The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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.
1
- Peter Barnes, 73, British screenwriter and playwright, stroke.[1]
- Marlon Brando, 80, American actor (The Godfather, On the Waterfront, A Streetcar Named Desire), Oscar winner (1954, 1973), pulmonary fibrosis, respiratory failure.[2]
- Ettore Cella, 90, Swiss actor and film director.[3]
- Karin Evans, 96, South African-German stage and film actress.
- Mohinder Lal, 68, Indian hockey player and Olympic champion.[4]
- Richard May, 65, British former presiding judge, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, brain cancer.
- Jasper Ridley, 84, British writer.
- Jacques Ruffié, 82, French haematologist, geneticist, and anthropologist.[5]
- Todor Skalovski, 95, Macedonian composer, chorus and orchestra conductor.
2
- Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, 84, Portuguese writer and poet.[6]
- Jeillo Edwards, 61, Sierra Leonean actress, first black actor to appear on "The Bill".[7]
- Mochtar Lubis, 82, Indonesian journalist and writer.[8]
- James MacKay, 85, American politician (U.S. Representative for Georgia's 4th congressional district from 1965 to 1967).[9]
- John Cullen Murphy, 85, American comic strip artist (Prince Valiant).[10]
- Sky Beauty, 14, American thoroughbred.
- Gael Turnbull, 76, Scottish poet.[11]
- Ponkunnam Varkey, 94, Indian writer and activist.
3
- John Barron, 83, English actor.
- Phoebe Brand, 96, American actress, pneumonia.[12]
- Vivianna Torun Bülow-Hübe, 76, Swedish jewelry designer, leukemia.[13]
- Freddy de Vree, 64, Belgian poet and literary critic.[14]
- Andriyan Nikolayev, 74, Russian cosmonaut, heart attack.[15]
- James Marshall Sprouse, 80, American federal judge (Senior Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit).[16]
- Subandrio, 89, Indonesian politician Foreign Minister and First Deputy Prime Minister of Indonesia under President Sukarno.[17]
- Lionel Van Brabant, 77, Belgian cyclist.
- Percy Wickman, 63, Canadian politician and activist for people with disabilities.
4
- Jean-Marie Auberson, 84, Swiss orchestra conductor.[18]
- Pati Behrs, 82, Russian-American prima ballerina, actress and first wife of filmmaker John Derek.
- Jean-Louis Florentz, 56, French composer, cancer.[19]
- Plato A. Skouras, 74, American movie producer (Apache Warrior, Francis of Assisi).[20]
5
- Robert Burchfield, 81, English lexicographer.[21]
- Jim Paschal, 77, American NASCAR driver, cancer.
- Andy Sabados, 87, American gridiron football player (The Citadel, Chicago Cardinals).[22]
- Hugh Shearer, 81, Jamaican politician and trade unionist, former Prime Minister of Jamaica.[23]
- Rodger Ward, 83, American racecar driver, two-time Indianapolis 500 champion.
6
- Peter Birks, 62, British academic lawyer, cancer.
- Eric Douglas, 46, American actor and comedian, youngest son of Kirk Douglas, drug overdose.
- Ángel Fernández-Santos, 70, Spanish film critic and screenwriter.[24]
- Walter Frentz, 96, German cameraman, film producer and photographer.
- Thomas Klestil, 71, Austrian diplomat and politician, Federal President of Austria, heart failure.[25]
- Pavel Lisitsian, 92, Russian opera singer.
- Samir Naqqash, 66, Israeli novelist, short-story writer, and playwright.[26]
- Jimmie F. Skaggs, 59, American film actor (Catch Me If You Can, Lethal Weapon, Cutthroat Island), lung cancer.[27]
- Syreeta Wright, 57, American singer and songwriter, ex-wife of Stevie Wonder, breast cancer.
7
- Jaroslav Huleš, 30, Czech motorcycle racer, suicide.
- Günther Josten, 82, German Luftwaffe flying ace during World War II.
- Vlado Kristl, 81, Croatian-German filmmaker and artist.[28]
- Samuel Mitja Rapoport, 91, Russian Empire-born German biochemist.
- Jeff Smith, 65, American author and television chef ("The Frugal Gourmet").[29]
- Xiaokai Yang, 55, Chinese-Australian economist, lung cancer.
8
- Paula Danziger, 59, American author, heart attack.[30]
- Alexis von Rosenberg, Baron de Redé, 82, French banker and socialite.[31]
- Ernst R. G. Eckert, 99, American scientist.
- Albert Friedlander, 77, German rabbi.
