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2005 was designated as:
 * International Year for Sport and Physical Education
 * International Year of Microcredit

The year 2005 was the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People (1995–2005).

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

January

 * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 604 crashes into the Red Sea off the coast of Egypt, killing all 148 aboard making it one of the deadliest aviation accidents in Egyptian history at the time.
 * January 8 – The RMS Queen Mary 2, the largest ocean liner ever built, is christened by its namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II.

February

 * February 4 - Mark Zuckerberg creates the social networking site Facebook.
 * February 26 – Macedonian president Boris Trajkovski is killed in a plane crash near Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
 * February 29 – Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide is overthrown in a coup d'état.

March

 * March 2 – A series of bombings occur in Karbala, Iraq, killing over 140 Shia Muslims commemorating the Day of Ashura.
 * March 11 – Coordinated bombings at a Cercanías train station in Madrid, Spain, kill at least 192 people.
 * March 28 – Hurricane Catarina, the first ever recorded South Atlantic tropical cyclone, makes landfall in Santa Catarina, Brazil.
 * March 29 – Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia are admitted to NATO, the largest expansion of the organization.

April

 * April 8 – The Humanitarian Ceasefire Agreement is signed by the Sudanese government and two rebel groups, in order to put a pause on the War in Darfur.
 * April 17 – Israeli helicopters fire missiles at a convoy of vehicles in the Gaza Strip, killing Hamas leader Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi.
 * April 24 – Referendums on the Annan Plan for Cyprus, which proposes to reunite the island, take place in both the Greek-controlled and the Turkish-controlled parts. Although the Turkish Cypriots vote in favour, the Greek Cypriots reject the proposal.

May

 * May 1 – The European Union expands by 10 member states: Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary, Malta and Cyprus.

June

 * June 12 – July 4 – Portugal hosts the UEFA Euro 2004 football tournament, which is won by Greece.
 * June 21 – In Mojave, California, SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.
 * June 28 – The U.S.-led coalition occupying Iraq, the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), transfers sovereignty to the Iraqi Interim Government.
 * June 30 – Preliminary hearings begin in Iraq in the trial of president Saddam Hussein, for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

July

 * July 1
 * The unmanned Cassini–Huygens spacecraft arrives at Saturn.
 * The Russian Federation stops recognizing Soviet Union passports as legal identification.

August

 * August 3 – NASA's unmanned MESSENGER spacecraft is launched, with its primary mission being the study of Mercury.
 * August 13–29 – The 2004 Summer Olympics are held in Athens, Greece.
 * August 22 – Armed robbers steal Edvard Munch's The Scream, Madonna, and other paintings from the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway.
 * August 24 – After departing Domodedovo International Airport in Moscow, Volga-AviaExpress Flight 1303, a Tupolev Tu-134, explodes over Russia's Tula Oblast and crashes, killing all 43 people on board; minutes later, Siberia Airlines Flight 1047, a Tupolev Tu-154 departing the same airport, explodes over Rostov Oblast and crashes, killing all 46 on board. The Government of Russia declares the explosions to have been caused by female Chechen suicide bombers.

September

 * September 1 – Chechen rebels take 1,128 people hostage, mostly children, at a school in Beslan, Russia. The crisis ends when Russian security forces storm the building, resulting in more than 330 people being killed.

October

 * October 8 – Suicide bombers detonate two bombs at the Red Sea resort of Taba, Egypt, killing 34 people and injuring 171, mostly Israeli tourists.
 * October 9 – Australian federal election, 2004: John Howard's Liberal/National Coalition Government is re-elected with an increased majority, defeating the Labor Party led by Mark Latham.
 * October 19 – A team of explorers reach the bottom of Krubera Cave, the world's deepest cave, with a depth of 2,080 meters (6,824 feet).
 * October 29 – European heads of state sign in Rome the Treaty and Final Act, establishing the first European Constitution.

November

 * November 2 – George W. Bush is reelected President of the United States
 * November 13 – The European Space Agency unmanned probe SMART-1 arrives at the Moon, becoming the first European satellite to fly to the Moon and orbit it.
 * November 16 – NASA's hypersonic Scramjet breaks a record by reaching a velocity of about 7,000 mph (Mach 9.6) in an unmanned experimental flight.
 * November 22 – The Orange Revolution begins following a disputed presidential election in Ukraine where Viktor Yanukovych won against Viktor Yushchenko amid accusations of electoral fraud. A revote results in Yushchenko being declared the winner.

