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January

January 1 - Erich Kästner , last German veteran of World War I (b. 1900)
January 11 - Sir Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist (b. 1919)
January 16 - Nikola Kljusev, Macedonian prime minister (b. 1927)
January 17 - Bobby Fischer, American-Icelandic chess grandmaster (b. 1943)
January 18 - Lois Nettleton, American actress (b. 1927)
January 19 - Suzanne Pleshette, American actress (b. 1937)
January 20 - Louis de Cazenave, French veteran of World War I (b. 1897)
January 22 - Heath Ledger, Australian actor (b. 1979)
January 27 - Gordon B. Hinckley, American Mormon leader (b. 1910)
January 27 - Suharto, 2nd President of Indonesia (b. 1921)
January 28 - Christodoulos, Archbishop of Athens (b. 1939)

February

February 1 - Beto Carrero, Brazilian businessman (b. 1937)
February 1 - Shell Kepler, American actress (b. 1958)
February 2 - Earl Butz, American government official (b. 1909)
February 2 - Barry Morse, Canadian actor (b. 1918)
February 3 - Sheldon Brown, American bicycle mechanic (b. 1944)
February 4 - Harry Richard Landis, American World War I veteran (b. 1899)
February 5 - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Indian spiritual leader (b. 1917)
February 6 - John McWethy, American print and television journalist (b. 1947)
February 7 - Tamara Desni, German-born English actress (b. 1913)
February 7 - Hoang Minh Chinh, Vietnamese politician and dissident (b. 1922)
February 7 - Guy Severin, Russian academician and engineer (b. 1926)
February 8 - Chua Ek Kay, Singaporean painter (b. 1947)
February 8 - Ah Meng, Singaporean orangutan and tourism icon (b. 1960)
February 8 - Phyllis Whitney, American mystery writer (b. 1903)
February 9 - Jazeh Tabatabai, Iranian artist and writer (b. 1931)
February 9 - Trichen Jurme Kunzang Wangyal, Tibetan spiritual leader (b. 1930)
February 10 - Ron Leavitt, American television producer (b. 1947)
February 10 - Roy Scheider, American actor (b. 1932)
February 11 - Alfredo Reinado, East Timorese rebel (b. 1967)
February 11 - Tom Lantos, American politician (b. 1928)
February 12 - Oscar Brodney, American screenwriter (b. 1907)
February 12 - Imad Mugniyah, Lebanese militant (b. 1962)
February 12 - Badri Patarkatsishvili, Georgian businessman and politician (b. 1955)
February 13 - Kon Ichikawa, Japanese film director (b. 1915)
February 13 - Henri Salvador, French singer (b. 1917)
February 13 - Roger Voisin, French-American classical musician (b. 1918)
February 15 - Amnon Netzer, Iranian-Israeli historian (b. 1934)
February 15 - Steve Fossett, American adventurer[53] (b. 1944)
February 15 - Ashley Callie, South African Actress (b. 1976)
February 18 - Alain Robbe-Grillet, French writer (b. 1922)
February 18 - Mihaela Mitrache, Romanian actress (b. 1955)
February 19 - Natalia Bessmertnova, Russian ballerina (b. 1941)
February 19 - Lydia Shum, Hong Kong comedian and actress (b. 1945)
February 21 - Ben Chapman, American actor (b. 1928)
February 23 - Janez Drnovšek, 2nd President and 2nd Prime Minister of Slovenia (b. 1950)
February 23 - Denis Lazure, Canadian politician (b. 1925)
February 24 - Larry Norman, American musician (b. 1947)
February 26 - Buddy Miles, American musician (b. 1947)
February 26 - Dan Shomron, Israeli military leader (b. 1937)
February 27 - William F. Buckley, Jr., American author and conservative commentator (b. 1925)
February 27 - Myron Cope, American sportscaster (b. 1929)
February 27 - Sujatha, Tamil writer (b. 1935)
February 27 - Boyd Coddington, American car-builder (b. 1944)
February 28 - Joseph M. Juran, American engineer and philanthropist (b. 1904)
February 28 - Philip Rabinowitz, South African sprinter (b. 1904)
February 28 - Mike Smith, English singer (b. 1943)

