Deaths in June 2005

The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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

 * Dmitri Bystrov, 37, Russian footballer.
 * Josephine Clay Ford, 81, American Ford Motor Company heiress and prominent philanthropist.
 * George Mikan, 80, American basketball player.
 * Louisiane Saint Fleurant, 80, Haitian artist and painter.
 * Geoffrey Toone, 94, British-based Irish actor.

2

 * Isabel Aretz, 96, Argentine musician.
 * Vittorio Duse, 89, Italian actor (The Godfather Part III).
 * Lucio España, 33, Colombian footballer, murdered.
 * Samir Kassir, 45, Lebanese journalist who supported democracy, assassinated.
 * Mike Marshall, 60, French-American actor (Moonraker).
 * Melita Norwood, 93, British who spied for the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
 * Andrea Pangrazio, 95, Italian Roman Catholic bishop.
 * Hy Peskin, 89, American photographer.
 * Alan Williams, 77, British economist.

3

 * Leon Askin, 97, Austrian actor.
 * Radomir Belaćević, 75, Serbian film producer and writer.
 * Teodoro Benigno, 82, Filipino journalist.
 * Michael Billington, 63, British actor.
 * Harold Cardinal, 60, Canadian Cree writer, lung cancer.
 * Nzo Ekangaki, 71, Cameroonian politician.
 * Alex Freeleagus, 77, Australian diplomat and lawyer.

4

 * Paul Amen, 88, American sportsman and banker.
 * Giancarlo De Carlo, 85, Italian architect.
 * Chloe Jones, 29, American adult film star.
 * Banks McFadden, 88, American football player, College Football Hall of Famer and former Clemson football player.
 * André Molitor, 93/4, Belgian civil servant, principal private secretary to King Baudouin I.
 * Jean O'Leary, 57, American gay and lesbian rights activist and politician.
 * Yin Shun, 99, Chinese Buddhist philosopher.
 * Lorna Thayer, 86, American character actress (Five Easy Pieces), Alzheimer's disease.

5

 * Adolfo Aguilar Zínser, 55, Mexican scholar, diplomat and politician.
 * Bele Bachem, 89, German graphic artist, book illustrator and writer.
 * Pepita Carpeña, 85, Spanish trade unionist and anarchist.
 * George Isaak, 72, Polish-born Australian physicist.
 * Susi Nicoletti, 86, Austrian film actress, complications from heart surgery.
 * Lothar Warneke, 68, German film director, screenwriter and actor.

6

 * Eduardo P. Archetti, 62, Argentine social scientist.
 * Anne Bancroft, 73, American actress (The Miracle Worker, The Graduate, The Pumpkin Eater), Oscar winner (1963), uterine cancer.
 * Dana Elcar, 77, American actor (MacGyver, The Sting, Fail Safe).
 * Maya Kopitseva, 81, Russian painter.
 * Pamela May, 88, British ballet dancer.
 * Oscar Morelli, 59, Mexican actor.
 * Siegfried Palm, 78, German cellist.
 * David Sutherland, 56, American illustrator for the original Dungeons & Dragons books.

7

 * Peter Barry, 67, Australian rules footballer.
 * Margaret Baxtresser, 82, American concert pianist.
 * Ulrich Briefs, 66, German politician
 * Seán Doherty, 60, Irish politician.
 * Terry Long, 45, American professional football player, former NFL offensive lineman.
 * Edward Anthony McCarthy, 87, American Roman Catholic prelate, second Archbishop of Miami.

8

 * Ahmed Ali, Fijian academic and politician.
 * Ed Bishop, 72, American-British actor (UFO, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, Brass Target).
 * Arthur Dunkel, 72, Portuguese-Swiss GATT director-general.
 * Cáit Feiritéar, 88, Irish storyteller.
 * Servílio de Jesus Filho, 65, Brazilian football player, heart attack.
 * Luis Santiago, 27, Filipino film director, murdered.
 * Stan Wilson, 83, American singer and guitarist, heart disease.

