User:W guice/sandbox/Deaths in 2004

The following is a list of notable deaths in 2004. Names are listed under the date of death, not the date it was announced. Names under each date are listed in alphabetical order by family name.

A typical entry appears in the following sequence:

Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference.

December 2004

See Deaths in December 2004 (sandbox - now complete)

November 2004

See Deaths in November 2004 (sandbox - now complete)

October 2004

See Deaths in October 2004 (sandbox)

September 2004

vintner
, (Seghesio Wineries)
30 Jacques Levy, 69, director of original production of Oh! Calcutta!
30 Jan Wind, 47, police officer from Enschede, shot dead while chasing a suspected drug dealer (it is a rare occurrence in the Netherlands that police officers are killed on duty)
Ignatius Wolfington
, 84, American character actor
30 Willem Oltmans, 79, Dutch maverick journalist, cancer
NFL Pittsburgh Steelers
player, car crash while leading police on chase

Hans Bakker, 26, free software hacker, died in car crash near Paris

30 Gamini Fonseka, 68, Sri Lankan actor and politician
29 Richard L. Berger, 64, helped create Touchstone Pictures label as part of Walt Disney Pictures, lung cancer
CEO of KLM

29 Christer Pettersson, 57, suspected murderer of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme
29 Richard Sainct, 34, French rally motorcyclist, accident
plane crash
29 Shimon Wincelberg (also known as S. Bar David), 80, television writer
28 Christl Cranz-Borchers, 90, German alpine skier, Olympic champion and twelvefold World champion
28 Geoffrey Beene, 77, fashion designer, pneumonia
Indian author in English
28 Scott Muni, 74, longtime New York City radio disc jockey
28 Edmund Ralph Haggar Sr., 88, brought Haggar brand to national prominence
27 Tsai Wan-lin, 81, Taiwan's wealthiest businessman and founder of the Lin Yuan Group
27 Pieter Jan Leeuwerink, 41, Dutch volleyball player with 187 caps
26 Tim Pauwels, 22, Belgian cyclo-crosser, aortic aneurysm during race
Al-Qaida
26 Dean Kutz, 48, jockey
26 Izz El-Deen Sheikh Khalil, Hamas leader assassinated by car bomb
St. John Fisher College
25 Alain Glavieux, 55, mathematician, Information technology pioneer
Pebble Beach
haemoptysis
24 Tim Choate, 49, actor (Babylon 5), motorcycle accident
24 Françoise Sagan, 69, French novelist
civil rights
advocate
23 André Hazes, 53, Dutch singer
Chicago Black Hawks
23 Raja Ramanna, 79, nuclear scientist and father of India's nuclear program
23 Bill Ballance, 85, radio personality; forerunner of shock jocks Tom Leykis and Howard Stern
Ray Traylor
, 42, American professional wrestler known as The Big Boss Man
22 Dirk van der Horst, 57, guitarist with popular Dutch band BZN
Columbia High School
, died of drug overdose
Muslim terrorists in Iraq. [1]

21 Nordin ben Salah, 32, boxer, murdered
stock car
racer
Eugene Armstrong, 52, American civilian contractor, beheaded by Muslim terrorists in Iraq

footballer

and cup-winning coach and manager

20 Kalmer Tennosaar, 75, Estonian singer
19 Line Østvold, 25, Norwegian snowboarder
photojournalist
Skeeter Davis, 73, country music
singer

musicians

19 Ryhor Reles, 91, the last writer from Belarus who wrote in Yiddish
19 Imelda Higuera, 65?, Mexican singer, Las Jilguerillas duo, respiratory failure
18 Norman Cantor, 74, medieval scholar
18 Russ Meyer, 82, filmmaker
18 Marvin Mitchelson, 76, divorce lawyer to the stars, cancer
18 Klara Rumyanova, 74, Russian actress
premenstrual stress syndrome
16 Dolly Rathebe, South African musician
Izora Rhodes Armstead, American singer, one of the two The Weather Girls

16 Virginia Hamilton Adair, 91, American poet
16 Sergio Sanchez, Mexican actor
15 Donald Yetter Gardner, 91, songwriter, All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth
Daouda Malam Wanke, 50?, leader of the 1999 transitional government in Niger

The Ramones, prostate cancer

14 Giovanni Biacci, 93, Italian musician
14 Sir William Melville Peek, 84, 5th Baronet of Lodiswell
14 Ove Sprogøe, 84, Danish actor
Hispanic American appointed as Federal Appeals Court judge [2]

NFL player with the Detroit Lions

12 Max Abramovitz, 96, architect
12 Ahmed Dini Ahmed, 72, Djibouti politician, vice-president of the government council (1959–60) and prime minister (1977–78)
12 John Buller, 77, British composer
12 Jerome Chodorov, 93, playwright, My Sister Eileen
11 Juraj Beneš, 64, Slovak composer
11 Fred Ebb, 71, Broadway lyricist (Cabaret, Chicago), heart attack
Patriarch of Alexandria
, helicopter crash
10 Anthony Luigi Mancini, 71, British boxing manager and cutman
10 Brock Adams, 77, U.S. politician
10 Glyn Owen, 76, British actor
O.L. Duke
, 51, actor, automobile crash
inventor Harry Pickles, artificial heart valve
failure.

