Deaths in January 2004

The following is a list of notable deaths in January 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

 * Charlie Elliott, 91, English cricketer.
 * Harold Henning, 69, South African golfer.
 * Elma Lewis, 82, American arts leader.
 * Yevgeniy Migunov, 82, Russian artist, cartoonist, animation and art director, and screenwriter.
 * Frederick Redlich, 93, Austrian-American dean of the Yale University School of Medicine.
 * John Stoneham, 95, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox).
 * Igor Torkar, 90, Slovenian writer, playwright, and poet.

2

 * Dinu Adameșteanu, 90, Romanian-Italian archaeologist.
 * Etta Moten Barnett, 102, American actress, pancreatic cancer.
 * Lynn Cartwright, 76, U.S. actress (A League of Their Own), dementia.
 * Jess Collins, 80, American visual artist.
 * Geoff Edrich, 85, English first-class cricket player.
 * John Grandy, 90, British Royal Air Force officer.
 * Paul Hopkins, 99, American baseball player.
 * Mihai Ivăncescu, 61, Romanian football player.
 * Maria Clara Lobregat, 82, Filipina politician, heart attack.
 * Sheila McKechnie, 55, Scottish trade unionist, housing campaigner and consumer activist, cancer.
 * Kamal El Sheikh, 84, Egyptian film director.
 * Dennis Silverthorne, 80, American Olympic pairs figure skater (pairs figure skating at the 1948 Winter Olympics).

3

 * Lillian Beckwith, 87, English author.
 * Des Corcoran, 75, Australian politician, Premier of South Australia.
 * Taylor Duncan, 50, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Oakland Athletics).
 * Pierre Flamion, 79, French football manager and player.
 * T. G. Jones, 86, Welsh football player.
 * William Craig Reynolds, 70, American fluid physicist and mechanical engineer.
 * Leon Wagner, 69, American Major League Baseball player.
 * Beatrice Winde, 79, American actress, cancer.

4

 * Joan Aiken, 79, English writer, author of The Wolves of Willoughby Chase.
 * James Counsilman, 83, American swimming coach, Parkinson's disease.
 * Johannes Fehring, 77, Austrian composer.
 * Brian Gibson, 59, English film director, What's Love Got to Do With It, bone cancer.
 * Jake Hess, 76, American southern gospel singer.
 * Refik Memišević, 47, Yugoslav wrestler.
 * Allen H. Miner, 86, American director and screenwriter.
 * Jeff Nuttall, 70, English poet, actor, artist, jazz trumpeter, and author.
 * Helena Růžičková, 67, Czech actress and comedian, stomach cancer.
 * Michael Whitney Straight, 87, American magazine publisher, author and a confessed spy for the KGB, pancreatic cancer.
 * Dorota Terakowska, 65, Polish writer and journalist.
 * John Toland, 91, American author and historian, pneumonia.
 * Gábor Török, 67, Hungarian football goalkeeper.

5

 * Thomas Daly, 90, Australian Army officer.
 * Charles Dumas, 66, American Olympic High Jump gold medalist, cancer.
 * John Guerin, 64, American percussionist, heart failure.
 * Norman Heatley, 92, British biochemist.
 * Vivian Jenkins, 92, Welsh rugby player and sports journalist.
 * Tug McGraw, 59, American Major League Baseball pitcher, brain cancer.

6

 * Vera Bradford, 99, Australian pianist and piano teacher.
 * Pierre Charles, 49, Dominican politician, Prime Minister (2000-2004), heart attack.
 * Sumita Devi, 68, Bangladeshi film actress.
 * John Evans, 74, British footballer.
 * Philip Gilbert, 72, Canadian actor.
 * Nicolas Mosar, 76, Luxembourgish politician, jurist, and diplomat.
 * Markku Salminen, 57, Finnish orienteering athlete.
 * Francesco Scavullo, 82, American fashion photographer.
 * Reg Smith, 91, English football player and manager.
 * Thomas Stockham, 70, American scientist, known as the "father of digital recording".

7

 * Shalva Apkhazava, 23, Georgian footballer, heart failure.
 * Piotr Kowalski, 76, Polish artist, sculptor, and architect.
 * Jaap Kraaier, 90, Dutch flatwater canoeist and Olympic medalist.
 * Khenpo Jigme Puntsok, 70, Nyingma lama and Terton from Sertha Region.
 * Natalya Smirnitskaya, 76, Soviet javelin thrower.
 * Ingrid Thulin, 76, Swedish actress, Cries and Whispers, cancer.
 * Léonce-Albert Van Peteghem, 87, Belgian Roman Catholic Bishop.
 * Mario Zatelli, 91, French football player and manager.

