Deaths in 2004

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1 December 2004
2 November 2004
3 October 2004
4 September 2004
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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

31 George Wackenhut, 85, founder of Wackenhut Corporation
31 Gerard Debreu, 83, Nobel prize winner
31 John E. Chataway, 57, Nova Scotia politician
31 Bob Karstens, 89, former member of the Harlem Globetrotters
31 Peter Farago, 86, Hungarian born physicist
30 Artie Shaw, 94, American jazz musician
29 William Boyett, 77, American actor
29 Liddy Holloway, 57, New Zealand actress, writer
29 Julius Axelrod, 92, American biochemist, Nobel prize winner
29 Ken Burkhart, 89, former major league baseball pitcher and umpire
28 Jerry Orbach, 69, American actor, prostate cancer
28 Susan Sontag, 71, American author
27 Hank Garland, 74, American country, rock, and jazz guitarist
27 Heorhiy Kyrpa, 58, Ukrainian Transport Minister, found shot
26 Sir Tristan Antico, Italian-born Australian industrialist, founder of Pioneer Concrete (now Hanson)
26 Troy Broadbridge, 24, Melbourne AFL Player, Asian tsunami victim [1]
26 Bhumi Jensen, 21, Thai prince, Asian tsunami victim
26 Robert Whymant, 60, former Times correspondent and author, Asian tsunami victim
26 Dr. Marianne Heiberg, 59, Oslo accords mediator
26 Eddie Layton, 77, organist for the New York Yankees for 38 seasons
26 Dr. Jonathan Drummond-Webb, 45, heart surgeon
26 Reggie White, 43, American football player
26 Sir Angus Ogilvy, 76, husband of HRH Princess Alexandra of Kent
25 Anthony Preston, 66, naval historian and writer
25 Gennady Strekalov, 64, former Russian cosmonaut
25 Jane Muskie, 77, widow of politician Edmund Muskie
24 Sir Anthony Meyer, 84, former British politician
24 Capt. Richard Wallace Annand VC, 90, first soldier whose actions in World War II resulted in a Victoria Cross
24 Johnny Oates, 58, former Major League Baseball manager
23 John W. Duarte, 85, classical guitarist
23 Heera Lal Devpura, 79, Rajasthan Congress Party politician, chief minister of Rajasthan briefly during 1985
23 Charlie Pace, 29, member of the band Drive Shaft
23 P. V. Narasimha Rao, 83, 9th Prime Minister of India (1991-1996)
22 Doug Ault, 54, former Major League Baseball player, suicide
22 Rudi Kolak, 86, former Bosnian communist politician, chairman of the Bosnian executive council from 1965 to 1967
21 Lennart Bernadotte, 95, Swedish prince
21 Lucile Layton, 101, member of the Ziegfeld Follies in the 1920s and also a silent film actress for D.W. Griffith
20 Jack Newfield, 66, American newspaper columnist from New York, kidney and lung cancer
20 Son Seals, 62, American blues musician
20 Tony Van Bridge, 87, British television and stage actor
19 Michael Alexander, 84, English soldier and "Prominente" PoW
19 Mamdouh Edwan, 63, Syrian playwright and poet
19 Mel Gabler (89), Texas conservative textbook reviewer
19 Renata Tebaldi, 82, Italian opera singer
19 Herbert C. Brown, 92, won Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on boron
18 Princess Kikuko, 92, oldest member of Japanese imperial family
18 Anthony Sampson, 78, British journalist and author
18 Vijay Hazare, 89, former Indian cricket captain
18 Albert Nordengen, 81, former mayor of Oslo, Norway
18 Barry Corbet, 68, member of first American team to climb Mount Everest
17 Dick Heckstall-Smith, 70, saxophone player (Colosseum, John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, etc.)
