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.

2006 January 1 Death of Charles Steen, American geologist, The "Uranium King". [27] January 2 Death of John Woodnutt, British actor (born 1924). [27] January 3 Death of Steve Rogers, Australian rugby player (born 1954). [27] Death of Bill Skate, Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea (born 1954). [27] January 4 Death of Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates (born 1946). [27] January 6 Death of Lou Rawls, American singer (born 1933). [27] January 8 Death of Tony Banks, Baron Stratford, British politician (born 1943). [27] January 9 Death of Andy Caldecott, off-road motorcycle racer (born 1964). [27] January 14 Death of Jim Gary, American sculptor (born 1939). [27] Death of Shelley Winters, American actress (born 1920). [27] January 15 Death of Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (born 1926). [27] January 19 Death of Wilson Pickett, American singer (born 1941). [27] January 21 Death of Ibrahim Rugova, first President of Kosovo (born 1944). [27] January 24 Death of Chris Penn, American actor (born 1965). [27] Death of Marija Skalovska, Macedonian opera singer (born 1929). [27] January 27 Death of Johannes Rau, President of Germany (born 1931). [27] January 28 Death of Yitzchak Kadouri, Iraqi-born rabbi (born 1900). [27] January 30 Death of Coretta Scott King, American civil rights activist and wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. (born 1927). [27] February 1 Death of Dick Brooks, American auto racer (born 1942). [27] February 3 Death of Al Lewis, American actor (born 1923). [27] February 4 Death of Betty Friedan, American feminist, activist, and writer (born 1921). [27] February 8 Death of Ron Greenwood, English football manager (born 1921). [27] February 9 Death of Sir Freddie Laker, British airline entrepreneur (born 1922). [27] February 10 Death of J Dilla, American music producer (born 1974). [27] February 12 Death of Ken Hart, American composer, journalist, and playwright (born 1917). [27] February 13 Death of P. F. Strawson, English philosopher (born 1919). [27] February 14 Death of Shoshana Damari, Israeli singer and actress (born 1923). [27] February 15 Death of Sun Yun-suan, Premier of the Republic of China (born 1913). [27] February 16 Death of Ernie Stautner, German-born American football player (born 1925). [27] February 20 Death of Lucjan Wolanowski, Polish journalist, writer and traveler (born 1920). [27] February 22 Death of Anthony Burger, American musician and singer (born 1961). [27] Death of Sinnathamby Rajaratnam, Singapore politician (born 1925). [27] February 23 Death of Mauri Favén, Finnish painter (born 1920). [27] Death of Zarra, Spanish footballer (born 1921). [27] February 24 Death of Don Knotts, American actor (born 1924). [27] Death of Dennis Weaver, American actor (born 1924). [27] February 25 Death of Darren McGavin, American actor (born 1922). [27] Death of Florian ZaBach, American musician and TV personality (born 1931). [27] February 27 Death of Linda Smith, English comedian (born 1958). [27] February 28 Death of Ron Cyrus, American politician, father of Billy Ray Cyrus (born 1935). [27] March 1 Death of Harry Browne, American Libertarian Presidential candidate (born 1933). [27] Death of Peter Osgood, English footballer (born 1947). [27] March 2 Death of Jack Wild, English actor (born 1952). [27] March 3 Death of William Herskovic, Hungarian Holocaust hero and philanthropist (born 1914). [27] March 4 Death of Dave Rose, American artist (born 1910). [27] Death of Edgar Valter, Estonian illustrator and cartoonist (born 1929). [27] Death of John Reynolds Gardiner, American author and engineer (born 1944). [27] March 6 Death of Dana Reeve, American actress, wife of Christopher Reeve (born 1961). [27] Death of Kirby Puckett, U.S. baseball player (born 1960). [27] Death of King Floyd, American singer (born 1945). [27] March 9 Death of Hanka Bielicka, Polish actress (born 1915). [27] Death of John Profumo, British politician (born 1915). [27] March 11 Death of Bernie Geoffrion, Canadian hockey player (born 1931). [27] Slobodan MiloÜevic is found dead in his cell in the United Nations war crimes tribunal's detention centre, located in the Scheveningen section of The Hague. [27] March 13 Death of Maureen Stapleton, American actress (born 1925). [27] Death of Peter Tomarken, American game show host (born 1942). [27] March 14 Death of Lennart Meri, President of Estonia (born 1929). [27] March 15 Death of George Mackey, American mathematician (born 1916). [27] March 23 Death of Cindy Walker, American songwriter (born 1918). [27] March 24 Death of Lynne Perrie, English actress (born 1931). [27] March 25 Death of Rocio Durcal, Spanish singer and actress (born 1944). [27] Death of Buck Owens, American musician (born 1929). [27] March 26 Death of Paul Dana, American race car driver (born 1975). [27] March 27 Death of Stanislaw Lem, Polish writer (born 1921). [27] March 28 Death of Caspar Weinberger, United States Secretary of Defense (born 1917). [27] April 2 Death of Nina Schenk von Stauffenberg, German wife of soldier Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg (born 1913). [27] April 4 Death of Denis Donaldson, Irish Republican informer (born 1950). [27] April 5 Death of Gene Pitney, American singer (born 1941). [27] April 8 Death of Gerard Reve, Dutch author (born 1923). [27] April 11 Death of Proof, American rapper (D12) (born 1975). [27] Death of Les Foote, Australian