2019

Events in the year **2019 in the United States**.

* Speaker of the House of Representatives: Paul Ryan (R-WI) (until January 3), Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) (starting January 3)
* Senate Majority Leader: Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
* Congress: 115th (until January 3), 116th (after January 3)

Governors
* Governor of Alabama: Kay Ivey (Republican)
* Governor of Alaska: Mike Dunleavy (Republican)
* Governor of Arizona: Doug Ducey (Republican)
* Governor of Arkansas: Asa Hutchinson (Republican)
* Governor of California: Jerry Brown (Democratic) (until January 7), Gavin Newsom (Democratic) (since January 7)
* Governor of Colorado: John Hickenlooper (Democratic) (until January 8), Jared Polis (Democratic) (since January 8)
* Governor of Connecticut: Dannel Malloy (Democratic) (until January 9), Ned Lamont (Democratic) (since January 9)
* Governor of Delaware: John Carney (Democratic)
* Governor of Florida: Rick Scott (Republican) (until January 8), Ron DeSantis (Republican) (since January 8)
* Governor of Georgia: Nathan Deal (Republican) (until January 14), Brian Kemp (Republican) (since January 14)
* Governor of Hawaii: David Ige (Democratic)
* Governor of Idaho: Butch Otter (Republican) (until January 7), Brad Little (Republican) (since January 7)
* Governor of Illinois: Bruce Rauner (Republican) (until January 14), J. B. Pritzker (Democratic) (since January 14)
* Governor of Indiana: Eric Holcomb (Republican)
* Governor of Iowa: Kim Reynolds (Republican)
* Governor of Kansas: Jeff Colyer (Republican) (until January 14), Laura Kelly (Democratic) (since January 14)
* Governor of Kentucky: Matt Bevin (Republican) (until December 10), Andy Beshear (Democratic) (since December 10)
* Governor of Louisiana: John Bel Edwards (Democratic)
* Governor of Maine: Paul LePage (Republican) (until January 2), Janet Mills (Democratic) (since January 2)
* Governor of Maryland: Larry Hogan (Republican)
* Governor of Massachusetts: Charlie Baker (Republican)
* Governor of Michigan: Rick Snyder (Republican) (until January 1), Gretchen Whitmer (Democratic) (since January 1)
* Governor of Minnesota: Mark Dayton (Democratic) (until January 7), Tim Walz (Democratic) (since January 7)
* Governor of Mississippi: Phil Bryant (Republican)
* Governor of Missouri: Mike Parson (Republican)
* Governor of Montana: Steve Bullock (Democratic)
* Governor of Nebraska: Pete Ricketts (Republican)
* Governor of Nevada: Brian Sandoval (Republican) (until January 7), Steve Sisolak (Democratic) (since January 7)
* Governor of New Hampshire: Chris Sununu (Republican)
* Governor of New Jersey: Phil Murphy (Democratic)
* Governor of New Mexico: Susana Martinez (Republican) (until January 1), Michelle Lujan Grisham (Democratic) (since January 1)
* Governor of New York: Andrew Cuomo (Democratic)
* Governor of North Carolina: Roy Cooper (Democratic)
* Governor of North Dakota: Doug Burgum (Republican)
* Governor of Ohio: John Kasich (Republican) (until January 14), Mike DeWine (Republican) (since January 14)
* Governor of Oklahoma: Mary Fallin (Republican) (until January 14), Kevin Stitt (Republican) (since January 14)
* Governor of Oregon: Kate Brown (Democratic)
* Governor of Pennsylvania: Tom Wolf (Democratic)
* Governor of Rhode Island: Gina Raimondo (Democratic)
* Governor of South Carolina: Henry McMaster (Republican)
* Governor of South Dakota: Dennis Daugaard (Republican) (until January 5), Kristi Noem (Republican) (since January 5)
* Governor of Tennessee: Bill Haslam (Republican) (until January 19), Bill Lee (Republican) (since January 19)
* Governor of Texas: Greg Abbott (Republican)
* Governor of Utah: Gary Herbert (Republican)
* Governor of Vermont: Phil Scott (Republican)
* Governor of Virginia: Ralph Northam (Democratic)
* Governor of Washington: Jay Inslee (Democratic)
* Governor of West Virginia: Jim Justice (Democratic)
* Governor of Wisconsin: Scott Walker (Republican) (until January 7), Tony Evers (Democratic) (since January 7)
* Governor of Wyoming: Matt Mead (Republican) (until January 7), Mark Gordon (Republican) (since January 7)

Lieutenant Governors
* Lieutenant Governor of Alabama: vacant (until January 14), Will Ainsworth (Republican) (since January 14)
* Lieutenant Governor of Alaska: Kevin Meyer (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas: Tim Griffin (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of California: Gavin Newsom (Democratic) (until January 7), Eleni Kounalakis (Democratic) (since January 7)
* Lieutenant Governor of Colorado: Donna Lynne (Democratic) (until January 8), Dianne Primavera (Democratic) (since January 8)
* Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut: Nancy Wyman (Democratic) (until January 9), Susan Bysiewicz (Democratic) (since January 9)
* Lieutenant Governor of Delaware: Bethany Hall-Long (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Florida: Carlos López-Cantera (Republican) (until January 8), Jeanette Nunez (Republican) (since January 8)
* Lieutenant Governor of Georgia: Casey Cagle (Republican) (until January 14), Geoff Duncan (Republican) (since January 14)
* Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii: Josh Green (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Idaho: Brad Little (Republican) (until January 7), Janice McGeachin (Republican) (since January 7)
* Lieutenant Governor of Illinois: Evelyn Sanguinetti (Republican) (until January 14), Juliana Stratton (Democratic) (since January 14)
* Lieutenant Governor of Indiana: Suzanne Crouch (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Iowa: vacant
* Lieutenant Governor of Kansas: Tracey Mann (Republican) (until January 14), Lynn Rogers (Democratic) (since January 14)
* Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: Jenean Hampton (Republican) (until December 10), Jacqueline Coleman (Democratic) (since December 10)
* Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana: Billy Nungesser (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Maryland: Boyd Rutherford (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: Karyn Polito (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Michigan: Brian Calley (Republican) (until January 1), Garlin Gilchrist (Democratic) (since January 1)
* Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota: Michelle Fischbach (Republican) (until January 7), Peggy Flanagan (Democratic) (since January 7)
* Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi: Tate Reeves (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Missouri: Mike Kehoe (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Montana: Mike Cooney (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska: Mike Foley (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Nevada: Mark Hutchison (Republican) (until January 7), Kate Marshall (Democratic) (since January 7)
* Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey: Sheila Oliver (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of New Mexico: John Sanchez (Republican) (until January 1), Howie Morales (Democratic) (since January 1)
* Lieutenant Governor of New York: Robert Duffy (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina: Dan Forest (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota: Brent Sanford (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Ohio: Mary Taylor (Republican) (until January 14), Jon A. Husted (Republican) (since January 14)
* Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma: Todd Lamb (Republican) (until January 14), Matt Pinnell (Republican) (since January 14)
* Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania: Michael J. Stack III (Democratic) (until January 15), John Fetterman (since January 15)
* Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island: Daniel McKee (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina: Kevin L. Bryant (Republican) (until January 9), Pamela Evette (Republican) (since January 9)
* Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota: Matt Michels (Republican) (until January 5), Larry Rhoden (Republican) (since January 5)
* Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee: Ron Ramsey (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Texas: Dan Patrick (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Utah: Spencer Cox (Republican)
* Lieutenant Governor of Vermont: David Zuckerman (Progressive)
* Lieutenant Governor of Virginia: Justin Fairfax (Democratic) (starting January 13)
* Lieutenant Governor of Washington: Cyrus Habib (Democratic)
* Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin: Rebecca Kleefisch (Republican) (until January 7), Mandela Barnes (Democratic) (since January 7)

## Events

### January

* January 1
	+ All works published in 1923 except sound recordings enter the public domain in the United States, the first works to do so since the passage of the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act.
	+ Washington state bans all persons under 21 years of age from purchasing a semi-automatic assault rifle.
* January 3 – The Democrats take control of the House of Representatives, with a promise to end the government shutdown, but without funding for President Donald Trump's proposed border wall. The Republicans increase their control of the United States Senate.
* January 4 – Government data reveals that the U.S. economy added 312,000 jobs in December, far ahead of predictions of 177,000, and that manufacturing ended 2018 with the most jobs added in one year since 1997.
* January 8 – In a televised address to the nation, President Donald Trump makes the case for his proposed border wall.
* January 11 – Representative Tulsi Gabbard announces her candidacy for U.S. president.
* January 12
	+ The ongoing government shutdown becomes the longest in U.S. history at 22 days, leaving 800,000 employees unpaid.
	+ Former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julián Castro announces his candidacy for U.S. president.
* January 14 – J.B. Pritzker is inaugurated as the 43rd governor of Illinois, succeeding Bruce Rauner.
* January 15 – Senator Kirsten Gillibrand announces her candidacy for U.S. president.
* January 19 – President Trump offers a "compromise" of three years' additional protection for 700,000 Dreamers who entered the USA illegally with their parents and the 300,000 people holding visas under Temporary Protection Status (TPS) in exchange for funding for his security wall, but the offer is rejected by Democrats.
* January 21 – The Supreme Court rules that the Trump administration is allowed to limit military service for transgender people.
* January 23 – South Bend, Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg announces his candidacy for U.S. president.
* January 25
	+ Political consultant Roger Stone is charged with seven counts in the 2017–2019 Special Counsel's investigation, including obstruction of justice and witness tampering.
	+ Flights are halted into New York's LaGuardia Airport due to shortages of air traffic control staff, as a result of the ongoing government shutdown.
	+ President Trump agrees to temporarily end the government shutdown as he backs a deal to fund federal agencies for three weeks.
* January 28 – The Justice Department charges Chinese tech firm Huawei with multiple counts of fraud, raising U.S.-China tensions.
* January 29 – Author Marianne Williamson announces her candidacy for U.S. president.
* January 30
	+ Large portions of the United States are hit by a polar vortex, bringing "once-in-a-generation" low temperatures and heavy snow. A state of emergency is declared in several states and a number of cold-related deaths are reported.
	+ Teachers rally in Denver following a vote on January 22 to strike for higher pay.
	+ Sandusky, Ohio becomes the first city in the country to make Election Day a paid holiday while eliminating Columbus Day.

### February

* February 1
	+ President Donald Trump confirms that the U.S. will leave the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces treaty.
	+ Senator Cory Booker announces his candidacy for U.S. president.
* February 3 – Super Bowl LIII: The New England Patriots defeat the Los Angeles Rams 13–3 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia.
* February 9 – Senator Elizabeth Warren announces her candidacy for U.S. president.
* February 10 – Senator Amy Klobuchar announces her candidacy for U.S. president.
* February 12 – Mexican drug boss Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán is found guilty on all 10 counts at his drug-trafficking trial at a federal court in New York.
* February 15
	+ Gary Montez Martin murders five people and injures six others in a mass shooting at Henry Pratt Company in Aurora, Illinois.
	+ President Trump declares a national emergency to free up funds for his proposed border wall.
* February 16 – Bishop Theodore Edgar McCarrick is defrocked, following historical sexual abuse allegations. He becomes the most senior Catholic figure to be dismissed from the priesthood in modern times.
* February 19 – Senator Bernie Sanders announces his candidacy for the 2020 presidential election.
* February 20 – U.S. Coast Guard lieutenant Christopher Paul Hasson, who planned a domestic terrorist attack targeting politicians and journalists, is arrested.
* February 21
	+ Jussie Smollett hate crime hoax: Actor Jussie Smollett is arrested after being charged with disorderly conduct for staging a racist attack on himself in Chicago. Smollett maintains his innocence.
	+ Senator Kamala Harris declares her candidacy for U.S. president.
* February 22
	+ Singer R. Kelly is charged with 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse for incidents dating back as far as 1998.
	+ *National Coalition for Men v. Selective Service System*: The United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas rules that male-only conscription breaches the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause.
* February 24 – The 91st Academy Awards, the first since 1989 to have no official host, are held at Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, with Peter Farrelly's *Green Book* winning Best Picture. Bryan Singer's *Bohemian Rhapsody* wins four awards, among them Rami Malek for Best Actor, and both Yorgos Lanthimos' *The Favourite* and Alfonso Cuarón's *Roma* both lead with ten nominations. Cuarón wins his second Best Director award, Olivia Colman wins Best Actress for *The Favourite*, Mahershala Ali Best Supporting Actor for *Green Book* and Regina King Best Supporting Actress for *If Beale Street Could Talk*. The telecast garners nearly 29.6 million viewers.
* February 27
	+ President Trump's ex-lawyer Michael Cohen tells Congress that Trump had advanced knowledge of leaked Democratic emails during the 2016 Presidential campaign.
	+ The 2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit is held in Vietnam begins. It is the second summit with a United States President and the North Korean leader.
* February 28 – The 2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit ends.

### March

* March 1 – Washington State governor Jay Inslee announces his candidacy in the 2020 presidential election.
* March 3
	+ An unmanned demonstration flight of the SpaceX Dragon achieves successful autonomous docking with the International Space Station.
	+ A severe tornado outbreak hits the southern states of Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina, leaving at least 23 people dead and leaving 10,000 homes and businesses without electricity.
* March 4 – Former Colorado governor John Hickenlooper announces his candidacy for the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
* March 8 – *Captain Marvel*, directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, is released by Marvel Studios as the 21st film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). It becomes the fifth-highest-grossing film of 2019 during its run, earning $1.128 billion worldwide.
* March 12
	+ The 2019 college admissions bribery scandal becomes public; around 50 people are accused of bribery and fraud to secure admission to elite colleges, including actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin.
	+ California governor Gavin Newsom places a moratorium on California's death penalty, thus ordering a reprieve for the 737 people on death row.
* March 13
	+ Boeing grounds its entire global fleet of 737 Max aircraft in response to evidence gathered following the crashes of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 and Lion Air Flight 610.
	+ Former Representative Beto O'Rourke announces his candidacy for the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
* March 15
	+ President Trump issues the first veto of his presidency, striking down a Senate resolution to end his national emergency declaration to build a border wall.
	+ Hundreds of students stage a walkout and rally at the Capitol building, demanding legal action on climate change. They are joined by students in over 1,600 simultaneous protests in 100 countries around the world.
	+ Robert Gentile, 82, whom federal authorities believe is a person of interest in the $500 million Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft, is released from federal custody.
	+ The New Mexico legislature votes to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples' Day.
* March 17
	+ The Washington State Senate approves legislation that would legally require all presidential candidates to release the last five years of their personal tax returns in order to have their names featured on both primary and general election voting ballots.
	+ The University of Tennessee announces it will guarantee free tuition and fees to admitted in-state residents with a family household income of less than $50,000.
* March 18 – Floods across the Midwest kill at least three people and inflict hundreds of millions of dollars in damage.
* March 19 – American Karen Uhlenbeck is the first woman to win the Abel Prize for outstanding contributions to mathematics.
* March 20 – The International 2019 Major League Baseball season begins with the Oakland Athletics and the Seattle Mariners playing in Japan at the Tokyo Dome.
* March 21 – Cesar Sayoc, 57, the Florida man accused of the October 2018 United States mail bombing attempts, pleads guilty in Manhattan federal court to 65 felony counts, including using weapons of mass destruction in an attempted domestic terrorist attack.
* March 22
	+ Jimmy Carter becomes the longest-living U.S. president at 94 years, 172 days old.
	+ Special Counsel Robert Mueller turns in the report of his nearly two-year investigation on whether the Trump campaign helped Russia interfere in the 2016 presidential election.
	+ The Department of Defense declares that the Islamic State militant group no longer controls any territory in Syria. The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces declare victory over the group the following day.
* March 23 – For the second time in a week, a survivor of the 2018 Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, commits suicide. On March 17, Sydney Aiello, 19, committed suicide after being diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.
* March 24 – Attorney General William Barr sends members of Congress a four page letter outlining the principle conclusions of the Mueller Report.
* March 25
	+ Kentucky outlaws bestiality.
	+ Attorney Michael Avenatti is arrested in New York on charges of attempting to extort more than $20 million from sports company Nike. He is also charged with wire and bank fraud in a separate case in Los Angeles.
	+ Jeremy Richman, father of 6-year-old Avielle Richman, who was among 20 children and six adults killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, is found dead from an apparent suicide. This follows recent suicides by two survivors of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting.
* March 26
	+ The House of Representatives fails to reach the supermajority needed to override President Trump's veto of Congress's attempt to overturn the border wall emergency declaration.
	+ "Bump stocks" are made illegal in the United States.
* March 28 – The 2019 Major League Baseball season has its earliest season opener in history.
* March 29
	+ A judge in eastern North Carolina declares a charter school's dress code unconstitutional.
	+ Fire destroys a building that housed executive offices at the Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market, Tennessee; arson is suspected.
* March 30 – President Trump issues a new permit to construct the Keystone Pipeline.
* March 31 – A 23rd horse is reported to have died at Santa Anita racetrack in California, the latest in a string of deaths occurring since December 2018.

### April

* April 1
	+ *Bucklew v. Precythe*: the Supreme Court rules 5–4 that death row inmates are not guaranteed "painless" executions under the U.S. Constitution.
	+ The U.S. halts the delivery of F-35 fighter jet-related equipment to Turkey to protest the country's planned purchasing of Russia's S-400 missile defense system.
	+ The Colorado legislature passes a red flag law, allowing seizure of guns from people deemed a threat to themselves or others.
	+ Two airports in New York join San Antonio International Airport in banning concessions to Chick-fil-A restaurants due to the company's anti-LGBTQ record.
	+ Firefighters in Asbury Park, New Jersey put out a forest fire that burned 11,638 acres (18 square miles) in two days.
* April 2
	+ Lori Lightfoot wins the run-off in the 2019 Chicago mayoral election, becoming the first black woman to hold the post and the first openly gay Chicago mayor.
	+ Prosecutors in Waco, Texas decide to not go ahead with prosecution of individuals allegedly involved in the 2015 Waco shootout that left nine dead and 20 people injured.
	+ An explosion at a chemical plant in Crosby, Texas leaves one dead and two injured. This comes just weeks after a similar Houston-area explosion in Deer Creek, Texas on March 17.
* April 3
	+ Representative Richard Neal, chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, sends a letter to the Internal Revenue Service asking for President Trump's tax returns. Meanwhile, the House Judiciary Committee votes to subpoena the Mueller Report.
	+ The Pittsburgh City Council votes for new gun laws, including a ban on certain semiautomatic assault weapons.
* April 4 – The 1973 War Powers Resolution is invoked for the first time when the House votes 247–175 to end U.S. military assistance to Saudi Arabia in its intervention in the Yemeni Civil War; the Senate voted 54–46 on the bill in March 2019. President Trump vetoes the bill on April 16, the second veto of his presidency.
* April 5 – *Shazam!*, directed by David F. Sandberg, is released as the seventh film in the DC Extended Universe.
* April 6 – Arson is suspected as the cause of three fires in historically black churches since March 26 in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. A fourth, smaller fire was set at a majority-white church in Caddo Parish on March 31. The culprit in the case of the three black churches is arrested and charged on April 11.
* April 8 – Joining Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, the Trump administration announces its intentions to designate Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist group. The official designation takes place on April 15.
* April 11
	+ Federal prosecutors announce a 36-count indictment against lawyer Michael Avenatti, including bank fraud, embezzlement, tax evasion and wire fraud.
	+ Federal prosecutors indict Obama-era White House Counsel Greg Craig on charges of lying and hiding information related to his work for Ukraine.
	+ Ohio passes legislation to ban abortion at six weeks, the fifth state to do so.
* April 15 – Former Massachusetts governor Bill Weld officially announces his candidacy in the 2020 presidential election. He will run as a Republican primary challenger to incumbent President Donald Trump, the first to do so.
* April 16 – Apple and Qualcomm settle a multi-year legal dispute regarding patent royalties. The deal between the two tech giants helps, among other arrangements, pave the way for Apple to have 5G iPhones on the market by 2020.
* April 18 – A redacted version of the final Mueller Report is released by Attorney General William Barr to Congress and the general public. The report goes into detail on findings from the 2017–2019 Special Counsel probe regarding Russian contacts with the 2016 Donald Trump election campaign and matters regarding obstruction of justice by President Trump himself.
* April 23 – Wing Aviation, a Google offshoot company, becomes the first drone delivery service to receive Air Carrier Certification from the Federal Aviation Administration.
* April 25
	+ Former Vice President Joe Biden announces his candidacy for the 2020 presidential election, expanding the field to a record 20 candidates, the largest field of presidential candidates in U.S. history.
	+ A manhunt is launched for man caught on CCTV attempting to set fire to the National Archives Building in Washington, D.C. The suspect, Jacob Leroy Wallace, 32, is later arrested on May 2.
* April 26 – *Avengers: Endgame* is released by Marvel Studios as the sequel to 2018's *Avengers: Infinity War*. It breaks several box office records and eventually becomes the second highest-grossing film of all time, grossing $2.798 billion.
* April 27
	+ A mass shooting occurs at the Chabad of Poway synagogue in Poway, California on the last day of Passover, resulting in one death and three injuries.
	+ A construction crane working on a Google office building in Seattle, Washington, collapses onto Mercer Street, killing four people and injuring four others.
* April 28 – Undersea explorer Victor Vescovo sets a new world record for the deepest ever sea dive at 10,972 meters (35,997 ft) in the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench. Several unusual things are discovered at the bottom, including four new species of prawn-like crustaceans and a new species of snailfish.
* April 30
	+ A school shooting takes place at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, leaving two people dead and four injured.
	+ Minneapolis Police Officer Mohamed Noor is convicted of third-degree murder and manslaughter for shooting and killing Australian woman Justine Damond after she called 9-1-1 to report the possible assault of a woman.

### May

* May 1 – Maine becomes the first state to ban Styrofoam containers.
* May 2
	+ After designating them "dangerous individuals and organizations", social media giant Facebook purges InfoWars, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, prominent white nationalist Paul Nehlen, right-wing figures Milo Yiannopoulos, Laura Loomer, Paul Joseph Watson and others from all of its platforms, including Instagram. After notable partisan outcry, President Trump later tweets on the matter, decrying perceived targeted censorship against conservatives on social media platforms by private corporations. Facebook responds that the bans were not ideologically motivated.
	+ Mayor of Baltimore Catherine Pugh announces her resignation from office amid state and federal investigations into whether she used bulk sales of her self-published children's book to disguise kickbacks.
* May 3 – New economic data shows that the U.S. unemployment rate fell from 3.8 percent to 3.6 percent in April 2019, the lowest in 49 years, with employers adding 263,000 jobs in April versus the expected 190,000.
* May 4
	+ For the first time in American history, the winners of the Miss America (Nia Franklin), Miss Teen USA (Kaliegh Garris), and Miss USA (Cheslie Kryst) beauty contests are all black women.
	+ At the 2019 Kentucky Derby, longshot contender Country House wins the race after Maximum Security is disqualified, despite being the first across the finish line.
* May 5 – National security adviser John Bolton announces the U.S. will deploy the USS *Abraham Lincoln* (CVN-72) Carrier Strike Group and four B-52 bombers to the Middle Eastern theater to "send a clear and unmistakable message" to Iran following Israeli intelligence reports of an alleged Iranian plot to attack U.S. forces in the region. The military would later deploy the USS *Arlington* (LPD-24) Marine transport ship and a Patriot SAM battery to the Middle East as well.
* May 6
	+ According to Gallup's tracking poll, President Donald Trump's approval rating reaches 46%, the highest of his presidency thus far.
	+ Professional golfer Tiger Woods is awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, becoming the fourth (and the youngest) active golfer to have received the medal.
	+ The Arizona Senate declares pornography to be a public health crisis.
* May 7 – A school shooting occurs at the STEM School Highlands Ranch in Douglas County, Colorado, leaving one dead and seven injured.
* May 8
	+ *The New York Times* publishes newly obtained tax information revealing that from 1985 to 1994, Donald Trump lost $1.17 billion from his various businesses, a far greater amount than previously known, and more than any tax payer in U.S. history.
	+ Denver, Colorado, becomes the first city in the U.S. to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms, in a vote of 51 to 49%.
* May 10 – At 12:00 a.m. EST, President Trump's proposed 25 percent tariff hike on $200 billion worth of Chinese imports takes effect, escalating tensions between the two nations amid the ongoing China–United States trade war. The deadline hits as negotiations between trade representatives continued.
* May 13 – 2019 college admissions bribery scandal: Actress Felicity Huffman pleads guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud and admits to paying $15,000 for a proctor to change her daughter's SAT answers.
* May 14
	+ Abortion is outlawed in the state of Alabama, except for cases where a woman's life is threatened or a lethal fetal anomaly is present. The anti-abortion law, written to serve as a catalyst for a legal challenge against the *Roe v. Wade* ruling, is set to go into effect in November.
	+ San Francisco becomes the first U.S. city to ban the use of facial recognition technology.
* May 15 – President Trump issues an executive order invoking the International Emergency Economic Powers Act in response to security threats from foreign telecom companies such as Huawei.
* May 16 – New York City mayor Bill de Blasio announces his candidacy in the 2020 presidential election, expanding the Democratic primary field to a record 24 candidates, already the largest presidential primary field for any political party in American history.
* May 17
	+ The U.S. reaches a deal with Mexico and Canada to lift steel and aluminum tariffs imposed in May 2018, paving the way for further ratification of the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA), the trade agreement set to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
	+ Japan lifts its ban on U.S. beef imports that were from cattle older than 20 months of age.
	+ A major tornado outbreak strikes the Central United States, killing at least eight people and causing "catastrophic" damage in many areas.
* May 21 – Washington becomes the first state to legalize human composting, the right to allow people to have their body turned into soil after death. The process is seen as an alternative to traditional cremations and burials.
* May 22 – The Alabama Historical Commission announces that the wreckage of the *Clotilda*, the last known slave ship to bring African slaves to the United States during the Atlantic slave trade, is found in the Mobile River.
* May 23 – California native John Walker Lindh, a former Taliban fighter and the first person to be convicted of a crime in the War on Terror, is released from federal prison after serving 17 years of a 20-year sentence.
* May 24
	+ President Trump authorizes the deployment of 1,500 additional troops to the Middle East amid regional tensions with Iran.
	+ Federal judge Carlton Reeves temporarily blocks a Mississippi law banning abortions after the sixth week of pregnancy.
* May 26 - Simon Pagenaud wins the Indianapolis 500, driving a Dallara-Chevrolet for Team Penske. It was Pagenaud's first win in the event and Penske's 18th.
* May 30
	+ 2019 measles outbreak: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that, thus far in 2019, there have been 971 cases of measles in the U.S., the highest level in more than 25 years.
	+ President Trump announces his intentions to apply a 5 percent tariff on all Mexican imports, effective June 10, to pressure Mexico to do more to crack down on a surge in Central American migrants trying to cross the U.S. southern border. The tariffs are to increase to 10 percent on July 1, and by another 5 percent each month for three months. The tariffs are averted on June 7.
	+ Louisiana bans abortions at six weeks of pregnancy, joining five other states that have passed six-week abortion bans.
	+ New Hampshire becomes the 21st state to abolish the death penalty.
* May 31 – 12 people are killed, including the perpetrator, and four are injured in a mass shooting at a municipal center in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

