Deaths in July 2004
The following is a list of notable deaths in July 2004.
July 2004
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- Enrique Mederos, Latin American voice actor.
- Peter Barnes, 73, British screenwriter and playwright, stroke.
- Marlon Brando, 80, American actor (The Godfather, Apocalypse Now), pulmonary fibrosis.
- Sir Richard May, 65, former presiding judge, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.
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- Peter Birks, 62, British academic lawyer.
- Eric Douglas, 46, American actor and comedian, youngest son of Kirk Douglas.
- Thomas Klestil, 71, Federal President of Austria, heart failure.
- Syreeta Wright, 58, singer, songwriter, ex-wife of Stevie Wonder.
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- Jaroslav Hules, 30, Czech motorcycle racer, suicide.
- Albert Friedlander, 77, German rabbi.
- Paula Danziger, 59, U.S. author.
- Mike Woodin, 38, Principal Speaker of Green Party of England and Wales and Oxford City Councillor.
- Jean Lefebvre, 84, French actor.
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- Jeillo Edwards, c. 62, Sierra Leonean actress, first black actor to appear on "The Bill".
- Paul Klebnikov, 41, editor of Forbes magazine's Russian edition, murdered.
- Ron Milner, 66, African-American playwright.
- Riley Dobi Noel, 31, convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in Arkansas.
- Bill Randle, 81, American disc jockey.
- Isabel Sanford, 86, actress, The Jeffersons, natural causes.
- Jeff Smith, 65, chef and host of The Frugal Gourmet.
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- Dorothy Hart, 82, American actress.
- Frances Hyland, 77, Canadian theatre actress.
- Betty Oliphant, 85, founder of Canada's National Ballet School.
- Laurance Rockefeller, 94, conservationist and philanthropist.
- Walter Wager, 79, American author.
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- Joe Gold, 82, bodybuilding pioneer and Gold's Gym founder.
- Clifford Irving, 90, Manx politician.
- Arthur Kane, 53, American bassist for the New York Dolls, leukemia.
- Carlos Kleiber, 74, Austrian conductor.
- Betty Luna, 77, American baseball player.
- Michio Morishima, 80, Japanese economist.
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- Paul Hilmar Jensen, 74, Norwegian philatelist.
- Khalil Hilmi, 94/95, Lebanese Olympic sport shooter.
- Sir Julian Hodge, 99, British entrepreneur, founder of the Carlyle Trust bank.
- Pat Roach, 67, wrestler and actor; cancer. ()
- Susan Cullen-Ward, 63, wife of the pretender to Albania's throne, Leka Zogu; cancer.
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- Harry Forsyth, 100, Irish cricketer and centenarian.
- Kazi Abul Kasem, 91, Bangladeshi polymath.
- Carvalho Leite, 92, Brazilian footballer, one of the last survivor of national team in 1930 FIFA World Cup.
- Woodrow Sedlacek, 85, American racehorse trainer.
- Zenko Suzuki, 93, former Prime Minister of Japan.
- David A. Wallace, 87, American urban planner.
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- Joe Cahill, 84, Irish politician.
- Mehmood, 72, Indian actor.
- Janet Chisholm, 75, former British MI6 agent.
- Carlos Paredes, 79, Portuguese guitar player.
- Serge Reggiani, 82, French singer and actor.
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- William A. Mitchell, 92, food scientist, inventor of Pop Rocks candy and Tang drink mix.
- Rubén Gómez, 77, Puerto Rico, former Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the San Francisco Giants, Philadelphia Phillies, Cleveland Indians and Minnesota Twins.
- Oğuz Aral, 68, Turkish caricaturist; creator of Avanak Avni, Kostebek Husnu, and Utanmaz Adam.
- Sidney Francis Greene, Lord Greene of Harrow Weald, 94, British railroad worker, trade union leader, and life peer.
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- Jackson Beck, 92, announcer and voice actor.
- Francis Crick, 88, British biologist, one of the discoverers of the "double-helix" shape of DNA, cancer.
- Alexei de Keyser, 36, British television producer.
- Sam Edwards, 89, American actor, Little House on the Prairie, heart failure.
- Steve Patterson, 56, former center of the UCLA basketball team, coach at Arizona State University and founder of the Grand Canyon State Games.
- Eugene Roche, 75, American character actor and the "Ajax" Man.
- Tiziano Terzani, 65, Italian journalist, famous for his books on Asia.
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- David Bowden, 66, Australian Anglican prelate, Bishop of Bendigo (1995–2002).
- Susan Buffett, 71, estranged wife of billionaire/investment guru Warren Buffett.
- Nafisa Joseph, 25, model, MTV video jockey, Miss India 1997; suicide.
- Rena Vlahopoulou, 81, Greek comedienne.
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