January
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- January 2 – Ken Block, American World Rally driver (b. 1967)[1][2]
- January 3 – Abdelsalam Majali, 29th Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1925)[3]
- January 4 – Rosi Mittermaier, German alpine skier and Olympic champion (b. 1950)[4]
- January 6
- Dick Savitt, American tennis player (b. 1927)[5]
- Gianluca Vialli, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1964)[6]
- January 9 – K. Alex Müller, Swiss Nobel physicist (b. 1927)[7]
- January 10
- Jeff Beck, English guitarist (b. 1944)[8]
- Constantine II, last King of Greece (b. 1940)[9]
- George Pell, Australian cardinal (b. 1941)[10]
- January 13 – Klas Lestander, Swedish biathlete and Olympic champion (b. 1931)[11]
- January 16
- Vladas Česiūnas, Lithuanian sprint canoeist and Olympic champion (b. 1940)[12]
- Gina Lollobrigida, Italian actress (b. 1927)[13]
- January 17 – Lucile Randon, French supercentenarian (b. 1904)[14]
- January 18 – David Crosby, American musician (b. 1941)[15]
- January 23 – Álvaro Colom, 47th President of Guatemala (b. 1951)[16]
- January 24 – B. V. Doshi, Indian architect (b. 1927)[17]
- January 30 – Bobby Hull, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1939)[18]
February
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- February 2 – Jean-Pierre Jabouille, French F1 driver (b. 1942)[19]
- February 3 – Paco Rabanne, Spanish-French fashion designer (b. 1934)[20]
- February 4 – Sherif Ismail, 53rd Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1955)[21]
- February 5 – Pervez Musharraf, 10th President of Pakistan (b. 1943)[22]
- February 6
- Lubomír Štrougal, 19th Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia (b. 1924)[23]
- Christian Atsu, Ghanaian footballer (b. 1992)[24]
- February 8
- Burt Bacharach, American composer (b. 1928)[25]
- Ivan Silayev, 12th and final Premier of the Soviet Union (b. 1930)[26]
- February 10
- Hugh Hudson, English film director (b. 1936)[27]
- Hans Modrow, 5th and final Chairman of the Council of Ministers of East Germany (b. 1928)[28]
- Carlos Saura, Spanish filmmaker (b. 1932)[29]
- Sergey Tereshchenko, 1st Prime Minister of Kazakhstan (b. 1951)[30]
- February 13 – José María Gil-Robles, 8th President of the European Parliament (b. 1935)[31]
- February 14 – Shoichiro Toyoda, Japanese businessman (b. 1925)[32]
- February 15
- February 17 – Stella Stevens, American actress (b. 1938)[35]
- February 18 – Petar Zhekov, Bulgarian footballer (b. 1944)[36]
- February 21 – Amancio, Spanish footballer (b. 1939)[37]
- February 22 – Ahmed Qurei, 2nd Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority (b. 1937)[38]
- February 23 – John Motson, English football commentator (b. 1945)[39][importance?]
- February 24 – Walter Mirisch, American film producer (b. 1921)[40]
- February 26 – Bob Richards, American pole vaulter and Olympic champion (b. 1926)[41]
- February 27 – Gérard Latortue, 12th Prime Minister of Haiti (b. 1934)[42]
March
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- March 1 – Just Fontaine, French footballer (b. 1933)[43]
- March 2
- Wayne Shorter, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1933)[44]
- Rafael Viñoly, Uruguayan architect (b. 1944)[45]
- March 3 – Tom Sizemore, American actor (b. 1961)[46]
- March 5
- Klaus Bonsack, German luger and Olympic champion (b. 1941)[47]
- Gary Rossington, American guitarist (b. 1951)[48]
- Shozo Sasahara, Japanese wrestler and Olympic champion (b. 1929)[49]
- March 6 – Pavel Kharin, Russian sprint canoeist and Olympic champion (b. 1927)[50]
- March 7 – Pat McCormick, American diver and Olympic champion (b. 1930)[51]
- March 8 – Chaim Topol, Israeli actor (b. 1935)[52]
- March 9 – Robert Blake, American actor (b. 1933)[53]
- March 11 – Ignacio López Tarso, Mexican actor (b. 1925) [54]
- March 14 – Bobby Caldwell, American musician (b. 1951)[55]
- March 17 – Lance Reddick, American actor (b. 1962)[56]
- March 25 - Pascoal Mocumbi, 2nd Prime Minister of Mozambique (b. 1941)[57]
- March 28 – Ryuichi Sakamoto, Japanese composer (b. 1952) [58]
