Deaths in February 2005

The following is a list of The following is a list of notable deaths in February 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 D. Bennett, 93, American politician and judge.
 * Edward D. Freis, 92, American physician.
 * Andreas Heckmair, 98, Austrian mountaineer, made first ascent of the Eiger north face.
 * Franco Mannino, 80, Italian film and classical composer.
 * John Vernon, 72, Canadian-American actor (Animal House, Dirty Harry, The Outlaw Josey Wales), surgical complications.
 * Richard Wolfson, 49, British musician and journalist, aortic aneurysm.

2

 * Birgitte Federspiel, 79, Danish actress (Babette's Feast).
 * Lee Hyeonggi, 72, South Korean poet.
 * Svein Kvia, 57, Norwegian footballer, brain cancer.
 * Goffredo Lombardo, 84, Italian film producer.
 * Magomed Omarov, Russian politician, deputy Interior Minister of Dagestan, homicide.
 * Max Schmeling, 99, German world heavyweight boxing champion.
 * Yvonne Sherman, 74, American Olympic figure skater.
 * Jerzy Wojnar, 74, Polish pilot and Olympic luger.
 * Edward Maitland Wright, 98, British mathematician.

3

 * Corrado Bafile, 101, Italian cardinal.
 * Raymond Laurent, 87, Belgian herpetologist.
 * Karl Linn, 81, American landscape architect and psychologist.
 * Andreas Makris, 74, Greek-American composer and violinist.
 * Ernst Mayr, 100, German-American evolutionary biologist.
 * James Patrick Sutton, 89, American politician, U.S. Representative from Tennessee (1949–1955).
 * Zurab Zhvania, 41, Georgian politician, Prime Minister of Georgia (2004-2005), carbon monoxide poisoning.

4

 * Ossie Davis, 87, American actor (Do the Right Thing, Evening Shade, The Client) and activist.
 * Alfio Fontana, 72, Italian football player.
 * Elia Frosio, 92, Italian cyclist.
 * Stephen R. Gregg, 90, United States Army soldier and recipient the Medal of Honor.
 * Peter Heine, 76, South African cricket player.
 * Danas Pozniakas, 65, Lithuanian amateur light-heavyweight boxer and Olympic champion.
 * Luis Sánchez, 51, Venezuelan Major League baseball player (Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim).

5

 * Bob Brannum, 79, American basketball player, pancreatic cancer.
 * Jean-Charles Cantin, 86, Canadian politician.
 * Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma, 67, Togolese politician, president of Togo (1967-2005), heart attack.
 * Gerard Glaister, 89, British television producer and director.
 * Veikko Helle, 93, American politician.
 * Günter Reimann, 100, German economist.
 * Henri Rochon, 80, Canadian tennis player.
 * Michalina Wisłocka, 84, Polish sexologist.

6

 * Michael Adams, 85, British journalist.
 * Billy Baker, 84, Welsh footballer.
 * Lazar Berman, 74, Russian classical pianist.
 * Elbert N. Carvel, 94, American politician, Governor of Delaware.
 * Adu Celso, 59, Brazilian motorcycle road racer, heart attack.
 * Hubert Curien, 80, French researcher, first president of European Space Agency.
 * Alejandro Gómez, 96, Argentine educator and lawyer, stroke.
 * Karl Haas, 91, American classical music radio program host.
 * Merle Kilgore, 70, American country music manager and songwriter, heart failure.
 * Mutsuo Minagawa, 69, Japanese baseball pitcher.

7

 * Laurie Aarons, 87, Australian politician.
 * Atli Dam, 72, Faroese politician, Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (1991-1993).
 * Leonid Gissen, 73, Russian rower and Olympic medalist.
 * Dennis McCord, 52, Canadian ice hockey player (Vancouver Canucks).
 * V. C. Pande, 72, Indian political figure, former governor of three states.
 * John Patterson, 64, American television director (The Sopranos, Hill Street Blues, Providence), prostate cancer.
 * Paul Rebeyrolle, 78, French painter.
 * Madeleine Rebérioux, 84, French historian.
 * Narayan Sanyal, 80, Indian writer of modern Bengali literature.
 * Jeremy Swan, 82, Irish cardiologist, co-inventor of the pulmonary artery catheter, heart attack.
 * Bob Turner, 71, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens, Chicago Blackhawks).
 * Zdravko Velimirović, 74, Yugoslavian film director and screenwriter.

