- January 8
- Death of Michael Tippett, English composer (Royal College of Music), at age 93 (born 1905). [1] [19]
- Walter Diemer, inventor (bubble gum 1928), dies of heart failure at age 93. [1]
- January 9
- Death of Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist and Nobel Prize laureate, at age 79 (born 1918). [1] [19]
- January 15
- Death of Amos "Junior" Wells, American blues harmonica player, at age 63 (born 1934). [1] [19]
- Gulzarilal Nanda, temporary Prime Minister of India (1964, 66), dies. [1]
- January 17
- Emil Sitka, actor (The Three Stooges), dies of stroke at age 82. [1]
- January 19
- Death of Carl Perkins, at age 65 after a series of strokes; American singer/songwriter/guitarist ("Blue Suede Shoes", Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee). [1] [19] [457]
- January 20
- Zevulun Hammer, Vice Prime Minister of Israel, dies. [1]
- January 21
- Death of Jack Lord, American actor (Hawaii Five-O) (born 1920). [19]
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- January 23
- Hilla Limann, President of Ghana in (1979-81), dies. [1]
- January 25
- Mohammad Yusuf Khan, prime minister of Afghanistan in (1963-65), dies. [1]
- January 26
- Death of S.P. Leary at the age of 67 of complications from cancer; blues drummer (with T-Bone Walker, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Sonny Boy Williamson, John Lee Hooker, Magic Sam, Lowell Fulson, Otis Spann, James Cotton). [1] [457]
- Shinichi Suzuki, music teacher (Suzuki Method), dies at age 99. [1]
- Walter Edmonds, writer (Drums Along the Mohawk), dies at age 93. [1]
- January 28
- Death of Shotaro Ishinomori, Japanese Manga artist, "Father of Henshin heroes." (born 1938). [19]
- January 30
- Ricky Sanderson, who stabbed a 16-year old girl in North Carolina, executed at age 38. [1]
- February 3
- Karla Faye Tucker, age 38, is executed in Texas, becoming the first to be executed in Texas since the American Civil War. [1] [19]
- February 6
- Death of Carl Wilson at age 51 of lung cancer in Los Angeles, California, USA; guitarist (Carl and the Passions, The Beach Boys - Surfin U-S-A", "Surfer Girl", "I Get Around", "Good Vibrations"). [1] [19] [457]
- Nazim al-Kudsi, Syrian Prime Minister (1949, 1950-51)/President (1961-63), dies. [1]
- Death of Falco AKA Johann Hoelzel at age 40; Austrian musician ("Rock Me Amadeus") (born 1957). [1] [19]
- The French prefect Claude Erignac is assassinated in the streets of Ajaccio (Corse). [19]
- February 7
- Death of Lawrence Sanders, American author (born 1920). [19]
- February 8
- William Lambert, Pulitzer prize-winning reporter, dies at age 78. [1]
- Death of Halldór Laxness, Icelandic writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1902). [19] (February 9 [1])
- Death of Julian Lincoln Simon, American economist and author (born 1932). [19]
- February 10
- Buddy the Wonder Dog (star of Air Bud), dies of cancer at age 9. [1]
- Maurice Schumann, French foreign minister (1969-73), dies. [1]
- February 13
- Jo Clayton, author, (Cancer Died, Drums of Chaos), dies at age 58. [1]
- February 16
- Martha Gellhorn, female war reporter for Reuthers, dies at age 89. [1]
- February 17
- Ernst Juenger, German writer, dies at age 102 in Riedlingen, Germany. [1] [37]
- February 18
- Death of Harry Caray, American television and radio broadcaster (Chicago Cubs), at age 77 (born 1917). [1] [19]
- Mya Than Tint, Myanmarese author, dies of brain hemorrhage at age 69. [1]
- Robert Merrill, songwriter ("Funny Girl"), commits suicide at age 76. [1]
- February 19
- Death of Louis Marshall Jones AKA Grandpa Jones at age 84 following a series of strokes; country musician and comedian (Hee-Haw, Grand Ole Opry). [1] [457]
- February 22
- Jose Maria de Areilza, Spanish minister of foreign affairs (1975-76), dies. [1]
- Sandy Hume, correspondent (Fox News), commits suicide at age 28. [1]
- Death of Abraham Alexander Ribicoff, American Democratic Party politician (born 1910). [19]
- February 23
- Death of Philip Abbott at age 74 of cancer; actor (Arthur Ward - The FBI). [1] [457]
- February 24
- Death of Henny Youngman at age 92 from pneumonia; comedian (Ed Sullivan Show, Hollywood Palace, Rowan and Martin's Laugh In, Tonight Show). [1] [19] [457]
- February 25
- Luigi Veronesi, Italian abstract artist (Campo Grafico), dies at age 90. [1]
- Umberto Mastroianni, Italian sculptor, dies at age 87. [1]
- February 26
- Death of Theodore Schultz, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1902). [19]
- February 27
- Death of J. T. Walsh, American actor (Good Morning Vietnam, Sling Blade), at age 54 of a heart attack (born 1943). [1] [19]
- Death of George H. Hitchings, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1905). [19]
- March 6
- Adem Jasari, Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) leader, is killed. [1]