17 Tom Wesselmann, 73, American pop artist
16 Ted Abernathy, 71, American baseball player
16 Bobby Mattick, 89, American former baseball player and manager
16 Agnes Martin, 92, American abstract painter
16 Lawrence O'Brien, 53, Member of the Canadian House of Commons
16 Freddie Perren, 61, American Grammy Award winning producer
15 George Campbell, 92, linguist and polymath
15 Athena Starwoman, mid-50s, astrologer, breast cancer
15 Lorenzo "Larry" J. Ponza Jr., 86, baseball pitching machine innovator [2]
15 Rodney Kennedy-Minott, 76, former United States Ambassador to Sweden
15 Pauline Lafon Gore, 92, mother of former US vice-president Al Gore, wife of Albert Gore, Sr.
15 Jim Holliday, pornographic film producer and historian, complications from diabetes
15 Chiang Fang-liang, 88, the widow of Chiang Ching-kuo and the First Lady of the Republic of China on Taiwan from 1978 to 1988
14 Candice Daly, 41, American actor
14 Rod Kanehl, 70, who hit the first grand slam in the Mets history
14 Harry Bowcott, 97, Rugby Union player for Wales and London Welsh
14 Sidonie Goossens, 105, British harpist [3]
14 Fernando Poe, Jr., 65, Filipino actor and former presidential candidate
13 Alex Soria, 39, guitarist for the punk rock band The Nils
13 Andre Rodgers, 70, first Bahamian to play in Major League Baseball
13 Syed Mir Qasim, 83, chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir from 1971 to 1975
13 David Wheeler, 77, computer scientist
13 Bernarda Bryson Shahn, 101, painter, lithographer, widow of Ben Shahn
12 Peter Doyle, 72, Australian fish restaurateur
12 Phaswane Mpe, 34, South African novelist, unknown illness
12 Simon Combes, 64, British wildlife artist, gored in Kenya by a Cape Buffalo
11 Antonio R. Barcelo Jimenez, 51, lawyer and nephew of former Puerto Rican Governor Carlos Romero Barcelo, his daughters Yahaira, 24, and Laura, 15, murdered
11 Bernard Lansky, 80, cartoonist
11 John W. Culligan, 88, former CEO of American Home Products
11 Arthur Lydiard, 87, athletics coach
11 Harvey "Bum" Bright, 84, former owner of the Dallas Cowboys
11 M.S. Subbulakshmi, 88, Carnatic musician
11 José Luis Cuciuffo, 42, 1986 Football World Cup champion, hunting accident
10 Gary Webb, 49, investigative reporter who broke story about CIA involvement with crack cocaine dealers in Southern California in the 1980s, dead of apparent suicide
10 Bob King, 81, college basketball coach
9 Kim Dong Jo, 86, foreign minister of South Korea from 1973 to 1975
9 Kevin Keogh, 55, Phoenix, Arizona's chief financial officer, jumped off his moving car, behavior possibly caused by cystercosis
9 Philippe Gigantes, 81, former Canadian senator, cancer
9 David Brudnoy, 64, Boston radio talk show host, cancer
9 Sergey Voychenko, 49, an artist and designer from Minsk, Belarus
9 Sir Peter Emery, 78, politician
9 Lea De Mae, 27, pornographic film actress, brain cancer
8 Lord Scarman, 93, Life peer, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary 1977-86
8 Darrell Abbott (Diamond Darrell, Dimebag Darrell), 38, former Pantera guitarist, shot to death in Columbus, Ohio [4]
8 Jackson Mac Low, 82, poet
8 Lester Tanzer, 75, former U.S. News and World Report managing editor, Parkinson's disease [5]
7 Frederick Fennell, 90, conductor, founder of Eastman Wind Ensemble
7 Jay Van Andel, 80, co-founder and former chairman of Amway
7 Jerry Scoggins, 93, sang The Beverly Hillbillies' theme song "The Ballad of Jed Clampett"
7 Allen Haskell, 69, nurseryman
6 Enrique Salinas, 52, brother of former president of Mexico Carlos Salinas, asphyxiation
6 Raymond Goethals, 83, Belgian soccer coach
5 "Manzanita", 48, Flamenco singer [6]
5 Hicham Zerouali, 27, Moroccan soccer player, car accident - drove car into tree
5 Christiano Junior, 24, Brazilian soccer player, cardiac arrest after on-field collision
4 Tom Fitzgerald, 53, University of Tampa soccer coach
4 Teofil Peter, 50, Romanian rock musician, car accident
4 Elena Souliotis, 61, Greek soprano
3 Maria Perschy, 66, Austrian film/stage/TV actress
3 Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Duke of Leinster
3 Shiing-Shen Chern, 93, mathematician
3 Josef Schwammberger, 92, former Nazi labor camp commander
2 Nadine Shamir, 32, singer/songwriter
2 Kevin Coyne, 60, musician and author
2 Mona Van Duyn, 83, former US Poet Laureate, bone cancer
2 Dame Alicia Markova, 94, ballerina
2 Larry Buchanan, 81, film director
1 David Vienneau, 53, Canadian journalist, pancreatic cancer
1 Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, 93, father of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands [7]
1 Bill Brown, 73, former goalkeeper for Tottenham Hotspur and Scotland
1 Emma Verona Johnston, 114, supercentenarian, oldest documented person in the United States
1 Fathi Arafat, 71, brother of Yasser Arafat and founder of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society
1 William B. Sackheim, 84, television producer, co-screenwriter of the movie First Blood, son of director Daniel Sackheim

November 2004