8

 * Charles Brown, 57, American actor, prostate cancer.
 * Delfín Benítez Cáceres, 93, Paraguayan football player.
 * John A. Gambling, 73, American radio host, "Rambling with Gambling", heart attack.
 * Tom Kindness, 74, American politician.
 * Reginald H. Morris, 85, British-Canadian cinematographer.
 * Hal Shaper, 72, South African songwriter.
 * Louis Stanley, 92, British author, journalist, team principal of BRM, stroke.
 * Frank Ténot, 78, French press agent, pataphysician, and jazz critic.

9

 * Norberto Bobbio, 94, Italian senator, jurist, philosopher and political scientist.
 * Lyndon Brook, 77, British actor.
 * Harriet Creighton, 94, American botanist, geneticist and educator.
 * Yinka Dare, 31, Nigerian basketball player, heart attack.
 * Nissim Ezekiel, 79, Indian poet, playwright and art critic.
 * Rainer Hildebrandt, 89, German anti-communist resistance fighter and historian.
 * Myron E. Leavitt, 73, American politician.
 * Raymond Dayle Rowsey, 32, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.
 * Rogério Sganzerla, 57, Brazilian filmmaker, brain tumor.

10

 * Billy Klüver, 76, American electrical engineer at Bell Telephone Laboratories.
 * Sidney Miller, 87, American actor, director and songwriter, Parkinson's disease.
 * Princess Kira of Prussia, 60, German princess.
 * Ewald Pyle, 93, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns, Washington Senators, New York Giants, Boston Braves).
 * Alexandra Ripley, 70, American author, Scarlett.

11

 * Max D. Barnes, 67, country singer and songwriter.
 * Clement Conger, 91, American museum curator, pneumonia.
 * Perry Belmont Duryea Jr., 82, American politician, traffic collision.
 * Spalding Gray, 62, American actor and writer, suicide by drowning.
 * Mervyn Pike, Baroness Pike, 85, British politician and life peer.
 * Asrul Sani, 76, Indonesian writer, poet and screenwriter.

12

 * Petter Jakob Bjerve, 90, Norwegian economist, statistician and politician.
 * James M. Early, 81, American electrical engineer.
 * Ramakrishna Hegde, 77, Indian politician.
 * Olga Ladyzhenskaya, 81, Soviet and Russian mathematician.
 * Randy VanWarmer, 48, American singer and songwriter ("Just When I Needed You Most"), leukemia.
 * William T. Young, 85, American businessman.

13

 * Joan Reventós i Carner, 76, Spanish politician.
 * Rafael Gambra Ciudad, 83, Spanish philosopher.
 * Phillip Crosby, 69, American actor and singer, son of crooner Bing Crosby, heart attack.
 * Mike Goliat, 82, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis Browns).
 * Fritz Hamer, 91, German botanist.
 * David N. Henderson, 82, American politician.
 * Tom Hurndall, 22, British political activist, gunshot wound.
 * William Lawrence, 97, Australian politician.
 * Arne Næss, Jr., 66, Norwegian mountaineer and businessman, former husband of Diana Ross, accidental death.
 * Dave Penna, 46, American jockey in thoroughbred horse racing.
 * Harold Shipman, 54, British serial killer, suicide.
 * Zeno Vendler, 82, American philosopher and linguist.
 * Keraca Visulčeva, 92, Macedonian and Bulgarian artist.

14

 * Terje Bakken, 25, Norwegian black metal musician (Windir), hypothermia.
 * Jack Cady, 71, American science fiction writer.
 * Catherine Craig, 88, American actress.
 * Uta Hagen, 84, German-American actress (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Reversal of Fortune, The Boys from Brazil), Tony winner (1951, 1963), stroke.
 * Joaquín Nin-Culmell, 95, Cuban-Spanish composer, concert pianist and emeritus professor of music at the University of California, Berkeley, heart attack.
 * Ron O'Neal, 66, American actor (Superfly, Red Dawn, A Different World), pancreatic cancer.
 * Eduard Sibiryakov, 62, Soviet Olympic volleyball player (men's volleyball tournament: 1964 gold medal winner, 1968 gold medal winner).
 * Eric Sturgess, 83, South African tennis player, winner of six Grand Slam doubles titles (five mixed doubles, one men's doubles).

15

 * Maarouf al-Dawalibi, 94, Syrian politician, prime minister (1951, 1961-1962).
 * André Barrais, 83, French basketball player.
 * Alex Barris, 81, Canadian actor and writer, stroke.
 * Stoycho Vassilev Breskovski, 69, Bulgarian paleontologist.
 * Ambroise-Marie Carré, 95, French Catholic priest, member of the Académie française.
 * Johnny Cronshey, 77, English speed skater.
 * Sunday Emmanuel, 25, Nigerian athlete, car accident.
 * Olivia Goldsmith, 54, American author, heart attack.
 * Mohammad Yunus Saleem, 92, Indian politician, scholar, and lawyer.
 * Delia Scala, 74, Italian ballerina, actress and singer, breast cancer.
 * Gus Suhr, 98, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates).

