Deaths in February 2005

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

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.

February 2005

1

• Edward D. Freis, 92, American physician.
• Edward Hay, 13th Marquess of Tweeddale, 57, Scottish aristocrat.
• Anderl Heckmair, 98, Austrian mountaineer, made first ascent of the Eiger north face.
• Øivind Johnsen, 82, Norwegian sports journalist and actor.
• Melanie Morse MacQuarrie, 59, Scottish-born Canadian actress, heart attack.
• Franco Mannino, 80, Italian film and classical composer.
• John Vernon, 72, Canadian-born American based film and TV actor (Animal House, The Outlaw Josey Wales), following heart surgery.
• Sir Jean-Pierre Warner, 80, British jurist.
• Richard Wolfson, 49, British musician and journalist.

2

• Birgitte Federspiel, 79, Swedish actress (Babette's Feast, 1988).
• Miklós Kovacsics, 51, Hungarian Olympic handball player.
• Svein Kvia, 57, Norwegian footballer.
• Magomed Omarov, Russian politician, deputy Interior Minister of Dagestan.
• Max Schmeling, 99, German world heavyweight boxing champion.
• Sir Edward Wright, 98, British mathematician.

3

• Corrado Bafile, 101, Italian cardinal.
• David Hönigsberg, 45, South African composer and conductor.
• Ernst Mayr, 100, German-born American evolutionary biologist.
• James P. Sutton, 89, American politician, U.S. Representative from Tennessee (1949–1955).
• Raul Usupov, Georgian politician and deputy governor of the Kvemo Kartli region.
• Zurab Zhvania, 41, Georgian politician, Prime Minister of Georgia.

4

• Sir Rupert Clarke, 3rd Baronet, 85, Australian soldier and businessman.
• Ossie Davis, 87, American actor and activist, natural causes.
• Nils Egerbrandt, 78, Swedish cartoonist.
• Luis Sánchez, 51, Venezuelan baseball player, former major league closer for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.
• Norwood Sothoron, 93, American soldier and athlete.

5

• Otto Edler von Ballasko, 85, German World War II bomber pilot.
• Bob Brannum, 79, American basketball player.
• Jean-Charles Cantin, 86, Canadian politician.
• Gnassingbé Eyadéma, 67, Togolese politician, president of Togo since 1967.
• Bob McAdorey, 69, Canadian television and radio broadcaster.
• Val O'Donovan, 69, Canadian businessman and university administrator.
• Günter Reimann, 100, German economist.
• Michalina Wisłocka, 84, Polish sexologist.

6

• Billy Baker, 84, Welsh footballer.
• Uma Shankar Bajpai, 83, Indian diplomat and journalist.
• Lazar Berman, 74, Russian classical pianist.
• Elbert N. Carvel, 94, American politician, Governor of Delaware.
• Hubert Curien, 80, French researcher, first president of European Space Agency.
• Vasily Fedin, 78, Soviet Olympic cyclist.
• Karl Haas, 91, US classical music radio program host.
• Merle Kilgore, 70, American country music manager and songwriter.

7

• Laurie Aarons, 87, Australian politician.
• Penelope Aitken, 94, English socialite and political hostess, cancer.
• Atli Dam, 72, Faroese politician, former Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands.
• Vinod Chandra Pande, 72, Indian political figure, former governor of three states.
• John Patterson, 64, American television and film director.
• Madeleine Rebérioux, 84, French historian.
• Paul Rebeyrolle, 78, French painter.
• Peter Wallace Rodino, 95, American politician (1949–1989).
• Jeremy Swan, 82, Irish cardiologist, co-inventor of the Swan-Ganz heart catheter.
• Zdravko Velimirović, 74, Yugoslavian film director and screenwriter.

8

• Gildo Arena, 83, Italian water polo player and swimmer.
• Mike Bishop, 46, American baseball player.
• Camilo Delgado, 77, Puerto Rican television show host.
• Helmut Eder, 88, Austrian composer.
• George Herman, 85, American journalist and moderator of CBS' Face the Nation for 15 years.
• Óli B. Jónsson, 86, Icelandic football player and manager.
• Keith Knudsen, 56, American drummer for rock band Doobie Brothers, pneumonia.
• Gaston Rahier, 58, Belgian 125cc Motocross World Champion (1975–1977).
• Jimmy Smith, 76, American jazz organist.

9

• Tim Breslin, 37, American ice hockey player.
• William L. Campbell, 59, Canadian film editor.
• Tyrone Davis, 66, American R&B singer (Turn Back The Hands Of Time), complications of a stroke.
• Antoine de Margerie, 63, French abstract painter.
• John Fincham, 78, British geneticist.
• Sergei Hackel, 83, British Russian Orthodox priest, theologian and broadcaster.
• Robert Kearns, 77, American inventor of intermittent windshield wipers.
• Kate Peyton, 39, British BBC producer, shot in Mogadishu, Somalia.
• Sylvia Raphael, 67, South African-born Israeli Mossad agent convicted of 1973 Lillehammer murder.

