Deaths in July 2004

The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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

 * Peter Barnes, 73, British screenwriter and playwright, stroke.
 * Marlon Brando, 80, American actor (The Godfather, On the Waterfront, A Streetcar Named Desire), Oscar winner (1954, 1973), pulmonary fibrosis, respiratory failure.
 * Ettore Cella, 90, Swiss actor and film director.
 * Karin Evans, 96, South African-German stage and film actress.
 * Mohinder Lal, 68, Indian hockey player and Olympic champion.
 * Richard May, 65, British former presiding judge, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, brain cancer.
 * Jasper Ridley, 84, British writer.
 * Jacques Ruffié, 82, French haematologist, geneticist, and anthropologist.
 * Todor Skalovski, 95, Macedonian composer, chorus and orchestra conductor.

2

 * Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, 84, Portuguese writer and poet.
 * Jeillo Edwards, 61, Sierra Leonean actress, first black actor to appear on "The Bill".
 * Mochtar Lubis, 82, Indonesian journalist and writer.
 * James MacKay, 85, American politician (U.S. Representative for Georgia's 4th congressional district from 1965 to 1967).
 * John Cullen Murphy, 85, American comic strip artist (Prince Valiant).
 * Sky Beauty, 14, American thoroughbred.
 * Gael Turnbull, 76, Scottish poet.
 * Ponkunnam Varkey, 94, Indian writer and activist.

3

 * John Barron, 83, English actor.
 * Phoebe Brand, 96, American actress, pneumonia.
 * Vivianna Torun Bülow-Hübe, 76, Swedish jewelry designer, leukemia.
 * Freddy de Vree, 64, Belgian poet and literary critic.
 * Andriyan Nikolayev, 74, Russian cosmonaut, heart attack.
 * James Marshall Sprouse, 80, American federal judge (Senior Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit).
 * Subandrio, 89, Indonesian politician Foreign Minister and First Deputy Prime Minister of Indonesia under President Sukarno.
 * Lionel Van Brabant, 77, Belgian cyclist.
 * Percy Wickman, 63, Canadian politician and activist for people with disabilities.

4

 * Jean-Marie Auberson, 84, Swiss orchestra conductor.
 * Pati Behrs, 82, Russian-American prima ballerina, actress and first wife of filmmaker John Derek.
 * Jean-Louis Florentz, 56, French composer, cancer.
 * Plato A. Skouras, 74, American movie producer (Apache Warrior, Francis of Assisi).

5

 * Robert Burchfield, 81, English lexicographer.
 * Jim Paschal, 77, American NASCAR driver, cancer.
 * Andy Sabados, 87, American gridiron football player (The Citadel, Chicago Cardinals).
 * Hugh Shearer, 81, Jamaican politician and trade unionist, former Prime Minister of Jamaica.
 * Rodger Ward, 83, American racecar driver, two-time Indianapolis 500 champion.

6

 * Peter Birks, 62, British academic lawyer, cancer.
 * Eric Douglas, 46, American actor and comedian, youngest son of Kirk Douglas, drug overdose.
 * Ángel Fernández-Santos, 70, Spanish film critic and screenwriter.
 * Walter Frentz, 96, German cameraman, film producer and photographer.
 * Thomas Klestil, 71, Austrian diplomat and politician, Federal President of Austria, heart failure.
 * Pavel Lisitsian, 92, Russian opera singer.
 * Samir Naqqash, 66, Israeli novelist, short-story writer, and playwright.
 * Jimmie F. Skaggs, 59, American film actor (Catch Me If You Can, Lethal Weapon, Cutthroat Island), lung cancer.
 * Syreeta Wright, 57, American singer and songwriter, ex-wife of Stevie Wonder, breast cancer.

7

 * Jaroslav Huleš, 30, Czech motorcycle racer, suicide.
 * Günther Josten, 82, German Luftwaffe flying ace during World War II.
 * Vlado Kristl, 81, Croatian-German filmmaker and artist.
 * Samuel Mitja Rapoport, 91, Russian Empire-born German biochemist.
 * Jeff Smith, 65, American author and television chef ("The Frugal Gourmet").
 * Xiaokai Yang, 55, Chinese-Australian economist, lung cancer.

8

 * Paula Danziger, 59, American author, heart attack.
 * Alexis von Rosenberg, Baron de Redé, 82, French banker and socialite.
 * Ernst R. G. Eckert, 99, American scientist.
 * Albert Friedlander, 77, German rabbi.
 * Henrique Mendes, 73, Portuguese television presenter and actor, bone cancer.
 * Sven Thunman, 84, Swedish ice hockey player and Olympic medalist.

