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Unknown dates 
 Analog television will be switched off in the Russian Federation. 
 The first plasma operation of the fusion reactor ITER is expected.
 Target date for OECD countries to raise aid levels to 0.7% of Gross Domestic Product, as per the Paris Agreement. 
 The United States Navy will commission USS Gerald R. Ford, the first ship in a new class of supercarriers.
 The winning nation for the 2022 Winter Olympics will be announced by the IOC.
 Brood XXIII (Lower Mississippi Valley Brood) of the Magicicada will emerge after a 13-year hiatus.
 Cricket World Cup will be played in Australia and New Zealand.
 NASA Solar probe, will orbit the Sun
 ESA Solar Orbiter (SOLO), will orbit the Sun to perform close observations of the polar regions of the Sun
 2015 is the earliest year the European Space Agency might launch the Darwin Mission to search for exoplanets that could possibly harbor life.
 Tenth season premiere of SpongeBob SquarePants.
 Toronto will host the 2015 Pan American Games.
New Songdo City, South Korea, a high-tech city of 65,000 will be completed.
 A Mass-Transit specific bridge (Caruthers Bridge) will open in Portland, Oregon.
Sports 
 2015 Pan American Games, in Toronto, Canada.
 2015 Rugby World Cup, in England.
 2015 Cricket World Cup, in Australia and New Zealand.

Births 

 May 2 – Princess Charlotte of Cambridge

Deaths

In fiction

Computer and video games 
 Doom: The Union Aerospace Corporation is founded by Thomas Kelliher.
 Star Control: The Small War of 2015 takes place, a war where many of humanity's nuclear weapons were used, and resolved in the isolations of the weapons. It is called the "small war" because it could have been much worse.
 "Jetfighter 2015" (2005)
 Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation: The first Ace Combat installment for the Xbox 360. The game takes place on the Anean continent in a war between Emmeria and Estovakia.
 Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots: The first Metal Gear Solid installment for the PlayStation 3. The game takes place in the Middle East, South America, Eastern Europe, Alaska, and a submersible Ark, takes place in 2015.
Movies 
 "Firebird 2015 AD" (1981)
 Dr. Emmett Brown, Marty McFly, and Jennifer Parker travel to October 21 of this year in the movie Back to the Future Part II. According to a holographic newscast, the Chicago Cubs win the World Series against a team from Miami (in which the movie was released in 1989, there were no teams from Miami, until 1993 when the Florida Marlins, a team that plays in Miami was established). Inventions will also include flying cars, self-fitting clothes and shoes, hoverboards (devices similar to skateboards), television goggles, hydrating pizzas, and various other developments. According to the movie, 2015 is also the year Jaws 19 premieres, in holographic 3D without requiring 3D glasses.
 Event Horizon: The first permanent colony will be established on the Moon.
 The 6th Day (2000)
Television 
Set in 2015:
 Defenders of the Earth (1986):
 Future GPX Cyber Formula (1991): Hayato Kazami becomes the youngest driver ever in Cyber formula with Sugo Grand Prix.
 Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995–1996): The main events of the series take place in this year.
 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ("Past Tense," 1995): By 2015, London has its own Major League Baseball team, the London Kings.
 Space: Above and Beyond (1995–1996): Aerospace and defense supplier Aero-Tech is founded.
 3rd Rock from the Sun: According to Dick Solomon in the episode "Angry Dick", a giant meteor is destined to collide with Earth. When he says this in his physics class and all of his students turn towards him in shock, he adds, "which obviously doesn't exist because I'm kidding!"
Media franchises 
 .hack: A fire occurs at the main CC Corp building, resulting in a large loss of data forcing The World to shut down. By splicing in data from what would have been another game, CC Corp is able to rebuild the game system, thus creating The World:R2.

Other fiction 
 John Titor, a claimed time traveler from year 2036, said that World War III would begin during 2015 on his world line.

References
2016 (twenty sixteen) (MMXVI) was .

The year was designated as the International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly.

Events

January
 January 3 – Following the fallout caused by the execution of Nimr al-Nimr, Saudi Arabia ends its diplomatic relations with Iran.
 January 8 – Joaquín Guzmán, widely regarded as the world's most powerful drug trafficker, is recaptured following his escape from a maximum security prison.
 January 10 – Singer, musician and actor David Bowie died of cancer two days after his 69th birthday.
 January 16 – The International Atomic Energy Agency announces that Iran has adequately dismantled its nuclear weapons program, allowing the United Nations to lift sanctions immediately.
 January 28 - WHO announces an outbreak of the Zika Virus.

February

March
 March 22 - 34 people are killed in bombings in Brussels.

June
 June 22 - The majority of United Kingdom residents vote to leave the European Union.
July
 July 10 – Brum released after 1991, 1994, 2001 and 2002.
 July 15 – BabyBus released on YouTube.

August
 August 5 – August 21 – 2016 Summer Olympics are held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

October
 October 13 – Bhumibol Adulyadej, King of Thailand, dies aged 88 after more than 70 years on the throne. He was the world's longest-serving head of state at the time of his death.

November
 November 8 – Donald Trump wins the United States Presidential election while Republicans retain control of Congress.
 November 25 - Former President of Cuba Fidel Castro dies aged 90.

December
 December 31 – The last United States troops withdrew from Afghanistan, bringing the War in Afghanistan to an end.

Predicted events
 April 4 – Square root day.
 May 9 – Transit of Mercury
 June 11 – July 3 – 2016 European Football Championship (Host scheduled to be picked in May 2010)
 June 29 – Analog shut-off in Brazil
Unknown dates 
 European Capital Of Culture 2016 – European Union choose two European cities, from Poland and from Spain to become the European Capitals Of Culture in this year.
 The right for the U.S. forces to use Diego Garcia in the Chagos Islands as a military base will end at this year, but there will be a provision for an automatic extension for another 20 years for the US forces to remain stationed on the island.
 Start of unmanned test flights of Altair for future U.S. lunar landings.
 ITER, an international scientific experiment (2nd largest worldwide ever) into developing nuclear fusion as an energy source will boot up for the first time.
 Files concerning Rudolf Hess made open to the public
 The Centralia, Pennsylvania time capsule will open
 NASA Juno, Jupiter orbiter
 The world's largest suspension bridge will be completed, connecting Sicily and main land Italy.

