Chemistry - Deaths in 2004

31 Maj.-Gen. Konstantin Dementyev , Russian military official, involved with air force planning and policy, shot to death on the Moscow-Minsk highway
31 Don Briscoe, 64, stage and television actor (Dark Shadows)
30 Peggy Ryan, 80, actress, singer and dancer
29 Gerard Norton VC, 89, won the Victoria Cross in 1944
29 Vaughn Meader, 68, Grammy-Award-winning JFK-imitating comedian, emphysema
29 Edward Oliver LeBlanc, 81, Dominican political leader, chief minister (1961-1967) and premier (1967-1974), unknown natural causes
29 Jacinto João , 60, Portuguese football player, cardiac arrest
29 HRH Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, 102
29 Peter Twinn, 88, mathematician and code-breaker
29 John Parr Miller , 91, children's book illustrator and Disney animator
28 Rosalind Hicks, 85, daughter of Agatha Christie
28 Theodore Taylor , 79, designer of American nuclear bombs before becoming an activist warning of the dangers of nuclear weapons
28 Shosei Koda, 24, Japanese backpacker, beheaded by his captors in Iraq
28 Jimmy McLarnin, 96, British boxer, two-time world champion
28 Graham Roberts, 75, British actor, "The Archers"
28 Charles Wheeler , 88, cinematographer Tora! Tora! Tora!
28 George Schairer , 91 aerodynamics expert
28 Gil Melle , 72, film and television music composer, heart attack
27 Al Clouston, 94, humorist
27 Lester Lanin , 97, Society Big-Band leader
27 Bill Liebowitz , 63, American comic book retailer and founder of notable chain of Golden Apple stores, leading the way for the direct market
27 Paulo Sérgio de Oliveira Silva (a.k.a. Serginho), 30, Brazilian football player for São Caetano, heart attack during a league match
27 Bert Tigchelaar , 58, Dutch journalist
26 Bobby Avila, 79, MLB All-Star and AL batting champion in 1954
26 Paul F. Iams, 89, founder of the Iams pet food company
26 Nestor Kombot-Naguemon , 70?, Central African foreign minister from 1969 until 1970, and ambassador to France at the time of his death, suicide
26 Kathleen Crawford Lindsay , 83, 1950s television writer, embolism
25 Lilian Kallir , 73, Classical pianist,
25 John Peel, 65, British BBC disc jockey and guru of the British indie music scene, heart attack
25 Shyam Nandan Mishra , 84, Indian foreign minister from 1979 to 1980, heart attack
24 Jokin Ormaetxea, 24, Spanish professional cyclist, car accident
24 10 people, including the son of NASCAR race owner Rick Hendrick, crew members and pilots, airplane crash
24 James Cardinal Hickey, 84, former Roman Catholic archbishop of Washington, D.C., previously bishop of Cleveland, Ohio
24 Maaja Ranniku , 63, Estonian chess player
23 Andrew "Stig" Sewell , British, singer in Icons of Filth, possible brain hemorrhage
23 George Silk , 87, Famous WWII Photojournalist for Life magazine, congestive heart failure
23 Robert Merrill, 85 (or 87?), American opera singer
23 Bill Nicholson OBE, 85, British football manager of Tottenham Hotspur, 1958-1974, associated with the club as player, coach, manager and scout for over 60 years
22 Samuel Lee Gravely, Jr., 82, first African American U.S. Navy admiral
22 Katherine Victor , 81, cult film actress
21/22 Jean-François Leuba , 70, Swiss politician
21 Everett Rogers, 73, founder of diffusion of innovations theory
21 Adnan al-Ghoul, ??, Hamas chief explosives expert, alleged "father" of the Qassam rocket, assassinated by the IDF
21 Victoria Snelgrove, 21, Boston Red Sox fan killed in post-American League Championship Series victory celebration accident
20 Veronika Cherkasova, 45, Belarus journalist, murdered
20 Anthony Hecht, 81, American poet
20 Chuck Hiller, 70, former major league baseball player
