Deaths in 2004

1 December
2 November
3 October
4 September
5 August
6 July
7 June
8 May
9 April
10 March
11 February
12 January
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The following is a list of notable deaths in 2004.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference (and language of reference, if not English).

December

See Deaths in December 2004.

November

See Deaths in November 2004.

October

See Deaths in October 2004.

September

30 Jacques Levy, 69, director of original production of Oh! Calcutta!
30 Ignatius Wolfington, 84, American character actor
30 Willem Oltmans, 79, Dutch maverick journalist, cancer
30 Justin Strzelczyk, 36, former NFL Pittsburgh Steelers player, car crash while leading police on chase
30 Gamini Fonseka, 68, Sri Lankan actor and politician
29 Ernst van der Beugel, 86, former Dutch junior Foreign Minister and former CEO of KLM
29 Christer Pettersson, 57, suspected murderer of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme
29 Richard Sainct, 34, French rally motorcyclist, accident
29 Gertrude Dunn, 72, American women's baseball and field hockey player, plane crash
29 Shimon Wincelberg (also known as S. Bar David), 80, television writer
28 Geoffrey Beene, 77, fashion designer, pneumonia
28 Mulk Raj Anand, 98, Indian author in English
28 Scott Muni, 74, longtime New York City radio disc jockey
27 Tsai Wan-lin, 81, Taiwan's wealthiest businessman and founder of the Lin Yuan Group
26 Amjad Hussain Farooqi, 32, Pakistani terrorist, supposed member of Al-Qaida
26 Izz El-Deen Sheikh Khalil, Hamas leader assassinated by car bomb
25 Alain Glavieux, 55, mathematician, Information technology pioneer
25 Marvin Davis, 79, philanthropist; ex-owner of Twentieth Century Fox and Pebble Beach
25 Nicholas Rosas, 76, Mexican farmer, liver disease
24 Tim Choate, 49, actor (Babylon 5), motorcycle accident
24 Françoise Sagan, 69, French novelist
23 Margaret Sloan-Hunter, 57, former editor of Ms. Magazine, feminist and civil rights advocate
23 Maurice Michael Stephens, 84, British World War II flying ace.
23 André Hazes, 53, Dutch singer
23 Billy Reay, 86, former NHL player and coach for the Chicago Black Hawks
23 Raja Ramanna, 79, nuclear scientist and father of India's nuclear program
23 Bill Ballance, 85, radio personality; forerunner of shock jocks Tom Leykis and Howard Stern
22 Ray Traylor, 42, American professional wrestler known as The Big Boss Man
21 Jack Hensley, 48, American civilian contractor, beheaded by Muslim terrorists in Iraq. [1]
21 Larry Phillips, 62, stock car racer
20 Eugene Armstrong, 52, American civilian contractor, beheaded by Muslim terrorists in Iraq
20 Brian Clough OBE, 69, English footballer and cup-winning coach and manager
20 Kalmer Tennosaar, 75, Estonian singer and television journalist.
19 Line Østvold, 25, Norwegian snowboarder
19 Eddie Adams, 71, photojournalist
19 Skeeter Davis, 73, country music singer
19 Ellis Marsalis, Sr., 96, patriarch of family of jazz musicians
19 Ryhor Reles, 91, the last writer from Belarus who wrote in Yiddish
18 Norman Cantor, 74, medieval scholar
18 Russ Meyer, 82, filmmaker
18 Marvin Mitchelson, 76, divorce lawyer to the stars, cancer
18 Klara Rumyanova, 74, Russian actress
17 Katharina Dalton, 87, pioneered research on premenstrual stress syndrome
16 Dolly Rathebe, South African musician
16 Izora Rhodes Armstead, American singer, one of the two Weather Girls
16 Virginia Hamilton Adair, 91, American poet
15 Nalda Bird, 77, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League)
