2016

Events in the year 2016 in the United States.
==Incumbents==
===Federal Government===
* President: Barack Obama (D-IL)
* Vice President: Joe Biden (D-DE)
* Chief Justice: John Roberts (NY)
* Speaker of the House of Representatives: Paul Ryan (R-WI)
* Senate Majority Leader: Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
* Congress: 114th
==Events==
===January===
* January 1
** Hawaii becomes the first state to raise the legal smoking age to 21.
** Texas allows the open carry of guns in public places.
** Tennessee launches the nation's first statewide registry of animal abusers.
** Washington, D.C., and Montgomery County, Maryland, ban the storage of food in Styrofoam containers.
* January 2 – The 3 Percenters and several other armed militia organizations take over the headquarters of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service's Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Harney County, Oregon, in a series of incidents stemming from the 2014 Bundy standoff. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) ends the occupation with a shootout, killing one militiaman and arresting five others, including leader Ammon Bundy.
* January 5 – President Obama introduces executive orders to expand the enforcement of federal gun laws.
* January 6 – Star Wars: The Force Awakens becomes the highest-grossing film in North America, beating previous record-holder Avatar's lifetime gross of $760 million in just 20 days of release.
* January 8 – The Obama administration announces an alliance with tech companies—including Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Twitter—to block the recruitment of Americans to Islamic extremist groups, specifically the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), via social media.
* January 9 – For the first time in its history, the national Powerball lottery prize surpasses $1 billion.
* January 10 – 73rd Golden Globe Awards: The Revenant wins the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama, with Leonardo DiCaprio winning the award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama and Alejandro G. Iñárritu winning Best Director. The Martian wins the award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, and Matt Damon wins Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. Brie Larson wins Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama for Room, and Jennifer Lawrence wins Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical for Joy. Mr. Robot wins Best Television Series – Drama; Mozart in the Jungle wins Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy; and Wolf Hall wins Best Miniseries or Television Film.
* January 12 – President Obama gives his final State of the Union Address to the 114th United States Congress.
* January 14 – The nominees for the 88th Academy Awards are announced at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California. The nominees for Best Picture are The Big Short, Bridge of Spies, Brooklyn, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Martian, The Revenant, Room, and Spotlight. The nominees are criticized for their lack of diversity, resulting in boycotts by celebrities like Will Smith and Spike Lee, an official motion by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to increase diversity in its membership, and calls for comedian Chris Rock to step down as host.
* January 15 – Myloh Jaqory Mason, a fugitive on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list, is arrested in Thornton, Colorado, after being added to the list on December 17, 2015, for two bank robberies and two attempted murders.
* January 16
** President Obama announces a federal state of emergency in Flint, Michigan, allowing additional support from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Department of Homeland Security in response to the ongoing contamination of tap water in the city.
** The United States lifts several economic sanctions against Iran in accordance with a multinational agreement made in July 2014 concerning Iran's nuclear program. Sanctions concerning Iran's human rights abuses, missile activity, and support for terrorism remain in effect.
* January 21 – A crippling winter storm hits the central and eastern United States, producing several feet of snow and ice (as well as strong winds and tornadoes in some areas) and killing 55 people.
* January 25 – A Texas grand jury finds no wrongdoing on the part of Planned Parenthood after a series of undercover videos made by the Center for Medical Progress (CMP), an anti-abortion organization, purported to show Planned Parenthood employees selling fetal tissue and organs. The grand jury indicts CMP founder David Daleiden and another videographer.
* January 30 – During a brawl between rival motorcycle clubs, gunfire and stabbings kill one person and injure seven at the National Western Complex in Denver, Colorado.
===February===
* February 1
** The February 2016 North American storm complex causes power outages for more than 70,000 people in Southern California.
** The Iowa caucuses are held, beginning the Democratic and Republican nomination processes for the 2016 presidential election. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) wins the Republican caucuses, and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wins the Democratic caucuses. After poor showings in Iowa, Democratic candidate Martin O'Malley and Republican candidate Mike Huckabee suspend their campaigns.
* February 3
** Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) and former Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) suspend their presidential candidacies.
** Barack Obama becomes the first U.S. president to visit a U.S. mosque in Baltimore, Maryland.
* February 4 – Six people are found dead, five from stab wounds and one from gunshot wounds, at a house in Chicago.
* February 7 – Super Bowl 50: The Denver Broncos defeat the Carolina Panthers 24–10 at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California.
* February 9 – The New Hampshire primaries are held. Donald Trump wins the Republican primary, and Bernie Sanders wins the Democratic primary.
* February 10 – New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina suspend their campaigns for the Republican nomination.
* February 12 – Former Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore suspends his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination.
* February 13 – Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia dies at the age of 79.
* February 14 – The 2016 North American cold wave causes record low temperatures in New England.
* February 15 – 58th Annual Grammy Awards: "Uptown Funk" by Mark Ronson, featuring Bruno Mars, wins the Grammy Award for Record of the Year. Taylor Swift wins Album of the Year for 1989, Meghan Trainor wins Best New Artist, and Song of the Year is awarded to "Thinking Out Loud", by Ed Sheeran and Amy Wadge.
* February 18 – 106-year old civil rights activist, Virginia McLaurin, visits Barack Obama at the White House, becoming the oldest known-person and first centenarian to the visit the White House.
* February 20 – A man kills six people and injures two in Kalamazoo, Michigan, before being apprehended by the police.
* February 21 – Denny Hamlin wins the Daytona 500 in the closest finish in the race's 58-year history, beating Martin Truex Jr. by 11 thousandths of a second.
* February 25 – A disgruntled former employee opens fire in an office building in Hesston, Kansas, killing three people and injuring fourteen others.
* February 27 – Three people are stabbed at a Ku Klux Klan rally in Anaheim, California, and several people are arrested.
* February 28 – 88th Academy Awards: The ceremony, hosted by Chris Rock, is held at Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. Tom McCarthy's Spotlight wins the Academy Award for Best Picture. Leonardo DiCaprio wins Best Actor for his performance in The Revenant, his first acting Oscar in five nominations. Brie Larson wins Best Actress for her performance in Room, her first acting Oscar and first nomination. Alejandro G. Iñárritu wins his second Best Director award for The Revenant, becoming the first director to win back-to-back Oscars since Joseph L. Mankiewicz in 1949 and 1950. George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road wins six awards, the most for the evening. The telecast garners over 34.4 million viewers.
* February 29 – H2, History's secondary network, becomes Viceland, a lifestyle channel aimed at millennials which will include programming about music, cooking, sports, technology and hard-hitting documentaries. The change comes after A&E Networks purchased a 10% stake in Vice Media, Inc. in August 2014.
===March===
* March 1 – Super Tuesday: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump each win seven states on the Democratic and Republican sides, respectively. In the Democratic primaries, Clinton takes Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia; Bernie Sanders takes Colorado, Minnesota, Oklahoma, and Vermont. In the Republican primaries, Trump wins Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Vermont, and Virginia; Ted Cruz wins Alaska, Oklahoma, and Texas; and Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) wins Minnesota.
* March 4
** Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson suspends his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination.
** Walt Disney Animation Studios' 55th feature film, Zootopia, is released in theatres to acclaim as the studio's most critically well-received film since 1994's The Lion King. It is, at that point, Disney's second-most commercially successful animated film behind 2013's Frozen and the second to cross the billion-dollar mark.
* March 9
** Pablo Antonio Serrano-Vitorino, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, is arrested on suspicion of killing five men in a shooting spree.
** The death toll in the country's largest outbreak of Elizabethkingia meningoseptica rises to 18 in Wisconsin, with 44 more infected.
** Six people are killed and three others injured in a mass shooting at a house in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania.
* March 11 – At least four people are injured and five are arrested in Chicago when protesters demonstrating against Donald Trump scuffle with Trump supporters at a canceled Trump rally.
* March 14 – Abu Omar al-Shishani, a commander for the Islamic State, dies after being wounded in a U.S. airstrike near Al-Shaddadah, Syria, on March 4.
* March 15 – Marco Rubio suspends his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination after losing the primary in his home state, Florida.
* March 16 – President Obama nominates Merrick Garland to replace Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court.
* March 21 – President Obama lands in Cuba for a meeting with Cuban President Raúl Castro, becoming the first U.S. president to visit Cuba since 1928.
* March 25 – Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, directed by Zack Snyder, is released as the second film in the DC Extended Universe and a follow-up to 2013's Man of Steel. An extended cut, dubbed the "Ultimate Edition", is later released digitally on June 28.
* March 28
** The Department of Justice announces that it has unlocked the iPhone of a suspect in the 2015 San Bernardino attack without the help of Apple, after a heated public debate over the department's handling of encryption software in counter-terrorism efforts.
** The United States Capitol is placed under lockdown after a man opens fire near the Capitol Visitor Center. The suspect is shot by police and taken into custody.
* March 31 – The 2016 Nuclear Security Summit is held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., with 58 participants in attendance. It is the fourth edition of the conference, following the 2014 Nuclear Security Summit.
===April===
* April 2
** A coalition of progressive groups begins a ten-day march from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C., with the goal of revealing corruption in campaign finance and "rigged voting laws". The group also demands a Senate hearing on President Obama's Supreme Court nomination. Participants include political commentator Cenk Uygur, actress Rosario Dawson, law professor Lawrence Lessig, and Ben & Jerry's co-founders Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield. As of April 18, more than 1,200 protesters had been arrested.
** The United States Air Force deploys twelve F-15 Eagles and 350 personnel to Iceland and the Netherlands to deter further Russian aggression in Europe.
** A Lancair IV monoplane crashes into a parked car along a highway 50 miles north of San Diego, injuring five people and killing one.
* April 3 – An Amtrak passenger train on the Palmetto route, traveling from New York City to Savannah, Georgia, with 341 passengers and seven crew members on board, derails in Chester, Pennsylvania, after striking a backhoe on the tracks, injuring 35 and killing two.
* April 4 – The Villanova Wildcats defeat the North Carolina Tar Heels, 77–74, in the NCAA Men's Championship.
* April 5
** Pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and Allergan terminate a planned $160 billion merger because of the Obama administration's new regulations on tax inversion. Pfizer will have to pay $400 million to Allergan for expenses in relation to the deal.
** Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant signs a bill allowing private businesses and religious groups to deny services to gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. The law is later blocked, pending appeal, by a federal judge.
** The Connecticut Huskies defeat the Syracuse Orange, 82–51, in the NCAA Women's Championship.
** The Wisconsin primaries are held. Ted Cruz beats Donald Trump and Ohio Governor John Kasich to win the Republican race. Bernie Sanders defeats Hillary Clinton in the Democratic race.
* April 7 – Fox's American Idol concludes its 15-season run, with Trent Harmon being declared the final winner.
* April 8
** An airman shoots and kills a squadron commander and then himself at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas.
** Bernie Sanders accepts an invitation by Pope Francis to visit the Vatican, becoming the first American presidential candidate to receive such an invitation.
** SpaceX successfully launches its Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on a NASA cargo run to the International Space Station, and lands its reusable main-stage booster on an autonomous spaceport drone ship.
* April 9 – The United States Air Force deploys B-52 bombers to Al Udeid Air Base in Doha, Qatar, to join the fight against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
* April 11 – John Kerry becomes the first Secretary of State to visit the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, where he and other Group of Seven (G7) members lay wreaths. Before Kerry's trip, Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)—then the Speaker of the House of Representatives—was the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit the memorial.
* April 12 – Two unarmed Russian Sukhoi Su-24 jets fly simulated attacks against the U.S. Navy destroyer Donald Cook in the Baltic Sea. Later, a Russian Kamov Ka-27 naval helicopter is seen making seven passes around the warship while taking pictures.
* April 13
** Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards signs an order banning discrimination against the LGBT community. The order reverses the policies of his predecessor, Bobby Jindal, who signed laws limiting same-sex marriage and the ability of transgender people to use the public restrooms of their choice.
** The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirms that the Zika virus causes birth defects.
** Kobe Bryant plays his final NBA game for the Los Angeles Lakers. Bryant, who played his entire 20-year career with the Lakers, sets a new points record for a final game, scoring 60 against the Utah Jazz.
* April 14
** The top pick for the WNBA draft is UConn's Breanna Stewart, followed by her teammates Moriah Jefferson and Morgan Tuck. This is the first time in any major North American sports draft that a single school produced the top three selections.
** Microsoft files a lawsuit against the United States, stating that it has been prevented from disclosing information to its customers when the government obtains a warrant to read emails or access data through the cloud.
** A Russian Sukhoi Su-27 fighter jet intercepts and threatens a U.S. Air Force Boeing RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft in international airspace over the Baltic Sea.
* April 18
** 2016 Pulitzer Prizes: The Associated Press wins the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, and the Los Angeles Times wins the Pulitzer for Breaking News Reporting. Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
** Severe flooding in Houston, Texas, causes damage to 1,000 homes, leaves 147,000 residents without power, and kills eight people.
** The 120th Boston Marathon is held with 30,000 runners. Ethiopian runners Lemi Berhanu Hayle and Atsede Baysa win the marathon.
* April 19 – The New York primary is held, with Donald Trump winning the Republican race and Hillary Clinton winning the Democratic race.
* April 20
** Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew announces that former slave and abolitionist Harriet Tubman will replace Andrew Jackson on the twenty-dollar bill.
** Four people are killed when a small plane crashes in Anchorage, Alaska.
** CIA programmer Joshua Schulte allegedly stole backup files from a program called Confluence prior to the program's hacking tools being leaked.
* April 21 – Music legend Prince dies at the age of 57. To celebrate his legacy, cities across the U.S. hold vigils and light buildings, bridges, and other venues in purple.
* April 22
** Eight family members are shot to death at four locations in Pike County, Ohio. Three children survive the attacks.
** Five people are killed in two separate shootings in Appling, Georgia.
* April 25
** John Kasich and Ted Cruz announce that they will coordinate strategies to stop Donald Trump from winning the Republican presidential nomination: Kasich's campaign will ensure Cruz a "clear path" in Indiana, while Cruz's campaign will cut campaigning in New Mexico and Oregon.
** A court settlement calls for the city of Cleveland, Ohio, to pay $6 million to the family of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old boy who was shot and killed by two police officers in November 2014 after his toy gun was mistaken for a real one.
** CRF Frozen Foods recalls more than 300 products.
* April 26 – Super Tuesday III: Donald Trump wins all five states holding Republican primaries (Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island). In the Democratic primaries, Hillary Clinton takes Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, while Bernie Sanders takes Rhode Island.
* April 27
** The bodies of American climber Alex Lowe and photographer David Bridges, who were killed and buried during an avalanche in 1999, are discovered on the Himalayan mountain Shishapangma.
** Dennis Hastert, a former Speaker of the House, is sentenced to 15 months in prison for breaking banking laws through the payment of "hush money" to victims whom he had sexually abused.
** Ted Cruz announces that Carly Fiorina will be his running mate if he wins the Republican presidential nomination.
* April 28 – Comcast's NBCUniversal purchases DreamWorks Animation for $3.8 billion.
* April 29
** The United States Air Force lands two F-22 Raptors in Lithuania for the first time in a show of support for Lithuania and surrounding countries, which have been worried over Russia's involvement in Ukraine.
** China denies a Hong Kong port call from Carrier Strike Group 3, which includes the USS John C. Stennis and other escorting vessels.
** The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports the first U.S.-related death from the Zika virus, an elderly man in Puerto Rico.
* April 30
** President Obama attends his final White House Correspondents' Dinner, where comedian Larry Wilmore is the featured performer.
** Six people are killed in a car crash on Interstate 95 in Jupiter, Florida.
===May===
* May 1
** A cruise ship sets sail from Miami to Havana, Cuba, with more than 700 passengers on board, becoming the first in more than half a century to make the trip. The ship, Carnival Cruise Line's Adonia, was able to depart after a policy banning Cuban-born citizens from returning to the United States by sea was loosened. It docks in Havana on May 2.
** May Day: Protesters in Seattle begin to riot and attack law enforcement, injuring five police officers. Nine people are arrested.
** The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus officially retires its elephants after a final show in Providence, Rhode Island.
** The Serbian Orthodox Cathedral of St. Sava in New York City is almost destroyed in a four-alarm fire.
** Fourteen of 175 cars of a CSX freight train derail in Washington, D.C., leaking three chemicals that are deemed hazardous to the public.
* May 2 – The Loud House premieres on Nickelodeon and becomes the number-one children's animated series on television within its first month on the air.
* May 3
** A city bus is hijacked in Washington, D.C., and the suspect crashes it into a gas station, killing a pedestrian.
** ISIL fighters ambush and kill Charles Keating IV, a Navy SEAL who was assisting Kurdish Peshmerga forces in the area. Keating is later identified as the grandson of financier Charles Keating Jr., who was known for his involvement in a 1980s savings and loan scandal. Arizona Governor Doug Ducey orders all state flags to be flown at half-staff on May 4.
** The Indiana primary is held, and Donald Trump wins the Republican race.
** Ted Cruz suspends his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination.
** Three people are killed in a plane crash on Long Island.
* May 4
** John Kasich suspends his presidential campaign, leaving Donald Trump the presumptive Republican nominee.
** The Department of Justice informs North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory that a new state law limiting restroom access for transgender people violates the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It demands a response by May 9 on whether the state will correct the violations.
** California raises the legal smoking age from 18 to 21 and restricts the use of electronic cigarettes in public places.
* May 5 – A warehouse burns down during a four-alarm fire in Houston.
* May 6
** Three people are killed and three others injured during a two-day shooting spree in Potomac, Maryland. The suspect is believed to be a former police officer.
** Captain America: Civil War, directed by the Russo brothers, is released by Marvel Studios as the 13th film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), the first film of its "Phase Three" slate and the sequel to 2011's Captain America: The First Avenger and 2014's Captain America: The Winter Soldier. At release, it becomes the twelfth-highest-grossing film of all time (now the 22nd).
* May 7 – Nyquist, ridden by Mario Gutierrez, wins the Kentucky Derby.
* May 10
** Three women are arrested at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago after being caught trying to smuggle 70 pounds ($3 million worth) of opium into the U.S.
** The West Virginia primary is held, with Donald Trump winning the Republican race and Bernie Sanders winning the Democratic race. Trump wins the Republican primary in Nebraska.
** NASA confirms the discovery of more than 1,284 exoplanets by its Kepler space observatory.
** Four people are stabbed, two of them fatally, at a home and a shopping mall in Taunton, Massachusetts. The assailant is shot and killed by an off-duty sheriff.
* May 12
** Susannah Mushatt Jones, the world's oldest person and the last surviving American born in the 1800s, dies in New York at age 116.
