Deaths in December 2005
Appearance
The following is a list of notable deaths in December 2005.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
December 2005
[edit]1
[edit]- Gust Avrakotos, 67, American CIA agent who armed the mujaheddin of Afghanistan, stroke.[1]
- Mary Hayley Bell, 94, British actress, Alzheimer's disease.[2]
- Béla Berger, 74, Hungarian-Australian chess master.
- Hermann Buchner, 86, German World War II flying ace.
- Jack Colvin, 73, American actor, (The Incredible Hulk), coronary thrombosis.
- Michael Evans, 61, American White House photographer, cancer.[3]
- Ray Hanna, 77, New Zealand-English pilot and founder of The Old Flying Machine Company.[4]
- Karin Himboldt, 85, German film actress.[5]
- Michael Kehlmann, 78, Austrian theatre and television film director, screenwriter and actor.[6]
- Victor Premasagar, 78, Indian theologian and Bishop of Medak (1983–1992).
- Eddie Schroeder, 94, American speed skater.[7]
2
[edit]- Nikolai Artemov, 97, Soviet and Russian physiologist.
- Lillian Browse, 99, British art dealer.[8]
- Shawn Paul Humphries, 34, American convicted murderer, executed by.lethal injection.[9]
- Malik Joyeux, 25, French professional surfer, drowned.[10]
- William P. Lawrence, 75, American U.S. Navy Vice Admiral, first to fly at twice the speed of sound.[11]
- Leonard Lewis, 78, British television director and producer.[12]
- Peter Menegazzo, 61, Australian cattle baron, plane crash.[13]
- Tom Miller, 87, American gridiron football player.[14]
- Jaime Morón, 55, Colombian football player.[15]
- Van Tuong Nguyen, 25, Australian convicted of drug trafficking, execution by hanging.[16]
- Mohammed Hamza Zubeidi, 67, Iraqi politician, former prime minister under Saddam Hussein.
3
[edit]- Frederick Ashworth, 93, American naval officer, weaponeer who dropped atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
- John Ganzoni, 2nd Baron Belstead, 73, British aristocrat and politician.[17]
- Peter Cook, 62, Australian politician, melanoma.
- Lance Dossor, 90, Australian pianist.
- Peter E. Haas, 86, American billionaire businessman, president, CEO and chairman of Levi Strauss & Co.[18]
- Kikka, 41, Finnish pop and schlager singer, heart attack.[19]
- Kåre Kristiansen, 85, Norwegian politician, minister of Oil and Energy (1983–1986).[20]
- Lupe Madera, 52, Mexican boxer.
- Atsuko Tanaka, 74, Japanese avant-garde artist.[21]
4
[edit]- Ted Allbeury, 88, British author of espionage fiction.[22]
- Débora Arango, 98, Colombian artist.[23]
- Percy Brandt, 83, Swedish actor.
- Errol Brathwaite, 81, New Zealand writer.
- Alfred Farag, 76, Egyptian playwright.
- Gregg Hoffman, 42, American film producer (Saw).[24]
- Gloria Lasso, 83, Spanish singer, heart attack.[25]
- Jacob Pins, 88, German-Israeli woodcut artist and art collector.[26]
5
[edit]- John Alvheim, 75, Norwegian politician.
- Gerald Smedley Andrews, 101, Canadian civil servant.
- Wesley Baker, 47, American convicted murderer, executed in Maryland.
- Liu Binyan, 80, Chinese author and dissident, cancer.[27]
- Gerard Bruggink, 88, Dutch World War II pilot.
- Ursula Buckel, 79, German soprano.
- Netai Bysack, 84, Indian Olympic cyclist.
- Milo Dor, 82, Serbian-born Austrian author, heart failure.
- Edward L. Masry, 73, American attorney and mentor to Erin Brockovich, complications of diabetes.[28]
- Kevin "Big Kev" McQuay, 56, Australian businessman and media personality, heart attack.[29]
- Frits Philips, 100, Dutch businessman, grandson of the founder of Philips, complications from a fall.
