Deaths in August 2005
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The following is a list of notable deaths in August 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.
August 2005
1
- Al Aronowitz, 77, American music journalist, cancer.[1]
- Donald Brooks, 77, American Hollywood and Broadway costume designer, heart attack.[2]
- William Hugh Clifford Frend, 89, English ecclesiastical historian.[3]
- Jeannou Lacaze, 81, French Army general who also served in the French Foreign Legion.[4]
- Anne-Marie Marchand, 78, French costume designer.
- Colin McEvedy, 75, British polymath scholar, psychiatrist, historian, and non-fiction author.
- Constant Nieuwenhuys, 85, Dutch COBRA painter.[5]
- Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, 84, Saudi Arabian King, complications of a stroke.[6]
- David Shaw, 62, American journalist, Los Angeles Times writer and Pulitzer Prize winner, brain tumor.[7]
2
- Sandro Bolchi, 81, Italian director and journalist.
- Alfredo Corvino, 89, Uruguayan ballet dancer and ballet teacher.[8]
- Rainer Forss, 74, Finnish football player, manager and coach.
- Jay Hammond, 83, American politician, Governor of Alaska from 1975 to 1982.[9]
- Loulie Jean Norman, 92, American soprano.[10]
- Rudolf Tajcnár, 57, Czechoslovak ice hockey player.
- Steven Vincent, 49, American freelance reporter, shot.[11]
- Shlomo Zev Zweigenhaft, 89, German-American Hasidic rabbi and Holocaust survivor.
3
- Luis Barbero, 88, Spanish actor, heart attack.[12]
- Françoise d'Eaubonne, 85, French writer.[13]
- Alastair Duncan, 79, English-Australian actor, playwright, producer and director.
- Dick Heyward, 90, Australian longtime deputy director of UNICEF.[14]
- Ernest Smith, 91, Canadian Victoria Cross recipient.
- Dominic Aloysius Vendargon, 95, Sri Lankan priest and Roman Catholic Archbishop of Kuala Lumpur.
4
- Charles Alden Black, 86, American businessman, husband of Shirley Temple, myelodysplastic syndrome.[15]
- Mary Dees, 93, American actress.[16]
- Ken Fish, 91, South African football player.
- Ileen Getz, 43, American actress (3rd Rock From The Sun, Changing Lanes, The Station Agent), cancer.
- Sue Gunter, 66, American women's basketball coach, pulmonary emphysema.[17]
- Anatoly Larkin, 72, Russian theoretical physicist.
- Little Milton, 71, American blues musician, stroke.[18]
- Bernardo Romero Pereiro, 61, Colombian actor, director, and writer, respiratory failure.
- Nick Perito, 81, American conductor, composer and arranger, pulmonary fibrosis.[19]
- Iván Szabó, 71, Hungarian politician.
- Eden Natan-Zada, 19, Israeli deserter soldier.
5
- Polina Astakhova, 68, Soviet five time Olympic gymnastic champion.[20]
- Fritze Carstensen, 80, Danish swimmer and Olympic silver medalist.[21]
- Bertie Hill, 78, British equestrian and Olympic champion.[22]
- Cal Hogue, 77, American baseball player.[23]
- Raymond Klibansky, 99, German-Canadian academic and philosopher.[24]
- Jane Lawrence, 90, American actress also associated with 1950s art scene.[25]
- Spud Murphy, 96, American jazz multi-instrumentalist, bandleader, and arranger.[26]
- Raul Roco, 63, Filipino politician, former senator and presidential candidate, cancer.
- Roy Scott, 88, New Zealand cricket player.[27]
6
- Nikolay Abramov, 55, Russian footballer, heart attack.
- Leonardo Rodríguez Alcaine, 86, Mexican trade union leader.
- Vizma Belševica, 74, Latvian poet.[28]
- Keter Betts, 77, American jazz bassist.[29]
- Robin Cook, 59, British Member of Parliament, former Foreign Secretary, hypertensive heart disease.[30]
- Ibrahim Ferrer, 78, Afro-Cuban musician, singer in the Buena Vista Social Club, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.[31]
- Louis Gauthier, 89, French cyclist.[32]
- John R. Isbell, 74, American mathematician.
