Deaths in 2011

The following is a list of notable **deaths in 2011**.

## January 
 1947-2011]]
 1915-2011]]
* 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 
 1926-2011]]
 1921-2011]]
* 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 
 1924-2011]]
 2006-2011]]
 1932-2011]]
 1935-2011]]
* 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 
 1924-2011]]
 1896-2011]]

* 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 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 
 1922-2011]]
 1926-2011]]
 1949-2011]]
* 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 
 1923-2011]]
 1927-2011]]
* 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 
 1930-2011]]
 1912-2011]]
 1918-2011]]
 1983-2011]]
 1915-2011]]
* 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 
 1923-2011]]
 1915-2011]]
* 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 
 1974-2011]]
 1974-2011]]
 1929-2011]]
 1940-2011]]
* 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.
* 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 
 1955-2011]]
 1917-2011]]
 1927-2011]]
* 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 
 1936-2011]]
 1941-2011]] 
 1903-2011]]
* 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

## References