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1980

January 1980

• January 1
  • Ernest Cormier, Canadian engineer and architect (b. 1885)
  • Adolph Deutsch, English-American film composer (b. 1897)
  • Pierre Mony, French footballer (b. 1896)
  • Pietro Nenni, Italian politician (b. 1891)
  • Stepan Shchipachev, Russian poet (b. 1898)
  • Nils Skoglund, Swedish diver (b. 1906)
  • Frank Wykoff, American sprinter (b. 1909)
• January 2
  • Erik Andersen, Danish cyclist (b. 1902)
  • Rhys Carpenter, American historian (b. 1889)
• January 3
  • Joy Adamson, Austrian-Kenyan naturalist and author (b. 1910)
  • Lucien Buysse, Belgian cyclist (b. 1892)
  • Bernhard Kaun, American composer (b. 1899)
  • Amos Milburn, American singer and pianist (b. 1927)
  • Harald Heide Steen, Norwegian actor (b. 1911)
  • Ivan Triesault, Estonian-American actor (b. 1898)
• January 4
  • Axel Henry Hansen, Norwegian gymnast (b. 1887)
  • Shohachi Ishii, Japanese wrestler (b. 1926)
• January 5 – Uno Naissoo, Estonian composer and musician (b. 1928)
• January 6
  • Piersanti Mattarella, Italian politician (b. 1935)
  • Raymond Mays, English racing driver (b. 1899)
• January 7
  • Yocheved Bat-Miriam, Israeli poet (b. 1901)
  • Simonne Mathieu, French tennis player (b. 1908)
  • Eddie Scarf, Australian wrestler and boxer (b. 1908)
  • Larry Williams, American singer (b. 1935)
  • Dov Yosef, Israeli politician (b. 1899)
• January 8
  • Tryggve Gran, Norwegian pilot and explorer (b. 1888)
  • John Mauchly, American physicist (b. 1907)
  • Władysław Turowicz, Polish-Pakistani pilot and scientist (b. 1908)
• January 9
  • Gaetano Belloni, Italian cyclist (b. 1892)
  • Aleksander Tupalski, Polish ice hockey player and footballer (b. 1900)
• January 10
  • Ercole Carzino, Italian footballer (b. 1901)
  • George Meany, American labor leader (b. 1894)
  • Manuel Passos, Portuguese footballer (b. 1922)
• January 11
  • Richard Huschke, German cyclist (b. 1893)
  • Erwin Otto Marx, German engineer (b. 1893)
  • Barbara Pym, English author (b. 1913)
  • Celia Sánchez, Cuban revolutionary and politician (b. 1920)
• January 12
  • Frederico de Freitas, Portuguese composer and conductor (b. 1902)
  • Edgardo Moltoni, Italian ornithologist (b. 1896)
  • Antonio Pons, Ecuadorian politician (b. 1897)
  • Finn Ronne, Norwegian-American explorer (b. 1899)
• January 13 – Andre Kostelanetz, Russian-American conductor (b. 1901)
• January 14
  • Robert Ardrey, American playwright and screenwriter (b. 1908)
  • Rachel Fuller Brown, American chemist (b. 1898)
  • Christian Møller, Danish chemist and physicist (b. 1904)
• January 15
  • Leszek Herdegen, Polish actor (b. 1929)
  • Herbert Olivecrona, Swedish surgeon (b. 1891)
• January 16 – Benjamín Palencia, Spanish painter (b. 1894)
• January 17
  • Barbara Britton, American actress (b. 1920)
  • Alexander Nesmeyanov, Russian chemist and academic (b. 1899)
  • Maria Quisling, Russian-Norwegian political figure (b. 1900)
  • Karla Schramm, American actress (b. 1891)
  • Agustín Yáñez, Mexican politician (b. 1904)
• January 18 – Cecil Beaton, English photographer and costume designer (b. 1904)
• January 19
  • Piero Ciampi, Italian singer (b. 1934)
  • William O. Douglas, American judge (b. 1898)
• January 20
  • Rudolf Bürger, Romanian footballer and manager (b. 1908)
  • André Dubonnet, French pilot and athlete (b. 1897)
  • Kasturbhai Lalbhai, Indian businessman (b. 1894)
  • William Roberts, English painter (b. 1895)
• January 21
  • Elvira de Hidalgo, Spanish opera singer (b. 1891)
  • Georges Painvin, French geologist (b. 1886)
• January 22
  • Yitzhak Baer, German-Israeli historian (b. 1888)
  • Mustapha Choukri, Moroccan footballer (b. 1945)
  • Teresa Noce, Italian politician (b. 1900)
  • Klas Särner, Swedish gymnast (b. 1891)
  • Leonard Strong, American actor (b. 1908)
• January 23
  • Lil Dagover, German actress (b. 1887)
  • Babs Gonzales, American singer and poet (b. 1919)
  • Shōjirō Iida, Japanese general (b. 1888)
  • Giovanni Michelotti, Italian automobile designer (b. 1921)
  • Jacques Millot, French arachnologist (b. 1897)
  • Ernst Ocwirk, Austrian footballer and manager (b. 1926)
• January 24
  • Terry Anderson, English footballer (b. 1944)
  • Stanislav Neuhaus, Russian pianist (b. 1927)
  • James Poe, American screenwriter (b. 1921)
  • Nils Westermark, Swedish sailor (b. 1892)
• January 25 – Amir Kumar, Indian field hockey player (b. 1923)
• January 26
  • Simon Kapwepwe, Zambian politician (b. 1922)
  • Georgi Karaslavov, Bulgarian author (b. 1904)
  • Juan Quintero Muñoz, Spanish film composer (b. 1903)
  • Justas Paleckis, Lithuanian author and politician (b. 1899)
  • Lynn Patrick, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1912)
  • William Peden, Canadian cyclist (b. 1906)
  • Harry Hemley Plaskett, Canadian astronomer (b. 1893)
• January 27
  • Hans Aeschbacher, Swiss sculptor (b. 1906)
  • Peppino De Filippo, Italian actor (b. 1903)
  • Rudolf-Christoph von Gersdorff, German major general (b. 1905)
  • Helga Pedersen, Danish judge and politician (b. 1911)
  • Eric Wyndham White, English economist (b. 1913)
• January 28
  • Franco Evangelisti, Italian composer (b. 1926)
  • Erle C. Kenton, American film director (b. 1896)
  • Ciril Kosmač, Slovenian author and screenwriter (b. 1910)
  • Vladimir Novikov, Russian water polo player (b. 1937)
  • Antoine Rebetez, Swiss gymnast (b. 1897)
• January 29
  • Jimmy Durante, American actor and comedian (b. 1893)
  • Antonio Molina, Filipino composer and conductor (b. 1894)
  • Fernando Sañudo, Spanish footballer (b. 1912)
• January 30
  • Francesco Lardone, Italian-American bishop and diplomat (b. 1887)
  • Professor Longhair, American singer and pianist (b. 1918)
  • Warren Smith, American singer and guitarist (b. 1932)
• January 31
  • Jacobus Duminy, South African academic (b. 1897)
  • Gumercindo Gómez, Bolivian footballer (b. 1907)
  • Emanuel Sperner, German mathematician (b. 1905)

February 1980

• February 1
  • Jack Bailey, American actor and game show host (b. 1907)
  • Costante Maltoni, Italian archbishop (b. 1915)
  • Gastone Nencini, Italian cyclist (b. 1930)
  • Romolo Valli, Italian actor (b. 1925)
  • Toshiko Yuasa, Japanese physicist (b. 1909)
• February 2 – William Howard Stein, American biochemist (b. 1911)
• February 3
  • Ray Heindorf, American composer and songwriter (b. 1908)
  • Hanna Rovina, Israeli actress (b. 1888)
  • Margit Sielska-Reich, Polish-Ukrainian painter (b. 1900)
• February 4
  • Stojan Aralica, Serbian painter and academic (b. 1883)
  • Camara Laye, Guinean author (b. 1928)
  • Paul Petard, French botanist (b. 1912)
  • Edith Summerskill, English physician and politician (b. 1901)
  • David Whitaker, English television writer and author (b. 1928)
• February 5
  • Nachman Aronszajn, Polish-American mathematician (b. 1907)
  • Karl Olivecrona, Swedish lawyer and philosopher (b. 1897)
  • Michel Sturdza, Romanian politician and war criminal (b. 1886)
• February 6
  • George Decker, American general (b. 1902)
  • Franz Schafheitlin, German actor (b. 1895)
• February 7
  • Margaret Ballinger, Scottish-South African politician (b. 1894)
  • Rudolf Bosshard, Swiss rower (b. 1890)
  • Secondo Campini, Italian engineer (b. 1904)
  • Eugen Dasović, Croatian footballer (b. 1896)
  • Richard Williams, Australian pilot (b. 1890)
• February 8
  • Erwin Friedrich Baumann, Swiss architect and sculptor (b. 1890)
  • Ivan Gošnjak, Croatian general and politician (b. 1909)
  • Stepan Klochurak, Czech politician (b. 1895)
  • Zezé Procópio, Brazilian footballer (b. 1913)
  • Nikos Xilouris, Greek singer (b. 1936)
  • Francesco Zucchetti, Italian cyclist (b. 1902)
• February 9
  • Rostislav Alexeyev, Russian engineer (b. 1916)
  • Heron Carvic, English actor and author (b. 1913)
  • Charles Fowlkes, American saxophonist (b. 1916)
  • Ludwig Waldmann, German physicist (b. 1913)
• February 10
  • Abe Gubegna, Ethiopian author (b. 1933)
  • Rezső Soó, Hungarian botanist (b. 1903)
  • Wally Wales, American actor (b. 1895)
• February 11
  • Hubert Giesen, German pianist (b. 1898)
  • R. C. Majumdar, Indian historian (b. 1888)
  • Yakov Malik, Russian diplomat (b. 1906)
  • Paavo Yrjölä, Finnish decathlete (b. 1902)
• February 12
  • Einar Hille, American mathematician (b. 1894)
  • Anatoliy Lure, Russian engineer and mathematician (b. 1901)
  • Muriel Rukeyser, American poet and author (b. 1913)
  • Jørgen Stubberud, Norwegian explorer (b. 1883)
• February 13
  • Hugh DeHaven, American pilot and engineer (b. 1895)
  • David Janssen, American actor (b. 1931)
  • Mike Monroney, American politician (b. 1902)
  • Marian Rejewski, Polish mathematician and cryptologist (b. 1905)
• February 14
  • Kitsuju Ayabe, Japanese general (b. 1894)
  • Victor Gruen, Austrian-American architect (b. 1903)
  • Marius Lavet, French engineer (b. 1894)
  • Rza Tahmasib, Azerbaijani film director and actor (b. 1894)
• February 15
  • Albin Dahl, Swedish footballer (b. 1900)
  • Albert Simonin, French author and screenwriter (b. 1905)
  • Sohn Won-yil, South Korean vice admiral (b. 1909)
• February 16
  • Edward Copson, English mathematician (b. 1901)
  • Erich Hückel, German physicist and chemist (b. 1896)
  • Arthur Loveridge, English biologist and herpetologist (b. 1891)
• February 17
  • Jerry Fielding, American musician (b. 1922)
  • Einar Karlsson, Swedish wrestler (b. 1908)
  • John Sandwall, Swedish fencer (b. 1917)
  • Graham Sutherland, English artist (b. 1903)
• February 18
  • Gale Robbins, American actress and singer (b. 1921)
  • Nathan Yellin-Mor, Israeli activist and politician (b. 1913)
• February 19
  • Robert Morrison, English rower (b. 1902)
  • Bon Scott, Australian singer (b. 1946)
• February 20
  • Hugo Kraas, German war criminal (b. 1911)
  • Alice Roosevelt Longworth, American author and socialite (b. 1884)
  • Joseph Banks Rhine, American botanist (b. 1895)
  • Llamil Simes, Argentine footballer (b. 1923)
  • Erich Vagts, German politician (b. 1896)
• February 21
  • Alfred Andersch, German author (b. 1914)
  • Aldo Andreotti, Italian mathematician (b. 1924)
  • Mario Lanzi, Italian runner (b. 1914)
• February 22
  • Sadaaki Akamatsu, Japanese fighter pilot (b. 1910)
  • Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian artist and poet (b. 1886)
  • Pierre Korb, French footballer (b. 1908)
  • Jorge B. Vargas, Filipino politician, Prime Minister of the Philippines (b. 1890)
  • Jean Wolter, Luxembourgian journalist and politician (b. 1926)
• February 23 – Enrico Celio, Swiss politician (b. 1889)
• February 24
  • John Darrow, American actor (b. 1907)
  • Clement Martyn Doke, South African linguist (b. 1893)
  • Parviz Fannizadeh, Iranian actor (b. 1938)
  • Émile Joly, Belgian cyclist (b. 1904)
  • Devulapalli Krishnasastri, Indian poet and playwright (b. 1897)
  • Albert Parsis, French footballer (b. 1890)
• February 25
  • Wilton E. Hall, American politician (b. 1901)
  • Robert Hayden, American poet and author (b. 1913)
  • Aleksandr Zimin, Russian medievalist (b. 1920)
• February 26
  • Mario Mattoli, Italian film director and screenwriter (b. 1898)
  • Ahmad Shukeiri, Palestinian politician (b. 1908)
• February 27 – George Tobias, American actor (b. 1901)
• February 28
  • Dinorá de Carvalho, Brazilian pianist and composer (b. 1904)
  • Jadwiga Jędrzejowska, Polish tennis player (b. 1912)
  • Ian Peebles, Scottish-English cricketer (b. 1908)
• February 29
  • Yigal Allon, Israeli politician (b. 1918)
  • Gil Elvgren, American painter (b. 1914)
  • Werner Keller, German author and civil servant (b. 1909)
  • Doug Kistler, American basketball player (b. 1938)
  • Nino Oliviero, Italian film composer (b. 1918)

March 1980

• March 1
  • Wilhelmina Cooper, Dutch-American model (b. 1939)
  • Dixie Dean, English footballer (b. 1907)
  • Daniil Khrabrovitsky, Russian screenwriter and film director (b. 1923)
  • John Jacob Niles, American singer and composer (b. 1892)
  • Eric Oliver, English motorcycle racer (b. 1911)
  • Dorothy Phillips, American actress (b. 1889)
  • Anna Ticho, Israeli artist (b. 1894)
• March 2
  • Anne Cornwall, American actress (b. 1897)
  • Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, Polish author and poet (b. 1894)
  • Arlie Schardt, American runner (b. 1895)
• March 3
  • Forrest C. Donnell, American politician (b. 1884)
  • Avraham Rakanti, Greek-Israeli politician and journalist (b. 1888)
  • Tayfur Sökmen, Turkish politician (b. 1892)
• March 4
  • Vakhtang Ananyan, Armenian author (b. 1905)
  • Johannes Martin Bijvoet, Dutch chemist (b. 1892)
  • Luis Piazzini, Argentine chess player (b. 1905)
  • Alfred Plé, French rower (b. 1888)
• March 5
  • Wilhelm Hoegner, German politician (b. 1887)
  • Abdullah Rimawi, Palestinian-Jordanian politician (b. 1920)
  • Jay Silverheels, Canadian-American actor (b. 1912)
• March 6
  • Hikmet Bayur, Turkish politician (b. 1891)
  • Barbara Brukalska, Polish architect (b. 1899)
  • Willem de Vries Lentsch, Dutch sailor (b. 1886)
  • James C. Shannon, American politician (b. 1896)
  • Hryhir Tiutiunnyk, Ukrainian author (b. 1931)
• March 7 – Jack Sack, American football player (b. 1902)
• March 8
  • Graham Dadds, English field hockey player (b. 1911)
  • Frank McDonald, American film director (b. 1899)
  • Max Miedinger, Swiss typographer (b. 1910)
• March 9
  • Nikolay Bogolyubov, Russian actor (b. 1899)
  • Olga Chekhova, Russian-German actress (b. 1897)
  • Heinz Linge, German lieutenant colonel (b. 1913)
• March 10
  • José Américo de Almeida, Brazilian author and politician (b. 1887)
  • Zhang Fakui, Chinese general (b. 1896)
  • William Kroll, American violinist and composer (b. 1901)
  • Alan P. Merriam, American ethnomusicologist (b. 1923)
• March 11
  • Julio de Caro, Argentine composer and musician (b. 1899)
  • Yūnosuke Itō, Japanese actor (b. 1919)
  • Mikhail Kaufman, Russian cinematographer and photographer (b. 1897)
• March 12 – Ernő Gerő, Hungarian politician (b. 1898)
• March 13
  • Lillian Ngoyi, South African activist (b. 1911)
  • Tauno Pylkkänen, Finnish composer (b. 1918)
  • Roland Theodore Symonette, Bahamian politician (b. 1898)
  • Harlan Warde, American actor (b. 1917)
• March 14
  • Henri Bellivier, French cyclist (b. 1890)
  • Henk Blomvliet, Dutch footballer (b. 1911)
  • Manlio Brosio, Italian diplomat and politician (b. 1897)
  • Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente, Spanish naturalist (b. 1928)
  • Mohammad Hatta, Indonesian politician (b. 1902)
  • Anna Jantar, Polish singer (b. 1950)
  • Allard K. Lowenstein, American politician (b. 1929)
  • Julien Moineau, French cyclist (b. 1903)
  • Dudley Maurice Newitt, English engineer (b. 1894)
• March 15
  • Gerald Abrahams, English chess player and author (b. 1907)
  • Daisy Earles, German-American actress (b. 1907)
  • Marta Ehrlich, Croatian painter (b. 1910)
  • Émile Pladner, French boxer (b. 1906)
  • Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi, Indian politician (b. 1893)
• March 16
  • Neville D'Souza, Indian footballer (b. 1932)
  • Leroy Goldsworthy, American ice hockey player (b. 1906)
• March 17
  • Rudolf George Escher, Dutch composer (b. 1912)
  • Al Jochim, American gymnast (b. 1902)
  • Jan Krásl, Czech ice hockey player (b. 1899)
  • Mary Alice McWhinnie, American biologist (b. 1922)
  • Boun Oum, Laotian politician, Prime Minister of Laos (b. 1912)
  • Rafael Paasio, Finnish politician, Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1903)
  • William Prager, German-American mathematician (b. 1903)
  • Georges Valensi, French engineer (b. 1889)
  • Bice Valori, Italian actress and comedian (b. 1927)
• March 18
  • Jerzy Bulanow, Russian-Polish footballer (b. 1904)
  • Erich Fromm, German psychologist (b. 1900)
  • Elsa Goveia, Guyanese scholar and historian (b. 1925)
  • Herman Griffith, Trinidadian-Barbadian cricketer (b. 1893)
  • Ludwig Guttmann, German-English neurologist (b. 1899)
  • Tamara de Lempicka, Polish painter (b. 1898)
  • Louise Lovely, Australian actress (b. 1895)
  • Grigor Vachkov, Bulgarian actor (b. 1932)
• March 19 – Arvid Emanuelsson, Swedish footballer (b. 1913)
• March 20
• March 21
  • Marcel Boussac, French entrepreneur (b. 1889)
  • Angelo Bruno, Italian-American mobster (b. 1910)
  • Luís Espinal Camps, Spanish-Bolivian priest and film director (b. 1932)
  • George Hyde Fallon, American politician (b. 1902)
  • Sam Ferris, English runner (b. 1900)
  • Herm Schaefer, American basketball player and coach (b. 1918)
• March 22
  • Raymond Thayer Birge, American physicist (b. 1887)
  • Maurice Gillis, Belgian footballer (b. 1897)
  • Erich Nelson, German artist and botanist (b. 1897)
  • Hélio Oiticica, Brazilian artist (b. 1937)
• March 23
  • Bill S. Ballinger, American author and screenwriter (b. 1912)
  • Jacob Miller, Jamaican musician (b. 1952)
  • Arthur Melvin Okun, American economist (b. 1928)
• March 24
  • Petrus Brovka, Belarusian poet (b. 1905)
  • Pierre Etchebaster, French tennis player (b. 1893)
  • Ernst John von Freyend, German army officer (b. 1909)
  • Óscar Romero, Salvadoran archbishop (b. 1917)
• March 25
  • Milton H. Erickson, American psychiatrist (b. 1901)
  • Erminio Macario, Italian actor and comedian (b. 1902)
  • Holger Schön, Swedish ski jumper (b. 1910)
  • Walter Susskind, Czech-English conductor and pianist (b. 1913)
  • James Wright, American poet (b. 1927)
• March 26
  • Roland Barthes, American theorist and author (b. 1915)
  • Dragutin Friedrich, Croatian footballer (b. 1897)
  • Zofia Lissa, Polish musicologist (b. 1908)
• March 27 – Steve Fisher, American author and screenwriter (b. 1912)
• March 28
  • Dick Haymes, Argentine-American singer and actor (b. 1918)
  • Hans-Hermann Nissen, German opera singer (b. 1893)
  • Branko Pleše, Croatian footballer (b. 1915)
• March 29
  • Vicente López Carril, Spanish cyclist (b. 1942)
  • William Gemmell Cochran, Scottish-American statistician (b. 1909)
  • Annunzio Mantovani, Italian-English conductor and composer (b. 1905)
• March 30
  • Fyodor Gakhov, Russian mathematician (b. 1906)
  • Cornelis Jacobus Gorter, Dutch physicist (b. 1907)
  • David Sharpe, American actor and stuntman (b. 1910)
  • Tôn Đức Thắng, Vietnamese politician, President of Vietnam (b. 1888)
  • Léon Zack, Russian-French painter and sculptor (b. 1892)
• March 31
  • Vladimír Holan, Czech poet (b. 1905)
  • Jesse Owens, American athlete (b. 1913)

April 1980

• April 1 – Ismayil Daghistanli, Azerbaijani actor (b. 1907)
• April 2
  • Edmund Burns, American actor (b. 1892)
  • Dick Howorth, English cricketer (b. 1909)
  • Harold Johnson, American astronomer (b. 1921)
  • Stanley Forman Reed, American judge (b. 1884)
• April 3
  • Edward Bullard, English geophysicist (b. 1907)
  • Robert Lemaignen, French politician (b. 1893)
• April 4
  • Aleksander Ford, Polish film director (b. 1908)
  • Red Sovine, American singer (b. 1917)
  • Władysław Tatarkiewicz, Polish philosopher and historian (b. 1886)
• April 5
  • Alexander Belov, Russian sergeant (b. 1923)
  • Georges Piot, French rower (b. 1896)
• April 6
  • Olivier Chevallier, French motorcycle racer (b. 1949)
  • John Collier, English-American author (b. 1901)
  • Frank Saker, Canadian canoeist (b. 1907)
  • Kustaa Vilkuna, Finnish ethnologist and linguist (b. 1902)
• April 7
  • Maria Michi, Italian actress (b. 1921)
  • Armando Miranda, Brazilian footballer (b. 1939)
  • Jaroslav Průšek, Czech sinologist (b. 1906)
• April 8
  • Wilhelm Arwe, Swedish athlete (b. 1898)
  • Boy Edgar, Dutch conductor and pianist (b. 1915)
  • Vincenzo Pinton, Italian fencer (b. 1914)
• April 9
  • Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr, Iraqi philosopher (b. 1935)
  • Kathleen Burke, American actress (b. 1913)
  • Izi Dorot, Israeli civil servant (b. 1916)
  • Ascensión Chirivella Marín, Mexican lawyer and activist (b. 1894)
• April 10 – Kay Medford, American actress (b. 1919)
• April 11
  • Maurice Blomme, Belgian cyclist (b. 1926)
  • Charley Borah, American sprinter (b. 1905)
  • Charlotte Henry, American actress (b. 1914)
  • József Tunyogi, Hungarian wrestler (b. 1907)
  • Yakov Zarobyan, Armenian politician (b. 1908)
• April 12
  • Clark McConachy, English billiards player (b. 1895)
  • Arkady Severny, Russian singer (b. 1939)
  • Stanley de Silva, Sri Lankan cricketer (b. 1956)
  • William Tolbert, Liberian politician, President of Liberia (b. 1913)
  • Sonja Wigert, Norwegian-Swedish actress (b. 1913)
• April 13
  • Michihiko Hachiya, Japanese physician (b. 1903)
  • Markus Höttinger, Austrian racing driver (b. 1956)
  • Pepino Toledo, Guatemalan footballer and manager (b. 1919)
• April 14
  • Shimon Dzigan, Polish comedian (b. 1905)
  • Tom Fadden, American actor (b. 1895)
  • Gianni Rodari, Italian author and journalist (b. 1920)
• April 15
  • Raymond Bailey, American actor and comedian (b. 1904)
  • Paul Langton, American actor (b. 1913)
  • Marshall Reed, American actor (b. 1917)
  • Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and author (b. 1905)
  • Zenmaro Toki, Japanese poet (b. 1885)
• April 16 – Morris Stoloff, American composer (b. 1898)
• April 17
  • Anna Maria Dengel, Austrian physician and nun (b. 1892)
  • Alf Sjöberg, Swedish film director (b. 1903)
  • Humberto Tozzi, Brazilian footballer (b. 1934)
• April 18
  • Igino Giordani, Italian author and politician (b. 1894)
  • Vasiliy Grabin, Russian weapon designer (b. 1900)
  • Paul Hazoumé, Beninese author and politician (b. 1890)
  • Poul Kjærholm, Danish furniture designer (b. 1929)
  • Hans-Georg Leyser, German major general (b. 1896)
  • Ellen Sinding, Norwegian actress and dancer (b. 1899)
• April 19
• April 20
  • Günther Ballier, German actor (b. 1900)
  • Katherine Kennicott Davis, American composer and pianist (b. 1892)
  • Helmut Käutner, German film director (b. 1908)
  • Hilde Konetzni, Austrian opera singer (b. 1905)
  • Félix Welkenhuysen, Belgian footballer (b. 1908)
• April 21
  • Ľudovít Fulla, Slovakian artist (b. 1902)
  • Kirill Ilyashenko, Moldovan politician (b. 1915)
  • Alexander Oparin, Russian biochemist (b. 1894)
  • Omar Sahnoun, French footballer (b. 1955)
  • Sohrab Sepehri, Iranian poet and painter (b. 1928)
• April 22
  • Jane Froman, American actress and singer (b. 1907)
  • Mustafa Edige Kirimal, Ukrainian-German politician (b. 1911)
  • Jan Liwacz, Polish blacksmith (b. 1898)
  • Zivar Mammadova, Azerbaijani sculptor (b. 1902)
  • Fritz Strassmann, German chemist (b. 1902)
• April 23
• April 24
  • Alejo Carpentier, Cuban author and musicologist (b. 1904)
  • Thomas K. Finletter, American diplomat and politician (b. 1893)
  • Alfred Verdross, Austrian lawyer and judge (b. 1890)
• April 25 – Katia Mann, German literary figure (b. 1883)
• April 26
  • Cicely Courtneidge, English actress (b. 1893)
  • Franziska Kinz, Austrian actress (b. 1897)
• April 27
  • Mario Bava, Italian film director and cinematographer (b. 1914)
  • Guido Frederico João Pabst, Brazilian botanist (b. 1914)
  • Franco Tognini, Italian gymnast (b. 1907)
• April 28 – Andrija Anković, Croatian footballer and manager (b. 1937)
• April 29
  • William Clemens, American film director (b. 1905)
  • Alfred Hitchcock, English film director and producer (b. 1899)
• April 30
  • Harold Robert Aaron, American lieutenant general (b. 1921)
  • Arthur Banner, English footballer (b. 1918)
  • Stanisław Gołąb, Polish mathematician (b. 1902)
  • Sigurd Kander, Swedish sailor (b. 1890)
  • Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rican journalist and politician (b. 1898)

May 1980

• May 1
  • Hiroshi Inagaki, Japanese film director (b. 1905)
  • Henry Levin, American film director (b. 1909)
  • Shoba Menon, Indian actress (b. 1962)
• May 2
  • Théophile Alajouanine, French neurologist (b. 1890)
  • Alioune Diop, Senegalese author and magazine editor (b. 1910)
  • Clarrie Grimmett, New Zealand-Australian cricketer (b. 1891)
  • George Pal, Hungarian-American animator and film director (b. 1908)
• May 3
• May 4
  • Siegfried Böhm, German politician (b. 1928)
  • Kay Hammond, English actress (b. 1909)
  • Josip Broz Tito, Croatian politician, President of Yugoslavia (b. 1892)
• May 5
  • Aage Marius Hansen, Danish gymnast (b. 1890)
  • Isabel Briggs Myers, American author (b. 1897)
• May 6
  • María Luisa Bombal, Chilean author and poet (b. 1910)
  • Lola Cornero, Dutch actress (b. 1892)
• May 7
  • Margaret Cole, English politician and author (b. 1893)
  • Aoua Kéita, Malian activist and politician (b. 1912)
• May 8
  • Luigi Fenaroli, Italian botanist and agronomist (b. 1899)
  • Chieko Higashiyama, Japanese actress (b. 1890)
  • Charles Edward Hubbard, English botanist (b. 1900)
  • Yitzhak Kanev, Israeli politician (b. 1896)
  • Farrokhroo Parsa, Iranian physician and politician (b. 1922)
  • Perdigão Queiroga, Portuguese film director (b. 1916)
• May 9
• May 10
  • Henri Crémieux, French actor (b. 1896)
  • Emiel Faignaert, Belgian cyclist (b. 1919)
  • Kálmán Konrád, Hungarian-Swedish footballer and manager (b. 1896)
  • Leslie Peltier, American astronomer (b. 1900)
  • Jan Pivec, Czech actor (b. 1907)
• May 11
  • Kaarlo Mäkinen, Finnish wrestler (b. 1892)
  • Naji Shawkat, Iraqi politician, Prime Minister of Iraq (b. 1891)
  • Dyre Vaa, Norwegian sculptor and painter (b. 1903)
• May 12
  • Bette Nesmith Graham, American inventor (b. 1924)
  • Lillian Roth, American actress (b. 1910)
  • Doshin So, Japanese soldier and martial artist (b. 1911)
• May 13
  • Fumio Gotō, Japanese politician (b. 1884)
  • [[Freeman Tilden], American conservationist and author (b. 1883)
  • Otto Umbehr, German photojournalist (b. 1902)
  • Erich Zepler, German-English chess composer (b. 1898)
• May 14
  • Carl Ebert, German theatre director (b. 1887)
  • Fatmawati, Indonesian political figure, First Lady of Indonesia (b. 1923)
  • Hugh Griffith, Welsh actor (b. 1912)
• May 15
  • Lela Bliss, American actress (b. 1896)
  • Jóhann Hafstein, Icelandic politician, Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1915)
  • Len Lye, New Zealand-American artist and film director (b. 1901)
  • Milton Parsons, American actor (b. 1904)
  • Gordon E. Sawyer, American sound engineer (b. 1905)
  • Ian Scott, English cyclist (b. 1915)
  • Umberto Scarpelli, Italian screenwriter and film director (b. 1904)
• May 16
  • Izis Bidermanas, Lithuanian-French photographer (b. 1911)
  • José Calvo, Spanish actor (b. 1916)
  • Marin Preda, Romanian author (b. 1922)
  • Joël Scherk, French theoretical physicist (b. 1946)
  • Reinhold Tüxen, German botanist and sociologist (b. 1899)
• May 17
  • Ernst Blum, German footballer (b. 1904)
  • Gündüz Kılıç, Turkish footballer and manager (b. 1918)
  • Thore Michelsen, Norwegian rower (b. 1888)
• May 18
  • Reid Blackburn, American photographer (b. 1952)
  • Ian Curtis, English singer and guitarist (b. 1956)
  • David A. Johnston, American volcanologist (b. 1949)
  • Walter Kohut, Austrian actor (b. 1927)
  • Robert Landsburg, American photographer (b. 1931)
  • Harry R. Truman, American businessman (b. 1896)
• May 19
  • Ragnar Gustavsson, Swedish footballer (b. 1907)
  • Ray Rennahan, American cinematographer (b. 1896)
• May 20
  • James W. Huffman, American politician (b. 1894)
  • Vladimir Nikanorov, Russian footballer and ice hockey player (b. 1917)
  • Zinaida Tusnolobova-Marchenko, Russian medic (b. 1920)
• May 21 – Ida Kamińska, Polish actress (b. 1899)
• May 22 – Louise Elisabeth de Meuron, Swiss aristocrat (b. 1882)
• May 23
  • Jens Enevoldsen, Danish chess player (b. 1907)
  • Terry Furlow, American basketball player (b. 1954)
• May 24
  • Jorge González Camarena, Mexican painter and sculptor (b. 1908)
  • Kim Jae-gyu, South Korean politician and assassin (b. 1924)
• May 25
  • Herbert Nachbar, German author (b. 1930)
  • Klaus Samelson, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1918)
  • Marquardt Slevogt, German ice hockey player (b. 1909)
• May 26 – Emil Ochyra, Polish fencer (b. 1936)
• May 27
• May 28
  • Rolf Nevanlinna, Finnish mathematician (b. 1895)
  • Miroslav Šašek, Czech author (b. 1916)
• May 29 – Albert Beckaert, Belgian cyclist (b. 1910)
• May 30
  • Alexei Khomich, Russian footballer (b. 1920)
  • Carl Radle, American bassist (b. 1942)
  • Matei Socor, Romanian composer and activist (b. 1908)
• May 31 – Sonny Burke, American composer (b. 1914)

June 1980

• June 1
  • Rube Marquard, American baseball player (b. 1886)
  • Arthur Nielsen, American businessman and engineer (b. 1897)
• June 2 – Vasja Pirc, Slovenian chess grandmaster (b. 1907)
• June 3 – Naum Akhiezer, Ukrainian mathematician (b. 1901)
• June 4
  • Arnold Gartmann, Swiss bobsledder (b. 1904)
  • Leopold Kielholz, Swiss footballer (b. 1911)
• June 5
  • Giorgio Amendola, Italian author and politician (b. 1907)
  • Lauritz Lauritzen, German politician (b. 1910)
  • William Seagrove, English runner (b. 1898)
  • Jean Tarride, French actor and film director (b. 1901)
• June 6 – Ruth Aarons, American table tennis player (b. 1918)
• June 7
  • Elizabeth Craig, Scottish journalist and author (b. 1883)
  • Salvator Gotta, Italian author (b. 1887)
  • Philip Guston, Canadian-American painter (b. 1913)
  • Henry Miller, American author (b. 1891)
  • Adalgisa Nery, Brazilian poet and journalist (b. 1905)
  • Tom Pickett, American politician (b. 1906)
  • Marian Spychalski, Polish architect (b. 1906)
• June 8
  • Ernst Busch, German singer and actor (b. 1900)
  • Alfredo Brilhante da Costa, Brazilian footballer (b. 1904)
  • Greta Schröder, German actress (b. 1892)
• June 9
  • Miguel Capuccini, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1904)
  • Cvjetko Popović, Serbian assassination conspirator and educator (b. 1896)
• June 10
• June 11
  • Ángel Sanz Briz, Spanish diplomat (b. 1910)
  • Wolfgang Ehrl, German wrestler (b. 1912)
  • Frank Murphy, American pole vaulter (b. 1889)
  • Bolesław Woytowicz, Polish composer and pianist (b. 1899)
• June 12
  • Masayoshi Ōhira, Japanese politician, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1910)
  • Egon Pearson, English statistician (b. 1895)
  • Milburn Stone, American actor (b. 1904)
• June 13 – Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and activist (b. 1942)
• June 14
  • Yahya El Mashad, Egyptian scientist (b. 1932)
  • Cosma Spessotto, Italian priest (b. 1923)
• June 15
  • George Hurdalek, German screenwriter (b. 1908)
  • Sergio Pignedoli, Italian cardinal (b. 1910)
• June 16
  • Benoît Faure, Belgian cyclist (b. 1899)
  • Bob Nolan, Canadian-American singer and actor (b. 1908)
  • Jacob Talmon, Polish-Israeli historian (b. 1916)
• June 17
  • Robert Jacquinot, French cyclist (b. 1893)
  • Furio Jesi, Italian historian and author (b. 1941)
• June 18
  • Doris Davenport, American actress (b. 1917)
  • Terence Fisher, English film director (b. 1904)
  • Kazimierz Kuratowski, Polish mathematician and logician (b. 1896)
  • André Leducq, French cyclist (b. 1904)
• June 19
  • Torcuato Fernández-Miranda, Spanish politician (b. 1915)
  • Jijé Gillain, Belgian cartoonist (b. 1914)
  • Georges Hugon, French composer (b. 1904)
• June 20 – Allan Pettersson, Swedish composer and violist (b. 1911)
• June 21
  • Bert Kaempfert, German bandleader and composer (b. 1923)
  • Leonid Martynov, Russian poet (b. 1905)
• June 22
  • Dimitrios Partsalidis, Greek politician (b. 1905)
  • Luigi Ugolini, Italian author (b. 1891)
• June 23
  • Vadim Berezinskii, Russian physicist (b. 1935)
  • Sanjay Gandhi, Indian politician (b. 1946)
  • Kishan Lal, Indian field hockey player (b. 1917)
  • John Laurie, Scottish actor (b. 1897)
  • Alberto Soria, Peruvian footballer (b. 1906)
  • Clyfford Still, American painter (b. 1904)
  • Odile Versois, French actress (b. 1930)
• June 24
  • Connie Mack Berry, American athlete (b. 1915)
  • V. V. Giri, Indian politician, President of India (b. 1894)
  • Boris Kaufman, Russian-American cinematographer (b. 1906)
  • Franklin C. Sibert, American major general (b. 1891)
  • Arnaldo Patusca da Silveira, Brazilian footballer (b. 1894)
• June 25 – Hasan Seyidbeyli, Azerbaijani author and screenwriter (b. 1920)
• June 26
  • Walter Dornberger, German soldier and engineer (b. 1895)
  • Akiva Govrin, Israeli politician (b. 1902)
  • Robert Grassin, French cyclist (b. 1898)
  • Ignatius Jacob III, Syrian patriarch (b. 1913)
  • Luis Marquina, Spanish film director and screenwriter (b. 1904)
• June 27
  • Barney Bigard, American clarinetist (b. 1906)
  • Marcel Fischbach, Luxembourgian politician (b. 1914)
• June 28
  • Helen Gahagan Douglas, American actress and politician (b. 1900)
  • Herbie Faye, American actor (b. 1899)
  • Yoshirō Irino, Japanese composer (b. 1921)
  • José Iturbi, Spanish conductor and pianist (b. 1895)
  • Keijo Liinamaa, Finnish politician, Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1929)
  • Warren Simpson, Australian snooker player (b. 1922)
• June 29 – Jorge Basadre, Peruvian historian (b. 1903)
• June 30
  • Virginia Brown Faire, American actress (b. 1904)
  • Galina Serebryakova, Polish-Russian author (b. 1905)
  • Ladislav Tikal, Czech gymnast (b. 1905)
  • Walter Max Zimmermann, German botanist (b. 1892)

July 1980

• July 1
  • C. P. Snow, English author and chemist (b. 1905)
  • Tadao Takayama, Japanese footballer (b. 1904)
  • Shields Warren, American pathologist (b. 1898)
• July 2
  • Tom Barry, Irish republican (b. 1897)
  • Consetta Caruccio-Lenz, American gymnast (b. 1918)
• July 3
  • Deng Hua, Chinese general (b. 1910)
  • Anatoli Lvovich Kaplan, Russian painter and sculptor (b. 1902)
  • Abdelhamid Sharaf, Iraqi-Jordanian politician, Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1939)
• July 4
  • Gregory Bateson, English anthropologist (b. 1904)
  • Charles Van Enger, American cinematographer (b. 1890)
  • Gerd Frickhöffer, German actor (b. 1913)
  • Maurice Grevisse, Belgian linguist (b. 1895)
  • Walter Ladengast, Austrian actor (b. 1899)
  • Pedro Vallana, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1897)
• July 5
  • A. J. Potter, Irish composer (b. 1918)
  • Yurii Shirokov, Russian author and physicist (b. 1921)
  • Ary Abramovich Sternfeld, Russian rocket scientist (b. 1905)
  • Thaddäus Troll, German journalist and author (b. 1914)
• July 6
  • Frank Cordell, English composer and conductor (b. 1918)
  • Bayard Taylor Horton, American physician (b. 1895)
  • Gail Patrick, American actress and television producer (b. 1911)
  • Mart Raud, Estonian playwright and poet (b. 1903)
• July 7
  • Dmitri Alexandrovich, Russian prince (b. 1901)
  • Reginald Gardiner, English actor (b. 1903)
  • Johannes Meintjes, South African artist and author (b. 1923)
  • Dore Schary, American screenwriter and playwright (b. 1905)
  • Dan White, American actor (b. 1908)
  • Wilhelm Zoepf, German war criminal (b. 1908)
• July 8 – Hans-Joachim Schoeps, German historian (b. 1909)
• July 9
  • Norris Graham, American rower (b. 1906)
  • Arend Heyting, Dutch mathematician and logician (b. 1898)
  • Juan Larrea, Spanish author and poet (b. 1895)
  • Synnøve Lie, Norwegian speed skater (b. 1908)
  • Vinicius de Moraes, Brazilian poet and diplomat (b. 1913)
• July 10
  • Komako Kimura, Japanese activist and actress (b. 1887)
  • Grigory Novak, Russian weightlifter (b. 1919)
  • Francisco Rebolo, Brazilian painter (b. 1902)
  • Alfredo Sivocci, Italian cyclist (b. 1891)
• July 11
  • Zygmunt Berling, Polish general and politician (b. 1896)
  • Peggy Knudsen, American actress (b. 1923)
  • Shellie McMillon, American basketball player (b. 1936)
  • Arsène Mersch, Luxembourgian cyclist (b. 1913)
• July 12
• July 13
  • Joseph Brennan, Irish politician (b. 1913)
  • Seretse Khama, Botswanan politician, President of Botswana (b. 1921)
  • Juan García Oliver, Spanish revolutionary and politician (b. 1901)
• July 14
  • Felix Berezin, Russian mathematician and physicist (b. 1931)
  • Carlos López Moctezuma, Mexican actor (b. 1909)
  • Alan Valentine, American academic (b. 1901)
• July 15
  • Henri Martelli, French composer (b. 1895)
  • Ben Selvin, American musician (b. 1898)
  • Paul Valcke, Belgian fencer (b. 1914)
  • Eda Warren, American film editor (b. 1903)
• July 16
  • Robert Brackman, American painter (b. 1898)
  • Billy Chalmers, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1907)
  • Hubert Jedin, German historian (b. 1900)
• July 17
  • Don Barry, American actor (b. 1912)
  • Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz, Bolivian author and journalist (b. 1931)
  • Boris Delaunay, Russian mathematician and mountaineer (b. 1890)
  • Traian Herseni, Romanian sociologist and journalist (b. 1907)
  • Alan Mansfield, Australian judge and politician (b. 1902)
• July 18 – Andrée Vaurabourg, French pianist (b. 1894)
• July 19
  • Margaret Craven, American author (b. 1901)
  • Nihat Erim, Turkish judge and politician, Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1912)
  • Hans Morgenthau, German-American judge and political scientist (b. 1904)
• July 20
  • Piet Bouman, Dutch footballer (b. 1892)
  • Lado Gudiashvili, Georgian artist (b. 1896)
  • Maria Martinez, American artist (b. 1887)
  • Oszkár Vilezsál, Hungarian footballer (b. 1930)
• July 21
  • Salah al-Din al-Bitar, Iraqi politician, Prime Minister of Iraq (b. 1912)
  • Dakky Kiær, Norwegian politician (b. 1892)
  • Wilson Pinheiro, Brazilian politician (b. 1933)
• July 22
  • Lucien Faucheux, French cyclist (b. 1899)
  • Pierre Coquelin de Lisle, French sport shooter (b. 1900)
  • Kemal Türkler, Turkish labor leader (b. 1926)
• July 23
  • Alfonso Carlos Comín, Spanish engineer and politician (b. 1933)
  • Keith Godchaux, American pianist (b. 1948)
  • Fred Kaps, Dutch magician (b. 1926)
  • Olivia Manning, English author and poet (b. 1908)
  • Mollie Steimer, Ukrainian-Mexican activist (b. 1897)
• July 24
  • Philippe Le Corbeiller, French-American engineer and mathematician (b. 1891)
  • Davis Grubb, American author (b. 1919)
  • Uttam Kumar, Indian actor (b. 1926)
  • Peter Sellers, English actor and comedian (b. 1925)
• July 25
  • Euphemia Haynes, American mathematician (b. 1890)
  • Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian singer and poet (b. 1938)
• July 26
  • Norman Creek, English footballer (b. 1898)
  • François Louis Ganshof, Belgian medievalist (b. 1895)
  • Allen Hoskins, American actor (b. 1920)
  • Ibn-e-Safi, Pakistani author and poet (b. 1928)
  • Federico Munerati, Italian footballer (b. 1901)
  • Gaby Sylvia, Italian-French actress (b. 1920)
  • Kenneth Tynan, English critic and author (b. 1927)
• July 27
  • Rushdy Abaza, Egyptian actor (b. 1926)
  • Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Iranian shah (b. 1919)
• July 28
  • Adolfo Grosso, Italian cyclist (b. 1927)
  • Naoomal Jeoomal, Indian cricketer (b. 1904)
  • Dimo Kazasov, Bulgarian journalist and politician (b. 1886)
  • Otakar Kraus, Czech-English opera singer (b. 1909)
  • Rose Rand, Austrian-American logician and philosopher (b. 1903)
  • Tamás Rényi, Hungarian film director (b. 1929)
  • Haydée Santamaría, Cuban revolutionary and politician (b. 1922)
  • Joaquín Garrigues Walker, Spanish politician (b. 1933)
• July 29
  • Filipp Golikov, Russian commander (b. 1900)
  • Charles McGraw, American actor (b. 1914)
  • Fred Morgan, South African sport shooter (b. 1893)
  • Edwin Graf von Rothkirch und Trach, German general (b. 1888)
• July 30
  • Pascal Jardin, French screenwriter (b. 1934)
  • Elli Schmidt, German activist (b. 1908)
• July 31
  • Pascual Jordan, German physicist (b. 1902)
  • Mohammed Rafi, Indian singer (b. 1924)
  • Bobby Van, American actor and dancer (b. 1928)

August 1980

• August 1
  • Gardner Boultbee, Canadian sailor (b. 1907)
  • Patrick Depailler, French racing driver (b. 1944)
  • Strother Martin, American actor (b. 1919)
  • Frode Sørensen, Danish cyclist (b. 1912)
• August 2
  • Ramkinkar Baij, Indian sculptor and painter (b. 1906)
  • Gigi Ballista, Italian actor (b. 1918)
  • Verdun Scott, New Zealand cricketer and rugby player (b. 1916)
  • Donald Ogden Stewart, American author and screenwriter (b. 1894)
• August 3 – Dionýz Ilkovič, Czech physicist and chemist (b. 1907)
• August 4
  • Joseph Ashbrook, American astronomer (b. 1918)
  • Willis D. Crittenberger, American lieutenant general (b. 1890)
  • Vicente de la Mata, Argentine footballer and manager (b. 1918)
• August 5
  • Pietro Genovesi, Italian footballer (b. 1902)
  • Joachim Hämmerling, Danish-German biologist (b. 1901)
  • Carlo Tamberlani, Italian actor (b. 1899)
• August 6
  • Aino Bach, Estonian artist (b. 1901)
  • Marino Marini, Italian sculptor (b. 1901)
• August 7
  • Henry Everard, English-Rhodesian engineer and politician (b. 1897)
  • Hilde Goldschmidt, German painter (b. 1897)
• August 8
  • Mirta Aguirre, Cuban poet and author (b. 1912)
  • Ivan Buresh, Bulgarian zoologist and entomologist (b. 1885)
  • Kim Hong-il, South Korean general and politician (b. 1898)
  • Erzsébet Metzker Vass, Hungarian politician (b. 1915)
• August 9
  • Nazeer Abbasi, Pakistani politician (b. 1953)
  • Jacqueline Cochran, American pilot (b. 1906)
  • Elliott Nugent, American actor (b. 1896)
• August 10
  • Gareth Evans, English philosopher (b. 1946)
  • Peter Fick, American swimmer (b. 1913)
  • Yahya Khan, Pakistani politician, President of Pakistan (b. 1917)
  • Freddy Koch, Danish actor (b. 1916)
  • Patrick Pons, French motorcycle racer (b. 1952)
  • William J. Sebald, American diplomat (b. 1901)
• August 11
  • Willi Forst, Austrian actor and film director (b. 1903)
  • Erna Pomérantseva, Russian folklorist (b. 1899)
  • Paul Robert, French lexicographer (b. 1910)
  • Mikhail Vodopyanov, Russian pilot (b. 1899)
• August 12
  • Siegfried Borries, German violinist (b. 1912)
  • Billy Hartill, English footballer (b. 1905)
  • Masaaki Tachihara, Japanese author and poet (b. 1926)
  • Manuel Tato, Argentine bishop (b. 1907)
• August 13
  • Bogislaw von Bonin, German colonel and journalist (b. 1908)
  • Eqrem Çabej, Albanian linguist and scholar (b. 1908)
  • Leonas Juozapaitis, Lithuanian footballer (b. 1901)
  • Kolbjørn Varmann, Norwegian priest and politician (b. 1904)
• August 14
  • Diego Fabbri, Italian playwright (b. 1911)
  • Dorothy Stratten, Canadian model and actress (b. 1960)
  • Marion Zinderstein, American tennis player (b. 1896)
• August 15
  • Imru Haile Selassie, Ethiopian politician and diplomat (b. 1892)
  • William Hood Simpson, American general (b. 1888)
• August 16 – Antonio Fayenz, Italian footballer (b. 1899)
• August 17
  • Harold Adamson, American songwriter (b. 1906)
  • Gwen Bristow, American author and journalist (b. 1903)
  • Jakob Klaesi, Swiss psychiatrist (b. 1883)
• August 18
  • Debabrata Biswas, Indian singer (b. 1911)
  • Arman Hovsepian, Iranian actor (b. 1921)
  • Harold Kitching, English rower (b. 1885)
• August 19
  • Otto Frank, German businessman (b. 1889)
  • Sadi Gülçelik, Turkish basketball player and entrepreneur (b. 1930)
• August 20
  • Naemi Briese, Swedish actress (b. 1908)
  • Joe Dassin, American-French singer and actor (b. 1938)
  • Wolfgang Gröbner, Austrian mathematician (b. 1899)
  • Jean Herbert, French interpreter (b. 1897)
  • Bernardo Santareno, Portuguese author (b. 1920)
• August 21
  • Jack Cheetham, South African cricketer (b. 1920)
  • Jennifer Nicks, English skater (b. 1932)
  • Norman Shelley, English actor (b. 1903)
  • Gilbert Warrenton, American cinematographer (b. 1894)
• August 22
  • James Smith McDonnell, American pilot and businessman (b. 1899)
  • Alfred Neubauer, Austrian motorsport manager (b. 1891)
  • Clive Rush, American football player and coach (b. 1931)
  • George R. Stewart, American historian and author (b. 1895)
  • Ruth Stout, American author (b. 1884)
  • Gabriel González Videla, Chilean politician, President of Chile (b. 1898)
• August 23 – Gerhard Hanappi, Austrian footballer (b. 1929)
• August 24
  • Yootha Joyce, English actress (b. 1927)
  • André Parrot, French archaeologist (b. 1901)
• August 25
  • Gower Champion, American actor and theatre director (b. 1919)
  • Ali-Asghar Hekmat, Iranian politician and diplomat (b. 1892)
  • Herbert Panse, German footballer (b. 1914)
  • Dumitru D. Roșca, Romanian philosopher (b. 1895)
• August 26
  • Rosa Albach-Retty, Austrian actress (b. 1874)
  • Tex Avery, American animator (b. 1908)
  • Jimmy Forrest, American saxophonist (b. 1920)
  • Miliza Korjus, Polish-Estonian singer and actress (b. 1909)
  • Knox Manning, American actor (b. 1904)
  • Lucy Morton, English swimmer (b. 1898)
• August 27
  • Ehud Avriel, Israeli diplomat and politician (b. 1917)
  • Carl von Haartman, Finnish lieutenant colonel and actor (b. 1897)
  • Douglas Kenney, American screenwriter and magazine editor (b. 1946)
  • André Marchal, French organist (b. 1894)
• August 28 – Boris Tishin, Russian boxer (b. 1929)
• August 29
  • Franco Basaglia, Italian psychiatrist and neurologist (b. 1924)
  • Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, French journalist and Holocaust denier (b. 1897)
• August 30 – Wanda Capodaglio, Italian actress (b. 1889)
• August 31
  • Tom Godwin, American author (b. 1915)
  • Dahmane El Harrachi, Algerian singer (b. 1926)
  • Arthur Sard, American mathematician (b. 1909)

September 1980

• September 1
  • Pierre Boiteau, French botanist (b. 1911)
  • Jacques Coomans, Belgian cyclist (b. 1888)
• September 2
  • Richard Hanke, German footballer (b. 1910)
  • Claude Ménard, French high jumper (b. 1906)
• September 3
  • Barbara O'Neil, American actress (b. 1910)
  • Dirch Passer, Danish actor (b. 1926)
  • Duncan Renaldo, Romanian-American actor (b. 1904)
  • Fabian von Schlabrendorff, German resistance fighter and judge (b. 1907)
• September 4
  • Erast Garin, Russian actor (b. 1902)
  • Walter Kaufmann, German-American philosopher and translator (b. 1921)
• September 5
  • Don Banks, Australian composer (b. 1923)
  • Barbara Loden, American actress and film director (b. 1932)
• September 6
  • Joe Bradford, English footballer (b. 1901)
  • Jesús Lara Lara, Bolivian author and poet (b. 1898)
  • Christopher Maltby, English major general (b. 1891)
• September 7
  • Reginald Manningham-Buller, English politician (b. 1905)
  • José Ortiz-Echagüe, Spanish entrepreneur and engineer (b. 1886)
  • Bobby Todd, German actor (b. 1904)
• September 8
  • Maurice Genevoix, French author (b. 1890)
  • Willard Libby, American chemist (b. 1908)
• September 9
  • José de Anchieta Fontana, Brazilian footballer (b. 1940)
  • John Howard Griffin, American journalist and author (b. 1920)
  • Aleksander Jabłoński, Polish physicist (b. 1898)
  • Patrick W. Skehan, American scholar (b. 1909)
• September 10 – Ernest Neuhard, French cyclist (b. 1903)
• September 11 – Christian Mergenthaler, German politician (b. 1884)
• September 12
  • János Balogh, Hungarian-Romanian chess player (b. 1892)
  • André Chéron, French chess player (b. 1895)
  • Hans Trier Hansen, Danish gymnast (b. 1893)
  • Lillian Randolph, American actress and singer (b. 1898)
• September 13
  • Lillian Molieri, Nicaraguan actress and dancer (b. 1925)
  • José María Gil-Robles y Quiñones, Spanish politician (b. 1898)
• September 14
  • Domingo Acedo, Spanish footballer (b. 1898)
  • Gérald Fauteux, Canadian judge (b. 1900)
• September 15
  • Bill Evans, American pianist and composer (b. 1929)
  • Juha Mannerkorpi, Finnish author (b. 1915)
  • Hans Schweitzer, German nazi propagandist (b. 1901)
• September 16 – Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist (b. 1896)
• September 17
  • Anastasio Somoza Debayle, Nicaraguan politician, President of Nicaragua (b. 1925)
  • Rex Norris, Indian field hockey player (b. 1899)
  • Emilio Petiva, Italian cyclist (b. 1890)
  • Michael Strong, American actor (b. 1918)
• September 18
  • Frank Anderson, Canadian chess player (b. 1928)
  • Homer Dudley, American engineer (b. 1896)
  • Konstantin Markov, Russian geomorphologist (b. 1905)
  • Kurt Mendelssohn, German-English physicist (b. 1906)
  • Katherine Anne Porter, American journalist and author (b. 1890)
  • Rose Valland, French historian (b. 1898)
• September 19
  • Sol Lesser, American film producer (b. 1890)
  • Erik Ohlsson, Swedish sport shooter (b. 1884)
  • Alfred Rittmann, Swiss volcanologist (b. 1893)
  • Martial Henri Valin, French general (b. 1898)
• September 20
  • Josias Braun-Blanquet, Swiss phytosociologist and botanist (b. 1884)
  • Hans Gilgen, Swiss cyclist (b. 1906)
• September 21
  • Valdir Azevedo, Brazilian composer and conductor (b. 1923)
  • Eberhard von Breitenbuch, German resistance fighter (b. 1910)
  • Carlos Garces, Mexican sprinter and footballer (b. 1900)
• September 22
  • Jimmy Bryant, American guitarist (b. 1925)
  • Milly Mignone, Italian singer and actress (b. 1905)
  • María Luz Morales, Spanish journalist and author (b. 1889)
• September 23 – Jim Fouché, South African politician, President of South Africa (b. 1898)
• September 24 – Theodor Luts, Estonian-Brazilian film director and cinematographer (b. 1896)
• September 25
  • Richard Reeve Baxter, American judge (b. 1921)
  • John Bonham, English drummer (b. 1948)
  • Lewis Milestone, American film director (b. 1895)
  • Marie Under, Estonian poet (b. 1883)
• September 26 – Pat Hare, American guitarist and singer (b. 1930)
• September 27
  • Jacques Favart, French figure skater (b. 1920)
  • Hans Henrik Holm, Norwegian poet and folklorist (b. 1896)
  • Dietrich von Saucken, German general (b. 1892)
• September 28
  • Anne Bowes-Lyon, American-Danish princess (b. 1917)
  • Aryeh Sheftel, Israeli politician (b. 1905)
• September 29
  • Áron Márton, Romanian archbishop (b. 1896)
  • Bindo Maserati, Italian engineer (b. 1883)
• September 30 – Anatoly Ktorov, Russian actor (b. 1898)

October 1980

• October 1
  • Harry Grey, Russian-American author (b. 1901)
  • Patrick E. Haggerty, American engineer (b. 1914)
• October 2
  • Louis Daquin, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1908)
  • Alexandrine Irene, German princess (b. 1915)
  • John Kotelawala, Sri Lankan politician, Prime Minister of Ceylon (b. 1897)
  • Lina Pagliughi, Italian-American opera singer (b. 1907)
  • Filipp Starikov, Russian lieutenant general (b. 1896)
  • Valentin Varlamov, Russian pilot (b. 1934)
  • Carlos García-Bedoya Zapata, Peruvian diplomat (b. 1925)
• October 3
  • Albéric O'Kelly de Galway, Belgian chess grandmaster (b. 1911)
  • Friedrich Karm, Estonian footballer (b. 1907)
  • María Teresa Mora, Cuban chess player (b. 1902)
  • Armand Swartenbroeks, Belgian footballer (b. 1892)
  • Melvin E. Thompson, American politician (b. 1903)
  • Gustav Wagner, German war criminal (b. 1911)
  • Jerzy Żurawlew, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1886)
• October 4
  • Si Green, American basketball player (b. 1933)
  • Pyotr Masherov, Russian politician (b. 1919)
  • László Szollás, Hungarian skater (b. 1907)
• October 5 – Urinboy Rakhmonov, Kyrgyzstani actor and poet (b. 1910)
• October 6
  • Hattie Jacques, English actress (b. 1922)
  • Jean Robic, French cyclist (b. 1921)
  • Salme Setälä, Finnish architect and author (b. 1894)
  • Shigemaru Takenokoshi, Japanese footballer and manager (b. 1906)
  • Ray Walker, American actor (b. 1904)
• October 7
  • Ernst Alm, Swedish skier (b. 1900)
  • Jan Cox, Dutch-Belgian painter (b. 1919)
  • Zigmas Jukna, Lithuanian rower (b. 1935)
• October 8
  • John Dollard, American psychologist (b. 1900)
  • Maria Holst, Austrian actress (b. 1917)
  • Pearl Kendrick, American bacteriologist (b. 1890)
  • Maurice Martenot, French cellist (b. 1898)
  • Arvo Turtiainen, Finnish author (b. 1904)
• October 9
  • Julia Averkieva, Russian anthropologist (b. 1907)
  • Bolesław Bronisław Duch, Polish major general (b. 1885)
  • Filippo Scelzo, Italian actor (b. 1900)
  • Emily Hood Westacott, Australian tennis player (b. 1910)
• October 10
  • Carlo Annovazzi, Italian footballer (b. 1925)
  • Zhao Dan, Chinese actor (b. 1915)
  • Tameichi Hara, Japanese naval commander (b. 1900)
  • Walter Keeton, English cricketer (b. 1905)
  • Antonina Pojarkova, Russian botanist (b. 1897)
  • Buckwheat Thomas, American actor (b. 1931)
• October 11
  • Stephen Kuffler, Hungarian-American neurophysiologist (b. 1913)
  • Abu Salma, Palestinian poet (b. 1909)
• October 12
  • Alberto Demicheli, Uruguayan politician, President of Uruguay (b. 1896)
  • Ambrosine Phillpotts, English actress (b. 1912)
  • Zdzisław Stieber, Polish linguist (b. 1903)
• October 13
  • Joan Meredith, American actress (b. 1907)
  • Gabby Pahinui, American guitarist and singer (b. 1921)
• October 14
  • Jean-François Adam, French actor and film director (b. 1938)
  • Oscar Alemán, Argentine musician (b. 1909)
  • Louis Guilloux, French author (b. 1899)
  • Mary O'Hara, American author and screenwriter (b. 1885)
• October 15
  • Katharine Mary Briggs, English folklorist (b. 1898)
  • Peter Glücksburg, Greek prince (b. 1908)
  • Mikhail Lavrentyev, Russian mathematician (b. 1900)
  • Alexander Mach, Slovakian politician (b. 1902)
  • Apostolos Nikolaidis, Greek athlete (b. 1896)
  • K. B. Sundarambal, Indian actress and singer (b. 1908)
• October 16
  • Luigi Longo, Italian politician (b. 1900)
  • Don Rehfeldt, American basketball player (b. 1927)
  • Carl Romme, Dutch politician (b. 1896)
  • Willy Schäfer, Swiss handball player (b. 1913)
• October 17
  • Sam Flint, American actor (b. 1882)
  • Hans Jakobsen, Danish gymnast (b. 1895)
  • Richard Gavin Reid, Canadian politician (b. 1879)
• October 18
  • Hans Ehard, German politician (b. 1887)
  • Hans Ferdinand Mayer, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1895)
  • Marcello Pagliero, Italian film director and actor (b. 1907)
  • Song Yo-chan, South Korean politician, Prime Minister of South Korea (b. 1918)
• October 19 – Georg Rasch, Danish mathematician and statistician (b. 1901)
• October 20
  • Tino Buazzelli, Italian actor (b. 1922)
  • Stefán Jóhann Stefánsson, Icelandic politician, Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1894)
  • Phoebe Holcroft Watson, English tennis player (b. 1898)
  • Robert Whittaker, American ecologist (b. 1920)
• October 21
  • Kanjūrō Arashi, Japanese actor (b. 1903)
  • Hans Asperger, Austrian physician (b. 1906)
  • Valko Chervenkov, Bulgarian politician, Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1900)
  • Edelmiro Julián Farrell, Argentine general and politician, President of Argentina (b. 1887)
  • Muhammad Ayub Khuhro, Pakistani politician (b. 1901)
• October 22 – Sammy Angott, American boxer (b. 1915)
• October 23
  • Tjerk Leegstra, Dutch-American field hockey player (b. 1912)
  • José Muguerza, Spanish-Mexican footballer (b. 1911)
  • Auguste Trémont, Luxembourgian painter and sculptor (b. 1892)
• October 24 – César Tiempo, Russian-Argentine screenwriter (b. 1906)
• October 25
  • Virgil Fox, American organist (b. 1912)
  • Víctor Galíndez, Argentine boxer (b. 1948)
  • Philipp Hesse-Kassel, German prince (b. 1896)
  • Sahir Ludhianvi, Indian poet and songwriter (b. 1921)
• October 26
  • Marcello Caetano, Portuguese politician, Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1906)
  • Lloyd Metzler, American economist (b. 1913)
  • Per-Olof Östrand, Swedish swimmer (b. 1930)
• October 27
  • Miles Bellville, English sailor (b. 1909)
  • Art Hillhouse, American basketball player (b. 1916)
  • Bernd T. Matthias, German-American physicist (b. 1918)
  • José Rodrigues Miguéis, Portuguese translator and author (b. 1901)
  • Harold E. Moore, American botanist (b. 1917)
  • Gastone Prendato, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1910)
  • Mariano Suárez, Ecuadorian politician, President of Ecuador (b. 1897)
  • Steve Peregrin Took, English musician (b. 1949)
  • John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, American physicist and mathematician (b. 1899)
• October 28 – Alberto Oreamuno Flores, Costa Rican physician and politician (b. 1905)
• October 29
  • George Borg Olivier, Maltese politician, Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1911)
  • Gerhard von Schwerin, German general (b. 1899)
  • Ab Tresling, Dutch field hockey player (b. 1909)
• October 30 – Mohammad Hossein Fahmideh, Iranian soldier (b. 1967)
• October 31
  • Raúl Campero, Mexican equestrian (b. 1919)
  • Elizebeth Smith Friedman, American cryptanalyst and author (b. 1892)
  • Jan Werich, Czech actor and playwright (b. 1905)
  • Victor Sen Yung, American actor (b. 1914)

November 1980

• November 1 – Prudent Joye, French hurdler (b. 1913)
• November 2
  • Elzada Clover, American botanist (b. 1897)
  • Yamakawa Kikue, Japanese author and activist (b. 1890)
  • Willie Sutton, American bank robber (b. 1901)
  • B. G. L. Swamy, Indian botanist and author (b. 1916)
• November 3
  • Lyubov Dobrzhanskaya, Russian actress and singer (b. 1905)
  • Ludwig Hohl, Swiss author (b. 1904)
  • Hans Ruin, Finnish philosopher and author (b. 1891)
• November 4
  • Kenneth Blackburne, English politician (b. 1907)
  • Peter Broeker, Canadian racing driver (b. 1926)
  • Noel Langley, South African-American author and screenwriter (b. 1911)
  • Elsie MacGill, Canadian engineer (b. 1905)
  • Johnny Owen, Welsh boxer (b. 1956)
• November 5
  • Louis Alter, American pianist and composer (b. 1902)
  • Caroline Brady, American philologist (b. 1905)
  • Hermann Niehoff, German general (b. 1897)
  • Mohammed Salim, Indian footballer (b. 1904)
• November 6
  • Erik Asklund, Swedish author (b. 1908)
  • Ali Benouna, Algerian footballer (b. 1912)
  • Lionel Smith, English footballer (b. 1920)
  • Pierre Villon, French politician and resistance fighter (b. 1901)
• November 7
  • Emilio Cigoli, Italian actor (b. 1909)
  • Frank Duff, Irish religious figure and activist (b. 1889)
  • Steve McQueen, American actor (b. 1930)
  • Adrienne Thomas, German author (b. 1897)
• November 8
  • Darpan Abbas, Pakistani actor (b. 1928)
  • Claudio Bincaz, Argentine athlete (b. 1897)
  • Sherm Clark, American rower (b. 1899)
  • László Heller, Hungarian engineer (b. 1907)
  • Octav Troianescu, Romanian chess player (b. 1916)
• November 9
  • Toyen Čermínová, Czech painter (b. 1902)
  • Puran Chand Joshi, Indian politician (b. 1907)
  • Carmel Myers, American actress (b. 1899)
  • Claudia Olsen, Norwegian politician (b. 1896)
  • Andreas Paul Weber, German lithographer and painter (b. 1893)
• November 10 – Milan Vidmar Jr., Slovenian chess player (b. 1909)
• November 11
  • Renato Barbieri, Italian rower (b. 1903)
  • Anna Maslovskaya, Russian soldier (b. 1920)
  • Benode Behari Mukherjee, Indian artist (b. 1904)
• November 12
  • Andrei Amalrik, Russian author (b. 1938)
  • [[Maxim Grabovenko], Russian soldier (b. 1923)
  • Georgy Vinogradov, Russian opera singer (b. 1908)
  • Semyon Volfkovich, Russian chemist (b. 1896)
• November 13 – Elbridge Ross, American ice hockey player (b. 1909)
• November 14
  • Nick Dennis, Greek-American actor (b. 1904)
  • Harry Hardt, Austrian actor (b. 1899)
  • Pierre Magne, French cyclist (b. 1905)
• November 15
  • Joan Fleming, English author (b. 1908)
  • Harri Larva, Finnish runner (b. 1906)
• November 16
  • Boris Aronson, Ukrainian-American set designer (b. 1898)
  • John Cade, Australian psychiatrist (b. 1912)
  • Imogen Hassall, English actress (b. 1942)
  • Frank Luther, American singer (b. 1899)
  • O. V. Wright, American singer (b. 1939)
• November 17
  • David Marr, English neuroscientist and physiologist (b. 1945)
  • Paul Smith, American animator (b. 1906)
  • Hans Wetterström, Swedish canoeist (b. 1923)
• November 18
  • Conn Smythe, Canadian businessman (b. 1895)
  • František Šorm, Czech chemist (b. 1913)
• November 19 – Hazel Forbes, American dancer and actress (b. 1910)
• November 20
  • Hans von Boineburg-Lengsfeld, German general (b. 1889)
  • Avtandil Gogoberidze, Georgian footballer (b. 1922)
  • John McEwen, Australian politician, Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1900)
  • Eugenia Umińska, Polish violinist (b. 1910)
• November 21
  • Sara García, Mexican actress (b. 1895)
  • Jim Parks, English cricketer (b. 1903)
  • Emilio Pujol, Spanish composer and guitarist (b. 1886)
  • László Rédei, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1900)
  • Walter Rilla, German actor (b. 1894)
  • Park Yong-rae, South Korean poet (b. 1925)
• November 22
  • Leonard Barr, American comedian and actor (b. 1903)
  • Harry Halm, German actor (b. 1901)
  • Jules Léger, Canadian judge and politician (b. 1913)
  • John W. McCormack, American politician (b. 1891)
  • Mae West, American actress (b. 1893)
• November 23
  • Hannah Caroline Aase, American botanist and cytologist (b. 1883)
  • Sangad Chaloryu, Thai admiral and politician (b. 1915)
  • Karel Nový, Czech author and journalist (b. 1890)
  • Juliette Roche, French painter and author (b. 1884)
  • Jean Templin, French footballer (b. 1928)
  • Herby Wade, South African cricketer (b. 1905)
• November 24
  • Herbert Agar, American journalist and historian (b. 1897)
  • Mahmoud Khalil Al-Hussary, Egyptian scholar and author (b. 1917)
  • Gabriel Casaccia, Paraguayan author (b. 1907)
  • Dick Haynes, American actor (b. 1911)
  • Jeanne Matthey, French tennis player (b. 1886)
  • George Raft, American actor (b. 1901)
  • Saleh Suleiman, Israeli politician (b. 1888)
  • Henrietta Hill Swope, American astronomer (b. 1902)
• November 25
  • Herbert Flam, American tennis player (b. 1928)
  • Konrad Wachsmann, German architect (b. 1901)
• November 26
  • Kazimierz Dąbrowski, Polish psychologist and physician (b. 1902)
  • Pete DePaolo, American racing driver (b. 1898)
  • Conrad A. Nervig, American film editor (b. 1889)
  • Richard Oelze, German painter (b. 1900)
  • Rachel Roberts, Welsh actress (b. 1927)
  • Ludomir Sleńdziński, Polish painter (b. 1889)
• November 27 – John Hubbard, English physicist (b. 1931)
• November 28
  • Bernard Fergusson, English historian and politician (b. 1911)
  • Gavino Gabriel, Italian composer and ethnomusicologist (b. 1881)
  • Nachum Gutman, Moldovan-Israeli painter and sculptor (b. 1898)
  • Sarah Y. Mason, American screenwriter (b. 1896)
  • Mia May, Austrian actress (b. 1884)
  • Birendranath Sircar, Indian film producer (b. 1901)
• November 29
  • Dorothy Day, American journalist and activist (b. 1897)
  • Edith Evanson, American actress (b. 1896)
  • Babe London, American actress (b. 1901)
• November 30
  • Max Alpert, Russian photographer (b. 1899)
  • Ingrid Bjerkås, Norwegian minister (b. 1901)
  • Mieko Fukui, Japanese basketball player (b. 1956)
  • Joyzelle Joyner, American actress and dancer (b. 1905)
  • Cartola de Oliveira, Brazilian singer and composer (b. 1908)
  • Elizabeth Shoumatoff, Russian-American painter (b. 1888)

December 1980

• December 1
  • Vladimir Alekseev, Russian mathematician (b. 1932)
  • Frank Booth, American swimmer (b. 1910)
  • May Edward Chinn, American physician (b. 1896)
  • Rudolf Hamburger, German architect (b. 1903)
  • Kengal Hanumanthaiah, Indian politician (b. 1908)
  • Tom Mason, American chiropractor and actor (b. 1920)
  • Zareh Vorpuni, Armenian author (b. 1902)
• December 2
  • Harald Bosio, Austrian skier and ski jumper (b. 1906)
  • Roza Eskenazi, Greek dancer and singer (b. 1897)
  • Romain Gary, French author and diplomat (b. 1914)
  • Ole Bjørn Kraft, Danish journalist and politician (b. 1893)
  • Patrick Gordon Walker, English politician (b. 1907)
• December 3
  • Oswald Mosley, English politician (b. 1896)
  • Marie-Antoinette Tonnelat, French theoretical physicist (b. 1912)
  • Eino Virtanen, Finnish wrestler (b. 1908)
• December 4
  • Jenő Brandi, Hungarian water polo player (b. 1913)
  • Doris P. Buck, American author (b. 1898)
  • Francisco de Sá Carneiro, Portuguese politician, Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1934)
  • Gösta Cederlund, Swedish actor and film director (b. 1888)
  • Adelino Amaro da Costa, Portuguese politician (b. 1943)
  • Vicente Escudero, Spanish dancer (b. 1888)
  • Sultan Ibraimov, Kyrgyzstani politician (b. 1927)
  • Stanisława Walasiewicz, Polish-American sprinter (b. 1911)
• December 5
  • Gerrit Keizer, Dutch footballer (b. 1910)
  • Don Taylor, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1923)
• December 6
  • Margot Bennett, Scottish-English author and screenwriter (b, 1912)
  • Charles Deutsch, French engineer (b. 1911)
  • Ève Francis, Belgian-French actress (b. 1886)
  • Bernard Paul, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1930)
• December 7
  • Karl Brunner, German Holocaust perpetrator (b. 1900)
  • Gerard Bucknall, English lieutenant general (b. 1894)
  • Darby Crash, American singer (b. 1958)
  • Constance Howard, American actress (b. 1906)
• December 8
  • Theo Breuer, German footballer (b. 1909)
  • John Lennon, English singer (b. 1940)
  • Petar Trifunović, Serbian chess grandmaster (b. 1910)
• December 9
• December 10
  • Philip MacDonald, English-American author and screenwriter (b. 1900)
  • Benedict Papadopoulos, Turkish-Israeli patriarch (b. 1892)
  • Gevheri Sultan, Turkish princess (b. 1904)
• December 11
  • Josep Llorens i Artigas, Spanish ceramicist (b. 1892)
  • Lyne Chardonnet, French actress (b. 1943)
  • Victoria Louise, German princess (b. 1892)
  • Hawayo Takata, Japanese-American reiki practitioner (b. 1900)
  • Dorothy West, American actress (b. 1891)
• December 12
  • Jean Lesage, Canadian politician (b. 1912)
  • Ilie Subășeanu, Romanian footballer (b. 1906)
• December 13
  • Kiyoshi Hasegawa, Japanese-French artist (b. 1891)
  • Svend Olsen, Danish weightlifter (b. 1908)
  • Hans Richter-Haaser, German pianist (b. 1912)
• December 14
  • Richard Gurley Drew, American inventor (b. 1899)
  • Elston Howard, American baseball player (b. 1929)
  • Norman Taylor, Canadian rower (b. 1899)
  • Joël Le Theule, French politician (b. 1930)
• December 15
  • Hans Fiederer, German footballer (b. 1920)
  • Alvin Gouldner, American sociologist (b. 1920)
  • Peter Gregg, American racing driver (b. 1940)
  • James L. Tuck, English physicist (b. 1910)
• December 16
  • Peter Collinson, English film director (b. 1936)
  • Jan Fethke, German-Polish film director and author (b. 1903)
  • Anatol Josepho, Russian-American inventor (b. 1894)
  • Jose B. Lingad, Filipino politician (b. 1914)
  • Colonel Sanders, American businessman (b. 1890)
  • Stanisław Tatar, Polish colonel (b. 1896)
  • Hellmuth Walter, German engineer (b. 1900)
• December 17
  • Ahmet Berman, Turkish footballer (b. 1932)
  • Marius Katiliškis, Lithuanian-American author (b. 1914)
• December 18
  • Héctor José Cámpora, Argentine politician, President of Argentina (b. 1909)
  • Dobriša Cesarić, Croatian poet and translator (b. 1902)
  • Frances Fuller, American actress (b. 1907)
  • Alexei Kosygin, Russian politician (b. 1904)
  • Albert Margai, Sierra Leonean politician, Prime Minister of Sierra Leone (b. 1910)
  • Gabrielle Robinne, French actress (b. 1886)
  • Ben Travers, English screenwriter and playwright (b. 1886)
• December 19
  • Tarzan Cooper, American basketball player (b. 1907)
  • Nasrollah Entezam, Iranian diplomat and politician (b. 1900)
  • Dora Jung, Finnish artist (b. 1906)
• December 20
  • Dagmar Salén, Swedish sailor (b. 1901)
  • Ben Sharpsteen, American animator (b. 1895)
  • Minoru Shibuya, Japanese film director (b. 1907)
  • Tom Waring, English footballer (b. 1906)
• December 21
  • Marc Connelly, American playwright and actor (b. 1890)
  • Stanisław Jaśkiewicz, Polish actor (b. 1907)
  • Nelson Rodrigues, Brazilian playwright and journalist (b. 1912)
• December 22
  • Miriam Battista, American actress (b. 1912)
  • William Fenn, American cyclist (b. 1904)
  • William Hung, Chinese sinologist and historian (b. 1893)
  • Jorge A. Swieca, Polish-Brazilian physicist (b. 1936)
• December 23
  • Memmo Carotenuto, Italian actor (b. 1908)
  • Astri Taube, Swedish sculptor and illustrator (b. 1898)
• December 24
  • Karl Dönitz, German politician, President of Germany (b. 1891)
  • Heikki Liimatainen, Finnish sprinter (b. 1894)
  • Joaquín Valle, Spanish footballer (b. 1916)
  • Alec Wilder, American composer (b. 1907)
• December 25
  • Olav Dalgard, Norwegian historian and film director (b. 1898)
  • C. H. E. Haspels, Dutch archaeologist (b. 1894)
  • Gu Jiegang, Chinese historian (b. 1893)
  • Marcel Langiller, French footballer (b. 1908)
  • Louis Neefs, Belgian singer (b. 1937)
  • Karel Štěpánek, Czech actor (b. 1899)
• December 26
  • Alexey Eybozhenko, Russian actor (b. 1934)
  • Peck Kelley, American pianist (b. 1898)
  • Tony Smith, American sculptor (b. 1912)
  • Egidio Vagnozzi, Italian cardinal (b. 1906)
• December 27
• December 28
  • Amir Elahi, Pakistani cricketer (b. 1908)
  • Sam Levene, Russian-American actor (b. 1905)
• December 29
  • Roy Engel, American actor (b. 1913)
  • Tim Hardin, American musician and composer (b. 1941)
  • Luigi Lucotti, Italian cyclist (b. 1893)
  • Nadezhda Mandelstam, Russian author (b. 1899)
  • Enric Rabassa, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1920)
  • Alexandra Snezhko-Blotskaya, Russian animator and film director (b. 1909)
• December 30
  • Giuseppe Carraro, Italian bishop (b. 1899)
  • Bruce Hale, American basketball player and coach (b. 1918)
  • Herman Otto Hartley, German-American statistician (b. 1912)
• December 31
  • Abdelhafid Boussouf, Algerian politician (b. 1926)
  • Maurice Cornforth, English philosopher (b. 1909)
  • Ronald Allen Harris, American boxer (b. 1947)
  • Marshall McLuhan, Canadian philosopher (b. 1911)
  • Raoul Walsh, American film director and actor (b. 1887)
  • Arthur Wellard, English cricketer (b. 1902)
  • Robert Pete Williams, American musician (b. 1914)

1981

January 1981

• January 1
  • Maurice Fombeure, French author and poet (b. 1906)
  • Oumarou Ganda, Nigerian film director and actor (b. 1935)
  • Ceferino Garcia, Filipino boxer (b. 1906)
  • Albert Henry, Cook Islands politician and fraudster (b. 1906)
  • Manuel de Irujo, Spanish politician (b. 1891)
  • David Littmann, American cardiologist (b. 1906)
  • Hephzibah Menuhin, American-Australian pianist and author (b. 1920)
  • Kathleen Le Messurier, Australian tennis player (b. 1898)
  • Kazimierz Michałowski, Polish archaeologist (b. 1901)
  • Mauri Rose, American racing driver (b. 1906)
• January 2 – Cora Ratto de Sadosky, Argentine mathematician and activist (b. 1912)
• January 3
  • Park Chong-hwa, South Korean poet and author (b. 1901)
  • Marie Eline, American actress (b. 1902)
  • Karl Evang, Norwegian physician and civil servant (b. 1902)
  • Felton Jarvis, American record producer (b. 1934)
  • Marvin Opler, American anthropologist and psychiatrist (b. 1914)
  • Alice Pauline, English princess (b. 1883)
• January 4 – Kenneth Carey, American sailor (b. 1893)
• January 5
  • Jana Černá, Czech poet and author (b. 1928)
  • Petar Đurković, Serbian astronomer (b. 1908)
  • Ahmad Toukan, Jordanian politician, Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1903)
  • Harold Urey, American chemist (b. 1893)
  • Leopold Wohlrab, Austrian handball player (b. 1912)
• January 6
  • A. J. Cronin, Scottish author (b. 1896)
  • Gennady Gor, Russian author (b. 1907)
  • Wesley Powell, American politician (b. 1915)
  • Gertrude Sandmann, German artist (b. 1893)
  • Antonio Suárez, Spanish cyclist (b. 1932)
  • Lanza del Vasto, Italian philosopher and poet (b. 1901)
• January 7
  • José Ardévol, Cuban composer and conductor (b. 1911)
  • Antonio Castro Leal, Mexican diplomat (b. 1896)
• January 8
  • Stymie Beard, American actor (b. 1925)
  • Shigeru Egami, Japanese karateka (b. 1912)
  • Mortimer von Kessel, German general (b. 1893)
  • Alexander Kotov, Russian chess grandmaster and author (b. 1913)
  • Jessie Rindom, Danish actress (b. 1903)
  • Karel Schummelketel, Dutch equestrian (b. 1897)
• January 9
  • Tommy Byrnes, American basketball player (b. 19230
  • Cozy Cole, American drummer (b. 1909)
  • Sammy Davis, English racing driver (b. 1887)
  • Désiré Koranyi, Hungarian-French footballer (b. 1914)
  • Kazimierz Serocki, Polish composer (b. 1922)
• January 10
  • Katharine Alexander, American actress (b. 1898)
  • Richard Boone, American actor (b. 1917)
  • Chink Crossin, American basketball player (b. 1923)
  • Paul Deichmann, German general (b. 1898)
  • Charlotte Mühe, German swimmer (b. 1910)
  • H. Warner Munn, American author and poet (b. 1903)
• January 11
  • Artur Berger, Austrian-Russian architect and set designer (b. 1892)
  • Beulah Bondi, American actress (b. 1889)
  • Malcolm MacDonald, English politician and diplomat (b. 1901)
• January 12
  • Isobel Elsom, English actress (b. 1893)
  • Marcel Gobillot, French cyclist (b. 1900)
  • Nathan Katz, French poet (b. 1892)
  • Hamad Abu Rabia, Israeli politician (b. 1929)
  • Wladimir Seidel, German-American mathematician (b. 1907)
• January 13 – Finn Olav Gundelach, Danish diplomat (b. 1925)
• January 14
  • José Caeiro, Spanish footballer (b. 1925)
  • Lloyd Spencer, American politician (b. 1893)
• January 15
  • Emanuel Celler, American politician (b. 1888)
  • David E. Lilienthal, American attorney (b. 1899)
  • Doug Livingstone, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1898)
  • Zeno Saltini, Italian priest (b. 1900)
  • Graham Whitehead, English racing driver (b. 1922)
• January 16
  • Ali Dara, Indian-Pakistani field hockey player (b. 1915)
  • Bernard Lee, English actor (b. 1908)
• January 17
  • Hugo Aufderbeck, German theologian (b. 1909)
  • Thomas Jacomb Hutton, English lieutenant general (b. 1890)
  • Timo Murama, Finnish skier (b. 1913)
  • Charles de Tolnay, Hungarian historian (b. 1899)
• January 18
  • Mary Hawton, Australian tennis player (b. 1924)
  • Rufus Isaacs, American game theorist (b. 1914)
• January 19
  • Alberto Héber Usher, Uruguayan politician (b. 1918)
  • Francesca Woodman, American photographer (b. 1958)
• January 20
  • Derick Heathcoat-Amory, English politician (b. 1899)
  • Vittorio Tamagnini, Italian boxer (b. 1910)
• January 21
  • Cuth Harrison, English racing driver (b. 1906)
  • Augusta Jawara, Gambian playwright and activist (b. 1924)
  • Allyn Joslyn, American actor (b. 1901)
  • Russell Procope, American musician (b. 1908)
• January 22
  • Franco Abbiati, Italian musicologist (b. 1898)
  • Rudolf Geiger, German meteorologist and climatologist (b. 1894)
  • María Moliner, Spanish librarian and lexicographer (b. 1900)
  • Rudolph Nissen, German physician (b. 1896)
  • Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani historian and playwright (b. 1903)
• January 23
  • Samuel Barber, American composer and pianist (b. 1910)
  • Leonard Howell, Jamaican religious figure (b. 1898)
  • Roman Rudenko, Russian politician (b. 1907)
  • Bobby Sherwood, American musician (b. 1914)
• January 24
  • Orville Brown, American professional wrestler (b. 1908)
  • Peter Paul Fernandes, Indian field hockey player (b. 1916)
  • Martha Betz Shapley, American astronomer (b. 1890)
• January 25
  • Adele Astaire, American dancer and actress (b. 1896)
  • Ladislav Grosman, Slovakian author and screenwriter (b. 1921)
  • Nathan M. Newmark, American engineer and academic (b. 1910)
  • Lobsang Rampa, English author (b. 1910)
  • Richard Talmadge, German-American stuntman and actor (b. 1892)
  • Mario Zanello, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1903)
• January 26
• January 27 – Léo Collard, Belgian politician (b. 1902)
• January 28
  • Özdemir Asaf, Turkish poet (b. 1923)
  • Alphonse Gemuseus, Swiss equestrian (b. 1898)
• January 29
  • Jack A. W. Bennett, New Zealand-English scholar (b. 1911)
  • Kipp Hamilton, American actress (b. 1934)
  • Lajos Korányi, Hungarian footballer (b. 1907)
  • Reginald Martin, English lacrosse player (b. 1887)
• January 30
  • Viggo Dibbern, Danish gymnast (b. 1900)
  • Theodor Haltenorth, German mammologist (b. 1910)
  • John E. Miller, American politician (b. 1888)
  • Elias Wessén, Swedish linguist (b. 1889)
• January 31
  • William Gopallawa, Sri Lankan politician, President of Sri Lanka (b. 1896)
  • Thomas Webster, American sailor (b. 1910)

February 1981

• February 1
  • Aleksandra Beļcova, Latvian-Russian painter (b. 1892)
  • Donald Wills Douglas Sr., American engineer (b. 1892)
  • Wanda Hendrix, American actress (b.; 1928)
  • Roscoe Holcomb, American musician (b. 1912)
  • Eric Hultén, Swedish botanist (b. 1894)
  • Hans Kalm, Estonian colonel (b. 1889)
  • Charles Luck, English gymnast (b. 1886)
  • Mischa Mischakoff, Ukrainian-American violinist (b. 1895)
  • Ernst Pepping, German composer (b. 1901)
  • Geirr Tveitt, Norwegian composer and pianist (b. 1908)
  • Morris Weitz, American philosopher (b. 1916)
• February 2 – Louise Lorraine, American actress (b. 1904)
• February 3
  • J Harlen Bretz, American geologist (b. 1882)
  • Sammy Crooks, English footballer (b. 1908)
  • Isabel Garcés, Spanish actress (b. 1901)
• February 4 – Mario Camerini, Italian film director and screenwriter (b. 1895)
• February 5
  • Hilda Dresen, Estonian esperantist and translator (b. 1896)
  • Ella Grasso, American politician (b. 1919)
• February 6
  • Ludwig Damminger, German footballer (b. 1913)
  • Frederica Luise, Greek queen (b. 1917)
  • Hugo Montenegro, American film composer (b. 1925)
  • Marthe Robin, French mystic (b. 1902)
• February 7
  • Hermann Esser, German politician and nazi propagandist (b. 1900)
  • Paul Mattick, German-American author and revolutionary (b. 1904)
• February 8
  • Jakob Bender, German footballer (b. 1910)
  • Muhammad Usman Diplai, Indian author and freedom fighter (b. 1908)
• February 9
  • Jack Z. Anderson, American politician (b. 1904)
  • Franz Andrysek, Austrian weightlifter (b. 1906)
  • M. C. Chagla, Indian judge and politician (b. 1900)
  • Mercedes Gleitze, English swimmer (b. 1900)
  • Bill Haley, American musician (b. 1925)
  • Helen Schucman, American psychologist (b. 1909)
  • Tiny Thompson, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1903)
• February 10
  • Paul C. Jones, American politician (b. 1901)
  • Julien Levy, French art dealer (b. 1906)
• February 11
  • Ketti Frings, American author and playwright (b. 1909)
  • Ichikawa Fusae, Japanese activist and politician (b. 1893)
  • Maurice Mandrillon, French skier (b. 1902)
  • Franz Sondheimer, German-English chemist (b. 1926)
• February 12
  • Andreas Alföldi, Hungarian historian and archaeologist (b. 1895)
  • Lev Atamanov, Russian animator (b. 1905)
  • Jean Dixon, American actress (b. 1893)
  • Bruce Fraser, English admiral (b. 1888)
  • Vasily Sokolov, Russian footballer and manager (b. 1912)
• February 13
  • Jack Crapp, English cricketer (b. 1912)
  • Wacław Kuchar, Polish athlete (b. 1897)
  • Evert Verwey, Dutch chemist (b. 1905)
• February 14
  • Esteban Canal, Peruvian chess grandmaster (b. 1896)
  • José Martínez González, Mexican footballer (b. 1953)
• February 15
  • Mike Bloomfield, American guitarist and composer (b. 1943)
  • Dezső Ernster, Hungarian opera singer (b. 1898)
  • Mečislovas Gedvilas, Lithuanian politician (b. 1901)
  • Karl Richter, German conductor (b. 1926)
• February 16 – Herman Wirth, Dutch-German historian (b. 1885)
• February 17
  • Marcel Bezençon, Swiss journalist and television executive (b. 1907)
  • Roberto Etxebarria, Spanish footballer (b. 1908)
  • Al Fitch, American sprinter (b. 1912)
  • David Garnett, English author (b. 1892)
  • Ellen Gottschalch, Danish actress (b. 1894)
  • Dante Secchi, Italian rower (b. 1910)
  • Alberto Zozaya, Argentine footballer (b. 1908)
• February 18
  • Jack Northrop, American aircraft designer (b. 1895)
  • Ibrahim Abdel Hady Pasha, Egyptian politician, Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1896)
• February 19
  • Ryurik Ivnev, Russian poet and author (b. 1891)
  • Douglas Lewis, Canadian boxer (b. 1898)
  • Nino Marchetti, Italian actor (b. 1905)
• February 20
  • Jaap Bakema, Danish architect (b. 1914)
  • Bernard B. Brown, American sound engineer and composer (b. 1898)
  • Nicolas de Gunzburg, French-American magazine editor and socialite (b. 1904)
  • Germaine Poinso-Chapuis, French politician (b. 1901)
• February 21 – Ron Grainer, Australian composer (b. 1922)
• February 22
  • Curtis Bernhardt, German film director (b. 1899)
  • Guy Butler, English sprinter (b. 1899)
  • Imrich Karvaš, Slovakian economist (b. 1903)
  • Kenan Kutub-zade, Russian photojournalist (b. 1906)
  • Michael Maltese, American screenwriter (b. 1908)
  • Walter Simon, German sinologist (b. 1893)
  • Ilo Wallace, American political figure (b. 1888)
• February 23
  • Albert Dejonghe, Belgian cyclist (b. 1894)
  • Shep Fields, American bandleader (b. 1910)
  • Robert L. Fish, American author (b. 1912)
• February 24 – Georgi Nadjakov, Bulgarian physicist (b. 1896)
• February 25
  • Imtiaz Ali Arshi, Indian scholar (b. 1905)
  • Richard Honig, German penologist (b. 1895)
  • Gunichi Mikawa, Japanese admiral (b. 1888)
  • Zalman Susayeff, Israeli politician (b. 1911)
• February 26
  • Robert Aickman, English author and conservationist (b. 1914)
  • Howard Hanson, American composer and conductor (b. 1896)
  • Jennie Smillie Robertson, Canadian surgeon (b. 1878)
  • Tatjana Sais, German actress (b. 1910)
  • Ferenc Tóth, Hungarian wrestler (b. 1909)
• February 27
• February 28
  • Gasret Aliev, Russian soldier (b. 1922)
  • Álvaro Cunqueiro, Spanish poet and author (b. 1911)
  • André Devaux, French sprinter (b. 1894)
  • Virginia Huston, American actress (b. 1925)
  • Albin Lesky, Austrian philologist (b. 1896)

March 1981

• March 1
  • Tulio Botero, Colombian archbishop (b. 1904)
  • Gazanfar Khaligov, Azerbaijani painter (b. 1898)
  • Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Welsh minister and physician (b. 1899)
  • Roberto Francisco Chiari Remón, Panamanian politician, President of Panama (b. 1905)
• March 2 – Anna Sakse, Latvian author and translator (b. 1905)
• March 3
  • William S. Burroughs Jr., American author (b. 1947)
  • Oleg Dal, Russian actor (b. 1941)
  • Rebecca Lancefield, American microbiologist (b. 1895)
• March 4
  • [[Teddy Bowen], English footballer (b. 1903)
  • Franz Kapus, Swiss bobsledder (b. 1909)
  • Karl-Jesko von Puttkamer, German admiral (b. 1900)
  • Torin Thatcher, English actor (b. 1905)
• March 5
  • Brenda de Banzie, English actress (b. 1909)
  • Enrico Gras, Italian film director and screenwriter (b. 1919)
  • Yip Harburg, American songwriter (b. 1896)
  • Paul Hörbiger, Austrian actor (b. 1894)
• March 6
  • Kanson Arahata, Japanese labor leader and politician (b. 1887)
  • George Geary, English cricketer (b. 1893)
  • Clemente Gràcia, Spanish footballer (b. 1897)
  • Garry Marsh, English actor (b. 1902)
  • Henryk Zieliński, Polish historian (b. 1920)
• March 7
  • Ben Carlin, Australian explorer (b. 1912)
  • Bosley Crowther, American journalist and film critic (b. 1905)
  • Sazō Idemitsu, Japanese businessman (b. 1885)
  • Kirill Kondrashin, Russian conductor (b. 1914)
  • Red Pollard, Canadian jockey (b. 1909)
  • Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling, German tennis player (b. 1908)
• March 8 – Martinus Thomsen, Danish author and philosopher (b. 1890)
• March 9
  • Max Delbrück, German-American biophysicist (b. 1906)
  • Telesforo Monzón, Spanish author and politician (b. 1904)
  • Chris von Wangenheim, German photographer (b. 1942)
  • H. S. Wong, Chinese photojournalist (b. 1900)
• March 10
  • Flavio Calzavara, Italian film director and screenwriter (b. 1900)
  • Yaroslav Lopatynskyi, Georgian mathematician (b. 1906)
• March 11
  • Kazimierz Kordylewski, Polish astronomer (b. 1903)
  • Guy Revell, Canadian skater (b. 1941)
• March 12 – Beatrice Armstrong, English diver (b. 1894)
• March 13
• March 14
  • Ken Barrington, English cricketer (b. 1930)
  • Emanuele Cavalli, Italian painter (b. 1904)
  • Paolo Grassi, Italian theatre director (b. 1919)
  • Eleanor Perry, American screenwriter and author (b. 1914)
• March 15 – René Clair, French film director (b. 1898)
• March 16
• March 17 – Dorothy Dwan, American actress (b. 1906)
• March 18
  • John Bekish, Polish-American bishop (b. 1892)
  • Peter H. Dominick, American diplomat and politician (b. 1915)
  • Cahide Sonku, Turkish actress and film director (b. 1919)
• March 19
  • Max Ibel, German brigadier general (b. 1886)
  • Margarita Lecuona, Cuban singer and composer (b. 1910)
  • Tampa Red, American musician (b. 1903)
• March 20
  • Väinö Auer, Finnish geologist and geographer (b. 1895)
  • Irving Jaffee, American speed skater (b. 1906)
  • Sonny Red, American saxophonist and composer (b. 1932)
  • Edith Schultze-Westrum, German actress (b. 1904)
• March 21
  • Per-Axel Arosenius, Swedish actor (b. 1920)
  • Roger Blaizot, French general (b. 1891)
  • Mark Donskoy, Russian film director and screenwriter (b. 1901)
• March 22 – John S. McCain Jr., American admiral (b. 1911)
• March 23
  • Claude Auchinleck, English field marshal (b. 1884)
  • Mike Hailwood, English motorcycle racer and racing driver (b. 1940)
  • Gil Puyat, Filipino politician (b. 1907)
  • Beatrice Tinsley, English-New Zealand astronomer and cosmologist (b. 1941)
• March 24
• March 25
  • Edward Lasker, American chess player and go player (b. 1885)
  • Yonatan Ratosh, Israeli poet and journalist (b. 1908)
• March 26
  • C. D. Darlington, English botanist and geneticist (b. 1903)
  • Frank Fiddes, Canadian rower (b. 1906)
• March 27
  • Jakob Ackeret, Swiss engineer (b. 1898)
  • Mao Dun, Chinese author and politician (b. 1896)
  • John Elfström, Swedish actor (b. 1902)
  • Preben Kaas, Danish comedian and actor (b. 1930)
  • Jüri Kukk, Estonian chemist (b. 1940)
• March 28
  • Nikolay Timofeev-Ressovsky, Russian biologist (b. 1900)
  • Yury Trifonov, Russian author (b. 1925)
• March 29
  • Gunnar Gabrielsson, Swedish sport shooter (b. 1891)
  • Jean Gorin, French painter and sculptor (b. 1899)
  • Helmut Hönl, German theoretical physicist (b. 1903)
  • David Prophet, English racing driver (b. 1937)
  • Nikolay Smaga, Ukrainian racewalker (b. 1938)
  • Eric Williams, Trinidadian politician, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (b. 1911)
• March 30
  • Sherman Edwards, American composer and pianist (b. 1919)
  • Louis Kuehn, American diver (b. 1901)
  • Mikhail Leontovich, Russian physicist (b. 1903)
  • Douglas Lowe, English runner (b. 1902)
• March 31
  • Enid Bagnold, English playwright and author (b. 1889)
  • August Thiele, German admiral (b. 1893)

