Deaths in 2004

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

August 2004

27 Fernand Auberjonois, 93, Foreign News Correspondent for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Toledo Blade; father of actor René Auberjonois
27 Suzanne Kaaren, 92, actress (several Three Stooges films)
26 José Carlos, 53, Portuguese fashion designer
26 Laura Branigan, 47, singer
26 Enzo G. Baldoni, 56, Italian journalist, murdered in Iraq
25 Marcelo Cardinal Gonzalez Martin, 86, former Roman Catholic primate of Spain, Cardinal since 1973 and Archbishop of Toledo from 1971 to 1995 (Papal condolence message)
24 Richard Ervin, 99, former attorney general and chief justice of Florida [1]
24 Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, 78, Swiss-born psychiatrist
24 Timothy B. Harbert, 53, chairman and chief executive of State Street Global Advisors, heart attack [2]
24 Eleni Ioannou, 20, Greek judoka
23 Francesco Minerva, 100, centenarian Italian Roman Catholic archbishop
23 Hank Borowy, 88, Former New York Yankee pitcher in the 1940s
23 Ann Christensen, 29, University of Wisconsin-Madison linguist
23 Mary Guiney, 103, chairperson of the Clerys Department Store
22 Al Dvorin, 81, announcer who popularized the phrase "Elvis has left the building", automobile accident [3]
22 Marcel Caux, 105, Australian First World War veteran, last known survivor of the Battle of Pozières.
22 George Kirgo, 78, television and film writer, former president of the Writers Guild of America
22 Daniel Petrie, Sr., 83, film director, A Raisin in the Sun
22 Ota Sik, 84, architect of economic liberalization during Czechoslovakia's ill-fated 1968 Prague Spring
21 Paul G. Garrity, 66, Judge who helped save Boston Harbor
20 Maria Antonieta Pons, 82, Cuban-born actress who defined the 1940s tropical-dancer movie genre of rumbera films
19 Rudolf Miele, 74, German entrepreneur
19 Günter Rexrodt, 62, German politician, former Economics Minister of Germany
18 Hiram Fong, 97, first Asian American elected to the U.S. Senate
18 Elmer Bernstein, 82, composer of classic film music such as The Magnificent Seven
18 Víctor Cervera Pacheco, 68, Mexican politician, former Governor of Yucatán
18 Charlie Waller, 69, American bluegrass musician, founder of the band Country Gentlemen
17 Anatoly Guzhvin, 58, head of the administration of Astrakhan Oblast in Russia since Russian independence in 1991
17 Gérard Souzay, 85, French baritone
17 Thea Astley, 78, Australian novelist
17 Frank Cotroni, 72, Montreal mob boss
16 J. Irwin Miller, 95, American industrialist and architectural philanthropist
16 Ivan Hlinka, 54, Czech Republic national hockey team and Pittsburgh Penguins coach
16 Acquanetta, 83, "Venezuelan" (born in Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA), B movie actress in several cult classics
16 Carl Mydans, 91, photographer
16 Robert Quiroga, 35, world champion boxer, murdered
15 Semiha Berksoy, 94, Turkish opera singer
15 Sune K. Bergström, 88, Nobel Prize in Medicine
15 Neal Fredericks, 35, cinematographer for the movie The Blair Witch Project, drowned in helicopter crash while filming
14 William D. Ford, 77, member of the United States House of Representatives from Michigan from 1965 to 1995
14 Dhananjoy Chatterjee, 42, rapist and murderer; the first person executed in India since 1995.
14 Czesław Miłosz, 93, Polish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980
13 Julia Child, 91, author and television hostess on French cuisine [4]
13 Milton Pollack, 97, U.S. federal judge who ruled on court cases involving Wall Street
13 Peipei, 33, worlds oldest Panda
12 Sir Godfrey N. Hounsfield, Nobel Prize in Medicine, coinventor of the CAT scan
12 George Yardley, 75, NBA Hall of Famer.
11 Joe Falls, 76, longtime sports writer for The Detroit News
10 James Stillman Rockefeller, 102, oldest known U.S. Olympic medal winner
10 Alan N. Cohen, 73, former owner of the Boston Celtics
9 Tony Mottola, 86, guitarist who played with Frank Sinatra and on the Tonight Show orchestra [5]
9 David Raksin, 92, film composer
8 Fay Wray, 96, King Kong actress
8 Dimitris Papamichail, 70, Greek actor
8 Robert "Gypsy Boots" Bootzin, 89, health and fitness pioneer
8 Leon Golub, 82, internationally recognized artist and painter.
8 Paul "Mousie" Garner, 95, comedian, Three Stooges associate
7 Paul "Red" Adair, 89, American oil well fire-fighter
7 Colin Bibby, 55, English ornithologist
7 Bernard Levin, 75, journalist and broadcaster
6 Rick James, 56, funk singer
4 Joseph Papaleo, Italian-American novelist and professor.
4 Michele Russo, 95, American painter and artist
4 Hunter Hancock, 88, Legendary R&B and Rock Disc Jockey
3 Bob Murphy, 79, Major League Baseball/New York Mets announcer
3 Arturo Tolentino, 94, Philippine lawyer and politician
3 Margo McLennan, 66, British actress, Prisoner Cell Block H, cancer [6]
3 Henri Cartier-Bresson, 95, French photographer [7]
1 Philip Hauge Abelson, 91, physicist, co-discoverer of Neptunium
1 Alexandra Scott, 8, founder of Alex's Lemonade Stand, started to raise money for pediatric cancer research.
1 Sidney Morgenbesser, 82, philosopher