10

• Humbert Balsan, 50, French film producer.
• D. Allan Bromley, 79, Canadian-born American physicist, presidential advisor.
• Jean Cayrol, 93, French author.
• Dave Goodman, 53, British music producer.
• Ben Jones, 80, Grenadian politician, former prime minister and foreign minister of Grenada.
• Arthur Miller, 89, American playwright, congestive heart failure.
• Frederick W. Mote, 82, American sinologist.

11

• Samuel W. Alderson, 90, American inventor of crash test dummies.
• Jack L. Chalker, 60, American science fiction writer.
• Alex Davidson, 84, Scottish footballer.
• Raymond Hermantier, 81, French actor.
• Denis Ormerod, 82, British army officer.
• James Porter, 70, American Catholic priest and child molester.
• Stan Richards, 74, British actor.

12

• Manela Bustamante, 80, Cuban actress.
• Archie Butterworth, 92, British racing driver and designer.
• Sir John Dacie, 92, British haematologist.
• Brian Kelly, 72, American actor, pneumonia.
• Keith Kildey, 85, Australian cricketer.
• Monem Munna, 38, Bangladeshi footballer, kidney disease.
• Sammi Smith, 61, American country music singer, won Grammy for Help Me Make It Through the Night.
• Dorothy Stang, 74, American nun, murdered in Anapu, Brazil.
• Marinus van der Goes van Naters, 104, Dutch politician.
• Rafael Vidal, 41, Venezuelan Olympic medalist, car crash.

13

• Samineni Arulappa, 80, Indian Roman Catholic archbishop.
• Harry Baird, 73, Guyanese-born British actor.
• Nelson Briles, 61, American baseball pitcher.
• Sixten Ehrling, 86, Swedish conductor.
• Mary Hallaren, 97, American soldier, first woman to join the United States Army.
• Emilios T. Harlaftis, 39, Greek astrophysicist.
• Lúcia dos Santos, 97, Portuguese nun, last survivor of the three shepherd children of the Fatima apparition in 1917.
• Maurice Trintignant, 87, French racing driver, twice winner of the Monaco Grand Prix.
• Peter White, 69, Australian politician.

14

• Owen A. Allred, 91, American leader of the Apostolic United Brethren.
• Cicely Pearl Blair, 78, British dermatologist.
• Ron Burgess, 87, Welsh footballer with Tottenham Hotspur and Wales.
• Vic Emery, 84, Australian cricketer.
• Tatiana Gritsi-Milliex, 85, Greek novelist and journalist.
• Rafik Hariri, 60, Lebanese business tycoon and politician, twice Prime Minister of Lebanon, car bomb.
• Aubelin Jolicoeur, 81, Haitian journalist and columnist.
• Otto Plaschkes, 75, British movie producer, including Georgy Girl.
• Mike Rawding, 68, English football coach and administrator.
• Najai Turpin, 23, American boxer, participant in boxing reality show "The Contender", suicide.
• Dick Weber, 75, American professional bowler, father of Pete Weber.

15

• Carlo Tullio Altan, 88, Italian anthropologist and sociologist.
• Pierre Bachelet, 60, French singer.
• Samuel T. Francis, 57, U.S. political columnist.
• Dudu Geva, 54, Israeli cartoonist.
• Paul Lacy, 81, U.S. research scientist, father of islet cell transplantation for treatment of Type I diabetes.
• David Leach, 93, English potter.
• Nathan Quao, 89, Ghanaian diplomat.

16

• Michael Aikman, 71, Australian rower.
• Hans von Blixen-Finecke Jr., 88, Swedish Olympic equestrian.
• Cecilia Cubas, 32, Paraguayan daughter of former President Raúl Cubas Grau, kidnap victim (body found).
• Nicole DeHuff, 31, American actress, Meet the Parents, pneumonia.
• Michael McCrum, 80, British academic and educator.
• Narriman Sadek (Nariman Sadeq), 70, Egyptian queen, ex-wife of King Farouk, last queen of Egypt.
• Marcello Viotti, 50, Italian conductor.
• Gerry Wolff, 84, German actor.

17

• F. M. Busby, 83, American science fiction writer.
• Peter Foy, 79, American theatrical flying effects specialist.
• Jens Martin Knudsen, 74, Danish astrophysicist.
• César Marcelak, 92, French cycling champion.
• Dan O'Herlihy, 85, Irish film actor.
• Omar Sivori, 69, Argentinian and Italian footballer.

18

• Avraham Biton, 81, Israeli politician.
• Brian Cookman, 58, British musician.
• Uli Derickson, 60, German-born American airline stewardess, protagonist in 1985 airplane hijacking.
• Marian Kamil Dziewanowski, 91, Polish-born American historian.
• Robert R. Merhige, Jr., 86, U.S. district court judge.
• Harald Szeemann, 71, Swiss curator and art historian.