- Henrique Mendes, 73, Portuguese television presenter and actor, bone cancer.[32]
- Sven Thunman, 84, Swedish ice hockey player and Olympic medalist.[33]
9
- Carlo Di Palma, 79, Italian cinematographer (Blowup, Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets over Broadway).[34]
- Lionel Brett, 4th Viscount Esher, 90, British peer, architect and town-planner.[35]
- Paul Klebnikov, 41, American journalist, editor of Forbes magazine's Russian edition, murdered.[36]
- Rudy LaRusso, 66, American basketball player, five-time National Basketball Association All-Star, Parkinson's disease.[37]
- Jean Lefebvre, 84, French actor, heart attack.[38]
- Tony Lupien, 87, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago White Sox).[39]
- Sammy McKim, 79, Canadian film actor and artist, heart attack.[40]
- Ron Milner, 66, African-American playwright, liver cancer.[41]
- Bill Randle, 81, American disc jockey, cancer.[42]
- Isabel Sanford, 86, American actress (The Jeffersons, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Lady Sing the Blues), Emmy winner (1981), heart attack, heart disease.[43]
- Hugo S. Sims, Jr., 82, American lawyer and politician (U.S. Representative for South Carolina's 2nd congressional district).[44]
10
- Abdul Ghafoor, 85-86, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Bihar.
- Inge Meysel, 94, German actress, cardioplegia.[45]
- Loren Mosher, 70, American psychiatrist.[46]
- Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo, 74, Portuguese chemical engineer and politician, prime minister (1979-1980), heart attack.[47]
- Georgi Proskurin, 59, Soviet pair skater.
- Art Rebel, 67, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis Cardinals).[48]
11
- Lothar Baier, 62, German author, publisher, and translator, suicide.
- Van Deren Coke, 83, American photographer, scholar and museum director.[49]
- Joe Gold, 82, American bodybuilding pioneer and Gold's Gym founder.[50]
- Dorothy Hart, 82, American actress, Alzheimer's disease.[51]
- Frances Hyland, 77, Canadian theatre actress, respiratory disease.[52]
- Haije Kramer, 86, Dutch chess master and theoretician.
- Terry McLean, 90, New Zealand sports journalist.
- Laurance Rockefeller, 94, American businessman, conservationist and philanthropist, respiratory failure.[53]
- Renée Saint-Cyr, 99, French actress.[54]
- Edkhyam Tenishev, 83, Soviet and Russian linguist.
- Walter Wager, 79, American author, cancer.[55]
12
- George Mallaby, 64, British-Australian actor and scriptwriter, congestive heart failure.[56]
- Jeff Morris, 69, American actor, cancer.
- Betty Oliphant, 85, English founder of Canada's National Ballet School.[57]
- James Quinn, 97, American Olympic sprinter (gold medal winner in men's 4 × 100 metres relay at the 1928 Summer Olympics).[58]
- Emma Yefimova, 72, Soviet Olympic fencer.[59]
13
- Arthur Kane, 53, American bassist for the New York Dolls, leukemia.[60]
- Carlos Kleiber, 74, Austrian conductor.[61]
- Michio Morishima, 80, Japanese economist.
- Roger Quenolle, 78, French football player.[62]
- Karel Zich, 55, Czech singer, guitarist and composer, heart attack.
14
- Nelly Borgeaud, 72, French film actress.[63]
- Germano de Figueiredo, 71, Portuguese footballer.
- Hoegeng Imam Santoso, 82, Indonesian chief of police, stroke.
- Tadeusz Sołtyk, 94, Polish aircraft designer and aerospace engineer.
- Alex Willoughby, 59, Scottish footballer (Rangers, Aberdeen), cancer.[64]
- Arnold Ziff, 77, English businessman and philanthropist.[65]
15
- Saeed Anwar, 60, Pakistani field hockey player and Olympic champion.[66]
- Banoo Jehangir Coyaji, 86, Indian doctor and family planning activist.[67]
- Wal Murray, 72, Australian politician.
- Teun Roosenburg, 88, Dutch sculptor.[68]
- František Schmucker, 64, Czech football player.[69]
- Derek Taunt, 86, British mathematician.
- Yoko Watanabe, 51, Japanese operatic soprano, cancer.[70]
- Sunao Yoshida, 34, Japanese novelist, lung blockage.[71]
16
- George Busbee, 76, American politician, former governor of Georgia, heart attack.[72]
- Andy Engman, 92, Swedish-Finnish cartoon animator.
- Fazal khaliq, 70, Afghan politician.