July 2004

31 Absamat M. Masaliyev, 71, former leader of Kyrgyzstan
31 Laura Betti, 70, Italian actress [8]
31 Elder David B. Haight, 97, oldest member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
31 Virginia Grey, 87, American actress. Little Eva in the first film adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin
30 Ali Abbasi, 42, BBC Scotland travel presenter [9]
29 Nafisa Joseph, 25, model, MTV VJ, Miss India 1997; suicide
29 Susan Buffett, 71, estranged wife of billionaire/investment guru Warren Buffett
29 Rena Vlahopoulou, 81, Greek comedienne
28 Tiziano Terzani, 73, Italian journalist, famous for his books on Asia
28 Sam Edwards, 89, American actor, Little House on the Prairie, heart failure [10]
28 Francis Crick, 88, British biologist, one of the discoverers of the "double-helix" shape of DNA, cancer [11]
28 Jackson Beck, 92, announcer and voice actor
28 Eugene Roche, 75, American character actor and the "Ajax" Man [12]
28 Steve Patterson, 56, former center of the UCLA basketball team, coach at Arizona State University and founder of the Grand Canyon State Games
27 Carmine G. DeSapio, 95, last boss of Tammany Hall
27 Musab al-Awadi, Iraqi politician, assassinated [13]
27 Bob Tisdall, 97, won the gold medal in hurdles at the 1932 Summer Olympics.
26 William A. Mitchell, 92, food scientist, inventor of Pop Rocks candy and Tang drink mix.
26 Rubén Gómez, 77, Puerto Rico, former MLB pitcher who played for the Giants, Phillies, Indians and Twins
26 Oguz Aral, 68, Turkish caricaturist; creator of Avanak Avni, Kostebek Husnu, and Utanmaz Adam
26 Sidney Francis Greene, Lord Greene of Harrow Weald, 94, British railroad worker, trade union leader, and life peer
25 Francisco Romão, 61, Angolan deputy foreign minister, suicide [14]
24 Fred LaRue, 75, part of Watergate scandal
24 Lowell "Cotton" Fitzsimmons, 72, NBA basketball coach
23 Wilton Mkwayi, 81, South African political activist during Apartheid, cancer.
23 Joe Cahill, 84, Irish politician [15]
23 Mehmood, 72, Indian actor
23 Janet Chisholm, 75, former British MI6 agent [16]
23 Bodo H. Hauser, 58, German journalist, director of Phoenix TV network
23 Carlos Paredes, 79, Portuguese guitar player
23 Serge Reggiani, 82, French singer and actor
22 Illinois Jacquet, 81, U.S. jazz saxophonist
22 Sacha Distel, 71, French singer
21 Edward B. Lewis, 85, US-biologist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1995)
21 Elder Neal A. Maxwell, 78, member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
21 Jerry Goldsmith, 75, movie and television composer
20 Adi Lady Lala Mara, 73, Fijian chieftainess and former First Lady; widow of Prime Minister and President Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara.
20 Antonio Gades, 67, Spanish Flamenco dancer, cancer
19 Zenko Suzuki, 93, former Prime Minister of Japan
18 Paul Foot, 66, British journalist and campaigner
18 Emil Peynaud, 92, French wine expert
18 John Kraus, 94, inventor of the "Big Ear" telescope
17 Sir Julian Hodge, 99, British entrepreneur, founder of the Carlyle Trust bank [17]
17 Pat Roach, 67, wrestler and actor; cancer ([18])
17 Susan Cullen-Ward, 63, wife of the pretender to Albania's throne, Leka Zogu; cancer. [19]
16 George Busbee, 76, former governor of the State of Georgia
16 Bella Lewitzky, 88, modern dance pioneer and choreographer
15 Charles Sweeney, 84, pilot of Bockscar, the B-29 that dropped the Nagasaki atomic bomb. [20]
15 Yoko Watanabe, 51, Japanese operatic soprano. [21]
15 Mary Eleanor Thurmond Tompkins, 95, last surviving sibling of Senator Strom Thurmond
14 Usama Kashmula, ~60, Iraqi governor of Mosul, killed in a grenade attack. [22]
14 Hans A. Pestalozzi, 75, Swiss social critic
14 Rhys Thomas, 100, oldest-surviving member of the Llanelli Scarlets
13 Joe Gold, 82, bodybuilding pioneer and Gold's Gym founder.
13 Arthur Kane, 53, American bassist for the New York Dolls, leukemia [23]
13 Carlos Kleiber, 74, Austrian conductor
12 Ersel Hickey, 70, rockabilly singer
12 George Mallaby, 64, Australian actor
12 Irvin "Shorty" Yeaworth, 78, American film director "The Blob"
11 Walter Wager, 79, American author
11 Betty Oliphant, 85, founder of Canada's National Ballet School
11 Frances Hyland, 77, Canadian theatre actress
11 Laurance Rockefeller, 94, conservationist and philanthropist
11 Renée St-Cyr, 99, French actress and comedienne
11 Dorothy Hart, 82, American actress
10 Sir Terry McLean, New Zealand rugby union journalist [24]
10 Rudy LaRusso, 66, five-time NBA All-Star
10 Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo, 74, former Prime Minister of Portugal [25]
10 Inge Meysel, 94, German actress [26]
9 Jeillo Edwards, ~62, Sierra Leonean actress, first black actor to appear on "The Bill" [27]
9 Isabel Sanford, 86, actress, The Jeffersons, natural causes
9 Paul Klebnikov, 41, editor of Forbes magazine's Russian edition, murdered
9 Ron Milner, 66, African-American playwright
9 Jeff Smith, 65, chef and host of The Frugal Gourmet
9 Gilberto Reyes Santos, 36, infamous Puerto Rican mafioso, murdered
8 Paula Danziger, 59, U.S. author
8 Mike Woodin, 38, Principal Speaker of Green Party of England and Wales and Oxford City Councillor
8 Henrique Mendes, 73, Portuguese TV personality. He presented Ponto de Encontro
8 Jean Lefebvre, 84, French actor
7 Yang Xiaokai, 55, Australian economist
6 Eric Douglas, 46, youngest son of actor Kirk Douglas
6 Thomas Klestil, 71, Federal President of Austria, heart failure.
6 Syreeta Wright, 58, singer, songwriter, ex-wife of Stevie Wonder
5 Robert Burchfield, 81, OED lexicographer
5 Hugh Shearer, 81, former Prime Minister of Jamaica
5 Rodger Ward, 83, two-time Indianapolis 500 champion
4 Andrian Nikolayev, 74, Russian cosmonaut
4 Jean-Marie Auberson, 84, Swiss orchestra conductor
3 John Barron, 83, actor
3 Jimmy Mack, 70, Scots radio personality [28]
2 Sir John William Kay, Lord Justice of Court of Appeal of England and Wales
2 John Cullen Murphy, 85, comic strip artist (Prince Valiant)
2 Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, 84, Portuguese writer and poet
2 Gareth Payne, 68, former Welsh rugby union international
2 Henry Hank, 69, top ranked Light-Heavyweight boxer of the 1960s
1 Peter Barnes, 73, British screenwriter and playwright, author of The Ruling Class, stroke [29]
1 Marlon Brando, 80, American actor
1 Sir Richard May, 65, former presiding judge, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia

June 2004

29 Juan Antonio Lopez, 52, boxer, fought Wilfredo Gomez for the world title
28 Keith Maupin, 20, U.S. Army Private First Class, killed by Islamist militants in Iraq
28 Anthony Buckeridge, 92, English author, creator of the Jennings books
27 George Patton III, 80, US Army general and son of George Patton
27 Darrell Russell, 35, NHRA drag racer, first racer to be killed at an NHRA national event since 1996
27 Kamos Kris, Thai boxing matchmaker who worked closely with the WBA, car accident.
26 Naomi Shemer, 74, Israeli songwriter
26 Yash Johar, 75, Indian Bollywood film producer
25 Karol Kennedy Kucher, 72, former United States ice skating champion, pneumonia
24 Stanley Gortikov, 85, former head of the RIAA, [30]
24 Julian Davies, British civilian worker, murdered in Iraq
24 Ifigeneia Giannopoulou, 40, Greek songwriter, author
24 Carl Rakosi, 100, American poet
22 Thomas Gold, 84, American astrophysicist
22 Bob Bemer, 84, American computer scientist, cancer
22 Francisco Ortiz Franco, ~50, Mexican journalist, murdered
22 Abukar Kostoyev, ~55, Ingushetia's acting Interior Minister, slain in an attack by Chechen rebels. [31]
22 Mattie Stepanek, 13, American poet and advocate, muscular dystrophy
22 Kim Sun-il, 33, South Korean translator, decapitated by Iraqi militants
21 Leonel Brizola, 82, Brazilian politician, heart failure, [32]
20 Nabil Sahraoui, Algerian militant, head of GSPC and linked to al-Qaeda
20 Jim Bacon, 54, Australian politician and Premier of Tasmania
19 Nob Yoshigahara, mathematician and puzzle expert
19 Abdul Aziz al-Muqrin, Saudi Arabian al-Qaeda militant, killed by Saudi forces [33]
18 Paul Johnson, ~49, American hostage, decapitated by al-Qaeda
18 Nek Mohammed, ~27, Pakistani tribal leader in Waziristan and key Taliban ally, killed by Pakistani military forces. [34]
17 Sir Stuart Hampshire, 89, philosopher
17 Gerry McNeil, 78, Stanley Cup-winning NHL goalie
17 Jacek Kuroń, 70, Polish dissident and statesman
16 Dr. Herman Goldstine, 90, computing pioneer who helped develop ENIAC, Parkinson's disease
16 George Hausmann, 88, MLB player suspended for jumping to the Mexican League (1946) [35]
16 Thanom Kittikachorn, 91, former Thai prime minister
15 Ahmet Piristina, 52, Turkish politician, mayor of Izmir, heart attack
15 Frank Nastasi, 81, actor and comedian (Lunch with Soupy)
14 Robert Teeter, 65, Republican pollster
14 Jack McClelland, 81, Canadian book publisher
14 Ulrich Inderbinen, 103, mountain guide
14 Max Rosenberg, 89, producer of horror movies
13 Dick Durrance, 89, 17-time American national champion in skiing
13 Ralph Wiley, 52, sports journalist
13 Danny Dark, 65, announcer
12 Bassam Salih Kubba, 60, Iraqi Deputy Foreign Minister
11 Egon von Furstenberg, 57, fashion designer; nephew of late Fiat head Gianni Agnelli
11 Micah Harris, 21, Duke University defensive lineman, car accident
11 Xenophon Zolotas, 100, former Prime Minister of Greece
10 Ray Charles, 73, rhythm and blues singer and pioneer soul singer and pianist
10 Brian Williamson, 59, Jamaican gay rights activist and founder of J-Flag, murdered
10 Kiki Djan, 47, Ghanaian musician, AIDS and drug-related complications
9 Rosey Brown, 71, Pro Football Hall of Famer
9 Barbara Whiting Smith, 73, actress
8 Mack Jones, 65, former MLB outfielder with the Braves, Reds and Expos
8 Karl Toosbuy, 76, Danish founder of international shoe company Ecco
8 Ronalda Pierce, 19, Florida State University basketball player, aneurysm
8 McCollins Umeh, 18, University of Arizona football recruit, heat stroke
7 Donald Trumbull, 95, special effects pioneer
6 Robert Lees, 91, screenwriter, found decapitated
6 Kate Worley, 46, comic book writer (Omaha the Cat Dancer)
6 Necdet Mahfi Ayral, 96, Turkish actor
6 Iona Brown, 63, violinist and conductor
6 Simon Cumbers, 36, Irish freelance cameraman/journalist, working for the BBC in Saudi Arabia, killed by Al Qaeda
5 Ronald Reagan, 93, 40th President of the United States (1981-1989), actor in such films as The Hasty Heart, Kings Row, and (especially) Bedtime for Bonzo
4 Wilmer Fields, 81, former Negro League Baseball All-Star
4 (Body Found) Joshua Bryant, 10, Missing from Florida since May 12, 2001 [36]
4 Steve Lacy, 69, innovative jazz soprano saxophonist
4 Brian Linehan, 58, Canadian television host and celebrity interviewer (canada.com) (Toronto Star) {The Globe and Mail)
4 Nino Manfredi, 83, Italian actor [37]
3 Frances Shand Kydd, 68, mother of Diana, Princess of Wales
2 Dom Moraes, 65, Indian poet and writer
2 Tesfaye Gebre Kidan, ~69, former defense minister and acting president of Ethiopia
2 Nicolai Ghiaurov, 71, opera singer
1 William Manchester, 82, U.S. historian