### June

* June 3 – Jay-Z becomes the first hip-hop billionaire, according to *Forbes* magazine.
* June 7 – NASA announces that, beginning in 2020, the International Space Station will be commercialized, allowing private companies to use the station to conduct for-profit activities, including marketing, advertising and space manufacturing.
* June 10
	+ United Technologies and Raytheon agree to a merger. The resultant company is projected to be the second largest defense and aerospace contractor in the U.S.
	+ A helicopter crashes onto the roof of the AXA Equitable Center in New York City, killing the pilot.
* June 11 – Alabama legalizes chemical castration as a stipulation for child sex offenders applying for parole; the law goes into effect September 1.
* June 12
	+ Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker signs a law making abortion a "fundamental right" for pregnant individuals in the state.
	+ At least two dozen police officers and two journalists are injured in overnight riots in Memphis, Tennessee after U.S. Marshals kill a 20-year-old black man, Brandon Webber, during an attempted arrest.
	+ The St. Louis Blues defeat the Boston Bruins 4 games to 3, to win their first Stanley Cup Championship.
* June 14 – Gov. Ron DeSantis signs a bill making Florida the 12th state to ban sanctuary cities.
* June 18 – Twelve Federal Police agents are sentenced to 34 years of prison for the August 24, 2012 murder of two CIA agents in Tres Marias, Morelos, Mexico.
* June 19 – Keith Raniere, leader of sex cult NXIVM, is found guilty of all charges against him in a New York court.
* June 20 – 2019 Iranian shoot-down of American drone: President Trump orders then aborts conventional military strikes against Iran after the shoot-down of an RQ-4A surveillance drone over the Strait of Hormuz. He reportedly approves cyber attacks against Iranian missile systems.
* June 21
	+ Journalist and advice columnist E. Jean Carroll accuses President Trump of having sexually assaulted her in a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room in the mid-1990s.
	+ Pixar Animation Studios' 21st feature film, *Toy Story 4*, the sequel to 2010's *Toy Story 3*, is released in theaters.
* June 23 – In a public stunt, two members of The Flying Wallendas successfully walk a quarter-mile tightrope 25 stories above Times Square.
* June 24 – President Trump signs an executive order sanctioning Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, the first such sanctions in history.
* June 25 – San Francisco becomes the first major U.S. city to ban the sale of e-cigarettes.
* June 27
	+ *Rucho v. Common Cause* and *Benisek v. Lamone*: The Supreme Court rules 5–4 that federal courts are constitutionally powerless to hear challenges to excessive partisan gerrymandering, leaving it up to states and Congress to legally address the issue.
	+ During a 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries debate, Moderator and NBC "Today" host Savannah Guthrie asked the 10 Democratic primary candidates on stage if their health plans would provide coverage for the estimated 11 million people living in the U.S. illegally. Every candidate raised their hands. One study predicts this would cost American taxpayers up to $23 billion a year.
* June 30
	+ During a three-way meeting at the Korean Demilitarized Zone with South and North Korean leaders, President Trump becomes the first sitting U.S. president to set foot on North Korean territory. Both Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un pledge to restart stalled nuclear negotiations between the two countries.
	+ Ten people are killed when a twin-engine Beechcraft BE-350 King Air crashes into a hangar, shortly after take-off at Addison Airport, Texas.
	+ According to CNN and *Financial Times* reports, President Trump promised Chinese President Xi Jinping that the US would remain quiet on pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong while trade talks continued.

### July

* July 2 – *Spider-Man: Far from Home*, directed by Jon Watts, is released by Marvel Studios and Columbia Pictures as the 23rd film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), the final film in its "Phase Three" slate, the final instalment in its self-styled "Infinity Saga" and the sequel to 2017's *Spider-Man: Homecoming*.
* July 4
	+ In a one-hour Independence Day event titled Salute to America, President Donald Trump becomes the first U.S. president in nearly seven decades to address a crowd at the National Mall during the holiday. President Harry Truman had previously done so in 1951.
	+ Southern California is hit by a 6.4 magnitude earthquake, the largest in the region since 1994.
* July 5 – A second, stronger earthquake of 7.1 magnitude hits Southern California. There are no reported casualties.
* July 6
	+ Billionaire financier and registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is arrested on federal charges of sex trafficking and additionally charged by the Southern District of New York with sex trafficking and with conspiracy to traffic minors in Florida and New York.
	+ At least 20 people are injured, two seriously, by an apparent gas explosion at a shopping mall in Plantation, Florida.
* July 7 – The U.S. women's soccer team wins their fourth World Cup, defending their status as the No. 1 team in the world and renewing their campaign for pay equity.
* July 9 – Billionaire Tom Steyer announces his candidacy for the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election, on the Democratic Party ticket.
* July 11
	+ The Dow Jones Industrial Average exceeds 27,000 points for the first time in its history.
	+ Singer R. Kelly is arrested in Chicago on federal sex trafficking charges—it is the first time he faces federal criminal charges.
* July 12
	+ Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta announces his resignation amid controversy over his prosecution of a 2007 sex crimes case against Jeffrey Epstein, the details of which resurfaced following Epstein's July 6 arrest.
	+ In a 3–2 vote, the Federal Trade Commission approves a record $5 billion fine on Facebook to settle an investigation into data privacy violations.
* July 13
	+ A blackout occurs in Manhattan's West Side, affecting 73,000 customers. The blackout occurs exactly 42 years after the New York City blackout of 1977.
	+ Hurricane Barry approaches the Gulf Coast, becoming the first hurricane of the 2019 season, with a sustained wind speed of 75 mph (120 km/h).
	+ Willem Van Spronsen, a self-described Antifa member armed with a rifle and incendiary devices, attacks an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Washington state. Van Spronsen fires several shots at the detention center, throws incendiary devices, and sets vehicles on fire. While attempting to ignite a propane tank, Van Spronsen is shot and killed by Tacoma police officers.
* July 14 – President Trump sparks controversy over remarks directed at four Democratic congresswomen that were widely perceived as racist; Trump sharply denies the comments were racist. The House of Representatives votes 240–187 to condemn the President's remarks two days later. The controversy persisted as Trump supporters chanted similar remarks at a subsequent rally in Greenville, North Carolina on July 18. Trump disavowed the chant the next day.
* July 16 – The 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission is observed.
* July 17 – Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, former head of the Sinaloa cartel, which became the biggest supplier of drugs to the US, is sentenced to life in prison plus 30 years.
* July 24 – Ricardo Rosselló, governor of Puerto Rico, announces he will resign on August 2 following revelations of his participation in a chat group with sexist, profane, and homophobic comments.
* July 25
	+ Attorney General William Barr reinstates the death penalty for federal crimes. The federal government also schedules the execution of five death row inmates.
	+ Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blocks legislation to improve election security less than 24 hours after Special Counsel Robert Mueller warns of the continued threat of interference in American elections.
	+ Sixteen Marines are arrested at Camp Pendleton, California for human trafficking and drug-related offenses. Two others had been arrested on July 3.
	+ Five women (Alexandria "Ally" Kostial, 21; Zaria Newton, 20; Arykah Patrice White, 16; Lisa Nguyen, 59; and Shayna Catherine Cline, 19) are killed in Mississippi in separate incidents within 24 hours. All five were killed by firearms.
	+ Three students from the University of Mississippi, members of Kappa Alpha fraternity, post a photo on Instagram taken at the Emmett Till Memorial that is widely seen as racist. The students are suspended by the fraternity but not charged with a hate crime.
* July 26 – Cindy Lovell discovers the long-sought signature of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, whose pen name was Mark Twain, inside the Mark Twain Cave in Hannibal, Missouri.
* July 28 – Four people, including the shooter, are killed and twelve others injured in a mass shooting in Gilroy, California.
* July 30 – The InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), owner of Holiday Inn and other hotels, announces it will stop using small soap and shampoo containers in order to cut down on plastic waste. Marriott International and Hilton Hotels & Resorts have made similar announcements.
* July 31
	+ The Federal Reserve cuts interest rates for the first time since 2008, with a 0.25% reduction to a baseline level of 2–2.25%.
	+ Leslie McCrae Dowless faces new charges of electoral fraud in North Carolina. Dowless was arrested in 2017 and charged with trying to rig the election in North Carolina's 9th Congressional District in favor of Mark Harris, the Republican candidate.

### August

* August 2
	+ The U.S. officially withdraws from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty established with Russia in 1987.
	+ Dozens of jailed immigrants are pepper-sprayed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents during a protest in Bossier Parish, Louisiana.
	+ Puerto Rico governor Ricardo Rossello resigns, and Pedro Pierluisi (who was appointed secretary of state on July 31) takes the oath of office to succeed him.
* August 3 – 2019 El Paso shooting: A mass shooting occurs at a Walmart near the Cielo Vista Mall in El Paso, Texas, resulting in 23 fatalities and 23 injured.
* August 4 – 2019 Dayton shooting: A mass shooting occurs in the Oregon Historic District in downtown Dayton, Ohio, resulting in 10 fatalities (including the perpetrator) and 27 injuries.
* August 7 – The Supreme Court of Puerto Rico rules that Pedro Pierluisi's swearing in as governor was unconstitutional and removes him from office. Secretary of Justice Wanda Vázquez Garced becomes governor.
* August 8 – The largest U.S. immigration raids in a decade result in 680 arrests in Mississippi.
* August 9 – The North Dakota Supreme Court upholds a voting law that disenfranchises 10% of the state's Native Americans.
* August 10
	+ 2020 Democratic candidates for president speak at a gun forum sponsored by Everytown for Gun Safety, in Des Moines, Iowa.
	+ The FBI, the Justice Department's inspector general and the New York City medical examiner launch inquiries following the death of Jeffrey Epstein in a Manhattan jail while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
* August 12
	+ The Trump administration issues new rules that reject applicants for temporary or permanent visas for failing to meet income standards or for receiving public assistance such as welfare, food stamps, public housing or Medicaid.
	+ The Department of Interior revises its implementation of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 including preventing the Fish and Wildlife Service from automatically offering full endangered species protections to wildlife classified as "threatened".
	+ FBI agents raid Jeffrey Epstein's private Caribbean island amid ongoing investigations into alleged sex trafficking.
* August 14
	+ An employee of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement drives a truck through a group of peaceful protesters from Never Again Action, injuring several.
	+ Mylan N.V., Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., and Heritage Pharmaceuticals Inc. are accused of blocking a Congressional investigation into rising drug prices.
* August 15
	+ Former Colorado governor John Hickenlooper withdraws from the 2020 Presidential election campaign.
	+ The government of Israel denies visas to Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI).
* August 16 – Denmark rejects the suggestion that the United States might purchase Greenland.
* August 17 – Protests are held in Portland that rally: Proud Boys Three Percenters, a “patriot movement” militia group, and American Guard. They are met with three times as many counter protesters.
* August 18 – Anti-gun rallies are held in over 100 cities in all 50 states.
* August 20 – Richard Ross Jr., police commissioner of Philadelphia, resigns amid allegations that members of his department engaged in sexual harassment and racial and gender discrimination against women serving in the ranks.
* August 21 – Washington governor Jay Inslee announces the end of his 2020 presidential bid.
* August 22 – A federal grand jury in Los Angeles charges 80 people, mostly Nigerians, in a conspiracy to steal and then launder millions of dollars. 14 people are arrested.
* August 23
	+ The first recorded death due to vaping is announced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), amid concern over a mystery lung disease in the United States, linked to the use of e-cigarettes.
	+ NASCAR bans advertisements of “assault-style rifles/sniper rifles.”
* August 26 – Johnson & Johnson is ordered to pay $572 million for contributing to the opioid crisis in Oklahoma.
* August 28
	+ New York senator Kirsten Gillibrand withdraws from the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries.
	+ 16-year-old Swedish student Greta Thunberg arrives in New York Harbor after sailing across the Atlantic. Thunberg plans to testify at a UN summit on zero emissions.
* August 29 – A federal judge in Georgia rules that the state must replace all of its voting machines or use paper ballots in time for the March 24, 2020 Presidential primary election. Several faulty voting machines were reported during the Mississippi gubernatorial primary on August 27.
* August 31 – Midland–Odessa shooting: Seven people are killed and 21 others wounded in a shooting in West Texas, between the cities of Midland and Odessa. The suspect is shot and killed by police outside a movie theater in Odessa.

### September

* September 2 – An early-morning fire on a dive boat off San Miguel Island and Santa Cruz Island, California results in 25 dead and 9 missing.
* September 3
	+ The San Francisco Board of Supervisors passes a resolution calling the NRA a "domestic terrorist organization".
	+ Walmart announces they will stop selling handgun ammunition and certain types of ammo for short-barrelled rifles. Kroger asks shoppers to refrain from openly carrying guns even if it is legal. Other major retailers follow suit.
	+ The Cherokee Nation names an official delegate to the United States Congress for the first time.
* September 4 – CNN hosts ten town hall meetings for as many Democratic presidential hopefuls to discuss climate change.
* September 6
	+ Hurricane Dorian makes landfall on Cape Hatteras, North Carolina as a Category 1 storm. 350,000 residents and businesses in North Carolina and South Carolina are left without electricity.
	+ Following three deaths, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends against the use of electronic cigarettes.
	+ The Artificial Intelligence and Technology Office (AITO) is established, as part of the Department of Energy.
* September 7 – President Trump announces he called off planned Camp David peace talks with the Taliban after they claimed responsibility for the September 5th Kabul bombings which killed a U.S. soldier.
* September 8 – Mark Sanford, former governor and US representative from South Carolina announces his candidacy for the 2020 Republican presidential nomination.
* September 9 – The inspector general of Intelligence, Michael Atkinson, notifies the House Intelligence Committee about an "urgent" and "credible" whistleblower complaint involving an apparent July 25 telephone call in which President Donald Trump promised Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky $250 million if he would reopen an investigation into Hunter Biden son of former Vice President Joe Biden. The White House denies doing anything wrong and refuses to release the complaint.
* September 10
	+ National Security Advisor John R. Bolton is dismissed by President Trump.
	+ Two former senior FEMA officials are arrested on charges of bribery in relation to Hurricane Maria relief.
* September 12
	+ Former Illinois and Florida nursing home owner Philip Esformes is convicted of $1.3 billion Medicare fraud and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
	+ During the third 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries debate Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke, arguing for a mandatory buyback of assault weapons, declares, “Hell yes, we are going to take your AR-15, AK-47.”
* September 13 – Actress Felicity Huffman is sentenced to 14 days in prison, a fine of $30,000 and 250 hours of community service for her involvement in the college admissions scandal.
* September 15 – Drug company Purdue Pharma files for bankruptcy in response to lawsuits related to the opioid epidemic.
* September 16
	+ 48,000 union members of the United Automobile Workers go on strike against General Motors.
	+ *Saturday Night Live* fires comedian Shane Gillis after his anti-Asian and anti-gay videos come to light. Presidential candidate Andrew Yang, who is Taiwanese-American and was called a “Jew c\*\*\*k,” forgives Gillis.
	+ An 18-year-old Oklahoma woman is arrested for felony terrorist hoax. She was in possession of an AK-47 and a shotgun at the time of the arrest.
* September 17
	+ Interest rates on repurchase agreements (or "repos") in the United States experience a sudden and unexpected spike.
	+ 33 inches of rain from Tropical Storm Imelda falls on Hamshire and other areas of southeastern Texas, causing severe flooding.
* September 18 – President Donald Trump revokes California's authority to set its own auto emission standards.
* September 19
	+ President and CEO Dennis Veilleux of gun manufacturer Colt announces the company will stop producing rifles such as the AR-15 for personal use.
	+ 30 Afghan nut farmers are killed and 40 injured in a U.S. drone attack in Nangarhar Province.
	+ HUD Secretary Ben Carson is accused by members of his department of making transphobic remarks at a meeting in San Francisco. He says his comments about "big, hairy men" using women's homeless shelters were a "mischaracterization."
	+ Six-year-old Kaia Rolle is handcuffed, fingerprinted, mug-shot, and charged with battery after throwing a tantrum at Lucious and Emma Nixon Academy, a charter school in Orlando, Florida. The same police officer also arrested an eight-year-old in an unrelated incident the same day. The officer was subsequently suspended.
* September 20
	+ Thousands of students across the United States join their counterparts world-wide in demonstrations against climate change. The demonstrations are led by 16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and 12-year-old Colorado activist Haven Coleman.
	+ New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announces his withdrawal from the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries.
	+ Ten Democratic presidential candidates participate in a LGBTQ Forum sponsored by GLAAD, The Advocate, One Iowa, and The Gazette.
	+ The proposed "invasion" by 2,000,000 truth-seekers of the classified Air Force base known as Area 51 falls short of its goal by about 1,999,970 participants. Only the Pentagon takes it seriously, threatening to bomb participants. They later apologize.
* September 21
	+ President Donald Trump approves deployment of several hundred troops and military equipment including Patriot missiles to Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates following the September 14 attack on Saudi oil refineries.
	+ At least five deaths are reported due to Tropical Storm Imelda in southeast Texas. 40 inches (101.6 cm) of rain falls in 72 hours in one of the wettest tropical storms in American history.
	+ Greek police arrest a 65-year-old Lebanese suspect in the 1985 hijacking of TWA Flight 847 and the death of U.S. Navy Petty Officer Robert Stethem.
	+ The Federal Bureau of Investigation announces a $15,000 reward in search of individuals involved in three arson attacks on Roman Catholic churches that serve Hispanics and migrants in El Paso, Texas.
	+ Vice President Mike Pence ignores a century-old tradition that prohibits motor vehicles on Mackinac Island, Michigan, when he sent an eight-car motorcade to a Republican Party meeting.
* September 22 – Three men are dead and four are hospitalized due to a mysterious "medical situation" in Pittsburgh. All are believed to be middle-aged men, and all were wearing orange wristbands.
* September 24
	+ Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announces the start of a formal impeachment inquiry against President Trump.
	+ The United States Navy announces three suicides aboard the USS George H.W. Bush in one week.
* September 25 – The White House releases details of a July 25 phone call between President Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky, in which Trump asks the Ukrainian President to investigate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.
* September 26 – The Trump administration says it plans to allow only 18,000 refugees to resettle in the United States in the 2020 fiscal year, its lowest level since the modern program began in 1980.
* September 27
	+ *The New York Times* reports that Wayne LaPierre, chief of the National Rifle Association offered President Trump "financial support for the president's defense" if the president will "stop the games" on gun-control legislation. The NRA denies any wrongdoing.
	+ Kurt Volker, special envoy to Ukraine, resigns.
* September 28
	+ 67 climate change protesters are arrested at a coal plant in Bow, New Hampshire.
	+ Coal miners in Cumberland, Kentucky have called off the protest that began two months ago against their employer, Blackjewel, when the company suddenly declared bankruptcy and did not pay their wages. They intend to continue their fight in court.
* September 30
	+ New York Congressman Chris Collins resigns and then pleads guilty to insider trading and lying to the FBI.
	+ California governor Gavin Newsom signs a law over the objections of the National Collegiate Athletic Association that allows college athletes to be financially compensated for the use of their names, images, and likenesses.

### October

* October 1
	+ The first cannabis cafe in the United States opens in Los Angeles, California.
	+ The Florida Department of Education announces that some teachers in some districts will be allowed to carry guns in schools.
* October 2
	+ Gabby Giffords and March for Our Lives host a forum on gun safety for 2020 presidential candidates in Las Vegas, Nevada. Nine candidates laid out plans for stronger gun control. Senator Bernie Sanders does not attend as he is recovering from an operation.
	+ Senate Democrats ask the IRS to revoke the tax-exempt status of the NRA.
	+ California becomes the second state, after North Dakota, to allow the establishment of public banks as an alternative to commercial banks. The idea is to provide low-interest loans for businesses, affordable housing, and municipal infrastructure.
	+ Dallas police officer Amber Guyger is sentenced to 10 years in prison after being found guilty of murdering Botham Jean in his home. This is the first time a white female police officer has been convicted of murdering an unarmed black man. Joshua Brown, a key witness in the trial, is killed two days later.
	+ Ten anti-drone protesters are arrested at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada.
* October 3
	+ Finland agrees to return Native American remains and other artifacts stolen in 1891 to Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado.
	+ CNN refuses to run an ad for the Donald Trump 2020 presidential campaign, saying it includes false claims against former Vice President Joe Biden. Fox News rejects a request from the Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign to not run the ad either.
	+ President Trump calls on Ukraine and China to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden.
	+ *The Washington Post* reports an Internal Revenue Service employee filed a whistleblower complaint reporting that an unnamed political appointee at the United States Department of the Treasury tried to interfere with the tax audits for President Trump or Vice President Mike Pence.
	+ European Commission spokesperson Daniel Rosario threatens retaliatory measures if the United States imposes a US$7.5 billion (€6.823 billion) tariff on products such as olives, whiskey, wine, cheese, yogurt, and airplanes. The tariffs are scheduled to take effect on October 18.
* October 4
	+ Microsoft says a group called *Phosphorus*, which is linked to the Iranian government, has attempted to hack accounts belonging to American journalists, former government officials, and the 2020 United States presidential election, as well as prominent Iranians living outside Iran.
	+ The Bureau of Land Management ends a five-year moratorium on leasing federal land in California to fossil fuel companies, opening 725,000 acres (1100 sq. miles; 29,000 ha) to drilling in San Benito, Monterey, and Fresno counties.
	+ Defense Secretary Mark Esper says the United States has picked up its attacks in Afghanistan since peace talks with the Taliban fell apart last month. In August, *Politico* reported that the U.S. troop strength is about 13,000, fewer than the authorized 14,000.
	+ A report by the Associated Press finds that 1,700 Roman Catholic priests accused of being sex offenders live freely in the United States.
	+ *Joker* is released in theatres.
* October 7 – Federal judge Victor Marrero orders Trump to turn over eight years of tax returns, saying he cannot endorse a "categorical and limitless assertion of presidential immunity from judicial process." An appeals court grants a temporary stay of the order.
* October 9 – *The Wall Street Journal* reports that two foreign-born businessmen, close associates of Rudy Giuliani, have been arrested on campaign finance violation charges. Igor Fruman (Belarusian) and Lev Parnas (Ukrainian), worked with Giuliani in trying to convince the Ukraine government to find dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden.
* October 11
	+ President Trump's 4th U.S. Homeland Security Advisor, Kevin McAleenan, resigns.
	+ Marie Yovanovitch, the former ambassador to Ukraine, testifies at the Impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump. Former diplomats and oversight committee members praise Yovanovitch's "bravery" for testifying in response to a subpoena but in defiance of a State Department order.
	+ 100,000 people in northern Los Angeles County, California are evacuated as the Saddle Ridge Fire grows to more than 7,500 acres and is 13% contained. 25 homes are destroyed and one death is reported.
	+ Defense Secretary Mark Esper announces that the U.S. is sending additional troops and weapons to Saudi Arabia.
* October 12
	+ Students at Georgia Southern University burn books written by Jennine Capó Crucet, a Cuban-American author, who had been invited to the school to discuss white privilege.
	+ Democratic incumbent Governor of Louisiana John Bel Edwards is narrowly forced into a run-off in his bid for a second term. He advances to a runoff (November 16) with wealthy Republican businessman Eddie Rispone.
	+ Two people are killed and 20 injured when a Hard Rock Hotel and Casino under construction in downtown New Orleans partially collapses.
* October 14 – Indigenous Peoples' Day is celebrated in Alaska, Minnesota, and North Carolina as well as several cities.
* October 15 – Twelve Democratic presidential candidates appear on the same stage at Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio in a debate sponsored by *The New York Times* and CNN.
* October 18
	+ The United States Department of State finishes its investigation into Hillary Clinton's email controversy, citing violations by 38 people, some of whom may be punished. The State Department determined that there was "deliberate mishandling of classified information".
	+ The Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration announces that refugee flights to the United States have been canceled for the second time, as refugees are capped at 18,000.
* October 19 – 26,000 people attend a campaign rally for Bernie Sanders in Long Island City, Queens, New York.
* October 21
	+ Four drug companies, McKesson Corporation, Cardinal Health, AmerisourceBergen, and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, reach a $260 million out-of-court settlement with Summit County and Cuyahoga County, Ohio in the Opioid epidemic in the United States.
	+ Thirty Republican Members of the House of Representatives, led by Matt Gaetz, storm a secure hearing room and violate security precautions, demanding they be allowed to participate in the Impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump despite not being members of the committees that are investigating the president.
* October 23 – Google announces that its 53-qubit 'Sycamore' processor has achieved quantum supremacy.
* October 24
	+ Representative Tim Ryan withdraws from the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries.
	+ Senator Kamala Harris announces she is withdrawing from the October 25–27 *Second Step Presidential Justice Forum* at Benedict College in Columbia, South Carolina, after learning that President Trump was scheduled to receive an award. Former Vice President Joe Biden, Senator Elizabeth Warren, Senator Bernie Sanders, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, former Secretary Julian Castro, Senator Amy Klobuchar, Representative John Delaney, and Representative Tulsi Gabbard are still expected to attend. Trump receives the award for his leadership in the passage of the First Step Act.
* October 25
	+ The longest strike in General Motors' history ends when 57% of the members of the United Automobile Workers union vote to ratify a contract.
	+ Journalist Max Blumenthal ("The Grayzone") is arrested and charged with assault in a case related to a May 7 incident at the Venezuelan embassy in Washington, DC.
* October 26
	+ Senator Kamala Harris reverses herself on participation in the "Second Step Justice Forum" after 20/20 Club drops its sponsorship. Senator Cory Booker announces he will attend also.
	+ Two are killed and at least twelve injured at a shooting during a party in Greenville, Texas, celebrating the homecoming of Texas A&M University–Commerce.
* October 27
	+ President Trump announces that the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was killed in a U.S. special forces operation on October 26. It was reported that Baghdadi detonated a suicide vest after being chased into a tunnel.
	+ Representative Katie Hill resigns amid accusations she had an illicit sexual relationship with a staff member. Hill denies the accusation.
	+ 200,000 people evacuate wildfires in Northern California that destroy 79 structures including 31 homes. Governor Gavin Newsom declares a state of emergency.
* October 28
	+ A North Carolina court rules that the state can't proceed with next year's House primary elections due to political gerrymandering.
	+ On his first visit to Chicago, President Donald Trump calls the city "embarrassing to us as a nation" and blasts the police superintendent for not attending his speech at the International Association of Chiefs of Police. Thousands protest against Trump, who called for "a surge," or militarization, of the nation's police.
* October 29
	+ The National Collegiate Athletic Association announces they will allow college athletes to be paid. New rules must be ready no later than January 2021.
	+ A rupture occurs in the Keystone Pipeline near Edinburg, North Dakota with an estimated 9,120 barrels spilled. This is the second significant spill in two years.
	+ Murray Energy files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
* October 30
	+ Dr. Michael Baden, one of the world's leading forensic pathologists, describes his findings of the Jeffrey Epstein suicide, noting that the financier's injuries appeared more consistent with murder than suicide, contradicting an earlier report by the New York City Medical Examiner. Dr. Barbara Sampson, the chief Medical Examiner, sticks by the original finding that Epstein's death was due to suicide by hanging.
	+ Wildfires rage across California, with a rare "extreme red-flag warning" issued from weather officials, as gusts exceed 70 mph (113 km/h).
	+ The Federal Reserve lowers its benchmark interest rate by a quarter point, to a range of 1.5% to 1.75%, the third cut in four months.
	+ Social media website Twitter bans all political advertising worldwide.
	+ The Washington Nationals defeat the Houston Astros in the seventh and deciding game of the 2019 World Series, capturing their first championship in franchise history.
* October 31
	+ The House of Representatives votes 232–196 in favor of formally proceeding with an impeachment inquiry against President Trump.
	+ The United States Department of the Treasury announces that federal debt surpasses $23 trillion for the first time. This is a 16% increase since Donald Trump became president in 2017.
	+ Five are killed and four wounded in a shooting at a house party in Orinda, California.

