Deaths in 2004

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

31 George Wackenhut, 85, founder of Wackenhut Corporation, heart failure
31 Gérard Debreu, 83, Nobel Prize winner, natural causes
31 John E. Chataway, 57, Nova Scotia politician
30 Artie Shaw, 94, American jazz musician
29 William Boyett, 77, American actor
29 John Bridgeman, 88, British sculptor [1]
29 Liddy Holloway, 57, New Zealand actress, writer, liver cancer
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, staph infection
27 Heorhiy Kirpa, 58, Ukrainian Transport Minister, found shot
26 Troy Broadbridge, 24, Melbourne AFL Player, Asian tsunami victim [2]
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, heart attack
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 Gennadi 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 Richard Abel Smith, 71, British soldier
23 John W. Duarte, 85, classical guitarist
23 P. V. Narasimha Rao, 83, 9th Prime Minister of India (1991–1996), heart attack
22 Doug Ault, 54, former Major League Baseball player, suicide
21 Lennart Bernadotte, 95, Swedish prince
20 Jack Newfield, 66, American newspaper columnist from New York, kidney and lung cancer
20 Son Seals, 62, American blues musician
19 Michael Alexander, 84, English soldier and "Prominente" PoW
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 Noel Beaton, 78, Australian politician, MP (1960–69)
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 Athena Starwoman, mid-50s, astrologer, breast cancer
15 Vassal Gadoengin, 61, Nauruan politician and then-incumbent Speaker of Parliament
15 Lorenzo "Larry" J. Ponza Jr., 86, baseball pitching machine innovator [3]
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 RFC
14 Sidonie Goossens, 105, British harpist [4]
14 Fernando Poe, Jr., 65, Filipino actor and former presidential candidate
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 Bernard Lansky, 80, cartoonist
11 Arthur Lydiard, 87, athletics coach
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 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 [5]
8 Jackson Mac Low, 82, poet
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"
6 Enrique Salinas, 52, brother of former president of Mexico Carlos Salinas, asphyxiation
6 Raymond Goethals, 83, Belgian soccer coach
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
5 Seymour Ginsburg, 76, American Computer scientist, Alzheimer's disease.
4 Tom Fitzgerald, 53, University of Tampa soccer coach
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 [6]
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

November

30 Alexei Khvostenko, 64, Russian poet, artist, musician, heart attack in Moscow hospital
30 Seung Sahn, 77, Korean zen master, founder of Kwan Um School of Zen, died in Seoul, South Korea
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 Leroy F. Aarons, 70, American journalist, founder of the NLGJA
27 John Dunn, 70, Scottish BBC Radio 2 disc jockey, cancer
27 Gunder Hägg, 85, Swedish athlete
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 C. Walter Hodges, 95, British illustrator and author.
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
25 Denis Richards, 94, British historian
24 Joseph Hansen, 81, groundbreaking mystery author
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
24 Janet Kear, 71, British ornithologist
23 Rafael Eitan, 75, Israeli politician and former chief of staff, drowned
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 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
16 Massimo Freccia, 98, Italian-American conductor
16 Margaret Hassan, 59, British-born Iraqi 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
15 Elmer Andersen, 95, former governor of Minnesota
15 John Morgan, 74, comedian; former member of the Royal Canadian Air Force
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 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 Domenic Mobilio, 35, Canadian soccer player, myocardial infarction
13 Ol' Dirty Bastard (Russell Jones), 35, rapper, drug abuse
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
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 [7]
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
7 Howard Keel, 85, American actor and singer, colon cancer
7 Gibson Kente, 72, South African playwright, AIDS
6 Pete Jolly, 72, Jazz pianist [8]
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
3 Joe Bushkin, 87, swing era pianist [9]
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 Mac Dre, 34, Bay Area Rapper, Killed in a Drive-by shooting in Kansas City
1 Lord Hanson, 82, British industrialist
1 Hatem Kamil Abdul Fatah, deputy governor of Baghdad
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
15Rafael Peralta, 25, United States Marine

October

31 Don Briscoe, 64, stage and television actor (Dark Shadows)
30 Rein Otsason, 73, Estonian economist and banker.
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
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 Gil Melle, 72, film and television music composer, heart attack
27 Al Clouston, 94, humorist
27 Jackson Kane, 73, American Radio News Broadcaster, author, and talk show host, local television
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
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
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 Aloysius Hickey, 84, former Roman Catholic Cardinal Archbishop of Washington, D.C., previously Bishop of Cleveland, Ohio
23 George Silk, 87, Famous World War II 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
19 Arthur H. Robinson, 89, American cartographer
19 Anita Bitri-Prapaniku, 36?, Albanian pop singer
19 Frank Chapple, 83, British trade unionist
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
18 Koose Muniswamy Veerappan, 52, notorious Indian bandit known as "Jungle Cat", killed by special forces
17 Julius Harris, 81, African American actor, heart failure
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
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 Bill Eyden, 74, English jazz drummer
15 Dave Godin, 68, Soul music promoter, journalist
15 Helmut Simon, 67, finder of Ötzi the Iceman
15 Irv Novick, 88, American comic book artist
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, American film actor and advocate for stem cell research after being paralyzed in a horse-riding accident, 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
8 Jacques Derrida, 74, French philosopher, pancreatic cancer
8 Johnny Sturm, 88, former New York Yankees first baseman and minor league manager
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
6 Frederica de Laguna, 98, archaeologist and anthropologist studied Alaskan native cultures
6 John A. Kelley, 97, United States 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^[10]
6 Marvin Santiago, 56, Puerto Rican Salsa music singer, diabetes complications
5 Maurice Wilkins, 87, DNA pioneer
5 Rodney Dangerfield, 82, comic and actor
4 Helmut Bantz, 83, 1956 Olympic gold medal winner in pommel horse gymnastics
4 Gordon Cooper, 77, one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts
3 Ralph Citro, 78, renowned boxing cut-man, member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame
3 Tish Daija, 78, Albanian composer. [11]
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 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 Robert Vaidlo, 83, Estonian journalist and children's writer.

