Deaths
- April 9 – Robert Havemann (b. 1910), German chemist.
- May 3 – Henri Tajfel (b. 1919), Polish-born British social psychologist.
- May 22 – Jay Laurence Lush (b. 1896), American livestock geneticist.
- June 12 – Karl von Frisch (b. 1886), Austrian-born ethologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
- July 29 – Vladimir K. Zworykin (b. 1889), Russian American pioneer of television technology.
- December 27 – Jack Swigert (b. 1931), American astronaut.
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