### November

* November 1
	+ Former Representative Beto O'Rourke suspends his campaign for the 2020 Democratic Party presidential nomination.
	+ A law that allows almost all citizens to open carry guns goes into effect in Oklahoma.
	+ Oklahoma commutes 500 prison sentences, the largest number in the state's history.
* November 2 – *The Washington Post* reports that the United States-Mexico Border Wall has been easily breached multiple times using inexpensive and easily attainable electric saws.
* November 3
	+ President Trump threatens to cut off federal aid to combat California wildfires.
	+ McDonald's CEO Steve Easterbrook is fired for having a consensual relationship with an employee.
* November 5
	+ The Federal Communications Commission approves a merger between T-Mobile and Sprint Corporation.
	+ The 2019 United States elections are held.
	+ 2019 Virginia Senate election & 2019 Virginia House of Delegates election: Democrats take control of the legislature for the first time in twenty years.
	+ New York City voters approve a ballot measure that would establish ranked-choice voting in primary and special elections for all local offices beginning in 2021.
* November 6
	+ Donald Trump Jr. Tweets a Breitbart News link purportedly revealing the name of the whistleblower whose allegations started the Impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) called for the media to release the person's name. Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), said the name out loud in a hearing unrelated to the impeachment inquiry.
	+ *The San Francisco Chronicle* publishes a report that says the Halloween shooting at an Airbnb rental property in Orinda, California is part of a pattern of violence at such parties, involving the shooting of 42 people and 17 deaths.
	+ Transcripts released from the closed-door hearings of the impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump reveal that witnesses were concerned about a quid pro quo (English: "this for that") holding up millions of dollars in aid to Ukraine in return for dirt on Hunter Biden and his father, former Vice President Joe Biden. Witnesses were Marie Yovanovitch and Michael McKinley, Bill Taylor, Gordon Sondland and Kurt Volker, George Kent, Alexander Vindman, Fiona Hill, and Laura Cooper. Lawyer Rudy Giuliani hires three attorneys as his dealings in Ukraine have attracted the scrutiny of federal prosecutors and House impeachment investigators.
* November 7
	+ Two former Twitter employees are charged with spying for Saudi Arabia. Ahmad Abouammo, a U.S. citizen, was arrested in Seattle on November 3, but Ali Alzabarah, a Saudi citizen, is presumably back in the Middle East.
	+ The Weather Channel, *Mother Jones*, and "Climate Desk" sponsor a one-hour special about Climate change mitigation featuring five Democratic and three Republican candidates in the 2020 United States presidential election.
* November 8
	+ Transform Holdco LLC, which purchased nearly all of the assets of Sears Holdings Corp in February, announces that it will be closing 96 Sears and K-Mart stores across the country.
	+ By filing as a candidate in Alabama, former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg officially declares his candidacy for the 2020 Democratic Party presidential nomination.
* November 12 – The Southern Poverty Law Center publishes a report accusing White House aid Stephen Miller of promoting white nationalism. Eventually over 80 Democratic Members of Congress call on him to resign
* November 13
	+ The first public hearings of the Trump impeachment inquiry are held, beginning with Bill Taylor and George Kent.
	+ United States Department of Justice proposes a program to reduce gun violence.
* November 14
	+ A shooting occurs at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita, California, resulting in 3 deaths (including the perpetrator) and 3 injuries.
	+ Managing director of Bain Capital and former Governor of Massachusetts Deval Patrick announces his candidacy for President.
	+ New Jersey demands Uber pay $640 million in taxes and fines for wrongly classifying employees as independent contract workers.
	+ Taylor Swift says talent agent Scooter Braun and her former label CEO Scott Borchetta are prohibiting her from performing some of her old songs.
* November 15
	+ President Trump pardons two officers convicted of war crimes and restores the rank to a third.
	+ Roger Stone is found guilty on all seven felony counts over lying to Congress and witness tampering.
* November 17 – Four people are killed and six are wounded in a shooting at a football-watch party in Fresno, California.
* November 18
	+ Smithsonian National Zoo returns a four year-old giant panda named "Bei Bei" to China.
	+ Representative Eric Swalwell farts aloud while being interviewed on MSNBC by Chris Matthews, sparking #FartGate online. Swalwell denies ripping the fart and pins the blame on either Matthews or a moving mug.
* November 20
	+ At the Trump impeachment hearing, Gordon Sondland states that there was a *quid pro quo* in the Ukraine scandal, pushed by Rudy Giuliani and ordered by Trump.
	+ The fifth Democratic Party presidential debate is held in Atlanta and hosted by MSNBC and *The Washington Post*.
* November 21 – At a showcase in Los Angeles, Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveils the Tesla Cybertruck, the company's first electric pickup truck.
* November 22
	+ Walt Disney Animation Studios' 58th animated film, *Frozen II*, a sequel to 2013's *Frozen*, is released in theaters. Although critical reception is not as strong as its predecessor (though still positive), it is, to date, the animation studio's biggest commercial success (earning $1.450 billion), the tenth highest-grossing film of all time and the second highest-grossing animated film of all time behind *The Lion King* remake earlier in the year.
	+ A Fred Rogers film *A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood*, directed by Marielle Heller is released in theaters.
* November 23 – More than 100 students and alumni from Harvard and Yale protest the universities' complicity in climate change by running onto the field during half-time at the annual Harvard–Yale football game.
* November 24
	+ Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, 77, officially announces his campaign for the 2020 Democratic Party presidential nomination.
	+ President Trump orders Defense Secretary Mark Esper to fire Navy Secretary Richard Spencer after the latter removes Eddie Gallagher from SEAL Team 7.
* November 25
	+ President Trump signs the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act (PACT Act) into law, making animal cruelty a federal felony. The bill expands on 2010 legislation that made creation or distribution of "animal crushing" videos illegal.
	+ Conan, the Special Operations Military Working Dog that participated in the raid on ISIL leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is honored at the White House.
	+ A federal judge rules that former White House counsel Don McGahn must testify to House impeachment investigators. The Justice Department plans to appeal the ruling.
* November 27 – The federal government passes the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act.

### December

* December 1
	+ The White House announces that President Donald Trump will not participate in the House Judiciary Committee impeachment hearing on December 3.
	+ Former Representative Joe Sestak withdraws from the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries.
	+ Energy Secretary Rick Perry resigns.
* December 2
	+ Former Montana Governor Steve Bullock withdraws from the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries.
	+ Representative Duncan Hunter (R-CA) pleads guilty to corruption charges and resigns from Congress.
	+ At least six people die in Thanksgiving-weekend storms. More than 150 flights are canceled and 900 are delayed.
* December 3
	+ Senator Kamala Harris suspends her campaign for the 2020 Democratic Party presidential nomination.
	+ The House Intelligence Committee releases a report accusing President Donald Trump of using his office to further his personal interests.
* December 5 – Huawei submits a petition in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit against the FCC's decision to prohibit rural U.S. network providers from using equipment from the China-based vendor due to national security concerns, asking that the recent FCC order be overturned.
* December 6
	+ Four people die in a mass shooting by a Saudi aviation student that was being trained by the U.S. military.
	+ The U.S. unemployment rate drops to 3.5%, the lowest in 50 years.
	+ Kansas City, Missouri becomes the first city in the U.S. to approve free public transportation.
	+ The House of Representatives approves 228–187 to restore parts of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. President Trump threatens to veto if the bill is approved by the Senate.
* December 8 – rapper Juice WRLD aka Jarad Anthony Higgins dies from a drug overdose.
* December 9
	+ The Inspector General of the Department of Justice issues a report that concludes that the FBI investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign was legally justified and conducted without political bias, but reprimands the FBI for abusing its authority regarding Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) warrants.
	+ *Sports Illustrated* names soccer star Megan Rapinoe Sportsperson of the Year.
* December 10
	+ Democrats in the House of Representatives announce formal charges against President Trump that accuse him of abusing power and obstructing Congress, making him the fourth U.S. president in history to face impeachment.
	+ A mass shooting occurs at a kosher grocery store in Jersey City, New Jersey. The attack is officially designated domestic terrorism two days later.
* December 11
	+ The World Trade Organization (WTO) is left unable to intervene in trade disputes, after the U.S. blocks the appointment of new panel members.
	+ Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin controversially pardons or commutes sentences for 428 convicts, including child rapists and murderers; one commutation was for the brother of a family that raised $21,500 to pay off Bevin's campaign debt.
	+ *Time* magazine names climate activist Greta Thunberg Person of the Year
* December 12
	+ The Federal Communications Commission approves a proposal to designate 988 as the hotline phone number of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.
	+ Clark Waddoups, a federal judge in the Utah District Court rules that American Samoans are U.S. citizens and should be granted U.S. passports.
* December 13 – Construction begins on the Navy oiler USNS Harvey Milk (T-AO-206), named for LGBTQ leader Harvey Milk.
* December 15 – Hallmark Channel faces a backlash after pulling ads that show same-sex couples celebrating marriages. The backlash caused an almost immediate reversal of the plan.
* December 16
	+ Boeing announces that it will suspend production of the Boeing 737 MAX—which was involved in two accidents earlier this year—in January 2020.
	+ A dozen people are killed by winter storms in Kansas, Nebraska, and Missouri. 27 tornadoes hit Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana, killing three in northern Alabama and one in Vernon Parish, Louisiana.
* December 17
	+ A former employee of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints alleges that the Church illegally built a $100 billion investment fund intended for charitable purposes and owes billions in taxes. The Church denies the allegations.
	+ New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signs a bill restoring voting rights to 80,000 people who are on parole or probation, joining 17 other states with similar laws. Governor Murphy later signs a law making New Jersey the fifteenth state to grant driver's licenses for illegal immigrants in the United States on December 19.
* December 18
	+ The U.S. House of Representatives votes largely along party lines to forward two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump to the Senate, accusing him of abuse of power and obstructing Congress. Donald Trump becomes the third U.S. president to be impeached by the House.
	+ The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals rules 2–1 to uphold a lower court ruling that the individual mandate in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional.
	+ The Government Accountability Office raises ethics questions about a federal contract awarded by the Department of Transportation to Boone County, Kentucky that appears to be designed to help the reelection campaign of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
* December 19
	+ For the first time in U.S. history, the economy starts and ends a decade without a recession, avoiding a recession for an entire calendar decade.
	+ The House of Representatives approves the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA), the North American trade deal set to replace NAFTA.
	+ U.S. Steel announces it will lay off 1,545 workers at its Great Lakes Works production plants near Detroit, MI.
	+ Washington state legislator Matt Shea (R-Spokane Valley) is accused of domestic terrorism on three occasions, including for his participation in the 2016 Bundy-family takeover of a wildlife refuge in Oregon.
	+ The sixth Democratic presidential debate is held in Los Angeles, hosted by *Politico* and PBS. Seven candidates participate.
	+ Camille Schrier of Virginia wins the Miss America 2020 beauty pageant.
* December 20
	+ The United States Space Force (USSF) is founded, becoming the sixth U.S. military service branch and the first new service branch in 72 years.
	+ The federal government authorizes, for the first time, the use of federal funds to research geoengineering.
	+ *Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker* is released as the Ninth and last film of the *Star Wars* saga.
* December 21 – White Sands National Park becomes the 62nd National Park in the United States.
* December 22
	+ Two days after a failed launch, the Boeing CST-100 Starliner makes a soft landing in New Mexico.
	+ At least 13 people are injured during a shooting at a memorial for an earlier shooting victim in Englewood, Chicago, IL.
	+ Fog and ice cause a 69-car pileup westbound on I-64 near Williamsburg, Virginia. 51 people are injured. Two died and 46 were injured when a similar accident involving 30 vehicles took place on December 18 along I-80 in White Deer Township, Union County, Pennsylvania.
* December 23
	+ *Business Insider* reports that 9,300 retail stores will close by the end of the year, including all 2,500 of Payless ShoeSource, 805 of Gymboree, 650 of DressBarn, and 520 of Charlotte Russe.
	+ Former Congressman Dennis Kucinich endorses Tulsi Gabbard's 2020 presidential campaign.
	+ Twenty horses are shot and killed in Floyd County, Kentucky.
* December 25 – Ambassador Daniel Lewis Foote is recalled from Zambia after defending gay rights and denouncing corruption.
* December 27
	+ A judge temporarily blocks a North Carolina law that requires voter ID. Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein is undecided as to whether to appeal.
	+ The Food and Drug Administration officially raises the legal age for tobacco products, e-cigarettes, and vaping cartridges from 18 to 21.
	+ An article in *The Washington Post* accuses former American Cardinal Theodore Edgar McCarrick of paying bribes totaling US$600,000 to Pope John Paul II ($50,000) and Pope Benedict XVI ($291,000) and 100 Vatican employees to cover-up sexual misconduct accusations against him.
* December 28 – Police in New York City are reported to have investigated at least five and possibly eight cases of antisemitic attacks during the week. These follow shootings at a Kosher grocery store and a Jewish cemetery in Jersey City just two weeks earlier.
* December 30
	+ Former president Barack Obama and incumbent president Donald Trump tie in Gallup's most admired man and woman poll. Michelle Obama is chosen as the most admired woman.
	+ 91 groups with connections to public lands send a letter to Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt demanding that acting Bureau of Land Management director William Perry Pendley resign or be removed from office.
* December 31
	+ Thousands protest outside the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, in response to an airstrike that killed 25 on December 27.
	+ Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker pardons 11,017 low-level marijuana convictions.

## Memoriam

### January

* January 1
	+ Ludwig W. Adamec, Austrian-born historian (aged 94; Tucson, AZ, USA)
	+ Shane Bisnett, bassist (Ice Nine Kills) (aged 31; Potsdam, NY, USA)
	+ Ed Corney, bodybuilder (aged 85; Hughson, CA, USA)
	+ Walt McKeel, baseball player (aged 46; Stantonsburg, NC, USA)
	+ Richard Rifkind, cancer researcher (aged 88; Manhattan, NY, USA)
	+ Steven P. Schinke, social work scholar (aged 73; Roxbury, CT, USA)
	+ Larry Weinberg, real estate developer and sports team owner (Portland Trail Blazers) (aged 92; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Gilbert Winham, political scientist (aged 80; Berwick, NS, Canada)
	+ Pegi Young, educator, philanthropist, and singer-songwriter (aged 66; Mountain, View, CA, USA)
	+ Perry Deane Young, journalist and playwright (aged 77; Chapel Hill, NC, USA)
* January 2
	+ Malcolm E. Beard, politician (aged 99; FL, USA)
	+ Darwin Bromley, game designer, founder of Mayfair Games (aged 68; Jacksonville, FL, USA)
	+ Jerry Buchek, baseball player (aged 76; Springfield, MO, USA)
	+ Daryl Dragon, musician (aged 76; Prescott, AZ, USA)
	+ Bob Einstein, comedian, actor (aged 76; Indian Wells, CA, USA)
	+ Bob Hanner, politician (aged 73; Parrott, GA, USA)
	+ Waun Ki Hong, oncologist (aged 76; CA, USA)
	+ Jerry Magee, sportswriter (aged 90; San Diego, CA, USA)
	+ Jim Margraff, football coach (aged 58; Baltimore, MD, USA)
	+ Kevin J. McIntyre, government official, Chairman of the FERC (2017–2018) (aged 58; Arlington, VA, USA)
	+ Blake Nordstrom, businessman, co-president of Nordstrom (aged 58; Seattle, WA, USA)
	+ Gene Okerlund, wrestling announcer (aged 76; Sarasota, FL, USA)
	+ George Welsh, football coach (aged 85; Charlottesville, VA, USA)
* January 3
	+ Richard C. Bradt, materials engineer (aged 80; Birmingham, AL, USA)
	+ Bob Burrow, basketball player (aged 84; Franklin, TN, USA)
	+ William Cochran, politician (aged 84; New Albany, IN, USA)
	+ Sylvia Chase, news anchor and journalist (aged 80; Marin County, CA, USA)
	+ John Falsey, writer and producer (aged 67; Iowa City, IA, USA)
	+ Theodore E. Gildred, diplomat (aged 83; MT, USA)
	+ Herb Kelleher, businessman, co-founder of Southwest Airlines (aged 87; Dallas, TX, USA)
	+ William Miller, football player (aged 62; Little Rock, AR, USA)
	+ Steve Ripley, musician (The Tractors) (aged 69; Pawnee, OK, USA)
	+ Thais St. Julien, opera singer (aged 73; New Orleans, LA, USA)
	+ Harold A. Hopkins Jr., priest (aged 88; Portland, ME, USA)
* January 4
	+ Norman Birnbaum, sociologist (aged 92; Washington, DC, USA)
	+ Harold Brown, 14th United States Secretary of Defense (aged 91; Rancho Santa Fe, CA, USA)
	+ Moffatt Burriss, politician (aged 99; Chapin, SC, USA)
	+ Charles Currie, Jesuit academic administrator (aged 88; Washington, DC, USA)
	+ Diana Decker, American-born British actress and singer (aged 93; London, England, UK)
	+ Harold Demsetz, economist (aged 88; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Leo J. Dulacki, general (aged 100; Sun City West, AZ, USA)
	+ Louisa Moritz, Cuban-born actress (aged 82; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* January 5
	+ Rick Down, baseball coach (aged 68; Las Vegas, NV, USA)
	+ Scott Dozier, convicted murderer (aged 48; Ely, NV, USA)
	+ Alvin Fielder, jazz drummer (aged 83; Jackson, MS, USA)
	+ Kenneth Hedberg, chemist (aged 98; Corvallis, OR, USA)
	+ Stanley Insler, philologist (aged 81; New Haven, CT, USA)
	+ Pete Manning, football player (aged 81; Worcester, MA, USA)
	+ Alan R. Pearlman, sound engineer, founder of ARP Instruments (aged 93; Newton, MA, USA)
	+ Rudolf Raff, biologist (aged 77; Bloomington, IN, USA)
	+ John L. Said, Episcopal bishop (aged 86; Port St. Lucie, FL, USA)
	+ Bernice Sandler, women's rights activist (aged 90; Washington, DC, USA)
	+ Alexis Smirnoff, Canadian professional wrestler (aged 71; Marietta, GA, USA)
	+ Myron Thompson, American-born Canadian politician (aged Sundre, AB, Canada)
* January 6
	+ Jo Andres, filmmaker, choreographer and artist (aged 64; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Joe Belmont, basketball player and coach (aged 84; Greenfield, MA, USA)
	+ Ben Coleman, basketball player (aged 57; Minneapolis, MN, USA)
	+ George Crowe, Canadian ice hockey coach (aged 82; FL, USA)
	+ Lenny Green, baseball player (aged 86; Detroit, MI, USA)
	+ Roy Hilton, football player (aged 75; Towson, MD, USA)
	+ Robert L. Kahn, social psychologist (aged 100; Burlington, VT, USA)
	+ Kwamie Lassiter, football player (aged 49; Chandler, AZ, USA)
	+ Gregg Rudloff, sound mixer (aged 63; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Lamin Sanneh, Gambian-born professor (aged 76; New Haven, CT, USA)
	+ W. Morgan Sheppard, English actor (aged 86; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* January 7
	+ Barbara Elaine Russell Brown, biologist and philanthropist (aged 89; North Dartmouth, MA, USA)
	+ Edwin Erickson, politician (aged 80; Reading, PA, USA)
	+ Clydie King, singer (aged 75; Monrovia, CA, USA)
	+ John Mendelsohn, pharmacologist (aged 82; Houston, TX, USA)
	+ Theodore K. Rabb, historian (aged 81; Plainsboro Township, NJ, USA)
	+ Tom Rukavina, politician (aged 68; Minneapolis, MN, USA)
	+ Babs Simpson, fashion editor (aged 105; Rye, NY, USA)
* January 8
	+ Wendy Ashmore, archaeologist and anthropologist (aged 70; Riverside, CA, USA)
	+ Larry Langford, politician (aged 72; Birmingham, AL, USA)
* January 9
	+ Verna Bloom, actress (aged 80; Bar Harbor, ME, USA)
	+ Earnest F. Gloyna, environmental engineer (aged 97; Austin, TX, USA)
	+ Joseph Lawson Howze, Roman Catholic prelate (aged 95; Ocean Springs, MS, USA)
	+ Joseph Jarman, jazz musician and priest (aged 81; Englewood, NJ, USA)
	+ Matthew Locricchio, author of cookbooks and actor (aged 71; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Melvin L. Moeschberger, biostatistician (aged 78; Fishers, IN, USA)
	+ Alan Trask, politician (aged 85; Lakeland, FL, USA)
	+ Lester Wunderman, advertising executive, creator of direct marketing (aged 98; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Paul Koslo, German-Canadian actor (aged 74; Lake Hughes, CA, USA)
	+ Don Reynolds, actor and animal trainer (aged 81; Fort Worth, TX, USA)
* January 10
	+ Larry Cunningham, singer (The Floaters) (aged 67; Detroit, MI, USA)
	+ Andy de Groat, choreographer (aged 71; Montauban, France)
	+ Rick Forzano, football coach (aged 90; Orlando, FL, USA)
	+ Johnny Hetki, baseball player (aged 96; Parma, OH, USA)
	+ John Michels, football player and coach (aged 87; Kingsport, TN, USA)
	+ José Andreu García, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico (1992–2003) (aged 81; Tampa, FL, USA)
* January 11
	+ Shirley Boone, philanthropist (aged 84; Beverly Hills, CA, USA)
	+ Tom Brosius, track and field athlete (aged 69; Manhattan, KS, USA)
	+ Walter Chandoha, photographer (aged 98; Annandale, NJ, USA)
	+ Gus Ganakas, college basketball coach (aged 92; Lansing, MI, USA)
	+ J. D. Gibbs, race car driver, co-owner of Joe Gibbs Racing (aged 49; Davidson, NC, USA)
	+ John G. Gunderson, psychiatrist (aged 76; Sudbury, MA, USA)
	+ Robert Horn, water polo player (aged 87; Long Beach, CA, USA)
	+ Walter V. Shipley, businessman, CEO of Chase Manhattan Bank (1996–1999) (aged 83; Summit, NJ, USA)
	+ Jumping Johnny Wilson, basketball player (aged 91; VA, USA)
* January 12
	+ George Ball, entomologist (aged 92; Edmonton, AB, Canada)
	+ Anthony Colaizzo, politician (aged 88; Canonsburg, PA, USA)
	+ Paul Englund, biochemist (aged 81; Baltimore, MD, USA)
	+ Bonnie Guitar, country musician (aged 95; Soap Lake, WA, USA)
	+ Joe M. Jackson, Air Force officer (aged 95; Orting, WA, USA)
	+ Bob Kuechenberg, football player (aged 71; Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA)
	+ Batton Lash, comic book writer and artist (aged 65; San Diego, CA, USA)
	+ Leonard M. Pike, horticulture professor (aged 79; Acworth, GA, USA)
	+ Sanger D. Shafer, country songwriter (aged 84; Nashville, TN, USA)
	+ Mark Urman, film producer and distributor (aged 66; Newark, NJ, USA)
	+ Patricia Wald, judge, Chief Judge of the D.C. Circuit (1986–1991) (aged 90; Washington, DC, USA)
* January 13
	+ Douglas M. Costle, environmentalist (aged 79; McLean, VA, USA)
	+ Francine du Plessix Gray, author (aged 88; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Willie Murphy, blues musician (aged 75; Minneapolis, MN, USA)
	+ Alfred K. Newman, Navajo Code talker (aged 94; Albuquerque, NM, USA)
	+ Francis W. Nye, Major General in the U.S. Air Force (aged 100; Albuquerque, NM, USA)
	+ Mel Stottlemyre, baseball player and coach (aged 77; Seattle, WA, USA)
* January 14
	+ Milton Bluehouse Sr., politician (aged 82; Ganado, AZ, USA)
	+ Dick Brodowski, baseball player (aged 86; Lynn, MA, USA)
	+ Eli Grba, baseball player (aged 84; Florence, AL, USA)
	+ Raymond G. Perelman, businessman (aged 101; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
	+ Gavin Smith, Canadian poker player (aged 50; Houston, TX, USA)
	+ Omar Phillips, drummer (aged 48; Atlanta, GA, USA)
* January 15
	+ Bill Anagnos, stuntman and actor (aged 60; Red Hook, NY, USA)
	+ Bradley Bolke, voice actor (aged 93; Dobbs Ferry, NY, USA)
	+ Carol Channing, actress, singer and dancer (aged 97; Rancho Mirage, CA, USA)
	+ Walter Klein, filmmaker, founder of International Quorum of Motion Picture Producers (aged 95; Charlotte, NC, USA)
	+ Mason Lowe, professional bull rider (aged 25; Denver, CO, USA)
	+ Tim Maypray, football player (aged 30; Mooresville, NC, USA)
	+ John J. McKetta, chemical engineer (aged 103; Austin, TX, USA)
	+ Bruce Tufeld, talent agent and manager (aged 66; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* January 16
	+ John C. Bogle, investor, founder of The Vanguard Group (aged 89; Bryn Mawr, PA, USA)
	+ Lorna Doom, punk rock bassist (Germs) (aged 61; Thousand Oaks, CA, USA)
	+ Tom Hausman, baseball player (aged 65; Las Vegas, NV, USA)
	+ Hank Norton, football coach (aged 91; Ferrum, VA, USA)
	+ Barbara Tsakirgis, archaeologist (aged 65; Nashville, TN, USA)
	+ Rita Vidaurri, singer (aged 94; San Antonio, TX, USA)
* January 17
	+ Debi Martini, punk rock singer and bassist (Red Aunts) (aged 52; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Joe O'Donnell, football player (aged 77; OR, USA)
	+ Mary Oliver, poet (aged 83; Hobe Sound, FL, USA)
	+ Mary Jane Osborn, biochemist and molecular biologist (aged 91; Farmington, CT, USA)
	+ Sam Savage, novelist and poet (aged 78; Madison, WI, USA)
	+ Turk Schonert, football player (aged 62; SC, USA)
	+ Helen Smith, baseball player (aged 97; Richmond, VA, USA)
	+ Daniel C. Striepeke, makeup artist (aged 88; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Reggie Young, musician (aged 82; Leiper's Fork, TN, USA)
* January 18
	+ Boo, Pomeranian and internet celebrity (aged 12; Buena Park, CA, USA)
	+ John Coughlin, Pairs figure skater (aged 33; Kansas City, MO, USA)
	+ Gary Gutting, philosopher (aged 76; Chicago, IL, USA)
	+ Dan Orlich, football player (aged 94; Reno, NV, USA)
	+ William A. Thomas, college football player and coach (aged 70; Houston, TX, USA)
	+ Glen Wood, racing driver, co-founder of Wood Brothers Racing (aged 93; Stuart, VA, USA)
	+ Robert Morey, rower (aged 82; San Francisco, CA, USA)
* January 19
	+ Nathan Glazer, sociologist (aged 95; Cambridge, MA, USA)
	+ Thomas Habinek, classical scholar (aged 65; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Henry Horwitz, historian (aged 81; Iowa City, IA, USA)
	+ Tony Mendez, intelligence officer (aged 78; Frederick, MD, USA)
	+ Margaret Wigiser, baseball player (aged 94; Stuart, FL, USA)
* January 20
	+ Tibor Baranski, Hungarian-American educator (aged 96; Buffalo, NY, USA)
	+ Rosemarie Bowe, model and actress (aged 86; Cuernavaca, Mexico)
	+ Kenneth Bruffee, academic (aged 84; Brooklyn, NY, USA)
	+ Evening Attire, racehorse (aged 20; Pawling, NY, USA)
	+ Norman Itzkowitz, historian (aged 87; Trenton, NJ, USA)
	+ Jerry Kupcinet, director and producer (aged 74; West Hills, CA, USA)
	+ Jimmy Rayl, basketball player (aged 77; Kokomo, IN, USA)
	+ Bobby Shows, politician (aged 80; Ellisville, MS, USA)
	+ Andrew G. Vajna, Hungarian-American film producer (aged 74; Budapest, Hungary)
* January 21
	+ Russell Baker, writer (aged 93; Leesburg, VA, USA)
	+ Kaye Ballard, actress and singer (aged 93; Rancho Mirage, CA, USA)
	+ Maxine Brown, country singer (The Browns) (aged 87; Little Rock, AR, USA)
	+ Edwin Birdsong, funk keyboardist (aged 77; Inglewood, CA, USA)
	+ Charles Kettles, colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (aged 89; Ypsilanti, MI, USA)
	+ Mike Ledbetter, blues musician (aged 33; Elgin, IL, USA)
	+ Richard H. Lyon, acoustical engineer (aged 89; Belmont, MA, USA)
	+ Leo Paquette, chemist (aged 84; Columbus, OH, USA)
	+ Harris Wofford, attorney and politician (aged 92; Washington, DC, USA)
* January 22
	+ Kevin Barnett, comedian and screenwriter (aged 32; Mexico)
	+ Leonard Dinnerstein, historian (aged 84; Tucson, AZ, USA)
	+ James Frawley, television and film director (aged 82; Indian Wells, CA, USA)
	+ Bill Mackrides, football player (aged 93; Edgmont Township, PA, USA)
	+ John Mortimer Smith, Roman Catholic prelate (aged 83; Lawrenceville, NJ, USA)
	+ Maureen Murphy, swimmer (aged 79; Lake Oswego, OR, USA)
* January 23
	+ Richard Bodycombe, military officer (aged 96; Toledo, OH, USA)
	+ Jack Brinkley, politician, educator and lawyer (aged 88; Columbus, GA, USA)
	+ Nils Hasselmo, Swedish-American academic administrator (aged 87; Houston, TX, USA)
	+ Jonas Mekas, Lithuanian-born filmmaker, poet and artist (aged 96; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Erik Olin Wright, Marxist sociologist (aged 71; Milwaukee, WI, USA)
	+ Willie York, homeless activist (aged 74; Peoria, IL, USA)
* January 24
	+ Norman Goodman, municipal official (aged 95; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Jerard Hurwitz, biochemist (aged 90; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Rosemary Bryant Mariner, naval aviator (aged 65; Knoxville, TN, USA)
	+ Jim McKean, Canadian baseball player (aged 73; St. Petersburg, FL, USA)
	+ Robert H. Mounce, biblical scholar (aged 97; Seattle, WA, USA)
	+ Norman Orentreich, dermatologist (aged 96; New York City, NY, USA)
* January 25
	+ Fatima Ali, Pakistani-born chef and reality show contestant (aged 29; San Marino, CA, USA)
	+ Steve Bell, television anchorman and professor (aged 83; Muncie, IN, USA)
	+ Bruce Corbitt, musician (aged 56; Irving, TX, USA)
	+ Henry C. Dethloff, historian (aged 84; College Station, TX, USA)
	+ Albert J. Dunlap, corporate executive (aged 81; Ocala, FL, USA)
	+ Stanley Hill, union leader (aged 82; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Florence Knoll, architect and furniture designer (aged 101; Coral Gables, FL, USA)
	+ Meshulam Riklis, Turkish-born American-Israeli businessman (aged 95; Tel Aviv, Israel)
	+ Jacqueline Steiner, folk singer-songwriter and social activist (aged 94; Norwalk, CT, USA)
* January 26
	+ Dale Barnstable, basketball player (aged 93; Louisville, KY, USA)
	+ Duane Benson, football player and politician (aged 73; Rochester, MN, USA)
	+ William Esper, acting teacher (aged 86; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Bill Ortwein, politician (aged 78; Chattanooga, TN, USA)
	+ Mary Lou Robinson, district judge (aged 92; Amarillo, TX, USA)
* January 27
	+ Marshall E. Blume, economist (aged 77; Easton, MD, USA)
	+ Joseph Buttigieg, Maltese-American literary scholar (aged 71; South Bend, IN, USA)
	+ Yvonne Clark, engineer (aged 89; Nashville, TN, USA)
	+ Thomas Jones Enright, mathematician (aged 71; San Diego, CA, USA)
	+ Peter Magowan, businessman (aged 76; San Francisco, CA, USA)
	+ Matt Turner, baseball player (aged 51; Lexington, KY, USA)
	+ Erica Yohn, actress (aged 90; North Hollywood, CA, USA)
* January 28
	+ Vere Claiborne Chappell, philosopher (aged 88; North Adams, MA, USA)
	+ Susan Hiller, artist (aged 78; London, England, UK)
	+ Henry Saavedra, politician (aged 82; Albuquerque, NM, USA)
	+ Wickham Skinner, business theorist (aged 94; St. George, ME, USA)
	+ Doris L. Wethers, pediatrician (aged 91; Yonkers, NY, USA)
	+ Paul Whaley, drummer (aged 72; Regensburg, Germany)
* January 29
	+ Andy Hebenton, Canadian ice hockey player (aged 89; Gresham, OR, USA)
	+ Charles J. Hynes, lawyer and politician (aged 83; Delray Beach, FL, USA)
	+ James Ingram, R&B musician (aged 66; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Sanford Sylvan, baritone (aged 65; Manhattan, NY, USA)
	+ William Van Alstyne, legal scholar (aged 84; Huntington Beach, CA, USA)
	+ Jan Wahl, children's writer (aged 87; Toledo, OH, USA)
* January 30
	+ Nehanda Abiodun, rap music activist (aged 68; Cuba)
	+ Diane Gaidry, actress (aged 54; Buffalo, NY, USA)
	+ Dick Miller, actor (aged 90; Toluca Lake, CA, USA)
	+ Lori Wilson, politician (aged 81; Indian Harbour Beach, FL, USA)
* January 31
	+ Harold Bradley, country musician (aged 93; Nashville, TN, USA)
	+ A. Ernest Fitzgerald, engineer (aged 92; Falls Church, VA, USA)
	+ Andrzej Wieckowski, Polish-born chemist (aged 73; Eugene, OR, USA)