8

 * Gildo Arena, 83, Italian water polo player, swimmer and Olympic champion.
 * Mike Bishop, 46, American baseball player.
 * Germund Dahlquist, 80, Swedish mathematician.
 * Edward R. Dudley, 93, American diplomat.
 * Helmut Eder, 88, Austrian composer.
 * Parker Hall, 88, American gridiron football player.
 * George Herman, 85, American journalist and moderator of CBS' Face the Nation for 15 years.
 * Keith Knudsen, 56, American drummer for rock band Doobie Brothers, pneumonia.
 * Gaston Rahier, 58, Belgian 125cc Motocross World Champion (1975–1977), cancer.
 * Jimmy Smith, 76, American jazz organist.
 * Javier Tusell, 59, Spanish historian, writer and politician, leukemia.

9

 * Tim Breslin, 37, American ice hockey player, appendix cancer.
 * Tyrone Davis, 66, American R&B singer (Turn Back The Hands Of Time), complications of a stroke.
 * Robert Kearns, 77, American inventor of intermittent windshield wipers, brain cancer.
 * Raisa Kyrychenko, 61, Ukrainian mezzo-soprano singer, cardiovascular disease.
 * Richard Lupino, 75, American actor, member of the theatrical Lupino family, lymphoma.
 * Frank Mathers, 80, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs, Hershey Bears).
 * Kate Peyton, 39, British BBC producer, shot in Mogadishu, Somalia.
 * Sylvia Rafael, 67, South African-born Israeli Mossad agent convicted of 1973 Lillehammer murder, leukemia.
 * Josef Rasselnberg, 92, German football player and trainer.

10

 * Humbert Balsan, 50, French film producer, suicide.
 * David Allan Bromley, 79, Canadian-American physicist, presidential advisor.
 * Jean Cayrol, 93, French author.
 * Pierre Chevalier, 89, French film director and screenwriter.
 * Dave Goodman, 53, British music producer, heart attack.
 * Ben Jones, 80, Grenadian politician, Prime Minister (1989-1990).
 * Igor Ledogorov, 72, Soviet and Russian actor, cancer.
 * Arthur Miller, 89, American playwright (Death of a Salesman, A View from the Bridge, The Crucible, congestive heart failure.
 * Frederick W. Mote, 82, American sinologist.
 * Fritz Scholder, 67, American native American artist.
 * Jack Segal, 86, American pianist and composer.

11

 * Samuel W. Alderson, 90, American inventor of crash test dummies.
 * Jack L. Chalker, 60, American science fiction writer, kidney failure.
 * Raymond Hermantier, 81, French actor.
 * Mary Jackson, 83, American mathematician and aerospace engineer, first black female engineer at NASA.
 * Vladimir Kotelnikov, 96, Information theory and radar astronomy pioneer from the Soviet Union.
 * Dénes Kovács, 74, Hungarian classical violinist and academic teacher.
 * Eva Magni, 98, Italian stage and film actress.
 * Míla Myslíková, 71, 1933-2005 Czech actress and writer, stroke.
 * Stan Richards, 74, British actor (Emmerdale), pulmonary emphysema.

12

 * Archie Butterworth, 92, British racing driver and designer.
 * Brian Kelly, 72, American actor, pneumonia.
 * James McClure, 88, American international table tennis player.
 * Monem Munna, 38, Bangladeshi footballer, kidney disease.
 * Sammi Smith, 61, American country music singer, (Help Me Make It Through the Night), pulmonary emphysema.
 * Dorothy Stang, 74, American nun, murdered in Anapu, Brazil.
 * Marinus van der Goes van Naters, 104, Dutch politician.
 * Rafael Vidal, 41, Venezuelan Olympic medalist, car crash.

13

 * Saminini Arulappa, 80, Indian Roman Catholic archbishop.
 * Harry Baird, 73, Guyanese-born British actor, cancer.
 * Nelson Briles, 61, American baseball player, heart attack.
 * Sixten Ehrling, 86, Swedish conductor.
 * Mary Hallaren, 97, American soldier, first woman to join the United States Army.
 * Sister Lúcia, 97, Portuguese nun, last survivor of the three shepherd children of the Fatima apparition in 1917.
 * Maurice Trintignant, 87, French racing driver, twice winner of the Monaco Grand Prix.
 * Dick Weber, 75, American professional bowler, father of Pete Weber, respiratory failure.
 * Peter White, 69, Australian politician.

14

 * Ron Burgess, 87, Welsh footballer with Tottenham Hotspur and Wales.
 * Sonya Dorman, 81, American science fiction writer and poet.
 * Thabet El-Batal, 51, Egyptian Goalkeeper association football goalkeeper, cancer.
 * Vic Emery, 84, Australian cricketer.
 * Rafic Hariri, 60, Lebanese business tycoon and politician, twice Prime Minister of Lebanon, car bomb.
 * Albert Harris, 89, English musician.
 * Aubelin Jolicoeur, 81, Haitian journalist and columnist.
 * Vidya Niwas Mishra, 79, Indian scholar, Hindi-Sanskrit littérateur, and journalist, traffic collision.
 * Otto Plaschkes, 75, British film producer (Georgy Girl).
 * Pauli Toivonen, 75, Finnish rally car driver.
 * Henry Wolf, 79, Austrian-American graphic designer, photographer and art director.

