Deaths 801 - 1,000 of 1,097
- Sep 29 George Chesterman Phillips, British naval officer and WWII submarine commander, dies at 90
- Sep 29 Gerd Bucerius, German lawyer, newspaper publisher (Die Zeit, 1946-95), and politician, dies at 89
- Sep 29 Madalyn Murray O'Hair, American atheist who opposed prayer in school, murdered at 76 along with her son Jon by David Waters
- Sep 29 Seger Ellis, American jazz pianist, pop vocalist, songwriter, and bandleader, dies at 91 [1]
- Sep 29 Susan Fleetwood, British actress (Krays, Clash of Titans), dies of cancer at 51
- Sep 30 Frederick Archibald Warner, British diplomat, dies at 77
- Sep 30 George Kirby, American comedian (ABC Comedy Hour, Pearl Bailey Show), dies at 71
- Oct 1 Aditya Biria, India's 1st global industrialist, dies of cancer at 51
- Oct 1 Margaret Gorman Cahill, 1st Miss America (1921), dies at 90
- Oct 1 Rene Cloke, British illustrator, dies at 90
- Oct 2 Elizabeth Jane Lloyd, artist/teacher, dies at 67
- Oct 3 Charles Lacy Veach, American astronaut (STS 39, STS 52), dies at 51
- Oct 4 Peter Nicholson Gunn, Australian writer (The Churches of Rome), dies at 81
- Oct 5 Dick Henry Jurgen, American swing bandleader, and songwriter ("Elmer's Tune"), dies of cancer at 85
- Oct 5 Fred Fehl, Austrian-American photographer, dies at 89
- Oct 5 Linda Gary, American voice actress (b. 1944)
- Oct 6 Hughie Charles, English songwriter and impresario, dies at 88
- Oct 6 Lillian Fuchs, American violist and composer, dies at 91
- Oct 6 Oswald Moxley Gibbs, Grenadian diplomat (High Commissioners to the United Kingdom 1974-78), dies at 67
- Oct 6 Walter "Crash" Morgan, drummer, dies at 35
- Oct 7 Ariston Muguranayanga Chambati, politician/businessman, dies at 59
- Oct 7 Gérard de Vaucouleurs, French astronomer, dies at 77
- Oct 7 Louis Meyer, Indie 500 racer (3 wins), dies at 91
- Oct 8 Christopher Keene, American conductor and musician, dies at 48
- Oct 8 Frederick Harry Baines, English figurative painter, dies at 85
- Oct 8 John Cairncross, British civil servant and spy (5th man - Cambridge Five), dies at 82
- Oct 8 Terry Hawkins, theatre administrator, dies at 45
- Oct 9 John Alfred Scali, American journalist and diplomat, dies at 77
- Oct 9 Kukrit Pramoj, Thai politician (13th Prime Minister of Thailand) and scholar, dies at 84
- Oct 9 Lord Home of Hirsel, cricket (Middlesex player later British PM), dies
- Oct 9 Patric Walker, American-British astrologer, dies of food poisoning at 64
- Oct 9 Phillip Oppenheimer, British diamond trader, dies at 83
- Oct 10 Edward Gill, baseball player, dies at 100
- Oct 10 Jimmy Nash, record company owner, dies at 47
- Oct 10 John Rodolph, wheelchair-race world record holder, hit by truck at 31
- Oct 10 Michelle Francis Bird, campaigner, dies at 30
- Oct 10 Paolo Gucci, entrepreneur/accessories designer, dies at 64
- Oct 10 Robert Finch, American politician (8th U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare), dies at 70
- Oct 11 Isolde Ahlgrimm, Austrian harpsichordist, fortepianist, early music and original instrument proponent, and teacher, dies at 81
- Oct 12 David McLean [Eugene Joseph Huth], American actor known for appearing in Marlboro advertisements (Days of Our Lives, Tate), dies of lung cancer at 73
- Oct 12 Eleanor Aller, American cellist (Hollywood String Quartet), dies at 78
- Oct 12 Gary Bond, actor (Outback, Zulu, Anne of Thousand Days), dies at 55
- Oct 13 Ali Faik Zaghloul, Egyptian radio presenter, dies at 71
- Oct 13 Golfredo Corradetti, Canadian conductor, dies at 79
