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The following is a list of notable deaths in April 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
- Álvaro Alsogaray, 91, Argentinian politician and businessman, cancer.
- Philip Amelio, 27, American actor and teacher, bacterial infection.
- Paul Bomani, 80, Tanzanian politician and diplomat.
- Alexander Brott, 90, Canadian composer, conductor and violinist.[1]
- Oswaldo Fadda, 84, Brazilian practitioner and developer of Brazilian jiu-jitsu, pneumonia.
- Harald Juhnke, 75, German entertainer.[2]
- Jack Keller, 68, American songwriter, wrote themes to Bewitched and Gidget, leukemia.[3]
- Thomas Kling, 47, German poet, lung cancer.
- Barry Stern, 45, American drummer (Trouble, Zoetrope), complications following surgery.
- Robert Coldwell Wood, 81, American political scientist and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, stomach cancer.[4]
2
- Trevor Foster, 90, Welsh rugby player.
- Nasri Maalouf, 94, Lebanese politician.
- Patricia McGee, 70, American politician and senator, pulmonary fibrosis.
- John O'Leary, 58, American politician, former U.S. ambassador to Chile, Lou Gehrig's disease.
- John Paul II, (Karol Wojtyła), 84, Polish Roman Catholic pope, septic shock and cardio-circulatory collapse.[5]
- Jacques Poitrenaud, 82, French film director and actor.[6]
- Jacques Rabemananjara, 91, Malagasy politician, playwright and poet.[7]
3
- Aleksy Antkiewicz, 81, Polish boxer and Olympic medalist.[8]
- Rick Blight, 49, Canadian ice hockey player, suicide.
- Frank Clair, 87, Canadian Football League coach (Toronto Argonauts, Ottawa Rough Riders), heart failure.[9]
- Tony Croatto, 65, Italian-born Puerto Rican composer-singer, lung and brain cancer.
- Jef Eygel, 72, Belgian basketball player.[10]
- Kader Firoud, 85, Algerian-French football player and manager.[11]
- François Gérin, 60, Canadian politician.
4
- Gordon Barton, 75, Australian businessman and political activist.[12]
- Edward Bronfman, 77, Canadian businessman and philanthropist, colon cancer.[13]
- Blanchette Brunoy, 89, French actress.[14]
- Antonio Rivera, 41, Puerto Rican world champion boxer, asthma.
5
- Manuel Ballester, 85, Spanish chemist.
- Saul Bellow, 89, Canadian-born American Nobel Prize-winning author.[15]
- Robert Borg, 91, American military officer and Olympic equestrian.[16]
- Abdul Mannan, 75, Bangladesh politician, minister of Home Affairs (1972-1973).
- Dale Messick, 98, American creator of the Brenda Starr comic strip.[17]
- Dragoljub Minić, 68, Yugoslav chess Grandmaster.
- Chung Nam-sik, 88, Korean football player and manager.
- Debralee Scott, 52, American actress (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, Forever Fernwood, Police Academy), cirrhosis.[18]
- Nils Svenwall, 86, Swedish art director.
- Neil Welliver, 75, American landscape painter, pneumonia.[19]
6
- Frank Conroy, 69, American author and memoirist, colorectal cancer.[20]
- Anthony DePalma, 100, American orthopedic surgeon, teacher, and humanitarian.
- Károly Ecser, Hungarian Olympic weightlifter.[21]
- Francesco Laudadio, 55, Italian film director, screenwriter and producer.[22]
- Bernd Lorenz, 57, German football player.[23]
- Geoff Millman, 70, English cricketer.[24]
- Rainier III, 81, Prince of Monaco since 1949, kidney failure.[25]
- Gerard Peters, 84, Dutch track and road cyclist.[26]
7
- Cliff Allison, 73, British Formula One driver.
- Grigoris Bithikotsis, 82, Greek singer.[27]
- Aleksandar Despić, 78, Serbian physicist and academic.
- Max von der Grün, 78, German novelist.[28]
- Bob Kennedy, 84, American Major League Baseball] player and manager.[29]
- Haji Khanmammadov, 86, Azerbaijani and Soviet composer.
- Melih Kibar, 53, Turkish composer, skin cancer.
- Jose Melis, 85, Cuban-American former bandleader for The Tonight Show.[30]
- Givi Nodia, 57, Soviet Georgian football player, heart attack.[31]
- Yvonne Vera, 40, Zimbabwean novelist and writer, AIDS-related complications.[32]
- Erna Woll, 88, German composer and church musician.[33]
8
- Al Gettel, 87, American baseball pitcher.[34]
- Maurice Lafont, 77, French football player.
- Eddie Miksis, 78, American baseball player.[35]
- Yoshitarō Nomura, 85, Japanese film director, pneumonia.[36]
- Douglas Northcott, 88, British mathematician (ideal theory).[37]
- Onna White, 83, Canadian Broadway choreographer.[38]
9
- César Civita, 99, American-Argentine publisher.
