The following is a list of figures who died in 2006.

April 2005

21

• Gwynfor Evans, 92, Welsh politician.

20

• Fumio Niwa, 100, Japanese novelist
• Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, 58, world-renown Danish jazz musician.

19

• Ruth Hussey, 93, American actress in films such as The Philadelphia Story
• Bryan Ottoson , 27, American Head Charge guitarist

18

• Rick Blight, 49, former NHL player with the Vancouver Canucks in the 1970s
• Bassel Fleihan , 42, Lebanese deputy and former minister, third-degree burns resulting from the blast that assassinated Rafiq Hariri
• Clarence Gaines, 81, Basketball Hall of Fame coach, stroke
• Sam Mills, 45, former NFL player and assistant coach, cancer
• Kenneth Schermerhorn, 75, music director and conductor of the Nashville Symphony , Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma

17

16

• Laura Canales, 50, Tejano singer
• Guadalupe García Escamilla , 39, Mexican journalist, hitman shooting
• Jaime Fernandez , 67, Mexican actor
• Herm Gilliam , 58, former NBA player for Portland Trailblazers
• Marla Ruzicka, 28, American activist and aid worker, car bombing
• Vishnu Kant Shastri, 76, Indian politician

15

• Art Cross, 87, former Indianapolis 500 driver
• John Fred, 63, 1960s pop singer Judy in Disguise
• Margaretta Scott , 93, English actress, Mrs. Pumphrey in All Creatures Great and Small
• Duilio Spagnolo, 77?, Italian boxer, former heavyweight contender

14

• Saunders Mac Lane, 95, US mathematician

13

• Don Blasingame, 73, a MLB All-Star, who also managed two of Japan's professional baseball teams
• Tutti Camarata, 91, musician, leader of "Tutti's Trumpets" and co-founder of Disneyland Records
• Julia Darling , 48, novelist and poet
• Libby Dengrove , 86, former courtroom artist during 1960s and 1970s for NBC
• Wolfgang Droege, 55, founder of the Canadian white supremacist group the Heritage Front, shot to death
• Kay Gardella, 82, television critic for the New York Daily News, cancer
• Johnnie Johnson, 80, musician
• Nikola Ljubicic , 89, president of the presidency of Serbia from 1982 to 1984
• Philip Pavia , 94, American sculptor
• Philippe Volter, 45, French actor, suicide
• Juan Zanotto, 69, Italian-Argentinian comic book artist

12

• Peter Bramley , 60, cartoonist, first National Lampoon art director [1]
• Bill Jones , 69, former Sacramento Kings athletic trainer, cancer
• Franciszek Karwowski , 109, oldest living Polish soldier
• Ehud Manor, 63, Israeli songwriter

11

• John Brosnan , 57, British resident Australian writer and film critic, acute pancreatitis (death may have occurred several days earlier).
• André François , 89, French cartoonist [2]
• Maurice Hilleman, 85, microbiologist
• David Hughes , 74, British novelist
• Lucien Laurent, 97, French football player, scored the first ever goal at a World Cup
• Margo Skinner , 55, American Broadway actress

10

• Carl Abrahams , 93, Jamaican painter
• Norbert Brainin, 82, Austrian violinist and founder of the Amadeus Quartet
• Raúl Gibb Guerrero , 53, Mexican newspaper editor, hitman shooting
• Archbishop Iakovos, 93, former primate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America (1959-1996)
• Al Lucas, 26, ex-National Football League player; spinal cord injury suffered playing an Arena Football League game

9

• Andrea Dworkin, 58, radical feminist writer and anti-pornography activist
• Scott Mason , 28, Tasmanian cricketer [3]
• Faith McNulty , 86, author The Burning Bed

8

• Yoshitaro Nomura, 85, Japanese film director
• Chalmers Roberts , 94, American diplomatic correspondent and author
• Onna White, 83, Broadway choreographer
• Nevio Zeccara , 81?, Italian comic book artist

7

• Cliff Allison, 73, former Formula One driver
• Grigoris Bithikotsis, 82, Greek singer
• Charlotte Huck , 82, American children's literature author
• Minnie Kearby , 111, supercentenarian, oldest resident of Indiana
• Bob Kennedy, 84, a former MLB player and manager, who hit the first grand slam in Baltimore Orioles history and was the Oakland Athletics first manager
• Charles Kuentz , 108, last living French World War I veteran to fight for Germany, cardiac arrest
• Jose Melis, 85, former bandleader for The Tonight Show
• Yvonne Vera, 40, novelist from Zimbabwe

6

• Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, 81, reigning Prince of Monaco since 1949
• Frank Conroy, 69, memoirist and head of the University of Iowa's famous Iowa Writers' Workshop
• Anthony DePalma, 100, doctor, teacher, and humanitarian
• Gene Hazelton , 85, cartoonist
• Francisco Laudadio , 55, Italian film director

5

• Sir Edwin Leather , 85, governor of Bermuda from 1973 to 1977
• Saul Bellow, 89, Nobel Prize-winning author
• Ura Koyama, 114, supercentenarian, oldest in Japan since 2003, died of pneumonia
• Dale Messick, 98, creator of the Brenda Starr comic strip
• Debralee Scott, 52, actress, starred on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
• Neil Welliver , 75, landscape painter mainly in his native Maine
• Becky Zerlentes , 34, American amateur boxer, first amateur to die as a consequence of a fight in five years.

