The following is a list of notable deaths in 1999. Names are listed under the date of death, not the date it was announced. Names under each date are listed in alphabetical order by family name.
A typical entry appears in the following sequence:
Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference.
Len Dondero, 95, American baseball player.
Rafael Iglesias, 74, Argentine heavyweight boxer.
Paul McBrayer, 89, American college basketball coach and player, pancreatic cancer.
Jimmy McKnight, 75, Australian rules footballer.
Henry Tiller, 84, Norwegian boxer.
Malcolm Uphill, 74, Welsh motorcycle racer, asbestosis.
Les Yewdale, 70, Australian politician.
Margot Cottens, 76, Uruguayan actress.
Sebastian Haffner, 91, German journalist and author.
Johann-Otto Krieg, 79, German Kapitänleutnant in the Kriegsmarine during World War II.
Rolf Liebermann, 88, Swiss composer and music administrator.
Aase Lionæs, 91, Norwegian politician.
Joan Long, 73, Australian producer and writer.
Amin al-Majaj, 77, Palestinian politician, Mayor of Jerusalem (1994–1998).
Rags Matthews, 93, American football player.
Shepard Menken, 77, American voice actor.
Trevor J. Rees, 85, American football player and coach.
Jean-René Saulière, 87, French anarcho-pacifist and freethought writer, euthanasia.
Sir William Stuttaford, 70, British stockbroker and conservative activist.
George Tobin, 77, American football player.
Francis West, 89, English bishop in the Church of England.
Louis Jolyon West, 74, American psychiatrist, cancer.
Elsa Burnett, 96, Swedish actress.
Diana Dei, 77, Italian film actress.
Chuck Parsons, 74, American sports car racing driver.
Stanley Proffitt, 88, English cricketer.
Jerry Quarry, 53, American heavyweight boxer, pneumonia.
Jack C. K. Teng, 86, Chinese educator, writer and politician.
Gorō Yamaguchi, 65, Japanese shakuhachi player.
Maqsood Ahmed, 73, Pakistani cricketer.
Iron Eyes Cody, 94, American actor.
Fredrik Mellbye, 81, Norwegian physician.
Charles Manners, 10th Duke of Rutland, 79, British peer and landowner.
Jaak Tamm, 48, Estonian politician and businessman, heart failure.
Cláudio Ulpiano, 66, Brazilian philosopher.
Kisshomaru Ueshiba, 77, Japanese master of aikido, respiratory failure.
José Vela Zanetti, 85, Spanish painter and muralist.
Florendo M. Visitacion, 88, Filipino-born American martial arts instructor.
Charles Francis Adams IV, 88, American electronics industrialist.
Michael Hirschfeld, 54, New Zealand businessman and politician, diabetic complications.
John Martin, 55, British diplomat, British High Commissioner to Malawi (1993–1998).
Jarmila Nygrýnová, 45, Czech long jumper.
Ralph Pasquariello, 72, American football player.
Clare Potter, 95, American fashion designer.
Basuki Resobowo, 82–83, Indonesian painter.
Josef Wiechoczek, 83, German Oberleutnant of the Reserves in the Wehrmacht during World War II.
Frederick Wolf, 76, American bishop in the Episcopal Church.
Paul Zoll, 87, American cardiologist.
David W. Dennis, 86, American politician, Representative from Indiana (1969–1975).
Jim Dunn, 67, American baseball player.
Joseph Malta, 80, American hangman during the Nuremberg executions.
Ottavio Misefari, 89, Italian football player and manager.
Ntsu Mokhehle, 80, Lesotho politician, Prime Minister (1993–1994, 1994–1998).
Henrietta Moraes, 67, British artists' model and memoirist.
Hélène Ouvrard, 60, Canadian French writer.
Michel Petrucciani, 36, French jazz pianist.
Antonio Pierfederici, 79, Italian actor.
Raman Sharma, 53, Indian cricket umpire.
Lajos Tichy, 63, Hungarian footballer.
Leo Weilenmann, 76, Swiss racing cyclist.
James Hammerstein, 67, American theatre director and producer, heart failure.
Prince Rostislav Romanov, 60, Russian prince.
Fritz Ruland, 84, German cyclist.
James William Baskin, 79, Canadian politician and businessman.
Lyusyena Ovchinnikova, 67, Soviet-born Russian film actress.
