User:W guice/sandbox/Deaths in 2004

The following is a list of notable deaths in 2004. Names are listed under the date of death, not the date it was announced. Names under each date are listed in alphabetical order by family name.

A typical entry appears in the following sequence:
 * Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference.

December 2004
See Deaths in December 2004 (sandbox - now complete)

November 2004
See Deaths in November 2004 (sandbox - now complete)

October 2004
See Deaths in October 2004 (sandbox)

September 2004

 * 30 Eugenio Pio Seghesio, 85, pioneering California vintner, (Seghesio Wineries)
 * 30 Jacques Levy, 69, director of original production of Oh! Calcutta!
 * 30 Jan Wind, 47, police officer from Enschede, shot dead while chasing a suspected drug dealer (it is a rare occurrence in the Netherlands that police officers are killed on duty)
 * 30 Ignatius Wolfington, 84, American character actor
 * 30 Willem Oltmans, 79, Dutch maverick journalist, cancer
 * 30 Justin Strzelczyk, 36, former NFL Pittsburgh Steelers player, car crash while leading police on chase
 * 30 Hans Bakker, 26, free software hacker, died in car crash near Paris
 * 30 Gamini Fonseka, 68, Sri Lankan actor and politician
 * 29 Richard L. Berger, 64, helped create Touchstone Pictures label as part of Walt Disney Pictures, lung cancer
 * 29 Ernst van der Beugel, 86, former Dutch junior Foreign Minister and former CEO of KLM
 * 29 Christer Pettersson, 57, suspected murderer of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme
 * 29 Richard Sainct, 34, French rally motorcyclist, accident
 * 29 Gertrude Dunn, 72, American women's baseball and field hockey player, plane crash
 * 29 Shimon Wincelberg (also known as S. Bar David), 80, television writer
 * 28 Christl Cranz-Borchers, 90, German alpine skier, Olympic champion and twelvefold World champion
 * 28 Geoffrey Beene, 77, fashion designer, pneumonia
 * 28 Mulk Raj Anand, 98, Indian author in English
 * 28 Scott Muni, 74, longtime New York City radio disc jockey
 * 28 Edmund Ralph Haggar Sr., 88, brought Haggar brand to national prominence
 * 27 Tsai Wan-lin, 81, Taiwan's wealthiest businessman and founder of the Lin Yuan Group
 * 27 Pieter Jan Leeuwerink, 41, Dutch volleyball player with 187 caps
 * 26 Tim Pauwels, 22, Belgian cyclo-crosser, aortic aneurysm during race
 * 26 Amjad Hussain Farooqi, 32, Pakistani terrorist, supposed member of Al-Qaida
 * 26 Dean Kutz, 48, jockey
 * 26 Izz El-Deen Sheikh Khalil, Hamas leader assassinated by car bomb
 * 25 Dr. Katherine E. Keough, 61, president of St. John Fisher College
 * 25 Alain Glavieux, 55, mathematician, Information technology pioneer
 * 25 Marvin Davis, 79, philanthropist; ex-owner of Twentieth Century Fox and Pebble Beach
 * 25 Ivan Caceres, 21, football player, haemoptysis
 * 24 Tim Choate, 49, actor (Babylon 5), motorcycle accident
 * 24 Françoise Sagan, 69, French novelist
 * 23 Margaret Sloan-Hunter, 57, former editor of Ms. Magazine, feminist and civil rights advocate
 * 23 André Hazes, 53, Dutch singer
 * 23 Billy Reay, 86, former NHL player and coach for the Chicago Black Hawks
 * 23 Raja Ramanna, 79, nuclear scientist and father of India's nuclear program
 * 23 Bill Ballance, 85, radio personality; forerunner of shock jocks Tom Leykis and Howard Stern
 * 22 Ray Traylor, 42, American professional wrestler known as The Big Boss Man
 * 22 Dirk van der Horst, 57, guitarist with popular Dutch band BZN
 * 21 Samantha Chevalier, 14, student at Columbia High School, died of drug overdose
 * 21 Jack Hensley, 48, American civilian contractor, beheaded by Muslim terrorists in Iraq.
 * 21 Nordin ben Salah, 32, boxer, murdered
 * 21 Larry Phillips, 62, stock car racer
 * 20 Eugene Armstrong, 52, American civilian contractor, beheaded by Muslim terrorists in Iraq
 * 20 Brian Clough OBE, 69, English footballer and cup-winning coach and manager
 * 20 Kalmer Tennosaar, 75, Estonian singer
 * 19 Line Østvold, 25, Norwegian snowboarder
 * 19 Eddie Adams, 71, photojournalist
 * 19 Skeeter Davis, 73, country music singer
 * 19 Ellis Marsalis, Sr., 96, patriarch of family of jazz musicians
 * 19 Ryhor Reles, 91, the last writer from Belarus who wrote in Yiddish
 * 19 Imelda Higuera, 65?, Mexican singer, Las Jilguerillas duo, respiratory failure
 * 18 Norman Cantor, 74, medieval scholar
 * 18 Russ Meyer, 82, filmmaker
 * 18 Marvin Mitchelson, 76, divorce lawyer to the stars, cancer
 * 18 Klara Rumyanova, 74, Russian actress
 * 17 Katharina Dalton, 87, pioneered research on premenstrual stress syndrome
 * 16 Dolly Rathebe, South African musician
 * 16 Izora Rhodes Armstead, American singer, one of the two The Weather Girls
 * 16 Virginia Hamilton Adair, 91, American poet
 * 16 Sergio Sanchez, Mexican actor
 * 15 Donald Yetter Gardner, 91, songwriter, All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth
 * 15 Daouda Malam Wanke, 50?, leader of the 1999 transitional government in Niger
 * 15 Johnny Ramone, 55, guitarist and founding member of The Ramones, prostate cancer
 * 14 Giovanni Biacci, 93, Italian musician
 * 14 Sir William Melville Peek, 84, 5th Baronet of Lodiswell
 * 14 Ove Sprogøe, 84, Danish actor
 * 14 Reynaldo G. Garza, 89, first Hispanic American appointed as Federal Appeals Court judge
 * 13 Glenn Presnell, 99, early NFL player with the Detroit Lions
 * 12 Max Abramovitz, 96, architect
 * 12 Ahmed Dini Ahmed, 72, Djibouti politician, vice-president of the government council (1959–60) and prime minister (1977–78)
 * 12 John Buller, 77, British composer
 * 12 Jerome Chodorov, 93, playwright, My Sister Eileen
 * 11 Juraj Beneš, 64, Slovak composer
 * 11 Fred Ebb, 71, Broadway lyricist (Cabaret, Chicago), heart attack
 * 11 Peter VII, 55, Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria, helicopter crash
 * 10 Anthony Luigi Mancini, 71, British boxing manager and cutman
 * 10 Brock Adams, 77, U.S. politician
 * 10 Glyn Owen, 76, British actor
 * 10 O.L. Duke, 51, actor, automobile crash
 * 10 Joan Doreen Pickles, 80, early recipient of an artificial heart valve and wife of noted inventor Harry Pickles, artificial heart valve failure.
 * 9 Joan Snyder, 69, writer and producer for CBS News
 * 9 Ernie Ball, 74, guitar equipment maker
 * 9 Ralph G. Allen, 70, wrote the book for Broadway show Sugar Babies
 * 8 Ian Cochrane, 62, British novelist
 * 8 Frank Thomas, 91, Disney animator
 * 8 Raymond Marcellin, 90, former Interior minister of France
 * 8? Richard Girnt Butler, 86, founder of the Aryan Nations
 * 8 James Westphal, California Institute of Technology scientist
 * 8 Matías Prats Cañete, Spanish journalist
 * 7 Hervey Feldman, 67, founder of the Embassy Suites hotel chain
 * 7 Samira Bellil, 31, campaigner for Muslim girls' and women's rights, cancer
 * 7 Munir, 39, prominent Indonesian human rights activist, arsenic
 * 7 Gerard Piel, 89, publisher of Scientific American, complications from a stroke
 * 7 Kirk Fordice, 70, Mississippi's first Republican Governor since 1874, leukemia
 * 7 Christiaan Frederick Beyers Naudé, 89, Afrikaner-South African priest, theologian and anti-apartheid activist
 * 7 Jonathan Scharer, 56, Producer, Forbidden Broadway
 * 6 Miriam Pires, 77, Brazilian actress, star of many popular telenovelas
 * 6 Elly Annie Schneider, 90, one of the Munchkins in The Wizard of Oz
 * 6 Harvey Wheeler, 85, political scientist and author (Fail-Safe)
 * 5 Fritha Goodey, 31, actress (About a Boy), apparent suicide
 * 5 Gerald Merrithew, 73, New Brunswick, Canada politician and former federal cabinet minister, cancer
 * 5 John "Red" Cochran, 82, former NFL player, scout and assistant coach for the Green Bay Packers
 * 5 Alessio Perilli, 20, Italian motoracer, killed during a race
 * 5 Caroline Pratt, 42, British eventer, killed during a race
 * 5 Jesus Viera, 73, better known as "Cucho Viera", Puerto Rican television actor and comedian
 * 5 Steve Wayne, 84, American actor
 * 4 Michael Louden, 40, actor, autoerotic asphyxiation
 * 4 Bob Boyd, 84?, former MLB; first black player to sign with the White Sox, and first Oriole to bat over .300 in the 20th century
 * 4 James O. Page, 68, North Carolina's former chief of EMS and founder of modern emergency medical response, heart attack
 * 4 Moe Norman, 75, PGA and Canadian Tour golfer, congestive heart failure
 * 4 Alphonso Ford, 33, American-born Euroleague player, leukemia
 * 3 Steven Blackford, 28, former University of Arizona wrestler, car accident
 * 3 Jessie V. Stone, 100, Philanthropist and widow of W. Clement Stone
 * 3 Bram Vermeulen, 57, singer, songwriter and cabaret artist, heart attack
 * 2 Billy Davis, 72, commercial jingle writer (I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke)
 * 2 Paul Shmyr, 58, former NHL and WHA defenseman, throat cancer
 * 2 Donald Leslie, 93, creator of the Leslie speaker
 * 2 Bob O. Evans, 77, IBM computer scientist
 * 2 Joan Oró i Florensa, 80, biochemist
 * 1 Ahmed Kuftaro, 89, the Grand Mufti of Syria
 * 1 Kenneth Alexander Keith, Baron Keith of Castleacre, 88, life peer and former chairman of Rolls-Royce, Hill Samuel, Beecham Group, and STC
 * 1 Herbert H. Haft, 84, owner of Dart Drugs Chain, congestive heart failure
 * 1 Johnny Bragg, 79, leader of The Prisonaires, one of earliest music groups to record for Sam Phillips and Sun Records
 * 1 Sir Alastair Morton, 66, former chief executive of Eurotunnel and chairman of the Strategic Rail Authority

