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Gregorian Year 2018
It has been 2000 18 years since the
supposed birth of Christ at the Nativity.
2018 (MMXVIII) is the
current year, and is a common year starting
on Monday of the Gregorian calendar,
the 2018th year of the Common Era (CE)
and Anno Domini (AD)
designations, the 18th year of the 3rd millennium, the 18th year of
the 21st century,
and the 9th year of the 2010s decade. 2018 has been designated as the third
International Year of the Reef by the International
Coral Reef Initiative.[1] Contents · 1Events · 2Predicted and
scheduled events · 3Births · 4Deaths Events January ·
January 20 – Turkey, led by President Recep Tayyip
Erdoğan, announces the beginning of a military
offensive to capture a portion of northern Syria from Kurdish forces,
amidst the ongoing Kurdish–Turkish
conflict.[2][3] ·
January 20–22 – The United
States government enters a federal government shutdown as a result
of a dispute over Deferred
Action for Childhood Arrivals.[4] ·
January 24 – Scientists in China report
in the journal Cell the
creation of the first monkey clones using somatic
cell nuclear transfer, named Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua.[5][6][7][8] ·
January 31 – A total lunar
eclipse takes place. The Moon appears as supermoon, with perigee being on January 30.
It is also the first blue moon eclipse since 1983.
It was also referred to as the super blue blood moon. February ·
February 6 – SpaceX successfully conducts its maiden
flight of its most powerful rocket to date, the Falcon Heavy, from LC39A at John F.
Kennedy Space Center in Florida.[9] ·
February 9–25 – The 2018 Winter Olympics are
held in Pyeongchang, South Korea.[10] ·
February 10 – Kay Goldsworthy becomes the first
female archbishop in
the Anglican Communion on
her installation in the Anglican
Diocese of Perth, Western Australia.[11] ·
February 11 – Saratov
Airlines Flight 703 crashes shortly after take-off from Moscow, killing 71 people on board.[12] ·
Jacob Zuma resigns as President of
South Africa after nine years in power.[13] ·
A school
shooting occurs at Marjory
Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida,
killing 17 people and injuring 17.[14] ·
February 18 – Iran
Aseman Airlines Flight 3704 crashes in the Zagros Mountains, en route from Tehran to Yasuj. All 65 passengers and crew members
perish.[15] March ·
March 4 – Former Russian double
agent Sergei Skripal and
daughter Yulia are poisoned by
the Novichok nerve agent in Salisbury, England.[16] UK counter-terrorism police
investigate amid speculation the Kremlin was behind the incident.[17] ·
March 9–18 – The 2018 Winter
Paralympics are held in Pyeongchang, South Korea. ·
March 9 – President
of the United States Donald Trump accepts an invitation
from North
Korean leader Kim Jong-un for a
meeting in May to discuss the denuclearisation of North
Korea.[18] ·
March 11 – China's government approves
a constitutional change that removes term limits for its leaders,
granting Xi Jinping the
status of "President for Life".
Xi is also the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China(paramount leader).[19] ·
March 12 – Flight
BS211 crashes in Nepal, killing 51 on board.[20] ·
March 14 – In response to gun violence
in the United States, and particularly triggered by the Stoneman
Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, thousands
of high school students across the country participate in an organized
protest they called the National School Walkout.[21] ·
March 18 – In the Russian
presidential election, Vladimir Putin is elected for a fourth
term.[22] ·
March 19 – The world's last male northern white
rhinoceros dies in Kenya, making the subspecies functionally
extinct.[23][24] ·
March 23 – An Islamic
terrorist attack in Carcassonne and Trèbes, France, kills five people, including the
perpetrator.[25] ·
March 24 – In over 900 cities
internationally, people participate in demonstrations against gun violence and mass shootings, calling for stronger gun
control in the "March for Our Lives". ·
March 25 ·
Qantas launches direct non-stop Boeing 787
Dreamliner flights between Perth Airport and Heathrow Airport, making it the first
commercially non-stop service between Australia and the United Kingdom.[26] ·
At
least 64 people die in a fire at a shopping
and entertainment complex in the Russian city of Kemerovo.[27] ·
March 26 – More than 100 Russian
diplomats are expelled by more than 20 countries in the wake of the poisoning
of Sergei and Yulia Skripal.[28] ·
March 28 ·
North
Korean supreme
leader Kim Jong-un meets Chinese
paramount leader Xi Jinping, leaving the country for the first
time since assuming office in 2011.[29] ·
At
least 78 people
die in a fire in the police headquarters of Valencia, Venezuela.[30] April ·
April 4–15 – The 2018 Commonwealth
Games are held in Gold Coast,
Queensland, Australia. ·
April 5 – Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio
Lula da Silva is given an arrest warrant after a vote by the
Supreme Court voted 6–5 in favor of denying his habeas corpus, due to corruption and
other scandals. ·
April 6 – A semi-truck
collides with a bus carrying the Humboldt Broncos ice hockey junior team in Saskatchewan, Canada, killing 16 and injuring 13 people. ·
April 8 – Syrian Civil War: At least 70 people are
reported to have died and hundreds suffering injuries after a sarin chemical
attack in Douma, the last rebel-held town in
Syria's Eastern Ghouta.[31] ·
April 11 – 257 people are killed
after an
Ilyushin Il-76 belonging to the Algerian Air Force crashes near Algiers.[32] ·
April 14 – Syrian Civil War: The United States, the United Kingdom and France order the
bombing of Syrian military bases in response to the sarin
attack allegedly by the Bashar al-Assad regime on civilians in
Ghouta.[33] ·
April 18 ·
In Nicaragua, protests begin
against announced reforms of Social Security which would decrease retirement
pension benefits. An estimated number of 34 protesters are killed by police.[34] ·
Cinemas
open in Saudi Arabia for
the first time since 1983 with the American film Black Panther chosen
as the first to be screened.[35] ·
NASA's Transiting
Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is launched.[36][37] ·
April 19 ·
Miguel Díaz-Canel is
sworn in as President of Cuba, marking the first time since 1959 that Cuba
has had a president other than Fidel or Raúl Castro. ·
Swaziland
changes its English name, officially becoming the Kingdom of Eswatini. ·
April 23 – A vehicle-ramming attack kills
10 people and injures 16 in Toronto. A 25-year-old suspect, Alek
Minassian, is arrested.[38] ·
