A list of famous people who died this year.
January
John Vincent Kelleher. (b. 1916). Professor of Irish studies, Harvard.
Noberto Bobbio. (b. 1909) Italian legal and political philosopher.
Anthony Leddy (b. 1930) Former president of Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers' Association.
Michael O'Carroll CSSp. (b. 1911). Ecumenist, teacher, journalist and author.
Seamus Egan. (b. 1923). Supreme Court judge.
Tomás Ó Faircheallaigh. (b. 1904). Former champion Irish dancer and president of An Coimisiún le Rincí Gaelacha.
February
Alan Bullock, Lord Bullock of Leafield. (b. 1914). British historian.
Harry West. (b. 1917). Unionist politician, farmer.
Archbishop Denis Hurley. (b. 1915). South African churchman.
Johnny O'Leary. (b. 1923). Accordionist, storyteller and dance enthusiast.
Boris Trajkovski. (b. 1956). Macedonian president.
Cormac McAnallen. (b. 1980). Gaelic footballer.
Franz König. (b. 1905). Austrian cardinal.
Desmond Neill. (b. 1913). Prominent Quaker.
Queen Juliana of the Netherlands. (b. 1909). Former queen who abdicated.
Ciaran McAnally. (b. 1924). Solicitor.
Jack Glass. (b. 1936). Fundamentalist Scottish pastor.
Tom Dillon-Leetch. (b. 1939). Lawyer.
Robert Kidd. (b. 1918). Former head of NI Civil Service.
March
Máirtín Ó Briain. (b. 1953).
Celtic scholar.
George Dawson. (b. 1927). Professor of genetics, TCD; patron of visual arts.
Sir Peter Ustinov. (b. 1921). Actor, raconteur and humanitarian.
Alistair Cooke. (b. 1908). BBC correspondent in the US.
April
Mick McCarthy. (b. 1918). Publican, promoter of traditional music.
Michael Colley. (b. 1922). PR pioneer.
Maureen Potter. (b. 1925). Actress, comedian, singer and dancer.
Robert Sangster. (b. 1936). Racehorse owner and breeder.
Enda Colleran. (b. 1942). Gaelic footballer.
Paddy Ryan. (b. 1920). Draper, former mayor of Galway.
Ronnie Adams. (b. 1916). Rally driver.
Norris McWhirter. (b. 1925). Co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records.
Estée Lauder. (b. 1906). Founder of cosmetics empire.
Niall O'Brien. (b. 1939). Colomban priest in the Philippines, human rights activist.
Mary McGrory. (b. 1918). US columnist.
Doncha Ó Conchúir. (b. 1918). West Kerry Gaeltacht teacher and writer.
May
Niall Tóibín. (b. 1959). Irish aid worker.
Mick Doyle. (b. 1940). Irish rugby coach.
Patrick Butler, Lord Dunboyne. (b. 1917). Genealogical expert.
Proinsias Mac Cana. (b. 1926). Celtic scholar.
Umberto Agnelli. (b. 1934). Chairman Fiat.
Pádraig Hughes. (b. 1920). Westport industrialist.
Tony Randall. (b. 1924). American film actor and fussy half of The Odd Couple.
Archibald Cox. (b. 1912). Watergate special prosecutor.
Ramona Trinidad Iglesias-Jordan. (b. 1889). Was then the world's oldest person.
June
Joe Carr. (b. 1922). Golf champion.
Ronald Reagan. (b. 1911). US president from 1981 to 1989.
Mary Holland. (b. 1935). Irish Times journalist.
Mairín Lynch. (b. 1917). Widow of former Taoiseach Jack Lynch.
Barry Cowan. (b. 1948). Broadcast journalist.
Jacek Kuron. (b. 1934). Intellectual of the Solidarity trade union in Poland.
Eilís Mullan. (b. 1936). Artistic director of Dublin Youth Theatre.
Douglas Gageby (b. 1918). Former editor of The Irish Times.
July
Marlon Brando. (b. 1924). Film actor.
Thomas Klestil. (b. 1932). Austrian president.
