Deaths
- January 19: Gerhard Bronner, 84, composer and cabaret artist, complications following a stroke.
- February 5: Alfred Worm, 61, investigative journalist, heart attack.
- February 15: Robert Adler, 93, co-inventor of the TV remote control, heart failure.
- February 17: Jakov Lind, 80, writer, painter and actor.
- March 29: Myokyo-ni, 86, Buddhist nun, head of the Zen Centre in London.
- March 31: Paul Watzlawick, 85, psychologist and philosopher.
- May 5: Gusti Wolf, 95, actress.
- June 14: Kurt Waldheim, 88, President (1986–1992), UN Sec-General (1972–1981), WWII Wehrmacht officer, heart failure.
- June 21: Georg Danzer, 60, singer, lung cancer.
- July 1: Joerg Kalt, 40, cinematographer, suicide.
- July 16: Kurt Steyrer, 87, health minister and Socialist presidential candidate, after short illness.
- August 4: Raul Hilberg, 81, Jewish Holocaust historian, lung cancer.
- August 8: Julius Wess, 73, physicist.
- August 11: Franz Antel, 94, film director.
- September 9: Helmut Senekowitsch, 73, football player and manager.
- September 11: Joe Zawinul, 75, jazz keyboardist and composer, founder of Weather Report, cancer.
- September 24: André Gorz, 84, social philosopher, suicide.
- October 2: Elfi von Dassanowsky, 83, opera singer, actress and film producer.
- October 11: Werner von Trapp, 91, musician and singer, member of the Trapp Family Singers who inspired The Sound of Music.
- November 18: Ellen Preis, 95, fencer, gold medallist at the 1932 Summer Olympics, kidney failure.
- November 23: Peter Burgstaller, 43, former footballer, shot.
- December 5: Alois Kracher, 48, winemaker, pancreatic cancer.
- December 9: Kurt Schmied, 81, footballer, former member of the national team.
- December 11: Karl Ludwig, Archduke of Austria, 89, son of Emperor Charles I of Austria.
- December 12: Alfons Maria Stickler, 97, prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
- December 24: Andreas Matzbacher, 25, cyclist, car accident.
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