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Twitter's operations in Nigeria would be "suspended" permanently, with Nigeria arguing that the company causes activities that "are capable of undermining Nigeria’s corporate existence.
This comes after the company deleted tweets by President Muhammadu Buhari who was sending messages threatening violence.
At least 152 people are killed in attacks on two villages in Burkina Faso.
The attack lasted until the early hours of June 5.
June 5 – The G7 agrees on a global minimum corporate tax rate of 15% meant to stop world's richest people from not paying taxes.
In Canada, four Muslims are killed after being attacked by a truck in London, Ontario in what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described as a "terrorist attack" caused by Islamophobia.
The United States wins the first edition of the CONCACAF Nations League, defeating Mexico in the final by a scoreline of 3–2 after overtime.
Two trains crash in Ghotki District in Sindh, Pakistan, killing 65 people and injuring another 150.
The Juno spacecraft performed its only flyby of Jupiter's moon Ganymede.
It was the first flyby of the moon by any spacecraft in over twenty years.
Former Prime Minister Ukhnaagiin Khürelsükh is elected the 6th President of Mongolia, winning 72% of the vote.
El Salvador becomes the first country to make Bitcoin as legal tender.
June 10 – An annular solar eclipse is visible from parts of the Northeast United States, Canada, Greenland, the North Pole, and the Russian Far East.
Rural farmer and teacher Pedro Castillo is elected the 63rd President of Peru, defeating conservative candidate Keiko Fujimori.
The New York Times wins the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Journalism for their coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic.
World leaders meet at the 47th G7 summit, hosted by the United Kingdom, with topics of discussion including the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, and the corporate taxation.
The UEFA Euro 2020 and the 2021 Copa América begins, after being delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
June 13 – Naftali Bennett becomes the 13th Prime Minister of Israel following a coalition agreement, ending Benjamin Netanyahu's twelve-year tenure as prime minister.
Enrique Bolaños, Nicaragua's president pushed for radical conservative policies, dies at aged 93.
COVID-19 pandemic: Novavax announces 90.4% overall efficacy in its Phase 3 United States and Mexico trial.
June 16 – COVID-19 pandemic: CureVac announces an overall efficacy of just 47% of their vaccine based on an analysis of Phase III clinical trial.
Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia's first president and nation's founding father, dies at aged 97.
China's Shenzhou 12 launches the first crew for the Tiangong space station.
June 19 – Chief Justice Ebrahim Raisi is elected the 8th President of Iran in a landslide victory.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is re-elected after his party, Civil Contract, wins the majority of seats in the National Assembly.
Jon Rahm of Spain wins the 121st U.S. Open.
In cricket, New Zealand defeats India in the first ICC World Test Championship.
Hours after Spain approved of his extradition to the United States for tax crimes, computer programming entrepreneur John McAfee commits suicide in his prison cell.
Former President of the Philippines Benigno Aquino III, who improved the country's economy, dies at aged 61.
In the United States, a condominium in Miami, Florida collapses killing 97 people with 8 people reported missing.
Apple Daily, a pro-democracy newspaper, is forced to shutdown for violating a national security law in Hong Kong.
Former Prime Minister of South Vietnam General Trần Thiện Khiêm, who helped plan and execute coup that led to the assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem, dies at aged 95.
751 unmarked graves are found near the former site of an indigenous peoples residential school in Saskatchewan, Canada.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau calls on Pope Francis to apologize for the Catholic church run boarding schools.
Former police officer Derek Chauvin is sentenced to over 22 years for the murder of George Floyd, an unarmed African American man in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
June 28 – Tigray War: The Tigray Defense Force seizes the Tigrayan capital Mekele shortly after the Ethiopian government declares a ceasefire.
COVID-19 pandemic: The number of vaccinations given worldwide passes 3 billion.
Former President of South Africa Jacob Zuma is sentenced to 15 months in prison for contempt of court.
June 30 – An extreme heat wave kills 600 people in the Pacific Northwest of North America.
The United Nations announce that recent fighting in the Tigray region of Ethiopia has resulted in a famine that is now affecting more than 400,000 people.
Over 130 wildfires, caused by lightning strikes, burn through Western Canada following a record-breaking heatwave in North America.
July 4 – In the Philippines, a plane crashes in Sulu, killing at least 53 people.
More than 1,000 Afghan soldiers flee to neighboring Tajikistan after clashing with Taliban militants.
Gunmen kidnap 140 schoolchildren in Kaduna State, Nigeria.
Mary Simon is nominated to be the 30th Governor General of Canada.
In Russia, a plane crashes in Kamchatka Krai, killing 28 people.
President of Haiti Jovenel Moïse is assassinated at aged 53.
Interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph becomes acting president.
Tampa Bay Lightning defeat the Montreal Canadiens in the Stanley Cup Finals.
July 8 – COVID-19 pandemic: The global death toll from COVID-19 passes 4 million.
Argentina beats Brazil with 1–0 in the final of the 2021 Copa América.
The 2021 CONCACAF Gold Cup is held in the United States.
Euro 2020: Italy defeats England to win the UEFA European Championship final at Wembley Stadium.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Abiy Ahmed is re-elected Prime Minister of Ethiopia in a landslide victory.
Virgin Galactic's Unity 22 mission launches with six people, including Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson.
Ashleigh Barty and Novak Djokovic win the respective women's and men's singles tournaments at Wimbledon.
In Cuba, a large anti-government protests break-out because of food and medicine shortages caused by the government's mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In Moldova, the Party of Action and Solidarity wins the majority of seats in the parliament.
In Bulgaria, the There Is Such a People party wins the majority of seats in the National Assembly.
July 12 – Severe floods across Western Europe leave at least 90 people dead and 1,300 others missing.
Sher Bahadur Deuba becomes the 43th Prime Minister of Nepal after court order found that KP Sharma Oli tenure as prime minister was against the law.
Over 70 people are killed during riots in South Africa following the arrest of former South African president Jacob Zuma in connection to a corrupt arms deal.
