Notable Deaths
- January 9 – Mehran Ghassemi, 30, Iranian journalist, heart failure.
- January 13 – Jafar Shahidi, 89, Iranian linguist and historian.
- January 20 – Ghorban Soleimani, 87, Iranian vocalist and dotar player.
- February 2 – Ahmad Bourghani, 48, Iranian politician, heart failure.
- February 6 – Nikol Faridani, 72, Iranian aerial photographer, prostate cancer.
- March 5 – Nader Khalili, 72, Iranian architect, heart failure.
- March 21 – Shusha Guppy, 72, Iranian writer and singer.
- March 23 – Maryam Farman Farmaian, 94, Iranian feminist activist.
- April 12 – Abbas Katouzian, 86, Iranian painter.
- April 15 – Parvin Dowlatabadi, 84, Iranian children's author and poet, heart attack.
- April 29 – Hassan Dehqani-Tafti, 87, Iranian Anglican Bishop, first ethnic Iranian Christian bishop since the 7th century.
- July 18 – Khosrow Shakibai, 64, Iranian actor, liver cancer.
- October 9 – Ardeshir Mohassess, 70, Iranian illustrator and cartoonist, heart attack.
- October 10 – Javad Nurbakhsh, 81, Iranian spiritual leader.
- October 25 – Tahereh Saffarzadeh, 72, Iranian poet and academic, cancer.
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