Deaths in February 2004

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

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

  • Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

February 2004[]

1[]

  • Art Albrecht, 82, American football player.
  • Buzz Gardner, 72, American trumpeter (The Mothers of Invention).
  • Valeri Gassy, 54, Ukrainian handball player, Olympic champion (1976).
  • Ally MacLeod, 72, Scottish football player and manager.
  • George Henry Speltz, 91, American Roman Catholic prelate.
  • Bob Stokoe, 73, English footballer, F.A. Cup winning manager.
  • James Edward Wood, 56, American murderer and self-confessed serial killer.[1]

2[]

3[]

  • Cornelius Bumpus, 58, American musician (The Doobie Brothers, Steely Dan).
  • Sam Fullbrook, 81, Australian artist.
  • John Popovich, 85, American professional football player (Card-Pitt, Pittsburgh Steelers) and college football coach (Waynesburg University).[4]
  • Jason Raize, 28, American Broadway actor, singer and voice actor (The Lion King and Brother Bear).[5]

4[]

  • Valentina Borok, 72, Soviet Ukrainian mathematician.
  • Ray Heaven, 85, English cricketer, heart attack.
  • Hilda Hilst, 73, Brazilian poet, novelist, and playwright, complications from surgery and health conditions.
  • Johnny Leartice Robinson, 51, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.

5[]

  • Donald Barr, 82, American educator.[6]
  • Sir Robert Boyd, 81, British space scientist.
  • Nicholas Evans, 97, Welsh artist.
  • Thomas Hinman Moorer, 91, American admiral, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.[7]
  • Frances Partridge, 103, British writer, last surviving member of the Bloomsbury Group.[8]
  • Samuel M. Rubin, 85, American concessionaire and businessman, known for introducing popcorn to movie theaters in New York City in the 1930s.[9]

6[]

  • Jerome F. Lederer, 101, American aviation safety pioneer.[10]
  • Sir John Meyrick, 77, British rower and agriculturalist.
  • Humphry Osmond, 86, English psychiatrist and pioneer LSD experimenter.[11]
  • Byron George Skelton, 98, American judge (United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, United States Court of Claims).[12]

7[]

  • Richard Butler, 17th Viscount Mountgarret, 67, British soldier and aristocrat.[13]
  • Safia Farhat, Tunisian artist, academic and women's rights activist.
  • Jože Šmit, 82, Slovene poet, translator, editor and journalist.
  • Norman Thelwell, 80, English cartoonist.[14]

8[]

  • Walter Freud, 82, Austrian-born British World War II Special Operations agent and chemical engineer.
  • Cem Karaca, 58, Turkish singer and composer, heart attack.[15]
  • Julius Schwartz, 88, American comic book and pulp magazine editor.[16]

9[]

  • Robert F. Colesberry, 57, American film and television producer, complications following cardiac surgery.
  • Michael Rowland, 40, American horse racing jockey.[17]
  • Claude Ryan, 79, Canadian politician.

10[]

  • Nils Aas, 70, Norwegian sculptor and illustrator.
  • Paul Ilyinsky, 76, Three-time mayor of Palm Beach, Florida.[18]
  • Edward Jablonski, 81, American biographer.[19]
  • Hub Kittle, 86, American baseball player and manager, complications from kidney failure and diabetes.

11[]

  • Ryszard Kuklinski, 74, Polish-born colonel and spy.
  • Algernon Marsham, 84, English cricketer.
  • Tony Pope, 56, American voice actor (Metropolis, Spaced Invaders, Who Framed Roger Rabbit), complications following leg surgery.[20]
  • Jim Robertson, 93, British army general.
  • Ralph Stewart, 74, Canadian member of Parliament (House of Commons representing Cochrane, Ontario).[21]
  • Shirley Strickland, 78, Australian Olympic sprinter (winner of three gold, one silver and three bronze Olympic medals).[22]
  • Hitoshi Takagi, 78, Japanese voice actor.

12[]

  • Martin Booth, 59, British author, brain tumour.
  • Robert A. Bruce, 87, American cardiologist.[23]
  • Leonard Dudman, 70, Scottish sportsman.
  • Julius Elischer, 85, Hungarian-born Australian architect.[24]
  • Sir John Killick, 84, British diplomat.[25]
  • Preston Love, 83, American jazz saxophone player.

