Deaths in August 2004

The following is a list of notable deaths in August 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

 * Philip Abelson, 91, American physicist, co-discoverer of Neptunium, respiratory failure.
 * Vivian Austin, 84, American actress.
 * John Higgins, 88, American Olympic swimmer and coach, pneumonia.
 * George F. Kugler, Jr., 79, American lawyer.
 * Sidney Morgenbesser, 82, American philosopher.
 * Madeleine Robinson, 86, French actress.
 * Ken Timbs, 53, American professional wrestler, cardiomyopathy and congestive heart failure.

2

 * V. Balakrishnan, 72, Indian Malayalam writer and translator.
 * François Craenhals, 77, Belgian comics artist.
 * V. Lamar Gudger, 85, American judge and politician.
 * Heinrich Mark, 92, Estonian politician, Prime Minister-in-exile (1971-1990).
 * José Omar Pastoriza, 62, Argentinian football player and coach, cardiovascular disease.
 * Arturo M. Tolentino, 93, Philippine lawyer and politician, heart attack.
 * Don Tosti, 81, American musician and composer.

3

 * Henri Cartier-Bresson, 95, French photographer.
 * Gloria Emerson, 75, American author, journalist and New York Times war correspondent, suicide.
 * Bob Murphy, 79, American Major League Baseball sportscaster, lung cancer.
 * Bryon Nickoloff, 48, Canadian chess International Master, stomach cancer.
 * Geraldine Peroni, 51, American film editor (The Player, Dr. T and the Women, Michael), suicide.

4

 * Pierre de Chevigné, 95, French politician.
 * Robert Yewdall Jennings, 90, British jurist, President of the International Court of Justice.
 * Eivor Landström, 85, Swedish actress.
 * Frank Maxwell, 87, American actor.
 * Mary Sherman Morgan, 82, American rocket scientist.
 * Hossein Panahi, 47, Iranian actor and poet, heart attack.
 * Fumio Watanabe, 74, Japanese actor.

5

 * Uri Adelman, 45, Israeli writer, musician, computer expert, and academic, heart attack.
 * Don Grossman, 83, Australian rules footballer.
 * Edith Jiménez, 86, Paraguayan plastic artist.
 * André Wogenscky, 88, French modernist architect and member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts.

6

 * Ennio Antonelli, 77, Italian actor and boxer.
 * Joseph-Marie Lo Duca, 98, Italian-French journalist, novelist, art critic, and film historian.
 * Rick James, 56, American singer ("Mary Jane", "Give It to Me Baby", "Super Freak") and producer, heart attack.
 * Philip G. Johnson, 78, American Hall of Fame trainer of Thoroughbred race horses.
 * Donald Justice, 78, American poet.
 * Murray S. Klamkin, 83, American mathematician.

7

 * Red Adair, 89, American oil well fire-fighter.
 * María Esperanza de Bianchini, 75, Venezuelan mystic.
 * G.T. Hogan, 75, American jazz drummer.
 * Bernard Levin, 75, English journalist and broadcaster, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Ismael Rodríguez, 86, Mexican film director, screenwriter, respiratory failure.
 * Jukka Sipilä, 68, Finnish actor and television director.
 * Gordon Smith, 80, Scottish footballer.
 * Chris Wallace, 70, Australian computer scientist and physicist.

8

 * Henrique Abranches, 71, Angolan writer and anthropologist, stroke.
 * Gypsy Boots, 89, American health and fitness pioneer.
 * Eva Frommer, 76, German-British consultant child psychiatrist.
 * Paul Garner, 95, American comedian, Three Stooges associate.
 * Leon Golub, 82, American artist and painter.
 * Dimitris Papamichael, 70, Greek actor, heart attack.
 * Jean Pouliot, 81, Canadian broadcasting pioneer.
 * S. V. Ramadoss, 83, Indian actor.
 * Fay Wray, 96, Canadian-American actress (King Kong).

