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Revision as of 21:56, 23 August 2005
The following is a list of notable people who have died to date in 2024.
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August 2005
- Brock Peters, 78, American actor, best known for his role as Tom Robinson in To Kill a Mockingbird
- Luc Ferrari, 76, Italian Musique_concrète composer.
- Suzy Healey (body found), 39, daughter of Hygena Kitchens millionaire Malcolm Healey. [1]
- Geoffrey Lane, Baron Lane, 87, British judge and former Lord Chief Justice.
- Colin McEwan, 64, Australian comedian and actor, of cancer. [2] (free registration required)
- Mati Unt, 61, Estonian writer and theatre director.
- Thomas Herrion, 23, NFL player with the San Francisco 49ers, collapsed after preseason game.
- James Jerome, 72, former Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons.
- Robert A. Moog, 71, electronic music inventor and pioneer. [3]
- Dalia Rabikovich, 69, Israeli poet and author.
- LaToyia Figueroa (body found), 24, suspected pregnant US murder victim.
- Krzysztof "Docent" Raczkowski, 35, Polish drummer, ex-member of Vader.
- Mohammed Islam Siddiqui, 35, Pakistani ex-soldier, sentenced to death and hanged for attempting to assassinate President Pervez Musharraf.
- Clifford Williams, 78, British theater director [4].
- Gertie Evenhuis, 78, Dutch youth-book author, heart attack. [5] (in Dutch)
- Dennis Lynds, 81, mystery novelist under the pseudonym Michael Collins. [6]
- O. Madhavan, 83, Indian actor and director.
- Bueno de Mesquita, 87, Dutch comedian, cancer. [7] (in Dutch)
- Mo Mowlam, 55, British politician, after a fall.
- Arthur A. Tookoyan, 82, Broadway actor, salesman and singer, of Parkinson's disease. [8]
- Christopher Bauman, Jr., 23, professional wrestler Chri$ Ca$h.
- Hal Frank, 68, American character actor (Somewhere in Time).
- Lloyd Meeds, 77, former Democratic United States Representative from Washington.
- Gao Xiumin, 46, Chinese comedy actress, heart attack.
- John Norris Bahcall, 70, American astrophysicist [9].
- Tonino Delli Colli, 81, Italian cinematographer. [10]
- John McLaughlin, 70, American political columnist, of cancer. [11]
- Bertram Podell, 79, former Democratic United States Representative from New York. [12]
- Vassar Clements, 77, fiddle player. [13]
- Cláudio Corrêa e Castro, 78 , Brazilian actor.
- Aleksandr Gomelsky, 77, former Hall of Fame basketball-coach of the Soviet Union, cancer.
- Viki Moscholiou, 62, Greek folk singer, cancer.
- Joe Ranft, 45, American animator, car accident.
- Eva Renzi, 60, German actress, cancer.
- Frère Roger, 90, founder of the Taizé Community, murdered by an assailant. [14]
- James Dougherty, 84, first (and last surviving) husband of Marilyn Monroe. [15]
- Gordon James Oakes, 74, former Labour government minister and member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom, cancer.
- Peter Smit, 43, former European and world champion kickboxer, shot to death in Rotterdam. [16]
- Herta Ware, 88, American actress. [17]
- Hans Berentzen, 79, German manufacturer of apple liqueur.
- Coo Coo Marlin, 73, NASCAR driver.
- Esther Wong, 88, promoter, "Godmother" of Punk Rock.
- Miguel Arraes, 88, president of the Brazilian Socialist Party.
- Arnold Cooke, 98, British composer [18]
- Armand Deutsch, 92, former MGM film producer.
- W.J. Bryan Dorn, 89, former Democratic United States Representative from South Carolina.
- Lakshman Kadirgamar, 73, Sri Lankan foreign minister, assassination. [19]
- David Lange, 63, former Labour Prime Minister of New Zealand, main proponent of anti-nuclear policy.
- Francisco Milani, 67, Brazilian actor and comedian.