** CBS cancels CSI: Cyber, the last active TV series in the CSI franchise.
* May 13
** The Department of Education and Department of Justice advise public school districts across the country to allow transgender students to use bathrooms that match their gender identity, rather than the gender assigned to them at birth.
** Michael Strahan makes his final appearance as co-host on Live! with Kelly and Michael.
* May 14
** Eight people are killed and 44 others injured after a charter bus rolls over on Route 83 north of Laredo, Texas.
** A pilot is killed when his stunt plane crashes during an air show at DeKalb-Peachtree Airport in DeKalb County, Georgia.
* May 20 – The Angry Birds Movie is released in theaters.
* May 21 – A U.S. airstrike kills Mullah Akhtar Mansour, leader of the Taliban in Afghanistan.
* May 22
** A skydiving tour plane crashes in Hawaii, killing five people.
** The U.S. lifts its embargo on arms trade in Vietnam.
* May 25 – An audit by the State Department Inspector General finds that Hillary Clinton violated directives from the department in her use of a private email server for government business during her time as Secretary of State. The Inspector General says that Clinton did not request approval to use the private server, and that such a request would have been denied because of security risks.
* May 27
** President Obama becomes the first U.S. president to visit Hiroshima, Japan, where the United States dropped an atomic bomb in 1945.
** A P-47 Thunderbolt crashes in the Hudson River, killing the pilot.
* May 29 – 24-year-old rookie Alexander Rossi wins the 100th Indianapolis 500 mile race in front of a record crowd of 350,000. His car runs out of fuel coming to the finish line.
* May 30 – Former Stanford University student Brock Turner is sentenced to six months in prison for raping an unconscious woman behind a dumpster. The short sentence, as well as statements by Turner's parents in the following weeks, draw significant controversy.
* May 31 – Major flooding occurs in Texas and Oklahoma.
===June===
* June 1 – A gunman opens fire at the University of California, Los Angeles, killing an associate professor and his wife in an apparent murder–suicide.
* June 3 – American boxing legend and conscientious objector Muhammad Ali dies of septic shock at a hospital in Scottsdale, Arizona, at the age of 74.
* June 7 – The final major state primaries are held for the 2016 presidential election, with Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump emerging as the presumptive nominees for the Democratic and Republican races, respectively.
* June 10
** President Obama formally endorses Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination.
** 22-year-old singer–songwriter Christina Grimmie is shot dead while signing autographs at a concert venue in Orlando, Florida.
* June 12
** 29-year-old Omar Mateen opens fire at Pulse, a gay dance club in Orlando, killing 49 people and leaving another 53 wounded. The attack surpassed the 2007 Virginia Tech shootings as the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history until the 2017 Las Vegas shooting. The shooting is investigated as a domestic terrorist attack.
** The 70th annual Tony Awards are presented, the cultural icon musical Hamilton wins 11 awards including Best Musical from a record 16 nominations. The performance of the cast of Hamilton was introduced by a filmed message from President and First Lady Obama and Chance the Rapper calling the show "one of the greatest pieces of art ever made."
** In the NHL, the Eastern Conference champion Pittsburgh Penguins defeat the Western Conference champion San Jose Sharks in six games to win the Stanley Cup, the Penguins' fourth championship in franchise history.
* June 15 – In response to the attack in Orlando, Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) holds a filibuster for nearly fifteen hours, demanding new gun control laws from Congress. The filibuster ends when the Senate agrees to vote on two measures: one that would require universal background checks for gun sales, and another that would ban the sale of weapons to individuals on government watch lists of suspected terrorists.
* June 17 – Pixar Animation Studios' 17th feature film, Finding Dory, the sequel to 2003's Finding Nemo, is released in theaters.
* June 18 – A 19-year-old man is arrested after attempting to pull a gun from a policeman's holster at a Donald Trump rally in Las Vegas. He later admits he was planning to use it to kill Trump.
* June 19 – In the NBA, the Eastern Conference champion Cleveland Cavaliers defeat the Western Conference champion Golden State Warriors in seven games to win their first NBA Finals title in the Cavaliers' 45-year history. It is the first major professional sports championship won by a team based in Cleveland since 1964.
* June 22 – Members of the House Democratic Caucus, led by Representative John Lewis (D-GA) and Representative Katherine Clark (D-MA), declare their intention to remain on the floor of the House of Representatives until its Republican Speaker, Paul Ryan, allows votes on gun control legislation in the aftermath of the Orlando nightclub shooting. The sit-in is staged by about 60 legislators.
* June 24 – At least 23 people are killed after a huge flood hits areas of West Virginia.
* June 26 – Ten people are hospitalized, five with stab wounds, after a group of counter-protesters attack a white supremacist gathering in Sacramento, California.
* June 27 – In a 5–3 decision, the Supreme Court strikes down a 2013 Texas law that imposed restrictions on abortion clinics.
* June 28 – Pat Summitt the all-time winningest women's basketball coach in NCAA history dies of dementia at the age of 64, in Summit's 38-year coaching career with Tennessee she won 1,098 games the most of any men's or women's coach.
===July===
* July 1
** The U.S. military officially lifts its ban on transgender people serving openly in the armed forces.
** Attorney General Loretta Lynch announces that she will leave it up to the FBI to decide whether to bring charges against Hillary Clinton for her use of a private email server as Secretary of State.
** Vermont's GMO labeling law goes into effect—the first in the U.S.
* July 3 – The Fort Bragg Game becomes the first professional sporting event to ever be held on an active military base, and the first Major League Baseball regular season game ever held in the state of North Carolina when the Miami Marlins play the Atlanta Braves.
* July 4 – Juno successfully enters the orbit of Jupiter.
* July 5
** Gypsy Rose Blanchard pleads guilty of the murder of her mother Dee Dee Blanchard who had abused her for many years, forcing her to use a wheelchair and to pretend to be ill. She is sentenced to 10 years in prison.
** Multiple cellphone video recordings capture the police shooting of Alton Sterling, a man selling CDs outside a convenience store in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, sparking wide outrage. The Department of Justice opens a federal investigation.
* July 6
** After FBI Director James Comey recommends against indicting Hillary Clinton, Attorney General Loretta Lynch announces that the federal investigation of Clinton will be closed with no charges.
** A police officer shoots and kills 32-year-old Philando Castile during a routine traffic stop in Falcon Heights, Minnesota, sparking further public outcry and protests regarding police brutality. Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton requests an investigation by the Justice Department.
* July 7 – During a Black Lives Matter protest in Dallas, Texas, a sniper later identified as Micah Xavier Johnson opens fire, killing five Dallas police officers and injuring another eleven people in the deadliest incident for U.S. law enforcement since September 11, 2001. Johnson is later found to have targeted white people (specifically white police officers) and to have been interested in several black nationalist groups. He is killed by a C-4 bomb delivered by a robot, the first use of lethal force by a robot by an American police department.
* July 8 – Despite the conclusions of the FBI and attorney general, the State Department reopens its investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server.
* July 9 – The government of the Bahamas releases a rare advisory to Bahamian citizens traveling to the United States to be non-confrontational and cooperative with police after recent racial tensions in the country.
* July 16 – Donald Trump announces Indiana Governor Mike Pence as his running mate for the Republican ticket in the 2016 presidential election.
* July 17 – Three police officers are shot dead and three others are injured in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The shooter has been killed and an investigation is underway.
* July 18 – The Republican National convention is held in Cleveland, Ohio with Donald Trump accepting the nomination.
* July 22 – Hillary Clinton announces Virginia United States Senator Tim Kaine as her running mate for the Democrat ticket in the 2016 presidential election.
* July 25 – The Democratic National Convention is held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with Hillary Clinton accepting the nomination. She becomes the first woman to accept the nomination of a major party for president.
* July 30
** All 16 occupants of a hot air balloon are killed – the deadliest incident of its kind in U.S. history – after hitting power lines and crashing near Austin, Texas.
** Skydiver Luke Aikins sets a new world record for the highest altitude jump without a parachute, falling 25,000 ft into a safety net.
* July 31
** The 2016 Maryland flood in Ellicott City, Maryland, caused significant damage to the historic downtown area of the municipality
** Sharknado: The 4th Awakens airs for the first time on Syfy.
===August===
* August 2 – A charter bus crashes on Highway 99 in Merced County, California, killing four people.
* August 4 – A wildfire occurs in California, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Washington and Wyoming.
* August 5
** Suicide Squad, directed by David Ayer, is released as the third film in the DC Extended Universe.
** The United States compete at the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and win 46 gold, 37 silver, and 38 bronze medals.
* August 7 – Caleb Schwab, the 10-year-old son of Kansas state representative Scott Schwab, is killed while riding Verrückt—the world's tallest water slide—at the Schlitterbahn Water Park in Kansas City, Kansas.
* August 8 – A power outage causes hundreds of Delta Air Lines flights to be delayed or cancelled.
* August 10 – Police in Dallas, Texas kill Tony Timpa, who had schizophrenia and depression, after he asked for help. The police laughed as he asked for help 30 times while they pinned his shoulders, knees, and neck to the ground.
* August 12 – The 2016 Louisiana floods submerge over 146,000 homes across south Louisiana, killing 13 people. The Red Cross characterized the floods as the worst natural disaster in the U.S. since Hurricane Sandy in 2012 and President Obama visited the Baton Rouge area to survey the damage.
* August 16 – The Blue Cut Fire occurs in California, displacing more than 82,000 residents, burning over 37,000 acres (150 km2) and threatening at least 34,500 structures.
* August 17 – The 74th World Science Fiction Convention is held at the Bartle Hall Convention Center in Kansas City, Missouri.
* August 20 – The U.S. Air Force deploys the B-1, B-2, and B-52 bombers in Guam to conduct exercises.
* August 26 – Barack Obama expands the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, making it the world's largest marine protected area in the United States. Barack Obama surpasses Theodore Roosevelt as the most water and land protected by a U.S. president.
* August 31 – The U.S. conducts its first commercial flight to Cuba in 50 years.
===September===
* September 6 – The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrests Israeli rabbi Aharon Goldberg and divorce mediator Shimen Liebowitz, two planners of a contract killing on an estranged Jewish man, at a hotel in Central Valley, New York.
* September 10 – John Hinckley Jr., the man who tried to assassinate US President Ronald Reagan in 1981, is released from a psychiatric hospital after 35 years.
* September 11
** Hillary Clinton becomes overheated and faints at a 9/11 memorial service in New York City, and is later revealed to have been diagnosed with pneumonia in the days prior.
** Savvy Shields, Miss Arkansas 2016, wins the 90th Miss America pageant.
* September 17
** A pipe bomb explodes near a U.S. Marine Corps charity 5K run in Seaside Park, New Jersey. This is followed by an explosion in New York City that injures 29.
** A man dressed in a private security company uniform stabs and wounds nine people in a St. Cloud, Minnesota mall before being shot and killed by an off-duty police officer.
* September 18
** Following explosions in Seaside Park, New Jersey, and Manhattan, New York, on the previous day, another explosive device was discovered at a transit station in Elizabeth. The device was accidentally detonated in the early hours of September 19 when operated on by a bomb squad robot.
** The 68th Primetime Emmy Awards are held at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, California, with Game of Thrones winning the best drama and Veep winning the best comedy.
* September 19 – Ahmad Khan Rahami is identified as a suspect for the bombings in New York and New Jersey the previous two days. He is captured in a shootout.
* September 21 – A state of emergency is declared in Charlotte, North Carolina, after protests over the police killings of three black men in a single week.
* September 23 – A gunman opens fire at a mall in Burlington, Washington, killing 5 people. The shooter, Arcan Cetin, is arrested the next day.
* September 24 – The National Museum of African-American History and Culture, the biggest museum towards black history, opens in Washington D.C.
* September 26 – Presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton take part in their first live televised debate, with an estimated audience of up to 100 million viewers.
* September 28 – Congress votes to override President Obama's veto of the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, which would effectively allow the families of victims of the September 11 attacks to sue the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for their part in the attacks.
* September 29 – A commuter train crashes in Hoboken, New Jersey, killing one person and injuring 114 others.
===October===
* October 1
** The New York Times publishes parts of Donald Trump's 1995 tax records, which show that he suffered a $916 million loss during that year, which would have given him the ability to avoid paying income taxes for up to 18 years. This occurs while Trump is under intense scrutiny by Hillary Clinton and other political opponents to release his current tax records as is tradition in modern presidential elections.
** The Alabama Court of the Judiciary formally suspends Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court Roy Moore until the end of his term for directing probate judges to enforce the state's ban on same-sex marriage, which had been ruled unconstitutional in federal court.
* October 6 – Hurricane Matthew strengthens to a Category Four storm as it approaches Florida.
* October 7
** The Obama administration accuses the government of Russia of hacking the computer network of the Democratic National Committee.
** The Washington Post releases a 2005 videotape of Donald Trump making lewd comments to Access Hollywood host Billy Bush about a married woman and commenting on how he can grab women "by the pussy" without repercussions because he is "a star". The comments are met with reactions of disgust and disbelief from the media and mainstream Republicans, as well as numerous Republicans rescinding their endorsements of his campaign. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan disinvites Trump from a Wisconsin campaign event in response. Trump issues an apology video online shortly after.
* October 10 – Samsung announces an official discontinuation of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphone after reports of the phone overheating and combusting, posing a severe health risk.
* October 11 – President Obama presents details of a human mission to the planet Mars.
* October 15 – A firebomb is set off inside the Republican Party headquarters building in Orange County, North Carolina. No injuries are reported and a suspect has not been found.
* October 21 – A currently unknown attacker launches multiple distributed denial-of-service (DDos) attacks on networks operated by DNS provider Dyn, making numerous sites difficult or impossible to access for a period of time, including Twitter, Reddit, Netflix, Spotify, The New York Times, BBC News, and PayPal. The Department of Homeland Security opens an investigation.
* October 27 – Seven defendants, including Ammon and Ryan Bundy, are acquitted of all federal charges by a federal jury in relation to their occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in January.
* October 28
** FBI Director James Comey informs Congress that the bureau has chosen to reopen its investigation into Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server after discovering some emails that, while not from Clinton herself or withheld during the investigation, may be "pertinent" to the investigation. The emails were discovered on a device belonging to Anthony Weiner during an investigation into one of his sexting scandals.
** 36-year-old Ryan Collins is sentenced to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty to the 2014 hacking and distributing of numerous celebrities' nude photos.
===November===
* November 2 – Major League Baseball: In Game 7 of the World Series, the Chicago Cubs defeat the Cleveland Indians 8–7 in 10 innings, winning the Series 4–3 and claiming their first MLB title since 1908.
* November 4 – Doctor Strange, directed by Scott Derrickson, is released by Marvel Studios as the 14th film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).
* November 6 – In a second letter to Congress, FBI Director James Comey announces that the newest investigation of emails related to Hillary Clinton's use of a private server had not changed the conclusion the FBI reached in July.
* November 8
** The 2016 presidential election is held. Donald Trump is elected as the 45th President of the United States and Mike Pence is elected the 48th Vice President, with Trump becoming the oldest man elected president at the age of 70 as well as the first president in history to take the office without any prior political or military experience. The win is considered one of the most shocking upsets in U.S. history, with most news outlets and experts considering a Trump victory unlikely. The result is also highly controversial due to Hillary Clinton's popular vote lead of nearly 3 million votes over Trump, who won via the Electoral College.
** Four states: California, Nevada, Maine and Massachusetts, vote to legalize the use, sale, and consumption of recreational marijuana.
** Faith Spotted Eagle becomes the first Native American to receive an electoral vote.
** The U.S. senate elects the most diverse cast yet. Catherine Cortez Masto becomes the first Latina senator, Kamala Harris becomes the first Asian-American, and the second black woman into the senate, and Ilhan Omar becomes the first Somali-American lawmaker.
** In the 2016 Senate and House elections, the Republican Party maintains its majority of seats in Congress.
* November 9 – Anti-Trump protests are held in several cities across the nation over the next week after Trump's election win.
* November 10 – John Kerry makes a trip to Antarctica, becoming the first Secretary of State to visit all seven continents.
* November 18 – Donald Trump agrees to pay a $25 million settlement to two class action lawsuits and a New York state civil lawsuit regarding his now defunct unlicensed Trump University.
* November 20 – More than 300 people are injured, 26 seriously, after police use water cannons, tear gas, rubber bullets, and concussion grenades on a peaceful protest against the proposed construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation.
* November 21 – A school bus crashes in Chattanooga, Tennessee, killing at least six children and injuring another 22.
* November 23 – Walt Disney Animation Studios' 56th feature film, Moana, is released in theaters to critical and commercial success. Like 2013's Frozen and Zootopia earlier in the year, it is regarded as one of the studio's strongest works since the peak of the Renaissance era.
* November 25
* The state elections commission of Wisconsin agrees to a statewide recount of its ballots in the 2016 presidential election after requests by Green Party candidate Jill Stein and independent candidate Rocky De La Fuente.
* After multiple hearings, Dylann Roof, the suspected perpetrator of the 2015 Charleston church shooting, is declared by a federal judge to be mentally competent enough to stand trial.
* November 28 – Eleven people are hospitalized with injuries after 18-year-old Abdul Razak Ali Artan attacks students on the campus of Ohio State University with his car and a butcher knife before being fatally shot by police. An investigation later shows that Artan was inspired by terrorist propaganda from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.
===December===
* December 2
** Donald Trump becomes the first US president or president-elect since 1979 to make direct contact with the President of Taiwan, upsetting Chinese diplomats and sparking concern over whether Trump will uphold the "One China policy" at the foundation of China-U.S. relations.
** A fire at an Oakland, California warehouse, which was hosting a music event, kills at least 36 people, the deadliest fire in Oakland history.
* December 4
** The United States Army Corps of Engineers under the Obama administration denies the easement of the Dakota Access Pipeline through Lake Oahe in the Standing Rock Indian Reservation and will look for alternative routes.
** A man from Salisbury, North Carolina briefly opens fire with an AR-15 style rifle inside Comet Ping Pong, a pizzeria in Washington, D.C., wishing to "self-investigate" the establishment implicated in a false conspiracy theory that claims the restaurant is used by members of the Democratic Party for a child-sex ring. No injuries are reported, and the man is arrested without incident and immediately charged with assault with a dangerous weapon.
* December 5 – The murder trial of white police officer Michael Slager in the 2015 shooting death of Walter Scott in South Carolina ends in a mistrial after a hung jury cannot reach a verdict, resulting in no charges on Slager.
* December 8 – John Glenn, former astronaut, Colonel, and Senator, and the first American to orbit the Earth, dies of presently undisclosed conditions at the OSU Wexner Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio, at the age of 95.
