Deaths in May 2004
The following is a list of notable deaths in May 2004.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
May 2004
1
- Ram Prakash Gupta, 80, Indian politician.
- Francis James Harrison, 91, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Syracuse (1977–1987).
- Felix Haug, 52, Swiss pop musician (Double).
- Wong Ker-lee, 93, Fujianese Hong Kong businessman and politician.
- Larkin Kerwin, 79, Canadian physicist.
- Lojze Kovačič, 75, Slovene writer.
- Jean-Jacques Laffont, 57, French economist specializing in public economics and information economics, cancer.
- John Howland Rowe, 85, American archaeologist and anthropologist.
2
- Moe Burtschy, 82, American baseball player, former Major League Baseball pitcher for the Philadelphia & Kansas City Athletics.[1]
- Nelson Gidding, 84, American screenwriter, congestive heart failure.[2]
- Paul Guimard, 83, French writer.
- Tony Poeta, 71, Canadian professional ice hockey player (Chicago Black Hawks).[3]
3
- Anthony Ainley, 71, British actor (Doctor Who).
- Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire, 84, British aristocrat and politician.
- Darrell Johnson, 75, American MLB catcher and manager.[4]
- Volus Jones, 90, American animator.
- visual artist, sculptor, and filmmaker.[5]
4
- Clement Dodd, 72, Jamaican reggae pioneer.[6]
- Tage Frid, 88, Danish woodworker, complications of Alzheimer's disease.[7]
- Hugh Gillin, 78, American actor (Back to the Future Part III).
- David Reimer, 39, Canadian notable gender-reassignment victim, suicide.[8]
- Erik Smith, 73, German-born British music producer.
5
- Teddy Alfarero, 41, Filipino basketball player, complications from a liver ailment.
- John Cornforth, 66, English architectural historian.
- Duane Francies, 82, American military aviator.
- José Maceda, 87, Filipino composer and ethnomusicologist.
- Ritsuko Okazaki, 44, Japanese singer-songwriter and author.
6
- Virginia Capers, 78, American actress (Raisin, Lady Sings the Blues, Ferris Bueller's Day Off), Tony winner (1974).[9]
- Kjell Hallbing, (aka Louis Masterson), 69, Norwegian Western author.[10]
- Sir John Hill, 90, British police officer.
- Barney Kessel, 80, American jazz guitarist and studio musician.[11]
- James A. Krumhansl, 84, American physicist.[12]
- New York Giants).[13]
- Charlotte Thiele, 85, German actress.[14]
- Daniel Thompson, 69, American poet.
7
- Nick Berg, 26, American businessman and hostage killed in Iraq.
- Winifred Cavenagh, 95, British criminologist.
- Douglas John Foskett, 85, British librarian.
- Oliver David Jackson, 84, Australian army officer.
- Waldemar Milewicz, 48, Polish journalist, and Mounyra Beouamrane, killed in Iraq.
8
- Lewis Caine, 39, Australian organised crime figure, murdered during the Melbourne gangland killings.
- Quentin Hughes, 84, British architect and army officer.
- Sir John Peel, 91, British politician, MP for Leicester South East (1957–1974).
- Ronnie Robinson, 53, American basketball player.
- Valentin Yezhov, 83, Soviet and Russian screenwriter and playwright.
9
- Tommy Farrell, 82, American film and television actor.
- Brenda Fassie, 39, South African singer.[15]
- Akhmad Kadyrov, 52, Chechen politician, President of Chechnya.
- Alan King, 76, American comedian and actor.
- Wayne McLeland, 79, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).[16]
- Olive Osmond, 79, American Osmond singing family matriarch, mother of entertainers Marie Osmond and the various Osmond Brothers.
- Walter H. Stockmayer, 90, American chemist and university teacher, and a pioneer in polymer science.[17]
- Percy M. Young, 91, British musicologist.[18]
10
- Anthony Babington, 84, Anglo-Irish author, judge and Army officer.
- Phil Gersh, 92, American talent and literary agent.[19]
- Eric Kierans, 90, Canadian economist and politician.
