Recent deaths

The following is a list of figures who have died in 2004.

November 2004

24 James Wong, 64, Hong Kong lyricist, actor, director, talk show hosts 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
22 Arthur Hopcraft, 71, author, journalist, and playwright
20 Ancel Keys, 100, scientist who studied effects of diet on health, 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
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 (age and cause of death unreported) political figure in Vanuatu
18 Robert Bacher, 99, one of the developers of the atom bomb
18 Cy Coleman, 75, composer of Broadway musicals
18 Juan Carlos Cardinal 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 Alexander Ragulin, 63, Soviet hockey player, 10-time IIHF World Champion and 3-time Olympic gold medalist.
17 Mikael Ljungberg, 34, Swedish wrestler and Olympic gold medalist, suicide.
16 Margaret Hassan, 59, chief of the humanitarian relief organization CARE International, executed by hostage takers in Iraq (uncomfirmed, 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 Elmer Andersen, 95, former Minnesota governor
15 John Morgan, 74, comedian; former member of the Royal Canadian Air Farce
15 John Seaton, prominent in New Zealand Harness Racing, multimillionaire accused of doping horses, unknown causes
15 Adam Young, 91, broadcast entrepreneur, stroke
14 Michel Colombier, 65, composer, cancer
13 John Balance, 42, member of Coil, accident
13 Ellen Fairclough, 99, first female Canadian cabinet minister
13 Harry Lampert, 88, cartoonist, comic book and advertising artist, artistic co-creator of The Flash, author of instructional books on bridge, cancer
13 Ol' Dirty Bastard (Russell Jones), 35, rapper, unknown causes
13 Piet Bijvelds, 62, Dutch rally racing co-driver, killed during Luxembourg Rally
12 Carlo Rustichelli, 87, Italian film composer
12 Usko Meril�inen, 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
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 of the liver [1] (http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story.jsp?sectionid=1268&storyid=2252003)
11 Richard Dembo, 56, C�sar 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, 100 m. Mexico’68 Silver Medal, Munich’72 Bronze medal, 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
6 Pete Jolly, 72, Jazz pianist [2] (http://noted.blogs.com/westcoastmusic/2004/11/pete_jolly_is_d.html)
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 [3] (http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/05/arts/music/05bushkin.html)
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 Nahayan, 86, Emir of Abu Dhabi.
2 Gustaaf Cardinal Joos, 81, Belgian cardinal.
2 Theo van Gogh, 47, Dutch cineast and writer, murdered in Amsterdam.
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, Silent and early talkie actress, 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.
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 Jo�o, 60, Portuguese football player, cardiac arrest
29 HRH Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, 102
29 Peter Twinn, 88, mathematician and code-breaker
28 Rosalind Hicks, 85, daughter of Agatha Christie
28 Theodore 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, "The Archers"
28 Charles Wheeler, 88, cinematographer Tora! Tora! Tora!
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 stores, leading the way for the direct market.
27 Paulo S�rgio de Oliveira Silva (a.k.a. Serginho), 30, Brazilian football player for S�o 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
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
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
21/22 Jean-Fran�ois 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
19 Anita Bitri-Prapaniku, 36?, Albanian pop singer
19 Sang Chun Lee, 51, three cushion billiard player, cancer
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 Ansar Tebuyev, 54, Deputy Prime Minister of Karachay-Cherkessia, assassinated
18 Steve Steigman, ?, photographer, known for "Blown Away" shot in Maxell advertising campaign
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 Himalayas
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 Gonz�lez, 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 Raymond Boone, 81, patriarch of three-generation major league baseball family
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 novellist
15 Dave Godin, 68, Soul music promoter, journalist
15 Herbert Katzman, 81, expressionist painter
15 Helmut Simon, 67, finder of �tzi the Iceman
15 Irv Novick, 88, American comic book artist whose career spanned 60 years
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
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)
11 Peter Kerr, 12th Marquess of Lothian, 82, Marquess of Lothian, 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
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 Iscuerdo Carlos, 40, paraglider, killed during European Championships
8 Malcolm Summers, 80, witness to the assassination of John F. Kennedy [4] (http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20041018/people_nm/people_summers_dc)
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
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
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 Ver�ssimo Correia Seabra, 57, military commander in Guinea-Bissau, killed in mutiny^{[5] (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3720218.stm)}
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
4 Cleonicio Dos Santos Silva (a.k.a. Renato), 28, football player for F.C. Z�rich, 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
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.
1 Juraj Beneš, 64, Slovak composer
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

