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The following is a list of notable deaths in December 2005 .
December 2005 [ edit ]
Gust Avrakotos , 67, CIA agent who armed the mujaheddin of Afghanistan. [1]
Mary Hayley Bell , 94, British actress, memoirist and writer, Alzheimer's disease. [2]
Hermann Buchner , 86, German World War II fighter pilot.
Jack Colvin , 73, American actor, (The Incredible Hulk ), coronary thrombosis.
Michael Evans , 61, White House photographer, noted for capturing the trademark image of Ronald Reagan wearing a cowboy hat, cancer.[3]
Ray Hanna , 77, New Zealand-born warbird pilot and founder of The Old Flying Machine Company, natural causes. [4]
Kenneth Boyd , 57, American convicted murderer, executed in North Carolina, the 1,000th U.S. execution since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976 [5]
Lillian Browse , 99, British art dealer. [6]
Shawn Paul Humphries , 34, American convicted murderer, executed in South Carolina
Malik Joyeux , 25, professional surfer, killed at Hawaii's Banzai Pipeline [7]
William P. Lawrence , 75, retired U.S. Navy Vice Admiral, first to fly at twice the speed of sound [8]
Peter Menegazzo , early 60s, Australian cattle baron, killed (along with his wife Angela) in a plane crash [9] , [10]
Van Tuong Nguyen , 25, Australian executed at Changi Prison in Singapore for trafficking 396 grams of heroin in 2002, hanging [11]
Mohammed Amza Zubeidi , 67, former Iraqi prime minister under Saddam Hussein
Peter Aschwanden , 63, American illustrator.
Frederick Ashworth , 93, American naval officer, weaponeer who dropped atomic bomb on Nagasaki .
Peter Cook , 62, Australian politician, melanoma.
Lance Dossor , 90, Australian pianist.
John Ganzoni, 2nd Baron Belstead , 73, British aristocrat and politician.
Maurice Harris , 84, trumpet player, Hollywood, studio, TV and sessions player (The Tonight Show ).
Kikka Sirén , 41, Finnish pop/schlager singer.
Kåre Kristiansen , 85, Norwegian politician; minister of Oil and Energy (1983–1986).
Bill Robinson , 71, British rugby league player.
Allan Waters , 84, Canadian broadcasting icon.
Débora Arango , 98, Colombian artist.
Percy Brandt , 83, Swedish actor.
Gregg Hoffman , 42, film producer (Saw ), natural causes. [12]
Gloria Lasso , 83, Spanish singer.
Doug Murphy , 53, former CBS (KPIX ) news anchorman, house fire.
John Alvheim , 75, Norwegian politician.
Gerald Smedley Andrews , 101, Canadian civil servant.
Wesley Baker , 47, American convicted murderer, executed in Maryland.
Peter Beet , 68, British railway preservation pioneer.
Liu Binyan , 80, Chinese author and dissident, cancer. [13] .
Netai Bysack , 84, Indian Olympic cyclist.
Milo Dor , 82, Serbian-Austrian author, heart failure.
Edward L. Masry , 73, attorney and mentor to Erin Brockovich , complications of diabetes.
Kevin "Big Kev" McQuay , 56, Australian businessman and media personality, heart attack. [14]
Frits Philips , 100, Dutch businessman; grandson of the founder of Philips , complications from a fall.
Charly Gaul , 72, Luxembourgan cyclist, winner of the 1958 Tour de France
Richard Grimsdale , 76, built the world's first transistorised computer and was at the forefront of work on Read Only Memory [15]
Hanns Dieter Hüsch , 80, German political satirist
Jerzy Pajaczkowski-Dydynski , 111, oldest man in the UK at the time of his death [16]
Danny Williams , 63, South African popular singer, lung cancer
Lucy d'Abreu , 113, oldest person in the UK at the time of her death. [17]
Rigoberto Alpizar , 44, airplane passenger fatally shot by U.S. Air Marshals after allegedly claiming he had placed a bomb aboard.
James Bastien , 71, author of instructional books for the piano. [18]
Martine Bercher , 61, American football player.
