Deaths in May 2005
The following is a list of notable people who died in May 2005.
May 2005
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- Edgar Baird, 93, Canadian businessman.
- Albert Rex Bergstrom, 79, New Zealand econometrician. .
- Kenneth Clark, 90, African-American civil rights activist and psychologist.
- René Rivkin, 60, Australian stockbroker.
- Edward von Kloberg III, 63, American lobbyist.
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- Robert Hunter, 63, Canadian journalist and co-founder of Greenpeace
- Wee Kim Wee, 89, Singaporean politician, fourth President of Singapore from 1985 to 1993
- Theofiel Middelkamp, 91, Dutch cyclist, first Dutchman to win a stage in the Tour de France and first Dutch world champion.
- Börje Nyberg, 85, Swedish actor and film director.
- Jonathan Thomas, 59, Canadian-born sculptor
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- Henriette, Lady Abel Smith, 90, British courtier, lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth II.
- Jagjit Singh Aurora, 89, Indian army general.
- David Batchelor, 63, British sound mixer.
- Don Canham, 87, former University of Michigan athletic director.
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- Mark Boyle, 70, Scottish artist.
- David H. Hackworth, 74, Vietnam War veteran, journalist
- Evelyn Lutman Roberts, 88, wife of preacher Oral Roberts
- Luis Taruc, 91, Filipino Communist revolutionary figure; leader of the HUKBALAHAP, a guerilla group against the Japanese during World War II.
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- Ted Atkinson, 88, Hall of Fame jockey.
- Carolyn Brady, 67, American artist.
- Elisabeth Fraser, 85, American actress on The Phil Silvers Show, etc.
- June MacCloy, 96, American actress.
- Magdolna Nyári-Kovács, 83, Hungarian Olympic fencer.
- Édgar Ponce, 30, Mexican actor, collision between car and motorcycle during filming of video for "Sólo para mujeres".
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- Theodore J. Bauer, 95, American specialist in infectious diseases.
- Luis Cabellero, 42, Paraguyan footballer.
- Miguel Contreras, 52, California union leader.
- Rafael Diaz-Balart, 79, opponent and former brother-in-law of Fidel Castro, father of U.S. Congressmen Lincoln Diaz-Balart and Mario Diaz-Balart.
- Joe Grant, 96, Disney animator, heart attack.
- Jost Gross, 59, member of the National Council of Switzerland.
- Lisa Freeman Roberts, 56, American vocalist.
- Herb Sargent, 81, American television comedy writer.
- Lee Stine, 91, who pitched in Major League Baseball for the Chicago White Sox, Cincinnati Reds and New York Yankees.
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- Václav Boštík, 91, Czech artist.
- Tristan Egolf, 33, author, suicide.
- Peter Wallace Rodino, 95, U.S. congressman, (1949–1989).
- Betty Talmadge, 81, ex-wife of Senator Herman Talmadge, testified against him in Senate ethics committee in 1979, from Alzheimers.
- Otilino Tenorio, 25, Ecuadorian international football player.
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- Léo Cadieux, 96, Canadian politician and diplomat.
- Alfred Finnigan, 108, oldest man in Wales and World War I survivor.
- Michalis Genitsaris, 86, Greek rebetiko singer and composer.
- Bob Stuart, 84, New Zealand rugby player.
- Template:Paul Caripideis 68, American Boxer, Feather weight champion.They called him Pablo. (Greek)
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- Carl Alpert, 92, American-born Israeli journalist.
- Eddie Barclay, 84, French record producer and founder of Barclay Records.
- Maurice Catarcio, 76, former World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) wrestler, of cancer.
- Sara Gadimova, 82, Azerbaijani khananda singer.
- Monica Zetterlund, 67, Swedish singer and actress.
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- Povl Ahm, 78, Danish engineer, cancer.
- Les Bartley, 51, former coach of the Toronto Rock of the National Lacrosse League, colon cancer.
- Alan B. Gold, 88, retired Chief Justice of the Quebec Superior Court, negotiated an end to the Oka standoff and numerous strikes.
- The Earl of Shaftesbury, 27, English peer, suspected heart attack.
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- L. Bruce Archer, 82, British mechanical engineer and designer.
- Andrew J. Goodpaster, 90, former leader of NATO and veteran of World War II.
