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** [[Ninian Stephen]], 20th Governor-General of Australia (b. [[1923]]) |
** [[Ninian Stephen]], 20th Governor-General of Australia (b. [[1923]]) |
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** [[Tony Madigan]], Australian boxer and rugby union player (b. [[1930]]) |
** [[Tony Madigan]], Australian boxer and rugby union player (b. [[1930]]) |
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* [[October 30]] – [[Judy Martz]], American politician (b. [[1943]]) |
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==Nobel Prizes== |
==Nobel Prizes== |
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2017 (MMXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2017th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 17th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 8th year of the 2010s decade.
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2017 has been designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly.[1]
Events
January
- January 21 – Millions of people worldwide join the Women's March in response to the inauguration of Donald Trump as President of the United States. 420 marches were reported in the U.S. and 168 in other countries, becoming the largest single-day protest in American history and the largest worldwide protest in recent history.[2]
February
- February 11 – North Korea prompts international condemnation by test firing a ballistic missile across the Sea of Japan.[3]
March
- March 10 – The UN warns that the world is facing the biggest humanitarian crisis since World War II, with up to 20 million people at risk of starvation and famine in Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan and Nigeria.[4]
April
- April 6 – In response to a suspected chemical weapons attack on a rebel-held town, the U.S. military launches 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at an air base in Syria. Russia describes the strikes as an "aggression", adding they significantly damage U.S.–Russia ties.[5]
- April 13 – In the 2017 Nangarhar airstrike the U.S. drops the GBU-43/B MOAB, the world's largest non-nuclear weapon, at an ISIL base in Afghanistan.
May
- May 12 – Computers around the world are hit by a large-scale ransomware cyberattack,[6] which goes on to affect at least 150 countries.[7]
- May 22 – A terrorist bombing attack at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England kills 22 people and injures over 100.[8]
June
- June 10 – The 2017 World Expo is opened in Astana, Kazakhstan.[9]
- June 12 – American student Otto Warmbier returns home in a coma after spending 17 months in a North Korean prison and dies a week later.[10][11]
- June 21 – The Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul, Iraq, is destroyed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.[12]
- June 25 – The World Health Organization estimates that Yemen has over 200,000 cases of cholera.
- June 27 – A series of cyberattacks using the Petya malware begins, affecting organizations in Ukraine.[13]
July
- July 4 – Russia and China urge North Korea to halt its missile and nuclear programs after it successfully tested its first intercontinental ballistic missile.[14][15]
- July 7 – The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is voted for by 122 of the 193 UN member states.[16]
- July 10 – Mosul is declared fully liberated from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.[17]
August
- August 5 – The UN Security Council unanimously approves fresh sanctions on North Korean trade and investment.[18]
- August 17 – The first observation of a collision of two neutron stars (GW170817)[19] is hailed as a breakthrough in multi-messenger astronomy[20] when both gravitational and electromagnetic waves from the event are detected.[21][22] Data from the event provided confirmatory evidence for the r-process theory of the origin of heavy elements like gold.[23][24]
- August 21 – A total solar eclipse, (nicknamed "The Great American Eclipse")[25] is visible within a band across the entire contiguous United States of America, passing from the Pacific to the Atlantic coasts.[26][27][28]