- Oct 13 Henry Roth, American writer (Call it Sleep), dies at 89
- Oct 14 Edith Pargeter, English author (wrote Brother Cadfael mysteries as Ellis Peters), dies of a stroke at 82
- Oct 14 Helen Vlachos, Greek newspaper publisher (closed her newspapers in protest at military junta), dies at 83
- Oct 15 Phil Sidey, English broadcaster (Radio Leeds), dies at 69
- Oct 16 John Walker, museum director, dies at 88
- Oct 16 Murdo Alex MacLeod, Free Church of Scotland minister, dies at 60
- Oct 16 Richard Caldicot, British actor (Horse's Mouth, Strife, Mrs Thursday), dies at 87
- Oct 16 Thomas Augustine Martin, Irish academic, dies at 59
- Oct 17 Peter Bingham Hinchcliff, British-South African Anglican priest and church historian (1 Sided Reciprocity), dies at 66
- Oct 18 Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher, American lawyer and civil rights activist (challenged University of Oklahoma segregation laws in Supreme Court and won), dies at 67
- Oct 18 Iri Maruki, Japanese artist (The Hiroshima Panels), dies at 94
- Oct 18 John Gardener, boatbuilder/writer, dies at 90
- Oct 18 Thomas Lyttle, paramilitary, dies at 56
- Oct 19 Don Cherry, American jazz trumpeter (Ornette Coleman), dies from liver cancer at 58
- Oct 20 Bernadette Hingley, British Anglican priest, one of 1st women to be ordained in England, dies of cancer at 47
- Oct 20 Christopher Stone, American actor (Dave-Dallas, Interns), dies at 53
- Oct 20 Jack Rose, American screenwriter (The Seven Little Foys), dies at 83
- Oct 20 Raymond Rasberry, American gospel pianist, songwriter, and singer, dies at 65
- Oct 21 Jesús Blasco, Spanish comic book author (Cuto), dies at 75
- Oct 21 Jose Ignacio Cabrujas, Venezuelan playwright and writer 'Maestro of the Telenovelas', dies at 58
- Oct 21 Linda Goodman, American astrologer and poet, dies from complications of diabetes at 70
- Oct 21 Maxene Andrews, American pop and sing jazz singer (The Andrews Sisters - "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy"; "Rum and Coca-Cola"), dies of a heart attack at 79
- Oct 21 Shannon Hoon, American vocalist (Blind Melon), dies of a drug overdose at 28
- Oct 22 Edward Totah, Lebanese-British art Dealer, dies at 46
- Oct 22 Kingsley Amis, English novelist (Lucky Jim; James Bond Dossier), dies of injuries from a fall at 73
- Oct 22 Mary Wickes [Wickenhauser], American character actress (Father Dowling Mysteries; Sister Act; Dennis The Menace), dies of surgery complications at 79
- Oct 22 Ralph Whitlock, British farmer, conservationist, writer, and broadcaster, dies at 81
- Oct 22 Simone Gallimard, French editor and publisher, dies at 77
- Oct 23 Gavin Ewart, English poet (Pleasures of the Flesh), dies at 79
- Oct 24 Emile Jonassaint, president of Haiti (1994), dies at 82
- Oct 24 Ronald Selby Wright, Scottish Church of Scotland minister, dies at 87
- Oct 25 David Healy, American-born actor (Supergirl, Doomsday Gun, Patton), dies following a heart operation at 66
- Oct 25 Kenneth Dadzie, Ghanaian diplomat and 1st African Secretary-General of UNCTAD, dies at 65
- Oct 25 Robert Grieve, Scottish civil servant and planner, dies at 84
- Oct 25 Viveca Lindfors, Swedish actress (Way We Were, Life Goes On), dies from complications of rheumatoid arthritis at 74
- Oct 26 Agha Saadat Ali, Pakistani cricketer (8 not out in 1 inn for Pak 1956), dies at 66
- Oct 26 Bernhard Heiliger, German artist and sculptor, dies at 79
- Oct 26 Georgia Neese Gray, 1st Woman Treasurer of USA, dies at 95
- Oct 26 John Sangster, Australian jazz composer (The Hobbit Suite), dies at 66
