2023

Millennium:	3rd millennium
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2023 (MMXXIII) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2023rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 23rd year of the 3rd millennium, the 23rd year of the 21st century, and the 4th year of the 2020s decade. It is the current year.

The year started with the continuation of the Russian invasion of Ukraine which began in early 2022. In January and July, Islamist suicide bombers killed a total of over 140 people in Pakistan. In February, a major earthquake struck Turkey and Syria, killing more than 50,000 people, making it one of the deadliest earthquakes of the 21st century. in April, India became the world's most populous country. In September, Storm Daniel killed nearly 7,000 people in Bulgaria, Greece, Libya and Turkey.

Former King of Greece Constantine II, former President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf, musician Burt Bacharach and singers Tina Turner and Tony Bennett died.

Events

January

• January 1
  • Croatia adopts the euro and joins the Schengen Area, becoming the 20th member state of the Eurozone and the 27th member of the Schengen Area.
  • Uzbekistan switches from Cyrillic script to Latin script.
• January 5–13
  • Unrest follows the arrest of drug kingpin Ovidio Guzmán López in Sinaloa, Mexico, killing 10 soldiers and 19 cartel members.
  • The funeral for Pope Benedict XVI is held at Saint Peter's Square within the Vatican City.
• January 8
  • A bus crash in Senegal kills 40 people and injures over 100 others.
  • COVID-19 pandemic: China reopens its borders to international visitors, marking the end of travel restrictions that began in March 2020.
  • Supporters of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro storm the Brazilian National Congress, the Supreme Federal Court and the Presidential Palace of Planalto.
• January 10 – Constantine II, the last King of Greece, dies aged 82.
• January 15 – A plane crash in Nepal kills all 72 people onboard.
• January 16 – Italian police arrest Matteo Messina Denaro, the head of Sicilian Mafia in Palermo, Sicily.
• January 17
  • A winter storm in Afghanistan begins, killing over 120 people.
  • Nguyễn Xuân Phúc resigns as President of Vietnam and is replaced by Võ Thị Ánh Xuân.
• January 18
  • A helicopter crash near Kyiv, Ukraine kills fourteen people, including Interior Minister Denys Monastyrsky.
  • Gaston Browne is re-elected Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda.
• January 19 – Jacinda Ardern announces her resignation as Prime Minister of New Zealand, months before the general election. Three days later, Chris Hipkins is elected as her replacement.
• January 20 – Christine Kangaloo is elected as the 7th President of Trinidad and Tobago.
• January 21 – In a mass shooting at a Chinese New Year celebration, a gunman kills eleven people in Monterey Park, California, United States. Two days later, seven others would be killed in another mass shooting in Half Moon Bay, California.
• January 23 – Former President of Guatemala Álvaro Colom dies at the age of 71.
• January 24 – A green comet makes its closest approach to the Earth.
• January 27–28 – The second round of the 2023 Czech presidential election is held. Petr Pavel wins the election.
• January 30 – An Islamist suicide bomber kills over 80 people in a mosque in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

February

• February 3 – A train carrying hazardous materials runs off the tracks in East Palestine, Ohio. A bunch of train cars burned for more than two days, and then emergency crews did a controlled burn of more cars. The fires released hydrogen chloride and phosgene into the atmosphere.
• February 4 – The U.S. Government shoots down a Chinese spy balloon in U.S. territorial waters in the Atlantic Ocean off South Carolina.
• February 5 – The 2023 Cypriot presidential election is held, with Nikos Christodoulides elected president.
• February 6 – An earthquake in southeastern Turkey kills over 45,000 people in Turkey and over 6,000 in Syria.
• February 20 – 2023 Daytona 500.
• February 21 – Vladimir Putin announces that Russia is suspending its participation in New START, a nuclear arms reduction treaty with the US.
• February 25 – 2023 Nigerian general election: Bola Tinubu is elected as Nigeria's president, defeating former vice president Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi.
• February 27 – The United Kingdom and the European Union reach an agreement about changes to the Northern Ireland Protocol.
• February 28 – A head-on train crash in Tempi, Larissa, Thessaly, Greece kills at least 57 people.

