John B. Keane	Irish Playwright	May 30
Lawrence Tierney	American Actor	February 26
Layne Staley	American Musician	April 5
Leo McKern	Australian Actor	July 23
Leo Ornstein	American Composer	February 24
Lew Wasserman	American Producer	June 3
Lionel Hampton	American Musician	August 31
Lonnie Donegan	Scottish Musician	November 3
Lou Thesz	American Athlete	April 28
Mary Hansen	Australian Musician	December 9
Mary Wesley	British Novelist	December 30
Mason Cooley	American Writer
Milton Berle	American Comedian	March 27
Norman O. Brown	American Philosopher	October 2
Otis Blackwell	American Musician	May 6
Pat Weaver	American Businessman	March 17
LaWanda Page	American Actress	September 14
Larry Rivers	American Musician	August 14
John Entwistle	English Musician	June 27
John Frankenheimer	American Director	July 6
John Gotti	American Criminal	June 10
John Rawls	American Educator	November 24
John Thaw	British Actor	February 21
John W. Gardner	American Educator	February 16
Johnny Unitas	American Athlete	September 11
Jonathan Harris	American Actor	November 3
Josh Ryan Evans	American Actor	August 5
Julia Phillips	American Author	January 1
June Jordan	American Writer	June 14
Karel Reisz	Czechoslovakian Director	November 25
Kenneth Koch	American Poet	July 6
Kevyn Aucoin	American Artist	May 7
Kim Hunter	American Actress	September 11
Paul Wellstone	American Politician	October 25
Peggy Lee	American Musician	January 21
Pierre Bourdieu	French Sociologist	January 23
Stanley Marcus	American Businessman	January 22
Stephen Ambrose	American Historian	October 13
Stephen Jay Gould	American Scientist	May 20
Ted Demme	American Director	January 13
Ted Williams	American Athlete	July 5
Thor Heyerdahl	Norwegian Explorer	April 18
Timothy Findley	Canadian Novelist	June 20
Timothy White	American Critic	June 27
Vernon A. Walters	American Soldier	February 10
Virginia Hamilton	American Author	February 19
W. Clement Stone	American Businessman	September 3
Walter Annenberg	American Businessman	October 1
Walter Lord	American Author	May 19
Waylon Jennings	American Musician	February 13
William Pierce	American Celebrity	July 23
Spike Milligan	Irish Comedian	February 27
Sam Snead	American Athlete	May 23
Pim Fortuyn	Dutch Politician	May 6
Princess Margaret	British Royalty	February 9
Randy Castillo	American Musician	March 26
Ray Brown	American Musician	July 2
Ray Conniff	American Musician	October 12
Richard Cowper	English Writer	March 31
Richard Harris	Irish Actor	October 25
Richard Helms	American Celebrity	October 23
Richard M. Helms	American Celebrity	October 23
Robert Nozick	American Philosopher	January 23
Robert Urich	American Actor	April 16
Rod Steiger	American Actor	July 9
Roone Arledge	American Journalist	December 5
Rosemary Clooney	American Musician	June 29
Ruth Handler	American Businessman	April 27
Yousuf Karsh	Canadian Photographer	July 13
John Agar	American Actor	April 7
Abba Eban	Israeli Diplomat	November 17
Carl Olson	American Athlete	January 16
Chaim Potok	American Author	July 23
Charles Guggenheim	American Director	October 9
Chuck Jones	American Director	February 22
Cyrus Vance	American Statesman	January 12
Dan Devine	American Coach	May 9
Dave Thomas	American Businessman	January 8
Dave Van Ronk	American Musician	February 10
David Riesman	American Sociologist	May 10
Dee Brown	American Novelist	December 12
Dee Dee Ramone	American Musician	June 5
Dick Stuart	American Athlete	December 15
Dudley Moore	British Celebrity	March 27
Earle Brown	American Composer	July 2
Eddie Bracken	American Actor	November 14
Camilo Jose Cela	Spanish Writer	January 7
Byron White	American Judge	April 15
Abe Lemons	American Coach	September 2
Adolph Green	American Playwright	October 23
Aileen Wuornos	American Criminal	October 9
Alan Lomax	American Writer	July 19
Aleksandr Lebed	Russian Politician	April 28
Ann Landers	American Journalist	June 22
Astrid Lindgren	Swedish Author	January 28
Barbara Castle	British Politician	May 3
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison	American Writer	April 24
Barry Took	Comedian	March 31
Bill Blass	American Designer	June 12
Billy Wilder	American Director	March 27
Bob Hayes	American Athlete	September 18
Bruce Paltrow	American Producer	October 3
Buck Baker	American Celebrity	April 14
Edsger Dijkstra	Dutch Scientist	August 6
Eduardo Chillida	Spanish Sculptor
Edwin Louis Cole	American Author
Hildegard Knef	German Actress	February 1
Howard Cannon	American Politician	March 5
Howard K. Smith	American Journalist	February 15
Indra Devi	Latvian Celebrity	April 25
Isabelle Holland	Swiss Writer	February 9
Ivan Illich	American Sociologist	December 2
J. Lee Thompson	British Director	August 30
Jack Buck	American Celebrity	June 18
Jack Henry Abbott	American Author	February 10
Jam Master Jay	American Musician	October 30
James Coburn	American Actor	November 18
James Tobin	American Economist	March 11
Jan de Hartog	Dutch Writer	September 22
Jay Chiat	American Businessman	April 23
Jesse Brown	American Politician	August 15
Herb Ritts	American Photographer	December 26
Harry Hay	American Celebrity	October 24
Enos Slaughter	American Athlete	August 12
Erwin Chargaff	Austrian Scientist	June 20
Flora Lewis	American Journalist	June 2
Galen Rowell	American Photographer	August 11
Gene Mauch	American Athlete	August 8
George Alec Effinger	American Author	April 27
George Porter	English Scientist	August 31
George Roy Hill	American Director	December 27
George Sidney	American Director	May 5
Glenn Quinn	Irish Actor	December 3
Hans Janmaat	Dutch Politician	June 9
Hans-Georg Gadamer	German Philosopher	March 13
Hansie Cronje	South African Athlete	June 1
Harlan Howard	American Musician	March 3
Harold Russell	American Soldier	January 29
Joe Strummer	English Musician	December 22