Deaths in August 2004
Appearance
The following is a list of notable deaths in August 2004.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
August 2004
1
- Philip Hauge Abelson, 91, American physicist, co-discoverer of Neptunium.[1]
- Vivian Austin, 84, American actress.
- John Higgins, 88, American swimmer and coach, pneumonia.
- George F. Kugler Jr., 79, American lawyer.[2]
- Viktor Malyuk, 43, Russian serial killer, suicide by hanging.
- Sidney Morgenbesser, 82, American philosopher.[3]
- Albrecht Obermaier, 92, German naval officer.
- Laurence Stark, 83, Royal Air Force pilot and WWII flying ace.
- Ken Timbs, 53, American professional wrestler, cardiomyopathy and congestive heart failure.
2
- Akwasi Ampofo Adjei, 47, Ghanaian highlife musician.[4]
- Heinrich Mark, 92, Estonian politician, Prime Minister-in-exile (1971–1990).
- José Omar Pastoriza, 62, Argentinian football player. and coach.
- Mike Schultz, 83, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds).[5]
- Arturo Tolentino, 93, Philippine lawyer and politician.
3
- Henri Cartier-Bresson, 95, French photographer.[6]
- Gloria Emerson, 75, American author, journalist and New York Times war correspondent, suicide.[7]
- Brian Hitch, 72, British diplomat.
- Bob Murphy, 79, American MLB New York Mets announcer.
- Bryon Nickoloff, 48, Canadian chess International Master, represented Canada in six Chess Olympiads.[8]
- Geraldine Peroni, 51, American film editor (The Player, Dr. T and the Women, Michael), suicide.[9]
4
- Mary Dees, 93, American actress.
- Jeanne Gilchrist, 78, American baseball player (AAGPBL).[10]
- Hunter Hancock, 88, American R&B and rock DJ.
- Sir Robert Jennings, 90, British jurist, President of the International Court of Justice.
- Joseph Bearwalker Wilson, 62, American shaman and witch.
5
- Jim Alford, 90, British athlete.
- Don Grossman, 83, Australian rules footballer.
- James Hubbard, 74, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in Alabama.
- Edith Jiménez, 86, Paraguayan plastic artist.
6
- Lien Ying Chow, 98, Singaporean businessperson, pneumonia.
- Santosh Gupta, 79, Bangladeshi journalist and writer.
- Rick James, 56, American singer ("Mary Jane", "Give It to Me Baby", "Super Freak") and producer, heart attack.[11]
- Donald Justice, 78, American poet.[12]
- Murray S. Klamkin, 83, American mathematician.
- Natteri Veeraraghavan, 90, Indian physician, microbiologist and medical researcher.
7
- Paul "Red" Adair, 89, American oil well fire-fighter.
- Colin Bibby, 55, English ornithologist.
- Bernard Levin, 75, English journalist and broadcaster.
- Gordon Smith, 80, Scottish footballer.
8
- Robert "Gypsy Boots" Bootzin, 89, American health and fitness pioneer.
- Nigel Capel-Cure, 95, British cricketer and landowner.
- Pete Center, 92, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians).[13]
- Paul "Mousie" Garner, 95, American comedian, Three Stooges associate.
- Leon Golub, 82, American artist and painter.
- Charles L. Lewis, 37, American politician.
- Dimitris Papamichael, 70, Greek actor.
- Jean Pouliot, 81, Canadian broadcasting pioneer, helped establish television stations in Kitchener, Ontario and Quebec City, Quebec.[14]
- Richard Taylor, 23, Welsh skating and skiing champion, collided with a concrete lamp-post.
- Fay Wray, 96, Canadian-born American actress (King Kong).[15]
9
- Liisi Beckmann, 79, Finnish designer and artist.
- Edwin Michael Conway, 70, American Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church, esophageal cancer
- Tony Mottola, 86, American guitarist who played with Frank Sinatra and on The Tonight Show orchestra.[16]
- Eduard Neumann, 93, German Luftwaffe officer during WWII.
- David Raksin, 92, American composer of film and television scores (Laura), two Academy Award nominations (Forever Amber, Separate Tables).[17]
- Sir David Steel, 87, British businessman.
10
- Walter Bielser, 75, Swiss footballer.
- James Stillman Rockefeller, 102, American member of the Rockefeller family, oldest known U.S. Olympic medal winner.[18]
- Alan N. Cohen, 73, American owner of the Boston Celtics.
11
- Bjarne Andersson, 64, Swedish cross-county skier, Olympic silver medallist (1968).
- Sir David Calcutt, 73, British barrister and public servant.
- Chen Chunxian, 70, Chinese physicist, founder of Zhongguancun.
- Keith Drinan, 79, Australian rules footballer, (St Kilda).
- Joe Falls, 76, American journalist, longtime sports writer for The Detroit News.
