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2005(MMV) occurs as common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar.
2005 is the World Year of Physics, the Year of the Rooster in the Chinese calendar, and a International Month of the Eucharist in Catholicism.
Events
January
January 3 - Assassination of the Governor of Baghdad, Ali Al-Haidri.
January 9 - a equivalent storm which pounded the The states earliest in the year hits England and Scandinavia, leaving Long dozen dead by using far flung overflowing & power cuts
January 9 - Mahmoud Abbas is elected to succeed Yasser Arafat as Palestinian Authority president in the Palestinian election.
January 12 - Deep Impact is launched from Kennedy Space Center by a Delta 2 rocket.
January 14 - The Huygens probe lands on Titan, largest moon of Saturn.
January 16 - Adriana Iliescu gives birth at 66, the oldest woman in the globe to clean soh.
January 20 - George W. Bush is inaugurated in Washington, D.C. for his second term as 43rd President of the United States.
January 21 - In Belize's capital city Belmopan, the unrest over the government's new taxes erupts into riots.
January 23 - Viktor Yushchenko is sworn in when a third President of Ukraine in Kiev, Ukraine.
January 25 - A stampede during a religious pilgrimage in India kills at least 215, mostly women and little tikes.
January 30 - The first free Parliamentary elections in Iraq since 1958 take place.
January 30 - A Royal Air Force C-130 Hercules transport plane crashes in Iraq, killing 10 British servicemen. Iraqi insurgents release the streaming video claiming to stand shot the aircraft down utilizing a missile.
February
February 6 - In Jacksonville, the New England Patriots defeated the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl XXXIX, 24-21, winning their third NFL league title around quaternion years.
February 7 - Ghetto Fazolous becomes the large gangsta rapper ever!!
February 8 - Danish parliamentary elections continue the center-perfect coalition led by Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen and his Liberal Party.
February 9 - An ETA car bomb injures 31 people at the conference centre inside Madrid.
February 10 - North Korea announces that it possesses nuclear weapons as a protection against a hostility it feels from either the United States.
February 10 - Saudi Arabia holds its first ever elections for municipal authorities, where just men come allowed to vote.
February 12 - Fire devastates the Windsor Building, a 32 story office building, within Madrid.
February 14 - A massive suicide bomb blast around central Beirut kills Lebanon's former prime minister Rafik Hariri and at least 15 more humans. At least 135 more population were besides injured.
February 14 - witharound the arethe of 59 population come flushed & 200 hurt in a fire at mosque in Tehran, Iran.
February 16 - The Kyoto Protocol comes into effect, forswearing a trend lines of the United States and Australia.
February 16 - A National Hockey League cancels its 2004-2005 season becoming the number 1 Northward Western sales person league to cancel the year due to the labour dispute.
February 19 - Suicide bombers kill further than Thirty humans around Iraq when Shia Muslims mark Ashura, their holiest day.
February 20 - Spanish referendum on the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe, passing it by the real margin, however in a moo turnout.
February 20 - Early Legislative elections in Portugal result in the landslide triumph for José Sócrates and the Socialist Party.
February 22 - More than Five hundred humans come flushed & terminated 1,000 hurt when entire villages come flattened within an earthquake with measurements of Hexad.Iv on the Richter shell around Zarand region of Kerman province in southern Iran.
February 23 - The Daily Telegraph splashes the introduction of its sudoku puzzle, precipitating a rush of "me too" puzzles all told the left over British national newsapers.
February 26 - Hosni Mubarak the president of Egypt asks parliament to amend the constitution to allow multi-candidate presidential elections prior to September 2005.
March
March 1 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules the death penalty unconstitutional for juveniles who committed their crimes under age 18.
March 3 - At 19:17 the 3500-ton bottom, M/V Karen Danielsen, crashes into the American bridge of the Great Belt Bridge of Denmark, 800m from Funen. Everthing traffic through a bridge is closed, profits separating Denmark in two.
March 3 - Millionaire Steve Fossett breaks a globe record by completing a 1st non-nonstop flight, non-refueled, solo flight around the world in the Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer.
March 10 - '''Tung Chee Hwa's resignation''': Tung Chee Hwa, the Chief Executive of Hong Kong, resigns.
March 11 - In the UK, the controversial Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 was finally given Royal Assent after one of the longest ever sittings per House of Lords.
