Deaths in April 2005

The following is a list of notable deaths in April 2005.

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

 * Álvaro Alsogaray, 91, Argentinian politician and businessman, cancer.
 * Philip Amelio, 27, American actor and teacher..
 * Paul Bomani, 80, Tanzanian politician and diplomat.
 * Alexander Brott, 90, Canadian composer, conductor and violinist.
 * Oswaldo Fadda, 84, Brazilian practitioner and developer of Brazilian jiu-jitsu, pneumonia.
 * Harald Juhnke, 75, German entertainer.
 * Jack Keller, 68, American songwriter, wrote themes to Bewitched and Gidget, leukemia.
 * Thomas Kling, 47, German poet, lung cancer.
 * Barry Stern, 45, American drummer (Trouble, Zoetrope), complications following surgery.
 * Robert Coldwell Wood, 81, American political scientist and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, stomach cancer.

2

 * Trevor Foster, 90, Welsh rugby player.
 * Nasri Maalouf, 94, Lebanese politician.
 * Patricia McGee, 70, American politician and senator, pulmonary fibrosis.
 * John O'Leary, 58, American politician, former U.S. ambassador to Chile, Lou Gehrig's disease.
 * John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła), 84, Polish Roman Catholic pope, septic shock and cardio-circulatory collapse.
 * Jacques Poitrenaud, 82, French film director and actor.
 * Jacques Rabemananjara, 91, Malagasy politician, playwright and poet.

3

 * Aleksy Antkiewicz, 81, Polish boxer and Olympic medalist.
 * Rick Blight, 49, Canadian ice hockey player, suicide.
 * Frank Clair, 87, Canadian Football League coach (Toronto Argonauts, Ottawa Rough Riders), heart failure.
 * Tony Croatto, 65, Italian-born Puerto Rican composer-singer, lung and brain cancer.
 * Jef Eygel, 72, Belgian basketball player.
 * Kader Firoud, 85, Algerian-French football player and manager.
 * François Gérin, 60, Canadian politician.

4

 * Gordon Barton, 75, Australian businessman and political activist.
 * Edward Bronfman, 77, Canadian businessman and philanthropist, colon cancer.
 * Blanchette Brunoy, 89, French actress.
 * Antonio Rivera, 41, Puerto Rican world champion boxer, asthma.

5

 * Manuel Ballester, 85, Spanish chemist.
 * Saul Bellow, 89, Canadian-born American Nobel Prize-winning author.
 * Robert Borg, 91, American military officer and Olympic equestrian.
 * Abdul Mannan, 75, Bangladesh politician, minister of Home Affairs (1972-1973).
 * Dale Messick, 98, American creator of the Brenda Starr comic strip.
 * Dragoljub Minić, 68, Yugoslav chess Grandmaster.
 * Chung Nam-sik, 88, Korean football player and manager.
 * Debralee Scott, 52, American actress (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, Forever Fernwood, Police Academy).
 * Nils Svenwall, 86, Swedish art director.
 * Neil Welliver, 75, American landscape painter, mainly in his native Maine, pneumonia.

6

 * Frank Conroy, 69, American author and memoirist, colorectal cancer.
 * Anthony DePalma, 100, American orthopedic surgeon, teacher, and humanitarian.
 * Károly Ecser, Hungarian Olympic weightlifter.
 * Francesco Laudadio, 55, Italian film director, screenwriter and producer.
 * Bernd Lorenz, 57, German football player.
 * Geoff Millman, 70, English cricketer.
 * Rainier III, 81, Prince of Monaco since 1949, kidney failure.
 * Gerard Peters, 84, Dutch track and road cyclist.

7

 * Cliff Allison, 73, British Formula One driver.
 * Grigoris Bithikotsis, 82, Greek singer.
 * Aleksandar Despić, 78, Serbian physicist and academic.
 * Max von der Grün, 78, German novelist.
 * Bob Kennedy, 84, American Major League Baseball player and manager.
 * Haji Khanmammadov, 86, Azerbaijani and Soviet composer.
 * Melih Kibar, 53, Turkish composer, skin cancer.
 * Jose Melis, 85, Cuban-born American former bandleader for The Tonight Show.
 * Givi Nodia, 57, Soviet Georgian football player, heart attack.
 * Yvonne Vera, 40, Zimbabwean novelist and writer, AIDS-related complications, meningitis.
 * Erna Woll, 88, German composer and church musician.

