Deaths in 2005

The following is a list of notable people who have died to date in 2024.

October 2005

31

• Amrita Pritam, Indian poet and writer.
• John Holohan, drummer for pop-punk band Bayside

30

• Tetsuo Hamuro, 88, 1936 Olympics gold-medal winner in Swimming
• Ghalib Abdul Mehdi, brother of Iraq Vice President Adil Abdul Medhi and government official, murdered in roadside ambush. [1]
• David Bazay, English CBC ombudsman and veteran journalist, 66

29

• John Elliott, Jr., 84, American advertising executive, cerebral hemorrhage. [2]
• Robert Gerle, 81, American concert violinist, Parkinson's disease. [3]
• Valery Kokov, 64, former President of Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia, cancer.
• Al Lopez, 97, oldest living member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
• H. Hunter Lott, Jr., 90, American squash champion. [4]

28

• Bob Broeg, 87, American Hall of Fame baseball sports writer, pneumonia. [5]
• Robert Paschal Burns, 71, American architect, car accident. [6]
• Alston Callahan, 94, American opthamologist. [7]
• Tony Jackson, 62, former St. John's basketball standout. [8]
• Fernando Quejas, 83, Cape Verdean singer and musician. [9]
• Richard Smalley, 62, Nobel Prize-winning chemist, co-discoverer of fullerenes. [10]

27

• Tom Masland, 55, American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, injuries suffered in a car accident. [11]
• Rene Moreau, 108, among the last remaining French veterans of World War I. [12]
• George Swindin, 90, English football goalkeeper and former manager of Arsenal and Cardiff City.

26

• Marlin Gray, 38, American convicted murderer, executed in Missouri.
• Michael Kilian, 66, American author, writer of the Dick Tracy comic, liver failure. [13]
• Emil Kyulev, 48, one of the richest men in Bulgaria, murdered in Sofia.[14]
• Rong Yiren, 89, former Vice President of the People's Republic of China. [15]

25

• George T. Alexander, Jr., 34, 2,000th U.S. military death in Iraq. [16] [17]
• Ricardo Brinzoni, 60, Lieutenant General of the Argentine Army and former Army chief-of-staff, pancreatic cancer. [18] [19]
• Craig D. Calame, 56, American musician, actor, comedian, cast member (as "Mugsy") of T.V's Uncle Floyd Show and creator of The 11th Hour, cancer. [20]
• Frans van Dusschoten, 72, Dutch comedian and voice artist, cancer. [21]
• Enid A. Haupt, 99, American philanthropist. [22]
• Wellington Mara, 89, New York Giants co-owner, lymphoma.
• Nirmal Verma, 76, Indian author and literary critic, heart attack. [23]
• Willie Williams, 49, American convicted murderer, executed in Ohio.

24

• Ted Dushinski, 61, former defensive back for the CFL's Saskatchewan Roughriders, lung cancer.
• Phil Hays, 74, American illustrator. [24]
• José Azcona del Hoyo, 78, President of Honduras (1986–1990).
• Jun Negami, 82, Japanese actor.
• Rosa Parks, 92, African-American civil rights pioneer; "founding symbol of the civil rights movement". [25] [26] [27] [28]
• Edward R. Roybal, 89, Mexican-American former Democratic United States Representative from California, pneumonia
• Frank Wilson, 81, Australian actor, singer, TV celebrity.

23

• Harry Dalton, 77, former Major League Baseball general manager with the Baltimore Orioles, Milwaukee Brewers, and California Angels, Parkinson's disease. [29]
• William Hootkins, 58, American actor.
• John S. Monagan, 93, former Democratic United States Representative from Connecticut, heart failure. [30]
• Stella Obasanjo, 59, wife of Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo, complications from surgery. [31]
• Yon Hyong-muk, 73, former Prime Minister of North Korea, pancreatic cancer. [32]