April 27 – Kim Jong-un crosses into South Korea to meet with
President Moon Jae-in,
becoming the first North Koreanleader
to cross the Demilitarized
Zone since its creation in 1953.[39] ·
April 30 – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accuses Iran of
not holding up its end of the Iran
nuclear deal after presenting a cache of over 100,000 documents detailing
the extent of Iran's nuclear program. Iran denounces Netanyahu's presentation
as "propaganda".[40] May ·
May 3 ·
The
separatist group ETA officially
announces its final dissolution after 40 years of conflict and more than 800
deaths in Spain.[41][42] ·
The 2018 lower Puna
eruption causes destruction of structures and forces many
citizens of Hawaii to evacuate as lava floods the
land. ·
May 5 – NASA's
unmanned spaceprobe InSight is
launched. It is expected to land on Mars in
November and use a drill to conduct geological science.[43] ·
May 8 – U.S. President Donald Trump announces his intention
to withdraw the United States from
the Iranian
nuclear agreement.[44] In a statement, former U.S. President Barack Obama calls the move "a
serious mistake".[45] ·
May 8–12 – The Eurovision
Song Contest 2018 is held in Lisbon, Portugal, and is won by Israeli entrant Netta Barzilai with the song Toy. ·
May 9 – The opposition-led Pakatan Harapan coalition, led by
former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, secures a parliamentary
majority in the Malaysian
Parliament, ending the 61-year rule of the Barisan Nasional coalition since independence in 1957.[46] ·
May 16 – The Yang di-Pertuan
Agong, Sultan Muhammad V,
pardons Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim who is immediately
released.[47] ·
May 18 – Cubana de
Aviación Flight 972 crashes shortly after take-off near José
Martí International Airport in Havana, killing 112 and leaving only one
survivor.[48] ·
May 19 – The wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle is held at St
George's Chapel, England, with an estimated global audience
of 1.9 billion.[49][50] ·
May 24 – Foreign journalists report
that tunnels in the Punggye-ri
nuclear test site have been destroyed by the North Korean
government in a move to reduce regional tensions.[51] ·
May 25 ·
The European Union's General
Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) goes into effect, imposing
strict privacy controls for European citizens worldwide.[52] ·
A
constitutional referendum on whether to repeal the ban on abortion in Ireland takes
place,[53] with a landslide win of 66.4% to 33.6% for the repeal
side.[54] ·
May 31 – The U.S. announces that it
will extend its tariffs on imported steel (25%) and aluminium (10%) to
include the EU, Mexico and Canada, starting at midnight.[55] June ·
June 3 – At least 109 people are killed
and hundreds wounded by the eruption of Volcán de Fuego,
Guatemala's deadliest volcano for over a century.[56] ·
June 8–9 – The 44th G7 summit is held in Canada. President Trump pushes for the
reinstatement of the G8 (to include Russia). He also proposes the elimination
of tariffs.[57] ·
June 12 ·
The 2018
North Korea–United States summit is held in Singapore. It is the first summit between a
United States President and the North Korean leader.[58] ·
Greece and the Republic of
Macedonia reach a deal to end a 27-year naming
dispute between both countries, which would result in
Macedonia being officially renamed the Republic of North Macedonia.[59] ·
June 13 – FIFA awards
hosting rights for the 2026 World Cup to
a joint bid from Canada, Mexico and the United States.[60] ·
June 14 – July 15 – The 2018 FIFA World Cup is
held in Russia[61] and is won by France.[62] ·
June 16 – Seventeen people die in Caracas, Venezuela following the El Paraíso stampede after
a tear gas canister is detonated in a crowded club.[63] ·
June 19 ·
The
United States announces it will withdraw from the United
Nations Human Rights Council.[64] ·
Canada
becomes the first major industrialised country to legalise cannabis for
recreational use. The Bill which legalises cannabis took effect on October 17.[65] ·
June 22 – July 1 – The 2018
Mediterranean Games are held in Tarragona, Spain. ·
June 24 – Saudi Arabia allows women to
drive. July ·
July 5 ·
Lithuania becomes the 36th member of
the OECD.[66] ·
The 2018 North
American heat wave takes place, killing 33 people in
the Canadian
province of Quebec.[67] ·
July 6 ·
Former Aum Shinrikyo leader Shoko Asahara and six other main
members of Aum Shinrikyo, who led the 1995 Tokyo
subway sarin attack, are executed by hanging.[68][69] ·
U.S.
tariffs on US$ 34
billion of Chinese goods come into effect, as President Trump suggests the
final total could reach $550bn. China accuses the U.S. of starting the
"largest trade war in economic history" and announces immediate
retaliatory tariffs.[70][71] ·
July 9 – Eritrea and Ethiopia officially declare an end to
their twenty-year
conflict.[72][73] ·
July 10 – Twelve boys and their football
coach are successfully rescued from the flooded Tham Luang Nang Non cave
in Thailand, following a 17-day ordeal that
gained worldwide attention.[74][75] ·
July 11–12 – The 2018 Brussels NATO
summit is held in Belgium.[76] ·
July 17 – The EU–Japan
Economic Partnership Agreement is signed, the world's largest
bilateral free trade deal, creating an open trade zone covering nearly
one-third of global GDP.[77][78] ·
July 25 – Scientists report the
presence of a subglacial lake on Mars,
1.5 km (0.93 mi) below the southern polar ice cap and extending
sideways about 20 km (12 mi), the first known body of water on the
planet.[79][80] ·
July 26 ·
Heavy wildfires in Greece leave
87 dead and more than a hundred buildings destroyed.[81] ·
The
share price of Facebook drops by
almost 20 percent after the company warns investors that user growth has
slowed following the data leak scandal. Over $109 billion is wiped from its
market value, the largest single day loss in corporate history.[82] ·
July 27 – The longest total lunar
eclipse of the 21st century occurs,[83] and Mars makes its closest
approach to Earth since 2003.[84] August ·
August 1 – The 2018 Kivu Ebola
outbreak begins in the Democratic
Republic of the Congo. It becomes the second-deadliest outbreak of
the Ebola virus on
November 29, surpassed only by the 2013 West
African Ebola virus epidemic.[85] ·
August 2 – Apple Inc. becomes the world's first
public company to achieve a market capitalization of $1 trillion.[86] ·
August 7 – The United States
reimposes sanctions on Iran.[87] ·
August 10–20 – Heavy rainfall causes severe floods in
the Indian state of Kerala. It is the worst flood to hit the