Adrian Biddle , 53, British cinematographer (Aliens , The Princess Bride , Thelma & Louise ), heart attack.
Marvin Braude , 85, American member of Los Angeles City Council .
Carroll A. Campbell, Jr. , 65, former South Carolina governor (1987–1995), and member of U.S. House of Representatives (1979–1987), heart attack and complications of Alzheimer's disease.
Bud Carson , 75, former NFL head coach, emphysema.
Loomis Dean , 88, photographer, notably for Life magazine.
Devan Nair , 82, former president of Singapore. [19]
R. W. Bradford , 58, publisher of Liberty magazine, kidney cancer.
Dame Rose Heilbron , 91, British judge. [20]
George D. Painter , 91, British biographer.[21]
Leo Scheffczyk , 85, German Roman Cardinal Deacon of San Francesco Saverio alla Garbatella, Germany. [22]
Roger Shattuck , 82, American writer and critic, prostate cancer. [23]
J.N. Williamson , 73, American horror writer, author and publisher.
Alan John Beale , 72, British virologist.
Mike Botts , 61, American drummer, toured and recorded with Linda Ronstadt , Dan Fogelberg , Tina Turner and others, cancer.
Homer Mensch , 91, internationally known bass player, Juilliard teacher.
Eunice Norton , 97, American classical pianist and music promoter.
György Sándor , 93, internationally famous pianist, Juilliard teacher, heart failure.
Robert Sheckley , 77, American science fiction author, brain aneurysm.
Brian Whittle , 59, British journalist and news agency head [24] .
Frank Cooke , 92, American entrepreneur.
Mary Jackson , 95, American film and television actress (The Exorcist III , Parenthood ).
Donald Martino , 74, American composer.
Eugene McCarthy , 89, former Democratic United States Senator from Minnesota (1959–1971), and United States Representative (1949–1959) and presidential primary candidate. [25]
Jim McIntyre , 78, American basketball player.
Richard Pryor , 65, American comedian and actor (Stir Crazy , Harlem Nights ), heart attack and complications of multiple sclerosis.
Gardner Read , 92, American classical composer.
Clark G. Reynolds , 65, American naval historian. [26]
Bob Richardson , 73, fashion photographer.
Erhard Ahmann , 64, German football manager.
Stew Bowers , 90. American baseball player.
Gordon Duncan , 41, Scottish musician and bagpiper, suicide [28]
Sudhir Joshi , 57, Indian actor, heart attack
John B. Nixon , 77, American convicted murderer, executed in Mississippi
William "Duke" Procter , 106, Canadian WWI veteran [29]
Gladys Swetland , 113, believed to be the oldest resident of Pennsylvania [30]
Rodney William Whitaker , 74, British author, wrote under pseudonyms such as "Trevanian"
Will Wilson , 93, American politician, Attorney General of Texas (1957-1963).
Maurice Beresford , 85, British economic historian and archaeologist.
James Ingo Freed , 75, American architect.
Giuseppe Patroni Griffi , 84, Italian writer and director of movies and theatre.
Heinrich Gross , 90, Austrian alleged Nazi doctor and war criminal. [31] [32]
Walter Haut , 83, retired U.S. Army lieutenant, central figure in the Roswell UFO incident in 1947. [33]
Stan Leonard , 90, Canadian golfer, heart failure. [34]
Julian Marías , 91, Spanish philosopher and father of author Javier Marías .
John McIntyre , 89, Scottish theologian. [35]
Akira Ohgi , 70, Japanese baseball player and manager.
Jim Ostendarp , 82, football coach at Amherst College for 33 years. [36]
William Proxmire , 90, former Democratic Senator from Wisconsin (1957–1989), giver of the Golden Fleece Awards for wasteful government spending, complications of Alzheimer's disease.
Darrell Russell , 29, former NFL player for the Oakland Raiders and Tampa Bay Buccaneers , car accident.
Anthony Barber , 85, British politician and former Conservative Party Chancellor of the Exchequer , complications of Parkinson's disease.
Boyi Bhimanna , 94, Indian Telugu poet.
