During the year, 7 of the 176 candidates died.

Here is a list of all the candidates, in order of popularity.
 

Boris Yeltsin	21
Frank Sinatra	19
Ronald Reagan	11
Pope John Paul II	8
Elizabeth Taylor	7
Muhammad Ali	6
Saddam Hussein	5
Kirk Douglas	5
Fidel Castro	5
Stephen Hawking	4
Jesse Helms	4
Winnie Mandela	3
Rosa Parks	3
Nelson Mandela	3
Macaulay Culkin	3
Lee Iacocca	3
Lady Bird Johnson	3
Katharine Hepburn	3
Keith Richards	3
James Doohan	3
Henry Kissinger	3
Billy Graham	3
Bill Gates	3
Lauren Bacall	3
Alan Greenspan	3
Yasser Arafat	2
William Shatner	2
Walter Cronkite	2
Ted Kennedy	2
Richard Pryor	2
Muammar Qaddafi	2
Mel Torme	2
Margaret Thatcher	2
Leonardo DiCaprio	2
Kathie Lee Gifford	2
Julia Child	2
John Goodman	2
Jan Michael Vincent	2
George Bush	2
Gary Coleman	2
Evel Knievel	2
Desmond Tutu	2
David Bowie	2
Chuck Jones	2
Charles Schultz	2
Benjamin Netanyahu	2
Arthur C. Clarke	2
Woody Harrelson	1
Willie Mays	1
William Proxmire	1
Vasili Tsibliyev	1
V. S. Naipaul	1
Trent Reznor	1
Tony Randall	1
Tom Jones	1
Tom Cruise	1
The Earl of Spencer	1
The Dalai Lama	1
Steven Wright	1
Steve Young	1
Steve Jobs	1
Sparky Anderson	1
Snoop Doggy Dogg	1
Siegfried (of Siegfried & Roy)	1
Ruth Bernhard	1
Rush Limbaugh	1
Roger Waters	1
Rodney King	1
Robert Downey, Jr.	1
Richard Allen Davis	1
Ricardo Montelban	1
Ray Walston	1
Quentin Tarantino	1
Puff Daddy	1
Prince Phillip	1
Paul Prudhomme	1
O.J. Simpson	1
Nancy Reagan	1
Milton Berle	1
Mike Tyson	1
Mickey Rourke	1
Michael C. Berch	1
Mary Tyler Moore	1
Martin Lawrence	1
Marion Barry	1
Mariah Carey	1
Madonna	1
Luke Perry	1
Luciano Pavarotti	1
Loretta Lynn	1
Lloyd Bridges	1
Liza Minelli	1
Linda McCartney	1
Lillian Jackson Braun	1
Les Paul	1
Lena Horne	1
Lee Trevino	1
Larry Kramer	1
Kyle Maclachlan	1
Kenneth Kaunda	1
Karl Malden	1
Kamal Ganzouri	1
K. R. Narayanan	1
Justine Bateman	1
Johnny Carson	1
Johnnie Cash	1
John Travolta	1
John Madden	1
John Lions	1
Joe Pesci	1
Jimmy Carter	1
Jim Nabors	1
Jerry Lewis	1
Jerry Brown	1
Jay Leno	1
James Earl Ray	1
James Earl Jones	1
Jack Lord	1
Jack Lemmon	1
Jack Klugman	1
Jack Kevorkian	1
J. D. Salinger	1
Imelda Marcos	1
Ice T	1
Hugh Hefner	1
Hosni Mubarak	1
Harry Blackmun	1
Harry Belafonte	1
Gregory Peck	1
Greg Louganis	1
Grandpa Jones	1
Gerald Ford	1
George Will	1
George Wallace	1
George Soros	1
George Schultz	1
Gary Busey	1
Farrah Fawcett	1
Elton John	1
Ellen DeGeneres	1
Elizabeth Windsor	1
Edward Teller	1
Eddie DeBartolo	1
Ed McMahon	1
Doris Lessing	1
Dolly Parton	1
Desmond Llewellyn	1
Debra Saunders	1
David Brinkley	1
Clint Eastwood	1
Chuck Yeager	1
Cheech Marin	1
Carol Doda	1
Carol Burnett	1
C. Everett Koop	1
Buddy Hackett	1
Brad Pitt	1
Bob Guccione	1
Bob Dylan	1
Bob Barker	1
Blue Demon	1
Billy Idol	1
Bill Clinton	1
Betty Page	1
Betty Ford	1
Barbara Streisand	1
Artie Shaw	1
Art Carney	1
Anthony Quinn	1
Anita Hill	1
Angie Dickenson	1
Andy Grove	1
Alicia Silverstone	1
Algis Budrys	1
Alec Guinness	1
Alan Alda	1