state in a century. ·
The
five littoral states – Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Iran and Turkmenistan – sign the Convention on the legal status of the Caspian Sea,
ending the 20-year long dispute over the Caspian Sea's legal status.[88] ·
NASA launches
the unmanned Parker Solar Probe to
study the Sun at close range and the solar wind.[89][90][91] ·
August 14 – Part of the Morandi Bridge collapses after a
violent storm in Genoa, Italy, causing 43 fatalities. Deputy Prime
Minister Luigi Di Maio and
transport minister Danilo Toninelli blame private company
Autostrade per l'Italia.[92][93] ·
August 18 – September 2 – The 2018 Asian Games are held in Jakarta and Palembang, Indonesia. ·
August 24 – Scott Morrison succeeds Malcolm Turnbull as Prime
Minister of Australia following a Liberal Party leadership ballot.[94] Morrison is sworn in as Prime Minister later that
evening.[95] September ·
September 2 – A fire destroys
the National
Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro.[96][97] ·
September 6 – The Supreme Court of
India decriminalises homosexuality.[98] ·
September 20 – The MV Nyerere capsizes on Lake Victoria, killing at least 228
passengers.[99] ·
September 22 – An attack at
a military parade kills at least 29 people in Ahvaz, Iran.[100] ·
September 28 – A magnitude 7.5
earthquake hits Sulawesi, Indonesia, causing a tsunami that kills at least 2,256
people and injures more than 10,679 others.[101] October ·
October 2 – Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi is murdered inside
the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, triggering a diplomatic crisis for Saudi
Arabia.[102] ·
October 8 – The IPCC releases
its Special
Report on Global Warming of 1.5ºC, warning that "rapid,
far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society" are
needed to ensure that global warming is kept below
1.5 °C.[103] ·
October 10 – Hurricane Michael makes
landfall at Mexico Beach,
Florida, with winds of 155 mph and a minimum pressure of 919
mbar. It is the most intense hurricane to hit the mainland United States
since Camille in
1969.[104] ·
October 16 – Canada legalises the sale
and use of cannabis, becoming the
second country in the world to do so, after Uruguay in 2013.[105] ·
60
people are killed and 200 injured when a train runs
through a crowd at a Hindu festival in Punjab, India.[106] ·
The
unmanned European-Japanese spacecraft BepiColombo is launched on a
seven-year journey to Mercury.[107] ·
700,000
people march through central London demanding a second
referendum on the final Brexit deal.[108] The event is the second most attended protest of the
21st century in the United Kingdom after the "Stop
the War" anti-Iraq War march in 2003.[109] ·
President
Trump announces that the US will "terminate" the Intermediate-Range
Nuclear Forces Treaty over alleged Russian violations.[110] ·
October 23 – The Hong
Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge, the world's longest sea crossing bridge,
is opened by Chinese President Xi Jinping.[111] ·
Michael D. Higgins is
officially declared President of Ireland after receiving 822,566 first
preference votes.[112] ·
11
people are killed during the Pittsburgh
synagogue shooting at the Tree
of Life Synagogue. ·
October 28 – The far-right Jair Bolsonaro is elected as the
next President of Brazil,
with 55% of the vote.[113][114] ·
October 29 – Lion Air Flight 610 crashes
off the coast of Java, with 189 passengers on board.[115] ·
October 30 – NASA's Kepler mission
ends after the spacecraft runs out of fuel.[116] November ·
November 1 – NASA's Dawn mission
concludes after it runs out of hydrazine fuel.[117] ·
November 4 – New Caledonia holds an independence
referendum, with 56.4% voting against independence versus 43.6% in
favour. ·
November 8 – The Camp Fire ignites in Butte County,
California. It becomes California's deadliest and most destructive
wildfire, with 88 deaths and 18,804 buildings destroyed.[118] ·
November 11 – Many nations around the
world, particularly ones in Europe and the Commonwealth, along with the
United States, celebrate the ending of the World War I
centenary with Armistice Day, Veterans Day, and Remembrance Day ceremonies, speeches,
parades, and memorials.[119] ·
November 26 – NASA's InSight probe successfully lands on
the surface of Mars.[120] ·
November 27 – Ukrainian crisis: Ukraine declares martial law after an armed incident in
which Russia seized three Ukrainian ships in
the disputed Kerch Strait two
days earlier.[121] ·
November 28 – Chinese scientist He Jiankui, at a public conference in Hong Kong, announces that he has altered the
DNA of twin human girls born earlier in the month to try to
make them resistant to infection with the HIV virus;
he also reveals the possible second pregnancy of another gene-modified baby.[122] December ·
December 1–8 – France experiences its worst civil unrest since the protests of
1968 due to the yellow vests
movement. Protests in Paris morph into riots, with hundreds
of people injured and thousands arrested; over 100 cars are burned, the Arc de Triomphe is vandalized and
numerous other tourist sites are closed, both in the capital and elsewhere in
the country.[123] ·
December 3 – NASA reports the arrival
of the OSIRIS-REx probe
at Bennu, the
agency's first sample-return mission to an asteroid.[124] ·
December 7 – The U.N.'s International
Telecommunication Union reports that, by the end of 2018,
more than half – a full 51.2 percent – of the world's population are now
using the Internet.[125] Predicted and scheduled events ·
The U.S.
missile defense complex in Poland is expected to be
operational.[126] Births ·
March 9 – Princess
Adrienne, Duchess of Blekinge ·
April 23 – Prince Louis of
Cambridge Deaths
Main article: Deaths in 2018 Further
information: Category:2018 deaths January ·
January 1 – Manuel Olivencia, Spanish lawyer, economist,
and diplomat (b. 1929) ·
Thomas S. Monson, American religious leader
and writer (b. 1927) ·
Radha Viswanathan,
Indian vocalist and classical dancer (b. 1934) ·
January 3 – Colin Brumby, Australian composer (b. 1933) ·
Aharon Appelfeld, Ukrainian-Israeli writer
(b. 1932) ·
Ray Thomas, English musician (b. 1941) ·
Antonio
Angelillo, Italian-Argentine footballer (b. 1937) ·
Jerry Van Dyke, American actor (b. 1931) ·
John Young,
American astronaut (b. 1930) ·
Horace Ashenfelter,
American Olympic athlete (b. 1923) ·
Thomas Bopp, American astronomer (b. 1949) ·
Elza Brandeisz, Hungarian dancer and teacher
(b. 1907) ·
Marjorie Holt, American politician (b. 1920) ·
France Gall, French singer (b. 1947) ·
Anna Mae Hays, American military officer and
