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The following is a list of notable deaths in 1988 . Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
Deaths in 1988
January
Clementine Hunter (Jan 1)
Bill Crawford-Compton (Jan 2)
Rose Ausländer (Jan 3)
Gaston Eyskens (Jan 3)
Pete Maravich (Jan 5)
Trevor Howard (Jan 7)
Einar Gjerstad (Jan 8)
Juraj Krnjević (Jan 9)
Isidor Isaac Rabi (Jan 11)
Chiang Ching-kuo (Jan 13)
Georgy Malenkov (Jan 14)
Adelfo Magallanes (Jan 16)
Santiago Polanco-Abreu (Jan 18)
Philippe de Rothschild (Jan 20)
Werner Fenchel (Jan 24)
Colleen Moore (Jan 25)
Klaus Fuchs (Jan 28)
Rogier van Otterloo (Jan 29)
January 1
Margot Bryant , 90, English stage and television actress.
Marcel Hillaire , 79, German-born American character actor.
Clementine Hunter , 101, American folk artist.
Anwar Hussain , 62, Indian actor and producer.
John S. Millis , 84, American president of Western Reserve College, cancer.
Anatoli Nenartovich , 72, Russian painter.
Rolf Presthus , 51, Norwegian politician and lawyer, member of the Norwegian Parliament, cerebral hemorrhage.
Max Siegel , 69, American psychologist, president of American Psychological Association, heart attack.
Anna Sipos , 79, Hungarian international table tennis player and world champion.
Dan Spring , 77, Irish Labour Party politician and Gaelic footballer.
January 2
Dada Bhagwan , 79, Indian spiritual leader.
Bill Crawford-Compton , 72, New Zealand flying ace of Royal Air Force during the Second World War.
E. B. Ford , 86, British ecological geneticist.
[1]
Jesse Gray , 64, American civil rights leader and politician.
Fritz Heider , 91, Austrian psychologist.
Peter Mills , 61, English eccentric and pretender.
Varadarajan Mudaliar , 61, Indian crime boss, heart attack.
January 3
Rose Ausländer , 86, Austro-Hungarian-born poet.
[2]
William Cagney , 82, American film producer and actor, brother of James Cagney.
Joie Chitwood , 75, American racecar driver and businessman.
Lance Collins , 71, Australian rules footballer.
John Dopyera , 94, Slovak-American inventor and entrepreneur.
Gaston Eyskens , 82, Belgian politician, Prime Minister of Belgium.
[3]
Bill Gibb , 44, Scottish fashion designer, bowel cancer.
Nando González , 66, Spanish international footballer.
Gladys Lunn , 79, English middle-distance runner and javelin thrower.
Franz Muxeneder , 67, Austrian actor.
January 4
Leo de Block , 83, Dutch politician and businessman.
William Gilpin , 85, English bishop.
Henfil , 43, Brazilian cartoonist, caricaturist, journalist and writer, AIDS from blood transfusion.
Lily Laskine , 94, French harpist.
Carl Shipp Marvel , 93, American chemist.
January 5
Joe Keohane , 69, Irish Gaelic football manager, selector and player.
"Pistol" Pete Maravich , 40, American basketball player, heart failure.
[4]
Go Mishima , 63–64, Japanese homoerotic fetish artist, founder of magazine Sabu, complications from cirrhosis.
Herbert Waddell , 85, Scottish international rugby union player.
January 6
Bern Dibner , 90, Ukrainian-born American electrical engineer, industrialist and historian of science and technology.
January 7
Michel Auclair , 65, Weimar-born actor.
Cyril Gwynn , 90, British poet.
Trevor Howard , 74, English stage, film and television actor, cirrhosis of the liver.
[5]
Arthur R. M. Lower , 98, Canadian historian.
Venko Markovski , 72, Bulgarian and Macedonian writer, poet, partisan and Communist politician.
Michael Mills , 68, English television producer and director.
Marilyn Schreffler , 42, American voice actress, colorectal infection caused by liver cancer.
Alfred Ubbelohde , 80, Belgian-born English physical chemist.
January 8
Ray Bauduc , 81, American jazz drummer.
Gérard Buhr , 59, French film and television actor.
Jared French , 82, American painter.
Einar Gjerstad , 90, Swedish archaeologist.
Boyd "Red" Morgan , 72, American NFL footballer, movie actor and stuntman.
Frank Pace , 75, American politician and business executive, U.S. Secretary of the Army, heart attack.
Chen Bing Sun , 73–74, Chinese-Filipino artist, playwright and songwriter, cancer.
[6]
January 9
Gregory Ain , 79, American architect.
Juraj Krnjević , 92, Croatian politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Yugoslavia.
Thierry Maulnier , 78, French journalist, essayist, dramatist and literary critic.
Jukichi Uno , 73, Japanese actor.
January 10
January 11
Pappy Boyington , 75, American combat pilot and U.S. Marine Corps fighter ace during World War II, lung cancer.
Robert F. Kennon , 85, American politician and judge, Governor of Louisiana.
Isidor Isaac Rabi , 89, Austro-Hungarian-born American physicist and academic, Nobel Laureate, cancer.
[7]
John J. Williams , 83, American businessman and politician, U.S. Senator.
January 12
Joe Albany , 63, American modern jazz pianist.
Hiram Bingham IV , 84, American diplomat.
Suniti Choudhury , 70, Indian nationalist.
Connie Mulder , 62, South African politician and cabinet minister.
Piero Taruffi , 81, Italian racing driver.
F. D. Washington , 75, American minister.
January 13
Viktors Arājs , 78, Russian-born Nazi officer.
Chiang Ching-kuo , 77, Chinese politician, eldest son of Chiang Kai-shek, heart attack.
[8]
Kenneth Marks , 67, British politician, member of Parliament.
Mavelikara Krishnankutty Nair , 67, Indian Carnatic Mridangam player.
January 14
January 15
Donald Healey , 89, English car designer, rally driver and speed record holder.
Seán MacBride , 83, Irish Republican Army leader and politician, recipient of Nobel Peace Prize.
[10]
Viana Moog , 81, Brazilian lawyer, journalist, novelist and essayist.
Maurice K. Temerlin , 64, American psychologist and author.
January 16
Andrija Artuković , 88, Croatian lawyer and politician, Minister of Interior of Croatia.
Ballard Berkeley , 83, English actor of stage and screen.
Otto Degener , 88, American botanist and conservationist.
Harlan Hubbard , 88, American artist and writer.
Joseph Hutchinson , 85, British biologist.
Lakshmi Kant Jha , 74, Governor of the Reserve Bank of India.
Adelfo Magallanes , 77, Peruvian footballer.
January 17
January 18
Val Doube , 73, Australian politician, 73, Victorian Minister of Health.
Jean Mitry , 83, French film theorist, critic and filmmaker.
Santiago Polanco-Abreu , 67, resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico.
John Rossiter , 74, Australian politician, member of Victorian Legislative Assembly, father of Susan Renouf.
January 19
Bridget Boland , 74, Irish-British screenwriter, playwright and novelist.
Gladys Elphick , 83, Australian founding president of the Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia.
Yevgeny Mravinsky , 84, Russian conductor and pianist.
January 20
Paul Esser , 74, German stage and television actor, and voice actor.
Abdul Ghaffar Khan , 97, Pakistani independence activist, complications of a stroke.
Philippe de Rothschild , 85, French Grand Prix motor racing driver, screenwriter and playwright.
[11]
James D. Theberge , 57, American diplomat, United States ambassador to Nicaragua and Chile, heart attack.
January 21
Vincent Lingiari , 79, Australian Aboriginal rights activist.
Joe Mooney , 71, Irish senator.
Abraham Sofaer , 91, Burmese-born British actor of stage, film and television, congestive heart failure.
Zev Vilnay , 87, Moldovan-born Israeli geographer, author and lecturer.
January 22
January 23
January 24
January 25
January 26
Paul G. Goebel , 86, American NFL footballer.
Gershon Iskowitz , 68, Polish-born Canadian artist.
Hugh J. Schonfield , 86, British bible scholar.
Raymond Williams , 66, Welsh socialist writer, academic, novelist and critic.
Freddie Wolff , 77, British sprinter and Olympic gold medalist.
January 27
January 28
January 29
Mihiel Gilormini , 69, American U.S. Air Force officer in World War II.
James Rhyne Killian , 83, American president of MIT, chair of President's Intelligence Advisory Board.
Seth Neddermeyer , 80, American physicist, complications of Parkinson's disease.
Rogier van Otterloo , 46, Dutch composer and conductor, mesothelioma.
January 30
Bum Day , 89, American footballer.
Robert Juday , 87, American high jumper and Olympian.
S. K. Wankhede , 73, Indian cricket administrator, politician, Deputy speaker of Bombay Legislative Assembly.
January 31
David Ahern , 40, Australian composer and music critic, asthma attack.
Helen Marie Black , 91, American cultural and civic leader, journalist and publicist.
Homer Brightman , 86, American screenwriter.
Air Chief Marshal
Wallace Kyle , 78, Australian Royal Air Force leader, Governor of Western Australia.
Al Laney , 92, American sportswriter.
Charley Way , 90, American football player and coach.
February
Thomas Francis Johnson (Feb 1)
Quamrul Hassan (Feb 2)
Radamés Gnattali (Feb 3)
Nick Pietrosante (Feb 6)
Carmen Polo (Feb 6)
Henry Burrell (admiral) (Feb 9)
Israel Nathan Herstein (Feb 9)
John Curulewski (Feb 13)
Frederick Loewe (Feb 14)
Richard Feynman (Feb 15)
Alexander Bashlachev (Feb 17)
René Char (Feb 19)
Bob O'Farrell (Feb 20)
Albert Collier (Feb 22)
James H. Douglas Jr. (Feb 24)
Mamdouh Salem (Feb 24)
Kurt Mahler (Feb 25)
Harvey Kuenn (Feb 28)
Kylie Tennant (Feb 28)
February 1
Marcel Bozzuffi , 58, French film actor.
John Grist Brainerd , 83–84, American electrical engineer.
Jean Paul Guhel , 57, French ice dancer.
Ted Hill , 72, Australian barrister, lawyer and communist activist.
Thomas Francis Johnson , 78, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, car crash.
Heather O'Rourke , 12, American child actress (
Poltergeist ), congenital stenosis of intestine.
Stephen Taylor , 77, British physician, civil servant, politician and educator.
February 2
February 3
Ronald Bladen , 69, Canadian-born American painter and sculptor.
Robert Duncan , 69, American poet.
Radamés Gnattali , 82, Brazilian composer.
René Massigli , 99, French diplomat.
Michael Nott , 71, British Anglican priest.
Jocko Thompson , 71, American Major League baseballer.
February 4
February 5
Ove Arup , 92, English engineer, design engineer for Sydney Opera House.
Dorothy Lewis Bernstein , 73, American mathematician.
Stefan Dittrich , 75, German politician.
Tommy Doyle , 72, Irish hurler.
Clement Hurd , 80, American artist, Alzheimer's disease.
Emeric Pressburger , 85, Hungarian-British film director and producer.
[14]
February 6
Gary Berland , 37, American professional poker player, blood disorder.
Richard Bock , 61, American jazz record producer.
Marghanita Laski , 72, English journalist, radio panelist and novelist, lung disease.
Nick Pietrosante , 50, American NFL footballer, prostate cancer.
Barclay Plager , 46, Canadian ice hockey player, brain cancer.
Carmen Polo , 87, Spanish wife of
Francisco Franco .
[15]
February 7
Lin Carter , 57, American author of science fiction and fantasy.
Ray Martin , 69, Austrian-British orchestra leader, cancer.
February 8
Pietro Arcari , 78, Italian footballer.
Dolores Camarillo , 77, Mexican film, television and theatre actress.
Allan Cuthbertson , 67, Australian-born British actor.
Ralph Flanagan , 69, American swimmer and Olympic medalist.
Alfréd Wetzler , 69, Austro-Hungarian–born Czechoslovakian writer.
February 9
Kurt Herbert Adler , 69, Austrian-born American conductor.
Ermal Allen , 69, American NFL footballer, cancer.
Henry Burrell , 83, Australian navy commander, Vice Admiral of Royal Australian Navy.
Israel Nathan Herstein , 64, Polish-born American mathematician, cancer.
Charles Moses , 88, British-born Australian administrator, general manager of Australian Broadcasting Commission.
February 10
Nat Cohen , 82, British film producer, heart attack.
Yuri Illichev , 60, Soviet coach of Iraq and Iceland national football teams.
Don Patterson , 51, American jazz organist.
Chaya Mushka Schneerson , 86, Russian-born American wife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Jewish spiritual leader.
Aram Ter-Ghevondyan , 59, Egyptian-born Armenian historian.
February 11
February 12
February 13
February 14
Frederick Loewe , 86, German-born American composer, cardiac arrest.
