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2010 was designated as:
 * International Year of Biodiversity
 * International Year of Youth
 * 2010 European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion
 * International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures

Pronunciation
There is a debate among experts and the general public on how to pronounce specific years of the 21st century in English. The year 2010 is pronounced either "twenty-ten" or "two thousand [and] ten". 2010 was the first year to have a wide variation in pronunciation, as the years 2000 to 2009 were generally pronounced "two thousand (and) one, two, three, etc." as opposed to the less common "twenty-oh-_".

January

 * January 4 – The tallest man-made structure to date, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, is officially opened.
 * January 8 – The Togo national football team is involved in an attack in Cabinda Province, Angola, and as a result withdraws from the Africa Cup of Nations. The attack was perpetrated by the FLEC, their first since the Angolan Civil War.
 * January 12 – A 7.0-magnitude earthquake occurs in Haiti, devastating the nation's capital, Port-au-Prince. With a confirmed death toll over 316,000, it is the tenth deadliest on record.
 * January 14 – Yemen declares an open war against the terrorist group al-Qaeda.
 * January 15
 * The longest annular solar eclipse of the 3rd millennium occurs.
 * The Chadian Civil War officially ends.
 * Honduras withdraws from ALBA.
 * January 25 – Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 crashes into the Mediterranean shortly after take-off from Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport, killing all 90 people on board.

February

 * February 3 – The sculpture L'Homme qui marche I by Alberto Giacometti sells in London for £65 million (US$103.7 million), setting a new world record for a work of art sold at auction.
 * February 12–28 – The 2010 Winter Olympics are held in Vancouver and Whistler, Canada.
 * February 15 – Two trains collide in the Halle train collision in Halle, Belgium, killing 19 and injuring 171 people.
 * February 18 – The President of Niger, Mamadou Tandja, is overthrown after a group of soldiers storms the presidential palace and form a ruling junta, the Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy headed by chef d'escadron Salou Djibo.
 * February 27 – An 8.8-magnitude earthquake occurs in Chile, triggering a tsunami over the Pacific and killing at least 525. The earthquake is one of the largest in recorded history.

March

 * March 16 – The Kasubi Tombs, Uganda's only cultural World Heritage Site, are destroyed by fire.
 * March 26 – The ROKS Cheonan, a South Korean Navy ship carrying 104 personnel, sinks off the country's west coast, killing 46. In May, an independent investigation blames North Korea, which denies the allegations.

April

 * April 7 – Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev flees the country amid fierce anti-government riots in the capital, Bishkek.
 * April 10 – The President of Poland, Lech Kaczyński, is among 96 killed when their airplane crashes near Smolensk, Russia.
 * April 14 – Volcanic ash from one of several eruptions beneath Mount Eyjafjallajökull, an ice cap in Iceland, begins to disrupt air traffic across northern and western Europe.
 * April 20 – The Deepwater Horizon oil drilling platform explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers. The resulting Horizon oil spill, one of the largest in history, spreads for several months, damaging the waters and the United States coastline, and prompting international debate and doubt about the practice and procedures of offshore drilling.
 * April 27 – Standard & Poor's downgrades Greece's sovereign credit rating to junk 4 days after the activation of a €45-billion EU–IMF bailout, triggering the decline of stock markets worldwide and of the euro's value,  and furthering a European sovereign debt crisis.

May

 * May 2 – The eurozone and the International Monetary Fund agree to a €110 billion bailout package for Greece. The package involves sharp Greek austerity measures.
 * May 4 – Nude, Green Leaves and Bust by Pablo Picasso sells in New York for US$106.5 million, setting another new world record for a work of art sold at auction.
 * May 6 – The 2010 Flash Crash, a trillion-dollar stock market crash, occurs over 36 minutes, initiated by a series of automated trading programs in a feedback loop.
 * May 7
 * Chile becomes the 31st member of the OECD.
 * Scientists conducting the Neanderthal genome project announce that they have sequenced enough of the Neanderthal genome to suggest that Neanderthals and humans may have interbred.
 * May 12 – Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771 crashes at runway at Tripoli International Airport in Libya, killing 103 of the 104 people on board.
 * May 19 – Protests in Bangkok, Thailand, end with a bloody military crackdown, killing 91 and injuring more than 2,100.
 * May 20
 * Scientists announced that they have created a functional synthetic genome.
 * Five paintings worth €100 million are stolen from the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.
 * May 22 – Air India Express Flight 812 overshoots the runway at Mangalore International Airport in India, killing 158 and leaving 8 survivors.
 * May 28 – the 2010 Ahmadiyya mosques massacre in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan, killed 94 people during Friday prayers at two mosques.
 * May 31 – Nine activists are killed in a clash with soldiers when Israeli Navy forces raid and capture a flotilla of ships attempting to break the Gaza blockade.

June

 * June 10–14 – Ethnic riots in Kyrgyzstan between Kyrgyz and Uzbeks result in the deaths of hundreds.
 * June 11 – July 11 – The 2010 FIFA World Cup is held in South Africa, and is won by Spain.
 * June 24 – Julia Gillard is elected unopposed in a Labor Party leadership ballot and sworn in as the first female Prime Minister of Australia following the resignation of Kevin Rudd.

July

 * July 8 – The first 24-hour flight by a solar-powered plane is completed by the Solar Impulse.
 * July 21 – Slovenia becomes the 32nd member of the OECD.
 * July 25 – WikiLeaks, an online publisher of anonymous, covert, and classified material, leaks to the public over 90,000 internal reports about the United States-led involvement in the War in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2010.
 * July 29 – Heavy monsoon rains begin to cause widespread flooding in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Over 1,600 are killed, and more than one million are displaced by the floods.

August

 * August 10 – The World Health Organization declares the H1N1 influenza pandemic over, saying worldwide flu activity has returned to typical seasonal patterns.
 * August 21 – Australian federal election, 2010: Julia Gillard's Labor Government is re-elected, narrowly defeating the Liberal/National Coalition led by Tony Abbott.

September

 * September 4 – A 7.1 magnitude earthquake rocks Christchurch, New Zealand causing large amounts of damage but no direct fatalities. It is the first in a series of earthquakes between 2010 and 2012 that resulted in the deaths of 187 people and over $40 billion worth of damage. Seismologists noted that the earthquake sequence was highly unusual, and likely to never happen again anywhere else in the world.
 * September 7 – Israel becomes the 33rd member of the OECD.
 * September 30 – Germany pays war reparations for World War I.

October

 * October 3–14 – 2010 Commonwealth Games takes place in Delhi, India.
 * October 10 – The Netherlands Antilles are dissolved, with the islands being split up and given a new constitutional status.
 * October 22 – The International Space Station surpasses the record for the longest continuous human occupation of space, having been continuously inhabited since November 2, 2000 (3641 days).
 * October 23 – In preparation for the Seoul summit, finance ministers of the G-20 agree to reform the International Monetary Fund and shift 6% of the voting shares to developing nations and countries with emerging markets.
 * October 25 – An earthquake and consequent tsunami off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, kills over 400 people and leaves hundreds missing.
 * October 26 – Repeated eruptions of Mount Merapi volcano in Central Java, Indonesia, and accompanying pyroclastic flows of scalding gas, pumice, and volcanic ash descending the erupting volcano kill 353 people and force hundreds of thousands of residents to evacuate.

November

 * November 4 – Aero Caribbean Flight 883 crashes in central Cuba, killing all 68 people on board.
 * November 11–12 – The G-20 summit is held in Seoul, South Korea. Korea becomes the first non-G8 nation to host a G-20 leaders summit.
 * November 13 – Burmese opposition politician Aung San Suu Kyi is released from her house arrest after being incarcerated since 1989.
 * November 17 – Researchers at CERN trap 38 antihydrogen atoms for a sixth of a second, marking the first time in history that humans have trapped antimatter.
 * November 20 – Participants of the 2010 NATO Lisbon summit issue the Lisbon Summit Declaration.
 * November 21 – Eurozone countries agree to a rescue package for the Republic of Ireland from the European Financial Stability Facility in response to the country's financial crisis.
 * November 23 – North Korea shells Yeonpyeong Island, prompting a military response by South Korea. The incident causes an escalation of tension on the Korean Peninsula and prompts widespread international condemnation. The United Nations declares it to be one of the most serious incidents since the end of the Korean War.
 * November 28 – WikiLeaks releases a collection of more than 250,000 American diplomatic cables, including 100,000 marked "secret" or "confidential".
 * November 29 – The European Union agree to an €85 billion rescue deal for Ireland from the European Financial Stability Facility, the International Monetary Fund and bilateral loans from the United Kingdom, Denmark and Sweden.
 * November 29 – December 10 – The 2010 United Nations Climate Change Conference is held in Cancún, Mexico. Also referred to as the 16th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 16), it serves too as the 6th meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP 6).

December

 * December 9 – Estonia becomes the 34th member of the OECD.
 * December 17 – The attempted suicide of Mohamed Bouazizi, a street vendor in Tunisia, triggers the Tunisian Revolution and the wider Arab Spring throughout the Arab world.
 * December 21 – The first total lunar eclipse to occur on the day of the Northern winter solstice and Southern summer solstice since 1638 takes place.

