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The following is a list of figures who died in 2024.
March 2005
- Robert Creeley, 78, poet, died of complications from respiratory disease.
- Milton Green, 91, U.S. Olympic runner
- Johnnie Cochran, 67, lawyer, defended O.J. Simpson, died of brain tumor
- Howell Heflin, 83, former U.S. Senator from Alabama
- Tom Bevill, 84, former US Congressman from Alabama
- Pál Losonczi, 85, former chairman of the Presidential Council of Hungary (head of state)
- Dame Moura Lympany, 89, British classical pianist
- Bob Casey, 79, PA announcer for the Minnesota Twins
- Grant Johannesen, 83, American classical pianist and composer
- Ahmed Zaki, 56, Egyptian actor, lung cancer
- Joaquín Luqui, 57, Spanish musical journalist
- Rigo Tovar, 58, popular Mexican singer and composer
- Bengt Bedrup, 76, Swedish journalist
- James Callaghan, 92, former British Prime Minister
- Paul Hester, 46, Australian musician, former drummer of Crowded House and Split Enz
- Georgeanna Seegar Jones, 92, American scientist and endocrinologist
- Paul Henning, 93, TV producer, creator of Beverly Hillbillies franchise
- Davis McCaughey, 90, former Governor of Victoria, Australia
- Charles Antalosky, 67, Broadway actor
- Naftali Halberstam, 74, Grand Rabbi of the Bobov sect of the Hasidim
- David Kossoff, 85, British actor and anti-drug campaigner, father of Free guitarist Paul Kossoff
- Bob Vetrone, 79, American newspaper columnist
- Clemente Domínguez y Gómez, 58, Spanish antipope self-proclaimed Gregory XVII in 1978
- Gemini Ganesan, 84, Indian actor
- Edward Moskal, 80, president of the Polish American Congress
- Simon Nyandwi 55, interior minister of Burundi since November 2003 and former rebel official, heart attack
- Rod Price, 57, guitarist and a founding member of Foghat
- Kenzo Tange, 91, Japanese architect
- Ge Zhenlin, 88, Chinese war hero
- Barney Martin, 82, actor who played Jerry's father on Seinfeld
- Stanley Sadie, 74, musicologist and critic
- Bobby Short, 80, suave cabaret singer and pianist, leukemia
- Jeff Weise, 16, school shooter
- Walter Hopps, 72, renowned American art dealer, gallery owner
- Walter Reuter, 99, award winning German photographer who lived and photographed in Mexico
- Andrew Toti, 89, American inventor of the Mae West inflatable life vest
- Hellema, 84, Dutch writer and resistance fighter
- John De Lorean, 80, U.S. car designer and manufacturer.
- Gary Bertini, 77, Israeli musician and conductor
- Sol Linowitz, 91, U.S. diplomat and entrepreneur
- Jessica Lunsford, 9, (body found), kidnapping and rape victim
- Maria Rosseels, 88, Belgian writer and journalist
- Theodor Uppman, 85, American operatic baritone, created the title role in Britten's Billy Budd
- Royce Frith, 81, Canadian senator
- Prentice Gautt, 67, NFL player during the 1960s
- Lalo Guerrero, 88, called the father of Chicano music
- Justin Hinds, 62, Jamaican vocalist and songwriter
- Sverre Holm, 73, Norwegian actor
- Ramez J. Isa, 87, Prime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles from February to June 1971
- George F. Kennan, 101, U.S. diplomat and historian
- David Little, 46, Linebacker for the NFL Pittsburgh Steelers
- Andre Norton, 93, science fiction and fantasy author
- Czeslaw Slania, 83, Polish-swedish stamp engraver
- Mikko Talvitie, 59, director general of the Finnish Board of Aviation
- Todd Bell, 47, safety for the Chicago Bears in the 1980s
- Ralph Erskine, 91, architect and designer of the Byker Wall.
- Anthony George, 84, actor, primarily in daytime dramas
- Allan Hendrickse, 77, South African politician
- Chris van der Klaauw, 80, Dutch diplomat, foreign minister of the Netherlands from 1977 to 1981
- William Lehman, 91, represented Dade County, Florida in U.S. Congress for 20 years
- Dick Radatz, 67, baseball relief pitcher
- Lady Callaghan of Cardiff, 89, wife of Jim Callaghan
- Betsy Cronkite, 89, journalist and wife of Walter Cronkite
- Don Durant, 82, singer/actor, star of Johnny Ringo series
- Loe de Jong, 90, Dutch historian
- Eduard J. Guebelin, 91, Lead study that showed that diamond flaws are influenced by where they were created
- Bill McGarry, 77, football manager
- Bert Pronk, 54, Dutch racing cyclist
- Armand Seghers, 78, footballer, voted AA Gent's best player of the 20th century
- Sy Wexler, 88, filmmaker of hundreds of educational films seen in classrooms for many years
- Tom Dillon, 86, American stage actor/performer, natural causes
- Janet Reger, 69, British designer of women's lingerie
- Dick Smyser, 81, American newspaper editor, asked question that led Richard Nixon to declare: "I'm not a crook."
