Deaths 401 - 458 of 458
- Nov 18 Doug Sahm, American musician (Sir Douglas Quintet; Texas Tornadoes), dies of a heart attack at 58
- Nov 19 Alexander Liberman, Russian-American magazine editor, painter and photographer (639), dies at 87
- Nov 20 Amintore Fanfani, Italian politician and 5 x prime minister of Italy, dies at 91
- Nov 21 Quentin Crisp, British writer, raconteur and actor (b. 1908)
- Nov 21 Eddie Maxwell [Cherkose], American lyricist (Breathless) and actor, dies of natural causes at 87
- Nov 24 (Roger) Hilary Minster, British character actor ('Allo 'Allo!), dies of cancer at 55
- Nov 27 Yasuhiro Kojima, wrestler (b. 1937)
- Nov 27 Alain Peyrefitte, French politician and author (b. 1925)
- Nov 27 Johnny "Big Moose" Walker, American electric and Chicago blues pianist, organist, and bass guitar player (Muddy Waters; Junior Wells; Elmore James), dies at 72
- Nov 28 Bethel Leslie, American entertainer (Capt Newman MD, Rabbit Trap), dies at 70
- Nov 29 Gene Rayburn, American game show host (b. 1917)
- Dec 1 Gene Baker, American baseball infielder (MLB All-Star 1955; World Series 1960; Chicago Cubs, Pittsburgh Pirates), dies at 74
- Dec 1 William "Pop" Gates, American Basketball Hall of Fame guard and coach (Harlem Globetrotters "Legends" Ring 1995), dies at 82
- Dec 2 Charlie Byrd, American jazz and bossa nova guitarist (Desfinado), dies of lung cancer at 74
- Dec 2 Joey Adams [Joseph Abramowitz], American comedian, actor and columnist (ABC's Back That Fact), dies at 88
- Dec 3 Madeline Kahn, American stage and screen actress (What's Up, Doc?; Young Frankenstein; Paper Moon; Blazing Saddles), and singer, dies of ovarian cancer at 57
- Dec 3 Jarl Wahlström, 12th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1918)
- Dec 3 "Scatman" John [Larkin], American jazz pianist and singer ("Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop)"), dies of lung cancer at 57
- Dec 3 John Archer [Ralph Bowman], American actor (Destination: Moon, White Heat, Blue Hawaii), dies of lung cancer at 84
- Dec 3 Horst Mahseli, Polish soccer striker (9 caps; Legia Warsaw), dies at 65
- Dec 4 Sylvester Clarke, West Indian cricket fast bowler (11 Tests, 42 wickets), dies from a heart attack at 44
- Dec 4 Rose Elizabeth Bird, California Supreme Court Justice (1977-87), dies at 63
- Dec 5 Robert Parris, American composer (Book of Imaginary Beings), dies at 75
- Dec 8 Péter Kuczka, Hungarian writer (b. 1923)
- Dec 10 Lex Goudsmit, Dutch actor (Fiddler on the Roof, Thomas en Senior op het spoor van Brute Berend), dies at 86
- Dec 10 Rick Danko, Canadian rock bassist and singer (The Band - "Stagefright"), dies of heart failure at 55
- Dec 10 Shirley Hemphill, American actress (b. 1947)
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Dec 10 Franjo Tuđman, Croatian politician and President of Croatia (1990-1999), dies of stomach cancer at 77
- Dec 11 Charles Earland, American jazz Hammond organist, and bandleader, dies of heart failure at 58
- Dec 12 Paul Cadmus, American artist (b. 1904)
- Dec 12 Joseph Heller, American author (Catch-22), dies at 76
- Dec 12 Joe Benner, American pistol shooter and coach (Olympic gold 1952; World C'ship gold 1949, 52, 54), dies at 82
- Dec 12 Leo Smit, American classical pianist, composer (The Alchemy of Love), teacher and photographer, dies of congestive heart failure at 78
- Dec 13 Allen Breed, American inventor of the first automotive airbag sensor, dies of a heart attack while suffering from lung cancer, at 72
- Dec 15 George Elrick, Scottish-British singer ("I Like Bananas Because They Have No Bones"), and broadcaster known as 'The Smiling Voice of Radio' (BBC's "Housewives' Choice"), dies at 95
- Dec 17 Grover Washington Jr., American jazz saxophonist ("Just The Two Of Us"; "Mr Magic"; "Let It Flow"), dies of a heart attack at 56
- Dec 17 Rex Allen, American singer-songwriter known as the "the Arizona Cowboy", and actor (Frontier Doctor - "Dr. Baxter"), dies at 78
- Dec 18 Robert Bresson, French film director (A Man Escaped, Balthazar, at Random), dies at 98
- Dec 18 Robert Dougall, English TV host and broadcaster, dies at 86
- Dec 19 Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh actor, dies at 85
- Dec 19 Hemchandra Tukaram "Bal" Dani, Indian cricketer (Test Ind v Pak, 1-19, ct 1, DNB), dies at 66
- Dec 20 [Clarence] Hank Snow, Canadian country singer ("I'm Moving On"; "I Went To Your Wedding"), dies of heart failure at 85
- Dec 20 Riccardo Freda, Italian film director and screenwriter (Theodora, Slave Empress), dies at 90
- Dec 21 John Arnatt, British actor (A Challenge for Robin Hood, Circumstantial Evidence), dies at 82
- Dec 23 Marcel Landowski, French composer (Un enfant appelle), dies at 84
- Dec 24 João Baptista de Oliveira Figueiredo, President of Brazil (b. 1918)
- Dec 24 Bill Bowerman, American track and field coach and co-founder of Nike, dies at 88
- Dec 24 Maurice Couve de Murville, French politician, Prime minister of France (b. 1907)
- Dec 24 Zeke Carey, American R&B singer (The Flamingos - "Goodnight Sweetheart"; "I Only Have Eyes For You") dies of a heart attack at 66
- Dec 25 Peter Jeffrey, British character actor (Dr Phibes Rides Again, Twinsanity), dies at 70
- Dec 26 Curtis Mayfield, American singer-songwriter and soul musician ("Freddie's Dead"; "Superfly"), dies from complications of type 2 diabetes at 57
- Dec 26 Shankar Dayal Sharma, Indian politician and 9th President of India (1992-97), dies at 81
- Dec 27 Bernard Chacksfield, British Air Vice-Marshal, dies at 86
- Dec 28 Clayton Moore, American actor (The Lone Ranger), dies at 85
- Dec 29 Leon Radzinowicz, British criminologist (b. 1906)
- Dec 30 Fritz Leonhardt, German structural engineer, dies at 90
- Dec 30 Sarah Knauss, American, once considered the world's oldest living person (b. 1880)
- Dec 31 Elliot Richardson, American politician (b. 1920)