- June Lang, 90, American actor.
- Jose M. Lopez, 94, Medal of Honor-winning soldier in World War II.
- Albert "Smiler" Marshall, 108, British veteran of World War I.
- Arthur Naftalin, 87, former mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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- John Arthur, 85, South African boxer.
- Richard Cartwright, 31, convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.
- Henry Corden, 85, Canadian-born voice actor (Fred Flintstone) for more than 2 decades.
- Batya Gur, 57, Israeli author.
- David Lang, 37, former NFL running back with the Los Angeles Rams and Dallas Cowboys.
- Richard Lewine, 94, Broadway composer and TV producer.
- Victor Wouk, 86, American scientist and electrical engineer.
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- Stephen Elliott, 86, American actor, Arthur.
- Bedford Jezzard, 77, former Fulham FC football player and manager.
- Howard Morris, 85, American comedy actor and director.
- Subodh Mukherjee, 84, Indian filmmaker.
- Fred Rosen, 74, American physician.
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- John Albano, 82, American comic book writer.
- Hugh Cabot III, 75, American artist.
- Derek Ratcliffe, 75, conservationist.
- Billy Smart, Jr, 71, British circus impresario.
- Roderick Wright, 64, disgraced former bishop.
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- Carl Amery, 83, German writer.
- Arthur Haulot, 91, Belgian journalist, active member of the resistance movement against the Nazi occupation.
- Robert McAuliffe, 66, Olympic sports shooter from the United States Virgin Islands.
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- Sunil Dutt, 75, Bollywood actor and Union Minister, India.
- Robert Jankel, 67, British limousine designer.
- Gregory Scott Johnson, executed for murdering an 82-year-old woman, had asked for a temporary reprieve to donate his liver to his sister.
- Graham Kennedy, 71, Australian TV celebrity and comedian.
- Ruth Laredo, 67, American pianist.
- Steve Mason, 65, American poet and war veteran.
- Ismail Merchant, 68, film producer.
- Zoran Mušič, 96, Slovene painter, graphic artist and draughtsman.
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- Eddie Albert, 99, American actor, star of Green Acres.
- John Hope Anderson, 93, American politician.
- James G. Butler, 84, American lawyer.
- Chico Carrasquel, 77, Venezuelan shortstop, the first Latin American player to appear in an MLB All-Star game.
- Sangoulé Lamizana, 89, former president of Burkina Faso.
- Krzysztof Nowak, 29, football player for VfL Wolfsburg and the Polish national team, suffered from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
- Terry Shannon, 52, American IT expert.
- Domenic Troiano, 59, Canadian guitarist, cancer.
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- Abuzar Aydamirov, 71, Chechen writer.
- Otto Binnig, 81, German World War II soldier.
- Maurice Cohen, 93, American metallurgist.
- Fay Godwin, 74, British photographer.
- Ian Mackenzie-Kerr, 75, British book designer.
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- Emil Appolus, 70, Namibian politician.
- Benjamin Biaggini, 89, American railroad executive.
- Clair A. Callan, 85, American politician, U.S. Representative from Nebraska (1965–1967).
- John Sidney Garrett, 83, American politician, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives.
- Arnold Morton, 83, founder of Morton's of Chicago steakhouses.
- David Oswald Thomas, 81, Welsh philosopher.
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- Ricky Allen, 70, American blues singer.
- María de los Ángeles Alvariño González, 88, Spanish oceanographer.
- Oscar Brown, Jr., 78, musician, playwright, activist.
- Patsy Calton, 56, British Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament, cancer.
- Joseph Karth, 82, American politician, U.S. Representative from Minnesota (1959–1977).
- Sir Frederick Page, 88, British aircraft designer.
- George Rochberg, 86, American composer.
- Akihiko Saito, 44, Japanese hostage in Iraq.
- Sir Gordon Tait, 83, British admiral.
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- Takanohana Kenshi (née Mitsuru Hanada), 55, aka "The Prince of Sumo [wrestling]"
- Jan Knappert, 78, Dutch linguist.
- Fazal Mahmood, 78, former Pakistani cricket captain
- Tomasz Pacyński, 47, Polish fantasy and science fiction author
- Alma Ziegler, 87, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League)
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