15

 * Carlo Tullio Altan, 88, Italian anthropologist and sociologist.
 * Pierre Bachelet, 60, French singer, lung cancer.
 * Marc Eyraud, 80, French film actor.
 * Samuel T. Francis, 57, American white supremacist writer, aortic aneurysm.
 * Dudu Geva, 54, Israeli artist, writer, cartoonist, and illustrator, heart attack.
 * Richard Grunberger, 80, British historian.
 * David Leach, 93, English potter.
 * Yury Morozov, 70, Soviet football player and coach.
 * Bob Schafer, 71, American basketball player.

16

 * Michael Aikman, 71, Australian rower.
 * Nicole DeHuff, 30, American actress (Meet the Parents, Suspect Zero, CSI: Miami), pneumonia.
 * Narriman Sadek, (Nariman Sadeq), 70, Egyptian queen, ex-wife of King Farouk, cerebral hemorrhage.
 * Marcello Viotti, 50, Italian conductor, stroke.
 * Hans von Blixen-Finecke, 88, Swedish Army officer and Olympic equestrian.
 * Bill Potts, 76, American jazz pianist and arranger, cardiac arrest.
 * Gerry Wolff, 84, German actor.

17

 * F. M. Busby, 83, American science fiction writer.
 * Jens Martin Knudsen, 74, Danish astrophysicist.
 * César Marcelak, 92, French cycling champion.
 * Miodrag Nikolić, 66, Serbian basketball player and coach.
 * Dan O'Herlihy, 85, Irish actor (RoboCop, Robinson Crusoe, Fail Safe).
 * Omar Sívori, 69, Argentinian and Italian footballer, pancreatic cancer.

18

 * Bonar Bain, 82, Canadian actor and twin brother of actor Conrad Bain.
 * Uli Derickson, 60, German-American airline stewardess, protagonist in 1985 airplane hijacking, cancer.
 * Marian Kamil Dziewanowski, 91, Polish-American historian.
 * Marta Flores, 92, Spanish actress.
 * Attilio Giovannini, 80, Italian football player.
 * Greg Kehoe, 87, Australian politician.
 * Gwendolyn Knight, 91, American artist.
 * Lim Por-yen, 90, Hong Kong industrialist.
 * Harald Szeemann, 71, Swiss curator and art historian.

19

 * Li Baohua, 95, Chinese politician.
 * Huy Can, 85, Vietnamese poet.
 * Kihachi Okamoto, 81, Japanese film director, esophageal cancer.
 * Peter Pryor, 74, Australian Olympic cyclist.
 * Miao Tian, 79, Chinese film actor, lymphoma.

20

 * Jacques Ploncard d'Assac, 94, French writer, journalist and political activist.
 * Pam Bricker, 50, American jazz vocalist and music professor, suicide.
 * Sandra Dee, 62, American actress (Gidget, Imitation of Life, Until They Sail), kidney failure and pneumonia.
 * Josef Holeček, 84, Czechoslovakian sprint canoeist and Olympic champion.
 * Dalene Matthee, 67, Afrikaans-South African author, heart failure.
 * Raymond Mhlaba, 85, South African political leader and the first Premier of the Eastern Cape, liver cancer.
 * John Raitt, 88, American classic Broadway star and father of Bonnie Raitt, pneumonia.
 * Hunter S. Thompson, 67, American journalist, suicide.
 * J. Williams, 56, Indian film producer, director and cinematographer.
 * Jimmy Young, 56, American boxer, heart failure.

21

 * Zdzisław Beksiński, 75, Polish artist, homicide.
 * Ara Berberian, 74, American bass with the New York City Metropolitan Opera.
 * Gérard Bessette, 84, Canadian writer and academic.
 * Wu Bo, 99, Chinese politician.
 * Horst Drinda, 77, German actor.
 * Justin Howes, 41, British historian of printing and lettering.
 * Guillermo Cabrera Infante, 75, Cuban novelist, essayist, and screenwriter, sepsis.
 * Josef Metternich, 89, German operatic baritone.
 * Gene Scott, 75, American televangelist and author, stroke.
 * Don Tolhurst, 75, Australian Olympic shooter.
 * Ernest Vandiver, 86, American politician, governor of the Georgia (1959–1963).

