- January 3
- Ken Hill, actor (Cobra, Protocol), dies. [1]
- January 4
- Alberto Lleras Camargo, President of Colombia (1945-46, 1958-62), dies. [1]
- Robert F Adams, American sci-fi author (Castaways in Time), dies at age 57. [1]
- Death of Doc Edgerton, American electrical engineer (born 1903). [42]
- January 5
- Arthur Kennedy, actor (Air Force), dies of a brain tumor at age 76. [1]
- January 6
- Hans Jaray, actor (Lydia, Fedora), dies. [1]
- Ian Charleson, actor (Gandhi, Chariots of Fire), dies of AIDS at age 40. [1]
- Death of Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1904). [42]
- January 7
- Bronislau "Bronko" Nagurski, football hall of famer, dies at age 81. [1]
- Horace Stoneham, baseball owner (San Francisco Giants), dies at age 86. [1]
- Joseph Robbie, lawyer/NFL owner (Miami Dolphins), dies at age 73. [1]
- January 8
- Terry Thomas, English comic (Heroes), dies of Parkinson's disease at age 78. [1]
- January 9
- Ugandan Lt. Gen. Bazilio Olara-Okello, who led a coup against Dr. Apolo Milton Obote's government, dies in Ormduruman Hospital in Khartoum, Sudan. [42]
- January 10
- Juliet Berto, screenwriter/actress (Bastienne Bastien), dies at age 42. [1]
- Yvonne Peattie Marquard, actress (Donovan's Reef), dies. [1]
- January 11
- Mary Jane Carr, actress (Forbidden Trail, Second Wife), dies. [1]
- January 12
- Laurence J Peter, author (The Peter Principle), dies from a stroke at age 70. [1]
- January 14
- David Arkin, actor (I Love You Alice B Toklas), dies. [1]
- January 15
- Gordon Jackson, actor (Hamlet), dies after a short illness at age 66. [1]
- January 17
- Charles Hernu, French minister of Defense (1981-85), dies. [1]
- January 18
- Melanie Appleby, rocker (Mel and Kim), dies of liver cancer at age 23. [1]
- January 19
- Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Indian guru, dies at age 58. [1]
- Herbert Wehner, German ex-communist/chairman (1958-73), dies at age 83. [1]
- January 20
- Barbara Stanwyck [Ruby Stevens], American actress (Big Valley), dies at age 82 (born 1907). [1] [42]
- Naruhito Higashi-Kuni, Japanese Prime Minister (1945), dies. [1]
- January 22
- Death of Roman Vishniac, Russian-American photographer (born 1897). [42]
- January 23
- Allen Larkin Collins, guitarist, dies of pneumonia at age 37. Collins was one of the founding members and guitarists of Southern US rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. [1] [42]
- Mariano Rumor, Italy's Prime Minister (1968-70, 1973-74), dies. [1]
- January 24
- Madge Bellamy, actress (White Zombie), dies at age 87. [1]
- January 25
- Alexander Lockwood, actor (Duel), dies. [1]
- Ava Gardner, actress (Barefoot Contessa), dies from pneumonia in London, England, at age 67 (born 1922). [1] [42]
- January 26
- FHP "Boy" Trip, Dutch minister, dies. [1]
- Death of Lewis Mumford, American historian of science (born 1895). [42]
- January 27
- Helen Jerome Eddy, actress (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm), dies at age 92. [1]
- February 2
- Joel Fluellen, actor (Man Friday, Burning Cross), dies at age 79. [1]
- Death of Joe Erskine, former British heavyweight boxing champion (born 1934). [42]
- February 6
- Jane Novak, silent screen actress (Ghost Town), dies of stroke at age 94. [1]
- John Merivale, actor (Caltiki), dies. [1]
- February 7
