Recent deaths
The following is a list of figures who died in 2005.
The following is a list of figures who died in 2005.
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May 2005
- Jimmy Martin, 77, blue grass singer
- Hugh Montefiore, 85, Bishop of Birmingham and environmental activist with Friends of the Earth
- Michael Ross, 45, serial killer, executed by lethal injection
- Eddie Barclay, 84, French record producer and founder of Barclay Records
- Maurice Catarcio, 76, former WWE wrestler, of cancer
- Monica Zetterlund, 67, Swedish singer and actress.
- Michalis Genitsaris, 86, Greek rebetiko singer and composer
- Zhang Chunqiao, 88, member of the Gang of Four
- Veikko Hursti, 80, Finnish philanthropist
- Jay Marshall, 85, Dean of the Society of American Magicians
- Hector Enrique Santos, 88, former Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, Honduras
- Blanche Sasso, 105, seamstress of the original flag of the United States Virgin Islands
- Li Cairong, 119, world's second oldest human being only to Jeanne Calment (unconfirmed)
- John F. "Jack" Hasey, 88, American French Foreign Legion Officer and CIA Operations Officer
- Nasrat Parsa, 36, Afghan pop singer, after being assaulted in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Wilhelmine, Lady Harrod, 93, British church conservationist
- Lloyd Cutler, 87, former White House Counsel under Presidents Carter and Clinton
- Siwsann George, 49, Welsh folk singer
- Benjamin Mordecai, 60, prominent American theatrical producer
- Walter Jay Skinner, 77, Federal Judge portrayed in movie A Civil Action
- Tristan Egolf, 33, author, suicide
- Bernie Logue, 30, chef for the Boston Red Sox, fall in parking garage
- Peter Wallace Rodino, 95, U.S. congressman, 1949-1989
- Betty Talmadge, 81, ex-wife of Senator Herman Talmadge, testified against him in Senate ethics committee in 1979, from Alzheimers
- Miguel Contreras, 52, California union leader
- Father Gommart DePauw, 86, founder of the Catholic Traditionalist Movement
- Rafael Diaz-Balart, 79, opponent and former brother-in-law of Fidel Castro, father of U.S. Congressmen Lincoln Diaz-Balart and Mario Diaz-Balart
- Joe Grant, 96, Disney animator
- Jost Gross, 59, member of the National Council of Switzerland
- Herb Sargent, 81, television comedy writer [1]
- Ted Atkinson, 88, Hall of Fame jockey
- Elisabeth Fraser, 85, actress on The Phil Silvers Show, etc.
- June MacCloy, 96, actress
- Édgar Ponce, 30, Mexican actor, collision between car and motorcycle during filming of video for "Sólo para mujeres"
- Christian Speck, 68, member of the National Council of Switzerland
- Lila Dulali, 66, Indian, Oriya language actress
- David H. Hackworth, 74, Vietnam War veteran, journalist
- Evelyn Roberts, 88, wife of preacher Oral Roberts
- Luis Taruc, 91, Filipino Communist revolutionary figure; leader of the HUKBALAHAP, a guerilla group against the Japanese during World War II.
- Don Canham, former University of Michigan athletic director
- Renée Faure, 86, French actress
- Robert Hunter, 63, Canadian journalist and co-founder of Greenpeace
- Wee Kim Wee, 89, fourth President of Singapore, from 1985 to 1993
- Theofiel Middelkamp, 91, Dutch cyclist, first Dutchman to win a stage in the Tour de France and first Dutch world champion.
- Raisa Struchkova, 79, Russian ballerina
- Florence Van Stockum, 110, British-born supercentenarian
- Kenneth Clark, 90, African-American Civil Rights activist and psychologist
- René Rivkin, 60, Australian stockbroker
- Edward von Kloberg III, 63, lobbyist
April 2005
- Fenimola Farinelli-Beghetti, 110, Italian supercentenarian
- Sherman Loudermilk, 92, Emmy Award nominated art director
- Ron Todd, 78, former general secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union
- Jimmy Woode, 78, jazz bassist [2]
- William J. Bell, 78, soap opera creator (The Young and the Restless, The Bold and the Beautiful)
- Mel Gussow, 71, theatre critic
- Sara Henderson, 69, author
- Mariana Levy, 39, Mexican actress, heart attack following a robbery attempt
- Johnnie Stewart, 87, TV producer (creator of Top of the Pops)
- Capt. Paul Barkley, 88, World War II veteran, Cuban Missile Crisis commander
- Chris Candito, 33, professional wrestler; blood clot from surgery complications
- Percy Heath, 81, bassist for the Modern Jazz Quartet
- Ed Schantz, 96, Botulin toxin researcher and "grandfather of Botox"
- Zeke Zekley, 90, American cartoonist
- Abdus Samad Azad, 83, former foreign minister of Bangladesh
- Lord Orme of Salford, 82, British politician
- Dr. Howard W. Johnston, 91, principal founder of the Free University of Berlin.[3]
- Mason Adams, 86, American actor
- Hasil Adkins, 67, Rockabilly musician
- Gordon Campbell, Baron Campbell of Croy, 83, Scottish politician
- Red Horner, 95, former NHL player with the Toronto Maple Leafs, was oldest living member of the Hockey Hall of Fame
- Léon Navarre, 105, youngest living French WWI veteran
- Augusto Roa Bastos, 87, Paraguayan writer, winner of the Premio Cervantes
- Johnny Sample, 67, former NFL player
- Maria Schell, 79, actress
- Robert J. Schiffer, 88, Legendary Hollywood makeup artist
- Howard Benedict, 77, AP aerospace correspondent, popularized use of word "orbit", natural causes [4]
- Tunney Hunsaker, 75, Muhammad Ali's first professional boxing opponent
- John Love, 80, former Formula One driver
- Josef Nesvadba, 78, Czech psychiatrist and science fiction author
- Johann Emil Rösch, 107, German WWI veteran
- Alexander James Trotman, Lord Trotman, 71, former head of Ford Motor Company and later a life peer
- Emanuele Curto, 29, Italian rally driver
- Jack Gleason, 85, American film editor
- Francesco Pozzi, 35, Italian rally driver
- Fei Xiaotong, 94, pioneering Chinese anthropologist and sociologist
- Ezer Weizman, 80, former Israeli president
- Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen, 94, Australian political celebrity; longest-serving Premier of Queensland.
- Andre Gunder Frank, 76, German economic historian, proponent of dependency theory
- Al Grassby, 78, Australian former politician and minister in the Whitlam government.
- Sir John Mills, 97, Oscar-winning British actor.
- Romano Scarpa, 78, Italian Disney comic book artist
- Earl Wilson, 70, a leading pitcher for the 1968 World Series champion Detroit Tigers and first black pitcher to throw a no-hitter in Major League Baseball.
- Albert "Gus" Wing, 55, American cameraman known for skydiving shots
- Dr. Joseph Bogen, 78, American neurosurgeon, epileptic seizure researcher
- Robert Farnon, 87, Grammy Award winning arranger, composer
- Mary Dann, early 80s, American Indian activist
- Erika Fuchs, 98, German Disney Comics editor and translator
- Philip Morrison, 89, Physicist and group leader in the Manhattan Project
- Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, 81, Scottish sculptor [5]
- Leonid Shamkovich, 81 ex-Soviet grandmaster chess player
- Zhang Chunqiao, 88, member of the Gang of Four
- Gwynfor Evans, 92, Welsh politician.
- Bob Gardiner, 54, Academy Award winning clay animator
- Feroze Khan, 100, Pakistani field hockey player, Olympic Champion 1928 (oldest Olympic gold medallist at the time of his death)
- Heinz Kluncker, 80, German trade union leader
- Gene Frankel, 85, United States theater director.
- Dragoslav Markovic, 84, Serbian politician
- Fumio Niwa, 100, Japanese novelist
- Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, 58, world-renowned Danish jazz bassist.
- George Pan Cosmatos, 65, Italian-born Greek-American film director, best known for Tombstone and Rambo: First Blood Part II, lung cancer
- Ruth Hussey, 93, American actress in films such as The Philadelphia Story
- Clement Meadmore, 76, Australian born steel sculptor
- Bryan Ottoson, 27, American Head Charge guitarist
- Rick Blight, 49, former NHL player with the Vancouver Canucks in the 1970s
- Bassel Fleihan, 42, Lebanese deputy and former minister, third-degree burns resulting from the blast that assassinated Rafiq Hariri
- Clarence Gaines, 81, Basketball Hall of Fame coach, stroke
- Sam Mills, 45, former NFL player and assistant coach, cancer
- Norman Newell, 96, noted paleontologist
- Kenneth Schermerhorn, 75, music director and conductor of the Nashville Symphony, Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
- Laura Canales, 50, Tejano singer
- Guadalupe García Escamilla, 39, Mexican journalist, hitman shooting
- Jaime Fernandez, 67, Mexican actor
- Herm Gilliam, 58, former NBA player for Portland Trailblazers
- Marla Ruzicka, 28, American activist and aid worker, car bombing
- Vishnu Kant Shastri, 76, Indian politician
- Kay Walsh, 93, British actress
- Art Cross, 87, former Indianapolis 500 driver
- John Fred, 63, 1960s pop singer Judy in Disguise
- Margaretta Scott, 93, English actress, Mrs. Pumphrey in All Creatures Great and Small
- Duilio Spagnolo, 77?, Italian boxer, former heavyweight contender
- Aloua Fatu'utolu Tupou, (age unreported), defense minister of Tonga (heart failure).
- Benny Bailey, 79, jazz trumpeter
- Saunders Mac Lane, 95, US mathematician
- John Laurent, 83, Maine landscape and seascape painter
- Don Blasingame, 73, a MLB All-Star, who also managed two of Japan's professional baseball teams
- Tutti Camarata, 91, musician, leader of "Tutti's Trumpets" and co-founder of Disneyland Records
- Julia Darling, 48, novelist and poet
- Libby Dengrove, 86, former courtroom artist during 1960s and 1970s for NBC
- Wolfgang Droege, 55, founder of the Canadian white supremacist group the Heritage Front, shot to death
- Kay Gardella, 82, television critic for the New York Daily News, cancer
- Johnnie Johnson, 80, musician
- Nikola Ljubicic, 89, president of Serbia from 1982 to 1984
- Philip Pavia, 94, American sculptor
- Philippe Volter, 45, Belgian actor, suicide
- Nathaniel Weyl, 94, writer, economist who testified in the Alger Hiss case
- Juan Zanotto, 69, Italian-Argentinian comic book artist
- Peter Bramley, 60, cartoonist, first National Lampoon art director [6]
- Bill Jones, 69, former Sacramento Kings athletic trainer, cancer
- Franciszek Karwowski, 109, oldest living Polish soldier
- Ehud Manor, 63, Israeli songwriter
- John Brosnan, 57, British resident Australian writer and film critic, acute pancreatitis (death may have occurred several days earlier).
- André François, 89, French cartoonist [7]
- Maurice Hilleman, 85, microbiologist
- David Hughes, 74, British novelist
- Lucien Laurent, 97, French football player, scored the first ever goal at a World Cup
- Margo Skinner, 55, American Broadway actress
- Carl Abrahams, 93, Jamaican painter
- Norbert Brainin, 82, Austrian violinist and founder of the Amadeus Quartet
- Raúl Gibb Guerrero, 53, Mexican newspaper editor, hitman shooting
- Archbishop Iakovos, 93, former primate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America (1959–1996)
- Al Lucas, 26, ex-National Football League player; spinal cord injury suffered playing an Arena Football League game
- Faith McNulty, 86, American writer
- Cesar Civita, 99, Argentinian publisher (Editorial Abril)
- Andrea Dworkin, 58, radical feminist writer and anti-pornography activist
- Nasri Maalouf, 94, Lebanese politician.
- Scott Mason, 28, Tasmanian cricketer [8]
- Yoshitaro Nomura, 85, Japanese film director
- Chalmers Roberts, 94, American diplomatic correspondent and author
- Onna White, 83, Broadway choreographer
- Nevio Zeccara, 81?, Italian comic book artist
- Cliff Allison, 73, former Formula One driver
- Grigoris Bithikotsis, 82, Greek singer
- Charlotte Huck, 82, American children's literature author
- Minnie Kearby, 111, supercentenarian, oldest resident of Indiana
- Bob Kennedy, 84, a former MLB player and manager, who hit the first grand slam in Baltimore Orioles history and was the Oakland Athletics first manager
- Charles Kuentz, 108, last living French World War I veteran to fight for Germany, cardiac arrest
- Jose Melis, 85, former bandleader for The Tonight Show
- Yvonne Vera, 40, novelist from Zimbabwe
- Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, 81, reigning Prince of Monaco since 1949
- Frank Conroy, 69, memoirist and head of the University of Iowa's famous Iowa Writers' Workshop
- Anthony DePalma, 100, doctor, teacher, and humanitarian
- Gene Hazelton, 85, cartoonist
- Francisco Laudadio, 55, Italian film director
- Saul Bellow, 89, Nobel Prize-winning author
- Ura Koyama, 114, supercentenarian, oldest in Japan since 2003, died of pneumonia
- Sir Edwin Leather, 85, governor of Bermuda from 1973 to 1977
- Dale Messick, 98, creator of the Brenda Starr comic strip
- Debralee Scott, 52, actress, starred on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
- Judith Weiner, 56, American film and TV casting director
- Neil Welliver, 75, landscape painter mainly in his native Maine
- Becky Zerlentes, 34, American amateur boxer, first amateur to die as a consequence of a fight in five years.
