- January 12
- 28-year-old Jennifer Lea Strange of Rancho Cordova, California, dies after guzzling a large quantity of water as part of Sacramento radio station KDND-FM's contest. [457]
- January 14
- Death of Darlene Conley at age 72 in Los Angeles, California, USA; actress (Sally Spectra - The Bold and the Beautiful, Gunsmoke, Mary Tyler Moore, The Young and the Restless, Capitol, General Hospital, Days of Our Lives). [38] [457]
- January 15
- Death of Awad Hamed al-Bandar, Iraqi judge (born 1945). [38]
- January 19
- Death of Denny Doherty at age 66 of an abdominal aneurysm following surgery in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada; singer, songwriter (The Mamas and the Papas - "California Dreamin'", "Monday, Monday"). [38] [457]
- January 22
- Death of Abbé Pierre, French priest and founder of Emmaus (born 1912). [38]
- January 23
- Death of David Aaron Shayman aka Disco D, American music producer and composer (born 1980). [38]
- January 26
- Death of Gump Worsley, Canadian hockey player (born 1929). [38]
- January 30
- Death of Sidney Sheldon at age 89 of complications from pneumonia; author/producer (Patty Duke Show TV show, I Dream of Jeannie, Hart to Hart, Master of the Game, If Tomorrow Comes, Bloodline, The Other Side of Midnight, Windmills of the Gods). [38] [457]
- February 1
- Death of Gian Carlo Menotti, Italian-born composer and librettist (born 1911). [38]
- February 3
- Death of Billy Henderson, American singer (The Spinners) (born 1939). [38]
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- February 7
- Death of Alan MacDiarmid, New Zealand chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1927). [38]
- Death of Barbara McNair at age 72 from throat cancer; singer-actress (Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts, Ed Sullivan Show, General Hospital). [457]
- February 8
- American model and television personality Anna Nicole Smith AKA Vickie Lynn Hogan AKA Nikki Hart dies of combined drug intoxication in Hollywood, Florida at age 39 (born 1967); model (Playboy magazine Playmate of the Year (1993)), actor (Naked Gun 33 1/3 movie (1994)). [5] [38] [800.89] [1779.34]
- February 9
- Death of Ian Richardson at age 72 after a heart attack; film and TV actor (Francis Urquhart - House of Cards TV mini-series (1990), To Play the King TV mini-series (1993), The Final Cut TV mini-series (1995)). [38] [457]
- Death of Alejandro Finisterre, Spanish poet, editor, and inventor of table football (born 1919). [38]
- February 12
- Death of Peter Ellenshaw in Santa Barbara, California, USA; artist at Disneyland, for Disney movies, four Oscar nominations, named Disney Legend 1993. [510.151]
- February 15
- Death of Robert Adler, Austrian-born inventor (born 1913). [38]
- February 17
- Death of Maurice Papon, French Vichy government official (born 1910). [38]
- Death of Dermot O'Reilly, Irish-born musician (Ryan's Fancy) (born 1942). [38]
- February 19
- Death of Janet Blair at age 85; actress (Caesar's Hour TV show). [457]
- February 24
- Death of Bruce Bennett at age 97 of complications from a broken hip; actor (Perry Mason TV show, Science Fiction Theatre TV show, Virginian TV show, Tales of Wells Fargo TV show, Ford Television Theatre TV show). [38] [457]
- February 28
- Death of Billy Thorpe, Australian musician (Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs) (born 1946). [38]
- Death of Charles Forte, English hotelier (born 1908). [38]
- March 2
- Five Bluffton University baseball players and the driver and his wife are killed in a chartered bus accident in Atlanta. The players, Zach Arend, David Betts, Scott Harmon, Cody Holp, and Tyler Williams, were en route to to Sarasota, Florida. [56]
- March 3
- Death of Warja Honegger-Lavater, Swiss illustrator (born 1913). [38]
- March 6
- Death of Jean Baudrillard, French philosopher and sociologist (born 1929). [38]
- Death of Allen Coage, American professional wrestler (born 1943). [38]
- March 9
- Death of Brad Delp, American singer (Boston) (born 1951). [38]
- March 11
- Death of Betty Hutton at age 85 in Palm Springs, California, USA; actress (Annie Get Your Gun, Somebody Loves Me, The Fleet's In, The Greatest Show on Earth, The Betty Hutton Show). [38] [457]
- March 13
- Death of Arnold Skaaland, American wrestler (born 1925). [38]
- March 14
- Death of Lucie Aubrac, French World War II Resistance fighter (born 1912). [38]
- March 15
- Death of Bowie Kuhn, Major League Baseball Commissioner (born 1926). [38]
- March 19
- Death of Calvert DeForest at age 85; actor (Larry 'Bud' Melman - Late Night with David Letterman). [38] [457]
- March 20
- Death of Taha Yassin Ramadan, Vice President of Iraq (born 1938). [38]
- March 25
- Death of Andranik Margaryan, 14th Prime Minister of Armenia (born 1951). [38]
- April 3
- Death of Eddie Robinson, American football coach (born 1919). [38]
