Famous People Who Died in 2004

Deaths 1 - 200 of 625

• Jan 1 Harold Henning, South African golfer (2 PGA Tour titles; 3 senior PGA titles; World Cup 1965), dies at 69
• Jan 1 Keith Adrian [Johnson], British-Dutch stage and screen actor, director, and playwright, dies at 59
• Jan 2 Doralyn "Lynn" Cartwright, American character actress (A League of Their Own), dies at 76

• Jan 2 Jess Collins, American artist, dies at 80
• Jan 3 Des Corcoran, Australian politician (Premier of South Australia. 1979; Member of Parliament, 1962-82), dies at 75
• Jan 3 Leon Wagner, American baseball outfielder (MLB All-Star 1962, 63; LA Angels), dies at 69
• Jan 4 Brian Gibson (director), English film director (b. 1944)
• Jan 4 Jake Hess, American singer (b. 1927)
• Jan 4 Jeff Nuttall, English writer (b. 1933)
• Jan 4 Joan Aiken, English writer of children's books (The Whispering Mountain), dies at 79
• Jan 4 John Toland, American political writer (Rising Sun, Pulitzer 1971), dies at 91
• Jan 5 Charles Dumas, American high jumper (Olympic gold 1956; first to clear 7 foot mark), dies from cancer at 66
• Jan 5 John Guerin, American session and touring jazz-rock drummer and percussionist (Frank Zappa; L.A. Express; Joni Mitchell: Linda Ronstadt), dies of heart failure at 64
• Jan 5 Tug McGraw, American baseball player and father of Tim McGraw, dies at 59
• Jan 6 Francesco Scavullo, American celebrity photographer, dies at 82
• Jan 6 Pierre Charles, 5th Prime Minister of Dominica, dies at 49

• Jan 7 Ingrid Thulin, Swedish actress (Cries & Whispers, Damned), dies at 77
• Jan 7 Oswald Garrison Villard Jr., American Engineer (electronics) who invented the over-the-horizon radar that could detect objects thousands of miles away and peer around the Earth's curvature, dies of pneumonia at 87
• Jan 8 John A. Gambling, American radio talk-show host (b. 1930)
• Jan 9 Norberto Bobbio, Italian philosopher (b. 1909)
• Jan 9 Yinka Dare, Nigerian NBA center (NJ Nets), dies at 31
• Jan 10 Alexandra Ripley, American author (b. 1934)
• Jan 10 Sidney Miller, American actor (Here Comes Donald) and director (The Mickey Mouse Club), dies at 87