- August 25–ongoing – A military operation targeting Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar "seems a textbook example of ethnic cleansing", according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.[29]
- August 25–30 – Hurricane Harvey strikes the United States as a Category 4 hurricane, causing catastrophic damage to the Houston metropolitan area, mostly due to record-breaking floods. At least 90 deaths were recorded,[30][31] and damage is estimated at between $70 and $200 billion (2017 USD).[32][33]
September
- September 1 – Russian President Vladimir Putin expels 755 diplomats in response to United States sanctions.[34]
- September 3 – North Korea conducts its sixth and most powerful nuclear test.[35]
- September 6–10 – The Caribbean and United States are struck by Hurricane Irma, a Category 5 hurricane that is the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic basin outside the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico.[36] The storm causes at least 134 deaths and at least $63 billion (2017 USD) in damage.[37]
- September 13 – The International Olympic Committee awards Paris and Los Angeles the right to host the 2024 and 2028 Summer Olympics, respectively.[38]
- September 15 – Cassini–Huygens ends its 13-year mission by plunging into Saturn, becoming the first spacecraft to enter the planet's atmosphere.[39]
- September 19 – An earthquake of magnitude 7.1 strikes Central Mexico, killing 369 people[40] and leaving thousands more homeless.[41]
- September 19–20 – Just two weeks after Hurricane Irma struck the Caribbean, Hurricane Maria strikes similar areas, making landfall on Dominica as a Category 5 hurricane, and Puerto Rico as a Category 4 hurricane. Maria causes at least 94 deaths and damages estimated in excess of $51 billion (2017 USD).[42]
October
- October 1 – Fifty-eight people are killed and 546 injured when Stephen Paddock opens fire on a crowd in Las Vegas, surpassing the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting as the deadliest mass shooting perpetrated by a lone gunman in U.S. history.[43]
- October 12 – The United States announces its decision to withdraw from UNESCO.[44]
- October 14 – A massive blast caused by a truck bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia kills at least 358 people[45] and injures nearly 400 others.[46][47]
- October 17 – Raqqa is declared fully liberated from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
- October 27 – Catalonia declares independence from Spain,[48] but the Catalan Republic is not recognised by the Spanish government or any other sovereign nation.[49]
Births
Deaths
January
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- January 1
- Tony Atkinson, British economist (b. 1944)
- Hilarion Capucci, Syrian Catholic bishop (b. 1922)
- Derek Parfit, British philosopher (b. 1942)
- January 2
- John Berger, British art critic, novelist and painter (b. 1926)
- Viktor Tsaryov, Russian footballer (b. 1931)
- January 3 – Igor Volk, Ukrainian-born Russian cosmonaut (b. 1937)
- January 4
- Ezio Pascutti, Italian footballer (b. 1937)
- Georges Prêtre, French conductor (b. 1924)
- Milt Schmidt, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1918)
- January 6
- Octavio Lepage, Venezuelan politician, former Acting President of Venezuela (b. 1923)
- Bayezid Osman, Turkish royalty (b. 1924)
- Om Puri, Indian actor (b. 1950)
- January 7
- Nat Hentoff, American music critic and political commentator (b. 1925)
- Mário Soares, 17th President and 105th Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1924)
- January 8
- Nicolai Gedda, Swedish operatic tenor (b. 1925)
- Ruth Perry, Liberian politician, former Chairwoman of the Council of State (b. 1939)
- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, 4th President of Iran (b. 1934)
- James Mancham, 1st President of Seychelles (b. 1939)
- Peter Sarstedt, English singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
- January 9
- Zygmunt Bauman, Polish-British sociologist (b. 1925)
- Roberto Cabañas, Paraguayan footballer (b. 1961)
- January 10
- Roman Herzog, 11th President of Germany (b. 1934)
- Oliver Smithies, British-American Nobel geneticist (b. 1925)
- January 11 – François Van der Elst, Belgian footballer (b. 1954)