April 1981

• April 1
  • Agniya Barto, Russian poet and author (b. 1901)
  • Karl Bechert, German theoretical physicist (b. 1901)
  • Dennis Feltham Jones, English author (b. 1918)
  • Rasul Rza, Azerbaijani author and poet (b. 1910)
• April 2
• April 3
  • Leo Kanner, Austrian-American psychiatrist (b. 1894)
  • Rudolf Krčil, Czech footballer and manager (b. 1906)
  • Juan Trippe, American entrepreneur (b. 1899)
  • Ewald Wenck, German actor (b. 1891)
• April 4
  • Yitzhak Frenkel, Israeli painter and sculptor (b. 1899)
  • Carl Ludwig Siegel, German mathematician (b. 1896)
• April 5
  • Émile Hanse, Belgian footballer (b. 1892)
  • Bob Hite, American singer (b. 1943)
  • Pinchus Kremegne, Belarusian artist (b. 1890)
  • Mitsuko Mito, Japanese actress (b. 1919)
• April 6
  • Samuel Ewing, American field hockey player (b. 1906)
  • Alfredo Guarini, Italian film producer and screenwriter (b. 1901)
• April 7
  • Lorne Carr-Harris, Canadian-English ice hockey player (b. 1899)
  • Krzysztof Klenczon, Polish composer and singer (b. 1942)
  • Kit Lambert, English record producer and talent manager (b. 1935)
  • Nahed Sherif, Egyptian actress (b. 1942)
  • Norman Taurog, American film director (b. 1899)
• April 8
  • Omar Bradley, American general (b. 1893)
  • Virginia Kellogg, American screenwriter (b. 1907)
  • Margaret Landis, American actress (b. 1890)
  • Edward Russell, English soldier and author (b. 1895)
  • [[Börje Tapper], Swedish footballer (b. 1922)
• April 9
  • Yahya Taher Abdullah, Egyptian author (b. 1942)
  • Ichiro Nakayama, Japanese economist (b. 1898)
• April 10 – Howard Thurman, American author and philosopher (b. 1899)
• April 11
  • Marie Ney, English actress (b. 1895)
  • Adriaan Pelt, Dutch journalist and civil servant (b. 1892)
• April 12
  • Hendrik Andriessen, Dutch composer and organist (b. 1892)
  • Yasuhiko Asaka, Japanese prince (b. 1887)
  • Petrus Beukers, Dutch sailor (b. 1899)
  • Joe Louis, American boxer (b. 1914)
  • Spiro Moisiu, Albanian major general (b. 1900)
  • Jaap van Praag, Dutch humanist (b. 1911)
  • Fernand Saivé, Belgian cyclist (b. 1900)
• April 13
  • Alice Boner, Swiss painter and sculptor (b. 1889)
  • Crisant Bosch, Spanish footballer (b. 1907)
  • Jiří Schelinger, Czech singer and guitarist (b. 1951)
• April 14
  • Sergio Amidei, Italian screenwriter (b. 1904)
  • Carlos Víctor Aramayo, Bolivian politician (b. 1889)
  • Christian Darnton, English composer and author (b. 1905)
  • Ivan Galamian, Armenian-American violinist (b. 1903)
  • William Henry Vanderbilt III, American politician (b. 1901)
• April 15
  • Lorenzo Guerrero, Nicaraguan politician, President of Nicaragua (b. 1900)
  • Valentine Prax, French painter (b. 1897)
  • Alfred Schläppi, Swiss bobsledder (b. 1898)
  • John Thach, American admiral (b. 1905)
• April 16
  • George Cambridge, English royal (b. 1895)
  • Bernice Hansen, American voice actress (b. 1897)
  • Eric Hollies, English cricketer (b. 1912)
  • Effa Manley, American baseball executive (b. 1897)
  • Leonid Melnikov, Russian politician and diplomat (b. 1906)
  • Alakbar Taghiyev, Azerbaijani composer and author (b. 1924)
• April 17
  • Ivan Dubovoy, Russian major general (b. 1900)
  • Hanns Kilian, German bobsledder (b. 1905)
  • Ludwik Sempoliński, Polish actor (b. 1899)
  • Boļeslavs Sloskāns, Latvian bishop (b. 1893)
• April 18
  • James H. Schmitz, American author (b. 1911)
  • Franz von Sonnleithner, German diplomat (b. 1905)
• April 19
  • Ernst Levy, Swiss musicologist and composer (b. 1895)
  • Christian Poulsen, Danish chess player (b. 1912)
• April 20
  • Aniceti Kitereza, Tanzanian cleric and author (b. 1896)
  • Sabit Orujov, Azerbaijani politician (b. 1912)
  • Hans Söhnker, German actress (b. 1903)
  • Mabel Trunnelle, American actress (b. 1879)
• April 21
  • Dorothy Eady, English-Egyptian academic (b. 1904)
  • Harry Lee, English cricketer (b. 1890)
• April 22 – Renato William Jones, English basketball executive (b. 1906)
• April 23
  • Stefano Bontade, Italian mobster (b. 1939)
  • James Angus Gillan, Scottish rower (b. 1885)
  • Henryk Józewski, Polish artist and politician (b. 1892)
  • Josep Pla, Spanish journalist and author (b. 1897)
  • Nietta Zocchi, Italian actress (b. 1909)
• April 24
  • Pat Conway, American actor (b. 1931)
  • Margarita Glücksburg, Greek-Danish princess (b. 1905)
• April 25
  • Paul Bontemps, French runner (b. 1902)
  • Charles R. MacIver, English sailor (b. 1890)
• April 26
  • Jim Davis, American actor (b. 1909)
  • Madge Evans, American actress (b. 1909)
  • Robert Garioch, Scottish poet and translator (b. 1909)
  • Grunya Sukhareva, Ukrainian psychologist (b. 1891)
• April 27
  • Münir Nurettin Selçuk, Turkish musician (b. 1900)
  • Koji Sone, Japanese judoka (b. 1928)
• April 28
  • Cliff Battles, American football player and coach (b. 1910)
  • Steve Currie, English bassist (b. 1947)
  • Charles Gee, English footballer (b. 1909)
  • Adrian Hoven, Austrian actor (b. 1922)
  • Angiolo Profeti, Italian athlete (b. 1918)
  • Grigory Shpigel, Russian actor (b. 1914)
  • Mickey Walker, American boxer (b. 1903)
• April 29
  • Cat Anderson, American trumpeter (b. 1916)
  • Félix Pollaczek, Austrian-French engineer and mathematician (b. 1892)
• April 30
  • Paco Bienzobas, Spanish footballer (b. 1909)
  • François Bordes, French scientist and author (b. 1919)
  • Jan Filip, Czech prehistorian (b. 1900)
  • Carl Gripenstedt, Swedish fencer (b. 1893)
  • Peter Huchel, German poet (b. 1903)
  • Frank Socolow, American saxophonist and oboist (b. 1923)

May 1981

• May 1
  • Juan Andrade, Spanish journalist and politician (b. 1898)
  • Heinosuke Gosho, Japanese film director and screenwriter (b. 1902)
  • Barry Jones, English actor (b. 1893)
• May 2
  • David Wechsler, Romanian-American psychologist (b. 1896)
  • Harold Wilson, American rower (b. 1903)
• May 3
  • Nargis Dutt, Indian actress and politician (b. 1929)
  • Nahum Eitingon, Russian intelligence officer (b. 1899)
  • Razzoq Hamroyev, Uzbekistani actor and theatre director (b. 1910)
  • Boris Kobe, Slovenian architect and painter (b. 1905)
  • Maud Rosenbaum, American shot putter and tennis player (b. 1902)
• May 4 – Paul Green, American playwright (b. 1894)
• May 5
  • Louis De Ridder, Belgian athlete (b. 1902)
  • Bobby Sands, Irish republican and politician (b. 1954)
• May 6
  • Auguste Cornu, French philosopher and historian (b. 1888)
  • Vladimir Sudets, Russian pilot (b. 1904)
• May 7
  • Peggy Stuart Coolidge, American composer and conductor (b. 1913)
  • Hiromichi Yahara, Japanese colonel (b. 1902)
  • Du Yuming, Chinese lieutenant general (b. 1904)
• May 8
  • Andrei Alexandrovich, Russian prince (b. 1897)
  • Uri Zvi Greenberg, Israeli poet and politician (b. 1896)
  • Mary Malahlela, South African physician (b. 1916)
• May 9
  • Nelson Algren, American author (b. 1909)
  • Ralph Allen, English footballer (b. 1906)
  • Yevgeny Brusilovsky, Russian composer (b. 1905)
  • Durgabai Deshmukh, Indian freedom fighter and politician (b. 1909)
  • Vivian Gibson, English-Austrian actress (b. 1898)
  • Margaret Lindsay, American actress (b. 1910)
  • Rolf Just Nilsen, Norwegian singer and actress (b. 1931)
  • Fritz Umgelter, German television director (b. 1922)
• May 10
  • Ismail Al-Masyhur, Malaysian sultan (b. 1894)
  • Gerhard Boldt, German army officer and author (b. 1918)
  • Imre Gellért, Hungarian gymnast (b. 1888)
  • Nikolai Tishchenko, Russian footballer (b. 1926)
  • John Wilton, Australian general (b. 1910)
• May 11
  • Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist (b. 1897)
  • Simon Kaukhchishvili, Georgian historian and philologist (b. 1895)
  • Jan Koecher, Polish actor (b. 1908)
  • Bob Marley, Jamaican singer (b. 1945)
• May 12
  • HAP Grieshaber, German artist (b. 1909)
  • Francis Hughes, Irish republican (b. 1956)
  • Benjamin Sheares, Singaporean politician, President of Singapore (b. 1907)
• May 13
  • Nathan Abshire, American accordionist (b. 1913)
  • Gustaf Dyrssen, Swedish lieutenant general and pentathlete (b. 1891)
  • Snežana Hrepevnik, Serbian high jumper (b. 1948)
• May 14
  • Michele Andreolo, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1912)
  • Karl-Axel Kullerstrand, Swedish high jumper (b. 1892)
  • J. Posadas, Argentine politician (b. 1912)
• May 15
  • Margery Corbett Ashby, English activist and politician (b. 1882)
  • Taras Bulba-Borovets, Ukrainian resistance fighter (b. 1908)
  • Marina Petrovna, Russian princess (b. 1892)
  • Jiří Tožička, Czech ice hockey player (b. 1901)
• May 16 – Ernie Freeman, American pianist (b. 1922)
• May 17
  • Museyib Baghirov, Azerbaijani soldier (b. 1915)
  • Hugo Friedhofer, American composer and cellist (b. 1901)
  • Alan Gowen, English keyboardist (b. 1947)
  • W. K. C. Guthrie, Scottish scholar (b. 1906)
  • Jeannette Piccard, American balloonist and priest (b. 1895)
  • Soeroso, Indonesian politician (b. 1893)
  • Keith Woodall, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1926)
• May 18
  • Eleonore Baur, German nazi propagandist (b. 1885)
  • Erich Correns, German chemist (b. 1896)
  • Richard Hale, American singer and actor (b. 1892)
  • Arthur O'Connell, American actress (b. 1908)
  • William Saroyan, American author (b. 1908)
  • Josef Silný, Czech footballer (b. 1902)
• May 19
  • Erich Fiedler, German actor (b. 1901)
  • Collingwood Ingram, English ornithologist (b. 1880)
• May 20
  • Binyamin Arditi, Israeli politician (b. 1897)
  • Noboru Nakamura, Japanese film director and screenwriter (b. 1913)
  • Lauri Pihkala, Finnish athlete and inventor (b. 1888)
  • Dimitrije Stojković, Serbian archbishop (b. 1906)
• May 21
  • Billy Allen, English footballer (b. 1917)
  • Raymond McCreesh, Irish republican (b. 1957)
  • Patsy O'Hara, Irish republican (b. 1957)
  • Yuki Shimoda, Japanese actor (b. 1921)
  • Peter Šumi, Serbian gymnast (b. 1895)
  • Charles Yost, American diplomat (b. 1907)
• May 22
  • Roger Legris, French actor (b. 1898)
  • Boris Sagal, Ukrainian-American film director (b. 1923)
• May 23
  • Laura Allende, Chilean politician (b. 1911)
  • George Jessel, American actor and singer (b. 1898)
  • David Lewis, Canadian politician (b. 1909)
• May 24
  • Jaime Roldós Aguilera, Ecuadorian politician, President of Ecuador (b. 1940)
  • Miguel de Capriles, Mexican-American fencer (b. 1906)
  • Nagamasa Kawakita, Japanese entrepreneur and film producer (b. 1903)
  • Monique Keraudren, French botanist (b. 1928)
  • Herb Lubalin, American graphic designer (b. 1918)
  • Herbert Müller, Swiss racing driver (b. 1940)
  • S. K. Patil, Indian politician (b. 1898)
  • Jack Warner, English actor (b. 1895)
  • Hans Wehr, German academic (b. 1909)
• May 25
  • Georg Malmstén, Finnish musician and composer (b. 1902)
  • Ruby Payne-Scott, Australian astronomer (b. 1912)
  • Rosa Ponselle, American opera singer (b. 1897)
• May 26 – Gordey Levchenko, Russian admiral (b. 1897)
• May 27
  • Kit Pedler, English parapsychologist and author (b. 1927)
  • János Pilinszky, Hungarian poet (b. 1921)
  • Eraldo Da Roma, Italian film editor (b. 1900)
  • George O. Smith, American author (b. 1911)
  • Arvo Tuominen, Finnish journalist and politician (b. 1894)
• May 28
  • Frank Berryman, Australian general (b. 1894)
  • Henry Blanke, German-American film producer (b. 1901)
  • Mikhail Nosyrev, Russian composer (b. 1924)
  • John Bryan Ward-Perkins, English historian and archaeologist (b. 1912)
  • Mary Lou Williams, American pianist and composer (b. 1910)
  • Stefan Wyszyński, Polish cardinal (b. 1901)
• May 29
  • Soong Ching-ling, Chinese political figure (b. 1893)
  • Omar Khorshid, Egyptian musician and composer (b. 1945)
  • Mette Lange-Nielsen, Norwegian actress (b. 1929)
  • Hana Růžičková, Czech gymnast (b. 1941)
• May 30
  • Sven Andersson, Swedish footballer and bandy player (b. 1907)
  • Don Ashby, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1955)
  • Gwendolyn B. Bennett, American artist and author (b. 1902)
  • Palghat Mani Iyer, Indian musician (b. 1912)
  • Peter Lindgren, Swedish actor (b. 1915)
  • Ziaur Rahman, Bangladeshi politician, President of Bangladesh (b. 1936)
• May 31
  • Edwina Chamier, Canadian-English skier (b. 1890)
  • Gyula Lóránt, Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1923)
  • Giuseppe Pella, Italian politician, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1902)
  • Michel Rougerie, French motorcycle racer (b. 1950)
  • Barbara Ward, English economist and author (b. 1914)

June 1981

• June 1
  • Jan Zdeněk Bartoš, Czech composer (b. 1908)
  • Carl Vinson, American politician (b. 1883)
  • Wilopo, Indonesian politician, Prime Minister of Indonesia (b. 1909)
• June 2
  • Rino Gaetano, Italian musician (b. 1950)
  • Karl Lärka, Swedish photographer (b. 1892)
• June 3
  • Carleton S. Coon, American anthropologist (b. 1904)
  • Eric Dalton, South African cricketer (b. 1906)
• June 4
  • Ray Abrams, American animator (b. 1906)
  • Mohammed Zaman Kiani, Indian-Pakistani major general and politician (b. 1910)
  • Cedric Liddell, Canadian rower (b. 1913)
• June 5
  • Philo McCullough, American actor (b. 1893)
  • Ahmed Rami, Egyptian poet and songwriter (b. 1892)
  • Miguel Contreras Torres, Mexican film director and producer (b. 1899)
• June 6 – Elfego Hernán Monzón Aguirre, Guatemalan army officer and politician, President of Guatemala (b. 1912)
• June 7
  • Jan Burgers, Dutch physicist (b. 1895)
  • Ödön Téry, Hungarian gymnast (b. 1890)
  • Joseph Wright Jr., Canadian rower (b. 1906)
• June 8
  • Erwin Helmchen, German footballer (b. 1907)
  • Lydia Lopokova, Russian ballerina (b. 1891)
  • Shovkat Mammadova, Azerbaijani opera singer (b. 1897)
• June 9
  • Colgate Darden, American politician (b. 1897)
  • Russell Hayden, American actor (b. 1912)
  • Allen Ludden, American game show host (b. 1917)
  • Erich Obst, German geographer (b. 1886)
• June 10
  • Jenny Maxwell, American actress (b. 1941)
  • Phelps Phelps, American politician (b. 1897)
• June 11 – Maria Czapska, Polish author and historian (b. 1894)
• June 12
  • Mahmoud Fawzi, Egyptian politician, Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1900)
  • P. B. Gajendragadkar, Indian judge (b. 1901)
  • Eleanor Hunt, American actress (b. 1910)
  • Evalyn Knapp, American actress (b. 1906)
  • Humberto Tomasina, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1898)
• June 13
  • Joan Benham, English actress (b. 1918)
  • Eduardo Gomes, Brazilian politician (b. 1896)
  • Jean-Louis Lafosse, French racing driver (b. 1941)
  • Amácio Mazzaropi, Brazilian film director and actor (b. 1912)
  • Ruth Miller, American actress (b. 1903)
  • Joseph de Goislard de Monsabert, French general (b. 1887)
  • George Walsh, American actor (b. 1889)
• June 14
  • Hayyim Schirmann, Israeli scholar (b. 1904)
  • Alberto Winkler, Italian rower (b. 1932)
• June 15
  • Robert Sidney Cahn, English chemist (b. 1899)
  • Philip Toynbee, English author (b. 1916)
• June 16
  • Jule Gregory Charney, American meteorologist (b. 1917)
  • Hans Coper, German-English potter (b. 1920)
  • Thomas Playford IV, Australian politician (b. 1896)
  • Julio Quintana, Peruvian footballer (b. 1904)
• June 17
  • Richard O'Connor, English general (b. 1889)
  • Yitzhak Zuckerman, Polish resistance fighter (b. 1915)
• June 18 – George Katona, Hungarian-American psychologist (b. 1901)
• June 19
  • Senya Fleshin, Ukrainian revolutionary and photographer (b. 1894)
  • Anya Phillips, American fashion designer (b. 1955)
  • Lotte Reiniger, German animator and film director (b. 1899)
  • Alfred Santell, American film director and producer (b. 1895)
• June 20
  • Henri G. Busignies, French engineer (b. 1905)
  • Sigurd Leeder, German dancer and choreographer (b. 1902)
  • Balkrishna Sama, Nepalese playwright (b. 1903)
• June 21
  • Mostafa Chamran, Iranian physicist and politician (b. 1932)
  • Johan Fabricius, Dutch author and journalist (b. 1899)
  • Alphonse Higelin, French gymnast (b. 1897)
  • Alberto Suppici, Uruguayan footballer and manager (b. 1898)
• June 22
  • Petter Hol, Norwegian gymnast (b. 1883)
  • Lola Lane, American actress (b. 1906)
• June 23
  • Jean Brunier, French cyclist (b. 1896)
  • Zarah Leander, Swedish singer and actress (b. 1907)
• June 24
  • Johannes Kichlefeldt, Estonian footballer (b. 1901)
  • Betty McKinnon, Australian sprinter (b. 1925)
• June 25
• June 26
  • Manuel Maples Arce, Mexican poet and author (b. 1900)
  • Don Megowan, American actor (b. 1922)
  • Werner Teske, German spy (b. 1942)
• June 27
  • Bansi Chandragupta, Indian art director and production designer (b. 1924)
  • Henning Koppel, Danish artist (b. 1918)
• June 28
  • Mohammad Beheshti, Iranian judge and philosopher (b. 1928)
  • Terry Fox, Canadian athlete and activist (b. 1958)
  • Peter Kreuder, German-Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1905)
  • Heinrich Strecker, Austrian composer (b. 1893)
• June 29
  • Russell Drysdale, Australian painter (b. 1912)
  • Antero Kivi, Finnish discus thrower (b. 1904)
• June 30 – Maria Bogda, Polish actress (b. 1909)

July 1981

• July 1
  • Stephen Bosustow, Canadian-American film producer (b. 1911)
  • Marcel Breuer, Hungarian-American architect (b. 1902)
  • Zdeněk Burian, Czech painter (b. 1905)
  • Carlos de Oliveira, Portuguese poet and author (b. 1921)
  • George Voskovec, Czech actor (b. 1905)
• July 2
  • Billy Gillespie, Irish footballer (b. 1891)
  • Robert Emmett Keane, American actor (b. 1883)
  • Paul Schmiedlin, Swiss footballer (b. 1897)
• July 3
  • Artūras Andrulis, Lithuanian soldier and basketball player (b. 1922)
  • Ross Martin, American actor (b. 1920)
• July 4
  • Helmut Gröttrup, German engineer and rocket scientist (b. 1916)
  • Violet Heming, English actress (b. 1895)
  • Isao Kimura, Japanese actor (b. 1923)
  • Walter Charles Langer, American psychoanalyst (b. 1899)
  • Niels Erik Nørlund, Danish mathematician (b. 1885)
• July 5
  • Pedro Henrique, Brazilian royal pretender (b. 1909)
  • Manuel Urrutia Lleó, Cuban politician, President of Cuba (b. 1901)
  • Jorge Urrutia, Chilean composer and author (b. 1905)
• July 6 – Kaare Fostervoll, Norwegian politician (b. 1891)
• July 7
  • Qahtan Muhammad al-Shaabi, Yemeni politician (b. 1920)
  • Keefe Brasselle, American actor (b. 1923)
  • João Cruz, Portuguese footballer (b. 1915)
  • Shizuto Masunaga, Japanese author (b. 1925)
• July 8
  • Jim Armstrong, Australian wrestler and rugby player (b. 1917)
  • Joe McDonnell, Northern Irish republican (b. 1951)
  • Peace Pilgrim, American spiritual leader (b. 1908)
  • János Széles, Hungarian boxer (b. 1909)
  • Abdusamat Taymetov, Uzbekistani pilot (b. 1909)
• July 9
  • John Franklin Bardin, American author (b. 1916)
  • Éva Földes, Hungarian author (b. 1914)
  • Oscar van Hemel, Belgian-Dutch violinist (b. 1892)
  • Meyer Levin, American author (b. 1905)
  • Shūōshi Mizuhara, Japanese poet and physician (b. 1892)
  • Nigar Rafibeyli, Azerbaijani author (b. 1913)
• July 10 – Giuseppe Tosi, Italian discus thrower (b. 1916)
• July 11
• July 12
  • János Hajdú, Hungarian fencer (b. 1904)
  • Boris Polevoy, Russian author (b. 1908)
• July 13
  • Helmuth Beukemann, German general (b. 1894)
  • Robert Hinde, English major general (b. 1900)
  • Martin Hurson, Irish republican (b. 1956)
• July 14
• July 15
• July 16
  • Harry Chapin, American singer (b. 1942)
  • Richard Hyland, American rugby player (b. 1900)
  • Antoine de Lévis-Mirepoix, French historian and author (b. 1884)
  • Jacob Wolfowitz, German-American statistician and theorist (b. 1910)
• July 17 – Sam Bartram, English footballer and manager (b. 1914)
• July 18
  • Janet Craxton, English oboist (b. 1929)
  • Armando Peverelli, Italian cyclist (b. 1921)
• July 19
  • Daisuke Itō, Japanese film director and screenwriter (b. 1898)
  • José María Pemán, Spanish journalist and poet (b. 1897)
  • Karl Steinhoff, German politician (b. 1892)
  • [[Clemente Yerovi], Ecuadorian politician, President of Ecuador (b. 1904)
• July 20
  • Dimitrios Hatzis, Greek author and journalist (b. 1913)
  • Dale Hennesy, American production designer and art director (b. 1926)
  • Abram Kardiner, American psychiatrist (b. 1891)
  • János Rajz, Hungarian actor (b. 1907)
• July 21
  • Ugo Sasso, Italian actor (b. 1910)
  • Lyudmila Zhivkova, Bulgarian politician (b. 1942)
• July 22
  • Manuela de Jesús Arias Espinosa, Mexican nun (b. 1904)
  • Hermann von Hanneken, German general (b. 1890)
  • Nedim Kaleci, Turkish footballer (b. 1900)
• July 23
  • Ivan Eklind, Swedish football referee (b. 1905)
  • Harvey Fletcher, American physicist (b. 1884)
  • Lazar Lyusternik, Russian mathematician (b. 1899)
  • Kazuo Taoka, Japanese gangster (b. 1913)
• July 24
  • Greta Almroth, Swedish actress (b. 1888)
  • Hamka Amrullah, Indonesian philosopher and author (b. 1908)
  • Ali Merdan, Iranian musician (b. 1904)
• July 25
  • Yosef Goldschmidt, Israeli politician (b. 1907)
  • Gerardo de León, Filipino film director and actor (b. 1913)
• July 26 – Stafford L. Warren, American physician and radiologist (b. 1896)
• July 27
  • Paul Brunton, English author (b. 1898)
  • Katharina Boll-Dornberger, Austrian-German physicist (b. 1909)
  • Henri Gaussen, French botanist (b. 1891)
  • Gilbert Gray, American sailor (b. 1902)
  • Elizabeth Rona, Hungarian chemist (b. 1890)
  • William Wyler, German-American film director (b. 1902)
• July 28
  • Harry Bloom, South African journalist and author (b. 1913)
  • Wilbur Cush, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1928)
  • Stanley Rother, American priest (b. 1935)
• July 29
  • Yevgeny Kharitonov, Russian poet (b. 1941)
  • Robert Moses, American politician (b. 1888)
  • James Edward Walsh, American bishop (b. 1891)
• July 30
  • Ven Te Chow, Chinese-American engineer (b. 1919)
  • Bud Tingelstad, American racing driver (b. 1928)
• July 31
  • Enrique Hertzog, Bolivian politician, Prime Minister of Bolivia (b. 1897)
  • Ioachim Moldoveanu, Romanian footballer (b. 1913)
  • László Raffinsky, Romanian footballer (b. 1905)
  • Omar Torrijos, Panamanian politician (b. 1929)

August 1981

• August 1
  • Julius Arigi, Austrian fighter pilot (b. 1895)
  • Jan Batory, Polish film director and screenwriter (b. 1921)
  • Paddy Chayefsky, American playwright and screenwriter (b. 1923)
  • Kevin Lynch, Irish republican (b. 1956)
• August 2
  • Delfo Cabrera, Argentine runner (b. 1919)
  • Stefanie Clausen, Danish diver (b. 1900)
  • Kieran Doherty, Irish republican (b. 1955)
  • Athol Meech, Canadian rower (b. 1907)
• August 3
  • Wolfgang Heidenfeld, German chess player and composer (b. 1911)
  • Pietro Romanelli, Italian archaeologist (b. 1889)
• August 4
  • Melvyn Douglas, American actor (b. 1901)
  • Yaakov Shabtai, Israeli author and playwright (b. 1934)
• August 5
  • Reginald Kell, English clarinetist (b. 1906)
  • Jerzy Neyman, Polish mathematician and statistician (b. 1894)
  • Samuel Slavson, American engineer and journalist (b. 1890)
• August 6
  • Mario Abbate, Italian singer and actor (b. 1927)
  • Corradino D'Ascanio, Italian engineer (b. 1891)
  • Arnaldo Lucentini, Italian footballer (b. 1930)
  • José Suárez, Spanish actor (b. 1919)
• August 7
  • Silvano Arieti, Italian-American psychiatrist (b. 1914)
  • Nelli Gorbatkova, Russian field hockey player (b. 1958)
• August 8
  • Jan van Diepenbeek, Dutch footballer (b. 1903)
  • Thomas McElwee, Irish republican (b. 1957)
• August 9
  • Stane Derganc, Slovenian gymnast (b. 1893)
  • Max Hoffman, Austrian-American businessman (b. 1904)
• August 10
  • Josef Hauser, German water polo player (b. 1910)
  • Carlos Iturraspe, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1910)
  • Jack Kiefer, American statistician (b. 1924)
  • Alan Lascelles, English civil servant (b. 1887)
  • Duško Popov, Serbian spy (b. 1912)
• August 11 – Valentine Tessier, French actress (b. 1892)
• August 12
  • Shirley Grey, American actress (b. 1902)
  • Rosita Melo, Uruguayan-Argentine pianist and composer (b. 1897)
  • Angelo Moratti, Italian businessman (b. 1909)
• August 13 – José María Minella, Argentine footballer and manager (b. 1909)
• August 14
  • Karl Böhm, Austrian conductor (b. 1894)
  • Stevan Doronjski, Serbian civil servant (b. 1919)
  • Dudley Nourse, South African cricketer (b. 1910)
  • Salah Abdel Sabour, Egyptian poet (b. 1931)
• August 15
  • Alfred H. Barr Jr., American historian (b. 1902)
  • Carlo Buscaglia, Italian footballer (b. 1909)
  • Karl Gero, Liechtenstein royal (b. 1899)
  • Ralph Kubail, German rower (b. 1952)
  • Viktor Wagner, Russian mathematician (b. 1908)
• August 16
  • Gratsian Botev, Russian canoeist (b. 1928)
  • Robert Krasker, Australian cinematographer (b. 1913)
• August 17
  • Mariama Bâ, Senegalese author (b. 1929)
  • Giorgio Ferroni, Italian film director (b. 1908)
  • William M. Jennings, American ice hockey executive (b. 1920)
  • Dominick Napolitano, American mobster (b. 1930)
• August 18
  • Robert Russell Bennett, American composer (b. 1894)
  • John F. Hennessey, American tennis player (b. 1900)
  • Bernard Koopman, French-American mathematician (b. 1900)
  • Anita Loos, American actress (b. 1888)
  • Alexa von Porembsky, Hungarian-German actress (b. 1906)
  • Leonhard Weiß, German footballer (b. 1907)
• August 19
  • Raoul Lesueur, French cyclist (b. 1912)
  • Jessie Matthews, English actress (b. 1907)
• August 20
  • Michael Devine, Irish republican (b. 1954)
  • Vladimir Fetin, Russian film director (b. 1925)
  • Alexander Radó, Hungarian cartographer and spy (b. 1899)
• August 21
  • Eddie Byrne, Irish actor (b. 1911)
  • Kaka Kalelkar, Indian activist and journalist (b. 1885)
• August 22
  • Enrique Maier, Spanish tennis player (b. 1910)
  • Vicente Manansala, Filipino painter (b. 1910)
  • Kuniko Mukōda, Japanese screenwriter (b. 1929)
  • Sașa Pană, Romanian poet and author (b. 1902)
  • Glauber Rocha, Brazilian film director and screenwriter (b. 1939)
• August 23
  • Trevor Coker, New Zealand rower (b. 1949)
  • Rolf Herricht, German comedian (b. 1927)
• August 24
  • Bill Coleman, American trumpeter (b. 1904)
  • William F. Dean, American major general (b. 1899)
  • Iosif Tolchanov, Russian actor (b. 1891)
• August 25 – Leonidas Alaoglu, Canadian-American mathematician (b. 1914)
• August 26
  • Leon Dmochowski, Ukrainian-American immunologist (b. 1909)
  • Lee Hays, American singer (b. 1914)
  • Tove Mohr, Norwegian physician and activist (b. 1891)
• August 27
  • Paul Herget, American astronomer (b. 1908)
  • Valeri Kharlamov, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1948)
  • Vasily Lytkin, Russian poet and translator (b. 1895)
  • Henri Victor Vallois, French anthropologist and paleontologist (b. 1889)
• August 28
  • Paul Anspach, Belgian fencer (b. 1882)
  • Béla Guttmann, Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1899)
  • Jørgen Ryg, Danish comedian and musician (b. 1927)
• August 29
  • Guy Stevens, English disc jockey and record producer (b. 1943)
  • Lowell Thomas, American author (b. 1892)
• August 30
  • Mohammad-Javad Bahonar, Iranian theologian and politician, Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1933)
  • François Seydoux de Clausonne, French diplomat (b. 1905)
  • Alice Frey, Belgian painter (b. 1895)
  • Aleksandr Khanov, Russian actor (b. 1904)
  • Mohammad-Ali Rajai, Iranian politician, President of Iran (b. 1933)
  • Vera-Ellen Rohe, American dancer and actress (b. 1921)
  • Andreas Stratos, Greek politician and historian (b. 1905)
  • Rita Webb, English actress (b. 1904)
• August 31
  • Elias Joseph Bickerman, Israeli scholar (b. 1897)
  • Pierre Billon, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1901)

September 1981

• September 1
  • Ann Harding, American actress (b. 1902)
  • Albert Speer, German architect and war criminal (b. 1905)
• September 2
  • Tadeusz Baird, Polish composer (b. 1928)
  • Enid Lyons, Australian politician (b. 1897)
  • Andrija Maurović, Croatian comic book writer and artist (b. 1901)
• September 3
  • Ella Hall, American actress (b. 1896)
  • Rensis Likert, American psychologist (b. 1903)
• September 4
  • Frank J. Becker, American politician (b. 1899)
  • Carl Knowles, American basketball player (b. 1910)
  • David Peel, English actor (b. 1920)
• September 5 – Aimé Maeght, French art collector and publisher (b. 1906)
• September 6
  • Arthur Casagrande, American engineer (b. 1902)
  • Lucas Demare, Argentine film director and screenwriter (b. 1910)
  • Rashid bin Humaid Al Nuaimi III, Emirati sheikh (b. 1902)
  • Maria Palmer, Austrian-American actress (b. 1917)
• September 7
  • Christy Brown, Irish author and painter (b. 1932)
  • Edwin Albert Link, American inventor (b. 1904)
• September 8
  • Patricio Caicedo, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1899)
  • Austen Campbell, English footballer (b. 1901)
  • Gerry Geran, American ice hockey player (b. 1896)
  • Nisargadatta Maharaj, Indian guru (b. 1897)
  • George Nostrand, American basketball player (b. 1924)
  • Wang Shujin, Chinese martial artist (b. 1904)
  • Charles Mortram Sternberg, American-Canadian paleontologist (b. 1885)
  • Roy Wilkins, American activist (b. 1901)
  • Hideki Yukawa, Japanese theoretical physicist (b. 1907)
• September 9
  • Ricardo Balbín, Argentine politician (b. 1904)
  • Helen Humes, American singer (b. 1913)
  • Jacques Lacan, French psychoanalyst (b. 1901)
  • Phiroze Palia, Indian cricketer (b. 1910)
• September 10 – Riad Al Sunbati, Egyptian composer and musician (b. 1906)
• September 11
  • William Bascom, American folklorist and anthropologist (b. 1912)
  • Richard Dorson, American folklorist (b. 1916)
  • Mikhail Dudko, Russian ballerina (b. 1902)
  • Rob Lockhart, English general (b. 1893)
  • Frank McHugh, American actor (b. 1898)
  • Cecil McMaster, South African racewalker (b. 1895)
• September 12
  • Eugenio Montale, Italian poet (b. 1896)
  • Vadim Sobko, Ukrainian author (b. 1912)
• September 13
  • Gregory Breit, Russian-American physicist (b. 1899)
  • Georg Haas, Austrian-Israeli paleontologist and herpetologist (b. 1905)
  • Lya Imber, Ukrainian-Venezuelan pediatrician (b. 1914)
• September 14
  • Yasuji Kiyose, Japanese composer (b. 1900)
  • Furry Lewis, American guitarist (b. 1893)
• September 15
  • Chick Bullock, American singer (b. 1898)
  • Sara Haden, American actress (b. 1898)
  • Rafael Méndez, Mexican trumpeter (b. 1906)
• September 16
  • Michael DiSalle, American politician (b. 1908)
  • Akira Iwasaki, Japanese film critic and historian (b. 1903)
  • Fritz Lange, German politician and resistance fighter (b. 1898)
• September 17
• September 18 – Felia Doubrovska, Russian dancer (b. 1896)
• September 19
  • Janina Ipohorska, Polish painter and author (b. 1914)
  • Ángel Perucca, Argentine footballer (b. 1918)
• September 20
  • Marcelle Cahn, French painter (b. 1895)
  • Bill Ridding, English footballer and manager (b. 1911)
  • Emil Skog, Finnish politician (b. 1897)
• September 21
  • Tony Aubin, French composer (b. 1907)
  • Carlo Bandirola, Italian motorcycle racer (b. 1915)
  • Nigel Patrick, English actor (b. 1912)
• September 22
  • Giovanni Bragolin, Italian painter (b. 1911)
  • Néstor Carballo, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1929)
  • Harry Warren, American songwriter (b. 1893)
• September 23
  • Chief Dan George, Canadian actor (b. 1899)
  • Ofelia Hooper, Panamanian sociologist and activist (b. 1900)
• September 24 – Patsy Kelly, American actress (b. 1910)
• September 25
  • Saifoulaye Diallo, Guinean politician (b. 1923)
  • Randhir Singh Gentle, Indian field hockey player and coach (b. 1922)
  • Per Erland Berg Wendelbo, Norwegian botanist (b. 1927)
• September 26
  • Roy Cochran, American sprinter and hurdler (b. 1919)
  • Ludwig Goldbrunner, German footballer (b. 1908)
  • Bùi Thanh Liêm, Vietnamese cosmonaut (b. 1949)
• September 27
  • Bronisław Malinowski, Polish runner (b. 1951)
  • Robert Montgomery, American actor (b. 1904)
• September 28
  • Karl Artelt, German politician (b. 1890)
  • Rómulo Betancourt, Venezuelan politician, President of Venezuela (b. 1908)
  • Yakov Pavlov, Russian sergeant major (b. 1917)
  • Daniel du Toit, South African astronomer (b. 1917)
• September 29
  • Ksenija Atanasijević, Serbian philosopher (b. 1894)
  • Irving Chernev, Ukrainian-American author (b. 1900)
  • Vittorio Cioni, Italian rower (b. 1900)
  • Javad Fakoori, Iranian colonel and politician (b. 1936)
  • Tommy Moore, English drummer (b. 1931)
  • Mousa Namjoo, Iranian colonel and politician (b. 1938)
  • Bill Shankly, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1913)
  • Mirosław Turko, Polish-Ukrainian footballer and manager (b. 1918)
  • Frances Yates, English historian (b. 1899)
• September 30
  • Cuckoo Moray, Indian dancer and actress (b. 1928)
  • Flemming Weis, Danish composer (b. 1898)

October 1981

• October 1
  • Malcolm de Chazal, Mauritian author and painter (b. 1902)
  • Robert Tripp Ross, American politician (b. 1903)
  • Paan Singh Tomar, Indian soldier and athlete (b. 1932)
• October 2
  • Józef Korbas, Polish footballer (b. 1914)
  • Fidel LaBarba, American boxer (b. 1905)
  • Hazel Scott, Trinidadian-American pianist and singer (b. 1920)
• October 3
  • Anna Hedvig Büll, Estonian missionary (b. 1887)
  • Tadeusz Kotarbiński, Polish philosopher and logician (b. 1886)
  • Walter Mehring, German author (b. 1896)
  • Suehiro Nishio, Japanese activist and politician (b. 1891)
  • Shinji Sogō, Japanese civil servant (b. 1884)
• October 4
  • Franz Amrehn, German politician (b. 1911)
  • Dorothy Dare, American actress and singer (b. 1911)
  • Freddie Lindstrom, American baseball player (b. 1905)
  • Ceslaus Sipovich, Belarusian bishop (b. 1914)
• October 5
  • Hadj Abderrahmane, Algerian actor (b. 1941)
  • Gloria Grahame, American actress and singer (b. 1923)
  • Rodolphe Guilland, French scholar (b. 1888)
  • Helge Gustafsson, Swedish gymnast (b. 1900)
  • Anđelko Marušić, Serbian footballer (b. 1911)
  • Bhagwati Charan Verma, Indian author (b. 1903)
• October 6
  • Ibrahim Muhammad Didi, Maldivian politician, President of the Maldives (b. 1902)
  • Roy Henkel, German-Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1905)
  • Elemér Kocsis, Romanian footballer and manager (b. 1910)
  • Blanche Noyes, American pilot (b. 1900)
  • Anwar Sadat, Egyptian politician, President and Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1918)
• October 7
  • Sutomo, Indonesian politician (b. 1920)
  • Georges Vajda, Hungarian-French scholar (b. 1908)
  • Alexander Zaporozhets, Russian psychologist (b. 1905)
• October 8
  • Armando Bó, Argentine actor and film director (b. 1914)
  • Heinz Kohut, Austrian-American psychoanalyst (b. 1913)
  • Oscar Moore, American guitarist (b. 1916)
• October 9
  • František Fadrhonc, Czech football manager (b. 1914)
  • Julio Libonatti, Argentine footballer and manager (b. 1901)
• October 10
  • Omer Taverne, Belgian cyclist (b. 1904)
  • Mica Todorović, Bosnian painter (b. 1900)
• October 11 – Max Sørensen, Danish diplomat and judge (b. 1913)
• October 12
  • Julius Eisenecker, German fencer (b. 1903)
  • Carl-Axel Heiknert, Swedish actor (b. 1924)
  • Umberto Spadaro, Italian actor (b. 1904)
• October 13
  • Antonio Berni, Argentine painter (b. 1905)
  • Marius Casadesus, French violinist and composer (b. 1892)
  • Philippe Étancelin, French racing driver (b. 1896)
  • Juan Gracia, Spanish polo player (b. 1901)
  • Nikolai Morozov, Russian footballer and manager (b. 1916)
  • Jean Renaudie, French architect (b. 1925)
• October 14 – Clelia Matania, Italian actress (b. 1918)
• October 15
  • Nabia Abbott, American scholar (b. 1897)
  • Rafael Dieste, Spanish poet and philosopher (b. 1899)
  • Philip Fotheringham-Parker, English racing driver (b. 1907)
  • Zoltán Huszárik, Hungarian film director and screenwriter (b. 1931)
  • Frank de Kova, American actor (b. 1910)
  • Håkan Westergren, Swedish actor (b. 1899)
• October 16
  • Stanley Clements, American actor (b. 1926)
  • Moshe Dayan, Israeli politician (b. 1915)
  • Fred Ford, English footballer (b. 1916)
  • Edward Heyman, American songwriter (b. 1907)
  • Haim Landau, Israeli politician (b. 1916)
  • Orazio Mariani, Italian sprinter (b. 1915)
  • R. Muthuraman, Indian actor (b. 1929)
  • Alberto Soriano, Argentine composer and ethnomusicologist (b. 1915)
  • Ivan Udodov, Russian weightlifter (b. 1924)
• October 17
  • Albert Cohen, Swiss author (b. 1895)
  • Kannadasan, Indian philosopher and poet (b. 1927)
  • Mounir Mourad, Egyptian singer and actor (b. 1922)
  • Lina Tsaldari, Greek politician (b. 1887)
• October 18
• October 19
  • Nils Asther, Swedish actor (b. 1897)
  • Gabrijel Bukatko, Serbian hierarch (b. 1913)
  • Dan Coe, Romanian footballer (b. 1941)
  • Dymphna Cusack, Australian author and playwright (b. 1902)
  • Georgi Zharkov, Russian footballer and manager (b. 1915)
• October 20
  • Mary Chase, American playwright and author (b. 1906)
  • Annot Jacobi, German painter (b. 1894)
• October 21
  • Moyshe Altman, Moldovan author (b. 1890)
  • Viljo Halme, Finnish footballer (b. 1907)
  • Wilfried Puis, Belgian footballer (b. 1943)
• October 22 – David Cecil, English hurdler and politician (b. 1905)
• October 23
  • Reg Butler, English sculptor (b. 1913)
  • Abdul Qayyum Khan, Pakistani politician (b. 1901)
  • Curt Stern, German-American geneticist (b. 1902)
  • Maksud Syundyukle, Russian poet and translator (b. 1904)
  • Otylia Tabacka, Polish runner (b. 1907)
• October 24
  • Bernard Gavoty, French organist and musicologist (b. 1908)
  • Edith Head, American costume designer (b. 1897)
  • Alexander Kevitz, American chess player (b. 1902)
• October 25
  • Barbara Bedford, American actress (b. 1903)
  • Ariel Durant, Russian-American historian and author (b. 1898)
• October 26
  • Glenn Anders, American actor (b. 1889)
  • Junzaburō Ban, Japanese comedian and actor (b. 1908)
  • D. R. Bendre, Indian poet (b. 1896)
  • Reinhold Bernt, German actor (b. 1902)
  • Jutta Jol, German actress (b. 1896)
  • Henri Reynders, Belgian priest (b. 1903)
• October 27
  • Anders Knutsson Ångström, Swedish physicist and meteorologist (b. 1888)
  • Nico Dostal, Austrian composer (b. 1895)
  • Lūcijs Endzelīns, Latvian-Australian chess grandmaster (b. 1909)
  • Louis Metcalf, American trumpeter (b. 1905)
  • John Warburton, English-American actor (b. 1903)
• October 28 – K. N. Ezhuthachan, Indian author and scholar (b. 1911)
• October 29
  • Georges Brassens, French singer and poet (b. 1921)
  • Dmitry Chechulin, Russian architect (b. 1901)
  • Hugo Hadwiger, Swiss mathematician (b. 1908)
  • Leonard Hawkes, English geologist (b. 1891)
  • Stylianos Mavromichalis, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1899)
  • Herbert Westermark, Swedish physician (b. 1891)
• October 30
  • Eliyahu Elyashar, Israeli politician and author (b. 1899)
  • Lew Jenkins, American boxer (b. 1916)
• October 31 – Ante Katalinić, Croatian rower (b. 1895)

November 1981

• November 1
• November 2 – Wally Wood, American comic book writer and artist (b. 1927)
• November 3
  • Thérèse Casgrain, Canadian politician (b. 1896)
  • Edvard Kocbek, Slovenian poet and author (b. 1904)
  • Eraldo Monzeglio]], Italian footballer and manager (b. 1906)
  • Dragutin Najdanović, Serbian footballer (b. 1908)
  • Isa Quensel, Swedish actress and opera singer (b. 1905)
• November 4
  • Sverre Helgesen, Norwegian high jumper and journalist (b. 1903)
  • K. C. Hsiao, Chinese historian and political scientist (b. 1897)
  • Mauritz Sandberg, Swedish footballer (b. 1895)
  • Vladimir Shcherbakov, Russian general (b. 1901)
• November 5
  • Hocine Benmiloudi, Algerian footballer (b. 1955)
  • Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, Tibetan buddhist (b. 1924)
  • Jean Eustache, French film director (b. 1938)
  • Stanisław Mazur, Polish mathematician (b. 1905)
  • Mário Pedrosa, Brazilian critic and journalist (b. 1900)
• November 6 – Mian Abdul Rashid, Pakistani judge and philosopher (b. 1889)
• November 7
  • William A. Dawson, American politician (b. 1903)
  • Will Durant, American historian and philosopher (b. 1885)
  • Añjela Duval, French author and poet (b. 1905)
  • Werner Eisbrenner, German composer and conductor (b. 1908)
  • Robert Maxwell Ogilvie, English scholar (b. 1932)
• November 8 – Ellen Bang, German actress (b. 1906)
• November 9
  • Rolf von Goth, German actor (b. 1906)
  • Lois Wilfred Griffiths, American mathematician (b. 1899)
  • Frank Malina, American engineer and painter (b. 1912)
  • Henry Potez, French businessman (b. 1891)
• November 10 – Abel Gance, French film director and producer (b. 1889)
• November 11
  • Alf Brustellin, Austrian film director and screenwriter (b. 1940)
  • [[Greta Kuckhoff], German resistance fighter (b. 1902)
  • Evsei Liberman, Ukrainian economist (b. 1897)
  • Erwin Schulz, German war criminal (b. 1900)
• November 12
  • James Corson, American discus thrower (b. 1906)
  • William Holden, American actor (b. 1918)
  • Yosef Kremerman, Israeli politician (b. 1926)
  • Hermann Pilnik, German-Argentine chess grandmaster (b. 1914)
• November 13
  • Gunnar Andersen, Danish cyclist (b. 1911)
  • Bice Lazzari, Italian painter (b. 1900)
  • Gerhard Marcks, German sculptor (b. 1889)
  • Vicente Ferreira Pastinha, Brazilian martial artist (b. 1889)
  • Shmuel Shoresh, Israeli politician (b. 1913)
• November 14 – Anton Podbevšek, Slovenian poet (b. 1898)
• November 15
  • Walter Heitler, German physicist (b. 1904)
  • Enid Markey, American actress (b. 1894)
  • Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai, Iranian scholar and philosopher (b. 1903)
• November 16 – Morgan Conway, American actress (b. 1903)
• November 17
  • Bob Eberly, American singer (b. 1916)
  • Sibyl M. Rock, American inventor (b. 1909)
  • Raimundo Rolón, Paraguayan politician, President of Paraguay (b. 1903)
• November 18
  • Alexey Okladnikov, Russian archaeologist and historian (b. 1908)
  • Fredric Wertham, German-American psychiatrist and author (b. 1895)
• November 19 – Henri Padou, French water polo player and swimmer (b. 1898)
• November 20
  • Knud Ejler Løgstrup, Danish philosopher and theologian (b. 1905)
  • Mustafa Topchubashov, Azerbaijani surgeon (b. 1895)
  • George Yeh, Chinese diplomat and politician (b. 1904)
• November 21
  • Ejner Federspiel, Danish actor (b. 1896)
  • Harry von Zell, American actor (b. 1906)
• November 22
  • Milan Kašanin, Serbian historian and critic (b. 1895)
  • Hans Krebs, German-English biochemist (b. 1900)
  • Andreina Pagnani, Italian actress (b. 1906)
• November 23 – Olaf Caroe, Indian civil servant (b. 1892)
• November 24 – Jean Boyer, French footballer (b. 1901)
• November 25
  • Jack Albertson, American actor (b. 1907)
  • Romain Bellenger, French cyclist (b. 1894)
  • Raichand Boral, Indian film composer (b. 1903)
  • Sigbjørn Hølmebakk, Norwegian author (b. 1922)
  • Morris Kirksey, American sprinter and rugby player (b. 1895)
• November 26
  • Max Euwe, Dutch chess grandmaster and mathematician (b. 1901)
  • Regino Sainz de la Maza, Spanish guitarist and composer (b. 1896)
  • Pierre Pibarot, French footballer and manager (b. 1916)
  • Ernesto Prinoth, Italian racing driver (b. 1923)
• November 27
  • Bern von Baer, German general major (b. 1911)
  • Cláudio Coutinho, Brazilian football manager (b. 1939)
  • Lotte Lenya, Austrian-American singer and actress (b. 1898)
  • Ivan Managarov, Russian colonel general (b. 1898)
  • Víctor Urruchúa, Mexican actor and film director (b. 1912)
• November 28
  • Braswell Deen, American politician (b. 1893)
  • Arthur Jensen, Danish actor (b. 1897)
  • Marcel Raymond, Swiss critic (b. 1897)
• November 29
  • Giuseppe Anatrelli, Italian actor (b. 1925)
  • Jack Cameron, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1900)
  • T. H. Marshall, English sociologist (b. 1893)
  • Dieudonné Smets, Belgian cyclist (b. 1901)
  • William Vale, English fighter pilot (b. 1914)
  • Natalie Wood, American actress (b. 1938)
• November 30
  • Robert H. Harris, American actor (b. 1911)
  • [[Charles Eric Maine], English author (b. 1921)
  • Károly Molter, Hungarian author and playwright (b. 1890)

December 1981

• December 1
  • Estrid Ericson, Swedish interior designer and businesswoman (b. 1894)
  • Taft Jordan, American trumpeter (b. 1915)
  • Russ Manning, American comic book artist (b. 1929)
  • Jacques Rémy, Turkish-French screenwriter (b. 1911)
• December 2
  • Wallace Harrison, American architect (b. 1895)
  • Francis Hunter, American tennis player (b. 1894)
  • Alexis Kagame, Rwandan philosopher and linguist (b. 1912)
  • Rudolf Prack, Austrian actor (b. 1905)
• December 3
  • Charles Paul Alexander, American entomologist (b. 1889)
  • Cola Debrot, Dutch author and politician (b. 1902)
  • Jan Langedijk, Dutch speed skater (b. 1910)
• December 4
  • Alphonse Burnand, American sailor (b. 1896)
  • Karl Gilg, Czech-German chess player (b. 1901)
  • Zoilo Saldombide, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1903)
  • Ole Sarvig, Danish author and poet (b. 1921)
• December 5 – Charles Barton, American film director and actor (b. 1902)
• December 6
  • Thomas Gardiner Corcoran, American political advisor (b. 1900)
  • Mebrure Gönenç, Turkish politician (b. 1900)
  • Harry Harlow, American psychologist (b. 1905)
• December 7
  • William Edmunds, Italian-American actor (b. 1886)
  • Ava Helen Pauling, American activist (b. 1903)
• December 8
  • Big Walter Horton, American harmonica player (b. 1921)
  • Kenneth Moore, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1910)
  • Ferruccio Parri, Italian politician, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1890)
• December 9
  • Franz Ollendorff, Israeli physicist (b. 1900)
  • Rudolph Scholz, American rugby player (b. 1896)
  • Rudolf Viertl, Austrian footballer (b. 1902)
• December 10 – John D. Eshelby, English scientist (b. 1916)
• December 11
  • Zoya Fyodorova, Russian actress (b. 1907)
  • Xavier Grall, French journalist and poet (b. 1930)
  • Terry Jennings, American composer (b. 1940)
  • Michele Orecchia, Italian cyclist (b. 1903)
  • Raymond Rouleau, Belgian actor and film director (b. 1904)
• December 12
  • J. L. Mackie, Australian philosopher (b. 1917)
  • Furio Meniconi, Italian actor (b. 1924)
  • Michael Postan, English historian (b. 1899)
• December 13
  • Cornelius Cardew, English composer (b. 1936)
  • Anders Österling, Swedish poet and critic (b. 1884)
• December 14
  • Victor Kugler, Austrian-Dutch Holocaust survivor (b. 1900)
  • Clarence Oldfield, South African sprinter (b. 1899)
  • Anton Perwein, Danish handball player (b. 1911)
  • Marian Shockley, American actress (b. 1908)
• December 15
  • Gertrud Baer, German activist (b. 1890)
  • Claud Cockburn, English journalist (b. 1904)
  • Sam Jones, American musician (b. 1924)
  • Max Steenbeck, German physicist (b. 1904)
  • Karl Struss, American cinematographer (b. 1886)
  • Mikhail Zharov, Russian actor (b. 1899)
• December 16
  • Zhang Dingcheng, Chinese politician (b. 1898)
  • Manuel Sanchis i Guarner, Spanish philologist and historian (b. 1911)
  • Joseph Murphy, Irish author and minister (b. 1898)
• December 17
  • Franz Dahlem, German politician (b. 1892)
  • Antiochos Evangelatos, Greek composer and conductor (b. 1903)
  • Ada Kramm, Norwegian actress (b. 1899)
• December 18
  • Juan Miles, Argentine polo player (b. 1895)
  • Maria Luisa Righini-Bonelli, Italian historian (b. 1917)
  • Mehmet Shehu, Albanian politician, Prime Minister of Albania (b. 1913)
• December 19 – Elmar Saar, Estonian footballer and ice hockey player (b. 1908)
• December 20
  • Győző Mogyorossy, Hungarian gymnast (b. 1914)
  • Hamoodur Rahman, Pakistani judge and academic (b. 1910)
• December 21 – Tattybübü Tursunbayeva, Kyrgyzstani actress (b. 1944)
• December 22
• December 23
  • Noël Bernard, Romanian journalist (b. 1925)
  • Luther H. Evans, American political scientist (b. 1902)
  • P. Kakkan, Indian politician and freedom fighter (b. 1908)
• December 24 – Alma Hinding, Danish actress (b. 1882)
• December 25
  • Gheorghe Mihoc, Romanian mathematician and statistician (b. 1906)
  • Heinrich Welker, German physicist (b. 1912)
• December 26
  • Henry Eyring, Mexican-American chemist (b. 1901)
  • Nissankara Savitri, Indian actress and singer (b. 1935)
  • Suat Hayri Ürgüplü, Turkish politician, Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1903)
• December 27
  • Hoagy Carmichael, American songwriter and actor (b. 1899)
  • Edwin H. Knopf, American film producer and screenwriter (b. 1899)
  • Jinous Nemat Mahmoudi, Iranian meteorologist (b. 1928)
  • Natalia Pavlovna Paley, Russian aristocrat (b. 1905)
• December 28
  • Allan Dwan, Canadian-American film director (b. 1885)
  • Mollie King, American actress (b. 1895)
  • Bram van Velde, Dutch painter (b. 1895)
  • Seishi Yokomizo, Japanese author (b. 1902)
• December 29
  • Miroslav Krleža, Croatian author (b. 1893)
  • Demetrio Aguilera Malta, Ecuadorian author (b. 1909)
• December 30
  • Ángel Allegri, Argentine footballer (b. 1926)
  • Karl Arndt, German general (b. 1892)
  • Curt Eisner, German entomologist (b. 1890)
  • Yevgeny Fyodorov, Russian geophysicist (b. 1910)
  • Ellen Jansø, Danish actress (b. 1907)
  • Franjo Šeper, Croatian cardinal (b. 1905)
• December 31
  • Yefim Dzigan, Russian film director and screenwriter (b. 1898)
  • Günther Krappe, German general (b. 1893)
  • Paolo Mazza, Italian football manager (b. 1901)
  • Constantin Rădulescu, Romanian footballer and manager (b. 1896)

1982

January 1982

• January 1
  • Paul Belmondo, French sculptor (b. 1898)
  • Estella Blain, French actress (b. 1930)
  • Victor Buono, American actor (b. 1938)
  • Margot Grahame, English actress (b. 1911)
  • Frano Kršinić, Croatian sculptor (b. 1897)
  • Sucharit Suda, Thai royal (b. 1895)
• January 2
  • Victor Fontan, French cyclist (b. 1892)
  • Fred Harman, American cartoonist (b. 1902)
  • Tomás Hernández, Spanish footballer (b. 1930)
  • Nikola Šop, Bosnian poet (b. 1904)
  • Leo Stern, Austrian-German activist (b. 1901)
• January 3
  • Heidi Blomstedt, Finnish potter (b. 1911)
  • Tommy Bryant, American double bassist (b. 1930)
  • Fritz Laband, German footballer (b. 1925)
• January 4
  • Konrad Granström, Swedish gymnast (b. 1900)
  • Trygve Hoff, Norwegian businessman and author (b. 1895)
  • Gorilla Jones, American boxer (b. 1906)
  • Francisco Valdés Subercaseaux, Chilean bishop (b. 1908)
• January 5
  • Hans Conried, American actor (b. 1917)
  • Edmund Herring, Australian lieutenant general (b. 1892)
  • Ishag Jafarzadeh, Azerbaijani archaeologist and ethologist (b. 1895)
  • Harvey Lembeck, American actor (b. 1923)
• January 6 – Kurt Ettinger, Austrian fencer (b. 1901)
• January 7 – Kay Hammond, American actress (b. 1901)
• January 8
  • Grégoire Aslan, Swiss-Armenian actor and musician (b. 1908)
  • Daan de Groot, Dutch cyclist (b. 1933)
  • Reta Shaw, American actress (b. 1912)
• January 9 – Vido Musso, American saxophonist (b. 1913)
• January 10
  • Mohammed Helmy, Egyptian physician (b. 1901)
  • Paul Lynde, American actor and comedian (b. 1926)
  • Leopold Trepper, Polish-Israeli intelligence officer (b. 1904)
• January 11
  • Bruno Diekmann, German politician (b. 1897)
  • Enrique Flamini, Argentine-Italian footballer (b. 1917)
  • Matsumoto Hakuō I, Japanese actor (b. 1910)
  • Jiro Horikoshi, Japanese engineer (b. 1903)
  • Ronald Lewis, English actor (b. 1928)
• January 12
  • Joseph Charles Bequaert, Belgian-American naturalist (b. 1886)
  • Emil Hass Christensen, Danish actor (b. 1903)
  • William Hendriksen, German-American scholar and author (b. 1900)
  • Dorothy Howell, English composer and pianist (b. 1898)
• January 13
  • Marcel Camus, French film director (b. 1912)
  • Franklin Hansen, American sound engineer (b. 1897)
• January 14 – Ragnar Larsen, Norwegian footballer (b. 1925)
• January 15
• January 16
  • Ali Dashti, Iranian author and politician (b. 1897)
  • Ramón J. Sender, Spanish author and journalist (b. 1901)
  • Aleksandr Shabalin, Russian admiral (b. 1914)
  • Mahmud Yunus, Indonesian preacher (b. 1899)
• January 17
  • Jusuf Gërvalla, Albanian activist and author (b. 1943)
  • Juan O'Gorman, Mexican painter and architect (b. 1905)
  • Johannes Pedersen, Danish gymnast (b. 1892)
  • Herbert Richardson, Canadian rower (b. 1903)
  • Varlam Shalamov, Russian author and journalist (b. 1907)
  • Osvaldo Zubeldía, Argentine footballer and manager (b. 1927)
• January 18 – Huang Xianfan, Chinese historian and ethnologist (b. 1899)
• January 19
  • Roy Goodall, English footballer (b. 1902)
  • Elis Regina, Brazilian singer (b. 1945)
  • Semyon Tsvigun, Russian intelligence officer (b. 1917)
  • Marya Zaturenska, Ukrainian-American poet (b. 1902)
• January 20
  • Jack Barker, English footballer (b. 1906)
  • Marc Demeyer, Belgian cyclist (b. 1950)
  • Viktor Hierländer, Austrian footballer and manager (b. 1900)
• January 21
  • Elvio Banchero, Italian footballer (b. 1904)
  • Penelope Dudley-Ward, English actress (b. 1914)
  • H. D. F. Kitto, English scholar (b. 1897)
  • Hans Tröger, German general (b. 1896)
• January 22
  • Alfons Dorfner, Austrian canoeist (b. 1911)
  • Eduardo Frei Montalva, Chilean politician, President of Chile (b. 1911)
  • Tommy Tucker, American singer and pianist (b. 1933)
• January 23
  • Hope Hampton, American actress and film producer (b. 1897)
  • M. B. Shetty, Indian stuntman and actor (b. 1931)
• January 24
  • Karol Borsuk, Polish mathematician (b. 1905)
  • Alfredo Ovando Candía, Bolivian politician, President of Bolivia (b. 1918)
  • Fernando Sánchez Polack, Spanish actor (b. 1920)
• January 25
  • Pierre Canivet, French curler and tennis player (b. 1890)
  • Mikhail Suslov, Russian politician (b. 1902)
• January 26 – Erosi Manjgaladze, Georgian actor (b. 1925)
• January 27
  • Alexander Abusch, German journalist and politician (b. 1902)
  • Frank John William Goldsmith, English disaster survivor (b. 1902)
  • Trần Văn Hương, Vietnamese politician (b. 1902)
  • Félix Labisse, French painter (b. 1905)
  • Guido Colonna di Paliano, Italian diplomat (b. 1908)
  • Daniel Sundén-Cullberg, Swedish sailor (b. 1907)
• January 28
  • Élisabeth Chaplin, French-Italian painter (b. 1890)
  • Veli Merikoski, Finnish politician (b. 1905)
• January 29
  • Boubou Hama, Nigerien author and historian (b. 1906)
  • Palden Thondup Namgyal, Indian king (b. 1923)
  • Hironori Ōtsuka, Japanese karateka (b. 1892)
  • Roger Stanier, Canadian microbiologist (b. 1916)
• January 30
  • Refaat Al-Gammal, Egyptian spy (b. 1927)
  • Tora Dahl, Swedish author (b. 1886)
  • Victor Glushkov, Russian mathematician (b. 1923)
  • Stanley Holloway, English actor (b. 1890)
  • Lightnin' Hopkins, American musician (b. 1912)
  • Helen Lynd, American sociologist and philosopher (b. 1896)
  • Frances O'Connor, American entertainer (b. 1914)
  • Hans Hermann Schaufuß, German actor (b. 1893)
  • Ludwig Schmid-Wildy, German actor (b. 1896)
• January 31
  • Florindo Sassone, Argentine violinist and composer (b. 1912)
  • Jiří Srnka, Czech composer (b. 1907)

February 1982

• February 1
  • Eilert Bøhm, Norwegian gymnast (b. 1900)
  • Raghunath Murmu, Indian author (b. 1905)
  • Mimi Sodré, Brazilian footballer (b. 1892)
  • Erwin Vierow, German general (b. 1890)
• February 2
  • Paulino Frydman, Polish-Argentine chess player (b. 1905)
  • Otto Ites, German admiral (b. 1918)
  • Antenor Patiño, Bolivian businessman (b. 1896)
  • Mohan Lal Sukhadia, Indian politician (b. 1916)
• February 3
• February 4
  • Sue Carol, American actress and talent agent (b. 1906)
  • Alex Harvey, Scottish musician (b. 1935)
  • Georg Konrad Morgen, German judge and lawyer (b. 1909)
• February 5
  • Jean Etcheberry, French rugby player (b. 1901)
  • Dolores Moran, American actress and model (b. 1926)
  • Antero Ojala, Finnish speed skater (b. 1916)
  • Lea Piltti, Finnish opera singer (b. 1904)
  • Ronald Welch, Welsh author (b. 1909)
• February 6 – Ben Nicholson, English painter (b. 1894)
• February 7
  • Swami Karpatri, Indian philosopher (b. 1907)
  • Joseph Reinhardt, French guitarist (b. 1912)
• February 8
  • Kurt Edelhagen, German bandleader (b. 1920)
  • Henry Sturgis Morgan, English-American banker (b. 1900)
  • Hermann Rauschning, German politician (b. 1887)
  • Willy Rumpf, German politician (b. 1903)
  • Jovan Veselinov, Serbian politician, President of Serbia (b. 1906)
  • Lauri Virtanen, Finnish runner (b. 1904)
  • John Hay Whitney, American diplomat (b. 1904)
• February 9
  • Ivan Banov, Russian major general (b. 1916)
  • Marko Mesić, Croatian general (b. 1901)
  • Marthe Richard, French politician and spy (b. 1889)
• February 10
  • Helen Dukas, German-American secretary and author (b. 1896)
  • Françoise Henry, French scholar (b. 1902)
  • Khershed Meherhomji, Indian cricketer (b. 1911)
  • Margrit Rainer, Swiss comedian and actress (b. 1914)
• February 11
  • Annan Knudsen, Norwegian sailor and rower (b. 1887)
  • Eleanor Powell, American actress (b. 1912)
  • Takashi Shimura, Japanese actor (b. 1905)
• February 12 – Victor Jory, Canadian-American actor (b. 1902)
• February 13
  • Chiemi Eri, Japanese singer and actress (b. 1937)
  • Zeng Jinlian, Chinese record holder (b. 1964)
  • Frank Séchehaye, Swiss footballer (b. 1907)
• February 14
  • Gabriel Arout, Russian-French author (b. 1909)
  • Antonio Casas, Spanish footballer (b. 1911)
  • W. Lee Wilder, Austrian-American film director and producer (b. 1904)
• February 15
  • Ivan Thys, Belgian footballer (b. 1897)
  • Waldemar Verner, German admiral (b. 1914)
• February 16
  • Alejandro de los Santos, Argentine footballer (b. 1902)
  • Frank Wels, Dutch footballer (b. 1909)
• February 17
  • Jean Bolikango, Congolese politician (b. 1909)
  • Wolfgang Junginger, German skier (b. 1951)
  • Thelonious Monk, American pianist and composer (b. 1917)
  • Lee Strasberg, Polish-American actor (b. 1901)
  • Begziin Yavuukhulan, Mongolian poet (b. 1929)
• February 18
  • Ngaio Marsh, New Zealand author and theatre director (b. 1895)
  • Nathaniel Shilkret, American musician and composer (b. 1889)
  • Karl Wahl, German politician (b. 1892)
• February 19 – Bruno Seidlhofer, Austrian pianist (b. 1905)
• February 20
  • Carl Björnstjerna, Swedish colonel and equestrian (b. 1886)
  • Jim Bradley, American basketball player (b. 1952)
  • René Dubos, French-American microbiologist (b. 1901)
  • Frances Grant, American actress (b. 1909)
  • Isobel Wylie Hutchison, Scottish explorer and botanist (b. 1889)
• February 21 – Gershom Scholem, German-Israeli philosopher and historian (b. 1897)
• February 22
  • John Carter, American sound engineer (b. 1933)
  • Josh Malihabadi, Indian poet (b. 1898)
• February 23
  • Herb Cain, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1912)
  • Leonid Spirin, Russian racewalker (b. 1932)
• February 24
  • Virginia Bruce, American actress and singer (b. 1910)
  • Ignacio Calle, Colombian footballer (b. 1931)
• February 25
  • Yuen Ren Chao, Chinese-American linguist and scholar (b. 1892)
  • Donald Hayworth, American politician (b. 1898)
  • Walter Kaiser, German footballer (b. 1907)
  • Ann Lowe, American fashion designer (b. 1898)
  • Hans-Joachim von Merkatz, German politician (b. 1905)
  • Rexho Mulliqi, Montenegrin composer (b. 1923)
  • Christian Schad, German painter and photographer (b. 1894)
  • Pedro Solé, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1905)
• February 26
  • Reina Torres de Araúz, Panamanian anthropologist and ethnographer (b. 1932)
  • Teinosuke Kinugasa, Japanese film director (b. 1896)
  • Andrey Andreyevich Smirnov, Russian diplomat (b. 1905)
  • Francisco Martínez Soria, Spanish actor (b. 1902)
  • Gábor Szabó, Hungarian-American guitarist (b. 1936)
• February 27
  • Maria Kownacka, Polish author and translator (b. 1894)
  • Malika Sobirova, Tajikistani ballerina (b. 1942)
• February 28 – Shemuel Yeivin, Israeli archaeologist (b. 1896)
• February 29 – Szapsel Rotholc, Polish-Canadian boxer (b. 1913)

March 1982

• March 1
  • T. Vincent Quinn, American politician (b. 1903)
  • Frank Sargeson, New Zealand author (b. 1903)
• March 2
  • Philip K. Dick, American author (b. 1928)
  • József Zilisy, Hungarian-Italian footballer (b. 1899)
  • Yoel Zussman, Israeli judge (b. 1910)
• March 3
  • Josef Bradl, Austrian ski jumper (b. 1918)
  • Raymond O. Faulkner, English egyptologist and philologist (b. 1894)
  • Firaq Gorakhpuri, Indian author and critic (b. 1896)
  • Dimitri Nalivkin, Russian geologist (b. 1889)
  • Georges Perec, French author and screenwriter (b. 1936)
  • Alan Villiers, Australian-English explorer and author (b. 1903)
• March 4
  • Willy Busch, German footballer (b. 1907)
  • Dorothy Eden, New Zealand author (b. 1912)
  • Douglas Kertland, Canadian rower and architect (b. 1887)
• March 5
  • John Belushi, American comedian and actor (b. 1949)
  • Clifford P. Case, American politician (b. 1904)
  • Sigi Denk, Austrian cyclist (b. 1951)
  • Heinz Heck, German biologist (b. 1894)
  • Giuseppe Porelli, Italian actor (b. 1897)
• March 6
  • Nikolay Belov, Russian geochemist (b. 1891)
  • Ayn Rand, Russian-American author and philosopher (b. 1905)
• March 7
  • Ida Barney, American astronomer (b. 1886)
  • Konrad Wolf, German film director (b. 1925)
• March 8
  • Rab Butler, English politician (b. 1902)
  • Walter Plunkett, American costume designer (b. 1902)
• March 9
  • Zvi Yehuda Kook, Israeli rabbi (b. 1891)
  • Leonid Utesov, Russian singer and actor (b. 1895)
• March 10
  • Erik Larsson, Swedish skier (b. 1912)
  • Lubomír Nácovský, Czech sport shooter (b. 1935)
  • Renat Nelli, French author (b. 1906)
  • Tadj ol-Molouk, Iranian queen (b. 1896)
  • Minoru Shirota, Japanese microbiologist (b. 1899)
  • Milo Urban, Slovakian author and translator (b. 1904)
• March 11
  • Edmund Cooper, English poet and author (b. 1926)
  • Nikolai Kamanin, Russian pilot (b. 1908)
  • Leonid Kmit, Russian actor (b. 1908)
• March 12
  • Tanio Boccia, Italian film director and screenwriter (b. 1911)
  • Johan Wilhelm Rangell, Finnish politician, Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1894)
• March 13
  • Aurél Bernáth, Hungarian painter (b. 1895)
  • William Fairhurst, English chess player and engineer (b. 1903)
  • Wilfred Hawker, Surinamese military officer (b. 1955)
• March 14
  • Robert Eberan von Eberhorst, Austrian automobile designer (b. 1902)
  • Anna Leporskaya, Russian artist (b. 1900)
• March 15
  • Vladimír Šmeral, Czech actor (b. 1903)
  • Elis Wiklund, Swedish skier (b. 1909)
• March 16
  • Walter Rangeley, English sprinter (b. 1903)
  • Andrej Žarnov, Slovakian author and physician (b. 1903)
• March 17 – Hanna Czeczott, Polish botanist (b. 1888)
• March 18
  • Vasily Chuikov, Russian military commander (b. 1900)
  • Theo Fitzau, German racing driver (b. 1923)
  • Charles Rampelberg, French cyclist (b. 1909)
  • Rolf Steffenburg, Swedish sailor (b. 1886)
• March 19
  • Alan Badel, English actor (b. 1923)
  • J. B. Kripalani, Indian politician (b. 1888)
  • Randy Rhoads, American guitarist (b. 1956)
• March 20
  • Billie Seward, American actress (b. 1912)
  • Marietta Shaginyan, Russian author and historian (b. 1888)
  • Leonid Tsypkin, Belarusian author and physician (b. 1926)
  • Marco Tulli, Italian actor (b. 1920)
• March 21
  • Harry H. Corbett, English actor and comedian (b. 1925)
  • Mazlum Doğan, Turkish journalist (b. 1956)
  • Aleksandr Faintsimmer, Russian film director (b. 1906)
  • Raymond Talleux, French rower (b. 1901)
• March 22
  • Karin Aurivillius, Swedish chemist (b. 1920)
  • Ehsan Danish, Pakistani poet and author (b. 1914)
  • Pericle Felici, Italian cardinal (b. 1911)
  • Nicolas Farkas, Hungarian-American cinematographer and screenwriter (b. 1890)
  • Bob Foster, English motorcycle racer (b. 1911)
• March 23
  • Sonny Greer, American drummer and singer (b. 1895)
  • Mario Praz, Italian critic and scholar (b. 1896)
• March 24
  • Clair Alan Brown, American botanist (b. 1903)
  • Ken Harris, American animator (b. 1898)
• March 25
  • Hugo Huppert, Austrian poet and translator (b. 1902)
  • Mardan Musayev, Azerbaijani senior sergeant (b. 1907)
• March 26
  • Sultan al-Atrash, Syrian general (b. 1891)
  • Liana Del Balzo, Italian actress (b. 1899)
  • Bruno Knežević, Croatian footballer (b. 1915)
• March 27
  • Harriet Adams, American book packager and author (b. 1892)
  • Fazlur Rahman Khan, Bangladeshi-American engineer and architect (b. 1929)
  • Ted Lewis, American author (b. 1940)
  • Betty Schade, German-American actress (b. 1895)
• March 28
  • William Giauque, Canadian-American chemist (b. 1895)
  • Louis Grodecki, Polish-French historian (b. 1910)
• March 29
  • Karl Aasland, Norwegian politician (b. 1918)
  • Rudy Bond, American actor (b. 1912)
  • Helene Deutsch, Austrian-American psychoanalyst (b. 1884)
  • Antonio Emery, Spanish footballer (b. 1905)
  • Walter Hallstein, German diplomat and politician (b. 1901)
  • Hector Heusghem, Belgian cyclist (b. 1890)
  • Indalecio Liévano, Colombian politician and diplomat (b. 1917)
  • Carl Orff, German composer (b. 1895)
  • Charles Allen Thomas, American chemist (b. 1900)
  • Nathan F. Twining, American general (b. 1897)
• March 30
  • Hassan al-Hakim, Syrian politician, Prime Minister of Syria (b. 1886)
  • Armando Filiput, Italian hurdler (b. 1923)
  • Sergio Grieco, Italian film director and screenwriter (b. 1917)
• March 31
  • Dave Clement, English footballer (b. 1948)
  • Joe Dundee, American boxer (b. 1903)
  • Pone Kingpetch, Thai boxer (b. 1935)
  • Tonny van Lierop, Dutch field hockey player (b. 1910)

April 1982

• April 1
  • Xu Fuguan, Chinese historian (b. 1902)
  • Hassam-ud-Din Rashidi, Pakistani historian and scholar (b. 1911)
• April 2
  • Sam Coslow, American songwriter (b. 1902)
  • Bernard Hügl, Croatian footballer and manager (b. 1908)
• April 3
  • Ryszard Bartel, Polish engineer and pilot (b. 1897)
  • Warren Oates, American actor (b. 1928)
• April 4
  • Jabbor Rasulov, Tajikistani politician (b. 1913)
  • Sona Vəlixan, Azerbaijani ophthalmologist (b. 1883)
• April 5 – Abe Fortas, American judge (b. 1910)
• April 6
  • Elsa Björkman-Goldschmidt, Swedish artist and author (b. 1888)
  • Joseph Kampé de Fériet, French mathematician (b. 1893)
  • Pavel Rotmistrov, Russian chief marshal (b. 1901)
• April 7
  • Brenda Benet, American actress (b. 1945)
  • Harald Ertl, Austrian racing driver and journalist (b. 1948)
  • Stig Lindberg, Swedish artist (b. 1916)
• April 8
  • Edmund Roman Orlik, Polish architect and soldier (b. 1918)
  • Katherine Rawls, American swimmer and diver (b. 1917)
• April 9
  • Bruno Beater, German intelligence officer and politician (b. 1914)
  • Kirill Florensky, Russian geochemist (b. 1915)
  • Robert Havemann, German chemist (b. 1910)
  • Maximilian Herzberger, German-American mathematician and physicist (b. 1899)
  • Choe Hyon, North Korean general and politician (b. 1907)
  • Wilfrid Pelletier, Canadian conductor and pianist (b. 1896)
• April 10
  • Vladimir Janjgava, Georgian lieutenant general (b. 1907)
  • Cornelis van Staveren, Dutch sailor (b. 1889)
• April 11
• April 12
  • Lenny Baker, American actor (b. 1945)
  • Eugène Canseliet, French author and alchemist (b. 1899)
  • Huguette Duflos, French actress (b. 1887)
  • Sofya Giatsintova, Russian actress (b. 1895)
  • Tony Greenwood, English politician (b. 1911)
  • Thomas T. Handy, American general (b. 1892)
  • Maurice Ville, French cyclist (b. 1900)
• April 13 – B. P. Mandal, Indian politician (b. 1918)
• April 14
  • Valerie Boothby, German actress and painter (b. 1904)
  • Carlota Pereira de Queirós, Brazilian politician (b. 1892)
• April 15
  • Khalid al-Islambouli, Egyptian army officer and assassin (b. 1955)
  • Riccardo Billi, Italian actor and comedian (b. 1906)
  • Mud Bruneteau, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1914)
  • Tung Chao-yung, Chinese businessman (b. 1912)
  • Louis de Guiringaud, French politician (b. 1911)
  • Arthur Lowe, English actor (b. 1915)
• April 16 – Anatoly Alexandrov, Russian composer (b. 1888)
• April 17
• April 18 – Hiroshi Ohguri, Japanese composer (b. 1918)
• April 19 – Erwin Casmir, German fencer (b. 1895)
• April 20
  • Archibald MacLeish, American poet and politician (b. 1892)
  • Edgar Norris, Canadian rower (b. 1902)
  • Andy Sandham, English cricketer (b. 1890)
  • Aco Šopov, Macedonian poet (b. 1923)
• April 21
  • Jean Doyen, French pianist and composer (b. 1907)
  • Joe Sawyer, Canadian-American actor (b. 1906)
• April 22
  • Melville Bell Grosvenor, American magazine editor (b. 1901)
  • Stanley Roberts, American screenwriter (b. 1916)
• April 23
  • María Luisa Pacheco, Bolivian painter (b. 1919)
  • William Cameron Townsend, American linguist and missionary (b. 1896)
• April 24
  • Ustad Awalmir, Afghan composer and musician (b. 1931)
  • Alexey Ekimyan, Armenian composer and songwriter (b. 1927)
  • Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, Brazilian historian and author (b. 1902)
  • Sigrid Horne-Rasmussen, Danish actress (b. 1915)
  • Ville Ritola, Finnish runner (b. 1896)
• April 25
  • Boris Andreyev, Russian actor (b. 1915)
  • W. R. Burnett, American author and screenwriter (b. 1899)
  • John Cody, American cardinal (b. 1907)
  • Don Wilson, American radio announcer (b. 1900)
• April 26
  • Karl August, German prince (b. 1898)
  • Celia Johnson, English actress (b. 1908)
• April 27
  • Johannes Hentschel, German mechanic (b. 1908)
  • Skënder Luarasi, Albanian scholar and author (b. 1900)
  • Tom Tully, American actor (b. 1908)
• April 28 – Joe Moore, American speed skater (b. 1901)
• April 29
  • Raymond Bussières, French actor (b. 1907)
  • Cavit Cav, Turkish cyclist (b. 1905)
  • Hans Jenisch, German captain lieutenant (b. 1913)
  • Jimmy Jones, American pianist (b. 1918)
  • Kassim Rimawi, Jordanian politician, Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1918)
• April 30
  • Lester Bangs, American journalist and critic (b. 1948)
  • Taisen Deshimaru, Japanese buddhist (b. 1914)
  • Ingemar Hedenius, Swedish philosopher (b. 1908)
  • Pio La Torre, Italian politician (b. 1927)

May 1982

• May 1
  • Gyula Kertész, Hungarian footballer (b. 1888)
  • Hussein ibn Nasser, Jordanian politician, Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1902)
  • [[Jake Pelkington], American basketball player (b. 1916)
  • William Primrose, Scottish violist (b. 1904)
  • Torajirō Saitō, Japanese film director (b. 1905)
  • Gene Sheldon, American actor and mime (b. 1908)
  • Margaret Sheridan, American actress (b. 1926)
  • Wolfgang Stammberger, German judge and politician (b. 1920)
  • Walther Wenck, German general (b. 1900)
• May 2
  • Salomon Bochner, Austrian mathematician (b. 1899)
  • Helmut Dantine, Austrian-American actor (b. 1918)
  • Hugh Marlowe, American actor (b. 1911)
  • Pablo Pacheco, Peruvian footballer (b. 1908)
  • Wini Shaw, American actress (b. 1907)
• May 3
  • Mohammed Seddik Benyahia, Algerian politician (b. 1932)
  • Henri Tajfel, Polish psychologist (b. 1919)
• May 4 – Georges Aleka Damas, Gabonese politician (b. 1902)
• May 5
  • Accamma Cherian, Indian activist (b. 1909)
  • Denis Hill-Wood, English cricketer and businessman (b. 1906)
  • Irmgard Keun, German author (b. 1905)
  • Cal Tjader, American musician (b. 1925)
• May 6 – Faiz Mohammad Baloch, Iranian-Pakistani musician (b. 1901)
• May 7
  • Alfred Adam, French actor (b. 1908)
  • Claudio Barrientos, Chilean boxer (b. 1935)
  • Olga Skorokhodova, Russian scientist and therapist (b. 1911)
• May 8
  • Neil Bogart, American record producer (b. 1943)
  • Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian racing driver (b. 1950)
• May 9
• May 10
  • Jacques Désiré Leandri, French botanist and mycologist (b. 1903)
  • Peter Weiss, German author and painter (b. 1916)
  • Ma Yinchu, Chinese economist (b. 1882)
• May 11
  • Åke Andersson, Swedish athlete (b. 1918)
  • Arend Schoemaker, Dutch footballer (b. 1911)
• May 12
  • Aleksandr Borisov, Russian actor (b. 1905)
  • Hardy Cross Dillard, American judge (b. 1902)
  • Carmine Rocco, Italian archbishop and diplomat (b. 1912)
  • Humphrey Searle, English composer and author (b. 1915)
• May 13
  • Akhsarbek Abaev, Russian sergeant (b. 1923)
  • Despina Achladiotou, Greek resistance fighter (b. 1899)
  • Gara Garayev, Azerbaijani composer (b. 1918)
  • Zhamyangiyn Lhagvasuren, Mongolian politician (b. 1912)
  • Ivan Mariz, Brazilian footballer (b. 1910)
  • Renzo Rossellini, Italian film composer (b. 1908)
  • Billy Steel, Scottish footballer (b. 1923)
  • Věra Suková, Czech tennis player (b. 1931)
• May 14
  • Hugh Beaumont, American actor (b. 1910)
  • Frances Cope, American mathematician (b. 1902)
  • Theodor Thomsen, German sailor (b. 1904)
• May 15
  • Jenő Ádám, Hungarian composer and conductor (b. 1896)
  • Gordon Smiley, American racing driver (b. 1946)
• May 16
  • Sidney Hickox, American cinematographer (b. 1895)
  • Emili Salut Payà, Spanish trumpeter and composer (b. 1918)
  • Leigh Snowden, American actress (b. 1929)
• May 17 – Peter Boardman, English mountaineer and author (b. 1950)
• May 18
• May 19 – Zoltán Opata, Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1900)
• May 20
  • Shmuel Mikunis, Israeli politician (b. 1903)
  • Monk Montgomery, American bassist (b. 1921)
  • Merle Tuve, American geophysicist (b. 1901)
• May 21
  • Marco Cimatti, Italian cyclist (b. 1913)
  • Holger Crafoord, Swedish businessman (b. 1908)
  • Mieczysław Łoza, Polish actor (b. 1916)
  • Giovanni Muzio, Italian architect (b. 1893)
• May 22
  • Jay Laurence Lush, American geneticist (b. 1896)
  • Hans Mock, Austrian footballer (b. 1906)
  • Afanasy Shilin, Russian lieutenant general (b. 1924)
  • Cevdet Sunay, Turkish politician, President of Turkey (b. 1899)
• May 23
  • Felice Gasperi, Italian footballer (b. 1903)
  • Louis Gérardin, French cyclist (b. 1912)
  • Florence Violet McKenzie, Australian engineer (b. 1890)
• May 24
  • Raffaele Calabria, Italian bishop (b. 1906)
  • Zakariyya Kandhlawi, Indian scholar (b. 1898)
  • Carlo Miranda, Italian mathematician (b. 1912)
  • Tauno Palo, Finnish actor and singer (b. 1908)
• May 25
  • Nikolai Mikhailov, Russian politician and diplomat (b. 1906)
  • Hermine Sterler, German-American actress (b. 1895)
• May 26
  • Károly Antal, Hungarian sculptor (b. 1909)
  • Guillermo Flores Avendaño, Guatemalan politician, President of Guatemala (b. 1894)
  • Semra Ertan, Turkish author (b. 1956)
  • Nanny Larsén-Todsen, Swedish opera singer (b. 1884)
• May 27 – Thomas B. McCabe, American businessman and civil servant (b. 1893)
• May 28
  • Gerhard Conrad, German pilot (b. 1895)
  • Boris Chirkov, Russian actor (b. 1901)
  • Enrico Colli, Italian skier (b. 1896)
  • Alexander Hurd, Canadian speed skater (b. 1910)
  • Wiesław Maniak, Polish sprinter (b. 1938)
  • Motiejus Šumauskas, Lithuanian politician and activist (b. 1905)
  • Herbert A. Wagner, Austrian scientist (b. 1900)
• May 29
  • Henri Dulieux, French fencer (b. 1897)
  • Walter Harzer, German SS officer and author (b. 1912)
  • Romy Schneider, German-French actress (b. 1938)
• May 30 – Albert Norden, German politician (b. 1904)
• May 31
  • Carlo Mauri, Italian mountaineer and explorer (b. 1930)
  • Czesław Zbierański, Polish engineer (b. 1885)

June 1982

• June 1 – Einar Juhl, Danish actor (b. 1896)
• June 2
  • Jiří Brdečka, Czech author and screenwriter (b. 1917)
  • Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani politician, President of Pakistan (b. 1904)
  • Ivan Mikhailichenko, Russian colonel (b. 1920)
  • Herbert Quandt, German businessman (b. 1910)
  • Willie Smith, English billiards player and snooker player (b. 1886)
• June 3 – Gerhard Lindner, German general (b. 1896)
• June 4
  • Zuurakan Kaynazarova, Kyrgyzstani politician (b. 1902)
  • Hermanni Pihlajamäki, Finnish wrestler (b. 1903)
  • Viktor Staal, Austrian actor (b. 1909)
  • Günther Steines, German sprinter (b. 1928)
• June 5
  • Paul Birch, American basketball player (b. 1910)
  • Roger Bonvin, Swiss politician (b. 1907)
  • Olle Hellbom, Swedish film director and screenwriter (b. 1925)
  • Junzaburō Nishiwaki, Japanese poet and critic (b. 1894)
• June 6
  • Caitlín Maude, Irish poet and activist (b. 1941)
  • Kenneth Rexroth, American poet and translator (b. 1905)
  • D. Devaraj Urs, Indian politician (b. 1915)
• June 7
  • Evaristo Barrera, Argentine footballer (b. 1911)
  • Boonlua Debyasuvarn, Thai author and civil servant (b. 1911)
  • Ferdinand Waldo Demara, American imposter (b. 1921)
  • Gustave Heiss, American fencer (b. 1904)
  • Carlos Vidal, Chilean footballer (b. 1902)
• June 8
  • Satchel Paige, American baseball player (b. 1906)
  • Manus Vrauwdeunt, Dutch footballer (b. 1915)
  • Jean Wiener, French pianist and composer (b. 1896)
• June 9
  • Mirza Nasir Ahmad, Pakistani religious leader (b. 1909)
  • Chittadhar Hridaya, Nepalese poet (b. 1906)
  • Elmer Robinson, American politician (b. 1894)
• June 10
  • Yekutiel Adam, Israeli general (b. 1927)
  • Daisy Burrell, English actress (b. 1892)
  • Gala Dalí, Russian-Spanish muse (b. 1894)
  • Nikolay Diulgheroff, Bulgarian artist and architect (b. 1901)
  • Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German film director and playwright (b. 1945)
  • Gavin Hamilton, English army officer (b. 1953)
  • Bauyrzhan Momyshuly, Kazakhstani colonel (b. 1910)
• June 11
  • Santosh Kumar, Pakistani actor (b. 1925)
  • Anatoly Solonitsyn, Russian actor (b. 1934)
• June 12
  • Ruth Muskrat Bronson, American poet and activist (b. 1897)
  • Otto Brunner, Austrian historian (b. 1898)
  • Karl von Frisch, Austrian-German ethnologist (b. 1886)
  • Per Hansson, Norwegian journalist (b. 1922)
  • Marie Rambert, Polish-English ballerina (b. 1888)
  • Frank Shaughnessy Jr., Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1911)
• June 13
  • Sergey Balasanian, Armenian-Russian composer (b. 1902)
  • Marvin Griffin, American politician (b. 1907)
  • John A. Lee, New Zealand politician (b. 1891)
  • Peter Maivia, Samoan-American professional wrestler (b. 1937)
  • Riccardo Paletti, Italian racing driver (b. 1958)
  • Khalid bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi Arabian king (b. 1913)
• June 14
  • Marjorie Bennett, Australian actress (b. 1896)
  • Rafayel Grach, Russian speed skater (b. 1932)
• June 15
  • Gottfried Kolditz, German actor and film director (b. 1922)
  • Art Pepper, American saxophonist (b. 1925)
  • Hermann Schlichting, German engineer (b. 1907)
• June 16
  • Helen Jean Brown, American botanist and phycologist (b. 1903)
  • James Honeyman-Scott, English guitarist (b. 1956)
  • Georg Leibbrandt, German diplomat (b. 1899)
  • Václav Mottl, Czech canoeist (b. 1914)
  • Gwen Wakeling, American costume designer (b. 1901)
• June 17
  • Roberto Calvi, Italian banker (b. 1920)
  • Walter James, English rower and agriculturalist (b. 1896)
  • Zdeněk Kalista, Czech historian and poet (b. 1900)
• June 18
  • Djuna Barnes, American artist and author (b. 1892)
  • John Cheever, American author (b. 1912)
  • Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter, American CIA director (b. 1897)
  • Curd Jürgens, German-Austrian actor (b. 1915)
• June 19
• June 20 – Zygmunt Bohusz-Szyszko, Polish general (b. 1893)
• June 21
  • Hendrik Wade Bode, American engineer (b. 1905)
  • Frank Eugene Hook, American politician (b. 1893)
  • Jorge García Montes, Cuban politician, Prime Minister of Cuba (b. 1896)
  • Cotton Warburton, American football player and film editor (b. 1911)
• June 22
  • Hjalmar Andresen, Norwegian footballer (b. 1914)
  • Charles Chandler, American rower (b. 1911)
  • Alan Webb, English actor (b. 1906)
  • Alexandra von Wolff-Stomersee, Italian-German psychoanalyst (b. 1894)
• June 23 – Marie Braun, Dutch swimmer (b. 1911)
• June 24
  • Duša Počkaj, Slovenian actress (b. 1924)
  • Nikita Salogor, Moldovan politician (b. 1901)
  • Jakob Streitle, German footballer (b. 1916)
• June 25
  • Kazuo Aoki, Japanese politician (b. 1889)
  • Anatoli Golovnya, Russian cinematographer (b. 1900)
  • Igor Gouzenko, Russian-Canadian intelligence officer (b. 1919)
  • Ed Hamm, American long jumper (b. 1906)
• June 26
  • Charles Courant, Swiss wrestler (b. 1896)
  • Chaim Grade, Lithuanian-American author and poet (b. 1910)
  • Alfredo Marceneiro, Portuguese singer (b. 1891)
  • Alexander Mitscherlich, German psychologist (b. 1908)
  • Gherasim Rudi, Moldovan politician (b. 1907)
  • André Tchaikowsky, Polish composer and pianist (b. 1935)
• June 27 – Gunnar Malmquist, Swedish astronomer (b. 1893)
• June 28
  • Russ Blinco, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1906)
  • Adolf Portmann, Swiss zoologist (b. 1897)
• June 29
  • Gunnar Aagaard Andersen, Danish sculptor and painter (b. 1919)
  • Pierre Balmain, French fashion designer (b. 1914)
  • Michael Brennan, English actor (b. 1912)
  • Henry King, American film director (b. 1886)
  • Bernhard Rogge, German admiral (b. 1899)
  • Masaharu Taguchi, Japanese swimmer (b. 1916)
• June 30

July 1982

• July 1
• July 2
  • DeFord Bailey, American harmonica player (b. 1899)
  • Siegfried Westphal, German general (b. 1902)
• July 3
  • Willy Kreitz, Belgian ice hockey player and sculptor (b. 1903)
  • Kedar Pandey, Indian freedom fighter and politician (b. 1920)
• July 4
  • Antonio Guzmán Fernández, Dominican politician, President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1911)
  • László Sternberg, Hungarian footballer (b. 1905)
• July 5 – Geoffrey Keynes, English surgeon and author (b. 1887)
• July 6
  • Raúl Roa García, Cuban politician and diplomat (b. 1907)
  • Alma Reville, English screenwriter and film editor (b. 1899)
  • Warren Tufts, American comic book artist (b. 1925)
• July 7
  • Beb Bakhuys, Dutch footballer and manager (b. 1909)
  • Agustí Bartra, Spanish poet and author (b. 1908)
  • Carlo Chiappano, Italian cyclist (b. 1941)
  • Tommy Loughran, American boxer (b. 1902)
  • Alexandros Sakellariou, Greek admiral and politician (b. 1887)
  • Jin Shan, Chinese actor (b. 1911)
  • Hermann Thimig, Austrian actor (b. 1890)
  • Raymond Louis Wilder, American mathematician (b. 1896)
• July 8
  • Sarla Behn, English-Indian activist (b. 1901)
  • Gunnar Eriksson, Swedish skier (b. 1921)
  • Virginia Hall, American spy (b. 1906)
  • Isa Miranda, Italian actress (b. 1908)
  • Albert White, American diver (b. 1895)
• July 9
  • Walter Denkert, German general (b. 1897)
  • Helge Kjærulff-Schmidt, Danish actor (b. 1906)
  • Jutta Langenau, German swimmer (b. 1933)
  • Wingy Manone, American trumpeter and composer (b. 1900)
  • Kai Warner, German bandleader and musician (b. 1926)
• July 10
  • Karl Hein, German hammer thrower (b. 1908)
  • Gwilym Jenkins, Welsh statistician and engineer (b. 1932)
  • Maria Jeritza, Czech opera singer (b. 1887)
  • Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald, German-Dutch paleontologist and geologist (b. 1902)
  • Seiichi Miyake, Japanese engineer and inventor (b. 1926)
  • G. E. L. Owen, English philosopher and scholar (b. 1922)
• July 11
  • Edoardo Garzena, Italian boxer (b. 1900)
  • Meša Selimović, Serbian author (b. 1910)
• July 12
  • Raymond Borderie, French film producer (b. 1897)
  • Clara Lemlich, Ukrainian-American activist (b. 1886)
  • David Milman, Ukrainian-Israeli mathematician (b. 1912)
  • Kenneth More, English actor (b. 1914)
• July 13
  • John Alexander, American actor (b. 1897)
  • Edith Heerdegen, German actress (b. 1913)
  • Joe Maca, American soccer player (b. 1920)
• July 14 – Jackie Jensen, American baseball player (b. 1927)
• July 15
  • Don Beard, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1920)
  • Karlo Lukanov, Bulgarian politician (b. 1897)
• July 16
  • Patrick Dewaere, French actor (b. 1947)
  • Giuseppe Prezzolini, Italian critic and journalist (b. 1882)
  • C. R. Swart, South African politician (b. 1894)
• July 17 – Bob John, Welsh footballer and manager (b. 1899)
• July 18
  • Simcha Blass, Polish-Israeli engineer and inventor (b. 1897)
  • Roman Jakobson, Russian linguist (b. 1896)
  • Jacques Pras, French cyclist (b. 1924)
• July 19
  • Abdul-Wahid Aziz, Iraqi weightlifter (b. 1931)
  • Hugh Everett III, American physicist (b. 1930)
  • David Frankfurter, Croatian-Israeli assassin and civil servant (b. 1909)
  • Okot p'Bitek, Ugandan poet (b. 1931)
• July 20
  • Estelle Evans, American actress (b. 1906)
  • Gianpaolo Rosmino, Italian actor and film director (b. 1888)
  • Madeleine Slade, English-Indian activist (b. 1892)
• July 21
  • Dave Garroway, American television personality (b. 1913)
  • [[BP Koirala], Nepalese politician, Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1914)
  • Vítor Silva, Portuguese footballer (b. 1909)
• July 22
  • Barbara Lang, American actress (b. 1928)
  • Gualterio Looser, Chilean botanist (b. 1898)
  • Sergey Narovchatov, Russian author (b. 1919)
  • Karl-Gottfried Nordmann, German fighter pilot and businessman (b. 1915)
  • Sonny Stitt, American saxophonist (b. 1924)
• July 23
  • Vic Morrow, American actor (b. 1929)
  • Betty Parsons, American painter (b. 1900)
  • Hitoshi Sasaki, Japanese footballer and manager (b. 1891)
  • Erik Wilén, Finnish sprinter (b. 1898)
• July 24
  • Jean Girault, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1924)
  • Florence Henri, American-French artist (b. 1893)
  • Takeshi Katō, Japanese gymnast (b. 1942)
  • Anthony John Robinson, English field hockey player (b. 1925)
• July 25
  • Hal Foster, Canadian-American cartoonist (b. 1892)
  • Khadija Mastoor, Indian author (b. 1927)
  • Kenzo Okada, Japanese painter (b. 1902)
  • Jordi Rubió, Spanish philologist and librarian (b. 1887)
• July 26
  • Ricardo Pérez Godoy, Peruvian general and politician, President of Peru (b. 1905)
  • Aleksey Gubanov, Russian fighter pilot (b. 1918)
• July 27 – Hilda James, English swimmer (b. 1904)
• July 28
  • Keith Green, American musician (b. 1953)
  • Nick Lucas, American musician (b. 1897)
  • Vladimir Smirnov, Russian fencer (b. 1954)
  • Coert Steynberg, South African sculptor (b. 1905)
• July 29
  • Richard Gale, English general (b. 1896)
  • Harold Sakata, American professional wrestler and actor (b. 1920)
  • Vladimir K. Zworykin, Russian-American inventor and engineer (b. 1888)
• July 30
  • Francisco Gamborena, Spanish footballer (b. 1901)
  • Geneviève Guitel, French mathematician (b. 1895)
  • Frank Nicholson, South African cricketer (b. 1909)
• July 31
  • Severiano Goiburu, Spanish footballer (b. 1906)
  • Henk van Spaandonck, Dutch footballer (b. 1913)