- Francy Boland, 75, Belgian jazz pianist, arranger: top European Swing Band 60's & 70's. [20]
- Josip Antun Crnobori, 98, Croatian painter.
- George Ernst, 88, former dean of Gallaudet University pioneer in theatre for the deaf.
- Teruo Ishii, 81, Japanese movie maker.
- Joe Korp, 47, Australian "body in the boot" suspect, suicide. [21]
- Charlie Norman, 84, Swedish jazz pianist and film music writer. [22]
- Julian Stanley, 87, "Champion of Gifted Students". [23]
- Rufus Thibodeaux, 71, Cajun fiddler, regular on Grand Ole Opry.
- Ernesta Ballard, 85, Philadelphian feminist and former head of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society.
- James Booth, 77, British actor ("Zulu").
- Al Carmines, 69, reverend, composer, singer and actor.
- Manfred Korfmann, 63, German archaeologist [24].
- Anatoly Larkin, 72, theoretical physicist.
- Ted "Double Duty" Radcliffe, 103, Negro Leagues baseball player.
- Maurice Rosenblatt, 90, Washington lobbyist, helped arrange Joseph McCarthy's downfall.
- Kay Tremblay, 91, Canadian actress (Road to Avonlea). [25]
- Colin Winkelmann, 29, BMX innovator, suicide.
- Mar Amongo, 68, Filipino comic book artist. [26]
- John Bryson, 81, celebrity photographer (Katharine Hepburn, Armand Hammer, Clint Eastwood, etc.).
- Hosi Vasunia, 65, Indian actor and entertainer.
- Roy Voris, 86, retired US Navy captain, among the last original "Blue Angels". [27]
- Colette Besson, 59, athlete and Olympic 400m champion runner.
- Dorris Bowdon, 90, American actress.
- Ashley Burns, 14, Massachusetts cheerleader, cheerleading accident. [28]
- Julius Caruso, 77, celebrity Hairstylist.
- Abraham Hirschfeld, 85, Polish born, New York City developer, of cancer.
- Philip J. Klass, 85, aviation journalist, UFO debunker, cancer.
- Matthew McGrory, 32, 7' 6" actor, natural causes.
- Judith Rossner, 70, American author (Looking for Mr Goodbar).
- Hal Rugg, 69, legendary steel guitar player. [29]
- Stephen E. Weil, 77, museum curator at the Smithsonian Institution.
- Emery "Detroit Junior" Williams, 73, Blues pianist, songwriter.
- Barbara Bel Geddes, 82, American actress (Miss Ellie, Dallas), of lung cancer. [30]
- Ahmed Deedat, 80, Islamic scholar, lecturer and author.
- John H. Johnson, 87, publisher.
- Gene Mauch, 79, MLB manager.
- Genaro Pellegrini, Jr., 31, American professional boxer and soldier, shot in Iraq.
- Ilse Werner, 84, German actress.
- Alejandro Armendáriz, 82, Argentine politician, former governor of Buenos Aires province.
- Peter Jennings, 67, foreign correspondent, news anchor of ABC News, of lung cancer. [31]
- Thomas W. Langfitt, 78, former head of Pew Charitable Trusts 1987–1994. [32]
- Noel Nicola, 58, Cuban composer, co-founder modern Trova music.
- Rabbi Joshua Simon, 44, former Life magazine editor, rock musician.
- Mikhail Yevdokimov, 47, Russian comedian and politician, killed in car crash.
- Leonardo Rodríguez Alcaine, 86, Mexican trade union leader.
- Vizma Belsevica, 74, Latvian poet.
- Keter Betts, 77, jazz bassist.
- Robin Cook, 59, British Member of Parliament, former Foreign Secretary.
- Ibrahim Ferrer, 78, a popular Afro-Cuban musician from Cuba. Singer in the Buena Vista Social Club.
- Alexander Kossiakoff, 91, U.S. Naval Weapons Engineer (Terrier, Polaris, Trident missiles).
