Deaths in August 2005

The following is a list of notable deaths in August 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

 * John Alevizos, 85, American businessman.
 * Al Aronowitz, 77, American music journalist, cancer.
 * Wim Boost, 87, Dutch cartoonist.
 * Donald Brooks, 77, American Hollywood and Broadway costume designer.
 * Constant, 85, Dutch COBRA painter.
 * King Fahd bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud of Saudi Arabia, 84, Saudi Arabian King, complications of a stroke suffered in 1995.
 * William Hugh Clifford Frend, 89, English ecclesiastical historian.
 * Dame Betty Ridley, 95, British church administrator, Third Church Estates Commissioner.
 * David Shaw, 62, American journalist, Los Angeles Times writer and Pulitzer Prize winner, brain tumor.
 * Robert Stone, 49, Australian rugby league player.

2

 * Erasmus Darwin Barlow, 90, British psychiatrist.
 * Sandro Bolchi, 81, Italian director and journalist.
 * Alfredo Corvino, 89, Uruguayan ballet dancer and ballet teacher.
 * Jay Hammond, 83, American politician, Governor of Alaska from 1975 to 1982.
 * Tuukka Mäkelä, 77, Finnish Olympic shooter.
 * Hassan Moghaddas, 42, Iranian judge in the case of Akbar Ganji and high-profile cases; assassinated by unknown motorbike assailant.
 * Loulie Jean Norman, 92, American soprano.
 * Steven Vincent, 49, American freelance reporter, shot dead in Basra, Iraq.

3

 * Zainab al Ghazali, 88, Egyptian activist.
 * Luis Barbero, 88, Spanish actor.
 * Paddie Bell, 74, Irish folk singer.
 * Françoise d'Eaubonne, 85, French writer.
 * Dick Heyward, 90, Australian longtime deputy director of UNICEF.
 * Ernest Alvia ("Smokey") Smith, 91, Canadian Victoria Cross recipient.
 * Susan Torres, 26, American brain-dead woman kept alive to give birth.

4

 * Charles Alden Black, 86, American businessman, husband of Shirley Temple, myelodysplastic syndrome.
 * "Little" Milton Campbell, 71, American blues musician.
 * Peter Cundy, 88, British World War II pilot.
 * Ileen Getz, 43, American actress (3rd Rock From The Sun, Changing Lanes, The Station Agent), cancer.
 * Sue Gunter, 66, American women's basketball coach.
 * Anatoly Larkin, 72, Russian theoretical physicist.
 * David MacKenzie, 83, Scottish rugby union player.
 * Firmin Martin Schmidt, 86, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Mendi.

5

 * Polina Astakhova, 68, Soviet five time Olympic gymnastic champion.
 * Fritze Carstensen, 80, Danish Olympic swimmer.
 * Mary Dees, 93, American actress.
 * Ian Fyfe, 58, Pakistani sports journalist.
 * Bertie Hill, 78, British equestrian.
 * Raymond Klibansky, 99, German-Canadian academic and philosopher.
 * Maria Korp, 50, Australian 'body in the boot' crime victim.
 * Raul Roco, 63, Filipino politician, former senator and presidential candidate, cancer.
 * Jane Lawrence Smith, 90, American actress also associated with 1950s art scene.
 * Cal Hogue, 77, American baseball player.

6

 * Nikolay Abramov, 55, Russian footballer.
 * Leonardo Rodríguez Alcaine, 86, Mexican trade union leader.
 * Vizma Belsevica, 74, Latvian poet.
 * Keter Betts, 77, American jazz bassist.
 * Robin Cook, 59, British Member of Parliament, former Foreign Secretary.
 * Ibrahim Ferrer, 78, Afro-Cuban musician, singer in the Buena Vista Social Club.
 * Louis Gauthier, 89, French cyclist.
 * Carlo Little, 66, British drummer, lung cancer.
 * John Tomlinson, 73, British educationalist.
 * James Wilson, 82, Irish composer.

7

 * Leni Alexander, 81, German-born Chilean composer.
 * Alejandro Armendáriz, 82, Argentinian physician and politician.
 * Paul Arnaud de Foïard, 83, French Army general.
 * Fannie Barrios, 41, Venezuelan bodybuilder.
 * Peter Jennings, 67, Canadian-born American correspondent, news anchor of ABC News, complications from lung cancer.
 * Mikhail Yevdokimov, 47, Russian comedian and politician, car accident.

