- February 4
- Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot dead by New York City police officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race relations in the city. [20]
- February 5
- Death of Wassily Leontief, Russian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1906). [20]
- February 6
- Death of Jimmy Roberts; American singer (The Lawrence Welk Show) (born 1924). [20]
- February 7
- King Hussein of Jordan dies from cancer (born 1935), and his son Abdullah II inherits the throne. [20] [626.221]
- Death of Bobby Troup at age 80 of a heart attack; jazz musician, actor (Emergency TV show). [457]
- February 10
- Death of Robert Clothier at age 77; actor (Relic - Beachcombers). [457]
- February 14
- Death of Buddy Knox at age 65 from lung cancer in Bremerton, Washington, USA; rockabilly singer ("Party Doll" (1957)). [457]
- February 15
- Death of Henry Way Kendall, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1926). [20]
- February 18
- Death of Noam Pitlik at age 66 from lung cancer; actor (I'm Dickens He's Fenster, Ben Casey, Bob Newhart, Sanford and Son), producer (Barney Miller, 9 to 5). [20] [457]
- Death of Michael Larson, Press Your Luck big money winner (born 1949). [20]
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- February 21
- Death of Gertrude B. Elion, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1918). [20]
- February 22
- Moderate Iraqi Shiite cleric Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr is assassinated. [20]
- February 23
- Death of Perry Kibble at age 49 of heart problems at his home in Calgary, Alberta, Canada; keyboardist and songwriter (A Taste of Honey - "Boogie Oogie Oogie" album, Best New Artist Grammy award 1979). [457]
- February 25
- Death of Glenn Seaborg, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1912). [20]
- March 2
- Death of Jack Webster at age 84; BC, Canada's most famous radio and TV talk-show host, longtime panellist on CBC TV's Front Page Challenge). [457]
- Death of Dusty Springfield of breat cancer at age 59 in England; British singer ("Son of a Preacher Man", "Wishin' and Hopin'", "I Only Want to Be With You", "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me", "What Have I Done To Deserve This?", Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame (1999)). [20] [457]
- March 3
- Death of Lee Philips at age 72 of progressive supranuclear palsy; actor (The Adventures of Ellery Queen TV show (1959)), director (My World TV show, Welcome to It TV show, The Governor and JJ TV show, Gidget TV show, The Waltons TV show, The Practice TV show, Diagnosis Murder TV show). [457]
- Death of Gerhard Herzberg, German-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1904). [20]
- March 4
- Death of Eddie Dean at age 91 in Newhall, California; singing cowboy ("I Dreamed Of A Hillbilly Heaven"). [457]
- March 7
- Death of Sidney Gottlieb, American Central Intelligence Agency official (born 1918). [20]
- Death of Stanley Kubrick, American film director and producer (born 1928). [5] [20]
- March 8
- Death of Peggy Cass at age 74 of heart failure; actress/TV panelist (Mame movie and play, Tonight Show TV show, To Tell the Truth TV show, The Hathaways TV show). [457]
- March 23
- Gunmen assassinate Paraguay's Vice President Luis María Argaña. [20]
- April 9
- Ibrahim Baré Maînassara, president of Niger, is assassinated. [20]
- April 10
- Death of Jean Vander Pyl at age 78 of lung cancer; voice actress (Margaret - Father Knows Best radio show, The Jetsons TV show, The Flintstones TV show). [457]
- April 12
- Death of Boxcar Willie AKA Lecil Martin at age 67 of leukemia at his home in Branson, Missouri, USA; country singer ("Bad News" (1982)). [457]
- April 13
- Death of Ellen Corby at age 87; actress (Grandma - The Waltons TV show). [457] (April 21 [457])
- April 14
- Death of Anthony Newley at age 67 of cancer in his home in Florida, USA; British entertainer/songwriter/singer ("Stop the World -- I Want to Get Off", "What Kind of Fool Am I?", "The Candy Man", "Goldfinger"). [20] [457]
- April 16