20 Tevfik Gelenbe, 73, Turkish actor, cancer
20 Lynda Lee-Potter, 69, journalist for Daily Mail, brain tumour
20 Evald Saag , 91, Estonian theologian
20 Wendy Charles Acey , television director
19 Arthur H. Robinson, 89, american cartographer
19 Anita Bitri-Prapaniku, 36?, Albanian pop singer
19 Sang Chun Lee, 51, three cushion billiard player, cancer
19 Lewis Urry, 77, Canadian, invented the long-lasting alkaline battery
19 Kenneth E. Iverson, 84, computer scientist inventor of the APL programming language
19 Paul H. Nitze, 97, American diplomat and Cold War arms negotiator
19 Eleanor Plant, 111, Florida's oldest resident, 9th oldest recognized person in USA, 23rd oldest recognized person in the world
18 Ansar Tebuyev , 54, Deputy Prime Minister of Karachay-Cherkessia, assassinated
18 Steve Steigman , ?, photographer, known for "Blown Away" shot in Maxell advertising campaign
18 Koose Muniswamy Veerappan, 52, notorious Indian bandit known as "Jungle Cat", killed by special forces
18 Xavier Ormazabal , 23, Spanish mountaineer, while climbing the Cho Oyu in Nepal Himalaya
18 Nancy Carline , 95, artist
17 Julius Harris, 81, African American actor, heart failure
17 Samuel Lender , 84, helped bring Lender's Bagel Company to national prominence
17 Celio González , 80, popular singer of Cuban band Sonora Matancera in the 1950s
17 Betty Hill, 85, wife of Barney Hill and famous in Ufology for their abduction report, lung cancer
17 Raymond Boone, 81, patriarch of three-generation major league baseball family
17 Rebecca Manning , 60, daughter of Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth
16 Doug Bennett, 52, lead singer of Canadian band Doug and the Slugs
16 Uzi Hitman, 52, Israeli singer, songwriter and composer, heart attack
16 Pierre Salinger, 79, Press Secretary to John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and newsman
16 Vincent Brome, 94, English biographer and novellist
15 Dave Godin, 68, Soul music promoter, journalist
15 Herbert Katzman , 81, expressionist painter
15 Helmut Simon , 67, finder of Ötzi the Iceman
15 Irv Novick, 88, American comic book artist
15 Lüüdia Vallimäe-Mark , 79, Estonian painter
14 Juan Francisco Cardinal Fresno Larrain , 90, Chilean Catholic Cardinal
14 Conrad Russell, 5th Earl Russell, 67, British historian and member of the House of Lords
14 Ivan Shamiakin, 83, Soviet Belarusian writer
14 Cordell Jackson, 81, rockabilly musician
14 Sheila Keith , 84, British actress
13 Ivor Wood, 72, British animator, Paddington Bear, The Wombles
13 Erik Bye, 78, Norwegian journalist (AP, BBC, NRK), radio/TV host, actor, singer/songwriter; cancer
13 Tetsu Yano, 80, Japanese science fiction writer and translator, founder of the Science Fiction Writers of Japan
13 Nirupa Roy, 73, Indian film actress
13 Bernice Rubens, 76, British novelist (Madame Sousatzka ), complications following stroke
11 Peter Kerr, 12th Marquess of Lothian, 82, landowner, diplomat
11 Ben Komproe , 62, former Prime Minister and Minister of Justice of the Netherlands Antilles
11 Gulshan Rai, 80, Indian film producer and distributor
11 Keith Miller, 84, Australian rules footballer, cricketer, fighter pilot and journalist
11 Mary Loos , 94, actress, screenwriter, and novelist; complications from stroke
11 Lillian Zuckerman , 88, character actress
10 Arthur H. Robinson, 89, cartographer
10 Christopher Reeve, 52, US actor who starred as Superman in the 1978 movie and sequels, and campaigned for stem cell research after being paralyzed, heart failure brought on by septicemia
10 Ken Caminiti, 41, American baseball player, heart attack
10 Maurice Shadbolt, 72, New Zealand writer, Alzheimer's disease