August 2004

 * 31 Joe Barry, 65, Swamp Pop singer of "I'm a Fool to Care"
 * 31 Carl Wayne, 61, lead singer of pop group The Move, cancer
 * 30 Willie Duff, 69, goalkeeper of Heart of Midlothian, Charlton Athletic, Peterborough United and Dunfermline Athletic
 * 30 Fred Whipple, 97, American astronomer
 * 30 Fay Jones, 83, architect trained by Frank Lloyd Wright
 * 30 Larry Desmedt, 55, motorcycle designer, injuries suffered during a stunt
 * 28 Robert Lewin, 84, Producer and Screenwriter, Academy Award nomination for writing The Bold and the Brave, lung cancer
 * 28 Lina Zimmer, 111, oldest German
 * 27 Ko Yong-hui, 51, former consort to North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, cancer (rumoured)
 * 27 William Pierson, 78, actor Stalag 17
 * 27 Fernand Auberjonois, 93, foreign news correspondent for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Toledo Blade; father of actor René Auberjonois
 * 27 Suzanne Kaaren, 92, actress (Three Stooges films)
 * 27 Willie Crawford, 57, former outfielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers
 * 26 Friedrich Brünner, German politician
 * 26 José Carlos, 53, Portuguese fashion designer
 * 26 Laura Branigan, 47, American pop singer
 * 26 Enzo G. Baldoni, 56, Italian journalist, murdered in Iraq
 * 26 David Myers, 90, Cinematographer (Woodstock, Elvis on Tour)
 * 25 Robert Denoon Cumming, 87, professor emeritus of philosophy at Columbia University and author
 * 25 Marcelo Cardinal Gonzalez Martin, 86, former Roman Catholic primate of Spain, Cardinal since 1973 and Archbishop of Toledo from 1971 to 1995 (Papal condolence message)
 * 25 Don Ashton, 85, British film art director and production designer
 * 24 Richard Ervin, 99, former attorney general and chief justice of Florida
 * 24 Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, 78, Swiss-born psychiatrist
 * 24 Timothy B. Harbert, 53, chairman and chief executive of State Street Global Advisors, heart attack
 * 24 Eleni Ioannou, 20, Greek judoka
 * 24 Bill Pilkington, 87, British actor
 * 23 Francesco Minerva, 100, centenarian Italian Roman Catholic archbishop
 * 23 Hank Borowy, 88, former Yankees, Cubs, Phillies, Pirates and Tigers pitcher
 * 23 Mary Guiney, 103, chairperson of the Clerys Department Store
 * 22 Muriel Angelus, 95, British silent film actress
 * 22 Konstantin Aseev, 43, chess Grandmaster and coach
 * 22 Al Dvorin, 81, announcer who popularized the phrase "Elvis has left the building", automobile accident
 * 22 Marcel Caux, 105, Australian First World War veteran, last known survivor of the Battle of Pozières
 * 22 George Kirgo, 78, television and film writer, former president of the Writers Guild of America
 * 22 Daniel Petrie, Sr., 83, film director, A Raisin in the Sun
 * 22 Ota Sik, 84, architect of economic liberalization during Czechoslovakia's ill-fated 1968 Prague Spring
 * 21 Paul G. Garrity, 66, Judge who helped save Boston Harbor
 * 21 José Luis Barry, 80, Titi Chagua show's pianist, singer and El Vocero columnist
 * 20 María Antonieta Pons, 82, Cuban-born star of rumbera films
 * 20 Moshe Shamir, 83, Israeli politician and novelist
 * 19 Rudolf Miele, 74, German entrepreneur
 * 19 Günter Rexrodt, 62, German politician, former Economics Minister of Germany
 * 18 Hiram Fong, 97, first Asian American elected to the U.S. Senate
 * 18 Elmer Bernstein, 82, composer of classic film music such as The Magnificent Seven
 * 18 Víctor Cervera Pacheco, 68, Mexican politician, former Governor of Yucatán
 * 18 Charlie Waller, 69, American bluegrass musician, founder of the band Country Gentlemen
 * 18 Allan Laur, Estonian bishop
 * 17 Dennis "D-Roc" Miles, 45, rhythm guitarist for Body Count, from lymphoma complications
 * 17 Anatoly Guzhvin, 58, head of the administration of Astrakhan Oblast
 * 17 Gérard Souzay, 85, French baritone
 * 17 Thea Astley, 78, Australian novelist
 * 17 Frank Cotroni, 72, Montreal mob boss
 * 16 J. Irwin Miller, 95, American industrialist and architectural philanthropist
 * 16 Ivan Hlinka, 54, Czech Republic national hockey team and Pittsburgh Penguins coach
 * 16 Acquanetta, 83, "Venezuelan" USA-born B-movie actress
 * 16 Carl Mydans, 91, photographer
 * 16 Robert Quiroga, 35, world champion boxer, murdered
 * 15 Semiha Berksoy, 94, Turkish opera singer
 * 15 Sune K. Bergström, 88, Nobel Prize in Medicine
 * 15 Neal Fredericks, 35, cinematographer for the movie The Blair Witch Project, drowned in helicopter crash while filming
 * 14 William D. Ford, 77, member of the United States House of Representatives from Michigan from 1965 to 1995
 * 14 Dhananjoy Chatterjee, 42, rapist and murderer; the first person executed in India since 1995
 * 14 Czesław Miłosz, 93, Polish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980
 * 13 Julia Child, 91, author and television hostess on French cuisine
 * 13 Milton Pollack, 97, U.S. federal judge who ruled on court cases involving Wall Street
 * 13 Peipei, 33, worlds oldest Panda
 * 12 Sir Godfrey N. Hounsfield, 84, Nobel Prize in Medicine, coinventor of the CAT scan
 * 12 Peter Woodthorpe, 72, British character actor
 * 12 George Yardley, 75, NBA Hall of Famer
 * 11 Bill Martin, Jr., 88, author of Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
 * 11 Joe Falls, 76, longtime sports writer for The Detroit News
 * 10 James Stillman Rockefeller, 102, oldest known U.S. Olympic medal winner
 * 10 Alan N. Cohen, 73, former owner of the Boston Celtics
 * 9 Michael Grant, 89, classical scholar and author
 * 9 Tony Mottola, 86, guitarist who played with Frank Sinatra and on the Tonight Show orchestra
 * 9 David Raksin, 92, film composer
 * 8 Fay Wray, 96, King Kong actress
 * 8 Dimitris Papamichael, 70, Greek actor
 * 8 Robert "Gypsy Boots" Bootzin, 89, health and fitness pioneer
 * 8 Leon Golub, 82, internationally recognized artist and painter
 * 8 Paul "Mousie" Garner, 95, comedian, Three Stooges associate
 * 8 Richard Taylor, 23, skating and skiing champion, collided with a concrete lamp-post
 * 7 Paul "Red" Adair, 89, American oil well fire-fighter
 * 7 Colin Bibby, 55, English ornithologist
 * 7 Bernard Levin, 75, journalist and broadcaster
 * 6 Rick James, 56, funk singer
 * 4 Joseph Papaleo, Italian-American novelist and professor
 * 4 Michele Russo, 95, American painter and artist
 * 4 Hunter Hancock, 88, Legendary R&B and Rock Disc Jockey
 * 3 Bob Murphy, 79, Major League Baseball/New York Mets announcer
 * 3 Arturo Tolentino, 94, Philippine lawyer and politician
 * 3 Margo McLennan, 66, British actress, Prisoner, cancer
 * 3 Henri Cartier-Bresson, 95, French photographer
 * 1 Philip Hauge Abelson, 91, physicist, co-discoverer of Neptunium
 * 1 Sidney Morgenbesser, 82, philosopher
 * 1 Patrick Okpomo, 60, former Secretary General of the Nigerian Football Association

