Deaths in June 2004

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The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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.

June 2004[]

1[]

  • James Dudley, 94, American baseball player and professional wrestling manager.
  • Charles Kelman, 74, American ophthalmologist, surgeon, jazz musician, and Broadway producer.[1]
  • William Manchester, 82, American author and historian.
  • Bill Reichardt, 73, American professional football player (University of Iowa, Green Bay Packers).[2]
  • Chang Xiangyu, 80, Chinese opera actress.

2[]

  • Mujeeb Aalam, 56, Pakistani playback singer.
  • Dom Moraes, 65, Indian poet and writer, heart attack.
  • Nicolai Ghiaurov, 71, Bulgarian opera singer.

3[]

  • Joe Carr, 82, Irish golfer.
  • Joe Cleary, 85, Irish-American baseball player (Washington Senators).[3]
  • Harald Ganzinger, 53, German computer scientist.[4]
  • Morris Schappes, 97, American scholar, editor (Jewish Currents) and Marxist activist.[5]
  • Frances Shand Kydd, 68, English mother of Diana, Princess of Wales.[6]
  • Jonathan Kramer, Musician and Composer[7]
  • Quorthon, 38, Swedish musician and founder of the band Bathory, Congenital heart defect.

4[]

  • Augie Colon, 76, American musician.
  • Wilmer Fields, 81, American baseball player, former Negro league baseball All-Star, heart ailment.
  • Tesfaye Gebre Kidan, c. 69, Ethiopian general, defense minister and President of Ethiopia.[8]
  • Steve Lacy, 69, American jazz soprano saxophonist and composer.[9]
  • Brian Linehan, 58, Canadian television host and interviewer.[10][11]
  • Nino Manfredi, 83, Italian actor.[12]
  • Gord Mills, 76, politician in Ontario, Canada.
  • Joseph Reboli, 58, American painter.
  • T. M. Samarasinghe, 61, Sri Lankan cricket umpire.
  • Anthony Steffen, 73, Italian and Brazilian film actor and screenwriter.
  • Marvin Heemeyer, 52, American welder and muffler repair shop owner.

5[]

  • Iona Brown, 63, British violinist and conductor, cancer.[13]
  • Jack Foster, 72, British-born New Zealand athlete.
  • Ronald Reagan, 93, American actor and politician, President (1981–1989), Governor of California (1967–1975), pneumonia and complications from Alzheimer's .[14]

6[]

  • Necdet Mahfi Ayral, 96, Turkish actor.
  • Judy Campbell, 88, English actress.[15]
  • Simon Cumbers, 36, Irish freelance cameraman/journalist, working for the BBC in Saudi Arabia, killed by Al-Qaeda.
  • James Roche, 97, American businessman, and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chairman of the Board at General Motors Corporation.[16]
  • Kate Worley, 46, American comic book writer (Omaha the Cat Dancer).[17]

7[]

  • Richard E. Bush, 79, United States Marine master gunnery sergeant and recipient of the Medal of Honor.[18]
  • Joseph L. Doob, 94, American mathematician, specializing in analysis and probability theory.[19]
  • Chris Kitsos, 76, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs).[20]
  • Don Potter, 102, British sculptor.
  • Eugene Raskin, 94, American musician and playwright.[21]
  • Donald Trumbull, 95, American special effects pioneer.
  • Ted Wellington, 82, Australian rules footballer.

8[]

  • David Mervyn Blow, 72, British biophysicist.[22]
  • Mack Jones, 65, American baseball player, former Major League Baseball outfielder with the Atlanta Braves, Cincinnati Reds and Montreal Expos.[23]
  • Humayun Khan, 27, American soldier serving in the Iraq War.[24]
  • Máirín Lynch, 87, Irish public figure.[25]
  • Roderick Macleod, 95, Canadian politician.
  • Bob Schmitz, 65, American professional football player and scout (Pittsburgh Steelers, Minnesota Vikings).[26]

9[]

10[]

  • Ray Charles, 73, American rhythm and blues singer ("What'd I Say", "Georgia on my Mind", "I Can't Stop Loving You") and soul music pioneer.[30]
  • Kiki Djan, 47, Ghanaian musician, AIDS and drug-related complications.
  • Xenophon Zolotas, 100, Greek economist and politician, Prime Minister (1989–1990).

