January 9 – Paul Vanden Boeynants, 2-time prime minister of Belgium (b. 1919) January 18 – Laurent-Désiré Kabila, president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1939) (see assassination of Laurent-Désiré Kabila) January 27 – Marie-José of Belgium, last Queen of Italy (b. 1906) February 6 – Trần Văn Lắm, South Vietnamese diplomat and politician (b. 1913) March 4 – Harold Stassen, American politician, 25th Governor of Minnesota (b. 1907) March 20 – Ilie Verdeț, 51st prime minister of Romania (b. 1925) April 20 – Va'ai Kolone, Prime Minister of Samoa (b. 1911) April 29 – Barend Biesheuvel, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1971–1973) (b. 1920) May 22 – Jenő Fock, 49th prime minister of Hungary (b. 1916) June 1 – Nepalese royal massacre: Queen Aishwarya of Nepal (b. 1949) King Birendra of Nepal (b. 1944) Prince Nirajan of Nepal (b. 1978) Princess Shruti of Nepal (b. 1976) June 4 – King Dipendra of Nepal (b. 1971) June 7 – Víctor Paz Estenssoro, 45th President of Bolivia (b. 1907) June 10 – Leila Pahlavi, Iranian princess (b. 1970) July 10 – Álvaro Magaña, 38th President of El Salvador (b. 1925) July 25 Phoolan Devi, Indian politician (b. 1963) Josef Klaus, 16th Chancellor of Austria (b. 1910) July 29 – Edward Gierek, Polish politician (b. 1913) July 31 – Francisco da Costa Gomes, 15th President of Portugal (b. 1914) August 6 – Dương Văn Minh, 4th and final President of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) (b. 1916) August 11 – Carlos Hank González, Mexican politician (b. 1927) August 26 – Marita Petersen, 8th prime minister of Faroe Islands (b. 1940) August 27 – Abu Ali Mustafa, PFLP leader (b. 1938) August 30 – A. F. M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhury, 9th president of Bangladesh (b. 1915) September 9 – Ahmad Shah Massoud, Afghan military commander (b. 1953) September 20 – Marcos Pérez Jiménez, 51st President of Venezuela (b. 1914) September 29 – Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, 2nd President of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) (b. 1923) October 5 – Mike Mansfield, American politician and diplomat (b. 1903) October 15 – Chang Hsueh-liang, Chinese military figure (b. 1901) October 17 – Rehavam Ze'evi, Israeli general and politician (b. 1926) (see assassination of Rehavam Ze'evi) October 25 – Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary, Queen consort of Iran (b. 1932) November – Mohammed Atef, Al-Qaeda leader (b. 1944) November 1 – Juan Bosch, President of the Dominican