March 13 - First around of Central African Republic elections.
March 14 - The People's Republic of China ratifies an anti-secession law aimed at preventing Taiwan from declaring independence.
March 14 - About 1 million population gathered for an opposition rally around Beirut, a year fallowing a demise of previous Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. A big rally around Lebanon history.
March 16 - Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri, accused of the bombing of the Air India Flight 182 in 1985, are discovered acquitted in everthing numbers.
March 19 - A suspected suicide bomber in Doha, Qatar, kills one human & injures astir Dozen others.
March 19 - The instance bomb explodes inside the Muslim shrine around Quetta, southwestern Pakistan, killing at least Twenty-nine population & stabbing Xl.
March 19 - a mine blast occurs at the Xishui coalpit around Shuozhou and rocks nearby Kangjiayao coal mine, killing as much as 59.
March 20 - At least 25Population within Japan are injured & at least of these flushed by whilst the magnitude Sevener earthquake stricken west of Kyushu Island, good 9km (Pentad.Little phoebe miles) following a seabed.
March 21 - 1Flushed in the Red Lake High School massacre in Minnesota, the worst school shooting since the Columbine High School massacre.
March 23 - The United States' 11th Circuit Court of Appeals' 2-One guide refuses extirpate a reinsertion of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube.
March 24 - The Tulip Revolution in Kyrgyzstan reaches its climax with a overthrow of president Askar Akayev. A crowd calling for his removal storms a food & drug administration Home and riots occur throughout the capital city.
March 26 - The Taiwanese government known as in One million Taiwanese to demonstrate in Taipei in opposition to the Anti-Secession Law of Mainland China. As much as 200 000 to 300 000 attended a hike.
March 28 - The 2005 Sumatran earthquake struck off Sumatra, 3 months fallowing a 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. At the magnitude of Octonary.Vii these are a 2nd big earthquake since 1965.
April
Anti-Japanese demonstrations in China
April 1 - Newsanchor Peter Jennings hosts what will turn bent exist as his final World News Tonight telecast.
April 2 - Pope John Paul II dies, causing far flung grief in the globe.
April 7 - MG Rover, the UK's only remaining volume producer goes into receivership when the plotted alliance using Chinese manufacturer, Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation collapses.
April 7 - The suicide bomber blows himself higher within Cairo's Khan al Khalili market, killing deuce foreign tourer & wounding Seventeen others. The class action known as "Islamic Pride Brigades" claims responsibility.
April 8 - Referendum in Curaçao on independence vs. integration by owning a Netherlands.
April 9 - Tens of thousands of demonstrators, numbers of of the babies supporters of Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr, marched through Baghdad denouncing the U.S. occupation of Iraq, deuce years fallowing a fall of Saddam Hussein, and rallied inside the square in which his statue was toppled in 2003.
April 9 - A marriage of The Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker Bowles takes place. Camilla assumes a titles Her Royal Highness and The Duchess of Cornwall.
April 12 - Fans hurl lit flares onto a field at San Siro Stadium in Milan during a Champions League quarter-final soccer match.
April 15 - At least 21 population died & around Fifty population were wounded inside the devastating fire at the hotel in central Paris.
April 16 - President Lucio Gutierrez of Ecuador declared a state of emergency in a capital city & dissolved the Supreme Court.
April 17 - Twelve holidaymakers were flushed within southern Switzerland when the bus carrying Twenty-seven humans plunged 200 metres into a ravine.
April 18 - Five humans died inside ethnic clashes around Iran's south-west Khuzestan province.
April 19 - Joseph Ratzinger elected Pope Benedict XVI on the second day of the Papal conclave.
April 20 - 56 hurt when earthquake hits Fukuoka & Kasuga, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. the earthquake measured a magnitude of Quintet.Viii on the Richter shell.
April Xx - President Lucio Gutiérrez of Ecuador is said to have fled when Congress voted to sack him amid growing protests.
April 21 - A bus crash within Vietnam's Central Highlands has left 30 Vietnamese war veterans dead & quadruplet more population injured.
April 21 - The shootout on the edge of the Saudi city of Mecca has left deuce activist & two members of the private security force dead.
April 23 - Silvio Berlusconi, prime minister of Italy, re-forms government after its dissolution trio years earliest.