September

30 Jacques Levy, 69, director of original production of Oh! Calcutta!
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 Gamini Fonseka, 68, Sri Lankan actor and politician
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 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
27 Tsai Wan-lin, 81, Taiwan's wealthiest businessman and founder of the Lin Yuan Group
26 Amjad Hussain Farooqi, 32, Pakistani terrorist, supposed member of Al-Qaida
26 Izz El-Deen Sheikh Khalil, Hamas leader assassinated by car bomb
25 Alain Glavieux, 55, mathematician, Information technology pioneer
25 Marvin Davis, 79, philanthropist; ex-owner of Twentieth Century Fox and Pebble Beach
25 Nicholas Rosas, 76, Mexican farmer, liver disease
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 Maurice Michael Stephens, 84, British WWII flying ace.
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
21 Jack Hensley, 48, American civilian contractor, beheaded by Muslim terrorists in Iraq. [12]
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 and television journalist.
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
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
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 Ove Sprogøe, 84, Danish actor
14 Reynaldo G. Garza, 89, first Hispanic American appointed as Federal Appeals Court judge [13]
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 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 Jimmy Spence, 69, British ice hockey player
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
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, first Republican governor of Mississippi since 1874, leukemia
7 Christiaan Frederick Beyers Naudé, 89, Afrikaner-South African cleric, theologian and anti-apartheid activist
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 Alessio Perilli, 20, Italian motoracer, killed during a race
5 Caroline Pratt, 42, British eventer, killed during a race
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
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

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 [14]
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) [15]
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 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 Marcelo 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 [16]
24 Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, 78, Swiss-born psychiatrist
24 Eleni Ioannou, 20, Greek judoka
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
23 Heinrich Mark, 92, Estonian politician, Prime Minister of Estonia in exile 1971-1990
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 [17]
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
20 María Antonieta Pons, 82, Cuban-born star of rumbera films
20 Moshe Shamir, 83, Israeli politician and novelist
19 Rudolf Miele, 74, German entrepreneur
19 Günter 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 Víctor Cervera Pacheco, 68, Mexican politician, former Governor of Yucatán
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 Gérard Souzay, 85, French baritone
17 Thea Astley, 78, Australian novelist
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" United States-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. Bergström, 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 [18]
13 Milton Pollack, 97, U.S. federal judge who ruled on court cases involving Wall Street
13 Stefan Dimitrov, Bulgarian opera basso singer
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 Bill Martin, Jr., 88, author of Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
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 Michael Grant, 89, classical scholar and author
9 Tony Mottola, 86, guitarist who played with Frank Sinatra and on the Tonight Show orchestra [19]
9 David Raksin, 92, film composer
8 Fay Wray, 96, King Kong actress
8 Dimitris Papamichael, 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
5 James Alford, 90, British athlete.
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, cancer [20]
3 Henri Cartier-Bresson, 95, French photographer [21]
1 Philip Hauge Abelson, 91, physicist, co-discoverer of Neptunium
1 Sidney Morgenbesser, 82, philosopher

