References are numbered in [brackets], which are listed here. A number after the dot gives the page in the source.

Last updated: 2008 June 28.

2000 January 2 Death of Patrick O'Brian, English writer (born 1914). [21] January 7 Death of Makhmud Esambayev, Chechen dancer (born 1924). [21] January 15 Death of Fran Ryan, American actress (born 1916). [21] Death of Äeljko Ražnatovic, Serbian mobster and paramilitary leader (born 1952). [21] January 19 Death of Bettino Craxi, Prime Minister of Italy (born 1934). [21] Death of Hedy Lamarr, Austrian actress (born 1913). [21] January 26 Death of Don Ralke, American music arranger (born 1920). [21] February 4 Death of Phil Tonken, American radio and television announcer (born 1919). [21] February 5 Death of Ward Cornell, Canadian radio/TV broadcaster and educator (born 1924). [21] February 7 Death of Big Pun, American rapper (born 1971). [21] February 8 Death of Derrick Thomas, American football player (born 1967). [21] February 9 Death of Beau Jack, American boxer (born 1921). [21] February 10 Death of Jim Varney, American actor noted for his character, Ernest P. Worrell. (born 1949). [21] February 11 Death of Roger Vadim, French film director (born 1928). [21] February 12 Death of Jalacy "Screamin' Jay" Hawkins, American musician (born 1929). [21] Death of Tom Landry, American football coach (born 1924). [5] [21] Death of Charles M. Schulz, American comic strip artist (Peanuts) (born 1922). [5] [21] February 19 Death of Friedensreich Hundertwasser, artist (born 1928). [21] February 23 Death of Sir Stanley Matthews, English footballer (born 1915). [21] Death of Ofra Haza, Israeli singer (born 1957). [21] February 29 Death of Dennis Danell, American musician (Social Distortion) (born 1961). [21] March 3 Death of Toni Ortelli, Italian composer and alpinist (born 1904). [21] March 28 Death of Anthony Powell, British author (born 1905). [21] April 3 Death of Terence McKenna, writer, philosopher, ethnobotanist and shaman (born 1946). [21] April 4 Death of Derek Allhusen, British equestrian (born 1914). [21] April 5 Death of Lee Petty, American race car driver (born 1914). [21] April 6 Death of Habib Bourguiba, President of Tunisia (born 1903). [21] April 11 Death of Diana Darvey, British actress, singer and dancer (born 1945). [21] April 16 Sultan Hisamuddin Alam Shah, Sultan of Selangor, dies after a reign of 55 years. He was the longest reigning monarch in the world since the death of Prince Franz Joseph II of Liechtenstein. [21] April 25 Death of David Merrick, American stage producer (born 1911). [21] April 29 Death of Pham Van Ðong, Prime Minister of Vietnam (born 1906). [21] May 11 Death of Paula Wessely, Austrian actress (born 1907). [21] May 12 Death of Adam Petty, American race car driver (born 1980). [21] May 14 Death of Keizo Obuchi, Prime Minister of Japan (born 1937). [21] May 17 Death of Donald Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1909). [21] May 19 Death of Yevgeny Khrunov, cosmonaut (born 1933). [21] May 20 Death of Edward Bernds, American director (born 1905). [21] Death of Jean Pierre Rampal, French flutist (born 1922). [21] Death of Malik Sealy, Minnesota Timberwolves basketball player. [21] May 21 Death of Dame Barbara Cartland, English novelist (born 1901). [21] Death of Sir John Gielgud, English actor (born 1904). [21] Death of Mark R. Hughes, American entrepreneur and founder of Herbalife (born 1956). [21] May 27 Death of Maurice Richard, Canadian hockey player (born 1921). [21] Death of Kazimierz Leski, Polish engineer, fighter pilot, and Home Army's intelligence and counter-intelligence officer (born 1912). [21] May 31 Death of John Coolidge, son of American President Calvin Coolidge (born 1906). [21] June 9 The Austrian writer of experimental literature, Ernst Jandl, dies in Vienna at age 74; writer of lyric, dramas and radio plays, won the Georg Büchner Prize for literature. [37] June 10 Death of Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria (born 1930). [21] June 14 Death of Robert Trent Jones, English-born golf course designer (born 1906). [21] June 16 Death of Empress Kojun of Japan (born 1903). [21] June 17 Death of Brian Statham, English cricketer (born 1930). [21] June 18 Death of Nancy Marchand, American actress who starred in The Sopranos (born 1928). [21] June 19 Death of Christiane Herzog, wife of the former German President (1994 -1999), Roman Herzog. [37] June 21 Death of Alan Hovhaness, American composer (born 1911). [21] June 24 Death of David Tomlinson, English actor (born 1917). [21] July 1 