User:Braintic/Deaths in 1987

The following is a list of notable deaths in 1987. 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 1987

January

• January 1
  • Velma Abbott, 57, American baseballer in the American Girls Professional Baseball League.
  • Avard Fairbanks, 89, American sculptor.
  • Maurice Mandelbaum, 78, American philosopher and phenomenologist.
• January 2
  • Ramón Castroviejo, 82, Spanish and American eye surgeon noted for his achievements in corneal transplantation.
  • Hazel Daly, 91, American film actress.
  • Lovat Dickson, 84, Canadian publisher and writer.
  • Arthur Gould-Porter, 81, English film, television and stage actor.
  • Jean de Gribaldy, 64, French road cyclist and directeur sportif.
  • Harekrushna Mahatab, 87, Indian politician, leader of the Indian National Congress, Chief Minister of Odisha.
  • Alfred Schindler, 92, American industrialist, acting U.S. Secretary of Commerce.
• January 3
  • Mustafa Bouyali, 46–47, leader of the Algerian Islamic Armed Movement, killed in an ambush.
  • Alex "Big Daddy" Campbell, 55, Scottish folk singer, tuberculosis.
  • Arvind Deshpande, 54, Indian film, theatre and television actor and theatre director.
  • Sunder Lal, appr. 53, Indian independence activist and politician, Member of Parliament.
  • John Bartlow Martin, 71, American diplomat, author, ambassador and speechwriter, U.S. Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, throat cancer.
  • David Maysles, 55, half of American documentary filmmaking team Albert and David Maysles, stroke.
  • William R. Poage, 87, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, heart failure.
  • Franck Sylvain, 77, Haitian politician, acting President of Haiti.
• January 4
  • Peggy Bacon, 91, American artist, known for satirical caricatures.
  • Lauretta Bender, 89, American child neuropsychiatrist, developed the Bender-Gestalt Test.
  • Aubert C. Dunn, 90, American attorney and politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
  • John A. Seitz, 78, American general of the U.S. Army.
• January 5
  • Margaret Laurence, 60, Canadian novelist and short story writer, suicide.
  • Dale Mitchell, 65, American Major League baseballer, heart attack.
  • Helenka Pantaleoni, 86, American silent-screen actress.
  • Herman Smith-Johannsen, 111, Norwegian skier and supercentenarian, pneumonia.
• January 6
  • Taddy Aycock, 71, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana.
  • Daniel Carney, 42, Rhodesian novelist, cancer.
  • Sir Robert Cooke, 56, British politician, Member of Parliament, motor neuron disease.
  • Margaret Danhauser, 65, American baseballer in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
  • Jaidev, 68, Kenyan-born Indian music composer.
  • N. N. Kakkad, 59, Indian poet, cancer.
  • Jack Schwarz, 90, American independent producer of low-budget feature films.
• January 7
  • Martha George, 94, native American tribal leader, chairperson of the Suquamish tribe.
  • Lakshmi, 65, Indian writer.
  • Avner Less, 71, German-born Israeli police officer, interrogated Adolf Eichmann after he was captured.
  • Jackie Mitchell, 73, American female baseballer, struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in succession.
• January 8
  • Wilfrid Jasper Walter Blunt, 85, English art teacher, writer, artist and curator of Watts Gallery.
  • Leo Callaghan, 62, Welsh football referee in the English Football League.
  • Nana Joshi, 60, Indian Test cricketer, liver cancer.
  • Mary Lindell, 91, English woman, front-line nurse in World War I, member of the French Resistance in World War II.
  • Walter R. Mansfield, 75, American judge, Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, stroke.
  • Myron Prinzmetal, 78, American cardiologist.
  • Christian F. Schilt, 91, American general in the U.S. Marine Corps.
  • Phil Seghi, 77, American front-office executive in Major League Baseball, cancer.
• January 9
  • Carl Gunnar Engström, 74, Swedish physician and inventor.
  • Arthur Lake, 81, American actor, heart attack.
  • Jack Lathrop, 73, American vocalist and guitarist.
  • Bill Noël, 72, American oilman, industrialist, banker, philanthropist and civic leader, cancer.
  • Alex B. Novikoff, 73, Russian Empire–born American biologist.
• January 10
  • Steve Casey, 78, Irish sport rower and world champion wrestler.
  • Ian Harvey, 72, British businessman and politician, Member of Parliament.
  • Marion Hutton, 67, American singer and actress, cancer.
  • Dominick Labino, 76, American scientist, inventor, artist and master craftsman in glass.
  • Handsome Ned, 29, Canadian country singer and songwriter, overdose.
  • David Robinson, 82, British entrepreneur and philanthropist.
  • Ferdinand Maria von Senger und Etterlin, 63, German soldier in the Nazi Wehrmacht, general in the post-war Bundeswehr.
• January 11
  • Albert Ferber, 75, Swiss pianist.
  • Hugo Fregonese, 78, Argentine film director and screenwriter, heart attack.
  • Betty von Fürer-Haimendorf, 75–76, British ethnologist in India and Nepal.
  • Jacques Hérold, 76, Romanian surrealist painter.
• January 12
  • Harold Krents, 42, blind American lawyer, author and activist, brain tumour.
  • Ralph Maxwell Lewis, 82, American mystic, Imperator of the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis.
  • Norah Michener, 84–85, Canadian wife of Roland Michener, Governor General of Canada, Alzheimer's disease.
  • Glenn Odekirk, 81, American aerospace engineer.
  • Herbert Tiede, 71, German actor.
• January 13
  • Vladimir Alatortsev, 77, Soviet chess player, author and administrator.
  • Alfred Young Allee, 81, American Texas ranger, sheriff and game warden.
  • Anatoly Efros, 61, Soviet theatre and film director.
  • Charlotte Friend, 65, American virologist, noted for her discovery of the Friend leukemia virus.
  • Matt Hazeltine, American NFL footballer, Lou Gehrig's disease.
  • Igor Ilyinsky, 85, Soviet stage and film actor, director and comedian.
  • Elvira Ríos, 73, Mexican singer and actress, kidney failure and bladder cancer.
  • Tony Sansone, 81, Italian-American bodybuilder and model, colon cancer.
  • Geoffrey Tiarks, 77, British Anglican bishop.
• January 14
  • Warwick Oswald Fairfax, 85, Australian businessman, philanthropist, journalist and playwright.
  • Desmond FitzGerald, 75, Irish architect, designer of original Dublin Airport terminal building.
  • Park Jong-chul, 21, South Korean democracy movement activist, death by torture.
  • Gerald C. MacCallum Jr., 61, American philosopher.
  • Douglas Sirk, 89, German-born film director.
  • Rauli Somerjoki, 39, Finnish rock singer, alcohol-related ailments.
  • Jai Ram Varma, 82, Indian freedom fighter and politician, Member of Parliament.
  • Sam Wagstaff, 65, American art curator and collector, pneumonia arising from AIDS.
• January 15
  • Carl-Fredrik Algernon, 61, Swedish Navy officer, hit by train.
  • Harald Bode, 77, German engineer, pioneer in the development of electronic musical instruments.
  • Ray Bolger, 83, American actor, singer and dancer, the Scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz, bladder cancer.
  • Rudolf Carl, 87, Austrian actor.
  • José Antonio Gallardo, 25, Spanish footballer, complications from an injury during a game.
  • Dolores Hawkins, 57, American rhythm and blues singer.
  • John Alexander Fraser Roberts, 87, Welsh geneticist and psychiatrist.
  • Heather Thatcher, 90, English actress in theatre and films.
  • Philip Young, 76, American government official and diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands.
• January 16
  • Achankunju, 56, Indian actor.
  • Arthur Drexler, 61, American museum curator and director of the Museum of Modern Art.
  • Joyce Jameson, 59, American television actress, suicide.
  • Lita McClinton, 35, American socialite and murder victim.
  • Colin Scrimgeour, 83, New Zealand Methodist Minister and broadcaster.
  • V. Viswanathan, 77, Indian ICS officer, Governor of Kerala, Lieutenant Governor of Himachal Pradesh.
  • Bertram Wainer, 58, Australian doctor, campaigned for legal access to abortion in Victoria, heart attack.
  • Earl Wilson, 79, American journalist, gossip columnist and author, stroke.
• January 17
  • Aram Avakian, 60, American film editor and director.
  • Harry Darby, 91, American politician, U.S. Senator.
  • Dudjom Jigdral Yeshe Dorje, 82, Tibetan Buddhist leader.
  • Lawrence Kohlberg, 59, American psychologist, suicide.
  • Jozo Penava, 77, Bosnian-Herzegovinian music producer, composer, arranger, musician and vocalist.
  • Fazil Rahu, 52–53, Pakistani political leader, assassinated.
  • Gu Zhutong, 94, Chinese military general, Chief of the General Staff of the Republic of China Armed Forces.
• January 18
  • Sergio Blažić, 35, Croatian hard rock musician, Hodgkin's disease.
  • Esmail Daghayeghi, 32–33, Iranian military commander, hit by missile.
  • Renato Guttuso, 75, Italian painter and politician, member of the Senate, lung cancer.
  • Helen Block Lewis, 73, American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, cancer.
  • Lauro Salas, 58, Mexican lightweight boxer and world champion.
  • George Thalben-Ball, 90, Australian-born English organist and composer.
• January 19
  • Gerald Brenan, 92, Maltese-born writer of British decent who lived mostly in Spain.
  • Harry Keller, 73, American film editor, producer and director.
  • Ira C. Kepford, 67, American pilot with the U.S. Navy, flying ace in World War II.
  • Dick Milford, 91, English clergyman, educator and philanthropist.
  • George Selkirk, 79, Canadian Major League baseballer.
  • Hermann Voss, 92, German anatomist, unpunished war criminal.
• January 20
  • Tom Dollery, 72, English Test cricketer.
  • Annie Fox, 93, Canadian-born American, first woman to receive the Purple Heart for combat.
  • Hermann Giesler, 88, Nazi German architect.
  • Charles Pasquale Greco, 92, American Roman Catholic Church bishop.
  • Donald W. MacKinnon, 84, American psychologist and University of California professor.
  • Thomas "Ta" Power, 33, Irish leading member of the Irish Republican Socialist Party and Irish National Liberation Army, shot.
  • James L. Richardson, 77, American lieutenant general in the U.S. Army.
  • Periyasaamy Thooran, 78, Indian Tamil poet, teacher and composer of Carnatic music.
• January 21
  • Jenny Aubry, 83, French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
  • Nina Byron, 86, New Zealand-born American silent-screen actress and showgirl.
  • Victor Goddard, 89, British senior commander in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.
  • Charles Goodell, 60, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives and Senate, heart attack.
  • Ikki Kajiwara, 50, Japanese author, manga writer and film producer.
• January 22
  • Barbro Alving, 78, Swedish journalist, writer, pacifist and feminist.
  • Ann Parker Bowles, 68, British aristocrat and Girl Guides leader, mother of Queen Camilla.
  • R. Budd Dwyer, 47, American politician, suicide.
  • Stan Keon, 71, Australian politician, member of the Federal House of Representatives.
  • Patrick du Val, 83, British mathematician.
• January 23
  • Ben-Zion, 89, Russian-born American painter, printmaker, sculptor, educator and poet.
  • E. Nelson Bridwell, 55, American writer for Mad magazine, lung cancer.
  • Sergei Chernikov, 74, Russian mathematician.
  • Asim Ferhatović, 53, Yugoslav international footballer, heart attack.
  • Gregor Strniša, 56, Slovenian poet, playwright and songwriter.
• January 24
  • Norman Dodd, 87, American banker and bank manager, chief investigator in 1953 for the Special Committee on Tax Exempt Foundations.
  • Tetsuji Murakami, 59, Japanese karate representative to Europe.
  • Clara Thalmann, 78, Swiss journalist, athlete and militia woman who fought during the Spanish Civil War.
• January 25
  • William Devlin, 75, Scottish film and television actor.
  • Julian Hoke Harris, 80, American artist.
  • Emil Hlobil, 85, Czech composer and music professor.
  • Henry Krips, 74, Austrian-Australian conductor and composer.
  • Nahuel Moreno, 62, Argentinian Trotskyist leader.
  • Mihrişah Sultan, 70, Ottoman princess, daughter of heir to the throne Şehzade Yusuf Izzeddin.
  • Piero Vida, 48, Italian film actor.
• January 26
  • Adolf Ciborowski, 67, Polish architect, urban planner and politician.
  • Mollie Maureen, 82, Irish actress.
  • Charles Wolcott, 80, American music composer.
• January 27
  • Allan V. Cox, 60, American geophysicist, suicide.
  • Allison Danzig, 88, American sportswriter.
  • Geoffrey Charles Evans, 86, English lieutenant general in the British Army.
  • Samuel G. Fuqua, 87, American rear admiral of the U.S. Navy.
  • Antanas Maceina, 79, Lithuanian philosopher, educator, theologian and poet.
  • Norman McLaren, 72, Scottish Canadian animator and director.
  • Ralph G. Neppel, 63, American doldier in the U.S. Army.
  • Richard Sapir, 50, American author, best known for The Destroyer series of novels, heart attack.
• January 28
  • Gangadhar V. Chittal, 63, Indian Kannada poet, Parkinson's disease.
  • George Dow, 79, British employee of the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) and British Railways and author.
  • Ralph Faulkner, 95, American fencer, film actor and Olympian.
  • Galo Plaza, 80, Ecuadorian statesman, President of Ecuador, heart attack.
  • Valerian Trifa, 72, Romanian Orthodox cleric and fascist political activist, heart attack.
• January 29
  • Carlo Cassola, 69, Italian novelist and essayist.
  • Emvin Cremona, 67, Maltese artist and stamp designer.
  • Mounir Abou Fadel, 74, Lebanese politician, Deputy Speaker of the Parliament of Lebanon.
  • Josep Vicenç Foix, 94, Spanish Catalan poet, writer and essayist.
  • Vincent R. Impellitteri, 86, Italian-American politician and judge, Mayor of New York City, Parkinson's disease.
  • Gerhard Klopfer, 81, German Nazi Party official, assistant to Martin Bormann in the Office of the Party Chancellery.
  • Princess Pilar of Bavaria, 95, German Royal, only daughter of Prince Ludwig Ferdinand of Bavaria.
  • Eva Primrose, 94, English daughter of Henry Bruce, 2nd Baron Aberdare.
• January 30
  • Dionysios Arbouzis, appr. 74, Greek Hellenic Army general.
  • Johnnie Cradock, 82, English cook, writer and broadcaster.
  • Ken Drake, 65, American film and television actor.
  • Harold Loeffelmacher, 81, American musician and bandleader.
  • Ante Topić Mimara, 88, Croatian art collector.
  • Héctor Varela, 73, Argentinian tango bandoneónist, bandleader and composer.
• January 31
  • Yves Allégret, 81, French film director.
  • Julian Antonisz, 55, Polish filmmaker, artist, film animator, screenwriter, composer and inventor.
  • Idris Barzani, 42–43, Kurdish politician, heart attack.
  • Edmund J. Pendleton, 87, American composer and musician.
• January (date unknown)
  • Delano Ames, 80–81, American writer of detective stories.
  • Pierre Chapo, 59, French furniture designer and craftsman, Lou Gehrig's disease.
  • Don Levy, 54–55, Australian-born artist and filmmaker, suicide.
  • Atholl Oakeley, 86, British wrestler and wrestling promoter.
  • Saul Tepper, 87, American illustrator and songwriter.