8

 * Al Gettel, 87, American baseball pitcher.
 * Maurice Lafont, 77, French football player.
 * Eddie Miksis, 78, American baseball player.
 * Yoshitarō Nomura, 85, Japanese film director, pneumonia.
 * Douglas Northcott, 88, British mathematician (ideal theory).
 * Onna White, 83, Canadian Broadway choreographer.

9

 * César Civita, 99, American-Argentine publisher.
 * Andrea Dworkin, 58, American radical feminist writer and anti-pornography activist, myocarditis.
 * Anton Heyboer, 81, Dutch painter and printmaker.
 * Scott Mason, 28, Australian cricketer, heart attack.
 * Jerrel Wilson, 63, American football player, cancer.

10

 * Carl Abrahams, 93, Jamaican painter.
 * Archbishop Iakovos of America, 93, Ottoman-American primate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America (1959–1996), pulmonary fibrosis.
 * Norbert Brainin, 82, Austrian violinist and founder of the Amadeus Quartet.
 * Frederick C. Branch, 82, first African-American officer of the United States Marine Corps.
 * Horacio Casarín, 86, Mexican football player and coach, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Aatos Lehtonen, 91, Finnish football forward.
 * Al Lucas, 26, American gridiron football player, spinal cord injury suffered during game.
 * Wally Tax, 57, Dutch singer and songwriter.
 * Anatoly Trofimov, 64, Soviet and Russian KGB officer, homicide.
 * Chen Yifei, 58, Chinese painter.

11

 * John Bennett, 75, British actor (Watership Down, The Pianist, Doctor Who).
 * John Brosnan, 57, British writer and film critic, acute pancreatitis.
 * Jerry Byrd, 85, American Lap steel guitarist, Parkinson's disease.
 * Floyd Chance, 79, American session musician.
 * Junior Delgado, 46, Jamaican reggae singer, famed for his roots style.
 * André François, 89, French cartoonist.
 * James Hamilton, 87, British politician.
 * Maurice Hilleman, 85, American microbiologist.
 * David Hughes, 74, British novelist.
 * Lucien Laurent, 97, French football player, scored the first ever goal at a FIFA World Cup.
 * Mattie McDonagh, 68, Irish Gaelic footballer.
 * Doug Peden, 88, Canadian basketball player and Olympic medalist.
 * George Younce, 75, American Southern Gospel singer.

12

 * Rodolfo Gonzales, 76, Mexican boxer, poet, political organizer, and activist, kidney failure.
 * Ehud Manor, 63, Israeli songwriter.
 * Shahrokh Meskoob, 81, Iranian writer, translator, social critic, literary historian, and university professor, cancer.
 * Georgi Pachedzhiev, 89, Bulgarian football manager.
 * Richard Popkin, 81, American academic philosopher, pulmonary emphysema.
 * Cyril Sidlow, 89, Welsh football player.
 * Nelly Uchendu, 54/5, Nigerian musician, cancer.

13

 * Don Blasingame, 73, American baseball player and manager.
 * Salvatore Camarata, 91, American musician and co-founder of Disneyland Records.
 * Julia Darling, 48, English novelist and poet, breast cancer.
 * Wolfgang Droege, 55, German-Canadian founder of white supremacist group the Heritage Front, shot.
 * Kay Gardella, 82, American television critic for the New York Daily News, cancer.
 * Johnnie Johnson, 80, American musician, pneumonia.
 * Nikola Ljubičić, 89, Serbian general and politician, president of Serbia from (1982-1984).
 * Vaikom Chandrasekharan Nair, 85, Indian writer and journalist.
 * Henry Proctor, 75, American competition rower and Olympic champion.
 * Philippe Volter, 45, Belgian actor, suicide.
 * Nathaniel Weyl, 94, American writer, economist who testified in the Alger Hiss case.
 * Juan Zanotto, 69, Italian-Argentinian comic book artist.

14

 * Chet Aubuchon, 88, American basketball player.
 * Benny Bailey, 79, American jazz trumpeter.
 * Andrew Bisset, 52, Australian author and musician.
 * Saunders Mac Lane, 95, American mathematician.
 * Richard Popkin, 81, American academic philosopher.
 * Sir Rollo Pain, 83, British army general.

