Edward Heath
Jul 17 Edward Heath, British Prime Minister (Conservative: 1970-74), dies of cancer at 89
Edward Heath
- Jul 17 Joe Vialls, Australian writer (b. 1944)
William Westmoreland
Jul 18 William Westmoreland, US general during the Vietnam War, dies at 91
William Westmoreland
- Jul 18 Bill Hicke, Canadian NHL right wing (3-time NHL All Star), dies of cancer at 67
- Jul 19 John Tyndall, British politician (b. 1934)
- Jul 19 Edward Bunker, American writer (b. 1933)
- Jul 19 Alain Bombard, French Biologist, Physician, and Politician who made a solitary journey across the Atlantic ocean without provisions, dies at 80
- 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 (pioneer in research linking smoking to health problems), dies at 92
- 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 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, dies at 87
- 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, dies at 72
- 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, 32nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (Labour: 1984-89), dies of complications associated with renal failure and diabetes 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 19 Mo Mowlam, British Labour Party politician (Member of Parliament for Redcar), dies at 55
- 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 26 Gerry Fitt, Northern Irish politician (Leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party), dies at 79
- Aug 28 Esther Szekeres, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1910)
- Aug 28 George Szekeres, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1911)
- Aug 30 James H. Scheuer, American politician (Rep-D-NY, 1965-73, 75- 93), dies of heart and kidney failure at 85
- 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 9 Stanley Dancer, American harness racer (4 Hambletonians, 3 Trot Triple Crown), dies at 78
- 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 Ríos, Puerto Rican activist (Founder of FALN), dies at 72
- 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 (The Road Less Traveled), dies at 69
- 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, Flemish neo-Nazi, dies at 74
- 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, Pakistani Urdu linguist and writer, dies at 88
- 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 (1986-90), dies at 78
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 and electrical engineer who invented the gamma camera, dies at 85
- Nov 4 Nadia Anjuman, Afghan poet and journalist (b. 1980)
- Nov 5 Rod Donald, New Zealand environmentalist (b. 1957)