February

• February 1
  • Alessandro Blasetti, 86, Italian film director and screenwriter.
  • Christian Broda, 70, Austrian lawyer and politician, Minister of Justice.
  • Sala Burton, 61, Polish-born American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, colon cancer.
  • Salvadora Debayle, 91, First Lady of Nicaragua.
  • Gustav Knuth, 85, German film actor.
  • Lee Aubrey "Speed" Riggs, 79, American tobacco auctioneer, voice of Lucky Strike cigarettes, congestive heart failure.
• February 2
  • Carlos José Castilho, 59, Brazilian international footballer, suicide.
  • Walter Clutterbuck, 92, English Major General in the British Army.
  • Yakov Estrin, 63, Soviet chess player, ICCF World Champion.
  • Spike Hughes, 78, British musician, composer and arranger.
  • Alfred Lion, 78, German-born American record executive, co-founded jazz record label Blue Note, heart failure.
  • Olive Little, 69, American baseballer in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
  • Alistair MacLean, 64, Scottish novelist of thrillers and adventure stories, heart failure.
  • Edna Manley, 86, Jamaican artist.
  • David du Plessis, 81, South African-born American Pentecostal minister.
  • Ken Reid, 67, British comic artist and writer, co-creator of Roger the Dodger, stroke.
• February 3
  • Donald Aronow, 59, American speedboat designer, builder and racer, murdered.
  • Theodore Cogswell, 68, American science fiction author.
  • Nobuhito, Prince Takamatsu, 82, younger brother of Japanese Emperor Hirohito, lung cancer.
  • George Derwent Thomson, 83–84, British classical scholar, Marxist philosopher and scholar of the Irish language.
• February 4
  • Bruce Jacobi, 51, American race car driver, head injuries from racing accident.
  • Meena Keshwar Kamal, 30, Afghan revolutionary political and women's rights activist, assassinated.
  • Liberace, 67, American pianist, singer and actor, pneumonia as a complication of AIDS.
  • Fyfe Robertson, 84, Scottish television journalist and broadcaster.
  • Carl Rogers, 85, American psychologist, heart attack as a result of a fall.
  • Wynford Vaughan-Thomas, 78, Welsh newspaper journalist and radio and television broadcaster.
  • Patrick Waddington, 85, English actor.
  • George W. Woodruff, 91, American engineer, businessman and philanthropist.
• February 5
  • E. Michael Burke, 70, American officer of the U.S. Navy, O.S.S. and C.I.A., general manager of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, president of the New York Yankees and New York Knicks.
  • William Collier Jr., 84, American stage performer, producer and film actor.
  • Klāvs Elsbergs, 28, Latvian poet and translator, accident.
  • David Ensor, 80, British lawyer, actor, author and politician, Member of Parliament.
  • Armando Fosco, 64, leader of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.
  • Gustav Lechner, 73, Austro-Hungarian–born Yugoslavian international footballer.
  • Otto Wöhler, 92, German general, convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
• February 6
  • Lalithambika Antharjanam, 77, Indian author and social reformer.
  • Julien Chouinard, 58, Canadian lawyer, civil servant and Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, brain cancer.
  • Donald MacCrimmon MacKay, 64, British physicist and professor.
  • K. C. Nag, 93, Indian Bengali mathematician and author of mathematics textbooks.
• February 7
  • John Leypoldt, 40, American NFL footballer, dysentery.
  • Bennetto Payne, 77, Mexican professional boxer.
  • Stuart T. Saunders, 77, American railroad executive, heart failure.
  • Claudio Villa, 61, Italian singer and actor, heart attack.
  • Adriaan van Wijngaarden, 70, Dutch mathematician and computer scientist.
• February 8
  • Tony Destra, 32, American drummer, car accident.
  • Hendrik Koekoek, 74, Dutch farmer, politician and founder of the defunct Farmers' Party.
  • Elsie Lee, 75, American author of fiction and non-fiction.
  • Harriet MacGibbon, 81, American film, stage and television actress.
  • Max Seydewitz, 94, German politician, Minister-President of Saxony.
  • Bronisława Wajs, 78, Polish-Romani classic poet and singer.
• February 9
  • Larry French, 79, American Major League baseballer.
  • Louis Plack Hammett, 92, American physical chemist.
• February 10
  • Angela Giussani, 64, co-writer of comic book anti-hero series, Diabolik.
  • Robert O'Brien, 78, American racing driver.
  • William Rose, 68, American screenwriter of British and Hollywood films.
  • Hans Rosenthal, 61, German radio editor, director, and radio and television host.
  • Sadequain, 56, Pakistani artist and poet.
  • John Raymond Ylitalo, 70, American diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Paraguay, cancer.
• February 11
  • Mark Ashton, 26, Irish gay rights activist, pneumonia as a complication of AIDS.
  • Edith Gyömrői Ludowyk, 90, Hungarian-born psychotherapist, poet and communist militant.
  • Andy Linden, 64, American race car driver.
  • John Malachi, 67, American jazz pianist.
  • Bill McGee, 77, American Major League baseballer.
• February 12
  • Jules Bergman, 57, American broadcast writer and journalist.
  • Lang Jeffries, 56, Canadian-American television and film actor, cancer.
  • Dennis Poore, 70, British entrepreneur, financier and racing driver.
• February 13
  • M. Bhaktavatsalam, 89, Indian independence activist and politician, Chief Minister of Madras State.
  • Dorothy Dean, 54, American writer and actress, cancer.
  • Dhumal, 72, Indian actor in Bollywood films, heart attack.
  • Curly Page, 84, New Zealand Test cricketer and international rugby union player.
• February 14
  • Rolf Dahlgren, 54, Swedish-Danish botanist and professor.
  • Kulada Charan Das Gupta, 87, Indian judge of the Supreme Court of India.
  • Wendy Holcombe, 23, American banjo player and singer, congenital heart defect.
  • Dmitry Kabalevsky, 82, Soviet composer, conductor and pianist.
  • Karolos Koun, 78, Greek theater director, heart attack.
  • Tsai Lan-chin, 22, Taiwanese singer and songwriter, heart attack.
  • Bola Sete, 63, Brazilian jazz guitarist, pneumonia and lung cancer.
• February 15
  • Jimmy Holiday, 52, American R&B singer and songwriter, heart failure.
  • John Myhill, 63, British mathematician.
• February 16
  • Norman Crowther Hunt, Baron Crowther-Hunt, 66, British scholar politician, Minister of State, heart attack.
• February 17
  • Leo Anchóriz, 54, Spanish actor and writer, cardiac disease.
  • T. M. Chummar, 87, Indian academic and writer of Malayalam literature.
  • Hal K. Dawson, 90, American actor.
  • Hubert Howard, 79, English intelligence officer.
  • Frank Kurtis, 79, American racing car designer.
  • Diederick Charles Mathew, 58, Aruban politician and teacher, deputy commissioner for Aruba.
  • Husayn Muruwwa, appr. 77, Lebanese Marxist philosopher, journalist, author and literary critic, assassinated.
  • Romola Remus, 86, American actress.
  • Verree Teasdale, 83, American actress.
• February 18
  • William Coldstream, 78, English realist painter and art teacher.
  • Bryce Harlow, 70, American congressional staff member, army officer, advisor to U.S. presidents and corporate lobbyist.
  • Boris Kowerda, 79, Soviet White émigré, monarchist, editor and convicted murderer, Soviet ambassador to Poland.
• February 19
  • Hugh Greene, 76, British television executive and journalist, director-general of the BBC, cancer.
  • Henry-Russell Hitchcock, 83, American architectural historian and professor, cancer.
  • Robert E. Kuttner, 59, American biologist and white supremacist.
  • Kirsten Walther, 53, Danish actress, heart failure.
• February 20
  • Wayne Boring, 81, American comic book artist, known for his work on Superman, heart attack.
  • Caesar Gatimu, 65, Kenyan Roman Catholic Bishop of Nyeri.
  • Edgar P. Jacobs, 82, Belgian comic book creator.
  • Joseph Parecattil, 74, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Ernakulam.
  • Lev Russov, 61, Soviet painter, graphic artist and sculptor, heart disease.
  • AKM Samsuzzoha, appr. 62, Bangladeshi politician, member of parliament.
  • C. C. Wei, 72, Chinese-born American businessman, created the Precision Club bidding system in contract bridge, complications from diabetes.
  • Willi Welscher, 80, German hurdler and Olympian.
• February 21
  • William T. Fairbourn, 72, American Major General of the U.S. Marine Corps.
  • Petro Grigorenko, 79, Ukrainian-born Major General in the Soviet Army, founder of human rights movement in the Soviet Union.
  • Helen Taft Manning, 95, American professor of history and college dean, daughter or President William Taft, pneumonia.
  • Noel Odell, 96, English geologist and mountaineer.
  • George Tibbles, 73, American composer and screenwriter.
  • Meir Ya'ari, 89, Israeli politician, educator and social activist.
• February 22
  • Naomi Drake, 80, American Registrar of the Bureau of Vital Statistics for New Orleans.
  • Habib Painter, 72, Indian Qawwal and a folk singer.
  • John Paul Scott, 60, American criminal, only escapee from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary to have reached San Francisco shore by swimming.
  • David Susskind, 66, American producer of TV, movies and stage plays, TV talk show host, heart attack.
  • Andy Warhol, 58, American artist, director and writer, sudden post-operative irregular heartbeat.
  • Glenway Wescott, 85, American poet and novelist, stroke.
• February 23
  • José Afonso, 57, Portuguese singer-songwriter, teacher and activist, sclerosis.
  • Cyril Butcher, 77, English actor and director.
  • John Counsell, 81, English actor, director and theatre manager.
  • Jack Heinz, 78, American business executive and CEO of the H. J. Heinz Company, cancer.
  • Esmond Knight, 80, English actor, heart attack.
  • Edward Lansdale, 79, American Major General of the U.S. Air Force, heart ailment.
  • George Musulin, 72, Serbian-American army officer of the OSS, CIA operative, complications of diabetes.
  • Polly Ward, 74, British singer and actress.
• February 24
  • Kakai Kilonzo, 32–33, Kenyan musician.
  • Edwin McArthur, 79, American classical music conductor, pianist and accompanist.
• February 25
  • William G. Barr, 67, American businessman and politician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives.
  • S. H. Bihari, 66, Indian lyricist, songwriter and poet.
  • James Coco, 56, American stage and screen actor, heart attack.
  • John Collin, 58, British actor.
  • Arthur A. Collins, 77, American radio engineer and entrepreneur.
  • Jess Larson, 82, American lawyer who served as the first Administrator of General Services.
  • E. D. Nixon, 87, American civil rights leader and union organizer.
  • Krishna Chandra Panigrahi, 77, Indian historian and archaeologist.
• February 26
  • Knut Frydenlund, 59, Norwegian diplomat and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs, cerebral hemorrhage.
  • Audrey Marie Hilley, 53, American murderer and suspected serial killer, hypothermia and exposure.
  • Fredric R. Mann, 83, American industrialist and patron of the arts, U.S. Ambassador to Barbados, cancer.
  • Paul Taunton Matthews, 67, British theoretical physicist, cycling accident.
• February 27
  • Franciszek Blachnicki, 65, Polish priest, poisoning.
  • Jose W. Diokno, 65, Filipino nationalist, lawyer and statesman, Senator of the Philippines.
  • Bill Holman, 83, American cartoonist (Smokey Stover).
  • Fumio Kamei, 78, Japanese documentary and fiction film director.
  • Latif-ur Rehman, 58, Indian and Pakistani hockey player and Olympic gold medalist.
  • Colvin R. de Silva, 81–82, Sri Lankan politician, Minister of Plantation Industries.
• February 28
  • Nasim Amrohvi, 78, Pakistani Urdu poet, philosopher and lexicographer.
  • Frederic G. Donner, 84, American chairman and CEO of the General Motors Corporation.
  • Joan Greenwood, 65, English actress, acute bronchitis and asthma.
  • Nora Kaye, 67, American prima-ballerina, cancer.
  • William F. McKee, 80, American General in the U.S. Air Force, Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration.
  • Anny Ondra, 83, Czechoslovakian film actress.
  • Stephen Tennant, 80, British socialite.
• February (date unknown)
  • Clifford Bias, 76–77, American alleged psychic.
  • Raquel Martínez, 78, Chilean sprinter and Olympian.
  • Adi Pherozeshah Marzban, 72, Indian Gujarati Parsi playwright, actor, director and broadcaster, lung cancer.
  • Clare Rendlesham, 67, British fashion editor and boutique manager.

March

• March 1
  • Freddie Green, 75, American swing jazz guitarist, heart attack.
  • Bertrand de Jouvenel, 83, French philosopher and political economist.
  • Don MacBeth, 37, Canadian jockey, cancer.
  • Vern Partlow, 76, American newspaper reporter and folk singer, blacklisted during the McCarthy era, cancer.
  • Wolfgang Seidel, 60, German Formula 1 racing driver, heart attack.
• March 2
  • Randolph Scott, 89, American film actor, heart and lung ailments.
  • Lolo Soetoro, 52, Indonesian geographer, stepfather of Barack Obama, liver failure.
• March 3
  • Danny Kaye, 76, American singer, actor, dancer and comedian, complications of heart failure, internal bleeding, and hepatitis C.
  • Cyril Pearl, 82, Australian journalist, author and television personality.
  • Rafael M. Salas, 58, Filipino head of the United Nations Population Fund, heart attack.
  • Hana Vítová, 73, Czechoslovakian film actress.
• March 4
  • Georges Arnaud, 69, French author, heart attack.
  • Maria Jolas, 94, American pacifist, one of the founding members of transition in Paris.
  • Seibo Kitamura, 102, Japanese sculptor.
  • Eliseo Moreno, 27, American spree killer, executed.
• March 5
  • James W. Blanchard, 83, American submarine commander during the Pacific War and rear admiral on his retirement.
  • John Brooke, 64, Northern Irish politician, Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland.
  • Albert Costain, 76, British politician, Member of Parliament.
  • Abdulgani Dahiwala, 78, Indian Gujarati poet.
  • Harry Dudkin, 78, American politician and judge, Clerk of the New Jersey General Assembly, murdered.
  • Andrey A. Fedorov, 78, Soviet biologist, botanist and taxonomist.
  • Joe Purcell, 63, American politician, acting Governor of Arkansas.
  • Don Yenko, 59, American car dealer and racecar driver, aeroplane crash.
• March 6
  • Inder Raj Anand, Indian film dialogue and screenwriter.
  • Mel Boozer, 41, American university professor and activist for African American, LGBT and HIV/AIDS issues, AIDS.
  • Edward Carson, 67, British politician, Member of Parliament.
  • Eddie Durham, 80, American jazz guitarist, trombonist, composer and arranger.
  • J. Spencer Trimingham, 82, English scholar on Islam in Africa.
  • Edward Zorinsky, 58, American politician, U.S. Senator, heart attack.
• March 7
  • Yuri Chulyukin, 57, Soviet film director, screenwriter, actor and songwriter.
  • Henri Decaë, 71, French cinematographer.
  • Evelyn Dove, 85, British singer and actress, pneumonia.
  • Paul R. Evans, 55, American-born furniture designer, sculptor and artist, heart attack.
  • Waldo Salt, 72, American screenwriter.
• March 8
  • Erwin Jollasse, 95, German Wehrmacht general, recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.
  • Iwao Yamawaki, 88, Japanese photographer and architect.
• March 9
  • Zeke Bonura, 78, American Major League baseballer.
  • Ronald W. Clark, 70, British author of biography, fiction and non-fiction, stroke.
  • Donald Jay Grout, 84, American musicologist, author of "A Short History of Opera".
  • Allan Jaffe, 51, American jazz tubist.
  • Andrew Kayiira, 42, leader of the Uganda Freedom Movement, shot.
  • Yusuf al-Khal, 69, Lebanese-Syrian poet, journalist and publisher.
  • Richard F. Kneip, 54, American diplomat and politician, governor of South Dakota, U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Singapore, cancer.
  • Bobby Locke, 69, South African professional golfer.
  • Fred W. Thompson, 86, Canadian-American labour organizer and historian.
  • Arthur Tolcher, 64, British harmonica player.
• March 10
  • Dwight W. Burney, 95, American politician, Governor of Nebraska.
  • Robert Colby, 64, American songwriter, music publisher and theatrical producer.
  • George Glamack, 68, American professional basketballer.
  • Jeannette Mirsky, 83, American writer.
  • Daniel Morgan, 37, British private investigator, victim of unsolved murder.
  • Johannes Quasten, 86, German Roman Catholic theologian.
• March 11
  • Joe Gladwin, 81, English actor, bronco-pneumonia complications.
• March 12
  • Woody Hayes, 74, American college football coach, heart attack.
  • Micheline Kahn, 97, French harpist and pianist.
  • Richard Levinson, 52, American screenwriter and producer, heart attack.
  • Jack Marks, 92, English performer and screenwriter, lung cancer.
• March 13
  • Edward Peck Curtis, 90, American World War I flying ace, reaching rank of Major General in the United States Army Air Service, pneumonia.
  • Hafizur Rahman Wasif Dehlavi, 77, Indian Muslim scholar, jurist, literary critic and poet.
  • Bernhard Grzimek, 77, German zoo director, zoologist, author and animal conservationist.
  • Peter Henrici, 63, Swiss mathematician.
  • David Lewis, 83, American Hollywood film producer.
  • Gerald Moore, 87, English classical pianist.
  • Hugh Roberton, 86, Australian politician, Minister for Social Services, Australian Ambassador to Ireland.
  • Fela Sowande, 81, Nigerian-born musician and composer.
• March 14
  • Peter Beter, 65, American attorney and financier.
  • Tex Fletcher, 77, American singing cowboy, Broadway and movie actor, night club performer, and radio and television personality.
  • Rushdi al-Kikhya, 87–88, Syrian political leader, Speaker of the Parliament of Syria.
  • Ivor Preece, 66, English international rugby union footballer.
  • Ali Muhammad Rashidi, 81, Pakistani writer, journalist, politician, parliamentarian and diplomat, Pakistan Ambassador to the Philippines.
  • Gerard Steenson, appr. 29, Irish republican paramilitary combatant, leader of Irish People's Liberation Organization, ambushed and killed.
  • Ian MacAlister Stewart, 91, Scottish military officer, brigadier in the British Army.
• March 15
  • Douglas Abbott, 87, Canadian Member of Parliament and justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.
  • W. Sterling Cole, 82, American politician and lawyer, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, member of U.S. House of Representatives.
  • Red Dutton, 89, Canadian NHL ice hockey player, coach and executive.
  • Léon Fleuriot, 64, French linguist and Celtic scholar.
  • Don Gant, 44, American singer, songwriter and record producer, boating accident.
• March 16
  • Bob Kline, 77, American Major League baseballer.
  • Vivian Martin, 93, American stage and silent-screen actress.
  • Scott McKay, 71, American film, television and theatre actor, kidney failure.
  • Juan Gómez Millas, 86, Chilean fascist politician and educator.
  • Allan Perry-Keene, 88, English officer in the Royal Air Force, Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Pakistan Air Force.
  • Joseph E. Schaefer, 68, American soldier in the U.S. Army, recipient of the Medal of Honor for his actions in World War II.
  • Samuel H. Shapiro, 79, American politician, Governor of Illinois.
  • Johan Otto von Spreckelsen, 57, Danish architect, designed the Grande Arche near Paris.
• March 17
  • Tom Cothran, 39, American musicologist and composer, AIDS.
  • Georg Lammers, 81, German sprinter and Olympic medalist.
  • Antonio Lopez, 44, Puerto Rican fashion illustrator, complication of AIDS.
  • Ron Saggers, 69, Australian Test cricketer.
  • Derief Taylor, 76, Jamaican first-class cricketer and coach.
  • Salvatore Toma, 35, Italian poet, suicide.
  • Santo Trafficante Jr., 72, American Mafia boss, allied with Sam Giancana.
• March 18
  • Milorad Arsenijević, 80, Yugoslavian footballer and manager, and Olympian.
  • Bil Baird, 82, American puppeteer, pneumonia and cancer.
  • Claude I. Bakewell, 74, American lawyer, member of U.S. House of Representatives.
  • Lewis Bandt, 77, Australian car designer, designed and built the first utes, car accident.
  • Elizabeth Poston, 81, English composer, pianist and writer.
• March 19
  • Punaloor Balan, 60, Indian writer and a poet.
  • Louis de Broglie, 94, French physicist contributing to quantum theory and Nobel laureate in Physics.
  • Robert-Jean Longuet, 85, French lawyer, journalist and militant socialist.
  • Juan Mascaró, 89, Spanish translator.
  • Ruth Meiers, 61, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota.
  • Emile Meyer, 76, American actor.
  • Arch Oboler, 79, American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, producer and director.
  • Harold Rosenthal, 69, English music critic, writer, lecturer, and broadcaster about opera.
  • Tony Stratton Smith, 53, English rock music manager, founded record label Charisma Records, pancreatic cancer.
• March 20
  • Warren G. Brown, 66, American rodeo cowboy, prostate cancer.
  • Licio Giorgieri, 61, Italian air force general, murdered.
  • Norman Harris, 39, American guitarist, producer, music arranger and songwriter, cardiovascular disease.
  • Russell Ohl, 89, American scientist, generally recognised for patenting the modern solar cell.
  • Rita Streich, 66, German opera singer.
  • Kenneth Threadgill, 77, American country singer and tavern owner, pulmonary embolism.
  • Harry Windsor, 72, Irish-born Australian cardiac surgeon.
• March 21
  • Walter L. Gordon, 81, Canadian accountant, businessman, politician and writer.
  • Dean Paul Martin, 35, American pop singer and film and television actor, air crash.
  • Robert Preston, 68, American stage and film actor and singer, lung cancer.
  • Jacob Taubes, 64, Austrian sociologist of religion, philosopher and scholar of Judaism.
• March 22
  • Louis M. Hacker, 88, American economic historian, professor of economics.
  • Charlie Jarzombek, 44, American race car driver, racing accident..
  • Bill McGuffie, 59, British pianist, film composer and conductor, cancer.
  • Joan Shawlee, 61, American film and television actress, breast cancer.
• March 23
  • Emilio Giuseppe Dossena, 83, Italian painter.
  • Maurice Dunand, 89, French archaeologist specializing in the ancient Near East.
  • Walter Walford Johnson, 82, American businessman and politician, governor of Colorado.
  • Edward Lamb, 85, American businessman, broadcasting executive and labour lawyer.
  • Reg Lye, 74, Australian actor.
  • John Mariucci, 70, American ice hockey player, administrator and coach.
  • Morton Minsky, 85, American burlesque owner, co-owner of Minsky's Burlesque, cancer.
  • Tony Pacheco, 59, Cuban-born baseballer and Major League coach.
  • Herald F. Stout, 83, American admiral in the U.S. Navy.
  • Ilse Totzke, 73, German musician, survivor of the Ravensbrück concentration camp.
• March 24
  • Vicente Calderón, 73, Spanish businessman, president of Atlético Madrid.
  • Alan Gale, 56, Australian rules footballer and commentator, heart attack.
  • Takeru Higuchi, 69, American chemist, "the father of physical pharmacy", invented the time-release medication capsule.
  • Sarah Goddard Power, 51, American political activist, suicide.
• March 25
  • Carolin Babcock, 74, American tennis player, U.S. Open doubles champion, stroke.
  • Gusta Fučíková, 83, Czechoslovakian publicist, editor and politician.
  • Ivan Ivanov-Vano, 87, Soviet animator and screenwriter.
  • John Kloss, 49, American fashion designer, known for lingerie and sleepwear, suicide.
  • Henry Richardson Labouisse Jr., 83, American diplomat and statesman, Executive Director of UNICEF, U.S. Ambassador to Greece.
  • Moustache, 58, French actor and jazz drummer, car accident.
• March 26
  • Walter Abel, 88, American stage, film and radio actor, myocardial infarction.
  • Henrieta Delavrancea, 89, Romanian architect.
  • Ohene Djan, 63, Ghanaian sports administrator and politician, member of the Legislative Assembly.
  • Robert Gwyn Macfarlane, 79, English hematologist.
  • Georg Muche, 91, German painter, printmaker, architect, author and teacher.
  • Eugen Jochum, 84, German conductor.
  • Mary Odette, 85, French-born silent-screen actress.
  • Michael Stancliffe, 70, English Anglican priest, Dean of Winchester.
• March 27
  • Giuseppe Ambrosoli, 63, Italian Catholic priest, renal failure.
  • Rudolph Anders, 91, German-born American actor.
  • William Bowers, 71, American reporter, playwright and screenwriter.
  • Tim Lee Carter, 76, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives.
  • Erich Clar, 84, Austrian organic chemist.
  • Olha Franko, 90, Ukrainian writer, creator of the first Ukrainian cookbook.
  • Luis Chávez y González, 85, El Salvadoran Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of San Salvador.
  • Lloyd Goodrich, 89, American art historian, cancer.
  • Stane Kavčič, 67, Prime Minister of Slovenia.
  • Tonny Koeswoyo, 51, Indonesian rock musician and leader of the the group Koes Plus.
  • Peter Mason, 65, English-born Australian physicist, educator and science communicator.
  • Hans-Georg von der Osten, 91, German World War I flying ace and commander of all Luftwaffe bases in Germany in World War II.
  • Martin Provensen, 70, American illustrator, heart attack.
• March 28
  • Horace M. Albright, 97, American conservationist, director of the National Park Service.
  • Alphonse Alley, 56, Beninese military officer, President of Dahomey (Benin).
  • Oliver K. Kelley, 82, Finnish-born American engineer involved in developing the automatic transmission.
  • Lê Văn Kim, 68–69, South Vietnamese army general.
  • Maria von Trapp, 82, Austrian matriarch of the Trapp family, heart failure.
  • Patrick Troughton, 67, English actor, known for playing Doctor Who, heart attack.
• March 29
  • Richard Aaron, 85, Welsh philosopher.
  • Lawrence Anini, appr. 26, Nigerian bandit, executed.
  • Jakob Nacken, 81, German-born American circus performer.
  • Akaki Shanidze, 100, Georgian linguist and philologist.
  • John Wiley, 60, South African first-class cricketer and politician, Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, suicide.
  • Richard Wilson, 66, American science fiction writer.
• March 30
  • Pyotr Gusev, 82, Russian ballet dancer, teacher and choreographer.
  • Veniamin Levich, 69, Soviet dissident, physical chemist and electro-chemist.
  • Clint Murchison Jr., 63, American businessman and founder of the Dallas Cowboys football team, pneumonia.
  • Giorgio Pini, 88, Italian politician and journalist.
  • Dorothy Ward, 96, English actress.
  • Lynn Townsend White Jr., 79, American historian.
• March 31
  • David Adler, 51, American physicist and MIT professor.
  • Unicorn Chan, 46–47, Hong Kong actor, martial artist and stuntman, car crash.
  • Ram Panjwani, 75, Indian writer and folk singer.
• March (date unknown)
  • Arthur Holland, 70, English football referee.
  • Lesley Osmond, 65, British actress.