July 2004

 * 31 Absamat M. Masaliyev, 71, former leader of Kyrgyzstan
 * 31 Laura Betti, 70, Italian actress
 * 31 Elder David B. Haight, 97, oldest member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
 * 31 Virginia Grey, 87, American actress. Little Eva in the first film adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin
 * 31 Líber Seregni, 87, Uruguayan general and politician, founder of the Frente Amplio, pancreatic cancer.
 * 30 Andre Noble, 25, Canadian actor
 * 30 Ali Abbasi, 42, BBC Scotland travel presenter
 * 29 Nafisa Joseph, 25, model, MTV VJ, Miss India 1997; suicide
 * 29 Susan Buffett, 71, estranged wife of billionaire/investment guru Warren Buffett
 * 29 Rena Vlahopoulou, 81, Greek comedienne
 * 28 Tiziano Terzani, 73, Italian journalist, famous for his books on Asia
 * 28 Sam Edwards, 89, American actor, Little House on the Prairie, heart failure
 * 28 Francis Crick, 88, British biologist, one of the discoverers of the "double-helix" shape of DNA, cancer
 * 28 Jackson Beck, 92, announcer and voice actor
 * 28 Eugene Roche, 75, American character actor and the "Ajax" Man
 * 28 Steve Patterson, 56, former center of the UCLA basketball team, coach at Arizona State University and founder of the Grand Canyon State Games
 * 27 Carmine G. DeSapio, 95, last boss of Tammany Hall
 * 27 Musab al-Awadi, Iraqi politician, assassinated
 * 27 Bob Tisdall, 97, won the gold medal in hurdles at the 1932 Summer Olympics
 * 26 William A. Mitchell, 92, food scientist, inventor of Pop Rocks candy and Tang drink mix
 * 26 Rubén Gómez, 77, Puerto Rico, former MLB pitcher who played for the Giants, Phillies, Indians and Twins
 * 26 Oguz Aral, 68, Turkish caricaturist; creator of Avanak Avni, Kostebek Husnu, and Utanmaz Adam
 * 26 Sidney Francis Greene, Lord Greene of Harrow Weald, 94, British railroad worker, trade union leader, and life peer
 * 25 Francisco Romão, 61, Angolan deputy foreign minister, suicide
 * 24 Edward D. Thalmann, 59, retired Navy Captain and doctor whose research developed military and recreational dive tables, congestive heart failure
 * 24 Fred LaRue, 75, part of Watergate scandal
 * 24 Lowell "Cotton" Fitzsimmons, 72, NBA basketball coach
 * 23 Wilton Mkwayi, 81, South African political activist during Apartheid, cancer
 * 23 Joe Cahill, 84, Irish politician
 * 23 Mehmood, 72, Indian actor
 * 23 Janet Chisholm, 75, former British MI6 agent
 * 23 Bodo H. Hauser, 58, German journalist, director of Phoenix TV network
 * 23 Carlos Paredes, 79, Portuguese guitar player
 * 23 Serge Reggiani, 82, French singer and actor
 * 22 Nicolas Rodil del Valle, 88, Honorary President of the FIM
 * 22 Illinois Jacquet, 81, U.S. jazz saxophonist
 * 22 Sacha Distel, 71, French singer
 * 21 Edward B. Lewis, 85, US-biologist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1995)
 * 21 Elder Neal A. Maxwell, 78, member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
 * 21 Baroness Shirley Kaufman Zlatarinskas Golden 83, First female to join the U.S. coast Guard in Ill 1941. Married 8th Baron of Pa Vitchio Ezuros, Lithuania.
 * 21 Jerry Goldsmith, 75, movie and television composer
 * 20 Adi Lady Lala Mara, 73, Fijian chieftainess and former First Lady; widow of Prime Minister and President Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara
 * 20 Antonio Gades, 67, Spanish Flamenco dancer, cancer
 * 19 Carvalho Leite, 92, Brazilian footballer, one of the last survivor of national team in 1930 FIFA World Cup
 * 19 Zenko Suzuki, 93, former Prime Minister of Japan
 * 19 Lori Hacking, 27, wife of Mark Hacking
 * 18 Paul Foot, 66, British journalist and campaigner
 * 18 Émile Peynaud, 92, French wine expert
 * 18 John Kraus, 94, inventor of the "Big Ear" telescope
 * 17 Sir Julian Hodge, 99, British entrepreneur, founder of the Carlyle Trust bank
 * 17 Pat Roach, 67, wrestler and actor; cancer
 * 17 Susan Cullen-Ward, 63, wife of the pretender to Albania's throne, Leka Zogu; cancer
 * 16 George Busbee, 76, former governor of the State of Georgia
 * 16 Bella Lewitzky, 88, modern dance pioneer and choreographer
 * 16 Charles C. Welch, 83, American actor
 * 15 Charles Sweeney, 84, pilot of Bockscar, the B-29 that dropped the Nagasaki atomic bomb.
 * 15 Yoko Watanabe, 51, Japanese operatic soprano.
 * 15 Mary Eleanor Thurmond Tompkins, 95, last surviving sibling of Senator Strom Thurmond
 * 14 Usama Kashmula, ~60, Iraqi governor of Mosul, killed in a grenade attack.
 * 14 Hans A. Pestalozzi, 75, Swiss social critic
 * 13 Joe Gold, 82, bodybuilding pioneer and Gold's Gym founder
 * 13 Arthur Kane, 53, American bassist for the New York Dolls, leukemia
 * 13 Carlos Kleiber, 74, Austrian conductor
 * 12 Ersel Hickey, 70, rockabilly singer
 * 12 George Mallaby, 64, Australian actor
 * 12 Irvin "Shorty" Yeaworth, 78, American film director "The Blob"
 * 11 Walter Wager, 79, American author
 * 11 Betty Oliphant, 85, founder of Canada's National Ballet School
 * 11 Frances Hyland, 77, Canadian theatre actress
 * 11 Laurance Rockefeller, 94, conservationist and philanthropist
 * 11 Renée St-Cyr, 99, French actress and comedienne
 * 11 Dorothy Hart, 82, American actress
 * 10 Sir Terry McLean, New Zealand rugby union journalist
 * 10 Rudy LaRusso, 66, five-time NBA All-Star
 * 10 Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo, 74, former Prime Minister of Portugal
 * 10 Inge Meysel, 94, German actress
 * 9 Jeillo Edwards, ~62, Sierra Leonean actress, first black actor to appear on "The Bill"
 * 9 Isabel Sanford, 86, actress, The Jeffersons, natural causes
 * 9 Paul Klebnikov, 41, editor of Forbes magazine's Russian edition, murdered
 * 9 Ron Milner, 66, African-American playwright
 * 9 Jeff Smith, 65, chef and host of The Frugal Gourmet
 * 9 Gilberto Reyes Santos, 36, infamous Puerto Rican mafioso, murdered
 * 8 Jaroslav Hules, 30, Czech motorcycle racer, suicide
 * 8 Paula Danziger, 59, U.S. author
 * 8 Mike Woodin, 38, Principal Speaker of Green Party of England and Wales and Oxford City Councillor
 * 8 Henrique Mendes, 73, Portuguese TV personality. He presented Ponto de Encontro
 * 8 Jean Lefebvre, 84, French actor
 * 7 Xiaokai Yang, 55, Australian economist
 * 6 Eric Douglas, 46, youngest son of actor Kirk Douglas
 * 6 Thomas Klestil, 71, Federal President of Austria, heart failure
 * 6 Syreeta Wright, 58, singer, songwriter, ex-wife of Stevie Wonder
 * 5 Robert Burchfield, 81, OED lexicographer
 * 5 Hugh Shearer, 81, former Prime Minister of Jamaica
 * 5 Rodger Ward, 83, two-time Indianapolis 500 champion
 * 4 Andrian Nikolayev, 74, Russian cosmonaut
 * 4 Jean-Marie Auberson, 84, Swiss orchestra conductor
 * 3 John Barron, 83, actor
 * 3 Jimmy Mack, 70, Scots radio personality
 * 2 Sir John William Kay, Lord Justice of Court of Appeal of England and Wales
 * 2 John Cullen Murphy, 85, comic strip artist (Prince Valiant)
 * 2 Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, 84, Portuguese writer and poet
 * 2 Gareth Payne, 68, former Welsh rugby union international
 * 2 Henry Hank, 69, top ranked Light-Heavyweight boxer of the 1960s
 * 1 Enrique Mederos, Latin American voice actor
 * 1 Peter Barnes, 73, British screenwriter and playwright, stroke
 * 1 Marlon Brando, 80, American actor
 * 1 Sir Richard May, 65, former presiding judge, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia

June 2004

 * 29 Arik Lavie, 77, Israeli singer and actor
 * 29 Juan Antonio Lopez, 52, Mexican boxer, fought Wilfredo Gómez, leukemia
 * 28 Keith "Matt" Maupin, 20, U.S. Army Private First Class, killed by Islamist militants in Iraq
 * 28 Anthony Buckeridge, 92, English author, creator of the Jennings books
 * 27 George Patton IV, 80, US Army general and son of George Patton
 * 27 Darrell Russell, 35, NHRA drag racer, first racer killed at an NHRA event since 1996
 * 27 Kamos Kris, Thai boxing matchmaker who worked closely with the WBA, car accident
 * 26 Naomi Shemer, 74, Israeli songwriter
 * 26 Yash Johar, 75, Indian Bollywood film producer
 * 26 Ott Arder, 54, Estonian poet
 * 25 Karol Kennedy Kucher, 72, former United States ice skating champion, pneumonia
 * 24 Stanley Gortikov, 85, former head of the RIAA,
 * 24 Julian Davies, British civilian worker, murdered in Iraq
 * 24 Ifigeneia Giannopoulou, 40, Greek songwriter, author
 * 24 Carl Rakosi, 100, American poet
 * 22 Thomas Gold, 84, American astrophysicist
 * 22 Bob Bemer, 84, American computer scientist, cancer
 * 22 Francisco Ortiz Franco, ~50, Mexican journalist, murdered
 * 22 Abukar Kostoyev, 55, Ingushetia's acting Interior Minister, slain in attack by Chechen rebels.
 * 22 Mattie Stepanek, 13, American poet and advocate, muscular dystrophy
 * 22 Kim Sun-il, 33, South Korean translator, decapitated by Iraqi militants
 * 21 Leonel Brizola, 82, Brazilian politician, heart failure,
 * 20 Nabil Sahraoui, Algerian militant, head of GSPC and linked to al-Qaeda
 * 20 Jim Bacon, 54, Australian politician and Premier of Tasmania
 * 19 Nob Yoshigahara, 68, mathematician and puzzle expert
 * 19 Abdul Aziz al-Muqrin, Saudi Arabian al-Qaeda militant, killed by Saudi forces
 * 18 Frederick Jaeger, 76, German born British character actor
 * 18 Paul Johnson, ~49, American hostage, decapitated by al-Qaeda
 * 18 Nek Mohammed, ~27, Pakistani tribal leader in Waziristan and key Taliban ally, killed by Pakistani military forces.
 * 17 Sir Stuart Hampshire, 89, philosopher
 * 17 Gerry McNeil, 78, Stanley Cup-winning NHL goaltender
 * 17 Jacek Kuroń, 70, Polish dissident and statesman
 * 16 Dr. Herman Goldstine, 90, computing pioneer who helped develop ENIAC, Parkinson's disease
 * 16 George Hausmann, 88, MLB player suspended for jumping to the Mexican League (1946)
 * 16 Thanom Kittikachorn, 91, former Thai prime minister
 * 16 Jose "Pepe" Lacap, 63, former Philippines Vice-Mayor or Pampanga, lung cancer
 * 15 Andy Funnell, 21, British surfer, drowned while jet-skiing
 * 15 Ahmet Piristina, 52, Turkish politician, mayor of İzmir, heart attack
 * 15 Frank Nastasi, 81, actor and comedian (Lunch with Soupy)
 * 14 Robert Teeter, 65, Republican pollster
 * 14 Jack McClelland, 81, Canadian book publisher
 * 14 Ulrich Inderbinen, 103, mountain guide
 * 14 Max Rosenberg, 89, producer of horror movies
 * 13 Dick Durrance, 89, 17-time American national champion in skiing
 * 13 Ralph Wiley, 52, sports journalist
 * 13 Danny Dark, 65, announcer
 * 12 Bassam Salih Kubba, 60, Iraqi Deputy Foreign Minister
 * 12 Caitlin Sweeney, 17, Hoover High School student, Ewing's Sarcoma
 * 11 Egon von Furstenberg, 57, fashion designer; nephew of late Fiat head Gianni Agnelli
 * 11 Micah Harris, 21, Duke University defensive lineman, car accident
 * 11 Xenophon Zolotas, 100, former Prime Minister of Greece
 * 10 Ray Charles, 73, rhythm and blues singer and soul pioneer
 * 10 Brian Williamson, 59, Jamaican gay rights activist and founder of J-Flag, murdered
 * 10 Kiki Djan, 47, Ghanaian musician, AIDS and drug-related complications
 * 9 Rosey Brown, 71, Pro Football Hall of Famer
 * 9 Barbara Whiting Smith, 73, actress
 * 8 Mack Jones, 65, former MLB outfielder with the Braves, Reds and Expos
 * 8 Karl Toosbuy, 76, Danish founder of international shoe company ECCO
 * 8 Ronalda Pierce, 19, Florida State University basketball player, aneurysm
 * 8 McCollins Umeh, 18, University of Arizona football recruit, heat stroke
 * 7 Thomas "Quorthon" Forsberg, 38, black metal pioneer and main member of Bathory (band), heart failure.
 * 7 Donald Trumbull, 95, special effects pioneer
 * 6 Judy Campbell, 88, actress
 * 6 Robert Lees, 91, screenwriter, found decapitated
 * 6 Kate Worley, 46, comic book writer (Omaha the Cat Dancer)
 * 6 Necdet Mahfi Ayral, 96, Turkish actor
 * 6 Iona Brown, 63, violinist and conductor
 * 6 Simon Cumbers, 36, Irish freelance cameraman/journalist, working for the BBC in Saudi Arabia, killed by Al Qaeda
 * 5 Ronald Reagan, 93, film actor and 40th President of the United States (1981-1989)
 * 4 Wilmer Fields, 81, former Negro League Baseball All-Star
 * 4 Steve Lacy, 69, innovative jazz soprano saxophonist
 * 4 Brian Linehan, 58, Canadian television host and interviewer (canada.com) (Toronto Star) (The Globe and Mail)
 * 4 Nino Manfredi, 83, Italian actor
 * 3 Frances Shand Kydd, 68, mother of Diana, Princess of Wales
 * 2 Dom Moraes, 65, Indian poet and writer
 * 2 Tesfaye Gebre Kidan, ~69, former defense minister and acting president of Ethiopia
 * 2 Nicolai Ghiaurov, 71, opera singer
 * 2 Hélène de Beir, 29, Belgian national, Project Coordinator for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), murdered in the Badghis province of Afghanistan in ambush set by corrupt police chief Yakub Khan
 * 2 Pim Kwint, Dutch national, Logistician for MSF, murdered as above.
 * 2 Egil Tynaes, 62, Norwegian national, Medical Doctor for MSF, murdered as above.
 * 2 Fasil Ahmad, 39, Afghan national, Translator, murdered as above.
 * 2 Besmillah, Afghan national, Driver, murdered as above.
 * 1 Satomi Mitarai, 12, Japanese schoolgirl, murdered by a classmate
 * 1 William Manchester, 82, U.S. historian