9 Joan Snyder, 69, writer and producer for CBS News
9 Ernie Ball, 74, guitar equipment maker
9 Ralph G. Allen, 70, wrote the book for Broadway show Sugar Babies
8 Ian Cochrane, 62, British novelist
8 Frank Thomas, 91, Disney animator
Interior minister of France

Richard Girnt Butler, 86, founder of the Aryan Nations

8 James Westphal, California Institute of Technology scientist
Matías Prats Cañete, Spanish
journalist

7 Hervey Feldman, 67, founder of the Embassy Suites hotel chain
Muslim
girls' and women's rights, cancer
7 Munir, 39, prominent Indonesian human rights activist, arsenic
7 Gerard Piel, 89, publisher of Scientific American, complications from a stroke
Republican Governor since 1874, leukemia

Afrikaner-South African priest, theologian and anti-apartheid
activist

7 Jonathan Scharer, 56, Producer, Forbidden Broadway
6 Miriam Pires, 77, Brazilian actress, star of many popular telenovelas
The Wizard of Oz
6 Harvey Wheeler, 85, political scientist and author (Fail-Safe)
5 Fritha Goodey, 31, actress (About a Boy), apparent suicide
5 Gerald Merrithew, 73, New Brunswick, Canada politician and former federal cabinet minister, cancer
5 John "Red" Cochran, 82, former NFL player, scout and assistant coach for the Green Bay Packers
5 Alessio Perilli, 20, Italian motoracer, killed during a race
5 Caroline Pratt, 42, British eventer, killed during a race
5 Jesus Viera, 73, better known as "Cucho Viera", Puerto Rican television actor and comedian
5 Steve Wayne, 84, American actor
autoerotic asphyxiation
Bob Boyd, 84?, former MLB; first black player to sign with the White Sox, and first Oriole to bat over .300 in the 20th century

EMS

and founder of modern emergency medical response, heart attack

congestive heart failure

Euroleague player, leukemia

3 Steven Blackford, 28, former University of Arizona wrestler, car accident
Philanthropist and widow of W. Clement Stone

3 Bram Vermeulen, 57, singer, songwriter and cabaret artist, heart attack
2 Billy Davis, 72, commercial jingle writer (I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke)
2 Paul Shmyr, 58, former NHL and WHA defenseman, throat cancer
2 Donald Leslie, 93, creator of the Leslie speaker
2 Bob O. Evans, 77, IBM computer scientist
2 Joan Oró i Florensa, 80, biochemist
1 Ahmed Kuftaro, 89, the Grand Mufti of Syria
Rolls-Royce
, Hill Samuel, Beecham Group, and STC
congestive heart failure
Johnny Bragg, 79, leader of The Prisonaires, one of earliest music groups to record for Sam Phillips and Sun Records

Eurotunnel

and chairman of the Strategic Rail Authority

August 2004

31 Joe Barry, 65, Swamp Pop singer of "I'm a Fool to Care"
31 Carl Wayne, 61, lead singer of pop group The Move, cancer
30 Willie Duff, 69, goalkeeper of Heart of Midlothian, Charlton Athletic, Peterborough United and Dunfermline Athletic
Fred Whipple, 97, American astronomer

30 Fay Jones, 83, architect trained by Frank Lloyd Wright
Larry Desmedt, 55, motorcycle designer, injuries suffered during a stunt [3]

28 Robert Lewin, 84, Producer and Screenwriter, Academy Award nomination for writing The Bold and the Brave, lung cancer
28 Lina Zimmer, 111, oldest German
Kim Jong-il, cancer (rumoured) [4]

27 William Pierson, 78, actor Stalag 17
René Auberjonois
Three Stooges
films)
27 Willie Crawford, 57, former outfielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers
26 Friedrich Brünner, German politician
26 José Carlos, 53, Portuguese fashion designer
26 Laura Branigan, 47, American pop singer
murdered in Iraq

Woodstock, Elvis on Tour
)

25 Robert Denoon Cumming, 87, professor emeritus of philosophy at Columbia University and author
Cardinal since 1973 and Archbishop of Toledo from 1971 to 1995 (Papal condolence message
)

Don Ashton, 85, British film art director and production designer

24 Richard Ervin, 99, former attorney general and chief justice of Florida [5]
24 Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, 78, Swiss-born psychiatrist
chief executive of State Street Global Advisors, heart attack [6]

24 Eleni Ioannou, 20, Greek judoka
24 Bill Pilkington, 87, British actor
Roman Catholic archbishop

23 Hank Borowy, 88, former Yankees, Cubs, Phillies, Pirates and Tigers pitcher
Department Store
silent film actress

Grandmaster and coach

automobile accident [7]

22 Marcel Caux, 105, Australian First World War veteran, last known survivor of the Battle of Pozières
22 George Kirgo, 78, television and film writer, former president of the Writers Guild of America
22 Daniel Petrie, Sr., 83, film director, A Raisin in the Sun
Ota Sik, 84, architect of economic liberalization during Czechoslovakia's ill-fated 1968 Prague Spring

21 Paul G. Garrity, 66, Judge who helped save Boston Harbor
21 José Luis Barry, 80, Titi Chagua show's pianist, singer and El Vocero columnist
rumbera
films
20 Moshe Shamir, 83, Israeli politician and novelist
19 Rudolf Miele, 74, German entrepreneur
Economics Minister of Germany
Asian American elected to the U.S. Senate

18 Elmer Bernstein, 82, composer of classic film music such as The Magnificent Seven
18 Víctor Cervera Pacheco, 68, Mexican politician, former Governor of Yucatán
18 Charlie Waller, 69, American bluegrass musician, founder of the band Country Gentlemen
18 Allan Laur, Estonian bishop
Dennis "D-Roc" Miles, 45, rhythm guitarist for Body Count
, from lymphoma complications

17 Anatoly Guzhvin, 58, head of the administration of Astrakhan Oblast
17 Gérard Souzay, 85, French baritone
17 Thea Astley, 78, Australian novelist
17 Frank Cotroni, 72, Montreal mob boss
J. Irwin Miller, 95, American
industrialist and architectural philanthropist

16 Ivan Hlinka, 54, Czech Republic national hockey team and Pittsburgh Penguins coach
16 Acquanetta, 83, "Venezuelan" USA-born B-movie actress
16 Carl Mydans, 91, photographer
16 Robert Quiroga, 35, world champion boxer, murdered
15 Semiha Berksoy, 94, Turkish opera singer
Nobel Prize in Medicine
15 Neal Fredericks, 35, cinematographer for the movie The Blair Witch Project, drowned in helicopter crash while filming
14 William D. Ford, 77, member of the United States House of Representatives from Michigan from 1965 to 1995
14 Dhananjoy Chatterjee, 42, rapist and murderer; the first person executed in India since 1995
Polish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980

