Anthony Powell, British author (b. 1905) March 30 – Rudolf Kirchschläger, Austrian diplomat and 8th President of Austria (b. 1915) April April 2 – Tommaso Buscetta, Italian mafioso informant (b. 1928) April 3 – Terence McKenna, American ethnobotanist, writer and public speaker (b. 1946) April 5 – Lee Petty, American race-car driver (b. 1914) April 6 – Habib Bourguiba, 1st President of Tunisia (b. 1903) April 8 – Claire Trevor, American actress (b. 1910) April 10 – Rabah Bitat, Algerian politician and Interim President of Algeria (b. 1925) April 15 – Edward Gorey, American writer and illustrator (b. 1925) April 16 – Putra of Perlis, Malaysian King (b. 1920) April 28 – Penelope Fitzgerald, English novelist, poet, essayist and biographer (b. 1916) April 29 – Phạm Văn Đồng, 2nd Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) (b. 1906) April 30 – Poul Hartling, Danish diplomat and politician, 21st Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1914) May May 1 – Steve Reeves, American actor and bodybuilder (b. 1926) May 7 – Douglas Fairbanks Jr., American actor (b. 1909) May 8 – Hubert Maga, 1st President of Dahomey (b. 1916) May 14 – Keizō Obuchi, Japanese politician, 54th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1937) May 19 Petter Hugsted, Norwegian Olympic ski jumper (b. 1921) Yevgeny Khrunov, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1933) May 21 Dame Barbara Cartland, British novelist (b. 1901) Sir John Gielgud, British actor (b. 1904) Erich Mielke, German secret police official (b. 1907) May 24 – Oleg Yefremov, Soviet and Russian actor and theater producer (b. 1927) May 25 – Francis Lederer, French film and stage actor (b. 1899) May 27 – Maurice Richard, Canadian hockey player (b. 1921) May 31 Petar Mladenov, Bulgarian diplomat and politician, 1st President of Bulgaria (b. 1936) Tito Puente, American jazz musician (b. 1923) June June 3 – Merton Miller, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1923) June 10 – Hafez al-Assad, Syrian politician and general, 18th President of Syria (b. 1930) June 16 – Empress Kōjun of Japan (b. 1903) June 18 – Nancy Marchand, American actress (b. 1928) June 19 – Noboru Takeshita, Japanese politician, 46th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1924) June 24 – David Tomlinson, English actor (b. 1917) June 27 – Pierre Pflimlin, French politician, 97th Prime Minister of France (b. 1907) June 29 – Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor (b. 1922) July July 1 – Walter