8

 * Robert A. Baker, 84, American psychologist.
 * Barbara Bel Geddes, 82, American actress (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Dallas, Vertigo), lung cancer.
 * Ahmed Deedat, 80, South African Muslim preacher.
 * John H. Johnson, 87, American publisher.
 * Gene Mauch, 79, American Major League Baseball manager.
 * Matthew McGrory, 32, American actor (Big Fish, The Devil's Rejects, House of 1000 Corpses), heart failure.
 * Nicolae Dumitru, 76, Romanian football player and manager.
 * Ilse Werner, 84, German actress.

9

 * Colette Besson, 59, French athlete and Olympic 400m champion runner.
 * Dorris Bowdon, 90, American actress.
 * Al Carmines, 69, American musician.
 * Marco Cavagna, 46-47, Italian astronomer.
 * François Dalle, 87, French entrepreneur, CEO of L'Oréal cosmetics.
 * Stanley DeSantis, 52, American actor (Tales of the City), designer, heart attack.
 * Abraham Hirschfeld, 85, Polish-born New York City developer, of cancer.
 * Rita Keller, 72, American baseball player (AAGPBL).
 * Philip J. Klass, 85, American aviation journalist, UFO debunker, cancer.
 * Judith Rossner, 70, American author (Looking for Mr. Goodbar), diabetes and cancer.
 * Nikolay Serebryakov, 76, Russian film director.
 * Kay Tremblay, 91, Canadian actress (Road to Avonlea).

10

 * Mar Amongo, 68, Filipino comic book artist.
 * Jaroslav Koutecký, 83, Czech physical chemist
 * Roy Marlin "Butch" Voris, 85, American retired US Navy Captain, World War II flying ace, founder and two-time commander of the United States Navy Blue Angels.

11

 * Justus A. Akinsanya, 68, Nigerian-born British nurse.
 * Ernesta Ballard, 85, American feminist and former head of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society.
 * James Booth, 77, British actor (Zulu).
 * Manfred Korfmann, 63, German archaeologist.
 * Ted "Double Duty" Radcliffe, 103, American Negro leagues baseball player.

12

 * Francy Boland, 75, Belgian jazz pianist, arranger: top European swing band 1960s and 1970s.
 * Robert Bonner, 84, Canadian politician and businessman.
 * Greg Calvert, 68, American political activist.
 * Teruo Ishii, 81, Japanese movie maker.
 * Lakshman Kadirgamar, 73, Sri Lankan foreign minister, assassination.
 * Joe Korp, 47, Australian "body in the boot" suspect, suicide.
 * Charlie Norman, 84, Swedish jazz pianist and film music writer.
 * Julian Stanley, 87, American psychologist, "Champion of Gifted Students".

13

 * Wladimiro Calarese, 74, Italian Olympic fencer.
 * George Carpenter, 96, Irish Olympic fencer.
 * Arnold Cooke, 98, British composer.
 * W.J. Bryan Dorn, 89, American politician, former Democratic United States Representative from South Carolina 1947–1949, and 1951–1974.
 * David Lange, 63, New Zealand politician, former Labour Prime Minister of New Zealand, main proponent of anti-nuclear policy.
 * Robbie Millar, 38, Northern Irish chef and restaurateur.
 * Donald Howard Shively, 84, American professor, among the first to promote modern East Asian Studies, Shy–Drager syndrome.
 * Miguel Arraes, 88, Brazilian politician, former Governor of Pernambuco

14

 * Stephen C. Apostolof, 78, Bulgarian-born American filmmaker.
 * William Henry Beierwaltes, 88, American physician.
 * Coo Coo Marlin, 73, American NASCAR driver.
 * Billy More, 40, Italian drag queen music artist.
 * Beverly Wolff, 76, American mezzo-soprano.
 * Esther Wong, 88, Chinese-born American music promoter.

15

 * Gordon James Oakes, 74, British politician, former Labour government minister and member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom, cancer.
 * James Dougherty (police officer), 84, American police officer, first trainer of the Special Weapons and Tactics and first husband of actress Marilyn Monroe.
 * Peter Smit, 43, Dutch martial artist, former European and world champion kickboxer, shot to death in Rotterdam.
 * Herta Ware, 88, American actress (Cocoon, Cruel Intentions, Species).