4

• Edward Bronfman, 77, Canadian businessman and philanthropist, colon cancer

3

• Simon Blumenfeld , 97, English novelist, playwright and columnist
• Blanchette Brunoy , 86, French actress
• Frank Clair, 87, CFL coach with the Toronto Argonauts and Ottawa Rough Riders, heart failure

2

• Betty Bolton , 99, English actress and singer
• Alexander Brott, 90, Canadian composer, conductor and violinist
• Tony Croatto, 65 Italian-Puerto Rican composer-singer, lung and brain cancer
• John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła), 84, Polish Roman Catholic Pope, died after a lengthy illness.
• Eddie Moss , 45, former Syracuse and CBA player, cancer
• John O'Leary , 58, Former U.S. ambassador to Chile, Lou Gehrig's disease
• Jacques Rabemananjara , 92, Madagascan politician, foreign minister from 1967 to 1972.

1

• Cheryl Barrymore , 56, former wife and agent of British TV entertainer Michael Barrymore, lung cancer
• Harald Juhnke, 75, German entertainer
• Jack Keller, 68, songwriter, wrote themes to Bewitched and Gidget
• Samuel Krachmalnick , 79, Broadway and classical orchestral conductor, notably the premiere of Candide by Leonard Bernstein
• Robert Coldwell Wood, 81, second Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, appointed by Lyndon B. Johnson in 1969. Later University of Massachusetts President 1970-1977.
• Lazare Gionet , 108, Canadian World War I veteran

March 2005

31

• Frank Perdue, 84, poultry magnate
• Terri Schiavo, 41, US persistent vegetative state patient, died amidst much controversy after removal of gastric feeding tube

30

• Thomas J. Brazaitis , 64, columnist correspondent and newspaper editor
• Robert Creeley, 78, poet, died of complications from respiratory disease.
• Alan Dundes, 70, world-renowned folklorist, who was central in establishing folklore as a discipline, apparent heart attack while teaching.
• Milton Green, 91, former record holder in hurdles, boycotted the 1936 Summer Olympics as a protest against Adolf Hitler.
• Mitch Hedberg, 37, comedian, heart attack.
• Fred Korematsu, 86, Japanese-American civil rights leader, respiratory illness
• Derrick Plourde , 33, former drummer of two California punk groups Lagwagon and the Ataris, suicide.
• Hideaki Sekiguchi , 38, known as Billy, Guitar Wolf bassist, heart failure
• Ootupulackal Velukkuty Vijayan, 74, Indian author and cartoonist

29

• Johnnie Cochran, 67, lawyer, defended O.J. Simpson, died of brain tumor
• Howell Heflin, 83, former U.S. Senator from Alabama
• John McTernan , 94, US civil-rights lawyer

28

• Tom Bevill, 84, former US Congressman from Alabama
• Dave Freeman . 82, scriptwriter (Benny Hill, Carry On films, etc.)
• Hermann Lause , 66, German actor
• Emmy Lopes Dias , 85, Dutch actress
• Pál Losonczi, 85, former chairman of the Presidential Council of Hungary (head of state)
• Dame Moura Lympany, 89, British classical pianist

27

• Bob Casey, 79, PA announcer for the Minnesota Twins
• Grant Johannesen, 83, American classical pianist and composer
• Joaquín Luqui , 57, Spanish musical journalist
• Rigo Tovar, 58, popular Mexican singer and composer
• Ahmed Zaki, 56, Egyptian actor, lung cancer

26

• Bengt Bedrup , 76, Swedish journalist
• James Callaghan, 92, former British Prime Minister
• Brandon Falkner , 21?, Arizona State University NCAA football player, murdered
• Paul Hester, 46, Australian musician, former drummer of Crowded House and Split Enz
• Marius Russo, 90, a left-handed pitcher who helped the Yankees win the World Series in 1941 and 1943
• Georgeanna Seegar Jones, 92, American scientist and endocrinologist
• Colin Willock , 86, helped create the Survival wildlife program

25

• Greg Garrison , 81, TV producer and director (The Dean Martin Show, Your Show of Shows)
• Paul Henning, 93, TV producer, creator of Beverly Hillbillies franchise
• Davis McCaughey, 90, former Governor of Victoria, Australia

24

• David P. Bushnell, 91, founder of Bushnell Optical, leading producer of binoculars, of non-Hodgkins lymphoma.

23

• Charles Antalosky , 67, Broadway actor
• Naftali Halberstam , 74, Grand Rabbi of the Bobov sect of the Hasidim
• David Kossoff, 85, British actor and anti-drug campaigner, father of Free guitarist Paul Kossoff
• Bob Vetrone , 79, American newspaper columnist

22

• Clemente Domínguez y Gómez, 58, Spanish antipope self-proclaimed Gregory XVII in 1978
• Gemini Ganesan , 84, Indian actor
• Edward Moskal, 80, president of the Polish American Congress
• Simon Nyandwi , 55, interior minister of Burundi since November 2003 and former rebel official, heart attack
• Rod Price, 57, guitarist and a founding member of Foghat
• Kenzo Tange, 91, Japanese architect

21

• Ge Zhenlin , 88, Chinese war hero [4]
• Barney Martin, 82, actor who played Jerry's father on Seinfeld
• Stanley Sadie, 74, musicologist and critic
• Bobby Short, 80, suave cabaret singer and pianist, leukemia
• Jeff Weise, 16, school shooter

20

• Walter Hopps , 72, renowned American art dealer , gallery owner
• Walter Reuter , 99, award winning German photographer who lived and photographed in Mexico
• Andrew Toti, 89, American inventor of the Mae West inflatable life vest

19

• Hellema , 84, Dutch writer and resistance fighter
• John De Lorean, 80, U.S. car designer and manufacturer.