• Jan 11 Mervyn Pike [Baroness Pike], British politician (C), dies at 85
• Jan 12 Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya, Russian mathematician (fluid dynamics), dies at 81
• Jan 12 Randy VanWarmer, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ("Just When I Needed You Most"), dies of leukemia at 48
• Jan 13 Arne Næss Jr., Norwegian mountain climber and businessman, dies at 66
• Jan 13 Harold Shipman, British general practitioner and prolific serial killer, commits suicide at 57
• Jan 14 Ron O'Neal, American actor (Super Fly), dies of cancer at 66
• Jan 14 Uta Hagen, German-American actress and theatre practitioner (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), dies at 84
• Jan 14 Valfar, Norwegian heavy metal musician (Windir), dies in a snowstorm at 25
• Jan 15 Gus Suhr, American baseball first baseman (1,435 MLB games Pittsburgh Pirates, Philadelphia Phillies; only player to be sued by a fan injured after struck by a foul ball), dies at 98
• Jan 16 John Siomos, American rock drummer, dies at 56
• Jan 16 Kalevi Sorsa, Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1930)
• Jan 17 Czeslaw Niemen, Polish musician (b. 1939)
• Jan 17 Harry Brecheen, American baseball player (b. 1914)
• Jan 17 Noble Willingham, American actor (Walker, Texas Ranger; The Corndog Man), dies at 72
• Jan 17 Ray Stark, American stage and film producer, dies at 88
• Jan 17 Zenobia Powell Perry, American composer (Tawawa House), educator, and civil rights activist, dies at 94
• Jan 19 David Hookes, Australian cricketer and coach, dies at 48
• Jan 19 Harry E. Claiborne, American judge (suicide) (b. 1917)
• Jan 20 Guinn Smith, American athlete (1948 Olympic gold medalist), dies of emphysema at 83
• Jan 21 Yordan Radichkov, Bulgarian writer and playwright (The Tied Up Balloon), dies at 74
• Jan 22 Ann Miller [Johnnie Lucille Collier], American actress, dancer, and singer (On the Town), dies at 80
• Jan 22 Billy May, American orchestra leader and composer (The Green Hornet, Mod Squad, Batman), dies at 87
• Jan 22 Thomas Mead, Australian politician and journalist, dies at 85
• Jan 23 Bob Keeshan, American actor (Captain Kangaroo; Howdy Doody, 1948-52 - "Clarabell"), and television producer, dies at 76
• Jan 23 Helmut Newton, German fashion photographer, dies at 83
• Jan 24 Leônidas da Silva, Brazilian footballer (b. 1913)
• Jan 25 Francina "Fanny" Blankers-Koen, Dutch athlete (Olympic gold 100m, 200m, 80m hurdles, 4x100m relay 1948), dies at 85
• Jan 25 Miklós Fehér, Hungarian soccer striker (25 caps; Győri ETO, Porto, Benfica), dies of cardiac arrest at 24
• Jan 26 Fred Haas, American golfer (5 PGA Tour titles; Ryder Cup 1953), dies at 88
• Jan 27 Hard Boiled Haggerty [Don Stansauk], American pro wrestler (AWA, NWA, WWA World Tag Team C'ship; IWA World Heavyweight C'ship) and actor (The Incredible Hulk), dies at 78