August 1982

• August 1
  • Otto Bayer, German chemist (b. 1902)
  • Anna Maria Brizio, Italian historian (b. 1902)
• August 2
  • Gunnar Bärlund, Finnish boxer (b. 1911)
  • Carla Lonzi, Italian critic and activist (b. 1931)
  • Cathleen Nesbitt, English actress (b. 1888)
  • Nikolay Pilyugin, Russian rocket scientist (b. 1908)
• August 3
• August 4
  • Bruce Goff, American architect (b. 1904)
  • Ñico Saquito, Cuban musician (b. 1901)
• August 5
  • Dieter Borsche, German actor (b. 1909)
  • John Charnley, English surgeon (b. 1911)
• August 6
  • Samet Ağaoğlu, Turkish–Azerbaijani author and politician (b. 1909)
  • Walter Fries, German general (b. 1894)
  • S. K. Pottekkatt, Indian author (b. 1913)
• August 7
  • Jill Banner, American actress (b. 1946)
  • Jean Beaufret, French philosopher (b. 1907)
  • Paolo Cavara, Italian screenwriter and film director (b. 1926)
• August 8
  • Eric Brandon, English racing driver (b. 1920)
  • Tom Chatto, English actor (b. 1920)
  • Gilmore David Clarke, American engineer and architect (b. 1892)
  • Zinovie Serdiuk, Moldovan politician (b. 1903)
  • John L. Sullivan, American politician (b. 1899)
  • Georg Wurzer, German football manager (b. 1907)
• August 9 – Alexandre Alexeieff, Russian-French artist and film director (b. 1901)
• August 10
  • William Henry, American actor (b. 1914)
  • José Nieto, Spanish actor (b. 1902)
  • John Tiltman, English brigadier (b. 1894)
• August 11
  • André Aubréville, French botanist (b. 1897)
  • Tom Drake, American actor (b. 1918)
  • Bruno Frankewitz, German general (b. 1897)
• August 12
  • Oliviero De Fabritiis, Italian conductor and composer (b. 1902)
  • Henry Fonda, American actor (b. 1905)
  • Nikolay Inozemtsev, Russian economist and political scientist (b. 1921)
  • Helvi Leiviskä, Finnish composer and author (b. 1902)
  • Prayoon Pamornmontri, Thai lieutenant general and politician (b. 1898)
  • Tomás Romero Pereira, Paraguayan politician, President of Paraguay (b. 1886)
  • Salvador Sánchez, Mexican boxer (b. 1959)
• August 13
  • Bjarne Andersen, Norwegian actor (b. 1909)
  • André-Jean Festugière, French friar and philosopher (b. 1898)
  • Pratap Chandra Lal, Indian-English air marshal (b. 1916)
  • Heini Meng, Swiss ice hockey player (b. 1902)
  • Joe E. Ross, American actor (b. 1914)
  • Harry Werner Storz, German sprinter (b. 1904)
  • Joe Tex, American singer (b. 1935)
  • Charles Walters, American film director and choreographer (b. 1911)
  • Adam Ważyk, Polish poet and author (b. 1905)
• August 14
  • Kanhaiyalal Chaturvedi, Indian actor (b. 1910)
  • Patrick Magee, Northern Irish actor (b. 1922)
  • Thruston Ballard Morton, American politician (b. 1907)
  • Mahasi Sayadaw, Burmese monk (b. 1904)
  • Jack Siedle, South African cricketer (b. 1903)
  • Nikolai Yefimov]], Russian mathematician (b. 1910)
• August 15
  • Ernie Bushmiller, American cartoonist (b. 1905)
  • Hubert Lanz, German general (b. 1896)
  • Artin Penik, Turkish protester (b. 1921)
  • Jock Taylor, Scottish motorcycle racer (b. 1954)
  • Hugo Theorell, Swedish biochemist (b. 1903)
• August 16 – Charles Ackerly, American wrestler (b. 1898)
• August 17
  • István Bata, Hungarian lieutenant general and politician (b. 1910)
  • Camille Bulcke, Belgian-Indian missionary (b. 1909)
  • Ruth First, South African activist and scholar (b. 1925)
  • Bruno Nöckler, Italian skier (b. 1956)
  • Ilario Pegorari, Italian skier (b. 1949)
  • Barney Phillips, American actor (b. 1913)
  • Ihor Shamo, Ukrainian composer (b. 1925)
  • Herbert Tobias, German photographer (b. 1924)
• August 18
  • Beverly Bayne, American actress (b. 1894)
  • Carlos Botelho, Portuguese artist (b. 1899)
  • Eliezer Zusia Portugal, Russian rabbi (b. 1898)
• August 19
  • Vainu Bappu, Indian astronomer (b. 1927)
  • John Cookman, American ice hockey player (b. 1909)
  • Guido Gonella, Italian politician (b. 1905)
  • August Neo, Estonian wrestler (b. 1908)
• August 20
  • Walter Battiss, South African painter (b. 1906)
  • Antonio del Giudice, Italian diplomat (b. 1913)
  • Ulla Jacobsson, Swedish actress (b. 1929)
  • Peter Jaffe, English sailor (b. 1913)
  • Clyde King, American rower (b. 1898)
  • Edward Ludwig, Russian-American film director and screenwriter (b. 1899)
  • George David Woods, American banker (b. 1901)
• August 21
  • Aryeh Altman, Israeli politician (b. 1902)
  • Jack Rutherford, English-American actor (b. 1893)
  • Sobhuza II, Swazi king (b. 1899)
• August 22
  • John Boxer, English actor (b. 1909)
  • Anton Gottstein, Czech skier (b. 1893)
  • Eknath Ranade, Indian activist (b. 1914)
  • Jan Henryk de Rosen, Polish artist (b. 1891)
• August 23
  • Alberto Cavalcanti, Brazilian-French film director and producer (b. 1897)
  • Stanford Moore, American biochemist (b. 1913)
• August 24
  • Giorgio Abetti, Italian astronomer (b. 1882)
  • Warren L. McCabe, American chemist (b. 1899)
• August 25
  • Victor Garcia, Argentine theatre director (b. 1934)
  • Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer, French archaeologist (b. 1898)
• August 26
  • Imma von Bodmershof, Austrian poet (b. 1895)
  • Anna German, Polish singer (b. 1936)
  • Teresa Iżewska, Polish actress (b. 1933)
  • Emilio Miraglia, Italian film director (b. 1924)
  • Georges Neveux, French screenwriter and poet (b. 1900)
• August 27 – Anandamayi Ma, Indian yoga guru (b. 1867)
• August 28 – Geoff Chubb, South African cricketer (b. 1911)
• August 29
  • Mea Allan, Scottish journalist and author (b. 1909)
  • Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (b. 1915)
  • Grace Berlin, American ecologist and ornithologist (b. 1897)
  • Nahum Goldmann, Israeli civil servant and activist (b. 1895)
• August 30 – Theodor Reimann, Slovakian footballer (b. 1921)
• August 31

September 1982

• September 1
  • Ludwig Bieberbach, German mathematician (b. 1886)
  • Isabel Cristina, Brazilian medical student and martyr (b. 1962)
  • Haskell Curry, American mathematician and logician (b. 1900)
  • Clifford Curzon, English pianist (b. 1907)
  • Władysław Gomułka, Polish politician (b. 1905)
  • Iris Mountbatten, English actress (b. 1920)
  • Vladimir Sobolev, Russian geologist (b. 1908)
  • Piet Wijdekop, Dutch canoeist (b. 1912)
• September 2
  • Tom Baker, American actor (b. 1940)
  • Lyalya Chyornaya, Russian actress (b. 1909)
  • Edith Lagos, Peruvian guerilla (b. 1962)
  • Jay Novello, American actor (b. 1904)
  • Seraphim Rose, American hieromonk (b. 1934)
  • Marvin Stalder, American rower (b. 1905)
  • Ada Voytsik, Russian actress (b. 1905)
• September 3
  • Carlo Alberto dalla Chiesa, Italian general (b. 1920)
  • Hércules di Miranda, Brazilian footballer (b. 1912)
  • Roger Quinche, Swiss footballer (b. 1922)
• September 4
  • Jean Boudehen, French canoeist (b. 1939)
  • Guy Dugdale, English bobsledder (b. 1905)
  • Raúl Fernández, Mexican basketball player (b. 1905)
  • Justine Johnstone, American actress and pathologist (b. 1895)
  • Jack Tworkov, American painter (b. 1900)
• September 5
  • Douglas Bader, English pilot (b. 1910)
  • Dick Lane, American actor (b. 1899)
• September 6 – Stanton A. Coblentz, American author and poet (b. 1896)
• September 7
  • José Cabrero Arnal, Spanish cartoonist (b. 1909)
  • Ken Boyer, American baseball player (b. 1931)
  • Gerald Fitzmaurice, English lawyer and judge (b. 1901)
  • Kemal Pir, Turkish revolutionary (b. 1952)
• September 8 – Sheikh Abdullah, Indian politician (b. 1905)
• September 9
  • Antonín Bartoň, Czech skier (b. 1908)
  • Peter Hunter Blair, English academic and historian (b. 1912)
  • Rachel Korn, Polish-Canadian poet and author (b. 1898)
  • Adolf Patek, Austrian footballer and manager (b. 1900)
• September 10
  • Lucy Qinnuayuak, Canadian artist (b. 1915)
  • Madie Hall Xuma, American-South African activist (b. 1894)
• September 11
  • Jose de Creeft, Spanish-American sculptor (b. 1884)
  • Wifredo Lam, Cuban painter (b. 1902)
  • Jovan Miladinović, Serbian footballer (b. 1939)
  • Pál Pók, Hungarian water polo player (b. 1929)
  • T. Claude Ryan, American pilot (b. 1898)
  • Albert Soboul, French historian (b. 1914)
• September 12
  • Franz Grothe, German film composer (b. 1908)
  • Federico Moreno Torroba, Spanish composer and conductor (b. 1891)
• September 13
  • Marius Canard, French historian (b. 1888)
  • Leicester Hemingway, American author (b. 1915)
  • Philip Ober, American actor and diplomat (b. 1902)
• September 14
  • Vladislao Cap, Argentine footballer and manager (b. 1934)
  • Alberto González Domínguez, Argentine politician (b. 1904)
  • Kristján Eldjárn, Icelandic politician, President of Iceland (b. 1916)
  • Christian Ferras, French violinist (b. 1933)
  • John Gardner, American author (b. 1933)
  • Grace Kelly, American-Monacan actress and princess (b. 1929)
  • Bachir Gemayel, Lebanese politician, President of Lebanon (b. 1947)
  • Gustave Roth, Belgian boxer (b. 1909)
  • Franco Solinas, Italian screenwriter (b. 1927)
• September 15
  • Karen Aabye, Danish author (b. 1904)
  • Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, Iranian politician (b. 1936)
  • Rolfe Sedan, American actor (b. 1896)
• September 16
  • Yevdokiya Bershanskaya, Russian lieutenant colonel (b. 1913)
  • Bill Robinzine, American basketball player (b. 1953)
• September 17
  • Vera de Bosset, American dancer and artist (b. 1889)
  • Manos Loïzos, Greek composer (b. 1937)
• September 18
  • Lee Eun-sang, South Korean poet (b. 1903)
  • Carlos Carmelo Vasconcellos Motta, Brazilian cardinal (b. 1890)
  • Pei Wenzhong, Chinese paleontologist and archaeologist (b. 1904)
• September 19
  • Ted Badcock, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1897)
  • Samuel L. M. Barlow II, American composer and pianist (b. 1892)
• September 20
  • Georg Østerholt, Norwegian ski jumper (b. 1892)
  • Alois Schnabel, Austrian handball player (b. 1910)
  • Lotte Stein, German actress (b. 1894)
• September 21
  • Ivan Bagramyan, Russian military commander (b. 1897)
  • Constantine Walter Benson, English ornithologist and author (b. 1909)
  • Franz Esser, German footballer (b. 1900)
• September 22
  • Gabriel Baer, German-Israeli scholar (b. 1919)
  • Shin Saburi, Japanese actor (b. 1909)
• September 23
  • Muzahim al-Pachachi, Iraqi politician, Prime Minister of Iraq (b. 1891)
  • Martin Gunnarsson, Swedish sport shooter (b. 1927)
  • Bella Subbotovskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1937)
  • Jimmy Wakely, American actor and singer (b. 1914)
  • Paul Winkler, Hungarian-French author and journalist (b. 1898)
  • Herbert Wright, English wrestler (b. 1894)
• September 24 – Sarah Churchill, English actress (b. 1914)
• September 25 – Norris Poulson, American politician (b. 1895)
• September 26
  • Giorgi Abashvili, Russian vice admiral (b. 1910)
  • Valerie Bettis, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1919)
  • Paul Kollsman, German-American inventor (b. 1900)
  • Josef Maleček, Czech ice hockey player and tennis player (b. 1903)
  • Nikita Podgorny, Russian actor (b. 1931)
• September 27
• September 28
  • Mabel Albertson, American actress (b. 1901)
  • Chu Yung-kwang, South Korean footballer (b. 1920)
• September 29
  • Lucy Griffiths, English actress (b. 1919)
  • René Herbst, French furniture designer and architect (b. 1891)
• September 30
  • Horace Disston, American field hockey player (b. 1906)
  • Bill George, American football player (b. 1929)
  • H. W. Janson, German-American historian (b. 1913)

October 1982

• October 1 – Friedrich Bachmann, German mathematician (b. 1909)
• October 2
  • Alice Baber, American painter (b. 1928)
  • William Bernbach, American advertiser (b. 1911)
  • C. D. Deshmukh, Indian banker and politician (b. 1896)
  • Bob Lynch, Irish musician (b. 1935)
  • Muktananda Paramahamsa, Indian yoga guru (b. 1908)
  • Lauri Valonen, Finnish skier (b. 1909)
• October 3
  • Elsa Arokallio, Finnish architect (b. 1892)
  • Roger Claessen, Belgian footballer (b. 1941)
  • Rafael Cortijo, Puerto Rican musician (b. 1928)
  • Vivien Merchant, English actress (b. 1929)
• October 4
  • Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, Iraqi politician, President and Prime Minister of Iraq (b. 1914)
  • Lev Aronin, Russian chess player and meteorologist (b. 1920)
  • The Amazing Criswell, American psychic and actor (b. 1907)
  • Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist (b. 1932)
  • Leroy Grumman, American engineer (b. 1895)
  • Václav Kaplický, Czech author and journalist (b. 1895)
  • Gopal Swarup Pathak, Indian politician (b. 1896)
  • Kunwar Inderjit Singh, Nepalese politician, Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1906)
  • Stefanos Stefanopoulos, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1898)
• October 5
  • Séamus Ennis, Irish musician (b. 1919)
  • George Eldon Ladd, Canadian-American minister and theologian (b. 1911)
  • François Simon, Swiss actor (b. 1917)
• October 6
  • Philip Green, English film composer and conductor (b. 1911)
  • Duilio Santagostino, Italian footballer (b. 1914)
• October 7
  • Alejandro Núñez Alonso, Spanish author and journalist (b. 1905)
  • Guido Chiarelli, Italian engineer (b. 1902)
• October 8
  • Fernando Lamas, Argentine-American actor (b. 1915)
  • Philip Noel-Baker, English politician (b. 1889)
  • Giorgio Ursi, Italian cyclist (b. 1942)
• October 9
  • Amos Deacon, American field hockey player (b. 1904)
  • Anna Freud, English psychoanalyst (b. 1895)
• October 10
  • Jean Effel, French painter (b. 1908)
  • Sabine Peters, German actress (b. 1912)
• October 11
  • Craig Hosmer, American politician (b. 1915)
  • Edith Quimby, American radiologist and physicist (b. 1891)
• October 12
  • John Brahm, German film director (b. 1893)
  • Sven Johansson, Swedish cyclist (b. 1914)
  • Howard Sackler, American playwright and screenwriter (b. 1929)
• October 13 – Tudor Ciortea, Romanian composer and musicologist (b. 1903)
• October 14
  • Clifford Hugh Dowker, Canadian topologist (b. 1912)
  • Virginia Fox, American actress (b. 1906)
  • Otto von Porat, Norwegian boxer (b. 1903)
  • Louis Rougier, French philosopher (b. 1889)
• October 15
  • Rachel Cohen-Kagan, Ukrainian-Israeli activist and politician (b. 1888)
  • Ata'ollah Ashrafi Esfahani, Iranian religious leader (b. 1902)
• October 16
  • Jakov Gotovac, Croatian composer and conductor (b. 1895)
  • Paolo Heusch, Italian film director and screenwriter (b. 1924)
  • Mario Del Monaco, Italian opera singer (b. 1915)
  • Adriano Correia de Oliveira, Portuguese musician (b. 1942)
  • Hans Selye, Hungarian-Canadian endocrinologist (b. 1907)
  • Heini Thoma, Swiss rower (b. 1900)
• October 17
  • Antoine Béthouart, French general (b. 1889)
  • Youssef Wahbi, Egyptian actor and film director (b. 1898)
• October 18
  • Pierre Mendès France, French politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1907)
  • Maurice Gilliams, Belgian author and poet (b. 1900)
  • John Robarts, Canadian politician (b. 1917)
  • Bess Truman, American political figure, First Lady of the United States (b. 1885)
  • Siegmund George Warburg, German-English banker (b. 1902)
• October 19 – Paul America, American actor (b. 1944)
• October 20
  • Donn F. Draeger, American martial artist (b. 1922)
  • Leib Gurwicz, Lithuanian-English rabbi and scholar (b. 1906)
  • Jimmy McGrory, Scottish footballer (b. 1904)
  • Korczak Ziolkowski, American sculptor (b. 1908)
• October 21
  • Betty Beckers, Indian film director (b. 1937)
  • Hermann Berg, German politician (b. 1905)
  • Sylvia Lance Harper, Australian tennis player (b. 1895)
  • Radka Toneff, Norwegian singer (b. 1952)
• October 22
  • Savitri Devi, French-Greek nazi sympathizer and spy (b. 1905)
  • Paula Heimann, German psychiatrist (b. 1899)
  • Richard Hugo, American poet (b. 1923)
  • Richard Jessup, American author and screenwriter (b. 1925)
  • Leo Losert, Austrian rower (b. 1902)
  • Yuri Pantyukhov, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1931)
• October 23 – Ilya Lifshitz, Russian theoretical physicist (b. 1917)
• October 24
  • Jacques Klein, Brazilian composer and pianist (b. 1930)
  • Andrew Roborecki, Ukrainian-Canadian bishop (b. 1910)
• October 25
  • Karl Bruckner, Austrian author (b. 1906)
  • Bill Eckersley, English footballer (b. 1925)
  • Walter Koppel, German film producer (b. 1906)
  • Werner Naumann, German politician (b. 1909)
  • Arvid Wallman, Swedish diver (b. 1901)
• October 26
  • Giovanni Benelli, Italian cardinal (b. 1921)
  • Louis Dufour, Swiss ice hockey player (b. 1901)
  • Edmund Majowski, Polish footballer and manager (b. 1910)
  • Monica Wilson, South African anthropologist (b. 1906)
  • Valerio Zurlini, Italian film director and screenwriter (b. 1926)
• October 27
  • Jean Filliozat, French author (b. 1906)
  • Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes, Guatemalan politician, President of Guatemala (b. 1895)
  • Abba P. Lerner, English-American economist (b. 1903)
  • Michio Suzuki, Japanese businessman (b. 1887)
  • Velichko Velichkov, Bulgarian sport shooter (b. 1934)
• October 28
  • Robert d'Escourt Atkinson, Welsh astronomer and physicist (b. 1898)
  • Phyllis Covell, English tennis player (b. 1895)
• October 29
  • Lamberto Dalla Costa, Italian bobsledder (b. 1920)
  • Josias Hartmann, Swiss sport shooter (b. 1893)
  • Sidney Kirkman, English general (b. 1895)
  • Richard Wahl, German fencer (b. 1906)
  • William Lloyd Webber, English organist and composer (b. 1914)
• October 30
  • Angelo Ephrikian, Italian musicologist and violinist (b. 1913)
  • Karl Ragnar Gierow, Swedish theatre director and author (b. 1904)
  • Wolfgang Heinz, Austrian-German actor (b. 1900)
  • Raúl Toro, Chilean footballer (b. 1911)
  • Iryna Vilde, Ukrainian author (b. 1907)
• October 31

November 1982

• November 1
  • James Broderick, American actor (b. 1927)
  • Hans Drakenberg, Swedish fencer (b. 1901)
  • Ray Draper, American tuba player (b. 1940)
  • Leighton Lucas, English composer and conductor (b. 1903)
  • Wilhelm Pfannenstiel, German holocaust perpetrator (b. 1890)
  • Otto Rüfenacht, Swiss fencer (b. 1919)
  • J. J. Sakurai, Japanese-American physicist (b. 1933)
  • King Vidor, American film director and screenwriter (b. 1894)
• November 2
  • Ghulam Abbas, Pakistani author (b. 1909)
  • Carol Dunlop, Canadian author and translator (b. 1946)
  • Noble Jorgensen, American basketball player (b. 1925)
  • Parkash Kaur, Indian singer (b. 1919)
  • Konstantin Kvashnin, Russian footballer (b. 1898)
  • Vasily Rudenkov, Belarusian hammer thrower (b. 1931)
• November 3
  • Alejandro Bustillo, Argentine painter and architect (b. 1889)
  • E. H. Carr, English historian and journalist (b. 1892)
  • André Chilo, French rugby player (b. 1898)
• November 4
  • Dominique Dunne, American actress (b. 1959)
  • Burhan Felek, Turkish journalist and author (b. 1889)
  • Alicia Penalba, Argentine sculptor and weaver (b. 1913)
  • Alexander Sahinian, Armenian historian (b. 1910)
  • Adalbert Schnee, German army officer (b. 1913)
• November 5
  • Santiago Amat, Spanish sailor (b. 1887)
  • Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, South Korean-American author (b. 1951)
  • Yves Ciampi, French film director (b. 1921)
  • Jacques Tati, French film director and actor (b. 1907)
• November 6
  • Dinakara Desai, Indian poet and activist (b. 1909)
  • Eleanor Goss, American tennis player (b. 1895)
  • Juan Guzmán, German-Mexican photojournalist (b. 1911)
  • Austin L. Rand, Canadian zoologist (b. 1905)
  • Shiro Teshima, Japanese footballer (b. 1907)
• November 7
  • Bully Buhlan, German musician and actor (b. 1924)
  • Salvador Contreras, Mexican composer and violinist (b. 1910)
  • Nadia Khodasevich Léger, Russian-French artist (b. 1904)
  • Walter Ruben, German indologist (b. 1899)
• November 8
  • Manuel Sánchez Ayuso, Spanish economist and politician (b. 1941)
  • Jimmy Dickinson, English footballer (b. 1925)
  • Higinio Ortúzar, Chilean footballer (b. 1915)
  • Gerard Wodarz, Polish footballer (b. 1913)
• November 9
• November 10
  • Leonid Brezhnev, Russian politician, General Secretary of the Soviet Union (b. 1906)
  • Roy Coffin, American field hockey player (b. 1898)
  • Elio Petri, Italian film director and screenwriter (b. 1929)
• November 11
  • Marcel Paul, French politician (b. 1900)
  • Josep Renau, Spanish-German artist (b. 1907)
• November 12
  • Patrick Cowley, American composer (b. 1950)
  • Fumiko Enchi, Japanese author (b. 1905)
  • Kim Ji-sung, South Korean footballer (b. 1924)
  • Eduardo Mallea, Argentine author and diplomat (b. 1903)
  • Dorothy Round, English tennis player (b. 1909)
• November 13
  • Aliza Begin, Israeli political figure (b. 1920)
  • Yevgeni Yorkin, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1932)
• November 14
  • Joachim Stutschewsky, Ukrainian-Austrian cellist and composer (b. 1891)
  • Pyotr Yakir, Russian historian (b. 1923)
• November 15
  • Vinoba Bhave, Indian activist (b. 1895)
  • Ivan Kabalin, Russian junior lieutenant (b. 1923)
  • Achille Lauro, Italian politician (b. 1887)
  • Walter Liebenthal, German philosopher and sinologist (b. 1886)
  • Allen Woodring, American runner (b. 1898)
  • Mordechai Zar, Israeli politician (b. 1914)
  • Wacław Zawadowski, Polish painter and author (b. 1891)
• November 16
  • Pavel Alexandrov, Russian mathematician (b. 1896)
  • Arthur Askey, English comedian and actor (b. 1900)
  • Al Haig, American pianist (b. 1922)
• November 17
  • Ruth Donnelly, American actress (b. 1896)
  • Felix von Heijden, Dutch footballer (b. 1890)
  • Eduard Tubin, Estonian composer and conductor (b. 1905)
• November 18
  • Don Dillaway, American actor (b. 1903)
  • Kim Duk-koo, South Korean boxer (b. 1955)
  • Hilton Edwards, English-Irish actor (b. 1903)
  • Heinar Kipphardt, German author (b. 1922)
• November 19
  • Ko Bergman, Dutch footballer (b. 1913)
  • Erving Goffman, Canadian-American sociologist and psychologist (b. 1922)
  • Toña la Negra, Spanish singer and actress (b. 1912)
  • Helena Syrkus, Polish architect (b. 1900)
• November 20
  • Jackie Bray, English footballer (b. 1909)
  • Adelaide Sinclair, Canadian civil servant (b. 1900)
• November 21
  • Georges Chamarat, French actor (b. 1901)
  • Pierre Gaxotte, French historian (b. 1895)
  • Frank McCormick, American baseball player (b. 1911)
  • Ditta Pásztory-Bartók, Hungarian pianist (b. 1903)
  • Lee Patrick, American actress (b. 1901)
• November 22
  • Jean Batten, New Zealand pilot (b. 1909)
  • Max Deutsch, Austrian-French composer and conductor (b. 1892)
  • K. P. S. Menon, Indian diplomat (b. 1898)
  • Stanisław Ostrowski, Polish politician, President of Poland (b. 1892)
  • Arturo Rodríguez, Argentine boxer and rugby player (b. 1907)
  • Juan Urquizu, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1901)
• November 23
  • Adoniran Barbosa, Brazilian singer and composer (b. 1910)
  • Lima Barreto, Brazilian film director and screenwriter (b. 1906)
  • Hans Schwarzentruber, Swiss gymnast (b. 1929)
• November 24
  • Erzsébet Házy, Hungarian opera singer (b. 1929)
  • Tibor Molnár, Hungarian actor (b. 1921)
  • Barack Obama Sr., Kenyan economist (b. 1934)
  • Eino Penttilä, Finnish javelin thrower (b. 1906)
  • James H. Smith Jr., American sailor and civil servant (b. 1909)
• November 25
  • Walt Ader, American racing driver (b. 1913)
  • Hugh Harman, American animator (b. 1903)
  • Henri Hiltl, Austrian-French footballer (b. 1910)
• November 26
  • Juhan Aavik, Estonian composer (b. 1884)
  • Robert Coote, English actor (b. 1909)
  • Gordon Gray, American politician (b. 1909)
  • René Quitral, Chilean footballer (b. 1924)
  • Willy Schärer, Swiss runner (b. 1903)
  • Dan Tobin, American actor (b. 1910)
• November 27
  • Camillo Bertarelli, Italian cyclist (b. 1886)
  • Filip Kutev, Bulgarian composer (b. 1903)
• November 28
  • Alexander Vasilyevich Belyakov, Russian lieutenant general (b. 1897)
  • Helen Glücksburg, Greek-Danish princess (b. 1896)
  • Ivan Hrushetsky, Ukrainian politician (b. 1904)
  • Rolf Wanka, Austrian actor (b. 1901)
• November 29
  • Afrânio do Amaral, Brazilian herpetologist (b. 1894)
  • Hermann Balck, German war criminal (b. 1893)
  • Yury Kazakov, Russian author (b. 1927)
  • Paolo Monti, Italian photographer (b. 1908)
  • Jaroslav Šifer, Croatian footballer (b. 1895)
  • Percy Williams, Canadian sprinter (b. 1908)
• November 30
  • Léon Croizat, French-Italian scholar and botanist (b. 1894)
  • Armando Farro, Argentine footballer (b. 1922)
  • Adolf Heusinger, German general and politician (b. 1897)
  • Eric Thompson, English actor (b. 1929)
  • Vilém Závada, Czech poet and translator (b. 1905)

December 1982

• December 1
  • Lallo Gori, Italian composer and musician (b. 1897)
  • Hugh Plaxton, Canadian ice hockey player and politician (b. 1904)
  • Hossein Sadaghiani, Iranian footballer and manager (b. 1903)
• December 2
  • Robert Döpel, German physicist (b. 1895)
  • Marty Feldman, English actor (b. 1934)
  • Giovanni Ferrari, Italian footballer (b. 1907)
• December 3
  • Tsatur Aghayan, Armenian historian (b. 1912)
  • Bishnu Dey, Indian poet and author (b. 1909)
  • Francisco J. Serrano, Mexican engineer and architect (b. 1900)
• December 4
• December 5
  • Heinrich Hertel, German engineer (b. 1901)
  • Eduardo Sainz de la Maza, Spanish composer (b. 1903)
  • Daniel Swern, American chemist (b. 1916)
• December 6
  • Roshan Ara Begum, Indian-Pakistani singer (b. 1917)
  • Luis Olaso, Spanish footballer (b. 1900)
• December 7
  • Tommy Cogbill, American musician (b. 1932)
  • José Echeveste, Spanish footballer (b. 1899)
  • Bertus de Harder, Dutch footballer (b. 1920)
  • Harry Jerome, Canadian sprinter (b. 1940)
  • George Kistiakowsky, Ukrainian-American chemist (b. 1900)
  • Will Lee, American actor (b. 1908)
  • Paul Mehlitz, German field hockey player (b. 1906)
  • Edvard Westerlund, Finnish wrestler (b. 1901)
• December 8
  • Bram Behr, Surinamese journalist (b. 1951)
  • André Kamperveen, Surinamese footballer and politician (b. 1924)
  • Haim Laskov, Belarusian-Israeli soldier (b. 1919)
  • Tetsuji Morohashi, Japanese lexicographer and sinologist (b. 1883)
  • Marty Robbins, American singer and racing driver (b. 1925)
• December 9
  • Paul Godwin, German violinist and bandleader (b. 1902)
  • Leon Jaworski, American attorney (b. 1905)
  • Janusz Patrzykont, Polish basketball player (b. 1912)
  • Ásmundur Sveinsson, Icelandic sculptor (b. 1893)
• December 10
  • Freeman Gosden, American comedian and actor (b. 1899)
  • Roy Webb, American film composer (b. 1888)
• December 11
  • Carlos Franco Iribarnegaray, Spanish general (b. 1912)
  • Erhard Mauersberger, German conductor (b. 1903)
• December 12
  • Günter Fruhtrunk, German painter (b. 1923)
  • Lucia Joyce, English dancer (b. 1907)
  • Phil Karlson, American film director (b. 1908)
• December 13
  • Vitaly Daraselia, Georgian footballer (b. 1957)
  • Edouard Grikurov, Russian conductor (b. 1907)
• December 14
• December 15 – Adalberto di Savoia, Italian prince (b. 1898)
• December 16 – Colin Chapman, English automobile designer (b. 1928)
• December 17
  • Homer S. Ferguson, American politician and judge (b. 1889)
  • Vittorio Gorresio, Italian journalist (b. 1910)
  • Philipp Jarnach, German composer (b. 1892)
  • Leonid Kogan, Russian violinist (b. 1924)
  • Karel Šejna, Czech double bassist and conductor (b. 1896)
  • Big Joe Williams, American guitarist and singer (b. 1903)
• December 18
  • Ray Emery, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1915)
  • F. Keogh Gleason, American set decorator (b. 1906)
  • Assi Hahn, German fighter pilot (b. 1914)
  • Bernard Malivoire, French rower (b. 1938)
  • Willi Multhaup, German footballer and manager (b. 1903)
  • Hans-Ulrich Rudel, German colonel and neo-nazi (b. 1916)
  • Wu Yonggang, Chinese film director (b. 1907)
• December 19
  • Karen Grønn-Hagen, Norwegian politician (b. 1903)
  • Jean-Jacques Grunenwald, French organist and composer (b. 1911)
  • Dwight Macdonald, American author and critic (b. 1906)
  • Terence O'Brien, English rower (b. 1906)
  • Edgar Puusepp, Estonian wrestler (b. 1911)
  • Frederick Terman, American engineer and academic administrator (b. 1900)
• December 20
  • Jane Arden, English film director and actress (b. 1927)
  • Raisa Aronova, Russian major (b. 1920)
  • Arthur Rubinstein, Polish-American pianist (b. 1887)
• December 21
  • Betty Beckers, French actress (b. 1925)
  • Yun Chi-wang, South Korean politician (b. 1895)
  • Charles Hapgood, American pseudohistorian and author (b. 1904)
  • Noel Irwin, English lieutenant general (b. 1892)
  • Hafeez Jalandhari, Pakistani poet (b. 1900)
  • Ants Oras, Estonian translator and author (b. 1900)
• December 22
  • Felix Likiniano, Spanish anarchist (b. 1909)
  • Robert Weltsch, Czech-Israeli journalist (b. 1891)
• December 23
  • Alexandru Apolzan, Romanian footballer (b. 1927)
  • Gino Corrado, Italian-American actor (b. 1893)
  • Teseo Taddia, Italian hammer thrower (b. 1920)
  • Jack Webb, American actor (b. 1920)
• December 24
  • Louis Aragon, French poet (b. 1897)
  • Maurice Biraud, French actor (b. 1922)
  • Athanasiy Velyki, Ukrainian priest and historian (b. 1918)
• December 25
  • Helen Foster, American actress (b. 1906)
  • Jack Pearl, American actor (b. 1894)
  • Vally Weigl, Austrian-American composer (b. 1894)
• December 26
  • Ronald Forbes Adam, English general (b. 1885)
  • Elbira Zipitria, Spanish educator (b. 1906)
• December 27
  • Erwin Busta, Austrian war criminal (b. 1905)
  • Constantin Regamey, Ukrainian-Swiss philologist (b. 1907)
  • Jack Swigert, American astronaut (b. 1931)
• December 28
  • Arthur Hughes, American actor (b. 1894)
  • Shin Kishida, Japanese actor (b. 1939)
  • Renato Sáinz, Bolivian footballer (b. 1899)
• December 29
  • Jack Brett, English racing driver (b. 1917)
  • Leif Johansen, Norwegian economist (b. 1930)
  • Vasily Molokov, Russian major general (b. 1895)
  • Sol C. Siegel, American film producer (b. 1903)
  • Max de Terra, Swiss racing driver (b. 1918)
• December 30
  • Boris Bazhanov, Russian-French whistleblower (b. 1900)
  • Kurt Brennecke, German general (b. 1891)
  • Philip Hall, English composer (b. 1904)
  • John Main, English-Canadian monk (b. 1926)
  • Alberto Vargas, Peruvian-American painter (b. 1896)
• December 31
  • Kurt Otto Friedrichs, German-American mathematician (b. 1901)
  • Otto Hofmann, German war criminal (b. 1896)

1983

January 1983

• January 1
  • David Buttolph, American film composer (b. 1902)
  • Maria Rudnitskaya, Russian painter (b. 1916)
  • Arie de Winter, Dutch field hockey player (b. 1915)
• January 2
  • Dick Emery, English comedian and actor (b. 1915)
  • Edward Howard, American bishop (b. 1877)
  • Rudolf Petersen, German naval officer (b. 1905)
• January 3
  • Ales Bachyla, Belarusian poet and playwright (b. 1918)
  • Clément Duhour, French actor (b. 1912)
  • Gaspar Rubio, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1907)
  • Lenyeletse Seretse, Botswanan politician (b. 1921)
• January 4
  • Min Byung-dae, South Korean footballer (b. 1918)
  • Everett Hughes, American sociologist (b. 1897)
  • Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal, American politician (b. 1923)
• January 5
  • Chapman Grant, American herpetologist and historian (b. 1887)
  • Géza Teleki, Hungarian field hockey player and politician (b. 1911)
• January 6
  • Yosef Kushnir, Israeli politician (b. 1900)
  • Shabban Shahab-ud-Din, Indian field hockey player (b. 1909)
  • Bernard Stevens, English composer (b. 1916)
  • Yang Yong, Chinese general (b. 1913)
• January 7
  • Fred Church, American actor (b. 1889)
  • Amy Hodgson, New Zealand botanist (b. 1888)
  • Edmund Jacobson, American physician (b. 1888)
  • Faika Sadek, Egyptian princess (b. 1926)
  • Kurt Weckström, Finnish footballer (b. 1911)
  • Rudolf Wolters, German architect (b. 1903)
• January 8
  • Tom McCall, American politician (b. 1913)
  • Gale Page, American actress (b. 1910)
• January 9
  • Kang Ryang-uk, North Korean minister and politician (b. 1903)
  • Ichiro Nakagawa, Japanese politician (b. 1925)
• January 10
  • Roy DeMeo, American mobster (b. 1940)
  • Carwyn James, Welsh rugby player and coach (b. 1929)
  • Buster Phelps, American actor (b. 1926)
• January 11
  • Gerhard Barkhorn, German pilot (b. 1919)
  • Adam Kersten, Polish historian (b. 1930)
  • Tikhon Kiselyov, Belarusian politician (b. 1917)
  • Grigori Roshal, Russian film director and screenwriter (b. 1899)
• January 12
  • Rebop Kwaku Baah, Ghanaian drummer (b. 1944)
  • Frédérique Petrides, Belgian-American conductor and violinist (b. 1903)
  • Nikolai Podgorny, Russian politician (b. 1903)
• January 13
  • René Bonnet, French racing driver (b. 1904)
  • Otto Busch, Danish field hockey player (b. 1904)
  • Barry Galbraith, American guitarist (b. 1919)
  • Arthur Space, American actor (b. 1908)
• January 14
  • Maurice Bellonte, French pilot (b. 1896)
  • Otto Ludwig, American film editor (b. 1903)
  • Udo von Woyrsch, German lieutenant (b. 1895)
• January 15
  • Henri Debain, French actor (b. 1886)
  • Maxwell Eley, English rower (b. 1902)
  • Ernst Fuchs, German theologian (b. 1903)
  • Masatane Kanda, Japanese lieutenant general (b. 1890)
  • Meyer Lansky, American mobster (b. 1902)
  • Shepperd Strudwick, American actor (b. 1907)
• January 16 – Vladimir Bakarić, Croatian politician (b. 1912)
• January 17
  • Maurice Janet, French mathematician (b. 1888)
  • Doodles Weaver, American comedian and actor (b. 1911)
• January 18
  • Vernon Bartlett, English journalist and politician (b. 1894)
  • Arturo Umberto Illia, Argentine politician, President of Argentina (b. 1900)
  • Walter Ullmann, Austrian-English scholar (b. 1910)
• January 19
  • Robert Carson, American screenwriter (b. 1909)
  • Don Costa, American conductor and record producer (b. 1925)
• January 20
  • Sabino Bilbao, Spanish footballer (b. 1897)
  • Mané Garrincha, Brazilian footballer (b. 1933)
  • Felix Pipes, Austrian tennis player (b. 1887)
• January 21
  • Marian Mazur, Polish scientist (b. 1909)
  • Dana Medřická, Czech actress (b. 1920)
  • Ton Satomi, Japanese author (b. 1888)
  • Antonio Siddi, Italian athlete (b. 1923)
  • Sol Spiegelman, American biologist (b. 1914)
• January 22 – José Adriano Pequito Rebelo, Portuguese author and politician (b. 1892)
• January 23 – Marcolino Gomes Candau, Brazilian physician (b. 1911)
• January 24
  • Semen Altshuler, Russian physicist (b. 1911)
  • George Cukor, American film director (b. 1899)
  • Johan Grøttumsbråten, Norwegian skier (b. 1899)
  • Avdo Humo, Bosnian politician (b. 1914)
  • Detlef Okrent, German field hockey player (b. 1909)
  • Carmen Clemente Travieso, Venezuelan journalist and activist (b. 1900)
  • Juan Carlos Zabala, Argentine runner (b. 1911)
• January 25
  • Ahmed Dlimi, Moroccan general (b. 1931)
  • Rodney Soher, English bobsledder (b. 1893)
• January 26 – Bear Bryant, American football player and manager (b. 1913)
• January 27
  • Kanu Banerjee, Indian actor (b. 1905)
  • Ananda Chandra Barua, Indian author and poet (b. 1907)
  • Georges Bidault, French politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1899)
  • Meyer Fortes, South African-English anthropologist (b. 1906)
  • 'Louis de Funès, French actor and comedian (b. 1914)
  • Higinio Morínigo, Paraguayan major general and politician, President of Paraguay (b. 1897)
  • Ruth Weyher, German actress (b. 1901)
• January 28
  • Sweet Emma Barrett, American pianist and singer (b. 1897)
  • Bryher Ellerman, English author (b. 1894)
  • Frank Forde, Australian politician, Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1890)
  • Billy Fury, English musician (b. 1940)
  • Chianca de Garcia, Portuguese film director (b. 1898)
  • Aryeh Kaplan, American rabbi and author (b. 1934)
  • Edward Lawry Norton, American engineer (b. 1898)
  • Claude Papi, French footballer (b. 1949)
  • Jean Rupp, French bishop and diplomat (b. 1905)
• January 29
• January 30
  • Alan Cunningham, Irish-English general (b. 1887)
  • Fritz Machlup, Austrian-American economist (b. 1902)
  • Emilio Polli, Italian swimmer (b. 1901)
  • Mack Reynolds, American author (b. 1917)
  • Joan Valerie, American actress (b. 1911)
• January 31
  • Slimane Azem, Algerian singer and poet (b. 1918)
  • Gregorio Blasco, Spanish footballer (b. 1909)
  • Lorraine Ellison, American singer (b. 1931)

February 1983

• February 1
• February 2
  • Sam Chatmon, American guitarist and singer (b. 1897)
  • Corentin Louis Kervran, French scientist (b. 1901)
  • Bryan Valentine, English cricketer (b. 1908)
  • Ali Valiyev, Azerbaijani author (b. 1901)
• February 3
  • Tullio Campagnolo, Italian cyclist (b. 1901)
  • Josephine Dunn, American actress (b. 1906)
  • Antonio Samorè, Italian cardinal (b. 1905)
• February 4
  • Lucienne Bogaert, French actress (b. 1892)
  • Karen Carpenter, American musician (b. 1950)
  • Ernest Klein, Romanian-Canadian linguist and author (b. 1899)
  • Xiao San, Chinese poet and translator (b. 1896)
• February 5
  • Judith Alpi, Chilean painter (b. 1893)
  • Harry George Armstrong, American major general (b. 1899)
  • Margaret Oakley Dayhoff, American chemist (b. 1925)
  • Hannjo Hasse, German actor (b. 1921)
  • Peter H. Jackson, English rower (b. 1912)
  • Yitzhak Olshan, Israeli judge (b. 1895)
• February 6 – Atma Ram, Indian scientist (b. 1908)
• February 7
  • Alfonso Calzolari, Italian cyclist (b. 1887)
  • Leibu Levin, Romanian-Israeli poet and musician (b. 1914)
• February 8
  • Harry Boot, English physicist (b. 1917)
  • Nathaniel M. Haskell, American politician (b. 1912)
  • Serge Ivanoff, Russian-French painter (b. 1893)
  • Harry Mitchell, English boxer (b. 1898)
  • Maria Josefa Alhama y Valera, Spanish nun (b. 1893)
  • Alfred Wallenstein, American cellist and conductor (b. 1898)
• February 9 – Marian Danysz, Polish physicist (b. 1909)
• February 10
  • Eduard Franz, American actor (b. 1902)
  • Emil Grunzweig, Israeli activist (b. 1947)
  • Glen D. Johnson, American politician (b. 1911)
  • Vittorio Sereni, Italian poet and author (b. 1913)
• February 11
  • Max Ehrlich, American author (b. 1909)
  • Nathan S. Kline, American scientist (b. 1916)
• February 12
  • Italo Acconcia, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1925)
  • Eubie Blake, American pianist and composer (b. 1887)
  • Isabelle d'Orléans, French princess (b. 1900)
  • Nikolay Firyubin, Russian diplomat (b. 1908)
  • Jan Klaassens, Dutch footballer (b. 1931)
• February 13
  • Serafino Biagioni, Italian cyclist (b. 1920)
  • Lorenzo Bianchi, Italian bishop (b. 1899)
  • Marian Nixon, American actress (b. 1904)
• February 14
  • Brita von Horn, Swedish author and playwright (b. 1886)
  • Lina Radke, German runner (b. 1903)
  • Ludwig Rellstab, German chess player (b. 1904)
  • Evelyn Young, American actress (b. 1915)
• February 15 – Jane Chambers, American playwright (b. 1937)
• February 16
  • Kalyani Das, Indian revolutionary (b. 1907)
  • Kazimiera Iłłakowiczówna, Polish poet and author (b. 1892)
• February 17
  • Bruno Corelli, Italian actor (b. 1918)
  • Tancredi Pasero, Italian opera singer (b. 1893)
  • Waldeck Rochet, French politician (b. 1905)
• February 18
  • C. K. Daphtary, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1893)
  • Piet van der Horst, Dutch cyclist (b. 1903)
  • Robert Payne, English-American author (b. 1911)
• February 19
  • Otto Basil, Austrian author and journalist (b. 1901)
  • Jardel Filho, Brazilian actor (b. 1928)
  • Tomás Ojeda, Chilean footballer (b. 1910)
  • Ernest Terreau, French cyclist (b. 1908)
  • Alice White, American actress (b. 1904)
• February 20
  • Raoul Couvert, French ice hockey player (b. 1903)
  • Caryl Lincoln, American actress (b. 1903)
  • Stan Wicks, English footballer (b. 1928)
• February 21
  • Liu Changchun, Chinese sprinter (b. 1909)
  • Marie Mosquini, American actress (b. 1899)
• February 22
  • Adrian Boult, English conductor (b. 1889)
  • Mieczysław Jastrun, Polish poet and author (b. 1903)
  • Romain Maes, Belgian cyclist (b. 1912)
  • Elsa Merlini, Italian actress (b. 1903)
  • Paolo Pedretti, Italian cyclist (b. 1906)
  • Georg Rydeberg, Swedish actor (b. 1907)
• February 23
  • William Anderson, English ice hockey player (b. 1901)
  • Herbert Howells, English composer and organist (b. 1892)
  • Huseynagha Sadigov, Azerbaijani actor (b. 1914)
• February 24
  • Jacques Benoist-Méchin, French politician and author (b. 1901)
  • Ken Keller, American basketball player (b. 1922)
• February 25
  • Boris Afanasiev, Russian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1913)
  • Mignon Anderson, American actress (b. 1892)
  • Waitstill Sharp, American minister and humanitarian (b. 1902)
  • Tennessee Williams, American playwright (b. 1911)
• February 26
  • Aarón Sáenz Garza, Mexican politician (b. 1891)
  • Einar Olsson, Swedish footballer (b. 1886)
• February 27
  • Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev, Russian astronomer (b. 1908)
  • Gyula Lázár, Hungarian footballer (b. 1911)
• February 28
  • Winifred Atwell, Trinidadian pianist (b. 1914)
  • Jan Birkelund, Norwegian footballer (b. 1950)

March 1983

• March 1
  • Hideo Kobayashi, Japanese author and critic (b. 1902)
  • Arthur Koestler, Hungarian-English author and journalist (b. 1905)
  • John Richter, American basketball player (b. 1937)
• March 2
  • Louis Béguet, French rugby player (b. 1894)
  • Fiorella Mari, Brazilian-Italian actress (b. 1928)
• March 3
  • Hergé, Belgian cartoonist (b. 1907)
  • Peter Ivers, American musician (b. 1946)
  • Valery Tarsis, Ukrainian-Swiss author and critic (b. 1906)
• March 4
• March 5
• March 6
  • Viktor Bely, Russian composer and activist (b. 1904)
  • Cathy Berberian, American-Italian opera singer and composer (b. 1925)
  • John B. Coulter, American lieutenant general (b. 1891)
  • Greta Knutson, Swedish artist and critic (b. 1899)
  • Donald Maclean, English diplomat and spy (b. 1913)
  • Marijan Marjanović, Croatian footballer (b. 1904)
• March 7
  • Robert Bray, American actor (b. 1917)
  • Lutz Eigendorf, German footballer (b. 1956)
  • Lothar Fendler, German war criminal (b. 1913)
  • Odd Lundberg, Norwegian speed skater (b. 1917)
  • Igor Markevitch, Russian-Italian composer and conductor (b. 1912)
  • Claude Vivier, Canadian composer and pianist (b. 1948)
• March 8
  • Enrico Colombari, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1905)
  • Chabuca Granda, Peruvian singer and composer (b. 1920)
  • William Walton, English composer (b. 1902)
• March 9
  • Faye Emerson, American actress (b. 1917)
  • Ulf von Euler, Swedish physiologist and pharmacologist (b. 1905)
  • Augustin Guillaume, French general (b. 1895)
• March 10
• March 11
  • Galip Balkar, Turkish diplomat (b. 1936)
  • Stephan von Breuning, Austrian entomologist (b. 1894)
  • Mansur Mazinov, Russian pilot (b. 1906)
• March 12
  • Regina Gerlecka, Polish chess player (b. 1913)
  • Fred Meyer, American wrestler (b. 1900)
  • Mario Mieli, Italian activist and author (b. 1952)
  • Imre Ráday, Hungarian actor (b. 1905)
• March 13
  • Louison Bobet, French cyclist (b. 1925)
  • Paul Citroen, German-Dutch artist (b. 1896)
  • Jean Martinelli, French actor (b. 1909)
  • Seytnafe Seytveliyev, Russian sergeant major (b. 1919)
  • Marianella García Villas, Salvadoran attorney and activist (b. 1948)
• March 14
  • Gigi Gryce, American saxophonist and flautist (b. 1925)
  • Harald Nielsen, Danish boxer (b. 1902)
  • Heinz Paul, German film director (b. 1893)
  • Maurice Ronet, French actor (b. 1927)
  • Wilhelm Schmalz, German general (b. 1901)
• March 15
  • Helen Bina, American speed skater (b. 1912)
  • Johann Blank, German water polo player (b. 1904)
  • Coloman Braun-Bogdan, Romanian footballer and manager (b. 1905)
  • Oldřich Nový, Czech actor (b. 1899)
  • Josep Lluís Sert, Spanish architect (b. 1902)
  • Rebecca West, English author (b. 1892)
• March 16
  • Bohumil Durdis, Czech weightlifter (b. 1903)
  • Ettore Lo Gatto, Italian linguist and historian (b. 1890)
  • Arthur Godfrey, American broadcaster (b. 1903)
  • Ernie Royal, American trumpeter (b. 1921)
  • Freda Dudley Ward, English socialite (b. 1894)
• March 17
  • Haldan Keffer Hartline, American physiologist (b. 1903)
  • Alfred C. Redfield, American oceanographer (b. 1890)
• March 18
  • Robert F. Bradford, American politician (b. 1902)
  • Henryk Budziński, Polish rower (b. 1904)
  • Franco Giorgetti, Italian cyclist (b. 1902)
  • Umberto di Savoia, Italian king (b. 1904)
  • Nasri Shamseddine, Lebanese singer and actress (b. 1927)
• March 19
  • Mario Amadeo, American politician and diplomat (b. 1911)
  • Camille Polfer, Luxembourgian politician (b. 1924)
• March 20
  • Thure Ahlqvist, Swedish boxer (b. 1907)
  • Maria Babanova, Russian actress (b. 1900)
  • Thilo Maatsch, German artist (b. 1900)
  • Ian McPherson, Scottish footballer (b. 1920)
  • Ivan Vinogradov, Russian mathematician (b. 1891)
• March 21
  • Germaine Beaumont, French journalist and author (b. 1890)
  • Roy Chapman, English footballer and manager (b. 1934)
  • Maurice Franck, French conductor and composer (b. 1897)
• March 22
• March 23
  • Anton Constandse, Dutch author and journalist (b. 1899)
  • Wallace Jones, American trumpeter (b. 1906)
  • Armand Lanoux, French author (b. 1913)
  • Saul Lieberman, Belarusian-American rabbi and philologist (b. 1898)
• March 24
  • Igino Eugenio Cardinale, Italian archbishop and diplomat (b. 1916)
  • Manuel Fleitas Solich, Paraguayan footballer and manager (b. 1900)
• March 25
  • Thomas S. Gates Jr., American politician (b. 1906)
  • Walter Pagel, German pathologist and historian (b. 1898)
  • Martha Sleeper, American actress (b. 1910)
  • John Bell Williams, American politician (b. 1918)
• March 26
  • Anthony Blunt, English historian and spy (b. 1907)
  • Gemma Bolognesi, Italian actress (b. 1894)
  • Paul Fässler, Swiss footballer (b. 1901)
  • Ernest Riedel, American canoeist (b. 1901)
• March 27
  • James Hayter, English actor (b. 1907)
  • Ellis Irving, Australian actor (b. 1902)
  • Jānis Ivanovs, Latvian composer (b. 1906)
  • Ulrich Kessler, German general (b. 1894)
  • Richard Stankiewicz, American sculptor (b. 1922)
  • Arnold van Wyk, South African composer (b. 1916)
• March 28
  • Suzanne Belperron, French jeweler (b. 1900)
  • Varvara Bubnova, Russian painter (b. 1886)
  • Donovan Stewart Correll, American botanist (b. 1908)
  • Antonio Nava, Mexican polo player (b. 1905)
  • Walter Reisch, Austrian-American film director and screenwriter (b. 1903)
• March 29
  • János Biri, Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1901)
  • Tommy Graham, English footballer (b. 1905)
  • Antony Head, English politician (b. 1906)
  • Maurice Kendall, English statistician (b. 1907)
• March 30
  • Eadie Adams, American singer and actress (b. 1907)
  • Gunnar Bigum, Danish actor (b. 1914)
  • Rodoljub Čolaković, Serbian politician, Prime Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina (b. 1900)
  • Pál Kadosa, Hungarian pianist and composer (b. 1903)
  • Lisette Model, Austrian-American photographer (b. 1901)
  • Suzy Solidor, French singer and actress (b. 1900)
• March 31
  • Paula Hertwig, German biologist and politician (b. 1889)
  • Chiezō Kataoka, Japanese actor (b. 1903)
  • Karandash Rumyantsev, Russian clown (b. 1901)
  • Howard Hayes Scullard, English historian (b. 1903)
  • Christina Stead, Australian author (b. 1902)

April 1983

• April 1
  • Levi Casey, American triple jumper (b. 1904)
  • Bo Ekelund, Swedish high jumper (b. 1894)
• April 2
  • Chang Dai-chien, Chinese painter (b. 1899)
  • Clara Nunes, Brazilian singer (b. 1942)
• April 3
  • Jimmy Bloomfield, English footballer and manager (b. 1934)
  • Karl Freudenberg, German chemist (b. 1886)
  • Michel Frutschi, Swiss motorcycle racer (b. 1953)
  • Aleksander Ścibor-Rylski, Polish screenwriter and film director (b. 1928)
• April 4
  • Sethu Parvathi Bayi, Indian princess (b. 1896)
  • Jan de Bruine, Dutch equestrian (b. 1903)
  • Felix Landau, Austrian war criminal (b. 1910)
  • Jacqueline Logan, American actress (b. 1902)
  • Kārlis Šteins, Latvian astronomer (b. 1911)
  • Gloria Swanson, American actress (b. 1899)
  • Bernard Vukas, Croatian footballer (b. 1927)
• April 5
  • Jerzy Bordziłowski, Polish general and politician (b. 1900)
  • Cliff Carlisle, American musician (b. 1903)
  • Mariano de la Mata, Spanish priest (b. 1905)
• April 6
  • Jayanto Nath Chaudhuri, Indian general (b. 1908)
  • Gavin Gordon, American actor (b. 1901)
  • Lutz Heck, German zoologist (b. 1892)
  • Ana María, Salvadoran revolutionary (b. 1929)
• April 7
  • Lotte Cohn, German-Israeli architect (b. 1893)
  • Einar Hareide, Norwegian politician (b. 1899)
  • Larysa Hienijuš, Belarusian poet and author (b. 1910)
  • Kenyon Hopkins, American film composer (b. 1912)
• April 8 – Isamu Kosugi, Japanese actor and film director (b. 1904)
• April 9 – Nikolai Kharlamov, Russian admiral (b. 1905)
• April 10
  • Phillip Burton, American politician (b. 1926)
  • Sebastian Earl, English rower (b. 1900)
  • Issam Sartawi, Palestinian politician (b. 1935)
• April 11
  • Edina Altara, Italian illustrator and fashion designer (b. 1898)
  • Dolores del Río, Mexican actress (b. 1904)
  • Ahmed Rushdi, Pakistani singer (b. 1934)
  • Avraham Yoffe, Israeli general (b. 1913)
• April 12
  • Desmond Bagley, English journalist and author (b. 1923)
  • Cayetano Carpio, Salvadoran revolutionary (b. 1918)
  • Jørgen Juve, Norwegian footballer and journalist (b. 1906)
  • Pierre Richard-Willm, French actor (b. 1895)
• April 13
  • Nakamura Ganjirō II, Japanese actor (b. 1902)
  • Gerry Hitchens, English footballer (b. 1934)
  • Olle Källgren, Swedish footballer (b. 1907)
  • Gloria Marín, Mexican actress (b. 1919)
  • Mercè Rodoreda, Spanish author (b. 1908)
  • Theodore Stephanides]], Greek-English physician (b. 1896)
  • Anna van der Vegt, Dutch gymnast (b. 1903)
• April 14
  • Nina Dumbadze, Georgian discus thrower (b. 1919)
  • Pete Farndon, English bassist (b. 1952)
  • Elisabeth Lutyens, English composer (b. 1906)
  • Achille Peretti, French politician (b. 1911)
  • Max Syring, German runner (b. 1908)
• April 15
  • Corrie ten Boom, Dutch watchmaker (b. 1892)
  • Edmund Thomas Clint, Indian painter (b. 1976)
  • David Tennant Cowan, English major general (b. 1896)
  • Vera Faddeeva, Russian mathematician (b. 1906)
  • Gyula Illyés, Hungarian poet and author (b. 1902)
  • Ernestine Wade, American actress (b. 1906)
• April 16 – Michael Zohary, Israeli botanist (b. 1898)
• April 17
  • Glikeriya Bogdanova-Chesnokova, Russian actress (b. 1904)
  • Siegfried Müller, German-South African nazi mercenary (b. 1920)
  • Felix Pappalardi, American musician (b. 1939)
• April 18 – Alan Melville, South African cricketer (b. 1910)
• April 19
  • Jerzy Andrzejewski, Polish author (b. 1909)
  • Federico de Castro, Spanish judge (b. 1903)
  • Shahan Natalie, Armenian author and activist (b. 1884)
  • Vojin Božović, Montenegrin footballer and manager (b. 1913)
  • Jim Nolan, American basketball player (b. 1927)
  • Renato Ziggiotti, Italian priest (b. 1892)
• April 20
  • Karunaratne Abeysekera, Sri Lankan broadcaster (b. 1930)
  • Mária Mezei, Hungarian actress (b. 1909)
  • Walther Nehring, German general (b. 1892)
  • Pedro Quartucci, Argentine boxer and actor (b. 1905)
• April 21
  • Édouard Bader, French rugby player (b. 1899)
  • Momčilo Đokić, Serbian footballer (b. 1911)
  • Stepan Krasovsky, Russian air marshal (b. 1897)
  • Walter Slezak, Austrian-American actor (b. 1902)
• April 22
  • Earl Hines, American pianist and bandleader (b. 1903)
  • Gösta Holmér, Swedish athlete (b. 1891)
  • Lamberto Maggiorani, Italian actor (b. 1909)
  • Izzet Orujova, Azerbaijani chemist and actress (b. 1909)
  • Lin Qiaozhi, Chinese obstetrician and gynecologist (b. 1901)
  • Abraham Sachs, American historian and archaeologist (b. 1915)
  • Gunta Stölzl, German artist (b. 1897)
• April 23
  • Paľo Bielik, Slovakian film director and screenwriter (b. 1910)
  • Anita Blanch, Spanish-Mexican actress (b. 1910)
  • Marguerite Broquedis, French tennis player (b. 1893)
  • Buster Crabbe, American swimmer and actor (b. 1908)
  • Frank Fisher, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1901)
  • Selena Royle, American actress (b. 1904)
  • Finn Salomonsen, Danish ornithologist (b. 1909)
  • Povilas Vaitonis, Lithuanian-Canadian chess player (b. 1911)
• April 24
  • Jimmy Mundy, American saxophonist and composer (b. 1907)
  • Rolf Stommelen, German racing driver (b. 1943)
• April 25
  • Saloma Ismail, Malaysian singer and actress (b. 1935)
  • Jack Ritchie, American author (b. 1922)
  • [[Hans Struksnæs], Norwegian sailor (b. 1902)
• April 26
  • Shirley Deane, American actress (b. 1913)
  • Bronisław Kaper, Polish film composer (b. 1902)
  • John Smyth, English brigadier and politician (b. 1893)
  • Vaughn Taylor, American actor (b. 1911)
  • Ruth von Wild, Swiss activist (b. 1912)
  • Huang Yongsheng, Chinese general (b. 1910)
• April 27
  • Zdzisław Filipkiewicz, Polish basketball player (b. 1916)
  • José Iraragorri, Spanish footballer (b. 1912)
• April 28
  • Avram Bunaciu, Romanian politician (b. 1909)
  • Pearl Gibbs, Australian activist (b. 1901)
  • Fritz Luchsinger, Swiss mountaineer (b. 1921)
  • Boris Milev, Bulgarian resistance fighter and journalist (b. 1903)
• April 29
  • Ali Ghito, German actress (b. 1905)
  • Anatoly Lyapidevsky, Russian pilot (b. 1908)
• April 30
  • George Balanchine, Russian-American choreographer (b. 1904)
  • Francis Doyle Gleeson, American bishop (b. 1895)
  • Joel Henry Hildebrand, American chemist (b. 1881)
  • Muddy Waters, American singer (b. 1913)

May 1983

• May 1
  • Earlene Brown, American athlete (b. 1935)
  • Cecil Cooke, Bahamian sailor (b. 1923)
  • George Hodgson, Canadian swimmer (b. 1893)
  • Joseph Ruttenberg, Ukrainian-American photojournalist and cinematographer (b. 1889)
  • Arthur Dewey Struble, American admiral (b. 1894)
• May 2
  • Pridi Banomyong, Thai politician, Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1900)
  • Norm Van Brocklin, American football player and coach (b. 1926)
  • Ernesto de la Guardia, Panamanian politician, President of Panama (b. 1904)
  • Leonid Kolumbet, Ukrainian cyclist (b. 1937)
• May 3
  • Armando José Fernandes, Portuguese composer (b. 1906)
  • Sidney Skolsky, American columnist (b. 1905)
• May 4
  • Nino Sanzogno, Italian conductor and composer (b. 1911)
  • Shūji Terayama, Japanese poet and playwright (b. 1935)
• May 5
  • E. Ross Adair, American politician (b. 1907)
  • Anton Buttigieg, Maltese poet and politician, President of Malta (b. 1912)
  • Josef Čapek, Czech footballer (b. 1902)
  • Richard Hofmann, German footballer (b. 1906)
  • Étienne Lamotte, Belgian priest (b. 1903)
  • John Williams, English actor (b. 1903)
• May 6
  • Sergey Izotov, Russian scientist (b. 1917)
  • Tommaso Morlino, Italian politician (b. 1925)
  • Oszkár Szigeti, Hungarian footballer (b. 1933)
  • Seiichi Tobata, Japanese scientist (b. 1899)
  • Bep Voskuijl, Dutch humanitarian (b. 1919)
  • Kai Winding, Danish-American trombonist and composer (b. 1922)
• May 7
  • Bud Jarvis, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1907)
  • John Masters, English author (b. 1914)
  • József Romhányi, Hungarian author and poet (b. 1921)
  • Keith Stewartson, English mathematician (b. 1925)
• May 8
  • John Fante, American author (b. 1909)
  • Fay Spain, American actress (b. 1932)
• May 9
• May 10 – Émile Zermani, French footballer (b. 1910)
• May 11
  • Heinz Hajek-Halke, German photographer (b. 1898)
  • Zenna Henderson, American author (b. 1917)
  • Yevgeny Zhuravlev, Russian lieutenant general (b. 1896)
• May 12
  • Yvonne Bourgeois, French tennis player (b. 1902)
  • Joe Laporte, Canadian cyclist (b. 1907)
• May 13 – Otto Heckmann, German astronomer (b. 1901)
• May 14
  • Fyodor Abramov, Russian author and critic (b. 1920)
  • Seweryn Kulesza, Polish equestrian (b. 1900)
  • René Pontoni, Argentine footballer (b. 1920)
  • Grzegorz Przemyk, Polish poet (b. 1964)
  • Leonard Read, American economist and philosopher (b. 1898)
  • Miguel Alemán Valdés, Mexican politician, President of Mexico (b. 1900)
• May 15
  • Rodolfo Gucci, Italian actor and entrepreneur (b. 1912)
  • Marv Huffman, American basketball player (b. 1917)
  • Hall S. Lusk, American judge (b. 1883)
  • James Van Der Zee, American photographer (b. 1886)
• May 16 – Edouard Zeckendorf, Belgian physician and mathematician (b. 1901)
• May 17
  • Victor Halperin, American film director and screenwriter (b. 1895)
  • Kurt Schirra, German boxer (b. 1931)
  • Olexander Smakula, Ukrainian physicist (b. 1900)
• May 18
  • Frank Aiken, Irish politician (b. 1898)
  • Walter Maurer, American wrestler (b. 1893)
  • Aleksandr Zhirov, Russian skier (b. 1958)
• May 19
  • Reuven Arazi, Israeli politician (b. 1907)
  • Carlheinz Neumann, German rower (b. 1905)
  • Jean Rey, Belgian politician (b. 1902)
  • Walter Stennes, German lieutenant (b. 1895)
• May 20
  • Mimi Chakib, Egyptian actress (b. 1913)
  • Björn Collinder, Swedish linguist (b. 1894)
  • Kurt Haehling, German general (b. 1893)
  • Prithipal Singh, Indian field hockey player (b. 1932)
• May 21
  • Kenneth Clark, English historian (b. 1903)
  • Amal Dunqul, Egyptian poet (b. 1940)
  • Eric Hoffer, American philosopher (b. 1902)
  • Marie Schlei, German politician (b. 1919)
  • Boris Stepantsev, Russian animator (b. 1929)
  • Joan du Plat Taylor, Scottish archaeologist (b. 1906)
• May 22
  • Alois Beranek, Austrian footballer and manager (b. 1900)
  • Albert Claude, Belgian biologist and physician (b. 1899)
  • Art Cruickshank, American special effects artist (b. 1918)
  • Marie-Auguste Luise, German princess (b. 1898)
  • Erna Scheffler, German judge (b. 1893)
• May 23
  • George Bruns, American composer (b. 1914)
  • Eve Gray, English actress (b. 1900)
  • Finn Mortensen, Norwegian composer and critic (b. 1922)
• May 24
  • Nikolai Dubov, Russian author (b. 1910)
  • Grete Reinwald, German actress (b. 1902)
  • Fritz Sauter, Austrian-German physicist (b. 1906)
• May 25
  • Muhammad Idris bin Muhammad al-Mahdi as-Senussi, Libyan king (b. 1890)
  • Sydney Box, English film producer and screenwriter (b. 1907)
  • Necip Fazıl Kısakürek, Turkish poet and author (b. 1904)
  • Zelda Popkin, American author (b. 1898)
  • Paul Quinichette, American saxophonist (b. 1916)
  • Jack Stewart, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1917)
• May 26
  • Ryotaro Azuma, Japanese physician and politician (b. 1893)
  • Alexander Chira, Ukrainian bishop (b. 1897)
  • Louise Weiss, French author and journalist (b. 1893)
• May 27
  • Johann Houschka, Austrian handball player (b. 1914)
  • Józef Lejtes, Polish screenwriter and film director (b. 1901)
  • Stepan Saryg-Ool, Tuvan poet and author (b. 1908)
  • Hukam Singh, Indian politician (b. 1895)
• May 28
  • Pitseolak Ashoona, Canadian artist (b. 1904)
  • Attila Sallustro, Paraguayan-Italian (b. 1908)
• May 29
  • Ada Blackjack, American castaway (b. 1898)
  • Ryoichi Mita, Japanese translator (b. 1892)
  • Arvīds Pelše, Latvian politician (b. 1899)
  • Willy Rozier, French film director and actor (b. 1901)
  • Samariddin Sagdiyev, Uzbekistani-Tajikistani actor (b. 1918)
• May 30
  • Roger Excoffon, French typographer (b. 1910)
  • Alfred Gruenther, American general (b. 1899)
  • Burnett Guffey, American cinematographer (b. 1905)
  • Rudolf Loo, Estonian wrestler (b. 1902)
• May 31
  • Jack Dempsey, American boxer (b. 1895)
  • Sergey Rogozhin, Russian equestrian (b. 1956)
  • Milton Young, American politician (b. 1897)

June 1983

• June 1
  • Lamar Jeffers, American politician (b. 1888)
  • Sarah Kafrit, Israeli politician (b. 1900)
  • Jaime Lazcano, Spanish footballer (b. 1909)
  • Charles Meinrad, Belgian prince (b. 1903)
  • Anna Seghers, German author (b. 1900)
• June 2
  • Raymond Fee, American boxer (b. 1903)
  • Jakub Kopf, Polish basketball player (b. 1915)
  • Ernest Libérati, French footballer (b. 1908)
  • Stan Rogers, Canadian musician (b. 1949)
  • Julio Rosales, Filipino cardinal (b. 1906)
  • Gochō Shigeo, Japanese photographer (b. 1946)
• June 3
• June 4
  • Daniele Amfitheatrof, Russian-Italian composer and conductor (b. 1901)
  • Adele Goodman Clark, American artist and activist (b. 1882)
  • Ivan Tors, Hungarian playwright and film director (b. 1916)
  • Gunn Wållgren, Swedish actress (b. 1913)
• June 5
  • Jean Freustié, French author and critic (b. 1914)
  • Ralph Hamilton, American basketball player (b. 1921)
  • Stanley Stanyar, Canadian rower (b. 1905)
  • Kurt Tank, German engineer (b. 1898)
• June 6
  • Curly Armstrong, American basketball player and coach (b. 1918)
  • Marcelle Auclair, French author and journalist (b. 1899)
  • James E. Casey, American businessman (b. 1888)
  • Mahmoud el-Meliguy, Egyptian screenwriter and actor (b. 1910)
  • Hugo Johnson, Swedish sailor (b. 1908)
  • Hans Leip, German poet and author (b. 1893)
• June 7
• June 8
  • Jacques Van Melkebeke, Belgian painter and cartoonist (b. 1904)
  • Svend Pri, Danish badminton player (b. 1945)
• June 9
  • Ernesto Djédjé, Ivorian musician (b. 1948)
  • William M. Tuck, American politician (b. 1896)
  • Charmion Von Wiegand, American journalist and painter (b. 1896)
• June 10
  • Liao Chengzhi, Chinese politician (b. 1908)
  • Vladimir Pashuto, Russian historian (b. 1918)
  • Nadia Reisenberg, Lithuanian-American pianist (b. 1904)
  • Said Rustamov, Azerbaijani composer and conductor (b. 1907)
• June 11
• June 12
  • Aleksandr Alov, Russian film director and screenwriter (b. 1923)
  • Clemens Holzmeister, Austrian architect (b. 1886)
  • J. B. Hutto, American musician (b. 1926)
  • Norma Shearer, Canadian-American actress (b. 1902)
• June 13
  • Lady Amin, Iranian theologian (b. 1886)
  • Vadim Delaunay, Russian poet (b. 1947)
  • Curt Siewert, German general (b. 1899)
• June 14
  • Ihor Kostetskyi, Ukrainian author and playwright (b. 1913)
  • Andrei Popov, Russian actor (b. 1918)
  • Alexey Surkov, Russian poet and critic (b. 1899)
• June 15
  • Mario Casariego y Acevedo, Guatemalan cardinal (b. 1909)
  • Sri Sri, Indian poet and songwriter (b. 1910)
  • Fritz Zbinden, Swiss cyclist (b. 1922)
• June 16
  • Jean Majerus, Luxembourgian cyclist (b. 1914)
  • Ofelia Montesco, Peruvian-Mexican actress (b. 1936)
  • Aina Wifalk, Swedish scientist and inventor (b. 1928)
• June 17
  • Miron Białoszewski, Polish poet and author (b. 1922)
  • Ruggero Gerlin, Italian harpsichordist (b. 1899)
  • Eelco van Kleffens, Dutch politician and diplomat (b. 1894)
  • Peter Mennin, American composer (b. 1923)
• June 18
  • Marianne Brandt, German painter and sculptor (b. 1893)
  • Robert A. Lewis, American army major (b. 1917)
  • Mona Mahmudnizhad, Iranian activist (b. 1965)
• June 19
  • Georg Diederichs, German politician (b. 1900)
  • Simha Erlich, Israeli politician (b. 1915)
  • Maksis Kazāks, Latvian basketball player (b. 1912)
  • Avet Ter-Gabrielyan, Armenian violinist (b. 1899)
• June 20
  • Sadik Hakim, American pianist and composer (b. 1919)
  • Tadeusz Sulimirski, Polish-English historian and archaeologist (b. 1898)
  • Nadia Tueni, Lebanese poet (b. 1935)
• June 21 – Doris Sands Johnson, Bahamian politician (b. 1921)
• June 22
  • Céline Emilian, French-Romanian sculptor (b. 1898)
  • Christopher Hinton, English engineer (b. 1901)
  • David MacDonald, Scottish film director (b. 1904)
• June 23
  • Mario Pio Gaspari, Italian archbishop and diplomat (b. 1918)
  • Jonathan Latimer, American author and screenwriter (b. 1906)
  • Giovanni Plazzer, Italian rower (b. 1909)
  • Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado, Cuban politician, President of Cuba (b. 1919)
• June 24 – William E. Miller, American politician (b. 1914)
• June 25
  • Alberto Ginastera, Argentine composer (b. 1916)
  • Oddbjørn Hagen, Norwegian skier (b. 1908)
• June 26
  • Luis Álamos, Chilean football manager (b. 1923)
  • James Knox, Australian archbishop and diplomat (b. 1914)
  • Sture Pettersson, Swedish cyclist (b. 1942)
• June 27
  • Vince Gallagher, American rower (b. 1899)
  • Manuel Giúdice, Argentine footballer and manager (b. 1918)
  • Ronnie Shavlik, American basketball player (b. 1933)
  • Juan Torena, Argentine-American footballer and actor (b. 1898)
• June 28
  • Antonio Folco, Italian cyclist (b. 1906)
  • Pietro Frua, Italian coachbuilder (b. 1913)
  • Elżbieta Katolik, Polish sprinter (b. 1949)
  • Christa Schroeder, German secretary (b. 1908)
• June 29
• June 30
  • Igor Dmitrievich Ado, Russian mathematician (b. 1910)
  • Herbert Baker, American screenwriter (b. 1920)
  • Noor Mohammed Charlie, Pakistani actor (b. 1911)
  • Leonard B. Jordan, American politician (b. 1899)
  • Mary Livingstone, American comedian and actress (b. 1905)

July 1983

• July 1
  • Charles G. Clarke, American cinematographer (b. 1899)
  • Buckminster Fuller, American architect and futurist (b. 1895)
  • Julius Hoffman, American judge (b. 1895)
  • Erich Juskowiak, German footballer (b. 1926)
  • István Molnár, Hungarian water polo player (b. 1913)
  • Rudolf Rupec, Croatian footballer (b. 1895)
• July 2
  • László Budai, Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1928)
  • Hans Mehlhorn, German bobsledder (b. 1900)
  • Vladimír Neff, Czech author and translator (b. 1909)
• July 3 – Annibale Bugnini, Italian archbishop (b. 1912)
• July 4
  • John Bodkin Adams, Irish-English physician and fraudster (b. 1899)
  • Ted Berrigan, American poet (b. 1934)
  • Avraham Kalfon, Israeli politician (b. 1900)
  • Beatrice Van, American actress (b. 1890)
• July 5
  • Alec Cheyne, Scottish footballer (b. 1907)
  • Krunoslav Draganović, Serbian priest (b. 1903)
  • Harry James, American bandleader and trumpeter (b. 1916)
  • Franc Leskošek, Slovenian politician (b. 1897)
  • María Berea de Montero, Argentine chess player (b. 1914)
  • Václav Trojan, Czech composer (b. 1907)
  • Irena Turkevycz-Martynec, Ukrainian-Canadian ballerina (b. 1899)
  • Hennes Weisweiler, German footballer and manager (b. 1919)
• July 6
• July 7
  • Rudolf Andersen, Danish gymnast (b. 1899)
  • Adalberts Bubenko, Latvian racewalker (b. 1910)
  • Herman Kahn, American physicist (b. 1922)
  • Joseph P. LaSalle, American mathematician (b. 1916)
  • Alexander Fu Sheng, Hong Kong actor (b. 1954)
  • Enzo Turco, Italian actor (b. 1902)
• July 8 – David E. Green, American biochemist (b. 1910)
• July 9
  • Bienvenido Granda, Cuban singer (b. 1915)
  • Sven Jacobsson, Swedish footballer (b. 1914)
  • Tupua Tamasese Lealofi IV, Samoan politician, Prime Minister of Samoa (b. 1922)
• July 10
  • Estrellita Castro, Spanish singer and actress (b. 1908)
  • Werner Egk, German composer (b. 1901)
  • Wolfgang Lukschy, German actor (b. 1905)
• July 11
  • Mick Clavan, Dutch footballer (b. 1929)
  • Ross Macdonald, American-Canadian author (b. 1915)
• July 12
  • Zénon Bacq, Belgian radiobiologist (b. 1903)
  • Harry Derckx, Dutch field hockey player (b. 1918)
  • Ernst G. Straus, German-American mathematician (b. 1922)
  • Erich Warsitz, German pilot (b. 1906)
  • Chris Wood, English musician (b. 1944)
• July 13
  • Paulo Innocenti, Brazilian-Italian footballer (b. 1902)
  • Valto Olenius, Finnish pole vaulter (b. 1920)
  • Gabrielle Roy, Canadian author (b. 1909)
• July 14
  • Jack MacBryan, English cricketer (b. 1892)
  • Hamilton Paul Traub, American botanist (b. 1890)
• July 15
  • Ethel Zoe Bailey, American botanist (b. 1889)
  • Gary Bradds, American basketball player (b. 1942)
  • Edith Cross, American tennis player (b. 1907)
  • Eddie Foy Jr., American actor (b. 1905)
  • Elbert Root, American diver (b. 1915)
• July 16
  • Sergei Chalibashvili, Georgian diver (b. 1962)
  • Jaroslav Krombholc, Czech conductor (b. 1918)
  • Michel Micombero, Burundian politician, President of Burundi (b. 1940)
  • Pablo O'Higgins, American-Mexican artist (b. 1904)
  • Samson Raphaelson, American playwright and screenwriter (b. 1894)
  • Helmuth Schwenn, German water polo player (b. 1913)
• July 17
  • Erik Börjesson, Swedish footballer (b. 1886)
  • Byron Kennedy, Australian film producer (b. 1949)
  • Gustavo Machado, Venezuelan politician and journalist (b. 1898)
  • Muhammad Tayyib Qasmi, Indian scholar (b. 1897)
  • Roosevelt Sykes, American musician (b. 1906)
• July 18 – Salo Flohr, Czech-Russian chess grandmaster and author (b. 1908)
• July 19
  • Mariblanca Sabas Alomá, Cuban journalist and poet (b. 1901)
  • Alexia Bryn, Norwegian skater (b. 1889)
  • Cecil Reginald Burch, American physicist (b. 1901)
  • Erik Ode, German actor (b. 1910)
  • Charun Rattanakun Seriroengrit, Thai general and politician (b. 1895)
  • Kathleen Shaw, English figure skater (b. 1903)
• July 20
  • E. Preston Ames, American production designer (b. 1906)
  • Åke Andersson, Swedish footballer (b. 1917)
• July 21
  • Esther Bick, Polish psychologist (b. 1902)
  • Veronika Buzhinskaya, Russian actress (b. 1895)
  • Norman Holter, American biophysicist (b. 1914)
  • Radovan Richta, Czech philosopher (b. 1924)
• July 22 – Rodolfo Llopis, Spanish politician (b. 1895)
• July 23
  • Georges Auric, French composer (b. 1899)
  • Bob Fitzgerald, American basketball player (b. 1923)
• July 24
  • Nicolaus von Below, German pilot (b. 1907)
  • Eberhard Hopf, German-American mathematician and astronomer (b. 1902)
• July 25
  • René Fallet, French author (b. 1927)
  • Jerome Moross, American composer (b. 1913)
  • Henry Primakoff, Ukrainian-American theoretical physicist (b. 1914)
• July 26
  • Charlie Rivel, Spanish clown (b. 1896)
  • Arpad Wigand, German war criminal (b. 1906)
  • Kimiyoshi Yasuda, Japanese film director (b. 1911)
• July 27
• July 28
  • Elizabeth C. Crosby, American neuroanatomist (b. 1888)
  • Stjepan Đureković, Croatian businessman (b. 1926)
• July 29
  • Luis Buñuel, Spanish-Mexican screenwriter and film director (b. 1900)
  • Rocco Chinnici, Italian judge (b. 1925)
  • Burrill Bernard Crohn, American gastroenterologist (b. 1884)
  • Manuel Ferreira, Argentine footballer (b. 1905)
  • Albert Hehn, German actor (b. 1908)
  • Raymond Massey, Canadian-American actor (b. 1896)
  • David Niven, English actor (b. 1910)
  • Carlo Orlandi, Italian boxer (b. 1910)
• July 30
  • Bertus Caldenhove, Dutch footballer (b. 1914)
  • Howard Dietz, American songwriter (b. 1896)
  • Lynn Fontanne, English actress (b. 1887)
  • Heinrich Krause, Austrian painter (b. 1885)
  • Fuzzy Vandivier, American basketball player (b. 1903)
• July 31
  • Stig Nyström, Swedish footballer (b. 1919)
  • Eva Pawlik, Austrian figure skater (b. 1927)
  • Olga Yamshchikova, Russian fighter pilot (b. 1912)

August 1983

• August 1
  • Peter Arne, English actor (b. 1924)
  • Arne Eriksson, Finnish football referee (b. 1916)
  • Wild Bill Moore, American saxophonist (b. 1918)
• August 2
  • James Jamerson, American bassist (b. 1936)
  • Rudolf Kotormány, Romanian footballer and manager (b. 1911)
• August 3
  • Jobriath Campbell, American musician and actor (b. 1946)
  • Steponas Garbačiauskas, Lithuanian athlete and diplomat (b. 1900)
  • Carolyn Jones, American actress (b. 1930)
  • Will Rogers, American politician (b. 1898)
• August 4
  • Carles Comamala, Brazilian footballer and surgeon (b. 1889)
  • Bahiga Hafez, Egyptian actress and composer (b. 1908)
  • Yuri Levitan, Russian broadcaster (b. 1914)
  • Alfred Nakache, French swimmer and water polo player (b. 1915)
• August 5
  • Bart Bok, Dutch-American astronomer (b. 1906)
  • Judy Canova, American comedian and actress (b. 1913)
  • Walter Kuhn, Austrian-German folklorist and historian (b. 1903)
  • Joan Robinson, English economist (b. 1903)
• August 6 – Klaus Nomi, German opera singer (b. 1944)
• August 7
  • Alexander von Dörnberg, German judge and diplomat (b. 1901)
  • Robert Servatius, German lawyer (b. 1894)
• August 8 – Choi Chung-min, South Korean footballer and manager (b. 1930)
• August 9
  • André Hossein, Russian-French composer (b. 1905)
  • Károly Szittya, Hungarian swimmer and water polo player (b. 1918)
• August 10
  • José Baptista Pinheiro de Azevedo, Portuguese politician, President of Portugal (b. 1917)
  • Suzanne Perrottet, Swiss dancer and musician (b. 1889)
• August 11
  • Mamie Phipps Clark, American psychologist (b. 1917)
  • Gustav Sandgren, Swedish author (b. 1904)
  • Satsuo Yamamoto, Japanese film director (b. 1910)
• August 12
  • Theodor Burchardi, German admiral (b. 1892)
  • Artemio Franchi, Italian football administrator (b. 1922)
  • Franz Radziwill, German painter (b. 1895)
• August 13
  • Bob Bailey, American actor (b. 1913)
  • Zdeněk Liška, Czech composer (b. 1922)
• August 14
  • Heinrich Baron von Behr, German general (b. 1902)
  • Musine Kokalari, Albanian author and politician (b. 1917)
  • Alceu Amoroso Lima, Brazilian author and journalist (b. 1893)
  • Arthur Mole, English-American photographer (b. 1889)
  • Alfred Rust, German archaeologist (b. 1900)
  • Irena Szydłowska, Polish archer (b. 1928)
• August 15
  • Benjamin V. Cohen, American politician (b. 1894)
  • Al Kilgore, American cartoonist (b. 1927)
  • Miquel Crusafont i Pairó, Spanish paleontologist (b. 1891)
  • Marc Porel, Swiss-French actor (b. 1948)
• August 16
  • Earl Averill, American baseball player (b. 1902)
  • René Duverger, French weightlifter (b. 1911)
  • Giuliano Nostini, Italian fencer (b. 1912)
• August 17
  • Ira Gershwin, American songwriter (b. 1896)
  • Takashi Itoyama, Japanese basketball player (b. 1936)
  • Sidi Tal, Ukrainian singer and actress (b. 1912)
• August 18
  • Nikolaus Pevsner, German-English historian (b. 1902)
  • Jan Zachwatowicz, Polish architect (b. 1900)
• August 19
  • Hobart R. Gay, American lieutenant general (b. 1894)
  • Levan Kalyayev, Russian sprinter (b. 1929)
  • Miha Marinko, Slovenian politician, Prime Minister of Slovenia (b. 1900)
  • Zofia Mrozowska, Polish actress (b. 1922)
  • Ulyses Petit de Murat, Argentine poet and screenwriter (b. 1907)
  • Octav Onicescu, Romanian mathematician (b. 1892)
  • Aleksandar Ranković, Serbian politician (b. 1909)
  • Abdulvahab Salamzadeh, Azerbaijani critic and architect (b. 1916)
• August 20
  • Alden B. Dow, American architect (b. 1904)
  • Georges Spénale, French author and politician (b. 1913)
• August 21
  • Ninoy Aquino, Filipino politician (b. 1932)
  • Gene Force, American racing driver (b. 1916)
• August 22 – Nicolae Georgescu, Romanian footballer (b. 1936)
• August 23 – Jack King, Australian cyclist (b. 1897)
• August 24
  • Arkady Filippenko, Ukrainian composer (b. 1912)
  • Kalevi Kotkas, Estonian-Finnish athlete (b. 1913)
  • Scott Nearing, American economist (b. 1883)
  • Pentti Saarikoski, Finnish poet (b. 1937)
• August 25
• August 26
  • Arif Babayev, Azerbaijani film director (b. 1928)
  • Mike Kellin, American actor (b. 1922)
  • Nazir Ahmed Khan, Pakistani actor (b. 1904)
  • Gabriel Fernández Ledesma, Mexican painter and sculptor (b. 1900)
• August 27
• August 28
  • José Bergamín, Spanish author and poet (b. 1895)
  • Mario Bonomo, Italian ski jumper (b. 1912)
  • Jan Clayton, American actress (b. 1917)
  • Rubaba Muradova, Iranian-Azerbaijani opera singer (b. 1930)
• August 29
  • Decima Norman, Australian athlete (b. 1909)
  • Simon Oakland, American actor (b. 1915)
• August 30
  • William Goyen, American author (b. 1915)
  • Irina Yusupova, Russian princess (b. 1915)
• August 31
  • John A. Carroll, American politician (b. 1901)
  • Georgette Ciselet, Belgian politician (b. 1900)
  • Derrick Sullivan, Welsh footballer (b. 1930)

September 1983

• September 1
  • Lennox Brown, South African cricketer (b. 1910)
  • Henry M. Jackson, American politician (b. 1912)
  • Larry McDonald, American politician (b. 1935)
  • Gilbert Ravanel, French skier (b. 1900)
• September 2
  • Jimmy Aubrey, English actor (b. 1887)
  • Gunnar Berggren, Swedish boxer (b. 1908)
  • Ivan Ilyichev, Russian diplomat (b. 1905)
  • Ferenc Plattkó, Austrian-Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1898)
• September 3
  • Ellie Lambeti, Greek actress (b. 1926)
  • Derek J. de Solla Price, English physicist and historian (b. 1922)
  • Piero Sraffa, Italian economist (b. 1898)
  • József Takács, Hungarian footballer (b. 1904)
• September 4
  • Paul Eberhard, Swiss bobsledder (b. 1917)
  • Jon Brower Minnoch, American record holder (b. 1941)
  • Katsutoshi Nekoda, Japanese volleyball player (b. 1944)
  • V. Seetharamaiah, Indian poet and author (b. 1899)
• September 5
  • Antonio Mairena, Spanish musician (b. 1909)
  • Herbert Rappaport, Austrian-Russian screenwriter and film director (b. 1908)
  • Carlo Rigotti, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1906)
• September 6 – Konstantin Listov, Russian composer (b. 1900)
• September 7
  • Georgia Backus, American actress (b. 1901)
  • Boris Hagelin, Swedish businessman and inventor (b. 1892)
  • Hans Münch, Swiss conductor and composer (b. 1893)
  • Joseph Schröffer, German cardinal (b. 1903)
• September 8
  • Ibrahim Abboud, Sudanese politician, President of Sudan (b. 1900)
  • Antonin Magne, French cyclist (b. 1904)
• September 9 – Luis Monti, Argentine footballer (b. 1901)
• September 10
  • Felix Bloch, Swiss physicist (b. 1905)
  • Victor Ciocâltea, Romanian chess grandmaster (b. 1932)
  • Ernst Degner, German motorcycle racer (b. 1931)
  • Nils Engdahl, Swedish runner (b. 1898)
  • Kadri Hazbiu, Albanian politician (b. 1922)
  • Norah Lofts, English author (b. 1904)
  • Alice Huyler Ramsey, American driver (b. 1886)
  • Alfred Urbański, Polish politician (b. 1899)
  • John Vorster, South African politician, President and Prime Minister of South Africa (b. 1915)
• September 11
• September 12
  • Hans Borgen, Norwegian politician (b. 1908)
  • Sabin Carr, American pole vaulter (b. 1904)
  • Wolf Hagemann, German general (b. 1898)
  • Félix Pérez, Spanish footballer (b. 1901)
  • Roman Sikorski, Polish mathematician (b. 1920)
• September 13
• September 14
  • William Boone, American mathematician (b. 1920)
  • Ernst Moritz Hess, German soldier (b. 1890)
  • Gennadi Kazansky, Russian film director (b. 1910)
• September 15
  • Willie Bobo, American drummer (b. 1934)
  • William Fellner, Hungarian-American economist (b. 1905)
  • Johnny Hartman, American singer (b. 1923)
  • Beverley Nichols, English author and screenwriter (b. 1898)
  • Friedrich Scherfke, German-Polish footballer (b. 1909)
  • Michael Williams, Jamaican musician (b. 1945)
• September 16
  • Henry Grace, American set decorator (b. 1907)
  • Guadalupe Marín, Mexican model and author (b. 1895)
  • Gunnar Olsson, Swedish actor and film director (b. 1904)
  • Florence Owens Thompson, American agricultural laborer (b. 1903)
• September 17
  • Joop Beek, Dutch-Indonesian priest and politician (b. 1917)
  • Rosa de Cascia, Austrian royal (b. 1906)
  • Rudolf Lehmann, German soldier (b. 1914)
  • Humberto Sousa Medeiros, Portuguese cardinal (b. 1915)
  • Giovanni Rossi, Swiss cyclist (b. 1926)
• September 18
  • Majid Arslan, Lebanese politician (b. 1908)
  • Friedrich Heer, Austrian historian (b. 1916)
  • Roy Milton, American drummer and singer (b. 1907)
• September 19
  • Yusuf Dadoo, South African activist (b. 1909)
  • Ángel Labruna, Argentine footballer and manager (b. 1918)
  • Bruno Pittermann, Austrian politician (b. 1905)
• September 20
  • Andy Beattie, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1913)
  • Mikhail Lifshitz, Russian critic and philosopher (b. 1905)
  • Friedrich Christian Schaumburg-Lippe, German prince (b. 1905)
• September 21
  • Tursunoy Akhunova, Uzbekistani politician (b. 1937)
  • Enrico Castelli, Italian basketball player (b. 1909)
  • Bob Donham, American basketball player (b. 1926)
  • Birgit Tengroth, Swedish actress (b. 1915)
  • Xavier Zubiri, Spanish philosopher (b. 1898)
• September 22 – Qiao Guanhua, Chinese politician and diplomat (b. 1913)
• September 23
  • Pavel Korotkov, Russian athlete (b. 1907)
  • Szolem Mandelbrojt, Polish-French mathematician (b. 1899)
  • Georges Vandenberghe, Belgian cyclist (b. 1941)
• September 24
  • Fayza Ahmed, Syrian-Egyptian singer and actress (b. 1934)
  • Isobel Baillie, Scottish opera singer (b. 1895)
  • Harold Keith Johnson, American general (b. 1912)
  • Mohammad Roem, Indonesian politician and diplomat (b. 1908)
• September 25
  • Maks Bajc, Slovenian actor (b. 1919)
  • Leopold Miguel, Belgian king (b. 1901)
  • Gunnar Thoroddsen, Icelandic politician, Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1910)
• September 26
  • Thomas Barlow, American basketball player (b. 1896)
  • Helmuth Brinkmann, German admiral (b. 1895)
  • Henri Navarre, French general (b. 1898)
  • María Bernaldo de Quirós, Spanish pilot (b. 1898)
  • Tino Rossi, French singer and actor (b. 1907)
  • Eileen Betsy Tranmer, English musician and chess player (b. 1910)
• September 27
  • Wilfred Burchett, Australian journalist (b. 1911)
  • Ben Carruthers, American actor (b. 1936)
  • Mykhailo Stelmakh, Ukrainian author and poet (b. 1912)
• September 28
  • Roy Sullivan, American park ranger (b. 1912)
  • Ko Willems, Dutch cyclist (b. 1900)
• September 29
  • R. G. D. Allen, English economist and mathematician (b. 1906)
  • Edvīns Bietags, Latvian wrestler (b. 1908)
  • Nicolas Kirsch, Luxembourgian footballer (b. 1901)
  • Aleksandr Mikhailov, Russian astronomer (b. 1888)
  • Alan Moorehead, English journalist and author (b. 1910)
• September 30
  • Freddy Martin, American bandleader and saxophonist (b. 1906)
  • Tan Zhenlin, Chinese politician (b. 1902)

October 1983

• October 1
  • Marjorie Elizabeth Jane Chandler, English paleobotanist (b. 1897)
  • Mária Lázár, Hungarian actress (b. 1895)
  • Johan Richthoff, Swedish wrestler (b. 1898)
• October 2
  • George Smith, American harmonica player (b. 1924)
  • Rodolfo Volk, Italian footballer (b. 1906)
• October 3
  • Andrés Córdova, Ecuadorian politician, President of Ecuador (b. 1892)
  • Earl Tupper, American businessman and inventor (b. 1907)
• October 4
  • Dino Battaglia, Italian cartoonist (b. 1923)
  • Bogdan Stefanov Dobranov, Bulgarian bishop (b. 1914)
  • Juan López, Uruguayan football manager (b. 1908)
• October 5
• October 6
  • Angélique Arvanitaki, French neurophysiologist (b. 1901)
  • Terence Cooke, American cardinal (b. 1921)
  • Joseph Thomas McGucken, American archbishop (b. 1902)
  • Ernst Sieler, German general (b. 1893)
• October 7
  • George O. Abell, American astronomer (b. 1927)
  • Oscar Howe, American artist (b. 1915)
  • Charles Husband, English engineer (b. 1908)
  • Tauno Mäki, Finnish sport shooter (b. 1912)
  • Christophe Soglo, Beninese politician (b. 1909)
• October 8
  • Joan Hackett, American actress (b. 1934)
  • Alexandre Renard, French cardinal (b. 1906)
• October 9
  • Herbert Weichmann, German politician (b. 1896)
  • Franz Westhoven, German general (b. 1894)
• October 10
  • Ángela Acuña Braun, Costa Rican lawyer and activist (b. 1888)
  • Kurt H. Debus, German rocket scientist (b. 1908)
  • Aleksander Gabszewicz, Polish fighter pilot (b. 1911)
  • Ruby Myers, Indian actress (b. 1907)
  • Ruben Rausing, Swedish businessman (b. 1895)
  • Ralph Richardson, English actor (b. 1902)
  • Magdalena Sauer, South African architect (b. 1890)
• October 11
  • Erik Friis, Danish cyclist (b. 1916)
  • William Hornbeck, American film editor (b. 1901)
  • Suleyman Rahimov, Azerbaijani author and politician (b. 1900)
  • Fay Tincher, American actress (b. 1884)
• October 12
  • Nayef bin Abdullah, Jordanian prince (b. 1914)
  • Armando Renganeschi, Argentine footballer (b. 1913)
  • Ernie Roth, American professional wrestler (b. 1926)
  • Víctor Trossero, Argentine footballer (b. 1953)
• October 13
  • Joe Bambrick, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1905)
  • Ignacio Núñez Soler, Paraguayan artist (b. 1891)
• October 14
  • Paul Fix, American actor (b. 1901)
  • Hugh Mundell, Jamaican singer (b. 1962)
  • Katherine Perry, American actress (b. 1897)
  • László Ranódy, Hungarian film director (b. 1919)
  • Alice Lardé de Venturino, Salvadoran poet and author (b. 1895)
• October 15
  • Joseph Edward Mayer, American chemist (b. 1904)
  • Pat O'Brien, American actor (b. 1899)
  • James Workman, American rower (b. 1908)
• October 16
  • Øivin Fjeldstad, Norwegian conductor and violinist (b. 1903)
  • Kenzō Kōno, Japanese politician (b. 1901)
  • Ernst Kyburz, Swiss wrestler (b. 1898)
  • Harish-Chandra Mehrota, Indian-American mathematician and physicist (b. 1923)
  • Willi Ritschard, Swiss politician (b. 1918)
• October 17
  • Raymond Aron, French philosopher and sociologist (b. 1905)
  • Sonja Hagemann, Norwegian historian and critic (b. 1898)
  • Vittorio Nino Novarese, Italian costume designer (b. 1907)
  • Mircea Sasu, Romanian footballer (b. 1939)
• October 18
  • Barbara Karinska, Ukrainian-American costume designer (b. 1886)
  • Ahmed Tewfik El Madani, Algerian politician (b. 1899)
  • Vijay Manjrekar, Indian cricketer (b. 1931)
  • Cornelius Rost, Austrian publisher (b. 1919)
  • Diego Abad de Santillán, Spanish activist and economist (b. 1897)
• October 19
  • Maurice Bishop, Grenadian politician, Prime Minister of Grenada (b. 1944)
  • Rezső Somlai, Hungarian footballer (b. 1911)
  • Carel Willink, Dutch painter (b. 1900)
• October 20
  • Otto Aasen, Norwegian skier (b. 1894)
  • Valentín González, Spanish lieutenant colonel (b. 1904)
  • Irene Sänger-Bredt, German engineer and mathematician (b. 1911)
  • Yves Thériault, Canadian author (b. 1915)
  • Merle Travis, American singer (b. 1917)
• October 21
  • Alfred Dahlqvist, Swedish skier (b. 1914)
  • Franz Novak, Austrian war criminal (b. 1913)
  • Gregory Wannier, Swiss physicist (b. 1911)
  • Abdul Zahir, Afghan politician, Prime Minister of Afghanistan (b. 1910)
• October 22
  • Giovanni Cazzulani, Italian cyclist (b. 1909)
  • Abukhadzhi Idrisov, Chechen sniper (b. 1918)
  • Erich Schmid, Austrian physicist (b. 1896)
• October 23 – Jessica Savitch, American news anchor (b. 1947)
• October 24
  • Elie Carafoli, Romanian engineer (b. 1901)
  • Rolf Fäs, Swiss handball player (b. 1916)
  • Chiang Wen-yeh, Taiwanese composer (b. 1910)
• October 25
  • Ángel Rambert, Argentine-French footballer (b. 1936)
  • Kurt Symanzik, German physicist (b. 1923)
• October 26
  • Kenneth Dike, Nigerian historian and academic administrator (b. 1917)
  • Luigina Perversi, Italian gymnast (b. 1914)
  • Alfred Tarski, Polish-American logician and mathematician (b. 1901)
• October 27
• October 28
  • Johnnie Davis, American actor (b. 1910)
  • Gabriel Langfeldt, Norwegian psychiatrist (b. 1895)
  • Otto Messmer, American cartoonist (b. 1892)
  • Pol Swings, Belgian astrophysicist (b. 1906)
• October 29
  • Ana Cristina Cesar, Brazilian poet and critic (b. 1952)
  • Helmut Rauca, German Holocaust perpetrator (b. 1908)
• October 30 – Lillian Gordy Carter, American nurse (b. 1898)
• October 31
  • Farrell Dobbs, American activist and politician (b. 1907)
  • George Halas, American football player and coach (b. 1895)
  • Guillaume Hoorickx, Belgian ice hockey player (b. 1900)
  • Dora Jacobsohn, German-Swedish physiologist and endocrinologist (b. 1908)
  • Sharof Rashidov, Uzbekistani politician (b. 1917)

