Deaths in June 2004

The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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

 * Randi Brænne, 93, Norwegian actress.
 * James Dudley, 94, American baseball player and professional wrestling manager.
 * Victor Guazzelli, 84, English Roman Catholic bishop.
 * Liu Kang, 93, Singaporean artist.
 * Charles Kelman, 74, American ophthalmologist, surgeon, jazz musician, and Broadway producer, lung cancer.
 * William Manchester, 82, American author and historian.
 * Bill Reichardt, 73, American football player (University of Iowa, Green Bay Packers).
 * Sheikh Shaheb Ali, 86, Bangladeshi football player and coach.

2

 * Mujeeb Alam, 56, Pakistani playback singer.
 * Dietz-Otto Edzard, 73, German scholar and grammarian of the Sumerian language.
 * Nicolai Ghiaurov, 71, Bulgarian opera singer.
 * Shrikant Jichkar, 49, Indian central civil servant and politician, traffic collision.
 * Lee Ki-baek, 79, South Korean historian.
 * Tesfaye Gebre Kidan, 68-69, Ethiopian general, defense minister and President of Ethiopia, involuntary manslaughter.
 * Dom Moraes, 65, Indian poet and writer, heart attack.
 * Alun Richards, 74, Welsh novelist.
 * Tini Wagner, 84, Dutch freestyle swimmer and Olympic champion.

3

 * Nam Cam, 56, Vietnamese mobster, shot.
 * Joe Carr, 82, Irish golfer.
 * Harald Ganzinger, 53, German computer scientist.
 * Harold Goodwin, 86, English actor (The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Longest Day, The Ladykillers).
 * Britta Holmberg, 82, Swedish actress.
 * Jonathan Kramer, 61, American composer and music theorist.
 * Frances Shand Kydd, 68, English mother of Diana, Princess of Wales, Parkinson's disease.
 * Sulamith Messerer, 95, Russian ballerina and choreographer.
 * Quorthon, 38, Swedish musician and founder of the band Bathory, congenital heart defect.
 * Morris Schappes, 97, American scholar, editor (Jewish Currents) and Marxist activist.

4

 * Charles Correll, 60, American cinematographer (Animal House, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock) and television director (Melrose Place), pancreatic cancer.
 * Wilmer Fields, 81, American baseball player, former Negro league baseball All-Star, heart ailment.
 * Marvin Heemeyer, 52, American muffler repair shop owner and criminal, suicide.
 * Steve Lacy, 69, American jazz soprano saxophonist and composer, cancer.
 * Brian Linehan, 58, Canadian television host and interviewer, lymphoma.
 * Nino Manfredi, 83, Italian actor, stroke.
 * Rolf Moebius, 88, German actor, pneumonia.
 * T. M. Samarasinghe, 61, Sri Lankan cricket umpire.
 * Anthony Steffen, 73, Italian and Brazilian film actor and screenwriter, cancer.

5

 * Johnny Bent, 95, American ice hockey player.
 * Iona Brown, 63, British violinist and conductor, cancer.
 * Jack Foster, 72, British-New Zealand athlete and Olympian, traffic collision.
 * Fernando Manzaneque, 70, Spanish road racing cyclist.
 * Friedrich Obleser, 81, German general in the Bundeswehr.
 * Ronald Reagan, 93, American actor and politician, President (1981–1989), Governor of California (1967–1975), pneumonia and complications from Alzheimer's.
 * Manu Tupou, 69, American-based Fijian actor, writer, director, and teacher.

6

 * Judy Campbell, 88, English actress.
 * Simon Cumbers, 36, Irish freelance cameraman and journalist, killed by Al-Qaeda.
 * Howard Eves, 93, American mathematician.
 * James Roche, 97, American businessman, CEO and Chairman of the Board at General Motors Corporation.
 * Munavvar Rzayeva, 75, Azerbaijani sculptor.
 * Emma Talmi, 99, Israeli politician and writer.
 * Jock West, 95, Grand Prix motorcycle racer from Great Britain.
 * Kate Worley, 46, American comic book writer (Omaha the Cat Dancer), cancer.