- Simon Webb, 55, British chess grandmaster living in Sweden, stabbed to death by his son
- Akira Yoshizawa, 94, Japanese Origami master
- Jason Evers, 83, star of B-movie Brain That Wouldn't Die
- Ahmed Hassan Diria, 67, Tanzanian politician and diplomat, foreign minister from 1990 to 1993.
- Lyn Collins, 56, soul singer aka "Female Preacher"
- Danny Gardella, 85, a New York Giants outfielder who challenged baseball's reserve clause in a 1947 federal lawsuit
- Frank House, 75, Major League Baseball catcher and Alabama legislator
- Zouhair Yahyaoui, 36, Tunisian dissident.
- Charles R. Baxter, 75, American doctor, pneumonia, surgeon who tried to save JFK
- Lisa Fittko, 95, German WWII dissident who led Jews over the Pyrenees to freedom
- Stavros Kouyioumtzis, 73, prolific Greek songwriter
- Bartolo Mascarello, 78, Italian winemaker
- Bill Cameron, 62, Canadian journalist, cancer
- Aurelio Fierro, 81, famous in Italy for singing Neopolitan folk songs
- Stanley Grenz, 55, Christian Theologian
- Humphrey Spender, 94, British photojournalist, notably for Picture Post
- Dave Allen, 68, Irish comedian
- Danny Joe Brown, 53, lead singer for Molly Hatchet
- Chawki Deif, 95, former president of the Academy of the Arabic Language
- Zilka Salaberry, 82, Brazilian actress
- Glenn Davis, 80, Heisman Trophy winner, American football player, prostate cancer
- Sheila Gish, 62, English actress, primarily on stage
- Kathie Kay, 86, Scottish big band singer
- Chris LeDoux, 56, American country music and rodeo star; complications from liver cancer.
- William Murray, 78, American mystery novelist
- István Nyers, 80, Hungarian footballer
- Archbishop Roman Arrieta, 80, retired archbishop of Costa Rica
- Ross Benson, 56, British journalist for the Daily Mail and award-winning foreign correspondent
- Anna Haycraft, 72, British writer (also known as Alice Thomas Ellis)
- César Lattes, 80, Brazilian physicist, contributed to the physics of elementary particles and discovered the pion
- Aslan Maskhadov, 53, Chechen separatist leader, killed by Russian troops.
- Brigitte Mira, 94, German theatrical actress
- Jeremy Russell, 60, cofounding member of the band Blue Cheer
- Edwin Adams Cotto, 26, accused in the Laura Hernandez drug case; killed during riot at Dominican Republic jail
- John Box, 85, film production designer, worked closely with David Lean
- Debra Hill, 54, screenwriter and film producer, co-writer of Halloween
- Philip Lamantia, 77, American surrealist poet
- Arod Levy III, ??, accused in the Laura Hernandez drug case; killed during riot in a Dominican Republic jail
- Hans Bethe, 98, Nobel Laureate in Physics, discover of stellar fusion
- Gladys Marín, 63, Chilean communist politician, cancer
- Chuck Thompson, 83, Baltimore Orioles broadcaster, complications of massive stroke
- Tommy Vance, 63, British radio DJ and TV host, stroke
- Teresa Wright, 86, actress, heart attack
- Harold Brooks-Baker, 71, U.S.-born publishing director of Burke's Peerage Limited
- Sergiu Comissiona, 76, Romanian orchestra conductor
- Benedetto Di Santo, 105, Italian World War I veteran
- Morris Engel, 86, independent filmmaker
- Rt. Rev. Lord Sheppard of Liverpool, 75, former international cricketer and Church of England bishop, cancer
- Frank Tyler, 76, Broadway and film music arranger and orchestrator
- Nicola Calipari, 51, Italian intelligence officer, shot by the US army in Iraq
- Ernie De Vos, 63, racing driver, killed in a cycling accident.
