2018

Events in the year 2018 in the United States.
==Incumbents==
===Federal Government===
* President: Donald Trump (R-NY)
* Vice President: Mike Pence (R-IN)
* Chief Justice: John Roberts (NY)
* Speaker of the House of Representatives: Paul Ryan (R-WI)
* Senate Majority Leader: Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
* Congress: 115th
==Events==
===January===
* January 1
** The 2018 North American cold wave takes place, with record low temperatures in the Midwestern and Eastern United States. Times Square in New York City has a temperature of 9 degrees Fahrenheit, with −4 degrees Fahrenheit wind chill, in addition to Omaha having a temperature of −15 degrees Fahrenheit (−26 degrees Celsius) on December 30, 2017, lower than the previous record set in 1884.
** Retail sale of marijuana begins in California, the largest U.S. state to allow the sale of marijuana for recreational use.
* January 3 – President Donald Trump boasts on Twitter that his nuclear button is "much bigger" and "more powerful" than North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's.
* January 6 – The 2017–18 United States flu season causes dozens of deaths.
* January 8 – The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reports that 2017 was the costliest year on record for climate and weather-related disasters in the United States.
* January 9 – The 2018 Southern California landslides occur, killing at least 13 people, and injuring 25. The main damage occurs in Montecito, California, which was nearly burned by the Thomas Fire a month prior.
* January 10 – The city council of Washington, D.C., renames the street outside Russia's embassy after Boris Nemtsov, an opposition politician and critic of Vladimir Putin who was shot dead outside the Kremlin.
* January 11 – During a meeting with lawmakers about immigration, President Trump is reported to have asked, "Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?" His remarks are condemned as "racist" and "shocking" by a U.N. spokesman. (comp. Donald Trump racial views) The government of Botswana demands a clarification, and Ambassador Earl R. Miller is asked if the USDS regards Botswana as a "shithole" country. The event is termed by many media outlets "Shitholegate".
* January 12 – A Baltimore woman who was a patient at the University of Maryland Medical Center is taken outside and left by hospital employees in freezing temperatures wearing nothing but her hospital gown and socks. She is stranded until bystander Imanu Baraka calls 911.
* January 13 – The Hawaii Emergency Management Agency sends a false alarm warning of an incoming ballistic missile attack, causing widespread panic across the state.
* January 15 – Police in California arrest a couple, 57-year-old computer engineer at Northrop Grumman David Allen Turpin and his wife, 49-year-old Louise Anna Turpin, who allegedly held their 13 children captive, some chained to beds in the dark.
* January 16
** Democrat Patty Schachtner wins the special election for Wisconsin's 10th Senate District, the same district President Trump won by 17 points.
** A meteor is reported near Michigan that causes a magnitude 2.0 earthquake.
* January 18 – Scotland Yard reveals that U.S. actor Kevin Spacey is being investigated over a third accusation of sexual assault in the UK, from 2005.
* January 20 – Senate Democrats block a bill that would have kept the government running until mid-February and the government shutdown of January 2018 begins and Naomi Parker Fraley dies to do cancer.
* January 22
** Amazon opens the first Amazon Go store to the public, the first completely cashier-less grocery store, located in Seattle.
** Minnie Mouse receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in recognition of her 90th anniversary.
* January 23 – A tsunami alert is triggered after an 8.0-magnitude earthquake is recorded off the southern Alaskan coast.
* January 24
** Disgraced Olympic gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar receives a prison sentence of up to 175 years after testimony from nearly 160 of his victims.
** President Trump attends the World Economic Forum at Davos in Switzerland.
* January 30 – President Trump gives his first official State of the Union Address. 75 percent of State of the Union viewers approved of Trump's address.
===February===
* February 2 – President Trump approves the release of a controversial Republican memo accusing the FBI of abusing its powers during the inquiry into alleged Russian meddling of U.S. elections.
* February 4 – Super Bowl LII: The Philadelphia Eagles defeat the New England Patriots 41–33 at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
* February 5 – The Dow Jones share index closes down 4.6%, its biggest drop since the 2008 financial crisis.
* February 6 – SpaceX successfully launches its Falcon Heavy rocket from LC39A at John F. Kennedy Space Center.
* February 9 – The United States compete at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea and win 9 gold, 8 silver, and 6 bronze medals.
* February 14 – A mass shooting occurs at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, resulting in 17 fatalities. It is the deadliest high school shooting in the United States, surpassing the 1999 Columbine High School massacre.
* February 15 – Pearl Fernandez pleads guilty to the murder of her son Gabriel Fernandez, an eight-year-old tortured and killed in California. Her boyfriend Isauro Aguirre is also later convicted of murder in relation to the case.
* February 16
** Special Counsel Robert Mueller announces that 13 Russians have been charged with interfering in the 2016 Presidential election.
** Black Panther, directed by Ryan Coogler, is released by Marvel Studios as the 18th film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). It becomes the second-highest-grossing film of 2018 and the ninth highest-grossing film of all time at that point (now the thirteenth), earning $1.347 billion during its run.
* February 18 – In Stock Car racing, Austin Dillon wins the 60th running of the Daytona 500. Darrell Wallace Jr. finishes 2nd highest finish for an African-American in the Daytona 500.
* February 22 – Teachers and other education personnel in West Virginia go on the first ever statewide strike in state history.
* February 23
** President Trump announces a plan for the largest ever package of sanctions against North Korea, aimed at cutting off revenue for its nuclear program.
** President Trump's former deputy campaign manager, Rick Gates, admits charges of conspiracy and lying to investigators in a plea deal.
* February 24 – Paul Manafort is indicted with five federal criminal charges including money laundering and foreign lobbying violations.
* February 25 – In the wake of concerns about gun control, a number of major companies announce they are severing ties with the National Rifle Association (NRA) – including Alamo, Allied Van Lines, Avis Rent a Car, Budget Rent a Car, Delta, Enterprise, First National Bank of Omaha, Hertz, Met Life, National, SimpliSafe, Symantec, Teladoc, and United.
===March===
* March 1 – President Trump announces tariffs of 25% on steel and 10% on aluminium imports.
* March 2 – A huge windstorm strikes Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C., closing bridges and schools and causing thousands of power outages.
* March 4 – The 90th Academy Awards, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, are held at Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, with Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water winning four awards out of 13 nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director. Frances McDormand and Sam Rockwell respectively win Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Gary Oldman wins Best Actor for Darkest Hour and Allison Janney wins Best Supporting Actress for I, Tonya. The telecast garners 26.5 million viewers, at that point the least-watched televised ceremony in Oscar history.
* March 5 – Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine sues agricultural giant Monsanto, alleging the company concealed dangers posed by a toxic chemical compound it manufactured for nearly a half century.
* March 6 – Gary Cohn, a top economic adviser to President Trump, resigns his position.
* March 7
** Stormy Daniels, an adult film actress who alleges she had an affair with President Trump, files a lawsuit against him alleging that a nondisclosure contract she signed is invalid.
** Florida passes a law by 67–50 votes to raise the age to buy a gun from 18 to 21 after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting.
* March 9
** President Trump accepts an invite from Kim Jong-un through South Korean officials for a meeting by May.
** Former drug firm executive Martin Shkreli is sentenced to seven years in federal prison for defrauding investors.
* March 13 – Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is fired (effective March 31) by President Trump. CIA Director Mike Pompeo is nominated to replace him.
* March 14
** Democrat Conor Lamb wins the 2018 special Congressional election in Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district, previously considered a safe seat for Republicans.
** The Senate passes, by 67 to 31, a bill to reform the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, a set of post-financial crisis rules.
** President Trump appoints Larry Kudlow to be Director of the National Economic Council, succeeding Gary Cohn.
* March 15 – A pedestrian bridge collapses at Florida International University, resulting in 6 fatalities.
* March 16
** Former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe is dismissed for "lack of candor" days before he was due to retire with pension rights. McCabe denies the claims and insists he was targeted because of his involvement in the Russia inquiry.
** Facebook suspends Cambridge Analytica, a data firm accused of mishandling Facebook user profiles.
* March 19
** Uber suspends all of its self-driving cars worldwide after a woman is killed by one of the vehicles in Tempe, Arizona.
** British TV station, Channel 4, airs a documentary about Cambridge Analytica, the data analysis company that worked for Donald Trump's presidential campaign. Undercover reporters, talking to executives from the firm, discover the use of bribes, honey traps, fake news campaigns and operations with ex-spies to swing election campaigns around the world.
** California residents are ordered to evacuate ahead of a storm described as an "atmospheric river".
* March 20 – Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg receives a formal request from the British government to answer questions regarding Cambridge Analytica and the "catastrophic failure of process" behind the data breach.
* March 21 – It is reported that the Opioid epidemic may be worse than previously thought due to omissions on death certificates.
* March 22
** President Trump announces tariffs on up to $60bn in Chinese goods and plans to limit the country's investment in the US. The Dow Jones falls sharply in response.
** President Trump replaces his National Security Adviser H. R. McMaster with former United Nations ambassador John Bolton.
* March 24 - The anti-gun violence rally March For Our Lives, led by survivors of the Parkland shooting, are held in more than 900 cities nation and worldwide and included families, parents and children, students and teachers, politicians, war veterans, the developmentally disabled, celebrities and survivors of mass shootings that occurred at schools and other public places. Described as one of the most advocative marches since the Vietnam War, the rally's main goal was to push for new bigger and higher restriction on guns around the world while also honoring people who lost their lives to weapon violence.
* March 25 – Advocates warn that Congress needs to devote more money to address the growing opioid epidemic.
* March 26
** Six children are killed by their adoptive mothers, Jennifer and Sarah Hart, when their SUV intentionally drives over a California cliff in a mass murder-suicide. Both perpetrators were known to have abused their six children before the crash.
** President Trump orders the expulsion of 60 Russian diplomats following the ex-spy poisoning case in the UK.
* March 28 – At least 12 states are reported to be suing the Trump administration over inclusion of a citizenship question on the 2020 census.
* March 29
** Russia announces it will expel 60 U.S. diplomats and close the U.S. Consulate in St. Petersburg in retaliation for the U.S. expelling 60 Russian diplomats.
** President Trump nominates Ronny Jackson, current physician to the President, to replace Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin.
** Mark Zuckerberg disavows a 2016 memo on Facebook's expansion plans, saying in a statement that Andrew Bosworth "is a talented leader who says many provocative things. This was one that most people at Facebook including myself disagreed with strongly. We've never believed the ends justify the means."
===April===
* April 3 – Three people suffer gunshot wounds when a female shooter, Nasim Najafi Aghdam, attacks the YouTube headquarters in California, before killing herself.
* April 4
** China announces 25% tariffs on 106 US Products, including cars and soybeans.
** Thousands of people gather in Memphis, Tennessee, to mark the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
* April 6 – The Trump administration imposes sanctions on seven Russian oligarchs and 17 senior government officials, accusing them of "malign activity around the globe".
* April 9 – The FBI raids the home, office and hotel room of President Trump's long-time lawyer, Michael Cohen, pursuant to a federal search warrant.
* April 10 – Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is questioned in a joint session of several U.S. senate committees, after the revelation that 87 million people had their private information accessed by Cambridge Analytica.
* April 11 – House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan announces that he will not run for re-election in November.
* April 13 – President Trump orders targeted strikes in Syria to retaliate for a suspected chemical weapons attack.
* April 17 – Southwest Airlines Flight 1380, a Boeing 737-700 suffers an engine failure at cruise altitude, debris enters the fuselage causing substantial damage to the aircraft and loss of cabin pressure and diverts at Philadelphia International Airport. One passenger dies and seven are injured.
* April 18 – Coffee chain Starbucks is the subject of racism accusations when two black men are arrested at its Philadelphia store after asking to used a restroom reserved for paying customers.
* April 19 – Jim Bridenstine is confirmed as the next NASA administrator.
* April 20 – Smallville actress Allison Mack appears in court on charges of sex trafficking, sex trafficking conspiracy and forced labor conspiracy.
* April 22 – Four people are killed at a Waffle House restaurant in Nashville, Tennessee, when a naked gunman shoots them with a semi-automatic rifle before fleeing on foot. The gunman is captured the next day after a manhunt and James Shaw Jr. propelled to national fame as a hero after disarming the armed aggressor and saving others in the restaurant.
* April 23 – French President Emmanuel Macron arrives in the U.S. for a three-day visit, during which he meets President Trump and makes a speech to Congress.
* April 24 – Joseph James DeAngelo, a suspect in the Golden State Killer case, is apprehended after law enforcement matched his DNA to the serial rapist and murder.
* April 26
** TV star Bill Cosby is found guilty of three counts of aggravated indecent assault.
** CIA Director Mike Pompeo is confirmed as Secretary of State by the Senate.
** Veteran TV anchor Tom Brokaw is accused of sexual harassment by a former NBC News anchor.
* April 27 – Avengers: Infinity War, directed by the Russo brothers, is released by Marvel Studios as the 19th film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and the sequel to 2012's The Avengers and 2015's Avengers: Age of Ultron. It becomes the highest-grossing film of 2018 and the fourth-highest-grossing film of all time at that point (now the fifth), earning $2.048 billion as the fourth film to cross $2 billion. The film is also one of the most expensive of all time (unadjusted for inflation).
===May===
* May 1 – A study conducted by health services company Cigna reveals that American adults are experiencing a "loneliness epidemic" with nearly half of Americans reporting they sometimes or always feel alone (46 percent) or left out (47 percent).
* May 2
** The state of Iowa approves the so-called "heartbeat" bill, banning most abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected.
** A C-130 military plane crash in Savannah, Georgia kills nine people.
** Following a series of small earthquakes, the USGS warns that the Kīlauea volcano in Hawaii could erupt. Two days later it erupts, there are stronger earthquakes and Hawaii declares a state of emergency, evacuating 1,700 residents.
* May 4
** The national unemployment rate hits 3.9 percent, the lowest rate since 2000.
** The Trump administration announces an end to the special Temporary Protected Status program for 57,000 Hondurans.
* May 5
** NASA's InSight spacecraft, designed to study the interior and subsurface of Mars, successfully launches at 11:05 UTC, with an expected arrival on November 26, 2018.
** The state of California becomes the world's fifth-largest economy, with the state's GDP surpassing that of the United Kingdom's.
** In horse racing, pre-race favorite Justify wins the 144th running of the Kentucky Derby, becoming the first horse since 1882 to win the race while unraced as a two-year-old. The race was run under the wettest conditions in its history; by post time, more than 2.8 inches (7.1 cm) of rain had fallen on race day, breaking a record that had lasted since 1918.
* May 8
** The Senate Intelligence Committee releases an unclassified version of its investigation into Russian cyberattacks in 2016, concluding: "Russian-affiliated cyber actors were able to gain access to restricted elements of election infrastructure. [...] In a small number of states, these cyber actors were in a position to, at a minimum, alter or delete voter registration data; however, they did not appear to be in a position to manipulate individual votes or aggregate vote totals."
** New York's attorney general Eric Schneiderman resigns over multiple allegations of assault.
** President Trump announces his intention to withdraw the United States from the Iranian nuclear agreement. In a statement, former U.S. President Barack Obama calls the move "a serious mistake".
** The National Centers for Environmental Information reports that April 2018 was the coldest month in the U.S. since 1997.
* May 9 – The California Energy Commission introduces its 2019 Building Energy Efficiency Standards, requiring all new homes to be fitted with solar power from 2020. It is the first state in the US to enact such a law.
* May 10
** At around 2 a.m. local, President Trump ceremoniously greets three freed Korean-Americans, who were detained by North Korea for more than a year for "anti-state activities", on Joint Base Andrews in Maryland.
** NASA's Carbon Monitoring System (CMS) is cancelled by the Trump administration.
* May 11 – U.S. fighter jets intercept two Russian TU-95 bombers in Alaskan airspace.
* May 16 – President Trump meets with Shavkat Mirziyoyev.
* May 17 – The Kīlauea shield volcano on the Big Island of the state of Hawaii erupts from its summit, shooting ash 30,000 feet (9,100 m) into the sky.
* May 18 – A school shooting takes place at Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas. Eight students and two teachers are killed and thirteen other people are injured.
* May 20 – U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin states that the Trump administration will put its proposed tariffs on Chinese imports "on hold", averting fears of a trade war between the two countries.
* May 21 – The Supreme Court, in a 5–4 ruling, upholds a law preventing employees from filing class action lawsuits against their employers over pay and hour disputes.
* May 23 – It is reported that Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, received a secret payment of at least $400,000 to fix talks between the Ukrainian president and President Trump.
* May 24 – Actor Morgan Freeman is accused of sexual harassment by eight women.
* May 25
** Harvey Weinstein is charged with rape and several other counts of sexual abuse involving two separate women after turning himself in to police in New York City.
** A school shooting occurs at Noblesville West Middle School shooting in Noblesville, Indiana. A thirteen-year-old boy opens fire and injures a male teacher and a female student, who amazingly survive. The teacher, Jason Seaman, is praised for saving many others after tackling the armed aggressor and the girl, Ella Whistler, amazingly survives after being shot five times.
* May 28 – The Center for the Study of the Drone at New York's Bard College estimates that just over 900 law enforcement agencies, fire departments, and emergency services across the country are now using drones, no longer seen as a novelty by officials.
* May 29
** ABC TV cancels comedian Roseanne Barr's show after she tweets a racist comment, likening Valerie Jarrett to an ape.
** Missouri Governor Eric Greitens announces his resignation (effective June 1) amid a sex scandal.
** Starbucks temporarily closes its stores for one day to undergo racial sensitivity training following an incident in April in which two black men were arrested in its Philadelphia store.
* May 30
** By a majority of 23–12, the California State Senate votes to approve a bill that would reinstate the net neutrality regulations repealed by the Federal Communications Commission in December.
** The FDA approves the first artificial iris.
* May 31 – The Trump administration announces that it will extend its tariffs on imported steel (25%) and aluminum (10%) to include the EU, Mexico and Canada, starting at midnight.
===June===
* June 4 – In a 7–2 decision (Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission), the Supreme Court rules in favor of a Colorado baker who, citing the First Amendment's protection of religion, refused to create a customized wedding cake for a homosexual couple.
* June 6 – Thousands of people gather at Arlington National Cemetery to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. Key speakers included Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Congressmen John Lewis and Fred Upton, President Bill Clinton, Senator Ed Markey, nonprofit leader B.J. Stiles, gun control advocate X González, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, labor leader Dolores Huerta, a rendition of "This Land Is Your Land" by Kenny Chesney and finally, members of The Kennedy Family Tree: Congressman Joe Kennedy III and daughter Kathleen Kennedy Townsend.