April

• April 1
  • Henri Cochet, 85, French tennis player, world number one player.
  • Victor D'Amico, 82, American teaching artist, Director of the Department of Education of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
  • James Edward Doyle, 71, American lawyer, United States district judge.
  • Vladimir Popov, 56, Soviet animator and art director.
• April 2
  • Tommy Davis, 52, American NFL footballer, lung cancer.
  • Trevor Hockey, 43, British footballer and Welsh international.
  • Eleanor Leacock, 64, American anthropologist and social theorist, stroke.
  • Larry Marley, 41–42, Irish member of the IRA, shot.
  • Wang Renmei, 72, Chinese actress and singer, cerebral hemorrhage.
  • Buddy Rich, 69, American jazz drummer, songwriter, conductor and bandleader, cardiac failure related to malignant brain tumour.
  • Harry Watt, 80, Scottish documentary and feature film director.
  • Kansuke Yamamoto, 73, Japanese photographer and poet.
• April 3
  • Robert Dalban, 83, French actor.
  • Anne Grey, 80, English actress.
  • Tom Sestak, 51, American AFL footballer, heart attack.
• April 4
  • Agyeya, 76, Indian poet, novelist, literary critic, journalist and revolutionary.
  • C. L. Moore, 76, American science fiction and fantasy writer.
  • Michael Redstone, 84, American entrepreneur, founder of the Northeast Theater Corporation.
  • Osman Saleh Sabbe, 54–55, Eritrean-born writer and political activist.
  • Le Tari, 40, American film and television actor, heart attack.
  • Chögyam Trungpa, 48, Tibetan Buddhist meditation master.
• April 5
  • Jack Howe, 71, English international footballer.
  • Leabua Jonathan, 72, Prime Minister of Lesotho, heart attack.
  • Jan Lindblad, 54, Swedish naturalist, writer, photographer and film maker, kidney failure.
  • Tsuneko Nakazato (Nakazato Tsune), 77, Japanese novelist, colon cancer.
  • Jim White, 67, American NFL footballer.
• April 6
  • Vicente Cañas, 47, Spanish Christian missionary, assassinated.
  • James G. Donovan, 88, American lawyer and politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives.
  • Jean-Baptiste Doumeng, 67, French businessman and communist politician.
  • Henry Lucien de Vries, 77, Surinamese politician and entrepreneur.
• April 7
  • Terry Carr, 50, American science fiction fan, author and editor, congestive heart failure.
  • Will Hindle, 57, American filmmaker of personal 16mm movies.
  • Charles Hope, 75, British peer and businessman.
  • John Lehmann, 79, English publisher and poet.
  • Nick De Noia, 45, American director, screenwriter and choreographer, murdered.
  • Noel F. Parrish, 77, American brigadier general in the U.S. Air Force.
  • Paul Peek, 82, American attorney and politician, Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court.
  • Walter H. Reynolds, 86, American politician, Mayor of Providence, Rhode Island.
  • Maxine Sullivan, 75, American jazz vocalist, seizure.
• April 8
  • Tommy Abbott, 52, American actor, dancer and choreographer.
  • Terry Allen, 62, English flyweight boxer and World Champion.
  • Anni Frind, 87, German lyric soprano.
  • Andrei Getman, 83, Soviet military commander, general of the Red Army.
  • Kevin McNamara, 60, Irish Catholic academic, Archbishop of Dublin, cancer.
  • Ervin Nyiregyházi, 84, Hungarian and American pianist and composer.
• April 9
  • James Leroy Bondsteel, 39, American soldier of the U.S. Army who served in the Vietnam War, earning the Medal of Honor.
  • James Bush, 79, American actor.
  • Horst Dassler, 51, German businessman, chairman of Adidas, cancer.
  • Al Dodd, 41, American NFL footballer.
  • Emil M. Mrak, 85, American food scientist and microbiologist, chancellor of the University of California.
• April 10
  • Birgit Dressel, 26. West German heptathlete and Olympian, multiple organ failure due to long-term steroid abuse.
  • Berta Drews, 85, German stage and film actress.
• April 11
  • Carleton F. Bryant, 94, American Vice Admiral in the U.S. Navy.
  • Erskine Caldwell, 83, American novelist and short story writer, complications of emphysema and lung cancer.
  • Netania Davrath, 55, Ukrainian-born Israeli soprano opera and concert singer.
  • Rudolf Krause, 80, East German racing driver.
  • Primo Levi, 67, Italian chemist and writer and Jewish Holocaust survivor, suicide by jumping.
  • Frederick Joseph Loftus-Tottenham, 88, Irish-born Major General in the British Indian Army.
  • Kent Taylor, 79, American film and television actor.
  • Hédi Váradi, 57, Hungarian actress.
• April 12
  • Mike Von Erich (Michael Adkisson), 23, American professional wrestler, suicide by overdose.
  • René Hardy, 76, French citizen, member of the French Resistance during World War II.
  • Akram Pahalwan, 57, Pakistani wrestler.
  • Hertha von Walther, 83, German film actress.
• April 13
  • Dennis Allen, 35, Australian drug dealer, reported to have murdered many victims, heart failure.
  • Herbert Blumer, 87, American sociologist and NFL footballer.
  • Joe Colquhoun, 60, British comics artist, heart attack.
  • Simha Flapan, 76, Israeli historian and politician.
  • Gerry McAloon, 70, Scottish footballer, hypothermia.
  • Guido Sala, 58, Italian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer and world champion kart racer.
• April 14
  • Brian Carlson, 54, Australian international rugby league footballer.
  • Karl Höller, 79, German composer.
  • Julius Sumner Miller, 77, American physicist and television personality, leukemia.
• April 15
  • Orland K. Armstrong, 93, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, journalist and social activist.
  • Hans-Joachim Born, 77, German radiochemist.
  • Rachel Burrows, 74, Irish actress, broadcaster, and teacher.
  • Mickey Finn, 35, Irish fiddler.
  • Peter Benjamin Graham, 61, Australian visual artist, printer and art theorist.
  • Louis R. Lowery, 70, American Captain in the U.S. Marine Corps.
  • Press Maravich, 71, American college and professional basketball coach, prostate cancer.
  • Masatoshi Nakayama, 74, Japanese karate master.
  • Samuel Rothschild, 87, Canadian NHL ice hockey player.
• April 16
  • Charlotte Curtis, 58, American journalist, columnist and editor at The New York Times, cancer.
  • Fateh Muhammad Panipati, 82, Pakistani Islamic scholar.
  • Bikash Roy, 70, Indian actor and filmmaker.
  • Juan Evangelista Venegas, 58, Puerto Rican boxer and Olympic medalist, skull fracture from fall.
• April 17
  • Carlton Barrett, 36, Jamaican reggae drummer, murdered in conspiracy initiated by his wife.
  • Arthur Delaney, 59, English painter.
  • Cecil Harmsworth King, 86, English chairman of Daily Mirror Newspapers, director of the Bank of England.
  • Dick Shawn, 63, American actor and comedian, heart attack.
  • Willi Smith, 39, American fashion designer, pneumonia.
  • Cornelius Van Til, 91, Dutch-born American Christian philosopher, reformed theologian and presuppositional apologist.
• April 18
  • Eduardo Alcaraz, 72, Chilean-Mexican actor.
  • Carlos Baker, 77, American writer, biographer and former Professor of Literature.
  • Heinie Beau, 76, American jazz composer, arranger, saxophonist and clarinetist.
  • Kenneth Cook, 57, Australian journalist, television documentary maker and novelist, known for his work Wake in Fright, heart attack.
  • Hugh B. Cott, 86, British zoologist.
  • Vincent Hanley, 33, Irish radio DJ and television presenter, AIDS.
  • Jim Langton, 69, Irish hurler.
  • Joe Robb, 50, American NFL footballer.
• April 19
  • Hugh Brannum, 77, American vocalist, arranger, composer and actor, cancer.
  • Milt Kahl, 78, American animator for the Disney Studio, pneumonia.
  • David G. Mandelbaum, 75, American anthropologist, cancer.
  • Maxwell D. Taylor, 85, American Army general and diplomat, Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff.
  • Antony Tudor, 79, English dancer and choreographer.
• April 20
  • Nicholas Acquavella, 88, American art dealer and gallerist, founder of Acquavella Galleries.
  • Con Cremin, 78, Irish diplomat, Irish U.N. representative.
• April 21
  • Joseph Alcazar, 77, French international footballer.
  • Gustav Bergmann, 80, Austrian-born American philosopher.
  • Wenike Opurum Briggs, 69, Nigerian lawyer, journalist and politician.
  • Edith Green, 77, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives.
  • Moosa AbdulRahman Hassan, Omani businessman, tribal leader and landlord.
  • Haruyasu Nakajima, 77, Japanese baseballer.
  • Hildrus Poindexter, 85, American bacteriologist who studied the epidemiology of tropical diseases.
• April 22
  • Irving Ashby, 66, American jazz guitarist.
  • Margaret Ponce Israel, 57, American painter and ceramicist, traffic accident.
  • Masumi Mitsui, 99, Japanese-born Canadian veteran of World War I.
  • J. Edwin Orr, 75, Irish-born American Baptist Christian minister, hymn writer, professor and author.
• April 23
• April 24
  • Josephine Bell, 89, English physician and writer.
  • Larry Bethea, 30, American NFL footballer, suicide.
  • Henry Murdoch, 66, Aboriginal Australian actor and stockman.
  • Pablo Acosta Villarreal, 50, Mexican narcotics smuggler and crime boss, gunned down by Mexican Federal Police.
  • Berhanu Zerihun, 53–54, Ethiopian writer and journalist.
• April 25
  • Blas Roca Calderio, 78, Cuban politician and Marxist theorist, President of the National Assembly of People's Power.
  • Pētõr Damberg, 78, Latvian Livonian linguist and poet.
  • Maurice Gibson, 73, Northern Irish Judge of the High Court, car bomb.
  • Charlotte May Pierstorff, 78, American girl who was shipped alive through the U.S. postal system by parcel post.
• April 26
  • Oliver J. Flanagan, 66, Irish Fine Gael politician, Minister for Defence.
  • Archie M. Gubbrud, 76, American politician, Governor of South Dakota, lung cancer.
  • Frederick N. Howser, 82, American politician, Attorney General of California.
  • Dudley Mason, 85, British master of the tanker SS Ohio during the Second World War, recipient of the George Cross.
  • John Silkin, 64, British politician and solicitor, Shadow Leader of the House of Commons.
  • Frank Szymanski, 63, American NFL footballer.
  • Amelita Ward, 63, American film actress.
• April 27
  • John Burrows, 73, American Major League baseballer.
  • Attila Hörbiger, 91, Austrian stage and movie actor, stroke.
  • Alice Nāmakelua, 94, Hawaiian composer and performer.
• April 28
  • Hannelore Baron, 60, German-born American artist.
  • Xavier Fourcade, 60, French American contemporary art dealer.
  • Paidi Lakshmayya, 83, Indian parliamentarian, actor, writer and administrator, member of Parliament.
  • William Marchant, appr. 38, Northern Irish loyalist, shot by IRA gunmen.
  • Emil Staiger, 79, Swiss historian, writer, Germanist and Professor of German Studies.
• April 29
  • Héctor Carmona, 61, Chilean modern pentathlete and Olympian.
  • Gus Johnson, 48, American NBA basketballer, brain cancer.
  • Helmut Laux, 70, German Nazi photographer.
  • Philip Lombardo, 78, American crime boss of the Genovese family.
  • Russ Saunders, 81, American NFL footballer.
  • Thomas Trenchard, 63, British hereditary peer, Minister of State for Defence Procurement.
  • Zachari Zachariev, 83, Bulgarian military pilot and commander.
• April 30
  • Marc Aaronson, 36, American astronomer, observatory accident.
  • Hugh Dempster, 86, British theatre and film actor.
• April (date unknown)
  • Arthur Lane, 76, British actor.

May

• May 1
  • Paul Geidel, 93, American murderer, second longest serving U.S. prison inmate.
  • Bobo Holloman, 64, American Major League baseballer, heart attack.
  • Antonio Borja Won Pat, 78, Guam politician, Guam's Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives, heart attack.
  • Dick Surhoff, 57, American NBA basketballer.
  • James W. Sutherland, 69, American Lieutenant General in the U.S. Army.
  • Fujio Yoshida, 99, Japanese artist.
• May 2
  • Karl Davis, 25, African-American fashion designer, pneumonia and AIDS.
  • Michael Gover, 73, English actor known for his portrayal of Arthur Russell in the series Survivors.
  • John E. Kerrigan, 78, American politician, acting mayor of Boston, member of the Massachusetts Senate, cardiac arrest.
  • Harold K. Schneider, 61–62, American economic anthropologist.
• May 3
  • Joyce Coad, 70, American child actress in motion pictures.
  • Roberto Concepcion, 83, Filipino lawyer, Chief Justice of the Philippines.
  • Dalida, 54, Egyptian-French singer and actress, suicide by overdose.
  • Viola Grosvenor, Duchess of Westminster, 74, British aristocrat, wife of Robert Grosvenor, 5th Duke of Westminster, car accident.
  • Dick Kelsey, 82, American animation art director, theme park designer and illustrator of children's books.
• May 4
  • Paul Butterfield, 44, American blues harmonica player, singer and bandleader, overdose.
  • Cathryn Damon, 56, American actress, ovarian cancer.
  • Konstanty Jeleński, 65, Polish essayist.
  • Tomohiro Kojiri, 29, Japanese journalist for Tokyo-based newspaper Asahi Shimbun, murdered.
  • Wilbur Little, 59, American jazz bassist.
  • Michael Minor, 46, American illustrator and art director on Star Trek movies.
• May 5
  • Sir Hugh Fraser, 50, British chairman of the House of Fraser, Harrods, George Outram and Company, and Whyte & Mackay, cancer.
  • Herbert Hasler, 73, British lieutenant colonel in the Royal Marines.
  • Allen Jones, 46, American record producer and songwriter, heart attack.
  • Robert Stanford Tuck, 70, British fighter pilot and flying ace.
  • Phil Woolpert, 71, American college basketball coach, lung cancer.
• May 6
  • William J. Casey, 74, American CIA director, brain tumour.
  • Muhammadullah Hafezzi, 91–92, Bangladeshi politician and Islamic leader.
  • Karel Plicka, 92, Czechoslovakian photographer, film director, cinematographer and folklorist.
  • David Weitzman, 88, British politician.
• May 7
  • Boom-Boom Beck, 82, American Major League baseballer.
  • Colin Blakely, 56, Northern Irish actor, leukaemia.
  • Stewart McKinney, 56, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, AIDS.
  • Paul Popham, 45, American gay rights activist, AIDS.
  • Dudley Ryder, 94, British hereditary peer, member of the House of Lords.
  • Karl Schuke, 80, German organ builder.
• May 8
  • Declan Arthurs, 21, Northern Irish Volunteer in the Provisional IRA, ambushed and killed.
  • Marjorie Barnard, 89, Australian novelist, short story writer, critic and historian.
  • Sidney Cohen, 76, American psychiatrist, professor of medicine and author.
  • Alberta Gay, 74, American mother of Marvin Gaye and Frankie Gaye, bone cancer.
  • Patrick Joseph Kelly, 30, Irish commander of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, ambushed and killed.
  • Jim Lynagh, 31, Irish member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, ambushed and killed.
  • Pádraig McKearney, 32, Irish member of the IRA, shot in ambush.
  • Sir James Plimsoll, 70, Australian diplomat, Governor of Tasmania, Ambassador to the U.S.A., High Commissioner to the U.K., heart attack.
  • Doris Stokes, 67, British "spiritualist", "medium" and author, brain cancer.
  • Carl Tchilinghiryan, 77, German businessman, co-founder of coffee house Tchibo.
• May 9
  • Obafemi Awolowo, 78, Nigerian nationalist and statesman, Premier of Western Nigeria.
  • Jimmy Kruger, 69, South African lawyer and politician, President of the Senate.
  • Noel Murless, 77, English racehorse trainer.
  • John M. Schiff, 82, American investment banker and philanthropist.
• May 10
  • Sadamichi Hirasawa, 95, Japanese tempera painter, convicted of mass poisoning, pneumonia.
  • Nicolette Macnamara, 76, British artist and author.
  • Wilhelm Strienz, 86, German bass operatic singer.
• May 11
  • James Jesus Angleton, 69, American intelligence operative, chief of the counterintelligence department of the C.I.A, cancer.
• May 12
  • Victor Feldman, 53, English jazz musician, heart attack.
  • Chinn Ho, 83, Hawaiian entrepreneur, businessman and philanthropist, heart failure.
  • Ion Pistol, 40, Romanian convicted murderer, executed.
  • Nora Rubashova, 78, Belarusian Catholic nun.
  • Robert Trimbole, 56, Australian businessman, drug baron and organized crime figure.
  • Michel Van Wijnendaele, 27–28, Belgian mass murderer, suicide after the murders.
• May 13
  • F. R. Crawley, 75, Canadian film producer, cinematographer and director.
  • Richard Ellmann, 69, American literary critic and biographer of Irish writers, motor neurone disease.
  • Phil Moore, 69, American jazz pianist, arranger, and bandleader.
  • Ismael Rivera, 55, Puerto Rican composer and salsa singer, heart attack.
  • Forbes Robinson, 60, British bass.
  • Elly Winter, 88, German communist and notable political activist.
• May 14
  • Tsai Chen-chou, 40, Taiwanese politician and businessman, liver disease.
  • Kris Derrig, 33, American luthier and musician, cancer.
  • Rita Hayworth, 68, American actress and dancer, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
  • Jānis Lipke, 87, Latvian rescuer of Jews in World War II.
  • Luke Sewell, 86, American Major league baseballer.
  • Elizabeth Zarubina, 87, Soviet spy, traffic accident.
  • Vitomil Zupan, 73, Austro-Hungarian–born Slovene writer.
• May 15
  • Wynne Gibson, 88, American actress, cerebral thrombosis.
  • Raynor Johnson, 86, English-born Australian parapsychologist, physicist and author.
  • Kalyanakit Kitiyakara, 57, Thai cardiothoracic surgeon.
  • Máire MacNeill, 82, Irish journalist, folklorist and translator.
  • Barry Mannakee, 39, British police officer with Royal Protection Squad, bodyguard to Diana, Princess of Wales, traffic accident.
  • L. G. Pine, 79, British writer, lecturer and researcher of genealogy, nobility, history, heraldry and animal welfare.
  • Lionel Van Praag, 78, Australian motorcycle speedway champion.
• May 16
  • Lionel Cooper, 65, Australian international rugby league footballer.
  • Frank Mayborn, 83, American philanthropist, soldier, newspapers editor, publisher and broadcaster.
  • Ronnie Shakes, 40, American stand up comedian, heart attack.
  • Michael Wood, 69, British medical doctor, cancer.
• May 17
  • Wilbur J. Cohen, 73, American social scientist and civil servant, U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare.
  • Gunnar Myrdal, 88, Swedish economist, Nobel laureate in Economic Sciences.
  • Dudley C. Sharp, 82, American Secretary of the Air Force.
• May 18
  • Mahdi Amel, 51, Lebanese Marxist philosopher and militant, assassinated.
  • Heðin Brú, 86, Faroese novelist and translator.
  • Hossein Fardoust, 70, Iranian military officer, deputy head of SAVAK, the Iranian intelligence agency.
  • Robert A. Hefner Jr., 79, American politician and businessman.
  • Santo Mazzarino, 71, Italian historian.
• May 19
  • James Everett Chase, 73, African American politician, Mayor of Spokane, cancer.
  • Hamid Reza Chitgar, 38, Iranian communist politician, exiled to France, assassinated.
  • Deepak Dhawan, 32, Indian political activist, member of the Communist Party of India, murdered.
  • Almerigo Grilz, 34, Italian politician and independent war correspondent, killed in war zone.
  • Huntington D. Sheldon, 84, American C.I.A. director of Current Intelligence, murdered.
  • Stanisław Szukalski, 93, Polish-born American sculptor and painter.
  • James Tiptree, Jr. (Alice Bradley Sheldon), 71, American science fiction and fantasy author, suicide pact with husband.
• May 20
  • William Creighton, 77, American Anglican bishop.
  • Harvey Goldberg, 65, American historian and political activist, liver cancer.
  • Herbert Jacobs, 84, American journalist for the Milwaukee Journal, professor of journalism, cancer.
  • Ganpatrao Jadhav, 79, Indian freedom activist, journalist and writer.
  • Edward Earl Johnson, 26, American convicted murderer, executed.
  • Elmer Ray, 76, American heavyweight boxer.
  • George Shibata, 60, American military officer, attorney, and film & television actor.
  • Ma Sicong, 75, Chinese violinist and composer.
  • Colston Warne, 86, American professor of economics.
• May 21
  • Archie Carr, 77, American herpetologist, ecologist and conservationist, professor of zoology.
  • Finis Alonzo Crutchfield Jr., 70, American clergyman and bishop, AIDS.
  • Alejandro Rey, 57, Argentine-American actor and television director, lung cancer.
• May 22
  • Paddy Belton, 60, Irish politician, company director and publican, Lord Mayor of Dublin.
  • Thornton Freeland, 89, American film director.
  • Heinrich Mückter, 72, German medical doctor, pharmacologist and chemist, developed and marketed thalidomide.
  • Keidrych Rhys, 71, Welsh literary journalist, editor and poet.
• May 23
• May 24
  • Alan Samuel Butler, 88, British aviator, chairman of De Havilland Aircraft Company.
  • James J. Delaney, 86, American politician, chair of the House Rules Committee.
  • Hermione Gingold, 89, English actress, heart problems and pneumonia.
  • Siegmund Klein, 85, German-American strongman, bodybuilder, magazine publisher and gymnasium owner, cancer.
  • Lajos Ligeti, 64, Hungarian orientalist and philologist specialising in Mongolian and Turkic languages.
  • Thomas Burdett Money-Coutts, 85, English peer.
  • Eugen Relgis, 92, Romanian writer, pacifist philosopher and anarchist militant.
• May 25
  • Charley Brock, 71, American NFL footballer.
  • Winthrop G. Brown, 79, American lawyer and diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Korea and Laos.
  • Hugh Lester Campbell, 78, Canadian air marshal in the Royal Canadian Air Force and politician.
  • Peter Coe, 58, English film and theatre director and actor.
  • Peter Gerald Charles Dickens, 70, English Royal Navy officer during World War II, great-grandson of Charles Dickens.
  • Hermann Glöckner, 98, German painter and sculptor.
  • William Kelly Harrison Jr., 91, American officer in the U.S. Army.
  • Don Sidle, 40, American ABA basketballer.
  • Paweł Tuchlin, 41, Polish serial killer, hanged.
• May 26
  • Rose Chan, 62, Chinese-born Malaysian cabaret dancer.
  • Alvin Duke Chandler, 84, American Navy officer, president of the College of William & Mary.
  • Paul Rimstead, 51–52, Canadian journalist.
  • Arthur M. Sackler, 73, American psychiatrist and marketer of pharmaceuticals.
  • Robert Wilkins, 91, American country blues guitarist and vocalist.
  • Ajita Wilson, 37, American transgender actress, brain hemorrhage.
• May 27
  • Alvin C. Eurich, 84, American educator, president of the State University of New York.
  • Colin McCahon, 67, New Zealand artist.
  • John Howard Northrop, 95, American biochemist, Nobel laureate in Chemistry, suicide.
  • Richard Bruce Nugent, 80, American writer and painter.
  • Fatemeh Pahlavi, 58, Iranian royal, cancer.
• May 28
  • Léon Lambert, 58, Belgian banker and art collector.
  • Charles Ludlam, 44, American actor, director and playwright, pneumonia as a complication of AIDS.
• May 29
  • Jean Delay, 79, French psychiatrist, neurologist and writer.
  • Vettam Mani, 65, Indian scholar and writer.
  • Charan Singh, 84, Prime Minister of India, cardiovascular collapse.
  • Phyllis Tate, 76, English composer.
• May 30
  • Frank Carlson, 94, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate.
  • Eliot Hodgkin, 81, English painter.
  • Miyuki Ishikawa, 90, Japanese midwife, real estate agent and serial killer.
  • Honorino Landa, 44, Chilean international footballer, cancer.
  • Frank Licht, 71, American politician, Governor of Rhode Island, cancer.
  • Hallam L. Movius, 79, American archaeologist.
  • Turk Murphy, 71, American trombonist and bandleader.
  • Norman Nicholson, 73, English poet.
  • Hilde Weissner, 77, German actress.
• May 31
  • John Abraham, 49, Indian filmmaker, short story writer and screenwriter, complications from a fall.
  • Jerry Adair, 50, American Major League baseballer, liver cancer.
  • Hubert Raymond Allen, 68, British Royal Air Force officer.
  • Charles Drew, 70, British cardiothoracic surgeon, throat cancer.
  • Wilbur Evans, 81, American actor and singer.
  • Gertrude Jones Hawk, 83–84, American candy maker and entrepreneur.
  • Kolbein Lauring, 72, Norwegian resistance member during World War II.
  • Dorothy Patrick, 65, Canadian-American film actress, heart attack.
  • Roy Winsor, 75, American soap opera writer, creator, producer and mystery novelist, heart attack.
• May (date unknown)
  • Sunny Harnett, 63, American model and actress, injuries sustained in a fire.
  • Arthur Matsu, 83, American NFL footballer and coach.
  • Dev Raj Singh Thakur, Indian Air Force warrant officer, killed the killer of Mohandas Gandhi.