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
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 Fran�oise Sagan, 69, French novelist
23 Margaret Sloan-Hunter, 57, former editor of Ms. Magazine, feminist and civil rights advocate
23 Andr� Hazes, 53, Dutch singer
23 Billy Reay, 86, former NHL player and coach for the Chicago Blackhawks
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 Jack Hensley, 48, American civilian contractor, beheaded by Muslim terrorists in Iraq. [6] (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3678124.stm)
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 �stvold, 25, 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
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 Sanchez, 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 Sprog�e, 84, Danish actor
14 Reynaldo G. Garza, 89, first Hispanic American appointed as Federal Appeals Court judge[7] (http://www.fjc.gov/newweb/jnetweb.nsf/hisj/)
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 Jerome Chodorov, 93, playwright, My Sister Eileen
11 Fred Ebb, 71, Broadway lyricist (Cabaret, Chicago), heart attack
11 Peter VII, 55, 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
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 Mat�as Prats Ca�ete, 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 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 Naud�, 89, 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
6 Elly Annie Schneider, 90, one of the Munchkins in The Wizard of Oz
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 motorracer, 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
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 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 Or� 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 Hearts of Midlothian, Charlton Athletic, Peterborough United and Dunfermline F.C.
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 [8] (http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/01/obituaries/01larry.html)
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) [9] (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3604774.stm)
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 Ren� Auberjonois
27 Suzanne Kaaren, 92, actress (Three Stooges films)
27 Willie Crawford, 57, former outfielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers
26 Friedrich Br�nner, German politician
26 Jos� 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 (http://www.vatican.va/news_services/bulletin/news/15180.php?index=15180&lang=en))
24 Richard Ervin, 99, former attorney general and chief justice of Florida [10] (http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040825/APN/408250821)
24 Elisabeth K�bler-Ross, 78, Swiss-born psychiatrist
24 Timothy B. Harbert, 53, chairman and chief executive of State Street Global Advisors, heart attack [11] (http://www.statestreetglobaladvisors.com/about_ssga/press/pres/statementfromstatestreet20040825/page.html)
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 [12] (http://www.elitestv.com/pub/2004/Aug/EEN412b92f0924bd.html)
22 Marcel Caux, 105, Australian First World War veteran, last known survivor of the Battle of Pozi�res.
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 Maria Antonieta Pons, 82, Cuban-born star of rumbera films
20 Moshe Shamir, 83, Israeli politician and novelist
19 Rudolf Miele, 74, German entrepreneur
19 G�nter Rexrodt, 62, German politician, former Economics Minister of Germany
18 Hiram Fong, 97, first Asian American elected to the U.S. Senate
18 Elmer Bernstein, 82, composer of classic film music such as The Magnificent Seven
18 V�ctor Cervera Pacheco, 68, Mexican politician, former Governor of Yucat�n
18 Charlie Waller, 69, American bluegrass musician, founder of the band Country Gentlemen
17 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 G�rard Souzay, 85, French baritone
17 Thea Astley, 78, Australian novelist
17 Frank Cotroni, 72, Montreal mob boss
16 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
15 Sune K. Bergstr�m, 88, 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.
14 Czesław Miłosz, 93, Polish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980
13 Julia Child, 91, author and television hostess on French cuisine [13] (http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3694953)
13 Milton Pollack, 97, U.S. federal judge who ruled on court cases involving Wall Street
13 Peipei, 33, worlds oldest Panda
12 Sir Godfrey N. Hounsfield, 84, Nobel Prize in Medicine, coinventor of the CAT scan
12 Peter Woodthorpe, 72, British character actor
12 George Yardley, 75, NBA Hall of Famer.
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
9 Tony Mottola, 86, guitarist who played with Frank Sinatra and on the Tonight Show orchestra [14] (http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/12/arts/12mottola.html)
9 David Raksin, 92, film composer
8 Fay Wray, 96, King Kong actress
8 Dimitris Papamichail, 70, Greek actor
8 Robert "Gypsy Boots" Bootzin, 89, health and fitness pioneer
8 Leon Golub, 82, internationally recognized artist and painter.
8 Paul "Mousie" Garner, 95, comedian, 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
4 Joseph Papaleo, Italian-American novelist and professor.
4 Michele Russo, 95, American painter and artist
4 Hunter Hancock, 88, Legendary R&B and Rock Disc Jockey
3 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 Cell Block H, cancer [15] (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3527500.stm)
3 Henri Cartier-Bresson, 95, French photographer [16] (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3536724.stm)
1 Philip Hauge Abelson, 91, physicist, co-discoverer of Neptunium
1 Alexandra Scott, 8, founder of Alex's Lemonade Stand, started to raise money for pediatric cancer research.
1 Sidney Morgenbesser, 82, philosopher
1 Patrick Okpomo, 60, former Secretary General of the Nigerian Football Association

