2017

Events in the year 2017 in the United States.
==Incumbents==
===Federal Government===
* President: Barack Obama (D-IL) (until January 20), Donald Trump (R-NY) (starting January 20)
* Vice President: Joe Biden (D-DE) (until January 20), Mike Pence (R-IN) (starting January 20)
* Chief Justice: John Roberts (NY)
* Speaker of the House of Representatives: Paul Ryan (R-WI)
* Senate Majority Leader: Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
* Congress: 114th (until January 3), 115th (starting January 3)
==Events==
===January===
* January 1 – Nevada's ballot initiative legalizing recreational marijuana officially goes into effect.
* January 3
** Four African-American individuals kidnap a mentally disabled white man in Chicago, Illinois and livestream their torture of him on Facebook, shouting "F*** Trump" and "F*** white people" while doing so, prompting widespread reactions on social media. The four suspects are later arrested and charged with a hate crime.
** The 115th United States Congress begins its first session.
* January 4
** A Long Island Railroad passenger train collides with buffer stops at Atlantic Terminal in New York City, injuring 103 people.
** NASA selects Lucy and Psyche as the 13th and 14th missions of the Discovery Program, the result of a two-year long competition.
* January 6
** After briefing President Barack Obama, the United States Senate, and President-elect Donald Trump, the United States Intelligence Community releases a declassified version of its investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election. The report asserts that Russia carried out a massive cyber operation on orders from President Vladimir Putin to influence the election in favor of Trump in a multipronged attack consisting of hacking the Democratic National Committee, use of social media and Internet trolls to spread misinformation, and open propaganda on Russian state media outlets. Trump asserts that the outcome of the election was not affected by the interference, but nonetheless announces his intention to appoint a team to combat international cyber attacks within his first 90 days in office.
** A gunman opens fire at the Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport in Broward County, Florida, killing five people and injuring an additional six, with another 36 people sustaining injuries in the ensuing panic on the tarmac. The suspect was placed in custody after surrendering to police.
** The 115th United States Congress confirms the Electoral College victory of Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election.
* January 8
** The 74th Golden Globe Awards are held at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California. La La Land breaks the record for most awards given to a single film with seven wins out of seven nominations, including the award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. Moonlight wins the award for Best Motion Picture – Drama. The Crown wins the award for Best Drama Series and Atlanta wins Best Comedy Series. Particular attention is brought to actress Meryl Streep's acceptance speech for the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award, in which she criticizes President-elect Donald Trump for what she perceived as his indecency and demonizing of the press and immigrants during his campaign. Trump responded on Twitter, calling Streep "overrated" and denying her allegations that he mocked a disabled reporter.
** SeaWorld San Diego hosts its final orca performance after years of criticism of their keeping killer whales in captivity.
* January 9
** Mike Pence's term as Governor of Indiana ends, 11 days before he becomes Vice President of The United States.
** Eric Holcomb is inaugurated as the 51st governor of Indiana at the State House in Indianapolis.
* January 10
** Dylann Roof, convicted perpetrator of the 2015 Charleston church shooting, is sentenced to death. He is the first person in the U.S. to face execution for federal hate crime charges.
** President Barack Obama delivers his farewell speech at McCormick Place in his hometown of Chicago.
* January 11 – Donald Trump holds his first press conference since being elected president, wherein he derides the American news media for running what he considers to be false stories against him, particularly a January 10 CNN report stating that classified documents briefed to President Trump and Barack Obama contained presently unsubstantiated allegations that Russian operatives possess "compromising personal and financial information" about Trump that could be used as blackmail.
** The Playboy Mansion is put up for sale however the terms of the sale state that the company's founder Hugh Hefner must live there until he dies.
* January 12
** Justice Department Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz launches an investigation into the conduct of the Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, specifically the decision of FBI Director James Comey to reopen the investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server less than two weeks before the 2016 presidential election.
** As an act of reassurance to NATO allies, the Obama administration deploys over 3,000 American troops to Poland to ensure protection from any possible future aggression from Russia, who subsequently call the act a threat to their national security.
** Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey orders ExxonMobil to hand over documents related to a state investigation into whether the company misled the public about the impact of fossil fuels on global climate.
* January 13 – The Justice Department concludes its 13-month investigation into the Chicago Police Department and finds that the department regularly violated citizens' civil rights through the use of excessive force, particularly toward African-American and Latino individuals.
* January 14 – SpaceX launches its first Falcon 9 rocket since a vehicle exploded in September 2016, launching from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
* January 17 – Three days before leaving office, President Obama commutes Chelsea Manning's sentence for leaking documents to WikiLeaks.
* January 19
** Mexican drug kingpin El Chapo is extradited to the United States to await trial.
** President Obama commutes the sentences of 330 prisoners, most of them nonviolent drug offenders. It is the highest number of commutations ever given in a single day by a U.S. president.
* January 20 – Donald Trump is sworn in as the 45th President of the United States, and Mike Pence is sworn in as Vice President of the United States.
* January 21 – 2.9 million people attend the Women's March in opposition to the inauguration of Donald Trump, making it the single biggest protest in U.S. history.
* January 23
** President Donald Trump signs an executive order withdrawing the U.S. from the controversial trade pact, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
** President Trump issues an executive order freezing hiring to the federal government, excluding the military.
* January 24
** President Trump signs a series of presidential memorandums allowing the federal government to move forward with the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline and Keystone XL pipeline.
** The Trump administration freezes all new research grants and contracts for the Environmental Protection Agency and temporarily bars its employees from posting press releases or updates to the agency's social media accounts and from speaking to the press.
** The nominees for the 89th Academy Awards are announced. The nominees for Best Picture are Arrival, Fences, Hacksaw Ridge, Hell or High Water, Hidden Figures, La La Land, Lion, Manchester by the Sea, and Moonlight. La La Land ties with Titanic (1997) and All About Eve (1950) for the most Oscar nominations for a single film, with fourteen nominations.
* January 25
** President Trump signs a set of executive orders directing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to use existing funds to begin construction on a wall on the U.S.–Mexico border and putting an end to the longstanding catch and release policy in an effort toward swifter deportations of illegal immigrants.
** The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches 20,000 points for the first time ever.
* January 26 – A 2007 interview is released in which Carolyn Bryant, for whom African-American teenager Emmett Till was accused of making verbal and physical advances on, leading to his lynching death in 1955, admits that she fabricated that aspect of her testimony against Till.
* January 27 – President Trump signs an executive order banning the entry of refugees of the Syrian Civil War into the United States indefinitely, and banning the entry of all nationals, regardless of visa status, of Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen to the US for 90 days. The order prompts international criticism, a lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union, the detainment of legal Muslim travelers at several international airports, and Iran announcing a ban on entry of U.S. citizens into the country until the ban is lifted.
* January 30 – President Trump fires acting United States Attorney General Sally Yates after she instructs the Justice Department to not carry out Trump's recent executive order on refugees and immigrants.
* January 31 – President Trump nominates federal appellate judge Neil Gorsuch to fill the vacant seat on the Supreme Court left by the death of Antonin Scalia in 2016.
===February===
* February 1 – The Department of Homeland Security Inspector General office opens an investigation into the implementation of Executive Order 13769.
* February 3
** The Trump administration enacts new sanctions against 25 entities in Iran in retaliation for their recent ballistic missile test.
** President Donald Trump signs an executive order to review and eventually scale back the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act put in place after the Great Recession.
** Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson secures a nationwide temporary restraining order on President Trump's immigration ban from judge James Robart, calling it unlawful and unconstitutional.
* February 5 – Super Bowl LI: The New England Patriots defeat the Atlanta Falcons 34–28 at NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas.
* February 7
** Betsy DeVos is confirmed as the new U.S. Secretary of Education by the United States Senate in a 51–50 vote, with Vice President Mike Pence casting the tiebreaker vote. It is the first time in Senate history that a vice president has done so for a Cabinet nominee confirmation.
** A tornado impacts New Orleans, Louisiana, leaving approximately 10,000 homes without electricity.
* February 12
** Nearly 200,000 people are evacuated around Oroville, California, and surrounding areas due to an emergency spillway failure at Oroville Dam.
** The annual 59th Grammy Awards are held in the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California.
* February 14 – It is reported that President Trump's election campaign aides and other associates had repeated contacts with Russian intelligence officials in the year before the election.
* February 17 – President Donald Trump visits the Boeing South Carolina facility to see the first 787–10 Dreamliner built.
* February 22
** NASA announces that TRAPPIST-1, a star system 39 light years away, has been found to contain seven Earth-sized planets. At least three are in the habitable zone, but all seven have the potential to support liquid water.
** An Indian engineer is shot dead and another injured in Olathe, Kansas, in an apparent hate crime.
* February 23 – Police forcibly evict all remaining Dakota Access Pipeline protesters, arresting thirty-three people.
* February 25 – Democrat Stephanie Hansen wins a special election, ensuring her party retains its 44-year control of the Delaware Senate. Democrats across the country, motivated by antipathy to Trump's presidency, raised over a million dollars for her campaign, a record amount for an election to the Delaware legislature and any special election in the state. Former Vice President Joseph Biden also went door-to-door with her.
* February 26
** Kurt Busch wins the Daytona 500 in the first race for NASCAR's newest race format.
** The 89th Academy Awards, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, are held at Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, with Barry Jenkins' Moonlight winning Best Picture. Additionally, Damien Chazelle wins Best Director and Emma Stone wins Best Actress for La La Land, and Casey Affleck wins Best Actor for Manchester by the Sea. La La Land wins six awards out of a record-tying 14 nominations. The telecast garners 33 million viewers.
** In an embarrassing gaffe, La La Land is thought to be the winner of the Oscar for Best Picture, before the envelope is shown to reveal Moonlight as the actual winner.
===March===
* March 2 – President Trump visits the aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford.
* March 15
** The U.S. Federal Reserve raises interest rates from 0.75 to 1.0%.
** President Trump's revised travel ban on Muslims and refugees is blocked by a federal judge in Hawaii.
* March 16 – Sebastian Gorka, a top advisor to President Trump, faces calls to resign after he is revealed to be a member of a Hungarian Nazi group.
* March 18 – Rock and roll pioneer Chuck Berry dies at the age of 90.
* March 20
** The United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence holds a hearing about Russian interference in the 2016 election and confirms that there is an ongoing investigation into ties between Trump's team and Russia.
** The Senate Judiciary Committee begins hearings on the nomination of Judge Neil M. Gorsuch to the Supreme Court of the United States.
* March 27 – President Trump calls to investigate any ties with Hillary Clinton and Russia.
* March 28 – President Trump signs the Energy Independence Executive Order, intended to boost coal and other fossil fuel production by rolling back Obama-era policies on climate change and the environment.
* March 30
** Michael Flynn offers to testify before Congress in exchange for immunity from prosecution in relation to alleged Russian influence on the 2016 Presidential election.
** SpaceX conducts the world's first reflight of an orbital class rocket.
===April===
* April 5 – President Trump removes his senior strategist Steve Bannon from the National Security Council.
* April 6 – In response to a suspected chemical weapons attack on a rebel-held town, the U.S. military launches 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at an air base in Syria. Russia describes the strikes as an "aggression", adding they significantly damage US-Russia ties.
* April 7 – Andi Mack debuts on Disney Channel.
* April 9 – David Dao, an Asian physician, is physically assaulted and dragged off a United Airlines flight from Chicago to Louisville by police, prompting worldwide reaction.
* April 13 – a large non-nuclear bomb known as the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB), is dropped by the United States in the Nangahar's Achin District in eastern Afghanistan to destroy tunnel complexes used by ISIL. It is the first time the weapon is used in a combat role.
* April 14 – Angelo Colon-Ortiz, 31, a suspect in the death of jogger Vanessa Marcotte, who disappeared on August 7, 2016, in Massachusetts and was later found dead, is arrested.
* April 15
** Hundreds of President Trump's supporters clash with anti-Trump protesters in Berkeley, California. 21 people are arrested.
** Protests erupt in cities across the country, most notably at Mar-a-Lago with hundreds of thousands of demonstrators demanding President Trump release his tax returns.
** A federal judge in Arkansas issues an injunction halting the execution by lethal injection of nine inmates, calling this method unconstitutional.
* April 16
** Vice President Pence visits South Korea and calls North Korea's missile launch a 'provocation'.
** Shooting of Robert Godwin: 74-year-old Godwin, a retired foundry worker is shot and killed while walking on a sidewalk in the Glenville neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio by 37-year-old Steve Stephens, who posted a video of the shooting on his Facebook account.
* April 17
** Vice President Pence visits Camp Bonifas near the Korean Demilitarized Zone, unexpectedly deviating from his security plan and ** walking all the way to the military demarcation line, sending nearby security personnel scrambling.
** President Trump, Melania and their son Barron kick off the 139th Annual Easter Egg Roll at the White House.
** A State Department official warns of a "significant international response" if North Korea were to mount another nuclear test.
** A U.S. Army Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk from Fort Belvoir, Virginia with three crew members aboard crashes near Leonardtown, Maryland. One of the crew members was taken by helicopter to a local hospital.
* April 18
** Georgia's 6th congressional district special election, 2017; a special election to replace Tom Price is scheduled to take place, With no candidate managing to get over 50% of the vote, leading to a run-off election scheduled for June 20 (although Democrat Jon Ossoff won a plurality of the votes)
** Disappearance of Etan Patz; Pedro Hernandez is sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for the murder of Etan Patz.
** 39-year-old Kori Ali Muhammad kills three people in shootings in downtown Fresno
** Shooting of Robert Godwin: Murder suspect Steve Stephens is found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after a brief police pursuit in Erie County, Pennsylvania.
* April 19
** Vice President Pence gives a speech to troops stationed at the Yokosuka Naval Base aboard the USS Ronald Reagan
** Aaron Hernandez commits suicide by hanging himself in prison.
** Jason Chaffetz announces he will not run for re-election to his House seat in 2018.
** Television host and author Bill O'Reilly is fired from Fox News following accusations of sexual assault.
* April 20
** 15-year-old Elizabeth Thomas from Middle Tennessee is found safe in Northern California and 50-year-old kidnapper Tad Cummins is arrested after a four-week manhunt.
** President Trump hosts Sarah Palin, Kid Rock and Ted Nugent at the White House.
** President Trump holds a joint news conference with Italian PM Paolo Gentiloni.
* April 21 – Surgeon General Vivek Murthy is removed from his post by the Trump administration and replaced by Sylvia Trent-Adams.
* April 22 – March for Science.
* April 23
** Kim Sang-duk, a Korean American professor is detained in North Korea.
** Former President Barack Obama arrives in Chicago for a two-day visit and meets privately with at-risk young men on the South Side.
* April 24
** Workers in New Orleans began to remove four monuments dedicated to the Confederacy era in New Orleans.
** The entire Senate is invited to the White House for a briefing on North Korea.
===May===
* May 5 – Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, directed by James Gunn, is released by Marvel Studios as the 15th film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and the sequel to 2014's Guardians of the Galaxy.
* May 9
** A tunnel collapse occurs at the Hanford Site in Washington State.
** FBI chief James Comey is fired by Trump for mishandling of the Hillary Clinton email controversy. However, critics accuse Trump of attempting to subvert the ongoing FBI investigation into possible ties between Russia and the Trump campaign.
* May 12 – 43-year-old Thomas Hartless kills three people, including a police chief, in a shooting attack at Kirkersville, Ohio.
* May 16
** President Trump is accused of asking FBI chief James Comey to drop an inquiry into links between Michael Flynn and Russia.
** President Trump is reported to have shared highly classified information with Russia, provided by Israeli intelligence, but stands by his "absolute right" to share it.
** Turkey's Police Counter Attack Team attack a crowd of protesters at the Turkish Ambassador's Residence in Washington, D.C.
* May 17
** Chelsea Manning is freed after serving seven years of her 35-year sentence for leaking diplomatic cables and military files to WikiLeaks.
** Rep. Al Green (D-TX) calls for President Trump to be impeached on the House floor.
** The U.S. Justice Department names former FBI chief Robert Mueller as special counsel to investigate alleged Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election and possible collusion between President Trump's campaign and Moscow.
* May 18
** An 18-year-old woman is killed and 22 other people injured after a car plows into pedestrians at Times Square in New York. The driver, a 26-year-old former U.S. Navy member, is arrested.
** A 1982 painting, Untitled, by the late Jean-Michel Basquiat, sells for $110 million at Sotheby's, becoming the most expensive work by an American artist ever sold at an auction.
* May 20 – Trump makes his first foreign visit as president, to Saudi Arabia, where he signs deals worth more than $350 billion. This includes a $110 billion arms deal, the single biggest in U.S. history.
* May 21 – The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus stages the final show in its 146-year history at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale, New York.
* May 26 – An anti-Muslim stabbing attack aboard a Portland, Oregon commuter train kills two people and injures a third.
* May 27
** President Trump attends the G7 summit, where the six other leaders reaffirm their commitment to the Paris climate accord, but Trump says he will delay a decision on the agreement until the following week.
** Pandora – The World of Avatar opens at Animal Kingdom at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida.
* May 28 – Takuma Sato wins the 101st Indianapolis 500, becoming the first Japanese driver to win the event.
===June===
* June 1 – President Trump announces his intentions to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement.
* June 2 – Wonder Woman, directed by Patty Jenkins, is released as the fourth film in the DC Extended Universe.
* June 3 – Intelligence specialist Reality Winner is arrested in Texas on suspicion of leaking classified information to journalists.
* June 7 – The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) issues its first ever statewide travel advisory after Missouri passes SB-43.
* June 8 – Former FBI director James Comey testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee about conversations he had with President Trump and whether he pressured him to drop an investigation into former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn.
* June 11
** The 71st annual Tony Awards are held at Radio City Music Hall. Dear Evan Hansen wins six awards including Best Musical and Best Leading Actor for Ben Platt.
** The Pittsburgh Penguins defeat the Nashville Predators in Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Finals to win the series 4–2 and win their 5th Stanley Cup title in their 50th season, winning the NHL Championship for the second year in a row. Penguins captain Sidney Crosby won the Conn Smythe Trophy as the NHL Playoffs MVP for the second consecutive year.
* June 12
** President Trump convenes his first full cabinet meeting in the White House.
** The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upholds a decision blocking President Trump's revised travel ban on people from six mainly Muslim nations.
** The Golden State Warriors defeat the Cleveland Cavaliers in Game 5 of the NBA Finals to win the series 4–1 and win their 5th NBA championship and their second in three years, winning the title with the best postseason record in history going 16–1. Warriors forward Kevin Durant won his first NBA title and won the NBA Finals MVP award.
* June 14
** House of Representatives Majority Whip Steve Scalise and his aides are hit by gunfire during a baseball practice in Virginia. The shooter is killed by a security detail.
** The Federal Reserve raises its key interest rate by 0.25%, to a target range of 1 to 1.25%, the second increase of the year and its highest level since 2008.
** Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather Jr. announce on Twitter that they will fight on August 26 after heavy anticipation at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, with the event being dubbed as The Money Fight.
** It is reported that special counsel Robert Mueller is investigating President Trump for possible obstruction of justice and whether he tried to end an inquiry into his sacked national security adviser.
** A shooting at a UPS facility in San Francisco's Potrero Hill neighborhood leaves four dead, including the shooter, and six injured.
* June 16
** Michelle Carter of Massachusetts is found guilty of involuntary manslaughter for encouraging her boyfriend Conrad Roy to take his own life. She had sent a number of text messages encouraging him to kill himself and as a result Roy died of carbon monoxide poisoning inside his vehicle in 2014.
** Jeronimo Yanez is acquitted of all charges and is found to be not guilty in the case of the shooting of Philando Castile. He is later fired by the city of St. Anthony, Minnesota.
** Pixar Animation Studios' 18th feature film, Cars 3, the sequel to 2011's Cars 2, is released in theaters.
* June 19 – Otto Warmbier, an American student detained in North Korea, dies after suffering from what is believed to be a cardiopulmonary event.
* June 20 – A severe heatwave causes more than 40 American Airlines planes to be grounded.
===July===
* July 7 – Spider-Man: Homecoming, the second reboot of the Spider-Man film franchise directed by Jon Watts, is released by Marvel Studios and Columbia Pictures as the 16th film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).
* July 9 – It is reported that President Trump's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., met with a Russian lawyer after being promised damaging information on Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election.
* July 11 – Donald Trump Jr. releases email transcripts, via Twitter, showing he was offered "sensitive" information about Hillary Clinton from a Russian contact, and replied "I love it".
* July 15
** Police officer Mohamed Noor murders Australian woman Justine Damond near her home in Minneapolis, Minnesota after she called 9–1–1 to report a nearby assault. The police officers did not have their body cameras turned on and the reason for the shooting is unclear, prompting protests in the city.