John W. Roberts, 78, American General in the United States Air Force.
Peter Seeberg, 73, Danish modernist novelist and playwright.
Guy Thornycroft, 81, English cricketer.
Dobie Gillis Williams, 37–38, American convicted murderer, executed.
Zofia Zakrzewska, 82, Polish Scoutmaster.
Rick Bennewitz, 62, American television director, heart failure.
Cleveland Cram, 81, American historian and intelligence official in the Central Intelligence Agency.
Carl Elliott, 85, American politician, Representative from Alabama (1949–1963, 1963–1965).
Mel Pearson, 60, Canadian ice hockey player.
Jim Peters, 80, English long-distance runner.
Saul Rae, 84, Canadian diplomat.
Mien Ruys, 94, Dutch landscape and garden architect.
Benjamin Saltman, 71, American poet.
Peter Seeberg, 73, Danish modernist novelist and playwright.
Shinsuke Ashida, 81, Japanese actor, liver cancer.
Walter Edward Harris, 94, Canadian politician and lawyer.
W. Page Keeton, 89, American educator.
Frank Parker, 95, American singer and actor.
Anatoli Prudnikov, 71, Russian mathematician.
Karl Prümm, 81, German Hauptmann in the Wehrmacht during World War II.
Primož Ramovš, 77, Slovenian composer and librarian.
Gavin Relly, 72, South African businessman, Chairman of Anglo American.
Erich Weißflog, 79, German Oberleutnant in the Luftwaffe during World War II.
Edward Williams, 77, Australian judge on the Supreme Court of Queensland.
C. K. Yang, 88–89, Chinese-born American sociologist.
Juliusz Żuławski, 88, Polish poet, literary critic and translator.
Otto Bittorf, 81, German Oberleutnant in the Wehrmacht during World War II.
Fabrizio De André, 58, Italian singer-songwriter, lung cancer.
Robert Douglas, 89, American film actor, television director and producer.
Jim Dyck, 76, American baseball player.
Enver Maloku, 44, Albanian journalist and writer, murdered.
John McGrew, 88, American animator, painter and musician.
Naomi Mitchison, 101, Scottish novelist and poet.
Brian Moore, 77, Northern Irish-born Canadian screenwriter and novelist, pulmonary fibrosis.
Josefina Pla, 95, Spanish poet, playwright and art critic.
K. A. Rahman, 59, Indian political activist.
Öztürk Serengil, 69, Turkish actor and comedian, brain cancer.
Bobby Specht, 77, American figure skater.
François Spoerry, 86, French architect and urban planner.
William George Tuck, 98, English watercolour artist.
Betty Lou Gerson, 84, American actress, stroke.
Jack McCafferty, 84, Australian businessman and politician, Mayor of Toowoomba (1958–1967), cancer.
Maria Sander, 74, German sprinter.
William H. Whyte, 81, American urbanist, organizational analyst and journalist.
Doug Wickenheiser, 37, Canadian ice hockey player, cancer.
Buzz Kulik, 76, American film director and producer.
William Legge, 85, Canadian Anglican bishop.
Karl Lieffen, 72, German film actor.
David Logan, 42, American football player.
Mohammad Mamle, 74, Kurdish singer.
John Frederick Nims, 85, American poet and academic.
Mildred Schwab, 82, American politician and attorney, Portland City Commissioner (1972–1987). (body discovered on this date)
Lawrence Harold Welsh, 63, American bishop in the Roman Catholic Church.
Robin Bailey, 79, English actor, respiratory failure.
Eden Gray, 97, American actress and writer.
Jerzy Grotowski, 65, Polish theatre director and theorist, leukaemia.
Brett King, 78, American actor, leukaemia.
Mart McChesney, 44, American actor, AIDS complications.
Muslimgauze, 37, British electronic musician, fungal infection.
Fred Myrow, 59, American composer, heart failure.
Sabina Olmos, 85, Argentine film actress.
Barat Shakinskaya, 84, Soviet-born Azerbaijani actress.
Günther Viezenz, 77, German Hauptmann in the Wehrmacht during World War II.
Georg Audenrieth, 81, German Feldwebel in the Wehrmacht during World War II.
John Bloom, 54, American actor, heart failure.
Betty Box, 83, British film producer, cancer.
