- January 9
- Death of Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist and Nobel Prize laureate, at age 79 (born 1918). [1] [19]
- January 11
- Death of Klaus Tennstedt, German conductor, at age 71 (born 1926). [1] [19]
- January 15
- Death of Amos "Junior" Wells, American blues harmonica player, at age 63 (born 1934). [1] [19]
- Gulzarilal Nanda, temporary Prime Minister of India (1964, 66), dies. [1]
- January 16
- David "Junior" Kimbrough, blues musician, dies at age 67. [1]
- Peter Diamand, artistic administrator, dies at age 84. [1]
- January 17
- Emil Sitka, actor (The Three Stooges), dies of stroke at age 82. [1]
- January 19
- Death of Carl Perkins, American singer/songwriter/guitarist, at age 65 (born 1932). [1] [19]
- January 20
- Zevulun Hammer, Vice Prime Minister of Israel, dies. [1]
- January 21
- Death of Jack Lord, American actor (Hawaii Five-O) (born 1920). [19]
- January 23
- Hilla Limann, President of Ghana in (1979-81), dies. [1]
- January 25
- Birth of Marlene Lawston, American actress. [19]
- Mohammad Yusuf Khan, prime minister of Afghanistan in (1963-65), dies. [1]
- January 26
- S P Leary, Texan Blues drummer (Muddy Waters), dies at age 67. [1]
- Shinichi Suzuki, music teacher (Suzuki Method), dies at age 99. [1]
- Walter Edmonds, writer (Drums Along the Mohawk), dies at age 93. [1]
- January 28
- Death of Shotaro Ishinomori, Japanese Manga artist, "Father of Henshin heroes." (born 1938). [19]
- January 30
- Ricky Sanderson, who stabbed a 16-year old girl in North Carolina, executed at age 38. [1]
- February 3
- Karla Faye Tucker, age 38, is executed in Texas, becoming the first to be executed in Texas since the American Civil War. [1] [19]
- February 5
- Tim Kelly, guitarist, dies at age 34. [1]
- February 6
- Death of Carl Wilson, American musician (Beach Boys) at age 51 of lung cancer (born 1946). [1] [19]
- Nazim al-Kudsi, Syrian Prime Minister (1949, 1950-51)/President (1961-63), dies. [1]
- Death of Falco (Johann Hoelzel), Austrian musician (Rock Me Amadeus), at age 40 (born 1957). [1] [19]
- The French prefect Claude Erignac is assassinated in the streets of Ajaccio (Corse). [19]
- February 7
- Death of Lawrence Sanders, American author (born 1920). [19]
- February 8
- William Lambert, Pulitzer prize-winning reporter, dies at age 78. [1]
- Death of Halldór Laxness, Icelandic writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1902). [19] (February 9 [1])
- Death of Julian Lincoln Simon, American economist and author (born 1932). [19]
- February 10
- Buddy the Wonder Dog (star of Air Bud), dies of cancer at age 9. [1]
- Maurice Schumann, French foreign minister (1969-73), dies. [1]
- February 13
- Jo Clayton, author, (Cancer Died, Drums of Chaos), dies at age 58. [1]
- February 16
- Martha Gellhorn, female war reporter for Reuthers, dies at age 89. [1]
- February 17
- Ernst Juenger, German writer, dies at age 102 in Riedlingen, Germany. [1] [37]
- February 18
- Death of Harry Caray, American television and radio broadcaster (Chicago Cubs), at age 77 (born 1917). [1] [19]
- Mya Than Tint, Myanmarese author, dies of brain hemorrhage at age 69. [1]
- Robert Merrill, songwriter ("Funny Girl"), commits suicide at age 76. [1]
- February 22
- Louis Marshall (Grandpa Jones), country singer/comic/banjo wizard (Hee Haw), dies at age 84. [1]
- Jose Maria de Areilza, Spanish minister of foreign affairs (1975-76), dies. [1]
- Sandy Hume, correspondent (Fox News), commits suicide at age 28. [1]
- Death of Abraham Alexander Ribicoff, American Democratic Party politician (born 1910). [19]
- February 23
- Philip Abbott, actor (Arthur Ward - FBI), dies at age 74. [1]
- Death of Sean A. Moore, American writer (born 1965). [19]