13 Julia Child, 91, author and television hostess on French cuisine [8]
13 Milton Pollack, 97, U.S. federal judge who ruled on court cases involving Wall Street
13 Peipei, 33, worlds oldest Panda
CAT scan
12 Peter Woodthorpe, 72, British character actor
12 George Yardley, 75, NBA Hall of Famer
Bill Martin, Jr., 88, author of Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

11 Joe Falls, 76, longtime sports writer for The Detroit News
10 James Stillman Rockefeller, 102, oldest known U.S. Olympic medal winner
10 Alan N. Cohen, 73, former owner of the Boston Celtics
Michael Grant, 89, classical scholar
and author

Tonight Show orchestra [9]

9 David Raksin, 92, film composer
8 Fay Wray, 96, King Kong actress
8 Dimitris Papamichael, 70, Greek actor
8 Robert "Gypsy Boots" Bootzin, 89, health and fitness pioneer
8 Leon Golub, 82, internationally recognized artist and painter
Three Stooges
associate
8 Richard Taylor, 23, skating and skiing champion, collided with a concrete lamp-post
7 Paul "Red" Adair, 89, American oil well fire-fighter
7 Colin Bibby, 55, English ornithologist
7 Bernard Levin, 75, journalist and broadcaster
6 Rick James, 56, funk singer
Italian-American
novelist and professor
4 Michele Russo, 95, American painter and artist
Rock
Disc Jockey
Bob Murphy, 79, Major League Baseball/New York Mets
announcer

3 Arturo Tolentino, 94, Philippine lawyer and politician
3 Margo McLennan, 66, British actress, Prisoner, cancer [10]
3 Henri Cartier-Bresson, 95, French photographer [11]
Philip Hauge Abelson, 91, physicist, co-discoverer of Neptunium

1 Sidney Morgenbesser, 82, philosopher
Nigerian Football Association

July 2004

31 Absamat M. Masaliyev, 71, former leader of Kyrgyzstan
31 Laura Betti, 70, Italian actress
Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

31 Virginia Grey, 87, American actress. Little Eva in the first film adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin
31 Líber Seregni, 87, Uruguayan general and politician, founder of the Frente Amplio, pancreatic cancer.
Andre Noble
, 25, Canadian actor
30 Ali Abbasi, 42, BBC Scotland travel presenter [12]
29 Nafisa Joseph, 25, model, MTV VJ, Miss India 1997; suicide
29 Susan Buffett, 71, estranged wife of billionaire/investment guru Warren Buffett
29 Rena Vlahopoulou, 81, Greek comedienne
28 Tiziano Terzani, 73, Italian journalist, famous for his books on Asia
28 Sam Edwards, 89, American actor, Little House on the Prairie, heart failure [13]
28 Francis Crick, 88, British biologist, one of the discoverers of the "double-helix" shape of DNA, cancer [14]
28 Jackson Beck, 92, announcer and voice actor
28 Eugene Roche, 75, American character actor and the "Ajax" Man
Grand Canyon State Games
Carmine G. DeSapio, 95, last boss of Tammany Hall

27 Musab al-Awadi, Iraqi politician, assassinated [15]
27 Bob Tisdall, 97, won the gold medal in hurdles at the 1932 Summer Olympics
Tang
drink mix
Indians and Twins

Oguz Aral

, 68, Turkish caricaturist; creator of Avanak Avni, Kostebek Husnu, and Utanmaz Adam

railroad worker, trade union leader, and life peer

25 Francisco Romão, 61, Angolan deputy foreign minister, suicide [16]
dive tables, congestive heart failure

24 Fred LaRue, 75, part of Watergate scandal
24 Lowell "Cotton" Fitzsimmons, 72, NBA basketball coach
political activist during Apartheid, cancer

23 Joe Cahill, 84, Irish politician [17]
Mehmood, 72, Indian
actor

23 Janet Chisholm, 75, former British MI6 agent
Bodo H. Hauser, 58, German journalist, director of Phoenix
TV network

23 Carlos Paredes, 79, Portuguese guitar player
singer and actor

22 Nicolas Rodil del Valle, 88, Honorary President of the FIM
22 Illinois Jacquet, 81, U.S. jazz saxophonist
singer
21 Edward B. Lewis, 85, US-biologist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1995)
Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

21 Baroness Shirley Kaufman Zlatarinskas Golden 83, First female to join the U.S. coast Guard in Ill 1941. Married 8th Baron of Pa Vitchio Ezuros, Lithuania.
21 Jerry Goldsmith, 75, movie and television composer
20 Adi Lady Lala Mara, 73, Fijian chieftainess and former First Lady; widow of Prime Minister and President Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara
20 Antonio Gades, 67, Spanish Flamenco dancer, cancer
19 Carvalho Leite, 92, Brazilian footballer, one of the last survivor of national team in 1930 FIFA World Cup
Zenko Suzuki, 93, former Prime Minister of Japan

Mark Hacking

18 Paul Foot, 66, British journalist and campaigner
18 Émile Peynaud, 92, French wine expert
John Kraus, 94, inventor of the "Big Ear" telescope

entrepreneur, founder of the Carlyle Trust bank [18]

17 Pat Roach, 67, wrestler and actor; cancer ([19])
Leka Zogu; cancer

16 George Busbee, 76, former governor of the State of Georgia
choreographer
16 Charles C. Welch, 83, American actor
atomic bomb. [20]