July 14 – Former President of Pakistan, Mamnoon Hussain, who led the country's polio eradication program dies at aged 80.
July 15 – Dutch journalist Peter R. de Vries dies after being shot multiple times in Amsterdam, aged 64.
Serial killer Michael Gargiulo, also known as the "Hollywood Ripper", is sentenced to death for two murders.
Floods and landslides caused 56 deaths in Henan, China and leaving over 2 million evacuated or homeless.
July 18 – A report found that human rights activists, journalists and lawyers around the world have been targeted with a phone malware sold to authoritarian governments by an Israeli surveillance firm.
July 19 – Blue Origin successfully conducts its first human test flight, with a reusable New Shepard rocket delivering four crew members into space – founder Jeff Bezos, his brother Mark, 18-year-old Oliver Daemen (the youngest person to ever go into space), and 82-year-old Wally Funk (the oldest person to go into space).
Ariel Henry becomes the 23rd Prime Minister of Haiti and soon after becomes acting president following the resignation of acting Prime Minister and President Claude Joseph and the assassination of Jovenel Moïse.
The Milwaukee Bucks defeat the Phoenix Suns to win the 2021 NBA Finals, their first championship win in fifty years.
Women are permitted to attend without a male guardian (mehrem) provided they go in a trustworthy group during the Day of Haji.
Liverpool Maritime Mercantile City is removed from its UNESCO World Heritage Site status because of modern developments.
The International Olympic Committee awards Brisbane the right to host the 2032 Summer Olympics.
July 22 – A flood in Maharashtra, India kills over 250 people.
July 23 – The 2020 Summer Olympics began in Tokyo, Japan, a year after being postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
July 25 – Tunisian President Kais Saied fires Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi and freezes the Assembly of Representatives, causing a political crisis in Tunisia.
Wildfires in Turkey have killed at least six people and injured more than 400.
Philip Pierre is elected the 8th Prime Minister of Saint Lucia.
The first direct observation of light from behind a black hole is reported, confirming Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity.
The International Space Station temporarily spun out of control, moving the ISS 45 degrees out of altitude, following an engine malfunction.
Oil tanker Mercer Street is attacked off coast of Oman, killing two crew members.
August 1 – Myanmar coup leader Min Aung Hlaing forms a caretaker government, making himself the 13th Prime Minister of Myanmar, six months after the coup d'état against Aung San Suu Kyi.
Wildfires in Greece begin, killing three people.
Lithuania sees an increase in illegal immigrants (mostly Iraqis) via Belarus as part of the 2021 Lithuanian migrant crisis.
Oil tanker Asphalt Princess is attacked off the coast of Oman.
Two trains crash into each other in the Czech Republic killing three people and injuring over 60 people.
Belarusian sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya travels to Poland to look for refuge after saying Belarus was forcing her to be part of the 2020 Summer Olympics.
COVID-19 pandemic: The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases passes 200 million worldwide.
August 5 – Tigray War: The Tigray Defense Forces take control of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Lalibela.
August 6 – Natalia Gavrilița is elected the 15th Prime Minister of Moldova.
The 2020 Summer Olympics ended in Tokyo, Japan with the United States winning the most gold medals and medals in total overall.
Taliban members capture the Afghan city of Kunduz, Sar-e Pol and Taloqan as part of the 2021 Taliban offensive.
August 9 – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change releases the first part of its report, which says that the effects of human-caused climate change are now "widespread, rapid, and intensifying".
August 10 – 2021 Taliban offensive as part of the War in Afghanistan: The Taliban seize the regional capitals Farah, Faizabad and Puli Khumri.
2021 Taliban offensive as part of the War in Afghanistan: The Taliban seize the regional capitals Ghazni, Herat, Qala e Naw and Kandahar.
Businessman Hakainde Hichilema is elected the 7th President of Zambia, beating incumbent President Edgar Lungu.
A man kills five people in a mass shooting in Plymouth, Devon, England.
August 13 – 2021 Taliban offensive as part of the War in Afghanistan: The Taliban seize the regional capitals Chaghcharan and Lashkar Gah.
August 14 – A 7.2-magnitude earthquake hits Haiti, killing more than 300 people.
August 15 – 2021 Taliban offensive as part of the War in Afghanistan: The Taliban captures Kabul causing the Afghan government to collapse with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani going into exile and leaving the country.
August 16 – Prime Minister of Malaysia Muhyiddin Yassin resigns after losing support from coalition parties.
Former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia Ismail Sabri Yaakob becomes the 9th Prime Minister after a coalition government fails to support Muhyiddin Yassin.
In the United States, flash floods caused by heavy rain in Tennessee killed over 22 people with over 20 missing.
The 2020 Summer Paralympics are held in Tokyo, Japan after being postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Former President and Prime Minister of Chad Hissène Habré, who was convicted of war crimes in 2016, dies of COVID-19 at aged 79.
During evacuations, a suicide bombing occurs at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, killing over 180 people and injuring over 150.
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claimed responsibility for the explosion.
The World Food Programme says that the food crisis in Madagascar is the first famine caused by climate change and not an armed conflict.
August 27 – The United States Air Force launches an airstrike, killing the Islamic State member who is believed to have planned the Kabul airport bombing.
August 29 – Hurricane Ida makes landfall in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana near the Gulf of Mexico as a 150 mph Category 4 hurricane, making it the 17th tropical cyclone of the decade to make landfall in the United States.
The United Nations announces that leaded petrol in road vehicles has been phased out globally, a hundred years after its introduction.
Evacuations in Afghanistan end amid the Taliban taking control of the country, ending the War in Afghanistan.
September 3 – Prime Minister of Japan Yoshihide Suga announces his resignation as Liberal Democratic Party leader.
Guinean President Alpha Condé is detained and removed from power by an elite military unit led by Mamady Doumbouya, who claimed to have taken power.
The 2020 Summer Paralympics ends in Tokyo with China winning the most gold medals and medals overall.
September 6 – Carlos Vila Nova is elected the 5th President of São Tomé and Príncipe.