July

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
31 Ray Tolchard, English cricketer and umpire
30 Andre Noble, 25, Canadian actor
30 Ali Abbasi, 42, BBC Scotland travel presenter [22]
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 [23]
28 Francis Crick, 88, British biologist, one of the discoverers of the "double-helix" shape of DNA, cancer [24]
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 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 Rubén Gómez, 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 Romão, 61, Angolan deputy foreign minister, suicide [25]
24 Edward D. Thalmann, 59, retired Navy Captain and doctor whose research developed military and recreational dive tables, congestive heart failure
24 Fred LaRue, 75, part of Watergate scandal
24 Lowell "Cotton" Fitzsimmons, 72, NBA basketball coach
23 Joe Cahill, 84, Irish politician [26]
23 Mehmood, 72, Indian actor
23 Janet Chisholm, 75, former British MI6 agent
23 Carlos Paredes, 79, Portuguese guitar player
23 Serge Reggiani, 82, French singer and actor
22 Illinois Jacquet, 81, United States 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 Carvalho Leite, 92, Brazilian footballer, one of the last survivor of national team in 1930 FIFA World Cup
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 Émile Peynaud, 92, French wine expert
17 Sir Julian Hodge, 99, British entrepreneur, founder of the Carlyle Trust bank [27]
17 Pat Roach, 67, wrestler and actor; cancer ([28])
17 Susan Cullen-Ward, 63, wife of the pretender to Albania's throne, Leka Zogu; cancer
16 George Busbee, 76, former governor of Georgia
16 Bella Lewitzky, 88, modern dance pioneer and choreographer
15 Charles Sweeney, 84, pilot of Bockscar, the B-29 that dropped the Nagasaki atomic bomb. [29]
15 Yoko Watanabe, 51, Japanese operatic soprano. [30]
14 Hans A. Pestalozzi, 75, Swiss social critic
13 Joe Gold, 82, bodybuilding pioneer and Gold's Gym founder
13 Clifford Irving, 90, Manx politician
13 Arthur Kane, 53, American bassist for the New York Dolls, leukemia
13 Carlos Kleiber, 74, Austrian conductor
12 Ersel Hickey, 70, rockabilly singer
12 George Mallaby, 64, Australian actor
11 Walter Wager, 79, American author
11 Betty Oliphant, 85, founder of Canada's National Ballet School
11 Frances Hyland, 77, Canadian theatre actress
11 Laurance Rockefeller, 94, conservationist and philanthropist
11 Dorothy Hart, 82, American actress
10 Rudy LaRusso, 66, five-time NBA All-Star
10 Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo, 74, former Prime Minister of Portugal [31]
10 Inge Meysel, 94, German actress [32]
9 Jeillo Edwards, ~62, Sierra Leonean actress, first black actor to appear on "The Bill" [33]
9 Isabel Sanford, 86, actress, The Jeffersons, natural causes
9 Paul Klebnikov, 41, editor of Forbes magazine's Russian edition, murdered
9 Ron Milner, 66, African-American playwright
9 Jeff Smith, 65, chef and host of The Frugal Gourmet
8 Jaroslav Hules, 30, Czech motorcycle racer, suicide
8 Paula Danziger, 59, U.S. author
8 Mike Woodin, 38, Principal Speaker of Green Party of England and Wales and Oxford City Councillor
8 Jean Lefebvre, 84, French actor
7 Xiaokai Yang, 55, Australian economist
6 Peter Birks, 62, British academic lawyer
6 Eric Douglas, 46, youngest son of actor Kirk Douglas
6 Thomas Klestil, 71, Federal President of Austria, heart failure
6 Syreeta Wright, 58, singer, songwriter, ex-wife of Stevie Wonder
5 Robert Burchfield, 81, OED lexicographer
5 Hugh Shearer, 81, former Prime Minister of Jamaica
5 Rodger Ward, 83, two-time Indianapolis 500 champion
4 Andrian Nikolayev, 74, Russian cosmonaut
4 Jean-Marie Auberson, 84, Swiss orchestra conductor
3 John Barron, 83, actor
3 Michael Curtis, 84, British newspaper editor and executive [34]
3 Jimmy Mack, 70, Scots radio personality [35]
2 Sir John William Kay, Lord Justice of Court of Appeal of England and Wales
2 John Cullen Murphy, 85, comic strip artist (Prince Valiant)
2 Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, 84, Portuguese writer and poet
2 Gareth Payne, 68, former Welsh rugby union international
1 Enrique Mederos, Latin American voice actor
1 Peter Barnes, 73, British screenwriter and playwright, stroke
1 Marlon Brando, 80, American actor, pulmonary fibrosis.
1 Sir Richard May, 65, former presiding judge, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia

June

29 Juan Antonio Lopez, 52, Mexican boxer, fought Wilfredo Gómez, leukemia
28 Keith "Matt" Maupin, 20, U.S. Army Private First Class, killed by Islamist militants in Iraq
28 Anthony Buckeridge, 92, English author, creator of the Jennings books
27 George Patton IV, 80, US Army general and son of George Patton
27 Darrell Russell, 35, NHRA drag racer, first racer killed at an NHRA event since 1996
26 Naomi Shemer, 74, Israeli songwriter
26 Yash Johar, 75, Indian Bollywood film producer
25 Karol Kennedy Kucher, 72, former United States ice skating champion, pneumonia
24 Ifigeneia Giannopoulou, 40, Greek songwriter, author
24 Carl Rakosi, 100, American poet
22 Carlton Skinner, 91, American naval officer and politician, first civilian governor of Guam
22 Thomas Gold, 84, American astrophysicist
22 Bob Bemer, 84, American computer scientist, cancer
22 Francisco Ortiz Franco, ~50, Mexican journalist, murdered
22 Mattie Stepanek, 13, American poet and advocate, muscular dystrophy
22 Kim Sun-il, 33, South Korean translator, decapitated by Iraqi militants
21 Leonel Brizola, 82, Brazilian politician, heart failure, [36]
20 Nabil Sahraoui, Algerian militant, head of GSPC and linked to al-Qaeda
20 Jim Bacon, 54, Australian politician and Premier of Tasmania
19 Nob Yoshigahara, 68, mathematician and puzzle expert
18 Frederick Jaeger, 76, German born British character actor
18 Paul Johnson, ~49, American hostage, decapitated by al-Qaeda
18 Nek Mohammed, ~27, Pakistani tribal leader in Waziristan and key Taliban ally, killed by Pakistani military forces. [37]
17 Sir Stuart Hampshire, 89, philosopher
17 Gerry McNeil, 78, Stanley Cup-winning NHL goaltender
17 Jacek Kuroń, 70, Polish dissident and statesman
16 Dr. Herman Goldstine, 90, computing pioneer who helped develop ENIAC, Parkinson's disease
16 Thanom Kittikachorn, 91, former Thai prime minister
15 Ahmet Piriştina, 52, Turkish politician, mayor of İzmir, heart attack
15 Frank Nastasi, 81, actor and comedian (Lunch with Soupy)
14 Robert Teeter, 65, Republican pollster
14 Jack McClelland, 81, Canadian book publisher
14 Ulrich Inderbinen, 103, mountain guide
14 Max Rosenberg, 89, producer of horror movies
13 Dick Durrance, 89, 17-time American national champion in skiing
13 Sir Stuart Hampshire, 89, British philosopher.
13 Ralph Wiley, 52, sports journalist
13 Danny Dark, 65, announcer
11 Egon von Furstenberg, 57, fashion designer; nephew of late Fiat head Gianni Agnelli
11 Micah Harris, 21, Duke University defensive lineman, car accident
11 Xenophon Zolotas, 100, former Prime Minister of Greece
10 Ray Charles, 73, rhythm and blues singer and soul pioneer
10 Brian Williamson, 59, Jamaican gay rights activist and founder of J-Flag, murdered
10 Kiki Djan, 47, Ghanaian musician, AIDS and drug-related complications
9 Rosey Brown, 71, Pro Football Hall of Famer
9 Barbara Whiting Smith, 73, actress
8 Mack Jones, 65, former MLB outfielder with the Braves, Reds and Expos
8 Ronalda Pierce, 19, Florida State University basketball player, aneurysm
7 Thomas "Quorthon" Forsberg, 38, black metal pioneer and main member of Bathory (band), heart failure.
7 Donald Trumbull, 95, special effects pioneer
6 Judy Campbell, 88, actress
6 Robert Lees, 91, screenwriter, found decapitated
6 Kate Worley, 46, comic book writer (Omaha the Cat Dancer)
6 Necdet Mahfi Ayral, 96, Turkish actor
6 Iona Brown, 63, violinist and conductor
6 Simon Cumbers, 36, Irish freelance cameraman/journalist, working for the BBC in Saudi Arabia, killed by Al Qaeda
5 Ronald Reagan, 93, film actor and 40th President of the United States (1981–1989)
4 Phillip Bartlett, 44, original narrator of Pokémon and voice of Mewtwo from Pokémon: The First Movie, aortic dissection
4 Wilmer Fields, 81, former Negro League Baseball All-Star
4 Steve Lacy, 69, innovative jazz soprano saxophonist
4 Brian Linehan, 58, Canadian television host and interviewer (canada.com) (Toronto Star) (The Globe and Mail)
4 Nino Manfredi, 83, Italian actor [38]
3 Frances Shand Kydd, 68, mother of Diana, Princess of Wales
2 Dom Moraes, 65, Indian poet and writer
2 Tesfaye Gebre Kidan, ~69, former defense minister and acting president of Ethiopia
2 Nicolai Ghiaurov, 71, opera singer
1 William Manchester, 82, U.S. historian