Deaths

In fiction
Deaths

In fiction

Computer and video games 
 Games set in 2016:
 Body Harvest (1998)
 Metal Gear Acid (2004)
 Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (2005)
 Terminator Salvation (video game) (2009)
 Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 (2009)
 Ace Combat 6 (2008)

Movies 
 Ghostbusters II (1989): According to a guest on Peter Venkman's talk show, the end of the world will occur on February 14.

Television series 
 Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995–1996): The controversial completion of the top-secret Human Instrumentality Project brings about the apocalyptic Third Impact, merging all human individuals into a single consummate being.
 In an episode of Phil of the Future, Phil states that chores were banned in the year 2016.
 The Vampire Dairies Elena/ Nina Dobrev will come back!

References

Other websites
2017 (twenty seventeen) (MMXVII) was .

Events

January

 1 January:
 The BBC's Royal Charter expires.
 An attack on a nightclub in Istanbul, Turkey kills 39 people and injures 70. ISIS clams responsibility.
 6 January – A mass shooting occurs at the Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport in Broward County, Florida. Five people were killed while 48 were injured.
 7 January – Mário Soares, former President and Prime Minister of Portugal who brought democracy to Portugal after a dictatorship, dies at 92 from a stroke in Lisbon.
 8 January – Former President of Iran Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani dies of a heart attack in Tehran at age 82.
 19 January – ECOWAS forces, including troops from Senegal, Ghana, and Nigeria, intervene in the Gambia's political crisis to force longtime President Yahya Jammeh to step down after losing the December 2016 elections to Adama Barrow.
 20 January – Donald Trump is inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States at the United States Capitol Building at noon.
February
 11 February – North Korea prompts international condemnation by test firing a ballistic missile across the Sea of Japan.

March 

 10 March
 Park Geun-hye is removed as President of South Korea by the Constitutional Court.
 The UN warns that the world is facing the biggest humanitarian crisis since World War II, with up to 20 million people at risk of starvation and famine in Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan and Nigeria.
 22 March – a suspected terrorist attack occurs at the Westminster Bridge in London. Five people are killed including the assailant.
 29 March – The United Kingdom invokes Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union, beginning the formal EU withdrawal process.
 30 March – SpaceX conducts the world’s first reflight of an orbital class rocket.
 31 March – The Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository is scheduled to begin accepting nuclear waste.
April 
 6 April – In response to a suspected chemical weapons attack on a rebel-held town, the U.S. military launches 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at an air base in Syria. Russia describes the strikes as an "aggression", adding they significantly damage US-Russia ties.
 8 April – 2017–18 North Korea Crisis begin threat United States with a nuclear weapon.
 20 April – Three police officers were shot and killed at Champs-Élysées, a shopping boulevard in Paris, France.

May

 7 May – In the 2017 French presidential election, Emmanuel Macron is elected President of France defeating Marine Le Pen.
 10 May – Moon Jae-in is elected President of South Korea in the 2017 South Korean presidential election after Park Geun-hye was impeached and removed from office.
 12 May – Computers around the world are hit by a large-scale ransomware cyberattack, which goes on to affect at least 150 countries.
 22 – 19 May people confirmed dead in two explosions at Manchester Arena at an Ariana Grande concert.
October 
 26 October – The Third Rutte cabinet of the Netherlands is sworn in.

Predicted and scheduled events
 June- Confederations cup 2017
 1 July – The first possible government in Hong Kong elected by Universal suffrage is scheduled to take office.
 7 August – Partial lunar eclipse
 21 August – From 16:50 to 20:02 UTC, the first total solar eclipse of the 21st century for the United States, and the first visible in the continental U.S. since 26 February 1979, takes place. Totality will occur along a path curving from Oregon to South Carolina, and will last at most 2 minutes 40.2 seconds. The location and time of "greatest eclipse" will be on the western edge of Christian County, Kentucky at 36.9715 degrees North and 87.6559 degrees West occurring at 18:25.4716 UTC.
Unknown dates
 Sealed government documents surrounding John F. Kennedy's assassination to be released.
 The government of China has announced it will start sending probes to the Moon in 2017, resulting in a manned Chinese landing on the moon in a few years.
 The IOC Decides the host city for the 2024 Summer Olympic Games
 In Copenhagen (Denmark), the City Circle Line extension of the metro will open.
 South Korea states that it will attempt a space mission by this year.
 Construction of London's Crossrail project is expected to be completed, with the first passenger trains running this year.
 In France the case-documents regarding the execution of assumed World War I double spy Mata Hari will be revealed.
 In Lisbon, the new Alcochete Airport starts operations.
 Phase II of the USMC VXX Presidential helicopter program, the AgustaWestland/Bell Helicopter VH-71B Kestrel, is scheduled to enter Initial operating capability.
 Gazprom hopes that its market capitalization will reach one trillion dollars.
The European Extremely Large Telescope is scheduled to be completed.
 O. J. Simpson may be eligible for parole from the Nevada correctional system.
 Davao City, Philippines will start its construction on Davao-Samal Bridge.
In fiction

Literature
 The epilogue of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007) takes place in this year.

Computer and video games
 Ever17 (2002)
 Neo Geo Battle Coliseum (2005)
 Earth Defense Force 2017 (2006)
 Phoenix Wright: Justice For All begins in 2016, but ends in 2017, while Phoenix Wright: Trials and Tribulations begins in 2017, but ends in 2018. They are set in the future in a way to explain the drastically different court system used from the US one.

Movies 
 Cherry 2000 (1987)
 The Running Man: The beginning events occur in 2017.
 Barb Wire (1996)
 Click (2006)
 Surrogates (2009)

Music
 The Billy Joel song, Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway) is set in this year.
 The Sheryl Crow song "Gasoline" from her album Detours tells of a gas shortage in the year 2017.

Television
 Code-E (2007)
 Code Geass The events of the first season take place in 2017.
 SB-129 The events of a 1999 Spongebob SquarePants episode take place on 6 March of this year.

Deaths

References
Yasunari Kawabata (14 June 1899–16 April 1972) was a Japanese writer.  He was the winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature.  He was the first Japanese author to receive the award.