11[]

12[]

  • Rina Ben-Menahem, 68, Israeli writer.
  • Walter George Muelder, 97, American social ethicist and Methodist minister.
  • Stanley O'Toole, 65, British film producer.
  • Geoffrey Thompson, 67, British businessman, aneurysm.

13[]

  • Dorothy Lavinia Brown, 85, American surgeon and politician.
  • Danny Dark, 65, American announcer.[32]
  • Dick Durrance, 89, American alpine ski racer, 17-time national champion.[33]
  • Sir Stuart Hampshire, 89, British philosopher.[34]
  • Robert Lees, 91, American screenwriter, found decapitated.
  • Sir Allan Taylor, 85, British army general.
  • Ralph Wiley, 52, American sports journalist, heart attack.[35]

14[]

  • Ubaldo Calabresi, 79, Italian Roman Catholic bishop.
  • Fatulla Huseynov, 66, Azerbaijani colonel, murdered.
  • Ulrich Inderbinen, 103, Swiss mountain guide.
  • Jack McClelland, 81, Canadian book publisher.
  • Max Rosenberg, 89, American producer of horror movies.[36]
  • Noriaki Yuasa, 70, Japanese director, stroke.

15[]

  • J. Gwyn Griffiths, 92, Welsh poet and Egyptologist.
  • Frank Nastasi, 81, American actor and comedian (Lunch with Soupy).
  • Ahmet Piriştina, 52, Turkish politician, mayor of İzmir, heart attack.
  • Hatch Rosdahl, 62, American professional football player (Penn State, Buffalo Bills, Kansas City Chiefs).[37]
  • John Lasarus Williams, 79, Welsh nationalist activist.

16[]

  • Barry Cowan, 56, Northern Irish broadcaster.
  • Herman Goldstine, 90, American computer scientist (ENIAC), Parkinson's disease.
  • George Hausmann, 88, American baseball player (New York Giants).[38]
  • Thanom Kittikachorn, 92, Thai military dictator, former Thai prime minister, Complications from stroke .
  • Hilda Thompson, 85, New Zealand cricketer.

17[]

  • Alfred Fischer, 84, German jurist.
  • Ma Jiajue, 23, Chinese murderer.
  • Vilayat Inayat Khan, 87, British Sufist.
  • Jacek Kuroń, 70, Polish dissident and statesman.
  • Gerry McNeil, 78, Canadian ice hockey player, Stanley Cup-winning National Hockey League goaltender.
  • Steven Oken, 42, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in Maryland.
  • Jackie Paris, 79, American jazz singer and guitarist.[39]

18[]

  • Doris Dowling, 81, American actress.[40]
  • Frederick Jaeger, 76, German-born British character actor.
  • Paul Johnson, c. 49, American hostage, decapitated by al-Qaeda.
  • Nek Mohammed, c. 27, Pakistani tribal leader in Waziristan and key Taliban ally, killed by Pakistani military forces.[41]
  • Moe Radovich, 75, American professional basketball player (Philadelphia Warriors) and college basketball coach (Cal State Fullerton, University of Wyoming).[42]

19[]

  • Colin McCormack, 62, Welsh actor.[43]
  • Aggrey Klaaste, 64, South African journalist and editor.
  • Jadwiga Rutkowska, 70, Polish Olympic volleyball player (bronze medal winner in women's volleyball at the 1964 Summer Olympics).[44]
  • Nob Yoshigahara, 68, Japanese mathematician and puzzle expert.

