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Events from the year2005 in the United States.

• President:George W. Bush (R-Texas)
• Vice President:Dick Cheney (R-Wyoming)
• Chief Justice:

William Rehnquist (Virginia)^[1] (until September 3)

John Roberts (Maryland)^[2] (starting September 29)

• Speaker of the House of Representatives:Dennis Hastert (R-Illinois)
• Senate Majority Leader:Bill Frist (R-Tennessee)
• Congress:108th (until January 3),109th (starting January 3)

• January 1 – PresidentGeorge W. Bush delivers a radio address on theIndian Ocean tsunamirelief efforts.^[3]
• January 3 – PresidentGeorge W. Bush is joined by former PresidentsGeorge H. W. Bush andBill Clinton in theRoosevelt Room as he announces that the two former presidents will be involved with thehumanitarian response to the tsunami across the region ofSouth andSoutheast Asia.^[4]
• January 6 – The US Congress certifies the victory of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney despite the objection of Ohio's electoral votes by Ohio congresswomanStephanie Tubbs Jones and California senatorBarbara Boxer. It was the first objection to a state's electoral votes since 1969.
• January 12 –Deep Impact is launched fromCape Canaveral by aDelta II rocket.
• January 20 – President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney begin their second term.
• January 22 –FoxBox,Fox's Saturday morning programming block owned by4Kids Entertainment, is rebranded as4Kids TV.
• January 26 –Glendale train crash: Two trains derail inGlendale, California, killing 11 and injuring 200.
• January 30 –World Wrestling Entertainment holds itsRoyal Rumble pay-per-view event from theSave Mart Center inFresno, California.
• January –Mosdeux, a deaf owned film studio is established.^[5]

• February 2 –State of the Union Address.
• February 6
  • Super Bowl XXXIX: TheNew England Patriots win their second consecutiveSuper Bowl title, defeating thePhiladelphia Eagles by a score of 24–21 atAlltel Stadium inJacksonville.^[6]
  • American Dad! debuts onFOX, right afterSuper Bowl XXXIX.^[7]
• February 10 –North Korea announces that it possessesnuclear weapons as a protection against the hostility it feels from the United States.^[8]
• February 14 – The Internet siteYouTube goes online.
• February 16 – TheKyoto Protocol goes into effect, without the support of the United States andAustralia.^[9]
• February 20 –World Wrestling Entertainment holds itsNo Way Out pay-per-view event from theMellon Arena inPittsburgh,Pennsylvania.
• February 21 –Avatar: The Last Airbender premieres onNickelodeon.
• February 24 – David Hernandez Arroyo goes on ashooting rampage at theSmith County Courthouse inTyler, Texas. He kills two, including his ex-wife, and injures four people, before being killed in a police chase.^[10]
• February 25 –Wichita,Kansas police apprehend the "BTK" serial killerDennis Rader, 31 years after his first murder.^[11]
• February 27 – The77th Academy Awards, hosted byChris Rock, are held atKodak Theatre inHollywood, withClint Eastwood'sMillion Dollar Baby winningBest Picture andBest Director, Eastwood's second win for both.Martin Scorsese'sThe Aviator wins five awards out of 11 nominations. The telecast garners over 42.1 million viewers.

• March 1 –Roper v. Simmons: TheSupreme Court of the United States rules that thedeath penalty is unconstitutional for juveniles who committed their crimes before the age of 18.^[12]
• March 4 – The car of releasedItalian hostageGiuliana Sgrena is fired on by U.S. soldiers inIraq, causing the death of one passenger and injuring two more.^[13]
• March 11 – Three people, including a judge, are murdered in theFulton County Courthouse inAtlanta,Georgia; the main suspect,Brian Nichols, surrenders to police the next day.^[14]
• March 12 –Terry Ratzmann opens fire during a church sermon inNew Berlin, Wisconsin, killing seven and injuring four before taking his own life.
• March 21 – Ten are killed in theRed Lake shootings inMinnesota by teenagerJeff Weise, who commits suicide after a shootout with police. It is the worstschool shooting since theColumbine High School massacre.^[15]
• March 23 – The United States'11th Circuit Court of Appeals refuses (by a vote of 2–1) to stop theeuthanasia ofTerri Schiavo, who has been in a vegetative state since 1990, by not ordering the reinsertion of herfeeding tube.^[16]
• March 24 –The Office debuts onNBC.
• March 31 –Terri Schiavo dies at the age of 41 inPinellas Park, Florida.
• Monsters of Rock band is formed in California.^[17]