15 Donald Yetter Gardner, 91, songwriter, All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth
15 Daouda Malam Wanke, 50?, leader of the 1999 transitional government in Niger
15 Johnny Ramone, 55, guitarist and founding member of The Ramones, prostate cancer
14 Ove Sprogøe, 84, Danish actor
14 Reynaldo G. Garza, 89, first Hispanic American appointed as Federal Appeals Court judge [2]
13 Glenn Presnell, 99, early NFL player with the Detroit Lions
12 Max Abramovitz, 96, architect
12 Ahmed Dini Ahmed, 72, Djibouti politician, vice-president of the government council (1959–60) and prime minister (1977–78)
12 John Buller, 77, British composer
12 Jerome Chodorov, 93, playwright, My Sister Eileen
11 Juraj Beneš, 64, Slovak composer
11 Fred Ebb, 71, Broadway lyricist (Cabaret, Chicago), heart attack
11 Peter VII, 55, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria, helicopter crash
10 Brock Adams, 77, U.S. politician
10 Glyn Owen, 76, British actor
10 O.L. Duke, 51, actor, automobile crash
9 Joan Snyder, 69, writer and producer for CBS News
9 Ernie Ball, 74, guitar equipment maker
9 Jimmy Spence, 69, British ice hockey player
8 Ian Cochrane, 62, British novelist
8 Frank Thomas, 91, Disney animator
8 Raymond Marcellin, 90, former Interior minister of France
8? Richard Girnt Butler, 86, founder of the Aryan Nations
7 Samira Bellil, 31, campaigner for Muslim girls' and women's rights, cancer
7 Munir, 39, prominent Indonesian human rights activist, arsenic
7 Gerard Piel, 89, publisher of Scientific American, complications from a stroke
7 Kirk Fordice, 70, first Republican governor of Mississippi since 1874, leukemia
7 Christiaan Frederick Beyers Naudé, 89, Afrikaner-South African cleric, theologian and anti-apartheid activist
6 Elly Annie Schneider, 90, one of the Munchkins in The Wizard of Oz
6 Harvey Wheeler, 85, political scientist and author (Fail-Safe)
5 Fritha Goodey, 31, actress (About a Boy), apparent suicide
5 Gerald Merrithew, 73, New Brunswick, Canada politician and former federal cabinet minister, cancer
5 Alessio Perilli, 20, Italian motoracer, killed during a race
5 Caroline Pratt, 42, British eventer, killed during a race
5 Steve Wayne, 84, American actor
4 Michael Louden, 40, actor, autoerotic asphyxiation
4 Bob Boyd, 84?, former MLB; first black player to sign with the White Sox, and first Oriole to bat over .300 in the 20th century
4 James O. Page, 68, North Carolina's former chief of EMS and founder of modern emergency medical response, heart attack
4 Moe Norman, 75, PGA and Canadian Tour golfer, congestive heart failure
4 Alphonso Ford, 33, American-born Euroleague player, leukemia
3 Steven Blackford, 28, former University of Arizona wrestler, car accident
2 Billy Davis, 72, commercial jingle writer (I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke)
2 Paul Shmyr, 58, former NHL and WHA defenseman, throat cancer
2 Donald Leslie, 93, creator of the Leslie speaker
2 Bob O. Evans, 77, IBM computer scientist
2 Joan Oró i Florensa, 80, biochemist
1 Ahmed Kuftaro, 89, the Grand Mufti of Syria
1 Kenneth Alexander Keith, Baron Keith of Castleacre, 88, life peer and former chairman of Rolls-Royce, Hill Samuel, Beecham Group, and STC
1 Herbert H. Haft, 84, owner of Dart Drugs Chain, congestive heart failure
1 Johnny Bragg, 79, leader of The Prisonaires, one of earliest music groups to record for Sam Phillips and Sun Records
1 Sir Alastair Morton, 66, former chief executive of Eurotunnel and chairman of the Strategic Rail Authority