- January 12
- Giulio Angioni, Italian writer and anthropologist (b. 1939)
- William Peter Blatty, American writer and film director (b. 1928)
- Graham Taylor, English footballer and manager (b. 1944)
- January 13
- Gilberto Agustoni, Swiss cardinal (b. 1922)
- Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, British photographer (b. 1930)
- January 14 – Zhou Youguang, Chinese linguist (b. 1906)
- January 15 – Jimmy Snuka, Fijian-born American professional wrestler (b. 1943)
- January 16 – Eugene Cernan, American astronaut (b. 1934)
- January 18
- Peter Abrahams, South African-born Jamaican writer (b. 1919)
- Obed Dlamini, 6th Prime Minister of Swaziland (b. 1937)
- January 19 – Miguel Ferrer, American actor (b. 1955)
- January 20 – Carlos Alberto Silva, Brazilian football manager (b. 1939)
- January 21 – Veljo Tormis, Estonian composer (b. 1930)
- January 22 – Jaki Liebezeit, German drummer (b. 1938)
- January 23
- Dmytro Grabovskyy, Ukrainian cyclist (b. 1985)
- Gorden Kaye, English comic actor (b. 1941)
- January 25
- John Hurt, British actor (b. 1940)
- Mary Tyler Moore, American actress (b. 1936)
- January 26
- Mike Connors, American actor (b. 1925)
- Barbara Hale, American actress (b. 1922)
- January 27 – Emmanuelle Riva, French actress (b. 1927)
- January 28 – Geoff Nicholls, British keyboardist (b. 1944)
- January 31 – John Wetton, British musician (b. 1949)
February
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- February 1 – Étienne Tshisekedi, 18th Prime Minister of Zaire (b. 1932)
- February 2
- Predrag Matvejević, Bosnian-Croatian writer and scholar (b. 1932)
- Shunichiro Okano, Japanese football player and manager (b. 1931)
- February 3 – Dritëro Agolli, Albanian poet, writer and politician (b. 1931)
- February 6
- Alec McCowen, English actor (b. 1925)
- Roger Walkowiak, French road racing cyclist (b. 1927)
- Joost van der Westhuizen, South African rugby union player (b. 1971)
- Raymond Smullyan, American mathematician (b. 1919)
- February 7
- Svend Asmussen, Danish jazz violinist (b. 1916)
- Sotsha Dlamini, 5th Prime Minister of Swaziland (b. 1940)
- Smail Hamdani, 11th Prime Minister of Algeria (b. 1930)
- Richard Hatch, American actor, writer and producer (b. 1945)
- Hans Rosling, Swedish medical doctor, academic, statistician and public speaker (b. 1948)
- Tzvetan Todorov, Bulgarian-French philosopher and literary critic (b. 1939)
- February 8
- Viktor Chanov, Soviet-born Ukrainian footballer (b. 1959)
- Peter Mansfield, British Nobel physicist (b. 1933)
- Steve Sumner, English-born New Zealand footballer (b. 1955)
- February 9 – Piet Keizer, Dutch footballer (b. 1943)
- February 10 – Hal Moore, American lieutenant general and author (b. 1922)
- February 11
- Fab Melo, Brazilian basketball player (b. 1990)
- Jiro Taniguchi, Japanese manga artist (b. 1947)
- February 12 – Al Jarreau, American singer (b. 1940)
- February 13
- Kim Jong-nam, half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (b. 1971)
- Seijun Suzuki, Japanese film director and screenwriter (b. 1923)
- February 16
- Dick Bruna, Dutch writer, illustrator and graphic designer (b. 1927)
- Bengt Gustavsson, Swedish footballer and manager (b. 1928)
- George Steele, American professional wrestler and actor (b. 1937)
- February 17 – Tom Regan, American philosopher (b. 1938)
- February 18
- Omar Abdel-Rahman, Egyptian convicted terrorist (b. 1938)
- Ivan Koloff, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1942)
- Michael Ogio, Papua New Guinean politician (b. 1942)
- Nadezhda Olizarenko, Russian-born Ukrainian Olympic track athlete (b. 1953)
- February 19
- Larry Coryell, American jazz guitarist (b. 1943)
- Igor Shafarevich, Ukrainian-born Russian mathematician (b. 1923)
- Danuta Szaflarska, Polish screen and stage actress (b. 1915)
- February 20
- Vitaly Churkin, Russian diplomat (b. 1952)
- Mildred Dresselhaus, American physicist and educator (b. 1930)
- February 21
- Kenneth Arrow, American Nobel economist (b. 1921)
- Desmond Connell, Irish cardinal (b. 1926)
- February 25 – Bill Paxton, American actor (b. 1955)
- February 26
- Ludvig Faddeev, Russian theoretical physicist and mathematician (b. 1934)
