Deaths in 2005
The following is a list of figures who died in 2024.
- Chico Carrasquel, 77, Venezuelan shortstop, the first Latin American player to appear in a MLB All-Star game
- Krzysztof Nowak, 29, former Polish football player, suffered from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- Domenic Troiano, 59, Canadian guitarist, died after a decade long battle with cancer
- Sunil Dutt, 75, Bollywood actor and Union Minister, India
- 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
- Ismail Merchant, 68, film producer [1]
- Arthur Haulot, 91, Belgian journalist, active member of the resistance movement against the Nazi occupation
- Waldemar Seyssel, 99 Brazilian clown and pioneering TV performer, also called Arrelia
- Billy Smart, Jr, 71, British circus impresario
- 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) [2]
- Stephen Elliott, 86, American actor, Arthur [3]
- Howard Morris, 85, American comedy actor and director
- Subodh Mukherjee, 84, Indian filmmaker
- Olav Neuland, Estonian director
- Paul Ricoeur, 92, French philosopher and teacher
- Henry Corden, 85, Canadian-American voice actor, voice of Fred Flintstone for more than 2 decades
- Alistair Forbes, 87, British journalist, socialite and gossip
- 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 [4]
- Shaima Rezayee, 24, former TV presenter of Hop, an Afghan programme similar to MTV
- Stella Zázvorková, 83, Czech actress
- Keiiti Aki, 75, seismologist
- Piero Dorazio, 77, Italian abstract painter
- Frank Gorshin, 71 , American actor
- Paul Keene, 94, organic farmer
- Eduard Vääri, Estonian linguist
- Erick Galvez, Guatemalan federal prosecutor, shot by unknown attackers
- Marie Geddes, 86, Canadian hunger striker
- Andrew J. Goodpaster, 90, former leader of NATO and veteran of World War II
- Jose M. Lopez, 94, Medal of Honor winning soldier in World War II
- Albert "Smiler" Marshall, 108, British veteran of World War I
- Arthur Naftalin, 87, former mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Bellana Panniyaloka, Buddhist monk, convicted of child molestation, by suicide
- Les Bartley, 51, former coach of the Toronto Rock of the NLL, 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
- George Barron, 91, Scottish TV presenter on Beechgrove Garden
- Jimmy Martin, 77, bluegrass singer
- 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, serial killer, executed by lethal injection
- Eddie Barclay, 84, French record producer and founder of Barclay Records
- Maurice Catarcio, 76, former WWE wrestler, of cancer
- Monica Zetterlund, 67, Swedish singer and actress.
- Alfred Finnigan, 108, oldest man in Wales and World War I survivor
- Michalis Genitsaris, 86, Greek rebetiko singer and composer
- Veikko Hursti, 80, Finnish philanthropist
- Jim Love, 75, American sculptor
- Jay Marshall, 85, Dean of the Society of American Magicians
- Hector Enrique Santos, 88, former Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, Honduras
- Blanche Sasso, 105, seamstress of the original flag of the United States Virgin Islands
- David Wayne, 47, singer for the heavy metal group Metal Church
- Li Cairong, 119, world's second oldest human being only to Jeanne Calment (unconfirmed)
- John F. "Jack" Hasey, 88, American French Foreign Legion Officer and CIA Operations Officer
- Nasrat Parsa, 36, Afghan pop singer, after being assaulted in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Wilhelmine, Lady Harrod, 93, British church conservationist
- Lloyd Cutler, 87, former White House Counsel under Presidents Carter and Clinton
- Siwsann George, 49, Welsh folk singer
- Benjamin Mordecai, 60, prominent American theatrical producer
- A. J. Shepherd, 78, ex-Indianapolis 500 racing driver
- Walter Jay Skinner, 77, Federal Judge portrayed in movie A Civil Action
- Tristan Egolf, 33, author, suicide
- Bernie Logue, 30, chef for the Boston Red Sox, fall in parking garage
- 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
- Miguel Contreras, 52, California union leader
- Father Gommart DePauw, 86, founder of the Catholic Traditionalist Movement
- 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
- Jost Gross, 59, member of the National Council of Switzerland
- Herb Sargent, 81, television comedy writer [5]
- Lee Stine, 91, who pitched in MLB for the White Sox, Reds and Yankees
- Ted Atkinson, 88, Hall of Fame jockey
- Elisabeth Fraser, 85, actress on The Phil Silvers Show, etc.
- June MacCloy, 96, actress
- Charlie Muse, 87, Pittsburgh Pirates executive, creator of the modern baseball batting helmet
- Édgar Ponce, 30, Mexican actor, collision between car and motorcycle during filming of video for "Sólo para mujeres"
- Philip Spaulding, 92, American naval architect, notable for designing many ferries
- Christian Speck, 68, member of the National Council of Switzerland
- Lila Dulali, 66, Indian, Oriya language actress
- David H. Hackworth, 74, Vietnam War veteran, journalist
- Evelyn 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.
- Don Canham, 87, former University of Michigan athletic director
- Allan Kurzrok, psychologist and cartoonist [6]
- Renée Faure, 86, French actress
- 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.
- Raisa Struchkova, 79, Russian ballerina
- Jonathan Thomas, 59, Canadian-born sculptor [7]
- Florence Van Stockum, 110, British-born supercentenarian
- Kenneth Clark, 90, African-American Civil Rights activist and psychologist
- Derek (DC) Cook, 58, Yorkshire businessman and racing team owner, in a car accident
- René Rivkin, 60, Australian stockbroker
- Edward von Kloberg III, 63, lobbyist
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
- 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...