- Edward Bronfman, 77, Canadian businessman and philanthropist, colon cancer
- Simon Blumenfeld, 97, English novelist, playwright and columnist
- Blanchette Brunoy, 86, French actress
- Frank Clair, 87, CFL coach with the Toronto Argonauts and Ottawa Rough Riders, heart failure
- Betty Bolton, 99, English actress and singer
- Alexander Brott, 90, Canadian composer, conductor and violinist
- Tony Croatto, 65 Italian-Puerto Rican composer-singer, lung and brain cancer
- John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła), 84, Polish Roman Catholic Pope, died after a lengthy illness.
- Eddie Moss, 45, former Syracuse and CBA player, cancer
- John O'Leary, 58, Former U.S. ambassador to Chile, Lou Gehrig's disease
- Jacques Poitrenaud, 83, French filmmaker
- Jacques Rabemananjara, 92, Madagascan politician, foreign minister from 1967 to 1972.
- Cheryl Barrymore, 56, former wife and agent of British TV entertainer Michael Barrymore, lung cancer
- William Fitzgerald 87, former broadcast news editor for the Associated Press
- Lazare Gionet, 108, Canadian World War I veteran
- Harald Juhnke, 75, German entertainer
- Jack Keller, 68, songwriter, wrote themes to Bewitched and Gidget
- Samuel Krachmalnick, 79, Broadway and classical orchestral conductor, notably the premiere of Candide by Leonard Bernstein
- Robert Coldwell Wood, 81, second Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, appointed by Lyndon B. Johnson in 1969. Later University of Massachusetts President 1970–1977.
- Takio Zushi, 58, Japanese actor
March 2005
- Frank Perdue, 84, poultry magnate
- Terri Schiavo, 41, US persistent vegetative state patient, died amidst much controversy after removal of gastric feeding tube
- Hideaki Sekiguchi, 38, known as Billy, Guitar Wolf bassist, heart attack [9]
- Thomas J. Brazaitis, 64, columnist correspondent and newspaper editor
- Robert Creeley, 78, poet, died of complications from respiratory disease.
- Alan Dundes, 70, world-renowned folklorist, who was central in establishing folklore as a discipline, apparent heart attack while teaching.
- Milton Green, 91, former record holder in hurdles, boycotted the 1936 Summer Olympics as a protest against Adolf Hitler.
- Mitch Hedberg, 37, comedian, heart attack.
- Fred Korematsu, 86, Japanese-American civil rights leader, respiratory illness
- Derrick Plourde, 33, former drummer of two California punk bands (Lagwagon and the Ataris), suicide.
- Ootupulackal Velukkuty Vijayan, 74, Indian author and cartoonist
- Johnnie Cochran, 67, lawyer, defended O.J. Simpson; brain tumor
- Howell Heflin, 83, former U.S. Senator from Alabama
- John McTernan, 94, US civil-rights lawyer
- Tom Bevill, 84, former US Congressman from Alabama
- Dave Freeman. 82, scriptwriter (Benny Hill, Carry On films, etc.)
- Hermann Lause, 66, German actor
- Emmy Lopes Dias, 85, Dutch actress
- Pál Losonczi, 85, former chairman of the Presidential Council of Hungary (head of state)
- Dame Moura Lympany, 89, British classical pianist
- Bob Casey, 79, PA announcer for the Minnesota Twins
- Grant Johannesen, 83, American classical pianist and composer
- Joaquín Luqui, 57, Spanish musical journalist
- Antonio Tellez, 84, Anarchist Historian and journalist.
- Rigo Tovar, 58, popular Mexican singer and composer
- Ahmed Zaki, 56, Egyptian actor, lung cancer
- Fernando Jiménez del Oso, 63, Spanish, parapsychologist
- Bengt Bedrup, 76, Swedish journalist
- James Callaghan, 92, former British Prime Minister
- Brandon Falkner, 21?, Arizona State University NCAA football player, murdered
- Paul Hester, 46, Australian musician, former drummer of Crowded House and Split Enz
- Marius Russo, 90, former baseball pitcher, member of 1941 and 1943 World Series Yankees teams
- Georgeanna Seegar Jones, 92, American scientist and endocrinologist
- Colin Willock, 86, helped create the Survival wildlife program
- Greg Garrison, 81, TV producer and director (The Dean Martin Show, Your Show of Shows)
- Paul Henning, 93, TV producer, creator of the Beverly Hillbillies
- Davis McCaughey, 90, former Governor of Victoria, Australia
- David P. Bushnell, 91, founder of Bushnell Optical binoculars; non-Hodgkins lymphoma.
- Arthur E. Cook, 109, World War I veteran
- Charles Antalosky, 67, Broadway actor
- Naftali Halberstam, 74, Grand Rabbi of the Bobov sect of the Hasidim
- David Kossoff, 85, British actor, father of Free guitarist Paul Kossoff
- Bob Vetrone, 79, American newspaper columnist
- Clemente Domínguez y Gómez, 58, Spanish antipope self-proclaimed Gregory XVII in 1978
- Gemini Ganesan, 84, Indian actor
- Edward Moskal, 80, president of the Polish American Congress
- Simon Nyandwi, 55, interior minister of Burundi and former rebel official; heart attack
- Rod Price, 57, guitarist and founding member of Foghat
- Kenzo Tange, 91, Japanese architect
- Ge Zhenlin, 88, Chinese war hero [10]
- Barney Martin, 82, actor, played Morty Seinfeld on Seinfeld
- Stanley Sadie, 74, musicologist and critic
- Bobby Short, 80, cabaret singer and pianist; leukemia
- Jeff Weise, 16, school shooter
- Walter Hopps, 72, American art dealer and gallery owner
- Walter Reuter, 99, German photographer
- Andrew Toti, 89, American inventor of the Mae West inflatable life vest
- Hellema, 84, Dutch writer and resistance fighter
- John De Lorean, 80, U.S. car designer and manufacturer.
- Gary Bertini, 77, Israeli musician and conductor
- Sol Linowitz, 91, U.S. diplomat and entrepreneur
- Jessica Lunsford, 9, kidnapping and rape victim (body found)
- Maria Rosseels, 88, Belgian writer and journalist
- Theodor Uppman, 85, American operatic baritone, created title role in Britten's Billy Budd
- Royce Frith, 81, Canadian senator
- John J.Gallagher, 79, cartoonist, brother of Heathcliff creator George Gallagher [11]
- Prentice Gautt, 67, former NFL player
- Lalo Guerrero, 88, father of Chicano music
- Justin Hinds, 62, Jamaican vocalist and songwriter
- Sverre Holm, 73, Norwegian actor
- Ramez J. Isa, 87, former Prime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles
- George F. Kennan, 101, U.S. diplomat and historian
- David Little, 46, former Pittsburgh Steelers player
- Andre Norton, 93, science fiction and fantasy author
- Czeslaw Slania, 83, Polish-Swedish stamp engraver
- Mikko Talvitie, 59, director general of the Finnish Board of Aviation
- Todd Bell, 47, former Chicago Bears player
- Ralph Erskine, 91, architect (Byker Wall).
- Anthony George, 84, actor
- Allan Hendrickse, 77, South African politician
- Chris van der Klaauw, 80, Dutch diplomat, former foreign minister of the Netherlands
- William Lehman, 91, represented Dade County, Florida in U.S. Congress
- Dick Radatz, 67, former baseball player
- Lady Callaghan of Cardiff, 89, wife of Jim Callaghan
- Betsy Cronkite, 89, journalist and wife of Walter Cronkite
- Don Durant, 82, singer/actor, star of Johnny Ringo series
- Loe de Jong, 90, Dutch historian
- Eduard J. Guebelin, 91, authored famous study on diamonds
- Bill McGarry, 77, football manager
- Bert Pronk, 54, Dutch racing cyclist
- Armand Seghers, 78, retired footballer, voted AA Gent's best player of the 20th century
- Sy Wexler, 88, maker of educational films
- Stanley H. Campbell, 74, former NFL player
- Tom Dillon, 86, American stage actor/performer, natural causes
- Janet Reger, 69, British designer of women's lingerie
- Dick Smyser, 81, American newspaper editor, asked question that led Richard Nixon to declare: "I'm not a crook."
- Simon Webb, 55, British chess grandmaster living in Sweden, stabbed to death by his son
- Akira Yoshizawa, 94, Japanese Origami master
- Lyn Collins, 56, soul singer, aka "Female Preacher"
- Winnie Dangerfield, 96, English child actor in silent films for the Clarendon studios [12] [13]
- Jason Evers, 83, star of B-movie Brain That Wouldn't Die
- Ahmed Hassan Diria, 67, Tanzanian politician and diplomat, foreign minister from 1990 to 1993.
- Danny Gardella, 85, a retired New York Giants outfielder who challenged baseball's reserve clause in a 1947 federal lawsuit
- Frank House, 75, retired Major League Baseball catcher and Alabama legislator
- Zouhair Yahyaoui, 36, Tunisian dissident.
- Charles R. Baxter, 75, American doctor, pneumonia, surgeon who tried to save JFK
- Lisa Fittko, 95, German WWII dissident who led Jews over the Pyrenees to freedom
- Stavros Kouyioumtzis, 73, prolific Greek songwriter
- Bartolo Mascarello, 78, Italian winemaker
- Bill Cameron, 62, Canadian journalist, cancer
- Aurelio Fierro, 81, famous in Italy for singing Neopolitan folk songs
- Stanley Grenz, 55, Christian Theologian
- Humphrey Spender, 94, British photojournalist, notably for Picture Post
- Dave Allen, 68, Irish comedian
- Danny Joe Brown, 53, lead singer for Molly Hatchet
- Chawki Deif, 95, head of the Academy of the Arabic Language
- Katherine Gray Lathrop, 89, pioneering researcher into nuclear medicine
- Zilka Salaberry, 82, Brazilian actress
- Glenn Davis, 80, Heisman Trophy winner, retired American football player, prostate cancer
- Sheila Gish, 62, English actress, primarily on stage
- Kathie Kay, 86, Scottish big band singer
- Chris LeDoux, 56, American country music and rodeo star; complications from liver cancer.
- William Murray, 78, American mystery novelist
- István Nyers, 80, retired Hungarian footballer
- Archbishop Roman Arrieta, 80, retired archbishop of Costa Rica
- Ross Benson, 56, British journalist for the Daily Mail and award-winning foreign correspondent
- Anna Haycraft, 72, British writer (also known as Alice Thomas Ellis)
- César Lattes, 80, Brazilian physicist, contributed to the physics of elementary particles and discovered the pion
- Aslan Maskhadov, 53, Chechen separatist leader, killed by Russian troops.
- Brigitte Mira, 94, German theatrical actress
- Jeremy Russell, 60, cofounding member of the band Blue Cheer
- Edwin Adams Cotto, 26, accused in the Laura Hernandez drug case; killed during a riot in a Dominican Republic jail
- Arod Levy III, ??, accused in the Laura Hernandez drug case; killed during riot in a Dominican Republic jail
- John Box, 85, film production designer, worked closely with David Lean
- Debra Hill, 54, screenwriter and film producer, co-writer of Halloween
- Philip Lamantia, 77, American surrealist poet
- Jozef Stank, 64, former Slovakian defense minister
- Hans Bethe, 98, Nobel Laureate in Physics, discover of stellar fusion
- Gladys Marín, 63, Chilean communist politician, cancer
- Chuck Thompson, 83, Baltimore Orioles broadcaster, complications of massive stroke
- Tommy Vance, 63, British radio DJ and TV host, stroke
- Teresa Wright, 86, actress, heart attack
- Harold Brooks-Baker, 71, U.S.-born publishing director of Burke's Peerage Limited
- Sergiu Comissiona, 76, Romanian orchestra conductor
- Benedetto Di Santo, 105, Italian World War I veteran
- Morris Engel, 86, independent filmmaker
- Rt. Rev. Lord Sheppard of Liverpool, 75, former international cricketer and Church of England bishop, cancer
- Frank Tyler, 76, Broadway and film music arranger and orchestrator
- Nicola Calipari, 51, Italian intelligence officer, shot by the US army in Iraq
- Ernie De Vos, 63, racing driver, killed in a cycling accident.