December

 * December 14 – The world's tallest bridge, the Millau Viaduct over the Tarn in the Massif Central mountains, France, is officially opened.
 * December 21 – Iraqi insurgents attack a U.S. military base in the city of Mosul, killing 22 people.
 * December 26 – The 9.1–9.3 Indian Ocean earthquake shakes northern Sumatra with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). One of the largest observed tsunamis follows, affecting coastal areas of Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Malaysia, Myanmar, Bangladesh, and Indonesia, killing over 200,000 people.
 * December 27 – Astrophysicists from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching near Munich measure the strongest burst from a magnetar. At 21:30:26 UT Earth is hit by a huge wave front of gamma and X-rays. It is the strongest flux of high-energetic gamma radiation measured so far.
 * December 30 – A fire in the República Cromañón nightclub in Buenos Aires, Argentina kills 194.
 * December 31 – Taipei 101, at the time the tallest skyscraper in the world, standing at a height of 1,670 ft, officially opens.

January



 * January 4 – Peyton Kennedy, Canadian actress
 * January 15 – Grace VanderWaal, American singer-songwriter
 * January 21 – Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway

February

 * February 1 – Ashley Gerasimovich, American actress
 * February 19 – Millie Bobby Brown, British actress

March

 * March 5 – Choi Soo-in, South Korean child actress
 * March 27 – Amira Willighagen, Dutch singer

April

 * April 14 – Anastasia Tarakanova, Russian figure skater
 * April 16 – Elha Nympha, Filipino singer
 * April 22 – Teagan Croft, Australian actress

May

 * May 4 – Kanon Tani, Japanese actress
 * May 22 – Peyton Elizabeth Lee, American actress
 * May 27 – You Young, South Korean figure skater

June

 * June 1 – Miyu Honda, Japanese actress
 * June 4 – Mackenzie Ziegler, American dancer
 * June 8 – Francesca Capaldi, American actress
 * June 15 – Sterling Jerins, American actress
 * June 17 – Fuku Suzuki, Japanese actor and singer
 * June 23
 * Alexandra Trusova, Russian figure skater
 * Mana Ashida, Japanese actress

August

 * August 14 – Marsai Martin, American actress

September

 * September 23 – Anthony Gonzalez, American actor
 * September 25 – Seiran Kobayashi, Japanese actress

October

 * October 3 – Noah Schnapp, American actor
 * October 5 – Choi Kwon-soo, South Korean actor
 * October 6 – LeBron James Jr., American basketball player
 * October 12 – Darci Lynne Farmer, American ventriloquist

November

 * November 11 – Oakes Fegley, American actor

December

 * December 6 – Lala Kramarenko, Russian gymnast

January

 * January 6 – Pierre Charles, 5th Prime Minister of Dominica (b. 1954)
 * January 7 – Ingrid Thulin, Swedish actress (b. 1926)
 * January 9 – Norberto Bobbio, Italian philosopher (b. 1909)
 * January 13 – Harold Shipman, British serial killer (b. 1946)
 * January 14 – Terje Bakken, Norwegian musician (b. 1978)
 * January 16 – Kalevi Sorsa, Finnish politician, 34th Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1930)
 * January 17 – Czesław Niemen, Polish singer-songwriter (b. 1939)
 * January 22 – Ann Miller, American dancer and actress (b. 1923)
 * January 23 – Helmut Newton, German-Australian photographer (b. 1920)
 * January 25
 * Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch athlete (b. 1918)
 * Miklós Fehér, Hungarian footballer (b. 1979)

February

 * February 14 – Marco Pantani, Italian cyclist (b. 1970)
 * February 17 – José López Portillo, 51st President of Mexico (b. 1920)
 * February 21 – John Charles, Welsh footballer (b. 1931)
 * February 26
 * Adolf Ehrnrooth, Finnish general (b. 1905)
 * Boris Trajkovski, 2nd president of the Republic of Macedonia (b. 1956)
 * February 27 – Paul Sweezy, American economist and editor (b. 1910)
 * February 28 – Daniel J. Boorstin, American historian and Librarian of Congress (b. 1914)
 * February 29 – Harold Bernard St. John, 3rd Prime Minister of Barbados (b. 1931)