nurse (b. 1920) ·
Peter Sutherland, Irish businessman and
politician (b. 1946) ·
Salvador Borrego, Mexican journalist and
revisionist writer (b. 1915) ·
Juan
Carlos García, Honduran footballer (b. 1988) ·
George Maxwell
Richards, Trinidadian politician, 4th President
of Trinidad and Tobago (b. 1931) ·
Odvar Nordli, 21st Prime Minister
of Norway (b. 1927) ·
Mario Perniola, Italian philosopher
(b. 1941) ·
January 10 – Eddie Clarke,
British musician (b. 1950) ·
January 11 – Edgar Ray Killen, American criminal
(b. 1925) ·
January 13 – Jean Porter, American actress (b. 1922) ·
Dan Gurney, American racing driver (b. 1931) ·
Cyrille Regis, English footballer (b. 1958) ·
Hugh Wilson,
American film director and television producer (b. 1943) ·
Edwin Hawkins, American musician (b. 1943) ·
Dolores O'Riordan,
Irish musician (b. 1971) ·
Peter Wyngarde, British actor (b. 1928) ·
Bradford Dillman, American actor (b. 1930) ·
Oliver Ivanović,
Serbian politician (b. 1953) ·
Jo Jo White, American basketball player (b. 1946) ·
Liu Zhonghua, Chinese navy admiral (b. 1917) ·
January 17 – Simon Shelton, English actor (b. 1966) ·
Lucas Mangope, South African politician
(b. 1923) ·
Clara Marangoni, Italian gymnast and Olympic
silver medalist (b. 1915) ·
Peter Mayle, English author (b. 1939) ·
Stansfield Turner,
American admiral and academic (b. 1923) ·
Anna Campori, Italian actress (b. 1917) ·
Dorothy Malone, American actress (b. 1924) ·
Paul Bocuse, French chef (b. 1926) ·
Graeme Langlands, Australian rugby player
(b. 1941) ·
Naomi Parker Fraley,
American naval machiner (b. 1921) ·
Jim Rodford, English bass guitarist
(b. 1941) ·
Yves Afonso, French actor (b. 1944) ·
Philippe Gondet, French footballer (b. 1942) ·
Tsukasa Hosaka, Japanese footballer
(b. 1937) ·
Jens Okking, Danish actor and politician
(b. 1939) ·
Connie Sawyer, American actress (b. 1912) ·
Jimmy Armfield, English footballer and
manager (b. 1935) ·
Ursula K. Le Guin,
American novelist (b. 1929) ·
Hugh Masekela, South African jazz musician
(b. 1939) ·
Nicanor Parra, Chilean poet (b. 1914) ·
Jack Ketchum, American author (b. 1946) ·
Mark E. Smith, English singer-songwriter
(b. 1957) ·
Claribel Alegría,
Nicaraguan poet (b. 1924) ·
Neagu Djuvara, Romanian historian, essayist,
and philosopher (b. 1916) ·
Elizabeth Hawley, American journalist
(b. 1923) ·
Hiromu Nonaka, Japanese politician (b. 1925) ·
Michael Wright,
Hong Kong architect (b. 1912) ·
Ingvar Kamprad, Swedish businessman
(b. 1926) ·
Mort Walker, American comic artist (b. 1923) ·
January 28 – Gene Sharp, American political scientist
(b. 1928) ·
January 29 – Ion Ciubuc, 7th Prime Minister
of Moldova (b. 1943) ·
Mark Salling, American actor (b. 1982) ·
Clyde Scott, American football player
(b. 1924) ·
Azeglio Vicini, Italian footballer and coach
(b. 1933) ·
Louis Zorich, American actor (b. 1924) ·
Rasual Butler, American basketball player
(b. 1979) ·
Leonid Kadeniuk, Ukrainian cosmonaut
(b. 1951) February ·
Cliff Bourland, American athlete (b. 1921) ·
Dennis Edwards, American singer (b. 1943) ·
Barys Kit, Belarusian-American rocket
scientist (b. 1910) ·
Jon Huntsman Sr., American businessman and
philanthropist (b. 1937) ·
Joseph Polchinski,
American theoretical physicist (b. 1954) ·
Ole Thestrup, Danish actor (b. 1948) ·
Michael Harner, American anthropologist and
author (b. 1929) ·
Károly Palotai,
Hungarian footballer and referee (b. 1935) ·
Alan Baker,
English mathematician (b. 1939) ·
John Mahoney, British-American actor
(b. 1940) ·
February 5 – Donald Lynden-Bell,
English astrophysicist (b. 1935) ·
Fedora Alemán, Venezuelan singer (b. 1912) ·
John Perry Barlow,
American internet activist, writer and lyricist (b. 1947) ·
February 7 – Pat Torpey, American drummer (b. 1953) ·
February 8 – Jarrod Bannister, Australian athlete
(b. 1984) ·
Reg E. Cathey, American actor (b. 1958) ·
John Gavin, American actor and diplomat
(b. 1931) ·
István Hevesi, Hungarian Olympic water polo
player (b. 1931) ·
Jóhann Jóhannsson,
Icelandic film composer (b. 1969) ·
Liam Miller, Irish footballer (b. 1981) ·
February 10 – Alan R. Battersby,
English organic chemist (b. 1925) ·
Vic Damone, American singer and actor
(b. 1928) ·
Asma Jahangir, Pakistani human rights
activist and lawyer (b. 1952) ·
February 12 – Leo Falcam, 5th President of the Federated
States of Micronesia (b. 1935) ·
Joseph Bonnel, French footballer (b. 1939) ·
Dobri Dobrev, Bulgarian ascetic and
philanthropist (b. 1914) ·
Prince Henrik,
consort of Margrethe II of
Denmark (b. 1934) ·
Nini Theilade, Danish ballet dancer,
choreographer and teacher (b. 1915) ·
Ruud Lubbers, Dutch politician and diplomat,
Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1939) ·
Morgan Tsvangirai,
2nd Prime Minister of Zimbabwe (b. 1952) ·
February 15 – Lassie Lou Ahern, American actress (b. 1920) ·
February 16 – Deryck Stapleton, British Royal Air Force
officer (b. 1918) ·
February 17 – Dorothy Rungeling,
Canadian aviator (b. 1911) ·
Günter Blobel, Silesian-American Nobel
biologist (b. 1936) ·
Didier Lockwood, French jazz violinist
(b. 1956) ·
Idrissa Ouédraogo,
Burkinabé film director (b. 1954) ·
Max Desfor, American photographer (b. 1913) ·
Sergey
Litvinov, Russian Olympic hammer thrower (b. 1958) ·
Yury Tyukalov, Russian Olympic rower
(b. 1930) ·
Emma Chambers, English actress (b. 1964) ·
Billy Graham, American evangelist (b. 1918) ·
Ren Osugi, Japanese actor (b. 1951) ·
Nanette Fabray, American actress (b. 1920) ·
Richard E. Taylor,
Canadian Nobel physicist (b. 1929) ·
Lewis Gilbert, British film director,
producer, and screenwriter (b. 1920) ·
Durward Knowles, Bahamian Olympic sailor
(b. 1917) ·
Jesus Varela, Filipino prelate (b. 1927) ·
Bud Luckey, American actor and animator
(b. 1934) ·
Sridevi, Indian actress (b. 1963) ·
February 26 – Benjamin Melniker,
American film producer (b. 1913) ·
Quini, Spanish football player (b. 1949) ·
Jacqueline
Vaudecrane, French figure skater (b. 1913) March ·
March 1 ·
Anatoly Lein, Soviet-American chess
grandmaster (b. 1931) ·
María Rubio, Mexican actress (b. 1934) ·
Luigi Taveri, Swiss motorcycle racer
(b. 1929) ·
March 2 ·
Jesús López Cobos,
Spanish conductor (b. 1940) ·
Gillo Dorfles, Italian art critic, painter,
and philosopher (b. 1910) ·
Billy Herrington, American gay pornographic
actor (b. 1969) ·
Carlo Ripa di Meana,
Italian politician (b. 1929) ·
March 3 ·
Roger Bannister, English middle-distance
athlete (b. 1929) ·
David Ogden Stiers,
American actor (b. 1942) ·
March 4 – Davide Astori, Italian footballer (b. 1987) ·
March 5 ·
Trevor Baylis, English inventor (b. 1937) ·
Hayden White, American historian (b. 1928) ·