22

• Tony Adams, 53, Irish-born film and stage producer (Pink Panther) (Victor/Victoria).
• Arman (né Armand Pierre Fernandez), 76, French-born sculptor, cancer. [33]
• Ted Bonda, 88, former owner of the Cleveland Indians Major League Baseball team, Alzheimer's disease. [34]
• Francisco Alejandro Gutierrez, 43, musician and lead singer of Captain Jack under his stage name "Frankie Gee", cerebral haemorrhage.
• Václav Král, 69, Czech car designer. (Czech Wikipedia).
• Liam Lawlor, 61, disgraced former Irish Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála (TD), whose involvement in land rezoning and political corruption was the subject of the Flood Tribunal, car accident in Moscow. [35]
• Reggie Lisowski, 79, former American professional wrestler known as "The Crusher", brain tumor.
• Arley Reece, 63, American operatic tenor.

21

• Karin Adelmund, 56, Dutch politician.
• Robert E. Badham, 76, former Republican United States Representative from California, heart attack. [36]
• Marshall Clagett, 89, Professor Emeritus at Princeton University's Institute for Advanced Study, historian of science. [37]
• Tara Correa-McMullen, 16, actress who appeared on Judging Amy, shooting. [38]
• Dick Galiette, 72, early ESPN anchor and longtime football broadcaster. [39]
• Saadoun Sughaiyer al-Janabi, defense lawyer in Saddam Hussein's trial, murdered by unknown assailants in Baghdad. [40]
• Sir Nigel Mobbs, 68, Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire. [41]
• Lou Rossini, 84, former basketball coach of New York University, Alzheimer's disease. [42]
• Leopold Steiner, 62, controversial Austrian businessman, convicted of fraud. [43]

20

• Liis Bender, 58, Estonian actress.
• Jean-Michel Folon, 71, Belgian artist.
• Michael Gill, 81, British television producer, Alzheimer's disease. [44]
• Shirley Horn, 71, African American jazz singer, complications of diabetes.
• André van der Louw, 72, Dutch politician, cancer. [45]
• Endon Mahmood, 64, Malaysian Prime Minister's wife, breast cancer. [46]
• Luis Ramirez, 42, American convicted murderer, executed in Texas.
• Eva Švankmajerová, 65, Czech surrealistic painter. [47] (in Czech)

19

• Robert H. Johnston, 77, American archeologist, expert on the Dead Sea Scrolls. [48]
• Luis Adolfo Siles, 80, former President of Bolivia, heart attack. [49]
• Edward R. Telling, 86, American businessman, cancer. [50]
• Corinne Levesque, 61, wife of former Quebec Premier René Lévesque, throat cancer

18

• Julian Alfaro, 28, Argentine race car driver, after October 16 accident.
• William Evan Allan, 106, last Australian World War I veteran (active service), sailor. [51]
• Bernard Carr, 94, American actor and film director.
• William Foist, 73, former Project Apollo control chief.
• Sidney Geist, 91, American sculptor, teacher, and art critic, stroke. [52]
• Johnny Haynes, 71, English footballer, car accident. [53]
• Bill King, 78, American sports broadcaster.
• Hal Lebovitz, 89, Baseball Hall of Fame sportswriter, cancer.
• John Mink, 81, businessman, husband of late United States Representative Patsy Mink. [54]
• Letchemanah Ramasamy, 55, Malaysian strongman and world record holder. [55]
• Phil Starr, 72, British gay cabaret singer and comedian.
• Märt Tiru, 58, Estonian general.
• Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev, 81, Russian politician and architect of perestroika.

17

• Marvin Chodorow, 92 Stanford University physics professor, helped develop the klystron tube.
• Tom Gill, 92, American comic book artist (The Lone Ranger). [56]
• Carlos Gomes, 73, Portuguese goalkeeper with Sporting Lisbon and Portugal in the 1950s and 1960s. [57]
• Ba Jin, 100, Chinese writer, cancer and Parkinson's disease.
• Kannan, 70, Indian actor.
• Donald K. Tucker, 67, civil rights activist and New Jersey General Assemblyman, complications of diabetes. [58]
• Charles Yates, 92, professional golfer, played in first Masters, Parkinson's disease. [59]