- Death of Alexander (Skip) Spence at age 52 of lung cancer and alcoholism in San Francisco, California, USA; rock and roll singer/guitarist/drummer (Moby Grape, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service). [457]
- April 20
- Two Littleton, Colorado teenagers, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, open fire on their Columbine High School teachers and classmates, killing 12 students and one teacher, and then themselves. [1] [20]
- Death of Richard Rood, American professional wrestler (born 1958). [20]
- April 25
- Death of Lord Killanin, Irish journalist and president of the International Olympic Committee (born 1914). [20]
- April 26
- British TV presenter Jill Dando, age 37, is shot dead on the doorstep of her home in Fulham, London. [20]
- April 27
- Death of Al Hirt at age 76 of liver cancer; trumpeter ("Java", "Sugar Lips"). [457]
- April 28
- Death of Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1921). [20]
- Death of Rory Calhoun AKA Francis McCown at age 76; actor (over 80 movies and 1,000 television episodes, The Texan, The Blue and the Grey mini-series, Capitol). [457]
- April 30
- Death of Darrell Sweet at age 51 of a heart attack in New Albany, Indiana, USA; drummer (Nazareth). [457]
- Death of Sir Alf Ramsey, 1966 England World Cup winning football manager (born 1920). [20]
- May 2
- Norman J. Sirnic and Karen Sirnic are murdered by the serial killer Angel Maturino Resendiz in a parsonage in Weimar, Texas (his fourth and fifth victims in his fourth slaying incident). [20]
- May 8
- Death of Dana Plato at age 34 by suicide drug overdose; actress (Kimberly Diff'rent Strokes). [20] [457]
- May 10
- Death of Shel Silverstein of a heart attack at age 68 at home in Key West, Florida, USA; children's author and illustrator (The Giving Tree (1964), Where the Sidewalk Ends (1974), A Light in the Attic (1981), Falling Up (1996)). [20] [1462.25]
- May 17
- Death of Henry Jones at age 86 of complications from injuries suffered in a fall; character actor (Phyllis, Falcon Crest, Kraft TV Theatre, Playhouse 90, Studio One, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Mrs. Columbo, Gun Shy). [457]
- May 23
- Canadian professional wrestler Owen Hart dies after falling 90 feet as he was being lowered into the ring for the "Over the Edge" sports entertainment event in Kansas City, Missouri. [20] [467]
- May 28
- Swedish police officers Robert Karlström and Olov Borén are wounded by three bank robbers armed with automatic weapons and later executed with their own service pistols by shots in the head from close distance on the scene in Malexander. [20]
- June 5
- Death of Mel Torme at age 73; singer and songwriter ("The Christmas Song"). [457]
- June 6
- Death of Anne Haddy, Australian actress (Helen Daniels - Neighbours) (born 1930). [20]
- June 15
- George Morber Senior and Carolyn Frederick are murdered by Angel Maturino Resendiz in Gorham, Illinois (his 8th and 9th victims, in his 7th and final incident). [20]
- June 16
- Death of Screaming Lord Sutch, English political personality (suicide) (born 1940). [20]
- June 20
- Death of Clifton Fadiman at age 95; writer/host (Information Please radio and TV show). [457]
- June 21
- Death of Kami, Japanese drummer (Malice Mizer) (born 1973). [20]
- June 27
- Death of Jorgos Papadopoulos, military ruler of Greece (born 1919). [20]
- July 1
- Death of Sylvia Sidney at age 88; actress (46 years of TV guest appearances, WKRP, Thirtysomething, Fantasy Island). [457]
- July 5
- U.S. Army Pfc. Barry Winchell is bludgeoned in his sleep at Fort Campbell, Kentucky by fellow soldiers; he dies the next day from his injuries. [20]
- Mark Sandman, lead singer of the Boston-based rock band Morphine, collapses on stage during a concert in Rome and dies of a heart attack at age 47. [467] (July 3 [20])
- July 8
- Death of Charles Conrad, astronaut (motorcycle crash) (born 1930). [20]
- July 16
- Off the coast of Martha's Vineyard, a plane piloted by John F. Kennedy Junior crashes, killing him and his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and her sister Lauren Bessette. [20]
- July 25
- Death of Martin Agronsky at age 84 of congestive heart failure; print and TV journalist (NBC's Meet the Press, CBS's Face the Nation, PBS' Agronsky and Company). [457]
