Deaths in July 2005
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The following is a list of notable people who died in July 2005.
- Wim Duisenberg, 70, Dutch banker and politician.
- Mantle Hood, 87, Influential American ethnomusicologist.
- Koji Tano, 43, Japanese Noise artist, colon cancer.
- Lawrence Teeter, 56, attempted to have Sirhan Sirhan retried, saying he did not kill Robert F. Kennedy.
- Ray Cunningham, 100, recognized as the oldest living former Major League Baseball player.
- John Garang, 60, Sudanese Vice President, helicopter crash.
- Benny Gensbøl, 71, Danish ornithological author.
- Renee Roy, 74, American actress (Love of Life).
- Lucky Thompson, 81, American saxophonist.
- Hermione Hammond, 95, British painter and portraitist.
- Hildegarde, 99, cabaret singer.
- Pat McCormick, 78, American television comedy writer (Johnny Carson, Phyllis Diller, Red Skelton; Candid Camera, Get Smart, etc.).
- Fred Smith, 72, songwriter, record producer: Keyman Records.
- Eric André, 50, Belgian politician.
- Gary Belkin, 78, American comedy writer. [1]
- Bergur Sigurbjörnsson, 88, Icelandic politician.
- Arthur Zankel, 73, Financier (Citibank, High Rise Capital Management) philanthropist.
- Helen Phillips, 86, opera singer.
- Betty Astell, 93, entertainer and widow of Cyril Fletcher.
- Tungia Baker, Māori artist, actress (The Piano).
- Al Held, 76, American abstract painter.
- Marten Toonder, 93, Dutch author and cartoonist.
- Robert Wright, 90, musical lyricist (team of Wright & Forrest – Grand Hotel, Kismet, Song of Norway, etc.).
- Dom Um Romão, 79, Brazilian jazz drummer.
- Charles Young, 110, supercentenarian, 4th oldest man in the United States.
- Kay Ameche, 101, former nurse, Grandma Moses imitator.
- Pierre Broué, 79, French Trotskyist historian.
- Alexander Golitzen, 97, Oscar-winning movie art director and production designer.
- Jack Hirshleifer, 79, American economist
- Hachiro Oka, 67, Japanese comedian.
- Danny Simon, 85, American comedy writer, brother of Neil Simon. [2]
- Eddie Crook, Jr., 76, US Olympic boxer and Vietnam veteran.
- Maria do Couto Maia-Lopes, 114, oldest person ever documented in Portugal.
- Albert Mangelsdorff, 76, German trombonist.
- Ford Rainey, 96, American actor.
- Sir Richard Doll, 92, British epidemiologist, first person to link cigarette smoking and lung cancer.
- Pavel Dostál, 62, Czech minister for cultural affairs.
- John Drawbridge, 74, New Zealand artist and printmaker.
- Sidney Hertzberg, 82, former NBA star.
- Francis Ona, 50s, Bougainville a rebel leader.
- Ray Crist, 105, centenarian chemist.
- Myron Floren, 85, longtime accordionist/bandleader on The Lawrence Welk Show.
- Finton Myler, 75, actress (Showdown at Boot Hill).
- Ray Oldham, 54, former NFL cornerback, Pittsburgh Steelers.
- Dan Taylor, Jr, 65, made subs to search for Loch Ness Monster.
- Catherine Woolley, 100, children's book author. [3]
- Jules Herman, 93, Bandleader and musician, played with Lawrence Welk during 1930's.
- Jerry Marcus, 81, American cartoonist (Trudy). [4]
- Eugene Record, 64, lead vocalist for The Chi-Lites.
- Hinako Sugiura, 46, Japanese author and cartoonist. [5]
- George D. Wallace, 88, American actor (Forbidden Planet, The Pajama Game).
- Long John Baldry, 64, British blues musician.
- Alberto Barros, 59, Portuguese writer.
- Bruce Bolt, 75, Scientist and earthquake expert.
- Christopher Duncan, 73, zoologist, geneticist and social historian.
- Andrzej Grubba, 47, Polish table tennis player.
- Jair, 84, Brazilian footballer
- Tamara Lund, 64, Finnish opera singer and actress.