* June 7 – The Washington Capitals defeat the Vegas Golden Knights in game five of the 2018 Stanley Cup Finals to give the Capitals their first Stanley Cup in franchise history and the first championship for the city of D.C. since the Redskins won Super Bowl XXVI. Capitals left-winger Alex Ovechkin is the series MVP.
* June 8
** The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory unveils Summit as the world's most powerful supercomputer, with a peak performance of 200,000 trillion calculations per second, or 200 petaflops.
** Celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain and fashion designer Kate Spade both die of suicide, leading to growing concerns of alarming public health that can lead to people living with breakdowns and mental health before asking others if can have any intention on taking their own lives.
** The Golden State Warriors defeat the Cleveland Cavaliers, four games to none, to win the NBA Championship.
** At the G7 summit in Canada, President Trump pushes for the reinstatement of the G8 (to include Russia). He also proposes the elimination of tariffs.
* June 11 – In a historic first, President Trump meets with Supreme Leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un, in Singapore.
* June 14 – The Sand Blaster roller coaster on the Daytona Beach boardwalk derails. Six people are taken to hospital, with two suffering traumatic injuries.
* June 15
** A judge cancels Paul Manafort's bail and orders that he be jailed for alleged witness tampering.
** Pixar Animation Studios' 20th feature film, Incredibles 2, the sequel to 2004's The Incredibles, is released in theaters. It is currently Pixar's biggest financial success, grossing over $1.242 billion worldwide.
* June 17 – A shooting at an all-night arts festival in Trenton, New Jersey, leaves one person dead and seventeen people injured.
* June 18
** 70 former U.S. Attorneys deliver a letter to Jeff Sessions, urging that he end his "dangerous, expensive, zero tolerance" migrant policy, which separates children at the border, calling it "inconsistent with the values of the institution in which we served."
** Rapper XXXTentaction is shot and killed in Deerfield Beach, FL on the same day fellow rapper Jimmy Wopo is also shot and killed in his hometown of Pittsburgh.
** Big City Greens debuts on Disney Channel.
* June 19
** The United States announces that it will withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council.
** Koko, a western Lowland gorilla largely known for having learned to communicate in American Sign Language, dies in her sleep in California.
** Antwon Rose Jr. a 17-year-old African-American man is shot and killed by white Pittsburgh police officer Michael Rosfeld.
* June 22 – Jahi McMath who was declared brain-dead following a tonsillectomy in 2013 dies in Oakland, California.
* June 25
** Motorcycle manufacturer Harley-Davidson announces that it will shift some production outside the U.S. as a result of retaliatory tariffs introduced by the European Union.
** Epidiolex, for the treatment of epilepsy, becomes the first drug derived from marijuana to win federal approval.
* June 26 – The Supreme Court upholds President Trump's travel ban in a 5–4 decision.
* June 27
** In a landmark 5–4 decision that overturns Abood v. Detroit Board of Education (1977), the Supreme Court rules in Janus v. AFSCME that it is a violation of the First Amendment for public-sector unions to compel non-members to pay fair-share representation fees.
** Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy announces that he will retire from the United States Supreme Court on July 31, prompting Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to vow that Kennedy's successor will be confirmed by the fall.
* June 28
** The 2018 North American heat wave begins.
** 575 women protesting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement are arrested during a demonstration outside the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C.
** Five people are killed in a mass shooting in the newsroom of The Capital newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland.
** Mass arrests of Occupy ICE demonstrators are made by Homeland Security agents at an ICE facility in Portland Oregon.
* June 30 – Hundreds of thousands of people demonstrate across all 50 U.S. states against family separations carried out by the United States.
===July===
* July 5 – Scott Pruitt resigns as the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, effective July 6. He is replaced by Andrew Wheeler.
* July 6
** U.S. tariffs on $34 billion of Chinese goods come into effect, as President Trump suggests the final total could reach $550bn. China accuses the U.S. of starting the "largest trade war in economic history" and announces immediate retaliatory tariffs.
** Ant-Man and the Wasp, directed by Peyton Reed, is released by Marvel Studios as the 20th film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and the sequel to 2015's Ant-Man.
* July 9 – President Trump nominates Brett Kavanaugh, a circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, to become an Associate Justice for the Supreme Court of the United States.
* July 11 – President Trump attends the NATO Summit in Brussels.
* July 12 – President Trump arrives in the UK. The four-day visit includes talks with Theresa May, tea with the Queen and a trip to Scotland. There are mass protests in London, featuring a 'Trump baby' blimp flown over Westminster.
* July 13 – Special counsel Mueller charges 12 Russian intelligence officers with hacking during the 2016 election.
* July 16 – President Trump meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin for private talks in the Finnish capital Helsinki. In a press conference afterwards, Trump praises Russia and Putin, drawing sharp criticism from both Republicans and Democrats alike. Senator John McCain describes it as "one of the most disgraceful performances by an American president in memory."
* July 18 – In an interview with CBS News, President Trump says he holds Putin personally responsible for interference in the 2016 U.S. election; a sharp contrast to his earlier comments in Helsinki.
* July 19
** The Trump administration proposes limiting habitat protections for endangered species.
** 17 people die after an amphibious "duck boat" capsizes while carrying 31 tourists on Table Rock Lake, Missouri.
** President Trump invites Vladimir Putin to visit America.
* July 20 – The New York Times reports that President Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen secretly recorded his client discussing payments to Karen McDougal, a former Playboy model who says she had an affair with Trump.
* July 26
** Tesfaye Cooper is convicted of hate crime and aggravated kidnapping charges in Illinois and sentenced to seven years in prison for his role in the 2017 Chicago torture incident. He is the fourth and final member of an African-American group to be convicted in relation to the kidnapping of a mentally disabled white man in Chicago who livestreamed their torture of him on Facebook, shouting "F*** Trump" and "F*** white people" while doing so.
** The share price of Facebook drops by almost 20 percent after the company warns investors that user growth has slowed following the Cambridge Analytica data leak scandal. More than $109bn is wiped from its market value, the biggest stock market loss in corporate history, which includes a $14.5bn personal loss for founder Mark Zuckerberg.
** Michael Avenatti, the attorney for porn star Stormy Daniels, claims he is representing three other women who were allegedly paid by Donald Trump, AMI and Michael Cohen to keep quiet.
* July 28 – John Delaney announces his candidacy for U.S. president in 2020.
* July 29 – Wildfires in northern California continue to rage across vast swathes of land, destroying hundreds of structures and causing several deaths.
===August===
* August 1 – President Trump calls for the Russia investigation to end "right now", urging Attorney General Jeff Sessions to halt the inquiry into alleged election meddling, while accusing special counsel Robert Mueller of being "totally conflicted".
* August 2
** The U.S. Department of Commerce proceeds with applying revised tariffs on Canadian newsprint.
** Apple, Inc. becomes the first public company to achieve a market capitalization of $1 trillion, as its share price exceeds a new record high above $207.
* August 5 – President Trump admits that his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., attended a meeting at Trump Tower during the 2016 election campaign "to get information on an opponent," but insists it was "totally legal and done all the time in politics – and it went nowhere. I did not know about it!"
* August 6 – The ongoing wildfires in California are officially declared as the largest in the state's history.
* August 7
** The U.S. reimposes sanctions on Iran.
** Harvard University has four Black women faculty deans for the first time in history: Michelle Ann Williams (School of Public Health), Tomiko Brown-Nagin (Radcliffe Institute for Advance Study), Bridget Terry Long (Graduate School of Education), and Claudine Gay (Faculty of Arts and Sciences).
* August 8 – Missouri voters vote against the right-to-work law by 67% to 33%.
* August 10
** In a landmark case, Monsanto is ordered to pay $289m to 46-year-old Dewayne Johnson, after a jury rules that the company's Roundup weedkiller caused his terminal cancer and that the corporation failed to warn him of the health hazards.
** A Horizon Air Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 is stolen from Seattle–Tacoma International Airport with no passengers on board, prompting F15 fighter jets to scramble and intercept. After being contacted by Seattle/Tacoma air traffic control, the plane crashes near Ketron Island in Pierce County, Washington, killing the 29-year-old male pilot.
** The Democratic National Committee reverses its ban on accepting donations from the fossil fuel industry.
* August 12
** NASA launches the Parker Solar Probe to study the Sun at close range and the solar wind.
** The Unite the Right 2 rally is held at Lafayette Square near the White House in Washington, D.C.. Organized by Jason Kessler to mark the anniversary of the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, which ended in violence, the rally attracts some 20 to 30 of Kessler's supporters and thousands of counter-demonstrators amid a heavy police presence.
* August 14 – Nebraska executes Carey Dean Moore, who was convicted of murder, in the state's first execution for 21 years and the first by lethal injection.
* August 15 – Former CIA Director John O. Brennan, an outspoken critic of Trump, has his security clearance revoked by the President. The move is criticized as political retribution for Brennan's comments.
* August 16 – "The Queen of Soul" Aretha Franklin dies from pancreatic cancer at age 76 in her Detroit home.
* August 19 – The Last Sharknado: It's About Time airs for the first time on Syfy.
* August 21
** Police in Iowa announce they have found a body in Poweshiek County during their investigation into the Disappearance of Mollie Tibbetts. They were led to the site by suspect Cristhian Bahena Rivera, an undocumented immigrant.
** Michael Cohen, who worked as a lawyer for Donald Trump from 2006 until May 2018, pleads guilty to eight charges: five counts of tax evasion, one count of making false statements to a financial institution, one count of willfully causing an unlawful corporate contribution, and one count of making an excessive campaign contribution at the request of a candidate or campaign.
** Paul Manafort, the former election campaign chairman for Trump, is convicted on eight out of eighteen charges of tax and bank fraud.
* August 22 – Mark Chapman, the man who shot and killed former Beatle John Lennon in 1980, is denied parole for the tenth time.
* August 23 – Intelligence specialist Reality Winner is sentenced to five years and three months in prison as part of a plea deal after pleading guilty to felony transmission of national defense information.
* August 25 – Arizona Senator John McCain dies at his home in Cornville, Arizona from glioblastoma, a rare aggressive form of brain cancer he had been battling for the past thirteen months at the time, four days before his 82nd birthday.
* August 26 – A mass shooting occurs during a Madden NFL 19 tournament at the Jacksonville Landing in Jacksonville, Florida, resulting in three fatalities including the perpetrator.
* August 28
** California approves S.B. 100, a proposal to transition the state to 100% emissions-free electricity sources by 2045.
** Shayna Hubers is convicted of the 2012 murder of her boyfriend Ryan Poston for a second time. Her previous conviction in relation to his fatal shooting had previously been overturned due to a member of the jury being ineligible.
===September===
* September 5
** In an editorial in The New York Times, an unnamed senior Trump official writes that members of the administration are working to frustrate parts of the President's agenda to protect the country from his "worst inclinations". Trump responds by calling the anonymous writer "gutless" and the newspaper "phony".
** Hurricane Florence becomes the first major hurricane of the 2018 Atlantic hurricane season.
* September 8 – The Cortlandt Street subway station reopens in Lower Manhattan, 17 years after it was destroyed by the 9/11 attacks.
* September 13 - Overpressured natural gas lines in the Merrimack Valley in Massachusetts cause a massive outbreak of explosions and fires in nearly 40 homes, killing one and injuring dozens.
* September 14 – Hurricane Florence makes landfall in North Carolina, with evacuation warnings in place for more than a million people.
* September 15 – NASA launches ICESat-2, the agency's most technologically advanced ice-monitoring spacecraft to date.
* September 16
** Christine Blasey Ford alleges that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her in the early 1980s.
** For only the fourth time in its 72-year history Chick-fil-A opens breaks its longstanding tradition and opens its doors on a Sunday to provide food for the victims of Hurricane Florence that struck North Carolina. The restaurant chain is typically closed on Sundays because of the owner's religious beliefs but makes a rare exception in an emergency situation
* September 22 – Christine Blasey Ford agrees to testify against Brett Kavanaugh the following week.
* September 23 – A second woman comes forward with sexual misconduct claims against Brett Kavanaugh.
* September 25 – TV star Bill Cosby, 81, is given a three to 10-year jail term for drugging and molesting a woman in 2004. Judge Steven O'Neill designates Cosby a "sexually violent predator", meaning he must undergo counselling for life and be listed on the sex offender registry.
* September 26 – A third woman accuses Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct.
* September 27
** Christine Blasey Ford appears before a Senate Judiciary Committee to give evidence against Brett Kavanaugh.
** The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) files a suit in New York alleging securities fraud by Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
===October===
* October 2 – The Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi is murdered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, triggering a diplomatic crisis between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia.
* October 5 – A Star Is Born is theatrically released by Warner Bros. A remake of the 1934, 1957 and 1976 versions, it was a critical and commercial success, grossing over $436 million worldwide and receiving praise for the performances Bradley Cooper (who also directed), Lady Gaga and Sam Elliott as well as the screenplay, cinematography and music.
* October 6
** The Senate confirms Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination by a vote of 50–48, amid controversy over sexual assault claims against him.
** Twenty people are killed in a crash involving a limousine transporting birthday party guests in Schoharie County, New York. It is the deadliest transport crash in the U.S. since Colgan Air Flight 3407, also in New York state, which claimed 50 lives in 2009.
* October 9 – America's ambassador to the U.N., Nikki Haley, a senior Trump cabinet member, resigns unexpectedly.
* October 10 – Hurricane Michael approaches the Florida Panhandle, attaining peak wind speeds of 155 mph (250 km/h) and becoming the strongest hurricane to ever make landfall in that region.
* October 17 – After 50 years of performing the characters Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch, longtime Sesame Street puppeteer Caroll Spinney announces his retirement in 2015. Spinney's role was limited to voice only due to health problems.
* October 20 – President Trump announces that the U.S. will "terminate" the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty over alleged Russian violations.
* October 24 – After a bomb was found at the home of George Soros in the suburbs of New York, suspected explosive devices are also sent to former U.S. President Barack Obama and ex-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The latter devices are intercepted by technicians who screen mail sent to former US officials. The Time Warner building in New York (home to news broadcaster CNN) is also evacuated, after a package containing an explosive and suspicious powder is found addressed to former CIA Director John Brennan. Additional suspicious packages, addressed to Democratic Representative Maxine Waters and former Attorney General Eric Holder, are investigated by law enforcement.
* October 25 – A suspicious package is found in Tribeca, New York City, addressed to actor Robert De Niro. Authorities also find two packages in Delaware, addressed to former Vice President Joe Biden.
* October 26
** Two more suspicious packages are found, addressed to New Jersey senator Cory Booker and the former director of national intelligence, James Clapper.
** The perpetrator, Cesar Sayoc Jr., is captured in Plantation, Florida, in connection with the mail bombing attempts. He is questioned by FBI agents with the Joint Terrorism Task Force.
* October 27
** A mass shooting occurs at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, leaving 11 congregants dead. A 46-year-old male suspect is arrested and charged on making anti-semitic chants.
** The Cathedral of Learning which normally lights up following Pitt's football victories is darkened on this day out of respect to the 11 victims killed in this morning's shooting at Tree of Life Synagogue.
* October 28 – The Boston Red Sox defeat the Los Angeles Dodgers, four games to one, to win their ninth World Series Championship.
* October 29 – 800 U.S. soldiers are deployed to the Mexico–United States border as a part of Operation Faithful Patriot, reinforcing the border against incoming Central American migrant caravans.
* October 30
** NASA announces that its Kepler space telescope mission has ended, with the telescope having run out of fuel two weeks before, after nine-and-a-half years in space. The telescope discovered 2,681 exoplanets, with a further 2,900 candidates at the time of its retirement. The spacecraft also discovered that there are more planets than stars in our galaxy.
** The Supreme Court of Hawaii approves the resumption of construction on Mauna Kea of one of the world's biggest telescopes, the Thirty Meter Telescope, costing $1.4 billion. Some native Hawaiians, regarding the mountain as sacred, opposed the construction since 2015.
** Memorial services are held for the victims of the Tree of Life synagogue shooting that had occurred three days earlier among the attendees are members of the Pittsburgh Steelers who attend the service of Cecil and David Rosenthal sister of former community relations manager Michele Rosenthal. Steelers coach Mike Tomlin moves his press conference from noon to 1:00 so he can attend the service.
===November===
* November 2 – Bohemian Rhapsody, a biographical film about Queen singer Freddie Mercury, is released in theaters nationwide. The film documents the true life and career of Mercury during the height of his career with Queen, including the band's memorable performance 1985 performance at Live Aid. The film received mixed reviews from critics and while the editing, singer's direction, the portrayal of Mercury's sexuality and the lives of the other band members were criticized, Rami Malek's performance and the music sequences received praise. It also contained a number of historical inaccuracies, becoming a major box office success, grossing over $905 million worldwide on a production budget of about $50 million, becoming the sixth-highest-grossing film of 2018 worldwide and setting the all-time box office records for the biopic and drama genres.
* November 6
** Mid-term elections: The Democrats gain 40 seats to take control of the House of Representatives, but lose two seats in the Senate.
** Gubernatorial elections: The Democrats gain seven new seats.
** Michigan becomes the tenth state to legalize recreational marijuana.
* November 7
** Attorney General Jeff Sessions tenders his resignation at President Trump's request.
** 12 people and the perpetrator are killed in a shooting at the Borderline Bar and Grill, in Thousand Oaks, California, about 40 miles (65 km) north-west of Los Angeles.
* November 8
** The White House shares apparently doctored footage posted by InfoWars, a conspiracy theory website, showing Jim Acosta making contact with a Trump aide, in a bid to justify its suspension of the CNN reporter's press pass.
** Federal judge Brian Morris of the U.S. Court in Montana rules that the Keystone Pipeline cannot be built until a new Environmental impact assessment is completed. Four months later, on March 30, 2019, President Donald Trump issued a new permit.
** Major wildfires in California, including the Woolsey in southern California and Camp to the north, leave 91 dead and at least 1,000 missing, with more than 250,000 residents forced to flee. President Trump suggests that wildfires could be stopped by spending "a lot of time on raking and cleaning".
* November 23 – Volume II of the Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4) is released.
* November 26 – SpongeBob SquarePants creator Stephen Hillenburg dies at the age of 57 from ALS.
* November 29 – President Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen pleads guilty to lying to Congress in relation to the Russia inquiry.
* November 30
** Former 41st President George H. W. Bush dies from Parkinson's disease at the age of 94 at his home in Houston, Texas. His passing was announced the next morning and at the time, he was both the nation's oldest and longest living president. (Jimmy Carter (who was born four months after Bush) held the record for being America's oldest living POTUS in March 2019.)
