- July 19
- Herbert Nelson, actor (Guiding Light TV show), dies at age 76 of a stroke. [1]
- Johnny Wayne, Canadian comedian (Wayne and Shuster TV show), dies at age 72 of cancer (born 1918). [1] [42]
- July 22
- Death of Manuel Puig, Argentinian writer (born 1932). [42]
- July 23
- Joe Turner, jazz pianist, dies at age 82 of cardiac arrest. [1]
- July 26
- Death of Brent Mydland, American keyboard player (Grateful Dead) at age 38 (born 1952). [1] [42]
- July 27
- Bobby Day, rocker ("Rockin' Robin"), dies of cancer at age 60. [1]
- Kim Thomas-Friedland, news anchor (FNN), dies at age 32. [1]
- August 9
- Death of Joe Mercer, English football player (born 1914). [42]
- August 12
- Death of Dorothy Mackaill, British-born American actress (born 1903). [42]
- August 15
- Death of Victor Tsoi, Russian singer, actor and poet (born 1962). [42]
- August 17
- Pearl Bailey, American broadway actress/singer, dies at age 72 from a heart attack (born 1918). [1] [5] [42]
- August 18
- B.F. Skinner, American psychologist (Skinner Box), dies from Leukemia at age 86 (born 1904). [1] [42]
- August 27
- Stevie Ray Vaughan, American blues guitarist, dies in a helicopter crash at age 35 (born 1954). [1] [42]
- August 31
- Nat (Sweetwater) Clifton, New York Knicks player, dies at age 65 of a heart attack. [1]
- September 3
- David Acer, Florida dentist, dies of AIDS after infecting five patients. [1]
- September 4
- Irene Dunne, American actress (winner of five Oscars), dies of heart failure at age 91 (born 1898). [1] [42]
- September 7
- Death of A. J. P. Taylor, English historian (born 1906). [42]
- September 9
- Samuel Kanyon Doe, president of Liberia, captured and killed by rebels in a filmed execution. [1] [42]
- September 26
- Alberto Moravia, Italian writer (Woman in Red), dies at age 82 (born 1907). [1] [42]
- September 30
- Death of Patrick White, Australian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1912). [42]
- October 1
- Curtis E LeMay, US Air Force General, dies at age 83. [1]
- Death of Larry Volk, shot dead at age 49 at home in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; was programmer for American Coin Machine Company; had admitted to Nevada State Gaming Control Board that he had altered software used in video poler and keno machines, preventing awarding of some jackpots and increasing others, allowing estimated $10-20 million to be illegally won from 1986 to 1989. [818.35]
- October 3
- Stefano Casiraghi, Princess Caroline of Monaco's husband, dies at age 30. [1]
- October 5
- Meir Kahane, founder of Jewish defense league, assassinated at age 58. [1]
- October 7
- John "Cat" Thompson, basketball hall of famer, dies at age 84. [1]
- October 10
- Dick Jorgensen, NFL referee, dies at age 56. [1]
- October 11
- Douglas Edwards, WW II correspondant, dies of cancer at age 73. [1]
- October 13
- Death of Le Duc Tho, Vietnamese general and politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (born 1911). [42]
- October 14
- Leonard Bernstein, American composer and conductor (West Side Story), dies of a heart attack in New York City at age 72 (born 1918). [1] [42]
- October 16
- Art Blakey, jazz drummer (Jazz Messengers), dies of cancer at age 71. [1]
- October 17
- Ralph Abernathy, civil rights leader, dies. [1]
- October 20
- Brian Jewell, teenager in New Jersey, dies of accidental hanging while playing the part of a hanged man for a "haunted hayride". [467]
- October 26
- William Paley, CEO of CBS, dies at age 89 from a heart attack. [1]
- William Anthony Odom, North Carolina 15-year-old, accidentally hangs himself staging a gallows scene at a Halloween party. [467]
- October 27
- Elliott Roosevelt, son of Franklin Roosevelt, dies at age 80. [1]
- Xavier Cugart, bandlander, dies from heart failure at age 90. [1] [457]
- October 29
- William French Smith, US attorney general (1980), dies at age 73 from cancer. [1]