16

• Leo Bogart, 84, American sociologist, babesiosis. [60]
• William S. Busik, U.S. Navy captain, former star college football player. [61]
• Elmer Dresslar, Jr., 80, voice of the Jolly Green Giant, cancer. [62] [63]
• Alvin M. Josephy, Jr., 90, American history professor, expert on Native American history. [64]
• Penn Kemble, 64, American political activist. [65]
• John Larch, 91, American character actor.
• Eugene "Porky" Lee, 71, American child actor, lung cancer.
• Barrington Moore, Jr., 92, American sociologist. [66]
• Debbie Runions, 55, prominent American AIDS activist, complications of AIDS. [67]
• Thomas Swayze, Jr., 74, former Republican Speaker of the House of Washington State. [68]

15

• Giuseppe Cardinal Caprio, 90, Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
• Jason Collier, 28, Atlanta Hawks basketball player. Cause of death undetermined; autopsy results pending. [69]
• Voit Gilmore, 87, former North Carolina state Senator and Kennedy Administration official, complications of Parkinson's disease. [70]
• Efraim Reuytenberg, 91, Israeli painter, known for use of Chinese motifs. [71]
• Kathryn O. Scott, 94, American textile conservator, among the pioneers of that practice. [72]
• Mildred Shay, 94, American actress.
• Arthur W. Wang, 87, American publisher, Alzheimer's disease. [73]
• Al Widmar, 80, former Major League Baseball pitcher and pitching coach, colon cancer. [74]
• David J. Wimer, 65, American business and political consultant, cancer. [75]
• Matti Wuori, 60, Finnish advocate and politician, cancer.

14

• Edmund Bacon, 95, American urban planner and the father of actor Kevin Bacon. [76]
• Ian Breakwell, 62, British artist in multiple mediums.
• David Citino, 58, American poet and professor, multiple sclerosis. [77]
• Ralph M. Graham, 95, American former star college football player and coach. [78]
• Martha Nell Hardy, 79, American actor and professor, cancer. [79]
• Oleg Lundstrem, 89, Russian jazz musician.
• Joke Waller-Hunter, 58, Dutch senior United Nations official. [80]

13

• István Eörsi, 74, Hungarian left-wing intellectual, leukemia. [81]
• Thomas Frutig, 59, Swiss businessman. [82]
• Vivian Malone Jones, 63, civil rights pioneer, stroke. [83]
• Marie Lord, 100, American actress; wife of late actor Jack Lord. [84]
• Pierre van Ostade, 88, Dutch radio and television personality. [85].
• Armelio Ferras Pellicer, 92, Cuban revolutionary. [86]
• Philip Robbins, 74, American journalist, professor, and constitutional law expert. [87]
• Jerome Roth, 87, American oboist, Alzheimer's disease. [88]
• Robert M. Scott, 76, former president of the Philadephia Museum of Art, liver failure. [89]
• Wayne Weiler, 70, racecar driver.

12

• Zhang Bairen, 90, Chinese underground Roman Catholic bishop, heart disease. [90]
• Mary Chaney, 77, noted American courtroom sketch artist. [91]
• Frank Galbally, 82, Australian lawyer, criminal advocate, defender in celebrated murder trials; described as the “father of Australian multiculturalism”.
• Ghazi Kanaan, 63, Syrian Interior Minister, officially suicide (though suspicious). [92]
• Baker Knight, 72, American songwriter ("Lonesome Town"). [93]
• David E. McGiffert, 79, American lawyer and Defense Department official, heart failure. [94]
• Joseph Pons, Sr., 83, American thoroughbred horse breeder, heart attack. [95]
• C. Delores Tucker, 78, civil rights activist and former Pennsylvania Secretary of State. [96]
• Jack White, 63, American reporter. [97]

