Deaths in August 2005

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The following is a list of notable people who died in August 2005.

31

John Donaldson, Baron Donaldson of Lymington, 84, British judge, former Master of the Rolls.
Jaan Kiivit, Jr, 65, former Estonian Lutheran archbishop.
Sir Joseph Rotblat, 96, Nobel laureate, Polish-born British physicist, anti-nuclear weapons campaigner, founder of Pugwash Conferences.
Michael Sheard, 67, British actor, including Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (Admiral Ozzel), he played Adolf Hitler in five movies, cancer.
Julius Westheimer, 88, financial analyst.

30

Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, 115, oldest recognized person in the world, gastric cancer.
Cecily Brownstone, 96, long-time Associated Press cuisine writer, pneumonia. [1]
Leonie Duquet (body identified), 61, French nun and Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo activist; presumably killed by the Argentine military regime between 1976 and 1983.
Florence Reeves, 111, British suffragette, civil servant, and notable supercentenarian; death announced a few hours after Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper. [2]
James H. Scheuer, 85, former Democrat-Liberal United States Representative from New York from 1965-1973, and 1975-1993.

29

Margaret Scott, 71, Australian author and poet.
Jude Wanniski, 69, supply-side economist.

28

Ali Said Abdella, 55, foreign minister of Eritrea, heart attack.
Hans Clarin, 75, German actor.
Jacques Dufilho, 91, French comedian.
Charles C. Gates, Jr., 84, rubber magnate. [3]
Esther Szekeres (née Klein), 95, Hungarian mathematician.
George Szekeres, 94, Hungarian mathematician.

27

Jan Moor-Jankowski, 81, Polish-American primatologist, stroke
Seán Purcell, 76, Irish Gaelic footballer.

26

Wolfgang Bauer, 64, Austrian playwright.
Denis "Piggy" D'Amour, 45, guitarist of Canadian metal band Voivod, cancer.
Robert Denning, 78, interior designer, silver-haired fixture of society in Paris and New York.
Gerry Fitt, Baron Fitt, 79, Northern Irish politician from West Belfast; elevated to House of Lords.
Ed "Sailor" White, 56, Canadian professional wrestler best known as "Moondog King".

25

Peter Glotz, 66, German politician.
Georgi Iliev, 39, Bulgarian businessman and president of Lokomotiv Plovdiv, murdered by sniper in Sunny Beach.
Perry Lafferty, 89, American television producer, cancer. [4]
Terence Morgan, 83, British actor

24

Maurice Cowling, 78, British historian.
Kaleth Morales, 21, Colombian "New Wave" vallenato singer and songwriter.
Tom Pashby, 91, Canadian doctor, promoter of hockey safety.
Jack Slipper, 81, Scotland Yard detective. [5]
George Smith, 44, a former British royal servant, fomented "Royal Rape" controversy.

23

Glenn Corneille, 35, Dutch musician and pianist, car crash. [6] (in Dutch)
Stanley DeSantis, 52, American actor (Tales of the City), designer, heart attack.
William J. Eaton, 74, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author.
Ambrogio Fogar, 64, Italian adventurer.
Sir Jack Hibbert, 73, Head of the Central Statistical Office, UK.
Brock Peters, 78, American actor, best known for his role as Tom Robinson in To Kill a Mockingbird, pancreatic cancer. [7]
Lyndon Woodside, 70, choral conductor.

22

Luc Ferrari, 76, French musique concrète composer.
Richard Kelly, 81, former Republican United States Representative from Florida from 1975-1981. [8]
Geoffrey Lane, Baron Lane, 87, British judge and former Lord Chief Justice. [9]
Colin McEwan, 64, Australian comedian and actor, cancer. [10]
Mati Unt, 61, Estonian writer and theatre director.
Morris Ziff, 91, Rheumatic disease expert, cardiac arrest.