### February

* February 1
	+ D. J. Conway, occult writer (aged 79; Hood River, OR, USA)
	+ John J. Duffy Jr., criminal defense attorney (aged 85; Downingtown, PA, USA)
	+ Alice Dye, amateur golfer and golf course designer (aged 91; Gulf Stream, FL, USA)
	+ Alex Brown, painter and punk rock musician (aged 52; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Glen Ray Hines, football player (aged 75; Fayetteville, AR, USA)
	+ Lisa Seagram, actress (aged 82; Burbank, CA, USA)
	+ Wade Wilson, football player and coach (aged 60; Coppell, TX, USA)
* February 2
	+ Sean Cronin, meteorologist and politician (aged 60; Rothschild, WI, USA)
	+ Walter James Edyvean, prelate (aged 80; Boston, MA, USA)
	+ Carol Emshwiller, author (aged 97; Durham, NC, USA)
	+ Michelle King, educator (aged 57; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Libby Komaiko, dancer (aged 69; Chicago, IL, USA)
	+ Tim Landers, rock guitarist and singer (aged 28; Stoneham, MA, USA)
	+ Irene Krugman Rudnick, politician (aged 89; Aiken, SC, USA)
	+ Bill Sims, blues musician (aged 69; Columbus, OH, USA)
* February 3
	+ Julie Adams, actress (aged 92; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Irv Brown, sportscaster (aged 83; Lafayette, CO, USA)
	+ Bob Friend, baseball player (aged 88; O'Hara Township, PA, USA)
	+ Irving Lavin, art historian (aged 91; Princeton, NJ, USA)
	+ Emily Levine, humorist (aged 74; Berkeley, CA, USA)
	+ Stephen Negoesco, Romanian-American soccer player and coach (aged 93; San Francisco, CA, USA)
	+ Barbra Casbar Siperstein, lawyer and LGBT activist (aged 76; New Brunswick, NJ, USA)
	+ Kristoff St. John, actor (aged 52; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Joe P. Tolson, politician (aged 77; Tarboro, NC, USA)
* February 4
	+ Nita Bieber, actress (aged 92; Rancho Palos Verdes, CA, USA)
	+ Gary LaPierre, radio journalist (aged 76; Ipswich, MA, USA)
	+ John Otho Marsh Jr., 14th United States Secretary of the Army (aged 92; Raphine, VA, USA)
	+ John Rone, stage actor and director (aged 69; Memphis, TN, USA)
	+ Izzy Young, American-Swedish folklorist and author (aged 90; Stockholm, Sweden)
* February 5
	+ Audrey Cleary, politician (aged 88; Bismarck, ND, USA)
	+ Jean Herskovits, historian (aged 83; Manhattan, NY, USA)
	+ Christine Kay, journalist and editor (aged 54; Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
	+ Garr King, judge (aged 83; Portland, OR, USA)
	+ George Klein, disc jockey (aged 83; Memphis, TN, USA)
	+ Joe Presko, baseball player (aged 90; Kansas City, MO, USA)
	+ Anne Firor Scott, historian (aged 97; Chapel Hill, NC, USA)
	+ Doc Thompson, radio personality (aged 49; Haltom City, TX, USA)
	+ Mel Tomlinson, dancer and choreographer (aged 65; Huntersville, NC, USA)
	+ Guy Webster, celebrity photographer (aged 79; Ojai, CA, USA)
* February 6
	+ Tom Cade, ornithologist (aged 91; Boise, ID, USA)
	+ Yechiel Eckstein, Israeli-American rabbi, founder of International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (aged 67; Jerusalem, Israel)
	+ Lonnie Simmons, record producer (aged 74; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* February 7
	+ John Tyler Bonner, biologist (aged 98; Portland, OR, USA)
	+ John Dingell, politician (aged 92; Dearborn, MI, USA)
	+ Mable Lee, tap dancer (aged 97; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Rocky Lockridge, boxer (aged 60; Gloucester City, NJ, USA)
	+ Frank Robinson, baseball player, coach, and manager (aged 83; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Edward Zigler, psychologist (aged 88; North Haven, CT, USA)
* February 8
	+ Seweryn Bialer, German-born political scientist (aged 92; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Fernando Clavijo, Uruguayan-born soccer player, and manager (aged 63; Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA)
	+ Dick Kempthorn, football player and businessman (aged 92; Canton, OH, USA)
	+ Bert McKasy, politician (aged 77; Mendota Heights, MN, USA)
	+ Walter Munk, Austrian-born oceanographer (aged 101; La Jolla, CA, USA)
	+ Wolfgang Rindler, Austrian-born physicist (aged 94; Dallas, TX, USA)
	+ Robert Ryman, painter (aged 88; New York City, NY, USA)
* February 9
	+ Jerry Casale, baseball player (aged 85; Paramus, NJ, USA)
	+ Nicholas Kafoglis, politician (aged 89; Branford, CT, USA)
	+ Shelley Lubben, adult film actress and anti-pornography activist (aged 50; Springville, CA, USA)
	+ Ron W. Miller, businessman, CEO of the Walt Disney Company (aged 85; Napa, CA, USA)
	+ Patricia Nell Warren, novelist, poet, and journalist (aged 82; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Milt Welch, baseball player (aged 94; Eugene, OR, USA)
	+ Bruce Williams, radio host (aged 86; FL, USA)
* February 10
	+ Carmen Argenziano, actor (aged 75; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Walter B. Jones Jr., politician (aged 76; Greenville, NC, USA)
	+ Jan-Michael Vincent, actor (aged 74; Asheville, NC, USA)
* February 11
	+ Ben Abell, meteorologist (aged 86; St. Louis, MO, USA)
	+ Winslow Briggs, plant biologist (aged 90; Stanford, CA, USA)
	+ Jack Crimian, baseball player (aged 92; Claymont, DE, USA)
	+ Harvey Scales, soul singer and songwriter (aged 78; Milwaukee, WI, USA)
	+ Lou Sossamon, football player (aged 97; West Columbia, SC, USA)
* February 12
	+ Betty Ballantine, British-born book publisher (aged 99; Bearsville, NY, USA)
	+ Paul Cain, Pentecostal minister (aged 89; Santa Maria, CA, USA)
	+ Jean E. Fairfax, educator (aged 98; Phoenix, AZ, USA)
	+ David Forden, intelligence officer (aged 88; Alexandria, VA, USA)
	+ W. E. B. Griffin, writer (aged 89; Daphne, AL, USA)
	+ Lyndon LaRouche, political activist, founder of the LaRouche movement (aged 96; Rochester, NH, USA)
	+ Pedro Morales, Puerto Rican Hall of Fame professional wrestler (WWA, WWWF) and commentator (WWF *Superstars*) (aged 76; Perth Amboy, NJ, USA)
* February 13
	+ Greg Alyn Carlson, criminal (aged 47; Apex, NC, USA)
	+ Jack Coghill, politician (aged 93; North Pole, AK, USA)
	+ Edith Iglauer, writer (aged 101; Sechelt, BC, Canada)
	+ Christopher Knopf, screenwriter and union executive (aged 91; Santa Monica, CA, USA)
	+ Joyce Anne Noel, beauty queen and First Lady of Rhode Island (aged 86; Estero, FL, USA)
	+ Ray Price, speechwriter (aged 88; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Jimmy Turman, politician (aged 91; Austin, TX, USA)
	+ Ted Tsukiyama, attorney and bonsai enthusiast (aged 98; Honolulu, HI, USA)
* February 14
	+ Tommy Giordano, baseball player (aged 93; Orlando, FL, USA)
	+ David Horowitz, consumer reporter and journalist (aged 81; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Connie Jones, jazz trumpeter (aged 84; New Orleans, LA, USA)
	+ Rocky Krsnich, baseball player (aged 91; Overland Park, KS, USA)
	+ Neil Papiano, lawyer (aged 85; Arcadia, CA, USA)
	+ Clinton Wheeler, basketball player (aged 59; Middletown, NJ, USA)
* February 15
	+ Sal Artiaga, baseball executive (aged 72; Palm Harbor, FL, USA)
	+ Ellis Avery, writer (aged 46; Columbus, OH, USA)
	+ Thomas Bruice, biochemist (aged 93; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Kofi Burbridge, rock multi-instrumentalist (aged 57; Atlanta, GA, USA)
	+ Efrain Chacurian, Argentine-born soccer player (aged 94; Stratford, CT, USA)
	+ Thomas Joseph Costello, Roman Catholic prelate (aged 89; Syracuse, NY, USA)
	+ Siegfried Engelmann, educationist (aged 87; Eugene, OR, USA)
	+ Richard N. Gardner, diplomat (aged 91; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Gene Littler, Hall of Fame professional golfer (aged 88; San Diego, CA, USA)
	+ Lee Radziwill, socialite (aged 85; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Dave Smith, archivist (aged 78; Burbank, CA, USA)
* February 16
	+ Sam Bass, motorsports artist (aged 57; Concord, NC, USA)
	+ Don Bragg, pole vaulter (aged 83; Oakley, CA, USA)
	+ Patrick Caddell, pollster (aged 68; Charleston, SC, USA)
	+ Jeffrey Hart, cultural critic (aged 88; Fairlee, VT, USA)
	+ Thomas R. Kane, engineer (aged 94; Stanford, CA, USA)
	+ Ken Nordine, voice-over and recording artist (aged 98; Chicago, IL, USA)
	+ Theodore Isaac Rubin, psychiatrist (aged 95; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Shelly Saltman, sports promoter (aged 87; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* February 17
	+ Ethel Ennis, jazz singer (aged 86; Baltimore, MD, USA)
	+ Alberto Gutman, Cuban-born politician (aged 60; Miami, FL, USA)
	+ Eric P. Hamp, linguist (aged 98; Traverse City, MI, USA)
	+ Bill Jenkins, epidemiologist (aged 73; Charleston, SC, USA)
	+ George Mendonsa, sailor, claimant to V-J Day kiss (aged 95; Newport, RI, USA)
	+ Sean Milliken, reality television actor (aged 29; Harris County, TX, USA)
* February 18
	+ Wallace Smith Broecker, geophysicist (aged 87; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ O'Neal Compton, actor (aged 68; Columbia, SC, USA)
	+ T. J. Cunningham, football player (aged 46; Parker, CO, USA)
	+ Stewart Dalzell, judge (aged 75; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
	+ Skip Groff, record producer and DJ (aged 70; Olney, MD, USA)
	+ Louise Manoogian Simone, philanthropist (aged 85; Detroit, MI, USA)
	+ George Springer, mathematician and computer scientist (aged 94; Newton, MA, USA)
	+ Russell Sugarmon, judge and politician (aged 89; Memphis, TN, USA)
	+ John Traupman, classical scholar (aged 96; Bryn Mawr, PA, USA)
* February 19
	+ Dick Boushka, basketball player (aged 84; Port St. Lucie, FL, USA)
	+ Paul Janeczko, poet and anthologist (aged 73; Brunswick, ME, USA)
	+ Don Newcombe, baseball player (aged 92; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Artie Wayne, musician, songwriter and record producer (aged 77; Palm Springs, CA, USA)
	+ Stanley Wolpert, Indologist (aged 91; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* February 20
	+ Dominick Argento, composer (aged 91; Minneapolis, MN, USA)
	+ Mark Bramble, theatre director and producer (aged 68; MD, USA)
	+ William Broomfield, politician (aged 96; Kensington, MD, USA)
	+ John P. Flaherty Jr., judge (aged 87; Indiana Township, PA, USA)
	+ Fred Foster, Hall of Fame record producer and songwriter (aged 87; Nashville, TN, USA)
	+ Joe Gibbon, baseball player (aged 83; Newton, MS, USA)
	+ Sailor Bob, cartoonist and TV host (aged 85; Richmond, VA, USA)
	+ Augustus Richard Norton, professor (aged 72; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Vinny Vella, actor and comedian (aged 72; New York City, NY, USA)
* February 21
	+ Gus Backus, doo-wop and schlager singer (aged 81; Germering, Germany)
	+ Nick Cafardo, sports journalist (aged 62; Fort Myers, FL, USA)
	+ Sue Casey, actress (aged 92; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Stanley Donen, film director (aged 94; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Beverley Owen, actress (aged 81; Londonderry, VT, USA)
	+ Jackie Shane, singer (aged 78; Nashville, TN, USA)
	+ Peter Tork, musician and actor (The Monkees) (aged 77; Mansfield, CT, USA)
* February 22
	+ Jeff Adachi, attorney (aged 59; San Francisco, CA, USA)
	+ Frank Ballance, politician and convicted criminal (aged 77; Raleigh, NC, USA)
	+ Victor J. Banis, author (aged 81; Martinsburg, WV, USA)
	+ Clark James Gable, actor and television host (aged 30; Dallas, TX, USA)
	+ Brody Stevens, actor and comedian (aged 48; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Morgan Woodward, actor (aged 93; Hollywood Hills, CA, USA)
* February 23
	+ Ron Avery, sport shooter (aged 62; Ouray, CO, USA)
	+ Ira Gitler, jazz historian and journalist (aged 90; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Katherine Helmond, actress (aged 89; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Carl Meinhold, basketball player (aged 92; Reading, PA, USA)
* February 24
	+ Donald Keene, American-born Japanese historian and writer (aged 96; Tokyo, Japan)
	+ T. Jack Lee, engineer (aged 83; Birmingham, AL, USA)
	+ Carrie Ann Lucas, disability rights advocate and attorney (aged 47; Loveland, CO, USA)
	+ Patrick McCarthy, fashion magazine publisher and editor (aged 67; Dedham, MA, USA)
	+ Arthur Pardee, biochemist (aged 97; Dedham, MA, USA)
	+ Richard S. Wheeler, writer and newspaper editor (aged 84; Livingston, MT, USA)
	+ Mac Wiseman, bluegrass musician (aged 93; Nashville, TN, USA)
* February 25
	+ Janet Asimov, science fiction writer, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst (aged 92; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Fred Gloden, football player (aged 100; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
	+ Kathleen O'Malley, actress (aged 94; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Jeraldine Saunders, writer and astrologer (aged 95; Glendale, CA, USA)
	+ Lisa Sheridan, actress (aged 45; New Orleans, LA, USA)
* February 26
	+ Harry F. Barnes, judge (aged 86; Camden, AR, USA)
	+ Mickey Channell, politician (aged 76; Greensboro, GA, USA)
	+ Mitzi Hoag, actress (aged 86; Sherman Oaks, CA, USA)
	+ Charles McCarry, novelist (aged 88; Fairfax County, VA, USA)
	+ Dennis Richardson, politician (aged 69; Central Point, OR, USA)
	+ Thomas L. Shaffer, legal scholar (aged 84; South Bend, IN, USA)
* February 27
	+ Jerry Merryman, electrical engineer (aged 86; Dallas, TX, USA)
	+ Edward Nixon, entrepreneur (aged 88; Bothell, WA, USA)
	+ Mike Rebhan, baseball player (aged 51; Vero Beach, FL, USA)
	+ Nathaniel Taylor, actor (aged 80; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Willie Williams, athlete (aged 87; Greenville, SC, USA)
* February 28
	+ Lewis Aron, psychoanalyst (aged 66; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Joe Girard, salesman and author (aged 90; Detroit, MI, USA)
	+ Sarah Lee Lippincott, astronomer (aged 98; Kennett Square, PA, USA)
	+ Norma Paulus, lawyer and politician (aged 85; Portland, OR, USA)
	+ André Previn, German-born composer and score adapter (aged 89; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Elliot Griffin Thomas, Roman Catholic prelate and Bishop (aged 92; Timonium, MD, USA)