El Salvador becomes the first country in the world to accept Bitcoin as an official currency.
The Mexican Supreme Court rules to legalize abortion in Mexico.
September 8 – A prison fire in Tangerang, Indonesia kills 44 prisoners and injures 77 others.
Aziz Akhannouch is elected the Prime Minister of Morocco, beating incumbent Saadeddine Othmani.
A new government is formed in Lebanon with Najib Mikati chosen as the new Prime Minister, replacing Hassan Diab.
September 11 – Tennis players Emma Raducanu of the United Kingdom and Daniil Medvedev of Russia win the US Open.
In Norway, the Labour Party led by Opposition Leader Jonas Gahr Støre wins the most seats in the Storting, beating the Conservative Party led by Prime Minister Erna Solberg.
Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob and Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim sign a confidence and supply agreement ending a 18-month political crisis that has caused the fall of two governments in Malaysia.
North Korea shoots two short-range ballistic missiles that land just outside Japan's territorial waters; and then only hours later South Korea fires its first submarine-launched ballistic missile.
The first season of the Europa Conference League begins.
A trilateral security pact between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States is formed, to fight against China, allowing Australia to build its first nuclear-powered submarine.
Several ministers of the Argentine President Alberto Fernández's cabinet resigns after the government's defeat in the primary elections, causing a political crisis in the country.
September 16 – SpaceX launches Inspiration4, making it the first all-civilian orbital spaceflight.
Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who was the 8th President of Algeria for twenty years and resigned after mass protests against his presidency in 2019, dies at aged 84.
Philip "Brave" Davis is elected Prime Minister of the Bahamas after his party wins the most seats in the parliament, beating incumbent Hubert Minnis.
September 19 – The Cumbre Vieja located in the La Palma island of the Canary Islands erupts.
The Liberal Party of Canada won 155 seats in the federal election, re-electing Justin Trudeau as Prime Minister and allowing the party to form a minority government again.
In Rwanda, Paul Rusesabagina is convicted on terrorism charges for the actions of his political party PDR-Ihumure.
At least six people are killed when a gunman shot students at Perm State University in Russia.
The European Court of Human Rights rules that Russia was responsible for the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko in 2006.
Egyptian general Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, who led the country as Supreme Council of the Armed Forces after President Hosni Mubarak resigned, dies at aged 85.
September 23 – Scientists discover human footprints which are about 23,000 years old at White Sands National Park in the United States, making the idea that humans arrived in North America at least 10,000 years earlier than previously thought.
September 24 – Two Canadian citizens are released from detention in China after Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou is released from house arrest in Canada.
September 25 – The Independence Party of Iceland led by Bjarni Benediktsson win the most seats in the Althing; however Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir is expected to govern a coalition.
September 26 – The Social Democratic Party (SDP) led by Olaf Scholz win the most seats in the Bundestag.
Former Minister for Foreign Affairs Fumio Kishida is elected to replace Yoshihide Suga as the 100th Prime Minister of Japan.
Najla Bouden Romdhane is selected to become the Prime Minister of Tunisia by President Kais Saied; making her the first female prime minister in Tunisia and the Arab world.
116 inmates are killed during a prison riot in Guayaquil, Ecuador, the deadliest prison violence in the country's history.
Coup military leader Mamady Doumbouya is sworn-in as the interim President of Guinea after removing Alpha Condé from power last month.
The 2020 World Expo in Dubai begins, as it was originally scheduled for 20 October 2020 but was delayed because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
October 3 – The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and other media outlets publish a set of 11.9 million documents leaked from 14 financial services companies known as the Pandora Papers, revealing offshore financial activities that involve multiple current and former world leaders.
Armenian-American molecular biologist Ardem Patapoutian and American physiologist David Julius are awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work on human receptors and molecular mechanisms of pain sensation and heat.
Former Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida is officially voted by the National Diet as the 100th Prime Minister of Japan, replacing Yoshihide Suga.
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp have become inaccessible because of a major outage.
Roscosmos launches the Soyuz MS-19 mission, carrying two Channel One Russia crewmembers to the International Space Station to make a movie.
Japanese-American meteorologist Syukuro Manabe, German oceanographer Klaus Hasselmann and Italian physicist Giorgio Parisi are awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their works on modeling climate change patterns and its effects.
German chemist Benjamin List and Scottish-born chemist David MacMillan win the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on the development of organocatalysis.
The 2021 UEFA Nations League Finals is held in Italy as they were originally scheduled for June 2021, but were moved following the rescheduling of UEFA Euro 2020 to June and July 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Children across most of Africa are to be vaccinated against malaria, the first vaccine approved by the World Health Organization.
A 5.9 magnitude earthquake kills 20 people and injures over 300 others in Balochistan, Pakistan.
Tanzanian-British novelist and refugee Abdulrazak Gurnah wins the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature for his novels about colonialism and its impacts on refugees.
Filipino journalist Maria Ressa and Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov win the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize for their work on freedom of expression.
A suicide bombing carried out by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant at a Shia mosque in Kunduz, Afghanistan kills over 100 people while injuring over 140 others.
Abolhassan Banisadr, the first democratically elected President of Iran following the Islamic Revolution, dies in Paris, France at aged 88.
Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš wins 72 seats against his main opponent Petr Fiala's 71 seats in the Chamber of Deputies.
Sebastian Kurz announces his resignation as Chancellor of Austria after a corruption investigation is opened against him.
Alexander Schallenberg replaced Kurtz as chancellor on two days later.
October 11 – Canadian-American labour economist David Card, Israeli-American economist Joshua Angrist and Dutch-American economist Guido Imbens win the 2021 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
Star Trek actor William Shatner becomes the oldest person to go into space, at age 90, on board a Blue Origin spacecraft.
Five people are killed and two others are injured inside a supermarket after being attacked by bow and arrows in Kongsberg, Norway.
October 14 – A building fire in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, kills at least 46 people and injures 41 others.
A suicide bombing by the Islamic State at a Shia mosque in Kandahar, Afghanistan kills 65 people and injures over 70 others.