• April 3 –World Wrestling Entertainment holdsWrestleMania 21 at theStaples Center inLos Angeles,California.
• April 8 –Fever Pitch, a film starringJimmy Fallon andDrew Barrymore documenting the Boston Red Sox2004 World Series run, is released.
• April 9 – Tens of thousands of demonstrators, many of them supporters ofShia clericMoqtada Sadr, march throughBaghdad denouncing theU.S. occupation of Iraq, two years after the fall ofSaddam Hussein, and rally in the square where his statue was toppled in 2003.
• April 30 –Newsweek alleges that American interrogators and guards havedesecrated the Qur'an in attempts to rattle Islamic detainees.

• May 1 –World Wrestling Entertainment holds itsBacklash pay-per-view event from theVerizon Wireless Arena inManchester, New Hampshire.
• May 8 – TwoDenver Police Department officersare shot by a Mexican national, leading to an international incident over the extradition of the shooter.
• May 10 – Ahand grenade ostensibly thrown byVladimir Arutinian lands about 100 feet (30 m) fromUnited States PresidentGeorge W. Bush while he is giving a speech to a crowd inTbilisi,Georgia, but the explosive malfunctions and does not detonate.
• May 13
  • TheUnited States Department of Defense issues a list of bases to be closed as part of theBase Realignment and Closure process (BRAC 2005).
  • Serial killerMichael Bruce Ross becomes the first person executed inNew England in 45 years.
• May 16 –George Galloway appears before aUnited States Senate committee to answer allegations of making money from the IraqiOil-for-Food Programme.
• May 19 –Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith is released in theaters.
• May 21 –Kingda Ka atSix Flags Great Adventure opens to the public, becoming the fastest and tallest roller coaster in the world at the time.
• May 22 –World Wrestling Entertainment holds itsJudgment Day pay-per-view event from theTarget Center inMinneapolis,Minnesota.
• May 25 –Carrie Underwood wins season 4 ofAmerican Idol
• May 27 –Madagascar is released in theaters.
• May 31 –W. Mark Felt reveals himself to be theWatergate scandalwhistleblower called "Deep Throat."^[18]

• June 2 – The construction ofNorthrop Grumman X–47B, the world's first unmanned surveillanceattack aircraft that can operate from both land bases andaircraft carriers, begins.
• June 12 –World Wrestling Entertainment holds itsECW One Night Stand pay-per-view event from theHammerstein Ballroom inNew York City,New York.
• June 13 –Michael Jackson is found not guilty of child molestation.
• June 17 – Because of "quadruple-witching"options andfutures expiration, theNew York Stock Exchange sees the heaviest first-hour trading on record. 704 million shares are traded between 9:30–10:30 a.m. (1.92 billion shares for the day).
• June 23
  • The social news siteReddit launches.
  • TheSan Antonio Spurs win their third NBA Championship after defeating theDetroit Pistons, 81-74, in Game 7 of the2005 NBA Finals.
• June 24 – AVolna booster rocket carrying the firstlight sail spacecraft (a jointRussian-United States project) fails 83 seconds after its launch, destroying the spacecraft.
• June 26 –World Wrestling Entertainment holds itsVengeance pay-per-view event from theThomas & Mack Center inLas Vegas,Nevada.
• June 30 – The Dominican Republic–Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) is passed by the United States.

• July 4
  • TheItaly–USA Foundation is established inRome,Italy.
  • NASA's "Copper bullet" from theDeep Impact spacecraft hitsComet Tempel 1, creating acrater for scientific studies.
• July 8 –Fantastic Four, directed byTim Story, is released as the first film in theFantastic Four film series.
• July 10 –Hurricane Dennis strikes nearNavarre Beach, Florida as a Category 3 storm. The storm kills 88 people and causes$4 billion in damages.
• July 19 – President Bush nominatesJohn Roberts to theU.S. Supreme Court to fill a vacancy that would be left by the resignation of JusticeSandra Day O'Connor.
• July 24
  • World Wrestling Entertainment holds itsThe Great American Bash pay-per-view event from theHSBC Arena inBuffalo,New York.
  • Lance Armstrong wins a record 7th straightTour de France before his scheduled retirement. In 2012 he will be disqualified from each of those races and banned from cycling for life for doping offenses by theUnited States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA).
• July 26 –STS–114 launches as the first "Return to Flight"Space Shuttle mission following theSpace ShuttleColumbia disaster in 2003.

