Deaths in May 2005
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The following is a list of notable people who died in May 2005.
- Eduardo Teixeira Coelho, 86, Portuguese comic book artist. [1]
- Takanohana Kenshi (née Mitsuru Hanada), 55, aka "The Prince of Sumo [wrestling]"
- Fazal Mahmood, 78, former Pakistani cricket captain
- Tomasz Pacyński, 47, Polish fantasy and science fiction author
- Oscar Brown, Jr., 78, musician, playwright, activist
- Patsy Calton, 56, British Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament, cancer
- George Rochberg, 86, American composer
- Akihiko Saito, 44, Japanese hostage in Iraq
- Arnold Morton, 83, founder of Morton's of Chicago steakhouses
- Fay Godwin, 74, British photographer. [2], [3]
- Sangoulé Lamizana, 89, former president of Burkina Faso
- Eddie Albert, 99, American actor, star of Green Acres
- Chico Carrasquel, 77, Venezuelan shortstop, the first Latin American player to appear in a MLB All-Star game
- Krzysztof Nowak, 29, football player for VfL Wolfsburg and the Polish national team, suffered from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- Domenic Troiano, 59, Canadian guitarist, cancer.
- Sunil Dutt, 75, Bollywood actor and Union Minister, India
- Gregory Scott Johnson, executed for murdering an 82-year-old woman, had asked for a temporary reprieve to donate his liver to his sister.
- Graham Kennedy, 71, Australian TV celebrity and comedian
- Ruth Laredo, 67, American pianist
- Ismail Merchant, 68, film producer [4]
- Carl Amery, 83, German writer
- Arthur Haulot, 91, Belgian journalist, active member of the resistance movement against the Nazi occupation
- Derek Ratcliffe, 75, conservationist
- Billy Smart, Jr, 71, British circus impresario
- Charilaos Florakis, 91, Honorary President and former Secretary General (1972-1989) of the Communist Party of Greece
- Thurl Ravenscroft, 91, American voice actor (Tony the Tiger, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas) [5]
- Stephen Elliott, 86, American actor, Arthur [6]
- Bedford Jezzard, 77, former Fulham FC football player and manager
- Howard Morris, 85, American comedy actor and director
- Subodh Mukherjee, 84, Indian filmmaker
- J.D. Cannon, 83, American actor
- Paul Ricoeur, 92, French philosopher and teacher
- Henry Corden, 85, Canadian-born voice actor (Fred Flintstone) for more than 2 decades
- Batya Gur, 57, Israeli author
- David Lang, 37, former NFL running back with the Los Angeles Rams and Dallas Cowboys
- Richard Lewine, 94, Broadway composer and TV producer [7]
- Victor Wouk, 86, American scientist and electrical engineer
- Shaima Rezayee, 24, former TV presenter of Hop, an Afghan programme similar to MTV
- Stella Zázvorková, 83, Czech actress
- Keiiti Aki, 75, seismologist
- Frank Gorshin, 71, American film and television actor. cancer
- Paul Keene, 94, organic farmer
- Marie Geddes, 86, Canadian hunger striker
- Andrew J. Goodpaster, 90, former leader of NATO and veteran of World War II
- June Lang, 90, American actor.
- Jose M. Lopez, 94, Medal of Honor-winning soldier in World War II. [8]
- Albert "Smiler" Marshall, 108, British veteran of World War I
- Arthur Naftalin, 87, former mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Les Bartley, 51, former coach of the Toronto Rock of the NLL, colon cancer
- Paul Cassidy, 94, the first ghost artist on Superman [9]
- Alan B. Gold, 88, retired Chief Justice of the Quebec Superior Court, negotiated an end to the Oka standoff and numerous strikes
- Alec Leibowitz, 83, South African, revolutionised diamond manufacturing by inventing cutting and polishing machines, Alzheimer's disease
- The Earl of Shaftesbury, 27, English peer, suspected heart attack
- Jimmy Martin, 77, bluegrass singer
- George Dantzig, 90, mathematician, "father of linear programming"
- Hugh Montefiore, 85, Bishop of Birmingham and environmental activist with Friends of the Earth
- Michael Ross, 45, serial killer, executed by lethal injection
- Eddie Barclay, 84, French record producer and founder of Barclay Records
- Maurice Catarcio, 76, former World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) wrestler, of cancer
- Monica Zetterlund, 67, Swedish singer and actress.