- Dom Heider Camara, nonviolent/human rights Bishop of Brazil, dies. [1]
- Jimmy Van Heusen, American composer (Call Me Irresponsible), dies at age 77 (born 1913). [1] [42]
- Nathan Wartels, publisher (Crown), dies from pneumonia at age 88. [1]
- February 8
- Del Shannon, in Coopersville, Michigan, American rock vocalist ("Runaway"), shoots self at age 55 (born 1934). [1] [42]
- February 13
- Ken Lynch, actor (Paratroop Command, Legend of Tom Dooley), dies at age 79. [1]
- February 14
- Graeme Hole, cricket player (18 Tests for Australia, 789 runs), dies. [1]
- Jean Wallace [Walasek], actress (Big Combo), dies of hemorrhage at age 66. [1]
- February 15
- Henry Brandon, actor (Assault on Precinct 13), dies at age 77. [1]
- Jack Fletcher, actor (Any Wednesday), dies of heart attack at age 68. [1]
- February 16
- Keith Haring, American artist/cartoonist (brilliant baby), dies of AIDS at age 31 (born 1954). [1] [42]
- February 17
- Erik Rhodes, actor (Top Hat), dies of pneumonia at age 84. [1]
- Frans Kellendonk, Dutch writer (Good for Nothing), dies at age 39. [1]
- Marc Clement, actor (Career Opportunities, Sluggers Wife), dies. [1]
- February 19
- Michael Powell, English director (Life and Death of Colonel Blimp), dies at age 84 (born 1905). [1] [42]
- February 22
- Stephen Burns, actor (Casey's Shadow), dies. [1]
- February 23
- Annelien Kappeyne van de Coppello, Dutch Member of Parliament (Liberal), dies at age 53. [1]
- James Gavin, commandant US 82nd Airborn Division (Normandy), dies at age 82. [1]
- Jose Napoleon Duarte, President of Salvador (1984-89), dies at age 62. [1]
- February 24
- Johnnie Ray, singer (Cry), dies of liver failure at age 61. [1]
- Malcolm Forbes, CEO (Forbes Publishing), dies of a heart attack at age 70 (born 1919). [1] [42]
- Sandro Pertini, President of Italy (1978, 1985), dies at age 93. [1]
- Tony Conigliaro, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox), dies in Salem, Massachusetts at age 45 of pneumonia and kidney failure. [1] [56]
- February 25
- Deborra Hampton, actress (Crossroads, Two of a Kind), dies at age 30. [1]
- February 26
- Cornell Gunther, US musician (Coasters, Poison Ivy), dies at age 53. [1]
- Leslie Ames, cricket player (47 Tests, 2434 runs 8 centuries), dies. [1]
- Maurine Stuart, Zen teacher (head of Cambridge Buddhist Association), dies. [1]
- Scott Jarvis, musician (Great Expectationa), dies. [1]
- February 27
- Death of Nahum Norbert Glatzer, Jewish-American scholar (born 1903). [42]
- February 28
- Colin Milburn, cricket player (9 Tests for England, 654 runs), dies. [1]
- Fabia Drake, actress (Nice Girl Like Me), dies at age 86. [1]
- Tuppy Owen-Smith, South Africa cricket player (batsman versus England 1929), dies. [1]
- March 1
- Claude Spaak, Belgian dramatist, dies. [1]
- March 3
- Frans Goedhart, Dutch journalist/founder (Parool), dies at age 86. [1]
- Gerard Blitz, Belgian swimmer/founder (Club Méd), dies at age 88. [1]
- March 5
- Gary Merrill, actor (Time Tunnel, Huckleberry Finn), dies at age 75. [1]
- Gloria Carter Spann, President Carter's sister, dies at age 63 from cancer. [1]
- March 8
- New York City's Zodiac killer shoots first victim, Mario Orosco. [1]
- March 10
- Michael Stewart, United Kingdom Secretary of State (1965-66, 1968-70), dies. [1]
- March 13
- Bruno Bettelhelm, Austrian/American child psychoanalyst, commits suicide at age 86 in Silver Spring, Maryland (born 1903). [1] [37] [42]
