolpe, 83, German calligrapher, typographer, type designer, book designer and illustrator
* July 6
* Jean Bouise, 60, French actor
* C. A. Dharmapala, 81, Sri Lankan politician
* János Kádár, 77, Hungarian politician and communist leader, General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party, cancer
* John Maguire, 84, American Roman Catholic clergyman
* William F. Tompkins, 76, American politician, Member of the New Jersey General Assembly, heart attack
* July 7 – Moshe Kol, 78, Israeli politician
* July 8 – August Haußleiter, 84, German politician and journalist
* July 9
* Andrex, 82, French film actor
* Piet Lieftinck, 86, Dutch politician, Member of the House of Representatives and Senate
* July 10
* Mel Blanc, 81, American voice actor and radio personality, complications related to emphysema and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
* Jean-Michel Charlier, 64, Belgian comics writer
* Roger Richebé, 91, French film director, screenwriter, and producer
* Tommy Trinder, 80, English stage, screen and radio comedian
* July 11
* Irv Comp, 70, American NFL footballer
* Laurence Curtis, 83, American attorney and politician, Member of US House of Representatives
* Horia Macellariu, 95, Romanian admiral, commander of the Royal Romanian Navy's Black Sea Fleet during the Second World War
* Vic Maile, 55–56, British record producer, cancer
* Laurence Olivier, 82, English actor and director, renal failure
* Richard Travis, 76, American actor in films and television
* July 12
* Sidney Hook, 86, American philosopher
* Carlos Puebla, 71, Cuban singer, guitarist and composer
* Prince Wolfgang of Hesse, 92, Crown Prince of Finland
* July 13
* A. Amirthalingam, 61, Sri Lankan Tamil politician, Member of Parliament and Leader of the Opposition, assassinated
* Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou, 58, Iranian Kurdish politician, assassinated
* Davud Monshizadeh, 74, Iranian supporter of Nazism
* Arnaldo Ochoa, 58–59, Cuban general, executed
* Pedro Orata, 90, Filipino educator
* V. Yogeswaran, 55, Sri Lankan lawyer, politician and Member of Parliament, assassinated
* July 14 – Arnold Poepke, 87, German politician
* July 15
* Josef Bauer, 74, German politician
* Will Bradley, 77, American trombonist and bandleader
* Laurie Cunningham, 33, English international footballer, car crash
* Nesuhi Ertegun, 71, Turkish-born American record producer, complications of cancer surgery
* Artur Sandauer, 75, Polish and Jewish literary critic, essayist, and professor
* Jack Scholes, 71, Australian-born New Zealand sailor
* Teiichi Suzuki, 100, Lieutenant General in the Imperial Japanese Army, a minister of state, and member of the House of Peers, heart failure
* William F. Temple, 75, British science fiction writer
* July 16
* John N. Dempsey, 74, Irish-born American politician, Governor of Connecticut, lung cancer
* Nicolás Guillén, 87, Cuban poet, journalist, political activist and writer, Parkinson's disease
* Herbert von Karajan, 81, Austrian conductor, principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic for 34 years, heart attack
* Jack Kasley, 73, American swimmer and Olympian
* George Rich, 84, American football player and coach
* Shmuel Rodensky, 86, Russian-born Israeli actor of stage, film and television, heart attack
* Allan Shaw, 62, English Anglican priest
* July 17
* Dudley Brooks, 75, American jazz pianist, arranger, and composer
* Paul C, 24, American hip hop pioneer, producer, engineer and mixer, murder
* Robert Horton Cameron, 81, American mathematician
* Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil, 89, French lover and later wife of Samuel Beckett
* Paul Lemerle, 86, French founding president of the International Association of Byzantine Studies
* Jeff Moores, 83, Australian rugby league footballer
* Mary Parke, 81, British marine botanist and Fellow of the Royal Society
* Vuppuluri Ganapathi Sastry, 100, Indian sanskrit scholar, writer and spiritual teacher
* Phil Tinsley, 65, American footballer
* July 18
* Donnie Moore, 35, American Major Leagues baseballer, suicide by gun
* Rebecca Schaeffer, 21, American actress, murdered
* July 19
* J. M. Cohen, 86, British translator of European literature into English
* Xaquín Lorenzo Fernández, 82, Spanish educator
* Jay Ramsdell, 25, American commissioner of the Continental Basketball Association, plane crash
* Stan Ramsay, 84, English footballer and manager
* Kazimierz Sabbat, 76, Prime Minister and President of the Polish government in exile
* Carl-Heinz Schroth, 87, German actor and film director
* John Wyhonic, 69, American NFL footballer
* July 20
* Forrest H. Anderson, 76, American politician, attorney and judge, Governor and Attorney General of Montana, self-inflicted gunshot wound
* Valentine Bargmann, 81, German-born American mathematician and theoretical physicist
* Jaime Bartrolí, 71, Spanish tennis player and coach
* José Augusto Brandão, 78, Brazilian international footballer
* Juan Carlos Altavista, 60, Argentine actor and comedian, Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome
* Lauro Corona, 32, Brazilian actor
* Karen DeWolf, 85, American screenwriter and novelist
* Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, 79, leader of French Resistance network "Alliance", under code name "Hérisson"
* Erwin Sietas, 78, German swimmer and Olympic medalist
* Mary Treen, 82, American film and television actress, cancer
* Yannis Tsarouchis, 79, Greek modernist painter and set designer
* Harry Worth, 71, English comedy actor, comedian and ventriloquist, spinal cancer
* July 21
* Donald Brittain, 61, Canadian film director and producer
* James M. Collins, 73, American businessman and politician, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
* Danilo Lokar, 97, Slovene physician and expressionist writer
* William T. Whisner Jr., 65, American pilot in the United States Air Force, complications from a wasp sting
* July 22
* Janet Lee Bouvier, 81, American mother of Jacqueline Kennedy, complications from Alzheimer's disease
* A. Thomas Doyle, 71, American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer, Alzheimer's disease
* Martti Talvela, 54, Finnish operatic bass, heart attack
* Frank Thompson, 70, American politician, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, esophageal cancer
* July 23
* Donald Barthelme, 58, American short story writer and novelist, throat cancer
* Archduchess Charlotte of Austria, 68, daughter of Emperor Charles I of Austria
* Hank Greenspun, 79, American publisher of the Las Vegas Sun newspaper
* Thevis Guruge, Sri Lankan broadcaster with Radio Ceylon, murdered
* Claude Harmon, 73, American professional golfer and golf instructor, heart failure
* Daniel Rhodes, 78, American artist, heart attack
* Alexander Weygers, 87, Dutch-American sculptor, painter, print maker, blacksmith, carpenter, philosopher, mechanical engineer, aerospace engineer and author
* July 24
* Marco Acerbi, 40, Italian hurdler and Olympian
* Walter Dick, 83, American international footballer
* Charlie Gallagher, 51, Irish Gaelic footballer, drowned
* Ernie "Sunshine Sammy" Morrison, 76, American actor, comedian and dancer, cancer
* Eleanor Raymond, 102, American architect
* July 25 – Steve Rubell, 45, American entrepreneur and co-owner of the New York City disco Studio 54, hepatitis and septic shock complicated by AIDS
* July 26 – Derek Ball, British sound engineer and Academy Award winner
* July 27
* Eugénie Henderson, 74, British linguist and academic
* Warren Low, 83, American film editor
* Walter Scott, 89, Australian rules footballer
* Dolf Sternberger, 81, German philosopher and political scientist
* July 28
* B. V. Bowden, Baron Bowden, 79, English scientist
* Jeff Richards, 64, American actor, acute respiratory failure
* Fu Zhong, 89, Chinese general in the People's Liberation Army
* July 29
* Charley Bowser, 90, American football coach, heart failure
* Osvaldo Brandão, 72, Brazilian football player and coach
* Joe Littlejohn, 81, American stock car racing driver, heart attack
* Henry Shenk, 82, American football player and coach
* Rudy Zamora, 79, Mexican-American animator
* July 30
* Lily Broberg, 65, Danish stage and film actress
* Muhammad Dilawar Khanji, 71, Pakistani politician, Governor of Sindh, lung cancer
* Wes Fesler, 81, American footballer, basketballer and baseballer, and coach of football and basketball
* Lane Frost, 25, American professional rodeo cowboy, killed by bull
* Amadeo Labarta, 84, Spanish footballer and Olympian
* July 31
* Premakeerthi de Alwis, 42, Sri Lankan radio and television broadcaster and lyricist, murdered by shooting
* Herschel Caldwell, 85, American college football player and coach
* Eddie Gannon, 78, Irish footballer
* Michael Harrington, 61, American author, political activist, professor of political science and radio commentator, esophageal cancer
* Bull Moose Jackson, 70, American blues and rhythm-and-blues singer and saxophonist, lung cancer
* Geronima Pecson, 92, Filipina educator, suffragette, social worker and first woman senator of the Philippines
* George Augustus Vaughn Jr., 92, American fighter ace in World War I, brain tumour
* Zhou Yang, 80, Chinese literary theorist, translator and Marxist
* July (unknown date) – Hui Yuyu, 79–80, Chinese politician

