Deaths in July 2005
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The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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.
July 2005
1
- Renaldo Benson, 69, American soul and R&B singer and member of The Four Tops, lung cancer.[1]
- Rex Berry, 80, American football player.[2]
- Gus Bodnar, 82, Canadian ice hockey player.[3]
- Ivan Kolev, 74, Bulgarian football player, heart attack.[4]
- Luther Vandross, 54, American R&B singer, complications following a heart attack.[5]
2
- Carla Candiani, 89, Italian film actress.
- Ernest Lehman, 89, American screenwriter (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, North by Northwest, West Side Story).[6]
- Norm Prescott, 78, American co-founder of Filmation animation studios.[7]
- B. N. Krishnamurti Sharma, 96, Indian writer, scholar, professor, and indologist.
- France Staub, 84, Mauritian ornithologist, botanist, and conservationist.[8]
- Tom Talbert, 80, American jazz pianist, composer, and band leader.[9]
- Gu Yue, 68, Chinese actor, heart attack.
3
- Siv Ericks, 87, Swedish character actress.
- Nan Kempner, 74, American society hostess, pulmonary emphysema.[10]
- Alberto Lattuada, 90, Italian film director, Alzheimer's disease.[11]
- Pierre Michelot, 77, French jazz bassist, played with Miles Davis, Alzheimer's disease.[12]
- Gaylord Nelson, 89, American politician, Governor of Wisconsin, U.S. Senator, heart attack.[13]
- Sam Tata, 93, Canadian photographer.
- Hedy West, 67, American folksinger, cancer.[14]
- Harrison Young, 75, American actor (Saving Private Ryan, House of 1000 Corpses, Passions).[15]
4
- Chris Bunch, 62, American science fiction writer, lung ailment.
- Bryan Coleman, 94, British television and film actor.
- Al Downing, 65, American R&B and country & western musician, leukemia.[16]
- Per Gedda, 90, Swedish sailor.[17]
- June Haver, 79, American film actress, widow of Fred MacMurray, respiratory failure.[18]
- Marga López, 81, Mexican film and television actress, heart failure.[19]
- George C. McGhee, 93, American petroleum geologist and diplomat, pneumonia.[20]
- Hank Stram, 82, American gridiron football coach (Kansas City Chiefs) and Pro Football Hall of Fame member, diabetes.[21]
- John Stubblefield, 60, American jazz saxophonist, flautist, and oboist, prostate cancer.[22]
- Lorenzo Thomas, 60, Panamanian-American poet.[23]
5
- Leo Breiman, 77, American statistician.[24]
- Bud Cullen, 78, Canadian judge and politician.
- Ray Davis, 65, American singer, founding member of Parliament/Funkadelic.
- Shirley Goodman, 69, American R&B singer.[25]
- Baloo Gupte, 70, Indian cricketer.[26]
- James Stockdale, 81, American Vice Admiral and Medal of Honor recipient, Alzheimer's disease.[27]
6
- Bruno Augenstein, 82, German-American mathematician and physicist.
- L. Patrick Gray, 88, American former Director of the United States FBI, pancreatic cancer.[28]
- James Haskins, 63, American professor, biographer, and author, pulmonary emphysema.[29]
- Evan Hunter, 78, American mystery novel writer, wrote under numerous pseudonyms (Ed McBain), cancer of the larynx.[30]
- Huang Kun, 85, Chinese physicist.
- Donald McGinley, 85, American politician, U.S. Representative from Nebraska (1959–1961) and Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska (1983–1987).[31]
- Claude Simon, 91, French writer and Nobel Prize winner.[32]
7
- Henri Betti, 87, French composer and pianist.[33]
- Paul Deliège, 74, Belgian comic book writer/artist, heart attack.[34]
- Gunnar Fredrik Hellesen, 92, Norwegian politician.
- Adolf Müller, 91, Swiss freestyle wrestler and Olympic medalist.[35]
- Gustaf Sobin, 69, American-French poet and novelist, pancreatic cancer.[36]
- Notable deceased during the 7 July 2005 London bombings[37]
- Hasib Hussain, 18, British terrorist, suicide.
- Mohammad Sidique Khan, 30, British terrorist, suicide.
- Germaine Lindsay, 19, British terrorist, suicide.
- Shehzad Tanweer, 22, British terrorist, suicide.
8
- Maurice Baquet, 94, French actor and cellist.[38]
- Peter Boenisch, 78, German columnist and journalist, cancer.[39]
- Denis Bray, 78, British civil servant in Hong Kong.
- Judy Mann, 61, American longtime columnist for The Washington Post, breast cancer.[40]
9
- Chuck Cadman, 57, Canadian Member of Parliament, melanoma.