May 2004

 * 31 Robert Quine, 61, New York punk rock guitarist
 * 31 Alberta Martin, 97, last known widow of a Confederate soldier
 * 29 Archibald Cox, 92, Watergate special prosecutor
 * 29 Sam Dash, 79, chief counsel to the House Judiciary Committee during the Watergate scandal
 * 29 Jack Rosenthal, 72, British television dramatist
 * 29 Magne Havnå, 40, Norwegian former professional boxer, in boating accident
 * 29 Ramona Trinidad Iglesias-Jordan, 114, oldest documented person in the world
 * 28 Gerald Anthony, 52, actor, best known for playing Marco Dane on the TV show One Life to Live
 * 28 Irene Manning, 91, actress and singer (Yankee Doodle Dandy)
 * 28 Josie Carey, 73, host of the Pittsburgh children's show "Children's Corner"
 * 28 Michael Alison,77,British Privy Council member and former minister and MP
 * 27 Umberto Agnelli, 69, Italian industrialist, head of Fiat
 * 27 Jim Marshall, 63, British Labour MP
 * 27 Jack Losch, 69, member of 1st Little League World Series championship team
 * 26 Gatjil Djerrkura, 54, Australian indigenous leader, Chairman of ATSIC 1996-2000
 * 25 Roger W. Straus, Jr., 87, publisher (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
 * 25 David Dellinger, 88, American antiwar activist, member of Chicago Eight
 * 25 Glenn Cunningham, 60, mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey
 * 24 Henry Ries, 87, American photographer
 * 23 Trudy Marshall, 84, actress
 * 22 Richard Biggs, 44, American actor, Babylon 5
 * 22 Mikhail Voronin, 59, Russian gymnast, double Olympic champion
 * 22 Dessi España, 32, circus performer, died from fall while performing without a net
 * 22 Samuel Curtis Johnson, 76, fourth generation president of SC Johnson company
 * 21 Rod Hall, 53, literary agent, murdered
 * 21 Michael Swindells, 44, police detective, murdered in the course of his duties
 * 21 Gene Wood, 78, announcer of Family Feud and other US game shows
 * 20 Len Murray, Lord Murray of Epping Forest, 81, British trade union leader
 * 19 Jack Eckerd, 91, former owner of the Eckerd drugstore chain
 * 19 Mary Dresselhuys, 97, Dutch actress
 * 19 Arnold Moore, 90, blues artist
 * 19 E.K. Nayanar, 87, three-time Chief Minister of Kerala, India
 * 18 Elvin Jones, 76, Jazz drummer, notably with the John Coltrane Quartet of the 1960s
 * 18 Jørgen Nash, 84, Danish poet, performance artist, brother of Asger Jorn
 * 18 Hyacinthe Thiandoum, 83, Roman Catholic Cardinal, former Archbishop of Dakar, Senegal
 * 18 Arnold O. Beckman, 104, inventor, industrialist, philanthropist
 * 18 Joey Curtis, 79, former professional boxer, boxing referee and business owner
 * 17 Buster Narum, 63, former MLB pitcher for the Orioles and Senators
 * 17 Tony Randall, 84, television actor (The Odd Couple)
 * 17 June Taylor, 86, television dancer and choreographer
 * 17 Ezzedine Salim, 60?, president of the Iraqi Governing Council
 * 17 Dave Hamilton, 33, professional boxer, and his 4 year old son, in car accident
 * 17 (or May 18) Gunnar Graps, 57, Estonian rock singer and percussionist
 * 16 Marika Rökk, 90, actress
 * 16 Lord Hill-Norton, 89, British Royal Navy Admiral of the Fleet
 * 15 Carlos Orta, 60, Venezuelan artist, and principal dancer and choreographer of the Jose Limon Dance Company - -
 * 15 Jack Bradbury, 89, animator and comic book artist
 * 15 William H. Hinton, 85, Marxist, author of Fanshen
 * 15 Gill Fox, 84, political cartoonist, comic book artist, and animator
 * 15 Colonel Robert Morgan, 85, former pilot of the Memphis Belle
 * 14 Anna Lee, 91, actress, best known for playing Lila Quartermaine on the TV show General Hospital
 * 14 Jesus Gil, 71, controversial owner of Atlético Madrid football club
 * 14 Charlotte Benkner, 114, oldest recognized person in United States
 * 13 Terry Crummitt, 27, actor, "SnackBoy" of The Sync fame
 * 12 John LaPorta, 84, jazz clarinetist, composer and educator -
 * 12 Syd Hoff, 91, children's book author, cartoonist
 * 12 John Whitehead, 55, R&B artist, shot dead
 * 11 Per Øyvind Heradstveit, 71, Norwegian television pioneer, foreign correspondent (London) and author
 * 11 Mick Doyle, 63, Irish rugby player and coach
 * 10 Eric Kierans, 90, Canadian politician
 * 10 (death announced) George, ~83, Blue Peter pet tortoise
 * 9 Percy M. Young, 91, British musicologist
 * 9 Olive Osmond, 79, mother of entertainers Marie Osmond and the various Osmond Brothers
 * 9 Rust Epique, 35, American Songwriter/Guitarist
 * 9 Alan King, 76, American comedian/actor
 * 9 Brenda Fassie, 39, South African singer
 * 9 Akhmad Kadyrov, 52, President of Chechnya
 * 8 (body found) Nick Berg, 26, American civilian killed in Iraq
 * 7 Victor Hugo Cohen,56 Automobile industry}Father of Fabian Cohen Died of Septic Shock]
 * 7 Waldemar Milewicz, 48, Polish journalist, and Mounyra Beouamrane, killed in Iraq
 * 6 Celal Bilgin, 41, Turkish businessman
 * 6 Kjell Hallbing, 69, also known as Louis Masterson, Norwegian Western author
 * 6 Barney Kessel, 80, American jazz guitarist and studio musician
 * 5 David Reimer, 39, notable gender-reassignment case
 * 5 Ritsuko Okazaki, 44, Japanese singer-songwriter and author
 * 4 Clement Dodd, 72, Jamaican reggae pioneer
 * 3 Anthony Ainley, 71, British actor best known as The Master in Doctor Who
 * 3 Robyn Herrington, 43, Australian/Canadian writer
 * 3 Darrell Johnson, 75, former MLB catcher and manager
 * 3 Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire, 84, British politician
 * 3 Basil Wells, 91, science fiction author
 * 2 Moe Burtschy, 82, former MLB pitcher for the Philadelphia & Kansas City Athletics
 * 2 Paul Guimard, 83, French writer
 * 1 Felix Haug, 52, Swiss pop musician (Double)
 * 1 Lojze Kovacic, Slovenian writer

