Toyo Endo, Japanese supercentenarian, 02/13/1892 - 01/03/2005

Margherita Carosio, Italian opera singer, 06/07/1908 - 01/10/2005

Thelma White, American actress, "Reefer Madness", 12/04/1910 - 01/11/2005

Miriam Rothschild, British zoologist and entomologist, 08/05/1908 - 01/20/2005

Philip Johnson, American architect, 07/08/1906 - 01/25/2005

Max Schmeling, German boxer, 09/28/1905 - 02/02/2005

Corrado Bafile, Italian cardinal, 07/04/1903 - 02/03/2005

Ernst Mayr, German-born American evolutionary biologist, 07/05/1904 - 02/03/2005

Lúcia Santos, Portuguese nun, saw vision at Fátima in 1917, 03/22/1907 - 02/13/2005

Simone Simon, French actress, 04/23/1910 - 02/22/2005

Hugh Nibley, American Mormon scholar, 03/27/1910 - 02/24/2005

Martin Denny, American composer and recording artist, 04/10/1911 - 03/02/2005

Hermann Dörnemann, German supercentenarian, 05/27/1893 - 03/02/2005

Max M. Fisher, American industrialist and philanthropist, 07/15/1908 - 03/03/2005

Hans Bethe, German-born American Nobel Prize-winning physicist, 07/02/1906 - 03/06/2005

George F. Kennan, American political advisor, diplomat, and historian, 02/16/1904 - 03/17/2005

Andre Norton, American science fiction and fantasy writer, 02/17/1912 - 03/17/2005

Paul Henning, American TV producer and writer, "The Beverly Hillbillies", "Green Acres", 09/16/1911 - 03/25/2005

James Callaghan, British prime minister (1976-1979), 03/27/1912 - 03/26/2005

Dale Messick, American comic strip artist, "Brenda Starr", 04/11/1906 - 04/05/2005

Saunders Mac Lane, American mathematician, 08/04/1909 - 04/14/2005

Johannes Bjelke-Petersen, Australian politician, premier of Queensland (1968-1987), 01/13/1911 - 04/23/2005

John Mills, British Oscar-winning actor, "Ryan's Daughter", 02/22/1908 - 04/23/2005

Reginald "Red" Horner, Canadian hockey player, 05/29/1909 - 04/27/2005

Joe Grant, American Disney animator, 05/15/1908 - 05/06/2005

Peter Rodino, American politician, New Jersey representative (1949-1989), 06/07/1909 - 05/07/2005

Elizabeth Orton Jones, American children's writer and illustrator, 06/25/1910 - 05/10/2005

Eddie Albert, American actor, "Roman Holiday", TV's "Green Acres", 04/22/1906 - 05/26/2005

Leon Askin, Austrian-born actor, TV's "Hogan's Heroes", 09/18/1907 - 06/03/2005

Richard Eberhart, American poet, 04/05/1904 - 06/09/2005

Christopher Fry, British playwright, "The Lady's Not for Burning", 12/18/1907 - 06/30/2005

Alberto Lattuada, Italian film director, 11/13/1914 - 07/03/2005

Claude Simon, French Nobel Prize-winning writer, 10/10/1913 - 07/06/2005

Grace Thaxton, American supercentenarian, 06/18/1891 - 07/06/2005

Frances Langford, American singer and entertainer, 04/04/1913 - 07/11/2005

Geraldine Fitzgerald, Irish-born American actress, "Wuthering Heights", "Arthur", 11/24/1913 - 07/17/2005

William Westmoreland, American general, 03/26/1914 - 07/18/2005

Ray Crist, American chemist, 03/08/1900 - 07/23/2005

Maria do Couto Maia-Lopes, Portuguese supercentenarian, 10/24/1890 - 07/25/2005

Ford Rainey, American character actor, 08/08/1908 - 07/25/2005

Hildegarde Sell, American cabaret singer, 02/01/1906 - 07/29/2005

Ray Cunningham, American baseball player, 01/17/1905 - 07/30/2005

Ted "Double Duty" Radcliffe, American baseball player, 07/07/1902 - 08/11/2005

Frère Roger, Swiss-born founder and prior of the Taizé Community, 05/12/1915 - 08/16/2005

Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, Dutch supercentenarian, world's oldest validated person at time of death, 06/29/1890 - 08/30/2005

