Deaths 401 - 600 of 757
- Jul 30 Murray Bookchin, American libertarian socialist (b. 1921)
- Jul 31 Paul Eells, American sportscaster ("Voice of the Razorbacks"), dies at 70
- Aug 1 Jason Rhoades, American installation artist (b. 1965)
- Aug 1 Bob Thaves, American cartoonist (Frank and Ernest), dies at 81
- Aug 1 Iris Marion Young, American feminist and political scientist (b. 1949)
- Aug 3 Arthur Lee, American psychedelic rock musician (b. 1945)
- Aug 3 Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Austro-British soprano (Der Rosenkavalier), dies at 90
- Aug 4 John Locke, American rock keyboardist (Spirit -"I Got A Line On You"), dies of cancer at 62
- Aug 5 Susan Butcher, American sled dog champion (b. 1954)
- Aug 5 Hugo Schiltz, Flemish lawyer and politician, dies at 78
- Aug 5 Ed Thrasher, American Grammy Award-winning art director (Warner Brothers Records, 1964-79), and photographer (album art for Frank Sinatra; Jimi Hendrix, Grateful Dead), dies of cancer at 74
- Aug 7 Mary Anderson Bain, American New Deal politician (b. 1911)
- Aug 8 Michael Hurd, British composer and musicologist known for his choral music (Jonah-Man Jazz), dies at 77
- Aug 8 Irving "Duke" Jordan, American jazz pianist (Charlie Parker, Stan Getz, Sonny Stitt), dies at 84
- Aug 9 James van Allen, American physicist (discovered Van Allen radiation belts), dies at 91
- Aug 9 Philip E. High, English sci-fi author, dies at 92
- Aug 11 Mike Douglas, American talk show host (The Mike Douglas Show), dies at 86
- Aug 13 Tony Jay, British-American stage, screen, and voice actor (Twins; The Hunchback of Notre Dame - "Frollo"), dies at 73
- Aug 13 Payao Poontarat, Thai Olympic boxer (b. 1957)
- Aug 14 Bruno Kirby, American actor (b. 1949)
- Aug 15 Te Atairangikaahu, Māori Queen for 40 years, dies at 75
- Aug 15 Rick Bourke, Australian rugby league player
- Aug 15 Doug White, American news anchor
- Aug 15 Faas Wilkes, Dutch soccer star (Xerxes, Fortuna, Inter Milan), dies at 82
- Aug 16 Alex Buzo, Australian playwright and author (b. 1944)
- Aug 16 Herschel Green, American pilot (b. 1920)
- Aug 16 Jon Nödtveidt, Swedish musician (Dissection), dies at 31
Alfredo Stroessner
Aug 16 Alfredo Stroessner, Paraguayan army officer, Dictator and 42nd President of Paraguay (1954-89), dies of a stroke at 93
- Aug 18 Fernand Gignac, Canadian singer and actor (b. 1934)
- Aug 18 Jamie Astaphan, Caribbean-born physician (b. 1946)
- Aug 20 Claude Blanchard, French Canadian singer, comedian and actor, dies at 74
- Aug 20 Joe Rosenthal, American photographer (Pulitzer Prize-Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima), dies at 94
- Aug 20 Bryan Budd, British soldier (Afghanistan), dies at 29
- Aug 20 Richard Arthur de Yarburgh-Bateson, 6th Lord Deramore, British architect, dies at 95
- Aug 21 Paul Fentener van Vlissingen, Dutch businessman and philanthropist (b. 1941)
- Aug 21 Ustad Bismillah Khan, Indian classical shehnai (reeded woodwind instrument) player, dies at 90
- Aug 22 Bruce Gary, American rock drummer (The Knack - "My Sharona"') dies of Non-Hodgkin lymphoma at 55
- Aug 23 Jacques Wildberger, Swiss composer (In My End is My Beginning), dies at 84
- Aug 23 Maynard Ferguson, Canadian jazz trumpeter and bandleader, dies at 78
- Aug 24 Léopold Simoneau, French Canadian tenor, dies at 90