### August[edit]

Luiz Gonzaga Antonia Brico John Kinard Mickey Leland Richard Alexander Alberto Sols William Shockley Tim Richmond Dove-Myer Robinson Amanda Blake Lin Tie Bert Oosterbosch Chrissie White Raul Seixas Erik Almgren R. D. Laing Jean-Louis Verdier Burhan Shahidi Pua Kealoha Lorenzo Natali Claire Luce

* August 1
* José Cândido de Carvalho, 74, Brazilian writer
* Don Heffner, 78, American Major Leagues baseballer
* John Hirsch, 59, Hungarian-Canadian theatre director, AIDS-related illness
* John Ogdon, 52, English pianist and composer, pneumonia
* August 2
* Friedl Behn-Grund, 82, German cinematographer
* Luiz Gonzaga, 76, Brazilian singer, songwriter, musician and poet
* August 3
* Dominic Behan, 60, Irish writer, songwriter and singer, complications from pancreatic cancer
* Antonia Brico, 87, Dutch-born American conductor and pianist
* Egon Orowan, 87, Hungarian-British physicist and metallurgist
* August 4
* Maurice Colbourne, 49, English stage and television actor, heart attack
* Wayne LaMaster, 82, American Major Leagues baseballer
* Paul Murry, 77, American cartoonist and comics artist
* Larry Parnes, 59, British pop manager, meningitis
* Taghi Riahi, 78, Iranian officer in Iranian Imperial Army
* W. Wallace Smith, 88, American grandson of Joseph Smith Jr. and Prophet-President of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
* August 5
* John Kinard, 52, American social activist, pastor, and museum director, myelofibrosis
* Max Macon, 73, American Major Leagues baseballer
* Charles Richard Mulrooney, 83, American Roman Catholic bishop
* Stacey Toran, 27, American NFL footballer, car accident
* August 6
* Beattie Casely-Hayford, 67, Ghanaian engineer, director of the Ghana Arts Council, co-founder of the Ghana National Dance Ensemble and director of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation
* Don Clark, 65, American footballer, heart attack
* Nat Levine, 90, American film producer
* August 7
* Mickey Leland, 44, American politician and anti-poverty activist, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, plane crash
* Robert Stevens, 68, American director and producer of television shows and movies, cardiac arrest
* Mira Trailović, 65, Serbian dramaturg and theatre director
* August 8
* Irving Cottler, 71, American drummer/percussionist, heart attack
* Robert Kaske, 68, American professor of medieval literature, brain tumour
* Enrico Lorenzetti, 78, Italian professional Grand Prix motorcycle road racer
* Brian Naylor, 66, British racing driver
* Bobby Oxspring, 70, British Royal Air Force officer and Second World War flying ace
* George Papp, 73, American comics artist
* August 9
* Richard Alexander, 86, American film actor
* Antonino Pietro Gullotti, 67, Italian politician
* Wayne Sheley, 73, Canadian footballer
* August 10
* H. Montgomery Hyde, 81, Irish barrister, politician, author and biographer
* George Ignatieff, 75, Canadian diplomat, Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations
* Pierre Matisse, 89, French-born American art dealer
* Alberto Sols, 72, Spanish researcher specializing in biochemistry
* August 11
* Ghaus Bakhsh Bizenjo, 69–72, Pakistani politician, Governor of Balochistan
* Goldup Davies, 75, British swimmer
* Robert W. Levering, 74, American lawyer and politician, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
* John Meillon, 55, Australian character actor, cirrhosis
* Sonny Thompson, 72, American R&B bandleader and pianist
* August 12
* Fred Dawes, 78, English footballer
* Lillebil Ibsen, 90, Norwegian dancer and actress
* Aimo Koivunen, 71, Finnish soldier
* Samuel Okwaraji, 25, Nigerian international footballer, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy following collapse after World Cup qualifier
* William Shockley, 79, American physicist, Nobel laureate in Physics, and eugenicist, prostate cancer
* Olga Villi, 67, Italian model and actress
* August 13
* Hugo del Carril, 76, Argentine film actor, film director and tango singer
* Roldano Lupi, 80, Italian film actor
* Tim Richmond, 34, American race car driver, complications from AIDS
* Larkin I. Smith, 45, American politician, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, plane crash
* Carlos Yates, 27, American basketballer, shot
* August 14
* Robert Bernard Anderson, 79, American politician, Secretary of the Navy and Secretary of the Treasury, throat cancer
* Ricky Berry, 24, American NBA basketballer, suicide by shooting
* Dove-Myer Robinson, 88, New Zealand Mayor of Auckland City
* August 15
* Wolfram Eberhard, 80, German-born Turkish and American professor of Sociology
* Minoru Genda, 84, Imperial Japanese Navy flight officer, Japanese Air Self Defence Force general, and politician
* Elvy Kalep, 90, Estonian aviator, country's first female pilot
* Heinrich Krone, 93, German politician
* Dorothea Leighton, 80, American social psychiatrist and a founder of the field of medical anthropology
* Earl B. Ruth, 73, American politician, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
* Thrasyvoulos Tsakalotos, 92, Greek Army Lieutenant General who served in World Wars I and II
* August 16
* Jean-Hilaire Aubame, 76, Gabonese politician, Foreign Minister of Gabon
* Amanda Blake, 60, American actress, best known for the role of Miss Kitty Russell on Gunsmoke, AIDS-related pneumonia
* Donald Friend, 74, Australian artist and diarist
* Bill Sayer, 55, English internationl rugby league footballer
* Erasmo Vera, 66, Chilean footballer
* August 17
* Harry Corbett, 71, English magician, puppeteer, and television presenter
* Fred Frankhouse, 85, American Major Leagues baseballer
* Lawrence Stevens, 76, South African boxer and Olympic gold medalist
* Lin Tie, 84, Communist revolutionary leader and politician of the People's Republic of China
* August 18
* Robert Buckner, 83, American film screenwriter, producer and short story writer
* Luis Carlos Galan, 45, Colombian politician, assassinated
* Matt Gordy, 79, American pole vaulter
* Yūji Koseki, 80, Japanese ryūkōka, gunka, march, fight song and film score composer
* Imre Németh, 71, Hungarian hammer thrower and Olympic gold medalist
* Bert Oosterbosch, 32, Dutch racing cyclist, cardiac arrest
* Chrissie White, 94, British silent-screen actress
* August 19
* Géza Képes, 80, Hungarian poet, translator and polyglot
* Alfredo Montelibano Sr., 83, Filipino politician, Secretary of National Defense and the Interior
* Wayne Moore, 44, American NFL footballer, heart attack
* Joseph A. Pechman, 71, American economist and taxation scholar
* August 20
* George Adamson, 83, British wildlife conservationist in Kenya, murdered
* H. B. Halicki, 48, American director, writer, stunt driver, actor and filmmaker, accident while filming
* Joseph LaShelle, 89, American cinematographer
* Chuck Tollefson, 72, American NFL footballer
* August 21
* William F. Bolger, 66, Postmaster General of the United States
* William Danielsen, 73, Norwegian footballer
* Raul Seixas, 44, Brazilian rock singer, songwriter and producer, cardiac arrest as a complication of diabetes
* Phyllis Terrell, 91, American suffragist and civil rights activist
* Ted Wilks, 73, American Major Leagues baseballer
* August 22
* George Flahiff, 83, Canadian Roman Catholic Archbishop
* Robert Grondelaers, 56, Belgian road cyclist and Olympic medalist
* Charles Hill, Baron Hill of Luton, 85, British physician and medical spokesman, radio speaker and member of parliament
* Huey P. Newton, 47, African-American political activist, founder of the Black Panther party, and probable murderer, shot
* Krishnarao Shankar Pandit, 96, Indian musician
* Diana Vreeland, 85, American fashion columnist and editor, heart attack
* August 23
* Erik Almgren, 81, Swedish footballer and manager
* R. D. Laing, 61, Scottish psychiatrist, heart attack
* August 24
* Jacques Godechot, 82, French historian of the French Revolution
* Fermín Lecea, 83, Spanish-Argentine footballer
* Jimmy Littlejohn, 79, Scottish footballer and manager
* Feliks Topolski, 82, Polish expressionist painter and draughtsman
* August 25
* Jim Brideweser, 62, American Major Leagues baseballer
* Jacques Castelot, 75, French film actor
* Yan Frenkel, 68, Soviet Ukrainian composer and performer
* Frank Henry, 79, American equestrian and Olympic gold medalist
* Herbert Loper, 92, United States Army Major General in World War II, cardiac arrest
* Roman Palester, 81, Polish composer of classical music
* Jean-Louis Verdier, 54, French mathematician
* Bronwen Wallace, 44, Canadian poet and short story writer, cancer
* August 26
* Hans Børli, 70, Norwegian poet and writer
* Juanita Brooks, 91, American historian and author, Alzheimer's disease
* Patrick Connor, 83, Irish politician
* Irving Stone, 86, American writer
* August 27
* Elmer Ellis, 88, American educator and president of the University of Missouri
* Luiz Luz, 79, Brazilian international footballer
* Gloria Milland, 48, Italian actress
* Burhan Shahidi, 94, Chinese politician
* Bill Shirley, 68, American actor and tenor/lyric baritone, lung cancer
* August 28
* Joseph Alsop, 78, American journalist and newspaper columnist
* Ondine, 52, American actor, AIDS-related liver disease
* John Steptoe, 38, American author and illustrator for children’s books, AIDS
* Fred Waters, 62, American Major Leagues baseballer
* August 29
* Pua Kealoha, 86, Hawaiian swimmer, Olympic gold medalist for the United States
* Lorenzo Natali, 66, Italian politician
* Giorgio di Sant' Angelo, 66, Italian-Argentinian fashion designer based in the United States, lung cancer
* Sir Peter Scott, 79, British ornithologist, conservationist, Olympic medalist in sailing, heart attack
* August 30
* Buddy Burbage, 82, American Negro Leagues baseballer
* Joe Collins, 66, American Major Leagues baseballer
* Joe de Santis, 80, American radio, television, movie and theatrical actor and sculptor, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
* Geneviève Morel, 73, French stage and film actress
* Roland Renne, 83, American agricultural economics professor and President of Montana State College
* Dorothy Schiff, 86, American businesswoman, owner and publisher of the New York Post
* August 31
* Michele Cascella, 96, Italian artist
* Moe Dalitz, 89, American gangster, businessman, casino owner and philanthropist, congestive heart failure, chronic hypertension and kidney failure
* Mary Gunn, 90, South African librarian and biographer
* Claire Luce, 85, American stage and screen actress, dancer and singer
* Skeeter Newsome, 78, American Major Leagues baseballer