15 Yoko Watanabe, 51, Japanese operatic soprano. [21]
15 Mary Eleanor Thurmond Tompkins, 95, last surviving sibling of Senator Strom Thurmond
14 Usama Kashmula, ~60, Iraqi governor of Mosul, killed in a grenade attack. [22]
14 Hans A. Pestalozzi, 75, Swiss social critic
13 Joe Gold, 82, bodybuilding pioneer and Gold's Gym founder
13 Arthur Kane, 53, American bassist for the New York Dolls, leukemia
13 Carlos Kleiber, 74, Austrian conductor
12 Ersel Hickey, 70, rockabilly singer
12 George Mallaby, 64, Australian actor
12 Irvin "Shorty" Yeaworth, 78, American film director "The Blob"
11 Walter Wager, 79, American author
National Ballet School
11 Frances Hyland, 77, Canadian theatre actress
11 Laurance Rockefeller, 94, conservationist and philanthropist
11 Renée St-Cyr, 99, French actress and comedienne
11 Dorothy Hart, 82, American actress
10 Sir Terry McLean, New Zealand rugby union journalist [23]
10 Rudy LaRusso, 66, five-time NBA All-Star
10 Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo, 74, former Prime Minister of Portugal [24]
10 Inge Meysel, 94, German actress [25]
9 Jeillo Edwards, ~62, Sierra Leonean actress, first black actor to appear on "The Bill" [26]
9 Isabel Sanford, 86, actress, The Jeffersons, natural causes
9 Paul Klebnikov, 41, editor of Forbes magazine's Russian edition, murdered
9 Ron Milner, 66, African-American playwright
Jeff Smith
, 65, chef and host of The Frugal Gourmet
9 Gilberto Reyes Santos, 36, infamous Puerto Rican mafioso, murdered
Jaroslav Hules, 30, Czech motorcycle racer
, suicide

8 Paula Danziger, 59, U.S. author
Principal Speaker of Green Party of England and Wales and Oxford
City Councillor

TV personality. He presented Ponto de Encontro

8 Jean Lefebvre, 84, French actor
7 Xiaokai Yang, 55, Australian economist
6 Eric Douglas, 46, youngest son of actor Kirk Douglas
Federal President of Austria
, heart failure

6 Syreeta Wright, 58, singer, songwriter, ex-wife of Stevie Wonder
lexicographer
5 Hugh Shearer, 81, former Prime Minister of Jamaica
5 Rodger Ward, 83, two-time Indianapolis 500 champion
Andrian Nikolayev
, 74, Russian cosmonaut
4 Jean-Marie Auberson, 84, Swiss orchestra conductor
3 John Barron, 83, actor
3 Jimmy Mack, 70, Scots radio personality [27]
Court of Appeal of England and Wales
2 John Cullen Murphy, 85, comic strip artist (Prince Valiant)
2 Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, 84, Portuguese writer and poet
2 Gareth Payne, 68, former Welsh rugby union international
2 Henry Hank, 69, top ranked Light-Heavyweight boxer of the 1960s
voice actor
1 Peter Barnes, 73, British screenwriter and playwright, stroke
1 Marlon Brando, 80, American actor
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia

June 2004

29 Arik Lavie, 77, Israeli singer and actor
Juan Antonio Lopez, 52, Mexican boxer, fought Wilfredo Gómez, leukemia

Private First Class, killed by Islamist militants in Iraq

Jennings

books

George Patton

Darrell Russell, 35, NHRA drag racer
, first racer killed at an NHRA event since 1996

27 Kamos Kris, Thai boxing matchmaker who worked closely with the WBA, car accident
26 Naomi Shemer, 74, Israeli songwriter
Bollywood
film producer
26 Ott Arder, 54, Estonian poet
Karol Kennedy Kucher, 72, former United States ice skating champion, pneumonia

RIAA, [28]

24 Julian Davies, British civilian worker, murdered in Iraq
24 Ifigeneia Giannopoulou, 40, Greek songwriter, author
24 Carl Rakosi, 100, American poet
astrophysicist
22 Bob Bemer, 84, American computer scientist, cancer
22 Francisco Ortiz Franco, ~50, Mexican journalist, murdered
Chechen rebels. [29]

22 Mattie Stepanek, 13, American poet and advocate, muscular dystrophy
22 Kim Sun-il, 33, South Korean translator, decapitated by Iraqi militants
21 Leonel Brizola, 82, Brazilian politician, heart failure, [30]
20 Nabil Sahraoui, Algerian militant, head of GSPC and linked to al-Qaeda
Premier of Tasmania
19 Nob Yoshigahara, 68, mathematician and puzzle expert
19 Abdul Aziz al-Muqrin, Saudi Arabian al-Qaeda militant, killed by Saudi forces [31]
18 Frederick Jaeger, 76, German born British character actor
Paul Johnson, ~49, American hostage, decapitated by al-Qaeda

Nek Mohammed, ~27, Pakistani tribal leader in Waziristan and key Taliban ally, killed by Pakistani military forces. [32]

17 Sir Stuart Hampshire, 89, philosopher
17 Gerry McNeil, 78, Stanley Cup-winning NHL goaltender
Jacek Kuroń, 70, Polish dissident and statesman

16 Dr. Herman Goldstine, 90, computing pioneer who helped develop ENIAC, Parkinson's disease
16 George Hausmann, 88, MLB player suspended for jumping to the Mexican League (1946) [33]
prime minister
16 Jose "Pepe" Lacap, 63, former Philippines Vice-Mayor or Pampanga, lung cancer
15 Andy Funnell, 21, British surfer, drowned while jet-skiing
Ahmet Piristina, 52, Turkish politician, mayor of İzmir
, heart attack

15 Frank Nastasi, 81, actor and comedian (Lunch with Soupy)
Republican
pollster
14 Jack McClelland, 81, Canadian book publisher
14 Ulrich Inderbinen, 103, mountain guide
14 Max Rosenberg, 89, producer of horror movies
13 Dick Durrance, 89, 17-time American national champion in skiing
13 Ralph Wiley, 52, sports journalist
13 Danny Dark, 65, announcer
12 Bassam Salih Kubba, 60, Iraqi Deputy Foreign Minister
Ewing's Sarcoma
Egon von Furstenberg, 57, fashion designer; nephew of late Fiat head Gianni Agnelli

11 Micah Harris, 21, Duke University defensive lineman, car accident
11 Xenophon Zolotas, 100, former Prime Minister of Greece
10 Ray Charles, 73, rhythm and blues singer and soul pioneer
J-Flag, murdered