9

 * Allan Ashbolt, 83, Australian journalist.
 * Slade Cutter, 93, American naval officer and gridiron football player.
 * Richard Eberhart, 101, American poet.
 * Ryan Alan Hade, 23, American sexual assault victim, whose case paved the way for laws allowing indefinite confinement of sexual predators, motorcycle accident.
 * Walter Hardwick, 73, Canadian academic and community leader.

10

 * Michèle Auclair, 80, French violinist.
 * J. James Exon, 83, American politician, former Democratic United States Senator (1979–1997) and Governor of Nebraska (1971–1979).
 * Lyphard, 36, American racehorse and sire old age.
 * Curtis Pitts, 89, American designer of the Pitts Special and other aircraft.
 * Kenneth N. Taylor, 88, American publisher and author, founder of Tyndale House Publishers and translator of The Living Bible.
 * Sir Paul Wright, 90, British diplomat.

11

 * Francesco Albanese, 92, Italian opera singer.
 * Anne-Marie Alonzo, 53, Canadian writer.
 * Gordon Baxter, 81, American radio personality.
 * José Beyaert, 79, French cyclist.
 * Audrey Brown, 92, British athlete.
 * Robert Clarke, 85, American actor.
 * Ghena Dimitrova, 64, Bulgarian opera singer.
 * Lon McCallister, 82, American actor.
 * Ron Randell, 86, Australian-born actor.
 * Juan José Saer, 67, Argentine novelist.
 * Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves, 84, Portuguese General, Prime Minister (1974–1975).

12

 * Bryan Beaumont, 66, Australian jurist.
 * Sonja Davies, 81, New Zealand trade unionist.
 * Brandy Davis, 77, American baseball player.
 * Eiichi Goto, 74, Japanese computer scientist.
 * Makobo Modjadji, 26, South African rain queen of the Balobedu people of South Africa.
 * David Whitney, 66, American art curator, collector, gallerist and critic, lung and bone cancer
 * Scott Young, 87, Canadian journalist and father of Neil Young.

13

 * Joan Abse, 78, English writer and art historian.
 * Jonathan Adams, 74, British actor (The Rocky Horror Picture Show).
 * Gerard Béhague, 67, French-born American ethnomusicologist.
 * Álvaro Cunhal, 91, Portuguese politician, secretary-general of the Portuguese Communist Party (1961–1992), deputy (1975–1992), writer and painter.
 * Eugénio de Andrade, 82, Portuguese poet.
 * David Diamond, 89, American composer.
 * Christopher Spencer Foote, 70, American chemist.
 * Jesús Moncada, Spanish writer.
 * Lane Smith, 69, American actor (Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, The Mighty Ducks, My Cousin Vinny), complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

14

 * Félix Acosta-Núñez, 81, Dominican Republic sports journalist.
 * Carlo Maria Giulini, 91, Italian conductor.
 * Norman Levine, 81, Canadian writer.
 * Mimi Parent, 80, Canadian surrealist painter.
 * Douglas Thollar, 86, Australian cricketer.
 * Robie Lester, 80, American voice artist, actress and singer.

15

 * Percy Arrowsmith, 105, English one-half of the world's documented longest marriage.
 * Rodrigo Asturias, 65, Guatemalan guerilla leader and politician, heart attack.
 * Hugh Bevan, 72, Australian cricketer.
 * Valeria Moriconi, 73, Italian actress, cancer.
 * Kathi Norris, 86, American television hostess, hosted one of the first TV talk shows on the DuMont Television Network, (The Kathi Norris Show, also known as Your TV Shopper, 1948–1950); mother of actress Koo Stark.

16

 * Corino Andrade, 99, Portuguese neurologist, discovered Familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy (FAP).
 * Gerald Davis, 88, British philatelist.
 * Enrique Laguerre, 99, Puerto Rican writer, poet, and teacher.
 * Geoffrey Parrinder, 95, British theologian and Methodist minister.
 * Ross Stretton, 53, Australian ballet dancer and artistic director of Australian Ballet.
 * James Weinstein, 78, American Jewish author, founder and publisher of In These Times.
 * Alex McAvoy, 77, Scottish actor (Pink Floyd – The Wall, The Vital Spark, Strictly Sinatra).