August

31 Joe Barry, 65, Swamp Pop singer of "I'm a Fool to Care"
31 Carl Wayne, 61, lead singer of pop group The Move, cancer
30 Willie Duff, 69, goalkeeper of Heart of Midlothian, Charlton Athletic, Peterborough United and Dunfermline Athletic
30 Fred Whipple, 97, American astronomer
30 Fay Jones, 83, architect trained by Frank Lloyd Wright
30 Larry Desmedt, 55, motorcycle designer, injuries suffered during a stunt [3]
28 Robert Lewin, 84, Producer and Screenwriter, Academy Award nomination for writing The Bold and the Brave, lung cancer
28 Lina Zimmer, 111, oldest German
27 Ko Young-hee, 51, former consort to North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, cancer (rumoured) [4]
27 William Pierson, 78, actor Stalag 17
27 Fernand Auberjonois, 93, foreign news correspondent for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Toledo Blade; father of actor René Auberjonois
27 Suzanne Kaaren, 92, actress (Three Stooges films)
27 Willie Crawford, 57, former outfielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers
26 José Carlos, 53, Portuguese fashion designer
26 Laura Branigan, 47, American pop singer
26 Enzo G. Baldoni, 56, Italian journalist, murdered in Iraq
26 David Myers, 90, Cinematographer (Woodstock, Elvis on Tour)
25 Marcelo Gonzalez Martin, 86, former Roman Catholic primate of Spain, Cardinal since 1973 and Archbishop of Toledo from 1971 to 1995 (Papal condolence message)
25 Don Ashton, 85, British film art director and production designer
24 Richard Ervin, 99, former attorney general and chief justice of Florida [5]
24 Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, 78, Swiss-born psychiatrist
24 Eleni Ioannou, 20, Greek judoka
23 Francesco Minerva, 100, centenarian Italian Roman Catholic archbishop
23 Hank Borowy, 88, former Yankees, Cubs, Phillies, Pirates and Tigers pitcher
23 Mary Guiney, 103, chairperson of the Clerys Department Store
23 Heinrich Mark, 92, Estonian politician, Prime Minister of Estonia in exile 1971-1990
22 Muriel Angelus, 95, British silent film actress
22 Konstantin Aseev, 43, chess Grandmaster and coach
22 Al Dvorin, 81, announcer who popularized the phrase "Elvis has left the building", automobile accident [6]
22 Marcel Caux, 105, Australian First World War veteran, last known survivor of the Battle of Pozières
22 George Kirgo, 78, television and film writer, former president of the Writers Guild of America
22 Daniel Petrie, Sr., 83, film director, A Raisin in the Sun
22 Ota Sik, 84, architect of economic liberalization during Czechoslovakia's ill-fated 1968 Prague Spring
20 María Antonieta Pons, 82, Cuban-born star of rumbera films
20 Moshe Shamir, 83, Israeli politician and novelist
19 Rudolf Miele, 74, German entrepreneur
19 Günter Rexrodt, 62, German politician, former Economics Minister of Germany
18 Hiram Fong, 97, first Asian American elected to the U.S. Senate
18 Elmer Bernstein, 82, composer of classic film music such as The Magnificent Seven
18 Víctor Cervera Pacheco, 68, Mexican politician, former Governor of Yucatán
18 Charlie Waller, 69, American bluegrass musician, founder of the band Country Gentlemen
17 Dennis "D-Roc" Miles, 45, rhythm guitarist for Body Count, from lymphoma complications
17 Anatoly Guzhvin, 58, head of the administration of Astrakhan Oblast
17 Gérard Souzay, 85, French baritone
17 Thea Astley, 78, Australian novelist
16 J. Irwin Miller, 95, American industrialist and architectural philanthropist
16 Ivan Hlinka, 54, Czech Republic national hockey team and Pittsburgh Penguins coach
16 Acquanetta, 83, "Venezuelan" United States-born B-movie actress
16 Carl Mydans, 91, photographer
16 Robert Quiroga, 35, world champion boxer, murdered
15 Semiha Berksoy, 94, Turkish opera singer
15 Sune K. Bergström, 88, Nobel Prize in Medicine
15 Neal Fredericks, 35, cinematographer for the movie The Blair Witch Project, drowned in helicopter crash while filming
14 William D. Ford, 77, member of the United States House of Representatives from Michigan from 1965 to 1995
14 Dhananjoy Chatterjee, 42, rapist and murderer; the first person executed in India since 1995
14 Czesław Miłosz, 93, Polish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980
13 Julia Child, 91, author and television hostess on French cuisine [7]
13 Milton Pollack, 97, U.S. federal judge who ruled on court cases involving Wall Street
13 Stefan Dimitrov, Bulgarian opera basso singer
12 Sir Godfrey N. Hounsfield, 84, Nobel Prize in Medicine, coinventor of the CAT scan
12 Robert L. Morris, 62, American parapsychologist.
12 Peter Woodthorpe, 72, British character actor
12 George Yardley, 75, NBA Hall of Famer
11 Bill Martin, Jr., 88, author of Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
11 Joe Falls, 76, longtime sports writer for The Detroit News
10 James Stillman Rockefeller, 102, oldest known U.S. Olympic medal winner
10 Alan N. Cohen, 73, former owner of the Boston Celtics
9 Michael Grant, 89, classical scholar and author
9 Tony Mottola, 86, guitarist who played with Frank Sinatra and on the Tonight Show orchestra [8]
9 David Raksin, 92, film composer
8 Fay Wray, 96, King Kong actress
8 Dimitris Papamichael, 70, Greek actor
8 Robert "Gypsy Boots" Bootzin, 89, health and fitness pioneer
8 Leon Golub, 82, internationally recognized artist and painter
8 Paul "Mousie" Garner, 95, comedian, Three Stooges associate
8 Richard Taylor, 23, skating and skiing champion, collided with a concrete lamp-post
7 Paul "Red" Adair, 89, American oil well fire-fighter
7 Colin Bibby, 55, English ornithologist
7 Bernard Levin, 75, journalist and broadcaster
6 Rick James, 56, funk singer
5 James Alford, 90, British athlete.
4 Hunter Hancock, 88, Legendary R&B and Rock Disc Jockey
3 Bob Murphy, 79, Major League Baseball/New York Mets announcer
3 Arturo Tolentino, 94, Philippine lawyer and politician
3 Margo McLennan, 66, British actress, Prisoner, cancer [9]
3 Henri Cartier-Bresson, 95, French photographer [10]
1 Philip Hauge Abelson, 91, physicist, co-discoverer of Neptunium
1 Sidney Morgenbesser, 82, philosopher

