- July 15
- Serial killer Andrew Phillip Cunanan shoots fashion designer Gianni Versace to death outside Versace's Miami, Florida residence. [18]
- July 20
- Death of John Akii-Bua, Ugandan hurdler (born 1949). [18]
- July 23
- Serial killer Andrew Cunanan commits suicide in a Miami, Florida houseboat. [18]
- Death of Chuhei Nambu, Japanese athlete (born 1904). [18]
- July 24
- Death of William J. Brennan, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (born 1906). [18]
- July 28
- Death of Hedi Oplesch in St. Paul, Minnesota (born in Munich, Germany). Oplesch taught German in the school system of Robbinsdale, Minnesota. She created a long lasting television series teaching German to children. [37]
- August 2
- Death of William S. Burroughs, American author (born 1914). [18]
- Death of Fela Kuti, Nigerian musician and political activist (born 1938). [18]
- August 4
- Death of Jeanne Calment, French supercentenarian (born 1875). [18]
- August 8
- Death of Sviatoslav Richter, Ukrainian pianist (born 1915). [18]
- August 10
- Death of Conlon Nancarrow, American-born composer (born 1912). [18]
- August 12
- Death of Luther Allison, American musician (born 1939). [18]
- August 16
- Death of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Pakistani Qwalli artist (born 1948). [18]
- August 17
- Antony Wheeler dies of accidental hanging while playing Judas in a Greek production of Jesus Christ Superstar. [467]
- August 21
- Death of Yuri Nikulin, Russian actor. [18]
- August 23
- Death of John Kendrew, British molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (born 1917). [18]
- August 24
- Death of Louis Essen, English physicist (born 1908). [18]
- August 31
- Diana, Princess of Wales, is taken to hospital after a car crash shortly after midnight in the Pont de l'Alma road tunnel in Paris. She is pronounced dead at 4:00 a.m. that morning. Also, death of Dodi Al-Fayed, Egyptian businessman (the same automobile accident), and driver Henri Paul. [5] [18] [145.64]
- September 2
- Death of Rudolph Bing, Austrian opera manager (born 1902). [18]
- Death of Viktor Frankl, Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist (born 1905). [18] [37]
- September 5
- Death of Georg Solti, Hungarian conductor (born 1912). [18]
- Death of Mother Teresa, Albanian missionary and humanitarian, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (born 1910). [18] [603.50]
- September 7
- Death of Mobutu Sese Seko, president of Zaire (born 1930). [18]
- September 9
- Death of Baseball Hall of Famer Richie 'Whitey' Ashburn of a heart attack in New York. [56]
- Death of Burgess Meredith, American actor (born 1907). [18]
- September 17
- Death of Red Skelton, American comedian (born 1913). [18]
- September 18
- Death of Jimmy Witherspoon, blues singer (born 1920). [18]
- September 19
- Death of Rich Mullins, American musician (born 1955). [18]
- September 25
- Death of Jean Françaix, French composer (born 1912). [18]
- September 27
- Death of Walter Trampler, American violist (born 1915). [18]
- October 1
- Death of Jerome H. Lemelson, American inventor (born 1923). [18]
- October 4
- Gunpei Yokoi, inventor and toy maker, dies of an auto accident. He designed Nintendo's Game & Watch handheld games, Game Boy, and Game Boy Pocket. [9] [18]
- October 5
- Death of Brian Pillman, American professional wrestler (born 1962). [18]
- October 6
- Death of Adrienne Hill, British actress. [18]
- Death of Johnny Vander Meer, baseball player (born 1914). [18]
- October 12
- Death of John Denver, American musician (born 1943). [5] [18]
- October 19
- Death of Glen Buxton, American guitarist (born 1947). [18]
- October 23
- Death of Bert Haanstra, Dutch filmmaker (born 1916). [18]
- October 24
- Death of Don Messick, American voice actor (born 1926). [18]
- October 29
- Death of Anton Szandor LaVey, American founder of the Church of Satan (born 1930). [18]
- November 5
- Death of James Robert Baker, American novelist and screenwriter (born 1946). [18]
- Death of Sir Isaiah Berlin, Russian historian of ideas (born 1909). [18]
- November 11
- Death of Rodney Milburn, American athlete (born 1950). [18]
- November 12
- Death of Carlos Surinach, Spanish composer (born 1915). [18]
- November 15
- Death of Douglas MacArthur II, nephew of World War II General Douglas MacArthur (born 1909). [18]
- November 17
- Death of John Wimber, American leader of the Vineyard Movement (born 1934). [18]
- November 21
- Death of Robert Simpson, English composer (born 1921). [18]
- November 22
- Australian singer and INXS frontman, Michael Hutchence, 37, is found hanged in a Sydney hotel room. [18]
- November 25
- Death of Monique Serf, French singer (born 1930). [18]
- November 30
- Death of Kathy Acker, American author (born 1947). [18]
- December 1
- Denis Gerald Barrington, artist, dies at age 67. [1]
- Stephane Grappelli, French jazz violinist, dies at age 89. [1]
- December 2