Related pages 
 List of Nobel Prize winners by country

References

1899 births
1972 deaths
Writers from Osaka
Japanese Nobel Prize winners
University of Tokyo alumni
Events 
 January 1 – Estonia takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union from the United Kingdom.
 January 20-22 – The United States government enters a shutdown due to a dispute over the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)
 February did not experience a completely realized full moon this year
 February 9-25 – 2018 Winter Olympics were held in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
 March 1 – President Donald Trump announced import for tariff steel 25% and 10% of Aluminum.
 April 23 – A white van collided with numerous pedestrians killing nine and injuring sixteen others at Yonge Street in Toronto.
 June 14-July 15 — 2018 FIFA World Cup was held in Russia.
 July 1 – Andrés Manuel López Obrador is elected President of Mexico.
 July 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union from Estonia.
 July 27 – Mars made its closest approach to Earth since 2003. It will not be as close as the 2003 opposition.
August 11 – The final Drum Corps International World Championship to be held in the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana, after an 11-year run.
 September 16 – Swedish general election for the Riksdag take place.
 September 28 – An earthquake and tsunami hits Sulawesi, Indonesia killing 2,256 people.
 October 23 – The Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge is opened for the public to use. It is the longest bridge in the world that crosses a sea.
 November 6 – The United States mid-term elections take place.
 December 22 – A tsunami hits the Sunda Strait in Indonesia, killing more than 430 people.
Computer and video games 
Games set in 2018:
 Fortnite (2018)
 Krazy Ivan (1996)
 Trauma Center: Under the Knife (2005)
 Phoenix Wright: Trials and Tribulations (2007)

Movies 
 Rollerball (1975)
 Terminator Salvation (2009)
 I Spit on Your Rave (2010)
 Iron Sky (2011)

Literature 
 Halting State (2007) by Charles Stross.

Television series 
 The storyline for the sci-fi television series seaQuest DSV begins in 2018.
 The second season of Code Geass takes place in 2018.

Science 
 1,000 petaflops 100 million core computer
 Driverless Cars
 Exomars launch

Deaths

References
Events 
 January 1 – All works published in 1923, other than sound recordings, entered the public domain in the United States. This was the first automatic extension of the public domain in the U.S. since the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. (Works published before 1923 were already in the public domain.)
 Jair Bolsonaro began his four-year term as President of Brazil.
 Unmanned space probe New Horizons makes a close approach of the Kuiper belt object (KBO)  at 05:33 UTC.
 Qatar withdrew from OPEC.
 Same-sex marriage became legal in Austria.
 January 15-January 16 — Nairobi DusitD2 complex attack
 January 18 — A pipeline explosion in Tlahuelilpan, Mexico killed 96 people and 48 are injured.
 January 19 – A magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits Coquimbo, Chile. Two people were killed, and 200,000 others were left without power.
 January 27 — 2019 Jolo Cathedral bombings
 February 1 — President of the United States Donald Trump said the U.S. will leave the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.
February 12 — The Republic of Macedonia was renamed North Macedonia as it joined NATO and the European Union.
 March 10 — A plane crashed near Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, killing all 157 people on board.
 March 15 — Two mass shootings took place in Christchurch, New Zealand during a white supremacist terrorist attack and killed 51 people.
 April 21 — 2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings
 April 30 — 2019 UNCC shooting
 May 2 – Elections for the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly.
 May 11 – John Walker Lindh was released from prison.
 June 4 – 2019 Darwin shooting
 June 14 – June Spencer turned 100
 July 1 – Romania took over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
 July 24 — Boris Johnson replaced Theresa May as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
 August 3 — 2019 El Paso shooting
 August 4
 2019 Dayton shooting
 2019 Cairo bombing
 August 31 – Midland–Odessa shooting
 October 21 — 2019 Canadian federal election
 December 1-present : The Covid-19 pandemic began in Wuhan, China.
Births
 September 16 - August Michael Peterson, American child actress (The Really Loud House).

