Deaths in February 2004

The following is a list of notable deaths in February 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

 * Art Albrecht, 82, American gridiron football player.
 * Alvin Baltrop, 56, American photographer, cancer.
 * Ewald Cebula, 86, Polish football player.
 * Álvaro d'Ors, 88, Spanish scholar of Roman law.
 * Buzz Gardner, 72, American trumpeter (The Mothers of Invention).
 * Valeri Gassy, 54, Ukrainian handball player, Olympic champion (1976).
 * Ally MacLeod, 72, Scottish football player and manager, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Joe Mallett, 88, English football player.
 * Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi, 89, Pakistani military officer.
 * Bob Stokoe, 73, English footballer and manager, pneumonia.
 * Dino Verde, 81, Italian author, lyricist, playwright and screenwriter.

2

 * Alan Bullock, 89, British historian and author.
 * Henry Cockburn, 82, English footballer.
 * Naohiro Dōgakinai, 89, Japanese politician, governor of Hokkaido.
 * Bernard McEveety, 79, American film and television director.
 * Róbert Zimonyi, 85, Hungarian Olympic rower.

3

 * Cornelius Bumpus, 58, American musician (The Doobie Brothers, Steely Dan), heart attack.
 * Kaúlza de Arriaga, 89, Portuguese general, writer, and politician, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Ted Harding, 82, Australian politician and rugby league football player.
 * Keve Hjelm, 81, Swedish actor and film director, prostate cancer.
 * Jason Raize, 28, American actor (The Lion King, Brother Bear), suicide.
 * William B. Tabler, 89, American architect.
 * Fiep Westendorp, 87, Dutch illustrator.
 * Lyle Wicks, 91, Canadian politician.
 * Warren Zimmermann, 69, American diplomat, pancreatic cancer.

4

 * Valentina Borok, 72, Soviet Ukrainian mathematician.
 * Stevo Crvenkovski, 56, Macedonian politician and diplomat.
 * Hilda Hilst, 73, Brazilian poet, novelist, and playwright, complications from surgery.
 * William MacQuitty, 98, Irish film producer and also a writer and photographer.
 * Michael P. Moran, 59, American actor (Scarface, Lean on Me, A Perfect Murder), Guillain–Barré syndrome.
 * Malika Pukhraj, 92, Pakistani folk singer.
 * Karlheinz Senghas, 75, German botanist and orchidologist.

5

 * Donald Barr, 82, American educator.
 * Sir Robert Boyd, 81, British space scientist.
 * John Hench, 95, American artist, designer and director at The Walt Disney Company, heart failure.
 * Claude Lemaire, 82, French entomologist.
 * Thomas Hinman Moorer, 91, American admiral, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
 * Frances Partridge, 103, British writer, last surviving member of the Bloomsbury Group.
 * Nuto Revelli, 84, Italian essayist and partisan.
 * Harry West, 86, Northern Irish politician.

6

 * Jovan Cokić, 76, Serbian football player.
 * Masataka Ida, 91, Japanese Army officer and rebel during World War II.
 * Jørgen Jersild, 90, Danish composer and music educator.
 * Jerome Fox Lederer, 101, American aviation safety pioneer, heart attack.
 * John Meyrick, 77, British Olympic rower and agriculturalist.
 * Humphry Osmond, 86, English psychiatrist and pioneer LSD experimenter.

7

 * Richard Butler, 17th Viscount Mountgarret, 67, British soldier and aristocrat.
 * Safia Farhat, Tunisian artist, academic and women's rights activist.
 * Emilia Guiú, 81, Spanish-Mexican actress, liver cancer.
 * Mikhail Korkia, 55, Georgian-Soviet basketball player.
 * Raija Siekkinen, 50, Finnish writer.
 * Norman Thelwell, 80, English cartoonist.

8

 * Walter Freud, 82, Austrian-British Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent during World War II.
 * Nicholas Goldschmidt, 95, Canadian conductor, music festival entrepreneur and artistic director.
 * Kristian Henriksen, 92, Norwegian football player and coach.
 * William W. Johnstone, 65, American author.
 * Cem Karaca, 58, Turkish singer and composer, heart attack.
 * Wayne Eyer Manning, 104, American horticulturist and botanist.
 * Julius Schwartz, 88, American comic book and pulp magazine editor.

