Deaths in July 2004

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The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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.

July 2004[]

1[]

  • Peter Barnes, 73, British screenwriter and playwright, stroke.[1]
  • Marlon Brando, 80, American actor (The Godfather, Apocalypse Now), pulmonary fibrosis.[2]
  • Ettore Cella, 90, Swiss actor and film director.
  • Sir Richard May, 65, British former presiding judge, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.

2[]

  • Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, 84, Portuguese writer and poet.
  • Jeillo Edwards, 61, Sierra Leonean actress, first black actor to appear on "The Bill".[3]
  • Sir John Kay, 60, British jurist, Lord Justice of Appeal.
  • Sir Jan Lewando, 90, British businessman.
  • James MacKay, 85, American politician (U.S. Representative for Georgia's 4th congressional district from 1965 to 1967).[4]
  • John Cullen Murphy, 85, American comic strip artist (Prince Valiant).[5]
  • Gareth Payne, 68, Welsh rugby union international player.
  • Sky Beauty, 14, American thoroughbred.
  • Ponkunnam Varkey, 94, Indian writer and activist.

3[]

  • John Barron, 83, English actor.
  • Lionel van Brabant, 77, Belgian Olympic cyclist.
  • Michael Curtis, 84, British newspaper editor and executive.[6]
  • Freddy de Vree, 64, Belgian poet and literary critic.[7]
  • Jimmy Mack, 70, Scottish radio personality.[8]
  • James Marshall Sprouse, 80, American federal judge (Senior Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit).[9]
  • Andrian Nikolayev, 74, Russian cosmonaut.

4[]

  • Jean-Marie Auberson, 84, Swiss orchestra conductor.
  • Paul Lin Ta-kuang, 84, Canadian political scientist and peace activist.
  • Frank Robinson, British street entertainer.
  • Plato A. Skouras, 74, American movie producer (Apache Warrior, Francis of Assisi).[10]

5[]

  • Robert Burchfield, 81, English lexicographer, Oxford English Dictionary editor.[11]
  • Jim Paschal, 77, American NASCAR driver.
  • Andy Sabados, 87, American professional football player (The Citadel, Chicago Cardinals).[12]
  • Hugh Shearer, 81, Jamaican politician and trade unionist, former Prime Minister of Jamaica.
  • John Stozich, 77, American politician.
  • Rodger Ward, 83, American racecar driver, two-time Indianapolis 500 champion.

6[]

  • Peter Birks, 62, British academic lawyer.
  • Peter Brayshay, 87, English cricketer.
  • Eric Douglas, 46, American actor and comedian, youngest son of Kirk Douglas.
  • Thomas Klestil, 71, Austrian diplomat and politician, Federal President of Austria, heart failure.
  • Pavel Lisitsian, 92, Russian opera singer.
  • Jimmie F. Skaggs, 59, American film actor (Catch Me If You Can, Lethal Weapon, Underworld, Cutthroat Island).[13]
  • Syreeta Wright, 57, American singer and songwriter, ex-wife of Stevie Wonder.

7[]

  • Jaroslav Hules, 30, Czech motorcycle racer, suicide.
  • Barry Simon, 68, Australian politician.
  • Jeff Smith, 65, American author and television chef ("The Frugal Gourmet").[14]

8[]

9[]

  • Ersel Hickey, 70, American rockabilly singer.
  • Paul Klebnikov, 41, American journalist and historian, editor of Forbes magazine's Russian edition, murdered.
  • Rudy LaRusso, 66, American basketball player, five-time National Basketball Association All-Star.
  • Jean Lefebvre, 84, French actor.
  • Tony Lupien, 87, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago White Sox).[16]
  • Ron Milner, 66, African-American playwright.
  • Bill Randle, 81, American disc jockey.
  • Isabel Sanford, 86, American actress, The Jeffersons, natural causes.[17]
  • Hugo S. Sims Jr., 82, American lawyer and politician (U.S. Representative for South Carolina's 2nd congressional district).[18]
  • John Walton, 47, Irish motorsport professional.
  • Mike Woodin, 38, British Principal Speaker of Green Party of England and Wales and Oxford City Councillor.