footballer (born 1924). [27] Death of June Pointer, American singer (born 1953). [27] April 12 Death of Rajkumar, Indian actor (born 1929). [27] Death of William Sloane Coffin, American university chaplain and activist (born 1924). [27] April 13 Death of Muriel Spark, Scottish novelist (born 1918). [27] April 15 Death of Louise Smith, American race car driver (born 1916). [27] April 17 Death of Calum Kennedy, Scottish singer (born 1928). [27] April 18 Death of John Lyall, British football player and manager (born 1940). [27] April 19 Death of Scott Crossfield, American pilot (born 1921). [27] April 20 Death of Anna Svidersky, American murder victim (born 1988). [27] April 21 Death of Telê Santana, Brazilian footballer and coach (born 1931). [27] April 23 Death of Alida Valli, Italian actress (born 1921). [27] April 24 Death of Nasreen Huq, Bangladeshi social worker and human rights activist (born 1958). [27] Death of Brian Labone, English footballer (born 1940). [27] Death of Steve Stavro, Canadian businessman and sports team owner (born 1927). [27] Death of Moshe Teitelbaum, Hungarian-born Hassidic rabbi (born 1914). [27] April 25 Death of Jane Jacobs, American-born writer and activist (born 1916). [27] Death of Peter Law, British politician (born 1948). [27] April 29 Death of John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian economist (born 1908). [27] Death of Josh Hancock, Saint Louis Cardinals reliever; automobile accident. [56] May 2 Death of Louis Rukeyser, American television host (born 1933). [27] May 3 Death of Karel Appel, Dutch painter (born 1921). [27] Death of Pramod Mahajan, Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician and strategist (born 1949). [27] Death of Earl Woods, American athlete and father of Tiger Woods (born 1932). [27] May 6 Death of Lillian Asplund, last American survivor of the RMS Titanic disaster (born 1906). [27] Death of Shigeru Kayano, Japanese activist (born 1926). [27] May 7 Death of Richard Carleton, Australian journalist (born 1943). [27] Death of Steve Bender, German musician (Dschinghis Khan) (born 1946). [27] May 8 Death of Iain MacMillan, British photographer (born 1938). [27] May 10 Death of Val Guest, British film director (born 1911). [27] Death of Soraya, Colombian-born singer and musician (born 1969). [27] May 11 Death of Yossi Banai, Israeli singer and actor (born 1932). [27] Death of Floyd Patterson, American boxer (born 1935). [27] May 13 Death of Jaroslav Pelikan, American historian (born 1923). [27] Death of Johnnie Wilder, Jr., American R&B singer (born 1949). [27] May 16 Death of Jorge Porcel, Argentine actor (born 1936). [27] May 19 Death of Freddie Garrity, English singer (Freddie and the Dreamers) (born 1940). [27] May 21 Death of Katherine Dunham, American dancer, choreographer, and songwriter (born 1909). [27] May 22 Death of Lee Jong-wook, Korean Director-General of the World Health Organisation (born 1945). [27] May 23 Death of Lloyd Bentsen, American politician (born 1921). [27] May 24 Death of Anderson Mazoka, Zambian politician (born 1943). [27] Death of Michal Zyczkowski, Polish technician (born 1930). [27] May 25 Death of Desmond Dekker, Jamaican singer and songwriter (born 1941). [27] Death of Tobías Lasser, Venezuelan botanist (born 1911). [27] Death of Kari S. Tikka, Finnish professor (born 1944). [27] May 26 Death of Édouard Michelin, French businessman (born 1963). [27] May 27 Death of Alex Toth, American comic book artist and cartoonist (born 1928). [27] May 29 Death of Masumi Okada, Japanese actor (born 1935). [27] May 30 Death of Shohei Imamura, Japanese film director (born 1926). [27] June 1 Death of Rocio Jurado, Spanish singer and actress (born 1944). [27] June 6 Death of Arnold Newman, American photographer (born 1918). [27] Death of Billy Preston, American artist and musician (born 1946). [27] Death of Hilton Ruiz, Puerto Rican jazz pianist (born 1952). [27] June 7 Death of John Tenta, Canadian professional wrestler (born 1963). [27] Al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and seven of his aides are killed in a U.S. air raid just north of the town of Baqouba, Iraq. [27] June 8 Sjoerd van der Schaaf, Frisian journalist / writer, dies in Oenkerk, Netherlands. [44] June 12 Death of Chakufwa Chihana, Malawi politician (born 1939). [27] Death of György Ligeti, Hungarian composer (born 1923). [27] Death of Kenneth Thomson, Canadian businessman and art collector (born 1923). [27] June 13 Death of Charles Haughey, Prime Minister of Ireland (born 1925). [27] Death of Hiroyuki Iwaki, Japanese conductor and percussionist (born 1932). [27] June 14 Death of Jean Roba, Belgian comics author (born 1930). [27] June 15 Death of Raymond Devos, French humorist (born 1922). [27] June 17 Death of Bussunda, Brazilian comedian (born 1962). [27] June 18 Death of Gica Petrescu, Romanian musician (born 1915). [27] Death of Chris and Cru Kahui, infant twin brothers murdered in New Zealand (born 2006). [27] June 23 Death of Aaron Spelling, American television producer (born 1923). [27] June 24 Death of Patsy Ramsey, Mother of slain 6-year-old JonBenet (born 1956). [27] June 25 Death of Arif Mardin, Turkish-born music producer (born 1932). [27] Death of Jaap Penraat, Dutch architect and resistance fighter (born 1918). [27] June 30 Death of Mohamed Haneef, Maldivian Politician and former Vice-President of Islamic Democratic Party of Maldives (born 1946). [27] Death of Robert Gernhardt, German satirist (born 1937). [27]