18

• Gary Bertini, 77, Israeli musician and conductor
• Sol Linowitz, 91, U.S. diplomat and entrepreneur
• Jessica Lunsford, 9, (body found), kidnapping and rape victim
• Maria Rosseels , 88, Belgian writer and journalist
• Theodor Uppman, 85, American operatic baritone, created the title role in Britten's Billy Budd

17

• Royce Frith, 81, Canadian senator
• John J.Gallagher , 79, cartoonist, brother of Heathcliff creator George Gallagher [5]
• Prentice Gautt , 67, NFL player during the 1960s
• Lalo Guerrero, 88, called the father of Chicano music
• Justin Hinds , 62, Jamaican vocalist and songwriter
• Sverre Holm , 73, Norwegian actor
• Ramez J. Isa , 87, Prime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles from February to June 1971
• George F. Kennan, 101, U.S. diplomat and historian
• David Little , 46, Linebacker for the NFL Pittsburgh Steelers
• Andre Norton, 93, science fiction and fantasy author
• Czeslaw Slania, 83, Polish-Swedish stamp engraver
• Mikko Talvitie , 59, director general of the Finnish Board of Aviation

16

• Todd Bell, 47, safety for the Chicago Bears in the 1980s
• Ralph Erskine , 91, architect and designer of the Byker Wall .
• Anthony George, 84, actor, primarily in daytime dramas
• Allan Hendrickse, 77, South African politician
• Chris van der Klaauw , 80, Dutch diplomat, foreign minister of the Netherlands from 1977 to 1981
• William Lehman , 91, represented Dade County, Florida in U.S. Congress for 20 years
• Dick Radatz, 67, baseball relief pitcher

15

• Lady Callaghan of Cardiff, 89, wife of Jim Callaghan
• Betsy Cronkite , 89, journalist and wife of Walter Cronkite
• Don Durant, 82, singer/actor, star of Johnny Ringo series
• Loe de Jong, 90, Dutch historian
• Eduard J. Guebelin , 91, Lead study that showed that diamond flaws are influenced by where they were created
• Bill McGarry , 77, football manager
• Bert Pronk , 54, Dutch racing cyclist
• Armand Seghers , 78, footballer, voted AA Gent's best player of the 20th century
• Sy Wexler, 88, filmmaker of hundreds of educational films seen in classrooms for many years

14

• Stanley H. Campbell , 74, NFL player during the 1950s
• Tom Dillon , 86, American stage actor/performer, natural causes
• Janet Reger , 69, British designer of women's lingerie
• Dick Smyser , 81, American newspaper editor, asked question that led Richard Nixon to declare: "I'm not a crook."
• Simon Webb, 55, British chess grandmaster living in Sweden, stabbed to death by his son
• Akira Yoshizawa, 94, Japanese Origami master

13

• Lyn Collins, 56, soul singer aka "Female Preacher"
• Winnie Dangerfield , 96, English child actor in silent films for the Clarendon studios [6] [7]
• Jason Evers, 83, star of B-movie Brain That Wouldn't Die
• Ahmed Hassan Diria, 67, Tanzanian politician and diplomat, foreign minister from 1990 to 1993.
• Danny Gardella, 85, a New York Giants outfielder who challenged baseball's reserve clause in a 1947 federal lawsuit
• Frank House, 75, Major League Baseball catcher and Alabama legislator
• Zouhair Yahyaoui , 36, Tunisian dissident.

12

• Charles R. Baxter, 75, American doctor, pneumonia, surgeon who tried to save JFK
• Lisa Fittko, 95, German WWII dissident who led Jews over the Pyrenees to freedom
• Stavros Kouyioumtzis , 73, prolific Greek songwriter
• Bartolo Mascarello , 78, Italian winemaker

11

• Bill Cameron, 62, Canadian journalist, cancer
• Aurelio Fierro , 81, famous in Italy for singing Neopolitan folk songs
• Stanley Grenz, 55, Christian Theologian
• Humphrey Spender, 94, British photojournalist, notably for Picture Post

10

• Dave Allen, 68, Irish comedian
• Danny Joe Brown, 53, lead singer for Molly Hatchet
• Chawki Deif , 95, head of the Academy of the Arabic Language
• Katherine Gray Lathrop , 89, pioneering researcher into nuclear medicine
• Zilka Salaberry , 82, Brazilian actress

9

• Glenn Davis, 80, Heisman Trophy winner, American football player, prostate cancer
• Sheila Gish, 62, English actress, primarily on stage
• Kathie Kay, 86, Scottish big band singer
• Chris LeDoux, 56, American country music and rodeo star; complications from liver cancer.
• William Murray, 78, American mystery novelist
• István Nyers , 80, Hungarian footballer

8

• Archbishop Roman Arrieta , 80, retired archbishop of Costa Rica
• Ross Benson , 56, British journalist for the Daily Mail and award-winning foreign correspondent
• Anna Haycraft, 72, British writer (also known as Alice Thomas Ellis)
• César Lattes, 80, Brazilian physicist, contributed to the physics of elementary particles and discovered the pion
• Aslan Maskhadov, 53, Chechen separatist leader, killed by Russian troops.
• Brigitte Mira, 94, German theatrical actress
• Jeremy Russell, 60, cofounding member of the band Blue Cheer

7

• Edwin Adams Cotto, 26, accused in the Laura Hernandez drug case; killed during riot at Dominican Republic jail
• John Box, 85, film production designer, worked closely with David Lean
• Debra Hill, 54, screenwriter and film producer, co-writer of Halloween
• Philip Lamantia, 77, American surrealist poet
• Arod Levy III , ??, accused in the Laura Hernandez drug case; killed during riot in a Dominican Republic jail
• Jozef Stank , 64, former Slovakian defense minister

6

• Hans Bethe, 98, Nobel Laureate in Physics, discover of stellar fusion
• Gladys Marín, 63, Chilean communist politician, cancer
• Chuck Thompson, 83, Baltimore Orioles broadcaster, complications of massive stroke
• Tommy Vance, 63, British radio DJ and TV host, stroke
• Teresa Wright, 86, actress, heart attack