January

 * January 4
 * Johan Ferrier, 1st President of Suriname (b. 1910)
 * Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Japanese dual atomic bomb survivor (b. 1916)
 * January 9 – Armand Razafindratandra, Malagasy cardinal (b. 1925)
 * January 10 – Crispin Sorhaindo, 4th President of Dominica (b. 1931)
 * January 11
 * Miep Gies, Dutch humanitarian (b. 1909)
 * Éric Rohmer, French film director (b. 1920)
 * January 13 – Teddy Pendergrass, American singer-songwriter (b. 1950)
 * January 15 – Marshall Warren Nirenberg, American biologist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1927)
 * January 17
 * Jyoti Basu, Indian politician (b. 1914)
 * Erich Segal, American author, screenwriter, and educator (b. 1937)
 * January 22
 * Iskandar of Johor, 8th King of Malaysia (b. 1932)
 * Jean Simmons, British actress (b. 1929)
 * January 25 – Ali Hassan al-Majid, Iraqi politician and military commander (b. 1941)
 * January 27
 * J. D. Salinger, American author (b. 1919)
 * Howard Zinn, American historian (b. 1922)

February

 * February 1 – Steingrímur Hermannsson, 19th Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1928)
 * February 7 – André Kolingba, 4th President of the Central African Republic (b. 1936)
 * February 10
 * Charlie Wilson, American politician (b. 1933)
 * José Joaquín Trejos Fernández, 35th President of Costa Rica (b. 1916)
 * February 11 – Alexander McQueen, British fashion designer (b. 1969)


 * February 14 – Dick Francis, British author and jockey (b. 1920)
 * February 17 – Kathryn Grayson, American singer (b. 1922)
 * February 18 – Ariel Ramírez, Argentine composer (b. 1921)
 * February 20 – Alexander Haig, 59th United States Secretary of State (b. 1924)

March

 * March 3 – Michael Foot, British politician (b. 1913)
 * March 4 – Vladislav Ardzinba, Soviet-born politician (b. 1945)
 * March 10
 * Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy, Egyptian Muslim cleric (b. 1928)
 * Corey Haim, American child actor (b.1971)
 * March 12 – Miguel Delibes, Spanish author and journalist (b. 1920)
 * March 14 – Peter Graves, American actor (b. 1926)
 * March 20 – Girija Prasad Koirala, Nepalese politician (b. 1925)
 * March 21 – Wolfgang Wagner, German festival director (b. 1919)
 * March 22
 * James Black, British pharmacologist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1924)
 * Valentina Tolkunova, Soviet and Russian singer (b. 1946)
 * March 24 – Robert Culp, American actor, screenwriter and director (b. 1930)
 * March 27 – Vasily Smyslov, Soviet-Russian chess grandmaster (b. 1921)
 * March 30 – Martin Sandberger, German army officer (b. 1911)

April

 * April 1
 * John Forsythe, American actor (b. 1918)
 * Tzannis Tzannetakis, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1928)
 * April 3 – Eugène Terre'Blanche, South African politician and white supremacist (b. 1941)
 * April 8
 * Malcolm McLaren, British musician and manager (b. 1946)
 * Abel Muzorewa, Zimbabwean politician (b. 1925)
 * April 10
 * 96 people (89 passengers, 7 pilots) are killed in plane crash near Smolensk. Among the victims were:
 * Ryszard Kaczorowski, Polish statesman (b. 1919)
 * Lech Kaczyński, President of Poland (b. 1949)
 * Maria Kaczyńska, First Lady of Poland (b. 1942)
 * Sławomir Skrzypek, President of the National Bank of Poland (b. 1963)
 * April 14 – Peter Steele, American musician (b. 1962)
 * April 15 – Michael Pataki, American voice actor (b.1938)
 * April 16 – Tomáš Špidlík, Czech cardinal (b. 1919)
 * April 21 – Juan Antonio Samaranch, Spanish sports official (b. 1920)
 * April 25 – Alan Sillitoe, British writer (b. 1928)
 * April 30 – Paul Mayer, German cardinal (b. 1911)

May

 * May 2 – Lynn Redgrave, British actress (b. 1943)
 * May 4 – Luigi Poggi, Italian cardinal (b. 1917)
 * May 5
 * Giulietta Simionato, Italian opera singer (b. 1910)
 * Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, 13th President of Nigeria (b. 1951)
 * May 8 – Andor Lilienthal, Hungarian chess grandmaster (b. 1911)
 * May 9 – Lena Horne, American singer and actress (b. 1917)
 * May 10 – Frank Frazetta, American artist (b. 1928)
 * May 16
 * Ronnie James Dio, American musician (b. 1942)
 * Oswaldo López Arellano, Honduran two-time former president (b. 1921)
 * May 17
 * Bobbejaan Schoepen, Belgian singer (b. 1925)
 * Yvonne Loriod, French pianist (b. 1924)
 * May 18 – Edoardo Sanguineti, Italian writer (b. 1930)
 * May 22
 * Martin Gardner, American science author (b. 1914)
 * Hasri Ainun, 3rd First Lady of Indonesia, wife of B. J. Habibie (b. 1937)
 * May 24 – Paul Gray, American musician (b. 1972)
 * May 28 – Gary Coleman, American actor, voice artist and comedian (b. 1968)
 * May 29 – Dennis Hopper, American actor, filmmaker, photographer and artist (b. 1936)
 * May 31 – Louise Bourgeois, French-born American sculptor (b. 1911)

June

 * June 1 – Andrei Voznesensky, Soviet-Russian poet (b. 1933)
 * June 2
 * Giuseppe Taddei, Italian baritone (b. 1916)
 * Dorothy DeBorba, American child actress (b. 1925)
 * June 3 – Vladimir Arnold, Soviet-Russian mathematician (b. 1937)
 * June 13 – Jimmy Dean, American singer, actor, and businessman (b. 1928)
 * June 14 – Leonid Kizim, Soviet-Ukrainian cosmonaut (b. 1941)
 * June 16 – Marc Bazin, 4th Prime Minister of Haiti (b. 1932)
 * June 18
 * Marcel Bigeard, French military officer (b. 1916)
 * José Saramago, Portuguese writer and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1922)
 * June 19 – Manute Bol, Sudanese basketball player (b. 1962)
 * June 23 – Mohammed Mzali, former Prime Minister of Tunisia (b. 1925)
 * June 26 – Algirdas Brazauskas, 9th President of Lithuania (b. 1932)
 * June 28 – Robert Byrd, American politician (b. 1917)

July

 * July 5
 * Cesare Siepi, Italian opera singer (b. 1923)
 * Nasr Abu Zayd, Egyptian Qur'anic theologian (b. 1943)
 * July 13 – George Steinbrenner, American businessman and owner of the New York Yankees (b. 1930)
 * July 14 – Charles Mackerras, Australian conductor (b. 1925)
 * July 24 – Alex Higgins, Northern Irish snooker player (b. 1949)
 * July 29 – Zheng Ji, Chinese nutritionist and biochemist (b. 1900)

August

 * August 5 – Godfrey Binaisa, 5th President of Uganda (b. 1920)
 * August 6 – Tony Judt, British historian (b. 1948)
 * August 7 – Bruno Cremer, French actor (b. 1929)
 * August 8 – Patricia Neal, American actress (b. 1926)
 * August 9 – Ted Stevens, American politician (b. 1923)
 * August 12 – Guido de Marco, 6th President of Malta (b. 1931)
 * August 13 – Lance Cade, American professional wrestler (b. 1981)
 * August 16 – Nicola Cabibbo, Italian physicist (b. 1935)
 * August 17 – Francesco Cossiga, 63rd Prime Minister and 8th President of Italy (b. 1928)
 * August 18 – Carlos Hugo of Bourbon-Parma, Spanish aristocrat (b. 1930)
 * August 22 – Stjepan Bobek, Yugoslav footballer (b. 1923)
 * August 23 – Satoshi Kon, Japanese anime film director (b. 1963)
 * August 26
 * William Lenoir, American astronaut (b. 1939)
 * Raimon Panikkar, Spanish theologian (b. 1918)
 * August 27 – Anton Geesink, Dutch judoka (b. 1934)
 * August 28 – Sinan Hasani, 10th President of Yugoslavia (b. 1922)
 * August 30 – Francisco Varallo, Argentine footballer (b. 1910)
 * August 31 – Laurent Fignon, French road bicycle racer (b. 1960)

September

 * September 5 – Shoya Tomizawa, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1990)
 * September 9 – Bent Larsen, Danish chess grandmaster (b. 1935)
 * September 11 – Kevin McCarthy, American actor (b. 1914)
 * September 12
 * Claude Chabrol, French film director (b. 1930)
 * Swarnalatha, Indian playback singer (b. 1973)
 * Honor Frost, pioneer in underwater archaeology (b. 1917)
 * September 16 – Donald Zilversmit, Dutch-American nutritional biochemist, researcher, and educator (b. 1919)
 * September 22 – Eddie Fisher, American singer and actor (b. 1928)
 * September 24 – Gennady Yanayev, Soviet politician; mastermind of the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt (b. 1937)
 * September 26 – Gloria Stuart, American actress (b. 1910)
 * September 28 – Arthur Penn, American film director (b. 1922)
 * September 29
 * Georges Charpak, French Nobel physicist (b. 1924)
 * Tony Curtis, American actor (b. 1925)
 * September 30 – Stephen J. Cannell, American director and producer (b. 1941)