- February 24
- Death of Henny Youngman, English-born comedian, at age 92 (born 1906). [1] [19]
- February 25
- Luigi Veronesi, Italian abstract artist (Campo Grafico), dies at age 90. [1]
- Umberto Mastroianni, Italian sculptor, dies at age 87. [1]
- February 26
- Death of Theodore Schultz, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1902). [19]
- February 27
- Death of J. T. Walsh, American actor (Good Morning Vietnam, Sling Blade), at age 54 of a heart attack (born 1943). [1] [19]
- Death of George H. Hitchings, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1905). [19]
- February 28
- Death of Dermot Morgan, Irish actor and comedian (born 1952). [19]
- March 6
- Adem Jasari, Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) leader, is killed. [1]
- March 7
- Death of Bernarr Rainbow, historian of music education, organist, and choir master, (born 1914). [19]
- March 8
- Death of Ray Nitschke, American football player (born 1936). [19]
- Death of Marvin Davis at age 87 in Santa Monica, California, USA; architect, art director at 20th Century Fox, worked at Disney 1955-95, helped plan Disneyland layout, designs for many buildings, worked on films and TV shows, Emmy award 1962, planning and designing Walt Disney World, named a Disney Legend 1994. [510.126]
- March 10
- Death of Lloyd Bridges, American actor (born 1913). [19]
- United States troops stationed in the Persian Gulf begin to receive the first anthrax vaccine. [19]
- March 12
- Death of Judge Dread, English musician (born 1945). [19]
- Death of Beatrice Wood, American artist and ceramicist (born 1893). [19]
- Death of Jozef Kroner, Slovak actor (The Shop on Main Street) (born 1924). [19]
- March 13
- Death of Bill Reid, Canadian artist (born 1920). [19]
- Death of Risen Star, American racehorse (born 1985). [19]
- March 15
- Death of Benjamin Spock, American athlete, pediatrician, and author (born 1903). [19]
- March 16
- Death of Derek Harold Richard Barton, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918). [19]
- March 20
- Death of George Howard, American jazz saxophone musician (born 1956). [19]
- March 25
- Death of Daniel Massey, English actor (born 1933). [19]
- March 31
- Death of Bella Abzug, American politician (born 1920). [19]
- April 1
- Death of Rozz Williams, American singer (born 1963). [19]
- April 5
- Death of Cozy Powell, English rock drummer (born 1947). [19]
- April 6
- Death of Wendy O. Williams, American singer (born 1949). [19]
- Death of Tammy Wynette [Virginia Wynette Pugh], American country singer (Stand By Your Man) of a blood clot at age 55 (born 1942). [19] (April 9 [1])
- April 13
- Death of Patrick de Gayardon, French skydiver and skysurfing pioneer (born 1960). [19]
- April 15
- Death of Rose Maddox, American singer (born 1925). [19]
- Death of Pol Pot, Cambodian Khmer Rouge leader (born 1925). [19]
- April 16
- Death of Fred Davis, English snooker player (born 1913). [19]
- April 17
- Death of Muhammad Metwally Al Shaarawy, Egyptian Muslim jurist (born 1911). [19]
- Death of Linda McCartney of breast cancer. [129]
- April 19
- Death of Octavio Paz, Mexican diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1914). [19]
- April 21
- Death of Irene Vernon, American actress (born 1922). [19]
- April 22
- Death of Kitch Christie, South African rugby coach (born 1940). [19]
- April 23
- Death of Constantine Karamanlis, Greek politician (born 1907). [19]
- Death of James Earl Ray, convicted American assassin of Martin Luther King Jr. (born 1928). [19]
- April 25
- Death of Wright Morris, American photographer and writer (born 1910). [19]
- May 1
- Death of Eldridge Cleaver, American activist (born 1935). [19]
- May 2