5

• Harold Brooks-Baker , 71, U.S.-born publishing director of Burke's Peerage Limited
• Sergiu Comissiona, 76, Romanian orchestra conductor
• Benedetto Di Santo , 105, Italian World War I veteran
• Morris Engel , 86, independent filmmaker
• Rt. Rev. Lord Sheppard of Liverpool, 75, former international cricketer and Church of England bishop, cancer
• Frank Tyler , 76, Broadway and film music arranger and orchestrator

4

• Nicola Calipari, 51, Italian intelligence officer, shot by the US army in Iraq
• Ernie De Vos , 63, racing driver, killed in a cycling accident.
• Una Hale, 82, operatic soprano
• Yuri Kravchenko, 53, former interior minister of Ukraine
• Carlos Sherman, 70, Uruguayan-born Belarusian translator and writer

3

• George Atkinson, 69, inventor of the video rental
• Max M. Fisher, 96, millionaire philanthropist listed in Forbes 400
• Dorris Henderson , 72, 60's and 70's folksinger
• Viva McComb , 110, supercentenarian, oldest living Texan
• Rinus Michels, 77, former Dutch national football team coach
• Guylaine St. Onge, 39, Canadian actress, cancer

2

• Joe Carter , 78, a member of the Carter Family folk singers
• Martin Denny, 93, founder of exotica musical genre, bandleader
• Hermann Dörnemann, 111, World War I veteran declared Germany's oldest living person, heart failure
• Tillie Fowler, 62, U.S. politician, former four-term Florida congresswoman
• Rick Mahler, 51, American baseball pitcher, heart attack
• Corrado Pani , 69, Italian actor
• Rigter Roegholt , 79, Dutch historian

1

• Cissy van Bennekom , 93, Dutch film actress
• Reverend Walter Halloran, 83, priest who participated in the exorcism on which The Exorcist was based
• Brian Luckhurst, 66, English cricket player, cancer
• Peter Malkin, 77, Israeli Mossad agent, the man who captured Adolf Eichmann

February 2005

28

• Pietro Ardito , 85?, Argentinian comic book artist living in Italy
• Chris Curtis, 63, drummer with The Searchers
• Mario Luzi, 90, Italian poet
• Umberto Manfrin , 77, Italian comic book artist

27

• Noll Scott , 51, British journalist
• Carl Taseff , 76, former NFL defensive back and assistant coach

26

• Max Faulkner, 88, British golfer
• Henry Grunwald, 82, former managing editor of TIME and U.S. ambassador to Austria 1988-90
• Sidney Hart, 90, British trade unionist and religious administrator, natural causes
• Witness Mangwende, 59, Zimbabwean politician and diplomat, foreign minister from 1981 to 1987.
• Jef Raskin, 61, creator of the Apple Macintosh, pancreatic cancer

25

• Peter Benenson, 83, founder of Amnesty International.
• Phoebe Hesketh, 96, British poet
• Don LeJohn , 70, former Los Angeles Dodgers third baseman
• Norberto "Pappo" Napolitano , 54, Argentine blues and rock n' roll guitarist and composer
• Edward Patten, 66, member of Gladys Knight & The Pips
• Atef Sedki, 74, former prime minister of Egypt
• Sir Glanmor Williams, 84, Welsh historian

24

• Thadée Cisowski , 78, footballer, scored 206 goals in the French top divison, making him its 4th highest scorer of all-time
• Robin Jenkins , 92, Scottish novelist, author of "The Cone-Gatherers" and "Fergus Lamont"
• Hugh Nibley, 94, historian primarily concerned with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• Gustavo Vázquez Montes, 42, incumbent governor of Colima, Mexico, aviation accident
• Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski, 82, German politician and former cabinet minister

23

• Tom Patterson, 84, founder of the Stratford Festival of Canada
• Henk Zeevalking , 82, Dutch politician

22

• David F. Bradford , 61, former U.S. presidential advisor and professor at Princeton University
• Father Luigi Giussani, 82, founder of the "Communion and Liberation" Catholic youth movement
• Lee Eun Ju (이은주), 24, Korean actress, suicide
• Trude Rittmann , 96, Broadway dance and vocal music arranger
• Reggie Roby, 43, retired NFL punter
• Harry Simeone , 94, helped create Christmas songs like Little Drummer Boy
• Simone Simon, 94, French actress

21

• Zdzislaw Beksinski, 75, Polish painter and fantasy artist, murder
• Ara Berberian, 74, Bass with the New York City Metropolitan Opera
• Isabelle Goldenson, 84, co-founder of United Cerebral Palsy
• Guillermo Cabrera Infante, 75, exiled Cuban writer
• Robert Koff , 86, founding member of the Juilliard String Quartet
• Josef Metternich, 69, German operatic baritone
• Dr. Gene Scott, 75, U.S. televangelist and author
• Ernest Vandiver, 86, former governor of the U.S. state of Georgia (1959-1963)

20

• Raymond Mhlaba, 92, South African political leader
• Pam Bricker, jazz vocalist and music professor, suicide
• Sandra Dee, 62, American actress, kidney failure and pneumonia
• Dalene Matthee, 67, Afrikaans-South African author, heart failure
• John Raitt, 88, classic Broadway star and father of Bonnie Raitt, pneumonia
• Hunter S. Thompson, 67, American journalist, suicide
• Jimmy Young, 56, American boxer, heart failure

19

• Richard Lupino , 75? Member of the famous English Lupino acting family
• Kihachi Okamoto (岡本喜八), 82, Japanese film director, esophageal cancer

18

• Uli Derickson, 60, airline stewardess, protagonist in 1985 airplane hijacking
• John Ebstein , 92, industrial designer [8]
• Robert R. Merhige, Jr., 86, U.S. district court judge

