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Last updated: 2008 October 2.

2001 January 1 Death of Ray Walston, American actor (born 1914). [22] January 2 Death of Teri Diver, American actress (born 1971). [22] January 3 Death of José Greco, Italian-born flamenco dancer (born 1918). [22] January 5 Death of Nancy Parsons, American actress (born 1942). [22] January 9 Death of Maurice Prather, American motion picture and still photographer (born 1926). [22] January 12 Death of William Hewlett, American businessman (born 1913). [22] Death of Vladimir Semichastny, former Soviet head of KGB in the 1960s (born 1924). [22] January 16 Death of Laurent-Désiré Kabila, president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (born 1939). [22] January 19 Death of Dario Vittori, Argentinean actor (born 1921). [22] January 22 Death of Tommie Agee of cardiac arrest in Manhattan, New York, at age 58; Major League Baseball center fielder for the New York Mets, American League Rookie of the Year in 1966. [56] January 27 Death of Marie-José of Belgium, last Queen of Italy (born 1906). [22] January 28 Death of Curt Blefary, baseball player (born 1943). [22] January 30 Death of Jean-Pierre Aumont, French actor (born 1911). [22] Death of Johnnie Johnson, English pilot (born 1915). [22] January 31 Death of Gordon R. Dickson, Canadian writer (born 1923). [22] February 4 Death of Iannis Xenakis, Greek composer (born 1922). [22] February 6 Death of Filemon Lagman, Filipino Communist revolutionary (born 1953). [22] February 7 Death of Dale Evans, American actress and singer (born 1912). [22] Death of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American author and aviator (born 1906). [22] February 9 Death of Herbert Simon, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1916). [22] February 10 Death of Abraham Beame, mayor of New York City from 1974 to 1977 (born 1906). [22] February 12 Death of Kristina Söderbaum, German actress and photographer (born 1912). [22] February 16 Death of Bob Buhl, baseball player (born 1928). [22] February 17 Death of Khalid Abdul Muhammad, an ex-felon and a controversial figure in the Black Nationalist, Pan Africanist movement. [22] February 18 NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt is killed instantly in a crash on the last lap of the Daytona 500 while his DEI cars driven by his son, Dale Earnhardt Jr., and Michael Waltrip, finish second and first, respectively. [22] Death of Balthus, French painter (born 1908). [22] Death of Eddie Mathews, baseball player (born 1931). [22] February 19 Death of Priscilla Davis, American socialite (born 1942). [22] Death of Stanley Kramer, American film director (born 1913). [22] Death of Charles Trenet, French singer (born 1913). [22] February 24 Death of Claude Elwood Shannon, American mathematician (born 1916). [22] February 25 Death of Sir Donald Bradman, Australian cricketer (born 1908). [22] February 26 Death of Stan Cullis, English footballer and manager (born 1915). [22] March 4 Death of Harold Stassen, American politician (born 1907). [22] Death of Fred Lasswell, American cartoonist (born 1916). [22] Death of Glenn Hughes, American singer (born 1950). [22] March 12 Death of Morton Downey Jr., American television personality (born 1933). [22] Death of Robert Ludlum, American author (born 1927). [22] Death of Ann Sothern, American actress (born 1909). [22] March 18 Death of John Phillips, American singer (born 1935). [22] March 21 Death of Norma Macmillan, Canadian voice actress (born 1921). [22] March 22 Death of William Hanna, American animation studio executive (born 1910). [22] March 23 Death of Sully Boyar, American actor (born 1923). [22] March 28 Death of Vulo Radev, Bulgarian film director (born 1923). [22] March 31 Death of Clifford Shull, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1915). [22] Death of David Rocastle, English footballer (born 1967). [22] April 7 Death of David Graf, American actor (born 1950). [22] Death of Beatrice Straight, American actress (born 1914). [22] April 9 Death of Willie Stargell, from kidney failure at age 61 (born 1940); American baseball (Pittsburgh Pirates) player. [56] (April 10 [22]) April 11 Death of Graciela Naranjo, Venezuelan singer and actress (born 1916). [22] Death of Harry Secombe, Welsh entertainer (born 1921). [22] April 12 Death of Harvey Ball, American designer (born 1921). [22] April 14 Death of Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director (born 1927). [22] April 15 Death of Joey Ramone, American musician and singer (The