October

 * October 4 – Norman Wisdom, British actor and comedian (b. 1915)
 * October 7 – Milka Planinc, Prime Minister of Yugoslavia from 1982-86 (b. 1924)
 * October 9 – Maurice Allais, French Nobel economist (b. 1911)
 * October 10 – Solomon Burke, American soul musician (b. 1940)
 * October 11 – Joan Sutherland, Australian opera singer (b. 1926)
 * October 14 – Benoît Mandelbrot, French-American mathematician (b. 1924)
 * October 18 – Elsie Steele, British supercenterian (b. 1899)
 * October 19 – Tom Bosley, American actor (b. 1927)
 * October 20
 * W. Cary Edwards, American politician (b. 1944)
 * Farooq Leghari, 9th President of Pakistan (b. 1940)
 * October 23 – David Thompson, 6th Prime Minister of Barbados (b. 1961)
 * October 25 – Gregory Isaacs, Jamaican musician (b. 1951)
 * October 27 – Néstor Kirchner, 54th President of Argentina (b. 1950)
 * October 28 – Jonathan Motzfeldt, 1st Prime Minister of Greenland (b. 1938)
 * October 30 – Harry Mulisch, Dutch writer (b. 1927)
 * October 31 – Theodore Sorensen, American lawyer, speechwriter (b. 1928)

November

 * November 2 – Rudolf Barshai, Soviet-Russian conductor and violist (b. 1924)
 * November 3 – Viktor Chernomyrdin, 31st Prime Minister of Russia (b. 1938)
 * November 5
 * Jill Clayburgh, American actress (b. 1944)
 * Hajo Herrmann, German fighter pilot and lawyer (b. 1913)
 * November 8 – Emilio Eduardo Massera, Argentinian admiral (b. 1925)
 * November 10 – Dino De Laurentiis, Italian film producer (b. 1919)
 * November 12 – Henryk Górecki, Polish composer (b. 1933)
 * November 24 – Annie Lee Cooper, American civil rights activist (b. 1910)
 * November 27 – Irvin Kershner, American film director (b. 1923)
 * November 28 – Leslie Nielsen, Canadian-American actor (b. 1926)
 * November 29
 * Bella Akhmadulina, Soviet-Russian poet (b. 1937)
 * Mario Monicelli, Italian actor, screenwriter and director (b. 1915)

December

 * December 7 – Gloria Blackwell, American educator, civil rights activist (b. 1927)
 * December 10 – John B. Fenn, American Nobel chemist (b. 1917)
 * December 12
 * Timothée Malendoma, Prime Minister of the Central African Republic (b. 1935)
 * Tom Walkinshaw, British racing car driver and team owner (b. 1946)
 * December 13 – Richard Holbrooke, American diplomat (b. 1941)
 * December 14 – Pascal Rakotomavo, 10th Prime Minister of Madagascar (b. 1934)
 * December 15 – Blake Edwards, American film director (b. 1922)
 * December 17 – Captain Beefheart, American musician (b. 1941)
 * December 21 – Enzo Bearzot, Italian footballer and coach (b. 1927)
 * December 23 – Celestino Rocha da Costa, 2nd Prime Minister of São Tomé and Príncipe (b. 1938)
 * December 25 – Carlos Andrés Pérez, 55th President of Venezuela (b. 1922)
 * December 26 – Salvador Jorge Blanco, 48th President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1926)
 * December 30 – Ellis Clarke, 1st President of Trinidad and Tobago (b. 1917)

Nobel Prizes

 * Chemistry – Richard F. Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki
 * Economics – Peter A. Diamond, Dale T. Mortensen and Christopher A. Pissarides
 * Literature – Mario Vargas Llosa
 * Peace – Liu Xiaobo
 * Physics – Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov
 * Physiology or Medicine – Robert G. Edwards

New English words and terms

 * Arab spring
 * gamification

January

 * January 1
 * The Eurasian Economic Union comes into effect, creating a political and economic union between Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.
 * Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes the nineteenth Eurozone country.
 * January 3–7 – A series of massacres in Baga, Nigeria and surrounding villages by Boko Haram kills more than 2,000 people.
 * January 7 – Two gunmen belonging to Al-Qaeda's Yemen branch kill 12 people and injure 11 more at the Paris headquarters of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, prompting an anti-terrorism demonstration attended by over a million people and more than 40 world leaders.
 * January 12 – Government raids kill 143 Boko Haram fighters in Kolofata, Cameroon.
 * January 15 – The Swiss National Bank abandons the cap on the franc's value relative to the euro, causing turmoil in international financial markets.
 * January 19 – The Eritrean Catholic Church is founded.
 * January 22 – After Houthi forces seize the presidential palace, Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi resigns after months of unrest.

February

 * February 12
 * Leaders from Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France reach an agreement on the conflict in eastern Ukraine that includes a ceasefire and withdrawal of heavy weapons. However, several days later, the Ukrainian government and pro-Russian rebels claim that, within its first day, the ceasefire was broken 139 times, as both sides failed to withdraw their heavy weapons and fighting had continued.
 * The United Nations Security Council adopts Resolution 2199 to combat terrorism.
 * February 14 – Two people were killed and five policemen wounded in Copenhagen, Denmark, at a shooting at Krudtønden cultural centre and the Great Synagogue.
 * February 16 – The Egyptian military begins conducting airstrikes against a branch of the Islamic militant group ISIL in Libya in retaliation for the group's beheading of over a dozen Egyptian Christians.

March

 * March 5–8 – The ancient city sites of Nimrud, Hatra and Dur-Sharrukin in Iraq are demolished by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
 * March 6 – NASA's Dawn probe enters orbit around Ceres, becoming the first spacecraft to visit a dwarf planet.
 * March 12 – The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant becomes allies with fellow jihadist group Boko Haram, effectively annexing the group.
 * March 24 – An Airbus A320-211 operated by Germanwings crashes in the French Alps, killing all 150 on board.
 * March 25 – A Saudi Arabia-led coalition of Arab countries starts a military intervention in Yemen in order to uphold the Yemeni government in its fight against the Houthis' southern offensive.

April

 * April 2 – 148 people are killed, the majority students, in a mass shooting at the Garissa University College in Kenya, perpetrated by the militant terrorist organization Al-Shabaab.
 * April 25 – A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes Nepal and causes 8,857 deaths in Nepal, 130 in India, 27 in China and 4 in Bangladesh with a total of 9,018 deaths.
 * April 29 – The World Health Organization (WHO) declares that rubella has been eradicated from the Americas.

May

 * May 1 – October 31 – Expo 2015 is held in Milan, Italy.
 * May 7 – the 2015 UK General Election results in the first Conservative majority government in 18 years.
 * May 11–12 – Version O of Les Femmes d'Alger by Pablo Picasso sells for US$179.3 million at Christie's auction in New York, while the sculpture L'Homme au doigt by Alberto Giacometti sells for US$141.3 million, setting a new world record for a painting and for a sculpture, respectively.
 * May 12 – A second major earthquake in Nepal, measuring 7.3 on the moment magnitude scale, results in 153 deaths in Nepal, 62 in India, 1 in China and 2 in Bangladesh with a total of 218 deaths.
 * May 20 – The two constituent republics of Novorossiya, the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic, announce the suspension of the Novorossiya project, returning to separate (though internationally unrecognised) states.
 * May 21 – ISIS captures the ancient city of Palmyra in Syria.
 * May 23 – Ireland votes to legalize same-sex marriage, becoming the first country to legalize same-sex marriage by popular vote.

June

 * June 2 – FIFA President Sepp Blatter announces his intention to resign amidst an FBI-led corruption investigation, and calls for an extraordinary congress to elect a new president as soon as possible.
 * June 6 – The governments of India and Bangladesh officially ratify their 1974 agreement to exchange enclaves along their border.
 * June 25–26 – ISIL claim responsibility for three attacks around the world during Ramadan:
 * Kobanî massacre: ISIL fighters detonate three car bombs, enter Kobanî, Syria, and open fire at civilians, killing more than 220.
 * Sousse attacks: 22-year-old Seifeddine Rezgui opens fire at a tourist resort at Port El Kantaoui, Tunisia, killing 38 people.
 * Kuwait mosque bombing: A suicide bomber attacks the Shia Mosque Imam Ja'far as-Sadiq at Kuwait City, Kuwait, killing 27 people and injuring 227 others.


 * June 30 – Cuba becomes the first country in the world to eradicate mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis.