• August 2 – The Dominican Republic–Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) is signed into law in the United States.
• August 4 –It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia premieres onFX.
• August 9 – Space ShuttleDiscovery returns toEdwards Air Force Base at 0814 EDT, completingSTS–114, "Return to Flight".
• August 12 – TheMars Reconnaissance Orbiter is launched.
• August 21 –World Wrestling Entertainment holds itsSummerSlam event from theMCI Center inWashington, D.C.
• August 23 –Hurricane Katrina forms over the Bahamas.
• August 29– At least 1,836 are killed, andsevere damage is caused along theU.S. Gulf Coast, asHurricane Katrina strikes coastal areas fromLouisiana toAlabama, and travels up theentire state of Mississippi (flooding coast 31 feet (9.4 m)), affecting most of eastern North America. Katrina becomes thecostliesthurricane in U.S. history with$108 billion in damages.^[19] TheNew Orleans Saints football team will play theirentire 2005 season on the road due to the effects of the hurricane.

• September – The largest evacuation inHouston history takes place as millions evacuate fromHurricane Rita.
• September 1 –Oil prices rise sharply following theeconomic effects of Hurricane Katrina.
• September 3 – Chief JusticeWilliam Rehnquist dies at 80 ofanaplastic thyroid cancer, creating a vacancy on theSupreme Court.
• September 5 –John Roberts is nominated by PresidentGeorge W. Bush forChief Justice of the United States, replacingWilliam Rehnquist, who had died two days previously. Roberts was previously nominated to fill the seat of retiring JusticeSandra Day O'Connor, but given the circumstances of Rehnquist's death, O'Connor remains on the Court until her successor is confirmed.
• September 14–16 – The largestUNWorld Summit in history is held inNew York City.
• September 18 –World Wrestling Entertainment holds itsUnforgiven pay-per-view event from theFord Center inOklahoma City,Oklahoma.
• September 20 – TheNFL sees the groundbreaking ceremony for two new stadiums, theIndianapolis Colts'Lucas Oil Stadium ($720 million) and theDallas Cowboys' temporarily namedCowboys Stadium ($1.15 billion).
• September 23 – Convicted bank thief andBoricua Popular Army leader,Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, is killed in his home inHormigueros, Puerto Rico when members of theFBI attempt to serve an arrest warrant.
• September 24
  • Worldwide protests occur against theIraq War, with over 150,000 protesters inWashington, D.C. (seeOpposition to the Iraq War).
  • Hurricane Rita hits the U.S. Gulf Coast, devastating areas nearBeaumont, Texas andLake Charles, Louisiana. TheNinth Ward of New Orleans re-floods sinceKatrina, andMississippi andAlabama are also affected. The storm kills 120 people and causes$12 billion in damages.
• September 26
  • U.S. Army ReservistLynndie England is convicted by amilitary jury on six of seven counts in connection with theAbu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal.
  • Sprout (now Universal Kids) is launched by a joint venture betweenPBS,Comcast,HIT Entertainment, andSesame Workshop. The new network replacesPBS Kids, allowing for an initial reach of 16.5 million subscribers.
  • DT Racer is released on thePlayStation 2, developed by Axis Entertainment and published byXS Games.
• September 28 –United States House Majority LeaderTom DeLay (R–Texas) is indicted on charges ofcriminal conspiracy by a Texas grand jury.
• September 29 –John Roberts is confirmed and sworn in as the 17thChief Justice of the United States.

