Jimmy Griffin	American Musician	January 11
Melita Norwood	British Criminal	June 2
Mel Gussow	American Critic	April 29
Max Schmeling	German Athlete	February 2
Matthew McGrory	American Actor	August 9
Martin Denny	American Musician	March 2
Maria Schell	Austrian Actress	April 26
M. Scott Peck	American Psychologist	September 25
Luther Vandross	American Musician	July 1
Mitch Hedberg	American Comedian	March 30
Moustapha Akkad	Syrian Director	November 10
Peter Drucker	American Businessman	November 11
Peter Benenson	British Lawyer	February 25
Percy Heath	American Musician	April 28
Paul Winchell	American Entertainer	June 24
Paul Ricoeur	French Philosopher	May 20
Pat Morita	Japanese Actor	November 24
Ossie Davis	American Actor	February 4
Nipsey Russell	American Comedian	October 2
Luc Ferrari	French Composer	August 22
Lloyd Norton Cutler	American Lawyer	May 8
John T. Walton	American Businessman	June 27
John Spencer	American Actor	December 16
John Raitt	American Actor	February 20
John Mills	British Actor	April 23
John H. Johnson	American Businessman	August 8
John Fowles	English Novelist	November 5
John DeLorean	American Businessman	March 19
Joe Grant	American Artist	May 6
Johnnie Cochran	American Lawyer	March 29
Johnny Carson	American Comedian	January 23
Lloyd Cutler	American Lawyer	May 8
Little Milton	American Musician	August 4
Link Wray	American Musician	November 5
Leon Askin	Austrian Actor	June 3
Kerry Packer	Australian Businessman	December 26
Kenzo Tange	Japanese Architect	March 22
Judith Rossner	American Novelist	August 9
Joseph Rotblat	Polish Physicist	August 31
Peter Jennings	Canadian Journalist
Peter Malkin	Israeli Public Servant	March 1
Philip Johnson	American Architect	January 25
Spencer Dryden	American Musician	January 11
Skitch Henderson	American Musician	November 1
Simon Wiesenthal	Austrian Activist	September 20
Shirley Chisholm	American Politician	January 1
Shelby Foote	American Author	June 27
Shana Alexander	American Journalist	June 23
Serge Lang	Mathematician	September 12
Saul Bellow	American Novelist	April 5
Teresa Wright	American Actress	March 6
Victoria de los Angeles	Spanish Musician	January 15
William Westmoreland	American Soldier	July 18
William Rehnquist	American Judge	September 3
William Proxmire	American Politician	December 15
Will Eisner	American Cartoonist	January 3
Wellington Mara	American Businessman	October 25
Walter Wriston	American Businessman	January 19
Vine Deloria, Jr.	Sioux Author	November 13
Vincent Schiavelli	American Actor	December 26
Sandra Dee	American Actress	February 20
Ruth Warrick	American Musician	January 15
Robert Creeley	American Poet	March 30
Richard Pryor	American Actor	December 10
Richard Eberhart	American Poet	June 9
Rene Rivkin	Australian Businessman	May 1
Ralph Erskine	English Architect	March 16
Rafik Hariri	Lebanese Statesman	February 14
Pope John Paul II	Polish Clergyman	April 2
Philip Morrison	American Scientist	April 22
Robert Heilbroner	American Economist	January 4
Robert Matsui	American Politician	January 1
Rose Mary Woods	American Celebrity	January 22
Rosa Parks	American Activist	October 24
Ronnie Barker	English Comedian	October 3
Rona Jaffe	American Novelist	December 30
Robin Cook	Scottish Politician	August 6
Robert Wise	American Producer	September 14
Robert Sheckley	American Author	December 9
Robert Moog	American Inventor	August 21
Zhao Ziyang	Chinese Statesman	January 17
Adolfo Aguilar Zinser	Mexican Diplomat	June 5
Don Rose	American Entertainer	March 30
Don Adams	American Comedian	September 25
Derek Bailey	English Musician	December 25
David Hackworth	American Soldier	May 4
Danny Sugerman	American Musician	January 5
Dale Messick	American Artist	April 5
Constance Baker Motley	American Activist	September 28
Claude Simon	Writer	July 6
Dorothy Nolte	American Writer	November 6
Dorothy Stang	American Clergyman	February 12
Ernst Mayr	German Scientist	February 3
Ernest Lehman		July 2
Elizabeth Janeway	American Author	January 15
Edward Heath	English Leader	July 17
Eddie Guerrero	American Entertainer	November 13
Eddie Barclay	French Musician	May 13
Eddie Albert	Actor	May 26
Earl Wilson	American Athlete	April 23
Christopher Fry	English Playwright	June 30
Chris LeDoux	American Musician	March 9
Arthur Miller	American Playwright	February 10
Anne Bancroft	American Actress	June 6
Andrea Dworkin	American Critic	April 9
Andre Norton	American Writer	March 17
Amrish Puri	Indian Actor	January 12
Alice Thomas Ellis	British Writer	March 8
Alan Dundes	American Educator	March 30
Al Lopez	American Coach	October 30
Aslan Maskhadov	Chechen Politician	March 8
August Wilson	American Playwright	October 2
Chris Bunch	American Writer	July 4
Charlie Bell	Australian Businessman	January 17
Charles L. Allen	American Clergyman
Bobby Short	American Musician	March 21
Bob Matsui	American Politician	January 1
Bob Denver	American Actor	September 2
Birgit Nilsson	Swedish Musician	December 25
Augusto Roa Bastos	Paraguayan Novelist	April 26
Eugene McCarthy	American Politician	December 10
Evan Hunter	American Author	July 6
Ezer Weizman	Israeli Statesman	April 24
Hunter S. Thompson	American Journalist	February 20
Humphrey Carpenter	English Author	November 4
Hugh Sidey	American Journalist	November 21
Howell Heflin	American Politician	March 29
Henry Taube	Canadian Scientist	November 16
Henry Harland	American Novelist	December 20
Henry Anatole Grunwald	Austrian Editor	February 28
Hasil Adkins	American Musician	April 26
Ismail Merchant	Indian Producer	May 25
Jack Anderson	Journalist	December 17
Jef Raskin	American Scientist	February 26
Jean O'Leary	American Activist	June 4
James Stockdale	American Soldier	July 5
James Jarrell Pickle	American Politician	June 18
James Houston	Canadian Artist	April 17
James Callaghan	English Leader	March 26
Jack L. Chalker	American Author	February 11
Jack Kilby	American Scientist	June 20
Hans Bethe	American Scientist	March 6
Hank Stram	American Athlete	July 4
Gene Scott	American Clergyman	February 21
Gaylord Nelson	American Politician	July 3
Fritz Scholder	American Artist	February 10
Fred Korematsu	American Celebrity	March 30
Frank Perdue	American Businessman	March 31
Frank Kelly Freas	American Writer	January 2
Frank Gorshin	American Actor	May 17
Fay Godwin	British Photographer	May 27
George Archer	American Athlete	September 25
George Best	Irish Athlete	November 25
Guillermo Cabrera Infante	Cuban Novelist	February 21
Greg Garrison	American Director	March 25
Graham Kennedy	Australian Entertainer	May 25
Gordon Gould	American Physicist	September 16
Gnassingbe Eyadema	Togolese Statesman	February 5
George Herman	American Journalist	February 8
George Gerbner	Hungarian Journalist	December 24
George F. Kennan	American Historian	March 17
Jim Capaldi	British Musician	January 28