### September[edit]

Kazimierz Deyna John Augustine Collins Gaetano Scirea Gina Manès Paul Alfred Weiss Dutch Elston Sterjo Spasse Don Walker Charles H. Russell Pérez Prado Ion Dezideriu Sîrbu Chen Boda Murry Dickson Irving Berlin John T. Koehler Dorothy Andrus Ferdinand Marcos Huỳnh Tấn Phát

* September 1
* Frank Collier, 56, English international rugby league footballer
* Kazimierz Deyna, 41, Polish international footballer, car accident
* Bart Giamatti, 51, American professor of English Renaissance literature, Commissioner of Major League Baseball, heart attack
* Dipa Ma, 78, Indian meditation teacher
* Albert Outler, 80, American Methodist historian, theologian, and pastor
* Shah Azizur Rahman, 63, Bangladeshi politician, Prime Minister of Bangladesh
* September 2
* Clifton Parker, 84, British composer
* Brian Robinson, appr. 27, Northern Ireland loyalist militant, shot
* September 3
* Franzisca Baruch, 87, German–Israeli graphic designer
* Vice Admiral John Augustine Collins, 90, Royal Australian Navy officer, commanded HMAS Sydney until shortly before its sinking
* Augie Lio, 71, American NFL footballer
* Sten Mellgren, 89, Swedish footballer and Olympic medalist
* Gaetano Scirea, 36, Italian international footballer, regarded as one of the greatest defenders of all time, car accident
* Rip Sewell, 82, American Major Leagues baseballer
* Meena Shorey, 67, Pakistani film actress
* September 4
* Bernard Belleau, 64, Canadian molecular pharmacologist
* Colin Clark, 83, British and Australian economist and statistician
* Wilfred Payton, 75, English clergyman and first-class cricketer
* Georges Simenon, 86, Belgian writer, 86, Belgian writer, complications from a fall
* Ronald Syme, 86, New Zealand-born British classicist and historian
* September 5
* Les Allen, 78, Australian rules footballer
* Sir John Philip Baxter, 84, British-Australian chemical engineer
* Michael Fidler, 73, British Conservative Party politician
* Geneviève Kervine, 68, French film actress, cancer
* William Mann, 65, English music critic
* J. Barkley Rosser, 81, American logician, aneurysm
* September 6
* Gina Manès, 96, French film actress
* Jimmy Ruffell, 89, English international footballer
* September 7
* Tom Blackaller, 49, American yachtsman and world championship gold medalist, heart attack
* Valery Goborov, 23, Soviet basketball player and Olympic gold medalist, car crash
* September 8
* Keef Cowboy, 28, American hip hop recording artist, drug overdose
* Karel Finek, 69, Czech footballer and manager
* Paul Alfred Weiss, 91, Austrian-American biologist
* September 9
* Heinrich Angst, 74, Swiss bobsledder and Olympic gold medalist
* Fred Ashworth, 82, English rugby union and rugby league footballer
* John McShain, 92, American building contractor, complications from pneumonia
* September 10
* Okie Blanchard, 86, American football player, and coach of football and basketball
* Dutch Elston, 70, American NFL footballer, cancer
* William Joseph Hedley, 86, American civil and consulting engineer
* Gordon McCallum, 70, American-born English sound engineer
* Herman Peters, 90, Australian rugby league footballer for North Sydney and Australia
* Zbigniew Rychlicki, 67, Polish graphic artist, and illustrator of children's books
* Jeff Stollmeyer, 68, Trinidad and Tobago cricketer, and test cricketer for the West Indies, wounds from home invaders
* September 11
* Bill Weiley, 88, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
* Bill Wood, 67, Australian rules footballer
* September 12
* George Gniel, 70, Australian rules footballer
* Anton Lubowski, 37, Namibian anti-apartheid activist and advocate, assassinated
* Sterjo Spasse, 75, Albanian prose writer and novelist
* Seamus Twomey, 69, Irish republican activist, militant and chief of staff of the Provisional IRA
* Don Walker, 81, American Broadway orchestrator and composer
* September 13
* Acharya Aatreya, 68, Indian poet, lyricist, playwright, and screenwriter
* İsmail Rüştü Aksal, 77–78, Turkish civil servant and politician, Secretary General of the Republican People's Party
* Ken McCaw, 81, Australian politician, Attorney-General of New South Wales
* Giuseppe Ugo Papi, 96, Italian economist
* Charles H. Russell, 85, American politician, Governor of Nevada
* John Yovicsin, 70, American NFL footballer, heart disease
* September 14
* John Bright, 81, American journalist, screenwriter and political activist
* Benjamin Peary Pal, 83, Indian plant breeder and agronomist
* Dámaso Pérez Prado, 72, Cuban bandleader, pianist, composer and arranger, popularised the Mambo, complications from a stroke
* Wayne Sabin, 74, American tennis player
* September 15
* Harry Cave, 66, New Zealand cricketer, captain of New Zealand test team
* Jan DeGaetani, 56, American mezzo-soprano, leukemia
* Michael Klinger, 68, British film producer and distributor
* Joseph M. Pettit, 70, American engineer, dean of Stanford University School of Engineering, president of Georgia Institute of Technology, cancer
* Robert Penn Warren, 84, American poet, novelist, and literary critic, complications from prostate cancer
* September 16
* Arno Behrisch, 76, German politician
* Bruno Heck, 72, German politician
* Steven Stayner, 24, American kidnapping victim, motor cycle collision
* September 17
* Leon Culberson, 70, American Major Leagues baseballer
* Field Marshal Sir Richard Hull, 82, British Army officer, Chief of the General Staff, cancer
* Ion Dezideriu Sîrbu, 70, Romanian philosopher, novelist, essayist and dramatist, esophageal cancer
* Jay Stewart, 71, American television and radio announcer, suicide
* Don Vines, 57, Welsh rugby union and rugby league footballer
* September 18 – Jack Smith, 56, American filmmaker, actor, and pioneer of underground cinema
* September 19
* Philip Sayer, 42, British actor, cancer
* Willie Steele, 66, American long-jumper and Olympic gold medalist, cancer
* September 20
* Mihajlo Andrejević, 91, Serbian doctor, footballer and sports administrator
* Chen Boda, 85, Chinese Communist journalist, professor and political theorist
* John Carrell, 42, American ice dancer and ballet dancer, complications of AIDS
* Alexey Diakonoff, 82, Russian–Dutch entomologist
* Richie Ginther, 59, American race car driver, heart attack
* Roy W. Johnson, 97, American football player, and coach of football, basketball and baseball
* Tuti Indra Malaon, 49, Indonesian actress, dancer, and lecturer, internal bleeding
* Len Pye, 78, Australian rules footballer
* September 21
* Bill Barron, 62, American jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist
* Troy Davis, 42, American convicted murderer of police officer, executed
* Ertem Eğilmez, 60, Turkish film director, producer and screenwriter
* Murry Dickson, 73, American Major Leagues baseballer, emphysema
* Corrado Gaipa, 64, Italian actor and voice actor
* September 22
* Ambrose Folorunsho Alli, 60, Nigerian medical professor, Executive Governor of defunct Nigerian state of Bendel State
* Irving Berlin, 101, American composer and lyricist, heart attack
* Bob Calihan, 71, American basketball player and coach
* John E. Hunt, 80, American Republican Party politician, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
* September 23
* Sal Aunese, 21, American college football player, stomach cancer
* Bradley Kincaid, 94, American folk singer and radio entertainer
* John T. Koehler, 85, United States Assistant Secretary of the Navy, cancer
* William Traylor, 58, American film, stage, and television actor, heart attack
* September 24
* Chuck Bond, 75, American NFL footballer
* Walter Koelz, 94, American zoologist and museum collector
* Shri Yogendra, 91, Indian yoga guru, author and poet
* September 25
* Pedro Amorim, 69, Brazilian international footballer
* Darlington Hoopes, 93, American politician and lawyer, member of Pennsylvania House of Representatives
* Nowell Myres, 86, British archaeologist
* September 26
* Lieselotte Berger, 68, German politician
* Jimmy Delaney, 75, Scottish international footballer
* Kaj Franck, 77, Finnish designer and applied artist
* Hemant Kumar, 69, Indian music director and playback singer, heart attack
* September 28
* Dorothy Andrus, 81, American tennis player
* José Arribas, 68, Spanish professional footballer and manager
* Thomas Keller, 64, Swiss president of FISA, governing body of international rowing
* Ferdinand Marcos, 72, Filipino dictator, politician and statesman, President of the Philippines, kidney, heart, and lung ailments
* Evan McCaskey, 24, American guitarist, suicide
* Qian Zhidao, 78, Chinese chemist
* September 29
* August "Gussie" Busch, 90, American brewing magnate, pneumonia
* Mark Dignam, 80, English actor
* Paul Elzey, 43, American NFL footballer
* János Farkas, 47, Hungarian footballer, heart attack
* Geoffrey Sumner, 80, British actor
* Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour, 81, French lawyer and far-right politician
* September 30
* Horace Alexander, 100, English Quaker teacher, writer, pacifist and ornithologist
* Oskar Davičo, 80, Yugoslavian novelist and poet
* William M. Fairbank, 72, American physicist
* Janko Orožen, 97, Slovene historian and schoolteacher
* Huỳnh Tấn Phát, 76, Vietnamese architect and politician, Prime Minister of the Republic of Vietnam
* Arthur Rook, 68, English equestrian and Olympic gold medalist
* Drew Shafer, 53, American LGBT rights activist from Missouri, complications of AIDS
* Virgil Thomson, 92, American composer

### October[edit]

Paola Barbara Sir Norman Yardley Bette Davis Ernst Andersson Alan Hulme Carmen Cavallaro Merab Kostava Lucy Doraine Cornel Wilde Princess Gina of Liechtenstein Sir Anthony Quayle Tony Manero Armida Mary McCarthy Kumeko Urabe Louise Hay Kateb Yacine Róża Maria Goździewska Washington Saldías Fuentealba