March 6 – John Sulston, British Nobel biologist and
academic (b. 1942) ·
March 7 – Reynaldo Bignone, President of
Argentina (b. 1928) ·
March 8 ·
Milko Kelemen, Croatian composer (b. 1924) ·
Kate Wilhelm, American author (b. 1928) ·
March 9 ·
Oskar Gröning, German war criminal (b. 1921) ·
Jung Jae-sung, South Korean badminton player
(b. 1982) ·
March 10 ·
Hubert de Givenchy,
French fashion designer (b. 1927) ·
Ralf Waldmann, German motorcycle racer
(b. 1966) ·
March 11 ·
Ken Dodd, English comedian,
singer-songwriter, and actor (b. 1927) ·
Karl Lehmann, German cardinal (b. 1936) ·
March 12 ·
Ken Flach, American tennis player (b. 1963) ·
Oleg Tabakov, Soviet and Russian actor
(b. 1935) ·
Craig Mack, American rapper (b. 1970) ·
March 14 ·
Alfred W. Crosby, American ecological
historian (b. 1931) ·
MGaramondle Franco, Brazilian activist and
politician (b. 1979) ·
Rubén Galván,
Argentine footballer (b. 1952) ·
Stephen Hawking, English theoretical
physicist and cosmologist (b. 1942) ·
Adrian Lamo, Colombian-American computer
hacker (b. 1981) ·
Liam O'Flynn, Irish uilleann piper (b. 1945) ·
March 16 – Louise Slaughter, American politician
(b. 1929) ·
March 17 – Phan Văn
Khải, 5th Prime Minister
of Vietnam (b. 1933) ·
March 18 ·
Barkat Gourad
Hamadou, 4th Prime Minister
of Djibouti (b. 1930) ·
Li Ao, Chinese-Taiwanese writer and
politician (b. 1935) ·
Ivor Richard,
Baron Richard, English politician (b. 1932) ·
March 19 ·
Irina Beglyakova, Russian athlete (b. 1933) ·
Keith O'Brien, Scottish cardinal (b. 1938) ·
Kedarnath Singh, Indian poet (b. 1934) ·
March 20 ·
Katie Boyle, Italian-English actress
(b. 1926) ·
Peter George
Peterson, American banker (b. 1926) ·
William Smith,
American Olympic wrestler (b. 1928) ·
March 22 ·
René Houseman, Argentine footballer
(b. 1953) ·
Johan van Hulst, Dutch politician, author
and academic (b. 1911) ·
March 23 ·
Philip Kerr, English author (b. 1956) ·
Zell Miller, American politician (b. 1932) ·
March 24 ·
José Antonio Abreu,
Venezuelan conductor and politician (b. 1939) ·
Lys Assia, Swiss singer (b. 1924) ·
Rim Banna, Palestinian singer and activist
(b. 1966) ·
Bill Lucas British
RAF officer and Olympic long-distance runner (b. 1917) ·
March 26 – Sergei Mavrodi, Russian criminal and
politician (b. 1955) ·
March 27 – Stéphane Audran,
French actress (b. 1932) ·
March 28 - Lívia Rév, Hungarian pianst (b. 1916) ·
March 30 ·
Aureliano Bolognesi,
Italian Olympic boxer (b. 1930) ·
Saul Cherniack, Canadian politician and
lawyer (b. 1917) ·
Drue Heinz, American literary publisher
(b. 1915) ·
Sabahudin Kurt, Bosnian singer (b. 1935) ·
André Bo-Boliko
Lokonga, 9th Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1934) ·
Bill Maynard, English comedian and actor
(b. 1928) April ·
April 1 ·
Steven Bochco, American television producer
(b. 1943) ·
Efraín Ríos Montt,
26th President of
Guatemala (b. 1926) ·
April 2 ·
Morris Halle, Latvian-American linguist
(b. 1923) ·
Winnie
Madikizela-Mandela, South African activist and politician
(b. 1936) ·
April 3 ·
Lill-Babs, Swedish singer (b. 1938) ·
Irma Rapuzzi, French politician (b. 1910) ·
April 4 ·
Ignatius
Peter VIII Abdalahad, Syrian hierarch (b. 1930) ·
Gertrude Jeannette,
American actress (b. 1914) ·
Soon-Tek Oh, Korean-American actor (b. 1932) ·
Ray Wilkins, English footballer and manager
(b. 1956) ·
April 5 ·
Eric Bristow, English darts player (b. 1957) ·
Cynthia Chalk, Canadian photographer
(b. 1913) ·
Branislav Pokrajac,
Serbian Olympic handball player (b. 1947) ·
Isao Takahata, Japanese film director,
animator, screenwriter, and producer (b. 1935) ·
Cecil Taylor, American pianist and poet
(b. 1929) ·
April 6 ·
Daniel Akaka, American educator and
politician (b. 1924) ·
Aleksandr Kurlovich,
Soviet-Belarusian Olympic weightlifter (b. 1961) ·
April 7 – Peter Grünberg,
German Nobel physicist (b. 1939) ·
April 9 – Edelgard
Huber von Gersdorff, German supercentenarian (b. 1905) ·
April 8 ·
Leila Abashidze, Georgian actress, director,
and writer (b. 1929) ·
André Lerond, French footballer (b. 1930) ·
Chuck McCann, American actor (b. 1934) ·
John Miles,
English racing driver (b. 1943) ·
April 12 – Sergio Pitol, Mexican novelist and
translator (b. 1933) ·
April 13 – Miloš Forman, Czech and American film
director (b. 1932) ·
April 14 ·
Hal Greer, American basketball player
(b. 1936) ·
Jean-Claude Malgoire,
French conductor (b. 1940) ·
April 15 ·
R. Lee Ermey, American actor (b. 1944) ·
Michael Halliday, English-Australian
linguist (b. 1925) ·
April 16 ·
Harry Anderson, American actor and magician
(b. 1952) ·
Choi Eun-hee, South Korean actress (b. 1926) ·
Dona Ivone Lara, Brazilian singer and
composer (b. 1921) ·
April 17 ·
Barbara Bush, First
Lady of the United States (b. 1925) ·
Karl Rawer, German physicist (b. 1913) ·
Judith Révész,
Hungarian-Dutch potter and sculptor (b. 1915) ·
April 18 – Bruno Sammartino, Italian professional
wrestler (b. 1935) ·
April 19 ·
Vladimir Lyakhov, Soviet and Russian
cosmonaut (b. 1941) ·
Agnès-Marie Valois,
French nun and World War II nurse (b. 1914) ·
April 20 ·
Avicii, Swedish DJ (b. 1989) ·
Roy Bentley, English footballer (b. 1924) ·
James F. Sirmons, American broadcasting
executive (b. 1917 ·
April 21 ·
Nabi Tajima, Japanese supercentenarian
(b. 1900) ·
Verne Troyer, American actor (b. 1969) ·
April 24 – Henri Michel, French footballer and coach
(b. 1947) ·
April 25 ·
Abbas,
Iranian photographer (b. 1944) ·
Shuhrat Abbosov, Uzbek actor, director and
screenwriter (b. 1931) ·
Michael
Anderson, English film director (b. 1920) ·
April 26 ·
Yoshinobu Ishii, Japanese footballer
(b. 1939) ·
Gianfranco Parolini,
Italian film director (b. 1925) ·
April 27 – Álvaro Arzú, 32nd President of
Guatemala (b. 1946) ·
April 29 ·
Michael
Martin, Baron Martin of Springburn, Scottish politician (b. 1945) ·
Luis García Meza,
68th President of Bolivia (b. 1929) ·
Lester James Peries,
Sri Lankan film director (b. 1919) May ·
May 1 – Wanda
Wiłkomirska, Polish violinist and teacher (b. 1929) ·
May 3 ·
H. Basil S. Cooke,
South African-Canadian geologist and paleontologist (b. 1915) ·
Afonso Dhlakama, Mozambican politician
(b. 1953) ·
May 4 ·
Renate Dorrestein,
Dutch writer and journalist (b. 1954) ·
Patricia
Lascelles, Countess of Harewood, Australian-British violinist and
fashion model (b. 1926) ·
May 5 – Ermanno Olmi, Italian film director and
screenwriter (b. 1931) ·
May 7 ·
Maurane, Belgian singer and actress
(b. 1960) ·
Roman Toi, Estonian-Canadian composer, choir
conductor and organist (b. 1916) ·
May 8 ·
Anne V. Coates, British film editor
(b. 1925) ·
George Deukmejian,
American politician (b. 1928) ·
May 9 – Per Kirkeby, Danish artist (b. 1938) ·
May 10 ·