[17]
Cal Niday , 73, American racecar driver, heart attack.
Lynette White , 20, Welsh murder victim.
Slavko Zagorac , 78, Austro-Hungarian–born Yugoslav footballer and manager.
February 15
Al Cohn , 62, American jazz saxophonist, arranger and composer, liver cancer.
Richard Feynman , 69, American theoretical physicist, Nobel laureate in Physics, kidney failure.
[18]
Jay Leyda , 78, American filmmaker and film historian.
Gardiner Means , 91, American economist.
Arthur Mizener , 80, American professor of English and literary critic.
February 16
Charles Delaunay , 77, French author and jazz expert, Parkinson's disease.
Vijaya Kumaratunga , 42, Sri Lankan actor, singer and politician, assassinated.
Ye Shengtao , 93, Chinese writer, journalist, educator, publisher and politician.
Oskar Skogly , 80, Norwegian trade unionist and politician, member of the Norwegian Parliament.
February 17
John M. Allegro , 65, English archaeologist and Dead Sea Scrolls scholar, heart attack.
Alexander Bashlachev , 27, Soviet poet, singer-songwriter and guitarist, probable suicide.
Yuri Ovchinnikov , 53, Soviet bio-organic chemist.
Alain Savary , 69, French politician.
Karpoori Thakur , 64, Indian politician.
Reginald Uren , 81, New Zealand architect.
February 18
February 19
Isabel Bishop , 85, American painter and graphic artist.
René Char , 80, French poet, member of the French resistance, heart attack.
[19]
André Frédéric Cournand , 92, French-American physician, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine.
[20]
William W. Eagles , 93, American officer, Major General in the U.S. Army.
Walerian Kisieliński , 80, Polish international footballer.
Walter Ohmsen , 76, German officer in the Kriegsmarine during World War II.
S. V. Sahasranamam , 74, Indian actor and director, heart attack.
February 20
February 21
Angie Debo , 98, American historian.
Bert Lucas , 65, Australian rules footballer.
Aidan McAnespie , 23, Irish murder victim.
Aleksandar Tomašević , 79, Serbian international footballer and manager.
Martin Winter , 32, East German rower and Olympic gold medalist.
February 22
Edward Vaughan Bevan , 80, British rower and Olympic gold medalist.
Albert Collier , 78, Australian rules footballer.
Eugen Iordache , 65, Romanian international footballer and manager.
Cecil Ramage , 93, Scottish barrister, actor and politician, Member of Parliament.
Larry Shay , 90, American songwriter.
February 23
February 24
Rose Coyle , 73, Miss America 1936.
James H. Douglas Jr. , 88, American lawyer, senior official in U.S. Government, Secretary of the Air Force, cancer.
Asoka Karunaratne , 72, Sri Lankan politician and philanthropist, heart attack.
Loretta McNeil , 81, American sprinter and Olympic medalist.
Mamdouh Salem , 69, Prime Minister of Egypt.
Memphis Slim , 72, American blues pianist, singer and composer, renal failure.
Bluma Zeigarnik , 87, Soviet psychologist.
February 25
Bernard Ashmole , 93, British archaeologist and art historian.
Louis Zhang Jiashu , 94, Chinese Catholic Jesuit priest.
Kurt Mahler , 84, German mathematician.
Peck Morrison , 68, American jazz bassist.
Dori Seda , 37, American artist, influenza.
February 26
February 27
Basil Boothroyd , 77, English humorous writer.
Michel-Louis Guérard des Lauriers , 89, French excommunicated Catholic bishop.
Doug Holmquist , 46, American baseballer and Major League coach, heart attack.
Franck Lavaud , 85, Haitian general and politician, President of Haiti.
Gene de Paul , 68, American pianist, composer and songwriter.
Kenneth Peach , 84, American cinematographer.
February 28
Harvey Kuenn , 57, American Major League baseballer, complications from heart disease and diabetes.
Mikhail Naimy , 98, Lebanese poet, novelist and philosopher, pneumonia.
Asakazu Nakai , 86, Japanese cinematographer.
Kylie Tennant , 75, Australian novelist, playwright, short-story writer, biographer, and historian.
February 29
February (date unknown)
Cyril Jackson , 84, South African astronomer.
Émile Lachapelle , 82, Swiss rower and Olympic gold medalist.
Lolette Payot , 77, Swiss-French tennis player.
John Smith , 49, English footballer.
Ethel Venton , 96–97, English secularist, councillor and animal welfare activist.
March
Tommy Potter (Mar 1)
Lois Wilson (Mar 3)
Lewis J. Fields (Mar 5)
Jeanne Aubert (Mar 6)
Guido Celano (Mar 7)
Kurt Georg Kiesinger (Mar 9)
Phạm Hùng (Mar 10)
Rashid Bakr (Mar 11)
Charles Kirkpatrick (Mar 12)
Karen Steele (Mar 12)
Bruno Balz (Mar 14)
Victor Wickersham (Mar 15)
Dannie Richmond (Mar 16)
Roland Drew (Mar 17)
Billy Butterfield (Mar 18)
Bun Cook (Mar 19)
Samuel W. Reynolds (Mar 20)
Rudolf Matz (Mar 22)
Abdullahi Issa (Mar 24)
Ted Kluszewski (Mar 29)
Edgar Faure (Mar 30)
Sir William McMahon (Mar 31)
March 1
Joe Besser , 80, American actor, comedian and musician, heart failure.
Tommy Breen , 75, Irish international footballer.
George B. Harper , 69, American politician, member of the New Jersey Senate.
Yoshi Katō , 75, Japanese stage and film actor.
Luis Márquez , 62, Puerto Rican Major League baseballer, murdered.
Tommy Potter , 69, American jazz double bassist.
Jean Le Poulain , 63, French stage actor and director.
March 2
Raymond Hewitt , 47, American civil rights activist, leader of the Black Panther Party, heart attack.
Harry Lundahl , 82, Swedish international footballer and manager.
Thomas Vezzetti , 59–60, American politician, mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey, heart attack.
March 3
Harold Langley , 84, British triple jumper and Olympian.
Henryk Szeryng , 69, Polish-Mexican violinist, cerebral hemorrhage.
[21]
Lois Wilson , 93, American silent-screen actress, pneumonia.
[22]
Sewall Wright , 98, American geneticist.
March 4
March 5
Ron Coe , 91, English professional cyclist.
Santosh Dutta , 62, Bengali actor.
Lewis J. Fields , 78, American lieutenant general in U.S. Marine Corps.
János Németh , 81, Hungarian water polo player and Olympic gold medalist.
Alberto Olmedo , 54, Argentine comedian and actor, fall from building.
Mathilde Pincus , 70–71, American music supervisor.
Rudolph Schaeffer , 101, American arts educator and artist.
March 6
Jeanne Aubert , 88, French singer and actress.
Mairéad Farrell , 31, member of Provisional Irish Republican Army, shot by British army.
Joan Hassall , 82, English wood engraver and book illustrator.
Daniel McCann , 30, member of Provisional Irish Republican Army, shot by British army.
Dick Ricketts , 54, American Major League baseballer and NBA basketballer, leukemia.
Seán Savage , 23, member of Provisional Irish Republican Army, shot by British army.
March 7
Edmund Berkeley , 79, American computer scientist.
Guido Celano , 83, Italian actor, voice actor and film director.
Divine , 42, American singer, actor and drag queen, heart failure.
[23]
Martin Finn , 70, Irish politician.
Robert Livingston , 83, American film actor.
Joe Loco , 66, Puerto Rican Latin jazz and pop pianist and arranger.
Prakash Mehrotra , 63, Indian politician.
Olof Stahre , 78, Swedish Army officer, horse rider and Olympic gold medalist.
March 8
Gordon Carpenter , 68, American basketballer and Olympic gold medalist.
Amar Singh Chamkila , 27, Indian singer and musician, gunned down.
Ken Colyer , 59, English jazz trumpeter and cornetist.
Werner Hartmann , 76, German physicist, complications after prostate surgery.
Frank Osborne , 91, South-African-born English international footballer.
Lala Abdul Rashid , 65, Pakistani hockey player and Olympic gold medalist.
March 9
Ronald Cove-Smith , 88, English international rugby union player, vice-president of British Medical Association.
Milton Galamison , 64, American Presbyterian minister.
Kurt Georg Kiesinger , 83, West German politician, Chancellor of Federal Republic of Germany.
M. E. Aldrich Rope , 96, English stained-glass artist.
M. B. Sreenivasan , 62, Indian music director, heart attack.
March 10
Glenn Cunningham , 78, American middle-distance runner and Olympic medalist.
Andy Gibb , 30, English singer, songwriter and performer, myocarditis.
[24]
Svetislav Glišović , 74, Yugoslavian international footballer and manager.
Phạm Hùng , 75, Vietnamese politician, Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
[25]
Nikolay Karakulov , 69, Soviet sprinter and European champion.
Abdul Khaliq , 54, Pakistani sprinter.
Jock Semple , 84, Scottish-American runner and sports official, cancer of the liver and pancreas.
Joey Sternaman , 88, American NFL footballer.
William Wordsworth , 79, English composer.
March 11
Rashid Bakr , 54, Sudanese politician, Prime Minister of Sudan.
Christianna Brand , 80, British crime writer and children's author.
Khurshid Hasan Khurshid , 64, Indian-born Pakistani politician, President of Azad Kashmir, road accident.
Jackie O'Driscoll , 66, Irish international footballer.
March 12
Samaresh Basu , 63, Indian writer.
Romare Bearden , 76, American artist, author and songwriter, complications from bone cancer.
Arnold Bell , 86, British actor.
DeWitt Bodeen , 79, American film screenwriter and television writer.
Charles Cochran Kirkpatrick , 80, American rear admiral in the U.S. Navy.
Alvin McCoy , 84, American journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner.
Bernard Rudofsky , 82, Austrian-born American writer and architect.
Karen Steele , 56, American actress and model, cancer.
March 13
Dino Bovoli , 73, Italian footballer and coach.
Olive Carey , 92, American film and television actress.
John Holmes , 43, American pornographic film actor, cardio-respiratory arrest and encephalitis due to AIDS.
Patesko , 77, Brazilian international footballer.
Vladimir Sakson , 60, Soviet painter, book illustrator and stage designer.
Steno , 71, Italian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer.
March 14
Abbas Abbasi , 63, Pakistani hereditary leader, Nawab and Amir of Bahawalpur State.
Willi Apel , 94, German-born American musicologist and author.
Bruno Balz , 85, German songwriter.
Rudolf Gramlich , 79, SS officer and German international footballer.
Henrik Malyan , 62, Georgian-born Armenian film director and writer.
Saul Weingeroff , 72, American professional wrestling manager.
March 15
Ron Camm , 73, Australian politician, member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.
Chevene Bowers King , 64, American attorney and civil rights leader, prostate cancer.
Frank Perkins , 79, American song composer.
Dmitri Polyakov , 66, Ukrainian-born Soviet operative and spy for the United States, executed by shooting.
William J. Porter , 73, British-born American diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Algeria, South Korea, Canada and Saudi Arabia, cancer.
Victor Wickersham , 82, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
March 16
Dorothy Adams , 88, American actress of stage, film and television.
António Augusto Peixoto Correia , 74, Portuguese colonial governor of Cape Verde, Governor-general of Guinea-Bissau.
Rollie Dotsch , 75, American football coach, pancreatic cancer.
Paul Kohner , 85, Austro-Hungarian–born American talent agent and producer, heart attack.
Albert Kónya , 70, Hungarian physicist and politician, Minister of Education.
Erich Probst , 60, Austrian international footballer.
Dannie Richmond , 56, American jazz drummer, heart attack.
Jigger Statz , 90, American Major League baseballer.
Luther Merritt Swygert , 83, United States circuit judge.
Mickey Thompson , 59, American auto racing builder and promoter, gunned down.
March 17
Bruce C. Clarke , 86, United States Army general, stroke.
Roland Drew , 87, American actor.
Leif Granli , 78, Norwegian politician, President of the Storting.
Reg Halton , 71, English footballer and Minor Counties cricketer.
Franz-Otto Krüger , 70, German film and television actor.
Tan Siew Sin , 71, Malaysian politician, Minister of Finance.
March 18
Gerald Abraham , 84, English musicologist, editor and music critic.
Billy Butterfield , 71, American jazz bandleader, trumpeter, flugelhornist and cornetist.
Waldemar Sjölander , 80, Swedish painter, printmaker and sculptor.
Percy Thrower , 75, British gardener, horticulturist, broadcaster and writer.
March 19
Reyner Banham , 66, English architectural critic and writer.
Sabino Barinaga , 65, Spanish footballer and manager, heart disease.
Philip Birnbaum , 83, American religious author and translator.
John Otis Brew , 81, American archaeologist.
Bun Cook , 84, Canadian ice hockey player and coach.