** Anchorage is hit by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake.
===December===
* December 11 – The Balangiga bells, which had been taken by the United States Army from Balangiga, Eastern Samar in 1901 as war trophies during the Philippine–American War, are returned to the Philippines after 117 years of U.S. possession.
* December 12 – Michael Cohen, the ex-Trump lawyer who once said he'd "take a bullet" for the president, is given a 36-month jail term.
* December 13 – In a rare rebuke to the White House, the Senate votes 56–41 to end U.S. military assistance to Saudi Arabia's intervention in Yemen over alleged war crimes. It passes a separate resolution that holds Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman personally responsible for the death of Saudi dissident Jamal Kashoggi.
* December 14
** U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor rules that a key part of the Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional.
** Denise Williams is found guilty of the murder of her husband Jerry Michael Williams, who disappeared in December 2000 and was assumed to have accidentally drowned at Lake Seminole, Florida.
* December 18 – The Donald J. Trump Foundation is shut down, amid allegations that President Trump and others illegally misused its funds.
* December 20 – Defense Secretary Jim Mattis resigns, effective February 28, 2019, after failing to persuade Trump to reconsider his decision of the previous day to withdraw the remaining American troops from Syria.
* December 21
** The Dow Jones closes at 22,445.37 after its worst week since 2008.
** Aquaman, directed by James Wan, is released as the sixth film in the DC Extended Universe, becoming currently the franchise's biggest financial success.
* December 22
** A partial shutdown of the government begins after Congress fails to agree a budget.
** U.S. envoy Brett McGurk resigns over Trump's decision to pull troops from Syria.
* December 24 – Actor Kevin Spacey is charged with sexually assaulting a teenager at a bar in Massachusetts in July 2016 and ordered to appear in court on January 7.
* December 31 – Senator Elizabeth Warren announces her intention to run for president in the 2020 election.
==Memoriam==
===January===
* January 1
** Robert Mann, violinist and composer (aged 97; Manhattan, NY, USA)
** Milton P. Rice, politician (aged 97; Nashville, TN, USA)
** Jon Paul Steuer, actor and singer (aged 33; Portland, OR, USA)
** Betty Willis, soul singer (aged 76; Santa Ana, CA, USA)
* January 2
** Frank Buxton, actor, writer, author, and director (aged 87; Bainbridge Island, WA, USA)
** Mountain Fiji, professional wrestler (aged 60; Orange, CA, USA)
** Rick Hall, record producer, songwriter, and music publisher (aged 85; Muscle Shoals, AL, USA)
** Thomas S. Monson, religious leader and writer (aged 90; Salt Lake City, UT, USA)
** Betty Woodman, ceramic artist and sculptor (aged 87; New York City, NY, USA)
* January 3
** Fred Bass, bookseller (Strand Bookstore) (aged 89; Manhattan, NY, USA)
** Heriberto Hermes, Roman Catholic prelate (aged 84; Palmas, Brazil)
** Rob Picciolo, baseball player and coach (aged 64; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Alan Sagner, public servant and political fundraiser (aged 97; Palm Beach Gardens, FL, USA)
* January 4
** Dick Bestwick, football coach (aged 87; Athens, GA, USA)
** Brendan Byrne, politician (aged 93; Livingston, NJ, USA)
** Gerard Conley Sr., politician (aged 88; Portland, ME, USA)
** Carmen Cozza, baseball and football player, and coach (aged 87; New Haven, CT, USA)
** Bruce Halle, auto parts executive and philanthropist, founder of Discount Tire (aged 87; Paradise Valley, AZ, USA)
** Jack N. Merritt, army general (aged 87; Fort Belvoir, VA, USA)
* January 5
** Thomas Bopp, astronomer (aged 68; Phoenix, AZ, USA)
** Robert Q. Crane, politician (aged 91; Wellesley, MA, USA)
** Carole Hart, television writer (aged 74; Manhattan, NY, USA)
** Norman Lamb, politician (aged 82; Enid, OK, USA)
** Jerry Van Dyke, actor (aged 86; Malvern, AR, USA)
** John Young, astronaut (aged 87; Houston, TX, USA)
* January 6
** Horace Ashenfelter, Olympic athlete (aged 94; West Orange, NJ, USA)
** Rita Crocker Clements, political organizer (aged 86; Dallas, TX, USA)
** Marjorie Holt, politician (aged 97; Severna Park, MD, USA)
** Bob Jenson, politician (aged 86; Pendleton, OR, USA)
** William R. Ojala, politician (aged 92; Cleveland, OH, USA)
** Jimmy Robinson, recording engineer (aged 67; New York City, NY, USA)
** Dave Toschi, police detective (Zodiac Killer) (aged 86; San Francisco, CA, USA)
** Frank Varrichione, football player (aged 85; Framingham, MA, USA)
* January 7
** Will Gay Bottje, composer (aged 92; Grand Rapids, MI, USA)
** Joe Ellis Brown, politician (aged 84; Columbia, SC, USA)
** Tom Dowling, football coach (aged 77; Georgetown, KY, USA)
** Anna Mae Hays, military officer and nurse (aged 97; Washington, DC, USA)
** Tom Netherton, singer (aged 70; Nashville, TN, USA)
** Dick Young, baseball player (aged 89; Seattle, WA, USA)
** Doug Young, voice actor (aged 98; Seattle, WA, USA)
* January 8
** Bruce Cole, humanist (aged 79; Cancún, Mexico)
** Geoffrey G. Eichholz, German-born educational leader in health physics (aged 97; Atlanta, GA, USA)
** Frank Kreith, Austrian-born mechanical engineer (aged 95; Boulder, CO, USA)
** Denise LaSalle, singer, songwriter, and record producer (aged 83; Jackson, TN, USA)
** George Lindbeck, Lutheran theologian (aged 94; FL, USA)
** Kynaston McShine, curator (aged 82; Manhattan, NY, USA)
** James N. Morgan, economist (aged 99; Ann Arbor, MI, USA)
** Chuck Murphy, prelate (aged 70; Pawleys Island, SC, USA)
** Myron Rush, Kremlinologist (aged 96; Herndon, VA, USA)
** Charles H. Turner, attorney (aged 81; Kirkland, WA, USA)
* January 9
** Terence Marsh, British production designer (aged 86; Pacific Palisades, CA, USA)
** Joseph Wayne Miller, actor (aged 36; Chicago, IL, USA)
** Milton J. Rosenberg, psychology professor and radio host (aged 92; Chicago, IL, USA)
* January 10
** Charles Davis, Olympic sports shooter (aged 90; Birmingham, AL, USA)
** John Sherrill Houser, artist (aged 83; Tucson, AZ, USA)
** William B. Keene, judge (aged 92; Manhattan Beach, CA, USA)
** Katherine Kellgren, narrator and actress (aged 49; New York City, NY, USA)
** Tom Luken, politician (aged 92; Cincinnati, OH, USA)
** Doreen Tracey, British-born performer (aged 74; Thousand Oaks, CA, USA)
* January 11
** Doug Barnard Jr., politician (aged 95; Augusta, GA, USA)
** Gene Cole, athlete (aged 89; Lancaster, OH, USA)
** Stephane Gauger, Vietnamese-born film director and screenwriter (aged 48; Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)
** Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr., lawyer (aged 88; Wallingford, PA, USA)
** John W. Hennessey Jr., academic (aged 92; Shelburne, VT, USA)
** Edgar Ray Killen, Ku Klux Klan leader and convicted murderer (aged 92; Sunflower County, MS, USA)
* January 12
** Lisa Chedekel, journalist (aged 57; Andover, MA, USA)
** Frankie Muse Freeman, civil rights attorney (aged 101; St. Louis, MO, USA)
** Robert W. Hamilton, legal scholar (aged 86; Austin, TX, USA)
** Keith Jackson, sports commentator, journalist, author, and radio personality (aged 89; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** John V. Tunney, politician (aged 83; Santa Monica, CA, USA)
* January 13
** Jean Porter, actress (aged 95; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Naomi Stevens, actress (aged 92; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* January 14
** Barbara Cope, rock 'n' roll groupie (aged 67; Dallas, TX, USA)
** Paul Lustig Dunkel, flutist and conductor (aged 74; Manhattan, NY, USA)
** Dan Gurney, racing driver (aged 86; Newport Beach, CA, USA)
** Bill Hughes, jazz trombonist (aged 87; Dallas, TX, USA)
** Mario Martinez, weightlifter (aged 60; Dublin, CA, USA)
** Samuel A. Schreiner Jr., writer (aged 96; Darien, CT, USA)
** Milton Shadur, federal judge (aged 93; Glenview, IL, USA)
** Marlene VerPlanck, jazz singer (aged 84; New York City, NY, USA)
** Hugh Wilson, film director and television producer (aged 74; Charlottesville, VA, USA)
* January 15
** Romana Acosta Bañuelos, public servant (aged 92; Redondo Beach, CA, USA)
** Bob Barton, baseball player (aged 76; Vista, CA, USA)
** Anshel Brusilow, violinist and conductor (aged 89; Dallas, TX, USA)
** Edwin Hawkins, musician (aged 74; Pleasanton, CA, USA)
** Dick King, politician (aged 83; Port Angeles, WA, USA)
** Mathilde Krim, Italian-born HIV/AIDS researcher (aged 91; Kings Point, NY, USA)
** William Scharf, artist (aged 90; New York City, NY, USA)
** Mike Shanahan, professional sports team owner (St. Louis Blues) (aged 78; St. Louis, MO, USA)
** Wilse B. Webb, psychologist and sleep researcher (aged 97; Gainesville, FL, USA)
* January 16
** Bill Bain, management consultant (aged 80; Naples, FL, USA)
** George Bandy, politician (aged 72; Macon, GA, USA)
** Bradford Dillman, actor (aged 87; Santa Barbara, CA, USA)
** LaFayette Duckett, politician (aged 99; Sugar Land, TX, USA)
** Kingdon Gould Jr., diplomat (aged 94; North Laurel, MD, USA)
** Tyler Hilinski, football player (aged 21; Pullman, WA, USA)
** Julie Beth Lovins, computational linguist (aged 72; Mountain View, CA, USA)
** John Monteith, actor, writer and director (aged 69; Jersey City, NJ, USA)
** Timothy J. O'Connor, politician (aged 81; Lebanon, NH, USA)
** Thomas Newman O'Neill Jr., federal judge (aged 89; West Conshohocken, PA, USA)
** Harold Rosen, politician (aged 92; Miami, FL, USA)
** John Spellman, politician (aged 91; Seattle, WA, USA)
** Jo Jo White, basketball player (aged 71; Boston, MA, USA)
* January 17
** John M. Andrist, journalist and politician (aged 86; Fargo, ND, USA)
** Landrum Bolling, political scientist and academic administrator (aged 104; VA, USA)
** Paul Booth, political activist (aged 74; Washington, DC, USA)
** Ed Moses, artist and painter (aged 91; Venice, CA, USA)
** Arno Motulsky, German-born geneticist (aged 94; Seattle, WA, USA)
** Herbert Schmertz, public relations executive (aged 87; West Palm Beach, FL, USA)
* January 18
** Julius Lester, civil rights activist, writer, musician, photographer, professor (aged 78; Palmer, MA, USA)
** Edward C. Rochette, numismatist (aged 90; Colorado Springs, CO, USA)
** B. L. Shaw, educator and politician (aged 84; Jamestown, LA, USA)
** Anthony Allen Shore, serial killer and rapist (aged 55; Huntsville, AL, USA)
** Henry Soles Jr., chaplain and author (aged 82; Naperville, IL, USA)
** Mae Tischer, politician (aged 89; Anchorage, AK, USA)
** Stansfield Turner, admiral and academic (aged 94; Redmond, WA, USA)
* January 19
** Harvey R. Blau, attorney and executive (aged 82; New York City, NY, USA)
** Lin Bolen, television executive and producer (aged 76; Santa Monica, CA, USA)
** James C. Browne, computer scientist (aged 82; Austin, TX, USA)
** Olivia Cole, actress (aged 75; San Miguel de Allende, Mexico)
** John Conboy, television producer (aged 83; Palm Desert, CA, USA)
** Ed LaForge, politician (aged 82; Lawton, MI, USA)
** Dorothy Malone, actress (aged 93; Dallas, TX, USA)
** Fredo Santana, rapper and singer-songwriter (aged 27; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Allison Shearmur, film producer (aged 54; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Moose Stubing, baseball player (aged 79; Orange, CA, USA)
** Barbara Weil, artist (aged 85; Mallorca, Spain)
** Leslie Wyche, community activist (aged 73; Bronx, NY, USA)
* January 20
** Wendell Castle, furniture designer and artist (aged 85; Scottsville, NY, USA)
** John Coleman, meteorologist (aged 83; Las Vegas, NV, USA)
** William Cousins, judge (aged 90; Chicago, IL, USA)
** Terry Evans, blues and soul singer, songwriter and guitarist (aged 80; New York City, NY, USA)
** Naomi Parker Fraley, naval machinist (aged 96; Longview, WA, USA)
** Bill Johnson, baseball player (aged 57; Wilmington, DE, USA)
** Jerry Keeling, American-born Canadian football player (aged 78; Tulsa, OK, USA)
** Bob Smith, comedian and author (aged 59; Manhattan, NY, USA)
** Jack Whitten, artist (aged 78; New York City, NY, USA)
* January 21
** A. Dean Jeffs, politician (aged 89; Orem, UT, USA)
** Jim Johannson, ice hockey player (aged 53; Colorado Springs, CO, USA)
** Lyle Mehrkens, politician (aged 80; Red Wing, MN, USA)
** Connie Sawyer, actress (aged 105; Woodland Hills, CA, USA)
* January 22
** Carl Blair, painter and sculptor (aged 85; Greenville, SC, USA)
** Andrew Carroll, ice hockey player (aged 32; Chicago, IL, USA)
** Dale Engstrom, politician (aged 100; Forest City, NC, USA)
** Billy Hancock, musician (aged 71; La Plata, MD, USA)
** Ursula K. Le Guin, novelist (aged 88; Portland, OR, USA)
** William Joseph McDonough, banker (aged 83; Waccabuc, NY, USA)
** Preston Shannon, blues singer, songwriter and guitarist (aged 70; Memphis, TN, USA)
** Annie Young, politician, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (aged 75; Minneapolis, MN, USA)
* January 23
** Robert Dowdell, actor (aged 85; Coldwater, MI, USA)
** Galen L. Stone, diplomat (aged 96; Marion, MA, USA)
** Ezra Swerdlow, film producer (aged 63; Boston, MA, USA)
** Wyatt Tee Walker, pastor, civil rights leader, and theologian (aged 89; Chester, VA, USA)
** Lari White, country singer (aged 52; Nashville, TN, USA)
* January 24
** Bill Budness, football player (aged 74; Georgetown, DE, USA)
** Jack Ketchum, author (aged 71; New York City, NY, USA)
** Warren Miller, ski and snowboarding filmmaker (aged 93; Orcas Island, WA, USA)
** Raymond Nimmer, legal scholar (aged 73; Houston, TX, USA)
* January 25
** Daniel M. Buechlein, Roman Catholic prelate (aged 79; St. Meinrad, IN, USA)
** Dan Foster, medical researcher (aged 87; Dallas, TX, USA)
** Bill Logan, basketball player (aged 83; Keokuk, IA, USA)
** Floyd Miles, blues guitarist, singer and songwriter (aged 74; Daytona Beach, FL, USA)
** John Morris, film composer (aged 91; Red Hook, NY, USA)
* January 26
** Kendall Carly Browne, actress (aged 99; Indio, CA, USA)
** Buzz Clifford, singer (aged 76; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Raphael Cruz, acrobat and actor (aged 31; Paris, France)
** Elizabeth Hawley, journalist (aged 94; Kathmandu, Nepal)
** Joe M. Haynes, politician (aged 81; Goodlettsville, TN, USA)
** Von G. Keetch, religious leader (aged 57; Salt Lake City, UT, USA)
** Cyrus Yavneh, producer (aged 75; Santa Monica, CA, USA)
** Isaiah Zeldin, Reform rabbi, founder of Stephen S. Wise Temple (aged 97; Palm Desert, CA, USA)
* January 27
** Robert McCormick Adams Jr., anthropologist (aged 91; Chula Vista, CA, USA)
** Jerry Butler, pornographic actor (aged 58; Brooklyn, NY, USA)
** Alfred Hübler, German-born physicist (aged 60; Urbana, IL, USA)
** Robert Parry, investigative journalist (aged 68; Arlington County, VA, USA)
** Dennis Peron, cannabis and LGBT activist (aged 72; San Francisco, CA, USA)
** Jerry Sneva, racing driver (aged 68; Indianapolis, IN, USA)
** Mort Walker, comic artist (Beetle Bailey) (aged 94; Stamford, CT, USA)
* January 29
** Hilton McConnico, designer (aged 74; Paris, France)
** Rick McKay, filmmaker (aged 62; New York City, NY, USA)
** Robert D. McWethy, submarine captain (aged 98; Annapolis, MD, USA)
** Eddie Shaw, saxophonist and songwriter (aged 80; Chicago, IL, USA)
* January 30
** John W. Kern III, judge (aged 89; Washington, DC, USA)
** Charles E. Lindblom, academic (aged 100; Santa Fe, NM, USA)
** James McCray, opera singer and teacher (aged 80; Hague, Netherlands)
** Mark Salling, actor (aged 35; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Clyde Scott, football player (aged 93; Little Rock, AR, USA)
** Victor W. Sidel, physician (aged 86; Greenwood Village, CO, USA)
** Kevin Towers, baseball executive (aged 56; San Diego, CA, USA)
** Louis Zorich, actor (aged 93; New York City, NY, USA)
* January 31
** Richard N. Berry, politician (aged 102; Scarborough, ME, USA)
** Rasual Butler, basketball player (aged 38; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Leah LaBelle, Canadian-born singer (aged 31; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Del Delker, gospel singer (aged 93; Porterville, CA, USA)
** Gabriel Fackre, theologian (aged 92; Oregon City, OR, USA)
** Oscar Gamble, baseball player (aged 68; Birmingham, AL, USA)
** Jack Halpern, chemist (aged 93; Chicago, IL, USA)
** Elizabeth Hartley, archaeologist and curator (aged 71; York, England, UK)
** John Fitzallen Moore, physicist (aged 89; Libertyville, IL, USA)
** William O'Connor, artist (aged 47; Mount Sinai, NY, USA)
===February===