* December 9
** The CIA tells U.S. legislators that the United States Intelligence Community has "high confidence" that Russia conducted operations during the 2016 presidential election to assist Donald Trump in winning the presidency. Intelligence agencies have concluded that the Kremlin had orchestrated the Democratic National Committee cyber attacks. Both Democrats and Republicans in Congress call for a full-scale investigation. Trump writes off the report as "ridiculous".
** The Supreme Court of Michigan rejects Jill Stein's request for a recount of votes in the state, upholding Donald Trump's victory in the state.
* December 12
** After the recount is completed in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania rejects Jill Stein's request, both states reaffirm Donald Trump as winner of the states in the 2016 election.
** Block Island Wind Farm becomes the first commercial offshore wind farm in the United States.
* December 14
** Yahoo discloses that a data breach in 2013 compromised more than 1 billion user accounts' information, such as names, passwords, and unencrypted messages, making it the largest data breach in the history of the Internet. Yahoo already disclosed a smaller 2014 data breach in September 2016.
** The Federal Reserve raises its benchmark interest rate by 0.25%, only the second increase in a decade, citing strong economic growth and rising employment, though Chairwoman Janet Yellen says the outlook for the US economy going forward is "uncertain".
* December 16 – Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is released in theaters.
* December 19
** The Electoral College elects Donald Trump as the next President of the United States, with 304 electoral votes cast for Trump versus 227 for Hillary Clinton.
** North Carolina Governor-elect Roy Cooper announces that the controversial HB2 law passed in March limiting the rights of the LGBT community will be repealed.
* December 20 – President Obama, in a joint agreement with Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau, permanently bans oil and gas drilling in most of the Arctic and Atlantic Ocean.
* December 23 – In a departure from its previous policy, the Obama administration chooses to not use its veto power and instead abstains from voting on United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334, allowing its passage. The resolution demands an end to the construction of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President-elect Donald Trump imply that the decision will result in a reassessment of relations with the United Nations.
* December 24 – Donald Trump announces that he will be dissolving his foundation to avoid potential conflicts of interest in his presidency. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman asserts that Trump will not be able to do so until an ongoing investigation into the foundation has completed.
* December 27 – Carrie Fisher, known for playing the iconic character Princess Leia in the Star Wars film series, as well as being a noted script doctor and mental health advocate, dies at the age of 60 after having a cardiac arrest on a transatlantic flight four days earlier. Her mother, actress Debbie Reynolds dies the next day, after having a stroke while preparing for Fisher's funeral.
* December 29 – The Obama administration imposes sanctions against the leaders of the Russian intelligence agency GRU and expels 35 Russian operatives from the United States in response to Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election. President-elect Donald Trump urges the country "move on" from the issue, but nonetheless announces that he will be meeting with the United States Intelligence Community for an update on the situation.
* December 31
** A federal judge in Texas blocks the enforcement of a policy seeking to extend Affordable Care Act anti-discrimination protections for transgender health and abortion-related services.
** United States troops withdraw from Afghanistan, leaving behind 8,400 troops stationed at 4 garrisons (Kabul, Kandahar, Bagram, and Jalalabad).
==Memoriam==
===January===
* January 1
** Lennie Bluett, actor (aged 96; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Dale Bumpers, politician; 38th Governor of Arkansas and U.S. Senator (1975–1999) (aged 90; Little Rock, AR, USA)
** Gilbert Kaplan, businessman, publisher, and amateur conductor (aged 74; New York City, NY, USA)
** Tony Lane, graphic designer (aged 71; Oakland, CA, USA)
** John Coleman Moore, mathematician (aged 92; Rochester, NY, USA)
** Mike Oxley, politician (aged 71; McLean, VA, USA)
** Vilmos Zsigmond, Hungarian-born cinematographer (aged 85; Big Sur, CA, USA)
* January 2
** Brad Fuller, video game composer and audio engineer (aged 62; San Jose, CA, USA)
** Stanley Siegel, radio reporter and talk show host (aged 79; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Frances Cress Welsing, psychiatrist and author (aged 80; Washington, DC, USA)
* January 3
** Leonard Berkowitz, social psychologist (aged 89; Madison, WI, USA)
** Gary Flakne, politician (aged 81; MN, USA)
** John McDade Howell, university chancellor (aged 93; Greenville, NC, USA)
** Raymond W. Lessard, Roman Catholic prelate (aged 85; Boynton Beach, FL, USA)
** Andy Maurer, football player (aged 67; Medford, OR, USA)
** Ted Stanley, entrepreneur and philanthropist (aged 84; New Canaan, CT, USA)
* January 4
** Robert Balser, animator (aged 88; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Stephen W. Bosworth, diplomat; U.S. Ambassador to South Korea (1997–2001) (aged 76; Boston, MA, USA)
** Long John Hunter, blues musician (aged 84; Phoenix, AZ, USA)
** Red Parker, football coach (aged 84; Little Rock, AR, USA)
** Joseph Ritz, author, playwright, and journalist (aged 86; Hamburg, NY, USA)
** Leo Rucka, football player (aged 84; Crosby, TX, USA)
** Robert Stigwood, Australian-born British-resident music entrepreneur, film producer and impresario (aged 81; London, England, UK)
* January 5
** Bob Armstrong, basketball player (aged 82; Plymouth, MI, USA)
** Nicholas Caldwell, R&B singer and musician (aged 71; Stockton, CA, USA)
** Christine Lawrence Finney, animator and painter (aged 47; Spartanburg, SC, USA)
** George MacIntyre, football player and coach (aged 76; Nashville, TN, USA)
** Jay Ritchie, baseball player (aged 79; Rockwell, NC, USA)
* January 6
** Robert D. Acland, surgeon (aged 74; Louisville, KY, USA)
** Douglas Greer, child actor (aged 94; Santa Cruz, CA, USA)
** Pat Harrington Jr., actor (aged 86; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Florence King, writer (aged 80; Fredericksburg, VA, USA)
** Serena Sinclair Lesley, journalist (aged 89; Tualatin, OR, USA)
** Sol Polansky, diplomat (aged 89; Arlington, VA, USA)
** Robert D. Timm, businessman and politician (aged 94; Bellevue, WA, USA)
* January 7
** Bill Foster, basketball coach (aged 86; Chicago, IL, USA)
** John Johnson, basketball player (aged 68; San Jose, CA, USA)
** Kitty Kallen, singer (aged 94; Cuernavaca, Mexico)
** Richard Libertini, actor (aged 82; Venice, CA, USA)
** Troy Shondell, singer (aged 76; Picayune, MS, USA)
* January 8
** Otis Clay, R&B and soul singer (aged 73; Chicago, IL, USA)
** Royal Parker, television personality (aged 86; Pikesville, MD, USA)
** Red Simpson, singer and songwriter (aged 81; Bakersfield, CA, USA)
** Brett Smiley, singer and songwriter (aged 60; New York City, NY, USA)
* January 9
** Barbara Allyne Bennet, actress and union executive (aged 75; Duarte, CA, USA)
** Myra Carter, actress (aged 86; New York City, NY, USA)
** Lawrence H. Cohn, cardiac surgeon (aged 78; Boston, MA, USA)
** Lance Rautzhan, baseball player (aged 63; Myrtle Beach, SC, USA)
** Angus Scrimm, actor and author (aged 89; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Beau St. Clair, film producer (aged 64; Malibu, CA, USA)
** Peggy Willis-Aarnio, ballet choreographer and historian (aged 67; Panama City, FL, USA)
* January 10
** David Bowie, English singer, songwriter and actor (aged 69; New York City, NY, USA)
** Alton Brown, baseball player (aged 90; Virginia Beach, VA, USA)
** Ann Z. Caracristi, cryptanalyst and intelligence official (aged 94; Washington, DC, USA)
** Charles Congden Carpenter, naturalist and herpetologist (aged 94; Oklahoma City, OK, USA)
** Jeanne Córdova, German-born American LGBT activist and writer (aged 67; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Carolyn Denning, pediatrician (aged 88; Englewood, NJ, USA)
** Michael Galeota, actor (aged 31; Glendale, CA, USA)
** Ralph Hauenstein, business and philanthropist (aged 103; Grand Rapids, MI, USA)
** Francis Thomas Hurley, Roman Catholic prelate (aged 88; Anchorage, AK, USA)
** Arthur S. Obermayer, entrepreneur and philanthropist (aged 84; Dedham, MA, USA)
** Dick Spady, restaurateur (aged 92; Seattle, WA, USA)
* January 11
** Monte Irvin, baseball player (aged 96; Houston, TX, USA)
** David Margulies, actor (aged 78; New York City, NY, USA)
** Don Strauch, politician; Mayor of Mesa, Arizona (aged 89; Scottsdale, AZ, USA)
* January 12
** Meg Mundy, British-born actress and model (aged 101; Manhattan, NY, USA)
** Andrew Smith, basketball player (aged 25; Indianapolis, IN, USA)
* January 13
** Luis Arroyo, baseball player (aged 88; Ponce, PR, USA)
** Lawrence Phillips, football player (aged 40; Delano, CA, USA)
** Jim Simpson, sportscaster (aged 88; Scottsdale, AZ, USA)
** Tera Wray, pornographic actress (aged 33; Joshua Tree, CA, USA)
* January 14
** George Carroll, lawyer and politician (aged 94; Richmond, CA, USA)
** Jim Hannah, attorney (aged 71; Searcy, AR, USA)
** Al Hart, radio host (aged 89; Alamo, CA, USA)
** Ellen Meiksins Wood, historian (aged 73; Ottawa, ON, Canada)
** Alan Rickman, English actor and director (aged 69; London, England, UK)
* January 15
** Noreen Corcoran, actress and dancer (aged 72; Van Nuys, CA, USA)
** Dan Haggerty, actor (aged 74; Burbank, CA, USA)
* January 16
** Bob Harkey, race car driver (aged 85; Indianapolis, IN, USA)
** Gary Loizzo, singer and musician (aged 70; Chicago, IL, USA)
** Ted Marchibroda, football player and coach (aged 84; Weems, VA, USA)
** Lloyd Rudolph, political scientist and author (aged 88; Oakland, CA, USA)
* January 17
** Blowfly, musician and producer (aged 76; Lauderdale Lakes, FL, USA)
** Mic Gillette, brass player (aged 64; Concord, CA, USA)
** Ramblin' Lou Schriver, musician and broadcaster (aged 86; Niagara Falls, NY, USA)
* January 18 – Glenn Frey, singer-songwriter and musician (aged 67; New York City, NY, USA)
* January 19
** Richard Levins, mathematical ecologist (aged 85; Cambridge, MA, USA)
** Forrest McDonald, historian (aged 89; Tuscaloosa, AL, USA)
** William Y. Smith, general (aged 90; Falls Church, VA, USA)
** Frank Sullivan, baseball player (aged 85; Lihue, HI, USA)
* January 20
** Ronald Greenwald, rabbi and businessman (aged 82; FL, USA)
** David G. Hartwell, editor, literary critic and publisher (aged 74; Plattsburgh, NY, USA)
** Edward Yourdon, software engineer, computer consultant, author and lecturer (aged 71; New York City, NY, USA)
* January 21
** Bill Johnson, alpine skier (aged 55; Gresham, OR, USA)
** Derrick Todd Lee, serial killer (aged 47; Zachary, LA, USA)
* January 22
** Tom Aidala, architect (aged 82; Kelseyville, CA, USA)
** Eugene Borowitz, rabbi and philosopher (aged 91; Stamford, CT, USA)
** Fred Bruney, American football player (aged 84; Sandy Springs, GA, USA)
** Pete Carmichael, American football coach (aged 74; Mendon, MA, USA)
** Waymond C. Huggins, politician (aged 88; LaFayette, GA, USA)
** Mikhail Odnoralov, Russian-born painter (aged 71; New York City, NY, USA)
** Robert Pickus, activist (aged 92; St. Helena, CA, USA)
** Sarah, American zoo cheetah (aged 15; Cincinnati, OH, USA)
** Storm Flag Flying, thoroughbred racehorse (aged 15; Lexington, KY, USA)
** Rik Wilson, ice hockey player (aged 53; St. Louis, MO, USA)
* January 23 – Marie Mahoney, baseball player (aged 91; Houston, TX, USA)
* January 24 – Marvin Minsky, computer scientist (aged 88; Boston, MA, USA)
* January 25
** Thornton Dial, artist (aged 87; McCalla, AL, USA)
** Concepción Picciotto, Spanish-born peace and social activist (aged 80; Washington, DC, USA)
* January 26
** Tommy Kelly, actor (aged 90; Greensboro, NC, USA)
** Abe Vigoda, actor (aged 94; Woodland Park, NJ, USA)
* January 27 – Barbara Berger, baseball player (aged 85; Maywood, IL, USA)
* January 28
** Signe Toly Anderson, singer (aged 74; Beaverton, OR, USA)
** Buddy Cianci, politician; 32nd and 34th Mayor of Providence, Rhode Island (aged 74; Providence, RI, USA)
** Paul Kantner, singer and musician (aged 74; San Francisco, CA, USA)
* January 30 – Georgia Davis Powers, civil rights activist and politician (aged 92; Louisville, KY, USA)
===February===
* February 1
** Jon Bunch, singer-songwriter (aged 45; Long Beach, CA, USA)
** Thomas Tigue, politician (aged 70; Hughestown, PA, USA)
* February 2
** Robert Beiner, television sports director (aged 65; Great Neck, NY, USA)
** Abram Cohen, Olympic fencer (aged 91; Fishkill, NY, USA)
** Bob Elliott, comedian and actor (aged 92; Cundy Harbor, ME, USA)
** Jim Goode, restaurateur (aged 71; Houston, TX, USA)
** Halling, racehorse (aged 24; KY, USA)
** Mike Oehler, author (aged 78; Boundary County, ID, USA)
* February 3
** Joe Alaskey, voice actor (aged 63; Green Island, NY, USA)
** John P. Riley Jr., ice hockey player (aged 95; Sandwich, MA, USA)
** Maurice White, singer-songwriter (aged 74; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* February 4
** Marlow Cook, politician; U.S. Senator (1968–1974) (aged 89; Sarasota, FL, USA)
** Jimmie Haskell, composer and arranger (aged 89; Laguna Niguel, CA, USA)
** Dave Mirra, BMX rider (aged 41; Greenville, NC, USA)
** Edgar Mitchell, astronaut (aged 85; West Palm Beach, FL, USA)
** Axl Rotten, professional wrestler (aged 44; Linthicum, MD, USA)
** Edgar Whitcomb, 43rd Governor of Indiana (aged 98; Rome, IN, USA)
* February 5
** Bill Birchfield, politician and lawyer (aged 80; Jacksonville, FL, USA)
** Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum, jurist (aged 86; Manhattan, NY, USA)
** Ray Colcord, film and television composer (aged 66; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* February 6
** Dan Gerson, screenwriter (aged 49; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Dan Hicks, singer-songwriter (aged 74; Mill Valley, CA, USA)
* February 7
** Andrew Glaze, poet, playwright and novelist (aged 95; Birmingham, AL, USA)
** Redding Pitt, attorney and politician (aged 71; Birmingham, AL, USA)
** Thomas Rea, dermatologist and leprosy researcher (aged 87; San Gabriel Mountains, CA, USA)
* February 8
** Charles C. Campbell, general (aged 67; Shreveport, LA, USA)
** Johnny Duncan, actor (aged 92; Orlando, FL, USA)
* February 9
** Edwin McDonough, actor (aged 72; Needham, MA, USA)
** Donald E. Thorin, cinematographer (aged 81; Tucson, AZ, USA)
* February 10
** Drew Lewis, 7th United States Secretary of Transportation (aged 84; Prescott, AZ, USA)
** Lennie Pond, race car driver (aged 75; Richmond, VA, USA)
** Christopher Rush, illustrator (aged 50; Marathon, FL, USA)
** Richard Unis, judge (aged 87; Gresham, OR, USA)
* February 11
** Philip A. Kuhn, British-born historian (aged 82; MA, USA)
** Kevin Randleman, mixed martial artist (aged 44; San Diego, CA, USA)
** John Keith Wells, U.S. Marine platoon commander (aged 94; Arvada, CO, USA)
* February 12
** Eddie Barry, ice hockey player (aged 96; Needham, MA, USA)
** Robert Frederick Froehlke, 10th United States Secretary of the Army (aged 93; Scottsdale, AZ, USA)
* February 13
** Nathan Barksdale, drug dealer, dramatized in The Wire (aged 54; Butner, NC, USA)
** Johnny Lattner, football player (aged 83; Melrose Park, IL, USA)
** Antonin Scalia, jurist; Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (aged 79; Shafter, TX, USA)
* February 14 – Steven Stucky, classical music composer (aged 66; Ithaca, NY, USA)
* February 15
** Edward T. Foote II, academic and educator; 4th President of the University of Miami (aged 78; Cutler Bay, FL, USA)
** George Gaynes, Finnish-American actor (aged 98; North Bend, WA, USA)
* February 16
** Alisa Bellettini, television producer (aged 61; Sacramento, CA, USA)
** Lex McAllister, reality show contestant (aged 31; Columbus, OH, USA)
** Robert Walker, sailor (aged 87; Virginia Beach, VA, USA)
* February 17 – Tony Phillips, baseball player (aged 56; Scottsdale, AZ, USA)
* February 18