- Andrea Dworkin, 58, American radical feminist writer and anti-pornography activist, myocarditis.[39]
- Anton Heyboer, 81, Dutch painter and printmaker.[40]
- Scott Mason, 28, Australian cricketer, heart attack.[41]
- Jerrel Wilson, 63, American football player, cancer.[42]
10
- Carl Abrahams, 93, Jamaican painter.[43]
- Archbishop Iakovos of America, 93, Ottoman-American primate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America (1959–1996), pulmonary fibrosis.
- Norbert Brainin, 82, Austrian violinist and founder of the Amadeus Quartet.[44]
- Frederick C. Branch, 82, first African-American officer of the United States Marine Corps.
- Horacio Casarín, 86, Mexican football player and coach, Alzheimer's disease.[45]
- Aatos Lehtonen, 91, Finnish football forward.[46]
- Al Lucas, 26, American gridiron football player, spinal cord injury suffered during game.
- Wally Tax, 57, Dutch singer and songwriter.[47]
- Anatoly Trofimov, 64, Soviet and Russian KGB officer, homicide.
- Chen Yifei, 58, Chinese painter.[48]
11
- John Bennett, 75, British actor (Watership Down, The Pianist, Doctor Who).[49]
- John Brosnan, 57, British writer and film critic, acute pancreatitis.
- Jerry Byrd, 85, American Lap steel guitarist, Parkinson's disease.[50]
- Floyd Chance, 79, American session musician.
- Junior Delgado, 46, Jamaican reggae singer, famed for his roots style.
- André François, 89, French cartoonist.[51]
- James Hamilton, 87, British politician.
- Maurice Hilleman, 85, American microbiologist.[52]
- David Hughes, 74, British novelist.[53]
- Lucien Laurent, 97, French football player, scored the first ever goal at a FIFA World Cup.[54]
- Mattie McDonagh, 68, Irish Gaelic footballer.
- Doug Peden, 88, Canadian basketball player and Olympic medalist.[55]
- George Younce, 75, American Southern Gospel singer.
12
- Rodolfo Gonzales, 76, Mexican boxer, poet, political organizer, and activist, kidney failure.[56]
- Ehud Manor, 63, Israeli songwriter.[57]
- Shahrokh Meskoob, 81, Iranian writer, translator, social critic, literary historian, and university professor, cancer.[58]
- Georgi Pachedzhiev, 89, Bulgarian football manager.[59]
- Cyril Sidlow, 89, Welsh football player.[60]
- Nelly Uchendu, 54/5, Nigerian musician, cancer.
13
- Don Blasingame, 73, American baseball player and manager.[61]
- Salvatore Camarata, 91, American musician and co-founder of Disneyland Records.[62]
- Julia Darling, 48, English novelist and poet, breast cancer.
- Wolfgang Droege, 55, German-Canadian founder of white supremacist group the Heritage Front, shot.
- Kay Gardella, 82, American television critic for the New York Daily News, cancer.[63]
- Johnnie Johnson, 80, American musician, pneumonia.[64]
- Nikola Ljubičić, 89, Serbian general and politician, president of Serbia from (1982-1984).
- Vaikom Chandrasekharan Nair, 85, Indian writer and journalist.
- Henry Proctor, 75, American competition rower and Olympic champion.[65]
- Philippe Volter, 45, Belgian actor, suicide.[66]
- Nathaniel Weyl, 94, American writer, economist who testified in the Alger Hiss case.[67]
- Juan Zanotto, 69, Italian-Argentinian comic book artist.
14
- Chet Aubuchon, 88, American basketball player.[68]
- Benny Bailey, 79, American jazz trumpeter.[69]
- Saunders Mac Lane, 95, American mathematician.[70]
- Lothar Lindtner, 87, Norwegian actor.
- Ivailo Petrov, 82, Bulgarian writer.[71]
- Richard Popkin, 81, American academic philosopher, pulmonary emphysema.[72]
- Bernard Schultze, 89, German abstract painter.[73]
15
- Jimmy Allan, 73, Scottish cricketer.[74]
- Martin Blumenson, 86, American military historian.[75]
- Amjad Bobby, 63, Pakistani music composer and director.
- Peter Cargill, 41, Jamaican footballer, traffic collision.[76]
- Art Cross, 87, American Indianapolis 500 racing driver.
- Jaime Fernández, 67, Mexican actor, heart attack.[77]
- John Fred, 63, American pop singer, kidney disease.
- Ken Funston, 79, South African cricket player.[78]
- John Hultberg, 83, American avant-garde painter.[79]
- Carlos Muñoz, 86, Spanish actor.
