| January 03 |
Mal Evans, Beatles' roadie, dies |
| January 03 |
Mateusz Glinski, composer, dies at 83 |
| January 03 |
Michael V Love, US test pilot (X-24), dies in
F-4 crash at 37 |
| January 04 |
Jan B Cammans, Flemish actor (Brothers
Karamazov), dies at 84 |
| January 05 |
Georges E Migot, French composer, dies at 84 |
| January 06 |
Oscar Espl?, Spanish philosopher/composer
(Sonata del Sur), dies at 89 |
| January 08 |
Chou En-lai, China's PM (1949-76), dies of
cancer in Beijing at 78 |
| January 10 |
Chester Arthur Burnett, US blues
pianist/harmonica player, dies at 65 |
| January 10 |
Howlin' Wolf, singer/guitarist, dies following
brain surgery at 65 |
| January 11 |
Mervyn Grell, cricketer (Test WI v England
1930, 21 & 13, 0-17), dies |
| January 12 |
Agatha Christie, mystery writer (10 Little
Indians), dies at 85 |
| January 13 |
Margaret Leighton, Brit actress (Much ado about
nothing), dies at 53 |
| January 14 |
Margaret Leighton, actress (Best Man,
Go-Between), dies at 53 |
| January 17 |
Ad Verhoeven, soccer player (Xerxes/Sparta),
dies in auto-accident |
| January 18 |
Ad Verhoeven, soccer player (Xerxes, Sparta),
dies in crash [or 1/17] |
| January 18 |
Sonia Dresdel, actor (Fallen Idol, Secret
Tent), dies at 67 |
| January 19 |
Kevin Coughlin, actor (T R Ryan-Mama), killed
in hit-&-run at 30 |
| January 23 |
Aleksey Vasilyevich Sorokin, Russian cosmonaut,
dies at 44 |
| January 23 |
Paul Robeson, athlete/lawyer/singer, dies in
Philadelphia at 77 |
| January 28 |
Chris Kenner, rocker (I Like it Like That),
dies |
| January 29 |
Michael Gwynn, actor (Dunkirk, Barabbas,
Cleopatra), dies at 59 |
| January 30 |
Jesse "Lone Cat" Fuller, SF Blues Great, dies
at 80 |
| January 30 |
Mance Lipscomb, rocker, dies at 80 |
| January 30 |
Percy Tyson "Plum" Lewis, cricketer (pair in
only Test for S Af), dies |
| February 01 |
Edgar Pangborn, sci-fi author (Judgment of Eve,
Davy), dies at 66 |
| February 01 |
Werner C Heisenberg, physicist (Nobel 1932,
field theory), dies at 74 |
| February 02 |
Harry Elliott, England cricket wicketkeeper (3
Tests 1927-34), dies |
| February 02 |
Johan[nes A] Kaart, Dutch actor (My Fair Lady),
dies at 78 |
| February 02 |
Maurice Jacobson, composer, dies at 80 |
| February 03 |
Neville Lindsay, cricketer (S Afr batsman in
Test v Aust 1921), dies |
| February 04 |
Edward Benjamin Britten, composer, dies at 62 |
| February 05 |
Roger Livesey, actor (Drum, Vice Versa, Col
Blimp), dies at 69 |
| February 06 |
Vince Guaraldi, jazz pianist (Charlie Brown TV
specials), dies at 43 |
| February 11 |
Alice Allen, actress (Call of the Hills), dies |
| February 11 |
Charlie Naughton, actor (Frozen Limits), dies
at 89 |
| February 11 |
Lee J Cobb, actor (12 Angry Men, On the
Waterfront), dies at 64 |
| February 12 |
James Clifton Williams, composer (Sinfonians),
dies at 52 |
| February 12 |
Sal Mineo, actor (Exodus, Rebel Without a
Cause), stabbed at 37 |
| February 13 |
General Murtala Mohammed, head of Nigeria,
killed during a coup |
| February 13 |
Lily Pons, French/US soprano/opera diva (Met