- Ian Robertson, Lord Robertson, 92, Scottish judge
- Mark Schaap, 5, Danish child killed by his own father.
- Patrick Sherry, 29, British rock singer (Bad Beat Revue).[6]
- Shirley Thomas, 85, Space historian, Hollywood producer, USC professor.
- Charles Chibitty, 83, last surviving Comanche code talker.
- James Doohan, 85, Canadian actor (Scotty on the original Star Trek).
- Finn Gustavsen, 79, Norwegian politician.
- Kayo Hatta, 47, film director (Picture Bride).
- Alfred Hayes, 76, British Wrestler / Wrestling Announcer (most notably with the WWF).
- John Tsukano, 80, Japanese-American author and World War II veteran.
- Jim Aparo, 72, comic book artist (Batman, the Phantom Stranger, the Spectre). [7]
- Alain Bombard, 80, French biologist and physician.
- Edward Bunker, 71, American author, screenwriter, and actor (Mr. Blue in Reservoir Dogs).
- John Herald, 66, folk musician, recording artist, member of The Greenbriar Boys Vanguard Records
- Hastings Keith, 89, United States Representative from Massachusetts, served 1959–1973, as a member of the Republican Party.
- Antonio Núñez Montoya, 75, flamenco singer.
- John Tyndall, 71, founder of the British National Party.
- Paul Duke, 78, American political journalist.
- Amy Gillett, 29, Australian rower and cyclist.
- Jim Parker, 71, offensive tackle for the Baltimore Colts and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
- Gerry Thomas, 83, American innovator, inventor of the TV dinner, cancer.
- William Westmoreland, 91, U.S. Army General who commanded American military operations in the Vietnam War from 1964 to 1968.
- Laurel Aitken, 77, Jamaican musician.
- Geraldine Fitzgerald, 92, American actress.
- Sir Edward Heath KG, MBE 89, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1970–74.
- Gavin Lambert, 80, novelist, screenwriter (Inside Daisy Clover, Sons and Lovers).
- Joe Vialls, Australian writer.
- Pietro Consagra, 84, Italian sculptor.
- Adrian Loudermilk, 30, literary manager, film producer (Bushisms).
- W. Fox McKeithen, 58, 5-time Louisiana Secretary of State.
- John Ostrom, 77, American paleontologist who revolutionized understanding of dinosaurs.
- Helen Bonchek Schneyer, 84, American folk musician.
- Dominique J. 'Gil' Guillory, 99, Mayor of Bartlett, Tennessee from 1959 to 1965.
- Deborah Hutton, 49, first health editor of British Vogue.
- Sir Ronald Wilson, 82, Australian High Court justice.
- Michael Gibson, 60, Tony-nominated orchestrator and musician.
- Joe Harnell, 80, Grammy-winning jazz composer.
- Richard Leiterman, 70, award-winning Canadian cinematographer.
- Jacques Roche, early 40s, Haitian journalist.
- Dame Cicely Saunders, 87, British founder of hospice movement, cancer.
- Carla Wood, 50, Mezzo-soprano singer performed with the Metropolitan Opera.
- Piero Cappuccilli, 78, Italian opera singer.
- Joseph Delaney, 70, Roman Catholic bishop of the diocese of Fort Worth, Texas for many years.
- Arthur Fletcher, 80, Assistant Labor Secretary under US President Richard Nixon, called the "father of affirmative action". [8]
- John Leonard King, Baron King of Wartnaby, 87, businessman and chairman of British Airways from 1981 to 1993.
- Meimei, 36, world's oldest captive panda, Guilin Zoo.
- Scott Paul, 24, American actor (Wyatt Earp). [9]
- Axel Strøbye, 77, Danish actor, Babette's Feast.
- Gretchen Franklin, 94, television actress, best known as Ethel Skinner in EastEnders.
- Shinya Hashimoto, 40, Japanese professional wrestler, cerebral infection.
- Jesus Ricardo Iglesias, 83, Grand Prix racing driver.
- Frances Langford, 92, American actress-singer.
- Mickey Owen, 89, former MLB player for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
- Richard Eastham, 89, American singer and actor.