March

March 1 - Raúl Reyes, Colombian guerrilla (b. 1948) March 2 - Sofiko Chiaureli, Georgian actress (b. 1937) March 2 - Jeff Healey, Canadian musician (b. 1966) March 3 - Giuseppe Di Stefano, Italian operatic tenor (b. 1921) March 3 - Iván Ríos, Colombian guerrilla (b. 1961) March 4 - Gary Gygax, American writer and game designer (b. 1938) March 4 - Elena Nathanael, Greek film actress (b. 1941) March 5 - Joseph Weizenbaum, German-American author and computer scientist (b. 1923) March 6 - Gustaw Holoubek, Polish actor and director (b. 1923) March 7 - Isaías Carrasco, Basque politician (b. 1964) March 7 - Francis Pym, British politician (b. 1922) March 8 - Carol Barnes, English newsreader (b. 1944) March 9 - Gus Giordano, Jazz dancer (b. 1923) March 12 - Lazare Ponticelli, last French veteran of World War I (b. 1897) March 12 - Erwin Geschonneck, German actor (b. 1906) March 12 - Howard Metzenbaum, American politician (b. 1917) March 14 - Chiara Lubich, Italian Catholic activist (b. 1920) March 15 - Mikey Dread, Jamaican singer, producer and broadcaster (b. 1954) March 15 - Vytautas Kernagis, Lithuanian singer-songwriter (b. 1951) March 15 - Vicki Van Meter, American former child pilot (b. 1982) March 16 - Ivan Dixon, American actor and director (b. 1931) March 16 - Gary Hart, American wrestler (b. 1942) March 18 - Anthony Minghella, English film director and screenwriter (b. 1954) March 19 - Arthur C. Clarke, English author, inventor, and futurist (b. 1917) March 19 - Hugo Claus, Flemish writer, painter and film director (b.1929) March 19 - Raghuvaran, Indian actor (b. 1948) March 19 - Paul Scofield, English actor (b. 1922) March 20 - Brian Wilde, English actor (b. 1927) March 21 - Gabriel París Gordillo, Colombian military governor (b. 1910) March 22 - Cachao López, Cuban-American musician (b. 1918) March 23 - Al Copeland, American entreprenueur (b. 1944) March 24 - Neil Aspinall, British record producer and business executive (b. 1942) March 24 - Rafael Azcona, Spanish screenwriter (b. 1926) March 24 - Richard Widmark, American actor (b. 1914) March 26 - Manuel Marulanda, Colombian guerrilla (b. 1930) March 27 - George Pruteanu, Romanian literary critic and politician (b. 1947) March 27 - Jean-Marie Balestre, French sports executive (b. 1921) March 30 - Dith Pran, Cambodian-American photojournalist (b. 1942) March 31 - Nikolai Baibakov, Russian statesman and economist (b. 1911) March 31 - Jules Dassin, American film director (b. 1911)

April

Charlton Heston Ollie Johnston Albert HofmannApril 1 - Jim Finney, English football referee (b. 1924) April 1 - Sabin Balasa, Romanian painter (b. 1932) April 2 - Yakup Satar, last Turkish veteran of World War I (b. 1898) April 3 - Hrvoje Ćustić, Croatian footballer (b. 1983) April 3 - Johnny Byrne, Irish writer (b. 1935) April 5 - Charlton Heston, American actor (b. 1923) April 8 - John Button, Australian politician (b. 1933) April 8 - Stanley Kamel, American actor (b. 1943) April 9 - Cedella Booker, Jamaican singer and writer (b. 1926) April 10 - Ernesto Corripio y Ahumada, Mexican cardinal (b. 1919) April 11 - Merlin German, American soldier and charity founder (b. 1985) April 12 - Patrick Hillery, 6th President of Ireland (b. 1923) April 12 - Barbara McDermott, last American survivor of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania (b. 1912) April 13 - Mark Speight, English television presenter[54] (b. 1965) April 13 - John Archibald Wheeler, American theoretical physicist (b. 1911) April 14 - Ollie Johnston, American animator (b. 1912) April 14 - Miguel Galván, Mexican actor and comedian (b. 1957) April 15 - Benoît Lamy, Belgian motion picture writer-director (b. 1945) April 16 - Edward Norton Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist (b. 1917) April 16 - Joe Feeney, American-born Irish tenor (b. 1931) April 17 - Aimé Césaire, French Martinican poet and politician (b. 1913) April 17 - Gwyneth Dunwoody, British politician (b. 1930) April 17 - Danny Federici, American musician (b. 1950) April 19 - Germaine Tillion, French anthropologist, member of French Resistance (b. 1907) April 21 - Al Wilson, American singer (b. 1939) April 22 - Paul Davis, American musician (b. 1948) April 25 - Humphrey Lyttelton, English musician and broadcaster (b. 1921) April 27 - Marios Tokas, Cypriot composer (b. 1954) April 29 - Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist (b. 1906)

