Deaths in 2011

The following is a list of notable deaths in 2011.

 January 

 January 1 - Flemming Jørgensen, 63, Danish actor and musician.
 January 1 - Faizal Yusof, 32, Malaysian actor, heart failure. 
 January 2 - Pete Postlethwaite, 64, British actor, cancer. 
 January 2 - Anne Francis, 80, American actress, pancreatic cancer.
 January 2 - Richard Winters, 92, American paratrooper.
 January 4 - Salmaan Taseer, 46, Pakistani politician, Governor of the Punjab, shot.
 January 4 - Gerry Rafferty, 63, Scottish singer-songwriter, liver failure. 
 January 4 - Mohamed Bouazizi, 26, Tunisian fruit seller and figure in the Arab world uprising, suicide by burning.
 January 4 - Dick King-Smith, 88, British writer.
 January 6 - Gary Mason, 48, British, boxer, road accident.
 January 8 - John Roll, 63, American judge, shot.
 January 9 - Peter Yates, 81, British movie director. 
 January 10 - Margaret Whiting, 86, American singer.
 January 10 - John Dye, 47, American actor. 
 January 11 – David Nelosn, 74, American actor.
 January 13 - Charles Muscat, 48, Maltese footballer.
 January 14 - Mississippi Winn, 113, American supercentenarian.
 January 15 - Nat Lofthouse, 85, English footballer.
 January 15 - Susannah York, 72, British actress, bone cancer. 
 January 16 – Milton Levine , 97, American Businessman.
 January 16 - Steve Prestwich, 56, Australian musician, brain tumour.
 January 17 - Don Kirshner, 76, American music producer, heart failure. 
 January 18 - Sargent Shriver, 95, American politician, Alzheimer's disease.
 January 21 - Dennis Oppenheim, 72, American artist, liver cancer.
 January 23 - Jack LaLanne, 96, American physical fitness and nutrition expert, respiratory failure from pneumonia. 
 January 24 - Bernd Eichinger, 61, German movie producer and director, heart attack. 
 January 24 - Bhimsen Joshi, 88, Indian musician.
 January 27 - Charlie Callas, 83,  American comedian, natural causes.
 January 29 - Milton Babbitt, 94, American composer.
 January 30 - John Barry, 77, British composer, heart attack.
 January 31 - Eunice Sanborn, 114, American, world's second-oldest person at the time of her death.

 February 
 February 3 - Édouard Glissant, 82, French writer.
 February 3 - Maria Schneider, 58, French actress, cancer.
 February 4 - Martial Célestin, 97, Haitian lawyer and diplomat, 1st Prime Minister of Haiti.
 February 4 - Lena Nyman, 66, Swedish actress.
 February 5 - Brian Jacques, 71, British writer, heart attack.
 February 6 - Josefa Iloilo, 90, 3rd President of Fiji.
 February 6 - Gary Moore, 58, Northern Irish musician.
 February 8 - Cesare Rubini, 87, Italian water polo player, basketball player and coach.
 February 11 - Bo Carpelan, 84, Finnish poet and writer.
 February 11 - Bad News Brown, 33, Canadian rapper.
 February 12 - Betty Garrett, 91, American actress, aortic aneurysm.
 February 12 - Peter Alexander, 84, Austrian actor and singer.
 February 13 - Inese Jaunzeme, 78, Latvian javelin thrower.
 February 14 - George Shearing, 91, British-American jazz pianist.
 February 17 - Perry Moore, 39, American writer and movie producer.
 February 19 - Dietrich Stobbe, 72, German politician, former Mayor of Berlin.
 February 19 - Ollie Matson, 80, American football player, member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, respiratory failure.
 February 23 - Nirmala Srivastava, 87, Indian spiritual leader, founder of Sahaja Yoga religious movement.
 February 24 - Anant Pai, 81, Indian educator and comics creator, heart attack.
 February 26 - Arnost Lustig, 84, Czech writer, cancer.
 February 27 - Necmettin Erbakan, 84, former Prime Minister of Turkey.
 February 27 - Frank Buckles, 110, American soldier, last living U.S. World War I veteran, natural causes.
 February 28 - Jane Russell, 89, American actress, respiratory related illness.
 February 28 - Annie Girardot, 79, French actress, Alzheimer's disease.