- Bill Martin, Jr., 88, American author of Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.[19]
- Wolfgang Mommsen, 73, German historian.[20]
12
- Sir Godfrey Hounsfield, 84, British Nobel Prize in Medicine, co-inventor of the CAT scan.[21]
- Ian Lake, 69, British musician.
- Robert L. Morris, 62, American parapsychologist.
- Sebastián Ontoria, 84, Spanish footballer.
- George Yardley, 75, American National Basketball Association Hall of Famer.[22]
13
- Julia Child, 91, American chef, author and television hostess on French cuisine.[23]
- Stefan Dimitrov, 64, Bulgarian opera basso singer.
- Milton Pollack, 97, U.S. federal judge who ruled on court cases involving Wall Street.[24]
- Ondřej Voříšek, 18, Czech football, car accident.
- Peter Woodthorpe, 72, British character actor.[25]
14
- Dhananjoy Chatterjee, 39, Indian rapist and murderer, the first person executed in India since 1995.
- William D. Ford, 77, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives from Michigan from 1965 to 1995.
- Neal Fredericks, 35, American cinematographer (The Blair Witch Project), drowned.
- Robert Howard, 28, American athlete.
- Czesław Miłosz, 93, Polish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980, and dissident.
- Bomber Moran, 59, Filipino actor.
- Eric Petrie, 77, New Zealand cricketer.
- Stephen M. Reasoner, 60, American judge (United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas).[26]
- Sir Trevor Skeet, 86, New Zealand-born British lawyer and politician.
15
- Semiha Berksoy, 94, Turkish opera singer.[27]
- Sune K. Bergström, 88, Swedish biochemist, Nobel Prize in Medicine.
- Pedro Grases, 94, Venezuelan writer.
- Marian Kozłowski, 76, Polish basketball administrator.
- Bent Ole Retvig, 68, Danish cyclist.
- John Richardson, Baron Richardson, 94, British physician.
- Ollie Silva, 75, American auto racing driver.
16
- Acquanetta, 83, American-born "Venezuelan" B-movie actress.
- Mick Clingly, 72, Australian sportsman.
- H. G. Davis Jr., 80, Australian journalist and educator.
- Ivan Hlinka, 54, Czech national hockey team and Pittsburgh Penguins coach.[28]
- J. Irwin Miller, 95, American businessman, philanthropist, and civil rights advocate.[29]
- George Moe, 72, Barbadian politician and former Chief Justice of Belize.
- Carl Mydans, 97, American photographer.
- Robert Quiroga, 35, American world champion boxer, murdered.
- Stephen Terrell, 88, British barrister and politician, President of the Liberal Party.
- Sam Wildman, 92, American biologist.
17
- Thea Astley, 78, Australian novelist.
- Sheila Callender, 90, British physician and haematologist.
- Anatoly Guzhvin, 58, Russian politician and head of the administration of Astrakhan Oblast.
- Dennis "D-Roc" Miles, 45, American rhythm guitarist for Body Count, from lymphoma complications.
- Gérard Souzay, 85, French baritone.[30]
18
- Susan Mary Alsop, 84, American socialite, hostess and writer.[31]
- Elmer Bernstein, 82, American film composer (Thoroughly Modern Millie, Ghostbusters, To Kill a Mockingbird), Oscar winner (1968), cancer.
- Hiram Fong, 97, American businessman and politician, first Asian American elected to the U.S. Senate.
- Hugh Manning, 83, British actor (Emmerdale, The Elephant Man, Mrs Thursday).
- Víctor Cervera Pacheco, 68, Mexican politician, former Governor of Yucatán.
- Ray Reutt, 87, American professional football player (Virginia Military Institute, Phil/Pit Steagles).[32]
- Charlie Waller, 69, American bluegrass musician, founder of the band Country Gentlemen.
19
- Tom Baldwin, 57, American race driver, racing accident.
- George Gibson, 98, American football player and coach.
- Martin Knottenbelt, 84, Dutch anti-war activist.
- Kyi Maung, 83, Myanmar Army officer and politician.
- Rudolf Miele, 74, German entrepreneur.
- Peggy Peterman, American journalist and columnist.
- Jack Pinder, 91, English footballer.
- Günter Rexrodt, 62, German politician, former Economics Minister of Germany.
20
- William J. Firey, 81, American mathematician.
- Arthur Lever, 84, Welsh professional footballer.
- María Antonieta Pons, 82, Cuban-born star of rumbera films.
- Moshe Shamir, 83, Israeli politician and novelist.
- Leslie Shepard, 87, British author, archivist, and curator.
21
- Viktor Avilov, 51, Soviet and Russian film and theater actor, cancer.
- Amelia Batistich, 89, New Zealand fiction writer.
- Hortensia Blanch Pita, 89, Spanish writer.