July

31 Laura Betti, 70, Italian actress
31 Elder David B. Haight, 97, oldest member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
31 Virginia Grey, 87, American actress. Little Eva in the first film adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin
31 Ray Tolchard, English cricketer and umpire
30 Andre Noble, 25, Canadian actor
30 Ali Abbasi, 42, BBC Scotland travel presenter [11]
29 Nafisa Joseph, 25, model, MTV VJ, Miss India 1997; suicide
29 Susan Buffett, 71, estranged wife of billionaire/investment guru Warren Buffett
29 Rena Vlahopoulou, 81, Greek comedienne
28 Tiziano Terzani, 65, Italian journalist, famous for his books on Asia
28 Sam Edwards, 89, American actor, Little House on the Prairie, heart failure [12]
28 Francis Crick, 88, British biologist, one of the discoverers of the "double-helix" shape of DNA, cancer [13]
28 Jackson Beck, 92, announcer and voice actor
28 Eugene Roche, 75, American character actor and the "Ajax" Man
28 Steve Patterson, 56, former center of the UCLA basketball team, coach at Arizona State University and founder of the Grand Canyon State Games
27 Carmine G. DeSapio, 95, last boss of Tammany Hall
27 Bob Tisdall, 97, won the gold medal in hurdles at the 1932 Summer Olympics
26 William A. Mitchell, 92, food scientist, inventor of Pop Rocks candy and Tang drink mix
26 Rubén Gómez, 77, Puerto Rico, former MLB pitcher who played for the Giants, Phillies, Indians and Twins
26 Oguz Aral, 68, Turkish caricaturist; creator of Avanak Avni, Kostebek Husnu, and Utanmaz Adam
26 Sidney Francis Greene, Lord Greene of Harrow Weald, 94, British railroad worker, trade union leader, and life peer
25 Francisco Romão, 61, Angolan deputy foreign minister, suicide [14]
24 Edward D. Thalmann, 59, retired Navy Captain and doctor whose research developed military and recreational dive tables, congestive heart failure
24 Fred LaRue, 75, part of Watergate scandal
24 Lowell "Cotton" Fitzsimmons, 72, NBA basketball coach
23 Joe Cahill, 84, Irish politician [15]
23 Mehmood, 72, Indian actor
23 Janet Chisholm, 75, former British MI6 agent
23 Carlos Paredes, 79, Portuguese guitar player
23 Serge Reggiani, 82, French singer and actor
22 Illinois Jacquet, 81, United States jazz saxophonist
22 Sacha Distel, 71, French singer
22 Hume Horan, 69, American diplomat
21 Edward B. Lewis, 85, US-biologist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1995)
21 Elder Neal A. Maxwell, 78, member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
21 Jerry Goldsmith, 75, movie and television composer
20 Adi Lady Lala Mara, 73, Fijian chieftainess and former First Lady; widow of Prime Minister and President Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara
20 Antonio Gades, 67, Spanish Flamenco dancer, cancer
19 Carvalho Leite, 92, Brazilian footballer, one of the last survivor of national team in 1930 FIFA World Cup
19 Zenko Suzuki, 93, former Prime Minister of Japan
19 Lori Hacking, 27, wife of Mark Hacking
18 Paul Foot, 66, British journalist and campaigner
18 Émile Peynaud, 92, French wine expert
17 Sir Julian Hodge, 99, British entrepreneur, founder of the Carlyle Trust bank [16]
17 Pat Roach, 67, wrestler and actor; cancer ([17])
17 Susan Cullen-Ward, 63, wife of the pretender to Albania's throne, Leka Zogu; cancer
16 George Busbee, 76, former governor of Georgia
16 Bella Lewitzky, 88, modern dance pioneer and choreographer
15 Charles Sweeney, 84, pilot of Bockscar, the B-29 that dropped the Nagasaki atomic bomb. [18]
15 Yoko Watanabe, 51, Japanese operatic soprano. [19]
14 Hans A. Pestalozzi, 75, Swiss social critic
14 Alex Willoughby, 59, British footballer
13 Joe Gold, 82, bodybuilding pioneer and Gold's Gym founder
13 Clifford Irving, 90, Manx politician
13 Arthur Kane, 53, American bassist for the New York Dolls, leukemia
13 Carlos Kleiber, 74, Austrian conductor
12 Ersel Hickey, 70, rockabilly singer
12 George Mallaby, 64, Australian actor
11 Walter Wager, 79, American author
11 Betty Oliphant, 85, founder of Canada's National Ballet School
11 Frances Hyland, 77, Canadian theatre actress
11 Laurance Rockefeller, 94, conservationist and philanthropist
11 Dorothy Hart, 82, American actress
10 Rudy LaRusso, 66, five-time NBA All-Star
10 Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo, 74, former Prime Minister of Portugal [20]
10 Inge Meysel, 94, German actress [21]
9 Jeillo Edwards, ~62, Sierra Leonean actress, first black actor to appear on "The Bill" [22]
9 Isabel Sanford, 86, actress, The Jeffersons, natural causes
9 Paul Klebnikov, 41, editor of Forbes magazine's Russian edition, murdered
9 Ron Milner, 66, African-American playwright
9 Jeff Smith, 65, chef and host of The Frugal Gourmet
8 Jaroslav Hules, 30, Czech motorcycle racer, suicide
8 Paula Danziger, 59, U.S. author
8 Mike Woodin, 38, Principal Speaker of Green Party of England and Wales and Oxford City Councillor
8 Jean Lefebvre, 84, French actor
7 Xiaokai Yang, 55, Australian economist
6 Peter Birks, 62, British academic lawyer
6 Eric Douglas, 46, youngest son of actor Kirk Douglas
6 Thomas Klestil, 71, Federal President of Austria, heart failure
6 Syreeta Wright, 58, singer, songwriter, ex-wife of Stevie Wonder
5 Robert Burchfield, 81, OED lexicographer
5 Hugh Shearer, 81, former Prime Minister of Jamaica
5 Rodger Ward, 83, two-time Indianapolis 500 champion
4 Andrian Nikolayev, 74, Russian cosmonaut
4 Jean-Marie Auberson, 84, Swiss orchestra conductor
3 John Barron, 83, actor
3 Michael Curtis, 84, British newspaper editor and executive [23]
3 Jimmy Mack, 70, Scots radio personality [24]
2 Sir John William Kay, Lord Justice of Court of Appeal of England and Wales
2 John Cullen Murphy, 85, comic strip artist (Prince Valiant)
2 Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, 84, Portuguese writer and poet
2 Gareth Payne, 68, former Welsh rugby union international
1 Enrique Mederos, Latin American voice actor
1 Peter Barnes, 73, British screenwriter and playwright, stroke
1 Marlon Brando, 80, American actor, pulmonary fibrosis.
1 Sir Richard May, 65, former presiding judge, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia

June

29 Juan Antonio Lopez, 52, Mexican boxer, fought Wilfredo Gómez, leukemia
28 David A. Thomas, 86, American educator.
28 Keith "Matt" Maupin, 20, U.S. Army Private First Class, killed by Islamist militants in Iraq
28 Anthony Buckeridge, 92, English author, creator of the Jennings books
27 George Patton IV, 80, US Army general and son of George Patton
27 Darrell Russell, 35, NHRA drag racer, first racer killed at an NHRA event since 1996
26 Naomi Shemer, 74, Israeli songwriter
26 Yash Johar, 75, Indian Bollywood film producer
25 Karol Kennedy Kucher, 72, former United States ice skating champion, pneumonia
24 Ifigeneia Giannopoulou, 40, Greek songwriter, author
24 Carl Rakosi, 100, American poet
22 Carlton Skinner, 91, American naval officer and politician, first civilian governor of Guam
22 Thomas Gold, 84, American astrophysicist
22 Bob Bemer, 84, American computer scientist, cancer
22 Francisco Ortiz Franco, ~50, Mexican journalist, murdered
22 Mattie Stepanek, 13, American poet and advocate, muscular dystrophy
22 Kim Sun-il, 33, South Korean translator, decapitated by Iraqi militants
21 Leonel Brizola, 82, Brazilian politician, heart failure, [25]
20 Nabil Sahraoui, Algerian militant, head of GSPC and linked to al-Qaeda
20 Jim Bacon, 54, Australian politician and Premier of Tasmania
19 Nob Yoshigahara, 68, mathematician and puzzle expert
18 Frederick Jaeger, 76, German born British character actor
18 Paul Johnson, ~49, American hostage, decapitated by al-Qaeda
18 Nek Mohammed, ~27, Pakistani tribal leader in Waziristan and key Taliban ally, killed by Pakistani military forces. [26]
17 Sir Stuart Hampshire, 89, philosopher
17 Gerry McNeil, 78, Stanley Cup-winning NHL goaltender
17 Jacek Kuroń, 70, Polish dissident and statesman
16 Dr. Herman Goldstine, 90, computing pioneer who helped develop ENIAC, Parkinson's disease
16 Thanom Kittikachorn, 91, former Thai prime minister
15 Ahmet Piriştina, 52, Turkish politician, mayor of İzmir, heart attack
15 Frank Nastasi, 81, actor and comedian (Lunch with Soupy)
14 Robert Teeter, 65, Republican pollster
14 Jack McClelland, 81, Canadian book publisher
14 Ulrich Inderbinen, 103, mountain guide
14 Max Rosenberg, 89, producer of horror movies
13 Dick Durrance, 89, 17-time American national champion in skiing
13 Sir Stuart Hampshire, 89, British philosopher.
13 Ralph Wiley, 52, sports journalist
13 Danny Dark, 65, announcer
11 Egon von Furstenberg, 57, fashion designer; nephew of late Fiat head Gianni Agnelli
11 Micah Harris, 21, Duke University defensive lineman, car accident
11 Xenophon Zolotas, 100, former Prime Minister of Greece
10 Ray Charles, 73, rhythm and blues singer and soul pioneer
10 Brian Williamson, 59, Jamaican gay rights activist and founder of J-Flag, murdered
10 Kiki Djan, 47, Ghanaian musician, AIDS and drug-related complications
9 Rosey Brown, 71, Pro Football Hall of Famer
9 Barbara Whiting Smith, 73, actress
8 Mack Jones, 65, former MLB outfielder with the Braves, Reds and Expos
8 Ronalda Pierce, 19, Florida State University basketball player, aneurysm
7 Thomas "Quorthon" Forsberg, 38, black metal pioneer and main member of Bathory (band), heart failure.
7 Donald Trumbull, 95, special effects pioneer
6 Judy Campbell, 88, actress
6 Robert Lees, 91, screenwriter, found decapitated
6 Kate Worley, 46, comic book writer (Omaha the Cat Dancer)
6 Necdet Mahfi Ayral, 96, Turkish actor
6 Iona Brown, 63, violinist and conductor
6 Simon Cumbers, 36, Irish freelance cameraman/journalist, working for the BBC in Saudi Arabia, killed by Al Qaeda
5 Ronald Reagan, 93, film actor and 40th President of the United States (1981–1989)
4 Phillip Bartlett, 44, original narrator of Pokémon and voice of Mewtwo from Pokémon: The First Movie, aortic dissection
4 Wilmer Fields, 81, former Negro League Baseball All-Star
4 Steve Lacy, 69, innovative jazz soprano saxophonist
4 Brian Linehan, 58, Canadian television host and interviewer (canada.com) (Toronto Star) (The Globe and Mail)
4 Nino Manfredi, 83, Italian actor [27]
3 Frances Shand Kydd, 68, mother of Diana, Princess of Wales
2 Dom Moraes, 65, Indian poet and writer
2 Tesfaye Gebre Kidan, ~69, former defense minister and acting president of Ethiopia
2 Nicolai Ghiaurov, 71, opera singer
1 William Manchester, 82, U.S. historian