** Flash floods occur at a popular swimming hole near Payson, Arizona, killing 10 people and injuring 4 more.
* July 18 – A Senate GOP bill to repeal and replace large portions of Obamacare fails to win enough support to pass.
* July 20 – Former U.S. football star and actor O. J. Simpson is granted parole after nine years in a Nevada prison.
* July 21
** White House press secretary Sean Spicer resigns in protest at the appointment of communications director Anthony Scaramucci.
** Raven's Home debuts on Disney Channel.
* July 22 – In a tweet, President Trump asserts his "complete power to pardon." This follows reports that he had been discussing his ability to pardon people under investigation for possible ties between his campaign and Russia meddling with the 2016 election.
* July 24 – President Trump sparks controversy after giving a highly politicized speech to approximately 35,000 Boy Scouts at the 2017 National Scout Jamboree.
* July 25
** The U.S. Senate votes to start debating a new Republican healthcare bill to replace Obamacare.
** The U.S. House of Representatives votes to impose fresh sanctions on Russia, despite President Trump objecting to the legislation.
* July 26
** The President tweets that transgender people cannot serve in "any capacity" in the U.S. military.
** The first gene editing of human embryos in the USA is reported to have taken place, using CRISPR.
** The United States men's national soccer team defeats Jamaica 2–1 in the final to win the 2017 CONCACAF Gold Cup title, their 6th overall.
** The FBI raids the home of Paul Manafort, a former chairman of the Trump campaign, regarding potential collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign.
* July 27
** Jeff Bezos briefly becomes the world's richest person, surpassing Bill Gates with a net worth of just over $90 billion. He loses the title later in the day when Amazon's stock drops, returning him to second place with a net worth just below $90 billion.
** In a 235–192 vote, the House passes a $788 billion spending bill that combines a $1.6 billion down payment for President Donald Trump's controversial border wall with Mexico and a large budget increase for the Pentagon.
** A third attempt to repeal Obamacare fails after it is voted down by 51 votes to 49. Three Republicans; John McCain, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski, vote against the bill.
* July 28
** Reince Priebus is removed as White House Chief of Staff, with President Trump naming General John Kelly as his replacement.
** President Trump removes Anthony Scaramucci as White House communications director, just ten days after his appointment.
** It is reported that President Trump personally dictated his son Donald Trump Jr.'s statement on his talks with a Russian lawyer during the election campaign.
===August===
* August 1 – A top EPA official, Elizabeth "Betsy" Southerland, resigns in protest at the direction of the agency under the Trump administration.
* August 2
** Grandmaster Flash member Kidd Creole is arrested in New York on murder charges after a homeless man is found with multiple stab wounds to his torso.
** White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders confirms in her daily briefing that two supposed phone calls to President Trump never actually took place, the first from the Boy Scouts, who Trump claimed had praised him for the best speech ever delivered in the organization's 100-year history; the second from Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, who Trump claimed had complimented his border control efforts.
* August 3
** Transcripts from a phone call released by The Washington Post show that President Trump had urged Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto to stop saying he would refuse to pay for the proposed border wall. Another transcript is released of a heated argument between Trump and the Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
** The special counsel investigating claims of Russian meddling in the US election begins using a grand jury in Washington.
* August 4
** Martin Shkreli is found guilty in federal court on three counts of fraud related to two hedge funds he ran, MSMB Capital and MSMB Healthcare.
** In a letter to Darwin Life, Inc. and New Hope Fertility Center, the FDA warns that the "three parent baby" technique should not be marketed in the U.S.
* August 5 – A tornado takes place near Tulsa, Oklahoma.
* August 6 – Sharknado 5: Global Swarming airs for the first time on Syfy.
* August 8
** After reports that North Korea has produced a nuclear warhead small enough to fit inside its missiles, President Trump warns that the country "will be met with fire and fury" if it threatens the U.S.
** North Korea states that it is considering a missile strike against the Andersen Air Force Base in Guam.
* August 9 – North Korea releases a statement that the Korean People's Army Strategic Force is considering firing multiple Hwasong-12 IRBMs near Guam as a warning shot against the United States.
* August 12 – The Unite the Right rally, a gathering of alt-right, white nationalist, neo-Nazi, and neo-Confederate groups protesting the removal of the Robert Edward Lee Sculpture and other Confederate monuments and memorials from public spaces, is held in Charlottesville, Virginia. Violent clashes break out between attendees and counter-protesters; 32-year-old Heather Heyer is killed and many others are injured when a car ploughs into a group of people; and two Virginia State Police troopers are killed when their surveillance helicopter crashes, prompting Governor Terry McAuliffe to declare a state of emergency.
* August 14 – After several days of public pressure, President Donald Trump explicitly condemns the white supremacist groups involved in violent clashes at Charlottesville.
* August 15
** President Trump is criticized by leaders in the Republican and Democrat parties for backpedaling on explicitly condemning the white supremacist groups involved in the Charlottesville 'Unite the Right' rally.
** Following a week of escalating tensions between North Korea and the United States, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un opts to wait on attacking Guam.
* August 16
** President Trump disbands two of his business councils after multiple members resign in response to the President's handling of the Charlottesville incident.
** Former president Barack Obama's Twitter response to the Charlottesville rally, in which he posted a quote from Nelson Mandela, receives over 4 million 'likes' and becomes the most 'liked' tweet ever.
** Regarding the earlier violence in Charlottesville, former presidents George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush call upon incumbent President Trump to "reject racial bigotry, anti-Semitism and hatred in all forms."
* August 18
** Steve Bannon is fired from his positions as the White House Chief Strategist and Senior Counselor to the President. In a statement later, he says "The Trump presidency we fought for and won is over. We still have this huge movement, and there'll be good days and bad days, but that presidency is over."
** A mass resignation of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities is made in protest against Trump's response to the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
** A search team financed by Paul Allen locates the wreck of the USS Indianapolis in the Philippine Sea, 72 years after it was sunk by a Japanese submarine.
* August 19 – Up to 30,000 people gather on Boston Common to protest a right-wing rally, motivated in part as a response to the recent Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville.
* August 20 – An oil tanker collides with the USS John S. McCain near Singapore, injuring five U.S. Navy sailors and leaving ten missing.
* August 21 – A total solar eclipse takes place. It is the first total solar eclipse of the 21st century for the United States, the first visible from the continental U.S. since February 26, 1979, and the first to span the entire continental U.S. since June 8, 1918. Totality occurs along a path curving from Oregon to South Carolina, and lasts at most for 2 minutes and 40.2 seconds. The location and time of "greatest eclipse" is on the western edge of Christian County, Kentucky, at 36.9715 degrees north and 87.6559 degrees west, occurring at 18:25 UTC.
* August 22 – At a "Make America Great Again" rally in Phoenix, Arizona, President Trump says he will close down the U.S. government if necessary to build his wall along the Mexico border.
* August 23 – The science envoy for the State Department, Daniel Kammen, resigns following President Trump's response to the rally in Charlottesville. In his resignation letter addressed to Trump, the first letter of every paragraph spells out "impeach".
* August 24
** A woman from Chicopee, Massachusetts wins $758.7m—the largest jackpot in North American history—in the Powerball lottery.
** For the first time, a drug-cocktail of etomidate, rocuronium bromide, and potassium acetate is used by the United States for lethal injection. The experimental injection is used to execute Mark Asay in Florida after concerns that a more conventional drug, midazolam, was causing prisoners to suffer agonizing deaths.
** Hurricane Harvey forms in the Gulf of Mexico.
* August 25
** Hurricane Harvey, a category 4 tropical cyclone, makes landfall in Texas. The hurricane is predicted to be the worst to strike Texas in 12 years.
** A directive is signed by President Donald Trump that bans transgender military recruits.
** President Trump pardons former Maricopa County sheriff Joe Arpaio, who had previously been convicted of defying a court order to cease traffic patrols using racial profiling.
** Sebastian Gorka, a military and intelligence analyst, resigns from his position as a White House counter-terrorism adviser.
* August 26
** American Floyd Mayweather Jr. defeats Irishman Conor McGregor in the 10th round at "The Money Fight" boxing match in Las Vegas, extending his undefeated professional boxing streak to 50 victories and 0 defeats (50–0), surpassing the 49–0 record of Rocky Marciano.
** New Tappan Zee Bridge over the Hudson River opens.
* August 27
** Katy Perry hosts the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards at The Forum in Inglewood, California. American rapper Kendrick Lamar is the night's biggest winner, walking away with six awards.
** Right-wing protesters and thousands of far-left counter-protesters clash in Berkeley, California. 11 people are injured and 21 are arrested.
* August 28 – President Trump signs an executive order allowing police to acquire and use military-style equipment.
* August 29
** Following North Korea's firing of a ballistic missile over northern Japan, President Donald Trump warns that "all options are on the table" in terms of a response to North Korean aggression.
** Both the Addicks Dam and Barker Dam in Houston begin overflowing due to Hurricane Harvey, worsening flooding hazards. A curfew is imposed in Houston to help prevent looting of evacuated homes.
** U.S. President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump arrive in Texas to survey the damage of Tropical Storm Harvey.
* August 30
** U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia blocks Texas's enforcement of a sanctuary city law.
** The U.S. government orders the closure of Russian consulate facilities in San Francisco, D.C., and New York City.
===September===
* September 3 – Media outlets publish the content of the letter Barack Obama left in the Resolute desk for President Donald Trump.
* September 4 – Governor Rick Scott declares a state of emergency for Florida as Hurricane Irma approaches from the Atlantic.
* September 5 – The Trump administration announces that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) immigration policy, which was set by the Obama administration in 2012, will be scrapped.
* September 9 – Sloane Stephens defeats Madison Keys in two sets to win the US Open Women's Singles tennis championship, her first Grand Slam title.
* September 10 – Millions of homes are left without power as the center of Hurricane Irma hits mainland Florida, just south of Naples.
* September 12
** Seattle mayor Ed Murray resigns after facing multiple accusations of child abuse, rape and sexual molestation, including some from family members and children under his care. He denies the accusations.
** Hillary Clinton's memoir, What Happened, is published, describing her experience as the Democratic Party's nominee for President of the United States in the 2016 election.
* September 13 – The International Olympic Committee awards Los Angeles, California, the rights to host for the 2028 Summer Olympics. It was alongside in Paris, for the winning selected city for the 2024 Summer Olympics, respectively.
* September 18 – Toys "R" Us files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, stating the move will give it flexibility to deal with $5 billion in long-term debt and invest in improving current operations.
* September 19 – President Trump makes his first appearance at the United Nations, during which he claims the U.S. may 'have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea'.
* September 20 – Hurricane Maria makes landfall in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico with maximum sustained winds of 250 km/h (155 mph). Millions of people are left without power.
* September 22 – During a political rally in Alabama, President Trump criticizes NFL football players kneeling during the national anthem in protest of police brutality against African-Americans, saying that team owners should "fire" them for doing it. The comments spark widespread condemnation and increases in protests from players during the national anthem.
* September 27 – Playboy founder Hugh Hefner dies at the age of 91.
* September 29 – U.S. Health Secretary Tom Price resigns over a scandal involving the use of expensive private planes for official business.
* September 30 – President Donald Trump receives widespread backlash for attacking Carmen Yulín Cruz, the mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Twitter after she criticizes the United States federal government's response to the devastation from Hurricane Maria in the territory.
===October===
* October 1
** Former U.S. football star and actor O. J. Simpson is freed on parole after serving nine years of a 33-year sentence for armed robbery, assault with a deadly weapon, and 10 other charges.
** Stephen Paddock opens fire on a crowd at the Route 91 Harvest music festival adjacent to the Mandalay Bay resort and casino at the Las Vegas Strip. 59 people were killed and 869 were injured, making it the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
* October 5
** The Department of Justice reverses an Obama-era policy which used Title VII of the Civil Rights Act to protect transgender employees from discrimination.
** An exposé is published in The New York Times accusing film producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual harassment spanning three decades, involving a number of actresses and female production assistants, temps and other employees. Further allegations emerge in subsequent days, that Weinstein had assaulted or harassed 13 women, and raped three of them.
* October 6
** The Trump administration issues a ruling that allows employers to opt out of providing free birth control to their employees.
** The Vegas Golden Knights play their first NHL game in franchise history with a 2–1 win over the Dallas Stars.
* October 8 – October 2017 Northern California wildfires: The deadliest week of wildfires in California's history occurs, killing at least 35 people and leaving devastation across hundreds of thousands of acres.
* October 10
** Las Vegas is the site of the first professional sports event in the city's history when the Vegas Golden Knights host the Arizona Coyotes at T-Mobile Arena there is a pre-game ceremony before puck drop to honor the victims of the mass shooting that had occurred nine days earlier.
** The USA soccer team team plays the last match against Trinidad and Tobago in qualifying for the 2018 FIFA World Cup to be played in Russia, the Americans had to win to qualify for the World Cup but lost 2 to 1 leaving them eliminated by first time in its history cutting a positive streak of 7 consecutive classifications to the world championships.
* October 11
** President Trump threatens to shut down News Media for report his criticize in media.
** It is announced that the Boy Scouts will allow girls to join for the first time in the program's 117-year history beginning in the fall of 2018.
* October 12 – The U.S. announces its withdrawal from UNESCO, accusing it of "anti-Israel" bias.
* October 13 – In a speech at the White House, President Trump condemns Iran as a "fanatical regime", proposes new sanctions, and states that he will refuse to continue certifying the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, a landmark nuclear deal.
* October 26 – Nearly 3,000 files related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy are released, while President Trump orders others to be withheld, citing national security concerns. The documents were scheduled for release in a 1992 law.
* October 27 – The first charges are filed in the investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller into alleged Russia interference in the 2016 U.S. election.
* October 30 – Actor Kevin Spacey issues an apology over an alleged sexual advance made towards a child actor 30 years previously. It is announced that Netflix will end the popular TV show House of Cards, in which Spacey has played the leading role. Further allegations arise in subsequent days.
* October 31 – A flatbed pickup truck is driven into pedestrians along West Street in Lower Manhattan, New York City, causing at least eight deaths and multiple injuries.
===November===
* November 1
** Actor Dustin Hoffman is accused of sexually harassing a 17-year-old intern on the set of one of his films in 1985.
** The Houston Astros defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers after seven games to become the World Series champions. The Astros World Series title comes at a time of healing for the city of Houston which was struck by Hurricane Harvey three months ago.
* November 2
** President Trump confirms Jerome Powell as his nominee for chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve.
** The New York City news websites DNAinfo and Gothamist are shut down by owner Joe Ricketts one week after the publications' employees voted to unionize.
* November 3
** The latest National Climate Assessment, a 477-page report by 13 federal agencies, concludes that global warming is "extremely likely" (with 95 to 100% certainty) to be human-caused, mostly from the burning of fossil fuels. This contradicts statements from the Trump administration that carbon dioxide is not the primary contributor to global warming.
** Thor: Ragnarok, directed by Taika Waititi, is released by Marvel Studios as the 17th film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and the sequel to 2011's Thor and 2013's Thor: The Dark World.
* November 4 – President Trump begins his first visit to Asia, a 13-day tour that will include Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam, and the Philippines.
* November 5
** 26-year-old Devin Kelley kills 26 people and injures 20 in a Baptist church in Sutherland Springs, Texas. It is the 5th deadliest shooting in United States history, and the deadliest in a place of worship.
** Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross is revealed by the Paradise Papers to have business links with Russian allies of President Vladimir Putin who are under U.S. sanctions.
* November 6 – Entrepreneur Andrew Yang announces his candidacy for U.S. president in 2020.
* November 7 – In Virginia, Danica Roem becomes the first openly transgender person to win an election to a state legislature and serve her term, beating Republican Bob Marshall.
* November 9 – The New York Times published allegations from five women who said they were sexually harassed by Louis C.K. between the late 1990s and 2000.
* November 12 – After North Korea denounces President Trump's Asia trip, calling it a "warmonger's visit" and describing the president as a "dotard", Trump responds on Twitter: "Why would Kim Jong-un insult me by calling me "old," when I would NEVER call him "short and fat?" Oh well, I try so hard to be his friend – and maybe someday that will happen!"
* November 13 – The FDA approves "Abilify MyCite", the first drug in the U.S. with a digital ingestion tracking system that records when the medication was taken, via a sensor embedded in the pill.
* November 14 – A gunman embarks on a shooting spree across Rancho Tehama Reserve, California, killing a total of four people and wounding twelve others before being shot and killed by police. He had earlier murdered his wife in their home.
* November 15 – The Trump administration announces that it will reverse a ban on elephant trophies from Africa, enacted by Barack Obama in 2014.
* November 17
** The former President George HW Bush is accused by multiple women of groping them in the past.
** Justice League, directed by Zack Snyder, with post-production direction by Joss Whedon, is released as the fifth film in the DC Extended Universe. Following its release, fans began to push for the release of Snyder's original version of the film. This version, Zack Snyder's Justice League, would later be released in 2021.
* November 19
** The notorious killer and cult leader Charles Manson dies aged 83, after 46 years in prison.
** Martin Truex Jr. wins his first ever Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series championship at Homestead Miami Speedway.
* November 20 – It is alleged that Eric Trump funneled cancer charity money to his business.
* November 21 – CBS fires talk show host Charlie Rose after eight women accuse him of inappropriate behavior.
* November 22 – Pixar Animation Studios' 19th feature film, Coco, is released in theaters.
* November 27 – Matt Lauer, one of the most famous TV news anchors in the US, is fired from NBC following accusations of sexual assault.
* November 29 – President Trump's Twitter account retweets three inflammatory videos from far-right group, Britain First.
* November 30 – It is reported that, during the summer, President Trump tried to pressure a number of top Republicans to end the Senate investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 election.
===December===
* December 1 – President Trump's ex-national security adviser Michael Flynn is charged with making a false statement to the FBI in January.
* December 2
** The Senate passes the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, the most sweeping overhaul of the US tax code since the Reagan era.
** Emails, interviews and court documents involving senior Trump transition team officials, reported by The New York Times, suggest that Michael Flynn did not act alone, both before and after he spoke with Russian ambassador, Sergey Kislyak.
* December 4
** President Trump announces an 85% cut to Utah's 1.3m acre Bears Ears National Monument and a 50% cut to the 1.9m acre Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, angering Native American tribes and environmental groups.
** The Supreme Court allows President Trump's travel ban on six mainly Muslim countries to go fully into effect.
* December 6 – In a speech at the White House, President Trump announces that the U.S. now recognizes Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
* December 7 – A magnitude 4 earthquake happens in California.
* December 8 – A state of emergency is declared in California as the worst wildfires on record devastate homes and businesses in the region, forcing the evacuation of 200,000 people.
* December 11 – A man is arrested after an explosion at New York's Port Authority Bus Terminal, described by Mayor Bill de Blasio as an "attempted terrorist attack".
* December 12 – Democrat Doug Jones defeats Republican candidate Roy Moore to win the Senate seat for Alabama, the first time a Democrat has won the state since 1992.
* December 13 – The Federal Reserve raises interest rates by a quarter percentage point, to a range of 1.25–1.5 percent, the third rise of 2017.
* December 14
** Walt Disney announces that it will buy 21st Century Fox's entertainment assets for $52.4bn, ending more than half a century of media expansion by Rupert Murdoch.
** Despite strong public opposition, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) votes to repeal net neutrality.
* December 15
** The Washington Post reports that staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have been forbidden by the Trump administration from using the words "vulnerable," “entitlement," “diversity," “transgender," “fetus," “evidence-based" and "science-based" in any official documents being prepared for next year's budget.
** Star Wars: The Last Jedi is released in theaters.
* December 16 – The Pentagon confirms the existence of the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program (AATIP), a secret investigatory effort funded from 2007 to 2012 by the United States government to study unexplained aerial phenomena (and/or unidentified flying objects).
* December 18
** President Trump announces that climate change will be dropped from a list of national security threats.
** 2017 Washington train derailment: An Amtrak train derails and crashes onto Interstate 5 near DuPont, Washington, leaving three dead.
** John Skipper resigns as president of ESPN to deal with his substance addiction. Former network president and executive chairman George Bodenheimer is announced as the acting chairman for the next 90 days until a replacement is found.
* December 19 – The FDA approves Luxturna, the first gene therapy for an inherited condition in the U.S., for patients with a form of retinal dystrophy.
* December 20 – The Greatest Showman is released in theaters.
* December 21
** Papa John's founder John Schnatter steps down as CEO of the pizza restaurant chain and will be replaced by chief operating officer Steve Ritchie on January 1.