June

• June 1
  • Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, 72, Indian film director, screenwriter, novelist and journalist.
  • Errol Barrow, 67, Caribbean statesman, Prime Minister of Barbados.
  • Francis B. Burch, 68, American politician, Attorney General of state of Maryland.
  • Rashid Karami, 65, Lebanese statesman, Prime Minister of Lebanon, assassinated.
• June 2
  • Klaus Gamber, 70, German Catholic liturgist.
  • Sammy Kaye, 77, American bandleader and songwriter.
  • François Perroux, 83, French economist, professor at the Collège de France.
  • Andrés Segovia, 94, Spanish virtuoso classical guitarist, heart attack.
• June 3
  • Bruno Bernard, 75, American photographer known for pin-up and glamour photography of Marilyn Monroe, cancer.
  • Jackie Fields, 79, American professional boxer, world welterweight champion.
  • Curt McDowell, 42, American underground filmmaker, AIDS.
  • Malcolm McLeod, 73, American law enforcement officer, Sheriff of Robeson County, North Carolina, heart attack.
  • Alan Montagu-Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, 52, British landowner and hereditary peer, member of the House of Lords.
  • Will Sampson, 53, American painter, actor and rodeo performer, post-operative kidney failure.
  • Herbert Schultze, 77, German submarine commander during World War II.
• June 4
  • Maurizio Vitale Cesa, 41, Italian entrepreneur and sportswear inventor.
  • Ann Evers, 71, American film actress.
  • Noel Guillen, 60, Trinidadian cricketer.
  • Dean Moon, 60, American automobile designer.
• June 5
  • Mansel Carter, 85, American businessman and prospector, cancer.
  • Vasant Kumar Pandit, 66, Indian politician, member of parliament.
• June 6
  • Alexander Altmann, 81, Austro-Hungarian–born American Orthodox Jewish scholar and rabbi.
  • Colin Colahan, 90, Australian painter and sculptor.
  • Fulton Mackay, 64, Scottish actor and playwright, stomach cancer.
  • Mari Mori, 84, Japanese author, heart failure.
  • Richard Münch, 71, German actor.
  • Eduard Petiška, 63, Czechoslovakian writer.
  • Aneesur Rahman, 59, Indian-born American physicist.
  • Dragan Sotirović, 74, Serbian-born Major in the Yugoslavian Army.
• June 7
  • John Blofeld, 74, British writer on Asian thought and religion, cancer.
  • Shosei Go, 70, Taiwanese baseballer who played in Japan.
  • Hashimoto Mantaro, 54, Japanese sinologist and linguist.
  • Herbert M. Seneviratne, 61, Sri Lankan lyricist and actor.
  • Cahit Zarifoğlu, 46, Turkish poet and writer.
• June 8
  • Gary Driscoll, 41, American R&B-style drummer, murdered.
  • George Finey, 92, Australian newspaper artist.
  • Yogi Horton, 33, American R&B, funk, jazz and rock drummer, suicide.
  • Alexander Iolas, 79, Egyptian-born Greek-American art gallerist, AIDS.
  • Daniel Mandell, 91, American film editor.
  • Jacques Fred Petrus, 39, West Indian-born businessman and a pioneer of post-disco music, murdered.
• June 9
  • Kenneth Althaus, 91, American brigadier general in the U.S. Army.
  • Raya Dunayevskaya, 77, Russian-born American philosopher, founder of Marxist humanism in the United States.
  • Monique Haas, 77, French pianist.
  • Gustaf Håkansson, 101, Swedish cyclist who cycled the length of Sweden in a race at age 66.
  • Louis Van Iersel, 93, American sergeant in the U.S. Army, Medal of Honor recipient.
  • Madge Kennedy, 96, American stage, film and television actress, respiratory failure.
  • Grandon Rhodes, 82, American actor.
  • Wilhelm Runge, 91, German electrical engineer and physicist.
• June 10
  • Daud Beureueh, 87, Indonesian military Governor of Aceh.
  • Shamraj Bhalerao, 88, Indian noble.
  • Elizabeth Hartman, 43, American stage and screen actress, suicide by jumping.
  • Jeevan, 71, Indian actor.
  • Alain Montpetit, 36, Canadian television and radio personality and actor, overdose.
  • Booty Wood, 67, American jazz trombonist.
• June 11
  • Ralph Guldahl, 75, American professional golfer.
  • Aleksandr Lokshin, 66, Soviet composer of classical music.
  • Enrique del Moral, 82, Mexican architect.
  • Álvaro Vieira Pinto, 77, Brazilian philosopher and translator.
  • B. S. Madhava Rao, 87, Indian mathematician and physicist.
  • Dan Vadis, 49, American actor, overdose.
• June 12
  • Tuvia Bielski, 81, Belarusian militant, leader of the Bielski group.
  • Bill Edwards, 81, American football player and NFL coach.
  • Paul Janes, 75, German international footballer.
  • C. F. Russell, 90, American occultist.
  • Apostol Sokolov, 69, Bulgarian footballer.
  • Józef Tusk, 80, Polish luthier, grandfather of Polish Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, served in the Wehrmacht in World War II.
• June 13
  • Huck Betts, 90, American Major League baseballer.
  • Vera Caspary, 87, American screenwriter, novelist and playwright, stroke.
  • Bernard Hesling, 82, British-born Australian muralist and painter.
  • Johnny High, 30, American NBA basketballer, car accident.
  • Kanam E. J., 61, Indian novelist, short story writer and lyricist.
  • Heinz Kloss, 82, German linguist.
  • Cemil Meriç, 70, Turkish writer and translator.
  • Geraldine Page, 62, American film, stage and television actress, heart attack.
• June 14
  • Stanisław Bareja, 57, Polish filmmaker.
  • Curt Boettcher, 43, American singer, songwriter, arranger, musician and record producer, complications of treatment for lung infection.
  • Les Favell, 57, Australian test cricketer.
  • Burhanuddin Harahap, 70, Indonesian politician and lawyer, Prime Minister of Indonesia.
• June 15
  • Walter Heller, 71, American economist, chair of the Council of Economic Advisers.
  • J. M. Johnson, 75, Nigerian politician and Federal Cabinet Minister.
• June 16
  • Marguerite de Angeli, 98, American writer and illustrator of children's books.
  • June Knight, 74, American theatre and film actress and singer, stroke.
  • Wandjuk Marika, 56–57, Aboriginal Australian painter, actor, composer and indigenous land rights activist.
  • Mangal Singh, 95, Indian politician and legislator, member of Central Legislative Assembly.
  • Kōji Tsuruta, 62, Japanese actor and singer, lung cancer.
  • Kid Thomas Valentine, 91, American jazz trumpeter and bandleader.
• June 17
  • Dick Howser, 51, American Major League baseballer, brain tumour.
• June 18
  • Harold F. Cherniss, 83, American classicist and historian of ancient philosophy.
  • Jay Lawrence, 63, American stand-up comedian and actor.
  • Bruce Marshall, 87, Scottish writer.
  • Georgy Nissky, 84, Soviet painter.
  • Art Spector, 66, American basketballer.
• June 19
  • C. R. Cheney, 80, English medieval historian.
  • Ian Donald, 76, English physician, pioneered diagnostic use of ultrasound in obstetrics.
  • Joseph Schwab, 26, German spree killer in Australia, shot by police.
  • Pearl Vasudevi, 72, Sri Lankan actress.
• June 20
  • Salim Ali, 90, Indian ornithologist and naturalist, prostate cancer.
  • Frederic B. Butler, 90, American officer in the U.S. Army in World War 2.
  • Leonid Kharitonov, 57, Soviet actor, stroke.
  • Hiro Saga, 73, Japanese noblewoman and memoir writer.
• June 21
  • Mariano Cañardo, 81, Spanish road racing cyclist.
  • Abram Chasins, 83, American composer, pianist, music broadcaster and author.
  • Eastman Jacobs, 84–85, American aerodynamicist.
  • Madman Muntz, 73, American businessman, engineer and car salesman.
  • Phil Weintraub, 79, American Major League baseballer, heart attack.
• June 22
  • Nicholas Alkemade, 64, British tail gunner in the R.A.F. during World War II, survived freefall of 5.5 km without a parachute.
  • Fred Astaire, 88, American actor, singer and dancer, pneumonia.
  • Mao Bangchu, 83, Chinese army major general.
  • John Hewitt, 79, Northern Irish poet.
  • Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali, 94, Moroccan Salafi.
  • Joseph Meyer, 93, American songwriter.
  • Robert N. C. Nix Sr., 88, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives.
  • Frank Rehak, 60, American jazz trombonist, throat cancer.
• June 23
  • Adrienne Gessner, 90, Austrian actress.
  • Tito Lara, 54, Puerto Rican singer.
  • Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort, 90, British peeress, niece of Queen Mary.
  • Muhammad Subuh Sumohadiwidjojo, 86, Indonesian founder of the Subud movement.
  • Kyril Vassilev, 79, Bulgarian-born American portrait painter, heart-attack.
• June 24
  • Linc Chamberland, 46, American jazz guitarist, leukemia.
  • Jackie Gleason, 71, American actor and comedian.
  • Hines Johnson, 76, Jamaican Test cricketer for the West Indies.
• June 25
  • John Ness Beck, 56, American composer and arranger of choral music, cancer.
  • Boudleaux Bryant, 67, half of American husband-and-wife country music and pop songwriting team.
  • Nibaran Chandra Laskar, 85, Indian singer and politician, member of parliament.
  • Tony Skyrme, 64, British physicist, embolism.
• June 26
  • Henk Badings, 80, Indonesian-born Dutch composer.
  • Arthur F. Burns, 83, Austro-Hungarian–born American economist and diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to West Germany.
  • George Johnson, 74, American jazz reedist.
  • Wayne Meylan, 41, American NFL footballer, plane crash.
  • Richard Pim, 86, British civil servant and naval officer.
  • Gerhard Wagner, 88, German naval rear admiral.
  • Tony Webster, 65, American screenwriter.
• June 27
  • Ratomir Dugonjić, 71, Yugoslavian partisan fighter and politician, Yugoslavian ambassador to Poland and the United Arab Republic.
  • Althea Flynt, 33, American co-publisher of pornographic magazine Hustler, wife of Larry Flynt, drowned in the bathtub after overdose.
  • Pat McGuigan, 52, Irish singer.
  • Donald Nixon, 72, American brother of U.S. President Richard Nixon, pneumonia.
  • František Šafránek, 56, Czechoslovakian international footballer, heart failure.
  • W. Horace Schmidlapp, 71, American investment banker and Broadway producer.
  • Billy Snedden, 60, Australian politician, leader of the Federal Opposition, speaker of the House of Representatives, heart attack.
• June 28
  • Gajananrao Joshi, 76, Indian vocalist and violinist.
  • Jim Taylor, 86, Australian-born Papua New Guinean explorer.
• June 29
  • Elizabeth Cotten, 94, American folk and blues musician.
  • C. Hamilton Ellis, 78, English railway writer and painter.
  • Antonio Janni, 82, Italian football manager and international player, Olympic medalist.
  • Ēriks Pētersons, 77, Latvian international footballer and ice hockey player.
  • Murray Sanders, 77, American physician and military officer, involved with U.S. Army's biological warfare program in World War II.
  • Shmuel Tamir, 64, Israeli independence fighter and lawyer.
• June 30
  • Ramani Bartholomeusz, 20, Sri Lankan actress and model, Miss Sri Lanka 1985, pushed out of moving car.
  • King Donovan, 69, American film, stage and television actor and director, cancer.
  • Maurice Geraghty, 78, American screenwriter, film director and producer.
  • Li Hanhun, 91, Chinese army general.
  • Federico Mompou, 94, Spanish composer and pianist, respiratory failure.
• June (date unknown)
  • Glen Daly, 66–67, Scottish singer and entertainer.
  • Georges Doriot, 87, French-born American academic, businessman and financier, lung cancer.
  • John J. Reynolds, 97, American Olympic marathoner.

