- January 31
- Death of Si (Simon) Zentner of leukimia at age 83; American trombonist, bandleader ("Up a Lazy River" (1961)). [457]
- February 5
- Death of Doris Coley at age 58 of breast cancer; singer (The Shirelles - "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" (1961)). [457]
- February 6
- Death of Philip F. "Ted Tappet" Walters in Homosassa, Florida; race car driver in Briggs Cunningham team in the 1950s. [288.18]
- February 10
- Death of Jim Varney of lung cancer at age 50; American actor (Ernest P. Worrell in commercials, Fernwood Tonight, Pop! Goes the Country, The Rousters, Hey Vern It's Ernest, Ernest Goes to Camp). [21] [457]
- February 12
- Death of Charles Schulz at age 77 after a heart attack; cartoonist (Peanuts, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (1973, Emmy award). [5] [21] [457]
- February 29
- Death of Dennis Danell, American musician (Social Distortion) (born 1961). [21]
- March 17
- Ron Watson (aka "Uncle Ron the Magician") dies of a heart attack while putting on a magic show for a group of hospital patients at Tokoroa Hospital in New Zealand. [467]
- April 6
- Death of Habib Bourguiba, President of Tunisia (born 1903). [21]
- April 8
- Death of Claire Trevor AKA Claire Wemlinger at age 91 of respiratory ailments; actress (Big Town radio show, Producer's Showcase - Dodsworth (Emmy award)). [457]
- April 10
- Death of Larry Linville at age 60 of pneumonia after a cancer operation; actor (Major Frank Burns - M*A*S*H TV show). [457]
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- 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 21
- Death of Neal Matthews of a heart attack; singer (with Elvis Presley, Ricky Nelson, Patsy Cline, Red Foley, Johnny Horton, Jim Reeves, George Jones, Marie Osmond, Tom Jones, Merle Haggard). [457]
- April 22
- Actor Renato Di Paolo accidentally hangs himself and dies playing Judas in Camerata Nuova, near Rome, Italy. [467]
- April 25
- Death of David Merrick, American stage producer (born 1911). [21]
- April 27
- Death of Vicki Sue Robinson of cancer at age 45; singer ("Turn The Beat Around" (1976), "Fame"). [457]
- April 29
- Death of Pham Van Ðong, Prime Minister of Vietnam (born 1906). [21]
- May 2
- Death of Bob Homme at age 81 of prostate cancer; host of CBC TV show The Friendly Giant. [457]
- May 7
- Death of Douglas Fairbanks Junior at age 90 after a heart attack; host (Douglas Fairbanks Presents TV show), actor (King Richard - The Legend of Robin Hood, Dr. Kildare TV show, Love Boat TV show, Route 66 TV show). [457]
- May 10
- Death of Craig Stevens AKA Gail Shikles Junior at age 81 of cancer; actor (Peter Gunn, Dallas (1978), Man of the World (1962)). [457]
- 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 20
- Death of Malik Sealy, Minnesota Timberwolves basketball player. [21]
- May 21
- Death of Sir John Gielgud at age 96; actor (Brideshead Revisited TV mini-series, Wagner, Marco Polo, Scarlett, War and Remembrance). [21] [457]
- 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]
- Death of Judd Rose at age 44 from a brain tumor; broadcast journalist (ABC, CNN anchor). [457]
- June 16
- Death of Empress Kojun of Japan (born 1903). [21]
- June 18
- Death of Nancy Marchand; American actress (The Sopranos TV show) (born 1928). [21]
- June 19
- Death of Christiane Herzog, wife of the former German President (1994 -1999), Roman Herzog. [37]
- June 29
- Death of John Aspinall in England of cancer (born 1926); successful gambler, casino owner (the Clermont Club, Little Aspinall's, Curzon Club), private zookeeper. [565.150]
- July 1
- Death of Walter Matthau at age 79 from a heart attack; actor (The Odd Couple movie). [5] [21] [457]
- July 5
- Death of Cub Koda AKA Michael Koda of complications from kidney failure; founding member of Brownsville Station ("Smokin' In The Boys Room" (1974)). [457]
- July 10
- Death of Vakkom Majeed, Indian Freedom fighter, Travancore-Cochin Legislative member (born 1909). [21]
- July 11
- Death of Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1921). [21]
- July 29
- Death of René Favaloro, Argentinian cardiologist who created the technique for coronary bypass surgery (born 1923). [21]
- August 2
- Death of Ron Townson at age 59 of kidney disease; singer (The 5th Dimension - "Up Up and Away", "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In", "One Less Bell to Answer", "I Didn't Get to Sleep at All") (dies 2000). [457]