May 2004

31 Robert Quine, 61, New York punk rock guitarist
31 Alberta Martin, 97, last known widow of a Confederate soldier
29 Archibald Cox, 92, Watergate special prosecutor
29 Sam Dash, 79, chief counsel to the House Judiciary Committee during the Watergate scandal
29 Jack Rosenthal, 72, British television dramatist [38]
29 Magne Havnå, 40, Norwegian former professional boxer, in boating accident
29 Ramona Trinidad Iglesias-Jordan, 114, oldest documented person in the world
28 Irene Manning, 91, actress and singer (Yankee Doodle Dandy)
28 Josie Carey, 73, host of the Pittsburgh children's show "Children's Corner"
28 Michael Alison,77,British Privy Council member and former minister and MP
27 Umberto Agnelli, 69, Italian industrialist, head of Fiat [39]
27 Jim Marshall, 63, British Labour MP [40]
27 Jack Losch, 69, member of 1st Little League World Series championship team.
26 Gatjil Djerrkura, 54, Australian indigenous leader, Chairman of ATSIC 1996-2000
25 Roger W. Straus, Jr., 87, publisher (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
25 David Dellinger, 88, American antiwar activist, member of Chicago Eight
25 Glenn Cunningham, 60, mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey
24 Henry Ries, 87, American photographer
23 Trudy Marshall, 84, actress
22 Richard Biggs, 44, American actor, Babylon 5
22 Mikhail Voronin, 59, Russian gymnast, double Olympic champion
22 Dessi España, 32, circus performer, died from fall while performing without a net
22 Samuel Curtis Johnson, 76, fourth generation president of SC Johnson company
21 Rod Hall, 53, literary agent, murdered [41]
21 Michael Swindells, 44, police detective, murdered in the course of his duties [42]
21 Gene Wood, 78, announcer of Family Feud and other US game shows
20 Len Murray, Lord Murray of Epping Forest, 81, British trade union leader
19 Jack Eckerd, 91, former owner of the Eckerd drugstore chain
19 Mary Dresselhuys, 97, Dutch actress
19 Arnold Moore, 90, blues artist
19 E.K. Nayanar, 87, three-time Chief Minister of Kerala, India [43]
18 Jørgen Nash, 84, Danish poet, perfomance artist, brother of Asger Jorn
18 Hyacinthe Thiandoum, 83, Roman Catholic Cardinal, former Archbishop of Dakar, Senegal
18 Arnold O. Beckman, 104, inventor, industrialist, philanthropist
18 Joey Curtis, 79, former professional boxer, boxing referee and business owner
17 Buster Narum, 63, former MLB pitcher for the Orioles and Senators
17 Elvin Jones, 76, Jazz drummer, notably with the John Coltrane Quartet of the 1960s
17 Tony Randall, 84, television actor (The Odd Couple)
17 June Taylor, 86, television dancer and choreographer
17 Ezzedine Salim, 60?, president of the Iraqi Governing Council
17 Dave Hamilton, 33, professional boxer, and his 4 year old son, in car accident
16 Marika Rökk, 90, actress
16 Lord Hill-Norton, 89, British Royal Navy Admiral of the Fleet
15 Carlos Orta, 60, Venezuelan artist, and principal dancer and choreographer of the Jose Limon Dance Company - [44] - [45]
15 Jack Bradbury, 89, animator and comic book artist
15 William H. Hinton, 85, Marxist, author of Fanshen
15 Gill Fox, 84, political cartoonist, comic book artist, and animator
15 Colonel Robert Morgan, 85, former pilot of the Memphis Belle
14 Anna Lee, 91, actress
14 Jesus Gil, 71, controversial owner of Atlético de Madrid football club
14 Charlotte Benkner, 114, oldest recognized person in United States
13 Terry Crummitt, 27, actor, "SnackBoy" of The Sync fame [46]
12 John LaPorta, 84, jazz clarinetist, composer and educator - [47]
12 Syd Hoff, 91, children's book author, cartoonist
12 John Whitehead, 55, R&B artist, shot dead
11 Per Øyvind Heradstveit, 71, Norwegian television pioneer, foreign correspondent (London) and author
11 Mick Doyle, 63, Irish rugby player and coach
10 Eric Kierans, 90, Canadian politician
10 (death announced) George, ~83, Blue Peter pet tortoise
9 Percy M. Young, 91, British musicologist
9 Olive Osmond, 79, mother of entertainers Marie Osmond and the various Osmond Brothers
9 Alan King, 76, American comedian/actor
9 Brenda Fassie, 39, South African singer [48]
9 Akhmad Kadyrov, 52, President of Chechnya
8 (body found) Nick Berg, 26, American civilian killed in Iraq
7 Waldemar Milewicz, 48, Polish journalist, and Mounyra Beouamrane, killed in Iraq
6 Celal Bilgin, 41, Turkish businessman
6 Kjell Hallbing, 69, aka Louis Masterson, Norwegian Western author [49]
6 Barney Kessel, 80, American jazz guitarist and studio musician
5 David Reimer, 39, notable gender-reassignment case
4 Clement Dodd, 72, Jamaican reggae pioneer
3 Anthony Ainley, 71, British actor
3 Darrell Johnson, 75, former MLB catcher and manager [50]
3 Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire, 84, British politician
2 Moe Burtschy, 82, former MLB pitcher for the Philadelphia & Kansas City Athletics
2 Paul Guimard, 83, French writer
1 Felix Haug, 52, Swiss pop musician (Double)
1 Lojze Kovacic, Slovenian writer