July 2004

31 Absamat M. Masaliyev, 71, former leader of Kyrgyzstan
31 Laura Betti, 70, Italian actress
31 Elder David B. Haight, 97, oldest member of the 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
30 Andre Noble, 25, Canadian actor
30 Ali Abbasi, 42, BBC Scotland travel presenter [17] (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/3940853.stm)
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 [18] (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3527124.stm)
28 Francis Crick, 88, British biologist, one of the discoverers of the "double-helix" shape of DNA, cancer [19] (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=624&ncid=753&e=2&u=/ap/20040729/ap_on_sc/obit_crick)
28 Jackson Beck, 92, announcer and voice actor
28 Eugene Roche, 75, American character actor and the "Ajax" Man
28 Steve Patterson, 56, former center of the UCLA basketball team, coach at Arizona State University and founder of the Grand Canyon State Games
27 Carmine G. DeSapio, 95, last boss of Tammany Hall
27 Musab al-Awadi, Iraqi politician, assassinated [20] (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3926395.stm)
27 Bob Tisdall, 97, won the gold medal in hurdles at the 1932 Summer Olympics.
26 William A. Mitchell, 92, food scientist, inventor of Pop Rocks candy and Tang drink mix.
26 Rub�n G�mez, 77, Puerto Rico, former MLB pitcher who played for the Giants, Phillies, Indians and Twins
26 Oguz Aral, 68, Turkish caricaturist; creator of Avanak Avni, Kostebek Husnu, and Utanmaz Adam
26 Sidney Francis Greene, Lord Greene of Harrow Weald, 94, British railroad worker, trade union leader, and life peer
25 Francisco Rom�o, 61, Angolan deputy foreign minister, suicide [21] (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3926179.stm)
24 Fred LaRue, 75, part of Watergate scandal
24 Lowell "Cotton" Fitzsimmons, 72, NBA basketball coach
23 Wilton Mkwayi, 81, South African political activist during Apartheid, cancer.
23 Joe Cahill, 84, Irish politician [22] (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/3922517.stm)
23 Mehmood, 72, Indian actor
23 Janet Chisholm, 75, former British MI6 agent
23 Bodo H. Hauser, 58, German journalist, director of Phoenix TV network
23 Carlos Paredes, 79, Portuguese guitar player
23 Serge Reggiani, 82, French singer and actor
22 Nicolas Rodil del Valle, 88, Honorary President of the FIM
22 Illinois Jacquet, 81, U.S. jazz saxophonist
22 Sacha Distel, 71, French singer
21 Edward B. Lewis, 85, US-biologist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1995)
21 Elder Neal A. Maxwell, 78, member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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 Zenko Suzuki, 93, former Prime Minister of Japan
19 Lori Hacking, 27, wife of Mark Hacking
18 Paul Foot, 66, British journalist and campaigner
18 Emil Peynaud, 92, French wine expert
18 John Kraus, 94, inventor of the "Big Ear" telescope
17 Sir Julian Hodge, 99, British entrepreneur, founder of the Carlyle Trust bank [23] (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_east/3907323.stm)
17 Pat Roach<