9

 * Liisi Beckmann, 79, Finnish designer and artist.
 * Sam Hogin, 54, American country music songwriter.
 * Robert Lecourt, 95, French politician, judge and president of the European Court of Justice.
 * Tony Mottola, 86, American guitarist who played with Frank Sinatra and on The Tonight Show orchestra, stroke.
 * Eduard Neumann, 93, German Luftwaffe officer during WWII.
 * David Raksin, 92, American composer of film and television scores (Laura).
 * Saul Rosenzweig, 97, American psychologist and therapist.
 * René Taton, 89, French author and historian of science.

10

 * Walter Bielser, 75, Swiss footballer.
 * K. P. Brahmanandan, 58, Indian playback singer from Kerala.
 * Alan N. Cohen, 73, American basketball executive and owner of the Boston Celtics.
 * James Stillman Rockefeller, 102, American member of the Rockefeller family and Olympic champion, stroke.

11

 * Sir David Calcutt, 73, British barrister and public servant.
 * Joe Falls, 76, American journalist, longtime sports writer for The Detroit News, heart attack.
 * Bill Martin Jr., 88, American author of Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.
 * Wolfgang Mommsen, 73, German historian.

12

 * Bjarne Andersson, 64, Swedish cross-country skier, Olympic silver medallist (1968).
 * Humayun Azad, 57, Bangladeshi poet, writer, critic, linguist, and academic.
 * Godfrey Hounsfield, 84, British electrical engineer and Nobel Prize in Medicine laureate, co-inventor of the CAT scan.
 * John McGuigan, 71, Scottish football player.
 * Sebastián Ontoria, 84, Spanish footballer.
 * Perica Vlašić, 72, Croatian Olympic rower.
 * Basil Wigoder, 83, British politician and barrister.
 * George Yardley, 75, American NBA basketball player, ALS.

13

 * Mabel Addis, 92, American writer, teacher and the first video game writer.
 * Julia Child, 91, American chef, author and television hostess on French cuisine, kidney failure.
 * Sei Ikeno, 73, Japanese composer.
 * Josef Paul Kleihues, 71, German architect.
 * Donald Meltzer, 81, American Kleinian psychoanalyst.
 * Milton Pollack, 97, American federal judge who ruled on court cases involving Wall Street.
 * Peter Woodthorpe, 72, British character actor.
 * Akku Yadav, 32, Indian gangster and criminal, lynched.
 * Ko Yong-hui, 52, North Korean mistress of supreme leader Kim Jong Il and mother Kim Jong Un, breast cancer.

14

 * David Brown, 76, American rower and Olympic champion.
 * Dhananjoy Chatterjee, 39, Indian rapist and murderer, executed.
 * William David Ford, 77, American politician, stroke.
 * Neal Fredericks, 35, American cinematographer (The Blair Witch Project), drowned.
 * Czesław Miłosz, 93, Polish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980, and dissident.
 * Bomber Moran, 59, Filipino actor, prostate cancer.
 * Eric Petrie, 77, New Zealand cricketer.
 * Trevor Skeet, 86, New Zealand-British lawyer and politician.

15

 * Sune Bergström, 88, Swedish biochemist, Nobel Prize in Medicine.
 * Semiha Berksoy, 94, Turkish opera singer.
 * Amarsinh Chaudhary, 63, Indian politician, heart attack.
 * Charles Eaton, 94, American juvenile stage and film performer.
 * Armando Lambruschini, 80, Argentine navy admiral.
 * Kirk McCarthy, 37, Australian motorcycle road racer, racing accident.
 * Paul Ngei, 80, Kenyan politician, diabetes.
 * Atefah Sahaaleh, 16, Iranian teenage girl and regime victim, execution by hanging.
 * Min Thu Wun, 95, Burmese poet, writer and scholar.

16

 * Acquanetta, 83, American B-movie actress nicknamed "The Venezuelan Volcano", Alzheimer's disease.
 * Babken Arakelyan, 92, Armenian historian and archeologist.
 * Ivan Hlinka, 54, Czech national hockey team and Pittsburgh Penguins coach, traffic collision.
 * Jikki, 68, Indian playback singer from Andhra Pradesh.
 * J. Irwin Miller, 95, American businessman, philanthropist, and civil rights advocate.
 * Carl Mydans, 97, American photographer.
 * Robert Quiroga, 35, American world champion boxer, murdered.