April 2004

30 Lou Chapman, 90, long time Milwaukee Sentinel baseball writer [51]
29 Johannes Berg, 47, cornerstone of Norwegian science fiction fandom
29 Nick Joaquin, 86, writer and Philippine national artist
27 David Jenkinson, 69, railway modeller and historian.
27 Roy Walford, 79, dietician and author
26 Hubert Selby Jr., 75, author of 'Last Exit to Brooklyn'
25 Thom Gunn, 74, British poet
25 Feridun Karakaya, 76, Turkish actor
25 Bill Grace, 69, Phoenix businessman
25 Carl Melles, Hungarian conductor
24 Estée Lauder, 95, cosmetics products pioneer
24 Jose Giovanni, 80, French director and crime-writer
22 Pat Tillman, 27, former NFL player (Arizona Cardinals), Army Ranger, killed in action
21 Concha Zardoya, 89, (Chile/Spain) poet and writer, and one of the main links between Spanish and English literatures
21 Mary McGrory, 85, American journalist and columnist
19 (body found, death probably on March 30) Alejandro Ferretis, 59, Mexican avant-garde actor, murdered [52]
19 Frank B. Morrison, 98, former Governor of Nebraska
19 Tim Burstall, 76, Australian film director and producer
19 John Maynard Smith, 84, British biologist
19 Norris McWhirter, 78, founder of the Guinness Book of Records
19 Jim Cantalupo, 60, CEO of McDonald's
18 Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, 83, long-time Prime Minister and President of Fiji
17 (body found, death probably in November 2003) Dru Sjodin, 22, U.S. kidnap victim
17 Edmond Pidoux, 95, Swiss author
17 Barbara Kenyatta Bey, 59, Yoruba priestess and widow of jazz percussionist Chief Bey
17 Geraint Howells, 79, Welsh politician
17 Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi, 56, Hamas leader
17 Soundarya, 32, Indian film actress
15 Hans Gmür, 77, Swiss theatre author, director, composer and producer
15 Mitsuteru Yokoyama, 69, Japanese manga artist
13 Caron Keating, 41, British television presenter
12 Juan Valderrama, 87, Spanish folk and flamenco singer
12 Frankie Narvaez, 65, Puerto Rican boxer
10 Orazio Fumagalli, 83, Italian sculptor - AP Obituary [53]
10 Lou Berberet, 74, former Major League Baseball catcher
10 Jacek Kaczmarski, 47, Polish poet and singer, the bard of Solidarity
10 Sakip Sabanci, 71, Turkish businessman
9 Lélia Abramo, 93, Celebrity Brazilian actress, and one of the founders of President Lula da Silva's Workers Party - Obituary in Portuguese [54]
9 Nick and Mary Yankovic, 86 and 81, parents of Weird Al Yankovic
9 Harry Babbitt, 90, singer
8 Chief Bey, 90, American jazz percussionist and African folklorist
8 Maureen Potter, 79, Irish comedienne and actor
8 Bruce Edwards, 49, caddy of golfer Tom Watson
7 Robert Sangster, 67, leading British racehorse owner
7 Kelucharan Mohapatra, 77, traditional Indian Odissi dancer
6 Larisa Bogoraz, 74, Russian dissident and human rights activist
6 Marjorie Pay Hinckley, 92, wife of Gordon B. Hinckley
6 Timothy, ~160, tortoise that served as a Royal Navy mascot in the Crimean War
5 Austin Willis, 86, Canadian movie actor and television host
4 George Bamberger, 80, former major league pitcher and manager
4 Gito Baloi, 39, Southern African musician
4 Serhane ben Abdelmajid Farkhet, ?, Moroccan, suspected Madrid train bomber
3 John Diamond, Baron Diamond, 96, British life peer
3 Gabriella Ferri, 62, Italian Singer
2 Lawrence McGrew, 46, former New England Patriots linebacker
1 Nilo Soruco, 76, Bolivian singer-songwriter
1 Carrie Snodgress, 57, actress
1 Aaron Bank, 101, "Father of Special Forces"
1 Enrique Grau, 83, Colombian painter and sculptor
1 Annette Daniels, 42, American opera singer

March 2004

31 Hedi Lang, 72, first woman to preside the Swiss National Council
31 Joseph James Zimmerman, Jr., 92, inventor of answering machine