November 1983

• November 1
  • May Alix, American singer (b. 1902)
  • [[Anthony van Hoboken], Dutch musicologist (b. 1887)
  • Peter Horn, Danish fighter pilot (b. 1915)
  • Egon Rannet, Estonian author (b. 1911)
• November 2
  • Leonard Schapiro, Scottish historian (b. 1908)
  • Taijiro Tamura, Japanese author (b. 1911)
• November 3 – May Picqueray, French activist (b. 1898)
• November 4 – George Herzog, Hungarian-American ethnomusicologist (b. 1901)
• November 5
  • John Gallaudet, American actor (b. 1903)
  • Humberto Mauro, Brazilian film director (b. 1897)
  • Jean-Marc Reiser, French cartoonist (b. 1941)
• November 6
  • Ville Pessi, Finnish politician (b. 1902)
  • Marcel Peyrouton, French politician and diplomat (b. 1887)
• November 7
  • Umberto Mozzoni, Argentine cardinal (b. 1904)
  • Germaine Tailleferre, French composer (b. 1892)
• November 8
  • Robert Agnew, American actor (b. 1899)
  • James Booker, American keyboardist (b. 1939)
  • James Hayden, American actor (b. 1953)
  • Mordecai Kaplan, Lithuanian rabbi and author (b. 1881)
  • Betty Nuthall, English tennis player (b. 1911)
• November 9
  • André Chamson, French archivist and author (b. 1900)
  • Rüştü Erdelhun, Turkish general (b. 1894)
  • László Kozma, Hungarian engineer (b. 1902)
  • Franco Trincavelli, Italian rower (b. 1935)
  • Vittorio Vidali, Italian politician (b. 1900)
• November 10
  • Dominique Gaumont, French guitarist (b. 1953)
  • Jalu Kurek, Polish poet and author (b. 1904)
  • Harlan Leonard, American bandleader and clarinetist (b. 1905)
  • Carl Erik Soya, Danish author and playwright (b. 1896)
• November 11
  • Arno Babajanian, Armenian composer and pianist (b. 1921)
  • Josef Effenberger, Czech gymnast (b. 1901)
  • Donat Kurti, Albanian friar and scholar (b. 1903)
  • Valter Roman, Romanian activist (b. 1913)
  • José Villanueva, Filipino boxer (b. 1913)
• November 12
  • Carlo Borghesio, Italian film director and screenwriter (b. 1905)
  • Aleksandr Sakharovsky, Russian general (b. 1909)
  • Joan Sales i Vallès, Spanish author and translator (b. 1912)
• November 13
  • Aliagha Aghayev, Azerbaijani actor (b. 1913)
  • Mario Fazio, Italian cyclist (b. 1919)
  • Jam Handy, American swimmer and water polo player (b. 1886)
  • Pascalina Lehnert, German nun (b. 1894)
• November 14 – Barney Bubbles, English artist (b. 1942)
• November 15
  • Marc Bernard, French author (b. 1900)
  • Giulio Cogni, Italian author and composer (b. 1908)
  • [[Solomon Hochoy], Trinidadian politician (b. 1905)
  • John Le Mesurier, English actor (b. 1912)
• November 16
  • Toni Brutscher, German ski jumper (b. 1925)
  • Janete Clair, Brazilian screenwriter and author (b. 1925)
  • Dora Gabe, Bulgarian poet (b. 1888)
  • Fukumoto Kazuo, Japanese theoretician (b. 1894)
  • Enzo Mainardi, Italian painter and poet (b. 1898)
  • Jorge Sabato, Argentine physicist (b. 1924)
• November 17
  • Andrey Matveyevich Andreyev, Russian colonel general (b. 1905)
  • Allan Carlsson, Swedish boxer (b. 1910)
• November 18
  • Marcel Dalio, French actor (b. 1899)
  • Émile Veinante, French footballer and manager (b. 1907)
• November 19
  • Reinout Willem van Bemmelen, Dutch geologist (b. 1904)
  • Tom Evans, English musician (b. 1947)
  • Ivan Nikitich Konev, Russian major general (b. 1899)
  • Carolyn Leigh, American songwriter (b. 1926)
• November 20
  • Hamid Arasly, Azerbaijani philologist and critic (b. 1902)
  • Kristmann Guðmundsson, Icelandic author (b. 1901)
  • Pavle Ingorokva, Georgian historian and philologist (b. 1893)
  • Richard Loo, American actor (b. 1903)
• November 21
  • Francisca Reyes-Aquino, Filipino dancer and academic (b. 1899)
  • Giuseppe Vavassori, Italian footballer (b. 1934)
• November 22
  • Michael Conrad, American actor (b. 1925)
  • Jumeken Najimedenov, Kazakhstani poet (b. 1935)
  • Jean Seznec, French historian and mythographer (b. 1905)
  • Pat Spence, South African tennis player (b. 1898)
  • Leonard Wibberley, Irish author (b. 1915)
• November 23
  • Evelyn Barker, English general (b. 1894)
  • Mykola Bazhan, Ukrainian author and poet (b. 1904)
  • Waheed Murad, Pakistani actor (b. 1938)
  • Sybold van Ravesteyn, Dutch architect (b. 1889)
• November 24 – Pavel Kamozin, Russian pilot (b. 1917)
• November 25
  • Anton Dolin, English dancer and choreographer (b. 1904)
  • Lotte H. Eisner, German-French author and film critic (b. 1896)
  • Vladimir Gelfand, Ukrainian author (b. 1923)
• November 26
  • Carl Seemann, German musician (b. 1910)
  • Cyril Weidenborner, American ice hockey player (b. 1895)
• November 27
  • Jorge Ibargüengoitia, Mexican author and playwright (b. 1928)
  • Semyon Ignatiev, Russian politician (b. 1904)
  • Harrie Massey, Australian physicist (b. 1908)
  • Ángel Rama, Uruguayan author and academic (b. 1926)
  • Rosa Sabater, Spanish pianist (b. 1929)
  • Manuel Scorza, Peruvian author and poet (b. 1928)
  • Marta Traba, Argentine critic and author (b. 1930)
• November 28
  • Paul Demange, French actor (b. 1901)
  • Christopher George, American actor (b. 1931)
  • Marcel Houyoux, Belgian cyclist (b. 1903)
  • Peng Shuzhi, Chinese politician (b. 1896)
  • [[Stefan Skoumal], Austrian footballer (b. 1909)
  • Ojārs Vācietis, Latvian author and poet (b. 1933)
• November 29 – Aage Rasmussen, Danish racewalker and photographer (b. 1889)
• November 30
  • Wen-Pei Fang, Chinese botanist (b. 1899)
  • George Headley, Panamanian-Jamaican cricketer (b. 1909)
  • Vic Lindquist, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1908)
  • Richard Llewellyn, English-Welsh author (b. 1906)
  • Michael Witney, American actor (b. 1931)

December 1983

• December 1 – Enrique Diosdado, Spanish actor (b. 1910)
• December 2
  • Gianangelo Barzan, Italian footballer (b. 1901)
  • Atholl McKinnon, South African cricketer (b. 1932)
  • Fifi D'Orsay, Canadian-American actress and singer (b. 1904)
  • Pavel Vezhinov, Bulgarian author and screenwriter (b. 1914)
• December 3
  • Károly Kiss, Hungarian politician (b. 1903)
  • Elliott Waters Montroll, American scientist and mathematician (b. 1916)
  • Clement J. Zablocki, American politician (b. 1912)
• December 4
  • Jack Kerris, American basketball player (b. 1925)
  • Phoui Sananikone, Laotian politician, Prime Minister of Laos (b. 1903)
• December 5
  • Robert Aldrich, American film director (b. 1918)
  • Paavo Johansson, Finnish javelin thrower (b. 1895)
  • Hans Peter L'Orange, Norwegian historian and archaeologist (b. 1903)
  • John Robinson, English bishop and scholar (b. 1919)
  • Lyndall Urwick, English theorist and author (b. 1891)
• December 6
  • Lucienne Boyer, French singer (b. 1901)
  • Gul Khan Nasir, Pakistani politician and poet (b. 1914)
  • Umberto Terracini, Italian politician (b. 1895)
• December 7 – Fanny Cano, Mexican actress (b. 1944)
• December 8
  • Keith Holyoake, New Zealand politician, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1904)
  • Slim Pickens, American actor (b. 1919)
• December 9
  • János Flesch, Hungarian chess grandmaster (b. 1933)
  • Tito Junco, Mexican actor (b. 1915)
  • Shah Nawaz Khan, Indian general and politician (b. 1914)
  • Şehzade Ali Vasib, Turkish prince (b. 1903)
• December 10
  • Dorothy Cumming, American actress (b. 1894)
  • Michel Pêcheux, French linguist and philosopher (b. 1938)
• December 11
  • Binayak Acharya, Indian politician (b. 1918)
  • Harold Stephen Black, American engineer (b. 1898)
  • Simon Laks, Polish composer and violinist (b. 1901)
  • James Pierce, American actor (b. 1900)
  • Neil Ritchie, English general (b. 1897)
  • Tom Sneddon, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1912)
• December 12
  • Tadeusz Gwiazdowski, Polish actor (b. 1918)
  • Constantino Urbieta Sosa, Paraguayan-Argentine footballer (b. 1907)
• December 13
  • Ángel Álvarez, Spanish actor (b. 1906)
  • Leora Dana, American actress (b. 1923)
  • Gustaf Hagelin, Swedish equestrian and lieutenant colonel (b. 1897)
  • Amza Pellea, Romanian actor (b. 1931)
  • Mary Renault, English-South African author (b. 1905)
  • Alexander Schmemann, Estonian-American priest and theologian (b. 1921)
  • Nichita Stănescu, Romanian poet and author (b. 1933)
  • Velimir Terzić, Serbian colonel general (b. 1908)
• December 14
• December 15
  • David Markham, English actor (b. 1913)
  • Nat Shapiro, American author and record producer (b. 1922)
• December 16
  • Grigori Aleksandrov, Russian film director (b. 1903)
  • Alexei Guryshev, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1925)
  • William H. Meyer, American politician (b. 1914)
• December 17 – Hal Pereira, American art director and production designer (b. 1905)
• December 18
  • Ivan Albright, American painter and sculptor (b. 1897)
  • Prafulla Chandra Ghosh, Indian politician (b. 1891)
  • Victor Turner, Scottish anthropologist (b. 1920)
• December 19
  • Käte Fenchel, German mathematician (b. 1905)
  • Fania Fénelon, French pianist and composer (b. 1908)
• December 20
  • Moulay Abdallah, Moroccan prince (b. 1935)
  • Bill Brandt, English photographer (b. 1904)
  • Taro Takemi, Japanese physician (b. 1904)
  • John Vivyan, American actor (b. 1915)
  • Stig Wikander, Swedish scholar (b. 1908)
• December 21
  • Kjell Bondevik, Norwegian politician (b. 1901)
  • Rod Cameron, Canadian actor (b. 1910)
  • David Conover, American photographer and author (b. 1919)
  • Alexander Conrady, German general (b. 1903)
  • Paul de Man, Belgian-American critic (b. 1919)
  • József Vértesy, Hungarian water polo player (b. 1901)
  • Mark Workman, American basketball player (b. 1930)
• December 22 – Charles Lloyd-Pack, English actor (b. 1902)
• December 23
• December 24
  • Alfred Balachowsky, Russian-French entomologist (b. 1901)
  • Paul Gégauff, French screenwriter (b. 1922)
  • Stasys Lozoraitis, Lithuanian diplomat and politician (b. 1898)
• December 25
  • Hal Brown, American runner (b. 1898)
  • Joan Miró, Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1893)
• December 26 – Vladas Niunka, Lithuanian politician and philosopher (b. 1907)
• December 27
  • Estrella Alfon, Filipino author (b. 1917)
  • Luís Mesquita de Oliveira, Brazilian footballer (b. 1911)
  • Jin Yan, South Korean-Chinese actor (b. 1910)
• December 28
  • Carla Bartheel, German actress and photographer (b. 1902)
  • Eugène Chaboud, French racing driver (b. 1907)
  • William Demarest, American actor (b. 1892)
  • Jimmy Demaret, American golfer (b. 1910)
  • G. S. Ghurye, Indian academic (b. 1893)
  • William B. Widnall, American politician (b. 1906)
  • Dennis Wilson, American musician (b. 1944)
• December 29 – William J. Abernathy, American scholar (b. 1933)
• December 30
  • Charles Gunn, English racewalker (b. 1885)
  • Bill Hunt, Australian cricketer (b. 1908)
• December 31 – Ralph Wright, American animator and voice actor (b. 1908)

1984

January 1984

• January 1
  • Alexis Korner, English musician (b. 1928)
  • Zdravko Milev, Bulgarian chess player (b. 1929)
  • César Socarraz, Peruvian footballer (b. 1910)
  • Kaarlo Vähämäki, Finnish gymnast (b. 1892)
• January 2
  • Sebastià Juan Arbó, Spanish author and playwright (b. 1902)
  • Yevgeny Krinov, Russian astronomer and geologist (b. 1906)
  • Klaus Mehnert, German author and journalist (b. 1906)
  • Roberto Porta, Uruguayan-Italian footballer (b. 1913)
  • Kenneth Sitzberger, American diver (b. 1945)
  • Augustin Souchy, German activist and journalist (b. 1892)
• January 3
  • Taras Borodajkewycz, Austrian nazi and historian (b. 1902)
  • Karl Brugger, German journalist and author (b. 1941)
• January 4 – Gösta Lindh, Swedish footballer (b. 1924)
• January 5
  • Giuseppe Fava, Italian author and journalist (b. 1925)
  • Dmitri Vasilyev, Russian film director (b. 1900)
• January 6
  • Hermann Engelhard, German runner (b. 1903)
  • Ernest Laszlo, Hungarian-American cinematographer (b. 1898)
  • Surjit Singh Randhawa, Indian field hockey player (b. 1951)
• January 7
  • Walter Forde, English film director and actor (b. 1898)
  • Alfred Kastler, French physicist (b. 1902)
• January 8
  • Tom Kelley, American photographer (b. 1914)
  • Baba Sali, Moroccan rabbi (b. 1889)
  • Lee Soo-nam, South Korean footballer (b. 1927)
• January 9
  • Frederick Gibberd, English architect (b. 1909)
  • Seán MacEntee, Irish politician (b. 1889)
  • Deighton Lisle Ward, Barbadian politician (b. 1909)
• January 10
  • Charles Fasel, Swiss ice hockey player (b. 1898)
  • Toivo Loukola, Finnish runner (b. 1902)
  • Souvanna Phouma, Laotian politician, Prime Minister of Laos (b. 1901)
  • Thoralf Strømstad, Norwegian skier (b. 1897)
• January 11
  • Jack La Rue, American actor (b. 1902)
  • Erik Stensiö, Swedish paleozoologist (b. 1891)
• January 12 – Marina Chechneva, Russian pilot (b. 1922)
• January 13
  • Fulvio Bernardini, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1905)
  • Alaa El-Hamouly, Egyptian footballer (b. 1930)
  • Gustav Harteneck, German general (b. 1892)
  • Leon Jucewicz, Polish speed skater (b. 1902)
  • Ray Moore, American cartoonist (b. 1905)
  • Tommy Younger, Scottish footballer (b. 1930)
• January 14
  • Brooks Atkinson, American critic (b. 1894)
  • Paul Ben-Haim, Israeli composer (b. 1897)
  • Saad Haddad, Lebanese rebel (b. 1936)
  • Ray Kroc, American businessman (b. 1902)
  • Merle Robbins, American barber and game designer (b. 1911)
• January 15
  • Titus Burckhardt, Swiss author (b. 1908)
  • Fazıl Küçük, Cypriot politician (b. 1906)
  • Koos du Plessis, South African singer and poet (b. 1945)
  • Rostislav Zakharov, Russian dancer and choreographer (b. 1907)
• January 16
  • Kenneth Arnold, American pilot and politician (b. 1915)
  • Józef Nowak, Polish actor (b. 1925)
  • Frederick Scherger, Australian air marshal (b. 1904)
• January 17
  • Ángel Arteaga, Spanish musician and composer (b. 1928)
  • Birger Åsander, Swedish actor (b. 1909)
  • Kostas Giannidis, Greek composer and pianist (b. 1903)
  • Trần Văn Hữu, Vietnamese politician, Prime Minister of Vietnam (b. 1896)
  • Yoshio Kodama, Japanese political fixer and drug trafficker (b. 1911)
  • Earl Moran, American photographer and artist (b. 1893)
  • George Rigaud, Argentine actor (b. 1905)
• January 18
  • Max Bentley, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1920)
  • Gladys Anderson Emerson, American historian and biochemist (b. 1903)
  • Malcolm H. Kerr, American-Lebanese political scientist and academic administrator (b. 1931)
  • Panteleimon Ponomarenko, Ukrainian politician (b. 1902)
  • Vassilis Tsitsanis, Greek songwriter and musician (b. 1915)
• January 19
  • Gösta Bengtsson, Swedish sailor (b. 1897)
  • Habibur Rehman, Pakistani field hockey player (b. 1925)
  • Wolfgang Staudte, German film director and screenwriter (b. 1906)
• January 20
  • Hagbart Haakonsen, Norwegian skier (b. 1895)
  • J. Hartwell Harrison, American surgeon and author (b. 1909)
  • Artur Svensson, Swedish sprinter (b. 1901)
  • Johnny Weissmuller, Mexican-American swimmer and actor (b. 1904)
• January 21
  • Gottfried Alfons, Austrian royal (b. 1902)
  • Roger Blin, French actor (b. 1907)
  • Fang Ganmin, Chinese painter and sculptor (b. 1906)
  • Alan Marshall, Australian author (b. 1902)
  • Egon Pollak, Austrian footballer and manager (b. 1898)
  • Jackie Wilson, American singer (b. 1934)
• January 22
  • Elso Barghoorn, American paleobotanist (b. 1915)
  • Guillermo Campanal, Spanish footballer (b. 1912)
  • Mikiel Gonzi, Maltese archbishop (b. 1885)
  • Chaïm Perelman, Belgian philosopher (b. 1912)
  • Josef Walcher, Austrian skier (b. 1954)
• January 23
  • Muin Bseiso, Palestinian poet (b. 1926)
  • Samuel Gardner, Russian-American composer (b. 1891)
  • Hans Christian Sørensen, Danish gymnast (b. 1900)
• January 24 – Rosser Reeves, American advertiser (b. 1910)
• January 25
• January 26
  • Gary Gabelich, American racing driver (b. 1940)
  • Leny Marenbach, German actress (b. 1907)
• January 27 – Mohamed Ahmed, Comorian politician (b. 1917)
• January 28
  • Hervey M. Cleckley, American psychiatrist (b. 1903)
  • Sohrab Modi, Indian film director and actor (b. 1897)
• January 29
  • Frances Goodrich, American screenwriter and playwright (b. 1890)
  • Edzard Schaper, German author (b. 1908)
• January 30
  • Walter Arthur Berendsohn, German scholar (b. 1884)
  • Hilding Ekelund, Finnish architect (b. 1893)
  • Alejandro Goicoechea, Spanish engineer (b. 1895)
  • Luke Kelly, Irish musician (b. 1940)
  • Anatoly Olizarenko, Russian cyclist (b. 1936)
  • Dolores Palumbo, Italian actress (b. 1912)
• January 31 – George Harmon Coxe, American author (b. 1901)

February 1984

• February 1
  • Ada Smith, American dancer and singer (b. 1894)
  • Hans Vinjarengen, Norwegian skier (b. 1905)
• February 2
• February 3
  • Ronny Bierman, Dutch actress (b. 1938)
  • Tuhfa Fozilova, Tajikistani actress and opera singer (b. 1917)
• February 4 – Patrick Nagel, American artist (b. 1945)
• February 5
  • Chuck Cooper, American basketball player (b. 1926)
  • Michael Kogan, Russian-Japanese entrepreneur (b. 1920)
  • El Santo, Mexican professional wrestler (b. 1917)
  • Henry Somerset, English academic administrator and civil servant (b. 1900)
  • Manès Sperber, Austrian-French author and psychologist (b. 1905)
  • Su Yu, Chinese general (b. 1907)
• February 6
  • Ahmed A-Dahar, Israeli politician (b. 1906)
  • Charles Delelienne, Belgian field hockey player (b. 1892)
  • Jimmy Ernst, German-American painter (b. 1920)
  • Jorge Guillén, Spanish poet (b. 1893)
  • Józef Łodyński, Polish actor (b. 1919)
  • Remus Răduleț, Romanian engineer (b. 1904)
  • Solomon Schonfeld, English rabbi (b. 1912)
• February 7
  • Janaki Ammal, Indian botanist (b. 1897)
  • Gholam Ali Oveissi, Iranian general (b. 1918)
  • James Sinclair, Canadian politician (b. 1908)
• February 8
  • Philippe Ariès, French historian (b. 1914)
  • Piet de Boer, Dutch footballer (b. 1919)
  • Tomoji Ishizuka, Japanese poet and author (b. 1906)
  • Karel Miljon, Dutch boxer (b. 1903)
• February 9
  • Yuri Andropov, Russian politician (b. 1914)
  • Tanjore Balasaraswati, Indian dancer (b. 1918)
• February 10
  • Tommy Briggs, English footballer (b. 1923)
  • David Von Erich, American professional wrestler (b. 1958)
  • Kasymbek Yeshmambetov, Kyrgyzstani author and playwright (b. 1910)
• February 11 – Arlette Marchal, French actress (b. 1902)
• February 12
  • Anna Anderson, American imposter (b. 1896)
  • Julio Cortázar, Argentine-French author (b. 1914)
  • Franz Dusika, Austrian cyclist (b. 1908)
  • Muzi Epifani, Italian author and poet (b. 1935)
  • Lyman Young, American cartoonist (b. 1893)
• February 13
  • Pierre Brambilla, French cyclist (b. 1919)
  • Helmut Schneider, German footballer and manager (b. 1913)
  • André Stander, South African bank robber (b. 1946)
• February 14
  • Gordon Goodwin, English racewalker (b. 1895)
  • Elmer Keith, American firearm designer and rancher (b. 1899)
  • Gjon Mili, Albanian-American photographer (b. 1904)
• February 15
  • Avon Long, American actor and singer (b. 1910)
  • Ethel Merman, American singer and actress (b. 1908)
  • Manuel Flores Mora, Uruguayan journalist and politician (b. 1923)
• February 16
  • Ragheb Harb, Lebanese cleric (b. 1952)
  • M. A. G. Osmani, Indian general (b. 1918)
• February 17
  • Pavel Batitsky, Russian military officer (b. 1910)
  • Lucille Benson, American actress (b. 1914)
  • Karel Kolský, Czech footballer and manager (b. 1914)
• February 18
  • Yussef Diab, Israeli politician (b. 1917)
  • Paul Gardiner, English bassist (b. 1958)
  • Labib Habachi, Egyptian egyptologist (b. 1906)
  • Hiraizumi Kiyoshi, Japanese historian (b. 1895)
  • Diyab Obeid, Israeli politician (b. 1911)
  • Sarmen Sarkisyan, Armenian poet (b. 1901)
• February 19
  • David Hacohen, Israeli politician (b. 1898)
  • Claude Hopkins, American pianist and bandleader (b. 1903)
  • Ina Ray Hutton, American singer and bandleader (b. 1916)
  • Vladimir Portnoy, Ukrainian gymnast (b. 1931)
  • Jesse Pye, English footballer (b. 1919)
  • Lewis J. Rachmil, American film producer and art director (b. 1908)
• February 20
  • Fikret Amirov, Azerbaijani composer (b. 1922)
  • Giuseppe Colombo, Italian scientist and mathematician (b. 1920)
• February 21
  • Fernando Remacha, Spanish composer (b. 1898)
  • Emilio Rodríguez, Spanish cyclist (b. 1923)
  • Mikhail Sholokhov, Russian author (b. 1905)
• February 22
  • Uwe Johnson, German author (b. 1934)
  • Wilhelm Müller, German handball player (b. 1909)
  • Max Newman, English mathematician and codebreaker (b. 1897)
  • David Vetter, American medical figure (b. 1971)
• February 23
  • Maurice Tabard, French photographer (b. 1897)
  • Jessamyn West, American author (b. 1902)
• February 24
  • Ernst Hofbauer, Austrian film director (b. 1925)
  • Helmut Schelsky, German sociologist (b. 1912)
• February 25
  • Luka Kaliterna, Croatian footballer and manager (b. 1893)
  • Roza Papo, Bosnian physician and general (b. 1914)
  • Alfredo Varela, Argentine author (b. 1914)
• February 26
  • Simone Berriau, French actress (b. 1896)
  • Kostiantyn Dankevych, Ukrainian composer and conductor (b. 1905)
  • Johann von Gardner, Russian musicologist (b. 1898)
  • Richmond Lattimore, American poet and translator (b. 1906)
• February 27
  • Michał Kondracki, Polish composer (b. 1902)
  • Simón Lecue, Spanish footballer (b. 1912)
  • Ana Rosa Tornero, Bolivian author and journalist (b. 1907)
  • Gourgen Yanikian, Armenian engineer and assassin (b. 1897)
• February 28
  • Hortensio Vidaurreta, Spanish cyclist (b. 1928)
  • Fritz Zweig, German conductor (b. 1893)
• February 29
  • Meyer Dolinsky, American screenwriter (b. 1923)
  • Ludwik Starski, Polish songwriter and sound engineer (b. 1903)

March 1984

• March 1
  • Carl Burgos, American comic book artist (b. 1916)
  • Jackie Coogan, American actor (b. 1914)
  • Roland Culver, English actor (b. 1900)
  • Danko Grlić, Serbian philosopher (b. 1923)
  • Ohannés Gurekian, Armenian architect (b. 1902)
  • Vittorio Metz, Italian screenwriter and film director (b. 1904)
  • Giuseppe Parodi, Italian footballer (b. 1892)
  • Peter Walker, English racing driver (b. 1912)
• March 2
  • Yola d'Avril, French-American actress (b. 1906)
  • Ganna Walska, Polish opera singer (b. 1887)
• March 3
  • John Adams, English physicist (b. 1920)
  • Tatsuko Hoshino, Japanese poet (b. 1903)
  • Mike Mosley, American racing driver (b. 1946)
  • Thubten Yeshe, Tibetan lama (b. 1935)
• March 4
  • Odd Bang-Hansen, Norwegian journalist and author (b. 1908)
  • Jewel Carmen, American actress (b. 1897)
• March 5
  • Just Göbel, Dutch footballer (b. 1891)
  • Tito Gobbi, Italian opera singer (b. 1913)
  • William Powell, American actor (b. 1892)
  • Hisao Tanabe, Japanese musicologist (b. 1883)
• March 6
  • Pierre Cochereau, French organist and composer (b. 1924)
  • Billy Collins Jr., American boxer (b. 1961)
  • Martin Niemöller, German theologian and pastor (b. 1892)
  • Henry Wilcoxon, Dominican-English actor (b. 1905)
• March 7
  • Miloš Beleslin, Serbian footballer (b. 1901)
  • Robert Bloch, French racing driver (b. 1888)
  • Helena Cortesina, Spanish-Argentine actress (b. 1903)
  • Mohammad Ebrahim Hemmat, Iraqi soldier (b. 1955)
  • Karl Neckermann, German sprinter (b. 1911)
  • Charles Pisot, French mathematician (b. 1910)
  • Paul Rotha, English film director and historian (b. 1907)
• March 8
• March 9
  • Imogen Holst, English composer and conductor (b. 1907)
  • Kilm Il, North Korean politician (b. 1910)
  • Kristian Johansson, Norwegian ski jumper (b. 1907)
  • Arnold Martignoni, Swiss ice hockey player (b. 1901)
  • Hanna Sturm, Austrian activist (b. 1891)
  • Hannah Weinstein, American journalist and activist (b. 1911)
• March 10
  • I. S. Johar, Indian actor and film director (b. 1920)
  • June Marlowe, American actress (b. 1903)
  • Dino Shafeek, Bangladeshi-English actor (b. 1930)
  • Itsuo Tsuda, Japanese philosopher and aikidoka (b. 1914)
• March 11
  • Raymond Mastrotto, French cyclist (b. 1934)
  • Ward Miller, American politician (b. 1902)
• March 12
  • Hakon Ahlberg, Swedish architect and author (b. 1891)
  • Edwin C. Kemble, American physicist (b. 1889)
  • Luis Lucia, Spanish film director and screenwriter (b. 1914)
  • Hans Melchior, German botanist (b. 1894)
  • Colin Ratsey, English sailor (b. 1906)
  • Arnold Ridley, English playwright and actor (b. 1896)
• March 13
  • Salvatore Baccaro, Italian actor (b. 1932)
  • François Le Lionnais, French engineer and author (b. 1901)
  • Paul Schuster Taylor, American economist (b. 1895)
  • James Jeremiah Wadsworth, American politician and diplomat (b. 1905)
• March 14
  • Aurelio Peccei, Italian futurologist and philanthropist (b. 1908)
  • Hovhannes Shiraz, Armenian poet (b. 1914)
• March 15
  • Konstantin Badygin, Russian naval officer and explorer (b. 1910)
  • Ken Carpenter, American discus thrower (b. 1913)
  • Giorgio Venturini, Italian film producer (b. 1906)
• March 16
  • Evencio Castellanos, Venezuelan pianist (b. 1915)
  • Shug Fisher, American actor (b. 1907)
• March 17
• March 18
  • Edith Pickles, English gymnast (b. 1904)
  • Rubye De Remer, American dancer and actress (b. 1892)
  • Joseph Spence, Bahamian guitarist and singer (b. 1910)
  • Paul Francis Webster, American songwriter (b. 1907)
• March 19
  • Richard E. Bellman, American mathematician (b. 1920)
  • Erwin Franzkowiak, German field hockey player (b. 1894)
  • Bo Ljungberg, Swedish athlete (b. 1911)
  • Garry Winogrand, American photographer (b. 1928)
• March 20
  • Jean De Clercq, Belgian footballer (b. 1905)
  • Stan Coveleski, American baseball player (b. 1889)
  • Silvio Hernández, Mexican basketball player (b. 1908)
  • Kerime Nadir, Turkish author (b. 1917)
• March 21
  • August Frank, German war criminal (b. 1898)
  • Sam Leavitt, American cinematographer (b. 1904)
• March 22 – Josef Müller, German footballer and manager (b. 1893)
• March 23
  • K. B. Andersen, Danish politician (b. 1914)
  • Shauna Grant, American pornographic actress and model (b. 1963)
  • Peter Kolosimo, Italian journalist and author (b. 1922)
  • Jean Prouvé, French architect (b. 1901)
• March 24
  • Lilla Brignone, Italian actress (b. 1913)
  • Marie Howet, Belgian painter (b. 1897)
  • Sam Jaffe, American actor (b. 1894)
  • Moshe Sardines, Israeli politician (b. 1917)
• March 25
  • Gustav Elfving, Finnish mathematician and statistician (b. 1908)
  • George Campbell Hay, Scottish poet and translator (b. 1915)
  • Martin Stokken, Norwegian skier (b. 1923)
• March 26
  • Branko Ćopić, Serbian author (b. 1915)
  • Bora Laskin, Canadian judge (b. 1912)
  • Holger Norman-Hansen, Danish chess player (b. 1899)
  • Ahmed Sékou Touré, Guinean politician, President of Guinea (b. 1922)
  • Octávio Trompowsky, Brazilian chess player (b. 1897)
• March 27
  • Jack Donohue, American film director (b. 1908)
  • Derek Francis, English actor (b. 1923)
  • Comins Mansfield, English chess composer (b. 1896)
• March 28
  • Carmen Dragon, American conductor and film composer (b. 1914)
  • Michael Keeping, English footballer and manager (b. 1902)
  • Julio Mueller, Mexican polo player (b. 1905)
  • Emmanuil Yevzerikhin, Russian photographer (b. 1911)
• March 29 – Henry Brooke, English politician (b. 1903)
• March 30
  • Gaëtan Dugas, German flight attendant and medical figure (b. 1952)
  • Hollis Frampton, American film director and photographer (b. 1936)
  • Karl Rahner, German priest and theologian (b. 1904)
• March 31 – Constance Jeans, English swimmer (b. 1899)

April 1984

• April 1
  • Marvin Gaye, American singer (b. 1939)
  • Elizabeth Goudge, English author (b. 1900)
  • Marina Yurlova, Russian-American soldier and author (b. 1900)
• April 2
  • Ernst van Aaken, German physician (b. 1910)
  • Ángela Figuera Aymerich, Spanish poet and author (b. 1902)
  • Recha Freier, German-Israeli activist (b. 1892)
  • Mario Pretto, Italian footballer (b. 1915)
  • Adalberto Pereira dos Santos, Brazilian general and politician (b. 1905)
  • Sunao Sonoda, Japanese politician (b. 1913)
• April 3 – Jack Middelburg, Dutch motorcycle racer (b. 1952)
• April 4
  • Oleg Antonov, Russian aircraft designer (b. 1906)
  • Johnny Arnold, English cricketer (b. 1907)
  • Aleksandr Fedotov, Russian pilot (b. 1932)
  • Maximilian Fretter-Pico, German general (b. 1892)
  • Joan Ponç, Spanish artist (b. 1927)
• April 5
  • Robert Adams, English sculptor (b. 1917)
  • Herbert Fleischmann, German actor (b. 1925)
  • Lillemor von Hanno, Norwegian actress and author (b. 1900)
  • Arthur Harris, English air marshal (b. 1892)
  • Hans Lunding, Danish equestrian and colonel (b. 1899)
  • Keisuke Serizawa, Japanese artist (b. 1895)
  • Giuseppe Tucci, Italian orientalist and scholar (b. 1894)
• April 6 – Kazuo Hasegawa, Japanese actor (b. 1908)
• April 7
  • Frank Church, American politician (b. 1924)
  • Othmar Pferschy, Austrian-Turkish photographer (b. 1898)
• April 8
  • Pyotr Kapitsa, Russian physicist (b. 1894)
  • Ioannis Paraskevopoulos, Greek banker and politician (b. 1900)
  • Daeng Soetigna, Indonesian musician (b. 1908)
  • Mijo Udovčić, Croatian chess grandmaster (b. 1920)
• April 9
  • Paul Ivano, French-American cinematographer (b. 1900)
  • Jean-Pierre Kérien, French actor (b. 1912)
  • Renato Perona, Italian cyclist (b. 1927)
  • Paul-Pierre Philippe, French cardinal (b. 1905)
  • Willem Sandberg, Dutch typographer and resistance fighter (b. 1897)
  • Adriana Seroni, Italian journalist and politician (b. 1922)
• April 10
  • Jakub Berman, Polish politician (b. 1901)
  • Servílio de Jesús, Brazilian footballer (b. 1914)
  • Ray Middleton, American actor (b. 1907)
  • Willy Semmelrogge, German actor (b. 1923)
  • Jack White, American film producer and screenwriter (b. 1897)
• April 11 – Fritz Rotter, Austrian author and composer (b. 1900)
• April 12
  • Daniele D'Anza, Italian film director and screenwriter (b. 1922)
  • Edwin T. Layton, American admiral (b. 1903)
  • Edward Sokoine, Tanzanian politician, Prime Minister of Tanzania (b. 1938)
  • Ramón Tapia, Chilean boxer (b. 1932)
  • Ruth Taylor, American actress (b. 1905)
• April 13
  • Mary Delgado, Spanish actress (b. 1916)
  • Richard Hurndall, English actor (b. 1910)
  • Ralph Kirkpatrick, American harpsichordist and musicologist (b. 1911)
• April 14
  • Marianne Aminoff, Swedish actress (b. 1916)
  • Thorold Dickinson, English film director and editor (b. 1903)
  • Eugen Geiwitz, German fencer (b. 1901)
  • Anders Haugen, Norwegian-American ski jumper (b. 1888)
• April 15
  • Tommy Cooper, Welsh comedian and magician (b. 1921)
  • William Empson, English critic and poet (b. 1906)
  • Machito Grillo, Cuban musician (b. 1909)
  • Grete Hermann, German mathematician and philosopher (b. 1901)
  • Konstantin Ivanov, Russian conductor and composer (b. 1907)
  • Glen MacWilliams, American cinematographer (b. 1898)
  • Alexander Trocchi, Scottish author (b. 1925)
• April 16
  • Charles G. Finney, American author (b. 1905)
  • Byron Haskin, American film director (b. 1899)
  • Giovanni Lattuada, Italian gymnast (b. 1905)
  • Simon Spies, Danish businessman (b. 1921)
  • Wanda Wulz, Italian photographer (b. 1903)
• April 17
  • Víctor Balaguer, Spanish singer (b. 1921)
  • Mark W. Clark, American general (b. 1896)
  • Claude Provost, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1933)
  • Jimmy Trotter, English footballer (b. 1899)
  • Gérard Vuilleumier, Swiss ski jumper and cyclist (b. 1905)
• April 18
  • Kenneth Stewart Cole, American biophysicist (b. 1900)
  • Pierre Frank, French politician (b. 1905)
  • Leopold Lindtberg, Austrian-Swiss film director (b. 1902)
  • Ze'ev Sherf, Israeli politician (b. 1904)
  • Francis de Wolff, English actor (b. 1913)
• April 19
  • Yefrosinya Zenkova, Belarusian resistance fighter (b. 1923)
  • He Zizhen, Chinese political figure (b. 1910)
• April 20
  • Otto Arosemena, Ecuadorian politician, President of Ecuador (b. 1925)
  • Karl Hipfinger, Austrian weightlifter (b. 1905)
  • Antonio Maquilón, Peruvian footballer (b. 1902)
  • Mabel Mercer, English-American singer (b. 1900)
  • Felix Sobolev, Ukrainian film director (b. 1931)
• April 21
  • Marcel Janco, Romanian-Israeli artist and architect (b. 1895)
  • Manuel Mujica Lainez, Argentine author and critic (b. 1910)
  • Hristo Prodanov, Bulgarian mountaineer (b. 1943)
  • Marino Tartaglia, Croatian painter (b. 1894)
• April 22
  • Ansel Adams, American photographer (b. 1902)
  • Gracco De Nardo, Italian footballer (b. 1893)
• April 23
  • Red Garland, American pianist (b. 1923)
  • Harry Hibbs, English footballer (b. 1906)
  • Vicente Solano Lima, Argentine newspaper publisher and politician (b. 1901)
  • Erling Nilsen, Norwegian boxer (b. 1910)
  • Roland Penrose, English artist and historian (b. 1900)
  • Juan Tizol, Puerto Rican trombonist and composer (b. 1900)
• April 24
  • Jane Graverol, Belgian painter (b. 1905)
  • Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee, American ornithologist (b. 1901)
• April 25
  • Céleste Albaret, French hotelier (b. 1891)
  • Loro Boriçi, Albanian footballer (b. 1922)
  • Kevin A. Lynch, American urban planner and author (b. 1918)
  • Ivan L. Rudnytsky, Ukrainian-Canadian historian and political scientist (b. 1919)
• April 26
  • Arnold Ap, Indonesian archaeologist and musician (b. 1946)
  • Count Basie, American musician and composer (b. 1904)
  • Dolores Cassinelli, American actress and singer (b. 1888)
  • David Collet, English rower (b. 1901)
  • Jocelyn Gill, American astronomer (b. 1916)
  • Barry Gray, English musician and composer (b. 1908)
  • Helge Løvland, Norwegian athlete (b. 1890)
  • May McAvoy, American actress (b. 1899)
  • Henry Rowland, American actor (b. 1913)
• April 27
  • Émile Gagnan, French engineer (b. 1900)
  • Z. Z. Hill, American singer (b. 1935)
  • Keijo Kuusela, Finnish ice hockey player (b. 1921)
  • M. D. Ramanathan, Indian film composer and singer (b. 1923)
• April 28
  • Sylvia Ashton-Warner, New Zealand author and poet (b. 1908)
  • Treg Brown, American sound engineer (b. 1899)
  • Piet Kraak, Dutch footballer and manager (b. 1921)
  • Glen H. Taylor, American politician (b. 1904)
• April 29
  • Richard Benedict, Italian-American actor (b. 1920)
  • Frances Day, American actress and singer (b. 1907)
  • Angel Metodiev, Russian painter (b. 1921)
  • Baltzar von Platen, Swedish engineer and inventor (b. 1898)
  • Sulo Salmi, Finnish gymnast (b. 1914)
• April 30
  • Michael Adeane, English politician (b. 1910)
  • Aimé Duval, French priest and singer (b. 1918)
  • Rodrigo Lara, Colombian politician (b. 1946)
  • Zelda Mishkovsky, Israeli poet (b. 1914)

May 1984

• May 1
  • David Gvantseladze, Georgian wrestler (b. 1937)
  • Joe Heaney, Irish singer (b. 1919)
  • Gordon Jenkins, American composer and pianist (b. 1910)
  • Jüri Lossmann, Estonian runner (b. 1891)
• May 2
  • Smith Ballew, American actor and singer (b. 1902)
  • Bob Clampett, American animator (b. 1913)
  • Sandra Sabattini, Italian humanitarian (b. 1961)
• May 3
  • Aghashirin Jafarov, Azerbaijani sergeant major (b. 1906)
  • Alan Schneider, American theatre director (b. 1917)
  • Ross Taylor, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1902)
  • Kurt Martti Wallenius, Finnish major general (b. 1893)
• May 4
  • Diana Dors, English actress and singer (b. 1931)
  • María Lacunza Ezcurra, Spanish lawyer (b. 1900)
  • Roger Karl, French actor (b. 1882)
  • Eddie Lowery, American golf caddie and businessman (b. 1902)
  • Willie Ormond, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1927)
  • Marie Vorobieff, Russian painter (b. 1892)
• May 5
  • Mihály Bozsi, Hungarian water polo player (b. 1911)
  • Takayoshi Yoshioka, Japanese sprinter (b. 1909)
• May 6 – William A. Egan, American politician (b. 1914)
• May 7
  • Albert Becker, Austrian-Argentine chess player (b. 1896)
  • Max Palmer, American actor and professional wrestler (b. 1927)
  • Ruth Renick, American actress (b. 1893)
• May 8
  • Borys Antonenko-Davydovych, Ukrainian author and translator (b. 1899)
  • Gino Bianco, Brazilian racing driver (b. 1916)
  • Armando Del Debbio, Brazilian footballer (b. 1904)
  • William Ling, English football referee (b. 1908)
  • Herbert Matter, Swiss-American photographer (b. 1907)
• May 9
  • Abdul Hai Habibi, Afghan historian and politician (b. 1910)
  • Sergei Salnikov, Russian footballer (b. 1925)
  • Miriam Yalan-Shteklis, Israeli author and poet (b. 1900)
• May 10
  • Joaquim Agostinho, Portuguese cyclist (b. 1943)
  • Carmela Combe, Peruvian pilot (b. 1898)
  • Robert Moore, American theatre director (b. 1927)
• May 11
  • George Alexander Parks, American politician (b. 1883)
  • Peter Sturm, Austrian-German actor (b. 1909)
  • Toni Turek, German footballer (b. 1919)
• May 12
  • Matías González, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1925)
  • Hellmuth Mäder, German general (b. 1908)
  • Doris May, American actress (b. 1902)
• May 13
  • Pierre Bertin, French actor (b. 1891)
  • Antonio Castillo, Spanish costume designer (b. 1908)
  • Stanisław Ulam, Polish-American mathematician and physicist (b. 1909)
• May 14 – Walter Rauff, German nazi commander (b. 1906)
• May 15
  • Ali Murtopo, Indonesian general and politician (b. 1924)
  • Lionel Robbins, English economist (b. 1898)
  • Francis Schaeffer, American theologian and philosopher (b. 1912)
  • Irena Skwierczyńska, Polish actress (b. 1897)
• May 16
  • Andy Kaufman, American comedian and actor (b. 1949)
  • Karl Neumer, German cyclist (b. 1887)
  • Irwin Shaw, American playwright and author (b. 1913)
  • Fritzie Zivic, American boxer (b. 1913)
• May 17
• May 18
  • Nasuh Akar, Turkish wrestler (b. 1925)
  • Ray Copeland, American trumpeter (b. 1916)
• May 19
  • John Betjeman, English poet and author (b. 1906)
  • Kim Sung-gan, South Korean footballer (b. 1912)
  • Henrik Tikkanen, Finnish-Swedish author (b. 1924)
• May 20
  • Peter Bull, English actor (b. 1912)
  • Bill Holland, American racing driver (b. 1907)
  • Ólafur Jóhannesson, Icelandic politician, Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1913)
  • Edmund Schlink, German pastor and theologian (b. 1903)
• May 21
  • Andrea Leeds, Americana actress (b. 1913)
  • Ann Little, American actress (b. 1891)
  • Carl Petersen, Danish politician (b. 1894)
  • Sesilia Takaishvili, Georgian actress (b. 1906)
• May 22
  • Mimi Balkanska, Bulgarian opera singer (b. 1902)
  • Rambai Barni, Thai royal (b. 1904)
  • Karl-August Fagerholm, Finnish politician, Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1901)
  • Rogelio A. González, Mexican film director and screenwriter (b. 1920)
  • Laurent Grimmonprez, Belgian footballer (b. 1902)
  • Erich Gutenberg, German economist (b. 1897)
  • John Marley, American actor (b. 1907)
  • Valery Voronin, Russian footballer (b. 1939)
• May 23
  • María Teresa Lara, Mexican songwriter and composer (b. 1904)
  • Luisa Rossi, Italian actress (b. 1925)
  • Dario Simoni, Italian set decorator (b. 1901)
• May 24
  • Stanley Hooker, English mathematician and engineer (b. 1907)
  • Louis Ignacio-Pinto, Beninese politician (b. 1903)
  • Vincent J. McMahon, American professional wrestling promoter (b. 1914)
• May 25
  • Jūrō Gotō, Japanese major general (b. 1887)
  • Margaretha Reichardt, German artist (b. 1907)
• May 26 – Mary Taylor Slow, English physicist (b. 1898)
• May 27
  • Vasilije Mokranjac, Serbian composer (b. 1923)
  • Michael Raucheisen, German pianist (b. 1889)
• May 28
  • Estelle Bernadotte, American-Swedish royal (b. 1904)
  • D'Urville Martin, American actor (b. 1939)
  • Eric Morecambe, English comedian (b. 1926)
  • Walter Prager, Swiss skier (b. 1910)
• May 29
• May 30
  • Harold Cottam, English wireless operator (b. 1891)
  • Tex Gibbons, American basketball player (b. 1907)
  • George Pearkes, Canadian politician (b. 1888)
• May 31
  • Juhani Järvinen, Finnish speed skater (b. 1935)
  • Philippe Marçais, French scholar and politician (b. 1910)
  • Bruno Wüstenberg, German archbishop and diplomat (b. 1912)

June 1984

• June 1
  • Arkhyp Lyulka, Russian scientist and inventor (b. 1908)
  • Nana Palshikar, Indian actor (b. 1907)
  • Sten Pettersson, Swedish sprinter and hurdler (b. 1902)
  • Violet La Plante, American actress (b. 1908)
  • Carl Sandblom, Swedish sailor (b. 1908)
  • John N. Shive, American physicist and inventor (b. 1913)
• June 2
  • François de Menthon, French politician (b. 1900)
  • Fernando Zóbel de Ayala y Montojo, Spanish painter (b. 1924)
• June 3 – Aldo Campatelli, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1919)
• June 4
  • Konstantine Hovhannisyan, American architect and archaeologist (b. 1911)
  • Fritz Nallinger, German engineer (b. 1898)
  • Zbigniew Sawan, Polish actor (b. 1904)
  • Sara Shagufta, Pakistani poet (b. 1954)
• June 5
  • Ahmad Fuad Mohieddin, Egyptian politician, Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1926)
  • John Pasta, American physicist and computer scientist (b. 1918)
  • Vasily Senko, Russian colonel (b. 1921)
• June 6
  • Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, Indian militant (b. 1947)
  • A. Bertram Chandler, English-Australian author (b. 1912)
  • Hugh Sykes Davies, English poet and author (b. 1909)
  • Albert Deborgies, French water polo player (b. 1902)
  • Åke Ohlmarks, Swedish author and translator (b. 1911)
  • Emmi Pikler, Hungarian pediatrician (b. 1902)
  • Bill Voce, English cricketer (b. 1909)
  • K. C. Wu, Chinese politician (b. 1903)
• June 7
  • George Givot, American actor (b. 1903)
  • Rudolf Stahl, German field hockey player (b. 1912)
• June 8
  • [[Musa Alami], Palestinian politician (b. 1897)
  • Gordon Jacob, American composer (b. 1895)
  • Ernest McFarland, American politician and judge (b. 1894)
• June 9
  • Helen Hardin, American painter (b. 1943)
  • Adolf Wagner, German weightlifter (b. 1911)
• June 10
  • Carlos Quijano, Uruguayan politician (b. 1900)
  • Halide Nusret Zorlutuna, Tunisian poet and author (b. 1901)
• June 11
  • Siegfried Balke, German politician (b. 1902)
  • Enrico Berlinguer, Italian politician (b. 1922)
  • Sigge Fürst, Swedish actor (b. 1905)
  • Ernst Haeussermann, German-Austrian theatre director and actor (b. 1916)
  • Julius Madritsch, Austrian businessman (b. 1906)
• June 12
  • Pyotr Baranovsky, Russian architect (b. 1892)
  • János Ferencsik, Hungarian conductor (b. 1907)
  • Bruno Fritz, German actor (b. 1900)
  • Berry Nieuwenhuys, South African footballer (b. 1911)
  • Kiril Simonovski, Macedonian footballer (b. 1915)
• June 13
  • Ken Armstrong, English-New Zealand footballer (b. 1924)
  • Nathaniel A. Owings, American architect (b. 1903)
  • António Variações, Portuguese singer (b. 1944)
• June 14
• June 15
  • Ned Glass, Polish-American actor (b. 1906)
  • Héctor Hernández, Mexican footballer (b. 1935)
  • Betsy Snite, American skier (b. 1938)
  • Michio Takeyama, Japanese author and critic (b. 1903)
  • Meredith Willson, American musician and playwright (b. 1902)
• June 16
  • Park In-chon, South Korean businessman (b. 1901)
  • Erni Krusten, Estonian author (b. 1900)
  • Robert Mandrou, French historian (b. 1921)
  • John Randall, English physicist (b. 1905)
  • Aleksandr Tarasov, Russian pentathlete (b. 1927)
• June 17
  • Leslie I. Carey, American sound engineer (b. 1895)
  • Nobuo Nakagawa, Japanese film director (b. 1905)
  • Štefan Sádovský, Slovakian politician (b. 1928)
  • Klavdiya Shulzhenko, Russian singer and actress (b. 1906)
• June 18
  • Alan Berg, American radio host (b. 1934)
  • Arthur Chandler, English footballer (b. 1895)
• June 19
  • Samuel Collins, American physicist and chemist (b. 1898)
  • Sunny Johnson, American actress (b. 1953)
  • Lee Krasner, American painter (b. 1908)
  • Wladimir Vogel, Swiss composer (b. 1896)
• June 20 – Estelle Winwood, American actress (b. 1883)
• June 21
  • Károly Ferencz, Hungarian wrestler (b. 1913)
  • Jean Hugo, French painter (b. 1894)
  • Habib Khabiri, Iranian footballer (b. 1954)
  • Oreste Moricca, Italian fencer (b. 1891)
• June 22
  • Dill Jones, Welsh pianist (b. 1923)
  • Joseph Losey, American film director (b. 1909)
  • Alan Morgan, American sailor (b. 1909)
• June 23
  • Yatarō Kurokawa, Japanese actor (b. 1910)
  • Horst Nemec, Austrian footballer (b. 1939)
  • Alexander Semionov, Russian painter (b. 1922)
• June 24
  • Antonio Bisaglia, Italian politician (b. 1929)
  • Emerik Blum, Bosnian businessman and politician (b. 1911)
  • Clarence Campbell, Canadian ice hockey executive (b. 1905)
  • Tommy Godfrey, English comedian and actor (b. 1916)
  • William Keighley, American actor and film director (b. 1889)
  • Anton Popovič, Slovakian translator and academic (b. 1933)
• June 25
  • Michel Foucault, French philosopher (b. 1926)
  • Oleg Kerensky, Russian engineer (b. 1905)
  • Paul Roh Ki-nam, South Korean archbishop (b. 1902)
• June 26
  • Albert Dailey, American pianist (b. 1939)
  • Carl Foreman, American screenwriter and film producer (b. 1914)
  • Joseph Gonzales, French footballer (b. 1907)
  • Léopold De Groof, Belgian footballer (b. 1896)
  • Sybil Seely, American actress (b. 1900)
• June 27
  • Robert Goffin, Belgian lawyer and author (b. 1898)
  • Oswald Jacoby, American bridge player and author (b. 1902)
• June 28
  • Claude Chevalley, French mathematician (b. 1909)
  • Mischa Spoliansky, Russian-German composer (b. 1898)
  • Yigael Yadin, Israeli archaeologist and politician (b. 1917)
• June 29
  • Victor Bodson, Luxembourgian politician (b. 1902)
  • Herbert A.E. Böhme, German actor (b. 1897)
  • Audrey Richards, English anthropologist (b. 1899)
• June 30
  • Henri Fabre, French pilot (b. 1882)
  • Lillian Hellman, American playwright and author (b. 1905)

July 1984

• July 1
  • Grigori Aronov, Russian film director (b. 1923)
  • Víctor Avendaño, Argentine boxer (b. 1907)
  • Moshé Feldenkrais, Ukrainian-Israeli engineer and physicist (b. 1904)
  • Adrien Rougier, French organist and conductor (b. 1892)
  • Ravishankar Vyas, Indian activist (b. 1884)
• July 2 – Lenore Coffee, American screenwriter and playwright (b. 1896)
• July 3
  • Ernesto Mascheroni, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1907)
  • Raoul Salan, French general (b. 1899)
  • Hubert Wallace, Canadian sailor (b. 1899)
• July 4
  • Joe Bottum, American politician (b. 1903)
  • Douglas Buxton, Australian sailor (b. 1917)
• July 5
  • Don Elliott, American musician (b. 1926)
  • Ludy Langer, American swimmer (b. 1893)
• July 6
  • Aleksandr Cherepanov, Russian lieutenant general (b. 1895)
  • Mina Wylie, Australian swimmer (b. 1891)
• July 7
  • Carl Boenish, American cinematographer and skydiver (b. 1941)
  • José María Lavalle, Peruvian footballer (b. 1902)
  • Tim Lima, Brazilian footballer and manager (b. 1915)
  • George Oppen, American poet (b. 1908)
  • Flora Robson, English actress (b. 1902)
• July 8
  • Balakrishna Bhagwant Borkar, Indian poet (b. 1910)
  • Franz Fühmann, German author (b. 1922)
  • Brassaï Halász, Hungarian-French photographer and sculptor (b. 1899)
  • Josef Kratochvíl, Czech footballer (b. 1905)
  • Christine McIntyre, American actress and singer (b. 1911)
  • José Humberto Quintero Parra, Venezuelan cardinal (b. 1902)
  • Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz, Spanish scholar and politician (b. 1893)
• July 9
  • Hans Jacobson, Swedish pentathlete and fencer (b. 1947)
  • Edna Kramer, American mathematician (b. 1902)
  • Martin Schempp, German pilot and engineer (b. 1905)
  • Hans Sedlmayr, Austrian historian (b. 1896)
  • Randall Thompson, American composer (b. 1899)
  • Paulo Valentim, Brazilian footballer (b. 1933)
• July 10
  • Vladimir Engelgardt, Russian biochemist and academic (b. 1894)
  • Anton Hackl, German fighter pilot (b. 1915)
• July 11
  • Harry Hasso, Swedish cinematographer (b. 1904)
  • Raymond L. S. Patriarca, American mobster (b. 1908)
• July 12 – Rafael Kaprelyan, Armenian pilot (b. 1909)
• July 13
  • John Davis, American weightlifter (b. 1921)
  • Marinus De Jong, Dutch-Belgian composer and pianist (b. 1891)
  • Pina Renzi, Italian actress (b. 1901)
• July 14
  • Kenny Delmar, American actor (b. 1910)
  • Léon Mart, Luxembourgian footballer (b. 1914)
  • Ernest Tidyman, American author and screenwriter (b. 1928)
• July 15
• July 16 – Walter Laufer, American swimmer (b. 1906)
• July 17
  • Bessie Jones, American singer (b. 1902)
  • George Low, American space administrator (b. 1926)
  • Karl Wolff, German war criminal (b. 1900)
• July 18
  • Dezső Frigyes, Hungarian boxer (b. 1913)
  • Bernard Joy, English footballer and journalist (b. 1911)
  • Grigori Kromanov, Estonian film director (b. 1926)
• July 19
  • Wolfgang Pickert, German general (b. 1897)
  • Faina Ranevskaya, Russian actress (b. 1896)
  • Harry Stockwell, American actor (b. 1902)
  • Marko Tajčević, Serbian composer and musician (b. 1900)
  • Edoardo Volterra, Italian scholar (b. 1904)
• July 20
  • Adelmo Bulgarelli, Italian wrestler (b. 1932)
  • Gabriel Andrew Dirac, Hungarian-English mathematician (b. 1925)
  • Jim Fixx, American author (b. 1932)
  • Gail Kubik, American composer (b. 1914)
  • Luigi Novarese, Italian priest (b. 1914)
  • Marko Ristić, Serbian poet and author (b. 1902)
• July 21 – Elwin Romnes, American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1907)
• July 22
• July 23
  • Achiel Buysse, Belgian cyclist (b. 1918)
  • Lloyd Gough, American actor (b. 1907)
  • Anthony Sharp, English actor (b. 1915)
• July 24
  • Frank Butler, American drummer (b. 1928)
  • Arieh Sharon, Israeli architect (b. 1900)
  • José Mauro de Vasconcelos, Brazilian author (b. 1920)
  • Carlos Vásquez, Peruvian basketball player (b. 1942)
• July 25
  • Bryan Hextall, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1913)
  • Akihiko Hirata, Japanese actor (b. 1927)
  • Uladzimir Karatkievich, Belarusian author (b. 1930)
  • George Renwick, English sprinter (b. 1901)
  • Big Mama Thornton, American singer (b. 1926)
• July 26
  • Izzat Darwaza, Palestinian historian and politician (b. 1888)
  • George Gallup, American statistician (b. 1901)
  • Ed Gein, American murderer (b. 1906)
  • István Hahn, Hungarian historian (b. 1913)
• July 27
  • C. L. Franklin, American minister and activist (b. 1915)
  • Laurence Jackson, Scottish curler (b. 1900)
  • James Mason, American actor (b. 1909)
  • Jeanne Modigliani, Italian-French historian (b. 1918)
  • Igor Savitsky, Ukrainian-Russian painter (b. 1915)
  • Luitpold Steidle, German politician (b. 1898)
• July 28
  • Jim Bannon, American actor (b. 1911)
  • Maria Federici, Italian politician (b. 1899)
  • Bess Flowers, American actress (b. 1898)
• July 29
  • Jacobo Bolbochán, Argentine chess player (b. 1906)
  • Hanne Brinkmann, German actress (b. 1895)
  • Zhou Jianren, Chinese biologist and politician (b. 1888)
  • Woodrow Parfrey, American actor (b. 1922)
  • Fred Waring, American musician and bandleader (b. 1900)
• July 30
  • Hidemi Kon, Japanese critic and author (b. 1903)
  • Roman Simovych, Ukrainian composer (b. 1901)
  • Maurice Tremlett, English cricketer (b. 1923)
• July 31
  • Paul Le Flem, French composer and critic (b. 1881)
  • Bill Raisch, American actor and stuntman (b. 1905)
  • Philip Van Doren Stern, American author and historian (b. 1900)

August 1984

• August 1 – Hjalmar Frisk, Swedish linguist and etymologist (b. 1900)
• August 2
  • Quirino Cristiani, Italian-Argentine animator and cartoonist (b. 1896)
  • Barbara Deming, American activist (b. 1917)
  • Niyazi Hajibeyov, Azerbaijani conductor and composer (b. 1912)
  • Marian Łącz, Polish footballer (b. 1921)
• August 3
  • Albert Arnulf, French engineer and physicist (b. 1898)
  • Vladimir Tendryakov, Russian author (b. 1923)
• August 4
  • Ric Berger, Swiss scholar (b. 1894)
  • Walter Burke, American actor (b. 1908)
  • Donald Johnston, American rower (b. 1899)
  • Mary Miles Minter, American actress (b. 1902)
  • Roman Tikhomirov, Russian film director and screenwriter (b. 1915)
• August 5
  • Richard Burton, Welsh actor (b. 1925)
  • Hertha Thiele, German actress (b. 1908)
  • Jerzy Zagórski, Polish poet and translator (b. 1907)
• August 6
• August 7
  • Johanna de Boer, Dutch fencer (b. 1901)
  • Ann Christy, Belgian singer (b. 1945)
  • Esther Phillips, American singer (b. 1935)
• August 8
  • Richard Deacon, American actor (b. 1922)
  • Avraham Even-Shoshan, Belarusian-Israeli linguist (b. 1906)
  • Werner Otto von Hentig, German lieutenant and explorer (b. 1886)
  • Denis Johnston, Irish author (b. 1901)
• August 9
  • Ri Ki-yong, North Korean author (b. 1896)
  • Walter Tevis, American author (b. 1928)
• August 10
• August 11
  • Marcel Balsa, French racing driver (b. 1909)
  • Alfred A. Knopf Sr., American publisher (b. 1892)
  • Percy Mayfield, American singer (b. 1920)
  • Paul Felix Schmidt, Estonian-German chess player and chemist (b. 1916)
  • Li Weihan, Chinese politician (b. 1896)
• August 12
  • Lenny Breau, American-Canadian guitarist (b. 1941)
  • Christine Hargreaves, English actress (b. 1939)
  • Ladi Kwali, Nigerian potter and ceramicist (b. 1925)
  • Margaret Sutherland, Australian composer (b. 1897)
• August 13
  • Clyde Cook, Australian-American comedian and actor (b. 1891)
  • Petre Gruzinsky, Georgian poet (b. 1920)
  • Nina Petrovna Khrushcheva, Russian political figure (b. 1900)
  • Pavel Lobanov, Russian politician (b. 1902)
  • Alberto Lupo, Italian actor (b. 1924)
  • Tigran Petrosian, Georgian chess grandmaster (b. 1929)
• August 14
  • Mike Barrett, English footballer (b. 1959)
  • Daniel J. Bloomberg, American sound engineer (b. 1905)
  • K. D. Jadhav, Indian wrestler (b. 1926)
  • Loda Niemirzanka, Polish actress (b. 1909)
  • J. B. Priestley, English author and playwright (b. 1894)
• August 15
  • Hilde Maroff, German actress (b. 1904)
  • Norman Petty, American musician (b. 1927)
• August 16
  • György Kósa, Hungarian composer (b. 1897)
  • Duško Radović, Serbian author and journalist (b. 1922)
• August 17
  • Luis Franco Cascón, Spanish bishop (b. 1903)
  • Hammie Nixon, American harmonica player (b. 1908)
• August 18
• August 19
  • Azar Andami, Iranian physician (b. 1926)
  • Louis Lansana Beavogui, Guinean politician, President and Prime Minister of Guinea (b. 1923)
  • Marianne Beth, Austrian lawyer (b. 1889)
  • Ezio Cecchi, Italian cyclist (b. 1913)
  • George Meeker, American actor (b. 1904)
• August 20
  • Mieczysław Cybulski, Polish actor (b. 1903)
  • Arnolds Tauriņš, Latvian footballer (b. 1905)
• August 21
  • Paul D. Harkins, American general (b. 1904)
  • Wolfgang Schleif, German film director and screenwriter (b. 1912)
• August 22 – Freddie Steele, American boxer and actor (b. 1912)
• August 23
  • Gerald Frank Anderson, English fighter pilot (b. 1898)
  • Charlie Robertson, American baseball player (b. 1896)
• August 24
  • Martín Almagro Basch, Spanish archaeologist and historian (b. 1911)
  • John Johnsen, Norwegian swimmer (b. 1892)
  • Lajos Tóth, Hungarian gymnast (b. 1914)
• August 25
  • Truman Capote, American author (b. 1924)
  • Viktor Chukarin, Ukrainian gymnast (b. 1921)
  • Waite Hoyt, American baseball player (b. 1899)
  • Reinhard Suhren, German u-boat commander (b. 1916)
  • Turrell V. Wylie, American scholar and sinologist (b. 1927)
• August 26
  • Harry Betmead, English footballer (b. 1912)
  • Leonard Robert Palmer, English philologist (b. 1906)
  • Lawrence Shehan, American cardinal (b. 1898)
• August 27 – Billy Sands, American actor (b. 1911)
• August 28
  • Corrado Annicelli, Italian actor (b. 1905)
  • Mohamed Naguib, Egyptian revolutionary and politician, President and Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1901)
• August 29
  • Pierre Gemayel, Lebanese politician and football administrator (b. 1905)
  • Abdel Rahman Hafez Ismail, Egyptian basketball player (b. 1923)
  • Pina Menichelli, Italian actor (b. 1890)
• August 30
  • John O. Aalberg, American sound engineer (b. 1897)
  • Sawako Ariyoshi, Japanese author (b. 1931)
  • Wesley Lau, American actor (b. 1921)
  • Emil Newman, American film composer (b. 1911)
• August 31
  • Moshe Czerniak, Polish-Israeli chess player (b. 1910)
  • Hans Dekker, Dutch cyclist (b. 1928)
  • Carlo Zecchi, Italian pianist and conductor (b. 1903)

September 1984

• September 1
  • Madeleine de Bourbon-Busset, French royal (b. 1898)
  • Howland Chamberlain, American actor (b. 1911)
• September 2
  • Sándor Cséfai, Hungarian handball player (b. 1904)
  • Amir Gilboa, Israeli poet (b. 1917)
  • Sergey Martinson, Russian actor (b. 1899)
  • Eino Purje, Finnish runner (b. 1900)
• September 3
  • Manos Katrakis, Greek actor (b. 1908)
  • Gaston Palewski, French politician (b. 1901)
  • Arthur Schwartz, American film composer (b. 1900)
  • Wilhelm Winkler, Czech-Austrian statistician and politician (b. 1884)
  • Jan Zábrana, Czech author and translator (b. 1931)
• September 4
  • Fedir Bohatyrchuk, Ukrainian-Canadian chess player and physician (b. 1892)
  • Nodar Dumbadze, Georgian author (b. 1928)
  • Bjarne Johnsen, Norwegian gymnast (b. 1892)
  • Henryk Łowmiański, Polish historian and academic (b. 1898)
  • Ernst Stueckelberg, Swiss mathematician and physicist (b. 1905)
• September 5
  • Leonid Kostandov, Russian engineer and politician (b. 1915)
  • Boris Kuznetsov, Russian philosopher and historian (b. 1903)
  • Adam Malik, Indonesian politician and diplomat (b. 1917)
  • Jane Roberts, American author and poet (b. 1929)
• September 6
  • Philip Pocock, Canadian archbishop (b. 1906)
  • Ernest Tubb, American singer (b. 1914)
• September 7
  • Joe Cronin, American baseball player and manager (b. 1906)
  • Jennifer Kendal, English actress (b. 1934)
  • Liam O'Flaherty, Irish author (b. 1896)
  • Josyf Slipyj, Ukrainian cardinal (b. 1892)
  • Don Tallon, Australian cricketer (b. 1916)
• September 8
  • Frank Lowson, English cricketer (b. 1925)
  • Johnnie Parsons, American racing driver (b. 1918)
• September 9
  • Ina Benita, Polish actress (b. 1912)
  • Yılmaz Güney, Turkish film director and screenwriter (b. 1937)
  • Gunnar Jamvold, Norwegian sailor (b. 1896)
  • Péter Máté, Hungarian singer and composer (b. 1947)
  • Manuel Valls, Spanish composer and pianist (b. 1920)
• September 10
  • Georges de Beauregard, French film producer (b. 1920)
  • Jerome Clarke Hunsaker, American naval officer and engineer (b. 1886)
  • Joseph Hunter, American rugby player (b. 1899)
  • Ismael Merlo, Spanish actor (b. 1918)
  • Trummy Young, American trombonist (b. 1912)
• September 11
  • Ángel Rosenblat, Polish-Venezuelan philologist and author (b. 1902)
  • Jerry Voorhis, American politician (b. 1901)
• September 12
  • Lola Anglada, Spanish author and comic book artist (b. 1893)
  • Yvon Petra, French tennis player (b. 1916)
• September 13
  • Akio Chiba, Japanese manga artist (b. 1943)
  • Julius Keye, American basketball player (b. 1946)
  • Dino Maiuri, Italian screenwriter (b. 1916)
  • Laura Solari]], Italian actress (b. 1913)
• September 14
  • Lou Brouillard, Canadian boxer (b. 1911)
  • Janet Gaynor, American actress (b. 1906)
  • Rayna Katsarova, Bulgarian ethnomusicologist (b. 1901)
• September 15
  • Jack Ikin, English cricketer (b. 1918)
  • Nasser bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi Arabian businessman and politician (b. 1911)
• September 16
  • Richard Brautigan, American author (b. 1935)
  • Munif Razzaz, Jordanian physician and politician (b. 1919)
  • Louis Réard, French fashion designer (b. 1896)
• September 17
  • Richard Basehart, American actor (b. 1914)
  • Sven Jonasson, Swedish footballer and manager (b. 1909)
  • Semyon K. Tsarapkin, Ukrainian diplomat (b. 1906)
  • Yuri Vizbor, Russian bard and poet (b. 1934)
• September 18
• September 19
  • Nariz Cançado, Brazilian footballer (b. 1912)
  • Carl Joachim Friedrich, German-American philosopher and political scientist (b. 1901)
  • Evžen Hadamczik, Czech footballer and manager (b. 1939)
  • Walter Kaufmann, Czech-American composer and conductor (b. 1907)
• September 20
  • Steve Goodman, American singer (b. 1948)
  • Eduard Mohr, German sailor (b. 1902)
  • Lina Bruna Rasa, Italian opera singer (b. 1907)
• September 21
• September 22
  • Pierre Emmanuel, French poet (b. 1916)
  • Harold Wethey, American historian (b. 1902)
• September 23
  • Vlado Maleski, Macedonian author and activist (b. 1919)
  • Tilsa Tsuchiya, Peruvian painter (b. 1928)
  • Alston Wise, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1904)
• September 24
  • Denis Blundell, New Zealand cricketer and politician (b. 1907)
  • Franz Griesbach, German general (b. 1892)
  • Neil Hamilton, American actor (b. 1899)
  • Anatoly Novikov, Russian composer and conductor (b. 1896)
  • Zuzka Zguriška, Slovakian author and playwright (b. 1900)
• September 25
  • Erich Arendt, German poet and translator (b. 1903)
  • Walter Pidgeon, Canadian-American actor (b. 1897)
  • Bernard Van Rysselberghe, Belgian cyclist (b. 1905)
• September 26
  • Shelly Manne, American drummer (b. 1920)
  • Paquirri Pérez, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1948)
• September 27
  • Ellsworth Bunker, American businessman and diplomat (b. 1894)
  • Gustaf Klarén, Swedish wrestler (b. 1906)
  • Domingos de Sousa, Portuguese equestrian (b. 1896)
• September 28
• September 29
  • Marnix Gijsen, Belgian author (b. 1899)
  • Abdullah Musawi Shirazi, Iranian ayatollah (b. 1892)
• September 30
  • António Aurélio Gonçalves, Cape Verdean author and critic (b. 1901)
  • Eulogio Martínez, Paraguayan-Spanish footballer (b. 1935)
  • Anna Świrszczyńska, Polish poet (b. 1909)
  • Martin Weiss, German war criminal (b. 1903)

October 1984

• October 1
  • Walter Alston, American baseball player and manager (b. 1911)
  • Blagoje Marjanović, Serbian footballer and manager (b. 1907)
  • Hellé Nice, French dancer and racing driver (b. 1900)
  • Walter Frank Woodul, American politician (b. 1892)
• October 2
  • Hamit Zübeyir Koşay, Turkish archaeologist and ethnographer (b. 1897)
  • Harry Strom, Canadian politician (b. 1914)
• October 3 – Raymond McKee, American actor (b. 1892)
• October 4
  • Zaven Biberyan, Turkish author (b. 1921)
  • Bernhard Heinrich, German prince (b. 1901)
  • Virgil Jacomini, American rower (b. 1899)
• October 5
  • Aleksander Burba, Ukrainian engineer (b. 1918)
  • Leonard Rossiter, English actor (b. 1926)
• October 6
  • François Daumas, French egyptologist (b. 1915)
  • Alejandro Urgelles Guibot, Cuban basketball player (b. 1951)
  • George Gaylord Simpson, American paleontologist (b. 1902)
  • André van de Werve de Vorsselaer, Belgian fencer (b. 1908)
• October 7
  • Josef Breitenbach, German-American photographer (b. 1896)
  • Valeriy Marchenko, Ukrainian poet and journalist (b. 1947)
• October 8 – Theodor Schieder, German historian (b. 1908)
• October 9 – Catherine Tharp Altvater, American painter (b. 1907)
• October 10
  • Ursula Curtiss, American author (b. 1923)
  • Thomas E. Gaddis, American author (b. 1908)
  • Alan Lake, English actor (b. 1940)
  • Maricruz Olivier, Mexican actress (b. 1933)
  • Imre Senkey, Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1898)
• October 11
  • Manuel Alonso Areizaga, Spanish tennis player (b. 1895)
  • Gertrud Fridh, Swedish actor (b. 1921)
  • H. Bruce Humberstone, American film director (b. 1901)
  • Catharine Cox Miles, American psychologist (b. 1890)
  • Khandu Rangnekar, Indian cricketer (b. 1917)
• October 12
  • Anthony Berry, English politician (b. 1925)
  • Konstantin Khrenov, Russian engineer and inventor (b. 1894)
• October 13
  • George Kelly, American baseball player (b. 1895)
  • Alice Neel, American painter (b. 1900)
  • Henry Wahl, Norwegian speed skater (b. 1915)
• October 14
  • Frederic C. Lane, American historian (b. 1900)
  • Martin Ryle, English astronomer (b. 1918)
• October 15
  • Paolo Marella, Italian cardinal (b. 1895)
  • Otto Novák, Czech footballer (b. 1902)
• October 16
  • Peggy Ann Garner, American actress (b. 1932)
  • Rosita Quiroga, Argentine singer and composer (b. 1896)
  • Don Reno, American musician (b. 1926)
  • Tino Scotti, Italian actor (b. 1905)
• October 17
  • Emilian Bucov, Moldovan author and poet (b. 1909)
  • Hermann auf der Heide, German field hockey player (b. 1911)
  • Alberta Hunter, American singer (b. 1895)
  • Hubert Schmundt, German admiral (b. 1888)
  • Georges Thill, French opera singer (b. 1897)
• October 18
  • Carl von Garaguly, Hungarian violinist and conductor (b. 1900)
  • Magnhild Haalke, Norwegian author (b. 1885)
  • Jon-Erik Hexum, American actor (b. 1957)
  • Giuseppe Tacca, Italian-French cyclist (b. 1917)
• October 19
  • Henri Michaux, Belgian-French poet and author (b. 1899)
  • Erik Moltke, Danish runologist and author (b. 1901)
  • Buddy Moss, American musician (b. 1914)
  • Jerzy Popiełuszko, Polish priest (b. 1947)
  • Jin Yuelin, Chinese philosopher (b. 1895)
• October 20
  • Carl Ferdinand Cori, Czech-American biochemist and pharmacologist (b. 1896)
  • Paul Dirac, English theoretical physicist (b. 1902)
  • Tina Hedström, Swedish actress (b. 1942)
  • Budd Johnson, American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist (b. 1910)
  • Pierre Kast, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1920)
  • Vadim Kozhevnikov, Russian author and journalist (b. 1909)
  • Boris Nikitin, Georgian wrestler (b. 1938)
• October 21
  • Adolf Fischer, German actor (b. 1900)
  • Louis Herman De Koninck, Belgian architect (b. 1896)
  • Lajos Őze, Hungarian actor (b. 1935)
  • François Truffaut, French film director (b. 1932)
• October 22 – Cigerxwîn Hasan, Turkish author and poet (b. 1903)
• October 23
  • Marcel Brion, French author and critic (b. 1895)
  • Millard Caldwell, American politician (b. 1897)
  • Oskar Werner, Austrian actor (b. 1922)
• October 24
  • Gonzalo Delgrás, Spanish screenwriter and film director (b. 1897)
  • Walter Woolf King, American actor (b. 1899)
  • Anatoly Lepin, Russian composer (b. 1907)
  • Edith Massey, American actress (b. 1918)
  • Alister Murdoch, Australian air marshal (b. 1912)
  • James Philbrook, American actor (b. 1924)
  • Abdraim Reshidov, Russian lieutenant colonel (b. 1912)
• October 25
  • René Lorain, French runner (b. 1900)
  • Pascale Ogier, French actor (b. 1958)
  • Håkan Serner, Swedish actor (b. 1933)
• October 26
  • Mark Kac, Polish-American mathematician (b. 1914)
  • Sue Randall, American actress (b. 1935)
• October 27 – Larry Foust, American basketball player (b. 1028)
• October 28
  • Knut Nordahl, Swedish footballer (b. 1920)
  • Alexander Tselikov, Russian metallurgist (b. 1904)
• October 29
  • Jacques Adnet, French furniture designer (b. 1900)
  • Miguel Ezquerra, Spanish soldier (b. 1913)
  • Soo Yong, American actress (b. 1903)
• October 30
  • William D'Amico, American bobsledder (b. 1910)
  • June Duprez, English actress (b. 1918)
  • Luigi Ferrero, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1904)
  • Carlo Infascelli, Italian film producer and screenwriter (b. 1913)
  • Primo Zeglio, Italian film director and screenwriter (b. 1906)
• October 31
  • John Collier, American hurdler (b. 1907)
  • Leonardo Cortese, Italian actor and film director (b. 1916)
  • Eduardo De Filippo, Italian playwright and actor (b. 1900)
  • Indira Gandhi, Indian politician, Prime Minister of India (b. 1917)
  • Beant Singh, Indian assassin (b. 1959)

November 1984

• November 1
  • Ramón Castro Jijón, Ecuadorian politician, President of Ecuador (b. 1915)
  • Norman Krasna, American screenwriter (b. 1909)
  • Marcel Moyse, French-American flautist (b. 1889)
  • Boris Souvarine, French activist and author (b. 1895)
• November 2
  • Velma Barfield, American serial killer (b. 1932)
  • István Fáry, Hungarian-American mathematician (b. 1922)
• November 3
• November 4
  • Gérard Delbeke, Belgian footballer (b. 1898)
  • Jane Evrard, French conductor (b. 1893)
  • Norman Geschwind, American neurologist (b. 1926)
  • Francesco Mulè, Italian actor (b. 1926)
• November 5
  • Domien Jacob, Belgian gymnast (b. 1897)
  • Rehman Khan, Indian actor (b. 1921)
  • Ivor Montagu, English film director and table tennis player (b. 1904)
• November 6 – Josep Antoni Coderch, Spanish architect (b. 1913)
• November 7
  • Ghulam Mohammad Farhad, Afghan engineer (b. 1901)
  • George Mathews, American actor (b. 1911)
  • Alfonso Negro, American-Italian footballer (b. 1915)
• November 8
  • Ciriaco Errasti, Spanish footballer (b. 1904)
  • Carl Gustav Sparre Olsen, Norwegian violinist and composer (b. 1903)
  • Collin Walcott, American musician (b. 1945)
• November 9 – Hans Petersson, German mathematician (b. 1902)
• November 10
  • Carmelo Goyenechea, Spanish footballer (b. 1898)
  • Xavier Herbert, Australian author (b. 1901)
• November 11
  • Rajinder Singh Bedi, Indian author (b. 1915)
  • Martin Luther King Sr., American pastor and activist (b. 1899)
  • Blagoje Nešković, Serbian politician (b. 1907)
• November 12 – Chester Himes, American author (b. 1909)
• November 13
  • Dorothy Arnold, American actress (b. 1917)
  • Shizo Kanakuri, Japanese runner (b. 1891)
• November 14
  • Adhemar Canavesi, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1903)
  • Keith Hudson, Jamaican singer (b. 1946)
• November 15
• November 16
  • Murray Alper, American actor (b. 1904)
  • Vic Dickenson, American trombonist (b. 1906)
  • Leonard Rose, American cellist (b. 1918)
• November 17
  • Henryk Martyna, Polish footballer (b. 1907)
  • Jan Novák, Czech composer (b. 1921)
• November 18
  • Seth Adonkor, Ghanaian footballer (b. 1961)
  • Osvaldo Fresedo, Argentine songwriter (b. 1897)
• November 19
  • George Aiken, American politician (b. 1892)
  • Martín Marculeta, Spanish footballer (b. 1907)
• November 20
  • Trygve Bratteli, Norwegian politician, Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1910)
  • Santiago Brouard, Spanish physician and politician (b. 1919)
  • Carlo Campanini, Italian actor and singer (b. 1906)
  • Charles C. Conley, American mathematician (b. 1933)
  • Kristian Djurhuus, Faroese politician, Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1895)
  • Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Pakistani poet and author (b. 1911)
  • Raoul Manselli, Italian historian (b. 1917)
  • Alexander Moyzes, Slovakian composer (b. 1906)
• November 21
  • Arvīds Jansons, Latvian conductor (b. 1914)
  • Magogo kaDinuzulu, South African princess and artist (b. 1900)
  • Ben Wilson, American basketball player (b. 1967)
• November 22
  • Olof Bergström, Swedish actor (b. 1919)
  • Gerrit Fischer, Dutch footballer (b. 1916)
  • John Gilling, English film director and screenwriter (b. 1912)
  • Adolf Laudon, Austrian footballer (b. 1912)
  • Mohamed Salah Mzali, Tunisian politician, Prime Minister of Tunisia (b. 1896)
  • Gerd Nyquist, Norwegian author (b. 1913)
  • Nikolai Tomsky, Russian sculptor (b. 1900)
  • Oleksiy Vatchenko, Ukrainian politician (b. 1914)
  • Marianne Zoff, Austrian actress and opera singer (b. 1893)
• November 23
  • Tadashi Abe, Japanese aikidoka (b. 1926)
  • Paul Dahlke, German actor (b. 1904)
  • Michel Emer, French musician and composer (b. 1906)
  • Abe Goff, American politician (b. 1899)
  • Gerhard Hüsch, German singer (b. 1901)
• November 24 – Jimmy Jackson, American racing driver (b. 1910)
• November 25
  • Yashwantrao Chavan, Indian freedom fighter and politician (b. 1913)
  • Sylvan Goldman, American businessman and inventor (b. 1898)
  • Agnes von Kurowsky, American nurse (b. 1892)
• November 26
  • Fernando Corena, Swiss opera singer (b. 1916)
  • Bernard Lonergan, Canadian priest and philosopher (b. 1904)
  • Togo Murano, Japanese architect (b. 1891)
  • Flockina von Platen, German actress (b. 1903)
• November 27 – Melvin H. Evans, American politician (b. 1917)
• November 28
  • Ricky Bell, American football player (b. 1955)
  • Hubertus zu Loewenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg, German historian and politician (b. 1906)
  • Hans Speidel, German general (b. 1897)
• November 29
  • Tatyana Ehrenfest, Dutch mathematician (b. 1905)
  • Gotthard Günther, German philosopher (b. 1900)
  • Wincenty Kowalski, Polish general (b. 1892)
  • Giulio Viozzi, Italian composer and conductor (b. 1912)
• November 30
  • Edward Crankshaw, English author and translator (b. 1909)
  • Lim Yew Hock, Singaporean-Malaysian politician (b. 1914)
  • Jiro Miyake, Japanese footballer (b. 1900)
  • Joan Vinyoli, Spanish poet (b. 1914)

December 1984

• December 1
  • Roelof Frankot, Dutch painter (b. 1911)
  • Alphonse Schepers, Belgian cyclist (b. 1907)
  • Stephen M. Young, American politician (b. 1889)
• December 2
  • Edward James, English poet (b. 1907)
  • Shirō Moritani, Japanese film director and screenwriter (b. 1931)
  • Harry Sukman, American film composer (b. 1912)
• December 3
  • Pavel Kutakhov, Russian pilot (b. 1914)
  • Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin, Russian mathematician (b. 1919)
  • Gerrit Visser, Dutch footballer (b. 1903)
  • Alan Williams, American rugby player (b. 1893)
• December 4
  • Seymour Fogel, American painter (b. 1911)
  • Eduard Prchal, Czech pilot (b. 1911)
  • John Rock, American obstetrician and gynecologist (b. 1890)
  • Ștefan Voitec, Romanian journalist and politician (b. 1900)
• December 5
  • Ethel Mannin, English author (b. 1900)
  • Joe Rock, American film producer and actor (b. 1893)
• December 6
  • Gray Barker, American author and conspiracy theorist (b. 1925)
  • Viktor Shklovsky, Russian theorist and critic (b. 1893)
• December 7
  • Jeanne Cagney, American actress (b. 1919)
  • Nikolay Emanuel, Russian chemist (b. 1915)
  • Jon B. Higgins, American musician and scholar (b. 1939)
  • Jack Mercer, American voice actor (b. 1910)
  • Bernard Ormanowski, Polish rower (b. 1907)
• December 8
  • Luther Adler, American actor (b. 1903)
  • Vladimir Chelomey, Russian engineer (b. 1914)
  • Walter Ciszek, Polish-American priest (b. 1908)
  • Nicholas Dingley, English drummer (b. 1960)
  • Robert Jay Mathews, American neo nazi (b. 1953)
  • Gene Ramey, American double bassist (b. 1913)
  • Mary Terán de Weiss, Argentine tennis player (b. 1918)
• December 9 – Joseph May Swing, American lieutenant general (b. 1894)
• December 10
  • Georgia Lind, German actress (b. 1905)
  • Asoka Mehta, Indian freedom fighter and politician (b. 1911)
  • Adalbert Steiner, Romanian footballer (b. 1907)
• December 11
  • Nate Bowman, American basketball player (b. 1943)
  • Krafft Arnold Ehricke, German engineer (b. 1917)
  • Pentti Hämäläinen, Finnish boxer (b. 1929)
  • Sam LoPresti, American ice hockey player (b. 1917)
  • George Waggner, American film director (b. 1894)
• December 12
  • Helmut Schreyer, German inventor (b. 1912)
  • Chase G. Woodhouse, American politician (b. 1890)
• December 13
  • Rosa Kellner, German sprinter (b. 1910)
  • Margaret Livingston, American actress (b. 1895)
  • Max Schönherr, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1903)
  • Nikolai Shchelokov, Russian general and politician (b. 1910)
  • Ngô Đình Thục, Vietnamese archbishop (b. 1897)
  • Amerigo Tot, Hungarian sculptor and actor (b. 1909)
• December 14
  • Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish poet (b. 1898)
  • László Baranyai, Hungarian gymnast (b. 1920)
  • Alberto Fernández, Spanish cyclist (b. 1955)
• December 15
  • Kurt Axelsson, Swedish footballer (b. 1941)
  • Hilde Bruch, German-American psychiatrist (b. 1904)
  • Lennard Pearce, English actor (b. 1915)
  • Jan Peerce, American opera singer (b. 1904)
• December 16
  • Matti Aarnio, Finnish-Venezuelan soldier (b. 1901)
  • Gerd Heinrich, German entomologist and ornithologist (b. 1896)
  • Wilson Rawls, American author (b. 1913)
• December 17
  • Sonja Ferlov Mancoba, Danish painter (b. 1911)
  • Isa Pola, Italian actress (b. 1909)
  • Jimmy Preston, American bandleader and musician (b. 1913)
• December 18
  • Valerijonas Balčiūnas, Lithuanian footballer (b. 1904)
  • Rudolf Platte, German actor (b. 1904)
• December 19
  • Puck van Heel, Dutch footballer (b. 1904)
  • Josef Humpál, Czech footballer and manager (b. 1918)
  • Michel Magne, French composer (b. 1930)
  • Hugh Seton-Watson, English historian and author (b. 1916)
• December 20
  • Max Deuring, German mathematician (b. 1907)
  • J. Lister Hill, American politician (b. 1894)
  • Stanley Milgram, American psychologist (b. 1933)
  • Grace Cossington Smith, Australian painter (b. 1892)
  • Dmitry Ustinov, Russian politician (b. 1908)
• December 21 – Cornelis Eliza Bertus Bremekamp, Dutch botanist (b. 1888)
• December 22 – Vilhelm Lauritzen, Danish architect (b. 1894)
• December 23
  • Ingemar Düring, Swedish philologist (b. 1903)
  • Joan Lindsay, Australian author and playwright (b. 1896)
• December 24
  • Ian Hendry, English actor (b. 1931)
  • Kazimierz Krukowski, Polish actor and singer (b. 1901)
  • Peter Lawford, English-American actor (b. 1923)
  • Ryokichi Minobe, Japanese politician (b. 1904)
• December 25 – Jack Balmer, English footballer (b. 1916)
• December 26
  • Tebbs Lloyd Johnson, English racewalker (b. 1900)
  • Chan Sy, Cambodian politician (b. 1932)
  • Otto Zdansky, Austrian paleontologist (b. 1894)
• December 27
  • Leslie Compton, English footballer and cricketer (b. 1912)
  • Yevgeny Zababakhin, Russian engineer and theoretical physicist (b. 1917)
• December 28
  • Isaak Kikoin, Lithuanian-Russian physicist (b. 1908)
  • Theodore Newcomb, American psychologist and author (b. 1903)
  • Sam Peckinpah, American film director (b. 1928)
• December 29
  • Indus Arthur, American actress (b. 1941)
  • Roy Conacher, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1916)
  • Gregor Hradetzky, Austrian canoeist (b. 1909)
  • Walther Hubatsch, German historian (b. 1915)
  • Leo Robin, American composer and songwriter (b. 1900)
  • Siegfried Uiberreither, German nazi lieutenant (b. 1908)
• December 30
  • Mona Chandravati Gupta, Indian social worker (b. 1896)
  • Juha Widing, Swedish-Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1947)
• December 31
  • Alexander Hrennikoff, Russian-Canadian engineer (b. 1896)
  • K. R. Ramanathan, Indian physicist and meteorologist (b. 1893)

1985

January 1985

• January 1
  • Louis Caput, French cyclist (b. 1921)
  • Eulalia Guzmán, Mexican anthropologist and archaeologist (b. 1890)
  • Bill Henry, American basketball player (b. 1924)
  • Hermann Reutter, German composer and pianist (b. 1900)
  • Herbert M. Shelton, American naturopath (b. 1895)
  • Knud Vermehren, Danish gymnast (b. 1890)
  • Vladimir Weisberg, Russian painter (b. 1924)
• January 2
  • Gabriel Elorde, Filipino boxer (b. 1935)
  • Jacques de Lacretelle, French author (b. 1888)
• January 3
  • Lucien Cailliet, French-American composer and conductor (b. 1891)
  • Eckhard Christian, German pilot (b. 1907)
  • Bodil Joensen, Danish pornographic actress (b. 1944)
  • Tadeusz Pełczyński, Polish major general (b. 1892)
  • René Le Roy, French flutist (b. 1898)
• January 4
  • Victor Delhez, Belgian artist (b. 1902)
  • Evi Eva, German actress (b. 1899)
  • Harry Haywood, American activist (b. 1898)
  • Brian Horrocks, English lieutenant general (b. 1895)
  • Lovro von Matačić, Croatian conductor and composer (b. 1899)
  • Russell Page, English gardener and architect (b. 1906)
• January 5
  • John Paxton, American screenwriter (b. 1911)
  • Franjo Punčec, Croatian tennis player (b. 1913)
  • Robert Surtees, American cinematographer (b. 1906)
  • Raymonde Vincent, French author (b. 1908)
• January 6
• January 7
  • Billy Brown, English footballer (b. 1900)
  • Ruth Godfrey, American actress (b. 1922)
  • Esther Hill, Canadian architect (b. 1895)
  • Zhao Jingshen, Chinese author (b. 1902)
  • Vladimir Kokkinaki, Russian pilot (b. 1904)
  • Johann Ludwig, German footballer (b. 1903)
  • Eugene Lyons, Russian-American journalist and author (b. 1898)
  • José Maria Pedroto, Portuguese footballer and manager (b. 1928)
  • Jules Vandooren, French footballer (b. 1908)
• January 8
  • Eva Bowring, American politician (b. 1892)
  • Vladimir Maneyev, Russian wrestler (b. 1932)
  • Lette Valeska, German-American artist (b. 1885)
• January 9
  • Don Brennan, English cricketer (b. 1920)
  • Henri Louette, Belgian ice hockey player (b. 1900)
• January 10
  • André Bjerke, Norwegian author and poet (b. 1918)
  • Anton Karas, Austrian musician and composer (b. 1906)
  • Mary Kenneth Keller, American nun and computer scientist (b. 1913)
  • Idar Kristiansen, Norwegian poet and author (b. 1932)
• January 11
  • Edward Buzzell, American film director and actor (b. 1895)
  • Josef Čtyřoký, Czech footballer (b. 1906)
  • William McKell, Australian politician (b. 1891)
  • Edgar Reinhardt, German handball player (b. 1914)
• January 12 – John W. Byrnes, American politician (b. 1913)
• January 13
  • Adam Marczyński, Polish painter (b. 1908)
  • Madan Puri, Indian actor (b. 1915)
  • Carol Wayne, American actress (b. 1942)
• January 14
  • Jetta Goudal, Dutch-American actress (b. 1891)
  • Anagarika Govinda, German-Indian buddhist (b. 1898)
  • Edwin Gross, American gymnast (b. 1916)
  • Robert Odeman, German pianist and actor (b. 1904)
  • Allan Shivers, American politician (b. 1907)
  • June Tripp, American actress (b. 1901)
  • Gisken Wildenvey, Norwegian author (b. 1892)
• January 15
  • Đuka Agić, Croatian footballer (b. 1906)
  • Salvador Cardona, Spanish cyclist (b. 1901)
  • Martin Dzúr, Slovakian general and politician (b. 1919)
  • Josef Sedláček, Czech footballer (b. 1893)
• January 16
  • Ruth Orkin, American photographer (b. 1921)
  • Árpád Szenes, Hungarian-French painter (b. 1897)
• January 17
• January 18
  • Mordechai Bentov, Israeli journalist and politician (b. 1900)
  • Wilfrid Brambell, Irish actor (b. 1912)
  • Josef Dahmen, German actor (b. 1903)
  • Jaime González, Colombian footballer (b. 1938)
  • Georgie Stoll, American film composer (b. 1905)
  • Mahmoud Mohammed Taha, Sudanese religious thinker (b. 1909)
  • Santiago Urtizberea, Spanish footballer (b. 1909)
• January 19
  • Juan Antonio Corretjer, Puerto Rican poet and journalist (b. 1908)
  • Sylvain Grysolle, Belgian cyclist (b. 1915)
  • Tom Richards, Welsh runner (b. 1910)
  • Svein Rosseland, Norwegian astrophysicist (b. 1894)
  • Eric Voegelin, German-American philosopher (b. 1901)
• January 20
  • Thomas Balogh, Hungarian-English economist (b. 1905)
  • Gillis William Long, American politician (b. 1923)
• January 21
  • Eddie Graham, American professional wrestler and (b. 1930)
  • Yusuf Lule, Ugandan politician, President of Uganda (b. 1912)
  • Jan Peka, Czech ice hockey player (b. 1894)
  • Luise Ullrich, Austrian actress (b. 1910)
• January 22
  • Mikhail Gromov, Russian pilot (b. 1899)
  • Paul Harteck, Austrian chemist (b. 1902)
• January 23
  • James Beard, American chef (b. 1903)
  • Vladimir Vetrov, Russian spy (b. 1932)
  • Botir Zokirov, Uzbekistani singer and author (b. 1936)
• January 24
  • Dalmacio Langarica, Spanish cyclist (b. 1919)
  • Antonio Andrés Sancho, Spanish cyclist (b. 1913)
  • Pyotr Suvchinsky, Russian publisher (b. 1892)
• January 25
  • Ralph Broome, English bobsledder and lieutenant colonel (b. 1889)
  • Ajoy Kar, Indian film director and cinematographer (b. 1914)
  • Yevgeny Maskinskov, Russian racewalker (b. 1930)
  • Emilio Gómez Muriel, Mexican film director (b. 1910)
  • Paul Smith, American film composer (b. 1906)
• January 26
  • Kenny Clarke, American drummer (b. 1914)
  • David Ormsby-Gore, English diplomat and politician (b. 1918)
• January 27
• January 28
  • Alfredo Foni, Italian footballer (b. 1911)
  • Wade Nichols, American actor (b. 1946)
• January 29
  • Martín Adán, Peruvian poet (b. 1908)
  • Ernest Chambers, English cyclist (b. 1907)
  • Don Raye, American songwriter (b. 1909)
• January 30
  • Salih Mahdi Ammash, Iraqi historian and politician (b. 1924)
  • Felix H. Man, German-English photographer (b. 1893)
  • F. R. Scott, Canadian poet and academic (b. 1899)
• January 31
  • Menachem Bader, Israeli activist and politician (b. 1895)
  • Tatsuzō Ishikawa, Japanese author (b. 1905)
  • Józef Mackiewicz, Polish author and political commentator (b. 1902)