AIDS

and drug-related complications

9 Rosey Brown, 71, Pro Football Hall of Famer
Barbara Whiting Smith
, 73, actress
8 Mack Jones, 65, former MLB outfielder with the Braves, Reds and Expos
8 Karl Toosbuy, 76, Danish founder of international shoe company ECCO
8 Ronalda Pierce, 19, Florida State University basketball player, aneurysm
8 McCollins Umeh, 18, University of Arizona football recruit, heat stroke
7 Thomas "Quorthon" Forsberg, 38, black metal pioneer and main member of Bathory (band), heart failure.
special effects
pioneer
6 Judy Campbell, 88, actress
6 Robert Lees, 91, screenwriter, found decapitated
Omaha the Cat Dancer
)
6 Necdet Mahfi Ayral, 96, Turkish actor
6 Iona Brown, 63, violinist and conductor
Al Qaeda
5 Ronald Reagan, 93, film actor and 40th President of the United States (1981-1989)
Negro League Baseball All-Star
4 Steve Lacy, 69, innovative jazz soprano saxophonist
4 Brian Linehan, 58, Canadian television host and interviewer (canada.com) (Toronto Star) (The Globe and Mail)
4 Nino Manfredi, 83, Italian actor [34]
Frances Shand Kydd, 68, mother of Diana, Princess of Wales

Indian

poet and writer

2 Tesfaye Gebre Kidan, ~69, former defense minister and acting president of Ethiopia
2 Nicolai Ghiaurov, 71, opera singer
2 Hélène de Beir, 29, Belgian national, Project Coordinator for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), murdered in the Badghis province of Afghanistan in ambush set by corrupt police chief Yakub Khan
2 Pim Kwint, Dutch national, Logistician for MSF, murdered as above.
2 Egil Tynaes, 62, Norwegian national, Medical Doctor for MSF, murdered as above.
2 Fasil Ahmad, 39, Afghan national, Translator, murdered as above.
2 Besmillah, Afghan national, Driver, murdered as above.
classmate
1 William Manchester, 82, U.S. historian

May 2004

31 Robert Quine, 61, New York punk rock guitarist
Alberta Martin, 97, last known widow of a Confederate
soldier

Watergate

special prosecutor

House Judiciary Committee

during the Watergate scandal

29 Jack Rosenthal, 72, British television dramatist [35]
29 Magne Havnå, 40, Norwegian former professional boxer, in boating accident
Ramona Trinidad Iglesias-Jordan
, 114, oldest documented person in the world
28 Gerald Anthony, 52, actor, best known for playing Marco Dane on the TV show One Life to Live
28 Irene Manning, 91, actress and singer (Yankee Doodle Dandy)
28 Josie Carey, 73, host of the Pittsburgh children's show "Children's Corner"
Privy Council
member and former minister and MP
27 Umberto Agnelli, 69, Italian industrialist, head of Fiat [36]
MP[37]

Little League

World Series championship team

ATSIC

1996-2000

Roger W. Straus, Jr., 87, publisher (Farrar, Straus and Giroux
)

Chicago Eight

Glenn Cunningham, 60, mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey

24 Henry Ries, 87, American photographer
23 Trudy Marshall, 84, actress
22 Richard Biggs, 44, American actor, Babylon 5
22 Mikhail Voronin, 59, Russian gymnast, double Olympic champion
22 Dessi España, 32, circus performer, died from fall while performing without a net
SC Johnson
company
21 Rod Hall, 53, literary agent, murdered [38]
Michael Swindells, 44, police detective, murdered in the course of his duties [39]

21 Gene Wood, 78, announcer of Family Feud and other US game shows
Len Murray, Lord Murray of Epping Forest, 81, British trade union
leader

19 Jack Eckerd, 91, former owner of the Eckerd drugstore chain
19 Mary Dresselhuys, 97, Dutch actress
Arnold Moore
, 90, blues artist
E.K. Nayanar, 87, three-time Chief Minister of Kerala, India [40]

18 Elvin Jones, 76, Jazz drummer, notably with the John Coltrane Quartet of the 1960s
18 Jørgen Nash, 84, Danish poet, performance artist, brother of Asger Jorn
Cardinal, former Archbishop of Dakar, Senegal

Arnold O. Beckman

, 104, inventor, industrialist, philanthropist

18 Joey Curtis, 79, former professional boxer, boxing referee and business owner
17 Buster Narum, 63, former MLB pitcher for the Orioles and Senators
17 Tony Randall, 84, television actor (The Odd Couple)
choreographer
17 Ezzedine Salim, 60?, president of the Iraqi Governing Council
17 Dave Hamilton, 33, professional boxer, and his 4 year old son, in car accident
17 (or May 18) Gunnar Graps, 57, Estonian rock singer and percussionist
16 Marika Rökk, 90, actress
Lord Hill-Norton, 89, British Royal Navy Admiral of the Fleet

Jose Limon Dance Company - [41] - [42]

15 Jack Bradbury, 89, animator and comic book artist
15 William H. Hinton, 85, Marxist, author of Fanshen
15 Gill Fox, 84, political cartoonist, comic book artist, and animator
Memphis Belle
General Hospital
Jesus Gil, 71, controversial owner of Atlético Madrid
football club

Charlotte Benkner

, 114, oldest recognized person in United States

Terry Crummitt, 27, actor, "SnackBoy" of The Sync fame [43]

12 John LaPorta, 84, jazz clarinetist, composer and educator - [44]
12 Syd Hoff, 91, children's book author, cartoonist
R&B
artist, shot dead
11 Per Øyvind Heradstveit, 71, Norwegian television pioneer, foreign correspondent (London) and author
Mick Doyle, 63, Irish rugby
player and coach

10 Eric Kierans, 90, Canadian politician
George, ~83, Blue Peter
pet tortoise

9 Percy M. Young, 91, British musicologist
9 Olive Osmond, 79, mother of entertainers Marie Osmond and the various Osmond Brothers
9 Rust Epique, 35, American Songwriter/Guitarist
Alan King
, 76, American comedian/actor
9 Brenda Fassie, 39, South African singer [45]
9 Akhmad Kadyrov, 52, President of Chechnya
Nick Berg, 26, American civilian killed in Iraq