- August 5
- Death of Alec Guinness de Cuffe AKA Alec Guiness at age 86 of liver cancer at his home in southern England; actor (Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy TV show). [5] [21] [457]
- August 9
- Death of John Harsanyi, Hungarian-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1920). [21]
- August 12
- Death of Loretta Young AKA Gretchen Michaela Young of ovarian cancer at age 87; actress (Letter to Loretta, The New Loretta Young Show). [21] [457]
- August 25
- Death of Jack Nitzche at age 73 of a heart attack; arranger/producer (The Rolling Stones, Neil Young, The Walker Brothers), songwriter ("Up Where We Belong", "Needles And Pins). [457]
- September 19
- Death of Ann Doran at age 89; actress (Twilight Zone, Cagney and Lacey, Hunter, appeared in estimated 500 movies and 1000 TV shows). [457]
- September 28
- Death of Pierre Trudeau at age 80; Prime Minister of Canada (born 1919). [21] [457]
- October 3
- Death of Benjamin Orr; bassist and singer (The Cars - "Drive", "You Might Think") (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 12
- Death of Arthur Goldberg at age 59, of bone marrow failure. Goldberg was an attorney, CEO of Bally Entertainment. [386.232]
- October 14
- Death of Zeke Manners at age 89; composer/broadcaster ("The Pennsylvania Polka", The Beverly Hillbillies band). [457]
- October 15
- Death of Konrad Emil Bloch, German-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1912). [21]
- October 16
- Death of Rick Jason at age 74 of self-inflicted gunshot; actor (Case of the Dangerous Robin TV show, Combat! TV show, Matt Houston TV show, Police Woman TV show, Murder She Wrote TV show, Wonder Woman TV show, Fantasy Island TV show, Airwolf TV show, Dallas TV show, The Young and the Restless TV show). [457]
- October 18
- Death of Gwen Verdon at age 75 after a heart attack; actress/dancer (Damn Yankees, All My Children, Magnum P.I., The Cosby Mysteries, Walker Texas Ranger). [457]
- Death of Julie London at age 74 from a stroke; actress/singer (Emergency TV show). [457]
- 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 30
- Death of Steve Allen at age 78 from ruptured blood vessel in his heart wall; American comedian, composer, talk show host (The Tonight Show), and author (born 1921). [5] [21] [457]
- November 7
- Death of Ingrid of Sweden, Queen consort of Frederick IX of Denmark (born 1910). [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 30
- Death of Scott Smith at age 45 by drowning, swept off his sailboat near San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge; Loverboy bass guitarist (Loverboy - "Turn Me Loose", "Working for the Weekend"). [457]
- December 3
- Death of Hoyt Curtin of heart failure at age 78; American composer (The Flintstones, Top Cat, Jonny Quest, Superfriends, The Jetsons, Josie and the Pussycats, The New Scooby-Doo movies). [457]
- December 6
- Death of Werner Klemperer at age 80 from cancer; actor (Colonel Klink - Hogan's Heroes). [21] [457]
- December 16
- Death of David Lewis at age 84; actor (Edward Quartermaine - General Hospital). [457]
- December 23
- Death of Victor Borge AKA Borge Rosenbaum at age 91 of heart failure; pianist & comedian (Bing Crosby's Kraft Music Hall on radio, Ed Sullivan Show, Hollywood Palace, The Tonight Show). [21] [457]
- Death of Billy Barty at age 76 of heart failure; dwarf/comedian (75 years on TV, Spike Jones Show, Peter Gunn). [457]
- December 24
- The Texas 7 rob a sports store in Irving, Texas; police officer Aubrey Hawkins is shot dead. [21]
- Death of Nick Massi at age 73 of cancer; bassist (Four Seasons - "December 1963, Oh What A Night" (1976), "Sherry", "Rag Doll"). [457]
- December 26
- Death of Jason Robards Junior of mestasticized lung cancer at age 78; Oscar, Tony, and Emmy-winning actor (Inherit the Wind (1998), The Atlanta Child Murders, Mark Twain and Me, Sakharov, FDR: The Last Year, Washington: Behind Closed Doors). [457]
- December 31
- Death of Rabbi Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane, Israeli settler leader (born 1966). [21]
- James Tuozzolo, trumpet player with the Greater Trenton Symphony Orchestra, collapses of a heart attack on stage just after performing a solo and dies in hospital. [467]
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