- July 16
- Death of Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor (born 1908). [37] [43]
- July 18
- Death of Donnie Moore, baseball player (suicide) (born 1954). [43]
- Rebecca Schaeffer, actress (My Sister Sam) is shot dead by a fan at age 21. [1]
- July 19
- Death of Kazimierz Sabbat, Polish president (born 1913). [43]
- July 20
- Death of Forrest H. Anderson, American politician (born 1913). [43]
- July 22
- Death of Martti Talvela, Finnish bass (born 1935). [43]
- July 23
- Death of Donald Barthelme, American writer (born 1931). [43]
- Death of Michael Sundin, English television presenter (born 1961). [43]
- July 30
- Death of Lane Frost, American bull rider (born 1963). [43]
- August 1
- Death of John Ogdon, English pianist (born 1937). [43]
- August 7
- U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland (Democrat-Texas) and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia. [43]
- August 12
- Death of William Shockley, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1910). [43]
- August 13
- Tim Richmond, American race car driver (won 13 NASCAR races), dies of AIDS (born 1955). [1] [43]
- August 14
- Death of Robert Bernard Anderson, American political figure (born 1910). [43]
- August 16
- Amanda Blake, American actress (Gunsmoke), dies at age 60 (born 1929). [1] [43]
- Death of Jean-Hilaire Aubame, French-Gabonese politician (born 1912). [43]
- August 18
- Leading presidential hopeful Luis Carlos Galán is assassinated near Bogotá in Colombia. [43]
- August 20
- Death of George Adamson, Indian-born conservationist (assassinated) (born 1906). [43]
- August 21
- Death of Raul Seixas, Brazilian singer (born 1945). [43]
- August 22
- Death of John Clyne, Canadian jurist (born 1902). [43]
- Death of Diana Vreeland, American fashion editor (born 1929). [43]
- Death of Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party (murdered) (born 1942). [43]
- August 29
- Death of Peter Scott, English naturalist, artist, and explorer (born 1909). [43]
- August 30
- Death of Joe Collins, baseball player (born 1922). [43]
- September 1
- Death of A. Bartlett Giamatti, American President of Yale University and Major League Baseball Commissioner, of a heart attack at age 51 (born 1938). [1] [43]
- September 4
- Death of Ronald Syme, New Zealand-born classicist and historian (born 1903). [43]
- September 8
- Death of Barry Sadler, American author and musician (born 1940). [43]
- Death of Paul Alfred Weiss in White Plains, New York (born in Vienna, Austria); biologist. [37]
- September 14
- Death of Dámaso Pérez Prado, Cuban musician (born 1916). [43]
- September 17
- Jay Stewart, announcer on TV's Let's Make a Deal, commits suicide. [1]
- Death of Hugh Quincy Alexander, American politician (born 1911). [43]
- September 22
- Irving Berlin, American composer, dies at age 101 (born 1888). [1] [43]
- September 28
- Death of Ferdinand Marcos, deposed President of the Philippines (born 1917). [1] [43]
- September 29
- A.A. Busch Jr, brewer/baseball owner (Saint Louis Cardinals), dies at age 90. [1]
- September 30
- Death of Horace Alexander, English writer, pacifist, and ornithologist (born 1889). [43]
- October 4
- Birth of Kimmie Meissner, American figure skater. [43]
- Death of Graham Chapman, English comedian (born 1941). [43]
- Death of Secretariat, American racehorse (born 1970). [43]
- October 6
- Death of Bette Davis, American actress, at age 81 (born 1908). [1] [43]
- October 9
- Death of Penny Lernoux, American journalist and author (born 1940). [43]
- October 11
- Death of M. King Hubbert, American geophysicist (born 1903). [43]
- October 13
- Jay Ward, animator (Rocky and His Friends), dies at age 69 of cancer. [1]
- October 16
- Death of Scott O'Dell, children's writer and winner of 5 Newbery Awards (born 1898). [43]
- October 25
- Mary McCarthy, author (The Group), dies, at age 77. [1]
- October 26
- Death of Charles J. Pedersen, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1904). [43]
- October 30