May

31 Robert Quine, 61, New York punk rock guitarist
31 Alberta Martin, 97, last known widow of a Confederate soldier
29 Archibald Cox, 92, Watergate special prosecutor
29 Sam Dash, 79, chief counsel to the House Judiciary Committee during the Watergate scandal
29 Jack Rosenthal, 72, British television dramatist [39]
29 Magne Havnå, 40, Norwegian former professional boxer, in boating accident
29 Ramona Trinidad Iglesias-Jordan, 114, oldest documented person in the world
28 Gerald Anthony, 52, actor, best known for playing Marco Dane on the TV show One Life to Live
28 Irene Manning, 91, actress and singer (Yankee Doodle Dandy)
28 Josie Carey, 73, host of the Pittsburgh children's show "Children's Corner"
28 Michael Alison,77,British Privy Council member and former minister and MP
27 Umberto Agnelli, 69, Italian industrialist, head of Fiat [40]
27 Jim Marshall, 63, British Labour MP [41]
27 Jack Losch, 69, member of 1st Little League World Series championship team
26 Gatjil Djerrkura, 54, Australian indigenous leader, Chairman of ATSIC 1996-2000
25 Roger W. Straus, Jr., 87, publisher (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
25 David Dellinger, 88, American antiwar activist, member of Chicago Eight
25 Glenn Cunningham, 60, mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey
24 Henry Ries, 87, American photographer
23 Trudy Marshall, 84, actress
22 Richard Biggs, 44, American actor, Babylon 5
22 Mikhail Voronin, 59, Russian gymnast, double Olympic champion
22 Dessi España, 32, circus performer, died from fall while performing without a net
22 Samuel Curtis Johnson, 76, fourth generation president of SC Johnson company
21 Rod Hall, 53, literary agent, murdered [42]
21 Gene Wood, 78, announcer of Family Feud and other US game shows
20 Len Murray, Lord Murray of Epping Forest, 81, British trade union leader
19 Jack Eckerd, 91, former owner of the Eckerd drugstore chain
19 Mary Dresselhuys, 97, Dutch actress
19 Arnold Moore, 90, blues artist
19 E.K. Nayanar, 87, three-time Chief Minister of Kerala, India [43]
18 Elvin Jones, 76, Jazz drummer, notably with the John Coltrane Quartet of the 1960s
18 Jørgen Nash, 84, Danish poet, performance artist, brother of Asger Jorn
18 Hyacinthe Thiandoum, 83, Roman Catholic Cardinal, former Archbishop of Dakar, Senegal
18 Arnold O. Beckman, 104, inventor, industrialist, philanthropist
18 Joey Curtis, 79, former professional boxer, boxing referee and business owner
17 Buster Narum, 63, former MLB pitcher for the Orioles and Senators
17 Tony Randall, 84, television actor (The Odd Couple)
17 June Taylor, 86, television dancer and choreographer
17 Ezzedine Salim, 60?, president of the Iraqi Governing Council
17 (or May 18) Gunnar Graps, 57, Estonian rock singer and percussionist
16 Marika Rökk, 90, actress
16 Lord Hill-Norton, 89, British Royal Navy Admiral of the Fleet
15 Carlos Orta, 60, Venezuelan artist, and principal dancer and choreographer of the José Limón Dance Company - [44] - [45]
15 Jack Bradbury, 89, animator and comic book artist
15 William H. Hinton, 85, Marxist, author of Fanshen
15 Gill Fox, 84, political cartoonist, comic book artist, and animator
15 Colonel Robert Morgan, 85, former pilot of the Memphis Belle
14 Anna Lee, 91, actress, best known for playing Lila Quartermaine on the TV show General Hospital
14 Jesus Gil, 71, controversial owner of Atlético Madrid football club
14 Charlotte Benkner, 114, oldest recognized person in United States
13 Terry Crummitt, 27, actor, "SnackBoy" of The Sync fame [46]
13 Brian McNaughton, 68, American horror and fantasy writer
12 John LaPorta, 84, jazz clarinetist, composer and educator - [47]
12 Syd Hoff, 91, children's book author, cartoonist
12 John Whitehead, 55, R&B artist, shot dead
12 Judith Cook, historian, campaigner and novelist
11 Mick Doyle, 63, Irish rugby union player and coach
10 Eric Kierans, 90, Canadian politician
10 (death announced) George, ~83, Blue Peter pet tortoise
9 Tommy Farrell, 82, American film and television actor
9 Percy M. Young, 91, British musicologist
9 Olive Osmond, 79, mother of entertainers Marie Osmond and the various Osmond Brothers
9 Rust Epique, 35, American Songwriter/Guitarist
9 Alan King, 76, American comedian/actor
9 Brenda Fassie, 39, South African singer [48]
9 Akhmad Kadyrov, 52, President of Chechnya
8 (body found) Nick Berg, 26, American civilian killed in Iraq
7 Waldemar Milewicz, 48, Polish journalist, and Mounyra Beouamrane, killed in Iraq
6 Kjell Hallbing, 69, also known as Louis Masterson, Norwegian Western author [49]
6 Sir John Hill, 90, British poice officer
6 Barney Kessel, 80, American jazz guitarist and studio musician
5 David Reimer, 39, notable gender-reassignment case
5 Ritsuko Okazaki, 44, Japanese singer-songwriter and author
4 Clement Dodd, 72, Jamaican reggae pioneer
3 Anthony Ainley, 71, British actor best known as The Master in Doctor Who
3 Darrell Johnson, 75, former MLB catcher and manager [50]
3 Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire, 84, British politician
3 Basil Wells, 91, science fiction author
2 Moe Burtschy, 82, former MLB pitcher for the Philadelphia & Kansas City Athletics
2 Paul Guimard, 83, French writer
1 Felix Haug, 52, Swiss pop musician (Double)