** Jim Davenport, baseball player (aged 82; Redwood City, CA, USA)
** Rosario Ferré, First Lady of Puerto Rico (aged 77; San Juan, PR, USA)
** Tom Mullica, magician and impressionist (aged 67; Las Vegas, NV, USA)
** Angela Raiola, television personality (aged 55; New York City, NY, USA)
** John Reinhardt, diplomat; U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria (1971–1975) (aged 95; Silver Spring, MD, USA)
* February 19
** Humbert Allen Astredo, actor (aged 86; Guilford, CT, USA)
** Harper Lee, writer (aged 89; Monroeville, AL, USA)
** Charlie Tuna, radio personality (aged 71; Tarzana, CA, USA)
* February 20
** Kevin Collins, baseball player (aged 69; Naples, FL, USA)
** Dave Needle, computer engineer (aged 68; Alameda, CA, USA)
* February 21 – Richard Horner Thompson, general (aged 89; Fairfax, VA, USA)
* February 22
** Wesley A. Clark, general and computer engineer (aged 88; New York City, NY, USA)
** Sonny James, singer-songwriter (aged 87; Nashville, TN, USA)
** Cara McCollum, journalist and beauty queen (aged 24; Camden, NJ, USA)
* February 23 – Donald E. Williams, astronaut (aged 74; Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA)
* February 25
** Tony Burton, actor and comedian (aged 78; Menifee, CA, USA)
** Alfred E. Mann, entrepreneur and philanthropist (aged 90; Las Vegas, NV, USA)
* February 26
** C. L. Blast, soul singer (aged 81; Birmingham, AL, USA)
** William Y. Cooper, artist (aged 82; Buffalo, NY, USA)
** Juan Conway McNabb, American-born Peruvian Roman Catholic prelate (aged 90; Evergreen Park, IL, USA)
** Robert Palladino, calligrapher and academic (aged 83; Sandy, OR, USA)
** Robert Struble Jr., historian and author (aged 72; Shoreline, WA, USA)
* February 28
** George Kennedy, actor (aged 91; Middleton, ID, USA)
** Jack Lindquist, businessman; President of Disneyland (1990–1993) (aged 88; Anaheim, CA, USA)
* February 29
** Stuart Beck, diplomat and law practitioner (aged 69; Manhattan, NY, USA)
** Helias Doundoulakis, spy and inventor (aged 92; Freeport, NY, USA)
** Gil Hill, police officer and actor (aged 84; Detroit, MI, USA)
** Lee Reherman, actor (aged 49; Manhattan Beach, CA, USA)
===March===
* March 1
** Coca Crystal, television personality (aged 68; Rochelle Park, NJ, USA)
** Adam Dziewonski, Polish-born geophysicist (aged 79; Cambridge, MA, USA)
** Jim Kimsey, co-founder and CEO of AOL (aged 76; McLean, VA, USA)
** Gayle McCormick, singer (aged 67; St. Louis, MO, USA)
** Martha Wright, actress and singer (aged 92; Newburyport, MA, USA)
* March 2
** Robert Del Tufo, Attorney General of New Jersey (aged 82; Morris Township, NJ, USA)
** Rosemary Hinkfuss, politician (aged 84; Green Bay, WI, USA)
** Dick Hudson, football player (aged 75; Paris, TN, USA)
** Aubrey McClendon, businessman and part-owner of the Oklahoma City Thunder (aged 56; Oklahoma City, OK, USA)
** James Barrett McNulty, 26th Mayor of Scranton, Pennsylvania (aged 71; Scranton, PA, USA)
** R. Tom Zuidema, Dutch-born anthropologist (aged 88; Urbana, IL, USA)
* March 3
** Ralph Baruch, President of Viacom (aged 92; New York City, NY, USA)
** Rooney L. Bowen, politician (aged 82; Cordele, GA, USA)
** Jack Buckalew, politician (aged 83; Boca Raton, FL, USA)
** Gavin Christopher, singer, songwriter, musician and producer (aged 66; Chicago, IL, USA)
** Henry R. Horsey, judge (aged 91; St. Louis, MO, USA)
** Laura Knaperek, politician (aged 60; Tempe, AZ, USA)
** William O'Brien, police officer (aged 71; Tavernier, FL, USA)
** Retta Ward, health official and educator (aged 62; Santa Fe, NM, USA)
* March 4
** Bud Collins, journalist and sportscaster (aged 86; Brookline, MA, USA)
** Pat Conroy, author (aged 70; Beaufort, SC, USA)
** Joey Feek, country singer (aged 40; Alexandria, VA, USA)
** Thomas G. Morris, politician (aged 96; Amarillo, TX, USA)
** William H. Plackett, naval non-commissioned officer (aged 78; Virginia Beach, VA, USA)
* March 5
** Caesar Belser, football player (aged 71; Hurst, TX, USA)
** Robert Redbird, artist (aged 76; Lawton, OK, USA)
** Ray Tomlinson, computer programmer (aged 74; Lincoln, MA, USA)
** Al Wistert, football player (aged 95; Grants Pass, OR, USA)
* March 6
** Barbara Almond, psychiatrist (aged 77; Palo Alto, CA, USA)
** Jerry Bridges, evangelist and author (aged 86; Colorado Springs, CO, USA)
** Elizabeth Garrett, 13th President of Cornell University (aged 52; New York City, NY, USA)
** Nancy Reagan, First Lady of the United States, as wife of Ronald Reagan (aged 94; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Harold H. Saunders, diplomat (aged 85; McLean, VA, USA)
** Gary Smalley, family counselor and author (aged 75; Magnolia, TX, USA)
* March 7
** Gary Braasch, photographer (aged 72; Great Barrier Reef)
** Joe Cabot, jazz trumpeter and bandleader (aged 94; New York City, NY, USA)
** Bobby Johns, race car driver (aged 83; Miami, FL, USA)
** Steve Kraly, baseball player (aged 86; Johnson City, NY, USA)
** Paul Ryan, comic artist (aged 66; New York City, NY, USA)
** Quentin Young, physician and activist (aged 92; Berkeley, CA, USA)
* March 8
** Richard Davalos, actor (aged 85; Burbank, CA, USA)
** Ron Jacobs, broadcaster (aged 78; Pearl City, HI, USA)
** David S. Johnson, computer scientist (aged 70; Amherst, MA, USA)
** Alfred E. Senn, historian and academic (aged 83; Madison, WI, USA)
* March 9
** John Gutfreund, investor and CEO of Salomon Brothers (aged 86; New York City, NY, USA)
** Ralph S. Larsen, CEO of Johnson & Johnson (aged 77; Naples, FL, USA)
** Clyde Lovellette, basketball player (aged 86; North Manchester, IN, USA)
** Bill Wade, football player (aged 85; Nashville, TN, USA)
** Coy Wayne Wesbrook, convicted mass murderer (aged 58; Huntsville, TX, USA)
* March 10
** Ernestine Anderson, jazz singer (aged 87; Shoreline, WA, USA)
** William Dyke, Mayor of Madison, Wisconsin (aged 85; Dodgeville, WI, USA)
** Gogi Grant, pop singer (aged 91; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* March 11
** Joe Ascione, jazz drummer (aged 54; Queens, NY, USA)
** Ben Bagdikian, educator and journalist (aged 96; Berkeley, CA, USA)
** Shawn Elliott, actor and singer (aged 79; New York City, NY, USA)
** Louis Meyers, festival organizer, co-founder of SXSW (aged 60; Austin, TX, USA)
** Gerard Reedy, 30th President of the College of the Holy Cross (aged 76; Bronx, NY, USA)
** Ruth Terry, singer and actress (aged 95; Rancho Mirage, CA, USA)
* March 12
** Tommy Brown, singer (aged 84; Atlanta, GA, USA)
** Donnie Duncan, football coach (aged 75; Dallas, TX, USA)
** Verena Huber-Dyson, mathematician (aged 92; Bellingham, WA, USA)
** Morton Hunt, psychologist and science writer (aged 96; Newtown, PA, USA)
** Lloyd Shapley, mathematician and economist, Nobel Prize laureate (aged 92; Tucson, AZ, USA)
** Bill Whitby, baseball player (aged 72; Huntersville, NC, USA)
* March 13
** Darryl Hunt, justice reform activist (aged 51; Winston-Salem, NC, USA)
** Sidney Mear, trumpeter (aged 97; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
** Hilary Putnam, philosopher, mathematician and computer scientist (aged 89; Arlington, MA, USA)
** Martin Olav Sabo, politician (aged 78; Minneapolis, MN, USA)
* March 14
** John W. Cahn, German-born metallurgist (aged 88; Seattle, WA, USA)
** Patrick Cain, football player (aged 53; Superior, CO, USA)
** Virgilio Elizondo, Roman Catholic priest, theologian and civil rights activist (aged 80; San Antonio, TX, USA)
** Tamara Grigsby, politician and social worker (aged 41; Madison, WI, USA)
** Geoffrey Hartman, German-born literary theorist (aged 86; Hamden, CT, USA)
** Lloyd R. Leavitt Jr., lieutenant general (aged 87; Fair Oaks Ranch, TX, USA)
** June Peppas, baseball player (aged 86; Stuart, FL, USA)
** Vic Schwenk, football player, coach and executive (aged 91; CA, USA)
* March 15
** Daryl Coley, gospel singer (aged 60; Berkeley, CA, USA)
** Ralph C. Johnson, politician and businessman (aged 62; Greensboro, NC, USA)
** Earline Parmon, politician (aged 72; Winston-Salem, NC, USA)
** Alice Pollitt, baseball player (aged 86; Harbor Springs, MI, USA)
* March 16
** William B. Bader, civil servant (aged 84; Sykesville, MD, USA)
** Alexander Esenin-Volpin, Russian-born poet and mathematician (aged 91; Boston, MA, USA)
** Gene Short, basketball player (aged 62; Houston, TX, USA)
** Frank Sinatra Jr., singer and actor (aged 72; Daytona Beach, FL, USA)
* March 17
** Ralph David Abernathy III, politician and businessman (aged 56; Atlanta, GA, USA)
** E. L. Boteler, farmer and politician (aged 96; Leland, MS, USA)
** Claudine K. Brown, museum director (aged 67; Tucson, AZ, USA)
** Larry Drake, actor (aged 67; Hollywood, CA, USA)
** Charles Kaufman, music educator (aged 87; Hillsdale, NJ, USA)
** Steve Young, singer-songwriter (aged 73; Nashville, TN, USA)
* March 18
** David Egan, singer-songwriter and pianist (aged 61; Lafayette, LA, USA)
** Cherylene Lee, actress and playwright (aged 62; San Francisco, CA, USA)
** Fred Richards, baseball player (aged 88; Warren, OH, USA)
** Joe Santos, actor (aged 84; Santa Monica, CA, USA)
** Tray Walker, football player (aged 23; Miami, FL, USA)
** Harold Zisla, painter (aged 90; South Bend, IN, USA)
* March 19
** Bob Adelman, photographer (aged 85; Miami Beach, FL, USA)
** Jerry Taylor, politician and businessman (aged 78; Benton, AR, USA)
* March 20
** Robert J. Healey, political activist and attorney (aged 58; Barrington, RI, USA)
** Gayle Hopkins, long jumper (aged 74; Tucson, AZ, USA)
* March 21
** Leroy Blunt, politician (aged 94; Marshfield, MO, USA)
** Peter Brown, actor (aged 80; Phoenix, AZ, USA)
** Leon Charney, real estate investor, author, media personality and philanthropist (aged 77; Boca Raton, FL, USA)
** Andrew Grove, Hungarian-born electronic executive (aged 79; Los Altos, CA, USA)
** Carolyn Squires, nurse and politician (aged 75; Missoula, MT, USA)
* March 22
** Richard Bradford, actor (aged 81; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Phife Dawg, rapper (aged 45; Oakley, CA, USA)
** Glen Dawson, rock climber and mountaineer (aged 103; Riverside, CA, USA)
** Santiago J. Erevia, soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (aged 70; San Antonio, TX, USA)
** Rita Gam, actress (aged 88; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Harold J. Morowitz, biophysicist (aged 88; Falls Church, VA, USA)
** David Smyrl, actor and television writer (aged 80; Wynnewood, PA, USA)
** Adam Kelly Ward, convicted murderer (aged 33; Huntsville, TX, USA)
* March 23
** Joe Garagiola Sr., baseball player and broadcaster (aged 90; Scotsdale, AZ, USA)
** Ruth Inge Hardison, sculptor, artist and photographer (aged 102; New York City, NY, USA)
** Ken Howard, actor and President of SAG/SAG-AFTRA (2009–2016) (aged 71; Valencia, CA, USA)
** John McKibbin, politician and businessman (aged 69; Astoria, OR, USA)
* March 24
** Maggie Blye, actress (aged 73; West Hollywood, CA, USA)
** Earl Hamner Jr., television writer and producer (aged 92; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Tibor Machan, Hungarian-born philosopher (aged 77; New York City, NY, USA)
** Edgar G. "Sonny" Mouton Jr., politician (aged 86; Lafayette, LA, USA)
** Leonard L. Northrup Jr., engineer (aged 98; Dallas, TX, USA)
** Nicholas Scoppetta, 31st Commissioner of the New York City Fire Department (aged 83; New York City, NY, USA)
** Garry Shandling, actor, comedian and writer (aged 66; Santa Monica, CA, USA)
** Kevin Turner, football player (aged 46; Vestavia Hills, AL, USA)
* March 25
** Shannon Bolin, actress and singer (aged 99; NY, USA)
** David H. Porter, 5th President of Skidmore College (aged 80; Saratoga Springs, NY, USA)
** Lester Thurow, political economist (aged 77; Westport, MA, USA)
* March 26
** David Baker, jazz composer (aged 84; Bloomington, IN, USA)
** Jim Harrison, author (aged 78; Patagonia, AZ, USA)
** Donald Stoltenberg, painter and author (aged 88; Brewster, MA, USA)
* March 27
** Mother Angelica, Franciscan nun and founder of EWTN (aged 92; Hanceville, AL, USA)
** Vince Boryla, basketball player, coach and executive (aged 89; Denver, CO, USA)
** Eric Engberg, news correspondent (aged 74; Palmetto, FL, USA)
** Toni Grant, psychologist and radio personality (aged 73; Beverly Hills, CA, USA)
** Curtis Hertel, 64th Speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives (aged 63; Grosse Pointe Woods, MI, USA)
** Gilbert Horn Sr., soldier, politician and judge (aged 92; Havre, MT, USA)
* March 28
** Bogdan Denitch, Bulgarian-born sociologist (aged 86; Split, Croatia)
** Igor Khait, animator (aged 52; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** James Noble, actor (aged 94; Norwalk, CT, USA)
** W. Ward Reynoldson, lawyer and judge (aged 95; Des Moines, IA, USA)
* March 29
** Frank De Felitta, author, producer and director (aged 94; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Patty Duke, actress and President of SAG (1985–1988) (aged 69; Coeur d'Alene, ID, USA)
** Steven Sample, 10th President of the University of Southern California (aged 75; San Marino, CA, USA)
** John Wittenborn, football player (aged 80; Carbondale, IL, USA)
* March 30
** Shirley Hufstedler, 1st United States Secretary of Education (aged 90; Glendale, CA, USA)
** Frankie Michaels, singer and actor (aged 60; Chittenango, NY, USA)
** J. Thomas Rosch, lawyer (aged 76; Lake Forest, IL, USA)
** Bill Rosendahl, politician (aged 70; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* March 31
** Werner Baer, economist (aged 84; Urbana, IL, USA)
** Eugene Parker, sports agent (aged 60; Fort Wayne, IN, USA)
** Terry Plumeri, musician, conductor and composer (aged 71; Dunnellon, FL, USA)
** Ward Wettlaufer, golfer (aged 80; Naples, FL, USA)
===April===
* April 1
** Tom Coughlin, business executive and fraudster (aged 66; Bentonville, AR, USA)
** Richard S. Kem, army general (aged 81; Washington, DC, USA)
** Herbert Theodore Milburn, judge (aged 84; Signal Mountain, TN, USA)
** Marjorie Peters, baseball player (aged 97; West Allis, WI, USA)
** Patricia Thompson, philosopher and author (aged 89; NY, USA)
* April 2
** Rick Bartow, artist and sculptor (aged 69; OR, USA)
** Moreese Bickham, wrongfully convicted murderer and anti-death penalty activist (aged 98; Alameda, CA, USA)
** Amber Rayne, pornographic actress (aged 31; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* April 3
** Erik Bauersfeld, radio dramatist and voice actor (aged 93; Berkeley, CA, USA)
** Joe Medicine Crow, Crow historian and author (aged 102; Billings, MT, USA)
** Ward Crutchfield, politician (aged 87; Chattanooga, TN, USA)
** Alex de Jesús, boxer (aged 33; San Juan, PR, USA)
** Robert Guinan, painter (aged 82; Evanston, IL, USA)
** Henry Harpending, anthropologist (aged 72; Salt Lake City, UT, USA)
** Bill Henderson, jazz vocalist and actor (aged 90; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Clarence Clifton Young, politician (aged 93; Reno, NV, USA)
* April 4
** Archie Dees, basketball player (aged 80; Bloomington, IN, USA)
** Carlo Mastrangelo, doo-wop singer (aged 78; Boynton Beach, FL, USA)
** John Miller, politician (aged 68; Newport News, VA, USA)
** George Radosevich, football player (aged 88; Anderson, SC, USA)
** Mike Sandlock, baseball player (aged 100; Cos Cob, CT, USA)
* April 5
** Roman Gribbs, 65th Mayor of Detroit, Michigan (aged 90; Northville, MI, USA)
** Leon Haywood, funk singer-songwriter and record producer (aged 74; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** E. M. Nathanson, author (aged 88; Laguna Niguel, CA, USA)
** Barbara Turner, screenwriter and actress (aged 79; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* April 6
** Dennis Davis, drummer (aged 66; NY, USA)
** Merle Haggard, singer-songwriter and musician (aged 79; Palo Cedro, CA, USA)
** Joel Kurtzman, economist (aged 68; Concord, MA, USA)
** Robert MacCrate, lawyer (aged 94; Plandome, NY, USA)
** Ogden Mills Phipps, financier, racehorse owner and breeder (aged 75; New York City, NY, USA)
** Pablo Lucio Vasquez, convicted murderer (aged 38; Huntsville, TX, USA)
** Murray Wier, basketball player (aged 89; Georgetown, TX, USA)
* April 7
** Joe Freeman Britt, attorney and judge (aged 80; Lumberton, NC, USA)
** Frank E. Denholm, politician (aged 92; Brookings, SD, USA)
** Vladimir Kagan, furniture designer (aged 88; Palm Beach, FL, USA)
** Blackjack Mulligan, professional wrestler (aged 74; Tampa, FL, USA)
* April 8
** Dick Alban, football player (aged 87; Newtown Township, PA, USA)
** William Hamilton, cartoonist, playwright and novelist (aged 76; Lexington, KY, USA)
** Charles Hirsch, forensic pathologist (aged 79; Westwood, NJ, USA)
** Daisy Lewellyn, reality television personality (aged 36; New York City, NY, USA)
** Edward J. Steimel, lobbyist and fundraiser (aged 94; Denham Springs, LA, USA)
* April 9