7

 * Roman Aftanazy, 90, Polish historian, librarian and author.
 * Richard E. Bush, 79, United States Marine master gunnery sergeant and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
 * Joseph Leo Doob, 94, American mathematician.
 * Roger Matton, 75, Canadian composer, ethnomusicologist, and music educator.
 * Bern Porter, 93, American artist, writer, publisher, and performer.
 * Don Potter, 102, British sculptor, wood carver and potter.
 * Eugene Raskin, 94, American musician and playwright.

8

 * Leopoldo Zea Aguilar, 91, Mexican philosopher.
 * Dan Armstrong, 69, American guitarist, luthier, and session musician.
 * David Mervyn Blow, 72, British biophysicist, lung cancer.
 * Walter Breuer, 73, Austrian film actor.
 * Per Carleson, 86, Swedish officer and Olympic épée fencer.
 * Mack Jones, 65, American baseball player (Atlanta Braves, Cincinnati Reds and Montreal Expos), stomach cancer.
 * Humayun Khan, 27, American soldier serving in the Iraq War, car bombing.
 * Bill Lowery, 79, American music entrepreneur.
 * Fosco Maraini, 91, Italian photographer, anthropologist, ethnologist, and writer.
 * Bob Schmitz, 65, American gridiron football player and scout (Pittsburgh Steelers, Minnesota Vikings), heart attack.
 * Nuria Torray, 69, Spanish actress, colorectal cancer.

9

 * Rosey Brown, 71, American football player, Pro Football Hall of Famer.
 * António de Sousa Franco, 61, Portuguese economist and politician, heart attack.
 * Bent Jædig, 68, Danish jazz musician.
 * Ted Martin, 101, Australian cricketer (Western Australia).
 * Ralph Moody, 86, American NASCAR driver and team owner.
 * Alistair Taylor, 68, English personal assistant of Brian Epstein, the manager of the Beatles.
 * Barbara Whiting, 73, American actress (Those Whiting Girls, Beware, My Lovely, Dangerous When Wet), cancer.
 * Brian Williamson, 58, Jamaican gay rights activist and founder of J-Flag, murdered.

10

 * Antoine Argoud, 89, French Army officer specializing in counter-insurgency.
 * Ray Charles, 73, American rhythm and blues singer ("What'd I Say", "Georgia on my Mind", "I Can't Stop Loving You"), liver failure.
 * Rosinha de Valença, 62, Brazilian composer, arranger and musician.
 * Kiki Djan, 47, Ghanaian musician, AIDS and drug-related complications.
 * Chico Faria, 54, Portuguese football player.
 * José Farías, 67, Argentine football player and manager.
 * Odette Laure, 87, French actress and cabaret singer, heart attack.
 * Gábor Vékony, 59, Hungarian historian, archaeologist and linguist.
 * Xenophon Zolotas, 100, Greek economist and politician, Prime Minister (1989–1990).

11

 * Prince Egon von Fürstenberg, 57, German aristocrat and designer, nephew of late Fiat head Gianni Agnelli, liver cancer.
 * Pakubuwono XII, 60, Indonesian royal as twelfth Susuhunan] (ruler of Surakarta).
 * Michel Roche, 64, French Olympic equestrian (gold medal winner in equestrian team jumping at the 1976 Summer Olympics).
 * Soriba Soumah, 58, Guinea international football player.

12

 * Rina Ben-Menahem, 68, Israeli writer.
 * Walter George Muelder, 97, American social ethicist and Methodist minister.
 * Stanley O'Toole, 65, British film producer.
 * Geoffrey Thompson, 67, British businessman, aneurysm.

13

 * Dorothy Lavinia Brown, 85, American surgeon and politician.
 * Danny Dark, 65, American announcer, pulmonary hemorrhage.
 * Dick Durrance, 89, American alpine ski racer, 17-time national champion.
 * Stuart Hampshire, 89, British philosopher.
 * Jørn Larsen, 77, Danish painter and sculptor.
 * Robert Lees, 91, American screenwriter, decapitation.
 * Jennifer Nitsch, 37, German television actress, suicide.
 * Ralph Wiley, 52, American sports journalist, heart attack.