9 Maxime A. Faget, 83, NASA longtime engineer through the Space Shuttle program & designer of the Mercury space capsule, bladder cancer
9 Bolat Kesikhbaev , boxing leader, heart attack
9 Iscuerdo Carlos , 40, paraglider, killed during European Championships
8 Malcolm Summers , 80, witness to the assassination of John F. Kennedy [10]
8 Jacques Derrida, 74, French philosopher, pancreatic cancer
8 Johnny Sturm , 88, former New York Yankees first baseman and minor league manager
8 Rico Weber , 62, Swiss artist
8 Richard Ellison , 80, documentary producer, diffuse Lewy Body Syndrome
7 Ken Bigley, 62, British hostage in Iraq, executed by hostage takers
7 T.J. Binyon, 68, author, Oxford professor, Pushkin scholar
7 Hildy Parks , 78, American actress, writer, TV producer
6 Frederica de Laguna , 98, archaeologist and anthropologist studied Alaskan native cultures
6 John A. Kelley, 97, US athlete
6 Pete McCarthy, 51, travel writer and broadcaster, cancer
6 Harbhajan Singh Yogi, 75, spiritual leader and head of the Sikh Dharma in the western hemisphere
6 Veríssimo Correia Seabra, 57, military commander in Guinea-Bissau, killed in mutiny^[11]
6 Marvin Santiago, 56, Puerto Rican Salsa music singer, diabetes complications
5 Mildred McDaniel Singleton , 70, 1956 Olympic Gold-Medal winner in High Jump
5 Maurice Wilkins, 87, DNA pioneer
5 Rodney Dangerfield, 82, comic and actor
5 William Dobelle (62), American eye doctor and inventor prominent in artificial vision research, diabetes complications
4 Cleonicio Dos Santos Silva (a.k.a. Renato), 28, football player for F.C. Zürich , killed during a robbery
4 Helmut Bantz , 83, 1956 Olympic gold medal winner in pommel horse gymnastics
4 Willy Guhl , 89, internationally known Swiss furniture designer
4 Gordon Cooper, 77, one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts
4 Peter L. Picknelly , 73, owner of Peter Pan Bus Lines
4 Virginia Curtis , actress (Your Show of Shows), cancer
3 Ralph Citro , 78, renowned boxing cut-man, member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame
3 Janet Leigh, 77, American actress, of vasculitis
3 Frits van Turenhout, 91, Dutch sports journalist
3 John Cerutti, 44, former MLB baseball player, announcer for the Toronto Blue Jays
2 Fialho Gouveia, 69, Portuguese radio and TV presenter, of cardiac arrest
2 Nick Skorich , 83, NFL coach, (Philadelphia Eagles) in the early 1960s
2 Max van Gelder, 88, world's first jazz harmonica player and Goon, of old age
2 Fernando Gallardo , 62, Chilean actor, cancer
1 Juraj Beneš, 64, Slovak composer
1 Richard Avedon, 81, American fashion photographer, of a brain hemorrhage
1 Joyce Jillson, 58, American astrologer, of kidney failure
1 Bruce Palmer, 58, Bassist for Buffalo Springfield, heart attack
1 Burt Miller , 92, American actor

September 2004

30 Eugenio Pio Seghesio , 85, pioneering California vintner, (Seghesio Wineries)
30 Jacques Levy, 69, director of original production of Oh! Calcutta!
30 Jan Wind , 47, police officer from Enschede, shot dead while chasing a suspected drug dealer (it is a rare occurrence in the Netherlands that police officers are killed on duty)
30 Ignatius Wolfington, 84, American character actor
30 Willem Oltmans , 79, Dutch maverick journalist, cancer
30 Justin Strzelczyk , 36, former NFL Pittsburgh Steelers player, car crash while leading police on chase
30 Hans Bakker , 26, free software hacker, died in car crash near Paris
30 Gamini Fonseka, 68, Sri Lankan actor and politician
29 Richard L. Berger , 64, helped create Touchstone Pictures label as part of Walt Disney Pictures, lung cancer
29 Ernst van der Beugel , 86, former Dutch junior Foreign Minister and former CEO of KLM
