Deaths in February 2004
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The following is a list of notable deaths in February 2004.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
February 2004
1
- Art Albrecht, 82, American gridiron football player.[1]
- Alvin Baltrop, 56, American photographer, cancer.
- Ewald Cebula, 86, Polish football player.[2]
- Álvaro d'Ors, 88, Spanish scholar of Roman law.[3]
- Buzz Gardner, 72, American trumpeter (The Mothers of Invention).
- Valeri Gassy, 54, Ukrainian handball player, Olympic champion (1976).
- Mihai Ivăncescu, 61, Romanian football player.
- Ally MacLeod, 72, Scottish football player and manager, Alzheimer's disease.
- Joe Mallett, 88, English football player.
- Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi, 89, Pakistani military officer.
- Bob Stokoe, 73, English footballer and manager, pneumonia.[4]
- Dino Verde, 81, Italian author, lyricist, playwright and screenwriter.[5]
2
- Alan Bullock, 89, British historian and author.[6]
- Henry Cockburn, 82, English footballer.[7]
- Naohiro Dōgakinai, 89, Japanese politician, governor of Hokkaido.
- Bernard McEveety, 79, American film and television director.[8]
- Róbert Zimonyi, 85, Hungarian Olympic rower.[9]
3
- Cornelius Bumpus, 58, American musician (The Doobie Brothers, Steely Dan), heart attack.[10]
- Kaúlza de Arriaga, 89, Portuguese general, writer, and politician, Alzheimer's disease.
- Ted Harding, 82, Australian politician and rugby league football player.
- Keve Hjelm, 81, Swedish actor and film director, prostate cancer.[11]
- Jason Raize, 28, American actor (The Lion King, Brother Bear), suicide by hanging.[12]
- William B. Tabler, 89, American architect.[13]
- Fiep Westendorp, 87, Dutch illustrator.[14]
- Lyle Wicks, 91, Canadian politician.
- Warren Zimmermann, 69, American diplomat, pancreatic cancer.[15]
4
- Valentina Borok, 72, Soviet Ukrainian mathematician.
- Stevo Crvenkovski, 56, Macedonian politician and diplomat.
- Hilda Hilst, 73, Brazilian poet, novelist, and playwright, complications from surgery.
- William MacQuitty, 98, Irish film producer and also a writer and photographer.[16]
- Michael P. Moran, 59, American actor (Scarface, Lean on Me, A Perfect Murder), Guillain–Barré syndrome.[17]
- Malika Pukhraj, 92, Pakistani folk singer.[18]
- Karlheinz Senghas, 75, German botanist and orchidologist.
5
- Donald Barr, 82, American educator.[19]
- Sir Robert Boyd, 81, British space scientist.
- John Hench, 95, American artist, designer and director at The Walt Disney Company, heart failure.
- Claude Lemaire, 82, French entomologist.
- Thomas Hinman Moorer, 91, American admiral, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.[20]
- Frances Partridge, 103, British writer, last surviving member of the Bloomsbury Group.[21]
- Nuto Revelli, 84, Italian essayist and partisan.[22]
- Harry West, 86, Northern Irish politician.
6
- Jovan Cokić, 76, Serbian football player.
- Masataka Ida, 91, Japanese Army officer and rebel during World War II.
- Jørgen Jersild, 90, Danish composer and music educator.[23]
- Jerome Fox Lederer, 101, American aviation safety pioneer, heart attack.[24]
- John Meyrick, 77, British Olympic rower and agriculturalist.[25]
- Humphry Osmond, 86, English psychiatrist and pioneer LSD experimenter.[26]
7
- Richard Butler, 17th Viscount Mountgarret, 67, British soldier and aristocrat.[27]
- Safia Farhat, Tunisian artist, academic and women's rights activist.
- Emilia Guiú, 81, Spanish-Mexican actress, liver cancer.[28]
- Mikhail Korkia, 55, Georgian-Soviet basketball player.
- Raija Siekkinen, 50, Finnish writer.[29]
- Norman Thelwell, 80, English cartoonist.[30]
8
- Walter Freud, 82, Austrian-British Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent during World War II.
- Nicholas Goldschmidt, 95, Canadian conductor, music festival entrepreneur and artistic director.[31]
- Kristian Henriksen, 92, Norwegian football player and coach.