* October 1
* Emory Bauer, 76, American football, basketball, and baseball coach
* Manuel Clouthier, 55, Mexican agriculturalist, businessman and politician, car accident
* Carlo Dapporto, 78, Italian film actor
* Witold Rowicki, 75, Polish conductor
* October 2
* Paola Barbara, 77, Italian film actress
* Aubrey Boomer, 91, American professional golfer, stroke
* Vittorio Caprioli, 68, Italian actor, director and screenwriter, heart attack
* Cousin Joe, 81, American blues and jazz singer
* October 3
* Bahadur Khan, 58, Indian sarod player and film score composer
* Del Wood, 69, American pianist, stroke
* Norman Yardley, 74, English international cricketer, captain of England, stroke
* October 4
* Graham Chapman, 48, British actor, comedian and writer, tonsil cancer
* Edmund Osmańczyk, 76, Polish writer
* October 5
* Robert T. Ashmore, 85, American politician, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
* Ernesto Formenti, 62, Italian boxer and Olympic gold medalist
* Noël-Noël, 92, French actor and screenwriter
* Dicky Ralph, 81, Welsh international rugby player
* October 6
* Bette Davis, 81, American actress, cancer
* Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, 69, French actor, critic, screenwriter and director, ruptured aneurysm
* Paul Henry, 77, Belgian footballer
* Robert Poulet, 96, Belgian writer, literary critic and journalist
* Reinhard Seiler, 80, Nazi German Luftwaffe Major and ace
* October 7
* Keith Elliott, 73, New Zealand soldier, cancer
* Abe Landa, 86, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
* Forrest McPherson, 77, American NFL footballer
* Aleksanteri Saarvala, 76, Finnish gymnast and Olympic gold medalist
* October 8
* Oscar Moglia, 54, Uruguayan basketballer and Olympic medalist
* Rajen Sharma, publicity secretary of the militant organisation United Liberation Front of Asom, lynched
* October 9
* Ernst Andersson, 80, Swedish international footballer
* Yusuf Atılgan, 68, Turkish novelist and dramatist, heart attack
* James Chabot, 62, Canadian politician, Member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
* Herman Clark, 58, American NFL footballer
* Alan Hulme, 82, Australian politician, Postmaster-General of Australia
* Hassan Poladi, 44, Indian-American writer, liver failure
* October 11
* Roberts Dunstan, 66, Australian soldier and aviator during the Second World War and politician
* Percival Goodman, 85, American urban theorist and architect
* M. King Hubbert, 86, American geologist and geophysicist, pulmonary embolism
* Paul Shenar, 53, American actor and theatre director, AIDS
* October 12
* Carmen Cavallaro, 76, American pianist, prostate cancer
* Joe Foy, 46, American Major Leagues baseballer, heart attack
* Franco Luambo, 51, Congolese musician, AIDS
* Sim Var, 83, Cambodian politician, Prime Minister of Cambodia
* Jay Ward, 69, American creator and producer of animated TV cartoon shows, renal cancer
* N. V. Krishna Warrier, 73, Indian poet, journalist and scholar
* October 13
* Fred Agabashian, 76, American racer of midget cars and Indy cars
* Lud Gluskin, 90, American jazz drummer and bandleader
* Merab Kostava, 50, Georgian dissident, musician and poet, car crash
* Patrick McAuliffe, 75, Irish Labour Party politician
* Giuseppe Palmieri, 87, Italian Olympic high jumper and javelin thrower
* Cesare Zavattini, 87, Italian screenwriter
* October 14
* Martin Broszat, 63, German historian specializing in modern German social history
* Lucy Doraine, 91, Hungarian silent-screen actress
* Klavdiya Mayuchaya, 71, Soviet javelin thrower and European champion
* René Petit, 90, Franco-Spanish engineer and international footballer
* October 15
* James Lee Barrett, 59, American author, producer and screenwriter, cancer
* Giuseppe Gandini, 89, Italian international footballer
* Paul Georgescu, 65, Romanian literary critic, journalist, fiction writer and communist political figure
* Tadevos Hakobyan, 72, Armenian historian and geographer
* Danilo Kiš, 54, Serbian novelist, short story writer, essayist and translator, lung cancer
* Scott O'Dell, 91, American children's writer, prostate cancer
* Michał Rola-Żymierski, 99, Polish Communist Party leader, Marshal of Poland
* October 16
* Walter Farley, 74, American author, cancer
* Frederick Millar, 1st Baron Inchyra, 89, British diplomat, British Ambassador to West Germany
* Mário Vianna, 87, Brazilian football referee, pneumonia
* Cornel Wilde, 77, Hungarian-born American actor, leukemia
* October 17
* John J. Anderson, 32, American writer and editor on computing and technology, building collapse in earthquake
* Jack Beynon, 76, American football player
* Mark Krein, 82, Soviet mathematician
* Cyril Mathew, 77, Sri Lankan politician
* R. A. B. Mynors, 86, English classicist and medievalist, road accident
* October 18
* Mirko Bonačić, 86, Croatian footballer and Olympian
* Princess Gina of Liechtenstein, 67, Princess consort of Liechtenstein
* October 19
* Eric Dixon, 59, American jazz tenor saxophonist, flautist, composer, and arranger
* Albert Geldard, 75, English international footballer
* Alan Murphy, 35, English rock session guitarist, pneumonia resulting from AIDS
* Salim Nasir, 44, Pakistani film and TV actor, heart attack
* October 20
* Sir Anthony Quayle, 76, British actor, theatre director and novelist, liver cancer
* Arthur Spjuth, 85, Swedish art director
* October 21
* Jean Image, 78, Hungarian-French director, script writer and producer of French animation films
* Bud Marquardt, 75, Canadian footballer
* October 22
* Ewan MacColl, 74, British folk singer, songwriter, political activist and actor, complications following heart surgery
* Tony Manero, 84, American professional golfer
* Duke Nelson, 82, American college athletics coach and administrator
* Roland Winters, 84, American actor, stroke
* October 23
* Edmund E. Anderson, 83, American automotive designer
* Armida, 78, Mexican actress, singer, dancer and vaudevillian, heart attack
* Bert Hyde, 82, Australian rules footballer
* Clive Lewington, 69, Australian rules footballer
* October 24
* Dean Alfange, 91, American politician, Deputy New York State Attorney General, cancer
* General Gopal Gurunath Bewoor, 73, Indian Army officer
* Ralph Chase, 86, American NFL footballer
* Jerzy Kukuczka, 41, Polish mountaineer, fall from mountain
* Sahib Shihab, 64, American jazz and hard bop saxophonist and flautist, liver cancer
* Sam Smith, 62–63, English rugby league footballer and World Cup winner
* Doris Huestis Speirs, 95, Canadian ornithologist, artist and poet
* October 25
* Enrico Forcella, 82, Venezuelan shooter and Olympic medalist
* Mary McCarthy, 77, American novelist, critic and political activist, lung cancer
* Gerard Walschap, 91, Belgian writer
* October 26
* Don Bass, 33, American NFL footballer, shot
* Charles J. Pedersen, 85, Korean-born American organic chemist with Norwegian and Japanese parentage, Nobel laureate in Chemistry
* Gordon Reid, 66, Australian academic, Governor of Western Australia, cancer
* Anders Rydberg, 86, Swedish footballer
* Kumeko Urabe, 87, Japanese movie actress, burns
* October 27
* Con Moulson, 83, Irish footballer and manager
* Benjamin Murmelstein, 84, Austrian rabbi
* Alfred Wilson, 85, American rower and Olympic gold edalist
* October 28
* Laurent Di Lorto, 80, French international footballer
* Darel Dieringer, 63, American professional stock car racing driver
* Henry Hall, 91, English bandleader
* Louise Hay, 54, French-born American mathematician, breast cancer
* Liam Redmond, 76, Irish stage, film and television actor
* Yuliya Solntseva, 88, Soviet actress and film director
* Kateb Yacine, 60, Algerian writer of novels and plays
* October 29
* Roland Anderson, 85, American movie art director
* Jack Barker, 71, Australian rules footballer
* Róża Maria Goździewska, 53, Polish child nurse during the Warsaw uprising
* October 30
* Theodore Roosevelt Dalton, 88, American attorney and United States district judge, complications from pneumonia
* Ingeborg Refling Hagen, 93, Norwegian author, poet and artistic director
* Aristid Lindenmayer, 63, Hungarian biologist
* Yisrael Spira, 99, Holocaust survivor
* Pedro Vargas, 83, Mexican tenor and actor, complications from diabetes[37]
* October 31
* Conrad Beck, 88, Swiss composer
* Washington Saldías Fuentealba, 62, Chilean politician, Mayor of Pichilemu
* Elliott Loughlin, 79, American United States Navy Rear Admiral
* Francesc Miró-Sans, 73, Spanish businessman and president of FC Barcelona
* Roger Scott, 46, British radio disc jockey, stomach cancer
* October (unknown date)
* Wilgar Campbell, 42–43, Irish blues rock musician, alcohol-related illness
* Francis J. Love, 88, American politician, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives

### November[edit]

Main article: Deaths in November 1989

Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Dorothy Fuldheim Vladimir Horowitz Margarete Buber-Neumann Brunello Rondi Bill Neilson Natalio Pescia Dolores Ibárruri Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein Ignacio Ellacuría Johnny Haymer Freddie Waits Lynn Bari Leonardo Sciascia C. C. Beck Jiří Baumruk Armand Salacrou George Cakobau Ahmed Abdallah Carlos Arias Navarro Gubby Allen Ahmadou Ahidjo

