Deaths in May 2005

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

1

• Edgar Baird, 93, Canadian businessman.
• Albert Rex Bergstrom, 79, New Zealand econometrician. [1].]
• Kenneth Clark, 90, African-American civil rights activist and psychologist.
• René Rivkin, 60, Australian stockbroker.
• Edward von Kloberg III, 63, lobbyist.

2

• 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.
• Jonathan Thomas, 59, Canadian-born sculptor [2]

3

• Henriette, Lady Abel Smith, 90, British courtier, lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth II.
• Jagjit Singh Aurora, 89, Indian army general.
• David Batchelor, 63, British sound engineer.
• Don Canham, 87, former University of Michigan athletic director.
• Maria Strelnikova, 115, Russian woman who possibly might be 2'nd oldest person in the world.

4

• Mark Boyle, 70, Scottish artist.
• David H. Hackworth, 74, Vietnam War veteran, journalist
• Evelyn Lutman 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.

5

• Ted Atkinson, 88, Hall of Fame jockey.
• Carolyn Brady, 67, American artist.
• Elisabeth Fraser, 85, actress on The Phil Silvers Show, etc.
• June MacCloy, 96, actress.
• Magdolna Nyári-Kovács, 83, Hungarian Olympic fencer.
• Édgar Ponce, 30, Mexican actor, collision between car and motorcycle during filming of video for "Sólo para mujeres".

6

• Theodore J. Bauer, 95, American specialist in infectious diseases.
• Miguel Contreras, 52, California union leader.
• 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, heart attack.
• Jost Gross, 59, member of the National Council of Switzerland.
• Lisa Freeman Roberts, 56, American vocalist. [3]
• Herb Sargent, 81, television comedy writer. [4]
• Lee Stine, 91, who pitched in Major League Baseball for the Chicago White Sox, Cincinnati Reds and New York Yankees.

7

• Václav Boštík, 91, Czech artist.
• Tristan Egolf, 33, author, suicide.
• 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.
• Otilino Tenorio, 25, Ecuadorian international football player.

8

• Wolfgang Blochwitz, 64, German footballer.
• Lloyd Cutler, 87, former White House Counsel under Presidents Carter and Clinton.
• A. J. Shepherd, 78, ex-Indianapolis 500 racing driver.

9

• Li Cairong, 119, world's second oldest human being only to Jeanne Calment (unconfirmed)
• Nasrat Parsa, 36, Afghan pop singer, after being assaulted in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
• Tiny Wharton, 77, British football referee

10

• Hal Griggs, 76, former MLB player Washington Senators
• Veikko Hursti, 80, Finnish philanthropist
• Jim Love (artist), 75, American sculptor
• Jay Marshall, 85, Dean of the Society of American Magicians
• David Wayne, 47, singer for the heavy metal group Metal Church

11

• Alfred Finnigan, 108, oldest man in Wales and World War I survivor.
• Michalis Genitsaris, 86, Greek rebetiko singer and composer.
• Bob Stuart, 84, New Zealand rugby player.

12

• Eddie Barclay, 84, French record producer and founder of Barclay Records.
• Maurice Catarcio, 76, former World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) wrestler, of cancer.
• Monica Zetterlund, 67, Swedish singer and actress.

13

• George Dantzig, 90, mathematician, "father of linear programming"
• Hugh Montefiore, 85, Bishop of Birmingham and environmental activist with Friends of the Earth
• Michael Ross, 45, convicted serial killer, executed by lethal injection.

14

• Jimmy Martin, 77, bluegrass singer

15

• Povl Ahm, 78, Danish engineer, cancer.
• Les Bartley, 51, former coach of the Toronto Rock of the National Lacrosse League, colon cancer.
• Alan B. Gold, 88, retired Chief Justice of the Quebec Superior Court, negotiated an end to the Oka standoff and numerous strikes.
• The Earl of Shaftesbury, 27, English peer, suspected heart attack.

16

• L. Bruce Archer, 82, British mechanical engineer and designer.
• Andrew J. Goodpaster, 90, former leader of NATO and veteran of World War II.
• June Lang, 90, American actor.
• Jose M. Lopez, 94, Medal of Honor-winning soldier in World War II. [5]
• Albert "Smiler" Marshall, 108, British veteran of World War I.
• Arthur Naftalin, 87, former mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota.