- Una Hale, 82, operatic soprano
- Yuri Kravchenko, 53, former interior minister of Ukraine
- Carlos Sherman, 70, Uruguayan-born Belarusian translator and writer
- George Atkinson, 69, inventor of the video rental
- Max M. Fisher, 96, millionaire philanthropist listed in Forbes 400
- Dorris Henderson, 72, 60's and 70's folksinger
- Viva McComb, 110, supercentenarian, oldest living Texan
- Rinus Michels, 77, former Dutch national football team coach
- Guylaine St. Onge, 39, Canadian actress, cancer
- Joe Carter, 78, a member of the Carter Family folk singers
- Martin Denny, 93, founder of exotica musical genre, bandleader
- Hermann Dörnemann, 111, World War I veteran declared Germany's oldest living person, heart failure
- Tillie Fowler, 62, U.S. politician, former four-term Florida congresswoman
- Rick Mahler, 51, American baseball pitcher, heart attack
- Corrado Pani, 69, Italian actor
- Rigter Roegholt, 79, Dutch historian
- Cissy van Bennekom, 93, Dutch film actress
- Reverend Walter Halloran, 83, priest who participated in the exorcism on which The Exorcist was based
- Brian Luckhurst, 66, English cricket player, cancer
- Peter Malkin, 77, Israeli Mossad agent, the man who captured Adolf Eichmann
February 2005
- Pietro Ardito, 85?, Argentinian comic book artist living in Italy
- Chris Curtis, 63, drummer with The Searchers
- Mario Luzi, 90, Italian poet
- Umberto Manfrin, 77, Italian comic book artist
- Noll Scott, 51, British journalist
- Carl Taseff, 76, former NFL defensive back and assistant coach
- Henry Grunwald, 82, former managing editor of TIME and U.S. ambassador to Austria 1988-90
- Sidney Hart, 90, British trade unionist and religious administrator, natural causes
- Witness Mangwende, 59, Zimbabwean politician and diplomat, foreign minister from 1981 to 1987.
- Jef Raskin, 61, creator of the Apple Macintosh, pancreatic cancer
- Peter Benenson, 83, founder of Amnesty International.
- Phoebe Hesketh, 96, British poet
- Don LeJohn, 70, former Los Angeles Dodgers third baseman
- Norberto "Pappo" Napolitano, 54, Argentine blues and rock n' roll guitarist and composer
- Edward Patten, 66, member of Gladys Knight & The Pips
- Atef Sedki, 74, former prime minister of Egypt
- Sir Glanmor Williams, 84, Welsh historian
- Thadée Cisowski, 78, footballer, scored 206 goals in the French top divison, making him its 4th highest scorer of all-time
- Robin Jenkins, 92, Scottish novelist, author of "The Cone-Gatherers" and "Fergus Lamont"
- Hugh Nibley, 94, historian primarily concerned with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Gustavo Vázquez Montes, 42, incumbent governor of Colima, Mexico, aviation accident
- Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski, 82, German politician and former cabinet minister
- Tom Patterson, 84, founder of the Stratford Festival of Canada
- Henk Zeevalking, 82, Dutch politician
- David F. Bradford, 61, former U.S. presidential advisor and professor at Princeton University
- Father Luigi Giussani, 82, founder of the "Communion and Liberation" Catholic youth movement
- Lee Eun Ju (이은주), 24, Korean actress, suicide
- Trude Rittmann, 96, Broadway dance and vocal music arranger
- Reggie Roby, 43, retired NFL punter
- Harry Simeone, 94, helped create Christmas songs like Little Drummer Boy
- Simone Simon, 94, French actress
- Zdzislaw Beksinski, 75, Polish painter and fantasy artist, murder
- Ara Berberian, 74, Bass with the New York City Metropolitan Opera
- Isabelle Goldenson, 84, co-founder of United Cerebral Palsy
- Guillermo Cabrera Infante, 75, exiled Cuban writer
- Robert Koff, 86, founding member of the Juilliard String Quartet
- Josef Metternich, 69, German operatic baritone
- Dr. Gene Scott, 75, U.S. televangelist and author
- Ernest Vandiver, 86, former governor of the U.S. state of Georgia (1959-1963)
- Raymond Mhlaba, 92, South African political leader
- Pam Bricker, jazz vocalist and music professor, suicide
- Sandra Dee, 62, American actress, kidney failure and pneumonia
- Dalene Matthee, 67, Afrikaans-South African author, heart failure
- John Raitt, 88, classic Broadway star and father of Bonnie Raitt, pneumonia
- Hunter S. Thompson, 67, American journalist, suicide
- Jimmy Young, 56, American boxer, heart failure
- Richard Lupino, 75? Member of the famous English Lupino acting family
- Kihachi Okamoto (岡本喜八), 82, Japanese film director, esophageal cancer
- Uli Derickson, 60, airline stewardess, protagonist in 1985 airplane hijacking
- John Ebstein, 92, industrial designer
- Robert R. Merhige, Jr., 86, U.S. district court judge
- F. M. Busby, 83, American science fiction writer
- Peter Foy, 79, American, theatrical flying effects specialist
- Jens Martin Knudsen, 74, Danish astrophysicist
- César Marcelak, 92, French cycling champion
- Dan O'Herlihy, 85, Irish film actor
- Omar Sivori, 69, Argentinian and Italian footballer
- Nicephore Soglo, 70, former President of Benin
- Harald Szeemann, 71, Swiss curator and art historian
- Nicole DeHuff, 30, American actress, Meet the Parents, pneumonia.