- Eugene Garfield, American linguist (b. 1925)
- February 27 – Carlos Humberto Romero, 37th President of El Salvador (b. 1924)
- February 28 – Vladimir Petrov, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1947)
March
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- March 1 – Paula Fox, American writer (b. 1923)
- March 3
- Raymond Kopa, French footballer (b. 1931)
- René Préval, 2nd Prime Minister and 38th and 40th President of Haiti (b. 1943)
- March 5 – Kurt Moll, German operatic bass (b. 1938)
- March 7 – Hans Georg Dehmelt, German-born American Nobel physicist (b. 1922)
- March 8
- George Andrew Olah, Hungarian-American Nobel chemist (b. 1927)
- Joseph Nicolosi, American clinical psychologist (b. 1947)
- March 9 – Howard Hodgkin, British painter and printmaker (b. 1932)
- March 10
- Aníbal Ruiz, Uruguayan football coach (b. 1942)
- John Surtees, British motorcycle racer and driver (b. 1934)
- Robert James Waller, American author (b. 1939)
- March 12 – Patrick Nève, Belgian racing driver (b. 1949)
- March 13 – Richard, 6th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (b. 1934)
- March 16
- James Cotton, American musician (b. 1935)
- Torgny Lindgren, Swedish writer (b. 1938)
- March 17
- Laurynas Stankevičius, 7th Prime Minister of Lithuania (b. 1935)
- Derek Walcott, Saint Lucian Nobel poet and playwright (b. 1930)
- March 18
- Chuck Berry, American singer and musician (b. 1926)
- Miloslav Vlk, Czech cardinal (b. 1932)
- March 19 – Roger Pingeon, French road racing cyclist (b. 1940)
- March 20 – David Rockefeller, American banker and philanthropist (b. 1915)
- March 21
- Colin Dexter, English author (b. 1930)
- Henri Emmanuelli, French politician (b. 1945)
- Martin McGuinness, Irish politician (b. 1950)
- March 22 – Tomas Milian, Cuban-born American-Italian actor (b. 1933)
- March 23
- Lola Albright, American actress (b. 1924)
- William H. Keeler, American cardinal (b. 1931)
- March 25 – Cuthbert Sebastian, Kittitian politician (b. 1921)
- March 27 – David Storey, English writer (b. 1933)
- March 28 – Christine Kaufmann, Austrian-born German actress (b. 1945)
- March 29 – Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Russian-American Nobel theoretical physicist (b. 1928)
- March 31 – James Rosenquist, American artist (b. 1933)
April
- April 1
- Gösta Ekman, Swedish actor (b. 1939)
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russian poet (b. 1933)
- April 4
- Giovanni Sartori, Italian political scientist (b. 1924)
- Karl Stotz, Austrian footballer and manager (b. 1927)
- April 5 – Arthur Bisguier, American chess Grandmaster (b. 1929)
- April 6 – Don Rickles, American comedian and actor (b. 1926)
- April 7 – Tim Pigott-Smith, English actor and author (b. 1946)
- April 8 – Georgy Grechko, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1931)
- April 9 – Carme Chacón, Spanish politician (b. 1971)
- April 11 – Michael Ballhaus, German cinematographer (b. 1935)
- April 15
- Allan Holdsworth, British guitarist and composer (b. 1946)
- Clifton James, American actor (b. 1920)
- April 20
- Magdalena Abakanowicz, Polish sculptor (b. 1930)
- Roberto Ferreiro, Argentine football player and manager (b. 1935)
- Germaine Mason, Jamaican-born British Olympic high jumper (b. 1983)
- April 21 – Ugo Ehiogu, English footballer and coach (b. 1972)
- April 22
- Hubert Dreyfus, American philosopher (b. 1929)
- Erin Moran, American actress (b. 1960)
- Attilio Nicora, Italian cardinal (b. 1937)
- Michele Scarponi, Italian road bicycle racer (b. 1979)
- April 23
- Imre Földi, Hungarian Olympic weightlifter (b. 1938)
- Luis Pércovich Roca, 118th Prime Minister of Peru (b. 1931)
- František Rajtoral, Czech footballer (b. 1986)
- April 24 – Robert M. Pirsig, American writer and philosopher (b. 1928)
- April 26 – Jonathan Demme, American film director (b. 1944)
- April 27 – Vinod Khanna, Indian actor (b. 1946)
- April 28 – Vito Acconci, American artist and architectural designer (b. 1940)
- April 30 – Ueli Steck, Swiss rock climber and mountaineer (b. 1976)
May
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- May 1 – Karel Schoeman, South African novelist (b. 1939)
- May 2 – Heinz Kessler, German politician and military officer (b. 1920)