7 Victor Hugo Cohen,56 [[Automobile industry}Father of Fabian Cohen]] Died of Septic Shock]
7 Waldemar Milewicz, 48, Polish journalist, and Mounyra Beouamrane, killed in Iraq
6 Celal Bilgin, 41, Turkish businessman
Western author [46]

6 Barney Kessel, 80, American jazz guitarist and studio musician
5 David Reimer, 39, notable gender-reassignment case
5 Ritsuko Okazaki, 44, Japanese singer-songwriter and author
4 Clement Dodd, 72, Jamaican reggae pioneer
3 Anthony Ainley, 71, British actor best known as The Master in Doctor Who
3 Robyn Herrington, 43, Australian/Canadian writer
manager [47]

Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire

, 84, British politician

3 Basil Wells, 91, science fiction author
2 Moe Burtschy, 82, former MLB pitcher for the Philadelphia & Kansas City Athletics
2 Paul Guimard, 83, French writer
1 Felix Haug, 52, Swiss pop musician (Double)
Lojze Kovacic
, Slovenian writer

April 2004

30 Kioumars Saberi Foumani, 62, also known as Gol-Agha, Iranian satirist
30 Lou Chapman, 90, long time Milwaukee Sentinel baseball writer [48]
29 Johannes Berg, 47, cornerstone of Norwegian science fiction fandom
29 Nick Joaquin, 86, writer and Philippine national artist
28 B.J. Schramm, 65, businessman and aircraft developer
27 David Jenkinson, 69, railway modeller and historian
27 Roy Walford, 79, dietician and author
Hubert Selby Jr.
, 75, author of "Last Exit to Brooklyn"
25 Thom Gunn, 74, British poet
25 Feridun Karakaya, 76, Turkish actor
25 Bill Grace, 69, businessman from Phoenix, Arizona
25 Carl Melles, Hungarian conductor
Estée Lauder
, 97, cosmetics products pioneer
Jose Giovanni, 80, French
director and crime-writer

24 Lia Laats, 78, Estonian actress
22 Pat Tillman, 27, former NFL player (Arizona Cardinals), Army Ranger, killed in in action by friendly fire
21 Concha Zardoya, 89, (Chile/Spain) poet and writer, and one of the main links between Spanish and English literatures
21 Mary McGrory, 85, American journalist and columnist
19 (body found, death probably on March 30) Alejandro Ferretis, 59, Mexican avant-garde actor, murdered [49]
Governor of Nebraska
19 Tim Burstall, 76, Australian film director and producer
19 John Maynard Smith, 84, British biologist
Guinness Book of Records
19 Jim Cantalupo, 60, CEO of McDonald's
18 Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, 83, long-time Prime Minister and President of Fiji
Dru Sjodin
, 22, U.S. kidnap victim
17 Edmond Pidoux, 95, Swiss author
Barbara Kenyatta Bey
, 59, Yoruba priestess and widow of jazz percussionist Chief Bey
17 Geraint Howells, 79, Welsh politician
Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi, 56, Hamas
leader

Indian film

actress

15 Hans Gmür, 77, Swiss theatre author, director, composer and producer
15 Mitsuteru Yokoyama, 69, Japanese manga artist
13 Csaba Horváth, 74, Chemical engineer and scientist
13 Caron Keating, 41, British television presenter
Juan Valderrama
, 87, Spanish folk and flamenco singer
12 Frankie Narvaez, 65, Puerto Rican boxer
10 Orazio Fumagalli, 83, Italian sculptor - AP Obituary [50]
10 Lou Berberet, 74, former Major League Baseball catcher
10 Jacek Kaczmarski, 47, Polish poet and singer, the bard of Solidarity
Sakip Sabanci, 71, Turkish
businessman

Lula da Silva's Workers Party - Obituary in Portuguese [51]

9 Nick and Mary Yankovic, 86 and 81, parents of "Weird Al" Yankovic
9 Harry Babbitt, 90, singer
8 Chief Bey, 90, American jazz percussionist and African folklorist
8 Maureen Potter, 79, Irish comedienne and actor
8 Bruce Edwards, 49, caddy of golfer Tom Watson
racehorse
owner
7 Kelucharan Mohapatra, 77, traditional Indian Odissi dancer
6 Larisa Bogoraz, 74, Russian dissident and human rights activist
Marjorie Pay Hinckley, 92, wife of Gordon B. Hinckley

6 Timothy, ~160, tortoise that served as a Royal Navy mascot in the Crimean War
5 Austin Willis, 86, Canadian movie actor and television host
4 George Bamberger, 80, former major league pitcher and manager
4 Gito Baloi, 39, Southern African musician
Serhane ben Abdelmajid Farkhet
, ?, Moroccan, suspected Madrid train bomber
John Diamond, Baron Diamond
, 96, British life peer
3 Gabriella Ferri, 62, Italian Singer
Lawrence McGrew, 46, former New England Patriots
linebacker

singer-songwriter

1 Carrie Snodgress, 57, actress
1 Aaron Bank, 101, "Father of Special Forces"
1 Enrique Grau, 83, Colombian painter and sculptor
1 Annette Daniels, 42, American opera singer

March 2004

John Warburton Paul
(88), British colonial administrator.
Swiss National Council
31 Joseph James Zimmerman, Jr., 92, inventor of answering machine
31 Omi Nieves, 24, son of salsa singer Tito Nieves
Sikh
leader
30 Michael King, 58, New Zealand historian
30 Erick Friedman, 64, American concert violinist, violin professor at Yale University
30 Alistair Cooke, 95, BBC broadcaster and transatlantic commentator
30 Hubert Gregg, 89, BBC broadcaster
3-19 shooting incident
28 Sir Peter Ustinov, 82, British actor
28 Robert Merle, 95, French author
27 Art James, 74, game show host and announcer
Basques
27 Adán Sánchez, 19, Mexican singer
foreign minister of Uganda

