Deaths
- January 12 – Bartel Leendert van der Waerden (b. 1903), mathematician.
- February 20 – Solomon Asch (b. 1907), social psychologist.
- March 26 – David Packard (b. 1912), engineer.
- June 17 – Thomas Kuhn (b. 1922), philosopher of science.
- August 1 – Tadeus Reichstein (b. 1897), winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- August 9 – Sir Frank Whittle (b. 1907), aeronautical engineer.
- September 20 – Paul Erdős (b. 1913), mathematician.
- November 21 – Abdus Salam (b. 1926), winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics.
- December 20 – Carl Sagan (b. 1934), astronomer.
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