British Member of Parliament Sir David Amess is stabbed to death in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England, aged 69.
October 16 – The Lucy spacecraft is launched by NASA, the first mission to explore the Trojan asteroids.
October 17 – Former Prime Minister José Maria Neves is elected the 5th President of Cape Verde, beating former Prime Minister Carlos Veiga.
October 20 – Dame Sandra Mason is elected the 1st President of Barbados.
October 21 – Dame Cindy Kiro becomes the 22nd Governor-General of New Zealand, the first Māori woman to hold the position.
October 24 – Shavkat Mirziyoyev is re-elected President of Uzbekistan in a landslide victory, winning 80% of the vote.
October 25 – The Sudanese military launches a coup against the government with Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok placed under house arrest and President Abdel Fattah al-Burhan taking power as head of state, declaring a state of emergency and dissolution of the government.
October 26 – Roh Tae-woo, South Korea's 6th President, first to be democratically elected in a post-military rule and was found guilty for treason, mutiny and corruption for his role in two coups, dies at aged 88.
In Japan, the Liberal Democratic Party led by Prime Minister Fumio Kishida won the most seats in the House of Representatives.
The COP26 Summit is held in Glasgow, Scotland where world leaders attempt to limit global warming temperatures to 1.5 °C (2.7 °F).
November 1 – COVID-19 pandemic: The number of recorded deaths from COVID-19 passes 5 million.
Tennis player Peng Shuai accuses Senior Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China Zhang Gaoli of sexual harassment.
She later is censored by the Chinese government and disappears.
The Atlanta Braves beat the Houston Astros to win the World Series.
November 3 – COVID-19 pandemic: The World Health Organization gives emergency use listing to the Covaxin COVID-19 vaccine, the third non–Western vaccine to be authorized.
November 4 – South African playwright and novelist Damon Galgut wins the 2021 Booker Prize.
At least 99 people are killed and over 100 others injured in a fuel tanker explosion in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
In the United States, nine people are crowd crushed to death with over 300 injured at a music festival in Houston, Texas.
Prime Minister of Iraq Mustafa Al-Kadhimi survives an assassination attempt in Baghdad when an explosive drone attacks his private home.
Daniel Ortega is re-elected to a fourth term as President of Nicaragua, winning almost 76% of the vote.
November 10 – Cristina Peri Rossi of Uruguay wins the 2021 Miguel de Cervantes Prize.
F. W. de Klerk, the last apartheid-era President of South Africa and Nobel Peace Prize winner, dies at the age of 85.
SpaceX launches a third mission, which carried four crewmembers to the International Space Station.
A car bombing using a taxi outside a women's hospital in Liverpool, England, kills the bomber and injures the driver.
Rumen Radev is re-elected President of Bulgaria after winning 49% of the vote.
November 16 – Russia is criticized after doing an anti-satellite weapon test that creates a cloud of space debris, threatening the International Space Station.
November 19 – The longest partial lunar eclipse in 580 years occurs, visible in northern and western Europe, parts of Asia and the westernmost parts of Africa.
Abdalla Hamdok becomes Prime Minister of Sudan again after an agreement is made following a coup d'état that occurred the last month which removed Hamdok from office.
In the United States, during a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin an SUV broke through barricades and killed six people with over 40 others injured.
Chun Doo-hwan, South Korea's 5th President and military strongman for almost eight years, dies at aged 90.
45 North Macedonians are killed in a bus crash in Pernik Province, Bulgaria.
NASA successfully launches the Double Asteroid Redirection Test as a defense system against Near-Earth objects.
27 illegal immigrants are killed in the English Channel when an inflatable boat flips over.
Nicolae Ciucă is elected the 70th Prime Minister of Romania.
Over 50 people are killed in a mining accident in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia.
November 26 – The World Health Organization officially recognizes the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant.
Former First Lady Xiomara Castro is elected the 62nd President of Honduras, becoming the country's first female president.
Political scientist Petr Fiala becomes the 13th Prime Minister of the Czech Republic after defeating then-current Prime Minister Andrej Babiš.
Magdalena Andersson is elected Sweden's first female Prime Minister by the Riksdag.
Barbados officially becomes a republic with Sandra Mason becoming the country's first president.
December 1 – The farm protests in India end when the country repeal a controversial agricultural act.
Mount Semeru erupts in East Java, Indonesia killing 46 people and injuring 104 others.
Adama Barrow is re-elected President of the Gambia winning 53% of the vote.
Fourteen civilians are killed by Indian Special Forces officials in a failed ambush in Nagaland, India.
The United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia announce a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing in response to China's human rights record.
COVID-19 pandemic: The United States becomes the first country to pass 50 million COVID-19 cases.
Former State Counsellor of Myanmar and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi is sentenced to prison on charges of causing dissent.
Karl Nehammer is sworn-in as the Chancellor of Austria after Alexander Schallenberg resigned from the position on 2 December.
December 7 – A prison fire kills at least 38 inmates and injures over 69 others in Burundi.
Olaf Scholz replaces Angela Merkel as the Chancellor of Germany.
Fourteen people are killed in a helicopter crash in Tamil Nadu, India, including General Bipin Rawat.
December 9 – At least 54 illegal immigrants are killed when the truck in which they are being smuggled crashes in Chiapas, Mexico.
December 10 – In the United States, a tornado outbreak in the country's Southern States and Ohio Valley regions kills at least 88 people.
COVID-19 pandemic: Russia becomes the fifth country to pass 10 million COVID-19 cases after the United States, India, Brazil and the United Kingdom.
New Caledonia rejects independence from France in a referendum vote by 96.5%.
December 13 – Kiril Petkov is elected the 56th Prime Minister of Bulgaria.
A fuel tanker explosion kills over 60 people and injured over 100 others in Cap-Haïtien, Haiti.
Floods in Malaysia kills at least 37 people.
December 15 – Siaosi Sovaleni is elected the 18th Prime Minister of Tonga, replacing Pohiva Tuʻiʻonetoa.