Kenneth Bulmer , 84, English writer (pseudonyms included Alan Burt Akers and Dray Prescot). [37]
Joseph Owades , 86, American biochemist, inventor of light beer . [38] [39]
John Spencer , 58, American actor (The West Wing , The Rock ), heart attack.
Sverre Stenersen , 79, Norwegian Gold medal winner in the 1956 Winter Olympics .
Enzo Stuarti , 86, Italian tenor, was in many Broadway musicals, heart failure. [40]
Jack Anderson , 83, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, complications of Parkinson's disease. [41]
Marc Favreau , 76, French Canadian television and film actor, best known for his creation of the clown Sol .
Jacques Fouroux , 58, French rugby union captain and coach, heart attack. [42]
Haljand Udam , 69, Estonian translator and encyclopedist.
Belita , 82, British skater, dancer and actress.
Doug Dye , 84, New Zealand microbiologist.
Howie Ferguson , 75, former NFL player.
Doris Fisher, Baroness Fisher of Rednal , 86, British politician. [43]
Barry Halper , 66, baseball memorabilia collector and limited partner for the New York Yankees . [44]
Belita Jepson-Turner , 82, Olympic skater and film actress. [45]
John McIntyre , 89, Moderator of the Church of Scotland's General Assembly (1982), former acting principal and professor of divinity of the University of Edinburgh . [46] [47]
P.M. Sayeed , 64, India's Minister of Power, heart attack. [48]
Alan M. Voorhees , 83, transportation engineer and city planner [49]
Billy Amstell , 94, British jazz musician.
Sir Charles Brett , 77, Northern Irish architectural historian.
George Bromilow , 74, British footballer at the 1956 Summer Olympics .
Keith Duckworth , 72, British automotive designer. [50]
Vincent Gigante , 77, Genovese family crime boss, heart disease.
Phyllis Gretzky , 64, mother of NHL legend Wayne Gretzky , lung cancer.
Julio Iglesias, Sr. , 90, Spanish gynaecologist who is among the oldest men to have fathered a child (also Julio Iglesias 's father and Enrique Iglesias 's grandfather), heart attack.
Marjorie Kellogg , 83, American author and playwright (Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon ). [51]
Raoul Bott , 82, Harvard mathematician, cancer. [52]
Argentina Brunetti , 98, Argentine-Italian actress. (It's a Wonderful Life , The Caddy ), writer, journalist.
Theodore Holmes Bullock , 90, American neuroscientist.
Bradford Cannon , 98, Boston plastic surgeon, pneumonia. [53]
Genrikh Fedosov , 73, Soviet football player.
William W. Howells , 97, American anthropologist. [54]
Billy Hughes , 57, American former child/film actor during the 1960s. [55]
Graham Wilson , 66, Australian rugby league player.
Vicente de Cadenas y Vicent , 90, Spanish officer of arms.
Myron Healey , 82, American film actor who normally played Western villains. [56]
Elrod Hendricks , 64, Baltimore Orioles coach, former MLB catcher, heart attack. [57]
Hallam Tennyson , 85, British radio producer and great-grandson of Alfred, Lord Tennyson , suspected victim of murder. [58]
Lajos Baróti , 91, Hungarian football coach. [59]
Selma Jeanne Cohen , 85, dance historian, editor of The International Encyclopedia of Dance . [60]
G. Blakemore Evans , 93, Shakespeare scholar, author of The Riverside Shakespeare , stroke. [61]
Truman Gibson , 93, anti-segregation lawyer and boxing promoter. [62]
Camille Gravel , 90, Louisiana lawyer and civil rights activist, advisor to three governors. [63]
Norman D. Vaughan , 100, American explorer and sportsman, part of Richard Byrd 's 1928 South Pole expedition. [64] [65]
Yao Wenyuan , 74, Chinese Communist political leader, member of the Gang of Four . [66]
Douglas Bigelow , 49, chief of web security at AOL, pancreatic cancer [67]
Georg Johannesen , 74, Norwegian author and professor of rhetoric. [68]
Constance Keene , 84, American classical pianist known for playing the romantic repertoire [69]
Harold Lawton , 106, British academic and veteran of the First World War [70]
Michael Vale , 83, American actor who appeared in over 1,300 commercials as the sleepy doughnut maker for Dunkin' Donuts from 1982–1997, diabetes. [71]
Wang Daohan , 90, negotiator for People's Republic of China in cross-straits talks , who contributed to the formation of the 1992 Consensus with Koo Chen-fu from the Republic of China on Taiwan [72]
Felice Andreasi , 77, Italian actor.