July

 * July 1 – Greek government-debt crisis: Greece becomes the first advanced economy to miss a payment to the International Monetary Fund in the 71-year history of the IMF.
 * July 5–13 – Greek government-debt crisis: After six months of clashes and futile negotiations between Greece's newly elected, leftist government and the country's creditors, over the austerity measures imposed through bailout programmes, tension peaks as Greece votes in a referendum to reject the terms offered in a third programme; however the government eventually proceeds to concur to harsher terms than those offered before, in what was widely characterized as a coup on the creditors' part.
 * July 14
 * NASA's New Horizons spacecraft performs a close flyby of Pluto, becoming the first spacecraft in history to visit the distant world.
 * Iran agrees to long-term limits of its nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief.
 * July 20 – Cuba and the United States reestablish full diplomatic relations, ending a 54-year stretch of hostility between the nations.
 * July 24 – Turkey begins a series of airstrikes against PKK and ISIL targets after the 2015 Suruç bombing.

August

 * August 5 – Debris found on Réunion Island is confirmed to be that of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, missing since March 2014.
 * August 17 – A bombing takes place inside the Erawan Shrine at the Ratchaprasong intersection in Pathum Wan District, Bangkok, Thailand, killing 20 people and injuring 125.

September

 * September 10 – Scientists announce the discovery of Homo naledi, a previously unknown species of early human in South Africa.
 * September 11 – Queen Elizabeth II, having been on the throne for 63 years, 232 days, became the longest-reigning British monarch in history and the longest-serving head of state of any nation in modern history, surpassing Queen Victoria who had reigned for 63 years, 231 days upon her death on January 22, 1901.
 * September 14
 * First observation of gravitational waves: Gravitational waves are detected for the first time, by LIGO. This is not announced until February 11, 2016.
 * Malcolm Turnbull defeats Tony Abbott in a Liberal Party leadership ballot. Turnbull becomes Prime Minister of Australia, being sworn in the following day.
 * September 18 – Automaker Volkswagen is alleged to have been involved in worldwide rigging of diesel emissions tests, affecting an estimated 11 million vehicles globally.
 * September 24 – A stampede during the Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca kills at least 2,200 people and injures more than 900 others, with more than 650 missing.
 * September 28 – NASA announces that liquid water has been found on Mars.
 * September 30 – Russia begins air strikes against ISIL and anti-government forces in Syria, in support of the Syrian government.

October

 * October 3 – A United States airstrike on a Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) hospital in Afghanistan accidentally kills an estimated 20 people.
 * October 10 – A series of suicide bombings kills at least 100 people at a peace rally in Ankara, Turkey, and injures more than 400 others.
 * October 23 – Hurricane Patricia becomes the most intense hurricane ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere and the second strongest worldwide, with winds of 215 mph and a pressure of 872 mbar.
 * October 26 – A magnitude 7.5 earthquake strikes the Hindu Kush region and causes 398 deaths, with 279 in Pakistan, 115 in Afghanistan and 4 in India.
 * October 31 – Kogalymavia Flight 9268, an Airbus A321 airliner en route to Saint Petersburg from Sharm el-Sheikh, crashes near Al-Hasana in Sinai, killing all 217 passengers and 7 crew members on board.

November

 * November 7 – CPC general secretary Xi Jinping and ROC president Ma Ying-jeou formally meet for the first time.
 * November 12 – Two suicide bombers detonated explosives in Bourj el-Barajneh, Beirut, killing 43 people and injuring over 200 others.
 * November 13 – Multiple terrorist attacks claimed by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Paris, France, result in 130 fatalities.
 * November 24 – Turkey shoots down a Russian fighter jet on the Turkish-Syrian border in the first case of a NATO member destroying a Russian aircraft since the 1950s.
 * November 30 – The 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 21) is held in Paris, attended by leaders from 147 nations.

December

 * December 12 – A global climate change pact is agreed at the COP 21 summit, committing all countries to reduce carbon emissions for the first time.
 * December 15 – The Islamic Military Alliance is formed in order to fight terrorism.
 * December 22 – SpaceX lands an unmanned Falcon 9 rocket, the first reusable rocket to successfully enter orbital space and return.

Births

 * May 2 – Princess Charlotte of Cambridge
 * June 15 – Prince Nicolas, Duke of Ångermanland

January

 * January 1
 * Ulrich Beck, German sociologist (b. 1944)
 * Mario Cuomo, American politician (b. 1932)
 * Omar Karami, 58th Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1934)
 * Boris Morukov, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1950)
 * Donna Douglas, American actress (b. 1932)
 * January 2 – Little Jimmy Dickens, American country singer, songwriter, (b. 1920)
 * January 3 – Edward Brooke, American politician (b. 1919)
 * January 4 – Stuart Scott, American sports journalist (b. 1965)
 * January 4 – Pino Daniele, Italian singer, songwriter, and guitarist (b. 1955)
 * January 5 – Jean-Pierre Beltoise, French race car driver (b. 1937)
 * January 6 – Vlastimil Bubník, Czech ice hockey player and footballer (b. 1931)
 * January 7
 * Tadeusz Konwicki, Polish writer and film director (b. 1926)
 * Rod Taylor, Australian actor (b. 1930)
 * January 8 – Andraé Crouch, American singer, songwriter, and pastor (b. 1942)
 * January 9 – Józef Oleksy, 7th Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1946)
 * January 10 – Francesco Rosi, Italian film director (b. 1922)
 * January 11
 * Jenő Buzánszky, Hungarian footballer (b. 1925)
 * Anita Ekberg, Swedish actress (b. 1931)
 * January 12 – Elena Obraztsova, Russian opera singer (b. 1939)
 * January 16 – Yao Beina, Chinese singer (b. 1981)
 * January 17 – Faten Hamama, Egyptian actress (b. 1931)
 * January 20
 * Edgar Froese, German musician (b. 1944)
 * Hitoshi Saito, Japanese judoka (b. 1961)
 * January 21 – Leon Brittan, British politician (b. 1939)
 * January 23 – King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia (b. 1924)
 * January 24 – Otto Carius, German WWII tank commander (b. 1922)
 * January 25 – Demis Roussos, Greek singer (b. 1946)
 * January 27 – Charles Hard Townes, American Nobel physicist (b. 1915)
 * January 28 – Yves Chauvin, French Nobel chemist (b. 1930)
 * January 29 – Colleen McCullough, Australian writer (b. 1937)
 * January 30
 * Carl Djerassi, American chemist (b. 1923)
 * Geraldine McEwan, British actress (b. 1932)
 * Zhelyu Zhelev, 1st President of Bulgaria (b. 1935)
 * January 31
 * Lizabeth Scott, American actress (b. 1922)
 * Richard von Weizsäcker, President of Germany (b. 1920)

February

 * February 1
 * Aldo Ciccolini, Italian-born French pianist (b. 1925)
 * Udo Lattek, German footballer and coach (b. 1935)
 * February 3 – Martin Gilbert, English historian (b. 1936)
 * February 5
 * Henri Coppens, Belgian footballer and coach (b. 1930)
 * Val Logsdon Fitch, American Nobel physicist (b. 1923)
 * February 6
 * André Brink, South African writer (b. 1935)
 * Assia Djebar, Algerian writer (b. 1936)
 * February 7 – Marshall Rosenberg, American psychologist and writer (b. 1934)
 * February 10 – Karl Josef Becker, German cardinal (b. 1928)
 * February 11 – Bob Simon, American correspondent (b. 1941)
 * February 12 – Movita Castaneda, American actress (b. 1916)
 * February 14
 * Michele Ferrero, Italian businessman (b. 1925)
 * Louis Jourdan, French-American actor (b. 1921)
 * Franjo Mihalić, Croatian-Serbian athlete and coach (b. 1920)
 * Wim Ruska, Dutch wrestler and martial artist (b. 1940)
 * February 16
 * Lesley Gore, American singer (b. 1946)
 * Lorena Rojas, Mexican actress (b. 1971)
 * February 18 – Claude Criquielion, Belgian road bicycle racer (b. 1957)
 * February 19 – Betty Lou Bredemus, American actress and acting coach (b. 1934)
 * February 21
 * Aleksei Gubarev, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1931)
 * Clark Terry, American jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist (b. 1920)
 * February 23 – Ben Woolf, American actor (b. 1980)
 * February 24
 * Rakhat Aliyev, Kazakh politician and businessman (b. 1962)
 * Irving Kahn, American financial analyst and investor (b. 1905)
 * February 27
 * Boris Nemtsov, Russian politician (b. 1959)
 * Leonard Nimoy, American actor (b. 1931)
 * February 28
 * Yaşar Kemal, Turkish author (b. 1923)
 * Anthony Mason, American basketball player (b. 1966)

