Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1944) February 16 – Narriman Sadek, last Queen of Egypt (b. 1933) February 17 – Dan O'Herlihy, Irish actor (b. 1919) February 20 Sandra Dee, American actress (b. 1942) Josef Holeček, Czechoslovakian canoeist (b. 1921) Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist (b. 1937) February 21 Zdzisław Beksiński, Polish painter, photographer and sculptor (b. 1929) Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban novelist, essayist, translator, and screenwriter (b. 1929) February 22 – Simone Simon, French actress (b. 1910) February 25 Peter Benenson, British lawyer and founder of Amnesty International (b. 1921) Atef Sedky, 45th Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1930) March–April March 3 – Rinus Michels, Dutch football player and national coach (b. 1928) March 6 Hans Bethe, German-American physicist (b. 1906) Teresa Wright, American actress (b. 1918) March 8 – Aslan Maskhadov, Chechen separatist leader, 3rd President of Ichkeria (b. 1951) March 14 – Akira Yoshizawa, Japanese artist (b. 1911) March 15 – Otar Korkia, Georgian professional basketball player and coach (b. 1923) March 17 – George F. Kennan, American diplomat and political advisor (b. 1904) March 19 – John DeLorean, American engineer, inventor, and executive (b. 1925) March 21 – Gemini Ganesan, Indian actor (b. 1919) March 22 Clemente Domínguez y Gómez, Spanish spiritual leader (b. 1946) Kenzō Tange, Japanese architect (b. 1913) March 26 – James Callaghan, 70th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1912) March 29 – Mitch Hedberg, American stand-up comedian (b. 1968) April 2 – Pope John Paul II (b. 1920) April 5 – Saul Bellow, Canadian-American writer (b. 1915) April 6 – Rainier III, Prince of Monaco (b. 1923) April 9 – Andrea Dworkin, American writer (b. 1946) April 11 – Lucien Laurent, French footballer (b. 1907) April 13 – Nikola Ljubičić, Serbian general and politician, 10th President of Serbia (b. 1916) April 19 – Ruth Hussey, American actress (b. 1911) April 21 – Zhang Chunqiao, Chinese political theorist, writer, and politician (b. 1917) April 22 – Eduardo Paolozzi, Scottish sculptor and artist (b. 1924) April 23 – John Mills, English actor (b. 1908) April 24 – Ezer Weizman, 7th President of Israel (b. 1924) April 25 – Andre Gunder Frank, German-American sociologist and historian (b. 1929) April 26 Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguayan novelist (b. 1917) Maria Schell, Austrian actress (b. 1926) May–June May 2 – Wee Kim Wee, 4th President of Singapore (b. 1915) May 12 – Monica Zetterlund, Swedish singer