9

 * Carlo Di Palma, 79, Italian cinematographer (Blowup, Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets over Broadway).
 * Lionel Brett, 4th Viscount Esher, 90, British peer, architect and town-planner.
 * Paul Klebnikov, 41, American journalist, editor of Forbes magazine's Russian edition, murdered.
 * Rudy LaRusso, 66, American basketball player, five-time National Basketball Association All-Star, Parkinson's disease.
 * Jean Lefebvre, 84, French actor, heart attack.
 * Tony Lupien, 87, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago White Sox).
 * Sammy McKim, 79, Canadian film actor and artist, heart attack.
 * Ron Milner, 66, African-American playwright, liver cancer.
 * Bill Randle, 81, American disc jockey, cancer.
 * Isabel Sanford, 86, American actress (The Jeffersons, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Lady Sing the Blues), Emmy winner (1981), heart attack, heart disease.
 * Hugo S. Sims, Jr., 82, American lawyer and politician (U.S. Representative for South Carolina's 2nd congressional district).

10

 * Abdul Ghafoor, 85-86, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Bihar.
 * Inge Meysel, 94, German actress, cardioplegia.
 * Loren Mosher, 70, American psychiatrist.
 * Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo, 74, Portuguese chemical engineer and politician, prime minister (1979-1980), heart attack.
 * Georgi Proskurin, 59, Soviet pair skater.
 * Art Rebel, 67, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis Cardinals).

11

 * Lothar Baier, 62, German author, publisher, and translator, suicide.
 * Van Deren Coke, 83, American photographer, scholar and museum director.
 * Joe Gold, 82, American bodybuilding pioneer and Gold's Gym founder.
 * Dorothy Hart, 82, American actress, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Frances Hyland, 77, Canadian theatre actress, respiratory disease.
 * Haije Kramer, 86, Dutch chess master and theoretician.
 * Terry McLean, 90, New Zealand sports journalist.
 * Laurance Rockefeller, 94, American businessman, conservationist and philanthropist, respiratory failure.
 * Renée Saint-Cyr, 99, French actress.
 * Edkhyam Tenishev, 83, Soviet and Russian linguist.
 * Walter Wager, 79, American author, cancer.

12

 * George Mallaby, 64, British-Australian actor and scriptwriter, congestive heart failure.
 * Jeff Morris, 69, American actor, cancer.
 * Betty Oliphant, 85, English founder of Canada's National Ballet School.
 * James Quinn, 97, American Olympic sprinter (gold medal winner in men's 4 × 100 metres relay at the 1928 Summer Olympics).
 * Emma Yefimova, 72, Soviet Olympic fencer.

13

 * Arthur Kane, 53, American bassist for the New York Dolls, leukemia.
 * Carlos Kleiber, 74, Austrian conductor.
 * Michio Morishima, 80, Japanese economist.
 * Roger Quenolle, 78, French football player.
 * Karel Zich, 55, Czech singer, guitarist and composer, heart attack.

14

 * Nelly Borgeaud, 72, French film actress.
 * Germano de Figueiredo, 71, Portuguese footballer.
 * Hoegeng Imam Santoso, 82, Indonesian chief of police, stroke.
 * Tadeusz Sołtyk, 94, Polish aircraft designer and aerospace engineer.
 * Alex Willoughby, 59, Scottish footballer (Rangers, Aberdeen), cancer.
 * Arnold Ziff, 77, English businessman and philanthropist.

15

 * Saeed Anwar, 60, Pakistani field hockey player and Olympic champion.
 * Banoo Jehangir Coyaji, 86, Indian doctor and family planning activist.
 * Wal Murray, 72, Australian politician.
 * Teun Roosenburg, 88, Dutch sculptor.
 * František Schmucker, 64, Czech football player.
 * Derek Taunt, 86, British mathematician.
 * Yoko Watanabe, 51, Japanese operatic soprano, cancer.
 * Sunao Yoshida, 34, Japanese novelist, lung blockage.