Joseph Rotblat, Polish-born British Nobel Prize-winning physicist, 11/04/1908 - 08/31/2005

Robert Wise, American Oscar-winning film director, "West Side Story", "The Sound of Music", 09/10/1914 - 09/14/2005

Guy Green, British cinematographer, film director, and screenwriter, 11/05/1913 - 09/15/2005

Simon Wiesenthal, Ukrainian-born Austrian Nazi hunter, 12/31/1908 - 09/20/2005

Molly Yard, American social activist and feminist, 07/06/1912 - 09/21/2005

Julia Sinédia-Cazour, Reunionese supercentenarian, 07/12/1892 - 10/06/2005

Aloysius John Wycislo, American bishop, 06/17/1908 - 10/11/2005

Edmund Bacon, American architect and city planner, 05/02/1910 - 10/14/2005

Giuseppe Caprio, Italian cardinal, 11/15/1914 - 10/15/2005

Mildred Shay, American character actress, "The Women", 09/26/1911 - 10/15/2005

Alvin M. Josephy, Jr., American historian and writer, "500 Nations", 05/18/1915 - 10/16/2005

Ba Jin, Chinese writer, 11/25/1904 - 10/17/2005

John S. Monagan, American writer and politician, Connecticut representative (1959-1972), 12/23/1911 - 10/23/2005

Rosa Parks, American civil rights pioneer, 02/04/1913 - 10/24/2005

Al Lopez, American baseball player and manager, 08/20/1908 - 10/29/2005

Lydia Pearl Newton, American supercentenarian, 03/23/1893 - 10/30/2005

Gladys Tantaquidgeon, American anthropologist and Mohegan preservationist, 06/15/1899 - 11/01/2005

Aenne Burda, German fashion magazine publisher, 07/28/1909 - 11/03/2005

Carola Höhn, German actress, 01/30/1910 - 11/08/2005

Peter F. Drucker, Austrian-born American economist, 11/19/1909 - 11/11/2005

Harry Gold, Irish-born British jazz saxophonist and bandleader, 02/26/1907 - 11/13/2005

Jenő Takács, Austro-Hungarian composer, 09/25/1902 - 11/14/2005

Ralph Edwards, American TV host, "This Is Your Life", 06/13/1913 - 11/16/2005

Harold J. Stone, American character actor, "Spartacus", 03/03/1913 - 11/18/2005

Constance Cummings, American actress, "Blithe Spirit", 05/15/1910 - 11/23/2005

Alberta Slim, British-born Canadian country music singer and songwriter, 03/24/1910 - 11/25/2005

Marc Lawrence, American character actor, "Key Largo", 02/17/1910 - 11/28/2005

Jean Parker, American actress, "Little Women", 08/11/1915 - 11/30/2005

Mary Hayley Bell, British playwright and novelist, "Whistle Down the Wind", 01/22/1911 - 12/01/2005

Frits Philips, Dutch industrialist and humanitarian, 04/16/1905 - 12/05/2005

Lucy D'Abreu, Indian-born Scottish supercentenarian, 05/24/1892 - 12/07/2005

Mary Jackson, American character actress, TV's "The Waltons", 11/22/1910 - 12/10/2005

Gyula Trebitsch, Hungarian-born German film producer, 11/03/1914 - 12/12/2005

Margaret Hodges, American children's writer, 07/26/1911 - 12/13/2005

Gladys Swetland, American supercentenarian, 04/18/1892 - 12/14/2005

Julián Marías, Spanish philosopher, 06/17/1914 - 12/15/2005

William Proxmire, American politician, Wisconsin senator (1957-1989), 11/11/1915 - 12/15/2005

Argentina Brunetti, Argentine-born actress, "It's A Wonderful Life", 08/31/1907 - 12/20/2005

Aurora Miranda, Brazilian dancer and recording artist, 04/20/1915 - 12/22/2005

Lajos Baróti, Hungarian soccer player and coach, 08/19/1914 - 12/23/2005

Norman D. Vaughan, American explorer and mountaineer, 12/19/1905 - 12/23/2005

Erich Topp, German U-boat commander, 07/02/1914 - 12/26/2005

Virginia Dighero-Zolezzi, Italian supercentenarian, 12/24/1891 - 12/28/2005

Harry Magdoff, American socialist commentator and co-editor of Monthly Review, 08/21/1913 - 01/01/2006