Deaths

January
January 1 – Ivan Dimitrov, Bulgarian footballer (b. 1935)
 January 2 – Bob Einstein, American actor and comedian (b. 1942)
 January 4 – Harold Brown, 14th United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1927)
 January 5 – Dragoslav Šekularac, Serbian footballer (b. 1937)
 January 7 – Moshe Arens, Lithuanian-born Israeli aeronautical engineer, diplomat, and politician (b. 1925)
 January 9 – Anatoly Lukyanov, Russian politician (b. 1930)
 January 10 – Theo Adam, German opera singer (b. 1926)
 January 11 – Michael Atiyah, British-Lebanese mathematician and academic (b. 1929)
 January 13 – Phil Masinga, South African footballer (b. 1969)
 January 14 – Paweł Adamowicz, Polish politician (b. 1965)
 January 15 – Carol Channing, American actress (b. 1921)
 January 16
 John C. Bogle, American investor and writer (b. 1929)
 Mirjam Pressler, German writer and translator (b. 1940)
 January 17 – Mary Oliver, American poet (b. 1935)
 January 18 – Ivan Vutsov, Bulgarian footballer and manager (b. 1939)
 January 21
January 21
 Henri, Count of Paris, Head of the House of Orléans (b. 1933)
 Pedro Manfredini, Argentine footballer (b. 1935)
 Emiliano Sala, Argentine footballer (b. 1990)
 January 23
 Jonas Mekas, Lithuanian-born American filmmaker, poet, and artist (b. 1922)
 Erik Olin Wright, American sociologist (b. 1947)
 January 24 – Fernando Sebastián Aguilar, Spanish cardinal (b. 1929)
 January 25
 Dušan Makavejev, Serbian film director (b. 1932)
 Krishna Sobti, Indian Hindi-language fiction writer and essayist (b. 1925)
 January 26
 Jean Guillou, French composer, organist, and pianist (b. 1930)
 Michel Legrand, French composer (b. 1932)
 January 29
 George Fernandes, Indian politician (b. 1930)
 James Ingram, American R&B musician (b. 1952)
 January 30 – Dick Miller, American actor (b. 1928)
 January 31 – Kálmán Ihász, Hungarian footballer (b. 1941)
February 3
 Julie Adams, American actress (b. 1926)
 Detsl, Russian musician (b. 1983)
 February 4
 Matti Nykänen Finnish ski jumping (b. 1963)
 Isacio Calleja, Spanish footballer (b. 1936)
 February 5 – Václav Vorlíček, Czech movie director (b. 1930)
 February 6
 Rudi Assauer, German football player (b. 1944)
 Manfred Eigen, German Nobel Prize winning biophysical chemist (b. 1927)
 Rosamunde Pilcher, British author (b. 1924)
 February 7
 John Dingell, American politician (b. 1926)
 Albert Finney, English actor (b. 1936)
 Jan Olszewski, 3rd Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1930)
 February 8 – Sergei Yursky, Soviet-born Russian actor (b. 1935)
 February 9
 Shelley Lubben, American author, activist, singer, and pornographic actress (b. 1968)
 Maximilian Reinelt, German rower and doctor (b. 1988)
 Tomi Ungerer, French illustrator (b. 1931)
 February 10
 Carmen Argenziano, American actor (b. 1943)
 Heinz Fütterer, West German athlete (b. 1931)
 Jan-Michael Vincent, American actor (b. 1945)
Daniel Silva dos Santos, Brazilian footballer (b. 1982)
 February 11 – Sibghatullah Mojaddedi, Afghan politician (b. 1925)
 February 12
 Gordon Banks, English footballer (b. 1939)
 Lyndon LaRouche, American political activist (b. 1922)
 February 15 – Lee Radziwill, American socialite (b. 1933)
 February 16
 Don Bragg, American athletics competitor (b. 1935)
 Bruno Ganz, Swiss actor (b. 1941)
 February 17 – Šaban Šaulić, Serbian folk singer (b. 1951)
 February 19 – Karl Lagerfeld, German fashion designer (b. 1933)
 February 20
 Claude Goretta, Swiss movie director (b. 1929)
 February 21
 Stanley Donen, American film director (b. 1924)
 Peter Tork, American musician and actor (b. 1942)
 February 23 – Katherine Helmond, American actress (b. 1929)
 February 24
 Antoine Gizenga, 21st Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1925)
 Donald Keene, American-born Japanese scholar, historian, and writer (b. 1922)
 February 25
 Mark Hollis, British singer (b. 1955)
Waldo Machado, Brazilian footballer (b. 1934)
 February 26 – Christian Bach, Argentine-Mexican actress and producer (b. 1959)
 February 27 – France-Albert René, Seychellois politician, 2nd President of Seychelles (b. 1935)
 February 28 – André Previn, German-American pianist, conductor and composer (b. 1929)
March 1
 Zhores Alferov, Soviet and Russian Nobel physicist (b. 1930)
 Kevin Roche, Irish-born American architect (b. 1922)
 March 4
 King Kong Bundy, American professional wrestler (b. 1957)
 Keith Flint, English musician, singer, and dancer (b. 1969)
 Klaus Kinkel, German politician (b. 1936)
 Ted Lindsay, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1925)
 Luke Perry, American actor (b. 1966)
 Jean Starobinski, Swiss literary critic (b. 1920)
 March 5 – Jacques Loussier, French pianist and composer (b. 1934)
 March 7
 Kelly Catlin, American cyclist (b. 1995)
 Guillaume Faye, French journalist and writer (b. 1949)
 March 8 – Michael Gielen, Austrian conductor and composer (b. 1927)
 March 9
 Bernard Binlin Dadié, Ivorian novelist and playwright (b. 1916)
 Vladimir Etush, Soviet and Russian actor (b. 1922)
 March 11
 Hal Blaine, American drummer (b. 1929)
 Coutinho, Brazilian footballer (b. 1943)
 March 13 – Andrea Pollack, German swimmer (b. 1961)
 March 14
 Godfried Danneels, Belgian cardinal (b. 1933)
Charlie Whiting, British motorsports director (b. 1952)
 March 15 – W. S. Merwin, American poet (b. 1927)
 March 16
 Dick Dale, American guitarist and surf music pioneer (b. 1937)
 Yulia Nachalova, Russian singer (b. 1981)
 March 17 – Manohar Parrikar, Indian politician (b. 1955)
 March 19 – Marlen Khutsiev, Georgian-born Soviet and Russian filmmaker (b. 1925)
 March 22 – Scott Walker, American-born British singer-songwriter (b. 1943)
 March 23
 Lina Cheryazova, Uzbek freestyle skier (b. 1968)
 Larry Cohen, American film director and screenwriter (b. 1936)
 March 27 – Valery Bykovsky, Soviet and Russian cosmonaut (b. 1934)
 March 29 – Agnès Varda, Belgian-born French filmmaker (b. 1928)
 March 30 – Tania Mallet, British actor (b. 1985)
 March 31 – Nipsey Hussle, American rapper (b. 1985)
April 1
 Vonda N. McIntyre, American science fiction author (b. 1948)
 Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio, Spanish writer (b. 1927)
 April 3 - Aleksey Buldakov, Russian actor (b. 1951)
 April 4 – Georgiy Daneliya, Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter (b. 1930)
 April 5 – Sydney Brenner, South African Nobel biologist (b. 1927)
 April 6 – David J. Thouless, British Nobel physicist (b. 1934)
 April 7 – Seymour Cassel, American actor (b. 1935)
 April 9 – Elwyn Berlekamp, American mathematician (b. 1940)
 April 12
 Georgia Engel, American actress (b. 1948)
 Tommy Smith, English footballer (b. 1945)
 April 13
 Tony Buzan, English author and educator (b. 1942)
 Neus Català, Spanish political activist and Holocaust survivor (b. 1915)
 Paul Greengard, American Nobel neuroscientist (b. 1925)
 Lydia Wideman, Finnish cross-country skier (b. 1920)
 Yvette Williams, New Zealand track-and-field athlete (b. 1929)
 April 14
 Bibi Andersson, Swedish actress (b. 1935)
Mirjana Marković, Serbian politician and First Lady of Yugoslavia (b. 1942)