* November 1
* Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, 91, American civil rights activist
* Haranath, 53, Indian actor
* Robert James Moon, 78, American physicist, chemist and engineer
* November 2
* John Clymer, 82, American painter and illustrator
* Morris H. DeGroot, 58, American statistician
* Elizabeth Hawley Gasque, 103, American politician, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, longest lived member of congress
* Frederick Gordon-Lennox, 9th Duke of Richmond, 85, British peer, engineer, racing driver, and motor racing promoter
* Stefan Staszewski, 82, Polish communist politician
* Shana Yardan, 46, Guyanese poet and broadcaster, cancer
* November 3
* Timoci Bavadra, 55, Fijian physician and politician, Prime Minister of Fiji, cancer
* Dorothy Fuldheim, 96, American journalist and television news anchor
* Leigh Leigh, 14, Australian murder victim
* Zelma O'Neal, 86, American actress, singer and dancer
* Edward J. Stack, 79, American politician, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
* November 4
* Pancho Coimbre, 80, Puerto Rican professional baseballer in American Negro Leagues, house fire
* Clare Leighton, 91, English-American artist, writer and illustrator
* Vivian Mercier, 69–70, Irish literary critic
* Bohumil Váňa, 69, Czechoslovak table tennis player and World Champion
* November 5
* Ted Cox, 86, American footballer, basketballer and coach
* Vladimir Horowitz, 86, Russian-American pianist, heart attack
* Barry Sadler, 49, American soldier, singer-songwriter and author, murder by shooting
* Lu Watters, 77, American trumpeter and bandleader
* Benigno Zaccagnini, 77, Italian politician and physician
* November 6
* Margarete Buber-Neumann, 88, German writer
* Adrian Dullard, 71, Australian rules footballer
* Richard "Dickie" Goodman, 55, American music and record producer, suicide by shooting
* Murder of Tina Isa, 16, American girl murdered by her parents in an honour killing
* Yūsaku Matsuda, 40, Japanese actor, cancer
* November 7
* David "Dai" Astley, 80, Welsh international footballer
* Alec Mango, 78, English actor
* Brunello Rondi, 64, Italian screenwriter and film director, heart attack
* November 8
* Ray D. Hahn, 91, American football and basketball player and coach
* Johnny Lanning, 79, American Major Leagues baseballer
* Gertrude Leverkus, 91, German-British architect
* Maud Russell, 96, American social worker, educator, and writer, lung cancer
* Thomas Joseph Walsh, 76, Irish doctor, writer, and founder and director of the Wexford Opera Festival
* Lionel Wigmore, 90, Australian journalist and military historian
* Howard Yates, 76, Australian sprinter
* Mary Agnes Yerkes, 103, American impressionist painter, photographer and artisan
* November 9
* Arthur John Holland, 71, American politician, Mayor of Trenton, New Jersey, cancer
* Bob McLean, 75, Australian rules footballer
* Bill Neilson, 64, Australian politician, Premier of Tasmania, cancer
* Leen Vente, 78, Dutch international footballer
* Sarwo Edhie Wibowo, 64, Indonesian Army general, chronic high fever
* November 10
* Cookie Mueller, 40, American actress and writer, AIDS-related pneumonia
* Craig J. Spence, 59, American journalist, lobbyist, and socialite, suicide
* November 11
* Jay DeFeo, 60, American visual artist, lung cancer
* Natalio Pescia, 67, Argentine international footballer
* November 12
* Édouard Candeveau, 91, Swiss rower and Olympic gold medalist
* Stan Galazin, 78–79, American NFL footballer
* Iolas Huffman, 91, American footballer and baseballer
* Dolores Ibárruri, 93, Spanish Republican politician of the Spanish Civil War
* Armour G. McDaniel, 73, American Air Force military officer
* Mao Yisheng, 93, Chinese structural engineer and social activist
* November 13
* Victor Davis, 25, Canadian Olympic swimmer and world champion, struck by car
* Francis Edmunds, 87, Lithuanian-born British educator and Anthroposophist
* Upatissa Gamanayake, 41, Sri Lankan politician, murdered
* Roger Heman Jr, 57, American sound engineer, lung cancer
* Arthur Hutchings, 83, English musicologist, composer and professor of music
* Franz Joseph II, 83, Prince of Liechtenstein
* Rohana Wijeweera, 46, Sri Lankan Marxist political activist and revolutionary, shot
* November 14
* Bill Davison, 83, American jazz cornetist
* Jimmy Murphy, 79, Welsh international footballer and manager
* John Howard Starr, 91, American ice hockey coach
* Enzo Trapani, 67, Italian screenwriter, set designer, TV show producer-director and film director
* November 15
* Constance Binney, 93, American stage and film actress and dancer
* Bartolomé Colombo, 73, Argentine international footballer
* Alejo Durán, 70, Colombian vallenato music traditional composer, singer and accordionist
* Jeremy Flint, 61, English contract bridge writer and leading professional player, cancer
* George Manuel, 68, Canadian Aboriginal leader
* November 16
* Petar Argirov, 66, Bulgarian footballer and Olympian
* Nathan Cohn, 92, American electrical engineer
* Ignacio Ellacuría, 59, Spanish-Salvadoran Jesuit priest and theologian, murder
* Jean-Claude Malépart, 60, French-Canadian politician, lung cancer
* Ignacio Martín-Baró, 47, El Salvadoran scholar, social psychologist, philosopher and Jesuit priest, murdered
* Segundo Montes, 56, El Salvadoran scholar, philosopher, educator, sociologist and Jesuit priest, murdered
* Rose Murphy, 76, American jazz pianist and singer
* Dorothy G. Page, 68, American "Mother of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race"
* Oliver Smedley, 78, English businessman