* February 1
** Cliff Bourland, athlete (aged 97; Santa Monica, CA, USA)
** Dennis Edwards, singer (aged 74; Chicago, IL, USA)
** Sonia Gechtoff, painter (aged 91; New York City, NY, USA)
** Nicholas von Hoffman, journalist (aged 88; Rockport, ME, USA)
** Barys Kit, Belarusian-born rocket scientist (aged 107; Frankfurt, Germany)
** Michael O'Hara, Olympic volleyball player (aged 85; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Frank L. Oliver, politician (aged 95; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
** Sewall Shurtz, Olympic fencer (aged 84; Reno, NV, USA)
** Alan Stout, composer (aged 85; Chicago, IL, USA)
* February 2
** Jon Huntsman Sr., businessman and philanthropist (aged 80; Salt Lake City, UT, USA)
** Joseph Polchinski, theoretical physicist (aged 63; Santa Barbara, CA, USA)
* February 3
** Sam Cataldo, politician (aged 80; Farmington, NH, USA)
** Leon "Ndugu" Chancler, jazz/pop drummer (aged 65; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Pierre Conner, mathematician (aged 85; New Orleans, LA, USA)
** Roy Dietzel, baseball player (aged 87; Charlotte, NC, USA)
** Michael Harner, anthropologist and author (aged 88; Washington, DC, USA)
** George Shadid, politician (aged 88; Peoria, IL, USA)
** Bill Teale, educator (aged 70; Evanston, IL, USA)
* February 4
** Edwin Jackson, football player (aged 26; Indianapolis, IN, USA)
** John Mahoney, British-born actor (aged 77; Chicago, IL, USA)
* February 7
** John Perry Barlow, internet activist, writer and lyricist (aged 70; San Francisco, CA, USA)
** Mickey Jones, drummer (aged 76; Simi Valley, CA, USA)
** Pat Torpey, drummer (aged 64; Cleveland, OH, USA)
* February 8
** Ben Agajanian, football player (aged 98; Cathedral City, CA, USA)
** Carl K. Benhase, football coach (aged 88; Loveland, OH, USA)
** Robert A. Gross, physicist and engineering scientist (aged 90; Chapel Hill, NC, USA)
** Algia Mae Hinton, blues singer and guitarist (aged 88; Middlesex, NC, USA)
** M. Cecil Mackey, academic administrator (aged 89; Boca Raton, FL, USA)
** John Martinkovic, football player (aged 91; Allouez, WI, USA)
** Lovebug Starski, rapper and disc jockey (aged 57; Las Vegas, NV, USA)
** Sandra L. Townes, judge (aged 73; Manhattan, NY, USA)
* February 9
** Reg E. Cathey, actor (aged 59; New York City, NY, USA)
** John Gavin, actor and diplomat (aged 86; Beverly Hills, CA, USA)
* February 10
** Jeff Bell, political consultant (aged 74; Annandale, VA, USA)
** Fran Bera, aviator (aged 93; San Diego, CA, USA)
** Troy Blakely, music executive and talent manager (aged 68; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Richard C. Lamb, astrophysicist (aged 84; Lexington, KY, USA)
** Stephen A. Mahin, structural engineer (aged 71; Berkeley, CA, USA)
** Donald Mark, judge (aged 91; Webster, NY, USA)
** William Merriweather Peña, architect (aged 99; Houston, TX, USA)
** Calvin Edouard Ward, concert pianist (aged 92; Willingboro, NJ, USA)
* February 11
** Anthony Acevedo, soldier and diarist (aged 93; Loma Linda, CA, USA)
** Michael Cohen, physician and anthropologist (aged 80; NS, Canada)
** Vic Damone, singer and actor (aged 89; Miami Beach, FL, USA)
** Jon D. Fox, politician (aged 70; Abington, PA, USA)
** Jan Maxwell, actress and singer (aged 61; New York City, NY, USA)
** Tom Rapp, singer-songwriter (aged 70; Melbourne, FL, USA)
** Andy Rice, football player (aged 77; Spring, TX, USA)
* February 12
** Marty Allen, comedian and actor (aged 95; Las Vegas, NV, USA)
** Louise Latham, actress (aged 95; Montecito, CA, USA)
** Daryle Singletary, country music singer (aged 46; Lebanon, TN, USA)
* February 13
** Edward M. Abroms, film editor (aged 82; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Scott Boyer, singer, songwriter and musician (aged 70; Muscle Shoals, AL, USA)
** Chyskillz, hip hop producer (aged 48; Queens, NY, USA)
** James W. Downing, naval officer and author (aged 104; Colorado Springs, CO, USA)
** Tito Francona, baseball player (aged 84; New Brighton, PA, USA)
** Sandra Love, politician (aged 72; Gloucester Township, NJ, USA)
** Victor Milán, author (aged 63; Albuquerque, NM, USA)
** George P. Steele, military officer (aged 93; Annapolis, MD, USA)
** Peter Daniel Truman, politician (aged 83; PA, USA)
* February 14
** Lois Barker, baseball player (aged 94; Morristown, NJ, USA)
** Lerone Bennett Jr., scholar and author (aged 89; Chicago, IL, USA)
** Don Carter, investor (aged 84; Dallas, TX, USA)
** Marty Dolin, American-born Canadian politician (aged 78; Winnipeg, MB, Canada)
** Billy Henderson, football coach (aged 89; Athens, GA, USA)
** Arthur J. Moss, cardiologist (aged 86; Brighton, NY, USA)
** John Pitman, journalist (aged 78; London, England, UK)
* February 15
** Lassie Lou Ahern, actress (aged 97; Prescott, AZ, USA)
** Tom Brewer, baseball player (aged 86; Cheraw, SC, USA)
** Don J. Briel, theologian (aged 71; St. Paul, MN, USA)
** Leo Cahill, American-Canadian football coach (aged 89; Atlanta, GA, USA)
** Chuck Klausing, football player and coach (aged 92; Indiana, PA, USA)
** J. Clay Smith Jr., jurist and author (aged 75; Washington, DC, USA)
* February 16
** Jim Bridwell, free climber (aged 73; Palm Springs, CA, USA)
** Little Sammy Davis, blues singer-songwriter and harmonicist (aged 89; Middletown, NY, USA)
** Eleanor Winsor Leach, academic (aged 80; Bloomington, IN, USA)
** Harry R. Purkey, politician (aged 83; Virginia Beach, VA, USA)
** Mike Walker, gossip columnist (aged 72; Boston, MA, USA)
* February 17
** Jim Dickey, football coach (aged 83; Houston, TX, USA)
** Beebe Freitas, pianist and vocal coach (aged 79; Aina Haina, HI, USA)
** Boyd Jarvis, music producer (aged 59; East Orange, NJ, USA)
** Kenneth Kester, politician (aged 81; Green Valley, AZ, USA)
* February 18
** Günter Blobel, Silesian-born Nobel biologist (aged 81; New York City, NY, USA)
** Peggy Cooper Cafritz, social activist and educator (aged 70; Washington, DC, USA)
** Peirce F. Lewis, geographer (aged 90; State College, PA, USA)
** Larry Lolley, state judge (aged 72; Monroe, LA, USA)
** Lee Harris Pomeroy, architect (aged 85; New York City, NY, USA)
** Barbara Wersba, youth writer (aged 85; Englewood, NJ, USA)
* February 19
** Harry Blevins, politician (aged 82; Chesapeake, VA, USA)
** Fred Carr, football player (aged 71; Phoenix, AZ, USA)
** Max Desfor, photographer (aged 104; Silver Spring, MD, USA)
** Thomas Lockhart, politician (aged 82; Casper, WY, USA)
** Robert McKim, politician (aged 72; Laramie, WY, USA)
** Larry Smith, puppeteer (aged 79; Cincinnati, OH, USA)
** Jim Springer, basketball player (aged 91; Indianapolis, IN, USA)
* February 20
** David Caron, legal scholar (aged 65; London, England, UK)
** William H. Friedland, rural sociologist (aged 94; Santa Cruz, CA, USA)
** DeWitt Hale, politician (aged 100; Austin, TX, USA)
** Waldo R. Tobler, geographer and cartographer (aged 87; Santa Barbara, CA, USA)
* February 21 – Billy Graham, evangelist and Southern Baptist minister (aged 99; Montreat, NC, USA)
* February 22 – Nanette Fabray, actress (aged 97; Palos Verdes, CA, USA)
* February 23
** Dom Anile, football coach and executive (Indianapolis Colts) (aged 80; Henderson, NV, USA)
** James Colby, actor (aged 56; New York City, NY, USA)
** Allen B. Rosenstein, systems engineer (aged 97; Tucson, AZ, USA)
* February 24
** Irwin Belk, politician, philanthropist and retail executive (aged 95; Charlotte, NC, USA)
** Ed Leede, basketball player (aged 90; Denver, CO, USA)
** Bud Luckey, actor and animator (aged 83; Newtown, CT, USA)
** James McIntosh, rower, Olympic silver medalist (1956) (aged 87; Milford, MI, USA)
** Charles Byron Wilson, neurosurgeon (aged 88; Greenbrae, CA, USA)
* February 25
** Dan Fegan, basketball agent (aged 56; Aspen, CO, USA)
** Cynthia Heimel, columnist, author and humorist (aged 70; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Richard Hundley, pianist and composer (aged 86; Englewood, NJ, USA)
** Burton Leland, politician (aged 69; Detroit, MI, USA)
** John C. Mula, art director and production designer (aged 75; Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA)
** Frank Sander, law professor (aged 90; Concord, MA, USA)
** Bruce Nelson Stratton, radio personality (aged 74; Corpus Christi, TX, USA)
* February 26
** Paul De Meo, screenwriter and producer (aged 64; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Jim Dobson, baseball player (aged 78; Oklahoma City, OK, USA)
** Jim L. Gillis Jr., politician (aged 101; Soperton, GA, USA)
** Sean Lavery, ballet dancer (aged 61; Palm Springs, CA, USA)
** Benjamin Melniker, film producer (aged 104; Roslyn Harbor, NY, USA)
** Carmen A. Orechio, politician (aged 91; Nutley, NJ, USA)
** Michael J. Pikal, pharmaceutical scientist (aged 78; Mansfield Center, CT, USA)
** Gary H. Posner, chemist (aged 74; Baltimore, MD, USA)
* February 27
** Gertrude Alderfer, baseball player (aged 86; East Greenville, PA, USA)
** William H. T. Bush, venture capitalist and financier (aged 79; West Palm Beach, FL, USA)
** Bill Lignante, comics artist (aged 92; Carlsbad, CA, USA)
** Daniel Perlsweig, racehorse trainer (aged 91; Mount Laurel, NJ, USA)
* February 28
** Barry Crimmins, comedian and social activist (aged 64; Syracuse, NY, USA)
** Keith English, politician (aged 50; Jefferson City, MO, USA)
** Marc L. Marks, politician (aged 91; Chevy Chase, MD, USA)
** Harvey Schmidt, musical theatre producer and writer (aged 88; Tomball, TX, USA)
** Naomi Siegmann, artist (aged 85; Mexico City, Mexico)
** William R. Trotter, author and historian (aged 74; Greensboro, NC, USA)
===March===
* March 1 – Anatoly Lein, Russian-born chess grandmaster (aged 86; Beachwood, OH, USA)
* March 2
** Billy Herrington, gay pornographic actor (aged 48; Palm Springs, CA, USA)
** Ronnie Prophet, Canadian country singer (aged 80; FL, USA)
* March 3 – David Ogden Stiers, actor (aged 75; Newport, OR, USA)
* March 5 – Hayden White, historian (aged 89; Santa Cruz, CA, USA)
* March 6 – Donna Butterworth, actress (aged 62; Hilo, HI, USA)
* March 7
** Gary Burden, rock album cover artist (aged 84; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Woody Durham, college basketball radio announcer (aged 76; Chapel Hill, NC, USA)
** Chuck Ortmann, football player (aged 88; Gig Harbor, WA, USA)
** William J. Pulte, real estate developer (aged 85; Naples, FL, USA)
** Thomas L. Rhodes, political activist (aged 78; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
** Charles Thone, politician, Governor of Nebraska (1979–1983), U.S. Representative (aged 94; Lincoln, NE, USA)
* March 8
** Ron Franklin, jockey (aged 58; Baltimore, MD, USA)
** John P. Fullam, federal judge (aged 96; Wallingford, PA, USA)
** Togo D. West Jr., public servant (aged 75; PR, USA)
** Hal Wick, politician (aged 73; Sioux Falls, SD, USA)
** Kate Wilhelm, author (aged 89; Eugene, OR, USA)
* March 10
** Donald Collins, politician (aged 92; Caribou, ME, USA)
** Buddy Cruze, football player (aged 84; Knoxville, TN, USA)
** Michael Gershman, cinematographer, director and camera operator (aged 73; Malibu, CA, USA)
** Henry Koffler, Austrian-born academic (aged 95; Tucson, AZ, USA)
** Gene Rhodes, basketball player (aged 90; Louisville, KY, USA)
* March 12
** Nokie Edwards, musician (aged 82; Yuma, AZ, USA)
** Ken Flach, tennis player (aged 54; San Francisco, CA, USA)
** Craig Mack, rapper (aged 47; Walterboro, SC, USA)
* March 14
** Alfred W. Crosby, ecological historian (aged 87; Nantucket, MA, USA)
** Stephen Hawking, English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author (aged 76; Cambridge, England, UK)
** Steve Mandell, bluegrass guitarist and banjoist (aged 76; Owings Mills, MD, USA)
* March 15- Augie Garrido NCAA baseball coach who won 1,975 career games the second most of any NCAA Division I coach (aged 79; Newport Beach, CA, USA)
* March 16 – Louise Slaughter, oldest member of the United States House of Representatives (aged 88; Washington, DC, USA)
* March 17
** Jim Hendricks, actor and DJ (aged 68; New York City, NY, USA)
** Sammy Williams, actor (aged 69; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* March 18
** Karen Anderson, writer (aged 85; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Chuck Arrobio, football player (aged 73; Pasadena, CA, USA)
** Cloria Brown, politician (aged 75; Mehlville, MO, USA)
** Killjoy, singer (aged 51; East Liverpool, OH, USA)
** Jerry Schoonmaker, baseball player (aged 84; Dyer, IN, USA)
** Hazel Smith, country music journalist, publicist, and singer-songwriter (aged 83; Madison, TN, USA)
* March 20
** Peter G. Peterson, banker (aged 91; New York City, NY, USA)
** William Smith, Olympic wrestler (aged 89; Humboldt, IA, USA)
* March 22 – Morgana King, jazz singer and actress (aged 87; Plam Springs, CA, USA)
* March 23
** DuShon Monique Brown, actress (aged 49; Olympia Fields, IL, USA)
** Debbie Lee Carrington, actress and stuntwoman (aged 58; Pleasanton, CA, USA)
** Zell Miller, politician; Governor of Georgia (1991–1999), U.S. Senator (2000–2005) (aged 86; Young Harris, GA, USA)
** Delores Taylor, actress, writer, and producer (aged 85; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* March 25 – Linda Carol Brown, campaigner for equality in education (aged 75; Topeka, KS, USA)
* March 27
** David Humm, football player (aged 65; Las Vegas, NV, USA)
** Tom Martin, politician (aged 69; Lubbock, TX, USA)
** Jerry Moses, baseball player (aged 71; Haverhill, MA, USA)
** Kenny O'Dell, country singer-songwriter (aged 73; Cool Springs, TN, USA)
** James "Quick" Parker, American-Canadian football player (aged 60; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
** Rosendo Rodriguez, convicted rapist and murderer (aged 38; Huntsville, TX, USA)
** Robert Hugh Willoughby, flutist (aged 96; Portsmouth, NH, USA)
* March 28
** Armand Arabian, jurist (aged 83; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Travis Hill, football player (aged 48; Houston, TX, USA)
** Walter E. Johnston III, politician (aged 82; St. Petersburg, FL, USA)
** William Prochnau, journalist (aged 80; Washington, DC, USA)
** Caleb Scofield, rock bassist and singer (aged 39; Bedford, NH, USA)
** Daryl Thomas, basketball player (aged 52; Bloomington, IN, USA)
* March 29
** Don Colpoys, baseball coach and manager (aged 83; Buffalo, NY, USA)
** Stephen Reinhardt, judge (aged 87; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Ed Samcoff, baseball player (aged 93; Fair Oaks, CA, USA)
** Anita Shreve, author (aged 71; Newfields, NH, USA)
** Rusty Staub, baseball player (aged 73; West Palm Beach, FL, USA)
** Paul Van Arsdale, hammered dulcimer player (aged 97; NY, USA)
* March 30
** Alias, rapper (aged 41; Portland, ME, USA)
** Drue Heinz, literary publisher (aged 103; Lasswade, Scotland, UK)
* March 31
** John Mack Flanagan, disc jockey (aged 71; Alameda, CA, USA)
** Charles Goodwin, linguistic anthropologist and semiotician (aged 75; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Ted J. Land, politician (aged 81; Columbus, GA, USA)
** Peg Lautenschlager, attorney and politician, (aged 62; Fond du Lac, WI, USA)
** James McAlister, football player (aged 66; Corona, CA, USA)
** Leonard D. Wexler, judge (aged 93; Islip, NY, USA)
===April===
* April 1
** Amsale Aberra, Ethiopian-born fashion designer (aged 64; New York City, NY, USA)
** Bob Beattie, skiing coach and sports commentator (aged 85; Fruita, CA, USA)
** Steven Bochco, television producer and writer (aged 74; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Foster Diebold, academic (aged 85; Miami, FL, USA)
** Robert F. Gatje, architect (aged 90; New York City, NY, USA)
** Audrey Morris, jazz singer and pianist (aged 89; Chicago, IL, USA)
* April 2