- Oct 27 Mike Dutfield, documentary producer, dies in motorcycle accident at 48
- Oct 27 Susi Hush, English television producer, dies at 49
- Oct 28 Allan Leslie Merson, historian, dies at 79
- Oct 28 Katsumasa Sakioka, Japanese-American property tycoon, dies at 96 [1]
- Oct 30 Brian Easdale, British orchestral and film composer (The Red Shoes; Gone To Earth), dies at 86
- Oct 30 Roland Leich, American composer, chiefly of art songs, vocal, and choral music, and educator (Carnegie Institute, 1946-76), dies at 72
- Oct 30 Terry Southern, American writer and screenwriter (Dr. Strangelove, Easy Rider), dies at 71
- Oct 31 Alan Bush, British composer pianist and teacher, dies at 94
- Oct 31 Derek Anthony Enright, British Labour politician, dies at 60
- Oct 31 Dr. Hepcat [Lavad Durst], American blues piano player and singer-songwriter, radio DJ and baseball broadcaster, dies at 82
- Oct 31 Henry Percy, British peer, 11th Duke of Northumberland, dies after a drug overdose at 42
- Oct 31 Leonard Ernest John Chant, social worker, dies at 57
- Oct 31 Lloyd Lambert, American bassist (Guitar Slim), dies at 67
- Oct 31 Lou Levy, American 'Tin Pan Alley' music publisher (Leeds Music Corp - Sammy Cahn, Adler & Ross, Bob Dylan), dies at 84
- Oct 31 Rosalind Cash, American actress (Emma-Go Tell It on the Mountain), dies of cancer at 56
- Oct 31 Wallace Edward Rowling, Prime Minister of NZ (1974-1975), dies at 68
- Nov 1 Alun Pask, Welsh rugby union flanker (26 caps; British Lions 8 caps; Abertillery), dies at 58
- Nov 1 Brian Lenihan, snr, Irish politician and minister, dies at 64
- Nov 1 Desmond Shawe-Taylor, British critic and writer (co-author of The Record Guide), dies at 88
- Nov 1 James Ralph Darling, teacher, dies at 96
- Nov 1 Lex Hixon, religious teacher/author, dies at 53
- Nov 2 Alvaro Gomez Hurtado, Colombian politician (helped write Colombian Constitution), assassinated at 76
- Nov 2 Bill Blair, American auto racer (NASCAR pioneer; 54 top-10 finishes), dies at 84
- Nov 2 Florence Greenberg, record company founder, dies at 82
- Nov 2 Gilbert "Gil" Lamb, American actor (Hit Parade of 1947, Riding High), dies at 91
- Nov 2 Ivan Metropolitan Ioann Snychev, Russian Orthodox Priest, dies at 68
- Nov 2 Ollie Harrington, American cartoonist (Bootsie), dies at 83
- Nov 3 Eddie Pola [Sidney Edward Pollacsek], American radio and TV producer, and lyricist ("The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year"; "I Love The Way You Say Goodnight"), dies at 88
- Nov 3 Gordon S. Fahrni, Canadian physician and President of the Canadian Medical Association, dies at 108
- Nov 3 Isang Yun, Korean-born German composer, dies at 78
- Nov 3 John Orchard, British actor (Capone, M*A*S*H), dies at 66
- Nov 4 Edward "Eddie" Egan, American actor (The French Connection, Joe Forrester), dies of cancer at 65
- Nov 4 Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher (Difference and Repetition), dies at 70
- Nov 4 Marti Caine [Lynne Stringer], British comedienne, singer and television host, dies of lymphatic cancer at 50
- Nov 4 Paul Eddington, British actor (Devil Rides Out, Yes Minister), dies at 68
- Nov 5 Laura Weber, American folk guitarist, educator, and public television host, dies at 70
- Nov 6 Aneta Corsaut, American actress (Helen Crump-The Andy Griffith Show; Jane-The Blob), dies of cancer at 62
- Nov 6 Philip Rawson, English curator, artist and teacher (Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art and Archaeology), dies at 71
- Nov 7 Jerry Daniels, singer/guitarist, dies at 79