30 Alexei Khvostenko, 64, Russian poet, artist, musician, heart attack in Moscow hospital
30 Pierre Berton, 84, Canadian author and journalist, diabetes complications
29 Harry Danning, MLB All-Star catcher who played with the New York Giants
29 Billy James Hargis, 78, American Christian minister, missionary and anti-communist political activist
29 Sister Anne Samson, 113, oldest recognized living Canadian and oldest nun ever documented
29 John Monckton, 49, British city financier, murdered
29 John Drew Barrymore, 72, actor, member of the Barrymore family, father of Drew Barrymore
29 Molly Weir, 94, Scottish TV and radio actress
29 Irwin Donenfeld, 78, DC Comics executive
28 Lucas Molina, 20, Argentinean football player, cardiac arrest
28 Albert Dorskind, 82, MCA executive who created the Universal Studios tour
28 Leroy F. Aarons, 70, American journalist, founder of the NLGJA
28 Teddy Ebersol, 14, son of American actress Susan Saint James and Dick Ebersol, plane crash.
27 John Dunn, 70, Scottish BBC Radio 2 disc jockey, cancer
27 Gunder Hägg, 85, Swedish athlete
27 Gene Greif, 50, American illustrator of 1970s and 1980s album covers
27 Stephen Girard, Jr., 91, introduced the Jeep to civilians
26 Hans Schaffner, 95, Swiss politician and Federal Councilor in the 1960s, President of the Confederation in 1966
26 Philippe de Broca, 71, French film director; cancer
26 Bill Alley, 85, Anglo-Australian cricketer and cricket umpire in 10 tests
26 Tom Haller, 67, All-Star baseball catcher for the San Francisco Giants, Los Angeles Dodgers and Detroit Tigers and was later the Giants' general manager
26 Hannes Walter, 51, Estonian war historian
25 David Bailey, 71, actor (Passions), drowning
25 Ed Paschke, 65, American artist, heart attack
25 Bob Haney, 78, comic book writer, co-creator of the Teen Titans and Doom Patrol
24 Joseph Hansen, 81, groundbreaking mystery author
24 David Leitch, 67, journalist and author
24 Elijah Mwangale, 65, Kenyan politician, former member of Parliament, and foreign minister from 1983 to 1987, heart attack
24 James Wong, 64, Hong Kong lyricist, actor, director, talk show host and author
24 Larry Brown, 53, author, novelist
24 Arthur Hailey, 84, author, suspected stroke
23 Rafael Eitan, 75, Israeli politician and former chief of staff, drowned
23 Frances Chaney, 89, wife of Ring Lardner Jr., member of the 1950s Hollywood Blacklist
22 Arthur Hopcraft, 71, author, journalist, and playwright
21 Marcella Humphrey, 112, supercentenarian
20 Ancel Keys, 100, scientist; co-invented the K ration used in World War II
20 Janine Haines, 59, former leader of the Australian Democrats
20 David Grierson, 49, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio and television host
20 Jimmy Tapp, 86, Canadian television personality
20 Celso Furtado, 84, Brazilian economist
19 Helmut Griem, 72, German film actor Cabaret
19 Terry Melcher, 62, musician, producer and son of Doris Day, melanoma
19 Fred H. Hale, Sr., 113, supercentenarian, oldest recognized living man
19 Sir John Vane, 77, shared the 1982 Nobel Prize in medicine for work in discovering how aspirin works
19 Trina Schart Hyman, 65, American illustrator of children's books, of cancer
18 Alfred Maseng, political figure in Vanuatu, (age and cause of death unreported)
18 Robert Bacher, 99, one of the developers of the atom bomb
18 Cy Coleman, 75, composer of Broadway musicals
18 Juan Carlos Aramburu, 92, former Roman Catholic Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Cardinal since 1976
18 Bobby Frank Cherry, 74, convicted in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing
17 Thomas Dibblee Jr., 93, geologist
17 Alexander Ragulin, 63, Soviet ice hockey player, 10-time IIHF World Champion and 3-time Olympic gold medalist
17 Lena Townsend, 93, former leader of the Inner London Education Authority
17 Mikael Ljungberg, 34, Swedish wrestler and Olympic gold medalist, suicide
17 Dr. Samuel Billison, 79, code talker
16 Massimo Freccia, 98, Italian-American conductor
16 Margaret Hassan, 59, chief of the humanitarian relief organization CARE International, killed by hostage takers in Iraq (unconfirmed, but presumed dead)
16 Reed Irvine, 82, founder of Accuracy in Media
16 Walter Mintz, 75, co-founder of one of the country's first hedge funds
15 Colin Coulthard, 83, English Air-Vice Marshal & RAF fighter pilot
15 Elmer Andersen, 95, former Minnesota governor
15 John Morgan, 74, comedian; former member of the Royal Canadian Air Force
15 John Seaton, prominent in New Zealand Harness Racing, multimillionaire accused of doping horses, suicide
15 Adam Young, 91, broadcast entrepreneur, stroke
