Deaths

2008
* 14 July - Ong Chit Chung, 59 * 30 September - J.B. Jeyaretnam, 82

2009
* 20 September - Tan Ger Cheng, 106

2010
* 14 May - Goh Keng Swee, 91 Founding father and Deputy Prime Minister (1973 - 1984) * 27 September - Balaji Sadasivan, 55 * 2 October - Kwa Geok Choo, 89, long illness

2011
* 17 December - Kim Jong-il, 70 Eternal Leader of North Korea (1994 - 2011) * 18 December - Vaclav Havel, 75 President of Czechoslovakia (1989 - 1992), President of Czech Republic (1993 - 2003)

2012
* 3 February - Toh Chin Chye, 90 Founded PAP in 1954 and Deputy Prime Minister (1965 - 1968) * 17 April - Dominique Sarron, 21

2013
* 8 April - Margaret Thatcher, 87 Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1979 - 1990) * 5 December - Nelson Mandela, 95 President of South Africa (1994 - 1999)

2014
* 26 February - Chua Sian Chin, 81 Singaporean politician * 21 October - Gough Whitlam, 98 Prime Minister of Australia (1972 - 1975)

2015
* 4 January - Goh Ee Khoon, 83, pneumonia * 8 January - William Kee * 14 February - Koh Lip Lin, 79 Singaporean politician * 20 March - Malcolm Fraser, 84 Prime Minister of Australia (1975 - 1983) * 23 March - Lee Kuan Yew, 91, pneumonia First Prime Minister of Singapore (1959 - 1990)