February 1985

• February 1
  • Ipolite Khvichia, Georgian actor (b. 1910)
  • Yuri Rumer, Russian theoretical physicist (b. 1901)
  • Yōko Yaguchi, Japanese actress (b. 1921)
• February 2
  • Márton Bukovi, Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1903)
  • Bianca Doria, Italian actress (b. 1915)
  • Hermann Priess, German general (b. 1901)
  • Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux, Canadian composer (b. 1938)
• February 3
  • Santiago Lazcano, Spanish cyclist (b. 1947)
  • Frank Oppenheimer, American physicist (b. 1912)
• February 4
  • Jesse Hibbs, American football player and film director (b. 1906)
  • Nicolas Hoydonckx, Belgian footballer (b. 1900)
  • Ramón Llorens, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1906)
  • Gerhard Zucker, German businessman and engineer (b. 1908)
• February 5
  • Sydney Cozens, English cyclist (b. 1908)
  • Hans Croon, Dutch football manager (b. 1936)
  • Neil McCarthy, English actor (b. 1932)
• February 6
  • Dadash Babazhanov, Kazakhstani soldier (b. 1922)
  • James Hadley Chase, English author (b. 1906)
  • Muriel Gardiner, American psychoanalyst (b. 1901)
  • Shelomo Dov Goitein, German-American ethnographer and historian (b. 1900)
  • Inger Hagerup, Norwegian author and playwright (b. 1905)
  • Harald Johan Løbak, Norwegian politician (b. 1904)
• February 7 – Matt Monro, English singer (b. 1930)
• February 8
  • Norah Baring, English actress (b. 1905)
  • Ernst Brüche, German physicist (b. 1900)
  • José Gomes Ferreira, Portuguese poet and author (b. 1900)
  • William Lyons, English automobile designer (b. 1901)
  • Marvin Miller, American actor (b. 1913)
  • Harold Ockenga, American theologian (b. 1905)
• February 9
  • Kiki Camarena, Mexican intelligence officer (b. 1947)
  • Harry Perry, American cinematographer (b. 1888)
  • Humphrey Trevelyan, English civil servant and diplomat (b. 1905)
• February 10
  • Werner Hinz, German actor (b. 1903)
  • Werner Schröer, German nazi major (b. 1918)
• February 11
  • Ben Abruzzo, American balloonist and businessman (b. 1930)
  • Conrad Detrez, Belgian-French journalist and diplomat (b. 1937)
  • José Maldonado González, Spanish politician (b. 1900)
  • Henry Hathaway, American film director (b. 1898)
  • George James Hopkins, American set designer and playwright (b. 1896)
  • Talgat Nigmatulin, Kazakhstani actor and martial artist (b. 1949)
  • Víctor Palomo, Spanish athlete (b. 1948)
  • Heinz Roemheld, American film composer (b. 1901)
• February 12
  • Nicholas Colasanto, American actor (b. 1924)
  • Georges Gautschi, Swiss figure skater (b. 1904)
  • Jerzy Skolimowski, Polish rower (b. 1907)
• February 13
  • Juliusz Kühl, Polish-Canadian diplomat and businessman (b. 1913)
  • Lotte Lang, Austrian actress (b. 1900)
• February 14
  • Jean-Marie Loret, French railway worker (b. 1918)
  • Eva Mottley, Barbadian-English actress (b. 1953)
• February 15
  • Harold Jefferson Coolidge Jr., American zoologist (b. 1904)
  • Charles Theodore Dotter, American radiologist (b. 1920)
• February 16
  • Marian Engel, Canadian author (b. 1933)
  • Paulette Nardal, French author (b. 1896)
  • Alí Primera, Venezuelan musician and composer (b. 1941)
  • Larry Ward, American actor (b. 1924)
• February 17 – Willi Schatz, German nazi dentist (b. 1905)
• February 18
  • Willy Alberti, Dutch singer (b. 1926)
  • Gábor Darvas, Hungarian composer and musicologist (b. 1911)
  • Nancy Hamilton, American actress and playwright (b. 1908)
• February 19
  • Charles Hoff, Norwegian athlete and journalist (b. 1902)
  • Liubov Kemularia-Nathadze, Georgian botanist (b. 1891)
  • Gregorio López-Bravo, Spanish politician (b. 1923)
  • Trygvi Samuelsen, Faroese politician (b. 1907)
  • Wilhelm Specht, German mathematician (b. 1907)
  • Carol Sutton, American journalist (b. 1933)
• February 20
  • Isaac Kashdan, American chess grandmaster and author (b. 1905)
  • Bhawani Prasad Mishra, Indian poet and author (b. 1913)
  • Clarence Nash, American actor (b. 1904)
  • Nikolay Urvantsev, Russian geologist and explorer (b. 1893)
• February 21
  • Ina Claire, American actress (b. 1893)
  • Louis Hayward, South African actor (b. 1909)
  • Dermot Ryan, Irish archbishop (b. 1924)
  • John G. Trump, American engineer and physicist (b. 1907)
• February 22
  • Sethu Lakshmi Bayi, Indian royal (b. 1895)
  • Victor Carlund, Swedish footballer (b. 1906)
  • Salvador Espriu, Spanish poet (b. 1913)
  • Bice Mizzi, Maltese pianist (b. 1899)
  • Alexander Scourby, American actor (b. 1913)
  • Efrem Zimbalist, Russian-American violinist and composer (b. 1889)
• February 23
  • Erik Andersson, Swedish swimmer and water polo player (b. 1896)
  • William Greer, Northern Irish-American secret service agent (b. 1909)
  • Pierre Lafitte Ithurralde, French priest and author (b. 1901)
• February 24
  • Nigol Andresen, Estonian politician and author (b. 1899)
  • Hal C. Kern, American film editor (b. 1894)
  • Saiza Nabarawi, Egyptian journalist (b. 1897)
  • Ghulam Ahmed Perwez, Pakistani civil servant and scholar (b. 1903)
  • Janusz Ślązak, Polish rower (b. 1907)
  • Eduard Sperling, German wrestler (b. 1902)
  • Marguerite Wildenhain, French-American ceramicist (b. 1896)
  • Joseph C. Wright, American art director (b. 1892)
• February 25
  • Marianne Oswald, French singer and actress (b. 1901)
  • Ahn Sahng-hong, South Korean minister (b. 1918)
  • Ziyodullo Shahidi, Tajikistani musician (b. 1914)
  • Rudd Weatherwax, American actor and animal trainer (b. 1907)
• February 26
  • Leonardo David, Italian skier (b. 1960)
  • Guðmundur G. Hagalín, Icelandic author (b. 1898)
  • Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch-American mathematician and economist (b. 1910)
• February 27
  • Joseph Buloff, Lithuanian-American actor (b. 1899)
  • Ernest Dubac, Croatian footballer (b. 1914)
  • David Huffman, American actor (b. 1945)
  • Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., American politician and diplomat (b. 1902)
  • Manuel Machuca, Chilean footballer (b. 1924)
  • J. Pat O'Malley, English actor (b. 1904)
• February 28
  • Ferdinand Alquié, French philosopher (b. 1906)
  • Percy Andrews, English footballer (b. 1922)
  • David Byron, English singer (b. 1947)

March 1985

• March 1
  • Charlotte Delbo, French author (b. 1913)
  • Eugene List, American pianist (b. 1918)
  • Alfred Zeisler, American film producer and director (b. 1892)
• March 2
  • Omer Huyse, Belgian cyclist (b. 1898)
  • Jack Kelly Jr., American rower and politician (b. 1927)
  • Keshto Mukherjee, Indian actor and comedian (b. 1925)
  • Runme Shaw, Chinese-Singaporean businessman (b. 1901)
  • William Stringfellow, American theologian and activist (b. 1928)
  • Julie Vlasto, French tennis player (b. 1903)
• March 3
  • Kyril Bonfiglioli, English author and art dealer (b. 1928)
  • Connie Gilchrist, American actress (b. 1895)
  • Badouin de Ligne, Belgian prince (b. 1918)
  • Noel Purcell, American actor (b. 1900)
  • Sándor Scheiber, Hungarian rabbi and scholar (b. 1913)
  • Iosif Shklovsky, Russian astronomer (b. 1916)
• March 4 – Sverre Strandli, Norwegian hammer thrower (b. 1925)
• March 5
  • Thomas Little, American set decorator (b. 1886)
  • Oskar Ritter, German footballer (b. 1901)
  • Cyril Stiles, New Zealand rower (b. 1904)
  • Helmut Thielicke, German theologian (b. 1908)
• March 6
  • Hans Brunke, German footballer (b. 1904)
  • Sebastian Huber, German bobsledder (b. 1901)
  • Marisa Mori, Italian painter (b. 1900)
• March 7
  • Arkady Fiedler, Polish author and journalist (b. 1894)
  • Robert W. Woodruff, American businessman (b. 1889)
• March 8
  • Edward Andrews, American actor (b. 1914)
  • Ghulam Allana, Pakistani author (b. 1906)
  • Edgar Dale, American educator (b. 1900)
  • Gladys Egan, American actress (b. 1900)
  • Reuben Goodstein, English mathematician (b. 1912)
  • Victor Wolfgang von Hagen, American explorer and author (b. 1908)
  • Hans Knecht, Swiss cyclist (b. 1913)
  • Paul Ramdohr, German mineralogist (b. 1890)
  • Kim Yong-sik, South Korean footballer and manager (b. 1910)
• March 9
  • Robert Blackwell, American bandleader and songwriter (b. 1918)
  • Harry Catterick, English footballer and manager (b. 1919)
  • Lia Eibenschütz, German actress (b. 1899)
  • Chan Gurney, American politician (b. 1896)
  • William E. Jenner, American politician (b. 1908)
  • Annar Ryen, Norwegian skier (b. 1909)
• March 10
  • Konstantin Chernenko, Russian politician (b. 1911)
  • C. B. van Niel, Dutch-American microbiologist (b. 1897)
  • Israel Regardie, English-American occultist and magician (b. 1907)
• March 11
  • Tom Adams, Barbadian politician, Prime Minister of Barbados (b. 1931)
  • Nazem Akkari, Lebanese politician, Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1902)
  • Indumati Chimanlal Sheth, Indian activist and politician (b. 1906)
• March 12
  • Earle Clements, American politician (b. 1896)
  • Alfred Eluère, French rugby player (b. 1893)
  • Yang Kui, Taiwanese author (b. 1906)
  • Carl Walther Meyer, German actor and film editor (b. 1898)
  • Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian-American conductor and violinist (b. 1899)
• March 13
  • Mabel Alvarez, American painter (b. 1891)
  • Elmer A. Benson, American politician (b. 1895)
  • Annette Hanshaw, American singer (b. 1901)
• March 14
• March 15 – Hans Eckstein, German water polo player (b. 1908)
• March 16
  • Jean Purdy, English nurse and embryologist (b. 1945)
  • Bert Röling, Dutch judge (b. 1906)
  • Roger Sessions, American composer and musicologist (b. 1896)
  • Eddie Shore, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1902)
• March 17
  • Irving Asher, American film producer (b. 1903)
  • Nikolai Gusarov, Belarusian politician (b. 1905)
  • Bongi Makeba, South African singer (b. 1950)
  • Dattu Phadkar, Indian cricketer (b. 1925)
• March 18 – Myrtle Cook, Canadian sprinter (b. 1902)
• March 19
  • Erik Palmén, Finnish meteorologist (b. 1898)
  • Leopold Tyrmand, Polish-American author (b. 1920)
• March 20 – Victor Capesius, German nazi major (b. 1907)
• March 21
  • Tito Davison, Chilean-Mexican film director and screenwriter (b. 1912)
  • Mark Donskoy, Ukrainian-Russian film director and screenwriter (b. 1901)
  • Michael Redgrave, English actor (b. 1908)
  • Michael Trubshawe, English actor (b. 1905)
• March 22
  • Albin Jansson, Swedish ice hockey player (b. 1897)
  • Károly Olt, Hungarian politician (b. 1904)
  • Raoul Ubac, French painter and sculptor (b. 1910)
• March 23
  • Richard Beeching, English physicist (b. 1913)
  • Peter Charanis, Greek-American scholar (b. 1908)
  • Patricia Roberts Harris, American politician and diplomat (b. 1924)
  • Asao Koike, Japanese actor (b. 1931)
  • Joseph Novales, French cyclist (b. 1937)
  • Shazam Safin, Russian wrestler (b. 1932)
  • Zoot Sims, American saxophonist (b. 1925)
• March 24
  • Dick Kinney, American animator and comic book writer (b. 1916)
  • George London, American opera singer (b. 1920)
  • José Luis Munguía, Salvadoran footballer (b. 1959)
  • Akihiko Okamura, Japanese photographer (b. 1929)
  • Sandër Prosi, Albanian actor and violinist (b. 1920)
  • Georges Henri Rivière, French museologist (b. 1897)
• March 25
  • Victor Herman, American-Russian author (b. 1915)
  • Zvee Scooler, Russian-American actor (b. 1899)
• March 26
  • Romolo Catasta, Italian rower (b. 1923)
  • Žarko Jovanović, Serbian musician (b. 1925)
  • Félix Trombe, French engineer (b. 1906)
• March 27
  • Pierino Baffi, Italian cyclist (b. 1930)
  • Hugh Farquharson, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1911)
  • Ben Ramsey, American politician (b. 1903)
  • Péter Szervánszky, Hungarian violinist (b. 1913)
  • Christopher Vokes, Canadian major general (b. 1904)
• March 28
  • Ana Rosa Chacón, Costa Rican activist (b. 1889)
  • Marc Chagall, Russian-French painter (b. 1887)
  • Henry Hansen, Danish cyclist (b. 1902)
  • Marcus Nikkanen, Finnish figure skater (b. 1904)
• March 29
  • Roald Amundsen, Norwegian footballer (b. 1913)
  • Jeannine Deckers, Belgian nun and singer (b. 1933)
  • Rae Jenkins, Welsh violinist and conductor (b. 1903)
  • George Murdock, American anthropologist (b. 1897)
  • Gerhard Stöck, German athlete (b. 1911)
  • Luther Terry, American physician (b. 1911)
  • Janet Watson, English geologist (b. 1923)
• March 30
  • [[Innokenti Gerasimov], Russian geographer (b. 1905)
  • Shizuko Kasagi, Japanese singer and actress (b. 1914)
  • Yaeko Nogami, Japanese author (b. 1885)
  • Kenkichi Oshima, Japanese triple jumper (b. 1908)
  • Harold Peary, American actor (b. 1908)
• March 31 – Erik Burman, Swedish ice hockey player (b. 1897)

April 1985

• April 1 – Gregorio Sciltian, Italian painter (b. 1900)
• April 2
  • Alexandre Rignault, French actor (b. 1901)
  • William Stevenson, American athlete and diplomat (b. 1900)
• April 3
  • Oreco Martins, Brazilian footballer (b. 1932)
  • Helmut Niedermayr, German racing driver (b. 1915)
• April 4
  • Dinara Asanova, Kyrgyzstani film director (b. 1942)
  • Mildred Cram, American author (b. 1889)
  • Hannes Sirola, Finnish gymnast (b. 1890)
• April 5 – Gerhard Wilck, German nazi colonel (b. 1898)
• April 6
  • Arnold Daghani, Romanian-English artist and author (b. 1909)
  • Gene Davis, American painter (b. 1920)
  • André Néron, French mathematician (b. 1922)
  • Terence Sanders, English rower (b. 1901)
  • Stanisław Zaczyk, Polish actor (b. 1923)
• April 7
  • René Portocarrero, Cuban artist (b. 1912)
  • Carl Schmitt, German judge and theorist (b. 1888)
• April 8
  • John Frederick Coots, American songwriter (b. 1897)
  • Julieta Kirkwood, Chilean sociologist and political scientist (b. 1936)
  • Eugen König, German general (b. 1896)
• April 9 – Ernie Taylor, English footballer (b. 1925)
• April 10
  • Cora Coralina, Brazilian author (b. 1889)
  • Alfredo Duhalde, Chilean politician, President of Chile (b. 1898)
  • Eusebio Sempere, Spanish sculptor and painter (b. 1923)
• April 11
  • Bunny Ahearne, English ice hockey administrator and businessman (b. 1900)
  • André de Dienes, Hungarian photographer (b. 1913)
  • Enver Hoxha, Albanian politician, Prime Minister of Albania (b. 1908)
  • Olga Tufnell, English archaeologist (b. 1905)
  • Fred Uhlman, German-English author and painter (b. 1901)
• April 12
  • Édouard Baumann, French footballer (b. 1895)
  • Seiji Miyaguchi, Japanese actor (b. 1913)
  • Vicenç Sasot, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1918)
• April 13
  • Kit Klein, American speed skater (b. 1910)
  • Oscar Nemon, Croatian sculptor (b. 1906)
  • Willard Schmidt, American basketball player (b. 1910)
• April 14 – Kate Roberts, Welsh author (b. 1891)
• April 15
  • Zarifa Aliyeva, Azerbaijani ophthalmologist and academic (b. 1923)
  • Július Jakoby, Slovakian painter (b. 1903)
  • Jack Medica, American swimmer (b. 1914)
  • Inés Rodena, Cuban screenwriter (b. 1905)
• April 16
  • Tadeusz Bartosik, Polish actor (b. 1925)
  • Scott Brady, American actor (b. 1924)
• April 17 – Basil Bunting, English poet (b. 1900)
• April 18 – Gertrude Caton Thompson, English archaeologist (b. 1888)
• April 19
  • Pavel Batov, Russian general (b. 1897)
  • Willie Mabon, American singer and pianist (b. 1925)
  • Sergei Tokarev, Russian scholar and ethnographer (b. 1899)
• April 20 – Rudolf Gnägi, Swiss politician (b. 1917)
• April 21
  • Astrid Hjertenæs Andersen, Norwegian poet and author (b. 1915)
  • Rudi Gernreich, Austrian-American fashion designer (b. 1922)
  • Jaroslav Košnar, Slovakian footballer (b. 1930)
  • Irving Mills, American publisher and musician (b. 1894)
  • Tancredo Neves, Brazilian politician, Prime Minister of Brazil (b. 1910)
  • John Welsh, Irish actor (b. 1914)
• April 22
  • Paul Hugh Emmett, American chemist (b. 1900)
  • Jacques Ferron, Canadian physician and author (b. 1921)
  • A. C. Gimson, English phonetician (b. 1917)
  • Yelena Lyubimova, Russian geologist (b. 1925)
• April 23
  • Jack Bryan, English cricketer (b. 1896)
  • Sam Ervin, American politician (b. 1896)
  • Sarah T. Hughes, American judge (b. 1896)
  • Kent Smith, American actor (b. 1907)
  • Asbjørn Sunde, Norwegian politician (b. 1909)
  • Sergei Yutkevich, Russian film director and screenwriter (b. 1904)
• April 24 – Yitzhak Kahan, Israeli judge (b. 1913)
• April 25
  • Richard Haydn, English-American actor (b. 1905)
  • Viktor Kupradze, Georgian mathematician (b. 1903)
  • Uku Masing, Estonian philosopher (b. 1909)
  • Erich Schumann, German physicist (b. 1898)
  • Francis Parker Shepard, American sedimentologist (b. 1897)
• April 26
  • Aurora Reyes Flores, Mexican artist and author (b. 1908)
  • Albert Maltz, American playwright and screenwriter (b. 1908)
  • Albert Mongita, Congolese actor and playwright (b. 1916)
• April 27 – Wilhelm Abel, German economist (b. 1904)
• April 28
  • Paul Rosenstein-Rodan, Polish-English economist (b. 1902)
  • Zhang Tianyi, Chinese author (b. 1906)
• April 29 – Carmen da Silva, Brazilian psychoanalyst and journalist (b. 1919)
• April 30
  • Iraj Eskandari, Iranian politician (b. 1907)
  • Franco Ressel, Italian actor (b. 1925)
  • Mike Sangster, English tennis player (b. 1940)
  • Hans Speth, German general (b. 1897)
  • Scot Symon, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1911)
  • Jules White, American film director and producer (b. 1900)

May 1985

• May 1 – Denise Robins, English author (b. 1897)
• May 2
  • Attilio Bettega, Italian racing driver (b. 1953)
  • Larry Clinton, American trumpeter and bandleader (b. 1909)
  • Väinö Suvivuo, Finnish hurdler (b. 1917)
• May 3
  • Alexander Aksinin, Ukrainian artist (b. 1949)
  • Cythna Letty, South African painter (b. 1895)
  • Stasys Raštikis, Lithuanian general (b. 1896)
  • [[Percy Spender, Australian politician and judge (b. 1897)
• May 4
  • Jan Appel, German revolutionary (b. 1890)
  • Horatio Fitch, American sprinter (b. 1900)
• May 5
  • Donald Bailey, English engineer (b. 1901)
  • Carter Brown, English-Australian author (b. 1923)
  • Piet van Kempen, Dutch cyclist (b. 1898)
  • Helene Rosson, American actress (b. 1897)
  • Angela Vode, Slovenian author and activist (b. 1892)
• May 6
  • Pete Desjardins, American diver (b. 1907)
  • Harry Snell, Swedish cyclist (b. 1916)
  • Julie Vega, Filipino actress and singer (b. 1968)
• May 7
  • Dawn Addams, English actress (b. 1930)
  • Adam Bahdaj, Polish translator and author (b. 1918)
  • Luis Arenal Bastar, Mexican painter and sculptor (b. 1908)
  • Carlos Mota Pinto, Portuguese politician, Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1936)
• May 8
  • Robert Halperin, American sailor and football player (b. 1908)
  • Karl Marx, German composer (b. 1897)
  • Susan Morrow, American actress (b. 1932)
  • Theodore Sturgeon, American author and screenwriter (b. 1918)
  • Dolph Sweet, American actor (b. 1920)
• May 9
  • Aksel Airo, Finnish lieutenant general (b. 1898)
  • Svea Norén, Swedish figure skater (b. 1895)
  • Edmond O'Brien, American actor (b. 1915)
  • Adriaan Paulen, Dutch athlete and resistance fighter (b. 1902)
• May 10
  • Tahar Ben Ammar, Tunisian politician, Prime Minister of Tunisia (b. 1889)
  • Toni Branca, Swiss racing driver (b. 1916)
  • Florizel von Reuter, American violinist and composer (b. 1890)
• May 11 – Chester Gould, American cartoonist (b. 1900)
• May 12
  • Jean Dubuffet, French painter and sculptor (b. 1901)
  • B. Vijayalakshmi, Indian physicist (b. 1952)
• May 13
  • Selma Diamond, American actress (b. 1920)
  • Revaz Dogonadze, Georgian scientist (b. 1931)
  • William Harvell, English cyclist (b. 1907)
  • Leatrice Joy, American actress (b. 1893)
  • Aleksandr Mikulin, Russian engineer (b. 1895)
  • Mildred Scheel, German physician (b. 1931)
• May 14
  • María Luisa Escobar, Venezuelan musicologist and pianist (b. 1903)
  • Charles Leonard Hamblin, Australian philosopher and logician (b. 1922)
  • Bahram Mansurov, Azerbaijani lute player (b. 1911)
  • Barbara Yung, Hong Kong actress (b. 1959)
  • Ladislav Ženíšek, Czech footballer and manager (b. 1904)
• May 15
  • Jackie Curtis, American actress and playwright (b. 1947)
  • Renato Olmi, Italian footballer (b. 1914)
  • Emerson Spencer, American sprinter (b. 1906)
• May 16
  • Hugh Burden, English actor and playwright (b. 1913)
  • Edgard De Caluwé, Belgian cyclist (b. 1913)
  • Margaret Hamilton, American actress (b. 1902)
  • Militsa Nechkina, Russian historian (b. 1901)
• May 17
  • Abe Burrows, American author and composer (b. 1910)
  • Evdokia Uralova, Belarusian politician (b. 1902)
• May 18
  • Harald Andersson, Swedish wrestler (b. 1907)
  • Hedley Bull, Australian economist (b. 1932)
  • Penn Nouth, Cambodian politician, Prime Minister of Cambodia (b. 1906)
  • Hilding Rosenberg, Swedish composer and conductor (b. 1892)
  • Hermann Schridde, German equestrian (b. 1937)
  • Franciszek Szymura, Polish boxer (b. 1912)
  • Erich Traub, German virologist (b. 1906)
  • Win Wilfong, American basketball player (b. 1933)
• May 19
  • Víctor Rodríguez Andrade, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1927)
  • Alfredo Mayo, Spanish actor (b. 1911)
  • Puchalapalli Sundarayya, Indian politician (b. 1913)
  • Tapio Wirkkala, Finnish sculptor (b. 1915)
• May 20 – Andrey Baklan, Russian pilot (b. 1917)
• May 21
  • Kurt Waitzmann, German actor (b. 1905)
  • Karl Weber, German politician (b. 1898)
• May 22
  • Aleksandr Babaev, Russian fighter pilot (b. 1923)
  • Alister Hardy, English biologist (b. 1896)
  • Karl-Adolf Hollidt, German war criminal (b. 1891)
  • Wolfgang Reitherman, German-American animator and film director (b. 1909)
  • Gábor Vaszary, Hungarian author and screenwriter (b. 1897)
• May 23
• May 24
  • Joe Darensbourg, American clarinetist and saxophonist (b. 1906)
  • Michel Écochard, French architect (b. 1905)
  • Natalio Perinetti, Argentine footballer (b. 1900)
• May 25 – Robert Nathan, American author and poet (b. 1894)
• May 26
  • Harold Hecht, American film producer and choreographer (b. 1907)
  • Hendrika van Rumt, Dutch gymnast (b. 1897)
• May 27
  • Kai Lindberg, Danish politician (b. 1899)
  • Archie Stark, Scottish-American footballer (b. 1897)
• May 28
  • George Devereux, Hungarian-French ethnologist and psychoanalyst (b. 1908)
  • Juan Alberto Estrada, Argentine footballer (b. 1912)
  • Mamed Iskenderov, Azerbaijani politician (b. 1915)
  • Loren L. Ryder, American sound engineer (b. 1900)
  • Șerban Țițeica, Romanian physicist (b. 1908)
• May 29 – Gunnar Nielsen, Danish runner (b. 1928)
• May 30
  • Olga Anstei, Ukrainian poet (b. 1912)
  • George K. Arthur, Scottish-American actor and film producer (b. 1899)
  • Gustav Jaenecke, German ice hockey player (b. 1908)
  • Talbot Jennings, American playwright and screenwriter (b. 1894)
• May 31
  • Gaston Rébuffat, French mountaineer (b. 1921)
  • Louis Robert, French historian (b. 1904)
  • Rein de Waal, Dutch field hockey player (b. 1904)

June 1985

• June 1
  • Richard Greene, English actor (b. 1918)
  • Maria Knebel, Russian actress (b. 1898)
  • Edgar Schmued, German-American engineer (b. 1899)
  • Anita Sharp-Bolster, Irish-American actress (b. 1895)
• June 2 – George Brown, English politician (b. 1914)
• June 3
  • Edmond Beauchamp, French actor (b. 1900)
  • Tjeerd Boersma, Dutch sprinter (b. 1915)
  • Wawrzyniec Staliński, Polish footballer (b. 1899)
  • Sean Sullivan, Canadian actor (b. 1921)
• June 4
  • Kaisyn Kuliev, Russian poet (b. 1917)
  • Gilbert Lely, French poet (b. 1904)
• June 5
  • Puttanna Kanagal, Indian film director (b. 1933)
  • Johanna Wolf, German secretary (b. 1900)
• June 6
  • Willy Bocklant, Belgian cyclist (b. 1941)
  • Vladimir Jankélévitch, Polish philosopher and musicologist (b. 1903)
  • Norman W. Walker, English businessman (b. 1886)
• June 7 – Rudolf Burkert, Czech skier (b. 1904)
• June 8
  • Hu Feng, Chinese author and poet (b. 1902)
  • Afet İnan, Turkish historian and sociologist (b. 1908)
  • Fritz Keller, German-French footballer (b. 1913)
  • Charles LeMaire, American costume designer (b. 1897)
  • José María Zabalza, Spanish screenwriter and film director (b. 1928)
• June 9
  • Matsutarō Kawaguchi, Japanese author and screenwriter (b. 1899)
  • Ronnie Rooke, English footballer (b. 1911)
  • Marion Vanderhoef, American tennis player (b. 1894)
• June 10
  • George Chandler, American actor (b. 1898)
  • Gurli Ewerlund, Swedish swimmer (b. 1902)
• June 11
  • Karen Ann Quinlan, American medical figure (b. 1954)
  • Pedro Regueiro, Spanish footballer (b. 1909)
  • Raymond Robinson, American urban legend (b. 1910)
• June 12
  • Dino Barsotti, Italian rower (b. 1903)
  • Anasuya Devī, Indian guru (b. 1923)
  • Alexander Ferdinand Feodor, German prince (b. 1912)
  • Dominique Laffin, French actress (b. 1952)
  • Hua Luogeng, Chinese mathematician and politician (b. 1910)
  • Marcela Paz, Chilean author (b. 1902)
  • Helmuth Plessner, German philosopher and sociologist (b. 1892)
  • Pierre Tal-Coat, French painter (b. 1905)
• June 13 – Vasily Arkhipov, Russian colonel general (b. 1906)
• June 14
  • Eric Bols, English major general (b. 1904)
  • Irene Delroy, American actress (b. 1900)
• June 15
  • Percy Fender, English cricketer (b. 1892)
  • Adolf Gasser, Swiss historian (b. 1903)
  • Len Hopwood, English cricketer (b. 1903)
  • Andy Stanfield, American sprinter (b. 1927)
• June 16
  • Yoʻldosh Aʼzamov, Uzbekistani film director and actor (b. 1909)
  • John Y. Brown Sr., American politician (b. 1900)
  • Harry Oliver, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1898)
  • Ernst Orvil, Norwegian author and poet (b. 1898)
• June 17
  • Georgia Hale, American actress (b. 1900)
  • Tai Kato, Japanese film director and screenwriter (b. 1916)
  • Kirill Moskalenko, Russian army marshal (b. 1902)
  • Masaharu Taniguchi, Japanese religious leader and philosopher (b. 1893)
• June 18 – Paul Colin, French artist (b. 1892)
• June 19
  • Ilka Gedő, Hungarian painter (b. 1921)
  • Maya Kristalinskaya, Russian singer (b. 1932)
  • Bonnie Nettles, American cult leader (b. 1927)
• June 20
  • John Kirakosyan, Armenian politician (b. 1929)
  • Xuân Thủy, Vietnamese politician (b. 1912)
  • Dragomir Tošić, Croatian footballer (b. 1909)
• June 21
  • Tage Erlander, Swedish politician, Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1901)
  • Hermann Haller, Swiss film editor (b. 1909)
• June 22
  • Patricia Ward Hales, English tennis player (b. 1929)
  • Seniha Nafız Hızal, Turkish politician (b. 1897)
• June 23 – Leonid Rumyantsev, Russian footballer (b. 1916)
• June 24 – Valentine Dyall, English actor (b. 1908)
• June 25 – Pee Wee Crayton, American guitarist and singer (b. 1914)
• June 26 – Anastasia Abramova, Russian ballerina (b. 1902)
• June 27
  • James Craig, American actor (b. 1912)
  • Yona Kesse, Israeli politician (b. 1907)
  • Élias Sarkis, Lebanese politician, President of Lebanon (b. 1924)
  • Kovkab Safaraliyeva, Azerbaijani pianist (b. 1907)
• June 28
  • Álvaro Murillo, Costa Rican footballer (b. 1930)
  • Lynd Ward, American artist (b. 1905)
• June 29
  • Jaroslav Dietl, Czech screenwriter and playwright (b. 1929)
  • Andrzej Kijowski, Polish critic and author (b. 1928)
• June 30
  • Max-Josef Pemsel, German lieutenant general (b. 1897)
  • Haruo Remeliik, Palauan politician, President of Palau (b. 1933)

July 1985

• July 1
  • Jean Van Den Bosch, Belgian cyclist (b. 1898)
  • Armando Diena, Italian footballer (b. 1914)
  • Pauli Murray, American activist and priest (b. 1910)
• July 2 – David Purley, English racing driver (b. 1945)
• July 3
  • Erik Ågren, Swedish boxer (b. 1916)
  • Nelson Leigh, American actor (b. 1905)
  • Friedrich Ruge, German vice admiral (b. 1894)
  • Frank J. Selke, Canadian ice hockey executive (b. 1893)
  • Roger Seydoux, French academic and diplomat (b. 1908)
  • Cooney Weiland, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1904)
• July 4
  • Willem Visser 't Hooft, Dutch theologian (b. 1900)
  • Jan de Quay, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1901)
  • Lotte Strauss, German-American pathologist (b. 1913)
• July 5
  • Marion Byron, American comedian and actress (b. 1911)
  • Margery C. Carlson, American botanist (b. 1892)
  • Paulino Uzcudun, Spanish boxer (b. 1899)
• July 6
  • Andrew Fluegelman, American publisher and photographer (b. 1943)
  • Nikolai Yegipko, Russian vice admiral (b. 1903)
• July 7
  • György Harag, Romanian-Hungarian theatre director and actor (b. 1925)
  • Shōzō Sakurai, Japanese lieutenant general (b. 1889)
• July 8
  • Wim Addicks, Dutch politician (b. 1896)
  • Jean-Paul Le Chanois, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1909)
  • Simon Kuznets, Russian-American economist and statistician (b. 1901)
  • Victor Rendina, American actor (b. 1916)
  • Diarra Traoré, Guinean politician, Prime Minister of Guinea (b. 1935)
• July 9
  • Rafael Campos, Dominican actor (b. 1936)
  • Milo Cipra, Croatian composer (b. 1906)
  • Pierre-Paul Grassé, French zoologist (b. 1895)
  • Arne Odd Johnsen, Norwegian historian (b. 1909)
  • Kārlis Lobe, Latvian colonel (b. 1895)
  • Margaret Molesworth, Australian tennis player (b. 1894)
  • Charlotte Wilhelmine, Luxembourgian royal (b. 1896)
• July 10
  • Kai Holm, Danish actor (b. 1896)
  • Hilgard Muller, South African politician (b. 1914)
  • Fernando Pereira, Portuguese-Dutch photographer (b. 1950)
  • Zenon Stefaniuk, Polish boxer (b. 1930)
• July 11
  • George Duvivier, American double bassist (b. 1920)
  • Timoteus Pokora, Czech sinologist (b. 1928)
  • Georges Verriest, French footballer (b. 1909)
• July 12
• July 13
  • Charles K. Bliss, Ukrainian-Australian engineer semiotician (b. 1897)
  • Claudio Cassinelli, Italian actor (b. 1938)
• July 14
• July 15
  • Diego Giacometti, Swiss sculptor (b. 1902)
  • Giovanni Moscardini, Scottish footballer (b. 1897)
  • Federico Norcia, Italian chess player (b. 1904)
  • M. Blaine Peterson, American politician (b. 1906)
• July 16
  • Heinrich Böll, German author (b. 1917)
  • Robert Siohan, French conductor and composer (b. 1894)
• July 17
  • Philippe de Chérisey, French author and actor (b. 1923)
  • Susanne Langer, American philosopher and author (b. 1895)
  • Czesław Marek, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1891)
  • Margo O'Donnell, Mexican-American actress (b. 1917)
  • Wynn Stewart, American singer (b. 1934)
• July 18
  • Shahnawaz Bhutto, Pakistani activist (b. 1958)
  • Louisa Ghijs, Belgian actress (b. 1902)
  • Isabel Alfonsa Rafaela, Spanish princess (b. 1904)
  • Vicente Saldivar, Mexican boxer (b. 1943)
• July 19
  • Ewen Montagu, English intelligence officer and judge (b. 1901)
  • Sjumandjaja, Indonesian actor (b. 1933)
  • Janusz Zajdel, Polish author (b. 1938)
• July 20
  • Leo Alexander, American psychiatrist and neurologist (b. 1905)
  • Bruno de Finetti, Italian statistician (b. 1906)
  • Peter Glob, Danish archaeologist (b. 1911)
• July 21
  • Alvah Bessie, American author (b. 1904)
  • Aristid von Grosse, German chemist (b. 1905)
  • Erich Koschik, German canoeist (b. 1913)
  • Zoran Radmilović, Serbian actor (b. 1933)
  • Ulla-Britt Söderlund, Swedish costume designer (b. 1943)
• July 22
  • Ramadevi Choudhury, Indian freedom fighter (b. 1899)
  • Matti Järvinen, Finnish javelin thrower (b. 1909)
  • Jaap Spaanderman, Danish pianist and cellist (b. 1896)
• July 23
  • Kay Kyser, American bandleader (b. 1905)
  • Mickey Shaughnessy, American actor and comedian (b. 1920)
  • Johnny Wardle, English cricketer (b. 1923)
• July 24
  • José Bódalo, Argentine-Spanish actor (b. 1916)
  • Carmen Viance, Spanish actress (b. 1905)
• July 25
  • Božo Broketa, Croatian footballer (b. 1922)
  • Hamlet Gonashvili, Georgian singer (b. 1928)
  • Stephen Knight, English author (b. 1951)
• July 26
  • Fredy Perlman, Czech-American author and activist (b. 1934)
  • Walter Richter, German actor (b. 1905)
• July 27
  • Shigeru Amachi, Japanese actor (b. 1931)
  • Michel Audiard, French screenwriter and film director (b. 1920)
  • Adelheid Kofler, Austrian inventor and mineralogist (b. 1889)
  • Smoky Joe Wood, American baseball player (b. 1889)
• July 28 – Grant Williams, American actor (b. 1931)
• July 29
• July 30
  • Julia Robinson, American mathematician (b. 1919)
  • Robert Sénéchal, French racing driver and entrepreneur (b. 1892)
• July 31
  • Eugene Carson Blake, American religious leader and activist (b. 1906)
  • Germaine Krull, German photographer and activist (b. 1897)

August 1985

• August 1
  • Sandy Bell, South African tennis player (b. 1906)
  • Alois Carigiet, Swiss artist (b. 1902)
  • Helene Engelmann, Austrian skater (b. 1898)
  • Manuel Meana, Spanish footballer (b. 1901)
  • Jules Moch, French politician (b. 1893)
  • Victoria Mxenge, South African activist (b. 1942)
  • Al Overton, American sound engineer (b. 1912)
  • Fernando Previtali, Italian conductor (b. 1907)
  • Joseph Walker, American cinematographer (b. 1892)
  • Sam Wooding, American pianist and bandleader (b. 1895)
• August 2
  • Philip Don Estridge, American computer scientist (b. 1937)
  • Frank Faylen, American actor (b. 1905)
  • Bob Holt, American actor (b. 1928)
• August 3 – George Dempsey, Australian cyclist (b. 1905)
• August 4
  • Adolph Braeckeveldt, Belgian cyclist (b. 1912)
  • Ivan Radoev, Bulgarian footballer (b. 1901)
• August 5
  • Olav Kielland, Norwegian composer and conductor (b. 1901)
  • Hans Ziegler, Swiss physicist (b. 1910)
• August 6
  • Krystyna Ankwicz, Polish actress (b. 1907)
  • Forbes Burnham, Guyanese politician, President and Prime Minister of Guyana (b. 1923)
  • Ninni Cassarà, Italian police officer (b. 1947)
  • Karl Diebitsch, German nazi officer and artist (b. 1899)
  • John Harmon, American actor (b. 1905)
  • Ramón Ernesto Cruz Uclés, Honduran politician, President of Honduras (b. 1903)
• August 7
  • Pavao Anđelić, Bosnian lawyer and archaeologist (b. 1920)
  • Alan Fitch, English politician (b. 1915)
  • Grayson Hall, American actress (b. 1922)
  • Juan Nelson, Argentine polo player (b. 1891)
  • Gábor Szegő, Hungarian-American mathematician (b. 1895)
• August 8
  • Louise Brooks, American actress (b. 1906)
  • Roddie Edmonds, American master sergeant (b. 1919)
  • Milton H. Greene, American photographer (b. 1922)
  • Leo Weisgerber, German linguist (b. 1899)
• August 9 – Fred Åkerström, Swedish guitarist and singer (b. 1937)
• August 10
  • Kenny Baker, American actor and singer (b. 1912)
  • Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky, Ukrainian-Israeli rabbi and scholar (b. 1899)
  • Isabella Riva, Italian actress (b. 1887)
• August 11
  • Kurt Bühligen, German fighter pilot (b. 1917)
  • Manuel Conde, Filipino film director and actor (b. 1915)
  • János Drapál, Hungarian motorcycle racer (b. 1948)
• August 12
  • Billy Devore, American racing driver (b. 1910)
  • Folke Fridell, Swedish author (b. 1904)
  • Alfons Luczny, German general (b. 1894)
  • Marcel Mihalovici, Romanian-French composer (b. 1898)
  • Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer and actor (b. 1941)
  • Manfred Winkelhock, German racing driver (b. 1951)
• August 13
  • Slobodan Aligrudić, Serbian actor (b. 1934)
  • Josef Fath, German footballer (b. 1911)
  • J. Willard Marriott, American businessman (b. 1900)
  • Marion Martin, American actress (b. 1909)
  • Shiva Naipaul, Trinidadian-English author and journalist (b. 1945)
  • Åse Gruda Skard, Norwegian psychologist and author (b. 1905)
• August 14
  • Marie Bell, French actress (b. 1900)
  • Nazlı Ecevit, Turkish educator and painter (b. 1900)
  • Alfred Hayes, English-American screenwriter and author (b. 1911)
  • Gale Sondergaard, American actress (b. 1899)
• August 15 – Lester Cole, American screenwriter (b. 1904)
• August 16
  • Mario Majoni, Italian water polo player (b, 1910)
  • Géza Toldi, Hungarian footballer (b. 1909)
• August 17 – Nicholas Eden, English politician (b. 1930)
• August 18
  • Edward Johnston Alexander, American botanist (b. 1901)
  • Josip Primožič, Slovenian gymnast (b. 1900)
• August 19 – Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw, English botanist (b. 1902)
• August 20
  • Donald O. Hebb, Canadian psychologist (b. 1904)
  • Kenneth Kennedy, Australian-English speed skater (b. 1913)
• August 21
  • David Olère, Polish-French painter and sculptor (b. 1902)
  • Gheorghe Pintilie, Russian-Romanian intelligence officer and assassin (b. 1902)
• August 22
  • Paul Peter Ewald, German crystallographer and physicist (b. 1888)
  • Charles Gibson, American ethnohistorian (b. 1920)
  • Aleksandra Khokhlova, German-Russian actress (b. 1897)
  • Turgut Uyar, Turkish poet (b. 1927)
• August 23 – Luís Matoso, Brazilian footballer (b. 1901)
• August 24
  • Paul Creston, American composer (b. 1906)
  • Morrie Ryskind, American playwright and activist (b. 1895)
• August 25
  • Ellis E. Patterson, American politician (b. 1897)
  • Samantha Smith, American activist and actress (b. 1972)
  • Jee Yong-ju, South Korean boxer (b. 1948)
• August 26
  • Åke Fridell, Swedish actor (b. 1919)
  • Leopoldo Querol, Spanish pianist (b. 1899)
• August 27
  • John Albrechtson, Swedish sailor (b. 1936)
  • François Neuens, Luxembourgian cyclist (b. 1912)
  • Emile Touma, Palestinian-Israeli historian and journalist (b. 1919)
• August 28
  • Ruth Gordon, American actress (b. 1896)
  • Miguel Otero Silva, Venezuelan author and journalist (b. 1908)
• August 29
  • Alexander Abramsky, Russian composer (b. 1898)
  • Evelyn Ankers, American actress (b. 1918)
  • George Bagby, American author (b. 1906)
  • Lise Børsum, Norwegian resistance fighter (b. 1908)
  • Leo Freisinger, American speed skater (b. 1916)
  • Michel Pécheux, French fencer (b. 1911)
• August 30
  • Taylor Caldwell, English-American author (b. 1900)
  • Philly Joe Jones, American drummer (b. 1923)
  • Tatiana Proskouriakoff, Russian-American scholar and archaeologist (b. 1909)
  • Erwin Righter, American athlete (b. 1897)
• August 31
  • Macfarlane Burnet, Australian virologist (b. 1899)
  • Boris Kovzan, Russian fighter pilot (b. 1922)

September 1985

• September 1
  • Stefan Bellof, German racing driver (b. 1957)
  • Muhammad Zafarullah Khan, Pakistani diplomat and politician (b. 1893)
  • Saunders Lewis, English-Welsh politician and poet (b. 1893)
• September 2
  • Anna Banti, Italian author and historian (b. 1895)
  • Eveline M. Burns, American economist and author (b. 1900)
  • Gonzalo Güell, Cuban politician, Prime Minister of Cuba (b. 1895)
  • Bob Kinney, American basketball player (b. 1920)
  • Abe Lenstra, Dutch footballer (b. 1920)
  • Alex Stevenson, Irish footballer (b. 1912)
• September 3
  • Jo Jones, American drummer (b. 1911)
  • Dragan Mance, Serbian footballer (b. 1962)
  • Johnny Marks, American songwriter (b. 1909)
  • Gilles Thomas, French author (b. 1929)
• September 4
  • Isabel Jeans, English actress (b. 1891)
  • Lidija Liepiņa, Latvian chemist (b. 1891)
  • George O'Brien, American actor (b. 1899)
  • [[Vasyl Stus, Ukrainian poet and translator (b. 1938)
• September 5
  • Tibor Czorba, Hungarian painter (b. 1906)
  • Gerald Dreyer, South African boxer (b. 1929)
  • Philip M. Morse, American physicist (b. 1903)
  • Jiřina Štěpničková, Czech actress (b. 1912)
• September 6
  • Jane Frazee, American actress (b. 1915)
  • Heydar Ghiai, Iranian architect (b. 1922)
  • Shi Liang, Chinese politician and activist (b. 1900)
  • Little Brother Montgomery, American pianist and composer (b. 1906)
  • Léon Orthel, Dutch composer and pianist (b. 1905)
  • Rodney Robert Porter, English biochemist (b. 1917)
• September 7
  • Franco Ferrara, Italian conductor (b. 1911)
  • George Pólya, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1887)
  • Finn Seemann, Norwegian footballer (b. 1944)
  • Doris Svedlund, Swedish actress (b. 1926)
• September 8
  • John Franklin Enders, American virologist (b. 1897)
  • Ana Mendieta, Cuban-American artist (b. 1948)
• September 9
  • Neil Davis, American photojournalist (b. 1934)
  • Paul Flory, American chemist (b. 1910)
  • Jacinto Esteva Grewe, Spanish film director (b. 1936)
  • Luis Padilla Nervo, Mexican politician and diplomat (b. 1894)
  • Antonino Votto, Italian conductor (b. 1896)
• September 10
  • Ettore Maria Fizzarotti, Italian film director and screenwriter (b. 1916)
  • Ebbie Goodfellow, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1907)
  • Bonifaty Kedrov, Russian philosopher and logician (b. 1903)
  • Alexa Kenin, American actress (b. 1962)
  • Werner Meyer, Swiss handball player (b. 1914)
  • Ernst Öpik, Estonian astronomer (b. 1893)
  • Jock Stein, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1922)
• September 11
  • William Alwyn, English composer and conductor (b. 1905)
  • Eleanor Dark, Australian author (b. 1901)
  • Ion Frunzetti, Romanian critic and historian (b. 1918)
  • Emmy Klieneberger-Nobel, German microbiologist (b. 1892)
  • Masako Natsume, Japanese actress (b. 1957)
• September 12
  • Maurice Anthony Biot, Belgian-American physicist (b. 1905)
  • Galina Dzhunkovskaya, Russian major (b. 1922)
• September 13
  • E. L. M. Burns, Canadian lieutenant general and diplomat (b. 1897)
  • Odhise Paskali, Albanian sculptor (b. 1903)
  • Augusto Rademaker, Brazilian admiral and politician (b. 1905)
  • Dane Rudhyar, American author and composer (b. 1895)
  • Hugo Spadafora, Panamanian politician and guerilla (b. 1940)
  • Benno Sterzenbach, German actor (b. 1916)
• September 14
  • Julian Beck, American actor (b. 1925)
  • John Holt, American author (b. 1923)
  • Joselito Rodríguez, Mexican screenwriter and film director (b. 1907)
• September 15
  • Wolfgang Abendroth, German judge and political scientist (b. 1906)
  • Cootie Williams, American trumpeter (b. 1911)
  • Alexei Yepishev, Russian politician and diplomat (b. 1908)
• September 16 – Dezső Zádor, Ukrainian pianist and conductor (b. 1912)
• September 17
  • Laura Ashley, Welsh fashion designer (b. 1925)
  • Carmen Barth, American boxer (b. 1912)
• September 18
  • Monroe Beardsley, American philosopher (b. 1915)
  • Gerald Holtom, English artist (b. 1914)
  • Don Otten, American basketball player (b. 1921)
• September 19
  • Italo Calvino, Cuban-Italian author and journalist (b. 1923)
  • Emila Medková, Czech photographer (b. 1928)
• September 20
  • Karl Angerstein, German general (b. 1890)
  • Taizo Kawamoto, Japanese footballer and manager (b. 1914)
  • Ernest Nagel, American philosopher (b. 1901)
  • Ruhi Su, Turkish singer (b. 1912)
• September 21 – Gu Long, Hong Kong-Taiwanese author and screenwriter (b. 1938)
• September 22
  • Endre Nemes, Hungarian-Swedish artist (b. 1909)
  • D. J. Opperman, South African poet (b. 1914)
  • Philippe Pottier, Swiss footballer (b. 1938)
  • Axel Springer, German publisher (b. 1912)
  • Geneviève Tabouis, French historian and journalist (b. 1892)
• September 23
  • Stefan Dembicki, French footballer (b. 1913)
  • Larry Shue, American playwright and actor (b. 1946)
  • Giancarlo Siani, Italian journalist (b. 1959)
  • Mickey Simpson, American actor (b. 1913)
• September 24
  • Cor Kools, Dutch footballer and manager (b. 1907)
  • Ron Lewin, English footballer (b. 1920)
  • Paul Mann, Canadian actor (b. 1913)
  • Antonio Poma, Italian cardinal (b. 1910)
• September 25
  • Zofia Jaroszewska, Polish actress (b. 1902)
  • Oleksandr Perviy, Ukrainian weightlifter (b. 1960)
  • William Cumming Rose, American biochemist and nutritionist (b. 1887)
• September 26
  • John Patrick Micklethwait Brenan, English botanist (b. 1917)
  • Anton Janda, Austrian footballer (b. 1904)
  • Yona Wallach, Israeli poet (b. 1944)
• September 27
  • Nikolai Gulayev, Russian pilot (b. 1918)
  • Lloyd Nolan, American actor (b. 1902)
  • Ryūtarō Ōtomo, Japanese actor (b. 1912)
• September 28
  • L. B. Abbott, American special effects artist (b. 1908)
  • Ellen Isefiær, Norwegian actress (b. 1899)
  • André Kertész, Hungarian-American photographer (b. 1894)
  • Gohar Mamajiwala, Indian singer and actress (b. 1910)
  • Zaki Osman, Egyptian footballer (b. 1898)
• September 29
  • Charles K. Fletcher, American banker and politician (b. 1902)
  • Joan Fry, English tennis player (b. 1906)
  • Arthur Krams, American set designer (b. 1912)
  • Benjamin Markarian, Armenian astrophysicist (b. 1913)
• September 30
  • Herbert Bayer, Austrian-American architect and artist (b. 1900)
  • Paul Berlenbach, American boxer (b. 1901)
  • Floyd Crosby, American cinematographer (b. 1899)
  • Bill Fiedler, American soccer player (b. 1910)
  • Helen MacInnes, Scottish-American author (b. 1907)
  • Charles Francis Richter, American seismologist and physicist (b. 1900)
  • Robert Shtilmark, Russian author and journalist (b. 1909)
  • Simone Signoret, French actress (b. 1921)

October 1985

• October 1
  • Vladimir Bron, Ukrainian chess player (b. 1909)
  • Charlotte Posenenske, German artist (b. 1930)
  • Ninian Sanderson, Scottish racing driver (b. 1925)
  • Emil Vogel, German general (b. 1894)
  • E. B. White, American author (b. 1899)
• October 2
  • Rock Hudson, American actor (b. 1925)
  • Eric Jones, English footballer (b. 1915)
  • Margaret Mahler, Hungarian-American psychiatrist (b. 1897)
  • Salomón Ibarra Mayorga, Nicaraguan poet and songwriter (b. 1887)
  • Alex Möller, German politician (b. 1903)
  • George Savalas, American actor (b. 1924)
• October 3
• October 4
  • Fred Foster, American basketball player (b. 1946)
  • Jozef Herda, Czech wrestler (b. 1910)
  • Euxdoxia Maria, Bulgarian princess (b. 1898)
  • Gleb Strizhenov, Russian actor (b. 1925)
• October 5
  • Harald Cramér, Swedish mathematician and statistician (b. 1893)
  • Joachim Helbig, German pilot (b. 1915)
  • Serge Jaroff, Russian-American conductor and composer (b. 1896)
  • Karl Menger, Austrian-American mathematician (b. 1902)
  • Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim, German-American theoretical physicist (b. 1899)
  • Abdus Sattar, Bangladeshi politician, President of Bangladesh (b. 1906)
• October 6
  • Enrique Fernández, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1912)
  • Lola Gjoka, Albanian pianist (b. 1910)
  • Nelson Riddle, American composer and bandleader (b. 1921)
  • Karl Zischek, Austrian footballer (b. 1910)
• October 7
  • Wolfgang Kieling, German actor (b. 1924)
  • Cemal Reşit Rey, Turkish composer (b. 1904)
• October 8
  • Riccardo Bacchelli, Italian author (b. 1891)
  • Theresa Harris, American actress (b. 1908)
  • Leon Klinghoffer, American businessman (b. 1916)
  • Marta Lynch, Argentine author (b. 1925)
  • August Mortelmans, Belgian cyclist (b. 1901)
  • Giorgio Santelli, Italian fencer (b. 1897)
  • John Wesley Snyder, American politician (b. 1895)
  • Gordon Welchman, English mathematician (b. 1906)
• October 9
  • Karel De Baere, Belgian cyclist (b. 1925)
  • Ludo Coeck, Belgian footballer (b. 1955)
  • Emílio Garrastazu Médici, Brazilian politician, President of Brazil (b. 1905)
• October 10
  • Suvadhana Abhayavongsa, Thai princess (b. 1906)
  • Yul Brynner, Russian-American actor (b. 1920)
  • Bettina Ehrlich, Austrian painter (b. 1903)
  • Margaret Michaelis-Sachs, Austrian-Australian photographer (b. 1902)
  • Orson Welles, American actor and film director (b. 1915)
• October 11
  • Alex La Guma, South African activist and author (b. 1924)
  • Jussi Jalas, Finnish conductor and composer (b. 1908)
  • Tex Williams, American musician (b. 1917)
• October 12
  • Sergei Osipov, Russian painter (b. 1915)
  • Ricky Wilson, American guitarist (b. 1953)
• October 13
  • Herb Aach, German-American painter and author (b. 1923)
  • Francesca Bertini, Italian actress (b. 1892)
  • Tage Danielsson, Swedish author and actor (b. 1928)
  • Duke Dinsmore, American racing driver (b. 1913)
  • Herbert Nebe, German cyclist (b. 1899)
  • Moshe Rachmilewitz, Israeli physician (b. 1898)
• October 14
  • Emil Gilels, Russian pianist (b. 1916)
  • Paul B. Johnson Jr., American politician (b. 1916)
  • Ludwig Landen, German canoeist (b. 1908)
  • Pál Teleki, Polish footballer (b. 1906)
• October 15
  • Bruno Fattori, Italian poet (b. 1891)
  • Max Zaslofsky, American basketball player and coach (b. 1925)
• October 16 – Franklin Milton, American sound engineer (b. 1907)
• October 17
  • Simone Le Bargy, French actress (b. 1877)
  • Omero Bonoli, Italian gymnast (b. 1909)
  • Wiktor Kemula, Polish chemist (b. 1902)
  • Abdelmunim Rifai, Jordanian diplomat and politician, Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1917)
  • Joseph Rosenstock, Polish-American conductor (b. 1895)
• October 18
  • Stefan Askenase, Polish-Belgian pianist (b. 1896)
  • Philipp Gonzaga, Austrian prince (b. 1901)
  • Bryn Jones, Welsh footballer (b. 1912)
  • Jun Tazaki, Japanese actor (b. 1913)
• October 19
  • Jean-Roger Caussimon, French singer and actor (b. 1918)
  • Anton Christoforidis, Greek boxer (b. 1917)
• October 20
  • Knud Børge Overgaard, Danish footballer (b. 1918)
  • Kirio Urayama, Japanese film director and screenwriter (b. 1930)
• October 21
  • Jens Lambæk, Danish gymnast (b. 1899)
  • Diane Thomas, American screenwriter (b. 1946)
  • Dan White, American politician and assassin (b. 1946)
• October 22
  • Stefano Satta Flores, Italian actor (b. 1937)
  • Xu Shiyou, Chinese general (b. 1906)
  • Viorica Ursuleac, Romanian opera singer (b. 1894)
• October 23
  • Robert George, French ice hockey player (b. 1893)
  • Tadeusz Hołuj, Polish poet and author (b. 1916)
  • Mario Prassinos, French painter (b. 1916)
  • Martin Wierstra, Dutch cyclist (b. 1928)
• October 24
  • László Bíró, Hungarian-Argentine inventor (b. 1899)
  • Gábor Bódy, Hungarian film director and screenwriter (b. 1946)
  • Wilhelm Klemm, Polish chemist (b. 1896)
  • Masaichi Nagata, Japanese businessman and film producer (b. 1906)
  • Maurice Roy, Canadian cardinal (b. 1905)
• October 25
  • Morton Downey, American singer (b. 1901)
  • Felixberto Camacho Flores, American archbishop (b. 1921)
  • Ann Forrest, Danish-American actress (b. 1895)
  • Gary Holton, English singer and actor (b. 1952)
  • Blair Lee III, American politician (b. 1916)
  • Viktor Makeyev, Russian engineer (b. 1924)
  • Olier Mordrel, French nazi collaborator (b. 1901)
  • Ludwig Ott, German theologian and historian (b. 1906)
  • Hans Trauttenberg, Austrian ice hockey player (b. 1909)
  • Fritz Konrad Ernst Zumpt, German entomologist (b. 1908)
• October 26 – Kikuko Kawakami, Japanese poet (b. 1904)
• October 27
  • Thomas Townsend Brown, American inventor (b. 1905)
  • Andreas Gruentzig, German radiologist and cardiologist (b. 1939)
  • Tola Mankiewiczówna, Polish singer and actress (b. 1900)
  • Walter Segal, German-English architect (b. 1907)
  • Branko Špoljar, Croatian actor (b. 1914)
  • Kurt Vogel, German historian and mathematician (b. 1888)
  • Bernard Wolfe, American author (b. 1915)
• October 28
  • William McPherson Allen, American businessman (b. 1900)
  • William Bramley, American actor (b. 1928)
  • Elga Brink, German actress (b. 1905)
  • Eric Coy, English-Canadian discus thrower and shot putter (b. 1914)
  • Paul Edwin Roth, German actor (b. 1918)
  • Axel Thue, Norwegian actor (b. 1904)
  • John Travlos, Greek architect and historian (b. 1908)
  • Ángel Zubieta, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1918)
• October 29
  • Evgeny Lifshitz, Russian physicist (b. 1915)
  • John Davis Lodge, American actor and politician (b. 1903)
  • Lola Prusac, Polish-French fashion designer (b. 1895)
  • Alice Roberts, Belgian actress (b. 1906)
• October 30
  • Edgar Bruun, Norwegian racewalker (b. 1905)
  • Aimé Dossche, Belgian cyclist (b. 1902)
  • Kirby Grant, American actor (b. 1911)
  • Raul Hellberg, Finnish cyclist (b. 1900)
  • Nils Hjelmtveit, Norwegian politician (b. 1892)
• October 31
  • Nikos Engonopoulos, Greek painter and poet (b. 1907)
  • John H. Michaelis, American general (b. 1912)
  • Poul Reichhardt, Danish actor (b. 1913)

November 1985

• November 1
  • Vladimir Gorokhov, Russian footballer and manager (b. 1911)
  • Joe Hewitt, Australian vice marshal (b. 1901)
  • Lucien Michard, French cyclist (b. 1903)
  • Arnold Pihlak, Estonian footballer (b. 1902)
  • Phil Silvers, American actor (b. 1911)
• November 2 – Volodymyr Kubijovyč, Polish geographer (b. 1900)
• November 3
  • Robert W. Grow, American major general (b. 1895)
  • Phoumi Nosavan, Laotian military strongman (b. 1920)
  • J. M. Wallace-Hadrill, English academic and historian (b. 1916)
• November 4
  • Cus D'Amato, American boxing manager and trainer (b. 1908)
  • Rudolf Fernau, German actor (b. 1898)
  • Ferdinand Kramer, German architect (b. 1898)
  • Adonis A. Kyrou, Greek-French film director and author (b. 1923)
  • George S. Myers, American ichthyologist (b. 1905)
  • John Axel Nannfeldt, Swedish botanist and mycologist (b. 1904)
  • José María Oriol Urquijo, Spanish entrepreneur and politician (b. 1905)
• November 5
  • Arnold Chikobava, Georgian linguist and philologist (b. 1898)
  • Jean Théodore Delacour, French ornithologist (b. 1890)
  • Spencer W. Kimball, American businessman and religious leader (b. 1895)
• November 6
  • Hans Keller, Austrian-English musician (b. 1919)
  • Sanjeev Kumar, Indian actor (b. 1938)
• November 7
  • Josef Rufer, Austrian musicologist (b. 1893)
  • Alexander Thom, Scottish engineer and archaeologist (b. 1894)
  • Friedrich Traugott Wahlen, Swiss agronomist and politician (b. 1899)
• November 8
  • Lili Bleeker, Dutch entrepreneur and physicist (b. 1897)
  • Nicolas Frantz, Luxembourgian cyclist (b. 1899)
  • Tullio Grassi, Swiss footballer and manager (b. 1910)
  • Masten Gregory, American racing driver (b. 1932)
  • Jacques Hnizdovsky, Ukrainian-American painter (b. 1915)
  • Renato Mocellini, Italian bobsledder (b. 1929)
• November 9
  • John Conroy, English field hockey player (b. 1928)
  • Mary MacLaren, American actress (b. 1900)
  • Marie-Georges Pascal, French actress (b. 1946)
  • Helen Rose, American costume designer (b. 1904)
• November 10
  • Givi Javakhishvili, Georgian politician, Prime Minister of Georgia (b. 1912)
  • James Moroka, South African politician (b. 1891)
  • Olav Sunde, Norwegian javelin thrower (b. 1903)
  • Branislav Vukosavljević, Serbian footballer and manager (b. 1929)
  • Wu Yi-fang, Chinese academic (b. 1893)
• November 11
  • James Hanley, English author and playwright (b. 1897)
  • Pelle Lindbergh, Swedish ice hockey player (b. 1959)
  • Gerolamo Quaglia, Brazilian-Italian wrestler (b. 1902)
  • Arthur Rothstein, American photographer (b. 1915)
  • Leni Schmidt, German sprinter (b. 1906)
• November 12
  • Vasily Garbuzov, Russian economist and politician (b. 1911)
  • Hildebrand Gregori, Italian monk (b. 1894)
• November 13
  • William Pereira, American architect (b. 1909)
  • Alexander Pokryshkin, Russian fighter pilot (b. 1913)
• November 14
  • Dmitry Belyayev, Russian geneticist and academic (b. 1917)
  • Wellington Koo, Chinese diplomat and politician (b. 1888)
  • Emir Rodríguez Monegal, Uruguayan-American scholar and critic (b. 1921)
• November 15
  • Méret Oppenheim, German-Swiss painter (b. 1913)
  • Carlos Spadaro, Argentine footballer (b. 1902)
• November 16
  • Stuart Chase, American economist and author (b. 1888)
  • Walter Jupé, German actor and screenwriter (b. 1916)
  • Omayra Sánchez, Colombian photograph subject (b. 1972)
  • John Sparkman, American politician (b. 1899)
• November 17
  • Avgust Černigoj, Slovenian painter (b. 1898)
  • Karl Alfred Ignatius, Liechtenstein prince (b. 1910)
  • Lon Nol, Cambodian politician, Prime Minister of Cambodia (b. 1913)
  • Gheorghe Ursu, Romanian activist and poet (b. 1926)
• November 18
  • Osvaldo Lamborghini, Argentine author (b. 1940)
  • Michael Mooney, American sailor (b. 1930)
  • Yrjö Nikkanen, Finnish javelin thrower (b. 1914)
  • Dmitry Ryabyshev, Russian lieutenant general (b. 1894)
• November 19
  • Juan Arvizu, Mexican opera singer (b. 1900)
  • Robert Breiter, Swiss ice hockey player (b. 1909)
  • Stepin Fetchit, American comedian and actor (b. 1902)
  • Lall Singh, Indian cricketer (b. 1909)
• November 20
• November 21
  • Ramnath Kenny, Indian cricketer (b. 1930)
  • Kristian Kreković, Croatian painter (b. 1901)
  • Philaret Voznesensky, Russian hierarch (b. 1903)
• November 22
  • Gudolf Blakstad, Norwegian architect (b. 1893)
  • Owen Churchill, American sailor (b. 1896)
  • Epifanio Méndez Fleitas, Paraguayan poet and politician (b. 1917)
  • María Sabina, Mexican shaman and poet (b. 1894)
  • Norberto Yácono, Argentine footballer (b. 1919)
• November 23
  • Leonhard Kass, Estonian footballer (b. 1911)
  • Heinz Lorenz, German nazi press secretary (b. 1913)
  • Nina Quartero, American actress (b. 1908)
  • Gholam-Hossein Sa'edi, Iranian author (b. 1936)
• November 24
  • René Barjavel, French author and journalist (b. 1911)
  • C. Buddingh', Dutch poet and translator (b. 1918)
  • Maurice Podoloff, American lawyer and sports administrator (b. 1890)
  • George Raynor, English footballer (b. 1907)
  • Big Joe Turner, American singer (b. 1911)
• November 25
  • Walther Dahl, German fighter pilot (b. 1916)
  • Franz Hildebrandt, German pastor and theologian (b. 1909)
  • Elsa Morante, Italian author and poet (b. 1912)
• November 26
  • Sergei Gerasimov, Russian film director and screenwriter (b. 1906)
  • Pablo Serrano, Spanish sculptor (b. 1908)
  • Vivien Thomas, American physician and scientist (b. 1910)
• November 27
  • Fernand Braudel, French historian (b. 1902)
  • Harry Harvey Sr., American actor (b. 1901)
  • André Hunebelle, French glassmaker and film director (b. 1896)
  • Rendra Karno, Indonesian actor (b. 1920)
• November 28
  • Jirō Shirasu, Japanese politician (b. 1902)
  • Josef Smistik, Austrian footballer and manager (b. 1905)
• November 29
  • Eduards Andersons, Latvian basketball player (b. 1914)
  • Gaston Féry, French sprinter (b. 1900)
  • Claes Christian Olrog, Swedish-Argentine ornithologist (b. 1912)
  • Bill Scott, American voice actor (b. 1920)
• November 30
  • Marc Aryan, French-Belgian singer (b. 1926)
  • Vladimir Arzamaskov, Russian basketball player (b. 1951)
  • Djamil Suherman, Indonesian journalist and author (b. 1924)
  • Joseph Zaritsky, Israeli painter (b. 1891)

December 1985

• December 1
  • Kenshiro Abbe, Japanese martial artist (b. 1915)
  • Agustí Centelles, Spanish photographer (b. 1909)
  • Hector Chotteau, Belgian ice hockey player (b. 1898)
  • Dada Dharmadhikari, Indian freedom fighter (b. 1899)
  • M'hamed Issiakhem, Algerian painter (b. 1928)
  • Harry Morris, English footballer and manager (b. 1897)
• December 2
  • Aniello Dellacroce, American mobster (b. 1914)
  • Alexandru Frim, Romanian bobsledder (b. 1908)
  • Heinz Hoffmann, German politician (b. 1910)
  • Philip Larkin, English poet and author (b. 1922)
• December 3 – Oh Sangwon, South Korean author and journalist (b. 1930)
• December 4
  • Frederick Boland, Irish diplomat (b. 1904)
  • Roger Leenhardt, French author and film director (b. 1903)
  • Dina De Santis, Italian actress (b. 1932)
• December 5
  • Oreste Capuzzo, Italian gymnast (b. 1908)
  • Miguel Cuéllar, Colombian chess player (b. 1916)
  • Loris Fortuna, Italian politician (b. 1924)
  • Alexia González-Barros González]], Spanish religious figure (b. 1971)
• December 6
  • Slobodan Anđelković, Serbian footballer (b. 1913)
  • Walter B. Gibson, American author and magician (b. 1897)
  • Burleigh Grimes, American baseball player and manager (b. 1893)
  • Helmut Landsberg, German climatologist (b. 1906)
  • Denis de Rougemont, Swiss author (b. 1906)
• December 7
  • Dmitri Borgmann, German-American author (b. 1927)
  • Gabrièle Buffet-Picabia. French critic and author (b. 1881)
  • Malcolm Dixon, English biochemist (b. 1899)
  • Robert Graves, English author and poet (b. 1895)
  • Shlomo Rosen, Israeli politician (b. 1905)
  • Potter Stewart, American judge (b. 1915)
• December 8
  • Ermenegildo Florit, Italian cardinal (b. 1901)
  • Johnny Wilson, American boxer (b. 1893)
• December 9
  • Anton Dunckern, German nazi officer (b. 1905)
  • Hugo Gellert, Hungarian-American artist (b. 1892)
  • Calvin Jackson, American pianist and composer (b. 1919)
  • Jean-Claude Meunier, French cyclist (b. 1950)
  • Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling, German composer (b. 1904)
  • Victor Vicas, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1918)
• December 10
  • Pierre Nord, French author and spy (b. 1900)
  • Bagrat Ioannisiani, Armenian engineer (b. 1911)
• December 11
• December 12
  • Anne Baxter, American actress (b. 1923)
  • Phil Karlson, American film director (b. 1908)
  • Ian Stewart, Scottish keyboardist (b. 1938)
• December 13
  • András Beck, Hungarian sculptor (b. 1911)
  • Antonio Tovar, Spanish philologist and linguist (b. 1911)
• December 14
  • Catherine Doherty, Russian-Canadian theologian and activist (b. 1896)
  • Roger Maris, American baseball player (b. 1934)
• December 15
  • Alessandro Passerin d'Entrèves, Italian philosopher and historian (b. 1902)
  • István Oláh. Hungarian general and politician (b. 1926)
  • Francesco Pernigo, Italian footballer (b. 1918)
  • Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, Mauritian politician, Prime Minister of Mauritius (b. 1900)
  • Carlos P. Romulo, Filipino politician and diplomat (b. 1899)
• December 16
  • Paul Castellano, American mobster (b. 1915)
  • Philip Clark, American rugby player (b. 1898)
  • Dick Pollard, English cricketer (b. 1912)
• December 17 – Simone Paris, French actress (b. 1909)
• December 18
  • Xuân Diệu, Vietnamese poet and journalist (b. 1916)
  • Josef Klapuch, Czech wrestler (b. 1906)
  • Jef Lowagie, Belgian cyclist (b. 1903)
  • Pavel Mahrer, Czech footballer (b. 1900)
• December 19 – Wiktor Grotowicz, Polish actor (b. 1919)
• December 20 – Coral Buttsworth, Australian tennis player (b. 1900)
• December 21 – Carlos Mérida, Guatemalan painter (b. 1891)
• December 22
  • Dennes Boon, American musician (b. 1958)
  • Osvaldo Farrés, Cuban songwriter and composer (b. 1903)
  • Ignace Gelb, Polish-American historian (b. 1907)
  • Lawrence Hauben, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1931)
  • Vyloppilli Sreedhara Menon, Indian poet (b. 1911)
  • Eleoncio Mercedes, Dominican boxer (b. 1957)
• December 23
  • Alfred Brauer, German-American mathematician (b. 1894)
  • Gina Kaus, Austrian-American author and screenwriter (b. 1893)
  • Giovanna Scotto, Italian actress (b. 1895)
• December 24
  • Ferhat Abbas, Algerian politician, President of Algeria (b. 1899)
  • Birabongse Bhanudej, Thai prince and racing driver (b. 1914)
  • Biagio Marin, Italian poet (b. 1891)
  • Erich Schaedler, Scottish footballer (b. 1949)
  • Tarzan Tyler, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1927)
• December 25 – Eddie Taylor, American guitarist and singer (b. 1923)
• December 26
  • François Châtelet, French historian and philosopher (b. 1925)
  • Dian Fossey, American primatologist and conservationist (b. 1932)
  • Jackie Ormes, American cartoonist (b. 1911)
  • Cinzio Scagliotti, Italian footballer (b. 1911)
  • Margarete Schön, German actress (b. 1895)
  • Lionel White, American journalist and author (b. 1905)
• December 27
  • Karl Beurlen, German paleontologist (b. 1901)
  • Harry Hopman, Australian tennis player and coach (b. 1906)
  • Daniel Mangrané, Spanish film producer (b. 1910)
  • Jean Rondeau, French racing driver (b. 1946)
  • Harold Whitlock, English racewalker (b. 1903)
• December 28
  • Renato Castellani, Italian film director and screenwriter (b. 1913)
  • Josef Lense, Austrian physicist (b. 1890)
  • Benny Morton, American trombonist (b. 1907)
  • Henry Winneke, Australian judge and politician (b. 1908)
• December 29
• December 30
  • Jake Forbes, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1897)
  • Alfred Heurtaux, French fighter pilot (b. 1893)
  • László Márkus, Hungarian actor (b. 1927)
• December 31
  • Sllave Llambi, Albanian footballer (b. 1919)
  • Gabit Musirepov, Kazakhstani author and playwright (b. 1902)
  • Ricky Nelson, American musician and actor (b. 1940)
  • Sam Spiegel, American film producer (b. 1901)
  • Jocelyn Toynbee, English archaeologist and historian (b. 1897)

1986

January 1986

• January 1
  • Rattan Bai, Indian actress and singer (b. 1890)
  • David Cecil, English author and historian (b. 1902)
  • Marty Friedman, American basketball player and coach (b. 1889)
  • Bruce Norris, American ice hockey player (b. 1924)
• January 2
  • John Chenoweth, American politician (b. 1897)
  • John Hargis, American basketball player (b. 1920)
  • Herb Magidson, American songwriter (b. 1906)
  • Una Merkel, American actress (b. 1903)
• January 3
  • Clare W. Graves, American psychologist (b. 1914)
  • Jan Zumbach, Polish-Swiss fighter pilot (b. 1915)
• January 4
  • Giuseppe Addobbati, Italian actor (b. 1909)
  • Gösta Bernhard, Swedish film director and actor (b. 1910)
  • Henry Field, American anthropologist and archaeologist (b. 1902)
  • Christopher Isherwood, English-American author (b. 1904)
  • Phil Lynott, Irish singer (b. 1949)
• January 5
  • Ilmari Salminen, Finnish runner (b. 1902)
  • Radovan Zogović, Montenegrin poet (b. 1907)
• January 6
  • Fernand Oubradous, French bassoonist and conductor (b. 1903)
  • James E. Van Zandt, American politician (b. 1898)
• January 7 – Juan Rulfo, Mexican author (b. 1917)
• January 8 – Pierre Fournier, French cellist (b. 1906)
• January 9
  • Michel de Certeau, French priest and scholar (b. 1925)
  • Lucia Chase, American dancer and actress (b. 1897)
• January 10
  • Ernst Angel, Austrian-American poet and critic (b. 1894)
  • Joe Farrell, American musician (b. 1937)
  • Emil Forrer, Swiss linguist (b. 1894)
  • Eta Harich-Schneider, German harpsichordist and musicologist (b. 1894)
  • Ernst Lehner, German footballer (b. 1912)
  • Jaroslav Seifert, Czech author and poet (b. 1901)
• January 11
  • Ilya Averbakh, Russian film director (b. 1934)
  • Andrzej Czok, Polish mountaineer (b. 1948)
  • Kazuo Kamimura, Japanese manga artist (b. 1940)
  • Henri-Charles Puech, French historian (b. 1902)
  • Roger Trinquier, French colonel (b. 1908)
• January 12
  • Marcel Arland, French author and critic (b. 1899)
  • Hinko Bauer, Croatian architect (b. 1908)
  • Ludwig Biermann, German astronomer (b. 1907)
  • Juan Carlos Corazzo, Uruguayan footballer and manager (b. 1907)
  • Assia Dagher, Lebanese-Egyptian actress and film producer (b. 1908)
  • Bob Kaufman, American poet (b. 1925)
  • Lars Leksell, Swedish physician (b. 1907)
  • Eduardo Risso, Uruguayan rower (b. 1925)
  • Hoylande Young, American chemist (b. 1903)
• January 13
  • Alberto Abdala, Uruguayan politician (b. 1920)
  • Abdul Fattah Ismail, Yemeni politician (b. 1939)
• January 14
  • Daniel Balavoine, French singer (b. 1952)
  • Donna Reed, American actress (b. 1921)
  • Thierry Sabine, French racing driver (b. 1949)
  • Robert Trösch, Swiss actor (b. 1911)
  • Valerian Zorin, Russian diplomat (b. 1902)
• January 15
  • Knut Brynildsen, Norwegian footballer (b. 1917)
  • Jean Cassou, French author and poet (b. 1897)
  • Anni Rehborn, German swimmer (b. 1904)
  • Vladimir Rodimushkin, Russian rower (b. 1921)
• January 16
  • Stjepan Šulek, Croatian composer and conductor (b. 1914)
  • Ryūzaburō Umehara, Japanese painter (b. 1888)
• January 17 – A. C. N. Nambiar, Indian diplomat (b. 1896)
• January 18
  • Eugen Ray, German sprinter (b. 1957)
  • Edmundo Rivero, Argentine singer and composer (b. 1911)
  • Ishimoda Shō, Japanese historian (b. 1912)
• January 19
  • Enrique Tierno Galván, Spanish politician (b. 1918)
  • Jón Helgason, Icelandic poet and philologist (b. 1899)
  • Nikola Perlić, Croatian footballer (b. 1912)
  • Adam Włodek, Polish poet and translator (b. 1922)
• January 20 – Franz Kemser, German bobsledder (b. 1910)
• January 21
  • Mary Eristavi, Georgian aristocrat (b. 1888)
  • Tatsumi Hijikata, Japanese choreographer (b. 1928)
  • Margaretha Josephina, Austrian royal (b. 1894)
  • Gordon MacMillan, Scottish general (b. 1897)
  • Günther Pape, German general (b. 1907)
  • Margery Wilson, American actress and film director (b. 1896)
• January 22 – Ilse Fromm-Michaels, German pianist and composer (b. 1888)
• January 23
  • Joseph Beuys, German artist (b. 1921)
  • Willard Van Dyke, American photographer and film director (b. 1906)
  • Yvonne Lefébure, French pianist (b. 1898)
• January 24
  • Victor Crutchley, English admiral (b. 1893)
  • L. Ron Hubbard, American author and religious leader (b. 1911)
  • Flo Hyman, American volleyball player (b. 1954)
  • Masazumi Inada, Japanese lieutenant general (b. 1896)
  • Gordon MacRae, American actor and singer (b. 1921)
  • Alfred Schlemm, German general (b. 1894)
  • Léopold Szondi, Hungarian psychiatrist (b. 1893)
• January 25
  • Gunnar Bergh, Swedish athlete (b. 1909)
  • Albert Grossman, American entrepreneur and music manager (b. 1926)
  • Alfred Huber, German footballer (b. 1910)
  • Josef Kammhuber, German general (b. 1896)
  • Ernst Schnabel, German author (b. 1913)
• January 26
  • Hans Homberger, Swiss rower (b. 1908)
  • Julien Médécin, Monegasque architect (b. 1894)
• January 27
  • Nikhil Banerjee, Indian sitarist (b. 1931)
  • Arthur Llewellyn Basham, English historian and author (b. 1914)
  • Karl Köther, German cyclist (b. 1905)
  • Lilli Palmer, American actress (b. 1914)
  • Michal Vičan, Slovakian footballer and manager (b. 1925)
• January 28
  • Gregory Jarvis, American astronaut (b. 1944)
  • Christa McAuliffe, American astronaut (b. 1948)
  • Ronald McNair, American astronaut (b. 1950)
  • James Edward Moore, American general (b. 1902)
  • Ellison Onizuka, American astronaut (b. 1946)
  • Judith Resnik, American astronaut (b. 1949)
  • Dick Scobee, American astronaut (b. 1939)
  • Michael J. Smith, American astronaut (b. 1945)
• January 29
  • Leif Erickson, American actor (b. 1911)
  • Manfred Metzger, Swiss sailor (b. 1905)
  • Vera Poska-Grünthal, Estonian lawyer (b. 1898)
• January 30
  • Fédérico Ezquerra, Spanish cyclist (b. 1909)
  • Ivan Papanin, Russian explorer and scientist (b. 1894)
  • Gusztáv Sebes, Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1906)
• January 31
  • Tom Adey, English footballer (b. 1901)
  • Philip Jessup, American diplomat and judge (b. 1897)
  • Moderato Wisintainer, Brazilian footballer (b. 1902)

February 1986

• February 1
  • Dick James, English music publisher and singer (b. 1920)
  • Alva Myrdal, Swedish sociologist and politician (b. 1902)
  • Lambert Redd, American long jumper (b. 1908)
  • Ida Rhodes, American mathematician (b. 1900)
• February 2
  • Nils Alwall, Swedish nephrologist and inventor (b. 1904)
  • Gino Hernandez, American professional wrestler (b. 1957)
• February 3
  • Art Chapman, Canadian basketball player (b. 1912)
  • Charles Leo Hitchcock, American botanist (b. 1902)
  • Narciso Ramos, Filipino journalist and politician (b. 1900)
  • Alfred Vohrer, German film director and actor (b. 1914)
• February 4
  • Phyllis Shand Allfrey, Dominican author and activist (b. 1908)
  • Margit Elek, Hungarian fencer (b. 1910)
  • Jānis Kalnbērziņš, Latvian politician (b. 1893)
  • Branko Pešić, Serbian politician (b. 1922)
  • Arthur Schröder, German actor (b. 1892)
• February 5
• February 6
  • Irene Genna, Greek-Italian actress (b. 1931)
  • Dandy Nichols, English actress (b. 1907)
  • John Ching Hsiung Wu, Chinese judge and author (b. 1899)
  • Minoru Yamasaki, Japanese architect (b. 1912)
• February 7
  • Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegalese historian and anthropologist (b. 1923)
  • Dick Southwood, English rower (b. 1906)
• February 8
  • Yisrael Galili, Israeli politician (b. 1911)
  • Robert Gebhardt, German footballer and manager (b. 1920)
• February 9
  • Eleonora Kaminskaitė, Lithuanian rower (b. 1951)
  • Tauno Kovanen, Finnish wrestler (b. 1917)
  • Jacques Rispal, French actor (b. 1923)
• February 10
  • Brian Aherne, English actor (b. 1902)
  • James Dillon, Irish politician (b. 1902)
  • Humphrey Patrick Guinness, English polo player (b. 1902)
  • Antoni Reiter, Polish judoka (b. 1950)
• February 11 – Frank Herbert, American author (b. 1920)
• February 12 – Elena Skuin, Russian-Latvian painter (b. 1908)
• February 13 – Luigi De Manincor, Italian sailor (b. 1910)
• February 14
  • Francisco Ferreira, Portuguese footballer (b. 1919)
  • Edmund Rubbra, English composer (b. 1901)
• February 15
• February 16 – Howard da Silva, American actor (b. 1909)
• February 17
  • Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher and author (b. 1895)
  • Red Ruffing, American baseball player (b. 1905)
  • Paul Stewart, American actor (b. 1908)
  • Emil Vodder, Danish physician (b. 1896)
• February 18
  • Nelson Cavaquinho, Brazilian singer and composer (b. 1911)
  • Vilmos Kohut, Hungarian footballer (b. 1906)
  • Tezer Özlü, Turkish author (b. 1943)
  • Pietro Sforzin, Italian footballer (b. 1919)
  • Václav Smetáček, Czech conductor and composer (b. 1906)
• February 19
  • Robert Brode, American physicist (b. 1900)
  • Adolfo Celi, Italian actor (b. 1922)
  • James Eastland, American politician (b. 1904)
  • André Leroi-Gourhan, French archaeologist and paleontologist (b. 1911)
  • Francisco Mignone, Brazilian composer (b. 1897)
  • Barry Seal, American smuggler (b. 1939)
• February 20
  • Tommy Freeman, American boxer (b. 1904)
  • Salvador Mota, Mexican footballer (b. 1922)
  • Bert Schneider, Canadian boxer (b. 1897)
  • Dorothea Wieck, Swiss-German actress (b. 1908)
• February 21
  • Victor Canning, English author (b. 1911)
  • Larry Wu-tai Chin, Chinese spy (b. 1922)
  • Shigechiyo Izumi, Japanese supercentenarian (b. 1865)
  • Edvardas Mikučiauskas, Lithuanian footballer (b. 1901)
  • Mart Stam, Dutch architect (b. 1899)
• February 22 – Tom Bradshaw, Scottish footballer (b. 1904)
• February 23
  • Andoni Elizondo, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1932)
  • Ferenc Mérei, Hungarian psychologist (b. 1909)
  • Ernst Neufert, German architect (b. 1900)
  • Boris Slutsky, Russian poet (b. 1919)
  • Nino Taranto, Italian actor (b. 1907)
• February 24
  • Rukmini Devi Arundale, Indian dancer and choreographer (b. 1904)
  • Tommy Douglas, Canadian politician (b. 1904)
  • Iwaichi Fujiwara, Japanese lieutenant colonel (b. 1908)
  • Bill Hickman, American stuntman and actor (b. 1921)
  • Arthur Rydstrøm, Norwegian gymnast (b. 1896)
  • Tu Tsung-ming, Taiwanese scientist (b. 1893)
• February 25
  • Pasquale Festa Campanile, Italian film director and screenwriter (b. 1927)
  • Henriette Grindat, Swiss photographer (b. 1923)
• February 26
  • Amalia Fleming, Greek physician and politician (b. 1912)
  • Karel Vlach, Czech conductor (b. 1911)
• February 27
  • Gholam-Hossein Banan, Iranian singer (b. 1911)
  • Gedeon Barcza, Hungarian chess grandmaster (b. 1911)
  • Pat Beasley, English footballer (b. 1913)
  • Eugene Forde, American film director (b. 1898)
  • Hossein Kharrazi, Iranian soldier (b. 1957)
  • Arnaldo Ortelli, Swiss footballer (b. 1913)
  • Jacques Plante, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929)
• February 28
  • Robbie Basho, American guitarist and pianist (b. 1940)
  • Michel Brusseaux, French footballer (b. 1913)
  • Olof Palme, Swedish politician, Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1927)
  • José Ernâni da Rosa, Brazilian footballer (b. 1939)

March 1986

• March 1
  • Desmond Dickinson, English cinematographer (b. 1902)
  • Tommy Farr, Welsh boxer (b. 1913)
  • William Modisane, South African author and journalist (b. 1923)
  • Martta Wendelin, Finnish painter (b. 1893)
• March 2 – Alice Mann, American actress (b. 1899)
• March 3
  • Peter Capell, German actor (b. 1912)
  • Léonard Daghelinckx, Belgian cyclist (b. 1900)
  • Charles A. Halleck, American politician (b. 1900)
  • Ernst König, German general (b. 1908)
  • Dmitri Protopopov, Tajikistani politician (b. 1897)
  • Mohinder Singh Randhawa, Indian historian and civil servant (b. 1909)
• March 4
  • Howard Greenfield, American songwriter (b. 1936)
  • František Hochmann, Czech footballer (b. 1904)
  • Albert L. Lehninger, American biochemist (b. 1917)
  • Ding Ling, Chinese author (b. 1904)
  • Richard Manuel, Canadian musician (b. 1943)
  • Lyudmila Rudenko, Russian chess grandmaster (b. 1904)
• March 5
  • Franciska Clausen, Danish painter (b. 1899)
  • George Nelson, American industrial designer (b. 1908)
• March 6
  • Adolph Caesar, American actor and playwright (b. 1933)
  • Zhu Guangqian, Chinese academic (b. 1897)
  • Georgia O'Keeffe, American painter (b. 1887)
  • Vahram Papazyan, Armenian runner (b. 1892)
  • István Pelle, Hungarian gymnast (b. 1907)
• March 7
  • Emma Baron, Italian actress (b. 1904)
  • Jacob Javits, American politician (b. 1904)
  • Giacomo Di Segni, Italian boxer (b. 1919)
  • Franz-Josef Wuermeling, German politician (b. 1900)
• March 8
  • Hubert Fichte, German author (b. 1935)
  • Kaarlo Halttunen, Finnish actor (b. 1909)
  • Moses Mabhida, South African politician (b. 1923)
  • Kersti Merilaas, Estonian poet and translator (b. 1913)
• March 9
  • Hannah Kudjoe, Ghanaian activist (b. 1918)
  • Ignác Molnár, Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1901)
  • Michael Strunge, Danish poet (b. 1958)
• March 10
  • Heinz Emmerich, German footballer (b. 1908)
  • Ray Milland, Welsh-American actor (b. 1907)
  • Emerson Norton, American decathlete (b. 1900)
• March 11
  • Ari Ankorion, Israeli politician (b. 1908)
  • Georg-Peter Eder, German fighter pilot (b. 1921)
  • Ricardo Frione, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1911)
  • Giuseppe Moruzzi, Italian neurophysiologist (b. 1910)
  • Herbert Runge, German boxer (b. 1913)
  • Simon Simonian, Armenian author (b. 1914)
  • Sonny Terry, American musician (b. 1911)
• March 12
  • Thure Johansson, Swedish wrestler (b. 1912)
  • Nina Katzir, Polish-Israeli political figure, First Lady of Israel (b. 1914)
  • Henryk Woliński, Polish resistance fighter (b. 1901)
• March 13
  • Eugen Gerstenmaier, German theologian and resistance fighter (b. 1906)
  • Josef Kuchař, Czech footballer (b. 1901)
  • Hồ Văn Nhựt, Vietnamese physician (b. 1905)
• March 14 – Edith Atwater, American actress (b. 1911)
• March 15
  • Miguel Darío Miranda y Gómez, Mexican cardinal (b. 1895)
  • Pandelis Prevelakis, Greek author and poet (b. 1909)
• March 16
  • Vera Molnar, German actress (b. 1923)
  • Kurt Sieveking, German politician (b. 1897)
• March 17
  • John Bagot Glubb, English lieutenant general and scholar (b. 1897)
  • Heinz Nixdorf, German businessman (b. 1925)
  • Igor Tselovalnikov, Armenian cyclist (b. 1944)
• March 18
  • Ludvík Aškenazy, Czech author and journalist (b. 1921)
  • Helmut Jahn, German footballer (b. 1917)
  • Bernard Malamud, American author (b. 1914)
• March 19
  • Anne d'Orléans, Italian princess (b. 1906)
  • Jon Lormer, American actor (b. 1906)
• March 20
  • Antonio Carrillo Flores, Mexican politician (b. 1909)
  • Kenichi Konishi, Japanese field hockey player (b. 1909)
  • Samson Kutateladze, Russian physicist (b. 1914)
• March 21
• March 22
  • John W. Bricker, American politician (b. 1893)
  • Olive Deering, American actress (b. 1918)
  • Mark Dinning, American singer (b. 1933)
  • Martin Harlinghausen, German pilot (b. 1902)
  • Michele Sindona, Italian banker and criminal (b. 1920)
  • Charles Starrett, American actor (b. 1903)
• March 23
  • René Cornu, French swimmer (b. 1929)
  • Sarah Cunningham, American actress (b. 1918)
  • Moshe Feinstein, Belarusian-American rabbi and scholar (b. 1895)
  • Leo de Gale, Grenadian politician (b. 1921)
  • Étienne Mattler, French footballer (b. 1905)
  • Lev Smirnov, Russian lawyer (b. 1911)
  • Anastasia Zuyeva, Russian actress (b. 1896)
• March 24
  • Loy W. Henderson, American politician (b. 1892)
  • Edmond Leclerc, French basketball player (b. 1912)
  • Michael Petrović-Njegoš, Montenegrin prince (b. 1908)
  • Krzysztof Mikołaj Radziwiłł, Polish translator and politician (b. 1898)
  • Ernest Rogez, French water polo player (b. 1908)
• March 25
  • Gloria Blondell, American actress (b. 1915)
  • Norayr Mnatsakanyan, Armenian artist (b. 1923)
• March 26
  • Bartlett Robinson, American actor (b. 1912)
  • Chen Yonggui, Chinese politician (b. 1915)
• March 27
  • Julian Roosevelt, American sailor and banker (b. 1924)
  • Samandar Rzayev, Azerbaijani actor (b. 1945)
  • Constantin Stanciu, Romanian footballer (b. 1907)
  • Herman Watzinger, German-Norwegian engineer (b. 1916)
• March 28
  • Virginia Gilmore, American actress (b. 1919)
  • Mahsum Korkmaz, Turkish politician (b. 1956)
• March 29
  • Jessie Cross, American sprinter (b. 1909)
  • Jean van Heijenoort, French-American historian (b. 1912)
• March 30
  • Helga Anders, Austrian actress (b. 1948)
  • Jacques Baron, French poet (b. 1905)
  • Herman A. Blumenthal, American production designer (b. 1916)
  • James Cagney, American actor (b. 1899)
  • John Ciardi, American poet and translator (b. 1916)
  • Milan Munclinger, Czech flautist and conductor (b. 1923)
• March 31 – Jerry Paris, American actor and television director (b. 1925)

April 1986

• April 1
  • Erik Bruhn, Danish dancer and choreographer (b. 1928)
  • Theodore N. Kaufman, American businessman and author (b. 1910)
  • Lucy Mair, English anthropologist (b. 1901)
  • Margaret Masterman, English linguist and philosopher (b. 1910)
• April 2
• April 3
  • Rei Fontana, Brazilian footballer (b. 1912)
  • Peter Pears, English opera singer (b. 1910)
  • Elisabeth Radó, Bosnian singer (b. 1899)
  • Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari, Iranian ayatollah (b. 1906)
• April 4
  • Zoltán Kaszab, Hungarian entomologist (b. 1915)
  • Carlo Taranto, Italian actor (b. 1921)
• April 5 – Manly Wade Wellman, American author (b. 1903)
• April 6
  • José Luis de Arrese, Spanish politician (b. 1905)
  • Boris Gutnikov, Russian violinist (b. 1931)
  • Raimundo Orsi, Argentine footballer (b. 1901)
  • Sergio Rodríguez, Uruguayan footballer and manager (b. 1928)
  • Israel Ruong, Swedish linguist and politician (b. 1903)
• April 7
  • Chester Erskine, American screenwriter and film producer (b. 1905)
  • Leonid Kantorovich, Russian mathematician and economist (b. 1912)
  • Leslie Lewis, English sprinter (b. 1924)
  • Valerie von Martens, German-Austrian actress (b. 1894)
  • Michael Warriner, English rower (b. 1908)
• April 8
  • George Kenneth Mallory, American pathologist (b. 1900)
  • Pauline Newman, American activist (b. 1887)
  • Yukiko Okada, Japanese singer (b. 1967)
• April 9
  • Heinz Conrads, Austrian actor (b. 1913)
  • Rezső Wanié, Hungarian swimmer (b. 1908)
• April 10
  • Linda Creed, American songwriter (b. 1948)
  • Georgy Dzugayev, Russian author (b. 1911)
  • Alex Gray, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1898)
• April 11
  • Stanislav Jungwirth, Czech runner (b. 1930)
  • Josef Růžička, Czech wrestler (b. 1925)
• April 12
  • Einar Ágústsson, Icelandic politician (b. 1922)
  • Meri Avidzba, Russian pilot (b. 1917)
  • Joseph Dervaes, Belgian cyclist (b. 1906)
  • José Jabardo, Spanish cyclist (b. 1915)
  • Valentin Kataev, Russian author (b. 1897)
  • François Neuville, Belgian cyclist (b. 1912)
  • Jean-François Tournon, French fencer (b. 1905)
• April 13
  • Dorothy Ashby, American harpist and singer (b. 1932)
  • Sulo Bärlund, Finnish shot putter (b. 1910)
  • Jack van Bebber, American wrestler (b. 1907)
  • Tamás Major, Hungarian actor (b. 1910)
  • Stephen Stucker, American actor (b. 1947)
• April 14
  • J. Lindsay Almond, American judge (b. 1898)
  • Simone de Beauvoir, French philosopher and author (b. 1908)
  • Nitin Bose, Indian film director and screenwriter (b. 1897)
  • Torbjørn Kristoffersen, Norwegian gymnast (b. 1892)
• April 15
  • Sergei Anokhin, Russian colonel (b. 1910)
  • Jean Genet, French author and playwright (b. 1910)
  • Don Hoefler, American journalist (b. 1922)
  • Robert Marjolin, French economist and politician (b. 1911)
  • Tim McIntire, American actor (b. 1944)
  • Vlastimil Moravec, Czech cyclist (b. 1949)
  • Edwin R. Thiele, American missionary and archaeologist (b. 1895)
• April 16
  • Carlo Biagi, Italian footballer (b. 1914)
  • Pia Colombo, French singer (b. 1934)
  • Hemin Mukriyani, Iranian poet and journalist (b. 1921)
• April 17
  • Robert R. Casey, American politician (b. 1915)
  • Paul Costello, American rower (b. 1894)
  • Marcel Dassault, French engineer (b. 1892)
  • Hermann Friedrich Graebe, German engineer (b. 1900)
  • Bessie Head, South African author (b. 1937)
  • Teddy Kotick, American bassist (b. 1928)
• April 18
  • Antonio Lauro, Venezuelan musician (b. 1917)
  • Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock, German submarine commander (b. 1911)
  • Aleksander Rozmus, Polish ski jumper (b. 1901)
• April 19
  • Alvin Childress, American actor (b. 1907)
  • Émile Maggi, French racewalker (b. 1908)
  • Dag Wirén, Swedish composer (b. 1905)
  • Estelle Yancey, American singer (b. 1896)
• April 20
  • Aleksei Arbuzov, Russian playwright (b. 1908)
  • Doris Dawson, American actress (b. 1905)
  • Jean-Jacques Gautier, French critic and author (b. 1908)
• April 21
  • Marjorie Eaton, American painter and actress (b. 1901)
  • Salah Jahin, Egyptian poet and cartoonist (b. 1930)
• April 22
  • Mircea Eliade, Romanian historian and philosopher (b. 1907)
  • Honor Fell, English zoologist (b. 1900)
  • Cliff Finch, American politician (b. 1927)
• April 23
  • Harold Arlen, American composer (b. 1905)
  • Yuri Gulyayev, Russian opera singer (b. 1930)
  • Jim Laker, English cricketer (b. 1922)
  • Doxie Moore, American basketball player and coach (b. 1911)
  • Otto Preminger, Austrian-American film director (b. 1905)
  • Alberto Zorrilla, Argentine swimmer (b. 1906)
• April 24
  • José Bianco, Argentine author and translator (b. 1908)
  • Ivan Duichev, Bulgarian historian (b. 1907)
  • Bill Edrich, English cricketer (b. 1916)
  • Wallis Simpson, American socialite (b. 1896)
• April 25
• April 26
  • Broderick Crawford, American actor (b. 1911)
  • Lou van Burg, Dutch-German game show host (b. 1917)
  • Hermann Gmeiner, Austrian philanthropist (b. 1919)
  • Valery Khodemchuk, Ukrainian engineer (b. 1951)
  • Bessie Love, American actress (b. 1898)
  • Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (b. 1899)
• April 27
  • J. Allen Hynek, American astronomer and ufologist (b. 1910)
  • Eduard Imhof, Swiss cartographer (b. 1895)
  • Verena Loewensberg, Swiss painter (b. 1912)
  • Evi Maltagliati, Italian actress (b. 1908)
  • Sophia Wadia, Colombian-Indian theosophist (b. 1901)
• April 28
  • R. H. Bing, American mathematician (b. 1914)
  • Werner Conze, German historian (b. 1910)
  • Vladimír Novák, Czech skier (b. 1904)
• April 29
  • Henri de France, French inventor (b. 1911)
  • Edwin Graves, American rower (b. 1897)
  • Raúl Prebisch, Argentine economist (b. 1901)
• April 30
  • Jørgen Hansen, Danish footballer (b. 1931)
  • Robert Stevenson, English-American film director (b. 1905)