- Carlo Little, 66, British drummer, lung cancer.
- Valentin Nikulin, 73, Soviet, Russian and Israeli theater and film actor, cancer.
- James Wilson, 82, Irish composer.[33]
7
- Leni Alexander, 81, German-born Chilean composer.[34]
- Alejandro Armendáriz, 82, Argentinian physician and politician, accident.
- Paul Arnaud de Foïar, 83, French Army general.
- Peter Jennings, 67, Canadian-American correspondent, news anchor of ABC News, complications from lung cancer.[35]
- Li Lili, 90, Chinese film actress and singer.[36]
- Sven Methling, 86, Danish film director and screenwriter.
- Noel Nicola, 58, Cuban singer-songwriter and co-founder of the nueva trova movement, cancer.[37]
- Mikhail Yevdokimov, 47, Russian comedian and politician, car accident.[38]
- Ester Šimerová-Martinčeková, 96, Slovak painter, scenic designer and journalist.
8
- Robert A. Baker, 84, American psychologist, writer and UFO skeptic.[39]
- Ahmed Deedat, 80, South African Muslim preacher.
- Nicolae Dumitru, 76, Romanian football player and manager.[40]
- Barbara Bel Geddes, 82, American actress (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Dallas, Vertigo), lung cancer.[41]
- John H. Johnson, 87, American publisher.[42]
- Paul Le Person, 74, French actor of Breton origin.[43]
- Gene Mauch, 79, American Major League Baseball manager, lung cancer.[44]
- Nikolai Puchkov, 75, Russian ice hockey goaltender.
- Monica Sjöö, 66, Swedish- British-based painter, writer and eco-feminist, cancer.[45]
- Trần Quốc Vượng, 70, Vietnamese historian, archaeologist, and culturologist.
- Ilse Werner, 84, German actress, pneumonia.[46]
9
- Colette Besson, 59, French athlete and Olympic 400m champion runner, lung cancer.[47]
- Dorris Bowdon, 90, American actress, stroke, heart attack.[48]
- Al Carmines, 69, American musician.[49]
- Marco Cavagna, 46-47, Italian astronomer, stroke.
- François Dalle, 87, French entrepreneur, CEO of L'Oréal cosmetics.[50]
- Stanley DeSantis, 52, American actor (Ed Wood, The Aviator, Candyman), heart attack.[51]
- Abraham Hirschfeld, 85, Polish-American real estate investor and Broadway producer, cancer.
- Detroit Junior, 73, American blues pianist, vocalist and songwriter.[52]
- Philip J. Klass, 85, American aviation journalist and UFO sceptic, cancer.[53]
- Matthew McGrory, 32, American actor (Big Fish, The Devil's Rejects, House of 1000 Corpses), heart failure.[54]
- Judith Rossner, 70, American author (Looking for Mr. Goodbar), diabetes and cancer.[55]
- Nikolay Serebryakov, 76, Russian film director.[56]
- Kay Tremblay, 91, Canadian actress (Road to Avonlea).[57]
10
- Mar Amongo, 68, Filipino comic book artist.[58]
- Jaroslav Koutecký, 83, Czech physical chemist.[59]
- Roy Marlin Voris, 85, American Navy Captain, World War II flying ace, founder of the US Navy Blue Angels.[60]
- Masahiro Yamada, 74, Japanese screenwriter, lung cancer.
11
- Ernesta Ballard, 85, American horticulturist and feminist.[61]
- James Booth, 77, British actor (Zulu).[62]
- Erkko Kivikoski, 69, Finnish film director and screenwriter.
- Manfred Korfmann, 63, German archaeologist, lung cancer.[63]
- Ted Radcliffe, 103, American Negro leagues baseball player, cancer.[64]
12
- Francy Boland, 75, Belgian jazz pianist, composer, and arranger.[65]
- Robert Bonner, 84, Canadian politician and businessman.
- Teruo Ishii, 81, Japanese movie maker, lung cancer.[66]
- Lakshman Kadirgamar, 73, Sri Lankan foreign minister, homicide.[67]
- John Loder, 59, English sound engineer and record producer, brain cancer.