- William Gibson, 82, American independent film producer and director
- Russ Klar, 90, US auto racer
- Narriman Sadek (Nariman Sadeq), 70, ex-wife of King Farouk, last queen of Egypt
- Marcello Viotti, 50, Italian conductor
- Frederick Vosburgh, 100, National Geographic editor
- Gerry Wolff, 84, German actor
- (body found) Cecilia Cubas, 32, daughter of former President of Paraguay Raúl Cubas Grau, kidnap victim
- Pierre Bachelet, 60, French singer
- Samuel Francis, 57, U.S. political columnist
- Dudu Geva, 54, Israeli cartoonist
- Najai Turpin, 23, boxer, participant in boxing reality show "The Contender", suicide
- Ron Burgess, 87, former footballer with Tottenham Hotspur and Wales
- Tatiana Gritsi-Milliex, 85, Greek novelist and journalist
- Rafik Hariri, 60, twice Prime Minister of Lebanon, car bomb
- Aubelin Jolicoeur, 81, Haitian journalist and columnist
- Martin Perels, 44, Dutch actor
- Otto Plaschkes, 75, British movie producer, including Georgy Girl
- Dick Weber, 75, professional bowler, father of Pete Weber
- Nelson Briles, 61, U.S. baseball pitcher
- Aldo Carotenuto, 71?, Italian psychoanalyst
- Sixten Ehrling, 86, Swedish conductor
- Mary Hallaren, 97, first woman to join the United States Army
- Ndiaga Mbaye, 57, Senegalese musician
- Lúcia dos Santos, 97, Portuguese nun, last survivor of the three shepherd children of the Fatima apparition in 1917
- Maurice Trintignant, 87, French racing driver, twice winner of the Monaco Grand Prix
- Marinus van der Goes van Naters, 104, Dutch politician
- Brian Kelly, 73, actor
- Alfred Sirven, 77, former Elf Aquitaine executive
- Sammi Smith, 61, US country singer, won Grammy for Help Me Make it Through the Night
- Dorothy Stang, 74, American nun, murdered in Anapu, Brazil
- Karl-Heinz Tuschel, 76, East German science fiction author
- Rafael Vidal, 41, Venezuelan Olympic medalist, car crash
- Samuel W. Alderson, 90, inventor of crash test dummies
- Jack L. Chalker, 60, American science fiction writer
- Raymond Hermantier, 81, French actor
- Dénes Kovács, 74, Hungarian violinist
- Stan Richards, 74, British actor
- Humbert Balsan, 50, French film producer
- Allan Bromley, 79, physicist, presidential advisor
- Jean Cayrol, 93, French author
- Michel François-Poncet, 70, Paribas executive
- Ben Jones, 80, former prime minister and foreign minister of Grenada
- Arthur Miller, 89, American playwright, congestive heart failure
- Sylvia Rafael, 67, Mossad agent convicted of 1973 Lillehammer murder
- Tyrone Davis, 66, R&B singer (Turn Back The Hands Of Time), complications of a stroke
- Hanno Helbling, 74, Swiss journalist (NZZ)
- Robert Kearns, 77, inventor of intermittent windshield wipers
- Kate Peyton, 39, BBC producer, shot in Mogadishu, Somalia
- Ursula Schröder-Feinen, 70, German soprano
- Marthe Wéry, 75, Belgian painter
- Luigi Barbero, 105, Italian World War I veteran
- Victor Castelli, 52, soloist with the New York City Ballet, pneumonia
- Helmut Eder, 88, Austrian composer
- George Herman, 85, journalist and moderator of CBS' Face the Nation for 15 years
- Keith Knudsen, 56, drummer for American rock band Doobie Brothers, pneumonia
- Nathalie Krassovska, 86, ballerina
- Gaston Rahier, 58, Belgian 125cc Motocross World Champion (1975-1977)
- Jimmy Smith, 76, Jazz organist
- Javier Tusell, 59, Spanish historian
- Penelope Aitken, 94, socialite and political hostess
- Nedžad Botonjič, 27, Slovenian footballer
- Steve Burgh, 54, record producer and session musician
- Atli Dam, 72, former Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
- Vinod Chandra Pande, 72, political figure in India, former governor of three states
- John Tiffen Patterson, 64, television and film director
- Madeleine Rebérioux, 84, French historian
- Paul Rebeyrolle, 78, French painter
- Jeremy Swan, 82, cardiologist, co-inventor of the Swan-Ganz heart catheter
- Santo Ambulo, 104, Italian World War I veteran