 March 
 March 2 - Shahbaz Bhatti, 42, Pakistani politician, shot.
 March 2 - Thor Vilhjalmsson, 85, Icelandic writer.
 March 3 - Allan Louisy, 94, former Prime Minister of Saint Lucia.
 March 4 - Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, 86, Nepalese politician and former Prime Minister, multiple organ failure.
 March 4 - Simon van der Meer, 85, Dutch physicist, co-winner of 1984 Nobel Prize for Physics.
 March 4 - Johnny Preston, 71, American singer, heart failure.
 March 5 - Alberto Granado, 88, Argentine-Cuban biochemist, writer and travel companion of Che Guevara.
 March 6 - Jan Popluhar, 75, Slovakian footballer.
 March 8 - Mike Starr, 44, American bassist for the band Alice in Chains (body found on this date).
 March 11 - Hugh Martin, 96, American songwriter ("Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas") and movie composer (Meet Me in St. Louis), natural causes.
 March 13 - Owsley Stanley, 76, American-Australian LSD producer, Grateful Dead sound engineer, automobile accident in Queensland, Australia.
 March 15 - Nate Dogg, 41, American musician.
 March 17 - Michael Gough, 94, British actor.
 March 18 - Warren Christopher, 85, 63rd United States Secretary of State, complications from kidney and bladder cancer.
 March 18 - Princess Antoinette, Baroness of Passy, 90, Monegasque princess.
 March 18 - Jet Harris, 71, British musician (The Shadows), cancer.
 March 19 - Knut, 4, world famous polar bear.
 March 21 - Nikolai Andrianov, 58, Soviet gymnast, after long illness.
 March 21 - Pinetop Perkins, 97, American blues musician.
 March 23 - Elizabeth Taylor, 79, English-American actress, congestive heart failure.
 March 26 - Geraldine Ferraro, 75, American lawyer, politician and Vice Presidential candidate.
 March 26 - Diana Wynne Jones, 76, British writer, lung cancer.
 March 26 - Paul Baran, 84, American internet pioneer, complications from lung cancer.
 March 27 - Dorothea Puente, 82, American serial killer, natural causes.
 March 27 - Farley Granger, 85, American actor, natural causes.
 March 29 - Robert Tear, 72, Welsh tenor and conductor.
 March 29 - Jose Alencar, 79, Brazilian Vice President.
 March 30 - Lyudmila Gurchenko, 75, Russian movie actress and singer.

 April 

 April 2 - Larry Finch, 60, American basketball player and coach.
 April 5 - Ange-Felix Patasse, 74, former President of the Central African Republic.
 April 5 - Baruch Samuel Blumberg, 85, American physician and Nobel Prize winner.
 April 7 - Bruce Cowan, 85, Australian politician.
 April 9 - Daniel Catán, 62, Mexican composer.
 April 9 - Sidney Lumet, 86, American movie director and theatre director, lymphoma.
 April 13 - Buster Martin, 97 or 104, French-British marathon runner.
 April 14 - Walter Breuning, 114, American supercentenarian, world's oldest man.
 April 14 - William Lipscomb, 91, American winner of 1976 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, pneumonia and complications from a fall.
 April 15 - Vittorio Arrigoni, 36, Italian activist, murdered.
 April 17 - Bhawani Singh, 79, Indian nobleman, titular Maharaja of Jaipur.
 April 18 - Pietro Ferrero Jr., 47, Italian businessman, bicycle accident.
 April 18 - William Donald Schaefer, 89, American politician and former Governor of Maryland.
 April 19 - Grete Waitz, 57, Norwegian marathon runner, cancer.
 April 19 - Elisabeth Sladen, 63, British actress, cancer.
 April 20 - Tim Hetherington, 40, British photojournalist and moviemaker, mortar attack.
 April 20 - Chris Hondros, 41, American photojournalist, mortar attack.
 April 21 - Harold Garfinkel, 93, American sociologist.
 April 23 - John Sullivan, 64, British television writer, viral pneumonia.
 April 23 - Norio Ogha, 81, Japanese businessman, developer of the CD.
 April 24 - Sathya Sai Baba, 84, Indian spiritual guru, multiple organ failure.
 April 25 - Gonzalo Rojas, 93, Chilean poet.
 April 25 - Poly Styrene, 53, British musician, breast cancer.
 April 26 - Phoebe Snow, 58 or 60, American singer-songwriter, brain hemorrhage.
 April 26 - Lynn Hauldren, 89, American pitchman, the Empire Man for Empire Today, natural causes.
 April 27 - David Wilkerson, 79, American pastor, evangelist and author, car accident.
 April 28 - Erhard Loretan, 52, Swiss mountain climber, climbing accident.
 April 30 - Ernesto Sabato, 99, Argentine writer and physicist.