16

 * Slavomír Bartoň, 77, Czech ice hockey player.
 * John Siomos, 56, American rock drummer.
 * Kalevi Sorsa, 73, Finnish politician, prime minister (1972–1975, 1977–1979, 1982–1987).
 * Albert Tillman, 76, American educator and underwater diver.

17

 * Walter Auffenberg, 75, American biologist.
 * Harry Brecheen, 89, American Major League Baseball baseball player.
 * Hersh Freeman, 75, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, Cincinnati Redlegs, Chicago Cubs).
 * Czesław Niemen, 64, Polish musician, cancer.
 * Zenobia Powell Perry, 95, American composer, professor and civil rights activist.
 * Rafael Cordero Santiago, 61, Puerto Rican politician, mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico, cerebral hemorrhage.
 * Carlton R. Sickles, 82, American lawyer and politician (U.S. Representative for Maryland's at-large congressional seat).
 * Ray Stark, 88, American film producer (Funny Girl, Steel Magnolias, Annie), heart attack.
 * Noble Willingham, 72, American actor (Walker, Texas Ranger, City Slickers, Norma Rae), heart attack.

18

 * Hook Dillon, 80, American basketball player.
 * Peter Ward Fay, 79, American historian.
 * Gérard Jarry, 67, French classical violinist.
 * Bruno Silić, 45, Croatian water polo player and coach.

19

 * Harry E. Claiborne, 86, American district judge of the American District Court for the District of Nevada, suicide.
 * Tommy Glaviano, 80, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Phillies).
 * David Hookes, 48, Australian cricketer and Victorian coach, heart attack.
 * Jerry Nachman, 57, American MSNBC editor-in-chief, cancer.
 * Miroslav Pavlović, 61, Serbian football player.
 * Murray Watkinson, 64, New Zealand rower.

20

 * Alan Brown, 84, British Formula One driver.
 * Timothy Gantz, 58, American classical scholar, heart attack.
 * Walt Grealis, 74, Canadian publisher and music industry leader, lung cancer.
 * Olivier Guichard, 83, French politician.
 * Lloyd Merriman, 79, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds/Redlegs, Chicago White Sox, Chicago Cubs).
 * Bernard Punsly, 80, American physician and actor, cancer.
 * Don Shinnick, 68, American professional football player (UCLA, Baltimore Colts) and coach, neurological disorder.
 * Guinn Smith, 83, American Olympic pole vaulter (gold medal winner in men's pole vault at the 1948 Summer Olympics), pulmonary emphysema.
 * George Woodbridge, 73, American illustrator.

21

 * Rao Farman Ali, 81, Pakistani military officer.
 * M. Arunachalam, 59, Indian politician and Union Minister.
 * Johnny Blatnik, 82, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis Cardinals).
 * Luis Cuenca García, 82, Spanish actor, lung disease.
 * Jim Henry, 83, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * John T. Lewis, 71, Welsh physicist.
 * Jock Newall, 86, New Zealand football player.
 * Yordan Radichkov, 74, Bulgarian writer and playwright.
 * Ray Rayner, 84, American actor (Bozo's Circus, Ray Rayner and His Friends), pneumonia.
 * Juan Zambudio Velasco, 82, Spanish football goalkeeper.

22

 * Milt Bernhart, 77, American jazz trombonist.
 * Gérard Darrieu, 78, French actor.
 * Islwyn Ffowc Elis, 79, British Welsh language writer.
 * Ticky Holgado, 59, French actor, lung cancer.
 * Billy May, 87, American big band and pop music arranger, heart attack.
 * Janez Menart, 74, Slovene poet.
 * Ann Miller, 81, American dancer, lung cancer.
 * Royce Smith, 54, American gridiron football player (Georgia, New Orleans Saints, Atlanta Falcons).
 * Chea Vichea, Cambodian labor leader, homicide.
 * Charlotte Zwerin, 72, American documentary film director and editor, lung cancer.
 * Rudi Šeligo, 68, Slovenian writer, playwright, essayist and politician.

23

 * Albert Henderson, 88, American actor.
 * Bob Keeshan, 76, American actor, starred as "Captain Kangaroo", heart attack.
 * Yaroslav Krestovsky, 78, Soviet Russian painter.
 * Vasili Mitrokhin, 81, Soviet/Russian/British KGB-officer and defector.
 * Helmut Newton, 83, German- Australian photographer, heart attack.
 * Lennart Strand, 82, Swedish Olympic middle-distance runner (silver medal winner in men's 1500 metres at the 1948 Summer Olympics).
 * Tom Warhurst, Sr., 86, Australian tennis player.