Opera), dies at 71 |
| February 17 |
Jean Servais, Belgian actor (Every Man is My
Enemy), dies at 65 |
| February 17 |
Johan[nes A] Card, actor/stage manager (My Fair
Lady), dies at 78 |
| February 18 |
Anton Betzner, writer, dies at 81 |
| February 18 |
Eddie Dowling, composer (Anywhere USA), dies at
81 |
| February 18 |
Joseph Henabery, actor/director (Cobra), dies
at 88 |
| February 20 |
Kathryn Kuhlman, religious leader/faith healer,
dies |
| February 21 |
Florence Ballard, rocker (Supremes), dies at 32 |
| February 21 |
Frieda Inescort, Scottish actress (Meet Corliss
Archer), dies at 74 |
| February 22 |
Angela Baddeley, actress (Speckled Band), dies
at 71 |
| February 22 |
Florence Ballard, rocker (Supremes), dies of a
heart attack at 32 |
| February 22 |
Michael Polany, Hungarians/English
chemist/sociologist, dies at 84 |
| February 23 |
Fuzzy Knight, actor (Gun Town, Ragtime Cowboy
Joe), dies at 74 |
| February 23 |
L S Lowry, painter, dies |
| February 24 |
Charles Wilfred Orr, composer, dies at 82 |
| February 24 |
H Allen Smith, TV host (Armchair Detective),
dies at 69 |
| February 24 |
Julian Rivero, actor (Via Pony Express), dies
at 85 |
| March 01 |
Jean Martinon, French conductor/composer, dies
at 66 |
| March 03 |
Alfred Sendrey, composer, dies at 92 |
| March 06 |
"Slapsie" Maxie Rosenbloom, lt-hvywgt box champ
(1930-34), dies at 71 |
| March 07 |
Erwin Kroll, composer, dies at 90 |
| March 13 |
Willy Alfredo, [Willem Jue], Dutch
comedian/poet, dies at 77 |
| March 14 |
Alberta Franklin, silent screen actress, dies
at 79 |
| March 14 |
Busby Berkeley, US choreographer/dir (Strike Up
the Band), dies at 80 |
| March 14 |
Martha Saalfeldt, writer, dies |
| March 17 |
Luchino Visconti di Modrone, It director (Terra
Diaeresis), dies at 69 |
| March 18 |
James McCartney, father of Paul McCartney, dies
at 73 |
| March 18 |
Robert de Roos, composer, dies at 69 |
| March 19 |
George Sklavos, composer, dies at 87 |
| March 19 |
Paul Kossoff, rock guitarist (Free), dies of
heart failure at 25 |
| March 20 |
Michael Goodliffe, actor (Gorgon, 7th Dawn, Way
Out), dies at 61 |
| March 24 |
Bernard L Montgomery, British general, defeated
Rommel, dies at 88 |
| March 24 |
Nelson Case, TV host (Trash or Treasure), dies
at 66 |
| March 26 |
Richard Arlen, actor (Apache Uprising, Wings),
dies at 75 |
| March 30 |
Jacqueline Royaards-Sandberg, actress (Hostage
Rights), dies at 99 |
| April 01 |
Freddie Lennon, father of John Lennon
(Beatles), dies at 63 |
| April 01 |
Max Ernst, German/French surrealist
painter/sculptor, dies at 85 |
| April 01 |
Miroslav Ponc, composer, dies at 73 |
| April 01 |
S Constantine Timoshenko, Russian marshal, dies
at 75 |
| April 02 |
Ray Teal, actor (Sheriff Roy Coffee-Bonanza),
dies at 74 |
| April 03 |
Maurice Johnstone, composer, dies at 75 |
| April 05 |
Howard Hughes, reclusive billionaire, dies at
72 |
| April 06 |
Ruth P Thomson, writer, dies |
| April 07 |
Mary Margaret McBride, TV hostess (Mary
Margaret McBride), dies at 76 |
| April 08 |
Phil Ochs, rock producer (Joe Hill), dies at 35 |