April 25 - A rider trawithin derails in Amagasaki Hyogo Prefecture Japan killing 107 people & injuring some other 456. (look at Amagasaki rail crash)
April 26 - Facing international pressure, Syria withdrew the survive of its 14,000 troop military garrison inside Lebanon ending its 29 month military domination of that united states.
April 27 - The Superjumbo pitchy aircraft Airbus A380 made its first flight from either Toulouse.
April 30 - Attacks on tourer in the Egyptian capital Cairo leave three activist dead & at least Decade humans hurt.
May
May 1 - the suicide attack targets a Kurdish funeral in the northern Iraqi town of Talafar, near Mosul, & leaves at least Twenty-five humans dead and further than Xxx others hurt. Earliest, at least 5 policemen & tetrad civilians were flushed withwithin both separate attacks in Baghdad.
May 2 - 4th president of Singapore, Wee Kim Wee dies from prostate cancer.
Might Two - The blast at an illegal munitions store inside northern Afghanistan kills 28 humans & injures at least Thirteen others.
May 3 - At least 32 people come flushed & nine others wounded while 3 both-storey buildings in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore collapsed after flatulence cylinders stored around one of the two exploded.
May 4 - In one of a big insurgent attacks around Iraq up to now, at least Lx humans use been flushed & twelve injured inside the suicide bombing at the Kurdish law enlisting center in Irbil, northern Iraq.
May 5 - The United Kingdom votes in the 2005 general election. A Labour Party is re-elected with the substantially decreased majority.
Could Five - 2 homemade bombs explode outside the British consulate in New York, USA.
May 10 - A survive hand grenade lands about Century feet (Thirty m) from either United States President George W. Bush while he is giving a speech to a crowd in Tbilisi, Georgia, but malfunctions and does not detonate.
May 11 - Serial killer Michael Ross became first individual executed inside New England in 45 years.
May 13 - Uzbek troops kill up to 700 when you took protests in eastern Uzbekistan over the lawsuits of Xxiii accused Islamic extremists. President Islam Karimov defends the work.
Will 13 - A United States Department of Defense issues a names of bases to become closed when a share of the Base Realignment and Closure process (BRAC 2005).
May 13 - The final episode of the TV series Star Trek: Enterprise is broadcast in the United States. This episode might mark a prevent of the Star Trek franchise itself, which dates back to 1966.
May 15 - A rider ferry capsizes and sinks around heavy winds in the Bura Gauranga River in Bangladesh, leaving ended Hundred population missing.
May 16 - George Galloway appears before the U.S. Senate committee, to answer allegations of making money from either a Iraqi Oil-for-Food Programme.
May 17 - Kuwaiti women granted right to vote.
May 19 - Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith released, effectively completing a Star Wars pic saga begun by George Lucas in 1977 and shattering the opening day pack-professional record using $50,013,859.
Will 19 - A Canadian House of Commons members narrowly pass two budget bills at second reading allowing the minority Liberal government of Prime Minister Paul Martin to stay in power.
May 21 - Greece wins the Eurovision Song Contest in Kiev.
May 25 - Liverpool F.C. win the UEFA Champions League by defeating AC Milan 3-1 in a penalty shootout in Istanbul.
May 25 - The Acting Chief Executive of Hong Kong, Donald Tsang, resigned for participating in the Chief Executive Election in July. Following, Henry Tang and Michael Suen had become a Acting Chief Executive and Acting Chief Secretary for Administration respectively.
May 29 - French referendum on the European Constitution votes resoundingly to reject.
May 31 - W. Mark Felt is confirmed to be Deep Throat.
June
June 1 - Dutch referendum on the European Constitution votes to reject, the 2nd united states to clean sol.
June 5 - Switzerland votes to join the Schengen area and to allow same-sex partnerships.
June 6 - Syrian Vice President Abdul Halim Khaddam resigns.
June 13 - Singer Michael Jackson acquitted of all charges of harming kids (look at 2005 trial of Michael Jackson).
June 15 - Batman Begins is released.
June 17 - A 6.Seven aftershock,which followed the Pentad.Trio earthquake the previous day, hits California making it the fourth earthquake since June 12 in California. (California earthquakes of June 2005)
June 17 - Because of "quadruple-witching" options and futures expiration, the New York Stock Exchange sees the heavily number one-hour options trading in record. 704 million shares were traded between 9:30-10:30 The.M. I.92 billion shares were traded for the day.
