1920) January 19 – Lamont Bentley, actor and rapper (b. 1973) January 20 – Roland Frye, theologian and critic (b. 1921) January 21 – Adrianne Leigh Reynolds, murder victim (b. 1988) January 23 – Johnny Carson, television host and comedian (b. 1925) January 25 – Philip Johnson, architect (b. 1906) January 28 – Lucien Carr, key member of the original New York City circle of the Beat Generation in the 1940s (b. 1925) February February 1 – John Vernon, Canadian actor (b. 1932) February 3 – Ernst Mayr, German-American evolutionary biologist (b. 1904) February 4 – Ossie Davis, American actor, director, poet, playwright, author and activist (b. 1917) February 5 – Bob Brannum, American basketball player (b. 1925) February 6 Elbert N. Carvel, politician (b. 1910) Merle Kilgore, singer and songwriter (b. 1934) February 8 Mike Bishop, American basketball player (b. 1958) George Herman, American journalist (b. 1920) Keith Knudsen, drummer (b. 1948) Jimmy Smith, jazz musician (b. 1925) February 10 – Arthur Miller, playwright and husband of Marilyn Monroe (b. 1915) February 11 – Jack L. Chalker, American author and writer (b. 1944) February 12 Brian Kelly, American actor (b. 1931) Sammi Smith, American country music singer-songwriter (b. 1943) February 13 – Nelson Briles, American baseball player (b. 1943) February 14 – Dick Weber, American boxer (b. 1929) February 14 – F. M. Busby, American author (b. 1921) February 15 – Samuel T. Francis, American Radical right columnist and writer. (b. 1947) February 20 Sandra Dee, actress (b. 1944) Hunter S. Thompson, journalist (b. 1937) February 24 – Hugh Nibley, American scholar and prominent member of the Church of Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints (b. 1910) February 25 – Ben Bowen, child cancer patient (b. 2002) February 26 – Jef Raskin, computer scientist (b. 1943) March March 6 Hans Bethe, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906) Teresa Wright, actress (b. 1918) March 9 – Chris LeDoux, rodeo performer and singer (b. 1949) March 13 – Lyn Collins, R&B singer (b. 1948) March 17 George F. Kennan, diplomat and political advisor (b. 1904) Andre Norton, writer (b. 1912) March 19 – John DeLorean, car maker (b. 1925) March 21 Bobby Short, pianist and singer (b. 1924) Jeff Weise, American teenage mass murderer and spree killer (b. 1988) March 29 Johnnie Cochran, American lawyer (b. 1937) Mitch Hedberg, American stand-up comedian (b. 1968) March 30 Robert Creeley, American poet (b. 1926)