- William W. Johnstone, 65, American author.
- Cem Karaca, 58, Turkish singer and composer, heart attack.[32]
- Wayne Eyer Manning, 104, American horticulturist and botanist.
- Julius Schwartz, 88, American comic book and pulp magazine editor.[33]
9
- Julio Baylón, 56, Peruvian football player.[34]
- Robert F. Colesberry, 57, American film and television producer (After Hours, The Wire, Mississippi Burning), complications following cardiac surgery.
- Gerhard Riedmann, 78, Austrian film actor.[35]
- Opilio Rossi, 93, Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.[36]
- Claude Ryan, 79, Canadian politician, stomach cancer.[37]
10
- Nils Aas, 70, Norwegian sculptor and illustrator.
- Paul Ilyinsky, 76, American politician and three-time mayor of Palm Beach, Florida.[38]
- Edward Jablonski, 81, American biographer.[39]
- Hub Kittle, 86, American baseball player and manager, complications from kidney failure and diabetes.[40]
- Guy Provost, 78, French Canadian actor, pneumonia.
- John Sundberg, 83, Swedish sport shooter and Olympic medalist.[41]
11
- Vera Broido, 96, Russian-British writer and a chronicler of the Russian Revolution.
- Tadeusz Dembończyk, 48, Polish weightlifter and Olympic medalist.[42]
- Ryszard Kukliński, 74, Polish colonel, spy and defector, stroke.
- Jozef Lenárt, 80, Slovak politician, member of the Czechoslovak Parliament and Slovak National Council.
- Tony Pope, 56, American voice actor (Metropolis, Spaced Invaders, Who Framed Roger Rabbit), complications following leg surgery.[43]
- Shirley Strickland, 78, Australian sprinter and Olympic champion, heart attack.[44]
- Hitoshi Takagi, 78, Japanese voice actor, arteriosclerotic heart disease.
- Robert E. Thompson, 79, American screenwriter.
- Albeiro Usuriaga, 37, Colombian football player, homicide.[45]
12
- Martin Booth, 59, British author, brain tumor.[46]
- Robert A. Bruce, 87, American cardiologist.[47]
- Martin Jurow, 92, American film producer (Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Pink Panther, The Great Race).[48]
- John Killick, 84, British diplomat.[49]
- Preston Love, 83, American jazz saxophone player.[50]
- Věra Suchánková, 71, Czech Olympic pair skater.[51]
13
- Carole Eastman, 69, American actress and screenwriter.[52]
- Denis Hurley, 89, South African Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Durban (1946–1992).[53]
- Sarah Jacobson, 32, American film director, screenwriter, and producer, uterine cancer.[54]
- Janusz Kulig, 34, Polish rally driver, railway accident.
- David Lee, 91, British Air Chief Marshal.
- Ted Tappe, 73, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds, Chicago Cubs).[55]
- François Tavenas, 61, Canadian engineer and academic.[56]
- Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, 51, Chechen writer, politician and military figurist, explosion.
14
- Jock Butterfield, 72, New Zealand rugby player.
- Yang Chengwu, 89, Chinese general and Communist Party politician.
- Elois Jenssen, 81, American film and television costume designer.
- Marco Pantani, 34, Italian racing cyclist, winner of Tour de France and Giro d'Italia in 1998, acute cocaine poisoning.[57]
- Walter Perkins, 72, American jazz drummer, lung cancer.[58]
- Yang Xinhai, 35, Chinese serial killer, execution by firing squad.
15
- Gil Coggins, 75, American jazz pianist.
- Steve Cooper, 39, English football player, intracerebral hemorrhage.[59]
- Hasse Ekman, 88, Swedish director, actor, writer and producer for film, stage and television.[60]
- Jens Evensen, 86, Norwegian minister, World Court judge.
- Walter Gottschalk, 85, American mathematician.
- Hermann Hogeback, 89, German bomber pilot during World War II.
- Jan Miner, 86, American actress.[61]
- Sture Mårtensson, 87, Swedish football player.
- Isarco Ravaioli, 70, Italian film actor.
- Lawrence Ritter, 81, American writer.[62]
- Luigi Taramazzo, 71, Italian racing driver.