March

• March 2 – The National Assembly of Vietnam declares Võ Văn Thưởng as the country's new president after receiving 98.38% votes from the Vietnamese parliament.
• March 4 – UN member states agree on a legal framework for the High Seas Treaty, which aims to protect 30% of the world's oceans by 2030.
• March 5 – Estonian parliamentary election
• March 9 – A former Jehovah's Witness kills seven people, a fetus and himself in a mass shooting at a Kingdom Hall in Hamburg, Germany.
• March 10
  • 2023 People's Republic of China presidential election: The National People's Congress unanimously re-elects Xi Jinping as the President of the People's Republic of China to an unprecedented third term.
  • Iran and Saudi Arabia agree to resume diplomatic relations which were severed in 2016 at talks meditated by China.
  • Silicon Valley Bank, the 16th largest bank in the United States, fails, creating then the largest bank failure since the 2008 financial crisis, affecting companies around the world.
• March 17 – The International Criminal Court issues an arrest warrant for Russian president Vladimir Putin. This is the first arrest warrant it has issued against a leader of a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council.
• March 19 – Swiss investment bank UBS Group AG agrees to buy Credit Suisse for 3 billion Swiss francs (US$3.2 billion) in an all-stock deal brokered by the government of Switzerland and the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority.

  

  Residential buildings in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine after Russian rocket strikes on 22 March 2023, the second day of Xi Jinping's visit to Russia

• March 20 – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) releases the synthesis report of its Sixth Assessment Report on climate change.
• March 26 – 2023 Israeli judicial reform protests: Protests break out across Israel, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fires his defence minister who spoke against the government's judicial reform plan.
• March 27
  • A trans man shoots dead six people at an elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee, United States.
  • Detainees at an immigration detention centre in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico, set fire to their mattresses, killing 39 people.

April

• April 2
  • 2023 Bulgarian parliamentary election
  • 2023 Montenegrin presidential election: Jakov Milatović of the Europe Now! movement wins in the second round, becoming the first president not from the DPS party since the introduction of a multi-party system in 1990.
  • 2023 Finnish parliamentary election: the centre-right National Coalition led by Petteri Orpo receives the most votes.
  • 2023 Andorran parliamentary election: the ruling Democrats for Andorra led by Prime Minister Xavier Espot win the majority of the seats.
  • 2023 Saint Petersburg bombing: Russian pro-government war correspondent Vladlen Tatarsky is killed by a bombing at a café in Saint Petersburg owned by oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin. Sixteen others are injured.Template:Importance inline
• April 4 – Finland becomes the 31st member of NATO.
• April 10 – Two document leaks from the Pentagon detailing foreign military aid relating to the Russian invasion of Ukraine are leaked onto the Internet.
• April 11 – Myanmar civil war: In the village of Pazigyi, at least 165 people are killed by the Myanmar Air Force during the opening celebrations of a People's Defence Force administration office.
• April 14 – Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) is launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) to search for life in the Moons of Jupiter. It is expected to reach the moons in 2031.
• April 15
  • Nuclear power in Germany ends after the final power plants close. Nuclear was a power source for the country for over 50 years.
  • Fighting breaks out across Sudan between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. The RSF captures Khartoum International Airport, and the presidential palace in Khartoum.
• April 19 – At least 90 people are killed and another 322 injured in a crowd crush during a Ramadan charity event in Sanaa, Yemen.
• April 20
  • SpaceX's Starship rocket, the largest and most powerful rocket ever built, is launched during a flight test from a base in Boca Chica, Texas, United States. It explodes four minutes after launch.
  • A hybrid solar eclipse is visible from Australia, East Timor, and Indonesia.
• April 25 – A mass cult suicide is uncovered in Shakahola forest, Kenya. 110 followers are found in shallow graves throughout the forest. Over 300 people remain missing. It is believed Good News International Ministries leader Paul Nthenge Mackenzie told his followers to starve themselves to death in order to "meet God".
• April 26 – Chinese leader Xi Jinping calls Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a month after Xi's summit with Russia's president Vladimir Putin.
• April 30 – 2023 Paraguayan general election: the Colorado Party candidate Santiago Peña is elected as the next president.

