March 16 Bill Brown, Australian cricketer (b. 1912) Ivan Dixon, American actor (b. 1931) March 18 – Anthony Minghella, English film director and screenwriter (b. 1954) March 19 Sir Arthur C. Clarke, English author, inventor, and futurist (b. 1917) Hugo Claus, Flemish writer, painter, and film director (b. 1929) Paul Scofield, English actor (b. 1922) March 21 – Klaus Dinger, German musician (b. 1946) March 22 – Adolfo Suárez Rivera, Mexican cardinal (b. 1927) March 24 Neil Aspinall, British record producer and business executive (b. 1942) Richard Widmark, American actor (b. 1914) March 26 – Manuel Marulanda, Colombian guerrilla (b. 1930) March 27 – Jean-Marie Balestre, French sports executive (b. 1921) March 30 – Dith Pran, Cambodian-American photojournalist (b. 1942) March 31 – Jules Dassin, American film director (b. 1911) April April 3 – Hrvoje Ćustić, Croatian footballer (b. 1983) April 5 – Charlton Heston, American actor (b. 1923) April 8 – Stanley Kamel, American actor (b. 1943) April 10 – Ernesto Corripio y Ahumada, Mexican cardinal (b. 1919) April 12 – Patrick Hillery, 6th President of Ireland (b. 1923) April 13 – John Archibald Wheeler, American theoretical physicist (b. 1911) April 14 – Ollie Johnston, American animator (b. 1912) April 15 – Benoît Lamy, Belgian motion picture writer and director (b. 1945) April 16 – Edward Norton Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist (b. 1917) April 17 – Aimé Césaire, French Martinican poet and politician (b. 1913) April 26 – Árpád Orbán, Hungarian footballer (b. 1938) April 29 – Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist and writer (b. 1906) May May 1 Anthony Mamo, 1st president of Malta (b. 1909) Philipp von Boeselager, German Wehrmacht officer involved in the 20 July Plot (b. 1917) May 3 – Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, Spanish prime minister (b. 1926) May 8 Eddy Arnold, American country music singer (b. 1918) François Sterchele, Belgian footballer (b. 1982) May 10 – Leyla Gencer, Turkish soprano (b. 1928) May 11 – John Rutsey, Canadian musician (b. 1952) May 12 Robert Rauschenberg, American pop artist (b. 1925) Irena Sendler, Polish humanitarian (b. 1910) May 13 Saad Al-Salim Al-Sabah, fourth Emir of Kuwait (b. 1930) Bernardin Gantin, Beninese cardinal (b. 1922) John Phillip Law, American actor (b. 1937) May 15 Willis Lamb, American physicist and Nobel laureate (b. 1913) Tommy Burns, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1956) May 19 – Vijay Tendulkar, Indian playwright (b. 1928) May 23 – Cornell Capa, Hungarian-American photographer