Deaths in History
Deaths 201 - 300 of 340
- Jul 20 Finn Gustavsen, Norwegian politician (b. 1926)
- Jul 22 Jean Charles de Menezes, Brazilian electrician killed by Scotland Yard (b. 1978)
- Jul 24 Richard Doll, English epidemiologist (b. 1912)
- Jul 26 Alexander Golitzen, American art director (b. 1908)
- Jul 26 Jack Hirshleifer, American economist (b. 1925)
- Jul 27 Swami Shantanand, Mahasamadhi Day, Indian Saint, Philosopher (b. 1934)
- Jul 27 Marten Toonder, Dutch comic writer and cartoonist (Tom Puss), dies at 93
- Jul 27 Al Held, American painter and sculptor (hard edge-style), dies at 76
- Jul 28 Ronald MacDonald, British major-general (WWII), dies at 93
- Jul 30 John Garang, Vice President of Sudan (b. 1945)
- Jul 30 Anthony Walker, English hate crime murder victim (b. 1987)
- Jul 31 Wim Duisenberg, Dutch banker (b. 1935)
- Aug 1 Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, King of Saudi Arabia (1982-2005), dies at 84
- Aug 1 Constant Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter (b. 1920)
- Aug 1 Wibo, Dutch cartoonist (b. 1918)
- Aug 2 Steven Vincent, American journalist and writer (b. 1955)
- Aug 3 Françoise d'Eaubonne, French feminist (b. 1920)
- Aug 4 Anatoly Larkin, Russian American physicist (b. 1932)
- Aug 5 Raul Roco, Philippine senator (b. 1941)
- Aug 6 Robin Cook, British politician (b. 1946)
- Aug 8 Ahmed Deedat, Islamic scholar (b. 1918)
- Aug 8 John H. Johnson, African-American publisher (b. 1918)
- Aug 8 Monica Sjöö, Swedish artist (b. 1938)
- Aug 9 Judith Rossner, American novelist (b. 1935)
- Aug 12 John Loder, co-founder of the anarcho-punk band CRASS (b. 1946)
- Aug 12 Lakshman Kadirgamar, Sri Lankan politician (Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sri Lanka), dies at 73
David Lange
Aug 13 David Lange, New Zealand politician (Prime Minister, 1984-1990), dies of complications associated with renal failure at 63
David Lange
- Aug 16 Frère Roger, Swiss monk and mystic (b. 1915)
- Aug 16 William Corlett, English children's writer(b. 1938)
- Aug 17 John Bahcall, American astrophysicist (b. 1934)
- Aug 21 Marcus Schmuck, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1925)
- Aug 21 Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet (b. 1936)
- Aug 23 Ninjalicious, Canadian author and urban explorer (b. 1973)
- Aug 25 Peter Glotz, German politician (b. 1939)
- Aug 26 Robert Denning, American interior designer, dies at 78
- Aug 28 Esther Szekeres, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1910)
- Aug 28 George Szekeres, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1911)
- Aug 31 Joseph Rotblat, Polish-British physicist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1908)
- Sep 3 Richard S.R. Fitter, British ornithologist and botanist (b. 1913)
- Sep 3 William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1924)
- Sep 5 Roberto Viaux, Chilean Army General and the primary planner in two failed coup d'état attempt in Chile (b. 1917)
- Sep 6 Hasan Abidi, Pakistani journalist and Urdu poet (b. 1929)
- Sep 9 John Wayne Glover, English-born Australian serial killer, commits suicide in prison at 72
- Sep 13 Julio César Turbay Ayala, Colombian politician (b. 1916)
- Sep 14 William Berenberg, American physician (b. 1915)
- Sep 14 Vladimir Volkoff, French writer (b. 1932)
Gordon Gould
Sep 16 Gordon Gould, American physicist (inventor of the laser) dies at 85
Gordon Gould
- Sep 20 Simon Wiesenthal, Austrian-Polish Nazi hunter (b. 1908)
- Sep 20 Tobias Schneebaum, American writer, anthropologist and explorer dies at 83