Máirtín Ó Direáin , 77, Irish poet.
Suzy Frelinghuysen (a.k.a. Suzy Morris), 76, American abstract painter and opera singer, stroke.
Sid Harkreader , 90, American fiddle player and string band leader.
March 20
Dick Bell , 74, Canadian politician, member of the Canadian Parliament.
Gil Evans , 75, Canadian-born American jazz pianist, composer and bandleader, peritonitis from prostate surgery.
Samuel W. Reynolds , 97, United States senator.
Agnes Wright Spring , 94, American journalist, writer and historian.
March 21
Virginia Axline , 76, American psychologist.
Marie Burke , 93, English actress of stage, cinema and television.
Walter Fricke , 72, German professor of theoretical astronomy, mathematician and cryptanalyst, cancer.
Edd Roush , 94, American Major League baseballer.
Charley Shipp , 74, American NBA basketballer and coach.
Sigfrit Steiner , 81, Swiss actor.
Patrick Steptoe , 74, English obstetrician and gynaecologist, pioneer of in-vitro fertilisation.
March 22
Gudmund Harlem , 70, Norwegian physician and politician.
Rudolf Matz , 86, Croatian composer.
Lester Rawlins , 63, American stage, screen and television actor, cardiac arrest.
P. B. A. Weerakoon , 88, Sri Lankan educator and politician, member of the Ceylon Parliament.
March 23
Jimmy Jacobs , 58, American handball player, leukemia.
Isaiah L. Kenen , 83, Canadian-born American journalist, lawyer and philanthropist.
Murder of Deborah Linsley , 22, English murder victim.
Dayton Lummis , 84, American film, television and theatre actor.
Geoff McInnes , 79, Australian rules footballer.
Pash , 37, Indian poet, gunned down.
March 24
Heinrich Aigner , 63, German politician.
Turhan Feyzioğlu , 65–66, Turkish academic and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey.
Abdullahi Issa , 67, Somali politician, Prime Minister of Italian Somalia.
William Moseley Jones , 82, American attorney, speaker of the California State Assembly.
Roger Loyer , 80, French motorcycle road racer.
March 25
James J. Howard , 60, American educator and politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, heart attack.
Robert Joffrey , 57, American dancer, teacher, producer and choreographer, organ failure.
Thomas William Lyons , 64, American Roman Catholic bishop, hepatitis from transfusion.
Al Schwartz , 77, American screenwriter, television producer and director, brother of Sherwood Schwartz.
March 26
Julian Pierce , 42, American lawyer and activist, murdered (body found on this date).
March 27
March 28
March 29
Maurice Blackburn , 73, Canadian composer and conductor.
Arkady Bochkaryov , 57, Soviet basketballer and Olympic medalist.
Ted Kluszewski , 63, American Major League baseballer, heart attack.
Dulcie September , 52, South African anti-Apartheid activist, assassinated.
[26]
March 30
Ranulph Bacon , 81, British police officer, Inspector-General of Police of British Ceylon.
Edgar Faure , 79, French politician, lawyer and historian, Prime Minister of France.
[27]
John Clellon Holmes , 62, American author, poet and professor, cancer.
Jimmy McGuigan , 64, Scottish footballer and manager.
Doris Pawn , 93, American silent-screen actress.
Luis Ravaschino , 85, Argentinian international footballer.
Senerath Somaratne , 58, Sri Lankan politician.
March 31
March (unknown date)
April
Jim Jordan (Apr 1)
Gaston Eyskens (Apr 4)
Swede Halbrook (Apr 5)
Alf Kjellin (Apr 5)
Brook Benton (Apr 9)
Shigeo Sugiura (Apr 10)
Hartmann Lauterbacher (Apr 12)
Alan Paton (Apr 12)
Youri Egorov (Apr 16)
Khalil al-Wazir (Apr 16)
Eva Novak (Apr 17)
Antonín Puč (Apr 18)
Buddy Humphrey (Apr 21)
Irene Rich (Apr 22)
Eitaro Ozawa (Apr 23)
Michael Ramsey (Apr 23)
Bennett Stewart (Apr 26)
Fenner Brockway (Apr 28)
James McCracken (Apr 29)
April 1
April 2
Pushpaben Mehta , 83, Indian social worker and politician.
Anthony Pelissier , 75, English actor, screenwriter, producer and director.
Vernon W. Thomson , 82, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, Governor of Wisconsin.
April 3
April 4
April 5
Boyd Brumbaugh , 72, American NFL footballer.
Dutch Dorman , 85, American minor league baseballer and Major League scout.
Anthony Emery , 69, English Roman Catholic bishop.
Swede Halbrook , 55, American NBA basketballer, heart attack.
Alf Kjellin , 68, Swedish film actor and director, heart attack.
Alan Shorter , 55, American jazz trumpet and flugelhorn player, ruptured aorta.
April 6
Gunārs Astra , 56, Latvian human rights activist and anti-Soviet dissident, heart disease.
John Clements , 77, British actor and producer.
Leroy Kirkland , 82–84, American arranger, bandleader, guitarist and songwriter.
Hamdija Pozderac , 64, Yugoslav communist politician, President of People's Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
April 7
Cesar Bresgen , 74, Austrian composer.
Denis Hamilton , 69, English newspaper editor.
Dinanath Nadim , 72, Indian poet.
Albert S. Rogell , 86, American film director.
Christopher Rollinson , 59, New Zealand boxer.
April 9
Brook Benton , 56, American singer and songwriter, pneumonia.
John Herman Dent , 80, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives.
Dave Prater , 50, American soul and rhythm & blues singer and musician, car accident.
Willy Schaeffler , 72, German-born American skier and coach, ski resort developer.
April 10
Turgut Atakol , 72, Turkish basketballer and international referee.
Cliff Gladwin , 72, English test cricketer.
Woody Kling , 62, American television writer, producer, playwright and composer, brain and lung cancer.
Shigeo Sugiura , 70, Japanese swimmer and Olympic gold medalist.
Teóphilo , 87, Brazilian international football.
April 11
Josef Artimovicz , 79, Austrian footballer.
Ithell Colquhoun , 81, British painter, poet and author.
James R. Domengeaux , 81, American lawyer and politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives.
Jeff Donnell , 66, American film and television actress, heart attack.
Wolfram Fiedler , 36, East German luger and Olympic medalist, cancer.
Jesse L. Lasky Jr. , 77, American screenwriter, novelist, playwright and poet, pancreatic cancer.
April 12
Colette Deréal , 60, French actress and singer.
Sheridan Gibney , 84, American writer and producer in theatre and film.
Hartmann Lauterbacher , 78, German Nazi, Deputy Reichsjugendführer, Stabsführer of Hitler Youth, unconvicted war criminal.
Harry McShane , 96, Scottish socialist.
May Owen , 96, American medical doctor.
Alan Paton , 85, South African writer and anti-Apartheid activist.
[29]
Frank Skaff , 77, American Major League baseballer.
April 13
Jean Gascon , 67, Canadian opera director and actor, heart attack.
April 14
Daniel Guérin , 83, French libertarian-communist author.
Pony Poindexter , 62, American jazz saxophonist.
Camilla Ravera , 98, Italian politician, first female lifetime senator.
John Stonehouse , 62, British businessman and minister, Member of Parliament, heart attack.
April 15
April 16
John Anderson , 79, British Army general.
José Dolhem , 43, French racing driver, power boat racing accident.
Youri Egorov , 33, Soviet classical pianist, complications from AIDS.
Doug Mudgway , 63, New Zealand amateur wrestler.
Francesco Pretti , 84, Italian racewalker and Olympian.
John Reardon , 58, American baritone and actor, AIDS related pneumonia.
Clifford Roach , 84, West Indian test cricketer.
Bobby Thompson , 76, English stand-up comedian and actor, emphysema and cancer.
Khalil al-Wazir , 52, Palestinian leader, assassinated.
April 17
Albert Fennell , 68, British film and television producer.
Toni Frissell , 81, American photographer, Alzheimer's disease.
Anthony Gaggi , 62, American mobster in the Gambino crime family, heart attack.
Władysław Lemiszko , 76, Polish international ice hockey player and Olympian.
Patrick Mphephu , 63–64, South African politician, President of Venda.
Louise Nevelson , 88, Ukrainian-born American sculptor.
[30]
Eva Novak , 90, American film actress, pneumonia.
Otto Pächt , 85, Austrian art historian.
Carlos Sotomayor , 76–77, Chilean painter, heart attack.
Ormond Wilson , 80, New Zealand politician, Member of Parliament, stroke.
Isaak Yaglom , 67, Soviet mathematician and author.
April 18
Pierre Desproges , 48, French humorist, lung cancer.
[31]
Oktay Rıfat Horozcu , 73, Turkish writer and playwright.
Lawrence E. Imhoff , 92, American soldier and lawyer, member of U.S. House of Representatives.
Antonín Puč , 80, Czechoslovakian international footballer.
Bess Bolden Walcott , 101, American educator, librarian, museum curator and activist.
April 19
April 20
Roger Cloud , 78, American politician, Speaker of Ohio House of Representatives.
April 21
Gord Barwell , 43, Canadian football player, brain cancer.
I. A. L. Diamond , 67, Romanian-born American screenwriter, multiple myeloma.
[32]
Princess Nadejda Petrovna of Russia , 90, Russian-born French woman, child of Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia.
Buddy Humphrey , 52, American NFL footballer, brain tumour.
[33]
Paul Steinitz , 78, English organist.
April 22
Kenneth Haworth , 85, English Dean of Salisbury.
Peter Helck , 94, American illustrator.
Melvin Price , 83, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives.
Irene Rich , 96, American film and radio actress, heart failure.
[34]
Tchicaya U Tam'si , 56, Congolese author.
April 23
April 24
April 25
René Cardona , 82, Mexican director, actor, producer, screenwriter and film editor.
Lygia Clark , 67, Brazilian artist, heart attack.
Carolyn Franklin , 43, American singer-songwriter, breast cancer.
George Henson , 76, English footballer.
Ken Jones , 60, British conductor and composer of film and television music.
Ferenc Pataki , 70, Hungarian gymnast and Olympic gold medalist.
Edward Chester Plow , 83, Canadian soldier, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, lung cancer.
Lanny Ross , 82, American singer, pianist and songwriter.
Clifford D. Simak , 83, American science fiction writer.
Valerie Solanas , 52, American author and feminist, attempted to murder Andy Warhol, pneumonia.
[36]
April 26
Guy Boyd , 64, Australian potter and sculptor, coronary atherosclerosis.
Guillermo Haro , 75, Mexican astronomer.
Frederick D. Patterson , 86, American academic administrator.
M. V. P. Peiris , 89, Sri Lankan orthopaedic surgeon and politician.
Bennett Stewart , 75, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives.
April 27
Fred Bear , 86, American bow hunter and manufacturer, heart attack.
Helene Thomas Bennett , 86, American bacteriologist and businesswoman.
Valery Legasov , 51, Soviet chemist, chief of Chernobyl disaster investigation commission, suicide by hanging.
[37]
David Scarboro , 20, English actor.
Arnie Shockley , 84, American NFL footballer.
Tommy Thomas , 88, American Major League baseballer.
April 28
Fenner Brockway , 99, British socialist politician and anti-war activist.
[38]
William Coleman , 53–54, American historian of science, leukemia.
Michael Grumley , 45, American writer and artist.
William Potter Gale , 71, American political activist and white supremacist.
Hagop Hagopian , 36–37, leader of Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia, assassinated.
Broadus Mitchell , 95, American historian, writer and professor.
B. W. Stevenson , 38, American country pop singer and musician, staph infection after heart surgery.
April 29
Andrew Cruickshank , 80, Scottish actor.
Irving Kolodin , 80, American music critic and historian.
James McCracken , 61, American operatic tenor.
Martin Wyldeck , 74, English actor.
Bill Zock , 70, Canadian football player.
April 30
May
Robert A. Heinlein
Willem Drees
Ella Raines
May 1
Claude Demetrius , 71, American songwriter.
Ben Lexcen , 52, Australian yachtsman and marine architect, designed winged keel which won America's Cup, heart attack.
Louis Maurer , 84, Swiss footballer and manager.
Erwin Nyc , 73, Polish international footballer.
Paolo Stoppa , 81, Italian actor, leukemia.
May 2
May 3
Julia Butler Hansen , 80, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives.
José María Jáuregui , 92, Spanish footballer and Olympian.
Takeshi Kimura , 76, Japanese screenwriter, throat obstruction.
Premendra Mitra , 83, Indian poet, writer and film director.
[39]
Lev Pontryagin , 79, Soviet mathematician.
[40]
Bill Speidel , 76, American newspaper columnist.
Paul Vario , 73, American mobster from the Lucchese crime family, respiratory failure from lung cancer.
May 4
May 5
Norm Betson , 73, Australian rules footballer.