14 Michel Colombier, 65, composer, cancer
14 Evelyn "50K Treasure Chest" West, 80, famous stripper and pin-up girl during the 1940s and 1950s. Found dead in her apartment
14 Langdon Brown Gilkey, 85, American Christian Protestant Ecumenical theologian (b. 1919)
13 John Balance, 42, member of Coil, accident
13 Ellen Fairclough, 99, first female Canadian cabinet minister
13 Harry Lampert, 88, comic book and advertising artist, artistic co-creator of The Flash, author of instructional books on Contract bridge, cancer
13 Ol' Dirty Bastard (Russell Jones), 35, rapper, drug abuse
13 Piet Bijvelds, 62, Dutch rally racing co-driver, killed during Luxembourg Rally
13 Fred Diament, 81, outspoken Holocaust survivor who testified at the Nuremberg trials
13 Carlo Rustichelli, 87, Italian film composer
12 Usko Meriläinen, 74, Finnish composer
12 Mike Smith, 62, English cricketer, heart attack
12 Stanislaw Skalski, Polish pilot
12 Lelio Marino, 69, owner of Modern Continental group, unknown causes
12 Norman Rose, 87, radio and TV actor, All My Children voice of Juan Valdez
12 Linda Murray, 91, English art historian
12 Harry Hargreaves, 82, English Punch cartoonist
11 Dayton Allen, 85, comedian and voice of the cartoon character Deputy Dawg and Mayor Phineas T. Bluster on The Howdy Doody Show
11 Yasser Arafat, 75, Palestine Liberation Organization leader, President of the Palestinian Authority, cirrhosis [8]
11 Richard Dembo, 56, César Award-winning French director
10 Erna Rosenstein, 91, Polish surrealist painter and poet
9 Emlyn Hughes, 57, English footballer, brain tumour
9 Iris Chang, 36, historian, author, suicide
8 Melba Phillips, 97, American physicist & educator, coronary artery disease
8 Lennox Miller, 58, Jamaican Olympic athlete, cancer
8 Eddie Charlton, 75, Australian snooker player
8 Emma Roca Rodrigo, 85, Spanish revolutionary
7 Howard Keel, 85, American actor and singer, colon cancer
7 Gibson Kente, 72, South African playwright, AIDS
7 Xavier Malouin, 12, Canadian Teenager, Homicide
6 Andrew Veal, 25, Self inflicted gunshot wound at World Trade Center Ground Zero
6 Pete Jolly, 72, Jazz pianist [9]
6 Elizabeth Rogers, 70, American actress Lt. Palmer on Star Trek, multiple strokes and lung cancer
6 Johnny Warren, 61, Australian soccer player, coach, ethnic community advocate; lung cancer
6 Fred Dibnah, 66, British steeplejack and television presenter
5 Donald Jones, 72, American-born Dutch comedian, singer, dancer and actor, first black Dutch celebrity
4 Robert Heaton, 43, British composer and drummer of punk-rock band New Model Army, pancreatic cancer
4 Ellen Meloy, 58, American author
4 Kristin Smedvig, 83, violin soloist and teacher
3 Joe Bushkin, 87, Swing Era pianist [10]
3 Richard Hongisto, 67, former sheriff of San Francisco, California and Cleveland, Ohio, heart attack
3 Sergei Zholtok, 32, ice hockey player, heart failure due to cardiac arrhythmia
2 Virginia Muise, 111, probably oldest living New Englander
2 Basil Thompson, 67, Ballet master
2 Gerrie Knetemann, 53, Dutch cyclist (World Champion in 1978), heart attack
2 Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, 86, Emir of Abu Dhabi
2 Gustaaf Joos, 81, Belgian Cardinal
2 Theo van Gogh, 47, Dutch cineast and writer, murdered
1 Evelyn Ruth Moseley Lathan, 74, jazz, blues and gospel pianist
1 Lord Hanson, 82, British industrialist
1 Hatem Kamil Abdul Fatah, deputy governor of Baghdad
1 Mae Madison, 89, Actress from silent and early talkie films, favorite of Busby Berkeley
1 Marie Tehan, 64, former health minister for Victoria (Australia), Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
1 Terry Knight, 61, manager and producer to Grand Funk Railroad, murdered

October 2004

31 Maj.-Gen. Konstantin Dementyev, Russian military official, involved with air force planning and policy, shot to death on the Moscow-Minsk highway
31 Don Briscoe, 64, stage and television actor (Dark Shadows)
30 Peggy Ryan, 80, actress, singer and dancer
29 Gerard Norton VC, 89, won the Victoria Cross in 1944
29 Vaughn Meader, 68, Grammy-Award-winning JFK-imitating comedian, emphysema
29 Edward Oliver LeBlanc, 81, Dominican political leader, chief minister (1961-1967) and premier (1967-1974), unknown natural causes
29 Jacinto João, 60, Portuguese football player, cardiac arrest
29 HRH Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, 102
29 Peter Twinn, 88, mathematician and code-breaker
29 John Parr Miller, 91, children's book illustrator and Disney animator
28 Rosalind Hicks, 85, daughter of Agatha Christie
28 Ted Taylor, 79, designer of American nuclear bombs before becoming an activist warning of the dangers of nuclear weapons