- Maddy English, 79, American baseball player (AAGPBL)[33]
- Sachidananda Routray, 88, Indian poet and novelist.
- Moshe Shamir, 82, Israeli author, playwright and columnist.
- Clip Smith, 63, American media personality.
22
- Konstantin Aseev, 43, Russian chess Grandmaster and coach.
- Louella Daetweiler, 86, American baseball player (AAGPBL)[34]
- Al Dvorin, 81, American bandleader and talent agent, automobile accident.[35]
- Marcel Caux, 105, Australian First World War veteran, last known survivor of the Battle of Pozières.
- George Kirgo, 78, American television and film writer, former president of the Writers Guild of America.
- Jim Nelson, 57, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates).[36]
- Daniel Petrie, 83, Canadian film director (A Raisin in the Sun, Cocoon: The Return, The Bay Boy).[37]
- Reginaldo Polloni, 87–88, Italian Olympic rower (men's coxed four rowing at the 1948 Summer Olympics).[38]
- Ota Sik, 84, Czech economist and politician, architect of economic liberalization during Czechoslovakia's ill-fated 1968 Prague Spring.
23
- Povilas Aksomaitis, 66, Lithuanian politician and engineer.
- Hank Borowy, 88, American baseball player, former New York Yankees, Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies, Pittsburgh Pirates and Detroit Tigers pitcher.[39]
- Mary Guiney, 103, Irish businesswoman; chairperson of the Clerys department store.
- Francesco Minerva, 100, Italian Roman Catholic archbishop.
24
- Richard Ervin, 99, American attorney general and chief justice of Florida.[40]
- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, 78, Swiss-born psychiatrist.
- Eleni Ioannou, 20, Greek judoka.
- Carlos Lacoste, 75, Argentinian naval officer and interim President.
- Bob Price, 76, American politician (U.S. Representative for Texas's 18th congressional district and Texas's 13th congressional district).[41]
- William Siri, 85, American biophysics researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, mountaineer and environmentalist.[42]
25
- Don Ashton, 85, British film art director and production designer.
- Roger Broughton, 45, New Zealand cricketer.
- Hal Epps, 90, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, St. Louis Browns, Philadelphia Athletics).[43]
- Marcelo Gonzalez Martin, 86, Spanish Roman Catholic primate of Spain, Cardinal (since 1973) and Archbishop of Toledo (1971-1995).[44]
26
- Enzo G. Baldoni, 56, Italian journalist, murdered in Iraq.
- Laura Branigan, 52, American pop singer ("Gloria", "Self Control"), cerebral aneurysm.[45]
- Lewis Carter-Jones, 83, British politician.
- Lloyd Smith, 74, Australian cricketer.
27
- Fernand Auberjonois, 93, Swiss foreign news correspondent for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Toledo Blade; father of actor René Auberjonois.
- Willie Crawford, 57, American former outfielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers.[46]
- Gottlieb Göller, 69, German football player and manager.
- Suzanne Kaaren, 92, American actress (Three Stooges films).
- Liang Su-yung, 84, Taiwanese politician, President of the Legislative Yuan.
- Larry McCormick, 71, American television personality.
- Susan Peretz, 64, American actress (Dog Day Afternoon, Melvin and Howard, Swing Shift, Oh, God! You Devil), breast cancer.[47]
- William Pierson, 78, American actor (Stalag 17, Three's Company, Corvette Summer).[48]
28
- Jerzy Dzięcioł, 92, Polish Olympic sailor [1]
- Silvana Jachino, 88, Italian actress.
- Robert Lewin, 84, American producer and screenwriter, lung cancer.
- José Puyet, 82, Spanish painter
29
- Donald Allen, 92, American editor, publisher and translator of American literature.[49]
- Lee Guttero, 91, American basketball player.
- Ivar Aavatsmark, 91, Norwegian corporate executive and forester, director of Norwegian Forest Owners Association (1942-1982).
- Helen Lane, 83, American translator.[50]
- John Francis Nash, 94, American railroad executive.
30
- Larry Desmedt, 55, American motorcycle designer, injuries suffered during a stunt.[51]
- Willie Duff, 69, Scottish football goalkeeper (Heart of Midlothian, Charlton Athletic, Peterborough United and Dunfermline Athletic).
- Derek Johnson, 71, British athlete and athletics administrator.
- Fay Jones, 83, American architect and designer, trained by Frank Lloyd Wright.[52]
- Bob Sherman, 63, American actor.
- Fred Lawrence Whipple, 97, American astronomer.[53]
31
- Joe Barry, 65, American Swamp Pop singer of "I'm a Fool to Care".
- Lex Peterson, 46, New Zealand Olympic bobsledder (two-man and four-man bobsled at the 1988 Winter Olympics).[54]
- Carl Wayne, 61, English lead singer of pop group The Move, cancer.
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