- Charlie Norman, 84, Swedish jazz pianist and film music writer, cancer.[68]
- Julian Stanley, 87, American psychologist, "Champion of Gifted Students".[69]
- Morciré Sylla, 57, Guinean footballer.
- Jack A. Wolfe, 69, American paleobotanist and paleoclimatologist.[70]
13
- Miguel Arraes, 88, Brazilian politician, governor of Pernambuco.[71]
- Wladimiro Calarese, 74, Italian fencer and Olympic medalist.[72]
- Arnold Cooke, 98, British composer.[73]
- George Daniels, 55, Ghanaian Olympic sprinter.[74]
- Armand Deutsch, 92, American film producer and grandson of philanthropist Julius Rosenwald.[75]
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn, 89, American politician, U.S. Representative from South Carolina (1947–1949 and 1951–1974).[76]
- David Lange, 63, New Zealand politician, Prime Minister (1984-1989), kidney failure.[77]
- Donald Shively, 84, American japanologist and academic, Shy–Drager syndrome.[78]
- Chris Tolos, 75, Canadian professional wrestler, cancer.
14
- Stephen C. Apostolof, 78, Bulgarian-American filmmaker.[79]
- Coo Coo Marlin, 73, American NASCAR driver, lung cancer.[80]
- Billy More, 40, Italian drag queen music artist, leukemia.[81]
- Gordon Oakes, 74, British politician, Labour government minister and member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom, cancer.[82]
- Sheila Piercey Summers, 86, South African tennis player.
- Beverly Wolff, 76, American mezzo-soprano.
15
- Laura Carli, 99, Italian actress and dubber.
- Anatoly Demitkov, 77, Soviet canoeist and Olympic silver medalist.[83]
- James Dougherty, 84, American police officer, first husband of actress Marilyn Monroe, leukemia.
- Peter Smit, 43, Dutch martial artist, former European and world champion kickboxer, shot.[84]
- Viktor Spasov, 46, Soviet pole vaulter.[85]
- Evelyn Stokes, 68, New Zealand geographer and writer.[86]
- Gladys Strum, 99, Canadian politician.
- Herta Ware, 88, American actress (Cocoon, Cruel Intentions, Species), Parkinson's disease.[87]
- Earl Zindars, 77, American composer of jazz and classical music.[88]
16
- Karl-Erik Andersson, 78, Swedish football player, bandy player and ice hockey player.
- Vassar Clements, 77, American fiddle player and bluegrass musician, lung cancer.[89]
- Tonino Delli Colli, 81, Italian cinematographer (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West, Once Upon a Time in America), heart attack.[90]
- William Corlett, 66, English author, cancer.
- Subal Das, 76, Bangladeshi music director, composer and football player.[91]
- Alexander Gomelsky, 77, Soviet and Russian basketball player and coach, cancer.[92]
- Þorsteinn Gylfason, 63, Icelandic philosopher, musician and poet, stomach cancer.
- Jay Jackson, 86, American radio and television quiz show host and announcer, pneumonia.
- Milorad Pavić, 83, Serbian football player and coach.
- Joe Ranft, 45, American animator, screenwriter and voice actor (Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Finding Nemo), car accident.[93]
- Eva Renzi, 60, German actress, cancer.[94]
- Frère Roger, 90, Swiss Christian leader and monk, founder of the Taizé Community, stabbed.[95]
- Derek Page, Baron Whaddon, 77, British politician.[96]
17
- Richard Altham, 81, English cricketer.[97]
- John N. Bahcall, 70, American astrophysicist.[98]
- Dottie Hunter, 89, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).[99]
- Lloyd Meeds, 77, American politician, US Representative from Washington (1965–1979), lung cancer.[100]
- Bertram L. Podell, 79, American politician, US Representative from New York (1967–1975).[101]
18
- Chri$ Ca$h, 23, American professional wrestler, motorcycle accident.[102]
- Kenyon Jones, 27, American basketball player, heart attack.[103]
- Andrónico Lukšić, 78, Croatian-Chilean billionaire businessman, cancer.[104]
- Krzysztof Raczkowski, 34, Polish drummer (Vader), heart failure.