Jan Berry, 62, the 'Jan' of Jan and Dean

26 Jan Sterling, 82, American actress
Liberal MPP

23 Sir Rupert Hamer, 87, Australian politician
23 Lorand Fenyves, 86, Hungarian violinist
22 Boonreung Bauchang, 34, "Snake Man"
Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, 66?, spiritual leader and founder of Hamas

21 Mirwais Sadiq, ?, Civil Aviation Minister for Afghanistan
The Drifters
20 Juliana, 94, former Queen of the Netherlands
20 Edward G. Zubler, 79, chemist, inventor of halogen lamp
19 Brian Maxwell, 51, long-distance runner and founder of PowerBar
19 Mitchell Sharp, 92, former Canadian Liberal cabinet minister
Roberto Mora
, Mexican journalist, newspaper editor-in-chief
Cleveland Indians
18 Vytas Brenner, 57, musician, keyboardist and composer
trumpeter
18 Harrison McCain, 76, Canadian businessman, founder of McCain Foods
18 Guillermo Rivas, 72, Mexican comedy actor
17 Monique Laederach, 65, French and German language author
17 J. J. Jackson, 62, former MTV VJ
17 George Boiardi, 22, Lacrosse player for Cornell University
17 Patrick Nuttgens, 74, English architect and academic
17 Aleksander Elango, 102, Estonian researcher in educational sciences
16 Vilém Tauský, 94, Czech conductor and composer
16 Brian Bianchini, 25, American fashion model
15 Amparo Arrebato, 59, Colombian dancer
William Pickering, 93, former head of Jet Propulsion Laboratory

15 Aimo Kairamo, Finnish political columnist
15 John Pople, 78, British theoretical chemist and Nobel Prize winner
football player
13 Franz König, 98, Austrian cardinal
13 Dullah Omar, 69, South African cabinet minister
12 Finn Carling, 78, Norwegian author and playwright with cerebral palsy
12 Yvonne Cernota, 24, German bobsled driver, in training accident
12 Cid Corman, 79, Japan-based American poet and translator
11 Seymour Geisser, 74, statistician, DNA-evidence expert
11 Sidney James, 97, first managing editor of Sports Illustrated
11 Edmund Sylvers, 47, lead singer of The Sylvers
Governor of Indiana
10 James Parrish, 35, former National Football League player
Dead Milkmen
bassist
9 Albert Mol, 87, dancer, cabaret performer, actor, TV personality, author
8 Nicolae Cajal, 84, doctor, chairman of Romania's Jewish community
8 Robert Pastorelli, 49, actor on Murphy Brown
Palestine Liberation Front
Emmy
-winning actor
6 Frances Dee, 94, actress
6 John Henry Williams, 35, controversial son of baseball great Ted Williams
Ray Fernandez
, 47, American professional wrestler best known as "Hercules Hernandez" or simply just "Hercules"
5 Julito Collazo, 78, Cuban Master Percussionist
Joan Riudavets
, 114, world's oldest documented man and oldest recognized person in Europe
MP
, jockey and farmer
4 Claude Nougaro, 74, French chanteur
4 Stephen Sprouse, 50, American artist and fashion designer
PiL
4 Kalev Raave, 77, Estonian kolkhoz chairman and Lutheran minister
3 Dennis R. ("Dick") Covington, 77, American radio broadcaster, KYW (AM), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
political philosopher
3 Luis Villalta, 35, professional boxer
3 Cecily Adams, 39, actress
2 Mercedes McCambridge, 85, Academy Award winning actress
2 Marge Schott, 75, former primary owner of the Cincinnati Reds
1 Massimo De Bernart, 54, Italian conductor

February 2004

29 Jerome Lawrence, 88, playwright
29 Tony Onley, 75, painter
29 Danny Ortiz, 27, Guatemalan football goalkeeper
28 Daniel J. Boorstin, 89, historian
28 Andres Nuiamäe, 21, first Estonian soldier to be killed in Iraq
27 Paul Sweezy, 93, economist and founding editor of the Monthly Review
Chief Minister of Maharashtra

26 Adolf Ehrnrooth, 99, General; Finnish war veteran
Republic of Macedonia
24 John Randolph, 88, American actor
23 Carl Anderson, 58, American actor (Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar)
23 William Coates, 92, asserted by advocates to be "oldest living American" but documentation showed otherwise
23 Sikander Bakht, 85, Governor of Kerala
23 Vijay Anand, 71, Bollywood filmmaker and brother of Dev Anand
23 Carl Liscombe, 89, Detroit Red Wings hockey player in the 1940s
23 Don Cornell, 79, popular singer of the 1940s and 1950s
22 Andy Seminick, 83, MLB catcher and last survivor of the 1950 Phillies' "Whiz Kids" that won the NL championship
22 Azriel Rosenfeld, 73, computer image analysis researcher
22 Roque Máspoli, 86, legendary Uruguayan goalkeeper
21 Guido Molinari, Canadian abstract artist
Fly Me To The Moon
"
21 Spot Fetcher, 14, President George W. Bush's dog
21 John Charles, 72, Welsh football player
Auschwitz
(Feb 20 is burial date)
19 Clark Byers, American sign maker
19 Hermann Krings, German philosopher
18 Jean Rouch, 86, French filmmaker and ethnologist
President of Mexico
16 Shirley Strickland, 78, Australian athlete, three-time Olympic champion
16 Doris Troy, 67, R&B singer
Bill Oakley, 39, comic book letterer

15 Jan Miner, 86, American actress
15 Jens Evensen, 86, Norwegian minister, World Court judge
14 Marco Pantani, 34, racing cyclist, winner of Tour de France and Giro d'Italia in 1998
13 Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, 51, Chechen leader
British author, brain tumor