9

 * Julio Baylón, 56, Peruvian football player.
 * Robert F. Colesberry, 57, American film and television producer (After Hours, The Wire, Mississippi Burning), complications following cardiac surgery.
 * Gerhard Riedmann, 78, Austrian film actor.
 * Opilio Rossi, 93, Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
 * Claude Ryan, 79, Canadian politician, stomach cancer.

10

 * Nils Aas, 70, Norwegian sculptor and illustrator.
 * Paul Ilyinsky, 76, American politician and three-time mayor of Palm Beach, Florida.
 * Edward Jablonski, 81, American biographer.
 * Hub Kittle, 86, American baseball player and manager, complications from kidney failure and diabetes.
 * Guy Provost, 78, French Canadian actor, pneumonia.
 * John Sundberg, 83, Swedish sport shooter and Olympic medalist.

11

 * Vera Broido, 96, Russian-British writer and a chronicler of the Russian Revolution.
 * Tadeusz Dembończyk, 48, Polish weightlifter and Olympic medalist.
 * Ryszard Kukliński, 74, Polish colonel, spy and defector, stroke.
 * Jozef Lenárt, 80, Slovak politician, member of the Czechoslovak Parliament and Slovak National Council.
 * Tony Pope, 56, American voice actor (Metropolis, Spaced Invaders, Who Framed Roger Rabbit), complications following leg surgery.
 * Shirley Strickland, 78, Australian sprinter and Olympic champion, heart attack.
 * Hitoshi Takagi, 78, Japanese voice actor, arteriosclerotic heart disease.
 * Robert E. Thompson, 79, American screenwriter.
 * Albeiro Usuriaga, 37, Colombian football player, homicide.

12

 * Martin Booth, 59, British author, brain tumor.
 * Robert A. Bruce, 87, American cardiologist.
 * Martin Jurow, 92, American film producer (Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Pink Panther, The Great Race).
 * John Killick, 84, British diplomat.
 * Preston Love, 83, American jazz saxophone player.
 * Věra Suchánková, 71, Czech Olympic pair skater.

13

 * Carole Eastman, 69, American actress and screenwriter.
 * Denis Hurley, 89, South African Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Durban (1946–1992).
 * Sarah Jacobson, 32, American film director, screenwriter, and producer, uterine cancer.
 * Janusz Kulig, 34, Polish rally driver, railway accident.
 * David Lee, 91, British Air Chief Marshal.
 * Ted Tappe, 73, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds, Chicago Cubs).
 * François Tavenas, 61, Canadian engineer and academic.
 * Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, 51, Chechen writer, politician and military figurist, explosion.

14

 * Jock Butterfield, 72, New Zealand rugby player.
 * Yang Chengwu, 89, Chinese general and Communist Party politician.
 * Elois Jenssen, 81, American film and television costume designer.
 * Marco Pantani, 34, Italian racing cyclist, winner of Tour de France and Giro d'Italia in 1998, acute cocaine poisoning.
 * Walter Perkins, 72, American jazz drummer, lung cancer.
 * Yang Xinhai, 35, Chinese serial killer, execution by firing squad.

15

 * Gil Coggins, 75, American jazz pianist.
 * Steve Cooper, 39, English football player, intracerebral hemorrhage.
 * Hasse Ekman, 88, Swedish director, actor, writer and producer for film, stage and television.
 * Jens Evensen, 86, Norwegian minister, World Court judge.
 * Walter Gottschalk, 85, American mathematician.
 * Hermann Hogeback, 89, German bomber pilot during World War II.
 * Jan Miner, 86, American actress.
 * Sture Mårtensson, 87, Swedish football player.
 * Isarco Ravaioli, 70, Italian film actor.
 * Lawrence Ritter, 81, American writer.
 * Luigi Taramazzo, 71, Italian racing driver.
 * John Tietjen, 75, American Lutheran clergyman, theologian, and national church leader, brain cancer.
 * Friedrich Waller, 83, Swiss bobsledderand Olympic champion.

