Centuries:
Year in Review 21st Century
20th century - 21st century - 22nd century
Decades: 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s - 2000s - 2010s? 2020s? 2030s? 2040s? 2050s?
Years: 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
The International Year of the Volunteer
Events:
Births
Deaths
- February 4 - [Iannis Xenakis]?, 78, Greek/French? composer
- February 18 - Balthus?, 92, French painter
- February 18 - Dale Earnhardt - NASCAR race car driver
- February 19 - [Stanley Kramer]?, 87, American movie director
- February 25 - Sir Donald Bradman, cricketer
- March 12 - Morton Downey, Jr. - television personality
- March 12 - [Robert Ludlum]?, author of spy novels
- March 15 - [Ann Sothern]? - actress
- March 21 - Norma Macmillan, voice
- March 18 - [John Phillips]?, cofounder of Popular Music group [The Mamas and the Papas]?
- March 22 - [William Hanna]?, cofounder (with [Joseph Barbera]?) of famous Hanna-Barbera? animation studio
- April 10 - [Willie Stargell]? - Baseball Hall of Famer
- April 11 - Harry Secombe, 79, actor, member of The Goon Show (prostate cancer)
- April 15 - Joey Ramone, lead singer for The Ramones
- May 5 - [Cliff Hillegass]?, 83, creator of Cliff Notes (stroke)
- May 11 - Douglas Adams, 49, author (heart attack)
- May 12 - [Perry Como]?, 87, singer
- June 1 - [Hank Ketcham]?, 81, creator of Dennis the Menace
- June 1, King Birendra and Queen Aiswarya of Nepal, (shot, possibly murdererd)
- June 3 - [Anthony Quinn]?, 86, actor
- June 11 - [Timothy McVeigh]?, 33, terrorist (executed by U.S. government)
- June 21 - John Lee Hooker, 83, Blues musician
- June 21 - Carroll O'Connor, 76, actor
- June 28 - Jack Lemmon, 76, actor
- June 28 - [Joan Sims]?, 71, actress
- June 30 - [Chet Atkins]?, 77, country musician
- July 5 - [Hannelore Kohl]?, 68, wife of ex-chancellor of Germany [Helmut Kohl]? (suicide)
- July 11 - Herman Brood, 54, Dutch rock musician, painter and publicity freak (suicide)
- July 18 - Fabio Taglioni, automotive engineer
- July 27 - [Leon Wilkeson]?, 49, Bassist for [Lynyrd Skynyrd]?
- July 29 - [Henryk Jablonski]?, president of Poland (1972-1985)
- August 1 - Poul Anderson - fantasy / sci-fi author
- August 6 - [Jorge Amado]?, 88, Brazilian writer
- August 20 - Fred Hoyle, Astronomer and science fiction writer
- August 25 - Aaliyah, 22, American singer and actress
- September 2 - Christiaan Barnard, 78, South African heart surgeon, first to perform a human-to-human heart transplant
- September 3 - [Pauline Kael]?, 82, American movie critic
- September 22 - [Isaac Stern]?, 81, violinist
- November 10 - Ken Kesey, 66, author.
- November 29 - George Harrison, 58, musician and former member of The Beatles.
- November 30 - [Robert Tools]?, first recipient of a self-contained [artificial heart]?, at age 59 after 151 days without a living heart.
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