21

Liam Burke, 77, Irish politician.
Thomas Herrion, 23, NFL player with the San Francisco 49ers, collapsed after preseason game, autopsy later showed death caused by ischemic heart disease.
James Jerome, 72, former Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons.
Robert Moog, 71, electronic music inventor and pioneer, brain tumor. [11]
Dahlia Ravikovitch, 69, Israeli poet and author.
Horst Tappe, 67, German photographer. [12]
Martin Dillon, 48, musician, operatic tenor, and professor of music, heart attack. [13], [14], [15]

20

LaToyia Figueroa (body found), 24, suspected pregnant U.S. murder victim
Abraham Goldstein, 80, former dean of Yale Law School, heart attack.
Sisai Ibssa, 60, Oromo statesman. [16]
Krzysztof Raczkowski, 35, Polish drummer, ex-member of Vader.
Clifford Williams, 78, British theatre director. [17]

19

Mansour Armaly, 78, ophthalmologist and early glaucoma researcher, cancer. [18]
Gertie Evenhuis, 78, Dutch youth-book author, heart attack. [19] (in Dutch)
Faimalaga Luka, 65, former prime minister and governor-general of Tuvalu.
Dennis Lynds, 81, mystery novelist under the pseudonym Michael Collins. [20]
O. Madhavan, 83, Indian actor and director.
Bueno de Mesquita, 87, Dutch comedian, cancer. [21] (in Dutch)
Mo Mowlam, 55, British politician, after a fall. [22]
Arthur A. Tookoyan, 82, Broadway actor, salesman and singer, Parkinson's disease. [23]

18

Andrónico Luksic, Croatian-descent Chilean, 78, millionaire businessman, richest man of his country.
Christopher Bauman, Jr., 23, professional wrestler Chri$ Ca$h.
Lloyd Meeds, 77, former Democratic United States Representative from Washington from 1965-1979.
Randy Turner, American musician with the hardcore punk band Big Boys.
Mel Welles, 83, American actor, writer, director.
Gao Xiumin, 46, Chinese comedy actress, heart attack.
Michael Barron, 50,Died of a brain tumor. Devoted husband, father, avid outdoorsman. Loved living life. "He was a rock, but did not roll".

17

John Norris Bahcall, 70, American astrophysicist. [24]
Dalibor Brazda, 83, Czech/Swiss composer, arranger and conductor.
Tonino Delli Colli, 81, Italian cinematographer. [25]
Bertram Podell, 79, former Democratic United States Representative from New York 1967-1975. [26]
Esther Wong, 88, promoter, "Godmother" of Punk rock.

16

Vassar Clements, 77, American fiddle player and bluegrass musician. [27]
Aleksandr Gomelsky, 77, former Hall of Fame basketball-coach of the Soviet Union, cancer.
Joe Ranft, 45, American animator, car accident.
Eva Renzi, 60, German actress, cancer.
Frère Roger, 90, founder of the Taizé Community, murdered by an assailant. [28]

15

James Dougherty, 84, first (and last surviving) husband of Marilyn Monroe. [29]
Gordon James Oakes, 74, former Labour government minister and member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom, cancer.
Peter Smit, 43, former European and world champion kickboxer, shot to death in Rotterdam. [30]
Herta Ware, 88, American actress. [31]

14

George Carpenter, 96, Ireland's longest-living Olympian.
Coo Coo Marlin, 73, NASCAR driver.

13

Francy Boland, 75, Belgian jazz pianist, arranger: top European Swing Band 60's & 70's. [32]
Arnold Cooke, 98, British composer. [33]
W.J. Bryan Dorn, 89, former Democratic United States Representative from South Carolina 1947-1949, and 1951-1974.
David Lange, 63, former Labour Prime Minister of New Zealand, main proponent of anti-nuclear policy.
Donald Howard Shively, 84, American professor, among the first to promote modern East Asian Studies, Shy-Drager syndrome. [34]

12

Teruo Ishii, 81, Japanese movie maker.
Lakshman Kadirgamar, 73, Sri Lankan foreign minister, assassination. [35] [36]
Joe Korp, 47, Australian "body in the boot" suspect, suicide. [37]
Charlie Norman, 84, Swedish jazz pianist and film music writer. [38]
Julian Stanley, 87, "Champion of Gifted Students". [39]

11

Ernesta Ballard, 85, Philadelphian feminist and former head of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society.
James Booth, 77, British actor (Zulu).
Al Carmines, 69, reverend, composer, singer and actor.
Manfred Korfmann, 63, German archaeologist. [40]
Anatoly Larkin, 72, theoretical physicist.
Ted "Double Duty" Radcliffe, 103, Negro Leagues baseball player.
Kay Tremblay, 91, Canadian actress (Road to Avonlea). [41]
Colin Winkelmann, 29, BMX innovator, suicide.