* November 17
* David Blundy, 44, British journalist and war correspondent, shot by sniper
* Francis John Dunn, 67, American Roman Catholic bishop
* Costabile Farace, 29, Italian-American criminal and mobster, 29
* Billy Lee, 60, American child actor, heart attack
* Thiruchi Loganathan, 65, Indian playback singer
* Charles Perry Stacey, 82, Canadian historian and university professor
* November 18
* Romano Bilenchi, 80, Italian novelist, short story writer and essayist
* William Wister Haines, 81, American author, screenwriter, and playwright, stroke
* Johnny Haymer, 69, American actor, cancer
* Edvin Laine, 84, Finnish film director and actor
* Sherman Plunkett, 56, American NFL footballer, cancer
* Freddie Waits, 46, American hard bop and post-bop drummer, pneumonia and kidney failure
* November 19
* Grant Adcox, 39, American stockcar driver, racing accident
* Paul Shyre, 63, American director and playwright
* November 20
* Lynn Bari, 69, American film actress, heart attack
* Hirabai Barodekar, 84, Indian Hindustāni classical music singer
* Cyril Bulley, 82, English bishop
* Božidar Jakac, 90, Yugoslavian expressionist, realist and symbolist painter, printmaker, art teacher, photographer and filmmaker
* Leonardo Sciascia, 68, Italian novelist, essayist, playwright, and politician
* Abe Stuber, 86, American footballer and coach
* Rachel Wischnitzer, 104, Russian-born architect and art historian
* November 21
* Edward Bawden, 86, English painter, illustrator and graphic artist
* Peter Burton, 68, English film and television actor
* Heiko Fischer, 29, West German figure skater, chronic myocarditis
* Harvey Hart, 61, Canadian television and film director, and television producer, heart attack
* M. P. Jayaraj, appr. 45, Indian mafia gangster, shot
* November 22
* Paul Alfonsi, 81, American educator, businessman and Republican politician, Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly
* C. C. Beck, 79, American cartoonist and comic book artist, renal ailment
* Robert Berri, 76, French film actor
* Gerry Chiniquy, 77, American animator
* Clement Haynsworth, 77, American Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
* Abdur Rashid Kardar, 85, Indian film actor, director and producer
* Billy Milton, 83, British stage, film and television actor
* René Moawad, 64, Lebanese lawyer and politician, President of Lebanon, assassinated
* Shamil Serikov, 34, Soviet wrestler and Olympic gold medalist, suicide
* November 23
* Jiří Baumruk, 59, Czech basketball player and coach
* Martin Glaessner, 82, Austro-Hungarian born Australian geologist and palaeontologist
* Sidney Janis, 83, American clothing manufacturer and art collector
* Armand Salacrou, 90, French dramatist
* November 24
* Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, 48, Palestinian Sunni Islamic jihadist and theologian, car bomb
* Leonard Boudin, 77, American civil liberties attorney and left-wing activist
* Lawrence A. Hyland, 92, American electrical engineer
* November 25
* Salo Wittmayer Baron, 94, Austrian-born American historian
* George Cakobau, 77, Fijian statesman and athlete, Governor-General of Fiji
* Birago Diop, 82, Senegalese poet and storyteller
* John Kaplan, 59–60, American legal scholar, social scientist, social justice advocate, popular law professor, and author, cancer
* María Colón Sánchez, 62–63, Puerto Rican-born American activist and politician, heart attack
* Frank M. Thomas, 100, American actor of stage, screen and television
* Clifford Thornton, 53, American jazz trumpeter, trombonist, political activist, and educator
* November 26
* Ahmed Abdallah, 70, Comorian politician, President of Comoros, assassinated
* Caroline Durieux, 93, American printmaker, painter, and educator
* Lew Fonseca, 90, American Major Leagues baseballer
* Morrice James, Baron Saint Brides, 73, senior British diplomat, British High Commissioner to Australia, India and Pakistan
* Chand Usmani, 56, Indian actress
* November 27
* Frank Fools Crow, 99, American native religious leader
* Walter Hoving, 91, Swedish-born American businessman and writer
* Carlos Arias Navarro, 80, Spanish politician, Prime Minister of Spain, infarction[38]
* Claudio Teehankee, 71, Filipino Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, cancer
* November 28
* Ernesto Civardi, 83, Italian cardinal
* Francisco José Guerrero, 64, El Salvadoran politician and lawyer, shot
* Gaston F. Lewis, 86, American Negro League baseballer and American football, basketball, track and cross country coach
* Bill Posedel, 83, American Major Leagues baseballer
* Jo Vincent, 91, Dutch soprano
* November 29
* Gubby Allen, 87, Australian-born English cricketer, captain of national team
* Sisto Gillarduzzi, 81, Italian bobsledder and an alpine ski racer
* Yam Kim-fai, 76, Chinese opera actress, pleural effusion
* A. Maruthakasi, 69, Indian poet and film lyricist
* Ion Popescu-Gopo, 66, Romanian graphic artist, animator, writer, film director and actor, heart attack
* Mabel Keaton Staupers, 99, American nursing pioneer
* Ödön Zombori, 83, Hungarian wrestler and Olympic gold medalist, complications from Alzheimer's disease
* November 30
* Ahmadou Ahidjo, 65, Cameroonian politician, Prime Minister and President of Cameroon
* Jim Brazier, 86, British Anglican Assistant Bishop of Uganda
* Hassan Fathy, 89, Egyptian architect
* Bill Harris, 61, Welsh international footballer, strokes
* Alfred Herrhausen, 59, German banker, Chairman of Deutsche Bank, assassinated
* November (unknown date)
* Eugène Proust,68, French footballer and manager