- Una Hale, 82, operatic soprano
- Yuri Kravchenko, 53, former interior minister of Ukraine
- Carlos Sherman, 70, Uruguayan-born Belarusian translator and writer
- George Atkinson, 69, inventor of the video rental
- Max M. Fisher, 96, millionaire philanthropist listed in Forbes 400
- Dorris Henderson, 72, 60's and 70's folksinger
- Viva McComb, 110, supercentenarian, oldest living Texan
- Rinus Michels, 77, former Dutch national football team coach
- Guylaine St. Onge, 39, Canadian actress, cancer
- Joe Carter, 78, a member of the Carter Family folk singers
- Martin Denny, 93, founder of exotica musical genre, bandleader
- Hermann Dörnemann, 111, World War I veteran declared Germany's oldest living person, heart failure
- Tillie Fowler, 62, U.S. politician, former four-term Florida congresswoman
- Rick Mahler, 51, retired American baseball pitcher, heart attack
- Corrado Pani, 69, Italian actor
- Rigter Roegholt, 79, Dutch historian
- Cissy van Bennekom, 93, Dutch film actress
- Reverend Walter Halloran, 83, priest who participated in the exorcism on which The Exorcist was based
- Brian Luckhurst, 66, English cricket player, cancer
- Peter Malkin, 77, Israeli Mossad agent, the man who captured Adolf Eichmann
February 2005
- Pietro Ardito, 85?, Argentinian comic book artist living in Italy
- Chris Curtis, 63, drummer with The Searchers
- Mario Luzi, 90, Italian poet
- Umberto Manfrin, 77, Italian comic book artist
- Noll Scott, 51, British journalist
- Carl Taseff, 76, former NFL defensive back and assistant coach
- Max Faulkner, 88, British golfer
- Henry Grunwald, 82, former managing editor of TIME and U.S. ambassador to Austria 1988–90
- Sidney Hart, 90, British trade unionist and religious administrator, natural causes
- Witness Mangwende, 59, Zimbabwean politician and diplomat, foreign minister from 1981 to 1987.
- Jef Raskin, 61, creator of the Apple Macintosh, pancreatic cancer
- Peter Benenson, 83, founder of Amnesty International.
- Phoebe Hesketh, 96, British poet
- Don LeJohn, 70, former Los Angeles Dodgers third baseman
- Norberto "Pappo" Napolitano, 54, Argentine blues and rock n' roll guitarist and composer
- Edward Patten, 66, member of Gladys Knight & The Pips
- Atef Sedki, 74, former prime minister of Egypt
- Sir Glanmor Williams, 84, Welsh historian
- Thadée Cisowski, 78, retired footballer, scored 206 goals in the French top divison, making him its 4th highest scorer of all-time
- Robin Jenkins, 92, Scottish novelist, author of "The Cone-Gatherers" and "Fergus Lamont"
- Hugh Nibley, 94, historian primarily concerned with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Gustavo Vázquez Montes, 42, incumbent governor of Colima, Mexico, aviation accident
- Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski, 82, German politician and former cabinet minister
- Tom Patterson, 84, founder of the Stratford Festival of Canada
- Henk Zeevalking, 82, Dutch politician
- David F. Bradford, 61, former U.S. presidential advisor and professor at Princeton University
- Father Luigi Giussani, 82, founder of the "Communion and Liberation" Catholic youth movement
- Lee Eun Ju (이은주), 24, Korean actress, suicide
- Trude Rittmann, 96, Broadway dance and vocal music arranger
- Reggie Roby, 43, retired NFL punter
- Harry Simeone, 94, helped create Christmas songs like Little Drummer Boy
- Simone Simon, 94, French actress
- Zdzislaw Beksinski, 75, Polish painter and fantasy artist, murder
- Ara Berberian, 74, Bass with the New York City Metropolitan Opera
- Isabelle Goldenson, 84, co-founder of United Cerebral Palsy
- Guillermo Cabrera Infante, 75, exiled Cuban writer
- Robert Koff, 86, founding member of the Juilliard String Quartet
- Josef Metternich, 69, German operatic baritone
- Dr. Gene Scott, 75, U.S. televangelist and author
- Ernest Vandiver, 86, former governor of the U.S. state of Georgia (1959–1963)
- Raymond Mhlaba, 92, South African political leader
- Pam Bricker, jazz vocalist and music professor, suicide
- Sandra Dee, 62, American actress, kidney failure and pneumonia
- Dalene Matthee, 67, Afrikaans-South African author, heart failure
- John Raitt, 88, classic Broadway star and father of Bonnie Raitt, pneumonia
- Hunter S. Thompson, 67, American journalist, suicide
- Jimmy Young, 56, American boxer, heart failure
- Richard Lupino, 75? Member of the famous English Lupino acting family
- Kihachi Okamoto (岡本喜八), 82, Japanese film director, esophageal cancer
- Uli Derickson, 60, airline stewardess, protagonist in 1985 airplane hijacking
- John Ebstein, 92, industrial designer [14]
- Robert R. Merhige, Jr., 86, U.S. district court judge
- F. M. Busby, 83, American science fiction writer
- Peter Foy, 79, American, theatrical flying effects specialist
- Jens Martin Knudsen, 74, Danish astrophysicist
- César Marcelak, 92, French cycling champion
- Dan O'Herlihy, 85, Irish film actor
- Omar Sivori, 69, Argentinian and Italian footballer
- Nicephore Soglo, 70, former President of Benin
- Harald Szeemann, 71, Swiss curator and art historian
- Nicole DeHuff, 30, American actress, Meet the Parents, pneumonia.
- William Gibson, 82, American independent film producer and director
- Russ Klar, 90, US auto racer
- Narriman Sadek (Nariman Sadeq), 70, ex-wife of King Farouk, last queen of Egypt
- Marcello Viotti, 50, Italian conductor
- Frederick Vosburgh, 100, National Geographic editor
- Gerry Wolff, 84, German actor
- Cecilia Cubas, 32, daughter of former President of Paraguay Raúl Cubas Grau, kidnap victim (body found)
- Pierre Bachelet, 60, French singer
- Samuel Francis, 57, U.S. political columnist
- Dudu Geva, 54, Israeli cartoonist
- Najai Turpin, 23, boxer, participant in boxing reality show "The Contender", suicide
- Ron Burgess, 87, former footballer with Tottenham Hotspur and Wales
- Tatiana Gritsi-Milliex, 85, Greek novelist and journalist
- Rafik Hariri, 60, twice Prime Minister of Lebanon, car bomb
- Aubelin Jolicoeur, 81, Haitian journalist and columnist
- Martin Perels, 44, Dutch actor
- Otto Plaschkes, 75, British movie producer, including Georgy Girl
- Dick Weber, 75, professional bowler, father of Pete Weber
- Nelson Briles, 61, retired American baseball pitcher
- Aldo Carotenuto, 71?, Italian psychoanalyst
- Sixten Ehrling, 86, Swedish conductor
- Mary Hallaren, 97, first woman to join the United States Army
- Ndiaga Mbaye, 57, Senegalese musician
- Lúcia dos Santos, 97, Portuguese nun, last survivor of the three shepherd children of the Fatima apparition in 1917
- Maurice Trintignant, 87, French racing driver, twice winner of the Monaco Grand Prix
- Marinus van der Goes van Naters, 104, Dutch politician
- Brian Kelly, 73, actor
- Alfred Sirven, 77, former Elf Aquitaine executive
- Sammi Smith, 61, US country singer, won Grammy for Help Me Make it Through the Night
- Dorothy Stang, 74, American nun, murdered in Anapu, Brazil
- Karl-Heinz Tuschel, 76, East German science fiction author
- Rafael Vidal, 41, Venezuelan Olympic medalist, car crash
- Samuel W. Alderson, 90, inventor of crash test dummies [15]
- Jack L. Chalker, 60, American science fiction writer
- Raymond Hermantier, 81, French actor
- Dénes Kovács, 74, Hungarian violinist
- Stan Richards, 74, British actor
- Humbert Balsan, 50, French film producer
- Allan Bromley, 79, physicist, presidential advisor
- Jean Cayrol, 93, French author
- Michel François-Poncet, 70, Paribas executive
- Ben Jones, 80, former prime minister and foreign minister of Grenada
- Arthur Miller, 89, American playwright, congestive heart failure
- Sylvia Rafael, 67, Mossad agent convicted of 1973 Lillehammer murder
- Tyrone Davis, 66, R&B singer (Turn Back The Hands Of Time), complications of a stroke
- Hanno Helbling, 74, Swiss journalist (NZZ)
- Robert Kearns, 77, inventor of intermittent windshield wipers [16]
- Kate Peyton, 39, BBC producer, shot in Mogadishu, Somalia
- Ursula Schröder-Feinen, 70, German soprano
- Marthe Wéry, 75, Belgian painter
- Luigi Barbero, 105, Italian World War I veteran
- Victor Castelli, 52, soloist with the New York City Ballet, pneumonia
- Helmut Eder, 88, Austrian composer
- George Herman, 85, journalist and moderator of CBS' Face the Nation for 15 years
- Keith Knudsen, 56, drummer for American rock band Doobie Brothers, pneumonia
- Nathalie Krassovska, 86, ballerina
- Gaston Rahier, 58, Belgian 125cc Motocross World Champion (1975–1977)
- Jimmy Smith, 76, Jazz organist
- Javier Tusell, 59, Spanish historian
- Penelope Aitken, 94, socialite and political hostess
- Nedžad Botonjič, 27, Slovenian footballer
- Steve Burgh, 54, record producer and session musician
- Atli Dam, 72, former Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
- Vinod Chandra Pande, 72, political figure in India, former governor of three states
- John Tiffen Patterson, 64, television and film director
- Madeleine Rebérioux, 84, French historian
- Paul Rebeyrolle, 78, French painter
- Jeremy Swan, 82, cardiologist, co-inventor of the Swan-Ganz heart catheter
- Janice Davis, 61, socialite and nurse, cancer
- Santo Ambulo, 104, Italian World War I veteran
- Lazar Berman, 74, classical pianist
- Elbert N. Carvel, 94, American politician, former governor of Delaware
- Hubert Curien, 80, French researcher, first president of European Space Agency
- Camilo Delgado, 75?, Puerto Rican television show host
- Karl Haas, 91, US classical music radio program host
- Merle Kilgore, 70, country music manager and songwriter
- Armin Müller, 76, German writer and painter
- Derick Daniels, 76, former president and chief executive of Playboy Enterprises
- Gnassingbe Eyadema, 67, president of Togo since 1967
- Bob McAdorey, 69, Canadian television and radio broadcaster
- David Measham, 67, UK conductor prominent in Australia
- Günter Reimann, 100, German economist
- Michalina Wisłocka, 84, Polish sexologist
- Carmine Alfano, 108, Italian World War I veteran
- Adriano Cerqueira, 66, Portuguese journalist and former news anchor at RTP, cancer
- Robert Brannum, 78, retired basketball player
- Ossie Davis, 87, actor and activist, natural causes
- Nils Egerbrandt, 78, Swedish cartoonist
- Gunhild Foerster, 111, supercentenarian, oldest documented person in Washington State
- Luis Sánchez, 51, former major league closer for the Angels [17]
- Corrado Cardinal Bafile, 101, Italian cardinal
- Joseph Anthony De Palma, 91, Bishop of De Aar, South Africa
- Malou Hallström, 63, Swedish actress, ex-wife of Lasse Hallström
- David Hönigsberg, 45, composer and conductor
- Ernst Mayr, 100, evolutionary biologist
- Rosie Sturgess, 84, Australian TV comedienne
- Raul Usupov, Georgian politician and deputy governor of the Kvemo Kartli region
- Zurab Zhvania, 41, Prime Minister of Georgia
- Yvon DesRochers, 59, head of the organizing committee of the 2005 World Aquatics Championships in Montreal, suicide
- Birgitte Federspiel, 79, Swedish actress (Babette's Feast, 1988)
- Svein Kvia, 57, retired Norwegian footballer
- Goffredo Lombardo, 83, Italian film producer
- Magomed Omarov, deputy Interior Minister of Dagestan
- Max Schmeling, 99, German world heavyweight boxing champion
- Werner Arnold, 74, Swiss cyclist (1950s)
- Henrique Canto e Castro, 75, Portuguese actor
- Olivier Dollfus, 73, French geographer
- Edward D. Freis, 92, physician
- Anderl Heckmair, 98, Austrian mountaineer, made first ascent of the Eiger north face
- Franco Mannino, 80, prolific Italian film and classical composer
- John Vernon, 72, Canadian actor, following heart surgery
January 2005
- Stanley Ronald (Ron) Basford, 72, Canadian cabinet minister (1970s)
- Nel Benschop, 87, Dutch poetess
- Yutsuko Chusonji, 42, Japanese manga artist noted for her "oyaji gal" stories
- Horace Hagedorn, 89, developer and marketer of Miracle-Gro plant food
- Malcolm Hardee, 55, alternative comedian and compere, drowning
- Erich Kaestner, 93, German Oscar winner for camera design
- Robert McCartney, 33, IRA murder victim
- H. Narasimhaiah, 84, physicist, educator and rationalist from Bangalore
- Ivan Noble, 37, BBC journalist, brain tumour
- Wolfgang Becker, 94, German film and television director
- Martyn Bennett, 33, Scottish musician, cancer
- Dario Sala, 92, Italian inventor of Das, writer
- Toni Berger, 83, German actor