19

• Cardon V. Burnham, 77, American musician.
• Li Baohua, 95, Chinese politician.
• Angel M. Marchand, 92, Puerto Rican clinician and Olympic sport shooter
• Kihachi Okamoto (岡本喜八), 81, Japanese film director, esophageal cancer
• Giuseppe Piromalli, 83, Italian 'Ndrangheta boss
• Peter Pryor, 74, Australian Olympic cyclist

20

• Rachel Bissex, 48, American folk singer/songwriter.
• Pam Bricker, 50, American jazz vocalist and music professor, suicide.
• Julius D. Canns, 82, American politician.
• Sandra Dee, 62, American actress (Gidget), kidney failure and pneumonia.
• Sir William Gordon Harris, 92, British civil engineer.
• Dalene Matthee, 67, Afrikaans-South African author, heart failure.
• Raymond Mhlaba, 85, South African political leader and the first Premier of the Eastern Cape.
• John Raitt, 88, American classic Broadway star and father of Bonnie Raitt, pneumonia.
• Hunter S. Thompson, 67, American journalist, suicide.
• Jimmy Young, 56, American boxer, heart failure.

21

• Zdzisław Beksiński, 75, Polish artist.
• Ara Berberian, 74, American Bass with the New York City Metropolitan Opera.
• Gérard Bessette, 84, Canadian writer and academic.
• Isabelle Goldenson, 84, American co-founder of United Cerebral Palsy.
• Guillermo Cabrera Infante, 75, Cuban novelist, essayist, translator, screenwriter, exiled to London.
• Roger Johnson, 70, American businessman and government official.
• Josef Metternich, 89, German operatic baritone.
• Gene Scott, 75, U.S. televangelist and author.
• Don Tolhurst, 75, Australian Olympic shooter.
• Ernest Vandiver, 86, American politician, former governor of the U.S. state of Georgia (1959–1963).

22

• David Bradford, 66, American economist.
• Leo Brewer, 85, American chemist.
• John A. Dillon, 81-82, American physicist.
• Father Luigi Giussani, 82, Italian Catholic priest, founder of the "Communion and Liberation" Catholic youth movement.
• Heath Lamberts, 63, Canadian actor.
• Lee Eun-ju (이은주), 24, Korean actress, suicide.
• Claus Leininger, 74, German stage director.
• Mario Ricci, 90, Italian cyclist.
• Reggie Roby, 43, American college and professional football player, retired NFL punter.
• Harry Simeone, 94, American music arranger, conductor and composer, co-authored Christmas songs (Little Drummer Boy).
• Simone Simon, 94, French actress.
• Åke Strömmer, 68, Swedish sports journalist, cancer.

23

• All Along, 25, French racehorse.
• Sir John Carter, 86, Guyanese diplomat.
• Tom Patterson, 84, Canadian founder of the Stratford Festival of Canada.
• Henk Zeevalking, 82, Dutch politician.

24

• John Barron, 75, American journalist.
• Jochen Bleicken, 78, German ancient historian.
• Thadée Cisowski, 78, Polish-born French footballer, scored 206 goals in the French top division.
• Sumner Gerard, 88, American politician and diplomat
• Robin Jenkins, 92, Scottish novelist, author of "The Cone-Gatherers" and "Fergus Lamont".
• Hugh Nibley, 94, American historian, primarily concerned with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
• Gustavo Vázquez Montes, 42, Mexican politician, incumbent governor of Colima, Mexico, aviation accident.
• Sir Glanmor Williams, 84, Welsh historian.
• Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski, 82, German politician and former cabinet minister.

25

• Abdullah Badran, 21, Palestinian suicide bomber.
• Peter Benenson, 83, British lawyer and founder of Amnesty International.
• Ben Bowen, 2, American child cancer victim, focus of fund raising initiative.
• Phoebe Hesketh, 96, British poet.
• Don LeJohn, 70, American baseball player, former Los Angeles Dodgers third baseman.
• Norberto "Pappo" Napolitano, 54, Argentine blues and rock n' roll guitarist and composer.
• Tony Norris, 88, British ornithologist.
• Edward Patten, 66, American soul singer, member of Gladys Knight & The Pips.
• Atef Sedki, 74, Egyptian politician, former prime minister of Egypt.

26

• Denise Berthoud, 88, Swiss lawyer.
• Max Faulkner, 88, British golfer.
• Henry Grunwald, 82, Austrian-born journalist and diplomat, former managing editor of TIME and U.S. ambassador to Austria (1988–1990).
• Witness Mangwende, 59, Zimbabwean politician and diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1981–1987)
• Jef Raskin, 61, American creator of the Apple Macintosh, pancreatic cancer.
• Johnny Williams, 77, American football player.

27

• James Avati, 92, American illustrator.
• Harold Burnell Carter, 95, Australian scientist.
• Harold Geller, 89, Australian-American conductor and composer.
• Michael Hudson, 71, Australian navy officer.
• Hiroyuki Nasu, 53, Japanese film director.
• Frank V. Ortiz Jr., 78, American diplomat.
• Pukazhenthi, 75, Indian music film director.
• Carl Taseff, 76, American football player, former NFL defensive back and assistant coach.

28

• Chris Curtis, 63, English drummer with The Searchers.
• Louis Frommelt, 61, Liechtenstein Olympic shooter.
• Mario Luzi, 90, Italian poet.
• Édouard Stern, 50, French banker, murdered.