 May 
 May 1 - Henry Cooper, 76, British heavyweight boxer.
 May 1 - Osama bin Laden, 54, al-Qaeda leader, killed by U.S. forces.
 May 2 - Shigeo Yaegashi, 78, Japanese footballer.
 May 3 - Jackie Cooper, 88, American actor, illness.
 May 5 - Claude Choules, 110, Anglo-Australian World War I veteran, last living combat veteran.
 May 7 - Seve Ballesteros, 54, Spanish golfer, brain cancer.
 May 7 - Gunter Sachs, 78, German photographer and industrialist, suicide by gunshot.
 May 7 - Willard Boyle, 86, Canadian physicist, Nobel Prize winner.
 May 8 - Cornell Dupree, 68, American Jazz and R&B guitarist.
 May 9 - Wouter Weylandt, 26, Belgian road bicycle racer, race accident.
 May 9 - Lidia Gueiler Tejada, 89, Bolivian politician, Bolivia's only female President.
 May 13 - Derek Boogaard, 28, Canadian ice hockey player.
 May 15 - Samuel Wanjiru, 24, Kenyan marathon runner, fall from balcony.
 May 16 - Edward Hardwicke, 78, British actor.
 May 17 - Harmon Killebrew, 74, American baseball player, esophageal cancer.
 May 19 - Garret FitzGerald, 85, Irish Taoiseach, after short illness.
 May 20 - Randy Savage, 58, American pro wrestler, heart attack and car accident.
 May 21 - Bill Hunter, 71, Australian actor, liver cancer.
 May 23 - Nasser Hejazi, 61, Iranian footballer, lung cancer.
 May 23 - Xavier Tondo, 32, Spanish cyclist, crushed by a car.
 May 25 - Leonora Carrington, 94, British-Mexican painter and novelist.
 May 27 - Margo Dydek, 37, Polish basketball player, heart attack.
 May 27 - Jeff Conaway, 60, American actor, overdose.
 May 27 - Gil Scott-Heron, 62, American poet and rap musician.
 May 29 - Sergei Bagapsh, 62, President of Abkhazia, complications after lung surgery.
 May 29 - Ferenc Madl, 80, former President of Hungary.
 May 29 - Bill Clements, 94, former Governor of Texas.
 May 30 - Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, 89, American physicist, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
 May 31 - Pauline Betz, 91, American tennis player.
 May 31 - Andy Robustelli, 85, American football player and NFL Hall of fame member, complications of recent bladder surgery.
 May 31 - Ezzatollah Sahabi, 81, Iranian politician, stroke.