### December[edit]

Main article: Deaths in December 1989

Alvin Ailey Keith Ewart Gerald Carson Frances Bavier John Payne Mykola Livytskyi Stanley Steingut Carlos Almaraz Howard Lang Helen Creighton Andrei Sakharov Edward Underdown Silvana Mangano Josephine Hill Herbert Blaize Irma Beilke Soedjatmoko Samuel Beckett Richard Rado Nicolae Ceaușescu Billy Martin K. Shankar Pillai Pavel Kurochkin Hermann Oberth Gerhard Schröder (CDU)

* December 1
* Alvin Ailey, 58, American dancer and choreographer, AIDS-related illness
* Danilo Atienza, 38, Filipino pilot in the Philippine Air Force, plane crash
* Billy Lyall, 36, Scottish musician, AIDS
* Nikolai Patolichev, 81, Soviet statesman who served as Minister of Foreign Trade of
* Bill Stout, 62, American journalist, cardiac arrest
* December 2
* Karl-Erik Alberts, 78, Swedish cinematographer
* Harland Bartholomew, 100, American civil engineer and urban planner, supporter of racial segregation
* Keith Ewert, 71, Australian politician, Member of the Australian Parliament
* Ruth Mary Reynolds, 73, American educator, political and civil rights activist
* Richard Shannon, 69, American film and television actor
* December 3
* Mario Astorri, 69, Italian football player and coach
* Sourou-Migan Apithy, 76, Beninese politician, President of Dahomey
* Connie B. Gay, 75, American country music musician, cancer
* Fernando Martín, 27, Spanish professional basketballer, car accident
* Alexander Obukhov, 71, Soviet geophysicist and applied mathematician
* Carlo Rim, 86, French film screenwriter, producer and director
* December 4
* Gerald Carson, 90, American advertising executive, social historian and writer
* Elwyn Jones, Baron Elwyn-Jones, 80, Welsh barrister and politician
* Angelo Ruggiero, 49, American member of Gambino crime family, cancer
* May Swenson, 76, American poet and playwright
* December 5
* Edoardo Amaldi, 81, Italian physicist, coined term 'neutrino'
* Sofiya Kalistratova, 82, Soviet public defense lawyer
* Li Keran, 82, Chinese guohua painter and art educator, heart attack
* Tadeusz Miksa, 63, Polish footballer
* John Pritchard, 71, English conductor, lung cancer
* George Selden, 60, American author, gastrointestinal hemorrhage
* December 6
* Frances Bavier, 86, American stage and television actress, congestive heart failure, myocardial infarction, coronary artery disease, and atherosclerosis
* Sammy Fain, 87, American composer, heart attack
* Marc Lépine, 25, Canadian mass murderer, suicide after the murders
* John Payne, 77, American film actor
* Ćamil Sijarić, 75, Yugoslav novelist and short story writer, car crash
* December 7
* William "Haystacks" Calhoun, 55, American professional wrestler
* Phil Dokes, 34, American NFL player
* Hans Hartung, 85, German-French painter
* December 8
* Szymon Datner, 87, Polish historian and Holocaust survivor
* Mykola Livytskyi, 82, Ukrainian politician and journalist, President of Ukraine in Exile
* Stanley Steingut, 69, American politician, Speaker of the New York State Assembly, pneumonia
* December 9
* Brett Austin, 30, New Zealand swimmer and Olympian
* Edward J. Bloustein, 64, American president of Rutgers University
* Basil Hayward, 61, English footballer and manager
* Takeshi Kaikō, 58, Japanese novelist, short-story writer, essayist, literary critic, and television documentary writer, esophageal cancer
* Doug Scovil, 62, American football player and NFL coach, heart attack
* S. Somasundaram, 70, Indian vocalist
* R. G. Springsteen, 85, American director of Hollywood B movies and television shows
* December 10
* Sam Barkas, 79, English international footballer and manager
* George Edmonds, 96, English footballer
* Nico Gardener, 83, British international bridge player
* Robin Hughes, 69, British film and television actor, liver disease
* Steve Sebo, 75, American football and baseball player and coach
* Harold Thomas, 75, Welsh international rugby union and rugby league footballer
* Huang Zhen, 80, Chinese politician and diplomat
* December 11
* Carlos Almaraz, 48, Mexican-American artist, AIDS-related causes
* Lindsay Crosby, 51, American actor and singer, suicide by gunshot
* Louise Dahl-Wolfe, 94, American photographer, pneumonia
* Howard Lang, English actor
* Henry C. Schadeberg, 72, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives
* December 12
* Sid Colin, 74, English scriptwriter
* Helen Creighton, 90, Canadian folklorist
* December 13
* Michele Fanelli, 82, Italian long-distance runner and Olympic marathoner
* Sammy Lerner, 86, Romanian-born songwriter for musical theatre and film, cancer
* Peter de la Mare, 69, New Zealand physical organic chemist
* Stan Randall, 81, Canadian businessman and politician
* December 14
* Lucien Aguettand, 88, French art director and film set designer
* Reuben Bennett, 75, Scottish footballer and manage
* Robert D. Blue, 91, American politician, Governor of Iowa, stroke
* Ants Eskola, 81, Estonian actor, singer and artist
* Gerry Healy, 76, Irish-born British political activist
* Jock Mahoney, 70, American actor and stuntman, stroke following car accident
* Frederick Nolting, 78, American diplomat, United States Ambassador to South Vietnam
* Andrei Sakharov, 68, Soviet physicist and human rights activist, Nobel laureate for Peace, arrhythmia
* Howard Walton, 73, British tennis player
* December 15
* Emile de Antonio, 70, American director and producer of documentary films, heart attack
* Ben Barzman, 79, Canadian journalist, screenwriter, and novelist
* José Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha, 42, Colombian drug lord and criminal, police shootout
* Charles Holland, 81, British road bicycle racer and Olympic medalist
* Philly Lutaaya, 38, Ugandan musician, AIDS
* Arnold Moss, 79, American character actor, lung cancer
* Diptendu Pramanick, 79, Bengali film personality
* Edward Underdown, 81, British stage, film and television actor
* December 16
* Lee van Cleef, 64, American film and television actor, heart attack
* Oscar Alfredo Gálvez, 76, Argentine racing driver, pancreatic cancer
* Charlie Long, 51, American footballer
* Silvana Mangano, 59, Italian film actress, lung cancer
* Aileen Pringle, 94, American stage and silent-screen actress
* John Ramsbotham, 83, Anglican clergyman
* Robert Smith Vance, 58, American circuit judge, assassinated
* Marjorie Westbury, 84, English radio actress and singer
* December 17
* Walt Bachrach, 85, American businessman, lawyer and Republican politician, stroke
* Zeb Eaton, 69, American Major Leagues baseballer
