Deaths in June 2004

The following is a list of notable deaths in June 2004.

June 2004

1

• William Manchester, 82, U.S. historian.

2

• Mujeeb Aalam, 56, Pakistani playback singer.
• Dom Moraes, 65, Indian poet and writer.
• Tesfaye Gebre Kidan, c. 69, former defense minister and acting president of Ethiopia.
• Nicolai Ghiaurov, 71, opera singer.

3

• Quorthon, 38, Bathory founder.
• Joe Carr, 82, Irish golfer.
• Frances Shand Kydd, 68, mother of Diana, Princess of Wales.

4

• Phillip Bartlett, 44, original narrator of Pokémon and voice of Mewtwo from Pokémon: The First Movie, aortic dissection.
• Wilmer Fields, 81, former Negro League Baseball All-Star.
• Steve Lacy, 69, American jazz soprano saxophonist.
• Brian Linehan, 58, Canadian television host and interviewer .(canada.com) (Toronto Star) (The Globe and Mail)
• Nino Manfredi, 83, Italian actor. [1]
• T. M. Samarasinghe, 61, Sri Lankan cricket umpire.

5

• Jack Foster, 72, British-born New Zealand athlete.
• Ronald Reagan, 93, film actor and 40th President of the United States (1981–1989).

6

• Judy Campbell, 88, actress.
• Robert Lees, 91, screenwriter, found decapitated.
• Kate Worley, 46, comic book writer (Omaha the Cat Dancer).
• Necdet Mahfi Ayral, 96, Turkish actor.
• Iona Brown, 63, violinist and conductor.
• Simon Cumbers, 36, Irish freelance cameraman/journalist, working for the BBC in Saudi Arabia, killed by Al Qaeda.

7

• Thomas "Quorthon" Forsberg, 38, black metal pioneer and main member of Bathory, heart failure.
• Don Potter, 102, British sculptor.
• Eugene Raskin, 94, American musician and playwright.
• Donald Trumbull, 95, special effects pioneer.

8

• Mack Jones, 65, former Major League Baseball outfielder with the Atlanta Braves, Cincinnati Reds and Montreal Expos.
• Humayun Khan, 27, American soldier serving in the Iraq War.
• Roderick Macleod, 95, Canadian politician.
• Ronalda Pierce, 19, Florida State University basketball player, aneurysm.

9

• Rosey Brown, 71, Pro Football Hall of Famer.
• Robert MacDonald Ford, 93, American politician and insurance agent.
• Ted Martin, 101, Australian cricketer and cententarian.
• Ralph Moody, 86, American NASCAR driver and team owner.
• Barbara Whiting Smith, 73, actress.

10

• Ray Charles, 73, American rhythm and blues singer and soul music pioneer.
• Kiki Djan, 47, Ghanaian musician, AIDS and drug-related complications.
• Brian Williamson, 59, Jamaican gay rights activist and founder of J-Flag, murdered.
• Xenophon Zolotas, 100, Greek economist and politician, Prime Minister (1989–1990).

11

• Egon von Furstenberg, 57, fashion designer; nephew of late Fiat head Gianni Agnelli.
• Joyce Symons, 85, Hong Kong educator.

12

• Geoffrey Thompson, 67, businessman and owner of Blackpool Pleasure Beach, aneurysm.

13

• Dorothy Lavinia Brown, 85, American surgeon and politician.
• Danny Dark, 65, announcer.
• Dick Durrance, 89, 17-time American national champion in skiing.
• Sir Stuart Hampshire, 89, British philosopher.
• Ralph Wiley, 52, sports journalist.

14

• Robert Teeter, 65, Republican pollster.
• Jack McClelland, 81, Canadian book publisher.
• Ulrich Inderbinen, 103, mountain guide.
• Max Rosenberg, 89, producer of horror movies.

15

• J. Gwyn Griffiths, 92, Welsh poet and Egyptologist.
• Frank Nastasi, 81, actor and comedian (Lunch with Soupy).
• Ahmet Piriştina, 52, Turkish politician, mayor of İzmir, heart attack.
• John Lasarus Williams, 79, Welsh nationalist activist.

16

• Barry Cowan, 56, Northern Irish broadcaster.
• Albert Fischer, 84, German jurist.
• Dr. Herman Goldstine, 90, computing pioneer who helped develop ENIAC, Parkinson's disease.
• Thanom Kittikachorn, 91, former Thai prime minister.
• Hilda Thompson, 85, New Zealand cricketer

17

• Vilayat Inayat Khan, 87, British Sufist.
• Jacek Kuroń, 70, Polish dissident and statesman.
• Gerry McNeil, 78, Stanley Cup-winning National Hockey League goaltender.
• Steven Oken, 42, convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in Maryland.

18

• Frederick Jaeger, 76, German born British character actor.
• Paul Johnson, c. 49, American hostage, decapitated by al-Qaeda.
• Nek Mohammed, c. 27, Pakistani tribal leader in Waziristan and key Taliban ally, killed by Pakistani military forces. [2]

19

• Colin McCormack, 62, Welsh actor.
• Nob Yoshigahara, 68, mathematician and puzzle expert.

20

• Nabil Sahraoui, 37, Algerian militant, head of GSPC and linked to al-Qaeda.
• Jim Bacon, 54, Australian politician and Premier of Tasmania.

21

• Leonel Brizola, 82, Brazilian politician, heart failure. [3]
• Ted Scott, 85, Canadian Anglican prelate.

22

• Bob Bemer, 84, American computer scientist, cancer.
• Thomas Gold, 84, American astrophysicist.
• Francisco Ortiz Franco, c. 50, Mexican journalist, murdered.
• Carlton Skinner, 91, American naval officer and politician, first civilian governor of Guam.
• Mattie Stepanek, 13, American poet and advocate, muscular dystrophy.
• Kim Sun-il, 33, South Korean translator, decapitated by Iraqi militants.

23

• Doris Thompson, 101, businesswoman and owner of Blackpool Pleasure Beach.

24

• Ifigeneia Giannopoulou, 40, Greek songwriter, author.
• Carl Rakosi, 100, American poet.
• Peter Wragg, 73, British footballer.

25

• Karol Kennedy Kucher, 72, former United States ice skating champion, pneumonia.

26

• William H. Avery, 91, American aeronautical engineer.
• Naomi Shemer, 74, Israeli songwriter.
• Yash Johar, 75, Indian Bollywood film producer.

27

• Hugh B. Cave, 93, British writer.
• George Patton IV, 80, US Army general and son of George Patton.
• Darrell Russell, 35, National Hot Rod Association drag racer, first racer killed at an NHRA event since 1996.

28

• Anthony Buckeridge, 92, English author, creator of the Jennings books.
• Keith "Matt" Maupin, 20, U.S. Army Private First Class, killed by Islamist militants in Iraq.
• David A. Thomas, 86, American educator.

29

• Juan Antonio Lopez, 52, Mexican boxer, fought Wilfredo Gómez, leukemia.