Deaths
- January 8 - Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov (b. 1916), physicist.
- February 6 - Max Perutz (b. 1914), biologist.
- February 10 - Harold Furth (b. 1930), expert in plasma physics and nuclear fusion.
- March 3 - Roy Porter (b. 1946), medical historian.
- April 18 - Thor Heyerdahl (b. 1914), explorer, led the Kon-Tiki expedition.
- May 20 - Stephen Jay Gould (b. 1941), paleontologist/evolutionist.
- June 20 - Erwin Chargaff (b. 1905), biochemist.
- June 29 - Ole-Johan Dahl (b. 1931), computer scientist, invented concepts in object-oriented programming.
- July 4 - Laurent Schwartz (b. 1915), mathematician.
- August 6 - Edsger Dijkstra (b. 1930), computer scientist.
- August 31 - George Porter (b. 1920), Nobel laureate in chemistry.
- September 6 - Orvan Hess (b. 1906), obstetrician.
- September 21 - Robert Lull Forward (b. 1932), science fiction author and physicist.
- October 18 - Nikolai Rukavishnikov (b. 1932), cosmonaut.
- November 2 - Charles Sheffield (b. 1935), science fiction author and physicist.
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