Jack Daly , 72, Irish politician.
Billo Frómeta , 72, Dominican orchestra conductor, arranger and composer.
Katharine DuPre Lumpkin , 90, American writer.
Hamid Mirza , 70, Iranian heir presumptive of former ruling dynasty of Iran, son of last Qajar Crown Prince of Iran.
George Rose , 68, English actor and singer in theatre and film, murdered.
Michael Shaara , 59, American author of science fiction, sports fiction and historical fiction, heart attack.
May 6
Joep Brandes , 67, Dutch international footballer.
Richard Caliguiri , 56, American politician, mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Costantino Nivola , 76, Italian-born American sculptor, heart attack.
Austin Robertson Sr. , 79, Australian rules footballer.
May 8
May 9
Willie Moir , 66, Scottish international footballer.
Moses Scott , 76, Archbishop of the Province of West Africa.
May 10
May 11
May 12
May 13
Chet Baker , 58, American jazz trumpeter and vocalist, fall from building.
[44]
Sergey Gorshkov , 78, Soviet Admiral of the Fleet.
Friedrich Guggenberger , 73, German admiral and Nazi U-boat commander.
Irene Manton , 84, British botanist, Professor of Botany at University of Leeds.
Albertine Winner , 81, British physician and medical administrator.
May 14
Fred Atkins , 77–78, New Zealand—born Canadian professional wrestler.
Ernesto Giménez Caballero , 88, Spanish writer, diplomat and pioneer of Fascism.
Willem Drees , 101, Dutch politician and historian, Prime Minister of the Netherlands.
[45]
Zhuang Xiquan , 99, Chinese politician.
May 15
Andrew Duggan , 64, American actor, throat cancer.
Fulvia Franco , 56, Italian actress and model.
Greta Nissen , 82, Norwegian-born American film and stage actress, Parkinson's disease.
[46]
R. B. Nunnery , 54, American NFL footballer.
Thomas E. Stephens , 84, Irish-born American politician.
May 16
Charles Keeping , 63, English illustrator and children's book author, brain tumour.
Jules Levin , 66, American politician.
Anatoli Maslyonkin , 57, Soviet international footballer and Olympic gold medalist.
Peter J. Ortiz , 74, United States Marine Corps colonel, cancer.
Bruce Watson , 78, Scottish organic chemist and politician.
May 17
Frank Gallop , 87, American radio and television personality.
Guy Glover , 77, Canadian producer and administrator.
May 18
Daws Butler , 71, American voice actor, heart attack.
Anthony Forwood , 72, English actor, liver cancer and Parkinson's disease.
Brandon Rhys-Williams , 60, British politician, Member of Parliament, pneumonia as complication of leukemia.
F. Elizabeth Richey , 75, American field hockey and squash coach.
Enzo Tortora , 59, Italian television presenter, cancer.
May 19
May 20
Ana Aslan , 91, Romanian biologist and physician.
Nick Corwin , 8, American murder victim.
Dick Jacobs , 70, American musician, conductor, arranger and orchestrator.
Mike Reinbach , 39, American Major League baseballer, car accident.
Marion G. Romney , 90, American Mormon leader.
Victorio Unamuno , 78, Spanish footballer.
May 21
Harry Babasin , 67, American jazz bassist.
Richard J. Daronco , 56, American lawyer and judge, assassinated.
Sammy Davis Sr. , 87, American dancer, father of entertainer Sammy Davis Jr.
Dino Grandi , 92, Italian Fascist politician.
[47]
Barbara Laage , 67, French film actress.
Guillermo Marín , 82, Spanish film and theatre actor.
May 22
Giorgio Almirante , 73, Italian politician, founder and leader of neo-fascist Italian Social Movement.
May 24
Tom Adair , 74, American songwriter, composer and screenwriter.
Tom Burtt , 73, New Zealand test cricketer and international hockey player.
Freddie Frith , 79, British Grand Prix motorcycle road racing world champion.
Ernest Labrousse , 93, French historian.
Aleksei Losev , 94, Soviet philosopher.
May 25
May 26
Jules Gales , 63, Luxembourgian international footballer and Olympian.
Juan Orol , 90, Spanish-born Mexican actor, film producer, director and screenwriter, liver disease.
Nicolò Vittori , 79, Italian rower and Olympic gold medalist.
May 27
John DiGilio , 55, American mobster with the Genovese crime family, murdered.
Florida Friebus , 78, American writer and actress of stage, film and television.
Hjördis Petterson , 79, Swedish actress.
Ernst Ruska , 81, German physicist, Nobel laureate in Physics.
[48]
Alwyn Warren , 87, New Zealand Anglican Bishop of Christchurch.
May 28
Adolfo Contoli , 90, Italian pentathlete, decathlete, hurdler, pole vaulter, long jumper and high jumper, Olympian.
Felix Morrow , 81, American communist political activist and newspaper editor.
Sy Oliver , 77, American jazz arranger, trumpeter, composer, singer and bandleader.
Evelyn Page , 89, New Zealand artist.
Alfredo Volpi , 92, Brazilian painter.
S. B. Yalegama , 62, Sri Lankan politician, member of Parliament, assassinated.
May 29
Henry Johansen , 83, Norwegian international footballer.
Vladimír Menšík , 59, Czechoslovakian actor and entertainer, asthma.
Siaka Stevens , 82, Sierra Leone politician, Prime Minister and President of Sierra Leone.
[49]
Elaine Black Yoneda , 81, American labour and civil rights activist, member of Communist Party, heart attack.
May 30
May 31
Edward Meagher , 79, Australian politician, member of Victorian Legislative Assembly.
Dwarka Prasad Mishra , 86, Indian politician, writer and journalist.
Arthur Olliver , 71, Australian rules footballer.
Eduardo de Robertis , 74, Argentine physician and biologist.
Tursun Uljabayev , 72, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Tajikistan.
May (date unknown)
Rosa Collazo , 83–84, Puerto Rican political activist.
Ted Ward , 70–71, Welsh international rugby union and rugby league footballer.
June
Giuseppe Saragat
June 1
Leon Belasco , 85, Russian-born American actor and musician.
Herbert Feigl , 85, Austrian-born American philosopher, cancer.
Peter Hurkos , 77, Dutch-American who claimed psychic powers.
Ricky May , 44, New Zealand-born Australian jazz singer and musician, heart attack.
June 2
Iosif Grigulevich , 75, Soviet secret police operative.
Fred Halstead , 61, American Socialist Workers Party candidate for President of the United States.
Horace Hildreth , 85, American politician and diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan, heart attack.
Raj Kapoor , 63, Indian actor, producer and director, asthma.
[51]
Annette Poivre , 70, French stage and film actress.
June 3
Anna Mahler , 85, Austrian-born sculptor.
Davey Moore , 28, American professional boxer, asphyxia from being pinned under vehicle.
Brian Spencer , 38, Canadian NHL ice hockey player, shot in drug-related robbery.
June 4
Majnun Gorakhpuri , 84, Pakistani short story writer, poet and literary critic.
Ed Matesic , 80, American NFL football player.
Sir
Douglas Nicholls , 81, Australian pastor, campaigner for aboriginal reconciliation, Governor of South Australia.
Renzo Palmer , 57, Italian film, television and stage actor, cancer.
Allan Reuss , 72, American jazz guitarist.
June 5
Brian Ashby , 64, New Zealand Catholic Bishop of Christchurch, cancer.
Michael Barrington , 63, British actor, heart attack.
Robert Dudley Edwards , 79, Irish historian.
James H. Gildea , 97, American politician, newspaperman and member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Roland Ritchie , 77, Canadian lawyer and Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.
June 6
June 7
John Kerns , 65, Canadian football player, heart attack.
June 8
Russell Harty , 53, English television presenter of arts programs and chat shows, liver failure caused by hepatitis.
Roger Lyndon , 70, American mathematician.
Chuck Roberson , 69, American actor and stuntman, cancer.
June 9
June 10
Arthur Gary Bishop , 35, American convicted sex offender and serial killer, executed by lethal injection.
Louis L'Amour , 80, American novelist and short story writer, lung cancer (non-smoker).
[52]
Willie Ross , 77, Scottish politician, Secretary of State for Scotland, cancer.
Henryk Stażewski , 94, Polish painter, visual artist and writer.
Josep Tarradellas , 89, Spanish politician, President of the Government of Catalonia.
June 11
Mike Clancy , 63, American professional wrestler.
Ernani Cuenco , 52, Filipino composer, film scorer and musical director.
Nick O'Donnell , 62, Irish hurler.
Lee Priester , 85, American Olympic javelin thrower.
Giuseppe Saragat , 89, Italian politician, President of Italy.
[53]
Marianne Van Hirtum , 52, Belgian author.
June 12
Georg Hochgesang , 90, German international footballer.
Gennadi Krasnitsky , 47, Uzbekistani international footballer, suicide by jumping.
Marcel Poot , 87, Belgian composer, professor and musician.
Franz Zingerle , 79, Austrian alpine skier and world champion.
June 13
Lucien Cardin , 69, Canadian lawyer, judge and politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada.
Emil Telmányi , 95, Hungarian-born violinist.
June 14
Robert R. Barry , 73, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Johnny Farrell , 87, American golfer, U.S. Open winner, stroke.
June 15
Frank A. Beach , 77, American ethologist and author.
Hans Blöcker , 90, German politician, member of the German Bundestag.
Hall Haynes , 59, American NFL footballer.
Floyd J. McCree , 65, American politician.
Robert Seymour , appr. 33, Northern Irish loyalist, shot.
George Ward , 80, British politician, Secretary of State for Air.
June 16
Kim Milford , 37, American actor, singer-songwriter and composer, complications following open heart surgery.
Andrea Pazienza , 32, Italian comics artist and painter, heroin overdose.
Miguel Piñero , 41, Puerto Rican–born American playwright and actor, cirrhosis.
June 17
June 18
Archie Cochrane , 79, Scottish physician.
Wilford Leach , 58, American theatre director, set designer, film director and screenwriter, AIDS-related stomach cancer.
Sallie Martin , 92, American gospel singer.
E. Hoffmann Price , 89, American writer of popular fiction.
June 19
M. Ajmal , 78, Indian-born Pakistani actor.
Marie Logoreci , 67, Albanian film and stage actress.
Teru Shimada , 82, Japanese-born American actor.
Gladys Spellman , 70, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, complications from coma.
June 21
John Duncan Sr. , 69, American attorney and politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, cancer.
George Ivașcu , 76, Romanian journalist, literary critic and communist militant.
Tella Kitchen , 86, American folk artist.
Sverre Riisnæs , 90, Norwegian jurist and public prosecutor.
T. E. Utley , 67, British journalist and writer.
June 22
Jesse Ed Davis , 43, American guitarist, drug overdose.
Dennis Day , 72, American actor, comedian and singer.
Hank Edwards , 69, American Major League baseballer.
Bramwell Fletcher , 84, English stage, film and television actor.
Rose Franken , 92, American writer and playwright.
Pieter Grobbelaar , 79, South African military commander, Commandant General of South African Defence Force.
Perry Jackson , 68, American NFL football player.
Jep Lacoste , 66, French rugby league coach.
Leonard Matlovich , 44, American Vietnam War veteran, first gay service member to out himself to military, HIV.
Howard Mitchell , 77, American cellist and conductor.
Burrill Phillips , 80, American composer and pianist, complications after heart attack.
Stuart Randall , 78, American actor of film and television.
June 23
Andrei Glanzmann , 81, Romanian international footballer.
Dragan Godžić , 61, Serbian basketballer and coach.
Sid Handleman , 67, Canadian politician, member of Legislative Assembly of Ontario, heart attack.
Henry Murray , 95, American psychologist, pneumonia.
Liang Shuming , 94, Chinese philosopher, politician and writer.
June 24
June 25
Jean Boffety , 63, French cinematographer.
Șerban Cioculescu , 85, Romanian literary critic, literary historian and columnist.
Mildred Gillars , 87, American broadcaster employed by Nazi Germany, convicted of treason against U.S.A, colon cancer.
Neville Pickering , 64, New Zealand politician, member of New Zealand Parliament.
Hillel Slovak , 26, Israeli-American musician, guitarist for the
Red Hot Chili Peppers , overdose .
Jimmy Soul , 45, American vocalist, heart attack.
June 26
Hans Urs von Balthasar , 82, Swiss theologian and Catholic priest.
[54]
Hugh Bartlett , 73, English cricketer.
Ludovik Jakova , 66, Albanian footballer and coach of Albanian national football team.
Herb Mobberley , 83, Canadian football player.
Yves Pratte , 63, Canadian lawyer and jurist, Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, heart attack.
June 27
Léonie Adams , 88, American poet.
John Groth , 80, American illustrator.
Robert Margerit , 78, French journalist and writer.
