Pierre Charles, 5th Prime Minister of Dominica (b. 1954) January 7 – Ingrid Thulin, Swedish actress (b. 1926) January 9 – Norberto Bobbio, Italian philosopher (b. 1909) January 13 – Harold Shipman, British serial killer (b. 1946) January 14 – Uta Hagen, American actress (b. 1919) January 16 – Kalevi Sorsa, Finnish politician, 34th Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1930) January 17 – Czesław Niemen, Polish singer-songwriter (b. 1939) January 18 – Galina Korchuganova, Russian-born Soviet test pilot and aerobatics champion (b. 1935) January 22 – Ann Miller, American dancer and actress (b. 1923) January 23 – Helmut Newton, German-Australian photographer (b. 1920) January 24 – Leônidas, Brazilian footballer (b. 1913) January 25 Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch athlete (b. 1918) Miklós Fehér, Hungarian footballer (b. 1979) January 30 – Suraiya, Indian actress and playback singer (b. 1929) February February 8 – Cem Karaca, Turkish rock musician (b. 1945) February 11 – Shirley Strickland, Australian Olympic athlete (b. 1925) February 14 – Marco Pantani, Italian cyclist (b. 1970) February 17 – José López Portillo, 51st President of Mexico (b. 1920) February 21 – John Charles, Welsh footballer (b. 1931) February 24 – John Randolph, American actor (b. 1915) February 26 – Boris Trajkovski, 2nd president of the Republic of Macedonia (b. 1956) February 27 – Paul Sweezy, American economist and editor (b. 1910) February 28 – Daniel J. Boorstin, American historian and Librarian of Congress (b. 1914) February 29 – Harold Bernard St. John, 3rd Prime Minister of Barbados (b. 1931) March March 2 – Mercedes McCambridge, American actress (b. 1916) March 4 – Claude Nougaro, French singer (b. 1929) March 5 – Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy, 31st President of Ecuador (b. 1919) March 7 – Paul Winfield, American actor (b. 1939) March 8 – Muhammad Zaidan (Abu Abbas), founder of the Palestine Liberation Front (b. 1948) March 15 – John Pople, English chemist and Nobel laureate (b. 1925) March 18 – Abdujalil Samadov, 4th Prime Minister of Tajikistan (b. 1949) March 20 – Juliana, Queen regnant of the Netherlands (b. 1909) March 22 – Ahmed Yassin, Palestinian co-founder of Hamas (b. 1937) March 26 – Jan Sterling, American actress (b. 1921) March 29 – Peter Ustinov, English actor and director (b. 1921) March 30 – Alistair Cooke, English-born American journalist and broadcaster (b. 1908) April April 1 – Carrie Snodgress, American actress (b. 1945) April 9 – Jiří Weiss, Czech film