1919) February 16 – Len Lesser, American actor (b. 1922) February 23 – Shri Mataji Nirmala Srivastava, Indian founder of Sahaja Yoga (b. 1923) February 27 Gary Winick, American filmmaker (b. 1961) Necmettin Erbakan, 25th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1926) February 28 Annie Girardot, French actress (b. 1931) Jane Russell, American actress (b. 1921) March March 2 – Allan Louisy, 2nd Prime Minister of Saint Lucia (b. 1916) March 4 Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, 30th Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1924) Simon van der Meer, Dutch Nobel physicist (b. 1925) March 5 – Alberto Granado, Cuban writer and scientist (b. 1922) March 6 – Ján Popluhár, Slovak footballer (b. 1935) March 8 – Mike Starr, American musician (b. 1966) March 15 – Nate Dogg, American rapper (b. 1969) March 17 – Michael Gough, British actor (b. 1916) March 18 – Warren Christopher, American diplomat (b. 1925) March 21 Nikolai Andrianov, Soviet-Russian gymnast (b. 1952) Pinetop Perkins, American singer and pianist (b. 1913) March 23 – Dame Elizabeth Taylor, British-American actress (b. 1932) March 26 Paul Baran, Polish-American computer engineer (b. 1926) Geraldine Ferraro, American politician (b. 1935) Diana Wynne Jones, British writer (b. 1934) March 27 – Farley Granger, American actor (b. 1925) March 29 – José Alencar, Brazilian politician, 23rd Vice President of Brazil (b. 1931) April April 4 Juliano Mer-Khamis, Israeli actor, director, filmmaker, and political activist (b. 1958) Scott Columbus, American drummer (b. 1956) April 5 Baruch Samuel Blumberg, American physician (b. 1925) Ange-Félix Patassé, 5th President of the Central African Republic (b. 1937) April 9 – Sidney Lumet, American film director (b. 1924) April 14 – William Lipscomb, American chemist (b. 1919) April 17 – Michael Sarrazin, Canadian actor (b. 1940) April 19 Elisabeth Sladen, English actress (b. 1946) Grete Waitz, Norwegian athlete (b. 1953) April 21 – Tim Hetherington, British photojournalist (b. 1970) April 24 Sathya Sai Baba, Indian spiritual leader (b. 1926) Trần Lệ Xuân, South Vietnamese political figure and First Lady of South Vietnam (b. 1924) April 25 Joe Perry, American football player (b. 1927) Poly Styrene, British musician (b. 1957) April 30 – Ernesto Sabato, Argentine writer (b. 1911) May May 1 – Henry Cooper, British heavyweight boxer (b. 1934) May 2 – Osama bin Laden, Saudi-born leader of Al-Qaeda (b. 1957) May 3 – Jackie Cooper, American actor (b. 1922) May 4 – Sada Thompson, American actress (b. 1927) May 5