- Eric Griffiths, 64, member of pre-Beatles The Quarrymen
- Jean Hengen, 92, first Archbishop of Luxembourg
- Karl Heinz Jacoby, 86, Auxiliary Bishop of Trier
- Ephraim Kishon, 80, Israeli satirist, dramatist, screenwriter, and film director
- José Luis Martinez, 34, Spanish shot put champion
- Bill Shadel, 96, United States journalist who covered D-Day and moderated a 1960 Presidential Debate
- Ron Tomme, 73, former USA actor primarily in soaps
- Joan Tompkins, 89, film and TV actress
- Guus Zoutendijk, 74, Dutch politician and businessman
- Karen Bach, 32, French adult film performer
- Christian Bieniek, 48, German writer and childbook author
- Daniel Branca, 53, Argentinian Disney comic book artist
- Jim Capaldi, 60, British rock musician and songwriter (Traffic), stomach cancer
- Lucien Carr, 79, UPI editor, early Beat generation figure
- Christian Christensen, 78, Danish former European middle-weight boxing champion
- Jacques Villeret, 53, French actor and comedian
- Gilbert Bennion, 106, one of four remaining Australian veterans of World War I
- Donald Dempsey Sr., 72?, American recording executive who helped launch Ozzy Osbourne and Merle Haggard
- Shoaib Khan, 40?, Pakistani criminal organization leader, heart attack in jail
- Nick McDonald, 76, United States Dallas police officer who arrested Lee Harvey Oswald after the JFK assassination
- Aurélie Nemours, 94, French painter
- Jonathan Welsh, 67?, Canadian actor of stage, television and film
- Roy Fraser Elliott, 83, Canadian lawyer and philanthropist
- Rudi Falkenhagen, 71, Dutch actor, throat cancer
- Cordelia Scaife May, 76, sister of billionaire Richard Scaife and one of the world's richest people
- Josie MacAvin, 85, Oscar and Emmy winning set decorator
- William Augustus Bootle, 102, United States district judge who helped oversee desegregation in the US south
- Philip Johnson, 98, United States architect
- Vicky LaMotta, 75, ex-wife of American boxer Jake LaMotta
- Ray Peterson 65, United States popular singer (Tell Laura I Love Her), cancer
- Max Velthuijs, 81, Dutch writer and illustrator
- Nettie Witziers-Timmer, 81, Dutch athlete
- Dieter Zehentmayr, 63, Austrian caricaturist
- June Bronhill, 75, Australian opera and operetta singer, known for The Merry Widow
- Vladimir Savchenko, 72, Ukrainian science fiction writer
- Chalkie White, 76, rugby union coach
- Morys George Lyndhurst Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare, 85, former Deputy Speaker of the UK House of Lords
- Johnny Carson, 79, United States comedian and television host, emphysema
- Douglas Knight, 83, former president of Lawrence University and Duke University
- Charles Martin, 45, retired American football player, kidney ailment
- Mutsuko Sakura (桜むつ子), 83, Japanese actress, lung cancer
- Sir William Deakin, 91, British WWII hero and founder of St. Antony's College at Oxford University
- John Gibel, 56, comic strip writer (Flo & Friends)
- César Gutiérrez, 61, one of three players in Major League Baseball history with a 7-for-7 game
- Carlo Orelli, 110, supercentenarian, oldest Italian veteran of World War I
- Patsy Rowlands, 71, British actress, known for her roles in the Carry On films, breast cancer
- William Trager, 94, American malaria researcher
- Consuelo Velázquez, 88, Mexican songwriter and lyricist, and author of the enduring song "Bésame mucho"
- Rose Mary Woods, 87, former Nixon secretary and key Watergate figure [18]
- Steve Susskind, 62, American voice-over actor
- Parveen Babi, 49, Indian actress
- John L. Hess, 87, journalist
- Don Poier, 53, United States NBA basketball announcer for the Memphis Grizzlies
- Carl Schlettwein, 79, founder of Basler Afrika Bibliographien
- Theun de Vries, 97, Dutch writer
- Per Borten, 91, former Prime Minister of Norway
- Beverly Dennis, 79, actress on The Red Buttons Show who later became a psychotherapist
- Roland Frye, American English literature professor and theologian
- Dick Gallagher, 49, Off-Broadway composer
- Christel Justen, 47, German swimmer, 1974 European champion
- Jan Nowak-Jeziorański, 91, Polish journalist and highly decorated World War II hero, head of the Radio Free Europe Polish section
- Chuck Olin, 68, filmmaker known for his 1998 documentary about the only all-Jewish fighting unit during World War II
- Miriam Rothschild, 96, British zoologist, entomologist and author
- Bill Andersen, 90, New Zealand communist and trade union leader
- Donald Beardslee, 61, United States murderer, executed in San Quentin State Prison, California
- Cal Bolder, 74, bodybuilder and actor
- K. Sello Duiker, 30, South African novelist, suicide
- Hans Gratzer, 63, Austrian director and theatre manager
- Ardyth Kennelly, 92, US novelist whose books were popular in the 1940s and 50s
- Anita Kulcsár, 28, Hungarian handball player
- Ricardo Suriñach, 76, Catholic Bishop of Ponce, Puerto Rico (2000-2003), natural causes
- Lamont Bentley, 31, television and film actor, car crash
- Bernard Béreau, 64, French footballer
- Gabriella Brune, 92, British actress
- Bob Moch, 90, 1936 Summer Olympics Rowing Gold Medal Winner
- George Walker, 78, volcanologist
- Peter Whatley, former professional wrestler under the name Pez Whatley
- Charlie Bell, 44, former CEO of McDonald's, colon cancer
- Christina Gunnardo, 54, Swedish musician
- Hildegard Joos, 95, Austrian painter
- Virginia Mayo, 84, United States actress, notably in the 1940s and 1950s
- Albert Schatz, 84, microbiologist, discoverer of streptomycin
- Zhao Ziyang, 85, former Chinese Communist Party General Secretary, complications of multiple strokes
- Daniel Zufferey, 35, French language author
- H. Bentley Glass, 98, United States biologist, known for controversial views [19]
- Agustín González, 74, prolific Spanish film actor
- Roger Ibanez, 73, French actor
- Ndongo Lô, 30, Senegalese singer (Mbalax)
- Marjorie Williams, 47, United States Washington Post columnist and contributing editor for Vanity Fair
- Victoria de los Angeles, 81, Spanish soprano
- Deem Bristow, 57, video game voice actor
- William H. Crosby Jr., 90, pioneering hematologist
- Walter Ernsting, 84, German science fiction author (Perry Rhodan)
- Elizabeth Janeway, 91, United States feminist author
- Fred Julsing, 62, Dutch comic book artist
- Dan Lee, 35, animator for the movie Finding Nemo
- Werner Lesser, 72?, German ski jumper
- Henk Molleman, 69, Dutch politician and civil servant
- Sven Christer Swahn, 71, Swedish writer and translator
- Ruth Warrick, 89, United States actress best known for Citizen Kane and All My Children, of pneumonia
- Dennis Flanagan, 85, United States Long time editor of Scientific American
- Ofelia Guilmain, 83, Spanish film and stage actress, worked mostly in Mexico after the Spanish Civil War
- Alfred Hause, 84, German composer and conductor
- Charlotte MacLeod, 82, United States mystery writer
- Conroy Maddox, 92, British surrealist painter
- Carl Mohner, 88, German artist and actor
- Rudolph Moshammer, 64, German fashion designer
- Georges Piroué, 85, French language writer
- Jesús Soto, 81, Venezuelan kinetic artist [20]
- Earl Cameron, 89?, Canadian broadcaster and The National-anchor (1959–1966)
- Nell Rankin, 81, United States mezzo-soprano opera singer, sang with the Metropolitan Opera for many years
- Manfred Fuhrmann, 79, German philologist
- Achille Maramotti, 78, Italian fashion entrepreneur
- Sal Pacino, 82, United States character actor, father of actor Al Pacino
- Amrish Puri, 72, Indian actor, massive cerebral hemorrhage (he played the evil priest Mola Ram in the movie Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom)
- Edmund S. Valtman, 90, Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist
- Spencer Dryden, 61, drummer for American rock band Jefferson Airplane, cancer
- Jean-Luc Fugaldi, 58, French footballer
- James Griffin, 61, member of 1970s rock band Bread
- Miriam Hyde, 91, Australian composer (Valley of Rocks)
- J.R. "Bud" McCaig, 75, co-owner of the NHL's Calgary Flames
- Fabrizio Meoni, 47, Italian motorcyclist, died after crashing on the 11th stage of the Paris Dakar Rally
- Ruth Packer, 94, British soprano, famous for playing Verdi heroines
- Jerzy Pawlowski, 72, Polish Olympic champion in fencing
- Thelma White, 94, United States actress, starred in Reefer Madness
- Gene Baylos, 98, comedian
- Margherita Carosio, 96, Italian soprano
- Fernand Cazenave, 80, French rugby player and coach
- Tommy Fine, 90, who pitched in Major League Baseball for the Boston Red Sox and St. Louis Browns in the 1940s and 50s
- James Forman, 76, United States former executive secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, colon cancer
- Erwin Hillier, 93, British cinematographer
- Gordon John "Jack" Horner, 91?, Minnesota sports journalist
- Grand Duchess Joséphine-Charlotte of Luxembourg, 77, Princess of Belgium, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.
- Helmut Losch, 57, East German heavyweight weightlifting champion
- Amer Ali Nayef, deputy police chief of Baghdad, shot together with his son [21]
- Jose Manuel Perez, 41, Spanish motorcyclist after crashing 6 January on the 7th stage of the Paris Dakar Rally, internal injuries [22]
- Werner Quintens, 67, Belgian clergyman
- Jan Pieter Cardinal Schotte, 76, Belgian official of the Roman Curia, cardinal since 1994
- Fritz Aigner, 74, Austrian painter
- Gonzalo Gavira, 79, sound effects creator, The Exorcist, The Towering Inferno
- Bernard Goodall, 67, businessman and former Reading F.C. footballer
- Koji Hashimoto, 68, Japanese film Director and Assistant Director
- Badja D'jola, 56, African-American film actor
- Jacqueline Joubert, 83, one of the first television presenters on French TV
- Suad Katana, 35, Bosnian footballer
- Campbell McComas, 52, Australian impersonator, raconteur, broadcaster, chameleon
- Warren Spears, 50, choreographer, dancer
- Michel Thomas, 90, Polish linguist and teacher
- David White, 50, British Commander of British forces on Gibraltar, found dead in his swimming-pool
- Pierre Daninos, 91, French novelist (The Diary of Major Thompson)
- Eileen Desmond, 72, former Irish politician, Minister for Health & Social Welfare (1981-1982)
- Ernst Deubelbeiss, 84, Swiss convicted of the 1951 murder of Armin Bannwart
- Bernard "Buddy" Diliberto, 73, United States sports commentator in New Orleans, massive heart attack
- Rosemary Kennedy, 86, sister of John F. Kennedy
- Rossana Maiorca, 54?, Italian free-diver, daughter of Enzo Maiorca
- Ivar Medaas, 66, Norwegian musician
- Hans Walder, 84, Prosecutor General of the Swiss Confederation (1968–1973)
- Lois Hole, 71, Lieutenant Governor of Alberta
- Jürg von Känel, 53, climber, mountain guide, writer of guide books
- Makgatho Mandela, 54, South African last surviving son of Nelson Mandela, AIDS
- Louis Robichaud, 79, Canadian former premier of New Brunswick
- Ali Šukrija, 85, Yugoslav communist politician from [Kosovo]]
- Sir Nicholas Scott, 71, British politician
- Antonio Benítez Rojo, 73, Cuban writer
- Eduardo Hay, 89, Mexican IOC member (since 1974), professor of gynaecology
- René Le Henaff, 102?, early French director and editor, sued Charlie Chaplin for plagiarism over City Lights
- Danny Sugerman, 50, manager for The Doors
- Humphrey Carpenter, 58, British biographer and broadcaster
- Paul Darragh, 51, Irish equestrian showjumper, suspected heart failure
- Ali Al-Haidri, ?, Iraqi governor of Baghdad province, assassinated
- Frank Harary, 84, mathematician, a foremost expert on graph theory
- Robert Heilbroner, 85, United States economist
- Bud Poile, 80, retired right wing for Toronto and Detroit in the 1940s and 50s, member of Hockey Hall of Fame
- Alton Tobey, 90, United States muralist and painter
- JN Dixit, 68, Indian national security adviser and former foreign secretary
- Will Eisner, 87, United States comic book artist and pioneering graphic novelist
- Koo Chen-fu (辜振甫), 88, Chinese negotiator with the PRC
- John Lawrence, 70, United States Los Angeles Times business journalist
- Claude Meillassoux, 79, French anthropologist and economist
- H. David Dalquist, 86, founder of Nordic Ware, creator of Bundt cake pan
- Arnold Denker, 90, United States chess player
- Cyril Fletcher, 91, British comedian and star of That's Life.