May

31 Robert Quine, 61, New York punk rock guitarist
31 Alberta Martin, 97, last known widow of a Confederate soldier
30 Bobbie Irvine, 71, British ballroom dancer.
29 Archibald Cox, 92, Watergate special prosecutor
29 Sam Dash, 79, chief counsel to the House Judiciary Committee during the Watergate scandal
29 Jack Rosenthal, 72, British television dramatist [28]
29 Magne Havnå, 40, Norwegian former professional boxer, in boating accident
29 Ramona Trinidad Iglesias-Jordan, 114, oldest documented person in the world
28 Gerald Anthony, 52, actor, best known for playing Marco Dane on the TV show One Life to Live
28 Irene Manning, 91, actress and singer (Yankee Doodle Dandy)
28 Josie Carey, 73, host of the Pittsburgh children's show "Children's Corner"
28 Michael Alison,77,British Privy Council member and former minister and MP
27 Umberto Agnelli, 69, Italian industrialist, head of Fiat [29]
27 Jim Marshall, 63, British Labour MP [30]
27 Jack Losch, 69, member of 1st Little League World Series championship team
26 Gatjil Djerrkura, 54, Australian indigenous leader, Chairman of ATSIC 1996-2000
25 Roger W. Straus, Jr., 87, publisher (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
25 David Dellinger, 88, American antiwar activist, member of Chicago Eight
25 Glenn Cunningham, 60, mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey
24 Henry Ries, 87, American photographer
23 Trudy Marshall, 84, actress
22 Richard Biggs, 44, American actor, Babylon 5
22 Mikhail Voronin, 59, Russian gymnast, double Olympic champion
22 Dessi España, 32, circus performer, died from fall while performing without a net
22 Samuel Curtis Johnson, 76, fourth generation president of SC Johnson company
21 Rod Hall, 53, literary agent, murdered [31]
21 Gene Wood, 78, announcer of Family Feud and other US game shows
20 Len Murray, Lord Murray of Epping Forest, 81, British trade union leader
19 Jack Eckerd, 91, former owner of the Eckerd drugstore chain
19 Mary Dresselhuys, 97, Dutch actress
19 Arnold Moore, 90, blues artist
19 E.K. Nayanar, 87, three-time Chief Minister of Kerala, India [32]
18 Elvin Jones, 76, Jazz drummer, notably with the John Coltrane Quartet of the 1960s
18 Hyacinthe Thiandoum, 83, Roman Catholic Cardinal, former Archbishop of Dakar, Senegal
18 Arnold O. Beckman, 104, inventor, industrialist, philanthropist
18 Joey Curtis, 79, former professional boxer, boxing referee and business owner
17 Buster Narum, 63, former MLB pitcher for the Orioles and Senators
17 Jørgen Nash, 84, Danish poet, performance artist, brother of Asger Jorn
17 Tony Randall, 84, television actor (The Odd Couple)
17 June Taylor, 86, television dancer and choreographer
17 Ezzedine Salim, 60?, president of the Iraqi Governing Council
17 (or May 18) Gunnar Graps, 57, Estonian rock singer and percussionist
16 Marika Rökk, 90, actress
16 Lord Hill-Norton, 89, British Royal Navy Admiral of the Fleet
15 Carlos Orta, 60, Venezuelan artist, and principal dancer and choreographer of the José Limón Dance Company - [33] - [34]
15 Jack Bradbury, 89, animator and comic book artist
15 William H. Hinton, 85, Marxist, author of Fanshen
15 Gill Fox, 84, political cartoonist, comic book artist, and animator
15 Colonel Robert Morgan, 85, former pilot of the Memphis Belle
14 Anna Lee, 91, actress, best known for playing Lila Quartermaine on the TV show General Hospital
14 Jesus Gil, 71, controversial owner of Atlético Madrid football club
14 Charlotte Benkner, 114, oldest recognized person in United States
14 Shaun Sutton, 84, British television executive
13 Terry Crummitt, 27, actor, "SnackBoy" of The Sync fame [35]
13 Brian McNaughton, 68, American horror and fantasy writer
12 John LaPorta, 84, jazz clarinetist, composer and educator - [36]
12 Syd Hoff, 91, children's book author, cartoonist
12 John Robson, 54, English footballer
12 John Whitehead, 55, R&B artist, shot dead
12 Judith Cook, historian, campaigner and novelist
11 Mick Doyle, 63, Irish rugby union player and coach
10 Eric Kierans, 90, Canadian politician
10 (death announced) George, ~83, Blue Peter pet tortoise
9 Tommy Farrell, 82, American film and television actor
9 Percy M. Young, 91, British musicologist
9 Olive Osmond, 79, mother of entertainers Marie Osmond and the various Osmond Brothers
9 Rust Epique, 35, American Songwriter/Guitarist
9 Alan King, 76, American comedian/actor
9 Brenda Fassie, 39, South African singer [37]
9 Akhmad Kadyrov, 52, President of Chechnya
8 (body found) Nick Berg, 26, American civilian killed in Iraq
7 Waldemar Milewicz, 48, Polish journalist, and Mounyra Beouamrane, killed in Iraq
6 Kjell Hallbing, 69, also known as Louis Masterson, Norwegian Western author [38]
6 Sir John Hill, 90, British poice officer
6 Barney Kessel, 80, American jazz guitarist and studio musician
5 David Reimer, 39, notable gender-reassignment case
5 Ritsuko Okazaki, 44, Japanese singer-songwriter and author
4 Clement Dodd, 72, Jamaican reggae pioneer
3 Anthony Ainley, 71, British actor best known as The Master in Doctor Who
3 Darrell Johnson, 75, former MLB catcher and manager [39]
3 Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire, 84, British politician
3 Basil Wells, 91, science fiction author
2 Moe Burtschy, 82, former MLB pitcher for the Philadelphia & Kansas City Athletics
2 Paul Guimard, 83, French writer
1 Felix Haug, 52, Swiss pop musician (Double)