16

 * Don Cleverley, 94, New Zealand cricketer.
 * Charlie Fox, 82, American baseball manager.
 * Ella Johnson, 84, American jazz and rhythm and blues singer, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Martin Kneser, 76, German mathematician.
 * Harold Smedley, 83, British diplomat.
 * Doris Troy, 67, American R&B singer, pulmonary emphysema.
 * Geoff Twentyman, 74, English football player.
 * Miloslav Šimek, 63, Czech comedian and satirist, leukemia.

17

 * Bruce Beaver, 76, Australian poet and novelist.
 * Gaston Godel, 89, Swiss Olympic race walker, silver medalist (1948).
 * Sofia Golovkina, 88, Soviet and Russian ballet dancer, choreographer and teacher.
 * José López Portillo, 83, Mexican politician and lawyer, President of Mexico.
 * Dragi Stamenković, 83, Yugoslav and Serbian politician and author.
 * Cameron Todd Willingham, 36, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.

18

 * Despo Diamantidou, 87, Greek actress.
 * Tommy Eglington, 81, Irish football player.
 * Frankie Evangelista, 69, Filipino newspaper columnist, and radio and television broadcaster, stomach cancer.
 * Steve Neal, 54, American journalist (Chicago Sun-Times) and historian, suicide.
 * Jean Rouch, 86, French filmmaker and ethnologist], traffic collision.
 * Ivor Stanbrook, 80, British Conservative party politician, barrister and Member of Parliament.

19

 * Gurgen Margaryan, 25, Armenian Army officer, murdered.
 * Archibald Paton Thornton, 83, Canadian historian.
 * Renata Vanni, 94, Italian-American film actress.
 * Maurice Voron, 75, French rugby league football player.

20

 * Minouche Barelli, 56, French singer.
 * Fred Brown, 79, British virologist.
 * Sigfrido Fontanelli, 56, Italian racing cyclist.
 * Mel Hunter, 76, American illustrator, bone cancer.
 * J.J. Malone, 68, American blues guitarist, singer and keyboardist.
 * Kōyū Ohara, 69, Japanese film director.

21

 * Sergey Sergeyevich Averintsev, 66, Russian literary scholar, byzantinist and slavist.
 * John Charles, 72, Welsh football player, heart attack.
 * Albert Chartier, 91, French-Canadian cartoonist and illustrator.
 * Néstor de Villa, 75, Filipino musical film actor, prostate cancer.
 * Les Gray, 57, British singer (Mud), heart attack during cancer treatment.
 * Bart Howard, 88, American composer ("Fly Me To The Moon").
 * Svava Jakobsdóttir, 73, Icelandic author and politician.
 * Mohd hisraime bin juso, 87, Singaporean banker and hotel owner, heart attack.
 * Dan Kiley, 91, American landscape architect.
 * Guido Molinari, 70, Canadian abstract artist.
 * Custódio Pinto, 62, Portuguese football player.
 * Lyudmila Shishova, 63, Soviet Olympic fencer and fencing coach (1960 gold medal winner, 1964 silver medal winner in women's team foil).

22

 * Roque Máspoli, 86, Uruguayan goalkeeper, heart attack.
 * Irina Press, 64, Soviet athlete and Olympic champion.
 * Azriel Rosenfeld, 73, American computer image analysis researcher.
 * Andy Seminick, 83, American baseball player, cancer.

23

 * Vijay Anand, 71, Indian Bollywood filmmaker and brother of Dev Anand., heart attack.
 * Carl Anderson, 58, American actor (Jesus Christ Superstar)), leukemia.
 * Neil Ardley, 66, British jazz composer.
 * Sikander Bakht, 85, Indian politician, Governor of Kerala.
 * Pedro Bloch, 90, Brazilian writer, respiratory failure.
 * Don Cornell, 84, American singer, emphysema and diabetes.
 * Douglas Scott Falconer, 90, British geneticist.
 * Samuel Edward Konkin III, 56, Canadian-American philosopher and economist.
 * Bob Marshall, 93, Australian billiards player.
 * Bob Mayo, 52, American session keyboardist and guitarist, heart attack.