- Death of Karl Münchinger, German conductor (born 1915). [42]
- March 15
- Tom Harmon, NFL tail back (Heisman Trophy), dies in Los Angeles at age 70. [1]
- March 17
- Capucine [Germaine Lefebvre], actress (Rendez-Vous de Juillet, Curse of the Pink Panther), commits suicide in Lausanne, Switzerland at age 57 (born 1933). [1] [42]
- Marí Mejía, Guatemalian feminist, murdered. [1]
- Rick Grech, British rock bassist (Blind Faith, Traffic), dies at age 44 (born 1946). [1] [42]
- March 18
- Robin Harris, actor (House Party, Mo' Better Blues), dies at age 36. [1]
- March 19
- Death of Andrew Wood, American musician (born 1966). [42]
- March 20
- Jannetje Visser-Roosendaal, Dutch writer, dies at age 90. [1]
- Jev Jasjin (Lev Yashin), Russian soccer goalie, dies at age 60 (born 1929). [1] [42]
- March 24
- Alice Sapritch, actress (European Vacation), dies. [1]
- An Wang, computer manufacturer (Wang), dies at age 70 from cancer. [1]
- Ray Goulding, comedian (Bob and Ray), dies from kidney failure at age 68. [1]
- Rene Enriquez, actor (Hill Street Blues), dies from pancreatic cancer at age 56. [1]
- March 26
- Roy "Halston" Frowick, fashion designer, dies of AIDS at age 68. [1]
- March 28
- Helene Fortescu Reynolds, actress (Bermuda Mystery), dies at age 65. [1]
- March 29
- New York City's Zodiac killer shoots second victim, Germaine Montenesdro. [1]
- March 31
- Lillian "Miss" Miller, audience member (Merv Griffin, The Tonight Show), dies. [1]
- April 2
- Aldo Fabrizi, actor (Postman Goes to War, Open City), dies at age 85. [1]
- April 3
- Katharine Balfour, actress (Love Story), dies of ALS at age 69. [1]
- Sarah Vaughan, American jazz singer, dies of lung cancer at age 66 (born 1924). [1] [5] [42]
- April 5
- Nico Scheepmaker, Dutch columnist/poet, dies at age 59. [1]
- April 6
- Lady Nancy Hawkes (1946 best-dressed woman) dies at age 73. [1]
- Ronald E Evans, astronaut (Apollo 17), dies of a heart attack at age 57. [1]
- April 8
- Ryan White, hemophiliac AIDS sufferer, dies at age 18 (born 1971). [1] [42]
- April 14
- Peter Dunn, actor (Invaders from Mars) dies. [1]
- April 15
- Greta Garbo, Swedish actress (Anna Karenina, Camille), dies at age 84 (born 1905). [1] [5] [42]
- April 17
- Reverend Ralph David Abernathy, American civil rights activist, dies at 64 (born 1926). [1] [42]
- April 18
- Robert D Webb, director/actor (Love Me Tender, Jackals), dies at age 87. [1]
- Death of Gory Guerrero, Hispanic wrestler and father of Eddie Guerrero (born 1921). [42]
- April 19
- Vladislav Ivanovich Gulyayev, Russian cosmonaut, dies at age 52. [1]
- April 20
- Horst Sinderman, RDA first minister (1973-76), dies. [1]
- April 21
- Death of Romain de Tirtoff (pseudonym Erté), French Art Deco artist (born 1892). [1] [42]
- Johnny Beagley, winner of two 1942 World Series games, dies. [1]
- April 22
- Bertil Unger, actor (Devil and Max Devlin), dies. [1]
- April 23
- Albert Salmi, actor (Caddyshack), kills terminally ill wife and self at age 62. [1]
- Palmer Deane, actor (Still of the Night), dies. [1]
- Paulette Goddard, actress (Hazard), dies of heart failure in Ronco, Switzerland at age 78 (born 1910). [1] [42]
- April 24
- Tom Rolfing, actor (He Knows You're Alone, Cliff - Another World), dies. [1]
- April 25
