Deaths in February 2005
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The following is a list of notable people who died in February 2005.
- Chris Curtis, 63, drummer with The Searchers
- Mario Luzi, 90, Italian poet
- Carl Taseff, 76, former NFL defensive back and assistant coach
- Max Faulkner, 88, British golfer
- Henry Grunwald, 82, former managing editor of TIME and U.S. ambassador to Austria 1988-90
- Sidney Hart, 90, British trade unionist and religious administrator, natural causes
- Witness Mangwende, 59, Zimbabwean politician and diplomat, foreign minister from 1981 to 1987.
- Jef Raskin, 61, creator of the Apple Macintosh, pancreatic cancer
- Peter Benenson, 83, founder of Amnesty International.
- Phoebe Hesketh, 96, British poet
- Don LeJohn, 70, former Los Angeles Dodgers third baseman
- Norberto "Pappo" Napolitano, 54, Argentine blues and rock n' roll guitarist and composer
- Edward Patten, 66, member of Gladys Knight & The Pips
- Atef Sedki, 74, former prime minister of Egypt
- Sir Glanmor Williams, 84, Welsh historian
- Thadée Cisowski, 78, retired footballer, scored 206 goals in the French top division, making him its 4th highest scorer of all-time
- Robin Jenkins, 92, Scottish novelist, author of "The Cone-Gatherers" and "Fergus Lamont"
- Hugh Nibley, 94, historian primarily concerned with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Gustavo Vázquez Montes, 42, incumbent governor of Colima, Mexico, aviation accident
- Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski, 82, German politician and former cabinet minister
- Tom Patterson, 84, founder of the Stratford Festival of Canada
- Henk Zeevalking, 82, Dutch politician
- Zdzisław Beksiński, 75, Polish painter and fantasy artist, murder
- Father Luigi Giussani, 82, founder of the "Communion and Liberation" Catholic youth movement
- Lee Eun Ju (이은주), 24, Korean actress, suicide
- Reggie Roby, 43, retired NFL punter
- Harry Simeone, 94, co-authored Christmas songs (Little Drummer Boy)
- Simone Simon, 94, French actress, natural causes
- Ara Berberian, 74, Bass with the New York City Metropolitan Opera
- Isabelle Goldenson, 84, co-founder of United Cerebral Palsy
- Guillermo Cabrera Infante, 75, exiled Cuban writer
- Robert Koff, 86, founding member of the Juilliard String Quartet
- Josef Metternich, 69, German operatic baritone
- Dr. Gene Scott, 75, U.S. televangelist and author
- Ernest Vandiver, 86, former governor of the U.S. state of Georgia (1959-1963)
- Raymond Mhlaba, 92, South African political leader
- Pam Bricker, jazz vocalist and music professor, suicide
- Sandra Dee, 62, American actress, kidney failure and pneumonia
- Dalene Matthee, 67, Afrikaans-South African author, heart failure
- John Raitt, 88, classic Broadway star and father of Bonnie Raitt, pneumonia
- Hunter S. Thompson, 67, American journalist, suicide
- Jimmy Young, 56, American boxer, heart failure
- Kihachi Okamoto (岡本喜八), 81, Japanese film director, esophageal cancer
- Uli Derickson, 60, airline stewardess, protagonist in 1985 airplane hijacking
- John Ebstein, 92, industrial designer [1]
- Robert R. Merhige, Jr., 86, U.S. district court judge
- F. M. Busby, 83, American science fiction writer
- Peter Foy, 79, American, theatrical flying effects specialist
- Jens Martin Knudsen, 74, Danish astrophysicist
- César Marcelak, 92, French cycling champion
- Dan O'Herlihy, 85, Irish film actor
- Omar Sivori, 69, Argentinian and Italian footballer
- Harald Szeemann, 71, Swiss curator and art historian
- Nicole DeHuff, 31, American actress, Meet the Parents, pneumonia.