Oscar Georgy, 82, American baseball player.
Lars Glasser, 73, Swedish sprint canoeist.
Robert Lowry, Baron Lowry, 79, Irish judge and life peer, Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland (1971–1988).
Orville D. Merillat, 82, American businessman and philanthropist.
Suren Nazaryan, 69, Armenian sculptor.
Jean Palméro, 86, French politician.
Marion Ryan, 67, English pop singer.
John Baker Saunders, 44, American musician (Mad Season), heroin overdose.
Mi. Pa. Somasundaram, 77, Indian Tamil journalist, poet and writer.
Ernő Söptei, 73, Hungarian sprint canoer.
Jim McClelland, 83, Australian jurist and politician, Senator for New South Wales (1971–1978).
Dadie Rylands, 96, British literary scholar and theatre director.
William Taylor, 90, British Lieutenant Commander in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve during World War II, George Cross recipient.
George Crichton Wells, 84, English dermatologist.
Nicholas J. Corea, 55, American author, television writer, director and producer, cancer.
Robert Eads, 53, American trans man, subject of Southern Comfort, ovarian cancer.
Mohammed Eeza, 69–70, Indian scholar and writer.
Alister Hopkinson, 57, New Zealand rugby union player.
Theodore Major, 90, English artist.
Samantha Reid, 15, American manslaughter victim.
Claire Schillace, 76, American AAGPBL baseball player, blood clot.
Franz Siebert, 83, German Oberfeldwebel in the Wehrmacht during World War II.
Zahoor ul Akhlaq, 57, Pakistani artist, murdered.
Horace Cumner, 80, Welsh footballer.
Frances Gershwin, 92, American singer and violinist.
Lucille Kallen, 76, American screenwriter and playwright.
Pat Morton, 88, Australian businessman and politician, Leader of the Opposition of New South Wales (1955–1959).
Brad Newman, 60, English singer-songwriter and pianist.
Katrina Price, 23, American basketball player, suicide.
Henri Romagnesi, 86, French mycologist.
Günter Strack, 69, German television actor, heart failure.
Virginia Verrill, 82, American big band singer.
Ivan Francescato, 31, Italian rugby union player, heart failure.
Jacques Lecoq, 77, French actor and mime, cerebral haemorrhage.
Edith E. Sproul, 91, American pathologist.
Roger Sylvester, 30, British man who died in police custody, heart failure.
Odd Vigestad, 83, Norwegian politician.
Bernhard Woldenga, 97, German Oberst in the Luftwaffe during World War II.
Gordon Zubrod, 84, American oncologist.
Jutta Bornemann, 78, Austrian actress and writer.
Martyn Finlay, 87, New Zealand lawyer and politician.
John Golding, 67, British trade unionist and politician, Member of Parliament for Newcastle-under-Lyme (1969–1986), surgical complications.
Eugene S. Pulliam, 84, American publisher.
Maria Sokil, 96, Ukrainian opera singer.
Frances Lander Spain, 95, American children's librarian.
Alfonso Corona Blake, 80, Mexican film director and screenwriter.
Charles Brown, 76, American blues singer and pianist, heart failure.
Berkeley L. Bunker, 92, American politician, Senator (1940–1942) from Nevada and Representative (1945–1947).
Leslie French, 94, British actor.
Magne Lystad, 66, Norwegian foot orienteer.
Frank Morton, 92–93, British chemical engineer.
Lloyd M. Mustin, 87, American Vice Admiral in the United States Navy during World War II, stroke complications.
Margaret Wentworth Owings, 85, American environmentalist.
Gerda Ring, 107, Norwegian stage actress and producer.
Mickey Sanzotta, 77, American football player.
Cecil Smith, 94, American polo player.
Susan Strasberg, 60, American actress, breast cancer.
Cameron Bethel Ware, 85, Canadian Major General in the Canadian Forces during World War II.
Paul Cammermans, 77, Belgian film director and actor.
Piero Gadda Conti, 96, Italian novelist and film critic.
Al King, 75, American blues singer, blood poisoning.
George Mosse, 80, German writer and historian.
Graciela Quan, c. 79, Guatemalan lawyer and women's rights activist.
Maxwell Rosenlicht, 74, American mathematician.
Sherrick, 41, American soul singer.
Steven Sykes, 84, British artist.
