Deaths of the 21st century

This is the list of people whose death was a major event in the 21st century. More deaths can be found via links to the individual death in year pages, or see the lists of deaths by year.

2000s
*Deaths in 2001: George Harrison, Jack Lemmon, and Dale Earnhardt.
*Deaths in 2002: Chuck Jones, Milton Berle, and Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.
*Deaths in 2003: Johnny Cash, Fred Rogers, Bob Hope, and Katharine Hepburn.
*Deaths in 2004: Ronald Reagan, Ray Charles, and Yasser Arafat.
*Deaths in 2005: Pope John Paul II, Richard Pryor, and Johnny Carson.
*Deaths in 2006: James Brown, Gerald Ford, and Saddam Hussein.
*Deaths in 2007: Anna Nicole Smith, Boris Yeltsin, and Chris Benoit.
*Deaths in 2008: Paul Newman, George Carlin, and Jesse Helms.
*Deaths in 2009: Michael Jackson, Ted Kennedy, and Walter Cronkite.
2010s
*Deaths in 2010: Leslie Nielsen, Dennis Hopper, and Tony Curtis.
*Deaths in 2011: Osama bin Laden, Muammar Gaddafi, and Steve Jobs.
*Deaths in 2012: Whitney Houston, Neil Armstrong, and Dick Clark.
*Deaths in 2013: Hugo Chávez, Margaret Thatcher, and Nelson Mandela.
*Deaths in 2014: Robin Williams, Maya Angelou, and Mickey Rooney.
*Deaths in 2015: B.B. King, Wes Craven, and Abdullah of Saudi Arabia.
*Deaths in 2016: Fidel Castro, Prince, and Muhammad Ali.
*Deaths in 2017: Hugh Hefner, Chuck Berry, and Jerry Lewis.
*Deaths in 2018: Stan Lee, George H. W. Bush, and Billy Graham.

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