Deaths in February 2004
The following is a list of notable deaths in February 2004.
February 2004
1
- Art Albrecht, 82, American football player.
- Buzz Gardner, 72, American trumpeter (The Mothers of Invention)
- Ally MacLeod, 72, Scottish football player and manager.
- Bob Stokoe, 73, footballer, F.A. Cup winning manager.
2
- Alan Bullock, 89, British historian.
- Henry Cockburn, 82, English footballer.
- Walter Freud, 82, World War II Special Operations agent and chemical engineer.
3
- Cornelius Bumpus, 58, musician (The Doobie Brothers, Steely Dan).
- Sam Fullbrook, 81, Australian artist.
- Jason Raize, 28, Broadway actor, singer and voice actor (The Lion King and Brother Bear).
4
- Hilda Hilst, 73, Brazilian novelist
- Ernest Burke, 79, baseball player
- Johnny Leartice Robinson, 51, convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in Florida.
5
- Donald Barr, 82, American educator.
- Nicholas Evans, 97, Welsh artist.
- Thomas Hinman Moorer, 91, American admiral, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
- Frances Partridge, 103, British writer, last surviving member of the Bloomsbury Group.
6
- Jerome F. Lederer, 101, aviation safety pioneer.
- Sir John Meyrick, 77, British rower and agriculturalist.
- Humphry Osmond, 86, psychiatrist and pioneer LSD experimenter.
7
- Richard Butler, 17th Viscount Mountgarret, 67, British soldier and aristocrat.
- Norman Thelwell, 80, English cartoonist.
8
- Julius Schwartz, 89, comic book and pulp magazine editor
- Cem Karaca, 58, Turkish singer and composer
9
- Robert F. Colesberry, 57, film and television producer (complications following cardiac surgery).
- Michael Rowland, 41, horse racing jockey.
- Samuel M. Rubin, 85, popcorn promoter.
- Claude Ryan, 79, Canadian politician.
10
- Nils Aas, 70, Norwegian sculptor and illustrator
- J. C. Quinn, 63, American Actor, traffic accident
11
- Hugh Cecil, 90, actor, one of the transylvannians in The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
- Ryszard Kuklinski, 74, Polish-born colonel and spy.
- Algernon Marsham, 84, English cricketer.
- Tony Pope, 57, Los Angeles voice actor, complications following leg surgery.
- Jim Robertson, 93, British army general.
- Shirley Strickland, 78, Australian athlete.
12
- Martin Booth, 59, British author, brain tumor.
- Robert A. Bruce, 87, American cardiologist.
- Leonard Dudman, 70, Scottish sportsman.
- Preston Love, 83, American jazz saxophone player.
13
- Sir David Lee, 91, British Air Chief Marshal.
14
- Marco Pantani, 34, racing cyclist, winner of Tour de France and Giro d'Italia in 1998
15
- Jens Evensen, 86, Norwegian minister, World Court judge.
- Jan Miner, 86, American actress.
- Lawrence Ritter, 81, American writer.
16
- Don Cleverley, 94, New Zealand cricketer.
- Bill Oakley, 39, comic book letterer.
- Shirley Strickland, 78, Australian athlete, three-time Olympic champion.
- Doris Troy, 67, R&B singer.
17
- José López Portillo, 83, former President of Mexico
- Cameron Todd Willingham, 36, convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in Texas.
18
- Jean Rouch, 86, French filmmaker and ethnologist.
- Ivor Stanbrook, 84, British politician.
19
- Clark Byers, 88-89, American sign maker
- Archibald Paton Thornton, 83, Canadian historian
20
- Fred Brown, 79, British virologist.
- Kōyū Ohara, 69, Japanese film director.
- Stanislaw Ryniak, 88, first person imprisoned at Auschwitz. (Feb 20 is burial date).
21
- Guido Molinari, 70, Canadian abstract artist.
- Bart Howard, 88, composer, "Fly Me To The Moon".
- John Charles, 72, Welsh football player.
22
- Colin Eaborn, 80, British chemist.
- Roque Máspoli, 86, Uruguayan goalkeeper.
- David Neiman, 82, Russian-born American rabbi, archaeologist and theologian.
- Azriel Rosenfeld, 73, computer image analysis researcher.
- Andy Seminick, 83, Major League Baseball catcher and last survivor of the 1950. Philadelphia Phillies' "Whiz Kids" that won the National League championship.
23
- Vijay Anand, 71, Bollywood filmmaker and brother of Dev Anand..
- Carl Anderson, 58, American actor (Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar).
- Neil Ardley, 66, British jazz composer.
- Sikander Bakht, 85, Governor of Kerala.
- William Coates, 92, asserted by advocates to be "oldest living American" but documentation showed otherwise
- Don Cornell, 79, popular singer of the 1940s and 1950s.
- Douglas Scott Falconer, 90, British geneticist.
- Carl Liscombe, 89, Detroit Red Wings hockey player in the 1940s.
- Bob Marshall, 93, Australian billiards player.
24
- John Randolph, 88, American actor
25
- Yuri Ozerov, 75, Russian basketball player
26
- Douglas Birks, 84, English cricketer, myeloma
- Shankarrao Chavan, 83, Chief Minister of Maharashtra
- Adolf Ehrnrooth, 99, General; Finnish war veteran
- Boris Trajkovski, 47, President of the Republic of Macedonia
27
- Paul Sweezy, 93, economist and founding editor of the Monthly Review
28
- Daniel J. Boorstin, 89, historian.
- M. G. Mukherjee, Indian cricket umpire.
- Andres Nuiamäe, 21, first Estonian soldier to be killed in Iraq.
- Nicholas Vivian, 6th Baron Vivian, 68, British soldier and aristocrat.
29
- Alexander Beresch, 26, Olympic gymnast from Ukraine
- Jerome Lawrence, 88, playwright
- Danny Ortiz, 27, Guatemalan football goalkeeper