29 Christer Pettersson, 57, suspected murderer of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme
29 Richard Sainct , 34, French rally motorcyclist, accident
29 Gertrude Dunn, 72, American women's baseball and field hockey player, plane crash
29 Shimon Wincelberg (a.k.a. S. Bar David), 80, television writer
28 Christl Cranz-Borchers , 90, German alpine skier, Olympic champion and twelvefold World champion
28 Geoffrey Beene, 77, fashion designer, pneumonia
28 Mulk Raj Anand, 98, Indian author in English
28 Scott Muni , 74, longtime New York City radio disc jockey
28 Edmund Ralph Haggar Sr. , 88, brought Haggar brand to national prominence
27 Tsai Wan-lin, 81, Taiwan's wealthiest businessman and founder of the Lin Yuan Group
27 Pieter Jan Leeuwerink , 41, Dutch volleyball player with 187 caps
26 Tim Pauwels , 22, Belgian cyclo-crosser, aortic aneurysm during race
26 Amjad Hussain Farooqi, 32, Pakistani terrorist, supposed member of Al-Qaida
26 Dean Kutz , 48, jockey
26 Izz El-Deen Sheikh Khalil, Hamas leader assassinated by car bomb
25 Dr. Katherine E. Keough , 61, president of St. John Fisher College
25 Alain Glavieux, 55, mathematician, Information technology pioneer
25 Marvin Davis, 79, philanthropist; ex-owner of Twentieth Century Fox and Pebble Beach
25 Ivan Caceres , 21, football player, haemoptysis
24 Tim Choate , 49, actor (Babylon 5), motorcycle accident
24 Françoise Sagan, 69, French novelist
23 Margaret Sloan-Hunter, 57, former editor of Ms. Magazine, feminist and civil rights advocate
23 André Hazes, 53, Dutch singer
23 Billy Reay , 86, former NHL player and coach for the Chicago Blackhawks
23 Raja Ramanna, 79, nuclear scientist and father of India's nuclear program
23 Bill Ballance, 85, radio personality; forerunner of shock jocks Tom Leykis and Howard Stern
22 Ray Traylor, 42, American professional wrestler known as The Big Boss Man
22 Dirk van der Horst , 57, guitarist with popular Dutch band BZN
21 Jack Hensley, 48, American civilian contractor, beheaded by Muslim terrorists in Iraq. [12]
21 Nordin ben Salah , 32, boxer, murdered
21 Larry Phillips , 62, stock car racer
20 Eugene Armstrong, 52, American civilian contractor, beheaded by Muslim terrorists in Iraq
20 Brian Clough OBE, 69, English footballer and cup-winning coach and manager
20 Kalmer Tennosaar , 75, Estonian singer
19 Line Østvold, 25, Norwegian snowboarder
19 Eddie Adams, 71, photojournalist
19 Skeeter Davis, 73, country music singer
19 Ellis Marsalis, Sr., 96, patriarch of family of jazz musicians
19 Ryhor Reles, 91, the last writer from Belarus who wrote in Yiddish
19 Imelda Higuera , 65?, Mexican singer, Las Jilguerillas duo, respiratory failure
18 Norman Cantor, 74, medieval scholar
18 Russ Meyer, 82, filmmaker
18 Marvin Mitchelson, 76, divorce lawyer to the stars, cancer
17 Katharina Dalton, 87, pioneered research on premenstrual stress syndrome
16 Dolly Rathebe, South African musician
16 Izora Rhodes Armstead, American singer, one of the two Weather Girls
16 Virginia Hamilton Adair, 91, American poet
16 Sergio Sanchez , Mexican actor
15 Donald Yetter Gardner, 91, songwriter, All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth
15 Daouda Malam Wanke, 50?, leader of the 1999 transitional government in Niger
15 Johnny Ramone, 55, guitarist and founding member of The Ramones, prostate cancer
14 Giovanni Biacci , 93, Italian musician
14 Sir William Melville Peek , 84, 5th Baronet of Lodiswell
14 Ove Sprogøe, 84, Danish actor
14 Reynaldo G. Garza , 89, first Hispanic American appointed as Federal Appeals Court judge[13]
13 Glenn Presnell, 99, early NFL player with the Detroit Lions
12 Max Abramovitz, 96, architect
