Deaths in February 2004

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The following is a list of notable deaths in February 2004.

February 2004

29

• Alexander Beresch, 26, Olympic gymnast from Ukriane
• Jerome Lawrence, 88, playwright
• Danny Ortiz, 27, Guatemalan football goalkeeper

28

• Daniel J. Boorstin, 89, historian
• Andres Nuiamäe, 21, first Estonian soldier to be killed in Iraq

27

• Paul Sweezy, 93, economist and founding editor of the Monthly Review

26

• Shankarrao Chavan, 83, Chief Minister of Maharashtra
• Adolf Ehrnrooth, 99, General; Finnish war veteran
• Boris Trajkovski, 47, President of the Republic of Macedonia

25

• Yuri Ozerov, 75, Russian basketball player

24

• John Randolph, 88, American actor

23

• Vijay Anand, 71, Bollywood filmmaker and brother of Dev Anand
• Carl Anderson, 58, American actor (Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar)
• Sikander Bakht, 85, Governor of Kerala
• William Coates, 92, asserted by advocates to be "oldest living American" but documentation showed otherwise
• Don Cornell, 79, popular singer of the 1940s and 1950s
• Carl Liscombe, 89, Detroit Red Wings hockey player in the 1940s

22

• Colin Eaborn, 80, British chemist
• Andy Seminick, 83, MLB catcher and last survivor of the 1950 Phillies' "Whiz Kids" that won the NL championship
• Azriel Rosenfeld, 73, computer image analysis researcher
• Roque Máspoli, 86, legendary Uruguayan goalkeeper

21

• Guido Molinari, Canadian abstract artist
• Bart Howard, 88, composer, "Fly Me To The Moon"
• Spot Fetcher, 14, President George W. Bush's dog
• John Charles, 72, Welsh football player

20

• Stanislaw Ryniak, 88, first person imprisoned at Auschwitz (Feb 20 is burial date)

19

• Clark Byers, American sign maker
• Archibald Paton Thornton, 83, Canadian historian

18

• Jean Rouch, 86, French filmmaker and ethnologist
• Ivor Stanbrook, 84, British politician

17

• José López Portillo, 83, former President of Mexico

16

• Shirley Strickland, 78, Australian athlete, three-time Olympic champion
• Doris Troy, 67, R&B singer
• Bill Oakley, 39, comic book letterer

15

• Jan Miner, 86, American actress
• Jens Evensen, 86, Norwegian minister, World Court judge

14

• Marco Pantani, 34, racing cyclist, winner of Tour de France and Giro d'Italia in 1998

13

• Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, 51, Chechen leader

12

• Martin Booth, 59, British author, brain tumor
• Preston Love, 83, American jazz saxophone player
• Sauli "Karkkunen" Lehtisaari, 24, Finnish vocalist with Twilight Ophera

11

• Hugh Cecil, 90, actor, one of the transylvannians in The Rocky Horror Picture Show
• Ryszard Kuklinski, 74, Polish-born colonel and spy
• Tony Pope, 57, Los Angeles voice actor, complications following leg surgery

10

• Nils Aas, 70, Norwegian sculptor and illustrator

9

• Robert F. Colesberry, (b. 1946) film and television producer (complications following cardiac surgery)
• Michael Rowland, 41, Horse racing jockey
• Samuel Rubin, 85, popcorn promoter
• Claude Ryan, 79, Canadian politician

8

• Julius Schwartz, 89, comic book and pulp magazine editor
• Cem Karaca, 58, Turkish singer and composer

7

• Norman Thelwell, 80, cartoonist

6

• Humphry Osmond, 86, psychiatrist and pioneer LSD experimenter
• Jerome F. Lederer, 101, aviation safety pioneer

5

• Frances Partridge, 103, writer, last surviving member of the Bloomsbury group

4

• Hilda Hilst, 73, Brazilian novelist
• Ernest Burke, 79, baseball player
• Johnny Leartice Robinson, 51, convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in Florida.

3

• Cornelius Bumpus, 58, musician (The Doobie Brothers, Steely Dan)

2

• Alan Bullock, 89, historian

1

• Ally McLeod, 72, Scottish football player and manager
• Bob Stokoe, 73, footballer, F.A. Cup winning manager