 Gene Wolfe, American science fiction and fantasy writer (b. 1931)
 April 15 – Owen Garriott, American astronaut (b. 1930)
 April 16 – Fay McKenzie, American actress and singer (b. 1918)
 April 17 – Alan García, 61st and 64th President of Peru (b. 1949)
 April 18 – Lyra McKee, Northern Irish journalist (b. 1990)
 April 19 – Patrick Sercu, Belgian cyclist (b. 1944)
 April 20 – Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Iranian artist (b. 1922)
 April 21 – Ken Kercheval, American actor (b. 1935)
 April 22
 Lê Đức Anh, Vietnamese politician, 4th President of Vietnam (b. 1920)
 Billy McNeill, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1940)
 April 23
 Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (b. 1921)
 David Winters, English-American actor, choreographer, and director (b. 1939)
 April 24 – Jean-Pierre Marielle, French actor (b. 1932)
 April 25 – John Havlicek, American basketball player (b. 1940)
 April 26 – Ellen Schwiers, German actress (b. 1930)
April 27 – Negasso Gidada, Ethiopian politician, 4th President of Ethiopia (b. 1943)
 April 28 – John Singleton, American film director, screenwriter and producer (b. 1968)
 April 29 – Les Murray, Australian poet (b. 1938)
 April 30
 Anémone, French actress (b. 1950)
 Beth Carvalho, Brazilian samba singer (b. 1946)
 Peter Mayhew, English-American actor (b. 1944)
May 2 – Ali Mroudjaé, 9th Prime Minister of the Comoros (b. 1939)
 May 3 – Goro Shimura, Japanese mathematician (b. 1930)
 May 5 – Norma Miller, American dancer, actress and author (b. 1919)
 May 6
 John Lukacs, Hungarian-American historian (b. 1924)
 Seymour Nurse, Barbadian cricketer (b. 1933)
 May 7 – Jean Vanier, Canadian Catholic philosopher (b. 1928)
 May 8
 Sprent Dabwido, 13th President of Nauru (b. 1972)
 Yevgeny Krylatov, Soviet and Russian film composer (b. 1934)
 May 9 – Alvin Sargent, American screenwriter (b. 1927)
 May 10 – Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, Spanish politician (b. 1951)
 May 11
 Peggy Lipton, American actress and model (b. 1946)
 Silver King, Mexican professional wrestler (b. 1968)
 May 12
 Machiko Kyō, Japanese actress (b. 1924)
 Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, Lebanese cardinal and Patriarch (b. 1920)
 May 13
 Unita Blackwell, American civil rights activist (b. 1933)
 Doris Day, American actress and singer (b. 1922)
 May 14
 Tim Conway, American actor and comedian (b. 1933)
Grumpy Cat, American Internet celebrity cat (b. 2012)
 Sven Lindqvist, Swedish author (b. 1932)
 May 16
 Bob Hawke, 23rd Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1929)
 Ashley Massaro, American professional wrestler, television host and model (b. 1979)
 I. M. Pei, Chinese-American architect (b. 1917)
 May 17 – Herman Wouk, American author (b. 1915)
 May 19
 Carlos Altamirano, Chilean lawyer and politician (b. 1922)
 Nickey Iyambo, Namibian politician, 1st Vice-President of Namibia (b. 1936)
 May 20 – Niki Lauda, Austrian racing driver (b. 1949)
 May 21 – Binyavanga Wainaina, Kenyan writer (b. 1971)
 May 22
 Judith Kerr, German-born British author and illustrator (b. 1923)
 Eduard Punset, Spanish politician and science popularizer (b. 1936)
 Ahmad Shah of Pahang, Malaysian royal (b. 1930)
 May 24 – Murray Gell-Mann, American Nobel physicist (b. 1929)
 May 25 – Claus von Bülow, Danish-British socialite (b. 1926)
 May 26
 Prem Tinsulanonda, Thai politician, 16th Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1920)
 May 27
May 27
 Gabriel Diniz, Brazilian singer (b. 1990)
 May 28
 Apolo Nsibambi, Ugandan politician, 8th Prime Minister of Uganda (b. 1940)
 Edward Seaga, Jamaican politician, 5th Prime Minister of Jamaica (b. 1930)
 May 30 – Thad Cochran, American politician (b. 1937)
 May 31 – Roky Erickson, American singer-songwriter (b. 1947)
June 1
 José Antonio Reyes, Spanish footballer (b. 1983)
 Michel Serres, French philosopher, theorist and writer (b. 1930)
 Ani Yudhoyono, 6th First Lady of Indonesia (b. 1952)
 June 2 – Ken Matthews, English race walker (b. 1934)
 June 3 – Atsushi Aoki, Japanese professional wrestler (b. 1977)
 June 4
 Lennart Johansson, Swedish sports official (b. 1929)
 Nechama Rivlin, Israeli socialite, 10th First Lady of Israel (b. 1945)
 June 5 – Elio Sgreccia, Italian cardinal (b. 1928)
 June 6 – Dr. John, American musician (b. 1941)
 June 8 – André Matos,  Brazilian vocalist, pianist and composer (b. 1971)
 June 9 – Bushwick Bill, Jamaican-American rapper (b. 1966)
 June 10
 Girish Karnad, Indian actor, screenwriter and playwright (b. 1938)
 Lee Hee-ho, South Korean peace activist, 15th First Lady of South Korea (b. 1922)
 June 12 – Sylvia Miles, American actress (b. 1924)
 June 13 – Edith González, Mexican actress (b. 1964)
 June 15 – Franco Zeffirelli, Italian film director (b. 1923)
June 16 – Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles, Hungarian gymnast (b. 1924)
 June 17
 Mohamed Morsi, 5th President of Egypt (b. 1951)
 Gloria Vanderbilt, American socialite (b. 1924)
 June 19 – Etika, American YouTuber (b. 1990)
 June 20 – Eddie Garcia, Filipino actor, director and television personality (b. 1929)
 June 21 – Demetris Christofias, 6th President of Cyprus (b. 1946)
 June 22 – Miguel Ángel Falasca, Argentine-born Spanish volleyball player and coach (b. 1973)
 June 23
 Dave Bartholomew, American musician, bandleader, composer, arranger and record producer (b. 1918)
 George Rosenkranz, Hungarian-Mexican chemist (b. 1916)
 June 24 – Billy Drago, American actor (b. 1945)
 June 25 – Isabel Sarli, Argentine actress and model (b. 1929)
 June 26
 Édith Scob, French film and theatre actress (b. 1937)
 Max Wright, American actor (b. 1943)
 June 29
 Jeon Mi-seon, South Korean actress (b. 1970)
 Guillermo Mordillo, Argentine cartoonist (b. 1932)
 June 30
June 30
 Momir Bulatović, 1st President of the Republic of Montenegro (b. 1956)
 Mitchell Feigenbaum, American mathematical physicist (b. 1944)
July 2 – Lee Iacocca, American automobile executive (b. 1924)
 July 3 – Arte Johnson, American comedian and actor (b. 1929)
 July 4
 Eduardo Fajardo, Spanish actor (b. 1924)
 Arturo Fernández Rodríguez, Spanish actor (b. 1929)
 Pierre Lhomme, French cinematographer (b. 1930)
 July 6 – João Gilberto, Brazilian bossa nova singer-songwriter (b. 1931)
 July 7 – Artur Brauner, German film director (b. 1918)
 July 9
 Ross Perot, American businessman and politician (b. 1930)
 Fernando de la Rúa, 43rd President of Argentina (b. 1937)
 Rip Torn, American actor (b. 1931)
 July 10 – Valentina Cortese, Italian actress (b. 1923)
 July 12
 Fernando J. Corbató, American computer scientist (b. 1926)
 Claudio Naranjo, Chilean psychiatrist (b. 1932)
 July 13 – Paolo Sardi, Italian cardinal (b. 1934)
 July 14
 Hussain Muhammad Ershad, President of Bangladesh (b. 1930)
 Pernell Whitaker, American boxer (b. 1964)
 July 16
 Johnny Clegg, South African musician and anthropologist (b. 1953)
John Paul Stevens, American judge and lawyer, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (b. 1920)
 July 17 – Andrea Camilleri, Italian writer (b. 1925)