16

 * Vassar Clements, 77, American fiddle player and bluegrass musician.
 * Tonino Delli Colli, 81, Italian cinematographer (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West, Once Upon a Time in America).
 * Aleksandr Gomelsky, 77, Soviet Hall of Fame basketball coach, cancer.
 * Derek Page, Baron Whaddon, 77, British politician.
 * Joe Ranft, 45, American animator, screenwriter and voice actor (Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Finding Nemo), car accident.
 * Eva Renzi, 60, German actress, cancer.
 * Frère Roger, 90, Swiss Christian leader and monk, founder of the Taizé Community, murdered by an assailant.

17

 * Richard Altham, 81, English cricketer.
 * John N. Bahcall, 70, American astrophysicist.
 * Dalibor Brazda, 83, Czech-born Swiss composer, arranger and conductor.
 * Lars Kristian Brynildsen, 50, Norwegian clarinetist.
 * Dottie Hunter, 89, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).
 * Lloyd Meeds, 77, American politician, former Democratic United States Representative from Washington from 1965–1979.
 * Bertram L. Podell, 79, American politician, former Democratic United States Representative from New York 1967–1975.
 * Ron Smillie, 71, English footballer.
 * Howard Watt, 94, South African rugby union player.

18

 * Christopher Bauman, Jr., 23, American professional wrestler
 * Andrónico Luksic, 78, Croatian-descent Chilean millionaire businessman, richest man of his country.
 * Meredith Merle Nicholson, 92, American cinematographer.
 * Gao Xiumin, 46, Chinese comedy actress, heart attack.

19

 * Mansour Armaly, 78, Palestinian ophthalmologist and early glaucoma researcher, cancer.
 * Aušra Augustinavičiūtė, 78, Lithuanian psychologist.
 * Faimalaga Luka, 65, Tuvaluan politician, former prime minister and governor-general of Tuvalu.
 * Dennis Lynds, 81, American mystery novelist under the pseudonym Michael Collins.
 * O. Madhavan, 83, Indian actor and director.
 * Abraham Bueno de Mesquita, 87, Dutch comedian, cancer.
 * Mo Mowlam, 55, British politician, complications after a fall.
 * Randy Turner, 55, American musician with the hardcore punk band Big Boys.
 * Mel Welles, 83, American actor, writer, director.

20

 * Abraham Goldstein, 80, American law professor, former dean of Yale Law School, heart attack.
 * Thomas Herrion, 23, American NFL player with the San Francisco 49ers, ischemic heart disease.
 * Steven Ronald Jensen, 46, American musician and founding member of The Vandals.
 * Miljenko Kovačić, 32, Croatian soccer player, motorcycle accident.
 * Julius Curtis Lewis Jr., 79, American businessman and philanthropist.
 * Krzysztof Raczkowski, 35, Polish drummer (Vader).
 * Clifford Williams, 78, British theatre director.

21

 * Liv Aasen, 76, Norwegian politician.
 * Mary Bowerman, 97, American botanist.
 * Liam Burke, 77, Irish politician.
 * Martin Dillon, 48, American musician, operatic tenor and professor of music, heart attack.
 * David Ironside, 80, South African cricketer.
 * James Jerome, 72, Canadian jurist and politician, former Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons.
 * Colin McEwan, 64, Australian comedian and actor, cancer.
 * Robert Moog, 71, American electronic music inventor and pioneer, brain tumor.
 * Dahlia Ravikovitch, 69, Israeli poet and author.

22

 * Luc Ferrari, 76, French musique concrète composer.
 * Richard Kelly, 81, American politician, former Republican United States Representative from Florida from 1975–1981.
 * Elizabeth Knight, 60, British actress (Oliver!, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, It's Awfully Bad for Your Eyes, Darling), heart disease.
 * Geoffrey Lane, Baron Lane, 87, British judge and former Lord Chief Justice.
 * Juliet Pannett, 94, English portrait painter.
 * Mati Unt, 61, Estonian writer and theatre director.
 * Morris Ziff, 91, American rheumatic disease expert, cardiac arrest.

23

 * Eddie Burks, 82, British civil engineer and psychic.
 * Glenn Corneille, 35, Dutch musician and pianist, car crash.
 * William J. Eaton, 74, American Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author.
 * Sir Jack Hibbert, 73, British statistician, Head of the Central Statistical Office, UK.
 * Milt Jackson, 61, American football coach, heart attack.
 * Brock Peters, 78, American actor (To Kill a Mockingbird, Porgy and Bess, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), pancreatic cancer.
 * Lyndon Woodside, 70, American choral conductor.