22

 * David Bradford, 66, American economist.
 * Leo Brewer, 85, American physical chemist.
 * Mladen Delić, 86, Croatian sports commentator.
 * Lee Eun-ju (이은주), 24, Korean actress, suicide.
 * Luigi Giussani, 82, Italian Catholic priest, founder of the "Communion and Liberation" Catholic youth movement, Parkinson's disease.
 * Ben Huffman, 90, American Major League Baseball player.
 * Renzo Imbeni, 60, Italian politician, mayor of Bologna (1983-1993).
 * Kuntowijoyo, 61, Indonesian writer, meningoencephalitis.
 * Heath Lamberts, 63, Canadian actor, cancer.
 * Josette Rey-Debove, 75, French lexicographer and semiologist.
 * Mario Ricci, 90, Italian cyclist.
 * Reggie Roby, 43, American gridiron football player, heart attack.
 * Harry Simeone, 94, American music arranger, conductor and composer (Little Drummer Boy).
 * Simone Simon, 94, French actress.

23

 * All Along, 25, French racehorse.
 * Josep María Cruxent, Venezuelan archaeologist.
 * Tom Patterson, 84, Canadian founder of the Stratford Festival of Canada.
 * Henk Zeevalking, 82, Dutch politician and co-founder of Democrats 66.

24

 * John Barron, 75, American journalist.
 * Jochen Bleicken, 78, German ancient historian.
 * Thadée Cisowski, 78, Polish-French footballer.
 * Sumner Gerard, 88, American politician and diplomat.
 * Goldie Hill, 72, American country music singer, cancer.
 * Robin Jenkins, 92, Scottish novelist, author of "The Cone-Gatherers" and "Fergus Lamont".
 * Coşkun Kırca, 77, Turkish diplomat, journalist and politician.
 * András Kozák, 62, Hungarian film actor, brain tumor.
 * Galina Kreft, 54, Soviet sprint canoer and Olympic champion.
 * Leonard Miall, 90, British BBC broadcaster and administrator.
 * Gustavo Vázquez Montes, 42, Mexican politician, incumbent governor of Colima, Mexico, aviation accident.
 * Hugh Nibley, 94, American historian, focussing on the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
 * Glanmor Williams, 84, Welsh historian.
 * Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski, 82, German politician and former cabinet minister.

25

 * Abdulkareem Adisa, 56, Nigerian major general.
 * Peter Benenson, 83, British lawyer and founder of Amnesty International, pneumonia.
 * Ian Colquhoun, 80, New Zealand cricket player.
 * Francis E. Garchitorena, 67, Filipino lawyer and judge.
 * Leo Labine, 73, Canadian ice hockey player, cancer.
 * Don LeJohn, 70, American baseball player, former Los Angeles Dodgers third baseman.
 * Pappo, 54, Argentine blues and rock and roll guitarist and composer, traffic collision.
 * Edward Patten, 66, American soul singer, member of Gladys Knight & the Pips, stroke.
 * Jean Prat, 81, French rugby union football player.
 * Atef Sedki, 74, Egyptian politician, Prime Minister (1986-1996).
 * Noboru Sugimura, 56, Japanese television and video game writer.

26

 * Max Faulkner, 88, British golfer.
 * Henry Grunwald, 82, Austrian-American journalist, editor and ambassador to Austria (1988–1990).
 * Witness Mangwende, 59, Zimbabwean politician and diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1981–1987).
 * Paolo Moffa, 89, Italian film director, producer and screenwriter.
 * Jef Raskin, 61, American creator of the Apple Macintosh, pancreatic cancer.
 * Pierre Trabaud, 82, French film actor.
 * Johnny Williams, 77, American football player.

27

 * Haruna Abubakar, 52, Nigerian lawyer and politician.
 * James Avati, 92, American illustrator.
 * Franco Bracardi, 67, Italian actor, composer, pianist and stand-up comedian.
 * Hiroyuki Nasu, 53, Japanese film director.
 * Frank Vincent Ortiz, Jr., 78, American diplomat.
 * Pukazhenthi, 75, Indian music film director.
 * Allan Rae, 82, Jamaican cricket player.
 * Carl Taseff, 76, American NFL gridiron football player and assistant coach.

28

 * Yevgeny Alekseyev, 85, Soviet/Russian basketball player and coach.
 * Chris Curtis, 63, English drummer with The Searchers.
 * Richard A. Fletcher, 60, British historian, heart attack.
 * Giovanni Invernizzi, 73, Italian football player and coach.
 * Mario Luzi, 90, Italian poet.
 * Édouard Stern, 50, French banker, murdered.