### March

* March 1
	+ Joseph Flummerfelt, conductor (aged 82; Indianapolis, IN, USA)
	+ Kevin Roche, Irish-born architect (aged 96; Guilford, CT, USA)
	+ Robert S. Summers, legal scholar (aged 85; New Canaan, CT, USA)
* March 2
	+ Jack Gregory, football player (aged 74; Amory, MS, USA)
	+ Fred Hill, baseball coach (aged 84; Piscataway, NJ, USA)
	+ Ed Keats, rear admiral (aged 104; Towson, MD, USA)
	+ Keith Harvey Miller, politician (aged 94; Anchorage, AK, USA)
	+ Ogden Reid, publisher, diplomat, and politician (aged 93; Waccabuc, NY, USA)
* March 3
	+ Tom Bass, politician (aged 92; Houston, TX, USA)
	+ Harry Joseph Bowman, criminal (aged 69; Butner, NC, USA)
	+ Kyle Forti, political consultant (aged 30; Kenya)
	+ Roger W. Titus, judge (aged 77; Washington, DC, USA)
* March 4
	+ King Kong Bundy, professional wrestler and actor (aged 64; Glassboro, NJ, USA)
	+ Juan Corona, Mexican serial killer (aged 85; Corcoran, CA, USA)
	+ Wilbur Cross, author (aged 100; Atlanta, GA, USA)
	+ Robert DeProspero, Secret Service agent (aged 80; Scottsdale, AZ, USA)
	+ Ted Lindsay, Canadian Hall of Fame ice hockey player (aged 93; Oakland, MI, USA)
	+ Luke Perry, actor (aged 52; Burbank, CA, USA)
	+ Sara Romweber, rock drummer (aged 55; Lebanon Township, NC, USA)
	+ Sidney Verba, political scientist, librarian, and library administrator (aged 86; Cambridge, MA, USA)
* March 6
	+ James Dapogny, jazz musicologist and pianist (aged 78; Ann Arbor, MI, USA)
	+ Carolee Schneemann, visual artist (aged 79; New Paltz, NY, USA)
* March 7
	+ Dick Beyer, professional wrestler (aged 88; Akron, NY, USA)
	+ Joseph H. Boardman, railroad executive (aged 70; Pasco County, FL, USA)
	+ Ralph Hall, politician (aged 95; Rockwall, TX, USA)
	+ Dan Jenkins, sportswriter (aged 90; Fort Worth, TX, USA)
	+ Dick Nichols, politician (aged 92; McPherson, KS, USA)
	+ Carmine Persico, mobster and convicted racketeer (aged 85; Durham, NC, USA)
	+ Sidney Sheinberg, lawyer and studio executive (aged 84; Beverly Hills, CA, USA)
* March 8
	+ Marshall Brodien, magician and actor (aged 84; Geneva, IL, USA)
	+ Kelly Catlin, Olympic athlete (aged 23; Stanford, CA, USA)
	+ Cedrick Hardman, football player (aged 70; San Clemente, CA, USA)
	+ Mel Miller, lawyer and politician (aged 79; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ George Morfogen, actor (aged 85; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Eddie Taylor Jr., blues singer and guitarist (aged 46; Chicago, IL, USA)
* March 9
	+ Jed Allan, actor (aged 84; Palm Desert, CA, USA)
	+ Joe Auer, football player (aged 77; Winter Park, FL, USA)
	+ Freeda Foreman, boxer, daughter of George Foreman (aged 42; Houston, TX, USA)
* March 10
	+ Asa Brebner, guitarist, singer and songwriter (aged 65; Boston, MA, USA)
	+ Karl Eller, businessman (aged 90; Phoenix, AZ, USA)
	+ Russell Gary, football player (aged 59; Minneapolis, MN, USA)
	+ Raven Grimassi, Wiccan priest and author (aged 67; Springfield, MA, USA)
	+ Charlie Karp, musician, songwriter and Emmy-winning documentarian (aged 65; Westport, CT, USA)
	+ Eric Moss, football player (aged 44; Rand, WV, USA)
	+ William Powers Jr., educator (aged 72; Austin, TX, USA)
* March 11 – Hal Blaine, drummer (aged 90; Palm Desert, CA, USA)
* March 12
	+ John Bardo, educator (aged 70; Wichita, KS, USA)
	+ John Kilzer, singer and songwriter (aged 62; Memphis, TN, USA)
	+ Joseph C. Miller, historian (aged 79; Charlottesville, VA, USA)
	+ Marjorie W. Sharmat, author (aged 90; Munster, IN, USA)
	+ Joffre Stewart, beat poet and anarchist (aged 93; Chicago, IL, USA)
* March 13
	+ Frank Cali, mobster, head of Gambino crime family (aged 53; Staten Island, NY, USA)
	+ Leroy Stanton, baseball player (aged 72; Florence County, SC, USA)
* March 14
	+ Birch Bayh, politician (aged 91; Easton, MD, USA)
	+ Ralph Metzner, German-born psychologist, writer and researcher (aged 82; Sonoma, CA, USA)
* March 15 – W. S. Merwin, poet (aged 91; Haiku, HI, USA)
* March 16
	+ Dick Dale, rock guitarist known as The King of the Surf Guitar (aged 81; Loma Linda, CA, USA)
	+ Larry DiTillio, television writer (aged 71; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Richard Erdman, actor (aged 93; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Barbara Hammer, filmmaker (aged 79; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Alan Krueger, economist and advisor to President Barack Obama (aged 58; Princeton, NJ, USA)
* March 17
	+ Ken Bald, illustrator and comic book artist (aged 98; Mount Arlington, NJ, USA)
	+ Barbara Benary, composer and ethnomusicologist (aged 72; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Norman Hollyn, film and television editor (aged 66; Yokohama, Japan)
	+ Andre Williams, R&B singer and songwriter (aged 82; Chicago, IL, USA)
* March 18
	+ John Carl Buechler, visual effects artist and film director (aged 66; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Jerrie Cobb, aviator (aged 88; FL, USA)
	+ Roger Kirby, professional wrestler (aged 79; North Kansas City, MO, USA)
* March 19
	+ Chuck Harmon, baseball player (aged 94; Golf Manor, OH, USA)
	+ George W. Lindberg, judge (aged 86; Crystal Lake, IL, USA)
	+ Bill Phelps, politician (aged 84; Houston, TX, USA)
* March 20
	+ Joseph Victor Adamec, Roman Catholic prelate (aged 83; Hollidaysburg, PA, USA)
	+ Betty G. Bailey, artist (aged 79; Port Costa, CA, USA)
	+ Eunetta T. Boone, television writer and producer (aged 63; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Linda Gregg, poet (aged 76; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Randy Jackson, baseball player (aged 93; Athens, GA, USA)
* March 21
	+ John Bersia, writer (aged 62; Altamonte Springs, FL, USA)
	+ Anthony Dickerson, football player (aged 61; TX, USA)
	+ Roger Moore, computer scientist and philanthropist (aged 79; Toronto, ON, Canada)
	+ Francis Quinn, Roman Catholic prelate (aged 97; Sacramento, CA, USA)
* March 22 – Arlen Ness, motorcycle designer and entrepreneur (aged 79; CA, USA)
* March 23
	+ Larry Cohen, film director, producer and screenwriter (aged 82; Beverly Hills, CA, USA)
	+ Clem Daniels, football player (aged 81; Oakland, CA, USA)
	+ Howard V. Lee, soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (aged 85; Virginia Beach, VA, USA)
* March 24
	+ Nancy Gates, actress (aged 93; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Fred Malek, business executive, political advisor and philanthropist (aged 82; VA, USA)
* March 25
	+ Jean Price, politician (aged 75; Great Falls, MT, USA)
	+ Jerry Schypinski, baseball player (aged 87; Clinton Township, MI, USA)
	+ Sydel Silverman, anthropologist (aged 85; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Bill Thompson III, ornithologist and publisher (aged 57; Whipple, OH, USA)
	+ Lyle Tuttle, tattoo artist (aged 87; Ukiah, CA, USA)
* March 26 – W. H. Pugmire, writer (aged 67; Seattle, WA, USA)
* March 27 – Joe Bellino, football player (aged 81; Lincoln, MA, USA)
* March 28 – Henry Stern, politician and government official (aged 83; New York City, NY, USA)
* March 29 – Ed Westcott, photographer (aged 97; Oak Ridge, TN, USA)
* March 30 – Truman Lowe, artist (aged 75; Madison, WI, USA)
* March 31 – Nipsey Hussle (Ermias Davidson Asghedom), rapper and songwriter (aged 33; Los Angeles, CA, USA)

### April

* April 1
	+ Dixie Allen, politician (aged 84; Dayton, OH, USA)
	+ Bucky McConnell, basketball player (aged 90; Lakeville, NJ, USA)
	+ Vonda N. McIntyre, science fiction author (aged 70; Seattle, WA, USA)
	+ Ron Sweed, television host (aged 70; Cleveland, OH, USA)
* April 2
	+ Rick Elias, musician (A Ragamuffin Band) (aged 64; Nashville, TN, USA)
	+ Kim English, house and gospel singer-songwriter (aged 48; Chicago, IL, USA)
	+ Ken Hay, religious leader, founder of The Wilds Christian Association (aged 85; Brevard, NC, USA)
	+ Don Williamson, businessman (Brainerd International Raceway) and politician (aged 85; Flint, MI, USA)
* April 3
	+ Philip Furia, author (aged 75; Wilmington, NC, USA)
	+ Daryl Hecht, judge, member of the Iowa Supreme Court (2006–2018) (aged 66; Onawa, IA, USA)
* April 4
	+ Roberta Haynes, actress (aged 91; Delray Beach, FL, USA)
	+ Barry Malkin, film editor (aged 80; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Thompson Mann, swimmer, Olympic champion (aged 76; Amesbury, MA, USA)
	+ Marilyn Mason, concert organist and academic (aged 93; Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA)
	+ Tiger Merritt, singer and guitarist (Morning Teleportation) (aged 31; Bowling Green, KY, USA)
	+ Arthur Polonsky, painter (aged 93; Newton, MA, USA)
* April 5
	+ Samuel Pilafian, tuba player (aged 69; Tempe, AZ, USA)
	+ Davey Williams, avant-garde guitarist and music critic (aged 67; Birmingham, AL, USA)
* April 6
	+ Romus Burgin, World War II veteran and author (aged 96; Lancaster, TX, USA)
	+ Paul J. Coleman, space scientist (aged 87; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Louis Crump, politician (aged 102; Austin, TX, USA)
	+ Jim Glaser, country music artist (aged 81; Nashville, TN, USA)
	+ Richard Green, sexologist and psychiatrist (aged 82; London, England, UK)
	+ Fritz Hollings, politician (aged 97; Isle of Palms, SC, USA)
* April 7
	+ Seymour Cassel, actor (aged 84; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ John William Ditter Jr., jurist (aged 97; Perkiomenville, PA, USA)
	+ William B. Murray, opera baritone (aged 84; Sparrowbush, NY, USA)
	+ Neil D. Opdyke, geologist (aged 86; Gainesville, FL, USA)
	+ Billy Rosen, bridge player (aged 90; Highland Park, IL, USA)
	+ Lodune Sincaid, mixed martial artist (aged 45; St. Petersburg, FL, USA)
	+ L. Eugene Smith, politician (aged 97; DeLancey, PA, USA)
* April 8
	+ Blase Bonpane, human rights activist (aged 89; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Robert Forguites, politician (aged 80; VT, USA)
	+ Samuel "Bay" Taylor, baseball player (aged 90; St. Louis, MO, USA)
	+ Cho Yang-ho, South Korean businessman (aged 70; Los Angeles County, CA, USA)
* April 9
	+ Elwyn Berlekamp, mathematician (aged 78; Piedmont, CA, USA)
	+ Richard E. Cole, air force officer (aged 103; San Antonio, TX, USA)
	+ Kent Harris, songwriter and record producer (aged 88; San Diego, CA, USA)
	+ James D. Hudnall, comic book writer (aged 61; Santa Rosa, CA, USA)
	+ Marilynn Smith, professional golfer (aged 89; Goodyear, AZ, USA)
	+ Charles Van Doren, writer and editor (aged 93; Canaan, CT, USA)
* April 10 – Earl Thomas Conley, country music singer-songwriter (aged 77; Nashville, TN, USA)
* April 11 – Wayne Pomeroy, politician (aged 96; Mesa, AZ, USA)
* April 12 – Georgia Engel, actress (aged 70; Princeton, NJ, USA)
* April 13
	+ Donald Ault, literary scholar (aged 76; Gainesville, FL, USA)
	+ Mark Connolly, politician (aged 63; Rancho Mirage, CA, USA)
	+ Quentin Fiore, graphic designer (aged 99; North Canaan, CT, USA)
	+ S. Thomas Gagliano, politician (aged 87; Red Bank, NJ, USA)
	+ Paul Greengard, Nobel neuroscientist (aged 93; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Bud Konheim, fashion executive (aged 84; Norwalk, CT, USA)
* April 14
	+ David Brion Davis, historian (aged 92; Guilford, CT, USA)
	+ Anne Lewis, lawyer (aged 57; GA, USA)
	+ John MacLeod, basketball coach (aged 81; Prescott, AZ, USA)
	+ Gene Wolfe, science fiction and fantasy writer (aged 87; Peoria, IL, USA)
* April 15
	+ Warren Adler, author (aged 91; Manhattan, NY, USA)
	+ Jerry Clack, classics scholar (aged 92; Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
	+ Owen Garriott, astronaut (aged 88; Huntsville, AL, USA)
	+ Louise H. Kellogg, geophysicist (aged 59; Davis, CA, USA)
	+ Elaine Rapp, sculptor (aged 91; Great Neck, NY, USA)
	+ Winston L. Shelton, inventor and entrepreneur (aged 96; Louisville, KY, USA)
* April 16
	+ Dale Denno, politician (aged 68; Cumberland, ME, USA)
	+ Fay McKenzie, actress (aged 101; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Harding Peterson, baseball player and general manager (aged 89; Palm Harbor, FL, USA)
* April 17
	+ Chet Coppock, broadcast journalist and sports talk personality (aged 70; Savannah, GA, USA)
	+ Frederick Hemke, saxophonist (aged 83; Evanston, IL, USA)
	+ James V. Schall, Jesuit Roman Catholic priest, teacher and writer (aged 91; Los Gatos, CA, USA)
* April 18
	+ Samuel H. Gruber, marine biologist (aged 80; Miami, FL, USA)
	+ Don Melnick, biologist and conservationist (aged 65; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Ira Neimark, retail executive (Bergdorf Goodman) (aged 97; Harrison, NY, USA)
	+ Eddie Tigner, blues keyboardist, singer and songwriter (aged 92; Lithonia, GA, USA)
	+ Lorraine Warren, demonologist and paranormal investigator (aged 92; Monroe, CT, USA)
* April 20
	+ Reggie Cobb, football player (aged 50; Santa Clara, CA, USA)
	+ David V. Picker, film executive and producer (aged 87; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Jayne Wrightsman, philanthropist and fine arts collector (aged 99; New York City, NY, USA)
* April 21
	+ Steve Golin, film producer (aged 64; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ David A. Hamburg, psychiatrist (aged 93; Washington, DC, USA)
	+ Ken Kercheval, actor (aged 83; Clinton, IN, USA)
	+ Joyce Steele, baseball player (aged 83; Lovelton, PA, USA)
* April 22
	+ Patricia Battin, librarian (aged 89; Mitchellville, MD, USA)
	+ Robert L. Butler, lawyer and politician (aged 92; Marion, IL, USA)
	+ Deborah Cook, operatic soprano (aged 80; Welaka, FL, USA)
	+ Jim Dunbar, radio program director (aged 89; San Francisco, CA, USA)
	+ John L'Heureux, author (aged 84; Palo Alto, CA, USA)
	+ William Levy, writer (aged 80; Amsterdam, Netherlands)
	+ Andy O'Donnell, basketball player (aged 94; Allentown, PA, USA)
	+ Dave Samuels, percussionist (aged 70; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Greg Theakston, comics artist (*Mad*) (aged 65; Detroit, MI, USA)
* April 23
	+ Henry W. Bloch, businessman and philanthropist (aged 96; Kansas City, MO, USA)
	+ Edward Brooks, politician (aged 76; Reedsburg, WI, USA)
	+ Denton Lotz, Baptist minister (aged 80; Falls Church, VA, USA)
	+ Mark Medoff, playwright (aged 79; Las Cruces, NM, USA)
	+ Johnny Neumann, basketball player (aged 68; Oxford, MS, USA)
	+ Nils John Nilsson, computer scientist (aged 86; Medford, OR, USA)
	+ Pablo Ramirez, skateboarder (aged 26; San Francisco, CA, USA)
	+ John Shorter Stevens, politician (aged 85; Asheville, NC, USA)
	+ Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick, soprano and presenter (aged 35; Baltimore, MD, USA)
	+ David Winters, English-American actor, dancer, choreographer, producer, director and screenwriter (aged 80; Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA)
* April 24
	+ Chris Albertson, journalist, writer, and record producer (aged 87; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Benson K. Buffham, intelligence official (aged 99; Pompano Beach, FL, USA)
	+ Johnny Green, football player (aged 81; TN, USA)
	+ Martin Kilson, political scientist (aged 88; Lincoln, MA, USA)
	+ Dennis Stanford, archaeologist (aged 75; Washington, DC, USA)
* April 25
	+ John Havlicek, basketball player (aged 79; Jupiter, FL, USA)
	+ Larry "Flash" Jenkins, actor (aged 63; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Manuel Lujan Jr., politician (aged 90; Albuquerque, NM, USA)
* April 26
	+ Jimmy Banks, soccer player (aged 54; Milwaukee, WI, USA)
	+ Jessie Lawrence Ferguson, actor (aged 77; Palmdale, CA, USA)
	+ Anthony J. Hilder, surf music producer, radio host and conspiracy film maker (aged 84; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Frederick Niels Larsen, religious leader (aged 87; Independence, MO, USA)
	+ Ken Rothman, politician (aged 83; St. Louis, MO, USA)
	+ Mae Schmidle, politician (aged 92; Newtown, CT, USA)
* April 27
	+ Bart Chilton, civil servant (aged 58; Washington, DC, USA)
	+ Ruth Macrides, historian (aged 70; Dundee, Scotland, UK)
	+ Joe T. Wood, politician (aged 96; Gainesville, GA, USA)
* April 28
	+ Teva Harrison, Canadian-American writer and cartoonist (aged 42; Toronto, ON, Canada)
	+ Damon Keith, judge (aged 96; Detroit, MI, USA)
	+ Richard Lugar, politician (aged 87; Falls Church, VA, USA)
	+ John Singleton, film director, screenwriter and producer (aged 51; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* April 29
	+ Doug Adair, television news anchor (aged 89; Pleasanton, CA, USA)
	+ Eldon Bargewell, army general (aged 71; Eufaula, AL, USA)
	+ Franklin M. Fisher, economist (aged 84; Belmont, MA, USA)
	+ Donald Lan, politician (aged 88; Boca Raton, FL, USA)
	+ George Litto, film producer and talent agent (aged 88; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Gino Marchetti, football player (aged 93; Paoli, PA, USA)
	+ Ellen Tauscher, politician (aged 67; Stanford, CA, USA)
	+ James D. Wright, sociologist (aged 71; Orange County, FL, USA)
* April 30
	+ Peter Mayhew, English-American actor (aged 74; Boyd, TX, USA)
	+ Robert R. Spitzer, agricultural researcher and educator (aged 96; Burlington, WI, USA)
	+ Joseph D. Stewart, military officer (aged 76; Ocean View, DE, USA)

### May

* May 1
	+ Mary Doakes, educator (aged 82; Ranson, WV, USA)
	+ Kurt Lang, German-born social scientist (aged 95; Cambridge, MA, USA)
* May 2
	+ Susan Beschta, punk rock musician, lawyer, and judge (aged 67; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Larry Dick, football player (aged 64; Riva, MD, USA)
	+ Frank Ivancie, businessman and politician (aged 94; CA, USA)
	+ Chris Reccardi, animator, storyboard artist, cartoon director and musician (aged 54; Ventura, CA, USA)
	+ Gloria Schiff, fashion editor and model (aged 90; Manhattan, NY, USA)
	+ John Starling, bluegrass musician (aged 79; Fredericksburg, VA, USA)
	+ Warren W. Wiersbe, biblical scholar and pastor (aged 89; Lincoln, NE, USA)
* May 3
	+ Richard Brown, lawyer (aged 86; Redding, CT, USA)
	+ Bill Gompers, football player (aged 91; McMurray, PA, USA)
	+ Andy Jick, sports announcer (aged 66; Newton, MA, USA)
	+ Chuck Kinder, novelist (aged 72; Key Largo, FL, USA)
	+ Bob Zeman, football player and coach (aged 82; Geneva, IL, USA)
* May 4
	+ J. R. Cobb, musician (aged 75; Covington, GA, USA)
	+ Rachel Held Evans, Christian columnist, blogger and author (aged 37; Nashville, TN, USA)
	+ Thomas Hynes, politician and lawyer (aged 80; Chicago, IL, USA)
	+ Jumpin Jackie Jackson, basketball player (aged 79; Brooklyn, NY, USA)
	+ MacArthur Lane, football player (aged 77; Oakland, CA, USA)
	+ Ray Peters, baseball player (aged 72; Dallas, TX, USA)
	+ Ruth Anna Putnam, philosopher (aged 91; Arlington, MA, USA)
	+ Tyrone Thompson, politician (aged 51; Carson City, NV, USA)
* May 5
	+ Frank Brilando, racing cyclist (aged 93; Niles, IL, USA)
	+ Lewis A. Fidler, politician (aged 62; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Norma Miller, dancer, actress and author (aged 99; Fort Myers, FL, USA)
	+ Barbara Perry, actress and singer (aged 97; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* May 6
	+ Dan Cordtz, business correspondent (aged 92; Albuquerque, NM, USA)
	+ John Lukacs, Hungarian-American historian (aged 95; Phoenixville, PA, USA)
	+ Jimmy Satterfield, football coach (aged 79; Easley, SC, USA)
	+ George O. Zimmerman, Polish-American physicist (aged 83; Boston, MA, USA)
* May 7
	+ Kendrick Castillo, student who intervened during the STEM School Highlands Ranch shooting (aged 18; Highlands Ranch, CO, USA)
	+ Larry Hanley, union leader (aged 62; Columbia, MD, USA)
	+ Robert Pear, journalist (aged 69; Rockville, MD, USA)
	+ Roberta L. Raymond, actress and open housing activist (aged 80; Chicago, IL, USA)
* May 8
	+ Jim Fowler, zoologist and television host (aged 89; Norwalk, CT, USA)
	+ Luther Jennings, singer (Jackson Southernaires) (aged 86; Jackson, MS, USA)
	+ Robert McEliece, mathematician and engineering professor (aged 76; Pasadena, CA, USA)
	+ David Montgomery, baseball executive (aged 72; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
	+ Wendell Nedderman, academic administrator (aged 97; Frisco, TX, USA)
* May 9
	+ Daniel H. Bays, historian (aged 77; Sunset Hills, MO, USA)
	+ Martin Canin, pianist (aged 89; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Preston Epps, musician (aged 88; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Clement von Franckenstein, actor (aged 74; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Allene Roberts, actress (aged 90; Huntsville, AL, USA)
	+ Mark Rubinstein, financial engineer (aged 74; Tiburon, CA, USA)
	+ Alvin Sargent, screenwriter (aged 92; Seattle, WA, USA)
* May 10
	+ Fleming Begaye Sr., World War II Navajo code talker (aged 97; Chinle, AZ, USA)
	+ Bert Cooper, boxer (aged 53; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
	+ Wiley Young Daniel, senior judge (aged 72; Denver, CO, USA)
	+ Warren H. Phillips, journalist and publisher (aged 92; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Dick Tomey, football coach (aged 80; Tucson, AZ, USA)
	+ James Tuck, archaeologist (aged 78; Oak Bluffs, MA, USA)
* May 11
	+ Peggy Lipton, actress and model (aged 72; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Robert D. Maxwell, combat soldier, recipient of the Medal of Honor (aged 98; Bend, OR, USA)
	+ Thomas Silverstein, convicted murderer, Aryan Nations leader (aged 67; Lakewood, CO, USA)
	+ Sol Yaged, jazz clarinetist (aged 96; Coconut Creek, FL, USA)
* May 12
	+ Elsa Patton, reality television personality (aged 82; Miami, FL, USA)
	+ Gene Romero, motorcycle racer (aged 71; Fullerton, CA, USA)
	+ Bill K. Williams, politician (aged 75; Ketchikan, AK, USA)
	+ Bill Workman, politician (aged 78; Walterboro, SC, USA)
* May 13
	+ Unita Blackwell, civil rights activist (aged 86; Biloxi, MS, USA)
	+ Jerome Callet, music teacher and instrument designer (aged 89; Staten Island, NY, USA)
	+ Doris Day, actress and singer (aged 97; Carmel, CA, USA)
	+ Stanton T. Friedman, American-Canadian nuclear physicist and ufologist (aged 84; Toronto, ON, Canada)
* May 14
	+ Lutz Bacher, artist (aged 75; Manhattan, NY, USA)
	+ Tim Conway, actor and comedian (aged 85; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Grumpy Cat, internet celebrity cat (aged 7; Morristown, AZ, USA)
	+ Robert Bruce Propst, senior judge (aged 87; NC, USA)
	+ Leon Rausch, singer (aged 91; Fort Worth, TX, USA)
	+ Alice Rivlin, politician (aged 88; Washington, DC, USA)
	+ Michael Rossmann, German-American physicist and microbiologist (aged 88; West Lafayette, IN, USA)
	+ Mike Wilhelm, musician (aged 77; San Francisco, CA, USA)
* May 15
	+ Rob Babcock, basketball executive (aged 66; Minneapolis, MN, USA)
	+ Chuck Barksdale, singer (The Dells) (aged 84; Chicago, IL, USA)
	+ Bobby Diamond, actor and attorney (aged 75; Thousand Oaks, CA, USA)
	+ Georgie Anne Geyer, syndicated newspaper columnist (aged 84; Washington, DC, USA)
	+ George L. Kelling, criminologist and professor (aged 83; Hanover, NH, USA)
	+ Charles Kittel, physicist (aged 102; Berkeley, CA, USA)
	+ Frank F. Ledford Jr., military doctor, Surgeon General of the United States Army (1988–1992) (aged 85; San Antonio, TX, USA)
	+ Rod Tam, politician (aged 65; Honolulu, HI, USA)
* May 16
	+ Steve Duemig, golfer and sports media personality (aged 64; Tampa, FL, USA)
	+ Ashley Massaro, professional wrestler, television personality, and model (aged 39; Smithtown, NY, USA)
	+ I. M. Pei, Chinese-American architect (aged 102; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Bob Schloredt, football player and coach (aged 79; Enumclaw, WA, USA)
* May 17
	+ John Warlick McDonald, diplomat (aged 97; West Falls Church, VA, USA)
	+ Eric Moore, musician (aged 67; Columbus, OH, USA)
	+ Herman Wouk, author (aged 103; Palm Springs, CA, USA)
* May 18
	+ Melvin Edmonds, R&B singer (After 7) (aged 65; Indianapolis, IN, USA)
	+ Austin Eubanks, motivational speaker, survivor of the Columbine High School massacre (aged 37; Steamboat Springs, CO, USA)
	+ John Payne, football coach (aged 86; Ardmore, OK, USA)
	+ Justin Ponsor, comic book artist (aged 42; Clearwater, FL, USA)
	+ Guenther Roth, sociologist (aged 88; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Sammy Shore, comedian and actor (aged 92; Las Vegas, NV, USA)
* May 19
	+ William W. Caldwell, judge (aged 93; PA, USA)
	+ George Chaump, football player and coach (aged 83; Harrisburg, PA, USA)
	+ Bert J. Harris Jr., politician (aged 99; Lake Placid, FL, USA)
	+ Ronnie Young, politician (aged 71; Aiken, SC, USA)
* May 20
	+ Sandy D'Alemberte, lawyer and administrator (aged 85; Tallahassee, FL, USA)
	+ Charles C. Pattillo, Air Force lieutenant general (aged 94; Spotsylvania County, VA, USA)
	+ Ronnie Virgets, writer and reporter (aged 77; New Orleans, LA, USA)
* May 21
	+ James O. Bass, politician (aged 108; Nashville, TN, USA)
	+ Lawrence Carroll, Australian-American painter (aged 64; Cologne, Germany)
	+ Fred Fox, musician (aged 104; CA, USA)
	+ Ernest Graves Jr., Army lieutenant general (aged 94; Arlington, VA, USA)
	+ Donald West VanArtsdalen, judge (aged 99; Doylestown, PA, USA)
	+ John A. Yngve, lawyer and politician (aged 94; Golden Valley, MN, USA)
* May 22
	+ Theresa Burroughs, civil rights activist (aged 89; Greensboro, AL, USA)
	+ Tony Gennari, Italian-American basketball player (aged 76; Hopewell, NJ, USA)
	+ Kwame Kenyatta, politician (aged 63; Detroit, MI, USA)
* May 23
	+ Shirley Brannock Jones, judge (aged 93; Towson, MD, USA)
	+ Bobby Joe Long, serial killer (aged 65; Raiford, FL, USA)
	+ Bill Yoast, high school football coach (T. C. Williams High School), depicted in *Remember the Titans* (aged 94; Springfield, VA, USA)
* May 24
	+ Curtis Blake, businessman and philanthropist (aged 102; Hobe Sound, FL, USA)
	+ Murray Gell-Mann, Nobel physicist (aged 89; Santa Fe, NM, USA)
	+ Edmund Morris, presidential biographer (aged 78; Kent, CT, USA)
	+ John Pinto, politician (aged 94; Gallup, NM, USA)
* May 25
	+ Rod Bramblett, sportscaster (aged 53; Auburn, AL, USA)
	+ Joseph Anthony Galante, Roman Catholic prelate (aged 80; Somers Point, NJ, USA)
	+ Anthony Graziano, consigliere (Bonanno crime family) (aged 78; Staten Island, NY, USA)
	+ LaSalle D. Leffall Jr., surgeon and oncologist (aged 89; Washington, DC, USA)
* May 26
	+ Leann Birch, developmental psychologist (aged 72; Durham, NC, USA)
	+ Everett Kinstler, artist (aged 92; Bridgeport, CT, USA)
	+ Richard Paul Matsch, judge (aged 88; Louisville, CO, USA)
	+ Bart Starr, football player and coach (aged 85; Birmingham, AL, USA)
* May 27
	+ Robert L. Bernstein, publisher and activist (aged 96; Manhattan, NY, USA)
	+ Bill Buckner, baseball player (aged 69; Boise, ID, USA)
	+ Roger O. Hirson, dramatist and screenwriter (aged 93; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Tony Horwitz, journalist and author (aged 60; Washington, DC, USA)
* May 28
	+ Horace Belton, football player (aged 63; Baton Rouge, LA, USA)
	+ Carmine Caridi, actor (aged 85; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Dennis Etchison, author and editor (aged 76; Westwood, CA, USA)
	+ Willie Ford, soul singer (The Dramatics) (aged 68; Detroit, MI, USA)
	+ John Gary Williams, R&B singer (The Mad Lads) (aged 73; Memphis, TN, USA)
* May 29
	+ Errett Callahan, archaeologist (aged 81; Lynchburg, VA, USA)
	+ Tony DeLap, artist (aged 91; Corona del Mar, CA, USA)
	+ Tony Glover, blues harmonicist (aged 79; St. Paul, MN, USA)
	+ Roy Jeffs, sexual abuse victim (aged 26; Salt Lake City, UT, USA)
	+ Peggy Stewart, actress (aged 95; Valencia, CA, USA)
	+ Jackie Winters, politician (aged 82; Salem, OR, USA)
* May 30
	+ Patricia Bath, ophthalmologist and inventor (aged 76; San Francisco, CA, USA)
	+ Thad Cochran, politician (aged 81; Oxford, MS, USA)
	+ Frank Lucas, drug trafficker (aged 88; Cedar Grove, NJ, USA)
	+ Leon Redbone, Cypriot-American singer-songwriter, guitarist and actor (aged 69; Bucks County, PA, USA)
* May 31
	+ David M. Ainsworth, politician (aged 64; Lebanon, NH, USA)
	+ Roky Erickson, rock singer-songwriter and musician (aged 71; Austin, TX, USA)
	+ Jimmy Martin, politician (aged 80; Montgomery, AL, USA)
	+ Le Anne Schreiber, sports editor (aged 73; Poughkeepsie, NY, USA)