- Seymour Finger, 90, United Nations diplomat.
- Ann Loring, 90, actress, Love of Life.
- Frank Moores, 72, former Newfoundland Premier.
- A.J. Quinnell, 65, writer, Man on Fire.
- Dick Sabot, 61, economist, internet entrepreneur, co-founder of tripod.com and eziba.com.
- Freda Wright-Sorce, 50, wife of Don Geronimo of the Don and Mike Show.
- Jack Tripp, 83, British pantomime dame.
- Freddy Soto, 35, American comedian and actor.
- Chuck Cadman, 57, Canadian Member of Parliament.
- Yevgenij Grishin, 74, Russian speed skater, first speed skater under 40 seconds on 500 metres.
- Kevin Hagen, 77, actor on Little House on the Prairie.
- Byron Preiss, 52, American writer/editor/publisher. [10]
- Alex Shibicky, 91, Hockey player who made first slapshot.
- Rafique Zakaria, 79, Indian Islamic scholar.
- Maurice Baquet, 94, French actor.
- Peter Boenisch, 78, German journalist.
- Julian Letterlough, 35, American boxer
- Judy Mann, 61, longtime columnist for the Washington Post.
- W. Pauline Nicholson, 76, Elvis Presley's cook.
- Ihab al-Sherif, Egyptian envoy in Iraq.
- Gustaf Sobin, 69, American-born poet and novelist.
- Paul Deliège, 74, Belgian comic book writer/artist. [11]
- L. Patrick Gray, 88, former Director of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation, pancreatic cancer.
- Jim Haskins, 63, American professor and novelist (The Cotton Club).
- Evan Hunter, 78, American mystery novel writer, wrote under numerous pseudonyms (Ed McBain), cancer of the larynx.
- Abdul Majid Shoman, 94, chairman of the Arab Bank.
- Claude Simon, 91, French writer and Nobel Prize winner.
- Grace Thaxton, 114, oldest resident of Kentucky and oldest person ever born in New York.
- Baloo Gupte, 70, former Indian Test cricketer.
- James Stockdale, 81, American Vice Admiral, Medal of Honor recipient, ex-Prisoner of War and independent VP Candidate in 1992.
- Ray Davis, 65, founding member of Parliament/Funkadelic.
- Shirley Goodman-Pixley, 69, of Shirley & Lee & Shirley & Company in Los Angeles from complications from a stroke..
- Chris Bunch, 62, American science fiction writer, lung ailment.
- Al Downing, 65, American R&B and country & western musician, leukaemia.
- June Haver, 79, American film actress, widow of Fred MacMurray.
- Marga López, 81, Mexican screen and television actress, heart failure
- Hank Stram, 82, former coach of NFL Kansas City Chiefs.
- Scott Byrne, 44, American Drummer of duo Instant Death.
- Siv Ericks, 87, Swedish character actress.
- Nan Kempner, 74, American society hostess.
- Alberto Lattuada, 90, Italian film director.
- Pierre Michelot, 77, French jazz bassist, played with Miles Davis.
- Gaylord Nelson, 89, former Governor of Wisconsin, U.S. Senator from Wisconsin and founder of Earth Day.
- Wenten Rubuntja, Australian artist and indigenous activist.
- Kohachi Shigetaka, 110, Japan's oldest man, pneumonia.
- Hedy West, 67, American folksinger.
- Florence Kirsch, 90, American classical pianist.
- Ernest Lehman, 89, American screenwriter (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, North by Northwest).
- Kenneth Pinyan, 45, perforated colon after having sex with a horse [12].
- Norm Prescott, 78, co-founder of Filmation animation studios. [13]
- Martin Sanchez, 26, Mexican boxer, of injuries sustained in July 1 bout.
- Renaldo "Obie" Benson, 69, American soul/R&B singer and member of The Four Tops, lung cancer.
- Arvo Ojala, 85, Hollywood technical advisor and actor, gun accident.
- Arnold S. Rosenfeld, 72, former editor-in-chief of Cox Newspapers.
- Luther Vandross, 54, American R&B singer, complications of a stroke.