- Frank Schirrmacher (54), German journalist and essayist (born 1959) 21 June - Johannes Strassmann (29), German poker player (born 1985) 22 June - Werner Biskup (72), German football player (born 1942) 28 June - Peter Klose (60), German politician (born 1953) July 5 July - Hans-Ulrich Wehler, German historian (born 1931) 7 July - Horst Bollmann, German actor (born 1925) 14 July - Karl Düsterberg (97), German manager (born 1917) 15 July - Edda Buding (77, German tennis player (born 1936) 16 July - Karl Albrecht (94), German manager (born 1920) 21 July - Hans-Peter Kaul (70), German judge (born 1943) 30 July - Harun Farocki (70), German film director (born 1944) August 1 August - Gert von Paczensky (88), German journalist (born 1925) 2 August - Otmar Hornbach (84), German manager (born 1930) 5 August - Elfriede Brüning (103), German writer (born 1910) 10 August - Günter Junghans (73), German actor (born 1941) 15 August - Hermann Weber (92), German historian (born 1928) 16 August - Peter Scholl-Latour (90), German journalist (born 1924) 20 August - Klaus Zapf (62), German manager (born 1952) 20 August - Gert Schaefer (58), German actor (born 1955) 21 August - Werner Liersch (81), German writer (born 1932) 24 August - Walter Pradt (65), German football player (born 1949) 25 August - Karl Ganzhorn (93), German physicist (born 1921) 27 August - Benno Pludra (88), German writer (born 1925) September 1 September - Gottfried John (72), German actor (born 1942) 4 September - Wolfhart Pannenberg (85), German theologian (born 1928) 11 September - Joachim Fuchsberger, German actor and television moderator (born 1927) 20 September - Anton-Günther, Duke of Oldenburg (born 1923) October 3 October - Peer Augustinski (74), German actor (born 1940) 7 October - Siegfried Lenz (88), German writer (born 1926) November 1 November - Klaus Bölling (86), German publisher (born 1928) 8 November – Hannes Hegen (89), German cartoonist and illustrator (born 1925) 13 November - Alexander Grothendieck (86), German-born mathematician (born 1928) 19 November - Mike Nichols (83), German-born American director (born 1931) December 9 December - Karl Otto Pöhl (85), German economist (born 1929) 10 December - Ralph Giordano (89), German writer (born 1923) 13 December - Ernst Albrecht (84), German politician (born 1930) 14 December - Alois Graf von Waldburg-Zeil, German politician (born 1933) 22 December - Fritz Sdunek (67), German boxing trainer and amateur boxer (born 1947)