May

• May 1 – 2023 banking crisis: San Francisco-based First Republic Bank fails and is auctioned off by the US FDIC to JPMorgan Chase for $10.7 billion. The collapse surpasses March's collapse of Silicon Valley Bank to become the second largest in US history.
• May 2 – Floods hit Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
• May 3 – Belgrade school shooting
• May 4 – 4 May 2023 Serbia shootings
• May 5 – The World Health Organization announces that COVID-19 is no longer considered a global health emergency.
• May 6 – The coronation of Charles III and Camilla as King and Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms is held in Westminster Abbey, London.
• May 9 – Cyclone Mosha
• May 9-13 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2023 is held in Liverpool, UK.
• May 13-27 – A parliamentary election happens in Mauritania.
• May 24 – Saudi Arabia and Canada restore full diplomatic relations, ending 2018 dispute.

June

• June 2 – 2023 Odisha train collision
• June 12 – Kwara boat disaster
• June 13 – 2023 Nottingham attacks
• June 14 – 2023 Messenia migrant boat disaster
• June 16 – Mpondwe school massacre
• June 18 – Titan submersible implosion
• June 20 – Támara prison riot
• June 25 – July 26 – Severe flooding in South Korea.

July

• July 17 – Wildfires begin in Greece, killing 35 people.
• July 18 – Voyager 2 overtook Pioneer 10 to become the 2nd farthest spacecraft from the Sun.
• July 27 – Kuwait executes five by hanging, including man convicted over ISIS mosque bombing in 2015 that had killed 26 people.
• July 30 – 2023 Khar bombing

August

• August 1 – Global warming: The world's oceans reach a new record high temperature of 20.96 °C, exceeding the previous record in 2016. July is also confirmed as having been the hottest month on record for globally averaged surface air temperatures by a considerable margin (0.3 °C).
• August 6 – 2023 Hazara Express derailment
• August 8 – Wildfires begin in Hawaii, killing over 115 people.
• August 15 – A wildfire begins in Tenerife in the Canary Islands.
• August 23 – 2023 Tver plane crash
• August 30 – The military of Gabon performs a coup, replacing Ali Bongo Ondimba as president.
• August 31 – A fire in Johannesburg, South Africa kills 77 people.

September

• September 2 – India's first solar observation mission: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launches Aditya-L1 from Satish Dhawan space centre.
• September 4 – Saudi Pro League clubs will now play Champions League matches in Iran as both nations resume home-and-away games.
• September 4 – 12 – Storm Daniel
• September 8 – 2023 Marrakesh-Safi earthquake: A 6.8 magnitude earthquake strikes western Morocco's Marrakesh-Safi province. Atleast 2946 people killed and more then 5,650 injured.
• September 9 – At the 18th G20 summit in New Delhi, the African Union is announced as the 21st permanent member of the G20.
• September 10 – Storm Daniel: A Mediterranean storm that resembled a tropical cyclone struck Libya, causing a significant loss of life, with at least 5,000 people losing their lives. Libyan authorities reported a vast number of people missing, ranging from 10,000 to as many as 100,000. Additionally, in the city of Derna, two dams gave way, leading to the destruction of a quarter of the city.
• September 18 – Iran releases five Americans as the United States unfreezes $6 billion of Iran which was blocked in South Korea while also releasing five Iranians in a prisoner exchange deal.
• September 24 – OSIRIS-REx returns with samples from the Asteroid Bennu.
• September 25 – Berkadzor fuel depot explosion
• September 26
  • Qaraqosh wedding fire: More than 100 people are killed and more then 150 others are injured in a fire at a wedding in Qaraqosh, Nineveh Governorate
  • Saudi Arabia to resume flights to Canada as relations between the two countries normalize after 2018 dispute.
• September 27 – Iran's IRGC puts 'Noor-3', an imaging satellite, 450 kms into an orbit above the earth.
• September 29 – 2023 Mastung bombing: A suicide bombing takes place killing atleast 59 and injuring more then 70 people in a gathering at the Mastung area of Balochistan, Pakistan.
• September 30 – 2023 Slovak Parliamentary election.