Derek Bailey , 75, free improvising avant-garde guitarist, motor neuron disease. [73]
Robert Barbers , 61, former Philippines senator, heart attack. [74]
Bhanumathi , 80, Indian film actress, director, singer/songwriter. [75]
Donald Dawson , 97, executive assistant to Harry S. Truman . [76]
Henry Kock , 53, Canadian horticulturist and eco-activist, brain cancer. [77]
Birgit Nilsson , 87, Swedish soprano. [78]
Joseph Pararajasingham , 71, Sri Lankan politician and supporter of the Tamil Tiger rebels, shot and killed at a midnight Christmas Mass. [79]
Roy Stuart , 70, American actor.[80]
Mikuláš Athanasov , 75, Czechoslovak wrestler.
Julian "Bud" Blake , 87, American cartoonist (Tiger ). [81]
Muriel Costa-Greenspon , 68, mezzo-soprano at the New York City Opera for 30 years. [82]
John Diebold , 79, pioneering American computer engineer. [83]
Ernesto Leal , 60, presidential chief of staff and former foreign minister of Nicaragua, pneumonia. [84] (Spanish)
Kerry Packer , 68, publishing, media and gaming tycoon, Australia's richest individual amassing a fortune of over $6 billion. [85]
Vincent Schiavelli , 57, American actor (Ghost , Buffy the Vampire Slayer , One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ), lung cancer. [86]
John Taylor , 80, Canadian football player (St. Hyacinthe-Donnacona Navy and Montreal Alouettes ). [87]
Stuart Alexander , 44, American businessman and murderer.
Philip N. Carney , 86, American politician, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives .
Xavier Connor , 88, Australian jurist, foundation judge of the Federal Court of Australia, President of the Australian Law Reform Commission 1985 - 1987.
Ted Ditchburn , 84, English football goalkeeper (Tottenham Hotspur , England national football team ). [88]
John McCabe , 75, American writer.
Giancarlo Primo , 81, Italian basketball coach, the first to defeat National Teams USA and USSR in 1970s . [89]
Erich Topp , 91, German U-boat commander in World War II. [90]
Tokuji Wakasa , 91, Japanese businessman, former president of All Nippon Airways .
Armand Phillip Bartos , 95, American architect. [93]
Gerda Boyesen , 83, Norwegian psychologist.
Dan Carnevale , 87, American baseball player.
Abuna Yesehaq Mandefro , 72, Ethiopian-Orthodox Archbishop. [94]
Eileen Nolan , 85, British Director of the Women's Royal Army Corps . [95]
Elizabeth Parcells , 54, American operatic coloratura soprano. [96]
Clint Sampson , 44, American football player. [97]
Eddie Barlow , 65, South African cricketer. [98]
Candy Barr , 70, exotic dancer, pneumonia. [99]
Charles J. Bowles , 83, American physical education expert.
Pasquale Carpino , 69, Italian-Canadian Singing Chef .[100]
Tory Dent , 47, American poet, essayist and art critic. [101]
Rona Jaffe , 74, American novelist (The Best of Everything , Mazes and Monsters ), cancer . [102]
Fred "Jock" Smith , 79, Scottish footballer (Hull City , Sheffield United and Millwall ).
Bobby Stevens , 98, American baseball player. [103]
Sanora Babb , 98, American writer. [104]
Enrico Di Giuseppe , 73, American operatic tenor, cancer. [105]
Maurice Dodd , 83, British cartoonist (The Perishers ), brain haemorrhage. [106]
Sir John Peel , 101, British gynaecologist. [107]
Maclovia Ruiz , 95, American dancer, pneumonia. [108]
David Silsoe , 75, British lawyer. [109]
Phillip Whitehead , 68, British Labour Party MEP for Derby North , former television producer, heart attack. [110]