* Josephine Hill, 90, American silent-screen actress
* Asen Panchev, 83, Bulgarian international footballer
* Luciano Salce, 67, Italian film director, comedian, television host, producer, actor and lyricist
* Albert C. Wedemeyer, 93, United States army general
* December 18
* Brad Beckman, 24, American NFL footballer, car accident
* Bobby Capó, 67, Puerto Rican singer and songwriter, heart attack
* George Harvie-Watt, 86, British barrister and politician, British Member of Parliament
* Sydney Irving, 71, British Labour Co-operative politician
* Enar Josefsson, 73, Swedish cross-country skier and Olympic medalist
* Louise Little, early 90s, Grenadian-born American activist
* Jerzy Rutkowski, 75, Polish political activist and resistance soldier
* Stanley Senanayake, 72, Sri Lankan Inspector General of Police
* December 19
* Herbert Blaize, 71, Grenadian politician, Prime Minister of Grenada, prostate cancer
* Abdul Jalil Choudhury, 63–64, Bengali Deobandi Islamic scholar, teacher and politician
* Audrey Christie, 77, American actress, singer and dancer, emphysema
* Barthold Fles, 87, Dutch-American literary agent, author, translator, editor and publisher
* Stella Gibbons, 87, English author, journalist, and poet
* Floyd Jones, 72, American blues singer, guitarist and songwriter
* Preben Mahrt, 69, Danish film actor
* Kirill Mazurov, 75, Soviet politician, Belarusian resistance leader in World War II
* Georges Rouquier, 80, French film director, screenwriter and actor
* December 20
* Irma Beilke, 85, German operatic soprano, concert singer and academic voice teacher
* Kurt Böhme, 81, German bass
* December 21
* Ján Cikker, 78, Czechoslovak composer
* Rotimi Fani-Kayode, 34, Nigerian-born English photographer, heart attack
* Soedjatmoko, 67, Indonesian diplomat and politician, Ambassador to the United States, cardiac arrest
* Ethel Swanbeck, 96, American politician, member of Ohio House of Representatives
* Dwane Wallace, 78, American aviation businessman and aircraft designer
* December 22
* Samuel Beckett, 83, Irish writer, Nobel laureate in Literature
* Howard Bowen, 81, American economist and college president
* Theodore M. Burton, 82, American authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
* Archie Campbell, 86, American Major Leagues baseballer
* Giorgio Cavallon, 85, Italian-born American artist
* Vasile Milea, 62, Romanian military officer and politician, Minister of Defense, suicide
* Gustavo Pizarro, 73, Chilean international footballer
* Massimo Serato, 73, Italian film actor
* December 23
* Jeff Alexander, 79, American conductor, arranger, and composer of film, radio and television scores, cancer
* Milko Gaydarski, 43, Bulgarian international footballer and Olympic medalist
* Shahzad Khalil, 44–45, Pakistani television director and producer, cardiac arrest
* Richard Rado, 83, German-born British mathematician
* December 24
* Ernest Nathan Morial, 60, American politician and civil rights advocate, heart attack
* Florică Murariu, 34, Romanian rugby union player, shot
* Roger Pigaut, 70, French actor and film director
* Ollie Savatsky, 78, American NFL footballer
* December 25
* Benny Binion, 85, American career criminal, heart failure
* Elena Ceaușescu, 73, Romanian communist politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Romania, execution by firing squad
* Nicolae Ceaușescu, 71, Romanian politician, dictator and Communist Party head, President of Romania, execution by firing squad
* Betty Garde, 84, American stage, radio, film and television actress
* Türkan Hanımsultan, 70, Ottoman princess
* Frederick F. Houser, 85, American politician and judge
* Joseph Livingston, 84, American business journalist, economist, columnist, recipient of Pulitzer Prize
* Billy Martin, 61, American Major Leagues baseball player and manager, car crash
* Riccardo Morandi, 87, Italian civil engineer and bridge designer
* Robert Pirosh, 79, American motion picture and television screenwriter and director
* Bo Randall, 80, American knifemaker
* Wally Ris, 65, American swimmer and dual Olympic gold medal winner
* Domenico Scala, 86, Italian cinematographer
* A. J. Seymour, 75, Guyanese poet and essayist, stroke
* December 26
* Lennox Berkeley, 86, English composer
* Doug Harvey, 65, Canadian ice hockey player, cirrhosis of the liver
* James J. Manderino, 57, American politician, speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, heart attack
* Maryon Pearson, 88, wife of Lester B. Pearson, Prime Minister of Canada
* K. Shankar Pillai, 87, Indian cartoonist
* Seán Walsh, 64, Irish politician
* December 27
* Finlay Hart, 87–88, Scottish communist politician
* Gene Johnson, 87, American football and basketball coach
* John Monteath Robertson, 89, Scottish chemist and crystallographer
* Ron Ulmer, 76, New Zealand track cyclist
* George William Weidler, 63, American saxophonist and songwriter
* December 28
* Karl Humenberger, 83, Austrian footballer and manager
* Pavel Kurochkin, 89, Soviet army general
* Ricardo López Méndez, 86, Mexican poet and song lyricist
* Hermann Oberth, 95, Austro-Hungarian-born German engineer and physicist, Nazi supporter
* William Scott, 76, Northern Ireland abstract painter
* December 29
* Scott Burton, 50, American sculptor and performance artist, complications from AIDS
* Saman Piyasiri Fernando, 31, Sri Lankan Leader of Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, assassinated
* Ive Šubic, 67, Yugoslavian painter, graphic artists and illustrator
* December 30
* Øyvind Anker, 85, Norwegian librarian
* Charles H. Blosser, 94, American after whom Blosser Municipal Airport is named
* Etienne Leroux, 67, South African writer
* Esther McCoy, 85, American author and architectural historian
* Yasuji Miyazaki, 73, Japanese swimmer and Olympian
* Madoline Thomas, 99, Welsh character actress
* December 31
* Christia Adair, 96, American suffragist and civil rights worker
* Lilly Daché, 97, French-born American milliner and fashion merchandiser
* Sir Ignatius Kilage, 48, Papua-New Guinea politician, Governor-General of Papua New Guinea
* Mihály Lantos, 61, Hungarian international footballer and manager
* Wendell Mosley, 57, American football player and coach
* Gerhard Schröder, 79, West German politician, Foreign Minister, Minister of Defence
* December (unknown date)
* Yem Sambaur, 76, Cambodian politician, Prime Minister of Cambodia
* Sid Wallington, 81, English footballer

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