** Susan Anspach, actress (aged 75; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Clyde Billington Jr., politician (aged 83; Hartford, CT, USA)
** P. L. Thibaut Brian, chemical engineer (aged 87; Bradenton, FL, USA)
** Alton Ford, basketball player (aged 36; Pearland, TX, USA)
** Morris Halle, Latvian-born linguist (aged 94; Cambridge, MA, USA)
** Tuiloma Pule Lameko, Samoan politician (aged 83; Apia, Samoa)
** Connie Lawn, journalist (aged 73; Falls Church, VA, USA)
** Bill Rademacher, football player (aged 75; Marquette, MI, USA)
** Laura Roslof, illustrator (aged 69; Elkhorn, WI, USA)
** Burton Smith, computer scientist (aged 77; Burien, WA, USA)
* April 3
** Ron Dunbar, songwriter (aged 78; Fresno, CA, USA)
** David Edgerton, entrepreneur, co-founder of Burger King (aged 90; Miami, FL, USA)
** David J. Foulis, mathematician (aged 87; Amherst, MA, USA)
** Eugene M. Grant, real estate mogul (aged 99; Westchester County, NY, USA)
** Mary Hatcher, actress (aged 88; Riverside, CA, USA)
** Dale Haupt, football coach (aged 88; Laurinburg, NC, USA)
** Charles McDew, professor and civil rights activist (aged 79; West Newton, MA, USA)
* April 4
** David Bonetti, art critic (aged 71; Brookline, MA, USA)
** Burt Boyar, voice actor and author (aged 90; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Don Cherry, singer and golfer (aged 94; Las Vegas, NV, USA)
** Gertrude Jeannette, actress (aged 103; Harlem, NY, USA)
** C. Shannon Mallory, Anglican prelate (aged 81; Monterey, CA, USA)
** Soon-Tek Oh, South-Korean-American actor (aged 85; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Stuart Pottasch, astronomer (aged 86; Groningen, Netherlands)
** Johnny Valiant, professional wrestler and manager (aged 71; Ross Township, PA, USA)
* April 5
** Tim O'Connor, actor (aged 90; Nevada City, CA, USA)
** Frederick D. Reese, civil rights activist, teacher, and minister (aged 88; Atlanta, GA, USA)
** Cecil Taylor, pianist and poet (aged 89; Brooklyn, NY, USA)
* April 6
** Daniel Akaka, educator and politician (aged 93; Honolulu, HI, USA)
** Dorothy Garlock, historical romance author (aged 98; Clear Lake, IA, USA)
** Donald McKayle, dancer and choreographer (aged 87; Irvine, CA, USA)
* April 7
** Agni Vlavianos Arvanitis, biologist (aged 83; New York City, NY, USA)
** Gerald Ayres, studio executive and film producer (aged 82; Watertown, NY, USA)
** Samuel B. McKinney, civil rights activist and pastor (aged 91; Seattle, WA, USA)
* April 8
** Nathan Davis, jazz musician (aged 81; Palm Beach, FL, USA)
** Chuck McCann, actor (aged 83; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Joe McConnell, sports announcer (aged 79; Indianapolis, IN, USA)
* April 9
** Barney A. Ebsworth, business executive and art collector (aged 83; Medina, WA, USA)
** Jonathan M. Hess, philologist (aged 52; Chapel Hill, NC, USA)
** Kimberly G. Smith, biologist (aged 69; Fayetteville, AR, USA)
* April 10
** Yvonne Staples, singer (aged 80; Chicago, IL, USA)
** Jean Marzollo, children's author (aged 75; Cold Spring, NY, USA)
** J. D. McClatchy, poet (aged 72; Manhattan, NY, USA)
** Richard Muth, economist, gallbladder cancer (aged 90; Tucker, GA, USA)
** Alastair Rellie, British intelligence officer (aged 83; London, England, UK)
** Matthew Stark, civil rights activist (aged 88; Minneapolis, MN, USA)
* April 11
** Karen Dawisha, political scientist and writer (aged 68; Oxford, OH, USA)
** Patrick F. McManus, writer (aged 84; Spokane, WA, USA)
** Mauro Panaggio, basketball coach (aged 90; Daytona Beach, FL, USA)
** Mitzi Shore, comedy club owner (aged 87; West Hollywood, CA, USA)
** Alexander Welsh, literary scholar (aged 84; Bethany, CT, USA)
** Kevin Wortman, ice hockey player (aged 49; Saugus, MA, USA)
* April 13
** Art Bell, broadcaster and author (aged 72; Pahrump, NV, USA)
** Miloš Forman, Czech and American film director (aged 86; Danbury, CT, USA)
** William Nack, journalist and author (aged 77; Washington, DC, USA)
* April 14
** David Buckel, LGBT rights lawyer (aged 60; Brooklyn, NY, USA)
** Daedra Charles, basketball player (aged 49; Detroit, MI, USA)
** Hal Greer, Hall of Fame basketball player (aged 81; AZ, USA)
** Sam Hamill, poet and publisher (aged 75; Anacortes, WA, USA)
** Michael D. Healy, military officer (aged 91; Jacksonville, FL, USA)
** Robert Holmes, football player (aged 72; Regina, SK, Canada)
** Gerald Nachman, journalist and author (aged 80; San Francisco, CA, USA)
** Kirk Simon, documentarian (aged 63; New York City, NY, USA)
* April 15 – R. Lee Ermey, actor (aged 74; Santa Monica, CA, USA)
* April 16 – Harry Anderson, actor and magician (aged 65; Asheville, NC, USA)
* April 17 – Barbara Bush, First Lady of the United States, Second Lady of the United States, as wife of George H. W. Bush (aged 92; Houston, TX, USA)
* April 18 – Bruno Sammartino, Italian-American professional wrestler (aged 82; Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
* April 19
** Allan M. Campbell, microbiologist (aged 88; Stanford, IN, USA)
** John Duffie, baseball player (aged 72; Douglas, GA, USA)
** Walter Moody, convicted murderer (aged 83; Atmore, AL, USA)
** Gil Santos, sportscaster (aged 80; Bridgewater, MA, USA)
* April 20
** George Alusik, baseball player (aged 83; Woodbridge, NJ, USA)
** Earle Bruce, football coach (aged 87; Columbus, OH, USA)
** John Petercuskie, football coach (aged 93; Bourne, MA, USA)
** James F. Sirmons, broadcasting executive (aged 100; St. Petersburg, FL, USA)
** Al Swift, broadcaster and politician (aged 82; Alexandria, VA, USA)
** Charles Zwick, civil servant (aged 91; Coral Gables, FL, USA)
* April 21
** Dee Hardison, football player (aged 61; Chapel Hill, NC, USA)
** Robert Kates, geographer (aged 89; Trenton, ME, USA)
** Jim Miceli, politician (aged 83; Wilmington, MA, USA)
** Verne Troyer, actor (aged 49; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* April 22
** Ken Hofmann, businessman (aged 95; Lafayette, CA, USA)
** Richard Jenrette, investor (aged 89; Charleston, SC, USA)
** Dave Nelson, baseball player and broadcaster (aged 73; Milwaukee, WI, USA)
** Charlie Rice, jazz drummer (aged 98; Camden, NJ, USA)
** Kona Schwenke, football player (aged 25; Laie, HI, USA)
** Hoyt Patrick Taylor Jr., politician (aged 94; Wadesboro, NC, USA)
* April 23
** Don Bustany, radio and television broadcaster (aged 89; Santa Barbara, CA, USA)
** Bennie Cunningham, football player (aged 63; Cleveland, OH, USA)
** Bob Dorough, pianist, singer and composer (aged 94; Mount Bethel, PA, USA)
** Jerrold Meinwald, chemist (aged 91; Ithaca, NY, USA)
** Walter Mengden, attorney and politician (aged 91; Lakeway, TX, USA)
** Alice Provensen, children's illustrator and writer (aged 99; San Clemente, CA, USA)
** Arthur B. Rubinstein, composer (aged 80; New York City, NY, USA)
** Bob Schermerhorn, college basketball coach (aged 75; Notre Dame, IN, USA)
** Art Simmons, jazz pianist (aged 92; Beckley, WV, USA)
** Arthur R.G. Solmssen, novelist (aged 89; Bryn Mawr, PA, USA)
** Edward W. Tayler, literary scholar (aged 87; Westfield, NJ, USA)
** Leland B. Yeager, economist (aged 93; Auburn, AL, USA)
* April 24
** Marv Rackley, baseball player (aged 96; Greenville, SC, USA)
** Quentin Sickels, football player (aged 91; Palm Desert, CA, USA)
** Susan Williams, marine biologist (aged 66; Petaluma, CA, USA)
* April 26 – Charles Neville, R&B and jazz musician (aged 79; Huntington, MA, USA)
* April 27
** Kristin Nelson, actress, painter and author (aged 72; Santa Fe, NM, USA)
** Paul Junger Witt, film and television producer (aged 77; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* April 28 – Larry Harvey, artist and philanthropist (aged 70; San Francisco, CA, USA)
* April 29 – Robert Mandan, actor (aged 86; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* April 30
** Tim Calvert, rock guitarist (aged 52; Twain Harte, CA, USA)
** Joel Kovel, environmentalist and anti-war activist (aged 81; New York City, NY, USA)
** Ralph Stephan, rower (aged 89; Mount Shasta, CA, USA)
** David Wiegand, journalist (aged 70; San Francisco, CA, USA)
===May===
* May 1
** Arthur Barnard, sprinter and Olympic bronze medalist (aged 89; La Jolla, CA, USA)
** Dennis Claridge, football player (aged 76; Lincoln, NE, USA)
** Ninalee Craig, American-born Canadian teacher (aged 90; Toronto, ON, Canada)
** Carl W. Duckworth, politician (aged 63; Magna, UT, USA)
** Raymond D. Dzendzel, politician (aged 96; Livonia, MI, USA)
** Phil Gowan, historian (aged 65; Houston, TX, USA)
** Robert B. Kennedy, politician (aged 78; Lowell, MA, USA)
** Chuck Missler, evangelist and author (aged 83; Reporoa, New Zealand)
** John "Jabo" Starks, drummer (aged 80; Mobile, AL, USA)
** Betty Workman, politician (aged 93; La Vale, MD, USA)
* May 2
** Dick Edell, lacrosse coach (aged 74; Columbia, MD, USA)
** James Thorp, electrical engineer (aged 81; Blacksburg, VA, USA)
** Chris Walsh, politician (aged 66; Framingham, MA, USA)
* May 3
** Jim Argue, politician (aged 66; Little Rock, AR, USA)
** Davida Coady, pediatrician (aged 80; Alamo, CA, USA)
** Dan Grimm, football player (aged 77; Lincoln County, NC, USA)
** David Pines, physicist (aged 93; Urbana, IL, USA)
** Bob Prewitt, college basketball coach (aged 93; Dallas, TX, USA)
** Junior Rodriguez, politician (aged 82; St. Bernard Parish, LA, USA)
** Joe Scannella, football coach (aged 89; Walnut Creek, CA, USA)
* May 4
** Steve Coy, British-English musician (Dead or Alive) (aged 56; Bogliasco, Italy)
** Paul Bloodgood, artist (aged 58; New York City, NY, USA)
** Edwin G. Burrows, historian and professor (aged 74; Huntington, NY, USA)
** Bobbie Louise Hawkins, poet and author (aged 87; Boulder, CO, USA)
** Larry Hunter, college basketball coach (aged 68; Cary, NC, USA)
* May 5
** Frederic H. Dustin, businessman and philanthropist (aged 88; Jeju City, South Korea)
** Stanley Falkow, microbiologist (aged 84; Portola Valley, CA, USA)
** Wilson Frost, politician (aged 92; Palm Desert, CA, USA)
** Aaron D. Panken, rabbi (aged 53; Middletown, NY, USA)
** Dick Williams, singer (aged 91; Burbank, CA, USA)
** Roy Wright, baseball player (aged 84; Chickamauga, GA, USA)
* May 6
** Sam Aanestad, politician (aged 71; Penn Valley, CA, USA)
** Raymond Book, politician (aged 93; Allegheny County, PA, USA)
** Dick Casull, gunsmith (aged 87; Freedom, WY, USA)
** Daniel Cohen, writer (aged 82; Cape May, NJ, USA)
** Charles W. Steger, academic (aged 70; Blacksburg, VA, USA)
** Brad Steiger, author and paranormal researcher (aged 82; Mason City, IA, USA)
** Ray Szmanda, radio personality (aged 91; Antigo, WI, USA)
** Scott Wilson, bodybuilder (aged 67; Merced, CA, USA)
* May 7
** Crosbie E. Saint, military officer (aged 81; Bethesda, MD, USA)
** Gayle Shepherd, singer (Shepherd Sisters) (aged 81; Allentown, PA, USA)
* May 8
** Anne V. Coates, British film editor (aged 92; Woodland Hills, CA, USA)
** George Deukmejian, politician; Governor of California (1983–1991) (aged 89; Long Beach, CA, USA)
* May 9
** Poldine Carlo, writer (aged 97; Fairbanks, AK, USA)
** Tom Dooley, football referee (aged 83; Charlotte, NC, USA)
** Tom Fletcher, baseball player (aged 75; Danville, IL, USA)
** Richard Haag, landscape architect (aged 94; Seattle, WA, USA)
* May 12
** Billy Brewer, football player and coach (aged 83; Memphis, TN, USA)
** Nick Drahos, football player (aged 99; Holland, MI, USA)
** Geoffrey Hendricks, artist (aged 86; Manhattan, NY, USA)
** Chuck Knox, football coach (aged 86; Anaheim, CA, USA)
** D. Gary Young, business executive (aged 68; Salt Lake City, UT, USA)
* May 13 – Margot Kidder, Canadian-American actress and activist (aged 69; Livingston, MT, USA)
* May 14 – Tom Wolfe, author and journalist (aged 88; New York City, NY, USA)
* May 15 – Joseph G. Clemons, soldier (aged 90; Hendersonville, NC, USA)
* May 16
** Joseph Campanella, actor (aged 93; Sherman Oaks, CA, USA)
** Hugh Dane, actor (aged 75; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* May 17
** Skip Finn, Ojibwe politician (aged 69; Minneapolis, MN, USA)
** Craig Harbison, art historian (aged 74; Hadley, MA, USA)
** Lawrence Jegen, legal scholar (aged 83; Indianapolis, IN, USA)
** Anthony Michael Milone, Roman Catholic prelate (aged 85; Omaha, NE, USA)
** Jon Sholle, musician (aged 70; Ossining, NY, USA)
** Tom Von Ruden, athlete (aged 73; Stillwater, OK, USA)
* May 19 – Robert Indiana, artist (aged 89; Vinalhaven, ME, USA)
* May 20
** Richard N. Goodwin, writer (aged 86; Concord, MA, USA)
** Patricia Morison, actress (aged 103; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* May 21
** Dovey Johnson Roundtree, civil rights activist, ordained minister, and attorney (aged 104; Charlotte, NC, USA)
** Allyn Ann McLerie, Canadian-American actress, singer, and dancer (aged 91; North Bend, WA, USA)
** Clint Walker, actor (aged 90; Grass Walker, CA, USA)
* May 22 – Philip Roth, writer (aged 85; New York City, NY, USA)
* May 24 – Jerry Maren, actor (aged 98; La Jolla, CA, USA)
* May 25 – Bill Mallory, football player and coach (Indiana Hoosiers, Miami RedHawks, Colorado Buffaloes), (aged 82; Bloomington, IN, USA)
* May 26
** Alan Bean, astronaut (aged 86; Houston, TX, USA)
** Ted Dabney, electrical engineer and co-founder of Atari, Inc (aged 81; Clearlake, CA, USA)
* May 27
** John DiFronzo, mobster (aged 89; River Grove, IL, USA)
** Gardner Dozois, science fiction writer and editor (aged 70; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
** Connie Kurtz, LGBT rights activist (aged 81; West Palm Beach, FL, USA)
** Russell Nype, actor and singer (aged 98; West Palm Beach, FL, USA)
** Donald H. Peterson, astronaut (aged 84; El Lago, TX, USA)
** Russ Regan, music business executive (aged 89; Palm Springs, CA, USA)
* May 28
** Rachel Rockwell, actress and choreographer (aged 48; Chicago, IL, USA)
** Chuck Stevens, baseball player (aged 99; Garden Grove, CA, USA)
** Dick Tuck, political prankster (aged 94; Tucson, AZ, USA)
** Cliff Tucker, basketball player (aged 29; Balmorhea, TX, USA)
** Scott R. White, materials scientist (aged 55; Harrisonville, MO, USA)
* May 29
** Ray Barker, baseball player (aged 82; Martinsburg, WV, USA)
** James Schaefer, politician (aged 79; Kennebec, SD, USA)
** René Yañez, Mexican-born artist (aged 75; San Francisco, CA, USA)
* May 30
** Baruch Brody, bioethicist (aged 75; New York City, NY, USA)
** Mel Weinberg, con artist and police informant (aged 93; Titusville, FL, USA)
* May 31
** Ella Brennan, restaurateur (aged 92; New Orleans, LA, USA)
** Steven Pitt, forensic psychiatrist (aged 59; Scottsdale, AZ, USA)
** Joe E. White, educator (aged 80; Edmond, OK, USA)
===June===
* June 1
** Eddy Clearwater, musician and singer (aged 83; Skokie, IL, USA)
** Bob Clotworthy, Hall of Fame diver (aged 87; Salt Lake City, UT, USA)
** Andrew Massey, British-born conductor (aged 72; VT, USA)
** Sam Moore, Bible publisher (aged 88; Columbia, SC, USA)
** William Edward Phipps, actor (aged 96; Santa Monica, CA, USA)
** Rockin' Rebel, professional wrestler (aged 52; West Chester, PA, USA)
** Fred Van Dusen, baseball player (aged 80; Franklin, TN, USA)
* June 2
** Mary Baumgartner, baseball player (aged 87; Kendallville, IN, USA)
** Paul D. Boyer, biochemist (aged 99; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Bruce Kison, baseball player (aged 68; Bradenton, FL, USA)
** Nick Meglin, magazine editor (aged 82; Durham, NC, USA)
** Irving Sandler, art critic (aged 92; Manhattan, NY, USA)
** William Simmons, anthropologist (aged 79; Grand Rapids, MI, USA)
** C. C. Torbert Jr., jurist (aged 88; Opelika, AL, USA)
** Bernard E. Trainor, journalist and Marine Corps general (aged 89; Sterling, VA, USA)
* June 3
** Clarence Fountain, singer, founder of The Blind Boys of Alabama (aged 88; Baton Rouge, LA, USA)
** Frank Carlucci, politician (aged 87; McLean, VA, USA)
** Jerry Hopkins, journalist (aged 82; Bangkok, Thailand)
** Johnnie Keyes, pornographic actor (aged 78; Seattle, WA, USA)
** Kent McCray, television producer (aged 89; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* June 4
** Dwight Clark, football player (aged 61; Whitefish, MT, USA)
** Jeffrey Coy, politician (aged 66; Shippensburg, PA, USA)
** Norman Edge, jazz double-bassist (aged 84; Metuchen, NJ, USA)
** Mary Jane Fonder, convicted murderer (aged 75; Clinton Township, PA, USA)
** Georgann Johnson, actress (aged 91; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Steve Kline, baseball player (aged 70; Chelan, WA, USA)
** C. M. Newton, college basketball coach and administrator (aged 88; Tuscaloosa, AL, USA)
** Jalal Mansur Nuriddin, poet and musician (aged 73; Atlanta, GA, USA)
* June 5 – Kate Spade, fashion designer (aged 55; New York City, NY, USA)