- Lucien Leduc, 85, French football midfielder and a manager.[73]
- Bella Lewitzky, 88, American modern dance pioneer and choreographer, heart attack.[74]
- Charles Sweeney, 84, American Air Force officer, pilot of Bockscar, the B-29 that dropped the Nagasaki atomic bomb.[75]
17
- Susan, Crown Princess of Albania, 63, Australian-born wife of the pretender to Albania's throne, Leka Zogu; cancer.
- Albela, 63, Pakistani actor, comedian and singer.
- Grzegorz Cziura, 52, Polish weightlifter and Olympic silver medalist.[76]
- Jeanette Dolson, 85, Canadian athlete and Olympic medalist.[77]
- Khalil Hilmi, 94-95, Lebanese Olympic sports shooter.[78]
- Julian Hodge, 99, British entrepreneur and banker.[79]
- Marty Passaglia, 85, American basketball player (Washington Capitols, Indianapolis Jets).[80]
- Pat Roach, 67, English professional wrestler and actor (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, Willow), cancer.[81]
- Robert E. Smylie, 89, American politician, Governor of Idaho (1955-1967).[82]
18
- Anne Gorsuch Burford, 62, American attorney and politician.[83]
- André Castelot, 93, French writer and scriptwriter.[84]
- Georgine Darcy, 71, American dancer and actress.
- George Farm, 80, Scottish football goalkeeper and manager.
- Paul Foot, 66, British journalist and campaigner, heart attack.[85]
- John D. Kraus, 94, American physicist and electrical engineer.[86]
- Eoin McKiernan, 89, American scholar and expert on Irish history.[87]
- Richard Ney, 87, American actor, investment counselor, and author, heart attack.[88]
- Émile Peynaud, 92, French wine expert.[89]
19
- Sylvia Daoust, 102, Canadian artist and sculptor.
- Harry Forsyth, 100, Irish cricketer and centenarian.[90]
- Carvalho Leite, 92, Brazilian footballer.
- Roger Marquis, 67, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles).[91]
- Caitro Soto, 69, Peruvian musician and composer.
- Zenkō Suzuki, 93, Japanese politician, Prime Minister (1980-1982), pneumonia.[92]
- Irvin Yeaworth, 78, German-American film director, producer, and theme park builder, traffic collision.[93]
20
- Antonio Gades, 67, Spanish flamenco dancer, cancer.[94]
- Lala Mara, 73, Fijian chieftainess and former First Lady, widow of president Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara.
- Valdemaras Martinkėnas, 39, Soviet and Lithuanian football player and coach, drowned.
- James Williams, 53, American jazz pianist.[95]
21
- Jerry Goldsmith, 75, American film composer (Star Trek, The Omen, Alien), Oscar winner (1977), colorectal cancer.[96]
- Edward B. Lewis, 85, American biologist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1995).[97]
- Neal A. Maxwell, 78, American missionary in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, leukemia.[98]
- Radoy Ralin, 82, Bulgarian dissident, poet, and satirist.
- Julian Ridsdale, 89, British politician.[99]
22
- Elie Abel, 83, Canadian-American journalist, author and academic, Alzheimer's disease.[100]
- Frank Cumiskey, 91, American gymnast and Olympic silver medalist.[101]
- Sacha Distel, 71, French singer, cancer.[102]
- Illinois Jacquet, 81, American jazz saxophonist, heart attack.[103]
- Joan Morgan, 99, English film actress, screenwriter and novelist.
- Bertie Peacock, 75, Northern Ireland football player and manager.[104]
- Kostiantyn Stepankov, 76, Ukrainian soviet actor, pancreatic cancer.
- Ronald Sukenick, 72, American writer and literary theorist, inclusion body myositis.[105]
23
- Mehmood Ali, 72, Indian actor, respiratory disease.
- Joe Cahill, 84, Irish terrorist..[106]
- Alan Cook, 81, British physicist.
- Rogelio Domínguez, 73, Argentine football player, heart attack.
- Ferry Gruber, 77, Austrian-German tenor in opera and operetta.[107]
- Carlos Paredes, 79, Portuguese guitar player, kidney failure.[108]
- Piero Piccioni, 82, Italian film score composer and lawyer.[109]
- Serge Reggiani, 82, French singer and actor, heart attack.[110]
24
- Jagan Nath Azad, 85, Indian Urdu poet, writer and academician.[111]
- Bob Azzam, 78, Egyptian singer.[112]
- Claude Ballif, 80, French composer, writer, and pedagogue.[113]
- Cotton Fitzsimmons, 72, American NBA basketball coach, lung cancer.[114]
- János Harmatta, 86, Hungarian linguist.[115]
- Ben Martin, 83, American football player and coach.[116]
- Wilton Mkwayi, 80, South African Anti-apartheid activist and ANC militant, cancer.