Ramones) (born 1951). [22] April 20 Death of Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor and composer (born 1946). [22] Death of Bert Sutcliffe, New Zealand cricketer (born 1923). [22] May 2 Death of Ted Rogers, British comedian (born 1935). [22] Death of Gina Mastrogiacomo, American actress (born 1961). [22] May 5 Death of Clifton Hillegass, American author and creator of Cliff Notes (born 1918). [22] May 9 Death of James E. Myers, American songwriter (born 1919). [22] May 11 Death of Douglas Adams, English author (heart attack) (born 1952). [22] May 12 Death of Perry Como, American singer (born 1912). [22] May 13 Death of R.K. Narayan, Indian novelist (born 1906). [22] May 20 Death of Renato Carosone, Italian musician and singer (born 1920). [22] May 27 Death of Ramon Bieri, American actor (born 1929). [22] May 28 Death of Francisco Varela, Chilean biologist and philosopher (born 1946). [22] June 1 Death of Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist (born 1920). [22] Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal kills his father (King Birendra), his mother (Queen Aiswarya), and other members of the royal family with an assault rifle and then shoots himself. He dies June 4. King Gyanendra accedes to the throne. [22] June 2 Death of Imogene Coca, American actress (born 1908). [22] Death of Joey Maxim, American boxer (born 1922). [22] June 3 Death of Anthony Quinn, Mexican actor (born 1915). [5] [22] June 4 Death of Prince Dipendra of Nepal (born 1971). [22] Death of John Hartford, American musician and composer (born 1937). [22] June 7 Death of Víctor Paz Estenssoro, President of Bolivia (born 1907). [22] June 10 Death of Princess Leila of Iran (born 1970). [22] June 11 In Terre Haute, Indiana, Timothy McVeigh is executed for the Oklahoma City Bombing. [22] June 13 Death of Marcelo Fromer, guitarist of Brazilian band Titãs (born 1961). [22] June 17 Death of Donald J. Cram, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1919). [22] June 19 Death of Steve Broadie, voice actor in video games Sonic Adventure, Sonic Shuffle and Sonic Adventure 2. [22] Death of John Heyer, Australian documentary filmmaker (born 1916). [22] June 21 Death of John Lee Hooker, American musician (born 1917). [22] Death of Carroll O'Connor, American actor (born 1924). [22] June 26 Death of Peter von Zahn, German journalist (born 1913). [22] June 27 Death of Tove Jansson, Finnish author (born 1914). [22] Death of Jack Lemmon, American actor and director (born 1925). [5] [22] June 28 Death of Mortimer Adler, American philosopher (born 1902). [22] Death of Joan Sims, British actress (born 1930). [22] June 30 Death of Chet Atkins, American musician (born 1924). [22] July 1 Death of Nikolay Basov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1922). [22] July 5 Hannelore Kohl, the wife of the former chancellor, Helmut Kohl commits suicide. She suffered from a rare, incurable and increasingly painful allergy to light. She had not been able to leave a completely darkened room in their home for 15 months prior to her death. [22] [37] July 7 Death of Fred Neil, American singer-songwriter (born 1936). [22] July 11 Death of Herman Brood, Dutch musician and painter (suicide) (born 1946). [22] July 12 Death of Paul Magloire, President of Haiti (born 1907). [22] July 18 Death of Fabio Taglioni, Italian automotive engineer (born 1920). [22] July 20 (to July 22) The 27th G8 summit takes place in Genoa, Italy. Massive demonstrations are held against the meeting by anti-globalisation groups. One demonstrator, Carlo Giuliani, is shot dead by a carabiniere and several others are badly injured, during a police attack on a school used by the protesters as their headquarters. [22] Death of Milt Gabler, American record producer (born 1911). [22] July 22 Death of Frances Rappaport Horwich (Miss Frances), children's show host (born 1907). [22] July 27 Death of Leon Wilkeson, American musician (born 1952). [22] July 29 Death of Edward Gierek, Polish politician (born 1913). [22] Death of Wau Holland, German hacker (born 1951). [22] August 1 Death of Poul Anderson, American author (born 1926). [22] Death of Korey Stringer, American football player (born 1974). [22] August 3 Death of Christopher Hewett, British actor (born 1922). [5] [22] August 6 Death of Jorge Amado, Brazilian writer (born 1912). [22] August 15 Death of Richard Chelimo, Kenyan athlete (born 1972). [22] August 19 Death of Les Sealey, English footballer (born 1957). [22] August 20 Death of Fred Hoyle, British astronomer and science fiction writer (born 1915). [22] August 21 Death of Calum MacKay, Canadian hockey player (born 1927). [22] August 24 In Finland, four teenagers assassinate businessman Martti Heino and his wife Elise Heino. [22] August 25 A Cessna 402 aircraft carrying nine people, including R&B singer Aaliyah, crashes in the Bahamas, killing all aboard. [22] September 1 Death of Bobby Evans, Scottish football player (born 1927). [22] September 2 Death of Christiaan Barnard, South African heart surgeon (born 1922). [22] September 3 Death of Pauline Kael, American film critic (born 1919). [22] Death of Thuy Trang, Vietnamese-born actress from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (born 1973). [22] September 7 Death of Spede Pasanen, Finnish television personality (born 1930). [22] September 9 A suicide bomber kills Ahmed Shah Massoud, military commander of the Afghan Northern Alliance. [22] [160.39] September 11 Death of David Angell, American television producer (born 1946). [22] Death of Garnet Bailey, Canadian ice hockey player and scout (born 1948). [22] Death of Berry Berenson, American actress and photographer (born 1948). [22] Death of Barbara Olson, American television commentator (born 1955). [22] Death of Alice Stewart Trillin, American author and film producer (born 1938). [22] September 12 Death of Victor Wong, American actor (born 1927). [22] September 22 Death of Isaac Stern, Ukrainian violinist (born 1920). [22] October 5 Emilie Schindler, the widow of Oskar Schindler (Schindler's List) dies in Berlin, Germany. [37] October 7 Death of Chris Adams, American judoka and professional wrestler (murdered) (born 1955). [22] October 12 Death of Lord Hailsham of Saint Marylebone, British lawyer and politician (born 1907). [22] October 15 Death of Zhang Xueliang, Chinese military figure (born 1901). [22] October 26 Death of Josh Kirby, British artist (born 1928). [22] Death of Charlie van Gelderen, South African politician (born 1913). [22] November 7 Death of Nida Blanca, prolific Philippine actress (born 1936). [22] November 9 Death of Niels Jannasch, Canadian historian and museum curator (born 1924). [22] November 10 Death of Ken Kesey, American author (born 1935). [22] November 12 Death of Tony Miles, English chess player (born 1955). [22] Death of Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, American-born Hindu guru who spearheaded a global Hindu renaissance and founder of Kauai's Hindu Monastery (born 1927). [22] November 17 Death of Michael Karoli, German guitarist (Can) (born 1948). [22] November 18 Death of Malcolm McFee, British actor (Please Sir! and The Fenn Street Gang) (born 1949). [22] November 21 Death of Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Hisamuddin Alam Shah Al-Haj, King of Malaysia (born 1926). [22] November 24 Former German Minister of Defense, Gerhard Stoltenberg (CDU) dies of cancer at his home in Bonn-Bad Godesberg. [37] Death of Melanie Thornton, American-born singer (born 1967). [22] November 25 Death of Gohar Shahi, internationally renowned spiritual leader and founder of International Spiritual Movement Anjuman Serfroshan-e-Islam (born 1941). [22] November 28 Death of William Kienzle, American author (born 1928). [22] November 29 Death of George Harrison, English musician (The Beatles) (born 1943). [22] Death of John Knowles, American author (born 1926). [22] December 5 Death of Sir Peter Blake, New Zealand sailor and environmentalist (born 1948). [22] Death of Franco Rasetti, Italian physicist (born 1901). [22] December 6 Death of Charles McClendon, Hall of Fame college football coach (born 1923). [22] December 8 Death of Don Tennant, American advertising executive (born 1922). [22] Death of Betty Holberton, American programmer (ENIAC) (born 1917). [22] December 13 Death of Chuck Schuldiner, American singer and guitarist (born 1967). [22] December 15 Death of Rufus Thomas, American singer (born 1917). [22] Death of Russ Haas, American professional wrestler (born 1974). [22] December 16 Death of Stuart Adamson, British musician (born 1958). [22] Stefan Heym, German writer, dies while attending a Heinrich Heine conference in Israel. [37] December 20 Death of Foster Brooks, American actor and comedian (born 1912). [22] Death of Léopold Sédar Senghor, first president of Senegal (born 1906). [22] December 26 Death of Nigel Hawthorne, British actor (born 1929). [22] December 29 Death of Florian Fricke, German musician (born 1944). [22] Death of Cassia Eller, Brazilian singer (born 1962). [22] December 30 Death of Eileen Heckart, American actress (born 1919). [22]