- Karim Emami, 75, Iranian translator, lexicographer, and literary critic, cancer.[41]
- Yevgeny Grishin, 74, Russian speed skater, first speed skater under 40 seconds on 500 metres.[42]
- Kevin Hagen, 77, American actor (Little House on the Prairie), esophageal cancer.[43]
- Marie-Thérèse Morlet, 91, French scholar and honorary director of research at CNRS.[44]
- Byron Preiss, 52, American writer, editor, and publisher, traffic collision.[45]
- Alex Shibicky, 91, Canadian ice hockey player who made the first slapshot.[46]
- Lu Wenfu, 77, Chinese writer.
- Rafiq Zakaria, 79, Indian Islamic scholar.[47]
10
- Richard Eastham, 89, American actor (Tombstone Territory, That Darn Cat!, Wonder Woman), Alzheimer's disease.[48]
- Serge Lancen, 82, French composer and classical pianist.[49]
- Gavin I. Langmuir, 81, Canadian medievalist historian.[50]
- Frank Moores, 72, Canadian politician, Premier of Newfoundland, cancer.
- A. J. Quinnell, 65, English writer, Man on Fire.[51]
- Freddy Soto, 35, American comedian and actor.
- David V., 72, Malaysian unionist and politician.
11
- Gretchen Franklin, 94, English television actress, best known as "Ethel Skinner" in EastEnders.
- Shinya Hashimoto, 40, Japanese professional wrestler, intracranial aneurysm.
- Jesús Iglesias, 83, Argentine Grand Prix racing driver.
- David Ralph "Boag" Johnson, 83, American basketball player.[52]
- John Kennedy-Good, 89, New Zealand politician.
- Frances Langford, 92, American singer and actress, heart attack.[53]
- Robert L. Shevin, 71, American Attorney General and politician, esophageal cancer.[54]
- Avabai Bomanji Wadia, 91, Ceylonese-Indian social worker, writer and family planning advocate.
- Theodore Woodward, 91, American medical researcher at the University of Maryland, Baltimore.[55]
12
- Piero Cappuccilli, 78, Italian operatic baritone.[56]
- Joseph Patrick Delaney, 70, American Roman Catholic bishop of the diocese of Fort Worth, Texas.[57]
- Arthur Fletcher, 80, American government official, Assistant Labor Secretary under US President Richard Nixon.[58]
- Willi Heinrich, 84, German author and soldier during World War II.[59]
- P. K. Vasudevan Nair, 79, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Kerala state, India.
- Axel Strøbye, 77, Danish stage and film actor.[60]
- John King, Baron King of Wartnaby, 87, British peer, businessman and chairman of British Airways (1981-1993).
13
- Robert P. Abelson, 76, American psychologist and political scientist, Parkinson's disease.[61]
- Asen Kisimov, 69, Bulgarian actor, singer and radio presenter.
- Robert E. Ogren, 83, American zoologist.
- Mickey Owen, 89, American former MLB baseball player for the Brooklyn Dodgers.[62]
- J. B. Trapp, 79, New Zealand-British historian, writer, and academic.[63]
14
- Mark Carlisle, 76, British politician and peer.
- Michael Dahlquist, 39, American musician, film editor, and computer programmer, homicide.
- Tilly Fleischer, 93, German athlete, Olympic champion in javelin (1936).[64]
- Joe Harnell, 80, American composer, musician, and music arranger.[65]
- Jerzy Jarnuszkiewicz, 86, Polish sculptor and Olympian.[66]
- Richard Leiterman, 70, Canadian cinematographer, amyloidosis.
- Cicely Saunders, 87, British palliative care activist, cancer.[67]
15
- David Daiches, 92, Scottish literary critic.[68]
- Michael Gibson, 60, American Tony-nominated orchestrator and musician, lung cancer.[69]
- Anders Hagen, 84, Norwegian archaeologist.[70]
- Leonor Orosa-Goquingco, 87, Filipino artist, dancer, and columnist.
- Stan Steele, 68, English football player.[71]
- Alicia Vignoli, 94, Argentine film actress.
- Ronald Wilson, 82, Australian High Court justice.[72]
16
- Blue Barron, 92, American orchestra leader.
- Pietro Consagra, 84, Italian sculptor.[73]
- Camillo Felgen, 84, Luxembourgish singer, disc jockey, and television presenter.[74]
- Yi Gu, 73, Korean prince, heart attack.
- W. Fox McKeithen, 58, American politician, 5-time Louisiana Secretary of State, suicide from height.[75]
- John Ostrom, 77, American paleontologist who revolutionized understanding of dinosaurs, Alzheimer's disease.[76]
- Miguel Pérez, 68, Puerto Rican wrestler, heart attack.