• October 1
  • AnAustralian photojournalist inAfghanistan, Stephen Dupont, films U.S. soldiers burning two deadTaliban militias' bodies.
  • TheUnited States housing bubble begins to burst, causing home prices to stop rising unexpectedly and begin to decline.
• October 2
  • The first regular-seasonNFLgame played outside of the United States pits theSan Francisco 49ers against theArizona Cardinals atEstadio Azteca inMexico City, Mexico. The Cardinals win by a score of 31–14.
  • A tour boatcapsizes onLake George,New York killing 20 of 47 aboard.
• October 3
  • U.S. PresidentGeorge W. BushnominatesHarriet Miers to replace Associate JusticeSandra Day O'Connor.^[20]
  • St. Tammany Parish schools reopen inLouisiana, just over a month afterHurricane Katrina.
• October 9 –World Wrestling Entertainment holds itsNo Mercy pay-per-view event from theToyota Center inHouston,Texas.
• October 15
  • In college football, theUSC Trojans narrowly defeat heavy underdogsNotre Dame Fighting Irish in an illegal play known as theBush Push.
  • A riot occurs inToledo, Ohio during a neo-Nazi rally on racial issues; 114 are arrested.
• October 17 –Carrie Underwood andMartina McBride are tough acts to follow.
• October 16 – U.S. helicopters and warplanes bomb two villages nearRamadi in westernIraq, killing about 70 people.
• October 19 – TheHouston Astros win their firstNational League Championship by defeating theSt. Louis Cardinals in seven games, advancing to their firstWorld Series in franchise history.
• October 24
  • Hurricane Wilma makes landfall in southwestern Florida as a Category 3 hurricane. There are 23 direct dead, 39 indirect dead and$29.1 billion in damages.
  • Civil rights activistRosa Parks, who made headlines when sherefused to give up her seat in a Montgomery bus, dies of natural causes at the age of 92 in Detroit. She becomes the first woman tolie in honor in theUnited States Capitol rotunda.
• October 25 – TheChicago White Sox defeat theHouston Astros 7–5 in 14 innings in the firstWorld Series game in the State of Texas to extend their lead to 3–0, putting them within one win of the Series. The game, which takes 5 hours and 41 minutes to complete, is the longest postseason game by time.
• October 26
  • TheChicago White Sox beat theHouston Astros in four games to win their first World Series since1917.
  • The U.S. death toll inIraq reaches 2,000.
• October 27 – After issues arise of her competency to adjudicate United States constitutional law,Harriet Miers withdraws her name from consideration for theSupreme Court of the United States.
• October 28 – Vice presidential adviserLewis "Scooter" Libby resigns after being charged withobstruction of justice, perjury and making a false statement in theCIA leak investigation.
• October 31
  • U.S. PresidentGeorge W. Bush nominates federal appeals court judgeSamuel Alito forAssociate Justice of theSupreme Court of the United States.
  • Astronomers announce the discovery of two additional moons orbiting thePluto/Charon system. Subsequently, namedNix andHydra, the moons have been found in images from theHubble Space Telescope.

• November 1
  • United States Senate Minority LeaderHarry Reid and his fellowDemocrats force a closed session of theSenate over theLewis Libby indictment.
  • The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall (Charles andCamilla) arrive in the United States for a state visit, their first overseas tour since their marriage.
  • World Wrestling Entertainment holds itsTaboo Tuesday pay-per-view event from theiPayOne Center inSan Diego,California.
• November 4
  • The U.S. and Uruguay governments sign aBilateral Investment Treaty.
  • Walt Disney Pictures' 46th feature film,Chicken Little, Disney's first fully computer-animated film, is released to stronger box office success than most of the studio's most recent output, though it is one of their biggest critical flops.
• November 6 –Evansville Tornado of November 2005: Atornado hits westernKentucky and southwesternIndiana, killing 25 with$92 million in damages.
• November 20 –The Washington Post rebukes journalistBob Woodward over his conduct in theCIA leak probe.
• November 27 –World Wrestling Entertainment holds itsSurvivor Series pay-per-view event from theJoe Louis Arena inDetroit,Michigan.

• December – The unemployment rate falls below 5% for the first time since August 2001; it will remain below 5% until December 2007.
• December 7 – A U.S.federal air marshal fatally shootsRigoberto Alpizar on ajetway atMiami International Airport inFlorida.
• December 8 –Southwest Airlines Flight 1248 overshoots the runway atChicago Midway Airport, killing a 6-year-old boy and injuring 11 other people.
• December 16 – The 43rdMersenne prime is found, 2^30,402,457 − 1. It was discovered with theGIMPS project byDr. Curtis Cooper andDr. Steven Boone, professors atCentral Missouri State University.
• December 18 –World Wrestling Entertainment holds itsArmageddon pay-per-view event from theDunkin' Donuts Center inProvidence, Rhode Island.
• December 19 –Chalk's Ocean Airways Flight 101 crashes into thePortMiami moments after takeoff on a leg fromMiami, Florida toNorth Bimini, The Bahamas, killing all 18 on board.^[21] The cause of the accident was revealed to be an in-flight breakup due to metal fatigue.
• December 20
  • 2005 New York City transit strike:New York City'sTransport Workers Union Local 100 goes onstrike for three days, shutting down allNew York City Subway andBus services.
  • Angela Johnson becomes the first woman in 50 years to be sentenced to death by theUnited States federal government. She is convicted offive murders in Iowa, receiving the death penalty for four of them.^[22]
• December 23 –U.S.Secretary of DefenseDonald Rumsfeld announces the first in an expected series of troop drawdowns following theIraqi elections.