** The National Center for Health Statistics reports that US life expectancy fell in 2016 for the second year running, the first time in more than half a century that such a consecutive decline has occurred. The drop, from 78.7 to 78.6, was reportedly driven by the worsening opioid crisis.
* December 22 – Everitt Aaron Jameson, a 25-year-old former marine, is arrested by the FBI on suspicion of planning a terror attack in the Pier 39 area of San Francisco over Christmas.
* December 31 – In American football, the Cleveland Browns finish their season with an 0–16 record, becoming the second team in history to do so after the 2008 Lions.
==Memoriam==
===January===
* January 1
** Jewel Plummer Cobb, biologist, cancer researcher, and university president (aged 92; Maplewood, NJ, USA)
** Jeremy Stone, scientist and activist (aged 81; Carlsbad, CA, USA)
** Sylvester Uphus, farmer and politician (aged 89; Sauk Centre, MN, USA)
* January 2
** Albert Brewer, politician; 47th Governor of Alabama (1968–1971) (aged 88; Montgomery, AL, USA)
** Richard Machowicz, U.S. Navy SEAL and television personality (aged 51; Pearland, TX, USA)
** Daryl Spencer, baseball player (aged 88; Wichita, KS, USA)
* January 3
** Martin Brandtner, Marine Corps general (aged 78; Reno, NV, USA)
** Charles J. Colgan, businessman and politician (aged 90; Aldie, VA, USA)
** J. Dewey Daane, economist (aged 98; Nashville, TN, USA)
** George M. Dennison, university president (aged 81; MT, USA)
** Rosemary Stevenson, baseball player (aged 80; Nunica, MI, USA)
* January 4
** Willie Evans, football player (aged 79; Buffalo, NY, USA)
** Bruce Hugo, politician (aged 71; St. Helens, OR, USA)
** Carl E. Misch, prosthodontist (aged 69; Birmingham, MI, USA)
** Art Pennington, baseball player (aged 93; Cedar Rapids, IA, USA)
* January 5
** Paul Goble, English-born author and illustrator (aged 83; Rapid City, SD, USA)
** Stanley Russ, politician (aged 86; Conway, AR, USA)
** John Wightman, politician (aged 78; Lexington, NE, USA)
* January 6
** Audrey Grevious, civil rights activist (aged 86; Lexington, KY, USA)
** Greg Jelks, baseball player (aged 55; Sydney, Australia)
** Les Lazarowitz, sound mixer (aged 75; FL, USA)
** Sylvester Potts, singer and composer (aged 78; Detroit, MI, USA)
** Bob Sadowski, baseball player (aged 79; St. Louis, MO, USA)
** Tilikum, American-held orca (aged 35; Orlando, FL, USA)
** Francine York, actress (aged 80; Van Nuys, CA, USA)
* January 7
** Bill Champion baseball player (aged 69; Shelby, NC, USA)
** John Deely, philosopher and semiotician (aged 74; Greensburg, PA, USA)
** Nat Hentoff, music critic, journalist, historian, and activist (aged 91; New York City, NY, USA)
** Eddie Kamae, musician and film producer (aged 89; Honolulu, HI, USA)
** Betty Lasky, film historian (aged 94; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Mildred Meacham, baseball player (aged 92; Charlotte, NC, USA)
** Murray Ryan, politician (aged 94; Silver City, NM, USA)
** Michael Scanlan, Roman Catholic priest and university administrator (aged 85; Hollidaysburg, PA, USA)
* January 8
** Buddy Bregman, composer, arranger, conductor, and producer (aged 86; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Jackie Brown, baseball player (aged 73; Holdenville, OK, USA)
** James C. Christensen, fantasy artist (aged 74; UT, USA)
** Miriam Goldberg, newspaper publisher (aged 100; Denver, CO, USA)
** Mary Ann Green, tribal leader and politician (aged 53; Coachella, CA, USA)
** Roy Innis, civil rights activist (aged 82; New York City, NY, USA)
** Pioneer Cabin Tree, iconic tree in California (aged 160; Calaveras Big Trees State Park, CA, USA)
** Eli Zelkha, Iranian-born entrepreneur (aged 66; Woodside, CA, USA)
* January 9
** Rodney H. Brady, businessman and college president (aged 83; Salt Lake City, UT, USA)
** Charles Bragg, artist (aged 85; Beverly Hills, CA, USA)
** Crazy Toones, hip-hop record producer and DJ (aged 45; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Patrick Flores, Roman Catholic prelate (aged 87; San Antonio, TX, USA)
** John Sailhamer, Evangelical Old Testament scholar (aged 70; CA, USA)
** Warren Allen Smith, humanist and gay rights activist (aged 95; New York City, NY, USA)
** Timothy Well, professional wrestler (aged 55; Greenup, KY, USA)
* January 10
** Hiag Akmakjian, author, painter and photographer (aged 90; Wales, UK)
** Steve Fryar, rodeo performer (aged 63; Big Spring, TX, USA)
** Buddy Greco, jazz and pop singer and pianist (aged 90; Las Vegas, NV, USA)
** Steven McDonald, police detective (aged 59; New York City, NY, USA)
** Oliver Smithies, English-born geneticist and Nobel laureate (aged 91; Chapel Hill, NC, USA)
* January 11
** Tommy Allsup, rockabilly guitarist (aged 85; Springfield, MO, USA)
** Henry Foner, social activist (aged 97; New York City, NY, USA)
** Conrad Hilberry, poet (aged 88; Kalamazoo, MI, USA)
** Victor Lownes, publishing executive and film producer (aged 88; London, England, UK)
** Akio Takamori, Japanese-born sculptor (aged 67; Seattle, WA, USA)
* January 12
** William Peter Blatty, novelist and screenwriter (aged 89; Bethesda, MD, USA)
** Milton Metz, radio and television personality (aged 95; Louisville, KY, USA)
** Frank Spellman, weightlifter (aged 94; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
* January 13
** Hans Berliner, German-born computer scientist and chess player (aged 87; Riviera Beach, FL, USA)
** Dick Gautier, actor, comedian, singer, and caricaturist (aged 85; Arcadia, CA, USA)
** Alan Jabbour, musician and folklorist (aged 74; Washington, DC, USA)
** David Modell, businessman and NFL executive (aged 56; Baltimore, MD, USA)
** Nicodemo Scarfo, mob boss (aged 87; Butner, NC, USA)
* January 14
** Alex Jones, Roman Catholic deacon (aged 75; Detroit, MI, USA)
** Kevin Starr, historian (aged 76; San Francisco, CA, USA)
* January 15
** George Beall, attorney (aged 79; Naples, FL, USA)
** Ciel Bergman, painter (aged 78; Pleasanton, CA, USA)
** Vicki Lansky, author and publisher (aged 75; Plymouth, MN, USA)
** Eddie Long, Baptist pastor (aged 63; Atlanta, GA, USA)
** David Poythress, politician (aged 73; Cartersville, GA, USA)
** Dale Smith, rodeo performer (aged 88; Stanfield, AZ, USA)
** Jimmy Snuka, Fijian-born professional wrestler (aged 73; Coral Springs, FL, USA)
** Greg Trooper, singer-songwriter and musician (aged 61; NY, USA)
* January 16
** Gene Cernan, aviator and astronaut (aged 82; Houston, TX, USA)
** William A. Hilliard, journalist (aged 89; Portland, OR, USA)
** Dan O'Brien Sr., baseball executive (aged 87; Dallas, TX, USA)
** Phyllis Harrison-Ross, psychiatrist (aged 80; New York City, NY, USA)
** Charles "Bobo" Shaw, jazz drummer (aged 69; St. Louis, MO, USA)
** Steve Wright, rock bassist (aged 67; Sacramento, CA, USA)
* January 17
** Brenda C. Barnes, business executive (aged 63; Naperville, IL, USA)
** Tirrel Burton, football player, coach, and broadcaster (aged 87; Ann Arbor, MI, USA)
** David P. Buckson, attorney, lawyer, politician, and 63rd Governor of Delaware (aged 96; Milford, DE, USA)
** Colo, western gorilla (aged 60; Powell, OH, USA)
** Kenneth McNenny, rancher and politician (aged 81; Belle Fourche, SD, USA)
** Gene Olaff, soccer player (aged 96; Florence, NJ, USA)
** Robert Timlin, federal judge (aged 84; Santa Barbara, CA, USA)
* January 18
** Red Adams, baseball player, scout, and coach (aged 95; Fresno, CA, USA)
** Yuji Ijiri, Japanese-born accounting academic (aged 81; Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
** Lucy Killea, politician (aged 94; San Diego, CA, USA)
** William Margold, pornographic film actor and director (aged 73; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Lawrence S. Margolis, federal judge (aged 81; Olney, MD, USA)
** Harry Minor, baseball player, manager, and scout (aged 88; Long Beach, CA, USA)
** Roberta Peters, coloratura soprano (aged 86; Rye, NY, USA)
** Dick Starr, baseball player (aged 95; Kittanning, PA, USA)
* January 19
** Wayne Barrett, journalist (aged 71; Manhattan, NY, USA)
** Miguel Ferrer, actor (aged 61; Santa Monica, CA, USA)
** Craig Howard, football player and coach (aged 64; Ashland, OR, USA)
** Edwin Pope, journalist (aged 88; Okeechobee, FL, USA)
** Walt Streuli, baseball player (aged 81; Greensboro, NC, USA)
** James S. Vlasto, public servant (aged 82; Manhattan, NY, USA)
* January 20
** Jack August, historian (aged 63; Phoenix, AZ, USA)
** Bill Fischer, football player (aged 89; Cape Coral, FL, USA)
** Michael Goldberg, sports executive (aged 73; Hartford, CT, USA)
** Alec Devon Kreider, convicted murderer (aged 25; Cumberland County, PA, USA)
** Charles Liteky, military chaplain and peace activist (aged 85; San Francisco, CA, USA)
** Harry J. Middleton, writer and library director (aged 95; Austin, TX, USA)
** Joey Powers, singer-songwriter (aged 82; Washington, PA, USA)
** Chuck Stewart, jazz photographer (aged 89; Teaneck, NJ, USA)
** Tommy Tate, soul singer and songwriter (aged 71; Jackson, MS, USA)
* January 21
** Byron Dobell, editor and writer (aged 89; New York City, NY, USA)
** Karl Hendricks, singer, songwriter and guitarist (aged 47; Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
** José de Jesús Madera Uribe, Roman Catholic prelate (aged 89; San Francisco, CA, USA)
** Walter "Junie" Morrison, Hall of Fame musician and record producer (aged 62; London, England, UK)
** William Albert Norris, judge (aged 89; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Maggie Roche, singer-songwriter (aged 65; Detroit, MI, USA)
** Ken Wright, baseball player (aged 70; Warrington, FL, USA)
* January 22 – Evelyn Kawamoto, swimmer (aged 83; Honolulu, HI, USA)
* January 23
** J. S. G. Boggs, artist (aged 62; Tampa, FL, USA)
** Earl Foreman, lawyer and sports executive (aged 92; Chevy Chase, MD, USA)
** Bobby Freeman, singer and songwriter (aged 76; San Francisco, CA, USA)
** Ralph Guglielmi, football player (aged 83; Wallace, NC, USA)
** Leon Katz, playwright (aged 97; Encino, CA, USA)
** Bernard Redmont, journalist (aged 98; Canton, MA, USA)
** Anatol Roshko, physicist and engineer (aged 93; Altadena, CA, USA)
** Ruth Samuelson, politician (aged 57; Charlotte, NC, USA)
** Marvell Thomas, keyboardist (aged 75; Memphis, TN, USA)
** Mary Webster, actress (aged 81; Dallas, TX, USA)
* January 24
** Chuck Canfield, businessman and politician (aged 84; Rochester, MN, USA)
** Robert Folsom, politician (aged 89; Dallas, TX, USA)
** Martin Nicholas Lohmuller, Roman Catholic prelate (aged 97; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
** Gil Ray, drummer (aged 60; Charlotte, NC, USA)
** Butch Trucks, drummer (aged 69; West Palm Beach, FL, USA)
** Chuck Weyant, racecar driver (aged 93; Springfield, IL, USA)
* January 25
** William Lacy Carter, politician (aged 91; Chattanooga, TN, USA)
** Ann Dandrow, politician (aged 80; Hartford, CT, USA)
** Robert Garcia, politician (aged 84; San Juan, PR, USA)
** Kevin Geer, actor (aged 64; Manhattan, NY, USA)
** John Hurt, English actor (aged 77; Cromer, England, UK)
** Harry Mathews, novelist and poet (aged 86; Key West, FL, USA)
** Jack Mendelsohn, cartoonist and screenwriter (aged 90; Brooklyn, NY, USA)
** Mary Tyler Moore, actress (aged 80; Greenwich, CT, USA)
* January 26
** Mike Connors, actor (aged 91; Tarzana, CA, USA)
** Hal Geer, producer and filmmaker (aged 100; Simi Valley, CA, USA)
** Barbara Hale, actress (aged 94; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Leonard Linkow, dentist and pioneer in oral implantology (aged 90; New York City, NY, USA)
** Charles Recher, artist (aged 66; Miami Beach, FL, USA)
* January 27
** Stan Boreson, comedian and television host (aged 91; Seattle, WA, USA)
** Bob Bowman, baseball player (aged 86; San Jose, CA, USA)
** Gwen Gillen, sculptor and artist (aged 76; Madison, WI, USA)
** Bob Holiday, actor (aged 84; Hawley, PA, USA)
** Robert Ellis Miller, film director (aged 89; Woodland Hills, CA, USA)
** Arthur H. Rosenfeld, physicist (aged 90; Berkeley, CA, USA)
** Charles Shackleford, basketball player (aged 50; Kinston, NC, USA)
** Jack Thrasher, immunotoxicologist (aged 79; Long Beach, CA, USA)
* January 28
** Guitar Gable, blues musician (aged 79; Opelousas, LA, USA)
** Charles LeMaistre, academic administrator (aged 92; Houston, TX, USA)
** John N. Mather, mathematician (aged 74; Princeton, NJ, USA)
** Bharati Mukherjee, Indian-born writer and academic (aged 76; New York City, NY, USA)
** Sterling Newberry, inventor (aged 101; Springfield, MO, USA)
** Anthony J. Perpich, politician (aged 84; Shoreview, MN, USA)
** Richard Portman, sound mixer (aged 82; Tallahassee, FL, USA)
** William Schwarzer, federal judge (aged 91; San Rafael, CA, USA)
** Dan Spiegle, comic book artist (aged 96; Cosmopolis, WA, USA)
** Stuart Timmons, gay historian and activist (aged 60; Hollywood, CA, USA)
* January 29
** Howard Frank Mosher, author (aged 74; Irasburg, VT, USA)
** William Owens, Navy SEAL soldier (aged Al Bayda Governorate, Yemen)
** Leonard H. Perroots, military officer (aged 83; Lake Ridge, VA, USA)
** Elliot Sperling, historian (aged 66; Queens, NY, USA)
* January 30
** Dore Ashton, writer and critic (aged 88; New York City, NY, USA)
** Marta Becket, dancer (aged 92; Death Valley Junction, CA, USA)
** Don Coleman, football player (aged 88; Ponca City, OK, USA)
** Carmen Contreras-Bozak, World War II veteran and the first Hispanic member of the Women's Army Corps (aged 97; Land o' Lakes, FL, USA)
** Doris Lockness, aviation pioneer (aged 106; Folsom, CA, USA)
** Harold Rosen, electrical engineer (aged 90; Pacific Palisades, CA, USA)
* January 31
** Thomas Barlow, politician (aged 76; Paducah, KY, USA)
** Trice Harvey, politician (aged 80; Bakersfield, CA, USA)
** Frank Pellegrino, actor and restaurateur (aged 72; Manhattan, NY, USA)
** David Shepard, film preservationist (aged 76; Medford, OR, USA)
** Bobby Watson, basketball player (aged 86; Owensboro, KY, USA)
===February===
* February 1
** Anne Arrasmith, artist and curator (aged 70; Birmingham, AL, USA)
** Mark Brownson, baseball player (aged 41; Wellington, FL, USA)
** William Melvin Kelley, novelist (aged 79; Manhattan, NY, USA)
** Carter Manny, architect (aged 98; San Rafael, CA, USA)
** Edward Tipper, World War II veteran (aged 95; Lakewood, CO, USA)
** David Peter Battaglia, politician and educator (aged 86; Duluth, MN, USA)
* February 2
** Alvin Baldus, politician (aged 90; Menomonie, WI, USA)
** Tom Drake, wrestler and politician (aged 86; Cullman, AL, USA)
** John Hilton, football player (aged 74; Richmond, VA, USA)
** George Maderos, football player (aged 83; Chico, CA, USA)
** Perry McGriff, football player and politician (aged 79; Gainesville, FL, USA)
** Jeff Sauer, ice hockey coach (aged 73; Madison, WI, USA)
** Seymour Jonathan Singer, cell biologist (aged 92; La Jolla, CA, USA)
* February 3
** Marjorie Corcoran, particle physicist (aged 67; Houston, TX, USA)
** Anthony French, English-born physicist (aged 96; Cambridge, MA, USA)
** Joseph Green, academic and theatre producer (aged 83; Toronto, ON, Canada)
** John M. Hayes, geochemist (aged 76; Berkeley, CA, USA)
** Benny Perrin, football player (aged 57; Decatur, AL, USA)
** Don Trousdell, artist (aged 80; Neark, NJ, USA)
* February 4
** John Howes, professor of Asian studies (aged 92; Richmond, BC, Canada)
** Marc Spitz, writer and music journalist (aged 47; New York City, NY, USA)
* February 5
** David Axelrod, arranger, composer and producer (aged 85; Burbank, CA, USA)
** Ray Christensen, sportscaster (aged 92; Rosemount, MN, USA)
** Sonny Geraci, singer (aged 70; Cleveland, OH, USA)
** Thomas Lux, poet (aged 70; Atlanta, GA, USA)
* February 6
** Irwin Corey, comedian (aged 102; Manhattan, NY, USA)
** Marc Drogin, writer and illustrator (aged 80; Portsmouth, NH, USA)
** Neil Gehrels, astronomer (aged 64; Berwyn Heights, MD, USA)
** Stan Jones, politician (aged 67; Indianapolis, IN, USA)
** Raymond Smullyan, mathematician and philosopher (aged 97; Hudson, NY, USA)
** Christine Dolce, MySpace celebrity and cosmetologist (aged 35; Huntington Beach, CA, USA)
* February 7
** Pat Beard, politician (aged 69; St. Paul, MN, USA)
** Richard Hatch, actor (aged 71; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Sidney H. Liebson, scientist (aged 96; Stamford, CT, USA)
* February 8
** Richard DuFour, educational researcher (aged 69; Forest, VA, USA)
** Arthur Hyman, academic (aged 96; New York City, NY, USA)
* February 9
** Marcel Dandeneau, politician (aged 85; Caledonia, WI, USA)
** Barbara Gelb, biographer, playwright and journalist (aged 91; Manhattan, NY, USA)
** Packy, Asian elephant (aged 54; Portland, OR, USA)
** Warren Unna, journalist (aged 93; Mitchellville, MD, USA)
* February 10
** Roger Boas, politician (aged 95; San Francisco, CA, USA)
** Albert Boscov, businessman (aged 87; Reading, PA, USA)
** Edward Bryant, science fiction and horror writer (aged 71; Denver, CO, USA)
** H. R. Crawford, real estate developer and politician (aged 78; Washington, DC, USA)
** Maxine Grimm, religious figure (aged 102; Tooele, UT, USA)
** Mike Ilitch, businessman (aged 87; Detroit, MI, USA)
** Dahlov Ipcar, painter and author (aged 99; Brunswick, ME, USA)
** Hal Moore, lieutenant general and author (aged 94; Auburn, AL, USA)
** Royal Delta, racehorse (aged 9; KY, USA)
* February 11
** Bruno A. Boley, Italian-born engineer (aged 92; New York City, NY, USA)
** Jeremy Geathers, arena football player (aged 30; Las Vegas, NV, USA)
** Chavo Guerrero Sr., professional wrestler (aged 68; El Paso, TX, USA)
** Harvey Lichtenstein, arts administrator (aged 87; New York City, NY, USA)
* February 12
** Dave Adolph, football coach (aged 79; Dublin, OH, USA)
** Jay Bontatibus, actor (aged 52; Santa Monica, CA, USA)
** Barbara Carroll, jazz pianist (aged 92; Manhattan, NY, USA)
** Al Jarreau, jazz and R&B singer (aged 76; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Quentin Moses, football player (aged 33; Monroe, GA, USA)
** Clint Roberts, politician (aged 82; Pierre, SD, USA)
* February 13
