Deaths
- February 1 – The crew of STS-107
- Michael P. Anderson (b. 1959)
- David McDowell Brown (b. 1956)
- Kalpana Chawla (b. 1961)
- Laurel Clark (b. 1961)
- Rick Husband (b. 1957)
- William C. McCool (b. 1961)
- Ilan Ramon (b. 1954)
- February 14 – Dolly the sheep (b. 1996), the world's first cloned mammal.
- March 29 – Carlo Urbani (b. 1956), physician, discoverer of SARS.
- April 17 – Dr. Robert Atkins (b. 1930), nutritionist.
- May 28 – Ilya Prigogine (b. 1917), chemist, Nobel laureate in chemistry.
- May 28 – Oleg Makarov (b. 1933), cosmonaut
- September 9 – Edward Teller (b. 1908), physicist, inventor of the hydrogen bomb.
- October 15 – Bertram N. Brockhouse (b. 1918), physicist.
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