• Jan 27 Salvador Laurel, Vice President of the Philippines (b. 1928)
• Jan 28 Don Cholito, Puerto Rican radio host (b. 1923)
• Jan 28 Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch, American NFL halfback and end (LA Rams), dies at 80
• Jan 28 Joe Viterelli, American actor (b. 1937)
• Jan 28 Lloyd M. Bucher, U.S. Navy officer (b. 1927)
• Jan 28 Melvyn "Mel" Pritchard, British progressive rock drummer (Barclay James Harvest), dies of a heart attack at 56
• Jan 28 Trevor James Hold, British composer, writer, and musicologist (John Clare Songbook), dies at 64 [1]
• Jan 29 Janet Frame, New Zealand writer (An Angel at My Table, Care, Owls Do Cry), dies at 79
• Jan 29 M. M. Kaye, British writer (The Far Pavilions), dies at 95
• Jan 29 Otto Wilhelm Fischer, Austrian actor (Helden, Ich suche dich), dies of kidney disease at 88
• Jan 29 Serafim Tulikov, Russian composer (March of the Soviet Youth), dies at 89
• Jan 31 Eleanor Holm, American 100m backstroke swimmer (Olympic gold 1932), dies at 90
• Feb 1 Ally MacLeod, Scottish soccer manager (Scotland, Ayr United, Aberdeen, Motherwell, Airdrie, Q of the South) and left wing (Blackburn Rovers, Hibernian, Third Lanark), dies of Alzheimer's disease at 72
• Feb 1 May O'Donnell, American modern dancer and choreographer, dies at 97
• Feb 2 Alan Bullock, British historian and author (Hitler: A Study in Tyranny), dies at 89
• Feb 2 Bernard McEveety, American film director, dies at 79
• Feb 2 Róbert Zimonyi, Hungarian rowing coxswain (Olympic gold USA men's eight 1964; bronze Hungary coxed pair 1948), dies at 85
• Feb 3 Cornelius Bumpus, American saxophonist and keyboardist (Doobie Brothers; Steely Dan), dies of a heart attack at 58
• Feb 3 Jason Raize, American musical theatre actor (b. 1975)
• Feb 5 Harry West, Irish politician, leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (1974-79), dies at 86
• Feb 5 John Hench, American animator (b. 1908)
• Feb 6 Jørgen Jersild, Danish composer and educator (Royal Danish Academy, 1953-75), dies at 91
• Feb 7 Scotch Taylor, South African cricket batsman (1 Test; Transvaal) and executive (president South African Hockey Union), dies at 78
• Feb 8 Julius Schwartz, American comic book and sci-fi editor, dies at 88
• Feb 9 Claude Ryan, Canadian newspaper director and politician (b. 1925)
• Feb 10 Guy Provost, Quebec stage and screen actor ( La Famille Plouffe), dies at 79
• Feb 10 Margaret Stacey, English sociologist who helped shape the distinctively British genre of empirical sociology, dies at 81
• Feb 11 Ryszard Kukliński, Polish colonel and Cold War spy for NATO, dies at 73
• Feb 12 Robert A. Bruce, American cardiologist and pioneer (exercise cardiology), dies at 87
• Feb 13 Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, Chechen leader, is assassinated at 51
• Feb 14 Marco Pantani, Italian cyclist (Tour de France 1998), dies of acute cocaine poisoning at 34
• Feb 15 Jan Miner, American actress (Crime Photographer), dies at 86
• Feb 15 Jens Evensen, Norwegian minister and jurist (b. 1917)
• Feb 16 Doris Troy [Higginsen], American R&B singer and songwriter ("Just One Look"), dies from emphysema at 67
• Feb 17 José López Portillo, President of Mexico (1976-82), dies at 83
• Feb 17 Shirley Strickland, Australian athlete (Olympic gold 80m hurdles 1952, 56; 4 x 100m relay 1956), dies at 78
• Feb 18 Jean Rouch, French filmmaker and ethnologist (b. 1917)
• Feb 20 J. J. Malone, American soul singer ("It's A Shame"), dies of cancer at 68
• Feb 21 Bart Howard [Howard Joseph Gustafson], American songwriter ("Fly Me to the Moon"), dies at 88
• Feb 21 Guido Molinari, Canadian painter, dies at 70
• Feb 21 Irina Press, Soviet 80m hurdles runner and pentathlete (Olympic gold 1960, 64), dies at 64
• Feb 21 John Charles, Welsh footballer (b. 1931)
• Feb 21 Les Gray, English vocalist (Mud - "Cat Crept In"), dies at 57
• Feb 22 Andy Seminick, American baseball player (b. 1920)
• Feb 22 Roque Máspoli, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1917)
• Feb 23 Bob Mayo, American session keyboardist (Peter Frampton), dies of a heart attack at 52
• Feb 23 Carl Anderson, American singer (b. 1945)
• Feb 23 Carl Liscombe, Canadian hockey player (b. 1915)
• Feb 23 Don Cornell [Luigi Varlaro], American pop singer (Sammy Kaye Orchestra - "Room Full of Roses; solo - "Hold My Hand"), dies of emphysema and diabetes at 84