24

 * Albert Axelrod, 83, American foil fencer and Olympic medalist, heart attack.
 * Estelle Axton, 85, American record executive and co-founder of Stax Records.
 * Sheila Darcy, 89, American film actress of the 1930s and the 1940s.
 * Carl Liscombe, 89, Canadian Detroit Red Wings hockey player, leukemia.
 * Joan McCord, 73, American professor of criminology, lung cancer.
 * John Randolph, 88, American actor (Serpico, Prizzi's Honor, You've Got Mail), Tony winner (1987).
 * A.C. Reed, 77, American saxophonist, cancer.
 * Alvino Rey, 95, American jazz guitarist and bandleader ("Deep in the Heart of Texas"), pneumonia.

25

 * Waggoner Carr, 85, American politician, Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives and Attorney General of Texas, cancer.
 * Jack Flavell, 74, English cricketer.
 * Jacques Georges, 87, French football administrator, President of UEFA (1983–1990).
 * Henryk Jaźnicki, 86, Polish football player.
 * Pe Khin, 91, Burmese diplomat.
 * Yuri Ozerov, 75, Soviet Olympic basketball player (two-time silver medal winner: 1952 men's basketball, 1956 men's basketball).
 * B. Nagi Reddy, 91, Indian movie producer.
 * Ahmed Sefrioui, Moroccan novelist.
 * Bagrat Shinkuba, 86, Abkhaz writer, poet, historian, and politician.

26

 * Harry Bartell, 90, American actor and announcer in radio, television and film.
 * Shankarrao Chavan, 83, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Maharashtra.
 * Adolf Ehrnrooth, 99, Finnish general, World War II veteran and Olympian equestrian.
 * Russell Hunter, 79, Scottish actor, lung cancer].
 * Roger Mirams, 85, New Zealand-Australian film producer and director.
 * Roy Smith, 59, Canadian racing driver.
 * Jack Sperling, 81, American jazz drummer.
 * Boris Trajkovski, 47, Macedonian politician, President of the Republic of Macedonia, aviation accident.
 * Simon Walker, 46, British historian of late-medieval England, cancer.
 * Ralph E. Winters, 94, Canadian film editor.

27

 * Yoshihiko Amino, 76, Japanese marxist historian and intellectual, lung cancer.
 * Clarence Barber, 86, Canadian economist and academic.
 * Francisco Mago Leccia, 72, Venezuelan ichthyologist.
 * Paul Sweezy, 93, American marxian economist and founding editor of the Monthly Review..

28

 * Daniel J. Boorstin, 89, American social historian, pneumonia.
 * Eivor Engelbrektsson, 89, Swedish actress.
 * Ruslan Gelayev, 39, Chechen politician, general and resistance commander, K.I.A..
 * Angie Turner King, 98, American chemist, mathematician, and educator.
 * Stanislaus Lo Kuang, 93, Taiwanese Catholic archbishop.
 * Carmen Laforet, 82, Spanish author.
 * Marv Matuszak, 72, American gridiron football player.
 * Nicholas Vivian, 6th Baron Vivian, 68, British soldier and aristocrat.

29

 * Oleksandr Beresch, 26, Ukrainian Olympic gymnast, traffic collision.
 * Dana Broccoli, 82, American actress.
 * Marc Cavell, 64, American actor.
 * Armando de Ramón, 77, Chilean historian.
 * Jane Engelhard, 86, American philanthropist and wife of industrialist Charles W. Engelhard Jr., pneumonia.
 * Harold Bernard St. John, 72, Barbadian politician, cancer.
 * Kagamisato Kiyoji, 80, Japanese sumo wrestler.
 * Maurice Larkin, 71, English historian specialising in the history of modern France.
 * Jerome Lawrence, 88, American playwright and author, stroke.
 * Danny Ortiz., 27, Guatemalan football goalkeeper, torn pericardium.
 * Witold Rudziński, 90, Polish composer, conductor, and author.
 * Nat Taylor, 98, Canadian inventor and film producer.