** Arthur Anderson, actor (aged 93; Manhattan, NY, USA)
** Duane Clarridge, spy (aged 83; Leesburg, VA, USA)
** Tony Conrad, experimental filmmaker and musician (aged 76; Cheektowaga, NY, USA)
** Will Smith, football player (aged 34; New Orleans, LA, USA)
* April 10
** Louis Gladstone, politician (aged 88; Bridgeport, CT, USA)
** Nicholas Hood, minister, politician and civil rights activist (aged 92; Detroit, MI, USA)
** Wayne Southwick, surgeon and academic (aged 93; Branford, CT, USA)
* April 11
** Doug Banks, radio personality (aged 57; Miami, FL, USA)
** Hokie Gajan, football player and broadcaster (aged 56; New Orleans, LA, USA)
** Anne Gould Hauberg, arts patron (aged 98; Seattle, WA, USA)
** Ed Snider, sports executive (aged 83; Montecito, CA, USA)
* April 12
** Hector A. Cafferata Jr., soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (aged 86; Venice, FL, USA)
** Paul Carey, broadcaster and sportscaster (aged 88; Rochester, MI, USA)
** David Gest, entertainer, producer and television personality (aged 62; London, England, UK)
** Anne Jackson, actress, wife of Eli Wallach (aged 90; Manhattan, NY, USA)
** Bryce Jordan, 14th President of the Pennsylvania State University (aged 91; Austin, TX, USA)
** Balls Mahoney, professional wrestler (aged 44; Spring Lake Heights, NJ, USA)
** Spec Richardson, baseball executive (aged 93; Columbus, GA, USA)
* April 13
** Ray Thornton, politician and attorney (aged 87; Little Rock, AR, USA)
** Nera White, basketball player (aged 80; Gallatin, TN, USA)
* April 14
** Francesco Guarraci, Italian-born mobster (aged 61; Elizabeth, NJ, USA)
** Fred Hayman, Swiss-born fashion retailer and entrepreneur (aged 90; Malibu, CA, USA)
** Dan Ireland, Canadian-born film director and producer (aged 66; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Carl M. Vogel, politician (aged 61; St. Louis, MO, USA)
* April 15
** Laura Liu, judge (aged 49; Chicago, IL, USA)
** Frederick Mayer, German-born spy (aged 94; Charles Town, WV, USA)
* April 16
** Ron Bonham, basketball player (aged 73; Muncie, IN, USA)
** Rod Daniel, film and television director (aged 73; Chicago, IL, USA)
** William M. Gray, meteorologist (aged 86; Fort Collins, CO, USA)
** Maurice Kenny, Mohawk poet (aged 86; Saranac Lake, NY, USA)
* April 17
** Clifton C. Garvin, businessman (aged 94; Easton, MD, USA)
** Doris Roberts, actress (aged 90; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* April 18
** Brian Asawa, opera singer (aged 49; Mission Hills, CA, USA)
** Paul Busiek, physician and legislator (aged 93; Springfield, MO, USA)
** Bill Campbell, businessman and executive (aged 75; Palo Alto, CA, USA)
** Ben-Zion Gold, Polish-born rabbi (aged 93; Cambridge, MA, USA)
** Scott Nimerfro, television writer and producer (aged 54; Minneapolis, MN, USA)
* April 19
** Walter Kohn, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (aged 93; Santa Barbara, CA, USA)
** Richard Lyons, musician (aged 57; Seattle, WA, USA)
** John McConathy, basketball player (aged 86; Bossier City, LA, USA)
** Milt Pappas, baseball player (aged 76; Beecher, IL, USA)
** Pete Zorn, musician (aged 65; London, England, UK)
* April 20
** Solomon Blatt Jr., judge (aged 94; Charleston, SC, USA)
** Chyna, professional wrestler, bodybuilder and actress (aged 46; Redondo Beach, CA, USA)
** Velda González, actress and politician (aged 83; San Juan, PR, USA)
** Harry Perkowski, baseball player (aged 93; Beckley, WV, USA)
** Dwayne Washington, basketball player (aged 52; Bronx, NY, USA)
* April 21
** Lonnie Mack, singer and guitarist (aged 74; Smithville, TN, USA)
** Michelle McNamara, crime writer, wife of Patton Oswalt (aged 46; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Prince, singer, songwriter, musician and actor (aged 57; Chanhassen, MN, USA)
** Peter Ruckman, Independent Baptist pastor (aged 94; Pensacola, FL, USA)
* April 22 – Jory Prum, audio engineer (aged 41; Palo Alto, CA, USA)
* April 23
** Ron Brace, football player (aged 29; Springfield, MA, USA)
** Tom Muecke, football player (aged 52; Friendswood, TX, USA)
** Horace Ward, judge (aged 88; Atlanta, GA, USA)
* April 24
** Manuel de la Torre, Spanish-born golf instructor (aged 94; Milwaukee, WI, USA)
** Perry Hooper Sr., jurist (aged 91; Montgomery, AL, USA)
** Steve Julian, radio host (aged 57; South Pasadena, CA, USA)
** Tommy Kono, weightlifter (aged 85; Honolulu, HI, USA)
** Lizette Parker, Mayor of Teaneck, New Jersey (aged 44; Teaneck, NJ, USA)
** Billy Paul, R&B singer (aged 81; Blackwood, NJ, USA)
** Terry Redlin, artist (aged 78; Watertown, SD, USA)
** George Alexis Weymouth, artist and conservationist (aged 79; Chadds Ford, PA, USA)
* April 25 – Joe Blahak, football player (aged 65; Lincoln, NE, USA)
* April 26
** Winston Hill, football player (aged 74; Denver, CO, USA)
** Ozzie Silna, basketball executive (aged 83; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** James H. Ware, biostatistician (aged 74; Cambridge, MA, USA)
** Harry Wu, Chinese-born human rights activist (aged 79; Honduras)
* April 27
** Harold Cohen, British-born digital artist (aged 87; Encinitas, CA, USA)
** Willie L. Williams, police commissioner (aged 72; Atlanta, GA, USA)
* April 28
** Mel Bartholomew, inventor and businessman (aged 84; San Diego, CA, USA)
** Conrad Burns, U.S. Senator (1989–2007) (aged 81; Billings, MT, USA)
** Joe Durham, baseball player (aged 84; Randallstown, MD, USA)
** Charles Gatewood, photographer (aged 73; San Francisco, CA, USA)
** Blackie Sherrod, sportswriter (aged 96; Dallas, TX, USA)
* April 29 – Don White, race car driver (aged 87; Keokuk, IA, USA)
* April 30
** Daniel Aaron, writer and academic, co-founder of the Library of America (aged 103; Cambridge, MA, USA)
** Daniel Berrigan, Jesuit priest and peace activist (aged 94; New York City, NY, USA)
** Wayne Crawford, actor, producer, director and screenwriter (aged 69; Winston-Salem, NC, USA)
** Marisol Escobar, French-born artist and sculptor (aged 85; New York City, NY, USA)
** Tracy Scott, script supervisor (aged 46; Lady Lake, FL, USA)
** Peter Thomas, television announcer and narrator (aged 91; Naples, FL, USA)
===May===
* May 1
** Solomon W. Golomb, mathematician and engineer (aged 83; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Doug Raney, jazz guitarist, son of Jimmy Raney (aged 59; Copenhagen, Denmark)
* May 2
** Al Ferrari, basketball player (aged 82; St. Louis, MO, USA)
** Jacky Lee, football player (aged 77; Houston, TX, USA)
** Afeni Shakur, political activist and businesswoman, mother of Tupac Shakur (aged 69; Sausalito, CA, USA)
** Gordie Sundin, baseball player (aged 78; Naples, FL, USA)
* May 3
** Paul Boutelle, politician (aged 81; Albany, NY, USA)
** Abel Fernandez, actor (aged 85; Whittier, CA, USA)
** Frank Levingston, supercentenarian (aged 110; Shreveport, LA, USA)
** Thomas W. Libous, politician (aged 63; Endicott, NY, USA)
** Nicolas Noxon, documentary filmmaker (aged 79; Westlake Village, CA, USA)
** Ian Sander, film and television producer (aged 68; Malibu, CA, USA)
** Ret Turner, costume designer (aged 87; West Hollywood, CA, USA)
* May 4
** Blas Avena, mixed martial artist (aged 32; Las Vegas, NV, USA)
** Bob Bennett, U.S. Senator (1993–2011) (aged 82; Arlington, VA, USA)
** Karl Butzer, German-born geographer (aged 81; Austin, TX, USA)
** Howard King, public address announcer (aged 83; Traverse City, MI, USA)
** Ursula Mamlok, German-born composer (aged 93; Berlin, Germany)
** Jordan Parsons, mixed martial artist (aged 25; Delray Beach, FL, USA)
* May 5
** Rollin Dart, CEO of Dart National Bank (aged 90; Mason, MI, USA)
** Rickey Smith, singer and reality show contestant (aged 37; Oklahoma City, OK, USA)
* May 6
** Christopher T. Carley, real estate developer (aged 73; Winnetka, IL, USA)
** Dick Estell, radio host (aged 90; Lansing, MI, USA)
** David Hall, 20th Governor of Oklahoma (aged 85; San Diego, CA, USA)
** Johnny Joannou, politician (aged 76; Portsmouth, VA, USA)
** Candye Kane, blues singer-songwriter and actress (aged 54; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Pierre, African penguin (aged 33; San Francisco, CA, USA)
* May 7
** Ann Day, politician (aged 77; Tucson, AZ, USA)
** Michael S. Harper, poet (aged 78; Providence, RI, USA)
** John Stabb, punk vocalist (aged 54; Rockville, MD, USA)
* May 8
** Tom M. Apostol, mathematician (aged 92; Pasadena, CA, USA)
** John Bradshaw, motivational writer and speaker (aged 82; Houston, TX, USA)
** Louisa Chase, Panamanian-born painter and printmaker (aged 65; East Hampton, NY, USA)
** Nick Lashaway, actor (aged 93; Pacific Palisades, CA, USA)
** William Schallert, actor and President of SAG (1979–1981) (aged 28; Framingham, MA, USA)
** John Young, baseball player, scout and executive (aged 67; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* May 9
** Chuck Curtis, football coach (aged 80; Weatherford, TX, USA)
** Karl Maramorosch, Austrian-born virologist (aged 101; Warsaw, Poland)
** Ronald W. Walker, historian (aged 76; Provo, UT, USA)
* May 10 – Mark Lane, lawyer, politician, civil rights activist and author (aged 89; Charlottesville, VA, USA)
* May 11
** Katherine Dunn, novelist (aged 70; Portland, OR, USA)
** Michael Ratner, attorney (aged 72; New York City, NY, USA)
* May 12
** Susannah Mushatt Jones, supercentenarian, last known American born in the 19th century (aged 116; Brooklyn, NY, USA)
** Julius La Rosa, singer (aged 86; Crivitz, WI, USA)
** Del Latta, politician (aged 96; Bowling Green, OH, USA)
** Peter J. Liacouras, President of Temple University (aged 85; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
* May 13
** Bill Backer, advertising executive (aged 89; Warrenton, VA, USA)
** Buster Cooper, jazz trombonist (aged 87; St. Petersburg, FL, USA)
** Sammy Ellis, baseball player (aged 75; Temple Terrace, FL, USA)
** Rabbit Kekai, surfer (aged 95; Honolulu, HI, USA)
** Dick McAuliffe, baseball player (aged 76; Farmington, CT, USA)
** James M. Shuart, President of Hofstra University (aged 85; Nassau County, NY, USA)
** Murray A. Straus, sociologist and professor (University of New Hampshire), creator of the Conflict tactics scale (aged 89; Hanover, NH, USA)
* May 14 – Monteagle Stearns, U.S. Ambassador to Greece (1981–1985) and Ivory Coast (1976–1979) (aged 91; Belmont, MA, USA)
* May 16
** Robert Louis Freeman Sr., politician (aged 82; Baton Rouge, LA, USA)
** Jim McMillian, basketball player (aged 68; Winston-Salem, NC, USA)
** Julia Meade, actress (aged 90; Manhattan, NY, USA)
** Emilio Navaira, country and Tejano singer (aged 53; New Braunfels, TX, USA)
** Mamie Rallins, hurdler (aged 74; Fremont, OH, USA)
** Jack Unruh, commercial illustrator (aged 80; Dallas, TX, USA)
* May 17 – Guy Clark, singer-songwriter, Grammy winner (2014) (aged 74; Nashville, TN, USA)
* May 18
** Elaine Abraham, Tlingit elder and nurse (aged 86; Anchorage, AK, USA)
** Fritz Stern, German-born historian (aged 90; New York City, NY, USA)
** Susan Tolchin, political scientist (aged 75; Washington, DC, USA)
* May 19
** Irving Benson, actor and comedian (aged 102; Port Jefferson, NY, USA)
** John Berry, musician (aged 52; Danvers, MA, USA)
** Jim Ray Hart, baseball player (aged 74; Acampo, CA, USA)
** Morley Safer, Canadian-born journalist (aged 84; New York City, NY, USA)
* May 20
** Patricia M. Derian, human rights activist (aged 86; Chapel Hill, NC, USA)
** Brandon Grove, U.S. Ambassador to East Germany and Zaire (1984–1987) (aged 87; Washington, DC, USA)
** Albert M. Sackett, Navy rear admiral (aged 95; Washington, DC, USA)
** Wheelock Whitney Jr., sports executive (aged 89; Independence, MN, USA)
* May 21
** Homeboykris, racehorse (aged 9; Baltimore, MD, USA)
** Nick Menza, German-born drummer (aged 51; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* May 22
** Tom DeLeone, football player (aged 65; Park City, UT, USA)
** George Wildman, cartoonist (aged 88; Waterbury, CT, USA)
* May 23 – Joe Fleishaker, actor (aged 62; Bronx, NY, USA)
* May 24
** Suzanne Corkin, neuroscientist (aged 79; Danvers, MA, USA)
** Buck Kartalian, actor (aged 93; Mission Hills, CA, USA)
** Mell Lazarus, cartoonist (aged 89; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Hughes Oliphant Old, theologian (aged 83; White River Junction, VT, USA)
* May 25 – Nancy Dow, actress and model (aged 79; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* May 26
** Cassandra Butts, lawyer (aged 50; Washington, DC, USA)
** Hedy Epstein, German-born Holocaust survivor and political activist (aged 91; St. Louis, MO, USA)
** Lou Grasmick, baseball player (aged 91; Baltimore, MD, USA)
** Iana Kasian, Ukrainian-born prosecutor and murder victim (aged 30; West Hollywood, CA, USA)
** Gustav Meier, Swiss-born conductor (aged 86; Ann Arbor, MI, USA)
** Angela Paton, actress (aged 86; Oakland, CA, USA)
** Coe Swobe, politician, member of the Nevada Senate (1966–1974) (aged 87; Reno, NV, USA)
** Bob Williams, football player (aged 86; Timonium, MD, USA)
* May 27
** Michael Dann, television executive (aged 94; Boca Raton, FL, USA)
** Louise Erickson, baseball player (aged 86; Whitehall, WI, USA)
** Frank Modell, cartoonist (aged 98; Guilford, CT, USA)
** Morton White, philosopher (aged 99; Skillman, NJ, USA)
* May 28
** Bryce Dejean-Jones, basketball player (aged 23; Dallas, TX, USA)
** Peter DeTroy, attorney (aged 68; Portland, ME, USA)
** M. Brendan Fleming, politician, Mayor of Lowell, Massachusetts (1982–1984) (aged 90; Westford, MA, USA)
** Harambe, endangered gorilla (aged 17; Cincinnati, OH, USA)
* May 29
** T. Marshall Hahn, educator and executive (aged 89; Blacksburg, VA, USA)
** Ralph Ketner, businessman and philanthropist (aged 95; Salibury, NC, USA)
** Don McNay, financial author (aged 57; New Orleans, LA, USA)
* May 30 – C. Michael Harper, executive (aged 89; Omaha, NE, USA)
* May 31
** Fred Catona, business founder and chief marketing strategist (aged 70; Blue Bell, PA, USA)
** Jan Crouch, televangelist and broadcasting executive (aged 77; Orlando, FL, USA)
** David Tod Roy, sinologist and translator (aged 83; Chicago, IL, USA)
===June===
* June 1
** Roger Enrico, businessman (aged 71; Cayman Islands, UK)
** Boyce F. Martin Jr., judge, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (1996–2003) (aged 80; Louisville, KY, USA)
* June 2
** Donny Everett, baseball player (aged 19; Manchester, TN, USA)
** Wayne Kingery, football player (aged 88; Lake Charles, LA, USA)
** Lee Pfund, baseball player and college baseball and basketball coach (aged 96; Carol Stream, IL, USA)
* June 3
** Muhammad Ali, boxer (aged 74; Scottsdale, AZ, USA)
** Henry Childs, football player (aged 65; Thomasville, GA, USA)
* June 4
** Phyllis Curtin, operatic soprano (aged 94; Great Barrington, MA, USA)
** Bill Richmond, film and television writer and producer (aged 94; Calabasas, CA, USA)
** William Wright, author, editor, and playwright (aged 85; Branford, CT, USA)
* June 5
** Jerome Bruner, psychologist (aged 100; New York City, NY, USA)
** David Lamb, journalist (aged 76; Simsbury, CT, USA)
** Cedric Robinson, political scientist and activist (aged 75; Berkeley, CA, USA)
** Eleanor Zelliot, writer and educator (aged 89; MN, USA)
* June 6
** Helen Fabela Chávez, labor unionist and activist (aged 88; Bakersfield, CA, USA)
** Theresa Saldana, actress (aged 61; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Kimbo Slice, Bahamian-born mixed martial artist and boxer (aged 42; Margate, FL, USA)
* June 7
** Leonard Hill, television producer and real estate developer (aged 68; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Thomas Perkins, businessman (aged 84; Marin County, CA, USA)
** Sean Rooks, basketball player and coach (aged 46; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
** Bryan Wiedmeier, football executive (aged 56; Miami, FL, USA)
* June 9
** J. Reilly Lewis, choral conductor and organist (aged 71; Arlington, VA, USA)
** Brooks Thompson, basketball player and coach (aged 45; San Antonio, TX, USA)
* June 10
** Mary Feik, aviator (aged 92; Annapolis, MD, USA)
** Gordie Howe, hockey player (aged 88; Sylvania, OH, USA)
* June 11
** Gilbert Blue, Catawba Nation chief (1973–2007) (aged 82; Rock Hill, SC, USA)
** Stacey Castor, convicted murderer (aged 48; Bedford Hills, NY, USA)
** Christina Grimmie, singer and songwriter (aged 22; Orlando, FL, USA)
** Bryan Robinson, football player (aged 41; Milwaukee, WI, USA)
* June 12