10[]

  • Abdul Ghafoor, 85-86, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Bihar.
  • Inge Meysel, 94, German actress.[19]
  • Loren Mosher, 70, American psychiatrist.[20]
  • Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo, 74, Portuguese chemical engineer and politician, former Prime Minister of Portugal.[21]
  • Art Rebel, 67, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis Cardinals).[22]

11[]

  • Joe Gold, 82, American bodybuilding pioneer and Gold's Gym founder.[23]
  • Dorothy Hart, 82, American actress.
  • Frances Hyland, 77, Canadian theatre actress.
  • Sir Terry McLean, 90, New Zealand sports journalist.
  • Ram Charan Mehrotra, 82, Indian chemist and educationalist.
  • Laurance Rockefeller, 94, American businessman, conservationist and philanthropist.
  • Walter Wager, 79, American author.

12[]

  • Clayton Fountain, 48, American convicted murderer, heart attack.
  • George Mallaby, 64, British-Australian actor and scriptwriter, congestive heart failure.
  • Jeff Morris, 69, American actor.
  • Betty Oliphant, 85, English founder of Canada's National Ballet School.[24]
  • James Quinn, 97, American Olympic sprinter (gold medal winner in men's 4 × 100 metres relay at the 1928 Summer Olympics).[25]
  • Robert Tavener, 84, English printmaker and illustrator.
  • Charles DeWitt Watts, 86, American surgeon and activist.

13[]

  • Clifford Irving, 90, Manx politician.
  • Arthur Kane, 53, American bassist for the New York Dolls, leukemia.[26]
  • Carlos Kleiber, 74, Austrian conductor.
  • Betty Luna, 77, American baseball player.
  • Michio Morishima, 80, Japanese economist.

14[]

  • Germano de Figueiredo, 71, Portuguese footballer.
  • Richard Jones, 87, English cricketer.
  • Hans A. Pestalozzi, 75, Swiss social critic.
  • Alex Willoughby, 59, Scottish footballer (Rangers, Aberdeen).
  • Arnold Ziff, 77, English businessman and philanthropist.

15[]

16[]

  • George Busbee, 76, American politician, former governor of Georgia.
  • Frank Farmer, 91, English physicist.
  • Bella Lewitzky, 88, American modern dance pioneer and choreographer.[30]
  • John Park, 80, Hong Kong sailor [1]
  • Charles Sweeney, 84, American U.S. Army Air Forces officer, pilot of Bockscar, the B-29 that dropped the Nagasaki atomic bomb.[31]

17[]

  • Paul Hilmar Jensen, 74, Norwegian philatelist.
  • Khalil Hilmi, 94/95, Lebanese Olympic sports shooter.
  • Sir Julian Hodge, 99, British entrepreneur, founder of the Carlyle Trust bank.[32]
  • Marty Passaglia, 85, American professional basketball player (Washington Capitols, Indianapolis Jets).[33]
  • Pat Roach, 67, English wrestler and actor, cancer.[34]
  • Robert E. Smylie, 89, American politician and Governor of Idaho from 1955 to 1967.[35]
  • Susan Cullen-Ward, 63, Australian-born wife of the pretender to Albania's throne, Leka Zogu; cancer.

18[]

  • Paul Foot, 66, British journalist and campaigner.
  • Eoin McKiernan, 89, American expert on Irish history.
  • Richard Ney, 87, American actor, investment counselor, and author.[36]
  • Émile Peynaud, 92, French wine expert.[37]

19[]

  • J. Gordon Edwards, 84, American entomologist, mountaineer, and DDT advocate.
  • Harry Forsyth, 100, Irish cricketer and centenarian.
  • Kazi Abul Kasem, 91, Bangladeshi polymath.
  • Carvalho Leite, 92, Brazilian footballer, one of the last survivor of national team in 1930 FIFA World Cup.
  • Roger Marquis, 67, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles).[38]
  • Woodrow Sedlacek, 85, American racehorse trainer.
  • Zenko Suzuki, 93, Japanese politician, former Prime Minister of Japan.
  • David A. Wallace, 87, American urban planner.

20[]

  • Antonio Gades, 67, Spanish Flamenco dancer, cancer.[39]
  • Adi Lady Lala Mara, 73, Fijian chieftainess and former First Lady, widow of Prime Minister and President Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara.
  • Jimmy MacLaren, 82, Scottish footballer.
  • James Williams, 53, American jazz pianist.