| April 09 |
Akio Yashiro, composer, dies at 46 |
| April 09 |
Phil Ochs, singer (Draft Dodger Rag), commits
suicide at 35 |
| April 11 |
Liam Dunn, dies a 59 |
| April 12 |
Paul Ford, actor (Phil Silvers Show), dies at
74 |
| April 14 |
Gerard Roms?e, Flemish nationalist, dies at 74 |
| April 14 |
Maude Prickett, actress (Rosie-Hazel), dies at
60 |
| April 15 |
Gerald Smith, antisemite/catholic (Natl
Christian Crusade), dies at 78 |
| April 17 |
Jean-Jacques Gailliard, Belgian painter, dies
at 85 |
| April 18 |
Percy Julian, holder of more than 138 chemical
patents, dies at 78 |
| April 22 |
Frutuoso de Lima Viana, composer, dies at 79 |
| April 23 |
James Flavin, actor (Man With a Camera), dies
at 69 |
| April 23 |
Ronald Radd, actor (King Lear, Up Jumped a
Swagman), dies at 47 |
| April 23 |
Shimen Ruskin, actor (Meyer-Corner Bar), dies
at 68 |
| April 24 |
Mark Tobey, US abstract painter, (Broadway
Norm), dies at 85 |
| April 25 |
Carol Reed, director (Agony & Ecstasy), dies |
| April 25 |
Margaret Bannerman, actress (Great Defender),
dies at 79 |
| April 26 |
Allan Jackson, newscaster (Youth Takes a
Stand), dies at 60 |
| April 26 |
Neil McCallum, actor (Pete-Saber of London),
dies at 45 |
| April 26 |
Sidney James, actor (Lavander Hill Mob, Carry
On), dies at 65 |
| April 28 |
Eugen Roth, writer, dies at 81 |
| April 29 |
Wilhelm Maler, composer, dies at 73 |
| April 30 |
Edvard Fliflet Braein, composer, dies at 51 |
| May 01 |
Rex O'Malley, actor (Camille, Zara, Midnight,
Thief), dies at 75 |
| May 03 |
David Bruce, dies at 62 |
| May 03 |
Ernie Nevers, college fullback (Stanford), dies
at 72 |
| May 05 |
Thomas Burnett Swann, sci-fi author (Day of
Minotaur), dies at 47 |
| May 06 |
Karel M J F Cruysberghs, Flemish author (On the
Pulpit), dies at 85 |
| May 08 |
Alan Baxter, dies at 67 |
| May 08 |
Ulrike Meinhof, lead Germany Red Army Faction,
dies |
| May 09 |
Raymond Chevreuille, Belgian composer, dies at
74 |
| May 09 |
Valentino Bucchi, composer, dies at 59 |
| May 10 |
George Curzon, dies at 77 |
| May 11 |
Alvar Aalto, architect (Finlandia House), dies
at 78 |
| May 11 |
Camille Schmit, composer, dies at 68 |
| May 11 |
J Anaya, Bolivian military/ambassador to
France, murdered |
| May 14 |
Keith Relf, rock vocalist (Yardbirds),
electrocuted at 33 |
| May 15 |
Samuel Eliot Morison, US historian (Admiral of
Ocean Sea), dies at 88 |
| May 21 |
Sulo Nikolai Salonen, composer, dies at 77 |
| May 24 |
Henk Lankhorst, pacifist/Dutch MP (PSP), dies
at 62 |
| May 24 |
Melle J Oldeboerrigter ("Melle"),
painter/cartoonist, dies at 65 |
| May 26 |
Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (Holzweg),
dies at 86 |
| May 27 |
Ruth McDevitt, actress (Jo-All in the Family),
dies at 80 |
| May 31 |
Jacques Monod, French biochemist, dies |
| May 31 |
Martha Mitchell wife of former Att Gen John
Mitchell, dies in NY at 57 |
| June 01 |
Pieter Balledux, actor/stage manager/resistance
fighter, dies at 89 |
| June 02 |
Alan Dewitt, actor (Mr Tyler-It's About Time),
dies at 52 |
| June 02 |
Bartoes, [Albertus J Wijstma], cabaret
