Deaths in 2004

See also: Deaths in 2005.

The following is a list of figures who died in 2004.

Contents 1 December 2004 2 November 2004 3 October 2004 4 September 2004 5 August 2004 6 July 2004 7 June 2004 8 May 2004 9 April 2004 10 March 2004 11 February 2004 12 January 2004 13 External links and references

December 2004

• 31 George Wackenhut, 85, founder of Wackenhut Corporation
• 31 Gerard Debreu, 83, Nobel prize winner
• 31 John E. Chataway, 57, Nova Scotia politician
• 31 Bob Karstens, 89, former member of the Harlem Globetrotters
• 31 Peter Farago, 86, Hungarian born physicist
• 30 Artie Shaw, 94, American jazz musician
• 29 William Boyett, 77, American actor
• 29 Liddy Holloway, 57, New Zealand actress, writer
• 29 Julius Axelrod, 92, American biochemist, Nobel prize winner
• 29 Ken Burkhart, 89, former major league baseball pitcher and umpire
• 28 Jerry Orbach, 69, American actor, prostate cancer
• 28 Susan Sontag, 71, American author
• 27 Hank Garland, 74, American country, rock, and jazz guitarist
• 27 Heorhiy Kyrpa, 58, Ukrainian Transport Minister, found shot
• 26 Sir Tristan Antico, Italian-born Australian industrialist, founder of Pioneer Concrete (now Hanson)
• 26 Troy Broadbridge, 24, Melbourne AFL Player, Asian tsunami victim [1]
• 26 Bhumi Jensen, 21, Thai prince, Asian tsunami victim
• 26 Robert Whymant, 60, former Times correspondent and author, Asian tsunami victim
• 26 Dr. Marianne Heiberg, 59, Oslo accords mediator
• 26 Eddie Layton, 77, organist for the New York Yankees for 38 seasons
• 26 Dr. Jonathan Drummond-Webb, 45, heart surgeon
• 26 Reggie White, 43, American football player
• 26 Sir Angus Ogilvy, 76, husband of HRH Princess Alexandra of Kent
• 25 Anthony Preston, 66, naval historian and writer
• 25 Gennady Strekalov, 64, former Russian cosmonaut
• 25 Jane Muskie, 77, widow of politician Edmund Muskie
• 24 Sir Anthony Meyer, 84, former British politician
• 24 Capt. Richard Wallace Annand VC, 90, first soldier whose actions in World War II resulted in a Victoria Cross
• 24 Johnny Oates, 58, former Major League Baseball manager
• 23 John W. Duarte, 85, classical guitarist
• 23 Heera Lal Devpura, 79, Rajasthan Congress Party politician, chief minister of Rajasthan briefly during 1985
• 23 P. V. Narasimha Rao, 83, 9th Prime Minister of India (1991-1996)
• 22 Doug Ault, 54, former Major League Baseball player, suicide
• 22 Rudi Kolak, 86, former Bosnian communist politician, chairman of the Bosnian executive council from 1965 to 1967
• 21 Lennart Bernadotte, 95, Swedish prince
• 21 Lucile Layton, 101, member of the Ziegfeld Follies in the 1920s and also a silent film actress for D.W. Griffith
• 20 Jack Newfield, 66, American newspaper columnist from New York, kidney and lung cancer
• 20 Son Seals, 62, American blues musician
• 20 Tony Van Bridge, 87, British television and stage actor
• 19 Michael Alexander, 84, English soldier and "Prominente" PoW
• 19 Mamdouh Edwan, 63, Syrian playwright and poet
• 19 Mel Gabler (89), Texas conservative textbook reviewer
• 19 Renata Tebaldi, 82, Italian opera singer
• 19 Herbert C. Brown, 92, won Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on boron
• 18 Princess Kikuko, 92, oldest member of Japanese imperial family
• 18 Anthony Sampson, 78, British journalist and author
• 18 Vijay Hazare, 89, former Indian cricket captain
• 18 Albert Nordengen, 81, former mayor of Oslo, Norway
• 18 Barry Corbet, 68, member of first American team to climb Mount Everest
• 17 Dick Heckstall-Smith, 70, saxophone player (Colosseum, John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, etc.)