May 1986

• May 1
  • Arthur Lipsett, Canadian animator and film director (b. 1936)
  • Herman Rapp, German-American soccer player (b. 1908)
• May 2
  • Wallace Bishop, American drummer (b. 1906)
  • Sergio Cresto, American racing driver (b. 1956)
  • Georgy Gause, Russian biologist (b. 1910)
  • Lotte Brand Philip, German historian (b. 1910)
  • Henri Toivonen, Finnish racing driver (b. 1956)
• May 3
  • Robert Alda, American actor (b. 1914)
  • Endre Bálint, Hungarian painter (b. 1914)
  • Wang Li, Chinese linguist (b. 1900)
  • Nicolò Nicolosi, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1912)
• May 4
  • Richard Daniel, German general (b. 1900)
  • Romeo Rivers, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1907)
• May 5
  • Bill Cook, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1895)
  • Käthe Haack, German actress (b. 1897)
• May 6 – Sergei Gavrilovich Simonov, Russian weapons designer (b. 1894)
• May 7
  • Charlie Colombo, American soccer player (b. 1920)
  • Gaston Defferre, French politician (b. 1910)
  • Robert A. Lovett, American politician (b. 1895)
  • Alfredo Pezzana, Italian fencer (b. 1893)
  • Herma Szabo, Austrian figure skater (b. 1902)
  • Haldun Taner, Turkish playwright and author (b. 1915)
• May 8
  • Ernle Bradford, English historian (b. 1922)
  • Manny Shinwell, English politician (b. 1884)
• May 9
  • Mikhail Alpatov, Russian historian (b. 1902)
  • Herschel Bernardi, American actor (b. 1923)
  • Thomas Liao, Taiwanese activist (b. 1910)
  • Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese-Indian mountaineer (b. 1914)
• May 10
  • Anna Kamieńska, Polish poet and author (b. 1920)
  • Tagir Kusimov, Russian major general (b. 1909)
• May 11
  • Aleksandr Akimov, Russian engineer (b. 1953)
  • Edoardo Anton, Italian screenwriter and film director (b. 1910)
  • Viktor Kibenok, Ukrainian firefighter (b. 1963)
  • Fritz Pollard, American football player and coach (b. 1894)
  • Volodymyr Pravyk, Ukrainian firefighter (b. 1962)
• May 12
  • Elisabeth Bergner, Austrian-English actress (b. 1897)
  • Alicia Moreau de Justo, Argentine activist and politician (b. 1885)
  • Ramon Muller, Argentine footballer (b. 1935)
• May 13
  • Maria Bellonci, Italian author and historian (b. 1902)
  • George Gaines, American set decorator (b. 1933)
  • Vasily Ignatenko, Ukrainian firefighter (b. 1961)
  • Peadar O'Donnell, Irish activist and politician (b. 1893)
• May 14
  • Pierino Favalli, Italian cyclist (b. 1914)
  • Cornelis Gijsbert Gerrit Jan van Steenis, Dutch botanist (b. 1901)
  • Leonid Toptunov, Ukrainian engineer (b. 1960)
• May 15
  • Elio de Angelis, Italian racing driver (b. 1958)
  • Hel Braun, German mathematician (b. 1914)
  • Johnny Gottselig, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1905)
  • Rose Lokissim, Chadian soldier (b. 1955)
  • Theodore H. White, American journalist and historian (b. 1915)
• May 16 – Lothar Beutel, German nazi officer and pharmacist (b. 1902)
• May 17
  • Masaji Kitano, Japanese war criminal (b. 1894)
  • Preben Lundgren Kristensen, Danish cyclist (b. 1923)
  • Lyudmila Pakhomova, Russian ice dancer (b. 1946)
• May 18
  • Gustl Berauer, Czech-German skier (b. 1912)
  • Yaşar Erkan, Turkish wrestler (b. 1911)
  • Giuseppe Lazzati, Italian rector (b. 1909)
• May 19 – Tibor Nyilas, Hungarian-American fencer (b. 1914)
• May 20
  • Abulhasan Alakbarzadeh, Azerbaijani author (b. 1906)
  • Helen Belyea, Canadian geologist (b. 1913)
  • Pim van Boetzelaer van Oosterhout, Dutch diplomat and politician (b. 1892)
  • Helen B. Taussig, American cardiologist (b. 1898)
• May 21
  • Juozas Grušas, Lithuanian author and playwright (b. 1901)
  • Mary Kawena Pukui, American scholar and author (b. 1895)
• May 22
  • Umar al-Tilmisani, Egyptian religious leader (b. 1904)
  • Martin Gabel, American actor (b. 1911)
  • James Gentle, American athlete (b. 1904)
  • Hisatora Kumagai, Japanese film director and screenwriter (b. 1904)
  • Charles F. Voegelin, American linguist and anthropologist (b. 1906)
• May 23
  • Gunnar Björnstrand, Swedish actor (b. 1909)
  • Sterling Hayden, American actor (b. 1916)
  • Altiero Spinelli, Italian politician (b. 1907)
  • Movlid Visaitov, Chechen lieutenant colonel (b. 1914)
• May 24
  • Yakima Canutt, American actor and stuntman (b. 1895)
  • Margit Dajka, Hungarian actress (b. 1907)
  • Chris Graham, Canadian boxer (b. 1900)
  • Robert Holmes, English television writer (b. 1926)
  • Stephen D. Thorne, American astronaut (b. 1953)
• May 25
  • Carlo Betocchi, Italian author (b. 1899)
  • Chester B. Bowles, American diplomat and politician (b. 1901)
  • Shrikant Verma, Indian poet and politician (b. 1931)
• May 26
  • Vitaly Abalakov, Russian engineer and mountaineer (b. 1906)
  • Gian-Carlo Coppola, American film producer and actor (b. 1963)
• May 27
  • Ismail al-Faruqi, Palestinian-American philosopher (b. 1921)
  • Tsendiin Damdinsüren, Mongolian author and linguist (b. 1908)
  • Ajoy Mukherjee, Indian activist and politician (b. 1901)
• May 28
  • Edip Cansever, Turkish poet (b. 1928)
  • Marguerite Courtot, American actress (b. 1897)
  • Borislav Milić, Serbian chess grandmaster (b. 1925)
  • Lurene Tuttle, American actress (b. 1907)
• May 29 – Inge Landgut, German actress (b. 1922)
• May 30
  • Perry Ellis, American fashion designer (b. 1940)
  • Boy Gobert, German actor (b. 1925)
  • Hank Mobley, American saxophonist and composer (b. 1930)
• May 31
  • Joseph Van Dam, Belgian cyclist (b. 1901)
  • T. R. Mahalingam, Indian flautist (b. 1926)
  • Rodolfo Olgiati, Swiss educator and activist (b. 1905)
  • James Rainwater, American physicist (b. 1917)
  • Dora Russell, English author and activist (b. 1894)

June 1986

• June 1
  • Margaret Blackwood, Australian botanist and geneticist (b. 1909)
  • Jo Gartner, Austrian racing driver (b. 1954)
• June 2
  • Stanley Corrsin, American physicist (b. 1920)
  • Aurèle Joliat, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1901)
  • Lya Lys, German-American actress (b. 1908)
  • Daniel Sternefeld, Belgian composer and conductor (b. 1905)
• June 3
  • Aloys Bigirumwami, Rwandan bishop (b. 1904)
  • Max Munk, German engineer (b. 1890)
  • Anna Neagle, English actress and singer (b. 1904)
  • Augusto Ruschi, Brazilian agronomist and ecologist (b. 1915)
  • Robert La Tourneaux, American actor (b. 1940)
• June 4
  • Kanstantsia Builo, Belarusian poet and playwright (b. 1893)
  • Nina Gagen-Torn, Russian poet and author (b. 1900)
  • Paul Stevens, American actor (b. 1921)
• June 5
  • Bryan Grant, American tennis player (b. 1909)
  • Helmut Grunsky, German mathematician (b. 1904)
  • Henri Michel, French historian (b. 1907)
  • Togo Mizrahi, Egyptian film director and screenwriter (b. 1901)
• June 6
  • Joseph Fischer, Luxembourgian footballer (b. 1909)
  • Masti Venkatesha Iyengar, Indian author (b. 1891)
  • Johnnie Tolan, American racing driver (b. 1917)
  • Ramón Torralba, Spanish footballer (b. 1895)
  • Tony Wright, English actor (b. 1925)
• June 7
  • James Fifer, American rower (b. 1930)
  • Atul Chandra Hazarika, Indian poet and author (b. 1903)
  • Morice Lipsi, French sculptor (b. 1898)
  • Sara Sadíqova, Russian actress and singer (b. 1906)
• June 8
  • Thomas Burrow, English scholar (b. 1909)
  • Cèlia Suñol i Pla, Spanish author (b. 1899)
• June 9
  • Arnaldo Benfenati, Italian cyclist (b. 1924)
  • Ilona Harima, Finnish painter (b. 1911)
  • Ernst Peschl, German mathematician (b. 1906)
  • Elisabeth Selbert, German politician (b. 1896)
  • Karl Skytte, Danish politician (b. 1908)
• June 10
  • Sabrina Grigorian, Italian-American actress (b. 1956)
  • Samuel Zauber, Romanian footballer (b. 1901)
• June 11
  • Chesley Bonestell, American painter (b. 1888)
  • Frank Cousins, English politician (b. 1904)
• June 12
  • Amiya Chakravarty, Indian critic and academic (b. 1901)
  • Seonu Hwi, South Korean author (b. 1922)
  • Zdeněk Koubek, Czech athlete (b. 1913)
• June 13
  • Benny Goodman, American musician (b. 1909)
  • Dean Reed, American-German actor and singer (b. 1938)
  • Ulla Strömstedt, Swedish-French actress (b. 1939)
• June 14
  • Jaap Boot, Dutch athlete (b. 1903)
  • Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine author and poet (b. 1899)
  • Mushy Callahan, American boxer (b. 1905)
  • Vladimir I. Georgiev, Bulgarian linguist and philologist (b. 1908)
  • Alan Jay Lerner, American songwriter (b. 1918)
  • Giorgio Pellini, Italian fencer (b. 1923)
  • Anthony Spilotro, American mobster (b. 1938)
  • Kim Swoo-geun, South Korean architect (b. 1931)
• June 15
  • Willie Hoel, Norwegian actor and comedian (b. 1920)
  • Christian Stengel, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1902)
  • Werner Streib, German fighter pilot (b. 1911)
  • Keki Tarapore, Indian cricketer (b. 1910)
  • Choi Yong-sool, South Korean martial artist (b. 1904)
• June 16
  • Danny Clapton, English footballer (b. 1934)
  • Diana Cooper, English actress and aristocrat (b. 1892)
  • Maurice Duruflé, French composer and musicologist (b. 1902)
  • Cecil Higgs, South African artist (b. 1898)
  • Erlendur Patursson, Faroese politician and author (b. 1913)
• June 17
  • Ted J. Kent, American film editor (b. 1901)
  • Felipe Rosas, Mexican footballer (b. 1910)
  • Kate Smith, American singer (b. 1907)
  • Domingo Zaldúa, Spanish footballer (b. 1903)
• June 18 – Joan Oliver i Sallarès, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1899)
• June 19
  • Len Bias, American basketball player (b. 1963)
  • Coluche Colucci, French comedian and actor (b. 1944)
• June 20 – Béla Szepes, Hungarian skier and cartoonist (b. 1903)
• June 21
  • Lloyd Espenschied, American engineer (b. 1889)
  • Assi Rahbani, Lebanese composer and musician (b. 1923)
• June 22
  • Mary Anderson, American actress (b. 1897)
  • Robert F. Young, American author (b. 1915)
• June 23
  • Moses Finley, American-English academic (b. 1912)
  • Jerzy Putrament, Polish author and poet (b. 1910)
  • Renato De Sanzuane, Italian water polo player (b. 1925)
  • Nigel Stock, English actor (b. 1919)
• June 24
  • Mika Antić, Serbian poet and film director (b. 1932)
  • Rex Warner, English classicist and author (b. 1905)
• June 25
  • Laurie Fishlock, English cricketer (b. 1907)
  • Kazimierz Gzowski, Polish equestrian (b. 1901)
  • Reinhold Münzenberg, German footballer (b. 1909)
• June 26
  • Seif el-Din el-Zoubi, Israeli politician (b. 1913)
  • William Lovelock, English composer (b. 1899)
  • Kunio Maekawa, Japanese architect (b. 1905)
  • Vadim Sidur, Ukrainian sculptor (b. 1924)
• June 27 – Edna Mae Cooper, American actress (b. 1900)
• June 28
• June 29
  • Mario Amaya, American critic and museum director (b. 1933)
  • Lako Bodra, Indian author and poet (b. 1919)
  • Jack Christiansen, American football player (b. 1928)
  • Robert Drivas, American actor (b. 1935)
  • John Porter East, American politician (b. 1931)
  • Dusolina Giannini, American-Swiss opera singer (b. 1902)
  • Dan Pagis, Israeli poet (b. 1930)
• June 30
  • Fernando Ansola, Spanish footballer (b. 1940)
  • Pierre Costantini, French journalist and politician (b. 1889)
  • Margalo Gillmore, English-American actress (b. 1897)
  • Roman Gul, Russian author (b. 1896)
  • László Lékai, Hungarian cardinal (b. 1910)

July 1986

• July 1
  • Jean Baratte, French footballer and manager (b. 1923)
  • Alexander E. Braunstein, Russian biochemist (b. 1902)
• July 2
  • Louis Harant, American sport shooter (b. 1895)
  • Hoàng Văn Thái, Vietnamese general and politician (b. 1915)
• July 3
  • Curley Russell, American musician (b. 1917)
  • Rudy Vallée, American singer and actor (b. 1901)
• July 4
  • Paul-Gilbert Langevin, French musicologist (b. 1933)
  • Flor Peeters, Belgian composer and organist (b. 1903)
  • Oscar Zariski, Russian-American mathematician (b. 1899)
• July 5
  • Thomas Arnold, English bobsledder (b. 1901)
  • Noel Counihan, Australian painter and cartoonist (b. 1913)
  • Albert Scherrer, Swiss racing driver (b. 1908)
  • Georg-Wilhelm Schulz, German uboat commander (b. 1906)
  • Yaroslav Stetsko, Ukrainian politician and nazi collaborator (b. 1912)
• July 6
  • Stephen Brunauer, American chemist (b. 1903)
  • Lothar Kreyssig, German judge (b. 1898)
  • Herbert Leonhardt, German skier (b. 1925)
  • Robert S. Lopez, American historian (b. 1910)
  • Jagjivan Ram, Indian activist and politician (b. 1908)
• July 7
  • Mai Bhagi, Pakistani musician (b. 1906)
  • Joseph Fontenrose, American scholar (b. 1903)
  • Sven Johnson, Swedish gymnast (b. 1899)
• July 8
  • Paolo Brignoli, Italian entomologist (b. 1942)
  • Hyman G. Rickover, American admiral (b. 1899)
  • Gérard Ernest Schneider, Swiss painter (b. 1896)
• July 9
  • Karl Heinz Beckurts, German physicist (b. 1930)
  • Nellie Campobello, Mexican author (b. 1900)
  • Marietta Canty, American actress and activist (b. 1905)
  • Harold Isaacs, American journalist and political scientist (b. 1910)
• July 10
  • Lê Duẩn, Vietnamese politician (b. 1907)
  • Rafael Gil, Spanish film director and screenwriter (b. 1913)
  • Csilla Molnár, Hungarian beauty queen (b. 1969)
  • Tadeusz Piotrowski, Polish mountaineer (b. 1939)
  • Marie-Hélène Sachet, French botanist (b. 1922)
  • Roman Ulrich Sexl, Austrian theoretical physicist (b. 1939)
  • Park Taewon, South Korean-North Korean author (b. 1909)
  • Nicholas Varelopoulos, Greek patriarch (b. 1913)
• July 11
  • Lillian Rosanoff Lieber, Russian-American mathematician and author (b. 1886)
  • Lucille Wall, American actress (b. 1898)
• July 12
  • Kate Isabel Campbell, Australian pediatrician (b. 1899)
  • André Tassin, French footballer (b. 1902)
• July 13
  • Brion Gysin, English-Canadian painter and author (b. 1916)
  • Ladislav Pešek, Czech actor (b. 1906)
  • Ralph Steiner, American photographer (b. 1899)
• July 14
  • Raymond Loewy, French-American industrial designer (b. 1893)
  • Joseph Vogt, German historian (b. 1895)
• July 15
  • Benny Rubin, American comedian and actor (b. 1899)
  • Alfonso Thiele, Italian-American racing driver (b. 1920)
• July 16
  • Robert Boothby, English politician (b. 1900)
  • Carlo Martini, Italian archbishop (b. 1913)
  • Claire Watson, American opera singer (b. 1927)
• July 17
  • René de La Croix de Castries, French historian (b. 1908)
  • Leonard Peter Schultz, American ichthyologist (b. 1901)
• July 18
  • Buddy Baer, American boxer and actor (b. 1915)
  • Emil Nofal, South African screenwriter and film producer (b. 1926)
  • Stanley Rous, English football referee and administrator (b. 1895)
  • Flora Payne Whitney, American artist and socialite (b. 1897)
  • Don Wilkerson, American saxophonist (b. 1932)
• July 19
  • Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist (b. 1902)
  • Daniel L. Fapp, American cinematographer (b. 1904)
  • Glenn Graham, American pole vaulter (b. 1904)
  • Branca Edmée Marques, Portuguese chemist and physicist (b. 1899)
  • Harold Schuster, American film director and editor (b. 1902)
• July 20 – Helen Craig, American actress (b. 1912)
• July 21
  • José Avelino, Filipino politician (b. 1890)
  • Zhang Yuzhe, Chinese astronomer (b. 1902)
• July 22
  • Ren-Chang Ching, Chinese botanist (b. 1898)
  • Floyd Gottfredson, American cartoonist (b. 1905)
  • Ede Staal, Dutch singer (b. 1941)
  • Natalia Uzhviy, Ukrainian actress (b. 1898)
• July 23
  • Adolfo Baloncieri, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1897)
  • Kazimierz Sikorski, Polish composer (b. 1895)
• July 24
  • Trần Văn Chương, Vietnamese diplomat (b. 1898)
  • Willy Kaiser, German boxer (b. 1912)
  • Fritz Albert Lipmann, German-American biochemist (b. 1899)
  • Laurie Nash, Australian cricketer and footballer (b. 1910)
  • Fernand Pouillon, French architect (b. 1912)
  • Yoshiyuki Tsuruta, Japanese swimmer (b. 1903)
• July 25
  • Ted Lyons, American baseball player (b. 1900)
  • Vincente Minnelli, American film director (b. 1903)
  • Thomas Moone, American ice hockey player (b. 1908)
  • Kalistrat Salia, Georgian-French historian and philologist (b. 1901)
• July 26
  • Bill Gore, American engineer and scientist (b. 1912)
  • W. Averell Harriman, American politician and diplomat (b. 1891)
  • Gerda Madsen, Danish actress (b. 1902)
  • Dominique Mbonyumutwa, Rwandan politician, President of Rwanda (b. 1921)
  • Sukarno M. Noor, Indonesian actor and film producer (b. 1931)
• July 27
  • Hitoshi Kihara, Japanese geneticist (b. 1893)
  • Branislav Kojić, Serbian architect and painter (b. 1899)
  • Dorothea Neff, Austrian actress (b. 1903)
• July 28
  • John Alcott, English cinematographer (b. 1930)
  • Syd Curnow, South African cricketer (b. 1907)
  • Cristóbal Martí, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1903)
  • Annemarie Selinko, Austrian author (b. 1914)
• July 29
  • Vittorio Chierroni, Italian skier (b. 1917)
  • David Cooper, South African-French psychiatrist (b. 1931)
  • Deng Jiaxian, Chinese physicist (b. 1924)
  • Gordon Mills, English music manager and songwriter (b. 1935)
• July 30
  • Câmara Cascudo, Brazilian anthropologist and journalist (b. 1898)
  • John N. Dalton, American politician (b. 1931)
  • Konstantine Lortkipanidze, Georgian author (b. 1905)
• July 31
  • Enric Casals, Spanish violinist and composer (b. 1892)
  • Lea Davidova-Medene, Latvian sculptor (b. 1921)
  • Stanley Ellin, American author (b. 1916)
  • Iustin Moisescu, Romanian patriarch (b. 1910)
  • Chiune Sugihara, Japanese diplomat (b. 1900)
  • Teddy Wilson, American pianist (b. 1912)

August 1986

• August 1
  • Carlo Confalonieri, Italian cardinal (b. 1893)
  • Willem Klein, Dutch mathematician (b. 1912)
  • José María Vidal, Spanish footballer (b. 1935)
• August 2 – Roy Cohn, American lawyer (b. 1927)
• August 3
  • Stefania Górska, Polish actress and composer (b. 1907)
  • Paul de Groot, Dutch politician (b. 1899)
  • Beryl Markham, English-Kenyan pilot and author (b. 1902)
• August 4
• August 5
  • Ferenc Cziráki, Hungarian handball player (b. 1913)
  • Banesh Hoffmann, English mathematician and physicist (b. 1906)
  • Emanuel Löffler, Czech gymnast (b. 1901)
  • Himzo Polovina, Bosnian singer (b. 1927)
  • Karl Streibel, German nazi officer (b. 1903)
• August 6
  • Emilio Fernández, Mexican film director and actor (b. 1904)
  • Clara Tabody, Hungarian actress and singer (b. 1915)
  • Jorge Vieira, Portuguese footballer (b. 1898)
  • Beppe Wolgers, Swedish author and poet (b. 1928)
• August 7 – Julie Tullis, English mountaineer (b. 1939)
• August 8
• August 9
  • Gustav Adolf Nosske, German war criminal (b. 1902)
  • Jef Scherens, Belgian cyclist (b. 1909)
  • Ruth Teitelbaum, American computer programmer (b. 1924)
• August 10
  • Vratislav Effenberger, Czech poet (b. 1923)
  • Jacqueline Gadsden, American actress (b. 1900)
  • Jon Snersrud, Norwegian skier (b. 1902)
  • Arun Shridhar Vaidya, Indian general (b. 1926)
• August 11
  • Chuck McKinley, American tennis player (b. 1941)
  • Heinz Strehl, German footballer (b. 1938)
• August 12
  • Roberto Hodge, Chilean footballer (b. 1944)
  • Paola Mori, Italian actress (b. 1928)
  • Léonard Mulamba, Congolese politician (b. 1928)
  • Hans Pesser, Austrian footballer and manager (b. 1911)
  • Felix Salzer, Austrian-American theorist and musicologist (b. 1904)
• August 13
  • Avraham Katz, Israeli politician (b. 1931)
  • Helen Mack, American actress (b. 1913)
• August 14
  • Pierre Bertaux, French resistance fighter and scholar (b. 1907)
  • Stjepan Ljubić, Croatian cyclist (b. 1906)
• August 15 – Louis Peglion, French cyclist (b. 1906)
• August 16 – Jaime Sáenz, Bolivian author and poet (b. 1921)
• August 17
  • M. G. Chakrapani, Indian actor and film producer (b. 1911)
  • H. R. Cox, American bacteriologist (b. 1907)
  • Luis Pasarín, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1902)
• August 18 – Nikos Nissiotis, Greek theologian and philosopher (b. 1924)
• August 19
  • Hermione Baddeley, English actress (b. 1906)
  • John Donnelly, Canadian rower (b. 1905)
  • Zia Fatehabadi, Indian author (b. 1913)
  • Raphael Glorieux, Belgian cyclist (b. 1929)
  • Georg Løkkeberg, Norwegian actor (b. 1909)
  • Juan José Rosón, Spanish politician (b. 1932)
• August 20
  • Milton Acorn, Canadian poet and author (b. 1923)
  • Walter Brooke, American actor (b. 1914)
  • Thad Jones, American trumpeter and composer (b. 1923)
  • Austin Warren, American scholar and author (b. 1899)
• August 21
  • Bata Arana, Spanish footballer (b. 1908)
  • William C. Chase, American major general (b. 1895)
  • Alexandre O'Neill, Portuguese poet and author (b. 1924)
• August 22
  • Vali Akhundov, Azerbaijani politician (b. 1916)
  • Celâl Bayar, Turkish economist and politician, President and Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1883)
  • Bruce Cowling, American actor (b. 1919)
  • Sobha Singh, Indian painter (b. 1901)
  • Josef Streb, German footballer (b. 1912)
• August 23
  • José Estrada, Mexican film director and screenwriter (b. 1938)
  • Adrienne Fazan, American film editor (b. 1906)
  • Charles Janssens, Belgian actor (b. 1906)
  • Mikhail Kuznetsov, Russian actor (b. 1918)
  • Witold Nowacki, Polish mathematician (b. 1911)
  • Eduardo Quisumbing, Filipino biologist (b. 1895)
• August 24
  • Harry Benjamin, German-American endocrinologist and sexologist (b. 1885)
  • Harold Redman, English lieutenant general (b. 1899)
• August 25 – M. Stanley Livingston, American physicist (b. 1905)
• August 26
  • Raymond Abellio, French author (b. 1907)
  • Ted Knight, American actor (b. 1923)
• August 27
  • Georgy Agzamov, Uzbekistani chess grandmaster (b. 1954)
  • Daniel Fignolé, Haitian politician, President of Haiti (b. 1913)
  • Arturo Godoy, Chilean boxer (b. 1912)
  • Joyce Mansour, Egyptian-French author (b. 1928)
  • Dragutin Mitić, Croatian-American tennis player (b. 1917)
  • George Nēpia, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1905)
  • Olga Šilhánová, Czech gymnast (b. 1920)
• August 28
  • Giorgi Chitaia, Georgian ethnographer (b. 1890)
  • Arthur Cunliffe, English footballer (b. 1909)
  • Alexander Dolgun, American prisoner (b. 1926)
  • Russell Lee, American photographer (b. 1903)
  • Elvi Sinervo, Finnish author and poet (b. 1912)
• August 29 – Vladimir Kuznetsov, Russian javelin thrower (b. 1931)
• August 30 – Otto Mortensen, Danish composer and conductor (b. 1907)
• August 31
  • Jorge Alessandri, Chilean politician, President of Chile (b. 1896)
  • Urho Kekkonen, Finnish politician, President and Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1900)
  • Henry Moore, English sculptor (b. 1898)
  • Goffredo Parise, Italian author and journalist (b. 1929)

September 1986

• September 1 – Murray Hamilton, American actor (b. 1923)
• September 2 – Erkki Ala-Könni, Finnish ethnomusicologist (b. 1911)
• September 3
  • Wirgiliusz Gryń, Polish actor (b. 1928)
  • Pino Mercanti, Italian film director and screenwriter (b. 1911)
  • Vittorino Veronese, Italian lawyer and activist (b. 1910)
• September 4
  • Roberto Gavaldón, Mexican film director (b. 1909)
  • Otto Glória, Brazilian football manager (b. 1917)
  • Hank Greenberg, American baseball player (b. 1911)
  • Sid Tanenbaum, American basketball player (b. 1925)
  • Walter Wanderley, Brazilian organist and pianist (b. 1932)
  • Dov Zakin, Israeli politician (b. 1922)
• September 5 – Neerja Bhanot, Indian flight purser (b. 1963)
• September 6
  • Suresh Joshi, Indian author and critic (b. 1921)
  • Blanche Sweet, American actress (b. 1896)
• September 7
  • Raimundo Infante, Chilean footballer (b. 1928)
  • Dan K. Moore, American politician (b. 1906)
  • Omar Ali Saifuddien III, Bruneian sultan (b. 1914)
  • Armin Schibler, Swiss composer (b. 1920)
  • Vladimir Vlasov, Russian composer and conductor (b. 1903)
• September 8
  • Ferenc Hatlaczky, Hungarian canoeist (b. 1934)
  • Ray Nazarro, American film director (b. 1902)
  • Tomasz Stefaniszyn, Polish footballer (b. 1929)
• September 9 – Magda Tagliaferro, Brazilian pianist (b. 1893)
• September 10
  • Pepper Adams, American saxophonist and composer (b. 1930)
  • Jake Bornheimer, American basketball player (b. 1927)
  • Andrei Zazroyev, Georgian footballer (b. 1925)
• September 11
  • Arthur Carr, English equestrian (b. 1910)
  • Panagiotis Kanellopoulos, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1902)
  • Henry DeWolf Smyth, American physicist and diplomat (b. 1898)
  • Noel Streatfeild, English author (b. 1895)
• September 12
  • Ernst Haas, Austrian-American photojournalist (b. 1921)
  • Jacques Henri Lartigue, French photographer and painter (b. 1894)
  • Honnenhalli Manjula, Indian actress (b. 1943)
  • Frank Nelson, American actor (b. 1911)
  • Gerhard Rohlfs, German linguist (b. 1892)
  • Charlotte Wolff, German-English physician (b. 1897)
• September 13
  • Antonio Mota, Mexican footballer (b. 1939)
  • Robert Nisbet, English rower (b. 1900)
• September 14
  • William Edmund Barrett, American author (b. 1900)
  • Carl Borgstrøm, Norwegian linguist (b. 1909)
  • Marcel Couraud, French conductor (b. 1912)
• September 15
  • Chris Abel, English footballer (b. 1912)
  • Jaroslav Burgr, Czech footballer (b. 1906)
  • William Goode, English politician (b. 1907)
  • Virginia Gregg, American actress (b. 1916)
  • Freimut Stein, German figure skater (b. 1924)
  • Ramón Alberto Villaverde, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1930)
• September 16 – Francesco Malatesta, Italian cyclist (b. 1907)
• September 17
  • Erich Bautz, German cyclist (b. 1913)
  • Pat Phoenix, English actress (b. 1923)
  • Henrik Sjögren, Swedish ophthalmologist (b. 1899)
• September 18
  • Aljoša Buha, Bosnian musician (b. 1962)
  • Corita Kent, American artist (b. 1918)
• September 19
• September 20
  • James Hardy, American rower (b. 1923)
  • Iorgu Iordan, Romanian linguist and philologist (b. 1888)
  • Viktor Khokhryakov, Russian actor (b. 1913)
  • Dennis Spooner, English television writer (b. 1932)
  • Nicolae Testemițanu, Moldovan surgeon and politician (b. 1927)
• September 21
  • Wilhelm Heun, German general (b. 1895)
  • John Kuck, American shot putter (b. 1905)
  • Pierre Wigny, Belgian politician (b. 1905)
• September 22
  • József Asbóth, Hungarian tennis player (b. 1917)
  • Yussuf Hamis, Israeli politician (b. 1921)
  • Erik Svensson, Swedish athlete (b. 1903)
  • Abdel-Kader Zaaf, Algerian cyclist (b. 1917)
• September 23
  • Gottfried Freiherr von Banfield, Italian pilot (b. 1890)
  • Gordie Drillon, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1913)
  • Barbara Gilewska, Polish actress and dancer (b. 1911)
  • Johannes-Rudolf Mühlenkamp, German nazi officer (b. 1910)
  • Percy Peter, English swimmer and water polo player (b. 1902)
• September 24
  • Hiroshi Hara, Japanese botanist (b. 1911)
  • Kamer Sadık, Turkish actor (b. 1911)
  • Adolf Tolkachev, Kazakhstani engineer and spy (b. 1927)
• September 25
  • Nikolay Semyonov, Russian physicist and chemist (b. 1896)
  • Hubertus Strughold, German physiologist and war criminal (b. 1898)
  • Daniel Sueiro, Spanish author and journalist (b. 1931)
  • Hans Vogt, Norwegian linguist (b. 1903)
• September 26
  • Brian Desmond Hurst, Northern Irish film director (b. 1895)
  • André Maelbrancke, Belgian cyclist (b. 1918)
  • Noboru Terada, Japanese swimmer (b. 1917)
• September 27
  • Alfred Au, German footballer (b. 1898)
  • Cliff Burton, American bassist (b. 1962)
  • Giuseppe Ghedina, Italian skier (b. 1898)
  • Éva Ruttkai, Hungarian actress (b. 1927)
• September 28
  • Denis Carey, English actor (b. 1909)
  • Howard Graham, Canadian lieutenant general (b. 1898)
  • Robert Helpmann, Australian dancer and actor (b. 1909)
  • Kiyoshi Tanimoto, Japanese minister (b. 1909)
  • Glauco Vanz, Italian footballer (b. 1920)
• September 29
  • Georg Axel, Danish prince (b. 1920)
  • Helmut Qualtinger, Austrian actor (b. 1928)
  • Theodor Schwenk, German anthroposophist (b. 1910)
• September 30
  • Storm Jameson, English journalist and author (b. 1891)
  • Nicholas Kaldor, Hungarian-English economist (b. 1908)

October 1986

• October 1 – Dražen Ričl, Bosnian musician and comedian (b. 1962)
• October 2
  • Jean Carmignac, French scholar (b. 1914)
  • Mikhail Masson, Russian archaeologist (b. 1897)
• October 3
  • Sergey Preminin, Russian sailor (b. 1965)
  • Han Xianchu, Chinese general (b. 1913)
• October 4
  • Raymond E. Baldwin, American politician (b. 1893)
  • Sarala Devi, Indian activist and politician (b. 1904)
  • Arno von Lenski, German general (b. 1893)
  • Desiderius Orban, Hungarian painter (b. 1884)
• October 5
  • Diego Angulo Íñiguez, Spanish historian (b. 1901)
  • Hal B. Wallis, American film producer (b. 1898)
  • James H. Wilkinson, English mathematician (b. 1919)
• October 6
  • Marie-Hélène Arnaud, French model and actress (b. 1934)
  • Yuri Babayev, Russian physicist (b. 1928)
  • Aleksandr Kronrod, Russian mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1921)
• October 7
  • Liu Bocheng, Chinese military commander (b. 1892)
  • Cheryl Crawford, American theatre producer and director (b. 1902)
  • Yōjirō Ishizaka, Japanese author (b. 1900)
  • Jerzy Łojek, Polish historian and activist (b. 1932)
  • Paul Tournier, Swiss physician and author (b. 1898)
• October 8
  • Shadi Abdel Salam, Egyptian art director and screenwriter (b. 1930)
  • Megumu Tamura, Japanese footballer (b. 1927)
• October 9
  • Arild Brinchmann, Norwegian theatre director (b. 1922)
  • Vasile Patilineț, Romanian activist and politician (b. 1923)
  • Harald Reinl, Austrian film director (b. 1908)
• October 10
  • Antonio di Benedetto, Argentine author and journalist (b. 1922)
  • Han Drijver, Dutch field hockey player (b. 1927)
  • Marie Neurath, German graphic designer and social scientist (b. 1898)
  • Michele Pellegrino, Italian cardinal (b. 1903)
  • Priaulx Rainier, South African-English composer (b. 1903)
  • Gleb Wataghin, Ukrainian-Italian physicist (b. 1899)
• October 11
  • Norm Cash, American baseball player (b. 1933)
  • Georges Dumézil, French philologist and linguist (b. 1898)
  • David Hand, American animator and film director (b. 1900)
  • Boris Leven, Russian-American production designer (b. 1908)
  • Al Ullman, American politician (b. 1914)
• October 12
  • Szabolcs Fényes, Hungarian film composer (b. 1912)
  • Jūlijs Vanags, Latvian author (b. 1903)
• October 13
  • Claude Mulot, French screenwriter and film director (b. 1942)
  • Hermann von Siemens, German businessman (b. 1885)
• October 14
  • Milovan Ćirić, Serbian footballer and manager (b. 1918)
  • Spec O'Donnell, American actor (b; 1911)
  • Keenan Wynn, American actor (b. 1916)
  • Bilal Xhaferri, Albanian author (b. 1935)
• October 15
  • Jacqueline Roque, French muse (b. 1927)
  • Jerry Smith, American football player (b. 1943)
• October 16
  • Kiril Bratanov, Bulgarian biologist (b. 1911)
  • Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist (b. 1921)
  • Giovanni Invernizzi, Italian rower (b. 1926)
  • Sandro Puppo, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1918)
  • Ted Sagar, English footballer (b. 1910)
  • Yolanda di Savoia, Italian princess (b. 1901)
• October 17
  • Boris Arkadyev, Russian footballer and manager (b. 1899)
  • Leah Rhodes, American costume designer (b. 1902)
• October 18
  • Sverre Ingolf Haugli, Norwegian speed skater (b. 1925)
  • John J. McNamara, American sailor and author (b. 1932)
  • Wilhelm Orlik-Rückemann, Polish general (b. 1894)
• October 19
  • Moses Asch, American record executive (b. 1905)
  • Aquino de Bragança, Indian physicist and diplomat (b. 1924)
  • Balthasar Linsinger, Austrian priest (b. 1902)
  • Oldřich Lipský, Czech film director and screenwriter (b. 1924)
  • Samora Machel. Mozambican politician, President of Mozambique (b. 1933)
  • Arseny Sokolov, Russian theoretical physicist (b. 1910)
• October 20
  • Alain Moineau, French cyclist (b. 1928)
  • Tadao Uesako, Japanese gymnast (b. 1921)
• October 21
  • Theodor Busse, German general (b. 1897)
  • Fritz Hochwälder, Austrian playwright (b. 1911)
  • Lionel Murphy, Australian politician and judge (b. 1922)
  • Dominique Urbany, Luxembourgian politician (b. 1903)
• October 22
  • Ye Jianying, Chinese politician (b. 1897)
  • Sven Strömberg, Swedish sprinter (b. 1911)
  • Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian biochemist (b. 1893)
• October 23
  • Edward Adelbert Doisy, American biochemist (b. 1893)
  • Georg Funkquist, Swedish actor (b. 1900)
• October 24 – Enrique Margall, Spanish basketball player (b. 1944)
• October 25
  • Guillermo Eizaguirre, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1909)
  • Joseph B. Johnson, American politician (b. 1893)
  • Forrest Tucker, American actor (b. 1919)
• October 26
  • Arne Andersen, Norwegian footballer (b. 1900)
  • Jackson Scholz, American runner (b. 1897)
  • Marcel Simon, French historian (b. 1907)
• October 27 – Sherman Adams, American politician (b. 1899)
• October 28
  • Robert Arthur, American film producer and screenwriter (b. 1909)
  • John Braine, English author (b. 1922)
  • Marga Klompé, Dutch politician (b. 1912)
  • Ian Marter, English actor (b. 1944)
  • Irving Reiner, American mathematician (b. 1924)
• October 29 – Abel Meeropol, American songwriter and poet (b. 1903)
• October 30
  • Elisabeth Schwarzhaupt, German politician (b. 1901)
  • Fritz Tillmann, German actor (b. 1910)
  • Harry Voigt, German sprinter (b. 1913)
• October 31
  • Hendrik Hubert Frehen, Dutch bishop (b. 1917)
  • Alfred Hauge, Norwegian journalist and author (b. 1915)
  • Qanate Kurdo, Russian philologist (b. 1909)
  • Robert S. Mulliken, American physicist and chemist (b. 1896)
  • Bruno Snell, German philologist (b. 1896)
  • Félicien Vervaecke, Belgian cyclist (b. 1907)
  • Gregorio F. Zaide, Filipino historian and politician (b. 1907)

November 1986

• November 1
  • Serge Garant, Canadian composer and conductor (b. 1929)
  • Simion Ismailciuc, Romanian canoeist (b. 1930)
  • Mieczysław Moczar, Polish politician (b. 1913)
  • Bernard Waldman, American physicist (b. 1913)
  • Sippie Wallace, American singer and pianist (b. 1898)
• November 2
  • Samuel Baud-Bovy, Swiss musician (b. 1906)
  • Harry Brown, American author and screenwriter (b. 1917)
  • Paul Frees, American actor and comedian (b. 1902)
  • Georges Mollard, French sailor (b. 1902)
• November 3
  • Vladimir Bobri, Ukrainian-American artist and author (b. 1898)
  • Adolf Busemann, German engineer (b. 1901)
  • Eddie Davis, American saxophonist (b. 1922)
  • Sekhonyana Nehemia Maseribane, Lesothoan politician (b. 1918)
• November 4
  • Francesco Cossu, Italian rower (b. 1907)
  • Abdallah El-Yafi, Lebanese politician, Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1901)
  • Kurt Hirsch, German mathematician (b. 1906)
  • Thorolf Rafto, Norwegian activist (b. 1922)
• November 5
  • Adolf Brudes, German racing driver (b. 1899)
  • Mohammed Hassan Helmy, Egyptian footballer (b. 1912)
  • Claude Jutra, Canadian actor and film director (b. 1930)
• November 6
  • Elisabeth Grümmer, German opera singer (b. 1911)
  • James S. Holmes, American-Dutch poet and translator (b. 1924)
  • Johannes Linthorst Homan, Dutch politician and diplomat (b. 1903)
  • Lili Kraus, Hungarian-New Zealand pianist (b. 1903)
• November 7
  • Henry Gilman, American chemist (b. 1893)
  • Alan Hewitt, American actor (b. 1915)
• November 8
  • King Clancy, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1902)
  • Franz Xaver Dorsch, German engineer (b. 1899)
  • Harry W. Holmes, English football administrator (b. 1896)
  • Artur London, Czech politician (b. 1915)
  • Vyacheslav Molotov, Russian politician (b. 1890)
  • Nils Ramm, Swedish wrestler (b. 1903)
• November 9
  • Adam Brodzisz, Polish actor (b. 1906)
  • Jaroslava Muchová, Czech painter (b. 1909)
  • Henry Russell, American sprinter (b. 1904)
• November 10
  • Ludwig Hahn, German war criminal (b. 1908)
  • Ljubomir Magaš, Serbian boxer and gangster (b. 1948)
  • Vicente Trueba, Spanish cyclist (b. 1905)
  • Leona Woods, American physicist (b. 1919)
• November 11 – Roger C. Carmel, American actor (b. 1932)
• November 12
  • Faiz Ahmad, Afghan politician (b. 1946)
  • Ria Baran, German skater (b. 1922)
  • Erich Koch, German war criminal (b. 1896)
  • Toshio Shimao, Japanese author (b. 1917)
• November 13
  • Volf Bergraser, French chess grandmaster (b. 1904)
  • Franco Cortese, Italian racing driver (b. 1903)
  • Francisco Flores, Mexican footballer (b. 1926)
  • Rudolf Schock, German opera singer (b. 1915)
• November 14
  • Sven Tito Achen, Argentine-Danish author (b. 1922)
  • Erik Byléhn, Swedish runner (b. 1898)
  • Ferdinand Daučík, Slovakian footballer and manager (b. 1910)
• November 15
  • Louis François, French wrestler (b. 1906)
  • Alexandre Tansman, Polish composer and pianist (b. 1897)
• November 16
  • Panditrao Agashe, Indian businessman (b. 1936)
  • Siobhán McKenna, Irish actress (b. 1922)
• November 17
  • Georges Besse, French businessman (b. 1927)
  • Leen Buis, Dutch cyclist (b. 1906)
  • Harold Grad, American mathematician (b. 1923)
  • Roger Ikor, French author (b. 1912)
  • Vladimir Kenigson, Russian actor (b. 1907)
• November 18
  • Ljupčo Arsov, Macedonian politician, Prime Minister of Macedonia (b. 1910)
  • Lajos Bárdos, Hungarian composer and conductor (b. 1899)
  • Gia Carangi, American model (b. 1960)
  • Michele Mara, Italian cyclist (b. 1903)
  • Valeriu Niculescu, Romanian footballer (b. 1914)
  • Stephen O. Rice, American engineer (b. 1907)
• November 19 – Kosta Nađ, Serbian general (b. 1911)
• November 20
  • Arne Beurling, Swedish mathematician (b. 1905)
  • Arne Linderholm, Swedish footballer (b. 1916)
  • Alexander Ostrowski, Ukrainian-Swiss mathematician (b. 1893)
• November 21
  • Jerry Colonna, American musician and actor (b. 1904)
  • Jimmy Cunliffe, English footballer (b. 1912)
  • Dar Robinson, American stuntman (b. 1947)
  • Marcelino Sánchez, Puerto Rican actor (b. 1957)
• November 22
  • Nikolai Chudakov, Russian mathematician (b. 1904)
  • Scatman Crothers, American actor (b. 1910)
  • Alexander Deutsch, Russian astronomer (b. 1899)
  • Daan van Dijk, Dutch cyclist (b. 1907)
  • Curtis J. Humphreys, American physicist (b. 1898)
  • Malcolm Nokes, English athlete (b. 1897)
  • Dinny Pails, Australian tennis player (b. 1921)
  • Edwin Salisbury, American rower (b. 1910)
  • Mikałaj Ułaščyk, Belarusian historian and archaeologist (b. 1906)
• November 23
  • Olaf Hoffsbakken, Norwegian skier (b. 1908)
  • Yasuzō Masumura, Japanese film director (b. 1924)
• November 24
  • Mazzino Montinari, Italian scholar (b. 1928)
  • Anwar Nuseibeh, Palestinian politician (b. 1913)
• November 25 – Gabdulkhay Akhatov, Russian linguist (b. 1927)
• November 26
  • Aleksei Baksov, Russian colonel general (b. 1907)
  • Betico Croes, Aruban activist (b. 1938)
  • Ingeborg Drewitz, German author and academic (b. 1923)
  • Mary Welsh Hemingway, American journalist and author (b. 1908)
  • Kaku Takagawa, Japanese go player (b. 1915)
• November 27
  • Géza von Radványi, Hungarian film director and cinematographer (b. 1907)
  • Hugh Stockwell, English general (b. 1903)
  • Steve Tracy, American actor (b. 1952)
• November 28
  • Helena Bušová, Czech actress (b. 1914)
  • Norman Gagne, Canadian ski jumper (b. 1911)
  • Emilio Scanavino, Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1922)
  • Elizabeth Thomas, American egyptologist (b. 1907)
• November 29
  • Gary Allen, American author and conspiracy theorist (b. 1936)
  • Cary Grant, English actor (b. 1904)
  • Jānis Lidmanis, Latvian footballer and basketball player (b. 1910)
  • Herbert Rosenfeld, German-English psychoanalyst (b. 1910)
  • Herb Vigran, American actor (b. 1910)
• November 30
  • Emil Jónsson, Icelandic politician, Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1902)
  • Eino Leino, Finnish wrestler (b. 1891)
  • Francisco Ciutat de Miguel, Spanish lieutenant (b. 1909)
  • Ernst Poertgen, German footballer (b. 1912)

December 1986

• December 1
  • Wanis al-Qaddafi, Libyan politician, Prime Minister of Libya (b. 1922)
  • Lee Dorsey, American singer (b. 1924)
  • Horace Heidt, American pianist and bandleader (b. 1901)
  • Bobby Layne, American football player (b. 1926)
• December 2
  • Desi Arnaz, Cuban-American actor and musician (b. 1917)
  • [[Ken Scott (actor)|Ken Scott], American actor (b, 1928)
  • Arvid Thörn, Swedish footballer (b. 1911)
• December 3 – Anthony Mascarenhas, Pakistani journalist and author (b. 1928)
• December 4
• December 5
  • Moshe Baram, Israeli politician (b. 1911)
  • Rolf Schock, Swedish-American philosopher and artist (b. 1933)
  • Lê Trọng Tấn, Vietnamese general (b. 1914)
  • Edward Youde, English politician and diplomat (b. 1924)
• December 6 – Marta Canales, Chilean violinist and composer (b. 1893)
• December 7
  • Enrico Arrigoni, Italian-American anarchist (b. 1894)
  • Concha Méndez, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1898)
  • Roberto Bianchi Montero, Italian film director and screenwriter (b. 1907)
  • Albert Schwartz, American swimmer and attorney (b. 1907)
• December 8
  • Ernst Biberstein, German Holocaust perpetrator (b. 1899)
  • Harrison Brown, American chemist (b. 1917)
  • Anatoly Marchenko, Russian author and activist (b. 1938)
  • Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, Sri Lankan mystic (b. 1900)
  • Józef Pisarski, Polish boxer (b. 1913)
• December 9
  • Antonio Cardile, Italian painter (b. 1914)
  • Anatoly Zverev, Russian artist (b. 1931)
• December 10
  • Susan Cabot, American actress (b. 1927)
  • Bruno Mora, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1937)
  • Rino Pucci, Italian cyclist (b. 1922)
  • Kate Wolf, American singer (b. 1942)
• December 11
• December 12
  • Harry Owens, American composer and bandleader (b. 1902)
  • Carlos Ramírez, Colombian opera singer and actor (b. 1916)
  • Alexander H. Smith, American politician (b. 1904)
  • Clifford Stine, American cinematographer (b. 1906)
  • Paul Verner, German politician (b. 1911)
• December 13
  • Heather Angel, American actress (b. 1909)
  • Ella Baker, American activist (b. 1903)
  • Glyn Daniel, Welsh archaeologist (b. 1914)
  • Smita Patil, Indian actress (b. 1955)
  • Kim Peyton, American swimmer (b. 1957)
  • İlhami Sancar, Turkish judge and politician (b. 1909)
• December 14
  • Cheryl Araujo, American rape victim (b. 1961)
  • Aleksey Gushchin, Russian sport shooter (b. 1922)
  • John Anker Johansen, Norwegian gymnast (b. 1894)
  • Dick Mehen, American basketball player (b. 1922)
  • Antal Páger, Hungarian actor (b. 1899)
  • Pedro Sainz Rodríguez, Spanish author and philologist (b. 1897)
• December 15
  • Edvard Bull Jr., Norwegian historian (b. 1914)
  • Serge Lifar, Ukrainian dancer and choreographer (b. 1905)
  • Seymour Lipton, American sculptor (b. 1903)
  • Mykolas Ruzgys, Lithuanian-American basketball player (b. 1915)
  • John Zaremba, American actor (b. 1908)
• December 16
  • Oleg Goncharenko, Ukrainian speed skater (b. 1931)
  • Marcel Quinet, Belgian composer and pianist (b. 1915)
• December 17
  • Guillermo Cano Isaza, Colombian journalist (b. 1925)
  • Władysław Moes, Polish landowner (b. 1900)
  • Evgenii Nikishin, Russian mathematician (b. 1945)
  • Mary Verghese, Indian physician (b. 1925)
• December 18
  • George Amy, American film editor (b. 1903)
  • Mamo Clark, American actress (b. 1914)
  • Morton Fried, American anthropologist (b. 1923)
  • Ulrico Girardi, Italian bobsledder (b. 1930)
• December 19
  • V. C. Andrews, American author (b. 1923)
  • Willy Favre, Swiss skier (b. 1943)
  • Francis Fergusson, American critic and author (b. 1904)
  • Domingo García, Peruvian footballer (b. 1904)
  • José Antonio Maravall, Spanish historian and author (b. 1911)
  • Avelar Brandão Vilela, Brazilian cardinal (b. 1912)
• December 20
  • Ferdinand Brandner, Austrian engineer (b. 1903)
  • Rossella Como, Italian actress (b. 1939)
  • Alicia Urreta, Mexican pianist and composer (b. 1930)
• December 21
  • Willy Coppens, Belgian fighter pilot (b. 1892)
  • Helge Sivertsen, Norwegian discus thrower and politician (b. 1913)
  • Sven-Ove Svensson, Swedish footballer (b. 1922)
• December 22
  • Mary Burchell, English author (b. 1904)
  • Nii Amaa Ollennu, Ghanaian politician, President of Ghana (b. 1906)
  • Harvey Stephens, American actor (b. 1901)
• December 23
  • Heidi Abel, Swiss television presenter (b. 1929)
  • Gerhard Bienert, German actor (b. 1898)
  • R. Gordon Wasson, American author and ethnomycologist (b. 1898)
• December 24
  • Maurice Delvart, French sprinter (b. 1899)
  • Gardner Fox, American comic book writer (b. 1911)
  • Gerda Munck, Danish fencer (b. 1901)
  • Aleksandrs Vanags, Latvian footballer and basketball player (b. 1919)
  • Albert Widmann, German war criminal (b. 1912)
  • Richard van der Riet Woolley, English astronomer (b. 1906)
• December 25
  • Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov, Bulgarian philosopher (b. 1900)
  • Kaarel Ird, Estonian theatre director and actor (b. 1909)
  • Friedrich von Ledebur, Austrian actor (b. 1900)
  • Hamao Umezawa, Japanese scientist (b. 1914)
• December 26
  • Bina Das, Indian revolutionary (b. 1911)
  • Elsa Lanchester, English actress (b. 1902)
  • Luka Palamarchuk, Ukrainian politician and diplomat (b. 1906)
• December 27
  • André Cailleux, French paleontologist and geologist (b. 1907)
  • Snorri Hjartarson, Icelandic poet (b. 1906)
  • Lars-Erik Larsson, Swedish composer and conductor (b. 1908)
  • Louis Van Lint, Belgian painter (b. 1909)
  • Dumas Malone, American historian and minister (b. 1892)
  • Frans Hubert Edouard Arthur Walter Robyns, Belgian botanist (b. 1901)
  • Semyon Rzhishchin, Russian athlete (b. 1933)
• December 28
  • Lothar Bolz, German politician (b. 1903)
  • Huang Kecheng, Chinese general (b. 1902)
  • Alton Lennon, American politician (b. 1906)
  • John D. MacDonald, American author (b. 1916)
  • Jan Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter (b. 1922)
• December 29
  • John Antill, Australian composer (b. 1904)
  • Venka Asenova, Bulgarian chess grandmaster (b. 1930)
  • Harold Macmillan, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1894)
  • Grete Mosheim, German actress (b. 1905)
  • Pietro Parente, Italian cardinal and theologian (b. 1891)
  • Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian film director (b. 1932)
• December 30 – İlhan Koman, Turkish sculptor (b. 1921)
• December 31
  • Jack Bailey, English footballer (b. 1921)
  • Piero Chiara, Italian author (b. 1913)
  • Raj Narain, Indian freedom fighter and politician (b. 1917)

1987

January 1987

• January 1 – Maurice Mandelbaum, American philosopher (b. 1908)
• January 2
  • Ramón Castroviejo, Spanish surgeon (b. 1904)
  • Elina Colomer, Argentine actress (b. 1922)
  • Jean de Gribaldy, French cyclist (b. 1922)
  • Harekrushna Mahatab, Indian politician (b. 1899)
• January 3
  • Rodolfo Kuhn, Argentine film director and screenwriter (b. 1934)
  • David Maysles, American film director (b. 1931)
  • Franck Sylvain, Haitian politician, President of Haiti (b. 1909)
• January 4
  • Lauretta Bender, American neuropsychiatrist (b. 1897)
  • Jack Martin, English cricketer (b. 1917)
• January 5
  • Ekaterina Feoktistova, Ukrainian chemist and physicist (b. 1915)
  • Margaret Laurence, Canadian author (b. 1926)
  • Geoffrey Mason, American bobsledder (b. 1902)
  • Ambrogio Portalupi, Italian cyclist (b. 1943)
  • Herman Smith-Johannsen, Norwegian skier (b. 1875)
• January 6 – Domingo Santa Cruz Wilson, Chilean composer (b. 1899)
• January 7
  • Avner Less, German-Israeli police officer (b. 1916)
  • Jackie Mitchell, American baseball player (b. 1913)
• January 8
  • Nana Joshi, Indian cricketer (b. 1926)
  • Bohdan Lachert, Polish architect (b. 1900)
• January 9
  • Arthur Lake, American actor (b. 1905)
  • Shabtai Shikhman, Israeli politician (b. 1915)
• January 10
  • Marion Hutton, American singer and actress (b. 1919)
  • Bennett Lewis, English-Canadian scientist (b. 1908)
  • Håkan Malmrot, Swedish swimmer (b. 1900)
• January 11
  • Pierre-Louis Amourdedieu, French actor (b. 1917)
  • Abdul Rauf Benawa, Afghan author and poet (b. 1913)
  • Hugo Fregonese, Argentine film director and screenwriter (b. 1908)
  • Jacques Hérold, Romanian painter (b. 1910)
  • Anita Palmero, Spanish singer (b. 1902)
• January 12 – Ralph Maxwell Lewis, American occultist (b. 1904)
• January 13
  • Vladimir Alatortsev, Russian chess grandmaster (b. 1909)
  • Anatoly Efros, Russian theatre director (b. 1925)
  • Igor Ilyinsky, Russian actor (b. 1901)
  • Ludmila Kupriyanova, Russian palynologist (b. 1914)
  • Elvira Ríos, Mexican singer and actress (b. 1913)
• January 14
  • Turgut Demirağ, Turkish film producer and director (b. 1921)
  • Park Jong-chul, South Korean activist (b. 1965)
  • Douglas Sirk, German film director (b. 1897)
  • Rauli Somerjoki, Finnish singer (b. 1947)
• January 15
  • Harald Bode, German engineer (b. 1909)
  • Ray Bolger, American actor (b. 1904)
  • Rudolf Carl, Austrian actor (b. 1899)
  • Aníbal Muñoz Duque, Colombian archbishop (b. 1908)
  • José Antonio Gallardo, Spanish footballer (b. 1961)
  • Mark Mitin, Russian philosopher (b. 1901)
  • Heather Thatcher, English actress (b. 1896)
• January 16
  • Joyce Jameson, American actress (b. 1932)
  • María Dhialma Tiberti, Argentine author (b. 1928)
  • Earl Wilson, American journalist and author (b. 1907)
• January 17
  • Aram Avakian, American film editor (b. 1926)
  • Harry Darby, American politician (b. 1895)
  • Dudjom Jigdral Yeshe Dorje, Tibetan buddhist (b. 1904)
  • Gu Zhutong, Chinese general (b. 1893)
• January 18
  • Roland Ansieau, French artist (b. 1901)
  • Sergio Blažić, Croatian musician (b. 1951)
  • Renato Guttuso, Italian painter and politician (b. 1911)
• January 19
  • Gerald Brenan, English-Spanish author and historian (b. 1894)
  • Fernand Fabre, French actor (b. 1899)
  • Harry Keller, American film director and editor (b. 1913)
  • Lawrence Kohlberg, American psychologist (b. 1927)
  • Veniamin Levich, Ukrainian-American chemist (b. 1917)
• January 20
  • Tom Dollery, English cricketer (b. 1914)
  • Hermann Giesler, German architect and war criminal (b. 1898)
  • Charles Pasquale Greco, American bishop (b. 1894)
• January 21
  • Nina Byron, American actress (b. 1900)
  • Charles Goodell, American politician (b. 1926)
  • Ikki Kajiwara, Japanese manga artist and film producer (b. 1936)
• January 22
  • Barbro Alving, Swedish journalist and author (b. 1909)
  • Georges Buchard, French fencer (b. 1893)
  • R. Budd Dwyer, American politician (b. 1939)
  • Patrick du Val, English mathematician (b. 1903)
• January 23 – Sergei Chernikov, Russian mathematician (b. 1912)
• January 24
  • Tetsuji Murakami, Japanese karateka (b. 1927)
  • Aram Nalbandyan, Armenian physicist (b. 1908)
• January 25
  • Øivind Bergh, Norwegian violinist (b. 1909)
  • Asim Ferhatović, Bosnian footballer (b. 1933)
  • Emil Hlobil, Czech composer (b. 1901)
  • Sven Lindqvist, Swedish footballer (b. 1903)
  • Abrantes Mendes, Portuguese footballer (b. 1907)
  • Nahuel Moreno, Argentine author (b. 1924)
  • Frank Stack, Canadian speed skater (b. 1906)
  • Mihrişah Sultan, Turkish princess (b. 1916)
  • Piero Vida, Italian actor (b. 1938)
  • Harald Wergeland, Norwegian physicist (b. 1912)
• January 26
  • Adolf Ciborowski, Polish architect (b. 1919)
  • Charles Wolcott, American composer and religious leader (b. 1906)
• January 27
  • Allan V. Cox, American geophysicist (b. 1926)
  • Allison Danzig, American journalist (b. 1898)
  • Antanas Maceina, Lithuanian philosopher and theologian (b. 1908)
  • Norman McLaren, Scottish-Canadian animator (b. 1914)
  • Otto Nathan, American economist (b. 1893)
  • Clara Thalmann, Swiss-French resistance fighter (b. 1908)
• January 28
  • Galo Plaza, Ecuadorian politician, President of Ecuador (b. 1906)
  • Valerian Trifa, Romanian cleric and nazi collaborator (b. 1914)
• January 29
  • Carlo Cassola, Italian author (b. 1917)
  • Emvin Cremona, Maltese artist (b. 1919)
  • Josep Vicenç Foix, Spanish poet and author (b. 1893)
  • Vincent R. Impellitteri, Italian-American politician and judge (b. 1900)
  • Gerhard Klopfer, German nazi politician (b. 1905)
  • Pilar von Wittelsbach, German princess (b. 1891)
  • Hiroaki Zakōji, Japanese composer and pianist (b. 1958)
• January 30
  • Veriko Anjaparidze, Georgian actress (b. 1897)
  • Héctor Varela, Argentine musician and bandleader (b. 1914)
• January 31
  • Yves Allégret, French film director (b. 1905)
  • Idris Barzani, Iraqi politician (b. 1944)

February 1987

• February 1
  • Alessandro Blasetti, Italian film director and screenwriter (b. 1900)
  • Sala Burton, Polish-American politician (b. 1925)
  • Gustav Knuth, German actor (b. 1901)
• February 2
  • Carlos Castilho, Brazilian footballer (b. 1927)
  • Yakov Estrin, Russian chess grandmaster (b. 1923)
  • Alfred Lion, German-American record executive (b. 1908)
  • Alistair MacLean, Scottish author (b. 1922)
  • David du Plessis, South African-American minister (b. 1905)
• February 3
  • Theodore Cogswell, American author (b. 1918)
  • Nobuhito, Japanese prince (b. 1905)
  • George Derwent Thomson, English scholar and philosopher (b. 1903)
• February 4
  • Meena Keshwar Kamal, Afghan activist (b. 1956)
  • Liberace, American pianist (b. 1919)
  • Carl Rogers, American psychologist (b. 1902)
• February 5
  • William Collier Jr., American actor (b. 1902)
  • Klāvs Elsbergs, Latvian poet and translator (b. 1959)
  • Bessie Learn, American actress (b. 1888)
  • Gustav Lechner, Croatian footballer and manager (b. 1913)
  • Otto Wöhler, German general (b. 1894)
• February 6 – Lalithambika Antharjanam, Indian author and activist (b. 1909)
• February 7
  • Claudio Villa, Italian singer and actor (b. 1926)
  • Adriaan van Wijngaarden, Dutch mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1916)
  • Czesław Wołłejko, Polish actor (b. 1916)
• February 8
  • Max Seydewitz, German politician (b. 1892)
  • Bronisława Wajs, Polish poet and singer (b. 1908)
  • Helen Wood, American actress (b. 1917)
• February 9 – Louis Plack Hammett, American chemist (b. 1894)
• February 10
  • Leo Anchóriz, Spanish actor (b. 1932)
  • Sadequain Naqqash, Pakistani artist and poet (b. 1930)
  • Robert O'Brien, American racing driver (b. 1908)
  • William Rose, American screenwriter (b. 1918)
  • Hans Rosenthal, German television host (b. 1925)
• February 11
  • Mark Ashton, English activist (b. 1960)
  • Francesco Gabriotti, Italian footballer (b. 1914)
  • Andy Linden, American racing driver (b. 1922)
  • Edith Gyömrői Ludowyk, Hungarian psychotherapist and poet (b. 1896)
• February 12
  • Lang Jeffries, Canadian-American actor (b. 1930)
  • Shozo Makino, Japanese swimmer (b. 1915)
  • Valentin Olenik, Russian wrestler (b. 1939)
  • Dennis Poore, English racing driver (b. 1916)
  • Raymond Vouel, Luxembourgian politician (b. 1923)
• February 13
  • M. Bhaktavatsalam, Indian activist and politician (b. 1897)
  • Taimbet Komekbaev, Kazakhstani sergeant major (b; 1896)
• February 14
  • Rolf Dahlgren, Swedish-Danish botanist (b. 1932)
  • Dmitry Kabalevsky, Russian composer and conductor (b. 1904)
  • Karolos Koun, Greek theatre director (b. 1908)
  • Einar Wøhni, Norwegian politician (b. 1920)
• February 15 – John Myhill, English mathematician (b. 1923)
• February 16
• February 17
  • Hal K. Dawson, American actor (b. 1896)
  • Jaakko Friman, Finnish speed skater (b. 1904)
  • Husayn Muruwwa, Lebanese academic and journalist (b. 1908)
  • Verree Teasdale, American actress (b. 1903)
  • Hans Tetzner, Dutch footballer and physician (b. 1898)
• February 18
  • William Coldstream, English painter (b. 1908)
  • Boris Kowerda, Russian-American newspaper editor and assassin (b. 1907)
  • Edmond Pagès, French cyclist (b. 1911)
  • Silvio Pietroboni, Italian footballer (b. 1904)
• February 19
  • Hugh Greene, English television executive and journalist (b. 1910)
  • Henry-Russell Hitchcock, American historian (b. 1903)
  • Kirsten Walther, Danish actress (b. 1933)
• February 20
  • Ivan Brkanović, Croatian composer (b. 1906)
  • Jan Ciecierski, Polish actor (b. 1899)
  • Ian Colin, English actor (b. 1912)
  • Edgar P. Jacobs, Belgian comic book artist (b. 1904)
  • Joseph Parecattil, Indian cardinal (b. 1912)
  • Lev Russov, Russian painter (b. 1926)
• February 21
  • Petro Grigorenko, Russian major general (b. 1907)
  • Helen Taft Manning, American historian (b. 1891)
  • Noel Odell, English geologist and mountaineer (b. 1890)
  • Meir Ya'ari, Israeli politician and activist (b. 1897)
• February 22
  • Andy Warhol, American artist (b. 1928)
  • Glenway Wescott, American poet and author (b. 1901)
• February 23
  • José Afonso, Portuguese singer (b. 1929)
  • Robert Braet, Belgian footballer (b. 1912)
  • William Droegemueller, American pole vaulter (b. 1906)
  • Esmond Knight, English actor (b. 1906)
  • Edward Lansdale, American major general (b. 1908)
• February 24
• February 25
  • James Coco, American actor (b. 1930)
  • E. D. Nixon, American activist (b. 1899)
• February 26 – Knut Frydenlund, Norwegian diplomat and politician (b. 1927)
• February 27
  • Franciszek Blachnicki, Polish priest (b. 1921)
  • Jose W. Diokno, Filipino politician (b. 1922)
  • Fumio Kamei, Japanese film director (b. 1908)
  • Salvatore Oppes, Italian equestrian (b. 1909)
  • Reto Perl, Swiss ice hockey player (b. 1923)
  • Latif-ur Rehman, Indian-Pakistani field hockey player (b. 1929)
• February 28
  • Joan Greenwood, English actress (b. 1921)
  • Nora Kaye, American ballerina (b. 1920)
  • Anny Ondra, Czech actress (b. 1903)

March 1987

• March 1
  • Freddie Green, American guitarist (b. 1911)
  • Bertrand de Jouvenel, French philosopher and economist (b. 1903)
  • Beatrice Mancini, Italian actress (b. 1917)
  • Wolfgang Seidel, German racing driver (b. 1926)
• March 2
  • Randolph Scott, American actor (b. 1898)
  • Lolo Soetoro, Indonesian geographer (b. 1935)
• March 3
  • Danny Kaye, American actor and singer (b. 1911)
  • Hana Vítová, Czech actress (b. 1914)
• March 4 – Georges Arnaud, French author (b. 1917)
• March 5 – Joe Purcell, American politician (b. 1923)
• March 6
  • Eddie Durham, American musician and composer (b. 1906)
  • Wim Lagendaal, Dutch footballer (b. 1909)
  • Edward Zorinsky, American politician (b. 1928)
• March 7
  • Yuri Chulyukin, Russian film director and screenwriter (b. 1929)
  • Henri Decaë, French cinematographer (b. 1915)
  • Karl Leichter, Estonian musicologist (b. 1902)
  • Waldo Salt, American screenwriter (b. 1914)
• March 8 – Friedrich Markgraf, German botanist (b. 1897)
• March 9
  • Yusuf al-Khal, Lebanese-Syrian poet and journalist (b. 1917)
  • Boris Andreyev, Russian sport shooter (b. 1906)
  • Bobby Locke, South African golfer (b. 1917)
  • Stefan Ryniewicz, Polish diplomat (b. 1903)
• March 10
  • Dwight W. Burney, American politician (b. 1892)
  • George Glamack, American basketball player (b. 1919)
  • Santeri Levas, Finnish author and photographer (b. 1899)
  • Johannes Quasten, German theologian and scholar (b. 1900)
• March 11
• March 12 – Richard Levinson, American television writer and producer (b. 1934)
• March 13
  • Hafizur Rahman Wasif Dehlavi, Indian scholar and judge (b. 1910)
  • Bernhard Grzimek, German zoologist (b. 1909)
  • Peter Henrici, Swiss mathematician (b. 1923)
  • Gerald Moore, English pianist (b. 1899)
  • Fela Sowande, Nigerian musician and composer (b. 1905)
• March 14
• March 15
  • Douglas Abbott, Canadian politician (b. 1899)
  • W. Sterling Cole, American politician (b. 1904)
  • Red Dutton, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1897)
  • Léon Fleuriot, French linguist and scholar (b. 1923)
  • Victor Oreshnikov, Russian painter (b. 1904)
• March 16
  • Vivian Martin, American actress (b. 1893)
  • Raymond Passello, Swiss footballer (b. 1905)
  • Tjaak Pattiwael, Indonesian footballer (b. 1914)
  • Rosario Romeo, Italian historian (b. 1924)
  • Samuel H. Shapiro, American politician (b. 1907)
  • Johan Otto von Spreckelsen, Danish architect (b. 1929)
• March 17
  • Georg Lammers, German sprinter (b. 1905)
  • Antonio Lopez, Puerto Rican artist (b. 1943)
  • Juozas Maniušis, Lithuanian politician (b. 1910)
  • Hjördis Töpel, Swedish swimmer and diver (b. 1904)
  • Santo Trafficante Jr., American mobster (b. 1914)
• March 18
  • Milorad Arsenijević, Serbian footballer and manager (b. 1906)
  • Claude I. Bakewell, American politician (b. 1912)
  • Kari Diesen, Norwegian singer and actress (b. 1914)
  • Elizabeth Poston, English composer and pianist (b. 1905)
• March 19
  • Louis de Broglie, French physicist (b. 1892)
  • Juan Mascaró, Spanish translator (b. 1897)
  • Emile Meyer, American actor (b. 1910)
  • Arch Oboler, American playwright and screenwriter (b. 1909)
• March 20
  • Joseph Fitzgerald, American ice hockey player (b. 1904)
  • Norman Harris, American guitarist (b. 1947)
  • Ernst Karlberg, Swedish ice hockey player (b. 1901)
  • Russell Ohl, Russian scientist (b. 1898)
  • Rita Streich, German opera singer (b. 1920)
• March 21
  • Dean Paul Martin, American singer and actor (b. 1951)
  • Robert Preston, American actor (b. 1918)
  • Jacob Taubes, Austrian-German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1923)
• March 22
  • Gustava Aigner, Austrian geologist and paleontologist (b. 1906)
  • Odysseas Angelis, Greek general and politician (b. 1912)
  • Joan Shawlee, American actress (b. 1926)
• March 23
  • Maurice Dunand, French archaeologist (b. 1898)
  • Maurice Labro, French film director (b. 1910)
• March 24 – Vicente Calderón, Spanish businessman (b. 1913)
• March 25
  • Carolin Babcock, American tennis player (b. 1912)
  • Ivan Ivanov-Vano, Russian animator and film director (b. 1900)
  • Henry Richardson Labouisse Jr., American diplomat (b. 1904)
• March 26
  • Walter Abel, American actor (b. 1898)
  • Eugen Jochum, German conductor (b. 1902)
  • Georg Muche, German painter and architect (b. 1895)
  • Mary Odette, French-English actress (b. 1901)
  • Erich Römer, German ice hockey player (b. 1894)
• March 27
  • Giuseppe Ambrosoli, Italian priest (b. 1923)
  • Rudolph Anders, German actor (b. 1895)
  • William Bowers, American journalist and screenwriter (b. 1916)
  • Tim Lee Carter, American politician (b. 1910)
  • Luis Chávez y González, Salvadoran archbishop (b. 1901)
  • Lloyd Goodrich, American historian (b. 1897)
  • Stane Kavčič, Slovenian politician (b. 1919)
  • Tonny Koeswoyo, Indonesian musician (b. 1936)
• March 28
  • Alphonse Alley, Beninese politician (b. 1930)
  • Maria von Trapp, Austrian singer (b. 1905)
  • Patrick Troughton, English actor (b. 1920)
  • Albert Rudolph Zuroweste, American bishop (b. 1901)
• March 29
  • Richard Aaron, Welsh philosopher (b. 1901)
  • József Kovács, Hungarian runner (b. 1926)
  • Mario Montesanto, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1909)
  • Jakob Nacken, German circus performer (b. 1906)
  • Felix Prohaska, Austrian conductor (b. 1912)
  • Akaki Shanidze, Georgian linguist and philologist (b. 1887)
  • Richard Wilson, American author (b. 1920)
• March 30
  • Pyotr Gusev, Russian dancer and choreographer (b. 1904)
  • Lynn Townsend White Jr., American historian (b. 1907)
  • Ehsan Elahi Zaheer, Pakistani scholar (b. 1945)
• March 31

April 1987

• April 1
  • Henri Cochet, French tennis player (b. 1901)
  • Vladimir Popov, Russian animator (b. 1930)
• April 2
  • Evgenii Alexeev, Russian botanist (b. 1946)
  • Hans Cattini, Swiss ice hockey player (b. 1914)
  • Torrence Parsons, American mathematician (b. 1941)
  • Wang Renmei, Chinese actress and singer (b. 1914)
  • Buddy Rich, American drummer (b. 1917)
  • Harry Watt, Scottish film director (b. 1906)
  • Kansuke Yamamoto, Japanese photographer and poet (b. 1914)
• April 3
  • Robert Dalban, French actor (b. 1903)
  • Anne Grey, English actress (b. 1907)
  • Robert Perry, English sailor (b. 1909)
  • Andrei Severny, Russian astronomer (b. 1913)
• April 4
  • Jeanne Lampl-de Groot, Dutch psychiatrist (b. 1895)
  • C. L. Moore, American author (b. 1911)
  • Jana Obrovská, Czech composer (b. 1930)
  • Chögyam Trungpa, Tibetan buddhist (b. 1939)
  • Agyeya Vatsyayan, Indian author and poet (b. 1911)
• April 5
  • Jack Howe, English footballer (b. 1915)
  • Leabua Jonathan, Lesotho politician, Prime Minister of Lesotho (b. 1914)
  • Jan Lindblad, Swedish naturalist and author (b. 1932)
  • Tsuneko Nakazato, Japanese author (b. 1909)
  • Bruno Vogel, German author (b. 1898)
• April 6
  • Vicente Cañas, Spanish missionary (b. 1939)
  • Bob Van Osdel, American high jumper (b. 1910)
  • Zakhar Slyusarenko, Russian general lieutenant (b. 1907)
  • Henry Lucien de Vries, Surinamese politician (b. 1909)
• April 7
  • Terry Carr, American author (b. 1937)
  • John Lehmann, English poet (b. 1907)
  • John P. Livadary, Turkish-American sound engineer (b. 1896)
  • Dénes Pataky, Hungarian figure skater (b. 1916)
  • Vladimir Shilykovsky, Russian speed skater (b. 1933)
  • Adolf Šlár, Czech table tennis player (b. 1919)
  • Maxine Sullivan, American singer (b. 1911)
• April 8
  • Andrei Getman, Russian general (b. 1903)
  • Ervin Nyiregyházi, Hungarian-American pianist (b. 1903)
• April 9 – James Bush, American actor (b. 1907)
• April 10
  • Birgit Dressel, German heptathlete (b. 1960)
  • Berta Drews, German actress (b. 1901)
• April 11
  • Erskine Caldwell, American author (b. 1903)
  • Rudolf Krause, German racing driver (b. 1907)
  • Primo Levi, Italian chemist (b. 1919)
  • Kent Taylor, American actor (b. 1907)
  • Hédi Váradi, Hungarian actress (b. 1929)
• April 12
  • Mike Von Erich, American professional wrestler (b. 1964)
  • Jean Hansen, Danish cyclist (b. 1932)
  • René Hardy, French resistance fighter (b. 1911)
  • Michel Sima, Polish artist (b. 1912)
  • Hertha von Walther, German actress (b. 1903)
• April 13
  • Herbert Blumer, American sociologist (b. 1900)
  • Tadeusz Brzozowski, Polish painter (b. 1918)
  • Simha Flapan, Israeli historian and politician (b. 1911)
  • Guido Sala, Italian motorcycle racer (b. 1928)
• April 14
  • Olaf Devik, Norwegian physicist and civil servant (b. 1886)
  • Karl Höller, German composer (b. 1907)
  • Alexey Leontiev, Russian scientist (b. 1917)
• April 15
  • Hans-Joachim Born, German radiochemist (b. 1909)
  • Bahatdin Mirzayev, Azerbaijani army captain (b. 1914)
  • Masatoshi Nakayama, Japanese karateka (b. 1913)
• April 16 – Juan Evangelista Venegas, Puerto Rican boxer (b. 1928)
• April 17
  • Carlton Barrett, Jamaican musician (b. 1950)
  • Ryosuke Kagawa, Japanese actor (b. 1896)
  • Dick Shawn, American actor (b. 1923)
  • Cornelius Van Til, Dutch-American philosopher and theologian (b. 1895)
• April 18
  • Kenneth Cook, Australian journalist and author (b. 1929)
  • Hugh B. Cott, English zoologist (b. 1900)
• April 19
  • Milt Kahl, American animator (b. 1909)
  • Paul Maye, French cyclist (b. 1913)
  • Maxwell D. Taylor, American general and diplomat (b. 1901)
  • Antony Tudor, English choreographer (b. 1908)
• April 20
  • Antonino Catalano, Italian cyclist (b. 1932)
  • Arturo Torres, Chilean footballer (b. 1906)
• April 21
  • Joseph Alcazar, French footballer (b. 1910)
  • José Bañón, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1922)
  • Gustav Bergmann, Austrian-American philosopher (b. 1906)
  • Aleksey Burdeyny, Russian colonel general (b. 1908)
  • Edith Green, American politician (b. 1910)
  • Patrick Martin, American bobsledder (b. 1923)
• April 22
  • Margaret Ponce Israel, Cuban-American painter and ceramicist (b. 1929)
  • Erika Nõva, Estonian architect (b. 1905)
• April 23 – Pierre Benoit, French priest and theologian (b. 1906)
• April 24
  • Alexis Chantraine, Belgian footballer (b. 1901)
  • Ingebrigt Johansson, Norwegian mathematician (b. 1904)
  • Pablo Acosta Villarreal, Mexican drug smuggler (b. 1937)
• April 25
  • Blas Roca Calderio, Cuban politician (b. 1908)
  • Pētõr Damberg, Latvian linguist and poet (b. 1909)
• April 26
• April 27 – Attila Hörbiger, Austrian actor (b. 1896)
• April 28
  • Ben Linder, American engineer (b. 1959)
  • Paul Martin, Swiss runner (b. 1901)
  • Rolf Monsen, American skier (b. 1899)
  • Emil Staiger, Swiss historian and author (b. 1908)
• April 29
  • Gus Johnson, American basketball player (b. 1938)
  • Angelo Scalzone, Italian sport shooter (b. 1931)
  • Zachari Zachariev, Bulgarian colonel general (b. 1904)
• April 30 – Marc Aaronson, American astronomer (b. 1950)

May 1987

• May 1 – Paul Geidel, American murderer and record holder (b. 1894)
• May 2 – Reidar Carlsen, Norwegian politician (b. 1908)
• May 3
  • Dalida Gigliotti, Italian-French singer (b. 1933)
  • Roberto Santos, Brazilian film director (b. 1928)
• May 4
  • Paul Butterfield, American musician (b. 1942)
  • Cathryn Damon, American actress (b. 1930)
  • Paul Groesse, American art director (b. 1906)
  • Wilbur Little, American bassist (b. 1928)
• May 5
• May 6
  • William J. Casey, American CIA director (b. 1913)
  • Lucien Choury, French cyclist (b. 1898)
  • Stanislav Lusk, Czech rower (b. 1931)
  • Karel Plicka, Czech photographer and film director (b. 1894)
• May 7
  • Colin Blakely, Northern Irish actor (b. 1930)
  • Stewart McKinney, American politician (b. 1931)
• May 8 – Carl Tchilinghiryan, German businessman (b. 1910)
• May 9
  • Obafemi Awolowo, Nigerian politician (b. 1909)
  • Jimmy Kruger, South African politician (b. 1917)
  • Brian Shenton, English sprinter (b. 1927)
• May 10 – Sadamichi Hirasawa, Japanese painter (b. 1892)
• May 11 – James Jesus Angleton, American spy (b. 1917)
• May 12
  • Luigi Carpentieri, Italian film producer (b. 1920)
  • Victor Feldman, English musician (b. 1934)
  • Zsuzsa Makai, Romanian-Hungarian chess player (b. 1945)
  • Giancarlo Marinelli, Italian basketball player (b. 1915)
  • Delos Thurber, American high jumper (b. 1916)
• May 13
  • Richard Ellmann, American critic and author (b. 1918)
  • Phil Moore, American pianist and bandleader (b. 1918)
  • Georgy Petrov, Russian engineer (b. 1912)
  • Ismael Rivera, Puerto Rican composer and singer (b. 1931)
  • Ron Saggers, Australian cricketer (b. 1917)
• May 14
  • Herbert Friedmann, American ornithologist (b. 1900)
  • Rita Hayworth, American actress (b. 1918)
  • Jānis Lipke, Latvian dock worker and holocaust savior (b. 1900)
  • Elizabeth Zarubina, Russian spy (b. 1900)
  • Vitomil Zupan, Slovenian author (b. 1914)
• May 15 – Wynne Gibson, American actress (b. 1898)
• May 16
• May 17
  • Józsa Lángos, Hungarian chess player (b. 1911)
  • Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish economist and sociologist (b. 1898)
• May 18
  • Mahdi Amel, Lebanese philosopher (b. 1936)
  • Heðin Brú, Faroese author and translator (b. 1901)
  • Hossein Fardoust, Iranian general (b. 1917)
• May 19
  • Valentín Paz Andrade, Spanish author and politician (b. 1898)
  • Stanisław Szukalski, Polish sculptor and painter (b. 1893)
  • James Tiptree Jr., American author (b. 1915)
• May 20
  • Kenji Imai, Japanese architect (b. 1895)
  • Ma Sicong, Chinese violinist and composer (b. 1912)
• May 21
  • Archie Carr, American herpetologist and ecologist (b. 1909)
  • Emmy Damerius-Koenen, German politician (b. 1903)
  • Vafa Fatullayeva, Azerbaijani actress (b. 1945)
  • Alejandro Rey, Argentine-American actor (b. 1930)
  • Marie Větrovská, Czech gymnast (b. 1912)
• May 22
  • Thornton Freeland, American film director (b. 1898)
  • Mario Zafred, Italian composer and critic (b. 1922)
• May 23
  • Karel Albert, Belgian composer (b. 1901)
  • Shamsi Badalbeyli, Azerbaijani theatre director and actor (b. 1911)
• May 24
  • James J. Delaney, American politician (b. 1901)
  • Hermione Gingold, English actress (b. 1897)
  • Lajos Ligeti, Hungarian orientalist and philologist (b. 1902)
  • Eugen Relgis, Romanian author and philosopher (b. 1895)
• May 25 – William Kelly Harrison Jr., American lieutenant general (b. 1895)
• May 26
  • Arthur M. Sackler, American psychiatrist (b. 1913)
  • Robert Wilkins, American guitarist and singer (b. 1896)
  • Ajita Wilson, American actress (b. 1950)
  • Emiliana de Zubeldia, Spanish pianist and composer (b. 1888)
• May 27
  • Federico Allasio, Italian footballer (b. 1914)
  • Jack Heid, American cyclist (b. 1924)
  • Colin McCahon, New Zealand painter (b. 1919)
  • John Howard Northrop, American biochemist (b. 1891)
  • Richard Bruce Nugent, American author and painter (b. 1906)
  • Fatemeh Pahlavi, Iranian-English princess (b. 1928)
• May 28
  • John Archer, English footballer (b. 1936)
  • Frits Ruimschotel, Dutch water polo player (b. 1922)
• May 29
  • Jean Delay, French psychiatrist and neurologist (b. 1907)
  • Charan Singh, Indian politician, Prime Minister of India (b. 1902)
• May 30
  • Frank Carlson, American politician (b. 1893)
  • Eliot Hodgkin, English painter (b. 1905)
  • Miyuki Ishikawa, Japanese serial killer (b. 1897)
  • Honorino Landa, Chilean footballer (b. 1942)
  • Hilde Weissner, German actress (b. 1909)
• May 31 – Dorothy Patrick, Canadian-American actress (b. 1921)

June 1987

• June 1
  • Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, Indian film director and screenwriter (b. 1914)
  • Emiliano Álvarez, Spanish cyclist (b. 1912)
  • Errol Barrow, Barbadian politician, Prime Minister of Barbados (b. 1920)
  • Georg Friedel, German footballer (b. 1913)
  • Rashid Karami, Lebanese politician, Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1921)
  • Domenico Piemontesi, Italian cyclist (b. 1903)
• June 2
  • Georges Doriot, French-American businessman (b. 1899)
  • Sammy Kaye, American bandleader and songwriter (b. 1910)
  • Anthony de Mello, Indian-American priest and psychotherapist (b. 1931)
  • Henry Palmé, Swedish runner (b. 1907)
  • François Perroux, French economist (b. 1903)
  • Andrés Segovia, Spanish guitarist (b. 1893)
• June 3
  • Jackie Fields, American boxer (b. 1908)
  • Will Sampson, American actor (b. 1933)
  • Herbert Schultze, German nazi submarine commander (b. 1909)
• June 4
  • Martti Lauronen, Finnish skier (b. 1913)
  • Gerhard Pedersen, Danish boxer (b. 1912)
  • Nathan Rapoport, Polish sculptor and painter (b. 1911)
• June 5
  • Joe Bradley, American basketball player (b. 1928)
  • Gusztáv Szepesi, Hungarian footballer (b. 1939)
• June 6
  • Alexander Altmann, Slovakian-English scholar and rabbi (b. 1906)
  • Burhan Atak, Turkish footballer (b. 1905)
  • Dmitri Klebanov, Ukrainian composer (b. 1907)
  • Mari Mori, Japanese author (b. 1903)
  • Richard Münch, German actor (b. 1916)
  • Eduard Petiška, Czech author (b. 1924)
  • Aneesur Rahman, Indian physicist (b. 1927)
• June 7
  • Humberto Costantini, Argentine author and poet (b. 1924)
  • Shosei Go, Taiwanese-Japanese baseball player (b. 1916)
  • Samvel Grigoryan, Armenian poet and translator (b. 1907)
  • Hashimoto Mantaro, Japanese sinologist and linguist (b. 1932)
  • Sudha Roy, Indian trade unionist and politician (b. 1914)
  • Cahit Zarifoğlu, Turkish poet and author (b. 1940)
• June 8
  • Gary Driscoll, American drummer (b. 1946)
  • Alexander Iolas, Greek-American art dealer (b. 1908)
  • Daniel Mandell, American film editor (b. 1895)
  • Jacques Fred Petrus, Guadeloupean-Italian businessman and record producer (b. 1948)
• June 9
  • Raya Dunayevskaya, Ukrainian-American philosopher (b. 1910)
  • Monique Haas, French pianist (b. 1909)
  • Gustaf Håkansson, Swedish cyclist (b. 1885)
  • Madge Kennedy, American actress (b. 1891)
  • Karl Rainer, Austrian footballer and manager (b. 1901)
  • Grandon Rhodes, American actor (b. 1904)
  • Wilhelm Runge, German engineer and physicist (b. 1895)
• June 10
  • Daud Beureu'eh, Indonesian politician (b. 1899)
  • Jeevan Dhar, Indian actor (b. 1915)
  • August Eskelinen, Finnish biathlete (b. 1898)
  • Elizabeth Hartman, American actress (b. 1943)
  • Nikolay Skorobogatov, Russian actor (b. 1923)
• June 11
  • Ralph Guldahl, American golfer (b. 1911)
  • Aleksandr Lokshin, Russian composer (b. 1920)
  • Joseph Salas, American boxer (b. 1905)
  • Dan Vadis, American actor (b. 1938)
• June 12
  • Tuvia Bielski, Belarusian partisan (b. 1906)
  • Luis Duggan, Argentine polo player (b. 1906)
  • Paul Janes, German footballer (b. 1912)
  • Vasily Smirnov, Russian footballer (b. 1908)
• June 13
  • Vera Caspary, American author and screenwriter (b. 1899)
  • Johnny High, American basketball player (b. 1957)
  • Heinz Kloss, German linguist (b. 1904)
  • Pentti Kontula, Finnish boxer (b. 1930)
  • Cemil Meriç, Turkish author and translator (b. 1916)
  • Geraldine Page, American actress (b. 1924)
• June 14
  • Stanisław Bareja, Polish film director and screenwriter (b. 1929)
  • Burhanuddin Harahap, Indonesian politician, Prime Minister of Indonesia (b. 1917)
  • Ester Roeck-Hansen, Swedish actress (b. 1897)
• June 15
  • Robert George Harrington, American astronomer (b. 1904)
  • Walter Heller, American economist (b. 1915)
• June 16
  • June Knight, American actress and singer (b. 1913)
  • John Mikaelsson, Swedish racewalker (b. 1913)
  • Kōji Tsuruta, Japanese actor and singer (b. 1924)
• June 17
  • Fabio Battesini, Italian cyclist (b. 1912)
  • Yasuo Haruyama, Japanese footballer (b. 1906)
• June 18
  • Harold F. Cherniss, American historian (b. 1904)
  • Bruce Marshall, Scottish author (b. 1899)
• June 19
  • Hermann-Heinrich Behrend, German general (b. 1898)
  • Ian Donald, English physician (b. 1910)
• June 20
  • Salim Ali, Indian ornithologist (b. 1896)
  • Leonid Kharitonov, Russian actor (b. 1930)
  • Hiro Saga, Japanese-Chinese princess and author (b. 1914)
• June 21
  • Erik Bisgaard, Danish rower (b. 1890)
  • Mariano Cañardo, Spanish cyclist (b. 1906)
  • Madman Muntz, American businessman (b. 1914)
• June 22
  • Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali, Moroccan scholar (b. 1893)
  • Nicholas Alkemade, English flight sergeant (b. 1922)
  • Fred Astaire, American actor and dancer (b. 1899)
  • August Bivec, Croatian footballer and manager (b. 1909)
  • Yun Il-seon, South Korean politician and pathologist (b. 1896)
  • Joseph Meyer, American songwriter (b. 1894)
  • Raymond Ruyer, French philosopher (b. 1902)
• June 23
  • Sauveur Ducazeaux, French cyclist (b. 1910)
  • Jan de Looper, Dutch field hockey player (b. 1914)
  • Mary Somerset, English royal and athlete (b. 1897)
• June 24 – Jackie Gleason, American actor and comedian (b. 1916)
• June 25
  • Boudleaux Bryant, American songwriter (b. 1920)
  • Tony Skyrme, English physicist (b. 1922)
• June 26
  • Henk Badings, Dutch composer (b. 1907)
  • Arthur F. Burns, American economist and diplomat (b. 1904)
  • Glen Hall, South African cricketer (b. 1938)
  • Gábor Rejtő, Hungarian cellist (b. 1916)
  • Gerhard Wagner, German admiral (b. 1898)
• June 27
  • Ratomir Dugonjić, Bosnian politician (b. 1916)
  • Althea Flynt, American magazine publisher (b. 1953)
  • Pat McGuigan, Irish singer (b. 1935)
  • František Šafránek, Czech footballer (b. 1931)
  • Božidar Senčar, Croatian footballer (b. 1927)
  • Billy Snedden, Australian politician (b. 1926)
  • Aslan Vazirov, Azerbaijani colonel (b. 1910)
• June 28
  • Lev Milchin, Russian animator (b. 1920)
  • Clarisse Ratsifandrihamanana, Malagasy author (b. 1926)
• June 29
  • Elizabeth Cotten, American musician (b. 1893)
  • Antonio Janni, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1904)
  • Ēriks Pētersons, Latvian footballer and ice hockey player (b. 1909)
  • Shmuel Tamir, Israeli politician (b. 1923)
• June 30
  • King Donovan, American actor (b. 1918)
  • Maurice Geraghty, American screenwriter (b. 1908)
  • Federico Mompou, Spanish composer and pianist (b. 1893)
  • Torborg Nedreaas, Norwegian author (b. 1906)
  • Thor Thorvaldsen, Norwegian sailor (b. 1909)

July 1987

• July 1
  • Philip Lithman, English musician (b. 1949)
  • Jerry Livingston, American songwriter and pianist (b. 1909)
  • Jesús Narro, Spanish footballer (b. 1922)
  • Henrik Wiehe, Danish actor (b. 1927)
• July 2
  • Michael Bennett, American theatre director and choreographer (b. 1943)
  • Václav Černý, Czech scholar and author (b. 1905)
  • Karl Linnas, Estonian war criminal (b. 1919)
• July 3 – Viola Dana, American actress (b. 1897)
• July 4
  • Abdul Halim, Indonesian politician, Prime Minister of Indonesia (b. 1911)
  • Bengt Strömgren, Danish astronomer (b. 1908)
• July 5
  • Alan Gibson, Canadian-English film director (b. 1938)
  • Karel Steklý, Czech film director (b. 1903)
• July 6 – László Pusztai, Hungarian footballer (b. 1946)
• July 7
  • William Dodge, American bobsledder (b. 1925)
  • Tibor Frešo, Slovakian composer and conductor (b. 1918)
  • Josef Mach, Czech actor and screenwriter (b. 1909)
  • Henri Robert, French perfumer and chemist (b. 1899)
  • Hannelore Schroth, German actress (b. 1922)
• July 8
  • Gerardo Diego, Spanish poet (b. 1896)
  • Franjo Wölfl, Croatian footballer (b. 1918)
• July 9 – Ulas Samchuk, Ukrainian author and journalist (b. 1905)
• July 10 – John Hammond, American record producer and activist (b. 1910)
• July 11
  • Ville Mattila, Finnish skier (b. 1903)
  • Avi Ran, Israeli footballer (b. 1963)
  • Tom Waddell, American decathlete and physician (b. 1937)
• July 12
  • Harold Goodwin, American actor (b. 1902)
  • Rudolf Lenz, Austrian actor (b. 1920)
  • Marguerite Renoir, French film editor (b. 1906)
• July 13 – Isidre Puig Boada, Spanish architect (b. 1891)
• July 14
  • William Stuart-Houston, English-American soldier (b. 1911)
  • Pak Yung-sun, North Korean table tennis player (b. 1956)
  • Viktor Zhdanov, Russian virologist and epidemiologist (b. 1914)
• July 15 – Margarete Schlegel, German actress and opera singer (b. 1899)
• July 16
  • Alfie Bass, English actor (b. 1916)
  • Pierre Lardinois, Dutch politician (b. 1924)
• July 17
  • Jörg Fauser, German author and poet (b. 1944)
  • Yūjirō Ishihara, Japanese actor and singer (b. 1934)
  • Howard McGhee, American trumpeter (b. 1918)
  • Kristjan Palusalu, Estonian wrestler (b. 1908)
• July 18 – Gilberto Freyre, Brazilian sociologist and anthropologist (b. 1900)
• July 19 – Clementina de Jesus, Brazilian singer (b. 1901)
• July 20
  • Norbert Casteret, French explorer (b. 1897)
  • Richard Egan, American actor (b. 1921)
  • Dmitry Lelyushenko, Russian general (b. 1901)
  • Alexander Wood, Scottish-American footballer (b. 1907)
• July 21
  • Curt Bergsten, Swedish footballer (b. 1912)
  • Obid Sodyqov, Uzbekistani chemist and politician (b. 1913)
• July 22
  • Adele Comandini, American screenwriter (b. 1898)
  • Fahrettin Kerim Gökay, Turkish politician (b. 1900)
  • Mary Cover Jones, American psychologist (b. 1897)
  • Jack Lescoulie, American television personality (b. 1912)
  • C. B. Macpherson, Canadian political scientist (b. 1911)
  • Henri-François Rey, French author and playwright (b. 1919)
  • A. G. Kripal Singh, Indian cricketer (b. 1933)
• July 23
  • Song Deok-gi, South Korean martial artist (b. 1893)
  • Art Jarrett, American singer and bandleader (b. 1907)
• July 24 – Anna-Eva Bergman, Norwegian painter (b. 1909)
• July 25
  • Malcolm Baldrige Jr., American businessman and politician (b. 1922)
  • Wan Chun Cheng, Chinese botanist (b. 1908)
  • Charles Stark Draper, American scientist and engineer (b. 1901)
  • Werner Hamel, German field hockey player (b. 1911)
• July 26
  • Tawfiq al-Hakim, Egyptian author and playwright (b. 1898)
  • Frank Marshall Davis, American journalist and poet (b. 1905)
  • Joe Liggins, American pianist and singer (b. 1916)
  • George O'Day, American sailor (b. 1923)
  • Hugh Wheeler, English author and screenwriter (b. 1912)
• July 27
  • Travis Jackson, American baseball player (b. 1903)
  • Jan Mikusiński, Polish mathematician (b. 1913)
• July 28
  • Dmitri Bilenkin, Russian author (b. 1933)
  • James Burnham, American philosopher (b. 1905)
  • Feodor Fedorenko, Ukrainian war criminal (b. 1907)
  • George Gulack, American gymnast (b. 1905)
• July 29 – Aleksey Sukletin, Russian serial killer (b. 1943)
• July 30
  • Andrei Bărbulescu, Romanian footballer (b. 1909)
  • Lado Davidov, Russian sergeant (b. 1924)
  • Narciso Soldan, Italian footballer (b. 1927)
  • Michel Tapié, French critic and art curator (b. 1909)
• July 31
  • Joseph E. Levine, American film producer (b. 1905)
  • Aleksandar Petrović, Serbian footballer (b. 1914)

