Deaths in August 2004
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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.
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