• 17 Tom Wesselmann, 73, American pop artist
• 16 Ted Abernathy, 71, American baseball player
• 16 Bobby Mattick, 89, American former baseball player and manager
• 16 Agnes Martin, 92, American abstract painter
• 16 Lawrence O'Brien, 53, Member of the Canadian House of Commons
• 16 Freddie Perren, 61, American Grammy Award winning producer
• 15 George Campbell, 92, linguist and polymath
• 15 Athena Starwoman, mid-50s, astrologer, breast cancer
• 15 Lorenzo "Larry" J. Ponza Jr., 86, baseball pitching machine innovator [2]
• 15 Rodney Kennedy-Minott, 76, former United States Ambassador to Sweden
• 15 Pauline Lafon Gore, 92, mother of former US vice-president Al Gore, wife of Albert Gore, Sr.
• 15 Jim Holliday, pornographic film producer and historian, complications from diabetes
• 15 Chiang Fang-liang, 88, the widow of Chiang Ching-kuo and the First Lady of the Republic of China on Taiwan from 1978 to 1988
• 14 Candice Daly, 41, American actor
• 14 Rod Kanehl, 70, who hit the first grand slam in the Mets history
• 14 Harry Bowcott, 97, Rugby Union player for Wales and London Welsh
• 14 Sidonie Goossens, 105, British harpist [3]
• 14 Fernando Poe, Jr., 65, Filipino actor and former presidential candidate
• 13 Alex Soria, 39, guitarist for the punk rock band The Nils
• 13 Andre Rodgers, 70, first Bahamian to play in Major League Baseball
• 13 Syed Mir Qasim, 83, chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir from 1971 to 1975
• 13 David Wheeler, 77, computer scientist
• 13 Bernarda Bryson Shahn, 101, painter, lithographer, widow of Ben Shahn
• 12 Peter Doyle, 72, Australian fish restauranteur
• 12 Phaswane Mpe, 34, South African novelist, unknown illness
• 11 Antonio R. Barcelo Jimenez, 51, lawyer and nephew of former Puerto Rican Governor Carlos Romero Barcelo, his daughters Yahaira, 24, and Laura, 15, murdered
• 11 Bernard Lansky, 80, cartoonist
• 11 John W. Culligan, 88, former CEO of American Home Products
• 11 Arthur Lydiard, 87, athletics coach
• 11 Harvey "Bum" Bright, 84, former owner of the Dallas Cowboys
• 11 M.S. Subbulakshmi, 88, Carnatic musician
• 11 José Luis Cuciuffo, 42, 1986 Football World Cup champion, hunting accident
• 10 Gary Webb, 49, investigative reporter who broke story about CIA involvement with crack cocaine dealers in Southern California in the 1980s, dead of apparent suicide
• 10 Bob King, 81, college basketball coach
• 9 Kim Dong Jo, 86, foreign minister of South Korea from 1973 to 1975
• 9 Kevin Keogh, 55, Phoenix, Arizona's chief financial officer, jumped off his moving car, behavior possibly caused by cystercosis
• 9 Philippe Gigantes, 81, former Canadian senator, cancer
• 9 David Brudnoy, 64, Boston radio talk show host, cancer
• 9 Sergey Voychenko, 49, an artist and designer from Minsk, Belarus
• 9 Sir Peter Emery, 78, politician
• 9 Lea De Mae, 27, pornographic film actress, brain cancer
• 8 Lord Scarman, 93, Life peer, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary 1977-86
• 8 Darrell Abbott (Diamond Darrell, Dimebag Darrell), 38, former Pantera guitarist, shot to death in Columbus, Ohio [4]
• 8 Jackson Mac Low, 82, poet
• 8 Lester Tanzer, 75, former U.S. News and World Report managing editor, Parkinson's disease [5]
• 7 Frederick Fennell, 90, conductor, founder of Eastman Wind Ensemble
• 7 Jay Van Andel, 80, co-founder and former chairman of Amway
• 7 Jerry Scoggins, 93, sang The Beverly Hillbillies' theme song "The Ballad of Jed Clampett"
• 7 Allen Haskell, 69, nurseryman
• 6 Enrique Salinas, 52, brother of former president of Mexico Carlos Salinas, asphyxiation
• 6 Raymond Goethals, 83, Belgian soccer coach
• 5 "Manzanita", 48, Flamenco singer [6]
