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
Malcolm Hardee, 55, British comedian, drowning. [1]
Robert McCartney, 33, IRA murder victim in Belfast
H. Narasimhaiah, 84, Indian physicist and educator. [2],[3]
Ivan Noble, 37, BBC journalist, brain tumour. [4]

30

Martyn Bennett, 33, Scottish Celtic musician, cancer. [5], [6]

29

Eric Griffiths, 64, British musical group The Quarrymen, pancreatic cancer. [7]
Ephraim Kishon, 80, Israeli satirist, dramatist, screenwriter and film director, apparent heart attack. [8]
Bill Shadel, 96, United States journalist [9]
Ron Tomme, 73, American soap opera actor[10]

28

Karen Lancaume (aka Karen Bach), 32, French adult film performer, overdosed on sleeping pills. [11]
Daniel Branca, 53, Argentinian Disney comic book artist, heart attack. [12], [13]
Jim Capaldi, 60, British rock musician and songwriter (Traffic), stomach cancer.[14]
Lucien Carr, 79, United Press International editor, bone cancer. [15]
Jacques Villeret, 53, French actor/comedian, internal hemorrhage.[16]

27

Gilbert Bennion, 106, one of the last four surviving Australian veterans of World War I
Donald Dempsey Sr., American recording executive who helped launch Ozzy Osbourne and Merle Haggard, stroke.
Aurélie Nemours, 94, French painter
Jonathan Welsh, 57, Canadian stage, television and film actor, died in his sleep following a brief illness. [17], [18]

26

Roy Fraser Elliott, 83, Canadian lawyer and philanthropist.[19]
Cordelia Scaife May, 76, American philanthropist and heiress to Mellon family fortune, pancreatic cancer. [20]

25

William Augustus Bootle, 102, United States district judge overseeing desegregation in the American South
Philip Johnson, 98, United States architect. [21]
Vicky LaMotta, 75, ex-wife of American boxer Jake LaMotta, following open-heart surgery
Ray Peterson 65, United States popular singer (Tell Laura I Love Her), cancer. [22],[23]
Max Velthuijs, 81, Dutch writer and illustrator
Nettie Witziers-Timmer, 81, Dutch athlete

24

June Bronhill, 75, Australian actress and opera, operetta and musical comedy singer, Alzheimer's disease. [24]
Vladimir Savchenko, 71, Ukrainian science fiction writer. [25]
Chalkie White, 76, rugby union coach
ZerNona Black, 98, activist on behalf of senior citizens and the elderly, natural causes

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 player, renal disease. [26]

22

Sir William Deakin, 91, British World War II hero and founder of St. Antony's College at Oxford University
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
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 [27]

21

Richard Outram, 74, Canadian poet
Steve Susskind, 62, American voice-over actor
Parveen Babi, 49, Indian film actress, apparently from diabetes. [28]
John L. Hess, 87, journalist
Don Poier, 53, United States NBA basketball announcer for the Memphis Grizzlies
Theun de Vries, 97, Dutch writer

20

Per Borten, 91, former Prime Minister of Norway
Roland Frye, American English literature professor and theologian
Dick Gallagher, 49, American composer, predominantly for off-Broadway productions. [29]
Jan Nowak-Jeziorański, 91, Polish journalist and highly decorated World War II hero, head of the Radio Free Europe Polish section
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
K. Sello Duiker, 30, South African novelist, suicide
Ardyth Kennelly, 92, US novelist whose books were popular in the 1940s and 50s
Anita Kulcsár, 28, Hungarian handball player

18

Lamont Bentley, 31, television and film actor, car crash
Peter Whatley, former professional wrestler under the name Pez Whatley

17

Charlie Bell, 44, former CEO of McDonald's, colon cancer
Virginia Mayo, 84, United States film actress (White Heat, The Best Years of Our Lives)
Albert Schatz, 84, microbiologist, discoverer of streptomycin
Zhao Ziyang, 85, former Chinese Communist Party General Secretary, complications of multiple strokes

16

H. Bentley Glass, 98, United States biologist, known for controversial views [30]
Agustín González, 74, prolific Spanish film actor
Marjorie Williams, 47, United States Washington Post columnist and contributing editor for Vanity Fair, liver cancer

15

Deem Bristow, 57, video game voice actor
Walter Ernsting, 84, German science fiction author (Perry Rhodan)
Elizabeth Janeway, 91, United States feminist author
Dan Lee, 35, animator for Finding Nemo
Victoria de Los Angeles, 81, Spanish soprano
Ruth Warrick, 89, United States actress best known for Citizen Kane and All My Children, pneumonia

14

Ofelia Guilmain, 83, Spanish film and stage actress, worked mostly in Mexico after the Spanish Civil War
Charlotte MacLeod, 82, United States mystery writer
Conroy Maddox, 92, British surrealist painter
Rudolph Moshammer, 64, German fashion designer
Jesús Soto, 81, Venezuelan kinetic artist [31]

13

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

12

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
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 (Reefer Madness)

10

Gene Baylos, 98, comedian
Margherita Carosio, 96, Italian soprano
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, Minnesota sports journalist
Grand Duchess Joséphine-Charlotte of Luxembourg, Princess of Belgium and Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, 77, cancer
Helmut Losch, 57, East German heavyweight weightlifting champion
Jan Pieter Cardinal Schotte, 76, Belgian official of the Roman Curia, cardinal since 1994

9

Gonzalo Gavira, 79, sound effects creator, The Exorcist, The Towering Inferno
Koji Hashimoto, 68, Japanese film director

8

Jacqueline Joubert, 83, one of the first television presenters on French television
Campbell McComas, 52, Australian impersonator, raconteur, broadcaster, chameleon
Warren Spears, 50, choreographer, dancer
Michel Thomas, 90, Polish linguist and teacher