- Bob Richardson, 77, American fashion photographer.[30]
- Bill Robinson, 71, British rugby league player.
6
[edit]- Charly Gaul, 72, Luxembourgian cyclist, winner of the 1958 Tour de France.[31]
- Richard Grimsdale, 76, British electrical engineer, built the world's first transistorised computer.[32]
- Paul Halla, 74, Austrian footballer.
- Hanns Dieter Hüsch, 80, German political satirist.
- Devan Nair, 82, President of Singapore (1981–1985).[33]
- Jerzy Pajaczkowski-Dydynski, 111, Polish-born oldest man in the UK at the time of his death.[34]
- Danny Williams, 63, South African popular singer, lung cancer.
7
[edit]- Lucy d'Abreu, 113, Indian-born oldest person in the UK at the time of her death.[35]
- Martine Bercher, 61, American football player.
- Adrian Biddle, 53, British cinematographer (Aliens, The Princess Bride, Thelma & Louise), heart attack.
- Marvin Braude, 85, American member of Los Angeles City Council.[36]
- Carroll A. Campbell, Jr., 65, American politician, South Carolina governor (1987–1995), and member of U.S. House of Representatives (1979–1987).
- Bud Carson, 75, American football player, former NFL head coach, emphysema.[37]
- Loomis Dean, 88, American photographer, notably for Life magazine.
8
[edit]- R. W. Bradford, 58, American writer, publisher of Liberty magazine, kidney cancer.
- Dame Rose Heilbron, 91, British judge.[38]
- Donald Martino, 74, American composer.[39]
- George D. Painter, 91, British biographer.[40]
- Leo Scheffczyk, 85, German Roman Cardinal Deacon of San Francesco Saverio alla Garbatella, Germany.[41]
- Roger Shattuck, 82, American writer and critic, prostate cancer.[42]
- J.N. Williamson, 73, American horror writer, author and publisher.
- Georgiy Zhzhonov, 90, Russian actor and writer.
9
[edit]- John Beale, 72, British virologist.
- Norman Blundell, 88, Australian cricketer.
- Mike Botts, 61, American drummer, toured and recorded with Linda Ronstadt, Dan Fogelberg, and Tina Turner, cancer.
- Homer Mensch, 91, American internationally known bass player, Juilliard teacher.
- Eunice Norton, 97, American classical pianist and music promoter.
- György Sándor, 93, Hungarian internationally famous pianist, Juilliard teacher, heart failure.[43]
- Robert Sheckley, 77, American science fiction author, brain aneurysm.[44]
10
[edit]- Frank Cooke, 92, American entrepreneur.
- Mary Jackson, 95, American schoolteacher and actress (The Waltons, Parenthood).
- Eugene McCarthy, 89, American politician, U.S. Senator from Minnesota (1959–1971), U.S. Representative (1949–1959).[45]
- Jim McIntyre, 78, American basketball player.
- Richard Pryor, 65, American comedian and actor (Stir Crazy, Harlem Nights), heart attack and complications of multiple sclerosis.[46]
- Clark G. Reynolds, 65, American naval historian.[47]
11
[edit]- Walter Cudzik, 73, American NFL and American Football League center for the Boston Patriots.
- Del Philpott, 82, American soldier and scientist.
- Richard Sandbrook, 59, British environmentalist.
- Hayim Tadmor, 82, Israeli Assyriologist and professor.[48]
12
[edit]- Eric D'Arcy, 81, Australia Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Hobart, Tasmania.
- Max Mariu, 53, First Maori Catholic bishop.
- Robert Newmyer, 49, American film producer (The Santa Clause, Training Day, Sex, Lies, and Videotape), heart attack triggered by asthma.[49]
- David Pritchard, 86, British chess player and chess writer.
- Gebran Tueni, 48, Lebanese journalist and politician, assassinated by a car bomb.
13
[edit]- John Barraclough, 79, Australian politician.
- Sir Roland Guy, 77, British army general.