Aparicio Méndez , 83, Uruguayan lawyer, President of Uruguay.
[55]
R. Muttusamy , 62, Sri Lankan music director and singer.
José Ignacio Palma , 78, Chilean engineer and politician.
Heinz Rehfuss , 71, Swiss-American operatic bass-baritone.
Homi J. H. Taleyarkhan , 85–86, Indian Congress politician, Governor of Sikkim.
Louis Versyp , 79, Belgian international footballer and manager, Olympian.
June 28
Iris Origo , 85, English-born Italian biographer and writer.
Kurt Raab , 46, West German stage and film actor, screenwriter and playwright, complications from AIDS.
June 29
Tengku Ampuan Afzan , 55, Malaysian Queen consort of Pahang, cancer.
John Peet , 72–73, British journalist who defected to East Germany.
Franciszka Themerson , 81, Polish-British painter, illustrator, filmmaker and stage designer.
Albert Trueman , 86, American-born Canadian teacher, professor and university administrator.
June 30
Alan W. Bishop , 68, British geotechnical engineer and academic.
Jan de Boer , 89, Dutch international footballer.
Chacrinha , 70, Brazilian comedian, radio and TV personality, heart attack.
A. S. Nair , 57, Indian painter, illustrator and cartoonist.
Bill Ramsay , 60, Australian middle-distance runner and Olympian.
Suthi Veerabhadra Rao , 41, Indian film actor, heart attack.
June (unknown date)
Michael Barry , 78, British television producer and director.
Dave Crawford , 44, American R&B musician, songwriter, radio personality and record producer, murdered.
July
Nico
July 1
Costante Degan , 58, Italian politician, lung cancer.
Aleksey Grinin , 68, Russian footballer and coach.
Anton Leader , 74, American radio and television director.
Alice Nunn , 60, American film and theatre actress, heart attack.
Robert Riefling , 76, Norwegian classical pianist.
Ed Sauer , 69, American Major League baseballer.
Hermann Volk , 84, German Roman Catholic cardinal.
July 2
Vibert Douglas , 93, Canadian astronomer and astrophysicist.
Johann Baptist Gradl , 84, German politician.
Mahmoud Mirza , 82, Iranian prince of the Qajar dynasty.
Aldo Tonti , 78, Italian cinematographer.
Eddie Vinson , 70, American alto saxophonist, heart attack.
Arno Wolle , 85, Danish naturopath and mathematician.
July 3
July 4
Adrian Adonis , 34, American professional wrestler, traffic accident.
James Bilton , 79, English-born Canadian politician, Speaker of Legislative Assembly of Manitoba.
Tom Manley , 75, English footballer.
Dave McKigney , 56, Canadian professional wrestler, traffic accident.
Sally McNelly , 18, American homicide victim.
Shane Stewart , 16, American homicide victim.
William Thetford , 65, American psychologist and professor, heart attack.
Lee Weyer , 51, American Major League baseball umpire, heart attack.
July 5
July 6
July 7
Jimmy Edwards , 68, English comedy writer and actor on radio and television, pneumonia.
Helen Gandy , 91, American secretary to Federal Bureau of Investigation director J. Edgar Hoover, heart attack.
July 8
Ray Barbuti , 83, American sprinter and Olympic dual gold medalist.
[56]
Antony Fisher , 73, British businessman and think tank founder.
Ranjit Khanwilkar , 27, Indian cricketer, train accident.
Mount Etna Morris , 87, American politician, State Treasurer of Missouri.
July 9
Richard Spink Bowles , 75, Canadian lawyer, Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba.
Alexandru Graur , 88, Romanian linguist.
Anthony Holland , 60, American actor, suicide.
Jackie Presser , 61, American labour leader, cardiac arrest.
Barbara Woodhouse , 78, Irish-born British dog trainer, author and TV personality, stroke.
July 10
Alf Ackerman , 59, South African footballer and manager.
Errol John , 63, Trinidad and Tobago–born English actor and playwright.
N. Krishna Pillai , 71, Indian dramatist, literary critic, translator and historian of Malayalam language.
Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin , 85, American anthropologist, cardiac arrest.
July 11
Robert Ferro , 46, American novelist, AIDS.
Milton Krims , 84, American screenwriter, journalist, short-story writer and novelist, pneumonia.
Barbara Wootton , 91, British sociologist and criminologist.
July 12
Al Bedner , 90, American NFL football player.
Bob Flanigan , 74, Australian rules footballer.
Nevin William Hayes , 66, American Roman Catholic bishop.
Michael Jary , 81, German composer.
Joshua Logan , 79, American stage and film director, progressive supranuclear palsy.
[57]
Pelagia Majewska , 55, Polish aeroplane and glider pilot and instructor, aircraft accident.
Boyd Crumrine Patterson , 86, American mathematician, stroke.
Enzo Sacchi , 62, Italian road and track cyclist and Olympic gold medalist.
Julian Trevelyan , 78, English artist and poet.
July 13
Ji Dengkui , 65, Chinese political figure, Vice Premier of People's Republic of China.
Hilda Gobbi , 75, Hungarian actress.
Phil Monroe , 71, American animator and director, pancreatic cancer.
July 14
William Ofori Atta , 77, Ghanaian politician, Minister for Foreign Affairs.
Peter Raw , 66, Australian R.A.A.F. pilot and senior officer, lymphoma.
Oronzo Reale , 85, Italian politician, Minister of Justice.
Whitey Witt , 92, American Major League baseballer.
July 15
Jan Brzák-Felix , 76, Czechoslovakian slalom and sprint canoeist and Olympic gold medalist.
Eleanor Estes , 82, American children's writer.
Jean-Pierre Hoscheid , 76, Luxembourgian international footballer and manager, Olympian.
Michael Illingworth , 55, New Zealand painter and farmer.
Tore Keller , 83, Swedish international footballer and Olympic medalist.
José Rafael Meza , 68, Costa Rican international footballer and manager.
Sheldon T. Mills , 83, American diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Jordan, Afghanistan and Ecuador.
Armand Mouyal , 62, French world champion fencer and Olympic medalist.
July 16
July 17
July 18
K. M. Daniel , 68, Indian literary critic.
Elsa Gress , 69, Danish essayist, novelist and dramatist.
Nico (Christa Päffgen), 49, German singer, songwriter, actress and model, cerebral hemorrhage resulting from fall.
[58]
Joly Braga Santos , 64, Portuguese composer and conductor, stroke.
Miklós Szentkuthy , 80, Hungarian writer.
July 19
July 20
Mark Boxer , 57, British magazine editor, brain tumour.
John W. Galbreath , 90, American building contractor and sportsman.
Iven Manning , 70, Australian politician, member of Legislative Assembly of Western Australia.
July 21
Jack Clark , 62, American television personality, game show host and announcer, bone cancer.
Carroll William Dodge , 93, American mycologist and lichenologist.
Raphael Soriano , 83, Greek-born American architect and educator.
K. Vijayan , 48, Indian film director.
July 22
Avtar Singh Brahma , 36–37, Indian revolutionary and founding figure of the Khalistan Liberation Force.
Larry Clemmons , 81, American animator, screenwriter and voice actor.
Leonard Coulshaw , 92, British Chaplain of the Fleet and Archdeacon of the Royal Navy.
Duane Jones , 51, American actor, cardiopulmonary arrest.
Patrick Newell , 56, British actor, heart attack.
Andreina Sacco , 84, Italian field athlete.
Guy Sanderson , 82, English Anglican Bishop of Plymouth.
Alexey von Schlippe , 72, Russian-born American painter.
July 23
Jahangir Khan , 78, Indian test cricketer and Pakistani cricket administrator.
Stuart Legg , 77, English documentary filmmaker.
Heinz Pagels , 49, American physicist, mountaineering accident.
Bandu Patil , 52, Indian hockey player and Olympic gold medalist, cardiac arrest.
July 24
Ilona Elek , 81, Hungarian fencer and dual Olympic gold medalist.
Manuel González , 70, Spanish footballer.
John Harris , 71, Scottish footballer and manager.
Trevor Harvey , 71, Canadian footballer.
Robert McClory , 80, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives.
Mira Schendel , 69, Brazilian artist, lung cancer.
May Smith , 82, Indian-born New Zealand artist.
July 25
Judith Barsi , 10, American child actress, murder-suicide by father.
Douglas Hickox , 59, English film and television director, complications from heart surgery.
Glenn Killinger , 89, American NFL footballer.
Anton Krásnohorský , 62, Czechoslovakian international footballer.
Dave Tobey , 90, American basketball referee.
July 26
July 27
Felix Arnott , 77, Australian Anglican archbishop.
Jack Drees , 71, American sportscaster, cancer.
Ann Mari Falk , 71, Swedish writer and translator.
Brigitte Horney , 77, German theatre and film actress.
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Frank Zamboni , 87, American inventor and businessman.
[60]
July 28
Caleb Gattegno , 76, Egyptian educator, psychologist and mathematician.
Ray Martin , 78, Australian rules footballer.
Syed Modi , 25, Indian badminton player, murdered.
Tullio Pizzorno , 67, Italian sailor and Olympian.
John Wheatley , 80, Scottish politician and judge.
July 29
Ellin Berlin , 85, American author, wife of Irving Berlin.
Patrick Michael Dewan , 97, Canadian farmer and politician.
Pete Drake , 55, American record producer, emphysema.
Günther Radusch , 75, German Luftwaffe pilot.
Paul Reardon , 78, American justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, heart failure.
Georges Vuilleumier , 43, Swiss international footballer.
July 30
Arthur Mooney , 63, Australian rules footballer.
Ólafur Jóhann Sigurðsson , 69, Icelandic novelist, short story writer and poet.
William de Silva , 79, Sri Lankan politician.
Bob Woytowich , 46, Canadian NHL ice hockey player, heart attack.
July 31
Li Fenglou , 76, Chinese footballer and manager.
Stephen Murray-Smith , 65, Australian writer, editor and educator, heart attack.
André Navarra , 76, French cellist.
Trinidad Silva , 38, American comedian and actor, car crash.
Raymond Stross , 72, British-born film producer.
Jinadasa Weerasinghe , 61, Sri Lankan politician, assassinated.
July (date unknown)
August
Enzo Ferrari
Jack Marshall
August 1
John Dearden , 80, American Roman Catholic cardinal, pancreatic cancer.
Florence Eldridge , 86, American actress.
[61]
Sheldon Kinser , 45, American race car driver.
Georges Wambst , 86, French cyclist.
[62]
Gertrude Welcker , 92, German stage and silent-screen actress.
August 2
Steve Anderson , 82, American hurdler and Olympic medalist.
Raymond Carver , 50, American short-story writer and poet, lung cancer.
[63]
Nityanand Kanungo , 88, Indian politician, Governor of Bihar and Gujarat.
Nada Klaić , 68, Croatian historian.
August 3
Lillian Bilocca , 59, British fisheries worker, peritoneal cancer.
Campbell Copelin , 87, English-born Australian actor.
Tucker McGuire , 75, American-born British film and television actress.
Krishnaswami Ramiah , 96, Indian agricultural scientist, geneticist and parliamentarian.
Paddy Walsh , 81, Australian rules footballer.
Vic Watson , 90, English international footballer.
August 4
Allan Adair , 90, British army Major General.
Brian Brake , 61, New Zealand photographer, heart attack.
Charles B. Brownson , 74, American World War II veteran, member of U.S. House of Representatives.
Toshiwo Doko , 91, Japanese engineer.
Harry Lee Waterfield , 77, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky.
August 5
Red Davis , 80, American NFL footballer.
James Devereux , 85, American general of the U.S. Marine Corps, member of U.S. House of Representatives, pneumonia.
Colin Higgins , 47, French-born Australian-American screenwriter, actor, director and producer, AIDS-related illness.
Arif Hussain Hussaini , 41, Indian-born Pakistani revolutionary leader, assassinated.
Ralph Meeker , 67, American film, stage and television actor, heart attack.
August 6
John Bingham , 79, English thriller, detective and spy novelist, MI5 spy.
Anatoly Levchenko , 47, Soviet cosmonaut, brain tumour.
[64]
Francis Ponge , 89, French essayist and poet.
J. Skelly Wright , 77, American circuit judge.
August 7
August 8
Alan Ameche , 55, American NFL player, heart attack.
Kid Chocolate , 78, Cuban boxer.
George Estregan , 49, Filipino film actor.
Henri Frenay , 82, French military officer and member of the French Resistance.
Félix Leclerc , 82, Canadian singer-songwriter, poet, writer, actor and political activist.
Alan Napier , 85, English actor.
Dominic Serventy , 84, Australian ornithologist.
August 9
Jimmie Fidler , 89, American columnist, journalist and radio and television personality.
Owen Jenkins , 82, Welsh Anglican priest.
Giacinto Scelsi , 83, Italian composer, cerebral hemorrhage.