Irving Layton, Romanian-born Canadian poet, 03/12/1912 - 01/04/2006

Keizo Miura, Japanese skier and mountaineer, 02/15/1904 - 01/05/2006

Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer and writer, "Seven Years in Tibet", 07/06/1912 - 01/07/2006

Georg Wilhelm Hanover, German-born royal, brother-in-law of Prince Philip of England, 03/25/1915 - 01/08/2006

Jan Twardowski, Polish poet, 06/01/1915 - 01/18/2006

Joseph M. Newman, American film director, "This Island Earth", 08/07/1909 - 01/23/2006

Virginia Dodd Smith, American politician, Nebraska representative (1975-1991), 06/30/1911 - 01/23/2006

Fayard Nicholas, American dancer, 10/20/1914 - 01/24/2006

Phyllis Mudford King, British tennis player, 1931 Wimbledon champion, 08/23/1905 - 01/27/2006

Otto Lang, Bosnian-born American film and TV producer and director, 01/21/1908 - 01/30/2006

Michael Gilbert, British crime and mystery writer, 07/17/1912 - 02/08/2006

Akira Ifukube, Japanese classical music and film score composer, "Godzilla", 05/31/1914 - 02/08/2006

Mart Kenney, Canadian bandleader, 03/07/1910 - 02/08/2006

Ibolya Csák, Hungarian gold medal-winning Olympic high jumper, 01/06/1915 - 02/09/2006

Del Courtney, American bandleader, 09/21/1910 - 02/11/2006

Bettie Wilson, American supercentenarian, 09/13/1890 - 02/13/2006

Susie Gibson, American supercentenarian, 10/31/1890 - 02/16/2006

Sybille Bedford, German-born British writer, 03/16/1911 - 02/17/2006

Hilde Domin, German writer, 07/27/1909 - 02/22/2006

Flossie Page, American supercentenarian, 06/12/1893 - 02/22/2006

Ace Adams, American baseball player, 03/02/1910 - 02/26/2006

Hans Singer, German-born British development economist, 11/29/1910 - 02/26/2006

Robert L. Scott, Jr., American fighter pilot and writer, "God Is My Co-Pilot", 04/12/1908 - 02/27/2006

John Parkinson, Irish-born president of the Belfast Titanic Society, 01/07/1907 - 03/01/2006

Marion Higgins, American supercentenarian, 06/26/1893 - 03/02/2006

Scott Corbett, American children's writer, "Cutlass Island", 07/27/1913 - 03/06/2006

Gordon Parks, American photojournalist and film director, "The Learning Tree", 11/30/1912 - 03/07/2006

Hanka Bielicka, Polish singer and actress, 11/09/1915 - 03/09/2006

John Profumo, British politician and cabinet minister, 01/30/1915 - 03/09/2006

Oleg Cassini, French-born American fashion designer, 04/10/1913 - 03/17/2006

Narvin Kimball, American banjoist and singer, 03/02/1909 - 03/17/2006

Ray Meyer, American college basketball coach, 12/18/1913 - 03/17/2006

Richard Powell, British senior civil servant, 07/30/1909 - 03/30/2006

George Savalla Gomes (aka Carequinha), Brazilian clown, 07/18/1915 - 04/05/2006

Alain de Boissieu, French general, 07/05/1914 - 04/05/2006

Lucie Péré-Pucheu, French supercentenarian, 08/13/1893 - 04/06/2006

Robin Orr, Scottish classical and operatic composer, 06/02/1909 - 04/09/2006

Jimmy Outlaw, American baseball player, 01/20/1913 - 04/09/2006

Bill Baker, American baseball player, 02/22/1911 - 04/13/2006

Dutch Fehring, American baseball player and coach, 05/31/1912 - 04/13/2006

Lilly Wust, German gay rights activist, subject of film "Aimée & Jaguar", 11/01/1914 - 04/15/2006

Jean Bernard, French physician and hematologist, 05/26/1907 - 04/17/2006

Ellen Kuzwayo, South African writer and civil rights activist, 06/29/1914 - 04/19/2006

Erik Bergman, Finnish classical music composer, 11/24/1911 - 04/24/2006

Grace Jones, American supercentenarian, 06/04/1893 - 04/24/2006

Elma "Pem" Farnsworth, American television pioneer and widow of inventor Philo T. Farnsworth, 02/25/1908 - 04/27/2006

John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian-born American economist, writer, and diplomat, 10/15/1908 - 04/29/2006