** Michelle Cliff, Jamaican-born author (aged 69; Santa Cruz, CA, USA)
** Earl Faison, football player (aged 77; Prescott, AZ, USA)
** Curley Johnson, football player (aged 80; Granbury, TX, USA)
** Danny Kopec, chess player (aged 62; Merrick, NY, USA)
** George Voinovich, Governor of Ohio (1991–98) and Senator from Ohio (1999–2011) (aged 79; Cleveland, OH, USA)
** Janet Waldo, actress and voice artist (aged 97; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* June 13
** Anahid Ajemian, violinist (aged 92; New York City, NY, USA)
** Michu Meszaros, Hungarian-born actor (aged 76; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Chips Moman, record producer, guitarist, and songwriter (aged 79; LaGrange, GA, USA)
** Robert T. Paine, ecologist (aged 83; Seattle, WA, USA)
** Gregory Rabassa, literary translator (aged 94; Branford, CT, USA)
* June 14
** Melvin Dwork, interior designer and LGBT rights activist (aged 94; New York City, NY, USA)
** Ronnie Claire Edwards, actress (aged 83; Dallas, TX, USA)
** Ann Morgan Guilbert, actress (aged 87; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* June 15
** Lois Duncan, author (aged 82; Bradenton, FL, USA)
** Richard Selzer, surgeon and author (aged 87; North Branford, CT, USA)
* June 16
** Irving Moskowitz, businessman and philanthropist (aged 88; Miami, FL, USA)
** Bill Berkson, poet and literary critic (aged 76; San Francisco, CA, USA)
* June 17
** Thomas Ashley Graves Jr., academic (aged 91; Williamsburg, VA, USA)
** Ron Lester, actor (aged 45; Dallas, TX, USA)
** David Morgenthaler, businessman (aged 96; Cleveland, OH, USA)
* June 18
** Curt Hofstad, politician (aged 70; Devils Lake, ND, USA)
** Kitty Rhoades, politician (aged 64; Madison, WI, USA)
** Joe Schaffernoth, baseball player (aged 78; Berkeley Heights, NJ, USA)
* June 19
** David Johnson, Australian-born businessman (aged 83; Doylestown, PA, USA)
** Anton Yelchin, Soviet-born actor (aged 27; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* June 20
** Frank Chapot, equestrian (aged 84; Neshanic Station, NJ, USA)
** Alvin Endt, educator and politician (aged 82; Ocean Springs, MS, USA)
** Bill Ham, music manager and record producer (aged 79; Austin, TX, USA)
** Rich Olive, politician (aged 66; Story City, IA, USA)
** Chayito Valdez, Mexican-born singer and actress (aged 71; Coronado, CA, USA)
* June 21
** Dan Daniel, radio personality (aged 81; Larchmont, NY, USA)
** Jack Fuller, journalist, novelist, and publisher (aged 69; Chicago, IL, USA)
** Wayne Jackson, R&B trumpeter (aged 74; Memphis, TN, USA)
** Kenworth Moffett, art curator and museum director (aged 82; Boston, MA, USA)
* June 22
** Joan Acker, sociologist and women's rights activist (aged 92; Eugene, OR, USA)
** Jim Boyd, singer-songwriter (aged 60; Spokane, WA, USA)
* June 23
** Mike Flynn, online journalist and conservative activist (aged 48; Washington, DC, USA)
** James Green, labor historian and activist (aged 71; Boston, MA, USA)
** Michael Herr, author and war correspondent (aged 76; Delhi, NY, USA)
** Stuart Nisbet, actor (aged 82; Glendale, CA, USA)
** Ralph Stanley, bluegrass singer and banjoist (aged 89; Coeburn, VA, USA)
* June 24
** Chaim Avrohom Horowitz, Polish-born rabbi (aged 83; Boston, MA, USA)
** Bernie Worrell, funk keyboardist (aged 72; Everson, WA, USA)
* June 25
** Raymond Bateman, politician (aged 88; Morristown, NJ, USA)
** Bill Cunningham, street and fashion photographer (aged 87; New York City, NY, USA)
** Jim Hickman, baseball player (aged 79; Jackson, TN, USA)
** Peter Hutton, experimental filmmaker (aged 71; San Francisco, CA, USA)
** Hal Lear, basketball player (aged 81; White Plains, NY, USA)
* June 26
** Jona Goldrich, Polish-born real estate developer and philanthropist (aged 88; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Barbara Goldsmith, author, journalist, editor, and philanthropist (aged 85; New York City, NY, USA)
** John J. Santucci, lawyer and politician (aged 85; Mineola, NY, USA)
* June 27
** Simon Ramo, engineer, businessman, and author (aged 103; Santa Monica, CA, USA)
** Mack Rice, singer and songwriter (aged 82; Detroit, MI, USA)
** Alvin Toffler, writer and futurist (aged 87; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* June 28
** Scotty Moore, rock and roll guitarist (aged 84; Nashville, TN, USA)
** Buddy Ryan, football coach (aged 85; Shelbyville, KY, USA)
** Pat Summitt, women's basketball coach (aged 64; Knoxville, TN, USA)
** Zurlon Tipton, football player (aged 26; Detroit, MI, USA)
* June 29
** Stanley Gault, businessman and philanthropist (aged 90; Cleveland, OH, USA)
** Irving Gottesman, psychologist (aged 85; Edina, MN, USA)
** Carl Haas, auto racing driver and owner (aged 87; Lake Forest, IL, USA)
** Edward L. Salmon Jr., Episcopal bishop (aged 82; Clayton, MO, USA)
** Rob Wasserman, rock double-bassist (aged 64; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* June 30
** Don Friedman, jazz pianist (aged 81; Bronx, NY, USA)
** Joe Scott, football player (aged 90; Athens, TX, USA)
===July===
* July 2
** Roscoe C. Brown Jr., aviator and educator (aged 94; Bronx, NY, USA)
** Michael Cimino, film director, producer, and screenwriter (aged 77; Beverly Hills, CA, USA)
** Alphie McCourt, Irish-born writer (aged 75; Manhattan, NY, USA)
** Jack C. Taylor, businessman, billionaire, and philanthropist (aged 94; St. Louis, MO, USA)
** Clifford Vaughs, civil rights activist, filmmaker, and motorcycle builder (aged 79; Templeton, CA, USA)
** Elie Wiesel, Romanian-born writer, educator, political activist, and Holocaust survivor (aged 87; New York City, NY, USA)
* July 3 – Noel Neill, actress (aged 95; Tucson, AZ, USA)
* July 4 – Abner Mikva, politician, federal judge, lawyer and law professor (aged 90; Chicago, IL, USA)
* July 5 – William L. Armstrong, politician and businessman; U.S. Senator from Colorado (1979–1991) (aged 79; Denver, CO, USA)
* July 6
** Marian Bergeson, politician; member of the California State Assembly (1978–1984) and California State Senate (1984–1995) (aged 90; Newport Beach, CA, USA)
** Larry Bock, entrepreneur (aged 56; Encinitas, CA, USA)
** John McMartin, actor (aged 86; New York City, NY, USA)
** Mike Moore, football player (aged 59; Nashville, TN, USA)
* July 7 – Tom Marr, talk radio host and sportscaster (aged 73; Cockeysville, MD, USA)
* July 8
** Harold A. Linstone, German-born mathematician and futurist (aged 92; Pasadena, CA, USA)
** William H. McNeill, Canadian-born historian (aged 98; Torrington, CT, USA)
** Howard Raiffa, academic (aged 92; Oro Valley, AZ, USA)
* July 9
** Norman Abbott, television director (aged 93; Valencia, CA, USA)
** Sydney Schanberg, journalist (aged 82; Poughkeepsie, NY, USA)
* July 10
** Robert E. Cooper Sr., judge (aged 95; Signal Mountain, TN, USA)
** Alfred G. Knudson, geneticist (aged 93; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
* July 11
** John Brademas, politician and educator, U.S. Representative from Indiana (1959–1981) (aged 89; New York City, NY, USA)
** Jim Metzen, politician (aged 72; South St. Paul, MN, USA)
** Scott Olin Wright, judge (aged 93; Kansas City, MO, USA)
* July 13
** Marion Campbell, football player and coach (aged 87; Plano, TX, USA)
** Garry N. Drummond, businessman and philanthropist (aged 78; Birmingham, AL, USA)
** Robert Fano, Italian-born computer scientist (aged 98; Naples, FL, USA)
** Hollis L. Harris, businessman (aged 84; Peachtree City, GA, USA)
** Carolyn See, author and educator (aged 82; Santa Monica, CA, USA)
* July 14
** Roger Chanoine, football player (aged 39; Cleveland, OH, USA)
** Troy Mader, rancher and politician; Wyoming state representative (2014–2015) (aged 60; Gillette, WY, USA)
** Sharon Runner, politician; California state senator (2011–2016) (aged 62; Lancaster, CA, USA)
* July 15
** Karl E. Case, economist and academic (aged 69; Wellesley, MA, USA)
** Duncan M. Gray Jr., Episcopalian prelate (aged 89; Jackson, MS, USA)
* July 16
** Bonnie Brown, country singer (aged 77; Little Rock, AR, USA)
** Robert Burren Morgan, politician; U.S. Senator from North Carolina (1975–1981) (aged 90; Buies Creek, NC, USA)
** Gary S. Paxton, record producer, songwriter, and musician (aged 77; Branson, MO, USA)
** Nate Thurmond, basketball player (aged 74; San Francisco, CA, USA)
** Alan Vega, vocalist and visual artist (aged 78; New York City, NY, USA)
* July 17
** Wendell R. Anderson, politician; 33rd Governor of Minnesota (1971–1976) (aged 83; St. Paul, MN, USA)
** Mel Durslag, sportswriter (aged 95; Santa Monica, CA, USA)
* July 18
** John Kerr, author (aged 66; Portland, ME, USA)
** Jeffrey Montgomery, LGBT rights activist (aged 63; Detroit, MI, USA)
** Billy Name, photographer, filmmaker, and lighting designer (aged 76; Poughkeepsie, NY, USA)
* July 19
** Betsy Bloomingdale, socialite and philanthropist (aged 93; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Garry Marshall, actor, director, writer, and producer (aged 81; Burbank, CA, USA)
** Chief Zee, Washington Redskins superfan (aged 75; Oxon Hill, MD, USA)
* July 20
** William Gaines, journalist and academic (aged 82; Munster, IN, USA)
** Mark Takai, politician; U.S. Representative from Hawaii (2015–2016) (aged 49; Aiea, HI, USA)
* July 21
** Bill Cardille, television and radio personality (aged 87; McCandless, PA, USA)
** Thomas R. McCarthy, racehorse owner and trainer (aged 82; Louisville, KY, USA)
** Lewie Steinberg, rhythm and blues bassist (aged 82; Memphis, TN, USA)
* July 22
** Dave Bald Eagle, Lakota actor, musician, soldier, and stuntman (aged 97; Cheyenne River Indian Reservation, SD, USA)
** Dennis Green, football coach (aged 67; San Diego, CA, USA)
** Zeke Smith, football player (aged 79; Trussville, AL, USA)
* July 23
** Sheilla Lampkin, politician (aged 70; Little Rock, AR, USA)
** Harold Duane Vietor, federal judge (aged 84; Tucson, AZ, USA)
* July 24
** Marni Nixon, singer and actress (aged 86; New York City, NY, USA)
** Conrad Prebys, real estate developer and philanthropist (aged 82; San Diego, CA, USA)
** Don Roberts, ice hockey coach (aged 83; St. Peter, MN, USA)
* July 25
** Dwight Jones, basketball player (aged 64; Woodlands, TX, USA)
** Tim LaHaye, evangelical minister, author, and speaker (aged 90; San Diego, CA, USA)
** Tom Peterson, retailer and television personality (aged 86; Portland, OR, USA)
** Franklin Van Antwerpen, federal judge (aged 74; Palmer Township, PA, USA)
* July 26
** Miss Cleo, psychic and television personality (aged 53; Palm Beach, FL, USA)
** David A. Katz, federal judge (aged 82; Sylvania, OH, USA)
** Forrest Mars Jr., businessman and billionaire (aged 84; Seattle, WA, USA)
** Sandy Pearlman, record producer, talent manager, and songwriter (aged 72; Novato, CA, USA)
* July 27
** LaVon Crosby, politician; Nebraska state senator (1988–2000) (aged 92; Lincoln, NE, USA)
** Jack Davis, cartoonist and illustrator (aged 91; St. Simons, GA, USA)
** Doug Griffin, baseball player (aged 69; Clovis, CA, USA)
** James Alan McPherson, short story writer and essayist (aged 72; Iowa City, IA, USA)
** Richard Thompson, cartoonist (aged 58; Arlington, VA, USA)
* July 28 – Conrad K. Cyr, federal judge (aged 84; Hampton, NH, USA)
* July 29
** Antonio Armstrong, football player (aged 42; Houston, TX, USA)
** Zelda Fichandler, theatre producer, director, manager, and educator (aged 91; Washington, DC, USA)
* July 30
** Alan Brice, baseball player (aged 78; Bradenton, FL, USA)
** Gloria DeHaven, actress and singer (aged 91; Las Vegas, NV, USA)
** Dave Schwartz, meteorologist (aged 63; Atlanta, GA, USA)
* July 31 – Eric Moon, British-born librarian (aged 93; Sarasota, FL, USA)
===August===
* August 1
** Jonathan D. Krane, film producer (aged 64; Hollywood, CA, USA)
** Jim Northrup, Ojibwe writer (aged 73; Sawyer, MN, USA)
* August 2
** Gordon Danby, physicist (aged 86; Wading River, NY, USA)
** David Huddleston, actor (aged 85; Santa Fe, NM, USA)
** Ahmed Zewail, Egyptian-born chemist (aged 70; Pasadena, CA, USA)
* August 3
** Abdul Jeelani, basketball player (aged 62; Racine, WI, USA)
** Steve LaTourette, politician; U.S. Representative from Ohio (2005–2013) (aged 62; McLean, VA, USA)
** Elliot Tiber, writer and artist (aged 81; Boca Raton, FL, USA)
* August 4
** Jean Antone, wrestler (aged 73; Forest, MS, USA)
** David Dudley Dowd Jr., federal judge (aged 87; FL, USA)
** Patrice Munsel, operatic soprano (aged 91; Schroon Lake, NY, USA)
** Albert Nicholas, basketball player, businessman and philanthropist (aged 85; Milwaukee, WI, USA)
** Gaspar Saladino, comic letterer and logo designer (aged 88; Plainview, NY, USA)
* August 5
** Alan Bates, politician; Oregon state senator (2005–2016) (aged 71; Rogue River, OR, USA)
** Richard Fagan, country songwriter and musician (aged 69; Nashville, TN, USA)
** George E. Mendenhall, Biblical scholar (aged 99; Ann Arbor, MI, USA)
* August 6
** Sid Applebaum, businessman (aged 92; Minnetonka, MN, USA)
** Helen Delich Bentley, politician; U.S. Representative from Maryland (1985–1995) (aged 92; Timonium, MD, USA)
** Joani Blank, feminist writer, sex educator, and entrepreneur (aged 79; Oakland, CA, USA)
** Art Demmas, football official (aged 82; Nashville, TN, USA)
** Pete Fountain, jazz clarinetist (aged 86; New Orleans, LA, USA)
* August 7 – Bryan Clauson, racing driver (aged 27; Lincoln, NE, USA)
* August 8 – George Yarno, football player (aged 58; Spokane, WA, USA)
* August 9
** Bill Dooley, football player and coach (aged 82; Wilmington, NC, USA)
** Barry Jenner, actor (aged 75; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** W. Carter Merbreier, television personality, minister, and police chaplain (aged 90; Audubon, PA, USA)
* August 10
** Neill Armstrong, football player and coach (aged 90; Trophy Club, TX, USA)
** Steve Pivovar, sportswriter (aged 63; Omaha, NE, USA)
** John Saunders, Canadian-born sports journalist and broadcaster (aged 61; Hastings-on-Hudson, NY, USA)
** Tom Wilson, football player and coach (aged 72; Corsicana, TX, USA)
* August 11
** Thomas Steinbeck, author, journalist, and photographer (aged 72; Santa Barbara, CA, USA)
** Glenn Yarbrough, folk singer (aged 86; Nashville, TN, USA)
* August 12
** Alison Piepmeier, feminist writer, academic, and activist (aged 43; Charleston, SC, USA)
** Ruby Wilson, blues and gospel singer (aged 68; Memphis, TN, USA)
* August 13
** Allen Kelley, basketball player (aged 83; Lawrence, KS, USA)
** Michel Richard, French-born chef and restaurateur (aged 68; Washington, DC, USA)
* August 14
** Marion Christopher Barry, businessman (aged 36; Washington, DC, USA)
** DJ Official, hip hop musician and producer (aged 39; Bronx, NY, USA)
** Fyvush Finkel, actor (aged 93; Manhattan, NY, USA)
** Ron Vander Kelen, football player (aged 76; Edina, MN, USA)
* August 15
** Choo-Choo Coleman, baseball player (aged 78; Orangeburg, SC, USA)
** Bobby Hutcherson, jazz vibraphonist and composer (aged 75; Montara, CA, USA)
** Richard Wackar, football and basketball coach (aged 88; Glassboro, NJ, USA)
* August 16
** John McLaughlin, political commentator and television personality (aged 89; Washington, DC, USA)
** Richard Seminack, Eastern Catholic bishop (aged 74; Hoffman Estates, IL, USA)
* August 17
** Steve Arlin, baseball player (aged 70; San Diego, CA, USA)
** James R. Bennett, politician; 49th and 52nd Secretary of State of Alabama (aged 76; Birmingham, AL, USA)
** Arthur Hiller, Canadian-born film and television director (aged 92; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** John Timoney, Irish-born police officer (aged 68; Miami, FL, USA)
* August 18
** Jay S. Fishman, businessman (aged 63; NJ, USA)
** John William Vessey Jr., U.S. Army general; tenth Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (aged 94; North Oaks, MN, USA)
* August 19
** Donald Henderson, physician, educator, and epidemiologist (aged 87; Baltimore, MD, USA)
** Edward T. Maloney, aviation historian (aged 88; Pomona, CA, USA)
** Lou Pearlman, record producer, music manager, and fraudster (aged 62; Miami, FL, USA)
** Jack Riley, actor, voice artist, and comedian (aged 80; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* August 20
** George E. Curry, journalist (aged 69; Washington, DC, USA)
** Irving Fields, pianist and composer (aged 101; Manhattan, NY, USA)
** Jim Gibbons, football player (aged 79; Encinitas, CA, USA)
** Harry Gilmer, football player (aged 90; St. Louis, MO, USA)
** Joseph A. Palaia, politician; New Jersey state senator (1989–2008) (aged 89; Ocean Township, NJ, USA)
** Morton Schindel, film producer and educator (aged 98; New York City, NY, USA)
** Morris A. Wessel, pediatrician (aged 98; New Haven, CT, USA)
* August 21 – Peter deCourcy Hero, college and foundation president (aged 73; Portland, OR, USA)
* August 22
** Michael Brooks, basketball player (aged 58; Switzerland)
** Edward Malefakis, history professor (aged 84; New York City, NY, USA)
** Jane Thompson, designer, architect, and urban planner (aged 89; Cambridge, MA, USA)
* August 23
