Deaths in January 2005

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

31

Stanley Ronald (Ron) Basford, 72, Canadian cabinet minister (1970s)
Nel Benschop, 87, Dutch poetess
Yutsuko Chusonji, 42, Japanese manga artist noted for her "oyaji gal" stories
Horace Hagedorn, 89, developer and marketer of Miracle-Gro plant food
Malcolm Hardee, 55, alternative comedian and compere, drowning
Erich Kaestner, 93, German Oscar winner for camera design
Robert McCartney, 33, IRA murder victim
H. Narasimhaiah, 84, physicist, educator and rationalist from Bangalore
Ivan Noble, 37, BBC journalist, brain tumour

30

Wolfgang Becker, 94, German film and television director
Martyn Bennett, 33, Scottish musician, cancer
Dario Sala, 92, Italian inventor of Das, writer

29

Toni Berger, 83, German actor
Eric Griffiths, 64, member of pre-Beatles The Quarrymen
Jean Hengen, 92, first Archbishop of Luxembourg
Karl Heinz Jacoby, 86, Auxiliary Bishop of Trier
Ephraim Kishon, 80, Israeli satirist, dramatist, screenwriter, and film director
José Luis Martinez, 34, Spanish shot put champion
Bill Shadel, 96, United States journalist who covered D-Day and moderated a 1960 Presidential Debate
Ron Tomme, 73, former USA actor primarily in soaps
Joan Tompkins, 89, film and TV actress
Guus Zoutendijk, 74, Dutch politician and businessman

28

Karen Bach, 32, French adult film performer
Christian Bieniek, 48, German writer and childbook author
Daniel Branca, 53, Argentinian Disney comic book artist
Jim Capaldi, 60, British rock musician and songwriter (Traffic), stomach cancer
Lucien Carr, 79, UPI editor, early Beat generation figure
Christian Christensen, 78, Danish former European middle-weight boxing champion
Brian Valentine Philp, 62, former Scottish/British public servant and railway journalist sarcoma
Jacques Villeret, 53, French actor and comedian
Alexander Apaya, 65, Sudanese Doctor

27

Gilbert Bennion, 106, one of four remaining Australian veterans of World War I
Donald Dempsey Sr., 72?, American recording executive who helped launch Ozzy Osbourne and Merle Haggard
Shoaib Khan, 40?, Pakistani criminal organization leader, heart attack in jail
Nick McDonald, 76, United States Dallas police officer who arrested Lee Harvey Oswald after the JFK assassination
Aurélie Nemours, 94, French painter
Jonathan Welsh, 67?, Canadian actor of stage, television and film

26

Roy Fraser Elliott, 83, Canadian lawyer and philanthropist
Rudi Falkenhagen, 71, Dutch actor, throat cancer
Cordelia Scaife May, 76, sister of billionaire Richard Scaife and one of the world's richest people, from pancreatic cancer
Josie MacAvin, 85, Oscar and Emmy winning set decorator

25

William Augustus Bootle, 102, United States district judge who helped oversee desegregation in the US south
Philip Johnson, 98, United States architect
Gabriel Boul, 25, United States Sudan Lost Boy
Vicky LaMotta, 75, ex-wife of American boxer Jake LaMotta
Ray Peterson 65, United States popular singer (Tell Laura I Love Her), cancer
Max Velthuijs, 81, Dutch writer and illustrator
Nettie Witziers-Timmer, 81, Dutch athlete
Dieter Zehentmayr, 63, Austrian caricaturist

24

June Bronhill, 75, Australian opera and operetta singer, known for The Merry Widow
Vladimir Savchenko, 72, Ukrainian science fiction writer
Chalkie White, 76, rugby union coach
ZerNona Black, 92, Senior Citizen activist and wife of Civil Rights Leader Claude Black

23

Morys George Lyndhurst Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare, 85, former Deputy Speaker of the UK House of Lords
Johnny Carson, 79, United States comedian and television host, emphysema
Douglas Knight, 83, former president of Lawrence University and Duke University
Charles Martin, 46, retired NFL American football player, kidney ailment
Mutsuko Sakura (桜むつ子), 83, Japanese actress, lung cancer
Laronzo "Ronnie" Griffin, 25, former Oklahoma and Southern Indiana basketball player, murder