11

• Tony Bass, 71, Dutch singer-songwriter. [98]
• Sergio Citti, 72, Italian screenwriter and film director, frequent collaborator with Pier Paolo Pasolini; heart attack. [99]
• Sonji Clay-Glover, 59, singer, famous as the first wife of Muhammad Ali, apparent heart attack. [100]
• Alex Harvin, 55, Democratic former South Carolina House Majority Leader. [101]
• Jan Holden, 74, British actress, (The Cheaters).
• Attila İlhan, 80, Turkish poet and writer.
• Arthur Seldon, 89, British libertarian economist. [102]
• Edward Szczepanik, 90, former and last Prime Minister of the Polish Government in Exile.
• Cor Veldhoen, 66, Dutch soccer player (Feyenoord and national team). [103], [104]
• Aloysius John Wycislo, 97, Bishop Emeritus of Green Bay, Wisconsin. [105]

10

• Angelo Argea, 75, longtime caddy for legendary golfer Jack Nicklaus, liver cancer. [106]
• Aivaras Balzekas, 23, Lithuanian tennis player, car accident.
• Wayne C. Booth, 84, American professor, literary critic, and rhetorician, complications of dementia. [107]
• Nick Hawkins, 40, electric guitarist with Big Audio Dynamite, heart attack. [108]
• Betty Lee Hunt, 85, Broadway producer and agent, non-Hodgkins lymphoma. [109]
• Henk Jurriaans, 64, Dutch artist. [110]
• Larry "Flame" Moore, 56, surfing photographer, brain cancer. [111]
• Margaret Russo, 56, Australian tennis player, brain cancer. [112]
• Milton Obote, 80, former Ugandan president.

9

• Clovis Bornay, 89, Brazilian carnival designer and museum curator, cardiac arrest. [113]
• Tom Cheek, 66, longtime Toronto Blue Jays play-by-play announcer, brain cancer. [114]
• Sergio Citti, 72, Italian film director, heart attack [115].
• Mackie McLeod, 57, American anti-Apartheid activist, kidney failure. [116]
• Louis Nye, 92, American comedian, lung cancer. [117]
• Steven Peck, 76, American dancer, choreographer and actor, cancer. [118]
• Ted Peschak, 87, American educational film director, colon cancer. [119]
• Frederic Quitkin, 68, American psychiatrist, expert on depression, pancreatic cancer. [120]
• George Ringwald, 81, American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, cancer. [121]
• LeRoy Whitfield, 36, African-American writer and AIDS activist, complications of AIDS. [122]

8

• Therman "Sonny" Fisher, 73, Texan rockabilly musician.
• Chiyo Hayafune, 91, Japanese author.
• Henry Hwang, 77, founded the first federally-chartered Chinese-American bank, colon cancer. [123]
• Edward B. Marks, 94, American activist for refugee relief, heart disease and renal failure. [124]
• Jim Wessel, 90, American broadcasting executive. [125]

7

• Tobin Armstrong, 82, U.S. cattle rancher and political lobbyist. [126]
• Devery Freeman, 92, screenwriter, among the founders of the Writers' Guild of America. [127]
• William H. McKeon, 85, former Democratic Party leader in New York. [128]
• Tracey Miller, 51, radio host, pioneer of women's sports broadcasting, brain cancer. [129]
• Stefan Presser, 52, American lawyer, former ACLU official, brain cancer. [130]
• Richard Stone Reeves, 85, renowned equestrian portraitist. [131]
• Charles Rocket, 56, actor, best known for getting fired from Saturday Night Live for mumbling an obscenity during a skit, suicide. [132]
• Michael Ward, 80, British mountaineer and surgeon, member of 1953 Mt. Everest expedition. [133]

6

• Ray Bumatai, 52, Hawaiian comedian, brain cancer. [134]
• Ettore Cunial, 99, world's oldest Roman Catholic bishop.
• Horst Floth, 71, German bobsledder, world champion and Olympic silver medallist.
• Louise Gore, 80, prominent Maryland politician, cancer. [135]
• Ronald Ray Howard, 32, American convicted murderer, executed in Texas.
• Sanford M. Katz, 75, American civil rights lawyer, defended the Panther 21, heart failure. [136]
• Bert T. Kobayashi, Sr., 89, former Hawaii Supreme Court Justice, recognized for excellence in labor mediation. [137]
• David Zenoff, 89, former Nevada Supreme Court Justice, perhaps most known for performing the marriage of Elvis Presley. [138]