• Feb 23 Sikander Bakht, Indian politician, Governor of Kerala, dies at 85
• Feb 23 Vijay Anand, Indian film director (b. 1934)
• Feb 24 Alvino Rey, American orchestra leader (King Family), dies at 95
• Feb 24 John Randolph [Emanuel Hirsch Cohen], American actor (King Kong, Lucan, Lucas Tanner, Angie), dies at 88
• Feb 25 Donald Hings, Canadian inventor (b. 1907)
• Feb 26 Adolf Ehrnrooth, Finnish general (b. 1905)
• Feb 26 Boris Trajkovski, 2nd President of the Republic of Macedonia, dies at 47
• Feb 26 Ralph E. Winters, Canadian film editor, dies at 94
• Feb 26 Shankarrao Chavan, Indian politician (b. 1920)
• Feb 27 Paul Sweezy, American Marxist economist and editor (Monthly Review), dies at 93
• Feb 27 Yoshihiko Amino, Japanese historians (b. 1928)
• Feb 28 Andres Nuiamäe, Estonian soldier (b. 1982)
• Feb 28 Carmen Laforet, Spanish author, dies at 82
• Feb 28 Daniel J. Boorstin, American historian, Librarian of Congress (1975-87) and author ("The Americans: The Democratic Experience" - 1974 Pulitzer Prize), dies at 89
• Feb 28 Gene Allison, American R&B singer ("You Can Make It If You Try"), dies at 69
• Feb 29 Jerome Lawrence, American playwright (Inherit the Wind), dies at 88
• Mar 2 Marge Schott, American MLB owner (Cincinnati Reds), dies of pneumonia at 75
• Mar 2 Mercedes McCambridge, American actress (All the King's Men, The Exorcist, Giant), dies at 87
• Mar 3 Cecily Adams, American actress and casting director (b. 1958)
• Mar 4 Claude Nougaro, French singer (b. 1929)
• Mar 4 George Pake, American physicist (b. 1924)
• Mar 4 John McGeoch, Scottish rock guitarist (Magazine: Siouxsie and the Banshees - "Spellbound"; Visage; Public Image Ltd.), dies at 48
• Mar 4 Stephen Sprouse, American fashion designer (b. 1953)
• Mar 5 Walter "Walt" Gorney, American character actor (Friday the 13th, Trading Places), dies from natural causes at 91
• Mar 6 Frances Dee, American actress (b. 1909)
• Mar 6 Hercules [Raymond Fernandez], American professional wrestler, dies at 47
• Mar 7 Jack Holden, English athlete (International Cross Country C'ship gold, individual 1933, 34, 35, 39; Empire Games marathon gold 1950), dies at 96
• Mar 7 Paul Winfield, American actor (Star Trek II, Huckleberry Finn, Mars Attack), dies at 64
• Mar 8 Abu Abbas [Muhammad Zaidan], Palestinian founder of the Palestine Liberation Front, dies in American custody of allegedly natural causes at 55
• Mar 8 Frank Mooney, New Zealand cricket wicketkeeper (13 Tests, 30 dismissals; Wellington), dies at 82
• Mar 8 Robert Pastorelli, American actor (b. 1954)
• Mar 9 Albert Mol, Dutch actor (Kant aan m'n broek!), dies at 87
• Mar 9 Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, American pianist, arranger, jazz and classical composer (For Bird, With Love), dies at 72
• Mar 9 Dr. Gerald Deskin, Ph.D., clinical child psychologist (b. 1929)
• Mar 9 John Mayer, Indian composer (Indo-Jazz Fusion), dies in a car accident at 73 [1]
• Mar 9 Rust Epique, former Crazy Town guitarist (b. 1968)
• Mar 10 Dave Blood [Schulthise], American rock bassist (The Dead Milkmen -"Punk Rock Girl"), dies from a drug overdose at 47
• Mar 12 Sylvi Saimo, Finnish kayaker (Olympic gold 1952, 1st female summer Olympic champion), dies at 89
• Mar 13 Franz König, Austrian Catholic Archbishop of Vienna (b. 1905)
• Mar 13 Vilayat Khan, Indian classical sitar player and composer, dies at 75
• Mar 14 Genevieve [Ginette Auger], French actress and singer (The Jack Paar Show), dies of a stroke at 83
• Mar 15 John Pople, English chemist (Nobel Prize 1998), dies at 78
• Mar 15 William "Bill" Pickering, New Zealand-born space scientist at NASA, dies at 93
• Mar 16 Vilém Tauský, Czech conductor (BBC Concert Orchestra, 1956-66), opera director and educator (Guildhall School of Music and Drama, 1966-92), and composer, dies at 93
• Mar 17 J. J. Jackson, American television personality (b. 1941)
• Mar 17 Michael Mellinger, German actor (Goldfinger, The Bourne Identity), dies at 74
• Mar 18 (Huberdina) "Erna" Spoorenberg, Dutch soprano (Vienna State Opera, De Nederlandse Opera), and voice teacher, dies at 78
• Mar 18 Harrison McCain, Canadian businessman (McCain Foods Limited), dies of kidney failure at 76
• Mar 19 Mitchell Sharp, Canadian politician (b. 1911)