performer/comic, dies at 73 |
| June 05 |
Jean Paul Getty, US oil magnate/billionaire,
dies at 83 |
| June 05 |
Walter Field, entertainer, dies at 101 |
| June 06 |
J Paul Getty, oil magnate/billionaire, dies at
83 in London |
| June 06 |
Victor Varconi, actor (Divine Lady, King of
Kings), dies at 85 |
| June 07 |
Bobby Hackett, jazz cornetist/orch leader (Air
time '57), dies at 61 |
| June 09 |
James A Farley, US Postmaster General
(1932-38), dies at 88 |
| June 09 |
Paul T B Rodenko, Dutch poet/writer (Never
Marry a Witch), dies at 55 |
| June 09 |
Sybil Thorndike, actress (Melba, Major
Barbara), dies at 93 |
| June 10 |
Adolph Zukor, Hungarian/US fur trader/movie
producer, dies at 103 |
| June 13 |
Don Bolles, US journalist (against Arizona),
dies |
| June 16 |
Francis E Meloy Jr, US ambassador to Lebanon,
kidnapped & killed |
| June 16 |
Victor Dalby Lord, ficticious character on One
Life to Live, dies |
| June 25 |
Johnny Mercer, US songwriter (That old Black
Magic), dies at 66 |
| June 28 |
Stanley Baker, actor (Accident, Guns of
Navarone), dies at 49 |
| June 29 |
Leonora Summers, entertainer, dies |
| July 02 |
Frances Howard, actress (Swan, Shock Punch),
dies at 73 |
| July 03 |
Hans Bentz van den Berg, Dutch actor (Last
Train), dies at 58 |
| July 07 |
Gustav Heinemann, German president, dies at 76 |
| July 07 |
Norman Foster, dies at 75 |
| July 12 |
Ted Mack, TV host (Original Amateur Hour), dies
at 72 |
| July 13 |
Max Butting, composer, dies at 87 |
| July 15 |
Paul William Gallico, writer, dies at 78 |
| July 19 |
Gene Roth, actor (Rosie, Tormented, Nightfall),
dies at 73 |
| July 19 |
Sal Tas, Dutch journalist, dies at 70 |
| July 20 |
Tom Lowry, cricketer (early New Zealand Test
captain), dies |
| July 21 |
Christopher Ewart-Biggs, British ambassador to
Ireland, assassinated |
| July 23 |
Wilhelmina Von Bremen, 4X100 relay sprinter
(Oly-gold-32), dies at 64 |
| July 27 |
Ray Brennan, becomes 1st to, die of
"Legionnaire's Disease" |
| July 28 |
Jacob Soetendorp, rabbi, dies at 62 |
| July 28 |
Lucie Mannheim, actress (39 Steps), dies at 77 |
| August 02 |
Fritz Lang, director (Cloak & Dagger,
Metropolis), dies at 85 |
| August 05 |
Adrian Roland Holst, poet (Past the Roads),
dies at 88 |
| August 06 |
Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian cellist, dies at 73 |
| August 07 |
Cecil Weston, actor (Dude Ranch, Huckleberry
Finn), dies at 86 |
| August 07 |
Murvyn Vye, actor (Bob Cummings Show), dies at
63 |
| August 08 |
John Roselli, hired by CIA to kill Castro,
found murdered |
| August 09 |
Jose Lezama Lima, Cuban poet/novelist, dies at
65 |
| August 09 |
Max Vredenburg, composer, dies at 72 |
| August 10 |
Bert Oldfield, cricketer (54 Tests, 52
stumpings), dies |
| August 10 |
Ray "Crash" Corrigan, cowboy (Crash Corrigan's
Ranch), dies at 74 |
| August 12 |
Thomas Edward Driberg, 1st baron Bradwell,
journalist, dies |
| August 14 |
Werner Br?unig, writer, dies |
| August 15 |
Jean P J C Haesaert, Flemish
lawyer/sociologist, dies at 84 |
| August 16 |