• Ten years after reaching the million mark, the U.S. prison population reaches 2.5 million inmates.^[23]

• War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
• Iraq War (2003–2011)

• January 3 –Marley Dias, activist
• January 4
  • Dafne Keen, actress
  • Robert Dillingham, basketball player
• January 8 –Collin Dean, actor
• January 10 – Josh Hardin, soccer player
• January 14 –Jesse Love, stock car racing driver
• January 18 –Isaie Louis, soccer player
• January 20
  • Glaive, musician
• January 21 –IShowSpeed, youtuber

• February 1 –Konnor McClain, gymnast
• February 4 –Skye Blakely, gymnast
• February 8 –Katie Silverman, actress
• February 15 –Nicolas Bechtel, actor
• February 18 –Eden Wood, actress and reality television star
• February 20 –Gabriel Fernandez, murder victim (d.2013)
• February 21 –Sydney Barros, gymnast
• February 23
  • Leland Honeyman, racing driver
  • Arica Himmel, actress
• February 28 –Francis Jacobs, soccer player

• March 1 –Felipe Valencia, soccer player
• March 2 –Benjamin Cremaschi, soccer player
• March 2 –Poe Pinson, skateboarder
• March 3 –Miles Caton, musician and actor
• March 8 –Tate Carew, skateboarder
• March 10 –Esmir Bajraktarevic, soccer player
• March 11 –Riley Ann Sawyers, murder victim (d.2007)
• March 18 –Sam Williams, soccer player
• March 25 –Taylor Gray, racing driver
• March 26 –Ella Anderson, actress^[24]
• March 29 –Brooklyn Shuck, actress
• March 31 –Reed Baker-Whiting, soccer player

• April 5 –Noel Buck, soccer player
• April 29
  • Gavin Beavers, soccer player
  • Shahadi Wright Joseph, actress

• May 2
  • Jak Crawford, racing driver
  • Gregory Diaz IV, actor
  • Joshua Wynder, soccer player
• May 3 –Maxwell Jenkins, actor
• May 4 –Dajuan Wagner Jr., basketball player
• May 5 –Emmanuel Ochoa, soccer player
• May 11
  • Ezra Frech,Paralympic athlete
  • Hunter Yeany, racing driver
• May 12 –Ava Acres, actress
• May 18 –Alexandria Villaseñor, activist
• May 20 –Ethan Kohler, soccer player
• May 25 –Bella Sims, swimmer

• June 3 –Francesca Corbett, badminton player
• June 25 –Kylie Cantrall, actress
• June 27 –Miles Krajewski,para-badminton player

• July 7 –Jesse Ray Sheps, actor
• July 9 –Serge Ngoma, soccer player
• July 12 –Issac Ryan Brown, actor
• July 20 –Alison Fernandez, actress
• July 25 –Pierce Gagnon, actor^[25]

• August 5 –Obed Vargas, soccer player
• August 8 –Alysa Liu, figure skater
• August 9 –Caylee Anthony, murder victim (d.2008)
• August 10 –Sunny Suljic, actor

• September 17 –Olivia Moultrie, soccer player
• September 26 –Jack Hoffman, notable brain cancer patient (d.2025)
• September 29 –Gabrielle Gutierrez, actress

• October 1 –Rosalie Chiang, actress
• October 7 –Lulu Wilson, actress
• October 15 –Jarin Stevenson, South Korean professional basketball player

• November 3 –Lara Raj, singer and dancer
• November 9 –Diego Rosales, soccer player
• November 19 –Gitanjali Rao, scientist
• November 20 –Curtis Ofori, soccer player

• December 2 –Gisele Thompson, soccer player
• December 10 –Kyliegh Curran, actress
• December 14 –Mia Sinclair Jenness, actress

• Connor Michalek,WWE fan who died ofcancer (d.2014)