A building fire caused by a suspected arsonist in Osaka, Japan kills 25 people and injures three others.
Typhoon Rai kills at least 200 people in the southern part of the Philippines and one person near Vietnam.
December 19 – Gabriel Boric is elected the 36th President of Chile, defeating José Antonio Kast in the run-off general election with a 55.87% to 44.13% margin.
December 20 – At least 64 people are killed and 24 others are missing in a shipwreck off the northeast coast of Madagascar.
December 24 – At least 39 people are killed and over 70 others injured in a ferry fire in Jhalokati, Bangladesh.
December 25 – The James Webb Space Telescope, a replacement for the Hubble Space Telescope is launched.
December 26 – Nobel Peace Prize-winning South African archbishop and anti-apartheid activist Desmond Tutu dies at aged 90.
December 28 – In cricket, Australia wins The Ashes after winning the first three Tests against England.
The Supreme Court of Russia orders the closure of Memorial, Russia's oldest human rights group, for violations of the country's foreign agent law.
Jeffrey Epstein's former associate, socialite Ghislaine Maxwell is found guilty of sex trafficking of a child and three counts of conspiracy for transporting minors for sexual activities.
Pro-democratic news website Stand News closes down after its staff are arrested by Hong Kong police officials for sedition.
December 31 – American actress and comedian Betty White dies at aged 99.
March 26 – Prince Julian, Duke of Halland
June 4 – Lilibet Mountbatten-Windsor
Carlos do Carmo, Portuguese singer (b. 1939)
Elmira Minita Gordon, 1st Governor-General of Belize (b. 1930)
Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi, Iranian Islamic cleric and philosopher (b. 1935)
Cléber Eduardo Arado, Brazilian footballer (b. 1972)
Modibo Keita, 8th Prime Minister of Mali (b. 1942)
Paul Westphal, American basketball player and coach (b. 1950)
Roger Hassenforder, French racing cyclist (b. 1930)
Gerry Marsden, English singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1942)
Alexi Laiho, Finnish death metal singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1979)
Tanya Roberts, American actress (b. 1955)
Gregory Sierra, American actor (b. 1937)
Martinus J. G. Veltman, Dutch theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize winner (b. 1931)
Colin Bell, English footballer (b. 1946)
C. George Boeree, Dutch-born American psychologist (b. 1952)
Ed Bruce, American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1939)
John Richardson, English actor (b. 1934)
Michael Apted, English filmmaker (b. 1941)
Vladimir Kiselyov, Ukrainian athlete and Olympic champion (b. 1957)
Tommy Lasorda, American baseball player and manager (b. 1927)
Marion Ramsey, American actress and singer (b. 1947)
Henri Schwery, Swiss cardinal (b. 1932)
Steve Carver, American movie director (b. 1945)
Květa Eretová, Czech chess player (b. 1926)
January 9 – Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov, Soviet-Russian physicist (b. 1919)
Hubert Auriol, French rally driver (b. 1952)
Julie Strain, American actress and model (b. 1962)
Walter Taibo, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1931)
Sheldon Adelson, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1933)
Vassilis Alexakis, Greek-born French writer and translator (b. 1943)
Kathleen Heddle, Canadian rower and Olympic champion (b. 1965)
David Khakhaleishvili, Georgian judoka and Olympic champion (b. 1971)
William E. Thornton, American astronaut (b. 1929)
Mona Malm, Swedish actress (b. 1935)
Philaret, Russian-born Belarusian Orthodox prelate (b. 1935)
Tim Bogert, American rock singer-songwriter and bassist (b. 1944)
Siegfried Fischbacher, German-American magician and entertainer (b. 1939)
Bernd Kannenberg, German race walker and Olympic champion (b. 1942)
Joël Robert, Belgian motorcross racer (b. 1943)
Marielle de Sarnez, French politician (b. 1951)
Eusébio Scheid, Brazilian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1932)
Sylvain Sylvain, American punk rock musician and songwriter (b. 1951)
Gimax, Italian racing driver (b. 1938)
Peter Mark Richman, American actor (b. 1927)
Joanne Rogers, American pianist and puppeteer (b. 1928)
Jan de Vries, Dutch motorcycle racer (b. 1944)
January 15 – Vicente Cantatore, Argentine-Chilean footballer and manager (b. 1935)
January 16 – Phil Spector, American record producer and convicted murderer (b. 1939)
January 17 – Sammy Nestico, American composer and arranger (b. 1924)
Jean-Pierre Bacri, Algerian-born French actor and screenwriter (b. 1951)
Lubomir Kavalek, Czech-American chess player (b. 1943)
Dani Shmulevich-Rom, Israeli footballer (b. 1940)
Don Sutton, American baseball player and broadcaster (b. 1945)
Juan Carlos Tabío, Cuban movie director and screenwriter (b. 1943)
Cesare Maestri, Italian mountaineer and writer (b. 1929)
Gustavo Peña, Mexican footballer and manager (b. 1942)
Felipe Quispe, Bolivian historian, indigenous leader and politician (b. 1942)
Giovanni Zucchi, Italian rower and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1931)
Mira Furlan, Croatian-American actress (b. 1955)
Justin Lekhanya, Chairman of the Military Council of Lesotho (b. 1938)
Peter Swan, English footballer (b. 1936)
January 21 – Nathalie Delon, French actress and movie director (b. 1941)
Hank Aaron, American baseball player (b. 1934)
Luton Shelton, Jamaican footballer (b. 1985)
Walter Bernstein, American screenwriter and movie producer (b. 1919)
Alberto Grimaldi, Italian movie producer (b. 1925)