17

 * Thea Astley, 78, Australian novelist.
 * Frank Cotroni, 73, Italian-Canadian mobster and boss of the Cotroni crime family, brain cancer.
 * Marosa di Giorgio, 72, Uruguayan poet and novelist.
 * Shizuo Kakutani, 92, Japanese-American mathematician.
 * Jack Marshall, 84, Canadian politician.
 * Gérard Souzay, 85, French baritone.
 * Kain Tapper, 74, Finnish sculptor.
 * Armando Dely Valdés, 40, Panamanian football player, heart attack.

18

 * Susan Mary Alsop, 84, American socialite, hostess and writer.
 * Elmer Bernstein, 82, American film composer (Thoroughly Modern Millie, Ghostbusters, To Kill a Mockingbird), Oscar winner (1968), cancer.
 * Joe Dodge, 82, American jazz musician.
 * Hiram Fong, 97, American businessman and politician, first Asian American elected to the U.S. Senate, kidney failure.
 * Gylfi Þorsteinsson Gíslason, 87, Icelandic politician.
 * Anicet Kashamura, 75, Congolese politician.
 * Helen Niña Tappan Loeblich, 86, American micropaleontologist.
 * Hugh Manning, 83, British actor (Emmerdale, The Elephant Man, Mrs Thursday).
 * Víctor Cervera Pacheco, 68, Mexican politician, former Governor of Yucatán, heart attack.
 * Uday Prakash, 40, Indian actor, alcoholism.
 * Charlie Waller, 69, American bluegrass musician, founder of the band Country Gentlemen.

19

 * Tom Baldwin, 57, American race driver, racing accident.
 * George Gibson, 98, American football player and coach.
 * Edmund Kurtz, 95, Russian-American cellist.
 * Kyi Maung, 83, Myanmar Army officer and politician.

20

 * Arthur Lever, 84, Welsh professional footballer.
 * María Antonieta Pons, 82, Cuban-born Mexican actress in rumbera films.
 * Moshe Shamir, 83, Israeli politician, playwright and columnist.
 * Leslie Shepard, 87, British author, archivist, and curator.

21

 * Viktor Avilov, 51, Soviet and Russian film and theater actor, cancer.
 * Isaäc Arend Diepenhorst, 88, Dutch politician and jurist.
 * Maddy English, 79, American baseball player (AAGPBL).
 * Bill Hobbs, 57, American gridiron football player, accidental death.
 * Hortensia Blanch Pita, 89, Spanish writer.
 * Sachidananda Routray, 88, Indian poet and novelist.

22

 * Konstantin Aseev, 43, Russian chess Grandmaster and coach, leukemia.
 * Angus Bethune, 95, Australian politician and member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly.
 * Haralambie Ivanov, 63, Romanian sprint canoeist and Olympic silver medalist.
 * George Kirgo, 78, American television and film writer, president of the Writers Guild of America, kidney failure.
 * Jim Nelson, 57, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates).
 * Daniel Petrie, 83, Canadian film director (A Raisin in the Sun, Cocoon: The Return, The Bay Boy), cancer.
 * Reginaldo Polloni, 87–88, Italian Olympic rower (men's coxed four rowing at the 1948 Summer Olympics).
 * Ota Šik, 84, Czech economist and politician, architect of economic liberalization during the 1968 Prague Spring.
 * Eddison Zvobgo, 68, Zimbabwean politician and the founder of ruling party, ZANU–PF, cancer.

23

 * Yerik Assanbayev, 68, Kazakh statesman and vice-president (1991-1996).
 * Hank Borowy, 88, American baseball player.
 * Francesco Minerva, 100, Italian Roman Catholic archbishop.
 * Anthony Rhodes, 87, British writer and scholar.
 * Víctor Urquidi, 85, Mexican civil servant, economist, and academic.