- Frank Kelly Freas, 82, United States science fiction artist
- Ronald 'Bo' Ginn, 70, United States former U.S. Congressman from Georgia
- Maclyn McCarty, 93, geneticist and DNA research pioneer
- Edo Murtić, 83, Croatian painter
- Charles Paul Wilp, 72, German photographer
- Shirley Chisholm, 80, United States first black woman ever to serve in the U.S. Congress
- Hugh John Frederick Lawson, 6th Baron Burnham, 73, British Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords and former deputy managing director of the Daily Telegraph
- Bob Matsui, 63, United States Democratic Party member of the House of Representatives
- Paul Michaelis, 90, German painter and graphist
- Dmitri Nelyubin, 33, Russian cyclist, stabbed to death
- Willem Scholten, 77, Dutch former politician
- Charles Watson, 105, British World War I veteran
External links and references
- Specialised websites
- Find a Grave – Millions of Cemetery Records
- Dead People Server
- Life in Legacy: Week in Review
- The Blog of Death
- GenealogyBuff.com Obituary Search
- Online Searchable Death Indexes and Records: US genealogy directory
- Operation Iraqi Freedom – US Combat Deaths
- Obituary Central – index to obituary search engines arranged geographically
- Obituary Links Page – state-by-state directory of obituary resources
- Obituaries on general news websites
- Newsgroup: alt.obituaries
For earlier deaths, see Deaths in 2004, Deaths in 2003, Deaths in 2002, Deaths in 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995...
April 2005
- Fenimola Farinelli-Beghetti, 110, Italian supercentenarian
- Sherman Loudermilk, 92, Emmy Award nominated art director
- Ron Todd, 78, former general secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union
- Jimmy Woode, 78, jazz bassist [23]
- William J. Bell, 78, soap opera creator (The Young and the Restless, The Bold and the Beautiful)
- Mel Gussow, 71, theatre critic
- Sara Henderson, 69, author
- Mariana Levy, 39, Mexican actress, heart attack following a robbery attempt
- Johnnie Stewart, 87, TV producer (creator of Top of the Pops)
- Capt. Paul Barkley, 88, World War II veteran, Cuban Missile Crisis commander
- Chris Candito, 33, professional wrestler; blood clot from surgery complications
- Percy Heath, 81, bassist for the Modern Jazz Quartet
- Ed Schantz, 96, Botulin toxin researcher and "grandfather of Botox"
- Zeke Zekley, 90, American cartoonist
- Abdus Samad Azad, 83, former foreign minister of Bangladesh
- Lord Orme of Salford, 82, British politician
- Dr. Howard W. Johnston, 91, principal founder of the Free University of Berlin.[24]
- Mason Adams, 86, American actor
- Hasil Adkins, 67, Rockabilly musician
- Gordon Campbell, Baron Campbell of Croy, 83, Scottish politician
- Red Horner, 95, former NHL player with the Toronto Maple Leafs, was oldest living member of the Hockey Hall of Fame
- Léon Navarre, 105, youngest living French WWI veteran
- Augusto Roa Bastos, 87, Paraguayan writer, winner of the Premio Cervantes
- Johnny Sample, 67, former NFL player
- Maria Schell, 79, actress
- Robert J. Schiffer, 88, Legendary Hollywood makeup artist
- Howard Benedict, 77, AP aerospace correspondent, popularized use of word "orbit", natural causes [25]
- Tunney Hunsaker, 75, Muhammad Ali's first professional boxing opponent
- John Love, 80, former Formula One driver
- Josef Nesvadba, 78, Czech psychiatrist and science fiction author
- Johann Emil Rösch, 107, German WWI veteran
- Alexander James Trotman, Lord Trotman, 71, former head of Ford Motor Company and later a life peer
- Emanuele Curto, 29, Italian rally driver
- Jack Gleason, 85, American film editor
- Francesco Pozzi, 35, Italian rally driver
- Fei Xiaotong, 94, pioneering Chinese anthropologist and sociologist
- Ezer Weizman, 80, former Israeli president
- Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen, 94, Australian political celebrity; longest-serving Premier of Queensland.
- Andre Gunder Frank, 76, German economic historian, proponent of dependency theory
- Al Grassby, 78, Australian former politician and minister in the Whitlam government.
- Sir John Mills, 97, Oscar-winning British actor.
- Romano Scarpa, 78, Italian Disney comic book artist
- Earl Wilson, 70, a leading pitcher for the 1968 World Series champion Detroit Tigers and first black pitcher to throw a no-hitter in Major League Baseball.
- Albert "Gus" Wing, 55, American cameraman known for skydiving shots
- Dr. Joseph Bogen, 78, American neurosurgeon, epileptic seizure researcher
- Robert Farnon, 87, Grammy Award winning arranger, composer
- Mary Dann, early 80s, American Indian activist
- Erika Fuchs, 98, German Disney Comics editor and translator
- Philip Morrison, 89, Physicist and group leader in the Manhattan Project
- Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, 81, Scottish sculptor [26]
- Leonid Shamkovich, 81 ex-Soviet grandmaster chess player
- Zhang Chunqiao, 88, member of the Gang of Four
- Gwynfor Evans, 92, Welsh politician.
- Bob Gardiner, 54, Academy Award winning clay animator
- Feroze Khan, 100, Pakistani field hockey player, Olympic Champion 1928 (oldest Olympic gold medallist at the time of his death)
- Heinz Kluncker, 80, German trade union leader
- Gene Frankel, 85, United States theater director.
- Dragoslav Markovic, 84, Serbian politician
- Fumio Niwa, 100, Japanese novelist
- Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, 58, world-renowned Danish jazz bassist.
- George Pan Cosmatos, 65, Italian-born Greek-American film director, best known for Tombstone and Rambo: First Blood Part II, lung cancer
- Ruth Hussey, 93, American actress in films such as The Philadelphia Story
- Clement Meadmore, 76, Australian born steel sculptor
- Bryan Ottoson, 27, American Head Charge guitarist
- Rick Blight, 49, former NHL player with the Vancouver Canucks in the 1970s
- Bassel Fleihan, 42, Lebanese deputy and former minister, third-degree burns resulting from the blast that assassinated Rafiq Hariri
- Clarence Gaines, 81, Basketball Hall of Fame coach, stroke
- Sam Mills, 45, former NFL player and assistant coach, cancer
- Norman Newell, 96, noted paleontologist
- Kenneth Schermerhorn, 75, music director and conductor of the Nashville Symphony, Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
- Laura Canales, 50, Tejano singer
- Guadalupe García Escamilla, 39, Mexican journalist, hitman shooting
- Jaime Fernandez, 67, Mexican actor
- Herm Gilliam, 58, former NBA player for Portland Trailblazers
- Marla Ruzicka, 28, American activist and aid worker, car bombing
- Vishnu Kant Shastri, 76, Indian politician
- Kay Walsh, 93, British actress
- Art Cross, 87, former Indianapolis 500 driver
- John Fred, 63, 1960s pop singer Judy in Disguise
- Margaretta Scott, 93, English actress, Mrs. Pumphrey in All Creatures Great and Small
- Duilio Spagnolo, 77?, Italian boxer, former heavyweight contender
- Aloua Fatu'utolu Tupou, (age unreported), defense minister of Tonga (heart failure).
- Benny Bailey, 79, jazz trumpeter
- Saunders Mac Lane, 95, US mathematician
- John Laurent, 83, Maine landscape and seascape painter
- Don Blasingame, 73, a MLB All-Star, who also managed two of Japan's professional baseball teams
- Tutti Camarata, 91, musician, leader of "Tutti's Trumpets" and co-founder of Disneyland Records
- Julia Darling, 48, novelist and poet
- Libby Dengrove, 86, former courtroom artist during 1960s and 1970s for NBC
- Wolfgang Droege, 55, founder of the Canadian white supremacist group the Heritage Front, shot to death
- Kay Gardella, 82, television critic for the New York Daily News, cancer
- Johnnie Johnson, 80, musician
- Nikola Ljubicic, 89, president of Serbia from 1982 to 1984
- Philip Pavia, 94, American sculptor
- Philippe Volter, 45, Belgian actor, suicide
- Nathaniel Weyl, 94, writer, economist who testified in the Alger Hiss case
- Juan Zanotto, 69, Italian-Argentinian comic book artist
- Peter Bramley, 60, cartoonist, first National Lampoon art director [27]
- Bill Jones, 69, former Sacramento Kings athletic trainer, cancer
- Franciszek Karwowski, 109, oldest living Polish soldier
- Ehud Manor, 63, Israeli songwriter
- John Brosnan, 57, British resident Australian writer and film critic, acute pancreatitis (death may have occurred several days earlier).
- André François, 89, French cartoonist [28]
- Maurice Hilleman, 85, microbiologist
- David Hughes, 74, British novelist
- Lucien Laurent, 97, French football player, scored the first ever goal at a World Cup
- Margo Skinner, 55, American Broadway actress
- Carl Abrahams, 93, Jamaican painter
- Norbert Brainin, 82, Austrian violinist and founder of the Amadeus Quartet
- Raúl Gibb Guerrero, 53, Mexican newspaper editor, hitman shooting
- Archbishop Iakovos, 93, former primate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America (1959–1996)
- Al Lucas, 26, ex-National Football League player; spinal cord injury suffered playing an Arena Football League game
- Faith McNulty, 86, American writer
- Cesar Civita, 99, Argentinian publisher (Editorial Abril)
- Andrea Dworkin, 58, radical feminist writer and anti-pornography activist
- Nasri Maalouf, 94, Lebanese politician.
- Scott Mason, 28, Tasmanian cricketer [29]
- Yoshitaro Nomura, 85, Japanese film director
- Chalmers Roberts, 94, American diplomatic correspondent and author
- Onna White, 83, Broadway choreographer
- Nevio Zeccara, 81?, Italian comic book artist
- Cliff Allison, 73, former Formula One driver
- Grigoris Bithikotsis, 82, Greek singer
- Charlotte Huck, 82, American children's literature author
- Minnie Kearby, 111, supercentenarian, oldest resident of Indiana
- Bob Kennedy, 84, a former MLB player and manager, who hit the first grand slam in Baltimore Orioles history and was the Oakland Athletics first manager
- Charles Kuentz, 108, last living French World War I veteran to fight for Germany, cardiac arrest
- Jose Melis, 85, former bandleader for The Tonight Show
- Yvonne Vera, 40, novelist from Zimbabwe
- Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, 81, reigning Prince of Monaco since 1949
- Frank Conroy, 69, memoirist and head of the University of Iowa's famous Iowa Writers' Workshop
- Anthony DePalma, 100, doctor, teacher, and humanitarian
- Gene Hazelton, 85, cartoonist
- Francisco Laudadio, 55, Italian film director
- Saul Bellow, 89, Nobel Prize-winning author
- Ura Koyama, 114, supercentenarian, oldest in Japan since 2003, died of pneumonia
- Sir Edwin Leather, 85, governor of Bermuda from 1973 to 1977
- Dale Messick, 98, creator of the Brenda Starr comic strip
- Debralee Scott, 52, actress, starred on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
- Judith Weiner, 56, American film and TV casting director
- Neil Welliver, 75, landscape painter mainly in his native Maine
- Becky Zerlentes, 34, American amateur boxer, first amateur to die as a consequence of a fight in five years.
- Edward Bronfman, 77, Canadian businessman and philanthropist, colon cancer
- Simon Blumenfeld, 97, English novelist, playwright and columnist
- Blanchette Brunoy, 86, French actress
- Frank Clair, 87, CFL coach with the Toronto Argonauts and Ottawa Rough Riders, heart failure
- Betty Bolton, 99, English actress and singer
- Alexander Brott, 90, Canadian composer, conductor and violinist
- Tony Croatto, 65 Italian-Puerto Rican composer-singer, lung and brain cancer
- John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła), 84, Polish Roman Catholic Pope, died after a lengthy illness.
- Eddie Moss, 45, former Syracuse and CBA player, cancer
- John O'Leary, 58, Former U.S. ambassador to Chile, Lou Gehrig's disease
- Jacques Poitrenaud, 83, French filmmaker
- Jacques Rabemananjara, 92, Madagascan politician, foreign minister from 1967 to 1972.
- Cheryl Barrymore, 56, former wife and agent of British TV entertainer Michael Barrymore, lung cancer
- William Fitzgerald 87, former broadcast news editor for the Associated Press
- Lazare Gionet, 108, Canadian World War I veteran
- Harald Juhnke, 75, German entertainer
- Jack Keller, 68, songwriter, wrote themes to Bewitched and Gidget
- Samuel Krachmalnick, 79, Broadway and classical orchestral conductor, notably the premiere of Candide by Leonard Bernstein
- Robert Coldwell Wood, 81, second Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, appointed by Lyndon B. Johnson in 1969. Later University of Massachusetts President 1970–1977.