- K. V. Subbanna, 73, Indian dramatist and writer.
- Dieter Wellershoff, 72, German admiral and Chief of Federal Armed Forces Staff (1986-1991).
17
- Laurel Aitken, 77, Jamaican musician, heart attack.
- Izabella Bashmakova, 84, Russian historian of mathematics.
- Biplab Dasgupta, 66, Indian economist, Parkinson's disease.[77]
- Geraldine Fitzgerald, 91, Irish-born American actress, Alzheimer's disease.[78]
- Hans Hansen, 90, Norwegian competition rower and Olympic medalist.[79]
- Edward Heath, 89, British politician, Prime Minister (1970–1974), MP (1950–2001), pneumonia.[80]
- Tommy Johnson, 73, Swedish actor.
- Gina Lagorio, 83, Italian writer.[81]
- Gavin Lambert, 80, British-American novelist, screenwriter (Inside Daisy Clover, Sons and Lovers).[82]
- Mojtaba Mirzadeh, 60, Iranian-Kurdish violin, kamancheh, and setar master.
- Spartak Mishulin, 78, Soviet actor and People's Artist of the RSFSR, heart attack.
- I. G. Patel, 80, Indian economist, Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (1977–1982).[83]
- Jim Pearce, 80, American baseball baseball player.[84]
- Rie Vierdag, 99, Dutch freestyle swimmer.[85]
- William Weatherspoon, 69, American songwriter and record producer.
18
- Amy Gillett, 29, Australian rower and cyclist, bicycle accident.
- Gilles Grondin, 62, Canadian educator and a politician, cancer.
- John Herald, 66, American folk musician and recording artist, suicide.[86]
- Bill Hicke, 67, Canadian ice hockey right winger.[87]
- Jim Parker, 71, American football player, (Baltimore Colts) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.[88]
- Gerry Thomas, 83, American marketing/sales executive and inventor of the TV dinner, cancer.
- Franz Weissmann, 93, Brazilian sculptor.[89]
- William Westmoreland, 91, American army general, commander of U.S. forces during the Vietnam War (1964-1968), Alzheimer's disease.
19
- Jim Aparo, 72, American comic book artist (Batman, Phantom Stranger, Spectre).[90]
- Alain Bombard, 80, French biologist and physician.[91]
- Edward Bunker, 71, American author, screenwriter, and actor (Mr. Blue in Reservoir Dogs), surgical complications.[92]
- Zihni Gjinali, 79, Albanian football player.
- Hastings Keith, 89, American politician, U.S. Representative from Massachusetts (1959-1973).
- Lucien Lazaridès, 82, French road bicycle racer.[93]
- Toku Nishio, 65, Japanese actor and voice actor, Japan.
- John Tyndall, 71, British neo-nazi political activist, founder of the British National Party.
20
- Nikolai Aksyonenko, 56, Russian railway manager and politician, leukemia.
- Josefina de Vasconcellos, 100, English sculptor.
- James Doohan, 85, Canadian actor, pneumonia and Alzheimer's disease.[94]
- Finn Gustavsen, 79, Norwegian politician.
- Kayo Hatta, 47, American film director (Picture Bride), drowned.[95]
- Gyula Hernádi, 78, Hungarian writer and screenwriter.[96]
- David Tomblin, 74, British film and television director.[97]
21
- Brynley Allen, 84, Welsh footballer.
- Long John Baldry, 64, British blues musician, infectious disease.[98]
- Bruce Bolt, 75, Australian-American scientist and earthquake expert, pancreatic cancer.[99]
- Andrzej Grubba, 47, Polish table tennis player, cancer.[100]
- Alfred Hayes, 76, British wrestler and wrestling commentator, stroke.
- Tamara Lund, 64, Finnish soprano singer and actress, stomach cancer.
- Stanisław Stomma, 97, Polish lawyer, academic teacher, publicist, and politician.[101]
22
- Jean Charles de Menezes, 27, Brazilian man wrongly accused as a fugitive terrorist, killed by London police officers.[102]
- Dragoš Kalajić, 62, Serbian painter, philosopher and writer, cancer.[103]
- Roland A. Luedtke, 81, American politician.
- Xue Muqiao, 100, Chinese economist, director of National Bureau of Statistics.
- Eugene Record, 64, American lead vocalist for The Chi-Lites, cancer.[104]
- Hinako Sugiura, 46, Japanese author and cartoonist, laryngeal cancer.[105]
- George D. Wallace, 88, American actor (Forbidden Planet, The Pajama Game), suicide from height.[106]
23
- Ray Crist, 105, American centenarian and chemist.[107]
- Myron Floren, 85, American musician, longtime accordionist/bandleader on The Lawrence Welk Show, cancer.[108]
- Ted Greene, 58, American fingerstyle jazz guitarist, columnist, and session musician, heart attack.