Beppie Nooij Jr, Dutch actress (Rooie Sien),
dies at 83 |
| August 17 |
Murvyn Vye, actor (Road to Bali, Escape to
Burma), dies at 63 |
| August 17 |
William Redfield, actor (Jimmy Hughes Rookie
Cop), dies at 48 |
| August 19 |
Alastair Sim, actor (Christmas Carol, Green for
Danger), dies at 75 |
| August 19 |
Jeno Kenessey, composer, dies at 70 |
| August 19 |
Ken Wadsworth, cricketer (Exciting NZ keeper),
dies of cancer at 29 |
| August 20 |
Phyllis Konstam, actress (Murder, Skin Game),
dies at 69 |
| August 21 |
Ken James, cricketer (kept wicket for NZ in 11
Tests), dies |
| August 22 |
Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, pres of
Brazil (1955-60), dies at 73 |
| August 22 |
Oskar Br?sewitz, East German vicar, sets self
on fire |
| August 24 |
Michael Dewar Head, composer, dies at 76 |
| August 25 |
Eyvind Johnson, Swedish author (Nobel-1974),
dies at 76 |
| August 25 |
Perc Hornibrook, cricketer (6 Tests 1928-30, 17
wickets), dies |
| August 26 |
Lotte (Krause-)Lehmann, German soprano (More
than singing), dies at 88 |
| August 26 |
Warner Anderson, actor (Doctor, Lineup, Peyton
Place), dies at 65 |
| August 29 |
Anissa Jones, actress (Buffy-Family Affair),
ODs at 18 |
| August 29 |
Jimmy Reed, rocker, dies of epileptic seizure
at 50 |
| August 31 |
Kornelis H Miskotte, theologist (If the Gods
Keep Silent), dies at 81 |
| September 03 |
Harry Partch, US composer (Oedipus), dies at 75 |
| September 05 |
A E R Gilligan, cricketer (11 Tests for England
1922-25), dies |
| September 08 |
Assen Karastoyanov, composer, dies at 83 |
| September 08 |
Joaquin Zamacois Soler, composer, dies at 81 |
| September 09 |
Mao Tse-Tung, Chinese communist party chairman
(1949-76), dies at 82 |
| September 10 |
Dalton Trumbo, US writer/director (Johnny Got
His Gun), dies at 70 |
| September 10 |
Dorothy Devore, actress (Newscast, Senor
Daredevil), dies at 77 |
| September 10 |
George Baxter, actor (Flying Saucer, Lili,
Caged), dies at 71 |
| September 10 |
Mordecai Johnson, 1st black president of Howard
U, dies at 86 |
| September 11 |
Jan Kunc, composer, dies at 93 |
| September 20 |
Johan Boskamp, opera singer/actor, dies at 83 |
| September 21 |
Orlando Letelier, minister Chile, dies |
| September 24 |
Bruno VeSota, actor/director (Chopper, Teenage
Doll), dies at 54 |
| September 24 |
Romney Brent, actor/writer (Dinner at the
Ritz), dies at 74 |
| September 30 |
Louis Fourestier, composer, dies at 84 |
| October 04 |
Alexander Gray, singer (This is Music), dies at
74 |
| October 05 |
Barbara Nichols, actress (Pajama Game, Loved
One), dies at 46 |
| October 07 |
Nikolai Lopatnikoff, composer, dies at 73 |
| October 10 |
Connee Boswell, singer (Pete Kelly's Blue),
dies at 68 |
| October 11 |
Connie Boswell, actress (Artists & Models),
dies at 68 |
| October 14 |
Edith Evans, actress (Tom Jones, Scrooge, Chalk
Garden), dies at 88 |
| October 15 |
Carlo Gambino, US gangster, dies at 74 |
| October 23 |
Leonard Lee, US R&B-singer (Shirley & Lee-I'm
Gone), dies at 40 |
| October 24 |
Richard Sturzenegger, composer, dies at 70 |