- Takio Zushi, 58, Japanese actor
March 2005
- Frank Perdue, 84, poultry magnate
- Terri Schiavo, 41, US persistent vegetative state patient, died amidst much controversy after removal of gastric feeding tube
- Hideaki Sekiguchi, 38, known as Billy, Guitar Wolf bassist, heart attack [30]
- Thomas J. Brazaitis, 64, columnist correspondent and newspaper editor
- Robert Creeley, 78, poet, died of complications from respiratory disease.
- Alan Dundes, 70, world-renowned folklorist, who was central in establishing folklore as a discipline, apparent heart attack while teaching.
- Milton Green, 91, former record holder in hurdles, boycotted the 1936 Summer Olympics as a protest against Adolf Hitler.
- Mitch Hedberg, 37, comedian, heart attack.
- Fred Korematsu, 86, Japanese-American civil rights leader, respiratory illness
- Derrick Plourde, 33, former drummer of two California punk bands (Lagwagon and the Ataris), suicide.
- Ootupulackal Velukkuty Vijayan, 74, Indian author and cartoonist
- Johnnie Cochran, 67, lawyer, defended O.J. Simpson; brain tumor
- Howell Heflin, 83, former U.S. Senator from Alabama
- John McTernan, 94, US civil-rights lawyer
- Tom Bevill, 84, former US Congressman from Alabama
- Dave Freeman. 82, scriptwriter (Benny Hill, Carry On films, etc.)
- Hermann Lause, 66, German actor
- Emmy Lopes Dias, 85, Dutch actress
- Pál Losonczi, 85, former chairman of the Presidential Council of Hungary (head of state)
- Dame Moura Lympany, 89, British classical pianist
- Bob Casey, 79, PA announcer for the Minnesota Twins
- Grant Johannesen, 83, American classical pianist and composer
- Joaquín Luqui, 57, Spanish musical journalist
- Antonio Tellez, 84, Anarchist Historian and journalist.
- Rigo Tovar, 58, popular Mexican singer and composer
- Ahmed Zaki, 56, Egyptian actor, lung cancer
- Fernando Jiménez del Oso, 63, Spanish, parapsychologist
- Bengt Bedrup, 76, Swedish journalist
- James Callaghan, 92, former British Prime Minister
- Brandon Falkner, 21?, Arizona State University NCAA football player, murdered
- Paul Hester, 46, Australian musician, former drummer of Crowded House and Split Enz
- Marius Russo, 90, former baseball pitcher, member of 1941 and 1943 World Series Yankees teams
- Georgeanna Seegar Jones, 92, American scientist and endocrinologist
- Colin Willock, 86, helped create the Survival wildlife program
- Greg Garrison, 81, TV producer and director (The Dean Martin Show, Your Show of Shows)
- Paul Henning, 93, TV producer, creator of the Beverly Hillbillies
- Davis McCaughey, 90, former Governor of Victoria, Australia
- David P. Bushnell, 91, founder of Bushnell Optical binoculars; non-Hodgkins lymphoma.
- Arthur E. Cook, 109, World War I veteran
- Charles Antalosky, 67, Broadway actor
- Naftali Halberstam, 74, Grand Rabbi of the Bobov sect of the Hasidim
- David Kossoff, 85, British actor, father of Free guitarist Paul Kossoff
- Bob Vetrone, 79, American newspaper columnist
- Clemente Domínguez y Gómez, 58, Spanish antipope self-proclaimed Gregory XVII in 1978
- Gemini Ganesan, 84, Indian actor
- Edward Moskal, 80, president of the Polish American Congress
- Simon Nyandwi, 55, interior minister of Burundi and former rebel official; heart attack
- Rod Price, 57, guitarist and founding member of Foghat
- Kenzo Tange, 91, Japanese architect
- Ge Zhenlin, 88, Chinese war hero [31]
- Barney Martin, 82, actor, played Morty Seinfeld on Seinfeld
- Stanley Sadie, 74, musicologist and critic
- Bobby Short, 80, cabaret singer and pianist; leukemia
- Jeff Weise, 16, school shooter
- Walter Hopps, 72, American art dealer and gallery owner
- Walter Reuter, 99, German photographer
- Andrew Toti, 89, American inventor of the Mae West inflatable life vest
- Hellema, 84, Dutch writer and resistance fighter
- John De Lorean, 80, U.S. car designer and manufacturer.
- Gary Bertini, 77, Israeli musician and conductor
- Sol Linowitz, 91, U.S. diplomat and entrepreneur
- Jessica Lunsford, 9, kidnapping and rape victim (body found)
- Maria Rosseels, 88, Belgian writer and journalist
- Theodor Uppman, 85, American operatic baritone, created title role in Britten's Billy Budd
- Royce Frith, 81, Canadian senator
- John J.Gallagher, 79, cartoonist, brother of Heathcliff creator George Gallagher [32]
- Prentice Gautt, 67, former NFL player
- Lalo Guerrero, 88, father of Chicano music
- Justin Hinds, 62, Jamaican vocalist and songwriter
- Sverre Holm, 73, Norwegian actor
- Ramez J. Isa, 87, former Prime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles
- George F. Kennan, 101, U.S. diplomat and historian
- David Little, 46, former Pittsburgh Steelers player
- Andre Norton, 93, science fiction and fantasy author
- Czeslaw Slania, 83, Polish-Swedish stamp engraver
- Mikko Talvitie, 59, director general of the Finnish Board of Aviation
- Todd Bell, 47, former Chicago Bears player
- Ralph Erskine, 91, architect (Byker Wall).
- Anthony George, 84, actor
- Allan Hendrickse, 77, South African politician
- Chris van der Klaauw, 80, Dutch diplomat, former foreign minister of the Netherlands
- William Lehman, 91, represented Dade County, Florida in U.S. Congress
- Dick Radatz, 67, former baseball player
- Lady Callaghan of Cardiff, 89, wife of Jim Callaghan
- Betsy Cronkite, 89, journalist and wife of Walter Cronkite
- Don Durant, 82, singer/actor, star of Johnny Ringo series
- Loe de Jong, 90, Dutch historian
- Eduard J. Guebelin, 91, authored famous study on diamonds
- Bill McGarry, 77, football manager
- Bert Pronk, 54, Dutch racing cyclist
- Armand Seghers, 78, retired footballer, voted AA Gent's best player of the 20th century
- Sy Wexler, 88, maker of educational films
- Stanley H. Campbell, 74, former NFL player
- Tom Dillon, 86, American stage actor/performer, natural causes
- Janet Reger, 69, British designer of women's lingerie
- Dick Smyser, 81, American newspaper editor, asked question that led Richard Nixon to declare: "I'm not a crook."
- Simon Webb, 55, British chess grandmaster living in Sweden, stabbed to death by his son
- Akira Yoshizawa, 94, Japanese Origami master
- Lyn Collins, 56, soul singer, aka "Female Preacher"
- Winnie Dangerfield, 96, English child actor in silent films for the Clarendon studios [33] [34]
- Jason Evers, 83, star of B-movie Brain That Wouldn't Die
- Ahmed Hassan Diria, 67, Tanzanian politician and diplomat, foreign minister from 1990 to 1993.
- Danny Gardella, 85, a retired New York Giants outfielder who challenged baseball's reserve clause in a 1947 federal lawsuit
- Frank House, 75, retired Major League Baseball catcher and Alabama legislator
- Zouhair Yahyaoui, 36, Tunisian dissident.
- Charles R. Baxter, 75, American doctor, pneumonia, surgeon who tried to save JFK
- Lisa Fittko, 95, German WWII dissident who led Jews over the Pyrenees to freedom
- Stavros Kouyioumtzis, 73, prolific Greek songwriter
- Bartolo Mascarello, 78, Italian winemaker
- Bill Cameron, 62, Canadian journalist, cancer
- Aurelio Fierro, 81, famous in Italy for singing Neopolitan folk songs
- Stanley Grenz, 55, Christian Theologian
- Humphrey Spender, 94, British photojournalist, notably for Picture Post
- Dave Allen, 68, Irish comedian
- Danny Joe Brown, 53, lead singer for Molly Hatchet
- Chawki Deif, 95, head of the Academy of the Arabic Language
- Katherine Gray Lathrop, 89, pioneering researcher into nuclear medicine
- Zilka Salaberry, 82, Brazilian actress
- Glenn Davis, 80, Heisman Trophy winner, retired American football player, prostate cancer
- Sheila Gish, 62, English actress, primarily on stage
- Kathie Kay, 86, Scottish big band singer
- Chris LeDoux, 56, American country music and rodeo star; complications from liver cancer.
- William Murray, 78, American mystery novelist
- István Nyers, 80, retired Hungarian footballer
- Archbishop Roman Arrieta, 80, retired archbishop of Costa Rica
- Ross Benson, 56, British journalist for the Daily Mail and award-winning foreign correspondent
- Anna Haycraft, 72, British writer (also known as Alice Thomas Ellis)
- César Lattes, 80, Brazilian physicist, contributed to the physics of elementary particles and discovered the pion
- Aslan Maskhadov, 53, Chechen separatist leader, killed by Russian troops.
- Brigitte Mira, 94, German theatrical actress
- Jeremy Russell, 60, cofounding member of the band Blue Cheer
- Edwin Adams Cotto, 26, accused in the Laura Hernandez drug case; killed during a riot in a Dominican Republic jail
- Arod Levy III, ??, accused in the Laura Hernandez drug case; killed during riot in a Dominican Republic jail
- John Box, 85, film production designer, worked closely with David Lean
- Debra Hill, 54, screenwriter and film producer, co-writer of Halloween
- Philip Lamantia, 77, American surrealist poet
- Jozef Stank, 64, former Slovakian defense minister
- Hans Bethe, 98, Nobel Laureate in Physics, discover of stellar fusion
- Gladys Marín, 63, Chilean communist politician, cancer
- Chuck Thompson, 83, Baltimore Orioles broadcaster, complications of massive stroke
- Tommy Vance, 63, British radio DJ and TV host, stroke
- Teresa Wright, 86, actress, heart attack
- Harold Brooks-Baker, 71, U.S.-born publishing director of Burke's Peerage Limited
- Sergiu Comissiona, 76, Romanian orchestra conductor
- Benedetto Di Santo, 105, Italian World War I veteran
- Morris Engel, 86, independent filmmaker
- Rt. Rev. Lord Sheppard of Liverpool, 75, former international cricketer and Church of England bishop, cancer
- Frank Tyler, 76, Broadway and film music arranger and orchestrator
- Nicola Calipari, 51, Italian intelligence officer, shot by the US army in Iraq
- Ernie De Vos, 63, racing driver, killed in a cycling accident.
- Una Hale, 82, operatic soprano
- Yuri Kravchenko, 53, former interior minister of Ukraine
- Carlos Sherman, 70, Uruguayan-born Belarusian translator and writer
- George Atkinson, 69, inventor of the video rental
- Max M. Fisher, 96, millionaire philanthropist listed in Forbes 400
- Dorris Henderson, 72, 60's and 70's folksinger
- Viva McComb, 110, supercentenarian, oldest living Texan
- Rinus Michels, 77, former Dutch national football team coach
- Guylaine St. Onge, 39, Canadian actress, cancer
- Joe Carter, 78, a member of the Carter Family folk singers
- Martin Denny, 93, founder of exotica musical genre, bandleader
- Hermann Dörnemann, 111, World War I veteran declared Germany's oldest living person, heart failure
- Tillie Fowler, 62, U.S. politician, former four-term Florida congresswoman
- Rick Mahler, 51, retired American baseball pitcher, heart attack
- Corrado Pani, 69, Italian actor
- Rigter Roegholt, 79, Dutch historian
- Cissy van Bennekom, 93, Dutch film actress
- Reverend Walter Halloran, 83, priest who participated in the exorcism on which The Exorcist was based
- Brian Luckhurst, 66, English cricket player, cancer
- Peter Malkin, 77, Israeli Mossad agent, the man who captured Adolf Eichmann
February 2005
- Pietro Ardito, 85?, Argentinian comic book artist living in Italy
- Chris Curtis, 63, drummer with The Searchers
- Mario Luzi, 90, Italian poet
- Umberto Manfrin, 77, Italian comic book artist
- Noll Scott, 51, British journalist
- Carl Taseff, 76, former NFL defensive back and assistant coach
- Max Faulkner, 88, British golfer
- Henry Grunwald, 82, former managing editor of TIME and U.S. ambassador to Austria 1988–90
- Sidney Hart, 90, British trade unionist and religious administrator, natural causes
- Witness Mangwende, 59, Zimbabwean politician and diplomat, foreign minister from 1981 to 1987.
