Deaths in 2005
The following is a list of figures who have died to date in 2024.
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July 2005
- Tungia Baker, Maori artist, actress (The Piano)
- Marten Toonder, 93, Dutch author and cartoonist
- Maria do Couto Maia-Lopes, 114, oldest person ever documented in Portugal
- Ford Rainey, 96, American actor
- Albert Mangelsdorff, 76, German trombonist
- Sir Richard Doll, 92, British epidemiologist, first person to link cigarette smoking and lung cancer.
- Francis Ona, 50s, Bougainvillean rebel leader
- Pavel Dostál, 62, Czech minister for cultural affairs
- Ray Crist, 105, centenarian chemist
- Myron Floren, 85, longtime accordionist/bandleader on The Lawrence Welk Show
- Jules Herman, 93, Bandleader and musician played with Lawrence Welk during 1930's
- Jean Charles de Menezes, 27, killed by London police in a case of mistaken identity
- Eugene Record, 64, lead vocalist for The Chi-Lites
- Hinako Sugiura, 46, Japanese author and cartoonist [1]
- George D. Wallace, 88, American actor (Forbidden Planet, The Pajama Game)
- Long John Baldry, 64, English-Canadian blues musician
- Alberto Barros, 59, Portuguese writer
- Bruce Bolt, 75, Scientist and earthquake expert
- Andrzej Grubba, 47, Polish table tennis player
- Tamara Lund, 64, Finnish opera singer and actress
- Patrick Sherry, 29, British rock singer (Bad Beat Revue) [2]
- Charles Chibitty, 83, last surviving Comanche code talker
- James Doohan, 85, Canadian actor (Scotty on the original Star Trek)
- Finn Gustavsen, 79, Norwegian politician
- Kayo Hatta, 47, film director (Picture Bride)
- Alfred Hayes, 76, British Wrestler / Wrestling Announcer (Most notably with the then-WWF)
- Jim Aparo, 72, comic book artist (Batman, the Phantom Stranger, The Spectre) [3]
- Alain Bombard, 80, French biologist and physician
- Edward Bunker, 71, American author, screenwriter, and actor (Mr. Blue in Reservoir Dogs)
- John Herald, 66, folk musician, recording artist, member of The Greenbriar Boys [Vanguard Records]
- Hastings Keith, 89, United States Representative from Massachusetts, served 1959-1973, as a member of the Republican Party
- John Tyndall, 71, founder of the British National Party
- Paul Duke, 78, American political journalist
- Amy Gillett, 29, Australian rower and cyclist
- Jim Parker, 71, offensive tackle for the Baltimore Colts and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame
- Gerry Thomas, 83, American innovator, inventor of the TV dinner; cancer
- William Westmoreland, 91, U.S. Army General who commanded American military operations in the Vietnam War from 1964 to 1968
- Laurel Aitken, 77, Jamaican musician
- Geraldine Fitzgerald, 92, actress
- Sir Edward Heath KG, MBE 89, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970-74
- Gavin Lambert, 80, novelist, screenwriter (Inside Daisy Clover, Sons and Lovers)
- Joe Vialls, Australian writer
- Pietro Consagra, 84, Italian sculptor.
- Adrian Loudermilk, 30, literary manager, film producer (Bushisms)
- W. Fox McKeithen, 58, 5-time Louisiana Secretary of State
- John Ostrom, 77, American paleontologist who revolutionized understanding of dinosaurs
- Helen Bonchek Schneyer, 84, American folk musician
- Richard Leiterman, 70, award-winning Canadian cinematographer
- Dame Cicely Saunders, 87, British founder of hospice movement (of cancer)
- Carla Wood, 50, Mezzo-soprano singer performed with the Metropolitan Opera
- Piero Cappuccilli, 78, Italian opera singer
- Joseph Delaney, 70, Catholic bishop of the diocese of Fort Worth, Texas for many years
- Arthur Fletcher, 80, Assistant Labor Secretary under US President Richard Nixon, called the "father of affirmative action" [4]
- John Leonard King, Baron King of Wartnaby, 87, businessman and chairman of British Airways from 1981 to 1993
- Scott Paul, 24, American actor (Wyatt Earp) [5]
- Axel Strøbye, 77, Danish actor, Babette's Feast
- Gretchen Franklin, 94, television actress, best known as Ethel Skinner in EastEnders.