April 2004

 * 30 Kioumars Saberi Foumani, 62, also known as Gol-Agha, Iranian satirist
 * 30 Lou Chapman, 90, long time Milwaukee Sentinel baseball writer
 * 29 Johannes Berg, 47, cornerstone of Norwegian science fiction fandom
 * 29 Nick Joaquin, 86, writer and Philippine national artist
 * 28 B.J. Schramm, 65, businessman and aircraft developer
 * 27 David Jenkinson, 69, railway modeller and historian
 * 27 Roy Walford, 79, dietician and author
 * 26 Hubert Selby Jr., 75, author of "Last Exit to Brooklyn"
 * 25 Thom Gunn, 74, British poet
 * 25 Feridun Karakaya, 76, Turkish actor
 * 25 Bill Grace, 69, businessman from Phoenix, Arizona
 * 25 Carl Melles, Hungarian conductor
 * 24 Estée Lauder, 97, cosmetics products pioneer
 * 24 Jose Giovanni, 80, French director and crime-writer
 * 24 Lia Laats, 78, Estonian actress
 * 22 Pat Tillman, 27, former NFL player (Arizona Cardinals), Army Ranger, killed in in action by friendly fire
 * 21 Concha Zardoya, 89, (Chile/Spain) poet and writer, and one of the main links between Spanish and English literatures
 * 21 Mary McGrory, 85, American journalist and columnist
 * 19 (body found, death probably on March 30) Alejandro Ferretis, 59, Mexican avant-garde actor, murdered
 * 19 Frank B. Morrison, 98, former Governor of Nebraska
 * 19 Tim Burstall, 76, Australian film director and producer
 * 19 John Maynard Smith, 84, British biologist
 * 19 Norris McWhirter, 78, founder of the Guinness Book of Records
 * 19 Jim Cantalupo, 60, CEO of McDonald's
 * 18 Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, 83, long-time Prime Minister and President of Fiji
 * 17 (body found, death probably in November 2003) Dru Sjodin, 22, U.S. kidnap victim
 * 17 Edmond Pidoux, 95, Swiss author
 * 17 Barbara Kenyatta Bey, 59, Yoruba priestess and widow of jazz percussionist Chief Bey
 * 17 Geraint Howells, 79, Welsh politician
 * 17 Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi, 56, Hamas leader
 * 17 Soundarya, 32, Indian film actress
 * 15 Hans Gmür, 77, Swiss theatre author, director, composer and producer
 * 15 Mitsuteru Yokoyama, 69, Japanese manga artist
 * 13 Csaba Horváth, 74, Chemical engineer and scientist
 * 13 Caron Keating, 41, British television presenter
 * 12 Juan Valderrama, 87, Spanish folk and flamenco singer
 * 12 Frankie Narvaez, 65, Puerto Rican boxer
 * 10 Orazio Fumagalli, 83, Italian sculptor - AP Obituary
 * 10 Lou Berberet, 74, former Major League Baseball catcher
 * 10 Jacek Kaczmarski, 47, Polish poet and singer, the bard of Solidarity
 * 10 Sakip Sabanci, 71, Turkish businessman
 * 9 Lélia Abramo, 93, Celebrity Brazilian actress, and one of the founders of President Lula da Silva's Workers Party - Obituary in Portuguese
 * 9 Nick and Mary Yankovic, 86 and 81, parents of "Weird Al" Yankovic
 * 9 Harry Babbitt, 90, singer
 * 8 Chief Bey, 90, American jazz percussionist and African folklorist
 * 8 Maureen Potter, 79, Irish comedienne and actor
 * 8 Bruce Edwards, 49, caddy of golfer Tom Watson
 * 7 Robert Sangster, 67, leading British racehorse owner
 * 7 Kelucharan Mohapatra, 77, traditional Indian Odissi dancer
 * 6 Larisa Bogoraz, 74, Russian dissident and human rights activist
 * 6 Marjorie Pay Hinckley, 92, wife of Gordon B. Hinckley
 * 6 Timothy, ~160, tortoise that served as a Royal Navy mascot in the Crimean War
 * 5 Austin Willis, 86, Canadian movie actor and television host
 * 4 George Bamberger, 80, former major league pitcher and manager
 * 4 Gito Baloi, 39, Southern African musician
 * 4 Serhane ben Abdelmajid Farkhet, ?, Moroccan, suspected Madrid train bomber
 * 3 John Diamond, Baron Diamond, 96, British life peer
 * 3 Gabriella Ferri, 62, Italian Singer
 * 2 Lawrence McGrew, 46, former New England Patriots linebacker
 * 1 Nilo Soruco, 76, Bolivian singer-songwriter
 * 1 Carrie Snodgress, 57, actress
 * 1 Aaron Bank, 101, "Father of Special Forces"
 * 1 Enrique Grau, 83, Colombian painter and sculptor
 * 1 Annette Daniels, 42, American opera singer