31 Omi Nieves, 24, son of salsa singer Tito Nieves
31 Gurcharan Singh Tohra, 79, Sikh leader
30 Michael King, 58, New Zealand historian
30 Erick Friedman, 64, American concert violinist, violin professor at Yale University
30 Alistair Cooke, 95, BBC broadcaster and transatlantic commentator
30 Hubert Gregg, 89, BBC broadcaster
28 Sir Peter Ustinov, 82, British actor
28 Robert Merle, 95, French author
27 Art James, 74, game show host and announcer
27 Larry Trask, 59, linguist and expert on the Basques
27 Adán Sánchez, 19, Mexican singer
27 James Wapakhabulo, 59, foreign minister of Uganda
26 Jan Berry, 62, the 'Jan' of Jan and Dean
26 Jan Sterling, 82, American actress
24 Dominic Agostino, 44, Ontario Liberal MPP
23 Sir Rupert Hamer, 87, Australian politician
23 Lorand Fenyves, 86, Hungarian violinist
22 Boonreung Bauchang, 34, "Snake Man"
22 Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, 66?, spiritual leader and founder of Hamas
21 Mirwais Sadiq, ?, Civil Aviation Minister for Afghanistan
20 Juliana, 94, former Queen of the Netherlands
20 Edward G. Zubler, 79, chemist, inventor of halogen lamp
19 Brian Maxwell, 51, long-distance runner and founder of PowerBar
19 Mitchell Sharp, 92, former Canadian Liberal cabinet minister
19 Roberto Mora, Mexican journalist, newspaper editor-in-chief
18 Gene Bearden, 83, baseball player with the Cleveland Indians
18 Vytas Brenner, 57, musician, keyboardist and composer
18 Wallace Davenport, 78, New Orleans jazz trumpeter
18 Harrison McCain, 76, Canadian businessman, founder of McCain Foods
18 Guillermo Rivas, 72, Mexican comedy actor
17 Monique Laederach, 65, French and German language author
17 J. J. Jackson, 62, former MTV VJ
17 George Boiardi, 22, Lacrosse player for Cornell University
17 Patrick Nuttgens, 74, English architect and academic
16 Vilém Tauský, 94, Czech conductor and composer
16 Brian Bianchini, 25, American fashion model
15 Amparo Arrebato, 59, Colombian dancer
15 William Pickering, 93, former head of Jet Propulsion Laboratory
15 Aimo Kairamo, Finnish political columnist
15 John Pople, 78, British theoretical chemist and Nobel Prize winner
14 Blessing Makunike, 28, Zimbabwean football player
13 Franz König, 98, Austrian cardinal
13 Dullah Omar, 69, South African cabinet minister
12 Finn Carling, 78, Norwegian author and playwright with cerebral palsy
12 Yvonne Cernota, 24, German bobsled driver, in training accident
12 Cid Corman, 79, Japan-based American poet and translator
11 Seymour Geisser, 74, statistician, DNA-evidence expert
11 Sidney James, 97, first managing editor of Sports Illustrated
10 Robert D. Orr, 86, former Governor of Indiana
10 James Parrish, 35, former National Football League player
9 Robert Pastorelli, 49, actor
9 Albert Mol, 87, dancer, cabaret performer, actor, tv personality, author
8 Nicolae Cajal, 84, doctor, chairman of Romania's Jewish community
8 Muhammad Zaidan (Abu Abbas), 55, founder of Palestine Liberation Front
7 Paul Winfield, 62, Emmy-winning actor
6 Frances Dee, 94, actress
6 John Henry Williams, 35, controversial son of baseball great Ted Williams
5 Julito Collazo, 78, Cuban Master Percussionist
5 Joan Riudavets, 114, world's oldest documented man and oldest person in Europe
5 Percy Browne, 80, former British MP, jockey and farmer
4 Claude Nougaro, 74, French chanteur
4 Stephen Sprouse, 50, American artist and fashion designer
4 John McGeoch, 48, British guitarist with Magazine, Siouxsie and the Banshees and PiL
3 Luis Villalta, 35, professional boxer
3 Cecily Adams, 39, actress
2 Mercedes McCambridge, 85, Academy Award winning actress
2 Marge Schott, 75, former primary owner of the Cincinnati Reds
1 Massimo der Bernart, 54, Italian conductor

