Deaths in June 2005

The following is a list of notable people who died in June 2005.

1

• Dmitri Bystrov, 37, Russian footballer.
• Josephine Clay Ford, 81, Ford Motor Company heiress and prominent philanthropist.
• George Mikan, 80, Basketball Hall of Famer.
• Geoffrey Toone, 94, British-based Irish actor. [1]

2

• Isabel Aretz, 96, Argentine musician.
• Lucio España, 33, Colombian footballer, murdered
• Samir Kassir, 45, Lebanese journalist who supported democracy, assassinated
• Mike Marshall, 60, French-American actor, known for role in Moonraker
• Melita Norwood, 93, Briton who spied for the Soviet Union during the Cold War. [2]

3

• Leon Askin, 97, Austrian actor.
• Radomir Belaćević, 75, Serbian film producer and writer.
• Teodoro Benigno, 82, Filipino journalist.
• Michael Billington, 63, British actor.
• Harold Cardinal, 60, Cree writer, lung cancer.
• Alex Freeleagus, 77, Australian diplomat and lawyer. [3]
• Harrison Young, 75, American actor (Saving Private Ryan). [4]

4

• Paul Amen, 88, American sportsman and banker.
• Chloe Jones, 29, adult film star.
• Banks McFadden, 88, College Football Hall of Famer and former Clemson football player.
• Jean O'Leary, 57, American gay and lesbian rights activist and politician.
• Yin Shun, 100, Chinese Buddhist philosopher.
• Lorna Thayer, 86, American character actress (Five Easy Pieces), Alzheimer's disease. [5]

5

• Adolfo Aguilar Zínser, 55, Mexican scholar, diplomat and politician. [6]
• George Isaak, 72, Australian phyicist. [7]
• Oscar Morelli, 59, Mexican actor, after lengthy illness
• Susi Nicoletti, 86, Austrian film actress, complications from heart surgery. de:Susi Nicoletti, [8]

6

• Eduardo P. Archetti, 62, Argentine social scientist.
• Anne Bancroft, 73, American Oscar-winning actress, uterine cancer. [9]
• Dana Elcar, 77, American film, stage and television actor. [10]
• David Sutherland, 56, American illustrator for the original Dungeons & Dragons books.

7

• Pater Barry, 67, Australian rules footballer.
• Margaret Baxtresser, 82, American concert pianist.
• Seán Doherty, 60, Irish politician.
• Terry Long, 45, former NFL offensive lineman.
• Edward Anthony McCarthy, 87, second Archbishop of Miami.

8

• Ed Bishop, 72, American actor.
• Arthur Dunkel, 72, Portuguese-Swiss GATT director-general.

9

• Allan Ashbolt, 83, Australian journalist.
• Richard Eberhart, 101, American poet.
• Ryan Alan Hade, 23, former American sexual assault victim whose case paved the way for laws allowing indefinite confinement of sexual predators, motorcycle accident. [11]

10

• Michèle Auclair, 80, French violinist.
• J. James Exon, 83, former Democratic United States Senator (1979–1997) and Governor of Nebraska (1971–1979).
• Curtis Pitts, 89, designer of the Pitts Special and other aircraft.
• Kenneth N. Taylor, 88, founder of Tyndale House Publishers and translator of The Living Bible.

11

• Francesco Albanese, 92, Italian opera singer.
• Anne-Marie Alonzo, 53, Canadian writer.
• Gordon Baxter, 81, American radio personality.
• José Beyaert, 79, French cyclist.
• Audrey Brown, 83, British athlete.
• Robert Clarke, 85, American actor.
• Ghena Dimitrova, 64, Bulgarian opera singer.
• Lon McCallister, 82, American actor.
• Ron Randell, 86, Australian-born actor.
• Juan José Saer, 67, Argentine novelist.
• Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves, 84, Portuguese General, Prime Minister (1974–1975). [12].

12

• Bryan Beaumont, 66, Australian jurist.
• Sonja Davies, 81, New Zealand trade unionist.
• Makobo Modjadji, 27, rain queen of the Balobedu people of South Africa.
• Scott Young, 87, Canadian journalist and father of Neil Young.

13

• Joan Abse, 78, English writer and art historian.
• Jonathan Adams, 74, British actor (Dr. von Scott, The Rocky Horror Picture Show).
• Gerard Béhague, 67, French-born American ethnomusicologist.
• Álvaro Cunhal, 91, Portuguese politician, secretary-general of the Portuguese Communist Party (1961–1992), deputy (1975–1992), writer and painter. [13]
• David Diamond, 89, American composer.
• Eugénio de Andrade, 82, Portuguese poet.
• Lane Smith, 69, American actor (My Cousin Vinny, Lois & Clark).

14

• Félix Acosta-Núñez, 81, Dominican Republic sports journalist
• Carlo Maria Giulini, 91, Italian conductor
• Mimi Parent, 80, surrealist painter

15

• Percy Arrowsmith, 105, one-half of the world's documented longest marriage.
• Rodrigo Asturias, 65, Guatemalan guerilla leader and politician, heart attack.
• Valeria Moriconi, 73, Italian actress, cancer.
• Kathi Norris, 86, hosted one of the first TV talk shows on the DuMont Television Network, (The Kathi Norris Show, also known as Your TV Shopper, 1948–1950); mother of actress Koo Stark.

16

• Corino Andrade, 99, Portuguese neurologist, discovered Familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy (FAP).
• Billy Bauer, 89, American jazz guitarist.
• Enrique Laguerre, 99, writer, poet, teacher from Puerto Rico.
• Ross Stretton, 53, artistic director of Australian Ballet.[14]
• James Weinstein, 78, Jewish author, founder and publisher of In These Times.

