- March 5
- Death of Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela (born 1954). [1208]
- Death of Paul Bearer, American professional wrestling manager (born 1954). [1208]
- March 6
- Death of Alvin Lee at age 68; British guitarist (Ten Years After band, "I'm Going Home" song, "I'd Love to Change the World" song). [1208] [1602.12]
- March 7
- Death of Damiano Damiani, Italian film director and screenwriter (born 1922). [1208]
- March 10
- Death of Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland, (born 1915). [1208]
- March 20
- Death of Zillur Rahman, 19th President of Bangladesh (born 1929). [1208]
- March 21
- Death of Pietro Mennea, Italian athlete (born 1952). [1208]
- March 23
- Death of Joe Weider, Canadian-born American bodybuilder and publisher (born 1920). [1208]
- March 27
- Death of Hjalmar Andersen, Norwegian skater (born 1923). [1208]
- April 3
- Death of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, German-born British novelist and screenwriter (born 1927). [1208]
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- April 4
- Death of Roger Ebert, American film critic and writer (born 1942). [1208]
- April 8
- Death of Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1925). [1032.8] [1208]
- May 6
- Death of Giulio Andreotti, 41st Prime Minister of Italy (born 1919). [1208]
- May 7
- Death of Ray Harryhausen, American filmmaker and creator of visual effects (born 1920). [1208]
- May 13
- Death of Kenneth Waltz, American political scientist (born 1924). [1208]
- May 15
- Death of Henrique Rosa, President of Guinea-Bissau (2003-2005) (born 1946). [1208]
- May 16
- Death of Heinrich Rohrer at age 79; Swiss co-inventor of Scanning Tunnelling Microscope (nanotechnology). [1201.90] [1208]
- May 17
- Death of Jorge Rafael Videla, 42nd President of Argentina (born 1925). [1208]
- May 25
- About 100 members of the People's Liberation Guerrilla Army ambush a convoy of 17 cars of Indian politicians in Jagdalpur, India, killing 28, including state opposition leader and state politician Mahendra Karma. [1201.41]
- June 7
- Death of Pierre Mauroy, Prime Minister of France (1981-1984) (born 1928). [1208]
- June 19
- Death of Gyula Horn, Prime Minister of Hungary (1994-1998) (born 1932). [1208]
- June 24
- Death of Emilio Colombo, 40th Prime Minister of Italy (born 1920). [1208]
- July 2
- Death of Princess Fawzia Fuad of Egypt, Queen consort of Iran (1941-1948) (born 1921). [1208]
- Death of Douglas Engelbart, American computer scientist and inventor (born 1925). [1208]
- July 3
- Death of Radu Vasile, Prime Minister of Romania (born 1942). [1208]
- July 12
- Death of Amar Bose, American engineer and entrepreneur (born 1929). [1208]
- August 12
- Death of Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau (born 1968). [1208]
- September 1
- Death of Tommy Morrison, American boxer (born 1969). [1208]
- September 2
- Death of Frederik Pohl, American writer (born 1919). [1208]
- September 5
- Death of Rochus Misch, German bodyguard of Adolf Hitler (born 1917). [1208]
- September 12
- Death of Ray Dolby, American engineer and inventor (born 1933). [1208]
- September 18
- Death of Ken Norton, American boxer (born 1943). [1208]
- September 22
- Death of David H. Hubel, Canadian-born American Nobel neuroscientist (born 1926). [1208]
- October 1
- Death of Tom Clancy, American writer (born 1947). [1208]
- October 3
- Death of Sergei Belov, Russian basketball player (born 1944). [1208]
- October 9
- Death of Wilfried Martens, 60th and 62nd Prime Minister of Belgium (born 1936). [1208]
- October 10
- Death of Scott Carpenter, American astronaut (born 1925). [1208]
- October 15
- Death of Rudolf Friedrich, member of the Swiss Federal Council (born 1923). [1208]
- October 28
- Death of Tadeusz Mazowiecki, 1st Prime Minister of Poland (born 1927). [1208]
- November 1
- Death of Hakimullah Mehsud, Emir of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (born c. 1979). [1208]
- November 15
- Death of Glafcos Clerides, 4th President of Cyprus (born 1919). [1208]
- November 20
- Death of Joseph Paul Franklin, American murderer (born 1950). [1208]
- November 28
- Death of Mitja Ribicic, Slovene politician, 25th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (born 1919). [1208]
- December 5
- Death of Nelson Mandela, 1st President of South Africa and Nobel laureate (born 1918). [1208]
- December 30
- Death of Beate Sirota Gordon at age 89; Japanese interpreter to US General Douglas MacArthur's occupation army, co-wrote Japan's 1947 Constitution (Article 24 on equal rights of sexes). [1202.86]
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