artistic gymnast Deaths January January 4 – Iron Eyes Cody, Italian-American actor (b. 1904) January 6 – Michel Petrucciani, French jazz pianist and composer (b. 1962) January 11 Teuvo Aura, Finnish politician, 33rd Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1912) Fabrizio De André, Italian singer and songwriter (b. 1940) Brian Moore, Northern Irish-Canadian writer (b. 1921) January 12 – Betty Lou Gerson, American actress (b. 1914) January 14 – Jerzy Grotowski, Polish theatre director (b. 1933) January 21 – Susan Strasberg, American actress (b. 1938) January 22 – Graham Staines, Australian missionary (b. 1941) January 23 – Joe D'Amato, Italian film director, producer, cinematographer, and screenwriter (b. 1936) January 25 – Robert Shaw, American conductor (b. 1916) February February 1 – Barış Manço, Turkish singer and television personality (b. 1943) February 2 - Deborah Makepeace, English actress (b. 1957). February 5 – Wassily Leontief, Russian economist (b. 1906) February 7 King Hussein of Jordan (b. 1935) Bobby Troup, American actor, jazz pianist, singer and songwriter (b. 1918) February 8 – Dame Iris Murdoch, Anglo-Irish author (b. 1919) February 12 – Heinz Schubert, German actor and photographer (b. 1925) February 14 Buddy Knox, American singer and songwriter (b. 1933) John Ehrlichman, American Watergate scandal figure (b. 1925) February 15 Big L, American rapper (b. 1974) Henry Way Kendall, American physicist (b. 1926) February 16 – Björn Afzelius, Swedish singer, songwriter and guitarist (b. 1947) February 18 – Andreas Feininger, French-born photographer (b. 1906) February 20 Sarah Kane, English playwright (b. 1971) Gene Siskel, American film critic (b. 1946) February 21 – Gertrude B. Elion, American biochemist and pharmacologist (b. 1918) February 25 – Glenn T. Seaborg, American chemist (b. 1912) February 28 Bing Xin, Chinese author and poet (b. 1900) Bill Talbert, American tennis player (b. 1918) March March 2 – Dusty Springfield, English pop singer (b. 1939) March 3 Jackson C. Frank, American folk musician (b. 1943) Gerhard Herzberg, German-born chemist (b. 1904) March 4 Harry Blackmun, American judge, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (b. 1908) Fritz Honegger, Swiss politician, 79th President of Switzerland (b. 1917) March 5 – Richard Kiley, American actor (b. 1922) March 6 Dennis Viollet, English footballer (b. 1933) Emir Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa of Bahrain (b. 1931) March 7 – Stanley Kubrick, American film director and producer (b. 1928) March 8 Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentine writer (b. 1914) Peggy Cass, American actress, comedian, and