• 5 Hicham Zerouali, 27, Moroccan soccer player, car accident - drove car into tree
• 5 Christiano Junior, 24, Brazilian soccer player, cardiac arrest after on-field collison
• 4 Tom Fitzgerald, 53, University of Tampa soccer coach
• 4 Teofil Peter, 50, Romanian rock musician, car accident
• 4 Elena Souliotis, 61, Greek soprano
• 3 Maria Perschy, 66, Austrian film/stage/TV actress
• 3 Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Duke of Leinster
• 3 Shiing-Shen Chern, 93, mathematician
• 3 Josef Schwammberger, 92, former Nazi labor camp commander
• 2 Nadine Shamir, 32, singer/songwriter
• 2 Kevin Coyne, 60, musician and author
• 2 Mona Van Duyn, 83, former US Poet Laureate, bone cancer
• 2 Dame Alicia Markova, 94, ballerina
• 2 Larry Buchanan, 81, film director
• 1 David Vienneau, 53, Canadian journalist, pancreatic cancer
• 1 Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, 93, father of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands [7]
• 1 Bill Brown, 73, former goalkeeper for Tottenham Hotspur and Scotland
• 1 Emma Verona Johnston, 114, supercentenarian, oldest documented person in the United States
• 1 Fathi Arafat, 71, brother of Yasser Arafat and founder of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society
• 1 William B. Sackheim, 84, television producer, co-screenwriter of the movie First Blood, son of director Daniel Sackheim

November 2004

• 30 Alexei Khvostenko, 64, Russian poet, artist, musician, heart attack in Moscow hospital
• 30 Pierre Berton, 84, Canadian author and journalist, diabetes complications
• 29 Harry Danning, MLB All-Star catcher who played with the New York Giants
• 29 Billy James Hargis, 78, American Christian minister, missionary and anti-communist political activist
• 29 Sister Anne Samson, 113, oldest recognized living Canadian and oldest nun ever documented
• 29 John Monckton, 49, British city financier, murdered
• 29 John Drew Barrymore, 72, actor, member of the Barrymore family, father of Drew Barrymore
• 29 Molly Weir, 94, Scottish TV and radio actress
• 29 Irwin Donenfeld, 78, DC Comics executive
• 28 Lucas Molina, 20, Argentinean football player, cardiac arrest
• 28 Albert Dorskind, 82, MCA executive who created the Universal Studios tour
• 28 Leroy F. Aarons, 70, American journalist, founder of the NLGJA
• 27 John Dunn, 70, Scottish BBC Radio 2 disc jockey, cancer
• 27 Gunder Hägg, 85, Swedish athlete
• 27 Gene Greif, 50, American illustrator of 1970s and 1980s album covers
• 27 Stephen Girard, Jr., 91, introduced the Jeep to civilians
• 26 Hans Schaffner, 95, Swiss politician and Federal Councilor in the 1960s, President of the Confederation in 1966
• 26 Philippe de Broca, 71, French film director; cancer
• 26 Bill Alley, 85, Anglo-Australian cricketer and cricket umpire in 10 tests
• 26 Tom Haller, 67, All-Star baseball catcher for the San Francisco Giants, Los Angeles Dodgers and Detroit Tigers and was later the Giants' general manager
• 26 Hannes Walter, 51, Estonian war historian
• 25 David Bailey, 71, actor (Passions), drowning
• 25 Ed Paschke, 65, American artist, heart attack
• 25 Bob Haney, 78, comic book writer, co-creator of the Teen Titans and Doom Patrol
• 24 Joseph Hansen, 81, groundbreaking mystery author
• 24 Elijah Mwangale, 65, Kenyan politician, former member of Parliament, and foreign minister from 1983 to 1987, heart attack
• 24 James Wong, 64, Hong Kong lyricist, actor, director, talk show host and author
• 24 Larry Brown, 53, author, novelist
• 24 Arthur Hailey, 84, author, suspected stroke
• 23 Rafael Eitan, 75, Israeli politician and former chief of staff, drowned
• 23 Frances Chaney, 89, wife of Ring Lardner Jr., member of the 1950s Hollywood Blacklist