 July 18
 David Hedison, American actor (b. 1927)
 Yukiya Amano, Japanese diplomat (b. 1947)
 July 19
 Rutger Hauer, Dutch actor (b. 1944)
 Ágnes Heller, Hungarian philosopher (b. 1929)
 César Pelli, Argentine architect (b. 1926)
 July 20
 Sheila Dikshit, Indian politician (b. 1938)
 Ilaria Occhini, Italian actress (b. 1934)
 July 21 – José Manuel Estepa Llaurens, Spanish cardinal (b. 1926)
 July 22
 Christopher C. Kraft Jr., American aerospace engineer (b. 1924)
 Li Peng, 4th Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1928)
 July 25 – Beji Caid Essebsi, 5th President and 18th Prime Minister of Tunisia (b. 1926)
 July 26
 Russi Taylor, American voice actress (b. 1944)
 Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, Cuban cardinal (b. 1936)
 July 27 – John Robert Schrieffer, American Nobel physicist (b. 1931)
 July 28 – George Hilton, Uruguayan actor (b. 1934)
July 29 – Egil Danielsen, Norwegian javelin thrower (b. 1933)
 July 31 – Harold Prince, American theatrical producer and director (b. 1928)
August 1
 Sadou Hayatou, 4th Prime Minister of Cameroon (b. 1942)
 D. A. Pennebaker, American documentary filmmaker (b. 1925)
 Harley Race, American professional wrestler, promoter, and trainer (b. 1943)
 August 3
 Nikolai Kardashev, Soviet and Russian astrophysicist (b. 1932)
 Thomas Remengesau Sr., 2nd President of Palau (b. 1929)
 Mike Troy, American swimmer (b. 1940)
 August 4 – Nuon Chea, Cambodian politician, Acting Prime Minister of Cambodia (b. 1926)
 August 5 – Toni Morrison, American Nobel writer (b. 1931)
 August 6
 Alejandro Serrano, Ecuadorian politician, 46th Vice President of Ecuador (b. 1933)
 Sushma Swaraj, Indian politician (b. 1952)
 August 7 – Kary Mullis, American Nobel biochemist (b. 1944)
 August 8
 Manfred Max-Neef, Chilean economist (b. 1932)
 Jean-Pierre Mocky, French film director, screenwriter, and producer (b. 1929)
 August 10 – Jeffrey Epstein, American financier and convicted sex offender (b. 1953)
 August 11
 Sergio Obeso Rivera, Mexican cardinal (b. 1931)
August 13 – Cecilia Caballero Blanco, Colombian socialite, 24th First Lady of Colombia (b. 1913)
 August 16
 Princess Christina of the Netherlands (b. 1947)
 Peter Fonda, American actor (b. 1940)
 Felice Gimondi, Italian racing cyclist (b. 1942)
 José Nápoles, Cuban-born Mexican boxer (b. 1940)
 Richard Williams, Canadian-British animator, voice actor, and writer (b. 1933)
 August 17 – Jacques Diouf, Senegalese diplomat (b. 1938)
 August 19 – Larry Taylor, American bass guitarist (b. 1942)
 August 21 – Dina bint Abdul-Hamid, Queen consort of Jordan (b. 1929)
 August 22
 Tim Fischer, 10th Deputy Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1946)
 August 23
 David Koch, American businessman, philanthropist and political activist (b. 1940)
 Egon Zimmermann, Austrian ski racer (b. 1939)
 August 24
 Arun Jaitley, Indian politician and attorney (b. 1952)
 Blanca Fernández Ochoa, Spanish alpine ski racer (b. 1963)
 August 25 – Ferdinand Piëch, Austrian business executive and engineer (b. 1937)
August 26 – Pal Benko, Hungarian-American chess grandmaster (b. 1928)
 August 27
 Jessi Combs, American professional racer, television personality, and metal fabricator (b. 1980)
 Dawda Jawara, 2nd Prime Minister of Gambia and 1st President of Gambia (b. 1924)
 August 28
 Michel Aumont, French actor (b. 1936)
 Sogyal Rinpoche, Tibetan Dzogchen lama and writer (b. 1947)
 August 29 – Achille Silvestrini, Italian cardinal (b. 1923)
 August 30
 Franco Columbu, Italian bodybuilder and actor (b. 1941)
 Valerie Harper, American actress (b. 1939)
 August 31
 Anthoine Hubert, French racing driver (b. 1996)
 Immanuel Wallerstein, American sociologist (b. 1930)
September 3
 Halvard Hanevold, Norwegian biathlete (b. 1969)
 Peter Lindbergh, German fashion photographer and film director (b. 1944)
 Carol Lynley, American actress (b. 1942)
 José de Jesús Pimiento Rodríguez, Colombian cardinal (b. 1919)
 September 4 – Roger Etchegaray, French cardinal (b. 1922)
 September 5 – Francisco Toledo, Mexican Zapotec painter, sculptor, and graphic artist (b. 1940)
 September 6 – Robert Mugabe, 1st Prime Minister and 2nd President of Zimbabwe (b. 1924)
 September 8 – Camilo Sesto, Spanish singer-songwriter, music producer and composer (b. 1946)
 September 9 – Robert Frank, Swiss photographer (b. 1924)
 September 11
 B. J. Habibie, 3rd President of Indonesia (b. 1936)
 Daniel Johnston, American singer-songwriter and visual artist (b. 1961)
 September 12 – ʻAkilisi Pōhiva, 15th Prime Minister of Tonga (b. 1941)
 September 13
 Bruno Grandi, Italian sports executive (b. 1934)
 György Konrád, Hungarian novelist and political dissident (b. 1933)
Eddie Money, American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (b. 1949)
 September 15
 Lol Mahamat Choua, 4th President of Chad (b. 1939)
 Chadlia Fahrat Essebsi, Tunisian consort, 5th First Lady of Tunisia (b. 1936)
 Ric Ocasek, American singer, songwriter, and record producer (b. 1944)
 September 16 – Luigi Colani, German industrial designer (b. 1928)
 September 17
 Jessica Jaymes, American pornographic actress (b. 1979)
 Imata Kabua, Marshallese politician, 2nd President of the Marshall Islands (b. 1943)
 September 18 – Fernando Ricksen, Dutch professional footballer (b. 1976)
 September 19
 Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, 14th Prime Minister and 2nd President of Tunisia (b. 1936)
 Bert Hellinger, German psychotherapist (b. 1925)
 Barron Hilton, American businessman, philanthropist and sportsman (b. 1927)
 September 20 – Su Beng, Taiwanese dissident, political activist and historian (b. 1918)
 September 21
 Sid Haig, American actor (b. 1939)
 Sigmund Jähn, German cosmonaut (b. 1937)
September 22 – Ivan Kizimov, Russian equestrian (b. 1928)
 September 23 – Robert Hunter, American lyricist, poet and musician (b. 1941)
 September 25 – Paul Badura-Skoda, Austrian pianist (b. 1927)
 September 26
 Jacques Chirac, 84th Prime Minister and 22nd President of France (b. 1932)
 William Levada, American cardinal (b. 1936)
 Gennadi Manakov, Soviet and Russian cosmonaut (b. 1950)
 September 28
 José José, Mexican singer and actor (b. 1948)
 Ismail Petra of Kelantan, Malaysian royal (b. 1949)
 Mark Zakharov, Soviet and Russian director and playwright (b. 1933)
 September 30 – Jessye Norman, American opera singer and recitalist (b. 1945)
October 1
 Karel Gott, Czech singer and painter (b. 1939)
 Miguel León-Portilla, Mexican anthropologist and historian (b. 1926)
 October 2
 Giya Kancheli, Soviet and Georgian composer (b. 1935)
 Isaac Promise, Nigerian footballer (b. 1987)
 October 3 – Diogo Freitas do Amaral, Acting Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1941)
 October 4 – Diahann Carroll, American actress and singer (b. 1935)
 October 6
 Ginger Baker, English drummer (b. 1939)
 Martin Lauer, German athlete (b. 1937)
 Rip Taylor, American actor and comedian (b. 1935)
 October 9 – Andrés Gimeno, Spanish tennis player (b. 1937)
 October 10 – Marie-José Nat, French actress (b. 1940)
 October 11
 Robert Forster, American actor (b. 1941)