March

 * March 1
 * Joshua Fishman, American linguist (b. 1926)
 * Wolfram Wuttke, German footballer (b. 1961)
 * March 2 – Dave Mackay, Scottish footballer and coach (b. 1934)
 * March 5 – Edward Egan, American cardinal (b. 1932)
 * March 7
 * Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Japanese manga artist (b. 1935)
 * Shinji Ogawa, Japanese voice actor and actor (b. 1941)
 * March 8 – Sam Simon, American producer and philanthropist (b. 1955)
 * March 9
 * Camille Muffat, French swimmer (b. 1989)
 * Frei Otto, German architect (b. 1925)
 * Alexis Vastine, French boxer (b. 1986)
 * March 10 – Fred Fredericks, American cartoonist (b. 1929)
 * March 11 – Walter Burkert, German academic and writer (b. 1931)
 * March 12
 * Michael Graves, American architect (b. 1934)
 * Terry Pratchett, English writer (b. 1948)
 * March 13 – Daevid Allen, Australian musician (b. 1938)
 * March 14 – Valentin Rasputin, Russian writer (b. 1937)
 * March 15
 * Mike Porcaro, American bass guitarist (b. 1955)
 * Xu Caihou, Chinese army general (b. 1943)
 * March 16 – Andy Fraser, English songwriter and bass guitarist (b. 1952)
 * March 19 – Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs, Dutch athlete (b. 1923)
 * March 20 – Malcolm Fraser, 22nd Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1930)
 * March 21
 * Hans Erni, Swiss artist (b. 1909)
 * Jørgen Ingmann, Danish musician (b. 1925)
 * Alberta Watson, Canadian actress (b. 1955)
 * March 23 – Lee Kuan Yew, 1st Prime Minister of Singapore (b. 1923)
 * March 26
 * Dinkha IV, Iraqi patriarch (b. 1935)
 * Tomas Tranströmer, Swedish Nobel poet and translator (b. 1931)
 * March 27 – Olga Syahputra, Indonesian actor and singer (b. 1983)
 * March 29 – Miroslav Ondříček, Czech cinematographer (b. 1934)
 * March 30 – Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld, Dutch astronomer (b. 1921)

April

 * April 2
 * Robert Schuller, American televangelist and motivational speaker (b. 1926)
 * Manoel de Oliveira, Portuguese film director and screenwriter (b. 1908)
 * Hayley Okines, English progeria activist (b. 1997)
 * April 4 – Klaus Rifbjerg, Danish author (b. 1931)
 * April 6 – James Best, American actor (b. 1926)
 * April 7 – Geoffrey Lewis, American actor (b. 1935)
 * April 8 – Jean-Claude Turcotte, Canadian cardinal (b. 1936)
 * April 10 – Rose Francine Rogombé, Gabonese lawyer and politician (b. 1942)
 * April 13
 * Eduardo Galeano, Uruguayan writer (b. 1940)
 * Günter Grass, German Nobel writer (b. 1927)
 * Thelma Coyne Long, Australian tennis player (b. 1918)
 * April 14
 * Percy Sledge, American singer (b. 1940)
 * Roberto Tucci, Italian cardinal (b. 1921)
 * April 15 – Surya Bahadur Thapa, 24th Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1928)
 * April 16 – Stanislav Gross, 5th Prime Minister of the Czech Republic (b. 1969)
 * April 17 – Francis George, American cardinal (b. 1937)
 * April 24 – Władysław Bartoszewski, Polish politician and resistance fighter (b. 1922)
 * April 26
 * Jayne Meadows, American actress and author (b. 1919)
 * Izatullo Khayoyev, 6th Prime Minister of Tajikistan (b. 1936)
 * April 27
 * Verne Gagne, American professional wrestler (b. 1926)
 * Andrew Lesnie, Australian cinematographer (b. 1956)
 * April 29 – Giovanni Canestri, Italian prelate (b. 1918)

May

 * May 1
 * Geoff Duke, British motorcycle racer (b. 1923)
 * Grace Lee Whitney, American actress and singer (b. 1930)
 * May 2
 * Maya Plisetskaya, Soviet Union-born Lithuanian and Spanish ballet dancer, choreographer, ballet director, and actress (b. 1925)
 * Ruth Rendell, British author and life peer (b. 1930)
 * May 9 – Kenan Evren, Turkish military officer, 7th President of Turkey (b. 1917)
 * May 10 – Chris Burden, American artist (b. 1946)
 * May 12 – Peter Gay, American psychohistorian (b. 1923)
 * May 14 – B.B. King, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1925)
 * May 15 – Renzo Zorzi, Italian racing driver (b. 1946)
 * May 18
 * Halldór Ásgrímsson, Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1947)
 * Raymond Gosling, British scientist (b. 1926)
 * May 19 – Gerald Götting, German politician (b. 1923)
 * May 21 – Annarita Sidoti, Italian race walker (b. 1969)
 * May 23
 * Anne Meara, American actress and comedian (b. 1929)
 * John Forbes Nash Jr., American Nobel mathematician (b. 1928)
 * May 24 – Tanith Lee, British writer (b. 1947)
 * May 25 – Mary Ellen Mark, American photographer (b. 1940)
 * May 26 – Vicente Aranda, Spanish film director (b. 1926)
 * May 27 – Nils Christie, Norwegian criminologist (b. 1928)
 * May 29
 * Henry Carr, American sprinter (b. 1941)
 * Doris Hart, American tennis player (b. 1925)
 * Betsy Palmer, American actress (b. 1926)

June

 * June 1
 * Charles Kennedy, British politician (b. 1959)
 * Nicholas Liverpool, Dominican politician, sixth President of Dominica (b. 1934)
 * June 2 – Irwin Rose, American Nobel biochemist (b. 1926)
 * June 4 – Hermann Zapf, German typeface designer (b. 1918)
 * June 5 – Tariq Aziz, Iraqi politician (b. 1936)
 * June 6
 * Pierre Brice, French actor (b. 1929)
 * Vincent Bugliosi, American lawyer and author (b. 1934)
 * June 7 – Christopher Lee, English actor (b. 1922)
 * June 8 – Mary Ellen Trainor, American actress (b. 1952)
 * June 9 – James Last, German composer and big band leader (b. 1929)
 * June 11
 * Jim Ed Brown, American country singer (b. 1934)
 * Ornette Coleman, American free jazz saxophonist (b. 1930)
 * Ron Moody, British actor (b. 1924)
 * Dusty Rhodes, American professional wrestler (b. 1945)
 * June 14
 * Qiao Shi, Chinese politician (b. 1924)
 * Zito, Brazilian footballer (b. 1932)
 * June 15
 * Jeanna Friske, Russian singer, model, and actress (b. 1974)
 * Kirk Kerkorian, American businessman (b. 1917)
 * June 16 – Charles Correa, Indian architect (b. 1930)
 * June 17
 * Ron Clarke, Australian runner (b. 1937)
 * Süleyman Demirel, Turkish politician, ninth President of Turkey (b. 1924)
 * Roberto M. Levingston, Argentine general and politician, 36th President of Argentina (b. 1920)
 * June 20 – Esther Brand, South African athlete (b. 1922)
 * June 21
 * Veijo Meri, Finnish writer (b. 1928)
 * Gunther Schuller, American composer, conductor, historian, and jazz musician (b. 1925)
 * June 22
 * Laura Antonelli, Italian actress (b. 1941)
 * James Horner, American film composer (b. 1953)
 * June 23
 * Magali Noël, French actress and singer (b. 1931)
 * Dick Van Patten, American actor (b. 1928)
 * June 25
 * Nerses Bedros XIX Tarmouni, Armenian Catholic Patriarch of Cilicia (b. 1940)
 * Patrick Macnee, English actor (b. 1922)
 * June 26 – Yevgeny Primakov, Russian politician and diplomat, Prime Minister of Russia from 1998 to 1999 (b. 1929)
 * June 27 – Chris Squire, English bass guitarist (b. 1948)
 * June 29
 * Josef Masopust, Czech football player and coach (b. 1931)
 * Charles Pasqua, French politician (b. 1927)

July

 * July 1
 * Sergio Sollima, Italian film director (b. 1921)
 * Nicholas Winton, British humanitarian (b. 1909)
 * July 2 – Jacobo Zabludovsky, Mexican journalist (b. 1928)
 * July 3 – Diana Douglas, Bermudan actress (b. 1923)
 * July 5 – Yoichiro Nambu, Japanese-American Nobel physicist (b. 1921)
 * July 10
 * Roger Rees, Welsh-American actor (b. 1944)
 * Omar Sharif, Egyptian actor (b. 1932)
 * Jon Vickers, Canadian tenor (b. 1926)
 * July 11
 * Giacomo Biffi, Italian cardinal (b. 1928)
 * Patricia Crone, Danish scholar (b. 1945)
 * Satoru Iwata, Japanese businessman and video game programmer (b. 1959)
 * July 12 – Chenjerai Hove, Zimbabwean poet (b. 1956)
 * July 13
 * Joan Sebastian, Mexican singer-songwriter (b. 1951)
 * Martin Litchfield West, British classical scholar (b. 1937)
 * July 14 – Ildikó Schwarczenberger, Hungarian fencer (b. 1951)
 * July 15 – Wan Li, Chinese politician (b. 1916)
 * July 16 – Alcides Ghiggia, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1926)
 * July 17 – Jules Bianchi, French race car driver (b. 1989)
 * July 18 – Alex Rocco, American actor (b. 1936)
 * July 19 – Galina Prozumenshchikova, Soviet swimmer (b. 1948)
 * July 21
 * Theodore Bikel, Austrian-born American actor (b. 1924)
 * E. L. Doctorow, American author (b. 1931)
 * July 23
 * William Wakefield Baum, American prelate (b. 1926)
 * Mexicano 777, Puerto Rican rapper (b. 1972)
 * July 26 – Bobbi Kristina Brown, American singer (b. 1993)
 * July 27 – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Indian scientist and politician, 11th President of India (b. 1931)
 * July 28 – Edward Natapei, 6th Prime Minister of Vanuatu (b. 1954)
 * July 30
 * Lynn Anderson, American country singer (b. 1947)
 * Alena Vrzáňová, Czech figure skater (b. 1931)
 * July 31 – Roddy Piper, Canadian wrestler (b. 1954)