5

• John van Hengel, 83, founder of America's Second Harvest, food bank pioneer. [139]

4

• John Falloon, 63, former New Zealand Cabinet minister.
• Mike Gibbins, 56, Welsh drummer, member of rock band Badfinger.
• Jim Gray, 47, Northern Irish loyalist, murdered.
• Stanley K. Hathaway, 81, former Republican Governor of Wyoming, (1967-1975), Secretary of the Interior (1975).
• Shirley Hillard, 70, American playwright, children's author.
• Vakhtang Jordania, 62, Georgian (formerly Soviet) conductor, cancer. [140]
• Harold Leventhal, 86, American folk music promoter. [141]
• William J. Ruane, 79, American philanthropist and financier, lung cancer. [142]
• John E. Struggles, 91, American businessman, pioneer of executive "head-hunting." [143]

3

• Ronnie Barker, 76, British comedian and actor. [144]
• Emilinha Borba, 82, Brazilian singer and actress. [145]
• Alastair G. W. Cameron, 80, American astrophysicist, responsible for Giant Impact Theory of Lunar Creation, heart failure. [146]
• David Cohen, 90, American politician, heart failure. [147]
• Sarah Levy-Tanai, 95, Israeli choreographer. [148]
• Francesco (Franco) Scoglio, 64, Italian soccer trainer.

2

• Hamilton Camp, 71, American actor, singer, and songwriter.
• Mother Benedict Duss, 94, founder of the Abbey of Regina Laudis, Bethlehem, Connecticut, the first independent cloistered female Benedictine abbey in the U.S.. [149] [150]
• Pat Kelly, 61, American former Major League Baseball All-Star, heart attack. [151]
• Pauline Parsons, 93, former Matron-in-Chief, Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service.
• Nipsey Russell, 80, American comedian, poet and actor, cancer. [152]
• Ernest G. Szechenyi, 91, Hungarian Count, thoroughbred horse breeder, stroke. [153]
• August Wilson, 60, American playwright (Fences, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, The Piano Lesson), liver cancer. [154]

1

• David Case, 73, British actor, well-known for reading over 700 audio books, throat cancer. [155]
• Sam Goldaper, 83, American sports writer and journalist, complications of a stroke. [156]
• Robert Hanson, 85, last-surviving crew-member of the Memphis Belle. [157]
• Sir Edwin A. G. Manton, 96, British insurance executive and patron of the arts. [158]
• Paul Pena, 55, blues guitarist and songwriter, complications of diabetes and pancreatitis. [159]

September 2005

See Deaths in September 2005

August 2005

See Deaths in August 2005

July 2005

See Deaths in July 2005

June 2005

See Deaths in June 2005

May 2005

See Deaths in May 2005

April 2005

See Deaths in April 2005

March 2005

See Deaths in March 2005

February 2005

See Deaths in February 2005

January 2005

See Deaths in January 2005

External links and references

• Specialised websites
  • Find a Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records
  • Dead People Server
  • Life in Legacy: Week in Review
  • The Blog of Death
  • The Celebrity Death Toll Update
  • GenealogyBuff.com Obituary Search
  • Online Searchable Death Indexes and Records: US genealogy directory
  • Operation Iraqi Freedom - US Combat Deaths
  • Obituary Central - index to obituary search engines arranged geographically
  • Obituary Links Page - state-by-state directory of obituary resources
  • Russian Obituary Links Page - The List of Death
  • Nekrolog (Czech necrologies)

• Obituaries on general news websites
  • Recent AP Obituaries
  • The New York Times: Obituaries
  • Washington Post Obituaries
  • Topix.net Obituaries
  • Google News: e.g. obituary
• Newsgroup: alt.obituaries

For earlier deaths, see Deaths in 2004, Deaths in 2003, Deaths in 2002, Deaths in 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995...