- July 17
- Death of Mickey Spillane at age 88 of cancer in South Carolina, USA; writer (Mike Hammer novels). [27] [457]
- August 15
- Death of Te Atairangi Kaahu, Maori queen (born 1931). [27]
- August 16
- Death of Alfredo Stroessner, President of Paraguay (born 1912). [27]
- August 23
- In Austria, Natascha Kampusch manages to escape after being kidnapped eight years ago by Wolfgang Priklopil who locked her up in his cellar. Priklopil commits suicide by throwing himself in front of a train. [27]
- Death of Maynard Ferguson at age 78 of liver and kidney failure; jazz trumpeter/bandleader ("Gonna Fly Now"). [27] [457]
- August 30
- Death of Glenn Ford at age 90; actor (Cade's County, The Family Holvak). [27] [457]
- Death of Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1911). [27]
- September 6
- Death of Frank Middlemass at age 87; actor (Heartbeat, Rocky Hardcastle - As Time Goes By). [457]
- September 10
- Death of Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, King of Tonga (born 1918). [27]
- September 11
- Death of Pat Corley at age 76 of congestive heart failure; actor (Phil - Murphy Brown TV show, Bay City Blues TV show, Hill St. Blues TV show, He's the Mayor TV show, Robert Kennedy and his Times, Roots, Fresno). [457]
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- September 13
- Death of Ann Richards, Governor of Texas, USA (born 1933). [27]
- September 17
- Death of Patricia Kennedy Lawford, American socialite, sister of John F. Kennedy (born 1924). [27]
- Death of Dorothy C. Stratton, Director of the United States Coast Guard Women's Reserve (born 1899). [27]
- September 26
- Death of Tokyo Rose AKA Iva Toguri D'Aquino at age 90; made WWII Japanese propaganda broadcasts from Radio Tokyo (never convicted of treason). [27] [457]
- October 11
- New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle is killed (born 1972), along with his flight instructor, when his plane crashes into a building in New York City's Upper East Side. [27]
- October 14
- Death of Freddy Fender of complications from lung cancer at age 69; American singer ("Before the Next Teardrop Falls", "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights"). [27] [457]
- October 16
- Death of Valentín Paniagua, President of Peru (born 1936). [27]
- October 17
- Death of Christopher Glenn at age 68 of liver cancer; CBS Radio newsman (CBS World News Roundup radio show). [457]
- October 19
- Death of Ralph Harris, UK Lord Harris of High Cross, general director of Institute of Economic Affairs, at age 81. [528.96]
- Death of Phyllis Kirk at age 79 in Woodland Hills, California, USA; actress (The Thin Man TV show (1957-1959)). [457]
- October 20
- Death of Eric Newby at age 86; British travel writer of 25 books (A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush (1958), Love and War in the Apennines (1970)). [527.97]
- Death of Jane Wyatt at age 96 in Los Angeles, California, USA; actress (Father Knows Best TV show). [457]
- October 21
- Death of Sandy West, drummer for The Runaways (born 1959). [27]
- October 22
- Death of Arthur Hill at age 84 of Alzheimer's disease; actor (Owen Marshall TV show, Counselor at Law (1971), Glitter (1984)). [457]
- October 24
- Death of Enolia McMillan, first female president of the NAACP (born 1904). [27]
- October 29
- Aviation Development Company Flight 53 (Boeing 737) crashes shortly after take-off from Abuja, Lagos, Nigeria, killing 96 including Muhammadu Maccidio, spiritual head of Nigeria's Muslims. The crash is blamed on a storm. [27] [528.46]
- Death of Silas Simmons, at age 111 in Saint Petersburg, Florida. Simmons was the oldest baseball player who ever lived, playing in the Negro Leagues for 17 years for the Homestead Grays, New York Lincoln Giants, and Cuban All-Stars. [56]
- October 31
- Death of Pieter Willem Botha at age 90, former State President of South Africa (born 1916). [27] [528.56]
- November 5
- Death of Samuel Bowers, American Ku Klux Klansman and convicted killer (born 1924). [27]
- November 9
- Death of Ed Bradley at age 65 from complications of leukemia; CBS news correspondent (60 Minutes TV show, 19 Emmy Awards). [5] [27] [457]
- November 10
- Death of Jack Palance at age 87; actor (Bronk and The Greatest Show on Earth TV show, Playhouse 90 - Requiem for a Heavyweight). [27] [457]
- November 16
- Death of Milton Friedman, American economist, proponent of global capitalism, Nobel Prize laureate, at age 94 (born 1912). [5] [27] [46.6]
- November 21
- Pierre Amine Gemayel, Lebanon's Minister of Industry, is assassinated in Beirut. [27]
- November 23
- Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian KGB agent, is killed by Polonium-210 in a London sushi bar. [27]
- November 27
- Death of Alan Freeman, Australian-born broadcaster and disc jockey (born 1927). [5] [27]
- December 5
- Death of David Bronstein, Soviet Union chess grandmaster (born 1924). [27]
- December 7
- Death of Jeane Kirkpatrick, American political theorist and U.N. ambassador (born 1926). [27]
- December 8
- Death of Martha Tilton at age 91; singer (Benny Goodman's Orchestra, "I'll Walk Alone", "I Should Care", "How Are Things in Glocca Morra"). [457]
- December 10
- Death of Augusto Pinochet, Chilean dictator (born 1915). [27]
- December 12
- Death of Paul Arizin, American basketball player (born 1928). [27]
- Death of Raymond P. Shafer, 38th Governor of Pennsylvania (born 1917). [27]
- December 13
- The Chinese River Dolphin or Baiji becomes extinct. [27]
- December 14
- Death of Ahmet Ertegün at age 83, following a head injury suffered in a fall; Atlantic Records founder, chairman of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. [27] [457]
- December 15
- Death of Clay Regazzoni, Swiss race car driver (born 1939). [27]
- December 18
- Death of Joseph Barbera, American animator (born 1911). [27]
- December 21
- Death of Saparmurat Niyazov of heart failure in Turkmenistan; first secretary of the Turkmen Communist Party (1985-1991), first president of Turkmenistan (1991-2006). [27] [1113.54]
- December 24
- Death of Frank Stanton at age 98; CBS president (1946-71). [27] [457]
- December 26
- Death of Gerald R. Ford, 38th President of the United States (born 1913). [5] [27]
- December 28
- Death of Don Edgren at age 83 in Oregon, USA; engineer leader of Disneyland's engineering team, Walt Disney World, Tokyo Disneyland, named Disney Legend in 2006. [510.149]
- December 30
- Saddam Hussein, former Iraq president, is executed in Baghdad. [27] [129]
- Death of Antony Lambton, Viscount Lambton, British politician (born 1922). [27]
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