• 22 Arthur Hopcraft, 71, author, journalist, and playwright
• 21 Marcella Humphrey, 112, supercentenarian
• 20 Ancel Keys, 100, scientist; co-invented the K ration used in World War II
• 20 Janine Haines, 59, former leader of the Australian Democrats
• 20 David Grierson, 49, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio and television host
• 20 Jimmy Tapp, 86, Canadian television personality
• 20 Celso Furtado, 84, Brazilian economist
• 19 Helmut Griem, 72, German film actor Cabaret
• 19 Terry Melcher, 62, musician, producer and son of Doris Day, melanoma
• 19 Fred H. Hale, Sr., 113, supercentenarian, oldest recognized living man
• 19 Sir John Vane, 77, shared the 1982 Nobel Prize in medicine for work in discovering how aspirin works
• 19 Trina Schart Hyman, 65, American illustrator of children's books, of cancer
• 18 Alfred Maseng, political figure in Vanuatu, (age and cause of death unreported)
• 18 Robert Bacher, 99, one of the developers of the atom bomb
• 18 Cy Coleman, 75, composer of Broadway musicals
• 18 Juan Carlos Cardinal Aramburu, 92, former Roman Catholic Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Cardinal since 1976
• 18 Bobby Frank Cherry, 74, convicted in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing
• 17 Thomas Dibblee Jr., 93, geologist
• 17 Alexander Ragulin, 63, Soviet hockey player, 10-time IIHF World Champion and 3-time Olympic gold medalist
• 17 Lena Townsend, 93, former leader of the Inner London Education Authority
• 17 Mikael Ljungberg, 34, Swedish wrestler and Olympic gold medalist, suicide
• 17 Dr. Samuel Billison, 79, code talker
• 16 Margaret Hassan, 59, chief of the humanitarian relief organization CARE International, killed by hostage takers in Iraq (unconfirmed, but presumed dead)
• 16 Reed Irvine, 82, founder of Accuracy in Media
• 16 Walter Mintz, 75, co-founder of one of the country's first hedge funds
• 15 Colin Coulthard, 83, English Air-Vice Marshal & RAF fighter pilot
• 15 Elmer Andersen, 95, former Minnesota governor
• 15 John Morgan, 74, comedian; former member of the Royal Canadian Air Farce
• 15 John Seaton, prominent in New Zealand Harness Racing, multimillionaire accused of doping horses, suicide
• 15 Adam Young, 91, broadcast entrepreneur, stroke
• 14 Michel Colombier, 65, composer, cancer
• 14 Evelyn "50K Treasure Chest" West, 80, famous stripper and pin-up girl during the 1940's and 50's. Found dead in her apartment
• 14 Langdon Brown Gilkey, 85, American Christian Protestant Ecumenical theologian (b. 1919)
• 13 John Balance, 42, member of Coil, accident
• 13 Ellen Fairclough, 99, first female Canadian cabinet minister
• 13 Harry Lampert, 88, comic book and advertising artist, artistic co-creator of The Flash, author of instructional books on Contract bridge, cancer
• 13 Ol' Dirty Bastard (Russell Jones), 35, rapper, drug abuse
• 13 Piet Bijvelds, 62, Dutch rally racing co-driver, killed during Luxembourg Rally
• 13 Fred Diament, 81, outspoken Holocaust survivor who testified at the Nuremberg trials
• 13 Carlo Rustichelli, 87, Italian film composer
• 12 Usko Meriläinen, 74, Finnish composer
• 12 Mike Smith, 62, English cricketer, heart attack
• 12 Stanislaw Skalski, Polish pilot
• 12 Lelio Marino, 69, owner of Modern Continental group, unknown causes
• 12 Norman Rose, 87, radio and TV actor, All My Children voice of Juan Valdez
• 12 Linda Murray, 91, English art historian
• 12 Harry Hargreaves, 82, English Punch cartoonist
• 11 Dayton Allen, 85, comedian and voice of the cartoon character Deputy Dawg and Mayor Phineas T. Bluster on The Howdy Doody Show