April

30 Heather Brigstocke, Baroness Brigstocke, 74, British educator.
30 Kioumars Saberi Foumani, 62, also known as Gol-Agha, Iranian satirist
30 Jeffrey Alan Gray, 69, British psychiatrist
29 Johannes Berg, 47, cornerstone of Norwegian science fiction fandom
29 Nick Joaquin, 86, writer and Philippine national artist
28 B.J. Schramm, 65, businessman and aircraft developer
27 David Jenkinson, 69, railway modeller and historian
27 Roy Walford, 79, dietician and author
26 Hubert Selby Jr., 75, author of "Last Exit to Brooklyn"
25 Thom Gunn, 74, British poet
25 Feridun Karakaya, 76, Turkish actor
24 Estée Lauder, 97, cosmetics products pioneer
24 Brian Manning, 76, British historian
22 Pat Tillman, 27, former NFL player (Arizona Cardinals), Army Ranger, killed in action by friendly fire
21 Mary McGrory, 85, American journalist and columnist
19 Frank B. Morrison, 98, former Governor of Nebraska
19 Tim Burstall, 76, Australian film director and producer
19 John Maynard Smith, 84, British biologist
19 Norris McWhirter, 78, founder of the Guinness Book of Records
19 Jim Cantalupo, 60, CEO of McDonald's
18 Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, 83, long-time Prime Minister and President of Fiji
17 (body found, death probably in November 2003) Dru Sjodin, 22, U.S. kidnap victim
17 Edmond Pidoux, 95, Swiss author
17 Barbara Kenyatta Bey, 59, Yoruba priestess and widow of jazz percussionist Chief Bey
17 Geraint Howells, 79, Welsh politician
17 Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi, 56, Hamas leader
17 Soundarya, 32, Indian film actress
15 Hans Gmür, 77, Swiss theatre author, director, composer and producer
15 Mitsuteru Yokoyama, 69, Japanese manga artist
13 Csaba Horváth, 74, Chemical engineer and scientist
13 Caron Keating, 41, British television presenter
12 Juan Valderrama, 87, Spanish folk and flamenco singer
12 Frankie Narvaez, 65, Puerto Rican boxer
10 Lou Berberet, 74, former Major League Baseball catcher
10 Jacek Kaczmarski, 47, Polish poet and singer, the bard of Solidarity
10 Sakip Sabanci, 71, Turkish businessman
9 Lélia Abramo, 93, Celebrity Brazilian actress, and one of the founders of President Lula da Silva's Workers Party - Obituary in Portuguese [51]
9 Nick and Mary Yankovic, 86 and 81, parents of "Weird Al" Yankovic
9 Harry Babbitt, 90, singer
9 Tom Lewis, 85, British obstetrician
8 Chief Bey, 90, American jazz percussionist and African folklorist
8 Maureen Potter, 79, Irish comedienne and actor
8 Bruce Edwards, 49, caddy of golfer Tom Watson
7 Robert Sangster, 67, leading British racehorse owner
7 Kelucharan Mohapatra, 77, traditional Indian Odissi dancer
6 Larisa Bogoraz, 74, Russian dissident and human rights activist
6 Marjorie Pay Hinckley, 92, wife of Gordon B. Hinckley
6 Timothy, ~160, tortoise that served as a Royal Navy mascot in the Crimean War
5 Austin Willis, 86, Canadian movie actor and television host
4 George Bamberger, 80, former major league pitcher and manager
4 Gito Baloi, 39, Southern African musician
3 John Diamond, Baron Diamond, 96, British life peer
3 Gabriella Ferri, 62, Italian Singer
2 Lawrence McGrew, 46, former New England Patriots linebacker
1 Nilo Soruco, 76, Bolivian singer-songwriter
1 Paul Atkinson, 58, British guitarist
1 Carrie Snodgress, 57, actress
1 Aaron Bank, 101, "Father of Special Forces"
1 Enrique Grau, 83, Colombian painter and sculptor
1 Annette Daniels, 42, American opera singer

March

31 Sir John Warburton Paul, 88, British colonial administrator.
31 Hedi Lang, 72, first woman to preside the Swiss National Council
31 Gurcharan Singh Tohra, 79, Sikh leader
30 Michael King, 58, New Zealand historian
30 Erick Friedman, 64, American concert violinist, violin professor at Yale University
30 Alistair Cooke, 95, BBC broadcaster and transatlantic commentator
30 Hubert Gregg, 89, BBC broadcaster
29 Chen Yi-hsiung, failed assassin in the 3-19 shooting incident
28 Sir Peter Ustinov, 82, British actor
28 Robert Merle, 95, French author
27 Art James, 74, game show host and announcer
27 Larry Trask, 59, linguist and expert on the Basques
27 Adán Sánchez, 19, Mexican singer
27 James Wapakhabulo, 59, foreign minister of Uganda
26 Jan Berry, 62, the 'Jan' of Jan and Dean
26 Jan Sterling, 82, American actress
24 Dominic Agostino, 44, Ontario Liberal MPP
24 Michael Garrison, 47, American ambient musician, liver failure
23 Sir Rupert Hamer, 87, Australian politician
22 Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, 66?, spiritual leader and founder of Hamas
21 Mirwais Sadiq, ?, Civil Aviation Minister for Afghanistan
20 Chosuke Ikariya, 72, Japanese comedian, actor and leader of comedic group The Drifters
20 Juliana, 94, former Queen of the Netherlands
19 Brian Maxwell, 51, long-distance runner and founder of PowerBar
19 Mitchell Sharp, 92, former Canadian Liberal cabinet minister
18 Gene Bearden, 83, baseball player with the Cleveland Indians
18 Vytas Brenner, 57, musician, keyboardist and composer
18 Wallace Davenport, 78, New Orleans jazz trumpeter
18 Harrison McCain, 76, Canadian businessman, founder of McCain Foods
18 Guillermo Rivas, 72, Mexican comedy actor
17 J.J. Jackson, 62, former MTV VJ
17 George Boiardi, 22, Lacrosse player for Cornell University
17 Patrick Nuttgens, 74, English architect and academic
16 Vilém Tauský, 94, Czech conductor and composer
16 Brian Bianchini, 25, American fashion model
16 Kraft, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, 68, German prince
15 Amparo Arrebato, 59, Colombian dancer
15 William Pickering, 93, former head of Jet Propulsion Laboratory
15 John Pople, 78, British theoretical chemist and Nobel Prize winner
13 Franz König, 98, Austrian cardinal
13 Dullah Omar, 69, South African cabinet minister
12 Finn Carling, 78, Norwegian author and playwright with cerebral palsy
12 Yvonne Cernota, 24, German bobsled driver, in training accident
12 Cid Corman, 79, Japan-based American poet and translator
11 Seymour Geisser, 74, statistician, DNA-evidence expert
11 Sidney James, 97, first managing editor of Sports Illustrated^{[citation needed]}
11 Edmund Sylvers, 47, lead singer of The Sylvers
10 Robert D. Orr, 86, former Governor of Indiana
10 James Parrish, 35, former National Football League player
10 Dave Blood, 47, Dead Milkmen bassist
9 Albert Mol, 87, dancer, cabaret performer, actor, TV personality, author
8 Nicolae Cajal, 84, doctor, chairman of Romania's Jewish community
8 Keith Hopkins, 69, British ancient historian and sociologist [52]
8 Robert Pastorelli, 49, actor on Murphy Brown
8 Muhammad Zaidan (Abu Abbas), 55, founder of Palestine Liberation Front
7 Paul Winfield, 62, Emmy-winning actor
6 Alan Short, 83, California legislator, co-author of the Short-Doyle Mental Health Act
6 Frances Dee, 94, actress
6 John Henry Williams, 35, controversial son of baseball great Ted Williams
6 Ray Fernandez, 47, American professional wrestler best known as "Hercules Hernandez" or simply just "Hercules"
5 Mike O'Callaghan, 74, American politician, Governor of Nevada (1971–1979)
5 Julito Collazo, 78, Cuban Master Percussionist
5 Joan Riudavets, 114, world's oldest documented man and oldest recognized person in Europe
5 Percy Browne, 80, former British MP, jockey and farmer
4 Claude Nougaro, 74, French chanteur
4 Stephen Sprouse, 50, American artist and fashion designer
4 John McGeoch, 48, British guitarist with Magazine, Siouxsie and the Banshees and PiL
3 Susan Moller Okin, 57, liberal feminism political philosopher
3 Luis Villalta, 35, professional boxer
3 Cecily Adams, 39, actress
2 Mercedes McCambridge, 85, Academy Award winning actress
2 Marge Schott, 75, former primary owner of the Cincinnati Reds