David Goodall,
English-Australian scientist (b. 1914) ·
Scott Hutchison, Scottish musician (b. 1981) ·
May 11 – Gérard Genette,
French literary theorist (b. 1930) ·
May 12 ·
Tessa Jowell, British politician (b. 1947) ·
Antonio Mercero, Spanish film and television
director (b. 1936) ·
Dennis Nilsen, Scottish serial killer
(b. 1945) ·
May 13 ·
Glenn Branca, American composer and musician
(b. 1948) ·
Margot Kidder, Canadian-American actress and
activist (b. 1948) ·
May 14 ·
Elaine Edwards, American politician
(b. 1929) ·
E. C. George
Sudarshan, Indian theoretical physicist (b. 1931) ·
Tom Wolfe, American author and journalist
(b. 1930) ·
May 15 ·
Jlloyd Samuel, Trinidadian footballer (b. 1981) ·
Ray
Wilson, English footballer (b. 1934) ·
May 16 ·
Joseph Campanella,
American actor (b. 1924) ·
Lucian Pintilie, Romanian film director
(b. 1933) ·
May 17 ·
Nicole Fontaine, French politician (b. 1942) ·
Richard Pipes, Polish-American academic and
historian (b. 1923) ·
May 18 ·
John
Carrick, Australian politician (b. 1918) ·
Darío Castrillón
Hoyos, Colombian cardinal (b. 1929) ·
May 19 ·
Robert Indiana, American artist (b. 1928) ·
Bernard Lewis, British-American historian
(b. 1916) ·
May 20 – Patricia Morison, American actress (b. 1915) ·
May 21 ·
Anna Maria Ferrero,
Italian actress (b. 1934) ·
Dovey Johnson
Roundtree, American civil rights activist and lawyer (b. 1914) [importance?] ·
Clint Walker, American actor (b. 1927) ·
May 22 – Philip Roth, American writer (b. 1933) ·
May 23 – Luis Posada Carriles,
Cuban terrorist (b. 1928) ·
May 24 ·
Gudrun Burwitz, German Neo-Nazi militant
(b. 1929) ·
Jerry Maren, American actor (b. 1920) ·
TotalBiscuit, British gaming commentator and
critic (b. 1984) ·
May 25 – Naser Malek Motiei,
Iranian actor (b. 1930) ·
May 26 ·
Alan Bean, American astronaut (b. 1932) ·
Ted Dabney, American engineer (b. 1937) ·
Roger Piantoni, French footballer (b. 1931) ·
May 27 ·
Gardner Dozois, American science fiction
writer (b. 1947) ·
Aly Lotfy Mahmoud,
44th Prime Minister of
Egypt (b. 1935) ·
Donald H. Peterson,
American astronaut (b. 1933) ·
May 28 ·
Paulette Coquatrix,
French costume designer (b. 1916) ·
Serge Dassault, French businessman and
politician (b. 1925) ·
Cornelia Frances, English-Australian actress
(b. 1941) ·
María Dolores
Pradera, Spanish singer and actress (b. 1924) ·
Dick Quax, Dutch-New Zealand Olympic athlete
(b. 1948) ·
Jens Christian Skou,
Danish medical doctor and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918) ·
Ola Ullsten, 28th Prime Minister
of Sweden (b. 1931) June ·
June 1 ·
John Julius Norwich,
English historian and writer (b. 1929) ·
Sinan Sakić, Serbian singer (b. 1956) ·
June 2 ·
Paul D. Boyer, American biochemist and Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1918) ·
Irenäus
Eibl-Eibesfeldt, Austrian ethologist (b. 1928) ·
Emil Wolf, Czech-American physicist
(b. 1922) ·
June 3 ·
Frank Carlucci, American politician
(b. 1930) ·
Miguel Obando y
Bravo, Nicaraguan cardinal (b. 1926) ·
Kyra Petrovskaya
Wayne, Russian-born American author (b. 1918) ·
June 4 – Georg von
Tiesenhausen, German-American rocket scientist (b. 1914) ·
June 5 ·
Kate Spade, American fashion designer
(b. 1962) ·
Harry Walker,
English rugby union player (b. 1915) ·
June 6 ·
George N. Leighton,
American judge (b. 1912) ·
Mateja Matevski, Macedonian poet and writer
(b. 1929) ·
Kira Muratova, Ukrainian director,
screenwriter and actress (b. 1934) ·
Mary
Wilson, Baroness Wilson of Rievaulx, Spouse of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1916) ·
June 7 ·
David Douglas Duncan,
American photojournalist (b. 1916) ·
Arie den Hartog, Dutch road bicycle racer
(b. 1941) ·
June 8 ·
Per Ahlmark, Swedish politician and writer
(b. 1939) ·
Maria Bueno, Brazilian tennis player
(b. 1939) ·
Anthony Bourdain, American chef, writer and
television personality (b. 1956) ·
Eunice Gayson, English actress (b. 1928) ·
Danny Kirwan, British musician (b. 1950) ·
Liu Yichang, Hong Kong writer and novelist
(b. 1918) ·
June 9 ·
Reinhard Hardegen,
German U-boat commander (b. 1913) ·
Fadil Vokrri, Kosovo Albanian footballer
(b. 1960) ·
June 10 ·
Stan Anderson, English footballer and
manager (b. 1933) ·
Tom McEwen,
American drag racer (b. 1937) ·
June 11 ·
Oscar Furlong, Argentine basketball player
(b. 1927) ·
Roman Kłosowski,
Polish actor (b. 1929) ·
June 12 – Jon Hiseman, English drummer (b. 1944) ·
June 13 ·
Anne Donovan, American basketball player
(b. 1961) ·
D. J. Fontana, American musician (b. 1931) ·
Charles Vinci, American Olympic weightlifter
(b. 1933) ·
June 14 ·
Fazlullah,
Pakistani terrorist, leader of Tehrik-i-Taliban
Pakistan (b. 1974) ·
Stanislav Govorukhin,
Russian film director, screenwriter and politician (b. 1936) ·
June 15 – Leslie Grantham, British actor (b. 1947) ·
June 16 – Gennady
Rozhdestvensky, Russian conductor (b. 1931) ·
June 18 ·
Walter Bahr, American soccer player
(b. 1927) ·
Big Van Vader, American professional
wrestler and football player (b. 1955) ·
XXXTentacion, American singer and rapper
(b. 1998) ·
June 19 ·
Stanley Cavell, American philosopher
(b. 1926) ·
Ivan Drach, Ukrainian poet and political
activist (b. 1936) ·
Princess
Elisabeth of Denmark, Danish diplomat and cousin of Margarethe II of
Denmark (b. 1935) ·
Sergio Gonella, Italian businessman and
football referee (b. 1933) ·
Koko, American-bred Western lowland gorilla
(b. 1971) ·
June 20 ·
Dante Caputo, Argentine diplomat (b. 1943) ·
Peter Thomson,
Australian golfer (b. 1929) ·
June 21 – Charles Krauthammer,
American political commentator (b. 1950) ·
June 22 ·
Geoffrey Oryema, Ugandan musician (b. 1953) ·
Vinnie Paul, American drummer (b. 1964) ·
June 23 ·
Alberto Fouilloux,
Chilean footballer (b. 1940) ·
Kim Jong-pil, 9th Prime
Minister of South Korea (b. 1926) ·
June 25 – Richard
Benjamin Harrison, American businessman and television personality
(b. 1941) ·
June 26 ·
Henri Namphy, 35th President of Haiti (b. 1932) ·
Ed Simons,
American musician (b. 1917) ·
June 27 ·
Joe Jackson,
American talent manager (b. 1928) ·
June 28 ·
Harlan Ellison, American writer (b. 1934) ·
Christine Nöstlinger,
Austrian writer (b. 1936) ·
June 29 ·
Arvid Carlsson, Swedish neuropharmacologist
and Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1923) ·
Steve Ditko, American comic-book writer and
artist (b. 1927) ·
Irena Szewińska,
Polish Olympic sprinter (b. 1946) July ·
July 1 – Dame Gillian Lynne, British dancer and
choreographer (b. 1926) ·
July 3 – Thérèse Kleindienst,
French librarian (b. 1916) ·
July 4 ·
Georges-Emmanuel
Clancier, French poet and novelist (b. 1914) ·
Henri Dirickx, Belgian footballer (b. 1927) ·