- October 30
- Joseph Burrus, amateur magician in Fresno California, is crushed and dies after being bound in a plastic coffin and buried under seven tons of soil and concrete. [467]
- November 3
- Mary Martin, actress (Peter Pan), dies at age 76. [1]
- November 5
- American rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the far-right Kach movement, is shot dead after a speech at a New York City hotel. [42]
- November 12
- Eve Arden, actress (Our Miss Brooks), dies at age 82. [1]
- November 14
- Malcolm Muggeridge, WW II spy for Britain, dies at age 87. [1]
- November 17
- Death of Robert Hofstadter, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1915). [42]
- November 23
- Bo Diaz, catcher, crushed to death by a satellite dish at age 37. [1]
- Roald Dahl, British short story writer, dies at age 74 (born 1916). [1] [5] [42]
- November 25
- Bill Vukovich, Indianapolis 500 driver, dies in crash at age 27. [1]
- November 26
- Death of David White, American actor (born 1916). [42]
- November 30
- Norman Cousins, editor (Saturday Review), dies at age 75. [1]
- December 1
- Jan H de Groot, Dutch co-founder (Vrij Nederland), dies. [1]
- December 2
- Aaron Copland, American composer (Fanfare for the Common Man), dies at age 90 (born 1900). [1] [42]
- Robert Cummings, actor (Love that Bob), dies of kidney failure at age 82. [1]
- December 3
- Gavin Reed, actor (Body Beneath), dies at age 59. [1]
- December 4
- Edward Binns, US actor (Twelve Angry Men), dies of heart attack at age 74. [1]
- December 6
- Tunku Abdul Rahman, Prime Minister of Malaysia (1957-70), dies. [1]
- Death of Pavlos Sidiropoulos, Greek singer and songwriter (born 1948). [42]
- December 7
- Delecta "Dee" Clark, US singer ("Raindrops"), dies at age 52. [1]
- Joan Bennett, American actress (House Across the Bay), dies at age 80 (born 1910. [1] [42]
- Death of Reinaldo Arenas, Cuban writer (born 1943). [42]
- December 8
- Martin Ritt, American director/actor (Norma Rae), dies at age 70. [1]
- December 9
- Mike Mazurski, wrestler/actor (Centerfold Girls), dies at age 80. [1]
- December 10
- Armand Hammer, CEO (Occidental Petroleum), dies at age 92. [1]
- December 11
- Fernand J Collin, Belgian economist/banker, dies at age 92. [1]
- December 13
- Alice Marble, California tennis star, dies at age 77. [1]
- Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss writer (Besuch der alten Dame), dies at age 69. [1]
- December 14
- Hope Sansberry, actress (Rats are Coming), dies at age 94. [1]
- Johannes von Thurn und Taxis, prince in Germany, dies at age 64. [1]
- Death of Friedrich Durrenmatt in Neuchatel, Switzerland; dramatist (born 1921). [37] [42]
- December 15
- Betty Warren, actress (Passport to Pimlico) dies. [1]
- Jean Paige, actress (Captain Blood, Black Beauty), dies. [1]
- December 17
- Don Draper, actor (Pepper Agent 00X), dies of AIDS at age 61. [1]
- Mieke Verstraete, Belgian/Netherlands actress (Pleasant Settled), dies at age 79. [1]
- December 18
- Anne Revere, actress (National Velvet), dies of pneumonia at age 87. [1]
- December 19
- Basil Henson, actor (Change Partners), dies of stroke at age 71. [1]
- December 22
- Helene Stanley, actress (Carnival Story, Roar of the Crowd), dies. [1]
- December 23
- Frank King, cricket player (West Indies fast bowler played 14 Tests 1953-56), dies. [1]
- December 26
- Nancy Cruznan, accident victim/right-to-die case, dies at age 33. [1]
- December 28
- Ed van der Elsken, Dutch photographer (Sweet Life), dies at age 65. [1]
- Kiel Martin, actor (Detective LaRue - Hill Street Blues), dies of cancer at age 46. [1]
- Lucas Polhaupessy, Moluccan leader, dies. [1]
- December 31
- George Allen, US football coach (Los Angeles Rams, Washington Redskins), dies. [1]
- Vasily Grigoryevich Lazarev, cosmonaut (Soyuz 12, 18A), dies at age 62. [1]
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