- Lazar Berman, 74, classical pianist
- Elbert N. Carvel, 94, American politician, former governor of Delaware
- Hubert Curien, 80, French researcher, first president of European Space Agency
- Camilo Delgado, 75?, Puerto Rican television show host
- Karl Haas, 91, US classical music radio program host
- Merle Kilgore, 70, country music manager and songwriter
- Armin Müller, 76, German writer and painter
- Derick Daniels, 76, former president and chief executive of Playboy Enterprises
- Gnassingbe Eyadema, 67, president of Togo since 1967
- Bob McAdorey, 69, Canadian television and radio broadcaster
- Günter Reimann, 100, German economist
- Michalina Wisłocka, 84, Polish sexologist
- Carmine Alfano, 108, Italian World War I veteran
- Adriano Cerqueira, 66, Portuguese journalist and former news anchor at RTP, cancer
- Robert Brannum, 78, basketball player
- Ossie Davis, 87, actor and activist, natural causes
- Nils Egerbrandt, 78, Swedish cartoonist
- Gunhild Foerster, 111, supercentenarian, oldest documented person in Washington State
- Luis Sánchez, 51, former major league closer for the Angels
- Corrado Cardinal Bafile, 101, Italian cardinal
- Joseph Anthony De Palma, 91, Bishop of De Aar, South Africa
- Malou Hallström, 63, Swedish actress, ex-wife of Lasse Hallström
- David Hönigsberg, 45, composer and conductor
- Ernst Mayr, 100, evolutionary biologist
- Raul Usupov, Georgian politician and deputy governor of the Kvemo Kartli region
- Zurab Zhvania, 41, Prime Minister of Georgia
- Yvon DesRochers, 59, head of the organizing committee of the 2005 World Aquatics Championships in Montreal, suicide
- Birgitte Federspiel, 79, Swedish actress (Babette's Feast, 1988)
- Svein Kvia, 57, Norwegian footballer
- Goffredo Lombardo, 83, Italian film producer
- Magomed Omarov, deputy Interior Minister of Dagestan
- Max Schmeling, 99, German world heavyweight boxing champion
- Werner Arnold, 74, Swiss cyclist (1950s)
- Henrique Canto e Castro, 75, Portuguese actor
- Olivier Dollfus, 73, French geographer
- Edward D. Freis, 92, physician
- Anderl Heckmair, 98, Austrian mountaineer, made first ascent of the Eiger north face
- Franco Mannino, 80, prolific Italian film and classical composer
- John Vernon, 72, Canadian actor, following heart surgery
January 2005
- Stanley Ronald (Ron) Basford, 72, Canadian cabinet minister (1970s)
- Nel Benschop, 87, Dutch poetess
- Yutsuko Chusonji, 42, Japanese manga artist noted for her "oyaji gal" stories
- Horace Hagedorn, 89, developer and marketer of Miracle-Gro plant food
- Malcolm Hardee, 55, alternative comedian and compere, drowning
- Erich Kaestner, 93, German Oscar winner for camera design
- Robert McCartney, 33?, IRA murder victim
- H. Narasimhaiah, 84, physicist, educator and rationalist from Bangalore
- Ivan Noble, 37, BBC journalist, brain tumour
- Wolfgang Becker, 94, German film and television director
- Martyn Bennett, 33, Scottish musician, cancer
- Dario Sala, 92, Italian inventor of Das, writer
- Toni Berger, 83, German actor
- Eric Griffiths, 64, member of pre-Beatles The Quarrymen
- Jean Hengen, 92, first Archbishop of Luxembourg
- Karl Heinz Jacoby, 86, Auxiliary Bishop of Trier
- Ephraim Kishon, 80, Israeli satirist, dramatist, screenwriter, and film director
- José Luis Martinez, 34, Spanish shot put champion
- Bill Shadel, 96, United States journalist who covered D-Day and moderated a 1960 Presidential Debate
- Ron Tomme, 73, former USA actor primarily in soaps
- Joan Tompkins, 89, film and TV actress
- Guus Zoutendijk, 74, Dutch politician and businessman
- Karen Bach, 32, French actress
- Christian Bieniek, 48, German writer and childbook author
- Daniel Branca, 53, Argentinian Disney comic book artist
- Jim Capaldi, 60, British rock musician and songwriter (Traffic), stomach cancer
- Lucien Carr, 79, UPI editor, early Beat generation figure
- Christian Christensen, 78, Danish former European middle-weight boxing champion
