- July 18
- Karl Menninger, psychiatrist (Menninger Clinic), dies at age 96 from cancer. [1]
- Death of Yun Po Sun, President of South Korea (born 1897). [42]
- July 19
- Death of Herbert Nelson of a stroke at age 76; actor (The Guilding Light, Days of Our Lives). [1] [457]
- Death of Johnny Wayne at age 72 of cancer; comedian (Wayne and Schuster on radio and TV, appeared on Ed Sullivan Show 52 times). [1] [42] [457]
- July 20
- Death of Morty Nevins of cancer at age 73 in Beverly Hills, California, USA; accordian player (Three Suns - "Peg of My Heart" (1947), "Twilight Time"). [457]
- July 26
- Death of Brent Mydland at age 37, found dead of a drug overdose in his California home; keyboard player (Grateful Dead - "Far From Me"). [1] [42] [457]
- July 27
- Death of Bobby Day at age 60 of cancer in Los Angeles, California, USA; singer ("Rock-in Robin" (1956), "Little Bitty Pretty One"). [1] [457]
- Kim Thomas-Friedland, news anchor (FNN), dies at age 32. [1]
- August 17
- Death of Pearl Bailey at age 72 of heart disease; singer ("Takes Two to Tango"), actress (As the World Turns TV show), and comedienne. [42] [457]
- August 18
- B.F. Skinner, American psychologist (Skinner Box), dies from Leukemia at age 86 (born 1904). [1] [42]
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- August 23
- Death of David Rose at age 80; composer/orchestra leader, musical director for Red Skelton on radio and TV for 24 years. [457]
- August 27
- Death of Stevie Ray Vaughan when the helicopter he was traveling in collides with a ski slope; blues guitarist. The accident also claims three members of Eric Clapton's entourage. [1] [42] [457]
- August 31
- Nat (Sweetwater) Clifton, New York Knicks player, dies at age 65 of a heart attack. [1]
- September 3
- David Acer, Florida dentist, dies of AIDS after infecting five patients. [1]
- September 4
- Irene Dunne, American actress (winner of five Oscars), dies of heart failure at age 91 (born 1898). [1] [42]
- September 9
- Samuel Kanyon Doe, president of Liberia, captured and killed by rebels in a filmed execution. [1] [42]
- September 26
- Alberto Moravia, Italian writer (Woman in Red), dies at age 82 (born 1907). [1] [42]
- September 30
- Death of Patrick White, Australian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1912). [42]
- October 1
- Curtis E LeMay, US Air Force General, dies at age 83. [1]
- Death of Larry Volk, shot dead at age 49 at home in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; was programmer for American Coin Machine Company; had admitted to Nevada State Gaming Control Board that he had altered software used in video poler and keno machines, preventing awarding of some jackpots and increasing others, allowing estimated $10-20 million to be illegally won from 1986 to 1989. [818.35]
- October 3
- Stefano Casiraghi, Princess Caroline of Monaco's husband, dies at age 30. [1]
- October 5
- Meir Kahane, founder of Jewish defense league, assassinated at age 58. [1]
- October 11
- Death of Douglas Edwards at age 73 of cancer; CBS-TV news anchor. [1] [457]
- October 13
- Death of Le Duc Tho, Vietnamese general and politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (born 1911). [42]
- Death of Douglas Edwards at age 73; broadcast newsman (CBS radio, CBS TV network newscast (1948-1962)). [457]
- October 14
- Death of Leonard Bernstein at age 72 of a heart attack at his home in New York City; composer/conductor (West Side Story, Omnibus, Young People's Concerts). [1] [42] [457]
- Death of Elwood Glover at age 75; commercial radio announcer, host CBC TV's Luncheon Date from 1963-75). [457]
- October 16
- Art Blakey, jazz drummer (Jazz Messengers), dies of cancer at age 71. [1]
- October 20
- Brian Jewell, teenager in New Jersey, dies of accidental hanging while playing the part of a hanged man for a "haunted hayride". [467]
- October 26
- Death of William S. Paley at age 89 from a heart attack; CBS founder and CEO. [1] [457]
- William Anthony Odom, North Carolina 15-year-old, accidentally hangs himself staging a gallows scene at a Halloween party. [467]
- October 27
- Elliott Roosevelt, son of Franklin Roosevelt, dies at age 80. [1]
- Xavier Cugart, bandlander, dies from heart failure at age 90. [1] [457]
- October 29
- William French Smith, US attorney general (1980), dies at age 73 from cancer. [1]
- October 30
- Joseph Burrus, amateur magician in Fresno California, is crushed and dies after being bound in a plastic coffin and buried under seven tons of soil and concrete. [467]