• 11 Yasser Arafat, 75, Palestine Liberation Organization leader, President of the Palestinian Authority, cirrhosis [8]
• 11 Richard Dembo, 56, César Award-winning French director
• 10 Erna Rosenstein, 91, Polish surrealist painter and poet
• 9 Emlyn Hughes, 57, English footballer, brain tumour
• 9 Iris Chang, 36, historian, author, suicide
• 8 Melba Phillips, 97, American physicist & educator, coronary artery disease
• 8 Lennox Miller, 58, Jamaican Olympic athlete, cancer
• 8 Eddie Charlton, 75, Australian snooker player
• 8 Emma Roca Rodrigo, 85, Spanish revolutionary
• 7 Howard Keel, 85, American actor and singer, colon cancer
• 7 Gibson Kente, 72, South African playwright, AIDS
• 7 Xavier Malouin, 12, Canadian Teenager, Homicide

• 6 Andrew Veal, 25, Self inflicted gunshot wound at World Trade Center Ground Zero
• 6 Pete Jolly, 72, Jazz pianist [9]
• 6 Elizabeth Rogers, 70, American actress Lt. Palmer on Star Trek, multiple strokes and lung cancer
• 6 Johnny Warren, 61, Australian soccer player, coach, ethnic community advocate; lung cancer
• 6 Fred Dibnah, 66, British steeplejack and television presenter
• 5 Donald Jones, 72, American-born Dutch comedian, singer, dancer and actor, first black Dutch celebrity
• 4 Robert Heaton, 43, British composer and drummer of punk-rock band New Model Army, pancreatic cancer
• 4 Ellen Meloy, 58, American author
• 4 Kristin Smedvig, 83, violin soloist and teacher
• 3 Joe Bushkin, 87, Swing Era pianist [10]
• 3 Richard Hongisto, 67, former sheriff of San Francisco, California and Cleveland, Ohio, heart attack
• 3 Sergei Zholtok, 32, ice hockey player, heart failure due to cardiac arrhythmia
• 2 Virginia Muise, 111, probably oldest living New Englander
• 2 Basil Thompson, 67, Ballet master
• 2 Gerrie Knetemann, 53, Dutch cyclist (World Champion in 1978), heart attack
• 2 Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahayan, 86, Emir of Abu Dhabi
• 2 Gustaaf Cardinal Joos, 81, Belgian Cardinal
• 2 Theo van Gogh, 47, Dutch cineast and writer, murdered
• 1 Evelyn Ruth Moseley Lathan, 74, jazz, blues and gospel pianist
• 1 Lord Hanson, 82, British industrialist
• 1 Hatem Kamil Abdul Fatah, deputy governor of Baghdad
• 1 Mae Madison, 89, Actress from silent and early talkie films, favorite of Busby Berkeley
• 1 Marie Tehan, 64, former health minister for Victoria (Australia), Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
• 1 Terry Knight, 61, manager and producer to Grand Funk Railroad, murdered

October 2004

• 31 Maj.-Gen. Konstantin Dementyev, Russian military official, involved with air force planning and policy, shot to death on the Moscow-Minsk highway
• 31 Don Briscoe, 64, stage and television actor (Dark Shadows)
• 30 Peggy Ryan, 80, actress, singer and dancer
• 29 Gerard Norton VC, 89, won the Victoria Cross in 1944
• 29 Vaughn Meader, 68, Grammy-Award-winning JFK-imitating comedian, emphysema
• 29 Edward Oliver LeBlanc, 81, Dominican political leader, chief minister (1961-1967) and premier (1967-1974), unknown natural causes
• 29 Jacinto João, 60, Portuguese football player, cardiac arrest
• 29 HRH Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, 102
• 29 Peter Twinn, 88, mathematician and code-breaker
• 29 John Parr Miller, 91, children's book illustrator and Disney animator
• 28 Rosalind Hicks, 85, daughter of Agatha Christie
• 28 Ted Taylor, 79, designer of American nuclear bombs before becoming an activist warning of the dangers of nuclear weapons
• 28 Shosei Koda, 24, Japanese backpacker, beheaded by his captors in Iraq
• 28 Jimmy McLarnin, 96, British boxer, two-time world champion
• 28 Graham Roberts, 75, British actor, "The Archers"
• 28 Charles Wheeler, 88, cinematographer Tora! Tora! Tora!