** Stacy Bromberg, darts player (aged 60; Las Vegas, NV, USA)
** Melvin Defleur, mass communications scholar (aged 93; Baton Rouge, LA, USA)
** Bruce Lansbury, British-born television producer and screenwriter (aged 87; La Quinta, CA, USA)
** Lucky Pulpit, racehorse (aged 16; Coalinga, CA, USA)
** Darrell K. Smith, football player (aged 55; Atlanta, GA, USA)
* February 14
** Joseph Neal, politician (aged 66; Columbia, SC, USA)
** Loren Wiseman, game designer (aged 65; Austin, TX, USA)
* February 15
** E-Dubble, rap artist (aged 34; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
** Rich Ingold, arena football player and coach (aged 53; Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
* February 16
** George Steele, professional wrestler and actor (aged 79; Cocoa Beach, FL, USA)
** Duke Washington, football player (aged 83; Pasco, WA, USA)
* February 17
** Charles L. Bartlett, journalist (aged 95; Washington, DC, USA)
** Nicole Bass, bodybuilder, professional wrestler and actress (aged 52; New York City, NY, USA)
** Warren Frost, actor (aged 91; Middlebury, VT, USA)
** Theodore J. Lowi, political scientist (aged 85; Ithaca, NY, USA)
** Robert H. Michel, politician (aged 93; Arlington, VA, USA)
** Leonard Myers, football player (aged 38; Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA)
** Michael Novak, Roman Catholic theologian (aged 83; Washington, DC, USA)
** Tom Regan, philosopher and animal rights advocate (aged 78; NC, USA)
** Andrew Schneider, journalist (aged 74; Salt Lake City, UT, USA)
** Jerome Tuccille, writer and activist (aged 79; Severna Park, MD, USA)
** Magnus Wenninger, mathematician (aged 97; Collegeville, MN, USA)
* February 18
** Nick Dupree, disability rights activist (aged 34; New York City, NY, USA)
** Tom Larson, politician (aged 69; Bloomer, WI, USA)
** Norma McCorvey, political activist, plaintiff in U.S. Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade (aged 69; Katy, TX, USA)
** Richard Schickel, film critic (aged 84; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Lawrence F. Snowden, military officer (aged 95; Tallahassee, FL, USA)
** Clyde Stubblefield, drummer (aged 73; Madison, WI, USA)
* February 19
** Charismatic, racehorse (aged 20; Lexington, KY, USA)
** Larry Coryell, jazz guitarist (aged 73; New York City, NY, USA)
** Karla M. Gray, judge (aged 69; Helena, MT, USA)
** Darryl Hammond, arena football player (aged 49; Nashville, TN, USA)
** John S. Wold, politician (aged 100; Casper, WY, USA)
** Marilyn B. Young, historian (aged 79; NY, USA)
** Richard J. Coffee, politician (aged 92; Plainsboro, NJ, USA)
* February 20
** Ilene Berns, record executive (aged 73; Miami, FL, USA)
** Brenda Buttner, news correspondent (aged 55; Ridgewood, NJ, USA)
** Mildred Dresselhaus, nanotechnologist (aged 86; Cambridge, MA, USA)
** Jamie Fox, politician and political strategist (aged 62; Camden, NJ, USA)
* February 21
** Kenneth Arrow, economist (aged 95; Palo Alto, CA, USA)
** Douglas Coe, evangelical leader (aged 88; Annapolis, MD, USA)
** Edwin Kessler, atmospheric scientist (aged 88; Cedar Park, TX, USA)
** Stanisław Skrowaczewski, Polish-born conductor and composer (aged 93; St. Louis Park, MN, USA)
* February 22
** Ed Garvey, labor attorney (aged 76; Verona, WI, USA)
** J. Karl Hedrick, mechanical engineer (aged 72; Berkeley, CA, USA)
** Ralph A. Loveys, politician (aged 87; West Palm Beach, FL, USA)
* February 23
** Ward Chamberlin, public broadcasting executive (aged 95; Bedford, MA, USA)
** Alan Colmes, political commentator (aged 66; New York City, NY, USA)
** Bernie Custis, CFL player (aged 88; Burlington, ON, Canada)
** David Keightley, sinologist (aged 84; Berkeley, CA, USA)
** Leon Ware, musician, record producer, and songwriter (aged 77; Marina del Rey, CA, USA)
* February 24
** Daryl, magician (aged 61; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Ronald T. Halverson, religious leader and politician (aged 80; Ogden, UT, USA)
** Fred Oldfield, painter (aged 98; Federal Way, WA, USA)
* February 25
** Scott Lew, screenwriter (aged 48; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Eric Miller, record producer (aged 75; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Bill Paxton, actor (aged 61; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Chez Pazienza, journalist, author and television producer (aged 47; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Jack Pope, judge, attorney and author (aged 103; Austin, TX, USA)
** Dorothy P. Rice, economist (aged 94; Oakland, CA, USA)
** Boaz Vaadia, Israeli-born sculptor (aged 65; New York City, NY, USA)
* February 26
** Jay Cronley, writer (aged 73; Tulsa, OK, USA)
** Eugene Garfield, linguist (aged 91; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
** Ned Garver, baseball pitcher (aged 91; Bryan, OH, USA)
** Sunny Hale, polo player (aged 48; Norman, OK, USA)
** Joseph Wapner, judge and television personality (aged 97; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* February 27 – John Harlan, radio and television personality (aged 91; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* February 28
** Spencer Hays, art collector (aged 80; New York City, NY, USA)
** Marian Javits, arts patron (aged 92; New York City, NY, USA)
** Paul Kangas, broadcaster (aged 79; Miami, FL, USA)
** Ric Marlow, songwriter (aged 91; Palm Springs, CA, USA)
** Joseph A. Panuska, educator (aged 89; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
** Dave Rosenfield, baseball manager (aged 87; Norfolk, VA, USA)
===March===
* March 1
** Paula Fox, author (aged 93; New York City, NY, USA)
** Richard Karron, actor (aged 82; Wilmington, NC, USA)
** Shirley Palesh, baseball player (aged 87; Wausau, WI, USA)
** Wally Pikal, musician and entertainer (aged 90; Litchfield, MN, USA)
** Michael M. Ryan, actor (aged 87; Kansas City, MO, USA)
* March 2
** Howard Schmidt, cybersecurity advisor (aged 67; Muskego, WI, USA)
** John D. Schneider, lawyer and politician (aged 80; Warson Woods, MO, USA)
* March 3
** Míriam Colón, Puerto Rican actress (aged 80; New York City, NY, USA)
** Tommy Page, singer-songwriter (aged 49; East Stroudsburg, PA, USA)
** Lyle Ritz, musician (aged 87; Portland, OR, USA)
** Joe Rogers, businessman, co-founder of Waffle House (aged 97; Atlanta, GA, USA)
** Stephen Ross, economist (aged 73; Old Lyme, CT, USA)
* March 4
** Lawrence Holofcener, American-British sculptor, writer, actor, and director (aged 91; West Palm Beach, FL, USA)
** Eugene N. Kozloff, marine biologist and botanist (aged 96; Anacortes, WA, USA)
** Helen M. Marshall, politician (aged 87; Palm Desert, CA, USA)
** Thomas Collier Platt Jr., federal judge (aged 91; North Branford, CT, USA)
** Thomas Starzl, surgeon and researcher (aged 90; Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
** Clayton Yeutter, secretary of agriculture (aged 86; Potomac, MD, USA)
* March 5
** Anthony Beilenson, politician (aged 84; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Florence S. Jacobsen, Mormon leader and missionary (aged 103; Salt Lake City, UT, USA)
** Jay Lynch, underground comics artist, writer, and editor (aged 72; Candor, NY, USA)
** Burke Day, politician (aged 62; Tybee Island, GA, USA)
* March 6
** Bill Hougland, basketball player (aged 86; Lawrence, KS, USA)
** Robert Osborne, film historian and television host (aged 84; New York City, NY, USA)
* March 7
** Helen Sommers, politician (aged 84; Palm Beach Gardens, FL, USA)
** Lynne Stewart, defense attorney and convicted criminal (aged 77; Brooklyn, NY, USA)
** Ron Bass, wrestler (aged 68; Tampa, FL, USA)
* March 8
** George Andrew Olah, Hungarian-born Nobel chemist (aged 89; Beverly Hills, CA, USA)
** Dave Valentin, jazz flautist (aged 64; Bronx, NY, USA)
* March 9
** Bobby Byrne, cinematographer (aged 85; Queens, NY, USA)
** Bill Hands, baseball player (aged 76; Orlando, FL, USA)
** Peter Karoff, philanthropist (aged 79; Santa Barbara, CA, USA)
* March 10
** Bob Altman, comedian (aged 85; NJ, USA)
** Carol Field, writer and librarian (aged 76; San Francisco, CA, USA)
** Joni Sledge, singer and songwriter (aged 60; Phoenix, AZ, USA)
* March 13
** Kika de la Garza, politician (aged 89; McAllen, TX, USA)
** Amy Krouse Rosenthal, author (aged 51; Chicago, IL, USA)
* March 14
** Rebecca Bace, computer scientist (aged 61; Birmingham, AL, USA)
** Lillie Mae Bradford, civil rights activist (aged 88; Montgomery, AL, USA)
** Bob Bruce, baseball player (aged 83; Plano, TX, USA)
** Thomas H. Friedkin, businessman (aged 81; Manhattan, NY, USA)
** Jack H. Harris, film producer (aged 98; Beverly Hills, CA, USA)
** Royal Robbins, rock climber (aged 82; Modesto, CA, USA)
** John Van de Kamp, politician (aged 81; Pasadena, CA, USA)
** John Wheatcroft, writer and teacher (aged 91; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
* March 16 – James Cotton, blues artist (aged 81; Austin, TX, USA)
* March 17
** Auntie Fee, YouTube personality (aged 59; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Lawrence Montaigne, actor, writer, dancer, and stuntman (aged 86; Henderson, NV, USA)
* March 18
** Tom Amberry, podiatrist (aged 94; Long Beach, CA, USA)
** Chuck Berry, musician (aged 90; Wentzville, MO, USA)
** Bernie Wrightson, comic artist (aged 68; Austin, TX, USA)
* March 19 – Jimmy Breslin, journalist and author (aged 88; New York City, NY, USA)
* March 20
** Andy Coan, swimmer (aged 59; Boca Raton, FL, USA)
** Edward Joseph McManus, politician (aged 97; Cedar Rapids, IA, USA)
** Chandler Robbins, ornithologist (aged 98; Columbia, MD, USA)
** David Rockefeller, banker (aged 101; Pocantico Hills, NY, USA)
** Edgar Smith, convicted murderer (aged 83; Vacaville, CA, USA)
* March 21 – Chuck Barris, game show creator, producer, and host (aged 87; Palisades, NY, USA)
* March 22
** Sib Hashian, drummer (aged 67; Nassau, Bahamas)
** Tomas Milian, Cuban-American actor (aged 84; Miami, FL, USA)
* March 23
** Lola Albright, singer and actress (aged 92; Toluca Lake, CA, USA)
** William H. Keeler, cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (aged 86; Catonsville, MD, USA)
* March 25 – J. Allen Adams, politician and lawyer (aged 85; Raleigh, NC, USA)
* March 26
** Jimmy Dotson, blues singer (aged 83; Houston, TX, USA)
** Darlene Cates, actress (aged 69; Forney, TX, USA)
* March 27 – Chelsea Brown, actress (aged 74; Chicago, IL, USA)
* March 28
** Deane R. Hinton, diplomat and ambassador (aged 94; San Jose, Costa Rica)
** William McPherson, writer and journalist (aged 84; Washington, DC, USA)
** Bill Minor, journalist (aged 94; Jackson, MS, USA)
* March 29
** Alexei Abrikosov, Russian-American theoretical physicist (aged 88; Palo Alto, CA, USA)
** John Collias, western artist (aged 98; Boise, ID, USA)
** Wayne Duke, collegiate athletic executive (aged 88; Iowa City, IA, USA)
** Steen Miles, politician (aged 70; Decatur, GA, USA)
** Linwood Sexton, football player (aged 90; Wichita, KS, USA)
** Katherine Smith, Navajo activist (aged 98; Black Mesa, AZ, USA)
** Ken Sparks, football coach and player (aged 73; Knoxville, TN, USA)
* March 30
** Richard Bustillo, martial arts instructor (aged 75; Torrance, CA, USA)
** Rosie Hamlin, singer (aged 71; Belen, NM, USA)
** Donald Harvey, serial killer (aged 64; Toledo, OH, USA)
** Robert Mahoney, politician (aged 95; East Lansing, MI, USA)
** Alfred C. Marble Jr., Episcopal prelate (aged 80; Greensboro, NC, USA)
** Hattie Peterson, baseball player (aged 86; Mount Norris, IL, USA)
* March 31
** Richard Nelson Bolles, writer (aged 90; Danville, CA, USA)
** William Thaddeus Coleman Jr., Secretary of Transportation (aged 96; Alexandria, VA, USA)
** Jerrier A. Haddad, computer engineer (aged 94; Tupper Lake, NY, USA)
** James Hadnot, football player (aged 59; Lubbock, TX, USA)
** James Clinkscales Hill, jurist (aged 93; Stuart, FL, USA)
** Radley Metzger, pornographic filmmaker (aged 88; New York City, NY, USA)
** Amy Ridenour, conservative political activist (aged 57; Glen Burnie, MD, USA)
** James Rosenquist, artist (aged 83; New York City, NY, USA)
===April===
* April 1
** Sharon Ambrose, politician, member of the Council of the District of Columbia (aged 77; Washington, DC, USA)
** Gary Austin, theatre writer and director (aged 75; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Lonnie Brooks, blues guitarist and singer (aged 83; Chicago, IL, USA)
** Bob Cunningham, jazz bassist (aged 82; NY, USA)
** Frederick Bernard Lacey, jurist (aged 96; Naples, FL, USA)
** Louis Sarno, musicologist and author (aged 62; Teaneck, NJ, USA)
** Burton Watson, translator (aged 91; Kamagaya, Japan)
* April 2
** Sam Ard, racecar driver (aged 78; SC, USA)
** Ken Donnelly, politician (aged 66; Arlington, MA, USA)
** Rhubarb Jones, country disc jockey and professional wrestling ring announcer (aged 65; Haralson County, GA, USA)
** Hate Man, writer (aged 80; Berkeley, CA, USA)
** Leonard Litwin, real estate developer (aged 102; Melville, NY, USA)
** Gerard Washnitzer, mathematician (aged 91; Scotch Plains, NJ, USA)
* April 3
** Abraham S. Fischler, academic (aged 89; Hollywood, FL, USA)
** John T. Knox, politician and lawyer (aged 92; Richmond, CA, USA)
** Enrico Quarantelli, sociologist (aged 92; Bear, DE, USA)
** Roy Sievers, baseball player (aged 90; Spanish Lake, MO, USA)
** Thomas Tackaberry, military officer (aged 93; Fayetteville, NC, USA)
** Gary W. Thomas, judge (aged 79; Marin County, CA, USA)
** William Walaska, politician and senator (aged 71; Warwick, RI, USA)
* April 4
** Tobias Barry, politician (aged 92; LaSalle, IL, USA)
** George Mostow, mathematician (aged 93; Hamden, CT, USA)
* April 5
** Arthur Bisguier, chess grandmaster and writer (aged 87; Framingham, MA, USA)
** John Chittick, HIV/AIDS activist (aged 69; Ifalik, Micronesia)
** David Gove, ice hockey player and coach (aged 38; Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
** Paul O'Neill, producer, composer and songwriter (aged 61; Tampa, FL, USA)
** George Snyder, politician and businessman (aged 88; Boone, NC, USA)
* April 6
** Frank Attkisson, politician (aged 61; St. Cloud, FL, USA)
** Bob Cerv, baseball player (aged 91; Blair, NE, USA)
** Don Rickles, comedian (aged 90; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Hugh Montgomery, diplomat and intelligence officer (aged 93; McLean, VA, USA)
** Clyde See, politician and lawyer (aged 75; Moorefield, WV, USA)
* April 7
** Derrick Jensen, football player (aged 60; Panama City Beach, FL, USA)
** Patricia McKissack, children's writer (aged 72; Bridgeton, MO, USA)
** Glenn O'Brien, journalist and editor (aged 70; Manhattan, NY, USA)
** Craig Payne, boxer (aged 55; Livonia, MI, USA)
** Ben Speer, musician (aged 86; Nashville, TN, USA)
* April 8
** Alicia Appleman-Jurman, Polish-born Israeli-American memoirist (aged 86; San Jose, CA, USA)
** Stephen Caracappa, NYPD police detective and organized crime operative (aged 75; Butner, NC, USA)
** Eugene Lang, philanthropist (aged 98; New York City, NY, USA)
** Kim Plainfield, jazz drummer (aged 63; Tomkins Cove, NY, USA)
** Donald Sarason, mathematician (aged 84; Berkeley, CA, USA)
* April 9
** Richard Kenneth Fox, diplomat (aged 91; Arlington, VA, USA)
** Peter Hansen, actor (aged 95; Tarzana, CA, USA)
** Harry Huskey, computer scientist (aged 101; Santa Cruz, CA, USA)
** Bob Wootton, country guitarist (aged 75; Gallatin, TN, USA)
** Jean Worthley, naturalist and television presenter (aged 92; Finksburg, MD, USA)
* April 10 – Linda Hopkins, actress and singer (aged 92; Milwaukee, WI, USA)
* April 11 – J. Geils, musician (aged 71; Groton, MA, USA)
* April 12 – Charlie Murphy, actor, comedian, voice artist and writer (aged 57; New York City, NY, USA)
* April 13
** Vic Barnhart, baseball player (aged 94; Hagerstown, MD, USA)
** Dennis Edwards Jr., judge (aged 95; New York City, NY, USA)
** Daniel Guice, politician (aged 92; Biloxi, MS, USA)
** Robert Marta, film camera operator (aged 73; Bozeman, MT, USA)
** Dan Rooney, football executive and diplomat, Ambassador to Ireland (aged 84; Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
** Robert Taylor, computer scientist (aged 85; Woodside, CA, USA)
* April 14
** Robert H. Abel, author (aged 75; Hadley, MA, USA)
** John Thomas Curtin, jurist (aged 95; Buffalo, NY, USA)
** Henry Hillman, venture capitalist and philanthropist (aged 98; Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
** Bruce Langhorne, folk musician (aged 78; Venice, CA, USA)
** Hugh Pitts, football player (aged 83; Brenham, TX, USA)
** Patti Smith, politician (aged 70; Corbett, OR, USA)
* April 15
** Allan Holdsworth, British guitarist and composer (aged 70; Vista, CA, USA)
** Matt Holt, singer (aged 39; Frederick, MD, USA)
** Clifton James, actor (aged 96; Gladstone, OR, USA)
** Sylvia Moy, singer-songwriter (aged 78; Dearborn, MI, USA)
* April 17
** Robert B. Hibbs, Episcopal prelate (aged 84; San Antonio, TX, USA)
** Dawson Mathis, politician (aged 76; Tifton, GA, USA)
** John T. Noonan Jr., judge (aged 90; Berkeley, CA, USA)
** Trish Vradenburg, screenwriter (aged 70; Washington, DC, USA)
* April 18
** Vic Albury, baseball player (aged 69; Tampa, FL, USA)
** Bill Anderson, football player (aged 80; Knoxville, TN, USA)
** David Ball, Episcopal prelate (aged 90; Loudonville, NY, USA)
** David Chandler, physical chemist (aged 72; Berkeley, CA, USA)
** Raymond Han, painter (aged 85; NY, USA)
** Barkley L. Hendricks, painter (aged 72; New London, CT, USA)
** Dorrance Hill Hamilton, philanthropist (aged 88; Boca Grande, FL, USA)
** Jaak Panksepp, Estonian-born neuroscientist (aged 73; Bowling Green, OH, USA)
** David H. Rodgers, politician (aged 93; Spokane, WA, USA)
** J. C. Spink, producer (aged 45; West Hollywood, CA, USA)
* April 19 – Aaron Hernandez, Former Tight End for the New England Patriots, Convicted Murderer (aged 27; Leominster, MA, USA)
* April 20 – Cuba Gooding Sr., soul singer (aged 72; Woodland Hills, CA, USA)
* April 21
** Carl Christ, economist (aged 93; Baltimore, MD, USA)
** Maria Zhorella Fedorova, Austrian-born opera singer and teacher (aged 101; Manhattan, NY, USA)
** Sandy Gallin, talent agent and producer (aged 76; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** John Grinold, college athletic director (aged 81; Brighton, MA, USA)
** Kristine Jepson, mezzo-soprano (aged 54; New York City, NY, USA)
** Robert H. Shaffer, academic (aged 101; New Smyrna Beach, FL, USA)
* April 22