April

30 Heather Brigstocke, Baroness Brigstocke, 74, British educator.
30 Kioumars Saberi Foumani, 62, also known as Gol-Agha, Iranian satirist
30 Jeffrey Alan Gray, 69, British psychiatrist
29 Johannes Berg, 47, cornerstone of Norwegian science fiction fandom
29 Nick Joaquin, 86, writer and Philippine national artist
28 B.J. Schramm, 65, businessman and aircraft developer
27 David Jenkinson, 69, railway modeller and historian
27 Roy Walford, 79, dietician and author
26 Hubert Selby Jr., 75, author of "Last Exit to Brooklyn"
25 Thom Gunn, 74, British poet
25 Feridun Karakaya, 76, Turkish actor
24 Estée Lauder, 97, cosmetics products pioneer
24 Brian Manning, 76, British historian
24 Willie Watson, 84, English cricketer
22 Pat Tillman, 27, former NFL player (Arizona Cardinals), Army Ranger, killed in action by friendly fire
21 Mary McGrory, 85, American journalist and columnist
20 Patrick Gibson, Baron Gibson, 88, British publisher and arts administrator
19 Frank B. Morrison, 98, former Governor of Nebraska
19 Tim Burstall, 76, Australian film director and producer
19 John Maynard Smith, 84, British biologist
19 Norris McWhirter, 78, founder of the Guinness Book of Records
19 Jim Cantalupo, 60, CEO of McDonald's
18 Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, 83, long-time Prime Minister and President of Fiji
17 (body found, death probably in November 2003) Dru Sjodin, 22, U.S. kidnap victim
17 Edmond Pidoux, 95, Swiss author
17 Barbara Kenyatta Bey, 59, Yoruba priestess and widow of jazz percussionist Chief Bey
17 Geraint Howells, 79, Welsh politician
17 Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi, 56, Hamas leader
17 Soundarya, 32, Indian film actress
15 Hans Gmür, 77, Swiss theatre author, director, composer and producer
15 Mitsuteru Yokoyama, 69, Japanese manga artist
13 Csaba Horváth, 74, Chemical engineer and scientist
13 Caron Keating, 41, British television presenter
12 Juan Valderrama, 87, Spanish folk and flamenco singer
12 Frankie Narvaez, 65, Puerto Rican boxer
10 Lou Berberet, 74, former Major League Baseball catcher
10 Jacek Kaczmarski, 47, Polish poet and singer, the bard of Solidarity
10 Sakip Sabanci, 71, Turkish businessman
9 Lélia Abramo, 93, Celebrity Brazilian actress, and one of the founders of President Lula da Silva's Workers Party - Obituary in Portuguese [40]
9 Nick and Mary Yankovic, 86 and 81, parents of "Weird Al" Yankovic
9 Harry Babbitt, 90, singer
9 Tom Lewis, 85, British obstetrician
8 Chief Bey, 90, American jazz percussionist and African folklorist
8 Maureen Potter, 79, Irish comedienne and actor
8 Bruce Edwards, 49, caddy of golfer Tom Watson
7 Robert Sangster, 67, leading British racehorse owner
7 Kelucharan Mohapatra, 77, traditional Indian Odissi dancer
6 Larisa Bogoraz, 74, Russian dissident and human rights activist
6 Marjorie Pay Hinckley, 92, wife of Gordon B. Hinckley
6 Timothy, ~160, tortoise that served as a Royal Navy mascot in the Crimean War
5 Austin Willis, 86, Canadian movie actor and television host
4 George Bamberger, 80, former major league pitcher and manager
4 Gito Baloi, 39, Southern African musician
3 John Diamond, Baron Diamond, 96, British life peer
3 Gabriella Ferri, 62, Italian Singer
2 Lawrence McGrew, 46, former New England Patriots linebacker
1 Nilo Soruco, 76, Bolivian singer-songwriter
1 Paul Atkinson, 58, British guitarist
1 Carrie Snodgress, 57, actress
1 Aaron Bank, 101, "Father of Special Forces"
1 Enrique Grau, 83, Colombian painter and sculptor
1 Annette Daniels, 42, American opera singer