- Death of Shirley Crabtree, British wrestler best known as Big Daddy (born 1930). [18]
- Death of Michael Hedges, American composer and guitarist (born 1953). [18]
- December 3
- Marian Kratochwil, artist, dies at age 91. [1]
- Steve Hamilton, pitcher (New York Yankees), dies of cancer at age 63. [1]
- December 4
- David Abell Wood, priest, dies at age 72. [1]
- Richard Vernon, British actor (Gandhi, Hard Days Night), dies at age 72. [1]
- December 5
- Colin Franklin, doctor, dies at age 67. [1]
- Daphne Fielding, socialite/writer, dies at age 93. [1]
- December 6
- Alan Mouncer, film director/producer, dies at age 68. [1]
- Edmund Charles Wolf Myers, soldier/engineer, dies at age 91. [1]
- Eliot Daniel, composer (I Love Lucy theme), dies at age 89. [1]
- December 8
- Bob Bell, clown (WGN's first Bozo), dies at age 75. [1]
- December 10
- Violet Carlson, stage dancer/singer, dies at age 97. [1]
- December 11
- Kenneth William Gatland, aerospace scientist, dies at age 73. [1]
- December 13
- Alexander Oppenheim, mathematician, dies at age 94. [1]
- Martin Carter, poet/critic, dies at age 70. [1]
- Rafael Jose Fernandez de la Calzada y Ferrer, restaurateur, dies at age 83. [1]
- December 14
- Owen Barfield, philosopher of language, dies at age 99. [1]
- Robert Sutton, electronics engineer, dies at age 82. [1]
- Stubby Kaye, actor (Guys and Dolls, Sweet Charity), dies at age 79. [1]
- December 15
- Lillian Disney, widow of Walt Disney, dies at age 98. [1]
- Pananayiotis Taki Vatikiotis, middle east scholar, dies at age 69. [1]
- December 16
- Nicolette Larson, singer (Lotta Love), dies from brain seizure at age 45. [1]
- Richard Warwick, actor (Johnny Dangerously, Sebastine, If), dies at age 52. [1]
- December 17
- Reginald Victor Jones, scientist, dies at age 86. [1]
- December 18
- Death of Chris Farley, American actor and comedian (Saturday Night Live, Tommy Boy), at age 33 (born 1964). [1] [5] [18]
- December 19
- Death of David Schramm, American astrophysicist, at age 52 (born 1945). [1] [18]
- Masaru Ibuka, co-founder of Sony Corporation, dies at age 89. [1]
- December 20
- Dawn Steel, film maker (When Harry Met Sally), dies at age 51. [1]
- Death of Denise Levertov, English-born American poet, at age 74 (born 1923). [1] [18]
- Vincent Ciccone, inventor (Blow-Pops candy), dies at age 81. [1]
- December 21
- Death of Amie Comeaux, American country singer (born 1976). [18]
- Bruce Woodcock, boxer, dies at age 76. [1]
- Juzo Itami, film director/actor (Lord Jim, Yuuguremade), dies at age 64. [1]
- Michael Lyne, air-marshal, dies at age 78. [1]
- December 22
- Dawn Steel producer/president (Columbia TriStar), dies of brain tumor at age 51. [1]
- Douglas Ranger, surgeon, dies at age 81. [1]
- Hugh Edward Conway Seymour, marquis of Hertford, dies at age 67. [1]
- John Pinkerton, computer scientist, dies at age 78. [1]
- Johnny Coles, trumpeter, dies at age 71. [1]
- Juzo Itami, Japanese director, commits suicide at age 64. [1]
- December 23
- Austin Whitaker, schoolmaster classical scholar/archivist, dies at age 90. [1]
- Brian Malzard Foss, psychologist, dies at age 76. [1]
- Donald Gunn MacRae, sociologist, dies at age 76. [1]
- Hrvoje Horvatic, video artist, dies at age 39. [1]
- Keith Bentley, international racing cyclist, dies at age 72. [1]
- Stanley Cortez, cinematographer (Magnificent Ambersons), dies at age 92. [1]
- December 24
- Alan Fluck, musical educationalist, dies at age 69. [1]
- Anthea Joseph, music producer, dies at age 57. [1]
- James Komack, producer (Courtship of Eddie's Father), dies at age 67. [1]
- Death of Toshiro Mifune, Japanese actor (Shogun), at age 77 (born 1920). [1] [18]
- December 25
- Anatoli Boukreev, mountaineer, dies at age 39. [1]
- Death of Denver Pyle, American actor (Dukes of Hazzard), at age 77 (born 1920). [1] [5] [18]
- Giorgio Strehler, theatre director, dies at age 76. [1]
- Laurence Gower, academic, dies at age 84. [1]
- December 26
- John Hinde, photographer/circus promoter, dies at age 81. [1]
- John Whitley, air-Marshal, dies at age 92. [1]
- December 27
- Dorothy Stroud, garden historian, dies at age 87. [1]
- Ewart G Abner Jr, president of Motown Records, dies at age 74. [1]
- Tom Hudson, artist/teacher, dies at age 75. [1]
- Loyalist paramilitary leader Billy Wright is assassinated in Northern Ireland, inside Long Kesh prison. [18]
- December 28
- George Fleming, cyclist, dies at age 80. [1]
- James Lees-Milne, architectural historian, dies at age 89. [1]
- Ronald Clive Williams, actor/comedian, dies at age 68. [1]
- December 29
- (Hanlon) Pat Clarke, cyclist, dies at age 82. [1]
- Robert Steel, academic, dies at age 82. [1]
- December 31
- Dominique de Menil, arts patron/human rights advocate, dies at age 89. [1]
- Floyd Cramer, pianist (Nashville Sound), dies of cancer at age 64. [1]
- Michael Kennedy, son of Robert Kennedy, dies in ski accident at age 39. [1]
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