Deaths in April 2004

The following is a list of notable deaths in April 2004.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
 * Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

1

 * Paul Atkinson, 58, British guitarist, kidney failure.
 * Aaron Bank, 101, American U.S. Army officer, "Father of Special Forces".
 * Rıza Doğan, 73, Turkish wrestler and Olympic silver medalist.
 * Enrique Grau, 83, Colombian painter and sculptor.
 * Yannis Kyrastas, 51, Greek football player and football manager, sepsis.
 * Ichirō Nakatani, 73, Japanese actor and seiyū.
 * Sándor Reisenbüchler, 69, Hungarian animated film director and graphic artist.
 * Mykola Rudenko, 83, Ukrainian poet and human rights activist.
 * Jacques Seiler, 76, French actor and theatre director, cancer.
 * Charles St Clair, 17th Lord Sinclair, 89, British aristocrat and courtier.
 * Carrie Snodgress, 58, American actress (Diary of a Mad Housewife, Pale Rider, Murphy's Law), kidney failure.
 * Gurcharan Singh Tohra, 79, Indian Sikh leader, heart attack.

2

 * Ioannis Argyris, 90, Greek computer scientist.
 * Alan Levy, 72, American author.
 * Takashi Shirôzu, 86, Japanese entomologist.
 * Chaïbia Talal, 75, Moroccan painter, heart attack.
 * John Taras, 84, American ballet master and choreographer.

3

 * John Diamond, Baron Diamond, 96, British life peer.
 * Gabriella Ferri, 62, Italian singer, suicide.
 * Eduard Linkers, 91, Austrian actor.
 * Nagaraja Rao, 89–90, Indian cricket umpire.
 * Phillip Rock, 76, American actor, screenwriter (Most Dangerous Man Alive) and novelist ("Passing Bells" trilogy).

4

 * Gito Baloi, 39, South African musician, homicide.
 * George Bamberger, 80, American baseball player and manager, cancer.
 * Nikita Bogoslovsky, 90, Soviet and Russian composer, conductor, and writer.
 * Danuta Czech, 82, Polish Holocaust historian.
 * Sukhen Das, 65, Indian actor, director, and screenwriter of Bengali cinema.
 * Gébé, 74, French cartoonist.
 * Ralph Kemplen, 91, British film editor (The Day of the Jackal, The African Queen, The Dark Crystal).
 * Pierre Koenig, 78, American architect and academic.
 * Boris Levitan, 89, Russian mathematician.
 * James J. Martin, 87, American historian and Holocaust denier.
 * Bogdan Norčič, 50, Yugoslavian Olympic ski jumper (normal hill and large hill ski jumping at the 1976 and 1980 Winter Olympics).
 * Albéric Schotte, 84, Belgian road racing cyclist.
 * Alwyn Williams, 82, British geologist.
 * Ron Williams, 59, American basketball player, heart attack.
 * Austin Willis, 87, Canadian actor and television host.

5

 * Isaac Carrasco, 75, Chilean football player.
 * Fernand Goyvaerts, 65, Belgian football player, cerebral hemorrhage].
 * Ralph Landau, 87, American chemical engineer and entrepreneur.
 * Larry McGrew, 46, American gridiron football player, heart attack.
 * Pompeo Posar, 83, American Playboy magazine staff photographer.
 * Sławomir Rawicz, 88, Polish army lieutenant imprisoned by the NKVD and purported escapee (The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom).
 * Fred Winter, 77, British racehorse trainer and jockey.
 * Heiner Zieschang, 67, German mathematician.

6

 * Lou Berberet, 74, American Major League Baseball baseball player.
 * Larisa Bogoraz, 74, Russian dissident and human rights activist, stroke.
 * Glenn Cowan, 51, American table tennis player, heart attack.
 * Ken Johnson, 81, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Phillies, Detroit Tigers).
 * Alexander Lerner, 90, Soviet and Ukrainian scientist and refusenik.
 * Niki Sullivan, 66, American Rock and Roll guitarist, heart attack.