 June 

 June 1 - Haleh Sahabi, 54, Iranian humanitarian and activist, heart attack.
 June 3 - Jack Kevorkian, 83, American physician and Assisted suicide activist.
 June 3 - James Arness, 88, American actor, natural causes.
 June 4 - Lawrence Eagleburger, 80, American diplomat and 62nd United States Secretary of State, pneumonia.
 June 4 - Lilian Jackson Braun, 97, American writer, natural causes.
 June 7 - Jorge Semprún, 87, Spanish writer and politician.
 June 9 - M. F. Husain, 95, Indian artist, heart attack.
 June 11 - Kurt Nielsen, 80, Danish tennis player.
 June 11 - Seth Putnam, 43, American musician, heart attack.
 June 11 - Eliyahu M. Goldratt, 64, Israeli physicist, after short illness.
 June 14 - Peter Schamoni, 77, German movie director and producer.
 June 18 - Frederick Chiluba, 68, second President of Zambia.
 June 18 - Ulrich Biesinger, 77, German footballer.
 June 18 - Yelena Bonner, 88, Russian Human rights activist, after long illness.
 June 18 - Clarence Clemons, 69, American musician and actor, stroke.
 June 20 - Ryan Dunn, 34, American television personality and daredevil, car accident.
 June 21 - Maria Gomes Valentim, 114, Brazilian supercentenarian, world's oldest person.
 June 23 - Gene Colan, 84, American comic book artist.
 June 23 - Dennis Marshall, 25, Costa Rican footballer, car accident.
 June 23 - Peter Falk, 83, American actor.
 June 25 - Margaret Tyzack, 79, British actress, after short illness.
 June 26 - Jan van Beveren, 63, Dutch footballer and coach.
 June 27 - Elaine Stewart, 81, American actress, after long illness.
 June 28 - Michael Wenning, 75, American minister, led Ronald Reagan's state funeral, leukemia and kidney failure.
 June 30 - Georg Sterzinsky, 75, German cardinal.

 July 
 July 2 - Itamar Franco, 81, 33rd President of Brazil, complications from leukemia.
 July 3 - Anna Massey, 73, British actress, cancer.
 July 4 - Otto von Habsburg, 98, Austro-Hungarian nobleman, natural causes.
 July 5 - Mika Myllyla, 41, Finnish cross-country skier.
 July 5 - Cy Twombly, 83, American painter, cancer.
 July 8 - Betty Ford, 93, former First Lady of the United States and founder of the Betty Ford Center.
 July 9 - Michael Burston (Wurzel), 61, English musician (Motorhead).
 July 10 - Roland Petit, 87, French choreographer.
 July 11 - Tom Gehrels, 86, Dutch-American astronomer.
 July 12 - Sherwood Schwartz, 94, American television producer. 
 July 17 - Juan Maria Bordaberry, 83, former President of Uruguay, after long illness.
 July 17 - Takaji Mori, 67, Japanese footballer, renal pelvic cancer.
 July 20 - Lucian Freud, 88, German-born British painter.
 July 21 - Kazimierz Świątek, 96, former Catholic Cardinal of Belarus.
 July 23 - Nguyen Cao Ky, 80, South Vietnamese air force chief and Prime Minister.
 July 23 - Amy Winehouse, 27, English singer-songwriter, alcohol poisoning.
 July 23 - John Shalikashvili, 75, American General, former Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff.
 July 23 - Robert Ettinger, 92, American academic.
 July 24 - Virgilio Noe, 89, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal.
 July 24 - Dan Peek, 60, American singer.
 July 25 - Mihalis Kakogiannis, 89, Cypriot movie director and producer.
 July 25 - Jeret Peterson, 29, American freestyle skier and Olympic silver medal winner, self-inflicted gunshot.
 July 26 - Margaret Olley, 88, Australian artist.
 July 26 - Sakyo Komatsu, 80, Japanese science fiction writer.
 July 27 - Agota Kristof, 75, Hungarian writer.
 July 28 - Abdul Fatah Younis, 67, Libyan rebel leader and government official, shot.
 July 30 - Millangoda Raja, 70, Sri Lankan elephant.
 July 30 - Mario Echandi Jimenez, 96, 47th President of Costa Rica, pneumonia.
 July 31 - Eliseo Alberto, 59, Cuban-Mexican writer, complications from kidney transplant.