- Death of Kevin Lloyd, British actor (born 1949). [19]
- Death of Justin Fashanu, British football player (born 1961). [19]
- Death of Matsumoto Hideto, Japanese musician (born 1964). [19]
- May 7
- Death of Allan McLeod Cormack, South African-born physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1924). [19]
- Death of Eddie Rabbitt, American musician (born 1941). [19]
- May 9
- Death of Alice Faye, American entertainer (born 1915). [19]
- May 14
- Death of Frank (Francis Albert) Sinatra, American entertainer, at age 82 from heart and kidney disease, bladder cancer, senility (born 1915). [1] [5] [19] [494.60]
- Death of Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American conservationist and writer (born 1890). [19]
- May 15
- Death of Earl Manigault, American basketball player (born 1944). [19]
- May 19
- Death of Sosuke Uno, Prime Minister of Japan (born 1922). [19]
- May 22
- Death of José Enrique Moyal, mathematical physicist (born 1910). [19]
- May 28
- In Encino, California, the wife of Saturday Night Live comedian Phil Hartman kills him and commits suicide afterwards. [1] [19]
- May 29
- Death of Barry M. Goldwater, American politician (born 1909). [5] [19]
- June 1
- Death of Darwin Joston, American actor (born 1937). [19]
- June 3
- Death of Poul Bundgaard, Danish actor and singer (born 1922). [19]
- June 7
- Three white supremacists murder James Byrd Jr. in Jasper, Texas. [19]
- June 8
- President Sani Abacha of Nigeria dies of apparent heart failure. [19]
- June 10
- Death of Hammond Innes, English author (born 1914). [19]
- June 11
- Death of Catherine Cookson, English author (born 1906). [19]
- June 13
- Death of Birger Ruud, Norwegian athlete (born 1911). [19]
- June 20
- Death of Conrad Schumann, East German border guard (born 1942). [19]
- (month unknown)
- Stu Ungar is found dead in an Oasis Motel room on Las Vegas strip, at age 45, of heart attack from narcotics and painkillers. Ungar was 5-time winner of World Series of Poker, and 3-time winner of Super Bowl of Poker. [565.184]
- July 3
- Death of Danielle Bunten Berry, American software developer (born 1949). [19]
- July 6
- Death of Roy Rogers, American singer and actor (born 1911). [19] [305.14]
- July 19
- Death of Elmer Valo, Slovak Major League Baseball player (born 1921). [19]
- July 22
- Death of Hermann Prey, German bass-baritone (born 1929). [19]
- August 2
- Death of Shari Lewis, American ventriloquist (born 1933). [19]
- August 3
- Death of Alfred Schnittke, Russian-born composer (born 1934). [19]
- August 4
- Death of Yuri Artyukhin, cosmonaut (born 1930). [19]
- August 6
- Death of André Weil, French mathematician (born 1906). [19]
- August 9
- Death of Frankie Ruiz, Puerto Rican singer (born 1958). [19]
- August 14
- Gary C. Evans, infamous in New York's Capital Region for killing five people, escapes police custody and kills himself by jumping off a bridge. [19]
- August 24
- E.G. Marshall, American actor (The Defenders, Nixon, Absolute Power), dies at age 88 (born 1910). [1] [5] [19]
- August 26
- Death of Frederick Reines, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918). [19]
- September 2
- Death of Jackie Blanchflower, Irish football player (born 1933). [19]
- September 6
- Death of Akira Kurosawa, Japanese screenwriter, producer, and director (born 1910). [19]
- September 9
- Death of Lucio Battisti, Italian singer (born 1943). [19]
- September 10
- Death of Carl Forgione, British actor (born 1944). [19]
- September 13
- Death of George Wallace, American politician (born 1919). [19]
- September 14
- Death of Johnny Adams, American musician (born 1932). [19]
- September 15