Joe D'Amato, 62, Italian film director, heart failure.
Jaroslav Foglar, 91, Czech author.
Terence Lewin, Baron Lewin, 78, British Royal Navy officer, First Sea Lord (1977–1979).
Thomas C. Mann, 86, American diplomat, United States Ambassador to El Salvador (1955–1957) and Mexico (1961–1963).
Paul McKee, 75, American football player.
John Osteen, 77, American Christian leader, founder of Lakewood Church, heart failure.
Suceso Portales, 94, Spanish anarcho-feminist writer.
Jay Pritzker, 76, American entrepreneur.
Frederick Sommer, 93, Italian-born American artist.
Graham Staines, 58, Australian Christian missionary, murdered.
Lincoln Thompson, 49, Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, cancer.
Werner Jacobs, 89, German film director.
Shizue Natsukawa, 89, Japanese actress.
Roger Rondeaux, 78, French cyclo-cross racer.
Sarah Louise Delany, 109, American author and civil rights activist.
Jim Logan, 87, Australian rules footballer.
Philip Mason, 92, English civil servant and author.
Henri Rochereau, 90, French politician, European Commissioner for Overseas Development.
Robert Shaw, 82, American conductor, stroke.
George Gilbert Swell, 75, Indian politician.
Tom Pomposello, 49, American roots musician, road accident.
Herman Wedemeyer, 74, American actor, football player and politician, heart failure.
William H. Wilmarth, 94, American sound engineer.
Jeanne-Marie Darré, 93, French classical pianist.
August Everding, 70, German opera director.
Settimio Ferrazzetta, 74, Italian-born Bissauan Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Bissau (since 1977).
D. C. Kizhakemuri, 85, Indian writer, publisher and activist.
Matilde Landeta, 85 or 88, Mexican filmmaker and screenwriter.
Larry Loughlin, 57, American baseball player.
Charles Luckman, 89, American businessman and architect.
Ruby Mercer, 92, American-born Canadian writer, broadcaster and soprano.
Christian Overgaard Nielsen, 80, Danish zoologist and ecologist.
Tomeju Uruma, 96, Japanese speed skater.
Ben Margolis, 88, American attorney, heart failure.
Satya Saha, 64, Bangladeshi composer.
Ralegh Radford, 98, English archaeologist and historian.
Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, 88, Spanish writer.
Jerzy Turowicz, 86, Polish Catholic journalist and editor, heart failure.
Radúz Činčera, 75, Czech screenwriter and director.
Valery Gavrilin, 59, Soviet-born Russian composer.
Georg Langendorf, 78, German Obersturmführer in the Waffen SS during World War II.
Roger-Jean Le Nizerhy, 82, French cyclist.
Leonard C. Lewin, 82, American author.
McAllister Lonnon, 82, English rower.
Markey Robinson, 80, Irish painter and sculptor.
Rouiched, 77, Algerian comic actor.
Torgny T:son Segerstedt, 90, Swedish philosopher and sociologist.
František Vláčil, 74, Czech film director and painter.
Vladimir Kirillin, 86, Soviet physicist.
Lili St. Cyr, 80, American burlesque stripteaser.
Frans Strieleman, 72, Belgian journalist.
Coles Trapnell, 88, American television producer and director, heart failure.
Eeva-Kaarina Volanen, 78, Finnish actor.
Mills E. Godwin Jr., 84, American politician, Governor of Virginia (1966–1970, 1974–1978), pneumonia.
Huntz Hall, 78, American actor, heart failure.
Ed Herlihy, 89, American newsreel narrator.
Mick McGahey, 73, Scottish trade unionist and political activist, Chairman of the Communist Party of Great Britain (1974–1978).
Frank Pokorny, 75, American politician, Member of the Ohio House of Representatives (1957–1960, 1963–1968), stroke.
Svetlana Savyolova, 57, Soviet-born Russian actress.
Dolf van der Linden, 83, Dutch conductor of popular music.
Giant Baba, 61, Japanese wrestler.
Bill Luders, 89, American naval architect.
John Mayhew, 89, English cricketer.
Charles M. Murphy, 85, American football, basketball and baseball player and coach.
Satchi Ponnambalam, 64, Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer and judge.
Fanély Revoil, 92, French opera singer.
Gabriel Ruiz, 90, Mexican songwriter.