- Nov 7 John Patrick, American screenwriter and playwright (Pulitzer Prize 1954), commits suicide at 90
- Nov 7 Melvin "Slappy" White, American comedian and actor, dies of a heart attack at 74
- Nov 8 Country Dick Montana [Daniel McLain], American rock drummer and vocalist (The Beat Farmers - "Happy Boy"), dies on stage during a performance in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada at age 40
- Nov 8 Neil Blaney, Irish politician, dies at 73
- Nov 9 F. G. Emmison, British archivist and historian, dies at 88
- Nov 10 Boty Goodwin, British artist, dies at 29
- Nov 10 Clairmonte Depeiaza, West Indian cricketer (world record partnership v Aust 1955), dies at 67
- Nov 10 Ken Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian writer and environmentalist, dies at 54
- Nov 10 Margaret Annie Nan Macdonald, broadcaster, dies at 87
- Nov 11 Charles Scribner IV, American literary publisher, dies at 74
- Nov 11 Corneliu Coposu, Romanian politician (Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party), dies while undergoing treatment for lung cancer at 79
- Nov 11 Jean-Louis Curtis [Albert Laffitte], French novelist (The Forests of the Night), dies at 78
- Nov 11 Kenneth S. Goldstein, American folklorist and record producer, dies at 68
- Nov 11 René Wellek, Czech-American writer (Concepts of Criticism), dies at 92
- Nov 12 Curley Fox, American fiddler, dies at 85
- Nov 12 Jack Mann, British fighter pilot and hostage, kidnapped by Islamists in Lebanon in May 1989, dies at 81
- Nov 13 Ralph Hunsecker Blane, American songwriter (with HughMartin - "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"; "The Trolley Song"), dies at 81
- Nov 13 Sir Robert Stephens, British actor (Uncle Kurt-Holocaust, Chaplin, QB VII, Cleopatra), dies from complications of surgery at 64
- Nov 14 Eddie Ballantine, American orchestra leader (Don McNeill TV Club), dies at 88
- Nov 14 Jack Finney, American sci-fi and thriller author (The Body Snatchers, Time and Again), dies of pneumonia at 84
- Nov 14 John Lee Admiral-Barber, dies at 90
- Nov 14 Les Horvath, American College Football Hall of Fame quarterback and halfback (Heisman Trophy 1944; first Ohio State player to win the award; National C'ship 1942), dies of heart failure at 74
- Nov 15 Billy Hughes, British educationist and Labour Party politician, dies at 81
- Nov 15 Eve Perrick, British journalist (The Daily Mail), dies at 78
- Nov 16 Gwyn A. Williams, Welsh historian and socialist, dies at 70
- Nov 17 Alan Hull, British folk singer-songwriter, and guitarist (Lindisfarne - "Lady Eleanor"), dies of a heart attack at 50
- Nov 17 Edward LeBone Molotlegi, Kgosi (king) of the Bafokeng (1956-95), dies at 66
- Nov 17 John Prickett, teacher/ecumenist, dies at 88
- Nov 17 Marguerite Young, writer, dies at 87
- Nov 17 Pete Welding, American music writer (Down Beat), musicologist (Testament Records), and jazz and blues record producer (Doug Quattlebaum), dies of a heart attack at 60
- Nov 18 Miron Grindea, Romanian-born literary editor (ADAM International Review), dies at 86
- Nov 18 Ted Sannella, square dance caller, dies of cancer
- Nov 19 Bruce Trent [William Butters], British stage singer and actor (Stars In Battledress; The Burning Boat), dies at 83
- Nov 19 Gwen Swire, British social worker, dies at 61
- Nov 19 Martha Hill, American modern dancer and teacher (Juilliard), dies at 94
- Nov 19 Shirley Bergeron, American Cajun singer and guitarist, dies at 62
- Nov 20 Ahmed Abel-Wadoud Karadawi, Sudanese academic and activist, dies at 50