- Margaretta Scott, 93, English actress ("Mrs. Pumphrey" in All Creatures Great and Small).[80]
16
- Laura Canales, 50, American Tejano singer, pneumonia.[81]
- Herm Gilliam, 58, American National Basketball Association player (Portland Trail Blazers), heart attack.[82]
- Kim Mu-saeng, 62, South Korean actor, pneumonia.
- Marla Ruzicka, 28, American activist and aid worker, car bombing in Iraq.
- Volker Vogeler, 74, German film director and screenwriter.[83]
- Kay Walsh, 93, British actress.[84]
17
- Hans Gruijters, 73, Dutch politician and journalist.[85]
- James Archibald Houston, 83, Canadian author and artist.[86]
- István Ilku, 72, Hungarian football goalkeeper.
- Lucien Masset, 90, French gymnast and Olympian.[87]
- Vishnu Kant Shastri, 76, Indian politician, heart attack.
- Juan Pablo Torres, 58, Cuban trombonist, bandleader, and producer, brain tumor.
18
- Claus Bjørn, 60, Danish author, historian, and television and radio broadcaster.
- Donald Bruce, Baron Bruce of Donington, 92, British politician and peer.
- Peter F. Flaherty, 80, American politician and attorney.[88]
- Bassel Fleihan, 42, Lebanese deputy and minister, complications following bomb attack on Rafiq Hariri.
- Clarence "Big House" Gaines, 81, American Basketball Hall of Fame coach, stroke.[89]
- Norberto Höfling, 80, Romanian football player and coach.
- Sam Mills, 45, American former NFL player and assistant coach, cancer.[90]
- Norman D. Newell, 96, American paleontologist and curator at the American Museum of Natural History.[91]
- Kenneth Schermerhorn, 75, American music director and conductor, non-Hodgkin lymphoma.[92]
19
- George P. Cosmatos, 65, Italian-born Greek-American film director (Tombstone, Rambo: First Blood Part II, Cobra), lung cancer.[93]
- Bobby Gage, 78, American gridiron football player, heart attack.
- Ruth Hussey, 93, American film actress (The Philadelphia Story), surgical complications.[94]
- Gerd Koch, 82, German cultural anthropologist].[95]
- Stan Levey, 79, American jazz drummer.[96]
- Clement Meadmore, 76, Australian-American furniture designer and sculptor, Parkinson's disease.[97]
- László Nagy, 77, Hungarian pair skater.[98]
- Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, 58, Danish jazz upright bassist, heart attack.[99]
- Erkki Penttilä, 72, Finnish wrestler and Olympic medalist.[100]
20
- Shamil Asgarov, 75, Azerbaijani Kurdish scholar, poet, and historian.
- Inday Ba, 32, Swedish actress (also known as N'Deaye Ba), lupus erythematosus.
- Gene Frankel, 85, American theater director, heart attack.[101]
- Dragoslav Marković, 84, Serbian communist politician, serving as President and Prime Minister of Serbia.
- Fumio Niwa, 100, Japanese novelist, pneumonia.[102]
- Giulio Saraudi, 66, Italian boxer and Olympic medalist.[103]
21
- Giordano Abbondati, 56, Italian figure skater.[104]
- Valeriano Andrés, 82, Spanish film and television actor.
- Zhang Chunqiao, 88, Chinese political theorist, member of the Gang of Four, pancreatic cancer.[105]
- Gwynfor Evans, 92, Welsh politician.
- Frank Hoy, 70, Irish-Scottish professional wrestler.
- Bill Kaysing, 82, American conspiracy theorist.
- Feroze Khan, 100, Pakistani field hockey player, Olympic Champion 1928.
- William Kruskal, 85, American mathematician and statistician, pneumonia.[106]
- Cliff Montgomery, 94, American gridiron football player.[107]
- Cyril Tawney, 74, British songwriter and folksinger.[108]
- Wayne S. Vucinich, 91, American historian.[109]
22
- Norman Bird, 80, British actor (Worzel Gummidge, The Lord of the Rings, Look and Read), cancer.
- Gregoire Boonzaier, 95, South African painter.[110]
- Robert Fitzgerald, 81, American speed skater and Olympic silver medalist.[111]
- Erika Fuchs, 98, German Disney comics editor and translator.
- Arnie Lawrence, 66, American jazz saxophonist.[112]
- John Marshall, 72, American filmmaker, lung cancer].[113]
- Philip Morrison, 89, American physicist and group leader in the Manhattan Project.[114]
- Eduardo Paolozzi, 81, Scottish sculptor.[115]
- Rodolfo Emilio Giuseppe Pichi-Sermolli, 93, Italian botanist.
- Barys Rahula, 85, Belarusian political activist.
- Leonid Shamkovich, 81, Soviet/Russian grandmaster chess player, Parkinson's disease.[116]
23
- Joh Bjelke-Petersen, 94, Australian political celebrity, longest-serving Premier of Queensland.