16

 * George Busbee, 76, American politician, former governor of Georgia, heart attack.
 * Andy Engman, 92, Swedish-Finnish cartoon animator.
 * Fazal khaliq, 70, Afghan politician.
 * Lucien Leduc, 85, French football midfielder and a manager.
 * Bella Lewitzky, 88, American modern dance pioneer and choreographer, heart attack.
 * Charles Sweeney, 84, American Air Force officer, pilot of Bockscar, the B-29 that dropped the Nagasaki atomic bomb.

17

 * Susan, Crown Princess of Albania, 63, Australian-born wife of the pretender to Albania's throne, Leka Zogu; cancer.
 * Albela, 63, Pakistani actor, comedian and singer.
 * Grzegorz Cziura, 52, Polish weightlifter and Olympic silver medalist.
 * Jeanette Dolson, 85, Canadian athlete and Olympic medalist.
 * Khalil Hilmi, 94-95, Lebanese Olympic sports shooter.
 * Julian Hodge, 99, British entrepreneur and banker.
 * Marty Passaglia, 85, American basketball player (Washington Capitols, Indianapolis Jets).
 * Pat Roach, 67, English professional wrestler and actor (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, Willow), cancer.
 * Robert E. Smylie, 89, American politician, Governor of Idaho (1955-1967).

18

 * Anne Gorsuch Burford, 62, American attorney and politician.
 * André Castelot, 93, French writer and scriptwriter.
 * Georgine Darcy, 71, American dancer and actress.
 * George Farm, 80, Scottish football goalkeeper and manager.
 * Paul Foot, 66, British journalist and campaigner, heart attack.
 * John D. Kraus, 94, American physicist and electrical engineer.
 * Eoin McKiernan, 89, American scholar and expert on Irish history.
 * Richard Ney, 87, American actor, investment counselor, and author, heart attack.
 * Émile Peynaud, 92, French wine expert.

19

 * Sylvia Daoust, 102, Canadian artist and sculptor.
 * Harry Forsyth, 100, Irish cricketer and centenarian.
 * Carvalho Leite, 92, Brazilian footballer.
 * Roger Marquis, 67, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles).
 * Caitro Soto, 69, Peruvian musician and composer.
 * Zenkō Suzuki, 93, Japanese politician, Prime Minister (1980-1982), pneumonia.
 * Irvin Yeaworth, 78, German-American film director, producer, and theme park builder, traffic collision.

20

 * Antonio Gades, 67, Spanish flamenco dancer, cancer.
 * Lala Mara, 73, Fijian chieftainess and former First Lady, widow of president Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara.
 * Valdemaras Martinkėnas, 39, Soviet and Lithuanian football player and coach, drowned.
 * James Williams, 53, American jazz pianist.

21

 * Jerry Goldsmith, 75, American film composer (Star Trek, The Omen, Alien), Oscar winner (1977), colorectal cancer.
 * Edward B. Lewis, 85, American biologist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1995).
 * Neal A. Maxwell, 78, American missionary in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, leukemia.
 * Radoy Ralin, 82, Bulgarian dissident, poet, and satirist.
 * Julian Ridsdale, 89, British politician.

22

 * Elie Abel, 83, Canadian-American journalist, author and academic, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Frank Cumiskey, 91, American gymnast and Olympic silver medalist.
 * Sacha Distel, 71, French singer, cancer.
 * Illinois Jacquet, 81, American jazz saxophonist, heart attack.
 * Joan Morgan, 99, English film actress, screenwriter and novelist.
 * Bertie Peacock, 75, Northern Ireland football player and manager.
 * Kostiantyn Stepankov, 76, Ukrainian soviet actor, pancreatic cancer.
 * Ronald Sukenick, 72, American writer and literary theorist, inclusion body myositis.

23

 * Mehmood Ali, 72, Indian actor, respiratory disease.
 * Joe Cahill, 84, Irish terrorist..
 * Alan Cook, 81, British physicist.
 * Rogelio Domínguez, 73, Argentine football player, heart attack.
 * Ferry Gruber, 77, Austrian-German tenor in opera and operetta.
 * Carlos Paredes, 79, Portuguese guitar player, kidney failure.
 * Piero Piccioni, 82, Italian film score composer and lawyer.
 * Serge Reggiani, 82, French singer and actor, heart attack.

24

 * Jagan Nath Azad, 85, Indian Urdu poet, writer and academician.
 * Bob Azzam, 78, Egyptian singer.
 * Claude Ballif, 80, French composer, writer, and pedagogue.
 * Cotton Fitzsimmons, 72, American NBA basketball coach, lung cancer.
 * János Harmatta, 86, Hungarian linguist.
 * Ben Martin, 83, American football player and coach.
 * Wilton Mkwayi, 80, South African Anti-apartheid activist and ANC militant, cancer.
 * Wim Verstappen, 67, Dutch film director, producer, and screen writer, cancer.