- March 8
- Death of Marvin Davis at age 87 in Santa Monica, California, USA; architect, art director at 20th Century Fox, worked at Disney 1955-95, helped plan Disneyland layout, designs for many buildings, worked on films and TV shows, Emmy award 1962, planning and designing Walt Disney World, named a Disney Legend 1994. [510.126]
- March 10
- Death of Lloyd Bridges at age 85 of natural causes; actor (Sea Hunt TV show). [19] [457]
- United States troops stationed in the Persian Gulf begin to receive the first anthrax vaccine. [19]
- March 12
- Death of Jozef Kroner, Slovak actor (The Shop on Main Street) (born 1924). [19]
- March 13
- Death of Risen Star, American racehorse (born 1985). [19]
- March 15
- Death of Benjamin Spock, American athlete, pediatrician, and author (born 1903). [19]
- March 16
- Death of Derek Harold Richard Barton, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918). [19]
- March 31
- Death of Bella Abzug, American politician (born 1920). [19]
- April 6
- Death of Wendy O. Williams at age 48 from self-inflicted gunshot wound near her home in Connecticut, USA; lead singer of the punk rock band the Plasmatics. [19] [457]
- Death of Tammy Wynette AKA Virginia Wynette Pugh at age 55 from a blood clot in her lungs at her Nashville home; country singer ("D-I-V-O-R-C-E", "Stand By Your Man"). [19] [457]
- April 13
- Death of Patrick de Gayardon, French skydiver and skysurfing pioneer (born 1960). [19]
- April 15
- Death of Pol Pot, Cambodian Khmer Rouge leader (born 1925). [19]
- April 19
- Death of Octavio Paz, Mexican diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1914). [19]
- April 21
- Death of Peter Lind Hayes at age 82; actor/singer and radio-TV host (Peter Loves Mary TV show). [457]
- Death of Helen Ward at age 82 in Arlington, Virginia, USA; singer ("These Foolish Things", "Goody Goody"). [457]
- April 23
- Death of Philip Abbott at age 75 of cancer; actor (Arthur Ward - The FBI). [457]
- Death of James Earl Ray, convicted American assassin of Martin Luther King Junior. (born 1928). [19]
- May 7
- Death of Allan McLeod Cormack, South African-born physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1924). [19]
- Death of Eddie Rabbitt of lung cancer at age 56; singer/songwriter ("I Love A Rainy Night", "Drivin' My Life Away", "Every Which Way But Loose", "Kentucky Rain"). [19] [457]
- May 9
- Death of Alice Faye at age 83 of stomach cancer; actress/singer (20th Century Fox musicals in the 1930s, Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show radio show, The Dean Martin Show TV show, Hollywood Palace TV show). [19] [457]
- May 19
- Death of Sosuke Uno, Prime Minister of Japan (born 1922). [19]
- May 22
- Death of José Enrique Moyal, mathematical physicist (born 1910). [19]
- May 28
- Death of Phil Hartman at age 49, shot dead by his wife (who then kills herself) in Encino, California, USA; actor/comedian (Saturday Night Live, The Simpsons, NewsRadio). [1] [19] [457]
- May 29
- Death of Barry M. Goldwater, American politician (born 1909). [5] [19]
- June 4
- Death of Angel South at age 55 of prostate cancer in Placerville, California, USA; lead guitarist (Chase - "Get It On"). [457]
- June 5
- Death of Jeanette Nolan following a stroke at age 86; radio voice actress (The March of Time, Cavalcade of America, The Court of Missing Heirs, The Adventures of Mister Meek, Life Begins, Manhattan at Midnight), TV actress (over 300 shows, Perry Mason (1957), I Spy (1965), MacGyver (1985), Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955), The Richard Boone Show (1963), The Virginian (1962)). [457]
- June 7
- Three white supremacists murder James Byrd Junior in Jasper, Texas. [19]
- June 8
- President Sani Abacha of Nigeria dies of apparent heart failure. [19]
- June 10
- Death of Steve Sanders at age 45 of self-inflicted gunshot wound in Florida, USA; singer (Oak Ridge Boys). [457]
- June 20
- Death of Bobby Gimby at age 79 in North Bay, Ontario, Canada; Canadian trumpeter-songwriter (The Happy Gang - "Ca-na-da" (1967), Kitsilano Boys Band, Mart Kenney's Western Gentlemen, Juliette show). [457]
- June 29
- Death of Horst Jankowski at age 62 of lung cancer; German pianist ("A Walk In The Black Forest" (1965)). [457]
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- Stu Ungar is found dead in an Oasis Motel room on Las Vegas strip, at age 45, of heart attack from narcotics and painkillers. Ungar was 5-time winner of World Series of Poker, and 3-time winner of Super Bowl of Poker. [565.184]
- July 3
- Death of Danielle Bunten Berry, American software developer (born 1949). [19]
- July 12
- Death of Jimmie Driftwood at age 91 in Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA; folk singer and songwriter ("The Battle of New Orleans"). [457]