- Robert Farnon, 87, Canadian Grammy Award winning arranger composer.[117]
- Andre Gunder Frank, 76, German economic historian, proponent of dependency theory, cancer.[118]
- Al Grassby, 78, Australian former politician and minister in the Whitlam government, heart attack.[119]
- John Mills, 97, British actor (Ryan's Daughter, Swiss Family Robinson, Gandhi), Oscar winner (1971), stroke.[120]
- Romano Scarpa, 78, Italian Disney comic book artist.[121]
- J. B. Stoner, 81, American neo-nazi, segregationist politician, and a domestic terrorist.[122]
- Earl Wilson, 70, American baseball player, leading pitcher for the 1968 World Series champion Detroit Tigers, heart attack.[123]
- Jimmy Woode, 78, American jazz bassist, heart attack.[124]
24
- Adelle August, 71, American actress.
- Francis Bay, 90, Belgian conductor.
- Roland Johansson, 74, Swedish Olympic boxer.[125]
- Ezer Weizman, 80, Israeli politician, President of Israel (1993-2000), respiratory failure.[126]
- Fei Xiaotong, 94, Chinese researcher and professor of sociology and anthropology.[127]
25
- Jim Barker, 69, American politician, stroke.[128]
- John Love, 80, Rhodesian Formula One driver, cancer.
- Čedomir Mirković, 61, Serbian writer, literary critic, television journalist, and politician.
- Swami Ranganathananda, 96, Indian religious leader, President of the Ramakrishna Order.[129]
- Tanguturi Suryakumari, 79, Indian singer, actress and dancer.
- Alexander Trotman, Baron Trotman, 71, English chief executive and peer, head of Ford Motor Company.[130]
- Shlomo Wolbe, 91, German-Swedish orthodox rabbi.
26
- Mason Adams, 86, American actor (Lou Grant, F/X, Omen III: The Final Conflict).[131]
- Hasil Adkins, 67, American Rockabilly musician, homicide.[132]
- Augusto Roa Bastos, 87, Paraguayan writer, winner of the Premio Cervantes.[133]
- Michael Coles, 68, English actor.
- Gordon Campbell, Baron Campbell of Croy, 83, Scottish politician.
- Elisabeth Domitien, 79-80, Central African Republic politician, Prime Minister (1975-1976).[134]
- Josef Nesvadba, 78, Czech psychiatrist and science fiction author.
- Johnny Sample, 67, American gridiron football player.[135]
- Maria Schell, 79, Austrian actress (The Last Bridge, Gervaise, Superman), pneumonia.[136]
27
- Abdus Samad Azad, 83, Bangladeshi diplomat and politician, former foreign minister of Bangladesh, stomach cancer.
- Red Horner, 95, Canadian ice hockey player, former NHL player with the Toronto Maple Leafs.[137]
- Tunney Hunsaker, 75, American professional boxer, Muhammad Ali's first professional boxing opponent.[138]
- Stanley Orme, Baron Orme, 82, British politician.[139]
- Ebrahim Sulaiman Sait, 82, Indian politician.
- Marian Sawa, 68, Polish composer, organist, and musicologist.
28
- Chuck Bittick, 65, American water polo player.[140]
- Chris Candido, 33, American professional wrestler, blood clot from surgery complications.
- Odysseas Dimitriadis, 96, Georgian-Greek conductor.
- Percy Heath, 81, American bassist for the Modern Jazz Quartet, bone cancer.[141]
- Pancho Herrera, 70, Cuban-born baseball player.[142]
- Douglas Johnson, 80, British historian.[143]
- P.D. Orton, 89, English mycologist, specialising in agarics.
- Taraki Sivaram, 45, Sri Lankan Tamil journalist and activist, murdered.
- Erich Vermehren, 85, German military intelligence officer, World War II defector from the Abwehr.
29
- William J. Bell, 78, American screenwriter and television producer (The Young and the Restless, The Bold and the Beautiful), Alzheimer's disease.[144]
- Dianne Brooks, 66, American jazz singer.
- Mel Gussow, 71, American theatre critic for The New York Times, cancer.[145]
- Leonid Khachiyan, 52, Russian/American mathematician and computer scientist, heart attack.[146]
- Mariana Levy, 39, Mexican actress, heart attack following a robbery attempt.[147]
- Johnnie Stewart, 87, British television producer (Top of the Pops).
- Bob Ward, 77, American gridiron football coach and player.[148]
- Brook Williams, 67, British stage actor, lung cancer.
30
- Sylve Bengtsson, 74, Swedish football player.[149]
- Wim Esajas, 70, Suriname Olympic middle-distance runner.[150]
- Lourens Muller, 87, South African politician.
- Niklaus Stump, 84, Swiss Olympic cross-country and Nordic combined skier.[151]
- Ron Todd, 78, English general secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union, leukemia.
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