Deaths in April 2004
The following is a list of notable deaths in April 2004.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
April 2004
1
- Paul Atkinson, 58, British guitarist.
- Aaron Bank, 101, American U.S. Army officer, "Father of Special Forces".[1]
- Annette Daniels, 42, American opera singer.
- Enrique Grau, 83, Colombian painter and sculptor.
- Arthur Halestrap, 105, British World War I soldier and centenarian.
- Sylvia Law, 73, British town planner.
- Mykola Rudenko, 83, Ukrainian poet and human rights activist.
- Charles St Clair, 17th Lord Sinclair, 89, British aristocrat and courtier.
- Gurcharan Singh Tohra, 79, Indian Sikh leader.
- Carrie Snodgress, 58, American actress (Diary of a Mad Housewife, Pale Rider, Murphy's Law).[2]
2
- John Argyris, 90, Greek computer scientist.
- Lynne Karen Deutsch, 47, American astrophysicist.
- Harold A. Fidler, 93, associate director of the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory.
- Larry McGrew, 46, American football linebacker in the National Football League, heart attack.
- John Taras, 84, American ballet master and choreographer.[3]
3
- John Diamond, Baron Diamond, 96, British life peer.
- Gabriella Ferri, 62, Italian singer.
- Sir Martin Le Quesne, 86, British diplomat.
- Nagaraja Rao, 89–90, Indian cricket umpire.
- Phillip Rock, 76, American actor, screenwriter (Most Dangerous Man Alive) and novelist ("Passing Bells" trilogy).[4]
4
- Gito Baloi, 39, South African musician.
- George Bamberger, 80, American baseball player, major league pitcher and manager.[5]
- Ralph Kemplen, 91, British film editor (The Day of the Jackal, The African Queen, The Dark Crystal).
- James J. Martin, 87, American historian.
- Bogdan Norčič, 50, Yugoslavian Olympic ski jumper (normal hill and large hill ski jumping at the 1976 and 1980 Winter Olympics).[6]
- Sir Alwyn Williams, 82, British geologist.
- Austin Willis, 87, Canadian actor and television host.
5
- Roger Dee, 89, American author.
- Slawomir Rawicz, 88, Polish army lieutenant imprisoned by the NKVD and purported escapee (The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom).[7]
- Fred Winter, 77, British racehorse trainer and jockey.
6
- Lou Berberet, 74, American baseball player, former Major League Baseball catcher.[8]
- Larisa Bogoraz, 74, Russian dissident and human rights activist.[9]
- Ken Johnson, 81, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Phillies, Detroit Tigers).[10]
7
- Victor Argo, 69, American actor (King of New York, Taxi Driver, Bad Lieutenant), complications from lung cancer.[11]
- Konstantinos Kallias, 102, Greek politician.
- Kelucharan Mohapatra, 77, Indian classical dancer, guru and proponent of Odissi dance.
- Maureen Potter, 79, Irish actress, singer, dancer and comedian.[12]
- Robert Sangster, 67, British racehorse owner.[13]
8
- Adrian Beers, 88, British double bass player.
- Chief Bey, 90, American jazz percussionist and African folklorist.[14]
- Bruce Edwards, 49, American caddy of golfer Tom Watson.
- Jean Ginsburg, 77, English physician and physiologist.
- Hans Guido Mutke, 83, German fighter pilot who claimed to be the first to break the sound barrier, complications during a heart valve operation.
9
- Lélia Abramo, 93, Brazilian actress and political activist, one of the founders of President Lula da Silva's Workers Party.
- Harry Babbitt, 90, American singer.[15]
- Kevin Briggs, 65, New Zealand cricketer.
- Tom Lewis, 85, British obstetrician.
- Julius Sang, 55, Kenyan Olympic runner (1968 Summer Olympics, 1972 Summer Olympics: gold medal, bronze medal).[16]
- Jirí Weiss, 91, Czech film director, screenwriter, writer, and playwright.[17]
10
- Bertil Göransson, 85, Swedish rowing coxswain.
- Jacek Kaczmarski, 47, Polish poet and singer, the bard of Solidarity.
- Ben Pimlott, 58, British historian.
- Sakip Sabanci, 71, Turkish businessman.[18]
- Odd Wang Sørensen, 81, Norwegian Olympic football player (men's football at the 1952 Summer Olympics).[19]
11
- John Beaven, 73, British diplomat.[20]
- Stan Darling, 92, Canadian politician.