- Sep 23 Filiberto Ojeda, Puerto Rican revolutionary (b. 1933)
- Sep 25 Ghulam Mustafa Khan, Pakistani critic and linguist (b. 1912)
- Sep 25 Urie Bronfenbrenner, American psychologist (b. 1917)
- Sep 25 M. Scott Peck, American psychiatrist and writer (b. 1936)
- Sep 25 Friedrich Peter, Austrian politician (b. 1921)
- Sep 26 Helen Cresswell, British author
- Sep 28 Constance Baker Motley, American judge (b. 1921)
- Sep 29 Austin Leslie, American chef, the "Godfather of Fried Chicken" (b. 1934)
- Oct 2 Bert Eriksson, Belgian neo-Nazi (b. 1931)
- Oct 2 August Wilson, American playwright (Fences, Pulitzer 1987), dies at 60
- Oct 4 Stanley K. Hathaway, American politician (27th Governor of Wyoming), dies at 81
- Oct 7 Doug Young, American national and world powerlifting champion, dies of a heart attack at 61
- Oct 10 Wayne Booth, American literary critic (b. 1921)
- Oct 10 Milton Obote, President of Uganda (b. 1925)
- Oct 11 Edward Szczepanik, Polish economist and Prime Minister in exile (b. 1915)
- Oct 11 Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee, Linguist, and writer of Pakistan (b. 1917)
- Oct 12 C. Delores Tucker, American politician and civil rights activist (b. 1927)
- Oct 13 Vivian Malone Jones, American civil rights activist (b. 1942)
- Oct 14 Jody Dobrowski, English murder victim (b. 1981)
- Oct 15 Matti Wuori, Finnish politician (b. 1945)
- Oct 17 Ba Jin, Chinese writer (b. 1904)
- Oct 17 Franky Gee, European techno artist (b. 1962)
- Oct 19 Corinne Lévesque, wife of Quebec premier René Lévesque (b. 1943)
- Oct 20 Endon Mahmood, First Lady of Malaysia (breast cancer) (b. 1941)
- Oct 20 Eva Svankmajerova, Czech artist (b. 1940)
- Oct 22 Arman, French-born artist (b. 1928)
- Oct 23 Stella Obasanjo, Nigerian first lady (b. 1945)
- Oct 23 John Muth, American economist (b. 1930)
- Oct 24 José Azcona del Hoyo, President of Honduras (b. 1926)
- Oct 24 Robert Sloman, English screenwriter, dies at 79
Rosa Parks
Oct 24 Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger, dies of natural causes at 92
Rosa Parks
- Oct 24 Immanuel C.Y. Hsu, scholar of modern Chinese intellectual and diplomatic history (b. 1923)
- Oct 24 Mokarrameh Ghanbari, Iranian painter (b. 1928)
- Oct 26 Keith Parkinson, American fantasy artist, dies of Leukemia at 47
- Oct 28 Eugene K. Bird, German prison director (b. 1926)
- Oct 28 Raymond Hains, French artist (b. 1926)
- Oct 28 Richard Smalley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1943)
- Oct 30 Shamsher Singh Sheri, Indian communist leader (b. 1942)
- Oct 31 Hal Anger, American biophysicist (b. 1920)
- Nov 4 Nadia Anjuman, Afghan poet and journalist (b. 1980)
- Nov 5 Rod Donald, New Zealand environmentalist (b. 1957)
- Nov 5 John Fowles, English writer (b. 1926)
- Nov 6 Rod Donald, New Zealand Politician, Green Party Co-leader (b. 1957)
- Nov 7 Anthony Sawoniuk, Belarusian-born Nazi war criminal (b. 1921)
- Nov 8 David Westheimer, American novelist (Von Ryan's Express), dies at 88
- Nov 9 K. R. Narayanan, 10th President of India (1997-2002), dies at 85
- Nov 11 Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield, British photographer (b. 1939)
- Nov 11 Peter Drucker, American management theorist (b. 1909)
- Nov 12 William G. Adams, former mayor of St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada (b. 1923)
- Nov 13 Vine Deloria, Jr., Native American author, theologian, historian, and activist (b. 1933)
- Nov 15 Dr. Adrian Rogers, American Southern Baptist Minister and leader (b. 1931)