Robby Müller, Dutch cinematographer
(b. 1940) ·
July 5 ·
Claude Lanzmann, French filmmaker (b. 1925) ·
Ed Schultz, American political commentator
and television host (b. 1954) ·
Jean-Louis Tauran,
French cardinal (b. 1943) ·
July 6 ·
Shoko Asahara, Japanese cult leader and terrorist
(b. 1955) ·
Vlatko Ilievski, Macedonian singer and actor
(b. 1985) ·
July 7 – Tyler Honeycutt, American basketball player
(b. 1990) ·
July 8 ·
Tab Hunter, American actor and singer
(b. 1931) ·
Frank Ramsey,
American basketball player (b. 1931) ·
July 9 ·
Peter
Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, former Secretary
General of NATO (b. 1919) ·
Hans Günter Winkler,
German show jumping rider (b. 1926) ·
July 10 ·
Henry Morgenthau III,
American author and television producer (b. 1917) ·
Mien Schopman-Klaver,
Dutch Olympic athlete (b. 1911) ·
July 11 – Lindy Remigino, American Olympic athlete
(b. 1931) ·
July 13 ·
Claude Seignolle, French author (b. 1917) ·
Thorvald Stoltenberg,
Norwegian politician (b. 1931) ·
July 14 – Theo-Ben Gurirab, 2nd Prime Minister
of Namibia (b. 1938) ·
July 15 ·
Ray Emery, Canadian ice hockey player
(b. 1982) ·
Dragutin Šurbek,
Croatian table tennis player (b. 1946) ·
July 16 – Gabriel Caruana, Maltese artist (b. 1929) ·
July 17 – Yvonne Blake, British-born Spanish costume
designer (b. 1940) ·
July 18 ·
Anne Olivier Bell,
English literary editor and art scholar (b. 1916) ·
John Banks Elliott,
Ghanaian diplomat and statesman (b. 1917) ·
Carlos Aldunate Lyon,
Chilean Jesuit priest, teacher and writer (b. 1916) ·
Burton Richter, American Nobel physicist
(b. 1931) ·
July 19 ·
Shinobu Hashimoto,
Japanese screenwriter (b. 1918) ·
Denis Ten, Kazakh figure skater (b. 1993) ·
July 20 – Meg Randall, American actress (b. 1926) ·
July 22 ·
Frank Havens,
French sprint canoeist (b. 1924) ·
July 23 ·
Paul Madeley, English footballer (b. 1944) ·
Oksana Shachko, Ukrainian feminist (b. 1987) ·
July 24 ·
Mary Ellis,
British ferry pilot (b. 1917) ·
Jack P. Lewis, American Biblical scholar
(b. 1919) ·
July 25 ·
Sergio Marchionne,
Italian-Canadian automotive executive (b. 1952) ·
Ellie Soutter, British snowboarder (b. 2000) ·
July 26 ·
Simegnew Bekele, Ethiopian engineer and
public administrator (b. 1964) ·
Adem Demaçi, Kosovo-Albanian political
activist (b. 1936) ·
Robert Martin,
American fighter pilot (b. 1919) ·
July 27 – Vladimir Voinovich,
Russian writer (b. 1932) ·
July 29 ·
Brian Christopher,
American professional wrestler (b. 1972) ·
Oliver
Dragojević, Croatian singer (b. 1947) ·
Vibeke Skofterud, Norwegian cross-country
skier (b. 1980) ·
Nikolai Volkoff, Croatian professional
wrestler (b. 1947) August ·
August 1 ·
Mary Carlisle, American actress (b. 1914) ·
Rick Genest, Canadian fashion model and
artist (b. 1985) ·
Fakir Musafar, American performance artist
(b. 1930) ·
August 2 – Bob Berry,
New Zealand dendrologist (b. 1916. ·
August 3 – Moshé Mizrahi, Israeli film director
(b. 1931) ·
August 5 ·
Charlotte Rae, American actress (b. 1926) ·
Piotr Szulkin, Polish film director and
writer (b. 1950) ·
August 6 ·
Patricia Benoit, American actress (b. 1927) ·
Paul Laxalt, American politician (b. 1922) ·
Joël Robuchon, French chef and restaurateur
(b. 1945) ·
August 7 ·
M. Karunanidhi, Indian politician (b. 1924) ·
Stan Mikita, Slovak-born Canadian ice hockey
player (b. 1940) ·
August 8 ·
Nicholas Bett, Kenyan track and field
athlete (b. 1990) ·
Pál Fábry, Hungarian-American politician
(b. 1919) ·
László Fábián,
Hungarian sprint canoeist (b. 1936) ·
Terry A. Davis, American computer programmer
(b. 1969) ·
V. S. Naipaul, Trinidadian-British Nobel
writer (b. 1932) ·
August 12 – Samir Amin, Egyptian-French Marxian
economist (b. 1931) ·
Somnath Chatterjee,
Indian politician (b. 1929) ·
Jim Neidhart, American professional wrestler
(b. 1955) ·
Unshō Ishizuka,
Japanese voice actor (b. 1951) ·
August 14 – Eduard Uspensky, Russian author and
screenwriter (b. 1937) ·
August 15 – Rita Borsellino, Italian anti-Mafia activist and politician (b. 1945) ·
Kim Yong-chun, North Korean military officer
and politician (b. 1936) ·
Aretha Franklin, American singer and songwriter
(b. 1942) ·
Yelena Shushunova,
Russian gymnast (b. 1969) ·
Atal Bihari Vajpayee,
10th Prime Minister of
India (b. 1924) ·
August 17 – Ezzatolah Entezami,
Iranian actor (b. 1924) ·
August 18 – Kofi Annan, Ghanaian diplomat, 7th United
Nations Secretary-General and Nobel laureate (b. 1938) ·
Uri Avnery, Israeli peace activist and
politician (b. 1923) ·
Jimmy McIlroy, Northern Irish footballer
(b. 1931) ·
Barbara Harris,
American actress (b. 1935) ·
Hanna Mina, Syrian novelist (b. 1924) ·
Stefán Karl
Stefánsson, Icelandic actor and singer (b. 1975) ·
August 23 – Kuldip Nayar, Indian journalist and
politician (b. 1923) ·
Robin Leach, English television personality
(b. 1941) ·
Ciril Zlobec, Slovene poet, writer and
politician (b. 1925) ·
August 25 – John McCain, American politician (b. 1936) ·
Neil Simon, American playwright (b. 1927) ·
Rosa Bouglione, French circus performer
(b. 1910) ·
August 27 – Murray Westgate, Canadian actor (b. 1918) ·
August 28 – Olive Evelyn Boar,
British supercentenarian (b. 1904) ·
August 29 – James Mirrlees, Scottish Nobel economist
(b. 1936) ·
Joseph Kobzon, Soviet and Russian singer
(b. 1937) ·
Ray, Hong Kong professional wrestler
(b. 1982) ·
Luigi Luca
Cavalli-Sforza, Italian population geneticist (b. 1922) ·
Carole Shelley, English actress (b. 1939) ·
Alexander
Zakharchenko, Ukrainian separatist rebel (b. 1976) September ·
September 1 – Randy Weston, American musician (b. 1926) ·
September 2 – Conway Savage, Australian pianist (b. 1960) ·
Lydia Clarke, American actress and
photographer (b. 1923) ·
Jalaluddin Haqqani,
Afghan Haqqani insurgent (b. 1939) ·
Jacqueline Pearce,
British actress (b. 1943) ·
Bill Daily, American actor (b. 1927) ·
Christopher Lawford,
American actor (b. 1955) ·
Richard DeVos, American businessman
(b. 1926) ·
Burt Reynolds, American actor (b. 1936) ·
Claudio Scimone, Italian conductor (b. 1934) ·
September 7 – Mac Miller, American rapper (b. 1992) ·
Gennadi Gagulia, Prime Minister
of Abkhazia (b. 1948) ·
Chelsi Smith, American singer and beauty
pageant winner (b. 1973) ·
September 9 – Frank Andersson, Swedish wrestler (b. 1956) ·
September 10 – Albin F. Irzyk, American Brigadier General
(b. 1917) ·
Fenella Fielding, English actress (b. 1927) ·
Tchan Fou-li, Hong Kong photograher
(b. 1916) ·
Kulsoom Nawaz, First
Lady of Pakistan (b. 1950) ·
September 12 – Rachid Taha, Algerian singer and activist
(b. 1958) ·
September 14 – Anneke Grönloh,
Dutch singer (b. 1942) ·
September 15 – Warwick Estevam Kerr,