Ramón Valdés , 63, Mexican actor and comedian, stomach cancer.
[65]
August 10
Arnulfo Arias , 86, Panamanian politician, doctor and writer, President of Panama, heart attack.
Jean Brachet , 79, Belgian biochemist.
Jan-Magnus Bruheim , 74, Norwegian poet and children's writer.
Adela Rogers St. Johns , 94, American journalist, novelist and screenwriter.
Paul Thek , 54, American painter and sculptor, AIDS.
August 11
Nellikode Bhaskaran , 64, Indian actor.
Alfred Kelbassa , 63, German international footballer.
K. Avukader Kutty Naha , 68, Indian politician, Deputy Chief Minister of Kerala.
Jean-Pierre Ponnelle , 56, French opera director, set and costume designer, pulmonary embolism following a fall.
Anne Ramsey , 59, American actress, cancer.
[66]
Jack Regan , 75, Australian rules footballer.
August 12
August 13
Mel Almada , 75, Mexican Major League baseballer.
Fred Below , 61, American blues drummer, liver cancer.
Per Digerud , 55, Norwegian cyclist and Olympian.
Keith Hancock , 90, Australian historian and academic.
James Heaslip , 87, Australian politician, member of South Australian Parliament.
Sydney Jacobson , 79, British journalist, editor and political commentator.
Gajanan Jagirdar , 81, Indian film director, screenwriter and actor, heart attack.
Otto Passman , 88, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives.
William H. Phelps Jr. , 85, Venezuelan ornithologist and businessman.
Tenor Saw , 21, Jamaican dancehall singjay, hit and run accident.
Gordon H. Scherer , 81, American lawyer and politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives.
Edward Bennett Williams , 68, American lawyer and businessman, colon cancer.
August 14
Roy Buchanan , 48, American guitarist and blues musician, suicide by hanging.
Robert Calvert , 43, South African–born British writer, poet and musician, heart attack.
Michael Crowder , 54, British historian and author.
Enzo Ferrari , 90, Italian motor racing driver and car maker, leukemia.
[68]
Hollis Dow Hedberg , 84, American geologist.
August 15
Rudy Collins , 54, American jazz drummer.
Ronald Stein , 58, American film composer, pancreatic cancer.
Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt , 86, German composer, musicologist and music historian and critic.
Hartman Turnbow , 83, Mississippi farmer, orator and activist during the Civil Rights Movement.
August 16
Rashad Barmada , 74–75, Syrian politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Syria.
Fred Butters , 84, English international rugby league footballer.
Ron McAuliffe , 70, Australian politician and rugby league administrator, Australian senator, stroke.
Rick Newsom , 38, American NASCAR Winston Cup driver, plane crash.
August 17
Akhtar Abdur Rahman , 64, Pakistani Army general, plane crash.
Arnold Lewis Raphel , 45, American diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan, plane crash.
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. , 74, American lawyer and politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, lung cancer.
Siddique Salik , 52, Pakistani army officer, plane crash.
Victoria Shaw , 53, Australian film and television actress, emphysema.
Samuel Silkin , 70, British politician, Attorney General for England and Wales.
Jack Straus , 58, American professional poker player, aortic aneurysm.
Bob Troughton , 84, Australian rules footballer.
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq , 64, Pakistani military officer, President of Pakistan, plane crash.
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August 18
Sir Frederick Ashton , 83, British ballet dancer and choreographer.
[70]
Don Hummel , 80, American businessman and politician, mayor of Tucson.
Michael Perrin , 82, Canadian-born British scientist.
Jessica Powers , 83, American poet and nun, stroke.
Ernst Simon , 88, German educator and religious philosopher.
August 19
August 20
August 21
H. G. Adler , 78, Czechoslovakian-English German-language poet and novelist.
Ray Eames , 78, American artist and designer.
Eino Kirjonen , 55, Finnish ski jumper and Olympian.
Stuart Leary , 55, South African footballer and first-class cricketer, suicide.
Jerry Warren , 63, American film director, producer, editor, screenwriter, cinematographer and actor, lung cancer.
August 22
August 23
Gerald Drayson Adams , 88, Canadian-born American business executive and literary agent.
José Manuel de Sousa e Faro Nobre de Carvalho , 76, Portuguese army brigadier-general.
C. Desmond Greaves , 74, English Marxist activist and historian.
Laud Humphreys , 57, American sociologist and Episcopal priest, lung cancer.
Josef Klehr , 83, German Nazi SS-Oberscharführer, Nazi concentration camp supervisor.
Hans Lewy , 83, Prussian-born American mathematician.
Alf Martinsen , 76, Norwegian international footballer and Olympic medalist.
Menotti Del Picchia , 96, Brazilian poet, journalist and painter.
Jack Sher , 75, American newspaper columnist, songwriter, film director, film writer and producer.
August 24
Pierre Béchu , 29, French ice dancer and Olympian, road accident.
Leonard Frey , 49, American actor, complications from AIDS.
Kenneth Leighton , 58, British composer and pianist, oesophageal cancer.
Nat Stuckey , 54, American country singer, lung cancer.
August 25
Françoise Dolto , 79, French pediatrician and psychoanalyst, pulmonary fibrosis.
[72]
Gilbert Gil , 74, French film actor.
Art Rooney , 87, American founding owner of Pittsburgh Steelers NFL football team, complications of a stroke.
August 26
Donald De Lue , 90, American sculptor.
Carlos Paião , 30, Portuguese singer and songwriter, car accident.
Fred Peart , 74, British politician, leader of the Houses of Lords and Commons.
Milton Sperling , 76, American film producer and screenwriter, cancer.
August 27
Max Black , 79, Azerbaijani-born British-American philosopher.
Charles Farrell , 88, Irish stage, film and television actor.
Irene Higginbotham , 70, American songwriter and concert pianist.
Jack Kane , 80, Australian senator.
Mario Montenegro , 60, Filipino film actor, heart attack.
William Sargant , 81, British psychiatrist.
August 28
Hazel Dawn , 98, American stage, film and television actress.
Paul Grice , 75, British philosopher of language.
[73]
Guy Hocquenghem , 41, French writer and philosopher, AIDS-related complications.
Jean Marchand , 69, Canadian trade unionist and politician.
Max Shulman , 69, American writer and humorist, bone cancer.
August 29
David A. Hargrave , 42, American game designer and writer of fantasy and science fiction role-playing games.
Horace Henderson , 83, American jazz pianist, organist, arranger and bandleader.
Wilfred Johnson , 52, American mobster, murdered.
Algirdas Klimaitis , 77–78, Lithuanian paramilitary commander.
August 30
August 31
August (unknown date)
September
Luis Walter Alvarez
September 1
Luis Walter Alvarez , 77, American physicist, Nobel laureate in Physics, complications from esophageal cancer.
[75]
Fatehsinghrao Gaekwad , 58, Indian politician and cricketer.
Hugh Hunt , 86, American set decorator.
Leonor Sullivan , 86, American politician, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
September 2
Alexander Aigner , 79, Austrian mathematician.
Jim Bagby Jr. , 71, American Major League baseballer.
Jack Cooper , 80, British politician and trade union leader.
Heinz Förstendorf , 80, German hockey player and Olympic medalist.
Erik Frey , 80, Austrian film actor.
Sir William Northam , 82, Australian yachtsman and Olympic gold medalist.
Marshall Riddle , 70, American Negro League baseballer.
Robert Watts , 65, American artist, lung cancer.
September 3
John Goodison , 44–45, English rock musician, songwriter and record producer, heart attack.
Frederic McGrand , 93, Canadian physician and politician.
[76]
Ferit Melen , 81, Turkish civil servant and politician, Prime Minister of Turkey.
Ferenc Sas , 73, Hungarian international footballer.
Bibi Torriani , 76, Swiss ice hockey player and Olympic medalist.
Miao Yuntai , 94, Chinese politician.
September 5
Ramchandra Dhondiba Bhandare , 72, Indian politician, Governor of Andhra Pradesh.
Lawrence Brown , 81, American jazz trombonist.
Gert Fröbe , 75, German actor, heart attack.
[77]
Boris Smyslovsky , 90, Russian-Finnish general.
September 6
Axel von Ambesser , 78, German playwright, actor and film director.
Leroy Brown , 37, American professional wrestler, stroke.
Autry Inman , 59, American country and rockabilly musician.
Lew Krausse Sr. , 76, American Major League baseballer.
Harold Rosson , 93, American cinematographer.
Karni Singh , 64, Indian Maharaja of Bikaner.
Stefan Themerson , 78, Polish-born writer of children's literature, poet and novelist.
September 7
September 8
G. M. Durrani , 68–69, Indian radio drama artist, playback singer, actor and music director.
Fred Hawking , 78, Australian rules footballer.
Mel Rosser , 87, Welsh international rugby union and rugby league player.
September 9
Mona Best , 64, British music club proprietor, heart attack.
Leroy McGuirk , 77, American professional wrestler and promoter.
September 10
Joaquim Pedro de Andrade , 56, Brazilian film director and screenwriter.
Jam Ghulam Qadir Khan , 67–68, Pakistani Chief Minister of Balochistan.
Virginia Satir , 72, American author and psychotherapist.
William H. Shaw , 79, American economist, businessman and government official, cancer.
September 11
Wilhelm Batz , 72, German Luftwaffe fighter ace during World War II.
Roger Hargreaves , 53, British cartoonist, illustrator and writer of children's books, stroke.
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September 12
Alan Bible , 78, American lawyer and politician, United States Senator.
Stephen B. Grimes , 61, English production designer and art director.
Margaret McFarland , 83, American child psychologist.
Bill Mitchell , 76, American automobile designer, heart failure.
John D. J. Moore , 77, American lawyer and business executive, United States Ambassador to Ireland, bone cancer.
Lauris Norstad , 81, American General in the United States Army and Air Force.
Charlie Palmieri , 60, Puerto Rican bandleader, heart attack.
Mars Ravelo , 71, Filipino comic book cartoonist and graphic novelist.
John Ryan , 77, Australian politician, member of the South Australian House of Assembly.
September 13
September 14
September 15
September 16
September 17
John Biggs-Davison , 70, British politician, Member of Parliament.
Mick Cashman , 56–57, Irish hurler.
Walter P. Chrysler Jr. , 79, American art collector and theatre and film producer, cancer.
Hilde Güden , 71, Austrian soprano.
Nat Jackley , 79, English comic actor, cancer.
Robert Hall , 87, Australian-born economist.
September 18
Ho Chong , 92, South Korean politician, President of South Korea.
Kathleen Collins , 46, American poet, playwright, filmmaker, director and civil rights activist, breast cancer.
David Dodd , 93, American financial analyst, author and economist, respiratory failure.
John Elliot , 90, British transport and railway manager.
Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar , 82, Iranian poet.
Alan Watt , 87, Australian diplomat.
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September 19
Enrico Cerulli , 90, Italian scholar of Somali and Ethiopian studies, Governor of Scioa and Harar.
Michael Fessier , 82, American screenwriter and film producer.
Dorothy Stimson , 97, American academic, dean of Goucher College.
Harry Turner , 93, Australian politician, member of Australian House of Representatives.
September 20
Tim Davis , 44, American drummer, singer and songwriter, co-founded the
Steve Miller Band , complications from diabetes.
Roy Kinnear , 54, English character actor and comedian, heart attack following horse fall.
Sam Woodyard , 63, American jazz drummer, cancer.
September 21
Harold Balfour , 90, British politician, Member of Parliament.
Ned Brennan , 68, Irish politician.
Glenn Robert Davis , 73, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Robert Gwathmey , 85, American painter.
Henry Koster , 83, German-born American film director, liver cancer.
Christine Norden , 63, British actress, pneumonia.
S. B. P. Pattabhirama Rao , 76, Indian politician.
Zubeida , 76–77, Indian actress.
September 22
Rais Amrohvi , 74, Pakistani scholar, poet and psychoanalyst, assassinated.
September 23
Arwel Hughes , 79, Welsh orchestral conductor and composer.
Trilok Kapoor , 76, Indian actor.
Lyell McEwin , 91, Australian politician, president of the South Australian Legislative Council.
Ken McIver , 59, Australian politician, member of the parliament of Western Australia
September 24
Aziz Suryal Atiya , 90, Egyptian Coptic historian.
Basil de Ferranti , 58, British businessman and politician, member of the House of Commons.
Herbert Kirchhoff , 77, German art director.
Joe Don Looney , 45, American NFL footballer, motorcycle accident.
Irwin McIntosh , 62, Canadian Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan.
Shamsul Huda Panchbagi , 90–91, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and politician.
Herbert Witzenmann , 83, German philosopher and anthroposophist.
September 25
bpNichol , 43, Canadian poet and writer.
James L. Buie , 68, American scientist and inventor, emphysema.
Billy Carter , 51, American farmer, businessman and politician, brother of
Jimmy Carter , pancreatic cancer.
