Deaths in 2005

The following is a list of notable deaths in December 2005. Links to other months and years follow.

December 2005

19

• Julio Iglesias, Sr., 90, Spanish gynaecologist, one of the oldest fathers of small children, Julio Iglesias' father, heart attack.

18

• Doug Dye, 84, New Zealand microbiologist.
• P.M. Sayeed, 64, India's Minister of Power, heart attack. [1]

17

• Jack Anderson, 83, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, complications of Parkinson's disease. [2]
• Marc Favreau, 76, French Canadian television and film actor, best known for his creation of the clown Sol.
• Jacques Fouroux, 58, French rugby union captain and coach, heart attack. [3]
• Sankaran Nair, 80, Indian film director

16

• Anthony Barber, 85, British politician and former Conservative Party Chancellor of the Exchequer.
• Kenneth Bulmer, 84, English writer (pseudonyms included Alan Burt Akers and Dray Prescot).
• John Spencer, 58, American actor (The West Wing), heart attack.
• Sverre Stenersen, 79, Swedish Gold medal winner in the 1956 Winter Olympics
• Enzo Stuarti, 86, Italian tenor, was in many Broadway musicals.

15

• T.K. Balachandran, 78, Indian Bollywood producer
• Sidney B. Factor, 89, Max Factor heir, natural causes. [4]
• James Ingo Freed, 75, American architect.
• Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, 84, Italian writer and director of movies and theatre.
• William Proxmire, 90, former Democratic Senator from Wisconsin (1957 - 1989), giver of the Golden Fleece Awards for wasteful government spending, complications of Alzheimer's disease.
• Darrell Russell, 29, former NFL player for the Oakland Raiders and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, car accident.
• Julian Marías, 91, Spanish philosopher and father of author Javier Marías.

14

• Gordon Duncan, 41, Scottish musician, best known for his virtuoso Highland bagpiping in Celtic music, commited suicide in his home in Pitlochry.
• Sudhir Joshi, 57, Indian actor, heart attack.
• John B. Nixon, 77, American convicted murderer, executed in Mississippi.
• William "Duke" Procter, 106, Canadian WWI veteran. [5]
• M. Gladys Swetland, 113, believed to be the oldest resident of Pennsylvania. [6]

13

• Nathalie Babel Brown, 76, French-American scholar and editor, daughter of Isaac Babel. [7]
• Stanley Tookie Williams, 51, American convicted murderer and co-founder of the Crips turned anti-gang activist, executed by lethal injection for killing 4 people in California.

12

• Eric D'Arcy, 81, Australian Roman Catholic Archbishop Emeritus of Hobart.
• Abraham Melamed, 85, Israeli politician (National Religious Party).
• Robert Newmyer, 49, American film producer, heart attack and complications of asthma.
• Ramanand Sagar, 87, Bollywood film producer. [8]
• Annette Stroyberg, 69, Danish actress and former wife of Roger Vadim. [9]
• Gyula Trebitsch, 91, Hungarian film and TV producer.
• Gebran Tueni, 48, Lebanese journalist and legislator, injuries sustained in a car bombing attack. [10]

11

• Ulises Barrera, 80, Argentine boxing sportscaster, heart failure.
• Walter Cudzik, 73, NFL and AFL center for the Boston Patriots.
• Richard Sandbrook, 59, founding member of Friends of the Earth [11]

10

• Mary Jackson, 95, American actress.
• Sydney Leff, 104, sheet-music illustrator for Irving Berlin. [12]
• Donald Martino, 74, American composer.
• Eugene McCarthy, 89, former Democratic United States Senator from Minnesota (1959-1971), and United States Representative (1949-1959) and presidential primary candidate.
• Richard Pryor, 65, American comedian and actor, heart attack and complications of multiple sclerosis.
• Gardner Read, 92, American classical composer.
• Bob Richardson, 73, fashion photographer.

9

• Mike Botts, 61, American drummer, Bread member, toured and recorded with Linda Ronstadt, Dan Fogelberg, Tina Turner and others, cancer.
• Homer Mensch, 91, internationally known bass player, Juilliard teacher.
• György Sándor, 93, internationally famous pianist, Juilliard teacher, heart failure.
• Robert Sheckley, 77, American science fiction author, brain aneurysm.
• Boris Tazlitzky, 94, French artist, Nazi concentration camp survivor.
• Brian Whittle, 59, British journalist and news agency head. [13]

8

• R. W. Bradford, 58, publisher of Liberty magazine, cancer.
• Dame Rose Heilbron, 91, British judge
• Leo Cardinal Scheffczyk, 85, German Cardinal Deacon of San Francesco Saverio alla Garbatella, Germany. [14]
• Roger Shattuck, 82, American literary (Proust) scholar and author, prostate cancer. [15]
• J.N. Williamson, 73, American horror writer, author and publisher.
• Georgiy Zhzhonov, 90, Russian actor.