- Gunnar Kilgas, 79, Estonian actor and director.
- Joseph Rogers, 81, US Air Force Colonel and aviator; still holds world speed record of 1,525 mph set in 1959.
- Neil Sullivan, 90, Civil Rights advocate: desegregation.
- Polina Astakhova, 68, five time Olympic gymnastic champion.
- Angelina Estrada, 73, American character actress (Ghost).
- Hunter Kelly, 8, son of Hall of Fame quarterback Jim Kelly, Krabbe's disease.
- Raymond Klibansky, 99, German-Canadian academic and philosopher.
- Maria Korp, 50, Australian 'body in the boot' crime victim.
- Lyle Murphy, 96, Hollywood composer (Three Stooges Show) etc.
- Raul Roco, 63, former senator and Filipino presidential candidate, cancer.
- Jane Lawrence Smith, 90, American actress also associated with 50's art scene
- Hans Wolf, 92, opera & symphony conductor for radio and TV (Aida, Carmen).
- Charles Black, 86, businessman, husband of Shirley Temple, of myelodysplastic syndrome [33].
- "Little" Milton Campbell, 71, blues musician.
- Ileen Getz, 44, cast of 3rd Rock From The Sun, of cancer.
- Sue Gunter, 66, women's basketball coach.
- Bernardo Romero Pereiro, 61, Colombian actor, writer, TV director.
- Annabelle Buffet, 77, French writer and painter.
- Françoise d'Eaubonne, 85?, French writer
- Zainab al-Ghazali, 88, Egyptian religious activist
- Dick Heyward, 90, longtime deputy director of UNICEF.
- Nick Perito, 81, composer and arranger (Perry Como, Andy Williams, Bing Crosby).
- Ruth Peramets-Püss, 77, Estonian TV personality.
- Ernest Alvia ("Smokey") Smith, 91, Canadian Victoria Cross recipient.
- David Teitelbaum, 98, co-founder Brooklyn Philharmonic.
- Susan Torres, 26, brain-dead woman kept alive to give birth. [34]
- Steven Vincent, 49, US freelance reporter. Shot dead in Basra, Iraq. [35]
- Morton Yarmon, 89, director of public relations for the American Jewish Committee, 1963–1991.
- Alfredo Corvino, 89, Dancer and Juilliard School Ballet Teacher.
- Jay Hammond, 83, Governor of Alaska from 1975 to 1982.
- Hassan Moghaddas, 42, Iranian judge in the case of Akbar Ganji and high-profile cases; assassinated by unknown motorbike assailant.
- Frieda Staaf, 111, American supercentenarian.
- Bogdan Tyszkiewicz, Polish politician. Murdered, allegedly by his driver Andrei F. from Belarus.
- Al Aronowitz, 77, music journalist, cancer. [36]
- Donald Brooks, 77, Hollywood and Broadway costume designer. [37]
- Terry Martin Carr, 62, Hollywood producer, and daughter Arienka, 9, found dead inside car.
- Constant, 85, COBRA painter.
- King Fahd bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud of Saudi Arabia, 82 or 84, complications of a stroke suffered in 1995. [38]
- George Forman, 88, comptroller of the ACLU.
- Ruth Roemer, 89, Public Health pioneer.
- David Shaw (writer), 62, Los Angeles Times writer. [39]
- Wibo, 87, Dutch cartoonist. [40]
External links and references
- Specialised websites
- Find a Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records
- Dead People Server
- Life in Legacy: Week in Review
- The Blog of Death
- The Celebrity Death Toll Update
- GenealogyBuff.com Obituary Search
- Online Searchable Death Indexes and Records: US genealogy directory
- Operation Iraqi Freedom - US Combat Deaths
- Obituary Central - index to obituary search engines arranged geographically
- Obituary Links Page - state-by-state directory of obituary resources
- Obituaries on general news websites
- Newsgroup: alt.obituaries
For earlier deaths, see Deaths in 2004, Deaths in 2003, Deaths in 2002, Deaths in 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995...