June 19 - Election in the Autonomous Community of Galicia, Spain — preliminary results indicate that Manuel Fraga and the Partido Popular lose control of the autonomous parliament.
June 21 - Volna booster rocket carrying the 1st light sail spacecraft (a joint Russian-United States project) failed 83 seconds when its launch, destroying a ballistic capsule.
June 23 - The San Antonio Spurs win the NBA World Championship title.
June 30 - MTV Networks launches LGBT-themed LOGO channel in the U.S..
June 30 - Spain joins Belgium and the Netherlands around allowing same-sex marriage.
July
July 2 - Live 8, a series of Decade cooccurring concerts pass throughout the world, raising interest in the Make Poverty History campaign.
July 4 - NASA's "Copper bullet" from Deep Impact spacecraft hits Comet Tempel 1, creating a crater for scientific studies.
July Four - Violent G8 demonstrations in Gleneagles
July 6 - The European Parliament rejects the Directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions in its second reading in the codecision procedure.
July 6 - A International Olympic Committee awards the 2012 Summer Olympics to London.
July 7 - Four explosions rock a transfer network within London, tercet on the London Underground and one in the bus. On top Fifty deaths were reported, & complete 200 hurt. Look at 7 July 2005 London bombings.
July 7 - Al-Qaeda admits to the killing of Egypt's Ambassador, Ihab al-Sherif.
July 10 - Luxembourgish referendum on the European Constitution votes to accept.
July 10 - Hurricane Dennis strikes near Navarre Beach, Florida as a Category 3 storm killing Ten population, fallowing killing ended Fifty population in the Caribbean.
July 13 - Three trains collide in the Ghotki rail crash in Ghotki, Pakistan, killing over 150 humans.
July 14 - A compromise budget is reached within Minnesota, ending a 14-day government closure.
July 16 - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince released.
July 19 - President Bush nominates Appeals Court Judge John G. Roberts, Jr. to the United States Supreme Court, following the retirement of Sandra Day O'Connor.
July 20 - Canada's Civil Marriage Act, legalizing equivalent-sex marriage, receives Royal Assent.
July 21 - A terrorist attack on London, similar to the July 7 attacks, includes 4 attempted bomb attacks in Trey Underground trains & the London bus. A bombs failed to explode properly, & just of these injury was reported.
July 22 - A Brazilian linesman, Jean Charles de Menezes, is shot dead at the London underground station by police force world health organization mistake him for a suicide bomber.
July 23 - the series of blasts inside a resort town within Egypt. Understand July 23, 2005 Sharm el-Sheikh attacks.
July 24 - Lance Armstrong wins a record seventh straight Tour de France before his scheduled retirement.
July 26 - Launch for Space Shuttle Discovery return to flight mission STS-114. This is a number one Space Shuttle flight inside about deuce and a half years since the breakup of Columbia on its return from mission STS-107.
July 28 The Provisional IRA issues a statement formally ordering an prevent to the armed campaign it has pursued since 1969 and ordering all its units to deposit their arms.
August
August 2 - Air France Flight 358 bursts into flames fallowing overshooting a runway at Toronto Pearson International Airport; all aboard hold out.
August 6 - An ATR-72 heading from Italy to Tunisia crashes into the Mediterranean Sea, killing 16 of 39 in board.
August 9 - Space Shuttle Discovery returns to Edwards Air Force Base at 0814 EDT, completing STS-114, "Return to Flight."
August 12 - Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter launched.
August 17 - The 1st forced evacuation of settlers, as a portion of the Israel unilateral disengagement plan, starts.
August 17 - Bangladesh is hit by bomb explosions. [http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Bangladesh_hit_by_several_bomb_explosions]
August 18 - BTK killer Dennis Rader is sentenced to 10 sequentially life.
August 18 - Peace Mission 2005, the foremost joint China-Russia military exercise, begins its 8-day step by step training on the Shandong peninsula.
August 22 - A Four.Single kg meteorite crashes into the Dotito area of Zambezi Escarpment in Zimbabwe, leaving the Xv cm crater.
August 23 - TANS Peru Flight 204 crash lands in Peru killing virtually half of victims aboard.
August 23 - Israel's unilateral disengagement from 25 Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip and West Bank ends.