- May 3 – Daliah Lavi, Israeli actress, singer and model (b. 1942)
- May 4
- William Baumol, American economist (b. 1922)
- Timo Mäkinen, Finnish racing driver (b. 1938)
- May 5
- Adolph Kiefer, American Olympic swimmer (b. 1918)
- Ely Ould Mohamed Vall, 6th President of Mauritania (b. 1953)
- May 6 – Steven Holcomb, American Olympic bobsledder (b. 1980)
- May 9
- Robert Miles, Italian electronic musician and record producer (b. 1969)
- Michael Parks, American actor (b. 1940)
- Qian Qichen, Chinese diplomat and politician (b. 1928)
- May 12
- Mauno Koivisto, 32nd Prime Minister and 9th President of Finland (b. 1923)
- Amotz Zahavi, Israeli evolutionary biologist (b. 1928)
- May 14 – Powers Boothe, American actor (b. 1948)
- May 15 – Karl-Otto Apel, German philosopher (b. 1922)
- May 17
- Viktor Gorbatko, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1934)
- Rhodri Morgan, Welsh politician (b. 1939)
- Todor Veselinović, Serbian footballer and coach (b. 1930)
- May 18
- Chris Cornell, American singer (b. 1964)
- Jacque Fresco, American futurist and designer (b. 1916)
- May 19 – Stanislav Petrov, Soviet Air Force officer (b. 1939)
- May 22
- Nicky Hayden, American motorcycle racer (b. 1981)
- Viktor Kupreichik, Belarusian chess Grandmaster (b. 1949)
- Dina Merrill, American actress, heiress, socialite, businesswoman, and philanthropist (b. 1923)
- May 23 – Roger Moore, English actor (b. 1927)
- May 24 – Denis Johnson, American author (b. 1949)
- May 26
- Zbigniew Brzezinski, Polish-American diplomat and political scientist (b. 1928)
- Jim Bunning, American baseball player and politician (b. 1931)
- May 27 – Gregg Allman, American musician (b. 1947)
- May 29
- Konstantinos Mitsotakis, 76th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1918)
- Manuel Noriega, Panamanian dictator (b. 1934)
- May 31
- Jiří Bělohlávek, Czech conductor (b. 1946)
- Lubomyr Husar, Ukrainian archbishop and cardinal (b. 1933)
- Tino Insana, American actor (b. 1948)
- István Szondy, Hungarian modern pentathlete (b. 1925)
June
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- June 1
- Tankred Dorst, German playwright (b. 1925)
- Alois Mock, Austrian politician (b. 1934)
- June 2
- Peter Sallis, English actor (b. 1921)
- Jeffrey Tate, English conductor (b. 1943)
- June 4 – Juan Goytisolo, Spanish writer (b. 1931)
- June 5
- Cheick Tioté, Ivorian footballer (b. 1986)
- Jack Trout, American marketer (b. 1935)
- June 6
- Adnan Khashoggi, Saudi businessman and arms dealer (b. 1935)
- Sandra Reemer, Dutch singer (b. 1950)
- June 8
- Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, Nicaraguan diplomat, politician and priest (b. 1933)
- Glenne Headly, American actress (b. 1955)
- June 9 – Adam West, American actor (b. 1928)
- June 12 – Charles P. Thacker, American computer designer (b. 1943)
- June 13
- Anita Pallenberg, Italian actress (b. 1944)
- Ulf Stark, Swedish author (b. 1944)
- June 15 – Aleksey Batalov, Russian actor (b. 1928)
- June 16
- John G. Avildsen, American film director (b. 1935)
- Stephen Furst, American actor (b. 1954)
- Helmut Kohl, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1930)
- June 17 – Baldwin Lonsdale, 8th President of Vanuatu (b. 1948)
- June 19
- Ivan Dias, Indian cardinal (b. 1936)
- Zoltan Sarosy, Hungarian-born Canadian chess master (b. 1906)
- June 20 – Prodigy, American rapper (b. 1974)
- June 22 – Quett Masire, 2nd President of Botswana (b. 1925)
- June 23 – Stefano Rodotà, Italian jurist and politician (b. 1933)
- June 25 – José Manuel Mourinho Félix, Portuguese footballer and manager (b. 1938)
- June 26 – Habib Thiam, 3rd Prime Minister of Senegal (b. 1933)
- June 27
- Peter L. Berger, Austrian-born American sociologist (b. 1929)
- Michael Bond, English author (b. 1926)
- Michael Nyqvist, Swedish actor (b. 1960)
- June 30
- Darrall Imhoff, American basketball player (b. 1938)
- Simone Veil, French lawyer and politician (b. 1927)
July
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- July 3 – Paolo Villaggio, Italian writer and actor (b. 1932)
- July 4 – Daniil Granin, Soviet and Russian author (b. 1919)
- July 5
- Pierre Henry, French composer (b. 1927)
- Joachim Meisner, German cardinal (b. 1933)