- Jef Raskin, 61, creator of the Apple Macintosh, pancreatic cancer
- Peter Benenson, 83, founder of Amnesty International.
- Phoebe Hesketh, 96, British poet
- Don LeJohn, 70, former Los Angeles Dodgers third baseman
- Norberto "Pappo" Napolitano, 54, Argentine blues and rock n' roll guitarist and composer
- Edward Patten, 66, member of Gladys Knight & The Pips
- Atef Sedki, 74, former prime minister of Egypt
- Sir Glanmor Williams, 84, Welsh historian
- Thadée Cisowski, 78, retired footballer, scored 206 goals in the French top divison, making him its 4th highest scorer of all-time
- Robin Jenkins, 92, Scottish novelist, author of "The Cone-Gatherers" and "Fergus Lamont"
- Hugh Nibley, 94, historian primarily concerned with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Gustavo Vázquez Montes, 42, incumbent governor of Colima, Mexico, aviation accident
- Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski, 82, German politician and former cabinet minister
- Tom Patterson, 84, founder of the Stratford Festival of Canada
- Henk Zeevalking, 82, Dutch politician
- David F. Bradford, 61, former U.S. presidential advisor and professor at Princeton University
- Father Luigi Giussani, 82, founder of the "Communion and Liberation" Catholic youth movement
- Lee Eun Ju (이은주), 24, Korean actress, suicide
- Trude Rittmann, 96, Broadway dance and vocal music arranger
- Reggie Roby, 43, retired NFL punter
- Harry Simeone, 94, helped create Christmas songs like Little Drummer Boy
- Simone Simon, 94, French actress
- Zdzislaw Beksinski, 75, Polish painter and fantasy artist, murder
- Ara Berberian, 74, Bass with the New York City Metropolitan Opera
- Isabelle Goldenson, 84, co-founder of United Cerebral Palsy
- Guillermo Cabrera Infante, 75, exiled Cuban writer
- Robert Koff, 86, founding member of the Juilliard String Quartet
- Josef Metternich, 69, German operatic baritone
- Dr. Gene Scott, 75, U.S. televangelist and author
- Ernest Vandiver, 86, former governor of the U.S. state of Georgia (1959–1963)
- Raymond Mhlaba, 92, South African political leader
- Pam Bricker, jazz vocalist and music professor, suicide
- Sandra Dee, 62, American actress, kidney failure and pneumonia
- Dalene Matthee, 67, Afrikaans-South African author, heart failure
- John Raitt, 88, classic Broadway star and father of Bonnie Raitt, pneumonia
- Hunter S. Thompson, 67, American journalist, suicide
- Jimmy Young, 56, American boxer, heart failure
- Richard Lupino, 75? Member of the famous English Lupino acting family
- Kihachi Okamoto (岡本喜八), 82, Japanese film director, esophageal cancer
- Uli Derickson, 60, airline stewardess, protagonist in 1985 airplane hijacking
- John Ebstein, 92, industrial designer [35]
- Robert R. Merhige, Jr., 86, U.S. district court judge
- F. M. Busby, 83, American science fiction writer
- Peter Foy, 79, American, theatrical flying effects specialist
- Jens Martin Knudsen, 74, Danish astrophysicist
- César Marcelak, 92, French cycling champion
- Dan O'Herlihy, 85, Irish film actor
- Omar Sivori, 69, Argentinian and Italian footballer
- Nicephore Soglo, 70, former President of Benin
- Harald Szeemann, 71, Swiss curator and art historian
- Nicole DeHuff, 30, American actress, Meet the Parents, pneumonia.
- William Gibson, 82, American independent film producer and director
- Russ Klar, 90, US auto racer
- Narriman Sadek (Nariman Sadeq), 70, ex-wife of King Farouk, last queen of Egypt
- Marcello Viotti, 50, Italian conductor
- Frederick Vosburgh, 100, National Geographic editor
- Gerry Wolff, 84, German actor
- Cecilia Cubas, 32, daughter of former President of Paraguay Raúl Cubas Grau, kidnap victim (body found)
- Pierre Bachelet, 60, French singer
- Samuel Francis, 57, U.S. political columnist
- Dudu Geva, 54, Israeli cartoonist
- Najai Turpin, 23, boxer, participant in boxing reality show "The Contender", suicide
- Ron Burgess, 87, former footballer with Tottenham Hotspur and Wales
- Tatiana Gritsi-Milliex, 85, Greek novelist and journalist
- Rafik Hariri, 60, twice Prime Minister of Lebanon, car bomb
- Aubelin Jolicoeur, 81, Haitian journalist and columnist
- Martin Perels, 44, Dutch actor
- Otto Plaschkes, 75, British movie producer, including Georgy Girl
- Dick Weber, 75, professional bowler, father of Pete Weber
- Nelson Briles, 61, retired American baseball pitcher
- Aldo Carotenuto, 71?, Italian psychoanalyst
- Sixten Ehrling, 86, Swedish conductor
- Mary Hallaren, 97, first woman to join the United States Army
- Ndiaga Mbaye, 57, Senegalese musician
- Lúcia dos Santos, 97, Portuguese nun, last survivor of the three shepherd children of the Fatima apparition in 1917
- Maurice Trintignant, 87, French racing driver, twice winner of the Monaco Grand Prix
- Marinus van der Goes van Naters, 104, Dutch politician
- Brian Kelly, 73, actor
- Alfred Sirven, 77, former Elf Aquitaine executive
- Sammi Smith, 61, US country singer, won Grammy for Help Me Make it Through the Night
- Dorothy Stang, 74, American nun, murdered in Anapu, Brazil
- Karl-Heinz Tuschel, 76, East German science fiction author
- Rafael Vidal, 41, Venezuelan Olympic medalist, car crash
- Samuel W. Alderson, 90, inventor of crash test dummies [36]
- Jack L. Chalker, 60, American science fiction writer
- Raymond Hermantier, 81, French actor
- Dénes Kovács, 74, Hungarian violinist
- Stan Richards, 74, British actor
- Humbert Balsan, 50, French film producer
- Allan Bromley, 79, physicist, presidential advisor
- Jean Cayrol, 93, French author
- Michel François-Poncet, 70, Paribas executive
- Ben Jones, 80, former prime minister and foreign minister of Grenada
- Arthur Miller, 89, American playwright, congestive heart failure
- Sylvia Rafael, 67, Mossad agent convicted of 1973 Lillehammer murder
- Tyrone Davis, 66, R&B singer (Turn Back The Hands Of Time), complications of a stroke
- Hanno Helbling, 74, Swiss journalist (NZZ)
- Robert Kearns, 77, inventor of intermittent windshield wipers [37]
- Kate Peyton, 39, BBC producer, shot in Mogadishu, Somalia
- Ursula Schröder-Feinen, 70, German soprano
- Marthe Wéry, 75, Belgian painter
- Luigi Barbero, 105, Italian World War I veteran
- Victor Castelli, 52, soloist with the New York City Ballet, pneumonia
- Helmut Eder, 88, Austrian composer
- George Herman, 85, journalist and moderator of CBS' Face the Nation for 15 years
- Keith Knudsen, 56, drummer for American rock band Doobie Brothers, pneumonia
- Nathalie Krassovska, 86, ballerina
- Gaston Rahier, 58, Belgian 125cc Motocross World Champion (1975–1977)
- Jimmy Smith, 76, Jazz organist
- Javier Tusell, 59, Spanish historian
- Penelope Aitken, 94, socialite and political hostess
- Nedžad Botonjič, 27, Slovenian footballer
- Steve Burgh, 54, record producer and session musician
- Atli Dam, 72, former Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
- Vinod Chandra Pande, 72, political figure in India, former governor of three states
- John Tiffen Patterson, 64, television and film director
- Madeleine Rebérioux, 84, French historian
- Paul Rebeyrolle, 78, French painter
- Jeremy Swan, 82, cardiologist, co-inventor of the Swan-Ganz heart catheter
- Janice Davis, 61, socialite and nurse, cancer
- Santo Ambulo, 104, Italian World War I veteran
- Lazar Berman, 74, classical pianist
- Elbert N. Carvel, 94, American politician, former governor of Delaware
- Hubert Curien, 80, French researcher, first president of European Space Agency
- Camilo Delgado, 75?, Puerto Rican television show host
- Karl Haas, 91, US classical music radio program host
- Merle Kilgore, 70, country music manager and songwriter
- Armin Müller, 76, German writer and painter
- Derick Daniels, 76, former president and chief executive of Playboy Enterprises
- Gnassingbe Eyadema, 67, president of Togo since 1967
- Bob McAdorey, 69, Canadian television and radio broadcaster
- David Measham, 67, UK conductor prominent in Australia
- Günter Reimann, 100, German economist
- Michalina Wisłocka, 84, Polish sexologist
- Carmine Alfano, 108, Italian World War I veteran
- Adriano Cerqueira, 66, Portuguese journalist and former news anchor at RTP, cancer
- Robert Brannum, 78, retired basketball player
- Ossie Davis, 87, actor and activist, natural causes
- Nils Egerbrandt, 78, Swedish cartoonist
- Gunhild Foerster, 111, supercentenarian, oldest documented person in Washington State
- Luis Sánchez, 51, former major league closer for the Angels [38]
- Corrado Cardinal Bafile, 101, Italian cardinal
- Joseph Anthony De Palma, 91, Bishop of De Aar, South Africa
- Malou Hallström, 63, Swedish actress, ex-wife of Lasse Hallström
- David Hönigsberg, 45, composer and conductor
- Ernst Mayr, 100, evolutionary biologist
- Rosie Sturgess, 84, Australian TV comedienne
- Raul Usupov, Georgian politician and deputy governor of the Kvemo Kartli region
- Zurab Zhvania, 41, Prime Minister of Georgia
- Yvon DesRochers, 59, head of the organizing committee of the 2005 World Aquatics Championships in Montreal, suicide
- Birgitte Federspiel, 79, Swedish actress (Babette's Feast, 1988)
- Svein Kvia, 57, retired Norwegian footballer
- Goffredo Lombardo, 83, Italian film producer
- Magomed Omarov, deputy Interior Minister of Dagestan
- Max Schmeling, 99, German world heavyweight boxing champion
- Werner Arnold, 74, Swiss cyclist (1950s)
- Henrique Canto e Castro, 75, Portuguese actor
- Olivier Dollfus, 73, French geographer
- Edward D. Freis, 92, physician
- Anderl Heckmair, 98, Austrian mountaineer, made first ascent of the Eiger north face
- Franco Mannino, 80, prolific Italian film and classical composer
- John Vernon, 72, Canadian actor, following heart surgery
January 2005
- Stanley Ronald (Ron) Basford, 72, Canadian cabinet minister (1970s)
- Nel Benschop, 87, Dutch poetess
- Yutsuko Chusonji, 42, Japanese manga artist noted for her "oyaji gal" stories
- Horace Hagedorn, 89, developer and marketer of Miracle-Gro plant food
- Malcolm Hardee, 55, alternative comedian and compere, drowning
- Erich Kaestner, 93, German Oscar winner for camera design
- Robert McCartney, 33, IRA murder victim
- H. Narasimhaiah, 84, physicist, educator and rationalist from Bangalore
- Ivan Noble, 37, BBC journalist, brain tumour
- Wolfgang Becker, 94, German film and television director
- Martyn Bennett, 33, Scottish musician, cancer
- Dario Sala, 92, Italian inventor of Das, writer
- Toni Berger, 83, German actor
- Eric Griffiths, 64, member of pre-Beatles The Quarrymen
- Jean Hengen, 92, first Archbishop of Luxembourg
- Karl Heinz Jacoby, 86, Auxiliary Bishop of Trier
- Ephraim Kishon, 80, Israeli satirist, dramatist, screenwriter, and film director
- José Luis Martinez, 34, Spanish shot put champion
- Bill Shadel, 96, United States journalist who covered D-Day and moderated a 1960 Presidential Debate
- Ron Tomme, 73, former USA actor primarily in soaps
- Joan Tompkins, 89, film and TV actress
- Guus Zoutendijk, 74, Dutch politician and businessman
- Karen Bach, 32, French adult film performer
- Christian Bieniek, 48, German writer and childbook author
- Daniel Branca, 53, Argentinian Disney comic book artist
- Jim Capaldi, 60, British rock musician and songwriter (Traffic), stomach cancer
- Lucien Carr, 79, UPI editor, early Beat generation figure
- Christian Christensen, 78, Danish former European middle-weight boxing champion
- Jacques Villeret, 53, French actor and comedian
- Gilbert Bennion, 106, one of four remaining Australian veterans of World War I
- Donald Dempsey Sr., 72?, American recording executive who helped launch Ozzy Osbourne and Merle Haggard
- Shoaib Khan, 40?, Pakistani criminal organization leader, heart attack in jail
- Nick McDonald, 76, United States Dallas police officer who arrested Lee Harvey Oswald after the JFK assassination
- Aurélie Nemours, 94, French painter
- Jonathan Welsh, 67?, Canadian actor of stage, television and film
- Roy Fraser Elliott, 83, Canadian lawyer and philanthropist
- Rudi Falkenhagen, 71, Dutch actor, throat cancer
- Cordelia Scaife May, 76, sister of billionaire Richard Scaife and one of the world's richest people
- Josie MacAvin, 85, Oscar and Emmy winning set decorator