August

 * August 1 – Cilla Black, English singer and entertainer (b. 1943)
 * August 3 – Robert Conquest, British-born American historian (b. 1917)
 * August 7
 * Manuel Contreras, Chilean general (b. 1929)
 * Frances Oldham Kelsey, Canadian physician (b. 1914)
 * August 8 – Sean Price, American rapper (b. 1972)
 * August 9 – John Henry Holland, American computer scientist (b. 1929)
 * August 11 – Harald Nielsen, Danish footballer (b. 1941)
 * August 12 – Jaakko Hintikka, Finnish philosopher and logician (b. 1929)
 * August 14 – Bob Johnston, American record producer (b. 1932)
 * August 15 – Julian Bond, American civil rights activist (b. 1940)
 * August 16 – Mile Mrkšić, Serbian military officer (b. 1947)
 * August 17
 * Jacob Bekenstein, Mexican theoretical physicist (b. 1947)
 * Yvonne Craig, American actress (b. 1937)
 * Arsen Dedić, Croatian musician (b. 1938)
 * László Paskai, Hungarian cardinal (b. 1927)
 * August 20 – Egon Bahr, German politician (b. 1922)
 * August 22
 * Ieng Thirith, Cambodian politician (b. 1932)
 * Eric Thompson, English racing driver (b. 1919)
 * August 23 – Guy Ligier, French racing driver and team owner (b. 1930)
 * August 24 – Justin Wilson, British racing driver (b. 1978)
 * August 26 – Amelia Boynton Robinson, American civil rights activist (b. 1911)
 * August 27 – Kazi Zafar Ahmed, 8th Prime Minister of Bangladesh (b. 1939)
 * August 29 – Wayne Dyer, American author and motivational speaker (b. 1940)
 * August 30
 * Wes Craven, American film director and writer (b. 1939)
 * Oliver Sacks, British-American neurologist and writer (b. 1933)

September

 * September 1 – Dean Jones, American actor (b. 1931)
 * September 3 – Chandra Bahadur Dangi, Nepalese dwarf, world's shortest man (b. 1939)
 * September 4 – Rico Rodriguez, Cuban-British musician (b. 1934)
 * September 5 – Setsuko Hara, Japanese actress (b. 1920)
 * September 6 – Martin Milner, American actor (b. 1931)
 * September 7 – Candida Royalle, American actress and director (b. 1950)
 * September 10 – Adrian Frutiger, Swiss typeface designer (b. 1928)
 * September 12 – Ron Springett, British footballer (b. 1935)
 * September 13 – Moses Malone, American basketball player (b. 1955)
 * September 14 – Corneliu Vadim Tudor, Romanian politician (b. 1949)
 * September 17
 * David Willcocks, English organist, conductor and composer (b. 1919)
 * Dettmar Cramer, German football coach (b. 1925)
 * September 19 – Jackie Collins, British novelist (b. 1937)
 * September 22 – Yogi Berra, American baseball player (b. 1925)
 * September 23 – Dragan Holcer, Croatian footballer (b. 1945)
 * September 27
 * John Guillermin, British film director and producer (b. 1925)
 * Pietro Ingrao, Italian politician (b. 1915)
 * September 28 – Ignacio Zoco, Spanish footballer (b. 1939)
 * September 29 – Phil Woods, American saxophonist (b. 1931)

October

 * October 2
 * Eric Arturo Delvalle, Panamanian politician (b. 1937)
 * Brian Friel, Irish playwright (b. 1929)
 * October 3 – Denis Healey, British politician (b. 1917)
 * October 5
 * Chantal Akerman, Belgian filmmaker (b. 1950)
 * Infante Carlos, Spanish nobleman (b. 1938)
 * Henning Mankell, Swedish author (b. 1948)
 * October 6 – Árpád Göncz, Hungarian politician, President of Hungary (b. 1922)
 * October 7
 * Dominique Dropsy, French footballer (b. 1951)
 * Harry Gallatin, American basketball player and coach (b. 1927)
 * Elena Lucena, Argentine film actress (b. 1914)
 * Jurelang Zedkaia, Fifth President of the Marshall Islands (b. 1950)
 * October 8 – Jim Diamond, Scottish singer-songwriter (b. 1951)
 * October 9 – Geoffrey Howe, British politician (b. 1926)
 * October 10 – Richard F. Heck, American chemist (b. 1931)
 * October 12 – Joan Leslie, American actress and singer (b. 1925)
 * October 14
 * Nurlan Balgimbayev, Kazakh politician (b. 1947)
 * Mathieu Kérékou, 5th President of Benin (b. 1933)
 * October 17
 * Danièle Delorme, French actress (b. 1926)
 * Howard Kendall, English footballer and manager (b. 1946)
 * October 18 – Gamal El-Ghitani, Egyptian author (b. 1945)
 * October 19 – Ali Treki, Libyan diplomat (b. 1938)
 * October 23 – Paride Tumburus, Italian footballer (b. 1939)
 * October 24
 * Ján Chryzostom Korec, Slovakian cardinal (b. 1924)
 * Maureen O'Hara, Irish-American actress (b. 1920)
 * October 25 – Flip Saunders, American basketball player and coach (b. 1955)
 * October 26
 * Willis Carto, American politician (b. 1926)
 * Leo Kadanoff, American physicist (b. 1937)
 * October 30
 * Sinan Şamil Sam, Turkish boxer (b. 1974)
 * Al Molinaro, American actor (b. 1919)
 * October 31 – Ants Antson, Estonian speed skater (b. 1938)

November

 * November 1
 * Günter Schabowski, German politician (b. 1929)
 * Fred Thompson, American politician and actor (b. 1942)
 * November 3 – Ahmed Chalabi, Iraqi politician (b. 1944)
 * November 4
 * René Girard, French-American historian (b. 1923)
 * Melissa Mathison, American screenwriter (b. 1950)
 * November 5
 * Nora Brockstedt, Norwegian singer (b. 1923)
 * Czesław Kiszczak, Polish soldier and politician (b. 1925)
 * November 6 – Yitzhak Navon, Israeli politician, President of Israel (b. 1921)
 * November 7 – Gunnar Hansen, Icelandic-American actor and author (b. 1947)
 * November 8
 * Abd Al-Karim Al-Iryani, Prime Minister of Yemen (b. 1934)
 * Andrei Eshpai, Russian pianist (b. 1925)
 * November 9
 * Ernst Fuchs, Austrian painter (b. 1930)
 * Allen Toussaint, American musician (b. 1938)
 * Andy White, Scottish drummer (b. 1930)
 * November 10
 * André Glucksmann, French philosopher (b. 1937)
 * Klaus Roth, British mathematician (b. 1925)
 * Helmut Schmidt, German politician, Chancellor of West Germany (b. 1918)
 * November 11 – Phil Taylor, English rock drummer (b. 1954)
 * November 12
 * Márton Fülöp, Hungarian footballer (b. 1983)
 * Jihadi John, Kuwaiti member of ISIS (b. 1988)
 * November 15 – Saeed Jaffrey, Indian-British actor (b. 1929)
 * November 18
 * Jonah Lomu, New Zealand rugby union player (b. 1975)
 * Mal Whitfield, American Olympic athlete (b. 1924)
 * November 20 – Kitanoumi Toshimitsu, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1953)
 * November 21
 * Bob Foster, American boxer (b. 1938)
 * Linda Haglund, Swedish sprinter (b. 1956)
 * November 22 – Kim Young-sam, South Korean politician, President of South Korea (b. 1929)
 * November 23 – Douglass North, American economist (b. 1920)
 * November 28 – Gerry Byrne, English footballer (b. 1938)
 * November 30
 * Fatema Mernissi, Moroccan feminist writer and sociologist (b. 1940)
 * Shigeru Mizuki, Japanese manga artist (b. 1922)
 * Eldar Ryazanov, Russian film director (b. 1927)