- John Langstaff, 84, American singer and music educator.[50]
- Dick Nolan, 66, Canadian musician.
- Stanley "Tookie" Williams, 51, American convicted murderer and co-founder of the Crips turned anti-gang activist, execution by lethal injection.
14
[edit]- Erhard Ahmann, 64, German football manager.
- Stew Bowers, 90, American baseball player.
- Gordon Duncan, 41, Scottish musician and bagpiper, suicide.[51]
- Rokuro Ishikawa, 80, Japanese businessman (Kajima Corporation).
- Sudhir Joshi, 57, Indian actor, heart attack.
- John B. Nixon, 77, American convicted murderer, executed in Mississippi.
- William "Duke" Procter, 106, Canadian World War I veteran.[52]
- Rodney William Whitaker, 74, British author, wrote under pseudonyms such as "Trevanian."
- C. I. Paul, 61, Indian (Malayalam) actor, heart attack.
15
[edit]- Maurice Beresford, 85, British economic historian and archaeologist.
- James Ingo Freed, 75, American architect.[53]
- Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, 84, Italian writer and director of movies and theatre.
- Heinrich Gross, 90, Austrian alleged Nazi doctor and war criminal.[54]
- Walter Haut, 83, American retired U.S. Army lieutenant, central figure in the Roswell UFO incident in 1947.[55]
- Stan Leonard, 90, Canadian golfer, heart failure.[56]
- Julian Marías, 91, Spanish philosopher and father of author Javier Marías.
- John McIntyre, 89, Scottish theologian.[57]
- Akira Ohgi, 70, Japanese baseball player and manager.
- Jim Ostendarp, 82, American football coach at Amherst College for 33 years.[58]
- William Proxmire, 90, American politician, Democratic Senator from Wisconsin (1957–1989), complications of Alzheimer's disease.[59]
- Darrell Russell, 29, American former NFL player for the Oakland Raiders and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, car accident.
16
[edit]- Anthony Barber, 85, British politician and former Conservative Party Chancellor of the Exchequer, complications of Parkinson's disease.
- Boyi Bhimanna, 94, Indian Telugu poet.
- Kenneth Bulmer, 84, English writer (pseudonyms included Alan Burt Akers and Dray Prescot).[60]
- Joseph Owades, 86, American biochemist, inventor of light beer.[61]
- John Spencer, 58, American actor (The West Wing, L.A. Law, The Rock), Emmy winner (2002), heart attack.
- Enzo Stuarti, 86, Italian tenor, was in many Broadway musicals, heart failure.[62]
17
[edit]- Jack Anderson, 83, American Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, complications of Parkinson's disease.[63]
- Mustafa Ertan, 79, Turkish footballer.
- Marc Favreau, 76, French Canadian television and film actor, best known for his creation of the clown Sol.
- Jacques Fouroux, 58, French rugby union captain and coach, heart attack.[64]
- Sverre Stenersen, 79, Norwegian Gold medal winner in the 1956 Winter Olympics.
- Haljand Udam, 69, Estonian translator and encyclopedist.
18
[edit]- Keith Duckworth, 72, British automotive designer.[65]
- Doug Dye, 84, New Zealand microbiologist.
- Howie Ferguson, 75, American former NFL player.
- Doris Fisher, Baroness Fisher of Rednal, 86, British politician and peer.[66]
- Barry Halper, 66, American baseball memorabilia collector and limited partner for the New York Yankees.[67]
- Belita Jepson-Turner, 82, British Olympic skater and film actress.[68]
- P.M. Sayeed, 64, Indian Minister of Power, heart attack.[69]
- Alan M. Voorhees, 83, American transportation engineer and city planner [70]
19
[edit]- Billy Amstell, 94, British jazz musician.
- Sir Charles Brett, 77, Northern Irish architectural historian.
- George Bromilow, 74, British footballer at the 1956 Summer Olympics.
- Vincent Gigante, 77, American Genovese family crime boss, heart disease.[71]
- Julio Iglesias Puga, 90, Spanish gynaecologist, father of Julio Iglesias and grandfather of Enrique Iglesias's, heart attack.
