- July 18
- Rebecca Schaeffer, actress (My Sister Sam) is shot dead by a fan at age 21. [1]
- July 19
- Death of Kazimierz Sabbat, Polish president (born 1913). [43]
- August 7
- U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland (Democrat-Texas) and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia. [43]
- August 9
- Death of Kathleen Maguire at age 63; actress (One Life to Live). [457]
- August 12
- Death of William Shockley, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1910). [43]
- August 13
- Tim Richmond, American race car driver (won 13 NASCAR races), dies of AIDS (born 1955). [1] [43]
- August 16
- Amanda Blake, American actress (Gunsmoke), dies at age 60 (born 1929). [1] [43]
- August 18
- Leading presidential hopeful Luis Carlos Galán is assassinated near Bogotá in Colombia. [43]
- August 22
- Death of Diana Vreeland, American fashion editor (born 1929). [43]
- Death of Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party (murdered) (born 1942). [43]
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- August 30
- Death of Joe De Santis at age 80 of obstructive lung disease; actor (Pepper Young's Family radio show, Mr. District Attorney, March of Time, Gangbusters, Kate Smith, Playhouse 90 TV show, Studio One). [457]
- September 1
- Death of A. Bartlett Giamatti, American President of Yale University and Major League Baseball Commissioner, of a heart attack at age 51 (born 1938). [1] [43]
- September 4
- Death of Ronald Syme, New Zealand-born classicist and historian (born 1903). [43]
- September 8
- Death of Paul Alfred Weiss in White Plains, New York (born in Vienna, Austria); biologist. [37]
- September 12
- Death of John Qualen at age 89 of heart failure; character actor (The Odd Couple, Mister Ed, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Yancy Derringer). [457]
- September 14
- Death of Perez Prado at age 72 of a stroke; Cuban mambo singer ("Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White" (1955), "Patricia", "Mambo No. 5", "Mambo No. 8"). [43] [457]
- September 17
- Jay Stewart, announcer on TV's Let's Make a Deal, commits suicide. [1]
- Death of Hugh Quincy Alexander, American politician (born 1911). [43]
- September 22
- Death of Irving Berlin AKA Israel Isidor Baline at age 101 following a heart attack; songwriter ("There's No Business Like Show Business", "God Bless America", "White Christmas", Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (1968)). [1] [43] [457]
- September 28
- Death of Ferdinand Marcos, deposed President of the Philippines (born 1917). [1] [43]
- September 29
- A.A. Busch Junior, brewer/baseball owner (Saint Louis Cardinals), dies at age 90. [1]
- September 30
- Death of Horace Alexander, English writer, pacifist, and ornithologist (born 1889). [43]
- October 4
- Death of Graham Chapman at age 48 of spinal and throat cancer; comedian/writer (Monty Python's Flying Circus, Doctor at Large, The Two Ronnies, The Frost Report, That Was The Week That Was). [43] [457]
- Death of Secretariat, American racehorse (born 1970). [43]
- October 12
- Death of Jay Ward at age 79 of cancer; animation producer (Rocky and His Friends). [457]
- October 16
- Death of Scott O'Dell, children's writer and winner of 5 Newbery Awards (born 1898). [43]
- October 18
- Death of Harvey Hart at age 61 from a stroke; director (Columbo, East of Eden). [457]
- October 25
- Mary McCarthy, author (The Group), dies, at age 77. [1]
- October 26
- Death of Charles J. Pedersen, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1904). [43]
- November 1
- Death of Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, American civil rights activist (born 1898). [43]
- November 5
- Death of Barry Sadler at age 49 in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, in a coma from a gunshot to the head a year earlier; songwriter/singer ("The Ballad of the Green Berets"). [457]
- November 11
- Death of Kenneth MacLean Glazier, Sr., Canadian minister and librarian (born 1912). [43]
- November 13
- Death of Canadian champion swimmer Victor Davis. He held three world records, four Olympic medals, 29 national titles, and 16 medals from international competitions; member of the Order of Canada. [47.69]
- November 22
- In West Beirut, a bomb explodes near the motorcade of Lebanese President Rene Moawad and kills him. [43]
- Death of C. C. Beck, American cartoonist (born 1910). [43]
- November 25
- Death of George Cakobau, Fiji Governor General (born 1912). [43]
- November 29
- Death of Gubby Allen, English cricket player (born 1902). [43]
- November 30
- In Bad Homburg, Germany, Deutsche Bank chairman Alfred Herrhausen is killed in his armoured Mercedes car by a 20kg roadside bomb. The Red Army Faction claims responsibility for the murder. [37] [43] [1118.164]
- December 1
- Alvin Ailey, American choreographer (Blues Suite, Revelations), dies at age 58 (born 1931). [1] [43]
- December 6
- Death of Frances Bavier at age 86 of a heart attack; actress (Aunt Bee - The Andy Griffith Show). [1] [43] [457]
- John Paine, actor (Miracle on 34th Street), dies at age 77. [1]
- In Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Marc Lépine, an anti-feminist gunman, murders 14 young women at the École Polytechnique, then kills himself. [1] [43]
- December 14
- Andrei D Sakharov, Soviet physicist/dissident/1975 Nobel peace prize winner, dies in Moscow at age 68 (born 1921). [1] [43]
- Death of Jock Mahoney at age 70 of a stroke in Bremerton, Washington, USA; stunt man/actor (Tarzan, Dallas, Cow Town, The Range Rider, Yancy Derringer). [1] [457]
- December 15
- Drug baron José Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha is killed by Colombian police. [43]
- Arnold Moss, actor (Gambit), dies at age 79. [1]
- Death of Edward Underdown, stage and film veteran (born 1908). [43]
- December 16
- Death of Lee Van Cleef at age 64 after a heart attack; actor (The Adventures of Kit Carson, Schlitz Playhouse, Lawman, The Rifleman, Laramie, The Lone Ranger, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Sabata). [1] [457]
- Aileen Pringle, actress (Age of Consent, Convicted, Night Parade), dies. [1]
- Silvana Mangano, Italian actress (Death in Venice), dies at age 59 (born 1930). [1] [43]
- December 20
- Audrey Christie, actress (Splendor in the Grass), dies at age 77. [1]
- Death of Kurt Böhme, German bass (born 1908). [43]
- December 22
- Samuel Beckett, Irish/French writer (Waiting for Godot, Molloy, Nobel Prize 1969), dies at age 83. [1] [43]
- December 25
- Billy Martin, New York Yankees' baseball manager, killed in a car accident at age 61 in Binghamton, New York. [1] [5] [56]
- Romanian dictator (1945-89) Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena are executed after their unsuccessful escape attempt. [1] [43]
- Roger Pigaut, actor (Indoptable Angélique), dies. [1]
- December 26
- Peggy Thorpe-Bates, actress (Alcatraz Island), dies. [1]
- December 30
- Madoline Thomas, actress (Girl in the Canal), dies. [1]
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