- Alfred Finnigan, 108, oldest man in Wales and World War I survivor
- Michalis Genitsaris, 86, Greek rebetiko singer and composer
- Hal Griggs, 76, former MLB player Washington Senators
- Veikko Hursti, 80, Finnish philanthropist
- Jim Love (artist), 75, American sculptor
- Jay Marshall, 85, Dean of the Society of American Magicians
- Hector Enrique Santos, 88, former Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, Honduras
- Blanche Sasso, 105, seamstress of the original flag of the United States Virgin Islands
- David Wayne, 47, singer for the heavy metal group Metal Church
- Li Cairong, 119, world's second oldest human being only to Jeanne Calment (unconfirmed)
- John F. "Jack" Hasey, 88, American French Foreign Legion Officer and CIA Operations Officer
- Nasrat Parsa, 36, Afghan pop singer, after being assaulted in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Lloyd Cutler, 87, former White House Counsel under Presidents Carter and Clinton
- A. J. Shepherd, 78, ex-Indianapolis 500 racing driver
- Tristan Egolf, 33, author, suicide
- Peter Wallace Rodino, 95, U.S. congressman, 1949-1989
- Betty Talmadge, 81, ex-wife of Senator Herman Talmadge, testified against him in Senate ethics committee in 1979, from Alzheimers
- Otilino Tenorio, 25, Ecuadorian international football player
- Sally Urquhart, 28, Queensland, Australia, Police Officer. Lockhart River Plane crash
- Miguel Contreras, 52, California union leader
- Father Gommart DePauw, 86, founder of the Catholic Traditionalist Movement
- Rafael Diaz-Balart, 79, opponent and former brother-in-law of Fidel Castro, father of U.S. Congressmen Lincoln Diaz-Balart and Mario Diaz-Balart
- Joe Grant, 96, Disney animator
- Jost Gross, 59, member of the National Council of Switzerland
- Herb Sargent, 81, television comedy writer [10]
- Lee Stine, 91, who pitched in MLB for the White Sox, Reds and Yankees
- Ted Atkinson, 88, Hall of Fame jockey
- Elisabeth Fraser, 85, actress on The Phil Silvers Show, etc.
- June MacCloy, 96, actress
- Charlie Muse, 87, Pittsburgh Pirates executive, creator of the modern baseball batting helmet
- Édgar Ponce, 30, Mexican actor, collision between car and motorcycle during filming of video for "Sólo para mujeres"
- Philip Spaulding, 92, American naval architect, notable for designing many ferries
- Christian Speck, 68, member of the National Council of Switzerland
- Lila Dulali, 66, Indian, Oriya language actress
- David H. Hackworth, 74, Vietnam War veteran, journalist
- Evelyn Roberts, 88, wife of preacher Oral Roberts
- Luis Taruc, 91, Filipino Communist revolutionary figure; leader of the HUKBALAHAP, a guerilla group against the Japanese during World War II.
- Don Canham, 87, former University of Michigan athletic director
- Allan Kurzrok, psychologist and cartoonist [11]
- Maria Strelnikova, 115, Russian woman who possibly might be 2'nd oldest person in the world.
- Robert Hunter, 63, Canadian journalist and co-founder of Greenpeace
- Wee Kim Wee, 89, fourth President of Singapore, from 1985 to 1993
- Theofiel Middelkamp, 91, Dutch cyclist, first Dutchman to win a stage in the Tour de France and first Dutch world champion.
- Jonathan Thomas, 59, Canadian-born sculptor [12]
- Florence Van Stockum, 110, British-born supercentenarian
- Kenneth Clark, 90, African-American Civil Rights activist and psychologist
- René Rivkin, 60, Australian stockbroker
- Edward von Kloberg III, 63, lobbyist
