Deaths in January 2005

The following is a list of notable deaths in January 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

 * Harold Bodle, 84, English footballer (Birmingham City F.C., Bury F.C., Stockport County F.C. and Accrington Stanley F.C.).
 * Shirley Chisholm, 80, American politician, first black woman ever to serve in the U.S. Congress.
 * Robert Fortier, 78, American actor.
 * Hugh Lawson, 6th Baron Burnham, 73, British newspaper executive, peer, and Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords.
 * Bob Matsui, 63, American Democratic Party member of the House of Representatives, cancer.
 * Dmitry Nelyubin, 33, Russian cyclist, murdered.
 * Patrick Denis O'Donnell, 82, Irish military historian and army officer.
 * Willem Scholten, 77, Dutch politician and economist.

2

 * Arnold Denker, 90, American chess player, brain cancer.
 * Cyril Fletcher, 91, British comedian (That's Life!).
 * Frank Kelly Freas, 82, American science fiction artist.
 * Félix Galimi, 84, Argentine Olympic fencer.
 * Margaret Gardiner, 100, British art collector and left wing political activist.
 * Paul Manning, 45, American television writer (ER, L.A. Law), colorectal cancer.
 * Maclyn McCarty, 93, American geneticist and DNA research pioneer, heart failure.
 * Claude Meillassoux, 79, French neo-Marxist economic anthropologist and Africanist.
 * Edo Murtić, 83, Croatian painter.
 * C. M. Pennington-Richards, 93, British film director and cinematographer.
 * Ngo Van, 93, Vietnamese revolutionary.
 * Charles Paul Wilp, 72, German advertising-designer, artist, and photographer.
 * John Ziman, 79, British-New Zealand physicist and humanist.

3

 * Koo Chen-fu, 88, Chinese negotiator with the People's Republic of China, renal cancer.
 * Paul Darragh, 51, Irish Olympic equestrian showjumper, heart failure.
 * Jyotindra Nath Dixit, 68, Indian national security adviser and former foreign secretary, heart attack.
 * Will Eisner, 87, American comic book artist (The Spirit), complications following surgery.
 * Misael Escuti, 78, Chilean football player, cardiovascular disease.
 * Mehmet Faruk Sükan, 84, Turkish physician, politician and government minister.
 * László Vadász, 56, Hungarian chess grandmaster.
 * Kay Williamson, 69, British linguist, heart attack.

4

 * Ali Al-Haidri, Iraqi governor of Baghdad province, assassinated.
 * Humphrey Carpenter, 58, British biographer and broadcaster, heart attack.
 * Guy Davenport, 77, American writer, translator, illustrator, and painter, lung cancer.
 * Frank Harary, 84, American mathematician, a foremost expert on graph theory.
 * Robert Heilbroner, 85, American economist.
 * Marguerite Pearson, 72, American professional baseball player (AAGPBL).
 * Bud Poile, 80, Canadian professional ice hockey player, member of Hockey Hall of Fame, Parkinson's disease.
 * Alton Tobey, 90, American muralist and painter.
 * Jorge Eduardo Wright, 82, Argentine mycologist.

5

 * Antonio Benítez-Rojo, 73, Cuban writer.
 * Gabrielle Daye, 93, English stage actress.
 * Martín Acosta y Lara, 79, Uruguayan basketball player.
 * René Le Hénaff, 103, French film editor and director.
 * Danny Sugerman, 50, American music manager, lung cancer.

6

 * Vern Barberis, 76, Australian weightlifter and Olympic medalist.
 * Sergio Fubini, 76, Italian theoretical physicist.
 * Ronald 'Bo' Ginn, 70, American politician, lung cancer.
 * Lois Hole, 75, Canadian businesswoman, author and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Alberta, cancer.
 * Makgatho Mandela, 54, South African last surviving son of Nelson Mandela, AIDS.
 * Tarquinio Provini, 71, Italian motorcycle road racer.
 * Louis Robichaud, 79, Canadian former premier of New Brunswick.
 * Nicholas Scott, 71, British politician.
 * Boris Shtokolov, 74, Soviet and Russian singer, one of the greatest basses of the 20th century.
 * Ali Shukri, 85, Yugoslav-Kosovan politician, President of the Executive Council (1963–1967) and Presidency (1981–1982).
 * Sindhu, 33, Indian actress, lung infection.
 * A. Hays Town, 101, American architect.

