long distance runnner November 14 – Josh Green, Australian basketball player November 20 Rosa Linn, Armenian singer Connie Talbot, British singer November 22 – Auliʻi Cravalho, American actress, voice actress, and singer December 22 – Pauletta Foppa, French handball player December 26 – Vittoria Guazzini, Italian cyclist December 28 – Larissa Manoela, Brazilian actress and singer Deaths January January 2 Patrick O'Brian, British writer (b. 1914) Princess María de las Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, mother of King Juan Carlos I (b. 1910) January 3 – Bernhard Wicki, Austrian actor and director (b. 1919) January 4 – Spyros Markezinis, Greek politician, 169th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1909) January 6 – Alexey Vyzmanavin, Russian chess Grandmaster (b. 1960) January 13 – Antti Hyvärinen, Finnish Olympic ski jumper (b. 1932) January 15 – Željko Ražnatović, Serbian mobster and paramilitary leader (b. 1952) January 19 Bettino Craxi, Italian politician, 45th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1934) Hedy Lamarr, Austrian actress (b. 1914) January 21 – Saeb Salam, Lebanese politician, 20th Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1905) January 23 – Marat Ospanov, Kazakh politician, 1st Chairman of Mazhilis (b. 1949) January 26 Don Budge, American tennis player (b. 1915) A. E. van Vogt, Canadian-American science fiction author (b. 1912) February February 5 – Claude Autant-Lara, French film director (b. 1901) February 7 – Big Pun, American rapper (b. 1971) February 8 – Ion Gheorghe Maurer, Romanian lawyer and politician, 49th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1902) February 10 – Jim Varney, American actor and comedian (b. 1949) February 11 Jacqueline Auriol, French aviator (b. 1917) Roger Vadim, French film director and producer (b. 1928) February 12 Charles M. Schulz, American comic strip artist (b. 1922) Screamin' Jay Hawkins, American rock singer and performer (b. 1929) February 19 Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian artist (b. 1928) Djidingar Dono Ngardoum, 2nd Prime Minister of Chad (b. 1928) February 23 Ofra Haza, Israeli singer (b. 1957) Sir Stanley Matthews, English footballer (b. 1915) March March 2 – Sandra Schmirler, Canadian Olympic curler (b. 1963) March 5 – Lolo Ferrari, French actress and dancer (b. 1963) March 6 – Abraham Waligo, Ugandan politician, 4th Prime Minister of Uganda (b. 1928) March 7 – Charles Gray, English actor (b. 1928) March 11 – Alfred Schwarzmann, German gymnast (b. 1912) March 12 – Mack Robinson, American athlete (b. 1914) March 27 – Ian Dury, British rock musician (b. 1942) March 28 –