• 28 George Schairer, 91 aerodynamics expert
• 28 Gil Melle, 72, film and television music composer, heart attack
• 27 Al Clouston, 94, humorist
• 27 Lester Lanin, 97, Society Big-Band leader
• 27 Bill Liebowitz, 63, American comic book retailer and founder of notable chain of Golden Apple stores, leading the way for the direct market
• 27 Paulo Sérgio de Oliveira Silva (a.k.a. Serginho), 30, Brazilian football player for São Caetano, heart attack during a league match
• 27 Bert Tigchelaar, 58, Dutch journalist
• 26 Bobby Avila, 79, MLB All-Star and AL batting champion in 1954
• 26 Paul F. Iams, 89, founder of the Iams pet food company
• 26 Nestor Kombot-Naguemon, 70?, Central African foreign minister from 1969 until 1970, and ambassador to France at the time of his death, suicide
• 26 Kathleen Crawford Lindsay, 83, 1950s television writer, embolism
• 25 Lilian Kallir, 73, Classical pianist,
• 25 John Peel, 65, British BBC disc jockey and guru of the British indie music scene, heart attack
• 25 Shyam Nandan Mishra, 84, Indian foreign minister from 1979 to 1980, heart attack
• 24 Jokin Ormaetxea, 24, Spanish professional cyclist, car accident
• 24 10 people, including the son of NASCAR race owner Rick Hendrick, crew members and pilots, airplane crash
• 24 James Cardinal Hickey, 84, former Roman Catholic archbishop of Washington, D.C., previously bishop of Cleveland, Ohio
• 24 Maaja Ranniku, 63, Estonian chess player
• 23 Andrew "Stig" Sewell, British, singer in Icons of Filth, possible brain hemorrhage
• 23 George Silk, 87, Famous WWII Photojournalist for Life magazine, congestive heart failure
• 23 Robert Merrill, 85 (or 87?), American opera singer
• 23 Bill Nicholson OBE, 85, British football manager of Tottenham Hotspur, 1958-1974, associated with the club as player, coach, manager and scout for over 60 years
• 22 Samuel Lee Gravely, Jr., 82, first African American U.S. Navy admiral
• 22 Katherine Victor, 81, cult film actress
• 21/22 Jean-François Leuba, 70, Swiss politician
• 21 Everett Rogers, 73, founder of diffusion of innovations theory
• 21 Adnan al-Ghoul, ??, Hamas chief explosives expert, alleged "father" of the Qassam rocket, assassinated by the IDF
• 21 Victoria Snelgrove, 21, Boston Red Sox fan killed in post-American League Championship Series victory celebration accident
• 20 Veronika Cherkasova, 45, Belarus journalist, murdered
• 20 Anthony Hecht, 81, American poet
• 20 Chuck Hiller, 70, former major league baseball player
• 20 Tevfik Gelenbe, 73, Turkish actor, cancer
• 20 Lynda Lee-Potter, 69, journalist for Daily Mail, brain tumour
• 20 Evald Saag, 91, Estonian theologian
• 20 Wendy Charles Acey, television director
• 19 Arthur H. Robinson, 89, American cartographer
• 19 Anita Bitri-Prapaniku, 36?, Albanian pop singer
• 19 Sang Chun Lee, 51, three cushion billiard player, cancer
• 19 Lewis Urry, 77, Canadian, invented the long-lasting alkaline battery
• 19 Kenneth E. Iverson, 84, computer scientist inventor of the APL programming language
• 19 Paul H. Nitze, 97, American diplomat and Cold War arms negotiator
• 19 Eleanor Plant, 111, Florida's oldest resident, 9th oldest recognized person in USA, 23rd oldest recognized person in the world
• 18 Peter Frost, 65, Author and teacher at the University of British Columbia from skin cancer
• 18 Ansar Tebuyev, 54, Deputy Prime Minister of Karachay-Cherkessia, assassinated
• 18 Steve Steigman, 62, photographer, best known for "Blown Away" shot in Maxell advertising campaign, after suffering from clinical depression
• 18 Koose Muniswamy Veerappan, 52, notorious Indian bandit known as "Jungle Cat", killed by special forces
• 18 Xavier Ormazabal, 23, Spanish mountaineer, while climbing the Cho Oyu in Nepal Himalaya