October

• October 1 – A suicide-bombing claimed by PKK took place in Ankara, Turkey.
• October 2 – An attack by suspected jihadists took place in western part of Niger near the country's border with Mali, killing atleast 29 soldiers. Several terrorists were also killed

Deaths

See the main article: Deaths in 2023

January

See the main article: Deaths in January 2023

Constantine II of Greece

Gina Lollobrigida

• January 2 – Ken Block, American rally driver (b. 1967)
• January 3 – Abdelsalam Majali, 29th Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1925)
• January 4
  • Rosi Mittermaier, German alpine skier and Olympic champion (b. 1950)
  • Marie Kovarova, Czechoslovak gymnast and Olympic champion (b. 1927)
• January 6
  • Dick Savitt, American tennis player (b. 1927)
  • Gianluca Vialli, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1964)
• January 7 - Modeste M'bami, Cameroonian footballer and Olympic champion
• January 9 - K. Alex Müller, Swiss Nobel physicist (b. 1927)
• January 10
  • Jeff Beck, English guitarist (b. 1944)
  • Constantine II, last King of Greece (b. 1940)
  • George Pell, Australian cardinal (b. 1941)
• January 13 – Klas Lestander, Swedish biathlete and Olympic champion (b. 1931)
• January 16
  • Vladas Česiūnas, Lithuanian sprint canoeist and Olympic champion (b. 1940)
  • Gina Lollobrigida, Italian actress (b. 1927)
• January 17 – Lucile Randon, French supercentenarian (b. 1904)
• January 18 – David Crosby, American musician (b. 1941)
• January 23 – Álvaro Colom, 47th President of Guatemala (b. 1951)
• January 24 – B. V. Doshi, Indian architect (b. 1927)
• January 30 – Bobby Hull, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1939)

February

See the main article: Deaths in February 2023

Pervez Musharraf

Burt Bacharach

Raquel Welch

• February 2 – Jean-Pierre Jabouille, French F1 driver (b. 1942)
• February 3 – Paco Rabanne, Spanish-French fashion designer (b. 1934)
• February 4 – Sherif Ismail, 53rd Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1955)
• February 5 – Pervez Musharraf, 10th President of Pakistan (b. 1943)
• February 6
  • Lubomír Štrougal, 19th Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia (b. 1924)
  • Christian Atsu, Ghanaian footballer (b. 1992)
• February 8
  • Burt Bacharach, American composer (b. 1928)
  • Ivan Silayev, 12th and final Premier of the Soviet Union (b. 1930)
• February 10
  • Hugh Hudson, English film director (b. 1936)
  • Hans Modrow, 5th and final Chairman of the Council of Ministers of East Germany (b. 1928)
  • Carlos Saura, Spanish filmmaker (b. 1932)
  • Sergey Tereshchenko, 1st Prime Minister of Kazakhstan (b. 1951)
• February 13 – José María Gil-Robles, 8th President of the European Parliament (b. 1935)
• February 14 – Shoichiro Toyoda, Japanese businessman (b. 1925)
• February 15
  • Paul Berg, American Nobel biochemist (b. 1926)
  • Raquel Welch, American actress (b. 1940)
• February 17 – Stella Stevens, American actress (b. 1938)
• February 18 – Petar Zhekov, Bulgarian footballer (b. 1944)
• February 21 – Amancio, Spanish footballer (b. 1939)
• February 22 – Ahmed Qurei, 2nd Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority (b. 1937)
• February 23 – John Motson, English football commentator (b. 1945)
• February 24 – Walter Mirisch, American film producer (b. 1921)
• February 26 – Bob Richards, American pole vaulter and Olympic champion (b. 1926)
• February 27 – Gérard Latortue, 12th Prime Minister of Haiti (b. 1934)