March 2004

 * 31 John Warburton Paul (88), British colonial administrator.
 * 31 Hedi Lang, 72, first woman to preside the Swiss National Council
 * 31 Joseph James Zimmerman, Jr., 92, inventor of answering machine
 * 31 Omi Nieves, 24, son of salsa singer Tito Nieves
 * 31 Gurcharan Singh Tohra, 79, Sikh leader
 * 30 Michael King, 58, New Zealand historian
 * 30 Erick Friedman, 64, American concert violinist, violin professor at Yale University
 * 30 Alistair Cooke, 95, BBC broadcaster and transatlantic commentator
 * 30 Hubert Gregg, 89, BBC broadcaster
 * 29 Chen Yi-hsiung, failed assassin in the 3-19 shooting incident
 * 28 Sir Peter Ustinov, 82, British actor
 * 28 Robert Merle, 95, French author
 * 27 Art James, 74, game show host and announcer
 * 27 Larry Trask, 59, linguist and expert on the Basques
 * 27 Adán Sánchez, 19, Mexican singer
 * 27 James Wapakhabulo, 59, foreign minister of Uganda
 * 26 Jan Berry, 62, the 'Jan' of Jan and Dean
 * 26 Jan Sterling, 82, American actress
 * 24 Dominic Agostino, 44, Ontario Liberal MPP
 * 23 Sir Rupert Hamer, 87, Australian politician
 * 23 Lorand Fenyves, 86, Hungarian violinist
 * 22 Boonreung Bauchang, 34, "Snake Man"
 * 22 Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, 66?, spiritual leader and founder of Hamas
 * 21 Mirwais Sadiq, ?, Civil Aviation Minister for Afghanistan
 * 20 Chosuke Ikariya, 72, Japanese comedian, actor and leader of comedic group The Drifters
 * 20 Juliana, 94, former Queen of the Netherlands
 * 20 Edward G. Zubler, 79, chemist, inventor of halogen lamp
 * 19 Brian Maxwell, 51, long-distance runner and founder of PowerBar
 * 19 Mitchell Sharp, 92, former Canadian Liberal cabinet minister
 * 19 Roberto Mora, Mexican journalist, newspaper editor-in-chief
 * 18 Gene Bearden, 83, baseball player with the Cleveland Indians
 * 18 Vytas Brenner, 57, musician, keyboardist and composer
 * 18 Wallace Davenport, 78, New Orleans jazz trumpeter
 * 18 Harrison McCain, 76, Canadian businessman, founder of McCain Foods
 * 18 Guillermo Rivas, 72, Mexican comedy actor
 * 17 Monique Laederach, 65, French and German language author
 * 17 J. J. Jackson, 62, former MTV VJ
 * 17 George Boiardi, 22, Lacrosse player for Cornell University
 * 17 Patrick Nuttgens, 74, English architect and academic
 * 17 Aleksander Elango, 102, Estonian researcher in educational sciences
 * 16 Vilém Tauský, 94, Czech conductor and composer
 * 16 Brian Bianchini, 25, American fashion model
 * 15 Amparo Arrebato, 59, Colombian dancer
 * 15 William Pickering, 93, former head of Jet Propulsion Laboratory
 * 15 Aimo Kairamo, Finnish political columnist
 * 15 John Pople, 78, British theoretical chemist and Nobel Prize winner
 * 14 Blessing Makunike, 28, Zimbabwean football player
 * 13 Franz König, 98, Austrian cardinal
 * 13 Dullah Omar, 69, South African cabinet minister
 * 12 Finn Carling, 78, Norwegian author and playwright with cerebral palsy
 * 12 Yvonne Cernota, 24, German bobsled driver, in training accident
 * 12 Cid Corman, 79, Japan-based American poet and translator
 * 11 Seymour Geisser, 74, statistician, DNA-evidence expert
 * 11 Sidney James, 97, first managing editor of Sports Illustrated
 * 11 Edmund Sylvers, 47, lead singer of The Sylvers
 * 10 Robert D. Orr, 86, former Governor of Indiana
 * 10 James Parrish, 35, former National Football League player
 * 10 Dave Blood, 47, Dead Milkmen bassist
 * 9 Albert Mol, 87, dancer, cabaret performer, actor, TV personality, author
 * 8 Nicolae Cajal, 84, doctor, chairman of Romania's Jewish community
 * 8 Robert Pastorelli, 49, actor on Murphy Brown
 * 8 Muhammad Zaidan (Abu Abbas), 55, founder of Palestine Liberation Front
 * 7 Paul Winfield, 62, Emmy-winning actor
 * 6 Frances Dee, 94, actress
 * 6 John Henry Williams, 35, controversial son of baseball great Ted Williams
 * 6 Ray Fernandez, 47, American professional wrestler best known as "Hercules Hernandez" or simply just "Hercules"
 * 5 Julito Collazo, 78, Cuban Master Percussionist
 * 5 Joan Riudavets, 114, world's oldest documented man and oldest recognized person in Europe
 * 5 Percy Browne, 80, former British MP, jockey and farmer
 * 4 Claude Nougaro, 74, French chanteur
 * 4 Stephen Sprouse, 50, American artist and fashion designer
 * 4 John McGeoch, 48, British guitarist with Magazine, Siouxsie & the Banshees and PiL
 * 4 Kalev Raave, 77, Estonian kolkhoz chairman and Lutheran minister
 * 3 Dennis R. ("Dick") Covington, 77, American radio broadcaster, KYW (AM), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
 * 3 Susan Moller Okin, 57, liberal feminism political philosopher
 * 3 Luis Villalta, 35, professional boxer
 * 3 Cecily Adams, 39, actress
 * 2 Mercedes McCambridge, 85, Academy Award winning actress
 * 2 Marge Schott, 75, former primary owner of the Cincinnati Reds
 * 1 Massimo De Bernart, 54, Italian conductor

February 2004

 * 29 Jerome Lawrence, 88, playwright
 * 29 Tony Onley, 75, painter
 * 29 Danny Ortiz, 27, Guatemalan football goalkeeper
 * 28 Daniel J. Boorstin, 89, historian
 * 28 Andres Nuiamäe, 21, first Estonian soldier to be killed in Iraq
 * 27 Paul Sweezy, 93, economist and founding editor of the Monthly Review
 * 26 Shankarrao Chavan, 83, Chief Minister of Maharashtra
 * 26 Adolf Ehrnrooth, 99, General; Finnish war veteran
 * 26 Boris Trajkovski, 47, President of the Republic of Macedonia
 * 24 John Randolph, 88, American actor
 * 23 Carl Anderson, 58, American actor (Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar)
 * 23 William Coates, 92, asserted by advocates to be "oldest living American" but documentation showed otherwise
 * 23 Sikander Bakht, 85, Governor of Kerala
 * 23 Vijay Anand, 71, Bollywood filmmaker and brother of Dev Anand
 * 23 Carl Liscombe, 89, Detroit Red Wings hockey player in the 1940s
 * 23 Don Cornell, 79, popular singer of the 1940s and 1950s
 * 22 Andy Seminick, 83, MLB catcher and last survivor of the 1950 Phillies' "Whiz Kids" that won the NL championship
 * 22 Azriel Rosenfeld, 73, computer image analysis researcher
 * 22 Roque Máspoli, 86, legendary Uruguayan goalkeeper
 * 21 Guido Molinari, Canadian abstract artist
 * 21 Bart Howard, 88, composer, "Fly Me To The Moon"
 * 21 Spot Fetcher, 14, President George W. Bush's dog
 * 21 John Charles, 72, Welsh football player
 * 20 Stanislaw Ryniak, 88, first person imprisoned at Auschwitz (Feb 20 is burial date)
 * 19 Clark Byers, American sign maker
 * 19 Hermann Krings, German philosopher
 * 18 Jean Rouch, 86, French filmmaker and ethnologist
 * 17 José López Portillo, 83, former President of Mexico
 * 16 Shirley Strickland, 78, Australian athlete, three-time Olympic champion
 * 16 Doris Troy, 67, R&B singer
 * 16 Bill Oakley, 39, comic book letterer
 * 15 Jan Miner, 86, American actress
 * 15 Jens Evensen, 86, Norwegian minister, World Court judge
 * 14 Marco Pantani, 34, racing cyclist, winner of Tour de France and Giro d'Italia in 1998
 * 13 Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, 51, Chechen leader
 * 12 Martin Booth, 59, British author, brain tumor
 * 12 Preston Love, 83, American jazz saxophone player
 * 12 Sauli "Karkkunen" Lehtisaari, 24, Finnish vocalist with Twilight Ophera
 * 11 Hugh Cecil, 90, actor, one of the transylvannians in The Rocky Horror Picture Show
 * 11 Ryszard Kuklinski, 74, Polish-born colonel and spy
 * 11 Tony Pope, 57, Los Angeles voice actor, complications following leg surgery
 * 10 Nils Aas, 70, Norwegian sculptor and illustrator
 * 9 Robert F. Colesberry, (b. 1946) film and television producer (complications following cardiac surgery)
 * 9 Michael Rowland, 41, Horse racing jockey
 * 9 Samuel Rubin, 85, popcorn promoter
 * 9 Claude Ryan, 79, Canadian politician
 * 8 Julius Schwartz, 89, comic book and pulp magazine editor
 * 8 Cem Karaca, 58, Turkish singer and composer
 * 7 Norman Thelwell, 80, cartoonist
 * 6 Humphry Osmond, 86, psychiatrist and pioneer LSD experimenter
 * 6 Jerome F. Lederer, 101, aviation safety pioneer
 * 6 Henn Mikkin, 57, Estonian psychologist
 * 5 Frances Partridge, 103, writer, last surviving member of the Bloomsbury group
 * 4 Hilda Hilst, 73, Brazilian novelist
 * 4 Ernest Burke, 79, baseball player
 * 3 Cornelius Bumpus, 58, musician (The Doobie Brothers, Steely Dan)
 * 2 Alan Bullock, 89, historian
 * 1 Rocco Clein, 35, journalist, musician ;
 * 1 Ally McLeod, 72, Scottish football player and manager
 * 1 Bob Stokoe, 73, footballer, F.A. Cup winning manager

