Deaths in May 2004

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

May 2004

1

• Francis James Harrison, 91, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Syracuse (1977–1987).
• Felix Haug, 52, Swiss pop musician (Double).
• John Howland Rowe, 85, American archaeologist and anthropologist.

2

• Moe Burtschy, 82, American baseball player, former Major League Baseball pitcher for the Philadelphia & Kansas City Athletics.
• Paul Guimard, 83, French writer.

3

• Anthony Ainley, 71, British actor best known as The Master in Doctor Who.
• Darrell Johnson, 75, American MLB catcher and manager.
• Volus Jones, 90, American animator.
• Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire, 84, British aristocrat and politician.

4

• Clement Dodd, 72, Jamaican reggae pioneer.
• Tage Frid, 88, Danish woodworker.
• Erik Smith, 73, German-born British music producer.

5

• David Reimer, 39, Canadian notable gender-reassignment case.
• Ritsuko Okazaki, 44, Japanese singer-songwriter and author.

6

• Kjell Hallbing (aka Louis Masterson), 69, Norwegian Western author.[1]
• Sir John Hill, 90, British police officer.
• Barney Kessel, 80, American jazz guitarist and studio musician.
• Daniel Thompson, 69, American poet.

7

• Nick Berg, 26, American businessman and hostage killed in Iraq.
• Douglas John Foskett, 85, British librarian.
• Oliver David Jackson, 84, Australian army officer.
• Waldemar Milewicz, 48, Polish journalist, and Mounyra Beouamrane, killed in Iraq.

8

• Sir John Peel, 91, British politician, MP for Leicester South East (1957–1974).
• Ronnie Robinson, 53, American basketball player.

9

• Tommy Farrell, 82, American film and television actor.
• Percy M. Young, 91, British musicologist.
• Olive Osmond, 79, American Osmond singing family matriarch, mother of entertainers Marie Osmond and the various Osmond Brothers.
• Alan King, 76, American comedian and actor.
• Brenda Fassie, 39, South African singer.
• Akhmad Kadyrov, 52, Chechen politician, President of Chechnya.

10

• Eric Kierans, 90, Canadian politician.

11

• Mick Doyle, 63, Irish rugby union player and coach.
• Danny McLennan, 79, Scottish football player and coach.

12

• John LaPorta, 84, American jazz clarinetist, composer and educator.
• Syd Hoff, 91, American children's book author, cartoonist.
• John Robson, 54, English footballer.
• John Whitehead, 55, American R&B artist, shot dead.
• Judith Cook, 70, British theatre historian, campaigner and novelist.

13

• Joey Curtis, 79, American professional boxer, boxing referee and business owner.
• Vicente Doria Catan Jr, 56, Filipino comic book artist.
• Brian McNaughton, 68, American horror and fantasy writer.
• Floyd Kalber, 79, American broadcast journalist.

14

• Anna Lee, 91, British-born American actress, best known for playing Lila Quartermaine on the soap opera General Hospital.
• Jesus Gil, 71, Spanish businessman and politician, controversial owner of Atlético Madrid football club.
• Charlotte Benkner, 114, American supercentenarian, oldest recognized person in United States.
• Shaun Sutton, 84, British television executive.

15

• Jack Bradbury, 89, American animator and comic book artist.
• Gill Fox, 88, American political cartoonist, comic book artist, and animator.
• William H. Hinton, 85, American writer, farmer and Marxist, author of Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village.
• Colonel Robert Morgan, 85, American US Air Force pilot, former pilot of the Memphis Belle.
• Carlos Orta, 60, Venezuelan artist, and principal dancer and choreographer of the José Limón Dance Company.[2][3]
• Clint Warwick, 63, British bass guitarist (The Moody Blues).

16

• Moya Cole, 85, Northern Irish physician and hospice founder.
• Lord Hill-Norton, 89, British Royal Navy Admiral of the Fleet.
• Marika Rökk, 90, Egyptian-born German actress.