7

 * Harry Boyles, 93, American baseball player.
 * Evgeny Chuprun, 77, Soviet and Russian realist painter.
 * Pierre Daninos, 91, French novelist (The Diary of Major Thompson).
 * Rosemary Kennedy, 86, American sister of John F. Kennedy.
 * Ivar Medaas, 66, Norwegian folksinger and fiddle player.
 * Aleksandr Prokhorov, 58, Soviet footballer (Dynamo Kyiv, FC Spartak Moscow).

8

 * Badja Djola, 56, American actor (Mississippi Burning, The Hurricane, The Last Boy Scout), heart attack.
 * Tage Fahlborg, 92, Swedish sprint canoeist.
 * Jacqueline Joubert, 83, French television announcer, producer and director.
 * Suvad Katana, 35, Bosnian footballer, heart attack.
 * Friedrich Kuhn, 85, West German bobsledder and Olympic champion.
 * Aksella Luts, 99, Estonian screenwriter, actress and filmmaker.
 * Song Renqiong, 95, Chinese general and politician.
 * David Shaw, 50, Australian scuba diver, drowned.
 * Michel Thomas, 90, Polish-American linguist, decorated war veteran and nazi hunter.

9

 * Artidoro Berti, 84, Italian Olympic runner.
 * Gonzalo Gavira, 79, Mexican sound effects creator (The Exorcist, The Towering Inferno).
 * Joanne Grant, 74, American journalist and communist activist.
 * Koji Hashimoto, 68, Japanese film director.
 * Antonín Klimek, 67, Czech historian.
 * Bob Mabe, 75, American baseball player.
 * Ricky Rodriguez, 29, American member of a religious cult "The Family", suicide.
 * Michael P. Ryan, 88, United States Marine Corps major general.
 * Vantile Whitfield, 74, American arts administrator, Alzheimer's disease.

10

 * Gene Baylos, 98, American comedian.
 * Princess Joséphine-Charlotte of Belgium, 77, Belgian Princess of Belgium and Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, cancer.
 * Georges Bernier, 75, French humorist.
 * Margherita Carosio, 96, Italian soprano.
 * Fernand Cazenave, 80, French rugby player and national coach.
 * Tommy Fine, 90, American Major League Baseball player (Boston Red Sox and St. Louis Browns).
 * James Forman, 76, American executive secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, colorectal cancer.
 * Stephen Hastings, 83, British politician, MP for Mid Bedfordshire (1960–1983), esophageal cancer.
 * Erwin Hillier, 93, British cinematographer.
 * Ursula Hoff, 95, Australian scholar and author on art.
 * Kalevi Hämäläinen, 72, Finnish cross-country skier and Olympic champion.
 * Helmut Losch, 57, East German heavyweight weightlifting champion.
 * Jan Pieter Schotte, 76, Belgian official of the Roman Curia, cardinal since 1994.
 * Inna Tumanyan, 75, Soviet-Armenian film director and screenwriter.
 * Arthur Walworth, 101, American writer and biographer.

11

 * Alessandro Ruspoli, 9th Prince of Cerveteri, 80, Italian aristocrat, actor and socialite.
 * Spencer Dryden, 66, American drummer (Jefferson Airplane), cancer.
 * Jimmy Griffin, 61, American singer, guitarist, songwriter, member of rock band Bread, cancer.
 * Miriam Hyde, 91, Australian composer (Valley of Rocks).
 * Fabrizio Meoni, 47, Italian motorcyclist, motorcycle accident.
 * Jerzy Pawłowski, 72, Polish fencer and Olympic champion.
 * Thelma White, 94, American actress (Reefer Madness), pneumonia.