March

Just Fontaine

Lance Reddick

See the main article: Deaths in March 2023

• March 1 – Just Fontaine, French footballer (b. 1933)
• March 2
  • Wayne Shorter, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1933)
  • Rafael Viñoly, Uruguayan architect (b. 1944)
• March 3
  • Tom Sizemore, American actor (b. 1961)
  • Kenzaburō Ōe, Japanese Nobel author (b. 1935)
• March 5
  • Klaus Bonsack, German luger and Olympic champion (b. 1941)
  • Gary Rossington, American guitarist (b. 1951)
  • Shozo Sasahara, Japanese wrestler and Olympic champion (b. 1929)
• March 6 – Josef Vojta, Czechoslovakian football player (b. 1935)
• March 7 – Pat McCormick, American diver and Olympic champion (b. 1930)
• March 9 - Robert Blake, American actor
• March 17 - Lance Reddick, American actor (b. 1962)
• March 18 - Pedro Solbes, Spanish economist and politician (b. 1942)
• March 19 – Pohiva Tuʻiʻonetoa, 17th Prime Minister of Tonga (b. 1951)
• March 21 – Willis Reed, American basketball player (b. 1942)
• March 24 – Gordon Moore, American businessman, engineer and philanthropist (b. 1929)
• March 25 - Pascoal Mocumbi, 2nd Prime Minister of Mozambique
• March 28 - Ryuishi Sakamoto, Japanese composer (b. 1952)
• March 31 – Rabbie Namaliu, 4th Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea (b. 1947)

April

Harry Belafonte

Jerry Springer

• April 1
  • Klaus Teuber, German board game designer (b. 1952)
  • Włodzimierz Schmidt, Polish chess grandmaster (b. 1943)
• April 5
  • Bill Butler, American cinematographer (b. 1921)
  • Sergio Gori, Italian footballer (b. 1946)
• April 7
  • Ian Bairnson, Scottish musician (b. 1953)
  • Ben Ferencz, Hungarian-American lawyer (b. 1920)
• April 10 - Fernando Sánchez Dragó, Spanish writer
• April 11 - Anne Perry, British writer and convicted murderer (b. 1938)
• April 13
  • Craig Breen, Irish rally driver (b. 1990)
  • Mary Quant, British fashion designer (b. 1930)
• April 14
  • Murray Melvin, English actor (b. 1932)
  • Mark Sheehan, Irish guitarist (b. 1976)
• April 16 – Ahmad Jamal, American jazz pianist (b. 1930)
• April 19 - Moon Bin, South Korean singer, actor, dancer and model
• April 20 – Josep Maria Fusté, Spanish footballer (b. 1941)
• April 21 – Juan Carlos Sarnari, Argentine footballer (b. 1942)
• April 22 - Mudar Badran, 3-time Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1934)
• April 23 - Herb Douglas, American athlete (b. 1922)
• April 25 - Harry Belafonte, American singer, activist and actor
• April 27
  • Jean-Paul Costa, French jurist (b. 1941)
  • Giovanni Lombardo Radice, Italian actor (b. 1954)
  • Jerry Springer, American TV show host (b. 1944)
• April 28 – Harold Kushner, American rabbi and author (b. 1935)
• April 30 – Ralph Boston, American athlete (b. 1939)

