Deaths in 2005

The following is a list of notable people who have died to date in 2024.

August 2005

23

• Brock Peters, 78, American actor, best known for his role as Tom Robinson in To Kill a Mockingbird

22

• 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.

21

• 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.

20

• 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].

19

• 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]

18

• 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.

17

• 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]

16

• 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]

15

• 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]

14

• Hans Berentzen, 79, German manufacturer of apple liqueur.
• Coo Coo Marlin, 73, NASCAR driver.
• Esther Wong, 88, promoter, "Godmother" of Punk Rock.

13

• 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.

12

• 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.

11

• 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.

10

• 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]

9

• 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.

8

• 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.

7

• 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.

6

• 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.

5

• 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).

4

• 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.

3

• 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.

2

• 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.

1

• 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]

July 2005

See Deaths in July 2005

June 2005

See Deaths in June 2005

May 2005

See Deaths in May 2005

April 2005

See Deaths in April 2005

March 2005

See Deaths in March 2005

February 2005

See Deaths in February 2005

January 2005

See Deaths in January 2005

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
  • Recent AP Obituaries
  • The New York Times: Obituaries
  • Washington Post Obituaries
  • Topix.net Obituaries
  • Google News: e.g. obituary
• 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...