- Aug 24 Cristian Nemescu, Romanian film director (b.1979)
- Aug 24 James Carl Tenney, American composer, dies at 72
- Aug 26 Rainer Barzel, German politician CDU-CSU) and minister, dies at 82
- Aug 26 Sir Clyde Walcott, West Indian cricket batsman (44 Tests @ 56.68; 15 x 100s) and administrator (ICC chairman 1997-2000), dies at 80
- Aug 26 Josef Hadar, Israeli violinist and composer (Evening of Roses), dies at 79
- Aug 27 Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Indian film director (b. 1922)
- Aug 27 Maria Capovilla, oldest woman alive from 2004-2006 (b. 1889)
- Aug 27 Jesse Pintado, Mexican-American guitarist (Napalm Death), dies of liver failure at 37
- Aug 28 Benoît Sauvageau, French Canadian politician (b. 1963)
- Aug 28 Melvin Schwartz, American Physicist and Nobel Laureate (neutrinos - subatomic particles with no electric charge and virtually no mass), dies at 73
- Aug 30 Glenn Ford, Canadian-American actor (Cade's County, Big Heat, Midway), dies at 90
- Aug 30 Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian novelist (Palace Walk, Sugar Street) and first Arabic writer to win a Nobel Prize (1988), dies at 94
- Aug 30 Robin Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon, New Zealand jurist and member of the British House of Lords (b. 1926)
- Aug 31 Tom Delaney, British racing driver (b. 1911)
- Aug 31 Derrick Wayne Frazier, American convicted murderer (b. 1977)
- Aug 31 Mohamed Abdelwahab, Egyptian footballer (b. 1983)
- Sep 1 Sir Kyffin Williams, Welsh landscape painter (b. 1918)
- Sep 1 Bob O'Connor, American politician (Mayor of Pittsburgh, 2006), dies of brain cancer at 61
- Sep 1 Nellie Connally, wife of Texas governor John Connally (b. 1919)
- Sep 1 Warren Mitofsky, American pollster (b. 1934)
- Sep 2 Bob Mathias, American decathlete (Olympic gold 1948, 52) and congressman, dies of cancer at 75
- Sep 2 Willi Ninja, dancer and choreographer (b. 1961)
- Sep 2 [Jean-Josephat] Clermont Pépin, Canadian pianist and composer (Implosion Symphony), dies of liver cancer at 80
- Sep 2 [Walter] Dewey Redman, American jazz saxophonist, dies of liver failure at 75
- Sep 2 Charlie Williams MBE, English soccer defender (Doncaster Rovers 151 games) and comedian, dies from Parkinson's disease at 78
- Sep 3 Annemarie Wendl, German actress (Lindenstraße, Der Seitensprung), dies at 91
- Sep 3 Ian Hamer, British jazz trumpeter and session musician (Beatles - "Got To Get You Into My Life"; Top of the Pops studio band), dies at 73
- Sep 4 Colin Thiele, Australian author and educator (b. 1920)
Steve Irwin
Sep 4 Steve Irwin, Australian naturalist and TV personality (The Crocodile Hunter), attacked and killed by a stingray at 44
- Sep 4 Astrid Varnay, Swedish soprano (Met Opera 1941-56), dies at 88
- Sep 4 Giacinto Facchetti, Italian footballer, dies at 64
- Sep 4 John Conte, American actor (The Man with the Golden Arm, Lost in a Harem, Mantovani), dies of natural causes at 90
- Sep 7 Julien Schoenaerts, Flemish actor (Daens/Medea), dies at 81
- Sep 7 Robert Earl Jones, American actor (The Sting, Witness, Sleepaway Camp), dies of natural causes at 96
- Sep 8 Hilda Bernstein, English-born South African author, artist, and activist (b. 1915)
- Sep 8 Peter Brock, Australian racecar driver (b. 1945)
- Sep 8 Frank Middlemass, British actor (Heart Beat, As Time Goes By, Oliver Twist), dies at 87
