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The following is a list of notable people who died in June 2005.
June 2005 [ edit ]
Isabel Aretz , 96, Argentine musician.
Lucio España , 33, Colombian footballer, murdered.
Samir Kassir , 45, Lebanese journalist who supported democracy, assassinated.
Mike Marshall , 60, French-American actor, known for role in Moonraker .
Melita Norwood , 93, Briton who spied for the Soviet Union during the Cold War. [2]
Alan Williams , 77, British economist.
Leon Askin , 97, Austrian actor.
Radomir Belaćević , 75, Serbian film producer and writer.
Teodoro Benigno , 82, Filipino journalist.
Michael Billington , 63, British actor.
Harold Cardinal , 60, Cree writer, lung cancer.
Alex Freeleagus , 77, Australian diplomat and lawyer. [3]
Harrison Young , 75, American actor (Saving Private Ryan ). [4]
Paul Amen , 88, American sportsman and banker.
Chloe Jones , 29, American adult film star.
Banks McFadden , 88, College Football Hall of Famer and former Clemson football player.
André Molitor , 93/4, Belgian civil servant, principal private secretary to King Baudouin I .
Jean O'Leary , 57, American gay and lesbian rights activist and politician.
Yin Shun , 99, Chinese Buddhist philosopher.
Lorna Thayer , 86, American character actress (Five Easy Pieces ), Alzheimer's disease. [5]
Adolfo Aguilar Zínser , 55, Mexican scholar, diplomat and politician. [6]
Pepita Carpeña , 85, Spanish trade unionist and anarchist. [7]
George Isaak , 72, Australian phyicist. [8]
Oscar Morelli , 59, Mexican actor, after lengthy illness
Susi Nicoletti , 86, Austrian film actress, complications from heart surgery. [9] (German) [10]
Eduardo P. Archetti , 62, Argentine social scientist.
Anne Bancroft , 73, American Oscar-winning actress (The Miracle Worker , The Graduate ), uterine cancer. [11]
Dana Elcar , 77, American film, stage and television actor. [12]
Pamela May , 88, British ballet dancer.
David Sutherland , 56, American illustrator for the original Dungeons & Dragons books.
Pater Barry , 67, Australian rules footballer.
Margaret Baxtresser , 82, American concert pianist.
Seán Doherty , 60, Irish politician.
Terry Long , 45, former NFL offensive lineman.
Edward Anthony McCarthy , 87, American Roman Catholic prelate, second Archbishop of Miami .
Allan Ashbolt , 83, Australian journalist.
Richard Eberhart , 101, American poet.
Ryan Alan Hade , 23, former American sexual assault victim whose case paved the way for laws allowing indefinite confinement of sexual predators, motorcycle accident. [13]
Francesco Albanese , 92, Italian opera singer.
Anne-Marie Alonzo , 53, Canadian writer.
Gordon Baxter , 81, American radio personality.
José Beyaert , 79, French cyclist.
Audrey Brown , 83, British athlete.
Robert Clarke , 85, American actor.
Ghena Dimitrova , 64, Bulgarian opera singer.
Lon McCallister , 82, American actor.
Ron Randell , 86, Australian-born actor.
Juan José Saer , 67, Argentine novelist.
Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves , 84, Portuguese General, Prime Minister (1974–1975). [14] .
Bryan Beaumont , 66, Australian jurist.
Sonja Davies , 81, New Zealand trade unionist.
Brandy Davis , 77, American baseball player.
Makobo Modjadji , 27, rain queen of the Balobedu people of South Africa.
Scott Young , 87, Canadian journalist and father of Neil Young .
Joan Abse , 78, English writer and art historian.
Jonathan Adams , 74, British actor (Dr. von Scott , The Rocky Horror Picture Show ).
Gerard Béhague , 67, French-born American ethnomusicologist.
Álvaro Cunhal , 91, Portuguese politician, secretary-general of the Portuguese Communist Party (1961–1992), deputy (1975–1992), writer and painter. [15]
Eugénio de Andrade , 82, Portuguese poet.
David Diamond , 89, American composer.
Christopher Spencer Foote , 70, American chemist.
Lane Smith , 69, American actor (My Cousin Vinny , Lois & Clark ).
Percy Arrowsmith , 105, one-half of the world's documented longest marriage.
Rodrigo Asturias , 65, Guatemalan guerilla leader and politician, heart attack.
Valeria Moriconi , 73, Italian actress, cancer.
Kathi Norris , 86, hosted one of the first TV talk shows on the DuMont Television Network , (The Kathi Norris Show, also known as Your TV Shopper , 1948–1950); mother of actress Koo Stark .
Corino Andrade , 99, Portuguese neurologist, discovered Familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy (FAP).
Billy Bauer , 89, American jazz guitarist.
Gerald Davis , 88, British philatelist.
Enrique Laguerre , 99, Puerto Rican writer, poet, and teacher.
Ross Stretton , 53, artistic director of Australian Ballet .[16]
James Weinstein , 78, Jewish author, founder and publisher of In These Times .
Nanna Ditzel , 81, Danish furniture and interior designer.
William N. Fenton , 96, American scholar known for writings on the Iroquois .
Trevor Jones , 85, English cricketer.
Keith Morris , 66, English photographer.