- Elza Radziņa, 88, Soviet and Latvian theater and cinema actress, and a master of the spoken word.[105]
19
- Mansour F. Armaly, 78, Palestinian ophthalmologist and early glaucoma researcher, cancer.[106]
- Aušra Augustinavičiūtė, 78, Lithuanian psychologist.
- Val Bird, 77, Australian politician.[107]
- Michael Collins, 81, American mystery novelist.[108]
- Abraham Bueno de Mesquita, 87, Dutch comedian, cancer.[109]
- Faimalaga Luka, 65, Tuvaluan politician, prime minister (2001) and governor-general (2003-2005).
- O. Madhavan, 83, Indian actor and director.
- Mo Mowlam, 55, British politician, complications after a fall.[110]
- Oscar Muller, 48, Argentine football player, traffic accident.[111]
- Mel Welles, 81, American actor, writer, director.
20
- Abraham Samuel Goldstein, 80, American law professor, former dean of Yale Law School, heart attack.[112]
- Thomas Herrion, 23, American NFL player with the San Francisco 49ers, ischemic heart disease.[113]
- Miljenko Kovačić, 32, Croatian soccer player, motorcycle accident.
- Julius Curtis Lewis, Jr., 79, American businessman and philanthropist.
- Clifford Williams, 78, British theatre director.[114]
21
- Liv Aasen, 76, Norwegian politician.
- Mary Bowerman, 97, American botanist.
- Martin Dillon, 48, American musician, operatic tenor and professor of music, heart attack.[115]
- Zbigniew Dłubak, 84, Polish painter, photographer, and art theoretician.
- Polly Hill, 91, British social anthropologist of West Africa, and academic.[116]
- David Ironside, 80, South African cricketer.[117]
- James Jerome, 72, Canadian jurist and politician, former Speaker of the House of Commons.
- Antoine, 13th Prince of Ligne, 80, Belgian noble and son of Eugène, 11th Prince of Ligne.
- Colin McEwan, 64, Australian comedian and actor, cancer.[118]
- Robert Moog, 71, American electronic music inventor and pioneer, brain tumor.[119]
- Lev Naumov, 80, Russian classical pianist, composer and educator.
- Dahlia Ravikovitch, 69, Israeli poet and author.[120]
- Marcus Schmuck, 80, Austrian mountaineer, heart attack.
- Li Wei, 85, Chinese actor.[121]
22
- Luc Ferrari, 76, French musique concrète composer.[122]
- Henri Génès, 86, French singer and actor.[123]
- Richard Kelly, 81, American politician, former US Representative from Florida (1975–1981), dementia.[124]
- Ernest Kirkendall, 91, American chemist and metallurgist.
- Elizabeth Knight, 60, British actress (Oliver!, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, It's Awfully Bad for Your Eyes, Darling), heart disease.
- Geoffrey Lane, Baron Lane, 87, British judge and former Lord Chief Justice.[125]
- James McMillin, 91, American rower.[126]
- Juliet Pannett, 94, English portrait painter.[127]
- Mati Unt, 61, Estonian writer and theatre director.
23
- Glenn Corneille, 35, Dutch musician and pianist, car crash.[128]
- William J. Eaton, 74, American Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author.
- Brock Peters, 78, American actor (To Kill a Mockingbird, Porgy and Bess, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), pancreatic cancer.[129]
- Lyndon Woodside, 70, American choral conductor, pneumonia.[130]
- Rémy Zaugg, 62, Swiss painter, primarily.[131]
24
- Jamshed Ansari, 62, Pakistani actor, brain cancer.
- Liu Baiyu, 88, Chinese writer.
- Maurice Cowling, 78, British historian.
- Ambrogio Fogar, 64, Italian adventurer, heart attack.[132]
- Kaleth Morales, 21, Colombian vallenato singer and songwriter, traffic collision.
- Tom Pashby, 90, Canadian ophthalmologist and sport safety advocate.[133]
- Jerzy Plebański, 77, Polish theoretical physicist.
- Yuriy Sarantsev, 76, Soviet and Russian actor, cerebrovascular disease.
- Jack Slipper, 81, English Scotland Yard detective.[134]
- Herbert Wright, 57, American television producer, prostate cancer.[135]
25
- Lora Aborn, 98, American composer.