January 2004

 * 31 Suraiya, 75, Indian actress and singer
 * 31 Eleanor Holm, 90, US swimmer
 * 31 Scott Walker, 34, US boxer, Pink Cat, last one to beat Alexis Arguello
 * 30 Robert Harth, 47, executive director of Carnegie Hall
 * 29 Joe Viterelli, 66, actor
 * 29 O. W. Fischer, Austrian actor
 * 29 Helge Seip, 84, Norwegian politician (Social Liberal Party)
 * 29 M. M. Kaye, 95, British author, The Far Pavilions
 * 29 Mary-Ellis Bunim, 57, producer and co-creator of The Real World
 * 29 Lloyd "Pete" Bucher, 76, Captain of the USS Pueblo
 * 29 Janet Frame, 79, New Zealand writer
 * 29 Ed Sciaky, 55, Philadelphia broadcaster and disk jockey
 * 28 Elroy Hirsch, 80, hall of fame NFL football player
 * 28 José Miguel Agrelot, "Don Cholito", 76, comedian and radio show host
 * 27 Rikki Fulton, 79, Scottish comedian
 * 27 Jack Paar, 85, Tonight Show host
 * 26 Fred Haas, 88, golfer
 * 26 Wilhemina Barns-Graham, 91, Scottish artist
 * 25 Miklós Fehér, 24, Hungarian football player
 * 25 Fanny Blankers-Koen, 85, Dutch athlete
 * 24 Leônidas da Silva, 90, Brazilian football player
 * 23 Bob Keeshan, 76, US actor, starred as "Captain Kangaroo"
 * 23 Helmut Newton, 83, photographer
 * 22 Islwyn Ffowc Elis, 79, Welsh language writer
 * 22 George Woodbridge, 73, illustrator
 * 22 Billy May, 87, US big band and pop music arranger
 * 22 Ann Miller, 81, US dancer
 * 21 Bernard Punsly, 80 physician, actor
 * 20 Alan Brown, 84, British F1 driver
 * 19 Teresa Ferster Glazier, 96, author of The Least You Should Know About English
 * 19 Jerry Nachman, 57, MSNBC editor-in-chief
 * 19 David Hookes, 48, Australian cricketer and Victorian coach
 * 19 Antonious Seram, 20, Indonesian professional boxer
 * 18 Noble Willingham, 72, actor, former candidate for the United States Congress
 * 17 Czesław Niemen, 64, Polish musician
 * 17 Tom Rowe, 53, Musician, member of Schooner Fare
 * 17 Rafael Cordero, 61, mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico
 * 17 Ray Stark, 88, publicist, actor's agent; produced Funny Girl (1968)
 * 17 Harry Brecheen, 89, former MLB pitcher
 * 16 Kalevi Sorsa, 73, former Finnish prime minister
 * 15 Robert-Ambroise-Marie Carré, 95, member of the Académie française
 * 15 Olivia Goldsmith, 54, author
 * 15 Alex Barris, 81, Canadian actor and writer
 * 15 Gus Suhr, 98, former baseball player, Pittsburgh Pirates
 * 14 Mike Goliat, 78, member of the famous '50 Phillies' "Whiz Kids" NL champions
 * 14 Uta Hagen, 84, actress, acting teacher, wife of José Ferrer and Herbert Berghof
 * 14 Ron O'Neal, 66, actor, starred in Superfly (1972)
 * 14 Jack Cady, science fiction writer
 * 13 Philip Crosby, 69, member of Crosby Boys band, son of crooner Bing Crosby
 * 13 Arne Næss Jr., 66, Norwegian mountaineer and businessman, former husband of Diana Ross
 * 13 Harold Shipman, 54, British serial killer
 * 13 Zeno Vendler, 82, philosopher and linguist
 * 12 Randy VanWarmer, 48, US singer and songwriter
 * 12 Yossi Ginossar, 58, Former senior Israeli "Shin Bet" official
 * 11 Anthony "Tuba Fats" Lacen, 53, New Orleans jazz musician
 * perhaps 10/11 Spalding Gray, 62, US performer and writer (body identified March 8 in East River near New York City)
 * 10 Yinka Dare, 32, Nigerian former NBA basketball player for the New Jersey Nets
 * 10 Jerry Boyd, 59, Mesa, Arizona councilman
 * 10 Alexandra Ripley, 70, author, Scarlett
 * 9 Nissim Ezekiel, 79, Indian poet, playwright and art critic
 * 9 Norberto Bobbio, 94, Italian senator and jurist
 * 8 John A. Gambling, 73, American radio host, "Rambling with Gambling"
 * 7 Ingrid Thulin, 76, Swedish actress, "Cries and Whispers"
 * 6 Pierre Charles, 49, Prime Minister of Dominica
 * 6 Francesco Scavullo, 82, fashion photographer
 * 5 Tug McGraw, 59, former MLB pitcher
 * 5 David Lipschultz, 33, American journalist (USA Today, New York Times, Smart Money and Red Herring)
 * 4 Brian Gibson, 59, film director, "What's Love Got to Do With It"
 * 4 Jake Hess, 76, Southern Gospel singing legend
 * 4 Jeff Nuttall, 70, poet, publisher, actor, painter, sculptor, jazz trumpeter, social commentator and author
 * 4 Joan Aiken, 79, author of The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
 * 4 John Toland, 91, American author and historian
 * 3 Lillian Beckwith, 87, English author
 * 2 Dame Sheila McKechnie, 55, Head of Shelter, cancer
 * 2 Paul Hopkins, 99, reported to be the oldest living former MLB player
 * 2 Jessica Pacheco Calvente, 10, Puerto Rican, stray bullet victim
 * 2 Lynn Cartwright, 76, U.S. actress
 * 2 Etta Moten Barnett, 102, actress
 * 1 Frederick Redlich, 93, former dean of the Yale University School of Medicine

External links and references

 * Officer Down Memorial Page
 * Find a Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records
 * VIPatients.com - VIPatients (Very Important Patients)
 * Dead People Server
 * Recent AP Obituaries
 * The New York Times: Obituaries
 * FamousDeaths.com Week in Review
 * blogofdeath.com
 * Directory of Online Death Indexes
 * alt.obituaries
 * Topix.net Obituaries
 * Operation Iraqi Freedom - US Combat Deaths
 * Historic Baseball Deaths in 2004
 * Written in Stone, literary deaths and gravestones
 * Celebrity Obituary Headlines

For earlier deaths, see Deaths in 2003, Deaths in 2002, Deaths in 2001, Deaths in 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995 ...

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