Deaths in August 2004
The following is a list of notable deaths in August 2004.
August 2004
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Dhananjoy Chatterjee, 42, rapist and murderer; the first person executed in India since 1995.
- William D. Ford, 77, member of the United States House of Representatives from Michigan from 1965 to 1995.
- Neal Fredericks, 35, cinematographer for the movie The Blair Witch Project, drowned in helicopter crash while filming.
- Robert Howard, 28, American athlete.
- Czesław Miłosz, 93, Polish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980, and dissident.
- Semiha Berksoy, 94, Turkish opera singer.
- Sune K. Bergström, 88, Nobel Prize in Medicine.
- Ollie Silva, 75, American auto racing driver.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Don Ashton, 85, British film art director and production designer.
- Roger Broughton, 45, New Zealand cricketer.
- Marcelo Gonzalez Martin, 86, former Roman Catholic primate of Spain, Cardinal since 1973 and Archbishop of Toledo from 1971 to 1995. (Papal condolence message)
- José Carlos, 53, Portuguese fashion designer.
- Laura Branigan, 47, American pop singer.
- Enzo G. Baldoni, 56, Italian journalist, murdered in Iraq.
- 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.
- Larry Desmedt, 55, motorcycle designer, injuries suffered during a stunt.
- Willie Duff, 69, Scottish football goalkeeper (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.