25

 * Maurice Euzennat, 77, French historian and archaeologist.
 * John Passmore, 89, Australian philosopher.
 * Totò Savio, 66, Italian composer, lyricist, producer, and guitarist.
 * Masami Shimojō, 88, Japanese actor.

26

 * Oğuz Aral, 68, Turkish caricaturist and cartoonist, heart attack.
 * Viola Frey, 70, American artist and professor of arts.
 * Rubén Gómez, 77, Puerto Rican baseball player (San Francisco Giants, Philadelphia Phillies, Cleveland Indians, Minnesota Twins).
 * Alexandr Hackenschmied, 96, Czech-American photographer, film director, and cinematographer.
 * Carl Lidbom, 78, Swedish jurist.
 * William A. Mitchell, 92, American food scientist, inventor of Pop Rocks candy and Tang drink mix, heart failure.
 * Bogusław Sochnacki, 73, Polish actor.

27

 * Carmine DeSapio, 95, American politician, last head of the Tammany Hall organization.
 * Harry Jenkins, Sr., 78, Australian politician and medical doctor.
 * Lisette Lanvin, 90, French film actress.
 * Joseph Rovan, 86, French philosopher and politician, drowned.
 * Bob Tisdall, 97, Irish Olympic athlete (gold medal in 400 metres Hurdles at the 1932 Summer Olympics).

28

 * Juhani Avellan, 58, Finnish Olympic weightlifter.
 * Jackson Beck, 92, American announcer and voice actor (The Adventures of Superman), stroke.
 * Francis Crick, 88, British biologist, one of the discoverers of the "double-helix" shape of DNA, cancer.
 * Sam Edwards, 89, American actor (Twelve O'Clock High, Little House on the Prairie, Dragnet), heart failure.
 * Steve Patterson, 56, American basketball player and coach at Arizona State University, lung cancer.
 * Janet Paul, 84, New Zealand publisher, painter and art historian.
 * Eugene Roche, 75, American actor (Webster, All in the Family, Soap), heart attack.
 * Bernard Saint-Hillier, 92, French general.
 * Tiziano Terzani, 65, Italian journalist, famous for his books on Asia, colorectal cancer.

29

 * Pratima Bandopadhyay, 71, Indian playback singer.
 * Susan Buffett, 71, American activist and first wife of businessman and investor Warren Buffett, stroke.
 * Walter Feit, 73, American mathematician.
 * Nafisa Joseph, 26, Indian model, MTV video jockey, and Miss India 1997, suicide.
 * Abdul Rahman bin Saud Al Saud, 57, Saudi prince and the longtime president of football club Al Nassr.
 * Rena Vlahopoulou, 81, Greek comedian, heart attack.

30

 * Ali Abbasi, 42, Scottish television presenter, systemic lupus erythematosus.
 * Ellen Auerbach, 98, German-American photographer.
 * Vivica Bandler, 87, Finnish-Swedish theatre director and agronomist.
 * Jan Hanuš, 89, Czech composer.
 * Nela Martínez, 91, Ecuadorian communist, political activist, and writer.
 * J. Edward McKinley, 86, American actor.
 * Ed Melvin, 88, Serbian-American basketball player.
 * Hirendranath Mukherjee, 96, Indian politician.
 * John Geoffrey Tracey, 74, Australian ecologist and botanist.
 * Wolfgang Ullmann, 74, German journalist, theologian, politician.
 * György Vizvári, 75, Hungarian water polo player and Olympic champion.

31

 * Laura Betti, 70, Italian actress, heart attack.
 * Erich Ehrlinger, 93, German nazi and Holocaust perpetrator during World War II.
 * Virginia Grey, 87, American actress (Airport, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Women), heart attack.
 * David B. Haight, 97, American leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
 * Robert James, 80, Scottish actor, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Allu Rama Lingaiah, 81, Indian comedian.
 * Absamat Masaliyev, 71, Kyrgyzstani communist politician, heart attack.
 * Petra Peters, 79, German stage and film actress.
 * Líber Seregni, 87, Uruguayan army officer and politician, pancreatic cancer.
 * Larry Stockmeyer, 56, American computer scientist, pancreatic cancer.