February

29 Alexander Beresch, 26, Olympic gymnast from Ukriane
29 Jerome Lawrence, 88, playwright
29 Danny Ortiz, 27, Guatemalan football goalkeeper
28 Daniel J. Boorstin, 89, historian
28 Andres Nuiamäe, 21, first Estonian soldier to be killed in Iraq
27 Paul Sweezy, 93, economist and founding editor of the Monthly Review
26 Shankarrao Chavan, 83, Chief Minister of Maharashtra
26 Adolf Ehrnrooth, 99, General; Finnish war veteran
26 Boris Trajkovski, 47, President of the Republic of Macedonia
24 John Randolph, 88, American actor
23 Carl Anderson, 58, American actor (Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar)
23 William Coates, 92, asserted by advocates to be "oldest living American" but documentation showed otherwise
23 Sikander Bakht, 85, Governor of Kerala
23 Vijay Anand, 71, Bollywood filmmaker and brother of Dev Anand
23 Carl Liscombe, 89, Detroit Red Wings hockey player in the 1940s
23 Don Cornell, 79, popular singer of the 1940s and 1950s
22 Colin Eaborn, 80, British chemist
22 Andy Seminick, 83, MLB catcher and last survivor of the 1950 Phillies' "Whiz Kids" that won the NL championship
22 Azriel Rosenfeld, 73, computer image analysis researcher
22 Roque Máspoli, 86, legendary Uruguayan goalkeeper
21 Guido Molinari, Canadian abstract artist
21 Bart Howard, 88, composer, "Fly Me To The Moon"
21 Spot Fetcher, 14, President George W. Bush's dog
21 John Charles, 72, Welsh football player
20 Stanislaw Ryniak, 88, first person imprisoned at Auschwitz (Feb 20 is burial date)
19 Clark Byers, American sign maker
19 Archibald Paton Thornton, 83, Canadian historian
18 Jean Rouch, 86, French filmmaker and ethnologist
17 José López Portillo, 83, former President of Mexico
16 Shirley Strickland, 78, Australian athlete, three-time Olympic champion
16 Doris Troy, 67, R&B singer
16 Bill Oakley, 39, comic book letterer
15 Jan Miner, 86, American actress
15 Jens Evensen, 86, Norwegian minister, World Court judge
14 Marco Pantani, 34, racing cyclist, winner of Tour de France and Giro d'Italia in 1998
13 Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, 51, Chechen leader
12 Martin Booth, 59, British author, brain tumor
12 Preston Love, 83, American jazz saxophone player
12 Sauli "Karkkunen" Lehtisaari, 24, Finnish vocalist with Twilight Ophera
11 Hugh Cecil, 90, actor, one of the transylvannians in The Rocky Horror Picture Show
11 Ryszard Kuklinski, 74, Polish-born colonel and spy
11 Tony Pope, 57, Los Angeles voice actor, complications following leg surgery
10 Nils Aas, 70, Norwegian sculptor and illustrator
9 Robert F. Colesberry, (b. 1946) film and television producer (complications following cardiac surgery)
9 Michael Rowland, 41, Horse racing jockey
9 Samuel Rubin, 85, popcorn promoter
9 Claude Ryan, 79, Canadian politician
8 Julius Schwartz, 89, comic book and pulp magazine editor
8 Cem Karaca, 58, Turkish singer and composer
7 Norman Thelwell, 80, cartoonist
6 Humphry Osmond, 86, psychiatrist and pioneer LSD experimenter
6 Jerome F. Lederer, 101, aviation safety pioneer
5 Frances Partridge, 103, writer, last surviving member of the Bloomsbury group
4 Hilda Hilst, 73, Brazilian novelist
4 Ernest Burke, 79, baseball player
3 Cornelius Bumpus, 58, musician (The Doobie Brothers, Steely Dan)
2 Alan Bullock, 89, historian
1 Ally McLeod, 72, Scottish football player and manager
1 Bob Stokoe, 73, footballer, F.A. Cup winning manager