24

 * Anita W. Addison, 51, American television and film director and producer, breast cancer.
 * Tomio Aoki, 80, Japanese film actor, lung cancer.
 * Gordon Brook-Shepherd, 85, British intelligence agent, journalist, and historian.
 * Reva Brooks, 90, Canadian photographer.
 * Gyula Kristó, 64, Hungarian historian and medievalist.
 * Leônidas, 90, Brazilian football player, complications due to Alzheimer's disease.
 * Abdul Rahman Munif, 70, Saudi novelist, journalist, and cultural critic, kidney and heart failure.
 * Jack Tunney, 69, Canadian professional wrestling promoter, heart attack.

25

 * Fanny Blankers-Koen, 85, Dutch track and field athlete who won four gold medals at the 1948 Summer Olympics.
 * Miklós Fehér, 24, Hungarian football player, cardiac arrest, heart attack.
 * V. K. N., 74, Indian Malayalam writer.
 * Zurab Sakandelidze, 58, Soviet (Georgian) Olympic basketball player (men's basketball: 1968 bronze medal winner, 1972 gold medal winner).

26

 * Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, 91, British artist.
 * Fred Haas, 88, American golfer.
 * Jacob Mishler, 92, American judge (US district judge of the District Court for the Eastern District of New York).
 * Bata Paskaljević, 81, Serbian actor.
 * Hugh Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Putney, 95, British politician.
 * Shōgo Shimada, 98, Japanese film actor, stroke.
 * Magne Skodvin, 88, Norwegian educator and historian.

27

 * Bill Carey, 87, American songwriter, actor, and author.
 * Rikki Fulton, 79, Scottish comedian, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Salvador Laurel, 75, Filipino lawyer and politician, Vice President (1986–1992), lymphoma.
 * Jack Paar, 85, American author, and The Tonight Show host, stroke.
 * Hugh Scanlon, 90, British trade union leader.
 * Don Stansauk, 78, American professional wrestler and actor (Foxy Brown, Paint Your Wagon, Micki & Maude), stroke.

28

 * José Miguel Agrelot, 76, Puerto Rican comedian, radio and television host, heart attack.
 * Lloyd M. Bucher, 76, United States Navy officer.
 * Dino Dines, 59, British keyboard player (T. Rex), heart attack.
 * Elroy Hirsch, 80, American gridiron football player.
 * Trevor Hold, 64, English composer, poet and author.
 * Yukihiko Ikeda, 66, Japanese politician, cancer.
 * Eeva Joenpelto, 82, Finnish novelist.
 * André Van Lysebeth, 84, Belgian yoga instructor and author.
 * Joe Viterelli, 66, American actor (Analyze This, Bullets Over Broadway, Shallow Hal), complications from heart surgery.

29

 * Norman Bates, 76, American jazz double-bass player.
 * Mary-Ellis Bunim, 57, American producer and co-creator of The Real World, breast cancer.
 * O. W. Fischer, 88, Austrian actor, kidney failure.
 * Janet Frame, 79, New Zealand writer, leukemia.
 * M. M. Kaye, 95, British author, The Far Pavilions.
 * Andrew J. Kuehn, 66, American film producer.
 * Guusje Nederhorst, 34, Dutch actress, breast cancer.
 * Louie B. Nunn, 79, American politician, Governor of Kentucky (1967-1971), heart attack.
 * Stojan Puc, 82, Yugoslavian (Slovenian) chess International Master.
 * Soko Richardson, 64, American rhythm and blues drummer (Ike & Tina Turner, John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, Albert Collins).
 * James Saunders, 79, British playwright.
 * Helge Seip, 84, Norwegian politician (Social Liberal Party).
 * Serafim Tulikov, 89, Soviet/Russian composer.

30

 * George Bennions, 90, British fighter pilot during World War II.
 * Bruno Cesari, 70, Italian art director.
 * Malachi Favors, 76, American jazz bassist, pancreatic cancer.
 * Frank Mantooth, 56, American jazz pianist and arranger.
 * José Álvaro Morais, 60, Portuguese film director, cancer.
 * Fuad Rouhani, 96, Iranian administrator and translator.

31

 * Ernest Burke, 79, American baseball player, kidney cancer.
 * William Herrick, 89, American novelist.
 * Eleanor Holm, 90, American Olympic swimmer (women's 100 metre backstroke: 1928, 1932 gold medal winner).
 * V. G. Jog, 81, Indian violinist, Parkinson's disease.
 * Cyril Maidment, 75, English motorcycle speedway rider.
 * Suraiya, 75, Indian actress and singer.