February 2004

29 Jerome Lawrence, 88, playwright
29 Tony Onley, 75, painter
29 Danny Ortiz, 27, Guatemalan football goalkeeper
28 Daniel J. Boorstin, 89, historian
27 Paul Sweezy, 93, economist and founding editor of the Monthly Review
26 Shankarrao Chavan, 83, Chief Minister of Maharashtra
26 Adolf Ehrnrooth, 99, General; Finnish war veteran
26 Bart Howard, 88, composer, "Fly Me To The Moon"
26 Boris Trajkovski, 47, President of the Republic of Macedonia
24 John Randolph, 88, American actor
23 Carl Anderson, 58, American actor (Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar)
23 William Coates, ~~114?~~ 92, asserted by advocates to be "oldest living American" but documentation showed otherwise
23 Sikander Bakht, 85, Governor of Kerala
23 Vijay Anand, 71, Bollywood filmmaker and brother of Dev Anand
23 Carl Liscombe, 89, Detroit Red Wings hockey player in the 1940s
23 Don Cornell, 79, popular singer of the 1940s and 1950s
22 Andy Seminick, 83, MLB catcher and last survivor of the 1950 Phillies' "Whiz Kids" that won the NL championship
22 Roque Máspoli, 86, legendary Uruguayan goalkeeper
21 Guido Molinari, Canadian abstract artist
21 Spot Fetcher, 14, President George W. Bush's dog
21 John Charles, 72, Welsh football player
20 Stanislaw Ryniak, 88, first person imprisoned at Auschwitz (Feb 20 is burial date)
19 Clark Byers, American sign maker
19 Hermann Krings, German philosopher
18 Jean Rouch, 86, French filmmaker and ethnologist
17 José López Portillo, 83, former president of Mexico
16 Shirley Strickland, 78, Australian athlete, three-time Olympic champion
16 Doris Troy, 67, R&B singer
16 Bill Oakley, 39, comic book letterer
15 Jan Miner, 86, American actress
15 Jens Evensen, 86, Norwegian minister, World Court judge
14 Marco Pantani, 34, racing cyclist, winner of Tour de France and Giro d'Italia in 1998
13 Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, 51, Chechen leader
11 Ryszard Kuklinski, 74, Polish-born colonel and spy
10 Nils Aas, 70, Norwegian sculptor and illustrator
9 Michael Rowland, 41, Horse racing jockey
9 Samuel Rubin, 85, popcorn promoter
9 Claude Ryan, 79, Canadian politician
8 Julius Schwartz, 89, comic book and pulp magazine editor
8 Cem Karaca, 58, Turkish singer and composer
7 Rebeca Martínez, 2 months, craniopagus parasiticus baby
7 Norman Thelwell, 80, cartoonist
6 Humphry Osmond, 86, psychiatrist and pioneer LSD experimenter
6 Jerome F. Lederer, 101, aviation safety pioneer
5 Frances Partridge, 103, writer, last surviving member of the Bloomsbury group
4 Hilda Hilst, 73, Brazilian novelist
4 Ernest Burke, 79, baseball player
3 Cornelius Bumpus, 58, musician (The Doobie Brothers, Steely Dan)
2 Alan Bullock, 89, historian
1 Rocco Clein, 35, journalist, musician ([55]); ([56])
1 Carlie Brucia, 11, abduction victim
1 Ally McLeod, 72, Scottish football player and manager