- Joaquín Navarro-Valls, Spanish journalist (b. 1936)
- July 8
- Nelsan Ellis, American actor (b. 1977)
- Elsa Martinelli, Italian actress and fashion model (b. 1935)
- July 9 – Ilya Glazunov, Russian painter (b. 1930)
- July 10 – Peter Härtling, German writer and poet (b. 1933)
- July 13
- Charles Bachman, American computer scientist (b. 1924)
- Liu Xiaobo, Chinese human rights activist and Nobel laureate (b. 1955)
- July 14
- Anne Golon, French author (b. 1921)
- Julia Hartwig, Polish writer and translator (b. 1921)
- Maryam Mirzakhani, Iranian mathematician (b. 1977)
- Pedro Richter Prada, 115th Prime Minister of Peru (b. 1921)
- July 15 – Martin Landau, American actor (b. 1928)
- July 16 – George A. Romero, American-Canadian film director (b. 1940)
- July 18 – Max Gallo, French writer, historian, and politician (b. 1932)
- July 20
- Chester Bennington, American musician (b. 1976)
- Claude Rich, French stage and screen actor (b. 1929)
- July 21
- John Heard, American actor (b. 1946)
- Nikolay Kamenskiy, Russian ski jumper (b. 1931)
- Hrvoje Šarinić, 4th Prime Minister of Croatia (b. 1935)
- July 23
- Waldir Peres, Brazilian footballer (b. 1951)
- Mervyn Rose, Australian tennis player (b. 1930)
- July 25 – Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, Indigenous Australian musician (b. 1971)
- July 26
- June Foray, American voice actress (b. 1917)
- Leo Kinnunen, Finnish racing driver (b. 1943)
- July 27 – Sam Shepard, American playwright and actor (b. 1943)
- July 29 – Redha Malek, 8th Prime Minister of Algeria (b. 1931)
- July 30 – Anton Vratuša, 8th Prime Minister of Slovenia (b. 1915)
- July 31
- Jérôme Golmard, French tennis player (b. 1973)
- Jeanne Moreau, French actress (b. 1928)
August
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- August 2 – Jim Marrs, American journalist (b. 1943)
- August 3
- Robert Hardy, English actor (b. 1925)
- Ángel Nieto, Spanish Grand Prix motorcycle racer (b. 1947)
- August 5 – Dionigi Tettamanzi, Italian cardinal (b. 1934)
- August 6
- Nicole Bricq, French politician (b. 1947)
- Betty Cuthbert, Australian athlete (b. 1938)
- Ernst Zündel, German publisher and pamphleteer (b. 1939)
- August 8 – Glen Campbell, American singer and actor (b. 1936)
- August 10 – Ruth Pfau, German-Pakistani nun and physician (b. 1929)
- August 15 – Gunnar Birkerts, Latvian-born American architect (b. 1925)
- August 17 – Sonny Landham, American actor (b. 1941)
- August 18 – Bruce Forsyth, British actor and game show host (b. 1928)
- August 19
- Brian Aldiss, British science fiction writer and editor (b. 1925)
- Dick Gregory, American comedian and activist (b. 1932)
- August 20
- Margot Hielscher, German singer and film actress (b. 1919)
- Jerry Lewis, American actor and comedian (b. 1926)
- Colin Meads, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1936)
- August 21
- Réjean Ducharme, Canadian novelist and playwright (b. 1941)
- Bajram Rexhepi, 1st Prime Minister of Kosovo (b. 1954)
- August 22
- John Abercrombie, American jazz guitarist (b. 1944)
- Tony deBrum, Marshallese politician and climate change activist (b. 1945)
- August 24 – Jay Thomas, American actor (b. 1948)
- August 26
- Tobe Hooper, American film director (b. 1943)
- Josef Musil, Czech volleyball player (b. 1932)
- August 28
- Tsutomu Hata, 51st Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1935)
- Mireille Darc, French model and actress (b. 1938)
- August 30
- Károly Makk, Hungarian film director and screenwriter (b. 1925)
- Louise Hay, American author (b. 1926)
- Marjorie Boulton, British author and poet (b. 1924)
- August 31 – Richard Anderson, American actor (b. 1926)
September
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- September 1 – Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, British cardinal (b. 1932)
- September 3
- John Ashbery, American poet (b. 1927)
- Walter Becker, American musician (b. 1950)
- September 5
- Nicolaas Bloembergen, Dutch-American Nobel physicist (b. 1920)
- Holger Czukay, German musician (b. 1938)
- September 6
- Carlo Caffarra, Italian cardinal (b. 1938)
- Kate Millett, American feminist writer (b. 1934)
- Lotfi A. Zadeh, Azerbaijani-born American mathematician (b. 1921)