12

 * Domiciano Cavém, 72, Portuguese football player and manager, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Gaston Clermont, 91, Canadian businessman and politician.
 * Kenneth Farmer, 92, Canadian Olympic ice hockey player and sports administrator.
 * Leila Fawzi, 86, Egyptian actress and model.
 * Manfred Fuhrmann, 79, German classical philologist and academic.
 * Herbert Goldstein, 82, American physicist.
 * Tullio Gonnelli, 92, Italian athlete and Olympic silver medalist.
 * Bernard Meadows, 89, British modernist sculptor.
 * Amrish Puri, 72, Indian actor (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Mr. India, Gandhi), cerebral hemorrhage.
 * Jay Schulberg, 65, American advertising executive, pancreatic cancer.
 * Edmund S. Valtman, 90, Estonian-American Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist.

13

 * Earl Cameron, 89, Canadian broadcaster and The National anchor (1959–1966).
 * Jacques de Tonnancour, 88, Canadian artist and art educator from Montreal, Quebec.
 * Nell Rankin, 81, United States mezzo-soprano opera singer (Metropolitan Opera).
 * K. V. Sarma, 85, Indian historian of science.
 * Hisham Sharabi, 78, American cultural historian and political activist, cancer.

14

 * Ward Beysen, 63, Belgian politician and freemason, suicide.
 * Edwin Bélanger, 94, Canadian musician.
 * Ofelia Guilmáin, 83, Spanish film and stage actress, pneumonia.
 * Charlotte MacLeod, 82, American mystery writer, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Conroy Maddox, 92, British surrealist painter.
 * Rudolph Moshammer, 64, German fashion designer, homicide.
 * Carl Möhner, 83, Austrian film actor, director, screenwriter and painter, Parkinson's disease.
 * Rocky Roberts, 63, American-Italian rhythm and blues singer.
 * Jesús Rafael Soto, 81, Venezuelan kinetic artist.

15

 * Felix Aprahamian, 90, English music critic.
 * Leonid Brekhovskikh, 87, Russian scientist.
 * Terry Crowley, 51, New Zealand linguists of Oceanic languages.
 * Walter Ernsting, 84, German science fiction author (Perry Rhodan).
 * Elizabeth Janeway, 91, American feminist author.
 * Dan Lee, 35, Canadian animator (Finding Nemo, Monsters, Inc., Toy Story 2), heart failure.
 * Werner Lesser, 72, East German Olympic ski jumper.
 * Ruth Warrick, 89, American actress (Citizen Kane, All My Children, Song of the South), pneumonia.
 * Karapetê Xaço, 104, Armenian singer of traditional Kurdish Dengbêj music.
 * Victoria de los Ángeles, 81, Spanish soprano, heart attack.

16

 * H. Bentley Glass, 98, American biologist, known for controversial views.
 * Agustín González, 74, Spanish film actor, pneumonia.
 * Yoshito Matsushige, 92, Japanese photojournalist.
 * Jerzy Pławczyk, 93, Polish Olympic high jumper.
 * Gudrun Wegner, 49, East German swimmer, cancer.
 * Marjorie Williams, 47, American journalist. The Washington Post columnist and contributing editor for Vanity Fair, liver cancer.

17

 * Maria Albuleț, 72, Romanian chess Woman Grandmaster.
 * Charlie Bell, 44, Australian business executive, CEO of McDonald's, colon cancer.
 * Bezerra da Silva, 77, Brazilian samba musician.
 * Basil Hoskins, 75, English theatre and film actor.
 * Anatoly Kartashov, 67, Russian water polo player and Olympic silver medalist.
 * Virginia Mayo, 84, American film actress (White Heat, The Best Years of Our Lives), heart attack.
 * Albert Schatz, 84, American microbiologist, discoverer of streptomycin, pancreatic cancer.
 * George P. L. Walker, 78, British volcanologist.
 * Hansjoachim Walther, 65, German politician and mathematician.
 * Zhao Ziyang, 85, Chinese politician, Communist Party General Secretary (1987-1989), complications of multiple strokes.