- Gunnar Ibsen Sørensen, 90, Danish Olympic rower (men's coxed four rowing at the 1936 Summer Olympics).[20]
- Dennis Wilshaw, 78, English international footballer, heart attack.
11
- Mick Doyle, 63, Irish rugby union player and coach.
- Danny McLennan, 79, Scottish football player and coach.[21]
- Hans Senger, 78, Austrian Olympic alpine skier (men's giant slalom and men's slalom at the 1952 Winter Olympics).[22]
- John Whitehead, 55, American R&B artist, shot dead.
12
- Judith Cook, 70, British theatre historian, campaigner and novelist.
- Syd Hoff, 91, American children's book author, cartoonist.[23]
- John LaPorta, 84, American jazz clarinetist, composer and educator.[24]
- Chicago Packers).[25]
- John Robson, 54, English footballer.
- Alexander Skutch, 99, American naturalist and writer, regarded as one of the world's greatest ornithologists.[26]
13
- Vicente Doria Catan Jr, 56, Filipino comic book artist.
- Joey Curtis, 79, American professional boxer, boxing referee and business owner.
- Floyd Kalber, 79, American broadcast journalist.
- Brian McNaughton, 68, American horror and fantasy writer.
- Muhammad Nawaz, 79, Pakistani Olympic javelin thrower (men's javelin throw at the 1956 and 1960 Summer Olympics).[27]
14
- Charlotte Benkner, 114, American supercentenarian, oldest recognized person in United States.
- Kansas City Athletics, Baltimore Orioles).[28]
- Jesus Gil, 71, Spanish businessman and politician, controversial owner of Atlético Madrid football club.
- Bill Hoffman, 86, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).[29]
- Jack Holland (writer), 56, Irish journalist, novelist, and poet, cancer.[30]
- Anna Lee, 91, British-born American actress, best known for playing Lila Quartermaine on the soap opera General Hospital.
- Shaun Sutton, 84, British television executive.
15
- Jack Bradbury, 89, American animator (Pinocchio, Bambi, Fantasia) and comic book artist.
- Gill Fox, 88, American political cartoonist, comic book artist, and animator.[31]
- Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village.[32]
- Memphis Belle.[33]
- Clint Warwick, 63, British bass guitarist (The Moody Blues).
16
- Moya Cole, 85, Northern Irish physician and hospice founder.
- Peter Hill-Norton, Baron Hill-Norton, 89, British Royal Navy Admiral of the Fleet.
- Kamala Markandaya, 80, Indian novelist and journalist.[34]
- Marika Rökk, 90, Egyptian-born German actress.
- Baltimore Colts, Chicago Bears).[35]
- June Taylor, 86, American television dancer and choreographer.[36]
17
- Gunnar Graps, 57, Estonian rock singer and percussionist.
- Robert Lewin, 85, Polish art dealer and philanthropist.
- Buster Narum, 63, American baseball player, former Major League Baseball pitcher for the Orioles and Senators.[37]
- Jørgen Nash, 84, Danish poet, performance artist.
- Minister of Supply and Services, Minister of National Defence.[39]
- Ezzedine Salim, 60–61, Iraqi politician, president of the Iraqi Governing Council.
18
- Arnold O. Beckman, 104, American inventor, industrialist and philanthropist.[40]
- Heinrich Isser, 76, Austrian Olympic bobsledder.
- Elvin Jones, 76, American jazz drummer, John Coltrane Quartet of the 1960s.
- Lü Fuyuan, 59, Chinese politician, Minister of Commerce of China, liver cancer.
- Kelsey Patterson, 50, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
- David Tabor, 81, British army general.
- Archbishop of Dakar.
19
- Mary Dresselhuys, 97, Dutch actress.
- Jack Eckerd, 91, American businessman, former owner of the Eckerd drugstore chain.
- anti-communist.[41]
- Arnold Moore, 90, American blues artist.
- E.K. Nayanar, 87, Indian politician, three-time Chief Minister of Kerala, India.[42]
20
- Dennis Coslett, 64, Welsh political activist.
- Stanisław Gronkowski, 82, Polish actor.[43](Polish)
- Len Murray, Lord Murray of Epping Forest, 81, British trade union leader.