May

Jim Brown

Tina Turner

• May 1 - Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1938)
• May 2 - Tori Bowie, American athlete and Olympic champion}
• May 3 – Nikica Valentić, 5th Prime Minister of Croatia (b. 1950)
• May 9
  • Antonio Carbajal, Mexican footballer (b. 1929)
  • Wilferd Madelung, German-British author (b. 1930)
• May 10 - Rolf Harris, Australian entertainer
• May 11 – András Adorján, Hungarian chess grandmaster and author (b. 1950)
• May 13 – Keiko Tanaka-Ikeda, Japanese athlete (b. 1933)
• May 14
  • Doyle Brunson, American poker player (b. 1933)
  • Ingrid Haebler, Austrian pianist (b. 1929)
  • Ferran Olivella, Spanish footballer (b. 1936)
• May 15 – Robert Lucas Jr., American economist (b. 1937)
• May 17 – "Superstar" Billy Graham, American professional wrestler (b. 1943)
• May 18
  • Helmut Berger, Austrian actor (b. 1944)
  • Jim Brown, American professional football player and actor (b. 1936)
• May 19
  • Martin Amis, British novelist, essayist, memoirist, and screenwriter (b. 1949)
  • Dževad Karahasan, Bosnian writer, essayist and philosopher (b. 1953)
  • Andy Rourke, English bassist (b. 1964)
• May 21 - Ray Stevenson, Northern Irish actor (b. 1964)
• May 24 - Tina Turner, American singer and actress (b. 1939)
• May 28
  • Ilya Kabakov, Russian–American conceptual artist (b. 1933)
  • Harald zur Hausen, German virologist (b. 1936)

June

Astrud Gilberto

Ted Kaczynski

Silvio Berlusconi

Alan Arkin

• June 2 – Kaija Saariaho, Finnish composer (b. 1952)
• June 4
  • Jim Hines, American athlete (b. 1946)
  • George Winston, American pianist (b. 1949)
• June 5
  • Astrud Gilberto, Brazilian singer (b. 1940)
  • Robert Hanssen, American FBI agent and convicted spy (b. 1944)
  • Vadim Malakhatko, Ukrainian-Belgian chess grandmaster (b. 1977)
• June 6 – Françoise Gilot, French painter (b. 1921)
• June 7 - The Iron Sheik, Iranian-born American professional wrestler (b. 1942)
• June 8 – Pat Robertson, American religious broadcaster and political commentator (b. 1930)
• June 9 – Alain Touraine, French sociologist (b. 1925)
• June 10 - Ted Kaczynski, American mathematician and domestic terrorist (b. 1942)
• June 12
  • Silvio Berlusconi, four-time Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1936)
  • Harvey Glance, American athlete (b. 1957)
  • John Romita Sr., American comic book artist (b. 1930)
  • Treat Williams, American actor (b. 1951)
  • Vyacheslav Zaytsev, Russian volleyball player (b. 1952)
  • Carol Higgins Clark, American mystery author and actress (b. 1956)
• June 15
  • Glenda Jackson, English actress and politician (b. 1936)
  • Donald Triplett, American medical figure (b. 1933)
• June 16 – Gino Mäder, Swiss racing cyclist (b. 1997)
• June 18 - Stockton Rush, American businessman (b. 1962)
• June 19 – Karolis Chvedukas, Lithuanian professional footballer (b. 1991)
• June 22
  • Peter Brötzmann, German saxophonist (b. 1941)
  • Stéphane Demol, Belgian footballer (b. 1966)
  • Harry Markowitz, Nobel Prize-winning American economist (b. 1927)
• June 23 – Frederic Forrest, American actor (b. 1936)
• June 24 – Dean Smith, American athlete (b. 1932)
• June 25 – John B. Goodenough, American materials scientist (b. 1922)
• June 26 Lloyd Erskine Sandiford, 4th Prime Minister of Barbados (b. 1937)
• June 29
  • Alan Arkin, American actor (b. 1934)
  • Tapley Seaton, 4th Governor-General of Saint Kitts and Nevis (b. 1950)