Hal Holbrook, American actor (b. 1925)
Larry King, American talk show host (b. 1933)
George Armstrong, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1930)
Arik Brauer, Austrian artist and writer (b. 1929)
Nikolay Chebotko, Kazakhstani Olympic cross country skier (b. 1982)
Jóhannes Eðvaldsson, Icelandic footballer (b. 1950)
Margitta Gummel, German shot putter and Olympic champion (b. 1941)
Hana Maciuchová, Czech actress (b. 1945)
Lars Norén, Swedish playwright (b. 1944)
Jozef Vengloš, Slovak footballer and manager (b. 1936)
Gert Blomé, Swedish ice hockey player and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1934)
Adrián Campos, Spanish racing driver and team owner (b. 1960)
Cloris Leachman, American actress (b. 1926)
Mehrdad Minavand, Iranian footballer and manager (b. 1975)
Paul J. Crutzen, Dutch atmospheric chemist and Nobel Prize winner (b. 1933)
Vasily Lanovoy, Soviet-Russian actor (b. 1934)
Cicely Tyson, American actress (b. 1924)
Lewis Wolpert, South African-born British biologist (b. 1929)
Yvon Douis, French footballer (b. 1935)
Hilton Valentine, English guitarist (b. 1943)
József Csatári, Hungarian wrestler and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1943)
Sophie, Scottish singer-songwriter and record producer (b. 1986)
Justo Tejada, Spanish footballer (b. 1933)
Abraham J. Twerski, American-born Israeli rabbi and psychiatrist (b. 1930)
Dustin Diamond, American actor and comedian (b. 1977)
Ryszard Szurkowski, Polish road cyclist racer and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1946)
Tamara Rylova, Russian speed skater and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1931)
Edward Babiuch, 5th Prime Ministers of the Polish People's Republic (b. 1927)
Millie Hughes-Fulford, American astronaut and molecular biologist (b. 1945)
Captain Sir Tom Moore, British Army officer and charity campaigner (b. 1920)
Fausta Morganti, Captains Regent of San Marino (b. 1944)
Haya Harareet, Israeli actress (b. 1933)
Tony Trabert, American tennis player and commentator (b. 1930)
Albán Vermes, Hungarian swimmer and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1957)
Joseph Benz, Swiss bobsledder and Olympic champion (b. 1944)
Christopher Plummer, Canadian actor (b. 1929)
Leon Spinks, American professional boxer (b. 1953)
Krzysztof Kowalewski, Polish actor (b. 1937)
George Shultz, American politician (b. 1920)
Ralph Backstrom, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1937)
Leslie Laing, Jamaican athlete and Olympic champion (b. 1925)
J. Hillis Miller, American literary critic (b. 1928)
Mario Osbén, Chilean footballer (b. 1950)
René Victor Pilhes, French writer (b. 1934)
Giuseppe Rotunno, Italian cinematographer (b. 1923)
Moufida Tlatli, Tunisian movie director and politician (b. 1947)
Ron Wright, American politician (b. 1953)
Jean-Claude Carrière, French novelist and screenwriter (b. 1931)
Shlomo Hillel, Iraqi-born Israeli politician (b. 1923)
Mary Wilson, American singer (b. 1944)
Chick Corea, American jazz keyboardist (b. 1941)
Rajiv Kapoor, Indian actor (b. ˞˞˞˞˞1962)
Franco Marini, Italian politician (b. 1933)
Larry Flynt, American publisher (b. 1942)
Tamaz V. Gamkrelidze, Georgian linguist (b. 1929)
Pachín, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1938)
February 11 – Isadore Singer, American mathematician and Abel Prize winner (b. 1924)
Kadir Topbaş, Turkish businessman and politician (b. 1945)
Yury Vlasov, Russian politician and Olympic weightlifting champion (b. 1935)
Carlos Menem, 42nd President of Argentina (b. 1930)
Ion Mihai Pacepa, Romanian intelligence officer and defector (b. 1928)
Leopoldo Luque, Argentine footballer (b. 1949)
Johnny Pacheco, Dominican musician and label executive (b. 1935)
Bernard Lown, Lithuanian-born American cardiologist and Nobel Prize winner (b. 1921)
Joan Margarit i Consarnau, Spanish poet and Miguel de Cervantes Prize winner (b. 1938)
Gustavo Noboa, 42nd President of Ecuador (b. 1937)
Jan Sokol, Czech philosopher, politician and translator (b. 1936)
Özcan Arkoç, Turkish footballer (b. 1939)
Rush Limbaugh, American radio personality and political commentator (b. 1951)
Gianluigi Saccaro, Italian fencer and Olympic champion (b. 1938)
Martí Vergés, Spanish footballer (b. 1934)
February 18 – Andrey Myagkov, Russian actor (b. 1938)
Đorđe Balašević, Serbian singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1953)
Arturo Di Modica, Italian-born American sculptor (b. 1941)
Mauro Bellugi, Italian footballer (b. 1950)
Chris Craft, British racing driver (b. 1939)
André Dufraisse, French racing cyclist (b. 1926)
Zlatko Saračević, Croatian handball player, manager and Olympic champion (b. 1951)
February 22 – Lawrence Ferlinghetti, American poet (b. 1919)
Fausto Gresini, Italian motorcycle racer (b. 1961)
Tormod Knutsen, Norwegian Nordic combined skier and Olympic champion (b. 1932)
Juan Carlos Masnik, Uruguayan footballer and manager (b. 1943)
Ahmed Zaki Yamani, Saudi Arabian politician (b. 1930)
Philippe Jaccottet, Swiss poet and translator (b. 1925)
Ronald Pickup, English actor (b. 1940)
Aleksandr Klepikov, Russian rower and Olympic champion (b. 1950)
Hannu Mikkola, Finnish rally driver (b. 1942)
Sir Michael Somare, 1st Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea (b. 1936)
February 27 – Ng Man-tat, Hong Kong actor (b. 1951)
Milan Bandić, 50th and 52nd Mayor of Zagreb (b. 1955)
Glenn Roeder, English footballer (b. 1955)
Bernard Guyot, French Olympic racing cyclist (b. 1945)
Zlatko Kranjčar, Croatian footballer and manager (b. 1956)
