January •
January 1 •
Carol Ohmart, actress (b.
1927) •
Julia Phillips, movie producer (b.
1944) •
January 3 –
Miki Dora, surfer (b.
1934) •
January 4 –
Nathan Chapman, soldier (b.
1970) •
January 6 –
John W. Reynolds Jr., politician and jurist (b.
1921) •
January 7 •
Mighty Igor, wrestler (b.
1931) •
Avery Schreiber, actor and comedian (b. 1935) •
January 8 –
Dave Thomas, businessman (b.
1932) •
January 9 –
K. William Stinson, politician (b.
1930) •
January 10 –
John Buscema, comic book artist (b.
1927) •
January 12 •
Ernest Pintoff, animator (b.
1931) •
Cyrus Vance, lawyer and Secretary of State (b.
1917) •
January 13 –
Ted Demme, film and television director and producer (b.
1963) •
January 14 –
Edith Bouvier Beale, socialite (b.
1917) •
January 15 –
Michael Bilandic, politician,
Mayor of Chicago (b.
1923) •
January 16 •
Bobo Olson, boxer (b.
1928) •
Ron Taylor, actor (b.
1952) •
January 18 –
Marilyn Harris, writer (b.
1931) •
January 20 –
Carrie Hamilton, actress and daughter of
Carol Burnett (b.
1963) •
January 21 –
Peggy Lee, singer, songwriter, and actress (b.
1920) •
January 22 –
Stanley Marcus, businessman and author (b.
1905) •
January 23 –
Robert Nozick, philosopher (b.
1938) •
January 25 –
Rudolph B. Davila, Army officer (b.
1916) •
January 28 –
Dick "Night Train" Lane, American football player (b.
1928)
February •
February 1 •
Irish McCalla, actress (b.
1928) •
Daniel Pearl, journalist and murder victim, died in
Karachi, Pakistan (b.
1963) •
February 2 –
Paul Baloff, singer (b.
1960) •
February 4 –
Helen Dodson Prince, astronomer (b.
1905) •
February 6 –
Guy Stockwell, actor (b.
1933) •
February 7 •
Elisa Bridges, actress and model (b.
1973) •
Ellen Demming, actress (b.
1922) •
February 8 –
Nick Brignola, jazz musician (b.
1936) •
February 9 –
Fred Gehrke, football player (b.
1918) •
February 10 •
Jim Spencer, baseball player (b.
1947) •
Dave Van Ronk, folk musician (b.
1936) •
Vernon A. Walters, Army officer and a diplomat (b.
1917) •
February 11 –
George Kasem, politician (b.
1919) •
February 13 –
Waylon Jennings, American country singer (b.
1937) •
February 15 –
Howard K. Smith, television journalist (b.
1914) •
February 18 –
Jack Lambert, actor (b.
1920) •
February 19 –
Virginia Hamilton, writer (b.
1936) •
February 20 –
Willie Thrower, American football player (b.
1930) •
February 22 –
Chuck Jones, animator (b.
1912) •
February 24 •
Leo Ornstein, Russian-born American composer and pianist (b.
1892) •
Mel Stewart, actor, director, and musician (b.
1929) •
February 26 –
Lawrence Tierney, actor (b.
1919) •
February 27 –
Mary Stuart, actress (b.
1926)
March •
March 1 –
C. Farris Bryant, politician (b.
1914) •
March 3 –
Al Pollard, football player (b.
1928) •
March 5 –
Howard Cannon, politician (b.
1912) •
March 7 –
Mickey Haslin, baseball player (b.
1909) •
March 9 –
Irene Worth, actress (b.
1916) •
March 11 –
James Tobin, Nobel economist (b.
1918) •
March 15 –
Sylvester Weaver, television executive (b.
1908) •
March 17 –
Rosetta LeNoire, actress (b.
1911) •
March 23 –
Eileen Farrell, soprano (b.
1920) •
March 26 –
Randy Castillo, musician (b.
1950) •
March 27 •
Milton Berle, comedian and actor (b.
1908) •
Dudley Moore, actor, comedian, and musician (b.
1935) •
Billy Wilder, Austrian-born director (b.
1905)
April •
April 5 –
Layne Staley, singer and songwriter (b.
1967) •
April 7 –
John Agar, actor (b.
1921) •
April 14 –
Arthur W. Coats Jr., California politician (b.
1914) •
April 15 –
Byron White, athlete and Supreme Court Justice (b.
1917) •
April 16 –
Robert Urich, actor (b.
1946) •
April 18 –
Wahoo McDaniel, American football player and wrestler (b.
1938) •
April 22 –
Linda Lovelace, American pornographic actress (b.
1949) •
April 25 –
Lisa Lopes, rapper, died in
La Ceiba,
Atlántida,
Honduras (b.
1971) •
April 27 •
George Alec Effinger, writer (b.
1947) •
Ruth Handler, businesswoman (b.
1916)
May •
May 9 –
Dan Devine, American football player and coach (b.
1924) •
May 6 –
Otis Blackwell, songwriter (b.
1931) •
May 11 –
Joseph Bonanno, mafioso (b.
1905 in Italy) •
May 16 –
Big Dick Dudley, professional wrestler (b.
1968) •
May 17 –
Dave Berg, cartoonist (b.
1920) •
May 20 –
Stephen Jay Gould, paleontologist and writer (b.
1941) •
May 23 –
Sam Snead, golfer (b.
1912) •
May 24 •
Susie Garrett, actress (b.
1929) •
Wallace Markfield, writer (b.
1926) •
May 28 –
David Parker Ray, kidnapper and serial killer (b.
1939)
June •
June 5 –
Dee Dee Ramone, songwriter and musician (b.
1951) •
June 6 –
Robbin Crosby, guitarist (b.