17

• F. M. Busby , 83, American science fiction writer
• Peter Foy, 79, American, theatrical flying effects specialist
• Jens Martin Knudsen, 74, Danish astrophysicist
• César Marcelak , 92, French cycling champion
• Dan O'Herlihy, 85, Irish film actor
• Omar Sivori, 69, Argentinian and Italian footballer
• Nicephore Soglo , 70, former President of Benin
• Harald Szeemann, 71, Swiss curator and art historian

16

• Nicole DeHuff, 30, American actress, Meet the Parents, pneumonia.
• William Gibson , 82, American independent film producer and director
• Russ Klar , 90, US auto racer
• Narriman Sadek (Nariman Sadeq), 70, ex-wife of King Farouk, last queen of Egypt
• Marcello Viotti, 50, Italian conductor
• Frederick Vosburgh , 100, National Geographic editor
• Gerry Wolff , 84, German actor
• (body found) Cecilia Cubas, 32, daughter of former President of Paraguay Raúl Cubas Grau, kidnap victim

15

• Pierre Bachelet, 60, French singer
• Samuel Francis, 57, U.S. political columnist
• Dudu Geva , 54, Israeli cartoonist
• Najai Turpin , 23, boxer, participant in boxing reality show "The Contender", suicide

14

• Ron Burgess , 87, former footballer with Tottenham Hotspur and Wales
• Tatiana Gritsi-Milliex, 85, Greek novelist and journalist
• Rafik Hariri, 60, twice Prime Minister of Lebanon, car bomb
• Aubelin Jolicoeur, 81, Haitian journalist and columnist
• Martin Perels , 44, Dutch actor
• Otto Plaschkes , 75, British movie producer, including Georgy Girl
• Dick Weber, 75, professional bowler, father of Pete Weber

13

• Nelson Briles, 61, U.S. baseball pitcher
• Aldo Carotenuto , 71?, Italian psychoanalyst
• Sixten Ehrling , 86, Swedish conductor
• Mary Hallaren, 97, first woman to join the United States Army
• Ndiaga Mbaye , 57, Senegalese musician
• Lúcia dos Santos, 97, Portuguese nun, last survivor of the three shepherd children of the Fatima apparition in 1917
• Maurice Trintignant, 87, French racing driver, twice winner of the Monaco Grand Prix

12

• Marinus van der Goes van Naters, 104, Dutch politician
• Brian Kelly, 73, actor
• Alfred Sirven , 77, former Elf Aquitaine executive
• Sammi Smith , 61, US country singer, won Grammy for Help Me Make it Through the Night
• Dorothy Stang, 74, American nun, murdered in Anapu, Brazil
• Karl-Heinz Tuschel , 76, East German science fiction author
• Rafael Vidal, 41, Venezuelan Olympic medalist, car crash

11

• Samuel W. Alderson, 90, inventor of crash test dummies [9]
• Jack L. Chalker, 60, American science fiction writer
• Raymond Hermantier , 81, French actor
• Dénes Kovács , 74, Hungarian violinist
• Stan Richards, 74, British actor

10

• Humbert Balsan, 50, French film producer
• Allan Bromley, 79, physicist, presidential advisor
• Jean Cayrol , 93, French author
• Michel François-Poncet , 70, Paribas executive
• Ben Jones, 80, former prime minister and foreign minister of Grenada
• Arthur Miller, 89, American playwright, congestive heart failure
• Sylvia Rafael , 67, Mossad agent convicted of 1973 Lillehammer murder

9

• Tyrone Davis, 66, R&B singer (Turn Back The Hands Of Time), complications of a stroke
• Hanno Helbling , 74, Swiss journalist (NZZ)
• Robert Kearns , 77, inventor of intermittent windshield wipers [10]
• Kate Peyton , 39, BBC producer, shot in Mogadishu, Somalia
• Ursula Schröder-Feinen , 70, German soprano
• Marthe Wéry , 75, Belgian painter

8

• Luigi Barbero , 105, Italian World War I veteran
• Victor Castelli , 52, soloist with the New York City Ballet, pneumonia
• Helmut Eder , 88, Austrian composer
• George Herman, 85, journalist and moderator of CBS' Face the Nation for 15 years
• Keith Knudsen , 56, drummer for American rock band Doobie Brothers, pneumonia
• Nathalie Krassovska , 86, ballerina
• Gaston Rahier , 58, Belgian 125cc Motocross World Champion (1975-1977)
• Jimmy Smith, 76, Jazz organist
• Javier Tusell , 59, Spanish historian

7

• Penelope Aitken, 94, socialite and political hostess
• Nedžad Botonjič , 27, Slovenian footballer
• Steve Burgh , 54, record producer and session musician
• Atli Dam, 72, former Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
• Vinod Chandra Pande , 72, political figure in India, former governor of three states
• John Tiffen Patterson, 64, television and film director
• Madeleine Rebérioux , 84, French historian
• Paul Rebeyrolle , 78, French painter
• Jeremy Swan, 82, cardiologist, co-inventor of the Swan-Ganz heart catheter

6

• Santo Ambulo , 104, Italian World War I veteran
• Lazar Berman, 74, classical pianist
• Elbert N. Carvel, 94, American politician, former governor of Delaware
• Hubert Curien, 80, French researcher, first president of European Space Agency
• Camilo Delgado, 75?, Puerto Rican television show host
• Karl Haas, 91, US classical music radio program host
• Merle Kilgore, 70, country music manager and songwriter
• Armin Müller , 76, German writer and painter

5

• Derick Daniels , 76, former president and chief executive of Playboy Enterprises
• Gnassingbe Eyadema, 67, president of Togo since 1967
• Bob McAdorey, 69, Canadian television and radio broadcaster
• David Measham , 67, UK conductor prominent in Australia
• Günter Reimann, 100, German economist
• Michalina Wisłocka, 84, Polish sexologist