** Steven Hill, actor (aged 94; Monsey, NY, USA)
** Aaron W. Plyler, businessman and politician (aged 89; Monroe, NC, USA)
* August 24
** Joel Bergman, architect (aged 80; Las Vegas, NV, USA)
** Tom Ganley, businessman and politician (aged 73; Cleveland, OH, USA)
** Gregory P. Schmidt, politician (aged 69; Citris Heights, CA, USA)
* August 25
** James Cronin, physicist (aged 84; St. Paul, MN, USA)
** Warren Hinckle, political journalist (aged 77; San Francisco, CA, USA)
** Marvin Kaplan, actor and voice artist (aged 89; Burbank, CA, USA)
** Rudy Van Gelder, recording engineer (aged 91; Englewood Cliffs, NJ, USA)
* August 26
** Steve Korcheck, baseball player (aged 84; Bradenton, FL, USA)
** E. Parry Thomas, banker, racehorse owner, and philanthropist (aged 95; Hailey, ID, USA)
* August 27 – Bill Lenkaitis, football player (aged 70; Canton, MA, USA)
* August 28
** Mr. Fuji, professional wrestler and manager (aged 82; Clarksville, TN, USA)
** Joe R. Hicks, political commentator and activist (aged 75; Santa Monica, CA, USA)
** Nate Hirsch, sportscaster (aged 68; Statesboro, GA, USA)
* August 29
** Dee Dowis, football player (aged 48; Gwinnett County, GA, USA)
** Gene Wilder, actor, screenwriter, film director, and author (aged 83; Stamford, CT, USA)
* August 30
** Dan Dryden, politician (aged 72; Rapid City, SD, USA)
** Hoot Hester, fiddle player (aged 65; Dickson, TN, USA)
** David Lavery, academic (aged 67; Murfreesboro, TN, USA)
** Doris McLemore, educator; last fluent speaker of the Wichita language (aged 89; Anadarko, OK, USA)
** Joe Sutter, aeronautical engineer (aged 95; Bremerton, WA, USA)
* August 31 – Nathan Lyons, photographer (aged 86; Rochester, NY, USA)
===September===
* September 1
** Thomas G. Doran, Roman Catholic prelate (aged 80; Rockford, IL, USA)
** Fred Hellerman, folk musician (aged 89; Weston, CT, USA)
** Kacey Jones, singer-songwriter and humorist (aged 66; Nashville, TN, USA)
** Jon Polito, actor and voice artist (aged 65; Duarte, CA, USA)
* September 2
** Blackie Gejeian, race car driver and auto customizer (aged 90; Fresno, CA, USA)
** Jerry Heller, music manager (aged 75; Thousand Oaks, CA, USA)
** Don Minnick, baseball player (aged 85; Rocky Mount, VA, USA)
** Margrit Mondavi, Swiss-born businesswoman (aged 91; Napa, CA, USA)
* September 3
** John W. Drummond, politician (aged 96; Ninety Six, SC, USA)
** Albert Hofstede, politician (aged 75; Minneapolis, MN, USA)
** Leslie H. Martinson, film and television director (aged 101; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* September 4 – Clarence D. Rappleyea Jr., lawyer and politician (aged 82; Albany, NY, USA)
* September 5
** Duane Graveline, physician and astronaut (aged 85; Merritt Island, FL, USA)
** Hugh O'Brian, actor (aged 91; Beverly Hills, CA, USA)
** Rudolph T. Randa, federal judge (aged 76; Milwaukee, WI, USA)
** Phyllis Schlafly, constitutional lawyer, conservative activist, and author (aged 92; Ladue, MO, USA)
* September 6
** Cary Blanchard, football player (aged 47; Mabank, TX, USA)
** John Royston Coleman, labor economist and university president (aged 95; Washington, DC, USA)
** Darren Seals, civil rights activist (aged 29; Riverview, MO, USA)
** Robert Timberg, journalist and author (aged 76; Annapolis, MD, USA)
* September 7
** Bobby Chacon, boxer (aged 64; Lake Elsinore, CA, USA)
** Clifford Curry, R&B singer (aged 79; Knoxville, TN, USA)
** Norbert Schemansky, weightlifter (aged 92; Dearborn, MI, USA)
* September 8
** Greta Zimmer Friedman, dental assistant, subject of V-J Day in Times Square (aged 92; Richmond, VA, USA)
** The Lady Chablis, drag queen (aged 59; Savannah, GA, USA)
* September 9
** Chad Brown, football official (aged 69; Carson, CA, USA)
** Bill Nojay, politician (aged 59; Rochester, NY, USA)
** Ben Press, tennis player, coach, and writer (aged 92; Coronado, CA, USA)
** James Stacy, actor (aged 79; Ventura, CA, USA)
* September 10
** Robert E. Allen, businessman (aged 81; Golf, FL, USA)
** Chris Stone, businessman (aged 81; San Francisco, CA, USA)
** Frank Masley, Olympic luger (aged 56; Wilmington, DE, USA)
* September 11
** Alexis Arquette, actress (aged 47; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Lawrence D. Cohen, attorney, politician, and judge (aged 83; St. Paul, MN, USA)
* September 12
** Edmund D. Edelman, politician (aged 85; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Peter Pettalia, politician (aged 61; Montmorency County, MI, USA)
** Stanley Sheinbaum, academic and activist (aged 96; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* September 13
** Jack Hofsiss, theatre, film, and television director (aged 65; Manhattan, NY, USA)
** Judith Jacobs, politician (aged 77; Manhasset, NY, USA)
** Mike Roberts, sportscaster (aged 83; Albuquerque, NM, USA)
** Joe Zaleski, football player and coach (aged 89; Edmonton, AB, Canada)
* September 14
** Don Buchla, musical instrument designer (aged 79; Berkeley, CA, USA)
** Kim McGuire, actress and lawyer (aged 60; Naples, FL, USA)
** Dean White, businessman (aged 93; Crown Point, IN, USA)
* September 15 – Rose Mofford, politician (aged 94; Phoenix, AZ, USA)
* September 16
** Edward Albee, playwright (aged 88; Montauk, NY, USA)
** Don Bass, wrestler (aged 70; Memphis, TN, USA)
** Marvin Mottet, Roman Catholic priest (aged 86; Davenport, IA, USA)
** Joe Seng, politician (aged 69; Davenport, IA, USA)
* September 17 – Charmian Carr, actress and singer (aged 73; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* September 18
** Robert W. Cone, U.S. Army general (aged 59; Green Bay, WI, USA)
** John Craighead, conservationist and naturalist (aged 100; Missoula, MT, USA)
** C. Martin Croker, animator and voice actor (aged 54; Atlanta, GA, USA)
** David Kyle, science fiction writer (aged 97; Worchester County, NY, USA)
** Tom Mintier, television correspondent (aged 68; Thailand)
** Joan Patricia Murphy, politician (aged 79; Crestwood, IL, USA)
** Rose Pak, political activist (aged 68; San Francisco, CA, USA)
* September 19
** Bobby Breen, Canadian-born actor and singer (aged 90; Pompano Beach, FL, USA)
** Mike Fellows, politician (aged 58; Missoula County, MT, USA)
** Bill Glassford, football player and coach (aged 102; Scottsdale, AZ, USA)
** Zerka T. Moreno, Dutch-born psychotherapist (aged 99; Rockville, MD, USA)
* September 20
** Bill Barrett, politician; member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1991–2001) (aged 87; Lexington, NE, USA)
** Richie Dunn, ice hockey player (aged 59; Clarence, NY, USA)
** Jack Garman, computer engineer and NASA executive (aged 72; Houston, TX, USA)
** Curtis Hanson, film producer, director, and screenwriter (aged 71; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Dennis M. Jones, businessman (aged 78; St. Louis, MO, USA)
** Terry Kohler, businessman and philanthropist (aged 82; Sheboygan, WI, USA)
** Victor Scheinman, roboticist and inventor (aged 73; Petrolia, CA, USA)
* September 21
** Shawty Lo, rapper (aged 40; Fulton County, GA, USA)
** John D. Loudermilk, singer and songwriter (aged 82; Christiana, TN, USA)
* September 22
** Walter Bush, ice hockey executive (aged 86; Minneapolis, MN, USA)
** Leonard I. Garth, federal judge (aged 95; Clinton, CT, USA)
** Ed Temple, track and field coach (aged 89; Nashville, TN, USA)
* September 24
** Bill Nunn, actor (aged 62; Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
** Buckwheat Zydeco, zydeco musician (aged 68; Lafayette, LA, USA)
* September 25
** David Budbill, poet and playwright (aged 76; Montpelier, VT, USA)
** José Fernández, Cuban-born baseball player (aged 24; Miami Beach, FL, USA)
** Kashif, musician, record producer, and humanitarian (aged 59; Playa Del Rey, CA, USA)
** Arnold Palmer, golfer (aged 87; Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
** Jean Shepard, country singer and songwriter (aged 82; Hendersonville, TN, USA)
** Robert Weinberg, author (aged 70; Oak Forest, IL, USA)
* September 26
** Taz Anderson, football player (aged 77; Atlanta, GA, USA)
** Joe Clay, rockabilly musician (aged 78; Gretna, LA, USA)
** Jack Cotton, basketball player (aged 91; Miles City, MT, USA)
** Jack Kirrane, ice hockey player (aged 88; Brookline, MA, USA)
** Herschell Gordon Lewis, film producer, director, and screenwriter (aged 90; Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA)
* September 27
** Randy Duncan, football player (aged 79; Des Moines, IA, USA)
** Charles Schultze, economist (aged 91; Washington, DC, USA)
* September 28
** Gary Glasberg, television writer and producer (aged 50; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Malcolm Lucas, 26th Chief Justice of California (aged 89; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Gloria Naylor, novelist (aged 66; Christiansted, VI, USA)
** Agnes Nixon, television writer and producer (aged 93; Haverford, PA, USA)
** Timothy Pesci, politician (aged 72; Freeport, PA, USA)
* September 29
** Hidden Lake, racehorse (aged 23; Georgetown, KY, USA)
** Shirley Jaffe, painter and sculptor (aged 92; Louveciennes, France)
** Joseph Verner Reed Jr., banker and diplomat (aged 78; Greenwich, CT, USA)
** Mark Ricks, politician; 40th Lieutenant Governor of Idaho (aged 92; Rexburg, ID, USA)
** Ralph V. Whitworth, businessman (aged 60; San Diego, CA, USA)
* September 30
** George Barris, photographer (aged 94; Thousand Oaks, CA, USA)
** Charles Brading, pharmacist and politician (aged 81; Celina, OH, USA)
** Oscar Brand, Canadian-born folk musician (aged 96; Great Neck, NY, USA)
** Frederic C. Hamilton, oilman and philanthropist (aged 89; Denver, CO, USA)
** Jim Zapp, baseball player (aged 92; Harker Heights, TX, USA)
===October===
* October 1
** Bobby Burnett, football player (aged 73; Marion, IL, USA)
** Roger Theder, football player and coach (aged 77; Orinda, CA, USA)
** Lowell Thomas Jr., British-born film producer and politician (aged 92; Anchorage, AK, USA)
* October 2
** Walter Darby Bannard, painter (aged 82; Miami, FL, USA)
** Gordon Davidson, stage and film director (aged 83; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Gary Reed, comics writer and publisher (aged 60; Eagle, ID, USA)
* October 4
** Kenneth Angell, Roman Catholic prelate (aged 86; Winooski, VT, USA)
** Ivan C. Lafayette, politician (aged 86; Jackson Heights, NY, USA)
** Ned Randolph, politician (aged 74; Alexandria, LA, USA)
** Donald H. White, composer (aged 95; Colorado Springs, CO, USA)
* October 5
** Dick Haugland, biochemist and philanthropist (aged 73; Chiang Mai, Thailand)
** Cameron Moore, basketball player (aged 25; Ohrid, Macedonia)
** Josh Samman, mixed martial artist (aged 28; Hollywood, FL, USA)
** Brock Yates, journalist and author (aged 82; Batavia, NY, USA)
* October 6
** Hans W. Becherer, business executive (aged 81; Denver, CO, USA)
** George Pernicano, businessman and NFL owner (aged 98; El Cajon, CA, USA)
* October 7 – Bill Warren, film historian and critic (aged 73; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* October 8
** Peter Allen, radio broadcaster (aged 96; New York City, NY, USA)
** Don Ciccone, singer and songwriter (aged 70; Ketchum, ID, USA)
** Gary Dubin, actor (aged 57; Burbank, CA, USA)
** Jacob Neusner, Jewish scholar and theologian (aged 84; Rhinebeck, NY, USA)
* October 9
** Santo DiPietro, businessman and politician (aged 81; South Portland, ME, USA)
** Donn Fendler, wilderness survivor, author, and public speaker (aged 90; Bangor, ME, USA)
** Aaron Pryor, boxer (aged 60; Cincinnati, OH, USA)
** Kenneth P. Thompson, lawyer and politician (aged 50; New York City, NY, USA)
* October 10
** Tony Adamowicz, racing driver (aged 75; Costa Mesa, CA, USA)
** Leo Beranek, acoustic engineer and academic (aged 102; Westwood, MA, USA)
** Lorenzo Freeman, football player (aged 52; New Kensington, PA, USA)
** John Vaughn, Franciscan Catholic leader (aged 88; Santa Barbara, CA, USA)
* October 11
** David Antin, poet (aged 84; La Jolla, CA, USA)
** Tom Barnes, journalist (aged 70; Tucson, AZ, USA)
** Patricia Barry, actress (aged 94; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* October 12
** Thomas Mikal Ford, actor (aged 52; Newnan, GA, USA)
** Jack Greenberg, civil rights lawyer and legal scholar (aged 91; Manhattan, NY, USA)
** Rick Gudex, businessman and politician (aged 48; Eden, WI, USA)
** Dylan Rieder, skateboarder and model (aged 28; Duarte, CA, USA)
** Fulton Walker, football player (aged 58; Martinsburg, WV, USA)
* October 13
** Richard A. Pittman, U.S. Marine and Medal of Honor winner (aged 71; Stockton, CA, USA)
** Louis Stettner, photographer (aged 93; Saint-Ouen, France)
* October 14
** Lucy Baxley, politician; 28th Lieutenant Governor of Alabama (aged 78; Birmingham, AL, USA)
** Ed Gorman, author (aged 74; Cedar Rapids, IA, USA)
** Thom Jones, author (aged 71; Olympia, WA, USA)
* October 15
** Dennis Byrd, football player (aged 50; Claremore, OK, USA)
** Quentin Groves, football player (aged 32; Trinidad)
** Bruce Marshall, ice hockey coach (aged 54; Gardner, MA, USA)
* October 16
** Clyde C. Holloway, politician and businessman (aged 72; Forest Hill, LA, USA)
** Ted V. Mikels, film producer, director, and screenwriter (aged 87; Las Vegas, NV, USA)
** Joseph A. Suozzi, Italian-born attorney and judge (aged 95; Locust Valley, NY, USA)
* October 17
** Eddie Applegate, actor (aged 81; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Edgar Munhall, art historian and curator (aged 83; New York City, NY, USA)
** Irwin Smigel, dentist and entrepreneur (aged 92; Manhattan, NY, USA)
** Morris Stroud, football player (aged 70; Kansas City, MO, USA)
* October 18
** Anthony Addabbo, actor (aged 56; Norfolk, VA, USA)
** David Bunnell, businessman, writer, and publisher (aged 69; Berkeley, CA, USA)
* October 19
** Tommy Bartlett, basketball and tennis player and coach (aged 88; Chattanooga, TN, USA)
** Phil Chess, Polish-born record producer and music executive (aged 95; Tucson, AZ, USA)
* October 20
** William G. Bowen, academic and university president (aged 83; Princeton, NJ, USA)
** Gail Cogdill, football player (aged 79; Spokane, WA, USA)
** Michael Massee, actor (aged 64; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Simone Schaller, Olympic hurdler (aged 104; Arcadia, CA, USA)
* October 21
** Dan Johnston, lawyer and politician (aged 78; Des Moines, IA, USA)
** Kevin Meaney, comedian and actor (aged 60; Forestburgh, NY, USA)
* October 22
** Gavin MacFadyen, journalist and documentary filmmaker (aged 76; London, England, UK)
** Monarchos, racehorse and stallion (aged 18; KY, USA)
** Sheri S. Tepper, author (aged 87; Santa Fe, NM, USA)
** Bob Vanatta, basketball coach (aged 98; Jupiter, FL, USA)
* October 23
** Jack Chick, cartoonist, publisher, and Christian fundamentalist (aged 92; Alhambra, CA, USA)
** Tom Hayden, writer, activist, and politician (aged 76; Santa Monica, CA, USA)
** Bob Saunders, politician (aged 87; Gainesville, FL, USA)
* October 24
** Bobby Vee, pop singer and actor (aged 73; Rogers, MN, USA)
** Charles Wolf Jr., economist (aged 92; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* October 25
** Kevin Curran, television writer (aged 59; West Hollywood, CA, USA)
** Mel Haber, hotelier, restaurateur, and philanthropist (aged 80; Palm Springs, CA, USA)
** Bob Hoover, U.S. Air Force pilot (aged 94; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Burnet R. Maybank Jr., lawyer and politician (aged 92; Charleston, SC, USA)
* October 26
** Donald C. Pogue, federal judge (aged 69; New York City, NY, USA)
** Vic Rapp, football coach (aged 86; Orlando, FL, USA)
* October 27
** Jim Eddy, football coach (aged 80; Checotah, OK, USA)
** Susan Lindquist, biologist (aged 67; Boston, MA, USA)
** David Tyack, historian (aged 85; Palo Alto, CA, USA)
** John Zacherle, television and radio personality and voice actor (aged 98; Manhattan, NY, USA)
* October 28 – Angeline Kopka, businesswoman and politician (aged 100; Nashua, NH, USA)
* October 29
** Robert Belfanti, politician (aged 68; Mount Carmel, PA, USA)
** Norman Brokaw, talent agent (aged 89; Beverly Hills, CA, USA)
** E. Lee Hennessee, hedge fund manager (aged 64; West Palm Beach, FL, USA)
** John Hicks, football player (aged 65; Columbus, OH, USA)
** Paul Luebke, politician (aged 70; Durham, NC, USA)
** John D. Roberts, chemist (aged 98; Pasadena, CA, USA)
** Barry Stout, politician (aged 79; Bentleyville, PA, USA)
* October 30
** James Galanos, fashion designer (aged 92; West Hollywood, CA, USA)
** Tammy Grimes, actress and singer (aged 82; Englewood, NJ, USA)
** Betty Ann Kennedy, contract bridge player (aged 86; Shreveport, LA, USA)
** Gil Krueger, football coach (aged 87; Walnut Creek, CA, USA)
** Don Marshall, actor (aged 80; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Curly Putman, songwriter (aged 85; Lebanon, TN, USA)
* October 31