- Telecommunications companies MCI Communications and WorldCom complete their $37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom. [19] (September 14 [5])
- September 17
- Death of Chet Hoff at the age of 107 in Daytona Beach, Florida. Hoff played for the New York Highlanders in 1911-13 and St. Louis Browns in 1915. [56]
- September 21
- Death of Florence "Flo-Jo" Griffith-Joyner, American runner (born 1959). [19]
- September 27
- Death of Narita Bryan, Japanese racehorse (born 1991). [19]
- September 30
- Death of Dan Quisenberry, baseball player (born 1953). [19]
- Death of Bruno Munari, Italian-born industrial designer (born 1907). [19]
- Death of Pavel ètepán, Czech pianist (born 1925). [19]
- October 2
- Death of Gene Autry, American actor, singer, and sports team owner (born 1907). [19]
- Death of Olivier Gendebien, Belgian race car driver (born 1924). [19]
- October 3
- Death of Roddy McDowall, British actor (born 1928). [19]
- October 6
- Death of Mark Belanger, baseball player (born 1944). [19]
- October 8
- Death of Zhang Chongren, Chinese artist (born 1907). [19]
- October 14
- Death of Frankie Yankovic, American musician (born 1916). [19]
- October 16
- Death of Jon Postel, American Internet pioneer (born 1943). [19]
- October 17
- Death of Hakim Mohammed Said, Pakistani scholar and philanthropist (born 1920). [19]
- October 29
- Death of Ted Hughes, English poet (born 1930). [19]
- November 3
- Death of Bob Kane, American comic book creator (born 1915). [19]
- November 10
- Death of Hal Newhouser, baseball player (born 1921). [19]
- November 13
- Death of Michel Trudeau, Canadian outdoorsman, son of Pierre Trudeau (born 1975). [19]
- November 17
- Death of Kenneth Allen McDuff, Texas serial killer. [19]
- November 20
- Galina Starovoitova, Russian legislator and democracy advocate, is assassinated in St. Petersburg, Russia. [19]
- November 22
- Death of Stu Unger, professional poker player (born 1953). [19]
- November 28
- Death of Kerry Thornley, American counterculture figure and writer (born 1938). [19]
- November 29
- Death of Martin Ruane, British wrestler best known as Giant Haystacks and later, The Loch Ness Monster (born 1947). [19]
- December 7
- Death of Michael Craze, British actor (born 1942). [19]
- Death of Martin Rodbell, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1925). [19]
- December 12
- Death of Lawton Chiles, U.S. Senator from Florida and Governor of Florida (born 1930). [19]
- December 14
- Norman Fell, actor (Mr. Roper - Three's Company) dies. [5]
- Death of Annette Strauss, American philanthropist and mayor of Dallas, Texas (born 1924). [19]
- December 16
- Death of William Gaddis, American writer (born 1922). [19]
- December 17
- Claudia Benton, of West University Place, Texas, is murdered in her house by Angel Maturino Resendiz (his third victim in his third incident). [19]
- December 18
- Death of Lev Demin, cosmonaut (born 1926). [19]
- December 19
- Mel Fisher, underwater film maker, dies from bladder cancer at age 76. [1]
- December 20
- Death of Irene Hervey, American actress (born 1910). [19]
- Death of Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, British scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1914). [19]
- December 21
- Death of Roger Avon, Durham actor (born 1914). [19]
- United Nations Security Council members France, Germany and Russia call for sanctions to end against Iraq. The three Security Council members also call for UNSCOM to either be disbanded or for its role to be recast. The U.S. says it will veto any such proposal. [19]
- December 22
- Death of Michelle Thomas, American actress (born 1969). [19]
- December 25
- Death of John Pulman, English snooker player (born 1923). [19]
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