- March 31 – Sir Rabbie Namaliu, 4th Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea (b. 1947)[59]
April
- April 7 – Ben Ferencz, Last Nuremberg prosecutor (b. 1920) [60]
- April 13 – Mary Quant, British fashion designer (b. 1930) [61]
- April 22
- Mudar Badran, 23rd Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1934)[62]
- Barry Humphries, Australian actor and comedian (b. 1934)[63]
- April 23 – Tori Bowie, American track and field athlete and Olympic champion (b. 1990)[64]
- April 25
- Harry Belafonte, American singer, actor, and activist (b. 1927)[65]
- Vera Krepkina, Ukrainian long jumper and Olympic champion (b. 1933) [66]
- April 29 – Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi 4th caliph of the Islamic State (b. N/A) [67]
- April 30 – Ralph Boston American long jumper and Olympic champion (b. 1939)[68]
May
- May 1 – Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1938) [69]
- May 3 – Nikica Valentić, 5th Prime Minister of Croatia (b. 1950)[70]
- May 5 – Siiri Rantanen, Finnish cross-country skier and Olympic champion (b. 1924)[71]
- May 15 – Robert Lucas Jr., American economist and Nobel laureate (b. 1937)[72]
- May 19 – Martin Amis, English writer (b. 1949) [73]
- May 20 – Terry McDermott, American speed skater and Olympic champion (b. 1940)[74]
- May 24 – Tina Turner, American-born Swiss singer, songwriter and actress (b. 1939)[75]
- May 28 – Harald zur Hausen, German virologist and Nobel Prize recipient (b. 1936)[76]
- May 29 – Vítězslav Mácha, Czech wrestler and Olympic champion (b. 1948)[77]
June
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- June 3 – Jim Hines, American sprinter and Olympic champion (b. 1946)[78]
- June 4 – George Winston, American pianist (b. 1949)[79]
- June 5 – Astrud Gilberto, Brazilian samba and bossa nova singer (b. 1940)[80]
- June 10 – Ted Kaczynski, American mathematician and domestic terrorist (b. 1942)[81]
- June 12
- Silvio Berlusconi, three-time Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1936)[82]
- Treat Williams, American actor (b. 1951)[83]
- June 15 – Glenda Jackson, English actress (b. 1936)[84]
- June 23 – Jimmy Kim, American taekwondo practitioner and Olympic champion (b. 1967)[85]
- June 25 – John B. Goodenough, American materials scientist and Nobel laureate (b. 1922)[86]
- June 26 – Sir Lloyd Erskine Sandiford, 4th Prime Minister of Barbados (b. 1937)[87]
- June 29
- Alan Arkin, American actor and filmmaker (b. 1934)[88]
- Sir Tapley Seaton, 4th Governor-General of Saint Kitts and Nevis (b. 1950)[89]
July
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- July 2 – Milan Milutinović, President of Serbia (b. 1942)[90]
- July 6
- Arnaldo Forlani, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1925)[91]
- Peter Nero, American pianist and pops conductor (b. 1934)[92]
- July 11 – Milan Kundera, Czech-French novelist (b. 1929)[93]
- July 12 – André Watts, American classical pianist (b. 1946)[94]
- July 17 – Sue Marx, American documentary film director (b. 1930)[95]
- July 20 – Rachid Sfar, Prime Minister of Tunisia (b. 1933)[96]
- July 21 – Tony Bennett, American singer (b. 1926)[97]
- July 25 – Bo Goldman American screenwriter (b. 1932)[98]
- July 26
- Jean-Jacques Honorat, 3rd Prime Minister of Haiti (b. 1931)[99]
- Randy Meisner, American musician (b. 1946)[100]
- Sinéad O'Connor, Irish singer (b. 1966)[101]
- July 30 – Paul Reubens, American actor (b. 1952)[102]
- July 31 – Surat Huseynov, Prime Minister of Azerbaijan (b. 1959)[103]
August
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- August 4 – Boniface Alexandre, provisional president of Haiti (b. 1936)[104]
- August 5 – Arthur Schmidt, American film editor (b. 1937)[105]
- August 7 – William Friedkin, American film and television director (b. 1935)[106]
- August 17
- Karol J. Bobko, American astronaut (b. 1937)[107]
- John Devitt, Australian sprint freestyle swimmer and Olympic champion (b. 1937)[108]
- August 19 – John Edward Warnock, co-founder of Adobe Inc. (b. 1940) [109]
- August 22
- August 23
- Dmitry Utkin, mercenary leader and co-founder of Wagner Group (b. 1970)[112]
- Yevgeny Prigozhin, mercenary leader and co-founder of Wagner Group (b. 1961)[113]