### June

* June 1
	+ Camille Billops, sculptor, filmmaker, and printmaker (aged 85; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Leah Chase, chef and restaurateur (aged 96; New Orleans, LA, USA)
* June 2
	+ Donald M. Fraser, politician (aged 95; Minneapolis, MN, USA)
	+ Jacob W. Gruber, anthropologist, archaeologist, historian and educator (aged 98; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
	+ Henry T. Lynch, physician and cancer researcher (aged 91; Omaha, NE, USA)
	+ Lowell North, sailor and sailmaker (aged 89; San Diego, CA, USA)
	+ Don Pederson, politician (aged 90; Lincoln, NE, USA)
* June 3
	+ Ellen Bree Burns, judge (aged 95; New Haven, CT, USA)
	+ Stanley Tigerman, architect (aged 88; Chicago, IL, USA)
* June 4
	+ Keith Birdsong, illustrator (aged 59; Tulsa County, OK, USA)
	+ Linda Collins, politician (aged 57; Pocahontas, AR, USA)
	+ Billy Gabor, basketball player (aged 97; Jupiter, FL, USA)
	+ Joe Overstreet, painter and activist (aged 85; New York City, NY, USA)
* June 5
	+ Robert Earle, game show host (aged 93; Ithaca, NY, USA)
	+ Jonathan Nichols, politician (aged 53; Norman, OK, USA)
	+ Herbert Sandler, billionaire banker and philanthropist (aged 87; San Francisco, CA, USA)
* June 6
	+ John Gunther Dean, diplomat (aged 93; Paris, France)
	+ Maida Heatter, pastry chef (aged 102; Miami Beach, FL, USA)
	+ Dr. John, singer-songwriter and musician (aged 77; New Orleans, LA, USA)
* June 7
	+ Noémi Ban, Hungarian-born public speaker and Holocaust survivor (aged 96; Bellingham, WA, USA)
	+ Tony Rodham, businessman, brother of Hillary Clinton (aged 64; Lake Winola, PA, USA)
* June 8
	+ Spencer Bohren, singer-songwriter and guitarist (aged 69; New Orleans, LA, USA)
	+ Adelaide M. Cromwell, sociologist (aged 99; Brookline, MA, USA)
	+ Arthur Frackenpohl, classical composer (aged 95; Pittsford, NY, USA)
	+ Eric Patterson, football player (aged 26; Tampa, FL, USA)
* June 9
	+ Bushwick Bill, Jamaican-American rapper (aged 52; Denver, CO, USA)
	+ William D. Wittliff, screenwriter and photographer (aged 79; Austin, TX, USA)
* June 10
	+ Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, epidemiologist (aged 84; La Jolla, CA, USA)
	+ Chuck Glaser, country singer (Tompall & the Glaser Brothers) (aged 83; Lafayette, TN, USA)
	+ Lil' Buck Sinegal, zydeco and blues guitarist and singer (aged 75; Lafayette, LA, USA)
	+ Sherman Utsman, racing driver (NASCAR) (aged 87; Elazabethton, TN, USA)
* June 11
	+ Martin Feldstein, economist (aged 79; Boston, MA, USA)
	+ Gabriele Grunewald, middle-distance runner (aged 32; Minneapolis, MN, USA)
	+ Velvel Pasternak, Canadian-born Jewish musicologist (aged 85; New York City, NY, USA)
* June 12
	+ Gary Burrell, businessman and philanthropist (aged 81; Spring Hill, KS, USA)
	+ Wilbert J. McKeachie, psychologist (aged 97; Ann Arbor, MI, USA)
	+ Sylvia Miles, actress (aged 94; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Bob Mitchell, baseball player (aged 86; Tampa, FL, USA)
	+ Ray Rigby, politician (aged 96; Hibbard, ID, USA)
* June 13
	+ Pat Bowlen, football team owner (aged 75; Englewood, CO, USA)
	+ Edwin Michael Kosik, federal judge (aged 94; Wilkes-Barre, PA, USA)
	+ Joyce Pensato, painter (aged 77; New York City, NY, USA)
* June 15
	+ David Esterly, woodcarver and writer (aged 75; Barneveld, NY, USA)
	+ Larry Foss, baseball player (aged 83; Wichita, KS, USA)
	+ Susannah Hunnewell, editor and publisher (aged 52; Manhattan, NY, USA)
	+ Charles A. Reich, academic and writer (aged 91; San Francisco, CA, USA)
* June 16
	+ Alan Brinkley, political historian (aged 70; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Charles Ginnever, sculptor (aged 87; Putney, VT, USA)
	+ Suzan Pitt, painter, animator, and film director (aged 75; Taos, NM, USA)
	+ Francine Shapiro, psychologist (aged 71; Sea Ranch, CA, USA)
* June 17
	+ Andrew Anderson, basketball player (aged 74; Tallahassee, FL, USA)
	+ Darwin Hindman, politician (aged 86; Columbia, MO, USA)
	+ Robert Therrien, sculptor (aged 71; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Gloria Vanderbilt, artist, fashion designer (aged 95; New York City, NY, USA)
* June 18
	+ Stephen Blaire, Roman Catholic prelate (aged 77; Modesto, CA, USA)
	+ Donald E. Hines, politician (aged 85; Bunkie, LA, USA)
	+ Milton Quon, animator (aged 105; Torrance, CA, USA)
	+ Patrick Smith, kickboxer and mixed martial artist (aged 55; CO, USA)
	+ Gerry Spiess, single-handed sailor (aged 79; Pine County, MN, USA)
* June 19
	+ Etika, model and YouTuber (aged 29; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Philip Geier, advertising executive (aged 84; Palm Beach, FL, USA)
	+ Jack Renner, audio engineer and record label executive (aged 84; Portsmouth, RI, USA)
* June 21
	+ Susan Bernard, actress and author (aged 71; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Jan Meyers, politician (aged 90; Merriam, KS, USA)
	+ Elliot Roberts, music manager and record executive (aged 76; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Peter Selz, German-born art historian (aged 100; Albany, CA, USA)
* June 22
	+ Jerry Carrigan, drummer and record producer (aged 75; Chattanooga, TN, USA)
	+ Judith Krantz, romance novelist (aged 91; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Robert V. Levine, social psychologist (aged 73; Santa Rosa, CA, USA)
* June 23
	+ Dave Bartholomew, musician, bandleader and songwriter (aged 100; Metairie, LA, USA)
	+ Spiro Malas, opera and theatre singer and actor (aged 86; Manhattan, NY, USA)
	+ Jack Rudolph, football player (aged 81; Valdosta, GA, USA)
* June 24
	+ Jeff Austin, bluegrass mandolinist and singer (aged 45; Seattle, WA, USA)
	+ Billy Drago, actor (aged 73; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Al Ogletree, baseball coach (aged 89; McAllen, TX, USA)
* June 25
	+ Tony Barone, basketball coach (aged 72; Chicago, IL, USA)
	+ Ken Behring, real estate developer and football team owner (aged 91; Contra Costa County, CA, USA)
* June 26
	+ Fletcher Benton, sculptor (aged 88; San Francisco, CA, USA)
	+ Beth Chapman, bounty hunter and reality television personality (aged 51; Honolulu, HI, USA)
	+ Manuel Real, judge (aged 95; Rancho Palos Verdes, CA, USA)
	+ Peter Westergaard, classical composer (aged 88; Plainsboro, NJ, USA)
	+ Max Wright, actor (aged 75; Englewood, NJ, USA)
* June 27
	+ Ben Barenholtz, film producer and distributor (aged 83; Prague, Czech Republic)
	+ Max Muscle, professional wrestler (aged 56; Dundalk, MD, USA)
	+ Don Frerichs, politician (aged 88; Rochester, MN, USA)
	+ Justin Raimondo, journalist and libertarian theorist (aged 67; Sebastopol, CA, USA)
* June 28
	+ Paul Benjamin, actor (aged 81; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Judith Poxson Fawkes, tapestry weaver (aged 77; Portland, OR, USA)
* June 29
	+ Gary Duncan, rock guitarist and singer (aged 72; Woodland, CA, USA)
	+ Stewart Greene, advertising executive (aged 91; Lloyd Harbor, NY, USA)
	+ Jim Reed, racing driver (aged 93; Peekskill, NY, USA)
	+ Whitney North Seymour Jr., politician and attorney (aged 95; Torrington, CT, USA)
* June 30
	+ David Binder, British-born journalist and writer (aged 88; Evanston, IL, USA)
	+ Mitchell Feigenbaum, physicist (aged 74; New York City, NY, USA)

### July

* July 1
	+ Norman Geisler, Christian theologian (aged 86; Charlotte, NC, USA)
	+ Rolland Golden, artist (aged 87; Folsom, LA, USA)
	+ Derrill Osborn, fashion executive (aged 76; Dallas, TX, USA)
	+ Sid Ramin, music arranger and composer (aged 100; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Jerry Seltzer, roller derby promoter (aged 87; Sonoma, CA, USA)
	+ Tyler Skaggs, baseball pitcher (aged 27; Southlake, TX, USA)
* July 2
	+ Don Ballard, politician (aged 92; Newton County, GA, USA)
	+ Lee Iacocca, automotive executive (aged 94; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Mr. Two Bits, amateur cheerleader (aged 96; Tampa, FL, USA)
* July 3
	+ Arte Johnson, comedian and actor (aged 90; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Gary Kolb, baseball player (aged 79; Charleston, WV, USA)
	+ Jared Lorenzen, football quarterback (aged 38; Fort Thomas, KY, USA)
	+ Tony Robichaux, baseball player and coach (aged 57; Jefferson, LA, USA)
* July 4
	+ Robert A. Bernhard, banker (aged 91; Greenwich, CT, USA)
	+ Chris Cline, billionaire mining entrepreneur (aged 60; Abaco Islands, Bahamas)
	+ Bob Gilliland, pilot, first man to fly SR-71 Blackbird (aged 93; Rancho Mirage, CA, USA)
	+ Robert F. Marx, scuba diver (aged 82; Indialantic, FL, USA)
	+ Wayne Mass, football player (aged 73; Durango, CO, USA)
	+ Vivian Perlis, musicologist (aged 91; Weston, CT, USA)
* July 5
	+ Marie Borroff, poet and translator (aged 95; Branford, CT, USA)
	+ Douglas Crimp, art historian, writer and curator (aged 74; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Tzemach Cunin, Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi (aged 43; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Lewis Lloyd, basketball player (aged 60; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
	+ Marie Ponsot, poet and literary critic (aged 98; Manhattan, NY, USA)
	+ Kathleen Sims, politician (aged 77; Coeur d'Alene, ID, USA)
* July 6
	+ Cameron Boyce, actor (aged 20; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Martin Charnin, lyricist and theatre director (aged 84; White Plains, NY, USA)
	+ Eddie Jones, actor (aged 84; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Calvin Quate, electrical engineer (aged 95; Menlo Park, CA, USA)
* July 7
	+ Steve Cannon, writer (aged 84; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Bob Fouts, sportscaster (aged 97; San Francisco, CA, USA)
	+ Wolfgang Joklik, Austrian-born virologist (aged 92; Durham, NC, USA)
* July 8
	+ Rosie Ruiz, Cuban-American marathon runner and fraudster (aged 66; Lake Worth Beach, FL, USA)
	+ Paul Schramka, baseball player and funeral director (aged 91; Menomonee Falls, WI, USA)
	+ Michael Seidenberg, writer and bookseller (aged 64; Danbury, CT, USA)
* July 9
	+ Miriam Butterworth, politician and educator (aged 101; Bloomfield, CT, USA)
	+ William E. Dannemeyer, politician (aged 89; Thousand Palms, CA, USA)
	+ Phil Freelon, architect (aged 66; Durham, NC, USA)
	+ Glenn Mickens, baseball pitcher (aged 88; Kapaa, HI, USA)
	+ Ross Perot, billionaire businessman, philanthropist, and presidential candidate (aged 89; Dallas, TX, USA)
	+ Aaron Rosand, violinist (aged 92; White Plains, NY, USA)
	+ Marian Spencer, civil rights activist and politician (aged 99; Cincinnati, OH, USA)
	+ Rip Torn, actor and comedian (aged 88; Lakeville, CT, USA)
* July 10
	+ Jim Bouton, baseball player (aged 80; Great Barrington, MA, USA)
	+ Jerry Lawson, singer and musician (aged 75; Phoenix, AZ, USA)
	+ Walt Michaels, football player and coach (aged 89; Plains, PA, USA)
	+ Denise Nickerson, actress (aged 62; Aurora, CO, USA)
	+ Dorothy Toy, Japanese-American dancer (aged 102; Oakland, CA, USA)
* July 11
	+ Robert Francis Christian, Roman Catholic prelate (aged 70; Menlo Park, CA, USA)
	+ Mark E. Talisman, congressional aide and lobbyist (aged 77; Chevy Chase, MD, USA)
	+ William H. Walls, federal judge (aged 86; Robbinsville, NJ, USA)
* July 12
	+ Fernando J. Corbató, computer scientist (aged 93; Newburyport, MA, USA)
	+ Joe Grzenda, baseball player (aged 82; Covington Township, PA, USA)
	+ Arno Marsh, saxophonist (aged 91; Las Vegas, NV, USA)
	+ Sadie Roberts-Joseph, civil rights activist (aged 75; Baton Rouge, LA, USA)
	+ Russell Smith, singer-songwriter (aged 70; Franklin, TN, USA)
* July 13
	+ Bob Bastian, politician (aged 80; Johnstown, PA, USA)
	+ Paul F. Markham, attorney (aged 89; Peabody, MA, USA)
	+ Ida Wyman, photographer (aged 93; Fitchburg, WI, USA)
* July 14
	+ Mike Maser, football coach (aged 72; Charlotte, NC, USA)
	+ Ernie Mims, television personality (aged 86; Nashua, NH, USA)
	+ Sterling Tucker, politician and civil rights activist (aged 95; Washington, DC, USA)
	+ Pernell Whitaker, boxer (aged 55; Virginia Beach, VA, USA)
	+ Paul Albert Zipfel, Roman Catholic prelate (aged 83; MO, USA)
* July 15
	+ Mortimer Caplin, lawyer and educator (aged 103; Chevy Chase, MD, USA)
	+ Edith Irby Jones, physician and civil rights activist (aged 91; Houston, TX, USA)
	+ Bruce Laingen, diplomat (aged 96; Bethesda, MD, USA)
* July 16
	+ Adam Bob, football player (aged 51; TX, USA)
	+ Ernie Broglio, baseball player (aged 83; San Jose, CA, USA)
	+ Daniel Callahan, philosopher and bioethics researcher (aged 88; Dobbs Ferry, NY, USA)
	+ John Paul Stevens, U.S. Supreme Court associate justice (aged 99; Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA)
	+ John Tanton, anti-immigration activist (aged 85; Petoskey, MI, USA)
* July 17
	+ Pumpsie Green, baseball player (aged 85; San Leandro, CA, USA)
	+ Duane Mutch, politician (aged 94; Larimore, ND, USA)
	+ Wesley Pruden, journalist and editor (aged 83; Washington, DC, USA)
* July 18
	+ Bob Frank, singer-songwriter (aged 75; Memphis, TN, USA)
	+ David Hedison, actor (aged 92; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Kurt Julius Isselbacher, German-born physician (aged 93; Boston, MA, USA)
	+ Ben Kinchlow, author, minister and televangelist (aged 82; Virginia Beach, VA, USA)
	+ Macy Morse, peace activist and anti-nuclear activist (aged 98; Portsmouth, NH, USA)
	+ Mitch Petrus, football player (aged 32; Lonoke, AR, USA)
* July 19
	+ Don Mossi, baseball player (aged 90; Nampa, ID, USA)
	+ César Pelli, Argentine-American architect (aged 92; New Haven, CT, USA)
	+ Bert Rechichar, football player (aged 89; Belle Vernon, PA, USA)
	+ Jerome B. Simandle, federal judge (aged 70; Binghamton, NY, USA)
	+ Marylou Whitney, socialite, philanthropist, and racehorse owner-breeder (aged 93; Saratoga Springs, NY, USA)
	+ Patrick Winston, computer scientist (aged 76; Boston, MA, USA)
* July 20
	+ Nick Harrison, racecar driver (aged 37; Clemmons, NC, USA)
	+ R. James Harvey, federal judge (aged 97; Naples, FL, USA)
	+ Liane Russell, Austrian-born geneticist and conservationist (aged 95; Oak Ridge, TN, USA)
* July 21
	+ Ben Johnston, composer (aged 93; Deerfield, WI, USA)
	+ Paul Krassner, author and political activist (aged 87; Desert Hot Springs, CA, USA)
	+ Robert Morgenthau, lawyer (aged 99; New York City, NY, USA)
* July 22
	+ Dan Clemens, politician (aged 74; Marshfield, MO, USA)
	+ Christopher C. Kraft Jr., aerospace engineer (aged 95; Houston, TX, USA)
	+ Richard Macksey, academic (aged 87; Baltimore, MD, USA)
	+ Art Neville, singer-songwriter and musician (aged 81; New Orleans, LA, USA)
* July 23
	+ Chaser, Border Collie with the largest-tested non-human memory (aged 15; Spartanburg, SC, USA)
	+ Dorothy Olsen, aviator (aged 103; University Place, WA, USA)
	+ Barney Smith, plumber, artist and museum curator (aged 98; San Antonio, TX, USA)
	+ Lois Wille, journalist (aged 87; Chicago, IL, USA)
* July 24
	+ Cathy Inglese, basketball coach (aged 60; Manhasset, NY, USA)
	+ Trudy, western lowland gorilla (aged 63; Little Rock, AR, USA)
* July 25
	+ John Ferriter, television producer and talent agent (aged 59; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ M. Owen Lee, Roman Catholic priest and music scholar (aged 89; Toronto, ON, Canada)
	+ Scott Rubenstein, television writer (aged 71; West Hollywood, CA, USA)
* July 26
	+ Joan Martin, baseball player (aged 85; Erie, PA, USA)
	+ Kevin Roster, poker player and assisted death advocate (aged 36; Rancho Cordova, CA, USA)
	+ Russi Taylor, voice actress (aged 75; Glendale, CA, USA)
* July 27
	+ Andrew Golden, school shooter (aged 33; Jonesboro, AR, USA)
	+ Arthur Lazarus Jr., civil rights lawyer (aged 92; Washington, DC, USA)
	+ Edward Lewis, film producer (aged 99; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Keith Lincoln, football player (aged 80; Pullman, WA, USA)
	+ Mike Roarke, baseball player and coach (aged 88; West Warwick, RI, USA)
	+ John Robert Schrieffer, physicist (aged 88; Tallahassee, FL, USA)
* July 28
	+ Howard Nathan, basketball player (aged 47; Peoria, IL, USA)
	+ Richard Rosenbaum, boxer, lawyer, and judge (aged 88; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Richard Stone, politician and diplomat (aged 90; Rockville, MD, USA)
	+ Harrison B. Wilson, educator, basketball coach, and university president (aged 94; Amsterdam, NY, USA)
* July 29
	+ Max Falkenstien, sportscaster (aged 95; Lawrence, KS, USA)
	+ Ras G, hip-hop DJ and record producer (aged 40; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Grant Thompson, YouTuber (aged 38; Hurricane, UT, USA)
* July 30
	+ Nick Buoniconti, football player (aged 78; Bridgehampton, NY, USA)
	+ Roger Carroll, radio/television announcer and DJ (aged 90; Long Beach, CA, USA)
	+ Rebecca Roeber, politician (aged 61; Estes Park, CO, USA)
* July 31 – Harold Prince, theatrical producer and director (aged 91; Reykjavík, Iceland)

