Deaths in June 2005
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The following is a list of notable people who died in June 2005.
- Robert Y. Fleming, 80, American architect and recipient of the Bronze Star World War II
- Christopher Fry, 97, British playwright
- Lilian Keil, 88, highly decorated American World War II and Korean War flight nurse
- Alexei Sultanov, 35, Russian pianist [1]
- Magomed-Zagid Varisov, Dagestani political analyst, murdered
- Dick Dietz, 63, an All-Star catcher who played for the Giants, Dodgers and Braves, heart attack.
- Philip Hobsbaum, 72, academic, poet and critic
- Brenda Howard, 58, American bisexual activist and an important figure in the modern LGBT rights movement who is called the Mother of Pride, from Colon Cancer.
- Bruce Malmuth, 71, American film director (Sylvester Stallone's Nighthawk) and actor
- Rowland B. Wilson, 74, American cartoonist and animator [2]
- Shelby Foote, 88, U.S. historian
- Frank Harte, 72, Dublin singer and record maker.
- Domino Harvey, 35, model-turned-bounty hunter and daughter of the late actor, Laurence Harvey. Found dead in her bathtub of an overdose of Fentanyl painkillers.
- Ray Holmes, 90, pilot who protected Buckingham Palace during the Battle of Britain
- Owen McCarron, 76, Canadian cartoonist and puzzle creator
- John T. Walton, 58, son of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton
- Filip Adwent, 49, Polish politician, MEP, 8 days after car accident which also killed his father and daughter
- Eknath Solkar, 57, former Indian cricketer
- Grete Sultan, 99, German-American pianist, Edwin Fischer's student and close friend of John Cage's, who interpreted Bach and Beethoven as well as Schönberg and Cage with equally sublime authenticity and musicality.
- Richard Whiteley, 61, British television presenter, pneumonia
- Shinta Cho, 77, Japanese children's book author and cartoonist [3]
- Frederick G. Dutton, 82, advisor to President Kennedy
- John Fiedler, 80, American actor, animated voice of 'Piglet'
- Sir Harry Gibbs, 88, Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia 1981-87
- Chet Helms, 62, rock music promoter
- Olga Lauristin, 102, Estonian Communist revolutionary
- Peter Casserly, 107, last surviving member of the First Australian Imperial Force serving on the Western Front in World War I
- Imogen Claire, ??, American dancer, actress and choreographer most noted work Rocky Horror Picture Show
- Jack Kosslyn, 84, American actor and acting coach
- Carol Scott, 56, American television producer and director notably General Hospital
- Paul Winchell, 82, American voice actor and ventriloquist; animated voice of 'Tigger'
- Shana Alexander, 79, American journalist
- Manolis Anagnostakis, 80, Greek poet
- Isidore Cohen, 82, violinist with the Beaux Arts Trio for many years
- Hanna Kvanmo, 79, Norwegian politician
- Sam Kweskin, 81, comic book artist [4]
- Ramon L. Posel, 77, built up Philadelphia's art film industry though Ritz Theaters [5]
- William Donaldson, 70, British satirist and theatrical producer of Beyond The Fringe
- George Hawi, 67, former secretary general of Communist Party of Lebanon. Died in attack on his car.
- Jaime Cardinal Sin, 76, influential Roman Catholic Cardinal and former Archbishop of Manila.
- Larry Collins, 75, American writer
- Charles D. Keeling, 77, American scientist whose pioneering measurements showed a carbon dioxide buildup in the earth's atmosphere
- Jack Kilby, 81, American engineer, inventor of the integrated circuit and physics Nobel prize winner.
- Bernard Adolph Schriever, 94, retired U.S. General, regarded as the father and architect of the United States Air Force space and ballistic missile programs.
- Sherif Amraoui, 61, Moroccan Imam
- Georgie Woods, 78, Philadelphia radio broadcast "legend", due to be inducted into the Philadelphia Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame.
- Syed Mushtaq Ali, 90, Indian cricketer, (batsman/captain), Padma Shree Award winner.
- Gerald Davis, Irish painter and Joycean scholar.
- Cay Forrester, 83, American writer/film actress (DOA, etc.)
- Bruce Hamilton, 72, American comic book publisher (Gladstone, Another Rainbow [6] Gemstone Publishing, Inc. tribute)
- Tatsuo Matsumura, 90, Japanese actor
- J.J. Pickle, 91, former Democratic U.S. Congressional Representative from Texas (1963-1995)
- Manuel Sadosky, 91, father of Argentina's Computer Science studies and former Secretary of State of Science and Technology (1983-1989).
- Nanna Ditzel, 81, Danish furniture and interior designer
- William Fenton, 96, American scholar known for writings on the Iroquois
- Frits Lawaetz, 97, former U.S. Virgin Island Senator and cattle breeder from St. Croix.