28 Shosei Koda, 24, Japanese backpacker, beheaded by his captors in Iraq
28 Jimmy McLarnin, 96, British boxer, two-time world champion
28 Graham Roberts, 75, British actor, best known for playing George Barford in The Archers
28 Charles Wheeler, 88, cinematographer Tora! Tora! Tora!
28 George Schairer, 91 aerodynamics expert
28 Gil Melle, 72, film and television music composer, heart attack
27 Al Clouston, 94, humorist
27 Lester Lanin, 97, Society Big-Band leader
27 Bill Liebowitz, 63, American comic book retailer and founder of notable chain of Golden Apple Comics stores, leading the way for the direct market
27 Paulo Sérgio de Oliveira Silva (also known as Serginho), 30, Brazilian football player for São Caetano, heart attack during a league match
27 Bert Tigchelaar, 58, Dutch journalist
26 Bobby Avila, 79, MLB All-Star and AL batting champion in 1954
26 Paul F. Iams, 89, founder of the Iams pet food company
26 Nestor Kombot-Naguemon, 70?, Central African foreign minister from 1969 until 1970, and ambassador to France at the time of his death, suicide
26 Kathleen Crawford Lindsay, 83, 1950s television writer, embolism
25 Lilian Kallir, 73, Classical pianist,
25 John Peel, 65, British BBC disc jockey and guru of the British indie music scene, heart attack
25 Shyam Nandan Mishra, 84, Indian foreign minister from 1979 to 1980, heart attack
24 Jokin Ormaetxea, 24, Spanish professional cyclist, car accident
24 10 people, including the son of NASCAR race owner Rick Hendrick, crew members and pilots, airplane crash
24 James Cardinal Hickey, 84, former Roman Catholic archbishop of Washington, D.C., previously bishop of Cleveland, Ohio
24 Maaja Ranniku, 63, Estonian chess player
23 Andrew "Stig" Sewell, British, singer in Icons of Filth, possible brain hemorrhage
23 George Silk, 87, Famous WWII Photojournalist for Life magazine, congestive heart failure
23 Robert Merrill, 85 (or 87?), American opera singer
23 Bill Nicholson OBE, 85, British football manager of Tottenham Hotspur, 1958-1974, associated with the club as player, coach, manager and scout for over 60 years
22 Samuel Lee Gravely, Jr., 82, first African American U.S. Navy admiral
22 Katherine Victor, 81, cult film actress
21/22 Jean-François Leuba, 70, Swiss politician
21 Everett Rogers, 73, founder of diffusion of innovations theory
21 Adnan al-Ghoul, ??, Hamas chief explosives expert, alleged "father" of the Qassam rocket, assassinated by the IDF
21 Victoria Snelgrove, 21, Boston Red Sox fan killed in post-American League Championship Series victory celebration accident
20 Veronika Cherkasova, 45, Belarus journalist, murdered
20 Anthony Hecht, 81, American poet
20 Chuck Hiller, 70, former major league baseball player
20 Tevfik Gelenbe, 73, Turkish actor, cancer
20 Lynda Lee-Potter, 69, journalist for Daily Mail, brain tumour
20 Evald Saag, 91, Estonian theologian
20 Wendy Charles Acey, television director
19 Arthur H. Robinson, 89, American cartographer
19 Anita Bitri-Prapaniku, 36?, Albanian pop singer
19 Sang Chun Lee, 51, three cushion billiard player, cancer
19 Lewis Urry, 77, Canadian, invented the long-lasting alkaline battery
19 Kenneth E. Iverson, 84, computer scientist inventor of the APL programming language
19 Paul H. Nitze, 97, American diplomat and Cold War arms negotiator
19 Eleanor Plant, 111, Florida's oldest resident, 9th oldest recognized person in USA, 23rd oldest recognized person in the world
18 Peter Frost, 65, Author and teacher at the University of British Columbia from skin cancer
18 Ansar Tebuyev, 54, Deputy Prime Minister of Karachay-Cherkessia, assassinated
18 Steve Steigman, 62, photographer, best known for "Blown Away" shot in Maxell advertising campaign, after suffering from clinical depression
18 Koose Muniswamy Veerappan, 52, notorious Indian bandit known as "Jungle Cat", killed by special forces
18 Xavier Ormazabal, 23, Spanish mountaineer, while climbing the Cho Oyu in Nepal Himalaya
18 Nancy Carline, 95, artist
17 Julius Harris, 81, African American actor, heart failure
17 Samuel Lender, 84, helped bring Lender's Bagel Company to national prominence
17 Celio González, 80, popular singer of Cuban band Sonora Matancera in the 1950s