Ian St John, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1938)
Mikhail Studenetsky, Russian basketball player and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1934)
Anatoliy Zlenko, Ukrainian politician (b. 1938)
Chris Barber, English jazz trombonist and songwriter (b. 1930)
George Bass, American archaeologist (b. 1932)
Bunny Wailer, Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter (b. 1947)
Medea Abrahamyan, Armenian cellist (b. 1932)
Nicola Pagett, British actress (b. 1945)
March 5 – Mark Pavelich, American ice hockey player (b. 1958)
Franco Acosta, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1996)
Lou Ottens, Dutch engineer and inventor (b. 1926)
Keith Greene, British racing driver (b. 1938)
Sanja Ilić, Serbian composer and folk keyboardist (b. 1951)
Lars Göran Petrov, Swedish heavy metal singer and drummer (b. 1972)
March 8 – Rasim Öztekin, Turkish actor (b. 1959)
Agustín Balbuena, Argentine footballer (b. 1945)
James Levine, American conductor and pianist (b. 1943)
Erling Lorentzen, Norwegian-Brazilian businessman (b. 1923)
Roger Mudd, American broadcast journalist (b. 1928)
John Polkinghorne, English physicist, theologian and priest (b. 1930)
Cliff Simon, South African actor (b. 1962)
Hamed Bakayoko, 11th Prime Minister of Ivory Coast (b. 1965)
Ali Mahdi Muhammad, 4th President of Somalia (b. 1939)
Manuel Saturnino da Costa, 6th Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1942)
March 11 – Isidore Mankofsky, American cinematographer (b. 1931)
Ivo Trumbić, Croatian water polo player and Olympic champion (b. 1935)
Goodwill Zwelithini, South African royal (b. 1948)
Marvelous Marvin Hagler, American boxer (b. 1954)
Kiyoko Ono, Japanese Olympic bronze medalist and politician (b. 1936)
Murray Walker, English motorsport commentator and journalist (b. 1923)
March 14 – Henry Darrow, American actor (b. 1933)
March 15 – Yaphet Kotto, American actor (b. 1939)
Moudud Ahmed, 7th Prime Minister of Bangladesh (b. 1940)
Sabine Schmitz, German motor racer and television presenter (b. 1969)
Antón García Abril, Spanish composer (b. 1933)
Dick Hoyt, American marathon and triathlon runner (b. 1940)
John Magufuli, 5th President of Tanzania (b. 1959)
Peter Lorimer, Scottish footballer (b. 1946)
Yevgeny Nesterenko, Russian operatic singer (b. 1938)
Nawal El Saadawi, Egyptian feminist writer (b. 1931)
Adam Zagajewski, Polish poet, novelist, translator and essayist (b. 1945)
Elgin Baylor, American professional basketball player, coach, and executive (b. 1934)
John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute, Scottish racecar driver and peer (b. 1958)
Hana Hegerová, Slovak singer and actress (b. 1931)
George Segal, American actor (b. 1934)
Toshihiko Koga, Japanese judoka and Olympic champion (b. 1967)
Ezra T. Newman, American physicist (b. 1929)
Jessica Walter, American actress (b. 1941)
Bill Brock, American politician (b. 1930)
Beverly Cleary, American children's writer (b. 1916)
Larry McMurtry, American novelist (b. 1936)
Uta Ranke-Heinemann, German theologian, academic, and writer (b. 1927)
Bertrand Tavernier, French filmmaker and actor (b. 1941)
March 27 – Petr Kellner, Czech businessman and billionaire (b. 1964)
March 28 – Didier Ratsiraka, 3rd President of Madagascar (b. 1936)
March 29 – Bashkim Fino, 29th Prime Minister of Albania (b. 1962)
March 30 – G. Gordon Liddy, American FBI agent and criminal (b. 1930)
Kamal Ganzouri, 46th Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1933)
Ursula Happe, German swimmer and Olympic champion (b. 1926)
Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan, Armenian major general (b. 1939)
Patrick Juvet, Swiss disco singer-songwriter and model (b. 1950)
Isamu Akasaki, Japanese physicist and Nobel Prize winner (b. 1929)
Arthur Kopit, American playwright (b. 1937)
Christian Tumi, Cameroonian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1930)
Guram Dochanashvili, Georgian writer (b. 1939)
Gloria Henry, American actress (b. 1923)
Stan Stephens, Canadian-born American politician (b. 1929)
Dame Cheryl Gillan, British politician (b. 1952)
Sugako Hashida, Japanese screenwriter (b. 1925)
Zygmunt Malanowicz, Polish actor (b. 1938)
Robert Mundell, Canadian economist and Nobel Prize winner (b. 1932)
Roland Thöni, Italian alpine ski racer and Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1951)
Philip K. Chapman, Australian-born American astronaut (b. 1935)
Paul Ritter, English actor (b. 1966)
Marshall Sahlins, American anthropologist (b. 1930)
Alcee Hastings, American politician and judge (b. 1936)
Hans Küng, Swiss Catholic priest, theologian and author (b. 1928)
Julen Madariaga, Spanish Basque nationalist militant and lawyer (b. 1932)
Jovan Divjak, Bosnian general (b. 1937)
Conn Findlay, American sailor, rower and Olympic champion (b. 1930)
Ramsey Clark, American politician and lawyer (b. 1927)
DMX, American rapper, songwriter and actor (b. 1970)
Ekkehard Fasser, Swiss bobsledder and Olympic champion (b. 1952)
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (b. 1921)
Judith Reisman, American writer (b. 1935)
April 10 – Edward Cassidy, Australian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1924)
April 13 – Bobby Leonard, American basketball player and coach (b. 1932)
Yıldırım Akbulut, 20th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1935)
Bernie Madoff, American market maker, investment advisor, financier and convicted fraudster (b. 1938)
Charles Geschke, American businessman and computer scientist (b. 1939)