- Karl Mueller, 41, founding bassist for the rock band Soul Asylum, throat cancer
- Charlie Schlingo (Jean-Charles Ninduab), 49, French cartoonist [7]
- Ronald Winans, 48, Grammy-winning American gospel singer
- Corino Andrade, 99, Portuguese neurologist, discovered Familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy (FAP) or Corino Andrade disease
- Enrique Laguerre, 99, writer, poet, teacher from Puerto Rico
- Ross Stretton, 53, artistic director of Australian Ballet [8]
- James Weinstein, 78, Jewish author, founder and publisher of In These Times
- Percy Arrowsmith, 105, one half of the world's longest marriage
- Phil Ford, 85, American actor [9]
- Valeria Moriconi, 73, Italian actress, cancer
- Kathi Norris, 86, Hosted one of the first TV talk shows on the DuMont Television Network, (The Kathi Norris Show), mother of Koo Stark
- Carlo Maria Giulini, 91, Italian conductor
- John Ogwyn, 56, US Christian Evangelist
- Mimi Parent, 80, surrealist painter
- Jonathan Adams, 74, British actor (Dr. von Scott, The Rocky Horror Picture Show)
- Álvaro Cunhal, 91, Portuguese politician, secretary-general of the Portuguese Communist Party (1961-1992), deputy (1975-1992), writer and painter [10]
- David Diamond, 89, American composer
- Eugénio de Andrade, 82, Portuguese poet
- Mamie Legg, 111, American supercentenarian
- Lane Smith, 69, American actor (My Cousin Vinny, Lois & Clark)
- Joan Abse, 78, English writer and art historian
- Sonja Davies, 81, New Zealand trade unionist
- Makobo Modjadji, 27, rain queen of the Balobedu people of South Africa
- Scott Young, 87, Canadian journalist and father of Neil Young
- Ghena Dimitrova, 64, Bulgarian opera singer
- Lon McCallister, 82, American actor
- Ron Randell, 86, Australian-born actor
- Juan José Saer, 67, Argentine novelist
- Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves, 84, Portuguese General, Prime Minister (1974-1975) [www.correiodamanha.pt/noticia.asp?idCanal=90&id=163176]
- Rolf Uusväli, 74, Estonian organist
- J. James Exon, 83, former Democratic United States Senator (1979-1997) and Governor of Nebraska (1971-1979)
- Verne Meisner, 66, polka musician
- Curtis Pitts, 89, designer of the Pitts Special and other aircraft
- Kenneth N. Taylor, 88, founder of Tyndale House Publishers and translator of The Living Bible
- Richard Eberhart, 101, American poet
- Ryan Alan Hade, 23, former American sexual assault victim whose case paved the way for laws allowing indefinite confinement of sexual predators, motorcycle wreck [11]
- Trude Marlen, 92, Austrian actress
- Richard Henry McFarlane, 44, aka Hovis Presley poet and comedian.
- Ed Bishop, 72, American actor
- Arthur Dunkel, 72, Portuguese-Swiss GATT director-general
- Hardy McLeod, 84, US Army Paratrooper WWII, Bronze Star receipient
- Seán Doherty, 60, Irish politician
- Terry Long, 45, former NFL offensive lineman
- Edward McCarthy, 87, 18-year Archbishop of Miami
- David Tebet, 91, NBC executive
- Anne Bancroft, 73, American Oscar-winning actress
- Rodney Dunn, 37, Canadian comic book artist [12]
- Dana Elcar, 77, American actor (MacGyver)
- David Sutherland, 56, American illustrator for original Dungeons & Dragons books
- Adolfo Aguilar Zínser, 55, Mexican scholar, diplomat and politician
- Laurence Harle, 56, French writer (Jonathan Cartland, La Cavalerie Americaine)
- Oscar Morelli, 59, Mexican actor, after lengthy illness
- Susi Nicoletti, 86, Austrian actress [13]
- Lou Figg, 73, TV presenter
- Chloe Jones, 29, adult film star
- Banks McFadden, 88, College Football Hall of Famer and former Clemson football player
- Jean O'Leary, 57, American gay and lesbian rights activist and politician
- Yin Shun, 100, Chinese Buddhist philosopher
- Helju Tauk, 75, Estonian musician
- Lorna Thayer, 86, American actress (Five Easy Pieces)
- Leon Askin, 97, Austrian actor
- Michael Billington, 63, British actor
- Harold Cardinal, 60, Cree writer
- Lucio España, 33, Colombian footballer, murdered
- Samir Kassir, 45, Lebanese journalist who supported democracy, assassinated
- Mike Marshall, 60, French-American actor, known for role in Moonraker
- Melita Norwood, British KGB spy
- Josephine Clay Ford, 81, Ford Motor Company heiress and prominent philanthropist
- George Mikan, 80, Basketball Hall of Famer
- Geoffrey Toone, 94, Irish actor
- A. Norman Jeffares, 84, English academic and literary critic