May

Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo Irena Sendler Willis Lamb Crispin Beltran Sydney PollackMay 1 - Aden Hashi Farah, Somali militant (b. unknown) May 1 - Anthony Mamo, 1st President of Malta (b. 1909) May 2 - Philipp von Boeselager, German military officer (b. 1917) May 2 - Beverlee McKinsey, American actress (b. 1940) May 3 - Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo, 74th Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1926) May 4 - Fredric J. Baur, American chemist and inventor (b. 1918) May 5 - Irv Robbins, Canadian-American entrepreneur (b. 1917) May 8 - Eddy Arnold, American country music singer (b. 1918) May 8 - François Sterchele, Belgian footballer (b. 1982) May 9 - Jack Gibson, Australian rugby league coach (b. 1929) May 9 - Sinan Sofuoğlu, Turkish motocycle racer (b. 1983) May 10 - Leyla Gencer, Turkish soprano (b. 1928) May 10 - Nuala O'Faolain, Irish journalist (b. 1940) May 10 - Jessica Jacobs, Australian actress (b. 1990) May 11 - Dottie Rambo, American singer (b. 1934) May 11 - John Rutsey, Canadian drummer (b. 1953) May 12 - Irena Sendler, Polish humanitarian (b. 1910) May 13 - Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1930) May 13 - John Phillip Law, American actor (b. 1937) May 15 - Tommy Burns, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1956) May 15 - Alexander Courage, American composer (b. 1919) May 15 - Willis Lamb, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913) May 16 - Robert Mondavi, American winemaker (b. 1913) May 18 - Joseph Pevney, American director (b. 1911) May 19 - Vijay Tendulkar, Indian playwright (b. 1928) May 20 - Crispin Beltran, Filipino politician and labor leader (b. 1933) May 20 - Hamilton Jordan, American political strategist (b. 1944) May 22 - Robert Asprin, American science fiction writer (b. 1946) May 23 - David Mitton, British producer, director, model maker, and author (b. 1939) May 23 - Roberto Freire, Brazilian psychiatrist (b. 1927) May 24 - Dick Martin, American comedian (b. 1922) May 24 - Rob Knox, British actor (b. 1989) May 25 - Geremi González, Venezuelan baseball player (b. 1975) May 26 - Earle Hagen, American composer (b. 1919) May 26 - Sydney Pollack, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1934) May 27 - Franz Künstler, last Austrian-Hungarian veteran of World War I (b. 1900) May 28 - Beryl Cook, English painter (b. 1926) May 28 - Robert Justman, American producer (b. 1926) May 29 - Luc Bourdon, Canadian hockey player (b. 1987) May 29 - Romeo A. Brawner, Filipino election official and justice (b. 1935) May 29 - Harvey Korman, American actor (b. 1927)