4

• Carmine Alfano , 108, Italian World War I veteran
• Adriano Cerqueira , 66, Portuguese journalist and former news anchor at RTP, cancer
• Robert Brannum , 78, basketball player
• Ossie Davis, 87, actor and activist, natural causes
• Nils Egerbrandt , 78, Swedish cartoonist
• Gunhild Foerster, 111, supercentenarian, oldest documented person in Washington State
• Luis Sánchez, 51, former major league closer for the Angels [11]

3

• Corrado Cardinal Bafile, 101, Italian cardinal
• Joseph Anthony De Palma , 91, Bishop of De Aar , South Africa
• Malou Hallström , 63, Swedish actress, ex-wife of Lasse Hallström
• David Hönigsberg, 45, composer and conductor
• Ernst Mayr, 100, evolutionary biologist
• Raul Usupov, Georgian politician and deputy governor of the Kvemo Kartli region
• Zurab Zhvania, 41, Prime Minister of Georgia

2

• Yvon DesRochers , 59, head of the organizing committee of the 2005 World Aquatics Championships in Montreal, suicide
• Birgitte Federspiel , 79, Swedish actress (Babette's Feast, 1988)
• Svein Kvia , 57, Norwegian footballer
• Goffredo Lombardo , 83, Italian film producer
• Magomed Omarov, deputy Interior Minister of Dagestan
• Max Schmeling, 99, German world heavyweight boxing champion

1

• Werner Arnold , 74, Swiss cyclist (1950s)
• Henrique Canto e Castro , 75, Portuguese actor
• Olivier Dollfus , 73, French geographer
• Edward D. Freis, 92, physician
• Anderl Heckmair , 98, Austrian mountaineer, made first ascent of the Eiger north face
• Franco Mannino , 80, prolific Italian film and classical composer
• John Vernon, 72, Canadian actor, following heart surgery

January 2005

31

• Stanley Ronald (Ron) Basford, 72, Canadian cabinet minister (1970s)
• Nel Benschop, 87, Dutch poetess
• Yutsuko Chusonji , 42, Japanese manga artist noted for her "oyaji gal " stories
• Horace Hagedorn , 89, developer and marketer of Miracle-Gro plant food
• Malcolm Hardee, 55, alternative comedian and compere, drowning
• Erich Kaestner, 93, German Oscar winner for camera design
• Robert McCartney, 33, IRA murder victim
• H. Narasimhaiah, 84, physicist, educator and rationalist from Bangalore
• Ivan Noble, 37, BBC journalist, brain tumour

30

• Wolfgang Becker , 94, German film and television director
• Martyn Bennett, 33, Scottish musician, cancer
• Dario Sala , 92, Italian inventor of Das , writer

29

• Toni Berger , 83, German actor
• Eric Griffiths, 64, member of pre-Beatles The Quarrymen
• Jean Hengen , 92, first Archbishop of Luxembourg
• Karl Heinz Jacoby , 86, Auxiliary Bishop of Trier
• Ephraim Kishon, 80, Israeli satirist, dramatist, screenwriter, and film director
• José Luis Martinez , 34, Spanish shot put champion
• Bill Shadel, 96, United States journalist who covered D-Day and moderated a 1960 Presidential Debate
• Ron Tomme , 73, former USA actor primarily in soaps
• Joan Tompkins , 89, film and TV actress
• Guus Zoutendijk , 74, Dutch politician and businessman

28

• Karen Bach, 32, French actress
• Christian Bieniek , 48, German writer and childbook author
• Daniel Branca , 53, Argentinian Disney comic book artist
• Jim Capaldi, 60, British rock musician and songwriter (Traffic), stomach cancer
• Lucien Carr, 79, UPI editor, early Beat generation figure
• Christian Christensen , 78, Danish former European middle-weight boxing champion
• Jacques Villeret, 53, French actor and comedian

27

• Gilbert Bennion, 106, one of four remaining Australian veterans of World War I
• Donald Dempsey Sr., 72?, American recording executive who helped launch Ozzy Osbourne and Merle Haggard
• Shoaib Khan , 40?, Pakistani criminal organization leader, heart attack in jail
• Nick McDonald , 76, United States Dallas police officer who arrested Lee Harvey Oswald after the JFK assassination
• Aurélie Nemours, 94, French painter
• Jonathan Welsh, 67?, Canadian actor of stage, television and film

26

• Roy Fraser Elliott , 83, Canadian lawyer and philanthropist
• Rudi Falkenhagen , 71, Dutch actor, throat cancer
• Cordelia Scaife May, 76, sister of billionaire Richard Scaife and one of the world's richest people
• Josie MacAvin , 85, Oscar and Emmy winning set decorator

25

• William Augustus Bootle, 102, United States district judge who helped oversee desegregation in the US south
• Philip Johnson, 98, United States architect
• Vicky LaMotta, 75, ex-wife of American boxer Jake LaMotta
• Ray Peterson 65, United States popular singer (Tell Laura I Love Her), cancer
• Max Velthuijs , 81, Dutch writer and illustrator
• Nettie Witziers-Timmer, 81, Dutch athlete
• Dieter Zehentmayr , 63, Austrian caricaturist

24

• June Bronhill, 75, Australian opera and operetta singer, known for The Merry Widow
• Vladimir Savchenko, 72, Ukrainian science fiction writer
• Chalkie White, 76, rugby union coach

23

• Morys George Lyndhurst Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare, 85, former Deputy Speaker of the United Kingdom|UK]] House of Lords
• Johnny Carson, 79, United States comedian and television host, emphysema
• Douglas Knight, 83, former president of Lawrence University and Duke University
• Charles Martin , 45, American football player, kidney ailment
• Mutsuko Sakura (桜むつ子), 83, Japanese actress, lung cancer