- Marjorie Kellogg, 83, American author and playwright (Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon).[72]
20
[edit]- Raoul Bott, 82, Hungarian-born American Harvard mathematician, cancer.[73]
- Argentina Brunetti, 98, Argentine actress. (It's a Wonderful Life, The Caddy), writer, journalist.
- Theodore Holmes Bullock, 90, American neuroscientist.[74]
- Bradford Cannon, 98, American plastic surgeon, pneumonia.[75]
- Genrikh Fedosov, 73, Soviet football player.
- William W. Howells, 97, American anthropologist.[76]
- Billy Hughes, 57, American former child/film actor during the 1960s.[77]
- Graham Wilson, 66, Australian rugby league player.
- José Roberto Hill, 60, Mexican actor.
21
[edit]- Vicente de Cadenas y Vicent, 90, Spanish officer of arms.
- Horace Ellis Crouch, 87, American military aviator, member of the Doolittle Raid.
- Myron Healey, 82, American film actor who normally played Western villains.[78]
- Elrod Hendricks, 64, U.S. Virgin Islander Baltimore Orioles coach, former MLB catcher, heart attack.[79]
- Hallam Tennyson, 85, British radio producer and great-grandson of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, suspected victim of murder.[80]
22
[edit]- Richard Bellucci, 91, American ear surgeon and inventor.[81]
- Cooper Evans, 81, American politician, former Republican US Representative from Iowa from 1981–1987.
- Aurora Miranda, 90, Brazilian entertainer and sister of Carmen Miranda.
- Bill Scott, 82, Australian author.
23
[edit]- Lajos Baróti, 91, Hungarian football coach.[82]
- Selma Jeanne Cohen, 85, American dance historian, editor of The International Encyclopedia of Dance.[83]
- G. Blakemore Evans, 93, American Shakespeare scholar, author of The Riverside Shakespeare, stroke.[84]
- Truman Gibson, 93, American anti-segregation lawyer and boxing promoter.[85]
- Harold Hallman, 43, Canadian football player.[86]
- Emmett Leith, 78, American electrical engineer.[87]
- Kay Stammers, 91, British tennis player.[88]
- Norman D. Vaughan, 100, American explorer and sportsman, part of Richard Byrd's 1928 South Pole expedition.[89][90]
- Yao Wenyuan, 74, Chinese Communist political leader, member of the Gang of Four.[91]
24
[edit]- Bhanumathi, 80, Indian film actress, director, singer/songwriter.[92]
- Georg Johannesen, 74, Norwegian author and professor of rhetoric.[93]
- Constance Keene, 84, American classical pianist known for playing the romantic repertoire[94]
- Harold Lawton, 106, British academic and veteran of the First World War[95]
- Michael Vale, 83, American actor who appeared in over Dunkin' Donuts 1,300 commercials, diabetes.[96]
- Wang Daohan, 90, Chinese negotiator for People's Republic of China in cross-straits talks, who contributed to the formation of the 1992 Consensus with Koo Chen-fu from the Republic of China on Taiwan.[97]
25
[edit]- Felice Andreasi, 77, Italian actor.
- Derek Bailey, 75, English free improvising avant-garde guitarist, motor neuron disease.[98]
- Robert Barbers, 61, Filipino politician, former Philippines senator, heart attack.[99]
- Donald Dawson, 97, American lawyer, executive assistant to Harry S. Truman.[100]
- Robert Duthie, 80, American-born British orthopaedic surgeon.
- John Hayes, 76, British art historian and museum curator.[101]
- Henry Kock, 53, Canadian horticulturist and eco-activist, brain cancer.[102]
- Birgit Nilsson, 87, Swedish soprano.[103]
- Joseph Pararajasingham, 71, Sri Lankan politician and supporter of the Tamil Tiger rebels, shot.[104]
- Sarat Chandra Sinha, 92, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Assam.[105]
- Clint Sampson, 44, American football player, car accident.[106]
- Roy Stuart, 70, American actor.[107]
26
[edit]- Mikuláš Athanasov, 75, Czechoslovak wrestler.