July

• July 1
  • Jerry Livingston, 78, American songwriter and dance orchestra pianist.
  • Bridget Sequeira, 81, Pakistani-Indian religious sister.
  • Snakefinger, 38, English musician, singer and songwriter, heart attack.
  • Soetran, 66, Indonesian military officer and politician, Governor of Irian Jaya, liver cancer.
• July 2
  • Michael Bennett, 44, American musical theatre director, writer, choreographer and dancer, AIDS-related lymphoma.
  • Václav Černý, 82, Czechoslovakian literary scholar, writer and philosopher.
  • Denis Larkin, 79, Irish politician and trade union official.
  • Karl Linnas, 67, Estonian sentenced to death during the Holocaust trials.
  • George S. Wise, 81, American sociologist, president of Tel Aviv University, heart failure.
• July 3
  • Viola Dana, 90, American silent-screen actress.
  • John H. Mercer, 64, British glaciologist.
  • William Wiard, 59, American film and television director, cancer.
• July 4
  • Edward Addison, 88, British Royal Air Force air vice marshal.
  • Alexander Gordon-Lennox, 76, British Royal Navy rear admiral, president of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich.
  • Abdul Halim, 75, Indonesian politician, Prime Minister of Indonesia.
  • Sally Hamlin, 84, American child actor, pianist and recording artist.
  • Dan James, 49, American NFL footballer.
  • Bengt Strömgren, 79, Danish astronomer and astrophysicist.
• July 5
  • Bobby Ancell, 76, Scottish international footballer and manager.
  • Alan Gibson, 49, Canadian film and television director.
• July 6
  • László Pusztai, 41, Hungarian international footballer, car accident.
• July 7
  • Finis Jennings Dake, 84, American Pentecostal minister, complications from Parkinson's disease.
  • Michael J. Eagen, 80. American chief justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
  • René Gérard, 73, French international footballer.
  • H. R. Jothipala, 51, Sri Lankan playback singer, liver failure.
  • Ernest Achey Loftus, 103, British soldier, teacher and diarist.
  • John Meredith Rockingham, 75, Australian-born Major General in the Canadian Army.
  • Hannelore Schroth, 65, German film, stage and television actress.
  • John Singer, 63, English actor.
  • Germaine Thyssens-Valentin, 84, Dutch-born classical pianist.
• July 8
  • Gerardo Diego, 90, Spanish poet.
  • Alvin O'Konski, 83, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
  • Fuen Ronnaphagrad Ritthakhanee, 87, Thai aviator, Royal Thai Air Force officer, Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand.
  • Franjo Wölfl, 69, Yugoslavian international footballer.
• July 9
  • Michiyo Fukaya, 34, American feminist poet and activist, suicide.
  • Ashley Kriel, 20, South African anti-apartheid activist, killed by police.
  • Waris Mir, 48, Pakistani journalist, writer and academic, cardiac arrest.
  • Hezekiah Ochuka, 33, Kenyan Private in the Kenyan Air Force, Kenyan leader for 6 hours, hanged.
  • Paul Rapoport, 47, American lawyer, AIDS.
  • Ulas Samchuk, 82, Ukrainian writer, publicist, journalist, member of the Government of the Ukrainian People's Republic in exile, and anti-semite.
  • Ernest Ward, 66, English rugby league footballer.
• July 10
  • Doug Dobell, 69, British record store proprietor and record producer, ran Dobell's Record Shop, heart attack.
  • John Hammond, 76, American record producer, civil rights activist and music critic, strokes.
  • Harold Rice, 75, American educator and magician.
  • Tanya Zolotoroff Nash, 89, Russian-American Deaf Rights activist.
• July 11
  • Hannah Billig, 85, British medical doctor.
  • Marion Brooks, 91, American silent-screen actress, entertainment journalist and screenwriter.
  • Cyril McLaglen, 87, British and American film actor.
  • Truman J. Nelson, 75–76, American writer of historical novels and essays and a civil rights activist, heart failure.
  • Fernando Garcia Ponce, 53, Mexican architect and abstract artist, heart attack.
  • Avi Ran, 23, Israeli international footballer, hit by racing boat.
  • Yaakov Yitzchok Ruderman, 87, Russian-born American Talmudic scholar and rabbi.
  • Robert Love Taylor, 87, American district judge.
  • Tom Waddell, 49, American physician, decathlete Olympian and founder of the Gay Olympics, AIDS.
• July 12
  • Peter Gimbel, 60, American filmmaker and underwater photojournalist, cancer.
  • Harold Goodwin, 84, American actor.
  • Emilio el Moro, 63, Spanish Flamenco singer, guitarist and humorist.
  • Nathan Perlmutter, 63–64, American executive director of the Anti-Defamation League.
  • Marguerite Renoir, 80, French film editor.
  • Andrei Snezhnevsky, 83, Soviet psychiatrist, lung cancer.
• July 13
  • Patience Collier, 76, British actress.
  • Robert Francis, 85, American poet.
  • Silas Jayne, 80, American horse trainer and murderer, leukemia.
  • Eric Worrell, 62, Australian naturalist and science writer, established the Australian Reptile Park on the NSW Central Coast.
• July 14
  • Salvador E. Felices, 63, Puerto Rican major general in the U.S. Air Force.
  • Fritz Holt, 46, American theatre producer and director, pneumonia.
  • William Overton, 47, United States district judge, cancer.
  • Sao Saimong, 73, Burmese government minister.
  • William Stuart-Houston, 76, English-American half-nephew of Adolf Hitler.
  • Pak Yung-sun, 30, North Korean table tennis player, world champion.
  • Viktor Zhdanov, 73, Soviet virologist and epidemiologist.
• July 15
  • Lee Ballanfant, 91, American Major Leagues baseball umpire.
  • J. Rives Childs, 94, American diplomat and writer, U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, North Yemen and Ethiopia, cardiac pulmonary infection.
  • Polly Elwes, 59, British BBC Television in-vision announcer and reporter, bone cancer.
  • Lee Gaines, 73, American jazz singer and lyricist, cancer.
  • Fernando Van Zeller Guedes, 84, Portuguese wine producer.
  • Pete King, 28, British musician, testicular cancer.
  • Jack O'Hagan, 88, Australian singer, songwriter and radio personality.
  • Margarete Schlegel, 87, German and British theatre and film actress and soprano operetta singer.
• July 16
  • Harry Ayres, 74, New Zealand mountaineer and guide, drowned in suspected suicide.
  • Alfie Bass, 71, English actor, heart attack.
  • Juraj Lupták, 45, Czechoslovakian rapist and serial killer, hanged.
  • Rudolph Palumbo, 86, British property developer.
  • Tony Tani, 69, Japanese entertainer, liver cancer.
  • Cliff Wilton, 71, Scottish rugby union player, president of the Scottish Rugby Union.
• July 17
  • Marjorie Cottle, 86, English motorcycle trials rider.
  • Dominick V. Daniels, 78, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
  • Jörg Fauser, 43, German writer, poet and journalist.
  • Yūjirō Ishihara, 52, Japanese actor and singer, liver cancer.
  • Howard McGhee, 69, American bebop jazz trumpeter.
  • Mathura Prasad Mishra, 69, Indian politician, member of the lower house of the Parliament of India.
  • Kristjan Palusalu, 79, Estonian heavyweight wrestler and dual Olympic gold medalist.
  • Leon B. Poullada, 74, American diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Togo, prostate cancer.
• July 18
  • Anthony Casamento, 66, American marine corporal, Medal of Honor recipient.
  • George Dahl, 93, American architect, dehydration.
  • Gilberto Freyre, 87, Brazilian sociologist, anthropologist, historian, writer, painter, journalist and congressman.
  • Alfredo Ruano, 54, El Salvadoran international footballer, heart attack.
• July 19
  • Clementina de Jesus, 86, Brazilian samba singer, stroke.
  • Jane Kendeigh, 65, American flight nurse of the U.S. Navy.
  • Aadhavan Sundaram, 45, Indian writer, drowned.
  • Brij Lal Varma, 70–71, Indian politician, cabinet minister.
• July 20
  • Ichirō Arishima, 71, Japanese comedian and actor.
  • Norbert Casteret, 89, French caver, adventurer and writer.
  • Richard Egan, 65, American actor, prostate cancer.
  • Margit Johnsen, 74, Norwegian sailor in the merchant navy.
  • Dmitry Lelyushenko, 85, Soviet army general.
  • Alexander Wood, 80, Scottish American international footballer.
• July 21
  • John Armstrong, 71, Irish Anglican bishop, Archbishop of Armagh.
  • Donald Cressey, 68, American penologist, sociologist and criminologist.
  • Louis DaPron, 74, American dancer, choreographer and dance instructor.
  • Bert Keyes, 56, American pianist, songwriter, singer and arranger.
  • Stella Steyn, 79, Irish artist.
  • Burke Trend, 73, British civil servant, rector of Lincoln College.
• July 22
  • Adele Comandini, 89, American screenwriter, nominated for Academy Award for Best Story for Three Smart Girls.
  • Fahrettin Kerim Gökay, 87, Turkish politician and diplomat, Turkish Ambassador to Switzerland.
  • Eugene Halliday, 75, British artist and writer.
  • Natalie Hinderas, 60, American pianist and composer, cancer.
  • Mary Cover Jones, 89, American developmental psychologist and pioneer of behaviour therapy.
  • Jack Lescoulie, 74, American radio and television announcer and host.
  • C. B. Macpherson, 75, Canadian political scientist.
  • Don McMahon, 57, American Major League baseballer, heart attack.
  • Nick Perls, 55, American audio engineer and the founder and owner of Yazoo Records.
  • Raja Shankar, 55, Indian actor.
  • A. G. Kripal Singh, 53, Indian Test cricketer and national selector, cardiac arrest.
  • Henry Tayali, 43, Zambian painter, sculptor and printmaker.
• July 23
  • DeVeren Bookwalter, 47, American actor and director, stomach cancer.
  • Song Deok-gi, 94, Korean martial artist.
  • Art Jarrett, 80, American singer, actor and bandleader.
  • Manuel Suárez y Suárez, 91, Spanish-born Mexican entrepreneur and patron of the arts.
• July 24
  • Anna-Eva Bergman, 78, Norwegian abstract expressionist artist.
  • Franz Burri, 85, Swiss political figure, disseminator of Nazi propaganda.
  • Pat Clancy, 68, Australian trade unionist, heart attack.
  • Dick Wellstood, 59, American jazz pianist, heart attack.
• July 25
  • Malcolm Baldrige Jr., 64, American businessman, U.S. Secretary of Commerce, internal injuries from rodeo accident.
  • Charles Stark Draper, 85, American scientist and engineer, "father of inertial navigation".
  • Lydie Marland, 87, American first lady of Oklahoma.
  • Tracy Read, 25, American race car driver, race crash.
  • Alex Sadkin, 38, American record producer, engineer, mixer and mastering engineer, motor accident.
• July 26
  • Jim Bishop, 79, American journalist and author, respiratory failure.
  • Chinmoy Chattopadhyay, 56, Indian singer.
  • Phyllis Cilento, 93, Australian medical practitioner, medical journalist and advocate of family planning.
  • Frank Marshall Davis, 81, American journalist, poet, political activist and businessman.
  • Tawfiq al-Hakim, 88, Egyptian writer.
  • Joe Liggins, 71, American R&B, jazz and blues pianist and vocalist, stroke.
  • Carmelita Maracci, 79. American concert dancer and choreographer, heart attack.
  • Kenneth Muse, 77, American animator best known for the Tom and Jerry series.
  • Mario Radice, 88, Italian painter
  • Hugh Wheeler, 75, British-born American novelist, screenwriter, librettist and poet.
• July 27
  • Travis Jackson, 83, American Major league baseballer, Alzheimer's disease.
  • Jan Mikusiński, 74, Polish mathematician.
  • K. L. N. Prasad, 59, Indian politician, member of Parliament.
• July 28
  • James Burnham, 81, American philosopher and political theorist, kidney and liver cancer.
  • Feodor Fedorenko, 79, Soviet Nazi collaborator and war criminal, executed.
  • Carlton Fredericks, 76, American radio commentator and writer on health and nutrition, heart attack.
  • Jack Renshaw, 77, Australian politician, Premier of New South Wales.
  • Ismet Alajbegović Šerbo, 62, Bosnian accordionist, composer and writer of folk songs.
  • Nguyễn Tuân, 77, Vietnamese author.
  • Philip E. Vernon, 82, British-born Canadian psychologist and author.
  • Levie Vorst, 83, Dutch rabbi of Rotterdam.
• July 29
  • Arthur J. Bressan Jr., 44, American director, writer, producer and documentarian, AIDS.
  • Arthur Chipperfield, 81, Australian test cricketer.
  • Aleksey Sukletin, 44, Soviet serial killer, rapist and cannibal, executed.
• July 30
  • Vicky Clement-Jones, 38, Hong Kong-born English physician and medical researcher, ovarian cancer.
  • Lado Davidov, 62, Soviet soldier during the Second World War and Hero of the Soviet Union.
  • McDonald Hobley, 70, British BBC Television continuity announcer, heart attack.
  • Bernard Sta Maria, 42–43, Malaysian politician, community leader and author, member of the Malacca State Legislative Assembly, bronchitis.
  • Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay, 92, Indian author.
  • Narciso Soldan, 59, Italian footballer.
  • Michel Tapié, 78, French art critic, curator, and collector.
• July 31
  • Kenneth Carllile, 56, American country music guitarist and songwriter, heart attack.
  • Joseph E. Levine, 81, American film distributor, financier and producer.
  • Justine W. Polier, 84, American lawyer, the first woman Justice in New York.
  • Michael Staniforth, 44, British stage actor, AIDS.
  • Paul Yakabuski, 64, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.
• July (date unknown)
  • Sari Maritza, 77, British film actress.
  • Joe Mondragon, 67, American jazz bassist.
  • Hugh Perceval, 79, British screenwriter and film producer.

August

• August 1
  • Benson Fong, 70, American actor, stroke.
  • Howdy Forrester, 65, American bluegrass fiddler.
  • S. Marshall Kempner, 88, American investment banker, founder of the French Bank of California.
  • Pola Negri, 90, Polish-American stage and film actress and singer, pneumonia secondary to a brain tumour.
• August 2
  • Mohammad Choucair, 70, Lebanese politician, assassinated.
  • Abu Sayeed Chowdhury, 66, President of Bangladesh, Chairman of U.N. Commission on Human Rights, Bangladesh High Commissioner to the U.K., heart attack.
  • Tom Doerr, 39–40, American gay activist.
  • Jaime Ferrer, 70, Filipino lawyer, guerrilla and politician, Secretary of Local Government, assassinated.
  • Clement Howell, 51, Turks and Caicos politician, aircraft disappearance and presumed crash.
  • David N. Johnson, 65, American organist, composer and choral clinician.
  • Nandadasa Kodagoda, 67, Sri Lankan medical doctor, Vice Chancellor of the University of Colombo.
  • David A. Martin, 50, American founding member and original bass player for the rock group Sam the Sham, heart attack.
  • Mangkunegara VIII, 62, Indonesian politician, last ruler of Mangkunegaran, Java.
  • Léon Noël, 99, French diplomat and politician, French Ambassador to Poland.
  • Myron Stout, 78–79, American abstract painter, lung cancer.
  • Yves Volel, 52–53, Haitian lawyer, activist and presidential candidate, assassinated.
• August 3
  • Garrick Agnew, 56, Australian competition swimmer, businessman and dual Olympian, heart attack.
  • Edward Cowart, 62, American circuit judge, heart attack.
  • Joseph Desch, 80, American electrical engineer and inventor.
  • Dorothy Hammerstein, 88, Australian-born American interior designer and decorator, wife of Oscar Hammerstein II.
  • William S. Moorhead, 64, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, lung cancer.
  • Ivan Mykolaichuk, 46, Ukrainian actor, producer and screen writer.
  • Ivan Svanidze, 59, German-born Soviet academic specialising in agriculture and African Studies.
• August 4
  • Dick Farney, 65, Brazilian jazz pianist, composer and singer.
  • Kenny Price, 56, American country music singer, songwriter and actor, heart attack.
  • Jesse M. Unruh, 64, American politician, minority leader and speaker of the California Assembly, prostate cancer.
  • John W. Wydler, 63, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives.
• August 5
  • Anatoli Papanov, 64, Soviet stage, film and voice actor, heart attack.
  • Salvador Flores Rivera, 67, Mexican composer and singer.
  • Tatsuhiko Shibusawa, 59, Japanese novelist, art critic and translator of French literature, ruptured carotid aneurysm.
• August 6
  • Abbas Babaei, 36, Iranian pilot, brigadier-general in Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force during Iran-Iraq War, shot down.
  • Sherwood Bailey, 64, American child actor and civil engineer, cancer.
  • Paula Bauersmith, 78, American actress, cancer.
  • Ira C. Eaker, 91, U.S. Army Air Forces general during World War II.
  • Lena Küchler-Silberman, 77, Polish member of the Jewish resistance.
  • Myles Lane, 83, American NHL ice hockey player.
  • Léon Noël, 99, French diplomat, politician and historian.
• August 7
  • Mihailo Apostolski, 80, Macedonian general, politician and historian.
  • Jeanne Boitel, 83, French film actress.
  • Camille Chamoun, 87, President of Lebanon, heart attack.
  • Andrew D. Holt, 82, American educator, president of the University of Tennessee.
  • Nobusuke Kishi, 90, Japanese politician, Prime Minister of Japan.
  • Jaap van Praag, 77, Dutch football administrator, chairman AFC Ajax, traffic accident.
• August 8
  • Danilo Blanuša, 83, Yugoslavian mathematician, physicist and engineer, professor at the University of Zagreb.
  • Julián Gorkin, 86, Spanish revolutionary socialist, writer and leader of the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification in the Spanish Civil War.
  • Laurence Hyde, 73, English-born Canadian film maker, painter and graphic artist.
  • Nirmal Mahto, 36, Indian political activist, murdered.
  • Trevor O'Keeffe, 18–19, Irish man murdered while hitchhiking in France.
  • Irwin Schiff, 50, New York City businessman and mob associate, murdered.
• August 9
  • Rudolf Broby-Johansen, 86, Danish art historian, communist activist and writer.
  • Leon Keyserling, 79, American economist and lawyer, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers.
  • August Miete, 78, Nazi German SS functionary, sentenced to life imprisonment.
  • Henry Morgan, 80, Irish first-class cricketer.
• August 10
  • Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas, 94, Greek poet, lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Greece.
  • Casey Donovan, 43, American pornographic actor, AIDS-related pulmonary infection.
  • Edmund Germer, 85, German inventor, father of the fluorescent lamp.
  • Uys Krige, 77, South African writer of novels, short stories, poems and plays.
  • Patrick O'Boyle, 91, American Roman Catholic prelate.
  • Prince Yamashina Takehiko, 89, Japanese head of the Yamashina-no-miya.
  • Raquel Torres, 78, Mexican-born American film actress, heart attack.
• August 11
  • Eugene Bordinat, 67, American automobile designer and corporate executive.
  • Živko Čingo, 51, Yugoslavian writer.
  • F. Herrick Herrick, 85, American film director and philatelist.
  • Walter Herrmann, 76, German nuclear physicist and mechanical engineer, worked on the German nuclear energy project during World War II.
  • Clara Peller, 85, Russian-born American manicurist and television personality, congestive heart failure.
  • Alexander Ziegler, 43, Swiss author and actor, suicide.
• August 12
  • Crystal Bennett, 68, British archaeologist.
  • Lester Gaba, 80, American sculptor and writer, colon cancer.
  • Dmitri Klebanov, 69, Ukrainian composer.
  • Sally Long, 85, American dancer and actress.
  • Fatime Sokoli, 39, Albanian folk music singer.
• August 13
  • Thomas B. Manuel, 88, American community leader and politician, heart attack.
• August 14
  • Sydney Bromley, 78, English actor, cancer.
  • Bernard Fagg, 71, British archaeologist and museum curator.
  • Mary-Louise Hooper, 80, American heiress and activist in the civil rights and anti-apartheid movements.
  • Narayana Kasturi, 89, Indian writer, professor and journalist.
  • Brewster Mason, 64, English stage, film and television actor, injuries from a fall.
  • Vincent Persichetti, 72, American composer and pianist.
  • Edgar Rosenberg, 61, German-born British film and television producer, suicide by overdose.
  • Shigeo Sasaki, 74, Japanese mathematician working on differential geometry Sasakian manifolds.
• August 15
  • Konstantin Aleksandrov, 67, Soviet sailor and Olympian.
  • Hanna Greally, 63, Irish writer.
  • Ubaldo Ragona, 70, Italian film director and screenwriter.
  • Dan Sandifer, 60, American NFL player, heart disease.
  • Robert Leonard Ewing Scott, 90, American convicted murderer.
  • Louis Scutenaire, 82, Belgian French-language poet and anarchist.
  • K. K. Shetty, 86, Indian politician, Member of Parliament.
• August 16
  • Pepe Cáceres, 52, Colombian bullfighter.
  • Dorothy Hughes, 77, English-born Kenyan architect, politician, social reformer and disability activist.
  • Sumiko Kurishima, 85, Japanese actress, master of traditional Japanese dance.
  • Samuel Lubell, 75, American public opinion pollster, journalist and author, stroke.
  • Edwin Barnard Martin, 68, Canadian member of the British Free Corps in Nazi Germany.
  • Andrei Mironov, 46, Soviet stage and film actor, complications from wrongly administered drug.
  • Peter Schidlof, 65, Austrian-British violist, co-founder of the Amadeus Quartet.
  • Nick Vanos, 24, American NBA basketballer, plane crash.
  • Charles H. Wesley, 95, American historian, minister and author.
• August 17
  • Leon Berkowitz, 75, American artist.
  • Frank Beswick, 75, British politician, deputy leader of the House of Lords.
  • Clarence Brown, 97, American film director, kidney failure.
  • Gary Chester, 62, American studio drummer and author.
  • Carlos Drummond de Andrade, 84, Brazilian poet and writer.
  • Rudolf Hess, 93, German Nazi official, Deputy Führer, ostensibly suicide by hanging.
  • Harold McCluskey, 75, American chemical operations technician, survived exposure to highest recorded dose of radiation from americium, coronary artery disease.
  • Shaike Ophir, 58, Israeli film and theatre actor, comedian, playwright, screenwriter and director, lung cancer.
  • Antti Rantamaa, 52, Finnish priest, member of Finnish Parliament and author.
  • Tjilik Riwut, .
  • Heinz Schubert, 73, German SS officer.
  • Tillit Sidney Teddlie, 102, American singing teacher, composer, publisher and minister.
• August 18
  • Keerthisena Abeywickrama, 53, Sri Lankan politician, member of parliament, grenade attack.
  • Shichirō Fukazawa, 73, Japanese author and guitarist.
  • Ralph Haver, 71–72, American architect (Haver Homes).
  • Dambudzo Marechera, 35, Zimbabwean novelist, short story writer, playwright and poet, AIDS-related pulmonary disorder.
• August 19
  • Michael Bowes-Lyon, 58, British nobleman and peer.
  • Laxmi Narayan Mishra, 83, Indian Hindi play writer.
  • Sachin Nag, 67, Indian swimmer and water polo player, Olympian.
  • Hayden Rorke, 76, American actor, played Colonel Alfred Bellows in I Dream of Jeannie, multiple myeloma.
  • Paul Schlack, 89, German chemist.
  • Harold Sherman, 89, American writer and "parapsychologist".
  • Yidnekatchew Tessema, 65, Ethiopian international footballer.
• August 20
  • Winifred Bryson, 94, American stage and silent-screen actress.
  • José Bueno y Monreal, 82, Spanish cardinal, Roman Catholic archbishop of Seville.
• August 21
  • Frances Mary Albrier, 88, American civil rights activist.
  • Bombolo, 56, Italian actor and comedian.
  • Dorothy Adlington Cadbury, 94, English botanist and director of confectionery company Cadbury.
  • Steve Davis, 58, American jazz bassist (John Coltrane Quartet).
  • Li Fang-Kuei, 85, Chinese linguist.
  • Angelo Francesco Lavagnino, 78, Italian composer of film scores.
  • Glesca Marshall, 80, American actress.
  • Irving Thalberg Jr., 56, American author, son of actress Norma Shearer, cancer.
• August 22
  • Arne Brustad, 75, Norwegian international footballer.
  • Leonard Caston, 70, American blues pianist and guitarist, heart disease.
  • Mary Dobkin, 84, American amateur sports coach, stroke.
  • Joseph P. Lash, 77, American radical political activist, journalist and writer.
  • Ted Sherdeman, 78, American radio producer, television writer and screenwriter (My Favorite Martian, The Flying Nun, Bewitched).
  • John Milton Bryan Simpson, 84, American circuit judge.
• August 23
  • Griselda Allan, 81, English artist.
  • Siegfried Borris, 80, German composer.
  • Thomas D'Alesandro Jr., 84, American politician, mayor of Baltimore, member of U.S. House of Representatives.
  • Sheila van Damm, 65, British motor rally driver, owner of Windmill Theatre in London.
  • Don Henry, 16, American victim of unsolved murder.
  • Kevin Ives, 17, American victim of unsolved murder.
  • Malcolm Kirk, 51, English professional wrestler, died in the ring.
  • Paulo Navalho, 20, Angolan-born Portuguese footballer, acute myocardial infarction during a game.
  • Didier Pironi, 35, French racing driver and power boat racer, powerboat racing accident.
  • Stéphanos I Sidarouss, 83, Egyptian priest of the Coptic Catholic Church, [[Coptic Catholic Patriarchate of Alexandria|Patriarch of Alexandria.
• August 24
  • Michèle Alfa, 76, French stage and film actress, hider of leaders of the French Resistance.
  • Douglas Byng, 94, English comic singer and songwriter.
  • Carlos Cossio, 84, Argentinian militant university reformer, jurist, lawyer, legal philosopher and professor.
  • Wayne Hansen, 58, American NFL footballer, bone cancer.
  • W. W. Keeler, 79, American engineer and oilman, principal chief of the Cherokee Nation.
  • Bayard Rustin, 75, American civil and gay rights activist, perforated appendix.
• August 25
  • Héctor Abad Gómez, 66, Colombian medical doctor, university professor and human rights leader.
  • Otto Höfler, 86, Austrian philologist specialising in Germanic studies.
  • Sam Kahn, 75, South African politician, member of parliament.
  • John Ortell Kingston, 68, American Trustee of the Davis County Cooperative Society in Davis County, Utah.
  • Victor Stafford Reid, 74, Jamaican writer.
  • Fernando Ramos da Silva, 19, Brazilian actor, police shootout.
• August 26
  • Vern Gardner, 62, American basketballer, stroke.
  • John Goddard, 68, Barbadian cricketer, captain of West Indies Test team.
  • Marcelo Ramos Motta, 56, Brazilian writer, heart attack.
  • Alberto Socarras, 78, Cuban-American flautist.
  • Georg Wittig, 90, German chemist, Nobel laureate in Chemistry.
• August 27
  • Ben Branch, 59, American entrepreneur, jazz tenor saxophonist and bandleader.
  • Joan Haythorne, 72, British actress.
  • Scott La Rock, 25, American hip-hop disc jockey and music producer, murdered.
  • Peter Mehringer, 77, American freestyle wrestler and Olympic gold medalist.
  • Charlie Smalls, 43, American composer and songwriter, burst appendix.
• August 28
  • Lillian Chase, 93, Canadian physician, researcher in the treatment of diabetes.
  • John Huston, 81, American film director, screenwriter and actor, pneumonia as a complication of lung disease.
  • Hoàng Cơ Minh, 52, Vietnamese Navy commodore-admiral, leader of anti-communist resistance.
  • Harold Samuel, 75, British founder of Land Securities.
  • Jack Young, 62, Australian motorcycle speedway rider, Speedway World Champion.
• August 29
  • Naji al-Ali, 48–49, Palestinian cartoonist, assassinated.
  • Archie Campbell, 72, American comedian and writer, heart attack.
  • Bernadene Hayes, 75, American film and television actress (Some Like It Hot, Dick Tracy's Dilemma.
  • Lee Marvin, 63, American film and television actor (The Dirty Dozen, The Big Heat), heart attack.
  • John R. Napier, 70, British primatologist, paleoanthropologist and physician.
  • Jean Schlumberger, 80, French jewellery designer.
  • Phillip Hagar Smith, 82, American electrical engineer (Smith chart).
• August 30
  • Wade H. McCree, 67, American legal scholar and judge, Solicitor General of the United States, bone cancer.
  • George Mikes, 75, Hungarian-born British journalist, humorist and writer.
  • Vic Silayan, 58, Filipino actor, heart attack.
  • John C. Sjogren, 71, American soldier in the United States Army, Medal of Honor recipient.
  • Frank Stojack, 75, Canadian-born NFL footballer and wrestler, world light-heavyweight champion, Alzheimer's disease.
  • Dick Young, 69, American sportswriter.
• August 31
  • Thomas Agro, 55, American gangster with the Gambino crime family.
  • Lenore Lonergan, 59, American stage and film actress, cancer.
• August (date unknown)
  • Wylie Sypher, 81, American non-fiction writer.