18

 * Charles Thurston Brockman, 77, American broadcaster and president of the United States Auto Club (1969-1972).
 * Gabrielle Brune, 92, British actress.
 * Vivian H. H. Green, 89, British priest and historian.
 * Robert Moch, 90, American rower.
 * Pez Whatley, 54, American professional wrestler, heart attack.

19

 * Theodore W. Allen, 85, American scholar, writer, and activist.
 * Bill Andersen, 80, New Zealand communist and trade union leader.
 * Lamont Bentley, 31, American actor (Moesha) and rapper, traffic collision.
 * Jens-Halvard Bratz, 84, Norwegian businessman and politician.
 * Carlos Cortez, 81, American artist and political activist.
 * K. Sello Duiker, 30, South African novelist, suicide.
 * Anita Kulcsár, 28, Hungarian handball player and Olympic silver medalist, traffic collision.
 * Rinat Mardanshin, 41, Russian motorcycle speedway rider, complications during surgery.
 * Stan West, 78, American gridiron football player.

20

 * Parveen Babi, 55, Indian actress, diabetes.
 * Ivor G. Balding, 96, American polo player.
 * Bogle, 40, Jamaican dancer, homicide.
 * Per Borten, 91, Norwegian politician, Prime Minister of Norway (1965-1971).
 * Dick Gallagher, 49, American composer, predominantly for off-Broadway productions.
 * Solomon King, 74, American singer, cancer.
 * Jan Nowak-Jeziorański, 91, Polish journalist and decorated World War II hero, head of the Radio Free Europe Polish section.
 * Miriam Rothschild, 96, British zoologist, entomologist and author.
 * Hamdan Sheikh Tahir, 81, Malaysian politician, governor of Penang (1989-2001).

21

 * Jacques Andrieux, 87, French fighter pilot during World War II.
 * Theun de Vries, 97, Dutch writer.
 * Ole Due, 73, Danish jurist and judge.
 * John L. Hess, 87, American journalist.
 * Henry Källgren, 73, Swedish football player.
 * Edward F. McLaughlin, Jr., 84, American attorney and politician.
 * Kaljo Raid, 83, Estonian composer, cellist and pastor.
 * Neville Scott, 69, New Zealand Olympic runner.
 * Steve Susskind, 62, American voice-over actor, traffic collision.

22

 * William Deakin, 91, British World War II hero and founder of St Antony's College, Oxford.
 * César Gutiérrez, 61, Venezuelan baseball player.
 * Patsy Rowlands, 74, British actress, known for her roles in the Carry On films, breast cancer.
 * William Trager, 94, American parasitologist.
 * Consuelo Velázquez, 88, Mexican songwriter and lyricist, and author of the song "Bésame Mucho".
 * Rose Mary Woods, 87, American politician, former secretary of Richard Nixon and key Watergate figure.

23

 * Harley Baldwin, 59, American land developer and art dealer, kidney cancer.
 * Morys Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare, 85, British politician and peer, Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords.
 * Johnny Carson, 79, United States comedian and television host, emphysema.
 * Douglas Knight, 83, American educator, businessman, author, former president of Lawrence University and Duke University.
 * Charles Martin, 45, American gridiron football player, kidney failure.
 * Mutsuko Sakura, 83, Japanese actress.
 * Eddie Sinclair, 67, Scottish snooker player.

24

 * June Bronhill, 75, Australian actress and opera, operetta and musical comedy singer, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Else Krüger, 89, German secretary of nazi official Martin Bormann during World War II.
 * Paritala Ravindra, 56, Indian politician, homicide.
 * Lev Saychuk, 81, Soviet Olympic fencer.
 * Leslie Wood, 72, English footballer.