- Julian "Bud" Blake, 87, American cartoonist (Tiger).[108]
- Muriel Costa-Greenspon, 68, American mezzo-soprano at the New York City Opera for 30 years.[109]
- Guy Delorme, 76, French actor (The Three Musketeers, Moonraker).
- Bill DeArango, 84, American jazz guitarist.
- John Diebold, 79, American businessman, pioneering American computer engineer.[110]
- Ted Ditchburn, 84, English football goalkeeper (Tottenham Hotspur, England national football team).[111]
- Ernesto Leal, 60, Nicaraguan politician, presidential chief of staff and former foreign minister of Nicaragua, pneumonia.[112]
- Kerry Packer, 68, Australian billionaire publishing-, media- and gaming tycoon.[113]
- Vincent Schiavelli, 57, American actor (Ghost, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), lung cancer.[114]
- John Taylor, 80, Canadian football player (St. Hyacinthe-Donnacona Navy and Montreal Alouettes).[115]
- Erich Topp, 91, German U-boat commander in World War II.[116]
27
[edit]- Stuart Alexander, 44, American businessman and murderer.
- Philip N. Carney, 86, American politician, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
- Xavier Connor, 88, Australian jurist and foundation judge of the Federal Court of Australia.
- Dee Pollock, 68, American film and television actor.
- Giancarlo Primo, 81, Italian basketball coach, the first to defeat National Teams USA and USSR in 1970s.[117]
- Tokuji Wakasa, 91, Japanese businessman, former president of All Nippon Airways.
28
[edit]- Bruce Carver, 57, American video game developer.
- Patrick Cranshaw, 86, American actor (Old School, Best in Show, Herbie: Fully Loaded), pneumonia.[118]
- Tage Ekfeldt, 79, Swedish Olympic sprinter.
- Stevo Žigon, 79, Serbian actor and theatre director.
29
[edit]- Armand Phillip Bartos, 95, American architect.[119]
- Gerda Boyesen, 83, Norwegian psychologist.
- Dan Carnevale, 87, American baseball player.
- Abuna Yesehaq Mandefro, 72, Ethiopian Orthodox Archbishop.[120]
- Ray Mattox, 78, American politician.[121]
- Eileen Nolan, 85, British Director of the Women's Royal Army Corps.[122]
- Elizabeth Parcells, 54, American operatic coloratura soprano.[123]
- Sir Cyril Philips, 93, British historian and academic administrator.[124]
- Sir Eric Stroud, 81, British paediatrician.[125]
30
[edit]- Eddie Barlow, 65, South African cricketer.[126]
- Candy Barr, 70, American exotic dancer, pneumonia.[127]
- Charles J. Bowles, 83, American physical education expert.
- Pasquale Carpino, 69, Italian-born Canadian television chef and operatic singer.[128]
- Tory Dent, 47, American poet, essayist and art critic.[129]
- Rona Jaffe, 74, American novelist (The Best of Everything, Mazes and Monsters), cancer.[130]
- Fred "Jock" Smith, 79, Scottish footballer (Hull City, Sheffield United and Millwall).
- Bobby Stevens, 98, American baseball player.[131]
31
[edit]- Sanora Babb, 98, American writer.[132]
- Enrico Di Giuseppe, 73, American operatic tenor, cancer.[133]
- Maurice Dodd, 83, British cartoonist (The Perishers), brain haemorrhage.[134]
- Sir John Peel, 101, British gynaecologist.[135]
- Maclovia Ruiz, 95, American dancer, pneumonia.[136]
- Xolilizwe Sigcawu, 79, South African King of the Gcaleka.
- David Trustram Eve, 2nd Baron Silsoe, 75, British lawyer.[137]
- Phillip Whitehead, 68, British politician and television presenter, MP for Derby North, heart attack.[138]
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