 August 
 August 2 - Baruj Benacerraf, 90, Venezuelan-born American immunologist and Nobel Prize winner.
 August 3 - Nikolay Petrov, 68, Russian pianist, stroke.
 August 3 - Bubba Smith, 66, American football player and actor.
 August 4 - Naoki Matsuda, 34, Japanese footballer, suspected heart attack.
 August 5 - Andrzej Lepper, 57, Polish politician, suicide by hanging.
 August 7 - Hugh Carey, 92, former New York Governor.
 August 7 - Harri Holkeri, 74, 57th Prime Minister of Finland, after long illness.
 August 7 - Nancy Wake, 98, Australian spy in World War II, known as the "White Mouse".
 August 11 - Jani Lane, 47, American musician (Warrant).
 August 14 - Shammi Kapoor, 79, Indian movie actor and director, renal failure.
 August 14 - Albert N. Brown, 105, American soldier, last survivor of the Bataan Death March, heart ailment.
 August 15 - Russell Armstrong, 47, American attorney and venture capitalist.
 August 15 - Rick Rypien, 27, Canadian ice hockey player.
 August 16 - Andrej Bajuk, 67, Slovenian banker and politician.
 August 17 - Pierre Quinon, 49, French pole vaulter, suicide.
 August 19 - Raul Ruiz, 70, Chilean movie director, pulmonary infection.
 August 19 - Gun Hägglund, 79, Swedish television journalist.
 August 22 - Jack Layton, 61, Canadian politician, leader of the NDP, cancer.
 August 22 - Jerry Leiber, 78, American songwriter.
 August 22 - Vicco von Buelow (Loriot), 87, German humorist, age-related causes.
 August 25 - Lazar Mojsov, 90, Macedonian politician.
 August 26 - Aloysius Ambrozic, 81, Slovenian-Canadian cardinal, former Archbishop of Toronto.
 August 26 - George Band, 82, British mountaineer.
 August 27 - Stetson Kennedy, 94, American writer and Civil rights activist.
 August 29 - David Honeyboy Edwards, 96, American blues musician.
 August 31 - Wade Belak, 35, Canadian ice hockey player.
 August 31 - Valery Rozhdestvensky, 72, Soviet-Russian cosmonaut.