September

• September 1
  • Dennis Coi, 26, Canadian figure skater, AIDS.
  • Gerhard Fieseler, 91, German World War I flying ace, aerobatics champion and aircraft designer and manufacturer.
  • Philip Friend, 72, British film and television actor.
  • Arnaldo Momigliano, 78, Italian historian of classical antiquity.
  • Alan Reid, 72, Australian political journalist, lung and stomach cancer.
  • Pinky Whitney, 82, American Major League baseballer.
• September 2
  • Cam Carreon, 50, American Major League baseballer.
  • Brian Clay, 52, Australian rugby league footballer.
  • LeGrande A. Diller, American officer in the U.S. Army.
  • Ken Flower, 73, English-born Rhodesian police officer and intelligence chief.
  • Remzi Aydın Jöntürk, 50, Turkish filmmaker, actor, screenwriter and producer, traffic accident.
  • Ramesh Naidu, 55, Indian music composer, instrumentalist and singer.
  • Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean, 60, Argentine Army division general and politician, de facto President of Argentina.
  • Stephen B. Small, 40, American businessman, kidnapped and held for ransom, asphyxiation during captivity.
• September 3
  • Diana Caldwell, 73, English society femme fatale figure, best known for her part in the murder of Lord Erroll in 1941.
  • Carter W. Clarke, 90. American intelligence officer in the U.S. Army, heart attack.
  • Ned Day, 42, American journalist and newspaper reporter, heart attack.
  • Morton Feldman, 61, American composer, pancreatic cancer.
  • Maxwell Fry, 88, English modernist architect, writer and painter.
  • Doris Gates, 85, American writer of children's fiction.
  • Merlin Minshall, 80, British naval officer and adventurer.
  • Aleksandr Nadiradze, 73, Georgian engineer, involved in militarising the Soviet spase program.
  • Viktor Nekrasov, 76, Soviet writer, journalist and editor.
  • Lee Theodore, 54, American Broadway theater director, choreographer, performer and dance archivist.
  • Rusty Wescoatt, 76, American supporting actor.
• September 4
  • Bill Bowes, 79, English test cricketer, player in the Bodyline series, heart attack.
  • George M. Chinn, 85, American weapons expert and soldier.
  • Richard Marquand, 49, Welsh film and television director, stroke.
• September 5
  • Richard D. Adams, 78, American rear admiral in the U.S. Navy.
  • Wolfgang Fortner, 79, German composer and conductor.
  • Scott Irwin, 35, American professional wrestler, brain tumour.
  • Salvador Lutteroth, 90, Mexican professional wrestling promoter.
  • Quinn Martin, 65, American television producer, heart attack.
• September 6
  • Jack d'Avigdor-Goldsmid, 74, British Army major general and politician, Member of Parliament.
  • Arun Kumar Choudhury, 64, Indian founding head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Calcutta.
  • William Haley, 86, British newspaper editor and broadcasting administrator.
  • Paul Hiebert, 95, Canadian writer and humorist (Sarah Binks).
• September 7
  • Gordon Gollob, 75, Austrian fighter pilot during World War II, fighter ace.
  • Harry Locke, 73, English actor.
• September 8
  • Robert Sharples, 74, British musical conductor, composer and bandleader.
• September 9
  • Sam Brody, 80, English-born founding member of the Workers Film and Photo League, injuries from a fall.
  • Tom Davis, 76, Irish international footballer.
  • Bill Fraser, 79, Scottish stage, screen and television actor, emphysema.
  • Gunnar de Frumerie, 79, Swedish composer and pianist.
  • Gerrit Jan Heijn, 56, Dutch businessman, murdered after abduction.
  • Vratislav Mazák, 50, Czech biologist specialising in paleoanthropology, mammalogy and taxonomy.
  • Al Read, 78, British radio comedian, stroke.
  • Dora Zaslavsky, 83, Russian-born American pianist.
• September 10
  • Benjamin Howard Baker, 95, English international footballer, high jumper and triple jumper, dual Olympian.
• September 11
  • Kerstin Bernadotte, 76, Swedish journalist, aristocrat and magazine editor.
  • Hugh David, 62, British actor and television director (Doctor Who).
  • Charles Fleming, 71, New Zealand geologist and ornithologist.
  • Lorne Greene, 72, Canadian actor, radio personality and singer, pneumonia.
  • Harry Gale Nye Jr., 79, American industrialist, entrepreneur and world champion sailor.
  • Hervey Rhodes, 92, British politician, Member of Parliament.
  • Sandilyan, 76, Indian writer.
  • Manikuntala Sen, 75–76, member of the Communist Party of India.
  • Nareshchandra Singh, 78, Indian ruler of Sarangarh State.
  • Surendra, 76, Indian singer-actor.
  • Peter Tosh, 42, Jamaican reggae singer and musician, murdered after being taken hostage at his home.
  • Mahadevi Varma, 80, Indian poet, essayist and sketch story writer.
  • John Lloyd Waddy, 70, Australian officer in the Royal Australian Air Force and politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.
  • Frank Wiziarde, 71, American actor and television personality.
• September 12
  • J. Lawton Collins, 91, American Army general, Chief of Staff of the United States Army.
  • William Dickson, 88, British aviator of the Royal Naval Air Service and Marshal of the Royal Air Force.
  • John Qualen, 87, Canadian-born American actor, heart failure.
  • John J. Voll, 65, American career officer in the U.S. Air Force, World War II flying ace.
• September 13
  • Aníbal Gordon, Argentine suspected of being a leader of the Triple A death squad, lung cancer.
  • Mervyn LeRoy, 86, American film producer, director and actor, heart issues complicated by Alzheimer's disease.
• September 14
  • Julien Kialunda, 37, Congolese footballer, international player for Zaire, AIDS.
  • Erik Lundberg, 80, Swedish economist.
  • Stormont Mancroft, 73, British politician, member of the House of Lords.
  • Arthur W. Vanaman, 95, American major general in the U.S. Air Corps and Air Force.
  • Henry Wrigley, 95, Australian Air Vice Marshal in the Royal Australian Air Force.
• September 15
  • David Akui, 67, American soldier, captured first Japanese prisoner of war in World War II.
  • Wilhelm Berlin, 98, German Nazi general, Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipient.
  • Leon Hirszman, 49, Brazilian film director, producer and screenwriter, AIDS.
  • Harry Holcombe, 80, American actor and radio director.
  • Moazzam Jah, 79, Indian royal, son of the last Nizam of Hyderabad.
  • Nilo Menéndez, 84, Cuban-born American songwriter.
  • George Edward Pendray, 86, American author, founder of the American Interplanetary Society.
  • Joe Reisman, 62, American musician, bandleader, arranger and record producer.
• September 16
  • William Richard Joseph Cook, 82, British mathematician, leader in the development of the hydrogen bomb, stroke.
  • Simon Gipps-Kent, 28, English theatre and film actor, morphine poisoning.
  • Howard Moss, 65, American poet, dramatist and critic, heart attack.
  • Christopher Soames, 66, British politician, Member of Parliament, pancreatitis.
• September 17
  • Vladimir Basov, 64, Soviet actor, film director and screenwriter, stroke.
  • Francis E. Dorn, 76, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives.
  • George Dwyer, 78, English Roman Catholic prelate, archbishop of Birmingham.
  • Musa Gareyev, 65, Soviet Air Force squadron leader, cancer.
  • Carol Henry, 69, American actor.
  • Henry Kroeger, 70, Russian-born Canadian politician, member of Legislative Assembly of Alberta, complications of lymphoma, pneumonia and blood infection.
  • Philip Wayne Powell, 73–74, American historian specialising in Spanish colonial history of the American Southwest, heart attack.
  • Dieter Schidor, 39, German actor, AIDS.
• September 18
  • Golbery do Couto e Silva, 76, Brazilian army general and politician, Chief of Staff of the Presidency.
  • Frederic Fitch, 79, American logician, professor at Yale University.
  • Olinka Hrdy, 85, American artist.
  • Emil Schram, 93, president of the New York Stock Exchange.
  • Américo Tomás, 92, Portuguese Navy officer and politician, President of Portugal, infection.
• September 19
  • Lean Alejandro, 27, Filipino student leader and nationalist political activist, assassinated.
  • Betty Burbridge, 91, American screenwriter and actress.
  • Einar Gerhardsen, 90, Norwegian politician, Prime Minister of Norway.
  • Nyamyn Jagvaral, 68, Mongolian politician, statesman and economist, Chairman of the Presidium of the People's Great Khural.
  • Muhammad Mansuruddin, 83, Bangladeshi author, literary critic and essayist.
  • Graciela Olivarez, 59, American lawyer, advocate for civil rights and for the poor.
  • Ralph Steinhauer, 82, Canadian politician, lieutenant governor of Alberta.
  • Ken Uston, 52, American blackjack player, heart failure.
• September 20
  • George William Goddard, 98, English-born American brigadier general in the U.S. Air Force.
  • Greville Howard, 78, British politician, Member of Parliament.
  • K. C. S. Mani, 65, Indian socialist activist, attempted to assassinate C. P. Ramaswamy Iyer.
  • Michael Stewart, 63, American playwright and dramatist, librettist, lyricist, screenwriter and novelist.
  • Péter Török, 36, Hungarian international footballer.
• September 21
  • Aimo Aaltonen, 81, Finnish politician, leader of the Communist Party of Finland.
  • Sven Andersson, 77, Swedish politician, Minister for Foreign Affairs.
  • Ruth Attaway, 77, American film and stage actress, injuries from a fire.
  • John Chandos, 70, Scottish film and television actor.
  • William Kwai-sun Chow, 73, American martial artist.
  • J. Clyde Morris, 78, American civic leader.
  • Jaco Pastorius, 35, American jazz bassist, composer and producer, brain hemorrhage after being attacked at a club.
• September 22
  • Hákun Djurhuus, 78, Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands.
  • H. R. Gross, 88, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
  • Norman Luboff, 70, American music arranger, music publisher and choir director, lung cancer.
  • Carman Maxwell, 84, American animator and voice actor.
  • Dan Rowan, 65, American actor and comedian, lymphoma.
• September 23
  • Walter M. Baumhofer, 82, American illustrator.
  • Bob Fosse, 60, American actor, choreographer, dancer, and film and stage director, heart attack.
  • Louis Kentner, 82, Hungarian and British pianist.
  • Rajendra Krishan, 68, Indian poet, lyricist and screenwriter.
  • Erland Van Lidth De Jeude, 34, Dutch-American wrestler, opera singer and actor, heart failure.
  • O. B. McClinton, 47, American country music singer and songwriter, abdominal cancer.
• September 24
  • Drew Bundini Brown, 59, American assistant trainer and cornerman of Muhammad Ali.
  • John Nelson Cooper, 80, American custom knifemaker, founding member of the Knifemakers' Guild.
  • Damiaen Joan van Doorninck, 85, Dutch officer, lieutenant commander in the Royal Netherlands Navy Reserve.
  • Erhard Kroeger, 82, Nazi German SS officer, involved in the resettlement of Baltic Germans before World War II.
  • Dorothy Meyer, 62, American film and television actress.
  • Victor Mollo, 78, British contract bridge player, journalist and author.
  • Joseph Tabenkin, 66, Israeli military commander.
• September 25
  • Mary Astor, 81, American actress, respiratory failure due to pulmonary emphysema.
  • Gerald Chapman, 37, English theatre director, AIDS.
  • Duffy Daugherty, 72, American college football player and coach.
  • Hassan El-Hassani, 71, Algerian comedian.
  • Harry Holtzman, 75, American artist and founding member of the American Abstract Artists.
  • Victoria Kent, 96, Spanish lawyer and republican politician.
  • Abba Kovner, 69, Lithuanian-born Jewish partisan leader, Israeli poet and writer, laryngeal cancer.
  • Gennady Mikhasevich, 40, Soviet serial killer, executed.
  • Emlyn Williams, 81, Welsh writer, dramatist and actor, complications from bowel cancer.
• September 26
  • Edgar Anstey, 80, British documentary filmmaker.
  • Ethel Catherwood, 79, Canadian high jumper and javelin thrower, Olympic gold medalist.
  • Co Prins, 49, Dutch international football, heart attack.
  • Andi Ramang, 63, Indonesian international footballer.
  • Howard W. Robison, 71, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives.
  • Sergio Santander, 33, Chilean race car driver, racing crash.
  • Herbert Tichy, 75, Austrian writer, geologist, journalist and climber.
• September 27
  • John Newbold Camp, 79, American businessman, banker and politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, heart attack.
  • J. N. Findlay, 83, South African philosopher.
  • Robert Benjamin Greenblatt, 80–81, Canadian endocrinologist.
  • Maria Guardiola, 92, Portuguese teacher and politician, anti-feminist.
  • M. K. K. Nair, 66, Indian bureaucrat and art connoisseur, officer of the Indian Administrative Service, cancer.
  • Eddy de Wind, 71, Dutch Holocaust survivor, physician, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
• September 28
  • Willard Harrison Bennett, 84, American plasma physicist.
  • Roman Brandstaetter, 81, Polish writer, poet, playwright, journalist and translator, heart attack.
  • Mehdi Hashemi, 42–43, Iranian Shi'a cleric, senior official in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards, executed.
  • Belle Linsky, 82–83, Ukrainian-born American businesswoman and philanthropist.
  • Ray Madden, 95, American lawyer, politician and World War I veteran, member of U.S. House of Representatives.
• September 29
  • Darach Ó Catháin, 64, Irish sean-nós singer.
  • Elizabeth Eden, 41, American trans woman, AIDS-related pneumonia.
  • Henry Ford II, 70, American president of Ford Motor Company, pneumonia.
  • Vinodini Nilkanth, 80, Indian writer and translator.
  • Sebastian Peschko, 77, German classical pianist.
  • Mario Prestifilippo, 28, Italian member of the Sicilian Mafia, suspected murderer, shot.
• September 30
  • Alfred Bester, 73, American science fiction author, TV, radio and comics scriptwriter, complications from broken hip.
  • Geoffrey Bowers, 33, American attorney.
  • Geoffrey Burridge, 38, English theatre and television actor, AIDS.
  • Herbert Sobel, 75, American soldier in World War II, his story featured in Stephen E. Ambrose's book Band of Brothers, malnutrition.
• September (date unknown)
  • A. K. Brohi, 72, Pakistani politician and lawyer.
  • Ephraim Hertzano, 74–75, Romanian-born Israeli board game designer, inventor of the game Rummikub.
  • Alice Rahon]], 83, French-born Mexican poet and artist.

