Lev Polugaevsky, Belarusian chess Grandmaster (b. 1934) September September 4 – William Kunstler, American radical lawyer and civil rights activist (b. 1919) September 8 – Eileen Chang, Chinese writer (b. 1920) September 12 – Jeremy Brett, English actor (b. 1933) September 15 Pedro Nolasco, Dominican boxer (b. 1963) Gunnar Nordahl, Swedish footballer (b. 1921) September 19 – Sir Rudolf Peierls, German-born British physicist (b. 1907) September 21 - Ken Willard, American animator (b. 1959) September 25 – Kei Tomiyama, Japanese actor, voice actor, and narrator (b. 1938) September 29 – Madalyn Murray O'Hair, American activist (b. 1919) October October 5 Linda Gary, American film and television actress and voice actress (b. 1944) Pin Malakul, Thai educator and politician (b. 1903) October 9 Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1903) M.R. Kukrit Pramoj, Thai politician and 13th Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1911) October 19 – Don Cherry, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1936) October 21 – Shannon Hoon, American singer-songwriter (b. 1967) October 22 Andrés Aguilar Mawdsley Venezuelan lawyer and diplomat (b. 1924) Kingsley Amis, English writer (b. 1922) Mary Wickes, American actress (b. 1910) October 25 Viveca Lindfors, Swedish actress (b. 1920) Bobby Riggs, American tennis player (b. 1918) October 26 – Wilhelm Freddie, Danish painter (b. 1909) October 31 Alan Bush, British composer, pianist, and conductor (b. 1900) Rosalind Cash, American actress (b. 1938) Bill Rowling, 30th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1927) November November 4 Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher (b. 1925) Paul Eddington, English actor (b. 1927) Yitzhak Rabin, 5th Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1922) November 7 – Ann Dunham, American anthropologist (b. 1942) November 12 – Robert Stephens, English actor (b. 1931) November 20 – Sergei Grinkov, Russian figure skater (b. 1967) November 23 – Louis Malle, French film director (b. 1932) November 24 – Jeffrey Lynn, American actor (b. 1909) December December 2 – Robertson Davies, Canadian novelist (b. 1913) December 9 – Vivian Blaine, American actress and singer (b. 1921) December 12 – Princess Caroline-Mathilde of Denmark, Danish princess (b. 1912) December 13 – Anatoly Dyatlov, Soviet engineer in charge during the Chernobyl disaster (b. 1931) December 18 Nathan Rosen, Israeli physicist (b. 1909) Konrad Zuse, German engineer (b. 1910) December 20 – Madge Sinclair, Jamaican-American actress (b. 1938) December 22 Butterfly McQueen, American actress (b. 1911) James Meade, English economist (b. 1907) December 23 – Patric Knowles, English actor