** Hector Acebes, photographer (aged 96; Bogotá, Colombia)
** Hubert Dreyfus, philosopher (aged 87; Berkeley, CA, USA)
** William Hjortsberg, novelist and screenwriter (aged 76; Livingston, MT, USA)
** Jess Kersey, basketball official (aged 76; Williamsburg, VA, USA)
** Alvin H. Kukuk, politician (aged 79; Baton Rouge, LA, USA)
** Erin Moran, actress (aged 56; New Salibury, IN, USA)
** R. Cooper White Jr., politician (aged 90; Simpsonville, SC, USA)
* April 23
** Jaynne Bittner, baseball player (aged 91; Ann Arbor, MI, USA)
** Anne Pippin Burnett, classics scholar (aged 91; Kingston, ON, Canada)
** Kathleen Crowley, actress (aged 87; Green Bank, NJ, USA)
** Ana Delfosse, Chilean-born race-car driver and mechanic (aged 86; San Diego, CA, USA)
** Kate O'Beirne, political columnist, editor and commentator (aged 67; Washington, DC, USA)
** Ken Sears, basketball player (aged 83; Watsonville, CA, USA)
* April 24 – Don Gordon, actor (aged 90; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* April 26
** Jonathan Demme, film director (aged 73; New York City, NY, USA)
** Tom Forkner, businessman and lawyer (aged 98; Suwanee, GA, USA)
** Andrew G. Frommelt, politician (aged 95; Dubuque, IA, USA)
** James Knoll Gardner, jurist (aged 76; Emmaus, PA, USA)
** Robert Hilder, jurist (aged 67; Salt Lake City, UT, USA)
** Chet Kalm, artist (aged 91; Great Barrington, MA, USA)
** Dennis Karjala, law professor (aged 77; Scottsdale, AZ, USA)
** William L. Kirk, air force general (aged 84; Niceville, FL, USA)
** Daniel Francis Merriam, geologist (aged 90; Lawrence, KS, USA)
** Harold Van Heuvelen, composer and teacher (aged 98; Kalamazoo, MI, USA)
* April 28
** Joanna Brouk, electronic musician and composer (aged 68; St. Louis, MO, USA)
** Mariano Gagnon, missionary (aged 87; Lima, Peru)
** Richard Haynes, lawyer (aged 90; Livingston, TX, USA)
** Janelle Kirtley, water skier (aged 73; Quinton, AL, USA)
** Billy Scott, race car driver (aged 68; Charlotte, NC, USA)
** John Shifflett, jazz musician (aged 64; San Jose, CA, USA)
** Patrick Thaddeus, astronomer (aged 84; Cambridge, MA, USA)
* April 29 – William M. Hoffman, playwright and editor (aged 78; Bronx, NY, USA)
* April 30
** Anna Lee Carroll, actress (aged 86; Birmingham, AL, USA)
** Lorna Gray, actress (aged 99; Sherman Oaks, CA, USA)
** Howard Hart, CIA officer (aged 76; Dyke, VA, USA)
** Preston Henn, entrepreneur (aged 86; Hillsboro Beach, FL, USA)
** Jack Imel, entertainer (aged 84; Springville, CA, USA)
** Ray Kogovsek, politician (aged 75; Pueblo, CO, USA)
** Tam Spiva, screenwriter (aged 84; Pacific Palisades, CA, USA)
** Jean Stein, author and editor (aged 83; New York City, NY, USA)
===May===
* May 1
** Richard Basciano, real estate developer (aged 91; New York City, NY, USA)
** Bruce Hampton, guitarist (aged 70; Atlanta, GA, USA)
** Alice Langtry, politician (aged 84; Barrington, IL, USA)
** Mike Lowry, politician; Governor of Washington from 1993 to 1997 (aged 78; Olympia, WA, USA)
** Sam Mele, baseball player and manager (aged 95; Quincy, MA, USA)
** Janet Pilgrim, model (aged 82; Norwalk, CT, USA)
** Stanley Weston, toy inventor (aged 84; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* May 2
** Anne Morrissy Merick, journalist (aged 83; Naples, FL, USA)
** George Hugh Niederauer, Roman Catholic prelate (aged 80; San Rafael, CA, USA)
** T. Gary Rogers, business executive (aged 74; Oakland, CA, USA)
** Leo K. Thorsness, U.S. Air Force colonel and politician (aged 85; St. Augustine, FL, USA)
* May 3
** Alma W. Byrd, politician (aged 93; Columbia, SC, USA)
** Paul Hanneman, politician (aged 80; Portland, OR, USA)
** Charles Hoffer, music educator (aged 87; Gainesville, FL, USA)
** Casey Jones, blues drummer (aged 77; Chicago, IL, USA)
** Irene Smart, politician and judge (aged 96; OH, USA)
* May 4
** William Baumol, economist (aged 95; New York City, NY, USA)
** Jay Carty, basketball player (aged 75; Santa Barbara, CA, USA)
** William A. Davis Jr., engineer (aged 89; Huntsville, AL, USA)
** C. Jackson Grayson, businessman and FBI agent (aged 93; Houston, TX, USA)
** Glenna Sue Kidd, baseball player (aged 83; Van Buren County, AR, USA)
** Richard Pennington, police officer (aged 70; Atlanta, GA, USA)
** Edwin Sherin, theatre, film, and television director (aged 87; Lockeport, NS, Canada)
** R. Lee Wrights, politician, activist, and political consultant (aged 58; Winston-Salem, NC, USA)
* May 5
** Adolph Kiefer, 1936 Olympic swimming gold medalist (aged 98; Wadsworth, IL, USA)
** Quinn O'Hara, Scottish-born actress and nurse (aged 76; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Michael Zwack, artist (aged 67; New York City, NY, USA)
* May 6
** Richard Battey, federal judge (aged 87; Alexandria, MN, USA)
** Steven Holcomb, Olympic medalist in bobsledding (aged 37; Lake Placid, NY, USA)
** Peter Kivy, musicologist (aged 82; New York City, NY, USA)
** John Schultz, writer (aged 84; Chicago, IL, USA)
** Jack Tilton, art dealer (aged 66; Littleton, NH, USA)
* May 7
** Peter T. Flawn, geologist (aged 91; Austin, TX, USA)
** Bob Mimm, racewalker (aged 92; Willingboro, NJ, USA)
** Rod Monroe, football player (aged 40; Houston, TX, USA)
** Chuck Orsborn, basketball player and coach and university athletic director (aged 99; Naples, FL, USA)
** Dave Pell, jazz saxophonist and bandleader (aged 92; Brooklyn, NY, USA)
** Lee Weissenborn, politician (aged 88; Palmetto Bay, FL, USA)
* May 8
** Dennis H. Farber, painter and photographer (aged 71; Baltimore, MD, USA)
** George Irvine, basketball player and coach (aged 69; Seattle, WA, USA)
** Curt Lowens, German-born actor and Holocaust survivor (aged 91; Beverly Hills, CA, USA)
** Allan H. Meltzer, economist (aged 89; Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
** Judith Stein, historian (aged 77; New York City, NY, USA)
** James S. Sutterlin, author, academic, and diplomat (aged 95; Larchmont, NY, USA)
** Clarence Williams, football player (aged 70; Cincinnati, OH, USA)
* May 9
** Christopher Boykin, reality television personality (aged 45; Plano, TX, USA)
** John Kivela, politician (aged 47; Lansing, MI, USA)
** Michael Parks, actor and singer (aged 77; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Wilburn K. Ross, U.S. Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient (aged 94; Tacoma, WA, USA)
** Edward Lunn Young, politician (aged 96; Florence, SC, USA)
* May 10
** Joy Byers, songwriter (aged 82; Memphis, TN, USA)
** Greg Forristall, politician (aged 67; Omaha, NE, USA)
** Douglas Netter, television producer and executive (aged 95; Seattle, WA, USA)
* May 11
** William David Brohn, music arranger (aged 84; New Haven, CT, USA)
** Seaborn Buckalew Jr., lawyer and judge (aged 96; Anchorage, AK, USA)
** John F. Donahue, businessman (aged 92; Naples, FL, USA)
** Yale Lary, football player, businessman, and politician (aged 86; Fort Worth, TX, USA)
** Charles A. McClenahan, politician (aged 76; Wilmington, NC, USA)
* May 12
** Bill Dowdy, jazz drummer (aged 84; Battle Creek, MI, USA)
** Michael Jackson, football player (aged 48; Tangipahoa, LA, USA)
** Sally Jacobsen, journalist and editor (aged 70; Sleepy Hollow, NY, USA)
** Henri Termeer, Dutch-born biotechnology executive (aged 71; Marblehead, MA, USA)
** George A. Thompson, geologist (aged 97; Palo Alto, CA, USA)
** Simon Vega, educator and businessman (aged 81; Los Fresnos, TX, USA)
* May 13
** Ron Bontemps, basketball player and Olympic gold medalist (aged 90; Peoria, IL, USA)
** John Cygan, comedian, actor, and voice artist (aged 63; Woodland Hills, CA, USA)
** Thomas H. Paterniti, dentist and politician (aged 88; Edison, NJ, USA)
** Len Rohde, football player (aged 79; Santa Clara, CA, USA)
* May 14
** Powers Boothe, actor (aged 68; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Frank Brian, basketball player (aged 94; Zachary, LA, USA)
** Bill Cox, football player (aged 88; Sarasota, FL, USA)
** Thomas Vose Daily, Roman Catholic prelate (aged 89; Queens, NY, USA)
** Chuck Davis, dancer and choreographer (aged 80; Durham, NC, USA)
** Jean Fritz, children's author (aged 101; Sleepy Hollow, NY, USA)
** Brad Grey, film and television producer (aged 59; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Steve Palermo, American League umpire and shooting survivor (aged 67; Overland Park, KS, USA)
* May 17
** Roxcy Bolton, feminist and women's rights activist (aged 90; Coral Gables, FL, USA)
** Firuz Kazemzadeh, Russian-born historian (aged 92; CA, USA)
** David A Ramey, artist (aged 78; Roanoke, VA, USA)
** Unusual Heat, Thoroughbred racehorse (aged 27; CA, USA)
* May 18
** Roger Ailes, television executive, CEO of Fox News (aged 77; Palm Beach, FL, USA)
** Chris Cornell, musician, singer, and songwriter (aged 52; Detroit, MI, USA)
** Jacque Fresco, futurist and social engineer (aged 101; Sebring, FL, USA)
** Jim McElreath, race car driver (aged 89; Arlington, TX, USA)
** Erwin Potts, business executive (aged 85; Cabo San Lucas, Mexico)
* May 19
** Donald Avenson, politician (aged 72; North Platte, NE, USA)
** Chana Bloch, poet and translator (aged 77; Berkeley, CA, USA)
** Rich Buckler, comic book artist (aged 68; Hollywood, CA, USA)
** Grady C. Cothen, Baptist minister and university president (aged 96; Ridgeland, MS, USA)
** Herbert L. Meschke, politician and judge (aged 89; Minot, ND, USA)
** Ed Mierkowicz, baseball player (aged 93; Bloomfield Hills, MI, USA)
** Wayne Walker, football player and sportscaster (aged 80; Boise, ID, USA)
* May 20
** Joy Corning, politician; Lieutenant Governor of Iowa from 1991 to 1999 (aged 84; Des Moines, IA, USA)
** William Clifford Newman, Roman Catholic prelate (aged 88; Timonium, MD, USA)
** Jean E. Sammet, computer scientist (aged 89; Silver Spring, MD, USA)
** Lisa Spoonauer, actress (aged 44; Jackson Township, NJ, USA)
* May 21
** Kenny Cordray, rock guitarist and songwriter (aged 62; Nassau Bay, TX, USA)
** Jimmy LaFave, country and folk musician (aged 61; Austin, TX, USA)
** Wayne Simoneau, politician (aged 82; Blaine, MN, USA)
** Larry Wright, cartoonist (aged 77; Detroit, MI, USA)
* May 22
** Barbara Smith Conrad, operatic mezzo-soprano (aged 79; Edison, NJ, USA)
** Devil His Due, Thoroughbred racehorse (aged 28; Midway, KY, USA)
** Nicky Hayden, motorcycle racer (aged 35; Cesena, Italy)
** Dina Merrill, actress, socialite, and philanthropist (aged 93; East Hampton, NY, USA)
** Mickey Roker, jazz drummer (aged 84; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
* May 23
** Roger Boesche, political theorist (aged 69; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** William Carney, politician; U.S. Representative from New York from 1979 to 1987 (aged 74; Washington, DC, USA)
** Ben Finney, anthropologist and historian (aged 83; Honolulu, HI, USA)
** Cortez Kennedy, football player (aged 48; Orlando, FL, USA)
** Peter Lawler, academic and political consultant (aged 65; Rome, GA, USA)
** Jerry Perenchio, billionaire businessman and philanthropist (aged 86; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Sonny Randle, football player, coach, and sportscaster (aged 81; Harrisonburg, VA, USA)
* May 24
** Ann Birstein, novelist, memoirist, and blogger (aged 89; New York City, NY, USA)
** Denis Johnson, novelist, poet, and playwright (aged 67; Gualala, CA, USA)
** Jared Martin, actor (aged 75; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
** Ross Rhoads, evangelical pastor (aged 84; Charlotte, NC, USA)
** Sonny West, actor and stuntman (aged 78; Hendersonville, TN, USA)
* May 25
** Marie Cosindas, photographer (aged 93; Boston, MA, USA)
** Miguel Méndez, legal scholar (aged 74; San Carlos, CA, USA)
** Joel Read, Roman Catholic nun and college president (aged 91; Milwaukee, WI, USA)
** Saucy Sylvia, Canadian-born comedian and pianist (aged 96; Newport, RI, USA)
* May 26
** Zbigniew Brzezinski, Polish-born diplomat and political scientist (aged 89; Falls Church, VA, USA)
** Jim Bunning, baseball pitcher and politician; U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1999 to 2011 (aged 85; Edgewood, KY, USA)
** Robert Curtis, basketball player (aged 27; Victorville, CA, USA)
** Robert J. Parins, judge and football executive (aged 98; Hobart, WI, USA)
* May 27
** Gregg Allman, singer, songwriter, and musician (aged 69; Richmond Hill, GA, USA)
** Fishel Hershkowitz, Czech-born Hasidic rabbi (aged 94; Brooklyn, NY, USA)
** Robert McCarley, psychiatrist and sleep researcher (aged 79; Newton, MA, USA)
* May 28
** Ken Ackerman, radio announcer and news anchor (aged 95; Sacramento, CA, USA)
** Frank Deford, sportswriter and novelist (aged 78; Key West, FL, USA)
** Lawrence Jenkins, World War II pilot and memoirist (aged 93; Battle Creek, MI, USA)
** Benjamin Melendez, gang leader (aged 65; New York City, NY, USA)
** Pat Mullins, politician (aged 79; Hanover County, VA, USA)
* May 30
** Wendell Burton, actor and television executive (aged 69; Houston, TX, USA)
** Ken Cooper, football player and coach (aged 80; Skidaway Island, GA, USA)
** Tom Graham, football player (aged 67; Denver, CO, USA)
** Daniel Kucera, Roman Catholic prelate (aged 94; Dubuque, IA, USA)
** Robert Michael Morris, actor (aged 77; Downey, CA, USA)
** Elena Verdugo, actress (aged 92; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* May 31
** Tino Insana, actor, screenwriter, and film producer (aged 69; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Fred J. Koenekamp, cinematographer (aged 94; Bonita Springs, FL, USA)
** Fred Kummerow, German-born biochemist and centenarian (aged 102; Urbana, IL, USA)
** John May, politician (aged 67; Louisburg, NC, USA)
===June===
* June 1
** Jack McCloskey, basketball player, coach, and executive (aged 91; Savannah, GA, USA)
** Charles Simmons, author (aged 92; Manhattan, NY, USA)
* June 2
** Gordon Christian, ice hockey player (aged 89; Warroad, MN, USA)
** Iakovos Garmatis, Greek-born Eastern Orthodox metropolitan (aged 89; Chicago, IL, USA)
** Jack O'Neill, businessman (aged 94; Santa Cruz, CA, USA)
** Herm Starrette, baseball player (aged 80; Statesville, NC, USA)
* June 3
** David Choby, Roman Catholic prelate (aged 70; Nashville, TN, USA)
** Sara Ehrman, political activist (aged 98; Washington, DC, USA)
** James E. Martin, educator and university president (aged 84; Auburn, AL, USA)
** Jimmy Piersall, baseball player (aged 87; Wheaton, IL, USA)
** Lawrence Weed, physician and educator (aged 93; Underhill, VT, USA)
* June 4
** Thomas C. Perry, businessman and politician (aged 76; Akron, NY, USA)
** Roger Smith, actor, producer, and screenwriter (aged 84; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Jack Trout, business and marketing theorist (aged 82; Old Greenwich, CT, USA)
* June 5
** Kathryn Stripling Byer, poet (aged 72; Cullowhee, NC, USA)
** Victor Gold, journalist and political consultant (aged 88; VA, USA)
** Marilyn Hall, Canadian-born television and theatre producer (aged 90; CA, USA)
** William Krisel, Chinese-born architect (aged 92; Beverly Hills, CA, USA)
** Rita Riggs, costume designer (aged 86; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* June 6
** John Bower, skier (aged 76; Park City, UT, USA)
** Earl Lestz, film and television executive (aged 78; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Walter Noll, German-born mathematician (aged 92; Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
* June 7
** James Hardy, football player (aged 31; Fort Wayne, IN, USA)
** Holy Bull, Thoroughbred racehorse (aged 26; Lexington, KY, USA)
** Robert S. Leiken, political scientist (aged 78; Boston, MA, USA)
** Patsy Terrell, politician (aged 55; Topeka, KS, USA)
* June 8
** Ervin A. Gonzalez, lawyer (aged 57; Coral Gables, FL, USA)
** Glenne Headly, actress (aged 62; Santa Monica, CA, USA)
** Norro Wilson, country musician, songwriter, and producer (aged 79; Nashville, TN, USA)
* June 9
** Vic Edelbrock Jr., businessman (aged 80; Rolling Hills, CA, USA)
** Grace Berg Schaible, lawyer and politician (aged 91; Fairbanks, AK, USA)
** Adam West, actor (aged 88; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** John C. Yoder, judge and politician (aged 66; Harpers Ferry, WV, USA)
* June 10
** Herma Hill Kay, law professor and academic administrator (aged 82; San Francisco, CA, USA)
** Jerry Nelson, astronomer (aged 73; Santa Cruz, CA, USA)
** Samuel V. Wilson, U.S. Army general; Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency 1976–77 (aged 93; Rice, VA, USA)
* June 11
** Herman T. Costello, politician (aged 96; Burlington, NJ, USA)
** David Fromkin, lawyer and historian (aged 84; New York City, NY, USA)
** Rosalie Sorrels, folk singer-songwriter (aged 83; Reno, NV, USA)
* June 12
** Morton N. Cohen, author and literary scholar (aged 96; Manhattan, NY, USA)
** David W. Frank, thespian and educator (aged 67; West Roxbury, MA, USA)
** Jim Galton, business executive (aged 92; Naples, FL, USA)
** Philip Gossett, musicologist (aged 75; Chicago, IL, USA)
** Marvin Herman Shoob, U.S. federal judge (aged 94; Atlanta, GA, USA)
* June 13
** A. R. Gurney, playwright and novelist (aged 86; New York City, NY, USA)
** Hansel, Thoroughbred racehorse (aged 29; KY, USA)
* June 14
** Arthur J. Jackson, U.S. Marine Corps officer and Medal of Honor recipient (aged 92; Boise, ID, USA)
** Don Matthews, football player and CFL coach (aged 77; Beaverton, OR, USA)
* June 15
** David L. Armstrong, politician (aged 75; Louisville, KY, USA)
** Bill Dana, comedian, actor, and screenwriter (aged 92; Nashville, TN, USA)
** Phyllis A. Kravitch, federal judge (aged 96; Atlanta, GA, USA)
* June 16
** John G. Avildsen, film director (aged 81; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Stephen Furst, actor and film and television director (aged 63; Moorpark, CA, USA)
** Curt Hanson, politician (aged 73; Fairfield, IA, USA)
* June 17
** Elias Burstein, physicist (aged 99; Bryn Mawr, PA, USA)
** Gailanne Cariddi, politician (aged 63; Boston, MA, USA)
** Larry Grantham, football player (aged 78; Jackson, MS, USA)
** Thara Memory, jazz trumpeter (aged 68; Portland, OR, USA)
** Venus Ramey, Miss America winner, farmer, and activist (aged 92; Agoura Hills, CA, USA)
* June 18
