Deaths in June 2005
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The following is a list of notable people who died in June 2005.
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- Dick Dietz, 63, an All-Star catcher who played for the Giants, Dodgers and Braves, heart attack. [5]
- Philip Hobsbaum, 72, academic, poet and critic, diabetes. [6]
- Brenda Howard, 58, American LGBT-rights activist, colon cancer.[7]
- Bruce Malmuth, 71, American film director (Sylvester Stallone's Nighthawk), throat cancer. [8]
- Rowland B. Wilson, 74, American cartoonist and animator [9]
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- Shelby Foote, 88, U.S. historian. [10]
- Frank Harte, 72, Dublin traditional singer and song collector, heart attack.
- 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. [11]
- Ray Holmes, 90, pilot who protected Buckingham Palace during the Battle of Britain, cancer. [12]
- Owen McCarron, 76, Canadian cartoonist and puzzle creator.[13]
- John T. Walton, 58, son of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton
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- Filip Adwent, 49, Polish politician, MEP, eight (8) days after a road accident which also killed his parents and daughter. [14]
- 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.[15]
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- Frederick G. Dutton, 82, advisor to President Kennedy. [16]
- John Fiedler, 80, American film, stage and television actor, cancer. [17]
- Sir Harry Gibbs, 88, Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia 1981-87
- Chet Helms, 62, rock music promoter
- Bob Vincent, 87, American big band singer and theatrical agent
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- Shana Alexander, 79, American journalist, cancer. [19]
- Manolis Anagnostakis, 80, Greek poet.
- Isidore Cohen, 82, violinist with the Beaux Arts Trio. [20]
- Hanna Kvanmo, 79, Norwegian politician
- Sam Kweskin, 81, comic book artist [21]
- Ramon L. Posel, 77, built up Philadelphia's art film industry though Ritz Theaters [22]
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- George Hawi, 67, former secretary general of Communist Party of Lebanon. Killed by terrorists in an attack on his car.
- Geoffrey Jones, 73, British documentary maker, cancer.
- Jaime Sin, 76, Roman Catholic Cardinal and former Archbishop of Manila.
- Louis H. Wilson, Jr., 85, US Medal of Honor recipient and Commandant of the Marine Corps
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- 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.
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- 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.)
- Basil Kirchin, 77, British musician.
- 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).
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- 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 [24]
- James Weinstein, 78, Jewish author, founder and publisher of In These Times
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- Percy Arrowsmith, 105, one-half of the world's documented longest marriage
- 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, also known as Your TV Shopper, 1948–1950); mother of actress Koo Stark.
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- Joan Abse, 78, English writer and art historian
- 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 [25]
- David Diamond, 89, American composer
- Eugénio de Andrade, 82, Portuguese poet
- Lane Smith, 69, American actor (My Cousin Vinny, Lois & Clark)
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- 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). [26]
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- Adolfo Aguilar Zínser, 55, Mexican scholar, diplomat and politician
- George Isaak, 72, Australian phyicist. [30]
- Oscar Morelli, 59, Mexican actor, after lengthy illness
- Susi Nicoletti, 86, Austrian film actress, complications from heart surgery. de:Susi Nicoletti, [31]
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- 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. [32]
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- Leon Askin, 97, Austrian actor
- Michael Billington, 63, British actor
- Harold Cardinal, 60, Cree writer, lung cancer
- Alex Freeleagus, 77, Australian diplomat and lawyer. [33]
- Harrison Young, 75, American actor (Saving Private Ryan). [34]
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- 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. [35]
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