• January 1
  • Shirley Chisholm, American politician, educator and author (b.1924)^[26]
  • Eugene J. Martin, American artist (b.1938)
  • Bob Matsui, Japanese-American politician (b.1941)
• January 2
  • Arnold Denker, American chess player (b.1914)^[27]
  • Maclyn McCarty, American geneticist (b.1911)^[28]
• January 3 –Will Eisner, American cartoonist, writer and entrepreneur (b.1917)^[29]
• January 4
  • Guy Davenport, writer, artist and scholar (b.1927)
  • Robert Heilbroner, writer (b.1919)
  • Alton Tobey, artist (b.1914)
• January 7 –Rosemary Kennedy, socialite (b.1918)^[30]
• January 10 –James Forman, civil rights activist (b.1928)
• January 11 –Spencer Dryden, rock drummer (b.1938)
• January 15 –Ruth Warrick, singer, actress and political activist (b.1916)^[31]
• January 17 –Virginia Mayo, actress (b.1920)^[32]
• January 19 –Lamont Bentley, actor and rapper (b.1973)
• January 20 –Roland Frye, theologian and critic (b.1921)
• January 21 –Adrianne Leigh Reynolds, murder victim (b.1988)
• January 22 –Rose Mary Woods, secretary toRichard Nixon (b.1917)
• January 23 –Johnny Carson, television host and comedian (b.1925)^[33]
• January 25 –Philip Johnson, architect (b.1906)
• January 28 –Lucien Carr, key member of the original New York City circle of the Beat Generation in the 1940s (b.1925)
• January 29 –Bill Shadel, radio and television anchor (b.1908)

• February 1 –John Vernon, Canadian actor (b.1932)
• February 3 –Ernst Mayr, German-American evolutionary biologist (b.1904)
• February 4 –Ossie Davis, American actor, director, poet, playwright, author and activist (b.1917)^[34]
• February 5 –Bob Brannum, American basketball player (b.1925)
• February 6
  • Elbert N. Carvel, politician (b.1910)
  • Merle Kilgore, singer and songwriter (b.1934)
• February 8
  • Mike Bishop, American basketball player (b.1958)
  • George Herman, American journalist (b.1920)
  • Keith Knudsen, drummer (b.1948)
  • Jimmy Smith, jazz musician (b.1925)
• February 10 –Arthur Miller, playwright and husband ofMarilyn Monroe (b.1915)^[35]
• February 11 –Jack L. Chalker, American author and writer (b.1944)
• February 12
  • Brian Kelly, American actor (b.1931)
  • Sammi Smith, American country music singer-songwriter (b.1943)^[36]
• February 13 –Nelson Briles, American baseball player (b.1943)
• February 14 –Dick Weber, American boxer (b.1929)
• February 14 –F. M. Busby, American author (b.1921)
• February 15 –Samuel T. Francis, AmericanRadical right columnist and writer. (b.1947)
• February 17 –Dan O'Herlihy, Irish actor (b.1919)
• February 20
  • Sandra Dee, actress (b.1944)
  • John Raitt, actor and singer (b.1917)
  • Hunter S. Thompson, journalist (b.1937)
• February 24 –Hugh Nibley, American scholar and prominent member of the Church of Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints (b.1910)
• February 25 –Ben Bowen, child cancer patient (b.2002)
• February 26 –Jef Raskin, computer scientist (b.1943)^[37]

• March 6
  • Hans Bethe, German-born physicist,Nobel Prize laureate (b.1906)
  • Teresa Wright, actress (b.1918)
• March 9 –Chris LeDoux, rodeo performer and singer (b.1949)
• March 13 –Lyn Collins, R&B singer (b.1948)
• March 15 –Don Durant, actor and singer (b.1932)
• March 17
  • George F. Kennan, diplomat and political advisor (b.1904)^[38]
  • Andre Norton, writer (b.1912)
• March 19 –John DeLorean, car maker (b.1925)
• March 21
  • Barney Martin, actor (b.1923)
  • Bobby Short, pianist and singer (b.1924)
  • Jeff Weise, American teenage mass murderer and spree killer (b.1988)
• March 29
  • Howell Heflin, politician and U.S. senator (b.1921)
  • Johnnie Cochran, American lawyer (b.1937)^[39]
  • Mitch Hedberg, American stand-up comedian (b.1968)^[40]
• March 30
  • Robert Creeley, American poet (b.1926)
  • Mitch Hedberg, American comedian (b.1968)
  • Fred Korematsu, Japanese-American civil rights activist (b.1919)
• March 31
  • Frank Perdue, businessman (b.1920)
  • Terri Schiavo,right-to-die cause célèbre (b.1963)