- Ruth Aaronson Bari, 87, American mathematician.[136]
- Walter Becher, 92, German politician.[137]
- Frederick Corfield, 90, British politician.
- Peter Glotz, 66, German politician.[138]
- Georgi Iliev, 39, Bulgarian businessman and president of Lokomotiv Plovdiv, shot.
- Perry Lafferty, 89, American television producer, cancer.[139]
- Terence Morgan, 83, British actor, heart attack.[140]
- Reyhan, 19, Bulgarian singer, car accident.
- Princess Margareta, Princess of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, 96, German noblewoman.
- Joe Strawder, 64, American basketball player.
- Josiah Tungamirai, 56, Zimbabwean military officer and politician.
- Eleanor Catherine Warren, 86, British cellist and music producer.[141]
26
- Denis D'Amour, 45, Canadian musician, guitarist of Canadian metal band Voivod, cancer.
- Robert Denning, 78, American society interior designer, heart attack.[142]
- Louis Ferron, 63, Dutch novelist and poet.[143]
- Gerry Fitt, 79, Northern Irish politician, elevated to the House of Lords.[144]
- Kostas Manoussakis, 76, Greek film director and screenwriter.
- Ed White, 56, Canadian professional wrestler best known as "Moondog King", traffic collision.[145]
27
- Aldo Aniasi, 84, Italian politician.[146]
- Romulo Espaldon, 79, Filipino military officer and diplomat.[147]
- Seán Purcell, 76, Irish Gaelic footballer.
- Theunis van Schalkwyk, 75, South African boxer and silver medalist at the 1952 Summer Olympics.[148]
28
- Ali Said Abdella, 55, Eritrean politician, foreign minister of Eritrea, heart attack.[149]
- Hans Clarin, 75, German actor, heart failure.[150]
- Antoñita Colomé, 93, Spanish film actress.[151]
- Jacques Dufilho, 91, French comedian.[152]
- Curt Lincoln, 86, Finnish racing driver.
- Esther Szekeres, (née Klein), 95, Hungarian mathematician.
- George Szekeres, 94, Hungarian mathematician.
29
- Ishaya Audu, 79, Nigerian politician.
- Murray Barnson Emeneau, 101, Canadian-American linguist and indologists.[153]
- Jack Luxton, 82, New Zealand politician and dairy farmer.
- Nurcholish Madjid, 66, Indonesian Muslim intellectual.[154]
- Antonie Plămădeală, 78, Romanian Orthodox metropolitan bishop.
- Margaret Daphne Scott, 71, Australian author and poet, pulmonary emphysema.[155]
- Jude Wanniski, 69, American journalist and economist, heart attack.[156]
30
- Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, 115, Dutch supercentenarian, oldest recognized person in the world, gastric cancer.[157]
- Fu Biao, 41, Chinese actor, liver cancer.
- Stéphane Bruey, 72, French football player.[158]
- Teófilo Cruz, 63, Puerto Rican basketball player, cerebral hemorrhage.
- Jakup Mato, 68, Albanian publicist and lector of Tirana University.
- James H. Scheuer, 85, American politician, US Representative from New York (1965–1973 and 1975–1993).[159]
- A. Veerappan, 72, Indian comedian, screenwriter, and film director.
31
- Eladia Blázquez, 74, Argentine tango player and composer, cancer.[160]
- Antoni Clavé, 92, Catalan painter, printmaker, sculptor, and costume designer.[161]
- Basudeb Dasgupta, 66, Indian novelist and short-story writer.
- Jaan Kiivit, 65, Estonian Lutheran archbishop.
- John Donaldson, Baron Donaldson of Lymington, 84, British judge, peer, and Master of the Rolls.
- Joseph Rotblat, 96, Polish-British physicist, Nobel laureate, and anti-nuclear weapons campaigner.[162]
- H. W. F. Saggs, 84, English classicist and orientalist.[163]
- Theodore R. Sarbin, 94, American psychologist.[164]
- Michael Sheard, 67, Scottish actor (The Empire Strikes Back), cancer.
- Nina Ulyanenko, 81, Russian aviator.
- Stefania Woytowicz, 82, Polish concert soprano.
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