15

 * Jimmy Allan, 73, Scottish cricketer.
 * Al Baisi, 87, American football player.
 * Martin Blumenson, 86, American military historian.
 * Peter Cargill, 41, Jamaican footballer.
 * Art Cross, 87, American Indianapolis 500 driver.
 * Jaime Fernández, 67, Mexican actor.
 * John Fred Gourrier, 63, American 1960s pop singer.
 * John Hultberg, 83, American avant-garde painter.
 * George Arthur Padmore, Liberian diplomat, Liberian Ambassador to the United States (1956–1961).
 * Margaretta Scott, 93, English actress ("Mrs. Pumphrey" in All Creatures Great and Small).
 * Duilio Spagnolo, 78, Italian boxer, former heavyweight contender.

16

 * Laura Canales, 50, American Tejano singer.
 * Herm Gilliam, 58, American National Basketball Association player (Portland Trail Blazers).
 * Kim Mu-saeng, 62, South Korean actor, pneumonia.
 * Marla Ruzicka, 28, American activist and aid worker, car bombing in Iraq.
 * Volker Vogeler, 74, German film director and screenwriter.
 * Kay Walsh, 93, British actress.

17

 * Hans Gruijters, 73, Dutch politician and journalist.
 * James Archibald Houston, 83, Canadian author and artist.
 * Vishnu Kant Shastri, 76, Indian politician.
 * Juan Pablo Torres, 58, Cuban trombonist, bandleader, arranger and producer, brain tumor.

18

 * Sir Piers Bengough, 75, British soldier and Her Majesty's Representative at Ascot.
 * Donald Bruce, Baron Bruce of Donington, 92, British politician and peer.
 * Peter F. Flaherty, 80, American politician and attorney.
 * Bassel Fleihan, 42, Lebanese deputy and former minister, complications following bomb attack on Rafiq Hariri.
 * Clarence Gaines, 81, American Basketball Hall of Fame coach, stroke.
 * Sam Mills, 45, American former NFL player and assistant coach, cancer.
 * Kenneth Schermerhorn, 75, American music director and conductor, non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

19

 * Mike Brim, 39, American football player.
 * George P. Cosmatos, 65, Italian-born Greek-American film director (Tombstone, Rambo: First Blood Part II, Cobra), lung cancer.
 * Ruth Hussey, 93, American film actress (The Philadelphia Story).
 * Stan Levey, 79, American jazz drummer.
 * Clement Meadmore, 76, Australian-born steel sculptor.
 * Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, 58, Danish jazz upright bassist.

20

 * Inday Ba, 32, Swedish actress (also known as N'Deaye Ba).
 * Zygfryd Blaut, 62, Polish football player.
 * Gene Frankel, 85, United States theater director.
 * Ea Jansen, 83, Estonian historian.
 * Fumio Niwa, 100, Japanese novelist.

21

 * Giordano Abbondati, 56, Italian figure skater.
 * Ed Butka, 89, American baseball player.
 * Zhang Chunqiao, 88, Chinese political theorist, member of the Gang of Four.
 * Gwynfor Evans, 92, Welsh politician.
 * Bill Kaysing, 82, American conspiracy theorist.
 * Feroze Khan, 100, Pakistani field hockey player, Olympic Champion 1928.
 * Heinz Kluncker, 80, German trade union leader.
 * Cyril Tawney, 74, British songwriter and folksinger.
 * Jimmy Thompson, 79, British actor and comic.

22

 * Norman Bird, 80, British actor (Worzel Gummidge, The Lord of the Rings, Look and Read).
 * Joseph Bogen, 78, American neurosurgeon, epileptic seizure researcher.
 * Gregoire Boonzaier, 95, South African painter.
 * Mary Dann, early 80s, American Indian activist.
 * Erika Fuchs, 98, German Disney comics editor and translator.
 * John Marshall, 72, American filmmaker.
 * Philip Morrison, 89, American physicist and group leader in the Manhattan Project.
 * Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, 81, Scottish sculptor.
 * Leonid Shamkovich, 81, Russian ex-Soviet grandmaster chess player.

