Deaths
- January 19 – Hidetsugu Yagi (b. 1886), Japanese electrical engineer
- February 1
- Werner Heisenberg (b. 1901), German theoretical physicist.
- George Whipple (b. 1878), American pathologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934.
- April 21 – Carl Benjamin Boyer (b. 1906), American historian of mathematics.
- May 31 – Jacques Monod (b. 1910), French biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965.
- August 18 – Shintaro Uda (b. 1886), Japanese electrical engineer.
- October 5 – Lars Onsager (b. 1903), Norwegian American chemist.
- November 5 – Willi Hennig (b. 1913), German entomologist and pioneer of cladistics.
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