- Sep 8 Erk Russell, American football coach (b. 1923)
- Sep 8 Jean Villain, Swiss writer, dies at 78
- Sep 9 Gérard Brach, French screenwriter (b. 1927)
- Sep 9 Richard Burmer, American composer and musician, dies at 50
- Sep 9 William B. Ziff Jr., American magazine publishing executive, (Modern Bride; Popular Electronics, PC Magazine), dies of cancer at 76
- Sep 10 Patty Berg, American golfer (15 major titles, US Open 1946), dies of Alzheimer's disease at 88
- Sep 10 Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV, King of Tonga (1965-2006), dies at 88
- Sep 11 William Auld, Scottish poet, writer and supporter of Esperanto (b. 1924)
- Sep 11 Pat Corley, American actor (b. 1930)
Joachim Fest
Sep 11 Joachim Fest, German historian and journalist (Hitler biography, Speer: The Final Verdict), dies at 79
- Sep 11 Johannes Bob van Benthem, Dutch lawyer (b. 1921)
- Sep 13 Ann Richards, 46th Governor of Texas (b. 1933)
- Sep 14 Miklós "Mickey" Hargitay, Hungarian-American actor, bodybuilder and the 1955 Mr. Universe, dies from multiple myeloma at 80
- Sep 14 Esme Melville, Australian actress (b. 1918)
- Sep 15 Raymond Baxter, British television presenter (b. 1922)
- Sep 15 Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and writer, dies at 77
- Sep 15 Pablo Santos, Mexican actor (b. 1987)
- Sep 16 Rob Levin, creator of Freenode (b. 1955)
- Sep 16 Floyd Curry, Canadian ice hockey right wing (Stanley Cup 1953, 56-58; Montreal Canadiens), dies at 81
- Sep 17 Patricia Kennedy Lawford, American socialite (b. 1924)
- Sep 17 Alvin Wayne "Al" Casey, American rock and session guitarist (Duane Eddy: The Wrecking Crew) dies at 69
- Sep 18 Edward J. King, 66th Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1925)
- Sep 19 Elizabeth Allen, American actress (b. 1929)
- Sep 19 Roy Schuiten, Dutch cyclist (b. 1950)
- Sep 19 Chuck Rio [Daniel Flores], American rock singer, saxophonist, and songwriter (The Champs - "Tequila"), dies of pneumonia at 77
- Sep 19 Hugh Kawharu, New Zealander Ngāti Whātua Māori chief (b. 1927)
- Sep 19 Martha Holmes, American photographer (b. 1923)
- Sep 20 Armin Jordan, Swiss conductor, dies at 74
- Sep 20 John W. Peterson, American hymn writer ("It Took a Miracle"), publisher and editor (Singspiration), dies of prostate cancer at 84
- Sep 20 Sven Nykvist, Swedish cinematographer (Cries and Whispers), dies at 83
- Sep 21 Raymond "Boz" Burrell, British rock bassist and singer (King Crimson, 1971-72; Bad Company, 1973-82), dies of a heart attack at 60
- Sep 22 Edward Albert, American actor (b. 1951)
- Sep 22 Carla Benschop, Dutch basketball player (b. 1950)
- Sep 22 Ewald Krolis, Suriname Dutch percussionist and kaseko singer (Caribbean Combo - Mi Kanto Ma Mi De Ete (Fallen But Not Defeated), dies at 59
- Sep 23 Sir Malcolm Arnold, British trumpeter, and classical and film score composer (The Bridge On The River Kwai), dies at 84
- Sep 23 Etta Baker, American blues guitarist, dies at 93
- Sep 24 Thomas Stewart, American bass-baritone (La Roche Capriccio), dies at 78
- Sep 24 Henry "Mule" Townsend, American blues singer, guitarist, and piano player, dies at 96
- Sep 25 Jeff Cooper, American firearms expert (b. 1920)
- Sep 25 John M. Ford, American sci-fi author and poet, dies at 49
Sofia Muratova
Sep 25 Sofia Muratova, Russian Olympic gold winning Gymnast, dies at 77