December

 * December 1 – Jim Loscutoff, American basketball player (b. 1930)
 * December 2
 * Gabriele Ferzetti, Italian actor (b. 1925)
 * Ferenc Juhász, Hungarian poet (b. 1928)
 * December 3 – Scott Weiland, American singer and musician (b. 1967)
 * December 4
 * Erik De Vlaeminck, Belgian professional cyclist (b. 1945)
 * Robert Loggia, American actor (b. 1930)
 * Yossi Sarid, Israeli politician (b. 1940)
 * December 5 – Dimitar Iliev Popov, 41st Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1927)
 * December 6 – Franzl Lang, German Yodeler (b. 1930)
 * December 7 – Martin E. Brooks, American actor (b. 1925)
 * December 8 – Alan Hodgkinson, English footballer (b. 1936)
 * December 9
 * Carlo Furno, Italian cardinal (b. 1921)
 * Julio Terrazas Sandoval, Bolivian cardinal (b. 1936)
 * December 10
 * Arnold Peralta, Honduran footballer (b. 1989)
 * Dolph Schayes, American basketball player and coach (b. 1928)
 * December 13 – Benedict Anderson, American academic (b. 1936)
 * December 15 – Licio Gelli, Italian financier (b. 1919)
 * December 19
 * Greville Janner, British politician, barrister, and writer (b. 1928)
 * Jimmy Hill, English footballer and television presenter (b. 1928)
 * Kurt Masur, German conductor (b. 1927)
 * December 23
 * Alfred G. Gilman, American pharmacologist and biochemist (b. 1941)
 * Don Howe, English footballer (b. 1935)
 * Bülent Ulusu, 18th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1923)
 * December 27
 * Stein Eriksen, Norwegian alpine skier, Olympic champion (b. 1927)
 * Ellsworth Kelly, American artist (b. 1923)
 * Haskell Wexler, American cinematographer and film director (b. 1922)
 * December 28
 * Eloy Inos, American politician, Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands (b. 1949)
 * Lemmy, English musician (b. 1945)
 * Ian Murdock, German-American software programmer (b. 1973)
 * December 29
 * Elżbieta Krzesińska, Polish athlete (b. 1934)
 * Pavel Srníček, Czech footballer (b. 1968)
 * December 31
 * Natalie Cole, American singer (b. 1950)
 * Wayne Rogers, American actor and investor (b. 1933)

Nobel Prizes

 * Chemistry – Paul L. Modrich; Aziz Sancar and Tomas Lindahl
 * Economics – Angus Deaton
 * Literature – Svetlana Alexievich
 * Peace – Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet
 * Physics – Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald
 * Physiology or Medicine – William C. Campbell, Satoshi Ōmura and Tu Youyou

New English words

 * aquafaba

January

 * January 5 – Eris, the most massive known dwarf planet in the Solar System, is discovered by a team led by Michael E. Brown using images originally taken on October 21, 2003, at the Palomar Observatory.
 * January 7 – Crevalcore train crash in Italy: 17 dead and dozens injured.
 * January 12 – Deep Impact is launched from Cape Canaveral with the purpose of studying the comet Tempel 1.
 * January 14 – The Huygens spacecraft lands on Titan, the largest moon of Saturn.
 * January 20 – George W. Bush is inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States.

February

 * February 10 – North Korea announces that it possesses nuclear weapons as a protection against the hostility it says it perceives from the United States.
 * February 14 – Former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri is assassinated, along with 21 others, by a suicide bomber in Beirut.
 * February 16 – The Kyoto Protocol officially goes into effect.

March

 * March 14 – The People's Republic of China ratifies an anti-secession law, aimed at preventing Taiwan from declaring independence.
 * March 24 – The President of Kyrgyzstan Askar Akayev is overthrown following mass anti-government demonstrations and flees the country.
 * March 28 – The 8.6 Nias–Simeulue earthquake shakes northern Sumatra with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI (Strong), leaving 915–1,314 people dead and 340–1,146 injured.

April

 * April 2 – Pope John Paul II dies; over four million people travel to the Vatican to mourn him.  Pope Benedict XVI succeeds him on April 19, becoming the 265th pope.
 * April 9 – Charles, Prince of Wales marries Camilla Parker Bowles in a civil ceremony at Windsor's Guildhall. Camilla receives the title Duchess of Cornwall.
 * April 23 – The first ever YouTube video is uploaded, titled Me at the zoo.
 * April 26 – Syria withdraws the last of its military garrison from Lebanon, ending its 29-year military occupation of the country.
 * April 27 – The Superjumbo jet aircraft Airbus A380 makes its first flight from Toulouse.

May

 * May 13 – Uzbek Interior Ministry and National Security Service troops massacre at least 200 protesters in the city of Andijan.

June

 * June 21 – A Volna booster rocket carrying the first light sail spacecraft fails 83 seconds after its launch, destroying the spacecraft.

July

 * July 2 – Live 8, a set of 10 simultaneous concerts, takes place throughout the world, raising interest in the Make Poverty History campaign.
 * July 6
 * The European Parliament rejects the Proposed directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions in its second reading.
 * The International Olympic Committee awards London the right to host the 2012 Summer Olympics.
 * July 7 – Four coordinated suicide bombings hit central London, killing 52 people and injuring over 700.
 * July 23 – A series of bombings hit the resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, killing over 80 people.
 * July 28 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army announces an end to the armed campaign it has pursued since 1969, and orders all its units to drop their arms.

August

 * August 12 – The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is launched from Cape Canaveral, designed to explore Mars.
 * August 14 – Helios Airways Flight 522, en route from Larnaca, Cyprus to Prague, Czech Republic via Athens, crashes in the hills near Grammatiko, Greece, killing 121 passengers and crew.
 * August 16 – West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 crashes into a mountain in Venezuela, killing 160 passengers and crew.
 * August 18 – Peace Mission 2005, the first joint China–Russia military exercise, begins its eight-day training on the Shandong Peninsula.
 * August 29 – Hurricane Katrina makes landfall along the U.S. Gulf Coast, causing severe damage and killing over a thousand people and dealing an estimated $108 billion in damage.
 * August 31 – A stampede at the Al-Aaimmah bridge in Baghdad, Iraq, kills 953 Shia Muslim pilgrims who were celebrating a religious festival.

September

 * September 7 – Egypt holds its first ever multi-party presidential election, which is marred with allegations of fraud.
 * September 12 – Israel demolishes multiple settlements and withdraws its army from the Gaza Strip.
 * September 19 – North Korea agrees to stop building nuclear weapons in exchange for aid and cooperation.
 * September 30 – Controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, sparking outrage and violent riots by Muslims around the world.

October

 * October 8 – The 7.6 Kashmir earthquake strikes Azad Kashmir, Pakistan and nearby areas with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing more than 86,000 people and displacing several million more.
 * October 12 – The second manned Chinese spacecraft, Shenzhou 6, is launched.
 * October 15 – The 2005 Iraqi Constitution is approved by Iraqi voters.
 * October 19 – The trial of Saddam Hussein begins.
 * October 24 – Hurricane Wilma made landfall near Cape Romano.

November

 * November 9 – At least 60 people are killed and 115 more are wounded in a series of coordinated suicide bombings in Amman, Jordan.
 * November 11 – In Kazakhstan, Zamanbek Nurkadilov, former mayor of Almaty, government minister and a political opponent of Nursultan Nazarbayev is found dead at his family compound.
 * November 13 – Andrew Stimpson, a 25-year-old Scottish man, is reported as the first person proven to have been 'cured' of HIV.
 * November 22 – Angela Merkel assumes office as the first female Chancellor of Germany.
 * November 23 – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf wins the Liberian general election, making her the first democratically elected female head of state in Africa.
 * November 28 – The United Nations Climate Change conference is held in Montreal.
 * November 30 – Surgeons in France carry out the first human face transplant with Isabelle Dinoire becoming the first person to undergo it.

December

 * December 12 – Scientists announce that they have created mice with small amounts of human brain cells in an effort to make realistic models of neurological disorders.
 * December 18 – Chad descends into civil war after various rebel forces, with support from Sudan, attack the capital, N'Djamena.
 * December 31 – Another second is added, 23:59:60, to end the year 2005, the first time since 1998.