Paul Collins , 80, American NFL footballer.
September 26
Marianne Appel (a.k.a. Marianne Harms), 75, American artist.
Guillermo Battaglia , 88, Argentine film actor, heart attack.
Bruce Haack , 57, Canadian musician and composer, heart failure.
Lincoln Hudson , 72, U.S. Army Air Force officer in World War II.
Lord Melody , 62, Trinidadian singer, cancer.
Branko Zebec , 59, Yugoslav international footballer.
September 27
Teofilo Camomot , 74, Filipino Roman Catholic Archbishop, car accident.
Willis Edwards , 85, English international footballer.
George Grant , 69, Canadian philosopher and professor.
J. C. Heard , 71, American swing, bop and blues drummer, heart attack.
Paul Reinman , 78, American comic book artist.
William V. Shannon , 61, American journalist and author, U.S. Ambassador to Ireland, lymphoma.
September 28
Margerie Bonner , 83, American actress, scriptwriter and novelist.
Charles R. Jonas , 83, American politician, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Vicko Krstulović , 83, Yugoslav communist politician, President of the Presidium of the Croatian Parliament.
Louis R. Rowan , 77, American thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder.
Frank Sargent , 86, Canadian ice hockey and curling administrator.
September 29
September 30
Chick Chandler , 83, American film actor, heart attack.
Trường Chinh , 81, Vietnamese communist political leader, President of Vietnam, fall.
[81]
Al Holbert , 41, American car racing driver, aeroplane crash.
María Teresa Laparra , 86, Guatemalan activist, First Lady of Guatemala.
Joachim Prinz , 86, German-American rabbi, heart attack.
Chino Roces , 75, Filipino businessman and newspaper publisher, cancer.
David E. Satterfield III , 67, American lawyer and politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Joseph Albert Sullivan , 87, Canadian senator, ice hockey player and Olympic gold medalist.
September (unknown date)
Alan Angus , 76, Australian racing cyclist.
Lionel Jayatilleke , 64, Sri Lankan politician, member of parliament, assassinated.
Mary Littlejohn , 85, Canadian figure skater and Olympian.
Raymond Price , 64, Welsh rugby union and international rugby league footballer.
October
Franz Josef Strauss
Farida of Egypt
October 1
October 2
Hamengkubuwono IX , 76, Indonesian politician and Javanese Royal, Vice President of Indonesia, internal bleeding.
[82]
Peter Hunt , 72, head of the British Army, Chief of the General Staff.
Alec Issigonis , 81, Ottoman-born British automotive designer.
[83]
October 3
October 4
October 5
Curt Hjelm , 74, Swedish international footballer.
Ron Staniforth , 64, English international footballer.
Lois W. (Lois Wilson), 97, American co-founder of Al-Anon for alcoholics.
October 6
October 7
Otto Arnholz , 94, German politician, member of the German Bundestag.
Sándor Bíró , 77, Hungarian international footballer.
Billy Daniels , 73, American singer, stomach cancer.
Kurt Honolka , 75, German musicologist, journalist, and music and theatre critic.
Chet Phillips , 74, American gymnast and Olympian.
October 8
Edward George Warris Hulton , 81, British magazine publisher and writer.
Wally Lemm , 68, American NFL football coach.
Ernst Hermann Meyer , 82, German composer and musicologist.
Sam Richardson , 70, Canadian long jumper and triple jumper, Olympic gold medalist.
Pál Titkos , 80, Hungarian international footballer.
October 9
Edward Chodorov , 84, American playwright, film writer and producer.
Cliff Gallup , 58, American guitarist, heart attack.
Jackie Milburn , 64, English international footballer.
Felix Wankel , 86, German mechanical engineer, Hitler Youth leader, inventor of the Wankel rotary engine
[85]
October 10
October 11
Buck Clarke , 55, American jazz percussionist.
Thaddeus J. Dulski , 73, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, leukemia.
Morgan Farley , 90, American film and television actor.
Wayland Flowers , 48, American actor, comedian and puppeteer, complications from AIDS.
Bonita Granville , 65, American actress and producer, lung cancer.
[86]
Robert Edward Gross , 83, American surgeon and a medical researcher.
Ursula Nordstrom , 78, American publisher and editor, ovarian cancer.
Joel Oppenheimer , 58, American poet, lung cancer.
Red Owens , 63, American NBA basketballer.
Hugh Percy , 74, British soldier and peer, heart attack.
October 12
Ruth Manning-Sanders , 102, Welsh-born English poet and author.
Ken Murray , 85, American comedian, actor, radio and television personality and author.
Bill Newman , 60, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.
Rafael García Serrano , 71, Spanish writer and journalist.
Coby Whitmore , 75, American painter and magazine illustrator.
October 13
Norman Barry , 90, American judge, politician and football coach, heart attack.
Melvin Frank , 75, American screenwriter, film producer and film director, complications from open heart surgery.
Irene Hunt , 96, American silent-screen actress.
Mike Venezia , 43, American thoroughbred horse racing jockey, horse racing accident.
October 14
Charles Augustus , 76, German prince, head of the house of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach.
Qian Changzhao , 88, Chinese politician.
Harry Creswick , 85–86, British librarian, head of the university libraries at Oxford and Cambridge.
Mary Morris , 72, Fijian-born British actress, heart failure.
Vic Raschi , 69, American Major League baseballer, heart attack.
René Vietto , 74, French road racing cyclist.
John White , 53, American AFL footballer.
October 15
John Ball , 77, American mystery novel writer.
Victor Copps , 69, Canadian politician, mayor of Hamilton, Ontario.
James Craig , 46, Northern Irish loyalist paramilitary, shot.
Clifford Krueger , 70, American politician, Member of the Wisconsin Senate, hepatitis.
Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji , 96, English composer, music critic, pianist and writer.
Julian Alfred Steyermark , 79, Venezuelan-American botanist.
October 16
October 17
October 18
Paulius Galaunė , 98, Lithuanian art historian, museum curator and graphic artist.
October 19
October 20
Mark Evans Austad , 71, American radio and television commentator, U.S. Ambassador to Finland and Norway.
Vladimir Gorb , 84, Soviet Russian painter, graphic artist and art teacher.
Orval Leroy Lewis , 72, American mechanical and chemical engineer, president of American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Nino Nutrizio , 77, Italian journalist.
Sheila Scott , 66, English aviator, cancer.
Mogens Wöldike , 91, Danish conductor, choirmaster and organist.
October 21
Reggie Otero , 73, Cuban Major League baseballer, heart attack.
October 22
October 23
Hap Emms , 83, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, team owner and general manager, heart failure.
Asashio Tarō III , 58, Japanese sumo wrestler, stroke.
October 24
October 25
Bob Carey , 58, American NFL footballer.
Boobie Clark , 38, American NFL footballer, blood clot in lung.
Eric Larson , 83, American animator for Walt Disney Studios.
John Poole-Hughes , 72, Welsh bishop.
Milton Rokeach , 69, Polish-American social psychologist.
October 26
October 27
Frank Devlin , 88, Irish badminton player.
Merv Everett , 71, Australian politician and judge, Federal Senator.
Charles Hawtrey , 73, English actor, comedian, singer, pianist and theatre director, peripheral vascular disease.
Rudolf Jordan , 86, German Gauleiter in Halle-Merseburg and Magdeburg-Anhalt for the Nazis.
Erika von Thellmann , 86, Austrian film and television actress.
October 28
October 29
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay , 85, Indian social reformer and freedom activist.
Andy Cohen , 84, American MLB baseballer.
Joe Comfort , 71, American jazz double bassist.
Thomas Cooray , 86, Sri Lankan Roman Catholic archbishop and cardinal
[90]
Dom Dallessandro , 74, American MLB baseballer.
Nataša Gollová , 76, Austro-Hungarian–born Czechoslovakian actress
[91]
Mary Kid , 87, German actress.
Bill Mason , 58–59, Canadian naturalist, author, artist, filmmaker and conservationist, cancer.
Orlando Montenegro Medrano , 68, Nicaraguan politician and attorney, acting President of Nicaragua.
Ross Rocklynne , 75, American science fiction author.
October 30
Ernst Fritz Fürbringer , 88, German film actor.
T. Hee , 77, American animator and director.
John Myers Myers , 82, American writer.
Florence Nagle , 94, British breeder of racehorses and pedigree dogs, horse trainer and feminist.
Francisco Rodrigues , 63, Brazilian international footballer.
Liz Whitney Tippett , 82, American socialite and breeder of thoroughbred racehorses, cancer.
October 31
Ladislau da Guia , 82, Brazilian footballer.
John Houseman , 86, Romanian-born British-American actor and producer, spinal cancer.
[92]
Ken Niles , 81, American radio announcer.
Alfred Pellan , 82, Canadian painter, leukemia.
George Uhlenbeck , 87, Dutch-American theoretical physicist.
October (unknown date)
November
Takeo Miki
John Carradine
November 1
Broda Otto Barnes , 82, American physician and professor of medicine.
Ken Booth , 62, Australian politician, Treasurer of New South Wales, myocardial infarction.
George Folsey , 90, American cinematographer.
Louis Johnson , 64, New Zealand poet.
November 2
November 3
William Adam , 79, Dutch–Belgian malacologist.
Rachel Andresen , 81, American social worker and founder of Youth For Understanding.
Sidney Carroll , 75, American film and television screenwriter.
Shay Deering , 40, Irish international rugby union player.
Bob Johnson , 81, Australian rules footballer.
George Mitchell , 87, American water polo player and Olympic medalist.
Ian Shevill , 71, Australian Anglican bishop.
November 4
Saul Goldsmith , 77, New Zealand politician, foundation member of the National Party.
Hermann Graf , 76, German World War II fighter ace
[93]
Ki. Va. Jagannathan , 82, Indian journalist, poet and writer.
Michael Pomazansky , 99, Russian theologian.
Kleanthis Vikelidis , 73, Greek international footballer.
Grigor Yeghiazaryan , 79, Armenian composer.
November 5
November 6
John Hubbard , 74, American television and film actor.
Daniel Knox , 74, British Army officer and farmer, Governor of the Bahamas.
Donald Wade , 84, British solicitor and politician, Member of Parliament.
Tan Zheng , 82, Chinese general and Communist Party leader.
November 7
Abram Belskie , 81, British-born sculptor.
Douglas Carter , 80, New Zealand politician.
Bill Hoest , 62, American cartoonist, lymphoma.
Morris Janowitz , 69, American sociologist and professor, Parkinson's disease.
Ruth Lyons , 83, American radio and television broadcaster.
Zhou Xihan , 75, Chinese People's Liberation Army lieutenant general.
November 8
Kingman Brewster Jr. , 69, American academic and diplomat, president of Yale University, U.S. Ambassador to the U.K.
Warren Casey , 53, American theatre composer, lyricist, writer and actor, complications of AIDS.
Norm Nelson , 65, American racing driver.
Oskar Rohr , 76, German international footballer.
November 9
David Bauer , 64, Canadian ice hockey player and coach, pancreatic cancer.
Billy Curtis , 79, American film and television actor, heart attack.
Clarke Hinkle , 79, American NFL footballer.
John N. Mitchell , 75, U.S. Attorney General, convicted for his role in the Watergate scandal, heart attack.
Bob Weiland , 82, American Major league baseballer, stroke.
Richard S. Yeoman , 84, American commercial artist and coin collector, stroke.
November 11
Charles Groves Wright Anderson , 91, South African-born Australian soldier, farmer, and politician.
Frank Curcio , 75, Australian rules footballer.
Jean Mistler , 91, French writer, diplomat and politician, member of the National Council of Vichy France.
November 12
Vincent Buckley , 63, Australian poet, teacher, editor, essayist and critic, heart attack.
István Klimek , 75, Romanian international footballer.
Lyman Lemnitzer , 89, American General in the U.S. Army, Supreme Allied Commander Europe of NATO.
Patricia Charlotte Perrin , 67, New Zealand potter.
November 13
November 14
Julia Caba Alba , 86, Spanish actress.
Olie Cordill , 72, American NFL footballer.
Giacomo Gaioni , 83, Italian cyclist and Olympic gold medalist.
Haywood S. Hansell , 85, American member of the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II, heart failure.
Takeo Miki , 81, Japanese politician, Prime Minister of Japan.
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November 15
Bill Fulton , 79, Australian politician, member of the Australian Parliament.
Mirko Kokotović , 75, Austro-Hungarian–born Yugoslavian international footballer.
Mona Washbourne , 84, English stage, film and television actress.
[96]
November 16
November 17
Sheilah Graham , 84, English-born American gossip columnist, congestive heart failure.
Ángel Reyes , 69, Cuban-born American violinist.
November 19
Mirza Hameedullah Beg , 75, Indian politician, Chief Justice of India.
Veljko Mandić , 64, Montenegrin actor.