March

 * March 2 – Mercedes McCambridge, American actress (b. 1916)
 * March 4 – Claude Nougaro, French singer (b. 1929)
 * March 5 – Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy, 31st President of Ecuador (b. 1919)
 * March 7 – Paul Winfield, American actor (b. 1939)
 * March 8
 * Muhammad Zaidan, founder of the Palestine Liberation Front (b. 1948)
 * Tichi Wilkerson Kassel, American film personality, publisher of The Hollywood Reporter (b. 1926)
 * March 15 – John Pople, English Nobel chemist (b. 1925)
 * March 18 – Abdujalil Samadov, 4th Prime Minister of Tajikistan (b. 1949)
 * March 20 – Juliana, Queen regnant of the Netherlands (b. 1909)
 * March 22 – Ahmed Yassin, Palestinian co-founder of Hamas (b. 1937)
 * March 28 – Peter Ustinov, English actor and director (b. 1921)

April

 * April 1 – Carrie Snodgress, American actress (b. 1945)
 * April 13 – Caron Keating, British television presenter (b. 1962)
 * April 18 – Kamisese Mara, 1st Prime Minister and 2nd president of Fiji (b. 1920)
 * April 19
 * John Maynard Smith, English biologist (b. 1920)
 * Jim Cantalupo, American businessman. (b. 1943)
 * April 22 – Pat Tillman, American football player, (b. 1976)
 * April 24 – Estée Lauder, American cosmetics entrepreneur (b. 1906)
 * April 26 – Hubert Selby, Jr., American writer (b. 1928)

May

 * May 5 – Ritsuko Okazaki, Japanese songwriter (b. 1959)
 * May 7 – Nicholas Berg, American businessman (b. 1978)
 * May 9 – Alan King, American actor and comedian (b. 1927)
 * May 17
 * Tony Randall, American actor (b. 1920)
 * Ezzedine Salim, 45th Prime Minister of Iraq (b. 1943)

June

 * June 1 – William Manchester, American historian (b. 1922)
 * June 2
 * Mujeeb Aalam, Pakistani playback singer (b. 1948)
 * Dom Moraes, Indian poet and writer (b. 1938)
 * Tesfaye Gebre Kidan, Ethiopian general, defense minister and acting president of Ethiopia (b. c. 1935)
 * June 3
 * Joe Carr, Irish golfer (b. 1922)
 * Quorthon, Swedish musician (b. 1966)
 * June 4 – Steve Lacy, American jazz soprano saxophonist (b. 1934)
 * June 5 – Ronald Reagan, American politician and actor, 40th President of the United States (b. 1911)
 * June 10
 * Ray Charles, American singer and musician (b. 1930)
 * Xenophon Zolotas, Greek economist and politician, interim Prime Minister (b. 1904)
 * June 16 – Thanom Kittikachorn, Thai military general, 10th Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1911)
 * June 26 – Naomi Shemer, Israeli songwriter (b. 1931)

July

 * July 1 – Marlon Brando, American actor (b. 1924)
 * July 5
 * Hugh Shearer, Jamaican politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Jamaica (b. 1923)
 * Rodger Ward, American race car driver (b. 1921)
 * July 6
 * Eric Douglas, American actor (b. 1958)
 * Thomas Klestil, Austrian politician and diplomat, 10th President of Austria (b. 1932)
 * July 10 – Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo, 108th Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1930)
 * July 13 – Carlos Kleiber, Austrian conductor (b. 1930)
 * July 16 – Charles Sweeney, American WWII pilot (b. 1919)
 * July 19 – Zenkō Suzuki, Japanese politician, 44th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1911)
 * July 21
 * Jerry Goldsmith, American composer (b. 1929)
 * Edward B. Lewis, American Nobel geneticist (b. 1918)
 * July 22 – Sacha Distel, French singer (b. 1933)
 * July 28 – Francis Crick, English Nobel molecular biologist (b. 1916)

