Deaths in June 2005

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

30

Christopher Fry, 97, British playwright. [1]

Lilian Keil, 88, highly decorated American World War II and Korean War flight nurse. [2], [3]
Alexei Sultanov, 35, Russian pianist [4]

29

Gerard C. Bond, 65, American geologist [5]

28

Dick Dietz, 63, an All-Star catcher who played for the Giants, Dodgers and Braves, heart attack. [6]
Philip Hobsbaum, 72, academic, poet and critic, diabetes. [7], [8]
Brenda Howard, 58, American LGBT-rights activist, colon cancer.[9]
Bruce Malmuth, 71, American film director (Sylvester Stallone's Nighthawk), throat cancer. [10]
Rowland B. Wilson, 74, American cartoonist and animator [11]

27

Shelby Foote, 88, U.S. historian. [12]

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. [13]
Ray Holmes, 90, pilot who protected Buckingham Palace during the Battle of Britain, cancer. [14]

Owen McCarron, 76, Canadian cartoonist and puzzle creator.[15], [16]
John T. Walton, 58, son of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton

26

Filip Adwent, 49, Polish politician, MEP, eight (8) days after a road accident which also killed his parents and daughter. [17]
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.[18]

25

Shinta Cho, 77, Japanese children's book author and cartoonist [19]
Frederick G. Dutton, 82, advisor to President Kennedy. [20]
John Fiedler, 80, American film, stage and television actor, cancer. [21]
Sir Harry Gibbs, 88, Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia 1981-87
Chet Helms, 62, rock music promoter

24

Peter Casserly, 107, last surviving member of the First Australian Imperial Force serving on the Western Front in World War I. [22]
Imogen Claire, actress, played one of the transylvannians in The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Paul Winchell, 82, American voice actor and ventriloquist; animated voice of 'Tigger'

23

Shana Alexander, 79, American journalist, cancer. [23]
Manolis Anagnostakis, 80, Greek poet.
Isidore Cohen, 82, violinist with the Beaux Arts Trio. [24]
Hanna Kvanmo, 79, Norwegian politician
Sam Kweskin, 81, comic book artist [25]
Ramon L. Posel, 77, built up Philadelphia's art film industry though Ritz Theaters [26]

22

William Donaldson, 70, British satirist and theatrical producer of Beyond The Fringe

21

George Hawi, 67, former secretary general of Communist Party of Lebanon. Killed by terrorists in an attack on his car.
Jaime Cardinal Sin, 76, Roman Catholic Cardinal and former Archbishop of Manila.

20

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.

19

Georgie Woods, 78, Philadelphia radio broadcast "legend", due to be inducted into the Philadelphia Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame.

18

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 [27] Gemstone Publishing, Inc. tribute)
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).

17

Nanna Ditzel, 81, Danish furniture and interior designer
William N. Fenton, 96, American scholar known for writings on the Iroquois
Karl Mueller, 41, founding bassist for the rock band "Soul Asylum", throat cancer
Charlie Schlingo (Jean-Charles Ninduab), 49, French cartoonist [28]
Ronald Winans, 48, Grammy-winning American gospel singer

16

Corino Andrade, 99, Portuguese neurologist, discovered Familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy (FAP).
Enrique Laguerre, 99, writer, poet, teacher from Puerto Rico
Ross Stretton, 53, artistic director of Australian Ballet [29]
James Weinstein, 78, Jewish author, founder and publisher of In These Times

15

Percy Arrowsmith, 105, one-half of the world's documented longest marriage
Phil Ford, 85, American actor [30]
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.^{[citation needed]}

14

Carlo Maria Giulini, 91, Italian conductor
Mimi Parent, 80, surrealist painter

13

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 [31]
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

12

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

11

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). [32]

10

J. James Exon, 83, former Democratic United States Senator (1979-1997) and Governor of Nebraska (1971-1979)
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

9

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 [33]

8

Ed Bishop, 72, American actor
Arthur Dunkel, 72, Portuguese-Swiss GATT director-general

7

Seán Doherty, 60, Irish politician
Terry Long, 45, former NFL offensive lineman
Edward Anthony McCarthy, 87, second Archbishop of Miami

6

Anne Bancroft, 73, American Oscar-winning actress, uterine cancer. [34]

Rodney Dunn, 37, Canadian comic book artist [35]
Dana Elcar, 77, American film, stage and television actor. [36]
David Sutherland, 56, American illustrator for the original Dungeons & Dragons books.

5

Adolfo Aguilar Zínser, 55, Mexican scholar, diplomat and politician
Oscar Morelli, 59, Mexican actor, after lengthy illness
Susi Nicoletti, 86, Austrian film actress, complications from heart surgery. [37], [38]

4

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
Lorna Thayer, 86, American character actress (Five Easy Pieces), Alzheimer's disease. [39]

3

2

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, 93, Briton who spied for the Soviet Union during the Cold War. [40]