14

 * Ubaldo Calabresi, 79, Italian Roman Catholic bishop, Parkinson's disease.
 * Ulrich Inderbinen, 103, Swiss mountain guide.
 * Jack McClelland, 81, Canadian book publisher.
 * Max Rosenberg, 89, American producer of horror movies.
 * Noriaki Yuasa, 70, Japanese director, stroke.

15

 * Lothar Fischer, 70, German sculptor.
 * J. Gwyn Griffiths, 92, Welsh poet and egyptologist.
 * Bagong Kussudiardja, 75, Indonesian painter, choreographer, and artist, diabetes.
 * Ahmet Piriştina, 52, Turkish politician, mayor of İzmir, heart attack.
 * Hatch Rosdahl, 62, American gridiron football player (Penn State, Buffalo Bills, Kansas City Chiefs), suicide from height.

16

 * Herman Goldstine, 90, American computer scientist (ENIAC), Parkinson's disease.
 * George Hausmann, 88, American baseball player (New York Giants).
 * Thanom Kittikachorn, 92, Thai military dictator and politician, prime minister, complications from stroke.
 * Paul Neagu, 66, British artist.

17

 * Todor Dinov, 84, Bulgarian animator, painter, and graphic artist.
 * Vilayat Inayat Khan, 87, British sufist.
 * Jacek Kuroń, 70, Polish dissident and statesman.
 * Sara Lidman, 80, Swedish writer.
 * Gerry McNeil, 78, Canadian ice hockey player, Stanley Cup-winning National Hockey League goaltender.
 * Jackie Paris, 79, American jazz singer and guitarist.
 * Seymour Robbie, 84, American television director.

18

 * Abdel Aziz al-Muqrin, 33, Saudi Arabian leader of militant organization al-Qaeda.
 * Doris Dowling, 81, American actress.
 * George Buck Flower, 66, American actor, writer, producer, and casting director, cancer.
 * André Gillois, 102, French writer and Charles de Gaulle's spokesman in London during World War II.
 * Frederick Jaeger, 76, German-British character actor.
 * Paul Marshall Johnson Jr., c. 49, American hostage, decapitated by al-Qaeda.
 * Shaikh Hafiz Sabri Koçi, 83, Albanian Grand Mufti.
 * Elbert Luther Little, 96, American botanist.
 * Ralph S. Locher, 88, American politician.
 * John Mathwin, 84, Australian politician.
 * Peter Märthesheimer, 66, German screenwriter, producer and author.
 * Nek Muhammad Wazir, c. 27, Pakistani tribal leader and Taliban ally, killed by Pakistani military forces.
 * Moe Radovich, 75, American basketball player (Philadelphia Warriors) and college basketball coach.
 * Elwood Zimmerman, 91, American entomologist.

19

 * Nikolai Girenko, 63, Russian ethnologist and human rights activist, ballistic trauma.
 * Charly Grosskost, 60, French racing cyclist, traffic collision.
 * Colin McCormack, 62, Welsh actor, cancer.
 * Else Quecke, 96, German actress.
 * Jadwiga Rutkowska, 70, Polish Olympic volleyball player (bronze medal winner in women's volleyball at the 1964 Summer Olympics).
 * Alfredo Torero, 73, Peruvian anthropologist and linguist.
 * Nob Yoshigahara, 68, Japanese mathematician and puzzle expert.

20

 * Munir al-Ajlani, 91, Syrian politician, writer, lawyer, and scholar.
 * Jim Bacon, 54, Australian politician, Premier of Tasmania (1998-2004), lung cancer.
 * Robert Rogers Blake, 86, American management theoretician.
 * Hanns Cibulka, 83, German poet and diarist.
 * Fred Cogswell, 86, Canadian poet.
 * Luis Contreras, 53, Hispanic-American actor.
 * Nabil Sahraoui, 37, Algerian militant, head of GSPC, killed by the Algerian army.

21

 * Ruth Leach Amonette, 87, American businesswoman, author, and educator.
 * Ron Ashman, 78, English football player and manager.
 * Leonel Brizola, 82, Brazilian politician, heart failure.
 * Ted Scott, 85, Canadian Anglican prelate, traffic collision.