- Shinya Hashimoto, 40, Japanese professional wrestler, cerebral infection
- Jesus Ricardo Iglesias, 83, Grand Prix racing driver
- Frances Langford, 92, actress-singer
- Mickey Owen, 89, Baseball player for the Brooklyn Dodgers
- Richard Eastham, 89, American singer and actor
- Seymour Finger, 90, United Nations diplomat
- Ann Loring, 90, actress, Love of Life
- Frank Moores, 72, former Newfoundland Premier
- A.J. Quinnell, 65, writer Man on Fire
- Freda Wright-Sorce, 50, wife of Don Geronimo of the Don and Mike Show
- Chuck Cadman, 57, Canadian Member of Parliament.
- Yevgenij Grishin, 74, Russian speed skater, first speed skater under 40 seconds on 500 metres.
- Kevin Hagen, 77, actor on Little House on the Prairie
- Byron Preiss, 52, American writer/editor/publisher [6]
- Alex Shibicky, 91, Hockey player who made first slapshot
- Rafique Zakaria, 79, Indian Islamic scholar
- Maurice Baquet, 94, French actor
- Peter Boenisch, 78, German journalist
- Julian Letterlough, 35, American boxer
- Judy Mann, 61, longtime columnist for the Washington Post
- Ihab al-Sherif, Egyptian envoy in Iraq
- Gustaf Sobin, 69, American-born poet and novelist
- Paul Deliège, 74, Belgian comic book writer/artist [7]
- L. Patrick Gray, 88, former Director of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation, pancreatic cancer
- Jim Haskins, 63, American professor and novelist (The Cotton Club)
- Evan Hunter, 78, American mystery novel writer, wrote under numerous pseudonyms (Ed McBain), larynx cancer
- Abdul Majid Shoman, 94, chairman of the Arab Bank
- Claude Simon, 91, French writer and Nobel Prize Winner
- Grace Thaxton, 114, oldest resident of Kentucky and oldest person ever born in New York
- Baloo Gupte, 70, former Indian Test cricketer
- James Stockdale, 81, American Vice Admiral, Medal of Honor recipient, ex-Prisoner of War and independent VP Candidate in 1992
- Ray Davis, 65, founding member of Parliament/Funkadelic
- Chris Bunch, 62, American science fiction writer, lung ailment
- Al Downing, 65, American R&B and country & western musician, leukaemia
- June Haver, 79, American film actress, widow of Fred MacMurray
- Marga López, 81, Mexican screen and television actress, heart failure
- Hank Stram, 82, former coach of NFL Kansas City Chiefs
- Scott Byrne, 44, American Drummer of duo Instant Death
- Siv Ericks, 87, Swedish character actress
- Nan Kempner, 74, American society hostess
- Alberto Lattuada, 90, Italian film director
- Pierre Michelot, 77, French jazz bassist, played with Miles Davis
- Gaylord Nelson, 89, former Governor of Wisconsin, U.S. Senator from Wisconsin and founder of Earth Day
- Wenten Rubuntja, Australian artist and indigenious activist
- Kohachi Shigetaka, 110, Japan's oldest man, pneumonia
- Florence Kirsch, 90, American classical pianist
- Ernest Lehman, 89, American screenwriter (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, North by Northwest)
- Norm Prescott, 78, co-founder of Filmation animation studios [8]
- Martin Sanchez, 26, Mexican boxer, of injuries sustained in July 1 bout
- Renaldo "Obie" Benson, 69, American soul/R&B singer and member of The Four Tops, lung cancer
- Arvo Ojala, 85, Hollywood technical advisor and actor, (gun fastdraw)
- Arnold S. Rosenfeld, 72, former editor-in-chief of Cox Newspapers
- Luther Vandross, 54, American R&B singer, complications of a stroke
External links and references
- Specialised websites
- Find a Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records
- Dead People Server
- Life in Legacy: Week in Review
- The Blog of Death
- GenealogyBuff.com Obituary Search
- Online Searchable Death Indexes and Records: US genealogy directory
- Operation Iraqi Freedom - US Combat Deaths
- Obituary Central - index to obituary search engines arranged geographically
- Obituary Links Page - state-by-state directory of obituary resources
- Obituaries on general news websites
- Newsgroup: alt.obituaries
For earlier deaths, see Deaths in 2004, Deaths in 2003, Deaths in 2002, Deaths in 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995...