Deaths in July 2004

The following is a list of notable deaths in July 2004.

Deaths in July 2004

1

• Enrique Mederos, Latin American voice actor.
• Peter Barnes, 73, British screenwriter and playwright, stroke.
• Marlon Brando, 80, American actor, pulmonary fibrosis.
• Sir Richard May, 65, former presiding judge, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.

2

• Sir John William Kay, Lord Justice of Court of Appeal of England and Wales.
• John Cullen Murphy, 85, comic strip artist (Prince Valiant).
• Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, 84, Portuguese writer and poet.
• Gareth Payne, 68, Welsh rugby union international.

3

• John Barron, 83, actor.
• Michael Curtis, 84, British newspaper editor and executive. [1]
• Jimmy Mack, 70, Scots radio personality. [2]

4

• Andrian Nikolayev, 74, Russian cosmonaut.
• Jean-Marie Auberson, 84, Swiss orchestra conductor.

5

• Robert Burchfield, 81, Oxford English Dictionary lexicographer.
• Hugh Shearer, 81, former Prime Minister of Jamaica.
• Rodger Ward, 83, two-time Indianapolis 500 champion.

6

• Peter Birks, 62, British academic lawyer.
• Eric Douglas, 46, youngest son of actor Kirk Douglas.
• Thomas Klestil, 71, Federal President of Austria, heart failure.
• Syreeta Wright, 58, singer, songwriter, ex-wife of Stevie Wonder.

7

• Xiaokai Yang, 55, Australian economist.

8

• Jaroslav Hules, 30, Czech motorcycle racer, suicide.
• Albert Friedlander, 77, German rabbi.
• Paula Danziger, 59, U.S. author.
• Mike Woodin, 38, Principal Speaker of Green Party of England and Wales and Oxford City Councillor.
• Jean Lefebvre, 84, French actor.

9

• Jeillo Edwards, c. 62, Sierra Leonean actress, first black actor to appear on "The Bill". [3]
• Paul Klebnikov, 41, editor of Forbes magazine's Russian edition, murdered.
• Ron Milner, 66, African-American playwright.
• Riley Dobi Noel, 31, convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in Arkansas.
• Bill Randle, 81, American disc jockey.
• Isabel Sanford, 86, actress, The Jeffersons, natural causes.
• Jeff Smith, 65, chef and host of The Frugal Gourmet.

10

• Rudy LaRusso, 66, five-time National Basketball Association All-Star.
• Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo, 74, former Prime Minister of Portugal. [4]
• Inge Meysel, 94, German actress. [5]

11

• Walter Wager, 79, American author.
• Betty Oliphant, 85, founder of Canada's National Ballet School.
• Frances Hyland, 77, Canadian theatre actress.
• Laurance Rockefeller, 94, conservationist and philanthropist.
• Dorothy Hart, 82, American actress.

12

• Ersel Hickey, 70, rockabilly singer.
• George Mallaby, 64, Australian actor.

13

• Joe Gold, 82, bodybuilding pioneer and Gold's Gym founder.
• Clifford Irving, 90, Manx politician.
• Arthur Kane, 53, American bassist for the New York Dolls, leukemia.
• Carlos Kleiber, 74, Austrian conductor.
• Betty Luna, 77, American baseball player.

14

• Hans A. Pestalozzi, 75, Swiss social critic.
• Alex Willoughby, 59, British footballer.

15

• Charles Sweeney, 84, pilot of Bockscar, the B-29 that dropped the Nagasaki atomic bomb. [6]
• Yoko Watanabe, 51, Japanese operatic soprano. [7]

16

• George Busbee, 76, former governor of Georgia.
• Bella Lewitzky, 88, modern dance pioneer and choreographer.

17

• Paul Hilmar Jensen, 74, Norwegian philatelist.
• Sir Julian Hodge, 99, British entrepreneur, founder of the Carlyle Trust bank. [8]
• Pat Roach, 67, wrestler and actor; cancer. ([9])
• Susan Cullen-Ward, 63, wife of the pretender to Albania's throne, Leka Zogu; cancer.

18

• Paul Foot, 66, British journalist and campaigner.
• Émile Peynaud, 92, French wine expert.

19

• Lori Hacking, 27, wife of Mark Hacking.
• Carvalho Leite, 92, Brazilian footballer, one of the last survivor of national team in 1930 FIFA World Cup.
• Woodrow Sedlacek, 85, American racehorse trainer.
• Zenko Suzuki, 93, former Prime Minister of Japan.

20

• Adi Lady Lala Mara, 73, Fijian chieftainess and former First Lady; widow of Prime Minister and President Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara.
• Antonio Gades, 67, Spanish Flamenco dancer, cancer.

21

• Jerry Goldsmith, 75, movie and television composer.
• Edward B. Lewis, 85, US-biologist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1995).
• Neal A. Maxwell, 78, member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
• Michael Prior, 62, Irish-born British theologian.

22

• Illinois Jacquet, 81, United States jazz saxophonist.
• Sacha Distel, 71, French singer.
• Hume Horan, 69, American diplomat.

23

• Joe Cahill, 84, Irish politician. [10]
• Mehmood, 72, Indian actor.
• Janet Chisholm, 75, former British MI6 agent.
• Carlos Paredes, 79, Portuguese guitar player.
• Serge Reggiani, 82, French singer and actor.

24

• Lowell "Cotton" Fitzsimmons, 72, National Basketball Association basketball coach.
• Fred LaRue, 75, part of Watergate scandal.
• Ben Martin, 83, American football player and coach.
• Edward D. Thalmann, 59, retired United States Navy Captain and doctor whose research developed military and recreational dive tables, congestive heart failure.

25

• Francisco Romão, 61, Angolan deputy foreign minister, suicide. [11]

26

• William A. Mitchell, 92, food scientist, inventor of Pop Rocks candy and Tang drink mix.
• Rubén Gómez, 77, Puerto Rico, former Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the San Francisco Giants, Philadelphia Phillies, Cleveland Indians and Minnesota Twins.
• Oguz Aral, 68, Turkish caricaturist; creator of Avanak Avni, Kostebek Husnu, and Utanmaz Adam.
• Sidney Francis Greene, Lord Greene of Harrow Weald, 94, British railroad worker, trade union leader, and life peer.

27

• Carmine G. DeSapio, 95, last boss of Tammany Hall.
• Bob Tisdall, 97, won the gold medal in hurdles at the 1932 Summer Olympics.

28

• Jackson Beck, 92, announcer and voice actor.
• Francis Crick, 88, British biologist, one of the discoverers of the "double-helix" shape of DNA, cancer. [12]
• Alexei de Keyser, 36, British television producer.
• Sam Edwards, 89, American actor, Little House on the Prairie, heart failure. [13]
• Steve Patterson, 56, former center of the UCLA basketball team, coach at Arizona State University and founder of the Grand Canyon State Games.
• Eugene Roche, 75, American character actor and the "Ajax" Man.
• Tiziano Terzani, 65, Italian journalist, famous for his books on Asia.

29

• Nafisa Joseph, 25, model, MTV video jockey, Miss India 1997; suicide.
• Susan Buffett, 71, estranged wife of billionaire/investment guru Warren Buffett.
• Rena Vlahopoulou, 81, Greek comedienne.

30

• Andre Noble, 25, Canadian actor.
• Ali Abbasi, 42, BBC Scotland travel presenter. [14]

31

• Laura Betti, 70, Italian actress.
• Elder David B. Haight, 97, oldest member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
• Virginia Grey, 87, American actress. Little Eva in the first film adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin
• Ray Tolchard, English cricketer and umpire.