Hugo Salazar Tamariz, 74, Ecuador poet, novelist and playwright.
Ilmari Tapiovaara, 84, Finnish furniture designer.
Norm Zauchin, 69, American baseball player.
Violet Olney, 87, English athlete.
1 – Paul Mellon, 92, American philanthropist.
4 – Amadou Diallo, 23, West African immigrant.
5 – Neville Bonner, 76, Australian politician, first indigenous Member of Parliament.
5 – Wassily Leontief, 93, Russian economist, Nobel Prize laureate.
6 – Jimmy Roberts, 74, American singer and featured performer on The Lawrence Welk Show from 1955 to 1982, bone cancer.
7 – Hussein of Jordan, 63, Jordanian monarch, King of Jordan (1952–1999), lymphoma.
8 – Dame Iris Murdoch, 79, Irish-born British novelist, poet and philosopher, Alzheimer's disease.
9 – Bryan Mosley, 67, British television and film actor, (Coronation Street), heart attack.
14 – Big L, 24, American Freestyle rapper (D.I.T.C.), murder.
16 – Henry Way Kendall, 72, drowned.
17 – Michael Larson, 49, throat cancer.
19 – Wilford Berry, Jr., 36, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in Ohio.
20 – Gene Siskel, 53, American film critic and television journalist, brain cancer.
20 – Sarah Kane, 28, English playwright, suicide.
21 – Hideo Itokawa, 86, Japanese aircraft designer and rocketry pioneer
24 – Derek Nimmo, 68, English actor.
25 – Glenn T. Seaborg, 86, American nuclear chemist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1951), complications of a stroke.
26 - Opoku Ware II, 79, 15th Emperor-King of the Ashanti people
27 – Christine Glanville, 74, British puppeteer.
2 – David Ackles, 62, American singer-songwriter, lung cancer.
2 – Dusty Springfield, 59, British traditional pop singer and entertainer, breast cancer.
2 – Francisco Nunes Teixeira, 89, Mozambican Roman Catholic bishop, Roman Catholic Diocese of Quelimane (1955−1975).
4 – Del Close, 64, American comedian, actor and theatre director, emphysema.
4 – Eddie Dean, 91, American country singer-songwriter and actor in Western films, heart and lung disease.
5 – Richard Kiley, 76, American Emmy Award-winning film, television and stage actor, unspecified bone marrow disease.
7 – Stanley Kubrick, 70, American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and photographer, heart attack.
8 – Joe DiMaggio, 84, American baseball player (New York Yankees), lung cancer.
9 – Hermann Merkin 91, Philanthropist, Heart Failure.
9 – Harry Somers, 73, Canadian composer.
10 – Valentino Mazzia 77, forensic anesthesiologist, cirrhosis.
12 – Sir William Jackson, 81, British army general.
17 – Rod Hull, 63, British entertainer and comedian, injuries sustained from fall.
19 – Brock Speer, 79, American gospel singer (Speer Family).
20 – Roy L. Johnson, 93, American admiral.
21 – Ernie Wise, 73, British comedian (Morecambe and Wise), heart failure. Gary Morton aged 74
1 - Tadahito Mochinaga, 80, Japanese stop-motion animator.
3 – Lionel Bart, 68, British composer and lyricist, cancer.
4 – Bob Peck, 53, British actor (Jurassic Park), cancer.
4 – Early Wynn, 79, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame.
14 – Anthony Newley, 67, British singer-songwriter and actor, kidney cancer.
16 – Abbott Pattison, American sculptor and abstract artist
16 – Skip Spence, 52, American singer-songwriter (Jefferson Airplane, Moby Grape), lung cancer.
18 – Ye Fei, 84, Filipino-Chinese general and politician.
20 – Eric Harris, 18, American perpetrator of the Columbine High School Massacre, suicide by gunshot.
20 – Dylan Klebold, 17, American perpetrator of the Columbine High School Massacre, suicide by gunshot.
20 – Rachel Joy Scott, 17, the first victim of the Columbine High School Massacre, murdered
20 – Rick Rude, 40, professional wrestler, suffered heart failure.
21 – Charles Rogers, 94, American actor and jazz musician, natural causes.
22 – Bert Remsen, 74, Actor.