22

Sir William Deakin, 91, British World War II hero and founder of St. Antony's College at Oxford University
John Gibel, 56, comic strip writer (Flo & Friends)
César Gutiérrez, 61, one of three players in Major League Baseball history with a 7-for-7 game
Carlo Orelli, 110, supercentenarian, oldest Italian veteran of World War I
Patsy Rowlands, 71, British actress, known for her roles in the Carry On films, breast cancer
William Trager, 94, American malaria researcher
Consuelo Velázquez, 88, Mexican songwriter and lyricist, and author of the enduring song "Bésame mucho"
Rose Mary Woods, 87, former Nixon secretary and key Watergate figure [1]

21

Steve Susskind, 62, American voice-over actor
Parveen Babi, 49, Indian actress
John L. Hess, 87, journalist
Don Poier, 53, United States NBA basketball announcer for the Memphis Grizzlies
Carl Schlettwein, 79, founder of Basler Afrika Bibliographien
Theun de Vries, 97, Dutch writer

20

Per Borten, 91, former Prime Minister of Norway
Beverly Dennis, 79, actress on The Red Buttons Show who later became a psychotherapist
Roland Frye, American English literature professor and theologian
Dick Gallagher, 49, Off-Broadway composer
Christel Justen, 47, German swimmer, 1974 European champion
Jan Nowak-Jeziorański, 91, Polish journalist and highly decorated World War II hero, head of the Radio Free Europe Polish section
Chuck Olin, 68, filmmaker known for his 1998 documentary about the only all-Jewish fighting unit during World War II
Dame Miriam Louisa Rothschild, 96, British zoologist, entomologist and author

19

Bill Andersen, 90, New Zealand communist and trade union leader
Donald Beardslee, 61, United States murderer, executed in San Quentin State Prison, California
Cal Bolder, 74, bodybuilder and actor
K. Sello Duiker, 30, South African novelist, suicide
Hans Gratzer, 63, Austrian director and theatre manager
Ardyth Kennelly, 92, US novelist whose books were popular in the 1940s and 50s
Anita Kulcsár, 28, Hungarian handball player
Ricardo Suriñach, 76, Catholic Bishop of Ponce, Puerto Rico (2000-2003), natural causes

18

Lamont Bentley, 31, television and film actor, car crash
Bernard Béreau, 64, French footballer
Gabriella Brune, 92, British actress
Bob Moch, 90, 1936 Summer Olympics Rowing Gold Medal Winner
George Walker, 78, volcanologist
Peter Whatley, former professional wrestler under the name Pez Whatley

17

Charlie Bell, 44, former CEO of McDonald's, colon cancer
Christina Gunnardo, 54, Swedish musician
Hildegard Joos, 95, Austrian painter
Virginia Mayo, 84, United States actress, notably in the 1940s and 1950s
Albert Schatz, 84, microbiologist, discoverer of streptomycin
Zhao Ziyang, 85, former Chinese Communist Party General Secretary, complications of multiple strokes
Daniel Zufferey, 35, French language author
Abundio P. Libot, 58, a Boholano poet.

16

William V. Aguiar, Grandmaster of Black Dragon Fighting Society founded by Count Dante
H. Bentley Glass, 98, United States biologist, known for controversial views [2]
Agustín González, 74, prolific Spanish film actor
Roger Ibanez, 73, French actor
Ndongo Lô, 30, Senegalese singer (Mbalax)
Marjorie Williams, 47, United States Washington Post columnist and contributing editor for Vanity Fair
Abigail Corner,16,United Kingdom Vocalist and Guitarest for the band Midnight Black

15

Deem Bristow, 57, video game voice actor
William H. Crosby Jr., 90, pioneering hematologist
Walter Ernsting, 84, German science fiction author (Perry Rhodan)
Elizabeth Janeway, 91, United States feminist author
Fred Julsing, 62, Dutch comic book artist
Dan Lee, 35, animator for the movie Finding Nemo
Werner Lesser, 72?, German ski jumper
Victoria de Los Angeles, 81, Spanish soprano
Henk Molleman, 69, Dutch politician and civil servant
Sven Christer Swahn, 71, Swedish writer and translator
Ruth Warrick, 89, United States actress best known for Citizen Kane and All My Children, of pneumonia

14

Dennis Flanagan, 85, United States Long time editor of Scientific American
Ofelia Guilmain, 83, Spanish film and stage actress, worked mostly in Mexico after the Spanish Civil War
Alfred Hause, 84, German composer and conductor
Charlotte MacLeod, 82, United States mystery writer
Conroy Maddox, 92, British surrealist painter
Carl Mohner, 88, German artist and actor
Rudolph Moshammer, 64, German fashion designer
Georges Piroué, 85, French language writer
Jesús Soto, 81, Venezuelan kinetic artist [3]