10

Mar Amongo, 68, Filipino comic book artist. [42]
John Bryson, 81, celebrity photographer.
Roy Marlin "Butch" Voris, 85, retired US Navy Captain, World War II flying ace, founder and two-time commander of the United States Navy Blue Angels. [43] [44]

9

Colette Besson, 59, athlete and Olympic 400m champion runner.
Dorris Bowdon, 90, American actress.
François Dalle, 87, CEO of L'Oréal cosmetics
Abraham Hirschfeld, 85, Polish born, New York City developer, of cancer.
Philip J. Klass, 85, aviation journalist, UFO debunker, cancer.
Matthew McGrory, 32, 7'–6" actor, natural causes.
Judith Rossner, 70, American author (Looking for Mr Goodbar), diabetes and cancer.
Hal Rugg, 69, legendary steel guitar player. [45]

8

Barbara Bel Geddes, 82, American actress (Miss Ellie, Dallas), of lung cancer. [46]
Ahmed Deedat, 80, Islamic scholar, lecturer and author.
John H. Johnson, 87, publisher.
Gene Mauch, 79, MLB manager.
Ilse Werner, 84, German actress.

7

Peter Jennings, 67, foreign correspondent, news anchor of ABC News, lung cancer. [47]
Thomas W. Langfitt, 78, former head of The Pew Charitable Trusts 1987–1994. [48]
Mikhail Yevdokimov, 47, Russian comedian and politician, killed in car crash.

6

Leonardo Rodríguez Alcaine, 86, Mexican trade union leader.
Vizma Belsevica, 74, Latvian poet.
Keter Betts, 77, jazz bassist.
Robin Cook, 59, British Member of Parliament, former Foreign Secretary. [49]
Ibrahim Ferrer, 78, a popular Afro-Cuban musician from Cuba. Singer in the Buena Vista Social Club. [50]
Alexander Kossiakoff, 91, U.S. Naval Weapons Engineer (Terrier, Polaris, Trident missiles).
Joseph Rogers, 81, US Air Force Colonel and aviator; still holds world speed record of 1,525 mph set in 1959.
Neil Sullivan, 90, Civil Rights advocate: desegregation.
Carlo Little, 66, influential UK rock and roll drummer, first drummer with the Rolling Stones and taught Keith Moon

5

Polina Astakhova, 68, five time Olympic gymnastic champion.
Hunter Kelly, 8, son of Hall of Fame quarterback Jim Kelly, Krabbe's disease.
Raymond Klibansky, 99, German-Canadian academic and philosopher.
Maria Korp, 50, Australian 'body in the boot' crime victim.
Raul Roco, 63, former senator and Filipino presidential candidate, cancer.
Jane Lawrence Smith, 90, American actress also associated with 50's art scene

4

Charles Alden Black, 86, businessman, husband of Shirley Temple, of myelodysplastic syndrome [51].
"Little" Milton Campbell, 71, blues musician.
Ileen Getz, 43, cast of 3rd Rock From The Sun, cancer.
Sue Gunter, 66, women's basketball coach.

3

Françoise d'Eaubonne, 85, French writer.
Dick Heyward, 90, longtime deputy director of UNICEF.
Ernest Alvia ("Smokey") Smith, 91, Canadian Victoria Cross recipient.
Susan Torres, 26, brain-dead woman kept alive to give birth. [52]
Steven Vincent, 49, American freelance reporter. Shot dead in Basra, Iraq. [53]
Morton Yarmon, 89, director of public relations for the American Jewish Committee, 1963–1991.

2

Sandro Bolchi, 81, Italian TV-movies and stage director. [54] [55]
Jay Hammond, 83, Governor of Alaska from 1975 to 1982.
Hassan Moghaddas, 42, Iranian judge in the case of Akbar Ganji and high-profile cases; assassinated by unknown motorbike assailant.
Frieda Staaf, 111, American supercentenarian.