- Jacques Villeret, 53, French actor and comedian
- Gilbert Bennion, 106, one of four remaining Australian veterans of World War I
- Donald Dempsey Sr., 72?, American recording executive who helped launch Ozzy Osbourne and Merle Haggard
- Shoaib Khan, 40?, Pakistani criminal organization leader, heart attack in jail
- Nick McDonald, 76, United States Dallas police officer who arrested Lee Harvey Oswald after the JFK assassination
- Aurélie Nemours, 94, French painter
- Jonathan Welsh, 67?, Canadian actor of stage, television and film
- Roy Fraser Elliott, 83, Canadian lawyer and philanthropist
- Rudi Falkenhagen, 71, Dutch actor, throat cancer
- Cordelia Scaife May, 76, sister of billionaire Richard Scaife and one of the world's richest people
- Josie MacAvin, 85, Oscar and Emmy winning set decorator
- William Augustus Bootle, 102, United States district judge who helped oversee desegregation in the US south
- Philip Johnson, 98, United States architect
- Vicky LaMotta, 75, ex-wife of American boxer Jake LaMotta
- Ray Peterson 65, United States popular singer (Tell Laura I Love Her), cancer
- Max Velthuijs, 81, Dutch writer and illustrator
- Nettie Witziers-Timmer, 81, Dutch athlete
- Dieter Zehentmayr, 63, Austrian caricaturist
- June Bronhill, 75, Australian opera and operetta singer, known for The Merry Widow
- Vladimir Savchenko, 72, Ukrainian science fiction writer
- Chalkie White, 76, rugby union coach
- Morys George Lyndhurst Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare, 85, former Deputy Speaker of the United Kingdom|UK]] House of Lords
- Johnny Carson, 79, United States comedian and television host, emphysema
- Douglas Knight, 83, former president of Lawrence University and Duke University
- Charles Martin, 45, American football player, kidney ailment
- Mutsuko Sakura (桜むつ子), 83, Japanese actress, lung cancer
- Sir William Deakin, 91, British WWII hero and founder of St. Antony's College at Oxford University
- John Gibel, 56, comic strip writer (Flo & Friends)
- César Gutiérrez, 61, one of three players in Major League Baseball history with a 7-for-7 game
- Carlo Orelli, 110, supercentenarian, oldest Italian veteran of World War I
- Patsy Rowlands, 71, British actress, known for her roles in the Carry On films, breast cancer
- William Trager, 94, American malaria researcher
- Consuelo Velázquez, 88, Mexican songwriter and lyricist, and author of the enduring song "Bésame mucho"
- Rose Mary Woods, 87, former Nixon secretary and key Watergate figure
- Steve Susskind, 62, American voice-over actor
- Parveen Babi, 49, Indian actress
- John L. Hess, 87, journalist
- Don Poier, 53, United States NBA basketball announcer for the Memphis Grizzlies
- Carl Schlettwein, 79, founder of Basler Afrika Bibliographien
- Theun de Vries, 97, Dutch writer
- Per Borten, 91, former Prime Minister of Norway
- Beverly Dennis, 79, actress on The Red Buttons Show who turned psychotherapist
- Roland Frye, American English literature professor and theologian
- Dick Gallagher, 49, Off-Broadway composer
- Christel Justen, 47, German swimmer, 1974 European champion
- Jan Nowak-Jeziorański, 91, Polish journalist and highly decorated World War II hero, head of the Radio Free Europe Polish section
- Chuck Olin, 68, filmmaker known for his 1998 documentary about the only all-Jewish fighting unit during World War II
- Miriam Rothschild, 96, British zoologist, entomologist and author
- Bill Andersen, 90, New Zealand communist and trade union leader
- Donald Beardslee, 61, United States murderer, executed in San Quentin State Prison, California
- Cal Bolder, 74, bodybuilder and actor
- K. Sello Duiker, 30, South African novelist, suicide
- Hans Gratzer, 63, Austrian director and theatre manager
- Ardyth Kennelly, 92, US novelist whose books were popular in the 1940s and 50s
- Anita Kulcsár, 28, Hungarian handball player