24

 * Jamshed Ansari, 62, Pakistani actor.
 * Maurice Cowling, 78, British historian.
 * Ambrogio Fogar, 64, Italian adventurer, heart attack.
 * Kaleth Morales, 21, Colombian "New Wave" vallenato singer and songwriter.
 * Tom Pashby, 90, Canadian ophthalmologist and sport safety advocate.
 * Yuri Sarantsev, 76, Soviet/Russian actor.
 * Jack Slipper, 81, English Scotland Yard detective.
 * Herbert Wright, 57, American television producer.

25

 * Ruth Aaronson Bari, 87, American mathematician.
 * Walter Becher, 92, German politician.
 * Philippe Bradshaw, 39, British artist.
 * Sir Frederick Corfield, 90, British politician.
 * Peter Glotz, 66, German politician.
 * Georgi Iliev, 39, Bulgarian businessman and president of Lokomotiv Plovdiv, murdered by sniper in Sunny Beach.
 * Perry Lafferty, 89, American television producer, cancer.
 * Terence Morgan, 83, British actor.
 * Eleanor Warren, 86, British cellist and music producer.
 * Reyhan Angelova, 19, Bulgarian singer, car accident.

26

 * Wolfgang Bauer, 64, Austrian playwright.
 * Denis "Piggy" D'Amour, 45, Canadian musician, guitarist of Canadian metal band Voivod, cancer.
 * Robert Denning, 78, American interior designer, silver-haired fixture of society in Paris and New York.
 * Gerry Fitt, Baron Fitt, 79, Northern Irish politician from West Belfast, elevated to the House of Lords.
 * Ed "Sailor" White, 56, Canadian professional wrestler best known as "Moondog King".

27

 * Aldo Aniasi, 84, Italian politician.
 * John Bean, 92, British Army officer and cricket player.
 * Romulo Espaldon, 79, Filipino military officer and diplomat.
 * Jan Moor-Jankowski, 81, Polish-American primatologist, stroke.
 * Seán Purcell, 76, Irish Gaelic footballer.
 * Andrés Vázquez de Prada, 80, Spanish historian, lawyer, diplomat and writer.

28

 * Ali Said Abdella, 55, Eritrean politician, foreign minister of Eritrea, heart attack.
 * Hans Clarin, 75, German actor.
 * Jacques Dufilho, 91, French comedian.
 * Esther Szekeres, (née Klein), 95, Hungarian mathematician.
 * George Szekeres, 94, Hungarian mathematician.
 * Reza Zavare'i, 67, Iranian lawyer and politician.

29

 * Ishaya Audu, 79, Nigerian politician.
 * Nikolai Sergeevich Bakhvalov, 71, Russian mathematician.
 * Balfour Brickner, 78, American rabbi.
 * Sir Hugh Collum, 65, British businessman.
 * Sybil Marshall, 91, British writer and broadcaster.
 * Margaret Scott, 71, Australian author and poet.
 * Jude Wanniski, 69, American journalist and supply-side economist.

30

 * Charles L. Allen, 92, American Methodist minister.
 * Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, 115, Dutch supercentenarian, oldest recognized person in the world, gastric cancer.
 * John Brown, 90, Scottish footballer.
 * Cecily Brownstone, 96, Canadian long-time Associated Press cuisine writer, pneumonia.
 * Michael Frary, 87, American painter.
 * James H. Scheuer, 85, American politician, former liberal Democrat United States Representative from New York 1965–1973 and 1975–1993.

31

 * Patrick Tobin Asselin, 75, Canadian politician.
 * Eladia Blázquez, 74, Argentine tango player and composer.
 * Stéphane Bruey, 72, French football player.
 * John Donaldson, Baron Donaldson of Lymington, 84, British judge and peer, former Master of the Rolls.
 * Jaan Kiivit, Jr, 65, Estonian former Lutheran archbishop.
 * Soo Bee Lee, 71, Singaporean soprano.
 * Sir Joseph Rotblat, 96, Polish-born British physicist, Nobel laureate, anti-nuclear weapons campaigner, founder of Pugwash Conferences.
 * Theodore R. Sarbin, 94, American psychologist.
 * Michael Sheard, 67, Scottish actor (The Empire Strikes Back), cancer.
 * Nina Ulyanenko, 81, Russian aviator.
 * Julius Westheimer, 88, American financial analyst.