** Hans Breder, German-born artist and educator (aged 81; Iowa City, IA, USA)
** Tony Liscio, football player (aged 76; Dallas, TX, USA)
** Chris Murrell, jazz and gospel singer (aged 60; Winston-Salem, NC, USA)
** Simon Nelson, mass murderer (aged 85; Springfield, IL, USA)
* June 19
** Tony DiCicco, soccer player and coach (aged 68; Wethersfield, CT, USA)
** Otto Warmbier, college student and North Korea detainee (aged 22; Cincinnati, OH, USA)
* June 20
** Roger D. Abrahams, folklorist (aged 84; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
** Prodigy, rapper (aged 42; Las Vegas, NV, USA)
* June 21
** Belton Richard, Cajun accordionist (aged 77; LA, USA)
** Robert M. Shoemaker, U.S. Army general (aged 93; Harker Heights, TX, USA)
** Howard Witt, actor (aged 85; Chicago, IL, USA)
* June 22
** Richard Benson, photographer, printer, and educator (aged 73; Providence, RI, USA)
** Frank Kush, football player and coach (aged 88; Phoenix, AZ, USA)
** Keith Loneker, football player and actor (aged 46; Lawrence, KS, USA)
** Sheila Michaels, feminist and civil rights activist (aged 78; New York City, NY, USA)
** John R. Quinn, Roman Catholic prelate (aged 88; San Francisco, CA, USA)
** John E. Sarno, physician and writer (aged 93; Danbury, CT, USA)
** Sandy Tatum, attorney and golf administrator (aged 96; San Francisco, CA, USA)
* June 23
** Gabe Pressman, television journalist (aged 93; Manhattan, NY, USA)
** Meir Zlotowitz, Orthodox Jewish rabbi, author, and translator (aged 73; Brooklyn, NY, USA)
* June 24
** Loren Janes, stuntman (aged 85; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Parker Lee McDonald, judge (aged 93; Tallahassee, FL, USA)
* June 25
** Hal Fryar, actor and television personality (aged 90; Bradenton, FL, USA)
** Skip Homeier, actor (aged 86; Indian Wells, CA, USA)
* June 26 – Doug Peterson, yacht designer (aged 71; San Diego, CA, USA)
* June 27
** Geri Allen, jazz pianist, composer, and educator (aged 60; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
** Peter L. Berger, sociologist and theologian (aged 88; Brookline, MA, USA)
** Better Talk Now, Thoroughbred racehorse (aged 18; KY, USA)
** Tom Corcoran, alpine skier (aged 85; Seabrook Island, SC, USA)
** Mary Blagg Huey, educator and college president (aged 95; Denton, TX, USA)
** Anthony Young, baseball pitcher (aged 51; Houston, TX, USA)
* June 28
** Russ Adams, tennis photographer (aged 86; Newport, RI, USA)
** Phil Cohran, jazz trumpeter (aged 90; Chicago, IL, USA)
* June 29
** Chuck Renslow, businessman and LGBT activist (aged 87; Chicago, IL, USA)
** Michael Vickery, historian (aged 86; Battambang Province, Cambodia)
* June 30
** Mitchell Henry, football player (aged 24; Elizabethtown, KY, USA)
** Darrall Imhoff, basketball player (aged 78; Bend, OR, USA)
** Max Runager, football player (aged 61; Orangeburg, SC, USA)
===July===
* July 1
** Norman Dorsen, jurist and civil rights activist (aged 86; Manhattan, NY, USA)
** Paul Hardin III, academic administrator (aged 86; Chapel Hill, NC, USA)
** Stevie Ryan, actress (aged 33; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* July 2
** Jack Collom, poet (aged 85; Boulder, CO, USA)
** David W. Vincent, baseball writer and statistician (aged 67; Centreville, VA, USA)
* July 3
** Spencer Johnson, self-help writer (aged 78; San Diego, CA, USA)
** Theodore Kanavas, politician (aged 56; Milwaukee, WI, USA)
* July 4
** John Blackwell, jazz and funk drummer (aged 43; Land o' Lakes, FL, USA)
** Gene Conley, baseball and basketball player (aged 86; Foxborough, MA, USA)
** Ji-Tu Cumbuka, actor (aged 77; Atlanta, GA, USA)
** John S. Palmore, judge (aged 99; Frankfort, KY, USA)
** David Yewdall, sound editor (aged 66; Winston-Salem, NC, USA)
* July 5 – Tinners Way, Thoroughbred racehorse (aged 27; Georgetown, KY, USA)
* July 6
** Willie Stevenson Glanton, lawyer and politician (aged 95; Des Moines, IA, USA)
** Joan Boocock Lee, British-born voice actress (aged 95; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** William Morva, convicted murderer (aged 35; Jarratt, VA, USA)
* July 7
** Claude Hall, journalist and magazine editor (aged 84; Las Vegas, NV, USA)
** Diego E. Hernández, U.S. Navy officer (aged 83; Miami Lakes, FL, USA)
** Kenneth Silverman, biographer (aged 81; Manhattan, NY, USA)
* July 8
** Nelsan Ellis, actor (aged 39; New York City, NY, USA)
** Bob Lubbers, comics artist (aged 95; Manhasset, NY, USA)
* July 9
** Wally Burr, voice actor and television director (aged 93; Sherman Oaks, CA, USA)
** Ed Crawford, football player (aged 82; Tupelo, MS, USA)
** Neal Patterson, business executive (aged 67; Kansas City, MO, USA)
** Jack Shaheen, cultural critic (aged 81; Charleston, SC, USA)
** David Wilstein, real estate developer and philanthropist (aged 89; Beverly Hills, CA, USA)
* July 10
** Peter Alfond, billionaire investor and philanthropist (aged 65; West Palm Beach, FL, USA)
** Jim Bush, track and field coach (aged 90; Culver City, CA, USA)
* July 11 – Joseph Fire Crow, Cheyenne flutist (aged 58; Winsted, CT, USA)
* July 12
** Chuck Blazer, soccer administrator (aged 72; NJ, USA)
** S. Allen Counter, neuroscientist, polar explorer, and university administrator (aged 73; Cambridge, PA, USA)
** Sam Glanzman, comics artist and writer (aged 92; Maryland, NY, USA)
* July 13
** Charles Bachman, computer scientist (aged 92; Lexington, MA, USA)
** Keith Baird, Barbadian-born educator and linguist (aged 94; Atlanta, GA, USA)
** Gertrude Poe, journalist and lawyer (aged 101; Ashton, MD, USA)
** Carl E. Reichardt, banking executive (aged 86; Belvedere, CA, USA)
* July 14
** Mahi Beamer, singer, composer, and dancer (aged 88; Honolulu, HI, USA)
** Wm. Theodore de Bary, sinologist (aged 97; Tappan, NY, USA)
** William "Hootie" Johnson, banker and golf administrator (aged 86; Columbia, SC, USA)
* July 15
** Warrick L. Carter, music educator and college administrator (aged 75; Sanford, FL, USA)
** Martin Landau, actor (aged 89; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Babe Parilli, football player (aged 87; Parker, CO, USA)
** Bob Wolff, sportscaster (aged 96; South Nyack, NY, USA)
* July 16
** Jerry Bird, basketball player (aged 83; Corbin, KY, USA)
** Tom Mitchell, football player (aged 72; Cape Coral, FL, USA)
** Clancy Sigal, writer (aged 90; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* July 17
** Evan Helmuth, actor (aged 40; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Raymond Sackler, physician and philanthropist (aged 97; Greenwich, CT, USA)
* July 18
** Ben's Cat, Thoroughbred racehorse (aged 11; MD, USA)
** Jean Murrell Capers, judge and centenarian (aged 104; Cleveland, OH, USA)
** Herbert Needleman, pediatrician and psychiatrist (aged 89; Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
** Andrew Paulson, writer, photographer, and entrepreneur (aged 58; London, England, UK)
** John Rheinecker, baseball player (aged 38; St. Louis, MO, USA)
** Red West, actor, stunt performer, and songwriter (aged 81; Memphis, TN, USA)
* July 19
** Jake Butcher, banker and politician (aged 81; Atlanta, GA, USA)
** Charles Weston Houck, federal judge (aged 84; Charleston, SC, USA)
** Ralph Regula, U.S. Representative from Ohio (aged 92; Bethlehem Township, OH, USA)
** Fenwick Smith, classical flutist (aged 68; Boston, MA, USA)
* July 20
** Chester Bennington, rock singer and songwriter (aged 41; Palos Verdes Estates, CA, USA)
** Jesse Kalisher, art photographer (aged 55; Chapel Hill, NC, USA)
** Kenneth Jay Lane, jewelry designer and socialite (aged 85; New York City, NY, USA)
** Joseph Rago, political writer and journalist (aged 34; Manhattan, NY, USA)
** Jonathan Shurberg, lawyer and politician (aged 54; Silver Spring, MD, USA)
* July 21
** Howard Eichenbaum, psychologist and neuroscientist (aged 69; Boston, MA, USA)
** John Heard, actor (aged 71; Palo Alto, CA, USA)
** Lonnie "Bo" Pilgrim, businessman (aged 89; Pittsburg, TX, USA)
** Stubbs, cat and honorary mayor (aged 20; Talkeetna, AK, USA)
* July 22
** Margo Chase, graphic designer (aged 59; Apple Valley, CA, USA)
** Haddon Robinson, evangelical author and seminary leader (aged 86; Willow Street, PA, USA)
** Jim Vance, television news anchor (aged 75; Washington, DC, USA)
* July 23
** Dave Cogdill, politician (aged 66; Modesto, CA, USA)
** Bob DeMoss, football player and coach (aged 90; West Lafayette, IN, USA)
** Thomas Fleming, historian and novelist (aged 90; New York City, NY, USA)
** John Kundla, basketball coach (aged 101; Minneapolis, MN, USA)
** Snooty, manatee (aged 69; Bradenton, FL, USA)
** Flo Steinberg, comics publisher (aged 78; New York City, NY, USA)
* July 25
** Gretel Bergmann, German-born high jumper (aged 103; Queens, NY, USA)
** Marian Diamond, neuroscientist (aged 90; Oakland, CA, USA)
** Buddy Fletcher, politician (aged 84; Lakeland, FL, USA)
** Michael Johnson, singer-songwriter (aged 72; Minneapolis, MN, USA)
** Barbara Sinatra, model and showgirl (aged 90; Rancho Mirage, CA, USA)
** Lyle Smith, football and basketball player and coach (aged 101; Boise, ID, USA)
** Billy Joe Walker Jr., country and New Age guitarist, songwriter, and record producer (aged 65; Kerrville, TX, USA)
* July 26
** Cool "Disco" Dan, graffiti artist (aged 47; Washington, DC, USA)
** Patti Deutsch, actress and comedian (aged 73; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** June Foray, voice actress (aged 99; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Lawrence Pezzullo, diplomat (aged 91; Baltimore, MD, USA)
** Ronald Phillips, convicted murderer (aged 43; Lucasville, OH, USA)
* July 27
** Cheri Maples, police officer, peace activist, and dharma instructor (aged 64; Madison, WI, USA)
** D. L. Menard, Cajun musician (aged 85; Scott, LA, USA)
** Sam Shepard, playwright, actor, screenwriter, and director (aged 73; Midway, KY, USA)
** Marty Sklar, Disney imagineer (aged 83; Hollywood Hills, CA, USA)
* July 28
** John G. Morris, photo editor (aged 100; Paris, France)
** Warren Keith Urbom, federal judge (aged 91; Lincoln, NE, USA)
* July 29
** Dave Grayson, football player (aged 78; Alameda, CA, USA)
** Lee May, baseball player (aged 74; Cincinnati, OH, USA)
** Piotr S. Wandycz, Polish-born historian (aged 93; New Haven, CT, USA)
* July 30 – Steadman Upham, archaeologist and university president (aged 68; Tulsa, OK, USA)
* July 31
** Ray Albright, banker and politician (aged 83; Chattanooga, TN, USA)
** Chuck Loeb, jazz guitarist (aged 61; Nyack, NY, USA)
** Michael O'Nan, mathematician (aged 74; Princeton, NJ, USA)
===August===
* August 1
** Jeffrey Brotman, attorney and entrepreneur (aged 74; Medina, WA, USA)
** Mariann Mayberry, actress (aged 52; Simsbury, CT, USA)
** Bud Moore, racing driver (aged 75; Hollywood, SC, USA)
** John Reaves, football player (aged 67; Tampa, FL, USA)
* August 2
** Marshall Goldman, economist (aged 87; Cambridge, MA, USA)
** Judith Jones, book editor and food writer (aged 93; Walden, VT, USA)
** Daniel Licht, film composer (aged 60; Topanga, CA, USA)
** Jim Marrs, journalist and conspiracy theorist (aged 73; Springtown, TX, USA)
** Ara Parseghian, football player and coach (aged 94; Granger, IN, USA)
* August 3
** Richard Dudman, journalist (aged 99; Blue Hill, ME, USA)
** Ty Hardin, actor (aged 87; Huntington Beach, CA, USA)
** Dickie Hemric, basketball player (aged 83; North Canton, OH, USA)
** Alan Peckolick, graphic designer (aged 76; Danbury, CT, USA)
* August 4
** Walter Levin, German-born violinist and music teacher (aged 92; Chicago, IL, USA)
** Jessy Serrata, Tejano singer and musician (aged 63; Knox City, TX, USA)
* August 5
** George Bundy Smith, lawyer and judge (aged 80; Harlem, NY, USA)
** Mark White, lawyer and politician; 43rd Governor of Texas (aged 77; Houston, TX, USA)
* August 6
** Darren Daulton, baseball player (aged 55; Clearwater, FL, USA)
** Dick Locher, cartoonist (aged 88; Naperville, IL, USA)
** Daniel McKinnon, ice hockey player and Olympic silver medalist (aged 90; Warroad, MN, USA)
* August 7
** Don Baylor, baseball player and manager (aged 68; Austin, TX, USA)
** Chantek, hybrid orangutan (aged 39; Atlanta, GA, USA)
** David Maslanka, composer (aged 73; MT, USA)
** Patsy Ticer, politician (aged 82; Alexandria, VA, USA)
* August 8
** Glen Campbell, country singer-songwriter and guitarist (aged 81; Nashville, TN, USA)
** Barbara Cook, musical theatre singer and actress (aged 89; New York City, NY, USA)
** Max De Pree, businessman and motivational writer (aged 92; Holland, MI, USA)
** Arlene Gottfried, photographer (aged 66; New York City, NY, USA)
** Ken Kaiser, American League umpire (aged 72; Rochester, NY, USA)
** Dick MacPherson, football coach (aged 86; Syracuse, NY, USA)
** Cathleen Synge Morawetz, Canadian-born mathematician (aged 94; New York City, NY, USA)
* August 9
** Al McCandless, politician; U.S. Representative from California (1983–1995) (aged 90; La Quinta, CA, USA)
** Robert Joseph Shaheen, Maronite Catholic bishop (aged 80; St. Louis, MO, USA)
** Janie Shores, Supreme Court of Alabama justice (aged 85; Fairhope, AL, USA)
* August 11 – Neil Chayet, lawyer and radio personality (aged 78; Salem, MA, USA)
* August 12 – John F. Russo, politician (aged 84; Toms River, NJ, USA)
* August 13
** Joseph Bologna, actor (aged 82; Duarte, CA, USA)
** Nick Mantis, basketball player (aged 81; Schererville, IN, USA)
* August 14
** Frank Broyles, football player and coach (aged 92; Fayetteville, AR, USA)
** Franklin Cleckley, law professor and judge (aged 77; Morgantown, WV, USA)
** Benard Ighner, jazz singer and musician (aged 72; Houston, TX, USA)
* August 15
** Vern Ehlers, politician; U.S. Representative from Michigan (1993–2011) (aged 83; Grand Rapids, MI, USA)
** Kasatka, killer whale (aged 41; San Diego, CA, USA)
* August 16
** Tom Hawkins, basketball player (aged 80; Malibu, CA, USA)
** Ross Johnson, politician and lawyer (aged 77; Sacramento, CA, USA)
** Lester Williams, football player (aged 58; Birmingham, AL, USA)
* August 17
** Francis X. DiLorenzo, Roman Catholic prelate (aged 75; Richmond, VA, USA)
** Sonny Landham, actor and stunt performer (aged 76; Lexington, KY, USA)
** M. T. Liggett, folk sculptor (aged 86; Wichita, KS, USA)
* August 18
** Sonny Burgess, rockabilly singer and guitarist (aged 88; Little Rock, AR, USA)
** Arthur J. Finkelstein, political consultant (aged 72; Ipswich, MA, USA)
** Venero Mangano, mobster (aged 95; New York City, NY, USA)
* August 19
** Charles R. Bentley, glaciologist and geophysicist (aged 87; Oakland, CA, USA)
** Janusz Głowacki, Polish-born playwright and screenwriter (aged 78; Egypt)
** Dick Gregory, comedian and civil rights activist (aged 84; Washington, DC, USA)
** Jorge Rodriguez-Chomat, Cuban-born politician and judge (aged 72; Miami, FL, USA)
** Ed Sharockman, football player (aged 77; Woodbury, MN, USA)
** Bea Wain, jazz singer (aged 100; Beverly Hills, CA, USA)
* August 20
** Fredell Lack, classical violinist (aged 95; Houston, TX, USA)
** Jerry Lewis, comedian, actor, filmmaker, and humanitarian (aged 91; Las Vegas, NV, USA)
** Shane Sieg, racing driver (aged 34; Tucker, GA, USA)
* August 21
** Dianne de Las Casas, Philippine-born writer and storyteller (aged 47; Harvey, LA, USA)
** Greg Evers, politician (aged 62; Okaloosa County, FL, USA)
** Thomas Meehan, playwright and screenwriter (aged 88; New York City, NY, USA)
** Don Nichols, motorsport team owner (aged 92; Marina, CA, USA)
** Felo Ramírez, Cuban-born sportscaster (aged 94; Miami, FL, USA)
* August 22
** John Abercrombie, jazz guitarist (aged 72; Cortlandt Manor, NY, USA)
** Thomas W. Blackwell, politician (aged 58; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
** Jim Whelan, politician (aged 68; Atlantic City, NJ, USA)
* August 23
** George A. Keyworth II, nuclear physicist (aged 77; Monterey, CA, USA)
** Joe Klein, baseball executive (aged 75; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
** Jack Rosenthal, journalist and editor (aged 82; New York City, NY, USA)
** Susan Vreeland, novelist (aged 71; San Diego, CA, USA)
* August 24
** Cecil Andrus, politician; 26th and 28th Governor of Idaho (aged 85; Boise, ID, USA)
** Thomas Docking, lawyer and politician (aged 63; Wichita, KS, USA)
** Charlie Robertson, politician (aged 83; York, PA, USA)
** Jay Thomas, actor and talk radio host (aged 69; Santa Barbara, CA, USA)
* August 25
** Margaret Moser, journalist and music critic (aged 63; San Antonio, TX, USA)
** Rich Piana, bodybuilder (aged 46; Clearwater, FL, USA)
* August 26
** Tobe Hooper, film director, screenwriter and producer (aged 74; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Howard Kaminsky, publisher, novelist, and film producer (aged 77; Manhattan, NY, USA)
** Bernard Pomerance, playwright and poet (aged 76; Galisteo, NM, USA)
** Lacey Putney, politician (aged 89; Goode, VA, USA)
* August 27
** James Dickson Phillips Jr., federal judge (aged 94; Chapel Hill, NC, USA)
** Syd Silverman, magazine publisher (aged 85; Boca Raton, FL, USA)
* August 28
** Bobby Boyd, football player (aged 79; Garland, TX, USA)
** Jud Heathcote, basketball coach (aged 90; Spokane, WA, USA)
** David Torrence, Peruvian-American runner (aged 31; Scottsdale, AZ, USA)
* August 29 – Larry Elgart, jazz saxophonist and bandleader (aged 95; Longboat Key, FL, USA)
* August 30
** Peter Diamondstone, lawyer and politician (aged 82; Dummerston, VT, USA)
** Louise Hay, motivational author and publisher (aged 90; San Diego, CA, USA)
** Rollie Massimino, basketball player and coach (aged 82; West Palm Beach, FL, USA)
** Tim Mickelson, rower and Olympic silver medalist (aged 68; Woodinville, WA, USA)
* August 31
** Richard Anderson, actor (aged 91; Beverly Hills, CA, USA)
** William Beik, historian (aged 76; Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
** Novella Nelson, actress and singer (aged 77; Brooklyn, NY, USA)
===September===
* September 1
** Shelley Berman, comedian, actor and writer (aged 92; Bell Canyon, CA, USA)
** Jackie Burkett, football player (aged 80; Fort Walton Beach, FL, USA)
** Bud George, politician (aged 89; Houtzdale, PA, USA)
** Elizabeth Kemp, actress (aged 65; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Paul Moreno, politician (aged 86; El Paso, TX, USA)
** Paul Schaal, baseball player (aged 74; Waikoloa, HI, USA)
* September 2