23

 * Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen, 94, Australian political celebrity, longest-serving Premier of Queensland.
 * Robert Farnon, 87, Canadian-born Grammy Award winning arranger, composer.
 * Andre Gunder Frank, 76, German economic historian, proponent of dependency theory.
 * Al Grassby, 78, Australian former politician and minister in the Whitlam government.
 * Sir John Mills, 97, British actor (Ryan's Daughter, Swiss Family Robinson, Gandhi), Oscar winner (1971).
 * John Pott, 85, British World War II Army officer.
 * Romano Scarpa, 78, Italian Disney comic book artist.
 * J. B. Stoner, 81, American neo-nazi, segregationist politician, and a domestic terrorist.
 * Earl Wilson, 70, American baseball player, leading pitcher for the 1968 World Series champion Detroit Tigers, heart attack.
 * Jimmy Woode, 78, American jazz bassist, heart attack.

24

 * Adelle August, 71, American actress.
 * Francis Bay, 90, Belgian conductor.
 * Ralph Buchanan, 82, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * Fei Xiaotong, 94, Chinese researcher and professor of sociology and anthropology.
 * Ezer Weizman, 80, Israeli politician, former Israeli president.

25

 * Jim Barker, 69, American politician, stroke.
 * John Love, 80, Rhodesian Formula One driver.
 * Swami Ranganathananda, 96, Indian religious leader, President of the Ramakrishna Order.
 * Alexander Trotman, Baron Trotman, 71, English chief executive and peer, head of Ford Motor Company.
 * Samuel Williamson, 65, American scientist.

26

 * Mason Adams, 86, American actor (Lou Grant, F/X, Omen III: The Final Conflict).
 * Hasil Adkins, 67, American Rockabilly musician.
 * Georges Anderla, 84, French economist.
 * Gordon Campbell, Baron Campbell of Croy, 83, Scottish politician.
 * Elisabeth Domitien, 79-80, former prime minister of Central African Republic
 * Lafayette Morgan, 74, Liberian economist.
 * Josef Nesvadba, 78, Czech psychiatrist and science fiction author.
 * Augusto Roa Bastos, 87, Paraguayan writer, winner of the Premio Cervantes.
 * Johnny Sample, 67, American former National Football League player.
 * Maria Schell, 79, Austrian actress (The Last Bridge, Gervaise, Superman), pneumonia.

27

 * Richard Appleton, 72, Australian poet and editor..
 * Abdus Samad Azad, 83, Bangladeshi diplomat and politician, former foreign minister of Bangladesh.
 * Red Horner, 95, Canadian ice hockey player, former NHL player with the Toronto Maple Leafs.
 * Tunney Hunsaker, 75, American professional boxer, Muhammad Ali's first professional boxing opponent.
 * Stanley Orme, Baron Orme, 82, British politician,
 * Howard W. Johnston, 91, German principal founder of the Free University of Berlin.
 * Ebrahim Sulaiman Sait, 82, Indian politician.

28

 * Chuck Bittick, 65, American water polo player.
 * Chris Candido, 33, American professional wrestler, blood clot from surgery complications.
 * Odysseas Dimitriadis, 96, Georgian-born Greek conductor.
 * Percy Heath, 81, American bassist for the Modern Jazz Quartet.
 * Erich Vermehren, 85, German military intelligence officer, World War II defector from the Abwehr.
 * Zeke Zekley, 90, American cartoonist.

29

 * William J. Bell, 78, American screenwriter and television producer (The Young and the Restless, The Bold and the Beautiful), Alzheimer's disease.
 * Dianne Brooks, 66, American jazz singer.
 * Mel Gussow, 71, American theatre critic for The New York Times, cancer.
 * Sara Henderson, 69, Australian author.
 * Leonid Khachiyan, 52, Russian/American mathematician and computer scientist.
 * Mariana Levy, 39, Mexican actress, heart attack following a robbery attempt.
 * Johnnie Stewart, 87, British television producer (Top of the Pops).

30

 * Sylve Bengtsson, 74, Swedish football player.
 * Wim Esajas, 70, Suriname middle-distance runner.
 * Lourens Muller, 87, South African politician.
 * Phil Rasmussen, 86, American Army Air Corps officer, complications from cancer.
 * Ron Todd, 78, English former general secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union