- Sammy Fox, 85, American football player and Canadian football coach.
- Hy Gotkin, 81, American basketball player.[21]
- David C. Pollock, 64, American sociologist and author.
- Wiesław Ptak, 62, Polish professor of chemical sciences.
12
- Ronnie Adams, 88, British rally driver.
- Norman Campbell, 80, Canadian composer, television producer and director.
- Sir Herbert Durkin, 82, British air marshal.
- Donal F. Early, 86, Irish psychiatrist.
- Carlton E. Lemke, 83, American mathematician.
- Robert Richardson, 76, Canadian Olympic alpine skier (men's downhill, men's giant slalom, men's slalom at the 1952 Winter Olympics).[22]
- Frank Seward, 83, American baseball player (New York Giants).[23]
- Juan Valderrama, 87, Spanish folk and flamenco singer.
- Wesley Wehr, 74, American paleontologist and artist.
- George W. Whitehead, 85, American mathematician.
13
- David Fowler, 66, British mathematician.
- Csaba Horváth, 74, Hungarian-born American chemical engineer and scientist.[24]
- Caron Keating, 41, British television presenter, breast cancer.[25]
- Sir John Roxburgh, 84, British admiral.
14
- Harry Beevers, 80, American plant physiologist.
- Micheline Charest, 51, British television producer, complications after plastic surgery.
- Albie Grant, 60, American college basketball player, diabetes.
- Robin Popplestone, 65, British software designer and a pioneer in artificial intelligence and robotics.[26]
- Fabrizio Quattrocchi, 35, Italian security officer, killed by Islamist militants in Iraq.[27]
15
- Hans Gmür, 77, Swiss theatre author, director, composer and producer.
- Phil Sokolof, 82, American businessman known for campaigns against fast-food chains and food processors.[28]
- Mitsuteru Yokoyama, 69, Japanese manga artist.
16
- Abu al-Walid, Saudi Arabian terrorist, killed by Russian federal forces.[29]
- Carlos Castaño Gil, 38, Colombian rebel leader, killed by FARC guerillas.
- Wilmot N. Hess, 77, American physicist, leukemia.
- Koyapillil Mathai Matthew, 74, Indian Jesuit priest and botanist.
- Harry Mayerovitch, 94, Canadian architect, artist, illustrator, and author.
17
- Bruce Boa, 73, Canadian-British actor (The Empire Strikes Back, Octopussy, Full Metal Jacket), cancer.
- Anke Hartnagel, 62, German politician, Member of the German Bundestag (1998–2004).[30]
- Geraint Howells, 79, Welsh politician.
- Rosemary Park, 97, American academic leader and advocate for women's education.[31]
- Edmond Pidoux, 95, Swiss author.
- Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi, 56, Palestinian Hamas leader.
- Soundarya, 31, Indian film actress.
18
- Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, 83, Fijian politician, long-time prime minister and president of Fiji.
- Norton Mockridge, 88, American journalist, newspaper editor and syndicated columnist.[32]
- Julia Compton Moore, 75, wife of Lieutenant General (Ret.) Hal Moore.
- Frances Rafferty, 81, American actress, dancer, and model.
19
- Tim Burstall, 76, Australian film director and producer.[33]
- Jim Cantalupo, 60, American businessman, CEO of McDonald's.
- Julião da Kutonda, 39, Angolan footballer.[34]
- Philip Locke, 76, British actor.[35]
- John Maynard Smith, 84, British biologist.[36]
- Norris McWhirter, 78, British writer, political activist and founder of the Guinness Book of Records.
- Frank B. Morrison, 98, American politician, former Governor of Nebraska.
- Sam Nahem, 88, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers, St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Phillies).[37]
- Yasumasa Nishino, 79, Japanese Olympic swimmer (men's 100 metre backstroke at the 1952 Summer Olympics).[38]
- Ronnie Simpson, 73, Scottish footballer and manager.
- Wolfgang Unger, 55, German conductor
20
- Patrick Gibson, Baron Gibson, 88, British peer, publisher and arts administrator.
- Mary McGrory, 85, American journalist and columnist.[39]
- Ian Robinson, 69, British writer and publisher.