Brazilian agricultural engineer, geneticist, entomologist, professor and
scientific leader (b. 1922) ·
September 16 – Kevin Beattie, English footballer (b. 1953) ·
Norifumi Yamamoto,
Japanese mixed martial artist and kickboxer (b. 1977) ·
Arthur Mitchell,
American dancer and choreographer (b. 1934) ·
Győző
Kulcsár, Hungarian Olympic fencer (b. 1940) ·
Denis Norden, English comedy writer and
television presenter. (b. 1922) ·
John Cunliffe,
English author (b. 1933) ·
Mohammed Karim
Lamrani, 7th Prime
Minister of Morocco (b. 1919) ·
Vitaliy Masol, 3rd Prime Minister
of Ukraine (b. 1928) ·
Trần
Đại Quang, 8th President
of Vietnam (b. 1956) ·
Charles K. Kao, Hong-Kong-born
British-American Nobel electrical engineer (b. 1933) ·
Gary Kurtz, American film producer (b. 1940) ·
September 27 – Marty Balin, American singer and musician
(b. 1942) ·
Barnabas
Sibusiso Dlamini, 8th Prime
Minister of Swaziland (b.1942) ·
Bob Jane, Australian race car driver and
businessman (b. 1929) ·
September 29 – Otis Rush, American blues guitarist and
singer (b. 1934) ·
September 30 – Geoffrey Hayes, English television presenter
and actor (b. 1942) October ·
Charles Aznavour, French-Armenian singer
(b. 1924) ·
Đỗ
Mười, 3rd Prime
Minister of Vietnam (b. 1917) ·
Geoff Emerick, English recording engineer
(b. 1945) ·
Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi journalist (b. 1958) ·
October 3 – Leon M. Lederman, American Nobel physicist
(b. 1922) ·
October 4 – Will Vinton, American animator (b. 1947) ·
Montserrat Caballé,
Spanish soprano (b. 1933) ·
Scott Wilson,
American actor (b. 1942) ·
October 7 – Peggy McCay, American actress (b. 1927) ·
October 8 – Venantino Venantini,
Italian actor (b. 1930) ·
October 9 – Thomas A. Steitz, American Nobel biochemist
(b. 1940) ·
October 10 – Mary Midgley, British philosopher (b. 1919) ·
October 12 – Pik Botha, South African politician
(b. 1932) ·
Eduardo Arroyo, Spanish painter and graphic
artist (b. 1937) ·
Patrick
Baumann, Swiss basketball administrator, FIBA secretary
general (b. 1967) ·
Milena Dravić, Serbian actress
(b. 1940) ·
Paul Allen, American businessman, co-founder
of Microsoft (b. 1953) ·
Arto Paasilinna, Finnish writer (b. 1942) ·
October 17 – Ara Güler, Turkish-Armenian photojournalist
(b. 1928) ·
Ayub Bachchu, Bangladeshi singer and songwriter
(b. 1962) ·
Anthea Bell, British literary translator
(b. 1936) ·
Lisbeth Palme, Swedish child psychologist,
former chairwoman of UNICEF (b. 1931) ·
Abdel Rahman
Swar al-Dahab, 5th President
of the Sudan (b. 1934) ·
October 19 – Osamu Shimomura, Japanese Nobel chemist and
marine biologist (b. 1928) ·
October 20 – Wim Kok, Dutch politician and trade union
leader, Prime
Minister (b. 1938) ·
October 21 – Joachim Rønneberg,
Norwegian military officer and anti-Nazi resistant (b. 1919) ·
October 22 – José Varacka, Argentine football player and
coach (b. 1932) ·
October 23 – James Karen, American actor (b. 1923) ·
October 25 – Sonny Fortune, American jazz saxophonist
(b. 1939) ·
October 26 – Nikolai Karachentsov,
Soviet and Russian actor (b. 1944) ·
Ntozake Shange, American playwright and poet
(b. 1948) ·
Vichai
Srivaddhanaprabha, Thai businessman (b. 1958) ·
David Azulai, Israeli politician (b. 1954) ·
Whitey Bulger, American mobster (b. 1929) ·
Erika Mahringer, Austrian alpine skier
(b. 1924) ·
Sangharakshita, English Buddhist teacher and
writer (b. 1925) ·
Jin Yong, Hong Kong writer (b. 1924) ·
October 31 – Willie McCovey, American baseball player (b. 1938) November ·
November 1 – Yurik Vardanyan, Armenian weightlifter
(b. 1956) ·
Raymond Chow, Hong Kong film producer
(b. 1927) ·
Roy Hargrove, American jazz trumpeter
(b. 1969) ·
November 4 – Serhiy Tkach, Russian-Ukrainian serial
killer (b. 1952) ·
November 6 – Jonathan Cantwell,
Australian racing cyclist (b. 1982) ·
November 7 – Francis Lai, French composer (b. 1932) ·
November 11 – Douglas Rain, Canadian actor (b. 1928) ·
Stan Lee, American comic book writer, editor
and actor (b. 1922) ·
David
Pearson, American race car driver (b. 1934) ·
Lucho Gatica, Chilean singer (b. 1928) ·
Katherine MacGregor,
American actress (b. 1925) ·
Rolf Hoppe, German actor (b. 1930) ·
Fernando del Paso,
Mexican writer (b. 1935) ·
Gottfried
Weilenmann, Swiss racing cyclist (b. 1920) ·
Roy Clark, American country singer (b. 1933) ·
Adolf Grünbaum,
German-American philosopher of science (b. 1923) ·
Zhores Medvedev, Russian agronomist,
biologist and historian (b. 1925) ·
November 16 – William Goldman, American novelist,
playwright and screenwriter (b. 1931) ·
November 17 – Cheng Kaijia, Chinese nuclear physicist and
engineer (b. 1918) ·
November 19 – Apisai Ielemia, 10th Prime Minister
of Tuvalu (b. 1955) ·
James H. Billington,
American academic (b. 1929) ·
Aaron Klug, Lithuanian-English Nobel chemist
(b. 1926) ·
Eimuntas Nekrošius,
Lithuanian theatre director (b. 1952) ·
Soslan Andiyev, Russian wrestler (b. 1952) ·
Andrzej Fischer, Polish footballer (b. 1952) ·
Willie Naulls, American basketball player
(b. 1934) ·
Bernard Gauthier, French racing cyclist
(b. 1924) ·
Nicolas Roeg, British film director
(b. 1928) ·
November 24 – Ricky Jay, American magician and actor
(b. 1946) ·
Giuliana Calandra,
Italian actress (b. 1936) ·
Viktor Kanevskyi, Ukrainian footballer
(b. 1936) ·
Jean
Barker, Baroness Trumpington, British politician (b. 1922) ·
Bernardo Bertolucci,
Italian film director and screenwriter (b. 1941) ·
Stephen Hillenburg,
American cartoonist, animator, and marine biology teacher (b. 1961) ·
Nicanor de Carvalho,
Brazilian football manager (b. 1947) ·
Robert Morris,
American sculptor (b. 1931) ·
Harry Leslie Smith,
British writer and activist (b. 1923) ·
November 29 – Viktor Matviyenko,
Ukrainian footballer (b. 1948) ·
November 30 – George H. W. Bush,
American politician, 41st President
of the United States (b. 1924) December ·
Ken Berry, American actor (b. 1933) ·
Ennio Fantastichini,
Italian actor (b. 1955) ·
December 2 – Paul Sherwen, English cyclist and
broadcaster (b. 1956) ·
Markus Beyer, German boxer (b. 1971) ·
Andrei Bitov, Russian writer (b. 1937) ·
Philip Bosco, American actor (b. 1930) ·
Geoff Murphy, New Zealand film director
(b. 1938) ·
Josep Lluís Núñez,
Spanish businessman and 35th President
of FC Barcelona (b. 1931) ·
December 5 – Dynamite Kid, English professional wrestler
(b. 1958) ·
Joseph Joffo, French author (b. 1931) ·
Pete Shelley, English singer-songwriter
(b. 1955) ·
Belisario Betancur,
26th President of
Colombia (b. 1923) ·
Luigi Radice, Italian football player and
manager (b. 1935) ·
December 8 – Lyudmila Alexeyeva,
Russian historian and human rights activist (b. 1927) |
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