* June 8 – Anthony Bourdain, celebrity chef, author and television personality (aged 61; Kaysersberg-Vignoble, France)
* June 9
** Joan Bernard Armstrong, judge (aged 77; New Orleans, LA, USA)
** Richard H. Bube, physicist (aged 90; Santa Clara, CA, USA)
** Kristine Ciesinski, opera singer (aged 65; Grand Teton National Park, WY, USA)
** Murray Fromson, journalist and professor (aged 88; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Crawford Gates, composer and conductor (aged 96; Salt Lake City, UT, USA)
** Lorraine Gordon, jazz club owner (aged 95; New York City, NY, USA)
** John Wesley Hanes III, civil servant (aged 93; New York City, NY, USA)
** Kenyatta Jones, football player (aged 39; CO, USA)
** Clemens Kalischer, photojournalist (aged 97; Lenox, MA, USA)
* June 10
** Neal E. Boyd, Opera singer and winner of "America's Got Talent" (aged 42; Sikeston, MO, USA)
** Dorothy Cotton, civil rights activist (aged 88; Ithaca, NY, USA)
** Harold L. Dibble, archaeologist (aged 66; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
** James Gips, technologist (aged 72; Medfield, MA, USA)
** Edward Sadlowski, labor activist (aged 79; Fort Myers, FL, USA)
** Christopher Stasheff, author (aged 74; Champaign, IL, USA)
* June 11
** Wayne Dockery, jazz double bassist (aged 76; Hauts-de-Seine, France)
** Tom McEwen, drag racer (aged 81; Fountain Valley, CA, USA)
** Larry Thomas, political advisor (aged 70; Newport Beach, CA, USA)
* June 12
** Robert Alan Browne, actor (aged 86; Laguna Woods, CA, USA)
** Keith Fahnhorst, football player (aged 66; Eden Prairie, MN, USA)
** Jack Laxer, photographer (aged 91; Culver City, CA, USA)
** Al Meltzer, sportscaster (aged 89; Newtown Square, PA, USA)
* June 13
** Anne Donovan, basketball player and coach (aged 56; Wilmington, NC, USA)
** D. J. Fontana, musician (aged 87; Nashville, TN, USA)
** Tom Gear, politician (aged 69; York County, VA, USA)
** J. Alex Haller, pediatric surgeon (aged 91; Glencoe, MD, USA)
** Ronald I. Meshbesher, lawyer (aged 85; Minneapolis, MN, USA)
** Charles Vinci, weightlifter (aged 85; Elyria, OH, USA)
* June 14
** Ed Roebuck, baseball player (aged 86; Lakewood, CA, USA)
** Mary K. Shell, journalist and politician (aged 91; Bakersfield, CA, USA)
** Marta Weigle, folklorist and anthropologist (aged 73; Santa Fe, NM, USA)
* June 15 – Matt "Guitar" Murphy, blues guitarist (aged 88; Miami, FL, USA)
* June 16 – Martin Bregman, film producer (aged 92; New York City, NY, USA)
* June 17
** Elizabeth Brackett, television journalist (aged 76; Chicago, IL, USA)
** O. Timothy O'Meara, mathematician (aged 90; South Bend, IN, USA)
** Rebecca Parris, jazz singer (aged 66; South Yarmouth, MA, USA)
** Aihud Pevsner, physicist (aged 92; Pikesville, MD, USA)
** Dutch Rennert, baseball umpire (aged 88; St. Augustine, FL, USA)
** Stephen E. Robinson, religious scholar (aged 71; Provo, UT, USA)
* June 18
** Walter Bahr, Hall of Fame soccer player (aged 91; Boalsburg, PA, USA)
** Big Van Vader, professional wrestler and football player (aged 63; Denver, CO, USA)
** Billy Connors, baseball player (aged 76; Safety Harbor, FL, USA)
** Barry McDaniel, opera singer (aged 87; Berlin, Germany)
** Claude Ramsey, politician (aged 75; Chattanooga, TN, USA)
** Billy Sammeth, talent manager (aged 66; New York City, NY, USA)
** Lawrence A. Skantze, military officer (aged 89; McLean, VA, USA)
** Jimmy Wopo, rapper (aged 21; Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
** XXXTentacion, rapper, singer and songwriter, gunshot wound (aged 20; Deerfield Beach, FL, USA)
* June 19
** Hubert Green, Hall of Fame golfer (aged 71; Birmingham, AL, USA)
** Stefan Kanfer, journalist (aged 85; Sleepy Hollow, NY, USA)
** Bill Kenville, basketball player (aged 87; Binghamton, NY, USA)
** Chuck Klingbeil, football player (aged 52; Chicago, IL, USA)
** Koko, American-bred Western lowland gorilla (aged 46; Woodside, CA, USA)
** Don Mason, baseball player (aged 73; South Yarmouth, MA, USA)
** Ian Orme, British-American microbiologist (aged 65; Onchiota, NY, USA)
** Jane Cronin Scanlon, mathematician (aged 95; Piscataway, NJ, USA)
** Lowrell Simon, soul singer-songwriter (aged 75; Newton, MS, USA)
** Jack Stallings, baseball coach (aged 87; Tallahassee, FL, USA)
** Antwon Rose Jr., African-American man shot and killed by white police officer Michael Rosfeld in Pittsburgh (aged 17; East Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
* June 20
** David Bianco, record producer, engineer and mixer (aged 64; North Hollywood, CA, USA)
** Dick Danehe, football player (aged 97; Memphis, TN, USA)
** Brian Donovan, journalist (aged 77; Myrtle Beach, SC, USA)
** Robert Gilpin, political scientist (aged 87; Waterbury, VT, USA)
** Bill Hendon, politician (aged 73; Forest City, NC, USA)
** Willie Lee Rose, historian (aged 91; Baltimore, MD, USA)
** John Ward, sportscaster (Vol Network) (aged 88; Knoxville, TN, USA)
* June 21
** William Acker, judge (aged 90; Birmingham, AL, USA)
** H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr., philosopher (aged 77; Houston, TX, USA)
** Charles Krauthammer, columnist and political commentator (aged 68; Atlanta, GA, USA)
** George Lindemann, businessman (aged 82; Palm Beach, FL, USA)
** John Mack, civic leader (aged 81; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Bill Thompson, politician (aged 80; Green River, WY, USA)
* June 22
** Deanna Lund, actress (aged 81; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Vinnie Paul, drummer (aged 54; Las Vegas, NV, USA)
* June 23
** Fred Chalenor, bassist (aged 62; Portland, OR, USA)
** Donald Hall, poet (aged 89; Wilmot, NH, USA)
* June 24 – Stanley Anderson, actor (aged 78; Santa Rosa, CA, USA)
* June 25 – Richard Benjamin Harrison, businessman and television personality (aged 77; Las Vegas, NV, USA)
* June 27 – Joe Jackson, talent manager (aged 89; Las Vegas, NV, USA)
* June 28 – Harlan Ellison, writer (aged 84; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* June 29
** Matt Cappotelli, professional wrestler (aged 38; Louisville, KY, USA)
** Bill Hamel, composer and record producer (aged 45; Cocoa Beach, FL, USA)
** Derrick O'Connor, Irish actor (aged 77; Santa Barbara, CA, USA)
** Eugene Pitt, singer (aged 80; Newberry, SC, USA)
** Steve Ditko, comics artist and writer (Marvel Comics) (aged 90; New York City, NY, USA)
* June 30
** John E. Casida, entomologist and toxicologist (aged 88; Berkeley, CA, USA)
** Mike Heideman, basketball coach (aged 70; Green Bay, WI, USA)
** Billy Kinard, football player (aged 84; Fort Payne, AL, USA)
** Timothy Murphy, poet (aged 67; Fargo, ND, USA)
===July===
* July 1
** Bruce Baker, geneticist (aged 72; Leesburg, VA, USA)
** Brad Dye, politician (aged 84; Ridgeland, MS, USA)
** Dick Feagler, journalist (aged 79; Cleveland, OH, USA)
** Harvey Gentry, baseball player (aged 92; Pickerington, OH, USA)
** Shirley Huffman, politician (aged 89; Ventura, CA, USA)
* July 2 – Henry Butler, jazz pianist and photographer (aged 69; New York City, NY, USA)
* July 3 – Richard Swift, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and film maker (aged 41; Tacoma, WA, USA)
* July 4
** E. Riley Anderson, judge (aged 85; Knoxville, TN, USA)
** Alan S. Rabson, pathologist and cancer researcher (aged 92; Skillman, NJ, USA)
** Donovan Webster, journalist (aged 59; Charlottesville, VA, USA)
* July 5
** Donald J. Farish, educator (aged 75; Boston, MA, USA)
** Jim Malloy, recording engineer (aged 87; Nashville, TN, USA)
** Ed Schultz, political commentator and television host (aged 64; Washington, DC, USA)
* July 6
** Donald D. Belcher, executive (aged 79; Pauma Valley, CA, USA)
** Jeremy Gold, actuary and economist (aged 75; Manhattan, NY, USA)
** J. Frederick Grassle, marine biologist (aged 78; Franklin Township, NJ, USA)
** Bruce Hunter, Olympic swimmer (aged 79; Cambridge, MA, USA)
** Ron Lollar, politician (aged 69; Bartlett, TN, USA)
** Bruce Maher, football player (aged 80; Wauwatosa, WI, USA)
** Vince Martin, folk singer (aged 81; New York City, NY, USA)
** Clifford Rozier, basketball player (aged 45; Bradenton, FL, USA)
* July 7
** Ralph T. Browning, Air Force pilot (aged 76; Scottsdale, AZ, USA)
** Paul Fetler, composer (aged 98; Minneapolis, MN, USA)
** John R. Harris, economist (aged 84; Boston, MA, USA)
** Bret Hoffmann, death metal singer (aged 51; North Tonawanda, NY, USA)
** Tyler Honeycutt, basketball player (aged 27; Sherman Oaks, CA, USA)
** Alan Johnson, choreographer (aged 81; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Terry Todd, weightlifter and sports historian (aged 80; Austin, TX, USA)
* July 8
** Tab Hunter, actor and singer (aged 86; Santa Barbara, CA, USA)
** Billy Knight, basketball player (aged 39; Phoenix, AZ, USA)
** Frank Ramsey, basketball player (aged 86; Madisonville, KY, USA)
** Lonnie Shelton, basketball player (aged 62; Westminster, CA, USA)
* July 9
** Barbara Carlson, politician and radio host (aged 80; Minneapolis, MN, USA)
** Sam Chisholm, New Zealand-born Australian television executive (aged 78; Sydney, Australia)
** Sammy Esposito, baseball player (aged 86; Newland, NC, USA)
** Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, poet and activist (aged 73; Queens, NY, USA)
** Johnny Moates, college basketball player (aged 73; Mechanicsville, VA, USA)
** Jenny Phillips, documentarian (aged 76; Wauwinet, MA, USA)
* July 10
** Robert Behringer, physicist (aged 69; Durham, NC, USA)
** Ron Johnson, football player (aged 62; Detroit, MI, USA)
** Henry Morgenthau III, author and television producer (aged 101; Washington, DC, USA)
** Marlene Riding in Mameah, silversmith (aged 85; Pawnee, OK, USA)
** Darryl Rogers, football coach (aged 84; Fresno, CA, USA)
** John A. Stormer, author (aged 90; Troy, MO, USA)
* July 11
** Richard John Garcia, Roman Catholic prelate (aged 71; Monterey, CA, USA)
** Barbara Harrell-Bond, American-born British refugee studies academic (aged 85; Oxford, England, UK)
** Rodolfo Lozano, judge (aged 76; Valparaiso, IN, USA)
** Nathaniel Reed, environmentalist (aged 84; Quebec City, QC, Canada)
** Lindy Remigino, Olympic athlete (aged 87; Newington, CT, USA)
* July 12
** Roger Perry, actor (aged 85; Indian Wells, CA, USA)
** Del Shankel, microbiologist and academic administrator (aged 90; Lawrence, KS, USA)
** Thomas Stephens, football player (aged 82; Naples, FL, USA)
** Robert Wolders, Dutch actor (aged 81; Malibu, CA, USA)
* July 13
** Ponty Bone, accordionist (aged 78; San Antonio, TX, USA)
** Stan Dragoti, film director (aged 85; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Jocelyn Vollmar, ballerina (aged 92; San Francisco, CA, USA)
* July 14
** Harold Covington, political activist (aged 64; Bremerton, WA, USA)
** Claudia Griffith, politician (aged 67; Norman, OK, USA)
** Chet Morgan, politician (aged 81; Manchester, CT, USA)
** Thomas Stevens, trumpeter (aged 79; Cambria, CA, USA)
** Natalia Tanner, physician (aged 96; Southfield, MI, USA)
** Ron Thomas, basketball player (aged 67; Louisville, KY, USA)
* July 15
** Dave Dave, conceptual artist (aged 42; Las Vegas, NV, USA)
** Theryl DeClouet, jazz-funk singer (aged 66; New Orleans, LA, USA)
* July 16
** Robin Jones, basketball player (aged 64; Chicago, IL, USA)
** Gabriel Rivera, football player (aged 57; San Antonio, TX, USA)
* July 17
** Arthur James Armstrong, Methodist bishop (aged 93; Indianapolis, IN, USA)
** Gary Beach, actor (aged 70; Palm Springs, CA, USA)
** Lincoln Brower, entomologist and academic (aged 86; Roseland, VA, USA)
** Mark Hayes, golfer (aged 69; Edmond, OK, USA)
** Nancy M. Petry, psychologist (aged 49; Canton, CT, USA)
** Robert H. Traurig, lawyer (aged 93; Miami, FL, USA)
* July 18
** Adrian Cronauer, disc jockey (aged 79; Troutville, VA, USA)
** Ronald H. Griffith, military officer (aged 82; Arlington, VA, USA)
** Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga, political activist (aged 92; Torrance, CA, USA)
** Burton Richter, Nobel physicist (aged 87; Stanford, CA, USA)
** Mollie Tibbetts, student (aged 20; Brooklyn, IA, USA)
* July 19
** Jon Schnepp, animator, filmmaker and voice actor (aged 51; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Yale Udoff, screenwriter (aged 83; Burbank, CA, USA)
** John Vigilante, ice hockey player (aged 33; Dearborn, MI, USA)
* July 20 – Meg Randall, actress (aged 91; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* July 21 – Jonathan Gold, food and music critic (aged 57; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* July 22
** Robert M. Blizzard, endocrinologist (aged 94; Charlottesville, VA, USA)
** Raymond Hunthausen, oman Catholic prelate (aged 96; Helena, MT, USA)
** Donald Kaul, journalist (aged 83; Washington, DC, USA)
** Brian Kellow, magazine editor (aged 59; New York City, NY, USA)
** Rene Portland, college basketball coach (aged 65; Tannersville, PA, USA)
** Clemmie Spangler, banker (aged 86; Charlotte, NC, USA)
** Tony Sparano, football coach (aged 56; Eden Prairie, MN, USA)
* July 23
** Maryon Pittman Allen, journalist and politician (aged 92; Birmingham, AL, USA)
** George Brown, long jumper (aged 86; Sacramento, CA, USA)
** Tony Cline, football player (aged 69; Greenwood, IN, USA)
** Howard Felsher, game show producer (aged 90; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Elbert Howard, civil rights activist, co-founder of the Black Panther Party (aged 80; Santa Rosa, CA, USA)
** Stephen Juan, anthropologist and author (aged 69; Sydney, Australia)
** Mary Jane McCaffree, secretary (aged 106; Juno Beach, FL, USA)
** Jacob Tanzer, attorney (aged 83; Portland, OR, USA)
** Elliot Vesell, pharmacologist (aged 84; New York City, NY, USA)
* July 24 – Jack P. Lewis, Biblical scholar (aged 99; Memphis, TN, USA)
* July 26 – Robert Martin, fighter pilot (aged 99; Olympia Fields, IL, USA)
* July 27
** Michael P. DeLong, Marine Corps lieutenant general (aged 73; Treasure Island, FL, USA)
** Leo E. Litwak, writer (aged 94; San Francisco, CA, USA)
** Mateja Matejić, Yugoslavian-born writer (aged 94; Columbus, OH, USA)
** Nick Raynes, film producer (aged 33; New York City, NY, USA)
* July 28
** John C. Buechner, university administrator and politician (aged 83; Boulder, CO, USA)
** Bruce Lietzke, professional golfer (aged 67; Athens, TX, USA)
** Sam Mehran, musician (aged 31; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* July 29
** Brickhouse Brown, professional wrestler (aged 57; Jackson, MS, USA)
** Brian Christopher, professional wrestler (aged 46; Bolivar, TN, USA)
** Yaakov Elman, Judaic scholar (aged 75; New York City, NY, USA)
** Johnny Lewis, baseball player and coach (aged 78; Pensacola, FL, USA)
** Nikolai Volkoff, Yugoslav-born professional wrestler (aged 70; Glen Arm, MD, USA)
** Bryan Wagner, politician (aged 75; Atlanta, GA, USA)
* July 30
** Ron Dellums, politician (aged 82; Washington, DC, USA)
** Michael A. Sheehan, author and government official (aged 63; Bethesda, MD, USA)
** Robert Thunell, biogeochemist and oceanographer (aged 67; New York City, NY, USA)
* July 31
** George Cowgill, anthropologist and archaeologist (aged 88; Tempe, AZ, USA)
** Michael Krop, school board member (aged 88; Miami, FL, USA)
** Daryl Robertson, baseball player (aged 82; Salt Lake City, UT, USA)
** Betty Schoenbaum, philanthropist (aged 100; Charleston, WV, USA)
** Julia Weertman, materials scientist (aged 92; Evanston, IL, USA)
** Beatrice Wright, psychologist (aged 100; Madison, WI, USA)
===August===
* August 1
** Mary Carlisle, actress (aged 104; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** David I. Cleland, engineer and writer (aged 92; Zelienople, PA, USA)
** Fakir Musafar, performance artist (aged 87; Menlo Park, CA, USA)
** Nancy Tuckerman, secretary (aged 89; Salisbury, CT, USA)
** Rolf Valtin, soccer player (aged 93; Alexandria, VA, USA)
** Taylor Whitley, football player (aged 38; Lake Jackson, TX, USA)
* August 2
** Neil Argo, composer (aged 71; Scottsdale, AZ, USA)
** Bill Wattenburg, engineer, author, and radio talk show host (aged 82; Chico, CA, USA)
* August 3 – Joseph C. Burke, educator and academic (aged 86; Albany, NY, USA)