### August

* August 1
	+ Jack Dolbin, football player (aged 70; Allentown, PA, USA)
	+ Martin Mayer, economist and writer (aged 91; Shelter Island, NY, USA)
	+ D. A. Pennebaker, documentary filmmaker (aged 94; Sag Harbor, NY, USA)
	+ Harley Race, professional wrestler, promoter, and trainer (aged 76; St. Charles, MO, USA)
* August 2
	+ Carl Bell, physician and author (aged 71; Chicago, IL, USA)
	+ David Bevington, literary scholar (aged 88; Chicago, IL, USA)
	+ Vahakn Dadrian, Armenian-American sociologist and historian (aged 93; Geneseo, NY, USA)
* August 3
	+ Cliff Branch, football player (aged 71; Bullhead City, AZ, USA)
	+ L. Brooks Patterson, lawyer and politician (aged 80; Independence Township, MI, USA)
	+ Mike Troy, swimmer and Olympic gold medalist (aged 78; AZ, USA)
* August 4
	+ Ernie Bowman, professional baseball player (aged 84; Johnson, TN, USA)
	+ Thomas Gulotta, government official (aged 75; Oceanside, NY, USA)
	+ Ann Nelson, particle physicist (aged 61; Alpine Lakes Wilderness, WA, USA)
	+ Stu Rosen, voice actor, television writer, and director (aged 80; Los Alamitos, CA, USA)
	+ Bob Wilber, jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, and band leader (aged 91; Chipping Campden, England, UK)
* August 5
	+ Sidney Goldstein, demographer (aged 92; Lexington, KY, USA)
	+ Lizzie Grey, rock musician (aged 60; Las Vegas, NV, USA)
	+ Toni Morrison, novelist, essayist, editor, teacher and professor (aged 88; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Jeffrey Tarrant, investor (aged 63; Bridgehampton, NY, USA)
* August 6 – George F. Simmons, mathematician (aged 94; Colorado Springs, CO, USA)
* August 7
	+ David Berman, musician, poet, and cartoonist (aged 52; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Chris Birch, politician (aged 68; Anchorage, AK, USA)
	+ Barbara Crane, photographer (aged 91; Chicago, IL, USA)
	+ Nancy Reddin Kienholz, installation artist (aged 75; Houston, TX, USA)
	+ Donald F. Klein, psychiatrist (aged 90; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Kary Mullis, biochemist (aged 74; Newport Beach, CA, USA)
	+ Francesca Sundsten, painter (aged 59; Seattle, WA, USA)
* August 8
	+ Ernie Colón, comics artist (aged 88; Huntington, NY, USA)
	+ Theodore L. Eliot Jr., ambassador (aged 91; Sonoma, CA, USA)
	+ Lee Bennett Hopkins, educator and poet (aged 81; Cape Coral, FL, USA)
	+ Dave Parks, football player (aged 77; Austin, TX, USA)
* August 9
	+ Paul Findley, politician (aged 98; Jacksonville, IL, USA)
	+ Bill Mills, baseball player (aged 99; Gainesville, FL, USA)
* August 10
	+ Joseph Begich, politician (aged 89; Eveleth, MN, USA)
	+ Jeffrey Epstein, financier and convicted sex offender (aged 66; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ J. Neil Schulman, author (aged 66; Colorado Springs, CO, USA)
* August 11
	+ Jim Cullum Jr., jazz cornetist (aged 77; San Antonio, TX, USA)
	+ Darryl Drake, football player and coach (aged 62; Latrobe, PA, USA)
	+ Michael E. Krauss, linguist (aged 84; Needham, MA, USA)
	+ Charles Santore, illustrator (aged 84; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
* August 12
	+ Danny Cohen, Israeli-American computer scientist (aged 81; Palo Alto, CA, USA)
	+ Jim Marsh, basketball player and broadcaster (aged 73; Multnomah County, OR, USA)
	+ Paule Marshall, writer (aged 90; Richmond, VA, USA)
* August 15
	+ Claire Cloninger, Christian author and songwriter (aged 77; Fairhope, AL, USA)
	+ Samuel Gelfman, film producer (aged 88; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Eddie Marlin, professional wrestler (aged 89; Hendersonville, TN, USA)
	+ Wrestling Pro, professional wrestler (aged 81; Dothan, AL, USA)
* August 16
	+ Gustavo Barreiro, Cuban-American politician (aged 60; Miami, FL, USA)
	+ Peter Fonda, actor (aged 79; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Jim Hardy, football player (aged 96; La Quinta, CA, USA)
	+ Mike McGee, football player, coach, and college athletic director (aged 80; Montrose, CO, USA)
* August 17
	+ Cedric Benson, football player (aged 36; Austin, TX, USA)
	+ Allen Church, alpine skiing official (aged 91; Albuquerque, NM, USA)
	+ Rosemary Kuhlmann, operatic mezzo-soprano and musical theatre actress (aged 97; Warren, RI, USA)
	+ Donald A. B. Lindberg, physician (aged 85; Bethesda, MD, USA)
* August 18
	+ Kathleen Blanco, politician (aged 76; Lafayette, LA, USA)
	+ Chad Holt, writer and actor (aged 46; Austin, TX, USA)
	+ Jack Whitaker, sportscaster (aged 95; Devon, PA, USA)
* August 19
	+ James R. Alexander, sound engineer (aged 88; Woodland Hills, CA, USA)
	+ Benjamin N. Bellis, air force lieutenant general (aged 95; Monument, CO, USA)
	+ Barry Bennett, football player (aged 63; Long Prairie, MN, USA)
	+ Al Jackson, baseball pitcher (aged 83; Port St. Lucie, FL, USA)
	+ Harry B. Luthi, businessman and politician (aged 85; Greenville, SC, USA)
	+ Jack Perkins, journalist and television host (aged 85; Nokomis, FL, USA)
	+ Larry Taylor, bass guitarist (aged 77; Lake Balboa, CA, USA)
* August 20
	+ Russ Conway, sports journalist (aged 70; Haverhill, MA, USA)
	+ Lico Reyes, Mexican-American actor and politician (aged 73; Mansfield, TX, USA)
	+ Alexander M. Schenker, Polish-American Slavist (aged 94; New Haven, CT, USA)
	+ Larry Siegel, comedy writer (aged 93; Hollywood, CA, USA)
	+ Kelsey Weems, basketball player (aged 51; Atlanta, GA, USA)
* August 22
	+ Gary Ray Bowles, serial killer (aged 57; Raiford, FL, USA)
	+ Bobby Dillon, football player (aged 89; Temple, TX, USA)
	+ Werner H. Kramarsky, Dutch-American public official and art collector (aged 93; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Tom Nissalke, basketball coach (aged 87; Salt Lake City, UT, USA)
	+ Gerard O'Neill, journalist (aged 76; Boston, MA, USA)
	+ Morton Tubor, film editor (aged 102; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* August 23
	+ Larissa Bonfante, Italian-American classicist and archaeologist (aged 88; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Clint Conatser, baseball player (aged 98; Laguna Hills, CA, USA)
	+ Mario Davidovsky, Argentine-American composer (aged 82; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ David Koch, billionaire businessman and political activist (aged 79; Southampton, NY, USA)
* August 24
	+ David Akiba, photographer (aged 78; West Roxbury, MA, USA)
	+ Tex Clevenger, baseball pitcher (aged 87; Porterville, CA, USA)
	+ Sidney Rittenberg, American-Chinese journalist and linguist (aged 98; Scottsdale, AZ, USA)
	+ Dick Woodard, football player (aged 93; Clinton, IA, USA)
* August 25
	+ Clora Bryant, jazz trumpeter (aged 92; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Sally Floyd, computer scientist (aged 69; Berkeley, CA, USA)
	+ Reb Foster, radio DJ and music manager (aged 83; Amarillo, TX, USA)
	+ Vince Naimoli, baseball team owner (aged 81; Tampa, FL, USA)
	+ Jerry Rook, basketball player (aged 75; Jonesboro, AR, USA)
* August 26
	+ Neal Casal, guitarist, singer, songwriter, and photographer (aged 50; Denville, NJ, USA)
	+ Colin Clark, soccer player (aged 35; Fort Collins, CO, USA)
	+ Richard Conrad, opera singer (aged 84; Eliot, ME, USA)
	+ Tom Jordan, baseball player (aged 99; Roswell, NM, USA)
	+ Isabel Toledo, Cuban-American fashion designer (aged 59; New York City, NY, USA)
* August 27
	+ Pedro Bell, illustrator (aged 69; Evergreen Park, IL, USA)
	+ Albert Vickers Bryan Jr., judge (aged 92; Alexandria, VA, USA)
	+ Jessi Combs, racing driver and television personality (aged 39; Alvord Desert, OR, USA)
	+ Frances Crowe, peace activist and pacifist (aged 100; Northampton, MA, USA)
	+ Wadie P. Deddeh, politician (aged 98; San Diego, CA, USA)
	+ Donnie Fritts, singer-songwriter and keyboardist (aged 76; Birmingham, AL, USA)
	+ Martin Weitzman, economist (aged 77; Boston, MA, USA)
* August 28
	+ Donnie Green, football player (aged 71; Hagerstown, MD, USA)
	+ Nancy Holloway, actress and singer (aged 86; Paris, France)
	+ Sean Stephenson, therapist and self-help author (aged 40; Scottsdale, AZ, USA)
* August 29
	+ Biba Caggiano, Italian-American chef and restaurateur (aged 82; Sacramento, CA, USA)
	+ Lila Cockrell, politician (aged 97; San Antonio, TX, USA)
	+ Richard Geist, politician (aged 74; St. Petersburg, Russia)
	+ Jim Langer, football player (aged 71; Coon Rapids, MN, USA)
	+ Jim Leavelle, police detective (aged 99; Denver, CO, USA)
	+ Randy Romero, jockey (aged 61; Lafayette, LA, USA)
* August 30
	+ Gordon Bressack, television writer (aged 68; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Bernard F. Grabowski, politician (aged 96; Bristol, CT, USA)
	+ Valerie Harper, actress (aged 80; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Michael Lindsay, voice actor (aged 56; Laurel, MD, USA)
* August 31
	+ Jeff Blackshear, football player (aged 50; Fort Pierce, FL, USA)
	+ Leslie H. Gelb, journalist and diplomat (aged 82; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ William J. Larkin Jr., politician (aged 91; New Windsor, NY, USA)
	+ Hal Naragon, baseball player (aged 90; Barberton, OH, USA)
	+ Immanuel Wallerstein, sociologist and developer of the worlds-systems theory (aged 88; Branford, CT, USA)

### September

* September 1
	+ Alison Cheek, Australian-born episcopal priest (aged 92; Brevard, NC, USA)
	+ Charles W. Daniels, judge (aged 76; Albuquerque, NM, USA)
	+ Katherine MacLean, science fiction author (aged 94; Glen Ridge, NJ, USA)
	+ Archbishop Nikon of Boston, Eastern Orthodox prelate (aged 73; Southbridge, MA, USA)
	+ Jean Edward Smith, biographer (aged 86; Huntington, WV, USA)
	+ Barbara Probst Solomon, author (aged 90; Manhattan, NY, USA)
* September 2
	+ Jack Clay, acting teacher (aged 92; Seattle, WA, USA)
	+ William G. Daughtridge Jr., politician (aged 66; Rocky Mount, NC, USA)
	+ Dorothea Benton Frank, author (aged 67; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Frederic Pryor, economist (aged 86; Newtown Square, PA, USA)
* September 3
	+ LaShawn Daniels, songwriter (aged 41; SC, USA)
	+ George Klopfer, physician (aged 79; IL, USA)
	+ Carol Lynley, actress (aged 77; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* September 4
	+ James Atlas, writer, editor, and publisher (aged 70; Manhattan, NY, USA)
	+ Kylie Rae Harris, country singer-songwriter (aged 30; Taos, NM, USA)
	+ Stuart B. Levy, microbiologist (aged 80; Boston, MA, USA)
	+ Dan Warner, singer-songwriter and musician (aged 49; Hollywood, FL, USA)
* September 5
	+ Charlie Cole, photojournalist (aged 64; Bali, Indonesia)
	+ Jimmy Johnson, guitarist and record producer (aged 76; Florence, AL, USA)
	+ Chris March, fashion designer (aged 56; Stockton, CA, USA)
	+ Tom Phoebus, baseball player (aged 77; Palm City, FL, USA)
	+ Bob Rule, basketball player (aged 75; Riverside, CA, USA)
	+ Wally Westlake, baseball player (aged 98; Sacramento, CA, USA)
* September 6
	+ Chris Duncan, baseball player (aged 38; Tucson, AZ, USA)
	+ Leonard W. Moore, chief executive (aged 85; North Hills, CA, USA)
* September 7
	+ Robert Axelrod, voice actor (aged 70; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Al Carmichael, football player and stunt performer (aged 90; Palm Desert, CA, USA)
	+ Peter van Dijk, architect (aged 90; Cleveland Heights, OH, USA)
	+ James Robertson, judge (aged 81; Washington, DC, USA)
	+ Charlie Silvera, baseball player (aged 94; Millbrae, CA, USA)
	+ Guy Travaglio, politician (aged 93; Butler, PA, USA)
	+ John Wesley, actor (aged 72; San Diego, CA, USA)
* September 8
	+ Marca Bristo, disability rights activist (aged 66; Chicago, IL, USA)
	+ David Hagberg, novelist (aged 76; Sarasota, FL, USA)
	+ Susan Kamil, book publisher and editor (aged 69; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Joseph P. Kolter, politician (aged 93; Hershey, PA, USA)
	+ Jane Mead, poet (aged 61; Napa County, CA, USA)
* September 9
	+ Jim Archer, baseball pitcher (aged 87; Tarpon Springs, FL, USA)
	+ Neiron Ball, football player (aged 27; Jackson, GA, USA)
	+ Robert Frank, Swiss-born photographer (aged 94; Inverness, NS, Canada)
	+ Jim Greengrass, baseball player (aged 91; Chatsworth, GA, USA)
	+ Joe Keough, baseball player (aged 73; Miami, FL, USA)
	+ Fred McLeod, sportscaster (aged 67; OH, USA)
	+ Jarrid Wilson, pastor and writer (aged 30; Memphis, TN, USA)
* September 10
	+ Betty Corwin, theatre archivist (aged 98; Weston, CT, USA)
	+ Sam Davis, football player (aged 75; McKeesport, PA, USA)
	+ Jeff Fenholt, singer, actor, and evangelist (aged 68; Burbank, CA, USA)
	+ Ariel Hollinshead, pharmacologist (aged 90; Medford, NJ, USA)
	+ Robert N. McClelland, surgeon (aged 89; Dallas, TX, USA)
	+ Billy Stacy, football player (aged 83; Starkville, MS, USA)
* September 11
	+ Daniel Johnston, singer-songwriter (aged 58; Waller, TX, USA)
	+ Annette Kolodny, feminist literary critic (aged 78; Tucson, AZ, USA)
	+ Mardik Martin, Iranian-born Iraqi-American screenwriter (aged 84; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ T. Boone Pickens, businessman and philanthropist (aged 91; Dallas, TX, USA)
	+ Terrell Roberts, football player (aged 38; Richmond, CA, USA)
	+ Joe Scudero, football player (aged 89; Ocala, FL, USA)
	+ Anne Rivers Siddons, novelist (aged 83; Charleston, SC, USA)
* September 12
	+ Juanita Abernathy, civil rights activist (aged 87; Atlanta, GA, USA)
	+ Ruth Abrams, judge (aged 88; Boston, MA, USA)
	+ Michael E. Haynes, minister and politician (aged 92; Boston, MA, USA)
	+ I. Beverly Lake Jr., jurist (aged 85; Raleigh, NC, USA)
	+ Francis Xavier Roque, Roman Catholic pelate (aged 90; Pawtucket, RI, USA)
	+ Bill Schelly, writer (aged 67; San Diego, CA, USA)
	+ Martin Trust, business person, entrepreneur and father of Sri Lankan apparel industry (aged 84; Boston, MA, USA)
* September 13
	+ Mary Anne Frey, aerospace physician (aged 84; Dayton, OH, USA)
	+ Alex Grammas, baseball player (aged 93; Vestavia Hills, AL, USA)
	+ Joachim Messing, German-born biologist (aged 73; Somerset, NJ, USA)
	+ Eddie Money, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (aged 70; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Joseph Peter Wilson, cross-country skier (aged 84; Lake Placid, NY, USA)
* September 14
	+ Gene Bacque, baseball player (aged 82; Lafayette, LA, USA)
	+ Larry Garron, football player (aged 82; Framingham, MA, USA)
	+ Edmund Jones, politician (aged 101; Ridley Park, PA, USA)
	+ John Ralston, football coach (aged 92; Sunnyvale, CA, USA)
	+ Tom Waddell, Scottish-born baseball player (aged 60; Tucson, AZ, USA)
* September 15
	+ Mark von Hagen, military historian (aged 65; Phoenix, AZ, USA)
	+ Phyllis Newman, actress and singer (aged 86; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Arthur Nims, federal judge (aged 96; Westwood, MA, USA)
	+ Ric Ocasek, singer, songwriter, and record producer (aged 75; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Mike Stefanik, racing driver (aged 61; Providence, RI, USA)
	+ Azellia White, aviator (aged 106; Houston, TX, USA)
* September 16
	+ Anthony R. Bucco, politician (aged 81; Denville, NJ, USA)
	+ Henry Buttelmann, fighter pilot (aged 90; Frankfort, IL, USA)
	+ John Cohen, folk musician and musicologist (aged 87; Putnam Valley, NY, USA)
	+ Steve Dalachinsky, poet (aged 72; Long Island, NY, USA)
	+ Paul Ingrassia, journalist (aged 69; Naples, FL, USA)
	+ Ira A. Lipman, businessman and philanthropist (aged 78; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Eric Woodfin Naylor, hispanist, scholar and educator (aged 82; Union City, TN, USA)
	+ Sander Vanocur, journalist (aged 91; Santa Barbara, CA, USA)
* September 17
	+ Carlos Cisneros, politician (aged 71; Questa, NM, USA)
	+ Jessica Jaymes, pornographic actress (aged 40; North Hills, CA, USA)
	+ Harold Mabern, jazz pianist and composer (aged 93; NJ, USA)
	+ Cokie Roberts, journalist and author (aged 75; Washington, DC, USA)
	+ Suzanne Whang, actress (aged 56; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* September 18
	+ Chuck Dauphin, music journalist (aged 45; Nashville, TN, USA)
	+ Richard Watson, philosopher and speleologist (aged 88; Wellesley, MA, USA)
* September 19
	+ Maurice Ferré, Puerto Rican-born politician (aged 84; Miami, FL, USA)
	+ Barron Hilton, businessman and philanthropist (aged 91; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Peppers Pride, thoroughbred racehorse (aged 16; Nicholasville, KY, USA)
	+ Yonrico Scott, drummer (aged 63; Marietta, GA, USA)
	+ Sol Stein, publisher (aged 92; Tarrytown, NY, USA)
* September 20
	+ Robert Boyd, journalist and bureau chief (aged 91; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
	+ Howard Cassady, football player (aged 85; Tampa, FL, USA)
	+ Jan Merlin, actor (aged 94; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Eric Samuelsen, playwright (aged 63; Provo, UT, USA)
* September 21
	+ Tommy Brooker, football player (aged 79; Tuscaloosa, AL, USA)
	+ Napoleon Chagnon, anthropologist (aged 81; Traverse City, MI, USA)
	+ Jack Donner, actor (aged 90; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Aron Eisenberg, actor (aged 50; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Sid Haig, actor (aged 80; Thousand Oaks, CA, USA)
	+ E. J. Holub, football player (aged 81; Midland, TX, USA)
	+ George Lardner, journalist (aged 85; Aldie, VA, USA)
	+ Jarred Rome, Olympic discus thrower (aged 42; Tulalip, WA, USA)
	+ Christopher Rouse, composer (aged 70; Towson, MD, USA)
	+ Carl Ruiz, chef and restaurateur (aged 44; Bel Air North, MD, USA)
	+ Jevan Snead, football player (aged 32; Austin, TX, USA)
	+ Shuping Wang, Chinese-born medical researcher and public health whistleblower (aged 59; Salt Lake City, UT, USA)
* September 22
	+ Rosemarie Burian, humanitarian (aged 83; IL, USA)
	+ Wally Chambers, football player (aged 68; Saginaw, MI, USA)
	+ Courtney Cox Cole, basketball player (aged 48; Noblesville, IN, USA)
	+ Harry Joseph Flynn, Roman Catholic prelate (aged 86; St. Paul, MN, USA)
	+ J. Michael Mendel, television producer (aged 54; Studio City, CA, USA)
* September 23
	+ Andre Emmett, basketball player (aged 37; Dallas, TX, USA)
	+ Robert Hunter, lyricist, singer-songwriter, translator and poet (aged 78; San Rafael, CA, USA)
	+ Joan Petersilia, criminologist (aged 68; Santa Barbara, CA, USA)
	+ Gordon C. Stauffer, college basketball coach (aged 89; Sanford, FL, USA)
	+ Robert Zelnick, journalist (aged 79; Newton, MA, USA)
* September 24
	+ Mordicai Gerstein, children's writer and illustrator (aged 83; Westhampton, MA, USA)
	+ Jimmy Nelson, ventriloquist (aged 90; Cape Coral, FL, USA)
	+ Donald L. Tucker, politician (aged 84; Tallahassee, FL, USA)
	+ Roger H. Zion, politician (aged 98; Evansville, IN, USA)
* September 25
	+ Michael D. Coe, archaeologist and anthropologist (aged 90; New Haven, CT, USA)
	+ Linda Porter, actress (aged 86; Cleveland, OH, USA)
	+ Libi Staiger, actress (aged 91; Austin, TX, USA)
* September 26
	+ Plato Cacheris, lawyer (aged 90; Alexandria, VA, USA)
	+ Mac Conner, commercial illustrator (aged 105; Manhattan, NY, USA)
	+ William Levada, Roman Catholic prelate (aged 83; Rome, Italy)
	+ Ronald L. Schlicher, diplomat (aged 63; Brentwood, TN, USA)
* September 27
	+ Rudy Behlmer, film historian (aged 92; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Jack Edwards, politician (aged 91; Fairhope, AL, USA)
	+ Rob Garrison, actor (aged 59; Wheeling, WV, USA)
	+ John Francis Kinney, Roman Catholic prelate (aged 82; St. Cloud, MN, USA)
	+ Gene Melchiorre, basketball player (aged 92; Highland Park, IL, USA)
	+ Inder Singh, human rights activist (aged 86; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ John J. Snyder, Roman Catholic prelate (aged 93; St. Augustine, FL, USA)
	+ Jimmy Spicer, rapper and record producer (aged 61; Brooklyn, NY, USA)
	+ Joseph C. Wilson, diplomat and writer (aged 69; Santa Fe, NM, USA)
* September 28
	+ José José, Mexican singer and actor (aged 71; Homestead, FL, USA)
	+ Hogan Sheffer, television writer (aged 61; York, PA, USA)
* September 29
	+ Martin Bernheimer, music critic (aged 83; Manhattan, NY, USA)
	+ Busbee, musician, songwriter, and record producer (aged 43; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Neil D. Van Sickle, air force major general (aged 104; Kalispell, MT, USA)
	+ Larry Willis, jazz pianist (aged 76; Baltimore, MD, USA)
* September 30
	+ Marshall Efron, actor and humorist (aged 81; Englewood, NJ, USA)
	+ Wayne Fitzgerald, film and television title designer (aged 89; Whidbey Island, WA, USA)
	+ Shinya Inoué, Japanese-born American scientist (aged 98; East Falmouth, MA, USA)
	+ Sharon Malcolm, politician (aged 72; Charleston, WV, USA)
	+ Jessye Norman, operatic soprano (aged 74; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Pete Turnham, politician (aged 99; Auburn, AL, USA)