** Halim El-Dabh, Egyptian-born composer, musician, and ethnomusicologist (aged 96; Kent, OH, USA)
** Murray Lerner, documentary filmmaker (aged 90; New York City, NY, USA)
** Michael Simanowitz, politician (aged 46; Queens, NY, USA)
** Lucky Varela, politician (aged 82; Santa Fe, NM, USA)
** Drew Wahlroos, football player (aged 37; San Diego, CA, USA)
* September 3
** John Ashbery, poet (aged 90; Hudson, NY, USA)
** Walter Becker, jazz-rock musician, songwriter, and record producer (aged 67; Manhattan, NY, USA)
** John Byrne Cooke, bluegrass musician, novelist, and photographer (aged 76; Jackson, WY, USA)
** Dave Hlubek, rock guitarist and songwriter (aged 66; Jacksonville, FL, USA)
** John P. White, government official (aged 80; Great Falls, VA, USA)
* September 4
** Bob Kehoe, soccer player and coach (aged 89; St. Louis, MO, USA)
** John Wilson Lewis, political scientist and sinologist (aged 86; Stanford, CA, USA)
** Harry Meshel, politician (aged 93; Youngstown, OH, USA)
* September 5
** Nicolaas Bloembergen, Dutch-born physicist (aged 97; Tucson, AZ, USA)
** Gina Mason, politician (aged 57; Lisbon Falls, ME, USA)
** Gin D. Wong, Chinese-born architect (aged 94; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Tom Wright, baseball player (aged 93; Shelby, NC, USA)
* September 6
** Daniel Federman, medical educator (aged 89; Boston, MA, USA)
** Walter Guralnick, dentist and centenarian (aged 100; Boston, MA, USA)
** Jim McDaniels, basketball player (aged 69; Bowling Green, KY, USA)
** Kate Millett, feminist writer, activist, and artist (aged 82; Paris, France)
** Lotfi A. Zadeh, Azerbaijani-born mathematician (aged 96; Berkeley, CA, USA)
* September 7
** Jeremiah Goodman, painter and illustrator (aged 94; New York City, NY, USA)
** Mark P. Mahon, politician (aged 87; Bloomington, MN, USA)
** Gene Michael, baseball player, manager, and executive (aged 79; Oldsmar, FL, USA)
** Charles Owens, football player and golfer (aged 85; Winter Haven, FL, USA)
* September 8
** Isabelle Daniels, sprinter and Olympic bronze medalist (aged 80; Nashville, TN, USA)
** A. Joseph DeNucci, boxer and politician (aged 78; Newton, MA, USA)
** Blake Heron, actor (aged 35; La Crescenta-Montrose, CA, USA)
** Daniel McNeill, politician (aged 70; Bethlehem, PA, USA)
** Jerry Pournelle, science fiction writer and journalist (aged 84; Studio City, CA, USA)
** Don Williams, country singer, musician, and songwriter (aged 78; Mobile, AL, USA)
* September 9
** Jim Donohue, baseball player (aged 79; St. Louis, MO, USA)
** Michael Friedman, composer and lyricist (aged 41; Manhattan, NY, USA)
** Oscar E. Huber, politician (aged 100; Bowdle, SD, USA)
* September 10
** Xavier Atencio, animator and Disney imagineer (aged 98; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Nancy Dupree, historian (aged 89; Kabul, Afghanistan)
** Don Ohlmeyer, television producer and network executive (aged 72; Indian Wells, CA, USA)
** Len Wein, comics writer and editor (aged 69; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* September 11
** Mel Didier, baseball scout (aged 91; Phoenix, AZ, USA)
** Mark LaMura, actor (aged 68; New York City, NY, USA)
* September 12
** Charles F. Knight, business executive (aged 81; St. Louis County, MO, USA)
** Gary I. Wadler, internist and sports physician (aged 78; Port Washington, NY, USA)
** Edith Windsor, LGBT rights activist (aged 88; New York City, NY, USA)
* September 13
** Pete Domenici, politician; U.S. Senator from New Mexico (1973–2009) (aged 85; Albuquerque, NM, USA)
** Gary Otte, convicted murderer (aged 45; Lucasville, OH, USA)
** Frank Vincent, actor (aged 80; Nutley, NJ, USA)
* September 14
** George Englund, film producer, director, editor, and screenwriter (aged 91; Palm Springs, CA, USA)
** Basil Gogos, illustrator (aged 88; Manhattan, NY, USA)
** Grant Hart, rock musician and songwriter (aged 56; Minneapolis, MN, USA)
** Tommy Irvin, politician (aged 88; Mount Airy, GA, USA)
* September 15
** Herbert W. Kalmbach, attorney and banker (aged 95; Newport Beach, CA, USA)
** Myrna Lamb, playwright (aged 87; Point Pleasant Beach, NJ, USA)
** Harry Dean Stanton, actor and singer (aged 91; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* September 16
** Penny Chenery, racehorse owner and breeder (aged 95; Boulder, CO, USA)
** Ted Christopher, racing driver (aged 59; North Branford, CT, USA)
** Ben Dorcy, roadie (aged 92; Dallas, TX, USA)
** Mitchell Flint, lawyer and World War II aviator (aged 94; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Brenda Lewis, operatic soprano and actress (aged 96; Westport, CT, USA)
** Nabeel Qureshi, Christian apologist (aged 34; Houston, TX, USA)
** Bucky Scribner, football player (aged 57; Kansas City, MO, USA)
* September 17
** Bonnie Angelo, journalist (aged 93; Bethesda, MD, USA)
** William F. Goodling, politician; U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania (1975–2001) (aged 89; York, PA, USA)
** Bobby Heenan, professional wrestler, manager, and commentator (aged 72; Largo, FL, USA)
** Dave Hilton, baseball player (aged 67; Scottsdale, AZ, USA)
** Lucy Ozarin, psychiatrist (aged 103; MD, USA)
* September 18
** Ronald E. Carrier, university president (aged 85; Harrisonburg, VA, USA)
** Paul E. Gray, electrical engineer and university president (aged 85; Concord, MA, USA)
** Paul Horner, writer and humorist (aged 38; Laveen, AZ, USA)
** Mark Selby, rock musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer (aged 56; Nashville, TN, USA)
** Pete Turner, photographer (aged 83; Wainscott, NY, USA)
* September 19
** Bernie Casey, football player and actor (aged 78; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Jake LaMotta, boxer and comedian (aged 95; Aventura, FL, USA)
** Johnny Sandlin, record producer and engineer (aged 72; Decatur, AL, USA)
* September 20
** William J. Ely, U.S. Army general (aged 105; Delray Beach, FL, USA)
** Mickey Harrington, baseball player (aged 82; Hattiesburg, MS, USA)
** Garry Hill, baseball pitcher (aged 70; Charlotte, NC, USA)
** Ed Phillips, baseball pitcher (aged 73; Wells, ME, USA)
** Lillian Ross, journalist and author (aged 99; Manhattan, NY, USA)
* September 21 – Larry J. McKinney, federal judge (aged 73; Edinburgh, IN, USA)
* September 22
** Rick Shaw, radio and television personality (aged 78; Cooper City, FL, USA)
** Daniel Yankelovich, social scientist (aged 92; La Jolla, CA, USA)
* September 23
** Charles Bradley, funk and soul singer (aged 68; Brooklyn, NY, USA)
** Dorothy Eck, politician (aged 93; Bozeman, MT, USA)
** Seth Firkins, audio engineer (aged 36; Atlanta, GA, USA)
** Elizabeth D. Phillips, university administrator (aged 72; New York City, NY, USA)
** Samuel H. Young, politician; U.S. Representative from Illinois (1973–1975) (aged 94; Glenview, IL, USA)
* September 24
** Barbara Blaine, anti-pedophile activist (aged 61; St. George, UT, USA)
** Norman Dyhrenfurth, Swiss-born mountain climber (aged 99; Salzburg, Austria)
** Albert Innaurato, playwright (aged 70; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
** Orville Lynn Majors, nurse and serial killer (aged 56; Michigan City, IN, USA)
** Joseph M. McDade, politician; U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania (1963–1999) (aged 85; Fairfax, VA, USA)
** Robert J. McFarlin, politician (aged 87; Duluth, MN, USA)
** Kit Reed, author (aged 85; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* September 25
** Joe Bailon, vehicle customized (aged 94; Auburn, CA, USA)
** Nora Marks Dauenhauer, Tlingit author, poet, and scholar (aged 90; Juneau, AK, USA)
** Grant H. Palmer, educator and critic of Mormonism (aged 77; Sandy, UT, USA)
** Clarence Purfeerst, politician (aged 89; St. Paul, MN, USA)
** Joe Schaffer, football player (aged 79; Cincinnati, OH, USA)
** Jim Walrod, interior design consultant (aged 56; New York City, NY, USA)
** Elaine Hoffman Watts, klezmer drummer (aged 85; Upper Darby, PA, USA)
* September 26
** Donnie Corker, transvestite entertainer (aged 65; Richmond, VA, USA)
** Barry Dennen, actor (aged 79; Burbank, CA, USA)
* September 27
** CeDell Davis, blues singer and musician (aged 91; Hot Springs, AR, USA)
** Hugh Hefner, magazine publisher, socialite, and activist (aged 91; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Anne Jeffreys, actress and singer (aged 94; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Red Miller, football coach (aged 89; Denver, CO, USA)
** Stanley M. Rumbough Jr., businessman, socialite, and philanthropist (aged 97; Palm Beach, FL, USA)
** Alfred Stepan, political scientist (aged 81; Chicago, IL, USA)
* September 30
** Monty Hall, Canadian-American game show host (aged 96; Beverly Hills, CA, USA)
** Frank Hamblen, basketball player and coach (aged 70; San Diego, CA, USA)
** Donald Malarkey, U.S. Army soldier of World War II (aged 96; Salem, OR, USA)
** Tom Paley, folk musician (aged 89; Brighton, England, UK)
** Lou Reda, documentary filmmaker (aged 92; Lopatcong Township, NJ, USA)
** Joe Tiller, football player and coach (aged 74; Buffalo, WY, USA)
** Vladimir Voevodsky, Russian-American mathematician (aged 51; Princeton, NJ, USA)
===October===
* October 1
** Robert D. Hales, Mormon religious leader (aged 85; Salt Lake City, UT, USA)
** Arthur Janov, psychologist and psychotherapist (aged 93; Malibu, CA, USA)
** Samuel Irving Newhouse Jr., publisher, billionaire, art collector, and philanthropist (aged 89; New York City, NY, USA)
** Dave Strader, sportscaster (aged 62; Glens Falls, NY, USA)
* October 2
** Solly Hemus, baseball player, coach, and manager (aged 94; Houston, TX, USA)
** Simon Ostrach, academic scientist and engineer (aged 93; Pepper Pike, OH, USA)
** Paul Otellini, business executive (aged 66; Kenwood, CA, USA)
** Jim Patterson, politician (aged 67; Meridianville, AL, USA)
** Tom Petty, rock musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer (aged 66; Santa Monica, CA, USA)
** Barbara Tisserat, lithographer (aged 66; Longmont, CO, USA)
** Robert Yates, NASCAR team owner (aged 74; Cornelius, NC, USA)
* October 3
** Bob Gannon, politician (aged 58; West Bend, WI, USA)
** John Herrnstein, baseball and football player (aged 79; Chillicothe, OH, USA)
** Ninja Jorgensen, Olympic volleyball player (aged 77; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Lance Russell, professional wrestling announcer (aged 91; Memphis, TN, USA)
* October 4
** Rufus Hannah, homeless rights advocate (aged 62; Swainsboro, GA, USA)
** John Miller, politician; U.S. Representative from Washington (1985–1993) (aged 79; Corte Madera, CA, USA)
** Jerry Ross, songwriter and record producer (aged 84; Meadowbrook, PA, USA)
* October 5 – Nora Johnson, author (aged 84; Dallas, TX, USA)
* October 6
** Connie Hawkins, basketball player (aged 75; Phoenix, AZ, USA)
** Ralphie May, comedian (aged 45; Las Vegas, NV, USA)
** Dick Roeding, politician (aged 86; Edgewood, KY, USA)
** Bunny Sigler, songwriter and record producer (aged 76; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
** Judy Stone, journalist and film critic (aged 93; San Francisco, CA, USA)
* October 7 – Jim Landis, baseball player (aged 83; Napa, CA, USA)
* October 8
** Edna Dummerth, baseball player (aged 93; St. Louis, MO, USA)
** Jerry Kleczka, politician; U.S. Representative from Wisconsin (1984–2005) (aged 73; Madison, WI, USA)
** Don Lock, baseball player (aged 81; Wichita, KS, USA)
** Grady Tate, jazz drummer and vocalist (aged 85; New York City, NY, USA)
** Y. A. Tittle, football player (aged 90; Stanford, CA, USA)
* October 9
** ElizaBeth Gilligan, fantasy writer (aged 55; Newark, CA, USA)
** Dale Hagerman, pharmacist and businessman (aged 90; Fenton Township, MI, USA)
** Roy Hawes, baseball player (aged 91; Ringgold, GA, USA)
** Ben Hawkins, football player (aged 73; Belmar, NJ, USA)
** Vincent La Selva, conductor (aged 88; Cleveland, OH, USA)
** Bill Puterbaugh, racing driver (aged 81; Brownsburg, IN, USA)
* October 10
** David Chapman, handball player (aged 42; St. Louis, MO, USA)
** Charles E. Gibson Jr., lawyer (aged 91; Barre, VT, USA)
** Bob Schiller, television writer (aged 98; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* October 11
** Don Pedro Colley, actor (aged 79; Klamath Falls, OR, USA)
** James R. Ford, educator, business executive, and politician (aged 91; Tallahassee, FL, USA)
** Paul Hufnagle, politician (aged 81; Bloomington, MN, USA)
** Betty Moczynski, baseball player (aged 91; New Berlin, WI, USA)
* October 12
** Ed Long, politician (aged 83; Stillwater, OK, USA)
** Robert Lynn Pruett, convicted murderer (aged 38; Huntsville, TX, USA)
* October 13 – William Lombardy, chess grandmaster and Roman Catholic priest (aged 79; Martinez, CA, USA)
* October 14
** Inside Information, Thoroughbred racehorse (aged 26; Paris, KY, USA)
** Marian Cannon Schlesinger, painter, author, and centenarian (aged 105; Cambridge, MA, USA)
** Daniel Webb, baseball pitcher (aged 28; Waverly, TN, USA)
** Richard Wilbur, poet (aged 96; Belmont, MA, USA)
* October 15
** Dave Bry, music journalist and editor (aged 46; New York City, NY, USA)
** Burrhead Jones, professional wrestler (aged 80; New York City, NY, USA)
* October 16 – John Andreason, politician (aged 88; Boise, ID, USA)
* October 17
** Ed Barnowski, baseball pitcher (aged 74; Naples, FL, USA)
** Mychael Knight, fashion designer (aged 39; Atlanta, GA, USA)
** Michele Marsh, television journalist (aged 63; South Kent, CT, USA)
** Julian May, science fiction, fantasy, and horror writer (aged 86; Bellevue, WA, USA)
** Dick Morley, engineer and inventor (aged 84; NH, USA)
* October 18
** Brent Briscoe, actor and screenwriter (aged 56; Burbank, CA, USA)
** Helen DeVos, philanthropist (aged 90; Ada Township, MI, USA)
* October 20
** Stan Kowalski, professional wrestler (aged 91; Minneapolis, MN, USA)
** Justin Reed, basketball player (aged 35; Jackson, MS, USA)
* October 22
** Al Hurricane, singer-songwriter and guitarist (aged 81; Albuquerque, NM, USA)
** Scott Putesky, heavy metal guitarist (aged 49; Boca Raton, FL, USA)
** Chuck Weber, football player (aged 87; CA, USA)
** Paul J. Weitz, aviator and astronaut (aged 85; Flagstaff, AZ, USA)
* October 24
** Fats Domino, pianist and singer-songwriter (aged 89; Harvey, LA, USA)
** Michael Patrick Driscoll, Roman Catholic prelate (aged 78; Boise, ID, USA)
** Robert Guillaume, actor (aged 89; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* October 25 – Jack Bannon, actor (aged 77; Coeur d'Alene, ID, USA)
* October 26
** Shea Norman, gospel singer (aged 45; Memphis, TN, USA)
** Stephen Toulouse, policy specialist and public relations manager (aged 45; Seattle, WA, USA)
* October 27 – Joe Taub, businessman, philanthropist and sports owner (aged 88; New York City, NY, USA)
* October 28 – Ronald Getoor, mathematician (aged 88; La Jolla, CA, USA)
* October 29
** Muhal Richard Abrams, jazz pianist (aged 87; Manhattan, NY, USA)
** Dennis Banks, activist and actor (aged 80; Rochester, MN, USA)
** Richard E. Cavazos, army general (aged 88; San Antonio, TX, USA)
* October 30 – Judy Martz, politician, 22nd Governor of Montana (aged 74; Butte, MT, USA)
* October 31 – Red Murrell, basketball player (aged 84; Tulsa, OK, USA)
===November===
* November 1
** Brad Bufanda, actor (aged 34; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Katie Lee, folk singer, writer, photographer, and environmental activist (aged 98; Jerome, AZ, USA)
** John Mecray, realist painter (aged 80; Jamestown, RI, USA)
** Richard P. Mills, educator (aged 72; Adirondack Mountains, NY, USA)
** Paul V. Mullaney, politician and judge (aged 97; Worcester, MA, USA)
** Myron Noodleman, clown (aged 59; Broken Arrow, OK, USA)
** James Tayoun, politician (aged 87; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
* November 2
** John Paul De Cecco, LGBT writer and academic (aged 92; San Francisco, CA, USA)
** Orval H. Hansen, politician; U.S. Representative from Idaho (1969–1975) (aged 91; Boise, ID, USA)
** William Landau, neurologist (aged 93; University City, MO, USA)
** Joan Tisch, billionaire heiress, socialite, and philanthropist (aged 90; Manhattan, NY, USA)
** Bill Wilkerson, radio personality and sportscaster (aged 72; Florissant, MO, USA)
* November 3
** Sid Catlett, basketball player (aged 69; Atlanta, GA, USA)
** Ed Flanagan, politician (aged 66; NH, USA)
* November 4
** C. W. Smith, racing driver and police officer (aged 70; Danville, PA, USA)
** Anna Diggs Taylor, federal judge (aged 84; Grosse Pointe Woods, MI, USA)
** Gene Verble, baseball player and manager (aged 89; Kannapolis, NC, USA)
* November 5
** Don Eddy, basketball coach (aged 81; San Antonio, TX, USA)
** Nancy Friday, author (aged 84; Manhattan, NY, USA)
** Robert Knight, R&B singer (aged 77; Nashville, TN, USA)
** Louis Roney, operatic tenor (aged 96; Winter Park, FL, USA)
** Vera Shlakman, economist and academic (aged 108; New York City, NY, USA)
** George Edward Tait, poet and activist (aged 73; New York City, NY, USA)
* November 6
** Dave Cloutier, football player (aged 78; Palm Coast, FL, USA)
** Joe Fortunato, football player (aged 87; Natchez, MS, USA)
** Richard F. Gordon Jr., aviator, chemist, and astronaut (aged 88; San Marcos, CA, USA)
** Rhona Silver, businesswoman (aged 66; Long Island, NY, USA)
** Rick Stelmaszek, baseball player and coach (aged 69; Chicago, IL, USA)
* November 7
** Debra Chasnoff, documentary filmmaker (aged 60; San Francisco, CA, USA)
** Robert De Cormier, music conductor and arranger (aged 95; Rutland, VT, USA)
** Wendell Eugene, jazz trombonist (aged 94; New Orleans, LA, USA)
** Roy Halladay, baseball player (aged 40; New Port Richey, FL, USA)
** Brad Harris, actor and stunt performer (aged 84; Santa Monica, CA, USA)
** Loren Hightower, dancer and choreographer (aged 89; Myrtle Beach, SC, USA)
** Dolores Kendrick, poet (aged 90; Washington, DC, USA)
* November 8
** John H. Cushman, U.S. Army general (aged 96; Washington, DC, USA)
** Wood Moy, actor (aged 99; San Francisco, CA, USA)
** Don Prince, baseball player (aged 79; Myrtle Beach, SC, USA)
* November 9