Helen McCrory, English actress (b. 1968)
Andrew Peacock, 22nd Opposition Leader of Australia (b. 1939)
Felix Silla, Italian-American actor (b. 1937)
April 17 – Sebastian Koto Khoarai, Lesothian cardinal (b. 1929)
Walter Mondale, 42nd Vice President of the United States (b. 1928)
Jim Steinman, American lyricist, record producer and composer (b. 1947)
Willy van der Kuijlen, Dutch footballer and scout (b. 1946)
April 20 – Idriss Déby, 6th President of Chad (b. 1952)
Håkon Brusveen, Norwegian cross-country skier and Olympic champion (b. 1927)
Marc Ferro, French historian (b. 1924)
April 23 – Milva, Italian singer and actress (b. 1939)
Shunsuke Kikuchi, Japanese composer (b. 1931)
Christa Ludwig, German mezzo-soprano (b. 1928)
Vassos Lyssarides, Cypriot politician and businessman (b. 1920)
Tamara Press, Ukrainian athlete and Olympic champion (b. 1937)
Nicholas Cheong Jin-suk, South Korean Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1931)
Aristóbulo Istúriz, 27th Vice President of Venezuela (b. 1946)
Michael Collins, American astronaut (b. 1930)
El Risitas, Spanish comedian and actor (b. 1956)
Federico Salas, 136th Prime Minister of Peru (b. 1950)
Hans van Baalen, Dutch politician (b. 1960)
Anne Buydens, German-born American philanthropist (b. 1919)
Johnny Crawford, American actor and singer (b. 1946)
Zhang Enhua, Chinese footballer (b. 1973)
Frank McRae, American actor (b. 1941)
April 30 – Eli Broad, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1933)
Olympia Dukakis, American actress (b. 1931)
Helen Murray Free, American chemist (b. 1923)
Jacques d'Amboise, American ballet dancer, choreographer and actor (b. 1934)
Carlos Romero Barceló, Puerto Rican politician and activist (b. 1932)
Bobby Unser, American racing driver (b. 1934)
Jagmohan, Indian politician (b. 1927)
Lloyd Price, American Hall of Fame singer-songwriter (b. 1933)
Simon Achidi Achu, 5th Prime Minister of Cameroon (b. 1934)
Nick Kamen, English pop singer-songwriter, musician and model (b. 1962)
Leslie Marr, British racing driver and landscape artist (b. 1922)
Alan McLoughlin, Irish footballer (b. 1967)
Bertil Johansson, Swedish footballer (b. 1935)
George Jung, American drug trafficker and smuggler (b. 1942)
Georgy Prokopenko, Ukrainian swimmer and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1937)
Yitzhak Arad, Israeli brigadier general and historian (b. 1926)
Humberto Maturana, Chilean philosopher and biologist (b. 1928)
Kentaro Miura, Japanese manga artist (b. 1966)
Hubert Hughes, 5th and 7th Premier of Anguilla (b. 1933)
Tawny Kitaen, American actress (b. 1961)
Yegor Ligachyov, Russian politician (b. 1920)
Martín Pando, Argentine footballer (b. 1934)
Bo, First Dog of the United States (b. 2008)
Pete du Pont, American politician (b. 1935)
Curtis Fuller, American jazz trombonist (b. 1934)
Helmut Jahn, German-American architect (b. 1940)
Ronald Inglehart, American political scientist (b. 1934)
Theodore Katsanevas, Greek academic and politician (b. 1947)
Lee Han-dong, 33rd Prime Minister of South Korea (b. 1934)
Spencer Silver, American chemist and inventor (b. 1941)
May 9 – José Manuel Caballero, Spanish poet and novelist, Miguel de Cervantes Prize winner (b. 1926)
Michel Fourniret, French serial killer (b. 1942)
Svante Thuresson, Swedish jazz musician (b. 1937)
Norman Lloyd, American actor, producer and director (b. 1914)
Buddy Van Horn, American stunt performer and movie director (b. 1928)
Lester L. Wolff, American politician (b. 1919)
May 13 – Christa Stubnick, German sprinter and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1933)
R. L. Bhatia, Indian politician (b. 1921)
Đorđe Marjanović, Serbian pop rock singer (b. 1931)
Eva Wilma, Brazilian actress (b. 1933)
Rildo da Costa Menezes, Brazilian footballer and manager (b. 1942)
Bruno Covas, Brazilian politician (b. 1980)
M. S. Narasimhan, Indian mathematician (b. 1932)
May 17 – Buddy Roemer, American politician (b. 1943)
Franco Battiato, Italian singer-songwriter, musician and filmmaker (b. 1945)
Charles Grodin, American actor and comedian (b. 1935)
Lee Evans, American athlete and Olympic gold medalist (b. 1947)
Paul Mooney, American actor, comedian and writer (b. 1941)
Aleksandr Privalov, Russian biathlete and Olympic silver medalist (b. 1933)
Guillermo Sepúlveda, Mexican footballer (b. 1934)
Francisco Brines, Spanish poet and academic, Miguel de Cervantes Prize winner (b. 1932)
Abubakar Shekau, 2nd Leader of Boko Haram (b. 1965, 1969 or 1975)
May 21 – Tahir Salahov, Azerbaijani painter and draughtsman (b. 1928)
Francesc Arnau, Spanish footballer (b. 1975)
Jorge Larrañaga, Uruguayan politician (b. 1956)
Robert Marchand, French racing cyclist (b. 1911)
Yuan Longping, Chinese agronomist (b. 1930)
Eric Carle, American children's writer and illustrator (b. 1929)
Cristóbal Halffter, Spanish classical composer and conductor (b. 1930)
Ron Hill, English Olympic marathon runner (b. 1938)
Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Brazilian architect (b. 1928)
Max Mosley, British racing driver and lawyer (b. 1940)
Victoria Manton, Actress and main character in the 1936 live-action programme 'The Victorian Show' (b. 1894)
May 24 – Samuel E. Wright, American actor and singer (b. 1946)
Tarcisio Burgnich, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1939)
Gregory Peter XX Ghabroyan, Syrian-born Lebanese Armenian Catholic hierarch (b. 1934)
John Warner, American politician (b. 1927)
May 26 – Jerome Hellman, American movie producer (b. 1926)
Carla Fracci, Italian ballet dancer and actress (b. 1936)