** Natalie Babbitt, children's author and illustrator (aged 84; Hamden, CT, USA)
** Andy Hill, politician (aged 54; Redmond, WA, USA)
** Gene La Rocque, U.S. Navy admiral (aged 98; Washington, DC, USA)
** Klaus Schulten, German-born biophysicist (aged 69; Urbana, IL, USA)
===November===
* November 1
** Don Kates, lawyer and criminologist (aged 75; Oakland, CA, USA)
** Stanford Lipsey, newspaper publisher (aged 89; Rancho Mirage, CA, USA)
** John Orsino, baseball player (aged 78; Sunny Isles Beach, FL, USA)
* November 2
** Max Alexander, comedian and actor (aged 63; New York City, NY, USA)
** Bob Cranshaw, jazz bassist (aged 83; Manhattan, NY, USA)
** Jud Kinberg, film producer and screenwriter (aged 91; New York City, NY, USA)
** Dolores Klosowski, baseball player (aged 93; Clinton Township, MI, USA)
** A. Thomas Kraabel, classical scholar (aged 81; Decorah, IA, USA)
** Jan Slepian, children's author and poet (aged 95; Arlington, MA, USA)
* November 3
** Kay Starr, singer (aged 94; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Rick Steiner, theatrical producer (aged 69; Cincinnati, OH, USA)
* November 4
** Eddie Carnett, baseball player (aged 100; Ringling, OK, USA)
** DeVan Dallas, politician (aged 90; Pontotoc, MS, USA)
** Allen Eller, soccer player (aged 39; Wickliffe, OH, USA)
** Eddie Harsch, Canadian-born rock musician (aged 59; Toronto, ON, Canada)
* November 5
** Ralph Cicerone, atmospheric scientist (aged 73; Short Hills, NJ, USA)
** W. Eugene Hansen, religious leader (aged 88; Salt Lake City, UT, USA)
** Arnold Mesches, visual artist (aged 93; Gainesville, FL, USA)
* November 7
** Phil Georgeff, horse racing announcer (aged 85; Fairhope, AL, USA)
** Julie Gregg, actress (aged 79; Van Nuys, CA, USA)
** Janet Reno, lawyer; U.S. Attorney General (1993–2001) (aged 78; Miami, FL, USA)
* November 8
** Yaffa Eliach, Polish-born historian and Holocaust survivor (aged 81; Manhattan, NY, USA)
** Junius Foy Guin Jr., federal judge (aged 92; Birmingham, AL, USA)
** Bill Lapham, football player (aged 82; Des Moines, IA, USA)
* November 9
** Greg Ballard, basketball player and assistant coach (aged 61; Pomona, CA, USA)
** Al Caiola, guitarist and composer (aged 96; Allendale, NJ, USA)
** Russ Nixon, baseball player (aged 81; Las Vegas, NV, USA)
* November 10
** David Adamany, political scientist and academic administrator (aged 80; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
** Bill Stanfill, football player (aged 69; Albany, GA, USA)
* November 11
** Victor Bailey, bassist (aged 56; Stafford, VA, USA)
** Greg Horton, football player (aged 65; Redlands, CA, USA)
** Claire Labine, television writer and producer (aged 82; Somers, CT, USA)
** Aileen Mehle, gossip columnist (aged 98; New York City, NY, USA)
** Robert Vaughn, actor (aged 83; Danbury, CT, USA)
* November 12
** Jerry Dumas, cartoonist (aged 86; Greenwich, CT, USA)
** Howard Ruff, economist and investment writer (aged 85; Lehi, UT, USA)
** Lupita Tovar, Mexican-American actress (aged 106; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* November 13
** Lary Kuharich, football coach (aged 70; Middletown, NY, USA)
** Billy Miller, music archivist (aged 62; New York City, NY, USA)
** Leon Russell, musician and songwriter (aged 74; Nashville, TN, USA)
* November 14
** Diana Balmori, landscape designer (aged 84; New York City, NY, USA)
** Houston Conwill, sculptor (aged 69; Bronx, NY, USA)
** Holly Dunn, country music singer and songwriter (aged 59; Albuquerque, NM, USA)
** Bob Gain, football player (aged 87; Willoughby, OH, USA)
** Roger Hobbs, novelist (aged 28; Portland, OR, USA)
** Gwen Ifill, journalist, television newscaster, and author (aged 61; Washington, DC, USA)
** Mahpiya Ska, albino buffalo (aged 20; Jamestown, ND, USA)
** David Mancuso, club DJ (aged 72; New York City, NY, USA)
** Gardnar Mulloy, tennis player (aged 102; Miami, FL, USA)
* November 15
** Bob Addis, baseball player (aged 91; Euclid, OH, USA)
** Mose Allison, jazz pianist, vocalist, and composer (aged 89; Hilton Head, SC, USA)
** Dwayne Andreas, businessman and political donor (aged 98; Decatur, IL, USA)
** Cliff Barrows, gospel singer and music director (aged 93; Charlotte, NC, USA)
** Jules Eskin, cellist (aged 85; Brookline, MA, USA)
** Lisa Lynn Masters, actress (aged 52; Lima, Peru)
** Milt Okun, record producer, arranger, conductor, and singer (aged 92; Beverly Hills, CA, USA)
** Clift Tsuji, politician (aged 75; Honolulu, HI, USA)
* November 16
** Jay Wright Forrester, computer engineer (aged 98; Concord, MA, USA)
** Melvin Laird, politician; U.S. Secretary of Defense (1969–1973) (aged 94; Fort Myers, FL, USA)
** Daniel Leab, German-born historian (aged 80; Washington, CT, USA)
** Larry Tucker, politician (aged 81; Summersville, WV, USA)
** Mentor Williams, songwriter and record producer (aged 70; Taos, NM, USA)
* November 17
** Ruth Gruber, photojournalist and humanitarian (aged 105; Manhattan, NY, USA)
** Whitney Smith, vexillologist and flag designer (aged 76; Peabody, MA, USA)
* November 18
** Denton Cooley, heart surgeon (aged 96; Houston, TX, USA)
** Sharon Jones, soul and funk singer (aged 60; Cooperstown, NY, USA)
** Yevgeni Lazarev, Russian-born actor (aged 79; Moscow, Russia)
* November 19
** Monk Bonasorte, football player (aged 59; Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
** John C. Carpenter, rancher and politician (aged 86; Elko, NV, USA)
** Irving A. Fradkin, optometrist and philanthropist (aged 95; Fall River, MA, USA)
** Ida Levin, violinist (aged 53; Santa Monica, CA, USA)
** Paul Sylbert, production designer (aged 88; Jenkintown, PA, USA)
* November 20
** Gene Guarilia, basketball player (aged 79; Duryea, PA, USA)
** Janellen Huttenlocher, psychologist (aged 84; Chicago, IL, USA)
** Hod O'Brien, jazz pianist (aged 80; Lake Monticello, VA, USA)
* November 21 – Edward L. Kimball, legal scholar (aged 86; Provo, UT, USA)
* November 23
** Peggy Kirk Bell, golfer (aged 95; Southern Pines, NC, USA)
** Ralph Branca, baseball player (aged 90; Rye Brook, NY, USA)
** Joe Esposito, author and publisher (aged 78; Calabasas, CA, USA)
** Jerry Tucker, child actor (aged 91; Stony Brook, NY, USA)
* November 24
** Colonel Abrams, musician, dancer, and actor (aged 67; New York City, NY, USA)
** Al Brodax, film and television producer (aged 90; Danbury, CT, USA)
** Bob Chase, radio sports announcer (aged 90; Fort Wayne, IN, USA)
** John Ebersole, educator and author (aged 72; Albany, NY, USA)
** Dave Ferriss, baseball player (aged 94; Cleveland, MS, USA)
** Larry W. Fullerton, inventor (aged 65; New Hope, AR, USA)
** Florence Henderson, actress and singer (aged 82; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** William Mandel, journalist and activist (aged 99; Kensington, CA, USA)
* November 25
** Erich Bloch, German-born electrical engineer (aged 91; Washington, DC, USA)
** Ron Glass, actor (aged 71; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Dwan Hurt, basketball coach (aged 53; Carson, CA, USA)
** Jake Krull, politician (aged 77; Watertown, SD, USA)
** Pauline Oliveros, composer and accordionist (aged 84; Kingston, NY, USA)
** Richard Dean Rogers, federal judge (aged 94; Topeka, KS, USA)
* November 26
** Harry Flournoy, basketball player (aged 72; Atlanta, GA, USA)
** James E. McClellan, veterinarian and politician (aged 90; Frederick, MD, USA)
** Russell Oberlin, countertenor (aged 88; New York City, NY, USA)
** Debra Saunders-White, educator (aged 59; Durham, NC, USA)
** Fritz Weaver, actor (aged 90; Manhattan, NY, USA)
* November 27
** Dick Logan, football player (aged 86; North Canton, OH, USA)
** Tony Martell, music industry executive and philanthropist (aged 90; Madison, NJ, USA)
** Bruce Mazlish, historian (aged 93; Cambridge, MA, USA)
* November 28
** William Christenberry, photographer, painter, and sculptor (aged 80; Washington, DC, USA)
** Grant Tinker, television executive (aged 90; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Keo Woolford, actor (aged 49; Aiea, HI, USA)
* November 29
** Bill Bartmann, businessman (aged 68; Tulsa, OK, USA)
** James Danieley, educator (aged 92; Burlington, NC, USA)
** Hardy Myers, lawyer and politician (aged 77; Portland, OR, USA)
* November 30
** Alice Drummond, actress (aged 88; Bronx, NY, USA)
** Royce Womble, football player (aged 85; Mansfield, TX, USA)
===December===
* December 1
** Don Calfa, actor (aged 76; Yucca Valley, CA, USA)
** Elisabeth Carron, operatic soprano (aged 94; Manhattan, NY, USA)
** Joe McKnight, football player (aged 28; Terrytown, LA, USA)
* December 2
** Lyle Bouck, U.S. Army officer (aged 92; Sunset Hills, MO, USA)
** H. Keith H. Brodie, psychiatrist and educator (aged 77; Durham, NC, USA)
** Billy Chapin, child actor (aged 72; Springfield, MO, USA)
** Mark Gray, country singer (aged 64; Lebanon, TN, USA)
** Sammy Lee, Olympic diver (aged 96; Newport Beach, CA, USA)
** Bosco Tjan, psychologist and neuroscientist (aged 50; Cypress, CA, USA)
* December 3
** Newman Darby, inventor (aged 88; St. Johns, FL, USA)
** Herbert Hardesty, jazz musician (aged 91; Las Vegas, NV, USA)
** Nancy Mairs, author (aged 73; Tucson, AZ, USA)
* December 4
** Leonard T. Connors, politician (aged 87; Little Egg Harbor Township, NJ, USA)
** Jack Rudin, real estate developer (aged 92; New York City, NY, USA)
** Margaret Whitton, actress (aged 67; Palm Beach, FL, USA)
* December 5
** Big Syke, rapper (aged 48; Hawthorne, CA, USA)
** Larry Roberts, football player (aged 53; Dothan, AL, USA)
** Rashaan Salaam, football player (aged 42; Boulder, CO, USA)
** Rodney Smith, photographer (aged 68; New York City, NY, USA)
* December 6 – Dave Edwards, football player (aged 76; Laguna Park, TX, USA)
* December 7
** Mike Kelly, politician (aged 74; Fairbanks, AK, USA)
** Elliott Schwartz, composer (aged 80; Brunswick, ME, USA)
* December 8
** Putsy Caballero, baseball player (aged 89; New Orleans, LA, USA)
** John Glenn, aviator, astronaut, and U.S. Senator (aged 95; Columbus, OH, USA)
** Joseph Mascolo, actor (aged 87; Santa Clarita, CA, USA)
** Thomas C. Oden, theologian (aged 85; Oklahoma City, OK, USA)
* December 9
** Edwin Benson, last native speaker of the Mandan language (aged 85; Twin Buttes, ND, USA)
** Nola Ochs, centenarian (aged 105; Dodge City, KS, USA)
** Jens Risom, Danish-born furniture designer (aged 100; New Canaan, CT, USA)
* December 10
** Ken Hechler, politician (aged 102; Romney, WV, USA)
** Eric Hilton, hotelier and philanthropist (aged 83; Las Vegas, NV, USA)
** Miles Lord, federal judge (aged 97; Eden Prairie, MN, USA)
* December 11
** Sark Arslanian, football coach (aged 92; St. George, UT, USA)
** Harry Jones, football player (aged 71; Springfield, AR, USA)
** Bob Krasnow, music industry executive (aged 82; Wellington, FL, USA)
* December 12
** Barrelhouse Chuck, blues musician (aged 58; Libertyville, IL, USA)
** Myron H. Bright, federal judge (aged 97; Fargo, ND, USA)
** Donald L. Corbin, judge and politician (aged 78; Little Rock, AR, USA)
** Jimbo Elrod, football player (aged 62; Chandler, OK, USA)
** Shirley Hazzard, Australian-born author (aged 85; New York City, NY, USA)
** Jim Lowe, singer and songwriter (aged 93; East Hampton, NY, USA)
** Konrad Reuland, football player (aged 29; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Esther Wilkins, dentist (aged 100; Hudson, NH, USA)
* December 13
** Lawrence Colburn, U.S. Army soldier (aged 67; Canton, GA, USA)
** Roy Harrover, architect (aged 88; Memphis, TN, USA)
** Ralph Raico, historian (aged 80; Bronx, NY, USA)
** Thomas Schelling, economist (aged 95; Bethesda, MD, USA)
** Alan Thicke, Canadian actor, songwriter, comedian, game and talk show host (aged 69; Burbank, CA, USA)
* December 14
** Bernard Fox, Welsh-born actor (aged 89; Van Nuys, CA, USA)
** Garrett K. Gomez, jockey (aged 44; Tucson, AZ, USA)
** Karel Husa, Czech-born composer and conductor (aged 95; Apex, NC, USA)
* December 15
** Chuck Allen, football player (aged 77; Port Townsend, WA, USA)
** Howard Bingham, photographer (aged 77; San Francisco, CA, USA)
** Fran Jeffries, actress and singer (aged 79; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Craig Sager, sportscaster (aged 65; Atlanta, GA, USA)
* December 17
** Benjamin Gilman, politician (aged 94; Wappingers Falls, NY, USA)
** Bill Hanna, politician (aged 86; Shreveport, LA, USA)
** Louis Harris, journalist, author, and opinion polling entrepreneur (aged 95; Key West, FL, USA)
** Henry Heimlich, thoracic surgeon (aged 96; Cincinnati, OH, USA)
** William H. Hudnut III, politician (aged 84; Chevy Chase, MD, USA)
* December 18
** Brendan J. Dugan, banker and college administrator (aged 69; Brooklyn, NY, USA)
** Zsa Zsa Gabor, Hungarian-born actress and socialite (aged 99; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Sonny Moran, basketball coach (aged 90; Gulf Shores, AL, USA)
* December 19
** Phil Gagliano, baseball player (aged 74; Hollister, MO, USA)
** Dick Latessa, actor (aged 87; Manhattan, NY, USA)
* December 20
** Lawrence Borst, veterinarian and politician (aged 89; Indianapolis, IN, USA)
** Robert Eddins, football player (aged 28; Detroit, MI, USA)
** Toby Hemenway, educator and author (aged 64; Sebastopol, CA, USA)
* December 21
** Sidney Drell, physicist (aged 90; Palo Alto, CA, USA)
** Weston Noble, music conductor and educator (aged 94; Decorah, IA, USA)
* December 22
** Andre Martel, businessman and politician (aged 70; Manchester, NH, USA)
** Kenneth Snelson, sculptor and photographer (aged 89; New York City, NY, USA)
** Lillian Walker, politician (aged 93; Baton Rogue, LA, USA)
* December 23
** Joyce Appleby, historian (aged 87; Taos, NM, USA)
** Willa Kim, costume designer (aged 99; Vashon Island, WA, USA)
** Jim Lehew, baseball player (aged 79; Grantsville, MD, USA)
* December 24
** John Barfield, baseball player (aged 52; Little Rock, AR, USA)
** Joseph Fitzmyer, Roman Catholic priest and biblical scholar (aged 96; Merion Station, PA, USA)
** Edwin Reinecke, politician (aged 92; Laguna Hills, CA, USA)
** Bronson Thayer, banker (aged 77; Baltimore, MD, USA)
* December 25
** Alphonse Mouzon, jazz drummer (aged 68; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Vera Rubin, astronomer (aged 88; Princeton, NJ, USA)
* December 26
** John J. Benoit, law enforcement officer and politician (aged 64; Bermuda Dunes, CA, USA)
** Duck Edwing, cartoonist (aged 82; Blue Ridge, GA, USA)
** Frances Gabe, inventor and centenarian (aged 101; OR, USA)
** Ricky Harris, comedian, actor, and film producer (aged 51; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** George S. Irving, actor (aged 94; New York City, NY, USA)
** Seth J. McKee, U.S. Air Force general (aged 100; Scottsdale, AZ, USA)
* December 27
** Chrissy Adams, attorney (aged 49; Seneca, SC, USA)
** Bruce DeHaven, football coach (aged 68; Orchard Park, NY, USA)
** Carrie Fisher, actress and writer (aged 60; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** George A. Russell, university president (aged 95; Kansas City, MO, USA)
** Barbara Tarbuck, actress (aged 74; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* December 28
** Bruce D. Porter, Mormon missionary and elder (aged 64; Salt Lake City, UT, USA)
** Debbie Reynolds, actress, singer and dancer (aged 84; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Bernard Zaslav, classical violist (aged 90; New York City, NY, USA)
* December 29
** Chris Cannizzaro, baseball player (aged 78; San Diego, CA, USA)
** Laurie Carlos, playwright, theatre director, and performance artist (aged 67; St. Paul, MN, USA)
** Keion Carpenter, football player (aged 39; Miami, FL, USA)
** Arthur H. Cash, historian and biographer (aged 94; Watch Hill, RI, USA)
** LaVell Edwards, football coach (aged 86; Provo, UT, USA)
** Balozi Harvey, community activist (aged 76; East Hanover, NJ, USA)
* December 30
** Cara Rafaela, thoroughbred racehorse (aged 23; KY, USA)
** Sutter Brown, Pembroke Welsh corgi (aged 13; Sacramento, CA, USA)
** Rich Conaty, radio personality (aged 62; Catskill, NY, USA)
** Glen L. Rudd, Mormon missionary and elder (aged 98; Salt Lake City, UT, USA)
** Huston Smith, religious scholar and philosopher (aged 97; Berkeley, CA, USA)
** Matt Snorton, football player (aged 74; Christian County, KY, USA)
** Tyrus Wong, Chinese-born artist (aged 106; Sunland-Tujunga, CA, USA)
* December 31
** William Christopher, actor (aged 84; Pasadena, CA, USA)
** David Meltzer, poet and musician (aged 79; Oakland, CA, USA)
==External links==
* 2016 in the United States
Category:United States History: Volume 24