(b. 1917) March 20 – Taha Yassin Ramadan, Vice President of Iraq (b. 1938) March 25 – Andranik Margaryan, 14th Prime Minister of Armenia (b. 1951) March 30 – Chrisye, Indonesian pop singer and songwriter (b. 1949) April 6 – Luigi Comencini, Italian film director (b. 1916) April 7 – Barry Nelson, American actor (b. 1917) April 11 – Kurt Vonnegut, American novelist and playwright (b. 1922) April 16 – Seung-Hui Cho, South Korean terrorist (b. 1984) April 17 – Kitty Carlisle, American singer, actress & talk show panelist (b. 1910) April 19 – Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (b. 1932) April 23 David Halberstam, American journalist and historian (b. 1934) Boris Yeltsin, 1st President of the Russian Federation (b. 1931) April 25 – Alan Ball Jr., English footballer and manager (b. 1945) April 27 – Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor (b. 1927) April 28 – Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, German physicist and philosopher (b. 1912) April 29 – Ivica Račan, 7th Prime Minister of Croatia (b. 1944) April 30 – Gordon Scott, American actor (b. 1926) May–June May 3 – Wally Schirra, American astronaut (b. 1923) May 5 – Theodore Maiman, American physicist (b. 1927) May 7 – Diego Corrales, American professional boxer (b. 1977) May 11 – Malietoa Tanumafili II, Samoan head of state (b. 1913) May 12 – Mullah Dadullah Akhund, Afghan Taliban military leader (b. 1966) May 16 – Mary Douglas, British anthropologist (b. 1921) May 17 – Lloyd Alexander, American author (b. 1924) May 18 – Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist and Nobel Prize for Physics laureate (b. 1932) May 20 – Stanley Miller, American chemist and biologist (b. 1930) May 27 – Izumi Sakai, Japanese singer (Zard) (b. 1967) May 30 – Jean-Claude Brialy, French actor and director (b. 1933) June 2 – Huang Ju, Chinese politician (b. 1938) June 8 – Aden Abdullah Osman Daar, first President of Somalia (b. 1908) June 11 – Tito Gómez, Puerto Rican salsa singer (b. 1948) June 14 – Kurt Waldheim, Austrian politician and diplomat, former United Nations Secretary-General (b. 1918) June 17 – Gianfranco Ferré, Italian designer (b. 1944) June 18 – Vilma Espín, Cuban revolutionary, feminist, and chemical engineer (b. 1930) June 19 – Antonio Aguilar, Mexican singer and actor (b. 1919) June 24 Chris Benoit, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1967) Derek Dougan, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1938) June 26 – Jupp Derwall, German footballer