25 – Roger Troutman, 47,from the group (Zapp and Roger)
25 – Lord Killanin, 85, Irish journalist and Olympic official.
26 – Adrian Borland, 41, British musician and producer, suicide.
26 – Jill Dando, 37, British journalist and television presenter (Crimewatch), murder by gunshot.
28 – Sir Alf Ramsey, 79, British football player and manager (Ipswich Town, England), Alzheimer's disease and prostate cancer.
29 – Denzo Ishizaki, 112, Japan's oldest man.
2 – Oliver Reed, 61, British actor (The Devils, Oliver, The Three Musketeers), heart failure.
8 – Dana Plato, 34, American actress (Diff'rent Strokes), suicide by overdose.
8 – Sir Dirk Bogarde, 78, British actor and writer, (Doctor in the House, Victim, The Servant, Death in Venice, A Bridge Too Far), heart attack.
9 – Shel Silverstein, 67, American poet, playwright, and cartoonist, heart attack.
17 – James Broughton, 85, American poet, memoirist, playwright and filmmaker, heart failure.
17 – Henry Jones, 86, American actor.
20 – Sir Robert Rhodes James, 66, British politician.
21 – Vanessa Brown, 71, Austrian-born American actress, breast cancer.
23 – Owen Hart, 34, Canadian professional wrestler (WWF), injuries sustained from fall.
5 – Mel Torme, 73, American singer, stroke.
11 – Gilles Châtelet, 55, French philosopher and mathematician.
11 – DeForest Kelley, 79, American film and television actor, played Leonard McCoy in Star Trek, stomach cancer.
17 – Stanley Faulder, 61, Canadian executed by lethal injection for murder in the U.S. state of Texas.
21 – Kami, 26, Japanese rock musician, drummer (Malice Mizer), cerebral haemorrhage.
23 – Buster Merryfield, 78, British television actor, played Uncle Albert in Only Fools and Horses, brain cancer.
27 – Marion Motley, 79, American football player (Cleveland Browns) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
27 – Georgios Papadopoulos, 80, Greek soldier, politician, Prime Minister (1967–1973) and dictator
28 – Anatoliy Zheglanov, 56, Ukrainian ski-jumper who competed for USSR.
29 – Allan Carr, 62, American film, television and theatre producer (La Cage aux Folles), liver cancer.
1 – Edward Dmytryk, 90, Canadian-born American film director
1 – Guy Mitchell, 72, American traditional pop singer, complications of surgery.
1 – Sylvia Sidney, 88, American film actress
2 – Mario Puzo, 78, American novelist (The Godfather), heart failure.
6 – Gary M. Heidnik, 55, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in Pennsylvania.
6 – Joaquín Rodrigo, 97, Spanish composer.
8 – Pete Conrad, 69, American astronaut, road accident.
12 – Bill Flett, 55, retired Canadian hockey player, liver failure.
12 – Bill Owen, 85, British actor and songwriter, pancreatic cancer.
12 – Zita Szeleczky, 84, Hungarian actress.
14 – Gene Hart, 68, American sportscaster for the Philadelphia Flyers, kidney and liver failure.
16 – Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, 33, American socialite and wife of John F. Kennedy, Jr., plane crash.
16 – John F. Kennedy, Jr., 38, American journalist, lawyer, socialite and son of John F. Kennedy, plane crash.
20 – Sandra Gould, 82 United States film and television actor (Bewitched) and writer, complications of surgery.
23 – Dmitri Tertyshny, 22, professional ice hockey defenseman, boating accident.
23 – Hassan II of Morocco, 70, Moroccan monarch, King of Morocco (since 1961), heart attack.
29 – Anita Carter, 66, American singer and member of the Carter family, complications of rheumatoid arthritis.
4 – Victor Mature, 86, American film actor, leukaemia.
7 – Brion James, 54, American film actor, heart attack.
7 – J. Andrew Keith, 40, role-playing game designer.
9 – Helen Rollason, MBE, 43, British sports journalist and television presenter, colorectal cancer.
10 – Jennifer Paterson, 71, British chef and television personality (Two Fat Ladies), lung cancer.
14 – Pee Wee Reese, 81, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame.
25 – Rob Fisher, 42, British songwriter and musician (Naked Eyes, Climie Fisher).
5 – Allen Funt, 84, American television personality (Candid Camera), stroke.