August 1987

• August 1
  • Benson Fong, American actor (b. 1916)
  • Pola Negri, Polish-American actress and singer (b. 1897)
  • Evelyn Nelson, Canadian mathematician (b. 1943)
  • Alois Pfeiffer, German trade unionist (b. 1924)
• August 2
  • Abu Sayeed Chowdhury, Bangladeshi politician, Prime Minister of Bangladesh (b. 1921)
  • Kanjeng Mangkunegara VIII, Indonesian politician (b. 1925)
  • Aileen Meagher, Canadian sprinter and painter (b. 1910)
  • Adolf Schön, German cyclist (b. 1906)
  • Myron Stout, American painter (b. 1908)
• August 3
  • Ivan Mykolaichuk, Ukrainian actor (b. 1941)
  • Ivan Svanidze, Russian academic (b. 1927)
  • Elizabeth Visser, Dutch historian (b. 1908)
• August 4
  • Elizabeth Ayer, American architect (b. 1897)
  • Dick Farney, Brazilian pianist and composer (b. 1921)
  • József Fekete, Hungarian gymnast (b. 1923)
  • Jesse M. Unruh, American politician (b. 1922)
• August 5
  • Grete Albrecht, German neurologist (b. 1893)
  • Anatoli Papanov, Russian actor (b. 1922)
  • Tatsuhiko Shibusawa, Japanese author and critic (b. 1928)
• August 6
  • Abbas Babaei, Iraqi brigadier general (b. 1950)
  • Sherwood Bailey, American actor and engineer (b. 1923)
  • Ira C. Eaker, American general (b. 1896)
  • Lena Küchler-Silberman, Polish resistance fighter (b. 1910)
  • Léon Noël, French diplomat and politician (b. 1888)
• August 7
  • Mihailo Apostolski, Macedonian general and politician (b. 1906)
  • Jeanne Boitel, French actress (b. 1904)
  • Camille Chamoun, Lebanese politician, President of Lebanon (b. 1900)
  • Nobusuke Kishi, Japanese politician, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1896)
  • Aleksey Smirnov, Russian fighter pilot (b. 1917)
• August 8
  • Danilo Blanuša, Croatian mathematician and physicist (b. 1903)
  • Julián Gorkin, Spanish politician and author (b. 1901)
• August 9
  • Rudolf Broby-Johansen, Danish historian and activist (b. 1900)
  • August Miete, German nazi officer (b. 1908)
• August 10
  • Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas, Greek poet and politician, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1893)
  • Casey Donovan, American pornographic actor (b. 1943)
  • Edmund Germer, German inventor (b. 1901)
  • Uys Krige, South African author and poet (b. 1910)
  • Yvonne Nèvejean, Polish political scientist and holocaust savior (b. 1900)
  • Patrick O'Boyle, American cardinal (b. 1896)
  • Raquel Torres, Mexican-American actress (b. 1908)
  • Takehiko Yamashina, Japanese prince (b. 1898)
• August 11
  • Živko Čingo, Macedonian author (b. 1935)
  • Walter Herrmann, German physicist (b. 1910)
  • Mikhail Ovsyannikov, Russian philosopher and academic (b. 1915)
  • Metaksia Simonyan, Armenian actress (b. 1926)
• August 12
  • Alison Marjorie Ashby, Australian artist (b. 1901)
  • Sally Long, American dancer and actress (b. 1901)
• August 13 – Nico Pepe, Italian actor (b. 1917)
• August 14
  • Sydney Bromley, English actor (b. 1909)
  • Albert Mayaud, French water polo player (b. 1899)
  • Vincent Persichetti, American composer and pianist (b. 1915)
• August 15
  • Shukur Burkhanov, Uzbekistani actor (b. 1910)
  • Kārlis Ozoliņš, Latvian politician (b. 1905)
  • Louis Scutenaire, Belgian poet and civil servant (b. 1905)
• August 16
  • Sumiko Kurishima, Japanese actress and dancer (b. 1902)
  • Andrei Mironov, Russian actor (b. 1941)
  • Nick Vanos, American basketball player (b. 1963)
• August 17
  • Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Brazilian poet and author (b. 1902)
  • Clarence Brown, American film director (b. 1890)
  • Rudolf Hess, German nazi politician (b. 1894)
  • Shaike Ophir, Israeli actor (b. 1928)
  • Heinz Schubert, German war criminal (b. 1914)
  • Tjilik Riwut, Indonesian journalist and politician (b. 1918)
• August 18
  • Shichirō Fukazawa, Japanese author and guitarist (b. 1914)
  • Dambudzo Marechera, Zimbabwean author and poet (b. 1952)
• August 19
  • Hayden Rorke, American actor (b. 1910)
  • Paul Schlack, German chemist (b. 1897)
  • Yidnekatchew Tessema, Ethiopian footballer (b. 1921)
• August 20
  • Winifred Bryson, American actress (b. 1892)
  • Walenty Kłyszejko, Estonian-Polish basketball player and coach (b. 1909)
  • José Bueno y Monreal, Spanish cardinal (b. 1904)
• August 21
  • Steve Davis, American bassist (b. 1929)
  • Li Fang-Kuei, Chinese linguist (b. 1902)
  • Angelo Francesco Lavagnino, Italian composer (b. 1909)
  • Bombolo Lechner, Italian actor (b. 1931)
• August 22 – Arne Brustad, Norwegian footballer (b. 1912)
• August 23
  • Siegfried Borris, German composer and musicologist (b. 1906)
  • Thomas D'Alesandro Jr., American politician (b. 1903)
  • Olga Imerslund, Norwegian pediatrician (b. 1907)
  • Didier Pironi, French racing driver (b. 1952)
  • Stéphanos I Sidarouss, Egyptian cardinal (b. 1904)
• August 24
  • Helmer Pedersen, Danish-New Zealand sailor (b. 1930)
  • Bayard Rustin, American activist (b. 1912)
  • Robert Selfelt, Swedish equestrian and army major (b. 1903)
• August 25
  • Héctor Abad Gómez, Colombian physician and journalist (b. 1921)
  • Roger Houdet, French engineer and politician (b. 1899)
• August 26
  • Alexandru Borbely, Romanian footballer and manager (b. 1910)
  • Vern Gardner, American basketball player (b. 1925)
  • José Villalba, Argentine footballer (b. 1920)
  • Georg Wittig, German chemist (b. 1897)
• August 27
  • Peter Mehringer, American wrestler (b. 1910)
  • Scott La Rock, American disc jockey and music producer (b. 1962)
  • Aleksanteri Toivola, Finnish wrestler (b. 1893)
• August 28
  • John Huston, American film director and screenwriter (b. 1906)
  • Hoàng Cơ Minh, Vietnamese commodore and politician (b. 1935)
• August 29
  • Naji al-Ali, Palestinian cartoonist (b. 1938)
  • Henryk Bąk, Polish actor (b. 1923)
  • Hans Eidenbenz, Swiss skier (b. 1900)
  • Bernadene Hayes, American actress (b. 1912)
  • Lee Marvin, American actor (b. 1924)
  • Josef Molzer, Austrian footballer and manager (b. 1906)
  • Jean Schlumberger, French jewelry designer (b. 1907)
  • Phillip Hagar Smith, American engineer (b. 1905)
• August 30
  • George Mikes, Hungarian-English journalist and author (b. 1912)
  • Jacoba Stelma, Dutch gymnast (b. 1907)
• August 31
  • Karl-Ludvig Bugge, Norwegian actor and screenwriter (b. 1915)
  • Szilárd Kun, Hungarian sport shooter (b. 1935)

September 1987

• September 1
  • Gerhard Fieseler, German fighter pilot (b. 1896)
  • Arnaldo Momigliano, Italian historian (b. 1908)
  • Thomas Robert Soderstrom, American agrostologist (b. 1936)
• September 2
  • Leon Blevins, American basketball player and coach (b. 1926)
  • Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean, Argentine general and politician, President of Argentina (b. 1926)
  • Ramesh Naidu, Indian composer (b. 1933)
• September 3
  • Morton Feldman, American composer (b. 1926)
  • Maxwell Fry, English architect and author (b. 1899)
  • Zinken Hopp, Norwegian author and poet (b. 1905)
  • Andriy Kotska, Ukrainian painter (b. 1911)
  • Aleksandr Nadiradze, Russian engineer (b. 1914)
  • Viktor Nekrasov, Russian author (b. 1911)
• September 4
  • Bill Bowes, English cricketer (b. 1908)
  • Richard Marquand, Welsh film director (b. 1934)
• September 5
  • Wolfgang Fortner, German composer and conductor (b. 1907)
  • Alexander Kibalnikov, Russian sculptor (b. 1912)
  • Quinn Martin, American television producer (b. 1922)
• September 6 – Enrique de la Mata, Spanish politician (b. 1933)
• September 7
  • Gordon Gollob, Austrian fighter pilot (b. 1912)
  • Claus Wiese, Norwegian-American actor and broadcaster (b. 1924)
• September 8
  • Konrad Georg, German actor (b. 1914)
  • Roberto Tremelloni, Italian economist and politician (b. 1900)
• September 9
  • Gunnar de Frumerie, Swedish composer and pianist (b. 1908)
  • Vratislav Mazák, Czech biologist (b. 1937)
  • Vera Schmiterlöw, Swedish actress (b. 1904)
  • Fritz Wagner, Swiss footballer (b. 1913)
• September 10 – Benjamin Howard Baker, English athlete (b. 1892)
• September 11
  • Lorne Greene, Canadian actor and singer (b. 1915)
  • Park Il-kap, South Korean footballer (b. 1923)
  • Peter Tosh, Jamaican musician (b. 1944)
  • Mahadevi Varma, Indian poet and author (b. 1907)
  • John Lloyd Waddy, Australian pilot and politician (b. 1916)
• September 12
  • J. Lawton Collins, American general (b. 1896)
  • William Dickson, English pilot (b. 1898)
  • Douglas Morton Dunlop, English historian (b. 1909)
  • John Qualen, Canadian-American actor (b. 1899)
  • Väinö Sipilä, Finnish runner (b. 1897)
• September 13 – Mervyn LeRoy, American film director and producer (b. 1900)
• September 14
  • Octave Dayen, French cyclist (b. 1906)
  • Julien Kialunda, Congolese footballer (b. 1940)
  • Erik Lundberg, Swedish economist (b. 1907)
  • Henry Wrigley, Australian vice marshal (b. 1892)
• September 15
  • Wilhelm Berlin, German general (b. 1889)
  • Leon Hirszman, Brazilian film director and screenwriter (b. 1937)
• September 16
  • Nils Björklöf, Finnish canoeist (b. 1921)
  • Christopher Soames, English politician (b. 1920)
• September 17
  • Vladimir Basov, Russian actor and film director (b. 1923)
  • Musa Gareyev, Russian colonel (b. 1922)
  • Dieter Schidor, German actor (b. 1948)
• September 18 – Américo Tomás, Portuguese admiral and politician, President of Portugal (b. 1894)
• September 19
  • Betty Burbridge, American screenwriter and actress (b. 1895)
  • Einar Gerhardsen, Norwegian politician, Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1897)
  • Nyamyn Jagvaral, Mongolian politician and economist (b. 1919)
  • Muhammad Mansuruddin, Bangladeshi author and critic (b. 1904)
  • Ken Uston, American blackjack player (b. 1935)
  • Mikhail Yudovich, Russian chess player and journalist (b. 1911)
• September 20 – Péter Török, Hungarian footballer (b. 1951)
• September 21
  • Aimo Aaltonen, Finnish politician (b. 1906)
  • Sven Andersson, Swedish politician (b. 1910)
  • Jaco Pastorius, American bassist (b. 1951)
  • Shirin Shukurov, Azerbaijani soldier (b. 1910)
• September 22
  • Hákun Djurhuus, Faroese politician, Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1908)
  • Fritz Eiberle, German footballer (b. 1904)
  • H. R. Gross, American politician (b. 1899)
  • Norman Luboff, American composer (b. 1917)
  • Carman Maxwell, American animator (b. 1902)
  • Dan Rowan, American actor and comedian (b. 1922)
• September 23
  • Bob Fosse, American choreographer and film director (b. 1927)
  • Erland Van Lidth De Jeude, Dutch-American actor and opera singer (b. 1953)
  • Louis Kentner, Hungarian-English pianist (b. 1905)
• September 24
  • Drew Bundini Brown, American boxing trainer (b. 1928)
  • Erhard Kroeger, German war criminal (b. 1905)
  • Sergio Pastore, Italian film director and screenwriter (b. 1932)
• September 25
  • Mary Astor, American actress (b. 1906)
  • Victoria Kent, Spanish politician (b. 1891)
  • Abba Kovner, Polish-Israeli poet (b. 1918)
  • Gennady Mikhasevich, Belarusian serial killer (b. 1947)
  • Emlyn Williams, Welsh playwright and actor (b. 1905)
• September 26
  • Jawad Ali, Iraqi historian (b. 1907)
  • Ethel Catherwood, American-Canadian athlete (b. 1908)
  • Co Prins, Dutch footballer (b. 1938)
  • Herbert Tichy, Austrian author and geologist (b. 1900)
• September 27 – M. K. K. Nair, Indian bureaucrat (b. 1920)
• September 28
  • Willard Harrison Bennett, American scientist and inventor (b. 1903)
  • Roman Brandstaetter, Polish author and poet (b. 1906)
  • Ray Madden, American politician (b. [[[1892]])
• September 29
  • Christopher Boardman, English sailor (b. 1903)
  • Henry Ford II, American businessman (b. 1917)
  • Vinodini Nilkanth, Indian author and translator (b. 1907)
  • Edmund Twórz, Polish footballer (b. 1914)
• September 30
  • Alfred Bester, American author (b. 1913)
  • Vsevolod Blinkov, Russian footballer and manager (b. 1918)
  • Geoffrey Bowers, American attorney (b. 1953)
  • Herbert Sobel, American lieutenant colonel (b. 1912)

October 1987

• October 1
  • Ralph Baum, German-French film producer (b. 1908)
  • June Clyde, American actress (b. 1909)
  • István Palotás, Hungarian footballer (b. 1908)
• October 2
  • Madeleine Carroll, English actress (b. 1906)
  • Peter Medawar, Brazilian-English biologist and author (b. 1915)
  • Russell Rouse, American screenwriter and film director (b. 1913)
  • Hryhoriy Vasiura, Ukrainian war criminal (b. 1915)
• October 3
  • Jean Anouilh, French playwright and screenwriter (b. 1910)
  • Hans Gál, Austrian composer and musicologist (b. 1890)
  • Mahamat Idriss, Chadian high jumper (b. 1942)
  • Maria Ivogün, Hungarian-German opera singer (b. 1891)
  • Kalervo Palsa, Finnish painter (b. 1947)
• October 4
• October 5
  • Vladimir Akimov, Russian water polo player (b. 1953)
  • Glynn Isaac, South African archaeologist (b. 1937)
  • Richard Kubus, German footballer (b. 1914)
• October 6
  • Grete Heckscher, Danish fencer (b. 1901)
  • Roald Jensen, Norwegian footballer (b. 1943)
  • Andrea Palma, Mexican actress (b. 1903)
  • Eugen Steimle, German nazi officer (b. 1909)
• October 7
  • Ivan Belošević, Croatian footballer (b. 1909)
  • Charles J. Carney, American politician (b. 1913)
  • Greta Granstedt, American actress (b. 1907)
  • Tom Tutin, English botanist (b. 1908)
• October 8
  • Spencer Gordon Bennet, American film producer and director (b. 1893)
  • Roger Lancelyn Green, English author (b. 1918)
  • Konstantinos Tsatsos, Greek diplomat and politician, President of Greece (b. 1899)
• October 9
  • Reginald Frederick Lawrence, South African arachnologist and myriapodologist (b. 1897)
  • Clare Boothe Luce, American politician and diplomat (b. 1903)
  • William P. Murphy, American physician (b. 1892)
  • Carlos Volante, Argentine footballer (b. 1905)
• October 10
  • Behice Boran, Turkish politician and sociologist (b. 1910)
  • Jaroslav Bouček, Czech footballer (b. 1912)
  • Gretl Braun, German nazi figure (b. 1915)
• October 11
  • Uwe Barschel, German politician (b. 1944)
  • Eske Brun, Danish-Greenlandic civil servant (b. 1904)
  • Jaime Pardo Leal, Colombian lawyer and politician (b. 1941)
  • Koldo Mitxelena, Spanish linguist (b. 1915)
  • Sándor Szalay, Hungarian physicist (b. 1909)
• October 12
  • Fahri Korutürk, Turkish politician, President of Turkey (b. 1903)
  • Alf Landon, American politician (b. 1887)
  • Gustavo Baz Prada, Mexican politician (b. 1894)
  • Heinz Vollmar, German footballer (b. 1936)
• October 13
  • Walter Houser Brattain, American physicist (b. 1902)
  • Kishore Kumar, Indian singer and actor (b. 1929)
  • Nilgün Marmara, Turkish poet (b. 1958)
• October 14
  • Elżbieta Barszczewska, Polish actress (b. 1913)
  • Nikolay Belov, Russian wrestler (b. 1919)
  • Rodolfo Halffter, Spanish composer (b. 1900)
• October 15
  • Thomas Andrew Donnellan, American archbishop (b. 1914)
  • August Erne, Swiss cyclist (b. 1905)
  • Nik Novecento, Italian actor (b. 1964)
  • Gabriele Salviati, Italian sprinter (b. 1910)
  • Thomas Sankara, Burkinabe politician, President of Burkina Faso (b. 1949)
  • Donald Wandrei, American author (b. 1908)
• October 16
  • Joseph Höffner, German cardinal (b. 1906)
  • Nazir Hussain, Indian actor (b. 1922)
  • Aleksandr Sery, Russian film director (b. 1927)
• October 17
  • Ruby Dandridge, American actress (b. 1900)
  • Roderich Menzel, Czech-German tennis player and author (b. 1907)
• October 18
  • Pete Carpenter, American trombonist and film composer (b. 1914)
  • Adriaan Ditvoorst, Dutch film director and screenwriter (b. 1940)
  • Philip Levine, Belarusian-American pathologist (b. 1900)
  • Joseph Schauers, American rower (b. 1909)
• October 19
  • Leon Còrdas, Spanish playwright (b. 1913)
  • Hermann Lang, German racing driver (b. 1909)
  • Igor Newerly, Polish author (b. 1903)
  • Jacqueline du Pré, English cellist (b. 1945)
• October 20
  • Jerzy Chromik, Polish runner (b. 1931)
  • Andrey Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1903)
  • Mecha Ortiz, Argentine actress (b. 1900)
  • Lars-Erik Sjöberg, Swedish ice hockey player (b. 1944)
  • Mária Sulyok, Hungarian actress (b. 1908)
• October 21
  • Pál Gábor, Hungarian film director and screenwriter (b. 1932)
  • Salme Rootare, Estonian chess player (b. 1913)
  • Bob Simmons, English stuntman and actor (b. 1923)
  • He Yingqin, Chinese politician (b. 1890)
• October 22
  • Anton von Habsburg-Lothringen, Austrian royal (b. 1901)
  • Lino Ventura, Italian actor (b. 1919)
• October 23
  • A. L. Morton, English historian (b. 1903)
  • Jimmy Mullen, English footballer (b. 1923)
  • Della H. Raney, American nurse (b. 1912)
  • Leonid Sandalov, Russian colonel general (b. 1900)
  • Alejandro Scopelli, Argentine-Italian footballer (b. 1908)
• October 24
  • Antonio Añoveros Ataún, Spanish priest (b. 1909)
  • Manoug Parikian, English violinist (b. 1920)
• October 25
  • Cecil Brown, American journalist (b. 1907)
  • Louis Guttman, American sociologist (b. 1916)
  • Willis Jackson, American saxophonist (b. 1928)
  • Pascal Jules, French cyclist (b. 1961)
  • Gerald Pearson, American physicist (b. 1905)
  • J. A. Ratcliffe, English physicist (b. 1902)
• October 26
  • Aldo Boffi, Italian footballer (b. 1915)
  • Hugh Aloysius Donohoe, American bishop (b. 1905)
  • Robert Allen Dyer, South African botanist (b. 1900)
  • Bjørge Lillelien, Norwegian journalist and sports commentator (b. 1927)
  • Adam Wolanin, Polish-American footballer (b. 1919)
• October 27
  • Jean Hélion, French painter (b. 1904)
  • Vijay Merchant, Indian cricketer (b. 1911)
  • Mario Siciliano, Italian film director and screenwriter (b. 1925)
• October 28
  • Djadoeg Djajakusuma, Indonesian film director (b. 1918)
  • André Masson, French painter (b. 1896)
• October 29
  • Albert P. Crary, American geophysicist (b. 1911)
  • Woody Herman, American musician (b. 1913)
• October 30 – Joseph Campbell, American author (b. 1904)
• October 31
  • Raj Chandra Bose, Indian-American mathematician and statistician (b. 1901)
  • Josef Erber, Austrian war criminal (b. 1897)

November 1987

• November 1
  • Leo Goldberg, American astronomer (b. 1913)
  • Yoo Jae-ha, South Korean singer (b. 1962)
  • René Lévesque, Canadian politician (b. 1922)
  • Pierre Matignon, French cyclist (b. 1943)
  • Tom Parker, English footballer and manager (b. 1897)
• November 2 – Anka Krizmanić, Croatian painter (b. 1896)
• November 3
  • Giorgi Antadze, Georgian footballer (b. 1920)
  • André Roussin, French playwright (b. 1911)
  • Liang Shih-chiu, Chinese author and translator (b. 1903)
• November 4
  • Óscar Bonfiglio, Mexican footballer (b. 1905)
  • Danielle Gaubert, French actress (b. 1943)
  • Tor Halvorsen, Norwegian trade unionist and politician (b. 1930)
  • Raphael Soyer, Russian-American painter (b. 1899)
  • Paulin Soumanou Vieyra, Senegalese film director and historian (b. 1925)
• November 5
  • Edvard Baghdasaryan, Armenian composer (b. 1922)
  • Carlos Ulrrico Cesco, Argentine astronomer (b. 1910)
  • Georges Franju, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1912)
  • Daasarathi Krishnamacharya, Indian poet and author (b. 1925)
  • Elimelekh Rimalt, Israeli activist and politician (b. 1907)
  • Arthur Schmidt, German general (b. 1895)
• November 6
  • Zohar Argov, Israeli singer (b. 1955)
  • Ross Barnett, American politician (b. 1898)
  • George Laurence, Canadian physicist (b. 1905)
  • Jean Rivier, French composer (b. 1896)
• November 7
  • Arne Borg, Swedish swimmer (b. 1901)
  • Abdurrahim Buza, Albanian painter (b. 1905)
  • Arthur Willis, English footballer (b. 1920)
• November 8
  • Boris Goldstein, Ukrainian violinist (b. 1922)
  • Yevgeniya Khanayeva, Russian actress (b. 1921)
• November 9 – Akhtar Hussain, Indian-Pakistani field hockey player (b. 1926)
• November 10
  • Seyni Kountché, Nigerien politician, President of Niger (b. 1931)
  • Mikhail Tsaryov, Russian actor (b. 1903)
• November 11
  • John King, American actor (b. 1909)
  • Liane Zimbler, Austrian-American architect (b. 1892)
• November 12
  • Veselinka Malinska, Macedonian politician (b. 1917)
  • Lasgush Poradeci, Albanian philologist and poet (b. 1899)
  • Menachem Ratzon, Israeli politician (b. 1919)
  • Ferenc Várkõi, Hungarian gymnast (b. 1916)
  • Cornelis Vreeswijk, Dutch-Swedish singer and poet (b. 1937)
• November 13
  • Eduardo Arbide, Argentine-Spanish footballer (b. 1900)
  • Julius Gábriš, Slovakian bishop (b. 1913)
  • A. L. Abdul Majeed, Sri Lankan politician (b. 1933)
  • Paul Neergaard, Danish agronomist and mycologist (b. 1907)
  • Joseph Phillips, Indian field hockey player (b. 1911)
  • William Rogers, American rugby player (b. 1902)
  • Galliano Rossini, Italian sport shooter (b. 1927)
  • Harold Vick, American saxophonist and flautist (b. 1936)
• November 14
  • Friedrich Bopp, German theoretical physicist (b. 1909)
  • Ann Christy, American actress (b. 1905)
  • Petras Griškevičius, Lithuanian politician (b. 1924)
  • Pieter Menten, Dutch war criminal (b. 1899)
• November 15
  • Ernő Goldfinger, Hungarian-English architect (b. 1902)
  • Kyösti Lehtonen, Finnish wrestler (b. 1931)
  • Shyamal Mitra, Indian singer (b. 1929)
• November 16 – Zubir Said, Singaporean composer (b. 1907)
• November 17
  • Gladys Carson, English swimmer (b. 1903)
  • Yisrael Kargman, Israeli politician (b. 1906)
  • Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Japanese actor (b. 1936)
• November 18 – Jacques Anquetil, French cyclist (b. 1934)
• November 19
  • Brand Blanshard, American philosopher (b. 1892)
  • Lee Byung-chul, South Korean businessman (b. 1910)
  • Clara Petrella, Italian opera singer (b. 1914)
• November 20
  • Giuseppe Gabrielli, Italian engineer (b. 1903)
  • Anthony Waters, Australian field hockey player (b. 1928)
• November 21
  • Howard E. Bigelow, American mycologist (b. 1923)
  • Alex Diggelmann, Swiss graphic designer (b. 1902)
  • Jim Folsom, American politician (b. 1908)
  • Ivan Jandl, Czech actor (b. 1937)
  • Axel Ståhle, Swedish equestrian and army captain (b. 1891)
• November 22
  • W. Haydon Burns, American politician (b. 1912)
  • Plácido Domingo Ferrer, Spanish opera singer (b. 1907)
  • Raymond D. Mindlin, American engineer (b. 1906)
• November 23
  • Joseph Beer, Polish-French composer (b. 1908)
  • Marcia Henderson, American actress (b. 1929)
  • Solomana Kante, Guinean author (b. 1922)
  • Antonio Sastre, Argentine footballer (b. 1911)
• November 24
  • Stan Hanson, English footballer (b. 1915)
  • Ove Joensen, Faroese sailor (b. 1948)
  • John Norton, American water polo player (b. 1899)
  • Anton Pieck, Dutch painter (b. 1895)
  • Abd al-Rahman Sharqawi, Egyptian author (b. 1921)
• November 25
  • Ramaswamy Parameshwaran, Indian army major (b. 1946)
  • Harold Washington, American politician (b. 1922)
• November 26
  • J. P. Guilford, American psychologist (b. 1897)
  • Peter Hujar, American photographer (b. 1934)
  • Morton Lowry, English actor (b. 1914)
  • Duncan Sandys, English politician (b. 1908)
  • Friedrich Wurmböck, Austrian handball player (b. 1903)
• November 27 – John Muafangejo, Namibian artist (b. 1943)
• November 28
  • Paul Arma, Hungarian-French pianist (b. 1905)
  • Choh Hao Li, Chinese-American biochemist (b. 1913)
  • Wolfgang Liebeneiner, German actor and film director (b. 1905)
  • Elisabeth Mulder, Spanish author and poet (b. 1904)
• November 29
  • Irene Handl, English actress and author (b. 1901)
  • Gwendolyn MacEwen, Canadian poet and author (b. 1941)
  • John Howard Pyle, American politician (b. 1906)
• November 30
  • Simon Carmiggelt, Dutch author and journalist (b. 1913)
  • Jimmy George, Indian volleyball player (b. 1955)
  • Josef Vrana, Czech bishop (b. 1905)

December 1987

• December 1
  • James Baldwin, American author (b. 1924)
  • Donn F. Eisele, American astronaut (b. 1930)
• December 2
  • Juan Alberto Melgar Castro, Honduran politician, President of Honduras (b. 1930)
  • Robert Filliou, French artist (b. 1926)
  • Felix Haurowitz, Czech-American physician and biochemist (b. 1896)
  • Luis Federico Leloir, Argentine physician and biochemist (b. 1906)
  • Myrta Silva, Puerto Rican singer (b. 1927)
  • Ernst Steinhoff, German rocket scientist (b. 1908)
  • Yakov Zeldovich, Belarusian physicist (b. 1914)
• December 3
  • Christine Busta, Austrian poet (b. 1915)
  • Robert Haskell, American politician (b. 1903)
  • Yevgeny Tolstikov, Russian explorer (b. 1913)
• December 4
  • Pericle Fazzini, Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1913)
  • Meinrad von Lauchert, German general (b. 1905)
  • Arnold Lobel, American author (b. 1933)
  • Rouben Mamoulian, Georgian-American film director (b. 1897)
  • Constantin Noica, Romanian philosopher and author (b. 1909)
  • Kurt Wöss, Austrian conductor and musicologist (b. 1914)
• December 5
  • Leonid Dimov, Romanian poet and translator (b. 1926)
  • Conny Plank, German record producer and musician (b. 1940)
  • Nikolai Skripko, Ukrainian air marshal (b. 1902)
• December 6
  • Sahak Karapetyan, Armenian physiologist and politician (b. 1906)
  • Peter Lorenz, German politician (b. 1922)
  • Ilmari Pakarinen, Finnish gymnast (b. 1910)
  • David J. Schwartz, American author (b. 1927)
  • Ba Swe, Burmese politician, Prime Minister of Burma (b. 1915)
• December 7
  • Jane Mouton, American theorist (b. 1930)
  • Helen Porter, English botanist (b. 1899)
• December 8
  • Fay Baker, American actress (b. 1917)
  • Marcos Calderón, Peruvian footballer and manager (b. 1928)
  • José Casanova, Peruvian footballer (b. 1964)
  • Luis Antonio Escobar, Peruvian footballer (b. 1969)
  • José González Ganoza, Peruvian footballer (b. 1954)
  • Annelies Kupper, German opera singer (b. 1906)
  • Sigrid Helliesen Lund, Norwegian activist (b. 1892)
  • Philippe Tesnière, French cyclist (b. 1955)
  • Johnny Watson, Peruvian footballer (b. 1963)
• December 9
  • Ernest Augustus, German prince (b. 1914)
  • János Bédl, Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1929)
  • Anton Bulla, Slovakian footballer (b. 1901)
  • François Gall, Hungarian-French painter (b. 1912)
• December 10
  • Giovanni Arpino, Italian author and journalist (b. 1927)
  • Jascha Heifetz, Russian-American violinist (b. 1901)
  • Carlota Jaramillo, Ecuadorian singer (b. 1904)
  • Liisa Nevalainen, Finnish actress (b. 1916)
  • Denis Sanders, American film director (b. 1929)
  • Slam Stewart, American double bassist (b. 1914)
• December 11
  • George Harold Brown, American engineer (b. 1908)
  • Emil Mazuw, German nazi politician (b. 1900)
  • William Thornton Mustard, Canadian physician (b. 1914)
  • Adile Naşit, Turkish actress (b. 1930)
• December 12
  • Bodil Begtrup, Danish activist and diplomat (b. 1903)
  • Clifton Chenier, American musician (b. 1925)
  • Enrique Jorrín, Cuban violinist and composer (b. 1926)
• December 13
  • Julien Darui, French footballer (b. 1916)
  • Claude T. Smith, American conductor and composer (b. 1932)
• December 14
  • Copi Botana, Argentine-French author and cartoonist (b. 1939)
  • Siegfried Haß, German general (b. 1898)
  • Georg Knöpfle, German footballer and manager (b. 1904)
  • Clinton Sundberg, American actor (b. 1903)
  • John Winterton, English major general (b. 1898)
• December 15
  • Seitnebi Abduramanov, Russian sergeant (b. 1914)
  • François Borde, French rugby player (b. 1899)
  • Ivo Lapenna, Croatian academic (b. 1909)
  • Bohumil Říha, Czech author (b. 1907)
• December 16
  • Alfons Bērziņš, Latvian speed skater (b. 1916)
  • Shigeru Tamura, Japanese photographer (b. 1909)
• December 17
  • Bernardus Johannes Alfrink, Dutch cardinal (b. 1900)
  • Irving Allen, American film producer and director (b. 1905)
  • Arkady Raikin, Latvian-Russian comedian and actor (b. 1911)
  • Linda Wong, American pornographic actress (b. 1951)
  • Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian-French author (b. 1903)
• December 18
  • Harold Charles Bold, American botanist (b. 1909)
  • Warne Marsh, American saxophonist (b. 1927)
• December 19
  • Guðmundur Ívarsson Guðmundsson, Icelandic politician (b. 1909)
  • Valsø Holm, Danish actor (b. 1906)
  • August Mälk, Estonian author and politician (b. 1900)
• December 20
• December 21
  • Ralph Nelson, American film director (b. 1916)
  • Robert Paige, American actor (b. 1911)
• December 22
  • Henry Cotton, English golfer (b. 1907)
  • Gustav Fröhlich, German actor and film director (b. 1902)
  • Mimí Langer, Austrian-Mexican psychanalyst and activist (b. 1910)
  • Dorothy M. Needham, English biochemist (b. 1896)
  • Luca Prodan, Italian-Argentine musician (b. 1953)
  • Alice Terry, American actress (b. 1899)
• December 23
• December 24
  • Thérèse Bertrand-Fontaine, French physician (b. 1895)
  • Eugen Kogon, German historian (b. 1903)
  • M. G. Ramachandran, Indian actor and politician (b. 1917)
  • Terence Tiller, English poet (b. 1916)
  • Joop den Uyl, Dutch economist and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1919)
  • Kulwant Singh Virk, Indian author (b. 1921)
• December 25
  • Alexander Gregory Barmine, Russian-American diplomat (b. 1899)
  • Agustín Cuzzani, Argentine playwright (b. 1924)
  • Dalia Grinkevičiūtė, Lithuanian physician and author (b. 1927)
  • Harry Holm, Danish gymnast (b. 1902)
• December 26
  • Neil Colville, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1914)
  • Fritz Schachermeyr, Austrian historian (b. 1895)
• December 27
  • Rewi Alley, New Zealand-Chinese author and activist (b. 1897)
  • Priscilla Dean, American actress (b. 1896)
  • Shanti Devi, Indian reincarnation claimant (b. 1926)
  • Josef Grohé, German nazi officer (b. 1902)
  • Stepan Popel, Ukrainian chess player (b. 1909)
  • Wilbur Schramm, American scholar (b. 1907)
• December 28
  • Edward Kleban, American composer and songwriter (b. 1939)
  • Charles Malik, Lebanese academic and diplomat (b. 1906)
• December 29
  • Brigitte Heinrich, German journalist and politician (b. 1941)
  • Jun Ishikawa, Japanese author and translator (b. 1899)
  • Knud Jacobsen, Danish cyclist (b. 1914)
  • Jan Rybkowski, Polish film director (b. 1912)
  • Yanina Zhejmo, Polish actress (b. 1909)
• December 30 – Max Walter, German weightlifter (b. 1905)
• December 31
  • Alessandro D'Ottavio, Italian fencer (b. 1927)
  • Donald Fleming, Canadian politician (b. 1905)
  • Randall Garrett, American author (b. 1927)

1988

January 1988

• January 1
  • Albert Decaris, French artist (b. 1901)
  • Marcel Hillaire, German-American actor (b. 1908)
  • Clementine Hunter, American painter (b. 1887)
  • Rolf Presthus, Norwegian politician (b. 1936)
  • Hiroaki Sato, Japanese footballer (b. 1932)
  • Anna Sipos, Hungarian table tennis player (b. 1908)
• January 2
  • E. B. Ford, English geneticist (b. 1901)
  • Manuel Octavio Gómez, Cuban film director and screenwriter (b. 1934)
  • Fritz Heider, Austrian psychologist (b. 1896)
  • Yukio Kasahara, Japanese general (b. 1889)
  • Lia Zoppelli, Italian actress (b. 1920)
• January 3
  • Rose Ausländer, German poet (b. 1901)
  • William Cagney, American film producer and actor (b. 1905)
  • Joie Chitwood, American racing driver (b. 1912)
  • John Dopyera, Slovakian-American inventor (b. 1893)
  • Gaston Eyskens, Belgian politician, Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1905)
  • Nando González, Spanish footballer (b. 1921)
• January 4
  • Franco Bottari, Italian production designer and screenwriter (b. 1925)
  • Lily Laskine, French harpist (b. 1893)
  • Carl Shipp Marvel, American chemist (b. 1894)
  • Rudolf Schottlaender, German philosopher and philologist (b. 1900)
  • Jane Seitz, German film editor (b. 1942)
• January 5
  • Pete Maravich, American basketball player (b. 1947)
  • Giorgio Porreca, Italian chess player (b. 1927)
• January 6
  • L. P. Davies, English author (b. 1914)
  • Bern Dibner, American engineer and historian (b. 1897)
  • Rem Soloukhin, Russian scientist (b. 1930)
  • Arturo De Vecchi, Italian fencer (b. 1898)
• January 7
  • Michel Auclair, French actor (b. 1922)
  • Carlo Hintermann, Italian actor (b. 1923)
  • Trevor Howard, English actor (b. 1913)
  • Venko Markovski, Bulgarian-Macedonian poet and author (b. 1915)
  • Marilyn Schreffler, American voice actress (b. 1945)
• January 8
  • Vyacheslav Aleksandrov, Russian junior sergeant (b. 1968)
  • Ray Bauduc, American drummer (b. 1906)
  • Jared French, American painter (b. 1905)
  • Einar Gjerstad, Swedish archaeologist (b. 1897)
  • Andrey Melnikov, Russian soldier (b. 1968)
  • Boyd Morgan, American actor and stuntman (b. 1915)
  • Frank Pace, American army major (b. 1912)
• January 9
  • Wolfgang Jansen, German actor (b. 1938)
  • Juraj Krnjević, Croatian politician (b. 1895)
  • Thierry Maulnier, French journalist and author (b. 1909)
  • Walter Monson, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1908)
  • Gombloh Soemarsono, Indonesian singer (b. 1948)
  • Jukichi Uno, Japanese actor (b. 1914)
• January 10
  • Hilde Bussmann, German table tennis player (b. 1914)
  • Hugh A. Robertson, American film director and editor (b. 1932)
• January 11
  • Tony Aless, American pianist (b. 1921)
  • Pappy Boyington, American fighter pilot (b. 1912)
  • Robert F. Kennon, American politician and judge (b. 1902)
  • Endre Palócz, Hungarian fencer (b. 1911)
  • Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist (b. 1898)
  • John J. Williams, American politician (b. [1904]])
• January 12
  • Joe Albany, American pianist (b. 1924)
  • Hiram Bingham IV, American diplomat (b. 1903)
  • Suniti Choudhury, Indian activist and assassin (b. 1917)
  • Connie Mulder, South African politician (b. 1925)
  • Bruno Prevedi, Italian opera singer (b. 1928)
  • Piero Taruffi, Italian racing driver (b. 1906)
• January 13
  • Chiang Ching-kuo, Chinese politician, President of the Republic of China (b. 1910)
  • Alfred Jensen, Danish politician (b. 1903)
• January 14
  • Pietro Chiappini, Italian cyclist (b. 1915)
  • Vladimir Lavrinenkov, Russian fighter pilot (b. 1919)
  • Georgy Malenkov, Russian politician (b. 1901)
• January 15
  • Donald Healey, English automobile designer and rally driver (b. 1898)
  • Carl Klose, American rower (b. 1891)
  • Seán MacBride, Irish politician (b. 1904)
  • Carlos Rangel, Venezuelan author and journalist (b. 1929)
• January 16
  • Andrija Artuković, Croatian politician (b. 1899)
  • Ballard Berkeley, English actor (b. 1904)
  • Otto Degener, American botanist (b. 1899)
  • Lakshmi Kant Jha, Indian banker (b. 1913)
  • Adelfo Magallanes, Peruvian footballer (b. 1910)
• January 17
  • Leela Mishra, Indian actress (b. 1908)
  • Percy Qoboza, South African journalist and author (b. 1938)
• January 18
  • Angelo de Mojana di Cologna, Italian nobleman (b. 1905)
  • József Hátszeghy, Hungarian fencer (b. 1904)
  • Jean Mitry, French film theorist and critic (b. 1904)
  • Renato Traiola, Italian water polo player (b. 1924)
• January 19
  • Bridget Boland, English screenwriter and playwright (b. 1913)
  • Cesare Brandi, Italian historian and critic (b. 1906)
  • Yevgeny Mravinsky, Russian conductor and pianist (b. 1903)
• January 20
  • Paul Esser, German actor (b. 1913)
  • Abdul Ghaffar Khan, Pakistani activist (b. 1890)
  • Philippe de Rothschild, French businessman (b. 1902)
  • Dora Stratou, Greek actress and choreographer (b. 1903)
• January 21
  • Ramón Rey Ardid, Spanish chess player (b. 1903)
  • Abraham Sofaer, Burmese-English actor (b. 1896)
  • Zev Vilnay, Israeli geographer and author (b. 1900)
• January 22
  • Parker Fennelly, American actor (b. 1891)
  • Nadia Russo, Romanian pilot (b. 1901)
• January 23 – Charles Glen King, American biochemist (b. 1896)
• January 24
  • Werner Fenchel, German mathematician (b. 1905)
  • Christian Jacobæus, Swedish engineer (b. 1911)
  • Trygve Nagell, Norwegian mathematician (b. 1895)
  • Hiroshi Yoneyama, Japanese swimmer (b. 1908)
• January 25
  • Jurgis Baltrušaitis, Lithuanian historian and critic (b. 1903)
  • Boris Kulagin, Russian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1924)
  • Colleen Moore, American actress (b. 1899)
• January 26
  • Hugh J. Schonfield, English scholar (b. 1901)
  • Raymond Williams, Welsh author and academic (b. 1921)
  • Freddie Wolff, English sprinter (b. 1910)
• January 27
  • Massa Makan Diabaté, Malian historian and author (b. 1938)
  • Kemal Faruki, Turkish footballer (b. 1910)
  • Edward Pawley, American actor (b. 1901)
• January 28
  • Frederick Sumner Brackett, American physicist (b. 1896)
  • Klaus Fuchs, German theoretical physicist (b. 1911)
• January 29
  • James Rhyne Killian, American academic (b. 1904)
  • Rogier van Otterloo, Dutch composer and conductor (b. 1941)
• January 30
  • Homer Brightman, American screenwriter (b. 1901)
  • Eddie Cano, American pianist and composer (b. 1927)
  • Kees Pellenaars, Dutch cyclist (b. 1913)
• January 31 – Al Laney, American journalist (b. 1896)

February 1988

• February 1
  • Marcel Bozzuffi, French actor (b. 1929)
  • Jean Paul Guhel, French ice dancer (b. 1930)
  • Thomas Francis Johnson, American politician (b. 1909)
  • Heather O'Rourke, American actress (b. 1975)
• February 2
  • Solomon Cutner, English pianist (b. 1902)
  • Rossana Martini, Italian actress and model (b. 1926)
  • Normie Smith, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1908)
  • G. Mennen Williams, American politician (b. 1911)
• February 3
  • Robert Duncan, American poet (b. 1919)
  • Radamés Gnattali, Brazilian composer (b. 1906)
  • Hanna Rudzka-Cybisowa, Polish artist (b. 1897)
• February 4
  • Franz Mandl, Austrian footballer (b. 1916)
  • Krzysztof Sitkowski, Polish basketball player (b. 1935)
• February 5
  • Ove Arup, English engineer (b. 1895)
  • Dorothy Lewis Bernstein, American mathematician (b. 1914)
  • Clement Hurd, American artist (b. 1908)
  • Emeric Pressburger, Hungarian-English screenwriter and film director (b. 1902)
• February 6
  • Alexander Mikhailov, Russian engineer and scientist (b. 1905)
  • Barclay Plager, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1941)
  • Carmen Polo, Spanish political figure (b. 1900)
  • Zvonimir Rogoz, Croatian actor (b. 1887)
• February 7 – Lin Carter, American author (b. 1930)
• February 8
  • Pietro Arcari, Italian footballer (b. 1909)
  • Allan Cuthbertson, Australian-English actor (b. 1920)
  • Ralph Flanagan, American swimmer (b. 1918)
  • Hans Krueger, German war criminal (b. 1909)
  • Alfréd Wetzler, Slovakian author (b. 1918)
• February 9
  • Kurt Herbert Adler, Austrian-American conductor (b. 1905)
  • Henry Burrell, Australian admiral (b. 1904)
  • Israel Nathan Herstein, Polish-American mathematician (b. 1923)
• February 10
  • Chaya Mushka Schneerson, Russian-American rebbetzin (b. 1901)
  • Aram Ter-Ghevondyan, Armenian historian and scholar (b. 1928)
• February 11 – Marion Crawford, Scottish educator and author (b. 1909)
• February 12 – Bukhuti Zakariadze, Georgian actor (b. 1913)
• February 13 – Léon Goossens, English oboist (b. 1897)
• February 14
  • Nora Astorga, Nicaraguan politician and diplomat (b. 1948)
  • Jan de Kreek, Dutch footballer (b. 1903)
  • Frederick Loewe, Austrian-American composer (b. 1901)
  • Cal Niday, American racing driver (b. 1914)
  • Auguste Verdyck, Belgian cyclist (b. 1902)
  • Joseph Wresinski, French priest and activist (b. 1917)
  • Slavko Zagorac, Bosnian footballer and manager (b. 1909)
• February 15
  • Al Cohn, American saxophonist and composer (b. 1925)
  • Richard Feynman, American physicist (b. 1918)
  • Jay Leyda, American film director and historian (b. 1910)
  • Gardiner Means, American economist (b. 1896)
• February 16
  • Charles Delaunay, French author (b. 1911)
  • Hélène Gordon-Lazareff, Russian-French journalist (b. 1909)
  • Vijaya Kumaratunga, Sri Lankan actor and singer (b. 1945)
  • Oskar Skogly, Norwegian politician (b. 1908)
  • Ye Shengtao, Chinese author and journalist (b. 1894)
  • Mario Polar Ugarteche, Peruvian politician and author (b. 1912)
• February 17
  • John M. Allegro, English archaeologist (b. 1923)
  • Alexander Bashlachev, Russian singer (b. 1960)
  • Yuri Ovchinnikov, Russian biochemist (b. 1934)
  • Alain Savary, French politician (b. 1918)
  • Karpoori Thakur, Indian politician (b. 1924)
• February 18 – Abderrahman Ibrir, Algerian footballer and manager (b. 1919)
• February 19
  • Isabel Bishop, American painter (b. 1902)
  • René Char, French poet and resistance fighter (b. 1907)
  • André Frédéric Cournand, French-American physician and physiologist (b. 1895)
  • Eric Stryker, American pornographic actor (b. 1954)
• February 20
• February 21
  • Signe Brunnström, Swedish-American physiotherapist (b. 1898)
  • Cornelis van Eesteren, Dutch architect (b. 1897)
  • Aleksandar Tomašević, Serbian footballer and manager (b. 1908)
  • Martin Winter, German rower (b. 1955)
• February 22
  • Edward Vaughan Bevan, English rower and physician (b. 1907)
  • Afro Poli, Italian opera singer (b. 1902)
• February 23
  • Henri Collard, Belgian cyclist (b. 1912)
  • Joseph Karakis, Ukrainian architect and painter (b. 1902)
• February 24
  • Loretta McNeil, American sprinter (b. 1907)
  • Stanisław Pastecki, Polish ice hockey player (b. 1907)
  • Mamdouh Salem, Egyptian politician, Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1918)
  • Memphis Slim, American pianist and singer (b. 1915)
  • Bluma Zeigarnik, Lithuanian-Russian psychologist (b. 1900)
• February 25 – Kurt Mahler, German-Australian mathematician (b. 1903)
• February 26
  • Jaú Barbosa, Brazilian footballer (b. 1909)
  • Liivia Laasimer, Estonian botanist (b. 1918)
  • Satyawati Suleiman, Indonesian historian and archaeologist (b. 1920)
• February 27
  • Michel-Louis Guérard des Lauriers, French theologian and bishop (b. 1898)
  • Franck Lavaud, Haitian general and politician, President of Haiti (b. 1903)
  • Frane Milčinski, Slovenian poet and author (b. 1914)
  • Gene de Paul, American pianist and composer (b. 1919)
• February 28
  • Alfred Frøkjær Jørgensen, Danish gymnast (b. 1898)
  • Mikhail Naimy, Lebanese poet and author (b. 1889)
  • Asakazu Nakai, Japanese cinematographer (b. 1901)
  • Kylie Tennant, Australian author and playwright (b. 1912)
• February 29
  • Paul Ramsey, American ethicist (b. 1913)
  • Kaare Walberg, Norwegian ski jumper (b. 1912)
  • Karl Zimmer, German chemist (b. 1911)

March 1988

• March 1
  • Joe Besser, American actor and comedian (b. 1907)
  • Tommy Breen, Irish footballer (b. 1912)
  • Yoshi Katō, Japanese actor (b. 1913)
  • Tommy Potter, American bassist (b. 1918)
  • Kay Sutton, American actress (b. 1915)
• March 2
  • Enver Galim, Russian author and journalist (b. 1915)
  • Harry Lundahl, Swedish footballer and manager (b. 1905)
  • Kate Mahaut, Danish fencer (b. 1908)
  • Jan Pietraszko, Polish bishop (b. 1911)
• March 3
  • Henryk Szeryng, Polish violinist (b. 1918)
  • Lois Wilson, American actress (b. 1894)
  • Sewall Wright, American geneticist (b. 1889)
• March 4
  • James Peter Davis, American archbishop (b. 1904)
  • Anna Maestri, Italian actress (b. 1924)
• March 5
  • Rozka Korczak, Polish resistance fighter (b. 1921)
  • János Németh, Hungarian water polo player (b. 1906)
  • Alberto Olmedo, Argentine comedian and actor (b. 1933)
• March 6
  • Jeanne Aubert, French singer and actress (b. 1900)
  • Dick Ricketts, American baseball player and basketball player (b. 1933)
• March 7
  • Guido Celano, Italian actor (b. 1904)
  • Divine, American singer and actor (b. 1945)
  • Robert Livingston, American actor (b. 1904)
  • Olof Stahre, Swedish equestrian (b. 1909)
• March 8
  • Gordon Carpenter, American basketball player (b. 1919)
  • Amar Singh Chamkila, Indian singer (b. 1960)
  • Ken Colyer, English trumpeter (b. 1928)
  • África de las Heras, Spanish-Russian spy (b. 1909)
  • Lala Abdul Rashid, Pakistani field hockey player (b. 1922)
• March 9
  • Béla Háray, Hungarian ice hockey player and field hockey player (b. 1915)
  • Kurt Georg Kiesinger, German politician, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1904)
  • Janusz Piekałkiewicz, Polish resistance fighter and historian (b. 1925)
  • Louis Trimble, American author and academic (b. 1917)
• March 10
  • Glenn Cunningham, American runner (b. 1909)
  • Andy Gibb, English singer (b. 1958)
  • Svetislav Glišović, Serbian footballer and manager (b. 1913)
  • Phạm Hùng, Vietnamese politician (b. 1912)
  • Nikolay Karakulov, Russian sprinter (b. 1918)
  • Abdul Khaliq, Pakistani sprinter (b. 1933)
  • Kristian Madsen, Danish gymnast (b. 1893)
  • Lev Saakov, Armenian screenwriter and film director (b. 1909)
  • Carlos Velo, Spanish film director (b. 1909)
  • William Wordsworth, English composer (b. 1908)
• March 11
  • Rashid Bakr, Sudanese politician, Prime Minister of Sudan (b. 1933)
  • Christianna Brand, English author (b. 1907)
• March 12
  • Samaresh Basu, Indian author (b. 1924)
  • Alessandro Bausani, Italian scholar and historian (b. 1921)
  • Romare Bearden, American artist and author (b. 1911)
  • Arnold Bell, English actor (b. 1901)
  • Margot Moe, Norwegian figure skater (b. 1899)
  • Billie Rhodes, American actress (b. 1894)
  • Bernard Rudofsky, Austrian-American architect (b. 1905)
  • Karen Steele, American actress (b. 1931)
• March 13
  • Patesko Barteczko, Brazilian footballer (b. 1910)
  • Olive Carey, American actress (b. 1896)
  • Yngve Ekström, Swedish artist and architect (b. 1913)
  • Cees Groot, Dutch footballer (b. 1932)
  • John Holmes, American pornographic actor (b. 1944)
  • Steno Vanzina, Italian film director and screenwriter (b. 1917)
• March 14
  • Abbas Abbasi, Pakistani brigadier and politician (b. 1924)
  • Willi Apel, German-American musicologist and author (b. 1893)
  • Bruno Balz, German songwriter (b. 1902)
  • Reinhold Ebertin, German astrologer (b. 1901)
  • Rudolf Gramlich, German footballer (b. 1908)
  • Henrik Malyan, Armenian film director and screenwriter (b. 1925)
• March 15
  • Wilson Ferreira Aldunate, Uruguayan politician (b. 1919)
  • Ivan Dubasov, Russian artist (b. 1897)
  • Thord Flodqvist, Swedish ice hockey player (b. 1926)
  • Edita Morris, Swedish-American author and activist (b. 1902)
  • Dmitri Polyakov, Ukrainian-Russian major general and spy (b. 1921)
• March 16
  • Dorothy Adams, American actress (b. 1900)
  • Kurt Haverbeck, German field hockey player (b. 1899)
  • Bizz Johnson, American politician (b. 1907)
  • Paul Kohner, Austrian-American talent agent and film producer (b. 1902)
  • Erich Probst, Austrian footballer (b. 1927)
  • Dannie Richmond, American drummer (b. 1931)
  • Mickey Thompson, American racing driver and automobile designer (b. 1928)
• March 17
  • Raffaele Arié, Bulgarian-Italian opera singer (b. 1920)
  • Nikolas Asimos, Greek composer and singer (b. 1949)
  • Bruce C. Clarke, American general (b. 1901)
  • Roland Drew, American actor (b. 1900)
  • Leif Granli, Norwegian politician (b. 1909)
  • Franz-Otto Krüger, German actor (b. 1917)
  • Reg Sinfield, English cricketer (b. 1900)
• March 18
  • Gerald Abraham, English musicologist and critic (b. 1904)
  • Billy Butterfield, American bandleader and musician (b. 1917)
  • Karl Maria Demelhuber, German nazi general (b. 1896)
• March 19
  • Reyner Banham, English historian and author (b. 1922)
  • Sabino Barinaga, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1922)
  • Bun Cook, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1903)
  • Máirtín Ó Direáin, Irish poet (b. 1910)
• March 20
  • Gil Evans, Canadian-American pianist and composer (b. 1912)
  • Samuel W. Reynolds, American politician (b. 1890)
  • Greer Skousen, Mexican basketball player (b. 1916)
• March 21
  • Walter Fricke, German astronomer (b. 1915)
  • Edd Roush, American baseball player (b. 1893)
  • Sigfrit Steiner, Swiss actor (b. 1906)
  • Patrick Steptoe, English obstetrician and gynecologist (b. 1913)
• March 22
  • Gudmund Harlem, Norwegian politician (b. 1917)
  • Rudolf Matz, Croatian composer (b. 1901)
  • André Saeys, Belgian footballer (b. 1911)
• March 23
  • Theodore Fred Abel, Polish-American sociologist (b. 1896)
  • Anatoly Brandys, Ukrainian pilot (b. 1923)
  • Dayton Lummis, American actor (b. 1903)
  • Pash Sandu, Indian poet (b. 1950)
• March 24
  • Heinrich Aigner, German politician (b. 1924)
  • Abdullahi Issa, Somali politician (b. 1922)
  • Roger Loyer, French motorcycle racer and racing driver (b. 1907)
• March 25
  • James J. Howard, American politician (b. 1927)
  • Robert Joffrey, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1930)
  • Vera Pagava, Georgian artist (b. 1907)
• March 26 – Miguel Abuelo, Argentine musician (b. 1946)
• March 27
  • Niní Gordini Cervi, Italian actress (b. 1907)
  • Jole Fierro, Italian actress (b. 1926)
  • Gordon Merrick, American author and actor (b. 1916)
  • Renato Salvatori, Italian actor (b. 1933)
  • Charles Willeford, American author (b. 1919)
• March 28
  • Frans Peeraer, Belgian footballer (b. 1913)
  • Aleksei Shvachko, Ukrainian film director (b. 1901)
• March 29
  • Arkady Bochkaryov, Russian basketball player (b. 1931)
  • Dulcie September, South African activist (b. 1935)
• March 30
  • Georgia Ellis, American actress (b. 1917)
  • Edgar Faure, French politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1908)
  • John Clellon Holmes, American poet (b. 1926)
  • Doris Pawn, American actress (b. 1894)
  • Luis Ravaschino, Argentine footballer (b. 1903)
  • Imre Timkó, Hungarian bishop (b. 1920)
  • Arnie Zane, American photographer (b. 1948)
• March 31 – William McMahon, Australian politician, Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1908)

April 1988

• April 1
  • Đào Duy Anh, Vietnamese historian and lexicographer (b. 1904)
  • Oliver Hassencamp, German actor and screenwriter (b. 1921)
  • Jim Jordan, American actor (b. 1896)
• April 2
  • Jacques André, French fighter pilot (b. 1919)
  • Jenő Barcsay, Hungarian painter (b. 1900)
  • Euros Bowen, Welsh poet and priest (b. 1904)
  • Onar Onarheim, Norwegian politician (b. 1910)
  • Anthony Pelissier, English film director and screenwriter (b. 1912)
  • Vernon W. Thomson, American politician (b. 1905)
• April 3
  • Milton Caniff, American cartoonist (b. 1907)
  • V. S. Wakankar, Indian archaeologist (b. 1919)
• April 4
  • Myra De Groot, English-Australian actress (b. 1937)
  • Eric A. Havelock, English scholar (b. 1903)
  • Herbert Heinicke, Brazilian-German chess player (b. 1905)
• April 5
  • Alf Kjellin, Swedish actor (b. 1920)
  • Pierre Prévert, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1906)
• April 6 – Gunārs Astra, Latvian activist (b. 1931)
• April 7
  • Cesar Bresgen, Austrian composer (b. 1913)
  • Giovanni Gotti, Italian cyclist (b. 1912)
  • Aira Kaal, Estonian author (b. 1911)
  • Dinanath Nadim, Indian poet (b. 1916)
  • Hamdija Pozderac, Bosnian politician (b. 1924)
  • Lydie Schmit, Luxembourgian politician (b. 1939)
• April 8
• April 9
  • Brook Benton, American singer (b. 1931)
  • Hans Berndt, German footballer (b. 1913)
  • Jacques Faure, French general (b. 1904)
  • Dave Prater, American singer (b. 1937)
• April 10
  • Cliff Gladwin, English cricketer (b. 1916)
  • Danuta Kordaczuk, Polish volleyball player (b. 1939)
  • Ezekias Papaioannou, Cypriot politician (b. 1908)
  • Teóphilo Pereira, Brazilian footballer (b. 1900)
  • Shigeo Sugiura, Japanese swimmer (b. 1917)
• April 11
  • Ithell Colquhoun, English painter and poet (b. 1906)
  • Jeff Donnell, American actress (b. 1921)
  • Wolfram Fiedler, German luger (b. 1951)
• April 12
  • Colette Deréal, French actress and singer (b. 1927)
  • Sheridan Gibney, American screenwriter (b. 1903)
  • Hartmann Lauterbacher, Austrian nazi officer (b. 1909)
  • Alan Paton, South African author and activist (b. 1903)
  • Alma Sabatini, Italian author and linguist (b. 1922)
• April 13 – Jean Gascon, Canadian actor (b. 1920)
• April 14
  • Richard Fanshawe, Irish-English equestrian (b. 1906)
  • Daniel Guérin, French author (b. 1904)
  • Pony Poindexter, American saxophonist (b. 1926)
  • Camilla Ravera, Italian politician (b. 1889)
  • John Stonehouse, English politician (b. 1925)
  • Fran Zwitter, Slovenian historian (b. 1905)
• April 15
  • Rosemary Ames, American actress (b. 1906)
  • George E. Mylonas, Greek archaeologist (b. 1898)
  • Maria Ulfah Santoso, Indonesian politician and activist (b. 1911)
  • Kenneth Williams, English-Welsh actor (b. 1926)
• April 16
  • Khalil al-Wazir, Palestinian politician (b. 1935)
  • José Dolhem, French racing driver (b. 1944)
  • Youri Egorov, Russian pianist (b. 1954)
  • Oktay Rıfat Horozcu, Turkish author and playwright (b. 1914)
  • Clifford Roach, Trinidadian cricketer (b. 1904)
• April 17
  • Paul L. Freeman Jr., American general (b. 1907)
  • Toni Frissell, American photographer (b. 1907)
  • Louise Nevelson, American sculptor (b. 1899)
  • Eva Novak, American actress (b. 1898)
  • Otto Pächt, Austrian historian (b. 1902)
  • Daniel Rapant, Slovakian historian (b. 1897)
  • Isaak Yaglom, Russian mathematician and author (b. 1921)
• April 18
  • Pierre Desproges, French comedian (b. 1939)
  • Józef Łobodowski, Polish poet (b. 1909)
  • Antonín Puč, Czech footballer (b. 1907)
• April 19
  • Kwon Ki-ok, South Korean pilot (b. 1901)
  • Rafael Calvo Serer, Spanish philosopher (b. 1916)
• April 20 – James Wallington, American boxer (b. 1944)
• April 21
  • I. A. L. Diamond, Romanian-American screenwriter (b. 1920)
  • Nadejda Petrovna, Russian princess (b. 1898)
  • Paul Steinitz, English organist (b. 1909)
• April 22
  • Melvin Price, American politician (b. 1905)
  • Irene Rich, American actress (b. 1891)
  • Tchicaya U Tam'si, Congolese author (b. 1931)
• April 23
  • Axel Grönberg, Swedish wrestler (b. 1918)
  • Karl Leonhard, German psychiatrist (b. 1904)
  • Eitaro Ozawa, Japanese actor (b. 1909)
  • Michael Ramsey, English bishop (b. 1904)
• April 24
  • Gioacchino Colombo, Italian engineer (b. 1903)
  • Bob Newson, South African cricketer (b. 1910)
• April 25
  • René Cardona, Mexican film director and actor (b. 1905)
  • Lygia Clark, Brazilian artist (b. 1920)
  • Carolyn Franklin, American singer (b. 1944)
  • Ferenc Pataki, Hungarian gymnast (b. 1917)
  • Clifford D. Simak, American author (b. 1904)
  • Valerie Solanas, American author and criminal (b. 1936)
• April 26
  • Guillermo Haro, Mexican astronomer (b. 1913)
  • Bennett Stewart, American politician (b. 1912)
• April 27
  • Helene Thomas Bennett, American bacteriologist (b. 1901)
  • Valery Legasov, Russian chemist (b. 1936)
• April 28
  • Fenner Brockway, English politician (b. 1888)
  • Hagop Hagopian, Iraqi militant (b. 1951)
• April 29
  • Andrew Cruickshank, Scottish actor (b. 1907)
  • Jan Kapr, Czech composer (b. 1914)
  • James McCracken, American opera singer (b. 1926)
  • Leman Tomsu, Turkish architect (b. 1913)
• April 30
  • Yehiel Duvdevani, Ukrainian politician (b. 1896)
  • Alex Sanders, English occultist (b. 1926)

May 1988

• May 1
  • Bill Amor, English footballer (b. 1919)
  • Louis Maurer, Swiss footballer (b. 1904)
  • Erwin Nyc, Polish footballer (b. 1914)
  • Paolo Stoppa, Italian actor (b. 1906)
  • Yan Wenliang, Chinese painter (b. 1893)
• May 2
  • Pavel Kadochnikov, Russian actor and film director (b. 1915)
  • Henry Picker, German lawyer and author (b. 1912)
• May 3
  • Carl Erhardt, English ice hockey player (b. 1897)
  • José María Jáuregui, Spanish footballer (b. 1896)
  • Premendra Mitra, Indian author and film director (b. 1904)
  • Lev Pontryagin, Russian mathematician (b. 1908)
  • Abraham Seidenberg, American mathematician (b. 1916)
  • Paul Vario, American mobster (b. 1914)
• May 4
  • Stanley William Hayter, English painter (b. 1901)
  • Jan Mazurkiewicz, Polish brigadier general and politician (b. 1896)
  • Oleg Zhakov, Russian actor (b. 1905)
• May 5
  • Hamid Mirza, Iranian-English royal (b. 1918)
  • George Rose, English actor and singer (b. 1920)
  • Michael Shaara. American author (b. 1928)
• May 6 – Costantino Nivola, Italian sculptor (b. 1911)
• May 7 – Yamamoto Kenkichi, Japanese author and critic (b. 1907)
• May 8
  • Robert A. Heinlein, American author (b. 1907)
  • Nappy Lamare, American musician (b. 1905)
  • Domingo Ortega, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1906)
  • Abdel Moneim Wahby, Egyptian basketball player (b. 1911)
• May 9
  • Alfons Julen, Swiss skier (b. 1899)
  • Willie Moir, Scottish footballer (b. 1922)
• May 10
  • Ciarán Bourke, Irish musician (b. 1935)
  • Shen Congwen, Chinese author (b. 1902)
  • José Guardiola, Spanish actor (b. 1921)
  • Richard B. Ogilvie, American politician (b. 1923)
• May 11
  • Kim Philby, English-Russian spy (b. 1912)
  • Edmund Sobkowiak, Polish boxer (b. 1914)
• May 12
• May 13
  • Chet Baker, American trumpeter and singer (b. 1929)
  • John Garrison, American ice hockey player (b. 1909)
  • Sergey Gorshkov, Russian admiral (b. 1910)
  • Friedrich Guggenberger, German admiral (b. 1915)
  • Nikolay Makarov, Russian weapons designer (b. 1914)
  • Irene Manton, English botanist (b. 1904)
• May 14 – Willem Drees, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1886)
• May 15
  • Ernesto Giménez Caballero, Spanish author and diplomat (b. 1899)
  • Andrew Duggan, American actor (b. 1923)
  • Fulvia Franco, Italian actress (b. 1931)
  • Erna Hamburger, Swiss engineer (b. 1911)
  • Greta Nissen, Norwegian-American actress (b. 1906)
• May 16
  • Ernő Gereben, Hungarian-Swedish chess player (b. 1907)
  • Anna Zofia Krygowska, Polish mathematician (b. 1904)
  • Anatoli Maslyonkin, Russian footballer (b. 1930)
• May 17
• May 18
  • Daws Butler, American voice actor (b. 1916)
  • Anthony Forwood, English actor (b. 1915)
  • Ali Naqi Naqvi, Indian ayatollah and poet (b. 1905)
  • Michiko Tanaka, Japanese singer and actress (b. 1909)
  • Enzo Tortora, Italian television presenter and politician (b. 1928)
• May 19 – Kurt-Caesar Hoffmann, German vice admiral (b. 1895)
• May 20
  • Ana Aslan, Romanian biologist and physician (b. 1897)
  • László Somogyi, Hungarian conductor (b. 1907)
  • Victorio Unamuno, Spanish footballer (b. 1909)
  • Andrey Yumashev, Russian pilot (b. 1902)
• May 21
  • Harry Babasin, American bassist (b. 1921)
  • Sammy Davis Sr., American dancer (b. 1900)
  • Bruno Frei, Austrian author and journalist (b. 1897)
  • Dino Grandi, Italian politician (b. 1895)
  • Barbara Laage, French actress (b. 1920)
  • Pino Romualdi, Italian politician (b. 1913)
• May 22 – Giorgio Almirante, Italian politician (b. 1914)
• May 23
  • César Augusto Guzzetti, Argentine vice admiral (b. 1925)
  • Aya Kitō, Japanese author (b. 1962)
  • Roberto Succo, Italian serial killer (b. 1962)
• May 24
  • Tom Adair, American songwriter and composer (b. 1913)
  • Tom Burtt, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1915)
  • María Gómez Carbonell, Cuban politician (b. 1903)
  • Freddie Frith, English motorcycle racer (b. 1909)
  • Jamie Hamilton, Scottish rower and publisher (b. 1900)
  • Ernest Labrousse, French historian (b. 1895)
  • Aleksei Losev, Russian philosopher and philologist (b. 1893)
• May 25 – Karl August Wittfogel, German-American playwright and historian (b. 1896)
• May 26
  • Jules Gales, Luxembourgian footballer (b. 1924)
  • Juan Orol, Spanish-Mexican film director and actor (b. 1897)
  • Nicolò Vittori, Italian rower (b. 1909)
• May 27
  • Florida Friebus, American actress (b. 1909)
  • Hjördis Petterson, Swedish actress (b. 1908)
  • Ernst Ruska, German physicist (b. 1906)
• May 28
  • Felix Morrow, American activist and newspaper editor (b. 1906)
  • Sy Oliver, American composer and trumpeter (b. 1910)
  • Dodë Tahiri, Albanian footballer (b. 1918)
  • Alfredo Volpi, Italian-Brazilian painter (b. 1896)
• May 29
  • Henry Johansen, Norwegian footballer (b. 1904)
  • Salem bin Laden, Saudi Arabian businessman (b. 1946)
  • Daan de Lange, Dutch-Norwegian chess player (b. 1915)
  • Vladimír Menšík, Czech actor (b. 1929)
  • Siaka Stevens, Sierra Leonean politician, President of Sierra Leone (b. 1905)
• May 30 – Ella Raines, American actress (b. 1920)
• May 31 – Tursun Uljabayev, Tajikistani politician (b. 1916)

June 1988

• June 1
  • Leon Belasco, Russian-American actor and musician (b. 1902)
  • Herbert Feigl, Austrian-American philosopher (b. 1902)
• June 2
  • Näcip Cihanov, Russian composer (b. 1911)
  • Iosif Grigulevich, Lithuanian spy (b. 1913)
  • Horace Hildreth, American politician and diplomat (b. 1902)
  • Raj Kapoor, Indian actor (b. 1924)
  • Annette Poivre, French actress (b. 1917)
  • Jesús Fernández Santos, Spanish author (b. 1926)
• June 3
  • Alexandre Bennigsen, Russian scholar (b. 1913)
  • Anna Mahler, Austrian sculptor (b. 1904)
  • Davey Moore, American boxer (b. 1959)
  • Brian Spencer, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1949)
  • Arie Vooren, Dutch cyclist (b. 1923)
• June 4
  • Marcel Deslauriers, Canadian checkers player (b. 1905)
  • Douglas Nicholls, Australian politician (b. 1906)
  • Renzo Palmer, Italian actor (b. 1930)
• June 5
• June 6 – Jacques Ledoux, Polish-Belgian film curator (b. 1921)
• June 7
  • Martin Sommer, German nazi officer (b. 1915)
  • Vernon Washington, American actor (b. 1923)
• June 8
  • Roger Lyndon, American mathematician (b. 1917)
  • Chuck Roberson, American actor and stuntman (b. 1919)
• June 9
• June 10
  • Odd Eidem, Norwegian author and journalist (b. 1913)
  • Raquel Forner, Argentine painter (b. 1902)
  • Louis L'Amour, American author (b. 1908)
  • Henryk Stażewski, Polish painter (b. 1894)
  • Josep Tarradellas, Spanish politician (b. 1899)
• June 11
  • Christine Fabréga, French actress (b. 1931)
  • Eduard Grigoryan, Russian-Armenian footballer and manager (b. 1929)
  • Giuseppe Saragat, Italian politician (b. 1898)
  • Nancy Voorhees, American high jumper (b. 1906)
• June 12
  • Gennadi Krasnitsky, Uzbekistani footballer (b. 1940)
  • Marcel Poot, Belgian composer (b. 1901)
  • Franz Zingerle, Austrian skier (b. 1908)
• June 13
  • Thomas McKeown, Northern Irish-Canadian physician (b. 1912)
  • Emil Telmányi, Hungarian violinist (b. 1892)
• June 14
  • Sara Gallardo, Argentine author and journalist (b. 1931)
  • Kan'in Haruhito, Japanese prince and major general (b. 1902)
• June 15 – Clement Vismara, Italian priest and missionary (b. 1897)
• June 16
  • Raymond Passat, French cyclist (b. 1913)
  • Andrea Pazienza, Italian cartoonist and painter (b. 1956)
  • Miguel Piñero, Puerto Rican playwright and actor (b. 1946)
• June 17
  • Elizabeth Lane, English judge (b. 1905)
  • Witalis Ludwiczak, Polish lawyer (b. 1910)
• June 18
  • Archie Cochrane, Scottish physician (b. 1909)
  • Wilford Leach, American theatre director (b. 1929)
  • E. Hoffmann Price, American author (b. 1898)
  • Iasyr Shivaza, Russian poet and author (b. 1906)
• June 19
  • Jasmin Feige, German athlete (b. 1959)
  • Marie Logoreci, Albanian actress (b. 1920)
  • Teru Shimada, Japanese-American actor (b. 1905)
  • Gladys Spellman, American politician (b. 1918)
  • Aaly Tokombaev, Kyrgyzstani poet and composer (b. 1904)
• June 20
  • Alex Bein, German historian (b. 1903)
  • Alfred Renard, Belgian pilot (b. 1895)
• June 21
  • John Duncan Sr., American politician (b. 1919)
  • Sverre Riisnæs, Norwegian judge (b. 1897)
• June 22
  • Jesse Ed Davis, American guitarist (b. 1944)
  • Dennis Day, American actor and comedian (b. 1916)
  • Bramwell Fletcher, English actor (b. 1904)
  • Xiao Jun, Chinese author (b. 1907)
  • Leonard Matlovich, American soldier and activist (b. 1943)
  • Burrill Phillips, American composer and pianist (b. 1907)
  • Stuart Randall, American actor (b. 1909)
• June 23
  • Andrei Glanzmann, Romanian footballer and manager (b. 1907)
  • Henry Murray, American psychologist (b. 1893)
  • Liang Shuming, Chinese philosopher and politician (b. 1893)
• June 24
  • Marta Abba, Italian actress (b. 1900)
  • Mihai Beniuc, Romanian playwright and author (b. 1907)
  • Csaba Kesjár, Hungarian racing driver (b. 1962)
  • Bùi Xuân Phái, Vietnamese painter (b. 1920)
• June 25
  • Jean Boffety, French cinematographer (b. 1925)
  • Maurice Fox, Ukrainian-Canadian chess player (b. 1898)
  • Mildred Gillars, American broadcaster and traitor (b. 1900)
  • Hillel Slovak, Israeli-American guitarist (b. 1962)
• June 26
  • Gunnar Andersen, Norwegian ski jumper (b. 1909)
  • Hans Urs von Balthasar, Swiss theologian and priest (b. 1905)
  • Hugh Bartlett, English cricketer (b. 1914)
  • Gyula Gyenes, Hungarian sprinter (b. 1911)
• June 27
  • Léonie Adams, American poet (b. 1899)
  • Aparicio Méndez, Uruguayan politician, President of Uruguay (b. 1904)
  • Louis Versyp, Belgian footballer and manager (b. 1908)
• June 28
  • Iris Origo, English-Italian author (b. 1902)
  • Fridtjof Paulsen, Norwegian speed skater (b. 1895)
  • Kurt Raab, German actor (b. 1941)
• June 29
  • Gavri Devi, Indian singer (b. 1920)
  • Alexander Gorkin, Russian politician (b. 1897)
  • Franciszka Themerson, Polish-English painter (b. 1907)
• June 30
  • Alan W. Bishop, English engineer and academic (b. 1920)
  • Jan de Boer, Dutch footballer (b. 1898)
  • Johanna Hofer, German actress (b. 1896)
  • Chacrinha de Medeiros, Brazilian comedian (b. 1917)
  • Bernardo Wexler, Romanian-Argentine chess player (b. 1925)

July 1988

• July 1
  • Lex van Delden, Dutch composer (b. 1919)
  • Aleksey Grinin, Russian footballer and manager (b. 1919)
  • Anton Leader, American television director (b. 1913)
  • Alice Nunn, American actress (b. 1927)
  • Robert Riefling, Norwegian pianist (b. 1911)
  • Hermann Volk, German cardinal (b. 1903)
• July 2
  • Jimmy Ball, Canadian runner (b. 1903)
  • Arnold Burmeister, German nazi general (b. 1899)
  • Vibert Douglas, Canadian astronomer (b. 1894)
  • Johann Baptist Gradl, German politician (b. 1904)
  • Hans Lynge, Greenlandic author and artist (b. 1906)
  • Aldo Tonti, Italian cinematographer (b. 1910)
  • Eddie Vinson, American saxophonist and singer (b. 1917)
• July 3
  • Thales McReynolds, American basketball player (b. 1943)
  • Richard Schulze-Kossens, German nazi officer (b. 1914)
  • Fritz Wiessner, German-American mountaineer (b. 1900)
• July 4
  • Adrian Adonis, American professional wrestler (b. 1953)
  • Donald MacLaren, Canadian fighter pilot (b. 1893)
  • Tom Manley, English footballer (b. 1912)
• July 5
  • Pentti Niinivuori, Finnish boxer (b. 1931)
  • Yoshihiko Yoshimatsu, Japanese judoka (b. 1920)
• July 6
  • John Drury Clark, American scientist (b. 1907)
  • Ucha Japaridze, Georgian painter (b. 1906)
  • Helga Thomas, Swedish actress (b. 1891)
  • Rolf Wollner, German field hockey player (b. 1906)
• July 7
  • Paul Mesnier, French film director (b. 1904)
  • Paula Mollenhauer, German discus thrower (b. 1908)
  • David Atlee Phillips, American spy (b. 1922)
• July 8 – Ray Barbuti, American football player and sprinter (b. 1905)
• July 9
  • Alexandru Graur, Romanian linguist (b. 1900)
  • Anthony Holland, American actor (b. 1928)
• July 10
  • Alf Ackerman, South African footballer (b. 1929)
  • Noel Barber, English author and journalist (b. 1909)
  • Erik Husted, Danish field hockey player (b. 1900)
  • Baruch Kamin, Israeli politician (b. 1914)
  • Enrique Lihn, Chilean author and critic (b. 1929)
• July 11 – Barbara Wootton, English sociologist and criminologist (b. 1897)
• July 12
  • Michael Jary, German composer (b. 1906)
  • Joshua Logan, American theatre director and playwright (b. 1908)
  • Mitsuo Nakamura, Japanese author (b. 1911)
  • Enzo Sacchi, Italian cyclist (b. 1926)
• July 13
  • Ji Dengkui, Chinese politician (b. 1923)
  • Hilda Gobbi, Hungarian actress (b. 1913)
  • Ivo Šuprina, Croatian footballer (b. 1921)
  • Richard Vogt, German boxer (b. 1913)
• July 14
  • Rosetta Cattaneo, Italian sprinter (b. 1919)
  • Vincenzo Nestler, Italian chess player (b. 1912)
  • Oronzo Reale, Italian politician (b. 1902)
• July 15
  • Jan Brzák-Felix, Czech canoeist (b. 1912)
  • Eleanor Estes, American author and librarian (b. 1906)
  • Tore Keller, Swedish footballer (b. 1905)
  • José Rafael Meza, Costa Rican footballer (b. 1920)
  • Armand Mouyal, French fencer (b. 1925)
• July 16
  • Herbert L. Anderson, American physicist (b. 1914)
  • Ole Myrvoll, Norwegian economist and politician (b. 1911)
  • Samuel Ruben, American inventor (b. 1900)
• July 17
  • Bruiser Brody, American professional wrestler (b. 1946)
  • Birger Kaipiainen, Finnish ceramicist (b. 1915)
  • Milton Krasner, American cinematographer (b. 1904)
  • Fyodor Nikitin, Russian actor (b. 1900)
• July 18
  • Walter Kitchen, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1912)
  • Petre Munteanu, Romanian opera singer (b. 1916)
  • Nico Päffgen, German singer and actress (b. 1938)
  • Joly Braga Santos, Portuguese composer and conductor (b. 1924)
  • Miklós Szentkuthy, Hungarian author (b. 1908)
• July 19 – Vilhelm Aubert, Norwegian sociologist (b. 1922)
• July 20 – Richard Holm, German opera singer (b. 1912)
• July 21
  • Frank Brett, English footballer (b. 1899)
  • Raphael Soriano, Greek-American architect (b. 1904)
  • Mikhail Volpin, Russian screenwriter (b. 1902)
• July 22
  • Larry Clemmons, American screenwriter (b. 1906)
  • Duane Jones, American actor (b. 1937)
• July 23
  • Jahangir Khan, Indian-Pakistani cricketer (b. 1910)
  • Heinz Pagels, American physicist (b. 1939)
  • Bandu Patil, Indian field hockey player (b. 1936)
• July 24
  • Ilona Elek, Hungarian fencer (b. 1907)
  • John Harris, Scottish footballer (b. 1917)
  • Mira Schendel, Brazilian artist (b. 1919)
• July 25
  • Judith Barsi, American actress (b. 1978)
  • Douglas Hickox, English film director (b. 1929)
  • Anton Krásnohorský, Slovakian footballer (b. 1925)
  • Josep Raich, Spanish footballer (b. 1913)
• July 26
  • Fazlur Rahman Malik, Pakistani scholar and philosopher (b. 1919)
  • Grigori Pinaichev, Russian footballer and manager (b. 1913)
  • Tetsuji Takechi, Japanese film director and critic (b. 1912)
• July 27
  • Ann Mari Falk, Swedish author and translator (b. 1916)
  • Brigitte Horney, German actress (b. 1911)
  • Frank Zamboni, American inventor (b. 1901)
• July 28
  • Caleb Gattegno, Egyptian psychologist and mathematician (b. 1911)
  • Syed Modi, Indian badminton player (b. 1962)
• July 29
  • Pete Drake, American record producer and guitarist (b. 1932)
  • Günther Radusch, German fighter pilot (b. 1912)
  • Georges Vuilleumier, Swiss footballer (b. 1944)
• July 30
  • Thelma Alper, American psychologist (b. 1908)
  • Anne-Marie Cazalis, French author and journalist (b. 1920)
  • Doca Rêgo, Brazilian footballer (b. 1905)
  • Curtis Shears, American fencer (b. 1901)
  • Ólafur Jóhann Sigurðsson, Icelandic author and poet (b. 1918)
• July 31
  • Li Fenglou, Chinese footballer and manager (b. 1912)
  • André Navarra, French cellist (b. 1911)
  • Carlos Manuel Piedra, Cuban politician, President of Cuba (b. 1895)
  • Trinidad Silva, American comedian and actor (b. 1950)

August 1988

• August 1
  • Zoltán Bitskey, Hungarian swimmer (b. 1904)
  • John Dearden, American cardinal (b. 1907)
  • Florence Eldridge, American actress (b. 1901)
  • Louis-Jean Guyot, French cardinal (b. 1905)
  • Leopold Müller, Austrian engineer (b. 1908)
  • Georges Wambst, French cyclist (b. 1902)
  • Gertrude Welcker, German actress (b. 1896)
• August 2
  • Steve Anderson, American hurdler (b. 1906)
  • Raymond Carver, American author and poet (b. 1938)
  • Karl Ebb, Finnish athlete and racing driver (b. 1896)
  • Nada Klaić, Croatian historian (b. 1920)
  • Gustav Kristiansen, Norwegian cyclist (b. 1904)
  • José Magriñá, Cuban boxer (b. 1917)
  • Valle Resko, Finnish boxer (b. 1910)
• August 3
  • Chet Carlisle, American basketball player (b. 1916)
  • Tucker McGuire, American-English actress (b. 1913)
  • Vic Watson, English footballer (b. 1897)
• August 4
  • Ofelia Uribe de Acosta, Colombian activist and journalist (b. 1900)
  • Allan Adair, English major general (b. 1897)
  • Toshiwo Doko, Japanese engineer (b. 1896)
• August 5
  • James Devereux, American brigadier general and politician (b. 1903)
  • Colin Higgins, Australian-American screenwriter and film director (b. 1941)
  • Ralph Meeker, American actor (b. 1920)
  • Józef Pieracki, Polish actor (b. 1909)
• August 6
  • Anatoly Levchenko, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1941)
  • Francis Ponge, French author and poet (b. 1899)
• August 7
  • Juraj Amšel, Croatian water polo player (b. 1924)
  • David L. Hoggan, American author (b. 1923)
  • Wilfred Jackson, American animator and composer (b. 1906)
• August 8
  • Kid Chocolate, Cuban boxer (b. 1910)
  • Henri Frenay, French resistance fighter (b. 1905)
  • Martiros Kavoukjian, Armenian architect and historian (b. 1908)
  • Félix Leclerc, Canadian singer and poet (b. 1914)
  • Alan Napier, English actor (b. 1903)
• August 9
  • Gerd Grieg, Norwegian actress (b. 1895)
  • Giacinto Scelsi, Italian composer (b. 1905)
  • Ramón Valdés, Mexican actor and comedian (b. 1924)
• August 10
  • Arnulfo Arias, Panamanian politician, President of Panama (b. 1901)
  • Jean Brachet, Belgian biochemist (b. 1909)
  • Jan-Magnus Bruheim, Norwegian poet and author (b. 1914)
  • Guido Mannari, Italian actor (b. 1944)
  • Aleksander Margiste, Estonian basketball player (b. 1908)
  • Raqymjan Qoshqarbaev, Kazakhstani lieutenant (b. 1924)
  • Adela Rogers St. Johns, American journalist and author (b. 1894)
• August 11
  • Alfred Kelbassa, German footballer (b. 1925)
  • Pauline Lafont, French actress (b. 1963)
  • Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, French theatre director and set designer (b. 1932)
  • Anne Ramsey, American actress (b. 1929)
• August 12
  • Jean-Michel Basquiat, American artist (b. 1960)
  • Zrubavel Gilad, Moldovan-Israeli poet and translator (b. 1912)
  • Caja Heimann, Danish actress (b. 1918)
  • Sakuta Takefushi, Japanese skier (b. 1906)
• August 13
  • Fred Below, American drummer (b. 1926)
  • Per Digerud, Norwegian cyclist (b. 1933)
  • Martin Hellinger, German dentist and war criminal (b. 1904)
  • John Wendell Holmes, Canadian diplomat and academic (b. 1910)
  • Yakov Kutsenko, Ukrainian weightlifter (b. 1915)
  • William H. Phelps Jr., Venezuelan ornithologist (b. 1902)
  • Tenor Saw, Jamaican singer (b. 1966)
• August 14
  • Roy Buchanan, American guitarist (b. 1939)
  • Robert Calvert, South African-English author and musician (b. 1945)
  • Michael Crowder, English historian and author (b. 1934)
  • Enzo Ferrari, Italian automobile designer (b. 1898)
  • Hollis Dow Hedberg, American geologist (b. 1903)
• August 15 – Rudy Collins, American drummer (b. 1934)
• August 16
  • Otto Bökle, German footballer (b. 1912)
  • Herbert Pagani, Libyan-Italian singer (b. 1944)
  • Heinrich Schmidt, German footballer (b. 1912)
• August 17
  • Lennart Bunke, Swedish footballer (b. 1912)
  • Jack Cutting, American animator (b. 1908)
  • Nino Frank, Italian-French film critic and author (b. 1904)
  • Bruno Mathsson, Swedish furniture designer and architect (b. 1907)
  • Connie Meijer, Dutch cyclist (b. 1963)
  • Akhtar Abdur Rahman, Pakistani general (b. 1924)
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., American politician (b. 1914)
  • Victoria Shaw, Australian actress (b. 1935)
  • Jack Straus, American poker player (b. 1930)
  • Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, Pakistani general and politician, President of Pakistan (b. 1924)
• August 18
  • Frederick Ashton, English dancer and choreographer (b. 1904)
  • Felix Maria Davídek, Czech bishop (b. 1921)
  • Li Gotami Govinda, Indian painter and photographer (b. 1906)
  • Ernst Simon, German-Israeli philosopher (b. 1900)
• August 19 – Don Haggerty, American actor (b. 1914)
• August 20
  • Jean-Paul Aron, French author and philosopher (b. 1925)
  • Joan G. Robinson, English author (b. 1910)
  • Lazarus Salii, Palauan politician, President of Palau (b. 1936)
• August 21
  • H. G. Adler, Czech poet and author (b. 1910)
  • Ray Eames, American architect (b. 1912)
  • Eino Kirjonen, Finnish ski jumper (b. 1933)
• August 22
  • Norah Aiton, English architect (b. 1903)
  • Bruno Bianchi, Italian sailor (b. 1904)
  • Frances James, Canadian opera singer (b. 1903)
• August 23
  • Josef Klehr, German nazi officer (b. 1904)
  • Hans Lewy, German-American mathematician (b. 1904)
  • Alf Martinsen, Norwegian footballer (b. 1911)
  • Menotti Del Picchia, Brazilian poet and journalist (b. 1892)
  • Jack Sher, American screenwriter and journalist (b. 1913)
• August 24
  • Leonard Frey, American actor (b. 1938)
  • Kenneth Leighton, English composer and pianist (b. 1929)
• August 25
  • Price Daniel, American politician and judge (b. 1910)
  • Françoise Dolto, French pediatrician and psychoanalyst (b. 1908)
  • Joachim Pirsch, German rower (b. 1914)
  • Art Rooney, American football executive (b. 1901)
• August 26
  • Hans Esser, German fencer (b. 1909)
  • Carlos Paião, Portuguese singer (b. 1957)
  • Milton Sperling, American film producer and screenwriter (b. 1912)
• August 27
  • Max Black, English-American philosopher (b. 1909)
  • Irene Higginbotham, American songwriter and pianist (b. 1918)
  • John Lie. Indonesian rear admiral (b. 1911)
  • William Sargant, English psychiatrist (b. 1907)
  • Costas Taktsis, Greek author (b. 1927)
• August 28
  • Hazel Dawn, American actress (b. 1890)
  • Paul Grice, English philosopher (b. 1913)
  • Guy Hocquenghem, French author and philosopher (b. 1946)
  • Paul Whitelaw, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1910)
• August 29
  • Horace Henderson, American pianist (b. 1904)
  • Algirdas Klimaitis, Lithuanian nazi collaborator (b. 1910)
  • Mykola Lukash, Ukrainian translator and lexicographer (b. 1919)
  • Xuân Quỳnh, Vietnamese poet (b. 1942)
• August 30
  • Batsheva Katznelson, Israeli politician (b. 1897)
  • Jack Marshall, New Zealand politician, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1912)
  • Leonidas Proaño, Ecuadorian bishop and theologian (b. 1910)
  • Ivana Tomljenović-Meller, Serbian graphic designer (b. 1906)
  • Wanda Wermińska, Polish opera singer (b. 1900)
• August 31
  • Edgar Elbakyan, Armenian actor (b. 1928)
  • Lin Jaldati, Dutch-German singer (b. 1912)
  • Vasil Mzhavanadze, Georgian politician (b. 1902)

September 1988

• September 1
  • Luis Walter Alvarez, American physicist (b. 1911)
  • Fatehsinghrao Gaekwad, Indian cricketer and politician (b. 1930)
  • Hugh Hunt, American set decorator (b. 1902)
  • Leonor Sullivan, American politician (b. 1902)
• September 2
  • Heinz Förstendorf, German field hockey player (b. 1907)
  • Erik Frey, Austrian actor (b. 1908)
  • Bill Northam, Australian sailor (b. 1905)
  • Robert Watts, American artist (b. 1923)
• September 3
  • Ferit Melen, Turkish politician, Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1906)
  • Ferenc Sas, Hungarian footballer (b. 1915)
  • Bibi Torriani, Swiss ice hockey player and luger (b. 1911)
• September 4 – Oda Schaefer, German author and journalist (b. 1900)
• September 5
  • Hans Albin, German film director and actor (b. 1905)
  • Lawrence Brown, American trombonist (b. 1907)
  • Gert Fröbe, German actor (b. 1913)
  • Boris Smyslovsky, Russian-Finnish general and nazi collaborator (b. 1897)
• September 6
  • Axel von Ambesser, German actor and film director (b. 1910)
  • Harold Rosson, American cinematographer (b. 1895)
  • Stefan Themerson, Polish author (b. 1910)
• September 7
  • Raymond Dubly, French footballer (b. 1893)
  • Sedad Hakkı Eldem, Turkish architect (b. 1908)
  • Werner Felfe, German politician (b. 1928)
  • Vivi Janiss, American actress (b. 1911)
  • Thelma Payne, American diver (b. 1896)
  • Bolesław Płotnicki, Polish actor (b. 1913)
  • Károly Reich, Hungarian artist (b. 1922)
• September 8 – G. M. Durrani, Indian singer and actor (b. 1919)
• September 9
  • Mona Best, English club owner (b. 1924)
  • Maisie Carr, Australian ecologist and botanist (b. 1912)
  • Albert Taylor, Canadian rower (b. 1911)
• September 10
  • Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, Brazilian film director and screenwriter (b. 1932)
  • Virginia Satir, American author and psychotherapist (b. 1916)
• September 11
  • Wilhelm Batz, German fighter pilot (b. 1916)
  • Roger Hargreaves, English author (b. 1935)
  • Fiqrete Shehu, Albanian politician (b. 1919)
• September 12
  • Alan Bible, American politician (b. 1909)
  • Stephen B. Grimes, English production designer (b. 1927)
  • Bill Mitchell, American automobile designer (b. 1912)
  • Lauris Norstad, American general (b. 1907)
  • Charlie Palmieri, Puerto Rican bandleader (b. 1927)
• September 13
  • Gerd Hornberger, German sprinter (b. 1910)
  • Christian Kampmann, Danish author and journalist (b. 1939)
• September 14
  • William Edward Cousins, American archbishop (b. 1902)
  • Louis Quinn, American actor (b. 1915)
• September 15 – Roger Avermaete, Belgian author (b. 1893)
• September 16
  • Richard Paul Lohse, Swiss painter (b. 1902)
  • Dick Pym, English footballer (b. 1918)
• September 17
  • Roman Davydov, Russian animator (b. 1913)
  • Hilde Güden, Austrian opera singer (b. 1917)
• September 18
  • Ho Chong, South Korean politician, President and Prime Minister of South Korea (b. 1896)
  • Kathleen Collins, American author and playwright (b. 1942)
  • David Dodd, American economist (b. 1895)
  • Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar, Iranian poet (b. 1906)
• September 19
  • Călin Alupi, Romanian painter (b. 1906)
  • Enrico Cerulli, Italian scholar (b. 1898)
  • P. A. P. Moran, Australian statistician (b. 1917)
• September 20
  • Herbert Francis, American cyclist (b. 1940)
  • Roy Kinnear, American actor (b. 1934)
  • Tibor Sekelj, Hungarian-Serbian author (b. 1912)
  • Doris Wells, American actress and screenwriter (b. 1943)
  • Sam Woodyard, American drummer (b. 1925)
• September 21
  • Glenn Robert Davis, American politician (b. 1914)
  • Zubeida Dhanrajgir, Indian actress (b. 1911)
  • Henry Koster, German-American film director (b. 1905)
  • Christine Norden, English actress (b. 1924)
• September 22
  • Maximilian von Fürstenberg, Dutch-Belgian cardinal (b. 1904)
  • Rezső Sugár, Hungarian composer (b. 1919)
• September 23 – Trilok Kapoor, Indian actor (b. 1912)
• September 24
  • Aziz Suryal Atiya, Egyptian historian and scholar (b. 1898)
  • Basil de Ferranti, English politician (b. 1930)
  • Anatole Jakovsky, French critic (b. 1909)
  • Arthur McCashin, American equestrian (b. 1909)
• September 25
  • Billy Carter, American businessman (b. 1937)
  • Francis DeSales, American actor (b. 1912)
• September 26
  • Bruce Haack, Canadian musician and composer (b. 1931)
  • Branko Zebec, Croatian footballer and manager (b. 1929)
• September 27
  • Teofilo Camomot, Filipino archbishop (b. 1914)
  • Willis Edwards, English footballer and manager (b. 1903)
  • J. C. Heard, American drummer (b. 1917)
  • David Nelson, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1918)
• September 28
  • Charles Addams, American cartoonist (b. 1912)
  • Elli Alexiou, Greek author and playwright (b. 1894)
  • Ethel Grandin, American actress (b. 1894)
  • Vicko Krstulović, Croatian politician (b. 1905)
• September 29 – Raúl Landini, Argentine boxer (b. 1909)
• September 30
  • Chick Chandler, American actor (b. 1905)
  • Trường Chinh, Vietnamese politician (b. 1907)
  • Al Holbert, American racing driver (b. 1946)
  • Joachim Prinz, German-American rabbi (b. 1902)
  • Joseph Albert Sullivan, Canadian ice hockey player and politician (b. 1901)

October 1988

• October 1
  • Lucien Ballard, American cinematographer (b. 1908)
  • Pavle Vuisić, Serbian actor (b. 1926)
• October 2
  • Hamengkubuwono Dorodjatun, Indonesian politician (b. 1912)
  • Alec Issigonis, Greek-English automobile designer (b. 1906)
• October 3
  • Marco Galli, Italian water polo player (b. 1957)
  • Ma Haide, American-Chinese physician (b. 1910)
  • Franz Josef Strauss, German politician (b. 1915)
• October 4
  • Carlo Carretto, Italian author and priest (b. 1910)
  • Zlatko Grgić, Croatian-Canadian animator (b. 1931)
  • Geoffrey Household, English author (b. 1900)
  • Abdul Majid Kabar, Libyan politician, Prime Minister of Libya (b. 1909)
• October 5
  • Art Gagné, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1896)
  • Ron Staniforth, English footballer (b. 1924)
• October 6
• October 7
  • George Ansell, English footballer (b. 1909)
  • Sándor Bíró, Hungarian footballer (b. 1911)
  • Stéphane Lupasco, Romanian philosopher (b. 1900)
• October 8
  • Ernst Hermann Meyer, German composer and musicologist (b. 1905)
  • Pál Titkos, Hungarian footballer (b. 1908)
• October 9
  • Cliff Gallup, American guitarist (b. 1930)
  • Jackie Milburn, English footballer (b. 1924)
  • Michael Minsky, Russian singer and conductor (b. 1918)
  • Felix Wankel, German engineer (b. 1902)
• October 10
  • Bhabani Bhattacharya, Indian author (b. 1906)
  • Juan Pujol García, Spanish politician (b. 1912)
  • Montgomery Tully, Irish film director and screenwriter (b. 1904)
• October 11
  • Buck Clarke, American drummer (b. 1933)
  • Morgan Farley, American actor (b. 1898)
  • Bonita Granville, American actress (b. 1923)
  • Robert Edward Gross, American surgeon (b. 1905)
  • Guido Monzino, Italian mountaineer (b. 1928)
  • Red Owens, American basketball player (b. 1925)
  • Hugh Percy, English peer (b. 1914)
  • Giuseppe Tonucci, Italian cyclist (b. 1938)
• October 12
  • Ruth Manning-Sanders, Welsh-English poet and author (b. 1886)
  • Ken Murray, American comedian and actor (b. 1903)
  • Rafael García Serrano, Spanish author and journalist (b. 1917)
• October 13
  • Melvin Frank, American screenwriter (b. 1913)
  • Irene Hunt, American actress (b. 1892)
• October 14
  • Serafín Aedo, Spanish footballer (b. 1908)
  • Charles Augustus, German prince (b. 1912)
  • René Vietto, French cyclist (b. 1914)
• October 15
  • John Ball, American author (b. 1911)
  • Piero Fornasetti, Italian artist (b. 1913)
  • Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, English composer and pianist (b. 1892)
  • Julian Alfred Steyermark, American botanist (b. 1909)
• October 16
  • Abdulrahman Fawzi, Egyptian footballer and manager (b. 1909)
  • Christian Matras, Faroese poet and academic (b. 1900)
  • Muzafer Sherif, Turkish-American psychologist (b. 1906)
  • Farida Zulficar, Egyptian queen (b. 1921)
• October 17
  • John Dillon, English sailor (b. 1921)
  • Adélaïde Hautval, French physician and psychiatrist (b. 1906)
  • Anthony A. Hoekema, Dutch-American minister and theologian (b. 1913)
  • György Horváth, Hungarian weightlifter (b. 1943)
• October 18 – Paulius Galaunė, Lithuanian historian and artist (b. 1890)
• October 19
  • Lawrence W. Butler, American special effects artist (b. 1908)
  • Son House, American singer and guitarist (b. 1902)
  • Marcos de Mendonça, Brazilian footballer (b. 1894)
  • Sten Suvio, Finnish boxer (b. 1911)
  • Friedrich Weinreb, Dutch economist and nazi collaborator (b. 1910)
• October 20
  • Ulrich Beyer, German boxer (b. 1947)
  • Vladimir Gorb, Russian painter (b. 1903)
  • Sheila Scott, English pilot (b. 1922)
  • Mogens Wöldike, Danish conductor and organist (b. 1897)
• October 21
  • Guido Beck, Argentine physicist (b. 1903)
  • Paul Ledoux, Belgian astrophysicist (b. 1914)
• October 22
  • Henry Armstrong, American boxer (b. 1912)
  • Plácido Galindo, Peruvian footballer (b. 1906)
  • Clare Stevenson, Australian air force officer (b. 1903)
  • Esat Oktay Yıldıran, Turkish major (b. 1949)
• October 23
  • Jan Erik Lindqvist, Swedish actor (b. 1920)
  • André Neher, French scholar and philosopher (b. 1914)
  • Stefan Turchak, Ukrainian conductor (b. 1938)
• October 24 – Sumner White, American sailor (b. 1929)
• October 25
  • Eric Larson, American animator (b. 1905)
  • Milton Rokeach, Polish-American psychologist (b. 1918)
• October 26
• October 27
  • Charles Hawtrey, English actor (b. 1914)
  • Curt Herzstark, Austrian engineer (b. 1902)
  • Rudolf Jordan, German nazi officer (b. 1902)
  • Erika von Thellmann, Austrian actress (b. 1902)
• October 28 – Pietro Annigoni, Italian painter (b. 1910)
• October 29
  • Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, Indian activist (b. 1903)
  • Thomas Cooray, Sri Lankan cardinal (b. 1901)
  • Nataša Gollová, Czech actress (b. 1912)
  • Mary Kid, German actress (b. 1901)
  • Bill Mason, Canadian naturalist and film director (b. 1929)
  • Orlando Montenegro Medrano, Nicaraguan politician, President of Nicaragua (b. 1920)
• October 30
  • Ernst Fritz Fürbringer, German actor (b. 1900)
  • Thornton Hee, American animator (b. 1911)
  • Hans Klering, German actor (b. 1906)
  • Tasos Leivaditis, Greek poet and author (b. 1922)
  • Francisco Rodrigues, Brazilian footballer (b. 1925)
• October 31
  • John Houseman, English-American actor (b. 1902)
  • Theodor Schneider, German mathematician (b. 1911)
  • George Uhlenbeck, Dutch-American theoretical physicist (b. 1900)