- John Tietjen, 75, American Lutheran clergyman, theologian, and national church leader, brain cancer.[63]
- Friedrich Waller, 83, Swiss bobsledder and Olympic champion.[64]
16
- Don Cleverley, 94, New Zealand cricketer.[65]
- Charlie Fox, 82, American baseball manager.[66]
- Ella Johnson, 84, American jazz and rhythm and blues singer, Alzheimer's disease.[67]
- Martin Kneser, 76, German mathematician.
- Harold Smedley, 83, British diplomat.[68]
- Doris Troy, 67, American R&B singer, pulmonary emphysema.[69]
- Geoff Twentyman, 74, English football player.[70]
- Miloslav Šimek, 63, Czech comedian and satirist, leukemia.
17
- Bruce Beaver, 76, Australian poet and novelist.[71]
- Gaston Godel, 89, Swiss Olympic race walker, silver medalist (1948).[72]
- Sofia Golovkina, 88, Soviet and Russian ballet dancer, choreographer and teacher.[73]
- José López Portillo, 83, Mexican politician and lawyer, President of Mexico.[74]
- Dragi Stamenković, 83, Yugoslav and Serbian politician and author.[75]
- Cameron Todd Willingham, 36, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.
18
- Despo Diamantidou, 87, Greek actress.[76]
- Tommy Eglington, 81, Irish football player.
- Frankie Evangelista, 69, Filipino newspaper columnist, and radio and television broadcaster, stomach cancer.
- Steve Neal, 54, American journalist (Chicago Sun-Times) and historian, suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.[77]
- Jean Rouch, 86, French filmmaker and ethnologist, traffic collision.[78]
- Ivor Stanbrook, 80, British Conservative party politician, barrister and Member of Parliament.[79]
19
- Gurgen Margaryan, 25, Armenian Army officer, slashed.
- Archibald Paton Thornton, 83, Canadian historian.[80]
- Renata Vanni, 94, Italian-American film actress.[81]
- Maurice Voron, 75, French rugby league football player.[82]
20
- Minouche Barelli, 56, French singer.[83]
- Fred Brown, 79, British virologist.[84]
- Sigfrido Fontanelli, 56, Italian racing cyclist.[85]
- Mel Hunter, 76, American illustrator, bone cancer.
- J.J. Malone, 68, American blues guitarist, singer and keyboardist.
- Kōyū Ohara, 69, Japanese film director.
21
- Sergey Sergeyevich Averintsev, 66, Russian literary scholar, byzantinist and slavist.[86]
- John Charles, 72, Welsh football player, heart attack.[87]
- Albert Chartier, 91, French-Canadian cartoonist and illustrator.[88]
- Néstor de Villa, 75, Filipino musical film actor, prostate cancer.
- Les Gray, 57, British singer (Mud), heart attack during cancer treatment.
- Bart Howard, 88, American composer ("Fly Me To The Moon").[89]
- Svava Jakobsdóttir, 73, Icelandic author and politician.
- Mohd hisraime bin juso, 87, Singaporean banker and hotel owner, heart attack.
- Dan Kiley, 91, American landscape architect.[90]
- Guido Molinari, 70, Canadian abstract artist.[91]
- Custódio Pinto, 62, Portuguese football player.
- Lyudmila Shishova, 63, Soviet Olympic fencer and fencing coach (1960 gold medal winner, 1964 silver medal winner in women's team foil).[92]
22
- Roque Máspoli, 86, Uruguayan goalkeeper, heart attack.
- Irina Press, 64, Soviet athlete and Olympic champion.[93]
- Azriel Rosenfeld, 73, American computer image analysis researcher.[94]
- Andy Seminick, 83, American baseball player, cancer.[95]
23
- Vijay Anand, 71, Indian Bollywood filmmaker and brother of Dev Anand., heart attack.[96]
- Carl Anderson, 58, American actor (Jesus Christ Superstar)), leukemia.[97]
- Neil Ardley, 66, British jazz composer.[98]
- Sikander Bakht, 85, Indian politician, Governor of Kerala.
- Pedro Bloch, 90, Brazilian writer, respiratory failure.[99]
- Don Cornell, 84, American singer, emphysema and diabetes.[100]
- Douglas Scott Falconer, 90, British geneticist.
- Samuel Edward Konkin III, 56, Canadian-American philosopher and economist.