• April 1 –Jack Keller, songwriter and producer (b.1936)
• April 5
  • Saul Bellow, writer (b.1915)
  • Debralee Scott, actress (b.1953)
• April 6 –Anthony F. DePalma, orthopedic surgeon and professor (b.1904)^[41]
• April 14 –Saunders Mac Lane, American mathematician (b.1909)
• April 16 –Marla Ruzicka, activist, founder ofCampaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict (b.1976)
• April 19 –Ruth Hussey, actress (b.1911)
• April 22 –Philip Morrison, physicist (b.1915)^[42]
• April 26
  • Mason Adams, actor (b.1919)
  • Hasil Adkins, singer-songwriter (b.1937)
• April 28 –Chris Candido, professional wrestler (b.1972)

• May 5 –Elisabeth Fraser, actress (b.1920)
• May 7 –Peter Wallace Rodino, politician (b.1909)
• May 8 –Lloyd Cutler, attorney and presidential advisor (b.1917)
• May 13 –George Dantzig, mathematician (b.1914)
• May 14 –Jimmy Martin, musician (b.1927)
• May 16 –Eliza Jane Scovill, AIDS victim (b.2001)
• May 17 –Frank Gorshin, American actor, impressionist and comedian (b.1933)
• May 20
  • J. D. Cannon, actor (b.1922)
  • Joseph Levis, Olympic fencer (b.1905)
• May 21 –Howard Morris, actor (b.1919)
• May 22 –Thurl Ravenscroft, voice actor (b.1914)
• May 26 –Eddie Albert, actor (b.1906)

• June 1 –George Mikan, basketball player (b.1924)
• June 4 –Ronald F. Marryott, admiral (b.1934)
• June 6
  • Maurice Rabb Jr., ophthalmologist (b.1932)
  • Dana Elcar, actor (b.1927)
  • Anne Bancroft, actress and wife ofMel Brooks (b.1931)
• June 7 -Terry Long, American football player (b.1959)
• June 8 – Ed Bishop, actor (b.1932)
• June 13 –Lane Smith, American actor (b.1936)
• June 20
  • Charles David Keeling, climate scientist (b.1928)
  • Jack Kilby, electronics engineer,Nobel Prize laureate (b.1923)
• June 24 –Paul Winchell, ventriloquist, comedian, actor, voice artist, humanitarian and inventor (b.1922)
• June 25
  • Domino Harvey, British-American bounty hunter (b.1969)
  • John Fiedler, actor (b.1925)
• June 27
  • Shelby Foote, American historian and novelist (b.1916)
  • John T. Walton, veteran and son ofWalmart founderSam Walton (b.1946)
• June 28
  • Danny Dietz, American naval officer (b.1980)
  • Erik S. Kristensen, American naval officer (b.1972)
  • Michael P. Murphy, American naval officer (b.1976)
  • Stephen C. Reich, American 160th SOAR officer (b.1971)

• July 1
  • Renaldo "Obie" Benson, soul and R&B singer and songwriter (b.1936)
  • Luther Vandross, singer, songwriter and record producer (b.1951)
• July 4
  • June Haver, actress and singer (b.1926)
  • Hank Stram, football coach (b.1923)
• July 5 –James Stockdale, admiral and vice presidential candidate (b.1923)
• July 6
  • Bruno Augenstein, German-American mathematician and physicist (b.1923)
  • L. Patrick Gray,FBI director (b.1916)^[43]
  • Ed McBain, screenwriter and crime fiction writer (b.1926)
• July 9 –Kevin Hagen, television actor (b.1928)
• July 11 –Frances Langford, radio and film actress and singer (b.1913)
• July 14 –Joe Harnell, pianist and composer (b.1924)
• July 16 –John Ostrom, paleontologist (b.1928)
• July 17 –Geraldine Fitzgerald, Irish actress (b.1913)
• July 18 –William Westmoreland, general (b.1914)
• July 20 –James Doohan, Canadian actor (b.1920)
• July 22 –Eugene Record, singer-songwriter (b.1940)
• July 21 –Lord Alfred Hayes, English wrestler, manager, and commentator (b.1928)
• July 23 –Myron Floren, accordionist (b.1919)
• July 25 –Ford Rainey, actor (b.1908)
• July 26 –Jack Hirshleifer, economist (b.1925)
• July 29 –Pat McCormick, actor and comedy writer (b.1927)

