| 601 | January 1 | Death | 2002 – Julia Phillips, American film producer and author (b. 1944) |
| 602 | January 1 | Death | 2003 – Dumitru Tinu, Romanian journalist (b. 1940) |
| 603 | January 1 | Death | 2003 – Joe Foss, American pilot, politician, and broadcaster, 20th Governor of South Dakota (b. 1915) |
| 604 | January 1 | Death | 2003 – Royce D. Applegate, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1939) |
| 605 | January 1 | Death | 2005 – Eugene J. Martin, American painter (b. 1938) |
| 606 | January 1 | Death | 2005 – Shirley Chisholm, American educator, politician, and author (b. 1924) |
| 607 | January 1 | Death | 2006 – Dawn Lake, Australian comedian, actress, and singer (b. 1927) |
| 608 | January 1 | Death | 2006 – Harry Magdoff, American economist and journalist (b. 1913) |
| 609 | January 1 | Death | 2006 – Hugh McLaughlin, Irish publisher, invented the Water hog (b. 1918) |
| 610 | January 1 | Death | 2007 – Darrent Williams, American football player (b. 1982) |
| 611 | January 1 | Death | 2007 – Leon Davidson, American chemist and engineer (b. 1922) |
| 612 | January 1 | Death | 2007 – Roland Levinsky, South African-English biochemist and academic (b. 1943) |
| 613 | January 1 | Death | 2008 – Harold Corsini, American photographer and educator (b. 1919) |
| 614 | January 1 | Death | 2008 – Peter Caffrey, Irish-English actor (b. 1949) |
| 615 | January 1 | Death | 2008 – Pratap Chandra Chunder, Indian educator and politician (b. 1919) |
| 616 | January 1 | Death | 2008 – Salvatore Bonanno, American mobster (b. 1932) |
| 617 | January 1 | Death | 2009 – Aarne Arvonen, Finnish super-centenarian (b. 1897) |
| 618 | January 1 | Death | 2009 – Claiborne Pell, American captain and politician (b. 1918) |
| 619 | January 1 | Death | 2009 – Nizar Rayan, Palestinian Hamas leader (b. 1962) |
| 620 | January 1 | Death | 2009 – Sheikh Ahmed Salim Swedan Kenyan terrorist (b. 1960) |
| 621 | January 1 | Death | 2010 – Lhasa de Sela, American-Mexican singer-songwriter (b. 1972) |
| 622 | January 1 | Death | 2011 – Flemming Jørgensen, Danish singer-songwriter, bass player, and actor (Bamses Venner) (b. 1947) |
| 623 | January 1 | Death | 2011 – Marin Constantin, Romanian composer and conductor (b. 1925) |
| 624 | January 1 | Death | 2012 – Alessandro Liberati, Italian physician and epidemiologist (b. 1954) |
| 625 | January 1 | Death | 2012 – Bob Anderson, English fencer, stuntman, and choreographer (b. 1922) |
| 626 | January 1 | Death | 2012 – Carlos Soria, Argentinian lawyer and politician (b. 1948) |
| 627 | January 1 | Death | 2012 – Fred Milano, American singer (The Belmonts and Dion and the Belmonts) (b. 1939) |
| 628 | January 1 | Death | 2012 – Kiro Gligorov, Bulgarian-Macedonian lawyer and politician, 1st President of the Republic of Macedonia (b. 1917) |
| 629 | January 1 | Death | 2012 – Nay Win Maung, Burmese physician, businessman, and activist (b. 1962) |
| 630 | January 1 | Death | 2012 – Tommy Mont, American football player and coach (b. 1922) |