- William Gibson, 82, American independent film producer and director
- Narriman Sadek (Nariman Sadeq), 70, ex-wife of King Farouk, last queen of Egypt
- Marcello Viotti, 50, Italian conductor
- Frederick Vosburgh, 100, National Geographic editor
- Gerry Wolff, 84, German actor
- Cecilia Cubas, 32, daughter of former President of Paraguay Raúl Cubas Grau, kidnap victim (body found)
- Paul Lacy, 81, U.S. research scientist, father of islet cell transplantation for treatment of Type I diabetes
- Pierre Bachelet, 60, French singer
- Samuel Francis, 57, U.S. political columnist
- Dudu Geva, 54, Israeli cartoonist
- João Santos, 90, former president of SL Benfica
- Ron Burgess, 87, former footballer with Tottenham Hotspur and Wales
- Tatiana Gritsi-Milliex, 85, Greek novelist and journalist
- Rafik Hariri, 60, twice Prime Minister of Lebanon, car bomb
- Aubelin Jolicoeur, 81, Haitian journalist and columnist
- Otto Plaschkes, 75, British movie producer, including Georgy Girl
- Juan José Silva Delgado, 83, Uruguayan member of the Supreme Court of Justice (1983-1985)
- Dick Weber, 75, professional bowler, father of Pete Weber
- Nelson Briles, 61, retired American baseball pitcher
- Sixten Ehrling, 86, Swedish conductor
- Mary Hallaren, 97, first woman to join the United States Army
- Lúcia dos Santos, 97, Portuguese nun, last survivor of the three shepherd children of the Fatima apparition in 1917
- Maurice Trintignant, 87, French racing driver, twice winner of the Monaco Grand Prix
- Najai Turpin, 23, boxer, participant in boxing reality show "The Contender", suicide
- Marinus van der Goes van Naters, 104, Dutch politician
- Brian Kelly, 72, American actor, pneumonia
- Sammi Smith, 61, US country singer, won Grammy for Help Me Make it Through the Night
- Dorothy Stang, 74, American nun, murdered in Anapu, Brazil
- Rafael Vidal, 41, Venezuelan Olympic medalist, car crash
- Samuel W. Alderson, 90, inventor of crash test dummies [2]
- Jack L. Chalker, 60, American science fiction writer
- Raymond Hermantier, 81, French actor
- Stan Richards, 74, British actor
- Humbert Balsan, 50, French film producer
- D. Allan Bromley, 79, physicist, presidential advisor
- Jean Cayrol, 93, French author
- Ben Jones, 80, former prime minister and foreign minister of Grenada
- Arthur Miller, 89, American playwright, congestive heart failure
- Sylvia Rafael, 67, Mossad agent convicted of 1973 Lillehammer murder
- Tyrone Davis, 66, R&B singer (Turn Back The Hands Of Time), complications of a stroke
- Hanno Helbling, 74, Swiss journalist (NZZ)
- Robert Kearns, 77, inventor of intermittent windshield wipers [3]
- Kate Peyton, 39, BBC producer, shot in Mogadishu, Somalia (BBC)
- Ursula Schröder-Feinen, 70, German soprano
- Luigi Barbero, 105, Italian World War I veteran
- Victor Castelli, 52, soloist with the New York City Ballet, pneumonia
- Helmut Eder, 88, Austrian composer
- George Herman, 85, journalist and moderator of CBS' Face the Nation for 15 years
- Keith Knudsen, 56, drummer for American rock band Doobie Brothers, pneumonia
- Nathalie Krassovska, 86, ballerina
- Gaston Rahier, 58, Belgian 125cc Motocross World Champion (1975-1977)
- Jimmy Smith, 76, Jazz organist
- Penelope Aitken, 94, socialite and political hostess, cancer
- Atli Dam, 72, former Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
- Vinod Chandra Pande, 72, political figure in India, former governor of three states
- John Tiffen Patterson, 64, television and film director
- Madeleine Rebérioux, 84, French historian
- Paul Rebeyrolle, 78, French painter
- Jeremy Swan, 82, cardiologist, co-inventor of the Swan-Ganz heart catheter
- Santo Ambulo, 104, Italian World War I veteran
- Lazar Berman, 74, classical pianist
- Elbert N. Carvel, 94, American politician, former governor of Delaware
- Hubert Curien, 80, French researcher, first president of European Space Agency
- Camilo Delgado, 75?, Puerto Rican television show host
- Karl Haas, 91, US classical music radio program host
- Merle Kilgore, 70, country music manager and songwriter
- Armin Müller, 76, German writer and painter
- Derick Daniels, 76, former president and chief executive of Playboy Enterprises
- Gnassingbe Eyadema, 67, president of Togo since 1967
- Bob McAdorey, 69, Canadian television and radio broadcaster
- Günter Reimann, 100, German economist
- Michalina Wisłocka, 84, Polish sexologist
- Carmine Alfano, 108, Italian World War I veteran
- Ossie Davis, 87, actor and activist, natural causes
- Nils Egerbrandt, 78, Swedish cartoonist
- Luis Sánchez, 51, former major league closer for the Angels [4]
- Corrado Cardinal Bafile, 101, Italian cardinal
- Adriano Cerqueira, 66, Portuguese journalist and former news anchor at RTP, cancer
- Joseph Anthony De Palma, 91, Bishop of De Aar, South Africa
- David Hönigsberg, 45, composer and conductor
- Ernst Mayr, 100, evolutionary biologist
- Rosie Sturgess, 84, Australian TV comedienne
- Raul Usupov, Georgian politician and deputy governor of the Kvemo Kartli region
- Zurab Zhvania, 41, Prime Minister of Georgia
- Yvon DesRochers, 59, head of the organizing committee of the 2005 World Aquatics Championships in Montreal, suicide
- Birgitte Federspiel, 79, Swedish actress (Babette's Feast, 1988)
- Svein Kvia, 57, retired Norwegian footballer
- Goffredo Lombardo, 83, Italian film producer
- Magomed Omarov, deputy Interior Minister of Dagestan
- Max Schmeling, 99, German world heavyweight boxing champion
- Edward D. Freis, 92, physician
- Anderl Heckmair, 98, Austrian mountaineer, made first ascent of the Eiger north face
- Franco Mannino, 80, prolific Italian film and classical composer
- John Vernon, 72, Canadian-born American based film and TV actor, following heart surgery