* August 4 – Lorrie Collins, country singer (aged 76; Reno, NV, USA)
* August 5 – Charlotte Rae, actress (aged 92; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* August 6
** Patricia Benoit, television actress and film director (aged 91; Port Chester, NY, USA)
** Margaret Heckler, politician and diplomat (aged 87; Arlington, VA, USA)
** Paul Laxalt, politician (aged 96; McLean, VA, USA)
** Leonard Lewinsohn, Islamic scholar (aged 65; CA, USA)
** Robert A. Plane, chemist, vintner and academic administrator (aged 91; Aurora, NY, USA)
** William E. Schluter, politician (aged 90; Pennington, NJ, USA)
** Anya Krugovoy Silver, poet (aged 49; Macon, GA, USA)
* August 7
** Andrew Coburn, author (aged 86; Bedford, MA, USA)
** Arvonne Fraser, women's rights activist (aged 92; Hudson, WI, USA)
** Richard H. Kline, cinematographer (aged 91; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Stan Mikita, Slovak-born Canadian ice hockey player (aged 78; Chicago, IL, USA)
** Joel H. Silbey, historian (aged 84; Coatesville, PA, USA)
** Gerald Weinberg, computer scientist (aged 84; Chicago, IL, USA)
** Robley Wilson, writer (aged 88; Orlando, FL, USA)
* August 8
** Katie Cannon, theologian (aged 68; Richmond, VA, USA)
** Wendell Erickson, politician (aged 93; Sioux Falls, SD, USA)
** Robert Hugh Ferrell, historian and author (aged 97; Chelsea, MI, USA)
** John Glines, theatre producer (aged 84; Bangkok, Thailand)
** Richard Sipe, sociologist (aged 85; La Jolla, CA, USA)
* August 9
** Donald F. Holcomb, physicist (aged 92; Ithaca, NY, USA)
** Billy Ray Irick, convicted murderer (aged 59; Nashville, TN, USA)
** John Kennedy, baseball player (aged 77; Peabody, MA, USA)
** Carol Springer, politician (aged 81; Prescott, AZ, USA)
* August 10
** Peter Berck, economist (aged 68; Berkeley, CA, USA)
** William Corbett, poet (aged 75; Brooklyn, NY, USA)
** Dawn Mabalon, academic (aged 45; Kauai, HI, USA)
** Katherine Nelson, psychologist (aged 88; New York City, NY, USA)
** A. R. Schwartz, politician (aged 92; Houston, TX, USA)
* August 11
** Terry A. Davis, computer programmer (aged 48; Dalles, OR, USA)
** Morris G. Hallock, politician (aged 92; Sturgis, SD, USA)
** Stanley Keleman, writer and chiropractor (aged 86; Berkeley, CA, USA)
** Manch Wheeler, football player (aged 79; Augusta, ME, USA)
* August 12
** Richard Lloyd Anderson, historian (aged 92; Salt Lake City, UT, USA)
** Thomas J. Moran, executive and humanitarian (aged 65; New York City, NY, USA)
** Steven T. Ross, military historian (aged 81; Hewlett; NY, USA)
* August 13
** Mark Baker, actor (aged 71; Cumberland, MD, USA)
** John Carter, film editor (aged 95; White Plains, NY, USA)
** Don Garrison, politician (aged 93; Leesport, PA, USA)
** Powell A. Moore, government official (aged 80; Washington, DC, USA)
** Jim Neidhart, professional wrestler (aged 63; Wesley Chapel, FL, USA)
* August 14
** Charles Victor Grahmann, Roman Catholic prelate (aged 87; San Antonio, TX, USA)
** Mela Hudson, actress (aged 31; Burbank, CA, USA)
** Jill Janus, rock singer (Huntress) (aged 42; Portland, OR, USA)
* August 15
** Kenneth Bowles, computer scientist (aged 89; Solana Beach, CA, USA)
** Robert Everett, computer scientist (aged 97; Cape Cod, MA, USA)
** Sterling Stuckey, historian (aged 86; Lawndale, CA, USA)
* August 16
** Glen Chin, Chinese-American actor (aged 70; Stockton, CA, USA)
** Aretha Franklin, R&B singer and songwriter (aged 76; Detroit, MI, USA)
* August 17
** Bob Bass, basketball coach and executive (aged 89; San Antonio, TX, USA)
** Leonard Boswell, politician (aged 84; Des Moines, IA, USA)
** Linton Freeman, sociologist (aged 91; Irvine, CA, USA)
** Bunky Henry, golfer (aged 74; Fulton County, GA, USA)
** Charles D. Lancaster Jr., politician (aged 74; New Orleans, LA, USA)
** David McReynolds, pacifist and magazine editor (aged 88; New York City, NY, USA)
** Paul Naumoff, football player (aged 73; Lenoir City, TN, USA)
** Danny Pearson, R&B singer (aged 65; Stonewall, MS, USA)
** Kurt Walker, ice hockey player (aged 64; Atlanta, GA, USA)
* August 18
** Tom Clark, poet and biographer (aged 77; Berkeley, CA, USA)
** Jack Costanzo, percussionist (aged 98; Lakeside, CA, USA)
** Costas Kondylis, architect (aged 78; Manhattan, NY, USA)
** John E. McCarthy, Roman Catholic prelate (aged 88; Austin, TX, USA)
** Robert Todd, filmmaker (aged 54; Boston, MA, USA)
* August 19
** Vaughn Beals, businessman (aged 90; Gig Harbor, WA, USA)
** Louis Gambaccini, civil servant, commissioner, founding chairman of NJ Transit (aged 87; Skillman, NJ, USA)
** Darrow Hooper, shot-putter (aged 86; Dallas, TX, USA)
** Joe Landrum, baseball player (aged 89; Columbia, SC, USA)
** Rod Saddler, football player (aged 52; Atlanta, GA, USA)
* August 20
** Brian Murray, South African actor and director (aged 80; New York City, NY, USA)
** Eddie Willis, musician (aged 82; Gore Springs, MS, USA)
* August 21 – Barbara Harris, actress (aged 83; Scottsdale, AZ, USA)
* August 22 – Ed King, musician (aged 68; Nashville, TN, USA)
* August 24 – Robin Leach, English television personality (aged 76; Las Vegas, NV, USA)
* August 25 – John McCain, U.S. Senator from Arizona, Republican presidential nominee (2008) (aged 81; Cornville, AZ, USA)
* August 26 – Neil Simon, playwright (aged 91; New York City, NY, USA)
* August 27
** Dale M. Cochran, politician (aged 89; West Des Moines, IA, USA)
** Henry McNamara, politician (aged 83; Wyckoff, NJ, USA)
** Bobby Walden, football player (aged 80; Bainbridge, GA, USA)
** Fredd Wayne, actor (aged 93; Santa Monica, CA, USA)
* August 29
** Samuel Conti, judge (aged 96; San Francisco, CA, USA)
** Gary Friedrich, comic book writer (aged 75; St. Louis, MO, USA)
** Joseph P. Graw, politician (aged 103; Bloomington, MN, USA)
** Marie Severin, comics artist and colorist (aged 89; Massapequa, NY, USA)
** Paul Spudis, geologist and planetary scientist (aged 66; Houston, TX, USA)
** David Sugarbaker, physician (aged 65; Houston, TX, USA)
** Paul Taylor, choreographer (aged 88; Manhattan, NY, USA)
* August 30
** Peter Frame, ballet dancer (aged 61; Manhattan, NY, USA)
** Ray Kubala, football player (aged 75; Round Rock, TX, USA)
** Vanessa Marquez, actress (aged 49; South Pasadena, CA, USA)
* August 31
** Susan Brown, actress (aged 86; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Gloria Jean, actress and singer (aged 92; Mountain View, HI, USA)
** Carole Shelley, actress (aged 79; New York City, NY, USA)
===September===
* September 1
** Irving Petlin, artist, liver cancer (aged 83; Martha's Vineyard, MA, USA)
** Randy Weston, jazz pianist and composer (aged 92; New York City, NY, USA)
* September 2
** Claire Wineland, cystic fibrosis assistance advocate, stroke (aged 21; San Diego, CA, USA)
** Fred Zamberletti, athletic trainer (Minnesota Vikings) (aged 86; Hennepin County, MN, USA)
* September 3
** Lydia Clarke, actress (The Atomic City) and photographer, complications from pneumonia (aged 95; Santa Monica, CA, USA)
** Thomas Rickman, screenwriter (Coal Miner's Daughter, Hooper, Truman), cancer (aged 78; Pasadena, CA, USA)
* September 4
** Bill Daily, actor (aged 91; Santa Fe, NM, USA)
** Christopher Lawford, actor, author and activist (aged 63; Vancouver, BC, Canada)
* September 5
** Minor J. Coon, biochemist (aged 97; Ann Arbor, MI, USA)
** Erik Hauri, geochemist (aged 52; North Potomac, MD, USA)
** Arthur Lawrence Hellyer Jr., radio and television broadcaster (aged 95; Naperville, IL, USA)
** Mike Hogewood, sportscaster and professional wrestling commentator (aged 63; Greensboro, NC, USA)
** Dick Lane, baseball player (aged 91; Lancaster, CA, USA)
** Vince Phason, football player (aged 65; Denver, CO, USA)
** Rudolph Edward Torrini, sculptor (aged 95; Webster Groves, MO, USA)
* September 6
** Richard DeVos, salesman and billionaire, co-founder of Amway, complications from infection (aged 92; Ada Township, MI, USA)
** Madeleine Yayodele Nelson, musician (aged 69; Manhattan, NY, USA)
** Burt Reynolds, actor (Smokey and the Bandit, Boogie Nights, Deliverance), Emmy winner (1991), heart attack (aged 82; Jupiter, FL, USA)
* September 7
** Samuel Bodman, politician (aged 79; El Paso, TX, USA)
** Mac Miller, rapper, singer and producer, drug overdose (aged 26; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* September 8 – Chelsi Smith, singer and beauty pageant winner (aged 45; Mifflin, PA, USA)
* September 9
** Frank W. Davis, politician (aged 82; Guthrie, OK, USA)
** Adrian C. Louis, author and screenwriter (aged 72; Marshall, MN, USA)
** Paul Stuffel, baseball player (aged 91; Canton, OH, USA)
** Wallace Tripp, illustrator (aged 78; Francestown, NH, USA)
* September 10
** Chris Buttars, politician (aged 76; West Jordan, UT, USA)
** Adam Clymer, journalist (aged 81; Washington, DC, USA)
** Warrington Colescott, artist (aged 97; Hollandale, WI, USA)
** Peter Donat, Canadian-American actor (aged 90; Point Reyes Station, CA, USA)
** Albin F. Irzyk, military officer (aged 101; Alexandria, VA, USA)
** Roy Wagner, anthropologist (aged 79; Charlottesville, VA, USA)
* September 11
** Richard Newbold Adams, anthropologist (aged 94; Panajachel, Guatemala)
** Peter J. Barnes Jr., politician (aged 89; Edison, NJ, USA)
** Thomas Aquinas Higgins, judge (aged 86; Nashville, TN, USA)
** Jim Houston, football player (aged 80; Massillon, OH, USA)
** Siegfried Linkwitz, audio engineer (aged 82; Corte Madera, CA, USA)
** Don Newman, basketball coach and football player (aged 60; New Orleans, LA, USA)
** Don Panoz, executive (aged 83; Duluth, GA, USA)
* September 13 – Marin Mazzie, actress and singer (aged 57; Manhattan, NY, USA)
* September 14
** Alan Abel, prankster and writer (aged 94; Southbury, CT, USA)
** Max Bennett, jazz bassist (aged 90; San Clemente, CA, USA)
** Beverly Bentley, actress (aged 88; Provincetown, MA, USA)
** Phil Clark, baseball player (aged 86; Nashville, TN, USA)
* September 16
** Big Jay McNeely, rhythm and blues saxophonist (aged 91; Moreno Valley, CA, USA)
** Frank Parker, actor (aged 79; Vacaville, CA, USA)
* September 17
** Annette Michelson, film and art critic (aged 95; Manhattan, NY, USA)
** Daniel N. Robinson, philosopher (aged 81; Frederick, MD, USA)
* September 18
** David DiChiera, composer and founding general director of Michigan Opera Theatre (aged 83; Detroit, MI, USA)
** Richard M. Pollack, mathematician (aged 83; Montclair, NJ, USA)
** Robert Venturi, architect (aged 93; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
* September 19 – Arthur Mitchell, ballet dancer and choreographer (aged 84; New York City, NY, USA)
* September 20
** K-Run's Park Me in First, beagle show dog (aged 13; Austin, TX, USA)
** Lou Karras, football player (aged 91; Coral Springs, FL, USA)
** Laurie Mitchell, actress (aged 90; Perris, CA, USA)
** William Ward, astronomer (aged 74; Prescott, AZ, USA)
** Henry Wessel Jr., photographer (aged 76; Bay Area, CA, USA)
* September 21
** Katherine Hoover, composer and flutist (aged 80; New York City, NY, USA)
** David Laro, judge (aged 76; Ann Arbor, MI, USA)
** Howard Michaels, businessman (aged 62; Manhattan, NY, USA)
** Lee Stange, baseball player (aged 81; Melbourne, FL, USA)
* September 23
** Jane Fortune, author, journalist and historian (aged 76; Indianapolis, IN, USA)
** Gary Kurtz, film producer (aged 78; London, England, UK)
** Mark Livolsi, film editor (aged 56; Pasadena, CA, USA)
** John Anthony Nevin, psychologist (aged 85; Dukes County, MA, USA)
** David Wolkowsky, property developer (aged 99; Key West, FL, USA)
* September 24
** Norm Breyfogle, comic book artist (aged 58; Houghton, MI, USA)
** Arnold Krammer, historian (aged 77; Bryan, TX, USA)
** Tommy McDonald, football player (aged 84; Audubon, PA, USA)
** Michael O'Gorman, coxswain (aged 53; Chandler, AZ, USA)
* September 25
** Charles Berger, communication theorist (aged 79; Davis, CA, USA)
** Marie Colton, politician (aged 95; Asheville, NC, USA)
** Jack McKinney, basketball coach (aged 83; Bonita Springs, FL, USA)
** Ronnie Shelton, convicted serial rapist (aged 56; Grafton, OH, USA)
** Jerry Thorpe, director and producer (aged 92; Santa Barbara, CA, USA)
* September 27 – Marty Balin, singer and musician (aged 76; Tampa, FL, USA)
* September 29 – Otis Rush, blues guitarist and singer (aged 84; Chicago, IL, USA)
* September 30
** Michael J. Bennane, politician (aged 73; Detroit, MI, USA)
** Walter Laqueur, German-born historian and journalist (aged 97; Washington, DC, USA)
** John J. McDermott, philosopher (aged 86; College Station, TX, USA)
** Robert M. O'Neil, educator (aged 83; Washington, DC, USA)
** William Proffit, orthodontist (aged 84; Chapel Hill, NC, USA)
===October===
* October 1
** Peter C. Bjarkman, baseball historian and author (aged 77; Havana, Cuba)
** John H. Bryan, business executive and philanthropist (aged 81; Lake Bluff, IL, USA)
** Jerry González, bandleader and trumpeter (aged 69; Madrid, Spain)
** Darryl Greenamyer, aviator and record holder (aged 82; Indio, CA, USA)
* October 2 – Dorothy Hukill, politician (aged 72; Port Orange, FL, USA)
* October 3
** Leon M. Lederman, Nobel physicist (aged 96; Rexburg, ID, USA)
** Marty Pattin, baseball player (aged 75; Charleston, IL, USA)
** Hollie Pihl, judge (aged 90; Manning, OR, USA)
** John Von Ohlen, jazz drummer (Blue Wisp Big Band) (aged 77; Cincinnati, OH, USA)
** Edward E. Williams, economist (aged 73; Austin, TX, USA)
* October 4
** Dave Anderson, sportswriter (aged 89; Cresskill, NJ, USA)
** Will Vinton, animator (aged 70; Portland, OR, USA)
** Audrey Wells, screenwriter, director, and producer (aged 58; Santa Monica, CA, USA)
* October 5
** Wayne Berry, football player (aged 86; Eagle, ID, USA)
** Louis A. DeSimone, Roman Catholic prelate (aged 96; Villanova, PA, USA)
** Ed Kenney, singer and actor (aged 85; Kingston, NY, USA)
** Herbert Kleber, psychiatrist (aged 84; Santorini, Greece)
** Greg Marx, football player (aged 68; Northville, MI, USA)
* October 6 – Scott Wilson, actor (aged 76; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* October 7
** Peggy McCay, actress (aged 90; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Celeste Yarnall, actress (aged 74; Westlake Village, CA, USA)
* October 8
** Arnold Kopelson, film producer (aged 83; Beverly Hills, CA, USA)
** George Taliaferro, football player (aged 91; Mason, OH, USA)
* October 9
** Carolyn Blanchard Allen, politician (aged 97; Cambridge, WI, USA)
** Robert Bausch, author (aged 73; Fredericksburg, VA, USA)
** Thomas M. Hannigan, politician (aged 78; Fairfield, CA, USA)
** Diane Jergens, actress (aged 83; Valley Springs, CA, USA)
** Larry Larrañaga, politician (aged 80; Albuquerque, NM, USA)
** Frank Padavan, politician (aged 83; New York City, NY, USA)
** Warner Saunders, news anchor (aged 83; Chicago, IL, USA)
** Alex Spanos, billionaire and real estate developer (aged 95; Stockton, CA, USA)
** Thomas A. Steitz, Nobel biochemist (aged 78; Branford, CT, USA)
** Carolyn Warner, politician (aged 88; Paradise Valley, AZ, USA)
** William Wilbanks, criminologist (aged 78; Austin, TX, USA)
* October 10
** Louis Brouillard, Roman Catholic priest (aged 97; Pine City, MN, USA)
** Frank Deem, politician (aged 90; Parkersburg, WV, USA)
** Don Eddy, baseball player (aged 71; Rockwell, IA, USA)
** Theresa Hightower, jazz singer (aged 64; Atlanta, GA, USA)
** Raye Montague, naval engineer (aged 83; Little Rock, AR, USA)
** Richard T. Morgan, politician (aged 66; Durham, NC, USA)
** Bruce N. Whitman, aviation executive (aged 85; Greenwich, CT, USA)
** Tex Winter, football player and coach (aged 96; Manhattan, KS, USA)
* October 11
** Robert Dean, ufologist (aged 89; Phoenix, AZ, USA)
** Jim Emswiller, sound mixer (aged 61; Mount Lebanon, PA, USA)
** Milton Gendel, American-Italian photographer and art critic (aged 99; Rome, Italy)
** Carol Hall, composer and lyricist (aged 82; New York City, NY, USA)
** Greg Stafford, game designer (aged 70; Arcata, CA, USA)
* October 12
** Colleen Conway-Welch, academic administrator (aged 74; Nashville, TN, USA)
** A. G. Russell, knife maker (aged 85; Springdale, AR, USA)
* October 13
