Deaths in December 2004
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The following is a list of notable deaths in December 2004.
December 2004
- John Chataway, 57, Canadian politician, complications from stroke. [1]
- Gérard Debreu, 83, French-born American Nobel Prize-winning economist (Economics, 1983), natural causes. [2]
- George Wackenhut, 85, American businessman, founder of Wackenhut Corporation, heart failure. [3]
- Julius Axelrod, 92, American Nobel Prize-winning biochemist (Medicine, 1970), natural causes. [6]
- William Boyett, 77, American actor (Adam-12), complications from pneumonia and kidney failure. [7]
- John Bridgeman, 88, British sculptor. [8]
- Ken Burkhart, 89, American Major League Baseball pitcher and umpire, emphysema. [9]
- Liddy Holloway, 57, New Zealand actress (Shortland Street) and writer, liver cancer. [10]
- Troy Broadbridge, 24, Australian AFL player (Melbourne), in 2004 Asian tsunami. [15]
- Jonathan Drummond-Webb, 45, South African paediatric heart surgeon, suicide by overdose. [16]
- Marianne Heiberg, 59, Norwegian diplomat, Oslo Accords mediator, heart attack. [17]
- Bhumi Jensen, 21, Thai prince, in 2004 Asian tsunami. [18]
- Eddie Layton, 77, American organist (New York Yankees), after short illness. [19]
- The Rt Hon Sir Angus Ogilvy, 76, British businessman, husband of HRH Princess Alexandra, The Hon Lady Ogilvy, throat cancer. [20]
- Reggie White, 43, American football player, cardiac arrhythmia. [21]
- Robert Whymant, 60, British journalist (The Times) and author, in 2004 Asian tsunami. [22]
- Jane Muskie, 77, American former model and bookkeeper, widow of politician Edmund Muskie, Alzheimer's disease. [23]
- Antony Preston, 66, British naval historian and writer.
- Gennady Strekalov, 64, Russian cosmonaut, Hero of the Soviet Union, cancer. [24]
- Capt. Richard Annand, 90, British soldier, first Victoria Cross recipient of World War II. [25]
- Sir Anthony Meyer, 84, British Conservative MP (West Flintshire, 1970–1983; Clwyd North-West, 1983–1992), cancer. [26]
- Johnny Oates, 58, American Major League Baseball catcher (Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees) and manager (Orioles, Texas Rangers), brain tumor. [27]
- Michael Alexander, 84, British soldier and Prominente German Prisoner of War. [35]
- Herbert C. Brown, 92, British Nobel Prize-winning chemist (Chemistry, 1979), heart attack. [36]
- Mel Gabler, 89, American conservative textbook critic, brain hemorrhage after fall. [37]
- Renata Tebaldi, 82, Italian opera singer, after short illness. [38]
- Noel Beaton, 78, Australian MP (Bendigo, 1960–1969) and journalist, after short illness. [39]
- Vijay Hazare, 89, Indian cricketer, Captain of India (1951–1953), illness following intestinal cancer. [40]
- Albert Nordengen, 81, Norwegian Conservative politician, Mayor of Oslo (1976–1990), heart failure. [41] (Norwegian)
- Anthony Sampson, 78, British journalist and author, official biographer of Nelson Mandela, heart attack. [42]
- Tokugawa Kikuko, Princess Takamatsu, 92, Japanese member of imperial family, blood poisoning. [43]
- Ted Abernathy, 71, American baseball player. [46]
- Agnes Martin, 92, American abstract painter, pneumonia. [47]
- Bobby Mattick, 89, American former baseball player and manager, stroke. [48]
- Lawrence O'Brien, 53, Member of the Canadian House of Commons, cancer. [49]
- Freddie Perren, 61, American Grammy Award-winning producer. [50]
- Chiang Fang-liang, 88, widow of Chiang Ching-kuo and First Lady of the Republic of China on Taiwan (1978–1988), pulmonary and cardiac failure. [51]
- Vassal Gadoengin, 61, Nauruan politician and then-incumbent Speaker of Parliament, heart attack. [52]
- Pauline LaFon Gore, 92, mother of former US vice-president Al Gore, wife of Albert Gore, Sr.. [53]
- Jim Holliday, pornographic film producer and historian, complications from diabetes. [54]
- Rodney O'Gliasain Kennedy-Minott, 76, former United States Ambassador to Sweden, complications of pancreatitis. [55]
- Lorenzo "Larry" J. Ponza Jr., 86, baseball pitching machine innovator, cancer-related illness. [56]
- Athena Starwoman, 59, astrologer, breast cancer. [57]
- Harry Bowcott, 97, Welsh rugby union player (London Welsh, Wales) and president of the Welsh Rugby Union. [58]
- Candice Daly, 41, American film and TV actor (The Young and the Restless). [59]
- Sidonie Goossens, 105, British harpist. [60]
- Rod Kanehl, 70, American baseball player who hit the first grand slam in the Mets history, heart attack. [61]
- Fernando Poe, Jr., 65, Filipino actor and former presidential candidate, stroke. [62]
- Syed Mir Qasim, 83, chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir (1971–1975). [63]
- Andre Rodgers, 70, first Bahamian to play in Major League Baseball. [64]
- Bernarda Bryson Shahn, 101, painter, lithographer, widow of Ben Shahn. [65]
- David Wheeler, 77, computer scientist. [66]
- David Brudnoy, 64, American radio talk show host (Boston), Merkel cell carcinoma. [75]
- Sir Peter Emery, 78, British Conservative politician (Honiton, 1967–1997; East Devon, 1997–2001). [76]
- Philippe Gigantès, 81, Canadian former senator, cancer. [77]
- Lea De Mae, 27, pornographic film actress, brain cancer. [78]
- Sergey Voychenko, 49, Belarusian artist and designer.
- Darrell "Dimebag" Abbott, 38, American heavy metal guitarist (Pantera, Damageplan), shot. [79]
- Jackson Mac Low, 82, American poet, composer and performance artist, complications from stroke. [80]
- Leslie Scarman, Baron Scarman, 93, British politician and life peer, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary (1977–1986). [81]
- Gerald FitzGerald, 90, Irish nobleman, 8th Duke of Leinster. [92]
- Maria Perschy, 66, Austrian film, stage and TV actor, cancer. [93]
- Josef Schwammberger, 92, German former Nazi labor camp commander. [94]
- Shiing-Shen Chern, 93, Chinese mathematician, heart failure following heart attack. [95]
- Larry Buchanan, 81, American B-movie director, producer and writer, complications of collapsed lung. [96]
- Kevin Coyne, 60, musician, filmmaker and author, pulmonary fibrosis. [97]
- Dame Alicia Markova, 94, ballerina. [98]
- Nadine Shamir, 32, American techno singer/songwriter, complications in childbirth. [99]
- Mona Van Duyn, 83, American poet, US Poet Laureate (1992), bone cancer. [100]
- Fathi Arafat, 71, Palestinian physician, brother of Yasser Arafat and founder of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, stomach cancer. [101]
- Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, 93, Dutch royal, father of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, cancer. [102]
- Bill Brown, 73, Scottish goalkeeper (Tottenham Hotspur, Scotland). [103]
- Emma Verona Johnston, 114, American supercentenarian, oldest documented person in the United States. [104]
- David Vienneau, 53, Canadian journalist, pancreatic cancer. [105]