13

Earl Cameron, 89?, Canadian broadcaster and The National-anchor (1959-1966)
Nell Rankin, 81, United States mezzo-soprano opera singer, sang with the Metropolitan Opera for many years

12

Manfred Fuhrmann, 79, German philologist
Achille Maramotti, 78, Italian fashion entrepreneur
Sal Pacino, 82, United States character actor, father of actor Al Pacino
Amrish Puri, 72, Indian actor, massive cerebral hemorrhage (he played the evil priest Mola Ram in the movie Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom)
Edmund S. Valtman, 90, Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist

11

Spencer Dryden, 66, drummer for American rock band Jefferson Airplane, cancer
Jean-Luc Fugaldi, 58, French footballer
James Griffin, 61, member of 1970s rock band Bread
Miriam Hyde, 91, Australian composer (Valley of Rocks)
J.R. "Bud" McCaig, 75, co-owner of the NHL's Calgary Flames
Fabrizio Meoni, 47, Italian motorcyclist, died after crashing on the 11th stage of the Paris Dakar Rally
Ruth Packer, 94, British soprano, famous for playing Verdi heroines
Jerzy Pawlowski, 72, Polish Olympic champion in fencing
Thelma White, 94, United States actress, starred in Reefer Madness

10

Gene Baylos, 98, comedian
Margherita Carosio, 96, Italian soprano
Fernand Cazenave, 80, French rugby union player and coach
Tommy Fine, 90, who pitched in Major League Baseball for the Boston Red Sox and St. Louis Browns in the 1940s and 50s
James Forman, 76, United States former executive secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, colon cancer
Erwin Hillier, 93, British cinematographer
Gordon John "Jack" Horner, 91?, Minnesota sports journalist
Grand Duchess Joséphine-Charlotte of Luxembourg, 77, of cancer, Princess of Belgium, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.
Helmut Losch, 57, East German heavyweight weightlifting champion
Amer Ali Nayef, deputy police chief of Baghdad, shot together with his son [4]
Jose Manuel Perez, 41, Spanish motorcyclist after crashing 6 January on the 7th stage of the Paris Dakar Rally, internal injuries [5]
Werner Quintens, 67, Belgian clergyman
Jan Pieter Cardinal Schotte, 76, Belgian official of the Roman Curia, cardinal since 1994

9

Fritz Aigner, 74, Austrian painter
Gonzalo Gavira, 79, sound effects creator, The Exorcist, The Towering Inferno
Bernard Goodall, 67, businessman and former Reading F.C. footballer
Koji Hashimoto, 68, Japanese film Director and Assistant Director
Leo Urge, Estonian lawyer

8

Badja D'jola, 56, African-American film actor
Jacqueline Joubert, 83, one of the first television presenters on French TV
Suad Katana, 35, Bosnian footballer
Alsella Luts, Estonian filmmaker
Campbell McComas, 52, Australian impersonator, raconteur, broadcaster, chameleon
Warren Spears, 50, choreographer, dancer
Michel Thomas, 90, Polish linguist and teacher
David White, 50, British Commander of British forces on Gibraltar, found dead in his swimming-pool

7

Pierre Daninos, 91, French novelist (The Diary of Major Thompson)
Eileen Desmond, 72, former Irish politician, Minister for Health & Social Welfare (1981-1982)
Ernst Deubelbeiss, 84, Swiss convicted of the 1951 murder of Armin Bannwart
Bernard "Buddy" Diliberto, 73, United States sports commentator in New Orleans, massive heart attack
Rosemary Kennedy, 86, sister of John F. Kennedy
Rossana Maiorca, 54?, Italian free-diver, daughter of Enzo Maiorca
Ivar Medaas, 66, Norwegian musician
Hans Walder, 84, Prosecutor General of the Swiss Confederation (1968-1973)

6

Lois Hole, 71, Lieutenant Governor of Alberta
Jürg von Känel, 53, climber, mountain guide, writer of guide books
Makgatho Mandela, 54, South African last surviving son of Nelson Mandela, AIDS
Louis Robichaud, 79, Canadian former premier of New Brunswick
Ali Šukrija, 85, Yugoslav communist politician from Kosovo
Sir Nicholas Scott, 71, British politician

5

Antonio Benítez Rojo, 73, Cuban writer
Eduardo Hay, 89, Mexican IOC member (since 1974), professor of gynaecology
René Le Henaff, 102?, early French director and editor, sued Charlie Chaplin for plagiarism over City Lights
Danny Sugerman, 50, manager for The Doors