• August 1 –John Alevizos, businessman (b.1919)
• August 2 –Jay Hammond, politician (b.1922)
• August 4 —Ilen Getz, actress (b.1961)
• August 7 –Peter Jennings, journalist (b. 1938)
• August 8
  • Barbara Bel Geddes, actress (b.1922)
  • John H. Johnson, businessman and publisher. (b.1918)
• August 9 –Matthew McGrory, screen actor noted for his height (b.1973)
• August 11 –Ted Radcliffe, baseball player (b.1902)
• August 16 –Joe Ranft, screenwriter, animator, storyboard artist and voice actor (b.1960)
• August 17 –John Norris Bahcall, astrophysicist (b.1934)
• August 21 –Robert Moog, pioneer of electronic music (b.1934)
• August 23 –Brock Peters, actor (b.1927)

• September 1 –R.L. Burnside, American blues singer (b.1926)
• September 2 –Bob Denver, American actor (b.1935)
• September 3
  • William Rehnquist,Chief Justice of the United States. (b.1924)
  • James Rossi, Olympic cyclist. (b.1936)
• September 11 –Chris Schenkel, sportscaster (b.1923)
• September 14 –Robert Wise, American film director (b.1914)
• September 16 –Constance Moore, singer and actress (b.1920)
• September 24 –Tommy Bond, actor, director, producer, and writer (b.1926)
• September 25
  • Don Adams, American actor (b.1923)
  • Urie Bronfenbrenner, Russian-born American professor of psychology (b.1917)

• October 2 –Nipsey Russell, actor and comedian (b.1918)
• October 3 –Henry Howard Sr., politician (b.1930)
• October 7 –Charles Rocket, actor, comedian, musician, and reporter (b.1949)
• October 9 –Louis Nye, actor (b.1913)
• October 12 –Jack White, journalist and reporter (b.1942)
• October 13 –Vivian Malone Jones, one of thefirst two black students at the University of Alabama (b.1942)
• October 16 –Eugene "Porky" Lee, child actor (b.1933)
• October 18 –Bill King, sports broadcaster (b.1927)
• October 20 –Shirley Horn, jazz singer and pianist (b.1934)
• October 21
  • Tara Correa-McMullen, actress (b.1989)
  • Alvin Neelley, murderer (b.1953)^[44]
• October 22 –Arman, French-American artist (b.1928)
• October 24 –Rosa Parks, civil rights activist (b.1913)^[45]
• October 28 –Richard Smalley, chemist and physicist,Nobel Prize laureate (b.1943)
• October 29 –Lloyd Bochner, Canadian actor (b.1924)

• November 1
  • Skitch Henderson, pianist, conductor, and composer (b.1918)
  • Michael Piller, American screenwriter and producer (b.1948)
• November 4 –Sheree North, American actress, dancer and singer (b.1932)
• November 12 –James Fyfe, criminologist and instructor (b.1942)
• November 13
  • Eddie Guerrero, Mexican-American professional wrestler (b.1967)
  • Ruth Siems, American home economist (b.1931)
• November 15 –Adrian Rogers, religious leader (b.1931)
• November 16
  • Ralph Edwards, host and producer (b.1913)
  • Henry Taube, Canadian-American chemist and academic,Nobel Prize laureate (b.1915)
• November 18
  • Harold J. Stone, American actor (b.1913)
  • Elias Syriani, Jordanian-born American convicted murderer (b.1938)
• November 23 –Constance Cummings, American-British actress (b.1910)
• November 24 –Pat Morita, American actor (b.1932)
• November 26 –Stan Berenstain, writer and illustrator (b.1923)
• November 29 –Wendie Jo Sperber, actress (b.1958)

• December 2
  • William P. Lawrence, admiral and pilot (b.1930)
  • Nat Mayer Shapiro, painter (b.1919)
• December 10
  • Eugene McCarthy, politician and writer (b.1916)
  • Mary Jackson, actress (b.1910)
  • Richard Pryor, actor and comedian (b.1940)
• December 14 –Stew Bowers baseball player (b.1915)
• December 16 –John Spencer, actor (b.1946)
• December 17 –Jack Anderson, newspaper columnist (b.1922)
• December 20 –Bradford Cannon, Boston plastic surgeon (b.1907)
• December 21 –Elrod Hendricks, baseball player and coach (b.1940)
• December 24 –Michael Vale, actor (b.1922)
• December 26 –Vincent Schiavelli, actor (b.1948)
• December 31
  • Sanora Babb, writer (b.1907)
  • Enrico Di Giuseppe, operatic tenor (b.1932)

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