June

Bo Diddley Chinghiz Aitmatov Võ Văn Kiệt Tim Russert Cyd Charisse George CarlinJune 1 - Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer (b. 1936) June 1 - Tommy Lapid, Israeli television presenter, journalist and politician (b. 1931) June 2 - Bo Diddley, American musician (b. 1928) June 2 - Ferenc Fejtő, Hungarian-born French journalist and political scientist (b. 1909) June 3 - Mel Ferrer, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1917) June 3 - Grigory Romanov, Russian politician (b. 1923) June 4 - Agata Mróz-Olszewska, Polish volleyball player (b. 1982) June 6 - Dwight White, American football player (b. 1949) June 7 - Rudy Fernandez, Filipino actor (b. 1952) June 7 - Dino Risi, Italian director (b. 1916) June 7 - Jim McKay, American television sports journalist (b. 1921) June 7 - Mustafa Khalil, Egyptian prime minister (b. 1920) June 8 - Peter Rühmkorf, German writer (b. 1929) June 8 - Šaban Bajramović, Serbian musician (b. 1936) June 9 - Algis Budrys, American science fiction writer (b. 1931) June 9 - Karen Asrian, Armenian chess grandmaster (b. 1980) June 10 - Chinghiz Aitmatov, Kyrgyzstani writer (b. 1928) June 10 - John Rauch, American football player and coach (b. 1927) June 11 - Ove Andersson, Swedish rally driver (b. 1939) June 11 - Võ Văn Kiệt, Vietnamese prime minister (b. 1922) June 11 - Adam Ledwoń, Polish footballer (b. 1974) June 11 - Taras Kermauner, Slovenian playwright, historian, and philosopher (b. 1930) June 11 - James Reaney, Canadian playwright (b. 1926) June 12 - Charlie Jones, American sportscaster (b. 1930) June 12 - Derek Tapscott, Welsh footballer (b. 1932) June 13 - Tim Russert, American journalist (b. 1950) June 14 - Jamelão, Brazilian singer (b. 1913) June 14 - Esbjörn Svensson, Swedish jazz musician (b. 1964) June 15 - Johnathan Goddard, American football player (b. 1981) June 15 - Ray Getliffe, Canadian hockey player (b. 1914) June 15 - Stan Winston, American special effects and make up artist (b. 1946) June 17 - Tsutomu Miyazaki, Japanese serial killer (b. 1962) June 17 - Cyd Charisse, American actress and dancer (b. 1922) June 18 - Jean Delannoy, French film director (b. 1908) June 19 - Tim Carter, English footballer (b. 1967) June 21 - Scott Kalitta, American drag racer (b. 1962) June 21 - Kermit Love, American costume designer (b. 1916) June 22 - George Carlin, American author, actor, and comedian (b. 1937) June 22 - Dody Goodman, American actress (b. 1914) June 22 - Jane McGrath, British-born Australian activist and philanthropist (b. 1966) June 23 - Arthur Chung, President of Guyana (b. 1918) June 23 - Ruth Cardoso, former Brazilian First Lady (b. 1930) June 24 - Leonid Hurwicz, American economist, mathematician, and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917) June 25 - Alla Kazanskaya, Russian actress (b. 1920) June 25 - G. M. Banatwala, Indian politician (b. 1933) June 27 - Polk Robison, American basketball coach (b. 1912) June 27 - Sam Manekshaw, Indian Army officer (b. 1914) June 27 - Michael Turner, American comic book artist (b. 1971) June 27 - Francesco Domenico Chiarello, Italian World War I survivor (b. 1898) June 27 - Nicolae Linca, Romanian boxer (b. 1929) June 28 - Ruslana Korshunova, Kazakhstani model (b. 1987) June 29 - Don S. Davis, American actor (b. 1942)

July

Jesse Helms Hasan DoğanJuly 1 - John Pont, American football coach (b. 1927) July 1 - Mel Galley, English guitarist (b. 1948) July 1 - Mark Dean Schwab, American murderer (b. 1968) July 2 - Elizabeth Spriggs, British actress (b. 1929) July 2 - Natasha Shneider, Russian musician (b. 1956) July 3 - Harald Heide-Steen Jr., Norwegian comedian and actor (b. 1939) July 3 - Larry Harmon, American entertainer (b. 1925) July 3 - Clive Hornby, English actor (b. 1944) July 4 - Jesse Helms, American politician (b. 1921) July 4 - Charles Wheeler, British journalist and broadcaster (b. 1923) July 4 - Terrence Kiel, American football player (b. 1980) July 5 - Hasan Doğan, Turkish football administrator (b. 1956) July 6 - Nonna Mordyukova, Russian actress (b. 1925) July 6 - Jack C. Collins, Australian footballer (b. 1930) July 7 - Yitzchok Dovid Groner, Australian rabbi (b. 1924) July 7 - Dorian Leigh, American model (b. 1917) July 8 - John Templeton, British philanthropist (b. 1912) July 8 - Alex d'Arbeloff, American entrepreneur (b. 1927) July 9 - Séamus Brennan, Irish politician (b. 1946) July 10 - Mike Souchak, American golfer (b. 1927) July 10 - Steve Mingori, American baseball pitcher (b. 1944)