** Donald S. Coffey, physician and educator (aged 85; Timonium, MD, USA)
** Fred Cole, rock singer, songwriter, and guitarist (aged 69; Clackamas, OR, USA)
** Robert Gensburg, lawyer (aged 78; Lyndon, VT, USA)
** John Hillerman, actor (aged 84; Houston, TX, USA)
** Gene Kotlarek, Olympic ski jumper (aged 77; Colorado Springs, CO, USA)
** Chuck Mosley, rock singer, songwriter, and guitarist (aged 57; Cleveland, OH, USA)
** Chuck Nergard, politician (aged 88; Tallahassee, FL, USA)
** Jim Sladky, ice dancer (aged 70; Hartford, CT, USA)
* November 11
** Vanu Bose, electrical engineer and technology executive (aged 52; Concord, MA, USA)
** Frank Corsaro, theatre and opera director and actor (aged 92; Suwanee, GA, USA)
** Gemze de Lappe, ballerina and choreographer (aged 95; Manhattan, NY, USA)
** Edward S. Herman, journalist and activist (aged 92; Penn Valley, PA, USA)
** Nate Hobgood-Chittick, football player (aged 42; Sherman Oaks, CA, USA)
** Rance Pless, baseball player (aged 91; Greenville, TN, USA)
** Jeffrey T. Richelson, author and researcher (aged 67; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* November 12
** Bobby Baker, political adviser (aged 89; St. Augustine, FL, USA)
** Tom Cornsweet, psychologist and inventor (aged 88; Prescott, AZ, USA)
** Wendy Pepper, fashion designer (aged 53; Washington, DC, USA)
** John C. Raines, educator and activist (aged 84; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
** Eric Salzman, composer, music critic, and record producer (aged 84; Brooklyn, NY, USA)
** Edith Savage-Jennings, civil rights activist (aged 93; Trenton, NJ, USA)
** Liz Smith, journalist and gossip columnist (aged 94; New York City, NY, USA)
** Lawrence R. Yetka, judge (aged 93; Cloquet, MN, USA)
* November 13
** Jeff Capel II, basketball coach (aged 64; Norfolk, VA, USA)
** Bobby Doerr, baseball player and coach (aged 99; Junction City, OR, USA)
** Thomas J. Hudner Jr., naval aviator (aged 93; Concord, MA, USA)
** Janet Paula Lupo, model (aged 67; Hoboken, NJ, USA)
** Haskell Monroe, educator and university administrator (aged 86; College Station, TX, USA)
** Jim Rivera, baseball player (aged 96; Fort Wayne, IN, USA)
* November 14
** Albert C. Ledner, architect (aged 93; Manchester, NH, USA)
** Nancy Zieman, sewing instructor, writer, and television host (aged 64; Beaver Dam, WI, USA)
* November 15
** Michelle Boisseau, poet (aged 62; Kansas City, MO, USA)
** David S. Cunningham Jr., business executive and politician (aged 82; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Robert G. Jahn, physicist and parapsychologist (aged 87; Princeton, NJ, USA)
** Lil Peep, rapper and singer (aged 21; Tucson, AZ, USA)
** J. Steve Mostyn, lawyer (aged 46; Houston, TX, USA)
** Eric P. Newman, numismatist and centenarian (aged 106; Clayton, MO, USA)
** Jaroslav Vaněk, Czech-born economist (aged 87; Ithaca, NY, USA)
* November 16
** John Gambino, Italian-born mobster (aged 77; New York City, NY, USA)
** Ferdie Pacheco, physician, boxing trainer and commentator (aged 89; Miami, FL, USA)
** Kenneth Ryskamp, federal judge (aged 85; Coral Gables, FL, USA)
** Jack Stauffacher, typographer and publisher (aged 96; Tiburon, CA, USA)
** Greg Standridge, businessman and politician (aged 50; Russellville, AR, USA)
** Ann Wedgeworth, actress (aged 83; North Bergen, NJ, USA)
* November 17
** J. C. Caroline, football player (aged 84; Urbana, IL, USA)
** Aijalon Gomes, educator, missionary, and North Korean detainee (aged 38; San Diego, CA, USA)
** Lilli Hornig, Czech-born scientist and feminist (aged 96; Providence, RI, USA)
** Earle Hyman, actor (aged 91; Englewood, NJ, USA)
** William Mayer, composer (aged 91; Manhattan, NY, USA)
** Ulrich Petersen, Peruvian-born geologist (aged 89; Belmont, MA, USA)
** Robert D. Raiford, radio broadcaster and actor (aged 89; Concord, NC, USA)
** Howard Bruner Schaffer, educator and diplomat (aged 88; New York City, NY, USA)
* November 18
** Bob Borkowski, baseball player (aged 91; Dayton, OH, USA)
** Flawless Sabrina, drag queen and LGBT activist (aged 78; New York City, NY, USA)
** William Hoeveler, federal judge (aged 95; Coral Gables, FL, USA)
** Ben Riley, jazz drummer (aged 84; West Islip, NY, USA)
** Pancho Segura, tennis player (aged 96; Carlsbad, CA, USA)
** Ken Shapiro, child actor, television writer, and producer (aged 75; Las Cruces, NM, USA)
* November 19
** Peter Baldwin, actor, film and television director (aged 86; Pebble Beach, CA, USA)
** Charles Manson, criminal and cult leader (aged 83; Bakersfield, CA, USA)
** Warren "Pete" Moore, R&B singer, songwriter, and record producer (aged 79; Las Vegas, NV, USA)
** Della Reese, jazz and gospel singer, actress, and ordained minister (aged 86; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Mel Tillis, country music singer and songwriter (aged 85; Ocala, FL, USA)
* November 20
** Eugene Domack, geologist (aged 61; St. Petersburg, FL, USA)
** Terry Glenn, football player (aged 43; Irving, TX, USA)
** Ernestine Petras, baseball player (aged 93; Haskell, NJ, USA)
* November 21
** David Cassidy, actor and pop singer (aged 67; Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA)
** Wayne Cochran, soul singer, songwriter, and record producer (aged 78; Miramar, FL, USA)
** Keith Muxlow, politician (aged 84; St. Clair, MI, USA)
** Joseph White, psychologist (aged 84; St. Louis, MO, USA)
* November 22
** George Avakian, record producer (aged 98; New York City, NY, USA)
** Norman Baker, explorer (aged 89; Pittsford, VT, USA)
** John Coates Jr., jazz pianist, composer, and arranger (aged 79; Scranton, PA, USA)
** Jon Hendricks, jazz singer and songwriter (aged 96; New York City, NY, USA)
** Maurice Hinchey, politician (aged 79; Saugerties, NY, USA)
** Tommy Keene, rock singer and songwriter (aged 59; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Charles C. McDonald, U.S. Air Force general (aged 84; Niceville, FL, USA)
** Bobbie L. Sterne, politician (aged 97; Santa Cruz, CA, USA)
** Edward C. Taylor, chemist (aged 94; St. Paul, MN, USA)
* November 23
** Carol Neblett, operatic soprano (aged 71; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Craig Tieszen, politician (aged 68; Rarotonga, Cook Islands)
* November 24
** Wesley L. Fox, U.S. Marine Corps officer and military writer (aged 86; Blacksburg, VA, USA)
** Neil Gillman, Canadian-born rabbi and theologian (aged 84; New York City, NY, USA)
** Stephen Knapp, art photographer (aged 70; Worcester, MA, USA)
** Lowen Kruse, politician (aged 88; Omaha, NE, USA)
** Mitch Margo, doo-wop singer and songwriter (aged 70; Studio City, CA, USA)
** John Thierry, football player (aged 46; Opelousas, LA, USA)
* November 25
** John Black, politician (aged 84; Chattanooga, TN, USA)
** Bertha Calloway, museum director and activist (aged 92; Omaha, NE, USA)
** Edward Fudge, lawyer and Christian theologian (aged 73; Houston, TX, USA)
** Ken Gray, football player (aged 81; Llano, TX, USA)
** Rance Howard, actor (aged 89; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Steve "Snapper" Jones, basketball player and broadcaster (aged 75; Houston, TX, USA)
** John M. Lewellen, politician (aged 87; Little Rock, AR, USA)
** Bogdan Maglich, Serbian-born nuclear physicist (aged 89; Newport Beach, CA, USA)
** Julio Oscar Mechoso, actor (aged 62; Burbank, CA, USA)
** Harry Pregerson, federal judge (aged 94; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* November 26
** Ruth Bancroft, gardener, landscape architect and centenarian (aged 109; Walnut Creek, CA, USA)
** Garnett Thomas Eisele, federal judge (aged 94; Little Rock, AR, USA)
** Georg Iggers, German-born historian (aged 90; Buffalo, NY, USA)
** Peggy Vining, poet (aged 88; Little Rock, AR, USA)
** W. Marvin Watson, university president and presidential advisor (aged 93; Woodlands, TX, USA)
* November 27
** Bill Harris, politician (aged 83; Ashland, OH, USA)
** Bud Moore, racing driver and NASCAR owner (aged 92; Spartanburg, SC, USA)
** Robert Popwell, rock and jazz bassist (aged 66; Lebanon, TN, USA)
** Warren Spannaus, politician (aged 86; St. Louis Park, MN, USA)
* November 28
** Joseph N. Crowley, university president and cannabis activist (aged 84; Reno, NV, USA)
** Don Moore, politician (aged 89; Chattanooga, TN, USA)
* November 29
** Jerry Fodor, philosopher and cognitive scientist (aged 82; Manhattan, NY, USA)
** Fritz Graf, National Football League official (aged 94; Akron, OH, USA)
** Fran Hopper, comics artist (aged 95; NJ, USA)
** Charles E. Merrill Jr., educator and philanthropist (aged 97; Nowy Sącz,, Poland)
** Robert Walker, blues guitarist (aged 80; CA, USA)
* November 30
** Dick Gernert, baseball player, coach, and manager (aged 89; Reading, PA, USA)
** Gary Ingram, politician (aged 84; Coeur d'Alene, ID, USA)
** Jim Nabors, actor and singer (aged 87; Honolulu, HI, USA)
** Vincent Scully, architectural historian (aged 97; Lynchburg, VA, USA)
===December===
* December 1
** Arif Dirlik, Turkish-born historian (aged 77; Eugene, OR, USA)
** Perry Wallace, basketball player and legal scholar (aged 69; Rockville, MD, USA)
** Les Whitten, journalist and novelist (aged 89; Adelphi, MD, USA)
* December 2
** Mundell Lowe, jazz guitarist (aged 95; San Diego, CA, USA)
** Marianne Means, political columnist and White House correspondent (aged 83; Washington, DC, USA)
* December 3
** John B. Anderson, politician; U.S. Representative from Illinois (1961–1981) (aged 95; Washington, DC, USA)
** Ernest A. Finney Jr., judge; South Carolina Supreme Court justice (aged 86; Columbia, SC, USA)
** Leandro Rizzuto, billionaire businessman (aged 79; Brooklyn, NY, USA)
* December 4
** Mary Louise Hancock, politician (aged 97; Concord, NH, USA)
** Alexander Harvey II, federal judge (aged 94; Baltimore, MD, USA)
** Rudolph G. Wilson, storyteller, writer, and academic (aged 82; Edwardsville, IL, USA)
** Edward Zemprelli, politician (aged 92; Jupiter, FL, USA)
* December 5
** Maurice Green, virologist (aged 91; St. Louis, MO, USA)
** Ron Meyer, football coach (aged 76; Lakeway, TX, USA)
* December 6
** Conrad Brooks, actor (aged 86; Martinsburg, WV, USA)
** Charles J. Cella, businessman and race horse owner (aged 81; St. Louis, MO, USA)
** William H. Gass, author and educator (aged 93; University City, MO, USA)
** Kathleen Karr, author (aged 71; Washington, DC, USA)
** George E. Killian, basketball coach and administrator (aged 93; Glendale, AZ, USA)
** Tracy Stallard, baseball pitcher (aged 80; Kingsport, TN, USA)
** Cy Young, Olympic javelin thrower (aged 89; Modesto, CA, USA)
* December 7
** MacDonald Becket, architect (aged 89; Phoenix, AZ, USA)
** Fred J. Doocy, politician and banker (aged 104; Manchester, CT, USA)
** Morton Estrin, classical pianist (aged 94; Dix Hills, NY, USA)
** Sunny Murray, jazz drummer (aged 81; Paris, France)
** Steve Reevis, actor (aged 55; Missoula, MT, USA)
** Fatty Taylor, basketball player (aged 71; Denver, CO, USA)
* December 8
** James P. Cullen, U.S. Army general (aged 72; Scarsdale, NY, USA)
** Howard Gottfried, film producer (aged 94; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Tubby Raymond, football and baseball player and coach (aged 91; PA, USA)
** Gloria Ann Taylor, soul singer (aged 73; Toledo, OH, USA)
** Morris Zelditch, sociologist (aged 89; Stanford, CA, USA)
* December 9
** James Joseph Brady, lawyer and judge (aged 73; Baton Rouge, LA, USA)
** Allen C. Kelley, economist (aged 80; Chapel Hill, NC, USA)
** Marshall Loeb, business journalist and editor (aged 88; Manhattan, NY, USA)
** Joe Newton, track and field coach (aged 88; Goodyear, AZ, USA)
** Tony Sumpter, football player (aged 95; Stillwater, OK, USA)
** Tom Zenk, professional wrestler and bodybuilder (aged 59; Robbinsdale, MN, USA)
* December 10
** Angry Grandpa, Internet personality (aged 67; Summerville, SC, USA)
** Simeon Booker, journalist (aged 99; Solomons, MD, USA)
** Bruce Brown, documentary filmmaker (aged 80; Santa Barbara, CA, USA)
** Curtis W. Harris, minister, civil rights activist, and politician (aged 93; Chester, VA, USA)
** Ronald W. Hodges, entomologist and lepidopterist (aged 83; Eugene, OR, USA)
** Ray Kassar, business executive (aged 89; Vero Beach, FL, USA)
** Harold Levine, mathematician (aged 95; New York City, NY, USA)
** Roy Reed, journalist (aged 87; Fayetteville, AR, USA)
* December 11
** Paul T. Fader, lawyer and politician (aged 58; Englewood, NJ, USA)
** Charles Robert Jenkins, U.S. Army soldier and defector to North Korea (aged 77; Sado, Japan)
** Vera Katz, politician (aged 84; Portland, OR, USA)
** John P. Yates, politician (aged 96; Griffin, GA, USA)
* December 12
** Ken Bracey, baseball pitcher, manager, and scout (aged 80; Dunlap, IL, USA)
** Michael Clendenin, journalist (aged 83; Chapel Hill, NC, USA)
** Pat DiNizio, rock singer, songwriter, and guitarist (aged 62; Summit, NJ, USA)
** Marvin Greenberg, mathematician (aged 81; Berkeley, CA, USA)
** Ed Lee, politician; 43rd Mayor of San Francisco (aged 65; San Francisco, CA, USA)
** Lewis Manilow, attorney, real estate developer, and philanthropist (aged 90; Chicago, IL, USA)
** Willie Pickens, jazz pianist and composer (aged 86; Manhattan, NY, USA)
** Anthony Scaduto, journalist and biographer (aged 85; Brooklyn, NY, USA)
* December 13
** Warrel Dane, heavy metal singer and songwriter (aged 86; São Paulo, Brazil)
** John DeLamater, sociologist and sexologist (aged 77; Madison, WI, USA)
** Bette Howland, author and critic (aged 80; Tulsa, OK, USA)
** Bill Hudson, football player (aged 82; Spartanburg, SC, USA)
** Dan Johnson, politician and minister (aged 57; Mount Washington, KY, USA)
** Frank Lary, baseball pitcher (aged 87; Tuscaloosa, AL, USA)
** Tommy Nobis, football player (aged 74; Marietta, GA, USA)
** Martin Ransohoff, film and television producer (aged 90; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Paul Yesawich, basketball player (aged 94; New Smyrna Beach, FL, USA)
* December 14
** Bob Givens, animator (aged 99; Burbank, CA, USA)
** Charles Byron Renfrew, federal judge (aged 89; San Francisco, CA, USA)
** R. C. Sproul, Christian pastor and theologian (aged 78; Altamonte Springs, FL, USA)
** Marilyn Ware, businesswoman and diplomat (aged 74; Denver, CO, USA)
** Lones Wigger, Olympic shooter (aged 80; Colorado Springs, CO, USA)
* December 15
** Arthur S. Abramson, linguist (aged 92; New Haven, CT, USA)
** Don Hogan Charles, photographer (aged 79; Queens, NY, USA)
** Pierre Hohenberg, French-American theoretical physicist (aged 83; New York City, NY, USA)
* December 16
** Ralph Carney, rock singer, songwriter, and musician (aged 61; Portland, OR, USA)
** Len Ceglarski, ice hockey player and coach (aged 91; Boston, MA, USA)
** Richard Dobson, country singer and songwriter (aged 75; Diessenhofen, Switzerland)
** E. Hunter Harrison, railway executive (aged 73; Wellington, FL, USA)
** Keely Smith, jazz singer (aged 89; Palm Springs, CA, USA)
** Robert G. Wilmers, billionaire banker (aged 83; New York City, NY, USA)
* December 17
** Johnny Fox, magician and stunt performer (aged 64; Damascus, MD, USA)
** Doug Gallagher, baseball pitcher (aged 77; Fremont, OH, USA)
** Bob Glidden, dragster driver (aged 73; Whiteland, IN, USA)
** Al Kelley, golfer (aged 82; Eustis, FL, USA)
** Kevin Mahogany, jazz singer (aged 59; Kansas City, MO, USA)
** Bennett Malone, politician (aged 73; Jackson, MS, USA)
** Edward Rowny, U.S. Army general and centenarian (aged 100; Washington, DC, USA)
* December 18
** Janet Benshoof, lawyer and reproductive rights activist (aged 70; New York City, NY, USA)
** William O. Harbach, television producer and director (aged 98; Fairfield, CT, USA)
** Larry Harris, music executive (aged 70; Port Angeles, WA, USA)
** LeRoy Jolley, horse trainer (aged 79; Albany, NY, USA)
* December 19
** Clifford Irving, novelist, investigative reporter, and convicted fraudster (aged 87; Sarasota, FL, USA)
** Mamie Johnson, baseball pitcher (aged 82; Washington, DC, USA)
** Ruth McClendon, politician (aged 74; San Antonio, TX, USA)
** Jerry A. Moore Jr., Baptist minister and politician (aged 99; Washington, DC, USA)
** Frank North, football coach (aged 92; Alpharetta, GA, USA)
** Richard Venture, actor (aged 94; Chester, CT, USA)
** Leo Welch, blues singer and musician (aged 85; Bruce, MS, USA)
* December 20
** William Agee, business executive (aged 79; Seattle, WA, USA)
** Carolyn Cohen, biologist and biophysicist (aged 88; Wellesley, MA, USA)
** Combat Jack, lawyer, hip-hop record producer, writer, and podcaster (aged 48; Brooklyn, NY, USA)
** Charlie Hennigan, football player (aged 82; Humble, TX, USA)
** Bernard Francis Law, Roman Catholic prelate and civil rights activist (aged 86; Rome, Italy)
** George Mans, football player and coach and politician (aged 77; Trenton, MI, USA)
** Diane Straus, magazine publisher (aged 66; Washington, DC, USA)
** Marilyn Tyler, operatic soprano (aged 91; NM, USA)
* December 21
** Dick Enberg, sportscaster (aged 82; La Jolla, CA, USA)
** March Fong Eu, Chinese-American politician (aged 95; Irvine, CA, USA)
** Jim French, radio host and voice actor (aged 89; Seattle, WA, USA)
** Dominic Frontiere, jazz accordionist, composer, and arranger (aged 86; Tesuque, NM, USA)
** D. Bruce MacPherson, Episcopal prelate (aged 77; Edmond, OK, USA)
** Bruce McCandless II, aviator, electrical engineer, and astronaut (aged 80; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Roswell Rudd, jazz trombonist (aged 82; Kerhonkson, NY, USA)
** Jerry Yellin, U.S. Army Air Forces fighter pilot (aged 93; Orlando, FL, USA)
* December 22
** Lou Adler, radio journalist (aged 88; Meriden, CT, USA)
** Pervis Atkins, football player (aged 82; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
** Hal Bedsole, football player (aged 76; AZ, USA)
** Viola Davis Brown, nurse and nursing administrator (aged 81; Lexington, KY, USA)
** Domenic Cretara, painter (aged 71; Harbor City, CA, USA)
** Joseph F. Timilty, politician (aged 79; Canton, MA, USA)
* December 30 – Erica Garner, civil rights activist (aged 27; Brooklyn, NY, USA)
==External links==
* 2017 in the United States
Category:United States History: Volume 24