Deaths from kidney failure

Chinese politician, military leader, and President of the ROC (1887–1975)

Prime Minister of Israel from 2001 to 2006

American chess player (1943–2008)

General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1914–1984)

President of Uganda (1971-1979)

Egyptian singer and actress (1904–1975)

Soviet and Kyrgyz author (1928–2008)

Soviet-Latvian chess player (1936-1992)

President of Uganda (1966–1971; 1980–1985)

Spanish artist (1887–1927)

Prince of Monaco from 1949 to 2005

Greek economist and politician (1919–1996)

Czech journalist, writer, editor and translator (1896-1944)

Cuban musician (1907-2003)

Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1984 to 1989

German pathologist (1847–1888)

Syrian Kurdish leader

Russian actor (1935–2024)

Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1990 to 1997

Polish aristocrat (1786-1817)

Afghan Marxist and member of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (1931-2014)

Soviet-Russian stage and film actor, singer and musician

Russian revolutionary (1869–1918)

fourth president of Uganda (1912–1985)

20th century Belgian cardinal, founder of the Young Christian Workers (1882–1967)

Lebanese politician (1906-1987)

Māori Queen (1931–2006)

British-Bahamian sailor

Austrian actor (1915-2004)

General of the Republic of China, adopted son of President Chiang Kai-shek (1916-1997)

Ukrainian poet (1935–1963)

Nigerian writer (1951-2014)

Austro-Hungarian chess player (1837-1889)

Spanish road racing cyclist (1928–2013)

Finnish musician (1950–2006)

Israel López Valdés (September 14, 1918 – March 22, 2008), better known as Cachao ( ), was a Cuban double bassist and composer. Cachao is widely known as the co-creator of the mambo and a master of the descarga (improvised jam sessions). Throughout his career he also performed and recorded in a variety of music styles ranging from classical music to salsa. An exile in the United States since the 1960s, he only achieved international fame following a career revival in the 1990s.

English musician, artist and author

Coquerel's sifaka

President of Honduras

Czech actress and comedian (1936-2004)

Russian weightlifter

Wife of James Joyce (1884–1951)

8th Vice President of the Republic of China

Laotian male singer (1972-2020)

Croatian football coach (1938–2018)

Portuguese musician (1925–2004)

wife of Robert Mugabe (1931-1992)

Palestinian militant, teacher and lawyer (1937–2010)

Greek writer and film director (1921-2011)

Czech singer (1939-2020)

Bangladeshi poet, writer, journalist (1929–2006)

Kenyan athletics competitor (1998–2024)

Sheng Yen (), born Zhang Baokang (), (January 22, 1931 – February 3, 2009) was a Taiwanese Buddhist monk, religious scholar, and writer. He was one of the mainstream teachers of Chan Buddhism. He was a 57th generational dharma heir of Linji Yixuan in the Linji school (Japanese: Rinzai) and a third-generation dharma heir of Hsu Yun. In the Caodong (Japanese: Sōtō) lineage, Sheng Yen was a 52nd-generation Dharma heir of Dongshan Liangjie (807-869), and a direct Dharma heir of Dongchu (1908–1977).

Chinese botanist and university teacher (1910-2012)

Pakistani writer (1931–2008)

Indian politician (1956–2020)

considered to be the heaviest living woman in the world and the second heaviest woman in history (after Carol Yager)

American bassist (1947-2000)

Zambian politician (1943-2006)

Japanese professional wrestler and rikishi