12 Ahmed Dini Ahmed, 72, Djibouti politician, vice-president of the government council (1959-60) and prime minister (1977-78)
12 Jerome Chodorov, 93, playwright, My Sister Eileen
11 Fred Ebb, 71, Broadway lyricist (Cabaret, Chicago), heart attack
11 Peter VII, 55, Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria, helicopter crash
10 Anthony Luigi Mancini , 71, British boxing manager and cutman
10 Brock Adams, 77, U.S. politician
10 Glyn Owen, 76, British actor
10 O.L. Duke, 51, actor, automobile crash
9 Joan Snyder , 69, writer and producer for CBS News
9 Ernie Ball, 74, guitar equipment maker
9 Ralph G. Allen , 70, wrote the book for Broadway show Sugar Babies
8 Ian Cochrane, 62, British novelist
8 Frank Thomas, 91, Disney animator
8 Raymond Marcellin, 90, former Interior minister of France
8? Richard Girnt Butler, 86, founder of the Aryan Nations
8 James Westphal , California Institute of Technology scientist
8 Matías Prats Cañete , Spanish journalist
7 Hervey Feldman , 67, founder of the Embassy Suites hotel chain
7 Samira Bellil, 31, campaigner for Muslim girls' and women's rights, cancer
7 Munir, 39, prominent Indonesian human rights activist, arsenic
7 Gerard Piel, 89, publisher of Scientific American, complications from a stroke
7 Kirk Fordice, 70, Mississippi's first Republican Governor since 1874, leukemia
7 Christiaan Frederick Beyers Naudé, 89, Afrikaner-South African priest, theologian and anti-apartheid activist
7 Jonathan Scharer , 56, Producer, Forbidden Broadway
6 Miriam Pires , 77, Brazilian actress, star of many popular telenovelas
6 Elly Annie Schneider, 90, one of the Munchkins in The Wizard of Oz
6 Harvey Wheeler , 85, political scientist and author (Fail-Safe)
5 Fritha Goodey, 31, actress (About a Boy), apparent suicide
5 Gerald Merrithew, 73, New Brunswick, Canada politician and former federal cabinet minister, cancer
5 John "Red" Cochran , 82, former NFL player, scout and assistant coach for the Green Bay Packers
5 Alessio Perilli, 20, Italian motorracer, killed during a race
5 Caroline Pratt , 42, British eventer, killed during a race
5 Jesus Viera , 73, better known as "Cucho Viera", Puerto Rican television actor and comedian
5 Steve Wayne , 84, American actor
4 Michael Louden, 40, actor, autoerotic asphyxiation
4 Bob Boyd, 84?, former MLB; first black player to sign with the White Sox, and first Oriole to bat over .300 in the 20th century
4 James O. Page, 68, North Carolina's former chief of EMS and founder of modern emergency medical response, heart attack
4 Moe Norman, 75, PGA and Canadian Tour golfer, congestive heart failure
4 Alphonso Ford, 33, American-born Euroleague player, leukemia
3 Steven Blackford, 28, former University of Arizona wrestler, car accident
3 Jessie V. Stone , 100, Philanthropist and widow of W. Clement Stone
3 Bram Vermeulen , 57, singer, songwriter and cabaret artist, heart attack
2 Billy Davis, 72, commercial jingle writer (I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke)
2 Paul Shmyr, 58, former NHL and WHA defenseman, throat cancer
2 Donald Leslie, 93, creator of the Leslie speaker
2 Bob O. Evans, 77, IBM computer scientist
2 Joan Oró i Florensa, 80, biochemist
1 Ahmed Kuftaro, 89, the Grand Mufti of Syria
1 Kenneth Alexander Keith, Baron Keith of Castleacre, 88, life peer and former chairman of Rolls-Royce, Hill Samuel, Beecham Group, and STC
1 Herbert H. Haft , 84, owner of Dart Drugs Chain, congestive heart failure
1 Johnny Bragg , 79, leader of The Prisonaires, one of earliest music groups to record for Sam Phillips and Sun Records
1 Sir Alastair Morton, 66, former chief executive of Eurotunnel and chairman of the Strategic Rail Authority

August 2004