January

31 Suraiya, 75, Indian actress and singer
31 Eleanor Holm, 90, US swimmer
31 Scott Walker, 34, US boxer, Pink Cat, last one to beat Alexis Argüello
30 Robert Harth, 47, executive director of Carnegie Hall
29 Joe Viterelli, 66, actor
29 O. W. Fischer, Austrian actor
29 Helge Seip, 84, Norwegian politician (Social Liberal Party)
29 M. M. Kaye, 95, British author, The Far Pavilions
29 Mary-Ellis Bunim, 57, producer and co-creator of The Real World
29 Lloyd "Pete" Bucher, 76, Captain of the USS Pueblo [53]
29 Janet Frame, 79, New Zealand writer
29 Ed Sciaky, 55, Philadelphia broadcaster and disk jockey
28 Elroy Hirsch, 80, hall of fame NFL football player
28 José Miguel Agrelot, "Don Cholito", 76, comedian and radio show host
28 Mel Pritchard, 56, British drummer
27 Rikki Fulton, 79, Scottish comedian
27 Jack Paar, 85, Tonight Show host
26 Fred Haas, 88, golfer
25 Miklós Fehér, 24, Hungarian football player
25 Fanny Blankers-Koen, 85, Dutch athlete
24 Leônidas da Silva, 90, Brazilian football player [54]
23 Bob Keeshan, 76, US actor, starred as "Captain Kangaroo"
23 Helmut Newton, 83, photographer
22 Islwyn Ffowc Elis, 79, Welsh language writer
22 George Woodbridge, 73, illustrator
22 Billy May, 87, US big band and pop music arranger
22 Ann Miller, 81, US dancer
21 Bernard Punsly, 80 physician, actor
20 Alan Brown, 84, British F1 driver
19 Teresa Ferster Glazier, 96, author of The Least You Should Know About English
19 Jerry Nachman, 57, MSNBC editor-in-chief
19 David Hookes, 48, Australian cricketer and Victorian coach
18 Noble Willingham, 72, actor, former candidate for the United States Congress
17 Czesław Niemen, 64, Polish musician
17 Tom Rowe, 53, Musician, member of Schooner Fare
17 Rafael Cordero, 61, mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico
17 Ray Stark, 88, publicist, agent; produced Funny Girl (1968)
17 Harry Brecheen, 89, former MLB pitcher
16 Kalevi Sorsa, 73, former Finnish prime minister
15 Robert-Ambroise-Marie Carré, 95, member of the Académie française
15 Olivia Goldsmith, 54, author
15 Alex Barris, 81, Canadian actor and writer
15 Gus Suhr, 98, former baseball player, Pittsburgh Pirates
14 Mike Goliat, 78, member of the famous '50 Phillies' "Whiz Kids" NL champions
14 Uta Hagen, 84, actress, acting teacher, wife of José Ferrer and Herbert Berghof
14 Ron O'Neal, 66, actor, starred in Superfly (1972)
14 Jack Cady, science fiction writer
13 Philip Crosby, 69, member of Crosby Boys band, son of crooner Bing Crosby
13 Arne Næss, Jr., 66, Norwegian mountaineer and businessman, former husband of Diana Ross
13 Harold Shipman, 54, British serial killer
13 Zeno Vendler, 82, philosopher and linguist
12 Randy VanWarmer, 48, United States singer and songwriter
11 Anthony "Tuba Fats" Lacen, 53, New Orleans jazz musician
11 Mervyn Pike, Baroness Pike, 85, British politician
perhaps 10/11 Spalding Gray, 62, United States performer and writer (body identified March 8 in East River near New York City)
10 Yinka Dare, 32, Nigerian former NBA basketball player for the New Jersey Nets
10 Princess Kira of Prussia, 60, German princess.
10 Alexandra Ripley, 70, author, Scarlett
9 Nissim Ezekiel, 79, Indian poet, playwright and art critic
9 Norberto Bobbio, 94, Italian senator and jurist
8 John A. Gambling, 73, American radio host, "Rambling with Gambling"
7 Ingrid Thulin, 76, Swedish actress, "Cries and Whispers"
6 Pierre Charles, 49, Prime Minister of Dominica
6 Francesco Scavullo, 82, fashion photographer
5 Tug McGraw, 59, former MLB pitcher
5 David Lipschultz, 33, American journalist (USA Today, New York Times, Smart Money and Red Herring)
4 Brian Gibson, 59, film director, "What's Love Got to Do With It"
4 Jake Hess, 76, Southern Gospel singing legend
4 Jeff Nuttall, 70, poet, publisher, actor, painter, sculptor, jazz trumpeter, social commentator and author
4 Joan Aiken, 79, author of The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
4 John Toland, 91, American author and historian
3 Lillian Beckwith, 87, English author
2 Dame Sheila McKechnie, 55, Head of Shelter, cancer [55]
2 Paul Hopkins, 99, reported to be the oldest living former MLB player
2 Lynn Cartwright, 76, U.S. actress
2 Etta Moten Barnett, 102, actress
1 Frederick Redlich, 93, former dean of the Yale University School of Medicine
1 Harold Henning, 69, South African golfer

External links and references

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