21[]

  • Jerry Goldsmith, 75, American movie and television composer (Star Trek).[40]
  • Edward B. Lewis, 85, American biologist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1995).[41]
  • Neal A. Maxwell, 78, American member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
  • Michael Prior, 62, Irish-born British theologian.
  • Sir Julian Ridsdale, 89, British politician.

22[]

  • Elie Abel, 83, Canadian-American journalist, author and academic, Alzheimer's disease.[42]
  • Sacha Distel, 71, French singer.
  • Hume Horan, 69, American diplomat.
  • Illinois Jacquet, 81, United States jazz saxophonist.[43]
  • George Kidd, 87, Canadian diplomat.
  • Ronald Sukenick, 72, American writer and literary theorist, inclusion body myositis[44]

23[]

  • Joe Cahill, 84, Irish terrorist.[45]
  • Janet Chisholm, 75, British MI6 agent during the Cold War.
  • Sir Alan Cook, 81, British physicist.
  • Rogelio Domínguez, 73, Argentine football player.
  • Mehmood, 72, Indian actor.
  • Carlos Paredes, 79, Portuguese guitar player.
  • Serge Reggiani, 82, French singer and actor.
  • Nicholas Rossiter, 43, English television producer, known for the 2003 BBC documentary The Secret Life of the Mona Lisa.[46]

24[]

  • Lowell "Cotton" Fitzsimmons, 72, American NBA basketball coach.[47]
  • Clive Geary, 82, New Zealand cricketer
  • Fred LaRue, 75, American part of Watergate scandal.
  • Ben Martin, 83, American football player and coach.[48]
  • Edward D. Thalmann, 59, American hyperbaric medicine specialist, retired U.S. Navy Captain and doctor, congestive heart failure.
  • Wilton Mkwayi, 80, The South African anti-apartheid and ANC activist.

25[]

26[]

27[]

  • Michael J. Corbitt, 60, American police officer and mobster.
  • Carmine G. DeSapio, 95, American politician, last boss of Tammany Hall.
  • Manzoor Ul Haq Siddiqi, 87, Indian historian and author.
  • Bob Tisdall, 97, Irish athlete, won the gold medal in hurdles at the 1932 Summer Olympics.

28[]

  • Juhani Avellan, 58, Finnish Olympic weightlifter.[52]
  • Jackson Beck, 92, American announcer and voice actor.[53]
  • Francis Crick, 88, British biologist, one of the discoverers of the "double-helix" shape of DNA, cancer.[54]
  • Alexei de Keyser, 36, British television producer.
  • Sam Edwards, 89, American actor, Little House on the Prairie, heart failure.[55]
  • Margo McLennan, 66, British actress, Prisoner, cancer.[56]
  • Steve Patterson, 56, American basketball player, former center of the UCLA basketball team, coach at Arizona State University.[57]
  • Eugene Roche, 75, American actor (Webster, All in the Family, Magnum, P.I., Soap), known in television commercials as the "Ajax Man".[58]
  • Tiziano Terzani, 65, Italian journalist, famous for his books on Asia.[59]

29[]

  • David Bowden, 66, Australian Anglican prelate, Bishop of Bendigo (1995–2002).
  • Susan Buffett, 71, American estranged wife of billionaire/investment guru Warren Buffett.
  • Walter Feit, 73, American mathematician.
  • Nafisa Joseph, 25, Indian model, MTV video jockey, Miss India 1997; suicide.
  • Rena Vlahopoulou, 81, Greek comedian.

30[]

  • Ali Abbasi, 42, Pakistani-born BBC Scotland travel presenter.[60]
  • Ellen Auerbach, 98, German-American photographer.[61]
  • Ed Melvin, 88, Serbian-American basketball player.
  • Hirendranath Mukherjee, 96, Indian politician.
  • Paula Murad Coburn, 48, Jamaican-American actress and television host, cancer.
  • Andre Noble, 25, Canadian television and film actor, aconitine poisoning.[62]
  • Adolph Winkler Goodman, 89, American mathematician.

31[]

  • Laura Betti, 70, Italian actress.
  • Virginia Grey, 87, American actress. Little Eva in the first film adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin.[63]
  • Elder David B. Haight, 97, American oldest member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
  • Allu Ramalingaiah, 81, Indian comedian.
  • Líber Seregni, 87, Uruguayan army officer and politician.
  • Ray Tolchard, 50, English cricketer and umpire.

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