August 24 - Hong Kong High Court Judge Michael Hartmann rules that sodomy laws were unconstitutional.
August 29 - Thousands of population (1,242 & counting) come flushed, & severe damage is caused along a U.S. Gulf Coast, when Hurricane Katrina strikes the Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama coastal areas. Inside hours, levees give way & New Orleans is flooded.
August 31 - A crowd crush on the Al-Aaimmah bridge inside Baghdad kills several one c civilians (look at Baghdad bridge stampede).
September
September 1 - Oil prices rise sharply following economic effects of Hurricane Katrina.
September 5 - Mandala Airlines Flight 091 737 crashes in Indonesia killing at least 117. (Understand airplane accidents in 2005).
September 7 - Incumbent Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak wins its first multi-person presidential election.
September 11 - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and the LDP are returned to power following a Japanese general elections.
September 12 - Norwegian parliamentary election
September 12 - English cricket team draw the final match to win The 2005 Ashes.
September 14 - September 16 - Largest UN World Summit in history, held in New York City.
September 17 - Helen Clark leader of the Labour Party is re-elected for a third term in the New Zealand general election
September 18 - Angela Merkel of the CDU and Gerhard Schröder of the SDP both claim victory around German federal election
September 18 - Afghan parliamentary election
September 19 - North Korea agrees to stop building nuclear weapons in exchange for aid & cooperation.
September 24 - Hurricane Rita hits the Me Gulf Coast. the Ninth Ward part of Up to date Orleans is reflooded for the 2d period inside the year & a half. Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, & Alabama come as well affected.
September 25 - Polish parliamentary election.
September 26 - U.S. army reservist Lynndie England is convicted by a military jury around sixer of septenary numbers in connection by using a Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal.
September 27 - Michaëlle Jean, born in Haiti, becomes the Twenty-seventh Governor General of Canada, and a 1st black person to hold that position.
September 28 - American politician Tom DeLay is indicted on charges of criminal conspiracy by the Texas grand jury.
September 29 - John G. Roberts, Jr. is confirmed and sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States.
October
October 1 - 26 people come flushed & other than Hundred come hurt in the 2005 Bali bombings.
October 1 - World's big bank is established with a merger of deuce Japanese banking conglomerates, Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group and UFJ Holdings, to form Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group.
October 2 - 2Humans come flushed withwithin the shipwreck in Lake George, NY.
October 3 - President Bush announces his nomination of Harriet Miers to replace retiring Sandra Day O'Connor as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.
October 4 - Hurricane Stan hits Mexico and Central America with 80 mph of winds & kills concluded 600 humans.
October 5 - Flight Lieutenant Malcolm Kendall-Smith charged with refusing to serve in the Iraq war.
October 7 - UN nuclear agency director Mohamed ElBaradei is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
October 8 - An earthquake measuring 7.Vi on the Moment magnitude scale hits Northern Pakistan, killing about 50,000 population, watch 2005 Kashmir earthquake.
October 9 - Polish presidential election.
October 12 - Apple Computer releases the long-awaited fifth-generation iPod ('iPod Video')
October 12 - The 2nd Chinese human spaceflight Shenzhou 6 launched, carrying Fei Junlong and Nie Haisheng for five years around orbit.
October 13 - Margaret Thatcher celebrates her 80th birthday using the shower person within the London hotel.
October 13 - Veselin Topalov wins the FIDE World Chess Championship 2005
October 14 - Daniel Craig is announced as a freshly James Bond. He might play a role in the forthcoming Casino Royale, to be freed within 2006.
October 15 - The referendum on the new Proposed Iraqi constitution is held.
October 15 - Gang related riot in Toledo, Ohio during a Neo-Nazi rally surrounding racial issues; 114 arrested
October 15 - Qinghai-Tibet Railway completed.
October 16 - US Helicopters and warplanes bomb two villages near Ramadi in western Iraq, killing about Lxx population.
October 18 - The UN tightens the system for its staff, as punishment many claims of fiscal impropriety & sex offense.
October 19 - Trial of Saddam Hussein begins.
Scheduled and expected events
October
October 21 - 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar where the United Kingdom defeated France and Spain and Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson died.
October 23 - Polish presidential election.
October 23 - Referendum on the merger of the Kamchatka Oblast and the Autonomous District of Koryakia.