17 Betty Hill, 85, wife of Barney Hill and famous in Ufology for their abduction report, lung cancer
17 Ray Boone, 81, patriarch of three-generation major league baseball family
17 Rebecca Manning, 60, daughter of Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth
16 Doug Bennett, 52, lead singer of Canadian band Doug and the Slugs
16 Uzi Hitman, 52, Israeli singer, songwriter and composer, heart attack
16 Pierre Salinger, 79, Press Secretary to John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and newsman
16 Vincent Brome, 94, English biographer and novelist
15 Dave Godin, 68, Soul music promoter, journalist
15 Herbert Katzman, 81, expressionist painter
15 Helmut Simon, 67, finder of Ötzi the Iceman
15 Irv Novick, 88, American comic book artist
15 Lüüdia Vallimäe-Mark, 79, Estonian painter
14 Juan Francisco Cardinal Fresno Larrain, 90, Chilean Catholic Cardinal
14 Conrad Russell, 5th Earl Russell, 67, British historian and member of the House of Lords
14 Ivan Shamiakin, 83, Soviet Belarusian writer
14 Cordell Jackson, 81, rockabilly musician
14 Sheila Keith, 84, British actress
13 Ivor Wood, 72, British animator, Paddington Bear, The Wombles
13 Erik Bye, 78, Norwegian journalist (AP, BBC, NRK), radio/TV host, actor, singer/songwriter; cancer
13 Tetsu Yano, 80, Japanese science fiction writer and translator, founder of the Science Fiction Writers of Japan
13 Nirupa Roy, 73, Indian film actress
13 Bernice Rubens, 76, British novelist (Madame Sousatzka), complications following stroke
11 Peter Kerr, 12th Marquess of Lothian, 82, landowner, diplomat
11 Ben Komproe, 62, former Prime Minister and Minister of Justice of the Netherlands Antilles
11 Gulshan Rai, 80, Indian film producer and distributor
11 Keith Miller, 84, Australian rules footballer, cricketer, fighter pilot and journalist
11 Mary Loos, 94, actress, screenwriter, and novelist; complications from stroke
11 Lillian Zuckerman, 88, character actress
10 Arthur H. Robinson, 89, cartographer
10 Christopher Reeve, 52, U.S. actor who starred as Superman in the 1978 movie and sequels, and campaigned for stem cell research after being paralyzed, heart failure brought on by septicemia
10 Ken Caminiti, 41, American baseball player, heart attack
10 Maurice Shadbolt, 72, New Zealand writer, Alzheimer's disease
9 Maxime A. Faget, 83, NASA longtime engineer through the Space Shuttle program & designer of the Mercury space capsule, bladder cancer
9 Bolat Kesikhbaev, boxing leader, heart attack
9 Izquierdo Carlos, 40, paraglider, killed during European Championships
8 Malcolm Summers, 80, witness to the assassination of John F. Kennedy [11]
8 Jacques Derrida, 74, French philosopher, pancreatic cancer
8 Johnny Sturm, 88, former New York Yankees first baseman and minor league manager
8 Rico Weber, 62, Swiss artist
8 Richard Ellison, 80, documentary producer, diffuse Lewy Body Syndrome
7 Ken Bigley, 62, British hostage in Iraq, executed by hostage takers
7 T.J. Binyon, 68, author, Oxford professor, Pushkin scholar
7 Hildy Parks, 78, American actress, writer, TV producer
7 Sayed El-Nassery, Egyptian Historian, Wrote tens of historical books, graduated from Oxford University at 1969
6 Frederica de Laguna, 98, archaeologist and anthropologist studied Alaskan native cultures
6 John A. Kelley, 97, U.S. athlete
6 Pete McCarthy, 51, travel writer and broadcaster, cancer
6 Harbhajan Singh Yogi, 75, spiritual leader and head of the Sikh Dharma in the western hemisphere
6 Veríssimo Correia Seabra, 57, military commander in Guinea-Bissau, killed in mutiny^[12]
6 Marvin Santiago, 56, Puerto Rican Salsa music singer, diabetes complications
5 Mildred McDaniel Singleton, 70, 1956 Olympic Gold-Medal winner in High Jump
5 Maurice Wilkins, 87, DNA pioneer
5 Rodney Dangerfield, 82, comic and actor
5 William Dobelle (62), American eye doctor and inventor prominent in artificial vision research, diabetes complications
4 Cleonicio Dos Santos Silva (also known as Renato), 28, football player for F.C. Zürich, killed during a robbery
4 Helmut Bantz, 83, 1956 Olympic gold medal winner in pommel horse gymnastics
4 Willy Guhl, 89, internationally known Swiss furniture designer
4 Gordon Cooper, 77, one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts
4 Peter L. Picknelly, 73, owner of Peter Pan Bus Lines
4 Virginia Curtis, actress (Your Show of Shows), cancer
3 Ralph Citro, 78, renowned boxing cut-man, member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame
3 Janet Leigh, 77, American actress, of vasculitis
3 Frits van Turenhout, 91, Dutch sports journalist
3 John Cerutti, 44, former MLB baseball player, announcer for the Toronto Blue Jays
2 Fialho Gouveia, 69, Portuguese radio and TV presenter, of cardiac arrest
2 Nick Skorich, 83, NFL coach, (Philadelphia Eagles) in the early 1960s
2 Max van Gelder, 88, world's first jazz harmonica player and Goon, of old age
2 Fernando Gallardo, 62, Chilean actor, cancer
1 Yoshiaki Hoshi, 58, composer and synthesizer player, founder of the New Age musical group Himekami
1 Richard Avedon, 81, American fashion photographer, of a brain hemorrhage
1 Joyce Jillson, 58, American astrologer, of kidney failure
1 Bruce Palmer, 58, Bassist for Buffalo Springfield, heart attack
1 Burt Miller, 92, American actor

September 2004

30 Eugenio Pio Seghesio, 85, pioneering California 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)
30 Ignatius Wolfington, 84, American character actor
30 Willem Oltmans, 79, Dutch maverick journalist, cancer
30 Justin Strzelczyk, 36, former NFL Pittsburgh Steelers player, car crash while leading police on chase
30 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
29 Ernst van der Beugel, 86, former Dutch junior Foreign Minister and former CEO of KLM
29 Christer Pettersson, 57, suspected murderer of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme
29 Richard Sainct, 34, French rally motorcyclist, accident
29 Gertrude Dunn, 72, American women's baseball and field hockey player, 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
28 Mulk Raj Anand, 98, 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
26 Amjad Hussain Farooqi, 32, Pakistani terrorist, supposed member of Al-Qaida
26 Dean Kutz, 48, jockey
26 Izz El-Deen Sheikh Khalil, Hamas leader assassinated by car bomb
25 Dr. Katherine E. Keough, 61, president of St. John Fisher College
25 Alain Glavieux, 55, mathematician, Information technology pioneer
25 Marvin Davis, 79, philanthropist; ex-owner of Twentieth Century Fox and Pebble Beach
25 Ivan Caceres, 21, football player, haemoptysis
24 Tim Choate, 49, actor (Babylon 5), motorcycle accident
24 Françoise Sagan, 69, French novelist
23 Margaret Sloan-Hunter, 57, former editor of Ms. Magazine, feminist and civil rights advocate
23 André Hazes, 53, Dutch singer
23 Billy Reay, 86, former NHL player and coach for the 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
22 Ray Traylor, 42, American professional wrestler known as The Big Boss Man
22 Dirk van der Horst, 57, guitarist with popular Dutch band BZN
21 Samantha Chevalier, 14, student at Columbia High School, died of drug overdose
21 Jack Hensley, 48, American civilian contractor, beheaded by Muslim terrorists in Iraq. [13]
21 Nordin ben Salah, 32, boxer, murdered
21 Larry Phillips, 62, stock car racer
20 Eugene Armstrong, 52, American civilian contractor, beheaded by Muslim terrorists in Iraq
20 Brian Clough OBE, 69, English footballer and cup-winning coach and manager
20 Kalmer Tennosaar, 75, Estonian singer
19 Line Østvold, 25, Norwegian snowboarder
19 Eddie Adams, 71, photojournalist
19 Skeeter Davis, 73, country music singer
19 Ellis Marsalis, Sr., 96, patriarch of family of jazz 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
17 Katharina Dalton, 87, pioneered research on premenstrual stress syndrome
16 Dolly Rathebe, South African musician
16 Izora Rhodes Armstead, American singer, one of the two Weather Girls
16 Virginia Hamilton Adair, 91, American poet
16 Sergio Sánchez, Mexican actor
15 Donald Yetter Gardner, 91, songwriter, All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth
15 Daouda Malam Wanke, 50?, leader of the 1999 transitional government in Niger
15 Johnny Ramone, 55, guitarist and founding member of 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
14 Reynaldo G. Garza, 89, first Hispanic American appointed as Federal Appeals Court judge[14]
13 Glenn Presnell, 99, early 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