- Ricardo Suriñach, 76, Catholic Bishop of Ponce, Puerto Rico (2000-2003), natural causes
- Lamont Bentley, 31, television and film actor, car crash
- Bernard Béreau, 64, French footballer
- Gabriella Brune, 92, British actress
- Bob Moch, 90, 1936 Summer Olympics Rowing Gold Medal Winner
- George Walker, 78, volcanologist
- Peter Whatley, former professional wrestler under the name Pez Whatley
- Charlie Bell, 44, former CEO of McDonald's, colon cancer
- Christina Gunnardo, 54, Swedish musician
- Hildegard Joos, 95, Austrian painter
- Virginia Mayo, 84, United States actress, notably in the 1940s and 1950s
- Albert Schatz, 84, microbiologist, discoverer of streptomycin
- Zhao Ziyang, 85, former Chinese Communist Party General Secretary, complications of multiple strokes
- Daniel Zufferey, 35, French language author
- H. Bentley Glass, 98, United States biologist, known for controversial views
- Agustín González, 74, prolific Spanish film actor
- Roger Ibanez, 73, French actor
- Ndongo Lô, 30, Senegalese singer (Mbalax)
- Marjorie Williams, 47, United States Washington Post columnist and contributing editor for Vanity Fair
- Victoria de los Angeles, 81, Spanish soprano
- Deem Bristow, 57, video game voice actor
- William H. Crosby Jr., 90, pioneering hematologist
- Walter Ernsting, 84, German science fiction author (Perry Rhodan)
- Elizabeth Janeway, 91, United States feminist author
- Fred Julsing, 62, Dutch comic book artist
- Dan Lee, 35, animator for movie Finding Nemo
- Werner Lesser, 72?, German ski jumper
- Henk Molleman, 69, Dutch politician and civil servant
- Sven Christer Swahn, 71, Swedish writer and translator
- Ruth Warrick, 89, United States actress best known for Citizen Kane and All My Children, of pneumonia
- Dennis Flanagan, 85, United States Long time editor of Scientific American
- Ofelia Guilmain, 83, Spanish film and stage actress, worked mostly in Mexico after the Spanish Civil War
- Alfred Hause, 84, German composer and conductor
- Charlotte MacLeod, 82, United States mystery writer
- Conroy Maddox, 92, British surrealist painter
- Carl Mohner, 88, German artist and actor
- Rudolph Moshammer, 64, German fashion designer
- Georges Piroué, 85, French language writer
- Jesús Soto, 81, Venezuelan kinetic artist
- Earl Cameron, 89?, Canadian broadcaster and The National-anchor (1959-1966)
- Nell Rankin, 81, United States mezzo-soprano opera singer, sang with the Metropolitan Opera for many years
- Manfred Fuhrmann, 79, German philologist
- Achille Maramotti, 78, Italian fashion entrepreneur
- Sal Pacino, 82, United States character actor, father of actor Al Pacino
- Amrish Puri, 72, Indian actor, massive cerebral hemorrhage
- Edmund S. Valtman, 90, Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist
- Spencer Dryden, 61, drummer for United States rock group Jefferson Airplane, cancer
- Jean-Luc Fugaldi, 58, French footballer
- James Griffin, 61, member of 1970s group Bread
- Miriam Hyde, 91, Australian composer (Valley of Rocks)
- J.R. (Bud) McCaig, 75, co-owner of the NHL's Calgary Flames
- Fabrizio Meoni, 47, Italian motorcyclist, died after crashing on the 11th stage of the Paris Dakar Rally
- Ruth Packer, 94, British soprano, famous for playing Verdi heroines
- Jerzy Pawlowski, 72, Polish Olympic champion in fencing
- Thelma White, 94, United States actress, starred in Reefer Madness
- Gene Baylos, 98, comedian
- Margherita Carosio, 96, Italian soprano
- Fernand Cazenave, 80, French rugby player and coach
- Tommy Fine, 90, who pitched in Major League Baseball for the Boston Red Sox and St. Louis Browns
- James Forman, 76, United States former executive secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, colon cancer
- Erwin Hillier, 93, British cinematographer
- Gordon John "Jack" Horner, 91?, Minnesota sports journalist
- Grand Duchess Joséphine-Charlotte of Luxembourg, 77, Princess of Belgium, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.