- Death of Pedro Vargas, Mexican singer and actor (born 1904). [43]
- November 1
- Death of Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, American civil rights activist (born 1898). [43]
- November 3
- Death of Timoci Bavadra, Fiji physician and politician (born 1934). [43]
- November 5
- Barry Sadler, singer (Green Berets), dies at age 49 in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. [1]
- Vladamir Horowitz, Russian pianist, dies at age 85 (born 1903). [1] [43]
- November 11
- Death of Kenneth MacLean Glazier, Sr., Canadian minister and librarian (born 1912). [43]
- November 12
- Death of Sourou Migan Apithy, Beninese political figure (born 1913). [43]
- November 13
- Death of Canadian champion swimmer Victor Davis. He held three world records, four Olympic medals, 29 national titles, and 16 medals from international competitions; member of the Order of Canada. [47.69]
- November 22
- In West Beirut, a bomb explodes near the motorcade of Lebanese President Rene Moawad and kills him. [43]
- Death of C. C. Beck, American cartoonist (born 1910). [43]
- November 25
- Death of George Cakobau, Fiji Governor General (born 1912). [43]
- November 26
- Death of Ahmed Abdallah, Comorian politician (born 1919). [43]
- November 29
- Death of Gubby Allen, English cricket player (born 1902). [43]
- November 30
- In Bad Homburg, Germany, Deutsche Bank board member Alfred Herrhausen is killed by a bomb (the Red Army Faction claims responsibility for the murder). [37] [43]
- Death of Ahmadou Ahidjo, Cameroonian politician (born 1924). [43]
- December 1
- Alvin Ailey, American choreographer (Blues Suite, Revelations), dies at age 58 (born 1931). [1] [43]
- December 5
- John M Pritchard, British conductor, dies at age 68 (born 1921). [1] [43]
- December 6
- Frances Bavier, American actress (Aunt Bee - The Andy Griffith Show) dies at age 86 (born 1902). [1] [43]
- John Paine, actor (Miracle on 34th Street), dies at age 77. [1]
- In Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Marc Lépine, an anti-feminist gunman, murders 14 young women at the École Polytechnique, then kills himself. [1] [43]
- December 8
- Hans Hartung, German/French painter, dies. [1]
- Death of Mikhail Katukov, Russian war hero (born 1900). [43]
- December 14
- Andrei D Sakharov, Soviet physicist/dissident/1975 Nobel peace prize winner, dies in Moscow at age 68 (born 1921). [1] [43]
- Jock Mahoney, actor (Dallas, Cow Town, Range Rider), dies at age 70. [1]
- Lee Van Cleef, American actor (The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Sabata), dies at age 64. [1]
- December 15
- Drug baron José Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha is killed by Colombian police. [43]
- Arnold Moss, actor (Gambit), dies at age 79. [1]
- Death of Edward Underdown, stage and film veteran (born 1908). [43]
- December 16
- Aileen Pringle, actress (Age of Consent, Convicted, Night Parade), dies. [1]
- Silvana Mangano, Italian actress (Death in Venice), dies at age 59 (born 1930). [1] [43]
- December 19
- Dorothea "Stella" Gibbons, English journalist/author, dies at age 87. [1]
- December 20
- Audrey Christie, actress (Splendor in the Grass), dies at age 77. [1]
- Death of Kurt Böhme, German bass (born 1908). [43]
- December 22
- Samuel Beckett, Irish/French writer (Waiting for Godot, Molloy, Nobel Prize 1969), dies at age 83. [1] [43]
- December 25
- Barrel Regtien, student leader, dies. [1]
- Billy Martin, New York Yankees' baseball manager, killed in a car accident at age 61 in Binghamton, New York. [1] [5] [56]
- Romanian dictator (1945-89) Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena are executed after their unsuccessful escape attempt. [1] [43]
- Roger Pigaut, actor (Indoptable Angélique), dies. [1]
- Ton Regtien, Dutch student leader, dies at age 51. [1]
- December 26
- Peggy Thorpe-Bates, actress (Alcatraz Island), dies. [1]
- December 30
- Madoline Thomas, actress (Girl in the Canal), dies. [1]
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