Karl Mueller , 41, founding bassist for the rock band Soul Asylum , throat cancer.
Mikhail Stern , 86/7, Soviet endocrinologist and dissident.
James A. Whyte , 85, Scottish theologian.
Ronald Winans , 48, Grammy-winning American gospel singer.
Syed Mushtaq Ali , 90, Indian cricketer, (batsman/captain), Padma Shree Award winner.
Gerald Davis , Irish painter and Joycean scholar.
Tony Diment , 78, English cricketer.
Cay Forrester , 83, American writer/film actress (DOA , etc.)
Basil Kirchin , 77, British musician.
J. J. Pickle , 91, American politician, former Democratic U.S. Congressional Representative from Texas (1963–1995).
Manuel Sadosky , 91, father of Argentina's computer science studies and former Secretary of State of Science and Technology (1983–1989).
Frank Alexander , 94, Australian cricketer.
Allan Beckett , 91, British engineer. [17]
Alfred Deakin Brookes , 85, Australian intelligence officer.
Robert Ellis Cahill , 70, American folklorist and author.
Dave Carr , 48, English footballer.
Ray Parkin , 94, Australian writer.
Georgie Woods , 78, Philadelphia radio broadcast "legend", due to be inducted into the Philadelphia Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame.
Larry Collins , 75, American writer
Charles D. Keeling , 77, American scientist whose pioneering measurements showed a carbon dioxide buildup in the earth's atmosphere
Jack Kilby , 81, American engineer, inventor of the integrated circuit and physics Nobel prize winner.
William López , 26, Salvadoran footballer, shot. [18]
Bernard Adolph Schriever , 94, retired U.S. General, regarded as the father and architect of the United States Air Force space and ballistic missile programs.
Peter Bridgwater , 70, American soccer executive.
Steven F. Gaughan , 40, American police officer, murdered.
George Hawi , 67, former secretary general of Communist Party of Lebanon , killed by terrorists in an attack on his car.
Geoffrey Jones , 73, British documentary maker, cancer.
Jaime Sin , 76, Roman Catholic cardinal and former Archbishop of Manila .
Louis H. Wilson, Jr. , 85, US Medal of Honor recipient and Commandant of the Marine Corps.
Nikolay Afanasevsky , 64, Russian diplomat.
Shana Alexander , 79, American journalist, cancer. [19]
Manolis Anagnostakis , 80, Greek poet.
Pietro Balestra , 70, Swiss economist.
Richard Hart Brown , 64, American neuroscientist.
Isidore Cohen , 82, violinist with the Beaux Arts Trio . [20]
Hanna Kvanmo , 79, Norwegian politician.
Sam Kweskin , 81, American comic book artist. [21]
Ramon L. Posel , 77, built up Philadelphia's art film industry though Ritz Theaters. [22]
Lyman Bostock, Sr. , 87, American baseball player.
Peter Casserly , 107, Australian centenarian , last surviving member of the First Australian Imperial Force serving on the Western Front in World War I. [23]
Imogen Claire , actress, played one of the transylvannians in The Rocky Horror Picture Show .
Paul Winchell , 82, American voice actor and ventriloquist; animated voice of 'Tigger ', natural causes.
Frederick G. Dutton , 82, advisor to President Kennedy. [24]
John Fiedler , 80, American film, stage and television actor (voice of Piglet in Winnie-the-Pooh productions), cancer. [25]
Sir Harry Gibbs , 88, Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia 1981-87.
Chet Helms , 62, American rock music promoter.
Bob Vincent , 87, American big band singer and theatrical agent.
Robert Byrne , 50, American songwriter.
Shelby Foote , 88, American historian. [28]
Frank Harte , 72, Dublin traditional singer and song collector, heart attack.
Domino Harvey , 35, model-turned-bounty hunter and daughter of the late actor, Laurence Harvey . Found dead in her bathtub of an overdose of Fentanyl painkillers. [29]
Ray Holmes , 90, pilot who protected Buckingham Palace during the Battle of Britain , cancer. [30]
Owen McCarron , 76, Canadian cartoonist and puzzle creator.[31]
John T. Walton , 58, son of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton .
Bardhyl Ajeti , 28, Serbian journalist, assassinated.
Matthew Axelson , 29, American naval officer.
Robert D. Clark , 95, American university administrator.
Victor Craig , 87, Irish cricketer.
Danny Dietz , 25, American naval officer. [32]
Dick Dietz , 63, an Major League Baseball All-Star catcher who played for the San Francisco Giants , Los Angeles Dodgers and Atlanta Braves , heart attack. [33]
Philip Hobsbaum , 72, British academic, poet and critic, diabetes. [34]
Brenda Howard , 58, American LGBT-rights activist, colon cancer.[35]
Bruce Malmuth , 71, American film director (Sylvester Stallone 's Nighthawks ), throat cancer. [36]
Michael P. Murphy , 29, American naval officer. [37]
Rowland B. Wilson , 74, American cartoonist and animator [38]
Ruslan Abdulgani , 91, Indonesian politician and diplomat.
James Gilbert Baker , 90, American astronomer.
Gerard C. Bond , 65, American geologist. [39]
W. Burlie Brown , 83, American historian.
John Burgess , 71, Scottish bagpiper.