7

 * Victor Argo, 69, American actor (King of New York, Taxi Driver, Bad Lieutenant), complications from lung cancer.
 * Wolfgang Mattheuer, 77, German painter, graphic artist and sculptor, heart failure.
 * Marian McCargo, 72, American actress and champion tennis player, pancreatic cancer.
 * Kelucharan Mohapatra, 77, Indian classical dancer and guru.
 * Maureen Potter, 79, Irish actress, singer, dancer and comedian.
 * Robert Sangster, 67, British racehorse owner, pancreatic cancer.
 * Peter Urban, 69, American martial artist.

8

 * Shafic Abboud, 77, Lebanese painter.
 * Herb Andress, 69, Austrian film and television actor, bladder cancer.
 * Adrian Beers, 88, British double bass player.
 * Chief Bey, 90, American jazz percussionist and African folklorist, stomach cancer.
 * Enda Colleran, 61, Irish Gaelic football player and manager.
 * Ruth Tabrah, 83, American writer and ordained Buddhist minister.

9

 * Lélia Abramo, 93, Brazilian actress and political activist, and politician, pulmonary embolism.
 * Harry Babbitt, 90, American singer.
 * Donna Michelle, 58, American model, actress, and photographer, heart attack.
 * Julius Sang, 55, Kenyan Olympic runner (1968 Summer Olympics, 1972 Summer Olympics: gold medal, bronze medal).
 * Jiří Weiss, 91, Czech film director, screenwriter, writer, and playwright.

10

 * Paul-Louis Boutié, 93, French art director.
 * Bertil Göransson, 85, Swedish rowing coxswain and Olympic silver medalist.
 * Jacek Kaczmarski, 47, Polish poet and singer, the bard of Solidarity, laryngeal cancer.
 * Ben Pimlott, 58, British historian, leukemia.
 * Roland Rainer, 93, Austrian architect.
 * Sakıp Sabancı, 71, Turkish businessman, kidney cancer.
 * Odd Wang Sørensen, 81, Norwegian Olympic football player (men's football at the 1952 Summer Olympics).

11

 * Stan Darling, 92, Canadian politician.
 * Hy Gotkin, 81, American basketball player.
 * Paul Hamburger, 83, British pianist, accompanist, chamber musician, and scholar.
 * Mamadou Aliou Kéïta, 52, Guinean football player, cardiac arrest.

12

 * Norman Campbell, 80, Canadian composer, television producer and director, stroke.
 * Robert Richardson, 76, Canadian Olympic alpine skier (men's downhill, men's giant slalom, men's slalom at the 1952 Winter Olympics).
 * Frank Seward, 83, American baseball player (New York Giants).
 * Juanito Valderrama, 87, Spanish folk and flamenco singer.
 * Wesley Wehr, 74, American paleontologist and artist.
 * George W. Whitehead, 85, American mathematician.

13

 * Ritchie Cordell, 61, American songwriter, singer and record producer, pancreatic cancer.
 * Dadamaino, 73, Italian visual artist and painter.
 * Hilda Fenemore, 89, English actress.
 * David Fowler, 66, British mathematician.
 * Csaba Horváth, 74, Hungarian-American chemical engineer and scientist.
 * Caron Keating, 41, British television presenter, breast cancer.
 * Aarne Saarinen, 90, Finnish politician and a trade union leader.

14

 * Micheline Charest, 51, British television producer, complications following plastic surgery.
 * Antonio Cobas, 52, Spanish Grand Prix motorcycle designer and mechanic, cancer.
 * Erik Kuld Jensen, 78, Danish football player.
 * Robin Popplestone, 65, British software designer and a pioneer in artificial intelligence and robotics, prostate cancer.
 * Fabrizio Quattrocchi, 35, Italian security officer, killed by Islamist militants in Iraq.

15

 * Ray Condo, 53, Canadian rockabilly singer, saxophonist, and guitarist, heart attack.
 * María Denis, 87, Argentine-Italian film actress.
 * Phyllis Dillon, 59, Jamaican rocksteady and reggae singer, cancer.
 * Hans Gmür, 77, Swiss theatre director, composer and producer.
 * Mitsuteru Yokoyama, 69, Japanese manga artist, accidental death.