October

• October 1
  • Richard Blackburn, 69, Australian judge, legal academic and military officer.
  • Douglas Cleverdon, 84, English radio producer and bookseller.
  • June Clyde, 77, American actress, singer and dancer.
  • Valeriya Golubtsova, 86, Soviet scientist, director of the Moscow Power Engineering Institute.
  • Geoffrey Jackson, 72, British diplomat and writer, kidnapped by guerrillas and released after eight months of captivity.
  • Zina Morhange, 78, Polish-born French physician, member of the French Resistance.
  • Abdur Rahim, 69, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar politician.
• October 2
  • Madeleine Carroll, 81, English actress, pancreatic cancer.
  • Sir Peter Medawar, 72, Brazilian-born British biologist, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine.
  • Russell Rouse, 73, American screenwriter, director and producer.
  • Hryhoriy Vasiura, 72, Soviet officer in the Red Army and in the German Schutzmannschaft, executed.
• October 3
  • Jean Anouilh, 77, French dramatist and screenwriter, heart attack.
  • Catherine Bramwell-Booth, 104, English Salvation Army officer, granddaughter of Salvation Army founder.
  • Hans Gál, 97, Austrian-Scottish composer, teacher and author.
  • Maria Ivogün, 95, Hungarian soprano singer.
  • Kalervo Palsa, 40, Finnish artist, pneumonia.
• October 4
  • Mercer Cook, 84, American diplomat and professor, U.S. Ambassador to the Gambia, Senegal and Niger, pneumonia.
  • Eric Gandar Dower, 92–93, Scottish politician and businessman.
  • Mian Arshad Hussain, 77, Pakistani politician and diplomat, Foreign Minister of Pakistan and Pakistan's Ambassador to Sweden.
  • Eloise Wilkin, 83, American illustrator, cancer.
  • Hubert Yencesse, 87, French sculptor.
• October 5
  • Manny Cussins, British businessman, chairman of Waring & Gillow and Leeds United F.C..
• October 6
  • Roald Jensen, 44. Norwegian international footballer.
  • Eugen Steimle, 77, Nazi German SS commander.
• October 7
  • Charles J. Carney, 74, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives.
  • Phil Flanagan, 77, American NFL footballer.
  • John Fletcher, 46, English tubist and French Horn player, cerebral haemorrhage.
  • Greta Granstedt, 80, American film and television actress.
  • Cedric Phatudi, 75, South African politician, Chief Minister of Lebowa.
  • Sarkes Tarzian, 87, Ottoman-born American engineer, inventor and broadcaster.
  • Bobby Walston, 58, American NFL footballer.
• October 8
  • Spencer Gordon Bennet, 94, American film producer and director.
  • Alberto Segismundo Cruz, 87, Filipino poet, short story writer and novelist.
  • Mona Douglas, 89, British Manx cultural activist, folklorist, poet, novelist and journalist.
  • Rolf Dudley-Williams, 79, British aeronautical engineer and politician, Member of Parliament.
  • Roger Lancelyn Green, 68, British biographer and children's writer.
  • Nader Mahdavi, 24, Persian [[[Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps|Revolutionary Guard Corps]] naval commander.
  • Donald McWhinnie, 66, British BBC executive, radio, television and stage director.
  • Konstantinos Tsatsos, 88, Greek diplomat, professor of law and politician, President of Greece.
• October 9
  • Mohammad Farhad, 49, Bangladeshi guerrilla force commander during the Bangladesh independence war, heart attack.
  • Guru Gopinath, 79, Indian actor and dancer.
  • Clare Boothe Luce, 84, American writer and politician, U.S. Ambassador to Italy, member of U.S. House of Representatives, brain cancer.
  • William P. Murphy, 95, American physician, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine.
  • Henry Studholme, 88, British politician, Member of Parliament.
  • Carlos Volante, 81, Argentinian international footballer.
• October 10
  • Carlos Ancira, 58, Mexican film actor.
  • Behice Boran, 77, Turkish Marxist-Leninist politician, author and sociologist, heart disease.
  • Jaroslav Bouček, 74, Czechoslovakian international footballer.
  • Gretl Braun, 72, German sister of Eva Braun.
  • Peter Clyne, 60, Austrian-Australian lawyer, businessman, tax consultant and author.
  • Oretha Castle Haley, 48, American civil rights activist, cancer.
  • Malathi, 20, Sri Lankan Tamil Tigers fighter, died in combat.
• October 11
  • Uwe Barschel, 43, German politician, Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein, suicide by overdose.
  • Eske Brun, 83, Danish high civil servant and governor of Greenland.
  • Jaime Pardo Leal, 46, Colombian lawyer, union leader, and politician, assassinated.
  • Niall Macpherson, 79, Scottish politician, Minister of Pensions and National Insurance.
  • Alan McNicoll, 79, Australian senior officer in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) and diplomat.
  • Koldo Mitxelena, 71–72, Spanish Basque linguist, reconstructed Proto-Basque language.
  • Fritz Rössler, 75, German neo-Nazi politician.
• October 12
  • Fahri Korutürk, 84, Turkish admiral, diplomat and politician, President of Turkey.
  • Alf Landon, 100, American oil man and politician, Republican candidate in 1936 presidential election.
  • Russ Letlow, 74, American NFL footballer.
  • Philleo Nash, 77, American government official, anthropologist and politician, Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
  • Gustavo Baz Prada, 93, Mexican politician and medical doctor, governor of the State of Mexico.
• October 13
  • Walter Houser Brattain, 85, American physicist at Bell Labs, Nobel laureate in Physics, Alzheimer's disease.
  • Kishore Kumar, 58, Indian actor and playback singer, heart attack.
  • Nilgün Marmara, 29, Turkish poet, suicide.
  • Lucy Monroe, 80, American operatic soprano and dancer, cancer.
  • Walter Fraser Oakeshott, 83, Transvaal-born British vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford, known for discovering the Winchester Manuscript of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur.
  • Anwar Kamal Pasha, 62, Pakistani film director and producer.
• October 14
  • Elżbieta Barszczewska, 73, Polish stage and film actress.
  • Rodolfo Halffter, 86, Spanish composer.
  • Finlay J. MacDonald, 62, Scottish journalist and radio and television producer and writer.
  • Basil Wright, 80, English documentary filmmaker, film historian and film critic.
• October 15
  • Arthur Benson, 79, British colonial administrator and governor, governor of Northern Rhodesia.
  • Thomas Andrew Donnellan, 73, American Roman Catholic prelate, archbishop of Atlanta, stroke.
  • Juda Hirsch Quastel, 88, British-Canadian biochemist.
  • Thomas Sankara, 37, Burkinabe politician, Prime Minister and President of Burkina Faso, assassinated.
  • Donald Wandrei, 79, American science fiction and fantasy writer, poet and editor.
• October 16
  • Joseph Höffner, 80, German Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Cologne.
  • Nazir Hussain, 65, Indian actor, director and screenwriter.
  • Margo Lee, 64, Australian actor and singer of radio, stage, film and TV.
  • Aleksandr Sery, 59, Soviet film director, suicide.
  • Dana Suesse, 75, American musician, composer and lyricist, stroke.
• October 17
  • Ruby Dandridge, 87, American actress, heart attack.
  • Roderich Menzel, 80, Czech-German amateur tennis player and writer.
  • Peter Pund, 80, American college football player.
  • Hirsch Schwartzberg, 79, Lithuanian-born leader of holocaust survivors.
  • Abdul Malek Ukil, 63, Bangladeshi politician, speaker of Jatiya Sangsad.
• October 18
  • Pete Carpenter, 73, American jazz trombonist and arranger, lung cancer.
  • Adriaan Ditvoorst, 47, Dutch film director and screenwriter.
  • Prince Emanuel of Liechtenstein, 78, member of the sovereign family of Liechtenstein.
  • Sol Goldman, 70, American real estate investor and philanthropist.
  • Philip Levine, 87, Belorus-born American immuno-hematologist.
  • Louis Miriani, 90, American politician, mayor of Detroit, Michigan.
• October 19
  • Hermann Lang, 78, German racing driver.
  • Igor Newerly, 84, Polish novelist.
  • Jacqueline du Pré, 42, British cellist, multiple sclerosis.
  • Ben Stahl, 77, American artist, illustrator and author.
  • Ernie Toseland, 82, English footballer.
• October 20
  • Georges Douking, 85, French stage, film and television actor.
  • Andrey Kolmogorov, 84, Russian mathematician.
  • Mecha Ortiz, 87, Argentinian actress.
  • Lars-Erik Sjöberg, 43, Swedish international ice hockey player, cancer.
• October 21
  • Igor Chernat, 20–21, Soviet serial killer, executed.
  • Pál Gábor, 55, Hungarian film director and screenwriter.
  • T. Krishna, 36, Indian film director and screenwriter.
  • Bob Simmons, 64, English actor and stunt man.
  • Albert Western, 64, Australian rules footballer.
  • He Yingqin, 97, Chinese politician, Premier of the Republic of China.
• October 22
  • K. G. Adiyodi, 60, Indian politician, member of the Kerala Legislative Assembly.
  • Archduke Anton of Austria, 86, Austrian noble.
  • John H. Masters, 74, American major general in the U.S. Marine Corps.
  • Taylor Scott, 40, English Fleet Air Arm pilot and test pilot for British Aerospace, test flight accident.
  • Andrey Starostin, 81, Soviet footballer and author.
  • Lino Ventura, 68, Italian-born French actor.
• October 23
  • Constantin Alajalov, 86, Armenian-American painter and illustrator.
  • Fred Hughson, 73, Australian rules footballer.
  • Raymond W. Ketchledge, 67, American engineer, known for contributions to first computerized telephone switching control systems, cancer.
  • Barry Levinson, 54–55, American film producer.
  • A. L. Morton, 84, English Marxist historian.
  • Jimmy Mullen, 64, English international footballer.
  • Della H. Raney, 75, American nurse in the Army Nurse Corps.
  • Gene Rodgers, 77, American jazz pianist, composer and arranger.
  • Alejandro Scopelli, 79, Italian Argentine international footballer and coach.
  • Ted Taylor, 53, American blues singer, car crash.
• October 24
  • Enid Chadwick, 84, British religious artist.
  • Raymond Francis, 76, British actor.
  • Leo Hepp, 80, German military officer in the Wehrmacht.
  • Kelvin Martin, 23, American criminal, shot.
• October 25
  • Ivan Beshoff, appr. 104, Russian mutineer in 1905 on the battleship Potemkin.
  • Cecil Brown, 80, American journalist and war correspondent.
  • Marta Feuchtwanger, German-born exile to America who devoted her life to promoting the work of her deceased writer husband.
  • Maxwell Finland, 85, American scientist and medical researcher, expert on infectious diseases.
  • Louis Guttman, 71, American sociologist and professor of Social and Psychological Assessment.
  • Willis Jackson, 55, American jazz tenor saxophonist.
  • Gerald Pearson, 82, American physicist, worked on silicon rectifiers.
  • J. A. Ratcliffe, 84, British radio physicist.
  • Kate L. Turabian, 94, Armenian-American educator and author.
• October 26
  • Herbert Anaya, 32–33, El Salvadoran president of the NGO Human Rights Commission of El Salvador, assassinated.
  • Greg Bautzer, 76, American attorney who represented famous clients, heart failure.
  • Aldo Boffi, 72, Italian international footballer.
  • Edith Luckett Davis, 99, American film and stage actress, mother of Nancy Reagan, stroke.
  • Victor Ganz, 74, American business owner and art collector, lung cancer.
  • Carolus Lassila, 65, Finnish diplomat, Finnish Ambassador to Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, UAE, Spain and Morocco, flash flood.
  • Bjørge Lillelien, 60, Norwegian sports journalist and commentator, cancer.
  • Adam Wolanin, 67, Polish American international footballer.
• October 27
  • Jorge Dalto, 39, Argentine-born American pianist.
  • Jean Hélion, 83, French painter.
  • John Oliver Killens, 71, American fiction writer, cancer.
  • Kosaraju, 82, Indian lyricist and poet.
  • Vijay Merchant, 76, Indian test cricketer.
  • Mario Merola, 65, American Bronx County District Attorney, stroke.
  • John C. Young, 75, Chinese American businessman.
• October 28
  • D. Djajakusuma, 69, Indonesian film director.
  • André Masson, 91, French artist.
  • Sir Jasper More, 80, British politician, Member of Parliament.
• October 29
  • Albert P. Crary, 76, American polar geophysicist and glaciologist.
  • William Davis, 86, British Royal Navy admiral.
  • Robert Heber-Percy, 75, English eccentric.
  • Woody Herman, 74, American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, singer, and big band leader.
  • Kamal el-Mallakh, 69, Egyptian archaeologist.
  • Ram Awtar Sharma, 79, Indian politician, Member of Parliament.
  • Frederic M. Wheelock, 85, American Latin professor.
• October 30
  • Thomas G. Bergin, 82, American scholar of Italian literature.
  • Joseph Campbell, 83, American writer on comparative mythology and comparative religion, complications of esophageal cancer.
  • Sydney Vernon Petersen, 73, South African poet and author.
  • Chaudhary Dalbir Singh, 61, Indian politician, Member of Parliament.
  • Grady B. Wilson, 67–68, American evangelist, congestive heart failure.
• October 31
  • Paul D. Adams, 81, American general in the U.S. Army.
  • Raj Chandra Bose, 86, Indian-American mathematician and statistician.
  • Ruel Vance Churchill, 87, American mathematician.
  • Josef Erber, 90, Nazi German SS-Oberscharführer at Auschwitz concentration camp, traffic accident.
  • Jimmy Jewell, 33–34, British rock climber, fall from mountain.
  • Hans Sommer, 73, Nazi German member of the Sicherheitsdienst.
• October (date unknown)
  • Theodore Brameld, 83, American philosopher and educator.
  • Filippo Buccola, 101, Italian-born American mobster, member of the Patriarca crime family.

November

• November 1
  • Cameron Cobbold, 83, British banker, Governor of the Bank of England.
  • Leo Goldberg, 74, American astronomer.
  • Yoo Jae-ha, 25, South Korean singer and songwriter, car accident.
  • René Lévesque, 65, Canadian politician, Premier of Quebec, heart attack.
  • Tom Parker, 89, English international footballer and manager.
  • Mary Shane, 42, American Major League baseball commentator, heart attack.
• November 2
  • Michael DeBatt, 38, American mobster of the Gambino crime family, murdered.
  • Louise McCarren Herring, 78, American who established the Credit Union National Association.
  • Friedrich-Karl "Nasen" Müller, 75, Nazi German Luftwaffe night fighter ace.
  • Wilhelm Schöning, 79, Nazi German Army commander.
  • Elmer Tarbox, 71, American military aviator, businessman and politician, member of Texas House of Representatives, complications of Parkinson's disease.
• November 3
  • André Roussin, 76, French playwright.
  • Liang Shih-chiu, 84, Chinese educator, writer, translator, literary theorist and lexicographer.
• November 4
  • Óscar Bonfiglio, 82, Mexican international footballer.
  • Danielle Gaubert, 44, French actress, cancer.
  • Babe Plunket Greene, 80, English socialite.
  • Wilton M. Krogman, 83, American anthropologist.
  • Francis Pollen, 60, English architect (Worth Abbey).
  • Pierre Seghers, 81, French poet and editor, member of the French Resistance.
  • Raphael Soyer, 87, Russian-born American painter, draftsman and printmaker, cancer.
  • Paulin Soumanou Vieyra, 62, Senegalese film director and historian.
• November 5
  • Eamonn Andrews, 64, Irish radio and television presenter, heart failure.
  • Edvard Baghdasaryan, 64, Armenian composer.
  • Orlando Costas, 55, Puerto Rican Evangelical theologian, stomach cancer.
  • Daasarathi, 62, Indian Telugu poet and writer.
  • Peg Fenwick, 79, American screenwriter and playwright.
  • Georges Franju, 75, French filmmaker.
  • Arthur Schmidt, 92, German military officer, Sixth Army's chief of staff in the Battle of Stalingrad.
  • Juliet Rice Wichman, 86, Hawaiian conservationist, botanist and author.
• November 6
  • Zohar Argov, 32, Israeli singer and convicted rapist, suicide by hanging.
  • Ross Barnett, 89, American politician, Governor of Mississippi.
  • Opie Cates, 78, American clarinet player, band leader and radio actor.
  • Michael Comay, 79, Israeli diplomat, Israeli ambassador to Canada and the U.K.
  • Alvin Dewey, 75, American special agent of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation.
  • George Laurence, 82, Canadian nuclear physicist.
  • Jean Rivier, 91, French composer of classical music.
• November 7
  • Arne Borg, 86, Swedish swimmer, 5-time Olympic gold medalist and holder of multiple world records.
  • Herbert H. Chen, 45, Chinese-born American theoretical and experimental physicist, leukemia.
  • Aileen Eaton, 78, American boxing and professional wrestling promoter.
  • Ben C. Henley, 80, American lawyer, businessman and politician, Arkansas Republican Party State Chairman.
• November 8
  • Kid Chissell, 82, American boxing champion and actor.
  • Jim Fitzgerald, 65, American racing driver, racing crash.
  • Ian Fraser, 71, British politician.
  • Boris Goldstein, 64, Soviet violinist.
  • Yevgeniya Khanayeva, 66, Soviet film and stage actress.
  • Sakthi T. K. Krishnasamy, 74, Indian author, screenwriter and lyricist.
• November 9
  • Eemeli, 67, Finnish actor, comedian and entertainer.
  • Akhtar Hussain, 61, Indian and Pakistani hockey player.
  • Johann Schalk, 84, Nazi German flying ace.
  • Thengai Srinivasan, 50, Indian actor, brain haemorrhage.
• November 10
  • Lou Breslow, 87, American screenwriter and film director.
  • Faruk Kaiser, 69, Indian poet.
  • Seyni Kountché, 56, Nigerien military officer, President of Niger, brain tumour.
  • Pop Momand, 100, American cartoonist (Keeping Up with the Joneses).
  • Raymond Rohauer, 62–63, American film collector and distributor.
  • Jackie Vernon, 63, American stand-up comedian and actor, heart attack.
• November 11
  • Charles H. Baker Jr., 91, American author known for culinary and cocktail writings.
  • Earnshaw Cook, 87, American early researcher and proponent of baseball sabermetrics.
  • John 'Dusty' King, 78, American singer and film actor.
  • Channing E. Phillips, 59, American minister, civil rights leader and social activist, cancer.
• November 12
  • George Chatterton, 75, British Army soldier, commanded the Glider Pilot Regiment.
  • Roger Lewis, 75, American business executive, assistant United States Secretary of the Air Force.
  • Lasgush Poradeci, 87, Albanian philologist, poet and writer.
  • Cornelis Vreeswijk, 50, Dutch-born Swedish singer-songwriter, poet and actor.
• November 13
  • Jayatirtha Dasa, 39, British Hare Krishna, murdered.
  • A. L. Abdul Majeed, 54, Sri Lankan politician, Member of Parliament, assassinated.
  • Paul Neergaard, 80, Danish agronomist, mycologist and agriculturist.
  • Joseph Phillips, 76, Indian hockey player and Olympic gold medalist.
  • Franklin D. Richards, 86, American commissioner of the U.S. Federal Housing Administration, general authority of the LDS church.
  • Harold Vick, 51, American jazz saxophonist and flautist, heart attack.
• November 14
  • Friedrich Bopp, 77, German theoretical physicist.
  • Ann Christy, 82, American film actress, heart attack.
  • Roger Fleetwood-Hesketh, 85, British politician, Member of Parliament.
  • Petras Griškevičius, 63, Lithuanian communist party official.
  • Hod Lisenbee, 89, American Major League baseballer.
  • Pieter Menten, 88, Dutch war criminal, businessman and art collector.
• November 15
  • Ernő Goldfinger, 85, Hungarian-born British architect and designer of furniture.
  • Shyamal Mitra, 58, Indian playback singer and music director.
  • Brigid Lyons Thornton, 91, Irish member of Cumann na mBan, officer in the Irish Free State Army and physician, cardiac-respiratory arrest.
• November 16
  • Jim Brewer, 50, American Major League baseballer, car accident.
  • Terrence Des Pres, 48, American writer and Holocaust scholar, suicide.
  • Zubir Said, 80, Singaporean composer, composed the national anthem of his country.
  • Trevor Stamp, 80, British medical doctor and bacteriologist.
• November 17
  • Ganesh Baba, 97, Indian yogi.
  • Betty Corday, 75, American Broadway actress and television producer, respiratory failure.
  • Paul Derringer, 81, American Major League baseballer.
  • Hiroshi Kawaguchi, 51, Japanese film actor.
  • Gerry Lockran, 45, British blues singer, songwriter, poet and guitarist, heart attack.
  • Arthur C. Pierce, 64, American screenwriter and director.
  • Ireene Wicker, 81, American singer and actress.
• November 18
  • Jacques Anquetil, 53, French road racing cyclist, 5-time Tour de France winner, stomach cancer.
  • Mozzafar Baghai, 75, Iranian politician, Member of Parliament.
  • Edward Both, 79, Australian medical and military inventor.
  • Jay Cook, 20, Canadian unsolved murder victim.
  • Tanya Van Cuylenborg, 18, Canadian unsolved murder victim.
  • Lynn Freeman Olson, 49, American composer.
  • George Ryga, 55, Canadian playwright, actor and novelist.
  • Dick Stello, 53, American Major League baseball umpire, traffic accident.
  • Colin Townsley, 45, English station officer at Soho Fire Station, killed in the King's Cross fire.
• November 19
  • Brand Blanshard, 95, American philosopher.
  • Lee Byung-chul, 77, South Korean businessman.
  • Ben Clopton, 81, American artist known for animated cartoons.
  • Jock Colville, 72, British diarist.
  • Norman Jones, 64, New Zealand politician, Member of Parliament, brain tumour.
  • Clara Petrella, 73, Italian operatic soprano.
  • Christopher Wilmarth, 44, American artist known for sculptures of glass and steel, suicide.
• November 20
  • Christopher Evelyn Blunt, 83, British merchant banker.
  • Peter Button, 58, New Zealand rescue helicopter pilot, helicopter crash.
  • Helen Grace Scott Keenan, 72, American broadcaster for Free France in Brazzaville, heart attack.
• November 21
  • Alex Diggelmann, 85, Swiss graphic artist and book designer.
  • Jim Folsom, 79, American politician, Governor of Alabama.
  • Ivan Jandl, 50, Czechoslovakian child actor, complications of diabetes.
  • Karel Raška, 78, Czech physician and epidemiologist, helped eradicate smallpox.
• November 22
  • Verna Arvey, 77, American librettist, pianist and writer.
  • Helmut Aris, 79, German president of the Association of Jewish Communities.
  • Hemanga Biswas, 74, Indian singer, composer, author and political activist.
  • W. Haydon Burns, 75, American politician, 75, Governor of Florida.
  • Plácido Domingo Ferrer, 80, Spanish zarzuela baritone, father of Plácido Domingo, heart attack.
  • Raymond D. Mindlin, 81, American mechanical engineer, professor of Applied Science at Columbia University.
  • Newt Perry, 79, American swimmer, attraction promoter and swimming coach.
• November 23
  • Alton Adams, 98, American bandmaster in the U.S. Navy.
  • Joseph Beer, 79, Polish-born French composer of operettas, singspiele and operas.
  • Sam Gilbert, 73–74, American businessman, money launderer.
  • Marcia Henderson, 58, American actress.
  • Solomana Kante, 64–65, Guinean writer, neographer and educator, inventor of the N'Ko alphabet.
  • Sarah Long, 49, English actress and television presenter, cancer.
  • Antonio Sastre, 76, Argentine international footballer.
  • Rajen Tarafdar, 70, Indian film director, actor and screenwriter.
  • Victor Windeyer, 87, Australian judge and soldier, justice of the High Court of Australia.
• November 24
  • Jehane Benoît, 83, Canadian culinary author, speaker, commentator, journalist and broadcaster.
  • Stan Hanson, 71, English footballer.
  • Gunnar Heckscher, 78, Swedish political scientist, leader of the Conservative Party.
  • Ove Joensen, 38, Faroese seaman and adventurer, first person to row from the Faroe Islands to Denmark, drowned.
  • John Parker, 81, British politician, Member of Parliament.
  • Anton Pieck, 92, Dutch painter, artist and graphic artist.
  • Jim Russell, 69, American Major League baseballer.
• November 25
  • Edgar Berman, 72, American surgeon and author, remembered for misogynist comments.
  • Francisco Dalupan Sr., 92, Filipino founder, chairman and president of the University of the East.
  • Little Willy Foster, 65, American blues harmonicist, singer and songwriter, kidney cancer.
  • George Korngold, 58, Austrian-born American record producer, music editor and producer, son of composer Erich Korngold.
  • Renzo Marignano, 64, Italian actor and film director.
  • James McDyer, 77, Irish Catholic priest.
  • Ramaswamy Parameshwaran, 41, Indian military officer, killed in battle.
  • Harold Washington, 65, American lawyer and politician, Mayor of Chicago, member of U.S. House of Representatives, heart attack.
• November 26
  • Bill Giant, 57, American songwriter, wrote for Elvis Presley.
  • J. P. Guilford, 90, American psychologist.
  • Peter Hujar, 53, American photographer, AIDS.
  • Costache Ioanid, 74, Romanian poet and songwriter.
  • Thomas George Lanphier Jr., 71, Panama-born American colonel and fighter pilot during World War II, cancer.
  • Morton Lowry, 73, British actor.
  • Louis Macouillard, 74, American artist and commercial illustrator.
  • J. K. Ralston, 91, American painter.
  • Duncan Sandys, 79, British politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies.
  • Raymond Westerling, 68, Dutch military officer of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army, coup leader, cardiac arrest.
• November 27
  • Charline Arthur, 58, American singer of boogie-woogie, blues and rockabilly.
  • Girdhari Lal Dogra, 72, Indian politician, member of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly.
  • Babe Herman, 84, American Major Leagues baseballer, pneumonia and strokes.
  • Sian Kingi, 12, New Zealand-born Australian murder victim.
  • John Muafangejo, 44, Namibian artist, heart attack.
  • Lillian Bostwick Phipps, 81, American socialite and owner of thoroughbred steeplechase racehorses.
  • Julius Rehborn, 87, German diver and Olympian.
  • Ernest Severn, 54, American child screen actor.
  • Ganda Singh, 87, Indian Punjabi and Sikh historian.
  • Ella P. Stewart, 94, American pharmacist.
• November 28
  • Paul Arma, 82, Hungarian-French pianist and composer.
  • Choh Hao Li, 74, Chinese-born American biochemist.
  • Wolfgang Liebeneiner, 82, German actor, film director and theatre director.
  • Guy Marks, 64, American actor, comedian, singer and impressionist.
  • Elisabeth Mulder, 83, Spanish writer, poet, translator, journalist and literary critic.
  • Goh Choo San, 39, Singaporean ballet dancer and choreographer, viral colitis stemming from AIDS.
  • Vasily Sitnikov, 72, Russian painter.
  • Kazuharu Sonoda, 31, Japanese professional wrestler, air crash.
  • Víctor Yturbe, 51, Mexican singer under stage name "El Pirulí", murdered.
• November 29
  • Giuseppe Gabrielli, 84, Italian aeronautics engineer.
  • Monk Gibbon, 90–91, Irish poet and writer.
  • Irene Handl, 85, British author and actress, cancer.
  • Abraham Kazen, 68, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
  • Gwendolyn MacEwen, 46, Canadian poet and novelist, health issues related to alcoholism.
  • John Howard Pyle, 81, American broadcaster and politician, Governor of Arizona.
  • Aage Samuelsen, 72, Norwegian evangelist, singer and composer, heart attack.
• November 30
  • Alex Carey, 64, Australian social psychologist, suicide.
  • Simon Carmiggelt, 74, Dutch writer, journalist and poet, heart attack.
  • Arthur Dean, 89, American corporate lawyer and diplomat.
  • Jimmy George, 32, Indian volleyball player, captain of Indian national volleyball team, car accident.
  • Helmut Horten, 78, German entrepreneur, owner of Horten AG department store chain.
  • Scrappy Lambert, 86, American dance-band vocalist.
  • Roger Manvell, 78, British director of the British Film Academy.
  • Hanni Rehborn, 80, German diver and Olympian.
  • Don Sebastian, 76, Mexican-born American wrestler, wrestling promoter and movie actor.
• November (date unknown)
  • Violet Aitken, 101, British suffragette.
  • Burnett Bolloten, 77–78, British-born American writer and scholar of the Spanish Civil War, prostate cancer.
  • Martha Harris, 68, British psychoanalyst.