Christina Onassis , 37, American shipping magnate and heiress, heart attack.
[97]
Peggy Parish , 61, American writer.
Hamidur Rahman , 59–60, Bangladeshi artist and sculptor.
November 20
November 21
Tom Fraser , 77, Scottish coal miner and trade unionist, Member of Parliament.
Carl Hubbell , 85, American Major League baseballer, car crash due to stroke.
November 22
Luis Barragán , 86, Mexican architect and engineer.
[98]
Raymond Dart , 95, Australian anatomist and anthropologist.
[99]
Erich Fried , 67, Austrian-born British poet, writer and translator, intestinal cancer.
Ray Kelly , 74, American sportswriter.
John R. Ragazzini , 76, American electrical engineer.
November 23
Gamal Abdel-Rahim , 63, Egyptian-born German classical music composer.
F. D. Amr Bey , 79, Egyptian diplomat and squash player, multiple British Open winner, Egypt Ambassador to the U.K.
Wieland Herzfelde , 92, German publisher and writer.
Richard Lonsdale , 74, British Army officer in World War II.
Kenzō Masaoka , 90, Japanese anime creator.
Albert Raby , 54–55, American civil rights activist, heart attack.
Kazem Sami , 52–53, Iranian politician, Minister of Health, murdered.
Jack White , 68, American stock car racing driver.
November 24
Walter W. Bankhead , 91, American politician, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
John William Corrington , 56, American film and television writer, novelist, poet and lawyer.
Bernard Leene , 85, Dutch track cyclist and Olympic gold medalist.
Harris McDowell , 82, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Andreas Ostler , 67, German bobsledder and dual Olympic gold medalist.
Irmgard Seefried , 69, German soprano.
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Jenő Szűcs , 60, Hungarian historian.
November 25
Muhammad bin Abdulaziz Al Saud , 78, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia.
Alphaeus Philemon Cole , 112, American artist, engraver, etcher and super-centenarian.
[101]
Jack Leslie , 87, English footballer.
Bernhard Winkelheide , 80, German politician, member of the German Bundestag.
November 26
November 27
John Carradine , 82, American actor, heart and kidney failure.
[102]
Jan Hein Donner , 61, Dutch chess grandmaster and writer, gastric hemorrhage.
Takieddin el-Solh , 79-80, Lebanese politician, Prime Minister of Lebanon.
[103]
Max Fox , 76, Australian politician, member of Australian House of Representatives.
Wilfred "Chicken" Smallhorn , 77, Australian rules footballer.
Air-Marshall Sir Victor Tait , 96, Canadian-born British airman, ice hockey player and Olympian.
[104]
November 28
Gus Bailey , 37, American NBA basketballer, stabbed.
Robert E. Cook , 68, American attorney, politician and judge, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Robert Stewart , 82, New Zealand yachtsman and Olympian.
November 29
Nils Bejerot , 67, Swedish psychiatrist and criminologist.
Donald Keyhoe , 91, American Marine Corps naval aviator.
Princess Ludwig Rudolph of Hanover , 26, Austrian model and socialite, suspected cocaine overdose.
Yevsey Moiseyenko , 72, Soviet painter.
Ted Rosequist , 80, American NFL footballer and coach.
Mabel Strickland , 89, Maltese journalist, newspaper proprietor and politician.
November 30
Wally Berger , 83, American Major League baseballer, stroke.
Tom Dahms , 61, American NFL footballer and coach.
Aleksandar Deroko , 94, Serbian-born architect, artist and author.
Pannonica de Koenigswarter , 74, British-born American jazz patron, Free French fighter and writer, heart failure.
Erwin Lindner , 100, German entomologist.
Margaret Mee , 79, British botanical artist, car crash.
Charlie Rouse , 64, American tenor saxophonist and flautist, lung cancer.
November (unknown date)
December
Roy Orbison
December 1
Martin Hinds , 47, British scholar of the Middle East and historiographer of early Islamic history.
Włodzimierz Mazur , 34, Polish international footballer.
J. Vernon McGee , 84, American Presbyterian minister and radio minister, heart failure.
December 2
December 3
December 4
December 5
August Lenz , 78, German international footballer.
Alan Lind , 75, Australian politician, member of Victorian Legislative Assembly.
Erik Lundin , 84, Swedish chess master.
Subodh Oraon , 35, Indian politician, member of the Vidhan Sabha of West Bengal.
William Everett Potter , 83, American engineer and military officer, Governor of the Panama Canal Zone.
Dave Ryan , 65, American NFL footballer.
December 6
December 7
December 8
John Joe McGirl , 67, Irish republican, Sinn Féin politician and Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army.
Gene Quill , 60, American jazz alto saxophonist.
Anne Seymour , 79, American film and television actress, heart failure.
Ulanhu , 80, Chinese founding Chairman of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Vice President of People's Republic of China.
December 9
December 10
Dennis Arundell , 90, British actor, producer, director, conductor and composer of incidental music.
Richard S. Castellano , 55, American actor, heart attack.
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Dorothy de Rothschild , 93, English philanthropist and activist for Jewish affairs.
Lawrence Wien , 83, American lawyer, philanthropist and real estate investor, prostate cancer.
December 11
Kari Kairamo , 55, Finnish chairman and CEO of Nokia Corporation, suicide by hanging.
Marcus Knight , 85, English Anglican priest.
Frank S. Pepper , 78, British writer of comics.
Nagendra Singh , 74, Indian lawyer, President of the International Court of Justice.
December 12
Dick Clair , 57, American television producer, actor and television and film writer, AIDS.
Anthony Provenzano , 71, American mobster of the Genovese crime family, heart attack.
Joe Reichler , 73, American sports writer.
Rudolf Schündler , 82, German actor and director, heart attack.
Loudon Wainwright Jr. , 63, American writer, colon cancer.
December 13
Brynmor John , 54, British politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Defence.
María Teresa León , 85, Spanish writer, activist and cultural ambassador.
Muhammad Mangundiprojo , 83, Indonesian soldier, revolutionary and civil servant.
Bill Nichols , 70, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, heart attack.
Brian Sinclair , 73, British veterinary surgeon and novelist, heart attack.
Betty Snowball , 80, English women's test cricketer, international squash and lacrosse player for Scotland.
Roy Urquhart , 87, British Army Major General.
December 14
Narciso Busquets , 58, Mexican actor of theatre, film, television and radio.
Win Oo , 53, Burmese actor, singer, director, writer and publisher, colorectal cancer.
Evald Schorm , 56, Czechoslovakian film and stage director, screenwriter and actor.
Jean Schramme , 59, Belgian planter, mercenary in Belgian Congo.
Stuart Symington , 57, American businessman and politician, U.S. Secretary of the Air Force.
December 15
December 16
Anna Jean Ayres , 68, American occupational therapist and educational psychologist, complications of breast cancer.
Cyril Easthaugh , 90, British Anglican bishop.
Tom Eastick , 88, Australian Army artillery officer during World War II.
Joe Hatten , 72, American Major League baseballer.
Hunter "Stork" Hendry , 93, Australian test cricketer.
Babe Pratt , 72, Canadian NHL ice hockey player, heart attack.
Sylvester , 41, American singer-songwriter, AIDS.
December 17
Jerry Hopper , 81, American film and television director, heart disease.
Ursula Krone-Appuhn , 52, German politician, member of the Bundestag.
Gisella Perl , 81, Hungarian-American gynecologist, providing assistance to prisoners at Auschwitz.
December 18
December 19
Robert Bernstein , 69, American comic book writer, playwright and concert impresario, heart failure.
Lotta Dempsey , 83, Canadian journalist, editor and television personality, cancer.
Umashankar Joshi , 77, Indian poet and writer, lung cancer.
Seánie O'Brien , 69, Irish hurler.
December 20
B. Jayamma , 73, Indian actress and singer.
György Marik , 64, Hungarian international footballer.
Alphonse Ouimet , 80, Canadian television pioneer, president of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Max Robinson , 49, American broadcast journalist, co-anchor on ABC World News Tonight, complications of AIDS.
December 21
Bernt Carlsson , 60, Swedish diplomat, Assistant-Secretary-General of the United Nations,
Lockerbie aeroplane disaster .
Paul Jeffreys , 36, English rock musician,
Lockerbie aeroplane disaster .
Willie Kamm , 88, American Major League baseballer.
Dave Ruhl , 68, Canadian professional wrestler.
Bob Steele , 81, American actor.
Nikolaas Tinbergen , 81, Dutch biologist and ornithologist, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, stroke.
[107]
Bill Townsend , 65, English footballer and manager.
Venus Xtravaganza , 23, American transgender performer, strangled.
December 22
Chico Mendes , 44, Brazilian trade union member and environmental activist, murdered.
[108]
Tucker Smith , 52, American actor, dancer and singer, cancer.
December 23
December 24
Blanche Barrow , 77, American wife of Buck Barrow, associates of Bonnie and Clyde, lung cancer.
Leif Cassel , 82, Swedish politician and lawyer, Member of Parliament.
Mary Cavendish , 93, Mistress of the Robes to Queen Elizabeth II.
Joe Kresky , 82, American NFL football player.
Jainendra Kumar , 83, Indian writer.
Evelyn Pinching , 73, British world champion alpine skier and Olympian.
Alfred M. Pride , 91, American admiral of the U.S. Navy.
Noel Willman , 70, Irish actor and theatre director.
December 25
Bunny Bell , 77, English footballer.
Jan Białostocki , 67, Polish art historian.
Terence Dudley , 69, British television director, producer and screenwriter for the BBC, cancer.
Evgeny Golubev , 78, Soviet composer.
W. F. Grimes , 83, Welsh archaeologist.
Denis Matthews , 69, English pianist and musicologist, suicide.
John Ulric Nef , 89, American economic historian.
Shōhei Ōoka , 79, Japanese novelist, literary critic, lecturer and translator of French literature.
Edward Pelham-Clinton , 68, English lepidopterist and military officer, Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne.
Frank Thomas , 58, English Roman Catholic bishop.
Napoleon Andrew Tuiteleleapaga , 84, Samoan lawyer, author, amateur poet and musician, myocardial infarction.
December 26
Alex Hastings , 76, Scottish international footballer.
Julanne Johnston , 88, American silent-screen actress.
John Loder , 90, English-American film actor.
Glenn McCarthy , 81, American oil tycoon.
Vangaveeti Mohana Ranga , 41, Indian politician, member of the Indian National Congress, assassinated.
Charles Smith , 68, American actor.
Pablo Sorozábal , 91, Spanish composer.
Tao Zhiyue , 95–96, Chinese military officer and politician, lieutenant general of the National Revolutionary Army of China.
December 27
Hal Ashby , 59, American film director, pancreatic cancer.
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Walter Crook , 76, English international footballer and manager.
Ken Hoole , 71–72, English railway historian.
Freda James , 77, British tennis player and Wimbledon Doubles champion.
Khin Kyi , 76, Burmese politician and diplomat, Burmese Ambassador to India, stroke.
Donald Laycock , 51–52, Australian linguist and anthropologist.
Henry de Menten de Horne , 92, Belgian equestrian and Olympian.
Jess Oppenheimer , 75, American radio and television writer, producer and director, heart failure.
December 28
December 29
Mike Beuttler , 48, British Formula One driver, complications from AIDS.
Peter Nellen , 56, German politician, member of the German Bundestag.
December 30
Jan Baalsrud , 71, Norwegian Resistance commando.
Yuli Daniel , 63, Soviet writer and dissident.
Takeo Fujisawa , 78, Japanese businessman, co-founder of Honda Motor Co., heart attack.
André Germain , 85, French cinematographer.
Lyle H. Lanier , 85, American experimental psychologist and writer.
Ernesto Lazzatti , 73, Argentinian international footballer.
Isamu Noguchi , 84, American artist and landscape architect, heart failure.
December 31
Yara Amaral , 52, Brazilian actress, heart attack from drowning.
Christopher Andrewes , 92, British virologist who discovered the human
influenza A virus .
Oliver L. Austin , 85, American ornithologist.
Nicolas Calas , 81, Greek-born American poet and art critic.
Wes Flowers , 75, American baseballer, Major League pitcher.
[110]
December (unknown date)
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The Antiquaries Journal . Oxford University Press. 1989. p. 404.
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"Alphaeus Philemon Cole - Biography" . www.askart.com .
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The New York Times Biographical Service . New York Times & Arno Press. 1988. p. 1170.
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"Takieddin Solh, Ex-Lebanese Premier, 80" . New York Times . November 30, 1988. Retrieved July 6, 2021 .
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Air Vice-Marshal Sir Victor Tait (04235)
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ISBN
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Who was who in America . Marquis-Who's Who. 1989. p. 65.
ISBN
978-0-8379-0217-3 .
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ISBN
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"Wes Flowers" . Baseball Reference . Retrieved 8 September 2023 .
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