Births

 * January 11 – Roksana Węgiel, Polish singer, winner of Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2018
 * February – Alma Deutscher, English composer, violinist, pianist and child prodigy
 * February 10 – Rio Suzuki, Japanese actress and tarento
 * February 21 – Hong Hwa-ri, South Korean actress
 * February 25 – Noah Jupe, English actor
 * March 26 – Ella Anderson, American actress
 * April 29 – Prince Dipangkorn Rasmijoti of Thailand, son of King Maha Vajiralongkorn, Rama X of Thailand and his wife Srirasmi Suwadee
 * June 26 – Princess Alexia of the Netherlands, daughter of Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange
 * July 25 – Pierce Gagnon, American actor
 * October 4 – Rina Endō, Japanese actress
 * October 15 – Prince Christian of Denmark, son of Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark and his wife Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark
 * October 31 – Leonor, Princess of Asturias, daughter of Felipe VI of Spain and his wife Letizia
 * December 3 – Prince Sverre Magnus of Norway, grandson of King Harald V of Norway

January

 * January 1
 * Shirley Chisholm, American politician (b. 1924)
 * Eugene J. Martin, American artist (b. 1938)
 * January 4 – Alton Tobey, American artist (b. 1914)
 * January 10
 * Princess Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (b. 1927)
 * James Forman, American civil rights activist (b. 1928)
 * January 12 – Amrish Puri, Indian actor (b. 1932)
 * January 15 – Victoria de los Ángeles, Spanish Catalan soprano (b. 1923)
 * January 17
 * Virginia Mayo, American actress (b. 1920)
 * Zhao Ziyang, 3rd Premier of China (b. 1919)
 * January 20 – Per Borten, 14th Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1913)
 * January 23 – Johnny Carson, American television host (b. 1925)
 * January 25 – Philip Johnson, American architect (b. 1906)

February

 * February 2 – Max Schmeling, German boxer (b. 1905)
 * February 3
 * Ernst Mayr, German-American biologist (b. 1904)
 * Zurab Zhvania, 4th Prime Minister of Georgia (b. 1963)
 * February 4 – Ossie Davis, American actor (b. 1917)
 * February 5 – Gnassingbé Eyadéma, 3rd President of Togo (b. 1935)
 * February 7 – Atli Dam, 3-Time Prime Minister of Faroe Islands (b. 1932)
 * February 10
 * Ben Jones, 7th Prime Minister of Grenada (b. 1924)
 * Arthur Miller, American playwright (b. 1915)
 * February 12 – Rafael Vidal, Venezuelan swimmer and sports commentator (b. 1964)
 * February 13 – Lúcia Santos, Portuguese nun (b. 1907)
 * February 14 – Rafic Hariri, 2-Time Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1944)
 * February 17
 * Narriman Sadek, Queen of Egypt (b. 1933)
 * Omar Sívori, Argentinian footballer (b. 1935)
 * February 20
 * Sandra Dee, American actress (b. 1942)
 * Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist (b. 1937)
 * February 22 – Simone Simon, French actress (b. 1910)
 * February 25
 * Peter Benenson, British lawyer and founder of Amnesty International (b. 1921)
 * Atef Sedky, 45th Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1930)

March

 * March 3 – Rinus Michels, Dutch soccer player and coach (b. 1928)
 * March 6
 * Hans Bethe, German-American physicist (b. 1906)
 * Teresa Wright, American actress (b. 1918)
 * March 15 – Audrey Callaghan, Spouse of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1915)
 * March 17 – George F. Kennan, American diplomat and political advisor (b. 1904)
 * March 19 – John Z. DeLorean, American car maker (b.1925)
 * March 22
 * Clemente Domínguez y Gómez, Spanish spiritual leader (b. 1946)
 * Kenzō Tange, Japanese architect (b. 1913)
 * March 26 – James Callaghan, 70th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1912)
 * March 29 – Johnnie Cochran, American lawyer (b. 1937)
 * March 30 – Robert Creeley, American poet (b. 1926)

April

 * April 1 – Miguel Vila Luna, Dominican architect and painter (b. 1964)
 * April 2 – Pope John Paul II (b. 1920)
 * April 5 – Saul Bellow, Canadian-American writer (b. 1915)
 * April 6 – Rainier III, Prince of Monaco (b. 1923)
 * April 13 – Nikola Ljubičić, Serbian general and politician, 10th President of Serbia (b. 1916)
 * April 23 – John Mills, English actor (b. 1908)
 * April 24 – Ezer Weizman, 7th President of Israel (b. 1924)
 * April 26 – Maria Schell, Austrian actress (b. 1926)

May

 * May 2 – Wee Kim Wee, 4th President of Singapore (b. 1915)
 * May 13 – George Dantzig, American mathematician (b. 1914)
 * May 17 – Frank Gorshin, American actor, impressionist, and comedian (b. 1933)
 * May 25 – Ismail Merchant, Indian film producer (b. 1936)
 * May 26
 * Eddie Albert, American actor (b. 1906)
 * Sangoulé Lamizana, 2nd President and 2nd Prime Minister of Burkina Faso (b. 1916)

June

 * June 6
 * Anne Bancroft, American actress (b. 1931)
 * Bolívar Urrutia Parrilla, 21st President of Panama (b. 1918)
 * June 11 – Vasco Gonçalves, 103rd Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1921)
 * June 13 – Álvaro Cunhal, Portuguese politician (b. 1913)
 * June 20 – Jack Kilby, American engineer (b. 1923)
 * June 21 – Jaime Sin, 30th Archbishop of Manila (b. 1928)
 * June 25 – Domino Harvey, British-American bounty hunter (b. 1969)

July

 * July 1 – Luther Vandross, American singer (b. 1951)
 * July 4 – June Haver, American actress and singer (b. 1926)
 * July 6
 * Evan Hunter, American writer (b. 1926)
 * Claude Simon, Malagasy-French novelist and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
 * July 17 – Edward Heath, 68th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1916)
 * July 18 – William Westmoreland, American army general (b. 1914)
 * July 20 – James Doohan, Canadian actor (b. 1920)
 * July 21 – Long John Baldry, British musician (b. 1941)
 * July 31 – Wim Duisenberg, Dutch politician (b. 1935)

August



 * August 1 – King Fahd of Saudi Arabia (b. 1921)
 * August 6 – Robin Cook, British politician (b. 1946)
 * August 7 – Peter Jennings, Canadian-American news anchor (b. 1938)
 * August 8
 * Barbara Bel Geddes, American actress, artist, and children's author (b. 1922)
 * Ahmed Deedat, South African preacher (b. 1918)
 * August 9 – Matthew McGrory, American actor (b. 1973)
 * August 12 – Lakshman Kadirgamar, foreign minister of Sri Lanka (b. 1932)
 * August 13 – David Lange, 32nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1942)
 * August 16 – Brother Roger, Swiss monastic and founder of the Taizé Community (b. 1915)
 * August 19
 * Faimalaga Luka, 6th Prime Minister of Tuvalu (b. 1940)
 * Mo Mowlam, British politician (b. 1949)
 * August 31 – Joseph Rotblat, Polish-British physicist (b. 1908)

September

 * September 3 – William Rehnquist, American lawyer and 16th Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1924)
 * September 6 – Eugenia Charles, 3rd Prime Minister of Dominica (b. 1919)
 * September 13 – Julio César Turbay Ayala, 25th President of Colombia (b. 1916)
 * September 14 – Robert Wise, American film director (b. 1914)
 * September 18 – Michael Park, English Rally driver (b. 1966)
 * September 20 – Simon Wiesenthal, Austrian Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter (b. 1908)
 * September 23 – Roger Brierley, English actor (b. 1935)
 * September 25 – Don Adams, American actor (b. 1923)

October

 * October 10 – Milton Obote, 2nd President of Uganda (b. 1925)
 * October 17 – Ba Jin, Chinese writer (b. 1904)
 * October 22 – Arman, French-American artist (b. 1928)
 * October 24
 * José Azcona del Hoyo, 61st President of Honduras (b. 1926)
 * Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist (b. 1913)
 * October 28 – Richard Smalley, American chemist and physicist (b. 1943)

November

 * November 1 – Michael Piller, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1948)
 * November 2 – Ferruccio Valcareggi, Italian football player and manager (b. 1919)
 * November 5 – John Fowles, English novelist (b. 1926)
 * November 9 – K. R. Narayanan, 10th President of India (b. 1920)
 * November 11 –
 * Moustapha Akkad, Syrian-American film producer (b. 1930)
 * Zamanbek Nurkadilov, Kazakh politician (b. 1944)
 * November 13 – Eddie Guerrero, Mexican-American professional wrestler (b. 1967)
 * November 16 – Henry Taube, Canadian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
 * November 19 – Erik Balling, Danish television and film director (b. 1924)
 * November 24 – Pat Morita, American actor (b. 1932)
 * November 25
 * George Best, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1946)
 * Richard Burns, English rally driver (b. 1971)
 * November 28 – Tony Meehan, English drummer (The Shadows) (b. 1943)

December

 * December 2 – Mohammed Hamza Zubeidi, 59th Prime Minister of Iraq (b. 1938)
 * December 6 – Devan Nair, 3rd President of Singapore (b. 1923)
 * December 10 – Richard Pryor, American comedian (b. 1940)
 * December 13 – Stanley Williams, American gang leader (b. 1953)
 * December 16 – John Spencer, American actor (b. 1946)
 * December 23 – Yao Wenyuan, Chinese politician (b. 1931)
 * December 25 – Birgit Nilsson, Swedish soprano (b. 1918)
 * December 26 – Vincent Schiavelli, American actor (b. 1948)

Nobel Prizes

 * Chemistry – Robert Grubbs, Richard Schrock, and Yves Chauvin
 * Economics – Robert J. Aumann, and Thomas Schelling
 * Literature – Harold Pinter
 * Peace – Mohamed ElBaradei
 * Physics – Roy J. Glauber, John L. Hall, and Theodor W. Hänsch
 * Physiology or Medicine – Robin Warren, and Barry Marshall

New English words and terms

 * didymo
 * functional calculus
 * glamping
 * locavore
 * microblogging
 * pre-exposure prophylaxis
 * ransomware
 * rock snot
 * sexting
 * truther
 * vodcast