17

 * David Anderson, 65, Australian cricketer.
 * Billy Bauer, 89, American jazz guitarist.
 * Nanna Ditzel, 81, Danish furniture and interior designer.
 * William N. Fenton, 96, American scholar known for writings on the Iroquois.
 * Susanna Javicoli, 50, Italian actress (La nottata, Suspiria), kidney cancer.
 * Trevor Jones, 85, English cricketer.
 * Andrew Justice, 54, British Olympic rower.
 * Keith Morris, 66, English photographer.
 * Karl Mueller, 41, American founding bassist for the rock band Soul Asylum, throat cancer.
 * Mikhail Stern, 86-87, Soviet endocrinologist and dissident.
 * James A. Whyte, 85, Scottish theologian.
 * Ronald Winans, 48, American Grammy-winning gospel singer.

18

 * Syed Mushtaq Ali, 90, Indian cricketer, Padma Shree Award winner.
 * Tony Diment, 78, English cricketer.
 * Cay Forrester, 83, American writer and film actress (DOA)
 * Chris Griffin, 74, American jazz trumpeter.
 * Basil Kirchin, 77, British musician.
 * Sanjaya Lall, 64, Indian economist.
 * J. J. Pickle, 91, American politician, Democratic U.S. Congressional Representative from Texas (1963–1995).
 * Manuel Sadosky, 91, Argentine mathematician and Secretary of State of Science and Technology (1983–1989).
 * Georgie Woods, 78, American radio broadcaster.

19

 * Frank Alexander, 94, Australian cricketer.
 * Allan Beckett, 91, British engineer.
 * Alfred Deakin Brookes, 85, Australian intelligence officer.
 * Robert Ellis Cahill, 70, American folklorist and author.
 * Dave Carr, 48, English footballer.
 * Totta Näslund, 60, Swedish musician, singer and actor, liver cancer.
 * Ray Parkin, 94, Australian writer.

20

 * Larry Collins, 75, American writer.
 * Charles D. Keeling, 77, American scientist whose pioneering measurements showed a carbon dioxide buildup in the Earth's atmosphere.
 * Jack Kilby, 81, American engineer, inventor of the integrated circuit and physics Nobel prize winner.
 * William López, 26, Salvadoran footballer, shot.
 * Bernard Adolph Schriever, 94, U.S. Air Force general, regarded as the father and architect of the United States Air Force space and ballistic missile programs.

21

 * Peter Bridgwater, 70, American soccer executive.
 * Steven F. Gaughan, 40, American police officer, murdered.
 * George Hawi, 67, Lebanese politician, former secretary general of Communist Party of Lebanon, killed by terrorists in an attack on his car.
 * Geoffrey Jones, 73, British documentary maker, cancer.
 * Ian McColl, 90, Scottish journalist and politician.
 * Jaime Sin, 76, Filipino Roman Catholic cardinal and former archbishop of Manila.
 * Louis H. Wilson, Jr., 85, US Medal of Honor recipient and Commandant of the Marine Corps.

22

 * Sunder Singh Bhandari, 84, Indian politician.
 * David Breeden, 54, American clarinetist.
 * William Donaldson, 70, British satirist and theatrical producer of Beyond The Fringe.
 * Michael Imoudu, 102, Nigerian labour union leader.
 * Roberto Olivo, 91, Venezuelan baseball umpire.
 * Carson Parks, 69, American musician.

23

 * Nikolay Afanasevsky, 64, Russian diplomat.
 * Shana Alexander, 79, American journalist, cancer.
 * Manolis Anagnostakis, 80, Greek poet.
 * Pietro Balestra, 70, Swiss economist.
 * Richard Hart Brown, 64, American neuroscientist.
 * Isidore Cohen, 82, American violinist with the Beaux Arts Trio.
 * Christian Roy Kaldager, 97, Norwegian Air Force officer.
 * Hanna Kvanmo, 79, Norwegian politician.
 * Sam Kweskin, 81, American comic book artist.

