Those who died during the year
Godfrey Binaisa, prominent Ugandan politician and post-Idi Amin president (90).
Tom Bosley, American film and television actor (83).
Marilyn Buck, American communist revolutionary and convict (62).
Mike Craig, British broadcast comedy writer for Morecambe and Wise (75).
Tony Curtis, American film actor (85).
Michael Foot, 1980s British Labour party leader (96).
Henryk Mikolaj Górecki, Polish composer (76).
Kathryn Grayson, American actress and operatic soprano (88).
Richard Holbrooke, US envoy to Afghanistan and diplomat known for the 1995 Dayton agreement ending the Bosnian war (69).
Dennis Hopper, hell-raising US film actor, starred in Easy Rider (74).
Huang Hua, Chinese diplomat, statesman in Nixon rapprochement period (97).
Lionel Jeffries, English film actor and director (83).
Néstor Kirchner, former left-wing Argentinian president (60).
José Antonio Labordeta, anti-Franco Spanish poet, singer, MP (75).
Emilio Eduardo Massera, Argentinian admiral in 1970s dictatorship (85).
Mario Monicelli, Italian film director (95).
Leslie Nielsen, comic actor, star of Airplane (84).
Lynn Redgrave, English actress (67).
Egon Ronay, Hungarian-born food critic (94).
JD Salinger, reclusive author of The Catcher in the Rye (91).
Sir Cyril Smith, British Liberal Democrat MP (82).
Ted Sorensen, JFK adviser and speech-writer (82).
Norman Wisdom, comic actor (95).