22

 * Bob Bemer, 84, American computer scientist, cancer.
 * Francisco Ortiz Franco, 50, Mexican journalist, murdered.
 * Thomas Gold, 84, American astrophysicist.
 * Carlton Skinner, 91, American naval officer and politician, first civilian governor of Guam.
 * Mattie Stepanek, 13, American poet and advocate, muscular dystrophy.
 * Kim Sun-il, 33, South Korean translator, decapitated by Iraqi militants.

23

 * Peter Birrel, 68, English actor (Doctor Who), cancer..
 * Rifaat El-Fanagily, 68, Egyptian footballer.
 * Ya'akov Meshorer, 68, Israeli numismatist and classical archaeologist, cancer.
 * Leonard Stein, 87, American musicologist, pianist, conductor and university teacher.

24

 * Carlos Lacoste, 75, Argentine navy vice-admiral and politician.
 * Bill Pataky, 74, Canadian Olympic basketball player (men's basketball at the 1952 Summer Olympics).
 * Jimmy Rowser, 78, American jazz double-bassist.
 * Trudeliese Schmidt, 61, German operatic mezzo-soprano.
 * Peter Wragg, 73, British footballer.

25

 * Morton W. Coutts, 100, New Zealand scientist and inventor.
 * Imanol Larzabal Goñi, 56, Basque Spanish singer and composer.
 * Margot Guilleaume, 94, German operatic soprano.
 * Karol Kennedy, 72, American ice skating champion, pneumonia.
 * Fred Ramdat Misier, 77, Suriname politician, president (1982-1988.)
 * Carl Rakosi, 100, Hungarian-American poet, the last surviving member of the Objectivist poets.

26

 * Muriel Angelus, 95, British silent film actress.
 * Ott Arder, 54, Estonian poet, children's writer and translator.
 * George Charles, 88, Saint Lucia trade unionist and politician.
 * Chaim Goldberg, 87, Polish-Israeli-American artist, painter, and sculptor.
 * Yash Johar, 75, Indian Bollywood film producer.
 * Naomi Shemer, 74, Israeli songwriter, cancer.
 * Nguyen Van Hinh, 88, Vietnamese Chief of staff and general.

27

 * Peter Blythe, 69, English actor, lung cancer.
 * Hugh B. Cave, 93, British writer.
 * Jean Graczyk, 71, French road bicycle racer.
 * Petar Gračanin, 81, Yugoslav and Serbian politician and general in the Yugoslav People's Army.
 * Boris Holban, 96, Russian-born Franco-Romanian communist.
 * George Patton IV, 80, American army general and son of George Patton, Parkinson's disease.
 * Fausto Romitelli, 41, Italian composer, cancer.

28

 * Jean Boyer, 55, French organist and music professor, cancer.
 * Anthony Buckeridge, 92, English author, creator of the Jennings books.
 * Georges de Caunes, 85, French journalist, writer and television and radio presenter, aneurysm.
 * Marcel Jullian, 82, French author and screenwriter.
 * Hisashi Nozawa, 44, Japanese screenwriter and mystery novelist, suicide.
 * Alexander Spirkin, 85, Soviet and Russian philosopher and psychologist.
 * Thomas Zereske, 38, German Olympic canoeist, leukemia.

29

 * Bjørn Breigutu, 80, Norwegian filmmaker.
 * Alvin Hamilton, 92, Canadian politician.
 * William W. Havens Jr., 84, American physicist, complications from leukemia.
 * Arik Lavie, 77, Israeli singer and actor, heart disease.
 * Mohammad Ranjbar, 69, Iranian football player and coach, cerebral disorder.
 * Grethe Thordahl, 77, Danish stage and film actress.
 * Stipe Šuvar, 68, Croatian and Yugoslav politician and sociologist.

30

 * Chris Alcaide, 80, American actor, cancer.
 * Eddie Burns, 88, Australian rugby player and coach.
 * Jacques Rossi, 94, Polish-French writer and polyglot.
 * Stive Vermaut, 28, Belgian cyclist, brain haemorrhage after heart attack.