20[]

  • Jim Bacon, 54, Australian politician and Premier of Tasmania.
  • Fred Cogswell, 86, Canadian poet.
  • Nabil Sahraoui, 37, Algerian militant, head of GSPC and linked to al-Qaeda.

21[]

  • Nick de Angelis, 83, American artist.
  • Leonel Brizola, 82, Brazilian politician, heart failure.[45]
  • Ted Scott, 85, Canadian Anglican prelate.

22[]

  • Bob Bemer, 84, American computer scientist, cancer.[46]
  • Thomas Gold, 84, American astrophysicist.
  • Francisco Ortiz Franco, 50, Mexican journalist, murdered.
  • Carlton Skinner, 91, American naval officer and politician, first civilian governor of Guam.[47]
  • Mattie Stepanek, 13, American poet and advocate, muscular dystrophy.
  • Kim Sun-il, 33, South Korean translator, decapitated by Iraqi militants.

23[]

24[]

  • Ifigeneia Giannopoulou, 40, Greek songwriter, author.
  • Tau Moe, 95, singer and musician from American Samoa.
  • Bill Pataky, 74, Canadian Olympic basketball player (men's basketball at the 1952 Summer Olympics).[48]
  • Trudeliese Schmidt, 61, German operatic mezzo-soprano.
  • Peter Wragg, 73, British footballer.

25[]

  • Morton Coutts, 100, New Zealand scientist and inventor.
  • Margot Guilleaume, 94, German operatic soprano.
  • Horacio Iglesias, Argentine swimmer.
  • Karol Kennedy Kucher, 72, American ice skating champion, pneumonia.[49]
  • Carl Rakosi, 100, Hungarian-American poet, the last surviving member of the original group of Objectivist poets.[50]

26[]

  • Muriel Angelus, 95, British silent film actress.[51]
  • William H. Avery, 91, American aeronautical engineer.
  • Naomi Shemer, 74, Israeli songwriter.[52]
  • Yash Johar, 75, Indian Bollywood film producer.

27[]

  • Hugh B. Cave, 93, British writer.[53]
  • George Patton IV, 80, US Army general and son of George Patton.
  • Darrell Russell, 35, American National Hot Rod Association drag racer, first racer killed at an NHRA event since 1996.

28[]

  • Dormer Andrews, 85, Australia judge.
  • Jean Boyer, 55, French organist and music professor, cerebral haemorrhage.
  • Anthony Buckeridge, 92, English author, creator of the Jennings books.[54]
  • Georges de Caunes, 85, French journalist, writer and television and radio presenter.
  • Renate Lepsius, 77, German journalist, historian and politician.
  • Keith "Matt" Maupin, 20, American U.S. Army Private First Class, killed by Islamist militants in Iraq.
  • Alexander Spirkin, 85, Soviet and Russian philosopher and psychologist.
  • David A. Thomas, 86, American educator.
  • Hal Toenes, 86, American baseball player (Washington Senators).[55]

29[]

  • Bernard Babior, 68, American physician and research biochemist, prostate cancer.
  • Hermelindo Fiaminghi, 83, Brazilian painter, designer, lithographer and art critic.
  • William W. Havens Jr., 84, American physicist, complications from leukemia.[56]
  • Arik Lavie, 77, Israeli singer and actor, heart disease.
  • Juan Antonio Lopez, 52, Mexican boxer, fought Wilfredo Gómez, leukemia.
  • Mohammad Ranjbar, 69, Iranian football player and coach, cerebral disorder.
  • Stipe Šuvar, 68, Croatian and Yugoslav politician and sociologist.

30[]

  • Jamal Abro, 80, Pakistani writer.
  • Chris Alcaide, 80, American actor, cancer.
  • Vivica Bandler, 87, Finnish theatre director.
  • Eddie Burns, 88, Australian rugby player and coach.
  • Stive Vermaut, 28, Belgian cyclist, brain haemorrhage after heart attack.

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