- July 17
- Death of Marc Hunter at age 44 from throat cancer; lead singer (Dragon - "April Sun In Cuba", "Get That Jive", "Rain"). [457]
- Death of Hugh Reilly at age 82 of emphysema; actor (Paul Martin - Lassie TV show). [457]
- July 20
- Death of Jim Tyrrell at age 67 of heart failure in New York, USA; veteran musician, music executive, and manager (CBS Records). [457]
- July 22
- Death of Don Dunphy at age 90; America's foremost announcer of boxing matches on radio and TV for over 50 years, calling more than 2,000 fights, the voice of Gillette's Friday Night Fights. [457]
- July 26
- Death of David-Allen (Chico) Ryan at age 50 in a nursing home in Beverly, Massachusetts, USA; musician (Sha Na Na), actor (Grease). [457]
- July 30
- Death of Bob Smith at age 80; pioneer TV kids' show host (Howdy Doody). [457]
- August 2
- Death of Shari Lewis, American ventriloquist (born 1933). [19]
- August 14
- Gary C. Evans, infamous in New York's Capital Region for killing five people, escapes police custody and kills himself by jumping off a bridge. [19]
- August 24
- E.G. Marshall, American actor (The Defenders, Nixon, Absolute Power), dies at age 88 (born 1910). [1] [5] [19]
- August 26
- Death of Frederick Reines, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918). [19]
- September 15
- Telecommunications companies MCI Communications and WorldCom complete their $37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom. [19] (September 14 [5])
- September 17
- Death of Chet Hoff at the age of 107 in Daytona Beach, Florida. Hoff played for the New York Highlanders in 1911-13 and St. Louis Browns in 1915. [56]
- September 23
- Death of Mary Frann at age 55 of apparent heart failure at her home in Beverly Hills, California, USA; actress (Newhart). [457]
- September 26
- Death of Betty Carter AKA Lillie Mae Jones at age 68 from pancreatic cancer; jazz singer (album "Look What I Got!" (1988 Grammy award)). [457]
- October 11
- Death of Richard Denning at age 84 following cardiac arrest; actor (Mr. and Mrs. North radio and TV show, My Favorite Husband radio show, Governor - Hawaii Five-0 TV show). [457]
- October 14
- Death of Frankie Yankovic at his home in New Port Richey, Florida, a week after suffering a fall, at age 83; polka player ("Just Because", "Blue Skirt Waltz"). [19] [457]
- October 16
- Death of Jon Postel, American Internet pioneer (born 1943). [19]
- October 29
- Death of Ted Hughes, English poet (born 1930). [19]
- November 17
- Death of Esther Rolle at age 78 in Culver City, California, USA; actress (Good Times (Emmy award)). [457]
- November 20
- Galina Starovoitova, Russian legislator and democracy advocate, is assassinated in St. Petersburg, Russia. [19]
- November 25
- Death of Clerow Wilson AKA Flip Wilson at age 64 from liver cancer; actor/comedian (Flip Wilson Show TV show (Emmy award), Laugh In TV show, Tonight Show TV show, Charlie and Company TV show, host - People Are Funny (1984)). [457]
- November 29
- Death of Martin Ruane, British wrestler best known as Giant Haystacks and later, The Loch Ness Monster (born 1947). [19]
- December 6
- Death of Michael Zaslow at age 56 of Lou Gehrig's Disease; actor (One Life to Live, Search for Tomorrow, Love is a Many Splendored Thing). [457]
- December 7
- Death of Martin Rodbell, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1925). [19]
- December 12
- Death of Lawton Chiles, U.S. Senator from Florida and Governor of Florida (born 1930). [19]
- December 14
- Norman Fell, actor (Mr. Roper - Three's Company) dies. [5]
- Death of Annette Strauss, American philanthropist and mayor of Dallas, Texas (born 1924). [19]
- December 17
- Claudia Benton, of West University Place, Texas, is murdered in her house by Angel Maturino Resendiz (his third victim in his third incident). [19]
- December 18
- Death of Lev Demin, cosmonaut (born 1926). [19]
- December 20
- Death of Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, British scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1914). [19]
- December 21
- United Nations Security Council members France, Germany and Russia call for sanctions to end against Iraq. The three Security Council members also call for UNSCOM to either be disbanded or for its role to be recast. The U.S. says it will veto any such proposal. [19]
- December 22
- Death of Virginia Graham at age 85 following a heart attack; radio and TV hostess (Weekday radio show, Girl Talk TV show (1963-1969), The Virginia Graham Show (1970-1972), guest on The Tonight Show). [457]
- December 26
- Death of Hurd Hatfield at age 80 of a heart attack; actor (The Picture of Dorian Gray movie, General Hospital TV show, Hallmark Hall of Fame, Studio One, Climax, Dupont Show of the Month). [457]
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