11 Peter VII, 55, Greek Orthodox 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
10 O.L. Duke, 51, actor, automobile crash
10 Joan Doreen Pickles, 80, early recipient of an artificial heart valve and wife of noted 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
8 Raymond Marcellin, 90, former Interior minister of France
8? Richard Girnt Butler, 86, founder of the Aryan Nations
8 James Westphal, California Institute of Technology scientist
8 Matías Prats Cañete, Spanish journalist
7 Hervey Feldman, 67, founder of the Embassy Suites hotel chain
7 Samira Bellil, 31, campaigner for 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
7 Kirk Fordice, 70, Mississippi's first Republican Governor since 1874, leukemia
7 Christiaan Frederick Beyers Naudé, 89, Afrikaner-South African cleric, theologian and anti-apartheid activist
7 Jonathan Scharer, 56, Producer, Forbidden Broadway
6 Miriam Pires, 77, Brazilian actress, star of many popular telenovelas
6 Elly Annie Schneider, 90, one of the Munchkins in 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
4 Michael Louden, 40, actor, autoerotic asphyxiation
4 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
4 James O. Page, 68, North Carolina's former chief of EMS and founder of modern emergency medical response, heart attack
4 Moe Norman, 75, PGA and Canadian Tour golfer, congestive heart failure
4 Alphonso Ford, 33, American-born Euroleague player, leukemia
3 Steven Blackford, 28, former University of Arizona wrestler, car accident
3 Anne Coffin Hanson, 82, first full tenured female Professor at Yale (1970), Art Historian
3 Jessie V. Stone, 100, 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
1 Kenneth Alexander Keith, Baron Keith of Castleacre, 88, life peer and former chairman of Rolls-Royce, Hill Samuel, Beecham Group, and STC
1 Herbert H. Haft, 84, owner of Dart Drugs Chain, congestive heart failure
1 Johnny Bragg, 79, leader of The Prisonaires, one of earliest music groups to record for Sam Phillips and Sun Records
1 Sir Alastair Morton, 66, former chief executive of 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
30 Fred Whipple, 97, American astronomer
30 Fay Jones, 83, architect trained by Frank Lloyd Wright
30 Larry Desmedt, 55, motorcycle designer, injuries suffered during a stunt [15]
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
27 Ko Young-hee, 51, former consort to North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, cancer (rumoured) [16]
27 William Pierson, 78, actor Stalag 17
27 Fernand Auberjonois, 93, foreign news correspondent for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Toledo Blade; father of actor René Auberjonois
27 Suzanne Kaaren, 92, actress (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
26 Enzo G. Baldoni, 56, Italian journalist, murdered in Iraq
26 David Myers, 90, Cinematographer (Woodstock, Elvis on Tour)
25 Robert Denoon Cumming, 87, professor emeritus of philosophy at Columbia University and author
25 Marcelo Cardinal Gonzalez Martin, 86, former Roman Catholic primate of Spain, Cardinal since 1973 and Archbishop of Toledo from 1971 to 1995 (Papal condolence message)
25 Don Ashton, 85, British film art director and production designer
24 Richard Ervin, 99, former attorney general and chief justice of Florida [17]
24 Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, 78, Swiss-born psychiatrist
24 Timothy B. Harbert, 53, chairman and chief executive of State Street Global Advisors, heart attack [18]
24 Eleni Ioannou, 20, Greek judoka
24 Bill Pilkington, 87, British actor
23 Francesco Minerva, 100, centenarian Italian Roman Catholic archbishop
23 Hank Borowy, 88, former Yankees, Cubs, Phillies, Pirates and Tigers pitcher
23 Mary Guiney, 103, chairperson of the Clerys Department Store
22 Muriel Angelus, 95, British silent film actress
22 Konstantin Aseev, 43, chess Grandmaster and coach
22 Al Dvorin, 81, announcer who popularized the phrase "Elvis has left the building", automobile accident [19]
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
22 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
20 María Antonieta Pons, 82, Cuban-born star of rumbera films
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