- Al Stiller, 80, American Olympic cyclist (men's tandem cycling and men's team pursuit cycling at the 1948 Summer Olympics).[40]
21
- Eduard Asadov, 80, Russian poet and writer.
- Den Fujita, 78, Japanese founder of McDonald's Japan, heart failure.
- Karl Hass, 91, German SS officer and convicted war criminal.
- John W. Kirklin, 87, American cardiothoracic surgeon who refined John Gibbon's heart–lung bypass machine.[41]
- Ernest Ramme, 87, U.S. Army officer.
- Mary Selway, 68, British casting director (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Return of the Jedi, Gosford Park), cancer.[42]
22
- Jason Dunham, 22, American marine, used his body and helmet to shield others from a grenade explosion.
- Arthur Roberts, 91, American physicist.
- Pat Tillman, 27, American football player, former NFL player (Arizona Cardinals) and Army Ranger, killed in action by friendly fire.
23
- Enrique Mederos, 36, Mexican voice actor and dubbing director, hepatitis infection.
- Saúl Ongaro, 87, Argentine international footballer.
- Peter S. Prescott, 68, American author and book critic, liver disease complicated by diabetes.[43]
- Len Vale-Onslow, 103, British motorcycle maker.
- B. V. Satyanarayan, 68, Indian Olympic long jumper (1960, 1964).[44]
24
- Betty Clay, 87, British Scouter, daughter of Robert Baden-Powell.
- Feridun Karakaya, 76, Turkish actor.
- Lia Laats, 78, Estonian actress.
- Estée Lauder, 97, American businesswoman, cosmetics products pioneer.
- Brian Manning, 76, British historian.
- Fred Smith, 69, British rugby league player.
- J. V. Somayajulu, 75, Indian theatre and film actor.
- Des Warren, 66, British trade unionist.[45]
- Willie Watson, 84, English cricketer.
25
- Alphonzo E. Bell Jr., 89, American politician, pneumonia.
- Dooland Buultjens, 70, Sri Lankan cricket umpire.
- Thom Gunn, 74, British poet.
- Madeleine Henrey, 97, French author.
- Hiroshi Mitsuzuka, 76, Japanese politician.
- Albert Paulsen, 78, Ecuadorian-American actor.
- Sid Watson, 71, American football player and ice hockey coach, heart attack.
- Claude Williams, 96, American jazz musician.[46]
26
- Robert Clark Jones, 87, American physicist.
- LeRoy Myers, 84, American tap dancer.
- John Anthony Parsons, 66, British sports journalist.
- Gunther E. Rothenberg, 80, German-born American historian.
- Hubert Selby Jr., 75, American writer, author of "Last Exit to Brooklyn".[47]
- Scott Williams, American bass guitarist.
27
- Gleason Archer, 87, American theologian.
- David Jenkinson, 69, British railway modeller and historian.
- Alejandro Ulloa, 93, Spanish actor.[48]
- Roy Walford, 79, American dietician and author.
- Lloyd F. Wheat, 81, American lawyer and politician.
28
- Jeremy Black, 52, British assyriologist.
- Floyd Giebell, 94, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).[49]
- Alex Randolph, 81, American designer of board games (TwixT, Enchanted Forest, Inkognito, Ricochet Robot).[50]
- B.J. Schramm, 65, American businessman and aircraft developer.
29
- John Henniker-Major, 8th Baron Henniker, 88, British diplomat and aristocrat.
- Nick Joaquin, 86, Filipino writer and national artist.
- David S. Sheridan, 95, American inventor of disposable plastic endotracheal tube.[51]
- Sid Smith, 78, Canadian professional ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs).[52]
- Svend Aage Holm Sørensen, 91, Danish Olympic rower (men's coxed four rowing at the 1936 Summer Olympics).[53]
30
- Heather Brigstocke, Baroness Brigstocke, 74, British educator and life peer.
- Jeff Butterfield, 74, English rugby union player.
- Jeffrey Alan Gray, 69, British psychiatrist.
- Evelyn Mase, 81, South African nurse, first wife of Nelson Mandela.[54]
- Boris Pergamenschikow, 55, Russian cellist.[55]
- Kazimierz Plater, 89, Polish chess International Master, three-time Polish chess champion (1949, 1956, 1957).[56]
- Kioumars Saberi Foumani, (aka Gol-Agha), 62, Iranian satirist.
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