Byron Nelson
Sep 26 Byron Nelson, American golfer (winner 5 major titles; record 19 tournaments 1945), dies of a blood disorder at 94
- Sep 26 Tokyo Rose [Iva Toguri D'Aquino], American-born Japanese propagandist (WWII), dies at 90
- Sep 26 Philip Randle, British biochemist (Randle cycle), dies at 80
- Sep 28 Viktor Kalabis, Czech composer (Two Worlds), dies at 83
- Sep 29 Michael A. Monsoor, United States Navy SEAL (posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor), killed in Iraq at 25
- Sep 29 Jan Werner Danielsen, Norwegian singer, dies of heart failure at 30
- Sep 29 Khalique Ibrahim Khalique, Pakistani journalist and Urdu poet and critic (b. 1926)
- Sep 29 Louis-Albert Cardinal Vachon, French Canadian Catholic archbishop of Quebec (b. 1912)
- Sep 29 Walter Hadlee, New Zealand cricket batsman (11 Tests; father of Richard & Dayle), dies from a stroke at 91
- Oct 1 Jerald Tanner, American religious activist (b. 1938)
- Oct 1 André Viger, French Canadian wheelchair marathoner (3 Paralympics gold medals), dies from cancer at 54
- Oct 2 Helen Chenoweth-Hage, American politician (b. 1938)
- Oct 2 Tamara Dobson, American actress (Amazons; Cleopatra Jones), dies of complications from pneumonia and multiple sclerosis, at 59
- Oct 2 Paul Halmos, Hungarian-born American mathematician (b. 1916)
- Oct 2 Milly Vitale, Italian actress (7 Little Foys, War & Peace, Juggler), dies at 73
- Oct 3 Alberto Ramento, Filipina bishop (b. 1937)
- Oct 3 John Crank, British mathematician (b. 1913)
- Oct 3 Peter Norman, Australian track star (b. 1942)
- Oct 4 Tom Bell, English actor on stage, television and film (b. 1933)
- Oct 4 Oskar Pastior, Romanian-born German writer, dies at 78
- Oct 5 Jennifer Moss, English Actress (b. 1945)
- Oct 5 Antonio Peña, Mexican founder of lucha libre promotion AAA (b. 1953)
- Oct 6 Puck Brouwer, Dutch athlete (b. 1930)
- Oct 6 Eduardo Mignogna, Argentinian film director (b. 1940)
Buck O'Neil
Oct 6 Buck O'Neil, American baseball player (Kansas City Monarchs, 1st African-American coach in Major League Baseball), dies at 94
- Oct 6 Wilson Tucker, American writer (b. 1914)
- Oct 6 Alex L. Shigo, American Biologist and Plant Pathologist, dies at 76
- Oct 6 Valentin Muratov, Russian gymnast (4 gold, 1 silver medals 1952, 1956 Olympics), dies at 78
- Oct 6 Alex Shigo, American Biologist and plant pathologist known for his study of tree decay and contributions to modern arboricultural practices, dies at 76
- Oct 7 Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist and human rights activist, dies at 48
- Oct 9 Paul Hunter, English snooker player (Masters 2001, 02, 04), dies from neuroendocrine tumours at 27
- Oct 9 Raymond Noorda, American co-founder and long time CEO of Novell (b. 1924)
- Oct 10 Michael John Rogers, English ornithologist (b. 1932)
- Oct 10 Ian Scott, Canadian politician (b. 1934)
- Oct 11 Cory Lidle, American baseball pitcher (b. 1972)
- Oct 11 Howard Kerzner, Chief Executive Officer of Kerzner International (b. 1964)
- Oct 11 Benito Martínez, Haitan born Cuban who claimed to be the oldest living person at 126 (b. 1880)
- Oct 12 Gillo Pontecorvo, Italian film director (b. 1919)
- Oct 13 Wang Guangmei, Chinese first lady (b. 1921)
- Oct 14 Jared Anderson, American bassist (b. 1975)