- Wim Verstappen, 67, Dutch film director, producer, and screen writer, cancer.
25
- Maurice Euzennat, 77, French historian and archaeologist.[117]
- John Passmore, 89, Australian philosopher.[118]
- Totò Savio, 66, Italian composer, lyricist, producer, and guitarist.
- Masami Shimojō, 88, Japanese actor.
26
- Oğuz Aral, 68, Turkish caricaturist and cartoonist, heart attack.[119]
- Viola Frey, 70, American artist and professor of arts.[120]
- Rubén Gómez, 77, Puerto Rican baseball player (San Francisco Giants, Philadelphia Phillies, Cleveland Indians, Minnesota Twins).[121]
- Alexandr Hackenschmied, 96, Czech-American photographer, film director, and cinematographer.[122]
- Carl Lidbom, 78, Swedish jurist.[123]
- William A. Mitchell, 92, American food scientist, inventor of Pop Rocks candy and Tang drink mix, heart failure.
- Bogusław Sochnacki, 73, Polish actor.
27
- Carmine DeSapio, 95, American politician, last head of the Tammany Hall organization.[124]
- Harry Jenkins, Sr., 78, Australian politician and medical doctor.
- Lisette Lanvin, 90, French film actress.[125]
- Joseph Rovan, 86, French philosopher and politician, drowned.[126]
- Bob Tisdall, 97, Irish Olympic athlete (gold medal in 400 metres Hurdles at the 1932 Summer Olympics).[127]
28
- Juhani Avellan, 58, Finnish Olympic weightlifter.[128]
- Jackson Beck, 92, American announcer and voice actor (The Adventures of Superman), stroke.[129]
- Francis Crick, 88, British biologist, one of the discoverers of the "double-helix" shape of DNA, cancer.[130]
- Sam Edwards, 89, American actor (Twelve O'Clock High, Little House on the Prairie, Dragnet), heart failure.[131]
- Steve Patterson, 56, American basketball player and coach at Arizona State University, lung cancer.[132]
- Janet Paul, 84, New Zealand publisher, painter and art historian.
- Eugene Roche, 75, American actor (Webster, All in the Family, Soap), heart attack.[133]
- Bernard Saint-Hillier, 92, French general.[134]
- Tiziano Terzani, 65, Italian journalist, famous for his books on Asia, colorectal cancer.[135]
29
- Pratima Bandopadhyay, 71, Indian playback singer.
- Susan Buffett, 71, American activist and first wife of businessman and investor Warren Buffett, stroke.
- Walter Feit, 73, American mathematician.[136]
- Nafisa Joseph, 26, Indian model, MTV video jockey, and Miss India 1997, suicide by hanging.[137]
- Abdul Rahman bin Saud Al Saud, 57, Saudi prince and the longtime president of football club Al Nassr.[138]
- Rena Vlahopoulou, 81, Greek comedian, heart attack.
30
- Ali Abbasi, 42, Scottish television presenter, systemic lupus erythematosus.[139]
- Ellen Auerbach, 98, German-American photographer.[140]
- Vivica Bandler, 87, Finnish-Swedish theatre director and agronomist.
- Jan Hanuš, 89, Czech composer.[141]
- Nela Martínez, 91, Ecuadorian communist, political activist, and writer.
- J. Edward McKinley, 86, American actor.
- Ed Melvin, 88, Serbian-American basketball player.[142]
- Hirendranath Mukherjee, 96, Indian politician.
- John Geoffrey Tracey, 74, Australian ecologist and botanist.
- Wolfgang Ullmann, 74, German journalist, theologian, politician.
- György Vizvári, 75, Hungarian water polo player and Olympic champion.[143]
31
- Laura Betti, 70, Italian actress, heart attack.
- Erich Ehrlinger, 93, German Nazi and Holocaust perpetrator during World War II.
- Virginia Grey, 87, American actress (Airport, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Women), heart attack.[144]
- David B. Haight, 97, American leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.[145]
- Robert James, 80, Scottish actor, Alzheimer's disease.
- Allu Rama Lingaiah, 81, Indian comedian.
- Absamat Masaliyev, 71, Kyrgyzstani communist politician, heart attack.
- Petra Peters, 79, German stage and film actress.[146]
- Líber Seregni, 87, Uruguayan army officer and politician, pancreatic cancer.
- Larry Stockmeyer, 56, American computer scientist, pancreatic cancer.
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