- Nov 20 Robie Macauley, American editor (Houghton Mifflin) and novelist (A Secret History of Time to Come), dies of lymphoma at 76
- Nov 20 Sergei Grinkov, Russian figure skater (with Ekaterina Gordeeva - Pairs World Championship, 1986-87, 1989-90; Olympic gold, 1988 & 94), dies at 28 of a heart attack on the practice rink in Lake Placid, New York,
- Nov 21 Dorothy Jeakins, American film and theatre costume designer (Samson and Delilah), dies at 81
- Nov 21 George Ivan Smith, ustralian radio correspondent, UN diplomat and spokesman, dies at 80
- Nov 21 Noel Jones, British diplomat (b. 1940)
- Nov 21 Peter Grant, English rock band manager (Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin), dies of a heart attack at 60
- Nov 21 Smilin' Jim Eames, singer/songwriter, dies at 71
- Nov 22 Ambrose Thibodeaux, American Cajun accordionist, also known as Ambrose Sam, dies at 76
- Nov 22 Edna Deane, British ballroom dancer, choreographer and drama teacher, dies at 90
- Nov 22 John Putz, journalist, dies at 89
- Nov 22 Johnnie Tillmon, civil rights activist (National Welfare Rights Association), dies at 69
- Nov 22 Norman Potter, English cabinetmaker, designer and writer, dies at 72
- Nov 23 Bernard Oliver, American engineer at HP and inventor (first hand-held calculators, SETI, Pulse Code Modulation), dies at 79 [1]
- Nov 23 Frank Hammond, American umpire, world's 1st professional tennis umpire, dies of ALS at 66
- Nov 23 Junior Walker [Autry Mixon, Jr], American tenor saxophonist ("Shotgun"; "(I'm a) Road Runner"), dies of cancer at 64
- Nov 23 Louis Malle, French film director (Pretty Baby), dies at 63
- Nov 24 Jeffrey Lynn [Ragnar Godfrey Lind], American actor (Four Daughters; The Roaring Twenties; BUtterfield 8), dies from natural causes at 86
- Nov 24 Stuart Henry, disc jockey, dies at 53
- Nov 24 Woytec Lowski [Woiciech Wiesidlowski], Polish dancer and ballet master, dies at 56
- Nov 26 Charles Warrell, English schoolteacher and creator of the I-Spy books, dies at 106
- Nov 26 David Briggs, American record producer (Neil Young; Nils Lofgren), dies of lung cancer at 51
- Nov 26 Max Fernandez, businessman/politician, dies at 52
- Nov 26 Sydney D. English pacifist and academic, dies at 79
- Nov 26 Terri Jewell, writer, dies at 40
- Nov 27 Alfredo Boulton, Venezuelan art critic, photographer, and art historian, dies at 87 [1]
- Nov 27 Giancarlo Baghetti, Italian auto racer (French GP 1961) and journalist/photographer, dies from cancer at 60
- Nov 27 Peter Harrison Swan, English-Australian WWII bomber pilot and stockbroker, dies at 75
- Nov 27 Simon Bailey, 1st British priest to say he had AIDS, dies at 40
- Nov 28 Brunhilde Hendrix, German relay runner (Olympic silver 1960), dies at 57
- Nov 29 Irene Ighodar, Sierra Leonean doctor and social reformer, dies at 79
- Nov 29 Stone Cates, fictional character on TV soap General Hospital, dies of AIDS
- Nov 30 Hopper Levett, English cricket wicket-keeper (1 Test, 3 dismissals; Kent CCC), dies at 87
- Nov 30 June Rosemary Thorndycraft, teacher and trade unionist, dies at 66
- Nov 30 Randy Walker (AKA Stretch), American musician (b. 1972)
- Nov 30 William Roerick, American actor (The Wasp Woman, Guiding Light), dies in car crash at 83
- Dec 1 Koos Schuur, Dutch writer, poet (Novemberland), translator, and editor (Het Woord), dies at 79
- Dec 1 Maxwell Thurman, American US Army General and chemical engineer, dies of leukemia at 64
- Dec 2 Francis Joseph Quinn, academic, dies at 90
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