- Oct 14 Freddy Fender [Baldemar Huerta], American rock, country and Tejano singer ("Wasted Days And Wasted Nights"; "Before The Next Teardrop Falls"; Texas Tornados - "A Man Can Cry"), dies of lung cancer at 69
- Oct 14 Maurice Grosse, British paranormal investigator (b. 1919)
- Oct 14 Nancy Lynn, American aviator (b. 1956)
- Oct 14 Gerry Studds, American politician (Rep-D-MA, 1973-97), first openly gay member of US Congress, dies at 69
- Oct 15 Derek Bond, British actor (Nicholas Nickelby, Armchair Theatre), dies at 86
- Oct 16 Valentín Paniagua Corazao, Ex President of Peru (b. 1936)
- Oct 16 Ross Davidson, British actor (b. 1949)
- Oct 16 Tommy Johnson, American orchestral and session tuba player (theme to "Jaws"), dies from cancer and kidney failure at 71
- Oct 16 Lister Sinclair, Canadian broadcaster and playwright (b. 1921)
- Oct 17 Daniel Emilfork, French actor (b. 1924)
- Oct 17 Christopher Glenn, American newscaster (b. 1938)
- Oct 18 Mario Francesco Cardinal Pompedda (b. 1929)
- Oct 18 Anna Russell, English music satirist and composer, dies at 94
- Oct 19 James Glennon, American cinematographer, dies at 64
- Oct 19 Phyllis Kirk [Kirkegaard], American actress (Thin Man, Red Button's Show), dies at 79
Jane Wyatt
Oct 20 Jane Wyatt, American actress (Father Knows Best), dies at 96
- Oct 20 Frank Vicari, American jazz, session, and touring saxophonist (Maynard Ferguson; Woody Herman; Tom Waits; Saturday Night Live), dies at 75
- Oct 21 Rene Gerber, Swiss composer, dies at 98
- Oct 22 Choi Kyu-hah, President of South Korea, dies at 87
- Oct 22 Arthur Hill, Canadian actor (Owen Marshall, Glitter), dies of Alzheimer's disease at 84
- Oct 22 Richard Mayes, British actor (Doctor Who, Emmerdale), dies of a stroke at 83
- Oct 23 Lebo Mathosa, South African entertainer (b. 1977)
- Oct 24 Enolia McMillan, American civil rights activist (b. 1904)
- Oct 24 William Montgomery Watt, Islamic studies scholar, orientalist and historian (b. 1909)
- Oct 26 Pontus Hultén, Swedish art collector and museum director (b. 1924)
- Oct 26 Tillman Franks, American country music bassist, songwriter and artist manager (Webb Pierce), dies at 86
- Oct 27 Joe Niekro, American baseball pitcher (MLB All Star 1979; NL wins leader 1979; Houston Astros; World Series 1987; NY Yankees), dies from a brain aneurysm at 61
- Oct 27 Brad Will, American anarchist and independent journalist (b. 1970)
- Oct 27 Marlin McKeever, American NFL linebacker (Pro Bowl 1966; LA Rams), dies from injuries suffered in a fall at 66
Red Auerbach
Oct 28 Red Auerbach, American Basketball Hall of Fame coach, general manager (Boston Celtics, 9-time NBA champion), dies of a heart attack at 89
Trevor Berbick
Oct 28 Trevor Berbick, Jamaican boxer (WBC heavyweight champion 1986), dies from blows to the head by his nephew at 52
P. W. Botha
Oct 31 P. W. Botha, South African politician (President of South Africa, 1984-89; Prime Minister, 1977-84), dies at 90
- Nov 1 William Styron, American novelist (Confess of Nat Turner, Sophie's Choice), dies at 81
- Nov 1 Adrienne Shelly, American actress and director (The Unbelievable Truth), murdered at 40
- Nov 1 Bettye Ackerman, American actress (Maggie Graham-Ben Casey), dies at 82
- Nov 3 Paul Mauriat, French easy listening orchestra leader, composer, and arranger ("Love Is Blue"), dies at 81
- Nov 3 Marie Rudisill, American author and "Fruitcake Lady" (b. 1911)