 Alexei Leonov, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1934)
 October 12
 Sara Danius, Swedish writer and academic (b. 1962)
 Hevrin Khalaf, Syrian politician and activist (b. 1984)
 Yoshihisa Yoshikawa, Japanese sport shooter (b. 1936)
 October 13 – Charles Jencks, American architect, cultural theorist and philanthropist (b. 1939)
October 14 
 Harold Bloom, American literary critic and writer (b. 1930)
 Sulli, South Korean singer, songwriter, actress and model (b. 1994)
 October 15 – Tamara Buciuceanu, Romanian actress (b. 1929)
 October 16 – John Tate, American mathematician (b. 1925)
 October 17 
 Alicia Alonso, Cuban prima ballerina assoluta (b. 1920)
 Elijah Cummings, American politician and civil rights advocate (b. 1951)
 Bill Macy, American actor (b. 1922)
 Göran Malmqvist, Swedish linguist and literary historian (b. 1924)
 October 18 – Rui Jordão, Angolan-born Portuguese footballer (b. 1952)
 October 19 – Alexander Volkov, Russian tennis player (b. 1967)
 October 21 – Lho Shin-yong, 16th Prime Minister of South Korea (b. 1930)
 October 22 
 Sadako Ogata, Japanese academic, diplomat, author, administrator, and professor (b. 1927)
 Marieke Vervoort, Belgian wheelchair racer (b. 1979)
 October 26 
 Enriqueta Basilio, Mexican track and field athlete (b. 1948)
 Robert Evans, American film producer and studio executive (b. 1930)
October 27 
 Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of ISIL (b. 1971)
 Vladimir Bukovsky, Russian-born British human rights activist and political dissident (b. 1942)
 John Conyers, American politician and civil rights activist (b. 1929)
 October 28 – Kay Hagan, American lawyer, banking executive, and politician (b. 1953)
 October 29 – John Witherspoon, American actor and comedian (b. 1943)
November 2
 Norbert Eder, German footballer (b. 1955)
 Sigvard Ericsson, Swedish speed skater (b. 1930)
 Phillip E. Johnson, American lawyer and author (b. 1940)
 Marie Laforêt, French-Swiss singer and actress (b. 1939)
 November 4 – Jacques Dupont, French Olympic racing cyclist (b. 1928)
 November 5 – Omero Antonutti, Italian actor (b. 1935)
 November 6 – Jan Stráský, Czech politician, 20th Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia (b. 1940)
 November 7 
 Remo Bodei, Italian philosopher (b. 1938)
 Leo Klejn, Russian archaeologist, anthropologist and philologist (b. 1927)
 Margarita Salas, Spanish biochemist and academic (b. 1938)
 November 11 – Ralph T. O'Neal, 4th and 6th Premier of the Virgin Islands (b. 1933)
 November 12 – Mitsuhisa Taguchi, Japanese footballer (b. 1955)
 November 13 
 Kieran Modra, Australian swimmer and cyclist (b. 1972)
 Raymond Poulidor, French professional racing cyclist (b. 1936)
 November 14 – Branko Lustig, Croatian film producer (b. 1932)
November 15 – Harrison Dillard, American track and field athlete (b. 1923)
 November 16 – John Campbell Brown, Scottish astronomer (b. 1947)
 November 17 – Adnan Pachachi, Iraqi politician and diplomat, Acting Prime Minister (b. 1923)
 November 18 – Norodom Buppha Devi, Cambodian royal and prima ballerina (b. 1943)
 November 19 – D. M. Jayaratne, 14th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (b. 1931)
 November 20 – Mary L. Good, American chemist (b. 1931)
 November 21 
 Yaşar Büyükanıt, Turkish military officer (b. 1940)
 Jean Douchet, French film director, historian, and film critic (b. 1929)
 Michael J. Pollard, American actor (b. 1938)
 November 22 
 Eugène Camara, 7th Prime Minister of Guinea (b. 1942)
 Bowen Stassforth, American swimmer (b. 1926)
 November 23 – Asunción Balaguer, Spanish actress (b. 1925)
 November 24 – Goo Hara, South Korean singer and actress (b. 1991)
 November 26 
 Ken Kavanagh, Australian motorcycle racer (b. 1923)
 Köbi Kuhn, Swiss footballer and manager (b. 1943)
 November 27
November 27 
 Godfrey Gao, Taiwanese-Canadian model and actor (b. 1984)
 Jonathan Miller, English actor, director, author, humorist, and medical doctor (b. 1934)
 November 28 – Pim Verbeek, Dutch footballer and manager (b. 1956)
 November 29 – Yasuhiro Nakasone, 45th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1918)
 November 30 – Mariss Jansons, Latvian conductor (b. 1943)
December 1 – Shelley Morrison, American actress (b. 1936)
 December 2 
 D. C. Fontana, American television writer (b. 1939)
 Francesco Janich, Italian footballer (b. 1937)
 December 4
 Rosa Morena, Spanish flamenco-pop singer and actress (b. 1941)
 Bob Willis, English cricketer (b. 1949)
 December 5 – Robert Walker, American actor (b. 1940)
 December 6 
 Ron Leibman, American actor (b. 1937)
 Stoyanka Mutafova, Bulgarian actress (b. 1922)
 December 7 
 Reinhard Bonnke, German Pentecostal evangelist (b. 1940)
 Zaza Urushadze, Georgian film director, screenwriter and producer (b. 1965)
 December 8 
 René Auberjonois, American actor (b. 1940)
 Hirokazu Kanazawa, Japanese karate practitioner and teacher (b. 1931)
 Caroll Spinney, American puppeteer, cartoonist, author and speaker (b. 1933)
 Paul Volcker, American economist (b. 1927)
 Zvonimir Vujin, Serbian amateur boxer (b. 1943)
 Juice Wrld, American rapper, singer, and songwriter (b. 1998)
 December 9
December 9 
 Marie Fredriksson, Swedish singer and songwriter (b. 1958)
 Imre Varga, Hungarian sculptor (b. 1923)
 December 10
 Gershon Kingsley, German-American composer (b. 1922)
 Yury Luzhkov, Russian politician (b. 1936)
 December 11 – David Bellamy, English naturalist and author (b. 1933)
 December 12
 Danny Aiello, American actor (b. 1933)
 Peter Snell, New Zealand middle-distance runner (b. 1938)
 December 14 – Anna Karina, Danish-French film actress, director, writer, and singer (b. 1940)
 December 15 – Chuck Peddle, American engineer (b. 1937)
 December 17 – Karin Balzer, German athlete (b. 1938)
 December 18 – Claudine Auger, French actress (b. 1941)
 December 20 
 Roland Matthes, German swimmer (b. 1950)
 Marko Orlandić, 10th President of Montenegro (b. 1930)
 December 21 – Martin Peters, English footballer and manager (b. 1943)
 December 22 
 Tony Britton, English actor (b. 1924)
 Ram Dass, American spiritual teacher, psychologist and author (b. 1931)
Emanuel Ungaro, French fashion designer (b. 1933)
 December 23 – Mustafa Mujezinović, 7th Prime Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina (b. 1954)
 December 25 
 Ari Behn, Norwegian author (b. 1972)
 Peter Schreier, German operatic tenor and conductor (b. 1935)
 December 26 
 Jerry Herman, American composer (b. 1931)
 Sue Lyon, American actress (b. 1946)
 Galina Volchek, Soviet and Russian actress (b. 1933)
 December 27 – Don Imus, American radio personality, television show host, and author (b. 1940)
 December 29 
 Alasdair Gray, Scottish writer and artist (b. 1934)
 Neil Innes, English writer, comedian and musician (b. 1944)
 Manfred Stolpe, German politician (b. 1936)
 December 30 
 Prosper Grech, Maltese cardinal (b. 1925)
 Syd Mead, American concept artist (b. 1933)
 December 31 
 Serikbolsyn Abdildin, Kazakh politician and economist (b. 1937)
 Djimrangar Dadnadji, 16th Prime Minister of Chad (b. 1954)
In fiction