24

 * Lyman Bostock, Sr., 87, American baseball player.
 * Peter Casserly, 107, Australian centenarian, last surviving member of the First Australian Imperial Force serving on the Western Front in World War I.
 * Imogen Claire, 61, British actress, played one of the Transylvanians in The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
 * Harry Ott, 71, German diplomat and politician.
 * Eva Philbin, 91, Irish chemist.
 * Carol Scott, 56, American television producer and director, cancer.
 * John Vivian, 4th Baron Swansea, 80, British peer and sports shooter.
 * Paul Winchell, 82, American voice actor (Winnie the Pooh, The Fox and the Hound, The Smurfs) and ventriloquist.

25

 * John Fiedler, 80, American actor (12 Angry Men, Winnie the Pooh, True Grit), cancer.
 * Sir Harry Gibbs, 88, Australian Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia 1981-87.
 * Salim Halali, 84, Algerian singer.
 * Chet Helms, 62, American rock music promoter.
 * Kâzım Koyuncu, 33, Turkish singer-songwriter and activist, died during treatment for testicular cancer in 2005.
 * Bob Vincent, 87, American big band singer and theatrical agent.

26

 * Filip Adwent, 49, Polish politician.
 * William Cornelius, 90, Australian cricketer.
 * Eknath Solkar, 57, Indian cricketer.
 * Joop Stoffelen, 84, Dutch footballer.
 * Grete Sultan, 99, German-American pianist.
 * Richard Whiteley, 61, British television presenter, pneumonia.

27

 * Robert Byrne, 50, American songwriter.
 * Frederick G. Dutton, 82, American lawyer, advisor to President Kennedy.
 * Shelby Foote, 88, American historian.
 * Frank Harte, 72, Irish traditional singer and song collector, heart attack.
 * Domino Harvey, 35, British model-turned-bounty hunter and daughter of actor, Laurence Harvey. Found dead in her bathtub of an overdose of Fentanyl painkillers.
 * Ray Holmes, 90, British fighter pilot, who protected Buckingham Palace during the Battle of Britain, cancer.
 * Owen McCarron, 76, Canadian cartoonist and puzzle creator.
 * Bhakti Tirtha Swami, 55, American spiritual guru.
 * John T. Walton, 58, American war veteran and son of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton.
 * Sir Norman Wooding, 78, British industrialist.

28

 * Bardhyl Ajeti, 28, Serbian journalist, assassinated.
 * Cecil Baugh, 96, Jamaican master potter and artist.
 * Robert D. Clark, 95, American university administrator.
 * Thomas D. Clark, 101, American historian.
 * Victor Craig, 87, Irish cricketer.
 * Dick Dietz, 63, American baseball player (San Francisco Giants, Los Angeles Dodgers and Atlanta Braves), heart attack.
 * Yumika Hayashi, 35, Japanese pornographic film actress, choking.
 * Philip Hobsbaum, 72, British academic, poet and critic, diabetes.
 * Brenda Howard, 58, American LGBT-rights activist, colon cancer.
 * Arthur Maimane, 72, South African journalist and novelist.
 * John Rodney McRae, 70, American murderer.
 * Michael P. Murphy, 29, American naval officer.
 * Rowland B. Wilson, 74, American cartoonist and animator.

29

 * Ruslan Abdulgani, 91, Indonesian politician and diplomat.
 * James Gilbert Baker, 90, American astronomer.
 * Gerard C. Bond, 65, American geologist.
 * W. Burlie Brown, 83, American historian.
 * John Burgess, 71, Scottish bagpiper.
 * Bruce Malmuth, 71, American film director (Nighthawks, Hard to Kill) and actor (The Karate Kid), throat cancer.

30

 * Michael Donnelly, 46, United States Air Force fighter pilot and activist.
 * Clancy Eccles, 64, Jamaican ska and reggae singer, songwriter, record producer and talent scout, complications of a heart attack.
 * Christopher Fry, 97, British playwright.
 * Lilian Keil, 88, American nurse, highly decorated World War II and Korean War flight nurse.
 * Al Milnar, 91, American baseball player.
 * Pres Mull, 82, American football player and coach.
 * Éva Novák-Gerard, 75, Hungarian swimmer.
 * Qigong, 92, Chinese calligrapher, artist, painter, and sinologist.
 * Alexei Sultanov, 35, Russian-American pianist, stroke.
 * Robert Yount, 75, American musician, singer and songwriter in the country music genre.