- November 3
- Death of Mary Martin at age 76 from cancer; singer, actress (Peter Pan - three TV shows, The Skin of Our Teeth, Annie Get Your Gun, Valentine, Born Yesterday). [1] [457]
- Death of Valerie French at age 58 of leukemia; actress (The Edge of Night TV show, Nurses TV show, All My Children TV show, One Life to Live TV show). [457]
- November 5
- American rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the far-right Kach movement, is shot dead after a speech at a New York City hotel. [42]
- November 10
- Death of Ronnie Dyson at age 40 of heart failure in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; singer ("(If You Let Me Make Love to You Then) Why Can't I Touch You?" (1970)). [457]
- November 12
- Death of Eve Arden AKA Eunice Quedens at age 82 of arteriosclerotic heart disease; actress (Our Miss Brooks radio and TV shows). [1] [457]
- Death of Dave Willock at 81 from complications of a stroke; actor (Tugwell - Jack Carson Show radio show, Boots and Saddle TV show, The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show). [457]
- November 14
- Malcolm Muggeridge, WW II spy for Britain, dies at age 87. [1]
- November 17
- Death of Robert Hofstadter, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1915). [42]
- November 23
- Bo Diaz, catcher, crushed to death by a satellite dish at age 37. [1]
- Roald Dahl, British short story writer, dies at age 74 (born 1916). [1] [5] [42]
- November 25
- Bill Vukovich, Indianapolis 500 driver, dies in crash at age 27. [1]
- November 30
- Norman Cousins, editor (Saturday Review), dies at age 75. [1]
- December 1
- Jan H de Groot, Dutch co-founder (Vrij Nederland), dies. [1]
- December 2
- Aaron Copland, American composer (Fanfare for the Common Man), dies at age 90 (born 1900). [1] [42]
- Death of Robert Cummings at age 82 of kidney failure; actor (Twelve Angry Men (1954, Emmy award), The Bob Cummings Show, My Hero, My Living Doll, Love That Bob). [1] [457]
- December 3
- Gavin Reed, actor (Body Beneath), dies at age 59. [1]
- December 4
- Death of Edward Binns at age 74 of a heart attack; actor (It Takes a Thief, Brenner, The Defenders, Dr. Kildare, Police Story, The Virginian, juror #6 - Twelve Angry Men). [1] [457]
- December 6
- Tunku Abdul Rahman, Prime Minister of Malaysia (1957-70), dies. [1]
- December 7
- Death of Delecta "Dee" Clark at age 52; US singer ("Raindrops"). [1]
- Joan Bennett, American actress (House Across the Bay), dies at age 80 (born 1910. [1] [42]
- December 8
- Martin Ritt, American director/actor (Norma Rae), dies at age 70. [1]
- December 9
- Mike Mazurski, wrestler/actor (Centerfold Girls), dies at age 80. [1]
- December 10
- Armand Hammer, CEO (Occidental Petroleum), dies at age 92. [1]
- December 13
- Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss writer (Besuch der alten Dame), dies at age 69. [1]
- December 14
- Hope Sansberry, actress (Rats are Coming), dies at age 94. [1]
- Johannes von Thurn und Taxis, prince in Germany, dies at age 64. [1]
- Death of Friedrich Durrenmatt in Neuchatel, Switzerland; dramatist (born 1921). [37] [42]
- December 15
- Betty Warren, actress (Passport to Pimlico) dies. [1]
- Jean Paige, actress (Captain Blood, Black Beauty), dies. [1]
- December 17
- Don Draper, actor (Pepper Agent 00X), dies of AIDS at age 61. [1]
- Mieke Verstraete, Belgian/Netherlands actress (Pleasant Settled), dies at age 79. [1]
- December 18
- Anne Revere, actress (National Velvet), dies of pneumonia at age 87. [1]
- Death of Connie Russell at age 66 of heart problems; singer (Garroway at Large TV show (1949), variety TV shows of Morey Amsterdam, Ed Sullivan, Steve Allen, Milton Berle, Eddie Cantor). [457]
- December 19
- Basil Henson, actor (Change Partners), dies of stroke at age 71. [1]
- December 22
- Helene Stanley, actress (Carnival Story, Roar of the Crowd), dies. [1]
- December 23
- Frank King, cricket player (West Indies fast bowler played 14 Tests 1953-56), dies. [1]
- December 28
- Ed van der Elsken, Dutch photographer (Sweet Life), dies at age 65. [1]
- Death of Kiel Martin of lung cancer at age 46; actor (Detective John "J.D." La Rue - Hill Street Blues). [1] [457]
- Lucas Polhaupessy, Moluccan leader, dies. [1]
- December 31
- George Allen, US football coach (Los Angeles Rams, Washington Redskins), dies. [1]
- Vasily Grigoryevich Lazarev, cosmonaut (Soyuz 12, 18A), dies at age 62. [1]
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