31 Joe Barry , 65, Swamp Pop singer of "I'm a Fool to Care"
31 Carl Wayne, 61, lead singer of pop group The Move, cancer
30 Willie Duff , 69, goalkeeper of Hearts of Midlothian , Charlton Athletic, Peterborough United and Dunfermline F.C.
30 Fred Whipple, 97, American astronomer
30 Fay Jones, 83, architect trained by Frank Lloyd Wright
30 Larry Desmedt, 55, motorcycle designer, injuries suffered during a stunt [14]
28 Robert Lewin , 84, Producer and Screenwriter, Academy Award nomination for writing The Bold and the Brave, lung cancer
28 Lina Zimmer, 111, oldest German
27 Ko Young-hee, 51, former consort to North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, cancer (rumoured) [15]
27 William Pierson, 78, actor Stalag 17
27 Fernand Auberjonois, 93, foreign news correspondent for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Toledo Blade; father of actor René Auberjonois
27 Suzanne Kaaren, 92, actress (Three Stooges films)
27 Willie Crawford, 57, former outfielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers
26 Friedrich Brünner , German politician
26 José Carlos , 53, Portuguese fashion designer
26 Laura Branigan, 47, American pop singer
26 Enzo G. Baldoni, 56, Italian journalist, murdered in Iraq
26 David Myers , 90, Cinematographer (Woodstock, Elvis on Tour )
25 Robert Denoon Cumming , 87, professor emeritus of philosophy at Columbia University and author
25 Marcelo Cardinal Gonzalez Martin , 86, former Roman Catholic primate of Spain, Cardinal since 1973 and Archbishop of Toledo from 1971 to 1995 (Papal condolence message)
25 Don Ashton , 85, British film art director and production designer
24 Richard Ervin, 99, former attorney general and chief justice of Florida [16]
24 Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, 78, Swiss-born psychiatrist
24 Timothy B. Harbert , 53, chairman and chief executive of State Street Global Advisors, heart attack [17]
24 Eleni Ioannou, 20, Greek judoka
24 Bill Pilkington , 87, British actor
23 Francesco Minerva, 100, centenarian Italian Roman Catholic archbishop
23 Hank Borowy, 88, former Yankees, Cubs, Phillies, Pirates and Tigers pitcher
23 Mary Guiney, 103, chairperson of the Clerys Department Store
22 Muriel Angelus , 95, British silent film actress
22 Konstantin Aseev, 43, chess Grandmaster and coach
22 Al Dvorin, 81, announcer who popularized the phrase "Elvis has left the building", automobile accident [18]
22 Marcel Caux, 105, Australian First World War veteran, last known survivor of the Battle of Pozières
22 George Kirgo, 78, television and film writer, former president of the Writers Guild of America
22 Daniel Petrie, Sr., 83, film director, A Raisin in the Sun
22 Ota Sik, 84, architect of economic liberalization during Czechoslovakia's ill-fated 1968 Prague Spring
21 Paul G. Garrity , 66, Judge who helped save Boston Harbor
21 José Luis Barry , 80, Titi Chagua show's pianist, singer and El Vocero columnist
20 María Antonieta Pons, 82, Cuban-born star of rumbera films
20 Moshe Shamir , 83, Israeli politician and novelist
19 Rudolf Miele, 74, German entrepreneur
19 Günter Rexrodt, 62, German politician, former Economics Minister of Germany
18 Hiram Fong, 97, first Asian American elected to the U.S. Senate
18 Elmer Bernstein, 82, composer of classic film music such as The Magnificent Seven
18 Víctor Cervera Pacheco, 68, Mexican politician, former Governor of Yucatán
18 Charlie Waller, 69, American bluegrass musician, founder of the band Country Gentlemen
18 Allan Laur , Estonian bishop
17 Dennis "D-Roc" Miles, 45, rhythm guitarist for Body Count, from lymphoma complications
17 Anatoly Guzhvin, 58, head of the administration of Astrakhan Oblast
17 Gérard Souzay, 85, French baritone
17 Thea Astley, 78, Australian novelist
17 Frank Cotroni , 72, Montreal mob boss
16 J. Irwin Miller, 95, American industrialist and architectural philanthropist
16 Ivan Hlinka, 54, Czech Republic national hockey team and Pittsburgh Penguins coach
16 Acquanetta, 83, "Venezuelan" USA-born B-movie actress
16 Carl Mydans, 91, photographer
16 Robert Quiroga, 35, world champion boxer, murdered
15 Semiha Berksoy, 94, Turkish opera singer
15 Sune K. Bergström, 88, Nobel Prize in Medicine
15 Neal Fredericks, 35, cinematographer for the movie The Blair Witch Project, drowned in helicopter crash while filming