July

Milan Kundera

Tony Bennett

• July 1 - Dilano van 't Hoff, Dutch racing driver (b. 2004)
• July 2 - Milan Milutinović, former president of Serbia (b. 1942)
• July 4 - Tabare Gomez Laborde, Uruguayan cartoonist (b. 1948)
• July 6
  • Peter Nero, American pianist and conductor (b. 1934)
  • Arnaldo Forlani, 14th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1925)
• July 7 - Nikki McCray, American basketball player and Olympic champion (b. 1971)
• July 9 - Luis Suárez, Spanish football player and manager (b. 1935)
• July 11 - Milan Kundera, Czech-French writer (b. 1929)
• July 16 - Jane Birkin, English-born French singer and actress (b. 1946)
• July 21 - Tony Bennett, American singer (b. 1926)
• July 25 – Bo Goldman, American screenwriter and playwright (b. 1932)
• July 26
  • Sinéad O'Connor, Irish singer-songwriter (b. 1966)
  • Martin Walser, German writer (b. 1927)
  • Jean-Jacques Honorat, 3rd Prime Minister of Haiti (b. 1931 )
  • Randy Meisner, American musician (b. 1946)
• July 28 - José Paulino Gomes, Brazilian supercentenarian (b. 1895)
• July 30 - Paul Reubens, American actor (b. 1952)
• July 31
  • Inga Landgré, Swedish actress (b. 1927)
  • Suret Huseynov, 4th Prime Minister of Azerbaijan (b. 1959)

August

William Friedkin

Yevgeny Prigojin

• August 1 – Henri Konan Bédié, 2nd President of Ivory Coast (b. 1934)
• August 4 – Boniface Alexandre, Interim President of Haiti (b. 1936)
• August 7 – William Friedkin, American director and screenwriter (b. 1935)
• August 8 – Sixto Rodriguez, American folk musician (b. 1942 )
• August 9 – Robbie Robertson, Canadian singer-songwriter (b. 1943)
• August 14 – Boris Dubrovsky, Soviet-Russian rower and Olympic champion (b. 1939)
• August 16 – Renata Scotto, Italian operatic soprano (b. 1934)
• August 18 – Jørn Riel, Danish writer (b. 1931)
• August 22 – Toto Cutugno, Italian singer (b. 1943)
• August 23 – Yevgeny Prigozhin, Russian oligarch (b. 1961)
• August 24 – Bray Wyatt, American professional wrestler (b. 1987)
• August 26 - Bob Barker, American game show host (b. 1923)
• August 30 – Jan Jongbloed, Dutch football player (b. 1940)
• August 31 – Anatoli Sass, Soviet Olympic champion and rower (b. 1935)

September

Jimmy Buffett

Steve Harwell

Giorgio Napolitano

Michael Gambon

• September 1 – Jimmy Buffett, American singer-songwriter (b. 1946)
• September 4
  • Steve Harwell, American singer (b. 1967)
  • Ferid Murad, Nobel Prize-winning Albanian-American pharmacologist (b. 1936)
• September 5 – Albert Azaryan, Armenian gymnast and Olympic champion (b. 1929)
• September 8 – Whitey Von Nieda, American basketball player (b. 1922)
• September 10 – Ian Wilmut, British embryologist (b. 1944)
• September 13 – Mircea Snegur, 1st President of Moldova (b. 1940)
• September 15 – Fernando Botero, Colombian painter (b. 1932)
• September 16 – Abdul Ati al-Obeidi, 14th Prime Minister of Libya (b. 1939)
• September 22 – Giorgio Napolitano, 11th President of Italy (b. 1925)
• September 26 – Geof Motley, Australian football player and coach (b. 1935)
• September 27 – Michael Gambon, Irish actor (b. 1940)

October

• October 1 – John Waring, 81, English cricketer (b. 1942)