- April 4
- Death of Bob Clark, American film director (born 1939). [38]
- April 5
- Death of Thomas Stoltz Harvey, Pathologist who conducted Albert Einstein's autopsy (born 1912). [38]
- Death of Leela Majumdar, Bengali children's author (born 1908). [38]
- Death of Darryl Stingley, American football player (born 1951). [38]
- Death of Poornachandra Tejaswi, Indian writer and novelist (born 1938). [38]
- April 6
- Death of Stan Daniels at age 72 from heart failure; TV writer (Tonight Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Taxi, This Hour Has Seven Days). [457]
- April 7
- Death of Johnny Hart, American cartoonist (B.C.) (born 1931). [38]
- Death of Barry Nelson AKA Barry Nielsen at age 89; actor (My Favorite Husband TV show, The Hunter TV show, Hudson's Bay TV show). [38] [457]
- Death of Carey W. Barber, Jehovah's Witnesses leader (born 1905). [38]
- April 10
- Death of Dakota Staton at age 74; jazz and blues singer ("The Late Late Show" (1957), "Crazy He Calls Me", "Time to Swing"). [457]
- April 11
- Death of Roscoe Lee Browne at age 81; actor (All in the Family, Maude, Sanford and Son, Good Times, Barney Miller, Saunders - Soap, The Cosby Show (1986, Emmy award)). [38] [457]
- April 14
- Death of Don Ho in Hawaii at age 76; singer ("Tiny Bubbles"). [457] [5] [38] [457]
- April 17
- Death of Kitty Carlisle AKA Kitty Carlisle Hart at age 96; actress, singer, panelist (To Tell the Truth TV show). [38] [457]
- Death of Iccho Itoh, Mayor of Nagasaki, Japan (assassinated) (born 1945). [38]
- April 22
- Death of Juanita Millender-McDonald, American politician (born 1938). [38]
- April 23
- Death of Boris Yeltsin, first President of the Russian Federation (born 1931). [5] [38]
- April 26
- Death of Jack Valenti, American film executive, creator of MPAA film rating system (born 1921). [38]
- April 28
- Death of Dabbs Greer, American actor (Little House on the Prairie) (born 1917). [38]
- Death of Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, German physicist and philosopher (born 1912). [38]
- April 29
- Death of Ivica Racan, 7th Prime Minister of Croatia (born 1944). [38]
- April 30
- Death of Tom Poston at age 85 of respiratory failure; comedy actor (Steve Allen Show TV show, Bob Newhart Show TV show, Family Matters TV show, Murphy Brown TV show, Home Improvement TV show, Cosby TV show, Malcolm and Eddie TV show, ER TV show, Grace Under Fire TV show, That '70s Show TV show, Will and Grace TV show). [38] [457]
- May 3
- Death of Wally Schirra, American astronaut (born 1923). [38]
- May 6
- Death of Lesley Blanch, English writer and fashion editor (born 1904). [38]
- May 7
- Death of Fulton Burley in Carlsbad, California, USA, at age 84; actor, performer in Disney's Golden Horseshoe Revue, voice of Michael in Enchanted Tiki Room, named Disney Legend in 1995. [510.85]
- May 11
- Death of Malietoa Tanumafili II, Samoan head of state (born 1913). [38]
- May 12
- Death of Mullah Dadullah Akhund, Afghani Taliban military leader. [38]
- May 14
- Death of Colin St John Wilson, English architect (born 1922). [38]
- May 15
- Death of Jerry Falwell, found dead in office of heart failure; American evangelist, co-founder of Moral Majority coalition of Christian conservative groups (born 1933). [38] [861.293]
- May 17
- Death of Lloyd Alexander, American author (born 1924). [38]
- May 18
- Death of Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist and Nobel Prize for Physics laureate (born 1932). [38]
- Death of Yoyoy Villame, Filipino singer "King of Philippine Novelty Songs." (born 1938). [38]
- May 27
- Death of Izumi Sakai, Japanese singer (Zard) (born 1967). [38]
- Death of Ed Yost, American inventor of the modern hot air balloon (born 1919). [38]
- June 4
- Death of Bill France, Junior, American President/CEO of NASCAR (born 1933). [38]
- June 8
- Death of Aden Abdullah Osman Daar, first President of Somalia (born 1908). [38]
- June 12
- Death of Don Herbert at age 90; host (Watch Mr. Wizard TV show (1951-1965, 1953 Peabody Award)). [38] [457]
- June 17
- Death of Ed Friendly of cancer at age 85; TV producer (Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, Little House on the Prairie). [457]
- June 22
- Death of Nancy Benoit, American professional wrestling manager (born 1964). [38]
- June 25
- WWE wrestler Chris Benoit, his wife Nancy Benoit, and son Daniel, are found dead as the result of a murder-suicide that took place over the previous weekend. [38]
- June 26
- Death of Anne Elizabeth Jane "Liz" Claiborne, Belgian-American fashion designer, at age 78 (born 1929). [5] [96.83] (June 27 [38])
- June 28
- Death of Kiichi Miyazawa, 78th Prime Minister of Japan (born 1919). [38]
- June 29
- Death of George McCorkle, founder of The Marshall Tucker Band (born 1947). [38]
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