- William Augustus Bootle, 102, United States district judge who helped oversee desegregation in the US south
- Philip Johnson, 98, United States architect
- Vicky LaMotta, 75, ex-wife of American boxer Jake LaMotta
- Ray Peterson 65, United States popular singer (Tell Laura I Love Her), cancer
- Max Velthuijs, 81, Dutch writer and illustrator
- Nettie Witziers-Timmer, 81, Dutch athlete
- Dieter Zehentmayr, 63, Austrian caricaturist
- June Bronhill, 75, Australian opera and operetta singer, known for The Merry Widow
- Vladimir Savchenko, 72, Ukrainian science fiction writer
- Chalkie White, 76, rugby union coach
- Morys George Lyndhurst Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare, 85, former Deputy Speaker of the UK House of Lords
- Johnny Carson, 79, United States comedian and television host, emphysema
- Douglas Knight, 83, former president of Lawrence University and Duke University
- Charles Martin, 45, retired American football player, kidney ailment
- Mutsuko Sakura (桜むつ子), 83, Japanese actress, lung cancer
- Sir William Deakin, 91, British WWII hero and founder of St. Antony's College at Oxford University
- John Gibel, 56, comic strip writer (Flo & Friends)
- César Gutiérrez, 61, one of three players in Major League Baseball history with a 7-for-7 game
- Carlo Orelli, 110, supercentenarian, oldest Italian veteran of World War I
- Patsy Rowlands, 71, British actress, known for her roles in the Carry On films, breast cancer
- William Trager, 94, American malaria researcher
- Consuelo Velázquez, 88, Mexican songwriter and lyricist, and author of the enduring song "Bésame mucho"
- Rose Mary Woods, 87, former Nixon secretary and key Watergate figure [39]
- Steve Susskind, 62, American voice-over actor
- Parveen Babi, 49, Indian actress
- John L. Hess, 87, journalist
- Don Poier, 53, United States NBA basketball announcer for the Memphis Grizzlies
- Carl Schlettwein, 79, founder of Basler Afrika Bibliographien
- Theun de Vries, 97, Dutch writer
- Per Borten, 91, former Prime Minister of Norway
- Beverly Dennis, 79, actress on The Red Buttons Show who later became a psychotherapist
- Roland Frye, American English literature professor and theologian
- Dick Gallagher, 49, Off-Broadway composer
- Christel Justen, 47, German swimmer, 1974 European champion
- Jan Nowak-Jeziorański, 91, Polish journalist and highly decorated World War II hero, head of the Radio Free Europe Polish section
- Chuck Olin, 68, filmmaker known for his 1998 documentary about the only all-Jewish fighting unit during World War II
- Miriam Rothschild, 96, British zoologist, entomologist and author
- Bill Andersen, 90, New Zealand communist and trade union leader
- Donald Beardslee, 61, United States murderer, executed in San Quentin State Prison, California
- Cal Bolder, 74, bodybuilder and actor
- K. Sello Duiker, 30, South African novelist, suicide
- Hans Gratzer, 63, Austrian director and theatre manager
- Ardyth Kennelly, 92, US novelist whose books were popular in the 1940s and 50s
- Anita Kulcsár, 28, Hungarian handball player
- Ricardo Suriñach, 76, Catholic Bishop of Ponce, Puerto Rico (2000-2003), natural causes
- Lamont Bentley, 31, television and film actor, car crash
- Bernard Béreau, 64, French footballer
- Gabriella Brune, 92, British actress
- Bob Moch, 90, 1936 Summer Olympics Rowing Gold Medal Winner
- George Walker, 78, volcanologist
- Peter Whatley, former professional wrestler under the name Pez Whatley
- Charlie Bell, 44, former CEO of McDonald's, colon cancer
- Christina Gunnardo, 54, Swedish musician
- Hildegard Joos, 95, Austrian painter
- Virginia Mayo, 84, United States actress, notably in the 1940s and 1950s
- Albert Schatz, 84, microbiologist, discoverer of streptomycin
- Zhao Ziyang, 85, former Chinese Communist Party General Secretary, complications of multiple strokes
- Daniel Zufferey, 35, French language author
- H. Bentley Glass, 98, United States biologist, known for controversial views [40]
- Agustín González, 74, prolific Spanish film actor
- Roger Ibanez, 73, French actor
- Ndongo Lô, 30, Senegalese singer (Mbalax)
- Marjorie Williams, 47, United States Washington Post columnist and contributing editor for Vanity Fair
- Victoria de los Angeles, 81, Spanish soprano
- Deem Bristow, 57, video game voice actor
- William H. Crosby Jr., 90, pioneering hematologist
- Walter Ernsting, 84, German science fiction author (Perry Rhodan)
- Elizabeth Janeway, 91, United States feminist author
- Fred Julsing, 62, Dutch comic book artist
- Dan Lee, 35, animator for the movie Finding Nemo
- Werner Lesser, 72?, German ski jumper
- Henk Molleman, 69, Dutch politician and civil servant
- Sven Christer Swahn, 71, Swedish writer and translator
- Ruth Warrick, 89, United States actress best known for Citizen Kane and All My Children, of pneumonia
- Dennis Flanagan, 85, United States Long time editor of Scientific American
- Ofelia Guilmain, 83, Spanish film and stage actress, worked mostly in Mexico after the Spanish Civil War
- Alfred Hause, 84, German composer and conductor
- Charlotte MacLeod, 82, United States mystery writer
- Conroy Maddox, 92, British surrealist painter
- Carl Mohner, 88, German artist and actor
- Rudolph Moshammer, 64, German fashion designer
- Georges Piroué, 85, French language writer
- Jesús Soto, 81, Venezuelan kinetic artist [41]
- Earl Cameron, 89?, Canadian broadcaster and The National-anchor (1959–1966)
- Nell Rankin, 81, United States mezzo-soprano opera singer, sang with the Metropolitan Opera for many years
- Manfred Fuhrmann, 79, German philologist
- Achille Maramotti, 78, Italian fashion entrepreneur
- Sal Pacino, 82, United States character actor, father of actor Al Pacino
- Amrish Puri, 72, Indian actor, massive cerebral hemorrhage (he played the evil priest Mola Ram in the movie Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom)
- Edmund S. Valtman, 90, Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist
- Spencer Dryden, 61, drummer for American rock band Jefferson Airplane, cancer
- Jean-Luc Fugaldi, 58, French footballer
- James Griffin, 61, member of 1970s rock band Bread
- Miriam Hyde, 91, Australian composer (Valley of Rocks)
- J.R. "Bud" McCaig, 75, co-owner of the NHL's Calgary Flames
- Fabrizio Meoni, 47, Italian motorcyclist, died after crashing on the 11th stage of the Paris Dakar Rally
- Ruth Packer, 94, British soprano, famous for playing Verdi heroines
- Jerzy Pawlowski, 72, Polish Olympic champion in fencing
- Thelma White, 94, United States actress, starred in Reefer Madness
- Gene Baylos, 98, comedian
- Margherita Carosio, 96, Italian soprano
- Fernand Cazenave, 80, French rugby player and coach
- Tommy Fine, 90, who pitched in Major League Baseball for the Boston Red Sox and St. Louis Browns in the 1940s and 50s
- James Forman, 76, United States former executive secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, colon cancer
- Erwin Hillier, 93, British cinematographer
- Gordon John "Jack" Horner, 91?, Minnesota sports journalist
- Grand Duchess Joséphine-Charlotte of Luxembourg, 77, Princess of Belgium, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.
- Helmut Losch, 57, East German heavyweight weightlifting champion
- Amer Ali Nayef, deputy police chief of Baghdad, shot together with his son [42]
- Jose Manuel Perez, 41, Spanish motorcyclist after crashing 6 January on the 7th stage of the Paris Dakar Rally, internal injuries [43]
- Werner Quintens, 67, Belgian clergyman
- Jan Pieter Cardinal Schotte, 76, Belgian official of the Roman Curia, cardinal since 1994
- Fritz Aigner, 74, Austrian painter
- Gonzalo Gavira, 79, sound effects creator, The Exorcist, The Towering Inferno
- Bernard Goodall, 67, businessman and former Reading F.C. footballer
- Koji Hashimoto, 68, Japanese film Director and Assistant Director
- Badja D'jola, 56, African-American film actor
- Jacqueline Joubert, 83, one of the first television presenters on French TV
- Suad Katana, 35, Bosnian footballer
- Campbell McComas, 52, Australian impersonator, raconteur, broadcaster, chameleon
- Warren Spears, 50, choreographer, dancer
- Michel Thomas, 90, Polish linguist and teacher
- David White, 50, British Commander of British forces on Gibraltar, found dead in his swimming-pool
- Pierre Daninos, 91, French novelist (The Diary of Major Thompson)
- Eileen Desmond, 72, former Irish politician, Minister for Health & Social Welfare (1981-1982)
- Ernst Deubelbeiss, 84, Swiss convicted of the 1951 murder of Armin Bannwart
- Bernard "Buddy" Diliberto, 73, United States sports commentator in New Orleans, massive heart attack
- Rosemary Kennedy, 86, sister of John F. Kennedy
- Rossana Maiorca, 54?, Italian free-diver, daughter of Enzo Maiorca
- Ivar Medaas, 66, Norwegian musician
- Hans Walder, 84, Prosecutor General of the Swiss Confederation (1968–1973)
- Lois Hole, 71, Lieutenant Governor of Alberta
- Jürg von Känel, 53, climber, mountain guide, writer of guide books
- Makgatho Mandela, 54, South African last surviving son of Nelson Mandela, AIDS
- Louis Robichaud, 79, Canadian former premier of New Brunswick
- Ali Šukrija, 85, Yugoslav communist politician from [Kosovo]]
- Sir Nicholas Scott, 71, British politician
- Antonio Benítez Rojo, 73, Cuban writer
- Eduardo Hay, 89, Mexican IOC member (since 1974), professor of gynaecology
- René Le Henaff, 102?, early French director and editor, sued Charlie Chaplin for plagiarism over City Lights
- Danny Sugerman, 50, manager for The Doors
- Humphrey Carpenter, 58, British biographer and broadcaster
- Paul Darragh, 51, Irish equestrian showjumper, suspected heart failure
- Ali Al-Haidri, ?, Iraqi governor of Baghdad province, assassinated
- Frank Harary, 84, mathematician, a foremost expert on graph theory
- Robert Heilbroner, 85, United States economist
- Bud Poile, 80, retired right wing for Toronto and Detroit in the 1940s and 50s, member of Hockey Hall of Fame
- Alton Tobey, 90, United States muralist and painter
- JN Dixit, 68, Indian national security adviser and former foreign secretary
- Will Eisner, 87, United States comic book artist and pioneering graphic novelist
- Koo Chen-fu (辜振甫), 88, Chinese negotiator with the PRC
- John Lawrence, 70, United States Los Angeles Times business journalist
- Claude Meillassoux, 79, French anthropologist and economist
- H. David Dalquist, 86, founder of Nordic Ware, creator of Bundt cake pan
- Arnold Denker, 90, United States chess player
- Cyril Fletcher, 91, British comedian and star of That's Life.
- Frank Kelly Freas, 82, United States science fiction artist
- Ronald 'Bo' Ginn, 70, United States former U.S. Congressman from Georgia
- Maclyn McCarty, 93, geneticist and DNA research pioneer
- Edo Murtić, 83, Croatian painter
- Charles Paul Wilp, 72, German photographer
- Shirley Chisholm, 80, United States first black woman ever to serve in the U.S. Congress
- Hugh John Frederick Lawson, 6th Baron Burnham, 73, British Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords and former deputy managing director of the Daily Telegraph
- Bob Matsui, 63, United States Democratic Party member of the House of Representatives
- Paul Michaelis, 90, German painter and graphist
- Dmitri Nelyubin, 33, Russian cyclist, stabbed to death
- Willem Scholten, 77, Dutch former politician
- Charles Watson, 105, British World War I veteran
External links and references
- Specialised websites
- Find a Grave – Millions of Cemetery Records
- Dead People Server
- Life in Legacy: Week in Review
- The Blog of Death
- GenealogyBuff.com Obituary Search
- Online Searchable Death Indexes and Records: US genealogy directory
- Operation Iraqi Freedom – US Combat Deaths
- Obituary Central – index to obituary search engines arranged geographically
- Obituary Links Page – state-by-state directory of obituary resources
- Obituaries on general news websites
- Newsgroup: alt.obituaries
For earlier deaths, see Deaths in 2004, Deaths in 2003, Deaths in 2002, Deaths in 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995...
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