Lillian Asplund, American Titanic survivor, 10/21/1906 - 05/06/2006

Val Guest, British filmmaker, 12/11/1911 - 05/10/2006

Miguel Fisac, Spanish architect, 09/29/1913 - 05/12/2006

Stanley Kunitz, American poet, U.S. Poet Laureate (2000-2001), 07/29/1905 - 05/14/2006

Cy Feuer, American Broadway producer, director, and writer, 01/15/1911 - 05/17/2006

Zoe Rae, American child actress of the 1910's, 07/13/1910 - 05/20/2006

Katherine Dunham, American dancer and choreographer, 06/22/1912 - 05/21/2006

Henry Bumstead, American art director and production designer, 03/17/1915 - 05/24/2006

Raymond Davis, Jr., American Nobel Prize-winning physicist, 10/14/1914 - 05/31/2006

Bill Fleming, American baseball player, 07/31/1913 - 06/04/2006

Mykola Kolessa, Ukrainian composer, 12/06/1903 - 06/08/2006

James Cameron, American writer and founder of the Black Holocaust Museum, 02/23/1914 - 06/11/2006

György Illés, Hungarian cinematographer, 11/02/1914 - 06/12/2006

Joseph Zobel, Martinique-born writer, 04/26/1915 - 06/17/2006

Vincent Sherman, American TV and film director, "Mr. Skeffington", 07/16/1906 - 06/18/2006

Lars Korvald, Norwegian prime minister (1972-1973), 04/29/1916 - 07/04/2006

Tom Weir, Scottish broadcaster, writer, mountaineer, and naturalist, 12/29/1914 - 07/06/2006

Frank P. Zeidler, American politician, socialist mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (1948-1960), 09/20/1912 - 07/07/2006

Raja Rao, Indian writer, "Kanthapura", "The Serpent and the Rope", 11/08/1908 - 07/08/2006

Barnard Hughes, American character actor, "Da", 07/16/1915 - 07/11/2006

Heinrich Heidersberger, German photographer, 06/10/1906 - 07/14/2006

Howard "Howdy" Groskloss, American baseball player, 04/10/1906 - 07/15/2006

Charles Bettelheim, French Marxist economist, 11/20/1913 - 07/20/2006

Ted Grant, South African-born British Trotskyist politician, 07/09/1913 - 07/20/2006

Heinrich Hollreiser, German chamber music conductor, 06/24/1913 - 07/24/2006

Lise Delamare, French actress, 04/09/1913 - 07/25/2006

Don Malarkey, American golfer, 04/03/1905 - 07/28/2006

Anthony Galla-Rini, American concert accordionist, 01/18/1904 - 07/30/2006

Philip D’Arcy Hart, British medical researcher, 06/25/1900 - 07/30/2006

Johannes Willebrands, Dutch cardinal, 09/04/1909 - 08/01/2006

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German-born British opera singer, 12/09/1915 - 08/03/2006

Elden Auker, American baseball player, 09/21/1910 - 08/04/2006

Lois January, American actress of the 1930's, 10/05/1913 - 08/07/2006

James Van Allen, American physicist, 09/07/1914 - 08/09/2006

Camille Loiseau, French supercentenarian, 02/13/1892 - 08/12/2006

Alfredo Stroessner, Paraguayan president and dictator (1954-1989), 11/03/1912 - 08/16/2006

Renate Brausewetter, German silent movie actress, 10/01/1905 - 08/20/2006

Joe Rosenthal, American photographer, "Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima", 10/09/1911 - 08/20/2006

Bismillah Khan, Indian shehnai player, 03/21/1916 - 08/21/2006

William Norris, American businessman, Control Data Corporation, 07/16/1911 - 08/21/2006

Herbert Hupka, German journalist and politician, 08/15/1915 - 08/24/2006

Léopold Simoneau, Canadian opera singer, 05/03/1916 - 08/24/2006

John Weinzweig, Canadian classical music composer, 03/11/1913 - 08/24/2006

Marie-Dominique Philippe, French philosopher and theologian, 09/08/1912 - 08/26/2006

María Capovilla, Ecuadorian supercentenarian, world's oldest validated person at time of death, 09/14/1889 - 08/27/2006

Glenn Ford, Canadian-born American actor, "Gilda" "Blackboard Jungle", 05/01/1916 - 08/30/2006

Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian Nobel Prize-winning writer, 12/11/1911 - 08/30/2006

Charlie "Broadway" Wagner, American baseball player and coach, 12/03/1912 - 08/31/2006

György Faludy, Hungarian poet, writer, and translator, 09/22/1910 - 09/01/2006

Annemarie Wendl, German actress, 12/26/1914 - 09/03/2006

Robert Earl Jones, American character actor, "The Sting", 02/03/1910 - 09/07/2006

Herbert Rudley, American character actor, TV's "The Mothers-In-Law", 03/22/1910 - 09/09/2006

Edna Staebler, Canadian cookbook writer and journalist, 01/15/1906 - 09/12/2006

Silviu Brucan, Romanian politician and writer, 01/18/1916 - 09/14/2006

Dorothy C. Stratton, American educator, naval officer, and public official, 03/24/1899 - 09/17/2006

Margaret Ekpo, Nigerian politician and women's rights activist, 07/27/1914 - 09/21/2006

Etta Baker, American folk and blues guitarist, 03/31/1913 - 09/23/2006

Sally Gray, British actress of the 1930's and 1940's, 02/14/1916 - 09/24/2006

Henry Townsend, American blues guitarist and pianist, 10/27/1909 - 09/24/2006

Iva Toguri D'Aquino, American WWII figure, accused of being "Tokyo Rose", 07/04/1916 - 09/26/2006

Byron Nelson, American golfer, 02/04/1912 - 09/26/2006

Rosamond Carr, American humanitarian, founder of the Imbabazi orphanage in Rwanda, 08/28/1912 - 09/29/2006

Louis-Albert Vachon, Canadian cardinal, 02/04/1912 - 09/29/2006

Paul Halmos, Hungarian-born American mathematician, 03/03/1916 - 10/02/2006

Buck O’Neil, American baseball player and coach, 11/13/1911 - 10/06/2006

Wilson Tucker, American science fiction writer, 11/23/1914 - 10/06/2006

Anna Russell, British-born comedienne and musical parodist, 12/27/1911 - 10/18/2006

Alvin Weinberg, American nuclear physicist, 04/20/1915 - 10/18/2006

Jane Wyatt, American actress, "Lost Horizon", TV's "Father Knows Best", 08/12/1910 - 10/20/2006

John Kentish, British tenor, 01/21/1910 - 10/26/2006

Ghulam Ishaq Khan, Pakistani president (1988-1993), 01/20/1915 - 10/27/2006

Albrecht von Goertz, German-born American automobile designer, 01/12/1914 - 10/27/2006

Peter Gingold, German WWII resistance fighter and advocate for Holocaust victims, 03/08/1916 - 10/28/2006

Silas Simmons, American baseball player, 10/14/1895 - 10/29/2006

Pieter Willem Botha, South African prime minister (1978-1989), 01/12/1916 - 10/31/2006

Hilda van Stockum, Dutch children's writer and illustrator, 02/09/1908 - 11/01/2006

Marie Rudisill, American writer and talk-show guest, "The Fruitcake Lady", 03/13/1911 - 11/03/2006

Nelson S. Bond, American science fiction writer, 11/23/1908 - 11/04/2006

Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, American writer, "Cheaper by the Dozen", 04/04/1908 - 11/04/2006

Marian Marsh, American actress of the 1930's and early 1940's, "Svengali", 10/17/1913 - 11/09/2006

Jack Williamson, American science fiction writer, 04/29/1908 - 11/10/2006

Adam Schaff, Polish Marxist philosopher, 03/10/1913 - 11/12/2006

Pete "Pecky" Suder, American baseball player, 04/16/1916 - 11/14/2006

Milton Friedman, American Nobel Prize-winning economist, 07/31/1912 - 11/16/2006

Donald Hamilton, Swedish-born American writer, "Matt Helm" series, 03/24/1916 - 11/20/2006

Hassan Gouled Aptidon, Djiboutian prime minister (1977) and president (1977-1999), 10/15/1916 - 11/21/2006

Thomas C. Fleming, American journalist, 11/29/1907 - 11/21/2006

Robert Lockwood, Jr., American blues musician and singer, 03/27/1915 - 11/21/2006

Phyllis Fraser (aka Phyllis Cerf Wagner), American actress, publisher, and socialite, 04/13/1916 - 11/25/2006

Eddie Mayo, American baseball player, 04/16/1910 - 11/27/2006