** William Coors, brewer (Coors Brewing Company) (aged 102; Golden, CO, USA)
** Edgar S. Harris Jr., Air Force lieutenant general (aged 93; Fort Worth, TX, USA)
** Sue Hubbell, author (aged 83; Bar Harbor, ME, USA)
** Don Leo Jonathan, American-Canadian professional wrestler (aged 87; Langley, BC, Canada)
** Jim Taylor, football player (aged 83; Baton Rouge, LA, USA)
** Johannes Weertman, geophysicist (aged 93; Evanston, IL, USA)
* October 15 – Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, non-Hodgkin lymphoma (aged 65; Seattle, WA, USA)
* October 18
** Elihu Abrahams, theoretical physicist (aged 91; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Todd Bol, teacher (aged 62; Hudson, WI, USA)
** Dick Cole, baseball player (aged 92; Long Beach, CA, USA)
** Randolph Hokanson, classical pianist (aged 103; Seattle, WA, USA)
** Danny Leiner, film director (aged 57; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Dick Slater, professional wrestler (aged 67; FL, USA)
* October 19
** Charles Y. Glock, sociologist (aged 99; Sandpoint, ID, USA)
** Victor Marchetti, CIA agent and author (aged 88; Ashburn, VA, USA)
** Dick Modzelewski, football player (aged 87; Eastlake, OH, USA)
** Diana Sowle, actress (aged 88; Laurel, MD, USA)
* October 21
** Earl Bakken, pacemaker inventor and museum founder (aged 94; Kona District, HI, USA)
** Harry L. Ettlinger, engineer (aged 92; Livingston, NJ, USA)
** John Hill, football player (aged 68; Raleigh, NC, USA)
** Harold Stevenson, painter (aged 89; Idabel, OK, USA)
* October 22 – Hank Greenwald, sportscaster (aged 83; San Francisco, CA, USA)
* October 23 – James Karen, actor (aged 94; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* October 24
** Michael J. O'Connor, politician (aged 89; Sioux Falls, SD, USA)
** Melvin Ragin, guitarist (aged 67; Santa Monica, CA, USA)
** Tony Joe White, singer-songwriter (aged 75; Nashville, TN, USA)
* October 25
** Sonny Fortune, jazz saxophonist (aged 79; New York City, NY, USA)
** Elder Roma Wilson, gospel harmonist (aged 107; Detroit, MI, USA)
* October 26
** Warren B. Hamilton, geologist (aged 93; Golden, CO, USA)
** Russ Mobley, politician (aged 84; Lexington, KY, USA)
* October 27
** Richard L. Bloch, businessman and sports team owner (aged 89; Santa Fe, NM, USA)
** Perry Lee Dunn, football player (aged 77; Jackson, MS, USA)
** Freddie Hart, country singer and songwriter (aged 91; Burbank, CA, USA)
** Fred Hess, tenor saxophonist (aged 74; Denver, CO, USA)
** Mario Segale, real estate developer (aged 84; Tukwila, WA, USA)
** Ntozake Shange, playwright and poet (aged 70; Bowie, MD, USA)
** Todd Youth, punk and metal guitarist (aged 47; New York City, NY, USA)
* October 28
** Peter Everwine, poet (aged 88; Fresno, CA, USA)
** I. John Hesselink, theologian (aged 90; Holland, MI, USA)
** Eldridge M. Moores, geologist (aged 80; CA, USA)
** Bill Trumbo, college basketball coach (aged 79; Kona, HI, USA)
* October 29
** William F. Bernhard, cardiovascular surgeon (aged 93; Framingham, MA, USA)
** Bernard Bragg, actor (aged 90; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Jimmy Farrar, rock singer (aged 67; LaGrange, GA, USA)
** Larry Snyder, jockey (aged 76; Hot Springs, AR, USA)
** Young Greatness, rapper (aged 34; New Orleans, LA, USA)
* October 30
** Whitey Bulger, mobster (aged 89; Preston County, WV, USA)
** Bill Fischer, baseball player (aged 88; Council Bluffs, IA, USA)
** María Irene Fornés, Cuban-American playwright (aged 88; New York City, NY, USA)
** Rae Ann Kelsch, politician (aged 58; New Orleans, LA, USA)
** Frank Litsky, sports columnist (aged 92; Washington, DC, USA)
** Beverly McClellan, singer and contestant of "The Voice" (aged 49; Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA)
** Bob Skoronski, football player (aged 84; Middleton, WI, USA)
** Steven L. Zinter, judge (aged 68; Cannon Falls, MN, USA)
* October 31 – Willie McCovey, baseball player (aged 80; Stanford, CA, USA)
===November===
* November 1
** Terry Musser, politician (aged 70; La Crosse, WI, USA)
** Dave Pickerell, distiller (aged 62; San Francisco, CA, USA)
** Ken Swofford, actor (aged 85; Pacific Grove, CA, USA)
** Edmund Zagorski, convicted double murderer (aged 63; Nashville, TN, USA)
** Paul Zimmerman, sportswriter (aged 86; Noblesville, IN, USA)
* November 2
** Roy Hargrove, jazz trumpeter (aged 49; New York City, NY, USA)
** Kitty O'Neil, stuntwoman and racer (aged 72; Eureka, SD, USA)
* November 3
** Joe Clayton, business executive (aged 69; CO, USA)
** Eddie Foy III, casting director (aged 83; Denison, IA, USA)
** Mari Hulman George, chairperson of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (aged 83; Indianapolis, IN, USA)
** Sondra Locke, actress (aged 74; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** John Marttila, political strategist (aged 78; Boston, MA, USA)
** Ramona Ripston, civil rights activist (aged 91; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Eric Schiller, chess player and author (aged 63; Palo Alto, CA, USA)
** Brent R. Taylor, military officer (aged 39; Kabul, Afghanistan)
** J. Willard Thompson, racehorse trainer (aged 83; Colts Neck Township, NJ, USA)
* November 4
** Donna Axum, model and beauty pageant winner (aged 76; Fort Worth, TX, USA)
** Bill Brown, football player (aged 80; Minneapolis, MN, USA)
** Jack Gargan, politician (aged 88; Thailand)
** Bernie Glassman, Zen Buddhist monk (aged 79; Springfield, MA, USA)
** Katherine Herring, baseball player (aged 85; Tamaqua, PA, USA)
** Harris Hines, judge (aged 75; Atlanta, GA, USA)
** Vince Manuwai, football player (aged 38; Honolulu, HI, USA)
** Grant R. Osborne, theologian (aged 76; Libertyville, IL, USA)
** Mike Parker, news reporter (aged 75; Chicago, IL, USA)
** Douglas Turner, Olympic rower (aged 86; Springfield, VA, USA)
* November 5
** Keith Christiansen, Canadian-born ice hockey player (aged 74; Duluth, MN, USA)
** Rick Reinert, animator (aged 93; Annandale, VA, USA)
** Hugh Wilson, botanist (aged 75; College Station, TX, USA)
* November 6
** Frances M. López-Morillas, translator of Spanish literature (aged 100; Providence, RI, USA)
** Hartman Rector Jr., general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (aged 94; Orem, UT, USA)
** Robert Stinnett, sailor, photographer and author (aged 94; San Jose, CA, USA)
* November 7
** Robert Anthony Brucato, Roman Catholic prelate (aged 87; Yonkers, NY, USA)
** Walt Kowalczyk, football player (aged 83; East Lansing, MI, USA)
** Bob Patterson, college basketball player (aged 86; Tulsa, OK, USA)
* November 8
** Bonnie Cooper, baseball player (aged 83; Tremont, IL, USA)
** Bill Godbout, computer scientist (aged 79; Concow, CA, USA)
** Chin Yang Lee, Chinese-born author (aged 102; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Riccardo Levi-Setti, Italian-born physicist and professor (aged 91; Hyde Park, NY, USA)
** Ron Negray, baseball player (aged 88; Akron, OH, USA)
** Raymond Plank, businessman (aged 96; Sheridan, WY, USA)
** Wallace Triplett, football player (aged 92; Detroit, MI, USA)
** Marvin Zuckerman, psychologist (aged 90; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
* November 9
** Dorothy Cheney, scientist (aged 68; Devon, PA, USA)
** Richard Paul Conaboy, judge (aged 93; Scranton, PA, USA)
** James Greene, actor (aged 91; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Ken Howell, baseball player (aged 57; West Bloomfield, MI, USA)
** Roger W. Hunt, politician (aged 80; Sioux Falls, SD, USA)
** Barre Toelken, folklorist (aged 83; Logan, UT, USA)
* November 10
** Ron Johnson, football player (aged 71; Madison, NJ, USA)
** Herbert London, political activist and commentator (aged 79; Manhattan, NY, USA)
** Liz J. Patterson, politician (aged 78; Spartanburg, SC, USA)
** John Rogers, Canadian-born businessman (aged 57; San Diego, CA, USA)
* November 11
** Dominic Carmon, Roman Catholic prelate (aged 87; New Orleans, LA, USA)
** Jerry Gant, visual artist and poet (aged 56; Newark, NJ, USA)
** Shakti Gawain, author (aged 70; Trenton, NJ, USA)
** Wayne Maunder, Canadian-born actor (aged 80; Brattleboro, VT, USA)
** Donald McCaig, writer (aged 78; Williamsville, VA, USA)
** Frankie Schneider, racing driver (aged 92; Hellertown, PA, USA)
* November 12
** Stan Lee, comics artist and writer (Marvel Comics) (aged 95; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** David Pearson, race car driver (aged 83; Spartanburg, SC, USA)
* November 13 – Katherine MacGregor, actress (aged 93; Woodland Hills, CA, USA)
* November 15 – Roy Clark, country singer (aged 85; Tulsa, OK, USA)
* November 16
** William Goldman, novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (aged 87; New York City, NY, USA)
** Jane Maas, advertising executive and author (aged 86; Charleston, SC, USA)
* November 17
** Les Beasley, southern gospel singer (aged 90; Pensacola, FL, USA)
** Gene Berce, basketball player (aged 91; Milwaukee, WI, USA)
** Kayo Dottley, football player (aged 90; Vicksburg, MS, USA)
** Jerry Frankel, theater and film producer (aged 88; Manhattan, NY, USA)
** Cyril Pahinui, slack-key guitarist and singer (aged 68; Honolulu, HI, USA)
** Mary Kay Stearns, actress (aged 93; Newport Beach, CA, USA)
* November 18
** Ethel Ayler, actress (aged 88; Loma Linda, CA, USA)
** Eddie Reeves, songwriter (aged 79; Houston, TX, USA)
* November 19
** Larry Pierce, country singer and comedian (aged 68; Middletown, IN, USA)
** Shiao Yi, Taiwanese-American wuxia novelist (aged 83; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* November 20
** James H. Billington, academic (aged 89; Washington, DC, USA)
** Eddie C. Campbell, blues musician (aged 79; Oak Park, IL, USA)
** Mac Collins, politician (aged 74; Flovilla, GA, USA)
** Henry Metzger, German-born immunologist (aged 86; Hanover, NH, USA)
** Wayne Stayskal, cartoonist (aged 86; Carol Stream, IL, USA)
* November 21
** Michele Carey, actress (aged 76; Newport Beach, CA, USA)
** Angelica Cob-Baehler, music industry executive (aged 47; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Dean Gitter, entrepreneur and real estate developer (aged 83; Taos County, NM, USA)
** Olivia Hooker, civil rights figure (aged 103; White Plains, NY, USA)
** Jose Peralta, politician (aged 47; New York City, NY, USA)
* November 22
** Gerald Berenson, cardiologist (aged 96; Houston, TX, USA)
** Willie Naulls, basketball player (aged 84; Laguna Niguel, CA, USA)
** Albert Ritzenberg, tennis player and coach (aged 100; Bethesda, MD, USA)
* November 23
** Betty Bumpers, childhood immunizations activist (aged 93; Little Rock, AR, USA)
** Bob McNair, businessman and sports club owner (aged 81; Houston, TX, USA)
** Shawn O'Hara, politician (aged 60; Canton, MS, USA)
* November 24 – Ricky Jay, magician and actor (aged 72; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* November 25
** Randolph L. Braham, Romanian-born historian and political scientist (aged 95; New York City, NY, USA)
** Tony Hanson, basketball player (aged 63; Windham, CT, USA)
** Gloria Katz, screenwriter and producer (aged 76; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Wright King, actor (aged 95; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Larry Matysik, professional wrestling commentator and author (aged 71; Belleville, IL, USA)
** Shep Shepherd, jazz musician (aged 101; Mission Viejo, CA, USA)
* November 26 – Stephen Hillenburg, marine biologist, cartoonist (SpongeBob SquarePants) (aged 57; San Marino, CA, USA)
* November 27 – Ed Pastor, former U.S. Representative from Arizona (aged 75; Phoenix, AZ, USA)
* November 28 – Robert Morris, sculptor (aged 87; Kingston, NY, USA)
* November 30 – George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United States from 1989 to 1993, 43rd Vice President of the United States from 1981 to 1989 (aged 94; Houston, TX, USA)
===December===
* December 1 – Ken Berry, actor (aged 85; Burbank, CA, USA)
* December 2
** Martin B. Dickman, biologist (aged 68; Carpinteria, CA, USA)
** Wilmer Clemont Fields, Southern Baptist minister and newspaper editor (aged 96; Nashville, TN, USA)
** Al Frazier, football player (aged 83; Lawrenceville, GA, USA)
** Perry Robinson, jazz musician (aged 80; Jersey City, NJ, USA)
** Michael James Snyder, business executive (aged 68; Yakima County, WA, USA)
* December 3
** Philip Bosco, actor (aged 88; Haworth, NJ, USA)
** Fred Greenstein, political scientist (aged 88; Princeton, NJ, USA)
** Mervin E. Muller, computer scientist and statistician (aged 90; Columbus, OH, USA)
** Alex Wizbicki, football player (aged 97; Superior, WI, USA)
* December 4
** Lester Kinsolving, political radio host (aged 90; Vienna, VA, USA)
** Sam Nover, sportscaster (aged 77; West Palm Beach, FL, USA)
* December 5
** Jim House, politician (aged 70; Washington County, AR, USA)
** Jim Jamieson, professional golfer (aged 75; Stillwater, OK, USA)
** Gary McPherson, college basketball coach (aged 82; Morgantown, WV, USA)
** Lynn Schindler, politician (aged 74; Spokane Valley, WA, USA)
** Harry W. Shlaudeman, diplomat (aged 92; San Luis Obispo, CA, USA)
** Julia Vinograd, poet (aged 74; Berkeley, CA, USA)
* December 6
** Ace Cannon, saxophonist (aged 84; Calhoun City, MS, USA)
** Al Gallagher, baseball player (aged 73; Fresno, CA, USA)
** Larry Hennig, professional wrestler (aged 82; St. Cloud, MN, USA)
** Jim Meehan, poker player (aged 66; MN, USA)
** Murray Murphey, historian (aged 90; Ardmore, PA, USA)
** Isiah Robertson, football player (aged 69; Dallas, TX, USA)
** Frank Joseph Rodimer, Roman Catholic prelate (aged 91; Totowa, NJ, USA)
** Tim Rossovich, football player (aged 72; Grass Valley, CA, USA)
* December 7
** Reby Cary, politician (aged 98; Fort Worth, TX, USA)
** Paul Henderson, journalist (aged 79; Seattle, WA, USA)
** The Mascara Snake, artist and musician (aged 70; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* December 8
** Evelyn Berezin, computer designer (aged 93; Manhattan, NY, USA)
** Rosanell Eaton, civil rights activist (aged 97; Louisburg, NC, USA)
** Walter J. Floss Jr., politician (aged 95; Swormville, NY, USA)
** Rod Jones, football player (aged 54; Seattle, WA, USA)
* December 9
** Robert Bergland, politician (aged 90; Roseau, MN, USA)
** William Blum, author and historian (aged 85; Arlington, VA, USA)
** Riccardo Giacconi, Italian-born Nobel astrophysicist (aged 87; San Diego, CA, USA)
* December 10 – Bob and John, racehorse (aged 15; Jeju Island, South Korea)
* December 11
** Harold L. Kahn, historian (aged 88; San Francisco, CA, USA)
** Eleanor Maccoby, psychologist (aged 101; Palo Alto, CA, USA)
** Bill Siegel, documentary producer and director (aged 55; Orlando, FL, USA)
* December 13 – Nancy Wilson, jazz singer (aged 81; Pioneertown, CA, USA)
* December 14 – Joe Osborn, bass guitarist (aged 81; Greenwood, LA, USA)
* December 15 – Jerry Chesnut, songwriter (aged 87; Nashville, TN, USA)
* December 17
** Penny Marshall, actress, director, and producer (aged 75; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Raven Wilkinson, dancer (aged 83; Manhattan, NY, USA)
* December 18
** Steve Daskewisz, actor and stuntman (aged 74; FL, USA)
** Paul Frazier, football player (aged 51; Houston, TX, USA)
** Peter Masterson, writer (aged 84; Kinderhook, NY, USA)
* December 20 – Donald Moffat, English-American actor (aged 87; Sleepy Hollow, NY, USA)
* December 21 – Forrest Fezler, golfer and golf course designer (aged 69; Tallahassee, FL, USA)
* December 22 – Jimmy Work, country singer (aged 94; Dukedom, TN, USA)
* December 23
** Eileen Battersby, American-born Irish literary critic (aged 60; Old Bridge, Ireland)
** Barbara Kloka Hackett, judge (aged 90; Brighton, MI, USA)
** Liza Redfield, conductor and pianist (aged 94; Manhattan, NY, USA)
** Elias M. Stein, mathematician (aged 87; Somerville, NJ, USA)
* December 27 – Richard Arvin Overton, war veteran (aged 112; Austin, TX, USA)
* December 30
** Cameron M. Alexander, Baptist minister (aged 86; Atlanta, GA, USA)
** Larry Austin, composer (aged 88; Denton, TX, USA)
** Seymour S. Cohen, biochemist (aged 101; Woods Hole, MA, USA)
** Marc Hauser, photographer (aged 66; Chicago, IL, USA)
** Jack Kahl, businessman (aged 78; Cleveland, OH, USA)
** Don Lusk, animator and director (aged 105; San Clemente, CA, USA)
** Warren Plunkett, football player (aged 98; Austin, MN, USA)
* December 31 – Ray Sawyer, country music singer (aged 81; Daytona Beach, FL, USA)
==External links==
* 2018 in the United States
Category:United States History: Volume 24