| October 25 |
Raymond Queneau, [M Presle], French writer
(Last Days), dies at 73 |
| October 26 |
Deryck Victor Cooke, composer, dies at 57 |
| October 31 |
Linda Watkins, actress (From Hell it Came,
Harpy), dies at 68 |
| November 01 |
Oscar Beregi Jr, actor (Young Frankenstein,
Panic in City), dies at 58 |
| November 09 |
Billy Halop, actor (Bert Munson-All in the
Family), dies at 56 |
| November 11 |
Alexander Calder, US sculptor, dies at 78 |
| November 11 |
E Q Davies, cricketer (9 runs & 7 wickets in 5
Tests for S Afr), dies |
| November 12 |
Walter Hamor Piston, US composer, dies at 82 |
| November 15 |
Jean Gabin, French actor (Quai des Brumes),
dies at 72 |
| November 16 |
Franz MT de Liage B?hl, German/Dutch
assyriologist, dies at 94 |
| November 17 |
Victor Alessandro, composer, dies at 60 |
| November 18 |
Man Ray, US artist (dada), dies at 86 |
| November 21 |
Niles Welch, actor (Cornered), dies at 88 |
| November 22 |
Rupert Davies, actor (Zeppelin, Oblong Box),
dies at 59 |
| November 23 |
Andr? Malraux, [Berger], author
(Conquerors)/min of Culture, dies |
| November 28 |
Robert Fleming, composer, dies at 55 |
| November 28 |
Rosalind Russell, actress (Mame), dies of
cancer at 68 |
| November 29 |
Godfrey Cambridge, actor (Watermelon Man), dies
at 43 |
| November 29 |
Judith Lowry, actress (Effect of Gamma Rays
...), dies at 86 |
| November 30 |
Fritz Rasp, actor (Diary of a Lost Girl), dies
at 85 |
| December 02 |
Danny Murtaugh, baseball manager (Pitts
Pirates), dies at 59 |
| December 02 |
William Tannen, actor (Jailhouse Rock, Sitting
Bull), dies at 65 |
| December 03 |
Mary Nash, actress (Phila Story, Till the
Clouds Roll By), dies at 91 |
| December 04 |
Benjamin Britten, British composer (Beggar's
Opera), dies at 63 |
| December 04 |
Tommy Bolin, rock guitarist (Deep Purple), dies
of heroin overdose |
| December 09 |
Nino Martini, actor (Here's to Romance), dies
at 71 |
| December 12 |
Jack Cassidy, actor (Oscar/Jetman-He & She),
dies at 49 |
| December 13 |
Eduard Claudius, writer, dies |
| December 16 |
George, a goose that lived to 49 years 8
months, dies |
| December 18 |
George Emmett, cricketer (Engld opener v Aust
Old Trafford 1948), dies |
| December 20 |
Richard J Daley, (Mayor-D-Chicago), dies at 74 |
| December 20 |
Walter Fitzgerald, actor (Adv of Sadie, Fallen
Idol), dies at 80 |
| December 21 |
Edward Bartlett, cricketer (WI Test batsman in
5 Tests 1928-31), dies |
| December 23 |
Frank Forest, actor (Big Broadcast of 1937,
Champagne Waltz), dies |
| December 23 |
Paul M Frank Forest, dies at 80 |
| December 23 |
Walter Bauer, writer, dies at 72 |
| December 24 |
Victor Stanitsin, actor (War & Peace, Jubilee),
dies at 79 |
| December 25 |
Arthur Mitchell, cricketer (batted in 6 Tests
for Eng 1933-36), dies |
| December 25 |
Frankie Darro, actor (Radio Ranch, Valley of
Wanted Men), dies at 58 |
| December 26 |
Philip A Heart, (Sen-D-Mich), dies at 64 |
| December 28 |
Freddie King, rocker, dies at 42 |
| December 29 |
Ivo van Damme, Belgian 800/1500 m sprinter
(Oly-silver-76), dies at 22 |