- Bob Marshall, 93, Australian billiards player.[101]
- Bob Mayo, 52, American session keyboardist and guitarist, heart attack.
24
- Albert Axelrod, 83, American foil fencer and Olympic medalist, heart attack.[102]
- Estelle Axton, 85, American record executive and co-founder of Stax Records.
- Sheila Darcy, 89, American film actress of the 1930s and the 1940s.
- Carl Liscombe, 89, Canadian Detroit Red Wings hockey player, leukemia.
- Joan McCord, 73, American professor of criminology, lung cancer.[103]
- John Randolph, 88, American actor (Serpico, Prizzi's Honor, You've Got Mail), Tony winner (1987).[104]
- A.C. Reed, 77, American saxophonist, cancer.[105]
- Alvino Rey, 95, American jazz guitarist and bandleader ("Deep in the Heart of Texas"), pneumonia.[106]
25
- Waggoner Carr, 85, American politician, Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives and Attorney General of Texas, cancer.[107]
- Jack Flavell, 74, English cricketer.[108]
- Jacques Georges, 87, French football administrator, President of UEFA (1983–1990).
- Henryk Jaźnicki, 86, Polish football player.
- Pe Khin, 91, Burmese diplomat.
- Yuri Ozerov, 75, Soviet Olympic basketball player (two-time silver medal winner: 1952 men's basketball, 1956 men's basketball).[109]
- B. Nagi Reddy, 91, Indian movie producer.
- Ahmed Sefrioui, Moroccan novelist.
- Bagrat Shinkuba, 86, Abkhaz writer, poet, historian, and politician.
26
- Harry Bartell, 90, American actor and announcer in radio, television and film.[110]
- Shankarrao Chavan, 83, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Maharashtra.
- Adolf Ehrnrooth, 99, Finnish general, World War II veteran and Olympian equestrian.[111]
- Russell Hunter, 79, Scottish actor, lung cancer.[112]
- Roger Mirams, 85, New Zealand-Australian film producer and director.
- Roy Smith, 59, Canadian racing driver.[113]
- Jack Sperling, 81, American jazz drummer.[114]
- Boris Trajkovski, 47, Macedonian politician, President of the Republic of Macedonia, aviation accident.
- Simon Walker, 46, British historian of late-medieval England, cancer.[115]
- Ralph E. Winters, 94, Canadian film editor.
27
- Yoshihiko Amino, 76, Japanese marxist historian and intellectual, lung cancer.[116]
- Clarence Barber, 86, Canadian economist and academic.[117]
- Francisco Mago Leccia, 72, Venezuelan ichthyologist.
- Paul Sweezy, 93, American marxian economist and founding editor of the Monthly Review..[118]
28
- Daniel J. Boorstin, 89, American social historian, pneumonia.[119]
- Eivor Engelbrektsson, 89, Swedish actress.
- Ruslan Gelayev, 39, Chechen politician, general and resistance commander, K.I.A..
- Angie Turner King, 98, American chemist, mathematician, and educator.
- Stanislaus Lo Kuang, 93, Taiwanese Catholic archbishop.
- Carmen Laforet, 82, Spanish author.[120]
- Marv Matuszak, 72, American gridiron football player.[121]
- Nicholas Vivian, 6th Baron Vivian, 68, British soldier and aristocrat.[122]
29
- Oleksandr Beresch, 26, Ukrainian Olympic gymnast, traffic collision.[123]
- Dana Broccoli, 82, American actress, cancer.[124]
- Marc Cavell, 64, American actor.
- Armando de Ramón, 77, Chilean historian.
- Jane Engelhard, 86, American philanthropist and wife of industrialist Charles W. Engelhard Jr., pneumonia.[125]
- Harold Bernard St. John, 72, Barbadian politician, cancer.
- Kagamisato Kiyoji, 80, Japanese sumo wrestler.
- Maurice Larkin, 71, English historian specialising in the history of modern France.[126]
- Jerome Lawrence, 88, American playwright and author, stroke.[127]
- Danny Ortiz., 27, Guatemalan football goalkeeper, torn pericardium.
- Witold Rudziński, 90, Polish composer, conductor, and author.[128]
- Nat Taylor, 98, Canadian inventor and film producer.[129]
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