- January 15
- Wilf Slack, cricket player (whilst bat in Gambia England player 1986), dies. [1]
- January 16
- Pierre Boileau, screenwriter (Vertigo), dies at age 82. [1]
- Romo Vincent, actor (Naked Jungle), dies. [1]
- Trey Wilson, actor (Bull Durham, Twins, Raising Arizona), dies. [1]
- January 17
- Patrick Edward Purdy kills five children, wounds 30 and then shoots himself in Stockton, California. [1] [43]
- Sterling A Brown, US poet/critic (Southern Road), dies at age 87. [1]
- January 18
- Bruce Chatwin, British writer, dies at age 49. [1]
- January 19
- Norma Varden, actress (Loose in London), dies. [1]
- January 20
- Beatrice Lillie, actress (Thoroughly Modern Millie), dies at age 94. [1]
- January 23
- Salvador Dalí, Spanish Surrealist painter, dies in Spain at age 84 (born 1904). [1] [5] [43]
vvv advertisement vvv
^^^ advertisement ^^^
- January 24
- Serial killer (100 women) Ted Bundy is executed in Florida's electric chair. [1] [43]
- January 26
- Paul Daels, Flemish chairman (IJzerbedevaart committee), dies. [1]
- Stéphane Steinier, Belgian journalist, kidnapped and murdered. [1]
- January 31
- Jack Douglas, humorist (My Brother Was an Only Child), dies at age 80. [1]
- February 1
- Death of Elaine de Kooning, American artist (born 1919). [43]
- February 3
- Death of John Cassavetes at age 59 of cirrhosis of the liver; actor/director (Husbands, Dirty Dozen, Johnny Staccato). [1] [43] [457]
- February 4
- Death of Kenneth "Jethro" Burns at age 69; country singer (Homer and Jethro). [1]
- February 5
- Joe Raposa, composer/songwriter (Sesame Street), dies at age 51. [1]
- February 6
- Barbara Tuchman, American historian (Guns of August - Pulitzer Prize), dies at age 77 (born 1912). [1] [43]
- February 8
- Maurits Kok, Dutch writer/poet (Railroad Strike), dies at age 81. [1]
- February 9
- Death of Osamu Tezuka, Japanese Manga artist (Astroboy) (born 1928). [43]
- February 10
- Dan Kelly, NHL sportscaster ("He shoots, he scores!"), dies at age 52. [1]
- February 11
- George O'Hanlon, American actor/director (Bop Girl, Zamba), dies at age 71 (born 1912). [1] [43]
- February 12
- Mauritius Balfoort, French/Flemish director, dies at age 83. [1]
- Thomas Bernhard, Dutch/Austrian writer (Heldenplatz), dies at age 58. [1]
- February 14
- Death of Vincent Crane, British musician (Atomic Rooster). [43]
- February 17
- Lefty Gomez, New York Yankees pitching great, dies at age 80. [1]
- February 19
- Jaap van de Merwe, Dutch journalist/cabareter (Hadjememaar), dies. [1]
- February 22
- Joan Woodbury, actress (Super Sleuth, Northwest Trail), dies. [1]
- February 27
- Joe Silver, actor (Rage, Rapid, Deathtrap, Shivers), dies at age 66. [1]
- Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1973), dies at age 85 (born 1903). [1] [37] [43]
- March 1
- Henk van Stipriaan, Dutch radio host, dies at age 64. [1]
- Josephine van Gasteren, Dutch actress/director (Bluejackets), dies at age 72. [1]
- March 6
- Harry Andrews, British actor (Equus, Helen of Troy, Hill), dies at age 77 (born 1911). [1] [43]
- March 8
- Death of Stuart Hamblen at age 80 after having a malignant brain tumor removed at a California hospital; gospel-country singer ("It Is No Secret What God Can Do", "This Ole House"). [457]
- March 9
- Robert Mapplethorpe, American photographer, dies at age 42 (born 1946). [1] [43]
- March 12
- Maurice Evans, English actor (Bewitched, MacBeth), dies at age 87 (born 1901). [1] [43]
- March 14
- Edward Abbey, American author and environmentalist, dies after surgery at age 62 (born 1927). [1] [43]
- Zita, Empress of Austria/Queen of Hungary, dies at age 96. [1]
- March 17
- Merritt Butrick, actor (Shy People, Wired to Kill), dies of AIDS at age 29 (born 1959). [1] [43]
- March 18
- William Challee, actor (Desperate, Moonchild), dies. [1]
- March 19
- Death of Alan Civil, English French horn player (born 1929). [43]
- March 20
- Death of Archie Bleyer at age 79 from Parkinson's disease; bandleader/arranger (for Arthur Godfrey on radio and TV), founded Cadence records. [457]
- March 21
- Milton Frome, actor (Family Jewels), dies. [1]
- March 27
- May Allison, actress (Youth for Salem Men of Steel), dies. [1]
- March 29
- Bernard Blier, actor (Les Miserables, Women and War), dies at age 73. [1]
- March 30
- Dort Clark, actor (In Harm's Way), dies. [1]
- April 1
- Henk Gortzak, Dutch Member of Parliament (CPN/PSP), dies at age 57. [1]
- April 3
- Norman Woolard, actor (Guilty, Saul and David, Medeleine), dies at age 79. [1]
- April 11
- Henk van Galen Last, Dutch journalist, dies at age 68. [1]
- April 12
- Abbie Hoffman, yippie peace activist of the 1960s, dies at age 52. [1]
- Sugar Ray Robinson [Walker Smith Junior], world welterweight champion (1946-51), five-time middleweight champion, dies of Alzheimers at age 67. [1]