August

 * August 1 – Philip Abelson, American Nobel physicist (b. 1913)
 * August 3 – Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (b. 1908)
 * August 6 – Rick James, American musician (b. 1948)
 * August 8 – Fay Wray, Canadian-American actress (b. 1907)
 * August 12 – Godfrey Hounsfield, English Nobel electrical engineer and inventor (b. 1919)
 * August 13 – Julia Child, American chef (b. 1912)
 * August 14 – Czesław Miłosz, Polish-born Nobel writer (b. 1911)
 * August 15 – Sune Bergström, Swedish Nobel biochemist (b. 1916)
 * August 17 – Frank Cotroni, Canadian mobster (b. 1931)
 * August 18 – Elmer Bernstein, American composer (b. 1922)
 * August 24 – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss-born psychiatrist (b. 1926)
 * August 26 – Laura Branigan, American singer (b. 1952)
 * August 30 – Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer (b. 1906)

September

 * September 2 – Vonda Phelps, American child actress (b. 1915)
 * September 11 – Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria (b. 1949)
 * September 13 – Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist (b. 1925)
 * September 15
 * Johnny Ramone, American guitarist (b. 1948)
 * Daouda Malam Wanké, 6th President of Niger (b. 1946)
 * September 18 – Russ Meyer, American director and photographer (b. 1922)
 * September 20 – Brian Clough, British football manager of Nottingham Forest and Derby County (b. 1935)
 * September 22
 * Winston Cenac, 3rd Prime Minister of Saint Lucia (b. 1925)
 * Ray Traylor Jr., American professional wrestler (b. 1963)
 * September 24 – Françoise Sagan, French writer (b. 1935)

October

 * October 1 – Richard Avedon, American photographer (b. 1923)
 * October 3 – Janet Leigh, American actress (b. 1927)
 * October 4 – Gordon Cooper, American astronaut (b. 1927)
 * October 5
 * Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian and actor (b. 1921)
 * Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand-born Nobel physicist (b. 1916)
 * October 8 – Jacques Derrida, Algerian-born French literary critic (b. 1930)
 * October 10 – Christopher Reeve, American actor and activist (b. 1952)
 * October 25 – John Peel, British radio disc jockey (b. 1939)
 * October 29 – Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (b. 1901)

November

 * November 2
 * Theo van Gogh, Dutch film director (b. 1957)
 * Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, 1st president of the United Arab Emirates (b. 1918)
 * November 3 – Sergei Zholtok, Latvian hockey player (b. 1972)
 * November 7 – Howard Keel, American singer and actor (b. 1919)
 * November 9
 * Iris Chang, American journalist (b. 1968)
 * Emlyn Hughes, English footballer (b. 1947)
 * Stieg Larsson, Swedish writer (b. 1954)
 * November 11 – Yasser Arafat, Palestinian Nobel leader (b. 1929)
 * November 13 – Ol' Dirty Bastard, American rapper (b. 1968)
 * November 19 – John Vane, British Nobel pharmacologist (b. 1927)
 * November 23 – Rafael Eitan, Israeli politician (b. 1929)
 * November 29 – Yvonne Aitken, Australian botanist (b. 1911)

December

 * December 1 – Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, Prince consort of the Netherlands (b. 1911)
 * December 8 – Dimebag Darrell, American guitarist (Pantera and Damageplan) (b. 1966)
 * December 18 – Srully Blotnick, American author and journalist (b. 1941)
 * December 19
 * Herbert C. Brown, English-born Nobel chemist (b. 1912)
 * Renata Tebaldi, Italian soprano (b. 1922)
 * December 23 – P. V. Narasimha Rao, Indian politician, 10th Prime Minister of India (b. 1921)
 * December 28
 * Jerry Orbach, American actor (b. 1935)
 * Susan Sontag, American writer and activist (b. 1933)
 * December 29 – Julius Axelrod, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
 * December 30 – Artie Shaw, American musician (b. 1910)
 * December 31 – Gérard Debreu, French-born Nobel economist (b. 1921)

Nobel Prizes

 * Chemistry – Aaron Ciechanover, Avram Hershko, Irwin Rose
 * Economics – Finn E. Kydland, Edward C. Prescott
 * Literature – Elfriede Jelinek
 * Peace – Wangari Maathai
 * Physics – David J. Gross, H. David Politzer, Frank Wilczek
 * Physiology or Medicine – Linda B. Buck, Richard Axel

New English words and terms

 * e-waste
 * life hack
 * paywall
 * podcast
 * roentgenium
 * Silver Alert
 * social media
 * waterboarding