- Diana Bliss, Australian director and producer (b. 1954)
- Joseph Curran, American basketball player and coach (b. 1922)
- Don Fullmer, American boxer (b. 1939)
- Keriman Halis Ece, Turkish pianist and model, Miss Universe 1932 (b. 1913)
- Roman Juszkiewicz, Polish astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1952)
- Don Starkell, Canadian adventurer and author (b. 1932)
- Eddy Choong, Malaysian badminton player (b. 1930)
- Florentino Fernández, Cuban boxer (b. 1936)
- Hattie N. Harrison, American politician (b. 1928)
- Lonnie Goldstein, American baseball player (b. 1918)
- Reg Jenkins, English footballer (b. 1938)
- Oldřich Kulhánek, Czech painter (b. 1940)
- Xu Liangying, Chinese physicist, historian, and philosopher (b. 1920)
- Herbert Loebl, German-English businessman and philanthropist (b. 1923)
- Dan Massey, American activist and author (b. 1942)
- Mark Palmer, American diplomat (b. 1941)
- Ladislav Pavlovič, Slovak footballer (b. 1926)
- Ceija Stojka, Austrian-Romanian holocaust survivor, author, and painter (b. 1933)
- Earl Williams, American baseball player (b. 1948)
- Benedict Zilliacus, Finnish journalist, author, and screenwriter (b. 1921)
- Paul Hansard, German actor (b. 1922)
- John Cacavas, American composer and conductor (b. 1930)
- Harry Gamble, American football player, coach, and manager (b. 1930)
- Dwight Gustafson, American composer and conductor (b. 1930)
- Nigel Jenkins, Welsh poet, journalist, psychogeographer (b. 1949)
- Fernand Leduc, Canadian painter (b. 1916)
- Gudo Wafu Nishijima, Japanese priest and educator (b. 1919)
- Jorge Obeid, Argentinian engineer and politician, Governor of Santa Fe (b. 1947)