- September 7 – Türkân Akyol, Turkish politician (b. 1928)
- September 8
- Pierre Bergé, French businessman (b. 1930)
- Jerry Pournelle, American author and journalist (b. 1933)
- Ljubiša Samardžić, Serbian actor and director (b. 1936)
- Don Williams, American musician (b. 1939)
- September 9 – Velasio de Paolis, Italian cardinal (b. 1935)
- September 10
- Hans Alfredson, Swedish actor (b. 1931)
- Len Wein, American comic book writer (b. 1948)
- September 11
- Tuanku Abdul Halim, Malaysian sultan, 5th & 14th Yang di-Pertuan Agong (b. 1927)
- J. P. Donleavy, Irish-American author (b. 1926)
- Peter Hall, British film director (b. 1930)
- September 13 – Frank Vincent, American actor (b. 1937)
- September 15 – Harry Dean Stanton, American actor (b. 1926)
- September 16 – Arjan Singh, Indian diplomat (b. 1919)
- September 17 – Bobby Heenan, American professional wrestling manager (b. 1944)
- September 19
- Jake LaMotta, American boxer (b. 1922)
- Massimo Natili, Italian racing driver (b. 1935)
- John Nicholson, New Zealand racing driver (b. 1941)
- September 21 – Liliane Bettencourt, French businesswoman (b. 1922)
- September 22 – Paavo Lonkila, Finnish cross-country skier (b. 1923)
- September 24 – Gisèle Casadesus, French actress (b. 1914)
- September 26 – Barry Dennen, American actor (b. 1938)
- September 27
- Hugh Hefner, American magazine publisher (b. 1926)
- Anne Jeffreys, American actress and singer (b. 1923)
- September 29 – Ludmila Belousova, Russian pair skater (b. 1935)
- September 30
- Monty Hall, Canadian-American television host (b. 1921)
- Vladimir Voevodsky, Russian-American mathematician (b. 1966)
October
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- October 1 – Arthur Janov, American psychologist (b. 1924)
- October 2
- Tom Petty, American musician (b. 1950)
- Klaus Huber, Swiss composer and academic (b. 1924)
- October 3
- Michel Jouvet, French neurobiologist (b. 1925)
- Jalal Talabani, Prime Minister and President of Iraq (b. 1933)
- October 4 – Liam Cosgrave, 6th Taoiseach of Ireland (b. 1920)
- October 5 – Anne Wiazemsky, French actress and writer (b. 1947)
- October 6 – Roberto Anzolin, Italian footballer (b. 1938)
- October 7 – Vyacheslav Ivanov, Russian philologist and semiotician (b. 1929)
- October 9
- Armando Calderón Sol, 41st President of El Salvador (b. 1948)
- Jean Rochefort, French actor (b. 1930)
- József Tóth, Hungarian footballer (b. 1929)
- October 11 – Clifford Husbands, 6th Governor-General of Barbados (b. 1926)
- October 13
- William Lombardy, American chess grandmaster (b. 1937)
- Albert Zafy, 3rd President of Madagascar (b. 1927)
- October 14 – Richard Wilbur, American poet (b. 1921)
- October 16 – Roy Dotrice, British actor (b. 1923)
- October 17
- Danielle Darrieux, French actress and singer (b. 1917)
- Gord Downie, Canadian singer-songwriter (b. 1964)
- October 18
- Ricardo Vidal, Filipino cardinal (b. 1931)
- Marino Perani, Italian football manager and player (b. 1939)
- October 19 – Umberto Lenzi, Italian film director (b. 1931)
- October 20 – Federico Luppi, Argentine-Spanish actor (b. 1936)
- October 22
- Scott Putesky, American musician (b. 1968)
- George Young, Scottish-born Australian musician and songwriter (b. 1946)
- October 23
- Walter Lassally, German-born British-Greek cinematographer (b. 1926)
- Paul J. Weitz, American astronaut (b. 1932)
- October 24
- Girija Devi, Indian singer (b. 1929)
- Fats Domino, American singer (b. 1928)
- Robert Guillaume, American actor (b. 1927)
- October 27 – Katalin Szőke, Hungarian Olympic swimmer (b. 1935)
- October 28 – Manuel Sanchís Martínez, Spanish footballer (b. 1938)
- October 29
- Ninian Stephen, 20th Governor-General of Australia (b. 1923)
- Tony Madigan, Australian boxer and rugby union player (b. 1930)
Nobel Prizes
- Chemistry – Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson
- Economics – Richard Thaler
- Literature – Kazuo Ishiguro
- Peace – International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
- Physics – Barry Barish, Kip Thorne and Rainer Weiss
- Physiology or Medicine – Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young
See also
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