14 William D. Ford, 77, member of the United States House of Representatives from Michigan from 1965 to 1995
14 Dhananjoy Chatterjee, 42, rapist and murderer; the first person executed in India since 1995
14 Czesław Miłosz, 93, Polish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980
13 Julia Child, 91, author and television hostess on French cuisine [19]
13 Milton Pollack , 97, U.S. federal judge who ruled on court cases involving Wall Street
13 Peipei , 33, worlds oldest Panda
12 Sir Godfrey N. Hounsfield, 84, Nobel Prize in Medicine, coinventor of the CAT scan
12 Peter Woodthorpe, 72, British character actor
12 George Yardley, 75, NBA Hall of Famer
11 Joe Falls, 76, longtime sports writer for The Detroit News
10 James Stillman Rockefeller, 102, oldest known U.S. Olympic medal winner
10 Alan N. Cohen, 73, former owner of the Boston Celtics
9 Michael Grant, 89, classical scholar and author
9 Tony Mottola , 86, guitarist who played with Frank Sinatra and on the Tonight Show orchestra [20]
9 David Raksin, 92, film composer
8 Fay Wray, 96, King Kong actress
8 Dimitris Papamichail, 70, Greek actor
8 Robert "Gypsy Boots" Bootzin, 89, health and fitness pioneer
8 Leon Golub, 82, internationally recognized artist and painter
8 Paul "Mousie" Garner, 95, comedian, Three Stooges associate
8 Richard Taylor, 23, skating and skiing champion, collided with a concrete lamp-post
7 Paul "Red" Adair, 89, American oil well fire-fighter
7 Colin Bibby, 55, English ornithologist
7 Bernard Levin, 75, journalist and broadcaster
6 Rick James, 56, funk singer
4 Joseph Papaleo , Italian-American novelist and professor
4 Michele Russo , 95, American painter and artist
4 Hunter Hancock, 88, Legendary R&B and Rock Disc Jockey
3 Bob Murphy, 79, Major League Baseball/New York Mets announcer
3 Arturo Tolentino, 94, Philippine lawyer and politician
3 Margo McLennan, 66, British actress, Prisoner, cancer [21]
3 Henri Cartier-Bresson, 95, French photographer [22]
1 Philip Hauge Abelson, 91, physicist, co-discoverer of Neptunium
1 Alexandra Scott, 8, founder of Alex's Lemonade Stand, started to raise money for pediatric cancer research
1 Sidney Morgenbesser, 82, philosopher
1 Patrick Okpomo , 60, former Secretary General of the Nigerian Football Association

July 2004

31 Absamat M. Masaliyev , 71, former leader of Kyrgyzstan
31 Laura Betti, 70, Italian actress
31 Elder David B. Haight, 97, oldest member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
31 Virginia Grey, 87, American actress. Little Eva in the first film adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin
30 Andre Noble, 25, Canadian actor
30 Ali Abbasi, 42, BBC Scotland travel presenter [23]
29 Nafisa Joseph, 25, model, MTV VJ, Miss India 1997; suicide
29 Susan Buffett, 71, estranged wife of billionaire/investment guru Warren Buffett
29 Rena Vlahopoulou, 81, Greek comedienne
28 Tiziano Terzani, 73, Italian journalist, famous for his books on Asia
28 Sam Edwards, 89, American actor, Little House on the Prairie, heart failure [24]
28 Francis Crick, 88, British biologist, one of the discoverers of the "double-helix" shape of DNA, cancer [25]
28 Jackson Beck, 92, announcer and voice actor
28 Eugene Roche, 75, American character actor and the "Ajax" Man
28 Steve Patterson , 56, former center of the UCLA basketball team, coach at Arizona State University and founder of the Grand Canyon State Games
27 Carmine G. DeSapio, 95, last boss of Tammany Hall
27 Musab al-Awadi , Iraqi politician, assassinated [26]
27 Bob Tisdall, 97, won the gold medal in hurdles at the 1932 Summer Olympics
26 William A. Mitchell, 92, food scientist, inventor of Pop Rocks candy and Tang drink mix
26 Rubén Gómez, 77, Puerto Rico, former MLB pitcher who played for the Giants, Phillies, Indians and Twins
26 Oguz Aral, 68, Turkish caricaturist; creator of Avanak Avni, Kostebek Husnu, and Utanmaz Adam
26 Sidney Francis Greene, Lord Greene of Harrow Weald, 94, British railroad worker, trade union leader, and life peer
25 Francisco Romão, 61, Angolan deputy foreign minister, suicide [27]
24 Fred LaRue, 75, part of Watergate scandal
24 Lowell "Cotton" Fitzsimmons, 72, NBA basketball coach
23 Wilton Mkwayi , 81, South African political activist during Apartheid, cancer
23 Joe Cahill, 84, Irish politician [28]
23 Mehmood, 72, Indian actor
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