Zhao Ziyang	Chinese Statesman	October 17
Nelson Gidding	American Dramatist	September 15
Nat King Cole	American Musician	March 17
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi	Iranian Royalty	October 26
Mikhail Kalashnikov	Russian Inventor	November 10
Merce Cunningham	American Dancer	April 16
McGeorge Bundy	American Celebrity	March 30
Marie Windsor	American Actress	December 11
Margot Fonteyn	English Dancer	May 18
Madalyn Murray O'Hair	American Writer	April 13
Liberace	American Entertainer	May 16
Lawrence Tierney	American Actor	March 15
Lawrence Ferlinghetti	American Poet	March 24
Laurence J. Peter	Canadian Writer	September 16
Kingman Brewster, Jr.	American Educator	June 17
Kiichi Miyazawa	Japanese Politician	October 8
Kathleen Winsor	American Author	October 16
John Michael Hayes	American Writer	May 11
Paul de Man	Belgian Critic	December 6
Pauline Kael	American Critic	June 19
Pete Seeger	American Musician	May 3
William Kunstler	American Activist	July 7
Walter Wriston	American Businessman	August 3
Veronica Lake	American Actress	November 14
Uta Hagen	German Actress	June 12
Tennessee Ernie Ford	American Musician	February 13
Shirley Jackson	American Novelist	December 14
Robert Stack	American Actor	January 13
Robert Merrill	American Musician	June 4
Robert Heilbroner	American Economist	March 24
Robert F. Goheen	American Educator	August 15
Rita Hayworth	American Actress	October 17
Red Buttons	American Comedian	February 5
Raymond Smullyan	American Mathematician
Primo Levi	Italian Scientist	July 31
Pierre Trudeau	Canadian Statesman	October 18
Peter Frederick Strawson		November 23
Peter Abrahams	South African Novelist	March 3
Jennifer Jones	American Actress	March 2
James Pinckney Miller	American Playwright	December 18
Edwin Newman	American Journalist	January 25
Edmund Hillary	New Zealander Explorer	July 20
Doris Lessing	English Writer	October 22
Dorie Miller	American Celebrity	October 12
Donald Pleasence	English Actor	October 5
Donald Cram	American Scientist	April 22
Dino De Laurentiis	Italian Director	August 8
David Swift	American Director	July 27
Daniel Bell	American Sociologist	May 10
Dan DeCarlo	American Cartoonist	December 12
Curt Gowdy	American Celebrity	July 31
Chavela Vargas	Costa Rican Musician	April 17
Celeste Holm	American Actress	April 29
Buck Baker	American Celebrity	March 4
Bob Paisley	English Athlete	January 23
Art Blakey	American Musician	October 11
Andy Rooney	American Journalist	January 14
Ernie Kovacs	American Comedian	January 23
Evita Peron	Argentinian Statesman	May 7
Forrest Tucker	American Actor	February 12
James Patrick Murray	American Journalist	December 29
James Lovelock	English Scientist	July 26
Jackie Robinson	American Athlete	January 31
J. D. Salinger	American Novelist	January 1
Iris Murdoch	Irish Author	July 15
Ian Smith		April 8
Huston Smith	American Theologian	May 31
Howard Keel	American Actor	April 13
Gower Champion	American Director	June 22
Giulio Andreotti	Italian Politician	January 14
George Shearing	British Musician	August 13
George Gobel	American Comedian	May 20
George Gerbner	Hungarian Journalist	August 8
George C. Wallace	American Politician	August 25
Gene Barry	American Actor	June 14
Frederik Pohl	American Writer	November 26
Fred Korematsu	American Celebrity	January 30
Alan Young	English Actor	November 19