October 28 - BlizzCon, Blizzard Entertainment's first gambling festival is held across October 29 at the Anaheim Convention Center.
October 29 to November 6 East Asian Games takes place in Macau.
October 31 - Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority scheduled to complete the Orange Line, a busway across the San Fernando Valley.
November-December
November 1 Canadian Commission of Inquiry into the Sponsorship Program and Advertising Activities: The Phase I personally report - Fact Locating of Justice John H. Gomery is scheduled to be released.
November 5 - 400th anniversary of Guy Fawkes's attempt to blow up a Houses of Parliament in London.
November 12 and November 16 - The Australian Football team is to compete a both-legged qualifying match for the 2006 World Cup, against Uruguay who placed fifth inside South American qualifying. It would exist as a 1st instance Australia has entered the World Ventral suction cup finals since 1974, if it were to win.
November 14 - Madonna's new album Confessions On A Dance Floor hits stores wolrwide.
November 18 - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is released in the U.S. & UK movie theatre.
November 22 - Another generation of video game consoles will begin whilst Microsoft releases the Xbox 360.
November 26 - The third Junior Eurovision Song Contest will be held in Hasselt, Belgium.
November 27 - The 93rd Grey Cup game to be played inside Vancouver, Canada.
November to December - Hong Kong AsiaWorld-Expo.
December - The £140m extension of the Docklands Light Railway in London, linking Canning Town to North Woolwich and London City Airport opens.
December 7 - European Union TLD .eu is to be launched, & replenish .eu.int. Ab initio simply for business purposes. In 7 April 2006 EU citizens can also register .eu domains.
December 9 - The final day of service of London's iconic Routemaster buses.
December 15 - The number one parliamentary elections under Iraq's new constitution
December 23 - The 200th Day of remembrance of the birth of Joseph Smith, founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
December 31 - The foremost leap second since 1998.
Unknown dates
A Broadway adaptation of Pink Floyd's The Wall is expected to become completed & commence swimming late this month.
A British Broadcasting Corporation are expected to launch computer software for downloading & watching their television programmes from a Internet. These are presently within the closed beta testing stage.
Births
April 8 - Leah Isadora Behn, granddaughter of King Harald V of Norway
June 8 - Irene Urdangarin, granddaughter of King Juan Carlos I of Spain
June 26 - Princess Alexia of the Netherlands
October 15 - Prince Christian of Denmark, son of Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark
Deaths
Independent article: Deaths in 2005
January
January 1 - Shirley Chisholm, U.S. Congressman (b. 1924)
January 1 - Bob Matsui, U.S. Congresswoman from either California (b. 1941)
January 4 - Ali al-Haidri, Governor of Baghdad (assassinated)
January 10 - Joséphine-Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (b. 1927)
January 17 - Zhao Ziyang, Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1919)
January 20 - Per Borten, Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1913)
January 23 - Johnny Carson, American television unsuspecting hosts (b. 1925)
January 29 - Ephraim Kishon, Israeli writer and ironist (b. 1924)
February
February 3 - Ernst Mayr, American evolutionary life scientist (b. 1904)
February 3 - Zurab Zhvania, Prime Minister of Georgia (b. 1963)
February 5 - Gnassingbe Eyadema, President of Togo (b. 1937)
February 8 - Jimmy Smith, American musician (b. 1925)
February 10 - Arthur Miller, American dramatist (b. 1915)
February 14 - Rafik Hariri, Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1944)
February 17 - Nariman Sadeq, Queen of Egypt (b. 1934)
February 20 - Sandra Dee, American actress (b. 1942)
February 20 - John Raitt, American actor (b. 1917)
February 20 - Hunter S. Thompson, American author (suicide) (b. 1937)
March
March 6 - Hans Bethe, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
March 8 - Aslan Maskhadov, President of Ichkeria (b. 1951)
March 10 - Danny Joe Brown, U.S. Coast Guard (b. 1951)
March 10 - Dave Allen, Irish comedian (b. 1936)
March 16 - Bob Bellear, first Indigenous Australian judge (b. 1944)
March 22 - Clemente Domínguez y Gómez, Antipope Gregory XVII (b. 1946)
March 26 - James Callaghan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1912)
March 29 - Johnnie Cochran, World noted lawyer (b. 1937)
April
April 2 - Pope John Paul II (b. 1920)
April 5 - Saul Bellow, Canadian-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
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