17

• Keiiti Aki, 75, seismologist. [6]
• Frank Gorshin, 71, American film and television actor, cancer
• Paul Keene, 94, organic farmer

18

• Shaima Rezayee, 24, former TV presenter of Hop, an Afghan programme similar to MTV
• Stella Zázvorková, 83, Czech actress

19

• John Arthur, 85, South African boxer.
• Richard Cartwright, 31, convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.
• Henry Corden, 85, Canadian-born voice actor (Fred Flintstone) for more than 2 decades.
• Batya Gur, 57, Israeli author.
• David Lang, 37, former NFL running back with the Los Angeles Rams and Dallas Cowboys.
• Richard Lewine, 94, Broadway composer and TV producer. [7]
• Victor Wouk, 86, American scientist and electrical engineer.

20

• Anthony Athanas, 93, Albanian-born American restauranteur.
• J.D. Cannon, 83, American actor.
• Paul Ricoeur, 92, French philosopher and teacher.
• Lujo Tončić-Sorinj, 90, former Foreign Minister of Austria.

21

• Stephen Elliott, 86, American actor, Arthur. [8]
• Bedford Jezzard, 77, former Fulham FC football player and manager.
• Howard Morris, 85, American comedy actor and director.
• Subodh Mukherjee, 84, Indian filmmaker.
• Fred Rosen, 74, American physician.

22

• Charilaos Florakis, 91, Honorary President and former Secretary General (1972-1989) of the Communist Party of Greece
• Thurl Ravenscroft, 91, American voice actor (Tony the Tiger, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas) [9]

23

• John Albano, 82, American comic book writer
• Derek Ratcliffe, 75, conservationist
• Billy Smart, Jr, 71, British circus impresario
• Roderick Wright, 64, disgraced former bishop.

24

• Carl Amery, 83, German writer.
• Arthur Haulot, 91, Belgian journalist, active member of the resistance movement against the Nazi occupation.

25

• Sunil Dutt, 75, Bollywood actor and Union Minister, India.
• Robert Jankel, 67, British limousine designer.
• Gregory Scott Johnson, executed for murdering an 82-year-old woman, had asked for a temporary reprieve to donate his liver to his sister.
• Graham Kennedy, 71, Australian TV celebrity and comedian.
• Ruth Laredo, 67, American pianist.
• Steve Mason, 65, American poet and war veteran.
• Ismail Merchant, 68, film producer. [10]

26

• Eddie Albert, 99, American actor, star of Green Acres. [11]
• John Hope Anderson, 93, American politician.
• James G. Butler, 84, American lawyer.
• Chico Carrasquel, 77, Venezuelan shortstop, the first Latin American player to appear in a MLB All-Star game.
• Sangoulé Lamizana, 89, former president of Burkina Faso.
• Krzysztof Nowak, 29, football player for VfL Wolfsburg and the Polish national team, suffered from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Terry Shannon, 52, American IT expert.
• Domenic Troiano, 59, Canadian guitarist, cancer.

27

• Abuzar Aydamirov, 71, Chechen writer.
• Otto Binnig, 81, German World War II soldier.
• Maurice Cohen, 93, American metallurgist.
• Fay Godwin, 74, British photographer. [12]
• Ian Mackenzie-Kerr, 75, British book designer. [13]

28

• Emil Appolus, 70, Namibian politician.
• Benjamin Biaggini, 89, American railroad executive.
• Clair A. Callan, 85, American politician, U.S. Representative from Nebraska (1965–1967). [14]
• John Sidney Garrett, 83, American politician, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives.
• Arnold Morton, 83, founder of Morton's of Chicago steakhouses.
• David Oswald Thomas, 81, Welsh philosopher.

29

• Ricky Allen, 70, American blues singer.
• María de los Ángeles Alvariño González, 88, Spanish oceanographer.
• Oscar Brown, Jr., 78, musician, playwright, activist.
• Patsy Calton, 56, British Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament, cancer.
• Joseph Karth, 82, American politician, U.S. Representative from Minnesota (1959–1977). [15]
• Sir Frederick Page, 88, British aircraft designer.
• George Rochberg, 86, American composer.
• Akihiko Saito, 44, Japanese hostage in Iraq.
• Sir Gordon Tait, 83, British admiral.

30

• Takanohana Kenshi (née Mitsuru Hanada), 55, aka "The Prince of Sumo [wrestling]"
• Fazal Mahmood, 78, former Pakistani cricket captain
• Tomasz Pacyński, 47, Polish fantasy and science fiction author
• Alma Ziegler, 87, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League)

31

• Sir John Aiken, 83, British air marshal. [16]
• Emily Blatch, Baroness Blatch, 67, British politician and life peer.
• Eduardo Teixeira Coelho, 86, Portuguese comic book artist. [17]