Deaths in August 2004

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

August 2004

1

• Philip Hauge Abelson, 91, physicist, co-discoverer of Neptunium.
• Sidney Morgenbesser, 82, philosopher.

3

• Henri Cartier-Bresson, 95, French photographer.
• Brian Hitch, 72, British diplomat.
• Margo McLennan, 66, British actress, Prisoner, cancer.
• Bob Murphy, 79, Major League Baseball/New York Mets announcer.
• Arturo Tolentino, 94, Philippine lawyer and politician.

4

• Mary Dees, 93, American actress.
• Hunter Hancock, 88, R&B and rock DJ.
• Sir Robert Jennings, 90, British jurist, President of the International Court of Justice.

5

• James Alford, 90, British athlete.
• James Hubbard, 74, convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in Alabama.

6

• Robin Banerjee, 94, Indian environmentalist and wildlife photographer.
• Rick James, 56, funk singer.

7

• Paul "Red" Adair, 89, American oil well fire-fighter.
• Colin Bibby, 55, English ornithologist.
• Bernard Levin, 75, journalist and broadcaster.

8

• Robert "Gypsy Boots" Bootzin, 89, health and fitness pioneer.
• Paul "Mousie" Garner, 95, comedian, Three Stooges associate.
• Leon Golub, 82, internationally recognized artist and painter.
• Charles L. Lewis, 37, American politician.
• Dimitris Papamichael, 70, Greek actor.
• Richard Taylor, 23, Welsh skating and skiing champion, collided with a concrete lamp-post.
• Fay Wray, 96, King Kong actress.

9

• Michael Grant, 89, classical scholar and author.
• Tony Mottola, 86, guitarist who played with Frank Sinatra and on The Tonight Show orchestra.
• David Raksin, 92, film composer.

10

• James Stillman Rockefeller, 102, oldest known U.S. Olympic medal winner.
• Alan N. Cohen, 73, former owner of the Boston Celtics.

11

• Bill Martin, Jr., 88, author of Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.
• Joe Falls, 76, longtime sports writer for The Detroit News.

12

• Terry Jess Dennis, 57, convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in Nevada.
• Sir Godfrey N. Hounsfield, 84, Nobel Prize in Medicine, coinventor of the CAT scan.
• Ian Lake, 69, British musician.
• Robert L. Morris, 62, American parapsychologist.
• Peter Woodthorpe, 72, British character actor.
• George Yardley, 75, National Basketball Association Hall of Famer.

13

• Julia Child, 91, author and television hostess on French cuisine.
• Milton Pollack, 97, U.S. federal judge who ruled on court cases involving Wall Street.
• Stefan Dimitrov, Bulgarian opera basso singer.

14

• William D. Ford, 77, member of the United States House of Representatives from Michigan from 1965 to 1995.
• Dhananjoy Chatterjee, 42, rapist and murderer; the first person executed in India since 1995.
• Czesław Miłosz, 93, Polish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980, and dissident.

15

• Semiha Berksoy, 94, Turkish opera singer.
• Sune K. Bergström, 88, Nobel Prize in Medicine.
• Neal Fredericks, 35, cinematographer for the movie The Blair Witch Project, drowned in helicopter crash while filming.
• Ollie Silva, 75, American auto racing driver.

16

• Acquanetta, 83, "Venezuelan" United States-born B-movie actress.
• Mick Clingly, 72, Australian sportsman.
• Ivan Hlinka, 54, Czech Republic national hockey team and Pittsburgh Penguins coach.
• J. Irwin Miller, 95, American industrialist and architectural philanthropist.
• George Moe, 72, Barbadian politician and former Chief Justice of Belize.
• Carl Mydans, 91, photographer.
• Robert Quiroga, 35, world champion boxer, murdered.

17

• Dennis "D-Roc" Miles, 45, rhythm guitarist for Body Count, from lymphoma complications.
• Anatoly Guzhvin, 58, head of the administration of Astrakhan Oblast.
• Gérard Souzay, 85, French baritone.
• Thea Astley, 78, Australian novelist.

18

• Elmer Bernstein, 82, composer of classic film music such as The Magnificent Seven.
• Hiram Fong, 97, first Asian American elected to the U.S. Senate.
• Hugh Manning, 83, British actor.
• Víctor Cervera Pacheco, 68, Mexican politician, former Governor of Yucatán.
• Charlie Waller, 69, American bluegrass musician, founder of the band Country Gentlemen.

19

• George Gibson, 98, American football player.
• Rudolf Miele, 74, German entrepreneur.
• Günter Rexrodt, 62, German politician, former Economics Minister of Germany.

20

• María Antonieta Pons, 82, Cuban-born star of rumbera films.
• Moshe Shamir, 83, Israeli politician and novelist.

22

• Muriel Angelus, 95, British silent film actress.
• Konstantin Aseev, 43, chess Grandmaster and coach.
• Al Dvorin, 81, announcer who popularized the phrase "Elvis has left the building", automobile accident.
• Marcel Caux, 105, Australian First World War veteran, last known survivor of the Battle of Pozières.
• George Kirgo, 78, television and film writer, former president of the Writers Guild of America.
• Daniel Petrie, Sr., 83, film director, A Raisin in the Sun.
• Ota Sik, 84, architect of economic liberalization during Czechoslovakia's ill-fated 1968 Prague Spring.

23

• Francesco Minerva, 100, centenarian Italian Roman Catholic archbishop.
• Hank Borowy, 88, former New York Yankees, Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies, Pittsburgh Pirates and Detroit Tigers pitcher.
• Mary Guiney, 103, chairperson of the Clerys department store.
• Heinrich Mark, 92, Estonian politician, Prime Minister of Estonia in exile 1971-1990.

24

• Richard Ervin, 99, former attorney general and chief justice of Florida.
• Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, 78, Swiss-born psychiatrist.
• Eleni Ioannou, 20, Greek judoka.
• Bob Price, 76, American politician.

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)
• Don Ashton, 85, British film art director and production designer.

26

• José Carlos, 53, Portuguese fashion designer.
• Laura Branigan, 47, American pop singer.
• Enzo G. Baldoni, 56, Italian journalist, murdered in Iraq.

27

• Fernand Auberjonois, 93, foreign news correspondent for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Toledo Blade; father of actor René Auberjonois.
• Willie Crawford, 57, former outfielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
• Suzanne Kaaren, 92, actress (Three Stooges films).
• Ko Young-hee, 51, former consort to North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, cancer (rumoured).
• Larry McCormick, 71, American television personality.
• William Pierson, 78, actor Stalag 17.

28

• Robert Lewin, 84, producer and screenwriter, Academy Award nomination for writing The Bold and the Brave, lung cancer.
• Lina Zimmer, 111, oldest German.

30

• Larry Desmedt, 55, motorcycle designer, injuries suffered during a stunt.
• Willie Duff, 69, goalkeeper of Heart of Midlothian, Charlton Athletic, Peterborough United and Dunfermline Athletic.
• Derek Johnson, 71, British athlete and athletics administrator.
• Fay Jones, 83, architect trained by Frank Lloyd Wright.
• Bob Sherman, 63, American actor.
• Fred Whipple, 97, American astronomer.

31

• Joe Barry, 65, Swamp Pop singer of "I'm a Fool to Care".
• Carl Wayne, 61, lead singer of pop group The Move, cancer.