• 18 Nancy Carline, 95, artist
• 17 Julius Harris, 81, African American actor, heart failure
• 17 Samuel Lender, 84, helped bring Lender's Bagel Company to national prominence
• 17 Celio González, 80, popular singer of Cuban band Sonora Matancera in the 1950s
• 17 Betty Hill, 85, wife of Barney Hill and famous in Ufology for their abduction report, lung cancer
• 17 Ray Boone, 81, patriarch of three-generation major league baseball family
• 17 Rebecca Manning, 60, daughter of Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth
• 16 Doug Bennett, 52, lead singer of Canadian band Doug and the Slugs
• 16 Uzi Hitman, 52, Israeli singer, songwriter and composer, heart attack
• 16 Pierre Salinger, 79, Press Secretary to John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and newsman
• 16 Vincent Brome, 94, English biographer and novelist
• 15 Dave Godin, 68, Soul music promoter, journalist
• 15 Herbert Katzman, 81, expressionist painter
• 15 Helmut Simon, 67, finder of Ötzi the Iceman
• 15 Irv Novick, 88, American comic book artist
• 15 Lüüdia Vallimäe-Mark, 79, Estonian painter
• 14 Juan Francisco Cardinal Fresno Larrain, 90, Chilean Catholic Cardinal
• 14 Conrad Russell, 5th Earl Russell, 67, British historian and member of the House of Lords
• 14 Ivan Shamiakin, 83, Soviet Belarusian writer
• 14 Cordell Jackson, 81, rockabilly musician
• 14 Sheila Keith, 84, British actress
• 13 Ivor Wood, 72, British animator, Paddington Bear, The Wombles
• 13 Erik Bye, 78, Norwegian journalist (AP, BBC, NRK), radio/TV host, actor, singer/songwriter; cancer
• 13 Tetsu Yano, 80, Japanese science fiction writer and translator, founder of the Science Fiction Writers of Japan
• 13 Nirupa Roy, 73, Indian film actress
• 13 Bernice Rubens, 76, British novelist (Madame Sousatzka), complications following stroke
• 11 Peter Kerr, 12th Marquess of Lothian, 82, landowner, diplomat
• 11 Ben Komproe, 62, former Prime Minister and Minister of Justice of the Netherlands Antilles
• 11 Gulshan Rai, 80, Indian film producer and distributor
• 11 Keith Miller, 84, Australian rules footballer, cricketer, fighter pilot and journalist
• 11 Mary Loos, 94, actress, screenwriter, and novelist; complications from stroke
• 11 Lillian Zuckerman, 88, character actress
• 10 Arthur H. Robinson, 89, cartographer
• 10 Christopher Reeve, 52, US actor who starred as Superman in the 1978 movie and sequels, and campaigned for stem cell research after being paralyzed, heart failure brought on by septicemia
• 10 Ken Caminiti, 41, American baseball player, heart attack
• 10 Maurice Shadbolt, 72, New Zealand writer, Alzheimer's disease
• 9 Maxime A. Faget, 83, NASA longtime engineer through the Space Shuttle program & designer of the Mercury space capsule, bladder cancer
• 9 Bolat Kesikhbaev, boxing leader, heart attack
• 9 Iscuerdo Carlos, 40, paraglider, killed during European Championships
• 8 Malcolm Summers, 80, witness to the assassination of John F. Kennedy [11]
• 8 Jacques Derrida, 74, French philosopher, pancreatic cancer
• 8 Johnny Sturm, 88, former New York Yankees first baseman and minor league manager
• 8 Rico Weber, 62, Swiss artist
• 8 Richard Ellison, 80, documentary producer, diffuse Lewy Body Syndrome
• 7 Ken Bigley, 62, British hostage in Iraq, executed by hostage takers
• 7 T.J. Binyon, 68, author, Oxford professor, Pushkin scholar
• 7 Hildy Parks, 78, American actress, writer, TV producer
• 6 Frederica de Laguna, 98, archaeologist and anthropologist studied Alaskan native cultures
• 6 John A. Kelley, 97, US athlete
• 6 Pete McCarthy, 51, travel writer and broadcaster, cancer
• 6 Harbhajan Singh Yogi, 75, spiritual leader and head of the Sikh Dharma in the western hemisphere