March

31 Sir John Warburton Paul, 88, British colonial administrator.
31 Hedi Lang, 72, first woman to preside the Swiss National Council
31 Gurcharan Singh Tohra, 79, Sikh leader
30 Michael King, 58, New Zealand historian
30 Erick Friedman, 64, American concert violinist, violin professor at Yale University
30 Alistair Cooke, 95, BBC broadcaster and transatlantic commentator
30 Hubert Gregg, 89, BBC broadcaster
29 Chen Yi-hsiung, failed assassin in the 3-19 shooting incident
28 Lise de Baissac, 98, Special Operations Executive agent.
28 Sir Peter Ustinov, 82, British actor
28 Robert Merle, 95, French author
27 Art James, 74, game show host and announcer
27 Larry Trask, 59, linguist and expert on the Basques
27 Adán Sánchez, 19, Mexican singer
27 James Wapakhabulo, 59, foreign minister of Uganda
26 Jan Berry, 62, the 'Jan' of Jan and Dean
26 Jan Sterling, 82, American actress
24 Dominic Agostino, 44, Ontario Liberal MPP
24 Michael Garrison, 47, American ambient musician, liver failure
23 Sir Rupert Hamer, 87, Australian politician
22 Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, 66?, spiritual leader and founder of Hamas
21 Mirwais Sadiq, ?, Civil Aviation Minister for Afghanistan
20 Chosuke Ikariya, 72, Japanese comedian, actor and leader of comedic group The Drifters
20 Juliana, 94, former Queen of the Netherlands
19 Brian Maxwell, 51, long-distance runner and founder of PowerBar
19 Sir Horace Phillips, 86, British diplomat.
19 Mitchell Sharp, 92, former Canadian Liberal cabinet minister
18 Gene Bearden, 83, baseball player with the Cleveland Indians
18 Vytas Brenner, 57, musician, keyboardist and composer
18 Wallace Davenport, 78, New Orleans jazz trumpeter
18 Harrison McCain, 76, Canadian businessman, founder of McCain Foods
18 Guillermo Rivas, 72, Mexican comedy actor
17 J.J. Jackson, 62, former MTV VJ
17 George Boiardi, 22, Lacrosse player for Cornell University
16 Vilém Tauský, 94, Czech conductor and composer
16 Brian Bianchini, 25, American fashion model
16 Kraft, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, 68, German prince
15 Amparo Arrebato, 59, Colombian dancer
15 Patrick Nuttgens, 74, British architect
15 William Pickering, 93, former head of Jet Propulsion Laboratory
15 John Pople, 78, British theoretical chemist and Nobel Prize winner
13 Franz König, 98, Austrian cardinal
13 Dullah Omar, 69, South African cabinet minister
12 Finn Carling, 78, Norwegian author and playwright with cerebral palsy
12 Yvonne Cernota, 24, German bobsled driver, in training accident
12 Cid Corman, 79, Japan-based American poet and translator
11 Seymour Geisser, 74, statistician, DNA-evidence expert
11 Sidney James, 97, first managing editor of Sports Illustrated
11 Edmund Sylvers, 47, lead singer of The Sylvers
10 Robert D. Orr, 86, former Governor of Indiana
10 James Parrish, 35, former National Football League player
10 Dave Blood, 47, Dead Milkmen bassist
9 Albert Mol, 87, dancer, cabaret performer, actor, TV personality, author
8 Nicolae Cajal, 84, doctor, chairman of Romania's Jewish community
8 Keith Hopkins, 69, British ancient historian and sociologist [41]
8 Robert Pastorelli, 49, actor on Murphy Brown
8 Muhammad Zaidan (Abu Abbas), 55, founder of Palestine Liberation Front
7 Paul Winfield, 62, Emmy-winning actor
6 Eugene T. Booth, 91, American nuclear physicist.
6 Alan Short, 83, California legislator, co-author of the Short-Doyle Mental Health Act
6 Frances Dee, 94, actress
6 John Henry Williams, 35, controversial son of baseball great Ted Williams
6 Ray Fernandez, 47, American professional wrestler best known as "Hercules Hernandez" or simply just "Hercules"
5 Mike O'Callaghan, 74, American politician, Governor of Nevada (1971–1979)
5 Julito Collazo, 78, Cuban Master Percussionist
5 Joan Riudavets, 114, world's oldest documented man and oldest recognized person in Europe
5 Percy Browne, 80, former British MP, jockey and farmer
4 Claude Nougaro, 74, French chanteur
4 Sir Malcolm Pasley, 77, British literary scholar
4 Stephen Sprouse, 50, American artist and fashion designer
4 John McGeoch, 48, British guitarist with Magazine, Siouxsie and the Banshees and PiL
3 Susan Moller Okin, 57, liberal feminism political philosopher
3 Luis Villalta, 35, professional boxer
3 Cecily Adams, 39, actress
2 Mercedes McCambridge, 85, Academy Award winning actress
2 Marge Schott, 75, former primary owner of the Cincinnati Reds