7

• Lucy d'Abreu, 113, oldest person in the UK at the time of her death. [16]
• Rigoberto Alpizar, 44, airplane passenger fatally shot by U.S. Air Marshals after allegedly claiming he had placed a bomb aboard.
• Adrian Biddle, 54, British cinematographer, heart attack.
• Albert Henry Bosch, 97, Republican United States Representative from New York (1953 - 1960).
• Carroll A. Campbell, Jr., 65, former South Carolina governor (1987-1995), and member of U.S. House of Representatives (1979-1987), heart attack and complications of Alzheimer's disease.
• Bud Carson, 75, former NFL head coach, emphysema.
• Loomis Dean, 88, photographer, notably for LIFE magazine.
• Devan Nair, 82, former president of Singapore. [17]
• Manouchehr Nozari, 69, Iranian television actor.
• Bob O'Brien, 87, comedy writer (Here's Lucy etc.)

6

• Charly Gaul, 72, Luxembourgian cyclist, winner of the 1958 Tour de France.
• Hanns Dieter Hüsch, 80, German political satirist.
• Stephen L. Mosko, 58, American composer.
• Jerzy Pajaczkowski-Dydynski, 111, oldest man in the UK at the time of his death. [18]
• Danny Williams, 63, South African popular singer (best known for his version of the song Moon River).

5

• John Alvheim, 75, Norwegian politician.
• Wesley Baker, 47, American convicted murderer, executed in Maryland.
• Liu Binyan, 80, Chinese author and dissident, cancer. [19]
• Milo Dor, 82, Serbian-Austrian author (Milo Dor)
• Edward L. Masry, 73, attorney and mentor to Erin Brockovich, complications of diabetes.
• Charles McElmurry, 84, American animation designer.
• Kevin "Big Kev" McQuay, 56, Australian businessman and media personality, heart attack. [20]
• Frits Philips, 100, Dutch businessman, grandson of the founder of Philips, complications from a fall.

4

• Fred Benavente, 79, Dutch comedian and television maker.
• Hisako Hara, 96, Japanese actress.
• Gregg Hoffman, 42, film producer, natural causes (autopsy result pending). [21]
• Gloria Lasso, 83, Spanish singer.
• Doug Murphy, 53, former CBS (KPIX) news anchorman, house fire.

3

• Maggie Bailey, 101, nicknamed "Queen of the Mountain Bootleggers." [22]
• Peter Cook, 62, Australian politician, melanoma.
• Lance Dossor, 90, Australian pianist.
• Peter E. Haas, Sr., 86, great-grandnephew of Levi Strauss, who with his brother built the Levi company into a major brand. [23]
• Maurice Harris, 84, trumpet player, Hollywood, studio, TV and sessions player, (Tonight Show).
• Kikka, 41, Finnish pop/schlager singer.
• Kåre Kristiansen, 85, Norwegian politician; minister of Oil and Energy (1983 - 1986).
• Sophie Thoko Mcgina, 67, South African actress and musician.
• Abu Hamsa Rabia, Egyptian-born operational commander for Al-Qaeda. [24]
• Atsuko Tanaka, 73, Japanese avant-garde artist, pneumonia.
• Allan Waters, 84, Canadian broadcasting icon.

2

• John Barber, 93, British newspaper drama critic. [25]
• Kenneth Boyd, 57, American convicted murderer, executed in North Carolina, the 1,000th U.S. execution since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. [26]
• Lillian Browse, 99, British art dealer and historian
• Shawn Paul Humphries, 34, American convicted murderer, executed in South Carolina.
• John Iannaccone, 94, sky sailor, Hindenburg disaster witness
• Malik Joyeux, 25, professional surfer, killed on Hawaii's North Shore pipeline. [27] +
• Maury Kraines, 84, co-owner of 1992 Indy 500 winner, heart failure.
• William P. Lawrence, 75, retired U.S. Navy Vice Admiral, first to fly at twice the speed of sound. [28]
• Peter Menegazzo, early 60s, Australian cattle baron, killed (along with his wife Angela) in a plane crash. [29][30]
• Van Tuong Nguyen, 25, Australian executed at Changi Prison in Singapore for trafficking 396 grams of heroin in 2002, hanging. [31]
• Mohammed Amza Zubeidi, 67, former Iraqi prime minister under Saddam Hussein.

1

• Mary Hayley Bell, 94, British actress and writer, and wife of Sir John Mills. +
• Jack Colvin, 73, American actor, The Incredible Hulk, coronary thrombosis. +
• Werner Enders, 81, German tenor. +
• Michael Evans, 61, White House photographer, noted for capturing the trademark image of Ronald Reagan wearing a cowboy hat, cancer. [32] +
• William Henry Ottley, 76, sports innovator, credited with promoting skydiving as a sport, pneumonia. [33] +
• William B. Tanner, 75, American multimillionaire businessman.

November 2005

See Deaths in November 2005

October 2005

See Deaths in October 2005

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
  • Dead or Alive
  • Who's Alive and Who's Dead
  • 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, 1994, 1995...