and actress (b. 1937) May 13 – George Dantzig, American mathematician (b. 1914) May 17 – Frank Gorshin, American actor, impressionist, and comedian (b. 1933) May 20 – Paul Ricœur, French philosopher (b. 1913) May 21 – Howard Morris, American actor (b. 1919) May 25 Sunil Dutt, Indian actor, producer, director and politician (b. 1929) Ismail Merchant, Indian film producer (b. 1936) May 26 Eddie Albert, American actor and activist (b. 1906) Sangoulé Lamizana, 2nd President and 2nd Prime Minister of Burkina Faso (b. 1916) June 1 – George Mikan, American basketball player (b. 1924) June 6 Anne Bancroft, American actress (b. 1931) Bolívar Urrutia Parrilla, 21st President of Panama (b. 1918) June 11 – Vasco Gonçalves, 103rd Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1921) June 13 – Álvaro Cunhal, Portuguese politician (b. 1913) June 13 – Carlo Maria Giulini, Italian conductor (b. 1914) June 20 – Jack Kilby, American engineer and Nobel laureate (b. 1923) June 21 – Jaime Sin, 30th Archbishop of Manila (b. 1928) July–August July 1 – Luther Vandross, American singer (b. 1951) July 4 – June Haver, American actress and singer (b. 1926) July 6 Ed McBain, American writer (b. 1926) Claude Simon, Malagasy-French novelist and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913) July 11 – Frances Langford, American actress and singer (b. 1913) July 17 Edward Heath, 68th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1916) Geraldine Fitzgerald, Irish actress (b. 1913) July 18 – William Westmoreland, American army general (b. 1914) July 20 – James Doohan, Canadian actor, voice actor, author and soldier (b. 1920) July 21 – Long John Baldry, English-Canadian musician and voice actor (b. 1941) July 31 – Wim Duisenberg, Dutch politician (b. 1935) August 1 – King Fahd of Saudi Arabia (b. 1921) August 6 – Vizma Belševica, Latvian poet, writer and translator (b. 1931) August 7 – Peter Jennings, Canadian-American news anchor (b. 1938) August 8 – Barbara Bel Geddes, American actress, artist, and children's author (b. 1922) August 9 – Colette Besson, French Olympic athlete (b. 1946) August 13 – David Lange, 32nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1942) August 16 – Brother Roger (Roger Schütz), Swiss monastic brother and founder of the Taizé Community (b. 1915) August 19 Faimalaga Luka, 6th Prime Minister of Tuvalu (b. 1940) Mo Mowlam, British politician and peace campaigner (b. 1949) August 31 – Joseph Rotblat, Polish-born physicist (b. 1908) September–October September