24

 * Richard Ervin, 99, American attorney general and chief justice of Florida.
 * Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, 78, Swiss-American psychiatrist.
 * Bob Price, 76, American politician (U.S. Representative for Texas districts).
 * Ivy Rahman, 60, Bangladeshi politician, grenade attack.
 * Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar, 81, Colombian painter and sculptor.

25

 * Donald M. Ashton, 85, British film art director and production designer, Parkinson's disease.
 * Karen Dior, 37, American actress, singer, director, and drag queen, viral hepatitis.
 * Hal Epps, 90, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, St. Louis Browns, Philadelphia Athletics).
 * Marcelo González Martín, 86, Spanish Roman Catholic cardinal and archbishop of Toledo (1971-1995).
 * Carl Szokoll, 88, Austrian resistance fighter during World War II, and after the war author and film producer.
 * David Woodward, 61, English-American historian of cartography and cartographer, cancer.

26

 * Enzo Baldoni, 56, Italian journalist, murdered in Iraq.
 * Laura Branigan, 52, American pop singer ("Gloria", "Self Control"), cerebral aneurysm.
 * Lewis Carter-Jones, 83, British politician.
 * Rajanand, 76, Indian actor in the Kannada film industry.
 * Lyn Thomas, 74, American stage, television and film actress.
 * Matthias Volz, 94, German Olympic gymnast.

27

 * Fernand Auberjonois, 93, Swiss foreign news correspondent for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Toledo Blade.
 * Willie Crawford, 57, American baseball player (Los Angeles Dodgers), kidney disease.
 * Gottlieb Göller, 69, German football player and manager.
 * Suzanne Kaaren, 92, American actress (Three Stooges films).
 * Larry McCormick, 71, American television personality, cancer.
 * Susan Peretz, 64, American actress (Dog Day Afternoon, Melvin and Howard, Swing Shift), breast cancer.
 * William Pierson, 78, American actor (Stalag 17, Three's Company, Corvette Summer), respiratory failure.

28

 * Isidoro Blaisten, 71, Argentine writer.
 * Silvana Jachino, 88, Italian actress.
 * Robert Lewin, 84, American producer and screenwriter, lung cancer.
 * Mercedes Vecino, 88, Spanish film actress.

29

 * Donald Allen, 92, American editor, publisher and translator of American literature.
 * Ivan Lacković Croata, 72, Croatian naive painter, heart attack.
 * Nikolai Getman, 86, Soviet/Ukrainian artist and Gulag detainee
 * Helen Lane, 83, American translator.
 * Leonardus Benjamin Moerdani, 71, Indonesian general and politician, stroke and lung infection.
 * René Ménil, 97, French surrealist writer and philosopher.
 * Antoine Schnapper, 71, French art historian.
 * Vladimir Velebit, 97, Yugoslav politician, diplomat and military leader.
 * Hans Vonk, 62, Dutch conductor, ALS.

30

 * Dely Atay-Atayan, 90, Filipina comedian and singer.
 * Robert Boyer, 56, Canadian visual artist, powwow dancer and university professor of aboriginal heritage.
 * Willie Duff, 69, Scottish football goalkeeper (Heart of Midlothian, Charlton Athletic, Peterborough United and Dunfermline Athletic).
 * Frank Horton, 84, American politician.
 * Bart Huges, 70, Dutch librarian and proponent of trepanation.
 * Derek Johnson, 71, British athlete and athletics administrator, leukemia.
 * E. Fay Jones, 83, American architect and designer, trained by Frank Lloyd Wright.
 * Indian Larry, 55, American motorcycle builder, artist, and stunt rider stunt, injuries suffered during a stunt.
 * Mario Levrero, 64, Uruguayan author.
 * Bob Sherman, 63, American actor.
 * Fred Lawrence Whipple, 97, American astronomer.

31

 * Edvin Landsem, 79, Norwegian Olympic cross-country skier.
 * Tamaz Nadareishvili, 50, Georgian politician, heart attack.
 * Lex Peterson, 46, New Zealand Olympic bobsledder (two-man and four-man bobsled at the 1988 Winter Olympics).
 * Carl Wayne, 61, English lead singer of pop group The Move, cancer.