17

• Gunnar Graps, 57, Estonian rock singer and percussionist.
• Robert Lewin, 85, Polish art dealer and philanthropist.
• Buster Narum, 63, American baseball player, former Major League Baseball pitcher for the Orioles and Senators.
• Jørgen Nash, 84, Danish poet, performance artist.
• Tony Randall, 84, American television actor (The Odd Couple), pneumonia.
• Ezzedine Salim, 60-61, Iraqi politician, president of the Iraqi Governing Council.
• June Taylor, 86, American television dancer and choreographer.

18

• Arnold O. Beckman, 104, American inventor, industrialist, philanthropist.
• Elvin Jones, 76, American jazz drummer, notably with the John Coltrane Quartet of the 1960s.
• Lü Fuyuan, 59, Chinese politician, Minister of Commerce of China. Live cancer.
• Kelsey Patterson, 49, American convicted murderer, lethal injection.
• Hyacinthe Thiandoum, 83, Senegalese Roman Catholic Cardinal, former Archbishop of Dakar, Senegal.

19

• Jack Eckerd, 91, American businessman, former owner of the Eckerd drugstore chain.
• Mary Dresselhuys, 97, Dutch actress.
• Arnold Moore, 90, American blues artist.
• E.K. Nayanar, 87, Indian politician, three-time Chief Minister of Kerala, India.[4]

20

• Dennis Coslett, 64, Welsh political activist.
• Stanisław Gronkowski, 82, Polish actor.^(Polish)
• Len Murray, Lord Murray of Epping Forest, 81, British trade union leader.

21

• Rod Hall, 53, British literary agent, murdered.
• Gene Wood, 78, American television personality, announcer of Family Feud and other US game shows.

22

• Richard Biggs, 44, American actor, Babylon 5.
• Samuel Curtis Johnson, 76, American businessman, fourth generation president of SC Johnson company.
• Wayne Kimber, 55, New Zealand politician.
• Mikhail Voronin, 59, Russian gymnast, double Olympic champion.

23

• Trudy Marshall, 84, American actress.

24

• Daphne Blundell, 87, British naval officer.
• Henry Ries, 87, American photographer.
• Lee Won-woo, 45, South Korean basketball player.

25

• Glenn Cunningham, 60, American politician, mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey.
• David Dellinger, 88, American antiwar activist, member of Chicago Eight.
• Nicholas Luard, 66, British writer and politician.
• Roger W. Straus, Jr., 87, American publisher (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).

26

• Gatjil Djerrkura, 54, Australian indigenous leader, Chairman of ATSIC 1996-2000.

27

• Umberto Agnelli, 69, Italian industrialist, head of Fiat.
• Patience Cleveland, 73, American actress.
• Jim Marshall, 63, British Labour MP.
• Jack Losch, 69, American member of 1st Little League World Series championship team.

28

• Michael Alison, 77, British Privy Council member and former minister and MP.
• Gerald Anthony, 52, American actor, best known for playing Marco Dane on the TV show One Life to Live.
• Josie Carey, 73, American lyricist, host of the Pittsburgh children's show "Children's Corner".
• Irene Manning, 91, American actress and singer (Yankee Doodle Dandy).
• James Neil Tucker, 47, American convicted murderer.

29

• Archibald Cox, 92, American lawyer, Watergate special prosecutor.
• Sam Dash, 79, American lawyer, chief counsel to the House Judiciary Committee during the Watergate scandal.
• Jack Rosenthal, 72, British television dramatist.
• Magne Havnå, 40, Norwegian former professional boxer, in boating accident.
• Ramona Trinidad Iglesias-Jordan, 114, Puerto Rican supercentenarian, oldest documented person in the world.
• Sir Gordon Wolstenholme, 91, British physician.

30

• Raymond M. Clausen, Jr., 56, American marine, Medal of Honour recipient.
• Bobbie Irvine, 71, British ballroom dancer.

31

• Gunnar Hansen, 87, Norwegian Olympic boxer.
• Alberta Martin, 97, American notable widow, last known widow of a Confederate soldier.
• Robert Quine, 61, American punk rock guitarist.