November 1988

• November 1
  • George Folsey, American cinematographer (b. 1898)
  • Hans P. Kraus, Austrian-American book dealer (b. 1907)
• November 2
  • Hokuma Gurbanova, Azerbaijani actress (b. 1913)
  • Lukas Heller, German-English screenwriter (b. 1930)
  • Menachem Savidor, Israeli politician (b. 1917)
• November 3
  • Ira Abbott, American aerospace engineer (b. 1906)
  • William Adam, Dutch-Belgian malacologist (b. 1909)
  • George Mitchell, American water polo player (b. 1901)
  • Flora Rheta Schreiber, American journalist and author (b. 1918)
• November 4
  • Hermann Graf, German fighter pilot (b. 1912)
  • Kleanthis Vikelidis, Greek footballer (b. 1915)
  • Grigor Yeghiazaryan, Armenian composer (b. 1908)
• November 5
  • C. F. Møller, Danish architect (b. 1898)
  • Jakoba Mulder, Dutch architect (b. 1900)
• November 6
  • John Hubbard, American actor (b. 1914)
  • Tan Zheng, Chinese general (b. 1906)
• November 7 – Hans Baumann, German author (b. 1914)
• November 8
  • Kingman Brewster Jr., American academic administrator and diplomat (b. 1919)
  • Warren Casey, American composer and songwriter (b. 1935)
  • Oskar Rohr, German footballer (b. 1912)
• November 9
  • Anatoliy Baranovsky, Ukrainian politician and economist (b. 1906)
  • Yves Baudrier, French sailor and film composer (b. 1906)
  • Mario Nasalli Rocca di Corneliano, Italian cardinal (b. 1903)
  • Billy Curtis, American actor (b. 1909)
  • John N. Mitchell, American lawyer and politician (b. 1913)
  • Nalumino Mundia, Zambian politician, Prime Minister of Zambia (b. 1927)
• November 10
  • Otto Haupt, German mathematician (b. 1887)
  • Jaume Miravitlles, Spanish author and politician (b. 1906)
• November 11
  • Jean Mistler, French author and politician (b. 1897)
  • Émile Muller, French politician (b. 1915)
• November 12
  • Ursula Graham Bower, English anthropologist (b. 1914)
  • Primo Conti, Italian painter (b. 1900)
  • István Klimek, Romanian footballer (b. 1913)
  • Lyman Lemnitzer, American general (b. 1899)
  • Tomasz Sikorski, Polish composer and pianist (b. 1939)
• November 13
  • Antal Doráti, Hungarian-American conductor (b. 1906)
  • Jaromír Vejvoda, Czech composer (b. 1902)
• November 14
  • Julia Caba Alba, Spanish actress (b. 1902)
  • Giacomo Gaioni, Italian cyclist (b. 1905)
  • Åke Gustafsson, Swedish botanist and geneticist (b. 1908)
  • Haywood S. Hansell, American major general (b. 1903)
  • Takeo Miki, Japanese politician, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1907)
  • Augusta La Torre, Peruvian revolutionary (b. 1946)
• November 15
  • Mirko Kokotović, Bosnian-Croatian footballer (b. 1913)
  • Ieronymos Kotsonis, Greek monk and theologian (b. 1905)
  • Mona Washbourne, English actress (b. 1903)
• November 16
  • Wera Engels, German actress (b. 1905)
  • Jennie Lee, Scottish politician (b. 1904)
• November 17
  • Jyotirmoyee Devi, Indian author (b. 1894)
  • Magdaléna Štrompachová, Hungarian-Slovakian painter (b. 1919)
• November 18 – Lotte Stam-Beese, German-Dutch architect (b. 1903)
• November 19
  • Mirza Hameedullah Beg, Indian judge (b. 1913)
  • Veljko Mandić, Montenegrin actor (b. 1924)
  • Christina Onassis, American-Greek businesswoman (b. 1950)
  • Hamidur Rahman, Bangladeshi artist (b. 1928)
• November 20
  • Jenő Vincze, Hungarian footballer (b. 1908)
  • Felix Ziegel, Russian astronomer (b. 1920)
• November 21
  • Sophie Carola, German princess (b. 1911)
  • Tom Fraser, Scottish politician (b. 1911)
  • Carl Hubbell, American baseball player (b. 1903)
  • Pál Kalmár, Hungarian singer (b. 1900)
  • Raymond Lewenthal, American pianist (b. 1923)
• November 22
  • Luis Barragán, Mexican architect (b. 1902)
  • Raymond Dart, Australian anatomist and anthropologist (b. 1893)
  • Erich Fried, Austrian-English poet and author (b. 1921)
  • John R. Ragazzini, American engineer (b. 1912)
  • Terry Welch, American computer scientist (b. 1939)
• November 23
  • Gamal Abdel-Rahim, Egyptian composer (b. 1924)
  • Kenzō Masaoka, Japanese animator (b. 1898)
  • Joe Schleimer, Canadian wrestler (b. 1909)
• November 24
  • Bernard Leene, Dutch cyclist (b. 1903)
  • Andreas Ostler, German bobsledder (b. 1921)
  • Irmgard Seefried, German opera singer (b. 1919)
  • Jenő Szűcs, Hungarian historian (b. 1928)
• November 25
  • Alphaeus Philemon Cole, American artist (b. 1876)
  • Jack Leslie, English footballer (b. 1901)
  • Dmitrii Menshov, Russian mathematician (b. 1892)
  • Muhammad bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi Arabian prince (b. 1910)
• November 26
  • Hans Baron, German-American historian (b. 1900)
  • Albert Barthélémy, French cyclist (b. 1906)
  • Antonio Estévez, Venezuelan musician and composer (b. 1916)
  • Bent Peder Rasch, Danish canoeist (b. 1934)
• November 27
  • Angela Aames, American actress (b. 1956)
  • Carmen Carbonell, Spanish actress (b. 1900)
  • John Carradine, American actor (b. 1906)
  • Jan Hein Donner, Dutch chess grandmaster (b. 1927)
  • Takieddin el-Solh, Lebanese politician, Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1908)
• November 28
  • Gus Bailey, American basketball player (b. 1951)
  • Daniil Kazakevich, Russian lieutenant general (b. 1902)
  • Leonid Lubennikov, Russian politician (b. 1910)
• November 29
  • Nils Bejerot, Swedish psychiatrist and criminologist (b. 1921)
  • Ludwig Rudolph von Hannover, German royal and music producer (b. 1955)
  • Donald Keyhoe, American pilot and author (b. 1897)
  • Yevsey Moiseyenko, Russian painter (b. 1916)
  • Mabel Strickland, Maltese journalist and politician (b. 1899)
• November 30
  • Martín Alarcón, Argentine footballer (b. 1928)
  • Aleksandar Deroko, Serbian architect and artist (b. 1894)
  • Pannonica de Koenigswarter, English-American music patron and author (b. 1913)
  • Margaret Mee, English artist (b. 1909)
  • Amiram Nir, Israeli journalist (b. 1950)
  • Charlie Rouse, American saxophonist and flautist (b. 1924)
  • Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad, Egyptian reciter (b. 1927)

December 1988

• December 1
  • Martin Hinds, Welsh scholar (b. 1941)
  • Włodzimierz Mazur, Polish footballer (b. 1954)
  • J. Vernon McGee, American minister and theologian (b. 1904)
  • Gisle Straume, Norwegian actor and theatre director (b. 1917)
  • Jonas Turkow, Polish actor and author (b. 1898)
• December 2
  • Karl-Heinz Bürger, German nazi officer (b. 1904)
  • Paul Olmari, Finnish archbishop (b. 1914)
  • Zofia Szczęśniewska, Polish volleyball player (b. 1943)
• December 3
  • Károly Lakat, Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1920)
  • Thawan Thamrongnawasawat, Thai politician, Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1901)
• December 4
  • Osman Achmatowicz, Polish chemist (b. 1899)
  • Gerd Arntz, German-Dutch artist (b. 1900)
  • David Trench, English politician (b. 1915)
  • Alberto Uria, Uruguayan racing driver (b. 1924)
• December 5
  • Einar Forseth, Swedish artist (b. 1892)
  • Aghasadyg Garaybeyli, Azerbaijani actor (b. 1897)
  • Valter Klauson, Estonian politician (b. 1914)
  • August Lenz, German footballer (b. 1910)
  • Erik Lundin, Swedish chess grandmaster (b. 1904)
  • Aurélien Sauvageot, French linguist (b. 1897)
• December 6
  • Timothy Patrick Murphy, American actor (b. 1959)
  • Roy Orbison, American singer (b. 1936)
• December 7
  • Christopher Connelly, American actor (b. 1941)
  • Dorothy Jordan, American actress (b. 1906)
• December 8
  • Henri Peyre, French-American linguist and scholar (b. 1901)
  • Hellmuth Reymann, German nazi officer (b. 1882)
  • Anne Seymour, American actress (b. 1909)
  • Andrey Yershov, Russian computer scientist (b. 1931)
  • Ulanhu Ze, Chinese politician (b. 1907)
• December 9 – Gerhart Münch, German composer and pianist (b. 1907)
• December 10
  • Richard S. Castellano, American actor (b. 1933)
  • Dorothy de Rothschild, English philanthropist (b. 1895)
  • Roman Schramseis, Austrian footballer (b. 1906)
  • Alexander Vinogradov, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1918)
• December 11
  • Wilhelm Petersén, Swedish ice hockey player and bandy player (b. 1906)
  • Nagendra Singh, Indian judge (b. 1914)
  • Anton Stankowski, German graphic designer and photographer (b. 1906)
• December 12
  • Dick Clair, American television producer and actor (b. 1931)
  • Paul Matteoli, French cyclist (b. 1929)
  • Anthony Provenzano, American mobster (b. 1917)
  • Rudolf Schündler, German actor and film director (b. 1906)
  • Stjepan Vrbančić, Croatian footballer (b. 1900)
• December 13
  • Evelyn Booth, Irish botanist (b. 1897)
  • Wally Henschel, German-American chess player (b. 1893)
  • André Jaunet, Swiss flautist (b. 1911)
  • María Teresa León, Spanish author and activist (b. 1903)
  • Fyodor Reshetnikov, Russian painter (b. 1906)
  • Betty Snowball, English athlete (b. 1908)
  • Roy Urquhart, English major general (b. 1901)
• December 14
  • Evald Schorm, Czech film director and screenwriter (b. 1931)
  • Jean Schramme, Belgian mercenary (b. 1929)
  • Stuart Symington, American politician (b. 1901)
• December 15
  • Leonid Andrussow, Latvian-German engineer (b. 1896)
  • Tito Livio Ferreira, Brazilian historian and journalist (b. 1894)
  • Clifford Harrison, American ice hockey player (b. 1927)
• December 16
  • Anna Jean Ayres, American psychologist (b. 1920)
  • Hunter Hendry, Australian cricketer (b. 1895)
  • Sylvester James Jr., American singer (b. 1947)
  • Ryōhei Koiso, Japanese painter (b. 1903)
  • Gisella Perl, Romanian gynecologist (b. 1907)
  • Babe Pratt, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1916)
  • Antonio Rico, Spanish chess player (b. 1908)
  • Poul Thomsen, Danish actor (b. 1922)
• December 17 – Jerry Hopper, American film director (b. 1907)
• December 18
  • R. Arumugam, Malaysian footballer (b. 1953)
  • Ottó Boros, Hungarian water polo player (b. 1929)
  • Arve Lønnum, Norwegian politician (b. 1911)
• December 19
  • Umashankar Joshi, Indian poet and scholar (b. 1911)
  • Alain Romans, French composer (b. 1905)
  • Stanley Skewes, South African mathematician (b. 1899)
• December 20
  • György Marik, Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1924)
  • Elizabeth Scott, English mathematician (b. 1917)
• December 21
  • Bernt Carlsson, Swedish diplomat (b. 1938)
  • Curt Richter, American biologist and geneticist (b. 1894)
  • Bob Steele, American actor (b. 1907)
  • Nikolaas Tinbergen, Dutch biologist (b. 1907)
  • Venus Xtravaganza, American transgender figure (b. 1965)
• December 22
  • Iván Boldizsár, Hungarian journalist and author (b. 1912)
  • Chico Mendes, Brazilian environmentalist (b. 1944)
  • Tucker Smith, American actor (b. 1936)
  • Rexhai Surroi, Albanian journalist and diplomat (b. 1929)
• December 23
  • Consuelo Berges, Spanish translator and journalist (b. 1899)
  • János Boldóczki, Hungarian politician (b. 1912)
  • Frida Kern, Austrian composer (b. 1891)
  • Carlo Scorza, Italian politician (b. 1897)
• December 24
  • Whitney Bourne, American actress (b. 1914)
  • Mary Cavendish, English duchess (b. 1895)
  • Jainendra Kumar, Indian author (b. 1905)
  • Evelyn Pinching, English skier (b. 1915)
  • Noel Willman, Irish actor and theatre director (b. 1918)
• December 25
  • Jan Białostocki, Polish historian (b. 1921)
  • Evgeny Golubev, Russian composer (b. 1910)
  • Shōhei Ōoka, Japanese author and critic (b. 1909)
  • Cynthia Stone, American actress (b. 1926)
• December 26
  • Herluf Bidstrup, Danish cartoonist (b. 1912)
  • Julanne Johnston, American actress (b. 1900)
  • John Loder, English actor (b. 1898)
  • Pablo Sorozábal, Spanish composer (b. 1897)
• December 27
  • Hal Ashby, American film director (b. 1929)
  • Ida Busbridge, English mathematician (b. 1908)
  • Walter Crook, English footballer and manager (b. 1913)
  • Freda James, English tennis player (b. 1911)
  • Khin Kyi, Burmese politician and diplomat (b. 1912)
  • Donald Laycock, Australian linguist and anthropologist (b. 1936)
  • Clément Moreau, German artist (b. 1903)
• December 28
  • Karlfried Graf Dürckheim, German diplomat and psychotherapist (b. 1896)
  • Björn Kurtén, Finnish paleontologist (b. 1924)
• December 29
  • Émile Aillaud, French architect (b. 1902)
  • Mike Beuttler, English racing driver (b. 1940)
  • Rita Rait-Kovaleva, Russian translator and author (b. 1898)
• December 30
  • Jan Baalsrud, Norwegian lieutenant (b. 1917)
  • Yuli Daniel, Russian author (b. 1925)
  • Takeo Fujisawa, Japanese businessman (b. 1910)
  • Ernesto Lazzatti, Argentine footballer and journalist (b. 1915)
  • Isamu Noguchi, American sculptor and architect (b. 1904)
  • Nikolai Sologubov, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1924)
• December 31
  • Christopher Andrewes, English virologist (b. 1896)
  • Oliver L. Austin, American ornithologist (b. 1903)
  • Nicolas Calas, Greek-American poet and critic (b. 1907)

1989

January 1989

• January 1 – Anthony Pini, Argentine-English cellist (b. 1902)
• January 2
  • Safdar Hashmi, Indian playwright (b. 1954)
  • Ilya Mazuruk, Russian pilot and explorer (b. 1906)
• January 3
  • Robert Banks, American chemist (b. 1921)
  • Eddie Heywood, American pianist and composer (b. 1915)
  • Bernhard Krüger, German nazi officer (b. 1904)
  • Nell O'Day, American actress (b. 1909)
  • Lina Prokofiev, Spanish singer (b. 1897)
  • Sergei Sobolev, Russian mathematician (b. 1908)
  • Robert Thomas, French screenwriter and actor (b. 1927)
  • Jean Willes, American actress (b. 1923)
• January 4 – Dvora Netzer, Israeli politician (b. 1897)
• January 5 – Philip Herschkowitz, Romanian composer (b. 1906)
• January 6
  • Jim Hurtubise, American racing driver (b. 1932)
  • Edmund Leach, English anthropologist and academic (b. 1910)
  • Elisa Lispector, Brazilian author (b. 1911)
• January 7
  • Frank Adams, English mathematician (b. 1930)
  • Hirohito, Japanese emperor (b. 1901)
  • Ugo Pignotti, Italian fencer (b. 1898)
  • Timothy Plowman, American ethnobotanist (b. 1944)
• January 8
  • Torsten Johansson, Swedish footballer (b. 1906)
  • Johnny Jordaan, Dutch singer (b. 1924)
  • Olavi Kuronen, Finnish ski jumper (b. 1923)
  • Kenneth McMillan, American actor (b. 1932)
  • Frank Sullivan, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1898)
• January 9
  • Walter Köhler, German nazi politician (b. 1897)
  • Marshall H. Stone, American mathematician (b. 1903)
  • Bill Terry, American baseball player and manager (b. 1898)
• January 10
  • Chris Avram, Romanian-Italian actor (b. 1931)
  • Kai Fjell, Norwegian painter (b. 1907)
  • Valentin Glushko, Russian engineer (b. 1908)
  • Herbert Morrison, American journalist (b. 1905)
• January 11
  • José Luis Bustamante y Rivero, Peruvian politician, President of Peru (b. 1894)
  • Jackie Wright, Northern Irish comedian (b. 1904)
• January 12
  • Adil Candemir, Turkish wrestler (b. 1917)
  • Zygmunt Hübner, Polish actor (b. 1930)
  • Satyam Sastry, Indian composer (b. 1933)
  • Willy Schneider, German singer (b. 1905)
• January 13
  • Sterling Allen Brown, American folklorist and poet (b. 1901)
  • José María Peña, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1895)
  • Joe Spinell, American actor (b. 1936)
• January 14 – Nguyễn Văn Xuân, Vietnamese politician (b. 1892)
• January 15 – Wilf Slack, English cricketer (b. 1954)
• January 16
  • Willemijn Posthumus-van der Goot, Dutch economist and broadcaster (b. 1897)
  • Fredrik Meyer, Norwegian sailor (b. 1916)
  • Prem Nazir, Indian actor (b. 1926)
  • Trey Wilson, American actor (b. 1948)
• January 17
  • Gordon Allott, American politician (b. 1907)
  • Óscar Vargas Prieto, Peruvian politician, Prime Minister of Peru (b. 1917)
  • Baba Mardoukh Rohanee, Iranian academic (b. 1923)
  • Georges Schéhadé, Lebanese playwright and poet (b. 1905)
  • Alfredo Zitarrosa, Uruguayan singer and poet (b. 1936)
• January 18
  • Nils Axelsson, Swedish footballer (b. 1906)
  • Bruce Chatwin, English author and journalist (b. 1940)
• January 19
  • Norma Varden, English-American actress (b. 1898)
  • Octavio Vial, Mexican football manager (b. 1918)
• January 20
  • Józef Cyrankiewicz, Polish politician, Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1911)
  • John Harding, English field marshal (b. 1896)
  • Dolf van Kol, Dutch footballer (b. 1902)
  • Beatrice Lillie, Canadian-English actress and singer (b. 1894)
  • Vincenzo Rossello, Italian cyclist (b. 1923)
  • Halsey Stevens, American composer (b. 1908)
• January 21 – Billy Tipton, American musician (b. 1914)
• January 22
  • Vladimir Belov, Russian pianist (b. 1906)
  • Sydney Goldstein, English mathematician (b. 1903)
  • Sándor Weöres, Hungarian poet and author (b. 1913)
• January 23
  • Salvador Dalí, Spanish painter (b. 1904)
  • Bob Gerhardt, American rower and businessman (b. 1903)
  • Emil Kijewski, German cyclist (b. 1911)
  • Diana Pizzavini, Italian gymnast (b. 1911)
  • Konstantin Schegotsky, Russian footballer and manager (b. 1911)
  • Oliver Sipple, American soldier (b. 1941)
• January 24
  • Ted Bundy, American serial killer (b. 1946)
  • Roberto Figueroa, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1904)
  • Sasha Putrya, Ukrainian painter (b. 1977)
  • Theodore B. Werner, American politician (b. 1892)
• January 25
  • Bertil Berg, Swedish water polo player (b. 1910)
  • Bikki Sunazawa, Japanese artist (b. 1931)
• January 26
  • Morton DaCosta, American theatre director (b. 1914)
  • William Forrest, American actor (b. 1902)
  • George Schroth, American water polo player (b. 1899)
  • Sava Sekulić, Serbian painter (b. 1902)
• January 27
  • David Buck, English actor (b. 1936)
  • Willibald Kreß, German footballer (b. 1906)
  • Thomas Sopwith, English pilot (b. 1888)
• January 28
  • Choekyi Gyaltsen, Tibetan panchen lama (b. 1938)
  • Halina Konopacka, Polish athlete (b. 1900)
  • László Papp, Hungarian wrestler (b. 1905)
  • Olli Puhakka, Finnish pilot (b. 1916)
  • Marc Stevens, American pornographic actor (b. 1943)
  • Yoshimaro Yamashina, Japanese ornithologist (b. 1900)
• January 29
  • Mikhail Chulaki, Russian composer (b. 1908)
  • Federico Cantú Garza, Mexican painter and sculptor (b. 1907)
• January 30
  • Alfonso Borbón y Dampierre, Spanish duke (b. 1936)
  • Jack George, American basketball player (b. 1928)
  • Friedrich Solmsen, German-American philologist (b. 1904)
• January 31
  • Yasushi Akutagawa, Japanese composer and conductor (b. 1925)
  • Osborne Anderson, American ice hockey player (b. 1908)
  • Fernando Namora, Portuguese author and physician (b. 1919)
  • William Stephenson, Canadian soldier and spymaster (b. 1897)

February 1989

• February 1
  • Elaine de Kooning, American painter (b. 1918)
  • Erik Persson, Swedish footballer (b. 1909)
• February 2
  • Yuri Bogatyryov, Russian actor (b. 1947)
  • Ondrej Nepela, Slovakian figure skater (b. 1951)
  • Nuno Oliveira, Portuguese equestrian (b. 1925)
  • Walter M. Scott, American set decorator (b. 1906)
• February 3
  • John Cassavetes, American actor and film director (b. 1929)
  • Ebbe Langberg, Danish actor and film director (b. 1933)
  • Lionel Newman, American film composer (b. 1916)
  • Avram Moiseevich Razgon, Russian historian (b. 1920)
  • Kim Sung-jun, South Korean boxer (b. 1953)
• February 4
  • Thorkild Hansen, Danish author (b. 1927)
  • Trevor Lucas, Australian singer (b. 1943)
• February 5
  • André Cheuva, French footballer (b. 1908)
  • Joe Raposo, American composer (b. 1937)
• February 6
  • André Cayatte, French screenwriter and film director (b. 1909)
  • Chris Gueffroy, German historical figure (b. 1968)
  • Antoni Łaciak, Polish ski jumper (b. 1939)
  • King Tubby, Jamaican sound engineer (b. 1941)
  • Barbara W. Tuchman, American historian and author (b. 1912)
• February 7
  • Egon Larsson, Swedish singer and actor (b. 1914)
  • Sebastian Leitner, Austrian-German psychologist (b. 1919)
  • Gilbert Simondon, French philosopher (b. 1924)
  • Simon Virsaladze, Georgian painter (b. 1909)
• February 8
  • John Coward, English ice hockey player (b. 1910)
  • Begum Khurshid Mirza, Pakistani actress (b. 1918)
• February 9 – Osamu Tezuka, Japanese manga artist and animator (b. 1928)
• February 10 – Irving Brown, American trade unionist (b. 1911)
• February 11
  • T. E. B. Clarke, English screenwriter (b. 1907)
  • Leon Festinger, American psychologist (b. 1919)
  • Shakhbut bin Sultan Al Nahyan, Emirati politician (b. 1905)
  • George O'Hanlon, American actor (b. 1912)
• February 12
  • Thomas Bernhard, Austrian author and playwright (b. 1931)
  • Maurice Cann, English motorcycle racer (b. 1911)
  • Attilio Dottesio, Italian actor (b. 1909)
  • Pat Finucane, Irish lawyer (b. 1949)
• February 13
  • Suzanne Briet, French librarian and philosopher (b. 1894)
  • Hans Hellmut Kirst, German author (b. 1914)
  • Eugénie Radziwiłł, Greek-Danish princess (b. 1910)
• February 14
  • James Bond, American ornithologist (b. 1900)
  • Vincent Crane, English keyboardist (b. 1943)
  • Duncan Gregg, American rower (b. 1910)
  • Hilario Pérez, Spanish footballer (b. 1905)
  • Vincent Žuk-Hryškievič, Belarusian politician (b. 1903)
• February 15
  • Hüseyin Akbaş, Turkish wrestler (b. 1933)
  • Robert Lefebvre, French cinematographer (b. 1907)
  • Lee E. McMahon, American computer scientist (b. 1931)
  • Sjafruddin Prawiranegara, Indonesian politician and economist (b. 1911)
  • Antonio Garzoni Provenzani, Italian rower (b. 1906)
  • Aleksandr Travin, Russian basketball player (b. 1937)
• February 16
  • Andy Black, Scottish footballer (b. 1917)
  • Ida Ehre, Austrian-German actor (b. 1900)
  • Arne Jørgensen, Danish gymnast (b. 1897)
• February 17
  • Lefty Gomez, American baseball player (b. 1908)
  • Guy Laroche, French fashion designer (b. 1921)
  • Hanne Sobek, German footballer (b. 1900)
  • Jan Vreede, Dutch sailor (b. 1900)
• February 18
  • Mildred Burke, American professional wrestler (b. 1915)
  • Dina Halpern, Polish-American actress (b. 1909)
• February 19
• February 20
  • Julio César Chaves, Paraguayan historian (b. 1907)
  • Erika Köth, German opera singer (b. 1925)
  • Betty Mars, French singer and actress (b. 1944)
  • Aleksandr Medvedkin, Russian film director (b. 1900)
  • Manuel Rosas, Mexican footballer (b. 1912)
• February 21
  • Gerrit Bol, Dutch mathematician (b. 1906)
  • Khalil Mammadov, Azerbaijani major general (b. 1916)
  • Sándor Márai, Hungarian author and poet (b. 1900)
  • Otar Taktakishvili, Georgian composer and conductor (b. 1924)
  • Alex Thépot, French footballer (b. 1906)
  • Moshe Unna, Israeli politician (b. 1902)
• February 22
  • Nadezhda Kosheverova, Russian film director and screenwriter (b. 1902)
  • Joan Woodbury, American actress (b. 1915)
• February 23
  • José Romão Martenetz, Ukrainian-Brazilian bishop (b. 1903)
  • Tsepon W. D. Shakabpa, Tibetan politician and scholar (b. 1907)
• February 24
  • Norris Cotton, American politician (b. 1900)
  • Joe Harvey, English footballer and manager (b. 1918)
  • Margo Lion, German-French singer and actress (b. 1899)
  • Maria Florianivna Makarevych, Ukrainian botanist and lichenologist (b. 1906)
• February 25 – Robert Foulk, American actor (b. 1908)
• February 26
  • Roy Eldridge, American trumpeter (b. 1911)
  • Alexander Golling, German actor (b. 1905)
  • Mouloud Mammeri, Algerian author and anthropologist (b. 1917)
  • Éloi Meulenberg, Belgian cyclist (b. 1912)
• February 27
  • Paul Oswald Ahnert, German astronomer (b. 1897)
  • Mauricio Garcés, Mexican actor and comedian (b. 1926)
  • Kim Hyun-chul, South Korean politician, Prime Minister of South Korea (b. 1901)
  • Göran Larsson, Swedish swimmer (b. 1932)
  • Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist and ethnologist (b. 1903)
  • Sayuti Melik, Indonesian journalist (b. 1908)
  • Bas Paauwe, Dutch footballer (b. 1911)
  • Joe Silver, American actor (b. 1922)
  • Boris Skossyreff, Belarusian explorer and royal pretender (b. 1896)
• February 28
  • Bernard Beryl Brodie, English-American pharmacologist (b. 1907)
  • Hermann Burger, Swiss poet and author (b. 1942)
  • Josef Epp, Austrian footballer (b. 1920)
  • Aurélio Buarque de Holanda Ferreira, Brazilian lexicographer and philologist (b. 1910)
  • Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, Indian yoga instructor (b. 1888)
  • Pak Se-yong, North Korean poet and politician (b. 1902)

March 1989

• March 1
  • Marcelle Bergerol, French painter (b. 1901)
  • André Muffang, French chess player (b. 1897)
  • Odie Payne, American drummer (b. 1926)
• March 2
• March 3
  • Richard B. Morris, American historian (b. 1904)
  • Dong Qiwu, Chinese general (b. 1899)
  • Stanisław Szmajzner, Polish-Brazilian resistance fighter (b. 1927)
• March 4
  • Tiny Grimes, American guitarist (b. 1916)
  • Viktor Nikiforov, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1931)
  • Edward Makuka Nkoloso, Zambian resistance fighter and politician (b. 1919)
• March 5 – Richmond Barthé, American sculptor (b. 1901)
• March 6
  • Harry Andrews, English actor (b. 1911)
  • Hans-Joachim Hannemann, German rower (b. 1915)
  • Franca Marzi, Italian actress (b. 1926)
  • Yoshio Shiga, Japanese politician (b. 1901)
• March 7
  • Jean Colin, English actress (b. 1905)
  • Gi Hyeong-do, South Korean poet (b. 1960)
  • Judson Philips, American author (b. 1903)
• March 8
  • Elisaveta Bykova, Russian chess grandmaster (b. 1913)
  • Charles Exbrayat, Finnish author (b. 1906)
  • Winfried Freudenberg, German historical figure (b. 1956)
  • Stuart Hamblen, American singer (b. 1908)
  • Robert Lacoste, French politician (b. 1898)
  • Ági Mészáros, Hungarian actress (b. 1914)
  • Albert De Roocker, Belgian fencer (b. 1904)
  • Luigi Rovati, Italian boxer (b. 1904)
• March 9
  • Kermit Beahan, American lieutenant colonel (b. 1918)
  • Robert Mapplethorpe, American photographer (b. 1946)
  • Sam Melville, American actor (b. 1936)
  • Mihemed Şêxo, Syrian singer (b. 1948)
  • Hilda Strike, Canadian sprinter (b. 1910)
• March 10
  • Selwyn Jepson, English author and screenwriter (b. 1899)
  • Maurizio Merli, Italian actor (b. 1940)
• March 11
  • William Challee, American actor (b. 1904)
  • James Kee, American politician (b. 1917)
  • John J. McCloy, American politician (b. 1895)
• March 12
  • Maurice Evans, English actor (b. 1901)
  • Jakob Gimpel, Polish pianist (b. 1906)
  • Kiyoshi Mutō, Japanese architect (b. 1903)
• March 13
  • Carl Dahlhaus, German musicologist (b. 1928)
  • Jo Mommers, Dutch footballer (b. 1927)
  • Fahrettin Özdilek, Turkish politician, Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1898)
• March 14
  • Edward Abbey, American author (b. 1927)
  • Zita Agnese, Austrian royal (b. 1892)
  • Stephen Bechtel Sr., American businessman (b. 1900)
  • Francesco Paolo Bonifacio, Italian politician (b. 1923)
  • Happy Humphrey, American professional wrestler (b. 1926)
  • Gladys Pyle, American politician (b. 1890)
• March 15
  • Henry Cass, English film director (b. 1903)
  • Manlio Di Rosa, Italian fencer (b. 1914)
• March 16
  • Georges Blond, French author (b. 1906)
  • Jesús María de Leizaola, Spanish politician (b. 1896)
• March 17
  • Merritt Butrick, American actor (b. 1959)
  • Jacob Pieter Den Hartog, Dutch-American engineer (b. 1901)
  • Farman Karimzade, Azerbaijani author and film director (b. 1937)
• March 18
  • Harold Jeffreys, English geophysicist (b. 1891)
  • Ryūzō Kikushima, Japanese screenwriter and film producer (b. 1914)
  • Piet Kruiver, Dutch footballer (b. 1938)
  • Werner Proft, German field hockey player (b. 1901)
  • Max Tishler, American chemist (b. 1906)
• March 19
  • Alan Civil, English horn player (b. 1929)
  • Juliette Compton, American actress (b. 1899)
  • Valérie Quennessen, French actress (b. 1957)
• March 20
  • Archie Bleyer, American conductor and bandleader (b. 1909)
  • Mogens Lüchow, Danish fencer (b. 1918)
  • Dina Sfat, Brazilian actress (b. 1938)
• March 21
  • Louis Dupree, American archaeologist and anthropologist (b. 1925)
  • Milton Frome, American actor (b. 1909)
• March 22
  • Jorge Lazaroff, Uruguayan composer and musician (b. 1950)
  • Peta Taylor, English cricketer (b. 1912)
• March 23
  • Alf Agar, English footballer (b. 1904)
  • Pavle Gregorić, Croatian politician (b. 1892)
  • George Marthins, Indian field hockey player (b. 1905)
  • Berl Repetur, Ukrainian-Israeli activist and politician (b. 1902)
• March 24 – Arnett Cobb, American saxophonist (b. 1918)
• March 25
  • Reginald Le Borg, Austrian film director (b. 1902)
  • Sa'id Mufti, Jordanian politician, Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1898)
• March 26
  • Albert Guérisse, Belgian resistance fighter (b. 1911)
  • Māris Liepa, Latvian ballerina (b. 1936)
  • Asbjørn Ruud, Norwegian ski jumper (b. 1919)
  • Hai Zi, Chinese poet (b. 1964)
• March 27
  • May Allison, American actress (b. 1890)
  • Malcolm Cowley, American author (b. 1898)
  • Cláudio Santoro, Brazilian composer and conductor (b. 1919)
  • Jack Starrett, American actor (b. 1936)
• March 28
  • Joseph Adefarasin, Nigerian lawyer and judge (b. 1921)
  • Ian Dalrymple, South African-English film producer and screenwriter (b. 1903)
  • Josiah Zion Gumede, Zimbabwean politician (b. 1919)
  • Madeleine Ozeray, Belgian actress (b. 1908)
  • Antonín Rýgr, Czech footballer and manager (b. 1921)
  • Robert J. Wilke, American actor (b. 1914)
• March 29
  • Bernard Blier, Argentine-French actor (b. 1916)
  • Ferdinand Brickwedde, American physicist (b. 1903)
  • Xiao Jinguang, Chinese admiral (b. 1903)
  • Jo Mihaly, German dancer and author (b. 1902)
  • Carl Munters, Swedish inventor (b. 1897)
  • Aleksandr Prokopenko, Belarusian footballer (b. 1953)
  • Nicolae Steinhardt, Romanian author and monk (b. 1912)
• March 30
  • Bill Chappell, American politician (b. 1922)
  • Mike Sekowsky, American comic book artist (b. 1923)
  • Arto Tolsa, Finnish footballer (b. 1945)
• March 31 – Zakir Baghirov, Azerbaijani politician (b. 1929)

April 1989

• April 1
  • Nedda Harrigan, American actress (b. 1899)
  • Jan A. Rajchman, Polish engineer (b. 1911)
  • George Robledo, Chilean footballer (b. 1926)
• April 2
  • Daniel Spry, Canadian major general (b. 1913)
  • Inez Clare Verdoorn, South African botanist (b. 1896)
• April 3
  • Mustafa Çağatay, Turkish-Cypriot politician (b. 1937)
  • Friedrich-Jobst Volckamer von Kirchensittenbach, German general (b. 1894)
• April 4 – Madeline Hurlock, American actress (b. 1897)
• April 5
  • Frank Foss, American pole vaulter (b. 1895)
  • Bill Gunn, American screenwriter and film director (b. 1934)
  • Kurt Lischka, German war criminal (b. 1909)
  • Karel Zeman, Czech film director and animator (b. 1910)
• April 6
  • Zofia Batycka, Polish model and actress (b. 1907)
  • Elizabeth Becker-Pinkston, American diver (b. 1903)
  • Tapani Niku, Finnish skier (b. 1895)
  • Pannalal Patel, Indian author (b. 1912)
  • Michael Reusch, Swiss gymnast (b. 1914)
• April 7
  • Hassan al-Amri, Yemeni lieutenant general and politician, Prime Minister of Yemen (b. 1920)
  • Per Hysing-Dahl, Norwegian resistance fighter (b. 1920)
  • Cheng Nan-jung, Taiwanese publisher and activist (b. 1947)
  • Basawon Singh, Indian activist (b. 1909)
• April 8
  • Albert Bormann, German nazi officer (b. 1902)
  • Horia Demian, Romanian basketball player (b. 1942)
  • John Wyer, English engineer (b. 1909)
• April 9
  • Birger Holmqvist, Swedish ice hockey player and bandy player (b. 1900)
  • Friedrich Ritter, German botanist (b. 1898)
  • Albert Vigoleis Thelen, German author and translator (b. 1903)
• April 10
  • Joan Barry, English actress (b. 1903)
  • George Genereux, Canadian sport shooter (b. 1935)
  • Nikolai Grinko, Ukrainian actor (b. 1920)
• April 11
  • Emil Grosswald, Romanian-American mathematician (b. 1912)
  • Balthasar Niederkofler, Austrian skier (b. 1906)
  • Hiram Sherman, American actor (b. 1908)
  • Sarban Wall, English author and diplomat (b. 1910)
• April 12
  • Herbert Bednorz, Polish bishop (b. 1908)
  • Gerald Flood, English actor (b. 1927)
  • Bill Harper, Scottish footballer (b. 1897)
  • Abbie Hoffman, American activist (b. 1936)
  • Antonio Porta, Italian author and poet (b. 1935)
  • Sugar Ray Robinson, American boxer (b. 1921)
  • Georges Sébastian, Hungarian-French conductor (b. 1903)
  • Tilda Thamar, Argentine actress (b. 1921)
• April 13
  • Paul II Cheikho, Iraqi patriarch (b. 1906)
  • Erich Herrmann, German handball player (b. 1914)
  • Terry Miller, American politician (b. 1942)
  • Tor Nilsson, Swedish wrestler (b. 1919)
  • Gilbert Scodeller, French cyclist (b. 1931)
• April 14 – Valdemar Laursen, Danish footballer (b. 1900)
• April 15
  • Aurel Dermek, Slovakian mycologist and author (b. 1925)
  • Frederico Gay, Italian cyclist (b. 1896)
  • Bernard-Marie Koltès, French playwright and theatre director (b. 1948)
  • Connie Simmons, American basketball player (b. 1925)
  • Charles Vanel, French actor (b. 1892)
  • Hu Yaobang, Chinese politician (b. 1915)
• April 16
  • Tawfiq Yusuf 'Awwad, Lebanese author and diplomat (b. 1911)
  • Jocko Conlan, American baseball umpire (b. 1899)
  • Harald Edelstam, Swedish diplomat (b. 1913)
  • Katia Granoff, Russian-French art dealer and author (b. 1895)
  • Kaoru Ishikawa, Japanese theorist (b. 1915)
  • Hakkı Yeten, Turkish footballer (b. 1910)
• April 17
  • Inji Aflatoun, Egyptian painter and activist (b. 1924)
  • Charles Lampkin, American actor and musician (b. 1913)
• April 18
  • Adil Atan, Turkish wrestler (b. 1929)
  • Hilde Benjamin, German judge (b. 1902)
  • Vlasta Matulová, Czech actress (b. 1918)
  • Julia Smith, American composer and pianist (b. 1905)
• April 19
  • Ferdinand aus der Fünten, German war criminal (b. 1909)
  • Daphne du Maurier, English author (b. 1907)
• April 20
  • Harold Barlow, English engineer (b. 1899)
  • Johan Eichfeld, Estonian biologist and politician (b. 1893)
  • Uichiro Hatta, Japanese footballer (b. 1903)
  • Lydia Sherwood, English actress (b. 1906)
• April 21
  • Jón Gunnar Árnason, Icelandic sculptor (b. 1931)
  • Princess Deokhye, South Korean princess (b. 1912)
  • James Kirkwood Jr., American playwright (b. 1924)
• April 22
  • György Kulin, Hungarian astronomer (b. 1905)
  • Siegfried Ruff, German physician (b. 1907)
  • Emilio Segrè, Italian-American physicist (b. 1905)
• April 23
  • Norm Baker, Canadian basketball player and lacrosse player (b. 1923)
  • Marc Daniels, American television director (b. 1912)
  • Hu Die, Chinese actress (b. 1908)
  • Hamani Diori, Nigerien politician, Prime Minister of Niger (b. 1916)
  • Imre Hódos, Hungarian wrestler (b. 1928)
  • Marcel Schumann, Luxembourgian footballer (b. 1901)
• April 24
  • Franz Binder, Austrian footballer and manager (b. 1911)
  • Clyde Geronimi, Italian-American animator (b. 1901)
  • Santana Guimarães, Portuguese footballer (b. 1936)
  • Li Jingquan, Chinese politician (b. 1909)
  • Federico Saiz, Spanish footballer (b. 1912)
  • Edgar Sanabria, Venezuelan politician, President of Venezuela (b. 1911)
• April 25 – George Coulouris, English actor (b. 1903)
• April 26
  • Lucille Ball, American actress and comedian (b. 1911)
  • Michele Cecchini, Italian archbishop and diplomat (b. 1920)
  • Judith Dornys, Hungarian-Canadian dancer and actress (b. 1941)
  • Robert Gysae, German u-boat commander (b. 1911)
• April 27
  • Howard Brookner, American film director (b. 1954)
  • Leopold Buczkowski, Polish author and poet (b. 1905)
  • Marcel J. E. Golay, Swiss mathematician and physicist (b. 1902)
  • Kōnosuke Matsushita, Japanese businessman (b. 1894)
  • Paavo Salminen, Finnish footballer (b. 1911)
• April 28
  • Jack Cummings, American film producer and director (b. 1905)
  • Géza von Cziffra, Hungarian-Austrian film director and screenwriter (b. 1900)
  • Esa Pakarinen, Finnish actor and singer (b. 1911)
  • Raúl Sendic, Uruguayan lawyer and trade unionist (b. 1926)
• April 29
  • Marlene Elejarde, Cuban sprinter (b. 1951)
  • Ehsan Tabari, Iranian philosopher and poet (b. 1917)
• April 30
  • Yi Bangja, Japanese-South Korean princess (b. 1901)
  • Gottfried Köthe, Austrian mathematician (b. 1905)
  • Sergio Leone, Italian film director and screenwriter (b. 1929)
  • Pierre Lewden, French high jumper (b. 1901)
  • Taiji Tonoyama, Japanese actor (b. 1915)
  • Guy Williams, American actor (b. 1924)

May 1989

• May 1
  • Antonio Janigro, Italian cellist and conductor (b. 1918)
  • Scooter Lowry, American actor (b. 1919)
  • Marion Mack, American actress and screenwriter (b. 1902)
  • Edward Ochab, Polish politician (b. 1906)
  • Binyamin Sasson, Israeli politician (b. 1903)
  • Douglass Watson, American actor (b. 1921)
  • David Webster, South African anthropologist and activist (b. 1944)
• May 2
  • Bennie Benjamin, Virgin Islands-American songwriter (b. 1907)
  • James Crabe, American cinematographer (b. 1931)
  • Veniamin Kaverin, Russian author (b. 1902)
  • Ambrogio Marchioni, Italian archbishop and diplomat (b. 1911)
  • Giuseppe Siri, Italian cardinal (b. 1906)
• May 3
  • Gordon Dailley, Canadian-English ice hockey player (b. 1911)
  • Christine Jorgensen, American actress and transgender figure (b. 1926)
  • Muriel Ostriche, American actress (b. 1896)
  • William Squire, Welsh actor (b. 1917)
• May 4
  • Adnan Khayr Allah, Iraqi colonel general (b. 1939)
  • Erwin Faber, German actor (b. 1891)
  • Herschel C. Loveless, American politician (b. 1911)
  • Jean-Marie Tjibaou, French politician (b. 1936)
• May 5
  • Helmuth M. Backhaus, German screenwriter (b. 1920)
  • Wolfgang Neuss, German actor and artist (b. 1923)
• May 6
  • Tally Brown, American singer and actress (b. 1924)
  • Adolfo Constanzo, Cuban-American serial killer and cult leader (b. 1962)
  • Thakin Soe, Burmese politician (b. 1906)
• May 7
  • Miranda Campa, Swiss-Italian actress (b. 1914)
  • Frank Cluskey, Irish politician (b. 1930)
  • Darío Echandía, Colombian politician and diplomat (b. 1897)
  • Earl J. Hamilton, American historian (b. 1899)
• May 8
  • Hendrik Allik, Estonian politician (b. 1901)
  • Felice Mario Boano, Italian automobile designer (b. 1903)
  • Andreas Hillgruber, German historian (b. 1925)
  • Ruggero Maccari, Italian screenwriter (b. 1919)
  • Rudolf Uhlenhaut, English-German engineer (b. 1906)
• May 9
  • Karl Brunner, Swiss economist (b. 1916)
  • Fred Halsted, American pornographic film director and actor (b. 1941)
  • Devereaux Mytton, Australian sailor (b. 1924)
  • Kenneth A. Roberts, American politician (b. 1912)
  • Keith Whitley, American singer (b. 1954)
• May 10
  • Wilhelm Bleckwenn, German general (b. 1906)
  • Stewart Perowne, English diplomat and archaeologist (b. 1901)
  • Kalu Rinpoche, Tibetan lama (b. 1905)
  • Woody Shaw, American musician (b. 1944)
  • Dominik Tatarka, Slovakian author (b. 1913)
  • Hassler Whitney, American mathematician (b. 1907)
• May 11
  • Esteban de Jesús, Puerto Rican boxer (b. 1950)
  • Xiao Wangdong, Chinese lieutenant general (b. 1910)
• May 12 – Marcelle de Manziarly, Russian-French pianist (b. 1899)
• May 13
  • Bjørn Puggaard-Müller, Danish actor (b. 1922)
  • Joanna Roos, American actress and playwright (b. 1901)
• May 14
  • Nikifor Kalchenko, Ukrainian politician (b. 1906)
  • Joe Primeau, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1906)
• May 15
  • Johnny Green, American film composer and songwriter (b. 1908)
  • Noriko Tsukase, Japanese voice actress and singer (b. 1945)
• May 16
  • Hassan Khaled, Lebanese politician (b. 1921)
  • Théodore Strawinsky, Russian-Swiss painter (b. 1907)
• May 17
  • Justino de Azcárate, Spanish politician (b. 1903)
  • Hallvard Eika, Norwegian politician (b. 1920)
  • Walter Gross, German actor (b. 1904)
  • Ota Hofman, Czech author (b. 1928)
  • Finn Juhl, Danish architect (b. 1912)
  • Lucia Moholy, Czech photographer (b. 1894)
• May 18
  • Hermann Höcherl, German politician (b. 1912)
  • Ed McIlvenny, Scottish footballer (b. 1924)
• May 19
  • Abe Akira, Japanese author (b. 1934)
  • Anton Diffring, German-English actor (b. 1916)
  • Abel Herzberg, Dutch lawyer and author (b. 1893)
  • Robert Webber, American actor (b. 1924)
• May 20
  • Erzsébet Galgóczi, Hungarian author and playwright (b. 1930)
  • John Hicks, English economist (b. 1904)
  • Pavel Juráček, Czech screenwriter and film director (b. 1935)
  • Warren Magnuson, American politician (b. 1905)
  • Lyn Murray, English-American film composer (b. 1909)
  • Gilda Radner, American comedian and actress (b. 1946)
  • Gōgen Yamaguchi, Japanese martial artist (b. 1909)
• May 21 – Tito Colliander, Finnish theologian and author (b. 1904)
• May 22
  • Tadahiro Aizawa, Japanese archaeologist (b. 1926)
  • Gerd Oswald, German-American film director (b. 1919)
  • Rush Rhees, American philosopher (b. 1905)
  • Karen Ulane, American pilot (b. 1941)
• May 23
  • Antranig Dzarugian, Armenian author and poet (b. 1913)
  • Ansa Ikonen, Finnish actress (b. 1913)
  • Karl Koch, German hacker (b. 1965)
  • Ursula Knab, German sprinter (b. 1929)
  • Georgy Tovstonogov, Georgian-Russian theatre director (b. 1915)
• May 24
  • Guus Dräger, Dutch footballer (b. 1917)
  • Bernice Eddy, American virologist and epidemiologist (b. 1903)
  • Tripti Mitra, Indian actress (b. 1925)
• May 25 – Brigid Bazlen, American actress (b. 1944)
• May 26
  • Jean Despeaux, French boxer (b. 1915)
  • Pierre Everaert, French cyclist (b. 1933)
  • Phineas Newborn Jr., American pianist (b. 1931)
  • Don Revie, English footballer and manager (b. 1927)
  • Kazuko Takatsukasa, Japanese princess (b. 1929)
• May 27
  • Zygmunt Andrzej Heinrich, Polish mountaineer (b. 1937)
  • Arseny Tarkovsky, Russian poet and translator (b. 1907)
• May 28
  • Wally Anderzunas, American basketball player (b. 1946)
  • Iván Palazzese, Italian-Venezuelan motorcycle racer (b. 1962)
  • Baltasar Lopes da Silva, Cape Verdean-Portuguese author and poet (b. 1907)
• May 29
  • John Cipollina, American guitarist (b. 1943)
  • George C. Homans, American sociologist (b. 1910)
  • Joseph Van Ingelgem, Belgian footballer (b. 1912)
  • Giuseppe Patanè, Italian conductor (b. 1932)
• May 30
  • Jane Fauntz, American swimmer (b. 1910)
  • James Harry Lacey, English fighter pilot (b. 1917)
  • Zinka Milanov, Croatian opera singer (b. 1906)
  • Claude Pepper, American politician (b. 1900)
  • Darshan Singh, Indian religious leader and scholar (b. 1921)
• May 31
  • Leland Cunningham, American astronomer (b. 1904)
  • Heinz Hasselberg, German cyclist (b. 1914)
  • Willi Horn, German canoeist (b. 1909)
  • C. L. R. James, Trinidadian historian and journalist (b. 1901)
  • Owen Lattimore, American scholar and author (b. 1900)

June 1989

• June 1
  • Paavo Aitio, Finnish politician (b. 1918)
  • Uno Lamm, Swedish engineer (b. 1904)
  • Aurelio Lampredi, Italian automobile desinger (b. 1917)
  • Edward J. McShane, American mathematician (b. 1904)
  • Charles Vanden Wouwer, Belgian footballer (b. 1916)
• June 2
  • Guido Agosti, Italian pianist (b. 1901)
  • Ted à Beckett, Australian cricketer (b. 1907)
  • Dmitry Sergeyevich Gusev, Russian lieutenant (b. 1915)
  • Alfred Winslow Jones, American businessman and sociologist (b. 1900)
  • Frederic Prokosch, American author (b. 1906)
  • Takeo Watanabe, Japanese musician and composer (b. 1933)
• June 3
  • Jack Belden, American journalist (b. 1910)
  • Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian politician (b. 1900)
• June 4
  • Dik Browne, American cartoonist (b. 1917)
  • Cecil Collins, English painter (b. 1908)
  • Franca Helg, Italian architect (b. 1920)
  • Richard Rive, South African author and academic (b. 1931)
• June 5
  • Baby Huwae, Dutch-Indonesian actress and model (b. 1939)
  • André Michel, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1907)
  • Marco Pallis, English author and mountaineer (b. 1895)
  • Maurice Philippe, English automobile designer (b. 1932)
• June 6
  • David Allan, Australian cyclist (b. 1956)
  • Richard Kahn, English economist (b. 1905)
  • Bohumil Steigenhöfer, Czech ice hockey player (b. 1905)
• June 7
  • Jim Cristy, American swimmer (b. 1913)
  • Lloyd Doesburg, Surinamese footballer (b. 1960)
  • William McLean Hamilton, Canadian politician (b. 1919)
  • Chico Landi, Brazilian racing driver (b. 1907)
  • Nara Leão, Brazilian singer and actress (b. 1942)
  • Paulo Leminski, Brazilian author and poet (b. 1944)
• June 8
  • Albert Spaggiari, French bank robber (b. 1932)
  • Štefan Svitek, Slovakian murderer (b. 1960)
• June 9
  • George Beadle, American geneticist (b. 1903)
  • Rashid Behbudov, Azerbaijani singer and actor (b. 1915)
  • Vladimir Kasatonov, Russian admiral (b. 1910)
  • José López Rega, Argentine politician and diplomat (b. 1916)
  • Wolfdietrich Schnurre, German author (b. 1920)
• June 10
  • James Greenway, American ornithologist (b. 1903)
  • Juan Bustillo Oro, Mexican film director and screenwriter (b. 1904)
  • Richard Quine, American actor (b. 1920)
  • Suleyman Rustam, Azerbaijani poet and playwright (b. 1906)
• June 11
  • Conrad Baden, Norwegian organist and composer (b. 1908)
  • Jack McMahon, American basketball player and coach (b. 1928)
• June 12
  • Eduardo Dualde, Spanish field hockey player (b. 1933)
  • Nilufer Hanımsultan, Turkish princess (b. 1916)
  • Lou Monte, American singer (b. 1917)
• June 13
  • Fran Allison, American comedian and singer (b. 1907)
  • Eduard Päll, Estonian politician (b. 1903)
  • Scott Ross, American harpsichordist (b. 1951)
• June 14
  • Christopher Bernau, American actor (b. 1940)
  • Pete de Freitas, English musician (b. 1961)
  • Wei Guoqing, Chinese general and politician (b. 1913)
  • Joseph Malula, Congolese cardinal (b. 1917)
  • Yitzchok Yaakov Weiss, Israeli rabbi (b. 1902)
  • Albert Wolff, American fencer (b. 1906)
• June 15
  • Roberto Camardiel, Spanish actor (b. 1917)
  • Victor French, American actor and television director (b. 1934)
  • Ray McAnally, Irish actor (b. 1926)
  • Luis Ricceri, Italian priest (b. 1901)
• June 16
  • Miloslav Bednařík, Czech sport shooter (b. 1965)
  • Helga Haase, German speed skater (b. 1934)
  • Arthur Häggblad, Swedish skier (b. 1908)
  • Jerzy Pniewski, Polish physicist (b. 1913)
  • Antonio Román, Spanish film director and screenwriter (b. 1911)
• June 17
  • S. David Griggs, American astronaut (b. 1939)
  • John Matuszak, American football player and actor (b. 1950)
  • Pat Parker, American poet and activist (b. 1944)
• June 18
  • Ennio Balbo, Italian actor (b. 1922)
  • George C. Pimentel, American chemist (b. 1922)
  • I. F. Stone, American journalist and author (b. 1907)
• June 19
  • Betti Alver, Estonian poet (b. 1906)
  • Andrey Prokofyev, Russian sprinter (b. 1959)
• June 20
  • Hans Conzelmann, German theologian and scholar (b. 1915)
  • Dona Drake, American actress and singer (b. 1914)
  • Veikko Lommi, Finnish rower (b. 1917)
• June 21
  • Lee Calhoun, American hurdler (b. 1933)
  • Paul Doktor, Austrian-American violist and conductor (b. 1917)
  • Aleksandr Safronov, Russian speed skater (b. 1952)
  • Bjørn Skaare, Norwegian ice hockey player (b. 1958)
• June 22
  • Anton Dermota, Slovenian opera singer (b. 1910)
  • Robert Körner, Austrian footballer (b. 1924)
  • Henri Sauguet, French composer (b. 1901)
  • Lisa Sergio, Italian broadcaster (b. 1905)
  • Menahem Stern, Israeli historian (b. 1925)
• June 23
  • Michel Aflaq, Syrian philosopher and politician (b. 1910)
  • Werner Best, German war criminal (b. 1903)
  • Timothy Manning, Irish-American cardinal (b. 1909)
• June 24
  • Fred Alexander Barkley, American botanist (b. 1908)
  • Saadet Çağatay, Turkish scholar (b. 1907)
  • Hibari Misora, Japanese singer and actress (b. 1937)
  • Ghulam Raziq, Pakistani hurdler (b. 1932)
  • Vasili Alexandrovich Romanov, Russian prince (b. 1907)
• June 25
  • Enrique Fontana Codina, Spanish politician (b. 1921)
  • Onoe Shoroku II, Japanese actor (b. 1913)
• June 26
  • Takeji Iwamiya, Japanese photographer (b. 1920)
  • Thorkil Kristensen, Danish politician (b. 1899)
• June 27
  • A. J. Ayer, English philosopher (b. 1910)
  • Jack Buetel, American actor (b. 1915)
  • Michele Lupo, Italian film director (b. 1932)
• June 28
  • Joris Ivens, Dutch film director (b. 1898)
  • Alfredo Sadel, Venezuelan singer and actor (b. 1930)
• June 29
  • Kazuo Mori, Japanese film director (b. 1911)
  • Oskar Nowak, Austrian ice hockey player (b. 1913)
  • Madhuri R. Shah, Indian educator and author (b. 1919)
• June 30
  • Hilmar Baunsgaard, Danish politician, Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1920)
  • Rostislav Plyatt, Russian actor (b. 1908)

July 1989

• July 1
  • Matthias Billen, German footballer (b. 1910)
  • William Ching, American actor (b. 1913)
• July 2
  • Andrei Gromyko, Russian politician and diplomat (b. 1909)
  • Jean Painlevé, French photographer and film director (b. 1902)
  • Franklin J. Schaffner, American film director (b. 1920)
  • Wilfrid Sellars, American philosopher (b. 1912)
  • Ben Wright, English actor (b. 1915)
• July 3
  • Jim Backus, American actor (b. 1913)
  • Frans G. Hukom, Indonesian footballer (b. 1915)
  • Okey Patteson, American politician (b. 1898)
• July 4
  • Jack Haig, English actor (b. 1913)
  • Leyla Mammadbeyova, Azerbaijani pilot (b. 1909)
  • Win Maung, Burmese politician, President of Burma (b. 1916)
  • Vic Perrin, American actor (b. 1916)
  • Nelson Sullivan, American videographer (b. 1948)
• July 5
  • Ernesto Halffter, Spanish composer and conductor (b. 1905)
  • Sirarpie Der Nersessian, Armenian historian (b. 1896)
• July 6
  • Jean Bouise, French actor (b. 1929)
  • János Kádár, Hungarian politician (b. 1912)
  • John Maguire, American archbishop (b. 1904)
  • Reuven Shari, Russian-Israeli politician (b. 1903)
• July 7
  • Iroda Aliyeva, Uzbekistani actress (b. 1929)
  • Irene Bernasconi, Argentine biologist (b. 1896)
  • Moshe Kol, Israeli activist and politician (b. 1911)
• July 8 – Platon Maiboroda, Ukrainian composer (b. 1918)
• July 9
  • Salvatore Colombo, Italian-Somalian bishop (b. 1922)
  • Abdellah Guennoun, Moroccan author and historian (b. 1908)
• July 10
  • Mel Blanc, American voice actor (b. 1908)
  • Jean-Michel Charlier, Belgian comic book writer (b. 1924)
• July 11
  • Laurence Curtis, American politician (b. 1893)
  • Horia Macellariu, Romanian rear admiral (b. 1894)
  • Laurence Olivier, English actor and film director (b. 1907)
  • Magda Portal, Peruvian poet and author (b. 1900)
  • Richard Travis, American actor (b. 1913)
• July 12
  • Sidney Hook, American philosopher (b. 1902)
  • Wolfgang Moritz, German-Finnish prince (b. 1896)
  • Carlos Puebla, Cuban singer and guitarist (b. 1917)
• July 13
  • Appapillai Amirthalingam, Sri Lankan politician (b. 1927)
  • Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou, Iranian politician (b. 1930)
  • John Kennedy, Scottish cyclist (b. 1931)
  • Ulf Miehe, German screenwriter and film director (b. 1940)
  • Davud Monshizadeh, Iranian politician and nazi collaborator (b. 1914)
  • Arnaldo Ochoa, Cuban general (b. 1930)
  • Alberto Radi, Italian rower (b. 1919)
• July 14 – José María García Lahiguera, Spanish archbishop (b. 1903)
• July 15
  • Alexander Altunin, Russian general and politician (b. 1921)
  • Will Bradley, American trombonist and bandleader (b. 1912)
  • Laurie Cunningham, English footballer (b. 1956)
  • Nesuhi Ertegun, Turkish-American record producer (b. 1917)
  • Maria Kuncewiczowa, Polish author (b. 1895)
  • Teiichi Suzuki, Japanese lieutenant general and politician (b. 1888)
• July 16
  • Nicolás Guillén, Cuban poet and journalist (b. 1902)
  • Herbert von Karajan, Dutch conductor (b. 1908)
  • Shmuel Rodensky, Russian-Israeli actor (b. 1902)
• July 17
  • Dudley Brooks, American pianist and composer (b. 1913)
  • Robert Horton Cameron, American mathematician (b. 1908)
  • Paul Lemerle, French historian (b. 1903)
  • František Šimůnek, Czech skier (b. 1910)
• July 18
  • Donnie Moore, American baseball player (b. 1954)
  • Rebecca Schaeffer, American actress (b. 1967)
• July 19
  • Xaquín Lorenzo Fernández, Spanish author (b. 1907)
  • Vivian Reed, American actress (b. 1894)
  • Kazimierz Sabbat, Polish politician (b. 1913)
  • Carl-Heinz Schroth, German actor and film director (b. 1902)
  • Benjamin Tammuz, Israeli author and artist (b. 1919)
• July 20
  • Forrest H. Anderson, American politician (b. 1913)
  • Valentine Bargmann, German-American mathematician and theoretical physicist (b. 1908)
  • José Augusto Brandão, Brazilian footballer (b. 1911)
  • Lauro Corona, Brazilian actor (b. 1957)
  • Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, French resistance fighter (b. 1909)
  • Erwin Sietas, German swimmer (b. 1910)
  • Mary Treen, American actress (b. 1907)
  • Yannis Tsarouchis, Greek painter (b. 1910)
• July 21
  • James M. Collins, American politician (b. 1916)
  • Baryi Kalimullin, Russian architect (b. 1907)
  • Chafia Rochdi, Tunisian singer and actress (b. 1910)
• July 22
  • Janet Lee Bouvier, American socialite (b. 1907)
  • Martti Talvela, Finnish opera singer (b. 1935)
• July 23
  • Donald Barthelme, American author (b. 1931)
  • Tony de la Guardia, Cuban colonel (b. 1939)
  • Charlotte von Österreich, Austrian royal (b. 1921)
• July 24
  • Walter Dick, Scottish-American footballer (b. 1905)
  • Sunshine Sammy Morrison, American actor (b. 1912)
  • Mark Morrisroe, American artist and photographer (b. 1959)
  • Eleanor Raymond, American architect (b. 1887)
• July 25
  • Natalya Melik Melikyan, Armenian scientist (b. 1906)
  • Steve Rubell, American entrepreneur (b. 1943)
• July 26 – Derek Ball, English sound engineer (b. 1930)
• July 27
  • Warren Low, American film editor (b. 1905)
  • Dolf Sternberger, German philosopher and political scientist (b. 1907)
  • Ádám Szirtes, Hungarian actor (b. 1925)
• July 28
  • Jeff Richards, American actor (b. 1924)
  • Donnell Young, American sprinter (b. 1888)
• July 29
  • Nancy Andrews, American actress (b. 1920)
  • Osvaldo Brandão, Brazilian footballer and manager (b. 1916)
• July 30
  • Ramón Areces, Spanish businessman (b. 1904)
  • Lily Broberg, Danish actress (b. 1923)
  • Amadeo Labarta, Spanish footballer (b. 1905)
  • Octave Mannoni, French psychoanalyst and author (b. 1899)
• July 31
  • Michael Harrington, American activist and author (b. 1928)
  • Bull Moose Jackson, American singer and saxophonist (b. 1919)
  • Edgar Kaufmann Jr., American architect (b. 1910)
  • Zhou Yang, Chinese theorist and translator (b. 1908)

August 1989

• August 1
  • René Debrie, French linguist (b. 1920)
  • John Ogdon, English pianist and composer (b. 1937)
• August 2
  • Luiz Gonzaga, Brazilian singer (b. 1912)
  • Marcel Stern, French composer and violinist (b. 1909)
• August 3
  • Dominic Behan, Irish author and musician (b. 1928)
  • Alfredo Bodoira, Italian footballer (b. 1911)
  • Antonia Brico, Dutch-American conductor and pianist (b. 1902)
  • Peggy Montgomery, American actress (b. 1904)
  • Egon Orowan, Hungarian-English physicist (b. 1902)
  • Ruth Lyttle Satter, American botanist (b. 1923)
• August 4 – Paul Murry, American comic book artist (b. 1911)
• August 5
  • Toni Breder, German long jumper (b. 1925)
  • John Larsen, Norwegian sport shooter (b. 1913)
• August 6
  • Hubert Beuve-Méry, French journalist (b. 1902)
  • Nat Levine, American film producer (b. 1899)
• August 7
  • Enrique Gaviola, Argentine astrophysicist (b. 1900)
  • Mickey Leland, American politician (b. 1944)
  • Robert Stevens, American television director (b. 1920)
  • Mira Trailović, Serbian theatre director (b. 1924)
• August 8
  • Amador Bendayán, Venezuelan actor (b. 1920)
  • Enrico Lorenzetti, Italian motorcycle racer (b. 1911)
  • Brian Naylor, English racing driver (b. 1923)
  • George Papp, American comic book artist (b. 1916)
• August 9
  • [[Richard Alexander (actor)|Richard Alexander (b. 1902)
  • Antonino Pietro Gullotti, Italian politician (b. 1922)
  • Duncan MacPherson, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1966)
  • Gunnar Mattsson, Finnish author and journalist (b. 1937)
• August 10
  • George Ignatieff, Russian-Canadian diplomat (b. 1913)
  • Pierre Matisse, French-American art dealer (b. 1900)
  • Alberto Sols, Spanish biochemist (b. 1917)
• August 11
  • Faraj Al-Barasi, Libyan footballer (b. 1960)
  • John Meillon, Australian actor (b. 1934)
• August 12
  • Henri Goetz, American-French painter (b. 1909)
  • Lillebil Ibsen, Norwegian dancer and actress (b. 1899)
  • Aimo Koivunen, Finnish corporal (b. 1917)
  • Samuel Okwaraji, Nigerian footballer (b. 1964)
  • William Shockley, American physicist (b. 1910)
  • Olga Villi, Italian model and actress (b. 1922)
• August 13
  • Ruth Brandt, Irish artist (b. 1936)
  • Willy De Bruyn, Belgian cyclist (b. 1914)
  • Hugo del Carril, Argentine actor and film director (b. 1912)
  • Roldano Lupi, Italian actor (b. 1909)
  • Tim Richmond, American racing driver (b. 1955)
• August 14
  • Robert B. Anderson, American politician (b. 1910)
  • Ricky Berry, American basketball player (b. 1964)
  • Sergio Nasca, Italian film director and screenwriter (b. 1937)
  • Bergen Sarılmışer, Turkish singer (b. 1958)
• August 15
  • Wolfram Eberhard, German-American sociologist (b. 1909)
  • Minoru Genda, Japanese pilot and politician (b. 1904)
  • Elvy Kalep, Estonian pilot (b. 1899)
  • Heinrich Krone, German politician (b. 1895)
  • Earl B. Ruth, American politician (b. 1916)
  • Thrasyvoulos Tsakalotos, Greek lieutenant general (b. 1897)
• August 16
  • Jean-Hilaire Aubame, Gabonese politician (b. 1912)
  • Amanda Blake, American actress (b. 1929)
  • Anton Nilson, Swedish terrorist (b. 1887)
• August 17 – Lawrence Stevens, South African boxer (b. 1913)
• August 18
  • Robert Buckner, American screenwriter and film producer (b. 1906)
  • Friederich Franzl, Austrian footballer (b. 1905)
  • Luis Carlos Galán, Colombian politician and diplomat (b. 1943)
  • Yūji Koseki, Japanese film composer (b. 1909)
  • Imre Németh, Hungarian hammer thrower (b. 1917)
  • Bert Oosterbosch, Dutch cyclist (b. 1957)
  • Chrissie White, English actress (b. 1895)
• August 19
  • Ernst van den Berg, Dutch field hockey player (b. 1915)
  • Laura Veccia Vaglieri, Italian orientalist (b. 1893)
• August 20
  • George Adamson, Kenyan conservationist (b. 1906)
  • H. B. Halicki, American screenwriter and film director (b. 1940)
  • Joseph LaShelle, American cinematographer (b. 1900)
  • José Peirats, Spanish activist and journalist (b. 1908)
  • Syd van der Vyver, South African racing driver (b. 1920)
• August 21 – Raul Seixas, Brazilian singer (b. 1945)
• August 22
  • George Flahiff, Canadian archbishop (b. 1905)
  • Robert Grondelaers, Belgian cyclist (b. 1933)
  • Huey P. Newton, American activist (b. 1942)
  • Diana Vreeland, French-American journalist and magazine editor (b. 1903)
  • Alexander Yakovlev, Russian engineer (b. 1906)
• August 23
  • Erik Almgren, Swedish footballer and manager (b. 1908)
  • R. D. Laing, Scottish psychiatrist (b. 1927)
  • Walter de Sousa, Indian field hockey player (b. 1920)
• August 24 – Jacques Godechot, French historian (b. 1907)
• August 25
  • Gunnar Berg, Swiss-Danish composer (b. 1909)
  • Jacques Castelot, French actor (b. 1914)
  • Alfredo Ceschiatti, Brazilian sculptor (b. 1918)
  • Yan Frenkel, Ukrainian composer (b. 1920)
  • Frank Henry, American equestrian (b. 1909)
  • Roman Palester, Polish composer (b. 1907)
  • Jean-Louis Verdier, French mathematician (b. 1935)
• August 26
  • Hans Børli, Norwegian poet and author (b. 1918)
  • Raffaello Gambino, Italian water polo player (b. 1928)
  • Fred Louis Lerch, Austrian actor (b. 1902)
  • Irving Stone, American author (b. 1903)
• August 27
  • Luiz Luz, Brazilian footballer (b. 1909)
  • Gloria Milland, Italian actress (b. 1940)
  • Burhan Shahidi, Chinese politician (b. 1894)
  • Bill Shirley, American actor and singer (b. 1921)
• August 28
  • Joseph Alsop, American journalist (b. 1910)
  • Ondine Olivo, American actor (b. 1937)
  • Charles Sheaffer, American field hockey player (b. 1904)
• August 29
  • Pua Kealoha, American swimmer (b. 1902)
  • Lorenzo Natali, Italian politician (b. 1922)
  • Peter Scott, English ornithologist (b. 1909)
• August 30
  • Arsène Heitz, German-French draughtsman (b. 1908)
  • Joe De Santis, American actor and sculptor (b. 1909)
• August 31
  • Michele Cascella, Italian painter (b. 1892)
  • Moe Dalitz, American gangster (b. 1899)
  • Claire Luce, American actress (b. 1903)

September 1989

• September 1
  • Kazimierz Deyna, Polish footballer (b. 1947)
  • Carmelo Elorduy, Spanish sinologist (b. 1901)
  • Cyril Gill, English sprinter (b. 1902)
  • Dipa Ma, Indian-American buddhist (b. 1911)
  • Shah Azizur Rahman, Bangladeshi politician, Prime Minister of Bangladesh (b. 1925)
  • Tadeusz Sendzimir, Polish engineer and inventor (b. 1894)
• September 2 – Clifton Parker, English composer (b. 1905)
• September 3
  • Hermine Agavni Kalustyan, Armenian-Turkish mathematician and politician (b. 1914)
  • Sten Mellgren, Swedish footballer (b. 1900)
  • Gaetano Scirea, Italian footballer (b. 1953)
  • Kurt Stern, German screenwriter (b. 1907)
  • Jan Trepczyk, Polish poet and songwriter (b. 1907)
• September 4
  • Bernard Belleau, French pharmacologist (b. 1925)
  • Colin Clark, English-Australian economist (b. 1905)
  • Zenon Kliszko, Polish politician (b. 1908)
  • Georges Simenon, Belgian author (b. 1903)
  • Ronald Syme, New Zealand-English historian (b. 1903)
• September 5 – J. Barkley Rosser, American logician (b. 1907)
• September 6
  • Muhammad Ibrahim, Bangladeshi physician (b. 1911)
  • [[Gina Manès], French actress (b. 1893)
  • Uberto Mori, Italian layman (b. 1926)
  • Jimmy Ruffell, English footballer (b. 1900)
• September 7
  • Valery Goborov, Ukrainian basketball player (b. 1966)
  • Mikhail Goldstein, German composer and violinist (b. 1917)
  • Jim Harley, Scottish footballer (b. 1917)
• September 8
  • Henri Disy, Belgian water polo player (b. 1913)
  • Karel Finek, Czech footballer and manager (b. 1920)
  • Aleardo Simoni, Italian cyclist (b. 1902)
  • Paul Alfred Weiss, Austrian biologist (b. 1898)
• September 9
  • Elephter Andronikashvili, Georgian physicist (b. 1910)
  • Heinrich Angst, Swiss bobsledder (b. 1915)
  • Oleksiy Fedorov, Ukrainian major general (b. 1901)
  • Tim Hovey, American actor and musician (b. 1945)
• September 10 – Gordon McCallum, American-English sound engineer (b. 1919)
• September 11
• September 12
  • Anton Lubowski, Namibian activist (b. 1952)
  • Sterjo Spasse, Albanian author (b. 1914)
• September 13
  • Fred Agabashian, American racing driver (b. 1913)
  • Gilles Andriamahazo, Malagasy general and politician (b. 1919)
  • Zoltán Dudás, Hungarian footballer (b. 1933)
  • Géza Frid, Hungarian-Dutch composer and pianist (b. 1904)
  • Charles H. Russell, American politician (b. 1903)
• September 14
  • John Bright, American screenwriter and journalist (b. 1908)
  • Tim Brown, American figure skater (b. 1938)
  • Nicolás Cabrera, Spanish physicist (b. 1913)
  • Eddie McLeod, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1900)
  • Benjamin Peary Pal, Indian biologist and agronomist (b. 1906)
  • Pérez Prado, Cuban bandleader and musician (b. 1916)
  • Valentina Schlee, Ukrainian fashion designer and costume designer (b. 1899)
• September 15
  • Harry Cave, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1922)
  • Robert Penn Warren, American author (b. 1905)
• September 16
  • Bruno Heck, German politician (b. 1917)
  • David H. Moriarty, American sound engineer (b. 1911)
  • Allen Shields, American mathematician (b. 1927)
  • Steven Stayner, American kidnapping victim (b. 1965)
• September 17 – Richard Hull, English field marshal (b. 1907)
• September 18
  • Aleksandra Śląska, Polish actress (b. 1925)
  • Jack Smith, American film director (b. 1932)
• September 19
  • Vera Barclay, English author (b. 1893)
  • Naum Birman, Russian film director and screenwriter (b. 1924)
  • Alma Lavenson, American photographer (b. 1897)
  • Willie Steele, American long jumper (b. 1923)
• September 20
  • Stig Andersson-Tvilling, Swedish ice hockey player (b. 1928)
  • Chen Boda, Chinese journalist and politician (b. 1904)
  • Richie Ginther, American racing driver (b. 1930)
  • Gustl Müller, German skier (b. 1903)
• September 21
  • Bill Barron, American saxophonist (b. 1927)
  • Ertem Eğilmez, Turkish film director and producer (b. 1929)
  • Corrado Gaipa, Italian actor (b. 1925)
  • Rajani Thiranagama, Sri Lankan activist (b. 1954)
• September 22
  • Ambrose Folorunsho Alli, Nigerian physician and politician (b. 1929)
  • Irving Berlin, American composer and songwriter (b. 1888)
• September 23
• September 24
  • Zunun Kadir, Chinese poet (b. 1911)
  • Walter Koelz, American zoologist (b. 1895)
• September 25
• September 26
  • Jimmy Delaney, Scottish footballer (b. 1914)
  • Kaj Franck, Finnish interior designer (b. 1911)
  • Hemant Kumar, Indian singer (b. 1920)
• September 27
• September 28
  • Dorothy Andrus, American tennis player (b. 1908)
  • José Arribas, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1921)
  • Ferdinand Marcos, Filipino dictator and politician, President of the Philippines (b. 1917)
• September 29
  • János Farkas, Hungarian footballer (b. 1942)
  • Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour, French politician (b. 1907)
  • Georges Ulmer, Danish-French composer and actor (b. 1919)
  • Gunnar Wiklund, Swedish singer (b. 1935)
• September 30
  • Horace Alexander, English author and ornithologist (b. 1889)
  • Oskar Davičo, Serbian author and poet (b. 1909)
  • Derelys Perdue, American actress (b. 1902)
  • Huỳnh Tấn Phát, Vietnamese politician (b. 1913)
  • Arthur Rook, English equestrian (b. 1921)
  • Ludwig Schuberth, Austrian handball player (b. 1911)
  • Virgil Thomson, American composer (b. 1896)

October 1989

• October 1
  • Carlo Dapporto, Italian actor (b. 1911)
  • Witold Rowicki, Polish conductor (b. 1914)
• October 2
  • Paola Barbara, Italian actress (b. 1912)
  • Vittorio Caprioli, Italian actor (b. 1921)
  • Cousin Joe, American singer (b. 1907)
  • Jesús Emilio Jaramillo Monsalve, Colombian bishop (b. 1916)
• October 3
  • James Bickford, American bobsledder (b. 1912)
  • Andrée Lafayette, French actress (b. 1903)
  • Yvonne Sylvain, Haitian physician (b. 1907)
  • Norman Yardley, English cricketer (b. 1915)
• October 4
  • Graham Chapman, English comedian and actor (b. 1941)
  • Frederic de Hoffmann, Austrian-American physicist (b. 1924)
  • Edmund Osmańczyk, Polish author (b. 1913)
  • Secretariat, American racehorse (b. 1970)
  • Seit Tairov, Uzbekistani politician (b. 1928)
• October 5
  • Ernesto Formenti, Italian boxer (b. 1927)
  • Noël-Noël, French actor and screenwriter (b. 1897)
  • Robert Poulet, Belgian author and critic (b. 1893)
• October 6
  • Ulises Carrión, Mexican artist and author (b. 1941)
  • Bette Davis, American actress (b. 1908)
  • Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, French actor and film critic (b. 1920)
  • Howard Garns, American architect (b. 1905)
  • Paul Henry, Belgian footballer (b. 1912)
  • Lorenz Huber, German footballer (b. 1906)
• October 7 – Aleksanteri Saarvala, Finnish gymnast (b. 1913)
• October 8
  • Genki Abe, Japanese politician (b. 1894)
  • Oscar Moglia, Uruguayan basketball player (b. 1935)
  • Edward Woods, American actor (b. 1903)
• October 9
  • Ernst Andersson, Swedish footballer (b. 1909)
  • Yusuf Atılgan, Turkish author (b. 1921)
  • Sven Israelsson, Swedish skier (b. 1920)
  • Silvio Parodi, Paraguayan footballer (b. 1931)
  • Hassan Poladi, Pakistani-American author (b. 1944)
• October 10 – William Markus, Finnish-English film director and actor (b. 1917)
• October 11
  • M. King Hubbert, American geologist and geophysicist (b. 1903)
  • Paul Shenar, American actor (b. 1936)
• October 12
  • Carmen Cavallaro, American pianist (b. 1913)
  • Franco Luambo, Congolese musician (b. 1938)
  • Sim Var, Cambodian politician and diplomat, Prime Minister of Cambodia (b. 1906)
  • Jay Ward, American animator (b. 1920)
  • N. V. Krishna Warrier, Indian poet and journalist (b. 1916)
• October 13
  • Halina Bielińska, Polish film director and animator (b. 1914)
  • Merab Kostava, Georgian musician and poet (b. 1939)
  • Federico Coullaut-Valera Mendigutia, Spanish sculptor (b. 1912)
  • Herbert Wildman, American water polo player (b. 1912)
  • Cesare Zavattini, Italian screenwriter and theorist (b. 1902)
• October 14
  • Ingeborg Brams, Danish actress (b. 1921)
  • Martin Broszat, German historian (b. 1926)
  • Michael Carmine, American actor (b. 1959)
  • Lucy Doraine, Hungarian actress (b. 1898)
  • Klavdiya Mayuchaya, Russian javelin thrower (b. 1918)
  • René Petit, French-Spanish footballer (b. 1899)
  • Dov Sadan, Israeli critic and politician (b. 1902)
• October 15
  • James Lee Barrett, American screenwriter (b. 1929)
  • Giuseppe Gandini, Italian footballer (b. 1900)
  • Paul Georgescu, Romanian critic and journalist (b. 1923)
  • Tadevos Hakobyan, Armenian historian and geographer (b. 1917)
  • Danilo Kiš, Serbian author (b. 1935)
  • Scott O'Dell, American author (b. 1898)
  • Michał Rola-Żymierski, Polish politician (b. 1890)
  • Heinrich Walter, Russian-German botanist (b. 1898)
• October 16
  • Walter Farley, American author (b. 1915)
  • Cornel Wilde, Hungarian-American actor (b. 1912)
• October 17
  • Morteza Hannaneh, Iranian composer and musician (b. 1923)
  • Mark Krein, Ukrainian mathematician (b. 1907)
  • R. A. B. Mynors, English scholar (b. 1903)
• October 18
  • Mirko Bonačić, Croatian footballer (b. 1903)
  • Georgi Gulia, Abkhazian author and artist (b. 1913)
  • Stan Miasek, American basketball player (b. 1924)
  • Mikhail Raukhverger, Russian pianist and composer (b. 1901)
  • Georgina von Wilczek, Lichtenstein princess (b. 1921)
• October 19
  • Alan Murphy, English guitarist (b. 1953)
  • Alfred Zulkowski, German footballer (b. 1940)
• October 20
  • Dan Ben-Amotz, Israeli broadcaster and journalist (b. 1924)
  • Dmitry Faddeev, Russian mathematician (b. 1907)
  • Katharina Heinroth, German zoologist (b. 1897)
  • Anthony Quayle, English actor (b. 1913)
• October 21 – Cencio Mantovani, Italian cyclist (b. 1941)
• October 22
  • Ross Freeman, American engineer and inventor (b. 1948)
  • Ewan MacColl, English singer (b. 1915)
  • Roland Winters, American actor (b. 1904)
• October 23
  • Anatoly Lutikov, Russian chess grandmaster (b. 1933)
  • Armida Vendrell, Mexican actress and singer (b. 1911)
• October 24
  • Ronald Davis, Welsh field hockey player (b. 1914)
  • Jerzy Kukuczka, Polish mountaineer (b. 1948)
  • Vasilijus Matuševas, Lithuanian volleyball player (b. 1945)
  • Alex Seidel, German firearm designer (b. 1909)
  • Sahib Shihab, American saxophonist (b. 1925)
• October 25
  • Enrico Forcella, Venezuelan sport shooter (b. 1907)
  • Mary McCarthy, American author (b. 1912)
  • Gerard Walschap, Belgian author (b. 1898)
• October 26
  • Aadu Hint, Estonian author (b. 1910)
  • Charles J. Pedersen, South Korean-American chemist (b. 1904)
  • Andy Roberts, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1947)
  • Anders Rydberg, Swedish footballer (b. 1903)
  • Kumeko Urabe, Japanese actress (b. 1902)
• October 27
  • Benjamin Murmelstein, Austrian rabbi (b. 1905)
  • Kjeld Philip, Danish economist and politician (b. 1912)
  • Alfred Wilson, American rower (b. 1903)
• October 28
  • Laurent Di Lorto, French footballer (b. 1909)
  • Yuliya Solntseva, Russian actress and film director (b. 1901)
  • Kateb Yacine, Algerian author and playwright (b. 1929)
• October 29
  • Roland Anderson, American art director (b. 1903)
  • Róża Maria Goździewska, Polish nurse (b. 1936)
• October 30
  • Karen Grigorian, Armenian chess player (b. 1947)
  • Aristid Lindenmayer, Hungarian biologist (b. 1925)
  • Raymond Offner, French basketball player (b. 1927)
  • Pedro Vargas, Mexican opera singer and actor (b. 1906)
• October 31
  • Conrad Beck, Swiss composer (b. 1901)
  • Sune Lindström, Swedish architect (b. 1906)
  • Francesc Miró-Sans, Spanish businessman (b. 1916)
  • Georgi Partsalev, Bulgarian actor (b. 1925)

November 1989

• November 1
  • Hoimar von Ditfurth, German physician and journalist (b. 1921)
  • Max Streib, Swiss handball player (b. 1912)
• November 2
  • Andrée Brabant, French actress (b. 1901)
  • Frederick Gordon-Lennox, English peer and racing driver (b. 1904)
• November 3
  • Timoci Bavadra, Fijian politician, Prime Minister of Fiji (b. 1934)
  • Zelma O'Neal, American actress and singer (b. 1903)
  • Mikhail Tsiselsky, Ukrainian pilot (b. 1909)
• November 4
  • Keiichiro Ryu, Japanese author (b. 1923)
  • Bohumil Váňa, Czech table tennis player (b. 1920)
• November 5
  • Adem Čejvan, Bosnian actor (b. 1927)
  • Vladimir Horowitz, Russian-American pianist (b. 1903)
  • Barry Sadler, American staff sergeant and singer (b. 1940)
  • Benigno Zaccagnini, Italian politician (b. 1912)
• November 6
  • Margarete Buber-Neumann, German author (b. 1901)
  • Margit Makay, Hungarian actress (b. 1891)
  • Yūsaku Matsuda, Japanese actor (b. 1949)
• November 7
  • Dai Astley, Welsh footballer (b. 1909)
  • Andrey Borovykh, Russian pilot (b. 1921)
  • Brunello Rondi, Italian screenwriter (b. 1924)
  • Jan Skácel, Czech poet (b. 1922)
• November 8 – Mary Agnes Yerkes, American painter and photographer (b. 1886)
• November 9
  • Nenad Petrović, Croatian chess composer (b. 1907)
  • Leen Vente, Dutch footballer (b. 1911)
• November 10
  • Peter Berglar, German historian (b. 1919)
  • Cookie Mueller, American actress (b. 1949)
• November 11
  • Jay DeFeo, American painter (b. 1929)
  • Mohamed Demsiri, Moroccan singer and poet (b. 1936)
  • Natalio Pescia, Argentine footballer (b. 1922)
  • Tamar Tumanyan, Armenian architect (b. 1907)
• November 12
  • Édouard Candeveau, Swiss rower (b. 1898)
  • Dolores Ibárruri, Spanish politician (b. 1895)
  • Victor Putmans, Belgian footballer (b. 1914)
• November 13
  • Victor Davis, Canadian swimmer (b. 1964)
  • Roger Heman Jr, American sound engineer (b. 1932)
  • Dorothea Krook-Gilead, Latvian-Israeli scholar and translator (b. 1920)
  • Franz Joseph Majella, Lichtenstein prince (b. 1906)
  • Rohana Wijeweera, Sri Lankan militant (b. 1943)
• November 14
  • Bill Davison, American cornetist (b. 1906)
  • Choe Deok-sin, South Korean-North Korean politician (b. 1914)
  • Rémi Laurent, French actor (b. 1957)
  • Jimmy Murphy, Welsh footballer (b. 1910)
  • Samand Siabandov, Armenian lieutenant colonel and author (b. 1909)
  • Enzo Trapani, Italian screenwriter (b. 1922)
• November 15
  • Constance Binney, American actress (b. 1896)
  • Bartolomé Colombo, Argentine footballer (b. 1916)
  • Alejo Durán, Colombian singer and composer (b. 1919)
  • Lipót Kállai, Hungarian footballer (b. 1912)
• November 16
  • Ignacio Ellacuría, Spanish-Salvadoran philosopher and theologian (b. 1930)
  • Rose Murphy, American pianist and singer (b. 1913)
  • Marie Uchytilová, Czech sculptor (b. 1924)
• November 17 – Billy Lee, American actor (b. 1929)
• November 18
  • Romano Bilenchi, Italian author (b. 1909)
  • Edvin Laine, Finnish film director (b. 1905)
  • Hendrik de Vries, Dutch painter and poet (b. 1896)
• November 19 – Nancy Drexel, American actress (b. 1910)
• November 20
  • Lynn Bari, American actress (b. 1919)
  • Hirabai Barodekar, Indian singer (b. 1905)
  • Božidar Jakac, Slovenian painter (b. 1899)
  • Labib Hussein Abu Rokan, Israeli politician (b. 1911)
  • Leonardo Sciascia, Italian author and politician (b. 1921)
  • Rachel Wischnitzer, Russian-German historian (b. 1885)
• November 21
  • Peter Burton, English actor (b. 1921)
  • Heiko Fischer, German figure skater (b. 1960)
  • Harvey Hart, Canadian film director (b. 1928)
• November 22
  • Roberto Arias, Panamanian lawyer and diplomat (b. 1918)
  • C. C. Beck, American comic book artist (b. 1910)
  • Robert Berri, French actor (b. 1912)
  • Abdur Rashid Kardar, Indian film director (b. 1904)
  • Billy Milton, English actor (b. 1905)
  • René Moawad, Lebanese politician, President of Lebanon (b. 1925)
  • Vijay Rajindernath, Indian cricketer (b. 1928)
  • Shamil Serikov, Russian wrestler (b. 1956)
• November 23
  • Jiří Baumruk, Czech basketball player and coach (b. 1930)
  • Martin Glaessner, Austrian-Australian geologist and paleontologist (b. 1906)
  • Armand Salacrou, French playwright (b. 1899)
  • Mariko Shiga, Japanese singer (b. 1969)
• November 24
  • E. Ruth Anderson, American musicologist (b. 1907)
  • Richard Korherr, German statistician (b. 1903)
• November 25
  • Salo Wittmayer Baron, Austrian-American historian (b. 1895)
  • George Cakobau, Fijian politician (b. 1912)
  • Claus Clausen, German actor (b. 1899)
  • Birago Diop, Senegalese poet (b. 1906)
• November 26
  • Ahmed Abdallah, Comorian politician, President of Comoros (b. 1919)
  • Gunnar Hedlund, Swedish politician (b. 1900)
  • Chand Usmani, Indian actress (b. 1933)
• November 27
  • Carlos Arias Navarro, Spanish politician, Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1908)
  • Norma Nichols, American actress (b. 1894)
  • Claudio Teehankee, Filipino judge (b. 1918)
• November 28
  • Arsenie Boca, Romanian priest and theologian (b. 1910)
  • Ernesto Civardi, Italian cardinal (b. 1906)
  • Georgy Ilivitsky, Russian chess player (b. 1921)
  • Ion Popescu-Gopo, Romanian artist (b. 1923)
• November 29
  • Andreas Alariesto, Finnish painter (b. 1900)
  • Gubby Allen, Australian-English cricketer (b. 1902)
  • Giuseppe Antonini, Italian footballer (b. 1914)
  • Ann Burton, Dutch singer (b. 1933)
  • Zuko Džumhur, Bosnian author and painter (b. 1920)
  • Jeanne Herviale, French actress (b. 1908)
  • Valentina Kameníková, Czech painter (b. 1930)
  • Rolf Turkka, Finnish sailor (b. 1915)
  • Ödön Zombori, Hungarian wrestler (b. 1906)
• November 30
  • Ahmadou Ahidjo, Cameroonian politician, President of Cameroon (b. 1924)
  • Hassan Fathy, Egyptian architect (b. 1900)
  • Alfred Herrhausen, German banker (b. 1930)
  • Gabriel Manek, Indonesian archbishop (b. 1913)

December 1989

• December 1
  • Alvin Ailey, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1931)
  • Michał Antoniewicz, Polish equestrian (b. 1897)
  • Billy Lyall, Scottish musician (b. 1953)
  • Nikolai Patolichev, Russian politician (b. 1908)
  • William Vandivert, American photographer (b. 1912)
• December 2
• December 3
  • Sourou-Migan Apithy, Beninese politician (b. 1913)
  • Mario Astorri, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1920)
  • José María Velasco Maidana, Bolivian film director and composer (b. 1899)
  • Fernando Martín, Spanish basketball player (b. 1962)
  • Alexander Obukhov, Russian physicist and mathematician (b. 1918)
• December 4
  • Émile Janssens, Belgian military officer (b. 1902)
  • Elwyn Jones, Welsh politician (b. 1909)
  • May Swenson, American poet and playwright (b. 1913)
• December 5
  • Edoardo Amaldi, Italian physicist (b. 1908)
  • Sofiya Kalistratova, Russian lawyer (b. 1907)
  • Li Keran, Chinese painter (b. 1907)
  • John Pritchard, English conductor (b. 1918)
  • George Selden, American author (b. 1929)
• December 6
  • Frances Bavier, American actress (b. 1902)
  • Sammy Fain, American composer (b. 1902)
  • Marc Lépine, Canadian mass murderer (b. 1964)
  • Mélinée Manouchian, French-Armenian resistance fighter (b. 1913)
  • John Payne, American actor (b. 1912)
  • Ćamil Sijarić, Montenegrin author (b. 1913)
• December 7
  • Hans Hartung, German-French painter (b. 1904)
  • Vadim Spiridonov, Russian actor and film director (b. 1944)
  • Luis Calderón Vega, Mexican politician and author (b. 1911)
  • Melchior Wezel, Swiss gymnast (b. 1903)
  • Sirima Wiratunga, English singer (b. 1964)
• December 8
  • Albert Barrett, English footballer (b. 1903)
  • Szymon Datner, Polish historian (b. 1902)
  • Max Grundig, German businessman (b. 1908)
  • Mykola Livytskyi, Ukrainian politician and journalist (b. 1907)
• December 9
  • Takeshi Kaikō, Japanese author (b. 1930)
  • R. G. Springsteen, American film director (b. 1904)
• December 10
  • Sam Barkas, English footballer and manager (b. 1909)
  • Paul Collaer, Belgian musicologist and pianist (b. 1891)
  • Frederick Hedges, Canadian rower (b. 1903)
• December 11
  • Harry Bergström, Finnish film composer (b. 1910)
  • Lindsay Crosby, American actor and singer (b. [[1938])
  • Louise Dahl-Wolfe, American photographer (b. 1895)
  • Howard Lang, English actor (b. 1911)
• December 12 – Carlos Barral, Spanish poet (b. 1928)
• December 13
• December 14
  • Robert D. Blue, American politician (b. 1898)
  • Ants Eskola, Estonian actor and singer (b. 1908)
  • Gerry Healy, Irish activist (b. 1913)
  • Jock Mahoney, American actor and stuntman (b. 1919)
  • Andrei Sakharov, Russian nuclear physicist (b. 1921)
• December 15
  • Anders Andersson, Swedish ice hockey player (b. 1937)
  • Emile de Antonio, American film director and producer (b. 1919)
  • Ben Barzman, Canadian journalist and screenwriter (b. 1910)
  • José Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha, Colombian drug lord (b. 1947)
  • Charles Holland, English cyclist (b. 1908)
  • Mikhail Kuznetsov, Russian pilot (b. 1913)
  • Arnold Moss, American actor (b. 1910)
  • Ali Şen, Turkish actor (b. 1918)
  • Edward Underdown, English actor (b. 1908)
• December 16
  • Lee Van Cleef, American actor (b. 1925)
  • Oscar Alfredo Gálvez, Argentine racing diver (b. 1913)
  • Silvana Mangano, Italian actress (b. 1930)
  • Umberto Micco, Italian field hockey player and politician (b. 1916)
  • Gianni Poggi, Italian opera singer (b. 1921)
  • Aileen Pringle, American actress (b. 1895)
  • René Tavernier, French poet and philosopher (b. 1915)
• December 17
  • Josephine Hill, American actress (b. 1899)
  • Luciano Salce, Italian film director and comedian (b. 1922)
  • Albert Coady Wedemeyer, American general (b. 1896)
• December 18
  • Bobby Capó, Puerto Rican singer (b. 1922)
  • Enar Josefsson, Swedish skier (b. 1916)
  • Jack Kilpatrick, English ice hockey player (b. 1917)
• December 19
  • Herbert Blaize, Grenadian politician, President of Grenada (b. 1918)
  • Audrey Christie, American actress (b. 1912)
  • Stella Gibbons, English author and journalist (b. 1902)
  • Floyd Jones, American singer and guitarist (b. 1917)
  • Óndra Łysohorsky, Czech poet (b. 1905)
  • Preben Mahrt, Danish actor (b. 1920)
  • Kirill Mazurov, Russian politician (b. 1914)
  • Georges Rouquier, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1909)
  • Lucien Spronck, Belgian footballer (b. 1939)
  • Henry Theel, Finnish singer (b. 1917)
• December 20 – Kurt Böhme, German opera singer (b. 1908)
• December 21
  • Ján Cikker, Slovakian composer (b. 1911)
  • Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Nigerian-English photographer (b. 1955)
  • Soedjatmoko Mangoendiningrat, Indonesian politician and diplomat (b. 1922)
• December 22
  • Andrés do Barro, Spanish singer (b. 1947)
  • Samuel Beckett, Irish author and playwright (b. 1906)
  • Vasile Milea, Romanian politician and general (b. 1927)
  • Massimo Serato, Italian actor (b. 1916)
• December 23
  • Jeff Alexander, American conductor and film composer (b. 1910)
  • Milko Gaydarski, Bulgarian footballer (b. 1946)
  • Richard Rado, German-English mathematician (b. 1906)
  • Lennart Strandberg, Swedish sprinter (b. 1915)
• December 24
  • Danny Huwé, Belgian journalist (b. 1943)
  • Florică Murariu, Romanian rugby player (b. 1955)
  • Roger Pigaut, French actor and film director (b. 1919)
• December 25
  • Elena Ceaușescu, Romanian politician (b. 1916)
  • Nicolae Ceaușescu, Romanian politician (b. 1918)
  • Gus Dahlström, Swedish actor (b. 1906)
  • Betty Garde, American actress (b. 1905)
  • Frederick F. Houser, American politician (b. 1904)
  • Masaad Kassis, Israeli politician (b. 1918)
  • Jean-Étienne Marie, French composer (b. 1917)
  • Billy Martin, American baseball player and manager (b. 1928)
  • Riccardo Morandi, Italian engineer (b. 1902)
  • Robert Pirosh, American screenwriter (b. 1910)
  • Wally Ris, American swimmer (b. 1924)
• December 26
  • Lennox Berkeley, English composer (b. 1903)
  • Doug Harvey, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1924)
  • Kōyō Ishikawa, Japanese photographer (b. 1904)
  • K. Shankar Pillai, Indian cartoonist (b. 1902)
  • Mohan Singh, Indian general and politician (b. 1909)
  • Heinrich Vogel, German theologian (b. 1902)
• December 27 – Rodney Arismendi, Uruguayan politician and author (b. 1913)
• December 28
  • Solomon Birnbaum, Austrian-Canadian linguist (b. 1891)
  • Marin Ceaușescu, Romanian economist and diplomat (b. 1916)
  • Karl Humenberger, Austrian footballer and manager (b. 1906)
  • Pavel Kurochkin, Russian general (b. 1900)
  • Hermann Oberth, Hungarian-German physicist (b. 1894)
• December 29
  • Süreyya Ağaoğlu, Turkish-Azerbaijani author and judge (b. 1903)
  • Hiroshi Inoue, Japanese bryologist (b. 1932)
  • Emilín Larrazabal, Spanish footballer (b. 1912)
  • Rita Rait-Kovaleva, Russian translator and author (b. 1898)
  • Saša Večtomov, Czech cellist (b. 1930)
• December 30
  • Sten Abel, Norwegian sailor (b. 1899)
  • Etienne Leroux, South African author (b. 1922)
  • Yasuji Miyazaki, Japanese swimmer (b. 1916)
  • Fumiteru Nakano, Japanese tennis player (b. 1915)
  • Augusto Del Noce, Italian philosopher (b. 1910)
• December 31
  • Georges de Bourguignon, Belgian fencer (b. 1910)
  • Clarence Hammar, Swedish sailor (b. 1899)
  • Ignatius Kilage, Papua New Guinean politician (b. 1941)
  • Mihály Lantos, Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1928)
  • Bendt Rothe, Danish actor (b. 1921)
  • Gerhard Schröder, German politician (b. 1910)

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