13[]

  • Denis Hurley, 89, South African Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Durban (1946–1992).[26]
  • Sir David Lee, 91, British Air Chief Marshal.
  • Ted Tappe, 73, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds, Chicago Cubs).[27]

14[]

15[]

  • Jens Evensen, 86, Norwegian minister, World Court judge.
  • Jan Miner, 86, American actress.[28]
  • Lawrence Ritter, 81, American writer.[29]

16[]

17[]

  • Bruce Beaver, 76, Australian poet and novelist.
  • Clark Byers, 88-89, American sign maker.[33]
  • Gaston Godel, 89, Swiss Olympic race walker, silver medalist (1948).
  • José López Portillo, 83, Mexican politician and lawyer, President of Mexico.[34]
  • Cameron Todd Willingham, 36, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in Texas.

18[]

  • Steve Neal, 54, American journalist (Chicago Sun-Times) and historian.[35]
  • Jean Rouch, 86, French filmmaker and ethnologist.[36]
  • Ivor Stanbrook, 80, British Conservative party politician, barrister and Member of Parliament representing Orpington from 1970 to 1992.[37]

19[]

  • Gurgen Margaryan, 25, Armenian Army officer, murdered.
  • Archibald Paton Thornton, 83, Canadian historian.
  • Renata Vanni, 94, Italian-born American film actress.

20[]

  • Fred Brown, 79, British virologist.[38]
  • Kōyū Ohara, 69, Japanese film director.
  • Ted Paige, 73, British physicist and engineer.[39]

21[]

22[]

  • Colin Eaborn, 80, British chemist.
  • Roque Máspoli, 86, Uruguayan goalkeeper.
  • David Neiman, 82, Russian-born American rabbi, archaeologist and theologian.[43]
  • Azriel Rosenfeld, 73, American computer image analysis researcher.
  • Andy Seminick, 83, American baseball player, MLB catcher and last survivor of the 1950 Philadelphia Phillies' "Whiz Kids" that won the National League championship.[44]

23[]

  • Vijay Anand, 71, Indian Bollywood filmmaker and brother of Dev Anand..
  • Carl Anderson, 58, American actor (Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar).[45]
  • Neil Ardley, 66, British jazz composer.
  • Sikander Bakht, 85, Indian politician, Governor of Kerala.
  • Don Cornell, 84, American singer of the 1940s and 1950s, advanced emphysema and diabetes.[46]
  • Douglas Scott Falconer, 90, British geneticist.
  • Carl Liscombe, 89, Canadian Detroit Red Wings hockey player in the 1940s.
  • Bob Marshall, 93, Australian billiards player.

24[]

25[]

26[]

  • Douglas Birks, 84, English cricketer, myeloma.
  • Shankarrao Chavan, 83, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Maharashtra.
  • Adolf Ehrnrooth, 99, Finnish general, war veteran.
  • Jack Sperling, 81, American jazz drummer who performed in big bands and as a studio musician for movies and television.[54]
  • Boris Trajkovski, 47, Macedonian politician, President of the Republic of Macedonia.
  • Ralph E. Winters, 94, Canadian film editor.

27[]

  • Yoshihiko Amino, 76, Japanese Marxist historian and intellectual, lung cancer.
  • Clarence Barber, 86, Canadian economist and academic.
  • Vernon Bell, 81, founder of British karate pioneer.
  • Paul Sweezy, 93, American Marxian economist and founding editor of the Monthly Review..[55]

28[]

  • Daniel J. Boorstin, 89, American social historian.[56]
  • M. G. Mukherjee, Indian cricket umpire.
  • Andres Nuiamäe, 21, Estonian soldier, first Estonian soldier to be killed in Iraq.
  • Nicholas Vivian, 6th Baron Vivian, 68, British soldier and aristocrat.

29[]

  • Alexander Beresch, 26, Ukrainian Olympic gymnast.
  • Jane Engelhard, 86, American philanthropist and wife of industrialist Charles W. Engelhard Jr.[57]
  • Gordon Hawkins, 84, English-born Australian criminologist.
  • Jerome Lawrence, 88, American playwright and author.[58]
  • Danny Ortiz, 27, Guatemalan football goalkeeper.
  • William Clarke Wescoe, 83, American pharmacologist and educator, Chancellor of the University of Kansas (1960–1969)

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