- Helmut Losch, 57, East German heavy weight weightlifting champion
- Amer Ali Nayef, deputy police chief of Baghdad, shot together with his son
- Jose Manuel Perez, 41, Spanish motorcyclist after crashing 6 January on the 7th stage of the Paris Dakar Rally, internal injuries
- Werner Quintens, 67, Belgian clergyman
- Jan Pieter Cardinal Schotte, 76, Belgian official of the Roman Curia, cardinal since 1994
- Fritz Aigner, 74, Austrian painter
- Gonzalo Gavira, 79, sound effects creator, The Exorcist, The Towering Inferno
- Bernard Goodall, 67, businessman and former Reading F.C. footballer
- Koji Hashimoto, 68, Japanese film Director and Assistant Director
- Badja D'jola, 56, African-American film actor
- Jacqueline Joubert, 83, one of the first television presenters on French TV
- Suad Katana, 35, Bosnian footballer
- Campbell McComas, 52, Australian impersonator, raconteur, broadcaster, chameleon
- Warren Spears, 50, choreographer, dancer
- Michel Thomas, 90, Polish linguist and teacher
- David White, 50, British Commander of British forces on Gibraltar, found dead in his swimming-pool
- Pierre Daninos, 91, French novelist (The Diary of Major Thompson)
- Eileen Desmond, 72, former Irish politician, Minister for Health & Social Welfare (1981-1982)
- Ernst Deubelbeiss, 84, Swiss convicted of the 1951 murder of Armin Bannwart
- Bernard "Buddy" Diliberto, 73, United States sports commentator in New Orleans, Louisiana, massive heart attack
- Rosemary Kennedy, 86, sister of John F. Kennedy
- Rossana Maiorca, 54?, Italian free-diver, daughter of Enzo Maiorca
- Ivar Medaas, 66, Norwegian musician
- Hans Walder, 84, Prosecutor General of the Swiss Confederation (1968-1973)
- Lois Hole, 71, Lieutenant Governor of Alberta
- Jürg von Känel, 53, climber, mountain guide, writer of guide books
- Makgatho Mandela, 54, South African last surviving son of Nelson Mandela, AIDS
- Louis Robichaud, 79, Canadian former premier of New Brunswick
- Ali Šukrija, 85, Yugoslav communist politician from ]
- Sir Nicholas Scott, 71, British politician
- Antonio Benítez Rojo, 73, Cuban writer
- Eduardo Hay, 89, Mexican IOC member (since 1974), professor of gynaecology
- René Le Henaff, 102?, early French director and editor, sued Charlie Chaplin for plagiarism over City Lights
- Danny Sugerman, 50, manager for The Doors
- Humphrey Carpenter, 58, British biographer and broadcaster
- Paul Darragh, 51, Irish equestrian showjumper, suspected heart failure
- Ali Al-Haidri, ?, Iraqi governor of Baghdad province, assassinated
- Frank Harary, 84, mathematician, a foremost expert on graph theory
- Robert Heilbroner, 85, United States economist
- Bud Poile, 80, member of Hockey Hall of Fame
- Alton Tobey, 90, United States muralist and painter
- JN Dixit, 68, Indian national security adviser and former foreign secretary
- Will Eisner, 87, United States comic book artist and pioneering graphic novelist
- Koo Chen-fu (辜振甫), 88, Chinese negotiator with the PRC
- John Lawrence, 70, United States Los Angeles Times business journalist
- Claude Meillassoux, 79, French anthropologist and economist
- H. David Dalquist, 86, founder of Nordic Ware, creator of Bundt cake pan
- Arnold Denker, 90, United States chess player
- Cyril Fletcher, 91, British comedian and star of That's Life.
- Frank Kelly Freas, 82, United States science fiction artist
- Ronald 'Bo' Ginn, 70, United States former U.S. Congressman from Georgia
- Maclyn McCarty, 93, geneticist and DNA research pioneer
- Edo Murtić, 83, Croatian painter
- Charles Paul Wilp, 72, German photographer
- Shirley Chisholm, 80, United States first black woman ever to serve in the U.S. Congress
- Hugh John Frederick Lawson, 6th Baron Burnham, 73, British Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords and former deputy managing director of the Daily Telegraph
- Bob Matsui, 63, United States Democratic Party member of the House of Representatives
- Paul Michaelis, 90, German painter and graphist
- Dmitri Nelyubin, 33, Russian cyclist, stabbed to death
- Willem Scholten, 77, Dutch former politician
- Charles Watson, 105, British World War I veteran
External links and references
- Specialised websites
- Find a Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records
- Dead People Server
- Life in Legacy: Week in Review
- The Blog of Death
- GenealogyBuff.com Obituary Search
- Online Searchable Death Indexes and Records: US genealogy directory
- Operation Iraqi Freedom - US Combat Deaths
- Obituary Central - index to obituary search engines arranged geographically
- Obituary Links Page - state-by-state directory of obituary resources
- Obituaries on general news websites
- Newsgroup: alt.obituaries
For earlier deaths, see Deaths in 2004, Deaths in 2003, Deaths in 2002, Deaths in 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995...
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