Computer and video games 
Games set in 2019:
 Out Run 2019 (1993)
 Blade Runner (1997)
 The House of the Dead III (2002)
 TimeSplitters 2 (2002) (the "Neotokyo" level)
 Metal Gear Acid 2 (2006)
 Crysis (2007)
 Crysis Warhead (2008)

Movies 
Movies set in 2019:
 Blade Runner (1982), in November
 The New Barbarians aka. Warriors of the Wasteland (1982)
 2019, After the Fall of New York (1983)
 Akira (1988)
 The Island (2005), on 19 July until 23 July
 Daybreakers (2010)
Television series 
Television series set in 2019:
 Dark Angel (2000–2002): The main events of the series begin.
 Futurama ("The Honking", 2000): An automotive research lab creates Project Satan from the most evil parts of the most evil cars of all-time. Project Satan's first victim was the great robot actor Calculon (back when he was a robot arm), which got infected with a computer virus that turned him into a murderous automobile similar to a werewolf.
 Dollhouse ("Epitaph One", 2009): The events of this episode take place in a post-apocalyptic version of 2019.

References
2021 (MMXXI)  was .

The global COVID-19 pandemic continued into the year, and multiple COVID-19 variants were discovered. 2021 also hosted most major events that were originally scheduled for 2020 that were postponed or cancelled due to the pandemic, including the Eurovision Song Contest, UEFA Euro 2020, and the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Events

January
January 1
 The African Continental Free Trade Area comes into effect.
 Cuba formally unifies its dual currency system after 27 years, with Cuban convertible peso (CUC) leaving and making the Cuban peso (CUP) the only national currency.
 Munster Technological University is opened in Cork, and Tralee, Ireland.
 January 4
 A British judge blocks the extradition of Julian Assange to the United States and Mexico offers him political asylum.
 Central African Republic President Faustin-Archange Touadéra is re-elected to a second term, winning 54% of the vote.
 The border between Qatar and Saudi Arabia reopens.
 January 6
 Protesters supporting outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump storm inside the United States Capitol while congress was certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election. The Democratic Party officially gains control of the United States Senate, now controlling both chambers of the United States Congress.