 September 
 September 3 - Sandor Kepiro, 97, Hungarian military officer.
 September 5 - Salvatore Licitra, 43, Italian tenor, from injuries in a motorcycle crash.
 September 5 - Vann Nath, 65, Cambodian painter.
 September 7 - Notable ice hockey players and coaches among the 44 killed in the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash:
 Vitali Anikeyenko, 24, Ukrainian
 Mikhail Balandin, 31, Russian
 Gennady Churilov, 24, Russian
 Pavol Demitra, 36, Slovakian
 Robert Dietrich, 25, German 
 Marat Kalimulin, 23, Russian
 Alexander Kalyanin, 23, Russian
 Alexander Karpovtsev, 41, Russian coach, world champion (as player, 1993), Stanley Cup champion (as player, 1994, with New York Rangers)
 Andrei Kiryukhin, 24, Russian
 Nikita Klyukin, 21, Russian, world U18 champion (2007)
 Igor Korolev, 41, Russian coach
 Stefan Liv, 30, Swedish, Olympic gold medalist (2006), world champion (2006)
 Jan Marek, 31, Czech
 Brad McCrimmon, 52, Canadian coach, Stanley Cup champion (as player, 1989, with Calgary Flames)
 Sergei Ostapchuk, 21, Belarusian
 Karel Rachůnek, 32, Czech, world champion (2010)
 Ruslan Salei, 36, Belarusian
 Maxim Shuvalov, 18, Russian
 Kārlis Skrastiņš, 37, Latvian
 Pavel Snurnitsyn, 19, Russian
 Daniil Sobchenko, 20, Russian, world junior champion (2011)
 Ivan Tkachenko, 31, Russian
 Pavel Trakhanov, 33, Russian
 Yuri Urychev, 20, Russian, world junior champion (2011)
 Josef Vašíček, 30, Czech, world junior champion (2000), world champion (2005), Stanley Cup champion (2006, with Carolina Hurricanes)
 Alexander Vasyunov, 23, Russian
 Alexander Vyukhin, 38, Ukrainian
 Artem Yarchuk, 21, Russian
 September 8 - Vo Chi Cong, 99, former President of Vietnam.
 September 10 - Cliff Robertson, 88, American actor, natural causes.
 September 11 - Andy Whitfield, 39, Welsh actor, cancer.
 September 12 - Alexander Galimov, 26, Russian ice hockey player, injuries from plane crash.
 September 13 - Richard Hamilton, 89, British painter and collage artist.
 September 13 - Walter Bonatti, 81, Italian mountaineer.
 September 14 - Rudolf Moessbauer, 82, German physicist and Nobel Prize winner
 September 17 - Kurt Sanderling, 98, German conductor.
 September 19 - Dolores Hope, 102, American singer and philanthropist.
 September 19 - George Cadle Price, 92, 1st Prime Minister of Belize.
 September 20 - Burhanuddin Rabbani, 71, former President of Afghanistan, bomb attack.
 September 21 - Paulette Dubost, 100, French actress.
 September 22 - Aristides Pereira, 87, 1st President of Cape Verde.
 September 22 - Knut Steen, 86, Norwegian sculptor.
 September 25 - Theyab Awana, 21, Emirati footballer, traffic accident.UAE footballer Theyab Awana dies following car accident
 September 25 - Wangari Maathai, 71, Kenyan environmental and political activist (2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner), cancer.
 September 27 - Imre Makovecz, 75, Hungarian architect.
 September 29 - Tatyana Lioznova, 87, Russian movie director.
 September 29 - Hella Haasse, 93, Dutch writer.
 September 30 - Anwar al-Awlaki, 40, American-born Yemeni terrorist and Islamist militant, airstrike.
 September 30 - Ralph M. Steinman, 68, Canadian immunologist (announced on October 3 as joint winner of the Nobel Prize), pancreatic cancer.

 October 
 October 1 - Sven Tumba, 80, Swedish ice hockey player, golfer and footballer, prostate cancer.
 October 1 - David Bedford, 74, English composer, lung cancer.
 October 4 - Yelena Chernykh, 32, Russian theatre actress, car crash.
 October 5 - Bert Jansch, 67, Scottish folk guitarist, singer and songwriter, cancer.
 October 5 - Steve Jobs, 56, American businessman (Apple Inc.), pancreatic cancer.
 October 5 - Charles Napier, 75, American actor.
 October 6 - Diane Cilento, 78, Australian actress, cancer.
 October 7 - Ramiz Alia, 85, Albanian politician and former President, lung complications.
 October 10 - Jagjit Singh, 70, Indian musician, brain haemorrhage.
 October 10 - Albert Rosellini, 101, American politician and former Governor of Washington, natural causes.
 October 12 - Dennis Ritchie, 70, American computer scientist.
 October 16 - Dan Wheldon, 33, British auto racer, racing accident.
 October 17 - Manfred Gerlach, 83, German politician and last Chairman of the State Council of East Germany.
 October 18 - Norman Corwin, 101, American radio writer, director and producer.
 October 20 - Muammar al-Gaddafi, 69, Libyan military ruler, killed.
 October 21 - Edmundo Ros, 100, Trinidadian bandleader.
 October 22 - Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, 83, Saudi crown prince, after long illness.
 October 22 - Robert Pierpoint, 86, American television journalist who covered six Presidents, complications of hip surgery.
 October 23 - Nusrat Bhutto, 82, Iranian-born former First Lady of Pakistan.
 October 23 - Marco Simoncelli, 24, Italian motorcycle racer, race crash.
 October 23 - Bronislovas Lubys, 73, Lithuanian entrepreneur and former Prime Minister, heart attack.
 October 23 - Herbert A. Hauptman, 94, American mathematician, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
 October 23 - John McCarthy, 84, American computer scientist, heart disease.
 October 25 - Tom McNeeley, 74, American heavyweight boxer.
 October 26 - Jona Senilagakali, 81, Fijian physician, diplomat and 7th Prime Minister of Fiji.
 October 28 - Jiri Grusa, 72, Czech diplomat and writer.
 October 29 - Jimmy Savile, 84, British television presenter and charity fundraiser.
 October 31 - Florian Albert, 70, Hungarian footballer, heart attack.
 October 31 - Alfred Hilbe, 83, 6th Prime Minister of Liechtenstein.
 October 31 - Ali Saibou, 71, 3rd President of Niger.