January 2004

31 Suraiya, 75, Indian actress and singer
31 Eleanor Holm, 90, US swimmer
31 Scott Walker, 34, US boxer, Pink Cat, last one to beat Alexis Arguello.
30 Robert Harth, 47, executive director of Carnegie Hall
29 Joe Viterelli, 66, actor
29 O. W. Fischer, Austrian actor
29 Helge Seip, 84, Norwegian politician (Social Liberal Party)
29 M. M. Kaye, 95, British author, The Far Pavilions
29 Mary-Ellis Bunim, 57, producer and co-creator of The Real World
29 Lloyd "Pete" Bucher, 76, Captain of the USS Pueblo [57]
29 Janet Frame, 79, New Zealand writer
29 Ed Sciaky, 55, Philadelphia broadcaster and disk jockey
28 Elroy Hirsch, 80, hall of fame NFL football player
28 José Miguel Agrelot, "Don Cholito", 76, comedian and radio show host
27 Rikki Fulton, 79, Scottish comedian
27 Jack Paar, 85, Tonight Show host
26 Fred Haas, 88, golfer
26 Wilhemina Barns-Graham, 91, Scottish artist
25 Miklós Fehér, 24, Hungarian football player
25 Fanny Blankers-Koen, 85, Dutch athlete
24 Leonidas da Silva, Football player [58].
23 Bob Keeshan, 76, US actor, starred as "Captain Kangaroo"
23 Helmut Newton, 83, photographer
22 George Woodbridge, 73, illustrator
22 Billy May, 87, US big band and pop music arranger
22 Ann Miller, 81, US dancer
22 Islwyn Ffowc Elis, 79, Welsh language writer
21 Bernard Punsley, 80 physician, actor
19 Teresa Ferster Glazier, 96, author of ''The Least You Should Know About English''
19 Jerry Nachman, 57, MSNBC editor-in-chief
19 David Hookes, 48, Australian cricketer and Victorian coach
19 Antonious Seram, 20, Indonesian professional boxer
18 Noble Willingham, 72, actor, former candidate for the United States Congress
17 Czeslaw Niemen, 64, Polish musician
17 Tom Rowe, 53, Musician, member of Schooner Fare.
17 Rafael Cordero, 61, mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico
17 Ray Stark, 88, publicist, actor's agent; produced Funny Girl (1968)
17 Harry Brecheen, 89, former MLB pitcher
16 Kalevi Sorsa, 73, former Finnish prime minister
15 Robert-Ambroise-Marie Carré, 95, member of the Académie française
15 Olivia Goldsmith, 54, author
15 Alex Barris, 81, Canadian actor and writer
15 Gus Suhr, 98, former baseball player, Pittsburgh Pirates
14 Mike Goliat, 78, member of the famous '50 Phillies' "Whiz Kids" NL champions
14 Uta Hagen, 84, actress, acting teacher, wife of José Ferrer and Herbert Berghof
14 Ron O'Neal, 66, actor, starred in Superfly (1972)
14 Jack Cady, science fiction writer
13 Philip Crosby, 69, member of Crosby Boys band, son of crooner Bing Crosby
13 Arne Næss Jr., 66, Norwegian mountaineer and businessman, former husband of Diana Ross
13 Harold Shipman, 54, British serial killer
13 Zeno Vendler, 82, philosopher and linguist
12 Randy VanWarmer, 48, US singer and songwriter
11 Anthony "Tuba Fats" Lacen, 53, New Orleans jazz musician
perhaps 10/11 Spalding Gray, 62, US perfomer and writer (body identified March 8 in East River near New York City)
10 Yinka Dare, 32, Nigerian former NBA basketball player for the New Jersey Nets
10 Jerry Boyd, 59, Mesa, Arizona councilman
10 Alexandra Ripley, author, Scarlett
9 Nissim Ezekiel, 79, Indian poet, playwright and art critic
9 Norberto Bobbio, 94, Italian senator and jurist
8 John A. Gambling, 73, American radio host, "Rambling with Gambling"
7 Ingrid Thulin, 76, Swedish actress, "Cries and Whispers"
6 Pierre Charles, 49, Prime Minister of Dominica
6 Francesco Scavullo, 82, fashion photographer
5 Tug McGraw, 59, former MLB pitcher
5 David Lipschultz, 33, American journalist (USA Today, New York Times, Smart Money and Red Herring)
5 Dame Sheila McKechnie, 55, Head of Shelter, cancer [59]
4 Brian Gibson, 59, film director, "What's Love Got to Do With It"
4 Jake Hess, 76, Southern Gospel singing legend
4 Jeff Nuttall, poet, publisher, actor, painter, sculptor, jazz trumpeter, social commentator and author
4 Joan Aiken, 79, author of The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
4 John Toland, 91, American author and historian
2 Paul Hopkins, 99, reported to be the oldest living former MLB player
2 Jessica Pacheco Calvente, 10, Puerto Rican, stray bullet victim
2 Lynn Cartwright, 76, US actress
2 Etta Moten Barnett, 102, actress
1 Frederick Redlich, 93, former dean of the Yale University School of Medicine

External links and references

For earlier deaths see Deaths in 2003, Deaths in 2002, Deaths in 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997...