16

 * Abu al-Walid, Saudi Arabian terrorist, killed by Russian federal forces.
 * Carlos Castaño, 38, Colombian rebel leader, killed by FARC guerillas.
 * Nour El-Dali, 75, Egyptian football player.
 * Wilmot N. Hess, 77, American physicist, leukemia.
 * Harry Mayerovitch, 94, Canadian architect, artist, illustrator, and author.
 * Jan Szczepański, 90, Polish sociologist and politician.

17

 * Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi, 56, Palestinian Hamas leader, targeted killing by Israel.
 * Bruce Boa, 73, Canadian-British actor (The Empire Strikes Back, Octopussy, Full Metal Jacket), cancer.
 * Anke Hartnagel, 62, German politician, Member of the German Bundestag (1998–2004).
 * Geraint Howells, 79, Welsh politician.
 * Joe Kennedy, Jr., 80, American jazz violinist.
 * Jim Ligon, 60, American basketball player.
 * Earl Miner, 77, American professor at Princeton University.
 * Soundarya, 31, Indian film actress, plane crash.
 * Bobby Wawak, 64, American NASCAR race driver.

18

 * David Clarke, 95, American Broadway and motion picture actor.
 * Gürdal Duyar, 68, Turkish sculptor.
 * Brice Hunter, 29, American gridiron football player, shot.
 * Kamisese Mara, 83, Fijian politician, prime minister and president, stroke.
 * Koken Nosaka, 79, Japanese politician.
 * Frances Rafferty, 81, American actress, dancer, and model.
 * Werner Schumacher, 82, German actor.

19

 * Tim Burstall, 76, Australian film director and producer, stroke.
 * Jim Cantalupo, 60, American businessman, CEO of McDonald's, heart attack.
 * George Hardwick, 84, English football player, manager and coach.
 * Volodymyr Kaplychnyi, 60, Ukrainian football player.
 * Philip Locke, 76, British actor.
 * Norris McWhirter, 78, British writer, political activist and founder of the Guinness Book of Records, heart attack.
 * Frank B. Morrison, 98, American politician, Governor of Nebraska.
 * Sam Nahem, 88, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers, St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Phillies).
 * Ronnie Simpson, 73, Scottish footballer and manager, heart attack.
 * John Maynard Smith, 84, British biologist, lung cancer].
 * Wolfgang Unger, 55, German conductor, cancer.

20

 * Lizzy Mercier Descloux, 47, French musician, actress, writer and painter, cancer.
 * Komal Kothari, 75, Indian folklorist and ethnomusicologist.
 * Mary McGrory, 85, American journalist and columnist.
 * Abdullah Shah, 59, Afghan serial killer, executed.
 * Al Stiller, 80, American Olympic cyclist (men's tandem cycling and men's team pursuit cycling at the 1948 Summer Olympics).

21

 * Eduard Asadov, 80, Russian poet and writer.
 * Den Fujita, 78, Japanese founder of McDonald's Japan, heart failure.
 * Karl Hass, 91, German SS officer and convicted war criminal.
 * John W. Kirklin, 87, American cardiothoracic surgeon who refined John Gibbon's heart–lung bypass machine.
 * Mary Selway, 68, British casting director (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Return of the Jedi, Gosford Park), cancer.
 * Tui St. George Tucker, 79, American modernist composer and conductors.
 * Peter Bander van Duren, 73, British writer on heraldry and orders of knighthood.
 * Sunčana Škrinjarić, 72, Croatian writer, poet and journalist.

22

 * Saleem Akhtar, 73, Pakistani cricket player.
 * Franco Delli Colli, 75, Italian film cinematographer, pulmonary embolism.
 * Art Devlin, 81, American ski jumper, brain cancer.
 * Jason Dunham, 22, American marine, used his body to shield others from a grenade explosion, killed in action.
 * Sami Hadawi, 100, Palestinian scholar and author.
 * Pat Tillman, 27, American gridiron football player (Arizona Cardinals) and Army Ranger, killed in action by friendly fire.

23

 * Manuel Alcalde, 47, Spanish Olympic race walker.
 * Marie-Émile Boismard, 87, French biblical scholar.
 * Saúl Ongaro, 87, Argentine football player.
 * Peter S. Prescott, 68, American author and book critic, liver disease.
 * Ross Rutledge, 41, Canadian field hockey player and Olympian, cancer.