12 Preston Love, 83, American jazz saxophone player
12 Sauli "Karkkunen" Lehtisaari, 24, Finnish vocalist with Twilight Ophera
11 Hugh Cecil, 90, actor, one of the transylvannians in The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Ryszard Kuklinski
, 74, Polish-born colonel and spy
11 Tony Pope, 57, Los Angeles voice actor, complications following leg surgery
10 Nils Aas, 70, Norwegian sculptor and illustrator
9 Robert F. Colesberry, (b. 1946) film and television producer (complications following cardiac surgery)
9 Michael Rowland, 41, Horse racing jockey
9 Samuel Rubin, 85, popcorn promoter
9 Claude Ryan, 79, Canadian politician
8 Julius Schwartz, 89, comic book and pulp magazine editor
8 Cem Karaca, 58, Turkish singer and composer
7 Norman Thelwell, 80, cartoonist
6 Humphry Osmond, 86, psychiatrist and pioneer LSD experimenter
6 Jerome F. Lederer, 101, aviation safety pioneer
6 Henn Mikkin, 57, Estonian psychologist
Bloomsbury group
4 Hilda Hilst, 73, Brazilian novelist
4 Ernest Burke, 79, baseball player
3 Cornelius Bumpus, 58, musician (The Doobie Brothers, Steely Dan)
2 Alan Bullock, 89, historian
1 Rocco Clein, 35, journalist, musician ([52]); ([53])
1 Ally McLeod, 72, Scottish football player and manager
1 Bob Stokoe, 73, footballer, F.A. Cup winning manager

January 2004

31 Suraiya, 75, Indian actress and singer
31 Eleanor Holm, 90, US swimmer
Alexis Arguello
30 Robert Harth, 47, executive director of Carnegie Hall
29 Joe Viterelli, 66, actor
29 O. W. Fischer, Austrian actor
Social Liberal Party
)
29 M. M. Kaye, 95, British author, The Far Pavilions
The Real World
29 Lloyd "Pete" Bucher, 76, Captain of the USS Pueblo [54]
29 Janet Frame, 79, New Zealand writer
29 Ed Sciaky, 55, Philadelphia broadcaster and disk jockey
28 Elroy Hirsch, 80, hall of fame NFL football player
28 José Miguel Agrelot, "Don Cholito", 76, comedian and radio show host
27 Rikki Fulton, 79, Scottish comedian
Tonight Show
host
26 Fred Haas, 88, golfer
26 Wilhemina Barns-Graham, 91, Scottish artist
25 Miklós Fehér, 24, Hungarian football player
25 Fanny Blankers-Koen, 85, Dutch athlete
football player [55]

23 Bob Keeshan, 76, US actor, starred as "Captain Kangaroo"
23 Helmut Newton, 83, photographer
22 Islwyn Ffowc Elis, 79, Welsh language writer
22 George Woodbridge, 73, illustrator
22 Billy May, 87, US big band and pop music arranger
22 Ann Miller, 81, US dancer
21 Bernard Punsly, 80 physician, actor
20 Alan Brown, 84, British F1 driver
19 Teresa Ferster Glazier, 96, author of The Least You Should Know About English
19 Jerry Nachman, 57, MSNBC editor-in-chief
Victorian
coach
19 Antonious Seram, 20, Indonesian professional boxer
18 Noble Willingham, 72, actor, former candidate for the United States Congress
17 Czesław Niemen, 64, Polish musician
17 Tom Rowe, 53, Musician, member of Schooner Fare
Rafael Cordero, 61, mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico

17 Ray Stark, 88, publicist, actor's agent; produced Funny Girl (1968)
17 Harry Brecheen, 89, former MLB pitcher
16 Kalevi Sorsa, 73, former Finnish prime minister
Académie française
15 Olivia Goldsmith, 54, author
15 Alex Barris, 81, Canadian actor and writer
15 Gus Suhr, 98, former baseball player, Pittsburgh Pirates
14 Mike Goliat, 78, member of the famous '50 Phillies' "Whiz Kids" NL champions
14 Uta Hagen, 84, actress, acting teacher, wife of José Ferrer and Herbert Berghof
14 Ron O'Neal, 66, actor, starred in Superfly (1972)
14 Jack Cady, science fiction writer
13 Philip Crosby, 69, member of Crosby Boys band, son of crooner Bing Crosby
mountaineer and businessman, former husband of Diana Ross

13 Harold Shipman, 54, British serial killer
13 Zeno Vendler, 82, philosopher and linguist
12 Randy VanWarmer, 48, US singer and songwriter
12 Yossi Ginossar, 58, Former senior Israeli "Shin Bet" official
11 Anthony "Tuba Fats" Lacen, 53, New Orleans jazz musician
perhaps 10/11 Spalding Gray, 62, US performer and writer (body identified March 8 in East River near New York City)
New Jersey Nets
10 Jerry Boyd, 59, Mesa, Arizona councilman
10 Alexandra Ripley, 70, author, Scarlett
9 Nissim Ezekiel, 79, Indian poet, playwright and art critic
9 Norberto Bobbio, 94, Italian senator and jurist
8 John A. Gambling, 73, American radio host, "Rambling with Gambling"
7 Ingrid Thulin, 76, Swedish actress, "Cries and Whispers"
6 Pierre Charles, 49, Prime Minister of Dominica
6 Francesco Scavullo, 82, fashion photographer
5 Tug McGraw, 59, former MLB pitcher
New York Times, Smart Money and Red Herring
)

4 Brian Gibson, 59, film director, "What's Love Got to Do With It"
4 Jake Hess, 76, Southern Gospel singing legend
4 Jeff Nuttall, 70, poet, publisher, actor, painter, sculptor, jazz trumpeter, social commentator and author
4 Joan Aiken, 79, author of The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
John Toland
, 91, American author and historian
3 Lillian Beckwith, 87, English author
2 Dame Sheila McKechnie, 55, Head of Shelter, cancer [56]
2 Paul Hopkins, 99, reported to be the oldest living former MLB player
2 Jessica Pacheco Calvente, 10, Puerto Rican, stray bullet victim
2 Lynn Cartwright, 76, U.S. actress
2 Etta Moten Barnett, 102, actress
1 Frederick Redlich, 93, former dean of the Yale University School of Medicine

For earlier deaths, see

Deaths in 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995

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