22

• Sir William Deakin , 91, British WWII hero and founder of St. Antony's College at Oxford University
• John Gibel , 56, comic strip writer (Flo & Friends )
• César Gutiérrez, 61, one of three players in Major League Baseball history with a 7-for-7 game
• Carlo Orelli, 110, supercentenarian, oldest Italian veteran of World War I
• Patsy Rowlands, 71, British actress, known for her roles in the Carry On films, breast cancer
• William Trager , 94, American malaria researcher
• Consuelo Velázquez, 88, Mexican songwriter and lyricist, and author of the enduring song "Bésame mucho"
• Rose Mary Woods, 87, former Nixon secretary and key Watergate figure [12]

21

• Steve Susskind , 62, American voice-over actor
• Parveen Babi, 49, Indian actress
• John L. Hess, 87, journalist
• Don Poier , 53, United States NBA basketball announcer for the Memphis Grizzlies
• Carl Schlettwein , 79, founder of Basler Afrika Bibliographien
• Theun de Vries, 97, Dutch writer

20

• Per Borten, 91, former Prime Minister of Norway
• Beverly Dennis , 79, actress on The Red Buttons Show who turned psychotherapist
• Roland Frye, American English literature professor and theologian
• Dick Gallagher , 49, Off-Broadway composer
• Christel Justen , 47, German swimmer, 1974 European champion
• Jan Nowak-Jeziorański, 91, Polish journalist and highly decorated World War II hero, head of the Radio Free Europe Polish section
• Chuck Olin , 68, filmmaker known for his 1998 documentary about the only all-Jewish fighting unit during World War II
• Miriam Rothschild, 96, British zoologist, entomologist and author

19

• Bill Andersen, 90, New Zealand communist and trade union leader
• Donald Beardslee, 61, United States murderer, executed in San Quentin State Prison, California
• Cal Bolder , 74, bodybuilder and actor
• K. Sello Duiker, 30, South African novelist, suicide
• Hans Gratzer , 63, Austrian director and theatre manager
• Ardyth Kennelly , 92, US novelist whose books were popular in the 1940s and 50s
• Anita Kulcsár , 28, Hungarian handball player
• Ricardo Suriñach , 76, Catholic Bishop of Ponce, Puerto Rico (2000-2003), natural causes

18

• Lamont Bentley, 31, television and film actor, car crash
• Bernard Béreau , 64, French footballer
• Gabriella Brune , 92, British actress
• Bob Moch , 90, 1936 Summer Olympics Rowing Gold Medal Winner
• George Walker , 78, volcanologist
• Peter Whatley , former professional wrestler under the name Pez Whatley

17

• Charlie Bell, 44, former CEO of McDonald's, colon cancer
• Christina Gunnardo , 54, Swedish musician
• Hildegard Joos , 95, Austrian painter
• Virginia Mayo, 84, United States actress, notably in the 1940s and 1950s
• Albert Schatz, 84, microbiologist, discoverer of streptomycin
• Zhao Ziyang, 85, former Chinese Communist Party General Secretary, complications of multiple strokes
• Daniel Zufferey , 35, French language author

16

• H. Bentley Glass , 98, United States biologist, known for controversial views [13]
• Agustín González , 74, prolific Spanish film actor
• Roger Ibanez , 73, French actor
• Ndongo Lô , 30, Senegalese singer (Mbalax )
• Marjorie Williams, 47, United States Washington Post columnist and contributing editor for Vanity Fair

15

• Victoria de los Angeles, 81, Spanish soprano
• Deem Bristow, 57, video game voice actor
• William H. Crosby Jr. , 90, pioneering hematologist
• Walter Ernsting, 84, German science fiction author (Perry Rhodan)
• Elizabeth Janeway, 91, United States feminist author
• Fred Julsing , 62, Dutch comic book artist
• Dan Lee, 35, animator for movie Finding Nemo
• Werner Lesser , 72?, German ski jumper
• Henk Molleman , 69, Dutch politician and civil servant
• Sven Christer Swahn , 71, Swedish writer and translator
• Ruth Warrick, 89, United States actress best known for Citizen Kane and All My Children, of pneumonia

14

• Dennis Flanagan , 85, United States Long time editor of Scientific American
• Ofelia Guilmain , 83, Spanish film and stage actress, worked mostly in Mexico after the Spanish Civil War
• Alfred Hause , 84, German composer and conductor
• Charlotte MacLeod, 82, United States mystery writer
• Conroy Maddox, 92, British surrealist painter
• Carl Mohner , 88, German artist and actor
• Rudolph Moshammer, 64, German fashion designer
• Georges Piroué , 85, French language writer
• Jesús Soto, 81, Venezuelan kinetic artist [14]

13

• Earl Cameron, 89?, Canadian broadcaster and The National-anchor (1959-1966)
• Nell Rankin, 81, United States mezzo-soprano opera singer, sang with the Metropolitan Opera for many years

12

• Manfred Fuhrmann , 79, German philologist
• Achille Maramotti , 78, Italian fashion entrepreneur
• Sal Pacino , 82, United States character actor, father of actor Al Pacino
• Amrish Puri, 72, Indian actor, massive cerebral hemorrhage (he played the evil priest Mola Ram in the movie Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom)
• Edmund S. Valtman, 90, Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist

11

• Spencer Dryden, 61, drummer for United States rock group Jefferson Airplane, cancer
• Jean-Luc Fugaldi , 58, French footballer
• James Griffin, 61, member of 1970s group Bread
• Miriam Hyde, 91, Australian composer (Valley of Rocks)
• J.R. (Bud) McCaig, 75, co-owner of the NHL's Calgary Flames
• Fabrizio Meoni, 47, Italian motorcyclist, died after crashing on the 11th stage of the Paris Dakar Rally
• Ruth Packer, 94, British soprano, famous for playing Verdi heroines
• Jerzy Pawlowski, 72, Polish Olympic champion in fencing
• Thelma White, 94, United States actress, starred in Reefer Madness