24

 * Betty Clay, 87, British scouter, daughter of Robert Baden-Powell.
 * José Giovanni, 80, French writer and film maker, cerebral hemorrhage.
 * Feridun Karakaya, 76, Turkish actor, heart attack.
 * Lia Laats, 78, Estonian stage and film actress.
 * Estée Lauder, 97, American businesswoman, cosmetics products pioneer, heart attack.
 * Willie Watson, 84, English cricketer.
 * Des Warren, 66, British trade unionist.

25

 * Alphonzo E. Bell, Jr., 89, American politician, pneumonia.
 * Dooland Buultjens, 70, Sri Lankan cricket umpire.
 * Thom Gunn, 74, British poet.
 * Eddie Hopkinson, 68, English football goalkeeper.
 * Shota Kveliashvili, 66, Georgian sports shooter and Olympic silver medalist.
 * Carl Melles, 77, Austrian orchestral conductor.
 * Hiroshi Mitsuzuka, 76, Japanese politician.
 * Albert Paulsen, 78, Ecuadorian-American actor.
 * Jacques Rouxel, 73, French film animator.
 * Sid Watson, 71, American football player and ice hockey coach, heart attack.
 * Claude Williams, 96, American jazz musician.

26

 * Kurt Dossin, 91, German field handball player and Olympic champion.
 * Rangel Gerovski, 45, Bulgarian wrestler and Olympic silver medalist.
 * Paul Hasule, 44, Ugandan football player.
 * Robert Clark Jones, 87, American physicist.
 * Lee Loevinger, 91, American jurist and lawyer, complications of heart disease.
 * Gunther E. Rothenberg, 80, German-American historian.
 * Hubert Selby Jr., 75, American writer, author of "Last Exit to Brooklyn", pulmonary embolism.
 * Hasse Thomsén, 62, Swedish heavyweight boxer and Olympic medalist.

27

 * Gleason Archer, 87, American theologian.
 * David Jenkinson, 69, British railway modeller and historian.
 * Alex Randolph, 81, American designer of board games (TwixT, Enchanted Forest, Inkognito, Ricochet Robot).
 * Alejandro Ulloa, 93, Spanish actor.
 * Roy Walford, 79, American dietician and author.
 * Lloyd F. Wheat, 81, American lawyer and politician.

28

 * Patrick Berhault, 46, French rock climber and mountaineer, climbing accident.
 * Jeremy Black, 52, British assyriologist.
 * Jean Devaivre, 91, French film director and screenwriter.
 * Elizabeth Fisher, 93, Canadian Olympic figure skater.
 * Floyd Giebell, 94, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).
 * Kifle Wodajo, 67, Ethiopian politician and diplomat.

29

 * Gaetano Badalamenti, 80, Italian member of the Sicilian Mafia, heart attack.
 * Alexander Bovin, 73, Soviet and Russian journalist, political scientist and diplomat.
 * John Henniker-Major, 8th Baron Henniker, 88, British diplomat and aristocrat.
 * Nick Joaquin, 86, Filipino writer and national artist.
 * David S. Sheridan, 95, American inventor of disposable plastic endotracheal tube.
 * Sid Smith, 78, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs).
 * Stig Synnergren, 89, Swedish Army officer.

30

 * Heather Brigstocke, Baroness Brigstocke, 74, British educator and life peer.
 * Jeff Butterfield, 74, English rugby player.
 * Joseph Cullman, 92, American businessman, CEO of Philip Morris Company.
 * Kioumars Saberi Foumani, (aka Gol-Agha), 62, Iranian satirist, cancer.
 * Jeffrey Alan Gray, 69, British psychiatrist, prostate cancer.
 * Frederick Karl, 77, American literary biographer.
 * Georges Lagrange, 75, French esperantist writer.
 * Åke Lindemalm, 94, Swedish Navy officer.
 * Evelyn Mase, 81, South African nurse, first wife of Nelson Mandela.
 * Boris Piergamienszczikow, 55, Russian cellist.
 * Kazimierz Plater, 89, Polish chess International Master, three-time Polish chess champion (1949, 1956, 1957).
 * Adolph Verschueren, 81, Belgian road cyclist.