Krzysztof Kieslowski	Polish Director	March 13
Minnesota Fats	American Celebrity	January 15
Minnie Pearl	American Musician	March 4
Morey Amsterdam	American Actor	October 27
Morton Gould	American Musician	February 21
Nnamdi Azikiwe	Nigerian Statesman	May 11
Norman MacCaig	Scottish Poet	January 23
Odysseas Elytis	Greek Writer	March 18
Og Mandino	American Author	September 3
Melvin Belli	American Lawyer	July 9
Mel Allen	American Celebrity	June 16
McLean Stevenson	American Actor	February 15
Les Baxter	American Musician	January 15
Lincoln Kirstein	American Dancer	January 5
Marcel Carne	French Director	October 31
Marcello Mastroianni	Italian Actor	December 19
Margaux Hemingway	American Actress	July 2
Marguerite Duras	French Novelist	March 3
Mary Leakey	British Scientist	December 9
McGeorge Bundy	American Celebrity	September 16
P. L. Travers	Australian Writer	April 23
Paul Erdos	Hungarian Mathematician	September 20
Timothy Leary	American Educator	May 31
Tommy Rettig	American Actor	February 15
Toru Takemitsu	Japanese Composer	February 20
Tupac Shakur	American Musician	September 13
Vance Packard	American Writer	December 12
W. H. Murray	Scottish Athlete	March 19
Walter Kerr	American Critic	October 9
William Colby	American Public Servant	April 27
Thomas Kuhn	American Writer	June 17
Stanislaw Lec	Polish Poet	May 7
Spiro T. Agnew	American Politician	September 17
Paul Rand	American Designer	November 26
Pete Rozelle	American Celebrity	December 6
Ray Blanton	American Politician	November 22
Ray Combs	American Comedian	June 2
Richard J. Needham	Canadian Cartoonist
Robert Bourassa	Canadian Politician	October 2
Roger Tory Peterson	American Environmentalist	July 28
Shusaku Endo	Japanese Author	September 29
William Vickrey	Canadian Educator	October 11
Joseph Mitchell	American Writer	May 24
Abdus Salam	Pakistani Scientist	November 21
Carl Stokes	American Politician	April 3
Charles O. Finley	American Businessman	February 19
Claudette Colbert	French Actress	June 30
Dan Flavin	American Sculptor	November 29
Dana Hill	American Actress	July 15
David Packard	American Businessman	March 26
David Tudor	American Musician	August 13
David Viscott	American Psychologist	October 10
Carl Sagan	American Scientist	December 20
Cao Yu	Chinese Playwright	December 13
Brownie McGhee	American Musician	February 16
Adolf Galland	German Soldier	February 9
Albert Meltzer	British Activist	May 7
Alger Hiss	American Public Servant	November 15
Arleigh Burke	American Soldier	January 1
Audrey Meadows	American Actress	February 3
Barbara Jordan	American Politician	January 17
Bill Monroe	American Musician	September 9
Bob Paisley	English Athlete	February 14
Edmund S. Muskie	American Politician	March 26
Ella Fitzgerald	American Musician	June 15
Henri Nouwen	Dutch Clergyman	October 2
Idries Shah	Indian Author	November 23
Irving Caesar	American Composer	December 18
Jack Nance	American Actor	December 30
James Rouse	American Businessman	April 9
Jessica Mitford	American Journalist	July 22
John Chancellor	American Journalist	July 12
Jonathan Larson	American Composer	January 25
Harold E. Hughes	American Politician	October 23
Harold Brodkey	American Author	January 26
Guy Madison	American Actor	February 6
Erma Bombeck	American Journalist	April 22
Francois Mitterrand	French Statesman	January 8
Frank Whittle	English Inventor	August 9
Gene Kelly	American Actor	February 2
Geoffrey Wilkinson	English Scientist	September 26
George Burns	American Comedian	March 9
Gerry Mulligan	American Musician	January 20
Greer Garson	English Actress	April 6
Joseph Brodsky	American Poet	January 28