- Death of Herbert Mills at age 77 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; singer (Mills Brothers - "Tiger Rag" (1931), "Cab Driver" (1968), "My Shy Violet" (1968), "Paper Doll" (1943)). [457]
- April 14
- Lance Pierre, cricket player (Test West Indies versus England 1948, DNB, 7 overs 0-28), dies. [1]
- April 15
- Hu Yaobang, General Secretary of Chinese Commnist Party, dies (born 1915). [1] [43]
- April 16
- Tawfieq Yusuf Awwaad, Lebanese writer, dies. [1]
- Death of Jocko Conlan, baseball player and umpire (born 1899). [43]
- April 18
- The Hillsborough disaster claims its 95th victim when 14-year-old Lee Nichol dies in hospital from his injuries. [43]
- April 19
- Daphne Du Maurier, English writer (Rebecca, Jamaica Inn), dies at age 82. [1]
- April 21
- James Kirkwood, actor/writer (Devil's Holiday), dies at age 64. [1]
- Death of Princess Dukhye of Korea (born 1912). [43]
- April 22
- Huey Newton, American Black Panther leader, shot dead at age 47. [1]
- Death of Emilio G. Segrè, Italian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1905). [43]
- April 25
- George Coulouris, actor (Papillon, Runaway Bus), dies at age 85. [1]
- April 26
- Death of Lucille Ball of an aortic aneurism at age 77; actress/comedienne (I Love Lucy, The Lucy Show, Here's Lucy). [1] [43] [457]
- April 28
- Olaff J de Landell [JB van Sparwoude], Dutch writer, dies at age 77. [1]
- April 30
- Death of Yi, Bang-ja, Crown Princess of Korea (born 1901). [43]
- Sergio Leone, Italian director (The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly), dies at age 60 (born 1929). [1] [43]
- May 1
- David Webster, South African white anti-apartheids activist, murdered. [1]
- Death of Douglass Watson at age 68; actor (Mac Cory - Another World TV show). [1] [457]
- Marion Mack, actress (General), dies. [1]
- Death of Sally Kirkland, fashion editor at Life magazine (born 1912). [43]
- May 3
- Christine Jorgensen, first transsexual, dies at age 62. [1]
- May 5
- Frank Easton, cricket wicketkeeper (New South Wales 1933-39), dies. [1]
- May 7
- Death of Guy Williams of a brain aneurism at age 65 in Argentina; actor (Zorro - Zorro, Lost in Space, Bonanza, Disneyland). [1] [457]
- May 9
- Death of Keith Whitley at age 33; American country singer ("Don't Close Your Eyes") (born 1955). [1] [43]
- Paul J Steenbergen, actor (Ciske de Rat), dies at age 82. [1]
- May 12
- Joe Valdez Caballero, creator of hard taco shell, dies at age 81. [1]
- May 16
- Hassan Khaled, sheik of Lebanon, is murdered. [1]
- May 19
- Able J Herzberg, Russian/Netherlands lawyer (Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem), dies. [1]
- Death of Robert Webber of ALS at age 64; TV actor (40-year career, over 500 appearances, Alex - Moonlighting). [1] [43] [457]
- May 20
- Anton Diffring, actor (Zeppelin, Fahrenheit 451), dies at age 70. [1]
- Death of Gilda Radner at age 42 of ovarian cancer; actress/comedienne (Saturday Night Live, Haunted Honeymoon). [5] [43] [457]
- John R Hicks, English economist (Nobel Prize 1972), dies (born 1904). [1] [43]
- May 27
- Jack Starrett, director/actor (Chase, Nightwish, First Blood), dies. [1]
- May 29
- Death of John Cipollina, American musician (Quicksilver Messenger Service) (born 1943). [43]
- May 30
- Zinka Milanov, Metropolitan Opera diva, dies of a stroke at age 83. [1]
- May 31
- C L R James, cricket writer (distinguished Trinidadian), dies. [1]
- Dr Charles A Hufnagel, artificial heart valve pioneer, dies at age 72. [1]
- Terry Drinkwater, CBS news correspondent, dies at age 53 of cancer. [1]
- June 3
- Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Supreme Leader of Iran, dies at age 86 of internal bleeding (born 1900). [43] (June 4 [1])
- June 7
- Death of Don the Beachcomber, American restaurateur (born 1907). [43]
- June 9
- Death of George Wells Beadle, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1903). [43]
- June 10
- Death of Richard Quine at age 68 of self-inflicted gunshot wound; actor/director (The Mickey Rooney Show, Hec Ramsey, Project UFO, How to Murder Your Wife, Bell Book and Candle, Sex and the Single Girl). [457]
- June 12
- Death of Vivian Carter at age 69 of complications from diabetes; co-founder of Chicago's Vee-Jay Records. [457]
- June 13
- Death of Fran Allison of myelodysplasia at age 81; American actress (Aunt Fanny - Breakfast Club radio show, Kukla, Fran and Ollie TV show). [457]
- June 15
- Death of Victor French at age 54 of cancer; actor (Little House on the Prairie, Highway to Heaven, Carter Country). [1] [43] [457]
- June 17
- Death of John Matusek at age 38 of a heart attack; football player (Oakland Raiders), actor. [1]
- David S Griggs, astronaut, dies in crash of WW II vintage plane. [1]
|