- July 26
- Death of Trygve Haavelmo, Norwegian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1911). [20]
- August 13
- Death of Ignatz Bubis in Frankfurt, Germany. Bubis had been the Chairman of the Central Jewish Committee in Germany since 1992. As specified in his will, he was flown to Israel and buried there. The 72-year-old Bubis died of cancer. [37]
- August 23
- Death of Martha Rountree at age 87; journalist/producer (Meet the Press on radio and TV). [457]
- September 6
- Death of Allen Funt, American television personality (born 1914). [20]
- September 17
- Death of Frankie Vaughan AKA Frank Abelson at age 71 of a heart ailment; pop singer ("Kewpie Doll", "Kisses Sweeter than Wine", "Seventeen", "The Green Door", "Come Softly to Me"). [457]
- September 20
- Death of Raisa Gorbachev, Soviet first lady (born 1932). [20]
- September 22
- Death of George Campbell Scott at age 71 of a ruptured aortic aneurism; actor (Patton (1977), East Side, West Side). [20] [457]
- October 9
- Death of Akhtar Hameed Khan, Pakistani pioneer in microcredit and microfinance (born 1914). [20]
- October 12
- Death of Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player (born 1936). [5] [20]
- October 13
- Death of Van Arsdale France in Newport Beach, California; trained Disneyland employees, established Disney University, created Backstage Disneyland magazine for cast members, established Disneyland Alumni Club, retired 1978, named Disney Legend in 1994. [510.176]
- October 14
- Death of Julius Nyerere, President of Tanzania (born 1922). [20]
- October 15
- Death of Terry Gilkyson at age 83 in Austin, Texas, USA; songwriter and musician (The Easy Riders - "Memories are Made of This", "Cry of the Wild Goose", "Marianne", "Greenfields", "Bear Necessities"). [457]
- October 20
- Death of Jack Lynch, Prime Minister of Ireland (born 1917). [20]
- October 26
- Death of Hoyt Axton at age 61 after a heart attack; singer/songwriter ("Greenback Dollar", "Never Been to Spain", "Joy To The World"), actor (Bonanza TV show, I Dream of Jeannie, McCloud, Diff'rent Strokes, Murder She Wrote, WKRP). [457]
- October 31
- Death of Greg Moore, Canadian race car driver (born 1975). [20]
- November 1
- Death of Walter Payton of bile duct cancer; American football player (Chicago Bears halfback) (born 1954). [20] [1302.254]
- November 13
- Death of Donald Mills at age 84 of complications from pneumonia; singer (The Mills Brothers, 2,000 recordings, 50 million copies). [457]
- November 16
- Death of Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1928). [20]
- November 21
- Death of Abd-al-Aziz ibn Abd-Allah ibn Baaz, Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia since 1993. [20]
- November 28
- Death of Bethel Leslie at age 70 of cancer; actress (The Richard Boone Show, As the World Turns, One Life to Live, All My Children, Another World, The Doctors). [457]
- Death of Hazel Frederick at age 91; actress (Mary Tyler Moore Show opening credits). [457]
- December 3
- Death of Jarl Wahlström, Salvation Army general (born 1918). [20]
- Death of Madeline Kahn at age 57 of ovarian cancer in New York, USA; actress (Oh Madeline, Cosby, New York News). [20] [457]
- December 11
- Death of Franjo Tudman, President of Croatia (born 1922). [20]
- December 17
- Grover Washington Junior, jazz saxophonist and composer, suffers a heart attack and collapses after taping four songs for The Saturday Early Show on CBS, dying in hospital in New York City. [20] [467]
- Death of Rex Allen, after being accidently run over in his own driveway; singer, published over 300 songs, starred in 19 Republic western movies, narrated dozens of Disney films and TV ashows. [457]
- December 20
- Death of Hank Snow AKA Clarence Eugene Snow at age 85; country and western singing star (Hank The Yodeling Ranger, Grand Ole Opry, "I'm Movin' On", over 85 singles on the Billboard best seller list, sold nearly 90 million records). [20] [457]
- December 30
- Death of Fritz Leonhardt, German structural engineer (born 1909). [20]
- Death of Sarah Knauss, among oldest living persons ever (born 1880). [20]
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