1959) •
June 10 •
Maury Travis, serial killer (b.
1965) •
John Gotti, murderer and leader of organized crime (b.
1940) •
June 12 –
Bill Blass, fashion designer (b.
1922) •
June 17 –
Willie Davenport, track and field athlete (b.
1943) •
June 22 •
Darryl Kile, baseball player (b.
1968) •
Eppie Lederer, journalist and radio host (b.
1918) •
June 23 –
Logan Tucker, murder victim (b.
1996) •
June 26 –
Jay Berwanger, American football player (b.
1914) •
June 27 •
John Entwistle, English musician (b.
1944) •
Ralph Erickson, baseball pitcher (b.
1902) •
June 29 –
Rosemary Clooney, singer and actress, and wife of
José Ferrer and mother of
Miguel Ferrer (b,
1928)
July •
July 2 –
Ray Brown, American bassist (b.
1926) •
July 4 –
Benjamin O. Davis Jr., general (b.
1912) •
July 5 –
Ted Williams, baseball player (b.
1918) •
July 6 –
John Frankenheimer, film director (b.
1930) •
July 8 –
Ward Kimball, animator (b.
1913) •
July 9 –
Rod Steiger, actor and husband of
Claire Bloom (b.
1925) •
July 10 –
Laurence Janifer, writer (b.
1933) •
July 16 –
John Cocke, computer scientist (b.
1925) •
July 19 –
Alan Lomax, folklorist and musicologist (b.
1915) •
July 23 –
Chaim Potok, writer and rabbi (b.
1929)
August •
August 5 •
Josh Ryan Evans, American actor (b.
1982) •
Chick Hearn, American basketball announcer (b.
1916) •
August 11 –
Galen Rowell, American photographer, writer, and climber (b.
1940) •
August 14 –
Dave Williams, American musician (b.
1972) •
August 15 –
Kyle Rote, American football player (b.
1928) •
August 16 –
Jeff Corey, American actor (b.
1914) •
August 23 –
Hoyt Wilhem, baseball player (b.
1922) •
August 31 •
Lionel Hampton, American musician (b.
1908) •
Martin Kamen, American chemist (b.
1913)
September •
September 3 –
Ted Ross, American actor (b.
1934) •
September 4 –
Jerome Biffle, American athlete (b.
1928) •
September 5 –
David Todd Wilkinson, American cosmologist (b.
1935) •
September 7 –
Erma Franklin, American singer (b.
1938) •
September 11 •
Kim Hunter, American actress (b.
1922) •
Johnny Unitas, American football player (b.
1933) •
September 14 •
LaWanda Page, comedian and actress (b.
1920) •
Paul Williams, saxophonist (b.
1915) •
September 18 –
Bob Hayes, American football player and track and field athlete (b.
1942) •
September 21 –
Robert L. Forward, writer, inventor, and physicist (b.
1932) •
September 22 –
Mickey Newbury, American singer-songwriter (b.
1940) •
September 24 –
Mike Webster, football player (b.
1952) •
September 28 –
Whitney Blake, actress and director (b.
1926)
October •
October 3 –
Bruce Paltrow, American television and film director and producer (b.
1943) • –
Jay R. Smith, American actor and comedian (b.
1915) •
October 6 –
Ben Eastman, Olympic middle-distance runner (b.
1911) •
October 9 –
Aileen Wuornos, American serial killer (b.
1956) •
October 10 –
Teresa Graves, American actress and comedian (b.
1948) •
October 12 –
Ray Conniff, musician and bandleader (b.
1916) •
October 13 –
Stephen Ambrose, American historian and biographer (b.
1936) •
October 17 –
Aileen Riggin, American swimmer and diver (b.
1906) •
October 18 –
Kam Fong Chun, American actor (b.
1918) •
October 23 •
Adolph Green, American lyricist and playwright (b.
1914) •
Richard Helms, American CIA director (b.
1913) •
October 24 •
Harry Hay, British-born American activist (b.
1912) •
Peggy Moran, actress (b.
1918) •
October 25 –
Paul Wellstone, American politician (b.
1944) •
October 28 –
Margaret Booth, American film editor (b.
1898) •
October 30 –
Jam Master Jay, American Hip-Hop DJ (b.
1965)
November •
November 3 –
Jonathan Harris, actor (b.
1914) •
November 9 –
Merlin Santana, actor (b.
1976) •
November 14 –
Eddie Bracken, actor (b.
1915) •
November 15 –
Roberta Leighton, drag racer •
November 18 –
James Coburn, actor (b.
1928) •
November 21 –
Hadda Brooks, jazz singer, pianist, and composer (b.
1916) •
November 24 –
John Rawls, philosopher (b.
1921) •
November 27 •
Billie Bird, actress and comedian (b.
1908) •
Edwin L. Mechem, politician (b.
1912) •
November 26 –
Verne Winchell, businessman (b.
1915)
December •
December 1 –
Dave McNally, baseball player (b.
1942) •
December 2 –
Mal Waldron, jazz pianist, composer, and arranger (b.
1925) •
December 3 –
Glenn Quinn, Irish actor (b.
1970) •
December 5 –
Roone Arledge, sports and news broadcasting executive (b.
1931) •
December 6 • Father
Philip Berrigan, priest, member of the
Plowshares Movement and political activist (b.
1923) •
Charles Rosen, pioneer in artificial intelligence (b.
1927) •
December 9 –
Stan Rice, painter and poet (b.
1942) •
December 26 –
Herb Ritts, photographer (b.
1952) •
December 27 –
George Roy Hill, film director (b.
1921) •
December 30 –
Mary Brian, actress (b.
1906)
Full date unknown •
Galen Schlosser, American architect == See also ==