### October

* October 1
	+ Cain Hope Felder, Methodist minister and biblical scholar (aged 76; Mobile, AL, USA)
	+ Eric Pleskow, Austrian-born American film producer (aged 95; Westport, CT, USA)
	+ Ed Simonini, football player (aged 65; Tulsa, OK, USA)
	+ Dick Soash, politician (aged 78; FL, USA)
	+ Ruben A. Valdez, politician (aged 82; Denver, CO, USA)
	+ Beverly Watkins, blues guitarist (aged 80; Atlanta, GA, USA)
* October 2
	+ Michael Bauman, theologian (aged 68; Royersford, PA, USA)
	+ Bill Bidwill, football team owner (aged 88; Phoenix, AZ, USA)
	+ Julie Gibson, actress and singer (aged 106; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ John Kirby, attorney (aged 79; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Beth Palmer, bridge player (aged 67; Chevy Chase, MD, USA)
	+ Kim Shattuck, singer-songwriter and guitarist (aged 56; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Alan Zaslove, animator (aged 91; Sherman Oaks, CA, USA)
	+ Ezra Zilkha, financier and philanthropist (aged 94; New York City, NY, USA)
* October 3
	+ Vinnie Bell, inventor and guitarist (aged 87; Tenafly, NJ, USA)
	+ Lewis Dauber, actor (aged 70; Pacific Palisades, CA, USA)
	+ Dana Fradon, cartoonist (aged 97; Woodstock, NY, USA)
	+ Philip Gips, designer and film poster artist (aged 88; White Plains, NY, USA)
	+ Stephen J. Lukasik, physicist (aged 88; Fairfax, VA, USA)
	+ Philip K. Lundeberg, naval historian and World War II veteran (aged 96; Alexandria, VA, USA)
* October 4
	+ Ed Ackerson, singer-songwriter (aged 54; Minneapolis, MN, USA)
	+ Peter Beckwith, Anglican prelate (aged 80; Hillsdale, MI, USA)
	+ Diahann Carroll, actress (aged 84; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ James Schmerer, TV writer and producer (aged 81; Eugene, OR, USA)
	+ Bob Tufts, baseball player (aged 63; New York City, NY, USA)
* October 5
	+ Lee Botts, environmentalist (aged 91; Oak Park, IL, USA)
	+ Andy Etchebarren, baseball player (aged 76; Santee, CA, USA)
	+ Larry Junstrom, bass guitarist (aged 70; Palatka, FL, USA)
	+ Blaine Lindgren, track and field athlete (aged 80; Salt Lake City, UT, USA)
	+ Eloy Pérez, boxer (aged 32; Tijuana, Mexico)
	+ Philip J. Prygoski, legal scholar (aged 71; Okemos, MI, USA)
* October 6
	+ Karen Pendleton, child actress (aged 73; Fresno, CA, USA)
	+ S. A. Stepanek, poet (aged 59; Wheaton, IL, USA)
	+ Stephen Swid, businessman (aged 78; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Rip Taylor, comedian and actor (aged 88; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* October 7
	+ Warren William Eginton, federal judge (aged 95; Redding, CT, USA)
	+ Ed Kalafat, basketball player (aged 86; St. Paul, MN, USA)
* October 8
	+ Francis S. Currey, U.S. Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient (aged 94; Selkirk, NY, USA)
	+ Chip Healy, football player (aged 72; Nashville, TN, USA)
	+ Sammy Taylor, baseball player (aged 86; Woodruff, SC, USA)
	+ Quade Winter, composer and opera singer (aged 68; Pendleton, OR, USA)
* October 9
	+ Richard Askey, mathematician (aged 86; Madison, WI, USA)
	+ John W. Corso, art director (aged 89; Huntington, IN, USA)
	+ Robert W. Estill, Episcopal prelate (aged 92; Raleigh, NC, USA)
	+ Thomas Flanagan, Irish-born Roman Catholic prelate (aged 88; San Antonio, TX, USA)
	+ Jill Freedman, photographer (aged 79; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Robert Guestier Goelet, French-born businessman and philanthropist (aged 96; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Samuel Hynes, author (aged 95; Princeton, NJ, USA)
	+ James O. Mason, physician (aged 89; Farmington, UT, USA)
	+ Murray Rosenblatt, statistician and academic (aged 93; San Diego, CA, USA)
	+ David Weisman, film producer and author (aged 77; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* October 10
	+ William J. Hamilton, politician (aged 86; New Brunswick, NJ, USA)
	+ Enrique Moreno, Mexican-born lawyer (aged 63; El Paso, TX, USA)
	+ Paul Polak, psychiatrist and entrepreneur (aged 86; Golden, CO, USA)
	+ Joseph E. Tregoning, politician (aged 78; Madison, WI, USA)
* October 11
	+ Sam Bobrick, playwright and screenwriter (aged 87; Northridge, CA, USA)
	+ Mac Christensen, clothier (aged 85; Farmington, UT, USA)
	+ Woodie Flowers, mechanical engineer (aged 75; Boston, MA, USA)
	+ Robert Forster, actor (aged 78; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ John Giorno, poet and performance artist (aged 82; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ James Hart Stern, civil rights activist (aged 55; Moreno Valley, CA, USA)
* October 12
	+ Kate Braverman, author (aged 70; Santa Fe, NM, USA)
	+ E. A. Carmean, art curator and historian (aged 74; Washington, DC, USA)
	+ Bob Goin, college athletic director (aged 83; Ponte Vedra Beach, FL, USA)
	+ Emilio Nicolas Sr., Mexican-born television executive (aged 88; San Antonio, TX, USA)
	+ Norman Schofield, Scottish-born political scientist (aged 75; St. Louis, MO, USA)
* October 13
	+ William T. Allen, law academic (aged 75; Georgetown, DE, USA)
	+ Scotty Bowers, male prostitute and pimp (aged 96; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Steve Cash, singer-songwriter (aged 73; Springfield, MO, USA)
	+ Bobby Del Greco, baseball player (aged 86; Beechview, PA, USA)
	+ Jay Frank, music industry executive (aged 47; Austin, TX, USA)
	+ Charles Jencks, architectural historian (aged 80; St. Louis, MO, USA)
	+ Elias James Manning, American-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate (aged 81; Vassouras, Brazil)
* October 14
	+ Harold Bloom, literary critic (aged 89; New Haven, CT, USA)
	+ Emmett Chappelle, scientist (aged 93; Baltimore, MD, USA)
	+ Buckwheat Donahue, sportsman and tourism promoter (aged 68; Oklahoma City, OK, USA)
	+ Louis Frey Jr., politician (aged 85; Winter Park, FL, USA)
	+ Cooper Snyder, politician (aged 91; Wilmington, OH, USA)
	+ Yvonne S. Wilson, politician (aged 90; Kansas City, MO, USA)
* October 15
	+ Mary Stuart Gile, politician (aged 83; Concord, NH, USA)
	+ Igo Kantor, Austrian-born film producer (aged 89; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Michael D. Reynolds, astronomer and educator (aged 65; Jacksonville, FL, USA)
* October 16
	+ Ed Beck, basketball player (aged 83; Sun City, AZ, USA)
	+ John Clarke, actor (aged 88; Laguna Beach, CA, USA)
	+ Patrick Day, boxer (aged 27; Chicago, IL, USA)
	+ Bernard Fisher, surgeon (aged 101; Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
	+ Morton Mandel, billionaire businessman and philanthropist (aged 98; FL, USA)
	+ Harold Scheub, professor and folklorist of African cultures (aged 88; Madison, WI, USA)
	+ John Tate, mathematician (aged 94; Lexington, MA, USA)
* October 17
	+ Michael F. Armstrong, lawyer (aged 86; Manhattan, NY, USA)
	+ Hildegard Bachert, German-born art dealer (aged 98; Brattleboro, VT, USA)
	+ Zev Braun, film and television producer (aged 90; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Elijah Cummings, politician (aged 68; Baltimore, MD, USA)
	+ Alan Diamonstein, politician (aged 88; Newport News, VA, USA)
	+ Bob Kingsley, radio personality (aged 80; Weatherford, TX, USA)
	+ Bill Macy, actor (aged 97; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Victor Mohica, actor (aged 86; FL, USA)
	+ Ray Santos, saxophonist (aged 90; Bronx, NY, USA)
* October 18
	+ Edward Clark, abstract painter (aged 93; Detroit, MI, USA)
	+ Michael Flaksman, cellist (aged 73; Akron, OH, USA)
	+ Mark Hurd, business executive (aged 62; San Francisco, CA, USA)
	+ Ahad Israfil, gunshot survivor (aged 47; Dayton, OH, USA)
	+ William Milliken, politician (aged 97; Traverse City, MI, USA)
	+ Lou Palmer, sportscaster (aged 83; Wellington, FL, USA)
	+ Mike Reilly, football player (aged 77; Dubuque, IA, USA)
* October 19
	+ E. Bruce Heilman, university president (aged 93; Richmond, VA, USA)
	+ Joseph Lombardo, mobster (aged 90; Fremont County, CO, USA)
* October 20
	+ Eric Cooper, baseball umpire (aged 52; Urbandale, IA, USA)
	+ Thomas D'Alesandro III, politician (aged 90; Baltimore, MD, USA)
	+ Rufus E. Jones, politician (aged 79; Memphis, TN, USA)
	+ Robert I. Price, Coast Guard admiral (aged 98; Washington, DC, USA)
	+ Nick Tosches, journalist and biographer (aged 69; Manhattan, NY, USA)
	+ Dottie Wham, politician (aged 94; Denver, CO, USA)
* October 21
	+ Willie Brown, football player (aged 78; Tracy, CA, USA)
	+ John M. Downs, courtroom sketch artist (aged 82; Chicago, IL, USA)
	+ Josip Elic, actor (aged 98; River Edge, NJ, USA)
	+ Jerry Fogel, actor (aged 83; Kansas City, MO, USA)
	+ Mike Hebert, volleyball coach (aged 75; San Diego, CA, USA)
	+ Reginald Tate, politician (aged 65; Memphis, TN, USA)
* October 22
	+ George Brancato, football player and coach (aged 88; Ottawa, ON, Canada)
	+ Ed Cherney, recording engineer (aged 69; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Vicki Funk, botanist (aged 71; Arlington, VA, USA)
	+ Jo Ann Zimmerman, politician (aged 82; Des Moines, IA, USA)
* October 23
	+ J. Rogers Hollingsworth, historian and sociologist (aged 87; Madison, WI, USA)
	+ James W. Montgomery, Episcopalian prelate (aged 98; Chicago, IL, USA)
	+ Bernie Parrish, football player (aged 83; Springfield, MO, USA)
	+ Francis A. Sullivan, theologian (aged 97; Weston, MA, USA)
	+ Tom Stevens, politician (aged 63; New York City, NY, USA)
* October 24
	+ Michael Blumlein, writer and physician (aged 71; San Francisco, CA, USA)
	+ Leroy Johnson, politician (aged 91; Atlanta, GA, USA)
* October 25
	+ Chou Wen-chung, Chinese-born composer (aged 96; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Peter H. Hassrick, artist and author (aged 78; Cody, WY, USA)
	+ Joe Sun, country singer-songwriter (aged 76; Palm Bay, FL, USA)
	+ Don Valentine, venture capitalist (aged 87; Woodside, CA, USA)
* October 26
	+ Paul André Albert, metallurgist (aged 93; San Jose, CA, USA)
	+ Paul Barrere, singer-songwriter and guitarist (aged 71; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Daniel W. Dobberpuhl, electrical engineer (aged 74; Pacific Grove, CA, USA)
	+ Robert Evans, film producer and convicted drug trafficker (aged 89; Beverly Hills, CA, USA)
	+ Chuck Meriwether, baseball umpire (aged 63; Nashville, TN, USA)
	+ Gregory E. Pyle, Choctaw Nation politician (aged 70; Durant, OK, USA)
	+ Thaddeus Seymour, academic (aged 91; Winter Park, FL, USA)
	+ John Stauffer, politician (aged 94; Lancaster, PA, USA)
* October 27
	+ Tim Chambers, baseball coach (aged 54; Las Vegas, NV, USA)
	+ Stephen P. Cohen, political scientist (aged 83; Chicago, IL, USA)
	+ John Conyers, politician (aged 90; Detroit, MI, USA)
	+ Kelly C. Crabb, sports and entertainment lawyer (aged 72; Alpine, UT, USA)
	+ Johanna Lindsey, romance novelist (aged 67; Nashua, NH, USA)
* October 28
	+ Al Bianchi, basketball player, coach, and executive (aged 87; Phoenix, AZ, USA)
	+ Ron Dunlap, basketball player and educator (aged 72; Appleton, WI, USA)
	+ Kay Hagan, politician (aged 66; Greensboro, NC, USA)
	+ John Walker, politician (aged 82; Little Rock, AR, USA)
* October 29
	+ Gerald Baliles, politician (aged 79; Charlottesville, VA, USA)
	+ Richard Lennon, Roman Catholic prelate (aged 72; Cleveland, OH, USA)
	+ Charlie Taaffe, football coach (aged 69; Orlando, FL, USA)
	+ John Witherspoon, actor and comedian (aged 77; Sherman Oaks, CA, USA)
* October 30
	+ Paul Crosby, basketball player (aged 30; Portage, IN, USA)
	+ Ron Fairly, baseball player (aged 81; Indian Wells, CA, USA)
	+ William J. Hughes, politician and diplomat (aged 87; Ocean City, NJ, USA)
	+ Sam Jankovich, football coach and athletic director (aged 85; Butte, MT, USA)
	+ J. Bob Traxler, politician (aged 88; Bay City, MI, USA)
* October 31
	+ Ann Crumb, actress and singer (aged 69; Media, PA, USA)
	+ Roger Morin, Roman Catholic prelate (aged 78; Boston, MA, USA)
	+ Jack O'Dell, civil rights activist (aged 96; Vancouver, BC, Canada)

### November

* November 1
	+ Rudy Boesch, U.S. Navy SEAL and realty show contestant (aged 91; Virginia Beach, VA, USA)
	+ Peter Collier, writer and publisher (aged 80; Sacramento, CA, USA)
	+ Marc LeBlanc, sailor (aged 69; Salem, MA, USA)
* November 2
	+ Gene G. Abdallah, U.S. Marshal and politician (aged 83; Sioux Falls, SD, USA)
	+ Irwin Fridovich, biochemist (aged 90; Durham, NC, USA)
	+ James I. Robertson Jr., historian (aged 89; Richmond, VA, USA)
	+ Brian Tarantina, actor (aged 60; New York City, NY, USA)
* November 3
	+ Gert Boyle, German-born businesswoman (aged 95; Portland, OR, USA)
	+ William B. Branch, dramatist (aged 92; Hawthorne, NY, USA)
	+ Louis Eppolito, police detective and mobster (aged 71; Tucson, AZ, USA)
* November 4
	+ Jim LeClair, football player (aged 69; Mayville, ND, USA)
	+ Virginia Leith, actress (aged 94; Palm Springs, CA, USA)
* November 5
	+ Sally Dixon, film curator (aged 87; St. Paul, MN, USA)
	+ Ernest J. Gaines, author (aged 86; Oscar, LA, USA)
	+ Michael Sherwood, keyboardist and singer (aged 60; Cape Canaveral, FL, USA)
	+ William Wintersole, actor (aged 88; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* November 6
	+ Nikki Araguz Loyd, same-sex marriage activist (aged 44; Humble, TX, USA)
	+ Stephen Dixon, author (aged 83; Towson, MD, USA)
	+ Mike Streicher, racing driver (aged 62; Findlay, OH, USA)
* November 7
	+ Dan McGrew, football player (aged 82; Wheeling, WV, USA)
	+ Frank Saul, basketball player (aged 95; East Hanover, NJ, USA)
	+ Janette Sherman, toxicologist and activist (aged 89; Alexandria, VA, USA)
* November 9
	+ Ross Bell, entomologist (aged 90; Shelburne, VT, USA)
	+ Noel Ignatiev, Marxist historian and activist (aged 78; Tucson, AZ, USA)
	+ Yusuf Scott, football player (aged 42; Pasadena, TX, USA)
* November 10
	+ Jim Adams, lacrosse coach (aged 91; Charlottesville, VA, USA)
	+ Russell Chatham, painter (aged 80; Novato, CA, USA)
	+ Rick Ludwin, television executive (aged 71; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Lawrence G. Paull, production designer and art director (aged 81; La Jolla, CA, USA)
	+ Bernard Tyson, health executive (aged 60; Oakland, CA, USA)
* November 11
	+ Tauba Biterman, Polish-American centenarian and Holocaust survivor (aged 102; Shorewood, WI, USA)
	+ Zeke Bratkowski, football player (aged 88; Santa Rosa Beach, FL, USA)
	+ Mary Christian, educator and politician (aged 95; Hampton, VA, USA)
	+ Alan Hagman, photojournalist (aged 55; Long Beach, CA, USA)
	+ Charles Rogers, football player (aged 38; Fort Myers, FL, USA)
* November 12
	+ Bob Johnson, baseball player (aged 83; St. Paul, MN, USA)
	+ William J. McCoy, politician (aged 77; Tupelo, MS, USA)
	+ Ann Peoples, politician (aged 72; Westbrook, ME, USA)
	+ Dois I. Rosser Jr., businessman and missionary (aged 98; Hampton, VA, USA)
* November 13 – Tom Spurgeon, comics journalist (aged 50; Columbus, OH, USA)
* November 14
	+ Anthony Grundy, basketball player (aged 40; Louisville, KY, USA)
	+ Charles Moir, basketball coach (aged 88; Salem, VA, USA)
	+ Orville Rogers, masters runner and centenarian (aged 101; Dallas, TX, USA)
* November 15
	+ Mark Cady, judge (aged 66; Des Moines, IA, USA)
	+ Jim Coates, baseball pitcher (aged 87; Lancaster, VA, USA)
	+ Harrison Dillard, track and field athlete (aged 96; Cleveland, OH, USA)
	+ Irv Noren, baseball player (aged 94; Oceanside, CA, USA)
	+ Papa Don Schroeder, record producer and music executive (aged 78; Pensacola, FL, USA)
* November 16
	+ Diane Loeffler, politician (aged 66; Minneapolis, MN, USA)
	+ Joel Skornicka, politician (aged 82; Madison, WI, USA)
* November 18 – Brad McQuaid, video game designer (aged 50; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* November 19
	+ Bob Hallberg, basketball coach (aged 75; Chicago Ridge, IL, USA)
	+ Tom Lyle, comics artist (aged 66; Savannah, GA, USA)
	+ Manoucher Yektai, Iranian-American artist (aged 97; New York City, NY, USA)
* November 20
	+ Jake Burton Carpenter, snowboarder (aged 65; Burlington, VT, USA)
	+ Fred Cox, football player (aged 80; Monticello, MN, USA)
	+ Mary L. Good, inorganic chemist (aged 88; Little Rock, AR, USA)
	+ John Martin, racing driver (aged 80; Indianapolis, IN, USA)
	+ Wat Misaka, basketball player (aged 95; Salt Lake City, UT, USA)
	+ Linda Orange, politician (aged 69; Middletown, CT, USA)
	+ Michael J. Pollard, actor (aged 80; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* November 21
	+ Val Heim, baseball player (aged 99; Superior, NE, USA)
	+ Barbara Mandel, community activist and philanthropist (aged 93; Palm Beach, FL, USA)
	+ Gahan Wilson, cartoonist (aged 89; Scottsdale, AZ, USA)
* November 22
	+ Alfred E. Smith IV, stockbroker and philanthropist (aged 68; New Canaan, CT, USA)
	+ Bowen Stassforth, swimmer (aged 93; Rancho Palos Verdes, CA, USA)
	+ Warren Wolf, football coach and politician (aged 92; Neptune Township, NJ, USA)
* November 23
	+ Will Brunson, baseball pitcher (aged 49; Big Bend National Park, TX, USA)
	+ Barbara Hillary, polar explorer (aged 88; Queens, NY, USA)
	+ Catherine Small Long, politician (aged 95; Chevy Chase, MD, USA)
	+ Harry Morton, restaurateur (aged 38; Beverly Hills, CA, USA)
* November 24
	+ Hank Bullough, football player and coach (aged 85; Haslett, MI, USA)
	+ Robert Godshall, politician (aged 86; Sellersville, PA, USA)
	+ Dion Neutra, architect (aged 93; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Robert F. X. Sillerman, billionaire entertainment executive (aged 71; Hinsdale, NH, USA)
	+ John Simon, writer and critic (aged 94; Valhalla, NY, USA)
* November 25
	+ Frank Biondi, entertainment executive (aged 74; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ George Clements, Roman Catholic priest and civil rights activist (aged 87; Hammond, IN, USA)
	+ Pete Musser, business executive and philanthropist (aged 92; Bryn Mawr, PA, USA)
	+ Jay Powell, politician (aged 67; Young Harris, GA, USA)
* November 26
	+ Howard Cruse, comics artist (aged 75; Pittsfield, MA, USA)
	+ James L. Holloway III, U.S. Navy admiral (aged 97; Alexandria, VA, USA)
* November 27
	+ Clay Evans, Baptist pastor, gospel singer, and civil rights activist (aged 94; Chicago, IL, USA)
	+ Jaegwon Kim, Korean-American philosopher (aged 85; Providence, RI, USA)
	+ Agnes Baker Pilgrim, Takelma elder and activist (aged 95; Grants Pass, OR, USA)
	+ John B. Robbins, medical researcher (aged 86; Manhattan, NY, USA)
	+ William Ruckelshaus, lawyer and politician (aged 87; Medina, WA, USA)
	+ John Henry Waddell, sculptor, painter, and art educator (aged 98; Verde Valley, AZ, USA)
* November 28
	+ Andrew Clements, children's author (aged 70; Baldwin, ME, USA)
	+ Marion McClinton, theatre director, playwright, and actor (aged 65; St. Paul, MN, USA)
	+ John McKissick, football coach (aged 93; Summerville, SC, USA)
	+ Kermit Staggers, politician (aged 72; Sioux Falls, SD, USA)
	+ John Strohmayer, baseball pitcher (aged 73; Redding, CA, USA)
* November 29
	+ Ruth Anderson, composer (aged 91; Bronx, NY, USA)
	+ Irving Burgie, songwriter (aged 95; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ William E. Macaulay, billionaire business executive and philanthropist (aged 74; Cleveland, OH, USA)
	+ Fitzhugh Mullan, physician, educator, and activist (aged 77; Bethesda, MD, USA)
	+ Seymour Siwoff, sports statistician and businessman (aged 99; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ R-Kal Truluck, football player (aged 45; Orlando, FL, USA)
	+ Phil Wyman, politician (aged 74; Tehachapi, CA, USA)
* November 30 – Ralph Anderson, politician (aged 92; Greenville, SC, USA)

### December

* December 1
	+ Robert M. Koerner, engineer (aged 85; Springfield, PA, USA)
	+ Lil Bub, celebrity cat (aged 8; Bloomington, IN, USA)
	+ Shelley Morrison, actress (aged 83; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Paul Sirba, Roman Catholic prelate (aged 59; Duluth, MN, USA)
	+ Paul Sullivan, football player and coach (aged 69; Birmingham, AL, USA)
* December 2
	+ George Atkinson III, football player (aged 27; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Jimmy Cavallo, saxophonist (aged 92; Pompano Beach, FL, USA)
	+ D. C. Fontana, television writer (aged 80; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Robert K. Massie, historian (aged 90; Irvington, NY, USA)
	+ Joe Smith, music executive (aged 91; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Kenneth Allen Taylor, philosopher (aged 65; Los Altos, CA, USA)
* December 4
	+ Cas Banaszek, football player (aged 74; Petaluma, CA, USA)
	+ Leonard Goldberg, film and television producer (aged 85; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Margaret Morgan Lawrence, psychiatrist and centenarian (aged 105; Boston, MA, USA)
	+ C. O. Simpkins Sr., dentist, politician, and civil rights activist (aged 94; Shreveport, LA, USA)
* December 5
	+ Jon Comer, skateboarder (aged 43; Dallas, TX, USA)
	+ Marvin Goodfriend, economist (aged 69; Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
	+ Sherman Howard, football player (aged 95; Richton Park, IL, USA)
	+ George Laurer, electrical engineer (aged 94; Wendell, NC, USA)
	+ Robert Walker, actor (aged 79; Malibu, CA, USA)
* December 6
	+ Ron Leibman, actor (aged 82; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Kimmi Lewis, politician (aged 62; Kim, CO, USA)
	+ Donald B. Marron, billionaire financier, art collector, and philanthropist (aged 85; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Jo Ann Washam, golfer (aged 69; King County, WA, USA)
* December 7
	+ Gerald Barrax, poet and educator (aged 86; Raleigh, NC, USA)
	+ Berkley Bedell, politician and businessman (aged 98; Naples, FL, USA)
	+ Lisa de Cazotte, soap opera producer (aged 58; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Denise D'Ascenzo, television news anchor (aged 61; Branford, CT, USA)
	+ Bump Elliott, football player, coach, and athletic director (aged 94; Iowa City, IA, USA)
	+ Joe McQueen, jazz saxophonist (aged 100; Ogden, UT, USA)
* December 8
	+ René Auberjonois, actor and singer (aged 79; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Doyle Corman, politician (aged 87; Bellefonte, PA, USA)
	+ Jerry Karr, politician (aged 83; Emporia, KS, USA)
	+ Caroll Spinney, puppeteer (aged 85; Woodstock, CT, USA)
	+ Paul Volcker, economist and Federal Reserve chairman (aged 92; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Juice Wrld, rapper (aged 21; Oak Lawn, IL, USA)
* December 9
	+ John R. Broxson, politician (aged 87; Milton, FL, USA)
	+ Leon Hardeman, football player (aged 87; Rossville, GA, USA)
	+ Chuck Heberling, sports administrator and referee (aged 94; McCandless, PA, USA)
	+ William Luce, playwright (aged 88; Green Valley, AZ, USA)
	+ May Stevens, feminist artist (aged 95; Santa Fe, NM, USA)
* December 10
	+ Frederick B. Dent, businessman and politician (aged 97; Spartanburg, SC, USA)
	+ Gershon Kingsley, electronic musician and composer (aged 97; Manhattan, NY, USA)
	+ Emily Mason, painter (aged 87; Brattleboro, VT, USA)
	+ Philip McKeon, actor (aged 55; Wimberley, TX, USA)
	+ Randy Suess, computer programmer (aged 74; Chicago, IL, USA)
	+ Scott Timberg, journalist and author (aged 50; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* December 11
	+ Larry Heinemann, novelist (aged 75; Bryan, TX, USA)
	+ James McCarthy, oceanographer (aged 75; Sweet Home, OR, USA)
	+ William S. McFeely, historian (aged 89; Sleepy Hollow, NY, USA)
* December 12
	+ Danny Aiello, actor (aged 86; NJ, USA)
	+ Vaughan Johnson, football player (aged 57; Durham, NC, USA)
	+ David H. Locke, politician (aged 92; Wellesley, MA, USA)
	+ Phase 2, graffiti artist (aged 64; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Jack Scott, Canadian-American singer-songwriter (aged 83; Warren, MI, USA)
* December 13
	+ Lawrence Bittaker, serial killer (aged 79; San Quentin, CA, USA)
	+ Richard G. Hatcher, politician (aged 86; Chicago, IL, USA)
	+ Emil Richards, jazz percussionist (aged 87; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Carl Scheer, basketball executive (aged 82; Charlotte, NC, USA)
* December 14
	+ Moondog Rex, professional wrestler (aged 69; Jackson, TN, USA)
	+ Felix Rohatyn, banker and diplomat (aged 91; Manhattan, NY, USA)
	+ Irv Williams, jazz saxophonist (aged 100; St. Paul, MN, USA)
	+ Doug Woog, ice hockey coach (aged 75; Lakeville, MN, USA)
* December 15
	+ Wense Grabarek, politician (aged 100; Durham, NC, USA)
	+ Robert Kinkead, chef and restaurateur (aged 67; Murrells Inlet, SC, USA)
	+ Morgan Porteus, Episcopal bishop (aged 102; Wellfleet, MA, USA)
* December 16
	+ Rich Rundles, baseball pitcher (aged 38; Livingston, AL, USA)
	+ Bill Simpson, racing driver and entrepreneur (aged 79; Indianapolis, IN, USA)
* December 17
	+ Hayden Fry, football player and coach (aged 90; Dallas, TX, USA)
	+ Scot Kleinendorst, ice hockey player (aged 59; Duluth, MN, USA)
* December 18
	+ Al Adinolfi, politician (aged 85; Hartford, CT, USA)
	+ Herman Boone, football coach (aged 84; Alexandria, VA, USA)
	+ Ellen Shub, photojournalist (aged 73; Newton, MA, USA)
* December 19
	+ Ward Just, journalist and author (aged 84; Plymouth, MA, USA)
	+ Saoul Mamby, boxer (aged 72; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Stanley J. Stein, historian of Latin America (aged 99; Princeton, NJ, USA)
	+ Arthur Verow, politician (aged 77; Bangor, ME, USA)
* December 20
	+ Junior Johnson, NASCAR driver and team owner (aged 88; Charlotte, NC, USA)
	+ Woody Vasulka, video artist (aged 82; Santa Fe, NM, USA)
* December 21
	+ Louis Jenkins, poet (aged 77; Bloomington, MN, USA)
	+ Isaac Kramnick, historian (aged 81; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Joseph Segel, entrepreneur (aged 88; Gladwyne, PA, USA)
* December 22
	+ Greg Kirk, politician (aged 56; Americus, GA, USA)
	+ Ram Dass, spiritual teacher and psychologist (aged 88; Maui, HI, USA)
	+ Elizabeth Spencer, writer (aged 98; Chapel Hill, NC, USA)
* December 23
	+ Elmer Beseler Harris, political strategist (aged 80; Birmingham, AL, USA)
	+ Fred B. Rooney, politician (aged 94; Washington, DC, USA)
* December 24
	+ Rusty Hilger, football player (aged 57; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
	+ Dave Riley, bass guitarist (aged 59; Arivaca, AZ, USA)
	+ Allee Willis, songwriter (aged 72; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* December 25
	+ Eliot Glassheim, politician (aged 81; Grand Forks, ND, USA)
	+ William Greider, journalist and economics writer (aged 83; Washington, DC, USA)
	+ Lee Mendelson, television producer (aged 86; Hillsborough, CA, USA)
	+ Chuck Turner, politician (aged 79; Boston, MA, USA)
* December 26
	+ Jocelyn Burdick, U.S. Senator (aged 97; Fargo, ND, USA)
	+ Elbert Dubenion, football player (aged 86; Columbus, OH, USA)
	+ Jerry Herman, composer and lyricist (aged 88; Miami, FL, USA)
	+ Sleepy LaBeef, rockabilly singer and musician (aged 84; Siloam Springs, AR, USA)
	+ Sue Lyon, actress (aged 73; Los Angeles, CA, USA)
* December 27
	+ Ulysses Currie, politician (aged 82; Baltimore, MD, USA)
	+ Don Imus, radio personality (aged 79; College Station, TX, USA)
	+ J. Charles Jones, civil rights activist (aged 82; Charlotte, NC, USA)
	+ Neal Peirce, columnist and author (aged 87; Washington, DC, USA)
	+ Remilia, esports player (aged 24; Las Vegas, NV, USA)
	+ John Rothchild, financial writer (aged 74; Virginia Beach, VA, USA)
* December 28
	+ Carley Ann McCord, sports journalist (aged 30; Lafayette, LA, USA)
	+ Fred Graham, journalist and television anchor (aged 88; Washington, DC, USA)
	+ Izzy Slapawitz, professional wrestler (aged 71; New York City, NY, USA)
* December 29
	+ LaDell Andersen, basketball coach (aged 90; St. George, UT, USA)
	+ Paul X. Kelley, U.S. Marine Corps commandant (aged 91; McLean, VA, USA)
	+ Norma Tanega, singer-songwriter (aged 80; Claremont, CA, USA)
* December 30
	+ Jack Garfein, stage and film director and acting teacher (aged 89; New York City, NY, USA)
	+ Gertrude Himmelfarb, historian (aged 97; Washington, DC, USA)
	+ Syd Mead, industrial designer and concept artist (aged 86; Pasadena, CA, USA)
* December 31
	+ Vic Juris, jazz guitarist (aged 66; Livingston, NJ, USA)
	+ J. L. Lewis, golfer (aged 59; Austin, TX, USA)
	+ Martin West, actor (aged 82; Westport, CT, USA)