December

• December 1
  • James Baldwin, 63, African-American novelist, essayist, playwright and poet, stomach cancer.
  • Donn F. Eisele, 57, American Air Force officer and NASA astronaut, heart attack.
  • Buddy Fogelson, 87, American lawyer, Army colonel, businessman, horse and cattle breeder and philanthropist.
  • Punch Imlach, 69, Canadian ice hockey coach and general manager, heart attack.
• December 2
  • Edward Barnsley, 87, English designer and maker of furniture.
  • Juan Alberto Melgar Castro, 57, Honduran military officer, president of Honduras, heart attack.
  • Robert Filliou, 61, French artist.
  • Trygve Henrik Hoff, 49, Norwegian singer, composer, songwriter and writer.
  • Luis Federico Leloir, 81, French-born Argentine physician and biochemist, Nobel laureate in Chemistry, heart attack.
  • Hubert Noël, 63, French film actor.
  • Myrta Silva, 60, Puerto Rican singer, songwriter and television producer.
  • Ernst Steinhoff, 79, Nazi German rocket scientist.
  • Princess Red Wing, 91, American tribal elder.
  • Yakov Borisovich Zeldovich, 73, Soviet physicist.
• December 3
  • Andrew Foster, 62, American pioneer of deaf education in African countries, air crash.
  • Robert Haskell, 84, American politician, Governor of Maine.
  • George Seawright, appr. 36, Scottish-born Northern Irish unionist politician, loyalist paramilitary in the Ulster Volunteer Force.
  • Yevgeny Tolstikov, 74, Soviet polar explorer, Hero of the Soviet Union.
  • Dorin Liviu Zaharia, 43, Romanian musician, composer, poet, essayist and philosopher.
• December 4
  • Pericle Fazzini, 74, Italian painter and sculptor.
  • Bryan Fowler, 89, British polo player and Olympian.
  • Meinrad von Lauchert, 82, Nazi German Wehrmacht general.
  • Arnold Lobel, 54, American author of children's books.
  • Rouben Mamoulian, 90, Georgian-born American film director.
  • Constantin Noica, 78, Romanian philosopher, essayist and poet.
  • Giorgio Prodi, 59, Italian medical scientist and oncologist.
• December 5
  • Pappy Daily, 85, American country music record producer, co-founded record label Starday Records.
  • Leonid Dimov, 61, Romanian postmodernist poet and translator, heart attack.
  • Bobby Garrett, 55, American NFL footballer.
  • Daud Kamal, 52, Pakistani poet.
  • Rudolf Mentzel, 87, German chemist and Nazi policy-maker.
  • Molly O'Day, 64, American country music vocalist, cancer.
  • Conny Plank, 47, German record producer and musician, laryngeal cancer.
  • Eugene Siler, 87, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
• December 6
  • James Dobson, 67, American film and television actor, heart attack.
  • Peter Lorenz, 64, German politician.
  • David J. Schwartz, 60, American motivational writer and coach.
  • Izler Solomon, 77, American orchestra conductor.
  • Ba Swe, 72, Prime Minister of Burma.
• December 7
  • Gareth Bennett, 58, British Anglican priest, suicide.
  • Michael Crossley, 75, British World War II Royal Air Force flying ace.
  • Michael Hornby, 88, British vice chairman of WHSmith.
  • Jane Mouton, 57, American management theorist.
  • Jaime Ongpin, 49, Filipino businessman, Minister of Finance, suicide.
  • Helen Porter, 88, British botanist from Imperial College London.
  • Denis Rogers, 70, New Zealand doctor and local politician, heart attack.
• December 8
  • Fay Baker, 70, American stage, film and television actress and writer, breast cancer.
  • Marcos Calderón, 59, Peruvian football coach and player, air crash.
  • Luis Antonio Escobar, 18, Peruvian international footballer, air crash.
  • José González Ganoza, 33, Peruvian international footballer, air crash.
  • Sigrid Helliesen Lund, 95, Norwegian peace activist, notably in World War II.
  • Alfredo Tomassini, 23, Peruvian footballer, air crash.
  • Yolanda Vadiz, 28, Puerto Rican soprano, carbon monoxide poisoning.
  • Johnny Watson, 24, Peruvian footballer, air crash.
  • Ulfert Wilke, 80, German-born American painter, museum director and art collector.
• December 9
  • Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover, 73, German prince, head of the House of Hanover.
  • Diana Forbes-Robertson, 72, British writer, stroke.
  • François Gall, 75, Hungarian-French modern impressionist painter, heart attack.
• December 10
  • Giovanni Arpino, 60, Italian writer and journalist.
  • Jascha Heifetz, 86, Lithuanian-born American violinist, complications from a fall.
  • Carlota Jaramillo, 83, Ecuadorian pasillo singer, complications from a fall.
  • Stylianos Kyriakides, 77, Greek Cypriot marathon runner.
  • Denis Sanders, 58, American film director, screenwriter and producer, heart attack.
  • Slam Stewart, 73, American jazz double bass player, congestive heart failure.
• December 11
  • G. A. Kulkarni, 64, Indian writer of short stories.
  • Emil Mazuw, 87, German governor of the Province of Pomerania.
  • William Thornton Mustard, 73, Canadian physician and cardiac surgeon, heart attack.
  • Rosi Wolfstein, 99, German socialist politician.
• December 12
  • Bodil Begtrup, 84, Danish women's rights activist and diplomat, chairman of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women.
  • Clifton Chenier, 62, American musician, kidney disease.
  • Enrique Jorrín, 60, Cuban charanga violinist, composer and music director.
  • Nolan Leary, 98, American actor and playwright.
  • Pinky Tomlin, 80, American singer, songwriter, bandleader and actor.
• December 13
  • Julien Darui, 71, French international footballer.
  • Bil Dwyer, 80, American cartoonist and humourist.
  • Bernard Epton, 66, American politician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives, coronary.
  • Na. Parthasarathy, 54, Indian writer.
  • Elias Porter, 73, American psychologist.
  • Stanisław Radkiewicz, 84, Polish communist activist, minister of Public Security.
  • Claude T. Smith, 55, American band conductor, composer and music educator.
  • George Wunder, 75, American cartoonist and comic illustrator (Terry and the Pirates), heart attack.
• December 14
  • Copi, 48, Argentine writer, cartoonist and playwright, AIDS-related illness.
  • Merlyn Hans Dethlefsen, 53, American officer of the U.S. Air Force.
  • Tim Dinsdale, 63, British cryptozoologist, attempted to prove the existence of the Loch Ness Monster, heart attack.
  • Siegfried Haß, 89, Nazi German Wehrmacht general, recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.
  • Milt Josefsberg, 76, American screenwriter.
  • Georg Knöpfle, 83, German international footballer and coach.
  • Valentina Kulagina, 85, Russian painter and designer of books, posters and exhibitions.
  • Mogens Lassen, 86, Danish architect and designer.
  • Nikos Stavridis, 77, Greek film and theatre actor.
  • J. P. Strom, 69, American law enforcement officer, Chief of the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division.
  • John Winterton, 89, British Army officer, Military Governor and Commander of the Free Territory of Trieste.
• December 15
  • Seitnebi Abduramanov, 73, Soviet junior platoon commander in the Red Army, recipient of the Order of Glory.
  • Septima Poinsette Clark, 89, African American educator and civil rights activist.
  • George Fulford, 85, Canadian businessman and politician, member of the Canadian House of Commons.
  • Ángel Infante, 73, Mexican actor and singer.
  • Ivo Lapenna, 78, Italian law professor.
  • Ray Malavasi, 57, American NFL football coach, heart attack.
  • Pierre Massé, 89, French economist, engineer, applied mathematician and high official in the French government.
  • Tiny Moore, 67, American Western swing musician.
  • P. Ramamurthi, 79, Indian politician, member of the Communist Party of India.
  • Elisabeth Zaisser, 89, German politician and teacher, East German Secretary of State.
  • Alfred Zerbel, 83, Nazi German Wehrmacht general.
• December 16
  • Leonard Beecher, 81, English-born Anglican Archbishop of East Africa.
  • Hob Broun, 37, American author, asphyxiation.
  • Minnie Evans, 95, American artist.
  • Albert P. Morano, 79, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
  • John Russell, 66, British politician, member of the House of Lords.
• December 17
  • Bernardus Johannes Alfrink, 87, Dutch cardinal, Archbishop of Utrecht.
  • Irving Allen, 82, Austro-Hungarian–born American theatrical and cinematic producer and director.
  • Georges Burou, 77, French gynecologist, drowned
  • Arkady Raikin, 76, Soviet stand-up comedian, stage and film actor, theatre director, screenwriter and satirist.
  • Lucy Walker, 80, Australian romance novelist.
  • Linda Wong, 36, American pornographic actress, drug overdose.
  • Marguerite Yourcenar, 84, Belgian-French-American novelist and essayist.
• December 18
  • Dimitrije Bašičević, 66, Yugoslavian artist, curator and art critic.
  • Chaudhary Rahim Khan, 64, Indian politician, Member of Parliament.
  • Warne Marsh, 60, American tenor saxophonist, heart attack.
• December 19
  • Murat Aitkhozhin, 48, Soviet molecular biologist.
  • Ralph Waldo Christie, 94, American admiral in the U.S. Navy.
  • Hermann Claasen, 87, German photographer.
  • Leo Jung, 95, American architect of Orthodox Judaism.
  • John F. O'Leary, 61, American government official and business executive, administrator of the Federal Energy Administration, cancer.
  • C. Donald Peterson, 69, American jurist and politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives, cancer.
  • Esther Shiner, 63, Canadian municipal politician.
  • André de la Varre, 83, American filmmaker of travel documentaries.
• December 20
  • Ruben Ecleo Sr., 53, Filipino cult leader, founded the Philippine Benevolent Missionaries Association.
  • Jake Eisenhart, 65, American Major League baseballer.
  • Dan Sikes, 58, American professional golfer.
• December 21
  • Fred R. Feitshans Jr., 78, American film editor.
  • Carl E. McGowan, 76, American lawyer and U.S. circuit judge.
  • Ralph Nelson, 71, American film and television director, producer, writer and actor.
  • Robert Paige, 76, American actor and TV newscaster and political correspondent, Universal Pictures leading man, aortic aneurysm.
  • Henry Strater, 91, American painter and illustrator.
• December 22
  • A. N. Alcaff, 62, Indonesian actor and film director.
  • Henry Cotton, 80, English professional golfer.
  • Roderick Firth, 70, American philosopher.
  • Gustav Fröhlich, 85, German actor and film director, complications after surgery.
  • Mimí Langer, 77, Austrian-born Latin American psychoanalyst and human rights activist, cofounder of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association, cancer.
  • Paule Marrot, 85, French textile designer.
  • John McMichael, 39, Northern Irish loyalist, car bomb.
  • Dudley Meredith, 52, American AFL footballer.
  • Dorothy M. Needham, 91, English biochemist.
  • Geoffrey Parsons, 77, English lyricist.
  • José do Patrocínio Oliveira, 83, Brazilian musician and voice actor.
  • Luca Prodan, 34, Italian-Scottish musician based in Argentina.
  • T. Ranganathan, 62, Indian American Carnatic musician.
  • Alice Terry, 88, American screen actress and director, Alzheimer's disease.
• December 23
• December 24
  • Roy M. Davenport, 78, American rear admiral in the U.S. Navy.
  • Nino Espinosa, 34, Dominican Major League baseballer, heart attack.
  • Eugen Kogon, 84, German historian and Nazi concentration camp survivor.
  • John Wesley Hanes II, 95, American investment banker, Under Secretary of the Treasury, president of the New York Racing Association.
  • Betty Noyes, 75, American singer and actress.
  • Josef Myrow, 77, Russian Empire-born composer.
  • M. G. Ramachandran, 70, Indian actor and politician, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, heart attack and stroke as complications of kidney failure.
  • Manoug Parikian, 67, British concert violinist.
  • Sara Scuderi, 81, Italian opera singer.
  • Joop den Uyl, 68, Dutch politician and journalist, Prime Minister of the Netherlands, brain tumour.
  • Kulwant Singh Virk, 66, Indian-born author, stroke.
• December 25
  • Alexander Gregory Barmine, 88, Soviet Army defector to the U.S.A.
  • Ruth Bonner, 87, Soviet Communist activist.
  • John H. Humphrey, 72, British bacteriologist and immunologist.
  • Vadim Knizhnik, 25, Soviet physicist, heart attack.
  • Gene "Bowlegs" Miller, 54, American trumpeter and band leader.
  • Zita Moulton, 104, American model and actress of theatre and film.
  • Nat Tarnopol, 56, American record producer, congestive heart failure.
  • Victor Whitsey, 71, British Church of England Bishop of Hertford and Chester.
• December 26
  • J. A. Baker, 61, English author, cancer.
  • S. M. Banerjee, 68, Indian politician, trade unionist and communist sympathiser.
  • Dorothy Bliss, 71, American carcinologist, cancer.
  • Neil Colville, 73, Canadian NHL ice hockey player.
  • Melford Stevenson, 85, English barrister and High Court judge.
  • Leslie Thompson, 86, Jamaican-born English jazz trumpeter and trombonist.
  • Luis E. Valcárcel, 96, Peruvian historian, anthropologist, writer and activist, Peruvian Minister of Education.
• December 27
  • Rewi Alley, 90, New Zealand-born writer and political activist, member of the Chinese Communist Party.
  • John Astor, 64, British politician, Member of Parliament.
  • Manoj Basu, 86, Indian writer of Bengali novels and short stories.
  • Shanti Devi, 61, Indian woman who claimed to remember her previous life.
  • Priscilla Dean, 91, American theatre and silent-screen actress, complications from a fall.
  • Josef Grohé, 85, German Nazi Party official, Gauleiter of Gau Cologne-Aachen.
  • Bernard Hailstone, 77, English painter.
  • Theodore Pike, 83, Irish colonial administrator and rugby union international.
  • Stepan Popel, 78, Ukrainian chess champion.
  • Wilbur Schramm, 80, American scholar and authority on "mass communications".
  • Anthony West, 73, English author and literary critic, stroke.
• December 28
  • Happy Akhand, 27, Bangladeshi rock singer and songwriter.
  • George I. Forsythe, 69, American general of the U.S. Army.
  • John Hunt, 82, British general practitioner, co-founded the Royal College of General Practitioners.
  • Edward Kleban, 48, American musical theatre composer and lyricist, complications from throat cancer.
  • Charles Malik, 81, Lebanese academic, diplomat, philosopher and politician, Lebanese representative to the U.N., kidney failure.
  • Joseph Sittler, 83, American Lutheran minister and theologian.
• December 29
  • John F. Aiso, 78, American nisei military leader, lawyer and judge, head injury sustained in a mugging.
  • Sheldon Andelson, 56, American higher education administrator and a political fund-raiser, complications of AIDS.
  • Patrick Bissell, 30, American ballet dancer, overdose.
  • Brigitte Heinrich, 46, German journalist and politician, heart attack.
  • Jun Ishikawa, 88, Japanese author, translator and literary critic, lung cancer.
  • Wilbert E. Moore, 73, American sociologist.
  • Ulysses Kae Williams, 73, American DJ, record label owner and producer.
  • Yanina Zhejmo, 78, Soviet actress.
• December 30
  • Leslie Arliss, 86, English screenwriter and director.
  • Datta Naik, 60, Indian film music director.
  • Manolo Urquiza, 67, Cuban-born media personality.
  • Theodore Zichy, 79, British actor, photographer, film director and producer, suicide.
• December 31
  • George Doherty, 67, American NFL footballer, college coach and athletics administrator, heart attack.
  • Merle Evans, 96, American cornet player and circus band conductor.
  • Randall Garrett, 60, American science fiction and fantasy author.
  • Gene Leggett, 52, American Methodist minister, defrocked for being homosexual, hepatitis.
  • Leo Steiner, 47–48, American restaurateur, co-owner of Carnegie Deli, brain tumour.
  • Jerry Turner, 58, American television news anchorman, esophageal cancer.
• December (date unknown)
  • Malcolm Butler, 75, Northern Irish international footballer.
  • Manbir Singh Chaheru, 27–28, Indian founder and first leader of the militant Khalistan Commando Force.
  • Michael Clemente, 79, New York mobster in the Genovese crime family.
  • Dorothy K. Haynes, 68–69, Scottish horror and supernatural writer, breast cancer.
  • Kurt Frederick Ludwig, 83–84, Nazi German spy.
  • Birendra Nath Mazumdar, 82, Indian medical officer in the Royal Army Medical Corps.
  • Marcus Owen, 52, Welsh professional snooker player.
  • Ian Wilson, 86, English actor.