All Deaths

• Bryce Mackasey, Canadian businessman and politician, Postmaster General of Canada (born 1921) · 1999
  
• Ferdinand Biondi, Canadian radio host (born 1909) · 1998
  
• Willem Drees, Jr., Dutch economist and politician, Dutch Minister of Transport (born 1922) · 1998
  
• Verner Panton, Danish interior designer (born 1926) · 1998
  
• Leo Penn, American actor and director (born 1921) · 1998
  
• Leon Edel, American author and critic (born 1907) · 1997
• Eddie Little Sky, American actor (born 1926) · 1997
  
• Georg Solti, Hungarian conductor and director (born 1912) · 1997
  
• Mother Teresa, Albanian-Indian nun, missionary, and saint, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1910) · 1997
  
• Basil Salvadore D'Souza, Indian bishop (born 1926) · 1996
• Benyamin Sueb, Indonesian comedian, actor, and singer (born 1939) · 1995
  
• Salil Chowdhury, Indian music composer (born 1922) · 1995
  
• Shimshon Amitsur, Israeli mathematician and scholar (born 1921) · 1994
  
• John Newman, Australian politician (born 1946) · 1994
• Claude Renoir, French cinematographer (born 1914) · 1993
• Fritz Leiber, American author and poet (born 1910) · 1992
  
• Sharad Joshi, Indian author and poet (born 1931) · 1991
• Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon, English academic and diplomat (born 1907) · 1990
  
• Jerry Iger, American cartoonist and publisher, co-founded Eisner & Iger (born 1903) · 1990
  
• Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian politician (born 1896) · 1990
  
• Philip Baxter, Welsh-Australian chemical engineer (born 1905) · 1989
  
• Gert Fröbe, German actor and singer (born 1913) · 1988
  
• Neerja Bhanot, Indian flight purser, known for her heroic actions on Pan Am Flight 73, during which she was killed (born 1963) · 1986
  
• Johannes Hint, Estonian engineer (born 1914) · 1985
• Adam Malik, Indonesian politician and diplomat, 3rd Vice President of Indonesia (born 1917) · 1984
  
• Jane Roberts, American psychic and author (born 1929) · 1984
  
• Meng Qingshu, Chinese politician (born 1911) · 1983
  
• Douglas Bader, English captain and pilot (born 1910) · 1982
  
• Don Banks, Australian composer and educator (born 1923) · 1980
• Alberto di Jorio, Italian cardinal (born 1884) · 1979
  
• Marcel Thiry, Belgian poet and activist (born 1897) · 1977
  
• Alice Catherine Evans, American microbiologist (born 1881) · 1975
  
• Jack Fournier, American baseball player and coach (born 1889) · 1973
  
• Alan Kippax, Australian cricketer and businessman (born 1897) · 1972
  
• Jochen Rindt, German-Austrian race car driver (born 1942) · 1970
  
• Dezső Lauber, Hungarian golfer, tennis player, and architect (born 1879) · 1966
  
• Thomas Johnston, Scottish journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Scotland (born 1882) · 1965
  
• Lewis Akeley, American academic (born 1861) · 1961
• Haydn Bunton Sr., Australian footballer and coach (born 1911) · 1955
  
• Eugen Schiffer, German lawyer and politician, Vice-Chancellor of Germany (born 1860) · 1954
  
• Richard Walther Darré, Argentine-German agronomist and politician, convicted war criminal (born 1895) · 1953