10

• Gene Baylos, 98, comedian
• Margherita Carosio, 96, Italian soprano
• Fernand Cazenave , 80, French rugby player and coach
• Tommy Fine, 90, who pitched in Major League Baseball for the Boston Red Sox and St. Louis Browns
• James Forman, 76, United States former executive secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, colon cancer
• Erwin Hillier, 93, British cinematographer
• Gordon John "Jack" Horner, 91?, Minnesota sports journalist
• Grand Duchess Joséphine-Charlotte of Luxembourg, 77, Princess of Belgium, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.
• Helmut Losch , 57, East German heavy weight weightlifting champion
• Amer Ali Nayef , deputy police chief of Baghdad, shot together with his son [15]
• Jose Manuel Perez , 41, Spanish motorcyclist after crashing 6 January on the 7th stage of the Paris Dakar Rally, internal injuries [16]
• Werner Quintens , 67, Belgian clergyman
• Jan Pieter Cardinal Schotte, 76, Belgian official of the Roman Curia, cardinal since 1994

9

• Fritz Aigner , 74, Austrian painter
• Gonzalo Gavira, 79, sound effects creator, The Exorcist, The Towering Inferno
• Bernard Goodall , 67, businessman and former Reading F.C. footballer
• Koji Hashimoto, 68, Japanese film Director and Assistant Director

8

• Badja D'jola , 56, African-American film actor
• Jacqueline Joubert , 83, one of the first television presenters on French TV
• Suad Katana , 35, Bosnian footballer
• Campbell McComas , 52, Australian impersonator, raconteur, broadcaster, chameleon
• Warren Spears, 50, choreographer, dancer
• Michel Thomas, 90, Polish linguist and teacher
• David White, 50, British Commander of British forces on Gibraltar, found dead in his swimming-pool

7

• Pierre Daninos, 91, French novelist (The Diary of Major Thompson)
• Eileen Desmond, 72, former Irish politician, Minister for Health & Social Welfare (1981-1982)
• Ernst Deubelbeiss , 84, Swiss convicted of the 1951 murder of Armin Bannwart
• Bernard "Buddy" Diliberto , 73, United States sports commentator in New Orleans, Louisiana, massive heart attack
• Rosemary Kennedy, 86, sister of John F. Kennedy
• Rossana Maiorca , 54?, Italian free-diver, daughter of Enzo Maiorca
• Ivar Medaas , 66, Norwegian musician
• Hans Walder , 84, Prosecutor General of the Swiss Confederation (1968-1973)

6

• Lois Hole, 71, Lieutenant Governor of Alberta
• Jürg von Känel , 53, climber, mountain guide , writer of guide books
• Makgatho Mandela, 54, South African last surviving son of Nelson Mandela, AIDS
• Louis Robichaud, 79, Canadian former premier of New Brunswick
• Ali Šukrija , 85, Yugoslav communist politician from [Kosovo]]
• Sir Nicholas Scott , 71, British politician

5

• Antonio Benítez Rojo , 73, Cuban writer
• Eduardo Hay , 89, Mexican IOC member (since 1974), professor of gynaecology
• René Le Henaff , 102?, early French director and editor, sued Charlie Chaplin for plagiarism over City Lights
• Danny Sugerman, 50, manager for The Doors

4

• Humphrey Carpenter, 58, British biographer and broadcaster
• Paul Darragh, 51, Irish equestrian showjumper, suspected heart failure
• Ali Al-Haidri, ?, Iraqi governor of Baghdad province, assassinated
• Frank Harary, 84, mathematician, a foremost expert on graph theory
• Robert Heilbroner, 85, United States economist
• Bud Poile, 80, member of Hockey Hall of Fame
• Alton Tobey , 90, United States muralist and painter

3

• JN Dixit, 68, Indian national security adviser and former foreign secretary
• Will Eisner, 87, United States comic book artist and pioneering graphic novelist
• Koo Chen-fu (辜振甫), 88, Chinese negotiator with the PRC
• John Lawrence , 70, United States Los Angeles Times business journalist
• Claude Meillassoux , 79, French anthropologist and economist

2

• H. David Dalquist , 86, founder of Nordic Ware , creator of Bundt cake pan
• Arnold Denker, 90, United States chess player
• Cyril Fletcher, 91, British comedian and star of That's Life.
• Frank Kelly Freas, 82, United States science fiction artist
• Ronald 'Bo' Ginn, 70, United States former U.S. Congressman from Georgia
• Maclyn McCarty, 93, geneticist and DNA research pioneer
• Edo Murtić, 83, Croatian painter
• Charles Paul Wilp , 72, German photographer

1

• Shirley Chisholm, 80, United States first black woman ever to serve in the U.S. Congress
• Hugh John Frederick Lawson, 6th Baron Burnham, 73, British Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords and former deputy managing director of the Daily Telegraph
• Bob Matsui, 63, United States Democratic Party member of the House of Representatives
• Paul Michaelis , 90, German painter and graphist
• Dmitri Nelyubin , 33, Russian cyclist, stabbed to death
• Willem Scholten , 77, Dutch former politician
• Charles Watson, 105, British World War I veteran

External links and references

• Specialised websites
  • Find a Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records
  • Dead People Server
  • Life in Legacy: Week in Review
  • The Blog of Death
  • GenealogyBuff.com Obituary Search
  • Online Searchable Death Indexes and Records: US genealogy directory
  • Operation Iraqi Freedom - US Combat Deaths
  • Obituary Central - index to obituary search engines arranged geographically
  • Obituary Links Page - state-by-state directory of obituary resources
• Obituaries on general news websites
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For earlier deaths, see Deaths in 2004, Deaths in 2003, Deaths in 2002, Deaths in 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995...