- Fintan Meyler, 75, Irish actress.[109]
- Ray Oldham, 54, American gridiron football player (Pittsburgh Steelers), heart attack.[110]
24
- Richard Doll, 92, British epidemiologist, first person to link cigarette smoking and lung cancer.[111]
- Pavel Dostál, 62, Czech minister for cultural affairs, pancreatic cancer.
- John Drawbridge, 74, New Zealand artist, muralist and printmaker.
- Vardan Kushnir, 35, Russian e-mail spammer, homicide.
- Tullia Magrini, 55, Italian anthropologist.[112]
- Francis Ona, 52, Papua New Guinean Bougainville rebel leader, malaria.[113]
25
- Paul Britten Austin, 83, British writer and broadcaster.[114]
- Enrique Bautista, 71, Filipino Olympic athlete.[115]
- Ted Chapman, 71, Australian politician and Minister.
- Eddie Crook, 76, American Olympic boxer and Vietnam veteran.
- Sidney Hertzberg, 82, American basketball player, heart attack.[116]
- David Jackson, 71, British actor, heart attack.
- Albert Mangelsdorff, 76, German trombonist.[117]
- Ford Rainey, 96, American actor (3:10 to Yuma, Halloween II, The Bionic Woman), stroke.[118]
26
- Betty Astell, 93, American actress, entertainer and widow of Cyril Fletcher.
- Pierre Broué, 79, French historian and Trotskyist revolutionary militant.[119]
- Mario David, 71, Italian footballer.[120]
- Alexander Golitzen, 97, Russian-American Oscar winning production designer (To Kill a Mockingbird, Spartacus, Phantom of the Opera), heart attack.[121]
- Jack Hirshleifer, 79, American economist, prostate cancer.
- Thierry Jean-Pierre, 49, French judge and member of the European Parliament (MEP), cancer.[122]
- Gilles Marotte, 60, Canadian ice hockey player (Los Angeles Kings, Chicago Blackhawks, New York Rangers), pancreatic cancer.[123]
- John Michael Montias, 76, French-born American economist and art historian.[124]
- Danny Simon, 85, American comedy writer, brother of Neil Simon.[125]
27
- Shelley Appleton, 86, American labor leader.[126]
- Al Held, 76, American abstract painter.[127]
- Helen Phillips, 86, American opera singer.[128]
- Carmen Provenzano, 63, Canadian politician, heart attack.
- Dom Um Romão, 79, Brazilian jazz drummer, stroke.
- Marten Toonder, 93, Dutch author and cartoonist.[129]
- Robert Wright, 90, American musical lyricist (team of Wright & Forrest – Grand Hotel, Kismet, Song of Norway, etc.).[130]
28
- Virginia Dehn, 82, American painter and printmaker.[131]
- Jacques Lacarrière, 98, French ice hockey player.[132]
- Louis Metzger, 88, United States Marine Corps officer.[133]
- Jair da Rosa Pinto, 84, Brazilian footballer.
- Ronnie Rowe, 81, Canadian ice hockey player.[134]
- Cheng Siyuan, 96, Chinese politician.
29
- Hermione Hammond, 94, English painter and portrait artist.[135]
- Hildegarde, 99, American cabaret singer.[136]
- Edwin Palmer Hoyt, 81, American writer and historian.[137]
- Pat McCormick, 78, American television writer (The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson) and actor (Smokey and the Bandit, Scrooged), stroke.[138]
- Al McKibbon, 86, American jazz double bassist.[139]
- Fred Sledge Smith, 72, American R&B songwriter and record producer.
- Karlheinz Zöller, 76, German flutist.
30
- Olga Albizu, 81, Puerto Rican abstract expressionist painter.[140]
- Carl Beam, 62, Canadian Ojibwe artist.[141]
- Ray Cunningham, 100, American baseball player, recognized as the oldest living former MLB player.[142]
- John Garang, 60, Sudanese Vice President, helicopter crash.[143]
- Lucky Thompson, 81, American saxophonist, Alzheimer's disease.[144]
31
- Wim Duisenberg, 70, Dutch banker and politician, heart attack while swimming and drowned.[145]
- Armando Ferreira, 85, Portuguese footballer.[146]
- Léopold Gernaey, 78, Belgian footballer.[147]
- Mantle Hood, 87, American ethnomusicologist.[148]
- Lauri Nevalainen, 78, Finnish rower and Olympic medalist.[149]
- John Beaumont Williams, 73, Australian botanist.[150]
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