Death of Walter Matthau, American actor (born 1920). [21] July 2 Death of Joey Dunlop, Northern Irish motorcycle racer (born 1952). [21] July 7 Death of James C. Quayle, American newspaper publisher (born 1921). [21] Death of Kenny Irwin, NASCAR driver (born 1969). [21] July 10 Death of Vakkom Majeed, Indian Freedom fighter, Travancore-Cochin Legislative member (born 1909). [21] Death of Denis O'Conor Don, O'Conor Don. [21] Death of Justin Pierce, British skateboarder and actor (born 1975). [21] July 11 Death of Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1921). [21] July 14 Death of Meredith MacRae, American actress (born 1944). [21] July 27 Death of Gordon Solie, American wrestling commentator (born 1929). [21] July 28 Death of Abraham Pais, Dutch-born American physicist (born 1918). [21] July 29 Death of René Favaloro, Argentinian cardiologist who created the technique for coronary bypass surgery (born 1923). [21] August 5 Death of Sir Alec Guinness, English actor and writer (born 1914). [21] Death of Otto Buchsbaum, writer and ecological activist (born 1920). [21] August 6 Death of Sir Robin Day, British political broadcaster (born 1923). [21] August 9 Death of John Harsanyi, Hungarian-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1920). [21] Death of Bob Lido, American musician (born 1914). [21] August 12 Death of Loretta Young, American actress (born 1913). [21] Death of Dave Edwards, American musician (born 1941). [21] August 19 Death of Bineshwar Brahma, Bodo activist and leader (born 1946). [21] August 21 Death of Daniel Lisulo, Zambian politician (born 1930). [21] August 25 Death of Carl Barks, American cartoonist (born 1901). [21] September 2 Death of Elvera Sanchez, American dancer (born 1905). [21] September 16 Death of Georgiy Gongadze, Ukrainian journalist (born 1969). [21] September 17 Death of Nicole Reinhart, American cyclist (born 1976). [21] Death of Paula Yates, British television presenter and journalist (born 1960). [21] September 19 Death of Anthony Robert Klitz, British artist (b 1917). [21] September 20 Death of Gherman Titov, Soviet cosmonaut (born 1935). [21] September 23 Death of Aurelio Rodríguez, Mexican Major League Baseball player (born 1947). [21] September 25 Death of R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet (born 1913). [21] September 26 Death of Carl Sigman, American songwriter (born 1909). [21] September 27 Death of Sammy Luftspring, Canadian boxer (born 1916). [21] September 28 Death of Pierre Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada (born 1919). [21] October 3 Death of Benjamin Orr, the Cars bassist and singer (born 1947). [21] October 4 Death of Michael Smith, English-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1932). [21] October 9 Death of Patrick Anthony Porteous, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross (born 1918). [21] October 11 Death of Donald Dewar, Scottish politician (born 1937). [21] October 13 Death of Tony Roper, NASCAR driver (born 1964). [21] October 15 Death of Konrad Emil Bloch, German-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1912). [21] October 21 Death of Reginald Kray, leading figure in organised crime in London, United Kingdom (born 1933). [21] October 22 Death of Rodney Anoa'i, American wrestler known as Yokozuna (born 1966). [21] October 27 Death of Walter Berry, Austrian bass-baritone (born 1929). [21] October 30 Death of Steve Allen; American comedian, composer, talk show host, and author (born 1921). [5] [21] November 6 Death of L. Sprague de Camp, American writer (born 1907). [21] November 7 Death of C Subramaniam, Indian politician (born 1910). [21] Death of Ingrid of Sweden, Queen consort of Frederick IX of Denmark (born 1910). [21] November 11 Death of Hugh Paddick, British actor (born 1915). [21] November 22 Death of Sir Cyril Astley Clarke, British physician, geneticist and entomologist, former President of the Royal College of Physicians (born 1907). [21] November 27 Death of Damilola Taylor, murder victim (born 1989). [21] November 28 Death of Liane Haid, Austrian actress (born 1895). [21] December 6 Death of Werner Klemperer, German actor (Colonel Klink - Hogan's Heroes) (born 1920). [21] December 18 Death of Kirsty MacColl, British singer-songwriter (born 1959). [21] December 23 Death of Victor Borge, Danish-born comedian and pianist (born 1909). [21] Death of Noor Jehan, Pakistani actress and singer (born 1926). [21] December 31 Death of Rabbi Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane, Israeli settler leader (born 1966). [21]