21
- Jean-Pierre Blanc, 62, French film director and screenwriter.
- Andrew Green, 76, British author and ghost hunter.
- Rod Hall, 53, British literary agent, murdered.[44]
- Toshikazu Kase, 101, Japanese civil servant and diplomat.
- Ali Sahli, 80, Libyan politician.
- Danylo Shumuk, 89, Ukrainian political activist.
- Michael Swindells, 44, British police officer, stabbed.
- Gene Wood, 78, American television personality, announcer of Family Feud and other US game shows, lung cancer.[45]
22
- Richard Biggs, 44, American actor (Babylon 5, Days of Our Lives, Strong Medicine), aortic dissection.
- SC Johnsoncompany.
- Wayne Kimber, 55, New Zealand politician.
- Mikhail Voronin, 59, Russian gymnast, double Olympic champion.
23
- Sally Gilmour, 82, British ballet dancer.
- Adele Leigh, 75, English operatic soprano, heart attack.
- Ramon Margalef, 85, Spanish biologist and ecologist.
- Trudy Marshall, 84, American actress.
- Frank Kobina Parkes, 72, Ghanaian journalist, broadcaster and poet.
- Harry Preston, 72, Canadian Olympic field hockey player (Field hockey at the 1964 Summer Olympics).[46]
24
- Daphne Blundell, 87, British naval officer.
- Berlin Air Lift.[47]
- Edward Wagenknecht, 104, American literary critic and teacher.[48]
- Lee Won-woo, 45, South Korean basketball player.
25
- Glenn Cunningham, 60, American politician, mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey.
- Chicago Eight.[49]
- Nicholas Luard, 66, British writer and politician.
- geomorphologist and expert on the geology of Earth and Mars.[50]
- Roger W. Straus, Jr., 87, American publisher (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).[51]
26
- Donald Hamish Cameron of Lochiel, 93, Scottish landowner and a financier.
- Rewata Dhamma, 74, Burmese Theravada Buddhist monk and scholar.
- Gatjil Djerrkura, 54, Australian indigenous leader.
27
- Umberto Agnelli, 69, Italian industrialist, head of Fiat.[52]
- Patience Cleveland, 73, American actress (Donnie Darko, Psycho III, General Hospital).[53]
- Ladislav Hecht, 94, Czechoslovak tennis player.[54]
- Little LeagueWorld Series championship team.
- Jim Marshall, 63, British Labour MP.[55]
- Mikhail Postnikov, 76, Soviet mathematician, known for his work in algebraic and differential topology.[56]
28
- Privy Councilmember and former minister and MP.
- Gerald Anthony, 52, American actor, best known for playing Marco Dane on the TV show One Life to Live.
- Josie Carey, 73, American lyricist, host of the Pittsburgh children's show "Children's Corner".
- Irene Manning, 91, American actress and singer (Yankee Doodle Dandy).
- James Neil Tucker, 47, American convicted murderer.
29
- Watergatespecial prosecutor.
- House Judiciary Committee during the Watergate scandal.[57]
- Magne Havnå, 40, Norwegian former professional boxer, in boating accident.
- Frank Newman, 77, American education reformer and administrator (Education Commission of the States).[58]
- Jack Rosenthal, 72, British television dramatist.[59]
- Sir Gordon Wolstenholme, 91, British physician.
30
- Raymond M. Clausen, Jr., 56, American marine, Medal of Honour recipient.[60]
- Bobbie Irvine, 71, British ballroom dancer.
- Rafał Kurmański, 21, Polish speedway rider, suicide.
- Ed Stanczak, 82, American professional basketball player (Anderson Packers, Boston Celtics).[61]
31
- Gunnar Hansen, 87, Norwegian Olympic boxer.
- Alberta Martin, 97, American notable widow, last known widow of a Confederate soldier.
- Stanislav Otáhal, 90, Czechoslovakian Olympic middle-distance runner (men's 800 metres at the 1936 Summer Olympics).[62]
- Artimus Parker, 52, American professional football player (Philadelphia Eagles, New York Jets).[63]
- Robert Quine, 61, American punk rock guitarist.
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