- July 23
- Vic Morrow, American actor (age 53), and two child actors are killed when struck by a helicopter during filming of Twilight Zone, The Movie in Valencia, California. [1] [116] [467]
- July 26
- Betty Walker, actress (Steve Lawrence Show), dies at age 54. [1]
- July 27
- Dan Seymour, actor (We the People, Sing it Again), dies at age 67. [1]
- July 28
- Death of Keith Green, American gospel singer, songwriter, and pianist (born 1953). [116]
- July 29
- Death of Vladimir Zworykin, Russian-born inventor (born 1889). [116]
- Harold Sakata, actor (Kenji - Sarge), dies at age 62. [1]
- August 2
- Cathleen Nesbitt, English actress (Seperate Tables), dies at age 93. [1]
- August 12
- Henry Fonda, American actor (On Golden Pond), dies at age 77 from heart disease (born 1905). [1] [5] [116]
- August 13
- Joe E Ross, comedian (Toody - Car 54, Phil Silvers Show), dies at age 77. [1]
- August 14
- Patrick Magee, Irish actor, dies at age 58. [1]
- August 15
- Death of Hugo Theorell, Swedish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1903). [116]
- August 17
- Barney Phillips, actor (Dragnet, Felony Squad), dies at age 68. [1]
- August 18
- Death of Vladek Spiegelman, father of cartoonist Art Spiegelman and main character/narrator of Maus (a graphic novel of his life during the Holocaust) (born 1906). [116]
- August 20
- Ulla Jacobsson, Swedish actress, dies in Vienna Austria at age 53 of bone cancer. [1]
- August 21
- Death of King Sobhuza II of Swaziland, at the time the longest reigning living monarch (born 1899). [116]
- August 23
- Death of Stanford Moore, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1913). [116]
- August 29
- Ingrid Bergman, Academy Award winning actress, dies on 67th birthday (born 1915). [1] [116]
- September 2
- Tom Baker, American actor, dies of a drug overdose at age 42 (born 1940). [1] [116]
- September 3
- Italian general Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa is killed in a mafia ambush. [116]
- Michael Thoma, actor (Eight is Enough, Fame), dies at age 55. [1]
- September 5
- Death of Douglas Bader, Inspirational leader of the Battle of Britain (born 1910). [116]
- September 11
- Death of Wilfredo Lam, Cuban artist (born 1902). [116]
- September 13
- Philip Ober, actor (General Stone - I Dream of Jeannie), dies at age 80. [1]
- September 14
- Lebanese President-elect Bachir Gemayel is assassinated in Beirut. [1] [116]
- Grace Patricia Kelly, American actress and Princess of Monaco, dies at age 52 in a car crash (born 1929). [1] [5] [116]
- September 15
- Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, Iran's former foreign minister, executed by Iran. [1]
- September 23
- Death of Jimmy Wakely, American country-western singer and actor, of heart failure at age 68 (born 1914). [1] [116]
- September 28
- Larry Breeding, American actor (Who's Watching the Kids?) dies on 36th birthday. [1]
- Mabel Albertson, American actress, dies of Alzheimer's disease at age 81 (born 1901). [1] [116]
- October 4
- Death of Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist (born 1932). [116]
- October 8
- Death of Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker, Canadian-born peace activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (born 1889). [116]
- Fernando Lamas, actor/director, dies at age 67 of cancer. [1]
- October 9
- Death of Anna Freud in London, England (born in Vienna, Austria), youngest daughter of Sigmund Freud, elementary school teacher, founder of child psychoanalysis. [37]
- October 10
- Death of Jean Effel, French painter and journalist (born 1908). [116]
- October 18
- Death of Dwain Esper, director (born 1892). [116]
- Bess Truman, former First Lady of the US, dies in Independence, Missouri at age 97 (born 1885). [1] [116]
- October 22
- Death of Savitri Devi, French-born writer and philosopher (born 1905). [116]
- October 24
- James Philbrook, actor (Islanders, Investigators), dies at age 58. [1]
- November 1
- James Broderick, actor (Doug - Family), dies of cancer at age 55. [1]