17

• Nanna Ditzel, 81, Danish furniture and interior designer.
• William N. Fenton, 96, American scholar known for writings on the Iroquois.
• Trevor Jones, 85, English cricketer.
• Karl Mueller, 41, founding bassist for the rock band "Soul Asylum", throat cancer.
• James A. Whyte, 85, Scottish theologian.
• Ronald Winans, 48, Grammy-winning American gospel singer.

18

• Syed Mushtaq Ali, 90, Indian cricketer, (batsman/captain), Padma Shree Award winner.
• Gerald Davis, Irish painter and Joycean scholar.
• Cay Forrester, 83, American writer/film actress (DOA, etc.)
• Basil Kirchin, 77, British musician.
• J. J. Pickle, 91, former Democratic U.S. Congressional Representative from Texas (1963–1995).
• Manuel Sadosky, 91, father of Argentina's computer science studies and former Secretary of State of Science and Technology (1983–1989).

19

• Frank Alexander, 94, Australian cricketer.
• Allan Beckett, 91, British engineer. [15]
• Alfred Deakin Brookes, 85, Australian intelligence officer.
• Georgie Woods, 78, Philadelphia radio broadcast "legend", due to be inducted into the Philadelphia Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame.

20

• Larry Collins, 75, American writer
• Charles D. Keeling, 77, American scientist whose pioneering measurements showed a carbon dioxide buildup in the earth's atmosphere
• Jack Kilby, 81, American engineer, inventor of the integrated circuit and physics Nobel prize winner.
• William López, 26, Salvadoran footballer [16]
• Bernard Adolph Schriever, 94, retired U.S. General, regarded as the father and architect of the United States Air Force space and ballistic missile programs.

21

• Peter Bridgwater, 70, American soccer executive.
• George Hawi, 67, former secretary general of Communist Party of Lebanon, killed by terrorists in an attack on his car.
• Geoffrey Jones, 73, British documentary maker, cancer.
• Jaime Sin, 76, Roman Catholic cardinal and former Archbishop of Manila.
• Louis H. Wilson, Jr., 85, US Medal of Honor recipient and Commandant of the Marine Corps.

22

• Sunder Singh Bhandari, 84, Indian politician.
• David Breeden, 54, American clarinetist.
• William Donaldson, 70, British satirist and theatrical producer of Beyond The Fringe.

23

• Nikolay Afanasevsky, 64, Russian diplomat.
• Shana Alexander, 79, American journalist, cancer. [17]
• Manolis Anagnostakis, 80, Greek poet.
• Pietro Balestra, 70, Swiss economist.
• Richard Hart Brown, 64, American neuroscientist.
• Isidore Cohen, 82, violinist with the Beaux Arts Trio. [18]
• Hanna Kvanmo, 79, Norwegian politician.
• Sam Kweskin, 81, comic book artist. [19]
• Ramon L. Posel, 77, built up Philadelphia's art film industry though Ritz Theaters. [20]

24

• Lyman Bostock, Sr., 87, American baseball player.
• Peter Casserly, 107, last surviving member of the First Australian Imperial Force serving on the Western Front in World War I. [21]
• Imogen Claire, actress, played one of the transylvannians in The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
• Paul Winchell, 82, American voice actor and ventriloquist; animated voice of 'Tigger', natural causes.

25

• Frederick G. Dutton, 82, advisor to President Kennedy. [22]
• John Fiedler, 80, American film, stage and television actor, cancer. [23]
• Sir Harry Gibbs, 88, Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia 1981-87
• Chet Helms, 62, rock music promoter
• Bob Vincent, 87, American big band singer and theatrical agent

26

• Filip Adwent, 49, Polish politician. [24]
• Eknath Solkar, 57, former Indian cricketer.
• Grete Sultan, 99, German-American pianist.
• Richard Whiteley, 61, British television presenter, pneumonia.[25]

27

• Robert Byrne, 50, American songwriter.
• Shelby Foote, 88, U.S. historian. [26]
• Frank Harte, 72, Dublin traditional singer and song collector, heart attack.
• Domino Harvey, 35, model-turned-bounty hunter and daughter of the late actor, Laurence Harvey. Found dead in her bathtub of an overdose of Fentanyl painkillers. [27]
• Ray Holmes, 90, pilot who protected Buckingham Palace during the Battle of Britain, cancer. [28]
• Owen McCarron, 76, Canadian cartoonist and puzzle creator.[29]
• John T. Walton, 58, son of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton.

28

• Bardhyl Ajeti, 28, Serbian journalist, assassinated.
• Matthew Axelson, 29, American naval officer.
• Robert D. Clark, 95, American university administrator.
• Victor Craig, 87, Irish cricketer.
• Dick Dietz, 63, an Major League Baseball All-Star catcher who played for the San Francisco Giants, Los Angeles Dodgers and Atlanta Braves, heart attack. [30]
• Philip Hobsbaum, 72, academic, poet and critic, diabetes. [31]
• Brenda Howard, 58, American LGBT-rights activist, colon cancer.[32]
• Bruce Malmuth, 71, American film director (Sylvester Stallone's Nighthawk), throat cancer. [33]
• Rowland B. Wilson, 74, American cartoonist and animator [34]

29

• Ruslan Abdulgani, 91, Indonesian politician and diplomat.
• James Gilbert Baker, 90, American astronomer.
• Gerard C. Bond, 65, American geologist. [35]
• W. Burlie Brown, 83, American historian.
• John Burgess, 71, Scottish bagpiper.

30

• Christopher Fry, 97, British playwright. [36]
• Lilian Keil, 88, highly decorated American World War II and Korean War flight nurse. [37]
• Éva Novák-Gerard, 75, Hungarian swimmer.
• Alexei Sultanov, 35, Russian pianist. [38]