Laurence Rockefeller. (b. 1910). Venture capitalist and philanthropist.
Paul Foot. (b. 1937). Campaigning British writer and journalist.
Eoin McKiernan. (b. 1915). Pioneer of Irish studies in the US.
Jack Hassard. (b. 1926). Protestant Northern Ireland civil rights activist.
Robert Tisdall. (b. 1907). Irish Olympic athlete.
Iris Lawlor. (b. 1923). Irish actress.
Mary Ellen Begley. (b. 1916). Kerry Gaeilgeoir, singer, dancer.
Francis Crick. (b. 1916). DNA pioneer.
Joe Cahill. (b. 1920). Former chief of staff of the IRA.
August
Henri Cartier-Bresson. (b. 1908). Pioneering photographer.
Bernard Levin. (b. 1928). British journalist and broadcaster.
Paul (Red) Adair. (b. 1915). American oil-well trouble-shooter.
Czeslaw Milosz. (b. 1911). Exiled Polish writer and Nobel laureate.
Patrick Nolan. (b. 1928). Former Irish Times journalist.
Elmer Bernstein. (b. 1922). Academy Award-winning composer.
Laura Branigan. (b. 1957). American rock ballad singer.
José Browne, Dowager Marchioness of Sligo. (b. 1908). Chatelaine of Westport House.
September
Beyers Naude. (b. 1915). Dutch Reformed Church minister, opponent of apartheid.
Johnny Ramone. (b. 1948). Rock guitarist.
Kenneth McQuillan. (b. 1931). Former supreme knight of the Knights of St Columbanus.
Patriach Petros VII (Petros Papapetrou). (b. 1949). Spiritual leader of 300,000 Orthodox Christians in Africa.
Brian Clough. (b. 1935). Colourful and controversial British football manager.
Françoise Sagan. (b. 1935). French writer, author of Bonjour Tristesse.
Johnny Bailey. (b. 1932). Last trading skipper of a Galway hooker.
October
Janet Leigh (b. 1927). Hollywood actress.
Fergus Bourke. (b. 1934). Photographer.
Seán Whelan. (b. 1944). Diplomat.
Pierre Salinger. (b. 1925). Former John F Kennedy press secretary.
William Geary. (b. 1899). Former Garda superintendent who in 1999 was cleared of bribery charges after 70 years.
J. Stephen Doyle. (b. 1929). RCSI professor of medicine.
Very Rev Dr Maurice Stewart. (b. 1929). Former dean of St Patrick's Cathedral.
John Peel. (b. 1939). BBC broadcaster, key figure in development of rock.
Billy FitzGerald. (b. 1934). Former head of Religious Programmes in RTÉ.
Kathleen Delap. (b. 1910). Irish Countrywomen's Association activist.
Tony Gray. (b. 1922). Author and former Irish Times journalist.
November
Raymond Kennedy. (b. 1926). A founder of Africa Concern.
Basil McIvor. (b. 1928). Unionist politician.
Emlyn Hughes. (b. 1947). Former captain of Liverpool and England.
Yasser Arafat. (b. 1929). President of the Palestinian Authority.
Margaret Hassan. (b. 1944). Care International director in Iraq who was kidnapped and murdered.
Sir Bob Cooper. (b. 1936). Founder of Alliance Party in Northern Ireland.
Ted Russell. (b. 1912). Leading Limerick businessman.
Jonah Jones. (b. 1919). Former director of the National College of Art and Design.
December
Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands. (b. 1911). Helped found World Wildlife Fund.
Micheál Ó Súilleabháin. (b. 1917). Short-story writer, dramatist and poet.
William Barden OP. (b. 1908). Priest, theologian and teacher.
Leslie Scarman, Baron Scarman of Quatt. (b. 1911). British judge.
Patrick McLaughlin. (b. 1921). Former Garda commissioner.
Anthony Sampson. (b. 1926). Biographer of Nelson Mandela and journalist.
P.V.Narasimha Rao (b.1921). Former Indian Prime Minister.