25

 * Barbara Craig, 89, British archaeologist, classicist, and academic, specialising in classical pottery.
 * Philip Johnson, 98, American architect.
 * Ron Kersey, 55, American keyboardist, songwriter, producer and arranger.
 * Vikki LaMotta, 75, American model, ex-wife of American boxer Jake LaMotta.
 * Manuel Lopes, 97, Cape Verdean novelist, poet and essayist.
 * Ray Peterson, 65, American popular singer ("Tell Laura I Love Her"), cancer.
 * Joop Rohner, 77, Dutch water polo goalkeeper.
 * Max Velthuijs, 81, Dutch writer and illustrator.
 * Netti Witziers-Timmer, 81, Dutch sprinter and Olympic champion.

26

 * Fraser Elliott, 83, Canadian lawyer and philanthropist.
 * Rudi Falkenhagen, 71, Dutch actor.
 * Peter A. Garland, 81, American politician, U.S. Representative from Maine (1961–1963).
 * Jackie Henderson, 73, Scottish footballer.
 * Josie MacAvin, 85, Irish set director.
 * Cordelia Scaife May, 76, American philanthropist and heiress to Mellon family fortune, pancreatic cancer.
 * Inge Pohmann, 83/84, German tennis player.

27

 * Shah A M S Kibria, 73, Bangladeshi economist, diplomat and politician, homicide.
 * Rado Lenček, 83, Slovene linguist and ethnologist.
 * Aurélie Nemours, 94, French painter.
 * Jonathan Welsh, 57, Canadian actor.

28

 * Artūras Barysas, 50, Lithuanian counter-culture actor, singer, photographer and filmmaker.
 * Daniel Branca, 53, Argentinian Disney comic book artist, heart attack.
 * Jim Capaldi, 60, British rock musician and songwriter (Traffic), stomach cancer.
 * Lucien Carr, 79, American United Press International editor, bone cancer.
 * Karen Lancaume, (aka Karen Bach), 32, French adult film performer, suicide.
 * Paul A. Partain, 58, American actor (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre), cancer.
 * Jacques Villeret, 53, French actor and comedian, internal hemorrhage.

29

 * Ron Feinberg, 72, American actor (A Boy and His Dog, Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling, The Centurions).
 * Eric Griffiths, 64, British guitarist in the musical group The Quarrymen, pancreatic cancer.
 * Jean Hengen, 92, Luxembourgian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
 * Ephraim Kishon, 80, Israeli dramatist, screenwriter and film director, heart attack.
 * Žika Mitrović, 83, Serbian film director.
 * Bill Shadel, 96, American journalist, prostate cancer.
 * Joan Tompkins, 89, American actress.

30

 * Mary Beck, 96, American politician.
 * Wolfgang Becker, 94, German film director and film editor.
 * Martyn Bennett, 33, Scottish Celtic musician, cancer.
 * Susan Bradshaw, 73, British pianist.
 * Maurice Desimpelaere, 84, Belgian cyclist.
 * Horace Law, 93, British admiral.

31

 * Ron Basford, 72, Canadian cabinet minister (1970s).
 * Nel Benschop, 87, Dutch poet.
 * Jack Collins, 86, American actor (The Towering Inferno, The Sting, Bewitched).
 * Makarand Dave, 82, Indian poet and author.
 * Malcolm Hardee, 55, British comedian, drowned.
 * Ishrat Hashmi, 57, Pakistani actress.
 * Bobby Howitt, 79, Scottish football player and manager.
 * Hosur Narasimhaiah, 84, Indian physicist and educator.
 * Ivan Noble, 37, British BBC journalist, brain cancer.
 * Franz-Joseph Schulze, 86, German general during and after World War II and Knight's Cross recipient.
 * Lee Segel, 72, American mathematician and writer.
 * Bill Voiselle, 86, American Major League Baseball player.