9 – Alan Clark, 71, British Conservative politician, Member of Parliament (1974–1999), military historian and animal rights activist, brain cancer.
9 – Jim "Catfish" Hunter, 53, American baseball player (Oakland Athletics, New York Yankees) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame.
17 – Frankie Vaughan, 71, British singer, heart failure.
22 – Clive Jenkins, 73, British trade union leader.
22 – George C. Scott, 71 American film actor, abdominal aortic aneurysm.
28 – Jesse Dirkhising, 13, American murder victim, respiratory failure.
30 – Bruce K. Holloway, 87, American Air Force general.
2 – Kim Hyun-jun, 39, South Korean basketball player, car accident.
3 – Alastair Hetherington, 79, British journalist, editor of The Guardian.
4 – Bernard Buffet, 71, French painter, committed suicide.
6 – Amália Rodrigues, 79, Portuguese singer known worldwide as the "Queen of Fado".
12 – Wilt Chamberlain, 63, NBA basketball player, congestive heart failure.
15 – Glen Payne, 72, American gospel singer (Cathedral Quartet), liver cancer
17 – Dimitre Mehandjiysky, 84, (Bulgarian Димитър Механджийски) artist and designer, kidney failure.
20 – Jack Lynch, 82, Irish Fianna Fáil politician, fourth Taoiseach of Ireland (1966–1973, 1977–1979).
25 – Hoyt Axton, 61, American actor and singer/songwriter.
25 – Payne Stewart, 42, American professional golfer, plane crash.
27 – Karen Demirchyan, 67, Armenian politician, Speaker of the National Assembly, murdered.
27 – Vazgen Sargsyan, 40, Armenian soldier and politician, Defence Minister (1995–1999) and first Prime Minister of Armenia (June–October 1999), murdered.
27 – Xie Fei, 66, Chinese politician, Politburo member.
28 – H. Justin Davidson, 68, American educator.
30 – Maigonis Valdmanis, 66, Latvian basketball player
31 – Greg Moore, 24, Canadian racecar driver, collision.
1 – Walter Payton, 45, American football player, primary sclerosing cholangitis.
4 – Malcolm Marshall, 41, West Indian cricketer, colon cancer.
8 – Yury Malyshev, 58, Soviet cosmonaut.
11 – Mary Kay Bergman, 38, American voice actress (South Park), suicide by gunshot.
20 – Annie Jennings, 115, British supercentenarian and verified second oldest person in the world.
20 – Amintore Fanfani, 91, 32nd Prime Minister of Italy
21 – Quentin Crisp, 90, British writer, illustrator, actor and socialite, natural causes.
25 – Richard M. Eakin, 89, American zoologist and professor.
26 – Silvino Rodriguez, 28, Hispanic Farm Laborer, Brain dead.
29 – Gene Rayburn, 81, American radio personality and game show host, heart failure.
30 – Charlie Byrd, 74, American jazz and classical guitarist, lung cancer.
3 – Scatman John, 57, American jazz musician and poet, lung cancer.
3 – Madeline Kahn, 57, American Tony Award-winning film, television and stage actress, ovarian cancer.
5 – John Archer, 84, American film and television actor, lung cancer.
7 – Kenny Baker, 78, British jazz musician.
8 – Rupert Hart-Davis, 92, English publisher.
10 – Rick Danko, 56, Canadian musician, member of The Band, heart failure.
10 – Franjo Tuđman, 77, Croatian politician, President of Croatia (since 1990), cancer.
12 – Joseph Heller, 76, American novelist (Catch-22).
17 – Rex Allen, 78, American actor and singer-songwriter, road accident.
19 – Desmond Llewelyn, 85, British film actor, played Q in the James Bond film series, road accident.
20 – Hank Snow, 85, Canadian country musician.
24 – Jiang Hua, 92, President of the Supreme Court of China.
24 – Maurice Couve de Murville, 92, French politician, 152nd Prime Minister of France
24 – João Figueiredo, 81, 30th President of Brazil
26 – Curtis Mayfield, 57, American R&B, soul and funk singer-songwriter and record producer, diabetes complications.
26 – Shankar Dayal Sharma, 81, 9th President of India
30 – Sarah Knauss, 119, American supercentenarian, verified oldest person in the world.
31 – Elliot Richardson, 79, American politician and diplomat.