- Dexter Gordon, jazz saxophonist, dies in Philadelphia of kidney failure at age 67. [1]
- April 26
- Carlos Pizarro Leongomez, Colombian presidential candidate, is assassinated. [1]
- May 1
- Sunset Carson, cowboy actor (El Paso Kid, Oregon Trail), dies at age 62. [1]
- May 2
- David Rappaport, 3-foot 11-inch actor (Wizard, L.A. Law), shoots himself at age 38. [1]
- Oleg Anatolyevich Yakovlev, Russian cosmonaut, dies at age 49. [1]
- May 3
- Pimen [Sergei Irzyekov], patriarch of Russian-orthodox church, dies at age 79. [1]
- May 6
- Charles Farrell, actor (Vern - My Little Margie), dies at age 89. [1]
- May 7
- Jessica James, actress (Spring Break), dies of breast cancer at age 60. [1]
- May 8
- Tomas O'Fiach [Tomas Seamus Fee], Irish cardinal-archbishop, dies (born 1923). [1] [42]
- May 9
- Luigi Nono, Italian composer (Intolleranza), dies at age 66. [1]
- May 10
- Susan Oliver, actress (Disorderly Orderly), dies of cancer at age 61. [1]
- Walker Percy, physician/novelist (Lancelot), dies of cancer at age 73. [1]
- May 13
- Venedikt Jerofejev, Russian writer, dies. [1]
- May 16
- Jim Henson, muppeteer (Sesame Street, The Muppet Show), dies of pneumonia at age 53 (born 1936). [1] [42] [372.28]
- Sammy Davis Jr, American entertainer (Golden Boy), dies from throat cancer at age 64 (born 1925). [1] [42]
- May 18
- Jill Ireland, English actress (Carry on Nurse, Family), dies of cancer at age 54 (born 1936). [1] [42]
- May 21
- Franklyn Seales, actor (Silver Spoon, Onion Field), dies of AIDS at age 37. [1]
- Mary Victor Bruce, who flew around the Empire State Building in 1930, dies. [1]
- Moelvi Mohammed Farouk, Indian spiritual leader, is murdered. [1]
- May 22
- Max Wall, actor (Jabberwocky), dies. [1]
- May 23
- Rocky Graziano, boxer/writer/actor (Mr Rock and Roll), dies of heart failure at age 71. [1]
- May 25
- Vic Tayback, actor (Mel - Alice), dies of a heart attack at age 60. [1] [42]
- May 28
- Hussein Bin Onn, first minister of Malaysia (1976-81), dies. [1]
- Joseph Hardy, actor/director (Tree Grows in Brooklyn), dies at age 71. [1]
- May 31
- New York City's Zodiac killer shoots third victim, Joseph Ponce. [1]
- June 1
- Members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army shoot and kill Major Michael Dillon-Lee and Private William Robert Davies of the British Army. Dillon-Lee is killed outside his home in Dortmund, Germany and Davies is killed at a railway station in Lichfield, England. [42]
- June 2
- Frederick Mellinger, founder of Fredericks of Hollywood, dies at age 76. [1]
- Rex Harrison, English actor (My Fair Lady), dies at age 82 of cancer (born 1908). [1] [42]
- June 3
- Robert Noyce, co-inventor (semi-conductor)/founded Intel, dies (born 1927). [42] (June 2 [1])
- Death of Stiv Bators, American singer (The Dead Boys) (born 1949). [42]
- June 4
- Jack Gilford, comedic actor, dies at age 82 of stomach cancer. [1]
- June 7
- Barbara Baxley, actress (Norma Rae), dies at age 63 of a heart attack. [1]
- June 16
- Death of Dame Eva Turner, British soprano (born 1892). [42]
- June 17
- Palmira Henry, fashion designer, dies at age 44 of cerebral hemorrhage. [1]
- June 22
- Death of Ilya Frank, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1908). [42]
- June 29
- Irving Wallace, author (Book of Lists, Peoples Almanac), dies at age 74. [1]
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