• Mar 20 Pierre Sévigny, Canadian military officer and politician, dies at 86
• Mar 21 Ludmilla Tchérina, French prima ballerina, artist, actress, choreographer and author (Sins of Rome), dies at 79
• Mar 22 Ahmed Yassin, Palestinian co-founder of Hamas (b. ca. 1937)
• Mar 23 Rupert Hamer, Australian politician (b. 1916)
• Mar 24 Max Dendermonde [Hendrik Hazelhoff], Dutch literary, dies at 84
• Mar 26 Jan Berry, American musician (Jan and Dean), dies after a stroke at 62
• Mar 26 Jan Sterling [Jane Adriance], American actress (Ace in the Hole, The High and the Mighty), dies of diabetes and a stroke at 82
• Mar 27 Adán Sánchez, Mexican-American singer, dies from injuires sustained in a single vehicle accident at 19
• Mar 28 Art James, American game show host (b. 1929)

• Mar 30 (Rosemary) "Timi" Yuro, American singer ("Hurt"), dies at 63
• Mar 30 Alistair Cooke, British-American TV host (Masterpiece Theatre), dies at 95
• Mar 30 Frances Schreuder, American socialite convicted of murder, dies at 65
• Mar 30 Hubert Gregg, British broadcaster (b. 1914)

• Apr 1 Aaron Bank, American OSS officer and founder of the US Army Special Forces (b. 1902)
• Apr 1 Carrie Snodgress, American actress (Diary of Mad Housewife), dies at 58
• Apr 1 Ioannis Kyrastas, Greek soccer midfielder (46 caps; Olympiacos; Panathinaikos) and manager (Panathinaikos), dies from septicaemia at 51
• Apr 1 Nilo Soruco, Bolivian singer-songwriter ("Ya la pagarán"; "Caraqueña"), dies at 76
• Apr 1 Paul Atkinson, British rock guitarist and record company executive (The Zombies - "She's Not There"; "Time Of The Season"), dies of liver and kidney disease at 58
• Apr 2 John Argyris, Greek aeronautical engineer (b. 1913)
• Apr 4 Alberic Schotte, Belgian cyclist (World C'ship gold road race 1948, 50), dies at 84
• Apr 4 Casey Sheehan, American soldier (Iraq War), son of peace activist Cindy Sheehan, killed in combat at 24
• Apr 5 Heiner Zieschang, German mathematician (b. 1936)
• Apr 5 Sławomir Rawicz, Polish soldier (b. 1915)
• Apr 6 Larisa Bogoraz, Soviet dissident (b. 1929)
• Apr 6 Lou Berberet, American MLB baseball catcher (NY Yankees, Washington Senators), dies at 74
• Apr 6 Niki Sullivan, American guitarist (The Crickets), dies of a heart attack at 66
• Apr 7 Robert Sangster, British race horse owner and breeder, dies of pancreatic cancer at
• Apr 7 Victor Argo, American actor, dies at 69
• Apr 8 Bruce Edwards, American golf caddie (mainly for 5 x British Open champion Tom Watson), dies of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at 49
• Apr 8 Douglas Hall, British colonial administrator (last British Governor of Somaliland Protectorate 1959-60), dies at 95
• Apr 8 Enda Colleran, Gaelic footballer (b. 1941)
• Apr 8 Frank Chamberlain, English cricketer and CEO (Test & County Cricket Board), dies at 78
• Apr 10 Donna Michele, American actress (Beach Blanket Bingo) and Playboy playmate (Dec, 1963), dies at 58
• Apr 13 Caron Keating, British television presenter, dies at 41
• Apr 14 Micheline Charest, French Canadian television producer (b. 1953)
• Apr 15 Ray Condo, Canadian musician, dies at 53
• Apr 17 Edmond Pidoux, Swiss writer (L'histoire de Jonas), dies at 95
• Apr 17 Soundarya, Indian actress (b. 1971)
• Apr 17 [Andrew] Bruce Boa, Canadian actor (The Empire Strikes Back), dies of cancer at 73
• Apr 18 Frances Rafferty, American WWII pin-up girl, dancer and actress (Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood), dies at 81
• Apr 18 Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, Fijian tribal chief, first Prime Minister of Fiji (1970-92) President of Fiji (1994-2000), dies at 83
• Apr 19 John Maynard Smith, English biologist (b. 1920)
• Apr 19 Norris McWhirter, Scottish co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (b. 1925)
• Apr 21 Lorraine "Tui" St. George Tucker, American recorder player and composer (Catawba), dies at 79

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