• 6 Veríssimo Correia Seabra, 57, military commander in Guinea-Bissau, killed in mutiny^[12]
• 6 Marvin Santiago, 56, Puerto Rican Salsa music singer, diabetes complications
• 5 Mildred McDaniel Singleton, 70, 1956 Olympic Gold-Medal winner in High Jump
• 5 Maurice Wilkins, 87, DNA pioneer
• 5 Rodney Dangerfield, 82, comic and actor
• 5 William Dobelle (62), American eye doctor and inventor prominent in artificial vision research, diabetes complications
• 4 Cleonicio Dos Santos Silva (a.k.a. Renato), 28, football player for F.C. Zürich, killed during a robbery
• 4 Helmut Bantz, 83, 1956 Olympic gold medal winner in pommel horse gymnastics
• 4 Willy Guhl, 89, internationally known Swiss furniture designer
• 4 Gordon Cooper, 77, one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts
• 4 Peter L. Picknelly, 73, owner of Peter Pan Bus Lines
• 4 Virginia Curtis, actress (Your Show of Shows), cancer
• 3 Ralph Citro, 78, renowned boxing cut-man, member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame
• 3 Janet Leigh, 77, American actress, of vasculitis
• 3 Frits van Turenhout, 91, Dutch sports journalist
• 3 John Cerutti, 44, former MLB baseball player, announcer for the Toronto Blue Jays
• 2 Fialho Gouveia, 69, Portuguese radio and TV presenter, of cardiac arrest
• 2 Nick Skorich, 83, NFL coach, (Philadelphia Eagles) in the early 1960s
• 2 Max van Gelder, 88, world's first jazz harmonica player and Goon, of old age
• 2 Fernando Gallardo, 62, Chilean actor, cancer
• 1 Richard Avedon, 81, American fashion photographer, of a brain hemorrhage
• 1 Joyce Jillson, 58, American astrologer, of kidney failure
• 1 Bruce Palmer, 58, Bassist for Buffalo Springfield, heart attack
• 1 Burt Miller, 92, American actor

September 2004

• 30 Eugenio Pio Seghesio, 85, pioneering California vintner, (Seghesio Wineries)
• 30 Jacques Levy, 69, director of original production of Oh! Calcutta!
• 30 Jan Wind, 47, police officer from Enschede, shot dead while chasing a suspected drug dealer (it is a rare occurrence in the Netherlands that police officers are killed on duty)
• 30 Ignatius Wolfington, 84, American character actor
• 30 Willem Oltmans, 79, Dutch maverick journalist, cancer
• 30 Justin Strzelczyk, 36, former NFL Pittsburgh Steelers player, car crash while leading police on chase
• 30 Hans Bakker, 26, free software hacker, died in car crash near Paris
• 30 Gamini Fonseka, 68, Sri Lankan actor and politician
• 29 Richard L. Berger, 64, helped create Touchstone Pictures label as part of Walt Disney Pictures, lung cancer
• 29 Ernst van der Beugel, 86, former Dutch junior Foreign Minister and former CEO of KLM
• 29 Christer Pettersson, 57, suspected murderer of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme
• 29 Richard Sainct, 34, French rally motorcyclist, accident
• 29 Gertrude Dunn, 72, American women's baseball and field hockey player, plane crash
• 29 Shimon Wincelberg (a.k.a. S. Bar David), 80, television writer
• 28 Christl Cranz-Borchers, 90, German alpine skier, Olympic champion and twelvefold World champion
• 28 Geoffrey Beene, 77, fashion designer, pneumonia
• 28 Mulk Raj Anand, 98, Indian author in English
• 28 Scott Muni, 74, longtime New York City radio disc jockey
• 28 Edmund Ralph Haggar Sr., 88, brought Haggar brand to national prominence
• 27 Tsai Wan-lin, 81, Taiwan's wealthiest businessman and founder of the Lin Yuan Group
• 27 Pieter Jan Leeuwerink, 41, Dutch volleyball player with 187 caps
• 26 Tim Pauwels, 22, Belgian cyclo-crosser, aortic aneurysm during race
• 26 Amjad Hussain Farooqi, 32, Pakistani terrorist, supposed member of Al-Qaida
• 26 Dean Kutz, 48, jockey
• 26 Izz El-Deen Sheikh Khalil, Hamas leader assassinated by car bomb
• 25 Dr.