 November 
 November

 December 
 December 1 - Christa Wolf, 82, German writer and novelist, after long illness.
 December 1 - Arthur Beetson, 66, Australian rugby league player and coach (Eastern Suburbs, Queensland, Australia), heart attack.
 December 2 - Chiyono Hasegawa, 115, Japanese supercentenarian and second-oldest living person, natural causes.
 December 2 - Bill Tapia, 103, American musician.
 December 4 - Dev Anand, 88, Indian movie actor, director and producer, cardiac arrest.
 December 4 - Sócrates, 57, Brazilian footballer and physician, septic shock.
 December 4 - Matti Yrjana Joensuu, 63, Finnish crime fiction writer, after short illness.
 December 5 - Darrell K. Sweet, 77, American artist.
 December 5 - Violetta Villas, 73, Belgian-born Polish singer, songwriter, composer and actress.
 December 6 - Barbara Orbison, 61, German-born American record producer and music publisher, widow of Roy Orbison, pancreatic cancer.
 December 7 - Harry Morgan, 96, American actor, pneumonia.
 December 7 - Jerry Robinson, 89, American comic book artist.
 December 8 - Zelman Cowen, 92, 19th Governor-General of Australia.
 December 11 - John Patrick Foley, 76, American Roman Catholic cardinal, leukemia and anemia.
 December 12 - Malina Olinescu, 37, Romanian singer, suicide.
 December 13 - Klaus-Dieter Sieloff, 69, German footballer.
 December 14 - Boris Chertok, 99, Soviet-Russian rocket scientist and engineer.
 December 14 - George Whitman, 98, American bookstore proprietor, complications from a stroke.
 December 14 - Joe Simon, 98, American comic book writer.
 December 15 - Christopher Hitchens, 62, British-American writer, journalist and critic, complications from esophageal cancer.
 December 16 - Bob Brookmeyer, 81, American jazz musician.
 December 16 - Nicol Williamson, 75, British actor, esophageal cancer.
 December 17 - Kim Jong-il, 70, North Korean leader, heart attack.
 December 17 - Cesaria Evora, 70, Cape Verdean singer, cardiorespiratory insufficiency and hypertension.
 December 18 - Václav Havel, 75, Czech playwright, statesman and President of both Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic, after long illness.
 December 20 - Hana Andronikova, 44, Czech writer and playwright, cancer.
 December 24 - Vitaly Tseshkovsky, 67, Russian chess player.
 December 24 - Johannes Heesters, 108, Dutch-born actor, singer and entertainer.
 December 26 - Sarekoppa Bangarappa, 79, Indian politician and former Chief Minister of Karnataka.
 December 26 - Sam Rivers, 88, American jazz musician and composer.
 December 26 - Pedro Armendáriz, Jr., 71, Mexican movie and television actor, son of Pedro Armendáriz, eye cancer.
 December 27 - Helen Frankenthaler, 83, American painter, after long illness.
 December 27 - Michael Dummett, 86, British philosopher.
 December 27 - Clifford Darling, 89, former Governor-General of the Bahamas.
 December 29 - Leopold Hawelka, 100, Austrian cafetier.
 December 30 - Ricardo Legorreta, 80, Mexican architect.
 December 30 - Ronald Searle, 91, British artist and cartoonist.

Related pages
 Deaths in 2014
 Deaths in 2015
 Deaths in 2016
 Deaths in 2017
 Deaths in 2018
 Deaths in 2019

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