- November 5
- Jacques Tati, actor/director, dies of pulmonary embolism. [1]
- November 10
- Leonid I Brezhnev, Soviet first secretary, dies of a heart attack at age 75 (born 1906). [1] [116]
- November 15
- Death of Vinoba Bhave, Indian educator (born 1895). [116]
- November 17
- Bill Baldwin, announcer (Mayor of Hollywood), dies at age 69. [1]
- Duk Koo Kim, South Korean boxer, is declared legally dead. [1]
- Ruth Donnelly, comedienne, dies at age 86 in New York City. [1]
- November 21
- Lee Patrick, actress (Henrietta - Topper, Maltese Falcon), dies at age 75. [1]
- November 22
- Death of Jean Batten, New Zealand aviator (born 1909). [116]
- Burton Turkus, lawyer/author/TV host (Mr Arsenic), dies at age 80. [1]
- November 23
- Reverend Grady Nutt, actor (Hee Haw), dies at age 47. [1]
- November 26
- Dan Tobin, actor (I Married Joan, My Favorite Martian), dies at age 73. [1]
- Robert Coote, actor (Timmy - Rogues, Theodore - Nero Wolfe), dies of a heart attack in New York City at age 73. [1]
- November 29
- Death of Percy Williams, Canadian athlete (born 1908). [116]
- December 2
- David Blue, rocker, dies while jogging in Greenwich Village at age 41. [1]
- Marty Feldman, comedic actor (Young Frankenstein), dies at age 49 of a heart attack in México. [1]
- December 7
- Death of Will Lee, American actor who played Mr. Hooper on Sesame Street (born 1908). [116]
- Charlie Brooks Jr, convicted murderer, becomes first US prisoner to be executed by lethal injection, at a prison in Huntsville, Texas. [1] [116]
- December 8
- Suriname army leader Desi Bouterse murders 15 opponents, including Surendre Rambocus, Suriname army lieutenant; Leslie Rahman, Suriname journalist; Kenneth Goncalves, Deacon of Surinamese order of advocate; Jozef Slagveer, Suriname journalist; John Baboeram, Suriname lawyer; Harald Riedewald, Suriname attorney; Gerald Leckie, Suriname scholar; Cyrill Daal, Suriname worker's union leader; Bram Behr, Suriname revolutionary; André Kamperveen, Suriname minister; and Frank Wijngaarde, Suriname journalist. [1] [116]
- Death of Marty Robbins, American singer (born 1925). [116]
- Bertus de Harder, Dutch soccer star (Bordeaux), dies. [1]
- Demanding an end to nuclear weapons, Norman Mayer holds the Washington Monument hostage; after ten hours, police kill him; he had no explosives. [1]
- Marty Robbins, country singer, dies at age 57. [1]
- December 9
- Joey Forman, actor (Sid Caesar Show, Joey Bishop Show), dies at age 53. [1]
- Leon Jaworski, Watergate special prosecutor, dies in Texas at age 77. [1]
- Paul Godwin [Goldfein], Polish/Dutch violist, dies at age 80. [1]
- Roger Danneels, Flemish accordionist, dies at age 55. [1]
- Fritz Usinger, German writer (Song against Death), dies at age 87. [1]
- December 10
- Freeman "Amos" Gosden, US radio actor (Amos 'n' Andy), dies at age 83. [1]
- December 13
- Jack Badcock, cricket player (7 Tests, 1 century but inconsistent), dies. [1]
- December 16
- Death of Colin Chapman, British designer, inventor, and builder in the automotive industry, at age 54 (born 1928). [1] [116]
- December 17
- Leonid B Kogan, Russian violist, dies at age 58. [1]
- December 18
- Raymond Emery, cricket player (two Tests New Zealand versus West Indies 1952, 46 runs, two wickets), dies. [1]
- Tibor de Machula, Hungary/Netherlands cellist, dies at age 70. [1]
- December 19
- Jean-Jacques Grunenwald, French organist/composer, dies at age 71. [1]
- December 20
- Artur Rubinstein, pianist (My Young Years), dies in Geneva, Switzerland at age 95. [1] [116]
- December 23
- Jack Webb, actor (Joe Friday - Dragnet), dies of a heart attack at age 62. [1]
- December 24
- Louis Aragon, French poet (Pour un Réalisme Socialiste), dies at age 85 (born 1897). [1] [116]
- December 27
- John Leonard Swigert Jr, American astronaut (Apollo 13), dies of cancer at age 51 (born 1931). [1] [116]
- December 29
- Sol C Siegel, US film producer (High Society), dies at age 79. [1]
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